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THE iPhone 8 is expected to feature a stunning curved display built by Apple's arch-enemy Samsung, it has been claimed.
Whispers emanating from the darkest depths of the iRumour mill suggest the top secret smartphone will be fitted with a beautiful bendy display made from plastic, rather than glass.
This screen is expected to be made from organic light emitted diodes (OLED), which means it will offer users improved picture quality at the same time as being thinner and lighter than traditional screens.
The unconfirmed rumour was published in the Korea Herald and comes from sources within Apple's Far East supply chain.
The newspaper also suggested the curved screen will feature sensors that "enable the phone to respond when users touch any side of the device", offering new ways to interact with it.
If true, it could prove that previous Apple rumours are not true, particularly tittle-tattle which suggested 0nly more expensive models of iPhone 8 would feature the OLED screen.
Here's what the Apple experts at Mac Rumours said about the latest piece of iGossip: "Multiple sources have claimed Apple is planning a 5.5-inch 'premium' version of its 2017 iPhone with an OLED screen alongside new models with traditional LCD displays, but today's report underlines Apple's intention to use a curved screen similar to that found in Samsung's Galaxy S7, which has been described as having the best smartphone display on the market."


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Each year, ReFED scans the food waste landscape and predicts what might lie ahead for the food waste movement in the next 12 months. Here’s what we think you’ll see in 2023:
- Higher food prices and ongoing disruptions in global supply chains will continue to decrease the accessibility and availability of food – making it a natural and opportune moment to prioritize food waste reduction. Inflation is having a big impact on the food system, with food prices rising 12% since last year. At the same time, supply chains are still stuck in scramble mode, as external events continue to disrupt supply and demand patterns like never before, leaving corporations and consumers wondering where some of their favorite food items have gone. What does this mean for food waste? While higher food prices naturally incentivize consumers to waste less in their homes, restaurants may struggle to predict and adjust to changing consumer behaviors – like purchasing less because of higher prices – which could result in more surplus food. On the food banking side, the ongoing effects of inflation will keep the need for food assistance at levels similar to the pandemic, even as higher food prices also limit the amount that can be purchased by relief agencies. When will everything return to “normal”? We’re hearing it will take decades, not years.
- More businesses, governments, and funders will turn to food waste reduction as a methane solution. Food waste in landfills is a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Research from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicates that diverting food waste from landfill reduces the methane generation potential by 33%. Increased research and a stronger focus on methane from landfills in the coming year will naturally lead to more focus on food waste reduction as a key mitigation strategy.
- Along with continued state legislation, federal funding and Farm Bill negotiations will create new opportunities to scale food waste solutions. The EPA is currently accepting applications for $70+ million in Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants, allocating $32 billion to GHG mitigation efforts, and the USDA already allocated $90 million to food loss and waste. This means far more federal funding will be flowing into food waste reduction than ever before. Beyond that, there are great opportunities to incorporate more food waste reduction into the 2023 Farm Bill – an omnibus bill that every five years authorizes more than $400 billion in federal funding and is the primary legislation addressing all aspects of the American food system. The 2018 Farm Bill prioritized food waste reduction for the first time, and the 2023 Farm Bill is an opportunity for Congress to launch a national education and awareness campaign, increase funding support for food recovery infrastructure and post-harvest food recovery, support state and local policies that reduce food sent to landfill, and more. It also provides a much-needed opportunity to standardize and clarify date labels, which many UK stores have started to remove. At the state level, we expect the momentum of passing organics bans to continue, along with laws that encourage or mandate food rescue as California and New York demonstrate the success of their precedent-setting laws..
- ESG reporting will dominate business sustainability units, helping or hurting the food waste cause. Businesses are scrambling to meet the new SEC rule requiring disclosure of Scope 3 (indirect or value chain) GHG emissions for companies where they reflect a “material” component of overall emissions. This means businesses are hiring analysts, diving deep into ESG accounting, and establishing measurement methods. On the one hand, this is distracting from action, as some businesses may not feel they have bandwidth to focus on or adopt new food waste reduction solutions. Longer term, however, ESG reporting is building a foundation of measurement that will help internally illuminate the footprint of food waste – and ultimately justify taking action.
- Challenging macroeconomic conditions mean private and philanthropic funding for food waste solutions is expected to slow in 2023 – but the trend is not sector-specific. After a record year for U.S. private funding toward food waste in 2021, the total amount of investments in 2022 has seen a leveling off, primarily driven by the challenging macro environment. Most notably, the decline in venture capital activity relative to 2021 has made a dent, but it’s important to note that it is closer in line with historical averages. Private equity has followed a similar trajectory to VC, while mergers and acquisitions are down globally but not to the same degree. Particular attention is being paid to recycling solutions (anaerobic digestion, livestock feed, composting, waste-derived biomaterials), as platforms such as Atlas Organics (via Generate Capital) deploy capital, and changes in policy at the state and local levels are expanding opportunities. Companies turning food waste into animal feed – such as DoGood Foods, which has created a closed loop system where food waste from grocery stores is converted into feed for chickens that are then sold by grocers – are also seeing investor interest. Importantly, the need for grant funding for food rescue and food access may return to pandemic levels given the rise in food prices. Especially in an environment where funding is becoming difficult to come by, catalytic capital can fill in gaps while developing or aiding adoption of the next solutions for food waste – platforms like the ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund offer opportunities for investors to support organizations with funding that could unlock additional capital from other sources and advance impact.

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Lightricks, Award-winning App Developer, Raises $130M Series D to Power Expansion and Champion Creator Economy Users
Lightricks, creator of the world’s leading photo and video editing apps including Facetune2, Facetune Video, and Videoleap, announced $130M in Series D funding. The round is comprised of $100M in primary and $30M in secondary funding which brings Lightricks’ total funding to-date to $335M and the company’s latest valuation to $1.8 billion. The round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital, with participation from existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Clal Tech, Harel Insurance and Finance and Greycroft, and new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham and Shavit Capital. Lightricks raised this strategic Series D to power the expansion of its suite of tools and offer more features and services for creators, further cementing its position as a leading player in the booming creator economy.
“The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. Audiences constantly consume information through the different content channels daily. Lightricks’ platform enables creators to have a broader, more professional and higher-quality set of tools to optimize content”
In just over eight years since its founding, Lightricks has grown to develop dozens of creativity apps for users in every country of the world, spanning from beginners to professional artists and creators. On the heels of this current funding round and explosion of the creator economy, Lightricks will aim to expand the company by initiating strategic mergers and acquisitions and creating new platforms and tools specifically geared towards professional creators. Lightricks plans to add to its already expansive offering with the goal to become a one-stop shop for resources including creative tools, services and monetization opportunities.
“Our mission has always been to continuously strive to bring creators the most advanced technology and help them find new ways to express themselves,” said Zeev Farbman, co-founder and CEO of Lightricks. “The rise of the creator economy has only exacerbated the need of mobile users to streamline the content creation and monetization processes. With this latest funding, we’re able to help elevate our users’ creativity and capabilities with continued advancements to our technology and offering.”
Lightricks’ apps have seen tremendous growth during the past year, with millions of people turning to the creativity tools to express themselves and earn income during the pandemic. During the peak of the pandemic lockdown, Lightricks saw a 90 percent increase in app usage across its creativity tools in the U.S. The number of downloads for Videoleap—its most popular video editing app for professional creators—increased 70 percent since the start of the pandemic. A survey found that nearly half of Videoleap users are exporting their creations to TikTok in pursuit of monetized content. Lightricks users create over a billion creations per year on the creativity apps, and the company continues to innovate and improve upon its tools to better serve creators in the creator economy, having launched four completely new apps within the last year.
“We’re delighted to continue to team with Lightricks to help further professionalize the world of content creation,” said Thilo Semmelbauer, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “We look forward to Lightricks building the future of this industry by continuing to supply creators with the highest-quality, most-preferred tools and technology. Lightricks allows people to showcase their individuality and brand on social media, whether for personal self-expression or for monetization.”
“The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. Audiences constantly consume information through the different content channels daily. Lightricks’ platform enables creators to have a broader, more professional and higher-quality set of tools to optimize content,” said Pasha Romanovski, Co-Founding Partner of Hanaco Ventures. “At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”
Lightricks’ popular suite of creativity apps currently includes editing tools for social media such as Facetune2, Facetune Video, and Filtertune, general creativity photo and video editing tools such as Videoleap, Motionleap, Photoleap, Artleap, Lightleap, and Beatleap, and the Boosted app which is Lightricks’ social media toolkit for small businesses.


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CPS Energy issues scam warning
Caller threatens disconnection of service, demands immediate payment through debit cards
SAN ANTONIO - It seems scammers are using CPS Energy to get unsuspecting customers to hand over their hard-earned money by threatening them with an interruption in their service.
Christine Patmon, a spokeswoman for CPS Energy, said in the past week, they've had five calls reporting the scam.
"The gentleman who's been calling lately has called himself Michael," Patmon said. "He's threatening to cut service if they don't make a payment immediately."
Patmon said "Michael" tells the customer to make a payment using a prepaid credit card.
"He's telling them to go buy that card and then provide him that number and to pay their overdue bill and most of the customers don't have an overdue bill," Patmon said.
Most of the targets of the scam were commercial customers who were told they owed hundreds of dollars. Patmon said the scammer has also called residential customers in recent months.
"We never call anyone to threaten to cut off their service," Patmon said. "If we're going to cut off your services, it's going to be because you haven't paid your bill and you will already have three notices from us."
In another scam, people posing as CPS Energy workers talked their way into a home after showing up unannounced.
"It just so happens that there was a youngster in the house and saw the gentleman go into a bedroom and asked what he was doing back there and that kind of spooked them and they left," Patmon said. "We will never ask to go into your house unless you've already set up a previous arrangement with us."
Patmon said if someone from CPS Energy does knock on your door they should be wearing CPS logos and have an official ID with an employee number on it. She said customers can ask for that number and call it into their security office to verify the employee's identity. The security office is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The number is 210-353-4000.
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Manufacturers of Xbox and PlayStation games consoles want to collaborate on streaming and AI.
Manufacturers of the Xbox and PlayStation games console have entered into a strategic partnership, according to Die Presse. "The agreement mainly strengthens Microsoft's cloud business Azure for Internet-based applications, as Sony wants to streamline its games and media content," the online portal said.
Microsoft and Sony announced on Thursday that the two companies will develop new innovations to improve the user experience for their entertainment platforms and AI solutions.
"Microsoft is an important business partner for us for many years, but, of course, the two companies are competing in some areas," said Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida. He hopes that the use of cutting edge ecology by both companies "will result in a mutually complementary way of creating new value for society," continues Yoshida.


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The company says sales for the 12 months to 31 December grew 4.3 per cent. Sales for the three months to 31 December grew 4.1 per cent, an improvement on the 3.2 per cent registered in the previous quarter.
Sales income from emerging markets, where the company generates more than half of sales from, grew 8.7 per cent for the full-year and 8.1 per cent for the quarter. Sales from emerging marketers had grown 5.9 per cent in the previous quarter.
By contrast, the company says from developed markets remained “weak” with the exception of the UK, which the company says posted its twenty-fifth consecutive quarter of growth.
The company says spending on advertising and promotions grew 50 base percentage points to €460 million, an investment to “build brands for the long term”, it adds.
In a presentation delivered this morning (21 January) to detail progress, the company says it will invest in marketing-led growth opportunities such as white space expansion as well as driving premiumisation by pushing products such as IOMA, which it runs in partnership with the skincare brand’s eponymous parent company.
Despite the commitment to investment in advertising and promoting its products and in product innovation, Unilever repeated intentions to cut €500m costs from its marketing operation. The company said in December it planned to cut the number of marketers it employs by 12 per cent globally.
There was an also emphasis on reducing “non-working” media such as the fees paid to agencies as well as the cost of producing advertising.


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Food Stamps Come to Farmers Markets
Aug 19, 2012 04:00 AM EDT | By Sharon Robinson
Farmers markets will soon be accepting food stamps. This comes as a result of a federal grant of $4 million to provide around 4,000 farmers markets across the country with the right equipment to begin accepting food stamps.
The first recipient of the grant is the Abingdon Farmers Market in Virginia, according to a report in WCYB.
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Food stamp usage has gone up in the last couple of years. Around 49 million people are reported to be participating in the program. The program, recently renamed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was introduced to help low-income families get nutritious food.
Thousands of grocery stores across the U.S. have already begun accepting food stamps, in lieu of cash. But, the purchases made by the people are far from healthy. Millions of food stamp privileges are reportedly being used to buy junk food and high-calorie food with no particular nutritional value.
Food stamp frauds are also on the rise. Many grocery store owners have been noted to cash in more than average in food stamp benefits. Buyers, on the other hand, have been reaping the benefits of the program, claiming that their credit or debit cards have been stolen, especially in the state of Minnesota. As a result, the federal government recently introduced harsher punishment for food stamp fraud, in the hopes of bringing down the rates of fraud.
The new rules have also made it harder to become beneficiaries of the SNAP.
But, the federal government continues to hope that the program will be most helpful to those who cannot afford to buy food, especially since the drought is likely to hike food prices more this year as well as the next.
Food distributor Sysco Corp's executives are in talks with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to salvage the company's attempt to buy its smaller rival US Foods Inc, the New York Post reported.
The year 2014 is all about healthy dining. Our reporters were on the ground for the top health food trends for the year.
Spice Lovers Can Try It Out Now … Starting In The Kansas City Area!
Food prices have risen by an average of 24 percent across the three countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, forcing some families to reduce their intake to one meal a day, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday.
Do you struggle to sleep for hours or do you wake up in the middle of the night and ends up wide awake until it's already time for you to get up?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Sunday that a nurse at a Dallas hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from Ebola last week, was the first person to become infected with the virus on U. S. soil.


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Downtown Artery plans February Yart Sale
Looking to add to your art collection? Local artists will sell their work Feb. 20 and 21 at the Downtown Artery's monthly Yart Sale. All pieces will be priced at or below $100 and available for purchase upstairs at the Artery. For more information, visit www.downtownartery.com.
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 20-21
WHERE: Downtown Artery, 254 Linden St., Fort Collins


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Navigator Holdings Ltd.
Preliminary Results for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
* Navigator Holdings Ltd. (the “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”) reported operating revenue of $73.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2019, an increase from $73.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018.
* Net loss was $7.7 million (resulting in a loss per share of $0.14) for the three months ended June 30, 2019 compared to a net loss of $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018.
* Adjusted EBITDA1 was $23.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2019 compared to $27.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2018.
* On May 8, 2019, a third long term throughput agreement was signed for the ethylene export marine terminal at Morgan’s Point, Texas (the “Marine Export Terminal”).
Trends and Outlook
The headwinds from the first quarter carried into the second quarter with the global handysize spot market slowly incorporating the six vessels released from the Venezuelan cabotage trade as a consequence of sanctions the U.S. imposed upon Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. or “PdVSA”. Such an increase in the supply of ships, especially in a segment with a total of 118 vessels on the water and with more than half trading under time charters, has restricted handysize market rates from increasing alongside other sectors. Continued European chemical plant turnarounds reduced traditional long-haul petrochemical exports to Asia and the import of U.S. ethylene which typically heads trans-Pacific, cutting handysize-ton mile demand.
As the LPG market strengthened, the usually more consistent petrochemical gas market faltered, as a number of unforeseeable elements combined to constrict trade flows. There have been a relatively high number of incidents at major terminals around the world in 2019. Italy, Turkey, the United States Gulf and East Coast, Mexico, Argentina, Malaysia and China have all endured misfortune and setbacks that disrupted product supply, receiving capacity and trade patterns.
In Europe, a larger than average turnaround season to the chemical industry has had both positive and negative effects for the shipping market. The increased demand for propylene in Europe surged, with 85,000 metric tonnes (“mt”) shipped to North West Europe and another 5,000 mt to the West Mediterranean in the second quarter of 2019, a 50% increase on the levels in the first quarter of 2019. This propylene has been mainly shipped on handy-size semi-refrigerated vessels. We have also been shipping to Europe the majority of the ethylene lifted from Houston, with the landed pricing more attractive there than Asia. However, with European petrochemical production greatly diminished, the usual excess of butadiene regularly going to Asia has been limited as the poor arbitrage combined weak supply with lack of demand in Asia. Brazil continues to export healthy volumes of butadiene, propylene and ethylene.
The Very Large Gas Carrier (“VLGC”) segment experienced increased supply of LPG volumes, especially from the U.S., which started to outweigh the supply of vessels. This surplus supply of LPG volumes relative to vessels ushered in a remarkable increase in rates to levels not seen since 2015. As the VLGC market rates rose, the Medium-size Gas Carrier (“MGC”) market, started to see a tightening, with freight rates rising. There is a time-lag for these forces to positively impact the smaller handysize sector which we anticipate will occur later in 2019.
The handy-size (17-22,000 cbm) shipping market has seen many challenges during the first six months of 2019. It has not yet seen the improved charter rates that the VLGC sector currently enjoys, but neither has it suffered the lows of the VLGCs from six months ago. With VLGC spot earnings increasing from $1.0 million per calendar month (“pcm”) to $2.1 million pcm over the second quarter and the MGC rates rising from $500,000 pcm to $650,000 pcm over the second quarter, the handy-size market’s short-term overcapacity has certainly contributed to a decrease in our earnings in the second quarter as compared to the first quarter of 2019. However, as fully-refrigerated LPG volumes continue to rise at a steady pace, we expect to see the handy-size segment support this rise with the prospect of moving more vessels into the LPG market from the petrochemical market.


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- Farmers shut out of online services by new identity scheme
- Facebook says you can be social and secure, acquires .onion address for Tor users
- Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite
- Court rules cops can demand fingerprints, not passcodes, to unlock smartphones
- Twitter's MoPub ad exchange grabs Verizon tracking cookies, and more may follow
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A 23-year-old man alleged to have committed 96 offences including credit card fraud and online marketplace scams has been arrested in Brisbane by the NSW Police Fraud and Cybercrime Squad and Australian Federal Police (AFP).
A review by former Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has found that its ICT is “significantly behind” other policing agencies in Australia.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has warned consumers about a ransomware scam which uses the logos of ACMA and the Australian Federal Police.
Australians will continue to be ripped off by international crime syndicates unless banks fast track the rollout of ATM chip technology, according to Queensland Police Detective Superintendent Brian Hay.


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BEIJING, China Nov. 17, 2010 -- China's status as the United States' number one importer has heavy hitters like Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Michael Bloomberg passing through Beijing jockeying for a piece of the China market, But there's one little welterweight that's making a big hit.
Call Washington state the little engine that could.
After a hard-fought campaign of cold calls and constant visits, China is eating Washington up, from its apples, to its salmon and its candy.
In the last decade, Washington state's exports to China increased over 300 percent. Last year, the state exported nearly $6 billion worth of products to China, second only to California.
Almond Roca Craze In China
Chinese consumers are going crazy for a Washington state candy called Almond Roca.
The buttercrunch toffee is an affordable treat in the United States. In China, it's marketed as a luxury item, showcased in upscale department stores and repackaged with Chinese characters. The Chinese character for Roca actually means "happy family."
"It's a well-known brand, packaging very premium, very classy, pink color, very attractive, very feminine," Aven Yeung from Sims East, a major distributor of imported products to China, said.
The log-shaped candy is a popular holiday gift. During the Chinese New Year, the company expects to sell two million pounds of the sweet.
Asians first got a taste of the candy during World War II, said Almond Roca Chief Executive Officer Pierson Clair.
"We [United States] had a number of Navy bases in the Puget Sound and so captains and supply officers would throw on cases of Almond Roca to be on the ships for provisions, but they also used them for barter across Asia," Clair said.
Wine A Growing Export
The candy was formally introduced in Chinese department stores 22 years ago. It's an export that American workers can rest easy about; all of the candy is made in America, and sales in China have caused the factory of 300 workers to create another 25 jobs.
"China is the star of our export business," Pierson said.
Washington state isn't stopping with the candy. There's a new opportunity in wine. The expansion of restaurants and supermarkets in China is providing a new opportunity for marketing wine from the state.
As more of China's elite make the move from the traditional white liquor called Baijiu, they're increasingly toasting to success with a nice, glass of Washington state wine mixed with a splash of Coca-Cola. They say the coke makes it sweeter.


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Pandora Media CEO Sees Podcasts as Chance to Gain Edge on Rivals
(Bloomberg) -- Pandora Media Inc., which is working to regain its footing in the music-streaming business, is looking to get an edge in another audio category: podcasts.
The company will expand its non-music content over the next year, Chief Executive Officer Roger Lynch said in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang. Pandora aims to make it easier for listeners to find podcasts they like, he said.
“Think about what Pandora did for music discovery,” he said. “We’ll do that for podcasts.”
Lynch, a former Dish Network Corp. executive, took the helm last year and has been plotting a comeback for the music service. Despite pioneering the market for online radio, Pandora got eclipsed by Spotify Technology SA in recent years. It has struggled in particular to get subscribers to pay for its service and relies more on advertising revenue.
Podcasts have become an increasingly competitive area for the entire industry. Spotify tapped Amy Schumer to host and produce a comedy podcast earlier this year. Podcast advertising probably topped $220 million in 2017, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
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The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter.
When the phone rings at High Class Limousine and Car Service in the Bronx, the conversation comes and goes in fleeting bursts as the dispatcher turns not to an old two-way radio but to computer screens that silently blink with color-coded letters and numbers tracking the fleet of cars and their calls.
Somewhere on the road, an app on a driver’s smartphone lights up with an address to go to. A fading corner of the industry lives another day.
Phone calls are fewer and fewer as customers shift to smartphone apps. Popularized by the ride-hailing company Uber, apps are being adopted, if not entirely embraced, by more and more of the local car services that have long been as much a part of city neighborhoods as the local parish or the corner bodega.
High Class began using a smartphone app in December, and since then, a small but growing number of ride requests have been made through it.
“We have to offer this thing or we’re going to be left behind,” said Antonio Cabrera, who co-founded High Class in 1995.
When Uber made its New York City debut in 2011, it set out to remake the city’s for-hire car market — the yellow cabs and black cars in Manhattan, the neighborhood car services in the other boroughs and the newcomer green taxis in Upper Manhattan and other neighborhoods where yellow cabs rarely cruised for customers.
Uber’s rapid expansion has fed industry unease, especially among yellow-taxi owners and drivers, who see the ride-hailing apps as a threat to the value of the medallions that, at a considerable cost, have long provided entry into the tightly controlled business.
In addition, the ride-hailing company’s aggressive public relations tactics have fueled clashes with Mayor Bill de Blasio, who after initially championing a plan to cap the number of Uber vehicles chose to shelve the idea after he came under fierce pressure from the company and its supporters.
Little discussed in all the debate over the changes roiling the market are neighborhood car services. Most are small businesses that have been sustained by generational loyalty and a touch of personal service.
But after years of independence, some companies are joining forces, powered by an app to create a car service network in hopes of fending off Uber.
Issac Yehuda, a co-founder of Limosys Software, which has catered to the limousine industry since 1989, devised a network where each company could have its own app with its own brand, but that would link all of the bases to one software system so that companies could effectively pool their cars and serve more customers.
“It’s amazing to see competitors who didn’t speak together in 20 years are sitting in one room learning to talk to each other even when they’re two blocks away,” Mr. Yehuda said.
High Class is part of Mr. Yehuda’s network of over 75 companies — a total of 10,000 cars, across the five boroughs, with apps for Apple and Android devices. Collectively, the apps have around 250,000 downloads. Among all of the companies in the network, a few thousand rides are placed a week. Perhaps that is not a threat to Uber, which has about 20,000 for-hire vehicles in the city, according to the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, but it is a leap into a new world.
And they have at least one notable edge: They take cash. Uber relies exclusively on credit cards — and customers with the means to have credit cards.
“We have a big cash market because Uber doesn’t use it,” said Junior de la Cruz, a manager at First Class Car and Limo Service in Manhattan, who started his company’s app in early 2014.
Old habits die hard in University Heights, the Bronx neighborhood where about three-quarters of High Class’s rides from its Bronx and Manhattan bases are still requested by phone. But as Mr. Cabrera’s customer base ages, he sees the app as a way to cater to those who in the increasingly on-demand economy expect to summon a ride in seconds.
“They’re always in the area,” Levi Jimenez, 39, said in Spanish. A longtime customer of High Class, he now exclusively uses the app to book rides from his home in Upper Manhattan to work as an engineer in University Heights.
For a growing number of the city’s car service companies, an app was not only a way to hold onto customers but also to appeal to drivers, who, seeing the power of Uber, had been leaving neighborhood car services to experiment with the newcomer. High Class was hit hard, Mr. Cabrera said, losing about 50 drivers.
Mid Island Car Service on Staten Island saw its fleet dip to 16 drivers from 21 as Uber expanded, said Artie Grover, a co-owner of Mid Island and the president of the NYC Fleet Livery Owners Association.
“The driver has become the free agent,” Mr. Grover said.
In Bayside, Queens, Kelly’s Car Service, a fourth-generation family-owned company founded in 1914, has a prime location next to a Long Island Rail Road station. The dispatch center operates much as it did 50 years ago: green and orange cards for account and credit card charges, and white cards for walk-ins and call-ins, all posted along the wall. The dispatch microphone is always hot, and the corresponding car’s two-way radio works without a smartphone in sight.
Soon, bits of electronic data will supplant slips of paper. Eileen Kelly, an owner, is finally giving in to the app craze. It is expected to go live within a year, though Ms. Kelly and her family are hardly heralding the change.
“It’s only because everyone has them and that’s the way to go,” she said.
As drivers are witnesses to the wildly unpredictable nature of cab culture, the shift from paper to pixel is viewed as just one more change. John Donahue, a driver for Kelly’s who has 40 years of driving experience, shrugged at the idea of tossing his flip phone for a smartphone.
“You try to stay flexible,” Mr. Donahue, 74, said.
On a recent Monday, Mr. Donahue chauffeured Bridie Gauthier, a principal at a Manhattan preschool, and her 3-year-old foster son, Kai Saucedo, from Queens to summer camp at Ms. Gauthier’s school in the financial district. Ms. Gauthier strapped her son into his car seat, which is provided at no additional cost by Kelly’s, and fed him edamame during the commute. The railroad, she said, was not ideal for toting a toddler into Manhattan every day.
“Every dispatcher knows my name and every dispatcher knows my credit card,” Ms. Gauthier, 43, said. “Now I’m extremely spoiled.”


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By The Associated Press NHL.com The NHL, which was founded in the 1940s, is one of the most recognizable brands in sports and entertainment, with more than 25 million subscribers.
It’s also one of most heavily regulated in the world, with an extensive online and print media empire.
Its website is one step behind the rest of the sports world.
The NHL has its own digital subscription service, which costs $12 per year, or $2,500 per year for a full season of NHL Network.
The team’s most popular app, which is available on Android and Apple platforms, is called NHL Web and lets users check out the latest news, videos, stats and scores, and watch games through the NHL app.
The app is similar to a subscription service for an NHL team or a cable TV channel.
For example, if a team has a channel on DirecTV, the app will show all games in its entirety for that channel.
But if the team owns a streaming service, like HBO Go, the NHL will show games in a specific region.
If you buy a season ticket for an upcoming game, the team will show it on the app in a certain region, but the team won’t show it in all the markets, according to the app.
A free online survey allows fans to fill out the survey and select which of the following options they’d like to take:Find out what it’s like to live in a world where everyone has access to the Internet, watch a variety of media, or live in an area with limited Internet access.
The survey also lets fans set their own “favorite teams” or “favorite players.”
They can pick from three categories: All-Star Game, All-Stars Game, and All-Time Players.
The NHL has been getting a lot of attention lately as fans demand more choice when it comes to their sports team and digital subscription services.
The league recently launched a new digital service, NHL Live, which allows fans, including those who sign up through NHL.org, to watch live games and watch in-game events live on their phones.
The league also is in talks with Facebook, YouTube and Google to make its live streaming service even more available.
Last week, the league also rolled out a new app for people who buy a digital subscription to its mobile apps or live streaming.
The new app lets fans check out game results and schedule events for games via a phone app.
“The app makes it easier to watch all the games in the NHL and to make sure your favorite team is in your schedule,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a news release announcing the new app.
Bettman also said the app would provide a way for fans to find games that they would like to watch on the web.
“We want to make it so fans can find their favorite teams on the road and on TV in their favorite areas,” Bettman added.
The new app, launched Wednesday, is a partnership with the NHL, and Bettman noted that it is not a competitor to any other subscription services in the marketplace.


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According to Makhlouf, cryptocurrencies present a minimal risk to financial stability, but they can significantly affect retail customers. As most of the coins are not backed by any fiat currencies or other assets, a ban should be imposed on crypto advertisements.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf, known for his skepticism towards crypto, has called for banning crypto ads. Believing that crypto ads often lead to Ponzi schemes, Irish Central Bank Crief said that investing in “unbacked” cryptocurrencies is “essentially gambling.” And young people become the targets most often.
Gabriel Makhlouf stated:
“Unbacked crypto is essentially a Ponzi scheme… People who put their money into unbacked crypto, and most of the significant stock of crypto out there is unbacked, they are essentially gambling. When you gamble you can win, but most of the time when you gamble, you’re actually losing.”
He further added:
“There’s a reasonable number of young adults who have put their money into crypto and there is an uncomfortable level of advertising that is targeted at the cohort. If you can find a way, I would recommend that adverts to that cohort are banned.”
According to Makhlouf, cryptocurrencies present a minimal risk to financial stability, but they can significantly affect retail customers. As most of the coins are not backed by any fiat currencies or other assets, a ban should be imposed on crypto advertisements. Notably, Makhlouf believes that the upcoming EU legislation regarding stablecoins that are actually backed by fiat currencies will not solve the issue.
This is not the first time Irish Central Bank is warning about crypto-related ads that can be misleading. Back in March 2022, the institution issued a warning that emphasized the risky and speculative nature of crypto assets, which means they may not be suitable for retail customers.
EU’s Progress in MiCA Development
Recently, the EU introduced MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) legislation that would establish harmonized rules for crypto-assets at the EU level, thereby providing legal certainty for crypto-assets not covered by existing EU legislation. By enhancing the protection of consumers and investors as well as financial stability, the regulation promotes innovation and the use of crypto-assets. The regulation identifies and covers three types of crypto-assets, namely asset-referenced tokens (ART), electronic money tokens (EMT), and other crypto-assets not covered by existing EU law.
Initially, the European parliamentary committee passed the MiCA legislation in October 2020, roughly two years after its initial introduction in September 2020. In November, EU members were supposed to vote on it. However, the vote was postponed to February 2023. Recently, the EU announced another delay of the final vote on MiCA until April this year due to a technical issue. In particular, the 27-member state intergovernmental union decided to defer the decisive vote on its highly anticipated crypto ruleset. The guiding 400-page legal document could not be translated into all the Union’s official languages, which is mandatory in order to comply with EU regulations that require publishing in all its 24 official languages.


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Agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided as many as 15 7-Eleven shops in New York and Virginia early Monday morning, according to multiple reports.
Nine store owners and managers have been arrested on charges of harboring and hiring undocumented immigrants, The New York Times reports. The store owners also stand accused of wire fraud and using fake Social Security numbers to pay their workers. An additional 40 7-Eleven franchises are being investigated in some form, the NYT reports.
Federal authorities said that the raids are a part of an investigation into human smuggling, identity theft and money laundering, according to the AP. The respective store owners allegedly helped smuggle the workers into the U.S. from Pakistan.
A majority of the simultaneous raids happened in Suffolk County, Long Island, according to PIX 11 News. The owners of the raided stores will be charged with harboring undocumented immigrants and not paying the minimum wage to their employees.
As of Monday morning, authorities had arrested approximately 20 people in total.
The probe is as "part of a nationwide sweep involving hundreds of agents," according to the Long Island Newsday. Federal authorities described the alleged situation as a "modern day plantation system," according to ABC News.
On Monday afternoon, 7-Eleven emailed the following statement to The Huffington Post:
7-Eleven, Inc. has cooperated with the government’s investigation. All of our franchise owners must operate their stores in accordance with laws and the 7-Eleven franchise agreement.
7-Eleven, Inc. will take aggressive actions to audit the employment status of all its franchisees’ employees.
7-Eleven, Inc. is taking steps to assume corporate operation of the stores involved in this action so we can continue to serve our guests.
We continue to cooperate with federal authorities in this matter.
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include details about the investigation and a statement from 7-Eleven.


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Thursday, 21 February 2013
COMING SOON TO BLU-RAY: THE ORIGINAL THEATRICAL MOVIE!
Great news for the 35th Anniversary. It looks like the original theatrical version of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's Saga of a Star World is to get a Blu-ray release coming very soon.
Link: Battlestar Galactica Blu-ray
According to various forums, the classic series was apparently given a very basic HD remastering for DVD back in 2004, but there's no news as to whether the Blu-ray will be from a new transfer or what the audio soundtrack will be comprised of. Hopefully seeing its cash potential, UNIVERSAL will push the boat out on this quality-wise after the recent re-mastered success of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION's lavish film transfers for CBS PARAMOUNT. No news on a UK/Europe release yet, either.
More details as and when...
With thanks to Dreams and Visions Press' John Scoleri for the heads-up on this, and the above image!


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Rub your old mobile for two-three more days, many big phones are coming this week
New features are seen in the phone every day. Many times, after seeing new technology, new design, special camera, one feels like buying a new mobile, but the old phone is in such a good condition that one does not understand how to buy a new phone. However, there are some people who do not think about money and just buy a new phone. So if you too are fed up with your old phone, then this week we are bringing new phones for you. Let us know which calls are coming this week.
Redmi A3: This phone will be launched in India on 14 February. According to the information received by the company, Redmi A3 will have a display with 90Hz refresh rate. This will be a big upgrade compared to the 60Hz refresh rate given in Redmi A2.
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Apart from this, the company has also confirmed that the phone will also support 6GB RAM and 6GB virtual RAM. At the same time, this phone will also come with a 5,000mAh battery. It will have 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. Also, this phone can get 13MP primary camera and 10W fast charging support.
Honor X9b: Honor has recently confirmed that Honor X9b will be launched in India on February 15. It has been learned from many media reports that this phone will be made available for sale on Amazon. The listing on Amazon has revealed that the phone will come with 12 GB + 256 GB storage. The phone will be presented in Sunrise Orange color.
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Moto G04: This phone will also be launched on 15th February. According to the information received from Flipkart’s microsite, this phone will work on Android 14 OS and it will have a 6.6-inch display with 90Hz refresh rate. This phone will come with Unisoc T606 processor and it is expected to have two options of 4GB + 64GB and 8GB + 128GB.
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Sorry Gingerbread Latte fans!
It's November 7th which means Starbucks Holiday cups are back! On the down side, you may of already heard this news but the Gingerbread Latte will not be returning this year.
Starbucks confirmed a statement to Delish that read " Customers can enjoy five delicious and festive holiday beverages this year including the Peppermint Mocha, Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, Caramel Brulee Latte, Chestnut Praline Latte, and Eggnog Latte. Our partners (baristas) are happy to suggest one of these five other holiday beverages, and customers can still enjoy the Gingerbread Loaf as part of their holiday season!"
Some customers were upset to find out the news and expressed how they felt on social media.
Don't worry though, Starbucks has enough Holiday items to choose from and even some new ones you can try! So hopefully this year, you'll say goodbye to the Gingerbread Latte and hello to a new favorite!
Did you get your reusable Holiday cup? What's your favorite Starbucks holiday drink to order?


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Balenciaga pope. Fake Pentagon Explosions. It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish AI-generated images from the real ones, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
A solution remains elusive. But Microsoft is making an effort with new media provenance features debuting at its annual Build conference.
Launch for Bing Image Creator and Designer, Microsoft’s Canva-like web app that can generate designs for presentations, posters and more to share on social media and other channels, the new media provenance capabilities will allow consumers to verify whether an image or video has been generated by AI, says Microsoft. Using cryptographic methods, the capabilities, rolling out in the coming months, will mark and sign AI-generated content with metadata about the origin of the image or video.
It’s not as simple as a visible watermark. To read the signature, sites must use the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) Interoperable Specification, a specification created with input from Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and the Truepic visual media platform. Only then can the site warn consumers when content has been generated by AI, modified or created by Designer or Image Creator.
So the question is, will Microsoft’s efforts make much of a difference if so many image generation tools haven’t embraced similar media provenance standards? C2PA do have the backing of Adobe, which recently launched its own suite of generative AI tools, including an integration with Google’s Bard chatbot. But one of the more prominent players in the generative AI space, Stability AI, hasn’t shown a willingness to embrace a specification like the type Microsoft is proposing.
Standards aside, Microsoft’s move to introduce a media provenance tracking mechanism is in line with broader industry trends as generative AI becomes popular. In May, Google said it would use embedded metadata to signal visual media created by generative AI models. Separately, Shutterstock and generative AI startup MidJourney have adopted guidelines to include a marker that content was created by a generative AI tool.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co U.S. officials said on Thursday that 2017 U.S. auto sales will be weaker than this year's results as pent-up demand that was strong after the 2008-2009 recession has faded.
Ford also said 2016 sales will not top last year's record high. Bryan Bezold, Ford's U.S. economist, said that in the years following the recession the auto market recovery was stronger than the overall economy, largely due to the pent-up demand.
(Reporting by Bernie Woodall; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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Federal Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block Microsoft from closing its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard until it can be fully reviewed, freeing up the companies to complete the deal before a July 18 deadline, and potentially paving the way for them to dramatically reshape the future of gaming in the years to come.
Judge Corley writes in her 53-page decision:
This Court’s responsibility in this case is narrow. It is to decide if, notwithstanding these current circumstances, the merger should be halted—perhaps even terminated—pending resolution of the FTC administrative action. For the reasons explained, the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood it will prevail on its claim this particular vertical merger in this specific industry may substantially lessen competition. To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.
On just about every point, the Judge found the FTC’s arguments wanting. In particular, she was unmoved by Harvard economics professor Robin Lee’s analysis that Microsoft would have a financial incentive to make Call of Duty and Xbox console exclusive, and wrote that it failed to take into account plans for the franchise to remain on PC, come to Switch, and be accessible through cloud gaming.
“Before the merger, a consumer wanting to play a Call of Duty console game had to buy a PlayStation or an Xbox,” Judge Corley wrote. “After the merger, consumers can utilize the cloud to play on the device of choice, including, it is intended, on the Nintendo Switch. Perhaps bad for Sony. But good for Call of Duty gamers and future gamers.”
What happens to the Microsoft Activision deal now?
The FTC can try to appeal the ruling, and still has its own anti-trust lawsuit in the works, but both appear unlikely at this juncture to derail the deal. The last obstacle in Microsoft’s way, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocking the deal in the UK, also appears to be disappearing. Microsoft President Brad Smith tweeted that it is currently set to negotiate with the CMA on final remedies to win back approval for the deal.
“We’re grateful to the court for swiftly deciding in our favor,” Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer tweeted after the decision was announced. “The evidence showed the Activision Blizzard deal is good for the industry and the FTC’s claims about console switching, multi-game subscription services, and cloud don’t reflect the realities of the gaming market.” Activision’s stock price is now the highest it’s been since the deal was first announced back in January 2022, approaching the planned sale price of $95 a share.
The decision comes after a five-day hearing in the Northern District Court of California which included testimony and major revelations from high-ranking industry figures ranging from Spencer to Sony Interactive Gaming CEO Jim Ryan. The FTC tried to argue that Microsoft’s deal to buy Activision Blizzard would have wide-ranging consequences that would harm consumers and lead to less competition in the console gaming market, while Microsoft defended the acquisition, claiming it was a necessary strategic move to counter Sony’s dominance with the PlayStation 5.
Much of the proceedings revolved around debating whether high-end console gaming—Xbox and PlayStation—should be considered separately from PC, Nintendo Switch, and other hardware, and whether franchises like Call of Duty are popular and profitable enough to single-handedly swing momentum from one company to another. At one point while on the stand, Spencer even held up his hand and promised the court that he would not remove Call of Duty from PS5, even as Microsoft and Sony struggled to agree to future licensing terms for the franchise behind closed doors.
Testimony during the trial revealed plenty of gamesmanship on both sides, as well as interesting details about other attempted acquisitions and exclusivity deals. Prior to making an offer for Activision, court documents revealed that Microsoft had also discussed buying Japanese publishers Sega and Square Enix. Corporate emails also showed that executives at the tech giant often discussed making new games exclusive, like Bethesda Software’s upcoming Indiana Jones project, in order to compete with Sony’s opposing deals.
Ultimately, Judge Corley wrote that those examples were unpersuasive because they weren’t live service, multiplatform multiplayer games like Call of Duty. She instead cited Minecraft’s continued non-exclusive availability as a counterexample. “While the FTC argues Microsoft’s ‘past conduct following similar transactions also demonstrates its likely anticompetitive nature,’ presumably referring to the ZeniMax acquisition, this ignores the Mojang/Minecraft acquisition,” she wrote.
Update 7/11/23 12:13 p.m. ET: Added more information about the court’s ruling and the CMA re-starting negotiations with Microsoft.
Update 2, 7/12/23 7:35pm ET: The FTC says it will be appealing.


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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG), the company that owns the world’s largest internet search service, Tuesday reported a 23% growth in fourth-quarter revenues, supported by broad-based growth across all the key business segments.
Total revenues climbed 23% to $56.9 billion in the three months ended December 2020. Revenue from Google, the largest business division, increased 22%, with the cloud business growing 47%. Analysts were looking for a slower top-line growth.
The company said fourth-quarter net income rose to $15.23 billion or $22.30 per share from $10.67 billion or $15.35 per share in the corresponding period of last year. Earnings far exceeded the consensus estimates.
Alphabet’s stock, which set a new record this week, closed Tuesday’s trading at $1,927.51 and gained further after the announcement.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump
, announced the signing of a trade agreement with China. Phase one of the pact will be signed on January 15 at the White House, the president said. There, issues such as technology transfer, intellectual property, trade expansion and the establishment of mechanisms for the resolution of commercial disputes are addressed, among others. In 2019, the lack of agreement between the United States and China was one of the elements that generated global volatility. The signing of the agreement would formally end with a year and a half of commercial war.
"I will sign our comprehensive and complete phase one trade agreement with China on January 15." This was announced by the US president through his Twitter account. "The ceremony will take place at the White House. High level representatives of China will be present. At a later date, I will go to Beijing, where the Phase Two talks will begin, "Trump said through the same social network.
The president of the United States had assured a week ago that the agreement with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was close to end the trade war between the two nations. The Chinese president said the bilateral agreement is based on mutual respect and the principles of equality. He said that one of the main objectives of the agreement is to contribute to peace and prosperity worldwide.RELATED
Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen confirmed that the first phase of the pact between the two economies addresses sensitive issues such as technology transfer and intellectual property. The dispute over the development of 5G data transfer networks is one of the points that generated the greatest tensions in recent months.
The trade agreement will have among its priorities to withdraw in stages the import tariffs that both economies were applying in the last year and a half for different strategic products of bilateral trade. The agreement implies, however, that US tariffs of 25 percent are maintained on Chinese imports valued at 250 billion dollars. The 7.5 percent levies for the importation of products for a volume of 120 billion will also be maintained.
Negotiations between the two countries suffered several round trips in recent months. Contradictory information was communicated and cross-criticism was made between the referents of both nations even though a principle of agreement had been announced in October. The trade crisis began in 2018 and caused important consequences for the global economy.
In its latest macroeconomic forecasts for October, the International Monetary Fund lowered its projections of global GDP expansion to 3 percent. This is two tenths less than in July and the explanation for the decline was the trade dispute between China and the United States. Financial assets in 2019 experienced strong international volatility in the face of announcements of import tariffs and the news in which the fall of the trade agreement was anticipated. The United States and China represent the world's first and second economy. What happens in their bilateral relations has a strong effect for the rest of the developed and emerging countries.


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Aug 11, 2021 – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) has announced results for the second quarter of 2021. The company added 138k IPTV subscribers in the quarter to finish with 8.81m pay-TV subscribers in total (IPTV 5.92m, CATV 2.89m).
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Jun 15, 2021 – ATEME has announced that Korean broadcaster KBS has selected ATEME’s Kyrion encoders to update its legacy infrastructure, enabling broadcasting in high-quality MPEG-2 HD.
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Apr 30, 2021 – CAST.ERA palns to introduce 5G-ATSC 3.0 technology to the U.S. and Korea by the end of this year. The technology will enable the broadcasting of UHD video with low-to-zero latency to TVs and mobile devices.
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Jan 12, 2021 – NAGRA (SIX:KUD.S) has announced that SK Broadband has selected NAGRA’s NexGuard forensic watermarking technology to protect the operator's premium content on a wide range of IPTV set-top boxes.
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Walmart Makes Moves to Acquire Cornershop App for $225 Million, Plans to Resell to Subsidiary Walmex
BENTONVILLE, AR - Walmart is expanding its operations in Latin America and accelerating its omnichannel capabilities after acquiring Cornershop, an online marketplace for on-demand delivery from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty food retailers in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million.
“We are focused on making life easier for customers and associates by building strong local businesses, powered by Walmart,” said Judith McKenna, President and CEO of Walmart International. “Cornershop’s digital expertise, technology, and capabilities will strengthen our successful businesses in Mexico and Chile and provide learning for other markets in which we operate.”
Bloomberg reports that Walmart will subsequently sell Cornershop’s operations to its Mexico-based subsidiary, Walmex, as a means to bolster the company’s expansion into e-commerce. The news source also notes that Mexico is a hot market right now, with Amazon also eyeing a possible strategic move in the country.
According to a press release, Cornershop—founded by CEO Oskar Hjertonsson, Chief Operating Officer Daniel Undurraga, and Chief Technology Officer Juan Pablo Cuevas—is rapidly expanding, with the number of unique users that are tapping into its online marketplace doubling in the past year.
“This is an opportunity to leverage both of our brands, as well as Walmart’s strong supply chain and store network. Combining Cornershop’s innovative, crowdsourced delivery platform with Walmart’s unique assets will allow us to accelerate growth for both companies, delighting our customers by saving them both time and money. We are excited to welcome Cornershop to the Walmart family,” McKenna continued.
Pending regulatory approval at the end of this year, Cornershop will remain an open platform that will continue to deliver from a variety of retailers.
With another acquisition under its belt—the retailer also invested in China-based Dada-JD Daojia and Japan-based Rakuten earlier this year—will Walmart come out on top in the global grocery marketplace? AndNowUKnow will continue to keep you in the loop on all grocery retail happenings.


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Verizon is placing its plan to shutter its legacy 3G community on indefinite maintain.
Speaking to Light Reading this week, Verizon spokesperson Kevin King mentioned that the corporate’s “3G network is operational” and that it doesn’t “have a plan to shut it down at this time.”
Verizon has introduced obscure plans to shutter its 3G community on a number of events. Naturally, this began in 2012 after Verizon deployed its 4G community.
A number of years after the deployment of its 4G community, Verizon mentioned that will deactivate its 4G community by December 2019. Of course, that didn’t occur and the date was pushed again to someday in 2020.
Perhaps the pandemic disrupted Verizon’s plans to get these final 3G clients onto 4G – and even 5G – networks, however 2020 is now within the rearview (can’t say it’ll be missed) and Verizon’s 3G continues to be stay.
We don’t know what number of clients stay on Verizon’s 3G community, but it surely have to be substantial sufficient to maintain it operating for the foreseeable future. Early 3G-connected IoT units might bulk out the numbers a bit.
Strangely, after Verizon stopped activating 3G telephones in 2018 “to facilitate a smooth transition to LTE-capable products and services,” the corporate mentioned that the majority site visitors was already on its 4G community. Given time and the launch of a brand new cell community technology, you’d suppose that allegedly small variety of 3G units would have dwindled additional.
King famous that, for these remaining 3G clients, Verizon will work “to move them to newer technology.”
AT&T plans to shutter its personal 3G community in early 2022 to carry clients “faster speeds and new features.”
T-Mobile’s plan is a bit vaguer however the community would require telephones to help VoLTE by Jan 31st, 2021 which goes to knock out a good chunk of any holdouts nonetheless on 3G.
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Xircom's new 56-kbps modems, expected to ship in the second quarter of this year, will enable mobile computer users to receive information at about double the speeds of current 28.8-kbps modems.
The company's goal is to ship products that are upgradable to the International Telecommunications Union software standard once it is ratified. A standard for the technology is needed to achieve some level of compatibility among modems from different manufacturers.
Motorola has also recently announced support for the Lucent-Rockwell standard.
Rockwell and Lucent are competing against U.S. Robotics x2 technology. Currently, the two camps have different, incompatible 56-kbps communications protocols. U.S. Robotics 56-kbps modems are already being sold in computer stores nationwide.


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01/31/2013, 09:01 am
The recently released Java 7 Update 11 has been blocked by Apple through its XProtect anti-malware feature in OS X.
01/04/2013, 05:01 pm
Apple's newest operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, accounted for more than 32 percent of all internet traffic originating from Apple computers in December, and is nearly doubling the growth seen previously by OS X 10.7 Lion, a recent study found.
11/09/2012, 09:11 am
A hands-on test with Apple's Fusion Drive inside the new Mac mini has found that the hybrid hard drive, with both solid-state flash memory and a traditional spinning hard drive, offers a significant performance boost.
11/08/2012, 01:11 pm
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac has been updated with expanded support for Microsoft's newly released Windows 8 operating system.
10/19/2012, 03:10 pm
Sales of Windows PCs plunged ahead of the forthcoming release of Windows 8, but Microsoft saw strong pre-sales for its next-generation operating system ahead of its Oct. 26 launch.
09/19/2012, 01:09 pm
On the heels of the release of iOS 6, Apple has also publicly issued OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2, a major update featuring system-wide Facebook integration for the Mac.
09/14/2012, 10:09 pm
Three days after Apple pushed out build 12C50 of OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion to developers, the company has seeded an updated version, possibly hinting that a public release is imminent.
09/05/2012, 09:09 pm
Apple seeded a new OS X 10.8.2 beta on Wednesday, asking developers to focus on a number of areas including the Power Nap feature introduced with Mountain Lion.
09/04/2012, 08:09 am
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac officially launched to the public on Tuesday, offering new features like support for Apple's Retina display MacBook Pro, along with improved performance and faster startup times.
09/03/2012, 08:09 am
Total Web usage of Apple's OS X operating system has exceeded Microsoft's Windows Vista, while for the first time, Windows 7 has topped Windows XP to become the world's largest operating system.
08/30/2012, 07:08 pm
A study from ad network Chitika found that after only one month of availability, Apple's latest OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has garnered over 10 percent of all Mac-based ad impressions after enjoying a high adoption rate that shows no signs of slowing down.
08/29/2012, 06:08 pm
Apple on Wednesday provided developers with the second beta of OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, less than a week after the first beta became available.
08/22/2012, 02:08 pm
Even before OS X 10.8.1 is publicly released, Apple has begun inviting developers to test the following version of OS X Mountain Lion, identified as 10.8.2.
08/21/2012, 11:08 am
Apple's pre-release build of OS X 10.8.1 Mountain Lion has improved MacBook battery life by as much as four hours, according to one developer.
08/09/2012, 12:08 am
In response to an Apple Support Communities forum thread, a report on Tuesday offers anecdotal evidence that the new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion may be causing battery life issues for some MacBook users.
08/03/2012, 02:08 pm
A number of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air owners who updated to the recently-released OS X Mountain Lion are complaining of battery performance issues, with some reporting their batteries only last half as long as when OS X 10.7 Lion was installed.
07/30/2012, 08:07 am
Apple's newly updated Mac operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, has been downloaded more than 3 million times in its first four days, the company announced on Monday.
07/27/2012, 04:07 pm
After being on the market for just 48 hours, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is already accounting for 3.2 percent of all Mac web traffic and is on track to become one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history.
07/26/2012, 04:07 pm
Incomplete downloads in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion show a "Date Modified" of Jan. 24, 1984, a reference to the day when Apple's very first Macintosh was unveiled by Steve Jobs.


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You’ll be shocked to hear this, but Netflix isn’t interested in live sports rights.
Instead, the streamer wants to focus on its “sports adjacent” programming, such as docuseries Drive to Survive, Full Swing, Break Point, and Quarterback.
On Wednesday’s earnings call, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company is only interested in events that can pump sports-adjacent programming. Netflix wants to focus on “exceptional storytelling” rather than “the liveness of the game.”
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos was definitive that content spending will not include live sports, save for events that can boost other “sports adjacent” programming. A celebrity golf match with Formula 1 drivers and professional golfers “is something we’re excited about,” he said, as a promotional tool for series Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Full Swing. Others include Tour de France: Unchained and Quarterback.
The costly economic model of live sports licensing is too difficult, Sarandos said, preferring Netflix “to introduce a brand-new audience to a sport that has been around for a long time. And you do that through exceptional storytelling, not through the liveness of the game.”
Sarandos also addressed the company’s upcoming first foray into live sports: a celebrity golf tournament in November. “We’re excited about that because it serves as a promotional vehicle for our sports brands like Full Swing and Drive to Survive,” he said.
He also brought up “the difficulty of the economic model” of licensing live sports rights.
There seems to be a lot of focus on streaming live sports, but based on comments from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, it appears the company plans to largely stay out of that game for the moment. “We really think that we can have a really strong offering for sports fans on Netflix without having to be part of the difficulty of the economic model of live sports licensing,” he said during the company’s second quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
While live sports rights are expensive, Netflix isn’t exactly going the cheap route on sports-adjacent programming. Earlier this month, the streamer reportedly struck a $50 million deal for the NFL Films/Skydance Sports Jerry Jones docuseries.
One of these days, people will stop asking Netflix about live sports. Ten years ago, the company said they weren’t interested in live sports. That opinion didn’t change in 2015, 2017 (twice), and 2018 (twice). In 2022, the tune slightly changed, with Netflix admitting the company would need a “big profit stream” to start streaming live sports and that they were “pro-profit” as opposed to “anti-sports.”
The only live sport Netflix has been legitimately linked to over the last decade is Formula 1. In 2021, co-CEO Reed Hastings said Netflix “would think about” bidding for F1 rights. They tried to get involved in the most recent round of bidding last summer, but the company reportedly “wasn’t close” on its monetary offer. ESPN retained F1’s rights on a three-year deal paying an estimated $75 to $90 million per year.
Formula 1 was the most logical set of live sports rights for Netflix to acquire. If its bid was so far off from the eventual winning rights fee, diving into live sports rights probably isn’t the best strategy for the company.


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Tripura Government has launched a digital Platform to promote e-governance under which name?
“Chapchar Kut” Festival has started in which district of India?
Which day is celebrated as “Jan Aushadi Diwas”?
Who has partnered with Deendyal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) to facilitate e-marketing of products which are made by Self Help Group?
Who has become the New Brand Ambassador of PUMA?
Which State government has Launched “Ek Thali, Ek Tarkari Scheme“?
In which state the 8th North-East Zone Shooting Championship has been held?
Who has written the Book “Silk Road, India China’s the Geopolitics of Asia Book“?
Which Railway zone has launched Mobile Train Radio Communication system?
Who has started the “AI Game Changer” Programme?
NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies)
India’s largest Ground based Optical Telescope has been established in which state?
Which state will conduct the survey of Social and Educational Status of people of Backward Classes?
N.S. Lakshminarayana Bhatta passed away. He was related to which field?
Which International Bank decided to introduce a banknote worth 1-Million bolivars?
Venezuela’s central Bank
Which state secured the 1st position in the NCAER’s Land Records and Services Index?
Which Bank has tied up with the Indian Army to handle the salary account of the soldiers?
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Which cricketer has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Glenmark Pharma?
Who has been appointed as First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank?
Who has inaugurated the New Delhi World Book Fair 2021?
How many scholars have been awarded the Indian Science Research Fellowship (ISRF) 2021?
Who wrote the Book titled “Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power“?
M.G. George, was an Indian entrepreneur, who has passed. He was the Chairman of which company?


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Private-label bank card issuer Alliance Studies Expertise was a student in a precarious place last year using its highest exposure to brand new clothing globe, and therefore watched the fresh new sharpest conversion process refuses of any retail class while in the the initial phase of your own pandemic.
But since shopping lovers Permanently 21 and you can Dock step 1 Imports recorded to own bankruptcy and longtime partner Victoria’s Secret closed locations and first started investigating a good buyout, Alliance Analysis diversified their mixture of resellers and you will borrowing also provides.
Alliance Data’s existing retail website subscribers could possibly get incorporate Bread’s purchase today/spend later financing compliment of a white-term approach for on the internet and into the-store transformation, predicated on Money Chairman Derek Joyce, which inserted Dough for the 2020 out-of BNPL pioneer Klarna. Joyce before offered for nearly an excellent erican Express.
“Alliance Data is unique among other personal-label credit card issuers in how it’s currently had strong point-of-income integrations within of a lot areas, very including Bread’s state-of-the-ways cost mortgage technology is seemingly turnkey,” Joyce said.
On line sales was indeed the biggest route getting BNPL instructions – powered by beasts Klarna, Affirm and you will Afterpay being employed as third-party team in order to merchants – and you can currently throughout the forty% out of Alliance Data’s bank card sales are coming about on the internet front side, Alliance Research has just stated.
“The fresh within the-store shopping feel is originating right back, and simply once we is watching the latest take a trip globe rebound, we will get a hold of brick-and-mortar feel an enormous rider to possess BNPL loans,” Joyce said.
The latest Money acquisition opened the entranceway for another contract: In the April, Alliance Studies forged a special strategic connection with Fiserv to include point-of-product sales lending options – in addition to BNPL – so you can Fiserv’s secure from seller acquirers.
Cash will offer the latest BNPL technology as a consequence of Fiserv’s dashboard and you can Alliance Study will originate and you may perform the brand new money, which have supplier acquirers earning an acquisition percentage each revenue, Alliance Analysis President Ralph Andretta informed experts this past 12 months whenever discussing the initial-one-fourth earnings.
Alliance Data’s deal with Fiserv isn’t personal. Most other consumer credit lenders have suggestion relationships having Fiserv’s wider range from resellers, however, Money is the simply BNPL or cost lender established toward their system, Andretta told you.
Andretta, a long time Citi notes executive whom registered Alliance Studies during the early 2020, is even offering as the organizations interim CFO ahead of Perry Beberman takes over the latest part inside erica.
Bread’s lending options will go accept Fiserv resellers beginning that it fall, and at the same time Alliance Investigation provides extra multiple the fresh low-clothing people, in addition to Petco, the piece of furniture merchant APT2B plus the mattress inventor Luxi. In every, Alliance Investigation keeps in the 65 billion people within its borrowing-providing databases, the company told you.
Alliance Study also recently hit a great deal just like the Fiserv pact having RBC, below which RBC’s vendor acquirers can get Bread’s resource available options next to additional options. RBC commonly originate and you may perform those people financing, Alliance Analysis told you.
“RBC has the greatest provider feet in the Canada but they didn’t features technical to provide payment financing straight to users,” Joyce told you.
“Lenders shall be mindful,” told you Brian Riley, lead away from borrowing consultative during the Mercator Consultative Classification, noting you to definitely over the past 12 months the biggest BNPL loan providers shed more $8 mil into the sector capitalization because the show pricing fell.
“Having Fiserv’s greater risk and you may Alliance Data’s capability to solution good range second-level shops, the businesses might look for grip on bodily area of sale,” Riley said.
The final element of Alliance Data’s turnaround fell into place in May with the announcement of a plan to spin off brand new sprawling user respect unit that was proving to be a distraction to Alliance Data’s core credit operations.
For a long time, Alliance Data’s LoyaltyOne equipment keeps operate Canada’s common Sky Kilometers coalition system together with BrandLoyalty, a worldwide grocery store atic lack of advantages gained and you may used during the pandemic because of traveling limitations and lockdowns, the firm advertised inside April.
Bread’s difficulties – now that shopping conversion process are repairing and Victoria’s Miracle was getting ready to have an enthusiastic IPO just after sorting out its very own problems – could be capitalizing on article-pandemic looking style by making a smooth checkout sense to have borrowers.
“The latest looking travels has changed are alot more alternative, instant cash advance online which have people playing with online and mobile, and in addition using curbside collection and you may entering places, where they’re looking to look for an entire directory of financial support solutions,” Joyce told you.
Whether or not mastercard receivables decrease inside pandemic, Joyce says that was a preliminary-name a reaction to economic uncertainty and biggest individual segment – millennials – is positioned to expend.
“There is certainly a thought for many years one millennials avoid handmade cards, although the truth is they certainly were later adopters. Extremely millennials features handmade cards and so are arranged to pay, especially in electronics and you can domestic items, while we come out of the latest pandemic,” the guy told you.
Money, that has towns inside Ny and Tampa, Florida, will keep their established workplaces while working directly which have Alliance Studies having fun with an event people that’s pass on across the country, Joyce told you.
“It’s good matches, once the Cash will continue to and obtain resellers personally, however with Alliance Data the audience is growing our arrive at to help you merchants exponentially and you may Alliance presently has the brand new industry’s leading-boundary cost lending technical,” the guy told you.


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A year passed quickly, and the 2013 MAE Asia Mobile Expo was held in Shanghai as scheduled. Looking back at the 2012 MAE exhibition, TD-LTE has attracted much attention and expectations, but after all, it has just started, and it has to face difficulties from various aspects and its own shortcomings; now, after only one year, regardless of the maturity of the industry chain Or large-scale commercial use worldwide, TD-LTE has achieved leapfrog development, and its speed is amazing!
Chips and terminals get rid of shortcomings and make breakthrough progress
Compared with a year ago, chips and terminals have become shortcomings in the development of TD-LTE. Today's TD-LTE chips and terminals have made breakthrough progress. According to GSA statistics, as of April 2013, a total of 166 TD-LTE terminals have been released worldwide, including 16 TD-LTE smartphones, and 79% of the terminals support multi-mode and multi-frequency. Well-known terminal manufacturers have launched TD-LTE products, such as Samsung's Galaxy S3 / S4, Huawei Ascend P1 / D2, as well as Nokia, Motorola, Sharp and HTC. TD-LTE chips are developing rapidly. All chip manufacturers have at least launched dual-mode (LTE TDD / FDD) chips. Among them, Qualcomm has introduced six-mode (full-mode) chips, and HiSilicon has launched five-mode chips.
As the world's largest LTE supplier, Huawei has invested in the development of TD-LTE on an end-to-end scale. Huawei HiSilicon has launched a series of TD-LTE chips such as Balong710, Balong910 and Balong720. It uses a 28nm single-chip system and fully supports dual-stream beamforming, voice fallback, carrier aggregation, Hetnet and downlink Comp. , Huawei also provides a variety of TD-LTE terminals-as of April 2013, Huawei has released more than 30 TD-LTE terminals (GSA statistics), setting a number of global firsts.
The pace of commercialization on a global scale is accelerating, and the construction of domestic test networks is accelerating
Recall that when the MAE Expo was held last year, there were only five commercial TD-LTE networks worldwide, and the construction of a large-scale trial network in China was just beginning. Now that one year has passed, the commercial scope and speed of TD-LTE has been accelerating. As of April 2013, a total of 42 TD-LTE commercial networks have been deployed worldwide, of which 15 are officially commercialized by GSA and TD-LTE users Nearly 3 million. Among these 15 officially commercial networks, Huawei participated in the construction of 10 networks including Japan â€™s Softbank and UK UKB.
Among them, in May 2012, Saudi Mobily commercialized the world's first WiMAX / LTE dual-mode network, all using Huawei's SingleRAN WiMAX / LTE solution and terminal. As of April 2013, the total number of TD-LTE data cards and CPE users has exceeded 1.6 million; in October 2012, UKB launched the world â€™s first commercial service for 3.5G TD-LTE network. The second phase expansion will cover the core area of â€‹â€‹London and will be exclusively supplied by Huawei end-to-end. In December 2012, Sri Lanka Colombo, the capital, launched the TD-LTE commercial service, which uses CPE to provide data and VOIP services. All equipment is also provided exclusively by Huawei.
At the same time, the speed of domestic TD-LTE scale trial network construction is also accelerating. China Mobile's task of deploying 20,000 base stations in 13 cities is accelerating. Among them, Hangzhou and Wenzhou, which were built by Huawei, have taken the lead in commercial trials, and the number has been broken. At the same time, the two cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou also started trial commercialization at the end of February 2013. In addition, China Mobile has launched a tender for 20 billion TD-LTE equipment, and the number of base stations is close to 200,000.
Whether it is domestic or foreign, the commercial deployment of TD-LTE is showing an accelerated trend. As one of the important 4G standards, the technical advantages and commercial value of TD-LTE have been generally recognized by the industry. In 2013, global TD-LTE The base station scale is expected to reach 350,000, and by 2014, this number is expected to be raised to 500,000.
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$1 Reserve Broken Aston
Photo number one is from the NZ Herald (photo SNPA) and photo number 2 is fromTurners damaged vehicle auction in Penrose. If you have a whoops-a-daisy in your $320,000 supercar then the chances are it will end up here.
It won’t look as pretty as it once did but it will still draw a crowd and plenty of disparaging remarks about your driving talent from the assembled “experts”. That’s right, having an off in a ridiculously expensive sports car will be very news worthy . This is worth keeping in mind when you a) buy a supercar and b) when you drive it like a lunatic.
This particular 2010 Aston Martin Rapide met its demise when it got too close and personal to a lamp post outside the Royal Akarana Yacht Club on Tamaki Drive in October. The driver was here on holiday and was driving the car home from a restaurant at 3am when he decided to test his, and the car’s limits of high speed cornering. He successfully found the limit and duly exceeded it. He was charged with dangerous driving and drink driving but the drink driving charge was dropped due to a police procedural mistakes. The judge fined him $750 and disqualified him from driving for nine months. He also had to pay $15k for the lamp post.
So, two points; don’t drive your high powered, expensive sports car like it’s a 1.6 Corolla if you don’t want a huge financial headache and to be in the papers. And secondly, if you’re after an Aston Martin parts car then you know where to go. Yes, this once beautiful motor is being auctioned on Trade Me with a $1 reserve. And any profits from the sale will be donated by Turners to SADD (students against driving drunk) .
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KUALA LUMPUR (May 24): Honda Malaysia has increased its recall of their cars by another 58,140 units to replace the driver airbag inflator with newly-poduced inflators.
In a statement today, Honda Malaysia said the additional recall includes 33,668 units of the City model (year 2011 to 2013), 1,499 units of the Civic model (year 2011), 3,420 units of the CR-V model (year 2011), 7,084 units of the Jazz model (year 2012 to 2013), 9,567 of the Jazz hybrid model (year 2012 to 2013), 2,140 units of the Insight model (year 2012 to 2013) and 762 units of the Stream model (year 2012 to 2013).
Honda Malaysia had earlier recalled 143,970 of their cars in July last year to replace the driver front airbag inflator with new inflators.
This was in addition to a precautionary update issued in June last year for 46,710 Honda units across various models.
Honda Malaysia said all affected customers will be informed via notification letters, which will include details of the product update.
“Honda Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. continues to urge owners of Honda vehicles affected by the driver airbag product update to get their vehicles checked and parts replaced at any authorized Honda dealers as soon as possible,upon receipt of the notification letters,” the statement read.
“Replacement works will be carried out once parts are ready.
“Cost of parts and labour related to the product update will be borne by Honda Malaysia,” it added.
Honda Malaysia also affirmed all current selling models are not affected by the update.
Honda owners can also check their vehicle’s product update status by calling Honda’s Toll Free number 1-800-88-2020 or log on to www.honda.com.my, or visit any Honda authorised dealer nationwide.
Honda is at the centre of the biggest vehicle recall in history of the United States (U.S.) as defects of its vehicles’ airbag inflators, made by Japan’s Takata, have led the automaker to recall 51 million of its vehicles worldwide, including 29 million vehicles in the U.S.
On May 4, US regulators ordered the company to replace as many as 40 million additional air bags in the U.S., more than double what had been announced.
International news agency AFP reported on May 5 that Honda had announced two people having died in Malaysia in car crashes where the airbag inflators of the Honda vehicles exploded, although authorities have yet to exactly pinpoint the cause of the deaths.
The deaths reportedly occurred in April in Sabah and in Kedah in May. Both car crashes involved Honda City vehicles which were under recall to fix the faulty Takata inflators, but repairs had not been made.
The defect can hurtle metal and plastic shrapnel from the inflator canister toward drivers and passengers, when an airbag is deployed.
So far, 13 people have died worldwide and over 100 have been hurt.