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NEXT generation MVNA Cognatel has today launched CyCell – a new MVNO service from the producers of the UK’s first customizable mini phone.
CyCell will become the only UK MVNO to offer a white label mobile handset with simple tailored mobile packages. CyCell has developed a platform that allows for rapid design and manufacture of credit card sized branded mobile phones. Each customer will be able to develop a unique device within a fraction of the time it would take to design a mobile phone through traditional manufacturing channels. Utlising Cognatel’s number translation capability this allows for a simple phone interface with all the call routing based within the network.

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FORTUNE -- A spate of acquisitions of big data startups has drawn attention to an already hot category. In December, Apple (AAPL) bought Topsy, a social data analytics company, for $200 million. Last week Google (GOOG) outbid Facebook (FB) for DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence and big data company, paying $400 million, and last year, Google paid just under $1 billion for Waze, the crowdsourced traffic data app. Adobe, WPP, and others are reportedly bidding for an Indian social analytics startup called Simplify360. This week Twitter (TWTR) revealed it made $23 million last quarter on data licensing; earlier this week Foursquare struck a deal with Microsoft (MSFT) to allow the conglomerate to license its location data.
Big data is a big business, even if everyone working in the field actually hates the term. Some argue it's too broad, others say it's purposely all-encompassing. Chris Moody, CEO of Boulder, Colo.-based Gnip, says the term big data incorrectly focuses on the size of the data set, rather than what's most important: the quality.
He should know: During the Super Bowl, Gnip processed more than 90 billion "evaluations" per second on pieces of data. Gnip powers the social media data sets for hundreds of companies, from Adobe (ADBE) and Salesforce (CRM) to Klout and Union Metrics. It's one of three companies in the world to have access to the full Twitter firehose. (Without a partnership, Twitter only makes a portion of its social data available.)
The "big" part is impressive in terms of sheer volume -- Gnip pulls data from Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, and others -- but all those terabytes of data mean nothing without a filter to give them some context. Gnip's secret sauce is the way it filters its social data into something meaningful to its clients. The company has been able to detect where earthquakes have occurred faster than seismic radars, glean insights on how cholera has spread through Haiti, track interesting patterns in how Iranian politicians communicate, and predict stock movements for hedge funds. Earlier this week, Gnip announced that, alongside Twitter, the company would provide "data grants" to non-commercial academic researchers, who will be allowed access to their data for free for their projects.
But most important for Gnip's business clients is its ability to unearth a "million-dollar Tweet" with its filters. Examples of such a valuable find include a Tweet that reveals the location of a new Wal-Mart before any public permits are filed, or a Tweet that leads to a stockbroker trading a stock. During the Super Bowl, for example, Gnip was looking for "90 billion needles in a haystack on behalf of our customers," Moody says.
The best example Moody gives is that of customer engagement, which is the most common use of social analytics and data. Over the Super Bowl, Adobe blended data from Gnip with its own data to help brands understand how much of a lift their ads achieved. (RadioShack won, with a 22x increase in brand mentions around its ad.) The company did the same for predicting box office sales for movies. Before the rise of social data analysis, brands would get feedback on their campaigns and products through surveys, focus groups, and market research, which takes months. Big data makes it immediate. "It's very easy for us to plug into their real-time infrastructure and combine it with our data infrastructure for behavioral analytics and deliver it to brands that's consistent with that they want," says Bill Ingram, VP of Analytics and Social Solutions for Adobe. "It's a very elegant real-time solution."
Launched in 2008, Gnip has only raised $6.64 million in venture capital, most recently in 2010 from Foundry Group and First Round Capital. With 85 employees, it's safe to say the company is now financing its own growth. Such a small raise makes Gnip an anomaly in the enterprise tech world, where companies must often raise hundreds of millions of dollars across many rounds of funding.
Others operating in the social media data category have raised large rounds of funding: DataSift has $71.7 million in venture backing. Dataminr, which recently partnered with Twitter and CNN to create a tool for journalists, has raised $47.6 million. Link-tracking site Bitly has raised $28.5 million. Social data site Gigya has raised $69.8 million in venture funding.
Gnip's small raise is not for lack of interest: Gnip is often approached by venture capitalists once they learn how many startups are powered by Gnip's data, Moody says. But the company has no plans to raise additional capital at this time, he notes.
The initial value of Gnip, whose name is the word "ping" spelled backward, was that it cut down on the number of data requests to Twitter from third parties, which was a big problem back in the "Fail Whale" days when Twitter outages happened frequently. Now that Twitter is stabilized and Gnip offers social data from many sources, the company finds itself playing an integral role as a broker and synthesizer of social media signals. Regardless of whether size really matters, as a business, big data is going to be huge.
How the models underlying today's supercomputing prowess are costing us its success.
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FORTUNE -- Big Data and the cloud are putting supercomputer capabilities into everyone's hands. But what's getting lost in the mix is that the tools we use to interpret and apply this tidal wave of information often have a fatal flaw. Much of the data analysis we do rests on erroneous models, meaning mistakes are inevitable. MORENov 5, 2013 1:00 PM ET
"We are on the cusp of a smarter planet," says Godfrey Sullivan.
FORTUNE -- Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Fortune periodically turns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer their personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship.
Godfrey Sullivan is CEO and chairman of Splunk, a software company that helps users analyze machine data (the information generated when IT systems and devices communicate MOREChanelle Bessette - Oct 30, 2013 2:21 PM ET
Map Engine Pro permits easy creation of maps for businesses.
By Michal Lev-Ram, writer
FORTUNE -- Google wants everyone to become a cartographer -- and pay for it. On Monday the search company launched Map Engine Pro, a new offering that enables employees to easily turn datasets into interactive, shareable maps. The latest addition to Google Apps for Business, the company's online suite of productivity tools for corporate customers, is designed MOREMichal Lev-Ram, writer - Oct 22, 2013 11:00 AM ET
Twitter might often seem like a big pile of nonsense, but subscribers pay thousands of dollars in order to find and analyze the useful data it contains.
FORTUNE -- People who were 13 years old in 2006 are 20 now. Many of them no doubt would like to erase much of their online histories, especially the stuff they wrote on Twitter in their early-teen years: say, somebody who's now a fan MOREDan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 4, 2013 2:23 PM ET
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FORTUNE --- If you hadn't heard of Tableau Software before its glamorous debut on the public market last Friday, you're not alone. The Seattle-based company makes visual analytics tools for technical and non-technical employees alike but is far from a household name. And yet, it raised around $254 million in its initial public offering and closed its first day of trading at MOREMichal Lev-Ram, writer - May 20, 2013 10:42 AM ET
With Splunk, Godfrey Sullivan pulled off one of 2012's strongest IPOs. But it's his hobbies and no-drama management that have made his reputation.
FORTUNE -- Godfrey Sullivan has an odd idea of fun. For the past two decades the 59-year-old chairman and CEO of data analytics firm Splunk has competed in a little-known type of race called Ride and Tie: Two partners alternate between riding a horse and running on long, MOREMichal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 1, 2013 5:00 AM ET
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2018 is shaping up to be among Metro Vancouver’s most successful years in terms of attracting Chinese tourists, if numbers from one local hotel are any indication.
Holiday Inn Vancouver-Centre officials said the hotel on West Broadway is currently seeing a 400% increase in guests from China so far this year when compared with the figure last year. And while general manager Simon Lam attributed part of the success to 2018 being designated the Canada-China Year of Tourism by the two countries, he also noted an acute effort by the management of Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) - who runs Holiday Inn Vancouver - to cater more specifically to that demographic in the last few years.
“Just today alone, we have seven different families from China checking in with us,” Lam said. “We have been participating in IHG’s ‘Zhou Dao’ program since it was just a pilot in 2014, and based on the comments we’ve received, Chinese guests have mentioned that they felt more at home with some of the things we’ve included.”
“Zhou Dao” - “thorough” or “comprehensive” in Mandarin - is IHG’s initiative to be more “China-ready” in its services. The hotel chain currently runs the program at five properties that also includes the InterContinental Toronto Centre, InterContinental Montreal and Candlewood Suites Calgary Airport North.
The program entails a number of aspects that targets the Chinese demographic: having Mandarin speakers manning the reception at all times, cultural training for the entire staff, Chinese food items in the breakfast buffet and minor details like including a hot-water kettle in every room. (The Chinese culturally prefer warm water to ice water, and many popular Western drinks that are iced in Canada - such as orange juice - can be found in warmed versions in China.)
Lam added that - with Chinese consumers now among the world’s most prolific adopters of e-commerce - the hotel is now exploring setting up mobile-payment options like WeChat Pay and Alipay, the Chinese competitors to western mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay. The end goal is to entice more visits by Chinese guests, who officials say tend to stay longer and spend more on any given stay.
“On average, guests from China stay 4-6 days, versus guests from elsewhere in B.C. staying up to 3 days,” Lam said. “It takes a long time to travel here from China, so they tend to stay longer to maximize their enjoyment of the destination, and that comes with increases in spending as well.”
Canadian officials such as John McCallum, Canada’s ambassador to China, have repeatedly stressed the need for Canada’s tourism industry to be more China-ready this year, given the elevated status Chinese media outlets are giving to Canada as a promoted travel destination – an effort linked to the Year of Tourism designation. Last year, of the record-breaking 10.3 million visitors to Vancouver, 300,172 originated from China - up 7.1% from 2016, according to Tourism Vancouver.
Other than Canada (6.07 million) and the United States (2.41 million), no other country comprised a larger portion of Vancouver’s total visitors count.


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RESIDENTS are being urged to buy a few items for a good cause at an art and craft fair on Sunday.
A selection of original art and hand-crafted goods will be on sale and refreshments include home-baked treats as well as tea and coffee.
There will also be a tombola at the event, which is in aid of St Oswald’s Hospice. The charity provides specialist care for North East adults and children with life-limiting conditions.
The fair will take place in Stannington Village Hall between 12.30pm and 4.30pm.
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HUAWEI scheduled a launch event in China yesterday to announce the HarmonyOS 3 as well as some other new products. At that time, the company did not reveal or tease anything about upcoming new products. But today, HUAWEI began teasing a new generation of MatePad Pro tablets. This is the flagship tablet series from HUAWEI.
The teaser image reveals the name “MatePad Pro 11,” implying that the tablet will have an 11-inch screen. Unlike previous MatePad Pro tablet generations, the MatePad Pro 11 will feature a circular camera module similar to the Mate smartphone series. The MadPad Pro 11 looks very sleek as per teaser image. The teaser image also shows the power button with a red accent and stereo speakers. There may also be an infrared blaster.
This will be the first tablet from HUAWEI to feature HarmonyOS 3. HarmonyOS 3 will also expand on HUAWEI’s tagline “One As All, All As One.” We can anticipate much more innovative cross-device communication approaches and innovative features in the new operating system.
Aside from this information, the 3C certification from June indicates that this tablet will have 40W HUAWEI Supercharge technology and 4G connectivity. Two models, GOT-AL09 and GOT-AL19, received 3C certification, and one of the model numbers could be MatePad Pro 11.
The HUAWEI HarmonyOS 3 and New Products Launch event is set for 13:30 CET / 7:30PM China time (5 PM IST). We should get more information about this upcoming MatePad Pro 11 in the upcoming days.


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Attacks in Red Sea likely to impact Turkish consumers
The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen's Houthi rebels have rerouted a majority of global trade away from the crucial maritime artery for goods and supplies that are likely to impact Turkish consumers through rising prices.
Oil, natural gas, grain and everything from toys to electronics typically travel through the waterway separating Africa and the Arabian Peninsula en route to the Suez Canal, where 12 percent of the world's trade passes.
Shipping container companies are now avoiding the Red Sea and sending their ships around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which means higher freight costs.
Traveling around Africa can add a week to travel between Asia and Europe, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel costs.
What matters most for Türkiye is what happens with large container ships, said Turkish experts, noting that freight costs have already increased between 20 percent to 60 percent in the past week.
Those increased costs are likely to be passed onto Turkish consumers in the first quarter of next year, they warned.
"There is some sense of panic due to the attacks in the Red Sea and companies' decision to reroute their ships," said Mustafa Gültepe, the president of the Türkiye Exporters Assembly (TİM).
The transportation costs of containers destined for the Far East have almost doubled, according to Gültepe.
The freight rate of containers shipped from China to Türkiye has risen to $2,000, said Başaran Bayrak, the president of a chamber of shipping.
"Now a ship has to pass through Gibraltar to reach [the Turkish port of] Mersin, which adds roughly one month extra to voyage time."
Bayrak noted that production activities in Türkiye are dependent on imported goods and...


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Witchblade Has Best 1st-Week Sales in 2007 U.S. Anime
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Funimation has announced that its September 25 release of the first Witchblade anime DVD had the best first-week sales of any anime in the United States so far this year. Funimation made that announcement after the survey company Nielsen VideoScan posted its data for point-of-sale purchases for Witchblade's debut week. The Japanese animation company Gonzo adapted this series from a Top Cow comic book about a sentient weapon that bequeaths its female wielders with unnatural powers.


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Pandora stock hits new high
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Pandora stock hits new high
Pandora Media of Oakland, owner of the biggest Web radio service, surged Tuesday to its highest price since its initial public offering in June 2011 after announcing plans to raise about $231 million in a new stock sale.
Pandora gained 5 percent to $25.19 at the close in New York. Stock in the company has more than doubled this year.
The company is selling 10 million shares in the new offering as it seeks to open local sales offices to better compete with radio stations for advertisers.
Last week, Pandora named digital ad veteran Brian McAndrews as chairman and chief executive officer. Some proceeds of the sale will be used for purchases and developing new technology.
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Safeway moves against takeover
Safeway shares jumped Tuesday after the grocery chain adopted a shareholder rights plan to thwart any unfriendly takeovers, saying an unidentified investor accumulated a "significant amount" of stock.
That investor turned out to be Jana Partners, which disclosed an activist stake of 6.2 percent in a filing.
Jana said that Safeway is undervalued and that it may continue discussions with the company regarding a review of strategic alternatives. Options may include returning capital to shareholders and replacing management, Jana said.
Pleasanton's Safeway, the second-largest U.S. grocery-store chain, has simplified operations recently by agreeing to sell its Canadian stores and conducting an initial public offering of its gift-card unit. Safeway rose 11 percent to $30.99 at the close in New York. Safeway has climbed 71 percent this year
Ecotality files for bankruptcy
Ecotality Inc., a maker of charging stations for electric cars based in San Francisco, filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell itself at a court-supervised auction to pay off debt.
A unit of the company, Electric Transportation Engineering, listed assets valued at as much as $50 million and debt of as much as $500 million in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Phoenix. The company operates a network of electric-vehicle charging stations under the Blink brand name.
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Sept 22 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said it sees demand for new airplanes worth $650 billion in Southeast Asia over the next two decades.
The world's biggest plane maker projected a demand for 4,210 new airplanes in the region over the next 20 years, adding it saw annual traffic growth in Southeast Asia at 6.2 percent.
Single-aisle airplanes, like the 737 MAX, would account for more than 70 percent of new deliveries, Boeing said in a statement on Thursday.
The low-cost business model would further continue to be a driver of traffic growth in Southeast Asia, it noted. The company sees worldwide demand at 41,030 new airplanes over the next two decades.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair


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1.4 million Dutch households have smart lighting
1.4 million Dutch households have smart lighting installed in their homes. That is approximately 17 percent of all households in the Netherlands, compared to 13 percent in 2018, according to the Smart Home Monitor, a survey of 6,300 Netherlands residents on smart home use by market researcher Multiscope, RTL Nieuws reports.
Philips Hue is by far the most popular brand of smart lighting among Netherlands residents, with 47 percent of smart lighting users having this brand. IKEA is in second place with its more affordable Tradfri lamps, followed by KlikAanKlikUit, Osram, and Innr.
On average, Dutch families spent 223 euros on smart lighting, which means that there is a total of 300 million euros in smart lighting installed in Dutch homes. That will only increase, according to the researchers, as 12 percent of consumers plan to purchase smart lamps within a year. The main reasons for switching to smart lighting are convenience and cost savings.


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KFC is bringing plant-based KFC sandwiches to Canada.
Plant-Based fried chicken sandwiches will be available across Canada starting August 10th.
Plant-Based KFC is made in Canada by Lightlife®, a leading plant-based protein brand whose portfolio of products are available in retailers such as Metro, Loblaws, Sobeys, Save On Foods and Longo’s.
“When we tested Plant-Based KFC by Lightlife® late last year, we sold over a month’s worth of sandwiches in six hours.”
A Plant-Based KFC Popcorn will be available for a limited time while quantities last. The duo can be ordered individually, as part of a combo, or as part of a box meal.


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The first two episodes of the AOL Original series 'Follow Me’ have premiered, and the debut shows offer a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of two YouTube celebrities, Brittani Louise Taylor, and online video boy group sensation Our 2nd Life. So, what lessons can internet marketers and video content producers learn from BLT and O2L appearing on AOL?
While the go-to for your video “brand” has historically been to create your own YouTube channel, this may no longer be the best option in terms of brand exposure. Going forward, creating your own mobile TV App may be a more viable option, whether you’re a YouTube sensation or a casual video creator. Let us examine why…
The World Cup turned out to be the biggest marketing event of all time, and the Super Bowl is, of course, the annual Belle of the Advertising Ball. Both attracted millions in sponsorship and merchandising rights, and we present 5 key findings that brands can learn from as they launch their next tentpole marketing event.
Some marketers, brands, retailers and storytellers still find it hard to believe that YouTube has just passed Facebook and is now the largest social media site. We take another look at the figures, and suggest what can be done with the data.
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How do you properly tag your YouTube videos? How do you add default tags and descriptions to your YouTube channel? How do you rearrange your YouTube tags? We answer these questions and more this week on ReelSEO TubeTalk, the podcast for YouTube Video Marketing Tips.
When YouTube introduced the new commenting system in November 2013, it was an attempt to tackle a number of issues, one of which included making users accountable for their comments by forcing them to use their real names. After an avalanche of bad feeling from the YouTube community, Google has now reversed the decision.
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Facebook Rolls Out Electoral Safeguards
It appears as if Facebook is finally stepping up to the challenge of a fair and untampered-with Canadian elections process. The social media giant has announced that it has officially rolled out what it refers to as its Canadian political ad registry. Interestingly enough, one of the main pillars of support is going to be good old-fashioned snail mail.
One of the safeguards put into place in order to ensure that ads containing political propaganda are not originating from foreign countries, is the requirement that anyone wanting to advertise anything associated with politics during the run-up to the upcoming elections, will be required to submit the information for the Facebook ad via ordinary Canadian mail.
According to Facebook’s Head of Public Policy for Canada, Kevin Chan, the use of local postal mail is just one more safeguard intended to verify local residency, and in a way, true intentions.
The Power Of Transparency
Facebook has also rolled out a searchable library. This will enable people to search the political ads registry at leisure, even if those ads were never directly “marketed” at their specific profile. The registry is expected to further promote the idea of full transparency and disclosure.
All of the above is being rolled out by the social media giant as a direct result of Bill C-76. The bill, which was adopted in 2018, instituted new rules and regulations for those wanting to advertise anything related to a political party in an effort to prevent election disruption attempts via social media advertising; a tendency that has been rife in other countries during recent elections.
According to the provisions of the bill, digital platforms will be required to not only make available copies of all ads in a special registry that must be accessible on the platform in question, but also to keep record of the name and contact details of the person who had submitted the ad for online publication.
Facebook Leads By Example
When considering the various responses received from companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, Facebook is this time round taking the bull by the horns. Microsoft has effectively banned all political ads on all of its websites all over the globe. The corporation has said that it’s become too difficult to comply with the various laws in force in the various countries making use of its products.
Google, largely siding with Microsoft’s point of view, has said that there simply wasn’t enough time to comply with the provisions of Bill C-76 before the implementation date, being 30 June. As a result, it won’t be running any local political ads either.
Twitter has stated its intention to comply with Canada’s wishes but has not said how it plans to practically implement the necessary safeguards. Yahoo has not yet issued any comments either this way or that.


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8:41 p.m. | Updated Adding comment from spokesman of Ms. Keys.
BlackBerry has named the singer Alicia Keys as its global creative director. At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, Ms. Keys said that she and BlackBerry were now “exclusively dating,” even though previously she had dumped the BlackBerry because she had been attracted to “hotter, sexier phones, something with more bling.”
There’s just one glitch: Her Twitter account shows she was very recently spending time with an iPhone.
The @AliciaKeys account shows posts that were published from an iPhone as recently as three days ago. (Information about how a tweet was posted does not appear on Twitter’s site but does show up in some apps for using Twitter.) There are also photos that were taken with Instagram, an app that is not available for BlackBerry.
Of course, the new BlackBerry phones are not officially available in stores yet. Perhaps Ms. Keys’s relationship with her new phone blossomed only very recently.
Rhett Usry, a spokesman for Ms. Keys, said in an e-mail: “The Internet is buzzing with speculation as to the exact time Alicia Keys ‘broke up’ with her previous smart phone. After a transitional period, she’s officially an exclusive BlackBerry 10 user today.”


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Access Music has released a new batch of its Virus TI2 Darkstar synthesizer, but once again it will be a limited edition.
This Darkstar edition of the Virus TI2 37-key synth, is available for 1830 € at www.virus.info and a selection of authorized retailers.
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Bosses told to curb salaries in inflation battle
Business chiefs should curb their pay rises or risk triggering Seventies-style wage inflation, Treasury Chief Secretary Yvette Cooper warned today.
Bank bosses: Bank executives have enjoyed hansom rewards
Ms Cooper said that restraint in the boardroom would set an example for all workers amid fears that inflation figures tomorrow could top 3%.
In a clear message to the City and business directors, she said: 'There has to be leadership the top down.'
Her message echoes that of trade unions who complain workers are being asked to show pay restraint that is not always matched by senior management.
'It is important we don't repeat the mistakes of the Seventies and Eighties,' she told the Financial Times. 'The challenge is to avoid the sort of accelerating wage increases we saw then.'
Ms Cooper is worried that the external shock of higher oil prices today and soaring global food prices could feed through into long-term inflationary pressures.
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News about Scrapbooks, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Memoir, a new start-up, wants to take the place of that scrapbook on your smartphone by offering a way to store and organize photos, notes and more.
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It was a huge victory for the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association. On October 6, 2016, city officials of Asheboro, North Carolina, approved a zoning permit for the first hemp food processing plant in North Carolina. The ruling that was passed on September 28, 2015, allowing industrial hemp to be grown in the state was of little value with no nearby processing plants.
Farmers were informed and the reaction was very favorable. Waylon Saunders, the director of farm operations for Founders Hemp, is one of 3 farmers that will be planting test plots for next year’s harvest. 100-200 acres is the targeted amount for testing the processing of seeds. The roots, the stalk, the leaves and the seed of the hemp plant can all be used in different products and expansion to all of these areas are a future possibility.
North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee have the most favorable growing conditions for growing hemp and the results could have a two-fold effect for the public, as well as farmers.
“I was just looking for a new product, something a little more profitable in the long run. It’s time to try something different. Corn and soybeans, to be honest with you, anybody that keeps up with corn and soybeans know the market is as low as it’s been in several years. It’s hard to make a decent living,” says Saunders.
The supply and demand of hemp products in our country is very attractive today. Historically Healthy and Historical Remedy are the brand names selected for marketing roasted seeds, seed hearts, and oils pressed from hemp seeds, hemp oil-based tinctures, a cherry-flavored elixir, and a salve. Contracts for delivery to retail outlets are now underway.
The 5,200-square foot light manufacturing plant, located on Dorsett Avenue, will be responsible for processing the gathered seed. Farmers will take their harvested product to Saunders’ farm where it will be cleaned, weighed and dried. Seeds will be delivered to the Asheboro processing facility in food-grade containers.
With the circle now completed, North Carolina will be able to further the cause of hemp-manufactured products in the U.S. and introduce the benefits of this amazing crop.


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Apple is recalling a limited number iPhone 6 Plus phones due to faulty back cameras that take blurry photos.
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U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs were among those found to be using government networks to access the cheating website Ashley Madison.
Hackers claim to have exposed data on millions of spouses who signed up to the cheating website Ashley Madison.
A new study shows women are delaying major life events such as marriage, college and kids, in favor of cosmetic surgery.
A revamped Diet Pepsi without aspartame is popping up on store shelves. So will consumers start flocking back to the soda?
Name-brand items often aren't worth the extra cost. Here's a list of items you should always buy generic, along with a few exceptions to the rule.
The FCC denies T-Mobile's request for more airwaves to be set aside for smaller wireless companies like itself to bid on during a coming government auction.
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As we honor workers this Labor Day, thousands of Minnesotans are on the outside looking in. They are unemployed, underemployed or working part time. The economic recovery has passed them by.
Our new report, In the Shadow of the Great Recession: The State of Working Minnesota 2013, focuses on people still struggling to climb out of the recession and find jobs that support their families.
The report examines key economic indicators and finds that many Minnesotans – especially women and people of color – are not sharing in the economic recovery. Our major findings include:
- The gap between the wages of low- and high-income workers has been growing for more than 30 years.
- Racial and gender gaps persist: women and people of color are more likely to lack quality jobs that allow them to pay their bills and support their families.
- The lack of enough good jobs means that too many are unemployed, underemployed, earn wages that are too low to make ends meet, or have left the labor force entirely.
We conclude that the state of working Minnesota will only improve when more Minnesotans have opportunities for good jobs.
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How programmatic is driving internal change at media companiesChris Sutcliffe
Programmatic dominates the digital advertising landscape. By eMarketer’s metrics it is set to account for 90% of all total digital display adspend in the UK by 2020, with the vast majority of the growth coming from mobile programmatic. It also estimates that video programmatic spend is set to account for 43 percent of total programmatic display in 2019, double the amount in 2016.
That’s despite the obvious challenges facing digital advertising: rampant problems of viewability, out-and-out fraud and unsafe ad spaces, to say nothing of the dominance of the Duopoly of Google and Facebook.
For those people working in the trenches of digital advertising, however, often the real challenge is inside their own business. Getting buy-in from senior people within the business who don’t necessarily have the time or the understanding of the fast-moving world of programmatic can present an obstacle to the actual advertising experts.
For one thing, the speed with which the advertising space changes throws up a comprehension issue. Every year a fresh crop of acronyms are released into the market, and while most everyone in media has their heads around the difference between DSPs and SSPs, that’s not the case for new terms
Speaking ahead of a Sovrn leadership breakfast on the value of programmatic, Centaur’s programmatic and adops manager Rachel Wilkinson told me that one of the primary reasons to partner with tech platforms to deliver programmatic advertising is that it removes the need for the publisher to get bogged down in that jargon:
“From a publisher point of view, if they can walk away saying ‘as long as I know these things about my audience as a publisher and what suits me, I’m not going to try and get my head too twisted in the technology’. I’ll let the tech companies worry themselves about that.’”
In mid-2018 it was reported that 60 percent of CMOs didn’t trust programmatic enough to invest more in it. Raoul Monks is co-founder of Flume Training. He says that one of the key services they offer is teaching ad sales teams how best to communicate the need for a new adtech product to senior members in the team:
“There were some really really savvy people out there who connected to it very early on, and actually when most people see the proof they buy into it.
“There does, for some publishers and companies, seem to be a bit of a head-in-the-sand thing, and it’s easy to assume that what worked for you as a sales director ten years ago is still going to work for your team now.”
As a result senior team leaders are often only dipping their toes into the water, only allocating enough cash to programmatic teams to experiment. Dan Hodgson, head of programmatic at National Rail, told me that frequently it takes seeing strong early ROI to get them to invest more. It echoes what I was told by the tech experts at advertising alliances last year; that getting buy-in for programmatic alliances often relies on getting that first tranche of investment to hopefully demonstrate the value of programmatic.
Huge programmatic alliances like Ozone are designed to take on the Duopoly in terms of pure scale, and are formed from the larger publishers who have already clearly seen the value of programmatic at their own businesses and have the money to invest. Speaking at The Drum’s Programmatic Punch event, News UK’s, digital commercial director Ben Walmsley said:
“What’s the next best action offered to a consumer on my site? Technology which enhances that, which create a better value exchange, which gives the consumer the ability to interact back and offer some kind of declared data setback that can be used to either enhance the publisher proposition or to create an enhanced data set. That’s the kind of technology that I think we’ll see publishers adopt.”
But for smaller and mid-size publishers that would benefit the most from the ease of use at scale offered by programmatic getting buy-in from senior team on new tech solutions, let alone a speculative mid-sized Alliance, remains a challenge. The Drum’s Fergus Gregory believes that might change, as a result of the changing realities of marketing and tech talent:
“In the techspace it’s still pretty brutal, but if you look overall the tenure of the CMOs is beginning to rise again from the research that I did, which really surprised me actually. I asked around as to why people thought that might be and marketing talent is at a premium, particularly successful marketing talent.”
Given the amount of money in the programmatic space it’s practically certain that even if publishers cannot directly change external issues like viewability and fraud, internal change at media companies will lead to more tech-savvy team leaders with a propensity to invest earlier in adtech.
Martin Tripp Associates is a London-based executive search consultancy. While we are best-known for our work across the media, information, technology, communications and entertainment sectors, we have also worked with some of the world’s biggest brands on challenging senior positions. Feel free to contact us to discuss any of the issues raised in this blog.
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Green Flash Flanders Drive, the brewery’s bourbon barrel aged sour ale returns again this month. The beer joins the new “Cellar 3″ series.
You’ve seen Green Flash Flanders Drive in limited quantities in the past in 12oz bottles. Recently, the brewery opened a new barrel aged location/warehouse/tap room dubbed Cellar 3, from which beers like Flanders Drive and recently released Silva Stout have emerged.


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A Turkish cosmetics company is under fire for featuring Adolf Hitler in a television advert for men’s shampoo, but it continues to run on the country’s state television network despite widespread outrage.
The 12-second commercial shows black-and-white footage of Hitler delivering an impassioned speech, dubbed with a high-pitched voice screaming the following words in clipped Turkish:
“Why are you using woman’s shampoo if you’re not wearing a woman’s dress? Now there’s the hundred percent men’s shampoo Biomen. A real man uses Biomen.”
Media reports said that Turkish state television has so far declined to remove the commercial, despite criticism from Jewish groups in Turkey and abroad. The US-based Anti-Defamation League released a statement saying it was “repulsed” at the commercial.
“The use of images of the violently anti-Semitic dictator who was responsible for the mass murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust to sell shampoo is a disgusting and deplorable marketing ploy,” Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national director, said in a statement.
“It is an insult to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, those who survived, and those who fought to defeat the Nazis. This video is just the latest example of the use of Holocaust imagery in some countries to sell commercial products, which has contributed to the trivialization of and desensitization to the unparalleled horrors of the Holocaust,” it continued.
“There can never be any justifiable purpose for using the images of Hitler, Nazis or any other depiction of the Nazi killing machine to sell products or services.”
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Meanwhile, Turkish newspaper Hürriyet described the advert as irresponsible and tasteless. There have been numerous instances of Hitler and the Nazi era being used in advertizing campaigns in recent years, though.
Earlier this year, a gym in Dubai ran a promotional campaign for fitness classes using an image of Auschwitz under the caption: “Kiss your calories goodbye.” After a storm of protest, it stopped the online campaign and donated money to charity.
In 2011, an Austrian entrepreneur came under investigation for selling “Hitler Schnaps” with a photo of the dictator on the label.
In 2010, a clothing store in Sicily was criticized for showing a photo montage of Hitler dressed in pink with the caption: “Change your style. Don’t follow yor leader.”
And in 2009, a controversial German health education campaign focused on the prevention of HIV/AIDS by featuring Hitler having sex.


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Her robot Sophia launches the NFT collection. Robot Sophia, the world’s first naturalized robot, stepped into the world of NFT. She offered her NFT collection consisting of 12 pieces for sale on Opensea.
Almost many famous names have stepped into the NFT industry. This time, the name that stepped into the world of NFT was Sophia, the robot developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics. Robot Sophia, granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia, launched the NFT collection “Baby Singularities” on OpenSea.
The robot Sophia, developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, announced on Twitter that it has published the NFT collection called Baby Singularities on the popular NFT platform OpenSea.
Known for being the world’s first robot to gain citizenship and participating in the Tonight Show and Good Morning Britain, Sophia collaborated with artist Percy Lau on the project. The collection in question was announced on Sophia’s official Twitter account as follows:
The entire #BabySingularities Collection is now available publicly on @opensea!— Sophia the Robot | #BabySingularities Drops Today! (@RealSophiaRobot) May 31, 2022
Each tier of Singularities has special benefits.😲Learn what each access pass unlocks by joining my discord server! https://t.co/Bv9WrfTxfw
Sophia’s NFT collection, each designed to reveal a prediction of the distant future. NFT owners will be given premium access to Sophia’s AI and metaverses. As it is known, Sophia’s previous NFT collaborations had millions of sales.
Finally, Sophia’s metaverse will begin as an NFT-based gaming environment and marketplace based on a cinematic sci-fi story exploring the year 2042, when machines begin to “awaken.”
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The NFT Collection, which was revealed by an inanimate robot, managed to attract the attention of thousands of people in a short time. Interesting collections are also joining the recent increase in NFT Projects.
The fact that even a robot takes place in the NFT world can be interpreted as an indicator of the future. It is certain that in the future there will be a time when units such as NFT, Metaverse and cryptocurrencies will be used as standard.
Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by the Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia launched on February 14, 2016, and was first presented to the public in South by Southwest, Austin, Texas, United States in mid-March 2016.
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The new generation of banking customers would rather use biometric security devices than PINs and passwords for authentication, according to Visa Europe.
The payments firm found that 75% of 16 to 24-year-olds, or ‘Generation Z’, said they would have no problem using biometric security, with 69% expecting it to be faster and easier than a password or a PIN.
Jonathan Vaux, executive director at Visa Europe, said: “We have more log-ins and passwords than ever to help keep us secure online and on the high street, but for Gen Z it just feels like an unnecessary burden. Biometric authentication using fingerprint recognition or retinal scans offers an ideal solution, combining unique security and ease of use.
“For banks and product providers this means two challenges. First, to continue and quicken the pace of development on biometrics to answer this demand from Generation Z. Second, to continue to evaluate the increasing range of authentication options to ensure customer convenience and security as payment increasingly becomes embedded into a range of applications.”
Nearly 35% of the people in the Generation Z age group said they had shared their PIN number with someone else, compared with only 23% of all those surveyed.
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Younger people often take a more relaxed approach to their personal data, with 32% of those asked saying they use a single password or PIN to protect all their personal data sources.
Over 20% of Generation Z have shared their online banking password with someone else, and 32% have given out their smartphone password.
More than half of 16 to 24-year-olds think passwords will no longer be needed or used by the end of 2020, and will be replaced by authentication methods such as facial recognition or fingerprint and retina scanners.
Of these methods, fingerprint recognition is the most popular, with DNA samples and implanted chips coming in last.
Vaux said the adoption of biometric technology is rising, as it has for mobile banking and payments, as consumers realise the benefits of the authentication.
"The more habitual and commonplace the behaviour becomes, the greater the adoption, particular in the payments landscape. Biometrics will be one of a number of authentication options for consumers to enrol with services, log into their accounts or contribute to authentication at the time of transaction," said Vaux.
"In fact, the uptake of biometric security in the payments landscape is already taking place. For example, in Poland 1,730 cash machines have been equipped with finger vein technology, allowing people to scan their finger to withdraw money from an ATM, with no need for a card or PIN number. Outside of Europe, palm vein technology is being used in the Japanese banking sector to provide advanced security at ATMs."
While young people show less concern than older generations about data protection, a large number believe biometrics will keep their data more secure.
Vaux said: "At present, whenever someone uses a Visa card to make a payment online, multiple layers of protection are already in place, including Verified by Visa and Visa device profiling. These measures help alert and protect our member banks and their customers to potentially risky transactions. Failure at just one layer renders this fraud highly improbable."
Many banks have already begun developing biometric technologies for use in branches or by business clients.
Early last year, Barclays announced plans to use voice biometrics for authenticating customers calling the bank, something it has been using for some customers since 2012.
It later announced plans to launch biometric vein readers developed by Hitachi, known as VeinID.
And MasterCard and Zwipe are developing a payment card with a built-in fingerprint authentication sensor, which would work like Apply Pay’s use of fingerprinting to authenticate payments via NFC.
So how will this technology continue to emerge into the consumer banking space?
Vaux explained: "It will increasingly be used as a component form of authentication within apps provided by banks, operating systems, merchants, handset providers and others. We are already seeing biometric technology being rolled out at different rates and in different regions, such as Poland and Japan.
"There are multiple players who could become involved in creating the technology, depending on the type of biometrics, and also the software and infrastructure needed to support it. Additionally, some banks may have their own R&D facilities, enabling them to create their own solutions."


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Final Fantasy 14's PS5 Version Open Beta Begins in April 2021
Final Fantasy 14 players on PS4 can upgrade to the PS5 version for free.
Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy 14's PS5 version will go into Open Beta on April 13, 2021, and will feature 4K resolution support, faster loading times, and "significantly improved frame rate."
There will be two modes - one for resolution and one for framerate - and it will be released on the same day as Patch 5.5.
Players who have a Final Fantasy 14 service account that has a registered license for the PlayStation 4 version will be able to download and play the PS5 Upgrade Edition at no extra cost.
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Final Fantasy 14 is available on PS5 via backward compatibility, but this version will be fully optimized for Sony's latest console.
The PS5 version of Final Fantasy 14 was announced alongside the reveal of the latest expansion, Endwalker, that will be released in Fall 2021.
Not only will Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker take players to the moon, it will also bring to a close the story that began with A Realm Reborn.
There will also be two new jobs, including a healer job called Sage, a level cap raise from 80 to 90, and "massive new areas" waiting to be explored like the imperial capital of Garlemald, Thavnair, and the city of Radz-at-Han.
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“We’ve had this dream of running our own business together for a long time,” said Kris. “We’ve worked together and make a great team, so we know we can do this.”
Both women are Manning graduates, Kris in 1982 and Alisa, 2005,
When the pandemic hit and they found themselves without jobs, they talked about things they did and did not want to do. The decision to follow their dream has led to endless hours of conversation, lots of stress and even some tears.
The women credit City Administrator Dawn Meyer for her encouragement and assistance with an application to Manning’s Revolving Loan Fund.
They are planning to provide homemade ice cream, cookies, brownies, bars, shakes, malts, sundaes, cones and maybe something special now and then.
Kris said Alisa is the decorator. They have endless ideas. Alisa is considering decorated Christmas and Valentine cookies. She said, “We talked about ice cream pies and ice cream cakes, eventually.”
The ice cream will be scooped ice cream made by machine, and there are hundreds of flavors.
“It’s going to be scoop ice cream but not hard ice cream,” Kris explained. “Every eight minutes it will make a gallon and a half of ice cream; nine gallons in an hour. It makes it into a tub and put it in the freezer.”
Alisa added, “The ice cream machine will be Dad’s baby and he is going to develop the recipes.”
Jim, who has plenty to do in the kitchen at Cliff’s, will not have an active role in the business, but will help out when he can.
Jim’s hobby will, however, benefit the women with promotion of their business. He designed the business logo on his computer, and with his vinyl cutter he has made Sweet Treat t-shirts and will create designs for the window.
Kris smiles, stating, “Oh, he’s a jack of all trades.”
The couples seven grandkids are lining up for jobs. Austin, age eight, said his job will be taste testing and coming up with new flavors.
Inside the shoppe will be five tables with seating for 20 people. Tables will also be placed outside. The women hope to be open in May. Initial hours will be Tuesday-Saturday 1:00-9:00 pm.


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You may have noticed that for the past month or so, you have only been able to order books from FGC’s bookstore through their web site. That is because the bookstore has been undergoing a transition, and all the books and other materials have been moved from Philadelphia to a distributor in Fitchburg, Mass., near the border with New Hampshire.
With this new arrangement, you will be able to phone in orders or order on-line five days a week, and shipments will also go out five days a week. The new dedicated ordering line at 1-800-966-4556 is also toll free.
There is a Recommendations section on the web site (QuakerBooks.org). To get questions answered or get personal recommendations, you can still contact QuakerBooks in Philadelphia. The new manager is Audrey Greenhall, who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or (215) 561-1700, ext. 3044.
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text: Online restaurant discovery and food delivery company Zomato Media Pvt Ltd is raising $210 million (Rs 1,500 crore) from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's payment affiliate. According to a stock exchange filing by Info Edge (India) Ltd last week, Zomato has signed a definitive pact with Alipay Singapore Holdings Pte Ltd for the primary fundraise. Info Edge said that, after the deal closes, its stake in the food-tech company will fall to 27.68 per cent from 30.91 per cent at the end of March. This is the second large fundraise by Zomato this year. In February, Alipay had invested $200 million in the Indian company, which including a primary fundraise of $150 million and a purchase of stake worth $50 million from Info Edge. That round had valued Zomato around $1 billion.


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Pune, India, Nov. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The global video surveillance market is likely to gain momentum from the increasing usage of deep learning technology. It helps in lowering the calibration of algorithms and facilitating video analytics. Therefore, it is capable of driving the usage of video surveillance software in the near future. This information is given in a recently published report by Fortune Business Insights™, titled, “Video Surveillance Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Component (Hardware, Software, and Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS)), By End-User (Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Government), and Regional Forecast, 2019-2026.” The report further mentions that that the video surveillance market size was USD 19.12 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 33.60 billion by 2026, exhibiting a CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period.
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Fortune Business Insights™ lists out the names of all the companies present in the video surveillance market. They are as follows:
- Avigilon Corporation
- Bosch GmbH
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- Axis Communications AB
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- Honeywell International, Inc.
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Panasonic Corporation
- FLIR Systems, Inc.
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|Forecast Period||2019 to 2026|
|Forecast Period 2021 to 2028 CAGR||6.8%|
|2028 Value Projection||USD 33.60 Billion|
|Market Size in 2020||USD 19.12 Billion|
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|Tables, Charts & Figures||42|
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In 2019, researchers published a study in the International Journal of Financial Research highlighting the critical issues tech startups are facing across the world. More so, focusing on countries such as India, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Although these countries house the best ecosystems for startup entrepreneurs, in India, due to a lack of clear business ventures, innovation, and sufficient government support, more than 90% of these startups fail within the first few months of opening.
But this problem isn’t only facing young entrepreneurs trying to grow success out of their unicorns in India, it’s a problem that has spread across the whole of Asia. As Karen Lam wrote in Power Talk: Insight from Asia’s Leading Entrepreneurs, too many entrepreneurs are still fed the idea that success will come from failure, even though between 80% and 90% of Asian tech startups fail due to a lack of business innovation and the duplication of Western models in the Eastern world.
So what’s keeping these tech startups from succeeding, and what are some mistakes they should avoid? We explore some insights in the article below.
A leading cause for so many startups failing is a lack of sufficient business planning or models. This sets entrepreneurs up for failure, with no clear idea or guide to follow for prospects or what they’re setting out to do. While entrepreneurs stifle over ideas, they’re losing sight of the bigger picture, where to focus their energy, resources, and time.
Minimum Viable Products (MVP) is the process that involves conducting thorough market research through surveys, questionnaires, and marketing. With this, entrepreneurs will be able to see whether their service or product is viable enough for the market and understand whether or not there is a need or gap for it to obtain success. With this, entrepreneurs will also need to conduct research, both in the public and online domain to see where their services or products lack innovation.
The same study published in the International Journal of Financial Research comments on the importance for tech entrepreneurs to focus on building a strong brand through networking and attractive marketing. For tech startups, it can be quite competitive to reveal or market a product to customers who have not yet experienced or interacted with something that houses such unique features and isn’t yet offered by leading competitor brands.
It might not be a leading issue for tech entrepreneurs, but outsourcing specialized work to other companies can save them a lot of time and resources. For example, if a tech startup is looking to file new LLC formation documentation, outsourcing the work to a designated service provider will eliminate a lot of stress and unnecessary administration.
There is a time and place for everything, the same goes for the pace at which you’re moving. Tech entrepreneurs, who have a thorough and detailed plan of where they’re going should be able to launch within a respective timeframe, not being too slow to share or market their ideas. The same goes for the other side of the spectrum, don’t launch if you’re not ready, or have enough data or financial security to start. It’s about finding a balance between being ready and being over-eager.
This accounts for a lot of things, but more importantly to financial backers and a pool of interested investors. Be ready to go public, and share what you can and want to with interested financial supporters. You don’t have to play all your cards at once, but being open about your intentions and what you’re planning to do can seem very attractive to those who can support you financially.
Tech startups have exploded in the last five years, but only a fraction of those can survive. So how do you avoid going under? There are a plethora of ways, but it’s important to study and understand your product and your market. Be sure to offer the solution to a problem where there aren’t any answers. The tech industry is solely driven by innovation, and that’s where you need to get it right the first time.


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OnePlus 5T launch is just around the corner and from the number of leaks and rumors that we have witnessed there is little room left for our imagination. The secondary rear camera will come with a 20MP Sony IMX376K camera sensor with f/1.7 aperture and dual LED flash. If this is something to go by, fans may also expect a drastic improvement in terms of low-light photography.
OnePlus 5T is expected to boast 6.01-inch Optic AMOLED full HD+ FullView display having 18:9 aspect ratio and come protected with Corning's latest and sturdiest Gorilla Glass 5 series cover.
OnePlus 5T should get a better chance at competing now that its forehead and chin are now at a size much preferable and more attractive to users who have developed distaste for bezels. However, the portrait mode hasn't seen any significant upgrades. And with this new development, it makes a lot of sense. The differences though will likely be in the display, battery and in the camera as discussed above.
How to watch OnePlus 5T event livestream
OnePlus 5T, the Chinese smartphone maker's upcoming smartphone, which will be unveiled on November 16 at an event in NY, has been subject to rumours and leaks for the last few weeks. The company will be live streaming the event as well.
According to TechDipper, the new OnePlus 5T which will be announced later this week will be sold for the same price as the OnePlus 5 smartphone released earlier this year.
Last week, OnePlus had confirmed to offer the upcoming Android flagship OnePlus 5T in India in limited stocks within a week after the launch date - November 16.
Apple's iPhone X Lineup Will Continue To Grow In 2018 What's your take on this? The upcoming iPhone models will not face limited supply issues which is seen in the existing iPhone X . There are anecdotal reports of those who have already ordered an iPhone X receiving their handsets much sooner than anticipated.
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text: So far, there have been 2 devices branded with the Google logo – the Nexus One and the Nexus S – and now there is (unconfirmed) information about a third one. And just like it’s predecessors it’s going to be a peak in the mobile technologies. One of the most interesting features is it’s 1280×720 screen – an incredible resolution for a screen at this size. And even though we don’t yet know what size it actually is – we can tell it will be 4.3″ at least. Another interesting fact about the phone is the lack of buttons on the front – it will rely only on software ones. And having mentioned the software – it’s going to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But that’s not all – the processor is also worth mentioning – a 1.2 or 1.5GHz second generation dual-core – most likely a Snapdragon or OMAP. The phone will have two cameras – a front 1 megapixel and a rear 5 megapixels – but don’t think it’s just any 5 megapixel camera – it’s said to have a new class-leading sensor so it might just be Android‘s first true camera-phone. The phone is said to come at the end of November or early December – just in time for the holidays.


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Presserat also observed that an increasing number of online only organisations have signed on to follow its press charter.
The yearly report released today introduces a change of direction in the organisation. Previously the only complaints they dealt with were those concerning websites which had print editions.
The wider coverage of online media outlets has resulted in many more complaints to Pessarat, the majority of which are made against online news reports (59%). Thirty-one reprimands were given out in comparison to 20 the year before.
It seems the change in the nature of complaints may necessitate a change in a press regulatory body’s processes. The spokersperson of Presserat explained “We make no fundamental difference between print and online when we are assessing (complaints). But the increase in complaints, from reader’s comments and online archives among other things, shows that we need to supplement our journalistic principles in some places.”