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LONDON – (BUSINESS WIRE) – 8 November 2018 – 70 million household items can now be purchased worldwide, as the acceptance of over forty cryptocurrencies becomes the main payment option for the revival of MonetaryUnit ($ MUE) of the largest independent market in the United Kingdom.
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Over 70 million household items can now be purchased with cryptocurrency on Flubit.com (Photo: Business Wire)
While cryptocurrency grew up to $ 15 billion in daily trading volume throughout October, MonetaryUnit's summer acquisition (flubit.com) launched the world's largest integrated cryptocurrency shopping market. Important for the broader crypt industry, this provides a new validation for those looking to make cryptocurrency a daily payment resource.
Byron Barnard of the MonetaryUnit Blockchain project, spoke today about the key challenges in a drive towards cryptic adoption in everyday life. "Our goal is to create environments that are accessible to everyone and free from the stigma that blockchain / crypto space is only for technicians, and online shoppers expect the ease of payment that card payments currently give them, before today. has just "been possible on a scale with cryptocurrency. For Flubit.com you can now simply choose any item from multiple sellers, select your favorite currency and pay in just a few clicks. Millions of everyday household items can be purchased with encryption and without problems. "
Flubit.com (a market similar to Amazon's offer) connects thousands of suppliers together, allowing users to purchase different items directly from multiple vendors in one basket. A stop to the previous cases of cryptocurrency has been a slow rate of adoption by traditional companies, but as Flubit.com Chief Operating Officer Steph Fiala explains, it is no longer a sore point for sellers. "Sellers will not know if they received an order paid with an encrypted or fiat currency, and when requested and before an order is sent to a seller, our technology automatically converts encrypted payments to their native currency. billions of dollars a day without risk, an advantage they can not get through other markets. "
Flubit.com, the e-commerce company of 8 years (and winner of the prestigious Web Summit competition) has already seen an increase in demand from communities who wish to add their own currencies as payment options. The managing director of Flubit.com, Bertie Stephens, adds that "Being part of the Flubit.com commercial ecosystem creates the demand for a currency, increases the volume of the exchanges and, consequently, helps to grow the value of a currency and its future relevance: applications of those coins that we believe meet the same philosophy of the blockchain and cryptographic technologies of MonetaryUnit ".
Since announcing the acquisition of the Flubit.com market (which had over 3 million shoppers through its doors last year), MonetaryUnit's $ MUE currency gained 37% in value. The coins available at the launch of Crypto.com on Flubit.com are:
BitCoin, BitCoin Cash, Dash, DogeCoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Komodo, LiteCoin, Ripple XRP, XMR Monero, Beancash, BlackCoin, Gold Bitcoin, CloakCoin, Crown, Decred, DigiByte, Game Credits, Groestlcoin, Lisk, MaidSafeCoin, NavCoin , Neo, Namecoin, Nxt, Peercoin, Pura, Qtum, SmartCash, Stratis, Syscoin, TokenPay, Tron, Ubiq, Vertcoin, Waves, NEM, Verge, ZCoin, Zcash and Horizen
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In the last hours the Chinese company Jiayu has published on its website a countdown related to the release of some new firmware updates for their smartphones, including the ROM CyanogenMod 12.1 for the Jiayu G4S and G5S.
In the last period the company did not talk a lot about itself, probably because of the possible failure of the same, due to the difficulties generated by the new competitors of the Chinese Android smartphone market. In fact, recently, because of the high number of devices available and the exponential increase in the average quality of the same, more and more small companies are struggling to emerge and impose their own devices.
With this "twist" it seems however that Jiayu is still far from closing its doors, as the manufacturer has already announced the arrival of new custom ROM for different devices, including the Jiayu S2, S3, G6 el 'F2.
Looking at some leaked images that have appeared in the last hours online we can see that the work for custom ROMs would seem to be already in an advanced stage of development and, fortunately, the same should already be all based on the latest release Android Lollipop, with the aforementioned personalization CyanogenMod.
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Clear, a minimalist to-do listing app, was launched to almost-universal acclaim for iOS in January this year. Utilising a very simple UI that resembled a heat map of priority, Clear offered a viable alternative to the recently-shipped stock Reminders app and a simpler competitor to rivals in its category.
We’ve been using Clear for Mac, which launched Thursday, for a couple of days now and, in this article, we’re going to investigate how it stands as a Mac app and alongside its iPhone counterpart. (more…)
Hot and fresh off the presses, here’s Mac AppStorm’s weekly news roundup.


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(Pocket-lint) - It's been reported for some time that Apple is working on an enhanced channel offering for Apple TV. The Wall Street Journal has now provided more detail, citing sources familiar with the matter.
We'd seen previous rumours that Apple was talking to television companies with the aim of providing some sort of TV service. Walt Disney, CBS and Twenty-First Century Fox are named, with the idea of providing a sort of "lite" package of subscription content.
It looks like Apple's aim is to have a streaming TV service through Apple TV that will give you some of the good bits of a fully-fledged cable service, but leave out some of the smaller parts. Channels like CBS, ESPN and FX are named as likely for inclusion by the WSJ.
With a line-up of around 25 channels, the subscription service would be priced at $30-40 (£20-25) a month. We suspect this would be a US-only offering.
It's thought that Apple's plans for Apple TV will be revealed at WWDC in June, with a launch date of September.
Apple recently dropped the price of Apple TV, meaning the hardware is only $69/£59, but it's thought that its new streaming service would work across Apple devices, including iPhone and iPad.
At Apple's recent Spring forward event, HBO announced that its new HBO Now streaming service was launching exclusively on Apple TV as a standalone service, priced at $14.99.
Whatever Apple has planned for Apple TV, adding content and reducing the price will help strengthen the Cupertino company's position in the living room.


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2021 ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION: ENTRIES NOW CLOSED
This is the first year the Royal Cambrian Academy has selected works for the exhibition online. There were twice the usual entries – over 500 – and the standard of work was very high. The panel has now made their considered and impartial selection of just over 200 pieces.
We aim to stage the exhibition as usual at the gallery in Conwy, however organising delivery of work, hanging and opening the show will be constrained by government guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
In order to ensure the safety of gallery staff and artists, we have carefully considered the current situation and taken the decision to postpone the gallery exhibition until late spring/early summer.
We will also postpone the announcement of the prize winners until this time. Meanwhile, the exhibition online will be launched as originally planned on 13 February 2021.
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LONDON—Liz Harper’s dog once dined on bowls of Mars Inc.’s Royal Canin tailored to the boxer breed and packed with the heart-healthy amino acid L-carnitine. She’d wash it down with Bowser Beer, a dog drink brewed from malt barley and salt-free chicken stock. Today, Billie Holiday has to settle for kibble from the local Target Corp. store.
“It’s probably worse than toxic waste, but she loves it,” said Harper, a 36-year-old attorney from Pelham, N.Y. “It’s cheap and way easier to buy than anything else. She’s a dog — she eats out of the garbage can and drinks out of the sewer. She doesn’t need organic dog food.”
Harper is among a growing proportion of pet owners seeking bargains and shunning more opulent items such as $600 (U.S.) Swarovski crystal dog collars, according to researchers Packaged Facts and Mintel. The $87 billion pet product market, once deemed recession proof, is starting to show cracks as owners struggle to make ends meet.
Nearly four out of 10 U.S. pet owners in a September Packaged Facts survey said they’re spending less on pet products, up from 27 per cent in February 2010. Three-quarters of them are looking for deals, particularly on non-food items like apparel and toys. The U.S. is the world’s largest pet product market, according to researcher Euromonitor International.
“The totally discretionary stuff is increasingly being cast aside,” said Lee Linthicum, head of food research at Euromonitor. “People still want to spend a fair bit of money on their pets, but they are re-evaluating their priorities.”
That has led pet retailers such as PetSmart Inc. to offer promotions to keep customers from defecting to Target, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. or specialty websites.
Michelle Friedman, a spokeswoman for PetSmart of Phoenix, declined to comment on the company’s discounting practices. Strasser has a “neutral” recommendation on PetSmart, which offers a Martha Stewart-branded line of toys, apparel, and $120 dog beds. The company was to have reported full-year results Feb. 29.
“In America, you have to push harder to get people to spend,” Euromonitor’s Linthicum said. “There are similar factors in Europe as well.”
To cater to frugal consumers, some pet-food producers have borrowed tactics from human food-makers like Kraft Foods Inc., reducing pack sizes to minimize the impact of rising ingredient costs, according to London-based Mintel. Prices for dog and cat food have increased nearly 10 per cent since 2006, excluding currency fluctuations and inflation, Linthicum said. Americans’ disposable income has declined in each of the past five months.
Closely held Mars leads the $71.8 billion global pet food market with a 24.8 per cent share, according to Euromonitor, followed by Purina maker Nestle SA, with 23.9 per cent. Nestle’s pet-care unit had organic sales growth of 4.3 per cent last year, the slowest of the Swiss company’s five product groups.
Suppliers of pet services are also doling out deals. Leo Sanders, the owner of a grooming and boarding business in Corning, N.Y., offers one free day of pet daycare for customers purchasing a full week. Dogs under Sanders’ care romp around two hectares of outdoor play space and relax to the strains of classical music.
“Our industry is not recession proof; we’re recession flexible,” Sanders said. “People will still spend, but instead of frivolous spending on squeakers and rawhide bones, now they are reading labels and making sure it’s a quality product. And they’re asking for discounts more.”
Sanders, whose pet bulldog has its own Facebook page, said services like day care, boarding and grooming are now 75 per cent of his total revenue, compared with several years ago when the majority of sales came from food, dog collars and apparel.
“Customers are going away from some of the pricier accessories and more to the services you can provide,” he said. “They are more willing to purchase a spa treatment than a leather collar studded with Swarovski crystals.”
Joanne Mahon, managing director of Diamond Dogs in the U.K., supplies just those collars to luxury department stores such as London-based Harrods Ltd. and pet boutiques in Manhattan and Laguna Beach, Calif., whose customers include Jennifer Lopez and actress Jessica Alba.
Sales of Mahon’s items, which include a Swarovski-laden collar and leash pairing for $1,135, fell as much as 25 per cent last year, she said in an interview conducted over the din of 10 new Saluki puppies. Buyers in Asia have helped pick up the slack, she said.
“The saving grace for pet products is emerging markets,” Euromonitor’s Linthicum said.
Mahon said some customers save all year to buy her products, which include bespoke beds that start at $3,100. One in six pet owners has cut back on other household expenses so as not to skimp on pets, Mintel has found.
Tighter household budgets have also had a “sobering effect” on pricey pet apparel, according to Joan Volpe, managing co-ordinator at the Center for Professional Studies at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. FIT sponsors a pet apparel fashion show, where this year 14 dogs will model nearly 30 outfits, from casual sportswear to evening ensembles.
“There has been a turn to practicality,” Volpe said by email. “The seemingly frivolous items of just a few years ago, like net tutus, are no longer in demand.”
Food, which makes up the biggest slice of pet expenditures, is the last thing that owners skimp on, according to Packaged Facts analyst David Lummis., who is based in New Orleans. A 2007 recall, when tainted ingredients were found in dozens of brands of Chinese-made pet food, sent panicked owners flocking to more expensive suppliers. U.S. sales of pet food should reach $20.8 billion by 2016, up from $18.1 billion, Mintel estimates.
Andre Marin, a recruiter based in Arlington, Va., hasn’t changed the brand of dog food he feeds his mutt, Rupert, who is sensitive to other foods, he said in an interview. He doesn’t bother with fancy collars or sweaters, though.
“Rupert is part husky,” Marin said. “These are dogs’ dogs — they chase deer. They’re not into the sweater thing.”


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This week: Sustainable cotton is a fashion industry game changer, protectionism and trade wars threaten corporate social responsibility, women rate companies on diversity performance.
Cotton is the most abundantly produced natural fibre in the global economy. Its production supports the livelihoods of over 350 million people. However, cotton production has significant environmental and social challenges that undermine the sustainability of the fashion industry as a whole. Sourcing more sustainable cotton not only addresses the commodity’s negative environmental impacts, but also has the potential to lift millions of farmers and their families out of poverty.
Presently only 3% of the total global cotton supply is sold as sustainable cotton. Although the majority of fashion companies have improved their environmental and social performance this past year, only 15% of all cotton grown has any sustainability credentials at all. This disparity is what Cotton 2040 wants to address.
Only 3% of the total global cotton supply is sold as sustainable cotton.
Cotton 2040 is a unique cross-industry initiative aimed at integrating and accelerating action on critical issues to mainstream sustainably grown cotton by driving collaboration. The brainchild of Forum For The Future, a leading global sustainability non-profit, Cotton 2040 brings together leading retailers, industry standards, organic standards, and fair trade industry initiatives to enable systemic change.
Cotton 2040’s CottonUP guide addresses the main barriers for companies looking to start or increase the amounts of sustainable cotton they source: the time and resources required to research and implement the most appropriate sourcing approach for their organization’s sustainability priorities. Its aim is to drive demand and increase production of more sustainable cotton from 15% to beyond 30% from 2020.
How Rising Protectionism and Trade Wars Could Threaten the Corporate Responsibility Movement – Forbes
In 2018, over 90% of the world’s largest corporations today are taking sustainability issues seriously. They’ve adopted new practices to address ESG issues and report on their sustainability performance using standards developed by GRI. However, in the current socio-political environment of eroding liberal principles, rising protectionism, and a weakening of the rule-based system, does corporate social responsibility and ESG have a future?
Here are 3 reasons why it may:
- Technology – Technological change is irreversible and will continue to facilitate transparency, digitalization, and low carbon solutions. While policies can help to accelerate the role of technology, they cannot stop it.
- Environment – The human impact on the environment will continue to increase, and global consumption trends will drive the value of any kind of natural asset. The environmental agenda is here to stay.
- People everywhere are increasingly able to express their own values via what they buy and how they invest. Currently there are seemingly endless social movements around the globe that reflect how people can extend their lifestyle choices into the markets by investing according to their values. This will only increase.
However, according to a lengthy analysis of the current destruction of rule-based international order by The Economist, a world “of trade wars, nuclear proliferation, fractured alliances and regional conflicts may soon show.” This kind of a world would end the corporate responsibility movement and destroy the foundation for markets to create and spread prosperity and technological solutions. Protectionism continues to spread around the world. Now is the time for responsible business leaders to speak up and defend the rule-based market system, and the values that hold markets and humanity together.
Corporate and investment leaders today have greater influence than ever before. Their voices and actions can shape tomorrow’s world. The time for responsible corporate leadership is now.
Investing in companies that crush the market and make the world a better place feels amazing, especially when it helps to accelerate gender equality at work. There’s plenty of research that shows investing in women, (gender lens investing,) is smart. Quite simply, diverse teams perform better. Companies with women at the helm are also more capital efficient and see a higher return on invested capital and equity. A Catalyst report showed that companies with a higher representation of female board directors perform significantly higher financially.
But the #MeToo movement and what’s been happening with Nike, Google, Microsoft, and some of the other big-name companies that might even be in your investment portfolio, show us that we still have a lot of work to do. The top female talent is going to be attracted to companies that offer the most value-driven environments for their employees. These companies are exactly the company cultures that long-term investors should seek out. Investors need to find the companies with the competitive edge of a happy, gender-diverse workforce. Where can investors find them?
Dubbed the Glassdoor for women, InHerSight.com combines individual insights with living stories to yield powerful representative data for investors, companies, and prospective employees. Investors can use InHerSight data to get a picture of which companies are doing the best job to develop workplaces that have established high gender diversity standards according to the women who’ve actually experienced the company policies firsthand.


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Comcast’s advanced advertising unit FreeWheel has elevated David Dworin to chief product officer to oversee the ad-tech company’s product strategy, design and development globally.
Dworin is replacing Jon Whitticom, who became FreeWheel’s product chief in 2019 but left the company this year and is now serving as an advisor for Netflix’s advertising platform, per his LinkedIn page.
Dworin, meanwhile, joined FreeWheel in 2017 and most recently was VP of product management, leading enablement of programmatic for premium video and multi-screen transactions. Prior to that he led the company’s global consulting arm and trust and standards team. Before joining FreeWheel, Dworin ran his own consulting firm, and also held strategy roles at StrategyOne (now Edelman Data x Intelligence) and Gallup. As chief product officer, Dworin will report to FreeWheel General Manager Mark McKee.
In addition to Dworin’s appointment, FreeWheel also named Quentin SaLay, most recently VP of human resources for Comcast’s Beltway region, as head of human resources for the company globally.
“Television advertising is constantly evolving, and to ensure that FreeWheel continues to pioneer and innovate new solutions that address the industry’s needs, we need to be led by the best of the best,” said McKee in a statement. “These two leaders embody the mindset, drive, energy and passion we need to take the company forward. David is a highly collaborative and insightful team and industry leader; and Quentin brings a strong background in moving the needle on workplace culture, change and results within the technology sector.”
Dworin’s promotion comes as FreeWheel continues to carve out a place in the evolving TV advertising ecosystem. In 2022 that included changes to leadership, with Katy Loria named as chief revenue officer and Soo Jin Oh as the unit’s first chief strategy officer.
FreeWheel’s also signed partner deals and introduced new capabilities as it works to make programmatic CTV buying more scalable and effective for advertisers – including leveraging Comcscore audience data for its demand-side platform Beeswax to help media buyers enhance contextual targeted ads. In October the company also looked to give programmatic a priority boost with new unified yield capabilities, meant to reduce friction and inefficiencies in the TV ad buying process across sales channels.
In recent months media companies and agencies have tapped FreeWheel, including Fox which is looking to the company to help manage direct-sold advertising campaigns. Estrella Media and Havas Media North America have each also recently turned to FreeWheel as a partner to help bolster direct and programmatic advertising, and scale U.S. CTV campaigns, respectively.


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JAMESBURG, N.J. — There’s no lack of beauty products aimed at the younger set.
The only problem is, many are not formulated with kids’ safety in mind, according to Linda R. Rothstein-Sosnick, a beauty industry consultant who teamed up with her husband, Jeffrey Sosnick, to form a new company called B A Kid Inc., based here.
"Many of the products out there for kids are poor quality," said Rothstein-Sosnick, who has worked at several firms involved in the cosmetics business. Too often, she said, components are cheap and ingredients are not always suitable for young users who are not careful where they apply the potions. What was designed for lips or cheeks sometimes gets dabbled on eyes, causing harm.
That prompted Rothstein-Sosnick to conceive a new line of items aimed at the preteen market. However, rather than adapting a look that screamed youth, Rothstein-Sosnick opted for straightforward packaging that has more of an apothecary feel.
Some industry experts think it could be a $2 million brand. They said the line could especially appeal to toy stores, drugstores and supermarkets. Many of those outlets have been left without a very young brand since the demise of Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell once had a healthy $150 million to $200 million business in children’s cosmetics via drug, toy and discount stores. New Dana closed Tinkerbell in the acquisition of Renaissance.
However, B A Kid will compete against the power of the Bonne Bell name, as well as the growing acceptance of Caboodles and whimsical beauty kits such as Markwins’ ACT collection.
"Although it is aimed at preteens, we think the line appeals to consumers four to 104," she said. "Too many of the lines out there today are marketed at kids, but the kids think they look too young and they are trading up to what is promoted to teens. And teens want what adults wear."
One of the most interesting twists is the labeling. The back panel of the products features information typically found on drug or food labeling. For example, the active ingredients are listed, as well as uses for the item. There are warnings stating the products are for external use only. The packaging also advertises that the products perform a dual purpose as a health and beauty aid. The lip balms, for example, have notices explaining that they tint lips while also moisturizing.Beeswax is a major ingredient in the lip products. And, to reinforce the concept of natural ingredients such as beeswax, B A Kid features a bumblebee as an icon for the line. Product names tie into bees such as Bzzzy Body Lip Nectar or Bzzzy Body Sweet Heartzzz, a heart-shaped lip gloss. "These products are designed to let kids’ natural beauty shine through," Rothstein-Sosnick said.
While maintaining a healthy positioning, B A Kid isn’t overlooking the fun aspect of beauty packaging. There are whimsical heart-shaped glosses with glitter flower centers, lip glosses attached to zipper pulls and Lip Honey with duo colors that looks like a lava lamp.
Beyond the positioning, B A Kid is striving for value over the competition. Most packages feature two items rather than one. The Bzzzy Body Lip Nectar, for instance, comes in cherry- and passion fruit-flavored lip balms packaged on a peg card. Suggested retails are $3.99 to $4.25.
To take advantage of a value positioning, B A Kid has produced assortments suitable for wholesale clubs. One is the Bzzzy Body Lip Sweetzz to Go, which has various fruit-flavored glosses in a plastic case that is then put in a clamshell for presentation on a pallet at a club. Clubs such as BJ’s Wholesale and Costco have both moved more aggressively into beauty. The clamshell of two packages of the glosses (one in a pearl finish, one in a glitter) retails for about $14.99 to $15.99. The duo hopes the pack will be a great gift idea for a grandparent with multiple grandchildren.
The Sosnicks eye space on permanent planograms, but are introducing the line with clip strips and power wings. "They could easily be clip stripped, especially in a supermarket aisle," Rothstein-Sosnick said. "It has an impulse appeal, but people can buy it and know they are giving their kids something safe."
@juicebeauty, where @gwynethpaltrow holds the title of creative director of makeup, has become one of the foremost labels in the organic beauty category –– with sales on track to hit $100 million this year. What’s behind the rapid growth the brand is experiencing right now? It all started in 2005 when the wellness movement was just getting started. Read more on WWD.com. #wwdbeauty
Stay up to do date with breaking news and trending stories with WWD’s “The Essentialist.” Our newsletter delivers the top news in fashion right to your inbox. Want more info? Link in bio. #wwdfashion (📷: @kukukuba)
"I want to tell a story that inspires people to feel good about themselves, but also I'm making a commentary about the lack of female stories and female directors and saying this should change," said @imheathergraham on her latest project "Half Magic." The comedy feature, which the actress wrote and directed, is based on her own struggles as a woman in show business. Read @andrewnodell's full interview with Graham on WWD.com. #wwdeye (📷: @jgreenery)
@meltcosmetics cofounders @lora_arellano and @danabomar built their brand on a single idea: a true matte lipstick. To set the brand apart, they said they always put their customers first –– including a personalized note in each package. #wwdsummits #wwdbeauty
@moncler unveiled its latest project, #MonclerGenius, yesterday at Milan Fashion Week. The Italian outwear maker gave show-goers a preview of the monthly collections – which were created by eight designers and creative talents including Pierpaolo Piccioli, Simone Rocha, Craig Green and more – that will start rolling out in the summer.


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So today, during the Panasonic press conference, a big-wig put on his dog and pony show about the latest and greatest Panasonic Blu-ray tech. It really wasn’t anything new for us, ’cause we heard ’bout both the BD55 and BD35 last week, (Quick refresher: BD55 – BD Live, 7.1 analog out, DiVX & BD35 – BD Live) but no word on price yet. I don’t get why manufacturers launch a product and don’t tell us consumers how much cake it costs. Just come out with it already. Gosh.
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KEY WEST — Like a lot of island communities, Key West must import meat, vegetables and a lot of other goods that its residents need. It does, however, export a few local products: tacky T-shirts, lurid tattoos and great literature.
Ernest Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Snows of Kilimanjaro while living here. Tennessee Williams penned Summer and Smoke and Night of the Iguana in Key West. Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Ralph Ellison, Annie Dillard and Thomas McGuane, among others, also put in serious writing time in Florida's southernmost city.
But the number of stores in Key West selling these authors' books has dwindled to just one. The sole survivor, Key West Island Books, has managed to keep its doors open for 35 years despite sometimes not having a living owner. The secret to its longevity is simple.
"It's a darn good bookstore," said Boston University professor William McKeen, the author of a book on Key West's literary legacy called Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West.
In a town that offers 400 places to buy alcohol in its 7.4-square-mile area, how did Key West wind up with just one bookstore? It happened slowly, like a sand castle gradually washed away by the tide.
Once there were plenty of places to buy books in Key West. There was a gay bookstore, Flaming Maggie's (so named because it stood at the corner of Fleming and Margaret streets). There was even a store devoted to mysteries, run by noted thriller maven Dilys Winn, recalled Tom Corcoran, a onetime Key West resident who writes mysteries set there.
But they all closed because of rising rents and disappearing customers, he said. By 2011 all that was left were Key West Island, a Borders Express and two other independents, Voltaire Books and Bargain Books. Borders Express closed that summer as part of the chain's collapse.
Voltaire had an enviable cachet. It supplied books for the annual Key West Literary Seminar, held every January, which features talks by capital-W Writers such as Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates. But it wasn't enough.
"We haven't had the community support we had hoped for," Voltaire co-owner Peter Rogers told the Key West Citizen when he closed his doors in July 2011. Six months later, in January, the other remaining independent, Bargain Books, closed because of its owner's declining health.
A potential competitor to Key West Island Books, Miami's famed Books & Books, "has looked at opening a branch in Key West," said owner Mitchell Kaplan, but "we're not close to anything right now."
To McKeen, Key West's transformation from an island of creative misfits to a tourism mecca is partly to blame for the declining number of bookstores: "People who go down there on vacation take their Kindles or a dog-eared paperback they don't mind getting suntan oil on."
But poet Arlo Haskell, who is associate director of the Key West Literary Seminar, said what has happened here reflects what has happened across the country: "You don't have to go down the street to buy books anymore when you can just order them on your phone."
To walk into Key West Island Books is to see what most bookstores used to be like. There are no comfy chairs tempting patrons to sit a spell. There's no coffee shop with free Wi-Fi. There are a few racks of used DVDs, but mostly there are books of every shape, size and subject matter — and clerks who know all about them.
"That's the secret to that store," Corcoran said. "There are people there who care about books."
"We've got very capable employees who are literature nuts," agreed the store's owner, Scott Shaffer, who bought it in 2010. One clerk, Chip Phillips, said, "I've worked here for a year but I've been a customer for 20."
Amid a hodge-podge of shelving is a section of books by and about Hemingway, and near it are works by Thomas McGuane and the rest of Key West's luminaries. There are also heavy leather-bound collectors' editions shelved near the register, and large sections on pirates and Cuban history.
There's now a small section of the latest bestsellers from Gillian Flynn and Dennis Lehane. Stretching back to the rear is a wide range of secondhand books, from well-thumbed copies of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged to a cross-dressing paper doll cut-out book called Drag Dolls.
The mashup of offerings reflects the store's past. The first owner was an aficionado of antique books and reserved the back room for his fellow collectors, Corcoran said. The second had worked with remaindered books — the ones sent back to the publisher — and he stocked the store with so many that cardboard boxes of them jammed every aisle, Shaffer said.
When that owner died, though, the store was left in the lurch. The store's longtime manager ran it for the attorneys overseeing the estate, who hunted for a year for a buyer. Finally the landlord stepped in to take charge, along with son-in-law Shaffer.
"We didn't want to see the business go away," said Shaffer, an Ohio transplant. "We agreed to step in and keep it as part of the community that it's served for 35 years."
Shaffer's background is in real estate, not book sales. He says he thought of the store "as a property that needed to be rehabbed." He set to work getting rid of the cardboard boxes of remainders and then began updating the inventory — a move required by the loss of his competition.
"This store's niche was secondhand books," Shaffer said. "But now we have people coming in who want the bestsellers."
To deal with the lack of easy parking, he has considering creating an Internet-based bestseller delivery service for condominium residents — sort of like a localized Amazon.
He's not done with the changes yet — and he's not convinced he'll be the only game in town for long, either. "I think you're going to see more local, independent bookstores pop up," he predicted. Not because Key West has been home to a lot of authors, he said, but because "we've got some good readers here."
Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Craig Pittman can be reached at [email protected]


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Think twice before placing that order for moo shu pork: Chinese food
may not be as healthy as you think. A consumer group in Washington DC has
concluded that many Chinese meals contain more fat and sodium than hamburger
‘People need to be warned that this isn’t the health food that they
think it is,’ says nutritionist Jayne Hurley of the Center for Science in
the Public Interest, which conducted the study.
The group bought 15 popular Chinese dishes in three cities, and commissioned
an independent laboratory to analyse the food. Kung pao chicken (stir-fried
chicken and peanuts) scored worst with more fat than three McDonald’s quarter
pounders. Moo shu pork (pork, vegetables and egg) and General Tso’s chicken
(chicken coated with flour) were also laden with fat and sodium.
Fat causes concern because of its role in causing heart disease and
cancer. And too much sodium is thought to cause high blood pressure. Even
dishes such as stir-fried vegetables were high in sodium.
The study has raised the blood pressure of Chinese restaurateurs, who
complain that it is misleading. ‘You cannot compare a freshly created entree
to a processed piece of meat on a bun,’ says Perry Moy, owner of The Plum
Garden in McHenry, in the Chicago suburbs.
‘Why is that an unfair comparison?’ asks Hurley, who criticises hamburgers
as well as Chinese food for being too fatty.
Moy says by basing its results on an entire serving of the main course
and a helping of rice, the study overestimates the amount of food people
eat. In a restaurant people share main courses, Moy argues, so they eat
less fat, sodium and cholesterol.
Hurley stands by the study. She says, ‘many people do eat a carton of
takeout Chinese food’.


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NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Ogilvy & Mather announced today the promotion of Chris Garbutt to Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather East. He is currently Chief Creative Officer for Ogilvy & Mather France and will transition into his new role by mid-year. He will be based in New York and report to North American Chief Creative Officer Steve Simpson.
Garbutt will be responsible for driving the creative vision and delivery for clients across all of Ogilvy & Mather's East disciplines, including advertising, customer engagement, public relations, digital, shopper marketing, branded content and entertainment. He will continue to work with many of the agency's global brands and will also continue to sit on the agency's Worldwide Creative Council.
Chris first started his career at Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg in 1995 then moved to TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris. He was European Creative Director at TBWA\Paris where he worked on Nissan, Sony Playstation and Absolut Vodka for five years. He re-joined Ogilvy & Mather France in 2008 as Executive Creative Director working on global campaigns for Dove, Perrier, Coca-Cola, IBM, Louis Vuitton and more. He is currently ranked in the top ten most awarded Chief Creative Officers in the world.
Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer stated: "Chris inspires, teaches and raises standards. His rare talent, relentless perseverance to always excel in the creative work and his proven leadership skills make him the ideal candidate for this newly created role. I have every confidence that Chris, working with our talented team in New York, will shine and take our office to the next level."
Commenting on his move to New York, Chris said, "One of the most exhilarating things about working at Ogilvy is the power of our global network and the opportunity to transcend regions and disciplines. The ability to continue to work with some of the world's most respected brands but also create the new model agency of the future was something not to be missed."
"This is the age of the adaptable agency. Our work is changing daily, and it requires different talent and disciplines," said Steve Simpson, North American Chief Creative Officer for Ogilvy & Mather. "This development plays to Ogilvy's strengths. In this new role, Chris will only help us speed our progress and our own evolution."
He has worked with a variety of brands and categories, from radio stations to airlines; Volkswagen to BMW; Nando's Restaurants to KFC; luxury to fast moving consumer goods. Chris's significant award wins include numerous international awards from festivals such as Eurobest, Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clios, New York Festivals and the European Effie Awards.
About Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather is one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world. It was named both the Cannes Lions Network of the Year and the EFFIEs World's Most Effective Agency Network for two consecutive years, 2012 and 2013. The company is comprised of industry leading units in the following disciplines: advertising; public relations and public affairs; branding and identity; shopper and retail marketing; health care communications; direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing; consulting, research and analytics; branded content and entertainment; and specialist communications. O&M services Fortune Global 500 companies as well as local businesses through its network of more than 500 offices in 126 countries. It is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY). For more information, visit http://www.ogilvy.com/, or follow Ogilvy on Twitter at @Ogilvy and on Facebook.com/Ogilvy.
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In this session we look at creating interactive communications via the web by adding messaging, file transfer, and group communication (group chat and audio/video conferencing) into the web experience. We will also discuss potential applications of this technology in areas including B2B, B2C, P2P, and gaming. Peter is Technical Director at Acision. He graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science. After graduation Peter worked on a PSTN switch dev...
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SYS-CON Events announced today the DevOps Foundation Certification Course, being held June ?, 2015, in conjunction with DevOps Summit and 16th Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. This sixteen (16) hour course provides an introduction to DevOps – the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration and automation in order to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows will res...
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SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today reported record growth of the CloudTest community, exceeding 30,000 registered users of the CloudTest platform in Q1 2015. SOASTA also announced widespread adoption of its Web and mobile testing solutions, with more than 1,600 customers completing more than 285,000 tests using CloudTest during the quarter. This rapid growth shows that DevOps-driven digital businesses are embracing a more continuous approach to testing, and CloudTest is meeting t...
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GENBAND has announced that SageNet is leveraging the Nuvia platform to deliver Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) to its large base of retail and enterprise customers. Nuvia’s cloud-based solution provides SageNet’s customers with a full suite of business communications and collaboration tools. Two large national SageNet retail customers have recently signed up to deploy the Nuvia platform and the company will continue to sell the service to new and existing customers. Nuvia’s capabili...
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Sonus Networks introduced the Sonus WebRTC Services Solution, a virtualized Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) offer, purpose-built for the Cloud. The WebRTC Services Solution provides signaling from WebRTC-to-WebRTC applications and interworking from WebRTC-to-Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), delivering advanced real-time communications capabilities on mobile applications and on websites, which are accessible via a browser.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that AIC, a leading provider of OEM/ODM server and storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. AIC is a leading provider of both standard OTS, off-the-shelf, and OEM/ODM server and storage solutions. With expert in-house design capabilities, validation, manufacturing and production, AIC's broad selection of products are highly flexible and are conf...
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U.S.- Kazakhstan Business Council starts its work
Kazakhstan is an attractive partner for large foreign investors. Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin and the United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross launched the work of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Council online. The virtual launch event was attended by more than 100 representatives of leading American companies, the U.S. Department of State, heads of domestic national companies and development funds.
The head of the government emphasized the growing competitiveness of the Kazakh economy amidst the high level of stability of the real sector. The stability of the national economy was also acknowledged by the leading international credit rating agencies.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce stressed that with the establishment of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Council, investment cooperation between the two countries would reach a qualitatively new level. The United States is one of Kazakhstan’s largest economic, trade and investment partners. During the years of independence, the inflow of direct investment from the U.S. to Kazakhstan exceeded US$53 billion or 15 percent of the total amount of foreign capital attracted.


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Fairtrade certified cocoa Mars Bars hit the shelves
Today marks an important milestone in the MARS® Bars 83 year history as the first bars featuring Fai...
Today marks an important milestone in the MARS® Bar’s 83 year history as the first bars featuring Fairtrade-certified cocoa roll out of the factory and into shops.
After taking MALTESERS® Fairtrade in 2012, Mars Chocolate UK has extended its commitment to sustainable sourcing, to become the first UK company to commit to Fairtrade’s new Cocoa Sourcing Program.
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The Fairtrade Cocoa Program, which was launched in partnership with Mars Chocolate Germany for their TWIX® brand there in 2014, specifically aims to deliver more opportunities for cocoa farmers to sell on Fairtrade terms and connect them with businesses that actively support efforts to improve farmer livelihoods.
As part of this initiative, Mars and Fairtrade are taking an innovative new approach to boost sustainable cocoa production and enhance the livelihoods of cocoa farmers, their families and cocoa-growing communities. Alongside paying Fairtrade Premiums to farmers’ organisations, Mars is working in partnership with Fairtrade cocoa co-operatives on the ground in Côte d’Ivoire who are building their own farmer-led projects to improve cocoa yields for the long-term, through measures such as training farmers in the effective use of fertilisers and planting techniques and providing access to improved high yielding and disease resistant crops.
By 2016, the total Fairtrade premiums paid by Mars globally to cocoa cooperatives in West Africa will reach over $2m per year.
Globally, Mars’ Sustainable Cocoa Initiative focuses on cocoa science research, transferring technology and agricultural methods to cocoa farmers to increase their productivity and working to promote certified sustainable practices. In 2009, Mars, Inc. was the first global chocolate company to commit to certify its entire cocoa supply as being produced in a sustainable manner by 2020. Sourcing Fairtrade certified cocoa for MARS® Bars now on shelf in the UK and Ireland is an important next step in that commitment.
Blas Maquivar, President, Mars Chocolate UK, commented: “This is an important milestone in the MARS® Bar’s 83 year history. We’re proud to make one of the nation’s favourite chocolate brands and we’re now even prouder that the Fairtrade-certified cocoa we source for it is helping farmers to make their crops, and ultimately their livelihoods, even more sustainable.
“At Mars, ‘Mutuality’ is one of our guiding principles and this is a true example of sharing mutual benefits with partners throughout our supply chain”
Michael Gidney, Chief Executive of The Fairtrade Foundation, said: “The winning ingredient in this partnership between Fairtrade and Mars is that it puts farmers’ own organisations in control of improving their own livelihoods and cocoa production, and ensures much-needed investment to achieve mutual goals. We’re delighted that Mars, one our most iconic chocolate bars, is the first to join Fairtrade’s Cocoa Program in the UK, and that this will benefit some of the most vulnerable small-scale farming communities in Cote d’Ivoire.”
Mars launched its Sustainable Cocoa Initiative in 2009, focusing on three critical elements: cocoa science research, including mapping the cocoa genome in conjunction with IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and releasing the genome into the public domain; transferring technology and agricultural methods to cocoa farmers to increase their productivity through the Vision for Change initiative in Côte d’Ivoire; and working to promote certified sustainable practices. Through Vision for Change, Mars anticipates reaching 150,000 farmers in Cote d’Ivoire. Mars Chocolate was the first company to commit to purchasing 100 percent of its cocoa supply from certified sources by 2020.
After spending more than $20 million annually in both 2009 and 2010, Mars Chocolate has invested $30 million in cocoa sustainability investments annually since 2011, and plans to continue to match that investment throughout the rest of the decade. Mars is a founding member of the CocoaAction industry effort and our Chief Sustainability Officer, Barry Parkin, chairs the World Cocoa Foundation. Mars is committed to working with the industry to ensuring the future of cocoa and is happy to see progress being made toward ensuring the sustainability of cocoa.
More information on Mars’ Sustainable Cocoa Initiative can be found at www.mars.com/cocoasustainability
In 1911, Frank C. Mars made the first Mars candies in his Tacoma, Washington kitchen and established Mars’ first roots as a confectionery company. In the 1920s, Forrest E. Mars, Sr. joined his father in business and together they launched the MILKY WAY® bar. In 1932, Forrest, Sr. moved to the United Kingdom with a dream of building a business based on the objective of creating a “mutuality of benefits for all stakeholders” – this objective serves as the foundation of Mars, Incorporated today. Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars has net sales of more than $33 billion, six business segments including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience, and more than 72,000 Associates worldwide that are putting its Principles into action to make a difference for people and the planet through its performance.
For more information, please visit www.mars.com., twitter.com/marsglobal
The Fairtrade Foundation is an independent certification body that licenses the use of the FAIRTRADE Mark in the UK on products that meet international Fairtrade standards. This independent consumer label appears on products to show that disadvantaged producers are getting a better deal from trade. Today, more than 1.5 million people – farmers and workers – across more than 74 developing countries benefit from the international Fairtrade system.
Fairtrade International developed Fairtrade Sourcing Programmes (FSP) for cocoa, sugar and cotton last year as a new and innovative model to drive greater impact and sales for small-scale farmers by encouraging businesses to scale up their purchases of a specific commodity. The Fairtrade Foundation board agreed to introduce FSP cocoa and sugar in 2015 and Mars are the first UK company to take up the Fairtrade Cocoa Sourcing Programme option for the UK market.
For more on the Fairtrade Sourcing Programmes, please visit http://www.fairtrade.net/fairtrade-sourcing-programs.html
UPS Posts Record Second Quarter with Revenues of $23.4bn
Growth across each of its core segments resulted in record results for UPS in the second quarter, with group revenues climbing 14.5% year on year to $23.4bn.
The global logistics outfit achieved consolidated operating profit of $3.3bn, up 47.3% compared to the same period in 2020. It is the second consecutive quarter of record profit, and a significant rise on Q1’s $2.9bn.
UPS Q2 Revenues in Brief
- Consolidated revenues: $23.4bn (+14.5% yoy)
- Domestic: $14.4bn (+10.2%)
- International: $4.82bn (+30%)
- Supply Chain Solutions: $4.2bn (+14.3%)
The US company’s domestic segment performed steadily with 10.2% revenue growth to $14.4bn. But it was its international and supply chain solutions segments where UPS saw the biggest gains. Strong demand in Europe led an increase in international revenues of 30% to $4.82bn. UPS’ supply chain solutions division saw revenue growth of 14.3% to $4.2bn, driven, the company said, “by strong demand in nearly all businesses”.
UPS’ steady growth throughout the pandemic has been led by the overarching vision of its chief executive Carol Tomé to do “better not bigger”, focussing on efficiency and high margin deliveries through its network over pure scale and volume.
“I want to thank all UPSers for executing our strategy and delivering high service levels, which fuelled record financial results in the second quarter,” she said. “Through our better not bigger framework, we are moving our world forward by delivering what matters.”
UPS Completes Sales of UPS Freight
The second quarter also saw UPS complete the divestiture of UPS Freight in a deal worth $800m - with a surprise result for the division, now called TForce Freight, under new owner TFI International.
“The second quarter was historically significant for TFI International, with the closing of our UPS Freight acquisition and record performance across the board,” said Alain Bédard, chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, TFI International. “Particularly gratifying is the performance of TForce Freight, which has exceeded our operating ratio targets far ahead of schedule, and we have only just begun our work.”
In it first two months of ownership TFI reported that adjusted operating ratio (OR) was 90.1% for TForce Freight, far outperforming its forecasted OR of 96-97%.
“I wish to thank our entire team for their hard work and remarkable efforts, and officially welcome aboard our new TForce Freight colleagues who have seamlessly come under the TFI umbrella and are already making stronger than expected contributions,” Bédard added.


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Cannabis Dispensary Magazine
by Andriana Ruscitto
11 Feb 2021
Drops are in 1906’s best-selling line of swallowable pills, each ranging from 2.5mg of THC to 2.5-25mg of CBD per dose; they are tasteless and calorie-, gluten- and allergen-free, according to the release.
“The introduction of Drops means Illinoisans will finally have access to low-dose, rapid-onset cannabis in a non-combustible format,” the release states.
Drops are fast-acting and are available in six formulations that use organically-grown and pesticide-free cannabis. They are designed to elevate or help a person’s sleep, energy, anxiety, focus, mood or libido, the release states.
In addition to Drops, AWH announced it is also launching new live resin cartridges and PrePacks through its premium cannabis product line, Ozone.
“The live resin cartridges capture the essence of the whole flower in a vaporized form, and each strain of premium flower is extracted at the right time in sub-zero conditions to ensure the maximum amount of cannabinoids and terpenes are captured,” the release states.
Additionally, PrePacks are resealable, repackable and recyclable glass pipes prepackaged with .3 grams of top-shelf, hand-trimmed flower, the release states.
“We are constantly striving to add innovative products to consumers who are more discerning than ever before,” said Chris Melillo, AWH chief revenue officer, in an email to Cannabis Dispensary and Cannabis Business Times. “We’re proud to deliver product extensions like our Ozone Reserve Live Resin that captures the most complete cannabinoid profile or the unique 1906 Drops that represent a new frontier in cannabis medicine, both pathbreaking product formats our customers want.”
Illinoisans can get all three new products at dispensaries throughout the state, including MOCA and Midway dispensaries in Chicago and Ascend Dispensaries in Springfield and Collinsville, the release states.


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Note to readers: The following blog which originally published on July 20 is being re-posted because of a technical issue that has now been resolved.
The Supply Chain Matters blog features our latest edition of our supply chain management technology centric news capsule: This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech.
This series presents a brief synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management technology as well as business investment news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership.
The second half of 2021has begun with an active period of announcements related to technology, again in the Cloud based logistics and transportation technology segment.
Included in this edition are highlights of noteworthy announcements and/or developments from:
Uber Freight and Transplace
DP World and Syncreon
Zebra Technologies and Fetch Robotics
Blackstone and Sphera
Walmart and Symbotic
Aquiline Drones and Aerialtronics
Uber Freight to Acquire Transport Logistics Provider Transplace
Uber, through its rideshare division Uber Freight, announced that the company intends to acquire non asset transportation logistics services provider Transplace from TPG Capital in a deal valued at upwards of $2.25 billion.
According to Business Broadcast Network CNBC, this deal consists of up to $750 million in Uber common stock and the remainder in cash. TPG Capital had previously acquired Transplace in 2017.
The companies indicated to CNBC that this acquisition will create one of the leading logistics technology platforms and comes at a time of accelerated transformation in logistics. That stated, the business network noted that this deal was a rare move for Uber which has spent the last year shedding non profitable businesses. That stated, this deal is likely aimed to boost efforts to make Uber Freight reach profitability sooner than its existing tract, with adjusted EBITDA estimated to be by the end of 2022.
This column’s last update related to Uber and its Uber Freight unit was a reported “Series A preferred stock financing” which was led by New York based private equity firm Greenbrier Equity Group.
Supply Chain Matters will provide a follow-up update regarding this deal at a later time.
DP World Announced Acquisition of Syncreon
Dubai based DP World, a large global operator of marine ports and inland cargo terminals announced earlier this month the acquisition of supply chain solutions provider Syncreon for a reported enterprise value of $1.2 billion. Reportedly, DP World has been on an acquisition spree in an effort to become a broader based, diversified global logistics service provider.
Syncreon provides logistics services to include warehousing, inventory management, kitting and fulfillment services primarily to automotive industry clients as well as supply chain and logistics services to consumer goods, healthcare and industrial industry customers. The Auburn Hills Michigan provider reported $1.1 billion in total revenues during 2020. Bloomberg reported that provider’s principal owners began exploring a sale earlier this year. DP World reported $8.5 billion in revues during 2020
The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.
Zebra Technologies to Acquire Fetch Robotics
Logistics equipment and item identification technology provider Zebra Technologies announced its intention to acquire start-up robotics provider Fetch Robotics in a deal valued at approximately $290 million. Reportedly both companies have previously been collaborating together on integration for online fulfillment. Zebra was also an investor in Fetch Robotics holding a 5 percent equity position.
Reportedly, the acquisition of the remaining equity of Fetch will be funded by cash on-hand and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
Zebra is a provider of hand-held item identification scanners and a variety of other mobile devices to track and manage inventory. Fetch’s Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are used for optimized picking in customer fulfillment and distribution centers, just-in-time material delivery in manufacturing facilities and automating manual material movements. The acquisition is aimed at further integrating both of these provider’s technologies to provide customers with a singular provider that can leverage item identification and collaborative robot technologies.
Zebra’s previous acquisitions have included intelligent workforce management provider Reflexis Systems in 2020, – time-temperature monitoring solutions provider Temptime in 2019, and prescriptive analytics tech provider Profitech in 2019. The company acquired Motorola Solution’s scanner business for a reported $3.5 billion in 2014, one of its largest acquisitions.
Blackstone to Acquire ESG Software Provider Sphera for $1.4 Billion
Blackstone announced that the private equity firm had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sphera, a provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) software, data, and consulting services, from Genstar
Capital. The investment, which values the company at approximately $1.4 billion, would be made through Blackstone’s flagship private equity vehicle.
Sphera works with organizations around the world to help them surface, manage, and mitigate ESG risk in the areas of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability, Operational Risk Management and Product Stewardship. The company reportedly has more than 3,000 customers in more than 100 countries.
Berkshire Grey Accelerates Momentum and Secures $23 Million Order from Major Grocery Retailer
Warehouse robotics and automation provider Berkshire Grey Inc. made a number of announcements in mid-July.
In the area of business momentum, the tech provider announced that it has secured $148 million in total orders since the company’s inception, up from $114 million reported at the end of 2020. Order backlog reportedly has increased to $95 million, up from $70 million at the end of 2020. Global headcount now amounts to upwards of 350 employees.
The tech provider announced that it will provide grocery-picking robots as part of a $23 million contract with an unnamed global retailer for online, same day, order fulfillment. The Berkshire Grey Intelligent Enterprise Robotics (IER) technology robotically reportedly picks grocery items from inventory and pack the items into customer bags to fill orders that are placed online and via mobile apps.
These July announcements follow an announcement on February 24 of this year indicating that Berkshire Grey entered into a definitive agreement with Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp that is expected to result in the tech provider becoming a publicly listed company early in the third quarter of 2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including approval by the stockholders of Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp.
Walmart to Partner with Robotics Automation Firm Symbotic
Walmart indicates that the global retailer will implement robotics thechnology provided from Wilmington MA based tech provider Symbotic.
Reportedly the technology utilizes high speed robots to sort, store and retreive products among the retailer’s regional warehouses and automate customized, store-ready and aisle-ready pallets to make goods unloading and stocking more efficient.
According to a published report provided by Walmart:
“Our latest solution is an industry-leading technology system poised to transform our supply chain and make warehouse work easier for our associates. Since 2017, we’ve worked closely with Symbotic to optimize the system by testing it in our Brooksville, Florida, distribution center. The brand-new technology system works to sort, store, retrieve and pack freight onto pallets. We’re using automation to revolutionize intake, increase accuracy and change how freight is handled at our regional distribution centers (RDCs).”
The retailer described the technology as a game changer:
“This first-of-its-kind tech when applied at our scale is revolutionary because, it gets products onto shelves for our customers even faster, while saving time for our associates. The new way of unloading store-friendly palletized trucks will make the process faster and simpler for our associates, allowing them to spend more time with our customers.”
No financial details have been shared regarding this deployment.
Aquiline Drones Acquires 50 Percent Stake in Dutch Based Aerialtronics
Aquiline Drones, a U.S.-based manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and a Cloud applications provider for commercial drone operations announced that it has purchased 50 percent of the capital of Aerialtronics, an end-to-end solutions developer headquartered in the Netherlands that utilizes drones, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things generated data to provide real-time insights for a variety of business operations.
Aquiline produces the Altura Zenith, a versatile commercial drone and the Pensar smart camera, a multispectral sensor, complete with artificial intelligence and edge computing capabilities. This tech provider’s existing exclusive manufacturing and distribution licensing agreements with Drone Volt allows for the global production of both products along with the Hercules 2, a lightweight and compact drone.
Aerialtronics is a subsidiary of Drone Volt, a publicly traded French manufacturer of professional civil drones and embedded AI, with which AD partnered with in October, 2020.
The $9 million US dollar transaction is the latest acquisition for Aquiline in its continued commitment to becoming a full-scale, global leader in the UAS industry.
The recent transaction was based on Aerialtronics being valued at $17.92 million USD. Drone Volt will reportedly retain operational control of the company
Volta Trucks Unveils First Volta Zero Electric Drive Chassis for Inner City Deliveries
Volta Trucks, a European based start-up electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has revealed the first running prototype chassis of the Volta Zero – depicted as the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-ton commercial vehicle designed specifically for inner city logistics.
Safety is reportedly at the heart of Volta Trucks, with its ambition of producing the safest trucks for use in cities. The Volta Zero was designed for electric from the outset, which facilitates a step-change in vehicle, driver and pedestrian safety. Thanks to the removal of the internal combustion engine, the operator of this vehicle sits in a central driving position, with a much lower seat height than a conventional truck. This combination, plus a glass house-style cab design, gives the driver a wide 220-degrees of visibility, minimizing dangerous blind spots. The prototype Volta was launched in September 2020, with the first vehicles expected to be operating with customers in late 2021.
Designed from the ground up with a reported operating range of 150 to 200 kilometers (95-125 miles), the truck will reportedly eliminate 1.2 million tons of CO2 by 2025.
The new prototype chassis adds the proposed production-specification frame and drivetrain and will be able to drive at normal road speeds. The prototype chassis is due to start a comprehensive testing program on proving grounds, with learnings taken into the production of a pilot fleet of vehicles expected to be delivered in late 2021. These vehicles will be tested by Volta Trucks engineers as well as being evaluated by key customers who have signed up for both testing and the option on the series production, to develop their understanding of how the Volta Zero will integrate into their operations. Full-scale production of customer-specification vehicles will then follow at the end of 2022.
Symfoni Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding
Spend Intelligence and Spend Automation tech provider Simfoni announced that it has raised a total of $15 million in Series B funding led by Peakspan Capital. With this funding, the company reportedly will significantly expand sales and marketing to meet increasing demand for its analytics-driven, turn-key Spend Automation platform, enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Simfoni Spend Automation platform is described as a full digital procurement suite that provides more control for CFOs. The software leverages Machine Learning (ML) and AI to leverage data to automate and streamline key aspects of the procurement process, while reducing third-party expenditures across the entire organization.
The company reportedly has over 100 customers across a wide range of industry sectors, including retail, financial services, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and education, among others.
This concludes our latest edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech.
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Computer and Office Equipment Giants, Omatek Ventures Plc (Omatek) has made history in Lagos Nigeria by unveiling the first ever world’s smallest desktop Personal Computer (PC), known as the Omatek handtop PC.
At the unveiling ceremony to the Press at the Omatek Victoria Island Office, Mrs. Florence Seriki, Group Managing Director (GMD) of the company affirmed that the smallest desktop PC is in continuation of the company’s trail blazing efforts on the global technological stage.
“As the first of its kind to be launched in Africa, the Omatek handtop PC is a compact 8 inch desktop based on more-typical and more-powerful notebook components which requires little space on your desk” Mrs. Seriki said.
She further affirmed that the Omatek handtop is a great value for anyone looking for a basic PC for managing photos, sending e-mails, surfing the Web, and performing other common tasks.
“The Omatek handtop PC can equally be described as a 3-in-one system which can be mounted behind the Plasma/LCD to serve as presentation screen and/or TV monitor. It can also afford executives the opportunity to surf the web” she said.
The Omatek machine comes equipped with Intel’s new miniature, power-efficient 1.6 GHz Atom processor 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 160GB 5400rpm 2.5-inch SATA hard drive. The handtop also has an integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics card with shared video memory.
The Omatek GMD asserts that the handtop PC’s gaming performance is very strong using PC World Bench test. “It is also low in power consumption as it consumes just 15 to 20 watts of power, which is less than what most notebooks consume” she affirmed.
“It comes with various platforms like Windows XP Home, XP Pro and Windows vista Basic or Mandriva Linux. It includes a stand, as well as a mount kit and is equipped with a wireless keyboard and mouse with an optional display unit.
The space –saving PC is useful to executives as a mobile desktop, while home and small-office users will find it valuable as compact work-tool; while students will find it handy as rugged but extremely efficient tool for the e-learning environment, backed by Omatek resource centers being established in most institutions in Nigeria” Mrs. Seriki said.
She again affirmed that Omatek pioneering efforts in bringing in new technologies in the PC market stemmed from being the first Completely Knocked down (CKD) factory in Africa, who buys her components from first class factories in Asia.
“Omatek will not rest in her quest to remain Africa’s foremost solutions provider” she said.
Meanwhile she confirmed that Omatek would be completing her 2008 Financial Year End (FYE) tomorrow Tuesday June 30 2009 and the company is set for a Board meeting in August 2009 to decide when Omatek would have its first ever post-listing Annual General Meeting (AGM).
“Omatek would end her 2008 financial year tomorrow and we are preparing for our final board meeting to herald the company’s first AGM about a year after listing on the Stock Exchange” she said.
As earlier reported, Omatek listed on the Floor of the NSE 2,941,789,472 Ordinary Shares of 50 kobo each at N4.90 per share on June 19 2008.


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Leading outdoor building experts share their tips for creating the dream Australian backyard.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, February 25, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — While the weather is still warm and the sun is still out, Australian homeowners are looking for ways to improve their outdoor spaces for cooking, dining, entertaining and relaxing with their family at home. Softwoods, experts in pergolas, decking and more, reveal how to create the dream contemporary Australian garden.
Outdoor experts have summed up Australia’s prevailing garden trends with one word: bold. Whereas gardens of past years have typically seen minimalist features, pared back design styles and toned down colours, today’s gardens are vibrant and eye-catching. Homeowners are increasingly being drawn towards brightly coloured flowers and variegated plants that have incredible, colourful leaves. And, of course, no Australian garden is complete without a smattering of stunning native plants. The best part about these gardens, says Softwoods, is the face that no two are exactly the same. According to the outdoor building experts, this is a time for homeowners to experiment with their taste, try new things and implement what they really love.
Around the flora and the greenery, Softwoods reports that Australians are opting for practical, yet beautiful feature pieces. Expansive decking, sprawling pergolas, water features and outdoor dining and entertainment spaces are a must – after all, what good is a standout garden with no one to enjoy it? For smaller gardens, Softwoods recommends quaint features such as park benches or small pergolas that offer space to host and entertain without dominating the space. Larger outdoor areas, of course, have much more space to play with. Softwoods suggests homeowners think thoroughly about what is important to them – pets, children, friends – and how they want the space to be used, then design around those dreams.
Softwoods has been a leading South Australian outdoor builder for over 30 years – to find out more about their services or to get started building the dream Australian outdoor area, contact them today.
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Binary options fraud among top concerns of Swedish financial regulator FI
Binary options and stock-related fraud top the list of warnings issued by Sweden’s financial markets regulator in 2017.
Binary options were among the key reasons for issuing warnings in Sweden last year. This becomes clear from the Annual Report for 2017 published by the Swedish financial markets regulator Finansinspektionen (FI).
In 2017, FI warned about 1,129 non-compliant companies that operate in the Swedish market without the necessary permission. In 2017, the warnings concerned mainly equity-related fraud, but also fraud related to binary options. FI made a decision about warning in 18 cases. The bulk of the warnings were received from foreign agencies.
The numbers are in line with recent data provided by other regulators in Europe. For instance, Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) reported in February that it received 1,710 notifications from consumers about various financial matters in 2017, up 13% compared to 2016. Nearly half of the enquiries were questions or complaints relating to fraud and unlawful offers of financial products and services. There were 792 such messages in 2017, up by 45% compared to the previous year.
The messages reporting fraud or unlawful offers mainly concerned binary options, boiler rooms, pyramid schemes and ‘phishing’. New topics in 2017 included credit fraud, virtual currencies and fraud with investments in diamonds. The FSMA published 116 warnings last year, up 70% from 2016. The FSMA issued 46 warnings about boiler rooms, and 42 about fraud related to binary options.
Whereas the Swedish regulator does not outline any particular plans with regard to binary options, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is currently considering to ban these instruments. ESMA mulls a prohibition on the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients. The regulator considers to adopt this measure as the significant investor protection concerns relating to this product are due to inherent features of the product that are unlikely to be sufficiently addressed through certain restrictions on the product (such as minimum duration contract periods).
Even Norway, which is not a part of the EU but is a part of the EEA, is planning strict measures with regard to binary options. The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet) proposes that marketing, selling and distribution of binary options to non-professional customers in Norway or from Norway is prohibited. The watchdog emphasizes that it has, on several occasions, investigated foreign providers of binary options that have targeted Norwegian investors without a necessary license. The regulator notes that these entities use aggressive marketing methods and do not provide the necessary risk warnings.


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O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ:RCII) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor acquired 54,584 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,134,000. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC owned approximately 0.10% of Rent-A-Center at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Meeder Asset Management Inc. raised its holdings in Rent-A-Center by 117.2% during the first quarter. Meeder Asset Management Inc. now owns 1,303 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 703 shares in the last quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Rent-A-Center by 26.7% during the fourth quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 3,800 shares of the company’s stock worth $62,000 after purchasing an additional 800 shares in the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can raised its holdings in Rent-A-Center by 105.6% during the fourth quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 3,831 shares of the company’s stock worth $62,000 after purchasing an additional 1,968 shares in the last quarter. First Quadrant L P CA purchased a new position in Rent-A-Center during the first quarter worth about $91,000. Finally, Advisors Preferred LLC purchased a new position in Rent-A-Center during the first quarter worth about $113,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 95.26% of the company’s stock.
In other news, EVP Catherine M. Skula sold 5,000 shares of Rent-A-Center stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $24.45, for a total value of $122,250.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 32,090 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $784,600.50. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Insiders own 0.81% of the company’s stock.
Shares of RCII traded down $0.06 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $25.26. 525,364 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,388,584. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.80, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 2.55. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $24.47. Rent-A-Center Inc has a 52-week low of $11.98 and a 52-week high of $26.75. The company has a market cap of $1.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 23.83 and a beta of 0.42.
Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ:RCII) last announced its earnings results on Monday, May 6th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.29. The firm had revenue of $696.69 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $683.62 million. Rent-A-Center had a net margin of 1.34% and a return on equity of 33.38%. Rent-A-Center’s revenue was down .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned ($0.08) earnings per share. On average, equities research analysts predict that Rent-A-Center Inc will post 2.12 EPS for the current fiscal year.
A number of brokerages have issued reports on RCII. TheStreet raised shares of Rent-A-Center from a “c” rating to a “b-” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 7th. BidaskClub raised shares of Rent-A-Center from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 18th. ValuEngine raised shares of Rent-A-Center from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, June 13th. Finally, Stephens raised shares of Rent-A-Center from an “underweight” rating to an “equal” rating and set a $27.00 target price for the company in a report on Monday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have assigned a hold rating, one has assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $21.00.
Rent-A-Center, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, leases household durable goods to customers on a rent-to-own basis. The company operates through four segments: Core U.S., Acceptance Now, Mexico, and Franchising. It offers durable products, such as consumer electronics; appliances; computers, including tablets; smartphones; wheels and tires; and furniture, including accessories under rental purchase agreements.
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Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- announced
The game will use Unreal Engine and 3D models; series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari will resume the director role.
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The reveal trailer (below) showcases two of the main characters from the Guilty Gear series: bounty hunter Sol Badguy and holy order warrior Ky Kiske. The two are shown duking it out, using their signature moves from previous games.
The trailer also teased characters Millia Rage and Eddie. The game will be built on the Unreal Engine, using 3D models for the first time in the series.
Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari will be reprising his role as the game's director, and while the game is currently slated for an arcade release, no launch date or home console version has been announced.
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How Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards and Starlight Distillery supported their community during quarantine
By Elizabeth Scinta
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Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards and Starlight Distillery have been around for 177 years, but do you know the history behind them? Simon Huber opened the business in 1843 and the farm has now been passed down to the seventh generation of Huber’s. It is currently co-owned by first cousins, Ted and Greg Huber. Did you know that Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards and Starlight Distillery is an entirely separate entity from Joe Huber’s Family Farm and Restaurant? Huber’s has been a part of the Southern Indiana community for almost 200 years, so you can imagine they’re well-loved and well-connected. They aim to help serve the community in the same way the community supports them by purchasing their products. During quarantine, Huber’s created a free hand sanitizer to be given to first responders and the public.
During quarantine, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) encouraged distilleries to produce their own hand sanitizer to help their communities. “We were delighted to be able to step forward and provide. We donated over 10,000 gallons of hand sanitizer in probably the first six weeks to our emergency responders, our hospitals, our nursing centers and our police officers,” said Dana Huber, the vice president of marketing and public relations at Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards and Starlight Distillery. Now, they’ve switched to selling the hand sanitizer for a minimal price to cover the materials needed to make it.
Huber’s was allowed to stay open during the quarantine period because they’re an essential business. During this time, they were able to brainstorm and develop other ways to give back to the community. “We had a super fabulous leadership team that came up with great ideas for us to do some carryout and to also do some online shipping with our wines and delivering care packets to our local ER responders at some of our hospitals,” said Huber. “We had community members that wanted to actually call in and purchase some of these care packets that included cheese, sausage and some other local goodies.”
Producing and supplying hand sanitizer and care packages isn’t the only way Huber’s gives back to the community. Huber’s allows nonprofits to host events at Plantation Hall and donates their products or services, such as wine tours or tastings. Due to the pandemic, there have been fewer events happening in Plantation Hall, but many nonprofits have been generous to carry their deposits into 2021 in the hopes of having the event then. They have been able to continue to donate products and services as many events have switched to an online format. “There have been some virtual events going on, so whether it’s our virtual time to get on and share some details about cocktails or spirits, or whether a donation or product, some of those virtual events still happened this year with those nonprofits,” said Huber. Thanks to the 700 acres Huber’s has, it’s easy for them to provide wine tastings and tours safely.
Whether they’re providing hand sanitizer to the community or donating wine tours and tastings, Huber’s has been giving back to the community for 177 years and will continue to do so as long as there is a need. “I think our primary goal [in 2020] is to support those nonprofits in our community in any way that we can as much as we can,” Huber explained. “Without our community, we wouldn’t be the historic business that we are today. It’s a very high priority for our family leadership to support our community because we want to come out of this stronger than when we went in and we are all in this together.”
Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards and Starlight Distillery
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BOI Card Shield Application: Bank of India said that from 21 April 2021, the card shield application will stop working. From 22 April this feature will be available in phone banking and net banking.
Bank of India has appealed to its customers to update the Card Shield Application before 21 April 2021 as it will not work from 22 April. The bank has tweeted its information from its official Twitter handle. In this, it has been said on behalf of the bank that the bank gives its customers the facility of monitoring and control on the debit card. The bank has now integrated this service with the BOI Mobile App and Internet Banking. Therefore, customers should now use the bank’s mobile app.
Bank of India has also shared the link for this, through which this app can be downloaded. The bank has clearly said that now this service can be availed through mobile banking. Under Card Shield, users have complete control over their card. When, where, how and how much to use a debit card, the customer can disaide with the help of this application. If your card suddenly gets misplaced, then the card can be turned off with the help of this application. You will get notification when online transaction takes place.
Notice for Termination of Card Shield Application for Debit card!
Link to download BOI Mobile Banking app below:
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— Bank of India (@BankofIndia_IN) March 19, 2021
Bank of India also offers Transactions Near You under the card shield. In this, on turning on the My Location option, the card can be used only in those places where the card holder itself is present. Apart from this, the limit of the card can also be fixed. With the help of this feature your children cannot misuse the card.