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Zelda mastermind Eiji Aonuma revealed more details for the next Zelda on Wii U, including Nintendo’s decision to abandon Skyward Sword’s Wii remote MotionPlus gameplay.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Many in the game industry have been declaring the age of the unconnected single-player game is over; other say it’s exactly that unconnected part that makes a single-player game the experience that it is.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The next generation of consoles might still be a few years off according to related comments by top Sony and EA execs. Until developers reach a technological and creative road block with current consoles, there is no need for another $400 console under their TVs.
Monday, August 22, 2011
The traditional single-player only game experience that has defined videogames since their inception will not exist by the end of 2014. With social networking becoming more integrated in people’s lives, it will have a trickle-down effect and change what has defined a single player game for the last 30 years.
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The Wii U is already beginning to be seen as a “transitional” console based on comments made by developers and even Shigeru Miyamoto himself. As more studios get their hands on Wii U dev kits and the new belief that consoles are reaching a graphical saturation point, that label is beginning to have less resonance. Unique console features will win the next gen race (again).
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Nintendo’s ongoing trouble with its handheld system might spill over to its new home console when it launches next year, the company’s president fears. At Nintendo’s investor Q & A, he voiced concerns that gamers have lost some trust in the company and may take a wait-and-see approach before they purchase Wii’s successor.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
When Nintendo revealed their next console at E3 this year, they said the company was expecting to release Wii U in spring 2012. Gamers hoping for a more concrete date will have to wait till 2012 according to Nintendo’s president.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Based on new dev kits EA has received from Nintendo, EA vice president claims Wii U can do "anything" that PS3 and Xbox 360 can do. He adds, their early research has made them “very happy” with the output of the kits and expects it to get better with more hands-on time.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
After a historic turbulent week for Nintendo, the video game industry is expecting the company to make a much more aggressive stance when pricing their next system than ever before. Investors did not react kindly to Nintendo’s discouraging financial news, sending Nintendo shares down 12 percent.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Mario has always been the jack of all trades, but according to Super Mario 3D Land director, he has too many new trades for Mario in his next adventure on Wii U to fit in just one game. Yoshiaki Koizumi has been speedily brainstorming new ideas for everyone’s favorite plumber and has begun to narrow them down.


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AN EXPANDING electronics company has moved into new premises after outgrowing three units in four years.
Solent Cables spent those years moving from unit to unit at the Victory Business Centre in Portsmouth.
But now the company, run by business partners Rob and Mark Hardwick, has opened its doors to the public at 104 London Road in North End.
The company also has had another success. On Friday it was given limited company status.
Mark puts the company’s success down, in part, to the help they received from the business centre when they first started out.
He said: ‘We couldn’t have achieved what we’ve achieved without the help of the Victory Business Centre.
‘They gave us the environment we needed to get started and grow to the point where we could move out and expand.
‘When we first moved to the centre in April 2007 we had a 330sq ft unit. Six months later we had outgrown it and had to move to the unit next door which was 670sq ft.
‘Some 15 months later we had to move again, this time to a 1,150sq ft unit. And now we are expanding yet again, which is why we’ve decided to move to London Road.
‘In today’s trading environment, small companies need all the help they can get and I’d urge other firms to consider setting up at a business centre first.’
Alan Lowe, manager of Portsmouth City Council’s business centres, said: ‘We’re always pleased when tenants need to move out because they’ve grown and expanded their business.’


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NEW YORK — Elizabeth S. Marcuse, the 49-year-old president of LIM College, has found herself at home in the world of academia.
Over the past 10 years, Marcuse has built a team at the New York City-based college that has allowed her to focus on the big picture. That includes making its students more globally and technologically competitive and responding to what the fashion industry needs from its workforce in the 21st century.
“I learned very early on in my career that there was no ‘I’ in team. I’d say one of my proudest accomplishments is the team that we cultivated and developed here,” said Marcuse, who spent 20 years in the fashion industry before joining LIM. Prior to succeeding her father, Adrian G. Marcuse, as president in 2002, she was director of retail planning at Donna Karan International, and before that was director of retail planning at Mamiye Sales Inc., a children’s wear manufacturer. Earlier, she was a buyer at Lane Bryant and Montgomery Ward and began her career in the executive training program at Macy’s.
LIM College, which was originally known as the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, was founded by Marcuse’s grandfather, Maxwell F. Marcuse, in 1939. He set up a mock store, and experiential learning became the backbone of the institution. The original mission was to establish a school for women to be trained in skills other than secretarial. Its first graduating class had 79 women. Today, there are 1,480 undergraduates and 73 graduate students. The institution’s tag line is “Where Business Meets Fashion,” and the curriculum focuses on fashion merchandising, visual merchandising, marketing and management.
In addition to dramatically increasing the enrollment, Marcuse has strengthened the administration. She recently reintroduced an executive vice president position. Christopher J. Cyphers, former president of the New York School of Interior Design, serves in that role. She also hired a new vice president of academic affairs, Milan Milasinovic, who oversees both the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as named a new associate dean for experiential education and career management, Dudley Blossom.
Marcuse said that the school continues to evolve and change over time. “We relooked at where the holes were and what did we need to do to strengthen, and what do we need to do to remain nimble,” she said. LIM has added to its full-time faculty and its adjunct faculty, who are practitioners in the industry. “They get stronger and stronger every semester, and stay with us longer,” she said.
Among some of the notable new faculty are Virginia Blake West, former brand development director for Unilever, who is teaching the marketing capstone course; Maryanne Grisz, executive producer of “Dressed,” a documentary film about designer Nary Manivong, teaches the Fashion Fundamentals course; John Favreau, currently senior vice president of business development for the McCall Pattern Co., teaches product development, and Kathy Ahn, former director of production for Polo Ralph Lauren’s Women’s Blue Label, teaches product development.
According to Marcuse, the five-year plan is to strengthen the academic program and help the students become more globally competitive, and globally and technologically fluent. She has also expanded its study abroad offerings, adding Australia to its semester abroad program, which includes other regions such as Asia and South America. It also offers students a trip to China every summer with two faculty members. She said while LIM remains small and intimate and experiential education is at its core, it has been adding new courses and programs, as well as online learning. For example, it has added hybrid courses where, rather than spend two days in the classroom, students spend one day in the classroom and one day online. “It gives them greater flexibility in how they manage their out-of-classroom hours,” she said.
In recent years, LIM has morphed from a commuter campus to one where half the students are residential (LIM residence hall or New York City apartments) and half the students commute. The college opened a residential hall at 1760 Third Avenue in 2008, which brought almost 400 students under one umbrella. There are lectures given by fashion professionals, leadership seminars and evening activities throughout the semester at the school.
“As we become more diverse, so have the clubs on campus recognizing the differences among students, whether that’s promoting safety on campus, antibullying or gay and lesbian awareness. It’s typical of any college campus. The thing I’ve learned from these students is they have chosen to go someplace different. They know they don’t have the large quad, the large campus, the tailgating parties. They have New York City at their fingertips. They have the possibility of completing three internships and a very good chance of being employed when they graduate because they’ve been given the tools,” said Marcuse. She noted that every LIM student is given business cards.
Tuition for the 2012-13 academic year is $22,420 for the undergraduate program, and $41,565 for the entire M.B.A. program (five terms).
The campus is located in four buildings scattered throughout Midtown. In 1965, it bought its current flagship building at 12 East 53rd Street. In 2003 and 2004, LIM’s campus expanded to 226 East 54th Street (Center for Career Development) and 216 East 45th (Maxwell Hall), respectively, and, in 2006, it added a state-of-the-art facility at 545 Fifth Avenue at 45th Street. The entire campus is wireless. Marcuse said LIM plans to add 4,300 square feet of space at Maxwell Hall in the spring semester, which will include an enlarged student union area and a food vendor. For the eighth consecutive year, LIM was named among the “Best in the Northeast” colleges by the Princeton Review. In a move to help its students become more globally attuned, LIM offers classes in Spanish, Italian, French and Mandarin.
Last spring, LIM launched a digital business strategy concentration. “It came about from conversations among the faculty,” said Marcuse. She said the courses include digital marketing, social media, e-tailing, mobile marketing, with plans to eventually add courses in Web merchandising, basic app development and Web analytics. Several of the graduates have gone on to jobs at dot-coms such as macys.com, Gilt Groupe and Rue La La. Students are required to do internships throughout their undergraduate years, and often choose retailers, fashion and accessories firms, event planning and p.r. companies. Its graduates have taken jobs at firms such as Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York, Avon, The Limited, Victoria’s Secret, Lord & Taylor, Gap, Sephora and Phillips-Van Heusen, in addition to KCD Worldwide and Sony BMG. Earlier this year, LIM became the first student association of the National Retail Federation, and a group of students did an online survey of 18- to 25-year-olds and their shopping habits.
In 2009, LIM added an M.B.A. program. “The M.B.A. program has been a home run for this institution. We have just received the approval to launch our second master’s degree program. It’s a Master of Professional Studies in fashion merchandising and retail management,” said Marcuse. The one-year program will officially launch next September. LIM will also add a new track in the fashion merchandising major called Home Fashions. LIM’s M.B.A. graduates have been placed at companies such as Polo Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Gucci, Tory Burch, Ann Inc., Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s, Jones Apparel Group, Burberry, Juicy Couture, and Tommy Hilfiger.
Marcuse said she’s looking to elevate LIM’s profile to employers, prospective students and their families. Some 70 percent of the student body comes from the Tristate area, and Marcuse said one initiative is to recruit international students. Despite all the changes to the LIM experience, the student body still skews towards women. Some 93 percent of the undergraduates are female. At the M.B.A. level, 94 percent are female. One strategic initiative that they’re looking into is how to target men. “Because we have successful men who are here,” she said.
There'll be no rest for those headed to Europe for men's, as Paris just closed the gap with Milan. According to a provisional calendar released by the Chambre Syndicale, Paris Men's Week will now open a day earlier on January 16. See new highlights on the official lineup on WWD.com. #wwdnews #wwdfashion (📷: @kukukuba)
BREAKING: Jonathan Saunders is leaving @DVF. The designer has resigned from his position as chief creative officer of Diane von Furstenberg, the company said in a statement on Friday. At the time of his hire, von Furstenberg said Saunders’ arrival symbolized and facilitated her stepping back from the day-to-day duties that occupy the work of a full-time creative director. The British designer joined DVF in May 2016 and was in charge of all product categories. #wwdnews
For @versace_official’s spring ad campaign, the brand emphasized the archival prints from the spring tribute collection dedicated to the late Gianni Versace. Closing out the show were five of Gianni’s favorite models: Cindy, Naomi, Carla, Helena, and Claudia. Bowing on December 18, the new campaign is yet another tribute to supermodel-dom as the images by Steven Meisel are fronted by @iamnaomicampbell, @cturlington, @gisele and more. #wwdfashion
Four-time Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening has been waiting 20 years to play Gloria Graham in "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool," which will be released on December 29. The movie about Graham – a Hollywood star known for her controversial relationship with a younger Englishman named Peter Turner – is based off a memoir Turned wrote. "She felt vulnerable to him, because she loved him, she really did love him. And anyone that we really truly are in love with, we re vulnerable to in a very deep way," said Bening. Read our full interview with the modern icon of an actress on WWD.com. #wwdeye (📷: @ninebagatelles; Styled by @cristinaehrlich)
The crisp white button down: a staple that can be dressed up or down and accessorized throughout the decades. Here, on a Art Basel-goer in 2017 on the left and on the iconic Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday” in 1953 on the right. #tbt #wwdfashion (📷: Andrew Morales)
Known for her work with @victoriassecret, 25-year-old model @georgiafowler is raising her profile in Hollywood. Fowler stars in @vincecamuto’s holiday campaign, which launched in partnership with “Pitch Perfect 3.” “Almost every shoot with Vince Camuto, I’ve had to face a fear…It was definitely a challenge. I’m so grateful for it, though. I’ve always wanted to be a pop star, so that was the perfect chance,” Fowler said. Head to WWD.com to read about Fowler’s experience modeling, including at the #VSFashionShow, and her relationship with Nick Jonas. #wwdeye (📷: @jilliansollazzo)
EXCLUSIVE: Huda Kattan just became the first beauty influencer to land a major beauty deal. Kattan's business, @hudabeauty, has received a minority investment from private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners. The brand, which industry sources say is on track to do $200 million in retail sales for 2017, will receive support on product, retail and geographic expansion through the deal. Get all the details on the deal and read @_a_collins' interview with Kattan on WWD.com. Link in bio. (📷: @jgreenery) #wwdbeauty #wwdnews
Peruvian model @juanaburga_official – who is known for walking the runways of @rodarte, @viviennewestwood and @torybuch – is making the move to the big screen with drama “Los Últimos.” The film premiered in Argentina in November and arrives in the U.S. and Europe in 2018. On making the switch from modeling to acting, Burga told WWD: “It’s a completely different thing – a lot of people think it’s similar or try to connect things, especially like getting used to the camera or being looked at all the time or playing these different characrers, but film is a completely different story.” #wwdeye (📷: @jgreenery)
London’s newly opened @designmuseum will look back on the life and work of Azzedine Alaïa in a show that the designer helped to curate before he died of heart failure last month. The retrospective, which Alaïa had worked on with Mark Wilson, chief curator of the @groningermuseum, will look at the impact of his work worldwide. The show, “Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier,” will run from May 10 to October 7. Read more about the exhibit on WWD.com #wwdnews #wwdfashion (📷: @zefashioninsider)


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Banks cash in on holidays: Customers charged up to £5 for taking out just £100 from foreign cashpoints
Cashing in: Many banks have increased their fees for using cards abroad over the past year.(Posed by model)
Holidaymakers are being charged much more than they expect for using a credit or debit card overseas, financial experts warn.
Many banks have increased their fees for using cards abroad over the past year, meaning someone taking out £100 from a cash machine could be charged as much as £4.95.
Similarly, spending £100 on a credit card could incur a fee of up to £3 and extremely high interest charges.
Some customers are unaware they are being charged at all, because banks fail to spell out the fees clearly in monthly statements.
The complex mix of fees earn banks and other card providers an estimated £700million a year, according to the personal finance website Moneyfacts.co.uk.
Analyst Michelle Slade said: 'People need to make sure they are aware of the additional charges they will face for using their cards in a foreign country.
'For every £100 taken out from a cash machine on an Alliance & Leicester debit card you will be charged £4.95.
'Spending £100 on your Halifax debit card will see you being charged an additional £4.25.'
She advised customers to consider credit cards issued by the Nationwide, the Post Office and some others which do not impose fees for foreign usage.
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Donald Trump may have finally met his match. In Halloween costume sales, at least.
“Everyone still wants to be superheroes,” said Megan Garlend, an Ocala Spirit Halloween store manager. “Marvel Comics characters and Batman. We see a lot of people coming in for Trump, but the superheroes are still the most popular.”
But no matter what costume people choose, temporary employees like Garlend make Halloween sales run smoothly.
Americans are projected to spend nearly $7 billion on the holiday this year, according to the National Retail Federation. A lot of that money will come from pop-up Halloween shops, like Spirit Halloween and Halloween Megastore.
“On Friday and Saturday alone, we’re expecting $50,000 in sales,” said Garlend. “In this last week, we should come out to something like $100,000 total.”
There are over 1,700 temporary costume and decoration stores throughout the country, and more than 100 in Florida alone.
Once the season of Halloween sales rolls around and stores open, staffs of temporary workers are brought in to run the shops. The hiring process moves as quickly as costumes fly off shelves.
“I saw a flier outside of the store, went online and applied and got a call about a week later and was hired that night,” said Holden Howard, a Gainesville Spirit sales associate.
Garlend says it’s the effort from those temporary workers that allow the pop-up system to succeed.
“I really honestly think customer service is what makes it work,” Garlend said. “There’s super customer service and it’s just always a great environment.”
In order to keep up with a continuously growing market, some companies also have staff working full time.
“We pick out the stores in May or June, start setting them up in July or August, open September first, then close November 15th, and we break down the store after that and take everything back to our warehouse,” said Gainesville Halloween Megastore manager Caesar Kakol. “People always ask what do you do after Halloween, they’re surprised it’s a year long job.”
According to Kakol, the most important part of the whole process comes in the spring, when companies begin looking for vacant spots to open up shop.
“It’s all about location,” said Kakol, whose store sits on NW 13th Street. “You can tell we picked a good spot, because last year it was only us and one other store. Now there are two more right around the corner.”
It’s clear why those involved are able to provide such service.
“I love Halloween, it’s my favorite holiday, and I get to wear cool Halloween stuff,” Howard said.


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Thanks to global connectivity and networking sites like LinkedIn, workers now have more ability to take charge of their professional lives than ever before. At GigaOM’s Net:Work conference in San Francisco Thursday, LinkedIn’s SVP of Products and User Experience Deep Nishar highlighted how it’s trying to provide tools to make users more productive and successful.
“More and more people becoming part of this uber talent marketplace … They are entrepreneurs of their own lives,” Nishar said. That doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily going out and starting up their own companies. But in the new talent economy, everyone’s in charge of their own destiny.
So what is LinkedIn doing to capture more users during this transition? And what can users do to take advantage of LinkedIn’s tools?
Nishar said the first step is for users to create their profiles, and for LinkedIn to help them to build their professional networks. According to Nishar, users with completed profiles are about 12 times more likely to find new jobs through the site than those who don’t.
But LinkedIn doesn’t stop there — it’s also trying to help users get relevant information about their field with its top headlines in the industries that users work in. Nishar said the goal is to make users aware of what’s happening in their professional world, but to allow them to do so in just about 15 minutes a day.
Finally, LinkedIn wants to be mobile, with apps and optimized web experiences that help users connect from wherever they are. LinkedIn recently launched a new iPhone app, but has yet to build a comparable experience on the iPad. But when asked if an iPad app was coming soon, Nishar demurred, saying he couldn’t confirm or deny one way or the other.
While LinkedIn is all about networking, it’s not about the same type of social networking and sharing as, say, Facebook. So LinkedIn isn’t interested in driving up the amount of time its users spend on the site, Nishar said. Since LinkedIn’s goal is to make people more productive, it can’t do that if users are there all day. Instead, LinkedIn tries to measure how much value users get out of the time they do spend on the site, by what they do when they visit.
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So Target, whose love of high fashion continues to grow exponentially, wants to have a party there, too. They're capping off their eventful New York summer (they opened their Harlem store last month) with what appears to be an international laser light show. This party, however, will be open to the public.
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That means everyone can come and go from the hotel, but it also includes viewing parties lining Little West 12th Street and an online stream. What's streaming? The lights, but also a live fashion show featuring all of Target's fall offerings. Of course, you can also shop, Target's Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular here.


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The runaway popularity of "Pokemon Go" has opened up a lucrative market. People who sell gaming accounts online are finding that profiles for the mobile game are selling for thousands of dollars.
One listing for "Pokemon Go" on a site called PlayerAuctions is for $999,999. It is for a custom order, so a buyer can tell the seller what they want from an account. The seller will then play the game for them to get the profile up to the requirements requested.
On a site called LeagueofTrading, a user managed to sell an account for $2,000, the co-owner of the site told CNBC, who said that Pokemon accounts are going for higher prices than any other game. Listed accounts are completed up to a certain level and sold on - the higher the level, the higher the price.
"A $2,000 account is an incredibly large order. We have only ever seen an order of this price once before which was an account for the game League of Legends," James Smith said via email.
On PlayerAuctions there are several accounts going for over $11,000. One of these is claiming to be Level 30 with Pokemon that have "combat power" in excess of 2,000. Level 30 is relatively high and the combat power refers to the attack strength of the fictional creatures. A combat power of over 2,000 is also very high.
"Pokemon Go" accounts are also listed on eBay though the values appear to be lower.
Smith said sellers on his site have told him that playing the game and selling on their accounts is their full-time job.
Amir Hussaini told CNBC that he makes about $2,000 a month selling accounts, but he has made as much as $5,000. The 25-year old accountant operates like a professional with a team of players around him who all take a cut of the sale.
Hussaini has spent most of time on "League of Legends", a very popular oinline multiplayer game, but said the rise in popularity of "Pokemon Go" has made him switch his focus. Since it launched last month, the game, which is made by Niantic, has raked in $200 million in net revenue globally on the App Store and Google Play in its first month, beating other top-earning games such as "Candy Crush" and "Clash Royale", according to Sensor Tower. It was the fastest mobile game to reach 10 million downloads globally.
When looking at prices for other game accounts, "Pokemon Go" appears to trump them. For example, the highest-priced account for "League of Legends" on PlayerAuctions is $2,999.
"I have sold quite a few 'Pokemon Go' accounts. As 'League of Legends' is the most played online game, it still has the most demand. However, 'Pokemon Go' has created a high demand quicker than I have ever seen before. It normally takes games months if not years to reach this level of account demand," Hussaini told CNBC.


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In a phone interview on Wednesday based on the company’s second-quarter earnings report, Macy Chief Executive Jeff Gennett said, “Look at the luxury this time, look at Neiman, look at parts of Lord & Taylor.” “The opportunity is there for us. Nordstrom is closing stores.”
“Bloomingdale’s having a moment,” he said of Messi’s high-end department store banner. “We have brands in our arsenal that we haven’t had before that are looking for additional distribution.”
Messi’s latest financial results exceeded analysts’ expectations, thanks in large part to the online boost. The company said digital sales were up 53% from a year earlier, as consumers were moving jewelry, makeup, sneakers and mattresses to visit Macy’s websites.
Macy’s shares recently gained nearly 4% in early trading.
Surrounded by the coronovirus epidemic, the department store has seen a good chunk of turmoil this year. Neiman Marcus, Jessie Penny, Stage Stores and Lord & Taylor have each filed for bankruptcy protection during the Kovid-19 crisis. Nordstrom is closing 16 locations permanently in 2020. Lord & Taylor is the nation’s oldest department store chain, now set to destroy its remaining 38 stores. Penny’s future is still uncertain as discussions with potential bidders have recently come with a deadlock, with the clock ticking for another plan to come through.
However, Gennett says he sees a $ 10 billion share in the market due to the robbery in the retail sector. He said that some dollars are coming from consumers who have more money to spend.
“Customers have got time on their hands. They can’t travel. They were budgeting for the trip, and they want to reward themselves,” Gennett said.
This trend is helping to offset some of the sales the company has lost since international tourism came to a standstill.
To build on the momentum Macy is currently seeing in Bloomingdale’s, the company is going to test Bloomingdale’s department store located away from the mall. Which is expected to open later next year.
“This test has to be done, and it has to be proved,” Gennett said of the new location. “Customer is going to vote on it.”


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We all know that there’s a new Batman game in development, I mean there has to be right? Warner Bros. and Rocksteady have been teasing a new title for a long time now, and Warner Bros is planning a virtual event for all enthusiasts of the DC fandom this August. According to them, this event will include exclusive reveals for all types of fans including moviegoers and gamers.
Aptly named the “DC FanDome”, this event will take place on August 22nd and will offer a mega 24-hour immersive virtual experience. It’s also a free event, where “no badge is required”, and will feature the “stars, filmmakers and creators behind its biggest films, TV series, games and comics.” So yeah, this would be a perfect time to announce a new Batman title.
Reportedly called Batman: Arkham Legacy, which ties in nicely to the ‘Arkham’ series of naming conventions, it’s rumored that this new entry could be focusing on the Court of Owls and a much older Batman (or possibly even a successor of his?). But other than that we don’t know much at all, but considering how much Warner Brothers have been teasing us about a new Batman game, I’m like 99% sure this is likely... maybe 98%.
It’s also reported that this next title will even come out later this year, with cross-gen compatibility between the current and next generation of consoles, which could explain why they’ve taken such a long time to finally reveal it.
We last heart about a new Batman game earlier this year when Warner Bros Games Montreal tweeted out a post which featured a fragmented picture and the caption “capture the knight”; a clear reference to caped crusader also known as the Dark Knight, but the picture itself still remained elusive.
So what do you think? Will Warner Bros reveal a new Batman game during the DC FanDome? Would you be excited for a new Batman game? Even after being teased for so long? Which one has been your favorite so far? Let us know!


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The recent hurricane, Harvey has seriously damaged Houston in almost each and every aspect. But to a great surprise, it has been found that vehicles are one of the major victims of hurricane Harvey. For example, we can consider the family of Katrina Chadbourne, which each and every vehicle has been eaten by the floods caused by the hurricane. The truck, Lexus, Harley and even a pair of water scooters owned by the family has been lost in the floods. All modes of trying to save the vehicles by the family have gone in vain. Even car dealers in the worst hit areas have lost about seven hundred vehicles to the dark and gloomy water of the floods.
Hurricane Harvey has created history in being the most destructive event particularly for cars in Houston. This finding is just based on the early estimates where the waters of the floods have destroyed several hundred vehicles on which the city is solely depended upon for the purpose of transportation. This immense loss of vehicles has created a severe impact on residents which is not allowing a huge number of people to return back to their normal work. People are in search of vehicles on an immediate basis which in turn is leaving automobile dealers to face huge losses who are in a race to fill up their stock of vehicles in these times of abnormally high demand.
500,000 is the number of vehicles that is estimated to have been lost in hurricane Harvey in the Houston area. Mitchell Dale, an automotive dealer stated that his own stock of automobiles, the total worth of which is about 28 million dollars almost all of which is just ruined due to the waters of the flood. He even mentioned that the uninsured loss is expected to be about 1 to 1.5 million dollars.
Harvey has overruled hurricanes Katrina and Sandy in terms of the financial toll. As per the estimates, hurricane Katrina damaged about 250,000 vehicles and hurricane Sandy had damaged about 200,000 vehicles. On the other hand, hurricane Harvey being a more brutal one is estimated to have damaged about 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles whose monetary value is expected to be about 2.7 billion dollars to 4.9 billion dollars. Hence, it is very well proved that how severely the hurricane has affected vehicles in the Houston area.


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An estimated 112.7 million people will travel from home for the holidays between December 23 and January 2, or 3.6 million people more than last year. That also will likely translate to the third busiest year for holiday travel since AAA began tracking in 2000, nearly matching 2018 and reaching 94.5% of 2019’s volume.
“This holiday season includes back-to-back holiday weekends, with Christmas and New Year’s Day falling on Sundays,” Aixa Diaz, AAA spokesperson, told Yahoo Money. “And with the rise in hybrid work, more people now have the option to extend their trips, work remotely from their destinations, and depart and return on less busy travel days.”
On the road
The bulk of American holiday travelers, nearly 102 million, will drive to their destinations. That’s up 2 million drivers from last year, according to AAA.
The most congested days on the road will be December 23, December 27, December 28, and January 2, as travelers mingle with commuters, according to INRIX, a provider of transportation analytics and insights.
In major metros, particularly on December 27 — and especially in Los Angeles and New York City — drivers could encounter double the usual gridlock delays. Overall, drivers nationwide could see travel times 25% longer.
And, as always, weather can wreak havoc with even the best travel plans. The National Weather Service reports “confidence is growing in a powerful winter storm” to impact much of the eastern two-thirds of the country and across the Midwest and Ohio Valley late [this] week.
One joyful development: gas prices. The national average is expected to drop back below $2.99 per gallon around December 23, according to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy.
“Though 2022 has been a tumultuous year for gasoline prices, drivers this holiday season can rejoice in the fact that average gas prices in the U.S. are now below where they were one year ago,” De Haan told Yahoo Money. “The year is nearly over, but at last, it seems like gas prices are done breaking records in 2022.”
Up, up and away
Expect full flights and airports this holiday season with 28.8 million passengers departing from U.S airports from Sunday, December 18 through Monday, December 26, according to data from Hopper, the travel booking app
That’s 18% more passengers than Christmas week last year, with 25.5 million passengers headed to domestic destinations and 3.4 million passengers jetting off to international ports of call.
All told 54 million passengers will take off from U.S. airports over the entire holiday period starting Sunday, December 18 through Tuesday, January 3, up 20% from last year and 4% higher than in 2019, Haley Berg, lead economist at Hopper, told Yahoo Money.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reports that airport security checkpoints nationwide will be busier this holiday travel season than last year with travel volumes nearing pre-pandemic levels, The busiest days are expected to be Thursday, Dec. 22 and Friday, Dec. 30.
“We are prepared for the increased volume and expect to meet our wait time standards of 30 minutes or less in standard lanes and 10 minutes or less in TSA PreCheck lanes,” David Pekoske, TSA Administrator, said in a statement. “However, there may be some situations where the capacity of a checkpoint is exceeded.”
Ticket prices are not quite as high as last year, yet. Domestic airfare for Christmas is averaging $353 round-trip this week, compared with an average of $390 round-trip last Christmas, but already up 5% over last week.
“Prices will just continue to surge as we get closer to the holiday,” Berg said.
The most affordable day to fly is Monday, December 19, while the most expensive day is Thursday, December 22, Melanie Fish, head of global public relations for Expedia, told Yahoo Money.
“When planning your return trip or your post-Christmas trip, avoid flying back Monday the 26th and instead depart Tuesday or Wednesday,” she said.
Airports will be crammed the week ahead of Christmas, with the highest volume of departing passengers, 3.37 million a day, flying out of U.S. airports on the Thursday and Friday ahead of Christmas Eve, according to Berg.
“Traffic will remain relatively high the week following Christmas as Americans head home from holiday trips, and others head out on New Years trips,” she said.
Monday, December 26 will be the busiest day to return with an expected 3.35 million passengers departing from U.S. airports, according to Hopper’s report. Travelers flying on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day will catch a breather with less than 2.8 million passengers expected to depart each day.
For New Year’s travelers, airports will be jammed again Thursday and Friday ahead of New Year’s Eve, with around 3.34 million passengers departing per day, according to Hopper’s report. Monday, January 2 will be the busiest day to head home, with 3.35 million passengers expected to depart, the same as the day after Christmas.
“Overall, the most affordable day to fly is actually New Year’s Eve,” Fish said.
How to cope with travel crowds
Arrive at least two hours ahead of your morning flight time if you’re departing from one of the busiest airports over the Christmas travel week, Berg said, which are expected to be Atlanta, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth and Los Angeles.
If you’re booking a last minute trip, the best way to find cheap airfare is to be flexible on the days you fly. A departure earlier in the week ahead of Christmas weekend will save you the most dough. Add some extra days to pad your travel around Christmas or New Year’s — either before or after. You’ll miss the peak times and fare pricing should be a tad cheaper.
Grab a seat on the first flight out. You’ll be less likely to be knocked off schedule by delays from flight mishaps earlier in the day.
Be ready for things to go awry by downloading your carrier’s mobile app to your phone, so you can easily tap information and get updates for your flight – gate information, flight status, baggage tracking, automatic rebooking and more.
And finally, when it comes to your hotel, don’t panic if you haven’t booked a room yet, Berg said. You can often find good deals at the last minute, as hotels — particularly in big cities — will drop prices in the days leading up to the holiday.
Kerry is a Senior Reporter and Columnist at Yahoo Money. Follow her on Twitter @kerryhannon
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Fleet tire consumption is growing along with population and middle-class expansion regardless of the economic and transportation setbacks related to COVID-19. Thanks to the shift in mobility that is taking place to 2026 and beyond, which includes greater efficiencies in commercial transport and the use of car- and ride-sharing fleets for personal transportation, the fleet
The prospects for tire breakthroughs for autonomous and electric vehicles over the next five years remain strong, according to a report from Smithers.
Compared to winter and summer tires, all-season tires dominate market share in the leading North American and Chinese tire markets.
As tiremakers release financial reports, trends are emerging that will have an impact on the industry’s future.
The need for more automation and faster size changes in tires over the last couple of decades has led to an industry manufacturing transformation.
As automobile manufacturers introduce more of these tires as original equipment, HP tires further penetrate the market and draw the interest of buyers looking to replace tires.
According to Smithers Rapra, the global tire market in volume for winter tires was estimated at 175 million units in 2015 with growth predicted at 3.3% per year through 2021.
Autonomous driving is a game-changing opportunity for the automotive industry as well as its greatest challenge.
The green tire industry, composed of low rolling resistance (LRR) tires as well as those emerging from sustainable materials, is a fast-growing part of the overall tire industry.


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Back in June Rethink Energy pointed out that while bifacial technology represented only 1% of existing solar installs, that the trigger for that increasing was President Trump’s infamous tariffs, which specifically excluded bifacial solar panels.
Now we understand how this came about, those developers working at the bleeding edge said they needed access to bifacials and the US Trade Representative saw no reason to quarrel over what looked like 1% of the market – but it has changed since then.
It was obvious to anyone who knew the market that it would change – if you did not consider using a bifacial panel, at least you had a trial, and pretty soon you could see that all those projects still in development and not already completed, would benefit financially from a) Having around 25% more electrical capacity as output, and b) not having a 25% tariff placed on panel imports.
Bifacial modules absorb light on both sides and improve energy conversion by as much as 25%. Most new projects bid in the last 6 months have focused on introducing Bifacial as it is more profitable, but installs were low. The solar industry already gets a 30% US tax incentive and given that as far as we can see the US has next to zero bifacial manufacturing capacity, what was supposed to be a penalty for Chinese importers, was in actual fact a special way of getting developers to move from cheaper Mono panels, to the more expensive, and more efficient bifacials.
The US Trade Representative explained its change of heart this week in the following terms, saying that in January the President imposed a safeguard measure on imports of certain solar products pursuant to a section 201 investigation. The trade group Solar Energy Industries Association fought the tariff on bifacial technology because it held “great promise for creating jobs, right here in America,” and in June an exemption was started.
But since that decision the US Trade Representative can see the decision “will undermine the objectives of the safeguard measure,” so it has decided to withdraw the exemption as of October 28th.
The problem is that the damage is already done. Solar panels come down in price at the rate of around 10% to 15% per annum, and the average cost of the panel, as a percentage of the entire systems capex for a utility installation, is around 35%. So you are seeing a 25% premium added to a systems component which makes up 35% of the system value. This is a net adjustment to your pipeline cost of around 8.5%. Given that panel values have fallen by 8% to 9% already during 2019, driven as much by the surplus of solar panels in China as anywhere else, this differential is really now about 7%. If you are genuinely getting 375 Wp from a bifacial, where the equivalent Mono panel was 280 Wp, then you have plenty of room to maneuver. The tax incentive of 30% in the US means no-one will change an installation planned for this year, or next at the very least, and by then the US-Sino trade war may be nothing more than a pet subject the previous President used to talk about.
So does this give an advantage to firms which make solar panels in the US? Ostensibly yes, but materials for making solar panels may also suffer from import tariffs, such as Silicon. So Hanwha Q Cells may operate in 40 countries and make panels in the US, and while First Solar could provide all US panels for a while, not everyone likes the technology, and it already has an international pipeline of around $4 billion. For what will turn out to be a maximum 7% slow-down in early project profit, few are going to kill the project or change their supplier. So we may have to get used to the idea that solar panels offer inelastic demand, and very little will change as a result of this tariff, except that onshore US manufacturers will have a slightly healthier sales pipeline.
The US Trade Representative said that newly available information demonstrated that global production of bifacial solar panels is increasing, that the exclusion will likely result in significant increases in imports of bifacial solar panels, and that such panels likely will compete with domestically produced monofacial and bifacial solar products from the US.
The change therefore is not a surprise – in that publicly many have said that excluding bifacial was a little like excluding solar panels generically and that it was bound to change.
Once again President Trump’s policies have shot the US economy in the foot. The deals that this change in policy affects will mean fewer solar jobs in the US and more elsewhere, and energy companies there will simply have less experience with bifacial solar, and be even further behind their international counterparts. Some projects will switch back from bifacial panels to Mono panels in order to get a price cut, but that is likely to undermine the long term profitability of those projects. In another 6 months the price of bifacials panels will fall so far, they will undermine the tariffs anyway.
Meanwhile jobs in coal and gas, markets which Trump promised to protect, have thankfully not materialized and instead are down significantly today and are due to be down more in the neat future, with a whole host of early coal plant retirements broad forward in the past quarter.


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Just this week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thailand stated they were going to propose to remove cannabis from the controlled substances list, reports Bloomberg. If the board agrees, the next step would require approval from the Health Minister Anutin Charnivirakul, before the law is active in Thailand. Should this go to plan, it would mean that Thai citizens could enjoy easier access to cannabis without worrying about going to jail or having to pay big fines.
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FORTUNE -- Citing supply chain sources, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu fine-tuned his Apple (AAPL) estimates again Wednesday:
As for the stock:
"We believe AAPL shares will likely continue to be volatile until year end due to non-fundamental factors including profit taking as AAPL as been an outstanding performer in 2012 where many are opting to lock in gains and fears of higher "fiscal cliff" tax rates next year. However, we believe as we enter 2013, investor sentiment will likely shift back to fundamentals. We are at the beginning of two big product cycles that will likely last 3-5 quarters and see margins poised to improve with greater scale and improving yields."
As rumors of a "real" Apple TV heat up, ideas that could upend the industry resurface
In late 2009, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that sent shivers through the television industry.
Quoting unnamed sources familiar with Apple's (AAPL) negotiations, the Journal reported that CBS (CBS) and ABC (DIS) were seriously considering Steve Jobs' plan to offer TV subscriptions over the Internet.
One form those subscriptions might take, according to these sources, MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 28, 2011 4:23 PM ET
Sterne Agee's Apple analyst sees lots of room for growth in PCs and mobile phones
In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu makes the case that Apple's (AAPL) shares, still down 8% from their recent highs, are a "compelling" buy. He offers four reasons:
"As much success as AAPL has had," he writes, "the company has only 4%-5% share in mobile phones and 4%-5% in PCs (12%-13% including MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 10, 2011 7:56 AM ET
Exploring the mysteries of what the analysts call "multiple compression"
When Apple's (AAPL) shares responded to the news out of the company's developers conference by closing the week at $325.90 -- their lowest level since last December -- I thought I'd take a look at how last Friday's stock price compared with the 12-month price targets Wall Street's analysts posted exactly one year earlier, after the conference that introduced the iPhone MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 14, 2011 11:02 AM ET
Shipments are reported to be approaching 3-4 million/month as production constraints ease
Following a mid second-quarter check with his sources in Apple's (AAPL) supply chain, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu raised his unit sales estimates Friday as well as his price target: to $460 to $445. The stock, which has been impervious to the enthusiasms of sell-side analysts lately, closed Thursday at $340.53.
Among the highlights of the new report:
The production problems that MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - May 20, 2011 8:27 AM ET
With Q2 earnings due next week, the two groups of analysts are once again miles apart
The amateur analysts who follow Apple (AAPL) can afford to be more bullish than the professionals who do it for banks and brokerage houses. After all, unlike the sell-side analysts who are telling investors to buy the stock, they don't have clients who will be angry if the company doesn't exceed expectations.
But with Apple set MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2011 11:08 AM ET
Steve Jobs' latest iteration of the set-top box gets mixed-positive reviews on Wall Street
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster:
We see the new Apple TV as a meaningful change in Apple's efforts in the digital living room. The addition of new content, such as Netflix, in combination with the $99 price (down from $229), will drive higher unit volumes compared to the the previous version of Apple TV. We MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 2, 2010 12:49 PM ET
Is the device that was once Apple's best-selling iPod about to join the iPhone family?
There's been a lot of speculation about what a re-designed iPod nano might look like in the wake of a note issued Thursday by Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu, but what about the software that runs it?
Wu's sources in Apple's (AAPL) supply chain turned up plans to buy components for a smaller-size nano with no clickwheel. MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 27, 2010 6:40 AM ET
"Important details still being ironed out," writes analyst. Could T-Mobile and Sprint be next?
Apple (AAPL) needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone's current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Verizon (VZ).
According to Wu, Apple's share of AT&T's (T) 90-million subscriber base is approaching saturation. Verizon, with 93 million subscribers, would be the MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 23, 2010 9:05 AM ET
Apple engineers are reported to be "furiously working" on a Death Grip software fix
Two reports issued in advance of Apple's (AAPL) scheduled 10 a.m. PT press conference offer hope of a software fix for what has been widely assumed to be a hardware flaw in the iPhone 4's antenna design.
The first comes from Michael Helft in Friday's New York Times, who quotes an Apple source "not authorized to discuss the MOREPhilip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 16, 2010 10:21 AM ET
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Update: the Wake Forest ReStore is officially opening their expanded section on Saturday, December 16th! Come peruse the extra space and see what great product we have (that now fits in our store!)
We're excited to announce that our Wake Forest store will take over the neighboring space formerly occupied by Weight Watchers, giving that store an extra 2,000 sq. feet of sales floor. We are still waiting on permitting in order to finish out the space, but it will be a great addition to the store and will certainly help us bring even more great product to Wake Forest customers. Stop on by and feel free to ask a ReStore employee about the space!


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According to a former developer at Blizzard, Diablo III was originally planned to feature expansive online multiplayer elements. As the third entry in the already immensely-popular series, Blizzard’s third entry in the hack-and-slash role-playing franchise was a massive success when it released in 2012. The game received two expansion packs, 2014’s Reaper of Souls and 2017’s Rise of the Necromancer, both of which expanded the game with new classes, modes, and events. The game continued going strong, with new seasons going through 2020.
Diablo II was a hugely successful release for Blizzard, as it built upon the strengths of the first game while adding new features such as greatly expanded online play. At the time it was the fastest-selling video game of all time, and its success preceded other Blizzard hits like World of Warcraft and Starcraft. Due to the classic title’s popularity, it comes as no surprise that a remake is rumored to be in development, with a potential announcement at this year’s BlizzardConline on February 19. Rumors suggest that Vicarious Visions, the development team behind other remakes such as Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, will be developing the remake after being acquired by Blizzard earlier this year.
David Brevik, a former developer at Blizzard, has spoken out on Twitter to detail plans for a version of Diablo III that never saw the light of day. Brevik worked at Blizzard North, the studio that created the first two Diablo titles and the second game’s Lord of Destruction expansion before the studio was closed in 2005. Through a series of tweets, Brevnik responded to fan questions about the canceled game, which would have put emphasis on online multiplayer features to take the series in a new direction. Brevik also spoke about canceled plans for a second expansion for Diablo II, which would have made several additions to the game such as a new Cleric class and new areas.
I would have been very different from any Diablo. I think it was really interesting. We used a lot of the game-structure concepts for Marvel Heroes. I was an APRG+MMO. MMO in terms of many people playing at once, not like WoW. It was scrapped because most of BlizNo left. https://t.co/dkKddyUlYs
— David Brevik (@davidbrevik) February 14, 2021
While some Diablo fans look to the past, others look towards the franchise’s future. Diablo Immortal, a new installment in the series made for mobile devices, entered closed alpha late last year. So far the title has been well-received by playtesters, according to publisher Activision, though a release date has not yet been announced. Looking ahead to the future, Diablo IV was announced in November 2019 but still does not have a confirmed release date. Blizzard continues to provide quarterly updates about the title, ensuring that anticipation remains high for the long-running series’ next full installment.
It is always fascinating to receive a glimpse into video game development, especially older games that may have fallen off of fans’ radars. Diablo II was a huge accomplishment for Blizzard, and it certainly the developer has momentum that has carried it into the modern age. David Brevik’s tweets paint a picture of an ambitious expansion to an already ambitious game, and plans for a Diablo II sequel that never quite came to fruition.
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Apple's iPhone 6 already packed one of our favourite cameras in a phone, so the boost from 8 to 12 megapixels in the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus came as welcome news.
We were therefore very excited to take the 6S Plus for a spin around an oddly sunny West London to see just how the new camera fares.
This outdoor gallery is the first of a variety of tests we'll be putting the camera through, so keep your eyes firmly fixed on CNET to read everything you need to know about the new phones, including the full reviews.
It started very well in this shot in Ealing's Walpole Park. It's managed to achieve a terrific exposure, with a rich yet natural colour tone.
Again, these autumnal leaves look a little on the cold side. They're well exposed though; there's great contrast and a ton of detail at full screen. It wouldn't take much to quickly warm up the picture in any editing app.


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Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces to acquire KML12 September 2017
Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces is to acquire KML, the Tacoma-based manufacturer of decorative surfaces and panels.
According to vice president, product management, Ron Ubertini, this acquisition supports the continued growth of Wilsonart’s Coordinated Surfaces programme with expanded capacity for the manufacture of Thermally Fused Laminate (TFL) panels.
“Our Coordinated Surfaces offering, a suite of best-matched surfacing options in high pressure laminate (HPL), TFL panels and edgeband featuring more than 230 Wilsonart designs and textures, has garnered tremendous support from both specifiers and fabricators,” says Mr Ubertini.
“TFL is a key part of that offering and expanding our manufacturing footprint enables us to improve service and meet growing demand.”
KML has manufacturing locations in Tacoma, Washington and Stockton, California and employs around 100 people across its facilities.
The company currently markets a standard collection of TFL designs and textures under the KML Design Finishes brand. According to Mr Ubertini, the two companies have a long-standing relationship to provide the market with high quality products.
The transaction closed in September 2017. Earlier this year, Wilsonart announced acquisition of TFL manufacturing operations in Oxford, MS.
“We are clearly committed to providing the North American marketplace with a reliable source of surfacing options across the range of material options,” said Mr Ubertini.


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Sneak Peek: Hottest New Rides Revealed at 2018 New York International Auto Show
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Flying cars? Not quite yet. But cool ones? Heck, yes. The New York International Auto Show opens to the public Friday at the Javits Center, but media were invited for a sneak preview of some of the hottest new models on the market. SUVs and crossovers are expected to capture most of the attention at this year's show, which runs through April 8.


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Dell Inc. has announced it has closed a deal to pick up data centre switching specialist Force10 Networks Inc. for an undisclosed sum, news that sent shares of rival network gear company Brocade Communications Systems Inc. down seven per cent.
It’s a good move for Dell [NASDAQ: DELL] as it tries to build an enterprise stack that puts the company in the league of Hewlett-Packard Co. [NYSE:HPQ] or Cisco Systems Inc. [NASDAQ: CSCO], said Derek Silva, research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group Ltd.
“They actually complement each other really well,” Silva said. While Dell’s existing networking products work well at the edge of the network, it doesn’t have a data centre core play. That’s what Force10 gives Dell, Silva said.
“(Force10 doesn’t) have switches that connect your department to the rest of the network,” he said. “There is very little overlap.” And the deal gives Dell “instant market share, however small.”
Force10 had a 0.6 per cent share of the $4.74 billion Ethernet switch market (all figures U.S) in the first quarter, and a 0.4 percent share of the $21-billion market in 2010, according to Dell’Oro Group. It has annual revenues of about $200 million, and while the company operates in 60 countries, 80 per cent of its business is in North America.
The move is no surprise to Zeus Kerravala, vice-president of enterprise research at Yankee Group. There’s been industry rumours for a year that Dell wanted to add networking products to its portfolio – fed, he added, by the fact that the Texas company was hiring staff with networking experience.
“They weren’t hiring all that talent so they could have an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) relationship with Brocade and Juniper and people like that.”
The deal brings Dell into the realm of a Cisco or HP, Silva said, being able to offer networking hardware throughout the enterprise, from the edge to the core. “The Force10 acquisition is really about being able to sell to enterprises,” as well as the small and mid-sized businesses Dell’s current network gear already sells to.
The two companies make a good match, Kerravala agreed. Most of Force 10’s buyers are Web portals and high performance computing buyers, while Dell is in the volume server business. A merger could get them into each other’s markets.
Kerravala also speculates there could be another reason the pair are getting hitched: Both have two big customers with large data centres: Facebook Inc. and online games provider Zygna Inc. If they are concerned about the viability of small Force 10, the merger would keep both buyers happy, Kerravala said.
The deal should also please network managers, he said, for it keeps Force 10 and its products alive. Kerravala believes Dell will use them to go after Cisco customers with sharp pricing. That will put more pressure on Cisco at a time when the company is coming to grips with competition from HP networking products that have eaten into sales.
Brocade [NASDAQ: BRCD], a Dell partner, had been linked to Dell as a possible takeover target earlier this year. The deal is a much better fit than a Brocade acquisition would have been, according to Silva. Brocade’s strength is in storage networking rather than core data centre switching.
Brocade had been suggested as a takeover target for Dell by Canaccord Genuity Inc. analyst Paul Mansky, who said without the final piece in Dell’s vertical stack, the company risked hopping from one commoditized business to another.
“With the acquisitions of EqualLogic, Perot and Compellent (among others), Dell now has a beachhead in three of the four primary layers in this stack – storage, servers and services,” he wrote in a flash report. “Networking is the one crucial piece that’s missing.”
He noted that Brocade owns the Fibre Channel market, with 70 per cent share.
Silva doesn’t think this will be the end of Dell’s partnership with Brocade because of the latter’s strength in storage area networking. It could end up in lower revenues for Brocade – “Investor sentiment has already spoken to that,” Silva said – as Dell currently private-labels and resells Brocade’s Foundry line of switches.
It’s not the last piece of the full stack puzzle for Dell, whose executives have said they are interested in any acquisition that touches the data centre, Silva said. The company doesn’t have HP’s software footprint, nor Cisco’s communications side.
“It’ll be interesting to see what piece they feel they have to fill next,” he said.
“This is probably Phase 1 of what you’ll see them do,” Kerravalla said. “There’ll be more acquisitions down the road,” he said, because Force 10 doesn’t have a full networking portfolio.
Possible targets in Kerravala’s mind include Extreme Networks Inc. [NASDAQ: EXTR] and wireless LAN manufacturers Aruba Networks Inc. [NASDAQ: ARUN] and Meru Networks Inc. [NASDAQ: MERU].
“Computing and networking are coming together,” Kerravala noted, pointing to Cisco’s move to sell UCS blades, HP’s acquisition of 3Com and Intel’s purchase this week of Fulcrum Microsystems Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that designs Ethernet switch silicon for data centre network providers. “Having more options is better for customers,” Kerravala said.
The transaction was approved by the board of directors of each company. Additional terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in late summer.
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Will we remember this moment? The month, the day, the hour Tesla CEO Elon Musk started shipping Tesla Model 3 to the first of a reported 373,000 customers and, perhaps, changed the course of electric vehicles forever?
“I don’t think there’s any question that this is their most important launch,” said electric vehicle pioneer and consultant Chelsea Sexton.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Ryder System Inc.
said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit totaled $10.6 million, or 19 cents a share, from $71.9 million, or $1.24 a share, in the same quarter a year before. The result included restructuring and other one-time charges of 90 cents a share, making adjusted earnings $1.09 a share. Analysts had expected adjusted earnings on average of $1.03 a share, according to a FactSet Research survey. Revenue for the quarter was $1.37 billion compared to $1.67 billion in the year-ago period. Ryder said it forecasts full-year 2009 earnings to be in the range of $2.60 to $3.30 per share.


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Nebraska Aims to Collect Online Sales Tax
The Nebraska Department of Revenue recently issued a press release detailing how Nebraska will begin collecting online sales tax. On June 21st, the United States Supreme Court came to a decision in the South Dakota v. Wayfair case.
This decision overturned a precedent set in 1992 which prohibited states from collecting sales tax on sales from businesses with no physical presence in the state. With the Supreme Court ruling in favor of South Dakota, Nebraska will also require remote sellers who do not have a physical presence in the state, but who engage in business within the state, to collect and remit sales tax starting January 1, 2019.
The Department of Revenue says it is prepared to assist businesses with registering in the state, the collection of taxes, and remittance of the taxes to the state.
Nebraska Tax Commissioner Tony Fulton stated, “The Wayfair decision presents a new climate for remote sellers, and we want to be mindful of that fact. Further, we do not take for granted the great service to Nebraska performed by businesses who collect sales tax on behalf of the state. Remote sellers seeking to comply with our laws will find a respectful, professional Department ready to assist them as partners.”
One big takeaway from the Department of Revenue’s press release is that the online sales tax collection will not be retroactive. This means tax collections will not be sought out for any online sales made before January 1, 2019. The reason for not making this decision retroactive is to adhere to the Wayfair ruling. The ruling argued that online sales tax could not be collected if it created an undue burden on the business. Retroactively collecting sales tax could be in violation of this Supreme Court ruling.
This new development from the Department of Revenue will spark new conversations on what the revenue from the sales tax could be used for. Most estimates have suggested that Nebraska could bring in about $30-$40 million annually. Lawmakers will now have to decide the most effective way to use any additional sales tax revenue.


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(NEXSTAR) — The internet went nuts when Apple TV+ announced it would have the exclusive rights to the Peanuts holiday specials — meaning they were no longer available on traditional broadcast TV.
Apple apparently heard your cries on social media and cut a deal with PBS to bring your favorites like “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to your local PBS station
The ad-free broadcasts will be available in primetime on November 22 at 7:30/6:30c (Thanksgiving) and December 13 at 7:30/6:30c (Christmas), according to TV Insider.
If those times don’t work for you, you’ll be able to stream the shows at your convenience on Apple TV+. The platform will also offer some free viewing windows around each holiday.
“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will be available for free from Nov. 25 until Nov. 27 on the platform, and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will be available to customers for free from Dec. 11 until Dec. 13.
The holiday specials have aired annually on broadcast television since the 1960s.
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November 20, 2007
Starting Gun Fires for 445-Acre Stake in Hub
By Connie Gore
WILMER, TX – The Allen Group is ready to draw down 445 acres from its 6,027-acre Dallas Logistics Hub. The market’s been buzzing for weeks about the upcoming sales campaign, which kicks off today for four tracts situated within a half mile of the main entrance to Union Pacific Railway’s intermodal yard in southern Dallas County.
Daniel J. McAuliffe, president of Allen Development Texas LLC, tells GlobeSt.com that the San Diego-based developer plans to invest about $6 million into additional infrastructure as part of the offering agreement for tracts of 36.35, 95.57, 156.33 and 156.68 acres with a combined 6,910 feet of frontage along Pleasant Run Road. The sales dowry includes bringing utility lines to the tracts’ edges plus securing entitlements and annexation of roughly 300 acres so the entire site is part of the City of Wilmer. Under the master plan, the dirt could hold up to 7.5 million sf of light-industrial space.
The no-ask offering’s call for offers is Feb. 8. “We’ll let the market dictate the price,” McAuliffe says. This year, prices for entitled dirt, with utilities, have been fetching $2.25 per sf to $2.50 per sf. Colliers International Inc.’s executive vice presidents Tom Pearson and Chris Teesdale are in charge of the sales campaign.
McAuliffe says “one of the real winners in this is going to be the City of Wilmer” because the annexation will put all the land into its tax base. The acreage is part of a land assembly bought last year from five sellers.
McAuliffe says the owner wants to “repatriate” some of the gain back into Dallas Logistics Hub’s continued development. “We want to liberate some of the capital we have invested to put those dollars back to use for horizontal and vertical projects,” he explains. “We have selected tracts large enough to attract some bigger players in the market, but to position them in locations so they can establish their own identities.” A lock, stock and barrel buyer is preferred, but not required.
In the past three years, McAuliffe says the Allen Group has been approached on numerous occasions about selling a piece of Dallas Logistics Hub, which already has drawn a large number of industrial developers to southern Dallas County. “Our competition is there throughout that market,” he stresses. “We don’t see it as eroding any of our market foothold that we have in that market.”


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Here’s Why iOS 14.5 Is Going To Be a Game Changer for Privacy Advocates
3 privacy features are about to offer iPhone owners more control over their data
When Apple first unveiled the new iOS 14 features in WWDC 2020, there weren’t a lot of noticeable changes barring the widgets and revamped home screen.
After an enormous iOS 13 update, the world was expecting the iOS 14 update to be a lot more subtle with incremental changes and fixes. However, when it came to privacy lovers, Apple certainly had some big plans.
With the introduction of approximate location, local network permission, dot indicators while the camera or microphone is in use, limited photo library access, restricted clipboard permission, and the ability to know your compromised passwords, the Cupertino tech giant brought in some robust features to ensure its users fall in love with the iPhone once again.
Without a doubt, iOS 14 has been Apple’s biggest privacy update in recent years. And just when we thought the show is over, the iPhone maker surprised us once again by releasing the App Store privacy report and labels feature much to the dismay of Facebook and Google.
Yet, it’s the upcoming iOS 14.5 update that’s going to be a game-changer since it brings in a few more privacy enhancements to help tighten the noose on data security. Let’s walk through what those updates actually do.
One Can Unlock Face ID with Apple Watch and Partial Scan
While people were wearing masks constantly in the year that went by, Apple surprisingly decided to stick with Face ID knowing it has limitations and erroneous detections.
Even the new iPhone 12 despite boasting of the best ever camera specifications couldn’t quickly come up with a better face-tracking technology that accounts for masks.
Gladly with the introduction of iOS 14.5 you can say bye-bye to removing masks for unlocking your iPhone. Instead, the latest software update includes a few privacy-safe workarounds by leveraging your Apple Watch. Basically, with the help of a passcode-enabled watch that’s unlocked and nearby you can unlock your iPhone when you’re wearing a face mask with a partial scan.
From a distance, this might seem like a privacy breach. After all, how can another device be allowed to decrypt your iPhone’s password? But from the initial impressions, Apple has played a smart move by leveraging Ultra-Wideband technology.
The UWB uses the UI chip that’s embedded in all Apple devices to access the spatial location of nearby devices in a secure way. Besides, since Apple is releasing the latest watchOS update alongside iOS 14.5, one can expect them to have set up a singular security function in their codebases across the watch and iPhone.
App Tracking Transparency Framework Would Let Users Disable Personalized Ads
After first revealing the opt-in ad tracking feature in WWDC2020 Apple is finally gearing up towards its launch this spring.
For those who aren’t aware, the Cupertino tech giant has released a new framework named
AppTrackingTransparency (ATT). This means developers would now be required to receive user’s consent before tracking them across apps. So, advertisers would no longer be able to leverage the IDFA to uniquely micro-target a specific user or access their device’s advertising identifier without prior consent.
Unsurprisingly, companies such as Facebook that were minting money out of personalized ads to connect small businesses with certain customers have been criticizing this privacy feature as they now stand at risk of losing out on ad revenue due to the lowered CPM costs.
Admirably, Apple has also included an option that lets you toggle “Allow apps to request to track” from the privacy settings to allow or block ad tracking across all apps on your iOS device.
Safer Google Browsing On Safari through Apple’s own servers
If tightening the noose on Facebook wasn’t enough, Apple has brought a bazooka for Google as well.
We all know how Google has been exploiting AMP(Accelerated Mobile Pages) to create its own walled garden on the internet. For those who don’t know, Google AMP was a feature released to optimize mobile web page loading in a bid to make the user experience a lot similar to native apps.
/amp URL by default. Besides boosting web apps, this feature also gives Google access to the website that you’re viewing since AMP-enabled pages ensure you’ve never really their google domain.
Now with iOS 14, Apple has created a sort of proxy Google server for its Safari browser. This means every Google request would route through Apple’s own server thereby giving the search engine giant no access to the IP address.
Earlier Google Safe Browsing used to share your IP addresses to look for unsafe websites. This again is a great move to bolster privacy and ensure Safari browsing is safe. Now with iOS 14.5, Apple ensures your IP address isn’t shared with another company as their own proxy servers would redirect the Google Safe Browsing traffic.
iOS 14.5 will have a slew of other enhancements as well. Siri would no longer force Apple Music as the default music app. So, one can easily make set Spotify or other third-party music services as the default. This is a good play by Apple who’ve been long called out for using their dominant platform to promote in-house apps.
On the other hand, Apple Maps will now bring accident and other real-time traffic reporting features.
The upcoming iOS software update is certainly going to be a massive deal for a minor version upgrade — especially for privacy lovers.
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Clapton Girls’ Academy learned all about entomophagy by tucking into mealworm burgers, crickets and grasshoppers in preparation for a new GCSE.
The menu of edible insects, which included black ant and cheese pâté on bread, and cricket and cauliflower pakora, was presented to students taking up AQA’s food preparation and nutrition GCSE, which will be sat for the first time in 2018.
Also up for grabs were mealworm burgers, cricket and grasshopper tarts served with spinach puree, and cricket crepes in a chocolate sauce for dessert.
Part of the new GCSE exam specification requires students to learn about the environmental impact and sustainability of food, with insects considered an environmentally friendly and nutritious food source for their low-fat content, high levels of protein and the vitamins and minerals they contain.
“Our students will be some of the first in the country to take the new qualification, and we are keen for them to experience as many food cultures as possible,” said Susan Gakunga, food preparation and nutrition teacher at the school. “It’s great to help them learn how and why different insects are eaten across the world and we this will help them understand the benefits of alternative food sources.”
Food was provided by pest control company Rentokil as part of their Pestaurant programme, which aims to encourage more people to indulge in insect-eating, with the dishes prepared by head chef Andy Holcroft.
“It’s not difficult to make a tasty meal using edible insects,” Holcroft said. “You can be really creative with the way insects are incorporated within a meal and they can be used to provide texture, crunch, and decoration or even used in the form of insect flour.”


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Trazable, the Spanish company that raised over €3 million in its ICO launch Opticus, the second tool for its TRZ coin After the positive reception of Origin, the first utility of the token.
What is Opticus? The second tool for the TRZ token
Just a few months after releasing its first coin-op utility, Trazable has decided to kick off 2023 in a big way: by revealing a new Opticus tool to its community.
Opticus is Trazable’s new OCR This will allow companies to convert all their paper documents into digital, and get editable documents as the end result.
OCR in Spanish, OCRis a text recognition program that extracts the text it contains from an image and converts it into character strings for saving in a format that can be used in text editors.
Opticus mainly targets companies operating in the food sector, Locally and globally, but it can also be used by companies and organizations of any sector, since its functionality is beneficial to all companies in the process of digitization.
90% of companies and organizations (from SMEs to large companies) in the food sector are still working on paper documents instead of speeding up their work thanks to technological tools.
Thanks to Opticus and Trazable, they’ll have a digitization process twice as easy.
How Trazable has managed to bring food companies closer to cryptocurrency with its profits
Last summer, Trazable launched Origin, a tool that allows food companies to connect with consumers and establish a close, trusted relationship thanks to the generation of product stories.
Thanks to these two facilities, Trazable has been able to bring small, medium and large companies in the food sector closer to the world of cryptocurrency.
To access the annotated tools, companies are required to obtain a TRZ token and have 10,000 TRZ.
Traceable Feedback The feedback from the companies is entirely positiveeven if they do not have knowledge of the blockchain and tokens, before interacting with TRZ.
Origin, the tool that allows consumers to discover the origin of what they eat
The first utility for TRZ is called Origin. Businesses using the service can generate QR codes even if they have not contracted Trazable smart software with blockchain technology and establish a relationship of trust with their customers.
With Origin they have the ability to share their product story from field to field with consumers.
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Redline Reviews was one of the first who took a look on the new Nissan LEAF e+ at the CES. Here is a quick overview of the new electric car.
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FedEx begins operations in the new logistics centre in Mexico
Nov 15, 2016: FedEx Express began operations at a new FedEx Logistics Centre located in the El Peral Industrial Park in the municipality of Cuautitlan Izcalli in the State of Mexico.
The new centre combines the capabilities of an advanced facility with a talented team of logistics professionals to provide a comprehensive service offering to its many customers, which now includes unloading, storing and transferring of products and packages.
The centre is part of a five-year expansion plan by FedEx in Mexico, as the company seeks to meet customer needs and expand its service offerings.
“Having an advanced facility in the area of supply chain is critical to promoting international trade. That’s why we at FedEx continue to drive growth in our Latin American markets, connecting companies with global opportunities through alliances and investments and always aiming to meet the current needs of each country or territory in which we operate,” said Juan Cento, president of FedEx Express Latin America and the Caribbean.
The new 270,000 sq. ft. facility will allow the company to consolidate all logistics operations in one place, providing better control of inventory with real-time visibility and traceability of all shipping and movements.
The highlights of the new centre include: 26 loading and unloading platforms; more than 86,000 sq. ft. of storage space in selective rack systems of up to seven levels with 12,734 available positions; mezzanine with three levels of 15,000 sq. ft. each; maquila added-value station; post-sale reverse logistics customer care area; control tower for monitoring critical deliveries throughout the country; inventory administration operated by state-of-the-art WMSs and modulated growth capacity.
“In this way, FedEx continues to grow and expand its portfolio of services, creating business opportunities for its clients in Mexico and offering greater support to Mexican companies in all sectors and industries,” said Jorge Torres, president of FedEx Express Mexico.
FedEx is currently one of the largest and most important logistics companies in Mexico, having a strong market share in the country’s courier and parcel industry with more than 1000 local outlets, five air cargo terminals, one logistics centre, 12 warehouses, 45 forwarding stock locations, 84 stations, more than 1,300 ground vehicles, and three aircraft supporting both domestic and international operations.
FedEx Express continues to expand its infrastructure and services in Latin America and the Caribbean to meet the needs of customers in the entire region.
FedEx Express Latin America and Caribbean serves more than 50 countries and territories and employs more than 19,000 people committed to total customer satisfaction.
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New Center workers, your lunch plans just got better. One of the city's favorite shawarma joints, Bucharest, has opened its third location today on Piquette Street in the city's Milwaukee Junction. The long-anticipated opening took place at 10 a.m.
Owner Bogdan Tarasov had been working on building out the new spot, in the former Dave's Drive-in, for the past year, Eater Detroit says. And the expansion for the popular eatery is not over. The blog reports that a fourth locale is to be installed on the Avenue of Fashion next year. Other locations include the original spot 2040 Park Ave., around the corner from the Fox Theater, and in Corktown at 1623 Michigan Ave.


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NEW DELHI: Delhi cabinet is likely to approve free travel for women in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and cluster-scheme buses soon. A government source said DTC has suggested that it can provide the free passes provided it receives government’s subsidy.
“We have presented two options to Delhi government. The first one is to issue tickets to women without taking money, or to roll out special travel passes for them. The government can provide us subsidy to cover the cost,” a DTC official said.
Currently, DTC provides free travel passes for differently-abled, war widows and freedom fighters for which Delhi government reimburses the bus company.
“We can apply the same method to women travellers provided the government gives Rs 800 or Rs 1,000 per month per pass for non-AC and AC buses, respectively,” the official said, adding that DTC would need government’s help to implement the project.
The official explained that allowing completely free travel was not legally possible. The buses operate under stage carriage permits, and according to Section 124 of the Motor Vehicles Act, free travel is not permitted. So, some kind of ‘instrument’ such as a pass is required to make free travel for any category of passenger legally tenable.“With passes, it will be easier for us to keep track on the ridership and also provide the record to the government. Based on the records, Delhi government can compensate DTC,” he said.
If the option of free travel passes is approved, DTC might have to augment its infrastructure as the number of people applying for the passes will rise drastically. “If the proposal is approved, we will implement it immediately. We are just waiting for the orders from the government,” the official claimed.
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