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Recipe for Profit
With its party line of "do no evil," Google
calmed investors concerned that its altruism might get
in the way of its business.
Financial analysts convened on Mountain View on Wednesday
for the search giant's first Analysts' Day. A subtext
of the day was reassurance that Google is not too untraditional
to keep making money. Wall Street investors criticized
the company for its initial public offering prospectus
that proclaimed that it wouldn't explain itself to The
"There's a big secret about Google," Schmidt
told the analysts. "We're not quite as unconventional
as we seem. In many cases, the things we do are unique,
but the rest of the business is run in all the traditional
ways. We have all the normal financial and IT systems
and an independent board of directors."
While not an entirely false statement, Google's board
is in fact packed with insiders.
Executives addressed concerns that it could do more
to bring in revenue. The main search service will remain
free, Schmidt said.
"We believe the simplest way to overcome a pricing
issue with end users is to have the product be free
and make money through other model like advertising,"
Schmidt said, noting this end-user focus creates more
traffic that can then be monetized.
Neither does Google believe it should show ads whenever
possible in an effort to maintain growth. Showing a
chart linking quality of search results to revenue,
Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of product development,
said, "We don't show ads when the query isn't commercial,
so that we don't reinforce the behavior of ignoring
ads." He admitted that Google could do more to
raise the visibility of ads in some cases and pointed
to partners as a good source of innovation.
For example, AOL, which uses
Google AdSense to place contextual
ads on content pages, recently added a link to lets
users see more ads related to a query.
"A testament to the kind of advertising we're doing
is that users actually click on it," Rosenberg
Schmidt explained that the company
uses a 70-20-10 rule for allocating resources: 70 percent
goes to the core search and advertising business; 20
percent go to related projects that extend the core
search, such as Google News, the
comparison shopping service, and the
Web mail service; and 10 percent of work is exploratory,
including the Orkut social network and the recently
acquired Keyhole geospatial mapping technology.
Google employees are encouraged to devote 10 percent
of their work hours to personal projects of interest,
and many Google services began this way, co-founder
Sergey Brin explained. To reward innovation -- and keep
employees from leaving to found their own potential
money machines -- the company instituted Founders' Awards
in the form of restricted stock grants vested over four
years. The two awarded to date have totaled around $12
million, Brin said.
"Even though a lot of Google's innovation comes
from individuals in a bottom-up process," co-founder
Larry Page told the analysts, "this doesn't mean
we don't structure the company, have strategies, and
decide what we're going to work on."
Page said the company is "pretty ruthless about
prioritizing, so analysts shouldn't attach much importance
to which products Google is now profiting from. Perpetually
short-staffed, the company has to choose between improving
existing services or monetizing new ones.
"We're not necessarily going to try to make money
from all the things we do now," he said. "We
know we'll eventually make money off [Google] News."
In response to complaints that Google services never
get out of beta, Page said, "Part of our brand
is that we under promise and over deliver. Being in
beta is part of that." He explained that Google's
engineers prefer to leave things in beta if they expect
to make major changes. "We could take all our products
off beta tomorrow," he said.
Schmidt said Google might instate registration for some
services to increase the opportunity for personalization
of results. "A Google that knows you and more about
you," he said, could lead to "a much deeper
In the final moments of the presentation, CFO George
Reyes warned that Google won't be able to sustain its
profit levels -- then backpedaled a bit.
"Very few businesses can maintain such large margins
over time," he told the analysts.
Schmidt added that, while Google is committed to optimizing
its capital expenditures, it will continue to invest
heavily in engineering, which will drive down profit
margins. "You shouldn't think about these things
as happening tomorrow or next quarter," Schmidt
said, "but they're trends that will happen over
Looking on the bright side again, Reyes added that growth
in the advertising base might well mitigate that downward
Finally, Schmidt defended the unusual "triumvirate"
management structure, where Schmidt, Page and Brin share
typical CEO duties. Referencing the book The Wisdom
of Crowds, Schmidt said having several people in
the room to argue about decisions produced better results
-- as long as there was a deadline. "Often,"
he said, " the outcome is not what we expect."


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Gauci Borda has recently opened a new crew store
Yachting Spirit is also now stocking Dolphin Wear products
Dolphin Wear now have products in La Ciotat and Gzira
Gauci Borda & Co. Ltd. is one of Malta's leading yacht chandlers and has been established since 1963. As well as providing a range of products for the yachting industry, they offer a personalised service, offering specialised advice for customers.
Gauci Borda is not the only new location to provide Dolphin Wear products though, as Yachting Spirit by Nico in La Ciotat France have are now stocking Dolphin Wear's range of crew clothing and uniforms.
As well as these new locations, Dolphin Wear will continue to expand and raise its profile within the superyacht industry with its first exclusive chief stewardess party, which will take place on 19th April at the Antibes Yacht Show. You can taste extraordinary food and drinks in a friendly atmosphere with the Connect band, live on stage.
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Are you ready for free access to 15 million songs? Spotify is coming to the US and its the first free music player of its kind, Spotify is expected to become a major competitor to music download services like iTunes. The service launched in the US on Thursday, and Spotify is ramping up their free service option. For the time being the free plan is invite-only and is expected to be opened to everybody in a few weeks. In the meantime, once Spotify emails users their invitations, they will be able to listen to any of the 15 million songs from their computer. There are, of course, a few catches. First, you will have to listen to commercials. And after 6 months you will be limited to 10 hours per month.
Sweden’s Spotify has been well known in Europe for years. Since 2006, 10 million listeners from Sweden, France, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, and Norway have been tuning in to Europe’s hottest music service using their computers and mobile phones. Spotify utilizes the high speed internet access many mobile phones and most home computers now have to allow users to stream music from Spotify’s catalogue rather than keep it on their personal devices.
This is quite possibly what could kill Apple’s iTunes service as we know it, and indeed, threatens the entire music download industry. On a cloud system files stay on a remote server and are read by users but not downloaded to the user’s computer to be stored. Up until now, services like iTunes made users pay for songs which they then had to download and store on their computer. Many an unhappy computer user has lost his entire music collection due to a hard drive failure or laptop theft. This is one of the benefits of the cloud. Much like Netflix has been called the video store killer (and now cable killer), the launch of Spotify may mark the beginning of the end of paid music downloads like those sold through iTunes. Apple’s cloud solution, iTunes Match, offers a free service, but it only allows users to listen to songs purchased through iTunes. At $25 per year, Apple’s paid offering is cheaper than Spotify’s, but limits users to their own library of songs.


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The oldest running monthly magazine in the US and one of the staples of popular science highlighted the declining nutritional value of American produce in a 2011 blog post called “Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?”
Here at Hygeia we are a part of this discussion, having recently created a new Nutrient Decline section that discusses the generally negative nutritional impact of industrial agriculture, which prioritizes yield, shelf life, pest control, and other crop and food attributes over nutritional quality.
Our friend and colleague Don Davis, who is quoted in the Scientific American post, conducted a seminal study on the topic, published in 2004. His team analyzed USDA nutritional data from 1950-1999 for 43 different fruits and vegetables and found median declines in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B-2, and vitamin C.
Davis chalks this loss in nutritional value up to modern crop varieties that grow larger and more quickly, “but their ability to manufacture or uptake nutrients has not kept pace with their rapid growth.”
The 2004 paper reported the following median declines in key nutrients:
- Calcium levels down 16%
- Iron down 15%
- Vitamin B-2 down 38%
- Vitamin C down 15%
The Scientific American piece reported something we cover extensively on Hygeia Analytics – organic farming. The article stated that organic farming is “good for the soil, the produce and its consumers. Those who want to get the most nutritious fruits and vegetables should buy regularly from local organic farmers.”
Several studies have clearly shown higher concentrations of essential nutrients and phytochemicals in organic foods, including some nutrients that are generally deficient in typical American diets. In particular, a 2013 large-scale and systematic review of existing data concluded that organic plant-based foods had almost 20% more antioxidants on average, and over 50% more of certain flavanones and anthocyanins.
Researchers have also measured nutritional differences in milk, and found significant variation between organic and conventional milk, and more recently between conventional milk and the grassmilk produced by cows who eat only grass and forage-based feeds. They found that organic whole milk has 62% more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than conventional whole milk. Whole grassmilk was even more nutritious, with a whopping 146% more omega-3s than conventional milk. See our suite of dynamic presentations and graphics about the grassmilk study here.
As with nutrient decline in fruits and vegetables, several factors appear to play a role in the nutritional quality of milk. The way cows are fed, what breed they are, and the amount of milk they produce each day all play a role in overall nutrient content.
This latest story shines badly needed light on the degree of nutrient decline in the U.S. food supply. Another negative trend runs parallel to nutrient decline — rising sugar and starch levels in fruits and vegetables. This is why organic fruit often delivers substantially more nutrients per calorie of fruit consumed, in effect delivering more nutrition bang for the space taken up within a person’s daily need for calories. This is another reason why both food choices and food quality matters.
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss (eds), “Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?,” Scientific American, 2011.


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Vodafone 'world-first' connects smartphones to 5G network
Vodafone connects handset in Barcelona ahead of MWC next week.
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With regulatory approvals taking longer than expected, T-Mobile hopes consumers will contact the FCC to support its Sprint merger and get faster 5G...
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Telia tests world’s first 5G movie theater with livestreaming films
Thanks to 5G's ultra-high bandwidth and low latency, movie theaters could start livestreaming new releases in 4K quality the moment they're available.
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Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth US$27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share price tag it was discussing with the company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning opening price of $28.30.
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Retail giant behind Noni B, Katies, Rivers and Rockmans reveals 288 stores shuttered since pandemic start
The fashion giant behind popular brands including Noni B has closed 288 stores since the pandemic began and doubled its profits.
The retail giant behind Noni B, Katies and Rockmans continues to spit the dummy with landlords who won’t budge on rent, revealing the number of stores it has closed has climbed to 288.
The number emerged in Mosaic Brands’ annual report, which lobbed on the ASX moments after trading ceased on the final official day of the earnings reporting season on Tuesday.
“The group continued to engage with landlords in reshaping our retail store rentals to the realities brought on by the pandemic,” the company said.
“Accordingly, the group closed 242 shops throughout the period (the 2020-21 financial year) where economical rentals could not be achieved.”
In a market update in late May, Mosaic Brands – which also owns Crossroads, Autograph, Rivers, Millers and W.Lane – advised it had shuttered 212 stores “where landlords had pre-pandemic expectations”.
That was a big jump from 123 in February.
At that time, chief executive Scott Evans warned that other store closures would “undoubtedly” follow, saying “we always foresaw that about 500 was going to happen”.
Chairman Richard Facioni revealed the 288 figure in the group’s latest corporate presentation, saying Mosaic Brands was left with 1091 stores nationally.
He defended the closures, saying the company had “acted quickly and decisively” as Covid-19 ravaged the retail sector and had been a leader “in publicly addressing uncommercial and inflexible lease arrangements that the pandemic served to highlight”.
“We took a series of difficult decisions within the business aimed at lifting margins, reducing stock, preserving cash and positioning the group for the future,” he said.
“Directors have focused on how, as one of the retailers most impacted by the pandemic, we can be one of the strongest to come out of it.
“The foundations are in place with group EBITDA now returning to pre-pandemic levels, with 288 fewer stores, a rapidly growing digital business, and with improving margins and lower, more efficient stock levels.”
The efforts have certainly improved Mosaic Brands’ bottom line, with it full-year results showing a doubling in net profit to $2.78m and a record 59 per cent margin, but there was no final dividend.
The company has enjoyed a huge surge in online sales, like many other retailers, and has moved onto the next stage of its plan, on Wednesday having its shares placed in a trading halt while it finalises arrangements for a planned capital raising.
Shares in Mosaic Brands last traded at 45.5 cents, well down from its 12-month closing peak of more than $1.15.


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will announce a deal worth as much as $125 million with Bank One
, the fifth-largest bank in the nation, to create an online banking center, according to a source.
Under the multi-year agreement, Excite will offer a new financial center and personalized banking and bill-payment services, while Bank One will get exclusive rights to market its services on the Net directory's home page. The service is expected to launch during the first half of 1999.
"We don't comment on rumors or speculation," an Excite spokeswoman said, declining to discuss the announcement further.
The Net directory will offer access to customers' Bank One checking and savings accounts and allow online bill paying capabilities. Customers are expected to be able to apply for credit cards, home or car loans, and buy insurance on the Internet.
Eventually Bank One intends to offer services from other financial institutions, according to the source.
The deal comes on the heels of another blockbuster online banking agreement between Microsoft's MSN.com web portal and First USA, a business unit of Bank One.
The five-year, $90 million agreement gives First USA exclusive rights to advertise its credit cards on MSN.com.
Bank One, with $235 billion in assets, is the nation's largest credit card lender.
In May, Excite and MasterCard formed an alliance to promote Internet sales when MasterCard sponsored the Net directory's shopping channel.


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2021 State of Treating Report
No other consumer products enjoy the universal appeal of chocolate and candy. NCA’s Sweet Insights: State of Treating 2021 report seamlessly blends confectionery market performance and merchandising trends with shopper insights and includes a comprehensive review of seasonal and everyday confectionery performance, including channel outlooks, category drivers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
of Americans say chocolate and candy are an important part of their emotional well-being.
of American households buy chocolate or candy at least once a year.
of Americans believe that sharing seasonal chocolate & candy is a great American tradition.
Access the latest insights around the confectionery industry’s “Big Four” seasons – Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween and the winter holidays – as well as new seasonal candy moments, like National Candy Month.
Follow the confectionery industry’s latest successes and opportunities thanks to monthly sales recaps that capture the latest trends and track the industry’s routine performance.
Schiphol, Netherlands — As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen cocoa-growing communities, prevent child labor and invest in education, Cargill, Inc. and non-profit CARE, will build six new schools in Ghana. The three primary schools, two kindergarten blocks and one…
Chicago — CaPao, a mission-based start-up snack brand created by Mondelēz International’s SnackFutures innovation and venture hub, is one of the first products to be certified under the Upcycled Food Association’s (UFA) Upcycled Certification Program. CaPao, which is made with upcycled cacaofruit,…
Hackettstown, NJ — The Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Research Grant was awarded recently to 10 educational and cultural institutions across the United States in the areas of research and chocolate programming by Mars Wrigley. The grants were presented during a virtual gala…
Manufacturers of chocolate, candy, gum and mints directly employ nearly 54,000 people across the United States with more than 600,000 jobs supported in related industries, including agriculture, retail, transportation and more. Altogether, the confectionery industry contributes over $44 billion to the U.S. economy each year and has at least one manufacturing facility in each of the fifty U.S. states.
America’s leading chocolate and candy companies have committed to providing consumers with information, options and support as they enjoy their favorite treats, pledging half of their individually wrapped products will be available in sizes that contain 200 calories or less per pack and 90 percent will feature calorie information on the front of the pack by 2022.
Chocolate, candy, gum and mints fill a special role in our lives and in American holidays and celebrations. When enjoyed as part of a happy, balanced diet, these treats can bring people closer together, bring back fond memories and contribute to one’s emotional well-being.
Special candy moments like Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween and the winter holidays bring people closer together and help them connect through the sharing and gifting of candy, chocolate, gum and mints. Dive into how we’re celebrating each of these special seasonal occasions and join us by participating in the festivities.
Meet Our Industry
The confectionery industry is made up of a variety of companies that create thousands of Americans’ favorite confectionery products. Meet some of the people behind the confectionery industry and the companies that make the chocolate, candy, gum and mints millions of people across the globe enjoy every day.


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Porsche is ramping up its electrification efforts ahead of the launch of the Taycan, its first all-electric car, in just over a month.
Now it has released a bizarre new promotional video about going electric and a Taycan prototype made an appearance at the Formula E finale this weekend.
On June 30, some people in London spotted the lights on the London Eye ferris wheel seemingly malfunctioning as they were repeatedly turning on and off.
As it turns out, we now learn that it was actually electricity, as an entity, sending a message to Porsche in morse code.
The German automaker released a video of the marketing stunt revealing that the message says ‘Hey Porsche, get me out on the road. Love, electricity’:
Based on the comments on the video, people are not impressed by the marketing stunt:
Nonetheless, many people are excited about the upcoming launch of the Taycan and Porsche recently showed another prototype.
For months, there have been sightings around the world of camouflaged Taycan prototypes during its test program.
Porsche officially debuted the prototypes in China on a Shanghai racetrack.
The German automaker said that it would be part of a “triple run demo” at three racetracks around the world. The two next events would be the Hill Run as part of the Festival of Speed at Goodwood and the season finale of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in New York from July 13-14, 2019.
We reported on the Taycan zipping through the Goodwood racetrack last week and now another prototype made an appearance in Brooklyn for the Formula E finale.
Here’s some pictures:
Porsche works driver Neel Jani, who was behind the wheel in New York and has been confirmed to be a driver for Porsche’s upcoming Formula E team, said about the car:
“In Formula E, recuperation plays an important part in the race strategy. In a production car, intelligent energy recovery can make it possible to achieve significant benefits in terms of range. I was surprised by the long range of the new Taycan even when driven spiritedly round a race track. That is due to its performance-oriented battery and the sophisticated energy management system.”
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SEMA 2013: MagnaFlow announces 50-state legal Ford Mustang shorty headers
MagnaFlow has previously only built exhaust headers for race or custom applications, but that’s now changed as the company announced at SEMA this week that they will be offering a new line of 50-state legal shorty headers for late model muscle cars including the Ford Mustang. The headers feature stainless steel construction, a titanium ceramic coating, tuned-length 1.75-inch tubing, welded straight collectors and all gaskets and hardware necessary for installation.
The headers will be available in four applications, for the 1986-1993 Mustang 5.0, the 1999-2004 Mustang 4.6, the 2005-2010 Mustang 4.6 and the 2011-2014 Mustang 5.0. Pricing has yet to be announced, but expect more details when the headers become available for purchase sometime next year.
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Bayer AG (BAYRY) - Get Bayer AG Report shares traded lower in Frankfurt Wednesday after the drugmaker posted solid full-year earnings but said its crop sciences unit would only see modest growth in 2017 as it completes its $66 billion takeover of Monsanto Co. (MON)
Bayer said group sales rose 1.5% to €46.8 billion last year against net income of €4.5 billion and core earnings per share of €7.32 per share. However, the Leverkusen-based group said it sees a "volatile" environment for the world seed and crop protection market next year and mid single-digit earnings growth for the company overall.
Bayer shares fell around 2.3% at the start of trading in Frankfurt to change hands at €106.4 each, trimming the three month gain to around 16%
The company also said it expects to close its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto before the end of the year and that it had made "progress in the necessary antitrust proceedings and has already applied for clearance from some two-thirds of around 30 authorities" in order to close the deal.
"Transactions of this magnitude don't necessarily go smoothly," said CFO Johannes Dietsch. "The fact that we were so successful in these financing activities is also evidence of Bayer's good reputation in the capital markets."
Bayer said it sees sales of around €37 billion in its life sciences division this year, which it says "corresponds to a mid-single-digit percentage increase on a currency- and portfolio-adjusted basis. EBITDA before special items is forecast to rise by a mid- to high-single-digit percentage."
Pharmaceutical sales are expected to come in at €17 billion in 2017, up 3.6% from the previous year, with EDITDA increasing by a "high-single-digit percentage", the company said.
Crop science sales are forecast to be little changed in 2017 after the group moved around €9.9 billion last year. "This corresponds to a low-single-digit percentage increase on a currency- and portfolio-adjusted basis. EBITDA before special items is expected to come in on the level of the prior year," the company said.


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Natural health food is slowly finding its way into the belly of every Canadian consumer. In the latest report commissioned by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 2010 titled Canadian Food Trends to 2020, it discussed Canadian customers’ changing attitude towards diet and food expenditures. It says that they are becoming more and more time and health sensitive; thus driving the booming demand and recognition for functional foods and natural health food options.
Another study conducted by George Morris Centre supports this fact when they analyzed the demand and supply of natural health food products in every health food store Canada and its consumers, according to the market research, now realize the significance of healthy living, as well as the importance of nourishing eating habits as the aging population continues to rise and as more and more people become dissatisfied with traditional treatments, therapies, and drugs.
Seeing this rising demand for natural health food in the country, health food store Canada readies its beneficial and fairly-priced products for its craving customers. Better Living Natural Foods is a leading licensed health food store Canada is proud to have within its zone. With more than 30 years of supreme service and health care experience, Better Living Natural Foods has already proven its excellence in providing individualized, well-trusted, and expert health advice and products to its consumers. It also continues to advocate an integrated and holistic approach to healthy living through provision of high-quality and effective, yet affordable selection of advanced natural and organic products.
Apart from supplying a variety of health supplements, vitamins, and natural foods, Better Living also provides consultations and advices to consumers who find the idea of dietary supplements and natural healthy living puzzling and complicated. It also offers services such as iridology, ion cleansing, blood typing, hair mineral testing, and heavy metal testing, among others.
Canada’s appreciation of the great role that food and diet bring to their health is considered by many as the primary reason why the trend for natural health food will continue to rise in the next ten years. Despite this positive inclination, however, health food store Canada needs to make sure that consumers get what they expect from their products. Aside from making sure that their customers achieve the good health they want, health food stores must also guarantee that prices are competitive and services are well-deserved by consumers.


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Ads for Cerveza Cristal were added to a Star Wars broadcast in Chile in 2003. Doritos — dealing with a boycott — reportedly ended its partnership with Samantha Hudson after the transgender influencer’s previous comments resurfaced online. Our value of living has doubled, but it’s the most effective decision we have ever made. Russia — an vitality large — has managed to avoid Business News Western sanctions, most recently by activating a worth ground mechanism. The medicinal cannabis company reported a full-year net lack of $8.8 million within the year ended December, whereas revenue was up 11 p.c. The current reporting season has been largely disappointing with a few bright spots to carry the market.
- Georgia Judge Scott McAfee stated he plans to make a decision over the next two weeks on whether or not Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be disqualified from former President Donald Trump’s racketeering case.
- “Indonesian medical biotech talents have interaction with international analysis community” Advances in medical biotechnology have proven rapid growth, especially with the pandemic that has threatened humanity over the past 12 months and a half.
- Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the nation, ending the 65-year reign of the post-Second World War era as the largest cohort within the inhabitants.
- Police consider the blaze at a high-voltage energy pylon had been deliberately set, amid turmoil over the automaker’s plans to expand its meeting plant close to Berlin.
- A jury on Monday started deliberating the deserves of the fraud trial against Elizabeth Holmes, the entrepreneur accused of lying to buyers and sufferers about her blood testing start-up, Theranos.
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She cried while accusing Mr. Balwani of emotional and sexual abuse. A jury on Monday began deliberating the deserves of the fraud trial against Elizabeth Holmes, the entrepreneur accused of mendacity to investors and patients about her blood testing start-up, Theranos. The store is the one certainly one of roughly 9,000 company-owned locations in the United States to have a union, though many places owned and operated by other companies underneath licensing agreements with Starbucks have unions. Starbucks stated on Monday that it intended to bargain “in good faith” with a Buffalo store where staff voted to unionize this month after a sometimes contentious election campaign. Starbucks workers celebrated the outcome of the vote this month to unionize in Buffalo. Shares in the electric carmaker Lucid plunged 5.1 % and have fallen almost a 3rd from their high.


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Almost half of the world is now online. Now, the Pew Research Center looks further into internet use, revealing that it continues to grow in developing countries while remaining high in advanced economies.
The vast majority of adults across 6 countries believe that organizations are failing to provide a connected experience, defined as organizations knowing their preferences across all channels and being able to provide them with access to the information they need in a timely manner.
Privacy is obviously a hot topic these days with new European data privacy regulations going into effect and Facebook facing questions over its privacy practices.
This infographic illustrates the mCommerce market, from rising regions, to average order value, to mobile coupon use and payments.
Almost 1 in 10 (9%) of unique visitors to websites in the US (desktop-only) block ads.
Almost 7 in 10 ‘opinion elites’ in the 16 countries tracked said that more so than in the past.
China and the UK, have much higher proportions of online-to-total retail sales than the US, and ecommerce trends in each market are unique.
Globally, payments over mobile devices represented 23.3% of total online payments during Q3.
Three-quarters of internet users across 50 markets around the world report watching traditional TV on a daily basis, compared to one-quarter who report watching video on a digital device with that frequency.


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Ad fraud moves to streaming video platforms
As ad dollars increasingly pour into streaming video, fraudsters are wasting no time in attempting to illicitly siphon off their share of the spoils.
MadHive, an advanced TV advertising company, estimates 20% of streaming video ad requests are fraudulent, up from an estimate of 18% it made in March. Using that percentage figure and other industry estimates for over-the-top (OTT) ad-spending, AdLedger, a nonprofit consortium working on blockchain standards for online advertising, predicts marketers will waste $1.4 billion on fraudulent OTT ads in 2019.
IPG’s Magna Global estimates U.S. OTT ad spend will grow 39% to $3.8 billion in 2019 and will reach $5 billion by 2020.
“OTT is so expensive and for a long time there was scarcity in the amount of inventory out there…in the last year or two, supply [of OTT] has exploded but prices remain high, meaning it’s an attractive target for fraudsters,” said Christiana Cacciapuoti, AdLedger executive director and vp of partnerships and platform operations at MadHive. Still, some in the industry believe there isn’t any fraud on OTT.
“As someone who grew up in digital, I knew that was impossible,” said Cacciapuoti, who previously worked at ad tech firms including Tremor Video (now known as Telaria) and Wochit.
While some fraudsters are merely transferring the skills they picked up from manipulating ad auctions elsewhere on the web to video streaming — from bots to spoofing — there are some idiosyncrasies to ad fraud in the OTT space.
Supply-side platforms (SSPs) can also manipulate ad buys, even if buyers think they’re buying from a premium publishers.
“We’ve seen SSPs and ad networks buy an entire pod, cut it into smaller ad slots, then resell those, give themselves a free ad slot and arbitrage the rest of it,” said AdLedger’s Cacciapuoti. The publisher might not notice what’s going on, unless they get access to reporting from the SSP and know where to look when they do.
Other common types of ad fraud in the OTT space include geography misrepresentation — where fraudsters seeking high CPMs falsely claim their traffic is coming from U.S. IP addresses — and app spoofing, where, much like domain spoofing in display ads, the fraudsters falsely represent their inventory as belonging to premium apps.
Elsewhere, the nature in which OTT ads are grouped together in pods can sometimes lead to false positives. A fraud technique known as “looping” describes when the same device or IP address sends out ad requests than could possibly be viewed within a short period of time. One person couldn’t view five 30-second spots in 60-seconds, for example. Yet, a big chunk of OTT viewing is livestreaming, where the ad server tries to fetch ads before the commercial break for all users watching the stream at the same time, according to DoubleVerify svp product management Roy Rosenfeld.
“It looks exactly like fraud — you really have to go into the deep end and get the right set of methodologies,” said Rosenfeld. “If you flag things like that as fraud, when it’s not, you’ll do more damage than good.” Broadly speaking, DoubleVerify sees OTT fraud rates at anywhere between 2% to as much as 90%, depending on the campaign.
Cacciapuoti said buyers and their fraud detection providers can filter this out by comparing the ads that were fetched with the ads that were ultimately rendered and viewed. Beyond working with third-party fraud detection services, one of the best ways advertisers can protect themselves against OTT fraud is to push their vendors into being as transparent as possible with their reporting, both Cacciapuoti and Rosenfeld advised.
Michael Nevins, chief marketing officer at ad server company Smart, says any new tech creates a “murky environment” that attracts bad actors. Added to that, the increase in demand for OTT inventory and rising CPMs creates a “perfect storm” of opportunity for fraud.
“I’d expect the fraud vendors to become more sophisticated, which will help, but the device industry is still quite fragmented without strong standards yet,” Nevins said. “This presents a challenge.”
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Midway Industrial Supply, Minneapolis, MN, a distributor of fluid handling, spray finishing equipment, accessories and consumables, announced that Patrick Hoolihan will become the company's new president and CEO.
Hoolihan succeeds Gregg Lien, the former owner, president and CEO of MIS. Lien will continue to be involved in MIS and will focus on strategic growth projects and providing counsel to Hoolihan and the board of directors.
“I believe Patrick will serve Midway well," said Lien. "He comes with a great background and skill-set needed to further grow the business.”
Prior to joining MIS, Hoolihan was president of ASTRA Global LLC, a global sales and marketing consulting and direct sales representation firm. Prior to that, he was a director at FANUC Robotics America and a vice president at ABB Inc.


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Amazon has announced that it will raise salaries for over 500,000 employees, but it will not raise the $15 per hour minimum wage.
Amazon (AMZN) pushed up its annual fall pay review for those teams in light of a new push to recruit for tens of thousands of positions across its consumer, distribution, shipping, product sortation, and fulfillment teams, and expects to phase out pay rises beginning in mid-May, according to Amazon executive Darcie Henry in a blog post Wednesday. It would raise hourly wages by $0.50 to $3, totaling more than $1 billion in expenditure.
“This is on top of our already industry-leading starting wage of at least $15 an hour and the more than $2.5 billion that we invested last year in additional bonuses and incentives for front-line teams,” Henry, Amazon’s vice president of people experience and technology, worldwide consumer, said.
The step comes after several weeks of criticism of Amazon’s labor practices, which included a historic union push at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Union organizers were defeated by a wide margin in the election; although they are challenging 500 ballots, Amazon’s vote lead is greater than the total number of challenged ballots.
Despite winning this time, Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told CNN Business in an email that “there are several reasons for Amazon to be worried about potential unionization efforts—especially in areas of the world where an Amazon job doesn’t pay reasonably as well as it would in Alabama.”
Last year, Amazon added 500,000 additional employees to its global workforce, bringing its total to over 1.3 million people as it scrambled to meet increased demand caused by the pandemic. In the midst of a tight labor market that has left other companies, such as restaurants, struggling to recruit jobs, pay raises could help the company retain more employees.
“An increasing tightness in the labor market means its $15 minimum wage is decreasingly effective at recruitment and retention of qualified workers, and a substantial raise can help with that,” Dube said.
Despite efforts to increase wages for nearly half a million employees, the organization has not said if it will raise the $15 minimum wage. This will bring it in line with Costco, which raised the starting hourly rate for hourly store employees to $16 per hour in February.
Although some wage rises are likely to be needed for recruiting, “the bottom line is they can afford a wage hike more than just about any major retail [or] e-commerce business,” according to Molly Kinder, a Brookings Institute fellow. Amazon made a $21 billion profit in 2020, and its market capitalization was $1.74 trillion at the close of business on Wednesday.
“As I have written about Amazon, $15 is a floor, not a ceiling,” Kinder said.


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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Cinderella's New Look
Cinderella is sporting a new look courtesy of the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella's new design has all the trimmings. New hairstyle, new dress, new shoes, and even new jewelry. Rumor has it that the Fairy Godmother is working on new looks for all the Princesses and soon you will see others change as well. Cinderella's new look will be consistent at all parks and restaurant dining locations.


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Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (DLB) Expected to Post Earnings of $0.69 Per Share
Wall Street brokerages forecast that Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) will report $0.69 earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Four analysts have made estimates for Dolby Laboratories’ earnings. The lowest EPS estimate is $0.68 and the highest is $0.70. Dolby Laboratories reported earnings of $0.79 per share in the same quarter last year, which indicates a negative year over year growth rate of 12.7%. The firm is expected to report its next earnings results on Wednesday, January 23rd.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Dolby Laboratories will report full-year earnings of $3.07 per share for the current fiscal year, with EPS estimates ranging from $2.99 to $3.14. For the next financial year, analysts expect that the company will post earnings of $3.44 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $3.43 to $3.45. Zacks Investment Research’s EPS averages are an average based on a survey of analysts that follow Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, October 24th. The electronics maker reported $0.47 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.30 by $0.17. The firm had revenue of $265.33 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $272.42 million. Dolby Laboratories had a return on equity of 12.72% and a net margin of 10.43%. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.21 earnings per share.
In other news, SVP Giles Baker sold 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $70.00, for a total transaction of $350,000.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, CFO Lewis Chew sold 35,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $69.44, for a total value of $2,430,400.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 105,976 shares of company stock valued at $7,400,305 over the last 90 days. 43.74% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Janus Henderson Group PLC lifted its position in shares of Dolby Laboratories by 16.2% during the 2nd quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 3,801,592 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $234,517,000 after acquiring an additional 530,188 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. lifted its position in shares of Dolby Laboratories by 12.4% during the 3rd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 2,924,015 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $204,594,000 after acquiring an additional 323,489 shares during the last quarter. FMR LLC lifted its position in shares of Dolby Laboratories by 5.1% during the 3rd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 2,607,991 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $182,481,000 after acquiring an additional 127,537 shares during the last quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC lifted its position in shares of Dolby Laboratories by 10.0% during the 3rd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 2,458,000 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $171,986,000 after acquiring an additional 223,300 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Disciplined Growth Investors Inc. MN lifted its position in shares of Dolby Laboratories by 11.4% during the 3rd quarter. Disciplined Growth Investors Inc. MN now owns 1,497,157 shares of the electronics maker’s stock valued at $104,756,000 after acquiring an additional 152,940 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 57.38% of the company’s stock.
DLB opened at $66.29 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $6.92 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.62, a PEG ratio of 2.27 and a beta of 0.73. Dolby Laboratories has a 1-year low of $58.37 and a 1-year high of $74.29.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, November 14th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 5th were given a $0.19 dividend. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.15%. This is an increase from Dolby Laboratories’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.16. The ex-dividend date was Friday, November 2nd. Dolby Laboratories’s dividend payout ratio is 31.67%.
Dolby Laboratories Company Profile
Dolby Laboratories, Inc creates audio and imaging technologies that transform entertainment and communications at the cinema, at home, at work, and on mobile devices. The company develops and licenses its audio technologies, including Dolby Digital Plus for digital television, mobile, and Internet-based services; Dolby Digital, a digital audio coding technology that provides multichannel sound in the home; and AAC & HE-AAC, an audio coding technologies used to broadcast, download, and streaming content.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — An idea tested and approved in Kansas City is expanding to the rest of the Midwest.
Metro KFC locations tested Funnel Cake Fries this fall. The company said the new twist on the snack was such a hit that even more people will be able to try it.
The company describes the fries as crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Funnel Cake Fries are available in three sizes starting at $1.99.
The Funnel Cake Fries will be offered at dozens of participating KFC locations in St. Louis, Omaha, Northwestern Arkansas and Southeastern Oklahoma.
A complete list of participating locations can be found at kcfunnelfries.com.


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The woman behind Topsham's first zero-waste shop is set to open a second branch in Exeter.
Sarah Martin, Founder of Nourish plans to open her new shop in Magdalen Road, recently named among the coolest shopping districts in the world by Guardian readers, by mid-April.
It follows the success of Nourish of Topsham launched in March 2018.
Sarah said that business is booming and she has been on the lookout for an additional location.
What makes Magdalen Road so good?
The perfect opportunity arose when Phil and Stella Brock, owners of wholefood shop The Bran Tub, decided to retire.
Sarah said: “The position is spot on and Magdalen Road is a great fit for the business.
“It’s like having an entire shop on a single street; with a greengrocer, fishmonger, butcher, deli and soon a provisions store for dry goods, fresh products and environmentally friendly non consumables, astute shoppers can bypass supermarket shopping entirely if they want to.”
Dan Taylor, who owns Grocer on the Green on Magdalen Road, said that he has seen a shift away from the supermarket big shop, with shoppers looking for a more environmentally-friendly way to shop with less waste left over at the end of the week.
Sarah believes that having two stores to choose from will help customers from a wider area begin to change their shopping habits, lessening reliance on single use plastic packaging and other waste materials; the Nourish model encourages customers to bring their own reusable containers to fill.
She said: “The benefit for existing customers in Exeter who previously had to make a special journey to Topsham is that they will now be able to walk or cycle to Nourish.
"And I’m hoping we’ll attract a whole new customer base at the same time.”
Sarah has taken on a business partner. Stavros Stratas, who has an MSc in Economics and a role at Hotelbeds, is now a shareholder and director of the Nourish.
He said he was looking for just such a business opportunity. “The chance to join Sarah and the Nourish family was simply too good to pass up. I’ve been involved for some years in an advisory capacity with an agricultural start-up employing ethically and ecologically conscientious practises. However, the nature of that industry meant I never felt close enough to the end consumer.
“Coming onboard at Nourish gives me a ‘pitchside’ opportunity to engage with the general population and help drive a business, a retail movement and a way of thinking.”
With awareness of the impact of plastics on the environment growing, Nourish gives people the chance to make a tangible difference. Each individual sale is counted by the business as one piece of plastic saved; since the first shop opened, the total already equates to tens of thousands of pieces saved.
Phil and Stella Brock are retiring after 30-years with The Bran Tub and were keen for a business with a similar ethos to take on the premises.
Existing staff members of The Bran Tub have been invited to stay on and be part of the new journey for the shop.


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Suzuki to Stop Selling Cars in U.S., Put U.S. Unit into Bankruptcy
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 11:07 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 11:07 p.m.
For all of Suzuki's tough talk about its "bush-busting" Samurai off-roader, the Japanese automaker never made it big in the U.S. Its cars were too small, its safety record iffy and its branding a bit too comical (Suzuki Sidekick, anyone?). So it came as little surprise to most analysts when Suzuki announced late Monday that it would stop selling automobiles in the U.S. and put its American unit into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Suzuki's decision to pull out of the U.S., whose market is dominated by larger models, is a sensible step to focus on its strengths, said Koji Endo, an auto industry analyst and managing director at Advanced Research, an equity research firm in Tokyo. The strong yen also made it difficult to make a profit by manufacturing cars in Japan and shipping them to the U.S., he said.
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Jim and Bre at MakerBot Store
Group Editor Jim Woodcock recently caught up with Brooklyn-based MakerBot at its New York MakerBot Store
New York-headquartered 3D printing giant MakerBot is said to be in talks with other parties that may lead to its acquisition.
This is according to a report published last night (June 5th) by the Wall Street Journal, which revealed MakerBot was weighing up its options for raising a fresh round of venture capital to the tune of $300 million (£194 million, €229 million) when the discussions led to interest from possible acquirers.
The newspaper's source - individuals close to the potential deal - stated that talks are on-going and the outcome is far from certain. Indeed, MakerBot may end up raising more venture capital to continue building its business instead of being bought out.
Makerbot was founded in 2009 by former schoolteacher Bre Pettis, web developer Zack Hoeken Smith and software developer Adam Mayer. Mr Smith and Mr Mayer are no longer with the company, which raised $10 million in venture capital in 2011, including cash from Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos. Mr Pettis owns a significant portion of MakerBot and was unavailable to comment on the alleged acquisition talks. Spokespeople from MakerBot have also declined to comment.
MakerBot generated some $10 million in revenue in 2012, according to the report and the company projects that it will reach or exceed $50 million in sales in 2013.
The company's niche in the growing 3D printing market is building plastic models with easy-to-use desktop printers that cost between $2,000 and $2,800. These printers are appealing to a growing customer base of makers and manufacturers that use them to build prototypes quickly.
As well as having a top dog at internet giant Amazon as an investor, Ford Motor is one of the companies biggest customers and it recently published a video on YouTube showing how one of its engineers used a 3D printer to develop a prototype for a new shift knob.
When the company started talking to venture capital firms earlier in the year, it was looking to raise some $25 million, according to the source. Then MakerBot suddenly backed off from discussions with venture investors as discussions with potential acquirers got more interesting.
The tech markets are on tenterhooks waiting for more news to emerge regarding a potential MakerBot acquisition, which may or may not be announced when the company holds the grand opening of a new 50,000 sq ft production facility in Brooklyn tomorrow (June 7th). MakerBot opened its first retail store in Manhattan in September 2012.


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Nearly six years after the first Bitcoin ATM was installed in Vancouver, Canada the number of the cryptocurrency-dispensing machines across the world has risen to 5,006, according to Coin ATM Radar. In the last 60 days, an average of just under 6 Bitcoin ATMs were installed per day. Has the US bitcoin ATM market reached saturation point? Unsurprisingly, the U.S. leads in the number of crypto vending machines with over 3200 Bitcoin ATM locations. This is around 64 percent of the world’s total. Canada, which hosted the world’s first ever cryptocurrency dispensing machine, was second with over 680 locations. In
On June 21, the price of bitcoin core (BTC) crossed the $ 10,000 mark for the first time since March 08, 2018. At the moment BTC has a $ 180 billion dollar market capitalization as the cryptocurrency gathered more than 166% over the last six months.
October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009.
The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
On January 3, this constitution came alive with Bitcoin Block #0. Also known as the network’s genesis block, this cornerstone would provide the foundation for an ecosystem that would challenge our perception of how money is valued and managed in a digital age.
BitMEX has taken an advertisement out on the front page of January 3rd, 2019 edition of The Times thanking Satoshi Nakamoto for Bitcoin, ten years to the day after Satoshi Nakamoto quoted the front page of the same publication in Bitcoin’s first block (#0). Tweeting from their BitMEX Research account, they said: Happy 10th Birthday
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins last week: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCHABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCHSV).
One week later, the Bitcoin Cash ABC chain has accumulated more proof of work and has been “ahead” of the Bitcoin Cash SV chain practically since the split. Its native currency, BCHABC, is also trading higher on exchanges. Most Bitcoin Cash ABC proponents, therefore, feel victorious — but not all Bitcoin Cash SV proponents consider the battle to be over just yet.
With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts.
Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain. From tokenized assets and blockchain-based legal contracts to healthcare records and supply chain tracking, DApps are going to remold traditional industries in their image, solve bottlenecks and revolutionize enterprise inefficiencies out of existence.
More than three years later, and we’re still waiting for the revolution.
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As was to be expected after a few days of positive momentum, things are returning to normal for all cryptocurrency markets. This unfortunately means all currencies are going through another rough spell of negative market pressure. All five of the top currencies have lost value, with the XRP price facing the biggest setback of them all.
The XRP Price Dips Briefly
It is evident all cryptocurrencies have to go through a small correction after the sudden bullish trend late last week and earlier this week. Even so, a 5% setback or more is not warranted at this stage either, yet it is what most of the top currencies have to contend with right now. XRP Price watchers have noticed how the value has declined by 6.04% in the past 24 hours.
News that Dogecoin had become a test asset for Ethereum’s inter-coin Rinkeby testnet has sparked a project aiming to hard fork it later this year.
Dogecoin’s ‘Serious’ Year?
Dogethereum (DOGX), which shares its name with the Rinkeby project known as Dogethereum Bridge, is looking to branch off from the Dogecoin chain in fall. This would constitute Dogecoin’s first ever hard fork.
“Dogethereum is new decentralized digital currency, it will be founded on snapshot of popular Dogecoin, based on ETH algorithm with fastest speed of transactions, smart contracts,” developers describe on Bitcointalk Monday.
The New York Agreement, also known as Segwit2x, was planned for mid-November but was canceled in the weeks leading up. But just recently, the fork is set to launch again.
The announcement was made on December 16th, with the fork date set for December 28th. Some Segwit2x futures markets are still live on some exchanges, and this attempts to finish the project that was started. HitBTC and YoBit are already supporting the fork, saying that the people who’ve purchased B2X tokens receive their coins.


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Hello Digital looks at the highlights from the week that was.
It’s been an interesting week for the digital marketing industry, with Twitter introducing new functions for its ad formats, Facebook changing how it counts user profiles for ad purposes, and Instagram integrating Reels ad placements into its Marketing API. Join us as we unpack this, and more, in the latest instalment of The Weekly Wrap.
Twitter reveals new features for advertisers
Twitter has announced an update to its Carousel Ads format which will help marketers customise headlines and landing pages in order to drive the right actions for their audiences. This new format will provide more capacity to utilise different ad creative within a single campaign, and will also assist with targeting segmentation as each click highlights the specific elements of interest for each user.
Beta-testing of this capability saw a 20% lift in click-through rates (CTRs) across all objectives compared to single-asset ads, along with a 25% increase in CTRs for campaigns optimised for site visit conversions versus single-asset ads.
In addition, ads promoting mobile games and other apps will now allow users to commence the download process without leaving the Twitter app. The company has also confirmed that the next iteration of App Install ads will enable brands to run campaigns focused on finding users most likely to make in-app purchases.
On top of this, Twitter is looking to expand its ad inventory with a new placement option within the first few replies to a tweet, which you can read all about here.
These additional features come as the platform pushes to grow its performance advertising business so that it can reach its goal of doubling annual revenue by 2023.
Facebook to start counting unconnected accounts separately
Facebook has revealed it is changing the way it counts profiles for ads in an effort to improve user privacy. The company previously used email addresses or phone IDs to link users’ Facebook and Instagram accounts for ads planning and management. Now, it will only do this if users explicitly ask the company to do so, or if people use certain features which tie the two together, such as cross-posting to Instagram and Facebook at the same time.
The company has stated that advertisers may experience increases in estimated audience size, but for most campaigns it will not have a substantial impact on reported reach.
There is the question of whether this will open Facebook up for future legal challenges since it is using less accurate measures. However, the company explains that this change is about respecting user choices around how their personal data is used for ads, and is consistent with evolving privacy and regulatory environments.
In other recent Facebook privacy news, the company has spoken out on how its ad reporting tool has been affected by Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy, which you can read more about here in one of our previous Weekly Wraps.
Instagram Reels ads can now be made via its Marketing API
Instagram is adding Reels ad placements into its Marketing API, which will enable approved third-party platforms to facilitate Reels ads creation within their digital ads flow. The company has confirmed that this new capability will be available on all current Marketing API versions, and does not require an upgrade.
Earlier in the year, Instagram introduced ads to Reels so that brands could reach new customers on what is becoming the fastest growing surface on the app. But with the integration of Reels ad creation via API, businesses will be able to enhance their growth even easier just in time for the holiday period.
Speaking of convenience, the company is currently testing a new feature that will notify users when the app is experiencing technical issues, meaning they won’t need to wonder if it’s an error on their end.
The announcement was made after Facebook and its properties were hit with a six-hour outage last week due to a network configuration problem, which you can read more about here.
Instagram will be running this test in the United States for the next few months as it wants to start small and then expand to more users if it makes sense to do so.
Global tech groups seek changes to Australia’s cyber laws
A group of industry bodies representing some of the world’s largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Amazon, and Adobe, have written to Australia’s Home Affairs Minister, Karen Andrews, with concerns about the federal government’s proposed overhaul of cybersecurity laws.
The bill would allow the government to give agencies such as the Australian Signals Directorate the ability to connect to the networks of companies that operate critical infrastructure in order to prevent major cyberattacks. It would also set a range of reporting obligations on those operators once they were hacked.
Although the government states that the capability would only be used as a last resort, the industry bodies believe the bill gives authorities unprecedented powers which could impact the systems and customers of domestic and international entities, and should be subject to a statutorily prescribed mechanism for judicial review and oversight. They also think that the deadline to report an attack should be extended from “within 12 hours” to “at least 72 hours” or “without undue delay”.
Minister Andrews, however, has urged that “if we don’t act now, we risk our cybersecurity falling further behind”.
Her statement comes as the Australian Digital Inclusion Index has shared its findings for 2021, revealing that millions of Australians are concerned about their cyber safety, with some even going so far as to limit their internet use.
You can access the full findings here.


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Minutes after Facebook made the announcement, a torrent of hilarious comment began on Twitter, especially from companies, people and even the social media giant Twitter
As part of a major rebrand, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is changing its name to Meta. He made this announcement on Thursday, 28 October, giving rest to rumours about the social media giant’s rebranding.
“From now on, we’re going to be the metaverse first, not Facebook first,” Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual Connect conference, adding that the company’s brand “is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything we’re doing today, let alone the future,”
Meanwhile, under the rebranding, Facebook, and its apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp will keep their names. They will also be retained in a separate division from Facebook Reality Labs, where the company’s virtual reality products are stored. What this means is that the social media app will continue to be known as Facebook, but the branding will be removed from WhatsApp and Instagram and other places.
From now on, all those apps will instead live under the “Meta” brand, with Facebook being just one of those many different apps.
Moreover, the news of the name change comes as just as Facebook tries to shield itself from one of its worst disasters, yet move towards its ambitions for the “metaverse” virtual reality that the tech giant sees as the next step into the future. While its vision is expanding to virtual spaces where social media users interact through digital avatars, the company confirmed that it is not changing its corporate structure.
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Newly opened travel-inspired coffee store and tasting room offers small batch international gourmet coffee including roasts from the Brazilian family coffee farm of founder Murilo Santos.
Boarding Pass Coffee has opened its flagship roastery and tasting room just north of Atlanta featuring tasting events, coffee gifts, and a coffee club, at 13695 Highway 9 in Milton, Ga. Hours are Monday through Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The new gourmet shop specialty-grade coffee beans from international destinations are roasted on-site in small batches. Coffee enthusiasts can learn about other cultures and document their taste travels by collecting “visa stamp” stickers in their very own Boarding Pass Coffee “passport.”
Entrepreneurs Murilo and Christine Santos named their gourmet coffee business as an homage to the more than 100 countries they have visited and began selling their specialty-grade coffee beans online and at Atlanta-area farmers markets and festivals in 2020.
The most popular roasts at Boarding Pass Coffee come from beans grown at Murilo’s family coffee farm in Brazil which is still run by his brother. All Brazilian roasts, currently five in total, are made from beans sourced directly from the family’s farm, Fazenda Sant’ana, outside of Sao Paulo. Both the farm and coffee beans are Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certified, with Organic certification underway and expected in 2023. In addition, a variety of other roasts come from Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Honduras, Colombia and other far-flung countries.
Murilo and Christine met in Sao Paulo and began sharing their life adventure together in 2013. After speeding up steep and dusty roads on the back of a motorcycle, Christine met Murilo’s parents for the first time at the family coffee farm. The farm became a special place for the couple and they married at that exotic locale. Their wedding guests each took bags of specialty coffee home as wedding favors. These family and friends clamored for more of that rich and delicious roast, planting seeds for the Santoses to launch Boarding Pass Coffee.
New roasts and recent Boarding Pass Coffee best-sellers include:
- Monte Alegre: a popular light roast from Brazil that has single-handedly converted former dark-roast devotees to light roast fans
- Bela Vista: a dark espresso roast from Brazil that delivers a satisfying flavor without bitterness
- La Hondurena: a high quality coffee that comes from all-female coffee farmers in Honduras; a portion of sales go to the International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA)
- Kilimanjaro: a unique roast made from peaberry coffee beans grown on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
- Chasquis: a new roast from Peru made with organic beans
“The whole idea is for people to enjoy the experience,” Murilo said in a press release. “We name every roast after a unique and interesting place in the country where the beans originate. We want people to learn more about other cultures and travel destinations. Our goal is to not only offer really great coffee, but also provide our customers – who we call ‘coffee travelers’- a cultural experience too.”
Over the years, Murilo and Christine have racked up more than 100 countries combined on their personal passports. Murilo’s favorites include Turkey, Senegal and China; Christine prefers Croatia, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Indonesia, although Brazil remains her favorite because of the warmth of the people and where, not coincidentally, she met Murilo.
Today the Santos family, which now includes three daughters, enjoys hopping over to nearby Puerto Rico to get a dose of the Latin vibe. They plan to safari in Africa as a family and bucket list (and well-known coffee producing) countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya are their priority destinations.
Boarding Pass Coffee is a supporter of IWCA, the International Women’s Coffee Alliance, and is a Georgia Grown company in addition to being minority-owned. Beyond 12-ounce and 2-pound bags of whole beans or ground coffee, customers can choose single-serve pods that are compatible with Keurig machines or single-serve pour-over pouches, both made on-site with their fresh roasted coffee. Boarding Pass Coffee’s monthly coffee club subscription begins at $15 and in-store coffee tastings begin at $20 per person.


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The state of payments
As margins continue to squeeze, businesses must turn to digital to improve operational efficiencies, and that includes their payment system.
New technologies are disrupting the global payments market, according to research by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. These technologies aren’t without challenges, with regulatory and technical complexities to grapple with.
According to a McKinsey study, alternative payment solutions to cash – and digital transactions in general – continue to push the electronic trend. Digital commerce volume around the world surpassed $3 trillion U.S. in 2017 and will more than double by 2022.
The question is how to take advantage of digital innovations in a way that can be sustained – it’s a delicate balance between a dearth of capital and development resources and what McKinsey calls a proliferation of technologies and initiatives.


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Our traditional European trading partners are undergoing sweeping economic changes and the prospect of sustained declines in standards of living. The US may be on the cusp of a double-dip recession and is mired in a destructive ideological fight over budgets, debt and more. New centres of economic power are engaging with us through trade and investment. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa is rapid in many countries, and likely to be sustained. Yet we cannot be complacent. Two broad, contradictory trends are at work in the global economy.
First, economic globalisation through multinational production networks continues apace. This promotes global economic convergence and integration. Sub-Saharan Africa is largely absent from this process.
Second, crisis policy responses promote divergence. Associated with this is the threat of a destructive spiral of protectionism. This would have serious consequences for the global economy, particularly the most vulnerable states.
The globalisation trend centres on what Asians call the “process trade”. This began with Japanese and western multinational companies shifting the labour-intensive parts of their export-oriented production processes to certain east Asian countries; joined later by emerging market multinationals located primarily in the region. China is the latest and most significant beneficiary of these shifts.
As this process gathers pace supply chains are becoming extended, pushing up costs and risks. Structurally high energy prices add to the problem. Those locations that provide the most efficient and cost- effective infrastructure and labour force stand to win from the relocation process under way. Sub-Saharan Africa is still far off the necessary pace. Supply chain risks are being mitigated through a wave of information technology innovations concentrated in the US, resulting in a “deluge of data” that brings creative destruction in its wake. Old IT behemoths such as Microsoft seem like rabbits caught in the headlights.
This wave of technology has unleashed global institutional and political changes, not least in the Arab world. In South Africa we seem to be swimming against the tide with the government’s “secrecy bill”. Many other African governments seem to be far behind the necessary “transparency culture” required to benefit.
With Europe and Japan mired in long-term stagnation while significant storm clouds gather over Europe, western multinationals are racing to acquire market share in emerging markets, extending supply chains ever further. They are primarily targeting the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) business communities, and the “next 11”, an economic clustering that does not include the sub-continent, bar Nigeria. South Africa was mentioned, but in passing.
In the developed world, macroeconomic policies are broadly focused on reflating economic growth through demand stimulation, in the context of mounting debt problems at the centre of which remain unresolved banking crises. Destructive distributional politics has taken centre stage; and economic policies remain uncertain, prompting multinationals to hoard their cash or send it abroad instead of investing in domestic markets. Those who criticise South African multinationals for hoarding their cash should take note: policy uncertainty is the enemy of investment. By contrast, in many emerging markets growth is relatively robust, but with mounting inflation concerns. At a time when additional demand sources are required at the global level, key markets such as China may opt for contractionary policies.
Where stimulus policies were pursued, particularly in east Asia, the focus was on the supply-side, particularly growth-enhancing and supply chain maximising infrastructure. The obvious question is who will buy the resultant export goods now that developed country demand seems likely to be structurally repressed?
Fortunately, China seems to be rising to the challenge, albeit for domestic reasons. The government’s 12th five-year plan promotes domestic consumption and reduced reliance on exports. Already significant moves in this direction have been made through nascent attempts to internationalise the currency; attract foreign direct investment in financial services; provide a national social safety net to encourage citizens to save less and spend; and more.
This policy mix offers medium term opportunities to developing countries to grab a slice of the supply chain action as costs rise in China. Can sub-Saharan African countries position themselves accordingly? We need to move quickly.
China’s new policy mix will take time to take effect. In the short-term, currency misalignments and growth divergences are likely to increase tensions in the trading system. In the medium term, they will be exacerbated by the rise of the Brics and next 11; partly owing to policy supports they provide to their domestic industries, and partly owing to protectionist reactions in developed and developing countries.
Protectionism was of concern in Dalian. At the global level the potential epidemic has been contained, not least owing to the multilateral trading system anchored by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Yet the longer growth and macroeconomic policies diverge, the more likely it is that the cancer afflicting the WTO will spread, at precisely the time its role in negotiating global trade deals and modernising the rules infrastructure is in serious question.
Consequently multinationals from the developed and developing world’s alike have strong incentives to push for the Doha round of WTO negotiations to be concluded, and beyond that for rules relevant to supply chain management in particular to be modernised. Yet in Dalian while a number of prominent chief executives raised the protectionism challenge, none advocated this position.
This reflects another divergence in policy preferences, rooted in the structural shifts taking place in the world economy. At its centre, is the US, which is no longer prepared to play the old US role of “buyer of last resort”.
The US is pushing for an ambitious WTO liberalisation deal targeting key emerging markets in order to underpin US growth through exports.
Emerging markets, many looking over their shoulders at China, are not prepared to “buy” this approach.
So the Doha round impasse is set to continue. In the short term, the Group of 20 does not appear capable of resolving this problem absent a fundamental change in its mandate spurring it to pay serious attention to global trade issues.
Perhaps the problem will resolve itself in the medium term, but without a sustained push from developed and emerging market multinationals that seems unlikely. Hence the stage is set for escalating tensions in the global trading system.
An African proverb tells us: “When the elephants fight, it is best to stay out of the jungle.” But the global trading system is too important to be left to outsiders to resolve. South African and African policy makers need to step up to the plate.


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As part of a major equipment upgrade, Rex 3, Sunrise, Fla., has added an HP Indigo 7900 digital press. The new press complements the firm's installation of a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 and further expands Rex 3’s commercial printing and packaging capabilities. "The Indigo's ability to print with white ink allows Rex 3's customers increased substrate flexibility and options using dark, transparent or plastic substrates that wouldn’t otherwise be available," says Howard Shusterman, COO of Rex 3.
The new 3.2m-wide Anapurna H3200i LED completes the family of hybrid Anapurnas (2.05m, 2.5m and 3.2m wide) from Agfa Graphics.
Based in De Pere, Wis., Independent Printing recently installed a J Press 720S from Fujifilm.
Katarina Tesarova, VP of sustainability at Las Vegas Sands, has been announced as the keynote speaker for SGP’s 2016 Conference.
On Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, Printing Industries Alliance held a Post-drupa Report in New York City.
Don Gustafson has been hired at IST America as director of business development/sheetfed retrofit specialist.
Domtar Corp. has donated $100,000 to the nonprofit Office Depot Foundation’s National Backpack Program.
Andrew Oransky has been appointed president at Roland DGA. Oransky previously served as Roland DGA’s VP of sales and marketing.
The Digital Packaging Summit is an invitation-only, hosted summit designed for senior managers and business executives who want to understand how current and future digital production printing technology, software and solutions will impact their business and investment decisions. The Digital Packaging Summit will be held from Oct. 31-Nov. 2, at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Worzalla is releasing a series of videos geared toward introducing the book manufacturing process.
In a new effort to give back to the community, Xanté has pledged to donate to United Way for every lead received at Graph Expo 2016.
Heidelberg USA Names former Printing Industries of America Technology VP Mark Bohan as director of Prinect and CtP.
SBR Technologies has purchased Universal Color Graphics, a commercial offset printer that has served the Las Vegas market for 10 years.
The Sun Chemical Next Generation Customer program is designed to help form relationships with future partners.
Fourteen Proforma Member Owners have been named to Inc.’s 2016 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing, private companies in America.


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Tickets for the Horned Frogs’ undetermined, upcoming BCS bowl game will soon be available for students to purchase.
Sean Conner, director of ticket sales, said students will be able to purchase tickets online at gofrogs.com at 8 a.m. Monday.
Tickets will cost $150 for the Rose Bowl and $305 for the national championship, he said. Ticket rates were not determined by the university but by the hosts of the bowl games. No discount will be offered to students.
Conner said the earliest students could pick up their tickets in the Daniel-Meyer Ticket Office will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 11. After that, tickets will be available in the Daniel-Meyer Ticket Office weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 13 through Dec. 23. Students will be able to purchase three tickets per ID, and 10 IDs may be presented by one student, he said. Students also must pick up together if they want seats next to each other, Conner said. Lost tickets will not be replaced.
Frog Club members and season ticket-holders are already able to purchase tickets for the bowl game, he said. Tickets will be sold to the general public if they are still available by Dec. 13.
Conner said students purchased about 4,000 tickets for last year’s Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. He said he expected students to buy the same number for this year’s bowl game.
Anh Truong, a business administration graduate student, said he would not buy tickets to either bowl game because of costs associated with the experience. Truong said he thought the combination of hotel accommodations, flights and ticket prices would be too expensive, he said.
Truong said he planned on watching the game on television instead.
Senior business major Andrew Pulliam said he planned on going to the game even though he thought they were expensive.
“This is my last chance to be a TCU student to have a chance at such a huge game like that,” he said.
Pulliam said he planned on waiting in line to pick up tickets with his friends as early as midnight before tickets were available.
Bowl Game Tickets
- Students can purchase tickets online at gofrogs.com beginning on Monday at 8:00 a.m.
- Rose Bowl prices are $150 and Tostitos BCS National Championship prices are $305
- Max of three tickets per student
- Students may begin picking up tickets on Saturday, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. &- 2 p.m. in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum
- Students that want to sit together must pick-up tickets together
- Limit of 10 ID’s per student when claiming tickets


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The Auburn Senior Activity Center is having a rummage sale on Friday and Saturday, March 24-25, at the Senior Center.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the center, 808 Ninth St. SE
A variety of items will be priced to sell.
Anyone interested in donating items for the sale should bring them to the senior center starting on Tuesday, March 21, or call 253-931-3016 for free pickup.


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Heineken officials have removed an ad with the tagline "Sometimes lighter is better" after the 30-second spot was criticized as being racist, CNN reported.
The ad features a fair-skinned bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken Light to a woman. The bottle slides past three black people before arriving in front of the lighter-skinned woman as the tagline appears at the end of the commercial.
Critics on social media did not treat the ad lightly. Hip-hop singer Chance the Rapper called it "terribly racist" on Twitter on Sunday evening.
“I think some companies are purposely putting out noticeably racist ads so they can get more views,” he tweeted.
On Twitter, Helen Ehrenofer called for the firing of the person who allowed the ad to air.
"What idiots do they have approving this ad? Fire that person," she tweeted.
Heineken pulled the ad from television and the internet late Monday, CNN reported.
“While we feel the ad is referencing our Heineken Light beer, and that light beer is better than other high-calorie options -- we missed the mark, are taking the feedback to heart and will use this to influence future campaigns," Heineken USA spokesman Bjorn Trowery said.
This Heineken light beer commercial is definitely racist. What idiots do they have approving this ad? Fire that person. And the ad agency who developed it should be fired. Period. No excuse for this. I watched the ad. It's racist.— Helen Ehrenhofer (@helenehrenhofer) March 26, 2018
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