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Video game giant Capcom this week revealed that thousands more people than initially believed had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack in November 2020.
Known for video games such as Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Ace Attorney and Mega Man, the Japanese company has operations in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
On November 4, the game maker announced that it detected unauthorized access to its network, and two weeks later confirmed that the attackers accessed the personal information of employees, as well as financial information, sales reports, and other business data.
The operators of the Ragnar Locker ransomware, who claimed the attack, said in November they were able to download over 1TB of data from the company.
This week, Capcom announced that its investigation into the incident revealed that the number of people who had their personal information compromised in the ransomware attack is larger than initially believed.
Specifically, the company now says that a total of 16,415 people (including 3,248 business partners, 9,164 former employees and related parties, and 3,994 employees and related parties) had their personal information stolen. Initially, Capcom said only 9 people were impacted.
Affected information includes names, physical and email addresses, phone numbers, HR information, birthdates, passport information, and the like.
The “potential maximum number of customers, business partners and other external parties” that might have been affected by the incident is of approximately 390,000 people (up roughly 40,000 people from previous estimates), Capcom says.
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I have been seeing SNES Classics in stock fairly often now. In fact Amazon even had them in stock. Still nothing on the NES Classic yet though. Hoping to grab one the second round that is suppose to come out this year.
Better head back and grab once of each.Was at Walmart last night. They had a whole bunch of the Classic NES but the SNES was down to two.
Nintendo’s NES and SNES Classic consoles are going away after the holidays — probably for good this time. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter this week, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé said that the mini-consoles will be going out of production, and once the holiday season stock sells out, they won’t be restocked.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - Local liquor stores are seeing more customers with the new year just hours away.
Cork and Bottle, in Springfield, welcomed hundreds of customers for one of their busiest days of the year.
However, with New Year's Eve falling on a Sunday this year, one of their managers says it's not as busy of a holiday as it was last year. But customers still came in and purchased anything from beer, wine or liquor with plans to celebrate the new year.
"You know, some people have been telling us they're going to stay at home tonight watching the ball drop," said Otto Deurloo-Willard-Woods. "Some are going out and hitting the town, and I just want everyone to be safe."
Cork and Bottle is working special hours for New Year's Eve, and they will be open until 9 p.m. on Sunday.


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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 09, 2012
LifeStorage, Chicago storage provider for home and business, records management and office solutions, is holding a Garage Sale Event at its Hermosa location (4500 W. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL) on Saturday, August 11th, from 10am-3pm. This will be LifeStorage Hermosa's first Garage Sale, and Store Managers Mario Alequin and Yecy Morquecho are expecting a healthy turn out after promoting the even by word of mouth, fliers, emails, and even inviting people in the neighborhood who were holding their own yard and garage sales. The event is open to both LifeStorage customers and community members alike at no charge. Refreshments and snacks will be provided as well.
“We came up with idea to generate more business and we also heard that other facilities had a garage sales that were successful. We know a lot of our sister stores have tried this and it always seems to generate positive buzz,” Alequin said. “Our peers that have already tried their hand at this have offered wonderful support, and Yecy and I think we're ready to make this event a huge success.”
For LifeStorage, giving back to its customers is a major priority, as is giving back to the community. By holding Garage Sale events, it allows customers to clean out some space from their units and community members to clean out space from their homes and garages. It's also a great way for those unfamiliar with LifeStorage to come and see what great storage at affordable prices looks like, with a high-end approach to self-storage.
LifeStorage Hermosa in particular sees this as a an excellent way to expand its customer base and to hopefully create a lasting impression of its facility. “The Garage Sale has the potential to provide stability, loyalty, and it build relationships so that our customers can refer more family and friends. It shows that we give back, care, and want this community to prosper in a positive direction,” Alequin said.
“It’s very important that we show that our facility is one of the best places to store your most prized possessions. You can leave your items here and not worry. We do these events to show that this is not just a corporation about money but a company that cares and wants to provide the best to everyone and see the surrounding community grow and be prosperous."
For more information on the Garage Sale event, please call either LifeStorage Hermosa at 773-235-8400.


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Today Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) was named one of America’s Most JUST Companies, recognized for its commitment to serving its workers, customers, communities, the environment and shareholders in the annual Forbes JUST 100 list published by Forbes and JUST Capital. The list is published annually to showcase the companies doing right by all of their stakeholders. In addition, Hasbro was ranked first in its industry in how a company invests in its employees and in how it reduces its environmental impact.
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), a global play and entertainment company, today announced the launch of the NERF House sequel - NERF House X, a high energy digital series featuring renowned athletes including Julian Edelman, Klay Thompson and Sky Brown along with musician Diplo and the Mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri. Jointly produced by Julian Edelman’s production company (Coast Productions) and his business partner Assaf Swissa's creative studio (Superdigital), the series features a completely new creative approach with a mix of live action and animation and takes NERF Nation on a truly epic journey through NERF worlds unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. Fans can tune in to catch all episodes airing October 9,2020 on NERF.com and on each participant’s social channels.
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) today announced John Frascotti will retire from his current position as President and Chief Operating Officer when his contract ends on March 31, 2021. At the culmination of his existing contract, he will remain employed by the Company for one year in the role of special advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Brian Goldner, through April 1, 2022.


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Mont. Factory Workers Slow to Spend
HELENA, Mont. (AP) _ What would happen if people in a small community were showered with $97 million all at once? The results are just now starting to come in, and they’re not as exciting as some had hoped for.
Many of the recipients are apparently paying down their debts instead of splurging on hot tubs, cars, TVs and the like.
About 1,000 aluminum workers in the Columbia Falls area got checks ranging from $1,000 to more than $250,000 back in April. The windfall resulted from a settlement of a lawsuit between the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. and employees over how they were owed under a profit-sharing agreement.
The workers were flooded with offers for real estate, cars, jewelry and more, and economists saw a rare opportunity to learn what happens when people in a small town are given a pile of money.
The economists haven’t actually studied what happened, and no one knows for sure yet, but businesses said they haven’t seen the big surge in spending they had been expecting.
``It was money they knew they had coming, and they planned carefully how they’d use it,″ said Greg Eisinger of Eisinger Motors in Kalispell. ``By the time they paid the tax man, the attorney fees, the ex-spouse fees and all the rest, there just wasn’t that much left.″
Furniture and appliance dealers also said they have seen little effect on sales.
``It sounded like a lot more money than it really was,″ said Rosemary Lyman, whose husband, John, got $104,000 and ended up with $61,000 after deductions.
Lyman, who is in his mid-50s and has worked as a furnace tender for about 30 years, did treat himself to a Harley-Davidson motorcyle, but he also paid bills.
Theory has it that people will not spend lavishly when they come into new money if they believe it is a one-time event, said Sung Won Sohn, an economist for the Norwest Bank system.
``A lot of people think that when we get bonus income, we go out and blow it,″ Sohn said. ``But we’re a lot more rational, on the average. ``Your purchase today depends on what you think your long-term income stream is going to be.″
Economist Ed Lotterman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said aluminum workers in Montana would probably use a windfall more cautiously than, say, high-tech employees in California.
Montana’s economy is not as strong as the economy in many other parts of the country, and a natural-resource industry such as aluminum is probably seen as an industry under siege, Lotterman said.


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Samsung Galaxy S3 sales hit 30m in 5 months
Amman, November 5, 2012
Samsung Electronics, a global leader in digital media, announced that its smartphone the Galaxy S III has surpassed 30 million global sales in approximately five months since its debut in May.
“The Galaxy S III continues to be a runaway favorite with customers around the world. Meeting this sales milestone in five months sets another record for Samsung, and we are extremely proud and yet motivated to continue to provide our customers with products that they love,” said JK Shin, president and head of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics.
“On behalf of Samsung Mobile, I appreciate millions of customers around the world that have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S III.”
Putting this number into perspective, during a similar selling period (150 days), the acclaimed Galaxy S II, launched in 2011, globally sold 10 million devices, a statement said.
Now upgradable to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), the Galaxy S III features a 4.8-inch HD Super Amoled display lets users view multimedia and Web content in brilliant color and clarity.
Its camera understands human gestures to make using the phone natural and intuitive. A powerful hardware ensures blazing-fast performance and seamless multi-tasking.
Samsung now offers the Galaxy S III in an expanded collection of new colours including Amber Brown, Garnet Red, Sapphire Black and Titanium Grey. – TradeArabia News Service


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The week-long celebration of craft beer, especially Michigan's fast-growing industry, will run Jan. 12-18 with almost 80 events at various breweries, bars, restaurants and retailers around Kalamazoo.
There will be tastings, demonstrations, food pairings and workshops featuring almost 30 breweries from around the state, as well as other prominent breweries, including the Boston Beer Co., makers of Samuel Adams beers.
Posters at participating venues will feature a QR Code that links to the Kalamazoo Beer Week's website and a list of local cab companies.
“It’s not about (craft beer) abuse. We want to make sure everyone who participates and attends is safe," said Anne Drummond, marketing and public relations coordinator at Imperial Beverage, one of the organizers of the event.
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Micron Announces 20-Year Plan To Build $100 Billion U.S. Fab Complexby Anton Shilov on October 10, 2022 1:00 PM EST
Now that the U.S. government has finally settled the matter of whether it would be providing subsidies to entice chip fabs to setup shop within the U.S., those fabs and chip makers are starting to hammer out their domestic investment plans. Of all of the proposals revealed so far, Micron's new proposal stands to be the most ambitious. Last week the company announced plans to build the largest chip production complex in the history of the U.S. in central New York state. The plan will span 20 years of construction and upgrades, with a total price tag expected to hit around $100 billion by the time Micron is finished in the 2040s.
Micron's new site near Clay, New York, will not only be the company's largest campus ever built, but will also be the largest chip fab in the USA. The new Micron campus will produce DRAM using leading-edge process technologies and is expected to eventually include four 600,000 feet2 (55,700 meters2) clean rooms. Which, to provide some context, is roughly eight-times the clean room space of GlobalFoundries' Fab 8. The new fab complex will complement Micron's already announced campus near Boise, Idaho, that is expected to start coming online starting in 2025. Both sites will be instrumental to meet Micron's goal to produce 40% of its DRAM in the U.S. over the next decade.
According to Micron, the company's investments in its New York production facility will total $100 billion when fully built, and it will create some 9,000 Micron jobs along with some 41,000 indirect jobs. The first phase of the Clay, New York, project is expected to cost Micron around $20 billion in total over the rest of this decade. The DRAM maker expects to get $5.5 billion in incentives from the state of New York over the life of the project, as well as federal grants and tax credits from the CHIPS and Science Act. In addition, Micron and the state of New York will also invest $500 million over the next 20+ years in community and workforce development.
Micron plans to start site preparation work in 2023 and start construction in 2024. The facility ramp up is set to begin in the second half of the decade based on industry demand for DRAM devices.
Broadly speaking, fab complexes with eye-popping price tags are quickly becoming the norm in the fab industry as the cost of building and equipping successive generations of fabs continues to balloon. And while Micron is not the first company to plan for a twelve digit price tag for a new fab complex (Intel's new fab complex in Ohio is officially expected to cost around $100 billion when completed), Micron's announcement is notable in that unlike Intel and TSMC, Micron isn't a logic producer. So the company's $100 billion plans are entirely for memory, a relatively bold commitment for a conservative company that's competing in the tech industry's classic commodity market.
Bearing in mind that the new fab in in Onondaga County, New York, is not set to come online until the later half of the decade, it is too early for Micro to reveal which process technologies and types of products it will produce. The only thing that the company says is that this will be a leading-edge facility that will produce advanced DRAM products (think 64Gb DDR5 chips, DDR6 DRAMs, next-generation HBM, etc.) using EUV-enabled production nodes.
"Micron will leverage the diverse, highly educated and skilled talent in New York as we look to build our workforce in the Empire State," said Sanjay Mehrotra, chief executive of Micron. "This historic leading-edge memory megafab in Central New York will deliver benefits beyond the semiconductor industry by strengthening U.S. technology leadership as well as economic and national security, driving American innovation and competitiveness for decades to come."
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Techie2 - Monday, October 10, 2022 - linkGotz to get me Mo Money from the Biden regime.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - linkRather sensible if you consider how easy it would be to cut the United States off from chip suppliers as lots of production is in places that the US sorts seem to consider unfriendly (China) or at risk of being exploded (Taiwan), but I do understand that US residents are quite caught up in the swirl of making everything about party politics. Its quite comical to watch how easily US folk are led around by their noses from various media sources such as the Aussies (Murdochs, I think they are) that own Fox News and stir up discontent to get viewership and advert money as a result. But carry on over there.
RedGreenBlue - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - linkI’m an American and you have no idea how accurate you statement is from what people have said on AT comments recently. I don’t support the destruction of property, but the people criticizing the CHIPS Act have no clue how serious a threat it is to national and global security if China invaded Taiwan and TSMC DIDN’T blow up their own fab (no more specifics). It’s the biggest reason China wants to invade, because they’re 2-4 generations behind or 5-10 years behind. They just want to take over TSMC’s fabs.
RedGreenBlue - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - linkThe world economy would basically stop.
RedGreenBlue - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - linkI’d rather see an ASML EUV machine in smitherines than in the hands of Russia or China. And if it ends up with one, they’ll pass it to the other or run it for the other.
Diogene7 - Friday, October 14, 2022 - linkI wish that a disruptive investment would be done for High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) of Non Volatile Memory (NVM) 64Gbit or higher MRAM chips instead of volatile DRAM memory.
I believe that NVM Memory like MRAM, SOT-MRAM,… would enable so many new disruptive use cases, especially in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics,…
Unfortunately like emerging Electric Vehicules (EV) competing with Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), there is a likely a need for incentives to make emerging NVM memories cost competitive with volatile DRAM…
I also wish TSMC would be given incentives to manufacture NVM MRAM wich would push other memory manufacturers to follow-up…
block2 - Monday, October 24, 2022 - linkWhew, remembered my password from when anand was in high school.
This factory will be just 7-10 miles east of my house, can see the area from drone at my house.


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Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for S.C. Johnson, released the following statement in response to a Feb. 12 house fire in Clayton:
We are aware of the fire that occurred on February 12th, 2009 in Clayton, North Carolina, and the initial allegations that the fire may have been started by a Glade® plug in product. We are confident that the fire was NOT started by one of our products. As is standard procedure for allegations involving our products, SC Johnson sent a fire investigator to the scene of the fire to evaluate the incident and work with local law enforcement. The investigator concluded that our products did not cause the fire.
SC Johnson takes the issue of product safety very seriously and Glade® PlugIns®, like all SC Johnson products, meet or exceed safety requirements. Glade® PlugIns® products have been tested by Underwriters Laboratories and other independent laboratories. According to Underwriters Laboratories, ” Plug-in air fresheners are a very common household appliance that is quite popular with consumers. On rare occasions a fire in a home is reported to be caused by an air freshener. Without examining the product and the home, there is no way of knowing the exact cause. Other factors have been found that have been the cause or contributed to these fires. Worn out electrical outlets, poor mechanical connections between the outlet and the wires in the wall and major malfunctions in the home electrical distribution system have also been recognized as the cause of fires that have occurred where air fresheners are used. Consumers should always look for the UL Mark when buying any product. Care must be taken to be sure that newspapers and other combustible material is not in close proximity to the air freshener when it is in use.”
As a family company, SC Johnson takes very seriously the responsibility of providing consumers with high quality, safe and effective products. Like all of the company’s products, Glade® PlugIns® are safe and effective when used as directed. These products have been sold for nearly 20 years and the millions of consumers using the product can continue to do so with complete confidence.
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American ports have been spending big to prepare for the Panama Canal widening, and oncoming fleets of post-Panamax containerships. As that trade grows, more money could be landing in shipyards, to build a new generation of tugboats.
Jensen Maritime recently unveiled its design for a 100’x40’, 6,770 hp tug that will combine the nimble performance of harbor tugs with oceangoing capabilities, and the power to assist the new ships.
The Jensen designers in Seattle say “escort capability was enhanced to provide support for assisting large, 18,000 TEU containerships due to an increased future demand in West Coast ports of call.” Now under construction by JT Marine, Vancouver, Wash., the vessel is planned for delivery in the second quarter of 2017 to Vessel Chartering LLC, a wholly owned division of San Francisco-based Baydelta Navigation Ltd.
On the East Coast, I talked to Bruce Washburn, executive vice president of Washburn & Doughty Associates, Inc, the yard in East Boothbay, Maine, that has a well-deserved reputation for its 93’ harbor tugs. He can foresee growing needs for more horsepower and perhaps bigger tugs.
Those bigger ships already have clients looking for more horsepower, Washburn said. Soon the industry could be “pushing up on the upper level of a typical docking tug,” he added.
That is because the more powerful tugs, say 6,000 to 6,500 hp, represent a kind of threshold; above that, Z-drives and other components must get bigger exponentially.
That will just be following in the giant steps of port agencies and private sector partners, who have been estimated to be spending $9 billion annually to accommodate the post-Panamax fleet.
The preparations include dredging, new waterside and landside connections, and true meg-projects – like the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $1.3 billion Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project, lifting the span over the Kill Van Kull between Bayonne and Staten Island by 64’ allowing 215’ air draft for the new ships.
Other ports are upping their game. PortMiami claimed success early this year, reporting a 20% surge in container traffic in January 2016 and crediting $1 billion in investment. Miami is advertising its expanded towing and harbor ship services too, with Z-drive tugs of Moran Towing Corporation and Seabulk Towing.
It will be interesting to watch as tugboat operators, designers and builders conjure up the next-generation tug fleet.


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COVID-19 has transformed the world in two years. Apart from the unprecedented hardship and suffering it has visited on millions, it has also reshaped behaviour and attitudes in profound ways. The spectacular rise of digital technology has been one of the most transformative changes. McKinsey & Co recently estimated that the digitisation of customer and supplier interaction has accelerated by three-to-four years and the share of digitally-enabled products by seven years. Customer behaviour has switched in favour of flexible-distance purchases.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” is one of Sir Winston Churchill’s many memorable quips. Identifying opportunities for change is of particular importance in the Gulf where an economic paradigm shift was recognised as a priority long before the pandemic. The erstwhile comforts of secure margins underpinned by rising government spending, population growth and input subsidies have been challenged by slower trend growth, labour market disruptions, and fiscal consolidation. Covid-19 has highlighted the risks of the long-standing preference of investors for low-productivity activities reliant on low-cost labour: retail trade, cafes and restaurants, construction and basic services. All of these were disrupted by restrictions on mobility but also longer-running structural changes such as the rise of e-commerce.
Covid-19 has forced companies confronted by unprecedented uncertainty to ask questions and think ahead. The increased interest in technology has pushed businesses away from their traditional low-cost labour-bias and helped trigger broader reviews of business models. Embracing this global trend is critical to safeguarding the competitiveness of local businesses.
Many other opportunities for change exist: digitisation, automation, energy efficiency, renewables, consolidation, partnerships, new distribution channels, exports, etc. All these can boost productivity – improve the top line and better manage the cost base. The result will be stronger, more dynamic businesses that can contribute to growth through increased value addition and quality job creation.
More generally, traditional assumption about capital allocation are coming into question as investors seek alternatives for the “safe bets” of yesteryear, such retail SMEs and real estate investments. Successful company creation will be increasingly about addressing relevant economic problems (which are more numerous than ever in the wake of the pandemic) and pooling resources through multiple founders.
Value will come from technology adoption, scalable business models, innovation and better governance. With change the new global norm globally, business competitiveness will hinge on agility and adaptability as technology continues to reshape the global economy. But the financial sector will also have to innovate to better cater to these new needs and opportunities.
The good news is that unleashing the power of productivity possesses considerable potential for substantially accelerating economic growth and delivering higher living standards.


text: OKLAHOMA—- A University of Oklahoma student journalist has filed acomplaint and is considering pressing charges against the owner of a liquorstore who allegedly attacked her while she was interviewing him at the store. The store owner, in turn, filed two complaints against the journalist fortrespassing and disturbing the peace for refusing to leave the store when asked.Journalist Kendal Kelly filed a complaint Oct. 16 with the city ofNorman after Rob Gowens, owner of Hob Nob Rob’s Liquor Store, allegedly tried toforcefully take her notebook during an interview and then grabbed her when shewould not give it to him, she said. Kelly said she went to the store to giveGowens a chance to respond to an allegation that he was illegally distributingalcohol at OU football games.According to the city of Norman, Gowenssaid in his complaints that he preferred to settle the dispute in mediation, butKelly said this week that mediation is out of the question and that she willpress criminal charges. City officials are reviewing thecomplaints.Kelly said she began investigating Hob Nob Rob’s Liquor Storeafter sources indicated the store was delivering alcohol to stadiumsuite-holders during football games. According to the Oklahoma AlcoholicBeverage Laws Enforcement Commission, it is illegal for a retail store such asHob Nob Rob’s to deliver alcohol to suites without a cateringlicense.Kelly said Gowens had admitted to selling alcohol to onesuite-owner when she interviewed him one month ago, but when she called back toconfirm, Gowens retracted the statement and would not comment any further. But before publishing the story that included the allegation against HobNob Rob’s, Kelly went to give Gowens one more chance to explain his side of thestory.”I thought maybe he had a separate caterer deliver the alcohol,which would make it legal,” Kelly said. According to Kelly and RyanChittum, a Wall Street Journal reporter and former OU student whoaccompanied Kelly to Hob Nob Rob’s, the effort backfired.When the tworeporters entered the store and told Gowens their purpose, Gowens yelled atChittum to “get out of my store,” Kelly said. Chittum left and Kelly thenexplained that she would publish the story about the liquor store’s allegedillegal alcohol distribution if Gowens could not provide alternative evidence,Kelly said.Gowens then shouted, “no you’re not” and lunged at Kelly totake her notebook, she said. Chittum said he came back into the store twominutes later to find Kelly crying and Gowens threatening to call the police. The two reporters left the store and both sides filed complaints with thecity.Kelly said she was not injured but felt angry and frightened afterthe altercation.Kelly published a story the next day in the student-runOklahoma Daily quoting school officials and suite-holders as saying HobNob Rob’s provided alcohol to suite-holders at football games. Thestory, as well as the allegations of trespass and assault, have sparked a debateabout what really happened that night.Posts made by anonymous readers onthe newspaper’s online message board have said that Kelly “badgered” Gowens andthat she refused to leave the store when he asked. At least one of theanonymous posters claimed to have witnessed the incident.”I was witnessto this so-called interview, and I feel like the assault charges should havebeen leveled at the reporter, not Rob,” one anonymous poster wrote. “Iwas informed from other witnesses inside Hob Nob Rob’s that Kendal had calledseveral times requesting interviews and that she was told no comment on morethan three occasions,” wrote another anonymous poster. “No meansno.”But others supported Kelly.Chittum, who is a former reporterfor the Oklahoma Daily, said Kelly’s visit to the store was justified.”She did exactly what she needed to do, and I’m proud of her,” Chittumsaid. “This is a terrible thing to happen to a student journalist.” TheOklahoma Daily’s faculty adviser, Jack Willis, said Kelly followed properprocedure.”As far as I know, she did everything correctly, and this guywent off on her,” Willis said.Following Kelly’s Oct. 17 story, schoolofficials said they would no longer forward suite-holder’s alcohol orders to HobNob Rob’s as they had since 1995.”We no longer want to be the go-betweenfor suite-holders’ alcohol orders,” said Kenny Mossman, director of OU athleticmedia relations.The Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws EnforcementCommission is also investigating Hob Nob Rob’s for illegal alcohol distribution.


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Earth Rhythm opens 12 kiosks across India, plans to open 70
Earth Rhythm has opened 12 kiosks across Tier 1 and 2 cities as its first foray into offline retail. The natural beauty and skincare brand plans to open over 70 kiosks across the country and enter international markets.
“It’s crucial to establish our presence offline as well after making a lot of noise online on the major e-commerce sites,” said Earth Rhythm’s founder and CEO Harini Sivakumar at the launch of one of the kiosks, ET Retail reported.
Earth Rhythm has launched its kiosks across Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Raipur, Chandigarh, and Dehradun. The kiosks retail the brand’s products ranging from moisturising body yoghurts, deodorants, and Vitamin C serums to kajal and brow serums.
The offline launch marks the beginning of Earth Rhythm’s omni-channel retail strategy. The business plans to generate 10% of its total revenue from its omni-channel segment in the current financial year, ending in March 2023. Earth Rhythm is working with a target annual run rate of between Rs 90 crore and Rs 100 crore.
Earth Rhythm launched online in 2019 as a clean beauty brand, tapping into the segment’s rising popularity in the Indian market. The business raised $8 million in a Series A funding round which was led by Falguni Nayar’s multi-brand and omni-channel beauty giant Nykaa.
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It would be a fine shopping list with great produce on it, Presiding Officer.
The Scottish Government is acutely aware of the importance of GIs for the range of Scottish products that have achieved that status. Leaving the single market and the customs union would be most damaging to Scotland’s food and drink industry. Food exports to the European Union were valued at approximately £1.1 billion in 2018. There is a new GI scheme being legislated for, but it is not guaranteed that it would be in place on day 1 should the UK leave the EU, which we still hope will not happen. It is vital that GIs are recognised and that European GIs continue to be a key part of the system.


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We reported earlier this week that Apple had lost exclusive rights to the ‘iPhone’ trademark in Brazil to a local company, Gradiente that sells an Android phone they call the iPhone. Now, Apple has reportedly appealed the decision made by the Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property (INPI).
According to Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s major daily newspaper, Apple has appealed INPI’s decision on the grounds of forfeiture.
Apple’s argument is that Gradiente, the owner of the ‘iPhone’ moniker in Brazil, did not use the name within the legal limit of five years after it was granted the trademark in 2008.
Gradiente will now have 60 days to prove that it had indeed launched a product called the ‘iPhone’ or risk losing the trademark.
Reportedly, Gradiente was selling its Neo-One handset since 2000, then last year, it redesigned the device and released it as the ‘G-Gradiente iphone’ as seen above.
Apple was faced with a similar predicament in China last year, as a Chinese firm, ProView, claimed it owned the iPad trademark in China. The Cupertino firm eventually settled the dispute for $60 million.


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The Toyota FT-1 concept is a pure performance, track-focused sports car model created by CALTY Design Research, Toyota's North American Design branch. The FT-1 concept is a symbol that captures elements of the emotion and energy we can expect to see in future Toyota vehicles designs.
Latest 2019 Toyota Supra Spy Shots Reveal Something New May 01, 2018 - 03:09 PM - by Supra FT1 News Seems like the time between each sighting is decreasing as the new 2019 Toyota Supra test mule was spied once again.
Four Cylinder Toyota Supra Coming With 262 HP It will be sold alongside the 335 hp six-cylinder model. read full story Watch the New Toyota Supra Run Up the Goodwood Hillclimb Sounds great.
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Today, we are at the brink of the fourth wave in the fintech industry. While many of the fintech companies present themselves as more attainable solutions to the legacy institutions in the field, by promising a customer first and more affordable product, the new wave in the Fintech, however, means changing the infrastructure and helping all the actors adjust and move forward.
Wellstreet with the investments made through the Fintech FUND I aims to facilitate the collaboration, create a better future by filling the gap, and bring about efficiency to the entire system, thereby creating the fintech of tomorrow, the fintech of now.
Jula Holding Invests in the Future of the Fintech Sector
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The PayEx CEO offers his experience of working with corporate institutions and investment banking
A New Fintech Investment Vehicle
Wellstreet Launches $40 Million Fund to Invest in Early-stage Fintech Innovators. The enablers building the next generation fintechs.
Fintech Loft Startup Challenge 2021
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Meet Erika Eliasson – Chairwoman of Wellstreet Fintech Board
We welcome Erika Eliasson as the Chairwoman of the Wellstreet Fintech board and together we look forward to bringing more efficiency to the industry.
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We're excited to be a frontrunner of the fourth wave in the fintech industry, by collaborating and forming the Fintech Loft Advisory Board.
Apply for Wellstreet Fintech Loft with AWS
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SINGAPORE: TCC says latest Fraser & Neave offer is "final"
TCC's chase for F&N looks to be reaching a conclusion
ThaiBev-controlled TCC Assets has said its SGD9.55-per-share bid for Fraser & Neave (F&N) is its "final" offer for the group.
TCC upped its bid for the conglomerate last week in a move to see off rival Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE). And yesterday (21 January), OUE said it was withdrawing from the long-running bidding war.
TCC is set to pay around SGD13.75bn (US$11.2bn) for F&N, whose interests include soft drinks, food, property and publishing. TCC's offer will remain open until 4 Feburary, it said yesterday.
TCC also said that it now owns 42.5% of F&N, after acquiring 34.58m shares at SGD9.55 per share yesterday.
Meanwhile, Japanese brewer Kirin, which has a 15% stake in F&N said today that no decision has been made on what it will do with its share, it was reported. Previously, Kirin had agreed to acquire F&N's food and beverage business if OUE's bid had been successful.
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Nintendo has only just launched its first wave of Amiibo figures, but already they’re selling for big bucks online. A rare defected (perfected?) Metroid model featuring two hand cannons has just sold for US$2,500 on eBay – a far cry from the AU$20 the “normal” ones will cost you.
The manufacturing defect has apparently given Samus Aran double the firepower, replacing her left arm with a second hand cannon. The modification is purely cosmetic and has not changed the way the character operates in-game, but the fact that she’s still in her mint-condition factory packaging makes this Samus a collector’s edition.
While we’re assuming there are more than one dual-hand cannon model Amiibo in the wild, we’re not sure if other characters have been accidentally mis-printed, as well.
Keep a close eye on your local gaming retailer – and if you find an Amiibo that doesn’t look quite right, it could be worth real money!


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The Impact Of Covid-19 On The London Restaurant Industry
The London restaurant industry has, along with the entire UK hospitality industry, been devastated by the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. London restaurants essentially acted as an early-warning system with regard to the effect that Coronavirus would have on the UK economy when it and the rest of the hospitality industry noticed a sudden drop in bookings during the last ten days of February 2020.
The slump gathered momentum as the Government delayed its response and issued mixed messages regarding the threat that the virus posed to public safety. Restaurant footfall further reduced following the announcement on 16th March that the public should avoid gatherings in places such as restaurants and pubs and completely dried up a week later when restaurants and pubs were forced to close.
Covid-19 and the hospitality sector
Coronavirus has devastated the hospitality industry in terms of economic impact and loss of jobs. Statista reported that, in the week preceding the Government’s advice for people to stop going to restaurants and pubs on 16th March, restaurant groups experienced the biggest fall in like-for-like sales at 21 percent, while bar sales dropped by 14 percent. The following week it was announced that pubs, bars and restaurants had to close to customers other than for delivery or takeaway. Over the whole month of March, bar sales dropped by 60 percent and restaurants by 56.4 percent.
UK Hospitality‘s own Quarterly Tracker reported that ‘the hospitality sector saw a 23.1% contraction in the three months to March, highlighting how hospitality has taken an unprecedented and hugely disproportionate hit as a result of the pandemic and must remain a special case for Government support going forward.’ The trade association’s Chief Executive, Kate Nicholls commented that ‘the declines we (the hospitality sector) are seeing in other sectors, alarming although they may be, are incidental compared to the truly alarming hit that ours is taking.’
The UK hospitality industry has essentially ground to a halt with an estimated 75% of companies in the sector closing and 85% of the workforce furloughed during the last two months. To put that into some kind of perspective, the hospitality sector comprises around 20,000 small businesses employing 2,500,000 workers and generates £1.3 billion – that’s £130,000,000,000 – turnover, making it the third largest provider of jobs in the country. The hospitality industry is larger than the automotive, pharmaceutical and aerospace industries combined.
Calls for government support for the hospitality sector
There is an urgent need for increased government support to protect the hospitality sector to ensure its survival. Acclaimed London restaurateur Marcus Wareing of Marcus Wareing Restaurants has commented that many restaurant will close leading to huge unemployment in the industry without additional Government assistance to the £100 billion sector.
London restaurants – along with the entire UK hospitality industry – were amongst the first sectors to be affected by the social distancing lockdown and by their very nature will be one of the last to recover. Government schemes such as grants, 100% state backed ‘bounce back’ loans and furloughing of staff under the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) have acted as a life support system for restaurants. State financial assistance to the hospitality industry will need to continue for longer than it will to other sectors as restaurants’ fixed costs – not least of all rent – will remain and even when they are allowed to open with enforced social distancing measures they will struggle to be profitable with the hugely reduced number of customers and revenue that social distancing will create.
Kate Nicholls has noted that ‘restaurants rely on high volume due to low margins of 4 – 8% so need to have 60% of revenue to make a profit and need government support to prevent opening at a loss.’ Other factors which will necessitate longer term Government financial assistance being provided the London restaurant industry – as pointed out by The Guardian’s Jay Rayner – include the facts that ‘post outbreak most restaurants could probably survive for 3 months before cash runs out without government support … a 6 month closure could typically cost a London restaurant up to £600,000 which would involve owner-backed guarantee with huge risks involved as the government Business Interruption Loan Scheme only covers up to £250,000 without personal guarantees … 80% furlough scheme has prevented most restaurants from having to shed their staff … fixed costs will remain … rent is on average 10% of a restaurant’s turnover and the fact that there will be a huge cost of restocking with ingredients.’ He has also questioned whether people’s people’s eating habits will have changed and if they will still wish – and have the money – to go out to eat again in such numbers. The lockdown has led to a huge surge in eating in with people refining & reigniting their home culinary skills.
London restaurateur David Moore of 2-Michelin starred Pied à Terre has suggested restaurants being granted a 9 month rent free period that becomes legally binding as a 9 month extension of the lease with the government providing financial assistance for landlords if needed; this idea being called National Time Out. As Will Beckett, co-founder of Hawksmoor restaurant group puts it, ‘every restaurant owner has a date after which all the money runs out.’ There is also only so much debt that businesses in the sector will be able or prepared to take on as the debt will need to be repaid involving additional costs to an industry which is already punch-drunk and on its uppers.
When will restaurants reopen?
The Government has announced the creation of ministerial-led task forces to determine a timeline along with Covid-19 safety procedure guidelines to enable businesses in closed sectors where close contact between people is unavoidable to reopen safely, describing the task forces as being ‘crucial’ to boost the economy. The brief of one of the specific task forces, operated by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Stategy, is to assess ways of enabling the safe reopening of pubs and restaurants with key regard to public health safety. These government initiatives follow Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recently announced plan to reopen some restaurants in the hospitality sector in July ‘at the earliest’ … providing that ‘they are safe and enforce social distancing.’ Welcoming the announcement of the task forces, Kate Nicholls, Chief Executive of UKHospitality, commented ‘we have been persistent in pointing out that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to reopening businesses, even within the same sector, making such representations last month to Downing Street and The Treasury. A great deal of lateral thinking and planning will be required to help businesses open, hence our efforts to draw up protocols and work co-creatively with stakeholders to inform hospitality sub-sectors on how best to prepare venues for safe reopening. This is for the safety of staff, customers and visitors, and for hospitality to help drive economic recovery. It is therefore very welcome to hear that the Government will be listening to our recommendations, to jointly find solutions to reopening. We look forward to continuing to engage with the Cabinet Office and alongside members, in playing our part and having a clear message to support the reopening of hospitality businesses when it is safe to do so.’
What precautions will venues take against the coronavirus?
Creative use of technology-led ordering systems, payments and Apps will be key in minimising contact between staff to reassure customers and make them feel more confident that restaurants are safe environments to visit.
Restaurants along with pubs are – by their very nature – places where people congregate intimately with scant customary regard for social distancing. The restaurant industry is an ‘atmosphere’ business where proximity to other people and the buzz of the room is one of the many factors which get customers through the door. Reduced customer numbers which social distancing measures will necessitate, combined with attendant drastic reduction in revenue, will make it touch and go whether even restaurants which do choose to reopen with restricted numbers will be able to do while making any kind of profit. It therefore follows that even if Covid-19 social distancing restrictions are relaxed in a phased manner to allow some kind of service provision being allowed, restaurants will be amongst the last industries to have reduced restrictions applied.
The very nature of social distancing presents an obstacle to the notion of reopening restaurants at a profit. Measures are being discussed within the industry to keep it afloat. Restaurants are waiting for the green light to reopen being given by the Government with reduced capacity to enable social distancing and public health to be protected. Once given, they will need to decide if and how they will manage to do so and feel their way through. Will Beckett of Hawksmoor has suggested that it might be advisable for restaurants not to reopen during the public health fear phase as to do so with restaurants featuring perspex screens and staff wearing masks could lead to long term damage being caused by possible public perception that restaurants are unsafe environments to visit. Other leading figures in the London restaurant industry including Des Gunewardena, Chairman & CEO of D & D London restaurant group are slightly less circumspect and considering reopening restaurants when allowed under relaxation of lockdown restrictions with social distancing of diners at 2 metres reducing restaurant capacity by 50%. To do so will involve extra costs for protective items such as masks and hand sanitisers and enhanced cleaning to reopen but might still enable restaurants to make a profit, albeit a small one. Again, key factors that would need to be involved to enable reopening at 50% capacity would include flexibility on rent, social distancing of kitchen staff, additional cost of protective equipment and public perception of social distance dining. Benefits of doing so would include getting people back to work and some kind of normalcy back to people’s lives. Companies with a portfolio of restaurants will be considering getting as many restaurants to reopen within social protection guidelines provided they are not losing money – if 75% of their restaurants can reopen with 50% revenue it may well be the solution to staying closed.
It is being suggested that it may be easier to reopen larger restaurants with extra space and foot cover with smaller restaurants with less space and higher density table space possibly posing more of a challenge. Restaurants and bars with outdoor terraces will also enable diners to be spaced out more. Other cities in countries including The Netherlands and Estonia are pioneering alfresco dining ideas. Ideas being trialled include the mini-greenhouses on the city waterfront at ETEN vegan restaurant in Amsterdam with 3 guests per ‘greenhouse’. Outside spaces are easier to manage in terms of minimising infection spread and may play a key role in the ‘new safe hospitality’ until Coronavirus restrictions are finally revealed. The obvious concern is that the cost of investing in new safe hospitality innovation will prevent restaurants who worry that they will not have enough capital to reopen will prevent them from investing in such innovative Covid emergency hospitality measures. Alfresco dining is also something that is really only appropriate for the warmer and drier months but it will be a concept that will come to the fore when exploring how to reopen restaurants within public health safety guidelines. Turning outdoor spaces over to outside dining will require deregulation of outdoor space rules by Government and local authorities.
It may well be that private dining rooms at London restaurants will come to the fore as and when restricted restaurant opening is allowed. Private dining rooms, by their very nature, allow people to dine away from other restaurant customers. Hundreds of restaurants in London have private rooms with capacities varying from 6 – 60 guests which, even with social distancing restrictions and capacity reduction of 50%, would provide dining capacity for a reasonable number of guests.
Restaurants in London and throughout the UK are community assets, playing an important role in communities and enshrined in our social fabric. Restaurants and bars & their staff are amongst the centre of many people’s social lives, as social animals. Without Government support to the restaurant and hospitality industry being increased and extended until the end of the Coronavirus crisis the cost to the country will be many hundreds of thousands of jobs – possibly millions – being lost with billions lost in revenue and contribution to national GDP. In addition there will be thousands of supply chain businesses and employees which are hugely dependent upon the industry which will be adversely affected.
An increasing number of upmarket restaurants which would not previously have entertained the idea are turning to fine dining takeaway and delivery to survive the crisis. Restaurants are using their survival instincts – necessity always being the mother of invention – in the face of forced closure by introducing takeaway and delivery services. Faced with no revenue, with looming rent payments & no real indication of how and when they will be able to reopen – and in the knowledge that the restaurant and hospitality sector will be amongst the very last to have restrictions relaxed – upmarket restaurants, including Kanishka & Hide in Mayfair & City of London based Duck & Waffle and Sushisamba, which would not normally have provided such a service have commenced doing so in these ‘new normal’ times with prepared food that travels well in a limited mileage radius within London. Casual dining groups such as Côte Restaurants are also providing meal delivery within the M25 areas with their Côte At Home service. Other restaurants are offering DIY ingredient kit delivery.
The restaurant industry is innovative by its very nature and with the necessary Government support will emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown crisis in a new, leaner and creatively customer-led format. Providing the the necessary state assistance is provided during the pandemic hundreds of thousands of businesses and jobs will be saved and a significant contribution to the nation’s GDP will be preserved.


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We have extended our global partnership with Gatorade.
Continuing a relationship which began in 2013, the new three-year deal will run until the end of the 2018/19 season and sees Gatorade continue as our Official Sports Drink and Sports Nutrition partner.
Our teams will continue to receive Gatorade products, with the first team, academy and Arsenal Ladies all using a range of products.
A key element of the extended agreement is the construction of a dedicated Gatorade Fuel Bar within the new Player Performance Centre at London Colney.
Arsenal Chief Commercial Officer Vinai Venkatesham said: "We are proud to renew our partnership with Gatorade, an established and respected global sports brand. They are well known for their focus on developing industry leading sports nutrition products and support services, which will continue to be used by all our teams over the coming years.
"We look forward to supporting Gatorade’s global commitment to football and developing initiatives to engage our supporters around the world.”
Jeff Kearney, Head of Global Sports Marketing at Gatorade said: “Gatorade is excited to partner with the best clubs, leagues and athletes around the world, including a top partner like Arsenal, to provide sports fuelling products and equipment to help athletes perform at their best.
"We look forward to continued collaboration with Arsenal to provide the team’s sports health and performance professionals with customised sports science services.”
Copyright 2019 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.


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In addition to starring in a singularly scary photograph (Wall Street Journal)—
—executives of the big automakers (and associated groups) outlined a plan for action with their asking for federal funds from Congress (see below):
|Requested Funds||Term loans of up to $12 billion through end-2009; $6 billion line of credit||$9 billion line of credit||$7 billion loan by end-2008|
|Fuel Efficiency||Will launch predominately high mileage, energy-efficient cars and crossovers||Improve the fuel economy of its fleet an average of 14% for 2009 models, 26% for 2012 models and 36% for 2015 models compared to 2005 models||73% of the 2009 models will have better fuel efficiency than previous models|
|Green Initiatives||Will invest $2.9 billion in alternative fuels and technologies through 2012; will offer 15 hybrid models by 2012. Chevy Volt scheduled to be produced in 2010||A battery-powered commercial van due in 2010, a battery powered sedan in 2011, and a plug-in hybrid by 2012; will invest $14 billion on advanced technologies during next seven years||Introduce first full-function electric-drive model in 2010; will produce more than 500,000 electric vehicles by 2013|
|Brands||Will focus on Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC; will consider selling Saab and Hummer; sell or consolidate its Saturn brand||Explore selling Volvo|
|Operations||Plan plant consolidations||Cut the number of dealers selling its vehicles, and retool plants to make small cars in the U.S.||Further factory rationalization, sharing platforms and components and other technical innovations expected to yield between $3.5 billion to $9 billion annually when fully implemented|
|Staffing/Labor||Wants further changes in labor agreements, including on job security, paid time-off, and health-care||Negotiating with UAW for more cost savings||Plans to cut work force and reduce health-care benefits|
|Financial Restructuring||Trying to cut $30 billion from its debt load; dividend will remain suspended during the life of loans. Expects North America to break even by 2012||Expects a return to profitability in 2011.||Expects a return to profitability by the end of 2009.|
Source: Wall Street Journal
Not only does Alan Mulally look like the nicest of the bunch, but it also appears that his organization has the most concrete plans for action in this crisis. Specific benchmarks, both in terms of time and result, evidence of current action, and a willingness to scrimp with the rest of us; these steps win out. Mulally is by no means without blame, but he does appear, both in this article and others to be changing his tact in light of the new economy.
We need a lot more “This is what I will do” rather than “This is what I will consider” in times of crisis.


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The speculation that Georgia could again be on Daimler’s mind comes the same month as it’s Mercedes-Benz subsidiary announced plans to move its U.S. division headquarters to metro Atlanta.
Georgia twice thought it had a deal with Daimler for a van production facility. Former Gov. Roy Barnes, in the midst of a heated re-election campaign, famously announced in 2002 a deal with the German auto giant. The plan called for more than 3,000 workers.
But Daimler representatives refused to confirm a deal, saying at the time that “if” it built a factory, it would be in Pooler. The company said then it was still studying the market. The administration of Sonny Perdue kept at it, but the hoped-for jobs bonanza fizzled as Daimler announced plans in 2005 for a much smaller facility near Charleston, S.C.
Daimler currently assembles Sprinter vans sent over as kits from Europe. Berg said the kit assembly of Sprinter vans is “not sustainable” and a full-fledged assembly plant is needed to keep up with U.S. demand.
“We will decide the location for future production of the Sprinters in the NAFTA region in the next few months, as part of our normal location selection process,” Berg said in an email.


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UXNow 2022, the annual UX event in Delhi NCR, is back this year from November 4 – 5, 2022 at the India Habitat Centre. This year’s conference topics will focus on the state of UX in the post-pandemic era, specifically on how UX strategy, design and research processes need to adapt to the changing user behavior. Apart from attending talks, attendees can opt to sign up for workshops and a networking session to get connected to fellow UX practitioners in India.
List of Speakers
Rahul Sani – Chief Design Officer, Paytm
Sanjay Mohan – Group Chief Technology Officer, MakeMyTrip & Goibibo
Vikas Chopra – Head of Interaction Design, Samsung Design Delhi


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MEET the new rear-wheel-drive car designed in Australia – an affordable luxury sedan by Buick.
Just don’t go envisaging a Holden badge on it. Yet.
The Avenir concept is officially a one-off, a motor show head-turner, and one that doesn’t yet have a business case, so it’s not slated for showrooms in the US or even China, Buick’s biggest market.
But the vehicle sitting on a Cadillac platform “makes a design statement” that “shows where the brand is headed” and could be marketed as an Opel for Europe, a Buick in major markets and, possibly, a Holden here.
Not that Holden executives or Holden design boss Richard Ferlazzo will confirm any discussions have taken place.
But clearly if such a car were to be produced it would be perceived as a global car: “The type of car it is could be quite universal because it’s quite stylish,” Ferlazzo said.
GM executives are adamant the Avenir is a concept for now, but clearly there’s interest in bringing it to market.
“We’ll see what the reaction is, but judging by the reaction in the first few minutes here there’s a lot of potential,” GM president, New Zealand-born Dan Ammann said. “The Buick brand has a lot of momentum – and this is an interesting concept.”
There’s also some discussion about how the big Buick will drive. While the press kit accompanying the Avenir suggests it will use all-wheel drive, several senior GM sources told Wheels the concept was built on a rear-drive layout.
American executives are playing the corporate card with Australia’s involvement, saying only it represents a new design language for Buick, right down to the Chrysler-esque wing incorporated into the bold, upright Buick grille.
“Really, the objective is to make a design statement, show where the brand is headed,” Ammann said. “This gives you a pretty good indication of where we see design going with Buick.”
Mark Reuss, former Holden boss and the man in charge of product development for General Motors, said the Avenir is a design evolution for the Buick brand. “It’s a beautiful statement of what Buick should be,” he said.
The project started in 2013 and was led by the Australian design team in what General Motors design boss Ed Welburn described as a “unique collaboration” with designers at the brand’s design base in Warren, Michigan.
Alan Batey, another former Holden boss, praised the design team that led the project, adding there will “always be some Holden in me. It’s not by chance they were chosen to do this project.”
“It was certainly a great enabler, because we understand that kind of proportion,” Ferlazzo added.
Reuss said the Holden design team was a crucial part of the brand’s talent. “The car was built in Australia and the interior and exterior was a joint effort between the two studios.” He added the concept was built on the Omega platform slated for Cadillac.


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We’ve all heard of the elusive and menacing “black market.” It seems reasonable to believe it's a dark and dangerous place. In reality, it's worse; it’s an entirely lawless ground, and as such it is nothing less than daunting to the law enforcement officials who risk their lives to bring it down.
The black market is the illegal trade of goods or services. Because it's necessarily ungoverned by law, these illicit trades happen 'underground' outside of the sphere of the legitimate economy. But the black market isn’t reserved only for goods and services that are illegal in and of themselves. Some generally legal products are also touted on the black market - things like weapons, prescription medicine, or even movies.
Although illegal trade is rampant in many parts of the developing world—in places such as Syria, Thailand, and the African continent—it also certainly has its place in the industrialized regions of Europe, Canada and The United States. If the trading of an item or service is illegal, but there’s still money to be made, then it's guaranteed someone will find a way to exploit it.
The United States alone trades an estimated total of $625.63 billion a year—all completely under the table, and, of course, tax free. A billion dollars is a lot of money. But when you multiply that figure by 6, that’s more money than the combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a few small countries combined. Whether cigarettes or movies or body parts, it’s being traded, and there are no signs of it stopping. These 8 industries are the most prolific on the United States' black market, according to figures reported by Statisticbrain.com taken from sources including the FBI and the United Nations.
8 Kidney Organ Trafficking - $30,000 per Kidney
Sometimes people aren't just trafficking cigarettes or alcohol — they're illegally selling body parts. There are three different methods organized crime offenders will use to take and sell your organs on the black market: First, traffickers may trick a person into giving them their organ. Second, people may do away willingly with their organs for reasons of their own, usually when they're in dire need of monetary compensation. The third, and perhaps the most terrifying, is traffickers luring unsuspecting people to have treatment for unknown ailments and removing body parts without their knowledge. Usually the “donor” countries are South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, with recipients from U.S.A., Canada and Australia.
7 Cigarette Smuggling - $10 Billion
Most people will risk losing everything, or even prison, for the chance to outsmart the Federal Government. That is why illegally moving cigarettes over America’s state lines has become one of the most lucrative trades in the black market. It might not mean much to the average smoker purchasing their cigarettes from a local deli, but for organized crime syndicates, the risk is worth every penny. According to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, when a state adopts a new cigarette tax, cigarette smuggling consequently goes on the rise. In America, the state of New York has the highest rates of cigarette smuggling, accounting for more than 60% of the total market value.
6 Music Piracy - $12.5 Billion
Since the advent of the internet, illegally downloading music has become one of Americans' choice methods of staying up to date with the latest tunes. Online Peer to Peer or P2P networks allow people to share digital information anonymously, providing music lovers with hassle-free access to just about anything they can imagine — all without paying a dime. Although this is essentially stealing, in this case the laws are notoriously complex and have yet to catch up with the rapid technological advancements. Because most internet servers that transfer the pirated music from one computer to another are usually located in a country other than the U.S., the prosecution of such crimes becomes a judicial nightmare. Not showing any signs of slowing down, the digital and physical smuggling of music on the black market leaves thousands of musicians and music labels with with empty pockets. America doesn't even fall in the top 10 countries for online piracy, yet it’s industry losses reach the billions.
5 Prostitution - $14.6 Billion
Not every worker in the sex trade is a consenting adult. Sometimes, they are neither. Human trafficking for the purposes of sex is a big illegal business in America, and it is one of the fastest growing black-market industries, especially among organized syndicates (a.k.a. the mafia). There are an estimated 230 000 children at risk of being lured into selling their bodies for money in the Unites States alone. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) even goes so far as to call commercial sex trafficking a “problem of epic proportions,” where the average worker is a girl aged 12 to 14. Among the limitless number of illegal transactions happening on the black market, prostitution is considered to be one of the most devastating.
4 Movie Piracy - $25 Billion
Some people will do anything to avoid spending money on a movie ticket. This includes buying bootlegged versions of movies from street vendors or downloading them from the internet through P2P networks. This is done by either digitally recording a movie directly from a theatre, or digitally copying DVDs or web streams and distributing them all free of charge. As with music piracy, movie piracy and smuggling are vastly growing industries. But the penalties are high. A first-time offender of video recording in theatres can face up to 5 years in prison or be fined up to $250 000. Despite avoiding prison time, offenders may face a lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America so that they may recoup their billion-dollar losses.
3 3. Cocaine - $35 Billion
Although the use of powder cocaine and crack cocaine has significantly subsided since the 1980s, it is still consumed at high levels in America’s urban, suburban and rural areas. But where does it come from? The vast majority of cocaine in the U.S. crosses the Southwest-Mexican border. Highly organized gangs and crime families move the illicit drug not only by land, but also through a large infrastructure of sea and air transportation. Once in the country, the drug is controlled by Colombian and Dominican traffickers in highly-populated centres along the eastern border such as New York, Boston and Miami. Cocaine is one of the most consumed drugs in the United States and continues to be smuggled and sold on the black market for billions in profit.
2 Illegal Gambling - $150 Billion
The United States has a long history of gambling, and many states today have legalized it for its economic profitability. Despite the growing network of legal casinos and bookies, illegal back-door gambling is still prevalent on the black market and is worth billions of taxable income. With all levels of legal gambling, whether in a casino or at an online poker table, there must be a prize, chance, and consideration. However, when one of these prerequisites is removed— if, for example, the house has eliminated almost every chance at winning almost to the point of fraud—it becomes illegal black market gambling.
1 Counterfeiting - $225 Billion
That Gucci handbag or those Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses may not be exactly what you bargained for. The “knock off” is a product that claims to be made or come from a particular brand or manufacturer when it’s actually anything but. In just one year, U.S. Customs reported a 24% increase in seized counterfeited material.
Counterfeiting is divided into two categories: deceptive and nondeceptive. With deceptive counterfeiting, people are led to believe the product they're buying is genuine. With non-deceptive, people are only interested in the money they are saving, and are fully aware that what they are purchasing may not be real. It’s not just watches or clothing that are being counterfeited. The list goes on to include things as big as aircraft parts, as risky as fake documentation, and as dangerous as pesticides. Just below drugs, counterfeit electronics alone reaches the top of the list with a total value of $168 billion.


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The investment comes from one of the leading US venture capital firms aiming to bolster tech startups.
UAE-based digital wallet app Hubpay has announced a seed funding round led by Signal Peak Ventures, a US venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage tech startups and companies across the US. The undisclosed investment in Hubpay marks the venture firm’s first investment in the Middle East. Taking part in the investment is also Dubai-based angel investment firm Falcon Network.
The investment raised will be used to launch Hubpay’s digital wallet for remittances service in the Middle East. The fintech startup has stated it is in the early stages of securing the Money Services Licence for the service in the UAE, which would allow for international digital remittances and bill payment fees to cost less.
The remittance market has since boomed since the dawn of fintech, and in the thick of the coronavirus crisis, ease of international payments is in high demand. “In a post COVID-19 world, the digitalisation of remittances will accelerate, creating better access and supporting financial inclusion for the international remittance community,” says Kevin Kilty, founder and CEO of Hubpay.
Emerging markets with increasing online accessibility have led the remittance markets due to the rise of money transfers made via smartphones. According to the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, UAE remittances in 2019 amounted to $44 billion.
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Is Airbnb really about sharing, or are they about big business and profitmaking?
We talk to Professor Nicole Gurran from Sydney University’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning about the impact of online home-sharing platforms for global cities like Sydney.
Short term rental websites have certainly transformed the way we travel around the world. More than 150 million people have already stayed in an Airbnb home and you can choose from over 3 million homes listed in more than 190 countries. That’s more than the world’s largest hotel chains, such as the Marriott and Hilton.
But by reimagining local residential homes and bedrooms as potential tourist accommodation, Airbnb and others might also be transforming local communities. These global digital tech operators are operating beyond the established tourist quarters of many cities, and in some places, they’re trying to bypass existing urban planning and building management controls.
So not everyone is convinced of the local benefits that these global digital tech operators promote. In fact, there’s increasing opposition to so-called “holiday home-sharing” platforms from local residents and authorities throughout North America, Europe, and Australasia.
There are concerns about the influx of tourists, and along with them, increasing noise, rubbish and traffic congestion. Then there’s the declining business for local tourist operators and a decrease in permanent rental accommodation in major global cities.
Nicole has published widely on urban and housing issues. Read more about Nicole’s work on Airbnb and cities here:
When Tourists Move In: How Should Urban Planners Respond to Airbnb? in the The Journal of the American Planning Association
Australian governments are treading lightly around Airbnb in The Conversation


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Xiaomi 13 Pro to launch in India soon
The Xiaomi 13 Pro will be available in India soon. In December 2022, the Chinese tech titan unveiled the Xiaomi 13 series.
Xiaomi is expected to announce its global cooperation with Leica during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, before to the global launch of its next flagship phones.
Xiaomi is rumoured to be working on a new Redmi phone for India, which is expected to be released in January. Xiaomi may release a new Notebook with an Nvidia RTX 205 graphics card in February 2023.
In addition, the business is expected to offer more ecosystem products in India under the Xiaomi and Redmi brands. In 2023, the Xiaomi 13 Pro will be the company’s first flagship phone for the Indian market.


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New American Truck Dealers (ATD) Chairwoman Jodie Teuton of Kenworth of Louisiana told her fellow dealer colleagues “now is the time to seize the day” during her opening address as the organization’s leader during a luncheon Saturday at ATD Show 2018 in Las Vegas.
As vice president of Kenworth of Louisiana and Southland Truck Leasing in Gray, La., and the first woman to be elected ATD chair, Teuton says she sees a lot of challenges, but also a lot of opportunities, ahead for commercial truck dealers. A changing marketplace is going to force dealers to change their business strategies to be successful, but Teuton is confident the ATD membership will be able to adapt and prosper.
“Truck dealers are not afraid of a hard day’s work,” she says. “Our businesses are built on it.”
Among the vehicle challenges Teuton believes could become potential opportunities for truck dealers are electric vehicles and driver-assist or autonomous vehicle technology. Teuton says “we need to understand how autonomous and assisted-vehicle legislation will affect our industry in the future, and how new technology will impact customer demand.” Teuton says dealers should be engaged with their OEMs and local regulatory and legislative leaders to better understand how these technologies will come to market, and how they will need to be supported by dealers to best help solve customer problems.
On that latter point, specifically, Teuton says she believes the strength and viability of the commercial truck dealer network will remain in its ability to provide customizable customer solutions.
During Saturday’s speech Teuton also urged dealers to take an interest in legislative issues, including the current administration’s infrastructure proposal, changes to the tax code and regulatory burdens that impact truck dealerships.
“Let’s continue to build bridges with our lawmakers and regulators. Invite them to the dealership. Let them see the faces of your business. Help them understand our challenges and let them know the rules affecting our business should be practical for both dealers and the customers we serve,” she says.
Finally, Teuton says dealers need to look to the future, and alternative recruitment strategies to bring the best young talent available into the trucking industry.
“We want to be the employer of choice. We provide well-paying jobs that support families and communities. The quality of our operations rests in the teams we build,” she says. “Women and millennials are untapped resources in our industry. As a parent of a 17-year-old in Generation Z, I know there’s a dynamic job force that’s coming on the heels of millennials. We just need to attract them to our business. Let’s get everyone excited about dealership careers.”
Consolidation also likely for market
Following Teuton during Saturday’s luncheon was Steve Tam, vice president of ACT Research, who quickly walked attendees through the results of a Commercial Truck Dealer Future Landscape study completed by ACT Research and commissioned by ATD last year.
Unsurprisingly, Tam reiterated many of the topics addressed by Teuton in her speech — electric and autonomous trucks, government involvement and employee recruitment — as key areas where dealers will need to devote time and resources in the coming years.
But in addition to those topics, Tam also says ACT’s study indicates consolidation is likely to be huge driver of change throughout the trucking industry over the next decade. Though in the dealer market in particular, Tam says consolidation may remove less rooftops than some might guess.
“Our best effort and analyze the market would suggest by 2027 we are looking at 10 percent reduction in the number of rooftops,” he says. Tam also adds it’s likely OEMs may push consolidation of some venues but push for greenfield locations in other areas to better cover the market and remove their “white space on the map.”


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"They were able to accommodate the workflow we were looking for without any modifications," Barbarino said of the deal with Nuage Consulting Group. "It was also a cloud-based system, so we didn’t need to purchase any hardware or software.
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Nuage Consulting Group Inc. was recently selected to oversee the move to NetSuite’s SaaS (Software as a Service) Retail Business Software for its newest client, lacrosse equipment and apparel retailer LAX World, which was purchased in August 2013 by a group led by former Jos. A. Bank executive Frank Barbarino, LAX World’s new CEO.
The project will involve the upgrading of LAX World's internal systems to expand the Cockeysville, Maryland-based retail chain's omnichannel sales effort, which goes beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar stores to include e-commerce and wholesale, as well as connections with social media and personalized shopping experiences through digital interfaces.
NetSuite provides the tools to support omnichannel efforts, ensuring that inventories remain accurate across all channels. "They were able to accommodate the workflow we were looking for without any modifications," Barbarino said of the deal with Nuage Consulting Group. "It was also a cloud-based system, so we didn’t need to purchase any hardware or software. We didn’t have to have an IT infrastructure."
LAX World's implementation of Nuage's solutions is yet another example of how more businesses could benefit from the cloud computing revolution, especially the ones who are just starting to develop an omnichannel presence. Barbarino notes that the deal with Nuage results in an increase in the end-to-end visibility of LAX World's business, as well as an improvement in efficiency and profitability for the company.
LAX World (http://www.laxworld.com) is a Maryland, USA-based retail chain of lacrosse equipment and apparel with five stores in the state, as well as branches in Virginia, Colorado, and Georgia. LAX World is a complete resource for all lacrosse equipment, clothing, and accessories. LAX World optimizes the customer experience by providing a variety of convenient options for shopping for lacrosse supplies.
Nuage Consuting Group Inc., a cloud computing implementation company and reseller of NetSuite, draws on its extensive experience implementing ERP software for companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 to Non-Profits. Nuage also sells and implement complementary products to NetSuite, such as Adaptive Planning, which enables companies to streamline their budgeting, forecasting and planning process, eliminate the challenges of spreadsheet consolidation, and obtain an accurate and timely full financial picture.


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JAZA and Fernando Zobel take a tour of Facebook’s headquarters
The dynamic Ayala duo comes to conquer the social media giant.
Brothers Jaime Augusto and Fernando Zobel de Ayala led the Ayala Group’s mancom in their recent trip to the US.
Ayala Corporation?s chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala together with AC president and COO Fernando Zobel de Ayala led the Ayala Group Mancom in their recent USA visit.
?Our Ayala Group Mancom recently visited Facebook?s Disney-inspired headquarters in Menlo Park ? where we discussed the future of work and promoting the right culture, emerging trends given evolving consumer habits and expectations, and finally, the importance of upholding core values,? JAZA said in his Fb post.
Cheers to Ayala Group dominating Facebook?s platform soon!


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The Galaxy S5 and earlier Galaxy smartphones had replaceable batteries and storage expansion slots. But the new GS6 says goodbye to that flexibility in favor of a sleeker design.
They sound alike, but the two mobile payment solutions each offer their own unique advantages.
The next evolution in wireless networking holds promises of self-driving cars and movies that download in the blink of an eye. 5G is big at this year's Mobile World Congress, but don't expect it until 2020.
We check out a demo of Storedot's rapid-charging battery tech, which can fill a phone's power reserves in a mere moment.
The most important things to know when shopping for a cell phone.
The Backup Plus Fast is an excellent choice for anyone, especially those for those needing lots of storage space or the ability to edit videos on the go.
The inventive individual behind Keurig's wildly successful K-Cup wishes he never had a hand in bringing coffee pods to the world.
Todd Pendleton, the man behind Samsung's popular marketing campaign, plans to leave the smartphone giant in early April, CNET has learned.
Want to live life on the bleeding edge? Then get out of the Slow Ring by changing this setting.
Nvidia announced its Tegra X1 processor at CES 2015, one of the fastest mobile processors available, and Renovo Motors installed the X1 in its Coupe electric super car, showing how it could power an instrument cluster and infotainment center.


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Louis Vuitton created a huge buzz in December 2019 when it announced an upcoming collaboration between artistic director Virgil Abloh and Japanese fashion designer NIGO, and the “LV²” capsule collection’s Lookbook images do not disappoint. The capsule collection’s name LV² was proposed by NIGO to describe the dual design approach; “squaring” is the multiplication of a number by itself and it is also an acknowledgment that one idea can co-exist with another. The resulting standalone collection mixes Louis Vuitton’s signature Damier pattern with NIGO’s codes and influences including denim, patchwork-inspired stitching, graphic design, and streetwear. It is also worth noting that NIGO collects vintage workwear, and also took inspiration from Savile Row suiting which strongly informed trim and sophisticated pants, jackets, fringed scarves, and skinny Damier ties.
NIGO is known for streetwear, and so the collaboration reignited the controversy surrounding Abloh’s proclamation towards the end of 2019 that streetwear is “…definitely going to die”. When the LV² capsule collection Lookbook was released, Abloh clarified that the statement and explained that streetwear would die and be born again:
Last fall I did an interview where a quote was taken out of context; my sentiment was that streetwear will die….I didn’t say it to be polarizing. … If you speak to anyone that’s been in streetwear for the last 15 years, it’s always had this sort of nine lives, dying and coming back, and dying and coming back. There’s so many first generation streetwear brands, stores, and retailers. The market wasn’t as vibrant as it is now, so they went out of business and people don’t remember those. … Partially what I meant [by] “it will die” is that new things like tailoring from guys like Nigo and me will be born from the regeneration of it.
— Virgil Abloh, Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton Men’s
NIGO and Abloh’s collaborative LV² capsule collection is slated to launch this summer, in line with Pre-Fall 2020 timing.


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Organizational resilience is defined as: “The ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper.”
The truth of this statement was writ large during the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed opportunities to improve the environmental impact of global supply chains across most – if not all – sectors and societies.
Economic and societal costs have been significant – the International Monetary Fund has estimated the global cost of the pandemic will have totalled $28tn in lost output – and organizations remain in reaction mode, focusing on maintaining supply and meeting their customer’s needs. Inevitably we will reach a point where leaders will switch to analysis mode, searching for more resilient responses to unpredictable but inevitable future disruptions.
Trust in the capabilities and values across the supply chain was tested in 2020, and while delays and insufficient supplies were common, organizations have on the whole not compromised on environmental, social and governance goals and continue to focus more on removing risks from their supply chains rather than cutting costs.
Agile leadership continues to be a defining factor in helping organizations to adapt and respond to disruption and remain resilient. The importance of effective process, across supplier management, business continuity and community engagement, has seen the greatest increases in perceived importance for Organizational Resilience.


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TOKYO—Japanese automotive supplier Toyoda Gosei confirmed that some of its products have been affected by data falsification at supplier Toray Hybrid Cord.
Toray Corp. and Toray Hybrid Cord Inc. said Nov. 28 that some of Torday Hybrid Cord's product test data had been falsified.
Following the announcement, Toyoda Gosei launched an investigation into whether its products have been affected.
"It was found that hose reinforcing fibers supplied by Toray Hybrid Cord to Toyoda Gosei included some for which test data had been falsified," a Toyoda Gosei statement said.
These materials, it added, "had been used in some of Toyoda Gosei's brake hoses, oil hoses, radiator hoses and water hoses."
The company added that the issue did no pose an "immediate problem," as the data falsification was "a minor deviation from standards."
Additionally, the Japanese automotive supplier said no problems had occurred during regular performance tests of Toyoda Gosei products.
"With priority on consumer safety and security, Toyoda Gosei is currently confirming that its products comply with customer standards," the firm said.


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LG Renews Pledge to Bring AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Support to Select 2018 TV Models
After LG disappointed swathes of customers by saying it had "no plans" to bring promised AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support to select 2018 TVs, the company has now renewed its pledge to do so by the end of the year.
Today's announcement was made by LG UK's official Twitter account, the very same account that last month told its customers that AirPlay 2 and HomeKit would not be coming to its pre-2019 TVs, despite previously giving customers assurances that they would do so this year.
The original tweet has since been deleted, and it's not clear whether this latest u-turn is the result of poor communication within the company or a reaction to the outpouring of negative customer comments that its earlier statement elicited. Either way, owners of 2018 LG smart TVs that have LCD models with "SK" or "UK" in the name or OLED models with "B8" through "Z8" in the name are likely to welcome the development.
AirPlay 2 support will enable users of the above TV models to stream videos, music, podcasts, and more directly from an iPhone
, or Mac to their LG smart TV, with no Apple TV
necessary. With HomeKit support, they will be able to control their TV's power, volume, source, and more using Siri
or the Home app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
LG today also officially announced worldwide support for Apple's TV app on select LG 2018 OLED and Super UHD TVs, with support for UHD TV models to follow. The announcement follows scattered reports last month that the Apple TV app had begun showing up for some users.
The Great Courses Signature Collection is the latest video subscription service to be made available through Apple TV Channels.
Previously only available through Amazon and Roku, The Great Courses Signature Collection offers access to over 200 of The Great Courses' latest video courses taught by leading U.S. professors. Categories include history, better living, science and mathematics, and...
LG has "no plans" to update its pre-2019 TVs with AirPlay 2 or HomeKit support, despite previously giving customers assurances that they would do so this year.
In April, LG indicated in a support document that it planned to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support to some of its 2018 smart TVs by October 2020, including LCD models with "SK" or "UK" in the name and OLED models with "B8" through "Z8" ...
LG is looking to close down its entire smartphone division after failing to find a buyer for the ailing section of its business, according to the Korea Herald.
In January, LG announced that it was considering options for an exit from the smartphone industry, "including sale, withdrawal and downsizing." Though LG was once the world's third-largest smartphone maker and a sizeable competitor to ...
LG this week appears to have pushed out an update that adds the Apple TV app to some 2018 TV models. There are several reports on Twitter about the Apple TV app coming to 2018 LG TVs, and MacRumors also received a tip from a reader.
It's not clear if the update to introduce the Apple TV app was worldwide, but LG TV users from multiple countries are now seeing the TV app.
Earlier this year,...
Apple TV's Color Balance calibration feature may make color accuracy and image quality worse on some TVs, tests have found (via AFTVnews).
Professional television calibrator Vincent Teoh, who runs the YouTube channel HDTVTest, put the Apple TV's color calibration feature to the test on a range of popular TVs in a recent video.
The Apple TV's Color Calibration debuted in tvOS 14.5 and iOS...
Eero today released an iOS app update that includes new firmware for its Eero 6 and Pro 6 routers, introducing HomeKit support.
HomeKit support for the Eero 6 allows the routers to be managed through the Home app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In the Home app, there are options to define how routers are able to communicate within the home and via the internet.
With HomeKit integration, Eero...
After five grueling years of financial losses and uncertainty about the future of its mobile handsets, LG Electronics today announced its intention to shut down its smartphone division.
In a press release, LG says the decision to shut down its smartphone business will allow it to focus on other sectors such as artificial intelligence, home computing, and business-to-business solutions.
The Apple TV app is now available on the majority of devices, including TVs and streaming sticks/boxes running Android TV OS, according to a tweet by the Apple TV Twitter account.
Google promised in December of last year that the Apple TV app would expand to more devices in the Android TV OS ecosystem in the near future. The Apple TV app, which offers viewers access to Apple TV+ content and...
This past November, the Apple TV app made its debut on Xbox gaming consoles, now, the Apple TV app is gaining support for Dolby Vision on Xbox, offering viewers improved high dynamic range paired with Dolby Atmos for a truly cinematic experience.
Xbox says that to enable Dolby Vision for Apple TV on Xbox, users must first have a compatible TV that supports high dynamic range. With compatible ...
Apple is "very near" to signing an agreement with LG and Magna to build its long-rumored electric vehicle, according to The Korea Times.
LG Electronics has publicly undertaken a joint venture with the Canada-based automotive supplier Magna International, in a collaboration preliminarily titled "LG Magna e-Powertrain." LG Magna e-Powertrain is currently valued at $1 billion and will...