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HP unveiled Thursday a new server to help clients operationalize Big Data and drive new business opportunities.
With the advent of Big Data software and the promise that it brings, many organizations have tried to deploy these solutions on existing architectures not designed to handle the specific needs of these workloads.
As a result, the outcomes from these early deployments have been suboptimal from a performance and cost perspective, suggests HP.
Meanwhile, IBM recently unveiled a new digital marketing system and big data software. It is designed to help organizations gain actionable insights on the broadest range of data to transform the way they do business with customers, employees and partners. (Read: IBM Helps Companies Tackle Big Data Challenges)
The new HP ProLiant SL4500 server series is claimed to be the only solution purpose built for Big Data environments.
According to HP, it provides maximum performance, productivity and cost-effectiveness in an ultradense solution required by these workloads.
Built on HP Converged Infrastructure, the new server offers an efficient design that consumes up to 50 percent less space, 61 percent less power and 31 percent lower cost while using 63 percent fewer cables, says HP.
The HP ProLiant SL4500 server series in a single node configuration is now available worldwide for a starting price of $7,643.
The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 servers will be available next month, with a starting price of $6,166. The HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 servers will be available with NVIDIA Kepler and Intel Xeon Phi processors early next year for a starting price of $5,659.
Moreover, HP’s premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, will take place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.


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Google’s flagship 7-inch tablet is right up the street of anyone who thinks that the iPad is too big and too showy, and is as fine a tablet choice as you can currently get on the Android side of the fence.
If only the Nexus 7‘s storage options hit a higher tier, though, right? Worry not; Google’s got your back.
Reports have hit our word holes that Google’s about to up the max storage in the Nexus 7, from 16GB to 32GB.
The news comes from Phone House (the Spanish version of the Carphone Warehouse) which has posted a listing for the upcoming 32GB variant at a wallet-friendly €279 (£225). Currently, the 16GB Nexus 7 will eke £199 from your savings, so this minuscule price increase for twice the storage would be amazing.

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Global Excellence Awards was conceptualised by Delhi based Media, Research & Branding Company Brand Empower Pvt Ltd to honour the Actors, Artists, Entrepreneurs, Companies, Organisations & Individuals from Art, Entertainment, Media, Manufacturing & Services to encourage their creativity, innovation & quality. It is held in different cities & countries every year and has been instrumental in boosting GEA Winners’ popularity & their brand image globally. Mr Rahul Ranjan Singh, Founder & CEO of Brand Empower Pvt Ltd is the brain behind conceptualising the Global Excellence Awards.
Founder and CEO of Brand Empower Pvt Ltd, Mr Rahul Ranjan Singh said, “It is my honour and a great privilege to provide all national & international businessmen with a platform to recognize their hard work. The winners were chosen from thousands of nominations from all over the world after being judged by the jury and team based on their online presence, customer ratings, reviews, feedback, professional experiences, infrastructure and facilities, quality & innovation in their field, use of technology, and previous awards and achievements.”


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A wine bar owner in Cornwall has been forced to clarify that his establishment is in fact a wine bar and not a brothel, after his choice of purple drapery gave locals the mistaken impression that it was in fact a house of ill repute.
As reported by Cornwall Live, Alan Gilbert, the owner of Trewithen Bistro and Wine Bar in Lostwithiel, has caused quite a stir with his choice of drapery, which has sparked confusion, distrust and debate among locals.
The colour of his curtains, a regal purple, is apparently the international symbol for a brothel, according to some locals, several of whom contacted Gilbert to point out that his interior design choices may have been ill-advised.
Gilbert received an anonymous letter telling him that from the outside the wine bar “looks like a house of ill-repute” from a local who was either warning him of the confusion the drapery could cause, or perhaps seeking clarification of what he could expect from a visit?
Gilbert also received a text from a woman claiming the decor made the bar look “cheap”.
The confusion has since forced the Gilbert to reassure potential patrons that his venue really is a wine bar, and that no illegitimate ongoings were occurring behind its purple-draped doors.
Speaking to the newspaper, Gilbert said: “We opened on February 5 and the building is orange and purple coloured. We decided to have curtains in the window so put them in and opened.
“Then it was mentioned around the town that some people weren’t coming in because they didn’t like the curtains. Apparently it looked dingy and suggested illegitimate goings on, looking like a brothel or a funeral parlour.”
He added: “We take on board other people’s opinions but this has gone past a joke. We’re here creating jobs for local people and trying to improve the town.
“Fortunately the wine bar is doing really well and we’ve even had people coming from as far as Fowey who have joked about coming to look at our ghastly curtains.”
A cautionary tale for wine bar owners, perhaps, to pick the colour of your curtains carefully…


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Samsung's Galaxy Surfboard comes with S7 compartment and cool LED lights
While Apple is mulling the right approach to its car development program, Samsung has already mastered the future of transportation, it seems. The company has released a rather funky and smart... Galaxy Surfboard, of all things it could have invented.
Samsung built the board as a proof of concept for pro surfer Gabriel Medina, and it equipped it with the obligatory phone compartment. Yep, the Galaxy Surfboard has a drawer to put a Galaxy S7 in as the brain of the undertaking, and also LED lights that display useful surfing info like wind direction and wave info, as well as push tips from his coach to keep the surfer in check while alone in the high seas.
Pretty cool, but don't get your hopes up for grabbing one from the local surf shop, as this Galaxy board seems to be an exclusive one-timer for Gabriel Medina only.


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PT Bayan Resources Tbk. has pocketed a sales contract of 80 percent of total production this year.
Director of Investor Relations Yulius Gozali said that the company will maintain the production target set earlier this year as most of the production has entered into the sales contract.
“So far there are no plans to cut production volumes.We believe that our coal can still be absorbed by the market considering that around 80 percent of our coal has been contracted, “Yulius toldBisnis, Friday, July 24, 2020.
To note, the ITMG-coded stock issueris targeting production volume this year at around 19 million to 20.1 million tons with sales targets in the range of 22.4 million to 23.5 million tons.
Meanwhile, in the first quarter of 2020 the company has produced 4.5 million tons of coal, or around 23.6 percent of this year’s production target.
Meanwhile, the company recorded sales of 5.8 million tons or 25.8 percent of the target in the first three months of this year.
The biggest sales contribution still came fromChinawith a total sales of 1.6 million tons, followed by Japan of 1.5 million tons.Domestic sales occupy the third position, amounting to 0.7 million.
Furthermore, sales to Bangladesh amounted to 0.5 million tons, Thailand by 0.4 million tons, India by 0.3 million tons, the Philippines by 0.3 million, and the rest came from other East and Southeast Asian countries.
In addition, Yulius said that amid the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions on access to several export destinations, the company would continue to maintain existing markets, especially in Asia while exploring new emerging markets such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the domestic market.
Meanwhile, the company continues to carry out cost reduction initiatives to address market uncertainties and the decline in coal prices which are still moving in the range of US $ 50-US $ 55 per ton.
Issuers with large capitalization claimed to have taken the initiative to reducestrip ratio, overhead costs, and contractor costs.
“We estimate that ourcash costwill decrease by around 15 percent compared to last year,” Yulius explained.
On the other hand, in the first quarter of 2020 the company recorded an average decline in coal selling prices of 17 percent from US $ 71.1 per ton to US $ 58.7 per tonyear-on-year.
The sharp fall in coal prices was caused by the fall in coal demand caused by the spring and exacerbated by the pandemic situation.
As a result, profit for the year attributable to owner entities in the first quarter of 2020 shrank by 61.2 percent to US $ 15.4 million compared with the same period last year of US $ 39.74 million.
Meanwhile, in the first quarter of 2020 the company also recorded a decrease in revenue of up to 19.23 percent to be valued at US $ 365.9 million compared to the same period last year of US $ 453.02 million.


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American Express Co. fell $1.31 or 1.6 percent, to $80.69. Capital One Financial Corp. fell $1.75 or 2.3 percent, to $73.21. Discover Financial Services fell$. 46 or. 8 percent, to $54.38.» Read More
American Express Co. rose$. 75 or. 9 percent, to $86.79. Capital One Financial Corp. rose$. 47 or. 6 percent, to $77.12. Discover Financial Services rose$. 34 or. 6 percent, to $60.51.
The Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge by retailers to the Federal Reserve's controversial rules for debit card "swipe fees."
American Express Co. rose$. 58 or. 7 percent, to $86.62. Capital One Financial Corp. rose$. 01 or percent, to $76.66. Discover Financial Services rose$. 45 or. 7 percent, to $60.62.
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Dec 31, 2018 12:33 PM IST
The new e-commerce norms could be just the boost that the Startup India mission needs.
- Dec 21, 2018 06:20 PM IST
Swiggy has competition from other food delivery companies and even ride-hailing companies Uber and Ola have entered the market.
- Dec 18, 2018 03:43 PM IST
Reason no 1: India Post is late to the party.
- Dec 12, 2018 07:14 PM IST
While Uber’s valuation is primarily linked to how well it sold its vision and growth prospects to its investors so far, its gross billing which comes from the total number of rides it completes also matters.
- Dec 07, 2018 02:16 PM IST
Tiger had stopped investing in India after it picked a series of duds but it has been the earliest big backer of India’s Internet story.
- Nov 27, 2018 02:33 PM IST
The share of organised retailing, or modern format retailing, which consists of hyper markets, super markets and small organised outlets, is only around 10 percent in India
- Nov 15, 2018 12:16 PM IST
With local language content, Amazon seems to be targeting the bottom of the pyramid population hoping to convert them into consumers of its core e-commerce business over a period
- Nov 09, 2018 01:01 PM IST
With a stake in Future Retail, Amazon will have the advantage of being well-spread across India which Walmart does not have right now
- Nov 02, 2018 08:00 AM IST
Considering the frequency of strikes, the legal ramification may only be to appreciate the legitimacy of drivers’ struggles and giving them their due recognition as a 'worker' under the law
- Aug 02, 2018 02:23 PM IST
As long as price is paramount in a market like India, the measures announced by the government in the draft policy are unlikely to work
- Jan 23, 2018 03:34 PM IST
Reclassification of marketing expenditure and discounts as capital expenditure will be a body blow for e-commerce companies
- Oct 09, 2017 07:23 PM IST
So DACA allowed them to come out of those shadows by giving them a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit if they passed a rigorous background check
- Sep 05, 2017 06:49 PM IST
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The marriage of chatbots with e-commerce, IT hardware and social messaging will change our online lives forever. The next wave of unicorns in e-commerce would be social aggregation of aggregators
- Sep 04, 2017 05:09 PM IST
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- Sep 02, 2017 07:48 PM IST
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- Sep 01, 2017 07:02 PM IST
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- Aug 18, 2017 05:48 PM IST
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- Aug 01, 2017 07:03 PM IST
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- Jun 01, 2017 02:02 PM IST
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- May 25, 2017 01:30 PM IST
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- May 23, 2017 11:51 AM IST
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- May 18, 2017 08:19 PM IST
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- May 16, 2017 08:04 PM IST
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- May 15, 2017 12:21 PM IST
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AFRICANGLOBE – Under the leadership of Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Africans are preparing a common position to be adopted by Heads of State and/or Government early in 2014 to guide African delegates at the United Nations in New York in negotiating a global post-2015 development agenda from 2016 to 2030.
This is an important exercise that should take into consideration past development experience including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), identifying success stories to build upon and challenges that have stifled equitable, inclusive and sustainable development to be overcome.
First and foremost, Africans and their leaders need to recognize that development is generated from within, not from without.
However, development partners should extend to Africa a helping hand through untied and predictable assistance, fair trade that according to some estimates African farmers would earn some $200 billion a year, more than 20 times the amount Africa receives in aid; investment and transfer of appropriate technology.
It is also important to recognize that virtually all countries that are developed undertook agricultural transformation, industrialization and equitable distribution of the benefits of economic growth through remunerative employment or social welfare benefits and have thereby significantly reduced poverty, hunger, ignorance and disease. They also employed a development model in which the state played a strategic role.
Africa’s development has pursued a different path based on economic growth devoid of state participation, equity and inclusiveness and on comparative advantage that has failed to transform Africa’s economies and societies and protect the environment. In the post-2015 development agenda, the current development trajectory needs to be recast, if not overhauled.
Before integration into the world economy, many African communities engaged in the production of a wide range of products according to their resource endowments and bartered surplus in local and regional markets. For example, Ugandans specialized in the production of goods such as crops, livestock and fish, salt; bark cloth and hides and skins garments, wooden and clay products and a wide range of iron products. Upon integration into the global economy, Uganda was reduced to the production and export of agricultural and mineral raw materials that were processed abroad and then some returned to Uganda as manufactured products. This comparative advantage wiped out industries that added value to primary products and created jobs through backward and forward linkages.
The export of cheap raw materials in exchange for expensive manufactured imports resulted in unfavorable terms of trade and Africa’s inability to import the necessary goods and services for consumption and production purposes or incurred unsustainable debts that have undermined Africa’s growth and development. This crippling comparative advantage needs to be rethought.
Thankfully, African leaders have already decided that the continent’s economic transformation will be driven by industrialization supported by infrastructure including roads and affordable energy. African delegates must ensure that industrialization of African economies is built into the post-2015 development agenda. Processing raw materials on the spot will improve Africa’s control over her natural resources.
Like the majority of countries that have developed, Africa needs to transform its agriculture from semi-subsistence to commercial agriculture where some 70 percent of the people earn their livelihood.
The transformation of agriculture need not replace small holder farmers with large-scale ones. There is scientific evidence that when properly facilitated, small holder farmers are more productive, more efficient, create more jobs and thereby reduce rapid rural-urban migration and are more environmentally and socially friendly than large scale farmers.
While Africa should continue to promote economic growth, it must keep in mind that economic growth and per capita income per se don’t automatically reduce poverty and hunger. Under the operation of market forces alone, economic growth tends to favor the rich. Africa should therefore ensure that in the post-2015 development agenda, economic growth is inclusive, interconnected, equitable and sustainable.
It has also been recognized that without peace, development won’t occur. Accordingly, every effort should be made to create stable societies with governments that are democratic, transparent, participatory and accountable to the people and observe human rights and freedoms and the rule of law.
Africa is well endowed in natural and human resources the latter dominated by a young population that if well harnessed through quality education should lay a solid foundation for rapid, equitable, sustained growth and sustainable development.
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Sri Lanka named Asia’s Leading Destination at World Travel Awards
Sri Lanka became named Asia’s Leading Destination and Asia’s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination at the latest World Travel Awards Ceremony in the Maldives, the tourism ministry stated in a Thursday declaration. Globe Inform. Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said those awards had been crucial milestones in Sri Lanka’s tourism promotional efforts. Sri Lanka’s tourism area has seen a mega growth following the stop of the island’s four civil struggles between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May 2009. Amaratunga stated securing the two top accolades on the World Travel Awards Ceremony will continue to draw the highlight on vacation spot Sri Lanka.
“The awards have shown Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent role as Asia’s Leading Destination while additionally consolidating its newly acquired reputation of Asia’s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination,” he said. Meanwhile, following an invitation extended by Sri Lanka Tourism, the World Travel Awards Executive Committee has agreed to discover the possibility of hosting the World Travel Awards rite in Sri Lanka in 2019. Sri Lanka Tourism also used the opportunity to exhibit the island’s tourism points of interest via a video presentation to the excessive-profile target market representing the area’s main destinations.
Among the attendees at the awards event, 12 months have been the Chairman and Founder of World Travel Awards, Graham Cooke, and the Minister of Tourism in the Maldives, Hussain Lira. Many Sri Lankan accommodations, airways, and travel businesses also gained diverse awards at the event. Sri Lanka’s countrywide airline provider, Sri Lankan Airlines, became Asia’s Leading Airline within the Indian Ocean and Asia’s Leading Cultural Airline. Competing among 47 Asian nations, Sri Lanka bagged the awards for ‘Asia’s Leading Destination’ and ‘Asia’s Leading Adventure Tourism Destination.’ The awards have been acquired by the Managing Director of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB), Sutheash Balasubramanium, and the Director of Marketing, SLTPB, Madhubani Perera. Tourism Development Minister John Amaratunga noted that these awards had been vital milestones in Sri Lanka’s tourism promotional efforts.
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“Securing those top accolades at the prestigious World Travel Awards Ceremony will preserve and attract the highlight on destination Sri Lanka. The awards have confirmed Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent function as Asia’s main vacation spot at the same time as additionally consolidating its newly obtained fame as Asia’s leading adventure tourism destination,” he said.
Meanwhile, following an invite prolonged with the aid of Sri Lanka Tourism, the World Travel Awards Executive Committee has agreed to explore the possibility of website hosting the gala ceremony in Sri Lanka in 2019. Sri Lanka Tourism also used the opportunity to exhibit the island’s tourism points of interest through a video presentation to the high-profile target audience representing the location’s main destinations. Among the attendees at the gala event were the Chairman and Founder of World Travel Awards, Graham Cooke, and the Minister of Tourism in the Maldives, Hussain Lira.
In addition to Sri Lanka tourism, many nearby accommodations, airways, and journey companies won numerous awards. They encompass Sri Lankan Airlines, which changed into Asia’s Leading Airline inside the Indian Ocean and Asia’s Leading Cultural Airline, Casa Colombo as Asia’s Leading Design Hotel, and Hilton Colombo as Sri Lanka’s Leading Business Hotel. Movenpick Colombo received awards as Sri Lanka’s Leading Hotel and Sri Lanka’s Leading Hotel Suite. Aitken Spence Travels bagged Sri Lanka’s Leading Destination Management Company award simultaneously as Taya Finch became Sri Lanka’s Leading Travel Agency. Habarana Lodge became named Sri Lanka’s Leading Family Resort.
Things to do in Colombo
Colombo is Sri Lanka’s business and commercial enterprise middle. Blending with vintage colonial and high upward push business homes and inns, the town is referred to as having an attraction all of its personal. Filled with bustling purchasing department shops, workplaces, and bazaars, the City has many exciting vacation attractions and things to do. Celebrated for its strategic seaport, diversity, and cultural landmarks, the City has a truthful percentage of interests ranging from cultural and religious significance to parks and museums, something for each person. Varied star class and financial accommodations also offer visitors a huge choice of accommodation alternatives.
Among the various things to do while in Colombo is to go to the National Museum. As the biggest Museum in Sri Lanka, it houses a critical series of historical artifacts, of which a few even date back to the 4th to 5th century. The Museum’s library is of unique importance because it houses troves of nearby publications dating over 129 years. Its great collections are palm leaf manuscripts on numerous subjects, including folklore, astrology, architecture, etc. Colombo’s Gangaramaya Buddhist Temple, located near the Beira Lake and over one hundred twenty-12 months old, is a hugely popular vacationer appeal that doubles as an area of worship and a vocational education middle. Visit this famous temple and find out an impressive variety of Buddha statues. The temple showcases lavish architecture.
Colombo’s majestic stone tower, the Independence Memorial Hall, commemorates Sri Lanka gaining independence from the British in 1948. An enchantment is no longer to be ignored in the town, a super place for site visitors searching for serenity and elegance. The monument teams with lavish symbols of Sri Lanka’s rich records and political freedom in extra to timber carvings and enforcing statues such as that of Sri Lanka’s first Prime Minister, D.S. Senanayake.
When traveling the town, shopping in Colombo is an exciting aspect. For good hunters, the Pettah Bazaar is a great location. Shopping malls consisting of Majestic City, Liberty Plaza, and Crescent offer an eclectic range of products and items for visitors to experience. From handicrafts, books, leather-based goods, clothes, and era items, those complexes do not only provide worldwide brands but also a street of entertainment as a few consist of restaurants, a film theater, and even gaming centers. Sri Lanka is synonymous with its amazing beaches. In Colombo, the Galle Face Green attracts families, youngsters, fans, and picnickers looking for a chilled forestall. Attracting people of various cultures and ethnicities and for a long time, the GreenIngredientss stalls are ideal for searching for a, without a doubt, Sri Lankan fashion snack.
A valuable port at the East-West, buying and selling direction for more than 2,000 years, Colombo has existed as a city with a history of converting fortunes. Sri Lanka’s rule through three successive foreign empires, accompanied by decades of devastating civil battle, left indelible marks on its landscapes and people. But nowadays, peace reigns perfectly, and the country’s colorful, multicultural capital is coming into its own as a vacation spot for vacationers. Sleek high-rises and luxury accommodations line Colombo’s leafy boulevards and historic temples, mosques, and colonial landmarks. History excursions cover key points of interest, such as the Colombo National Museum, Independence Square, and the Gangaramaya (Vihara) Buddhist Temple.
Join the locals for a night walk alongside Galle Face Green, or bear in mind a guided tasting excursion of the town’s culinary scene, from conventional Sinhalese and Tamil dishes to innovative global-fusion cuisine. While it is a smooth area to loosen up, Colombo is also the proper hub for venturing to the island’s many UNESCO World Heritage websites. A guided tour will help you cover numerous floors in a brief time: Kandy’s Sri Dalada Maligawa (“Temple of the Sacred Tooth”); the large rock fortress of Sigiriya, adorned with colorful frescoes for a fifth-century king; the cave temple of Dambulla; and the misplaced metropolis of Polonnaruwa—to call some highlights. Nature fans can discover the wild with a boat journey around Negombo Lagoon and the Muthurajawela Wetlands. Or, ebook a personal safari in Yala National Park, domestic to leopards, elephants, crocodiles, sloth bears, and different natural world.
When you intend your holidays to Ceylon, there are a pair of things to consider earlier than making up your itinerary. The pleasant way is to discover an awesome and reasonable website comprising Sri Lanka tour applications. There are positive websites packaged by way of their enjoyment by categorizing them into travel duration and hobby activities. There are seven-day excursions, eight8-day tours, and ten-day tours for the guests in Sri Lanka.
Every Ceylon excursion includes ancient, traditional, herbal, and wildlife locations and activities. Your vacation to Sri Lanka can make a splendid deal for using those interesting programs. Special chook-looking excursions, Whale-looking excursions, Specialwildlifee excursions, Hot Air Ballooning tours, Special Camping and Raftingexcursionsn, and Treehouse Camping excursions are to be had for any visitors who go to Ceylon annually. By bringing up the matters that you need to do in your holiday length to website online proprietors, you can arrange a first-rate package deal on your institution.
In addition to foreign travelers, even Sri Lankan site visitors can join those attractive programs in 3 to five days of excursion programs with plenty of adventure activities. Ceylon has many main tour bundle offerings that serve clients worldwide and provide comprehensive solutions and offerings to every site visitor’s journey wishes. These services regularly guarantee a personalized and courteous service to their partners and customers.


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It’s valuation- reckoning reckoning Hindu Businessline Funding winter. Late-stage startup valuations slashed by 40% Read more time at Indian startups. In September, Japanese venture-capital (VC) giant Softbank slashed the value of its stake in hospitality company OYO Hotels OYO Hotels The Ken What SoftBank’s US$700M valuation cut means for OYO, its investors, employees Read more *. In the same month, healthtech PharmEasy’s PharmEasy’s Inc42 PharmEasy May Raise $300 Mn At 50% Valuation Cut Read more fundraise was said to be at a 50% valuation cut. In public markets, big internet technology names like Zomato, Paytm**, Nykaa, and PB Fintech have faced punishing losses losses The Ken A year after IPOs, internet companies feel the pain of creating value for public investors Read more a year after listing.
The funding and valuation boom that came during the pandemic is now being reversed with a vengeance. And there may be more pain in store for startups. Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business, told The Ken that if the companies’ pricing does not reflect reality, then reality has to eventually catch up.
Hard questions are being raised about why startups were assigned excessive valuations earlier. How did the companies manage to get such valuations? Who were the valuers? Did investors question these?
The Ken dug into valuation reports at the ministry of corporate affairs’ (MCA) portal filed by a few startups. The findings are striking.
For instance, could the fair value fair value Fair Value Fair value is the estimated price at which an asset is bought or sold when both the buyer and seller freely agree on a price. of a startup’s share zoom 8,000% in 17 months—Rs 11 lakh ($13,510) in July 2022 from Rs 13,000 ($160) in February 2021?


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iPhone X shipping waits moved down to 3-4 weeks
In picking up his reserved iPhone X, our Jaime Rivera was told by an employee at the Apple Store in Manhasset, New York, that the device was “well in stock,” even if some carrier, color or storage variants weren’t all going to be available. Meantime, crowds in aggregate of the thousands have piled into city centers and malls around the globe to sit out the queue outside their own Apple Stores.
All this time, the iPhone X was being sold from Apple online with shipping waits ranging between five and six weeks. Well, not anymore.
In a lot of the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Australia, all iPhone X variants are available with three to four weeks.
No telling how to evaluate the supply chain situation and who’s quitting their orders at this point, but we expect more notes from bank analysts in the coming weeks.


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China partially closed one of their biggest and busiest cargo ports globally. Ningbo-Zhoushan, after an employee tested positive for Covid-19. Services were paused until further notice—the Meidong Terminal process 25% of the cargo that passes to Ningbo-Zhoushan.
According to the World Shipping Council, the port can handle roughly 27.49 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of container volume.
The closure results in global supply chain disruptions, with many shipments due ahead of the Christmas season. The port’s container capacity is also restricted as it cannot take in any more cargo.
Shipping costs from China and South-East Asia to the East coast of the U.S. are already high, with the U.K. businesses already feeling the pinch of higher shipping costs.
Another port in Shenzhen, Yantian, had to close for a month in May after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.
China has been re-instating lockdown restrictions since the Delta variant spread rapidly.
Oil prices fall
The IEA (International Energy Agency) stated that the oil demand recovery has reversed amid the coronavirus resurgence. They downgraded growth in the second half due to the new restrictions. Impacting major oil-consuming countries, particularly China, the world’s leading oil consumer. Now, the port closure and lockdowns have limited mobility, and oil usage declined.
Brent futures fell by 0.7%, trading at $70.82, while crude futures decreased by 0.9% to $68.50.
However, OPEC expects a solid recovery in world demand from 2021 to 2022. The U.S. requested OPEC to increase oil production to decrease high gasoline prices.
Oil has been declining since it reached its pre-pandemic highs in July, demand was slowed down, and U.S. stockpiles increased. In addition, U.S. oil production has been slower in July due to raw materials shortages. The U.S. and China PMI were also down, which crippled the price further, indicating consumers spent more on services.
OPEC’s target is to increase production by 400,000 barrels per day to increase supply.
Recent attacks on oil cargo ships in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. and China’s slower demand, and now the closure of a major port is skewing the oil supply and demand. MetaNews to update the latest news further.


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An interview with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on the occasion of the company’s developer conference.
Netflix cancels its non-evergreen content, and isn’t really relevant to Nielsen. Then, a Sonos and Alexa partnership makes sense for both sides, and MongoDB has a thoroughly modern IPO.
Larry Ellison has declared that Oracle is a cloud company, but their customer offering seems more suited to the world that was.
Windows is truly dead at Microsoft, as SQL Server will soon run on Linux. Meanwhile, Box had a great quarter, underlying the fact that SaaS economics work — and what happened to Windows Server helps explain why.


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THE price of bread is set to go up after wheat producers hiked prices by 16% per metric tonne, the National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) has advised.
NBAZ president Dennis Walla said the price of imported wheat has gone up to US$510 from US$440 per tonne, adding that prices of bread will have to increase to cover the rising costs of production.
A loaf of bread currently costs between $140 and $150.
“There are different players, and being players who specialise on bread, we are at the end of the value chain. So if there are any movements that are taking place in the value chain, it means everyone within that chain is going to be affected,” Walla explained.
“In these issues, we obviously communicate with government as well to just apprise it of the challenges that are taking place.
“Obviously, wheat prices have an effect in terms of the prices of bread because it means the cost of flour would have gone up,” Walla said.
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairman Tafadzwa Musarara said local wheat millers were battling to survive due to the surge in imported wheat prices.
“Local wheat millers are battling with surging imported wheat prices caused mainly by weather vagaries like droughts and floods which are affecting major wheat producing countries. This has precipitated significant decline in world wheat supply.
“The price of imported wheat into Harare has moved from US$440 per metric tonne to US$510, a 16% increase. At this time of the year, we are using mostly gristing of nearly 80% imported and 20% local wheat,” he said.
Musarara added that the high cost of capital coupled with the continuing decline of world wheat supplies exacerbated the problem.
He said Russia, the main producer, had cut its exports by 12,5 million metric tonnes, a move which was affect the buying countries.
“The continuing decline of world wheat supply is worrying with Russia, a top wheat producer, cutting its exports by 12,5 million metric tonnes to 72,5 million metric tonnes. The trend is also affecting Canada and US, who are other top world wheat producers,” he said.
Zimbabwe, however, expects to produce enough wheat this year to meet its needs of 360 000 tonnes.
The country forecasts a wheat harvest of over 300 000 tonnes in the current season, with national stocks at 70 000 tonnes, making Zimbabwe wheat self-sufficient for the first time since 2005.


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The UK Competition and Markets authority (CMA) could examine whether limited assortment discounters (LADs) and online platforms are competitive threats to large grocery players in its review of the acquisition of supermarket chain Asda by J Sainsbury [LON:SBRY], six competition lawyers told this news service.
Last weekend, J Sainsbury announced it would acquire Asda from Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart [NYSE:WMT] in a GBP 7.3bn cash-and-shares transaction. After the deal, Walmart will own 42% of Sainsbury’s shares and 29.9% of its voting rights.
Sainsbury’s expects the CMA review of the deal to be fast-tracked to Phase II, Sainsbury’s CFO Kevin O’Byrne said during a call on Monday.
By skipping to Phase II, the parties could save up to five weeks on their deal timeline, said a first competition lawyer, adding that parties thought Phase I clearance was impossible.
Getting the deal through looks challenging, a second and third lawyer agreed. The deal is at best a ‘four to three’ at a national level, the second lawyer noted. However, arguments from the parties to include LADs – such as Lidl and Aldi – as competitors in the grocery space could alleviate concerns arising from horizontal overlaps between the parties, argued the first lawyer and a third.


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The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has postponed its verdict on Apple Inc.'s closely watched complaint that HTC Corp. smartphones powered by Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system violates Apple patents.
The decision, which could lead to a ban on the import of HTC smartphones, will be issued on Dec. 14 instead of the original plan of Dec. 6, the ITC said Monday.
The delayed ruling comes as the Cupertino, Calif., iPhone maker continues its legal fights against major competitors, including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. Amid booming sales of mobile devices, nearly every major mobile device manufacturer has actively sued or is currently defending itself from claims of infringing one another's patents.
Apple so far has been largely successful in its patent battles with HTC. Last month, the commission said Apple's devices didn't violate patents held by S3 Graphics, which HTC said it acquired in order to use its patents in legal battles. Earlier, the ITC had said some Apple devices violated HTC's patents, while others didn't.
If the ITC rules in Apple's favor, the commission will need to rule on the issue of whether HTC's products should be banned. But an unfavorable ruling could still hurt HTC's standing in the marketplace, where it ranks as the third-largest smartphone maker in the US, behind Apple and Research In Motion Ltd., according to Nielsen.
It could also give Apple leverage against other Android device manufacturers, such as Samsung, in any attempts to settle those lawsuits as well.
HTC declined to comment. An Apple spokeswoman reiterated the company's earlier statement that competitors should not steal their technology.


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Search leads to stellar success for top models
What do Ruby Rose, Catherine McNeil, Pania Rose, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Samantha Harris have in common?
They’re all beautiful, from Australia ... and each of them got their big break on Girlfriend Model Search.
With Girlfriend magazine gearing up to bring its model search roadshow to Westfield Carousel tomorrow, AAA takes a look at how far some of Australia’s favourite finalists have come.
Looking back at 25 years of archived editions, it’s hard to believe these fresh-faced girls went on to walk big-name designer runways, grace the front pages of magazines and star on TV shows.
She’s now best known as flirty maximum-security inmate Stella Carlin on Orange is the New Black but, when she was just 16, Ruby Rose was a typical teen who loved lip gloss, the singer Pink and watching the rom-com A Walk to Remember.
Fellow model search contestant — and Rose’s ex — McNeill won the competition at just 14.
Her modelling career took off when Vogue Paris listed her as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.
Manjimup stunner Pania Rose won the model search WA finals in 2002 and made her Sports Illustrated swimsuit-edition debut four years later.
The WA-raised brunette said she would never have entered the competition if her sister hadn’t encouraged her.
2004 finalist Harris will join the GMS judging panel alongside Girlfriend editor Tamara Davis, Chic Management’s Ursula Hufnagl and Priceline Pharmacy marketing manager Allana May.
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DTI eyes record merchandise exports this year
MANILA, Philippines—Despite concerns earlier this year, Philippine trade authorities are now confident the country can beat this year the record-high exports set in 2010.
This will help the country meet its medium-term export targets, said Trade Undersecretary Cristino Panlilio at the National Export Congress in Pasay City.
“We want to hit $52 billion to $53 billion in merchandise exports by the end of the year, which will be an all-time high,” Panlilio said, noting that this would entail a growth rate higher than the 10 percent target for this year.
The trade official said the government and various industry associations wanted to see this year’s merchandise exports to exceed the $51.4-billion record posted in 2010. Exports went down to $48 billion in 2011.
Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) president Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr. told reporters that a 9- to 10-percent growth this year from the 2011 level was achievable. Exporters, he said, were working on improving their competitiveness.
Both Panlilio and Ortiz-Luis noted that electronics still accounted for the bulk of Philippine merchandise exports. However, they said non-electronics exports—including housewares, furniture, giftwares and food products—were increasing.
The country’s exports in the first nine months of 2012 grew by 7.2 percent to about $40 billion from $37.4 billion in the same period in 2011, according to National Statistics Office data.
Should merchandise exports reach $52 billion to $53 billion, this year’s overall exports, inclusive of BPO-led services exports, could reach $66 billion. This will help the Philippines gain momentum to achieve $120 billion in total exports in 2016.
“That’s $92 billion for merchandise and around $28 billion in services exports for 2016,” Panlilio said.
Authorities called on industry associations to avail themselves of the government’s shared services facilities (SSF) program to improve their competitiveness and ease their cost.
“The DTI [Department of Trade and Industry] can donate equipment for common, cooperative use,” Panlilio said. “The SSF budget for 2013 is P770 million. Let’s race to avail ourselves of the assistance under this program.”
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NEWBERRY — Nancy Williamson helps clients get on track for business success in Newberry County, even if it means getting her hair braided.
When small business owners need assistance with publicizing their business or getting organized, Williamson helps them since she is a certified business adviser with the Newberry Small Business Development Center.
Just recently, Williamson stepped out of her comfort zone to help a client who has an African hair braiding company.
“I have a French-speaking African hair braiding client that I worked with to help her get started last year – Celine Diona - who owns Beautiful African Hair Braiding LLC. She wanted a white woman on her website,” said Williamson, who decided to do it because she just wants to help her clients.
Williamson said that Diona braided her hair recently taking seven and a half hours. While she patiently waited, she helped Diona out with her website updates.
Williamson said that where Diona is from — West Africa — everyone braids their hair and it’s not limited to the color of the skin.


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LG KM900 Arena surpasses 1 Million milestone
LG have reached a milestone with their LG KM900 Arena handset today by exceeding 1 million Arena handsets sold across the globe reports gsmarena.
We saw the LG KM900 Arena announced back during MWCC 09 in February and was then released to the mobile world in April, with pre-order sale along with first week’s sales being very promising.
LG credit the success of the LG KM900 Arena mainly due to its S-Class interface, Dolby and DivX tech along with outstanding video and audio experience. LG attained the 1 million milestone by shifting the LG KM900 Arena in 53 countries across the world.


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The latest NFS title is just around the corner, so it’s time to learn more about the new racing experience.
EA and Ghost Games are gearing up for another NFS release later this year.
As promised, EA and Ghost Games have revealed the next big racing game in the long-running Need for Speed franchise.
Ghost Games gives us a peek under the hood of the latest new Need for Speed installment.
EA and Ghost Games’ Need for Speed reboot is looking pretty damn slick.
Blending near photo-realistic visuals with in-game live action video, the new Need for Speed is most definitely looking to be the most cinematic and dramatic NFS title yet.
New E3 media, game details and a release date for EA and Ghost Games’ NFS reboot.
Buckle up Need for Speed fans, EA today has announced that they are rebooting the series as an “action driving experience” for new generation consoles and the PC. Trailer and details within.
EA is doubling down on their multiplatform arcade-style racer on all platforms.


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Walmart is likely having a sit-down with its social media staff after its Twitter account caused waves with a post that referenced the late actor Paul Walker. Business Insider has a screenshot of the since-deleted tweet, which came after another Twitter user salivated over a story about Pillsbury cinnamon rolls sold at the retailer. "I NEEDDDD THIS IN MY LIFEEEE!!!" read the original post on the pastries, followed by a GIF of a car speeding and weaving its way through traffic, with the caption: "*me racin to the nearest Wally World*."
Whoever was at the helm of Walmart's Twitter account that day apparently felt compelled to be clever. "Hey, Paul Walker. Click it, or ticket," was the company's response, which included a siren emoji. While many have pointed out that the line is likely a reference to one used in the Comedy Central program Workaholics, others thought it was in bad taste, as Walker died at the age of 40 in a 2013 car crash. Walmart deleted the post and said in a statement to People, "We apologize to Paul Walker's family, friends, and fans. The tweet was posted in poor judgment and has been removed." (Read more Walmart stories.)


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After 12 years of pouring some of the world’s finest beer over his own bar, Daniel Lanigan is making a career change, though he doesn’t plan on leaving the beer industry.
Lanigan, a well-known publican and the founder of Alewife Baltimore, Alewife Queens, and Lord Hobo — one of the Boston area’s most celebrated craft beer bars — announced via Twitter that he plans to open a 150,000 sq. ft. brewery in the North Shore region of Massachusetts.
“I see a lot of opportunity in craft brewing,” he told Brewbound.com. “I have many friends in the industry who are frustrated with their current contract brewing situations and I think I can make contract beer as good, if not better, than it is currently being made.”
For the past eight months, Lanigan has been quietly securing enough private investment money to launch Paragraph 11 Brewing, an $18 million operation that will focus exclusively on contract brewing.
“My goal is to help U.S. craft brewers and European breweries that are frustrated with shipping beer and are willing to produce it stateside,” he said.
Lanigan would not disclose how much investment he’s already secured for Paragraph 11 Brewing — which is named for an old German drinking society — but told Brewbound that he “has enough to know it will happen.” Additionally, he said he’s already received verbal commitments from eight interested brewing partners and is hoping the facility will be operational before 2015.
“Our biggest limitation is securing the brewhouse,” he said. “We are trying to negotiate with higher-end brewhouse manufacturers and the quickest turnaround time, right now, is at least 12 months and in some cases 20 months. The decision will be made in the next few months.”
Lanigan’s initial brewery plans are ambitious. He’s looking to install 100 barrel and 15 barrel brewhouses, a water treatment facility, quality control laboratory, a dedicated brettanomyces fermentation wing, and barrel aging capacity, as well as bottling, canning, kegging equipment and a large tasting room. The entire space would be capable of being scaled to 250,000 barrels.
“I don’t want to say ‘no’ to anyone that I respect,” he said. “If a 50,000-barrel brewery wants to can its flagship IPA, I want to be able to handle that.”
Lanigan has no commercial brewing experience and said he plans to hire an experienced brewing engineer who has worked with large-scale brewing facilities. The project will initially create about 25 jobs, Lanigan said.


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The bowling entertainment center chain Main Event began curbside pickup and delivery through Uber Eats at its Plano, Texas, location on April 1, according to FSR Magazine.
They’re not just serving up food though – they’re offering entertainment items like at-home laser tag, Velcro darts, Frozen 2 bowling and more. Anyone who places an order also receives two 30-minute game cards to enjoy as soon as Main Event locations open back up. Main Event is also nixing any delivery fees.
“We know that everyone is missing their laser tag birthday parties and family fun nights, so we wanted to be able to bring the fun to you,” said Sarah Beddoe, the company’s chief brand officer. “Friends and families are now going to be able to create memories by playing their favorite games from Main Event right at home.”
A full list of the offerings is available at www.MainEventAtHome.com.


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Container volume at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., shot up 20.8 percent in November to 555,513 20-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) compared with November 2011 data.
Imports soared 20.2 percent to 278,534 TEUs — the highest November volume in five years — and exports climbed 24.6 percent to 138,312 TEUs, the second-highest November volume in the past five years. Empty container volume rose 18.4 percent to 138,667 TEUs.
The rise in container traffic was spurred by the addition of ocean carrier services in recent months, including those launched by CMA CGM and MSC, two of the world's largest container shipping companies, port officials said in a prepared statement.
"After mostly declining traffic in the middle of the year, the late boost has helped bring port cargo volumes closer to 2011 levels," they said. "For the first 11 months of the year, imports are virtually flat compared to the same period a year ago and exports are up 2 percent."
Meanwhile, the Port of Los Angeles in November handled 582,982 TEUs, down 16 percent year over year. Imports fell 18.6 percent to 288,273 TEUs, exports plunged 25.8 percent to 145,344 TEUs and total loaded container volume dropped 21.2 percent to 433,617 TEUs. Empty container volume increased 3.8 percent to 149,364 TEUs.
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Checking out banking account deals features another perk: It a€?affords [lenders] the opportunity to update [their] suggestions frequently since it is very close to real time,a€? Gross stated. This improvement in circumstance would be reflected in credit ratings after a delay – usually after a missed or late repayment or default. At the same time, it will be far too late for just about any intervention applications to help the buyer return on course.
Information gathered through today’s https://paydayloan4less.com/payday-loans-tx/crockett/ technology provide fintech companies an aggressive positive aspect, too. a€?The tech we’re talking about considerably reduces the price to provide this customers and allows us to pass on savings toward consumer,a€? Gross stated. a€?we are able to offering them extra credit on the cheap, greater credit limitations, lower rates no charges.a€? Petal provides APRs from percent to per cent to individuals who’re fresh to credit score rating, in contrast to % to percent from trusted charge cards. It does not recharge yearly, intercontinental, later part of the or over-the-limit costs.
a€?We think it is prudent to concentrate earliest on financial suggestions – there’s loads that isn’t yet factored into main-stream credit conclusion.a€? a€“Jason Gross
Renewable data and AI also are beneficial to finding fraud. a€?Alternative information is incredibly strong in fraud-decisioning,a€? said Al Goldstein, President of fintech loan provider Avant. Fraudsters can be sophisticated crooks that steal identification, originate from arranged crime, commit household fraud including assuming an ex-spouse’s personality, or perpetrate a€?soft’ fraud like forging pay stubs.
Earlier in the day this present year, FICO formally offered their stamp of approval into utilization of alternative data. It revealed their UltraFICO get, which uses this information to speed people who would never previously be eligible for debts because they got thinner or no credit records. In a 2015 research, FICO unearthed that using alternate facts escalates the predictability of potential conduct among no-score consumers by nearly 10-fold. a€?A product mixing alternative data with agency information adequately differentiates possibility within traditionally unscorable segments of consumers, allowing accountable credit behavior,a€? FICO said.
What’s more, it said it actually was looking at techniques alternate data enables you to help the decision making techniques for financing
While FICO recognized that people without any results are much more dangerous – the standard price is multiple that of those who could be scored – you can find distinct borrowers lumped along within cluster. Utilizing alternate information, FICO could give a score to approximately half of this no-score class. The document said a lot more than a third of these who have been recently obtained need a rating of 620 or above. Moreover, most kept or brought up their particular score couple of years afterwards.
Updated information is important to lenders because they can see if a consumer’s money abruptly prevents are transferred to the lender, perhaps suggesting a layoff
Just what fintech managers state they don’t really heavily count on is quite social networking information. a€?When you start making reference to points that include further and further attenuated from the people’ power to shell out and actual budget [such as] just how many company they usually have on myspace or connections on the mobile, there you probably carry out come across some complicated challengesa€? about evaluating the risk of financing for them, Gross stated. a€?We envision it is wise to concentrate very first on economic information – there’s enough which is not yet factored into popular credit score rating behavior.a€? Additionally, the guy added, some companies such Facebook do not let utilizing their people’ social media suggestions for credit score rating underwriting to begin with.
Meiler stated his business was focused on making use of alternate facts safely and responsibly. The guy mentioned that the a€?no-action’ page Upstart system received from customer monetary cover agency was a a€?hopeful and stimulating signa€? that regulators allows the use of alternate data in credit letter, the agencies stated they didn’t come with present intent to supervise or begin an enforcement activity against Upstart with regards to their using alternate facts, so long as it regularly states lending and compliance suggestions.


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All eyes will likely be focused on the launch of the latest version of the iPhone next month, but another high-end smartphone will be making a much stealthier entrance to the market -- the Blackphone 2.
Tech giant Google is introducing a low-priced smartphone in six African countries where most people still can't afford an Internet-connected device. The Hot 2 phone is made by Infinix.
The official launch date for the Gear S2 is still two weeks away, but Samsung is providing a sneak preview of its answer to the Apple Watch via a new video posted on its YouTube channel.
On opening day at IDF, Intel chief Brian Krzanich debuted a prototype smartphone integrated with an Intel RealSense 3D camera. The camera would be contained in a Google Project Tango phone.
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iPad 2 to go take on the 3DS in the UK from day one
Apple has announced the launch date for their iPad 2 and it will be going toe-to-toe with Nintendo's 3DS.
The iPad 2 will be launched in the UK on the 25th of March, the very same day as Nintendo's revolutionary new handheld goes on sale.
Steve Jobs himself unveiled their next generation of tablet device and confirmed that it will go on sale in the US on March the 11th, 16 days before the 3DS launches Stateside.
Jobs said as he revealed the shiny new tablet: "Add all these features up, and we think 2011 is going to be the year of iPad 2."
- Team Junkfish's procedural survival horror Monstrum to return to Steam Early Access
- Miyamoto: Next Mario game might not arrive until Nintendo releases a new console
- Final Fantasy trailer drop continues with a new look at Final Fantasy XV
- New Final Fantasy Type-0 HD trailer drops
- Activision gives a first look at the new Exo Zombies mode for Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Rockstar announces a Christmas bumper bonanza for GTA Online
- Hazelight to use the Unreal Engine 4 for their first game
- 343 Industries to offer Halo: ODST remastered campaign to apologise for Halo: The Master Chief Collection multiplayer problems
- Court rules that lawsuit against Sony over Killzone: Shadow Fall's 1080p claims


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March 16th, 2020 – WPIC
Demand for platinum jewellery in China could weaken in the following months amid the global onslaught of Covid-19, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) said in a recent report.
Global platinum jewellery demand dipped 7 percent to 2.09 million ounces in 2019, with China recording a steep decline of 14 percent, data from WPIC’s Platinum Quarterly for the fourth quarter of 2019 showed.
“As coronavirus fears continue to rattle markets worldwide, there is the potential for the impact of the virus to reduce platinum demand if it is not contained within months; particularly platinum jewellery demand in China where containing the outbreak has already reduced store traffic,” the report said.
Paul Wilson, CEO of WPIC, however, cited opportunities for growth for platinum as a precious metal amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
“The sustained elevated level of global debt with negative yields maintains the increased investment attractiveness of precious metals, including platinum,” noted Wilson. “The coronavirus has added considerably to global risk, lifting the gold price materially and providing an underpin for platinum. This enhances platinum’s investment case, already bolstered by material demand growth potential.”
The WPIC also said platinum supply in 2020 is likely to exceed demand by a measly 1.5 percent.


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On the news that eBay is finally spinning off Paypal, the online payment facilitator’s founder, Max Levchin, is apparently not suffering from empty nest syndrome, but has been hard at work at his new project, Affirm. While Affirm is not exactly new, since it was released last year, it is new compared to Paypal. Levchin is, quite frankly, not enamored of credit cards, which explains his animus behind Paypal, and more recently, Affirm.
He told PYMNTS.com, “You have to have a credit card. You have to use it. You are going to get screwed, and you know it.” However, millenials don’t necessarily feel the a credit card is a necessary evil, and have been ditching plastic in droves. More than 6 out of 10 of them say they have never signed up for a credit card, and that number dramatically increased since the financial crisis of 2007.
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While some fear data gathering from social media as a “big brother” technique, it can be to the advantage of those who seek loans from Affirm, which has a more nuanced way of decided to whom to loan and at what rate than using black and white credit ratings. Affirm has identified 70, 000 personal qualities that characterize a a borrowers likelihood of paying back a loan. Levchin said this approach has been successful; “From the loans we’ve issued, I think we’ve had a literally 100 percent repayment rate from active duty servicemen.”


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The ban on product placement on British television has been lifted, allowing advertisers to pay for their goods to be seen on screen for the first time.
This means that all paid-for references to products and services are now permitted on shows produced in the UK, such as soaps and one-off dramas.
The first product to be featured was a Nescafe coffee machine on ITV1 show This Morning.
According to Ofcom regulations, viewers must be informed that a programme contains product placement.
This will be done through the broadcaster displaying the letter 'P' for three seconds at the start and end of a show.
Product placement will still not be allowed during news, current affairs or children's programming or for alcoholic drinks and foods high in sugar, salt or fat.
It will also continue to be banned for BBC shows.
American viewers are no stranger to product placement.
Advertisers such as Coca Cola and Apple in the US pay millions of dollars to place their products in films and television programmes.
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Washington, Mar 18: A new crewmate aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is testing a new line of clothing that is literally threaded with anti-bacterial and deodorizing materials, making it 'odour free'.
According to a report in Discovery News, the crewmate in question is Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut, who is serving as a station flight engineer on the ISS.
Wakata is testing a new line of clothing developed for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that is made with anti-bacterial and deodorizing materials.
"He can wear his trunks (underwear) more than a week," Koji Yanagawa, director of JAXA's Human Space Technology and Astronaut Department, told Discovery News.
The clothes, developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo, were tested by JAXA astronauts during two previous shuttle missions and won rave reviews.
In addition to odor control, the clothes are designed to absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. They also are flame-resistant and anti-static, as well as comfortable and attractive.
Wakata's clothes include long- and short-sleeved shirts, pants, shorts and underwear.
There are socks too, which in addition to being laced with odor-fighting polymers, are constructed so that there is a pouch for the big toes, similar to how a mitten fits a thumb.
The design enables astronauts to use their feet like an extra pair of hands.
Taya is working with clothing manufacturers Toray Industries and Goldwin Inc. on a commercial line that integrates a nano-thick chemical layer into the materials.
"Many of the properties required for clothing worn by astronauts on board a spacecraft can be applied to ordinary clothes," said Taya.
For now, the space clothes are only available to JAXA's astronauts.
"Someday, when we're all finished with development, we will supply them to the other partners," Yanagawa said. (ANI)


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Nic.at will next month start selling .at domains shorter than three character domains for the first time.
All one-character and two-character domains will be released, the ccTLD registry said, about 5,000 domains in total.
The released domains include those containing any of the 34 non-Latin letters Nic.at supports, it said.
Holders of trademarks valid in Austria before July 1 get the first crack at the names, during a August 29 to September 23 sunrise period.
During this phase, domains will cost €240 ($265) with a €120 ($132) application fee. Contested sunrise names will be auctioned in October.
Everything not grabbed by trademark interests will be put to a public auction from November 7, where the minimum bid will be €72 ($79).
If there’s anything left after that, it will be released into the general available pool for registration at standard .at prices.
Nic.at plans to dump all registered one and two-character domains into the .at zone file, so they can be used, at the same time on December 6.
Austria has no local presence requirements for ccTLD registration.
Given “at” has some semantic value in English, it could be a popular launch.
If you’ve spent over $40 million on a gTLD, you need to make your money back somehow, right?
It’s emerged that GMO Registry, which paid ICANN a record $41.5 million for .shop back in January, plans to charge $1,000 renewal fees, wholesale, on domains registered during its upcoming sunrise period.
Trademark owners will seemingly have to pay over the odds for domains matching their trademarks, while regular registrants will have a much more manageable annual fee of $24.
The prices were disclosed in a blog post from the registrar OpenProvider last week, in which the company urged GMO to lower its prices.
Sunrise is due to start June 30, running for 60 days, so there’s still a chance prices could change before then.
It’s not the first registry to charge more for sunrise renewals than regular renewals.
Any company that bought a .sucks domain during sunrise was lumbered with a recurring $2,499 registry fee.
.green also had a $50 annual sunrise renewal premium before Afilias took over the gTLD in April.
Others have charged higher non-recurring sunrise fees. With .cars, the sunrise fee was $3,000, which was $1,000 more than the regular GA price.
There was a small turn-out for the premium launch of .cars, .car and .auto gTLDs, but the registry says it cleared over $1 million in revenue.
The three gTLDs are run by Cars Registry, a venture between Uniregistry and XYZ.com.
They all finished their pricey Early Access Periods yesterday and are due to enter general availability today.
The EAP started January 12 with prices of $45,000 per domain. In GA, they won’t cost you less than $2,000.
While zone files show almost no new domains appearing between January 12 and today — three or four per domain at most — Uniregistry CEO Frank Schilling said EAP was a “success”.
“More than 100 dealers and brands took advantage of sunrise and EAP,” he said.
It appears there are a few dozen domains not appearing in zone files yet.
The three gTLDs combined have brought in over $1 million during EAP, Schilling said.
Aruba, the .cloud gTLD registry, said it received 500 applications during its sunrise phase, which closed this afternoon.
While low by pre-2012 standards, it’s a relatively respectable performance for a new gTLD, where sunrises periods consistently result in double-digit registrations.
It’s almost certainly in the top 10 for 2012-round gTLDs.
exactly one hour left to submit Trademark Priority Registration Orders in the .cloud sunrise… 500 received so far 🙂 #dotCloudFTW
— Get .Cloud (@getdotcloud) January 15, 2016
I gather there was only one duplicate application during the period, which ran from November 16.
Before sunrise began, Aruba already had about 30 “pioneer” registrants in the web hosting space, including Ubuntu and Weebly.
Landrush is set to kick off January 25, with general availability following February 16. Retail pricing will be around the $25 a year mark.
Top Level Spectrum, the new .feedback registry, has painted a second gigantic target on itself by registering to itself a .feedback domain matching one of the world’s largest media brands.
The company has registered fox.feedback and put up a web site soliciting comment on Fox Broadcasting Company.
This has happened whilst .feedback is still in its sunrise period.
The intellectual property community is, I gather, not particularly happy about the move.
The domain fox.feedback points to a web site that uses TLS’ standard feedback platform, enabling visitors to rate and comment on Fox.
The site has a footnote: “Disclaimer: This site is provided to facilitate free speech regarding fox. No direct endorsement or association should be conferred.”
Fox had no involvement with the registration, which Whois records show is registered to Top Level Spectrum itself.
Registry CEO Jay Westerdal said that the domain is one of the 100 “promotional” domains that new gTLD registries are allowed to set aside for their own use under the terms of their ICANN contracts.
Registries usually register names like “buy.example” or “go.example”, along with the names of early adopter anchor tenant registrants, using this mechanism.
I’m not aware of any case where a registry has consciously registered a famous brand, without permission, as part of its promotional allotment.
“The website is hosted automatically by the Feedback platform,” Westerdal said. “Fox Television Network has raised no concerns and has not applied for the domain during sunrise. We are testing out promotion of the TLD with the domain as per our ICANN contract.”
Fox may still be able to buy the domain during sunrise, he said.
“This is a Registry Operation name. During sunrise, If we receive an application from a sunrise-eligible rights holders during sunrise for a Registry Operations name we may release the name for registration,” he said.
Fox’s usual registrar is MarkMonitor. Matt Serlin, VP there, said in an email that the TLS move could be raised with ICANN Compliance:
I find it curious that this branded domain name would have been registered to the registry prior to the sunrise period which is restricted to the 100 registry promotional names. The fact that the domain is actually resolving to a live site soliciting feedback for The Fox Broadcasting Company is even more troubling. MarkMonitor may look to raise this to ICANN Compliance once the registry is able to confirm how this domain was registered seemingly outside of the required process.
The IP community originally fought the introduction of the 100-domain pre-sunrise exception, saying unscrupulous registries would use it to stop trademark owners registering their brands.
While there have been some grumblings about registries reserving dictionary terms that match trademarks, this may be the first case of a registry unambiguously targeting a brand.
Top Level Spectrum courted controversy with the trademark community last week when it told DI that it plans to sell 5,000-brand match domains to a third party company after .feedback goes into general availability in January.
Westerdal told us this is not “cybersquatting”, as the sites contain disclaimers and are there to facilitate free speech.
What do you think about this use of brands as “promotional” domains?
It’s indisputably pushing the envelope of what is acceptable, but is it fair? Should registries be allowed to do this?


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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With continued strength and stabilization being seen across the housing market as well as improvement in overall remodeling activity, Delta Faucet Company is pleased to showcase its latest design innovations and technologies for the home at the 2013 International Builders' Show (IBS) in Las Vegas, January 22-24. The Delta® brand will exhibit its platform of smart solutions, which address the growing trend of technology in the home, especially busy areas such as the kitchen, where added functionality can have significant impact.
"As technology continues to play a significant role in our daily lives, consumers are looking to integrate smart solutions that offer efficiency throughout their home," said Bob Rodenbeck, director of research and development for Delta Faucet. "In the kitchen and the bath, Delta Faucet continues to lead the industry in new product innovations, from our Touch2O® Technology, which allows users to turn their faucets on with a simple tap, to our H2Okinetic™ Technology, which delivers an even more drenching and satisfying shower without using more water."
Delta kitchen technologies reinvent the user experience
Touch2O Technology continues to improve the way consumers interact with their kitchen faucet by affording precise and reliable control to activate the flow of water exactly when and where it's needed – even when hands are full or messy. In 2013, Touch2O Technology will continue to serve as a cornerstone to the Delta brand's smart solutions approach with the addition of new styles such as the Cassidy™ collection, which includes faucets featuring the technology.
With Touch2O Technology, once the manual handle is moved to an on position users can simply tap anywhere on the spout, hub or handle of the faucet to turn on and off the water stream. Touch2O Technology makes it easier to turn on the water flow when hands are messy or turn off the water when it is not needed between tasks, potentially helping to save water. It also reduces the potential for cross-contamination while keeping the faucet cleaner.
Many Delta kitchen faucets with Touch2O Technology also feature other Delta product innovations, including MagnaTite® docking, which keeps pull-down spray wands firmly in place when not in use by using a powerful integrated magnet, and DIAMOND™ Seal Technology, ensuring "like new" operation for the life of the faucet.
Delta Faucet brings new innovations to the bath
Delta H2Okinetic showers help create the feeling of more water without using more water. This technology can now be found in the brand's new In2ition® two-in-one showers. In2tition showers with H2Okinetic technology feature a detachable hand shower, which can run separately or simultaneously with the fixed showerhead, giving the user the comfort of water streaming from the showerhead in any position and the flexibility to accomplish other tasks, such as bathing children, washing pets and cleaning the shower.
Also on display at this year's show will be working lavatory faucets with Touch2O.xt™ Technology, the brand's latest bathroom advancement. Touch2O.xt Technology unites Delta Touch2O Technology with hands-free sensing. An available option on lavatory faucets in the Addison® and Lahara® bath collections, users can touch it on and touch it off, or have an entirely hands-free experience.
To learn more about these latest technologies and others from Delta Faucet at the 2013 International Builders' Show, visit booth C4530.
There is a philosophy at the heart of every Delta® product: there is a better way to live with water. It goes beyond excellent design to incorporate smart thinking that anticipates people's needs. From proprietary Touch2O® Technology that turns faucets on and off with just a touch to H2Okinetic™ shower technology that uniquely shapes the water to create larger water droplets that retain heat longer for a more drenching shower experience, Delta products incorporate thoughtful features that delight. Paired with beautiful, inspirational design, it's another way that the Delta® brand is more than just a faucet. Delta products are offered by Delta Faucet Company, which was named 2011 WaterSense® Manufacturer Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Delta Faucet Company is a worldwide leader in faucets and related accessories and sells products in more than 53 countries. For more information, visit www.deltafaucet.com.
SOURCE Delta Faucet Company


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Twitter has been taken over with the news that Disneyland Paris has allegedly been charging British visitors up to 15% more than French nationals.
The claim, made by the European Commission, follows a number of tourist complaints and the attraction park will be investigated. A spokesman for Disneyland Paris denied the accusation but said that the company offers "market-specific promotions" to EU citizens throughout the year.
But, rather than attacking Disney, much of the reaction to the news challenges the EU itself and its lenient policy on ticket pricing for tourists. Some claim that it is "unfair" and that the rules have allowed this sort of discrimination for years.
EU rules do allow for price differences between member countries but state that all citizens, regardless of nationality, should have the opportunity to purchase cheaper tickets when available. Its policy published in 2012 states: "EU tourists must be treated like locals – price-wise."
Christophe Murphy, vice president of Disneyland Paris, said offers should be able to be purchased from a different country through the reservations office, as it has been protocol for "many years".
The Disneyland spokesman explained that these offers, or "market-specific promotions", take into account local holiday calendars and booking patterns. He said: "Anyone aware of a promotion running in a market not local to them, can contact the central reservations office and request to make that specific booking."
However the Press Association encountered difficulties when attempting to book the cheaper French tickets through the central reservations office, constantly being referred back to the British office.
On the UK website, disneylandParis.co.uk, a family of two adults and two children would pay £232 for a one-day park ticket whereas a family of the same size booking on the French version, disneylandparis.fr, are offered the same ticket for £199.
Explaining the reason for taking up the investigation, a spokeswoman for the EC agreed that consumers were "often prevented from getting the best price" by the company and confirmed the Commission was "scrutinising a number of complaints, including several against Disneyland Paris".
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Canadians can purchase Spark EV at last
Chevrolet dealers across Canada will now offer the Spark EV to their regular customers after two years of fleet-only sales. Like any self-respecting green car, it will be eligible for incentives from the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Pricing for the 2016 Chevrolet Spark EV has yet to be announced, though.
Virtually identical to its 2015 fleet variant, which our very own Miranda Lightstone test drove recently, the 2016 Spark EV boasts a combined city/highway estimated range of 131 km and an estimated city/highway fuel consumption equivalent of 2.0Le/100km. Producing a whopping 327 lb-ft of instant torque, this tiny hatchback can sprint from 0-60 mph (96 km/h) in 7.2 seconds.
The 140hp motor is fed by a lithium-ion battery, which can be charged to 80% in as little as 20 minutes through the industry's first use of the recently approved SAE combo charger for DC fast charging.
Given its surprising performance, practical configuration, and cute mug, the 2016 Chevrolet Spark EV will likely sell like hot cakes.


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A compelling concept about how the industry can prevail over the obesity problem was broached at last week's Food Marketing Institute Midwinter Executive Conference by Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo.
She called for the industry to mount a campaign that would change lifestyles in such a way that exercising becomes the norm and inactivity the exception. Let's see if there are any hazards connected to that concept.
We'll start with a rough analogy she offered herself: the campaign of a generation ago intended to encourage seat belt use in autos. At first there was much resistance to the idea. Silly objections to belt use were voiced, such as the idea that it's better to be flung from a car in a collision than to be confined inside the wreckage. Additionally, the use of seat belts wasn't at first particularly favored by the automobile industry for fear belts would constantly underscore how dangerous it is to ride in a car.
Yet, over time, behavior changed, and now most people strap in without a thought, and even feel odd without a seat belt.
The auto industry also got used to the idea, and it benefited: It could project that it was concerned about safety; belts provided some insulation against litigation; and, best of all, as fewer lives were lost on the road, more people were around to buy cars.
Similarly, Nooyi said, the food distribution industry should endeavor to change lifestyles in ways that would lessen the incidence of obesity. She asserted the real problem isn't that too many calories are consumed, since people don't typically consume too many more calories than they ever did.
The problem is that as the population becomes more and more sedentary, fewer calories are expended. Of course that's not just correct, but that has been the case at least since the Second World War.
She called for a conference of industry leaders to be seated, during which methods might be found to create lifestyle attitudes that would make exercising the life mode of preference. Should the industry be able to accomplish that, it would be all to the good. Each of the benefits the auto industry realized through seat belt use would accrue to the food distribution industry: The industry would win the gratitude of the consuming public; it would be provided some protection against litigation; and more consumers would be around to buy product.
The possible pitfall to this concept is that it will take a fine hand to sell the concept that caloric intake isn't the real villain, but that lack of exercise is. After all, it's obvious that weight reduction can happen in the reverse way, by eschewing exercise and consuming little.
What's needed is a campaign that focuses on exercise, to be sure, but one that also points out all the consumer packaged goods industry, often in partnership with retailers, has accomplished by reducing products' content of calories, trans fat, sodium and so on. The resulting campaign should pledge that these accomplishments will go forward, while at the same time pointing out that everyone has the responsibility to exercise, just as everyone has a responsibility to put on a seat belt.


text: They'd charge for SkyMall if they could. Airlines have been "unbundling" fares for years now instead of paying one price that covers everything, you now pay à la carte. The specifics vary by airline: you might find yourself shelling out for food, entertainment, seat selection, checked baggage, a guaranteed standby seat, a pillow and blanket or priority boarding. And recent evidence shows that the airlines aren't done finding new ways to monetize the flying experience. Spirit asks for $20 to $45 to put a bag in the overhead compartment, British Airways charges £10 to choose a seat more than 24 hours before a flight (even if you only want to guarantee a seat next to your travel companion), and European discount airline Ryanair says it will begin demanding £1 or €1 to use the lavatory. Ultimately, travelers have to look at airfares the way they look at products sold on TV: the price might seem low, but what about the shipping and handling?


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Wood Partners Announces New Development in Greater Tampa
MAGNOLIA PARK, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wood Partners, a national leader in real estate development and acquisition, announced today that it had closed earlier this month on a 19.32-acre site in thriving southern Hillsborough County where a new luxury apartment community is currently under construction by the developer. Located within the Magnolia Park Planned Development, Alta at Magnolia Park is conveniently located in close proximity to a variety of retail, entertainment and recreation destinations, as well as access to the area’s major employment centers via nearby access to transportation arteries.
“The Brandon/Riverview submarket has experienced rapid growth as of late, and we believe Alta at Magnolia Park is well-positioned to build upon that momentum,” said Wood Partners’ North Florida Development Director Bryan Borland. “This submarket is unique in that it offers immediate access to a wealth of desirable amenities at a great value, making it an attractive option for young professionals, families and empty-nesters.”
Alta at Magnolia Park will include a total of 292 one-, two- and three-bedroom units in a garden-style setting. With an average unit size of 980 square feet, the residences are generously sized and will feature high-end finishes, including granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, island kitchens and vinyl plank flooring in all kitchens, bathrooms and living areas. The modern design also boasts a clubhouse integrated into a four-story, manor-style building which will include a cyber café, sports lounge, game room with billiards and kitchen/bar seating, and a fitness center. Outdoor amenities will include a resort-style pool with covered outdoor grilling and seating areas, an expansive dog park and game lawn.
“As we strive to do with all of our developments, our team has collaborated to design a distinctive and inviting community which will serve the needs of an increasingly selective renter,” said Borland. “Alta at Magnolia Park will offer our residents a luxury alternative in a suburban setting, with all the benefits of downtown Tampa available within a 10-minute drive.”
With convenient access to the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway via nearby I-75, the site offers easy access to downtown Tampa, as well as a variety of retail destinations in nearby Brandon, including a 1.1 million-square-foot regional shopping mall and numerous other big box retail stores.
The new community aims to serve a rapidly-growing workforce population in the Tampa area, including USAA’s new campus located less than five miles away, which is slated to add up to 1,215 jobs by 2019.
Construction is currently underway. The first units will be available for occupancy in late 2016, and construction is expected to be completed in summer 2017.


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