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With 21 days still before most of us get hold of their Quest, photos and bits of news are flooding out of retail stores around the world who have Oculus Quest display stands and demo pods.
Someone has managed to snap the official Quest retail box and shared it on Reddit.
Without much else to compare its scale, the box looks nice and compact. After all, you just have the bulk from the Quest headset and two Touch controllers that will fill up this box.
So expect to be unpacking this bad boy once it drops through your letterbox on the 22nd May, or if you’re lucky enough to pick one up on the day.


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Metaverse flagship app Horizon Worlds is struggling to attract new users, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The publication, which reviewed internal documents, revealed that Meta originally targeted 500,000 monthly active users by the end of the year, later revising the target to 280,000. The current number is now under 200,000, according to the report. Horizon Worlds is a free virtual reality app developed by Meta.
Horizon World’s user base has steadily declined since spring. In fact, most users don’t return after the first month. Meta wanted users to build their own worlds, but that number is below 1 percent. Only 9 percent of worlds are visited by at least 50 people, and most are never visited at all, the WSJ report claims. “An empty world is a sad world,” says an internal document. What also worries Meta is that retention rates for the Quest VR headset have dropped in each of the last three years. Shockingly, more than half of headsets are no longer used after six months.
The company has reportedly put Horizons on a “quality lock,” meaning the app won’t get any new features. Meta will only focus on bugs and complaints for now.
The report comes at a time when Meta’s shares have taken a nosedive. Meta shares are down over 60 percent over the past year. The Silicon Valley major has lost $700 billion in market value since September 2021.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a year ago that he was backing the metaverse. In fact, the company changed its name to Meta to show where the social media giant is headed going forward. So far, it seems that the company’s investment in creating the Metaverse, which is essentially a virtual world for users to play and work together, is a bad idea.
Meta is popularly known for creating the social media we know today. The tech giant is behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the most popular mobile apps that serve billions of users monthly. But in recent years, Meta has not only faced intense competition from TikTok, but also scrutiny from regulators.
Last week, Meta announced a $1500 Quest Pro headset for business. It’s the most advanced mixed reality headset Meta has created.

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Despotic dictators, your days are numbered. Tempers have hit the boiling point. The people have had enough and are taking to the streets. Revolution is in the air.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is expanding capacity this year following recent unexpected demand from customers including Apple suppliers, it said Wednesday
Apple Computer stands to lose its No. 1 rank in mobile PC sales this year as Hewlett-Packard and even Motorola eat into its market share, research firm DisplaySearch said late Tuesday.
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced Intel-based business laptops with features that could make it easier to swap components or fix the PCs.
An intriguing report on German news site Heise.de on Monday unveiled a cheap monitor that includes built-in PC functionality. The Acer DX241H is an otherwise standard 1920x1080 pixel HDMI monitor, but it also features an operating system running on t...
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Verizon Wireless will start selling Motorola's Xoom tablet on Feb. 24 for $599.99 with a two-year service agreement, the carrier confirmed today.
A news story is fueling speculation that Apple may be about to introduce a multi-gigabit peripherals connection, possibly for a future iPad or even for an expected refresh of its MacBook Pro notebook line later this month.
The launch of the highly anticipated next-generation Apple iPad looks set to be pushed back until June.
Lenovo and Sony on Tuesday announced faster laptops based on Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors, which the PC makers said could offer longer battery life than models based on Intel's older chips.
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Franchise Brands PLC (LON:FRAN) comprises four main brands - drains specialist Metro Rod, car body repairer ChipsAway, dog groomer Barking Mad and Ovenclean.
2019 trading year has started strongly company said at its AGM
Company looking for more acquisitions after integration of Metro Rod
At 84p, company is worth £65mln
How it is it doing
In May, Stephen Hemsley, chairman and founder of the AIM-listed firm, said the franchise network had grown sales by 12% in the first quarter compared to 10.4% growth in the whole of its 2018 fiscal year.
Twelve of the group’s franchisees as reported year-on-year growth of over 30% as its strategy of providing them with sales and marketing support and new IT systems paid off.
Metro Rod is a B2B operation but the company’s customer brands, car scratch repairer ChipsAway, oven cleaner Ovenclean, and dog-sitting franchise Barking Mad, had made “a positive start” to the year while recruitment among franchisees had also improved.
For the rest of the year, Hemsley said the group was currently “trading well” overall and was looking forward “with confidence”.
In 2018, Franchise Brands reported a 43% increase in revenue to £35.5mln from £24.9mln in 2017.
Frnchise fee income increased by 41% to £17.9mln from £12.7mln the year before.
Statutory profit before tax turned positive at £2.3mln versus a loss in 2017 of £0.1mln, while cash generated from operations shot up to £2.9mln from £0.7mln in 2017.
Shareholders were rewarded with a 34% increase in the total dividend for the year (0.67p, up from 0.5p the year before)
What the boss says: Stephen Hemsley, executive chairman
“We will consider the selective acquisition of reasonably valued and earnings enhancing franchise businesses that can leverage our core functions, and complementary drainage and plumbing businesses which expand our scope of works."
- At MetroRod, Franchise Brands has a five-year plan to boost franchisee fee income four-fold by 2023
- Company has spent heavily overhauling IT infrastructure and central support function
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Investment banks are boosting their technology hiring in Southeast Asia and India
as the region’s fast-growing consumer internet markets catch up with their peers, pushing deals to new heights.
Global lenders Barclays Plc
and Citigroup Inc.
have created new senior roles, while regional and boutique players are staffing up to capture a surge of activity in mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.
“Every single investment bank is looking to hire technology, media and telecommunications bankers,” said Anand Menon, managing director of Executive Principles, a head-hunting firm in India. “TMT is an animal producing multiple babies. We need new-age bankers who think like entrepreneurs to cover them with the same speed as these startups.”
Technology-focused investment bankers in Asia previously focused on larger and more developed markets such as Japan and South Korea, and more recently, China. Galvanized by the coronavirus pandemic’s boost to e-commerce and remote working, financiers are jockeying to work with startups as they open up markets with a combined population of about 2 billion.
In Southeast Asia, Citigroup
created a new managing director role to oversee TMT, Bloomberg News has reported. BDA Partners Inc., BNP Paribas SA, and Malayan Banking
Bhd. are among the other banks that have recently made or are making sector hires in the region, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified discussing internal matters.Barclays
’s India investment bank chief, Pramod Kumar, said the firm is beefing up its team in Mumbai by adding a senior posting. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is hiring a TMT banker at the executive director level, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Representatives for BNP Paribas and JPMorgan declined to comment. A representative for BDA Partners said the firm is active in India and Southeast Asia technology investment banking
and will continue to hire in the space. Rajiv Vijendran, regional head of investment banking at Maybank Kim Eng Group in Singapore, said the bank is constantly looking for new areas to grow the business, including TMT.
Ashish Kehair, chief executive officer at India’s Edelweiss Wealth Management, said its investment banking unit is hiring three to five bankers with technology expertise. “Digital and technology has the force multiplier effect now,” he said.
The bankers will have their hands full. Technology, telecommunications and media deals announced in South and Southeast Asia are at a record $93 billion this year, nearly double the same period last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Consolidation of regional leaders is already taking place. Ride-hailing and payments giant Gojek agreed to combine with e-commerce pioneer PT Tokopedia in May to create the largest internet company in Indonesia. Next stop is the capital markets, where the combined firm is considering mopping up as much as $2 billion from listings at home and in the U.S. at a valuation of about $30 billion, Bloomberg News reported in July.
Tech startups in Southeast Asia and India are maturing in terms of scale and size, with many becoming unicorns and some ready to go public either through direct listings or mergers with blank-check firms, said Jwalant Nanavati, head of TMT for Asia ex-Japan at Nomura Holdings Inc. In April, the Japanese bank hired an executive director in Singapore focusing on TMT, Bloomberg News has reported.
“The pandemic provided strong tail winds in terms of faster adoption by consumers of online business models,” said Jeff Acton, a Tokyo-based partner at boutique investment bank BDA Partners. “Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is relatively younger, but many first-generation tech companies suddenly saw an increase in demand.”
Consumer-oriented firms have led the first wave of listings. Indonesian online marketplace PT Bukalapak.com raised $1.5 billion in August, while food ordering platform Zomato Ltd. has mobilized $1.3 billion from its Indian IPO.
“The consumer internet market in these regions is reaching critical mass and continues to show very robust growth, which has super charged the leading companies across the region,” said James Perry, managing director and co-head of Asia Pacific technology investment banking at Citigroup. “Disruption is still a major theme and investors are keen to invest in these opportunities.”
Bankers said China’s sweeping crackdown on its technology giants has benefited other countries in the region, as potential acquirers such as special purpose acquisition companies have lately shunned its startups.
Investors are waiting for greater clarity around the regulatory issues in China, said Maybank’s Vijendran. “The China crackdown has focused the attention of global players and U.S. SPACs on ASEAN startups,” he said.
“Given the high risk profile due to recent developments, we expect investors will allocate an increasing proportion into Southeast Asia,” BDA’s Acton said, adding China will still remain a crucial destination for capital.
Though Asia’s biggest economy has seen some dislocation this year because of Beijing’s policy actions, deal activity is set to return over time as that market continues to create new “exciting” companies, said Citigroup’s Perry.
“Valuation uptick in digitech is playing across all companies,” Barclays’s Kumar said. “This is a secular trend driven by the convergence of technology and traditional sectors, and this is bound to continue.”


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Operating profit for the division was about $160 million, a decrease of 22 percent from last year's corresponding period. The North American business represents 58 percent of the division's revenue.
The company said CCH ProSystem fx showed steady organic growth while the cloud-based CCH Axcess continued to see growth among medium and large firms. It also cited CCH iFirm, a new practice management tool for small firms, as generating new revenue while the sale of bank products continued to fall.
Wolters Kluwer also said its research platform, CCH IntelliConnect, saw improved renewal rates after last year's introduction of CCH CodeConnect.
"We are encouraged by prformanc of our digital tax research platform CCH IntelliConnect following a series of enhancments," CEO Nancy McKinstry said in a prepared statement.
The company's net profit reached about $222 million, up 23 percent from last years corresponding period. World-wide revenue for the most recently ended period was $2.82 billion, up 1 percent from a year earlier. The totals were up 3 percent in constant currency and organic growth.


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Amazon is making its way into U.S. hospitals by equipping some of them with its Alexa digital voice assistant. The company announced on Monday
that patients being treated at Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai in California, BayCare in Florida, and Houston Methodist will soon have access to Alexa. With Alexa, patients will be able to contact the staff inside the hospital while also controlling devices inside their rooms.
Digital assistant Alexa is making her way into hospitals and senior care facilities
Hospital patients will be able to connect to Alexa through an Amazon Echo smart device placed inside the rooms of the hospital. Using Alexa to contact hospital staff could end unnecessary room visits by nurses and Doctors that are made to check in on a patient. Amazon says, "This enables hospitals to increase productivity, conserve medical supplies and protective equipment, such as masks, gloves, and gowns, and free up staff time to provide more personalized care."
An Echo smart display can be used by doctors to virtually treat patients
Starting next month, the hospitals that are part of this program will use Amazon's Alexa Smart Properties system. These healthcare providers will be able to enable HIPAA-compliant features such as medication tracking for the devices. Besides hospitals, some senior living homes run by the providers Atria and Eskaton will also offer Alexa. Various hotels and offices already use the digital assistant.
Amazon ran trial programs worldwide during the pandemic last year donating Echo Show smart displays and Fire tablets to allow patients to connect virtually with healthcare workers. In a report from Quartz, Amazon said that hospitals were giving the company feedback stating that the trials were not giving patients and the hospitals what both sides needed.
An Amazon spokesperson said, "Using that feedback, we created a solution tailored specifically for hospitals and solution providers with features to address those needs - like adding Drop In functionality and the ability to enable and manage HIPAA skills on devices within the property."
Liron Torres, Head of Alexa Smart Properties, Amazon said, "We believe the intuitive and accessible nature of voice and Alexa has the potential to help and delight customers in many scenarios, in and outside of the home. We're excited to extend the experiences customers already love to senior living communities and healthcare systems, and give providers new ways to save time and personalize care for their patients and residents."
With Alexa Smart Properties, senior living residents are able to use the Amazon Echo device in their rooms to keep in touch with loved ones, connect with the community, access community news, and more. And family members and friends of those living in the facility can rest easier knowing that they can easily get in touch with the patient by using Alexa calling.
This could be a win-win-win situation for patients, the healthcare facilities, and Amazon
Peachy Hain, executive director of medical and surgical services at Cedars-Sinai, called the use of Alexa in patient rooms "a total gamechanger." She added that "Regardless of age or tech savviness," Alexa can be used to "connect with their care team and stay entertained as soon as they settle in, while care providers can streamline tasks to make more time to care for those patients."
Yes, this is a win-win-win situation for everyone involved. The patient can get in touch with those taking care of him, the doctors can cover more patients without having to physically go in and out of rooms, and Amazon can sell many more Alexa-enabled devices. And in addition to being able to check in with patients without having to enter and exit their rooms multiple times, using Alexa means that doctors and nurses won't have to continually put on and pull off the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that many healthcare workers need to don these days because of the pandemic.
But even when the pandemic comes to an end, Alexa can be a big help as patients speak to their doctors from their beds, request another pillow, and more.


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Ikea store opening sparks traffic congestion fears
People living near Winnipeg's new Ikea store say they fear traffic chaos as eager shoppers flock to the area.
The Swedish furniture retailer is opening the Winnipeg location to much hype and excitement on Wednesday morning.
The store is located on Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway in the southwest part of the city.
Traffic on Kenaston between Sterling Lyon and McGillivray Boulevard has grown from 43,000 vehicles a day in 2002 to more than 60,000 vehicles a day today, according to the City of Winnipeg.
City officials say they have made upgrades to roads in the area in anticipation of Ikea and other large commercial developments opening there.
But residents like Mike Hutsal, who has lived in the area for the past eight years, said he has already been dealing with traffic congestion, and not just during rush hour.
"I came home yesterday at noon to have some lunch and I come straight west on Taylor," he told CBC News on Tuesday.
"I just cross Kenaston, and Kenaston was moving at a crawl yesterday at 1 in the afternoon.
Hutsal said he thinks traffic will be much slower in a couple weeks.
Charleswood-Tuxedo Coun. Paula Havixbeck says something needs to be done now to alleviate traffic congestion there even before large stores open.


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Top Ten All-Time Australian Celeb’s Weddings
On an annual basis, 100,000 couples tie the know in Australia. Australian celebs go over and beyond in their wedding, read more here. For a long time now they hold wedding receptions and ceremonies all over the country, read more here. Keep reading to know the top ten most memorable Australian weddings, read more here.
Australian celebs do not have to get into debts during their wedding plans. They ensure there is adequate money to do everything that needs to be done on their wedding day. However, with Chriss Judd and Rebecca Twigley incurred debt that took them seven years to clear,read more here.
The wedding between Jimmy Bartel and Nadia Coppolino was held at the Bellarine Peninsula, and it was an outdoor wedding. The gorgeous wedding gown by Nadia by created by a designer who previously worked with Beyonce.
For Ned O’Neil and Deborah Symonds planned a weekend wedding. They had more than 100 guests, and spend $200,000 for the wedding gown, read more here.
For Buddy Franklin and Jesinta Campbell, they decided to keep their wedding plans under wraps and only invited family and friends. They did spend a lot of money even if their wedding was a hushed one. The wedding gown was designed by Vera Wang herself.
Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster did a very intimate wedding contrary to what Buddy Franklin and Jesinta Campbell had. However, in their case, they only invited 20 guests. Zoe termed their wedding day as the most fun-filled, perfect and best day of their lives despite the little turnout of guests.
The “How we met” story of Sebastian Maximilian and Chloe Morello is crazy, read more here. It happened on an app and later saw them tying their know before 150 guests in a sea deck ship. Chloe wore a wedding gown that was designed by Steven Khalil, a renowned designer.
Peter Stefanovic and Slyvia Jeffreys specialised in news coverage however on their wedding day they made headlines in New South Wales. It was a classy affair and received all the headlines, read more here.
Simon Chalmers and Bianca Cheah knew too well that even on their wedding day they could do nothing to control the weather. This is because even on their wedding day, it rains but that did not stop them from having the best time. Cheah said that with the rains their wedding was more magical.
Michael Clarke and Kyly Boldy didn’t tell about their wedding plans. They announced after they’d had the wedding on social media, read more here. They seemed to have a breath taking day according to the wedding photos.
Despite their wedding lasting only four years Dan Single and Bambi Northwood-Blyth still secure a spot in the Australian celeb weddings. Held in Byron Bay they had many other celebs in attendance. To know more about Australian wedding venues, read more here.


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The Make Mine a Million $ Business (www.makemineamillion.org) program returns to the Big Apple on October 23rd when women business owners will compete for money, marketing, mentoring and technology assistance designed to help them build million-dollar enterprises. For the third year in a row, New York plays host to a Make Mine a Million $ Business event, this year at The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.
Twenty finalists from around the country will go head-to-head and compete for ten awards packages to support their growth. The Make Mine a Million $ Business program, launched by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and founding partner OPEN from American Express®, is designed to help post-start-up, women-owned businesses exceed $1 million in revenues annually. Winners will be awarded with a growth-pak of assistance that includes products and services from an impressive list of blue-chip national sponsors including OPEN from American Express, AIG®, Cisco®, FedEx®, QVC®, Jet Blue® Marriot® and Sovereign Bank®.
Since its inception in 2005, the program has hosted ten events and grown into a nationwide movement. The program inspires women entrepreneurs to focus on growth and generate ideas that build million-dollar businesses. The program has already led 30,000 women business-owners to declare their intent to drive their businesses toward the million-dollar level. Over 1,700 women have applied to compete in the program, and to date, 87 women entrepreneurs have been awarded Make Mine a Million $ Business growth-paks.
The Make Mine a Million $ Business program’s goal is to inspire one million women to declare their intent to build million-dollar businesses by 2010. One million women-owned businesses at $1 million in annual revenue would generate more than four million jobs and add over $700 billion to the United States economy.* In 2006, 10 previous awardees surpassed $1 million in annual revenue and this year 30 past winners are projected to exceed the million-dollar benchmark soon, proving the efficacy of the program and resources at its disposal.
“Showcasing our program in the spotlight that is New York City creates a ripple effect, inspiring women entrepreneurs everywhere to the take the necessary steps to build million-dollar enterprises,” said Nell Merlino, founder and president, Count Me In. “We have set a goal of getting one million women to declare their intent to build million-dollar businesses by the year by 2010, and we are poised to accomplish this thanks in large part to the success of our New York events.”
“Business owners tell us that growing their enterprises is their top priority,” said Susan Sobbott, president, OPEN from American Express. “In fact, 57% of our Make Mine a Million $ Business community say that reaching $1 million in revenue is just the beginning. We at OPEN are proud to support a program dedicated to helping women grow their businesses and providing them with the necessary resources to do so.”
This year, 24 women business owners have already received awards at Make Mine a Million $ Business Program events in Boston, Madison and Atlanta. New York plays host to the year’s fifth Make Mine a Million $ Business event of 2007, with the sixth and final event in Burbank on November 14th.
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg will speak on the topic of technology as a building block for getting a small business to the million-dollar mark. The event will also feature special keynote address, panel discussions and workshops from leading businesswomen, coaches, advisors and financial experts. Make Mine a Million $ Business is partnering with Pace University, whose campus will host the event. In addition, during an impressive morning program of Pace experts, titled “Business Tool-Building in 60 Minutes,” several professors will provide guidance to entrepreneurs in areas that will help them grow their businesses.
This year’s New York event will also add to its celebration of women by presenting a theatrical performance by the Women's Project, the nation's largest and oldest theatre company devoted to producing the work of female playwrights. As an added treat, Dove® Chocolate will host a chocolate party after the event.
About Count Me In
Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of on-line business loans and resources for women to grow their micro businesses into $million enterprises. Find us at www.countmein.org or call 212-245-1245.
About OPEN from American Express
OPEN from American Express is dedicated exclusively to the success of small business owners and their companies. OPEN supports business owners with unparalleled service. With tailored products and services, the team delivers purchasing power, flexibility, control and rewards to help customers run their business. Specifically, business owner customers can leverage an enhanced set of products, tools, services and savings, including charge and credit cards, convenient access to working capital, robust online account management capabilities and savings on business services from an expanded lineup of partners. To obtain more information about OPENSM, visit OPEN.com, or call 1-800-NOW-OPEN to apply for a card or loan. Terms and conditions apply.
American Express Company (www.americanexpress.com) is a leading global payments, network and travel company founded in 1850.
* Data source: US Census Bureau. Economic Census, Survey of Business Owners: Women-Owned Firms, 2002. Published January 2006. (SB02-00CS-WMN). Prepared by Julie Weeks, President and CEO of Womenable, www.womenable.com.


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Coinbase Pro, the exchange's platform for seasoned traders, has just unveiled its new Android app that is now available around the globe with 50 trading pairs. According to the company's blog post, the new app will provide Coinbase Pro users with a "clean" and "streamlined" trading experience.
The app will have the same features as the desktop platforms while allowing traders to trade Bitcoin even from a chair lift at Snowmass. One can make use of real-time candles, advanced order types, and other trading perks.
Back in October, Coinbase Pro debuted an app for iOS customers with the same rich functionality.
Notably, Coinbase's competitor Binance.US recently came up with its own app for Android devices.


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|The World Poker Tour has announced that it is joining with WagerWorks to develop a WPT branded online gaming site. WagerWorks is a strong force in the online gambling industry, with current clients including Virgin Games, BskyB and Hard Rock Casinos. This new venture with WPT will develop a real money gaming site accessible to players in countries where it is legal for US companies to operate online casinos. Access to US citizens will be blocked, in compliance with the current prohibited status of US operated online gambling.|
Details released so far of the venture include the types of games that are to be made available. Naturally a whole range of poker games will feature, including the increasingly popular Texas Hold ‘Em, as well as Sit and Go, Omaha, 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Hi-Lo. There will also be a casino feature which will also bear the branding of the WPT name, which it is intended, will host a diverse range of table and slot games. Also present will be the games exclusive to WagerWorks- Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune and The Price is Right.
This announcement of a new online site has arrived at a time when WPT Enterprises are enjoying a very successful period. The television series which has played such a strong role in the recent poker boom has just been expanded in terms of distribution. The series is now available for viewers in Canada, the UK, Australia, Sweden, the phillipines and South Korea. Negotiations are currently taking place to further this distribution of the popular show.
Steve Lipscomb, the founder and president of WPT Enterprises, released the following statement explaining this latest move into the online arm of the industry: 'As the World Poker Tour matures, poker enthusiasts can expect to experience our unique brand of entertainment on platforms other than television. The expansion into international online gaming is a natural fit for the WPT brand and we are pleased to offer our fans in other countries a way to interact with WPT in a fun and challenging online gaming environment. This is the perfect way for us to leverage our international television distribution and international online gaming site.'
Paul Miltenburger, the founder and Chief Executive of WagerWorks added his won comments to represent his company’s point of view on this new alliance: 'It has always been WagerWorks' objective to establish partnerships with leading gaming companies and premier brands in the industry. The World Poker Tour has clearly established itself as both, and we're pleased to partner with the organization to further extend its brand and entertainment experience online to poker players throughout the world.'


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Building products such as screws, fixings, plumbing products and natural stone imported from the Far East are struggling to get to UK ports, leading to widespread shortages in the DIY and construction sectors.
The situation is being investigated by the Builders Merchants Federation, which says it is acting on concerns raised by its members over shipping delays.
BMF chief executive John Newcomb, who is also co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council’s Brexit Movement of Building Products and Materials Group, has raised the issue with government.
Mr Newcomb said: “There appears to be an increasing issue getting these products through ports, with some ships being stopped from landing and sent back to Rotterdam. Rather than taking a maximum of one week to unload, it is taking up to four weeks.
“We’ve raised this matter with government and asked about the readiness of ports and customs, as we head into Brexit.
“Our members manufacture 76% of building products in the UK. However, we need to ensure access to goods from around the world, to keep the industry running.”
Supply problems in Scandinavia have also been blamed for increases of up to 40% on the price of timber.


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Chevrolet Global performance in recent years has not followed the global industry growth and in the 2018 was down 0.8% with 4.1 million units sold. Argentina and South Korea declined while China and Brazil improved over 10%. In the recently published study, focus2move team projects volumes at 5.3 million by the 2025.The post Chevrolet 2018. China & Brazil rescuing global sales from another drop appeared first on https://focus2move.com.
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American Airlines Cargo has chosen IBS Software’s iCloud as its next generation cargo management system, which it says will transform the airline’s technology across the network.
Using iCloud, the airline will migrate to a web-based, fully integrated technology platform connecting all of its critical business functions.
The two companies are designing a multi-year, phased implementation and rollout strategy, which ensures the new technology and processes are brought into the business in a seamless manner.
The airline says it is committed to taking an iterative approach to the implementation to ensure day-to-day business functions run smoothly during the transition, minimising the impact go live will have on partners and customers.
American Airlines Cargo president, Rick Elieson says: “We are focused on modernising processes for our team, and increasing transparency and flexibility for our customers. The rapidly changing cargo landscape demands that we invest in the best of tools, so that our team can focus on doing what they do best—delivering an exceptional customer experience.”
IBS Group executive chairman, VK Mathews says: “The iCargo footprint is now truly global and having American among our growing list of customers is indeed a strategic milestone for IBS. The engagement, I am sure, will herald the beginning of a long and productive business relationship.”


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For years, India's two largest ecommerce platforms – Flipkart and Amazon India – have lured customers with eye-popping discounts, especially during their flagship festive sales.
As the Covid-19 pandemic brings millions of shoppers online, many for the first time, both the e-tailers intensify their battle vying for dominance in India’s fast-growing ecommerce market.
While Walmart-owned Flipkart continues to corner a bigger revenue share of the country’s overall ecommerce pie, its arch rival Amazon India is catching up.
Combined operating revenue of Flipkart's two main units - Flipkart India and Flipkart Internet - grew 25% and 32.5% year-on-year, respectively, to ₹50,781 crore in FY21. Meanwhile, Amazon India's two key entities – Amazon Seller Services and Amazon Wholesale (India) - reported combined operating revenue of ₹19,331 crore in the fiscal.
Operational revenue of Amazon Seller Services, the parent firm of Amazon India marketplace, rose 49% year-on-year to ₹16,200 crore in FY21. Its wholesale unit, Amazon Wholesale (India), saw around 8% drop in operating revenue to ₹3,131 crore in FY21 compared with ₹3,384 crore in FY20.
Flipkart India, on the other hand, reported a 25% rise in operating revenue to ₹ 42,941 crore in FY21, while losses contracted 22% to ₹2,445 crore, according to regulatory filings shared by business intelligence platform Tofler. The Walmart-owned e-commerce firm’s total expenses stood at ₹45,801 crore, the filings showed.
Flipkart, whose parent firm is registered in Singapore, operates in India through a number of subsidiaries.
Flipkart Internet, the marketplace unit of the etailer, clocked a 32.5% rise in revenue from operations to ₹7,840 crore during the same year, while losses widened 49% to ₹2,881.3 crore, according to a separate filing sourced from Tofler. Its total expenses grew 33.2% to ₹10,996.3 crore in FY21, led by a significant jump in employee benefit costs and other expenses. Flipkart Internet garnered around ₹2,794 crore in revenue from marketplace services, followed by logistics services at over ₹2,445 crore.
Amazon Seller Services' losses, however, narrowed 23% to ₹4,748 crore in FY21 from ₹5,849 crore in FY20. The US giant spent ₹6,332 crore on delivery charges in FY21, up from ₹4,603 crore in FY20. It also raked in ₹7,555 crore revenue from offering marketplace services compared with ₹4,949 crore a year earlier.
Ecommerce players like Flipkart and Amazon India are facing increased competition from the country’s largest conglomerates – Tata Group and Reliance Industries – as they plan the rollout of their super apps. On January 4, Fortune India reported that the Shriram Group will launch a super app for its financial products as well as for selling products of its partners.
In July 2021, Flipkart had raised $3.6 billion at a $37.6 billion valuation in its first external financing round since it was acquired by Walmart in 2018. It also acquired travel booking platform Cleartrip and e-pharmacy SastaSundar last year. The company recently invested $145 million in agritech startup Ninjacart along with its parent.
Flipkart's social commerce app Shopsy forayed into groceries last month. The platform allows users to become resellers of goods in their network through apps like WhatsApp.
Ecommerce under CCI lens
In August last year, the Supreme Court of India upheld the investigation ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into alleged anti-competition agreements entered into by ecommerce majors Amazon and Flipkart.
Last month, the antitrust watchdog withdrew its approval of the Amazon-Future Group deal and imposed a penalty of ₹200 crore on the US tech giant. The action came in the backdrop of a review of allegations that Amazon had suppressed information while seeking approval for the deal.


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FrontierVille maker joins AIAS, or 'People Who Make Cool Things', board
Reynolds is chief game designer at Zynga, and was key to the creation of FrontierVille, now known as Pioneer Trail to its 4.5 million monthly players. "Their awards program has always been a gold standard of recognition and career advancement for game makers and I'm honored to have a chance to help advance it," Reynolds said in a statement. "Likewise, the D.I.C.E. Summit blows me away every year with the quality and caliber of developers they bring together. I believe this opportunity is an important step in the continuing assimilation of social games into the broader game community."
AIAS, which represents over 22,000 members of the largest game creators from Nintendo to EA, Sony and Microsoft, hosts the D.I.C.E. Summit annually. This conference honoring all things high brow in gaming culminates with the Interactive Achievement Awards, recognizing the past year's gaming achievements. This year, Zynga's CastleVille is up for the "Social Networking Game of the Year" award, along with The Sims Social, Triple Town, Army Attack and Gardens of Time.
This is quite an achievement for Reynolds, whose history in the games goes far beyond Facebook's Wild West to genre-defining games like Civilization II, Alpha Centauri and Rise of Nations. Alas, the FrontierVille maker did have to weather the recent storm of copycat claims lobbied against Zynga, to which he denied it was an issue. In the grand scheme of things, we seriously doubt that's going to change his image as one of the greats in gaming.
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The iconic M&S store on one of the world’s busiest high streets is set to be demolished, with the retailer hoping to replace the near 100-year-old Edwardian store with a 10-storey building.
The revamp will be complete with offices and a gym above a smaller shop.
It will also boast a new modern pedestrian arcade, a far cry from the current art deco layout.
But this decision has not come without backlash.
An expert warned that the scheme contradicted new City Hall policies requiring the retention and retro-fitting of old buildings to be prioritised.
Marks & Spencer recently announced it will close it’s store in Glasgow this month.
The branch is set to shut at the end of this month, on April 30.
More than 100 Marks & Spencer stores were closed in 2021.
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While Windows 10 Pro, Home and Mobile are the main versions of the Microsoft’s operating system, there are a bunch of other versions for specific markets. Until last week, that number was 11. But an accidental release last week saw that number increased with three new versions.
The new versions, Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs, Windows 10 Pro N for Advanced PCs and Windows Server 2016 ServerRdsh have been reported at MSPowerUser who gained the information from a poster at the My Digital Life forums.
For most of us, this probably doesn’t change things much. Most likely, these are specific SKUs that aren’t functionally different from any other Windows 10 release but are targeted at specific licensing agreements.
If you think that might be you, it might be time to call your account rep to see if any new licensing options are coming your way.


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uSwitch: BT’s switching penalties ‘staggering’
26 March 2007
Switching to an alternative landline provider will now cost customers the same as their outstanding line rental instead of the current maximum fee of £18.
This means customers leaving with ten months still on their contract could pay over £100 for leaving BT, even if they are paying the lowest tariff of £10.75 per month.
Meanwhile, customers on the more comprehensive packages priced at £14.70 and £20.70 monthly will suffer proportionally.
Last month, BT attracted criticism for imposing a £4.50 charge on customers who pay by cash or cheque instead of through direct debit.
This fee hits one quarter of all the providers’ customers – 5.5 million people nationwide, according to uSwitch – and can hurt less wealthy customers who pay on an ad hoc basis.
BT’s customers are now “damned if they do leave and damned if they don’t”, Steve Weller, head of communications services at uSwitch.com, claims.
“It’s staggering that BT has decided to penalise customers by introducing a raft of new charges,” he added.
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Thousands of Wilko staff lost their “family” after the popular retailer went bust, leaving many of them without a job and a community they’ve held onto for so long.
Around 12,000 hard-working people have lost their jobs so close to Christmas following the closure of Wilko stores across the UK.
Former Wilko staff consistently spoke about feeling like a “family” to their union, prior to the chain going bust, GMB has said.
Nadine Houghton, national officer for trade union GMB, said: “I would be hard-pressed to find a group of members that so consistently spoke about the fact that Wilko felt like a family to them.
“At the period under the previous family ownership, before Lisa (Wilkinson) became a majority owner, members describe a period of good pay and conditions, feeling respected … they were trusted.”
She told MPs: “The reality is that 12,000 hard-working people lost their jobs as a result of these catalogues of failures.
“That multi-generational family that was part of Wilko really is something that I hadn’t heard at any other employer that I deal with.”
Former Wilko chair Lisa Wilkinson has said that Liz Truss’s mini-budget was one of the contributing factors that led to the collapse of the retailer.
Speaking to MPs on the Business and Trade Committee, she said the company was in the middle of negotiating a new loan arrangement when the mini-budget caused interest rates to soar.
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Apple's recent stock performance has left some investors wistful for the golden days of yore.
What might spark a turnaround for the phone giant next? Wedbush's Dan Ives recently sent around a wish list for Apple investors for 2019, and here are some of the intriguing projections that could rev up Apple's stock in the New Year and beyond:
200 Million iPhones, and Other Good News
In its last earnings report, Apple sought to further drive attention away from iPhone sales in saying that it'll no longer break out that metric for investors. But that decision sparked something of a backlash, with investors digging for clues on iPhone demand nonetheless.
Reports from suppliers have sparked worries that iPhone demand is cooling off, but Ives believes that unit sales of 200 million of more for full-year 2019 would be reassuring news. That figure represents the "line in the sand for the bulls/bears," in his opinion.
He said Apple could also bolster that by reporting consumer upgrades of 30 million units in China, a key sales market for the company. Services revenues north of $45 billion for 2019 would also go down well with investors as Apple seeks to spotlight its growing services business.
No More Trade War
The ongoing U.S.-Chinese trade conflict has been among the biggest sources of worry for Apple investors over the past few months.
President Donald Trump's mercurial behavior around U.S.-China trade hasn't been kind to Apple's stock, and Bloomberg recently reported that AAPL is weighing a shift away from China as its main manufacturing base if tariffs reach 25%. That's a sign that Apple is taking that possibility seriously.
Ives wrote that the best scenario would be if the China trade war settles in early 2019 "with no disruption to [Apple's] flagship Foxconn factory" and chatter around possible iPhone tariffs never come to fruition.
Kiss and Make Up with Qualcomm
Apple and Qualcomm (QCOM) have been locked in an escalating legal spat over licensing rates and patent fees, with Apple suing Qualcomm in three countries -- including a $1 billion lawsuit in the America.
Qualcomm has filed its own countersuits against Apple, and the prospect of a long, nasty legal spat has AAPL investors worried about a pitched battle or adverse judgments. While there appears to be no endpoint in the immediate future, a swift settlement to the dispute would "remove the growing worries on this legal headwind," Ives wrote.
Buy a Movie Studio
It wouldn't need to be a movie studio necessarily, but an acquisition of a "major content player" by Apple could breathe new life into Apple's long-anticipated streaming initiative, according to Ives.
AAPL has revealed precious little around its streaming initiative other than a few hints about what the focus might be. For example, it announced a content partnership with Oprah Winfrey and has inked deals with other creators like J.J. Abrams.
Ives believes the service could arrive by 2019 -- and an acquisition of a major content shop could go a long way in getting consumers and investors excited for what's to come.
Team Up with Tesla?
Some analysts have pointed out that given Apple's ambitions in the car space, a combination of Apple and Tesla could make sense. Garrett Nelson, an automotive analyst at CFRA Research, wrote in a recent note that "to the casual observer, this prediction might seem outlandish, but we argue the combination would make a lot of sense for both companies at this point in time."
Ives believes that a partnership with Tesla rather than an acquisition represents a more likely scenario. Whatever happens (or doesn't happen), speculation around Apple's car plans grew last week when it was reported that Apple had poached a designer from Tesla.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS), the largest U.S. sporting-goods chain, has suspended sales of modern sporting rifles nationwide in the wake of the shooting in Newtown,Connecticut, as the community mourns victims of the massacre.
Sales of all guns have been stopped at its store closest to the shooting, the Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based company said today in an e-mailed statement.
Dick’s is pulling the products after 26 people -- mostly children -- were killed during a Dec. 14 shooting rampage at an elementary school in Newtown. The chain, which has more than 500 stores in the U.S., sells guns and ammunition in stores and not online, according to its website.
“We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week,” the company said in the statement. Dick’s is removing the guns “out of respect for the victims and their families.”


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Marketing data and analytics company Kantar have promoted Jane Ng and Paromeeta Mathur Banerjee (pictured) to the positions of general manager of the insights division for Singapore and Malaysia respectively. Both are heavyweights in the insights industry, having amassed around two decades of experience each.
Ng, with 18 years of experience across Kantar in Singapore and the Philippines has worked on developing brand and communication plans with clients such as the Coca-Cola company, where she worked from 2009 to 2010. With a passion for purposeful brand building, Ng has expertise in areas such as programme design, analytical and advisory experience which helps meaningfully differentiate the brands she works on.
She started her career with Kantar in 2004 as a research associate and stayed with the company till 2008 before moving on to the Coca-Cola company. Ng said that she is looking forward to working in the region to develop data-driven marketing strategies and find growth opportunities. “Due to the current unstable environment and the fact that clients must manage significant learning curves, we see many opportunities for collaboration. The principles of brands, which are to be meaningful, different, and salient, are more important than ever,” she added.
Banerjee on the other hand has over two decades of experience in the insights industry, spanning India and Malaysia. She most recently held the position of chief client officer for Kantar’s insights division in Malaysia. She commenced her career at TNS Market Research in 2000 to 2004, before returning in 2015 as its director of client service. She then left TNS in 2019 and moved on to Kantar where she joined as the head of the client impact department.
Banerjee said that the changing consumer behaviours in the region poses a very exciting time for her and her team that she will be leading. “Whether it’s through current workflows or mining the wealth of data they already have through a different lens, this is a significant turning point for our region. I am so pleased to be able to shape the next stage of our journey,” she added.
The managing director of Kantar SEA, Katie McClintock, said that Ng and Banerjee’s leadership and experience is crucial in fulfilling their ambitions for Kantar in the region. “Jane (Ng) is an exceptional leader who has successfully led our Brand growth in Singapore over the past few years and is highly respected by all our clients. I’m excited that we’re able to build on her significant achievements in insights and brand consulting across Asian markets over the past years,” she added. Additionally, she said that Paro has thorough understanding of the industry and is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities facing our clients. She has the creativity and experience to bring our commercial strategy to the next level.
Kantar named Katie McClintock as its new SEA managing director last February. McClintock had also worked at Mastercard and PepsiCo, and was CEO of Added Value, a marketing consultancy in Asia. At the point of her promotion, she explained that as the region starts to adjust to treating COVID-19 as an endemic, Kantar sees lots of opportunities to partner with clients to understand fundamental shifts in consumer behaviour - in particular how to leverage digital and maximise marketing ROI.
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LAS VEGAS – After a tough year for most cannabis operators, attendees at MJBizCon 2023 said they aren’t banking on sweeping legislative reform such as the rescheduling of marijuana to grow their businesses in the coming year.
Rather, they are hoping for more incremental policy changes, such as SAFER Banking and new opportunities to open in emerging state markets.
They’re also shifting their attitudes away from viewing fellow operators as competition and instead looking to partner with them to find synergies.
“The best days are to come,” said Jesse Channon, chief commercial officer at New York-based multistate operator The Cannabist Co., formerly known as Columbia Care.
“There’s going to be a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats moment. I believe in that. If you don’t believe in that, you shouldn’t be in the industry.”
Federal reform = industry health
Tim Swail, the executive vice president of sales at Boveda, said even though the Minnesota-based business is an ancillary operation, the passage of SAFER Banking and its implications would be a huge boost to its clients – and, thus, would also benefit the company.
Boveda manufactures humidity-control packets for cannabis flower.
SAFER Banking or the rescheduling of marijuana – the latter would mean the industry would no longer be subject to the punitive Section 280E of the IRS tax code -would be a huge relief to Boveda’s clients, cannabis cultivators.
“Having them become healthier would be very beneficial and a growth catalyst for our particular segment that we’re in,” Swail said.
“Since we’re a packaging additive to their packaging, sometimes cost becomes an issue.”
Elmar Mair, co-founder and CEO of cultivation robotics and artificial intelligence company Neatleaf, said his California-headquartered business has grown in the past year because cash-strapped companies have been looking to cut costs and automate some aspects of their production processes.
If marijuana were rescheduled, Mair said, his clients would have better access to capital – and, as a result, would invest more in cultivation facilities.
“That would mean more growth, more facilities,” Mair said. “And that obviously helps a lot.”
Local market growth opportunities
The Cannabist Co.’s Channon said he’s looking forward to new state markets opening up.
“Our growth catalyst is all about accessibility,” Channon said.
“As we become accessible to more consumers, more consumers will access our products, which is the exponential growth opportunity, right?”
“I don’t know what level of access in New York exists for us over the next 30 months,” Channon said.
“But I can tell you it’s more access, which means it’s good for us.”
Fazle Quazi, founder and CEO of Boulderlamp (BLI) – a Colorado-based company that produces an LED grow light system that kills mold and yeast without the negative impacts of working under UV lights – said he’s also anticipating the growth of state markets.
Colorado cannabis cultivators can take advantage of electricity rebates and invest in new lighting systems, which means Quazi is able to demonstrate to them the benefits of replacing their old lighting rigs with his MoonWalker-branded grow lights.
The challenge, he said, is spreading the word.
Though there have been plenty of research studies showing that food producers and sellers can benefit from the lights, Quazi said, it would be a game changer if he could engage researchers at Colorado State University or elsewhere how effective his lighting system can be in cannabis grows.
“We have to prove that what we are saying about MoonWalker is true,” he said.
Community-building and partnerships
It’s been a very tough two years for Hawthorne Gardening Co., the cannabis subsidiary of Ohio-based lawn and garden titan Scotts Miracle-Gro.
Over the past 18 months, Hawthorne has laid off roughly 1,000 people, according to Chris Hagedorn, the company’s executive vice president and division president.
Hawthorne’s sales dropped by 40% in the quarter ending July 30, according to Scotts’ August earnings report, which drove down the parent company’s total sales by 6%.
Scotts Chair and CEO Jim Hagedorn said that rather than continue waiting for federal marijuana legalization – which the company initially thought would already have happened – Hawthorne’s strategy now is to build partnerships with cultivators, producers and other struggling cannabis companies.
“We’re talking about Ellis Island – like the huddled masses. We’re going to build a colony of every company that’s not worth s***,” Jim Hagedorn said, referring to the low stock prices in the cannabis industry.
“We’re going to build a completely integrated pot business.”
California-based legacy brand THC Design attended MJBizCon as a company for the first time this year with a similar perspective.
“Our biggest goal here is to start to network with a lot of our peers,” THC Design President Marlon Coburn said. “It’s obviously been a tough few years for the industry in general.
“It’s good to see how many ancillary businesses are here to support the industry.”
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The Australian Classification Board (ACB) has reviewed a new game from developer Id Software and publisher Bethesda.
Entitled “Project 2021B,” which is likely the codename for an unannounced title, the game was rated M (Mature) on June 28.
Among the consumer advice section of the ranking, ACB mentions “online interactivity” as a feature of the game.
In January of this year, ACB evaluated Id Software and Bethesda’s “Project 2021A”. Two months later, the game was confirmed to be Doom 3: VR Edition for PlayStation VR.
June 22 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of the first Quake. Days earlier, XboxEra’s Nick Baker claimed to have heard that a new entry in the classic FPS series was in development at Id Software and MachineGames. It will include single player and multiplayer modes, as well as a female protagonist, it has been told.
Id Software’s latest major release, Doom Eternal from March 2020, will receive graphics upgrades for next-gen consoles this week.
A free update released on June 29 will optimize the game for Xbox Series X / S and PS5, with each version offering a choice of performance options. PC owners will also receive an upgrade that adds ray tracing to hardware that supports it.
Bethesda recently confirmed that QuakeCon will return in August 2021 as a fully digital event for the second year in a row.


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Global Brands Group, owner of Juicy Couture, Kenneth Cole and Ellen Tracy, has completed the $1.2bn (£940m) sale of “select North American assets” to Hudson Jeans owner Differential Brands Group.
Both companies have announced significant changes following the sale. Global Brands CEO Bruce Rockowitz is stepping down, and Differential Brands Group is changing its name to Centric Brands.
Centric Brands has named Jason Rabin, former president of Global Brands Group North America, as its new chief executive.
Rockowitz will become non-executive vice-chairman of Global Brands.
Rick Darling has become CEO and executive director with immediate effect. Darling was the former president of Global Brands’ predecessor, LF USA, and was most recently an executive director of LF Americas, the wholesale and distribution arm of Li & Fung.
He will now lead Global Brands through the transitional period following the sale.
“Today represents a new chapter for Global Brands,” Darling said. “Coming out of this deal, we now have a very strong balance sheet and robust cashflow. We have emerged a more agile and focused company with great brands in our men’s and women’s apparel and footwear platforms to which we will be adding more brands in the future.”


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SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday (Nov 11) urged members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) to deepen economic integration in the digital domain, saying that this will help businesses connect more easily across borders and reach new markets in the digital economy.
“It is timely to extend this vision of regional economic integration to the digital domain,” Mr Lee said in a pre-recorded keynote speech streamed at this year’s APEC CEO Summit.
“To enhance our cooperation in the digital economy, APEC members should work towards a regional digital economy agreement or partnership agreement.”
The two-day summit is being held virtually and will be attended by political leaders, CEOs and thought leaders of APEC economies. APEC is made up of 21 members, with the cooperative process predominantly concerned with trade and economic issues.
Mr Lee’s comments come as the COVID-19 pandemic has quickened the adoption of digital technologies, with technology transforming cross-border trade and payments.
Within Southeast Asia alone, the Internet economy is projected to triple in size by 2025 to more than US$300 billion per year, said Mr Lee, pointing to the “huge” potential of the digital economy.
While trade agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have set out some rules to facilitate e-commerce, Mr Lee said, focused digital economy agreements would “carry this further”.
“They provide reference points on the common frameworks and rules for digital trade, including emerging technologies and data innovation,” he said.
Some APEC members have already concluded such agreements, Mr Lee said, highlighting the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) between Chile, New Zealand and Singapore and how more APEC economies have recently expressed interest in it.
“This is useful as a possible building block towards a larger regional or global architecture,” he said.
Mr Lee said APEC members can expand the existing DEPA or develop a new agreement with an expanded membership. This will create a “new dimension of economic integration”, he said.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member economies are already taking early steps to do so, Mr Lee said, referring to the ASEAN Smart Cities Network online portal where cities can share best practices in new growth areas such as digitalisation.
“All these are useful mechanisms that can be adapted within a broader regional context,” he added.
Globally, said Mr Lee, there also needs to be a “coherent and concerted” response to manage the digital transition, amid a widening gulf of opportunities between digital haves and have-nots.
For instance, the setting up of global digital standards and cooperation initiatives will enable more people to participate meaningfully in the digital economy, he said.
“There are many areas to consider, for example, fair and secure access to data, freer cross-border data flows, addressing misinformation and cyber threats, and strengthening multilateral cooperation to exploit digital technologies for sustainable development,” he said.
Mr Lee said the global digital architecture should serve to improve people’s daily lives, involve all stakeholders in the public and private sector, set norms in a multi-disciplinary way to address complex challenges, and identify a common set of digital development goals.
At the same time, the world needs to agree upon and implement effective multilateral rules in cybersecurity, Mr Lee said, noting that more digitalisation means more vulnerability to cyber threats.
“While each economy must strengthen our own cyber defences, we also need international ground rules, so that the digital world does not become an anarchic space subject only to the law of the jungle,” he said.
Mr Lee said Singapore actively engages the multi-stakeholder community to strengthen cybersecurity cooperation at the United Nations and other international forums.
For example, Singapore is hosting the ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence to strengthen regional cyber resilience, he said.
“Singapore will work closely with the international community towards not just an open and free digital environment, but also a secure and interoperable one,” he added.


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Starbucks plans to triple the size of its workforce and the number of its local network of shops by 2014.
Starbucks believes China will be its second-largest market by 2014.
The coffee giant successfully entered 13 new Chinese cities during its fiscal year 2011, opening an average of one store every four days. At present, Starbucks has about 10,000 employees working in over 570 stores across 48 cities in the world’s second-largest economy.
China’s coffee shop market is forecast to surge 55 percent to 4.5 billion yuan ($714 million) in 2015 from 2.9 billion yuan last year, according to data from Euromonitor International.


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Refrigeration Expo Chillventa Kicks Off In Nuremberg
The biggest refrigeration trade fair in Europe, Chillventa, kicked off yesterday at NürnbergMesse in Germany, for its largest event to date.
This year's show saw a 2% increase in space and 4% increase in exhibitors, taking it past the 1,000-exhibitor mark for the first time.
Some 1,019 exhibitors from 45 countries, from the fields of refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and heat pump technology, are featured at this year's event. International pavilions from Korea, Thailand, the Czech Republic, Turkey, China and the USA also bring some international flavour to proceedings.
The main focus areas of this year's Chillventa include Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, IT security for refrigeration systems, climate goals, refrigerant recovery and processing, F-gas regulation, efficiency controls, innovation in heat transfer, data centre air conditioning, heat recovery and cold water system solutions.
"Chillventa has undergone a remarkable and rapid development," said Daniela Heinkel, event manager Chillventa, NürnbergMesse.
"With six events in 10 years, this year marks a milestone – for the first time in the history of the trade fair it is breaking the thousand mark in terms of exhibitor participation. We are very happy about this, as this once again clearly demonstrates the importance of Chillventa to the international community. A sure indication that Chillventa is THE international hot spot for the refrigeration industry."
In addition, the day before Chillventa commenced, on 15 October, the Chillventa CONGRESS saw experts from across this sector discuss and debate the latest trends and innovations.
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For almost nine years, the mobile industry has had a gale-force wind at its back.
What had been a breeze for many years turned into a hurricane with the release of the first iPhone in the summer of 2007. Since then, across device makers and across geographies, almost every segment of the mobile industry has experienced torrid growth.
Apple rocketed from being a noble survivor to being the world’s most valuable company. Samsung reinvented its image, though it eventually stumbled. And a host of new names, like Xiaomi, emerged from nowhere to become giants.
Those days are over.
As the industry gathers in Barcelona this week for the annual mega-mega-mega conference Mobile World Congress 2016, the tidings are grim.
Last year, growth in smartphone sales slowed to 9.5 percent, according to IDC, the first time it had fallen to single-digit growth in a decade. This year, Gartner is projecting it will fall to 2.5 percent. Even mighty Apple, which has consistently managed to defy expectations, is under pressure like never before amid projections that its iPhone sales could be flat or even drop for the first time since its debut.
The reasons for these slowing numbers are well-known but also lack an easy, quick fix. Western markets are saturated (with device sales projected to start falling in the coming years). New features are becoming more incremental. Price points are dropping. And emerging markets still are still proving a challenge to crack.
Few believe the parade of new smartphones unleashed this week in Barcelona will do much to change this dynamic.
“The engineering and manufacturing brilliance we will see from the likes of Samsung and LG will do too little to drive the type of consumer demand the market so badly needs to maintain past meteoric growth rates,” said Forrester analyst Julie Ask in a note previewing the conference. “New growth will come from developing markets in need of less expensive devices that are less power-hungry, more sensitive to the local conditions.”
There are a number of ways to measure the mobile industry’s era of easy growth. But MWC itself is perhaps one of the best barometers.
Back in 2005, when the conference was still held in Cannes, France, it was known as 3GSM World Congress and was primarily a telecom carrier and equipment event, with about 30,000 attendees. The following year it moved to Barcelona and changed its name to Mobile World Congress, and it has been growing in scope and importance ever since. Last year it attracted 96,000 attendees.
This year might see even larger numbers, but it will also bring a new mood of uncertainty, even desperation.
New smartphone announcements will likely still dominate headlines today, a traditional press conference day. But much of the rest of the conference is dedicated to what the industry hopes will be the things that reignite growth.
Those include the so-called “Internet of Things,” virtual reality, connected cars, and wearables. In most of these cases (even with virtual reality, to a degree), the hope is that the smartphone will be the hub of new uses cases, services, and gadgets. And there will be demos of the potential of blazing-fast 5G mobile networks that the industry hopes will someday replace the current 4G networks that are still being rolled out in much of the world.
There will also be a lot of emphasis on apps and content consumption as ways to drive increased usage among existing users. Expect big debates on privacy and security and marketing, as brands and services like Facebook look for new ways to reach consumers with personalization and ad targeting.
Indeed, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be on stage Monday evening for one of the show’s most highly anticipated keynotes. His theme will likely be similar to last year’s: how to connect the next 1 billion people to the Internet. Unlike last year, however, his Internet.org initiative — which is designed to address that challenge — is meeting significant roadblocks, including being banned in India.
That is just one example of the longer, harder slog facing the broader mobile industry.
Certainly there is room for growth in all of these areas. But it appears this pace will be evolutionary rather than meteoric.
As such, the drama hovering over MWC this year is about how well the mobile industry will adapt and whether we will start to see big winners and losers as the industry tries to reshape itself once again.
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- Tesla owners are indignant after missing out on a deal that might have saved them as much as $13,000.
- A YouTuber began a petition asking Tesla to supply owners who missed the worth cuts free FSD.
- The Change.org petition has been signed by nearly 4,000 people in per week.
After 1000’s of Tesla owners missed out on massive price cuts, a YouTuber has began a petition to assist them out.
The petition calls for Tesla to present away a yearlong trial of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software or free Supercharging miles to people who bought Teslas within the fourth quarter of 2022 and missed out on as much as $13,000 in savings.
Dennis Wang — who runs DennisCW, a YouTube channel that focuses on Tesla — created the petition on Change.org on January 17, and it has already garnered nearly 4,000 signatures, with many signees claiming to have bought Teslas late last yr, before the discount.
The YouTuber, who bought a used Model X in September, said he can be “livid” if he had bought a brand new Tesla ahead of the worth cuts, which reduced the worth of the Model Y by as much as $13,000 and the Model 3 by as much as $9,000. Elon Musk’s company delivered about 388,131 Model 3 and Model Y cars within the US in the course of the fourth quarter of 2022.
“I began the petition because I imagine Tesla did an injustice,” Wang told Insider. “It’s form of insane to simply drop the worth overnight like that.”
The YouTuber said he got the concept from a tweet from Ross Gerber, an investment manager and Tesla shareholder, who tweeted that a free six-month trial of FSD “can be helpful with optics.”
Tesla currently offers FSD for a $15,000 one-time fee or as a $199 monthly subscription. The beta software enables the electrical automobile to mechanically change lanes, enter and exit highways, recognize stop signs and traffic lights, and park, but it surely still requires a licensed driver to observe the system in any respect times.
“It form of goes two-fold: Those people would feel like they got some value — they got Full Self-Driving and so they could try it — and at the identical time it could raise adoption,” Wang said in a YouTube video in regards to the petition, adding that Tesla owners which have begun “bad-mouthing Tesla” could grow to be fans again.
While Wang believes that an FSD trial is one of the best option, free charging can also be an option and something the corporate has done prior to now. In December, Tesla offered customers who took deliveries by the tip of the yr 10,000 miles of free charging via Tesla’s faster Supercharging stations.
Wang told Insider that quite a few disgruntled Tesla customers have reached out since he launched the petition, and a few had even made donations to Change.org with a view to help advertise the petition.
“Tesla should do the precise thing to maintain their customers completely happy,” one one who signed the petition wrote on the web site. “We’re loyal to the brand but feel cheated.”
Tesla owners have been expressing their displeasure with the carmaker for weeks. Some individuals who claim to be Tesla owners have taken to social media to voice their anger with the electric-car maker.
Tesla does appear to have given some a price reduction to some buyers who ordered ahead of the worth cuts but had yet to receive their cars. One buyer told Insider he got a $12,000 reduction after asking Tesla to regulate his order’s cost.
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Lenovo shares fall after Google seeks to sell its shares
Updated: 2016-06-02 11:33
By Ma Si(chinadaily.com.cn)
The shadow of an attendee sits on a podium wall during a Lenovo Group Ltd news conference in Hong Kong, China, May 26, 2016. [Photo/VCG]
Shares of Lenovo Group Ltd fell by more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after Google Inc was reported to be seeking to raise between $218 million (151.34 million pounds) and $221 million by selling shares in the world's largest personal computer maker.
According to a report by Reuters, Google is looking for buyers of its 371 million Lenovo shares at a price range of HK$4.56 to HK$4.62 per share.
Last week, Lenovo reported its first loss in six years, with financial performances weighed down by restructuring cost as well as declining sales of PCs and smartphones.
The Hong Kong-listed technology company registered a net loss of $128 million for the fiscal year ending in March. Only one year earlier, Lenovo reported a profit of $829 million.
Lenovo and Google did not immediately reply to China Daily's requests for comment.


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Australian farmers are expected to cop a short-term hit from coronavirus, as agricultural production continues to flounder amid ongoing drought.
The federal government's agriculture forecaster latest outlook released on Tuesday shows overall farm production is forecast to be $59 billion in 2019/20.
That's down from a high of $63.8 billion in 2016/17 and well below the National Farmers' Federation target of $100 billion by 2030.
Broadacre farm incomes are projected to fall by almost $13,000 to $153,000 this financial year.
ABARES chief commodity analyst Peter Gooday said farm incomes were four per cent lower than the 10-year average.
"In NSW we are expecting farm cash incomes to be close to zero this year," he said on Tuesday.
"(It's) as bad as things have been at a state level in the last 20 years - and some regions are substantially worse than the average."
Australia's livestock industry has been bolstered by a killer pig disease ravishing herds across Asia and Europe.
"Meat and livestock prices have stayed high as African swine fever has decimated China's swineherds, driving red meat prices up and requiring Chinese consumers to look elsewhere," Mr Gooday said.
"Without those good prices, this year would look a lot worse."
He said coronavirus poses a significant risk as Chinese demand for agricultural products declines under restrictions put in place to contain the outbreak.
Seafood, particularly rock lobster, and wine are among the most-affected exports.
"ABARES assumes that the effects of the outbreak will be temporary and have limited impact from 2020/21 onwards," the report says.
Bushfires had a limited impact on agriculture nationally, although smoke did affected the apple industry around the NSW town of Batlow, along with wine regions in Canberra and the Adelaide Hills.
In 2019/20, Australia will have the lowest number of beef cattle since 1990 and lowest sheep flock since 1904, with production 12 per cent lower than five years ago.
Mr Gooday said over the medium term to 2024/25 a gradual recovery in livestock is expected as herds and flocks rebuild.
"Recovery will take several years and livestock related production in 2024/25 will still be 8 per cent below the 2014/15 peak," he said.
The value of Australia's agricultural exports overall is forecast to fall by 11 per cent to $43 billion in 2019/20, which in real terms is 16 per cent below the record value of exports in 2016/17.
"We can expect grains and oilseeds exports to rebound quickly, but livestock numbers will take some time to recover and for cotton the speed of recovery will depend on how quickly irrigation storages are replenished," Mr Gooday said.
ABARES also welcomed the signing of the first phase of a trade deal between the United States and China as a sign of easing tensions.
"But the deal contains some very ambitious targets for agricultural imports, and the implications of that for Australian agriculture are not yet clear," Mr Gooday said.
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West Palm Beach, FL—Shareholders in a clean coal company lost millions because its chief executive wrongfully refused to lift restrictions on the stock's sale, the shareholders' attorney told jurors as trial opened against the company and its former CEO Tuesday. Soffin v. Clean Coal Technologies, et al, 2010CA028706.
William and Yessenia Soffin allegedly bought more than 15 million shares in Clean Coal Technologies, Inc., a small-cap clean energy company, in 2008, only after Douglas Hague, the company’s CEO at the time, assured them that restrictions on the stock’s sale would be lifted the following February. After the February 2009 date passed however, Hague allegedly refused at least five requests the Soffins made to lift the restrictions. When the Soffins finally sold the stock in 2010, the company traded at 11 cents a share, down more than 97% from its sale price in February 2009.
In Tuesday’s opening statements, the Soffins’ attorney, Jacobson Law’s Jon Jacobson, noted federal law allowed the Soffins to have the restrictions lifted at any time. He told jurors Clean Coal executives refused to lift restrictions on the Soffins’ stock so that they could control the price, all while insiders, including Hague, sold more than 37 million of their own shares in the company.
“They had an interest in limiting the supply to control the price so they could sell their stock at a better deal,” Jacobson said, claiming the ailing company used also its stock to pay debt. “If a stock is worth more, [the company] need[s] less stock to pay its bills.”
But, the defense challenges the Soffins’ story. During Tuesday’s openings, Kopelowitz & Ostrow’s Jan Atlas told jurors there was no written evidence company executives made any claims as to when stock restrictions could be lifted and no documents showing the Soffins ever sought the restrictions' removal in 2009. “If something is important enough to you, and if something is meaningful enough, and you’re angry and upset enough, as Mr. Jacobson said Mr. Soffin was, and there [are] no documents whatsoever memorializing that, you must take that into consideration in evaluating whether that is something that ever occurred,” Atlas told jurors.
Atlas characterized William Soffin as a sophisticated investor who purchased the restricted shares via private transactions, and noted the Soffins could have sold the shares through a similar private transaction without having the restrictions lifted. Atlas told jurors company insiders such as Hague sold their shares in 2009 in private transactions, without lifting restrictions, and in order to put money back into the company.
By contrast, Atlas speculated that the Soffins simply did not want to sell the shares in 2009. “They wanted to see what would happen with their stock,” he said.
The case is expected to go to the jury by Thursday.
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Fonterra's Kapiti Cheese brand is under fire by a Māori trademarks advisor for what he says is cultural appropriation of Māori culture in marketing.
Karaitiana Taiuru said Kapiti Cheese has named a cheese after a famous Māori ancestor of the Kapiti area Tuteremoana.
- Campaign calls for tourists to respect Māori culture
- More than half of Kiwis keen on Te Reo in schools - Statistics New Zealand
"I assume the Kapiti Cheese used the name as it is also a popular landmark, but that landmark is named after the same ancestor, a personification," he said.
He said a mother expressed hurt that her children who are descendants of Tuteremoana were worried they would be eating their ancestor.
"It is not difficult to fact check names in New Zealand and businesses should be doing this as a part of their Q and A," said Mr Taiuru.
Fonterra's Māori strategy general manager Tiaki Hunia said the Tuteremoana cheddar had been on the market for about 10 years and had been inspired by Kāpiti Island's summit.
"While inspired by Kāpiti Island's peak, we understand the sensitivity around using Te Reo Māori names and are conscious of the fact that names can have more than one meaning or interpretation," he said.
"We want to be respectful of words and their meanings, which is why we have committed to reviewing all our brands which use Te Reo Māori," said Mr Hunia.
"Fonterra's Māori Strategy team will work internally with our brands teams to ensure we're using Te Reo appropriately, and then with iwi to make sure we are respectful and undertake proper consultation."
He said the review aligns with Fonterra's commitment to encourage the use and practice of Te Reo, which it is doing with things like Māori language classes, our Te Mātāpuna app and the proper spelling of Kapiti to Kāpiti, among other initiatives.
"We know there's more to do, but we're proud to be making some good progress."
Karaitiana Taiuru believes cultural appropriation of Māori has become normalised over multiple generations by New Zealand businesses.
"We cannot directly blame the businesses, but we need to learn from these experiences and deploy better protection mechanisms and new partnerships to stop appropriation."
He has identified a number of businesses who he claims are culturally appropriating Māori culture.
Karaitiana Taiuru's list is:
Kapiti Cheese, a brand owned by Fonterra have named a cheese after a famous Māori ancestor of the Kapiti area Tuteremoana. According to Kaumatua Ross Himona, Tuteremoana was the most famous descendant of Tara, eponymous ancestor of the Ngai Tara tribe. He lived nineteen or twenty generations ago.
Some BP petrol stations offering organic coffee and advertising coffee branded with the Māori deity of fertility - Tiki. Karaitiana Taiuru said this should be labeled as false advertising as the coffee does not make you fertile, and if it does then a disclaimer needs to accompany the coffee.
Titoki Whiskey bottle represents the god of fertility Tiki as well. Titoki claims to be a traditional Māori alcohol that used traditional Māori medicines and was used by ancient spirits. Despite the fact that European settlers introduced alcohol and there was no traditional alcohol.
The Warehouse television adverts with the Māori Tiki on shopping bags. There is no relevance to the products available at The Warehouse, said Taiuru.
Tiki has been appropriated for so many years, that he has become a national identity by non-Māori to represent Māori.


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Amigo Mobility has recently added to their team of leaders with a new Chief Operating Officer and Operations Manager. Newly appointed COO Joe Mooney of Saginaw graduated from Saginaw Valley State University with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Finance, and brings more than 30 years of leadership experience.
Michigan manufacturers are known for the love they have for their craft. They create new products to improve a person's quality of life. Some make a better car or a healthier type of food but it's a special manufacturer that is able to replace some part of a person's life that was taken away.
Here it is -- Team Amigo's #ALSicebucketchallenge!
Amigo is proud to support people living with ALS and is also donating to ALS of Michigan.
Thank you to Governor Snyder's office and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for featuring Amigo Mobility as a Michigan-made company in the Comeback State!
(Bridgeport, Mich.) – Amigo Mobility International has been recognized as one of the 2014 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch,” an awards program presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business. The company was honored at an awards ceremony during the tenth annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event, May 6, 2014 in East Lansing, Mich.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is inviting fans of Hugh Jackman and the cult X-Men series to pay tribute to Wolverine with its new #ThankHugh campaign, designed to celebrate the digital, Blu-ray and DVD release of Logan.
Supported by integrated communications agency History Will Be Kind (HWBK) and Frank PR, the 360-degree marketing initiative features a raft of digital, social, paid and media-led activities, including a nationwide search for the best social media tributes to the iconic character backed by exclusive prizing opportunities.
Kristen McGrath, associate director of publicity and promotions at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, said: “With the #ThankHugh campaign, we’re paying homage to Hugh Jackman, his career-defining role and legendary portrayal of Wolverine.
“After 17 years in action, we’ve seized the opportunity to orchestrate the send-off he deserves and give fans the ability to revel in the moment.”
Emma-Jane Granleese, managing partner of HWBK, said the team is excited to build on the success of last year’s X-Men: The Apocalypse campaign.
“At HWBK, we are audience-centric, channel agnostic and data-driven – a powerful combination that allows us to work collaboratively with clients across disciplines to get great results,” she said.
“We were thrilled to partner again with Fox Home Entertainment for a campaign which marks a key moment in pop culture history.”
To find out more and send your #ThankHugh tribute, visit www.thankhugh.com.au.
Commonwealth Bank and Cricket Australia have today announced the renewal of its long-running partnership for a further three years, extending its commitment to the game at all levels. Partnering with Cricket Australia for more than 30 years, Commonwealth Bank has had a significant impact on many touch points across the game. In particular, the bank […]
Former agency executives Tim O’Neill and Tim Fouhy have launched the auto technology startup Summon. Australia’s first full e-commerce service for prestige cars. O’Neill and Fouhy both founded Reactive, a digital agency, which was bought by Accenture in 2016. Following the deal, O’Neill and Fouhy ended up leading the company’s digital marketing arm, Accenture Interactive before […]
To honour the fantastic feats of the Australian Paralympians, Hootsuite has revealed the top trending hashtags and social media data of the Paralympics. The top trending hashtag during the Paralympics period, #tokyo2020, received over 38,000 tweets and retweets, amounting to 1.7M+ impressions, while other popular hashtags included #paralympics, #readysettokyo and #paraswimming. According to Hootsuite’s research, […]
SOON, a futures think tank focused on human insights, has launched today tracking trends, developments and disruptions across people, products and the planet. Led by internationally renowned futurist, social scientist and trend forecaster Sarah Owen (pictured centre) in partnership with TABOO directors Andrew Mackinnon (right) and James Mackinnon (left), the independently Australian-owned futurist company uncovers […]
ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia has announced a new podcast, SAS Australia Debrief hosted by 2020 recruits Merrick Watts and Sabrina Frederick. The podcast is made for anyone that can’t get enough of Aussie celebs putting themselves through the toughest test of their lives on the Seven Network’s hit show SAS Australia. Or anyone that wishes […]
Rakuten Advertising has launched ‘A 5-Stage Blueprint for High-Performance Affiliate Marketing’, designed to educate and inform both advertisers and publishers about the strategic role that the affiliate channel is now playing in marketing strategies. The blueprint is based on input from members of the Rakuten Advertising International Collective (RAIC), comprising affiliate marketing specialists from leading advertisers […]
Nine has announced the return of State of Originality, Australia’s biggest advertising prize, with $1 million again up for grabs to the brand and agency that creates the most original ad in the 2022 State of Origin Series. This year Nine launched State of Originality, challenging Australia’s marketers to help make State of Origin not […]


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Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, took the stage at the San Jose McEnery Convention Centre on Monday (5 June) to preview the latest version of the company's desktop operating system.
Featuring new storage, video and graphics technologies, macOS High Sierra will be available as a free software update for supported Mac computers this fall, around the same time as the release of iOS 11.
Members of the Apple Developer Programme can lay their hands on the new operating system by downloading the developer preview. Mac owners can experience the pre-release version of the software by participating in the public beta programme, which would be available later this month.
But how to find out if your Mac is eligible to receive the next major software upgrade? macOS High Sierra supports all Macs running on its predecessor macOS Sierra. The list of compatible Mac computers includes:
MacBook late 2009 or newer
- iMac late 2009 or newer
- MacBook Air 2010 or later
- MacBook Pro 2010 or later
- Mac mini 2010 or later
- Mac Pro 2010 or later
Of course the new iMac Pro Apple launched at the WWDC event will run macOS High Sierra. The iMac Pro featuring 27in Retina 5K display and 18-core Xeon processors will start shipping in December starting at $4,999 (£3871).