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Even more Kinder chocolate products have been recalled in Canada over fears of salmonella contamination.
Health Canada announced Monday more products are being pulled from shelves due to possible salmonella contamination. Over 20 products are now on the recall list including Kinder Easter mini eggs and advent calendars. The products have been sold across Canada, according to the national health agency.
Candy maker Ferrero Canada Ltd. issued the first recall last week but it has since been expanded.
“There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products in Canada,” Health Canada said in the recall notice.
Ferrero recalled several batches of Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs and other products from shelves in Spain, Britain, Ireland and United States. Belgian health authorities ordered the Italian candy maker on Friday to suspend production at its plant in Belgium, after an investigation into dozens of cases of salmonella linked to the company’s Kinder chocolates.
Health Canada is warning if you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, call your doctor. If you have purchased the recalled products, toss them in the trash or return them to the location where they were purchased.
Some of the short-term symptoms of salmonella include fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Salmonella can also cause long-term issues for young children, pregnant people, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems.
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An replica of the iconic TIE fighter from the Star Wars films is being sold off to raise money for Demi Knight.
The ship measures in at eight feet long and four feet tall without its stand, and would make an excellent addition to any fan's collection.
Paul Jackman, who runs the Comic Book Heroes costume shop in Grimsby, is putting it up for sale as he no longer has room for it and wanted to donate any proceeds to Demi's cancer treatment.
"A lot of people have expressed interest in owning the ship, but not many people have the space to store it," he said.
"We've been involved in raising money for Demi for quite a few months now, and even if the ship only raises a tenner, we'll be happy to donate it."
The ship originally came about when Paul's friend at Hildred's Shopping Centre in Skegness discovered the disused prop.
Paul and his friend renovated it at a cost of £100 and attached new wings.
It's now a centrepiece of their display whenever they exhibit at events.
The Comic Book Heroes Shop has a group who specialise in costumes from Star Wars and other science-fiction or fantasy films like Harry Potter, Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy.
"We've raised money for quite a few sick children in the area, and I knew Demi through my son's school. Every time we go to an event, we try to collect money," Paul said.
"Even if it's not much, we're happy to help out."
A recent event by two Stormtroopers from the group in Grimsby town centre collected £60 for Demi.
The TIE Fighter will be making one last outing with the group to Scunthorpe Armed Forces Weekend later this week. After that, it will be disassembled and hopefully sold to a new lucky owner.
Paul's collection of props also includes a variety of droids from the films, including R2-D2 and BB-8.
Anyone interested in purchasing the TIE Fighter should contact the Comic Book Heroes Facebook page.


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A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies' constitutional challenge to a U.S. law that restricted its ability to do business with federal agencies and their contractors.
U.S. prosecutors overlooked apparent violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran by HSBC Holdings in exchange for the British bank's cooperation with a government investigation of Huawei Technologies, lawyers for the Chinese telecoms giant said.
HSBC could be forced to take $600 million in additional provisions against loan losses if the Coronavirus outbreak persists into the second half of this year, Chief Financial Officer Ewan Stevenson said on Tuesday.
HSBC Holdings PLC said on Tuesday it would shed $100 billion in assets, shrink its investment bank and revamp its U.S. and European businesses in a drastic overhaul that will mean 35,000 jobs cut over three years.
Shares of Apple Inc fell 2 % on Tuesday and dragged the stocks of its suppliers across the globe lower, after the iPhone maker warned of lower sales in the current quarter acknowledging that the coronavirus outbreak was pressuring its supply chain.
Shares of Alstom SA and Montreal-based Bombardier Inc fell on Tuesday after the French firm agreed to buy its Canadian rival's rail division for up to 6.2 billion euros ($6.7 billion), a deal likely to draw scrutiny from competition regulators and unions concerned about job cuts.
Gold rose and global equity markets slid on Tuesday after Apple Inc said it was unlikely to meet its sales guidance because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a warning highlighting the epidemic's threat to global growth and corporate profits.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted proposals that could hinder U.S. companies from supplying jet engines and other components to China's aviation industry and said he had instructed his administration to prevent such moves.
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc shares surged 24% on Tuesday, extending a rally since early December to over 400% and evoking a warning from an analyst who likes the space tourism company but warns it has become overbought.
Walmart Inc on Tuesday forecast online sales growth to slow this year after posting lower-than-expected holiday quarter results, revealing the pressure traditional retailers are facing to keep pace with consumers who are increasingly shopping online.
The Trump administration is considering changing U.S. regulations to allow it to block shipments of chips to Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] from companies such as Taiwan's TSMC , the world's largest contract chipmaker, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Vodafone and Telecom Italia (TIM) have offered to give rivals access to some of their infrastructure for up to nine years to allay EU antitrust concerns over plans to merge their tower units, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has flown Chinese parts in suitcases to Britain to maintain production and could run out after two weeks as the impact of the coronavirus outbreak hits firms across countries and industries.
As investors crunch numbers to determine how the coronavirus will hit China’s economy, hedge fund manager Nathaniel Polachek has tied much of his outlook to the fate of a ship anchored near Weihai, China.
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KUCHING – Starbucks Malaysia marked one other milestone with the launch of its outlet at Vivacity Megamall right here which makes use of signal language as a method of communication.
Devoted to supply employment and improvement alternatives to the deaf group in addition to to foster significant connections between companions and prospects, it’s the espresso chain’s first “signing retailer” in Borneo area and its third after Kuala Lumpur and Penang.
Berjaya Meals Bhd chief government officer and Berjaya Starbucks Espresso managing director Datuk Sydney Quays stated the corporate goals to increase the initiative in each state.
“Apart from offering employment to the (deaf) group, we additionally goal to unfold public consciousness and construct confidence amongst them as they might generally be shy to step ahead attributable to their incapacity,” he stated at a press convention after its launching which was officiated by Sarawak’s Ladies, Childhood and Group Wellbeing Growth Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah.
The help and dedication from the state authorities and the Sarawak Society for the Deaf (SSD) eased the method to open an outlet there, he stated.
Quays additionally stated Starbucks Malaysia is collaborating with SSD to supply skilled Malaysian signal language interpretation providers and to host actions within the retailer.
He stated this can present a platform for the group to collect and join with one another. It has acquired overwhelming response from prospects since its July 27 mushy launch.
The espresso chain has thus far recruited 20 deaf personnel for its three “signing shops” with eight of them within the Vivacity Megamall outlet.
Earlier, Fatimah stated in her opening speech that the outlet “empowers” the deaf group and that she is grateful that company our bodies like Starbucks Malaysia is “as passionate because the state authorities to make a distinction to the group.” – BERNAMA


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Yahoo's remaining 384 million shares of Alibaba, valued at $40 billion, will be wrapped into a newly formed independent entity, SpinCo.» Read More
A decade after Apple revolutionized the music world with its iTunes store, the music industry is undergoing another, even more radical, digital transformation.
After hearing about the imminent release Apple's next generation iPad, CNBC's Jim Cramer was unimpressed.
Before Facebook introduced a new search tool this month, it assembled an eclectic team to scrutinize what users were searching for on the site — and how.
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer needs to figure out how to "invigorate user engagement" and capitalize on mobile, Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente told CNBC.
In its first full quarter with Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped expectations. But its first-quarter revenue guidance was a bit lower than analyst estimates.
Twitter's Vine is currently all the rage. But let's just say it's not your mom's video-sharing app. Yes, there's porn. Here are six things you need to know.
Twitter may receive local tax breaks for giving away promoted tweets.
Simply put, good Kindle sales are bad for earnings — so if Amazon sold a lot of them, it's likely to hurt operating income.
In an effort to be more transparent, Apple has released for the first time ever specific information about its final assembly facilities.
Netflix investors' suddenly rediscovered willingness to believe is just a little bit irrational – especially when set beside what’s happened to Apple.
Apple's tumble from the stratosphere did damage to the stocks' other-worldly reputation but helped out some of its peers.
Twitter blames "human error" for pornographic video slipping into Vine's "Editor's Picks" section.
Yahoo's fourth-quarter earnings report will provide an update of new CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts to revive the Internet company's revenue growth.
Apple iconic iPhone is losing some of its luster among Asia's well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, a victim of changing mobile habits and its own runaway success.
Call them super leaks or super teasers. For a growing number of Super Bowl advertisers, they are super smart business.
BlackRock has taken an $80 million stake in Twitter, a person with knowledge of the deal said. BlackRock will buy shares directly from early Twitter employees seeking to liquidate their stock holdings and options.
PayPal founder Peter Thiel discusses the future of technology, and how he would characterize what's going on in social media, with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. "I think the story of technology more broadly is doing more with less," he says.
Twitter released Vine, a new application for quick video sharing, and the app may already be butting heads with rival Facebook.
Discussing what the U.S. government can do to encourage more charitable giving, and the most exciting growth in technology now, with Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. "There is a lot of excitement about high-quality online education," he says.
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Bill Gates’ lab-grown synthetic meat is far worse for the environment than beef, according to the disturbing results of a new study which raises the question – what is the real reason the elites so determined for us to switch to 100% synthetic meat?
In a 2021 interview with MIT Technology Review, Gates argued that “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef” in an effort to meet the green agenda goals of the WEF.
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However, this fake food has now been shown to cause cancer via the immortalized cell lines used to manufacture it.
The results of a new study provide more bad news for Gates and the elite. According to a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis, lab-grown meat’s “green” credentials are not what people have been led to believe.
Researchers have revealed that lab-grown, also known as “cultured” meat, produced by cultivating animal cells, is up to 25 times worse for the climate than real beef.
Green agenda activists contend that the production of conventional meat carries a substantial “carbon footprint” due to its water and feed requirements, as well as the deforestation necessary for cattle farming.
Nevertheless, experts caution that the carbon footprint of lab-grown meat could be significantly higher than traditional, real beef, once the industry expands.
Although lab-grown meat has not yet been made available to the public, scientists are actively cultivating meat products in laboratories with the intention of commercializing them.
The recent research was conducted by a team of scientists at the Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis.
This study has been published as a preprint paper on the bioRxiv server and is awaiting peer review.
“Currently, animal cell-based meat products are being produced at a small scale and at an economic loss, however, companies are intending to industrialize and scale-up production,” the scientists say in the paper.
“Results indicate that the environmental impact of near-term animal cell-based meat production is likely to be orders of magnitude higher than median beef production if a highly refined growth medium is utilized.”
Lab-grown meat is different from plant-based “meat,” which is not meat at all but uses vegan ingredients such as vegetable protein to replicate the look and taste of real meat.
Lab-grown or “cultured” meat is generally seen as more ethical than real meat because it requires a sample of body tissue rather than the death of the animal.
Although, many vegans and vegetarians will not touch it because it is made of animals.


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It’s happened again, folks. Another cryptocurrency hack has taken place in the region of South Korea. This time, the victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange Up Bit, which has reportedly lost nearly $50 million in Ethereum (ETH) funds.
Up Bit: The Latest Target of Cyberthieves
South Korea, at one time, was one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency hubs. The country was responsible for roughly one-quarter of the world’s bitcoin transactions, though the region has taken on something of a mixed or even hostile attitude towards crypto as of late.
Following in China’s footsteps in 2017, South Korea banned both margin trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs) as a means of keeping investors protected. Over the years, ICOs have gone from being some of the most popular methods for earning capital to among the most controversial.
An ICO works when a startup seeks money to ensure its operations can continue. Thus, the company holds a token offering in which investors provide funds in exchange for a new cryptocurrency that grants them access to the startup’s goods and services. The trouble comes in one of two ways: if the people behind the ICO are fraudulent from the beginning, they will host the event and then run off with the money, ensuring investors are cheated out of what they’ve earned and pledged.
This accomplishes nothing minus the big paychecks the “founders” garner. Paychecks they undoubtedly failed to earn. Investors are inherently left with bruised egos, empty pride and coins they can’t use.
However, not all “bad” ICOs occur through fraud. Some have every intention of earning the money so businesses can start. Sadly, starting a business in today’s economy can be a huge risk, and sometimes, these startups don’t earn the capital they need to stay afloat. Thus, the ICOs, despite their best efforts, don’t produce the money necessary to keep the companies going and they’re forced to shut their doors before they even open.
ICOs can be very up and down in terms of risk, which is why countries like South Korea have arguably ceased to allow them but exchanges still hold great sway within the country. Unfortunately, these platforms don’t always employ the security necessary to keep funds safe.
So Much Money Gone
The hack on Up Bit occurred on Wednesday morning and resulted in $48.5 million in ether tokens being stolen through 17 separate transactions. Many customers of the exchange have reached out to the hackers to see about personally getting their funds back despite executives of the exchange saying that they will not be affected. They simply need time to tally up the total losses and are looking to provide reimbursements over the following two weeks.
It has also been confirmed that Up Bit utilized hot wallets to store the funds, which are less secure than cold storage.


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While people like to talk about electric and autonomous automobiles, another real battle in the transportation category is occurring in the e-bikes market. It’s for good reason: according to Mondor Intelligence, the global e-bike market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.39% between 2019 and 2024. In U.S. dollar terms, Mondor estimates that global revenue will jump from $14.8 billion in 2018 to nearly $21.4 billion in 2024. These are serious numbers that have caused a “gold rush” of sorts between dozens of players, including some legacy bike brands and many new startups.
This growth is propelled by battery technology advances that allow many e-bikes to travel more than 50 miles on a single charge, higher global fuel prices, and the fact that there are more brands with reasonably priced models to choose from than ever before.


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Two pieces of alcohol-related legislation took a step forward as the North Carolina House and Senate passed the bills to send them to the other chamber.
Senate Bill 155, dubbed the Brunch bill, gives local cities and counties the choice to allow restaurants and bars to serve alcohol on Sunday beginning at 10 a.m.. The law currently does not allow sales before noon.
The bill has passed the state Senate but needs approval by the House to be made a law.
"This bill, if passed the way it currently stands, would allow beer and wine sales—on premise, off premise, wherever you are," said Margo Knight Metzger, executive director of the NC Craft Brewers Guild. Metzger and the Craft Brewers Guild support both bills.
The earlier sales would include grocery stores, breweries or anywhere else you buy beer.
"So, for anyone who's ever tried to order a mimosa at 11:30 and got that look from the server of pity, (this is for you)," Metzger said on the 919 Beer podcast.
House Bill 500
Though the bill was gutted of provisions to increase craft breweries' self-distribution limit, there are still significant moves to be made if the bill passes.
- Crowlers: The bill would enable any beer retailer to fill the 32-ounce cans
- Quality control: The bill would allow brewers to check (taste) the beer in the process of making it
- Other beer sales: Allows tap rooms to sell beers brewed at other facilities
- Let farm breweries serve beer on site
Like the Crowlers provision, which are available in some places, the bill seeks to clear up some gray area in North Carolina law.
"We're just trying to clarify," Metzger said. "So many of the provisions in H500 are clarifying provisions."


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Living the hobo life really does save money. The New York Times Co. just announced that they actually made money in the second quarter. Cutting all expenses and selling off everything works! Uh, sort of.
The New York Times Company on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $39.1 million, up from $21.1 million in the period a year earlier, as another steep drop in advertising revenue was largely offset by aggressive cost-cutting.
A lot of the profit was a result of an income tax adjustment in the company's favor. Still, they would have eked out a non-loss. Which is impressive! Analysts thought the company would lose four cents a share; instead, it gained eight.
The bad news: Ad revenue in the quarter was down 32%. Which is a lot! Internet revenues, which are the future, fell 14%. And overall revenue fell more than 20%. The profit, such as it is, is largely a result of $140 million in cost cuts.
Living the hobo life requires sacrifices, like accepting any ad no matter how nasty, and banning text messaging, and rethinking canned beans. But cost-cutting can only go so far before you cut yourself down to nothing. What the NYT Co. really needs is a new business model.


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We Hear: Honda Plans for Increased Profits, Stronger Sales Volumes in 2012
Honda says that its outlook for 2012 is much stronger than last year, when the company was affected by production slowdowns in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami, and expects strong growth in North America. This comes as the company reports that, for the fourth fiscal quarter from January to March 31, 2012, Honda's operating profits jumped 65.7 percent year-over-year to 111.9 billion yen ($1.4 billion).
Much of that increase in profits was driven by strong motorcycle sales, and increased car sales in Japan and North America. But for the entire fiscal year, spanning April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012, Honda saw operating profit decline 60.4 percent year-over-year, to just 211.4 billion yen ($2.6 billion). That drop was attributed to reduce car production in response to the Japanese natural disasters and later flooding in Thailand, as well as the rising value of the Japanese Yen hurting profits on export sales.
For the next fiscal year, which runs through March 31, 2013, Honda predicts even stronger sales and earnings. The company expects profits to balloon to 620 billion yen ($7.7 billion) on the back of increasing car market share. Predicting annual industry sales of 14.3 million vehicles in the U.S. this year, Honda believes it can sell 1.74 million cars here in 2012. If so, that would represent a 31.5-percent growth over total annual sales of $1.15 million vehicles in 2011.
Honda hopes that it will reach a ten-percent market share in the U.S. this year. Part of that growth should come from launching a redesigned version of the Civic sedan and coupe. The move comes after the new-for-2012 model was widely panned by the American media accusing the new car of being cheap and disappointing. The new Honda Accord, previewed as a coupe concept (pictured) at the Detroit auto show in January, also should help improve sales volumes when it debuts in fall 2012.
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EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren has pressed the European Commission to act on the growing problems facing retailers and wholesalers resulting from the limited scope of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR).... more
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It is now almost 18 months since the introduction of the Interchange Fee Regulation. IFR covered a good deal more than the interchange fee caps and included substantial changes to the business rules for cards acceptance and processing frameworks. So, has implementation been effective and more importantly have there been unintended consequences? asks Peter Jones, Managing [...]
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Facebook Retrofits a 2007 Apple Tool for Prototyping iOS Apps
The preferred tool of many Facebook developers for prototyping how they want their applications to appear on an iPhone is an Apple tool called Quartz Composer. Whether Apple cares remains a mystery. Ostensibly, Quartz Composer is a rapid application development tool — or rather, it was. It’s still supplied by Apple for free as part of Xcode, but for most of the last eight years it was supported primarily by volunteer developers.
That is, until Facebook came to the tool’s rescue. Now a RAD tool, whose existence Apple just barely acknowledges, may have already become the leading prototyping tool for Facebook apps on iOS. This week, Facebook is releasing a new series of updates to what it calls Origami, a resource library that contains new graphical elements that Apple — perhaps unfortunately (at least for Apple) — had earlier dubbed “patches.”
Thus, out of sheer necessity, Facebook is patching an Apple product.
Facebook Picks up Where Apple Left Off
The key reason modern developers like Quartz Composer is because it helps them build nice prototypes of mobile apps … or rather, it should. You see, Quartz Composer is a Mac OS tool. Its purpose, as Apple explained back around 2007, was to enable programmers to build what Apple (and only Apple) would call “dynamic motion compositions.” These graphical elements could be manipulated on screen, and those manipulations would produce code without the developer having to write it manually.
That came as a shock to mobile developers who recently had been taking a cue from Facebook.
Back in April 2013, Facebook developer Julie Zhuo publicly admitted that she and her colleagues had discovered Quartz Composer’s virtues as a prototyping tool. Ignoring Quartz Composer’s ability to generate code, they found it was great for making objects behave on-screen the way developers want them to behave in their final release.
“When you see a live, polished, interactable demo, you can instantly understand how something is meant to work and feel, in a way that words or long descriptions or wireframes will never be able to achieve,” wrote Zhou. “And that leads to better feedback, and better iterations, and ultimately a better end product.”
In Quartz Composer lingo, “patches” are represented on-screen in a way similar to database schemas. Their properties are connected to one another by way of wires that you literally draw, and these connections trigger events.
Facebook was building its own custom patches. Late in 2013, it released those patches to the developer community as Origami. They represent the basic controls you’d expect to find in an iPhone app, such as a toolbar, a platform for scrolling text and buttons. (Yes, Quartz Composer needed new patches to explain buttons.) Most importantly, it provided a frame for running prototypes shaped like an iPhone.
For example, suppose you need a way to demonstrate to a design team how you want the graphical elements to flow in an animated page. Perhaps, when the app is started, the main panel zooms gently into view from the center, and a series of icons swing over from the left, one after the other, as if they were tied by a common rope. Quartz Composer provides the environment for objects that represent panels and icons to enter the display using such an orchestration. Those objects aren’t linked to functionality yet, but that’s not the point: you want to demonstrate how it will look. Origami presents patches that make those objects into familiar things that iPhone users expect to see.
This way, a tool meant to generate RAD applications for Mac OS can be used to produce mobile app prototypes for iOS.
Origami 2.0 Picks up After Quartz Composer Drops Out
What mobile app developers lacked — until now — was a way to actually run those prototypes on iOS itself. Tuesday, Facebook announced its release of a kind of runtime platform called Origami Live for iOS. Downloadable from the App Store, it allows developers, for the first time, to test prototypes, rendered in Quartz Composer with Origami, on an actual iPhone.
“You can quickly try new ideas — using multitouch, device sensors, etc. — and fine-tune them with ease, without writing any code,” states a post to Facebook’s corporate blog by product designer Brandon Walkin. “Then, with your device in hand, your team members or users can try out a high-fidelity prototype that looks and feels like a final product.”
Just as importantly, Facebook is also releasing a version 2.0 of Origami that effectively assumes the job for which Quartz Composer was originally built: to generate code — only this time for iOS, Android, and Web apps. Ironically, prototype documents created in Sketch can now be linked to Origami prototypes by way of a Facebook-designed plug-in.
So now there’s a clear “next step”: Developers who prototype mobile apps using Origami 2.0 can now use the frameworks generated by that process in the background, to attach client-side functionality and build functional apps.
One gets the impression that, before too long, developers will be able to prototype Facebook Platform mobile apps using not only Origami patches, but tools other than Quartz Composer altogether. If Apple didn’t notice the developers who had been using its own Quartz Composer, will it notice when they’ve gone?
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Kapil Kohli, vice president - retail head at Usha International said with a shift in consumer behaviour and increasing focus on superior buying experiences, Usha is investing significantly to expand its retail presence.
"Leveraging our already high brand recall, we are ensuring presence across channels and the last mile connectivity for maximum outreach for all our products across categories. Usha is aiming for a 30 per cent growth in retail business by ensuring product display management, focus on sell-out and experiential marketing," said Kohli.
Usha operates in categories such as fans, appliances, sewing machines, water coolers and dispenser, agricultural and domestic pumps and diesel engines. It has recently launched newer products like halogen oven, tower fans and humidifiers.


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Virtual reality( VR) has gone beyond its gaming and entertainment roots. The most current virtual reality trends show the technology being applied across colorful diligence, including healthcare, education, entertainment, tourism, and business institutions. But more importantly, crucial players in the assiduity, especially in the marketing sector, are still exploring ways to tap into the immense eventuality of VR technology.
Virtual Reality In The Gaming Industry
The VR software request owes 43 of its value to the gaming sector. It’s no surprise also that the gaming sector remains largely invested in the VR request. VR gaming profit is presently valued at$1.1 billion and is anticipated to grow to$2.4 billion by 2024( PwC, 2020). VR in gaming provides consumers the capability to control and modify the game terrain. But as the same technology becomes more prominent in other sectors, the gaming sector’s share in the request will drop in the coming times, according to experts.
You can find the most successful executions of VR in the gaming sector. New and better virtual reality gaming trends and content keeps hitting the request as VR- enabled games come more in demand. With VR headsets like Oculus Rift, gamers get to witness 3D brutes in an advanced virtual terrain. therefore, the battle for introducing the most sophisticated VR wearables and input bias is also getting the focus of numerous VR inventors.
Virtual Reality In Advertising
Advertising is another sector where immersive technology similar to VR is anticipated to grow exponentially( Perkins Coie, 2020). Further advancements in VR technology will soon allow inventors to add ingrained placements to virtual guests. This type of native advertising first appeared as in-game advertising. As VR technology becomes more advanced, VR guests can soon incorporate native advertising that’s demographically applicable to individual consumers.
These virtual reality future trends point to marketing and advertising in the VR space. As brands mate with content inventors, they can come up with sensational VR gests, with their products as the center of it. The announcement- tech incipiency Immersv, for illustration, raised about$10.5 a million for 360- degree vids, games, and virtual reality advertisements.
Virtual Reality In Remote Education
Education is among the sectors that are anticipated to employ immersive technology similar to learning operation results and VR( Perkins Coie, 2020). According to Koch’s website, the operation of VR technology in education produced training score advancements from pre- to post-test by over 20. Through the use of VR technology in the classroom, learning becomes further fun and engaging and helps scholars have a commodity to look forward to in class. also, as the education sector is one of the most affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the use of VR may indeed accelerate as it can help scholars witness their assignments through their own eyes without the need for face-to-face classroom literacy.
Virtual Reality In the Retail Sector
Some businesses have started applying VR to their training systems. In the retail geography, for case, VR technology allows staff to immerse themselves in a virtual terrain where they need to manage long ranges or shoppers crowding the store. This eliminates the need to disturb diurnal business operations to train the entire team.
Walmart applied this fashion to prepare their workers for Black Friday shoppers. The company has partnered with VR creator Stivr, which also helped train NFL players through VR technology. Walmart subordinated its workers to a simulation of real-world scripts. workers were also asked to make choices grounded on what they saw in the scenes created by the computer-generated vision.
Virtual Reality In The Travel Sector
Travel companies are espousing VR technology as part of their marketing strategies. A growing number of companies are reaping the benefits of VR headsets that give better client service and experience. The technology gives trip agents, hospices, and analogous businesses in the trip sector more openings to deliver a naturalistic experience of the services that they offer.
Enforcing VR could be one of the best client service tips anywhere. In recent data published by GlobalWebIndex, 40 of Gen Zers want to see further trip operations through VR technology( Global Web indicator, 2019). This shows a promising sign for VR to propel trip marketing juggernauts to new heights. As VR offers guests the chance to exercise destinations before reserving, trip companies witness an uplift in bookings.


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Cressy, Tas, business Rosemount Agriculture Pty Ltd took home the major award, the 2021 ANZ Dairy Business Award of the Year, in this year's Tasmanian Dairy Awards.
The hard work and innovation of farmers was celebrated on Thursday evening at the awards presentation in Devonport, Tas.
Among the list of other award winners was Harford, Tas, farmer Rory Wellwood, of RW Dairy Farming, who received the Cadbury Young Farmer Encouragement Award.
Smithton, Tas, farmers Luke and Tammy Tuxworth took home the Rex James Stockfeed Dairy Farm Safety Award, while Gawler, Tas, farmers Norm, Lesley and Rob Frampton earned the Veolia Dairy Farm Environmental Award.
DairyTas executive officer Jonathan Price said it was exciting to see such a strong industry performance.
"It has been fantastic to recognise those businesses and individuals throughout the industry that have performed across key areas in 2021," Mr Price said.
"Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the Tasmanian dairy industry has continued to perform well with record milk production and increased business confidence."


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Why is lithium so popular?
The current demand for electric vehicles has turned lithium into one of the most valuable commodities of all. The surge of interest has focused a number of traders’ minds on the companies that unearth this precious mineral.
And it’s not just lithium mining that appeal to traders; many other companies quoted on stock markets are big in lithium without being involved in extracting or refining the ore.
The latest data around interest in cars entirely driven by electric power, thus operating only on rechargeable batteries full of lithium, is compelling.
How many electric cars are being sold?
Global sales of electric cars accelerated rapidly in 2020, rising by 43% to more than 3m, despite overall car sales slumping by a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic.
Market leader Tesla sold almost 500,000, followed by Volkswagen. Total sales of electric cars more than doubled in Europe, pushing the region past China as the world’s biggest market for them.
Equally, we should consider projected growth. According to a report by Deloitte, analysts agree the demand for lithium will double or potentially triple by 2030. It foresees exponential growth in electric vehicles driven by a global focus on achieving net-zero carbon emissions while improving their value and user-friendliness.
How much lithium will be mined in the future?
The by US Geological Survey says batteries account for about 70% of lithium consumption worldwide, followed by ceramics and glass (14%).
The global lithium-ion battery market value is expected to reach about $46 billion by 2026 from $4 billion in 2020, according to Global Insights Inc. That represents a compound annual growth rate in the order of 13.7%.
In early 2020, analysts had been concerned about the lithium industry amid falling prices and a supply glut. At the same time, demand for electric vehicles appeared to level off in 2019. However, 2020’s strong figures, alongside fresh interest from new players like Apple, Tencent, Intel and Alphabet, changed the complexion of the market once again.
Between December 2020 and February 2021, the price of lithium price surged about 70%.
Lithium batteries require up to 300g of lithium per kWh, which means they are only one-third the weight of lead-acid batteries, while also benefiting from a longer charge. They are the clear no. 1 choice for many types of electric vehicles. Beyond cars, all those funny little motorised/hybrid scooters and bikes you see darting about tend to be powered by a lithium battery.
And there are additional uses too: the element is also prevalent in smartphones, smartwatches, and a whole range of must-have modern gadgets.
What is the demand for lithium in the US and China?
Anyone keen to go long on lithium stocks would hope for soaring demand from the two biggest global economies, the United States and China.
What is interesting is that while commanding 40% of the world’s total GDP, these two countries have been notably slow at adopting environmental improvements. Intriguingly, however, they are more interested in electric vehicles than other green measures.
The Chinese government has particularly ambitious targets, aiming for a fifth of new car sales to be electric by 2025. In 2019, EVs commanded only 5% of the market. China may not quite get to its stated goal, but even if it gets close – and the early signs are good - that will be some achievement
Meanwhile, President Biden has committed to replace the federal government’s 650,000 petroleum-powered vehicles with electric vehicles. The German maker VW wants half its newly sold vehicles in the US to be electric and BMH has similar plans.
Lithium stocks: Some options to consider
Lithium stocks are a popular choice for traders. Some companies develop batteries, others concentrate on extracting the mineral while others are involved in the research and development side.
The five companies listed below, all trading on the New York Stock Exchange, are chosen because they represent different aspects to the wide gamut of lithium-related ventures in the corporate world.
1. Energizer Holdings, Inc (NYSE: ENR)
The everyday household battery supplier stocks a bit of everything: lithium, alkaline, carbon and silver oxide options. On February 1, 2021, the company announced a quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share of common stock, payable on March 11, 2021, to shareholders of record on February 19, 2021.
Mario Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors has a particularly large stake in ENR, one that it boosted in Q4 of 2020.
2. Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI)
Based in Cork, Ireland, this company manufactures fire, HVAC, and building safety equipment. The United States Department of Energy recently contracted JCI to build domestic manufacturing capacity for advanced batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. JCI offers a dividend yield of 1.85%.
A number of leading hedge funds flocked towards JCI at the end of 2020. At the start of the year, Diamon Hill Capital reported: “We continue to believe the stock is trading at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value and that the new management team has an attractive opportunity to grow that intrinsic value over time through continue operational improvements and shrewd capital allocation.”
3. Quantumscape Corporation (NYSE: QS)
A start-up company backed by Bill Gates and Volkswagen, this company develops solid-state lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles. Around $2 billion of its shares are held by hedge funds.
The company’s stock has been under selling pressure this year because it remains firmly in the research and development phase and still does not yet generate any revenue. Forbes notes QuantumScape isn’t the only company developing solid-state batteries. Japanese giant Toyota expects to unveil a functional prototype with a solid-state battery before the end of 2021 and the company also appears to hold the most patents in this particular niche sector.
4. Livent Corporation (NYSE: LTHM)
Based in Philadelphia, this company was formed as a spin-off from FMC Corporation when the latter, which has produced insecticides since the 19th century, chose to concentrate on its core offering.
Livent has a core advantage of having secured long-term arrangements with clients long before the new wave of start-ups tried to muscle in on the scene. It produces and distributes lithium compounds and offers lithium products for applications in batteries, agrochemicals, aerospace alloys, greases, pharmaceuticals, polymers, and various industrial applications. Livent serves customers worldwide.
5. Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB)
This S&P 500 constituent, based in Charlotte, NC, is practically a household name among mining companies. More than a third of its 2020 revenues came from lithium.
Now the largest provider of lithium for electric vehicle batteries, it is also a big miner of raw lithium, sharing its market domination with FMC Corporation and Chile’s Sociedad Química y Minera. This trio produces just over half of the world's lithium and lithium storage products, while the other half is produced by China.
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Lenovo yoga 5g ces 2020
Today at CES 2020, we saw the world’s first 5G laptop-Lenovo Yoga 5G.
5G has developed rapidly in recent years, but it has been unique to mobile platforms until now. Now we can get a laptop that can use this lightning fast connection for daily calculations, video chats and games. Qualcomm announced the
laptop in its keynote speech at the 2020 International Consumer Electronics Show. It also announced an announcement on automotive technology and its progress towards autonomous driving. But despite being cool, we are more focused on the idea of always connecting 5G with our laptops.
Connecting to a 5G network on your laptop can mean blazing-fast connections for games, video chats, and streaming without lag, without the hassle of buffering. The Lenovo Yoga 5G
laptop will launch in Spring 2020, with a retail price of US $ 1,499.


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Commerce, Calif.-based wholesale distributor, Unified Grocers, has named Gelson's Markets as the recipient of the 2009 Ben Schwartz Retail Grocery Visionary award.
"Ben Schwartz is literally an icon in our industry and Unified Grocers is a longtime industry partner," said Robert Stiles, president of Gelson's Markets, in a news release. "To receive an award of this stature from people that we truly respect and admire is tremendously meaningful to all of us at Gelson's."
The award is named after a former director and chairman of the board of Unified Grocers. The honor is given annually to an independent retail grocer who is a leader and innovator in the retail grocery industry, the release said.
A Southern California 18-store chain of upscale markets founded by Bernard and Eugene Gelson in 1951, Gelson's Markets is based in Encino, Calif. and is a division of Arden Group Inc., Compton, Calif.
Gelson's Markets are located in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties.


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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 27 Sept) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Davao City has heightened its monitoring to ensure prices of goods are within the suggested retail prices (SRPs) and assured consumers here that there’s no shortage of basic and prime commodities in the local markets.
In an interview on Thursday, DTI-Davao assistant regional director Edwin Banquerigo told MindaNews said they do weekly monitoring at 48 major grocery supermarkets, distributors, retailers, and other establishments to ensure compliance with the September 1, 2018 SRPs as the country’s inflation rate surged.
He said the agency observed that most of the items classified as prime and basic commodities were sold at prices within or lower than the SRPs, which were already adjusted to cope with the increasing costs of some production inputs.
“We set suggested retail prices and just recently we have a massive monitoring requirement because of the escalation of prices, but it’s good thing that some are even selling lower the SRP but these SRP are not set by DTI. It is set in consultation with the industry. We have to factor in all costs, logistics, and packaging,” he said.
He warned that establishments that do not comply with SRPs will be accosted and may face charges for violating Republic Act 7581, also known as The Price Act of 1992.
“Companies that do not follow will be issued with show cause order explaining why they did not follow the SRP and to those that really violate, they are corresponding charges,” he said.
Banquerigo said increases have been noted in the prices of agricultural commodities such as fish, meat, and vegetables in the city. He said the implementation of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program could not be blamed for the price increases.
Robert Barlis, Consumer Protection Division chief at DTI-Davao City, said the Price Act mandates the agency to monitor prices of basic commodities (bottled water, loaf bread, pandesal, candles, canned sardines, coffee, instant noodles, laundry soap, processed milk, and salt) and prime commodities (batteries, canned beef, condiments, flour, and soap).
“Although we try to cover other establishments, we focus on the bigger establishments because they have the most consumers. We try to cover as many. We regularly monitor 48 establishments but outside the 48, we also cover,” he said.
He said they determine the price trends based on commodities sold in 48 bigger establishments. (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)


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IMPORT BAN: A U.S. trade agency on Tuesday issued a ban on imports of Apple's iPhone 4 and a variant of the iPad 2 after finding the devices violate a patent held by South Korean rival Samsung Electronics.
MAY BE INVALIDATED: Because the devices are assembled in China, the import ban would end Apple's ability to sell them in the U.S. But President Barack Obama has 60 days to invalidate the order from the U.S. International Trade Commission. Obama is against import bans on the basis of the type of patent at issue in the Samsung case.
APPEAL COMING: Apple Inc. said it was "disappointed" with the ruling and will appeal. Samsung and Apple are engaged in a global legal battle over their smartphones.


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Gov. Phil Murphy And Marijuana Legalization: The Latest
June was a hectic month for Trenton, NJ lawmakers. They had to scramble to get the budget passed, thus narrowly avoiding government shutdown.
Meet The First Recreational Marijuana Shop In Massachusetts
Cultivate Holdings in Leicester is a seed-to-table dispensary in central Massachusetts that’s recently made waves, having gained the opportunity to be the first MA dispensary to open for recreational business.
Cannabis Shops Will Not Open On July 1 In Massachusetts
This puts a damper not only on potential imbibers, but also those who have been waiting to open up for business.


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The Small Business Credit Survey, conducted jointly by the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, was released today.
It more or less confirms the narrative that the amount of credit available to small businesses continues to recover, but is still below pre-recession highs, particularly for businesses with less than $1 million in revenue.
The Cleveland Fed put out its own report about the health of small business lending earlier this month. It's conclusion was the same:
Small business loans now stand 17 percent below the peak reached prior to the recession. While small commercial and industrial loans grew 3.4 percent over the past year, this modest improvement does not provide strong assurances about the health of lending in this space. In contrast, lending to larger businesses (loans greater than $1 million) bounced back quickly and loans outstanding are now more than 24 percent higher than pre-recession levels.
Here are the highlights of the small business credit survey:
About a quarter of small businesses hired new people over the last year, and 15% of them got smaller.
The biggest problem for all small businesses in the first half of the year was difficulty attracting customers, followed by lack of credit, which suggests there are more problems on the demand side rather than the supply side for small businesses this year.
Most small businesses aren't run on credit, but on the personal savings of whoever runs the business. It isn't until you get to revenues over $1 million per year that credit becomes the primary type of funding.
Really small businesses, particularly those with less than $250,000 in annual revenue, are applying for credit at a much lower rate than bigger businesses.
For smaller businesses, larger regional banks are the best bet for securing credit.
More than half of businesses with less than $1 million in revenue that apply for credit receive nothing at all.
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US Antitrust Chief Leaving Google Probe Because Of Past LobbyingThe Justice Department official leading the investigation of big tech companies’ market dominance is stepping aside from the department’s Google probe.
Privacy, Consumer Groups Seek To Block Google-Fitbit DealNine privacy, social justice and consumer groups are calling for the U.S. government to block Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of San Francisco fitness-gadget maker Fitbit.
Facebook's Antitrust Headache Gets Worse: 47 Attorneys General Now InvestigatingNew York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Tuesday that 47 state attorneys general are now investigating Facebook.
Sutter Health Facing Antitrust Trial Over High Healthcare PricesOpening arguments begin Thursday in the antitrust case against Sutter Health, which operates 24 hospitals with 5,500 doctors across Northern California.
Lawmakers Ask Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple For Documents In Antitrust ProbeHouse lawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech are asking Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple for a broad range of documents including internal communications.
States Target Google In New Antitrust ProbeA large group of states led by Texas is announcing an investigation of Google's market power and whether it unfairly squelches competition and hurts consumers.
Facebook, Google Face Antitrust Scrutiny From StatesTwo bipartisan groups of state attorneys general are launching separate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google.
Report: DoJ Preparing Antitrust Investigation of GoogleSilicon Valley tech giant Google may be at the center of an anti-trust investigation by the Department of Justice, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Europe Fines Google $5 Billion For Abusing Its Android DominanceThe company was ordered by the European Commission on Wednesday to pay €4.34 billion ($5 billion) for unfairly pushing its apps on smartphone users and thwarting competitors.
Google Investigated By Missouri AG Over Antitrust ConcernsMissouri’s attorney general announced Monday that his office is investigating Google for potential violations of the state’s consumer-protection and antitrust laws.
News Outlets Seek To Negotiate With Facebook, Google On AdsNews outlets are seeking permission from Congress for the right to negotiate jointly with Google and Facebook, two companies that dominate online advertising and online news traffic.
San Francisco Taxi Company Files Antitrust Suit Against UberFlywheel Taxi sued Uber in an antitrust lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday, alleging that the ride-booking company is seeking to gain monopoly power.
San Francisco Lawyer Sues To Stop Anheuser-Busch, Miller DealA San Francisco lawyer has reportedly filed a lawsuit on the behalf of beer drinkers to block the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller over antitrust concerns.
Court Strikes Down Payments To College AthletesA federal appeals court agreed Wednesday that the NCAA's use of college athletes' names, images and likenesses in video games and TV broadcasts violated antitrust laws but struck down a plan to allow schools to pay players up to $5,000.
San Jose Files Petition With U.S. Supreme Court In Antitrust Case Against MLBSan Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo acknowledges that just getting the Supreme Court to hear the case is a longshot, but he remains hopeful.


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Mahindra and Mahindra recently launched a unique subscription-based initiative in partnership with Revv, a self-drive car rental platform. This unique, flexible ownership experience for customers of Mahindra's personal range of vehicles is an all-new, affordable and convenient way of using a brand new vehicle, without actually having to buy or own one.
Retail customers can choose from the entire personal-vehicle portfolio -- from KUV100, XUV500, XUV300, Scorpio, TUV300, Marazzo to the Alturas G4, at a subscription price starting from Rs 19,720 per month. The offer is inclusive of insurance and routine maintenance charges. Other highlights are zero down payments, no road tax, and zero risks on the resale value of the vehicle. Once the subscription period is over, the customer can either upgrade the models or return the vehicle to the company without the hassle of selling it and buy a new car instead.
The recently launched offer is available to professionals and SMEs across eight Indian cities -- Delhi (NCR), Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad -- and will later cover 11 more cities over the next three months.


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Echuca College is committed to working with students and their parents in promoting the safe and responsible use of internet-connected devices, along with a healthy balance between online and offline activities.
Over the past few weeks, we have been sharing videos from the series Adolescents on Social media: A Guide for Parents presented by youth worker and cyber safety advocate Jamie Roberts. The final video will address the issue and use of Snapchat.
For now, Snapchat is here to stay as it grows in popularity with young people despite concerns around the ability to screenshot photos that senders may believe will disappear after a few seconds. Internet safety consultant Jamie Roberts has teamed up with a small group of Snapchat using teenagers to produce this short video that covers how Snapchat is used, how it’s evolved, and what users can do to protect privacy and security.


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Ambassador of the EU to Vietnam Giorgio Aliberti (Photo: baodautu.vn)
The EU Ambassador’s remarks came during a meeting held with representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vietnam (VCCI), in addition to a large number of EU and Vietnamese enterprises.
The meeting was held on August 28 in Hanoi and was the first roundtable discussion to take place with the aim of going over the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the nation’s further integration into the post-novel coronavirus global value chain.
Ambassador Aliberti stressed that it is necessary to have a profound understanding of global value chains, opportunities, and challenges facing Vietnam. As the EVFTA represents a historic agreement in the relationship between both sides, the deal entered into force on August 1, with a proportion of tariff lines being cut immediately, thereby bringing about a range of economic benefits.
Furthermore, FDI could flow into the Vietnamese market will be even stronger if trade barriers are removed, the EU diplomat believes. Along with greater attracting FDI, the country also needs to calculate their retention rate of FDI enterprises.
Citing a World Bank report published in 2018 through a survey of more than 700 foreign corporate CEOs regarding how they make investment decisions, Ambassador Aliberti said that the CEOs judged free trade agreements (FTAs) like the EVFTA to be important, but not the most important factor. Indeed, 56% of CEOs believed that FTA tariff preferences are important, but the majority of them think that the transparency and policy stability of a country interested in attracting investment is a must, especially in terms of policy response and predictability, in addition to creating a favourable business investment environment.
Foreign experts working in the country also need to stay updated on regulations in the nation, although many Vietnamese policies, decrees, and circulars have yet to be updated in English, making their accessibility challenging whilst policy understanding remains very limited.
Although the nation currently does not need to make all major policy changes, policy adjustments must be in line with EU regulations, because this is a factor that financiers from the EU are very concerned about. Indeed, clarifying and adjusting policies is the best way for the country to further integrate into global value chains, the EU diplomat said.
Trade turnover between the nation and the EU in recent decades has witnessed significant growth, representing a 13.7-fold increase over the decades following 2000. Most notably, Vietnamese exports to the EU over the past five years also recorded impressive growth of 30%, with the EU being the country’s second most important market prior to the signing of the EVFTA.
At present, the consumption of domestic products by FDI enterprises in the nation is not high. This can be seen clearly through the fact that Japanese enterprises in the country only purchase approximately 30% of goods domestically, while the large input source largely comes from China and other markets. This is a key reason of the need to further promote FDI attraction from Europe in an effort to improve the quality of products made in Vietnam.


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The Department of Justice just cracked open the tech industry’s latest threat—and it’s a big one.
Rumors of the DOJ’s interest in investigating tech’s most massive companies have bubbled up for months. The department finally announced the probe on Tuesday in a press release, stating that its antitrust division would review business practices among “market-leading online platforms.”
The announcement doesn’t name names, though given recent congressional antitrust scrutiny, the probe is likely to threaten Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple.
The DOJ’s review sets some surprisingly broad parameters. It sounds like any potentially monopolistic activity is fair game, and the department will examine “whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.”
That scope could include everything from Facebook and Amazon’s acquisitions to Apple’s App Store practices and Google’s expansion into product categories far and wide.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division said in the announcement.
When reached for comment, Google pointed The Daily Beast to testimony from Google Director of Economic Policy Adam Cohen before the House Judiciary Committee last week.
“We have created new competition in many sectors, and new competitive pressures often lead to concerns from rivals,” Cohen said. “We have consistently shown how our business is designed and operated to benefit our customers.”
Apple responded to the DOJ news by highlighting comments Apple CEO Tim Cook made to CBS last month. “I think we should be scrutinized. But if you look at any kind of measure about is Apple a monopoly or not, I don't think anybody reasonable is going to come to the conclusion that Apple’s a monopoly,” Cook said. He added that Apple does not have “a dominant position in any market.”
Facebook and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment and the Department of Justice declined to provide further details on its review.
Last month in a CNBC interview, Trump criticized the EU’s antitrust fines against American tech giants, suggesting Attorney General William Barr should be pursuing similar actions to the benefit of the U.S. instead.
“They get all this money. We should be doing that—they’re our companies, so they’re actually attacking our companies,” Trump said. “I think it is a bad situation, but, obviously, there is something going on in terms of monopoly.”


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On the heels of strong first quarter earnings assisted by Capcom's first Nintendo Switch game, the Japanese games-maker says the console is "very strong" and it'll likely release more games for the machine.
Despite being priced at $39.99, Capcom's newly released Ultra Street Fighter II managed to sell 450,000 units globally across the Nintendo Switch's 4.7 million worldwide install base in a single month, outperforming the company's expectations. "Ultra Street Fighter II (for Nintendo Switch), which was released in May 2017, made an excellent start and proved to be a smash hit," Capcom wrote in its fiscal Q1'18 earnings report.
Capcom asserts that Ultra Street Fighter II was massively popular in Europe and North America where it sold 350,000 copies, and less-so in Japan where it saw 100,000 copies. In comparison, Japanese Switch owners purchased 670,995 copies of Splatoon 2 in three days.
Due to strong Ultra Street Fighter II sales, Capcom is now confident in Nintendo's growing Switch platform and expresses interest in releasing more games for the device. "The Nintendo Switch is very strong and I expect it to spread in the future. We are considering future response including Monster Hunter Double Cross Nintendo Switch Ver. planned to be introduced in August," Capcom CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto said in a Q&A session during Q1 earnings call.
Capcom's full fiscal year guidance roadmap offers compelling evidence that new Switch games are on the horizon.
The company plans to release 37 new title SKUs in the fiscal year ending March 2018, including top marquee titles like Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite to be released in September, and the anticipated Monster Hunter: World, which will release in the company's fourth quarter (January - March 2018).
Forecasts indicate Capcom expects to sell 10.3 million copies of its new 37 SKUs. We're betting that at least two of those games will be Switch titles, possibly the Disney Afternoon Collection (which skipped the Switch for some crazy reason), a Megaman Collection, or perhaps some Wii U re-releases.
We're confident that Capcom will have some surprises in store for Switch owners especially since the company's trial run has paid off. Capcom tactically selected its most lucrative and well-known property as its first Switch game. This was not a mistake--it was a carefully planned out strategy that's paid off quite well.
Bear in mind that Capcom probably won't see these new Switch games as supplemental earners instead of big breadwinners simply because of the Nintendo Switch's comparatively small 4.7 million install base.
For a better picture on Capcom's current and future plans be sure to check out our comprehensive Capcom earnings analysis.


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Industry heavyweight DJI has been keeping quiet on whether we can expect any new drones at CES, after releasing the $99 toy Tello drone in partnership with startup Ryze. The Chinese company’s last release was the Osmo Pocket, which isn’t a drone at all, but a tiny handheld gimbal that shoots 4K video. That leaves room for the smaller players and drone accessory makers to showcase their products this year.
A couple of drone products have been named CES 2019 Innovation Awards honorees, including Yuneec’s Mantis Q released last August, and a new single-handed flight controller called FT Aviator that was designed by NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski. There’s also a flurry of drones that capture footage underwater. A couple of underwater drones are expected to make an appearance this year include Navatics’ MITO, which comes equipped with a 4K camera and advanced stabilization. Sublue is also showcasing a prototype of its Nano underwater drone, which uses AI to automatically follow subjects to take photos and videos.


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Keith White has joined Spectra by Comcast Spectacor as the company’s new chief technology officer of ticketing and fan engagement.
White will lead product management, product development, design, engineering and quality assurance for the Paciolan platform, which was acquired by Spectra.
The Spectra ticketing and fan engagement division enables college athletic programmes, arenas, professional sports and performing arts clients to sell more than 120 million tickets per year. Comcast Spectacor is owned by US media giant Comcast.
White is a former senior vice-president of engineering at Ticketmaster. Before then, he served as director of engineering at Tickets.com.
“I am excited for this opportunity to set the bar with our products, and bring a continued positive impact to our customers and their fans,” he said. “We have a responsibility to push innovation – for everyone’s benefit – and I am looking forward to engaging with the Spectra team and community to help continue to build upon a strong company with a rich history of innovation.”
Dave Butler, chief executive of Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement, added: “We are thrilled to have Keith White join our team as chief technology officer, where he will have a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future direction of our platform. Keith has incredible experience in the industry and we are confident that he will lead our product team to continue to deliver exceptional business value to our clients and their fans.”


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Digital TV News: App Annie
Viu reaches 41.4 million monthly active users
Feb 17, 2020 – Viu (SEHK:0008) has announced that it reached 41.4 million monthly active users at the end of 2019, representing an increase of 35% over 2018. Additionally, video views grew 69% to 5.7 billion year-over-year, supporting growth in its video segment revenue.
News categories: Viu, Janice Lee, Africa, Asia, Digital TV, Middle-East, OTT, Results, Subscribers
App Annie releases The State of Mobile 2020 report
Jan 15, 2020 – App Annie has released its State of Mobile 2020 report. The annual appraisal provides insight into mobile's expansive impact across industries and the global economy, highlighting publishers and brands that are outperforming their peers.
News categories: App Annie, Theodore Krantz, Kathleen Gambarelli, Market Research, Mobile, Worldwide
Tencent Video subscriptions reach 62.59 million at end-February 2018
Mar 18, 2018 – Tencent Video has announced its paid subscriptions reached 62.59 million as of the end of February 2018, which further enhanced its leading position as the largest online video platform in China.
News categories: Tencent, Thirty Sun, China, Digital TV, OTT, Subscribers
- Disney+ available directly on VIZIO SmartCast TVs
- Comscore announces renewal with CBS TV stations
- TVSquared releases pan-European TV advertising performance analysis
- Imagine Communications agrees ad insertion deal with the NCTC
- DISH Network pay TV subscribers down 194,000 in 4Q 2019
- One third of Taiwanese online consumers have accessed TV piracy sites
- Redbox launch Redbox Free Live TV across the U.S.
- Cisco releases Annual Internet Report
- Pixelworks and Qualcomm integrate Live Local TV with 5G broadband
- Kantar to measure TV audiences for MINTIC in Colombia
- NCTC to offer discounted Amazon Fire TV devices to members
- Viu reaches 41.4 million monthly active users
- Roku ends 2019 with 36.9 million active accounts
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Robinhood, a go-to for young traders, benefits from short sale demand
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FILE PHOTO: Vlad Tenev, co-founder and co-CEO of investing app Robinhood, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt event in Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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By John McCrank
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robinhood, the online brokerage used by many retail traders to pile in to heavily shorted stocks like GameStop Corp, has made an ambitious push into loaning out its clients' shares to short sellers as it expands its business.
The broker had $1.9 billion in shares loaned out as of Dec. 31, nearly three times the $674 million a year earlier, and it was permitted to lend out $4.6 billion worth of securities under margin agreements, around five times bigger than the prior year, according to an annual regulatory filing late on Monday.
The size of the jump highlights Robinhood's rapid growth over the past year as the number of retail investors has soared in the work-from-home environment during the pandemic and as retail brokers have largely eliminated trading fees, a model Robinhood helped pioneer.
Menlo Park, California-based Robinhood is expected to go public this year with a valuation of more than $20 billion.
Securities lending is common among brokerages, which can earn income by lending shares to hedge funds and others, who then sell the shares back into the market, betting the share prices will drop so they can buy them back at a lower price when it is time to return them, pocketing the difference.
Shares that are in heavy demand from short sellers, like GameStop, which had 140% short interest in January, command the biggest premium from the lender.
What makes Robinhood notable is that many of the stocks its users invest in are among the most sought-after by people who want to bet against them, said one senior financial executive involved with hedge funds.
It was unclear how great a benefit the securities lending was to Robinhood's revenue and income, which it does not disclose.
Robinhood declined to comment.
The brokerage does not allow short selling on its platform.
In January, retail investors coordinated through trading forums on social media in an attempt to punish hedge funds by buying up shares of GameStop and other heavily shorted names, like AMC Entertainment, driving up their prices and forcing short sellers to close out positions at big losses.
On Jan. 28, at the height of the retail trading mania, Robinhood, along with several other brokers, restricted the buying of GameStop and other so-called meme stocks due to a massive spike in collateral requirements needed to clear the trades, angering many of its customers.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission promised a thorough review of issues raised by the GameStop saga, as well as other issues related to retail brokers and investors.
The trading restrictions had already sparked congressional hearings, regulatory probes and placed greater scrutiny on short selling.
In response, Vlad Tenev, Robinhood's chief executive officer, called for shorter stock settlement times, which would reduce clearing collateral requirements.
He also said the idea that more shares of a stock can be shorted than there are available to trade, as was the case with GameStop, is a "pathology" that could destabilize the financial markets.
Robinhood positioned itself for growth in securities lending in October 2018 by launching its own clearing broker, which acts as a go-between with the clearinghouse that settles its trades, and allows it to hold its customers' assets. The broker can then lend out securities its customers buy on margin.
At present, less than 3% of Robinhood's funded accounts are margin-enabled, Tenev recently told Congress.
(Reporting by John McCrank in New York; Editing by Megan Davies and Matthew Lewis)
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This week, we explore whether CBDC adoption is an inevitable fate for the industry and get the latest updates from the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
The inevitability of CBDC adoption?
Politics is the only obstacle to the mass adoption of CBDCs according to Brett Johnson, the Sales Lead at nChain, who was also part of a panel at the SBC Summit in Barcelona that analysed the state of blockchain.
It was emphasised that the growth of CBDCs is only going to be fuelled by governments increasing the way they embrace the tech. Nonetheless, the shift towards CBDCs is inevitable, according to Johnson, a sentiment echoed by Enrico Giancaterina, Executive Managing Director at Funtech Games, who revealed he has witnessed an evolving of attitudes towards digital currencies.
Giancaterina emphasised that education will be integral to the growth of digital currencies and the rise of CBDCs, with more consumers knowing about them having a clear impact on their evolution.
Defence calls on witnesses as SBF case rumbles on
The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has continued this week, with the defence being able to call on up to six potential witnesses in order to support the case of the embattled ex-crypto CEO.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) outlined this in its filing on Tuesday and will only call a single witness once the trial resumes today (26 October).
It means that defence will begin its case that same day after lunch, with potential witnesses including an FTX investor and customer. The six witnesses proposed have not yet been identified nor confirmed.
Crypto liquidity capabilities key to Ripple Uphold collaboration
Ripple has announced a new partnership with global Web3 financial platform Uphold – enabling customers with increased crypto liquidity capabilities.
The move is also a key boost for enhancing cross-border payments, underlining Ripple’s pre-existing work in finding solutions to help customers accelerate their business performance.
Pegah Soltani, Head of Payments Product at Ripple, said: “Our new partnership with Uphold enables us to enhance our underlying infrastructure and Uphold’s deep liquidity expertise further underpins Ripple’s ability to offer fast and flexible cross-border payments around the world.
“We see this as the start of our relationship and are excited about what the future holds.”
The essential elements of Digital Euro growth
‘Security and privacy’ have both been touted as essential as the digital euro is evolved further into the mainstream.
It follows steps taken by the European Central Bank (ECB) with the progression of plans for a digital euro.
Announcing the plans, the ECB noted that the digital euro will provide the “highest level of privacy”, as they sought to dilute criticisms, which mainly stemmed from the most common CBDC sceptics. Dr. Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3, told Payment Expert: “As we enter the next stage of the digital euro roadmap, developing a model that upholds individuals’ security and privacy should be a top priority for the ECB.
“One current significant challenge facing CBDCs is a lack of clear regulation, which creates uncertainty and a reluctance to engage with the technology. The European Commission published its legislative plans to underpin a digital euro back in June and we expect to see further regulatory clarity following the European elections next year.
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WASHINGTON (Dec. 18, 2010)--The Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund applaud President Barack Obama for signing an important bipartisan bill to protect consumers and animals. The Truth in Fur Labeling Act (H.R. 2480), which passed the House of Representatives in July and the Senate in early December, will bring much-needed accuracy and disclosure to fur products.
The legislation closes a loophole in federal law that currently allows some animal fur garments to go unlabeled if the value of the fur is $150 or less, leaving consumers in the dark as to whether they are buying faux or animal fur. HSUS investigations have found jackets trimmed with animal fur being sold across the country without labels or falsely advertised as "faux fur."
"By signing this legislation, President Obama has given consumers who choose to avoid real animal fur for moral reasons a valuable tool," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS. "The Truth in Fur Labeling Act will protect shoppers by requiring all garments containing animal fur to be accurately labeled."
The HSUS and HSLF also expressed their thanks to the sponsors of this legislation—Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and David Vitter, R-La., and Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., and Ed Whitfield, R-Ky.—for their leadership on this critical animal welfare and consumer protection issue, and to House and Senate leaders for working to bring the bill over the finish line in Congress.
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