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Each year, millions of Americans join a gym or health club aiming to get strong, lose weight and stay healthy. But when it comes to actually exercising, many members go AWOL.
Of the 50.2 million people who belong to a health club in the U.S., about 62% visited fewer than 100 times a year, according to data compiled in January by the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association, a Boston-based trade group that represents nearly 9,000 clubs.
This January, roughly 30% of total gym members were new, suggesting that many people start out with strong attendance only to end up joining the stragglers.
Research has shown that these truants often come in with unrealistic expectations and get discouraged because they don't know how to use the equipment or just get plain bored.
The ads are "telling you that you can get fit within 90 days, or in 30 days you can lose 30 pounds," says Jennifer Cassetty, a New York personal trainer who works with clients in private gyms and at a Crunch Fitness, which has 31 clubs in the U.S. "With all the fad diets and all the get-rich-quick schemes, why would you pay $100 a month and not see results like they show on the commercial?"
Of course, many fitness enthusiasts are drawn to health clubs' variety of equipment, classes and activities compared to what is typically available at home or outdoors. There are days, however, when even the most committed members are tempted to quit.
Research has found that camaraderie at gyms can keep exercisers motivated. Whether it's working with a personal trainer or forming friendships in fitness classes or the weight-room, personal connections seem to improve attendance in the long run.
Crunch, for example, has found that members who sign up for sessions with a personal trainer remain members for twice as long as those who do not. They also refer eight-times more people to join the gym than those who do not.
"They say your body gets bored, but I was getting bored too, and it got a lot harder to make myself go to the gym," says Erin McEvoy, an administrative assistant who worked out with Ms. Cassetty until a recent move to Chicago from New York. "It really helped to have somebody say you need to change it up and work different muscles."
Ms. McEvoy, 30, had been an athlete for her whole life, but after graduating from college and starting work, she began putting on weight.
"Everything you read in the media is incredibly confusing," she says. "One article says you should eat less fat; another says you should eat less bread, eat less salt or drink less caffeine. I needed someone who could give me things that would work for my body."
Ms. McEvoy says she lost about 30 pounds while working with Ms. Cassetty.
Some people may say it's in a gym's best interest to have low turnout. But high usage means members are more likely to renew their contracts, according to IHRSA data. That's why many gyms frequently upgrade their equipment and promote ways for members to connect with fitness professionals.
What has a large impact on retention, however, are classes. In addition to standards like spinning, yoga and aerobics, many gyms offer proprietary classes to woo new and different groups.
High-end fitness chain Equinox adds new classes to the schedule every quarter, which the company says are based on the latest research and fitness trends. Recent examples have included an interval-training class called Tabata and an entire program centered on a rubber cylindrical weight called ViPR.
The New York-based company, with 52 clubs, also emails members who haven't shown up in a while, encouraging them to come back to the gym.
Crunch is offering a class called Motivation (in partnership with the singer Kelly Rowland, whose hit single has the same name) that uses an enter-to-win contest to compel members to work out. "Here's some motivation," the class description reads. "Attend six classes and be entered for a chance to win a trip to NYC to work out with Kelly!"
Equipment manufacturers are also getting in the game. Precor, a large manufacturer of ellipitcal machines, treadmills and other gym equipment, is developing products that adapt to users' shapes and sizes and give personalized recommendations, according to Adam Hubbard, director of product development.
The company's most recent 880 line, for example, allows users to store their personal profile on a device that is waved in front of a sensor on the machine (or called up with a log-in and password). The machine can then call up the user's age, weight and workout history to suggest the next workout.
"Eighty-five percent of the time, users use the 'quick start' key," which operates the equipment at its most basic settings, says Mr. Hubbard. "A lot of people don't really understand that using one of the programs is more effective."
In its new 40,000-plus square-foot fitness center in Lansdowne, Md., Bally Total Fitness, introduced the Results Center, a 7-foot-tall interactive digital display that, among other things, allows members to get tips on how to work specific muscles. It also can take a picture and create a 3-D image so the member—and others in the club—can see a rendering of the body after it has reached its target weight.
Ideally, though, a member interacts with a real person, as having a personal connection to the gym can be a major motivating factor, says Dennis Cary, chief marketing officer for Chicago-based Bally, which has nearly 300 clubs in the U.S.
Beyond fitness, Equinox says it pays special attention to the gym space itself. The decor, the lighting, the placement of TVs and even the music that's played are tailored to each club's specific location, says Scott Rosen, chief operating officer. For example, the Equinox in Mamaroneck, N.Y., which borders Long Island Sound, has a nautical theme with a blue color scheme and wood finishes.
But, Mr. Rosen says, it can be the smallest details that ultimately win over members and keep them coming back.
"When we added cold, eucalyptus-sprayed towels, we got a tremendous response," he says.


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Users have been waiting patiently for the first big update to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 11’s launch in October 2021, and they have finally received it.
New features, such as tabs in File Explorer, improved taskbar customization, and a slew of Accessibility additions like Live Captions across Windows 11, have been available to test in the company’s Insider program(opens in a new tab) for most of 2022 and will be made available to everyone in the 2022 update.
A computer upgrade may not be ready just yet, however. To that end, we’ve mapped out everything you need to do to get set up for the 2022 upgrade. It’s important to note, however, that if you’re having trouble with Windows 11, you can quickly and easily learn how to resolve the most common issues.
Windows 11 22 H2 Requirements
- Speed: 1 GHz or above, with two or more cores on a 64-bit CPU or SoC that is compatible with the requisite software.
- RAM: 4GB
- 64GB of space
- The Firmware of the System is UEFI-based and Secure Boot-enabled.
- DirectX 12 or later with the WDDM 2.0 driver TPM: Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Graphics card:
- Screen resolution of at least 720p and color depth of 8 bits per color channel; diagonal of at least 9 inches
- Windows 11 Home requires an active internet connection and a Microsoft Account in order to perform the initial, first-use setup of the operating system, or when transitioning a device out of Windows 11 Home in S-mode.
Click on ‘check for Updates
To begin, ensure sure your Windows 10 PC is capable of running Windows 11 by running the PC Health Check program. When that’s the case, you can check for updates by going to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update menu.
Installing Windows 11 should now be an option, and it should automatically download and install the 22H2 upgrade along with everything else.
But if you’re already on Windows 11, you can skip all that by going to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and clicking Check for Updates, at which point you should see a message saying “version 22H2 is ready.”
Choose the Install option, and then wait for the system to restart.
Features of Windows 11’s 2022 Update
File Explorer’s tabbed interface, which enables you to manage several windows at once in a manner similar to that of Microsoft Edge and other web browsers, is one of the most prominent additions.
Accessibility has also been greatly enhanced, with Live Captions now being available system-wide and not just in specific apps. Text-to-speech and narration functions now use more natural voices, a welcome change from the robotic voices used in previous Windows versions.
Microsoft has announced (opens in new tab) that future updates will have smaller download sizes, saving users with slower connections or lesser storage capacities as well as those who rely on mobile data plans a significant amount of time and money.
The company has also promised that large updates like these will be released annually for customers, so you can expect to see a major update in the fall of 2023, for instance, that includes new and improved capabilities.

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Shazam, the song discovery app that’s now owned by Apple, received a minor bug fix update last week, which, according to AppFigures, removes all third-party SDKs.
Shazam for iOS is no longer using ad networks, analytics trackers, or open-source utilities that had the potential to provide app usage data to third-party companies.
Admob, Bolts, Doubleclick, FB Ads, FB Analytics, FB login, Inmobi, IAS, Moat, and Mopub SDKS were all eliminated in the update. The only third-party SDK still in the Shazam iOS app is HockeyApp, which is a Microsoft testing app similar to TestFlight.
Multiple third-party SDKs were also uninstalled on Android, though some services remain in place.
Following the completion of its acquisition of Shazam in September, Apple pulled ads from the app and made it ad free. Prior to Apple’s purchase of Shazam, the app featured several advertisements.
This article, “Apple-Owned Shazam App for iOS Drops Third-Party SDKs in Latest Update” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Shirt Swap! PUMA and BVB Introduce Circularity Project RE:JERSEY to the Fans
Sports company PUMA and Borussia Dortmund swapped shirts with the fans at the Signal Iduna Park before kick off on Saturday to draw attention to the circularity project RE:JERSEY, in which PUMA tests an innovative recycling method.
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Sports company PUMA and Borussia Dortmund swapped shirts with the fans at the Signal Iduna Park before kick off on Saturday to draw attention to the circularity project RE:JERSEY, in which PUMA tests an innovative recycling method. (Photo: Business Wire)
Before the match against VfL Bochum, Borussia’s players warmed up wearing RE:JERSEYs, which were made with 75% repurposed football jerseys. Afterwards, BVB legends Roman Weidenfeller, Wolfgang “Teddy” de Beer and Norbert “Nobby” Dickel encouraged the fans to donate their old polyester items. In exchange, a few lucky fans received RE:JERSEYs signed by the players.
In the RE:JERSEY project, PUMA tests an innovative chemical recycling process, which turns old polyester garments into new jerseys. The goal of this project is to reduce waste and pave the way towards more circular production methods.
“We are certain that we will continue our ambitious path towards more sustainable production models with the RE:JERSEY project,” said Matthias Baeumer, General Manager BU Teamsport at PUMA. “Our partnership with BVB is very strong and we are glad that they are supporting us as part of this innovative trial.”
Starting Monday, PUMA and BVB will set up collection bins, where fans will be able to donate their old polyester items, which will be used for the RE:JERSEY project. The fans who donate old items, can also take part in a draw to win great prizes such as signed jerseys. More information can be found on https://www.bvb.de/eng/puma-re-jersey .
“We see a growing interest from our fans in sustainable merchandising and that they are more aware of sustainability topics,” said Kerstin Zerbe, Managing Director of BVB Merchandising GmbH. “We are glad that our collection points at FanWelt will contribute towards making our jerseys more circular in the future. We share this ambition with our partner PUMA.”
The RE:JERSEYs worn by BVB players during the warm up on Saturday were made with 75% repurposed football jerseys. The remaining 25% comes from SEAQUAL ® MARINE PLASTIC1.
In the recycling process used for the RE:JERSEY project, the garments are chemically broken down into their main components (depolymerization). Colors are then filtered out and the material is chemically put back together to create a yarn (repolymerization) that has the same performance characteristics as virgin polyester.
Next to BVB, PUMA teams Manchester City, AC Milan and Olympique de Marseille are also a part of this project.
PUMA is one of the world’s leading sports brands, designing, developing, selling and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories. For more than 70 years, PUMA has relentlessly pushed sport and culture forward by creating fast products for the world’s fastest athletes. PUMA offers performance and sport-inspired lifestyle products in categories such as Football, Running and Training, Basketball, Golf, and Motorsports. It collaborates with renowned designers and brands to bring sport influences into street culture and fashion. The PUMA Group owns the brands PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd. The company distributes its products in more than 120 countries, employs about 16,000 people worldwide, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany.
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SEAQUAL® MARINE PLASTIC is a sustainable and fully traceable raw material from SEAQUAL INITIATIVE that is made from marine litter, or in some cases from end-of-life fishing nets or other plastics used in aquaculture (such as those used in mussel and oyster farming). For more information, visit https://www.seaqual.org
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Melanie and Madeline, changing the face of beauty
Two young women with Down syndrome present their special charm to the world
By Mary Le Rumeur
Two beautiful young girls – one in France and the other from Australia – are showing the world a new face of Down syndrome.
Mélanie had a dream; she wanted to present the weather report on television. So last month, 21-year-old Mélanie Ségard posted a message on FaceBook: “If I get 100,000 likes, I can be the weather girl.”
Within 10 days Mélanie had 200,000 likes, and several television channels contacted her. The choice was made to accept the spot offered by France 2 on its main evening news programme.
Mélanie spent four days at the TV channel’s studios in Paris, under the tuition of former weather girl Catherine Laborde. She had to learn her text by heart because she cannot read or write. The current weather girl Anaïs Baydemir took her under her wing and they worked as a team.
On March 14 the final preparations were made with Melanie choosing her clothes and make-up. Finally, at 8.35 pm, she was on screen, wearing a little black skirt, pretty pink top, chic earrings and a confident smile. Mélanie was telling the whole of France that Spring weather was arriving: “ Thursday, cloudy in the north, sunny near Marseille…. ”
And to finish, “Happy feastday tomorrow to all the Louises.” Anaïs and Mélanie hugged each other, a big happy smile on both faces.
This project was initiated to mark Down Syndrome Day, March 21. (The 21st of the third month represents the extra chromosome at the 21st pair that causes trisomy 21.) An association of families with DS children was looking for a way to overcome the “ invisibility ”of their children, especially on television. And they were very proud of Mélanie’s exploits.
“Mélanie was natural and spontaneous. Her presentation was happy and confident. Mélanie gave the message that if society helps these young people, they can achieve many things,” said the president of the association, Luc Gateau. “We hope that schools will become more inclusive of children with handicaps, and the next generation will be more familiar with different handicaps and able to interact more easily.”
Mélanie’s weather report gave France 2 a record audience of over 5 million and it was also watched more than 3 million times on internet. On Twitter, 12,000 people sent Melanie a message of congratulations.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles…
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Madeline Stuart was launching her own fashion label – in the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, no less! Since 2015 Madeline has made a special place for herself in the fashion world, modeling in New York, Birmingham, Dubai, Paris, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and China.
“ Exuberance ” is the word for this 20-year-old Australian who watched a fashion parade one day in her home town of Brisbane, and said to her mother, “Mum, me, model.”
Her mother Rosanne took up the challenge, first helping her daughter to lose 20 kilos, by dancing and going to the gym. Maddie’s new silhouette inspired people around the world.
Then in September 2015 Madeline was on the catwalk for the first time, during the New York Fashion Week. You can see the video of her first parade, in a stunning black dress, on her website. Colours and zazzy patterns are the trademark of Madeline’s casual but chic ready-to-wear collection. Her label: “21 Reasons Why.”
Madeline and her team assume with pride all her 21 chromosomes, and showcase a young woman who takes life full on, with her arms open wide, a toss of her long shiny hair, and a smile to reach your heart. In 2016 Madeline was nominated for the Pride of Australia and Young Australian of the Year.
In 2015 a United States group called Changing the Face of Beauty set out to find 15 retailers to commit to using models with disabilities in their advertisements – and wound up getting commitments from more than 100 companies. With television and fashion weeks coming to the party, the face of beauty is certainly changing.
Editor’s note. Mary O’Neill Le Remeur writes from Angers in France. This appeared at Mercatornet and is reposted with permission.


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Baldwin High students' Junior Achievement company succeeds with cell phone accessories
Nick Pantelis gathered bwINK company leaders for a meeting to update staffers on the latest product: a retractable cell phone charger.
Inside a second-floor classroom at Baldwin High School, a group of about 20 students brainstormed ways to bolster sales of the white-and-gold device encrusted with the bwINK company logo, as well as to explore opportunities for networking among some of the region's biggest business leaders.
“Our mission is really to give everybody a brighter future both inside our company and outside our company,” said Pantelis, 17, a Baldwin junior and bwINK president. “The entrepreneurial spirit. You have to get after it.”
bwINK, an after-school, student run Junior Achievement company formed a year ago under the direction of Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania president and CEO Dennis Gilfoyle, began selling its second product in early April.
Retractable cellphone chargers, with iPhone and Android connections, are on sale for $8.
The company, whose name stands for Baldwin-Whitehall Industrious Kids, made its debut in the cellphone accessory industry last year, selling flexible wallets that stick to the back of cellphones for $3. It has sold more than 1,000 cell phone wallets in the last year.
Members of bwINK are following a 13-week business plan through Junior Achievement, with lesson plans and activities that teach them how to start and run a company.
“We start with fundamental lessons of how a company or organization runs and how they themselves fit into the running of a company,” Gilfoyle said.
The students learn about the finances, supply chain, customer service and marketing within a company. Then, they try it themselves.
There are more than 25 JA companies in Western Pennsylvania, yet most do not run longer than one school year, Gilfoyle said.
“This is very unique,” he said.
After seeing the success of bwINK in the last year, which netted a $1,200 profit from $2,000 in sales, students said they wanted to expand the cell phone accessory line this year.
“Everyone has a cell phone,” said Zainob Goawala, 16, a Baldwin junior and bwINK vice president. “We tried to make a product that was appealing to all, but at the same time, the cost of it was affordable to everyone.”
Company leaders said they sought out a common problem among friends and family, then found a product to help address the issue.
“In school, everyone is always asking for a charger, ‘Do you have a charger?'” said Baldwin senior Earl Woodyard, 17, bwINK company vice president. “Well, now we're selling a charger so you can always have a charger.”
With normal cellphone chargers, the wires often get tangled.
“With a purse, you have to dig around for everything. I see my mom do it all the time,” said Baldwin senior Justin Rowlands, 18, company secretary. “We thought, ‘What product could easily solve that problem?' The cell phone wallet is what we came up with. It eliminates the need for messy wallets and messy purses.”
bwINK leaders have sold their products at the Brentwood, Baldwin, Whitehall Chamber of Commerce and attended the 3 Rivers Venture Capital Fair. They plan to sell their products at area malls and on Federal Street before a Pirates game.
For the last two years, employees have volunteered their time so bwINK can net more profits, Pantelis said. The company uses its money to reinvest into new products.
bwINK's mission is to inspire entrepreneurs, Pantelis said.
In school, bwINK leaders have created a commercial that aired in the school and fliers to hang on the walls at school advertising their product.
“There's no better experience than going out and doing it,” said supply chain member Casey Conboy, 16, a Baldwin junior.


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Ford’s electronic line-lock system is arguably one of the coolest features of the Mustang GT, and it is now being extended to the entire Mustang lineup. For the 2018 model year, Ford is offering this feature on all ‘Stangs – from the entry-level turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder EcoBoost with a six-speed manual transmission to the 5.0-liter V8 GT with the new 10-speed automatic transmission.
Most muscle car owners and enthusiasts can vouch that doing a tire-smoking burnout is not initially as easy as it looks in movies or Youtube clips. Ford’s unique line-lock system gets rid of the unnecessary complications and grants everyone the opportunity to feel the adrenaline from a mean burnout without being a professional.
How Does It All Work?
Line-lock is a feature primarily used by drag racers ahead of the starting line as a means of heating up their tires to gain improved traction for the race. This system aids in maintaining pressure on the front brakes while easing off on the rears, as well as keeping the car in place while the back tires “burn.” To put it into perspective, the line-lock builds pressure in the front brake calipers and locks the front wheels. For the next 15 seconds, the driver can mash the throttle and begin to spin the rear wheels without their vehicle skidding away. These days, even beginner drivers can hop behind the steering wheel and pull a video-worthy burnout with no fear of burning up their clutch.
“We introduced line-lock on EcoBoost Mustangs because we didn’t want those customers to miss out,” said Mark Schaller, Ford Mustang marketing manager. “The number of people choosing EcoBoost power continues to grow… with the increased torque and new features coming on the new Mustang, customers will not be disappointed.” This is a pretty rad idea because now you can burn rubber no which model you choose, even with a rental Mustang! Who wouldn’t want to still have fun while their car was being taken care of?!
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Ford made a video featuring Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gitten Jr. to show just how fun this new feature can be. Check out the clip below to watch Vaughn surprise unsuspecting pedestrians with the chance to try the new 2018 Mustang EcoBoost with line-lock on the track. You can see just how easy spinning the tires was for these novice drivers as they just pressed a few buttons and felt the fury unleash from the beast.


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ASUS & Google Team Up for ‘Tinker Board’ AI-Focused Credit-Card Sized Computersby Anton Shilov on November 12, 2019 5:00 PM EST
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ASUS and Google have joined forces to develop a new project that the companies are calling ‘Tinker Board’ single board computers (SBCs). With a footprint not much larger than a credit card, the systems are designed for building small systems to work on AI inference applications like image recognition.
The systems in question are the Tinker Edge T and Tinker Edge R. The former is based on the NXP i.MX8M with an Edge TPU chip that accelerates TensorFlow Lite, whereas the Tinker Edge R is powered by the Rockchip RK3399 Pro processor with an NPU for 4K machine learning. The SBCs officially support Android and Debian operating system, though nothing prevents them from running Linux or other OSes.
Both Tinker Edge T and Tinker Edge R computers feature active cooling as well as mainstream I/O interfaces, including GbE, USB 3.0, and HDMI.
ASUS and Google position their Tinker Edge T and Tinker Edge R for various edge AI applications that have to be compact and very energy efficient.
ASUS plans to demonstrate its Tinker Edge T and Tinker Edge R SBCs at the IoT Technology 2019 conference in Japan, which kicks off on November 20. Pricing of the devices remains to be seen, but it will depend on volumes and other factors.
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Kevin G - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkDoes the Tinker Edge have AVB enabled on its Ethernet port? If so, that opens up some interesting audio and DSP possibilities.
ToTTenTranz - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkWhat's "4K machine learning"?
mooninite - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkIt's better than 2K machine learning? Yes, the "machine learning" marketing jargon is way out of control.
nandnandnand - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkInstead of 8-bit precision, it uses 4096-bit precision.
skavi - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - linkwish i could upvote this.
rahvin - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - linkI thought it meant the AI chip had learned to watch 4K video.
mode_13h - Friday, November 15, 2019 - linkWell, the RK3399 can certainly decode 4k video, but there's no way an edge TPU can run particularly interesting video analytics at that resolution. Not to mention the amount of RAM you'd need.
So, it seems disingenuous to claim that this thing is in any way suitable for "4k machine learning". Not in realtime, at least.
Demios - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkProbably what it sounds like, unless you're just being pedantic.
Wrong_again - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkThese look pricey because they're fancy.
I may not have to prepare a spot next to my dormant raspberry pi's.
nandnandnand - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - linkI was wondering about what future Raspberry Pis could look like in terms of ports. I guess RasPi 5 will look the same, maybe replace USB 2.0 with all USB 3.0, but there could be board changes after that. For example, could a stack of three USB Type-C ports take up the same amount of vertical space as a stack of two Type-A ports, allowing 5 or 6 ports in place of 4?
In this case (Tinker Edge R), the Type-C port has been given all the space that a Type-A would have taken up.
Other than that, it looks nice and I want to see the pricing and full specs before I dismiss it.


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Nokia is ramping up its field team, taking on new management and additional staff in a bid to drive advocacy and sales of its Lumia smartphone portfolio.
The manufacturer has replaced Cosine, which has managed Nokia’s field team since 2009, with newcomers Retail Marketing Group (RMG) after retendering its field team agency contract. RMG saw off a number of rival bidders, including Cosine, to win the three-year deal.
Under the new management the field team has also been expanded from 20 to 25 staff as part of an intensified drive to promote products to retail and operator partners’ call centre and retail staff.
Speaking to Mobile about the new strategy, James Kitto, Nokia’s director of sales operations for Western Europe, said the changes were aimed at ‘driving the advocacy of the Lumia brand and our devices, especially in the smartphone market where the range of choice is significant’.
Kitto said RMG had been chosen in a ‘robust, open and fair’ competitive tender. He added: ‘We were particularly impressed with RMG’s levels of innovation and thought leadership and their ability to drive the sales team… They are smaller [than Cosine] but incredibly nimble, with ambition and passion and with outstanding, innovative ideas, especially in the consumer electronics space, where the agency has great experience.’
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Director Mineral and Coal of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Sukhyar said the ministry has recommended the export approval letter (SPE) to PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, a subsidiary of US-based Newmont Mining Corp, to export copper.
"The SPE is finished and we've sent it to the Trade Ministry (on Friday morning)," said Sukhyar on Friday, September 19, 2014.
According Sukhyar, with the export approval letter, Newmont is now able to export 304,515 tons of copper for six months and this amount is actually rations for three years.
"But we give the rations for six months," he said.
PT Newmont produces 600 thousand tons of copper per year.
"Hence, Newmont could export as much as it is," he said.
PT Newmont main export countries are Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, India, the Philippines, Finland, Bulgaria and Sweden. In the meantime, PT. Newmont has expressed its readiness to cooperate with other companies.
"Next week we will call PT Newmont to facilitate business with many companies," Sukhyar added.
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MILWAUKEE - A new night market is coming to Milwaukee's Deer District this summer.
A news release says the Deer District Market will have an emphasis on supporting minority-owned businesses, supplying the community with healthy, locally-produced food, and supporting and developing small food businesses is coming to the plaza at Fiserv Forum this summer.
The market will be held on eight dates throughout July, August, and September, with the first market set for Wednesday, July 28. The market will take place on Wednesdays from 5-9 p.m. on the following dates:
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Limited availability still remains for vendors that would like to sign up for Deer District Market. Interested vendors should contact Arthur Ircink at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Netflix GST: Now you will have to pay more to use Netflix Amazon Prime!
Netflix GST: In our country India, minor rules related to GST and income tax keep changing every day. In such a situation, it becomes very important for you to know these rules because these changing rules also bring changes in your daily life.
This time the Indian government has changed the GST rules for foreign companies that provide digital services in India. Due to this now all the foreign companies which provide online services in India will have to pay GST to the Indian Government. According to this rule, let us know how much GST these companies will have to pay and which companies will be affected by it.
Now this much GST will have to be paid
According to the new GST rule of the Government of India, foreign companies will have to pay 18% GST for providing online services in India. This rule will be implemented across India from October 1, due to which in the coming time, it is possible that these companies providing online services in India may also increase the price of their services.
Now let us know which companies providing online services are going to be affected by this rule.
It will make a difference to companies like Amazon Prime & Netflix
Foreign companies that provide their online services in India include companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify etc. All these companies provide many types of online services in India. But now after the change in this GST rule, all these companies will have to pay 18% GST to the Government of India.
Now in the coming time, it may happen that these companies may also increase the price of their services in India, due to which you may have to pay more money for using the services of all these companies.
Netflix is the biggest base of Amazon Prime in India.
Let us also tell you that the largest audience base of these online services providing companies is also in India. According to a report, more than 40 million Indians use Amazon Prime service, while about 8 to 10 million Indians use Netflix service.
Now it remains to be seen how much the companies providing online services increase their prices after the change in this GST rule.
We hope you liked this article and got information about Netflix GST and Amazon Prime GST. Please share this article with your friends and family so that they can also be aware of this GST rule. To read more such articles, stay connected with our website.
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BuildDirect, the Vancouver-based company that is rumoured by OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo to be going public, has hired Tal Ball as its first CFO. Ball’s role will be to lead the company in creating and leveraging highly innovative technology “to accelerate BuildDirect on its path to creating a smarter, simpler and more empowered home improvement industry.”
“I love building great companies and highly innovative technology,” adds Tal Ball. “And I’m struck by the opportunity at BuildDirect to focus on what I love most, combined with working alongside great people focused on a technology-based solution and an experience the world has yet to see.”
BuildDirect is an online retailer for home improvement products such as flooring and decking. The company currently employs over 175 employees, recorded eight-figure revenues, posted 70 percent growth in 2012 and saw over 100 percent growth in 2013. In January, BuildDirect announced closing a $30 million series B round from Mohr Davidow Ventures and supported BDC Venture Capital, among others.


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Over 100,000 sign White House petition for handset unlocking
Let freedom ring
The Obama administration is going to have to answer to mobile phone users after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for the unlocking of handsets to be made legal again.
The protest was sparked by the decision by the Librarian of Congress last October to ban the unlocking of handsets under the latest interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The 1998 law states "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
The Librarian of Congress has the right to grant exemptions to the DMCA and did so in the case of phone unlocking in 2006 and 2010. But the current holder of that position – the wonderfully named James Hadley Billington – decided that maybe the phone companies were right and you really should be legally tied to a carrier.
Interestingly, Mr. Billington also ruled that jailbreaking phones so that you can add third-party applications is still legal, but not for tablets. As fondleslabs shrink and phones expand one wonders how rich that particular ruling is going to make patent lawyers.
The wireless business pressure group CTIA was quick to remind users of the consequences of the decision.
"The penalties for unlocking a subsidized wireless phone without carrier consent can be severe," it warned in a blog post. "Civil penalties are based on the carrier's actual damages and any additional profits of the violator, or a court can award statutory damages of not less than $200 or more than $2,500 per individual act."
There is a get-out clause, in that handsets can still be unlocked if the network operator gives permission. El Reg suspects that asking your phone company to let you go to a rival early on in your contract will elicit a two-letter response – possibly with a four-letter prefix depending how tired the call-center operative is – but CTIA has said that manufacturers might allow unlocking after the contract has expired.
Mobile operators argue that locking of handsets is essential, since they have to subsidize the cost of the hardware and need to make their money back over the course of a contract. CTIA also says it stops "large scale phone trafficking operations" from prospering – other than their own, some might say.
Meanwhile, consumer advocates claim that the practice locks buyers into a particular provider and harms competition, which is why Verizon and AT&T have such a strong duopoly over mobile communications in the Land of the Free, and US users typically pay more per month than their European counterparts.
"Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad," the petition reads. "It reduces consumer choice, and decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full. The Librarian noted that carriers are offering more unlocked phones at present, but the great majority of phones sold are still locked."
The petition calls for the White House to ask the Librarian to rescind his decision (although the executive branch of government has no power to force the change) or to introduce legislation to make unlocking legal again. Given the problems any bill has getting through a pathologically divided Congress at the moment, there's not a chance in hell of that happening.
This petition is one of the first to reach the new 100,000 signature limit set by the Obama administration to guarantee a response, after it raised the threshold required for an official response from 25,000 back in January, up from 5,000 when the idea was first conceived in 2011. The change came after a big increase in use of the petition system and a variety of jocular requests for comment on such matters as the possibility of the US building a Death Star.
Now that the 100,000 signature limit has been reached, the White House will have to at least comment on the issue. However, it seems likely that a lot of people are going to be disappointed in their response. ®


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iPad 2 panel spike hints at shipment rush
Apple is expecting a large surge in demand for the iPad 2 in the back-to-school period, leaked supply numbers hint. One of the tablet's panel makers, Chimei Innolux, is expected to ship 400,000 to 500,000 iPads in June but more than double that to crest over one million a month in July. Combined with manufacturing from TPK and Wintek, the data led Digitims to word of shipments of 3.5 million to four million iPads every month, or 10.5 million to 12 million every quarter.
Some of that production would hinge on Chimei's ability to scale up. Apple would reportedly drop Chimei if it couldn't keep up with demand.
The rate if kept up could see Apple get its first quarter of 10 million-plus iPads and set a high barrier for opponents. Acer, which so far appears to be the frontrunner for Android 3.0 tablet sales, is supposedly shipping one million Iconia Tabs for the whole spring and isn't necessarily poised to see a big increase in the summer. Most companies expect hikes in shipments for the holiday, including Apple, but the data could show Apple confident that its late summer and early fall sales would keep it out in front of competitors and repeat the holiday rush of last year.
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The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has withdrawn a medical device and one batch of pharmaceutical products. The Ministry issued a circular to directors of medical districts, governments, and private hospitals, doctors, pharmacists and assistant pharmacists to withdraw the sale and use of one batch of a medical device and one batch of a pharmaceutical product in accordance with the Ministerial decree No (366) 2010 concerning the announcement of withdrawal, suspension, or prevention of distribution of pharmaceutical and medical products.
An analysis performed by the Quality Control and Research Department at the Ministry found that the product which is used in the treatment of bacterial infections and expiring on June 2018, contains visible particles in the injection.
The Assistant Undersecretary urged the public to report any side effects by filling up the Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) form available at http://www.cpd-pharma.ae.
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Item: With a partnership that dates back to former athletic director Jake Crouthamel and the 1982-83 academic calendar year when the basketball team wore Nike sneakers, it was no surprise that current athletic director John Wildhack announced last week that the university has extended its partnership with Nike, with undisclosed financial figures and length of the deal. The goal of the renewal is to both captivate on the success of the football program’s rise nationally, and ensure all 20 men’s and women’s programs benefit with plenty of top-line performance products, the latest technology behind it, and a few other perks.
June is the one month each year that college football and basketball fans crave information. So far this month Syracuse has delivered with news about ongoing logistical changes to the athletic department’s operations because of next year’s Dome roof renovation, non-conference basketball games being added to the schedule, promotion of Friday night’s open-to-the-public “Orange Summer Kickoff” at Turning Stone Resort, and the Nike deal which means more revenue, the latest performance gear, new fan merchandise choices, and important annual summer internships for SU athletes at the company’s Beaverton, Ore. headquarters.
The Nike extension is also huge because while Syracuse is not Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, or Oklahoma as an elite Nike football program, it is on the verge of an ongoing ACC breakthrough that combined with the basketball tradition made the ‘Cuse a very attractive client to keep in Nike’s portfolio.
» Related: The renewal of Syracuse basketball facing Georgetown fits perfectly in non-conference schedule
After all, according to Wildhack, research shows that the men’s basketball team was the first school Nike partnered with in hoops during an ’83 season which resulted in a second-round NCAA loss to Ohio State in Hartford.
“It’s very important to us,” Wildhack said last week in announcing the renewal, “That all 600 of our student-athletes will benefit (from this deal) was a priority. It increases product for each sport, which will allow individual sports to better dedicate their resources, operational areas, and recruiting.”
For those occupants of Orange Nation, there’s good news as well. From a desire to purchase orange football jerseys and assorted other basketball regalia, to perhaps a new look on the field or court, Wildhack told cuse.com that all figured into his negotiations.
“Our fans want to be associated with premier brands, and Nike certainly fits that criteria,” Wildhack explained. “I encourage our partners to be creative, whether that’s special dates that we do, commemorative jerseys, special recognition, making the most popular product available for our fans to buy is important. And fan feedback went into a lot of the negotiations we had with Nike.”
Next time you’re looking for a specific piece of Orange merchandise, such as an orange football or basketball jersey, or you want to see the football team change its jerseys dating to 2014 and remove the annoying tall and narrow shape of the numbers “mimicking the height of New York City’s skyline,” you can thank Wildhack for evolving the department’s look and feel.
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Sarasota-based Hurst Capital filed a letter of intent Monday to acquire the assets of Hostess Brands Inc. with the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Hostess Brands, the bankrupt baker of iconic consumer brands including Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and Wonder bread, had been in business for 82 years and filed a motion on Nov. 16, 2012 seeking permission to close its business and sell its assets.
Hurst Capital’s letter of intent details their multimillion-dollar offer to acquire all the assets of Hostess Brands, according to a press release.
Hostess Brands management announced last week that they would liquidate the company, sell all assets and lay off 18,500 employees after striking workers protesting a bankruptcy-court imposed labor contract failed to return to work.
Hurst Capital was founded by “Tech Twins” Austin and Zach Hurst, who created their first successful business at the age of 11.
“I believe there are some interesting things we can do with technology and social media to advance Hostess Brands to the next level in the consumer packaged goods industry,” Zach Hurst said.
With high brand recognition and $2.5 billion in revenue per year, other companies are interested in bidding for at least pieces of Hostess, according to the Associated Press. Twinkies alone have brought in $68 million in revenue so far this year, which would look good to another snack-maker.
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- These guys are small time venture capitalists who tout a $50,000 investment on their website.hey may have enough capital to buy a truckload of twinkies but suspect, that's all.
The gullible Sarastoa press gave them what they wanted, publicity.
- While I wish them the best of luck..... I think others are much better suited to take on the acquisition. Flowers and Bimbo are interested and are already in the game and would not even have to "Tool up", not to mention already having experience, distribution, and existing presence and relationships with the market . Sun Capitol at least has substantial experience in turning around failed companies and are certainly more prepared to deal with the unions and also have experience with Contessa, Creekstone Farms and Harry's Fresh Foods already in their portfolio.
No matter who acquires it, I am confident I will see Twinkies on the shelf for my grand-kids. The brand name is just too powerful and iconic to "go gentle into that good night". So... Rage Twinkie ! rage against the dying of the light !
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Just as Observer advertising representative Bob Lewis loves to garden, he also cultivates relationships with all of his co-workers and clients.
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Sisters Francesca and Elizabeth Martel returned victorious Monday, May 20, after a weekend at the Special Olympics of Florida State Summer Games, in Orlando.
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FRUIT OUTRAGE: Colombian terrorists celebrate lifetime supply of bananas
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – The U.S. Department of Justice uncovered last week a vast and corrupt banana trail leading from the Cincinnati based Chiquita corporation to a Colombian terrorist group. Investigators discovered the terrorists and their families basking in the luxury of what is estimated to be a lifetime supply of bananas received from Chiquita. A vast collection of cargo containers was revealed in reportedly the largest ever fruit-based terrorist payment scandal. Chiquita pled guilty to paying the Colombians and agreed to pay a penalty fine of $25 million this week. Despite video footage of banana containers being dropped from airplanes and smuggled across borders disguised as cocaine, the Colombians maintain they grew the bananas themselves and have always enjoyed the luxury of a grossly abundant supply of bananas. Officials were unable to confiscate the fruit contraband due to banana peel slip hazards intentially created by the Colombians all around the banana storage compound.
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Until now, the recently launched Bajaj Dominar 400 was available in two colour options – Matte Black and Auroral Green. However, a new television commercial has revealed that two new colour options will most probably be on offer as well. What is without a doubt the most value-for-money performance motorcycle out there, the Bajaj Dominar’s new TVC shows the bike inside a wind tunnel, finished in a shade of Glossy Red, where the fuel tank is partly covered in black.
The other colour option is completely new and appears to be Silver, although we can’t really figure if it will be in Matte finish or glossy. Before it was launched, the 2019 Bajaj Dominar was also spied in White, which for some reason hasn’t been introduced, yet.
The 2019 Bajaj Dominar carries some meaningful upgrades which now make it even better in comparison to the first-gen motorcycle. The bike retains the same motor, however, the liquid-cooled 373.3cc DOHC engine now delivers 40 PS, an increase of 5 PS, while torque at 35 Nm is identical to the engine’s previous state of tune. The upgraded bike also features 43 mm upside down (USD) forks, bungee straps tucked under the seat to help secure gear during long-distance touring, a secondary display which shows time, gear position, trip information, and spacecraft inspired tank pad decals. The bike now also features a twin-barrel exhaust which makes the motor sound better than before.
Besides all that, the 2019 Dominar has also shunned its old “Go Hyperriding” tagline, for something more apt. It now encourages the rider to spend more time in the saddle and see the World. The new tagline read, “Don’t Hold Back.” In other news, the bike maker has partnered with Triumph to develop a new mid-capacity motorcycle, which should be out sometime next year. To be sold as a Bajaj in the Indian market and as a Triumph elsewhere, it could well be a retro-styled motorcycle or a Street Triple like thing. It could be anybody’s guess, for now, however, we’d be pleasantly surprised if the new motorcycle comes out as a baby Tiger. Given the increasing popularity of adventure motorcycles, they are fast becoming like SUVs where everybody loves them for the practicality they bring along.


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Facebook Abets Counterfeit NFL Gear Sales, Lawsuit Says
San Diego – A seller of officially licensed National Football League merchandise filed a putative trademark infringement class action against Facebook Inc. on Monday over its alleged complicity in publishing online advertisements for fake NFL apparel, accessories and more.
Inkies Sports Inc., which does business as Krystal’s NFL Shoppe, is seeking to represent a class of retailers and wholesalers of officially licensed NFL apparel who have been harmed in their business by purveyors of counterfeit goods advertised on websites like Facebook, according to its complaint in New Mexico federal court.
As of 2011, ads for counterfeit NFL merchandise started showing up in sponsored ads on Facebook with increasing frequency, offering jerseys and other items for cut-rate prices alongside “pictures of what appears to any reasonable person to be authentic, officially licensed NFL merchandise,” the complaint says.
“There is no way for a Facebook user to determine from the pictures and the text which accompanies the counterfeiters’ ads whether the merchandise is authentic or not,” it says.
Inkies says it began paying for sponsored ads on Facebook in February, but quickly discovered that its own marketing efforts were being overshadowed by those of the counterfeiters.
“Ads for counterfeit goods are regularly displayed on Krystal’s Facebook page, leading even loyal customers to question whether these ads are supported, or even sponsored, by Krystal’s,” the complaint says. “Krystal’s has inadvertently been placed in the untenable position of actually lending credence to the counterfeit ads, by virtue of Facebook’s display of those advertisements on Krystal’s page.”
Inkies has lodged multiple complaints with Facebook about the ads to no response, according to the company.
The economic impact of the fraudulent ads on Inkies and other class members will probably run into millions of dollars, given the cut-throat nature of the world of low price internet retail, Inkies asserts.
Once a consumer clicks on one of the counterfeiters’ ads and places and order, the merchandise arrives postmarked from China, and it immediately becomes apparent that the merchandise is substandard, Inkies says. Since the Chinese government blocks access to Facebook, counterfeiters in China need an intermediary, Inkies claims, such as the advertising firm AdSage, which is also named as a defendant in the complaint.


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ROCK HILL – An Indian Land woman suspected of shoplifting more than $1.5 million in merchandise from Hobby Lobby stores in North Carolina in the past two years was arrested by Rock Hill police this week.
The Wednesday, June 12, arrest of Maria Steele, 58, 18301 Greyfield Glen, followed a shoplifting incident at the Hobby Lobby on Meeting Boulevard in Rock Hill earlier that day.
The incident report said the store’s loss prevention officer called police about 3:30 p.m., saying he’d recognized Steele, known to him by the alias “Marie Vera,” from a loss prevention report sent out from company headquarters.
According to the loss prevention officer, the arts and crafts company believes “Vera” and other family members helping her, have earned an estimated $480,000 in the past two years selling the stolen items at 75 percent below retail.
The store officer said when Steele realized he was following her, she left the store carrying a “big black handbag” and a Hobby Lobby shopping bag, and walked to a nearby Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, the incident report said.
Steele left the restaraunt a few minutes later, the loss prevention officer said. When she saw him watching her, she ran across the parking lot, jumped into a white Jeep and drove off.
The store officer said he was on the phone with headquarters when he got a call from the restaurant saying they’d found a bag of Hobby Lobby merchandise in the women’s restroom hidden in a trash can underneath the trash bag.
Surveillance video from the restaurant reportedly showed Steele, wearing a bright green shirt and carrying the bags, come through the front door, go straight to the restroom and leave a few minutes later.
The value of the recovered merchandise was $475.74.
Further investigation soon linked “Vera” with Steele, whose photograph and address matched both DMV records and the Hobby Lobby “BOLO.”
The report said Rock Hill police requested the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office’s help in serving a warrant for Steele’s arrest, and that within minutes a deputy picked her up at her home in Indian Land.
According to the incident report, the Mooresville, (N.C.), Police Department suspects Steele’s connection with several thefts at the Hobby Lobby there.
As of Thursday, June 13, Steele was held at the Rock Hill Police Department jail on suspicion of shoplifting.
Though police suspect Steele may have worked the incidents with her husband “and other family members,” as of deadline Thursday there had been no further arrests in the case.
Contact reporter Reece Murphy at (803) 283-1151


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A Chinese auto supplier is planning to invest $15.3 million in its Orion Township facility for an expansion that is expected to create 102 full-time jobs.
Gov. Rick Snyder announced the investment today, saying he spoke about the potential expansion with leaders of Fuyao Automotive North America Inc.during a trade mission to China two years ago.
The company is expected to add equipment to enable it to manufacture auto glass assembly parts. The company, which is a subsidiary of Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co. Ltd., provides warehousing, assembly, repackaging, inspection, program management, engineering design and sales support services of automotive glass to North American automotive original equipment manufacturers, according to a news release from the state.
Since 2008, the Orion Township plant has employed more than 100 people, Fuyao Automotive North America President Chris Feng said in a statement.
The company was considering sites in Ohio, Alabama and Georgia before choosing Michigan, according to the release.
The state will assist the project with a $1 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. Orion Township is expected to provide a property tax abatement as well.


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Zhongmin Baihui to close loss-making store in Jiangsu province
ZHONGMIN Baihui Retail Group said on Tuesday that it has decided to close its Nanjing Nanzhan store in Jiangsu province, China.
The S-chip, which owns and operates more than 10 department stores in Fujian and Jiangsu in China, said the store has been unprofitable since its opening in 2012.
"The development of the surrounding area of the store is progressing slower than expected,'' it lamented, adding that its resources could be better deployed elsewhere.
The department store and supermarket sections of the store have ceased operation recently, and the tenants occupying the remaining area are in the process of moving out.
Zhongmin Baihui will hand over the store to the landlord once the place is vacated. It expects a potential gain of about 41 million yuan (S$8.3 million), largely non-cash in nature, from the closure of the store. The gain does not take into account operating losses from the store for the year and potential compensation to be paid to the landlord.


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The deal, which was announced Thursday afternoon, sees AT&T spinning off its struggling DirecTV satellite TV business as well as its Uverse TV service and the AT&T TV Now internet TV service into a separate company called DirecTV. AT&T will hold a 70% stake in the new company, while TPG is acquiring 30%.
The terms of the deal put the value of the new entity at a little over $16 billion; back in 2015, the telco spent $67 billion in cash and debt commitments for the satellite TV provider. Since then, AT&T has lost millions of pay TV providers as consumers have embraced streaming services. Over the past two years, more than 7 million customers canceled one of AT&T's TV services.


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Panasonic's 2012 range of Viera LCD and plasma TVs will offer voice guidance technology, intended to help people with visual impairment, difficulty reading, or who struggle to use technology to navigate their TV's interface. It's been designed in collaboration with the British Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB), which specializes in accessibility, and uses a synthetic speech engine to provide instructions on how to navigate menus and describe the items selected.
The concept has the RNIB excited — Fazilet Hadi, the charity's group director of inclusive society, says that "televisions with talking features hugely improve the television experience for those of us with sight loss." The project was first revealed on the RNIB's InSight radio, but now full details have been announced. The system is only available in the UK for now, but if it proves successful Panasonic plans to roll it out to other markets.
It's not the only speech-related feature coming to the TVs, with Panasonic announcing the inclusion of Nuance's Dragon TV platform last month. This allows a user to speak naturally to their TV, asking it what show is on a certain channel or adjust the TV's settings without diving into menus. So now, not only can you speak to your TV, but it can talk right back to you.


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To operate in China, search engine companies based in the United States have built products that cooperate with China’s policies of Internet censorship. That much has long been recognized. But a new analysis suggests that search companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, are independently deciding what to censor and could be censoring more information than Chinese laws demand.
A report released last week by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto found that different search engines are blocking fairly different content. “The low overlap means that companies are choosing the exact content to censor or, alternatively, to not censor,” says Nart Villeneuve, a senior research fellow at the Citizen Lab and the author of the report. “That doesn’t mean that they’re not getting guidance from the Chinese government in other ways,” he notes. But Villeneuve says that if search engines are interpreting Chinese policies to decide what to censor, that introduces the possibility that they may block more content than is strictly necessary.
The U.S. search engine companies say that they cooperate with Chinese censorship policies because some presence in the country is better than none at all. “We started Google.cn because Google.com was strangled in China,” says Robert Boorstin, director of policy communications for Google. Though Boorstin says he can’t comment on the specifics of Google’s Chinese product, he says, “We were faced with a very clear choice: we can either start a new public library where people could see 98 percent of the stuff in the stacks, or we would have no library at all, and nobody would get a library card.”
Indeed, according to Villeneuve’s report, even with the self-censoring, foreign search engines provide about 20 percent more content on average than Internet users in China would otherwise be able to access through domestic search engines. But, he says, “The bigger issue is just that we don’t know exactly what they’re doing, and the search engine companies haven’t been open publicly about what they’re doing.”
Villeneuve tested search engines made by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Beijing-based Baidu. To make the testing fair, Villeneuve compared how the search engines handled specific keywords on specific sites–say, “Tiananmen Square” at news.bbc.co.uk. He also had to distinguish the effects of China’s “Great Firewall,” which blocks some information passing into or out of China, from the censorship of specific search engines. Since Yahoo and Baidu both host their Chinese products within China, their crawlers can index Chinese content without the firewall’s interference. Users outside China, however, will see their results filtered. With Google and Microsoft, the situation is reversed. So Villeneuve tested Yahoo and Baidu from within China and Google and Microsoft from outside, avoiding the firewall.


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Samarkand Group plc (SMK)
21 April 2022
Samarkand Group plc
("Samarkand", the "Company" or together with its subsidiaries the "Group")
Queen's Award for Enterprise: Outstanding Contribution to International Trade
Samarkand Group plc, the cross-border eCommerce technology, services and consumer brand group, is delighted to announce that it has been selected as one of 226 organisations nationally, to be recognised with a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise, in acknowledgement of its outstanding contribution to International Trade.
Now in its 56th year, the Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the most respected business awards for
Her Majesty the Queen has personally approved the Prime Minister's recommendation that Samarkand be awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise, for demonstrating outstanding success in international trade. Samarkand will be able to use the esteemed Queen's Awards Emblem for the next five years
David Hampstead, CEO of Samarkand Group plc commented: "We are honoured to have been awarded an accolade as prestigious as the Queen's Award, especially in light of the significant barriers we have had to navigate over the past couple of years in the face of the pandemic. This achievement is testament to the resilience, determination and hard work that everyone involved at Samarkand has demonstrated through these unique times in order to ensure that progress continues to be made against our growth objectives.
We are proud of all we have achieved and to be recognised in such a way demonstrates the potential of our solutions and the market in which we operate. The Award validates our position as leaders in cross-border eCommerce solutions for the Chinese market, the largest in the world and is an incredible achievement for our Group.
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Notes to Editors
Samarkand is a cross-border eCommerce technology and retail group focusing on connecting International Brands with
Founded in 2016, Samarkand is headquartered in
For further information please visit https://www.samarkand.global/
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Free new Filters for Photos — Macphun has announced a new Mac app, Filters for Photos. This free app works standalone and also within Photos as an Extension, and gives users the ability to add 30 new filters to their photos in a single click. Filters for Photos integrates with the Photos for Mac user experience, and helps more people be creative with their photography, without spending anything. It’s is available as a free download now (ie, from April 27th).
Once you’ve installed Filters and dragged the expanded App to your Applications folder, open Photos, select a photo, choose Edit and click Extensions down the bottom to turn them on. When you register with your email address you unlock 15 more filters.
The John Sculley Interview: Apple’s DNA, Walks With Steve Jobs and more — Bryan Chaffin interviewed former Apple CEO John Sculley on April 11th, “an insightful and enjoyable experience. While the interview was ostensibly centered around his 2014 book Moonshot! (on Amazon and iBooks), Mr Sculley also shared anecdotes about his time at Apple and experiences with the late Steve Jobs, some of which I hadn’t previously heard.”
Apple’s recruiting efforts reportedly slow down — Apple has been cutting contract recruiters in the past few weeks and dismissing some full-time recruiters as well, meaning the company’s recruiting efforts have slowed, reports VentureBeat, quoting an unnamed “source familiar with the matter.” In all, more than 100 people could be affected by the moves, the article adds.
Skype for Business finally makes its way to the Mac — Microsoft’s new business communication product is finally coming to the Mac after the company launched it for PC users last year.
Earnings call could be low — At 2 PM PT/5 PM ET today, Apple holds its Q2 2016 earnings call to announce how the company fared financially during the past three months. The news is not expected to be pretty – in fact, many analysts believe Apple could report its first quarterly revenue decline in well over a decade.
Infinite Dropbox — Today, Dropbox has taken the wraps off Project Infinite, which makes it possible for individuals or team members to “see” terabytes of files stored in the cloud as if they were stored locally, but not have to sync all of that data locally.


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Facebook might finally make it easier to tame its most annoying problem: notifications.
The company appears to be testing a new feature that would let users temporarily mute all mobile notifications, according to new screenshots purportedly taken in the beta app.
The feature, which was spotted by digital media consultant Matt Navarra, adds a "do not disturb" button which essentially acts as an on/off switch for notifications in the Facebook app.
Navarra also reports the social network is testing time limits for do not disturb, so you can mute notifications for a pre-determined period of time.
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It's not clear how big the current test is or if Facebook plans to make the feature available to everyone. The company declined to comment, but it often tests new features with small groups of users and doesn't always make them available to everyone.
That said, the feature would be in line with the company's recent moves to emphasize "time well-spent." Facebook's been criticized for years for its overly aggressive notifications, which are designed to pull users to spend more time in the app, not less. Last month, the social network finally agreed to reduce the number of awful "you're now connected on Messenger" notifications after widespread complaints.
Code unearthed from the company's Android app suggests it's also testing a feature that alerts you to how much time you've spent in the app, along with reminders when you've reached a pre-set time limit.
Of course, this doesn't mean you'll be free of the annoying notifications altogether, They'll still be waiting for you in the Facebook app, website, and possibly even Instagram too.


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Mr. Trump aimed his Twitter weapon at Hollywood thanks to a new movie called The Hunt. Mr. Trump told the press Hollywood is much more racist than he is, and this new film proves his point.
Hollywood doesn’t like Trump. His egotistical behavior during his Celebrity Apprentice days didn’t help his Hollywood reputation. Trump told the press Hollywood is a danger to the United States. Trump comments about Hollywood deflect attention away from claims he is the poster boy for racism. Deflection is one of the weapons Trump uses to appease his voter base, according to the Washington Post.
The president went after his pal Anthony Scaramucci when “the Mooch” told the press Trump’s performance in El Paso was a train wreck. Mr. Trump let Scaramucci know he needs to stick with his Celebrity Big Brother gig instead of throwing shade his way. Trump said Scaramucci couldn’t cut it in Washington. That why he got the ax 11 days after he got the White House communication job.
Trump’s trade war with China is an economic windfall for Mexico, Brazil, and Australia. The farm orders earmarked for the U.S. are now in the hands of Mexico and Brazil. Australia’s business with China got a shot of economic adrenaline too. Mr. Trump claims his tariffs will hurt China’s economic growth and it will, according to the New York Times. But China’s central bank plans to inject money into its consumer economy as well as devalue their currency to offset Trump’s tariffs.
The trade war has investors and consumers on the ropes. Wall Street knows the trade war won’t end soon. Wall Street economists think a recession is a real possibility in 2020. American consumers know the price increases, and the supply chain disruption from the trade war will have an impact on their lifestyle in 2020. But Mr. Trump claims the Chinese will suffer, not Americans.
The president’s ban on Huawei gave the company the impetus it needed to expand in other countries. The company plans to pump $800 million in Brazil to expand its smartphone business there. Huawei also announced they will open another factory in Brazil and the company also plans to build Italy’s 5G platform. Huawei will also hire 1,000 people in Italy. They also plan to give 800 employees in the U.S. their walking papers, according to the Times.


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Study: A Blue Christmas for Blu-ray6 Dec, 2006 By: Erik Gruenwedel
Historical doubt about Sony's technological innovations (Betamax and UMD) and corporate attitude finds a majority of online opinion favoring next-generation optical media format HD DVD over Blu-ray Disc, according to a new research study.
The report compiled by Cymfony Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based market analytics firm, found that positive online discussions about HD DVD were 46% greater than Blu-ray, following scrutiny of 17,664 postings on social media sites, blogs and discussion boards between Oct. 1 and Thanksgiving.
The study found that early adopters — split between gamers and videophiles — spearheaded much of the online chatter. Closer inspection of 2,000 randomly selected posts found that 70% discussed the advantages of HD DVD compared to Blu-ray.
From this group, 23.4% viewed Blu-ray negatively compared to 14.2% for HD DVD; 53.1% were neutral toward Blu-ray (52.8% for HD DVD) and 32.9% viewed HD DVD positively compared to 23.5% for Blu-ray.
Cymfony observed little online discourse of Blu-ray's expansive storage capacity over HD DVD, and found no discussion of the format's alleged sophisticated interactivity.
In fact, the ongoing format war (16%) cost issues (14%), picture quality (7%), title selection (6%) and backward compatibility (3%) paled in importance to concerns about new video game console PlayStation 3 (21%) and general dislike (26%).
The latter, the study noted, was largely due to Sony's alleged credibility as a technology innovator and ability to succeed with new platforms.
Gamers led the dissent by citing Sony's inclusion of a Blu-ray drive in the PS3. Of the more than 350 posts discussing the advantages of HD DVD, 252 noted positively about Microsoft offering HD DVD as an option to Xbox 360.
“Sony forces you to buy Blu-ray,” read a post at forums.adventuregamers.com. “MS doesn't force you to buy HD DVD. It's about giving the consumer options.”
Spokespersons from the Blu-ray Disc Association and Sony were not immediately available for comment.


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This Semiconductor Stock is Crashing 2.6% While Other Chip Makers Rally
Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) shares are getting slammed over 2% after Gartner Group (NYSE:IT) said worldwide semiconductor industry (NYSE:SMH) revenue will decline 0.1% in 2011 to $299 million. The research firm previously had predicted 5.1% growth for the industry.
Micron trades at a P/E ratio of about 11 which is higher than its industry peers. The company also trades at a sales multiple of 0.8 which is lower than its industry rivals. On the technical front, shares trade well below their rising 200 day moving average, but above the declining 50 day moving average. The MACD is bullish while RSI is pointing down at 61.
Other semiconductor stocks are reacting positively to Windows 8 (NASDAQ:MSFT) and positive iPhone news (NASDAQ:AAPL): Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) up 1.8%, ARM Holdings (NASDAQ:ARMH) up 0.55%, AMD (NYSE:AMD) up 1.9%, and Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) up 0.2%.


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Philippines Inflation Rate Rises Moderately To 2.9% In December
By Bhaskar Prasad | January 4, 2013 3:27 PM EST
The Philippines' rate of inflation rose moderately in December from that in the previous month, indicating that the country’s inflationary pressures continues to be contained, providing room for further monetary easing policy measures required to boost economic growth.
The rate of inflation slightly rose to 2.9 percent in December compared to that in the same month last year, from 2.8 percent in November, according to the data released Friday by the National Statistics Office. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy items, fell to 3.3 percent in December from 3.4 percent in November.
The moderate rise of inflation should be good news because it can help the government invigorate growth without much concern about the rising prices. Inflation may no longer be the main concern of the policymakers and the government may have more space to loosen the monetary policies and make supporting economic growth a priority.
The continuing debt crisis in Europe and the tentative U.S. recovery have hurt the demand for exports, the key driver of the Philippines’ economy. The policymakers understand that export- and investment-driven economic model was no longer sustainable for the Philippines and reforms are needed to prevent a sudden slump in growth.
Last October, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) cut its key policy rate by 25 basis points to an all-time low of 3.5 percent, citing benign outlook for inflation and worries over growth prospects. The cut was the fourth for the last year and took total cumulative easing since the start of 2012 to 100bp.
On a positive note, it was reported in November that the Philippines’ economy grew at a faster rate than expected in the third quarter. According to the data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures the annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy, rose 7.1 percent in the quarter ending Sept. 30 compared to that in the same period last year, up from 6 percent in the second quarter and above the analysts’ expectation of 5.4 percent.
Investors feel that if the global growth remains as weak as expected over the current year and the crisis in the euro zone continues to intensify, further monetary easing is likely in 2013. Market players sense that the medium-term growth prospects would be more favorable if the increased political stability stimulated the private sector growth and the administration's fiscal consolidation program enabled higher levels of public investment in the Philippines.
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- 10 April 2020
- Posted by: Curatore
- Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, World News
The Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in March 2020.
BoE researchers and analysts are actively exploring how an electronic form of central bank money would look like and how it could function in the real world. The discussion paper outlines an illustrative model of CBDC designed to store value and enable UK payments by households and businesses.
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) would be an electronic form of central bank money that could be used by households and businesses to make payments.
The Bank has not yet made a decision on whether to introduce CBDC, and intends to engage widely with stakeholders on the benefits, risks and practicalities of doing so.
The discussion paper outlines an illustrative model of CBDC designed to store value and enable UK payments by households and businesses.
In a webinar hosted Tuesday, BoE analysts working on the U.K.’s CBDC initiative said there was a distinct possibility that private companies could play a much larger part in the issuance and distribution of money.
But as the BoE analysts also emphasized in Tuesday’s webinar, any future digital currency – including a prospective CBDC – would need to comply with tight data privacy standards.
“The key thing for the Bank of England is to make sure if we were to do a CBDC – and it is an if – it would absolutely respect people’s rights to privacy,” said Tom Mutton, the BoE’s fintech director.
Cryptovalues representatives joined the webinar on Tuesday which is now publicly available HERE


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The US EPA has approved two treatments to combat citrus diseases in the country, sparking fierce criticism from some.
Scientists at the University of Exeter reveal how bacteria that causes stomach upsets can beat the environment, with potential consequences for seafood testing methods.
A juice manufacturer in Washington state has been told to stop distributing by a US court after the FDA says it found arsenic in some products.
François Bourdichon explains the limits of finished product testing when it comes to ensuring safe production and how we could enhance the current methods set out.
New Food’s global roundup of product recalls includes Listeria alerts, as well as several undeclared allergen reports from the US, UK and Canada.
New Food’s global roundup of product recalls includes a Salmonella alert, as well as undeclared allergens and a contamination report from Germany.
The Teesside Coroner’s Court ruled that Salmonella was a contributing factor in Sandra Blake and Stewart Graham’s deaths, in an outbreak which has since been linked back to a butcher in County Durham.
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2014 Kia Soul: fresh styling for quirky Korean box
The second-generation Kia Soul has been captured undergoing testing in Europe by CarAdvice's spy photographers, giving us our first look at the updated design of the funky box-shaped small car.
The anticipated launch timing of the next-generation Kia Soul suggests the current model will have a shorter than average lifespan, having entered production in South Korea fewer than five years ago in 2008.
The new Soul has been restyled under the watchful eye of the brand’s revolutionary designer, Peter Schreyer, who has had something akin to the Midas touch since joining the company in 2006.
The spy shots reveal the basic shape of the current Soul will be retained but the details will be overhauled in line with Kia’s new design direction.
The two-piece headlight and indicator assemblies will be integrated into a cleaner, more conventional arrangement, while the ‘tiger nose’ grille will be wider and narrower and the gaping lower intake will adopt a new mesh grille and sit more flush with the bumper.
The new model also looks wider than the current Soul, potentially with a lower roofline, while the bulbous bonnet has been toned down, creating a more masculine appearance.
The rear-end redesign will also be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, with upgrades to the vertical tail-light towers and a reshaped bumper with repositioned reflectors.
Earlier spy shots of the car’s cabin have revealed the new Soul will get a complete interior makeover, with a cleaner and more modern dashboard and centre console layout than the current model’s basic, plasticy design.
A convertible version of the Soul, based on the 2009 Kia Soul’ster concept, was originally on Kia’s long-term production plan, but a company spokesman has since confirmed with US publication Car and Driver that those plans have been dropped.
CarAdvice also understands there are no firm plans at this stage to produce a sports version of the new Soul in the vein of the 184kW 2012 Kia Track’ster concept.