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“Unprecedented” pressure on supply chains has led to a 60% increase in food waste over the past six months, food buyers in the UK’s biggest organisations have claimed.
Supply chain leaders have said the current crisis is casting doubts on the food industry’s ability to meet the United Nations’ goal to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030 and “hampering progress” to net zero.
The crisis, which is the result of several factors from Brexit, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, has caused “long-term damage” to food supply chain operations, with many companies claiming it is resulting in higher levels of food waste.
According to a new study by Sodexo, more than a third of businesses admitted to deprioritising food waste due to the ongoing challenges in the supply chain over the past year.
While the vast majority of respondents (83%) said they had created a more resilient supply chain after the pandemic, food waste was still increasing for most companies.
“Sodexo’s findings relating to a rise in self-reported food waste are worrying, but not unexpected given the pressures put on supply chains in recent years,” said Keith James, head of policy and insights at Wrap, which is set to publish its own UK food waste data later this year.
“The global supply chain crisis has forced retailers to focus more on addressing the short-term impact of supply interruption events,” added Chris Irish, senior manager at consulting firm Capgemini Invent.
“Many buying and supply chain teams have invested in alternative product ranges, diversified supply or have increased stock on hand on particular products to protect on-shelf availability. This does present a level of risk, particularly on short-dated products.”
Reducing food waste is a fundamental part of slashing carbon emissions in the supply chain, and a key element to achieving the UN’s net zero goals. The research showed 34% of supply chain heads supported the introduction of mandatory food waste reporting, which was one of the proposals featured in the government’s food strategy.
However, the supply chain woes behind a rise in food waste are set to continue throughout 2022 – nearly a third of supply chain companies said their operations will not return to optimum efficiency for a full year.
Some of the main challenges currently include labour shortages (44% of businesses are still suffering the impact) and freight difficulties.
As a result of the continuing struggles, over a third of those in the supply chain admitted they would be forced to further raise prices along the line.
Sodexo’s research showed that many food buyers are diversifying their supplier base and turning to SMEs and domestic suppliers in order to strengthen their supply chain and mitigate the impact of the crisis.
“SMEs can enable greater agility because they’re more flexible, innovative and tend to drive domestic food sourcing which, in turn, can reduce carbon by cutting down on air and freight usage,” said Aoife Wycherley, head of supply chain & food procurement at Sodexo UK & Ireland.
But Wycherley pointed out that carbon data reporting is a greater burden on smaller businesses, which is why “we need greater industry collaboration from large organisations to support them with this challenge in order to achieve net zero in the supply chain”.


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Harare East lawmaker, Tendai Biti, has demanded that the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development issue a ministerial statement on inflation that has ravaged the Zimbabwe Dollar forcing business people to sell some goods in forex.
This is happening at a time when the government is still digging in on the full dollarisation of the economy.
Last month Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube announced a raft of measures he claimed were aimed at restoring confidence in the market but were dismissed by economists as “hollow”.
Speaking during a question and answer session in Parliament Wednesday, Biti said the cost of living had risen putting many Zimbabweans in a dire situation.
“I rise on a question of national interest,” said Biti.
“The cost of living has risen, inflation is now 430%. In the shops there are now goods that are being charged exclusively in US Dollars. Cooking oil, sugar and other commodities – retailers are refusing to accept the Zimbabwe Dollar.”
He went on further to say: “Therefore, I am respectfully asking the Minister of Finance and Economic Development to give a Ministerial Statement on the rising inflation, the exchange rate which is now US$1: ZWL$800, and the continued arbitrage. Madam Speaker, in that Ministerial Statement, may the Minister of Finance and Economic Development also explain the logic of gold coins.”
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is set to roll out gold coins on July 25, which the apex bank has said will be a store of value and a form of investment.
Modalities on how the coins would be traded are also yet to be released.

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Iggy Pop's face is literally the reason every time you go into Miami's cherished you're greeted by the cool breeze of air conditioning, so it can't be that bad, right? Not according to a new poll, which ranked Pop has having the worst celebrity face. Ouch. Another Miami face, Mickey Rourke's, also came in on the top ten.
The poll was conducted by Good Surgeons Guide, a British website the provides information about cosmetic surgery.
Pop's face adorns Sweat Record's storefront mural, and a limited edition t-shirt bearing his likeness and endorsed by Pop himself helped the store buy a new air conditioning unit. So it can't be all that bad. As for Rourkes, well, ok, we totally understand that, but it does add a certain amount of authenticity to his recent acting roles.


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According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, in September 2020, the country’s seafood exports are estimated to reach 129,000 tons with a total worth of 600 million USD, down 34.3% in quantities and 27.39% in value as compared to the same period last year.
Vietnam has seen a sharp decrease in seafood exports for two consecutive months. Sales of 128,580 tons of seafood were recorded in August, valued at 595 million USD, down 30.6% in quantities and 26.6% in value as compared to the same period last year.
The slump was attributed to the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in the South in months, which has caused lots of difficulties to the processing and exports of enterprises.
Vietnam’s seafood exports totalled 1.418 million tons in the first nine months of the year, valued at 6.169 billion USD, down 0.71% in quantities and up 2.4% in value as compared to the same period last year.
If the COVID-19 pandemic remains complicated in October 2021, Vietnam will find it difficult to fulfil the plan of seafood exports this year. However, if the pandemic is controlled, enterprises will be able to increase their market shares in big importing countries in the peak season late 2021.
The US, EU, Japan and Korea will increase their purchases of shrimp in the last months of the year. These are potential markets for Vietnam’s shrimp. Sales are forecasted to rise in big markets in October and mid-November.
Localities and enterprises are boosting the vaccination for workers and employees in processing factories and industrial zones so that the supply chain will not be disrupted.
Noticeable sales of pangasius have been recorded in the US, meanwhile a decrease was reported in China and ASEAN. Exports of this species to the US, Russia, Mexico and Brazil should be boosted in the future.
Demand for pangasius in China, Australia and ASEAN may increase again. However, the COVID-19 pandemic will cause a lot of trouble to pangasius processing and exports.
Tô Tường Lan, VASEP’s Deputy General Secretary said that regulations of pandemic prevention and economic recovery should be flexible. For example, cured COVID 19 patients and those, who already received one dose of vaccine, should be allowed to go to work as usual.
A smooth scheme should be established to enable round trips from processing factories to material production areas. The “three on site” scheme should be replaced with a more effective method so as to reduce production costs and facilitate the safety and peace of mind for workers.


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You can now connect your iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV and tweet while you watch. Just use your device’s keyboard.
Tweeting while you watch on the Twitter app for Apple TV has become a whole lot easier. Twitter has announced (in a Tweet) that users can now connect their Apple mobile devices directly to their Apple TV and link their iPhones or iPads up with their accounts and tweet away. The feature comes as an update within the Apple TV Twitter app.
In order to connect and use the feature, all you have to do is open the Twitter app on your iOS device, while you’re also on the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV. Long-press your Siri remote for three seconds, and you can then select your Twitter handle. Then you will be ready to tweet directly to the live timeline that appears on the right-hand side of the broadcast – using your iOS device.
This feature obviously makes tweeting during any of Twitter‘s live broadcasts a lot easier, as you can now simply use your iOS device’s keyboard to do so. But that’s not all. You can reply, like, retweet, as well as add images or GIFs very easily. Ryan Troy, Twitter TV’s product manager explains how this feature also increases the interactivity of Twitter’s “daily programming:
[quote]People love to tweet while watching their favorite TV shows because it allows everyone to experience what’s happening together. This update, combined with Twitter’s daily programming that’s shaped by tweets from the audience, helps enable true interactive TV.[/quote]
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Businesses, planners concerned about proposed strip mall
Business owners expressed concern at an April 10 Midland City planning commission meeting over plans to add a strip mall at the corner of Bay City Road and Waldo Avenue.
Plans for the 11,200 square foot retail plaza include the existing Bicycle Headquarters, Inc. and Rita's Family Barbershop, with the addition of seven other retail spaces. The retail building would be located at 3302 Bay City Road, and 420 and 426 Waldo Avenue.
Frequently the planning commission will vote on site plans or zoning petitions immediately after a public hearing. After hearing multiple negative public comments about the plan, the commissioners chose to wait for the petitioner from Moltus Building Group to come back with a more detailed site plan before making a decision.
Commissioners agreed the plan was not well thought through, and needed to address concerns from existing businesses.
If the developer is able to revise the plan in time, it could be on the agenda again for consideration at the planning commission meeting on April 24.
John and Sondi Geminder, owners of Bicycle Headquarters Inc., spoke against the proposed site plan at the public hearing on April 10. The business has been operating since 1986. The Geminders said they were never notified by the developer, and saw the plan a week ago for the first time.
Semi trucks will not be able to drive behind the row of proposed retail spaces, including the bicycle shop, under the site plan. Bicycle Headquarters Inc. frequently has shipments delivered to the back of the store by semi trucks and UPS trucks, which will no longer be possible if the site plan is executed.
Losing access to the back of their building will also mean five Bicycle Headquarters employees will have to park in the front of the store, taking up customer spaces, Sondi Geminder explained.
"Rita from the barbershop also handles a lot of handicap customers, and there is not easy access for customers with this plan," Geminder said.
John Geminder expressed similar concerns, saying businesses who fill in the rest of the retail area will also most likely need to receive shipments in the back of the building.
"The access to the building the way it's laid out right now leaves a lot to be desired," John Geminder said.
A resident living in an adjacent community expressed concerns about the added traffic the plaza would cause, as well as details missing in the site plan.
Petitioner Randy Rapp of Moltus Building Group said the owner is still marketing open retail spaces to businesses, but they will probably be light retail use. When asked if the plan will be accommodating to large trucks, Rapp said "probably not."
The site plan includes three parcels of land owned by Waldo Plaza LLC that are zoned as neighborhood commercial, including an area that was rezoned from one and two family residential on Dec. 4, 2017.
The attempt at the time of purchasing the property was to "beautify the corner, and make it look nice to provide some multi-use services for some businesses that will compliment the (surrounding) neighborhoods," said Justin Lipscomb, owner of Waldo Plaza LLC in December.
In addition to concerns from the public, city staff outlined items the site plan is lacking:
An additional fire hydrant.
A final landscaping plan with screening.
Details of plantings.
A final photometric plan to be approved by the building department.
A final soil erosion and sedimentation control permit to be approved by the building department.
A final stormwater permit to be approved by the engineering department.
A more developed grading plan.
During the April 10 meeting, commissioners also approved a site plan to construct an additional 50 student housing units as part of the Northwood Village student housing project. Click here to read more.


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DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale Buys 353,129 Shares of Kellogg Company (NYSE:K)
DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale increased its stake in Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) by 93.0% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 732,930 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 353,129 shares during the period. DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale’s holdings in Kellogg were worth $50,422,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of K. Raymond James Trust N.A. increased its stake in Kellogg by 4.9% in the first quarter. Raymond James Trust N.A. now owns 7,941 shares of the company’s stock valued at $577,000 after buying an additional 371 shares during the last quarter. Gulf International Bank UK Ltd increased its stake in Kellogg by 1.4% in the first quarter. Gulf International Bank UK Ltd now owns 81,217 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,897,000 after buying an additional 1,100 shares during the last quarter. National Pension Service increased its stake in shares of Kellogg by 7.0% in the first quarter. National Pension Service now owns 226,007 shares of the company’s stock valued at $16,395,000 after buying an additional 14,764 shares in the last quarter. Alpha Windward LLC increased its stake in shares of Kellogg by 1.5% in the first quarter. Alpha Windward LLC now owns 2,564 shares of the company’s stock valued at $186,000 after buying an additional 37 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Private Bank & Trust Co. increased its stake in shares of Kellogg by 29.0% in the first quarter. Private Bank & Trust Co. now owns 6,240 shares of the company’s stock valued at $454,000 after buying an additional 1,404 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 83.53% of the company’s stock.
Kellogg Company (K) opened at 68.75 on Friday. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $67.95 and a 200-day moving average price of $71.57. Kellogg Company has a 1-year low of $65.32 and a 1-year high of $84.01. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.12 and a beta of 0.50.
Kellogg (NYSE:K) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 3rd. The company reported $0.97 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.92 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $3.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.16 billion. Kellogg had a net margin of 6.12% and a return on equity of 70.22%. The business’s quarterly revenue was down 2.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.91 earnings per share. Equities research analysts expect that Kellogg Company will post $3.98 EPS for the current year.
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, September 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 1st will be issued a dividend of $0.54 per share. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 30th. This is a positive change from Kellogg’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.52. This represents a $2.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.14%. Kellogg’s payout ratio is 94.12%.
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K has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Sanford C. Bernstein set a $62.00 target price on Kellogg and gave the company a “sell” rating in a research note on Tuesday, June 27th. Piper Jaffray Companies set a $78.00 target price on Kellogg and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday. Credit Suisse Group cut their target price on Kellogg from $80.00 to $75.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 5th. Susquehanna Bancshares Inc reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a $80.00 target price (down from $82.00) on shares of Kellogg in a research note on Tuesday, April 25th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada increased their target price on Kellogg from $79.00 to $81.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Monday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $74.50.
In other Kellogg news, Director John T. Dillon sold 4,900 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $71.87, for a total value of $352,163.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, major shareholder Kellogg W. K. Foundation Trust sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $74.08, for a total transaction of $1,852,000.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 1.30% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Kellogg Company is a manufacturer and marketer of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods. The Company’s principal products are ready-to-eat cereals and convenience foods, such as cookies, crackers, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods.
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Xiaomi Pad 6: Xiaomi has just announced that it will shortly release the new Pad 6 tablet model on the Indian market. The company has announced that the large-screen device will be released later this month, so here are the specifics.
Core to Xiaomi’s consumer electronics and smart manufacturing business is an IoT infrastructure that connects smartphones and smart hardware.
Xiaomi Pad 6: Price, Specs
Xiaomi Pad 6 will debut with Snapdragon 870 and an 11-inch screen. In April, the Chinese tech titan debuted its most recent tablets of premium quality. Last month, it was announced that the tablet would soon be available on the European market as well, with the initial release occurring in its native market of China. Now, the company has announced that it will unveil the Xiaomi Pad 6 model in India on June 13, 2023. It shared the launch teaser on Twitter along with an accompanying image.
Xiaomi’s Pad 6 model features an 11-inch LCD display with a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels. Additionally, this display features an impressive 144Hz refresh rate, 10-bit colour depth, HDR10, P3 colour gamut, and Dolby Vision. TUV Rheinland has certified the screen as having a low blue light level for a more pleasant viewing experience. The tablet weighs 490 grammes but is only 6.51 millimetres in girth.
The Pad 6 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The primary camera has 13 megapixels, while the front-facing camera has 8 megapixels. The device is powered by a large 8,840mAh battery pack that supports 33W wired rapid charging. Unfortunately, Pad 6’s pricing in India is still unknown, so please check back for updates.


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News :: Consumer Scoreboard finds cross-border shopping trusted more once tried
(11/03/2011) The spring Consumer Scoreboard published today by the European Commission shows a growing gap between domestic and cross-border e-commerce: 36% of EU consumers have shopped online from national sellers in 2010 (34% in 2009), while cross-border e-commerce continues to grow at a sluggish pace (9% in 2010, compared with 8% in 2009). Efforts need to be stepped up to meet the Digital Agenda target (20% by 2015). Consumers' perceptions seem to be a major barrier to cross-border e-commerce, but once they have tried buying from a vendor in another Member State, consumers are much less worried about fraud or delivery problems. According to the Scoreboard, the proportion of retailers selling to other EU countries fell to 22% in 2010 (25% in 2009).


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A hack of Experian, the company that handles credit checks for the wireless carrier, results in the loss of T-Mobile customers' Social Security numbers, birth dates and names.
A chip implanted in new cards is designed to stop cybercrime. Starting Thursday, stores that haven't upgraded their card-reading terminals will be on the hook for fraudulent charges.
New research finds that members of a group of jellyfish-like marine animals use their jets in different ways -- depending on age -- to steer the colony. No word on retirement age.
The National Transportation Safety Board releases its final report on the October 31 crash that killed one of two pilots on the test flight over the Mojave Desert.
The interim CEO's apology falls on deaf ears after the firing of a key staffer stirs new policies. Poor communication with Reddit users hasn't helped.
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THE issue of animals in medical experimentation has been grabbing more headlines in 2006 than ever before.
Despite the publicity, animals continue to suffer and die simply so companies can produce new types of lipstick and shampoo.
While a recent poll by the Ciao Group shows that 81% of Britons think it's wrong to test household products on animals, nearly a third of them have no idea that animals are still being used in this kind of outdated, often painful, and always unnecessary testing.
It's up to us as consumers to put an end to this suffering. Order a free compassionate shopping guide on 020 7700 4888 or by visiting www.buav.org.
Sean Gifford, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.


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A piece on how A.H. Beard has made it to 120 years due to the passion and dedication of our employees
This great article on A.H. Beard is featured on the Homes To Love website, as well as in Belle magazine!
House & Garden magazine highlight the story, the innovation and the mission of A.H. Beard.
A.H. Beard celebrates 120 years!
Monday 25th November, 2019
It’s been a whirlwind adventure. 2019 marks 120 years of A.H. Beard improving lives through better sleep! To celebrate, a panel of our business leaders traveled to each of our seven branches throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Each celebration honoured our rich heritage, acknowledged the successes and work of the present and described our plans for the future.
VIP AIS Experience
Live like an athlete for a day
Tuesday 15th October, 2019
Earlier this year we ran a promotion with our partners at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Consumers had to purchase an eligible product from a participating retailer and then tell us “How does sleep improve your performance?”. The entrants with the best answers were given the opportunity to live like an athlete for a day with the ultimate VIP Experience at the Australian Institute of Sport!
The experience included a behind the scenes tour of the AIS, hearing the story of inspiring paralympian Sarah Walsh, a skills & drills session with AIS athletes as well as accommodation and flights among other activities.
Watch the video to view some highlights from the day!
At A.H. Beard, we’re all about improving your sleep – through better products, technology that helps you sleep better, and solid, actionable advice.
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Exports resume from Parviz Khan border in Kermanshah
Kermanshah (IP) - After one-day closure of Parviz Khan border due to Eid al-Fitr, the export of goods from this official border resumed.
Iran Press/ Iran news: Governor of Qasr-e Shirin Morad Ali Tatar said on Monday that the closure of the official border of Parviz Khan on Sunday, coinciding with the first day of Eid al-Fitr, was announced by the Iraqi side.
He added: "With the resumption of trade exchanges from the official border of Parviz Khan, active Iranian businessmen resumed their commercial activities and export of goods this morning (Monday), as they did in the past."
Tatar stated: "Currently, 1,500 trucks loaded with goods are exported to Iraq through the border crossing of Parviz Khan, and priority is given to export of fruits, vegetables and perishable products."
Qasr-e Shirin in the west of Kermanshah province, with a population of more than 27,000, has two main border crossings of Khosravi and Parviz Khan with Iraq.
54% of Iran's non-oil exports to Iraq are made through the official border of Parviz Khan.


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Friday, November 28, 2003, 10:00 am PT (01:00 pm ET)
Apple iBook will transition to IBM chipsetThe end of the road with Motorola has been reached, at least when it comes time for Apple to revamp its iBook line of consumer portables. The chip designer has failed to produce any process spec PowerPC 7457 G4s in commercial volumes required to propel Apple's portable and iMac computers to the next level.
Meanwhile, IBM is in the advanced stages of development of the 90nm PowerPC 750VX — a chip which sources say will essentially replace the iBook's Motorola G4. Along with its successor — the PowerPC 750VXe — the PowerPC 750VX will advance the iBook to and beyond the 2GHz barrier by 2005. According to sources, the 750VX is a G3 variant that includes Altivec, additional pipeline stages, and advanced power management features.
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The Nokia 3310 revival party might not be as pleasant as it looked like, with news coming out that the handset comes with a major design flaw.
The completely re-designed model, which is due to be launched later this year, is 12.8mm thick and weighs 79.6g, as opposed to 22mm and 133g, and looks far better than its predecessor. It also comes with different color options and a fully revamped snake game.
However, users have already discovered a major flaw in the handset which will ensure it doesn’t work in most parts of the world.
The phone will communicate with networks using old 2G frequencies, and most parts of the modern world has already shut them down, including the United States and Canada.
Many other developing and developed countries are also phasing these frequencies out and soon they will be completely shut down. The list includes U.S, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan among the major countries that has either completely or partially shut down these 2G frequencies.
The model will only support GSM 900 MHz and 1900 MHz, which is used primarily in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa, with other parts of the world ceasing to use them.
This means the phone will work just fine in Europe and most parts of Asia (for now) but won’t function in other parts of the world including U.S.
It won’t even be able to connect to a network, making it completely useless in countries which doesn’t support these outdated frequencies.


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eBay will issue credits to listings affected by a search outage that lasted most of Saturday, the company announced.
"There is no need to contact us to receive a credit for your affected items," eBay tells sellers. "Credits for those items will take several days but should be completed within a week."
In an announcement that has since been pulled from eBay's site, the company reported that the technical glitch was brought on by a large increase in the number of listings. Currently there are more than 200 million live listings on the site, a 33-percent increase compared to the same time last year, eBay noted.
The glitch left buyers seeing few results when they shopped on the auction site Saturday, or unable to search for items altogether. The issue was first reported Saturday morning and was mostly resolved late that night. However, some secondary search features were kept offline until Sunday. These functions included refining search by specifics such as color and size.
"We know this is a really busy time for sellers ramping up for the holiday season," says Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay Marketplaces. "We're sorry that this technical issue occurred—and we regret any potential impact to your business. Our teams worked around the clock to restore functionality as quickly as possible. Please accept our sincere apologies, and thanks for your patience as we resolved this issue."
We understand how important this time of year is... and sincerely apologize
The outage is one of the worst eBay has suffered in recent years, notes the Financial Times. And it came at a "critical time" when buyers are beginning to get ready for the holidays, reports Larry Dignan of technology publication ZDNet. Online sales usually see a big increase during the second week of November, he says.
Geoffrey Holland, who sells CDs and DVDs in his eBay store, says his business took a substantial hit during the search outage.
"On a busy November shopping day, I would have normally expected to sell more than 100 items," he reports. On Saturday, Holland says he sold just 11.
Auction ending prices may also have been lower than usual, according to news reports, because shoppers were unable to bid on items they wanted.
eBay says it will assess the financial impact the outage in the coming days, and will compensate sellers appropriately. In the meantime, affected sellers will be credited, eBay notes on its System Announcements board.
"We understand how important this time of year is for your business and shopping experience and sincerely apologize," eBay says.
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At Mumbai airport, the average dwell time is 115 minutes, out of which approximately 10 dedicated minutes are spent at experiential centres
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Significant limits have been proposed by the regulatory body with regard to advertisements on television limiting the duration of advertising on a broadcast channel. This obviously has lot of implications on the media spends by brands. Outdoor Asia spoke to a few brands and agencies to get an idea of what the new rule implies for the OOH medium.


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Dip your hand into the nail art boom for profit and promotion.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you’ll have noticed that nail art is becoming huge business in spas and salons across the country. Designs that were once relegated to a pinkie for the holidays or a big toe during flip-flop season are now permanent fixtures on hands (and feet) year-round.
“Sweater prints, marbling, abstract art and Swarovski crystals — I’ve never seen nail art as popular as it is right now, and I’ve been doing nails for 30 years,” says Vicki Ornellas, trainer at Polished Perfect in Costa Mesa, California, and an American International Industries global educator. Ornellas says this nail art boom is a sign of the times. “More nail artists are broadening their areas of expertise, and more employers are embracing the phenomenon,” she offers. Plus, there’s the social factor: Clients can’t wait to wow their Facebook and Instagram buddies with their fancy new fingers — and don’t think twice about spending upward of $70 to do so.
Suspect your spa isn’t a fit? You’d be surprised: Even the most high-end, buttoned-up facilities have room for nail art in their services, say the experts. So, if you want to open the door to more clients, creativity — and, of course, profits — read on to find out what you’ll need.
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Part 2 of a 3 part series.
It’s tough to open and run a business in Aspen these days. New business owners must navigate a web of regulations and fees. And, stores already in operation are battling a tough economy nationally, and within the resort itself. Retail sales are a good indicator of a resort’s economic health. And, while sales data show Aspen has largely recovered from the recession, the retail sector has seen no real sales growth for six years. Aspen Public Radio's Marci Krivonen reports.


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Telefónica Digital has announced a deal with Samsung Electronics in a move that many are hailing as the most significant carrier billing agreement to date as it unites one of the world's largest operators with the world's biggest handset maker.
Under the agreement, Samsung will become the first OEM to integrate Telefónica's billing backend into its smartphones and tablets, using the BlueVia payments applications developed by Telefónica Digital.
In a statement, Telefónica Digital said customers that use Samsung Hub and Samsung Apps will be able to purchase apps and music, video, books, games and learning services from their devices by simply charging the payment to their phone bill or prepaid credit, avoiding the need for a credit card.
Direct carrier billing is seen as a crucial tool for operators as they battle against falling revenue from voice and data services and the threat from over-the-top players. Telefónica said the ease and convenience of direct to bill payments has been shown to increase sales of digital content through mobile devices. "This is especially the case in the developing world where the penetration of credit cards and even bank accounts is low," the company added.
The operator said direct-to-bill on Samsung devices will be rolled out to Telefónica's operating businesses in phases, starting with Telefónica Germany in the coming months.
"We strongly believe that carrier billing has the potential to drive the monetisation of digital content," Wayne Thorsen, vice president of global partnerships at Telefónica Digital, said in a statement. "Partnerships like this allow us to harness the power of the billing relationships we have with our customers to make it easier for them to consume content on their tablets and mobile devices."
The agreement with Samsung joins other similar deals Telefónica has with companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft. TechCrunch also noted that the operator also has deals with billing providers Bango and BOKU, and it is not yet clear how the Samsung deal will affect these two billing providers.
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IT’S no surprise that LG’s new top-end phone, the LG V30, is built for creating content on YouTube and the like. It might as well have YouTube’s stamp of approval all over its glass-and-metal body, what with all the features the Korean OEM has bolted onto it.
THE stage is set for the next iPhones, so if you’ve been holding out for the best premium smartphone your money can buy, you may want to wait a little longer before making a decision. Apple has sent out this invite to its event on September 12 (September 13 in the Philippines).
TWO new Sony smartphones are joining the Xperia XZ Premium in the flagship stable, namely the Sony Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact.
IS Cherry Mobile likely to unveil a new selfie-first smartphone soon? Recent evidence encouragingly points to “yes.”
DISPLAYMATE Technologies is to screen image and picture quality much as what DxOMark is to camera and lens image quality. So when it says something, everyone listens.
SAMSUNG’S Galaxy Note series could finally face some tough competition. And not just any competition. Rival Apple is said to be working on something that could give the Korean giant a run for its money.
LESS than a week after Samsung revealed its first smartphone with a dual-camera system, the Galaxy Note 8, the Korean giant seems ready to announce its second phone with two cameras on the back. This time, though, the device is a midrange product. Say hello to the Samsung Galaxy J7+, from the line that helped the company secure its (second) spot in the Philippines in the second quarter of 2017.
LENOVO is slashing the prices of three smartphones over the next three days in a flash sale that starts August 26. They will be available for purchase exclusively through Lazada Philippines.
THE Huawei Mate 10, the Chinese OEM’s big-screen flagship, is scheduled to be announced on October 16. Understandably, Huawei has begun teasing its upcoming smartphone — and it’s doing so at the expense of Korean rival Samsung.
THE Meizu Pro 7, the flagship smartphone with AMOLED screens on both sides, will get a local launch September 9, Revü Philippines has confirmed.
AS you may have heard, Samsung took to the stage to announce the Galaxy Note 8 yesterday, as well as its pricing and availability in the Philippines.
THE Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is now official, having been unveiled at a press conference in New York. This time around, the new note-taking flagship promises to do even “bigger things,” and you can tell by just looking at the phone and its specs sheet.
NO vendor was able to topple Cherry Mobile from its perch in the second quarter of 2017. It was still the top smartphone vendor in the Philippines, and only one of two local brands that made it to the top 5.
IT’S been 10 years already? On this day a decade ago, open-source advocate Chris Messina proposed using a pound sign (hello, fellow mIRC tambay! Remember this?) to tag topics of interest on Twitter. His tweet was the first ever to include what is now commonly known as a hashtag.
AFTER a round of obligatory leaks leading up to its announcement, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A is now official — at least in its home country of China.


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The FED has been itching to hike the interest rates for ages now, but one obstacle or another have been getting in the way since the last rate hike in December last year. First it was the winter slowdown which is not unusual in the US, then the financial markets went through a period of panic in February, followed by the Brexit vote and the big finale that happened last week.
Now the FED has made up its mind and today's retail sales were the last indicator to go their way. Even Rosengren who is one of the most dovish members among the FED doves confirmed today that there's no reason to delay rate hikes further.
In my opinion, if they let this chance slip through their fingers, then the FED will end up like two years ago when they hesitated to take that step. Soon after everything turned sour and they were forced to postpone it for more than a year.
Now everything has lined up perfectly, US elections are over, a generous fiscal plan is coming from the new administration, the global economy is in a much better place and the US economic data has been showing an acceleration of the recovery.
A couple of hours ago the US retail sales and core retail sales for October jumped by 0.8%. That's respectively 2 and 3 points above expectations and it's actually a very good reading. As Rosengren said, something extremely bad has to happen for the FED to stay on hold in December. World war springs to mind?


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Coinbase is increasing its Tezos staking service to pick out European international locations.
The San Francisco-based exchange introduced Thursday that customers within the UK., Spain, France and the Netherlands would now be capable to stake Tezos by its proprietary staking service.
“Coinbase is offering an easy, secure way for UK and certain EU customers to actively participate in the Tezos network,” the exchange stated in a press launch. “While it’s possible to stake Tezos on your own or via a delegated staking service, it can be confusing, complicated, and even risky with regard to the security of your staked Tezos.”
Coinbase first launched its staking service within the U.S. again in November. It claims prospects have earned effectively over $2 million in crypto since then. Within the press launch, the exchange stated staking provided a brand new profitable various to extra conventional investments, equivalent to equities or bonds.
Coinbase – which solely listed Tezos final July – estimates the present annual earnings for customers staking Tezos is available in at round 5%.
A spokesperson for the exchange instructed Fintech Zoom it was working with native regulators, in response to a query about why it’s solely providing the service to 4 European nations.
“While we are starting with these new markets first, as we expand internationally, we are continuously reviewing and considering additional markets as well,” the spokesperson stated.
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While 2020 will be remembered worldwide for the COVID-19 pandemic, in the A/C industry it’s also the year of R-22.
As of January 1, 2020, it is illegal to produce or import hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC-22). Better known as R-22, it is sometimes referred to by the brand name Freon. R-22 is used in most residential and commercial A/C systems produced before 2010.
To help protect the Earth’s ozone layer, the United States began phasing out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the ‘90s. Among other things, CFCs appeared in aerosol propellants like bug spray and paint. Now, by phasing out ozone-depleting HCFCs, which include the common refrigerant R-22, the U.S. hopes to reduce the risk of skin cancer and other health problems by protecting the ozone layer. The layer absorbs ultraviolet (UV) radiation before it reaches Earth’s surface.
In 2010, production ended for new A/C units that used R-22 refrigerant and production of R-22 itself dropped by 75%. In 2015, R-22 production was down 90% and in 2020 it ended.
“Because of the dwindling supply, R-22 has become more expensive,” says Mike Donley, president of Donley AC & Plumbing. “But consumers should be cautious about ads that imply you must buy a new A/C unit. You need to weight the costs of repairing and replacing.”
Donley says owners of older air conditioning units that rely on R-22 have three options:
· Use alternative refrigerants that involve a blend of different types. Technicians must be trained in this method.
· Install a potentially pricey conversion refrigerant.
· Buy a new unit. (The average unit in Arizona lasts 12 to 15 years)
According to the EPA, new energy efficient air conditioners can significantly reduce energy costs. The higher the seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER), the more efficient the system. A central air conditioner that’s earned the ENERGY STAR® label is at least 14 percent more efficient than a new standard system.
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Data breach investigations have revealed a new shift in the hacking landscape, criminals are going after your passwords with a vengeance.
Passwords give hackers the “keys to the kingdom” when it comes to getting past standard cybersecurity measures to access cloud accounts, email accounts, and sensitive data.
According to the 2020 Verizon report on data breaches, credential theft has become the #1 type of information that is gone after in phishing emails.
This is often done via a phishing email that links the victim to a fake login form for Microsoft 365, an online banking site, or another account. The hacker then steals the login credentials as soon as they’re entered.
Password theft is responsible for 77% of cloud account breaches.
Why are hackers going after passwords as a main target? Because they’re very lucrative and they can get thousands, even millions of them in a one data breach.
For example, in April 2020, video conference service Zoom was the latest large company to fall victim to a data breach. Hackers made off with over 500,000 account logins for the platform.
Considering that people tend to reuse passwords across different accounts, that one Zoom password being stolen could unlock a person’s Amazon account, online banking account, or business email account.
And hackers know this, that’s why stolen passwords are a hot commodity on the Dark Web.
How Much Can a Hacker Get on the Dark Web for Your Password?
Here’s an example of how much stolen emails and passwords can be sold for on the Dark Web. Multiply this by hundreds of thousands obtained in a breach, and you can see how it’s such a lucrative business for cyber criminals.
Typical price on the dark for login credentials:
- Hulu Account: $2.75 each
- Netflix Account: $1.00 to $3.00 each
- PayPal Account: $1.50 each
Many businesses put protections in place like anti-phishing software and user awareness training on password security, which are both smart protections. However, when a cloud account vendor like Zoom is hacked, your password gets stolen, no matter how well you’ve protected it on your end.
This is why it’s important to also use Dark Web monitoring to keep an eye out for any chance that your personal or business emails have been compromised.
Why Should You Consider Dark Web Monitoring?
Dark Web monitoring is a service that looks for any sign that your password, email address, or other personal information are up for sale on the Dark Web.
While the Dark Web is a vast place, monitoring services typically look in the most commonly known marketplaces and scan vast directories for any potential sign of your data.
In addition to taking precautions to protect your accounts and passwords from breaches, using a Dark Web monitoring service can help you get a heads up as soon as any of your company or personal data is found up for sale. This allows you to take action.
Here are several of the benefits of using Dark Web monitoring.
It Lets You Know About a Breach as Soon as Possible
If your login credentials with a service you use have been breached in a hack, you may not find out about it until several months later.
In the case of CafePress users, the company’s database of user information was breached in February 2019, and impacted users didn’t receive a notification via mail until September, over 6 months later.
Dark Web monitoring can let you know if your password is found for sale long before you may even be notified by a company that it’s been breached.
Provides Immediate Alerts
You can get immediate alerts if logins related to your business domain are found for sale on any of the scanned Dark Web marketplaces. This allows you to take action right away to both check accounts for compromise and change any impacted passwords.
Provides an Additional Layer of Security
Any good cybersecurity strategy has several layers, and using Dark Web monitoring adds another important one. It can help you identify threats that may have happened outside your own IT security environment to a vendor or cloud service provider you use.
The average time to detect and contain a data breach is 280 days. So, your own accounts can be left at risk before a vendor that was breached is even aware your account login was stolen from their database.
Dark Web monitoring doesn’t leave you relying on their notification before you are aware of a compromise of your passwords.
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The coffee that's bigger than the human stomach
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Thursday, 20 January 2011:
Starbucks, the American coffee giant which translated Milan's espresso bars into an identikit global chain serving half pints of coffee-flavoured frothy milk, has launched another innovation: a super-sized cup that contains more liquid than an average human stomach.
Even a nation as obese as the United States expressed surprise at yesterday's introduction of the Trenta receptacle ("Thirty" in Italian), which carries 31 fluid ounces (916ml) in one cup – equivalent to more than an ordinary bottle of wine.
Launched initially in 14 US states, the transparent cup – 63 per cent larger than the chain's previous largest size, the Venti (561ml) – will carry only iced coffee, iced tea and iced-tea lemonade. Starbucks said it was launching the cup in response to demand. Read more>>


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Guidance on bees and pesticides: work plan published
EFSA has outlined how it plans to review its guidance on the risk assessment of pesticides and bees in the EU. As the outline shows, stakeholders and pesticide experts from Member States will be consulted regularly throughout the process.
The first consultation begins later this month, when stakeholders and Member State representatives will be asked for their views on the current guidance document.
Stakeholder feedback will be provided by a consultation group, comprising representatives of EFSA’s different stakeholder communities, that has been set up to support the revision of the guidance. Member States will be consulted through EFSA’s existing Pesticides Steering Network.
Gathering views on the existing guidance, published in 2013, is an important first step in EFSA’s review as highlighted in the mandate received from the European Commission. When the feedback has been gathered and analysed, EFSA’s scientific working group will begin its review.
A full public consultation and workshop will take place when the document has been drafted.
- Outline of the revision of the guidance on the risk assessment of plant protection products and bees
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Gaat het afscheid toch moeilijker dan op voorhand leek? Lees over het verschil van ‘interpretatie van de stukken’ tussen Antonio Galloni en The Wine Advocate.
“Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate is suing its former California correspondent Antonio Galloni for breach of contract, fraud and defamation.
Antonio Galloni, who was contracted by the influential wine journal for a reported US$300,000 a year to cover California wines, resigned earlier this year after a majority share in the Wine Advocate was bought by a group of Singaporean investors.
At the time he was in the middle of an extensive report on the wines of Sonoma, which he did not deliver, explaining to subscribers on his new website that he would not be able to do justice to the diversity of the region in time for the Wine Advocate’s February issue.
The Wine Advocate is now accusing Galloni of ‘fraud and breach of [his] contractual obligations and [his] intentional and unjustifiable withholding of tasting notes’.”


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* Organisers say vuvuzelas will not be banned
* Players complain that incessant din a distraction
* Din proves a boon for earplug vendors (Recasts, adds Danish keeper, demand for earplugs)
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JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (Reuters) - Vuvuzela trumpets will not be banned from the World Cup, organisers say, despite complaints from teams over the cacophony and a run on earplugs as South Africans fret about their hearing.
The incessant blasting of the plastic trumpets has become the unofficial World Cup soundtrack, but the vuvuzelas have triggered controversy.
A BBC report said chief organiser Danny Jordaan had not ruled out banning the horns, but Rich Mkhondo, a spokesman for the local World Cup organising committee, said “Vuvuzelas are here to stay and will never be banned.”
“People love the vuvuzelas around the world. Only a minority are against vuvuzelas. There has never been a consideration to ban vuvuzelas,” he added.
Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk has banned them from his team’s training sessions and Danish keeper Thomas Sorensen suggested teams use increased planning, eye contact and sign language to overcome the problems caused by ceaseless din.
Vuvuzelas have been controversial since the Confederations Cup last year, a World Cup dress rehearsal, when several players complained they could not communicate through the racket.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter also rejected calls for them to be banned, saying they are as typical of South African football as bongo drums or chants in other countries.
Mkhondo said the horns were part of the local culture and he said they were also being used by fans from other countries — a view backed up by the enormous extra demand seen by vuvuzela outlets across South Africa.
“It seems like the bad publicity has been good for us,” said Brandon Bernado, owner of the vuvuzela.co.za website and a factory he said could churn out at least 10,000 of the instruments every day.
“We’re completely sold out. Every time we manufacture more, the next morning by nine we’re sold out,” he told Reuters.
The vuvuzela industry is worth 50 million rand ($6.45 million) in South Africa and Europe, according to Cape Town-based Neil van Schalkwyk, who developed the vuvuzela seven years ago.
The vogue for vuvuzelas is also proving a boon for earplug vendors too as South Africans rush to protect their hearing and get a good night’s sleep.
“It’s actually very dangerous. Vuvuzelas can produce about 200 decibels of noise — which basically sounds like a herd of elephants approaching,” said Lindy Gordon-Brown, who runs an online business selling earplugs.
Staff at Grayston pharmacy in Johannesburg’s Sandton business hub have made three orders for earplugs in the last week, and stocks are already running low.
Gordon-Brown said her sales have trebled due to the World Cup and that many buyers are entrepreneurs hoping to sell earplugs at a premium outside stadiums.
“I’m sure they’re going to be a lot of earplugs available around the stadiums but heaven knows what they’re going to charge.” (Additional reporting by Zaheer Cassim, Helen Popper and Opheera McDoom)


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The six-calendar year promotion agreement awarded to R&R is the biggest LVCVA has produced, according to Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal. LVCVA also awarded New York-primarily based Grey World wide Promoting a two-calendar year contract with the solution of marketing the town on social media.
LVCVA is a very well-known company and is responsible for endorsing the city for at the very least 4 decades. R&R was behind the development of properly know ‘What Happens Right here, Stays Here’ slogan.
R&R has workplaces in 8 US cities and Mexico City. The agency is led by CEO Billy Vassiliadis, a identified Nevada political consultant, and promoting government.
LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill acclaimed R&R for its unmatched advertising and marketing capacity in the multifaceted Las Vegas area. However, LVCVA is not without critics.
Access Vegas founder Ted Newkirk not long ago twitted his appreciation of LVCVA’s job. He, however, famous that the company is ordinarily quick to change blame when issues are not fantastic domestically.
“It appears like in negative occasions, they shrug their shoulders and blame the economic climate. In fantastic periods, they just take all the credit history.”
Tourism is expanding just after a decline due to the pandemic. From March by means of Might, much more than two million website visitors designed their way to the Strip. The number of travellers departing at McCarran Airport has also reached a few million this 12 months.


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Next year, the German brand will bring to our country as many as three new cars: two sedans and one liftback. At the same time, Volkswagen says that this is not all the new products that we should expect …
According to Autonews correspondents, citing representatives of the German brand. In 2020, the updated Volkswagen Passat will be brought to us. Recall that the car received new bumpers, matrix LED elements and other lights. According to preliminary data, in Russia the car will be offered with a 2.0 TSI engine with a return of 190 horsepower. A version with a 1.4-liter TSI unit is also expected. Engine power is 150 horsepower. In addition, a two-liter diesel engine will enter the range of engines. It is important to note that only a sedan will get to our market.
Another new product will be the new Jetta, which will be imported to us from Mexico. The car will be offered with two engine options – with an atmospheric engine 1.6 and a turbo engine 1.4. The latest innovation Volkswagen currently confirms is the Arteon liftback. True, all the technical details of this car for Russia are so far kept secret.
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Today Microsoft updated the Bing iPhone app, giving it the ability to scan bar codes and integrate with Twitter and Facebook.
Microsoft’s new Windows Live Messenger iPhone app, released today, may include chatting, photo messaging and social-network integration – but it won’t multitask, according to reports.
Microsoft hopes to migrate its Bing algorithms to Yahoo before the holidays, a search executive said Wednesday.
If you still doubted the strength of the tablet market after Apple said it had sold 2 million iPads within 60 days, I’ve got another item for you. Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty has taken a look at the numbers and has decided the iPad is on pace to become one of the most popular mobile devices ever.
After Apple released Safari 5 on Monday, Microsoft decided to compare its hardware acceleration on Windows to the same feature in Internet Explorer 9. What Microsoft found, as shown in the video below, was that IE9 renders graphics much better than Safari 5 does.
Details are slim right now, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the next iPhone operating system, now being called iOS 4, includes the option of using Microsoft Bing as its default Web-search provider.
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesApple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone 4 during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday in San Francisco. | View photo gallery Apple unveiled the next iPhone on Monday. But if you follow technology at all, odds are you’ve already seen and read plenty about the iPhone 4.
Bill Gates and his dad, Bill Gates Sr., appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Wednesday evening. For a few minutes, Gates addressed the success of Apple and Steve Jobs.
The most successful tablet ever produced is the Apple iPad. And it took a nontraditional platform – iPhone OS instead of a traditional operating system, paired with a touch screen – to reach that point.
Tablets, PCs … what’s the difference? That’s what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested Thursday morning as he talked on stage at All Things Digital’s D8 tech conference.


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The world's first opalised pearls have been found in the Australian desert, dating back 65 million years, when it was covered by an inland sea.
The Department of Transportation's call for visions of connected cities received 77 submissions, with 300 companies offering partnerships.
From drones, flower pots and VR headsets to smartwatches from Huawei, CNET's Scott Stein takes us on a CES floor tour.
SK Telecom opens a fifth-generation mobile network research facility in South Korea, where it claimed it would be the first operator of a 5G service.
The South Korean electronics giant is bringing two new colours of the Galaxy Note 5 to its home country -- just in time for the iPhone 6S' October 23 launch.
Almost none of the attacks showed a North Korean IP address, although it's not difficult for hackers to hide their origin.
After becoming available in much of Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Netflix now looks to expand its reach to Asia.
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Last week, Commerce Secretary S R Rao had said the Food Ministry will move a proposal for allowing export of an additional 2.5 million tonnes of wheat from the central stocks in order to ease the storage crunch being faced by the country due to an all time high production. India harvested an all time high wheat crop of 93.90 million tonnes of wheat in the 2011-12 crop year (July-June). The government has a wheat stock of 37.65 million tonnes as of December 1, 2012, which is more than double the stipulated buffer and strategic stock requirement of 11.2 million tonnes as of January 1, 2013. United Nation's body, Food and Agriculture Organisation has pegged India's wheat exports to touch 5 million tonnes in the 2012-13 marketing year.
India's wheat export is expected to touch 6 million tonnes in the 2012-13 marketing year (MY) on the back of firm global prices, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a report. "With the current tight open market supplies of wheat, private wheat exports are likely to come down significantly in the coming months. Consequently, we continue to estimate MY 2012-13 exports at 6 million tonnes, which includes 3 million tonnes each of government and open-market wheat," USDA said.
Wheat marketing year in India commences in April and ends in March. "With export prospects looking favourable on expected firm international wheat prices through the first quarter of calendar year 2013, the government most likely will further augment the government-held wheat export quota," it added. The government wheat is currently fetching good export rates compared to the PDS wheat price of Rs 2,000-6,100 (USD 36-110) per tonne, MSP for MY 2012-13 of Rs 12,850 (USD 234) per tonne and open market sale sale price for bulk consumers in most states, it said.
The government's decision to export 2 million tonnes of wheat from central stocks fetched a rate in the range of USD 296.70-319.50 per tonne. In July this year, the government had allowed export of 2 million tonnes of the grain from central pool stocks of Food Corporation of India (FCI) through central public sector undertakings (CPSUs) like STC, MMTC and PEC.


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"La devinette": Francine's new TV spot
Since the first containment, the homemade trend has been strongly exacerbated. Cooking yourself, for pleasure, to share a moment with your family and to
The blockchain is coming to Francine's organic packages!
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Francine affirms her commitments
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Coupons offering free pizza from Domino’s are no longer in the list of T-Mobile Tuesday app. Because of the high influx of customers asking for free pizzas, Domino’s had to pull out of the promotion indefinitely.
T-Mobile Tuesday app is an attempt to thank T-Mobile costumers for the loyalty with the wireless carrier. This app that gives away stuff to users had so much demand that Domino’s promotion could not deal anymore with the high volume of pizzas.
Once Domino’s saw how its order volume climbed as much as three to four times a typically Tuesday, worries began to arise. This would have been great if Domino’s personnel was prepared. Even for T-Mobile, this app has been so popular that it seems difficult to handle.
According to T-Mobile CEO John Legere, Domino’s couldn’t handle the increase in order volume, and has pulled out of the promotion indefinitely.
Is it T- Mobile or Domino’s fault?
Due to the high amount of pizzas to be delivered, Domino’s decided to limit the number of free pizzas per store, in an attempt to get some control over T- Mobile promotion. Therefore, many coupons were left out as well as costumers with a lot of frustration.
Also, it seemed that the authors of this promotion did not take into account that customers on a single family plan could use all their codes to place large orders of multiple pizzas, meaning that instead of offering free pizzas per account, T- Mobile was offering them to anyone with an available line.
Domino's pulls out of T-Mobile Tuesdays because y'all wanted more pizza than they can make https://t.co/5brcdfq96F
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 16, 2016
The CEO blamed the customers’ frustration on the pizza chain by posting on his Twitter account an internal Domino’s memo explaining why the company had to pull out the promotion.
“After reviewing yesterday’s results and taking your feedback into account, the decision has been made not to continue the T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion unless we can find a solution that is best for the brand,” the memo read
In response to this statement, a Domino’s spokesperson told TechCrunch that T-Mobile’s promotion generated an overwhelming response, but they are happy, so many of their customers love Domino’s.
Domino’s added that the demand was significantly above what they agreed to in advance, which resulted in an understandably disappointing customer experience for some. Therefore, Domino’s is re-examining the future of this promotion.
Finally, Domino’s thanked everyone who participated in the advancement and thanked those individuals working in the stores which went above and beyond in trying to keep up with the overwhelming demand.


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The Prime Minister Boris Johnson will offer a lifeline to struggling high street businesses by slashing businesses rates in his proposals for future legislation outlined in the Queen's Speech.
Half a million independent shops, hairdressers, restaurants, pubs and cinemas could benefit from the rates cut - which will be effective from April 2020.
Standard retailer discounts will rise from 33pc to 50pc at a cost of approximately £320m in proposals for a bill to be outlined by the Prime Minister.
The Queen's Speech will contain 40 bills and introduce additional funding for the NHS and spell out legislation for the legal system and Brexit.
The government intends to introduce a law to commit funding to the NHS with an extra £33.9bn provided by 2023/4.
The tax break on business rates will apply to all independently run shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants in England with a rateable value below £51,000 - which applies to nine in 10 businesses.
For the first time, the discount will also apply to independent cinemas and grass root music venues.
The move was welcomed by Ross McNally, the Executive Chair of Hampshire Chamber of Trade and Commerce.
He tweeted: "Good news around improved rates relief for the High Street in Queen's Speech. Hopefully the beginnings of a complete change to business rates."
Independent pubs will benefit from a further £1,000 cut in business rates on top of the 50 per cent relief.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid said: "We want to reinvigorate communities up and down our great country, helping people put the heart back into the places they call home.
"That's why we're taking action to save our high streets and keep pubs, cafes and hairdressers open by slashing their business rates by a half."
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In the latest sign that ultraluxury apartment living is spreading far beyond New York and San Francisco, a glass-sheathed tower changed hands in Chicago last week in a deal that is shattering records.
The 60-story building, named OneEleven, was sold for $328.2 million, or $651,000 per unit, the highest price ever paid per unit for an apartment building of more than 50 units in Chicago. The 504-unit building, located in Chicago’s downtown Loop neighborhood, was sold by a unit of New York-based Related Cos. and was acquired by Heitman, a global real-estate investment-management firm based in Chicago.
The purchase price “is emblematic of the seemingly insatiable demand for high-quality, large real-estate assets in primary markets,” said Ben Thypin, director of market analysis for Real Capital Analytics, a commercial-real-estate data and analysis firm in New York.
By most standards, the office market in Washington has lagged behind when compared with those in other major cities. Federal-government budget cuts and corporate contractions have meant rising office vacancies and stalling rents, for instance.
But those factors haven’t kept the prices paid for office buildings from climbing.
Last week’s deal involving PNC Place, a 12-story office building, is a case in point.
The property sold for $392 million, or $1,075 a square foot. That was the highest price ever paid, on a square-foot basis, for an office building in Washington, according to commercial-real-estate brokers.
Prices throughout the region have been rising fast. In the first half of this year, buyers of office buildings paid an average of $367.91 a square foot, up 29% over the same period last year, according to real-estate data firm CoStar Group.
The buyers of PNC Place, giant retirement-plan provider TIAA-CREF and Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, declined requests for an interview to discuss the transaction.
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Ben Thypin, director of market analysis at real-estate data firm Real Capital Analytics, says foreign buyers have been especially aggressive. In the first three quarters of this year, foreigners have invested $10.63 billion in office buildings in central business districts in U.S. cities—a 69% increase over the same time last year, according to Real Capital Analytics. “If you’re a large fund, you can’t make small deals,” said Mr. Thypin. “You need to place a lot of capital in big chunks. These Class A office buildings are large....They’re perceived as good stores of value. You’re not going to make home-run returns on these, but you’re not going to be losing money, either.”
Many struggling shopping malls are trying to find salvation by going small—in their purchasers, sales prices and, in some cases, size.
As the nation's largest mall owners sell off or give up their most-troubled properties—dogged by deteriorating neighborhoods, newer rivals and online sales—smaller real-estate companies are snapping them up at discount prices and trying to find ways to pull them out their death spirals. Sometimes, that involves demolition.
It is a high-risk turnaround game that is gaining favor among local companies and small specialists that are gambling they know local markets well enough to succeed where the big guns failed.
According to Real Capital Analytics, 48 of the 201 U.S. malls that traded hands since early 2010 were sold out of "troubled" situations, most often involving delinquent mortgages. In most cases, the value of those properties fell so sharply that they were sold for much less than was owed on them. In the past year, malls with defaulted mortgages were sold at prices amounting to an average of 63% of their mortgage balances, according to Real Capital.
"These mall transactions show that investors now are interested in higher risk but potentially higher yielding retail investments in the U.S.," said Ben Carlos Thypin, Real Capital's director of market analysis.
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MetLife Inc.'s recent purchase of the Reynolds Plantation, a posh lakeside golf and resort development in Georgia, is the latest sign that the insurer is back in the acquisition game.
MetLife paid about $160 million in equity and assumed debt for the Reynolds Plantation, which was acquired out of receivership, people familiar with the property said.
The deal raises MetLife's acquisition volume this year to a postcrisis peak of $820 million. That is below the recent annual peak volume of $1.2 billion in 2005 but up from $259 million for all of last year, according to research firm Real Capital Analytics.
"We like what we're seeing," said Robert Merck, global head of real-estate investments for MetLife, who declined to comment on expected returns from the Reynolds transaction. "You get decent income, especially compared with what you can get on fixed-income assets in this low-rate environment."
"They're starved for yield like everyone else so they need to venture out further on the risk curve and get back into buying," said Ben Carlos Thypin, director of market analysis at Real Capital Analytics, a New York real-estate-research firm.
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A Florida investor recently acquired one of Miami's best-known office addresses for $262.5 million, the biggest office deal in the city since 2008 and a gutsy bet that the city's commercial real-estate market is on the road to recovery.
Crocker Partners acquired the marble-clad Miami Center from Sumitomo Corp. of America, a unit of Sumitomo Corp., a Japanese global trading firm. Designed by Italian born architect Pietro Belluschi, the 34-story tower bearing CitigroupInc.'s logo includes the bank among its biggest tenants. The now-defunct Stanford Financial Group also occupied several floors before its collapse in 2009.
The deal last month comes as a trickle of buyers are prowling for bargains in second-tier markets, like Miami, where office rents and vacancies have yet to recover from the recession. Analysts say they are watching if large institutional investors will follow locally based Crocker's lead and help push up values and volume. "The market's healing, but it's certainly not all the way back," said Ben Carlos Thypin, director of market analysis for Real Capital Analytics, which tracks office deals.
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A housing portfolio is going on the block as Honolulu tests investors’ appetite for affordable apartments in a high-rent paradise.
The city and county of Honolulu hope to fetch more than $28 million for a 65-year lease on 12 affordable apartment complexes containing 1,257 units, according to Sam Moku, director of the city and county of Honolulu’s Department of Community Services. The properties were last appraised at $28 million in 2009, near the trough of the financial downturn, and values have since risen, Mr. Moku said. CBRE Group Inc. has been tapped to market the properties.
Apartments have recently been one of the hottest sectors of the commercial real estate market. And the same forces fueling demand for market-rate apartments are generating increased demand for affordable apartments, analysts say.
“Demand for apartment properties has grown broadly since the recession, with rental demand increasing as people got kicked out of houses,” says Ben Carlos Thypin, director of market analysis for Real Capital Analytics. Real Capital estimates the volume of affordable housing sold in 2010 rose about 80% from the year earlier, though 2011 is on pace to be slightly lower than last year.
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The sale of the Shea Scottsdale shopping center just outside Phoenix helps explain a curious phenomenon taking place in retail real estate.
On one hand, one would expect investors to be shunning grocery-anchored shopping centers, which have been suffering from high vacancy and anemic rent growth. New competitors have surfaced, including online shopping and monster retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp., that offer aisles of discounted food.
On the other hand, so far this year investors have snapped up $7.9 billion of retail centers with supermarkets, sending volume up 68% from the $4.7 billion sold in all of 2010, though the level is still well below the peak in 2007, according to Real Capital Analytics Inc., a real-estate research firm. The U.S. sales volume of all other retail properties rose 32% to $20.8 billion this year to date, from $15.7 billion in all 2010.
...."It's a question of betting on the right grocer in the right location," says Ben Carlos Thypin, director of market analysis with Real Capital.
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Institutional investors are once again scouring the hard-hit Atlanta real-estate market for bargains. In another recent deal, Parkway Properties Inc. last month said it was on track to buy the office and retail portion of the 50-story tower at 3344 Peachtree Road for about $346 a square foot in one of the priciest office-building sales Atlanta has seen in years.But that building is located in Atlanta's tony Buckhead section and is 93% leased. The price being paid in the Atlantic Station deal reflects relatively weak demand for properties that are a bit more challenged.
The 25-story office building is only 40% occupied. Since its completion in 2009, it has struggled to compete for tenants in a fiercely competitive market where the third-quarter office-vacancy rate of 20.8% hovered near a 25-year high, according to Reis Inc., a real-estate research firm. The retail complex is about 88% leased, although Mr. Maddocks says there are a number of expiring leases and some of the tenants aren't paying rent.
"That someone is willing to shell out this kind of money is certainly not bad news, but I'm not sure it implies any blessing on the Atlanta market," says Ben Carlos Thypin, a senior market analyst with Real Capital. "There's still a lot of pain."
Investor wariness of Atlanta is reflected by relatively low sales activity. The combined volume of retail and office sales in the Atlanta region rose just 6% last year to $901 million, from $846.8 million in 2009, according to Real Capital. By comparison, investment sales of retail and office properties in New York and its suburbs more than tripled to $7.4 billion last year from $2.3 billion a year earlier.
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Counting only those investors based in China, there has been just $62.6 million of Chinese investment in U.S. commercial real estate this year, putting China 12th in a ranking of countries, according to Real Capital. By comparison, Canada was the biggest source of foreign investment in U.S. real estate this year, with about $1.8 billion invested through August, its list shows.
But other forms of Chinese investment clearly are on the rise as that country's economy generates billions of dollars of surplus cash looking for opportunities. For example, China's sovereign-wealth fund, China Investment Corp., has been exploring buying stakes in U.S.-focused real-estate funds. These investments, should they occur, wouldn't be counted by Real Capital because CIC wouldn't be buying property directly.
There likely are numerous other wealthy individuals who use their own money made in China to invest in the U.S. as well as others who invest money from investors located in China and who are operating beneath the radar. Many are looking for opportunity in the thousands of distressed properties on the market resulting from the economic downturn.
"There's a lot of foreign money coming in through intermediaries, so it's not showing up in these numbers," says Ben Carlos Thypin, a senior market analyst with Real Capital.
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The advertising watchdog has dismissed a string of offensive language complaints about a TV ad for Handee Ultra paper towels that featured several people spilling things and saying “sheet” and “this sheet really works” as they reach for the product. by Renee Thompson
Discount grocery chain Aldi has come under scrutiny from the Advertising Standards Board, after a television viewer complained a recent Aldi commercial uses inappropriate language and is offensive to Christians. by Eloise Keating
Pizza Hut has been forced to defend its latest Stuffed Crust pizza creation, after a television viewer complained to the Advertising Standards Board that an advertisement for the pizza and pie combo portrayed “sexualised food”.
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Payday lender Wallet Wizard has come under fire for appearing to promote animal cruelty in one of its television commercials, but the advertising watchdog has ruled most members of the community would find the ad funny. by Eloise Keating
The group behind an organised attack on small businesses that sell products with halal certification has been forced to pull a flyer featuring a cow with a slit throat after a viewer complained to the Advertising Standards Board. by Kirsten Robb
The advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against an online ad from mobile phone carrier Amaysim that portrayed “slapstick” comedy in which a man hits another man across the face. by Broede Carmody
The Victorian Farmers Federation has complained to the Advertising Standards Bureau about an ad by PETA it describes as “fake, grotesque and grossly misleading” and says has the potential to “tarnish” the Australian wool industry. by Andrew Sadauskas
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SRINAGAR After successful completion of Kashmir Autumn FAM Tour, the local travel trade bodies are upbeat about good tourist flow to Kashmir.
The 3-day Kashmir Autumn FAM (familiarization) Tour-2018 was inaugurated by Governor Satya Pal Malik on October 25, 2018 in which over 70 delegates representing travel, media, and film industry participated.
Travel Agents Society of Kashmir (TASK), the apex body of the travel trade in Kashmir, said Familiarization (FAM) tours of the leading travel agents and media persons from the country would prove fruitful for the State tourism.
Jammu and Kashmir Hoteliers Club Chairman Mushtaq Chaya said FAM tour has sent a positive message across the country that Kashmir is a safe tourist destination. He said Kashmir tourism needs such promotional activities.
Secretary-General TASK Ather Yameen said the Kashmir Autumn FAM tour would help in removing negative perception.
TASK has urged the department of tourism to organize more FAM tours for travel agents, which, it said, would help improve tourist flow to Kashmir during the lean season of Autumn.
Vice Chairman of Tourist Trade Interest Guild (TTIG) Bashir Karnai said the department has wonderfully conducted the FAM tour and everyone is upbeat about its positive outcome.
Vandana Kunder of Sterling Travel Service Pvt Limited, one of the delegates of the FAM Tour, said she has already made booking for a group who will be learning skiing at Gulmarg in February.
Actress and Model Madhura Naik from Mumbai expressed happiness over her tour to Kashmir.
She said she was highly thankful to the department of tourism for inviting them and giving them a chance to see paradise on Earth.
Amit Dhir, another delegate and travel agent from New Delhi, said it was very delightful and insightful four days in Kashmir.
While thanking tourism department for its hospitality, Dhir who owns India Calling Tours, said he would promote Kashmir among his clients.
Director Tourism Kashmir, Tasaduq Jeelani said he is hopeful of receiving good response from the travel agents of the country after the successful conduct of the FAM tour.
At the end of the FAM tour, the Director Tourism Kashmir held interaction with its staff and the delegates and thanked them for their efforts in making the FAM tour successful.
He urged them to work with added zeal and zest for tourism promotion
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