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One of the season’s highlights for Dota 2 fans will kick off on May 25-26 at Loft Hall, Moscow
Supported by Adrenaline Rush® premium energy drink, four esports teams will battle for championship and a $100,000 prize. Three world’s most famous teams including Virtus.pro, which tops the global ranking of professional Dota 2 teams, received invitations from the organizers to take part in the tournament finals.
The fourth finalist of the tournament will be determined by a series of open and closed qualifiers. Anyone can win a chance to challenge the world’s top Dota 2 teams.
You can register for the Open Qualifiers here:
First qualifier, April 6-7: https://www.faceit.com/ru/dota2/tournament/7dd159ab-bd23-49c5-ac3b-a992127e313c
Second qualifier, April 13-14: https://www.faceit.com/ru/dota2/tournament/804a34f1-fb39-4a6f-9302-70a050a92230
Third qualifier, April 16-17: https://www.faceit.com/ru/dota2/tournament/f4d11f69-2aac-4a09-9a4f-4474170e5b28
The organizers also announce a special add-up for the spectators: for the first time ever LAN finals will be held in a 360° format. This means that esports fans at Loft Hall will have the best immersive experience and feel part of an outstanding esports event. The event will feature thematic signing sessions with the tournament participants. Meanwhile the energy drink Adrenaline Game Fuel, tailored specifically for professional esports players and video game enthusiasts, will charge up runners-up and spectators all throughout the playoffs.
Adrenaline Cyber League is part of Adrenaline Game Changers movement. The goal of the movement launched by the brand last year is to fight stereotypes and prejudice against gamers. The official manifesto addressing the gaming community is published on the Game Changers movement’s YouTube channel.
2017 was the first year Adrenaline Cyber League esports tournament supported by a premium energy drink brand Adrenaline Rush® hosted competitions in Dota 2. Previously, the brand organized three Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments.
About Adrenaline Rush®
Adrenaline Rush® is PepsiCo energy non-alcoholic drink that has no artificial colors and flavors.
Adrenaline Rush® is well-known among wide range of consumers: since its launch, the brand has demonstrated continuous growth and has been one of the market leaders for many years.
Since 2016, brand owns Adrenaline Cyber League esports tournament.
About PepsiCo in Russia:
PepsiCo is the largest food and beverage company in Russia*. Around 19 000 employees work at central and regional offices, as well as at numerous production sites of the company.
Today, PepsiCo is one of the leaders in the segments of carbonated, non-carbonated and energy drinks with such brands as Pepsi®, 7UP®, Mirinda®, Adrenaline Rush®, Russky Dar®, etc., the chips and snacks market with Lay’s®, Cheetos®, HrusTeam®, the segment of juices, morses and nectars with such brands as Ya®, Fruktovy Sad®, J7®, Lyubimy®, etc., the dairy market with Domik v derevne®, Vesely Molochnik®, Chudo®, BioMax®, Imunele®, and the baby food market with Agusha® and Chudo detki®, as well as the segment of bottled water with Aqua Minerale®, Rodniki Rossii®.
PepsiCo is also Russia’s largest industrial processor of potatoes and one of the largest processors of raw milk. The company invests heavily in the implementation of programs aimed at boosting the performance of potatoes and raw milk suppliers, improving the quality and volume of raw materials supplied.
For more information please visit www.pepsico.ru
*According to the RAEX-600-2018 ranking of the largest companies by sales volume by the ranking agency “Expert RA”


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Not Much for Retailers to Be Thankful for This Past Thanksgiving
Despite the retail sector’s every attempt to generate sales this Thanksgiving, from sharp discounts to being open earlier than ever, their efforts fell flat. It’s further evidence that the U.S. economic recovery is not as entrenched as many think it is, and once again shows the economic disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street.
In spite of high unemployment, stagnant wages, consumer confidence at a seven-month low, and a smaller number of people forecast to hit the shops over the Thanksgiving weekend, the National Retail Federation still predicted sales to grow 3.9% from last year. (Source: Banjo, S., “Holiday Sales Sag Despite Blitz of Deals,” Yahoo.com, December 2, 2013.)
Over the Black Friday weekend in 2012, U.S. shoppers spent roughly $60.0 billion in the retail sector, but this year, it was a different story altogether. While the final numbers have yet to be tallied, early indicators show that total U.S. retail sector spending over the Thanksgiving weekend fell to $57.4 billion. It’s also the first time that retail sector spending over the Thanksgiving weekend has dipped in at least four years.
Even during the worst of the recession and the beginning of the so-called economic recovery, U.S. shoppers were willing to spend, buoyed by optimism. Five years into the so-called economic recovery, and shoppers are tightening their belts, weighed down by pessimism.
But it didn’t start out that way; in fact, most U.S. retail sector stocks were initially quite enthusiastic about their prospects. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE/WMT) had originally planned to open its doors at 8:00 p.m. Thursday night, but instead opened its doors at 6:00 p.m. Target Corporation (NYSE/TGT) said sales were among the highest it had seen in a single day online.
And maybe that’s the future of Black Friday weekend shopping?
Black Friday used to be the day when consumers hit U.S. retail sector stocks in full force. Today’s younger, savvier shoppers are more willing to not just compare prices in-store, but also on their smartphones and tablets—and this has translated into more online sales.
In fact, online spending on Black Friday was up 15% year-over-year at a record $1.2 billion. During November, total online sales reached $20.6 billion, a 3.1% increase over last year. (Source: Kucera, D., “Black Friday Online Spending Reached Record $1.2 Billion,” Bloomberg.com, December 1, 2013.)
What does that mean for investors this holiday season? For some, it might be time to reevaluate and readjust their retirement portfolio if it contains a fair number of retail sector stocks. After all, weak consumer confidence, high debt levels, and high unemployment are not the best ingredients for an economy that generates 70% of its gross domestic product (GDP) from consumer spending.
More seasoned investors might see this retail environment as one flush with opportunities to short retail sector stocks. There are a lot of options out there; even some higher-end retailers are dealing with shoppers more motivated by price than logo.
While American shoppers are reigning in their retail sector spending this holiday season, they still rely on consumer staple companies. We might be able to go without a new TV, but we won’t forgo deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, razors, makeup, or aspirin.
With more and more cost-conscious people using the Internet to shop, it might also be a good time to revisit online retail sector stock eBay Inc. (NASDAQ/EBAY). After all, shoppers may be staying away from busy shopping malls, but it’s hard to resist going online from the comfort of home to hunt for deals.

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Six friends from NIT Allahabad, landed on an idea for an app while still in college. They eventually started Rootwork, (http://rootwork.co/) making apps for any smart devices that are around you today (smartphones, smart TVs, phablets, tablets, Google Glass), and everything smart that’s going to arrive tomorrow. “At Rootwork, we materialize our own ideas by publishing apps through Zitrr Studios. But as an ITeS company, our mainstream business is to create and deliver bespoke apps to businesses, startups and individual app publishers,” they said.
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As the cloud extends its reach in the market, a number of CIOs in big and small companies alike are increasing the amount of technology that they are buying and changing how they do business on a regular basis. While there is no set list of “essential” technologies that a company must have to succeed in the new, diffuse cloud world, there are a number of trends that have come into focus over the course of the last year.
First up: email. Email is rapidly becoming the go-to cloud technology and many CIOs hope to take advantage of it in 2011 if reliable cloud models become available. Next is mobile access, which depends more and more on the cloud rather than being a pure function of it. Currently, 43 percent of CIOs are increasing their use of mobile options, an increase of 10 percent from 2010.
Of course, hardware purchasing is also seeing an increase as companies replace physical servers that are still needed to run critical applications or that simply can’t be moved to the cloud yet. But consider that virtualization is getting bigger and better every year – in 2010, 30 percent of CIOs had virtualization options in the works, but now that number sits at just under half of all companies at 43 percent.
Although the public and private clouds haven’t answered all the questions companies have put to them – especially regarding security, backups, and storage, CIOs on the whole are increasing their technology spending in a rebounding market and the numbers are showing an IT world that is putting more and more money into the hands of leading VPS and cloud server providers – something that businesses of all sizes would do well to watch.


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Apple Special Event. September 12, 2017. The first-ever event at the Steve Jobs Theater. Live video will begin at 10 a.m. PDT.
Apple Events – Keynote September 2016 The keynote of the iPhone 7 will take place on September 7th. The conference will be held at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, as the WWDC. More information : www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/
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— Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) reported its third-quarter 2019 loss of $0.14 per share versus a loss of $0.13 per share expected. The loss widened year-over-year due to higher depreciation and amortization expense.
— Total revenues increased by 6% to $144.8 million versus $142.05 million expected. Service revenue, which represents primarily recurring revenue from Iridium’s growing subscriber base, grew by 10%.
— Total billable subscribers grew 16% year-over-year, driven by growth in commercial and government IoT customers.
— Commercial service revenue rose by 8% helped by increased revenues from IoT and hosted payload and other data services. Commercial voice and data subscribers were up 1% from the year-ago period to 371,000 subscribers.
— Commercial voice and data average revenue per user was $48, up from $47 last year, as a result of growing usage associated with new activations of Iridium Certus terminals.
— Looking ahead into the full year 2019, the company expects total service revenue in the range of $445 million to $450 million, up from the previous forecast of about $440 million.
— The operational EBITDA is now predicted to be about $330 million in 2019 compared to the prior outlook range of $325 million to $335 million.
Seagate Technology (NYSE: ALK) reported first-quarter 2022 financial results before the regular market hours on Friday. The company reported Q1 revenue of $3.12 billion, up 35% year-over-year and higher than
Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) came up with its third-quarter 2021 results on Friday. Revenue increased to $5.8 billion from $5.2 billion last year. Analysts had expected revenue of $5.09 billion.
Honeywell International Inc. (NASDAQ: HON) reported third quarter 2021 earnings results today. Sales increased 9% year-over-year to $8.4 billion but missed projections of $8.6 billion. On an organic basis, sales


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Dan Kurzrock loves beer. As spendthrift underclassmen in college, he and his buddies made gallons of it on a regular basis. Borrowing the equipment and getting the ingredients were simple enough — and consuming the product was never a problem — but waste was an issue. Once the sugars have been extracted from whatever grain is used in brewing, that grain’s ability to make beer is kaput. Dealing with the leftover barley, a substance typically referred to as “spent grain,” troubled the eco-aware economics student.
“That’s when I realized that we had all of this grain and nothing to do with it,” Kurzrock says.
He was convinced the byproduct had to be useful for something, so he called a childhood acquaintance, Jordan Schwartz, and the two set to work. The project evolved into ReGrained, a sustainable food production company that reclaims spent grain from San Francisco’s microbreweries.
“It’s not that brewers are wasteful. They’re not evil creatures who are squandering resources,” Kurzrock says. “There’s just no way to make beer without being left with this stuff.”
For centuries, these grains have been used as fertilizer and fodder for farm animals. This is still the case across the country, and while that’s great for brewers who have the resources to transport the byproduct, it’s a challenge for small urban microbreweries. San Francisco alone is home to more than 30 — and there aren’t exactly cattle grazing in Cow Hollow these days.
Most urban breweries resort to compost if it’s available, or landfills if it isn’t. Composting isn’t a bad option, but Kurzrock thinks we can do better, and swears that spent grain isn’t as spent as you’d think.
“The industrial term ‘spent grain’ is a total misnomer,” says Kurzock, who prefers “upcycled.”
“I use that language very deliberately, because it’s not waste,” he adds. “It’s a food source that could and should be harvested.”
Although the post-brewed grain is no longer good for making beer, plenty of its nutritional properties remain intact. To that end. ReGrained’s first concept was a closed-loop brewery-bakery, wherein spent grain from Kurzrock and Schwartz’s homebrew was used in the production of fresh-baked loaves.
“I thought if I can make beer, then I can make bread,” Kurzrock says. “So we started making bread. But then we discovered that the opportunity was much bigger.”
Every six-pack of beer requires roughly one pound of grain. Scale that up for even a small brewery, and we’re talking thousands of pounds of leftovers. Kurzrock and Schwartz saw this as an opportunity to expand their initial concept, while also improving the urban economy.
The first step was a practical product. A single loaf of bread can take hours to make — and begins to break down in less than a day — so ReGrained pivoted from loaves to a snack bar.
“We wanted something that we could make a lot of at one time, that would be shelf stable and more viable as an actual product,” Kurzrock explains. In the same amount of time it took to make one loaf of bread, “we could make 200 bars.”
ReGrained currently kicks out thousands of bars a day, sourcing grain from five San Francisco breweries: Magnolia, Thirsty Bear, 21st Amendment, Triple VooDoo, and Harmonic.
“We’re not even scratching the surface of how much grain there is,” says Kurzrock, who harvests grain from just one partner brewery each week. Eventually, he and Schwartz are looking to scale to the point where they’re offering a real service in removing spent grain, but for now they’re focused on production.
ReGrained bars come in two flavors: Honey Cinnamon IPA (made with almonds, oats, honey, and cinnamon) and Coffee Chocolate Stout (a touch richer, with semi-sweet Guittard chocolate and coffee). The texture is akin to a chewy granola bar, with scattered crunchy bits, and an overall feel that’s more, well, grainy.
In spite of the slogan “Eat your Beer,” the bars are zero-proof and surprisingly nutritious. Upcycled grain is low in sugar, has as much protein as almonds, and contains three times the dietary fiber of oatmeal.
“It’s very decidedly a healthy snack bar,” Kurzock says. “The kind of wholesome snack you could eat at your desk.”
In keeping with ReGrained’s focus on sustainability, many ingredients are local and packaging is compostable.
“Our big vision is not just to be a granola-bar company,” says Kuzrock, who considers the bars a sort of “Trojan horse” for the ReGrained concept. “We’ve got a lot of R&D on different kinds of products that utilize more and more of this grain.”
The next few products will also be bars, although ReGrained wants to upcycle flour, as well. Plans are in place to expand harvesting more widely in San Francisco, and eventually include other cities.
Coming out with another health bar is hardly original in a world rife with super-handy health foods, but ReGrained’s sustainable mission is something unique.
“Does the market need a new bar?” Kurzrock asks. “Probably not. But does the food system need our concept? Absolutely.”


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Marketing materials of e-cigarettes can’t make claims that their product exposes customers to fewer toxins or reduces harm until the FDA grants an order permitting such claims. In September 2019, the FDA despatched JUUL a warning letter cautioning against unauthorized cessation claims and questioning current advertising practices that gave the impression to be focused to youth. As of Aug. 28, 2019, 220 localities had prohibited the sale of flavored tobacco products, together with flavored e-cigarettes. These include Berkeley, Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco, California; Aspen, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; and Providence, Rhode Island. However, a large majority of the U.S. inhabitants — greater than 90% — isn’t lined by such restrictions. However, this request for comment is not a assure of agency action on this problem and no additional rule-making action on flavors has been taken or introduced by the FDA as of this writing. In March 2018, a group of public well being organizations, including Truth Initiative, sued the FDA for unlawfully delaying the implementation of the deeming rule.
- It requires the purchaser for e-cigarettes to be at least 18 and does not allow shopping for them for anybody less than 18 years of age.
- Around half of e-cigarette firm web sites have a minimal age notice that prohibited underage people from getting into.
- The up to date Tobacco Products Directive has been disputed by tobacco lobbyists whose businesses could possibly be impacted by these revisions.
- The revised EU Tobacco Products Directive came into effect in May 2016, providing stricter rules for e-cigarettes.
- The ease to get past the age verification system at e-cigarette company web sites allows underage people to entry and be uncovered to advertising.
- It limits e-cigarette promoting in print, on television and radio, along with decreasing the extent of nicotine in liquids and decreasing the flavors used.
And although most states prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to individuals beneath the age of 18, increasingly teenagers are using them. In fact, current surveys2 present dramatic increases annually within the number of teenagers who have tried an e-cigarette of their lifetime, as well as within the quantity who’ve used them in the past month. This is at a time when smoking tobacco cigarettes is at an all-time low among middle and high school college students. The FDA is now evaluating hundreds of such purposes to promote e-cigarettes. In these purposes and related ads, the homeowners of e-cigarette brands claim that their products help people who smoke stop and may due to this fact be thought of “acceptable for the safety of public health,” as stipulated by regulation. But a new systematic evaluate by UC San Francisco researchers of the scientific literature on this topic puts these claims to the take a look at. VaporFi is an internet hub coupled with brick and mortar places serving the ever-rising and passionate vaping community.
Anecdotally, youth are reporting signs of extreme dependence, such as incapability to concentrate in school, utilizing an e-cigarette upon waking, and utilizing e-cigarettes at night after waking with a craving. Some e-cigarette products deliver nicotine as efficiently as a cigarette. The use of nicotine salts additionally lowers the pH of e-liquids, which allows greater concentrations of nicotine to be delivered with less irritation. For instance, the maker of JUUL claims the product has a nicotine content material like conventional cigarettes, and that it delivers the nicotine as much as 2.7 occasions quicker than different e-cigarettes. As e-cigarette users ourselves, we’ve perfected the shortcomings that we perceived in different greatest e-cig manufacturers.
The FDA appears to have accepted this timetable, although trade teams are nonetheless challenging the federal decide’s choice. However, when the agency finalized the deeming regulation, the FDA issued a “compliance policy” that would give e-cigarette producers more time to arrange these submissions and still permit the products to be available on the market. In different phrases, every e-cigarette in the marketplace right nows illegal as a result of it has not gone via an FDA review, and is simply allowed to be bought as a result of the FDA gave them a short lived pass. Among adults who used a couple of tobacco product in 2017, the most common combination was cigarettes and e-cigarettes. In addition to the speed of nicotine supply, the nicotine content material of merchandise like JUUL additionally raises considerations in regards to the potential for addiction. A 2018 Truth Initiative study published in Tobacco Control discovered that among present youth and younger adult JUUL customers, the bulk — 63% — didn’t know that the product always accommodates nicotine.


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Social networking tycoon, Facebook Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, had been in talks with the Commodity Futures Tradition Commission (CFTC), US derivatives regulators, over the recent past to discuss about the California-based company’s plan to unveil a digital currency, a Financial Times report published on Sunday, the 2nd of June 2019, had unveiled.
Although the talks had been in an early stage according to Sunday’s (June 2nd) Financial Times report, yet the head of Commodity Future Trading Commission, Christopher Ciancarlo had been quoted saying on Sunday (June 2nd) that the US regulator of commodity trading had currently been evaluating whether a plan for digital coin could fall under CFCT’s jurisdiction.
While Facebook Inc. had been in talks with leading US regulators about launching a digital currency of its own, almost all of the cryptos or digital currencies had been found surging stridently, and the major crypto, Bitcoin had surged more than 110 percent over the last one and a half month and currently holding a side-way pattern between $7,900-$8,700 per coin.
In point of fact, Facebook had already set off a financial tech company in Switzerland focusing on payments based on blockchain and digital currencies alongside investing and data analytics, while Facebook’s introduction of a new digital coin would likely to add further bullish bias on cryptos’ gaining streak. None the less, a Facebook Spokeswoman had declined to comment immediately while being asked about the subject-matter.


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There were whispers recently that something might be up with Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone, the hardware release was expected at some point later this year but now the company has confirmed that it won’t be happening in 2015. A tweet from the official Ara team account confirms that there has been a delay and shift from its plans to test out the modular smartphone.
However the company does say that it’s in the process of looking at a few locations within the United States where tests can be potentially conducted, but that’s not going to happen until 2016, that too was confirmed through a tweet from the official Project Ara account.
For those who are unaware Project Ara is Google’s vision of a modular smartphone where the user can easily swap out important components such as the processor, camera and battery as and when they feel like it. This will allow them to upgrade specific components without having to upgrade the entire device itself.
Google did show off a working prototype earlier this year but it appears that the progression towards a consumer product hasn’t been easy and Google just needs more time to perfect this project before it brings modular smartphones to market.


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The Software and Information Industry (SIAA) has filed lawsuits against two alleged software pirates which auctioned their goods online.
The suits against Michael Chu, California, and Julian Kish, Chicago, were filed yesterday by the SIAA on behalf of Adobe, Macromedia and Alias/Wavefront - a division of Silicon Graphics. They reckon the men shifted thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit goods, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop, at far reduced prices.
Chu sold 22 software titles with a retail value of $54,745 to SIAA for just $144.85, the trade body claims. Kish allegedly sold six software titles to SIAA worth $5,594 for $50.
The men face fines of up to $150,000 per violation of copyright infringement.
This is the first time the US trade group has tried to sue individuals it suspects of flogging pirated software through e-auctions. According to a survey by the SIIA, nine out of ten copies of software on auction sites is illegal.
The SIIA released research yesterday which suggests pirates are finding more sophisticated techniques to keep up with auction site crackdowns. If sites try to stop the sale of a particular item, such as eBay's ban on the sale of 'back-up' copies of software, sellers simply contact buyers directly. They are also shielded by being able to hide behind different user names.
"It's clear why software pirates have migrated to Internet auction sites," said SIIA president Ken Wasch. "Auction sites provide relative anonymity and
relatively free access to thousands of customers. It's never been easier or more profitable for pirates to sell illegitimate software - or more dangerous." ®


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Sunbelt Securities Inc. grew its stake in shares of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO – Get Rating) by 7.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 8,961 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 587 shares during the period. Sunbelt Securities Inc.’s holdings in Coca-Cola were worth $502,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Paragon Wealth Strategies LLC acquired a new position in shares of Coca-Cola during the 3rd quarter valued at $25,000. Exos TFP Holdings LLC acquired a new position in shares of Coca-Cola during the 3rd quarter valued at $27,000. Neo Ivy Capital Management acquired a new position in shares of Coca-Cola during the 3rd quarter valued at $31,000. Horizons Wealth Management acquired a new position in shares of Coca-Cola during the 2nd quarter valued at $34,000. Finally, Bellwether Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Coca-Cola by 32.4% in the 3rd quarter. Bellwether Advisors LLC now owns 698 shares of the company’s stock worth $39,000 after buying an additional 171 shares in the last quarter. 68.74% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of equities analysts have commented on the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their price objective on shares of Coca-Cola from $62.00 to $63.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 15th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on shares of Coca-Cola from $61.00 to $62.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Monday, February 13th. Credit Suisse Group set a $70.00 price objective on shares of Coca-Cola in a report on Wednesday, February 15th. Morgan Stanley boosted their price objective on shares of Coca-Cola from $68.00 to $70.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 15th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada set a $69.00 price objective on shares of Coca-Cola in a report on Tuesday, February 14th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $67.70.
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Coca-Cola Price Performance
Shares of NYSE:KO opened at $60.30 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.15 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.41. The Coca-Cola Company has a fifty-two week low of $54.01 and a fifty-two week high of $67.20. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $60.34 and a 200 day simple moving average of $60.42. The company has a market cap of $260.88 billion, a PE ratio of 27.41, a P/E/G ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 0.53.
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO – Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 14th. The company reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.45. Coca-Cola had a net margin of 22.19% and a return on equity of 42.35%. The business had revenue of $10.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.92 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.45 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.3% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that The Coca-Cola Company will post 2.6 EPS for the current year.
Coca-Cola Increases Dividend
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, April 3rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 17th will be given a $0.46 dividend. This is a boost from Coca-Cola’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.44. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 16th. This represents a $1.84 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.05%. Coca-Cola’s dividend payout ratio is 80.00%.
The Coca-Cola Co engages in the manufacturing and marketing of non-alcoholic beverages. It operates through the following segments: Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia Pacific, Global Ventures, and Bottling Investments. The company was founded by Asa Griggs Candler on May 8, 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
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The Reserve Bank of India has injected Rs 9.2 lakh crore ($135.21 billion) worth of new currency notes into the banking system to help replace the notes banned in November, a parliamentary panel member quoted RBI governor Urjit Patel as saying on Wednesday. Patel met the panel on finance+ to answer questions about the November 8 abolition of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes+ , or 86 percent of the currency then in circulation, in a bid to unearth billions of dollars of unaccounted money. About 15.4 trillion rupees worth of the notes were removed from circulation.
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But behind the scary sound bites lies a story of canny consumers shopping and cooking more wisely, cutting expenditure but not sacrificing standards.Take waste. Consumers recognise that waste is a big issue. In a recent Institute of Grocery Distribution survey, waste was cited by consumers as their major environmental concern. Whilst they raged against food companies for not selling smaller packs, and using cut price promotions to encourage buying too much, consumers acknowledged that they themselves cause much waste through lack of planning, and not paying enough attention to using leftovers.
And there is considerable scope to reduce waste. According to WRAP, in 2009 UK households generated £12 billion of avoidable food and drink waste, or about £480 per year for the average household. To put into context, DEFRA estimates that households spend around £125 billion each year on food and drink, so if WRAP figures are anything like accurate we waste about 10% of what we buy.As to what is being wasted, WRAP estimates that £6.7bn goes on food and drink thrown away untouched or started but not finished. Examples are fresh fruit and vegetables (£1.4bn), bread and bakery products (£1.1bn), milk (£280m), yoghurts past their sell by date, and unused slices of bacon. A further £4.8bn is wasted on food and drink where too much has been prepared, cooked or served.
Still on the waste theme, there is evidence of shoppers spending less merely by refusing to shop impulsively and throw something into the trolley just because they like the idea.Shopping at discounters is seen another way of spending less, and according to Kantar sales of ALDI and LIDL continue to grow at a clip, the former recording a growth of 24% in the last three months compared with the previous year. And sensible use of promotional offers is another well tried method of reducing spend.
Interestingly though, as Kantar points out, consumers’ food choices are not only about price. In the last 3 months sales of budget own label lines grew by just 2%, compared with an 8% growth in sales of premium own label products. So premium foods are by no means dead, but they do have to offer that elusive combination of quality and value to justify their price.
Shoppers have the scope to reduce spend and in the current economic climate will continue to do so. We can expect more years of cutbacks, especially on what could be described as poor value, over processed or not strictly necessary.By contrast, spend on staples should continue to hold up. Despite the pressures, sales of beef, pork, bacon, sausages, milk and cheese have all shown volume growth in the last year. Consumers clearly see them as necessary, and, critically, fairly priced.


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New command-line tool to globally change display DPI is introduced in Q4OS to be usable with high-DPI screens. Important core system packages updates and security fixes has been applied. Users could appreciate better system integration and cleaner dependencies of Adobe Flashplayer, especially in combination with Firefox 34 or later.
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Acer has unveiled two new Chromebooks aimed at schools and students, featuring durable construction to hold up under rough treatment and a myriad of technology features to help students get their schoolwork completed at home or at school.
The new Acer Chromebook C910, with a 15.6-inch display, and Acer Chromebook C740, with an 11.6-inch display, were announced by the company in London on Jan. 21. Both machines will be available starting in February. Specifications, prices and availability will vary by region, according to Acer.
So basically TraceFS provides the same functionality now for kernel traces that is done currently via DebugFS. With TraceFS though you don't need to worry about enabling the potentially security-prone DebugFS and by having their own file-system it can implement features not supported by DebugFS (e.g. mkdir and rmdir support). Assuming it clears developer review fine, it's possible we could see TraceFS for Linux 3.20 or another near-term kernel update.
At MediaFire, it’s no secret that we are huge fans of the open source community. From server management, to building next generation storage applications, open-source tools enable us to do great things.
To start off the new year, MediaFire is excited to announce the launch of several new tools aimed at the Linux and open-source developer communities. This “Open-Source” toolkit includes a FUSE module and a shell-like interface similar to FTP, enabling users to upload, download, access, and modify files stored on MediaFire through a command-line interface. This new toolkit will provide open-source enthusiasts and IT professionals with a lightweight and powerful tool for managing their files online.
Virtual reality may be best known for its entertainment value, but its practical applications are at least as compelling. With Cave automatic virtual environments (CAVE), for instance, engineers can save time and resources by testing out products and solutions in the lab to see which are best-suited to a particular problem or site in the real world.
The only problem? Cost. CAVE environments can cost millions of dollars, putting them out of reach for many institutions. Unless, of course, they happen to use open-source software.
He switched to Mandrake Linux because his Windows machine kept crashing and built his Linux skills by tinkering on his home computer. As he learned more, he took a series of sysadmin jobs that were progressively more advanced. He's now a Linux Foundation Certified Engineer and is looking for his next career opportunity.
Every few months, new articles roll out proclaiming "this year" to be the year of the Linux Desktop. A wide selection of reasons are cited, explanations given, and various acts of patting we Linux users on the backs takes place.
I'd be first to admit that it's worth celebrating each time something is made more secure or easier. But we're still a long ways off from the average person trying out any Linux distributions on their own.
In this article, I'll discuss an untapped resource that can be used to get desktop Linux into the homes of casual users and finally jump start Linux adoption outside schools, governments and geek circles.
ArduPilot is the open source software which controls our own Vulture 2 spaceplane on the 3DR Pixhawk autopilot. As Tridge demonstrated, it can now be deployed on a range of hardware which, with the addition of a suitable interface, allows aficionados to create a fully-functioning autopilot.
Last year, for example, a group of Russians successfully raised funds for the Navio, an autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi.
As part of his talk, Tridge connected live to a model aircraft in Canberra, in this case equipped with an embedded Linux box - the BeagleBone Black - coupled to a PixHawk Fire Cape (PXF).
A video by Simrandeep Singh Garcha shows Tizen operating on the Samsung Z1, and demonstrates that Android apps are compatible on Tizen once an extra runtime layer is installed.
Samsung also unveiled its first range of smart televisions equipped with Tizen at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 in Las Vegas, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Google. Plans for a Tizen TV have been in the works since last year, when the South Korean electronics giant showed off a prototype version at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Samsung has also rolled out Tizen-based digital cameras and smartwatches.
Tizen was born after Intel and the Linux Foundation decided they were going to abandon the MeeGo platform, and is an alternative operating system to Android and Apple's iOS.


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LOW income earners already reeling under economic hardships now have to dig deeper into their pockets after a drastic increase in the monthly consumer basket to nearly $7 m
illion, up from $6,1 million last month, a Consumer Council of Zimbabwe price survey has revealed.
Basic commodities for a family of six now cost about $2 860 477, while transport costs covering 21 working days will chew up $336 000.
Rentals, health and education, combined with detergents and clothing take up $4 097 375, giving a total of $6 957 852 in monthly expenditure.
However, analysts warned that Wednesday’s fuel price increase would affect the basket.
They estimated that a 10-15% adjustment in transport costs was inevitable. This would raise transport expenses to $1 million, resulting in the basket pushing close to $8 million.
Soaring prices and triple digit inflation have left consumer-buying power enfeebled, putting basic goods and services beyond the reach of many households.
Inflation in 2000 stood at 55,9% and rose to 71% the following year. It rose to over 600% in January last year before starting a downward trend for most of the year. It was nearly 130% in March this year before reversing the trend to around 254,8% now.


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A week after Toronto Fashion Week, one of the city’s fashion stars made her return to the runway after a three-year hiatus. In case you need a refresh, The Coveteur co-founder Erin Kleinberg used to be a designer. Back in the mid-oughts, she became a bright young thing when stars like Mischa Barton, Blake Lively and Kim Kardashian were spotted in her low-key wares. For the next few years, she sold worldwide at Holt Renfrew, Barney’s, Nordstrom and others until putting the collection on hold to dominate the industry in another way: creeping the designer-filled closets of fashion’s elite.
Fast-forward to today and Kleinberg is back to her former steez, re-launching her brand of casual separates for the everygirl. “I missed creating and dressing my friends. I have been yearning to get back to it for some time now,” she says. “I love seeing women wearing my clothing and making them feel awesome.”
On Tuesday night at The Spoke Club, she showed an 18-look collection of nubby sweaters, maxi dresses, leather-trimmed tunics and sequined separates. As evidenced by the friend-filled crowd, the collection will do best with girls who dig fashion, but aren’t to be called upon for the correct spelling of Demeulemeester. “It’s really about effortless chic,” she says.


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Sentai Filmworks has released their monthly Section23 preview for the January 2011 anime month, and included to be released at the start of next year is the eye-catching Japanese series 11 Eyes in its Complete Collection form. The series started about a year ago, in October of 2009, and ended after the New Year. It will be available on January 11, 2011 at the mass suggested retail price of $49.95.
Raised in an orphanage after witnessing his sister's suicide, Satsuki Kakeru's life has already been pretty dank. However, when he and his friend Yuka are thrown into an alternate dimension called the Red Night, it takes a gruesome turn from bad to horrific. Now, trapped flickering between our world and the Red, Kakeru quickly discovers that he and Yuka are not alone, and that, together with the other so-called "fragments," they must defeat the malevolent entities known as the Black Knights.
It's a tad bit too early for box art at this time, and not a word was uttered regarding special features and bonus materials — nothing too odd, considering the genre, which is usually tight-lipped regarding extras on DVDs and Blu-rays.
Stay tuned to IGN DVD for more information about this and other upcoming releases!


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Troubled by the age-old problem of underage drinking, Rep. Bill Sanderson is pushing a bill to clamp down on grocery stores that use self-service lanes.
The Kenton Republican has put forward a proposal to limit self-checkout lanes – “Welcome, valued customer. Please scan your first item.” – to six per attendant. Sanderson says House Bill 304 will deter youths who scan a six-pack of Coca-Cola, then sneak a six-pack of Bud into their grocery bags.
“The notion that one person can oversee an infinite amount of self-checkouts is not even practical,” Sanderson said Tuesday before the House Local Government Committee gave the nod to his bill. “So, this legislation says that if you’re monitoring self-checkouts it should be limited to four self-checkout lanes if you are selling alcohol in that store.”
The Senate version, sponsored by Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, is pending a hearing in a Local Government subcommittee.
But retailers already limit the number of self-checkout lanes they have in operation per employee, a lobbyist for the grocers told lawmakers, and a majority of stores in the state have no more than six per attendant.
“I would say that stores are watching those, and monitoring those in a way that they don’t want an infinite number of checkout stands for one person,” Jarron Springer, with the Tennessee Grocers and Convenience Store Association, said. “But I think each individual store probably has a different determination on their number.”
Sanderson’s bill comes as the nation sees a drop in drunk-driving fatalities.
Thirty-two states including Tennessee recorded a decrease in drunk-driving fatalities from 2009 to 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nationally, deaths were down 4.9 percent.
The trend holds true among minors, with alcohol-impaired driving fatalities among youths down 60.7 percent since 2000, according to federal numbers tracked by the Century Council, a distilleries group.
Committee chairman Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Jonesborough, questioned the practicality of the legislation. After all, store workers are already required to check the ID of anyone buying alcohol before the checkout process can be completed.
Hill said that he was concerned that the state was “using the government to mandate the number of employees” stores employ.
During committee discussion, several legislators seemed supportive of the bill on the grounds that it would address the issue of alcohol accessibility to minors.
Rep. Andy Holt, R-Dresden, likened the decision of grocery retailers to abide by their own guidelines in this situation to allowing them to determine their own rules in other areas.
“So, if we just say that we should just allow industry to just conduct their own measurable accountability in all these situations, maybe we should do away with several other programs as well, because businesses can just institute that for themselves in home,” Holt said. “Food safety, inventory controls, responsible vending, all of these things.”


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Kahwa Coffee, Indigo thrive in competitive marketplace
Kahwa Coffee has signed a lease for a 1,250-square-foot space at a second downtown Tampa location, this one in the Element apartment tower.
Kahwa will be dividing an existing retail space and moving into the southwest corner of the first floor before the end of January, said Jason Donald, director at Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate company handling retail space at Element.
The new location will be just a few blocks from Kahwa’s first Tampa location in Rivergate Tower, which was confirmed in October, and will bring Kahwa’s Tampa Bay presence to a total of four locations.
Kahwa may not be the only local coffee company expanding.
Jeff Darrey, president of Indigo Trading Co., is looking at sites. “We’re planning strategic consistent growth in the future,” Darrey said.
Indigo has had its downtown Tampa location for four years, and growth there has been slow and steady. “We have a very loyal customer base,” Darrey said.
Loyal customers and a quality product may be essential when competing with giants like Starbucks, which currently has 115 locations across Tampa Bay.
David Ward, co-founder of Buddy Brew in Tampa, credits a slower pace in his business model to increased sales.
“What makes us so different is the time, energy and passion we put into our beans,” Ward said. “We brew coffee in our shop 11 different ways.”
Ward and his wife began roasting their own coffee at home. They founded Buddy Brew as a web business, and in 2009 the self-described “coffee maniacs” began looking for a commercial site. Their golden receiver, Buddy, was the inspiration for the company name.
Jo-Lynn Brown is Digital Producer for the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
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A global consensus on regulating cryptocurrencies has taken shape during India’s G20 presidency, said the country’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
“A global consensus on regulating cryptos is emerging under India’s presidency,” she said. The G20 agenda has also been enriched with a focus on advancing financial inclusion and achieving productivity gains through digital public infrastructure. “We have embedded in the G20 agenda financial inclusion and productivity gains through digital public infrastructure,” she explained.
The G20 Summit, being held in Delhi on Saturday and Sunday, will take up several global issues including a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. A presidential note on cryptocurrencies has been prepared by India, offering clarity on integrating virtual digital assets into a country’s digital financial system.
India has for long called for the development of a global framework for decentralised financial products and to curb their misuse for terror funding and money laundering.
Earlier this month, Sitharaman told the Fintech Fest 2023 that “India’s presidency has laid out issues related to regulating or understanding that there should be a framework for handling issues related to crypto assets. Active discussions are happening; content-rich papers from institutions like IMF, FSB, and OECD are all being discussed on various issues.”


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Wednesday! This one zoomed past, though we did make it to CNBC for a quick chat with our former colleague and CNBC host Jon Fortt. You can check that out here if you’re interested in IPO talk and whether or not direct listings will become more prevalent.
More tomorrow. 🙂
Amazon said today that it’s launching its biggest campus in the world in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
Turns out hiring wasn’t nearly as strong in 2018 and early 2019 as the government initially reported — by about a half-million jobs. The economy had about 501,000 fewer jobs as of March 2019 than the Bureau of Labor Statistics initially calculated in its survey of business establishments. That’s the largest revision since the waning stages of the recession of 2009, notes MarketWatch.
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ThredUp, Whose Second-Hand Goods Will Start Appearing at Macy’s and JCPenney Stores, Just Raised a Bundle
ThredUp, the 10-year-old fashion resale marketplace, has a lot of big news to boast about lately. For starters, the company just closed on $100 million in fresh funding from an investor syndicate that includes Park West Asset Management, Irving Investors and earlier backers Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Upfront Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
The round brings ThredUP’s total capital raised to more than $300 million, including a previously undisclosed $75 million investment that it sewed up last year.
A potentially even bigger deal for the company is a new resale platform that both Macy’s and JCPenney are beginning to test out, wherein ThedUp will be sending the stores clothing that they will process through their own point-of-sale systems, while trying to up-sell customers on jewelry, shoes, and other accessories.
It says a lot that traditional retailers are coming to see gently used items as a potential revenue stream for themselves, and little wonder given the size of the resale market, estimated to be a $24 billion market currently and projected to become a $51 billion market by 2023.
We talked yesterday with ThredUp founder and CEO James Reinhart to learn more about its tie-up with the two brands and to find out what else the startup is stitching together.
You’ve partnered with Macy’s and JCPenney. Did they approach you or is ThredUp out there pitching traditional retailers? I think [the two companies] have been thinking about resale for some time. They’re trying to figure out how to best serve their customers. Meanwhile, we’ve been thinking about how we power resale for a broader set of partners, and there was a meeting of the minds six months ago. We’re positioned now where we can do this really effectively in-store, so we’re starting with a pilot program in 30 to 40 stores, but we could scale to 300 or 400 stores if we wanted.
How is this going to work exactly with these partners? We have the [software and logistics] architecture and the selection to put together carefully curated selections of clothing for particular stores, including the right assortment of brands and sizes, depending on where a Macy’s is located, for example. Macy’s then wraps a high-quality experience around [those goods]. Maybe it’s a dress, but they wrap a handbag and scarves and jewelry around the dress purchase. We feel [certain] that future consumers will buy new and used at the same time.
Who is your demographic, and please don’t say everyone. It is everyone. It’s not a satisfying answer, but we sell 30,000 brands. We serve lots of luxury customers with brands like Louis Vuitton, but we also sell Old Navy. What unites customers across all brands is they want to find brands that they couldn’t have afforded new; they’re trading up to brands that, full price, would have been too much, so Old Navy shoppers are [buying] Gap [whose shopper are buying] J. Crew and Theory and all the way up. Consistently, what we hear is [our marketplace] allows customers to swap out their wardrobes at higher rates than would be possible otherwise, and it feels to them like they’re doing in a more [environmentally] responsible way.
What percentage of your shoppers are also consigning goods?
Icelandic Glacial, a 15-year-old, Thorlákshöfn, Iceland-based “premium” imported bottled water brand, has raised $66 million in new funding, including a $35 million investment from BlackRock’s U.S. private credit team, as well as $31 million in new equity issued to new and existing investors. More here.
Knotel, a three-year-old, New York startup that designs and operates bespoke spaces for brands, says it has raised $400 million in funding at a valuation of $1 billion led by Wafra, an investment arm of Kuwait’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, with participation from Mori Trust, Itochu, and Mercuria. The capital brings its total funding to date to more than $500 million. VentureBeat has more here.
Oncorus, a four-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based developer of oncolytic viruses (therapies that uses viruses to infect tumor cells and break them down), has raised $79.5 million in Series B funding co-led by Cowen Healthcare Investments and Perceptive Advisors. Xconomy has more here.
PlusAI, a three-year-old, Cupertino, Ca.-based self-driving truck startup, is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $200 million at a valuation of more than $1 billion. The startup has already raised an undisclosed amount of Series A and seed funding from Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Bloomberg has the story here.
Tala, a seven-year-old, Santa Monica, Ca.-based lender in emerging markets, has raised $110 million in Series D funding led by RPS Ventures, with participation from GGV Capital and earlier backers IVP, Revolution Growth, Lowercase Capital, DCVC, ThomVest Ventures, and PayPal Ventures. TechCrunch has more here.
Fund That Flip, a five-year-old, New York- and Cleveland, Oh,-based marketplace lender of residential real estate loans, has raised $11 million in funding from Edison Partners. VentureBeat has more here.
Blooma, a year-old, San Diego-based AI-powered loan origination platform, has raised $2.75 million in funding led by Floodgate. More here.
Cosi, a new Berlin-based startup operating in the hospitality space with an alternative to boutique hotels and managed short-stay apartments, has raised €5 million in seed funding. Cherry Ventures and e.ventures co-led the round, with participation from numerous real estate and hospitality entrepreneurs. TechCrunch has more here.
CropX, a four-year-old, Israel-based startup that sells soil sensors and cloud-based analytics software to optimize crops, has raised $10 million in funding from Innovation Endeavors, Sumitomo Corp., Armada Capital, Finistere Ventures, Germin8 Ventures, TaL Capital, GreenSoil Investments, and the equity crowdfunding company OurCrowd. Calcalist has more here.
Kobitron, a three-year-old, Atlanta, Ga.-based mobile testing platform, has raised $5.2 million in Series A funding. BIP Capital led the round, joined by earlier investors KMS Technology and Kinetic Ventures. TechCrunch has more here.
JRNI, a 10-year-old, London-based booking and customer engagement platform that wants you to know its brand is pronounced “journey,” has added $6 million to a previously closed Series C round. PeakSpan Capital led the newest infusion, joined by Downing Ventures and Somerston Group. The company has now raised $23.2 million altogether. More here.
Mavely, a year-old, Chicago-based startup that aims to help direct-to-consumer brands address rising customer-acquisition costs while helping them expand their communities, has raised $1 million in funding from PivotNorth Capital. Business Insider has more here.
Intrinsic Health Partners, a 1.5-year-old, Conshohocken, Pa.-based venture outfit, has raised nearly $47 million for its new fund, according to an SEC filing that shows a $125 million target. We can’t find a website for this one (yet!).
March Capital Partners, a Santa Monica, Ca.-based venture firm, is raising up to $50 million for a gaming-focused fund, per an SEC filing first flagged by Axios. More here.
Splunk, a publicly traded data processing and analytics company, says it has acquired SignalFx for roughly $1.05 billion, roughly 60 percent of which will be in cash and 40 percent in Splunk common stock. SignalFx is a six-year-old cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. It had raised roughly $178 million from investors, says Crunchbase.TechCrunch looks at the deal here.
NurseFly, a two-year-old startup that had created a job marketplace for short-term nursing positions, is announcing its acquisition by holding company IAC. While the companies aren’t disclosing the deal terms, TechCrunch reporting the price was $15 million. More here.
China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group Holding, has delayed its up to $15 billion listing in Hong Kong amid growing political unrest in the Asian financial hub, reports Reuters. More here.
From the WSJ: Robert Cohen will become a partner at the white shoe law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in October. Why is this interesting? He’s coming from the SEC, where he has been leading the SEC’s Cyber Unit, which is dedicated to the threat of crypto fraud.
Ruh roh. Eminem’s music publisher Eight Mile Style has filed a lawsuit against Spotify, accusing the service of blatant copyright infringement in streaming “Lose Yourself” and other Eminem songs. The case has implications for “all songwriters,” says his attorney.
“First of all, keep it out of the light. It hates bright light, especially sunlight, it’ll kill it. Second, don’t give it any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much it cries, no matter how much it begs, never feed it after midnight.”
Fitbit has struck a deal to provide devices for potentially hundreds of thousands of people in Singapore who commit to a monthly subscription. The company is working with a government agency there to design a program that aims to help its citizens get healthier.
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Samsung Galaxy A9 release date indicator for next week
There have been growing signs of the Samsung Galaxy A9 heading to a launch very soon, and now there’s a release date indicator for next week. The news comes from an official Samsung website, so we’re inclined to believe it’s accurate. The same source also gives us further confirmation of the specs of the phone.
Earlier this month we reported that the Samsung Galaxy A9 had passed Bluetooth certification, a sure indicator that an official unveiling is getting closer. Just a few days ago we told of a further leak, as a benchmark appearance of the phone revealed some specifications.
Now the Galaxy A9 with model number SM-A900F has shown up on Samsung’s Iran website, so this is really as official as it gets. Specs tally with those leaked previously, with the latest spot including a Snapdragon 620 octa-core processor (four cores at 1.8GHz and four at 1.4GHz), Adreno 510 graphics, and a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 resulting in 401 ppi.
Further Samsung Galaxy A9 specs are given as 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD to 128GB. There’s a 16-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing snapper, and connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0 LE, NFC, and GPS. The phone is running the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS, but just as with the earlier leak there’s no mention of battery size. Color choices are shown as black, gold, or white.
The most interesting part of this latest appearance is that the Samsung website concerned shows a launch date of December 1. Pease note that the screenshot below shows only a placeholder for the Galaxy A9 and actually depicts the Galaxy A8. As this latest information comes from an official Samsung site we’re inclined to think it’s credible, so it won’t be too much longer before the phone is finally made official.
Of course it’s possible that the December 1 launch date might not apply for all markets, but we should be hearing much more on this very soon. We’ll bring further news as it comes to us but in the meantime we’d like to hear your comments. Are you a potential buyer for the metal-clad Samsung Galaxy A9?


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Phase 2 reopening began on June 17, and while Phase 3 has been delayed, Gov. Ned Lamont has been rolling out amendments to the current reopening rules.
The most recent developments include the allowance of dancing, buffets and passed food at weddings. Live instrumental music is also now allowed at restaurants.
Private gatherings remain at 25 people inside and 100 people outside, bars will remain closed and indoor dining at restaurants and gyms will remain at 50 percent capacity. Lamont did not immediately offer a new date for the introduction of Phase 3, which was originally slated for July 20.
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When Stephen Mackey became president and CEO of the Somerville Chamber of Commerce in 1995, the nation was in the midst of an urban resurgence and the city wanted a piece of it.
As he saw it, Somerville had three big advantages: It was the most densely populated city in New England, it was closer to downtown Boston than most other parts of that city, and it was right in the middle of the “brainpower triangle” of Harvard, MIT, and Tufts.
There were a lot of things Somerville needed to catch the rising wave of urban living, among them improved transit and building its commercial tax base. But first of all, says Mackey, the city needed a hook.
“We looked at Boston and it was the political and economic capital; we looked at Cambridge and it was the life sciences capital,” says Mackey. “We decided we’re going to offer dining and night life.”
The city had foundations to build upon, including the Somerville Theater, Johnny D’s, and Redbones. But once he started doing what chamber chiefs do—networking with his members, finding out the lay of the land—Mackey made an interesting discovery: A lot of the city’s restaurants were dry, and not by choice.
“We had little boutique restaurants with food from all over the world,” he says. “Each of them seemed to have a wine or beer or something that goes with the cuisine, and they couldn’t really be taken seriously by food critics unless they could serve something to complement the food.”
The problem was that many of those restaurants didn’t have a liquor license. That’s because the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission restricted the number of licenses that were issued in a city, and they only became available if a restaurant holding one failed or its owner sold the license.
“They were very rare and expensive, costing $50,000-plus at the time,” Mackey says. “We worked on it for a year to come up with a compromise.”
So he did the other thing chamber chiefs do, and started working on public policy. The chamber’s Dining and Nightlife Group asked the city to take to the legislature a proposal for a new type of beer and wine license, one a boutique restaurant could pay for annually and that reverted to the city if it closed; that prevented the speculation and price gouging that was common with permanent licenses. It took a year for the city to get it to the legislature, but it did pass.
Then, Mackey says, the city had to change its own stripes regarding late-night closing time. Somerville had a closing hour of midnight or 1 a.m., while Boston and Cambridge stayed open until 2 a.m.
The city resisted the later closing time, arguing that, after one restaurant or bar closed, customers would go to another to have a few last drinks. The chamber had to convince city officials that drinking culture was changing—people weren’t going out until later at night, and they were staying in one spot for four or five hours instead of barhopping. The fact that Somerville restaurants closed earlier meant people who were making evening plans would simply opt for a Harvard Square or Boston restaurant, instead.
“We also lobbied to allow full-service sidewalk cafes” and street events, says Mackey. “The argument was, ‘We don’t want public drinking,’ but people don’t go to sidewalk cafes to pound down the beers. It’s more genteel, a date or a business meeting, more casual.”
Mackey’s foray into policy-shaping back in the 1990s certainly laid the groundwork, but it’s not the only factor that helped grow Somerville’s restaurant scene. Evelyn Battinelli, executive director and trustee of the Somerville Museum, says the 1980s expansion of the Red Line also deserves a good share of the credit for helping drive Somerville’s resurgence, in night life and otherwise.
“That was the beginning of the change,” says Battinelli. “A lot of people thought the Red Line coming through was going to be adverse to the city. It turns out that businesses moved into Davis Square: One was Redbones, another was McIntyre and Moore, a bookstore that stayed open to 11 o’clock at night.”
In addition, she says, you started seeing people with name tags for different conferences who were in the city on business. When The Burren opened, that drew in students. Both of those groups brought their appetites with them, and restaurants opened in response. Among those, she says, were Joey Crugnale’s Bertucci’s Pizza and Bocce (the original location of the chain,) Steve Herrell’s ice cream parlor, and The Foundry, an offshoot of The Independent in Union Square.
“There are some others in Ball Square and of course Union Square has wonderful ethnic restaurants—Machu Picchu is one of them,” Battinelli says. “In East Somerville you have Mt. Vernon. I think they opened sometime in the 1930s. And you have another little hidden gem over there, Vinnie’s By Night. It started as a little sandwich shop in the front, then he went on to open the back room and started a little restaurant.”
Mackey remains pleased with the extent to which the push to open up Somerville to more and better restaurants succeeded. And while he’s not of a mind to speculate on what might be missing—“I’m not in the industry,” he demurs—he does try to be aware of what local restaurateurs say they need to ensure continued success.
“The thing that helps is complementary activity,” says Mackey. “A lot of people will think about going to a square with a couple of good restaurants, but if you have a theater, a place to bowl, to get ice cream or a cup of coffee—if you have these other things to do in addition to eating, it helps the dining scene.”
We’ll drink to that!
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The ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Valencia was packed with the movers and shakers of the Santa Clarita Valley's business community to salute an "officer and a gentleman."
Bank of Santa Clarita saw a 21 percent growth in deposits last year and a 3 percent growth in its loan portfolio, the commercial bank reported.
Lennar Corp.'s stock rose more than 15 percent Thursday after the CEO said he sees a trend in rising prices and anticipates the homebuilder will be profitable this year.
The Signal celebrated 90 years of service to the Santa Clarita Valley by hosting the November Chamber of Commerce mixer in the paper's pressroom in Valencia.
The recession may have left many with a sour taste, but Genine Baldree is living the sweet life.
Bank of Santa Clarita on Monday purchased a 15,000-square-foot Valencia building - home to an Ethan Allen furniture store - where it will set up its headquarters and fourth branch during the next year.
A company that manufactures parts for aerospace companies including Lockheed, Boeing and Raytheon closed escrow on the largest industrial building sale in the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys in 2009.
About 75 local business men and women got a crash course in California's water crisis over chicken and stuffing Wednesday during the monthly Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
The Santa Clarita Valley saw a spike in home sales between September and October, according to information released Wednesday.
The restaurant business is in Chris Simms' blood. So it was a natural post-college decision to choose between diving into the world of Wall Street finance or coming home to California and sinking his teeth into the world of food.
Flair Cleaners Valencia location is among the chain's five shops hosting its seventh annual holiday clothing drive, from Nov. 27 to Dec. 31.
Dr. Debra Cooper has been named medical director of HealthWorks Medical Group's Saugus office.
Wahoo's Fish Tacos is marking its 21st anniversary Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.
Change is in the air at the Macy's in Westfield Valencia Town Center, and it's not that Christmas decorations are about to go up.
The Fitness Compound gym in Canyon Country has closed its doors abruptly, posting a hastily scribbled notice on its door apologizing to members and referring them to another fitness center.
Wine lovers storing their treasured cargo at Lee's Wine Storage in Santa Clarita have until May 6 at the latest to claim any wine or property stored at the location – or lose it, according to the property owner.


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June 6, 2023
Amlan International names Beijing Zhongnong Pasture Biotechnology Co., Ltd. as chief distributor in China
Amlan® International, the animal health business of Oil-Dri® Corporation of America and a global leader in mineral-based feed additives that optimise the intestinal health of poultry and livestock, has announced its strategic restructuring plans for its business in China.
To streamline distribution and increase efficiency, Amlan has chosen Beijing Zhongnong Pasture Biotechnology Co., Ltd. as its chief distributor in China. The strategic decision recognises the significance of the Chinese market and Amlan's successful longstanding partnership with Zhongnong.
With nearly 20 years of experience serving the Chinese feed and farming industry, Zhongnong has proven to be a valuable partner in the northern region of the country by working closely with Amlan to provide proven mineral-based feed additives to Chinese animal producers.
Zhongnong has a highly professional sales team with widespread reach and a comprehensive service network, possessing an in-depth understanding and appreciation of Amlan's products. Leveraging this vast knowledge and industry experience will enhance the value delivered to customers in the Chinese market by improving distribution efficiency and promoting Amlan's full range of products, including Calibrin®-A and Calibrin®-Z products and products, such as Varium® and NeoPrime®, that will be available in the future.
Since 2012, Zhongnong has been one of Amlan's top-performing distributors, fostering a long history of partnership, mutual trust and support. Amlan and Zhongnong have full confidence in the market and sales prospects.
"We are extremely optimistic about Amlan's future prospects for global growth. Zhongnong has a distinct advantage in the (Chinese) market with a strong and loyal ruminant and layer customer base that can accelerate Amlan's business opportunities and support the business," said Dr. Wade Robey, vice president of agriculture at Oil-Dri Corporation of America and president of Amlan International.
By establishing Zhongnong as its chief distributor, Amlan is poised to continue its growth and success in the Chinese market while providing value and support to both existing and future customers.
- Oil-Dri Corporation Of America


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Data center operator Colo5 LLC said Tuesday it has added Body Central Corp. to a growing list of clients.
Colo5, based in Jacksonville, said it will provide comprehensive colocation and disaster recovery services to the specialty retailer.
Body Central (Nasdaq: BODY), also based in Jacksonville, offers apparel and accessories at about 241 specialty apparel stores in 24 states under the Body Central and Body Shop banners, as well as catalog and online purchasing. There are several store locations in Northeast Florida.
"We are very excited to have Body Central Corp. as a client in our data center," said Scott Larsen, vice president of sales for Colo5, in a release. "They are a large and growing company and they had a choice of where they wanted to house their data."
Colo5 currently houses information for customers in industries including retail, banking, managed services and healthcare. The data company provides customers with redundant sources of power to guarantee network stability and availability in a secure setting, a news release said.
“We chose Colo5 because of their excellent customer service and their competitive pricing,” said Chuck Carstens, vice president and chief information officer for Body Central, in a release.
Body Central's 2011 fourth quarter net income was $6.1 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, as compared to net income of $2.7 million, or $0.18 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2010.
Body Central's 2011 yearly net income $19.7 million or $1.22 per diluted share, as compared to net income of $9.8 million, or $0.73 per diluted share for fiscal 2010.


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Austin Retailers Report 40% Reduction in Plastic Bag Use
Austin retailers who participated in the city-led , â€śReduce, Reuse and Recycleâ€ť campaign report that they have recycled over 20 percent more bags at stores during the first half of 2008 compared with the same period in 2006, Austin Business Journal reports.
Retailers like HEB, Randall’s, Wal-Mart, Walgreen’s and Target provided 40 percent fewer plastic bags to their customers during the first six months of 2008 than during the same period in 2006. The city says stores sold around 443,000 reusable bags to customers, more than one bag for every two Austin residents.
Last year, Whole Foods Market banned plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in its two stores in Austin, Texas. Last month, IKEA announced that the company would no longer be offering plastic or paper bags at any of its U.S. stores.
Earlier this month, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for a 6-cent fee for every plastic shopping bag given to shoppers, with 1 cent going to the retailer and 5 cents going to the city
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Is That a Computer Chip in Your Carpet?
Researchers at Germany's Infineon Technologies have demonstrated how a self-organizing network of chips woven into large textile surfaces, such as carpets, could someday be used to monitor buildings, provide directions in an emergency, and more.
At the company's Emerging Technology Lab in Munich, the research team showed how robust chips embedded into industrial fabrics in the form of a checkerboard are able to monitor temperature, pressure, vibration, and motion, Infineon said Monday in a statement. The
Such fabrics could also be equipped with tiny light-emitting diodes to provide directions through public buildings or to emergency exits, according to the Munich chip maker.
The construction industry is another potential field of application for the new fabrics. Textiles with sensors wrapped around columns, or covering walls or floors, could offer a means of detecting faults in concrete at an early stage, Infineon said.
The intelligent floor covering application follows Infineon's "wearable electronics" textile development presented last year, the company said.
Here's how it works: Each chip in the checkerboard design is connected to its four immediate chip neighbors by extremely fine, electrically conductive threads, which allow the chip to exchange information with the others. The design forms a self-learning, fault-tolerant network. If, for instance, a chip or conductive path fails, the network automatically locates the fault and immediately reorganizes itself, finding a new path via the neighboring chips to maintain the information flow.
Another advantage of the design is that the fabric can be cut into virtually any shape or size without damaging the electronic network function.
Together with textile manufacturers, Infineon plans within two years to produce a fully functional, intelligent material that can cover a wide area, the company said.


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By Loretta Worters, Vice President, Media Relations, Triple-I
When mega containership Ever Given wedged herself across a one-way section of the Suez Canal during a sandstorm last month, it brought 10 percent of global trade to a halt for a week. The ship – owned by Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company Evergreen Marine Corp. – was finally refloated and traffic in the canal was able to resume.
A Risk & Insurance cover story, published by Triple-I sister organization Risk & Insurance Group (RIG), describes how – in the context of a trend toward larger container vessels and a global supply chain already disrupted by COVID-19 – this incident should serve as a wake-up call for insurers.
Looking at the Ever Given grounding and disruption of canal traffic from a marine insurance perspective, RIG author Gregory DL Morris highlights the impact on cargo insurance claims and the potential for cargo spoilage. He also discusses compromised maneuverability of these massive vessels in high winds and references an increasing number of on-board fires, challenges surrounding salvage, and lack of suitable repair facilities, noting, “Underwriters need to be aware of this.”
Despite the likelihood that immediate property loss in this case will be minimal, megaships pose serious challenges to marine insurance and risk management. According to MDS Transmodal, a transport and logistics research firm, average vessels capacity grew 25 percent between 2014 and 2018, with ultra-large containerships accounting for 31 percent of the total capacity deployed in the second quarter of 2018. Transmodal attributes this trend to industry consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, as well as growing trade lane co-operation through alliances, slot sharing, and vessel-sharing agreements.
Even as traffic through the canal resumes, terminals will experience congestion. In addition, the severe drop in vessel arrival and container discharge in major terminals will aggravate existing shortages of empty containers available for exports. Delays in shipments, increased costs, and product shortages are therefore likely.
“The fact is that an already heavily disrupted maritime supply chain has taken another hit that will further affect its fluidity, with long-term consequences related to congestions, lead times and predictability,” said Jens Roemer, chair of the Sea Transport Working Group of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders.
While traffic through the canal is now moving, the global supply chain’s vulnerabilities may only now be beginning to become clear.
“Whether a blizzard in Texas or a sandstorm in Egypt,” Morris writes, “the narrow focus on minimal inventories that rely upon just-in-time delivery leaves little allowance for weather or accident.”


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Microsoft unveils the multi-touch mouse
A Microsoft Research project is bringing multi-touch technology to the mouse.
The company’s Applied Sciences Group has produced a series of prototype devices that deliver multi-touch controls, without having to invest in a touchscreen PC.
The five different mice use a variety of technologies to detect finger movement, including infrared cameras, a capacitive sensing grid and optical sensors.
The Arty Mouse, for example, places an optical sensor underneath the thumb and the forefinger, allowing the PC to detect pinching movements for zooming in on photos.
The Side Mouse, on the other hand (pun absolutely intended), is a small device that rests entirely beneath the palm, allowing the fingers to tap on the desk. IR cameras and a laser detect the movement of the fingers, creating “a multi-touch area that is not restricted to the physical surface of the device.”
The team claim the devices could help multi-touch make the breathrough into everyday desktop computing. “With the emergence of multi-touch, we now have the opportunity to manipulate digital content with increased dexterity,” the team writes in a paper.
“But whilst multi-touch has been incorporated into many different form-factors – from tabletop to mobile phone – it has yet to find a place on our desktops. This may seem surprising, particularly given that for many computing tasks the desktop setting still dominates.”


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These days, everyone and their grandmother is investing in China, not just US companies.
|XIâ€™AN, China â€" For years, many of Chinaâ€™s best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry was more cutting-edge. But Mark R. Pinto is moving in the opposite direction.|
Mr. Pinto is the first chief technology officer of a major American tech company to move to China. The company, Applied Materials, is one of Silicon Valleyâ€™s most prominent firms. It supplied equipment used to perfect the first computer chips. Today, it is the worldâ€™s biggest supplier of the equipment used to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.


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Repair costs climbing, but so is mileage between repairs
Parts, labor and overall repair costs are soaring for truck fleets, but an increased emphasis on preventive maintenance is stretching out mileage between breakdowns.
Those were some key findings from a pair of benchmarking reports conducted by the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) of the American Trucking Associations, and its data collection partners Decisiv and FleetNet America.
Mark Wasilko, vice-president of marketing with service management platform Decisiv, says his company records about a million service events per quarter. Using VMRS codes, it identifies trends related to repair costs.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, average parts costs increased 2.72%, labor 3.71%, and parts and labor combined rose 3.71%.
More shocking are year-over-year comparisons, with labor costs up 14.26%, parts up 8.77%, and parts and labor combined up 10.81% compared to the fourth quarter in 2020.
“That’s an ugly trend,” said Wasilko during a TMC press conference. By VMRS code, the most expensive repair costs were related to powerplant (36.8%), exhaust systems (14.9%), and brakes (5%).
In a separate benchmarking report conducted by FleetNet America, which looks at average repair costs and mileage between repairs, Paul Gildenhorn, FleetNet’s vice-president of sales, noted some interesting trends.
Strangely, total fleet miles decreased in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the previous quarter. He attributed this to supply chain shortages that pulled peak holiday shipping season forward.
But the study also noted a sharp increase in miles between breakdowns in the fourth quarter – 42,559, marking the longest stretch seen in two years. Gildenhorn says this could be because of an increased emphasis on preventive maintenance being forced on fleets who are having to run equipment longer due to supply chain shortages that have made procuring new trucks difficult.
“Fleets are having to spend more time paying closer attention to their PM programs than ever before,” said Gildenhorn. “They’ve had to make that equipment last.”
FleetNet also uses VMRS codes to categorize breakdowns. It found the top five codes represented 67% of total repairs: tires, brakes, powerplant, cranking system, and exhaust systems. The complete reports are available through TMC.
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From 1966 to 2015 I drove and owned trucks with a Cummins PT fuel system I consider myself lucky
This not what we are seeing many issues with new trucks in the shop more often and for longer periods of time. I got this from drivers and owners ops at the protests and from some repair shops. I could be wrong?
I have a 2021 389 peterbilt with a X15 565 hp , an cylinder misfire early in the game, quickly fixed by a free tune up and the next check engine light was a NOX sensor at 500000ish km also quickly repaired because of the rapid check program at edmonton peterbilt.


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Stormy times ahead for marketing – but a glimmer of sun for direct
18 October 2018
The latest Bellwether report from the IPA has been released and there are very few surprises all round.
The headlines are that growth is sluggish, with the slowest pace recorded since mid-2015. Direct budgets have been revised down by 7 per cent, whilst digital marketing has experienced a 14 per cent increase. Atl advertising remained stable. It was an overall a pretty pessimistic study with highest level of negative sentiment recorded since 2011.
Brexit was seen as the major barrier to ad spend growth, with continued uncertainty about the UK’s future with Europe given as the primary reason for putting marketing spend on hold.
Interestingly, however, compliance took a back seat in this report. But it is worth mentioning that this will have had a significant impact on direct spend. With marketing databases depleted significantly since the introduction of GDPR in May, DM volumes have fallen and budgets have consequently decreased. However, this decrease is no bad thing. In fact it’s positive for consumers, for brands and for the channel. Firstly consumers will be receiving fewer and more targeted mailings, marketers are receiving improved ROI as volume has reduced but response rates have increased, and finally consumer perception of the channel will also be enhanced as a result of better targeting and reduced volume meaning that it will become more effective and potentially shrug off its negative reputation. With decreases in direct marketing budgets it’s unsurprising that digital budgets are on the rise. Clearly the savings are being pushed into alternative media. However, with ePrivacy on the horizon it is likely that digital will experience a reduction of spend when it becomes harder to use the Internet to target customers.
So due to the unfavourable conditions for marketing as a whole as a result of Brexit and tighter controls, the outlook for direct is not as negative as the report makes out.


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Multinationals face increased scrutiny
Updated: 2013-07-06 02:51
By WANG ZHUOQIONG and LIU JIE (China Daily)
As for domestic milk powder brands, the government's actions would also have a limited impact if the problems involving product quality, milk sources and trust issues were not resolved, he said.
Chinese consumers' loyalty to foreign brands is thought to be pushing up their prices over the long run.
Guo Yuanyuan, the mother of a 2-year-old, buys high-end milk powder produced by Wyeth regularly. Each can costs about 400 yuan.
"When I encounter piles of imported milk powder at the supermarket, the price is the only factor that matters to me," Guo said. "I believe the more expensive the product, the better the quality and thus the safety for children."
The government is also examining the costs and prices of international pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Merck & Co, Novartis AG and Baxter International Inc, with the aim of improving the pricing system for medicines.
According to an e-mail response from MSD China, a unit of international drugmaker Merck & Co, said the NDRC announced cost and price surveys on July 2.
MSD said it is a routine cost and price data collection spanning the entire healthcare industry, including local and multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The company said such surveys are carried out on a random basis.
For example, this month, 27 drug companies, including Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Astellas Pharma Inc, GSK, Baxter and MSD, have been chosen for the survey, together with large domestic pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Wang Zhile, president of the Beijing New Century Academy on Transnational Corporations and a senior researcher on foreign direct investment, said that an anti-monopoly investigation is necessary to build up a healthier market.
He said the move encourages all companies — local or foreign — to play by the rules.
He said it is vital for the government to adopt proper and internationally recognized methods in investigations to yield a fair result.
Bloomberg News contributed to this story.


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Netflix announced that they will be offering games as part of their monthly subscription. The company said, “We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar to our expansion into original films, animation, and unscripted TV.
Games will be included in members’ Netflix subscription at no additional cost similar to films and series. Initially, we’ll be primarily focused on games for mobile devices. We’re excited as ever about our movies and TV series offering and we expect a long runway of increasing investment and growth across all of our existing content categories, but since we are nearly a decade into our push into original programming, we think the time is right to learn more about how our members value games.” Earlier this month, Netflix teased this route with the new deal with Shonda Rhimes, which included gaming and virtual content. There are also rumors that Netflix will be teaming up with Playstation to offer their games on their platform as well.


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- A Salmonella Newport outbreak linked to onions has now sickened at least 1,208 people across the US and Canada.
- Thompson, International, Inc., which is based in Bakersfield, California, issued a salmonella-related recall of red onions and other potentially contaminated products on August 1.
- A new CDC case map shows that cases have been reported in 47 states, with western states like Oregon, California, Utah, and Montana reporting especially high case counts.
- Recalled products are sold in all 50 states at stores like Walmart, Kroger, Aldi, Trader Joe's, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, Publix, and more.
- The FDA is still investigating the root cause of the outbreak, and in the meantime the FDA, CDC, and other experts recommend throwing out onions if consumers are unable to identify where they came from.
- Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
An outbreak of Salmonella Newport linked to onions has sickened at least 1,208 people across the US and Canada, according to updated information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On August 1, Bakersfield, California-based onion supplier Thomson, International, Inc. recalled onions shipped from May 1 to August 1 to restaurants and stores in all 50 states. Thomson International warned that red, yellow, sweet yellow, and white onions may have come into contact with red onions contaminated with salmonella.
On Wednesday, the CDC raised the number of confirmed infections in the US from 640 to 869. As of August 14, the Public Health Agency of Canada said there were 339 confirmed Salmonella cases linked to onions imported from the US. At least 116 people have been hospitalized in the US as of August 18, and at least 48 have been hospitalized in Canada as of August 14.
A CDC case count map shows that the majority of reported cases are concentrated in the western US, with especially high case counts in Oregon, California, Utah, and Montana, although cases have been reported in 27 states. The CDC states that there is a two-to-four-week lag between when a person becomes sick and when they report their illness, so it is possible that additional cases have yet to be accounted for.
Walmart, Aldi, Publix, Giant Eagle, and Trader Joe's have issued their own recalls for onions sold at stores in certain states. Kroger and other grocery chains also issued recalls for cheese dips made with potentially contaminated onions.
Taylor Foods, which supplies chains including Walmart, Kroger, and H-E-B with prepackaged foods, also recalled some of its products. Direct-to-consumer grocery company Imperfect Foods issued a recall for onions purchased before August 2.
The potentially contaminated onions are sold under a number of different brand names, so the FDA recommends throwing out onions if consumers are uncertain if they came from Thomson International. Food safety lawyer Bill Marler told Business Insider in early August, "When in doubt, throw them out."
The FDA is still collecting and analyzing samples as part of its ongoing investigation into the root cause of the outbreak.