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Strong interest in 3D TVs during the first three months of this year saw LG's TV division returning to profitability, offsetting the company's still loss-making mobile phone business.
The company also showed an operating profit for the first time in nine months.
However, Samsung is blaming its lowest operating profit for almost two years on a slump in sales of its LCD TVs, while mobile phones were more successful for the company.
LG had sales of KRW13.16tn (£7.45bn) in the first three months of this year, and showed an operating profit of KRW130.8bn (£74m).
Particularly impressive was the performance of the company's TV division, buoyed by 3D TV sales: it turned a loss of KRW65.2bn (£37m) in the last quarter of 2010 into a KRW82.1bn (£46.5m) profit in the first quarter of this year.
Meanwhile the company's mobile phone division, while still making a loss, is showing some signs of improvement: losses in January-March this year were KRW100bn (£56m), compared to KRW260.5bn (£147m) in the previous quarter.
Samsung, however, has seen its profits fall to the lowest level since the second quarter of 2009: it made KRW2.95tn (£1.67bn) in the first three months of this year, compared to KRW4.41tn (£2.5bn) in the same quarter last year.
Sales were up 6.8% year-on-year at KRW36.99tn (almost £21bn), but down 11.6% on the last quarter of 2010.
A major cause of this reduction is a slump in the sales of LCD panels and TVs: Samsung's LCD business saw a loss of KRW230bn (£130m) for the quarter, and the company recently announced that it and Sony are reducing the capital holding in their S-LCD panel-making joint venture.
However, Samsung's mobile phone business was rather healthier, sales of the Galaxy S smartphone helping it to a profit of KTRW1.43tn. (£809m).
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Like a bad game of telephone, rumors are abound that retailer Sneakersnstuff has been sold to a Norwegian venture capital firm, with some reports pinning the sale at around $57 million. And while it's true that SNS recently sought new investors and found them in Norway's FSN Capital, the store's founders say talks of a full-blown acquisition are greatly exaggerated.
In a statement issued by co-founder Erik Fagerlind, it's explained that the structure of the FSN Capital deal necessitated the need to create a holding company. "The holding company then bought all shares in SNS—and for the money that the holding company paid—myself, Peter [Jansson] and all other invested managers of SNS reinvested the majority of it in the new holding company," writes Fagerlind. "So, we pretty much swapped shares in SNS for shares in SNS holding company."
Rather than cashing out, Fagerlind's excited to see out future growth at the retailer. This year, SNS will open a new U.S. store, a bar in New York, and a nightclub in Berlin. And in 2019, there are plans to expand to the Asian market.
As for the $57 million figure, Fagerlind says it's nothing more than click bait. "Between everyone involved, we have agreed not to publish the evaluation—but I can tell you that $57 million dollars is not correct," he said.


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Chevy is showing off this off-road concept at the SEMA show, and it’s powered by the same supercharged V-8 as the C7 Corvette Z06.
Chevrolet might be showing off one of the coolest concept vehicles at SEMA this year: the Beast. It’s a 650-horsepower off-roader based on the Silverado full-size pickup with 37-inch rubber, and we think it looks like the Warthog from the Halo video game. Now all Chevy has to do is put this engine in the new Silverado ZR2 and finally join the pickup power wars against the Ford F-150 Raptor and Ram 1500 TRX.
Under the hood is a supercharged 6.2-liter LT4 V-8 engine making 650 horsepower, matching the output of the C7 Corvette Z06. It’s paired with a 10-speed automatic transmission and a four-wheel-drive system with a two-speed transfer case. The Beast’s 20-inch beadlock wheels are mounted with 37-inch AMP Terrain Attack mud-terrain tires, and it’s equipped with Brembo brakes. MORE SEMA CONCEPTSJeep Created a Three-Row Wrangler for SEMAMopar Debuts Slew of Concepts for SEMAFord Is Bringing Six Custom Broncos to SEMA 2021.
The Beast is a four-door truck based off the Silverado with two spare tires in the bed and it looks like an oversized side-by-side. It has a 126.9-inch wheelbase with 13.5 inches of ground clearance. It’s nearly 10 inches wider than a standard Silverado. It looks appropriately beastly with plenty of LED lights, skid plates, and an off-road suspension setup. Control arms are employed up front with adjustable dampers with external reservoirs and a live axle out back.
Two 7.0-inch LCD screens monitor the Beast’s performance data, including pitch and roll. The driver and passenger are buckled in with four-point harnesses in Recaro performance seats.
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What this research clearly shows is that at long last nightwear is getting the exposure it deserves. For too long nightwear has been viewed as a necessary evil rather than a luxury item, meaning ladies will wait until their old nightdress wears out before buying a new one ? unheard of with most clothing items! Considering we spend a third of our lives in bed it?s about time that we see nightclothes as a desirable treat and start buying special nightwear for ourselves.
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While marketers in many countries are worried about a recession, there is also optimism regarding the business climate and marketing budgets.
Time for Africa’s retailers to refine their Black Friday strategies
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Offer online deals that complement in-store promotions, and use online channels to drive foot traffic to physical stores, says expert.
As Black Friday approaches and African consumers increasingly embrace what was once a uniquely American shopping concept, the continent’s retailers are gearing up to woo customers who are struggling financially – more so than in previous years.
To determine what will ultimately hit the sweet spot with their specific target audience, retailers must find the best fit to leverage both in-store and online strategies.
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This is according to Mike Smollan, Chief Growth and Innovation Officer at Smollan, a retail solutions company servicing brands and retailers across over 60 countries. He emphasises that both in-store and online options have their advantages.
“In-store offers the excitement of sensory appeal for shoppers [and] an opportunity to engage with customers, drawing them in with eye-catching displays and product demos, and maximising on impulse buying,” says Smollan.
“Online offers the potential for new customer acquisitions [and] reaching a wider audience, as well as being able to tap into detailed analytics to track shopping behaviours and identify trends going forward.”
Hybrid strategy makes the most sense
A hybrid approach makes sense. For example, offering online deals that complement in-store promotions and using online channels to drive foot traffic to physical stores.
“Undoubtedly the customer connection is everything, whether online or in-store, as consumers demand an excellent shopping experience over Black Friday,” advises Smollan.
“They want options, the latest ranges, offers on offers, quick check-outs, quality, delivery in the quickest time possible if ordering online – and a store experience where availability, and lots of it, does not switch their mood.
“What we’ve found from an in-store perspective during these times of high demand is the immense value of sending in our surge merchandising teams. They focus solely on brand visibility, additional POS and making sure product is in stock, on shelf, all the time. That’s the whole idea: speed, efficiency and targeted sales.”
This year, Black Friday is on 24 November. Cyber Monday, the Monday after Black Friday when additional deals are on offer, is on 27 November.
Frequently, though, many African retailers and e-commerce portals are offering ‘Black Friday week’ and ‘Black Friday long weekend’ to maximise the hype and marketing effort.
In some markets, this is now the biggest sales period leading up to Christmas, rather than the traditional week or so prior to Christmas Day.
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More people also took advantage of deals to buy everyday items, rather than spending on big-ticket luxury goods.
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Traveling northeast down Old York Road in Robbinsville, a set of large warehouse buildings dominate the landscape at the intersection of Montgomery Way. One of those buildings dwarfs the others, a half-mile-long monstrosity.
Inside, robots whir to life and employees race back and forth, trying to keep up with the thousands of times customers somewhere else click—or tap—the “buy” button.
This giant warehouse is home to a Amazon Fulfillment Center, reportedly the busiest facility the massive online retailer has in the world. The 1.2-million-square-foot center celebrated its grand opening on June 19, opening its doors to dignitaries and media members to mark the completion of construction at the facility. The Robbinsville facility started processing orders in July 2014.
Present at the ceremony were New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes and Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried. Amazon Director of Operations Tim Hall led the opening ceremony.
“It’s a great day for Robbinsville,” Fried said. “There are thousands of people who are now employed thanks to the leadership of the Christie Administration who was responsible for convincing Amazon to come to New Jersey.” The mayor went on to thank Hughes for his help in establishing the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Robbinsville and for the transportation that is now provided for Amazon employees to get to and from the Fulfillment Center on a daily basis.
The Amazon Fulfillment Center in Robbinsville is an eighth generation center, which employs over 2,500 people and is equipped with robotics to ensure more efficient order processing and delivery. With Amazon robotics, the facility is able to store 50 percent more inventory, Hall said. In cubic square feet, that is equal to 59 football fields full of product.
While the Robbinsville facility surprisingly is far from the biggest in Amazon history, it is one of the more efficient facilities thanks to Amazon robotics.
Within the facility is more than 14 miles of conveyor belts carrying products to their destinations at a rate of hundreds of feet per minute. Products are placed randomly throughout the warehouse on shelves with barcodes. The barcodes are scanned along with the products in order to tell workers which products are placed where.
“You never know what item a customer will order,” Hall said. “That’s why we stow the items randomly.”
Shelves are carried by Amazon robots that weigh 320 pounds and can lift up to 750 pounds.
Thousands of orders are filled each day at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Robbinsville, and millions of products are stored there. Amazon carefully counts each product that is held in the center, and tracks inventory so customers never place an order that cannot be filled.
In order to ensure there is no wasted space, Amazon also makes its box selection based on the size of the item to be shipped. To celebrate the release of Dreamwork’s animated movie “Minions,” Amazon has been packaging shipments in boxes plastered with the titular yellow creatures.
“We have people ordering more often now that there are Minion boxes,” Hall said. “Customers want to see if they’ll receive a Minion box.”
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The Board of the International Co-operative Alliance unanimously approved the global co-operative marque at their last meeting in Seoul at the end of June. They also decided that the ICA’s regional offices and sectoral organisations should become sub-brands of the new identity along with the International Co-operative Alliance. There’s lots to be done in preparing the family of logos!
The creative/design process over the last few months has really taken off as we work towards the launch in Cape Town in November. There is much still to do and we’ve been working with the team at Calverts on developing the font, colour pallet and instant brand language which will form key elements of the brand guidelines.
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Followers of Procter & Gamble's recent strategy announcements will hardly be surprised to learn that recruiting "low income consumers" in emerging markets is a key goal of the multinational owner of 350 brands. It may not have been as clear that P&G sees mobile communications as instrumental in achieving this goal - at least until this was spelt out at the 2008 Mobile Marketing Forum in Budapest.
Khurram Hamid, P&G's global head of mobile marketing, told attendees that mobile communications was at the centre of its drive to reach "its next billion customers", particularly in areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa where mobiles outnumbered fixed lines, television sets or clean water supplies. P&G believes that, worldwide, mobile communications has three broad roles depending on the local market in question.
In the advanced economies of Western Europe and the US, mobile has a supporting role to underpin mainstream media such as television, and increasingly the web. In other large, but still immature economies such as Brazil, India and Russia, where internet and mobile access is growing but often limited to the cities, it plays a lead role - sometimes leapfrogging analogue media which never really developed. Yet in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa and rural Pakistan, it has become a hero, providing the only communications channel available to millions of people - and the brands which want to reach them.
As a global group, P&G needs to adopt marketing activities which can be scaled across these disparate markets, and mobile offers one of its best hopes, Hamid said. Yet Hamid also complained that large planning agencies had been as slow to embrace mobile marketing as they had once been to recommend that clients use the web.
P&G, which will spend an estimated $350m on interactive, mostly web-based marketing this year, had eventually turned to smaller specialists to create its internet campaigns. Mr Hamid said the same situation could occur in the mobile market unless mainstream agencies put the medium into more of their planning and strategy briefs.
Mr Hamid warned: "If you're (the agency networks) not going to be there, we're going to bypass you." He added that the whole process of launching a mobile campaign, which typically required advertisers to work with several agencies, technology groups and mobile operators, needed to be simplified. He said: "There is a whole vast value chain and we have to make so many choices. Make it easy for us and you will get the money."
Mr Hamid was one of several speakers during the Budapest event to argue that mobile marketing would be most important to multinational advertisers in emerging markets. The following case study material, collated from several speakers, provided ample evidence for this view.
Emerging Markets Mobile Case Studies (1): South Africa
South African marketers are believed to spend more on mobile marketing than internet advertising. Over half of all direct marketing expenditure in the country also goes via mobile channels. And in a presentation by Joanne Scholtz, director, interaction GroupM, the country emerged as a dynamic, large and innovative market for commercial mobile activities.
Scholtz began by setting out the characteristics of the country which make it an attractive option for mobile marketers. In a country of 47m people, 20 per cent have an income of less than 50 euros per month, compared to the average South African income of 450 euros per month. A large percentage of the population has therefore never owned fixed line telephones, televisions or internet enabled PCs.
The country now has an estimated 42 mobile accounts (some are second or even third phones) - an 80 per cent penetration rate. By comparison, only 5.6m South Africans have web access and broadband penetration is low and access typically slow. It is also a very diverse market, stretching for affluent urbanites to rural hut dwellers.
Mobile internet access is also growing quickly. According to a Siemens/Nokia study, mobile internet had been used by 25 per cent of South African mobile users in 2007. Mobile data tariffs are comparatively cheap, and for many people mobile provides their first experience of the web. The country regularly appears in the top 10 most active nations worldwide on the Admob international mobile advertising network. It notched 117m mobile ad views in August 2008 and Google has also rated the country the third or fourth largest national source of mobile searches.
However, as in other countries, mobile marketers complain about a lack of agreed metrics and a complicated supply chain to get campaigns to market. Permission is also a large issue, aggravated by unethical selling of consumer information databases. This has prompted one operator, Vodacom, to create a network-neutral permission-only database of mobile users. The database has recruited 200,000 registrants and brands which have marketed to this database have reported high response and good read rates on commercial SMS and other types of messaging campaigns.
Innovative mobile media options
One of the features of the South African market (also available in Serbia and Egypt and likely to appear in other markets) is free "Please Call Me" (PCM) messaging. Mobile phone users will send this type of SMS message - typically they have a quota of free PCMs as part of their airtime deal - to a contact rather than making a call which would incur a cost.
There are some 20m PCM messagess sent in South Africa every day. Consumers also use them to confirm the times of pre-agreed transactions - such as picking or dropping someone off - with the time that the message is sent serving as the prompt for the understood time the action to take place. The PCMs can also carry commercial messages and these are typically booked out by advertisers at the earliest opportunity.
The country has also experienced rapid growth in instant messaging on mobiles (which is cheaper for consumers than sending an SMS). The leading supplier, Mixit, has 7.5m South African customers and has launched into other markets.
Results from mobile media
PCMs have been used by OMO, the Unilever detergent powder.
Over a 38 day campaign in November 2007, 34m messages were tagged with prize-related additional content by the Unilever brand, including free airtime and a few cell phones. The results were:
Advertisers such as Cadbury's and Peugeot have also aired similar campaigns.
As mobile phones are personal, discreet and always carried, they have also been central to social marketing campaigns in South Africa. Scholtz detailed how they have been used by retro-viral clinics to remind patients to keep appointments. Some clinics have reported a rise in attendance of up to 90 per cent following such campaigns. Typically the users are sent several reminders and a thank you after attendance at the clinics. PCMs have also been used to broadcast HIV helpline numbers (typically call centre volumes double after the PCM message goes out), and to recruit volunteers for campaigns against female violence.
Scholtz summed up six main ingredients for successful campaigns:
1. Have clear objectives
2. Understand your audience
3. Look at their behaviours and attitudes
4. When you have a strategy in place, use mobile to amplify other activities you are doing (surveys, greetings etc)
5. Select the best partners and products available for a campaign
6. Follow through on the execution to accumulate learnings
Emerging Markets Case Studies (2): Turkey and Georgia
Mobile-based communities are starting to pick up pace in several emerging market economies. Arda Kertemelioglu, co-founder and chief business development director of Mobilera (Turkey), provided examples of the genre.
One of Mobilera's most prominent activities is running segmented and permission based mobile communities for brands wishing to attract and acquire new customers, retain existing ones, increase stickiness and trigger the use of products and services. A typical client is Turkcell, a Turkish mobile operator in a market where the average youth has two and a half SIM cards and there is little loyalty.
Mobilera created a mobile loyalty programme using a combination of demographic data and operator information on individuals' behaviour and usage. Customers were then invited to join the programme and offered prizes and tickets in return. Over time this has accumulated 18m users - half of Turkcell's total user base.
In Georgia, it oversaw a launch campaign for Geocell, a new mobile operator, of a mobile youth community called Zoom. The campaign used a variety of events and marketing. The specific mobile elements were:
The total campaign, involving a continuous run of such offers, resulted in a 140 per cent rise in Geocell membership. In further activity, discounted cinema tickets were offered to members: 40 per cent of members used the offer more than once. In addition to driving subscribers to Geocell, the company also claims that Zoom members spend on average 10 per cent more on mobile services than average Geocell customers. Other examples were cited from Ukraine and Moldova.
Emerging markets case studies (3): Croatia
Finally, VIPnet, a Croatian operator and partner of Vodafone, offered evidence of an advertising funded mobile service. It was presented by Matthias Grundboeck, director residential marketing, VIPnet.
Encouraged by research showing that more than 60 per cent of respondents claimed to be interested in mobile marketing, the operator launched Tomato-plus, a junior sub brand for an advertising-funded tariff. Under the deal, customers received 50 SMS and 50 free call minutes in return for accepting advertising messages by SMS, MMS or email.
Advertisers were charged on a per-message basis (7 eurocents per SMS; 14 eurocents on MMS). Consumers' responses were free via SMS. Users registered online where they were asked to give certain lifestyle information as well as demographics to aid targeting of campaigns. Within two weeks, there were 7000 users on the tariff (Croatia's population is only 4m).
They were then sent an average of two or three messages a day (some users complained when they didn't receive messages fearing that the service had ended and they had lost their free minutes). The messages have been used to promote DVDs and mobile coupons as well as research users' habits (some research questions have had 75 per cent response rates).
According to the company, some 98 per cent of participants said the service was somewhat or very attractive. Mr Grundboeck, and his colleague from a partner agency, Alexandra Deutsch, were asked whether this advertising-funded model would work for all operators. The answer given was that it would depend on the operator's brand and customer profile. For some users, advertising-funded services would not be appropriate, and therefore operators might more likely to offer such services via a sub or new brand.
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|Carlos Grande is editor of WARC Online. He can be contacted at email@example.com. |
He joined WARC in 2008 after eight years at the Financial Times, where he was latterly marketing correspondent. Previously, he was acting deputy on the FT's UK companies newsdesk and a senior UK companies reporter.


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Windows 10X was unveiled back in October of 2019 as a dedicated operating system for dual-screen and foldable devices due to arrive in Fall 2020. But less than a month after the event, leaked documents revealed that Microsoft was rethinking those plans, and in May, the company confirmed that the operating system would launch first on traditional clamshell laptops.
Despite acknowledging the shift in plans, Microsoft has never given a revised timeline for the launch of Windows 10X. However, according to ZDNet's sources inside Microsoft, the company is targeting a limited spring 2021 launch with a wide release in the spring of 2022.
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While some rumors suggest that a future Windows 10 update may see some of the Windows 10X features, this represents a more significant delay for the project than many were anticipating.
The specifics of the rollout, according to the report, are a focus on business and education with the spring 2021 launch, frontline workers being a primary market for the former and the latter perhaps aligning with a previous rumor that Microsoft would be focusing on cheaper laptops to compete more directly with Chromebooks in the booming market for remote learning laptops.
This initial release will also lack support for Win32 apps in containers, according to the report, relying entirely on Universal Windows Platform and web apps with the earliest expected release for Win32 support coming in 2022.
What's shocking is the spring 2022 delay for the more rollout of Windows 10X to traditional clamshell laptops and the dual-screen devices it was originally intended for. To put it into perspective, Windows 10X will arrive a full 18 months after the intended release, by which time Apple will be nearing the end of its recently announced Apple Silicon transition.
Windows 10 users who were looking forward to Windows 10X will need to console themselves with the forthcoming Windows 10 Start Menu redesign and perhaps some bits and pieces from Windows 10X finding their way into Windows 10 while they wait.
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The next major expansion for Don’t Starve is coming soon to Steam Early Access. It is titled Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked.
Available December 1, players will be able to get their hands on the newest update to developer Klei Entertainment’s popular survival game. Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked re-imagines the Don’t Starve lore by stranding main protagonist Wilson on a tropical island where he will encounter all new obstacles and enemies to overcome. Posted on the Klei forums, the new expansion will contain “new seasons, creatures, biomes, and many other exciting ways to die.”
The Early Access will only be available on PC, leaving consoles and mobile builds of the game out of luck for now. Additionally, Mac and Linux support will not be available at launch. Delving further into detail, Klei revealed on their forum post that players will not need the previous Don’t Starve expansion ‘Reign of Giants’ to play, although ‘Shipwrecked’ will be fully compatible with existing expansions. As of now, Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked is single-player only and will not work with Don’t Starve: Together (the multiplayer build of the game).
Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked has yet to receive an official release date, and it is still unknown which platforms the expansions will be coming to. Klei has stated, “Right now, we’re focused on making the PC version as good as it can be,” despite the surety of ‘Shipwrecked’ coming to consoles and handhelds.


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After hitting the bullseye with their M1 chips, making many Apple users giddy again, the company is already looking at getting the M3 chip out there. And guys, it’s gonna be a titan!
Apple is relying on TSMC for the production of their chips and apparently, the factory has already begun production of the 3nm processors. If full production starts at the end of next year, Apple could get their M3 chips in 2023, according to DigiTimes.
Right now, their super fast and incredibly power-efficient chips are based on a 5nm process. Going to a 3nm one means even faster performance and better efficiency.
In fact, word is those processors will use four dies and up to 40 CPU cores. That’s insane! M1 Pro and Max have just 10 CPU cores, by the way. Where could you see them working? On the MacBook and iPad models of course, but also behind the iPhone 15.
As for next year’s chip from Apple, you should expect it to be based on 4nm tech. It will probably debut with the 2022 MacBook Air.
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Whoever said money can’t buy you happiness clearly hasn’t found the perfect salary, but experts say they’ve pinpointed the exact amount of money you actually need to be happy.
It’s not just for the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
The earning and life satisfaction of 1.7 million people living in 164 countries was compiled into a bank of data by World Gallup Poll. The resulting data was analyzed by psychologists from Purdue University and the University of Virginia who came to the conclusion that the ideal income for individuals is $130,000 a year for life satisfaction, while $82,000 to $102,000 a year was determined as the ideal income for emotional well-being.


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As a sign that we may be reaching 'peak IoT', leading embedded technology market research firm IC Insights has reduced its forecast for shipments for the next four years.
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Despite the increasing number of connections, IC Insights has trimmed back its semiconductor forecast for Internet of Things system functions over the next four years by about $1.9 billion, mostly because of lower sales projections for connected cities applications (such as smart electric meters and infrastructure).
Total IoT semiconductor sales are still expected to rise 19% in 2016 to $18.4 billion, as shown below, but the updated forecast reduces the market’s compound annual growth rate between 2014 and 2019 to 19.9% compared to the original CAGR of 21.1%. Semiconductor sales for IoT system functions are now expected to reach $29.6 billion in 2019 versus the previous projection of $31.1 billion in the final year of the forecast.
The most significant changes in the new outlook are that semiconductor revenues for connected cities applications are projected to grow by a CAGR of 12.9% between 2014 and 2019 (down from 15.5% in the original forecast) while the connected vehicles segment is expected to rise by a CAGR of 36.7% (up from 31.2% in the previous projection). IoT semiconductor sales for connected cities are now forecast to reach $15.7 billion in 2019 while the chip market for connected vehicle functions is expected to be $1.7 billion in 2019, up from the previous forecast of $1.4 billion.
For 2016, revenues of IoT semiconductors used in connected cities applications are expected to rise 15% to about $11.4 billion while the connected vehicle category is projected to climb 66% to $787 million this year.
Sales of IoT semiconductors for wearable systems have also increased slightly in the forecast period compared to the original projection. Sales of semiconductors for wearable IoT systems are now expected to grow 22% to about $2.2 billion in 2016 after surging 421% in 2015 to nearly $1.8 billion after Apple’s entry into the smartwatch market in 2Q15. The semiconductor market for wearable IoT applications is expected to be nearly $3.9 billion in 2019.
The good news, and the main focus for the Embedded Blog, is that the forecast for IoT semiconductors in connected homes and the Industrial Internet categories remains unchanged. The connected homes segment is still expected to grow 26% in 2016 to about $545 million, and the Industrial Internet chip market is forecast to increase 22% to nearly $3.5 billion. The semiconductor forecast for IoT connections in the Industrial Internet is still expected to grow by a CAGR of 25.7% to nearly $7.3 billion in 2019 from $2.3 billion in 2014.


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BATON ROUGE, La. — Move over Mediterranean diet, there’s a new eating plan the American Heart Association is recommending. Their latest scientific statement declared the DASH diet as the best heart-healthy diet for reducing high blood pressure.
The DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. Its effectiveness in improving heart health was first published in 1997 and has since been cited roughly 6,000 times by other researchers. The diet was developed, in part, at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
“The DASH Diet is a great choice because it is proven to help those with a history of heart disease or people with diabetes, but it is really a diet plan for everyone because it is easy to follow, and it can work for anyone in the family,” says Dr. Catherine Champagne, a professor and registered dietitian nutritionist at Pennington Biomedical, in a media release.
DASH diet received a perfect score in an assessment on how popular dietary patterns adhere to the American Heart Association’s Dietary Guidance. The guidelines emphasize limiting unhealthy fats and excess carbohydrates. Doing so improves a person’s heart and metabolic health as well as reducing the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The guidance also takes into account a person’s grocery budget, along with personal and cultural preferences.
“The number of different, popular dietary patterns has proliferated in recent years, and the amount of misinformation about them on social media has reached critical levels,” adds Christopher D. Gardner, chair of the writing committee for the new scientific statement and the Rehnborg Farquhar professor of medicine at Stanford University.
“The public—and even many health care professionals—may rightfully be confused about heart healthy eating, and they may feel that they don’t have the time or the training to evaluate the different diets. We hope this statement serves as a tool for clinicians and the public to understand which diets promote good cardiometabolic health.”
The DASH diet does not require you to eat a specific food. Instead, it encourages people to look for food low in salt, as well as limiting excess sugar, alcohol, tropical oils, and processed foods. The eating plan also encourages people to consume non-starchy vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. Protein mainly comes from plant sources such as legumes, beans, and nuts, but can also include fish or seafood, lean poultry, and meats, as well as low-fat or fat-free dairy products.
The study is published in the journal Circulation.
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Upcoming Cupra Born will be revealed in full next week
Spanish performance brand Cupra has confirmed it will unveil its first electric vehicle, the Cupra Born, on 25 May.
The car make its on the day in an entirely digital presentation at 11am, but Cupra has already all but unveiled its Volkswagen ID.3 rival in a series of revealing pre-reveal teasers.
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Save for a set of production-friendly alloy wheels and a new badge, the Cupra Born looks near identical to the SEAT El-Born concept from the 2019 Geneva Motor Show. It shares the same short bonnet, fared-in radiator grille, large quarter light windows and tailgate spoiler.
It should also line-up with the expectations set out late last year, when the El-Born was previewed wearing Cupra badges. The production-ready Born EV will also feature a range of sporty styling cues, such a lowered ride-height, 20-inch alloy wheels, aggressive front and rear bumpers, finned side skirts and a pair of figure-hugging bucket seats.
Cupra says its engineers have racked up thousands of miles during the Born’s development programme, at temperatures as low as -30°C, with most of the tests designed to stress the limits of the car’s adaptive dampers and chassis control systems.
Chassis and powertrain
The Cupra Born is based on the same MEB underpinnings as the Volkswagen ID.3, with an electric motor powering the rear axles.
Cupra says the Born will go from 0–31mph in 2.9 seconds, but the rest of the car’s performance specs are yet to be confirmed. Back when SEAT was handling the project, though, the Born was due to receive a 201bhp electric motor, which would give the EV a 0–62mph time of 7.5 seconds.
A battery pack with a nominal capacity of 82kWh means that a range of up to 310 miles under WLTP should be possible. The ID.3’s smaller 62kWh nominal battery pack will be available on lower-range versions of the Born, providing around 260 miles on a full charge.
With the MEB platform comes 100kW DC charging, meaning the hatchback can recover an 80 percent charge in around 47 minutes or take on 161 miles of range in just 30 minutes.
Interior and equipment
Like all of the Volkswagen Group’s MEB vehicles, the Cupra Born has a long wheelbase relative to its overall length, which should allow it to deliver the interior space of a car from the class above. As such, boot space should be on par with the SEAT Leon, but there should be more legroom for rear seat passengers.
The Cupra Born’s cabin is similar to the ID.3’s with a digital instrument binnacle, a floating 10-inch infotainment screen and touch-sensitive controls for the car’s heating and ventilation system. It will also feature a pair of racy bucket seats and a sporty Alcantara-trimmed steering wheel.
Cupra has also confirmed the Born will feature the ID.3’s new augmented reality head-up display, plus smartphone connectivity via the car’s infotainment system and an integrated heat-pump system that does not draw energy from the car’s battery pack to warm the cabin.
Pricing and positioning
Given the Cupra Born’s upmarket branding, we expect it will stray from the Volkswagen ID.3’s pricing strategy.
To that end, prices will likely be comparable to the current-generation Cupra Leon or Mk8 Volkswagen Golf GTI with a smaller number of higher-spec models to choose from, starting from around £34,000.
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Despite the enforcement of General Data Protection Regulations coming into play in the EU since 2018 and regulators elsewhere clamping down on how companies can access individuals’ data, practices are still lax.
As fines of up to €20 million, or 4% of a company’s global turnover, for GDPR violations came into prospect many publishers began to rely on consent management platforms to facilitate the submission and transfer of user consent for advertising purposes.
Although, facilitating the extraction and compliant transfer of audience data has not been all plain sailing in Europe over the past four years. And a report published this week claims that companies are unknowingly in breach of global data protection laws, including in Europe and the Americas, with consent management platforms a particular area of concern.
The audit was published by a company called Compliant, an outfit that claims to offer brands full transparency over their data supply chain, in a whitepaper dubbed “Data Privacy: The Compliance Illusion.”
It contains a Data Safety Index in which Compliant asserts that publishers in the region are placing themselves at risk of censure with a number of findings. Among them:
- 92% of European publishers operate a CMP
- 81% of these publishers pass user data to third parties before consent is gained
- The average European publisher website contains 27 piggybacked tags
At the core of the situation is ‘piggybacking’ — a method by which third-party tags access user data, oftentimes without direct authorization from a publisher (see video below).
Jamie Barnard, CEO of Compliant, told Digiday that the incorrect installation of CMPs on a publisher’s website can often be at the core of the problem and that the intricate ways in which many ad tech stacks are interwoven can also create difficulties for attempted remedies.
“It [a publisher’s ad tech operations] can be like a Jenga stack,” he explained. “Within organizations, rebuilding the ad tech stack is very difficult… replacing component parts that you don’t want anymore is hard because they’re all glued together, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. No one wants the responsibility of pulling the whole thing down.”
While the use of piggybacking is often benign, it does introduce risk, and the ad ops teams at many publishers simply lack the resources to monitor piggybacked activity on their domains.
One publisher-side source, who requested anonymity as they were not cleared to speak with the press, noted how ad ops teams are often under more direct pressure to remain on track to hit their advertising targets. “When it comes to it, nobody has time to do all those things like reading Ads.txt lists, etc.,” they noted.
The study is the second audit of the sector containing such findings to be shared with Digiday in under 12 months. A 2021 study from Ebiquity analyzed 200,000 cookies and found that a third (32.3%) of those cookies were fired without valid user consent.
In addition, researchers also found that 70% of third-party marketing cookies transferred user data outside of the European Union, a practice that is subject to strict regulatory requirements.
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The death of Apple computer founder Steve Jobs on October 5 naturally prompted an outpouring of praise and media commentary. So it's no surprise that now The Discovery Channel has ordered its own documentary about the high-tech visionary, called iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World (airing Sunday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. ET).
Mythbusters Jamie Hyneman, 55, and Adam Savage, 44, are set to host. For those unfamiliar with their popular science show, this duo goes about answering questions like "Could your laptop save you from a speeding bullet?" and "Are motorcycles better for the environment than cars?"
“Someone once said that to follow the path that others have laid before you is a very reasonable course of action, therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men,” Savage told Entertainment Weekly. “Steve Jobs was an unreasonable man. He didn’t simply give the public what they wanted, he defined entirely new ways of thinking about our lives in the digital space: productivity, creativity, music, communication, media and art. He has touched, directly and indirectly, all of our lives.”
The documentary will feature interviews with those who knew Jobs well (including his friend Daniel Kottke, who backpacked around India with Jobs after high school, and was an early Apple employee) and creative types whose careers were impacted by his vision (such as musicians Stevie Wonder and Pete Wentz).
Some may say all these special tributes are overkill. But if a show about Jobs can inspire even just one up-and-coming tech genius to change the world for the better, it's worth it!


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Target closing Philadelphia store in coming months
PHILADELPHIA - One of America's largest and most popular retailers is officially shutting down one of its Philadelphia locations.
The Washington Square Target at 1128 Chestnut Street will close for good on May 13 "after multiple years of working to improve performance," according to a Target spokesperson.
Currently, 45 part-time and full-time employees work at the Center City location, which opened in 2016.
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Official say those employees will be offered the chance to work at a nearby Target.
After the Washington Square store closes, nine other Targets will remain open in Philadelphia.
The Target closure comes months after Wawa closed two Center City locations due to the rise of crime and violence across the city.


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In the month of June 2021, IMEPay had launched virtual cards for the first time in Nepal. IME Pay’s Virtual Visa Card is the first-ever virtual card from a digital wallet in Nepal.
In India too, Paytm wallet ( bank has already a virtual card) has launched its first virtual card recently. Though other websites and banks had been providing the virtual card, Paytm, as mobile money has launched this service.
In Nepal, various banks had provided their own virtual cards before. But IMEPay is the first non-banking payment service provider to launch its own visa card. Through this card, you can make online payments from your wallet balance, without linking the bank account.
Paytm gains all the buzz with its virtual card launch
Following the suit, the popular Indian mobile wallet Paytm has also launched its virtual card known as Paytm RuPay Card. It is a virtual debit card from Paytm wallet ( not a bank), powered by Rupay. Its features are similar to that of IME Pay’s virtual visa card. It does not have a physical existence with a plastic body but works like that of a debit/credit card. In India, a virtual card can allow you to:
- Pay for online shopping
- Metro and bus payments
- Controlling and tracking the expenses
- Use in online subscription or POS terminals
However, Paytm wallet’s Rupay Card does not allow
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For the 2013 model year, the Chevrolet Corvette is becoming a senior citizen, turning 60 and looking better than ever.
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Due to some engineering tweaks and strong sales, the launch of the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze has been pushed back until December 2015.
The 2013 Chevrolet Impala has been spied in heavy camouflage, and surprisingly enough it wasn’t caught in front of a Marie Callender's at 4 in the afternoon.


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ThanosCopter is a specially designed helicopter built to transport Thanos the Mad Titan. Built by Sterling Custom Helicopters, ThanosCopter appeared in several Marvel comics, before being abandoned by its owner during the character's ascension into major villainy. ThanosCopter was discovered by the Outhouse and given a second chance at life. He now buzzes merrily around the comic book industry, spreading snark, satire and humor like candy to small children.
Greg Pak worries of the future in a one scene artistic interpretation.
The Marvel intern is being starved during a grueling unpaid internship.
Representatives for both tech companies are claiming that they did not pull Saga off of Comixology's mobile pages.
Apple has banned the comic due to explicit but barely noticeable sex scenes.
Batman will face Deathstroke in the new video game.
The Louisville coach sabotaged his opponents by sending them copies of the Marvel event.
Filming for the new movie began today.
DC announced that the event will be a three book crossover between the three Justice League titles.
The character makes her first official New 52 appearance in next week's Batman and Robin #19.
The legendary creator and executive has passed away.
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Yesterday, Apple pulled off the wraps from the new iPad -- yes, that's the official name -- and spent more than an hour on a San Francisco stage touting what's changed, like the screen, and what hasn't, like the price.
The tablet, which was called "a great package" by one analyst, looks likely to continue Apple's dominance of the tablet market through 2012, according to another.
As with any of its product introductions, Apple tossed out a lot of information. But what do you really need to know now?
We've tried to anticipate your most-pressing questions ... with answers we think cover the bases -- for now.
When can I get one? The new iPad goes on sale at Apple's retail stores next Friday, March 16. But you can pre-order the tablet now at Apple's online store for delivery on or before that date.
While the store had trouble yesterday handling the volume of customers, it's now running smoothly. Supplies of some models, however, are already short: As of 3 p.m. ET, the white iPad 4G for the AT&T network was showing a delayed delivery date of March 19.
How much do they cost? Same as it ever was.... In other words, the Wi-Fi models run $499, $599 and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB tablets, respectively; the 4G device is priced at $629, $729 and $829.
Can I still buy the older iPad 2? What's that going to cost me? Yes, yes you can.
For the first time, Apple is officially retaining an older iPad, copying moves it's made in the past with the iPhone, notably last fall when, at the launch of the iPhone 4S, it dropped the price of 2010's iPhone 4 and gave away the even-older iPhone 3GS.
A 16GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 will run you $399, or $100 less than the just-announced upgrade. Want a 3G tablet? You'll pony up $529 for the 16GB model.
You'll also notice that, just as it's done with older iPhones, Apple is limiting the iPad 2 to a single SKU, or "stock-keeping unit" -- the 16GB model. Not coincidentally, that's the cheapest of the former three storage configurations.
Is it faster? Apple says so, at least when rendering graphics. The new system-on-a-chip, or SoC, dubbed the A5X, has double the graphics performance of the A5 chip in the iPad 2, Apple claimed yesterday during its launch presentation .
While the A5X remains a dual-core processor, Apple's boosted the graphics component to four cores -- calling it "quad-core graphics" in the tablet's technical specifications -- to, it said, handle the increased pixels of the higher-resolution screen.
On non-graphics computational tasks, the new iPad should be as fast, though no faster, than the iPad 2.
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The Blue team has just launched its new “Intel Core Desktop Processor featuring Marvel’s Avengers Collector’s Edition Packaging” via Twitter. It’s basically the same 10th gen Intel desktop processors involving the artwork by the mural painter Tristan Eaton based on Marvel’s Avengers.
Intel is also promoting its CPUs and its gaming reach celebrating the launch of the new Square Enix-developed Marvel’s Avengers, scheduled to launch on September 4, 2020. Intel is already Square Enix’s official PC hardware partner for Marvel’s Avengers and bringing special CPUs for the launch of this massive game does make sense.
Already Intel’s new 10th Gen desktop CPUs aren’t that much compelling enough over Ryzen 3000 and 3000XT CPUs so take advantage of their partnership with the game, Intel has released new limited-edition “KA” Avengers series processors. These re-modeled packaging will feature four new 10th-generation desktop processors: Core i5-10600KA, i7-10700KA, i9-10850KA, and i9-10900KA.
As per @momomo, all of these Intel chipsets have that extra letter A (signifying for Avengers) in their product names, however, their performance should be similar to non-Avengers counterparts. Intel has not yet revealed how much these CPUs in their fancy new boxes will cost but this is a clear marketing strategy for Intel and it will be interesting to see whether or not these so-called new processors ship with a copy of Marvel’s Avengers.
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, then dry his feet, and now this part: Kiss his feet," she said, adding that her method relieves stress and prevents stroke and heart attack.
She wrote: "When I was a senior in high school in New York City,[currency]interning as a production assistant on the set of the 'Death of a[currency]Salesman' TV film, he asked me to give him a foot massage
my first day[currency]on set; I did.
By March, she hopes to expand the business, putting in a five-station foot bar for additional foot massage
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But a new study published in Oncology Nursing Forum found that reflexology and foot massage
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, place one thumb over the other and knead the sole from the heel up to the ball of the foot.
The hotel is offering accommodation, complimentary fitness classes and daily breakfast, as well as a 60-minute traditional Thai massage, Oriental foot massage
or aromatherapy massage, and a 20 percent savings on other spa treatments, as part of its new spa package.
A spokeswoman says the company's Shiatsu Elite foot massager has deep kneading action that simulates a true foot massage
and uses four heads for full coverage of the foot, while its Therapist Select Shiatsu massager is lightweight and compact.
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The Oriental Natural Treatment Center is at the center of the hotly competitive world of foot massage
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The new Lavande Lavender Foot Massage
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From facials and foot massage
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EFE Agency, through its portal EFE AGRO, writes about the European Business Award for the Environment granted to AlgaEnergy
The information agency EFE AGRO, participated by EFE Agency, has published an article regarding the recent concession to AlgaEnergy of the European Awards for the Environment by the Fundación Biodiversidad, dependent on MAGRAMA.
According to the Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, "the community is supporting new business strategies and a new approach in which the environment plays a leading role; sustainable management is an opportunity and a source of employment and wealth ".
EFE AGRO had the opportunity to interview María Segura, Technical Director of AlgaEnergy, who explained the reasons for this important recognition, as well as the implications it has for AlgaEnergy.
To view the press release, click here -in Spanish-.
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PH: NPC to allow data breach victims to apply for cease-and-desist orders
Jenina P. Ibañez reports:
Victims of personal data breaches may request cease-and-desist orders from the National Privacy Commission (NPC) if the breach violates their privacy rights and causes “irreparable injury.”
The NPC, in circular no. 20-02 signed on Oct. 6, said that it may issue such orders in the event of violations or threats to violate the Data Privacy Act.
The order will be issued if the privacy breach harms the public interest or an individual.
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Just for the record, new Hawthorne shop joins vinyl trend in Westchester, Rockland
The latest addition to Hawthorne’s diminutive downtown is a blast from the past, but one that looks well positioned for the future.
Big Jim’s Records opened in April, selling those big, round vinyl discs from yesteryear. A record store may seem as relevant in the internet age as a Fotomat, but owner Jim Gibson said business is cranking.
“Word got out quickly that there is a record store in the area,” said Gibson, who is 50. “It’s working out very well.”
One will not get rich by opening a record shop, but a well-run store has a decent shot at drumming up a decent business, say shop owners in the region.
Besides a pair of Big Jim’s Records — Gibson has had a record store in Buchanan for close to two years — there is Clockwork Records in Hastings, which opened in 2013, Main Street Beat in Nyack, which opened in late 2014, and a Newbury Comics in White Plains that opened last summer.
Jon Meyers runs the record store website/app the Vinyl District out of Washington, D.C. He said the shops are a hot property. “I’m pleasantly surprised by the rejuvenation,” he said. “Shops are opening left and right these days.”
A recent issue of Rolling Stone painted a rosy picture for records. In 2007, it said, 990,000 records were sold. In 2017, the number skyrocketed to 14.3 million. The compact disc peak was 2001, when 712 million were sold.
Last year, that plummeted to 88.6 million. Singer Jack White told Rolling Stone he sees streaming music and vinyl as the two formats for music in the future — streaming in the car and kitchen, vinyl in the living room.
Shop owners say they see almost as many young people come into their shops as they do older folks who grew up with vinyl. Raised on iTunes, the teens and millennials like the idea of tangibly connecting with their favorite artists.
“There’s a little backlash to the whole internet world we’re living in,” said Jennifer O’Connor, co-owner of Nyack's Main Street Beat.
“Kids started to realize they could actually hold records in their hands, instead of looking at them on the computer.”
The Vinyl District co-hosts a record fair twice a year, which each attracts around 1,500 attendees. Meyers estimates that half of them are millennials or younger. “Everything got smaller and smaller and smaller,” he said of music formats, resulting in “invisible MP3s.”
Young consumers tired of it. “You like this band,” Meyers adds, “you love to have a keepsake.”
Record labels picked up on this. Current artists such as Taylor Swift and Childish Gambino typically release vinyl records when a new collection of music is issued. The records often come with a digital download code.
The big vinyl sellers at Newbury Comics, a New England chain with a shop at The Westchester mall, are heavy metal and punk. Vinyl has been “a really good category for us,” said manager Shannon Horte. “It’s been consistently strong since we opened.”
Growing up in Yonkers, Gibson spent much of his free time as a teen in record shop Mad Platters on Central Avenue. “I worked in all the record stores in Westchester,” he said.
Gibson gets very few requests for new releases, his customers looking mostly for classic rock, such as the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Both he and Jennifer O’Connor cite the hands-on aspect of records as a key factor in their resurgence. “It’s something big; you can see the whole art,” he said. “You put it on, flip it over. You’re careful not to scratch it.”
Shop owners also note how people simply enjoy visiting record stores, browsing the bins, and chatting music with the proprietor. Repurposing a word from internet culture, O’Connor describes the visits as “social.”
Big Jim’s Records opened on Hawthorne's Elwood Avenue on Record Store Day in April. Gibson said he liked that the location is in the center of Westchester; he mentions getting customers from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and beyond. Located steps from the train station, he also gets overseas tourists looking for records. A Big Jim’s ad in an English record collectors’ paper suggests visitors to Manhattan hop Metro-North up to Hawthorne.
Gibson said he’s not getting rich from selling records, but business is strong enough that he’s thinking of opening a third shop. “It’s hand to mouth,” he said. “It’s not a high-profit business whatsoever.”
Used records sell for $8 to $15 at Big Jim’s. “It’s the same price they sold for 30 years ago,” said Gibson.


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For the past few days, the weather in the United Kingdom has been uncharacteristically awful, with brutally cold temperatures, dangerous winds, and heavy snowfall. The UK’s national weather service, the Met Office, issued its most severe alert as parts of England, Wales, and Scotland endured what was described as “the worst weather in years.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, thousands of people immediately stripped their local supermarkets’ shelves of milk, bread, and eggs—but apparently, even panic-buying has its limits.
Lewis Wake, a DJ from Edinburgh, tweeted a picture of a shelving unit at Tesco supermarket, which had been emptied of everything… except for three ham and pineapple pizzas. “The people have spoken,” he wrote. And the people would clearly rather have a cartons of bone broth and a handful of snow than to have to endure pizza topped with pineapple.
Although snow-frenzied shoppers might’ve left those pizzas behind, the majority of Brits claim to be OK with that combination. Last year, market research firm YouGov surveyed 3,683 residents of Great Britain about their pizza preferences, and 53 percent of them responded that they “liked” pineapple as a topping. (Forty-one percent said hell no, while the remaining 6 percent were apparently either too busy eating pizza or throwing pineapples into a furnace to respond).
In that same survey, respondents said that their favorite pizza topping was mushrooms, followed by onion, ham, and peppers. Pineapple was ranked between bacon and corn, because there is no god. (Participants were allowed to choose multiple toppings for their ideal pizzas).
The UK’s major grocery retailers have told the BBC that they are trying to replenish their barren store shelves as quickly as they can, as the weather improves. (On Sunday, a Tesco spokesperson said that the chain is "working incredibly hard to make deliveries.”
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Established in 1970, The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) helps control who can access your personal information and what they can do with it. With three major credit reporting agencies in the United States, clarification of your rights is essential. Make sure you know how you are protected before getting taken advantage of.
Who Gets Your Info?
Agencies are required to disclose your information should you request it. You must provide written consent to third parties, including rental companies and employers, before they can gain access to the information in your credit report. It is important to know that while there is limited access to reports, those with a “permissible purpose” including debt collectors, those with a court order, and insurance companies may have access to the information in your credit report.
Keep Track of and Report Discrepancies
If something seems wrong, challenge it. Incorrect data presented on credit reports can hurt more than you think. Under the FCRA, inaccurate information must be corrected or deleted. Outdated information is generally considered any negative data over seven years and must be deleted as well. Inaccurate and unclear information posted on credit reports may make consumers appear less creditworthy, making it difficult or more expensive for consumers to obtain credit.
According to the Cook County Record, Joseph Underwood filed a lawsuit claiming that Equifax had incorrectly reported that he was late making his child support payments despite his report of a discrepancy with the Texas Office of the Attorney General. In actuality, the Texas had over-drafted its automatic payments from Underwood, taking more than he was required to pay and incorrectly reporting that he had an outstanding child support obligation.
A woman in Illinois recently filed a lawsuit against all three major credit agencies claiming that they reported false past due balances. Despite the fact she had previously filed for bankruptcy, which would dismiss any owed money, she claims that her discharged debts were still being reported on her credit reports as outstanding debts.
Know Your Numbers
Your credit history can make or break a purchase or loan, but do you know which numbers determine this? Probably not, and credit agencies know that. Earlier this year, Equifax and TransUnion were both fined more than $5 million by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for selling credit scores that are not typically used by lending companies. The agencies were also ordered to pay more than $17 million to misled consumers.
Identity Theft Prevention
The use of debit and credit cards in everyday life is becoming more common these days, making users more vulnerable to identity theft. The FCRA can help victims by setting up fraud alerts. Active duty military personnel can also place alerts designed especially for them. Even after the unfortunate situation one becomes a victim of identity theft, the FCRA can help minimize the impact.
Farmer Jaffe’s Seth Lehrman helps consumers protect their rights under the FCRA. He can be reached at [email protected] or at 1-800-400-1098 during business hours on Eastern Standard Time.


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American Eagle continues global expansion
American Eagle Outfitters on Tuesday announced it is continuing its global expansion with new license agreements in South Korea, Singapore, and Greece.
The addition of these key markets strengthens the company’s position across the EMEA and APAC regions and extends its reach to 28 countries worldwide, through a combination of international licensed and company owned and operated stores.
"As we continue to profitably scale our international growth, we are pleased to announce the addition of these important new markets. We look forward to bringing our casual American style and iconic American Eagle Outfitters jeans brand as well as Aerie intimates to new customers. Together with our licensed partners, we will offer the very best brand experience. Our partners bring vast knowledge in their respective markets, an expertise in building businesses and a strong passion for our brands,” said Simon Nankervis, Executive Vice President–Global Commercial Operations.
Store openings will begin in South Korea and Singapore by mid-2015, and more stores are planned to open throughout the year in South Korea. The first store in Greece is scheduled to open this fall.
In March, American Eagle announced plans to expand in Peru and Chile through a multi-year license agreement with Eurofashion Limitada. The first store is slated to open this year in Chile by the third quarter. This announcement followed the promotions of Chad Kessler and Jennifer Foyle to Global Brand Presidents of American Eagle and Aerie respectively.
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Nuevo Siglo adopts Android TV DVB-C dongle from TiViCon
Sep 5, 2022 – Nuevo Siglo has adopted the TiViCon DVB-Cable TV Dongle for Android TV Devices for its cable network and subscribers across Uruguay. The dongle comes integrated with highest level of content security / CAS.
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3SS powers TCC Android TV service on SDMC STBs
May 6, 2021 – TCC has gone live with a hybrid TV platform based on the Android TV OS Operator Tier. The service is enabled by SDMC's DV8545-C STB and powered by the 3READY Product Framework, 3SS’ front end and UI solution.
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HBO Max to arrive in Latin America in June 2021
Feb 11, 2021 – WarnerMedia’s D2C streaming platform, HBO Max, is scheduled to launch in late June in 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, marking the first availability for the platform outside the U.S.
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TCC chooses 3SS for Android TV+multiscreen service in Uruguay
Nov 1, 2019 – 3SS has been chosen by TCC to help develop a new TV service to launch in 2020. The service will be powered by 3READY Android TV + Multiscreen, 3SS’ front end and UI framework featuring an Android TV Custom Launcher STB.
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NAGRA enables cloud-based OTT for Montecable in Uruguay
Sep 13, 2019 – NAGRA (SIX:KUD.S) has announced that Montecable has deployed NAGRA's cloud-based Conax GO Live solution to enable new features for its pay-TV service in Uruguay, including Android TV support and video-on-demand (VOD).
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Conax delivers Montecable OTT service in Uruguay
Mar 29, 2018 – Conax (SIX:KUD:S) has announced the deployment of its Conax GO Live secure OTT multiscreen solution at Montecable in Uruguay. Conax enables the Montecable MC GO Live service by pre-integrating partner technology with Conax Contego security to create an end-to-end OTT solution.
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XroadMedia helps Nuevo Siglo bring personal TV to consumers in Uruguay
May 30, 2017 – XroadMedia has announced that Nuevo Siglo will be offering a personal TV service to consumers in Uruguay by using Ncanto, XroadMedia’s cloud-based content discovery solution. Nuevo Siglo provides Hybrid DVB-OTT on its NSNOW platform.
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Amazon Prime Video launches globally
Dec 14, 2016 – Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced that Amazon Prime Video is now available to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Customers can watch on Android and iOS phones and tablets, Fire Tablets and LG and Samsung smart TVs.
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As a cardiologist, I am continuously telling my patients about the importance of heart health. While many people wait until the new year to focus on their health, the holiday season provides the perfect time for them to make a conscious effort to eat items that are heart healthy.
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Every year, as the holidays come to a close and resolutions kick in, many Americans vow to lose weight. Despite their best wishes, there’s no reset button on holiday excess, and therefore nearly half of Americans admit to committing to a diet but failing after just six months.


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Update: Marijuana-infused-food truck to roam Puget Sound area
It will be a while before recreational marijuana retailers can sell edibles, state leaders announced this week.
But those rules don’t apply to medical marijuana dispensers, and a Seattle-based company called Magic Butter Studios is taking advantage of that.
The company sells a kitchen appliance to extract botanicals and infuse herbs – such as marijuana – into food. Now, it has taken its product to the streets to open the region's first marijuana-infused-food truck.
We reported this earlier, but the location has since changed -- the so-called “Samich Truck” will debut this weekend at MMJ Universe Farmers Market in Black Diamond.
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BlackBerry Ltd (TSX:BB)(NYSE:BB) got a big boost on Friday as its share price was up over 13% after the company released its quarterly results. BlackBerry finished the year strong as sales climbed to US$255 million, for an increase of 9% year over year. Although it was a modest improvement from a year ago, it came in above the US$241.3 million expected by analysts.
What’s more important, however, is the breakdown of where sales have been coming from. Its licensing and IP segment saw sales hit just under US$100 million, which was a more than 70% improvement from the prior year. Technology solutions also saw a solid growth rate of 20%. These are good signs for BlackBerry as the company’s strategy to grow these segments has clearly been paying off.
One of the benefits of repositioning its business is that as BlackBerry moves more toward services, its gross margin benefits. In Q4, the company’s gross margin was a remarkable 81%, a noticeable improvement from the 76% it achieved last year. For the fiscal year ending February 28, 2018, gross margin was only 72%, back when the company would still have had a lot of legacy sales included and less service-based revenue.
The improved gross margin has helped BlackBerry generate a much stronger bottom line. Despite the strong growth, BlackBerry saw its operating expenses decline from a year ago, even though it did benefit from an increase in fair value adjustments. Most notably, selling, marketing and administrative costs were down by more than $20 million for a year-over-year improvement of 17%.
Overall, BlackBerry’s net income of $51 million came in well above the $10 million loss it incurred last year.
Company looks to build on strong results
BlackBerry had a good quarter, and it still expects to continue that growth into 2020, as it still has many opportunities to grow its brand. The more that we see cybersecurity and privacy issues take center stage, the more demand we’ll see for BlackBerry’s products and services. It also helps that last year BlackBerry acquired AI company Cylance, which will help add to even more potential growth for the company.
Has BlackBerry turned things around?
BlackBerry has been in a transition for a long time now. And while it is showing some positive growth, it’s nowhere near the company it was a decade ago. However, the reality is that it might never generate the types of revenues it did back in its heyday, which doesn’t mean that it’s a bad investment.
The company is instead building a more stable, profitable brand that can grow and create value for shareholders. While BlackBerry did generate nearly US$7 billion back in 2014, it also incurred losses of almost US$6 billion. The company has definitely turned around its business into a profitable one, which is very important to investors. While it may never reach the same level of sales or popularity that it did before, the company has become a much more stable, safer investment today.
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A little more than a year ago, WRAP
(also known as the Waste & Resources Action Programme) notified packaging industry players in the UK that black plastic
waste was being sent to landfills rather than recycled by local authorities because it is simply too difficult to break down. One of the first to respond to WRAP’s announcement by omitting black plastic from their supply chain was Quorn Foods
. The total cost for them to do so is reportedly in the six-figure range … The results, though, are priceless.
The problem with black plastic
Wondering why black plastic is so hard to recycle? Great question! The answer is simple: because laser sorting devices
used by recycling centers
fail to register black plastic, it cannot be picked on conveyor belts.
The UK Plastic Pact
Preceding the recent battle against black plastic, a considerable number of brands and retailers active in the UK (including Quorn Foods) had already committed themselves to steer away from all single-use plastic packaging
by 2025 by signing WRAP’s so-called UK Plastic Pact. Chief Executive of Quorn Foods Kevin Brennan felt eliminating black plastic from their supply chain was a logical next step:
“Moving so quickly to remove black plastic is a significant challenge, but as a founding signatory of WRAP’s UK Plastic Pact, […] we view it as being of the utmost importance and the right thing to do, despite the six-figure cost.”
100% sustainable plastics by 2025
Priding themselves on their sustainability efforts – and rightly so – meat substitute brand Quorn Foods has now eliminated a whopping 297 tonnes
of non-recyclable black plastic packaging from their supply chain. Their chilled range in the UK now comes in white and opaque plastics which are all recyclable
Quorn Foods plans to introduce their new plastic packaging to all their export markets by 2025.
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The Hales Corners McDonald's, 6000 S. 108th St., will open its doors again at midnight June 29 with a grand re-opening to celebrate its new, contemporary look. The first 50 people through the doors will receive a punch card for 52 free medium Extra Value Meals.
The redesign is part of a nationwide effort to modernize the fast food chain, a company news release states.
From the outside, customers will notice a new entryway and a double-lane drive-thru. Inside, the renovation includes an improved ambience due to comfortable lighting levels and new fixtures, and modern booths, chairs, high-seated community tables and lounge-style seating.
Continuing the celebration, the first 200 customers after 11 a.m. will receive a free liter bottle of Coke with the purchase of any regular Extra Value Meal.
Visit www.mcwisconsin.com/852 for details.
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Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will receive $25 million in termination payments if the company’s shareholders agree to sell its mobile phone business to Microsoft.
The software giant is buying Nokia phone business for $7.2 billion.
Earlier, Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility has assisted its India-born CEO Sanjay Jha to receive a $66 million Golden Parachute compensation package.
Nokia said on Thursday that the money would be due to Elop following his agreement to immediately stand down alongside the announcement of the deal, and that Microsoft would pay approximately 70 percent of the total.
Elop is set to return to Microsoft, his former employer, after the closure of its 5.44 billion euros acquisition of Nokia’s handset business. He is also one of the strong contenders to become the next CEO of Microsoft when Steve Ballmer steps down within the next 12 months.
Nokia said Elop would be entitled to receive 18 months of his base salary, plus a short-term management cash incentive, equivalent to a total of around 4.2 million euros.
He would also be in line for around 14.6 million euros from an accelerated vesting of his outstanding equity awards.
Nokia’s shareholders will meet to decide on the proposed deal with Microsoft on November 19.
As per the deal between Motorola and Google, Jha stands to gain $13.20 million in cash and $52.5 million for his stock options and shares.
The cash component of the Golden Parachute package includes $10.8 million in severance pay and a $2.4 million bonus. The cash portion is equal to three times Jha’s base salary and bonus.


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Roblox has been around since 2006, and is still among the favourites of the public, due to its unique format, which allows players and creators to meet on one platform. It is more popular than Minecraft – it has reached more than 100 million active users in 2019, which makes it the largest user-generated online gaming platform in the world. You know that it is only available for PC, Xbox One and mobile. Rumor has it, it will be available on PS4, too.
Will that ever happen?
This rumor is just a rumor. Microsoft already signed an exclusive deal with Roblox in 2015, which means that the game makes its appearance only on its console, Xbox One. At one point, we heard about Sony making a deal with Roblox in order to release the game on PS4, but there is simply no proof. And Sony has not released any statements so far. If you go and log on to Roblox by using your PS4, you’ll see the message with “your current platform isn’t supported.”
It won’t be coming for PS5 either
Fans all over the world are waiting for the release of PS5 this year, and they were hoping to see Roblox on PS5, as well. But truth be told, no one knows if the game will be released on PS5, or if it’s even in the plan to do so.
PS5 will be better than its predecessor, which is a good thing since it leaves an open door for games like Roblox. As per the CEO of PlayStation, Jum Ryan, with every console, the processor and graphics get better, which is, of course, compelling, but we need to have unique elements too.” That is all we know so far.


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Rumors about the upcoming Amazon Android tablet successor to their ultra-successful Kindle Fire have been swirling around the internet for quite some time now. We now have a new one to add to the growing list of speculation and innuendo. According to the latest rumor-mill gossip, the next version of the Kindle Fire, affectionately and unofficially called the Kindle Fire 2, could actually be announced on July 31st.
If this does turn out to be true, then the newest Kindle Fire will be targeting a completely different market segment than it did last year. Instead of trying to woo Christmas shoppers, like last year, this new Kindle Fire would instead be targeting the back-to-school crowd. No new info on the device has come to light, although there is speculation that this version might come with a higher-res screen and a camera.
What do you guys think? With Google and Asus poised to steal the crown of most popular Android tablet away from Amazon, could the online retailer be able to wow consumer's with a new offering that will top it?
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We never thought the Apple Watch could make a stand. Yet here we are, after Black Friday, noticing that this was the event that Apple’s underwhelming gadget needed to set things right. While it will never be as awesome as the iPhone, the Apple Watch is now officially one of the best selling devices the company has ever had. However, this event actually shows us that the Watch will never have the potential that the company might have desired in the first place.
It appears that that the Swiss watch industry is going down while the Apple Watch one is going up up and away. Apple has proceeded to sell more than 10 million devices and 4 million of them were sold during this period. And if you are wondering what new brands we will be having in this particular area, the Apple Watch 2 is expected to arrive somewhere around summer or autumn next year. Maybe you have friends and family who will get attached to these devices.
The Apple Watch had a pretty rough start and the reactions that Apple had after its launch were quite ambiguous. The expectations were not as high as the iPhone’s, but the tech giant obviously wanted to hit the jackpot. Needless to say, things did not exactly go according to plan and the Watch ended up being a more or less irrelevant addition to the Apple collection.
It is also custom for Apple to pride on the number of devices they have sold and how much profit they made from the sales, but the Watch situation was different: Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, declared at the time that Apple would not be revealing any information so that they would not give any details to their competition. The answer seemed relevant, but this pretty much tells the world that numbers were not at all pretty.
There were even some leaked sources at the time which mentioned that Apple employees had some serious meetings in which they actually saw how bad the Watch was performing. Nonetheless, things did not get official at any point, but you could feel that Apple was not as strong as they thought they would be after the device’s release.
But the Apple Watch could make a stand and while is a temporary optimistic one, who knows if this year’s Black Friday might have given birth to a new tech trend that could last for a few years. Looks like we will have to come back to the subject in 2016 to see exactly how far the Watch has gone.
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