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Amazon’s announcement of HQ2, a second headquarters, is about to set off an incentive arms race among state and local officials bidding for its economic promise. Elected leaders will leap at the chance to recruit Amazon, a widely admired technology company that has led development of some of the most powerful technologies of the 21st century, from cloud computing to smart speakers to drone delivery. The company employs more than 350,000 people and has grown more than 40 percent in a year.
Amazon’s rapid job growth and strong market position suggest that the company’s promise of 50,000 jobs in HQ2 is as sure a bet as can be found in economic development. But technologies evolve unpredictably, and today’s market leader—even one as admired as Amazon— may take a tumble tomorrow. As state and local officials prepare to open public coffers to recruit HQ2, they should make sure taxpayers are protected if the company’s fortunes turn.
I learned this hard lesson myself when I was the director of business development in the Washington, D.C. mayor’s office five years ago. At the time the hottest company in town was LivingSocial, a startup that offered daily deals to millions of email subscribers. LivingSocial was hiring several people every day in their Washington, D.C. offices, which the company seemed to outgrow every few months. The company was the flagbearer of DC’s tech sector with a value of $6 billion.
Recognizing its leverage, LivingSocial’s executives demanded that the city provide substantial financial incentives in exchange for the company remaining in Washington. After a lot of debate, my colleagues and I decided that, given the novelty of the daily deals market, we preferred an incentive package that the company would “earn” over time through continued hiring growth. The city ultimately gave LivingSocial a package along those lines, with a total value of up to $32 million.
As it turned out, the next few years were not kind to the daily deals space in general, and to LivingSocial in particular. The daily deals market lost retailers weary of bargain-hunting consumers who seldom became loyal customers. LivingSocial itself was hacked, with 50 million customers affected. Last year its competitor Groupon bought the company for a pittance.
LivingSocial’s demise was painful to Washington, resulting in hundreds of jobs and the loss of a top local tech brand. But taxpayers were unaffected because the city had negotiated an incentive package tied to performance. LivingSocial never hit its hiring goals, so the city never paid any money. It was that simple.
LivingSocial’s collapse may be an extreme case, but it’s hardly unusual that tech companies fail to meet their promises. In one notorious example, former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling received a $75 million loan guarantee from the state of Rhode Island for 38 Studios, his video game startup, in exchange for a commitment for 450 jobs. The company went bust in only two years, and the state recouped barely a third of its investment.
It makes sense for government to backload an incentive package to ensure that a company fulfills its commitments. But that seldom happens. Instead, state and local governments give inducements up front like tax cuts, relocation payments, and infrastructure upgrades, leaving them limited recourse to reclaim the money if the company fails to keep its part of the bargain, as happened with 38 Studios.
Corporations prefer to get the money earlier, and without strong clawback provisions that tie payments to performance, they have little reason to avoid making promises they may not fulfill. Motivations on the public side are also aligned against clawbacks or back-loaded incentives, since a governor eager to celebrate a new headquarters may care less about what happens if the deal sours once she is out of office. It’s not surprising, then, that over the last fifteen years state incentive packages have become increasingly front-loaded. Such packages are particularly ill-advised when given to technology companies that might easily beat growth projections (think Google in the last 15 years) or meet sudden headwinds (think Blackberry, or LivingSocial for that matter).
Could a new Amazon headquarters add jet fuel to the local economies of Chicago, Dallas, or Philadelphia? Amazon certainly wants city leaders to think so. Its initial announcement of HQ2 claims that Seattle, home to its current headquarters, gained $1.40 for every $1 that Amazon invested locally over the past two decades.
Even if Amazon’s numbers are true—a big if—it’s quite an assumption to presume that the next 20 years will be as kind to Amazon as the last 20, or that the city hosting HQ2 will benefit as much as Seattle has. Amazon itself, and not local taxpayers, should bear the risk if the company’s fortunes unexpectedly turn. The public officials scrambling to woo HQ2 would be wise to look past Amazon’s rosy growth projections and ensure their residents are protected no matter what the future brings.


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Naming companies is a challenging process, as any individual who does it for a residing can attest. “It’s tough to criticize a identify,” states S.B. Learn, a Berkeley, Ca.-centered founder who has launched two naming companies in her career, one of which is approximately thirty a long time old. “From deciding upon a identify, to acquiring a team to concur to it, to clearing that identify from a trademark and URL and social media standpoint — it’s a discomfort.” By “triangulating around these troubles, people today conclusion up someplace, which is much better than no position,” she adds sympathetically.
Curiously, the position wherever a growing selection of startups would seem to be landing is on a person’s name that may have nothing to do with their organization.
This week, for case in point, a 12 months-old, L.A.-centered firm known as Dave elevated $three million for an application that predicts forthcoming expenses and alerts users if their bank stability is minimal. Its founders say that people today frequently ask friends or spouse and children for short-phrase loans to cover shortfalls they want their customers to feel of their startup as a pal who’s also seeking out for their very best interests.
Yet another firm, U.K.-based Hibob (for “Hi, Bob”), elevated $seventeen.5 million in Series A funding this week for its cloud-centered HR and rewards system.
Other companies have taken the exact tack in new a long time, such as an application known as Barry that allows users conserve full-size webpages, the tech-focused well being insurance policies firm Oscar and Clara, the virtual assistant firm, whose identify in all probability makes the most sense of the bunch, supplied that assistants have historically been precise people today.
In fact, assigning tech startups human names dates back again at the very least five a long time. Alex Friedman, president of Ruckus Advertising and marketing in New York, details to Casper, the mattress and bedding firm whose brand name evokes the friendly ghost who assists continue to keep his buddies harmless while they snooze. There is also Harry’s, the shaving gear firm whose identify evokes, of class, hair. And founders have named companies soon after them selves for as prolonged as any individual can try to remember, in tech or usually. The online training firm Lynda.com is named soon after co-founder Lynda Weinman. Philz Coffee is named soon after founder Phil Jaber.
Continue to, assigning companies human names just to make tech items much more approachable is a considerably more recent trend that’s poised to escalate speedily in the age of synthetic intelligence. Sadly for startups, regardless of whether it’s an tactic to emulate — or steer clear of — is a little something on which branding authorities can not pretty concur.
For his section, Friedman does not feel a company’s identify is approximately as significant a deal as everything that goes into supporting that brand name. “The identify itself is not the brand name,” he states. “It’s an icon or part of what a firm would like to make for itself, a focal position for how it’s developing its organization. I say this a ton, but the identify is a ton fewer significant than the weight that numerous people today give it.”
No matter whether it’s Bob or Bill or Casper, he states, what’s much more significant is “what you’re selling, who the customer is and how substantially funds you have guiding you. Without the need of funds, building a identify signify a little something is tough. If you don’t have the funds, you will not get incredibly much.”
The look at operates contrary to that of David Placek, a Sausalito, Ca.-centered naming expert whose legendary perform was profiled a long time back in The New Yorker, and who thinks names perform very best when there’s a good story around them. He details to Tesla, named after inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist Nikola Tesla. “It’s an reliable association and it’s classy.”
“Compare ‘Tesla’ to ‘Dave’ or ‘Bob,’ ” Placek says, pausing, making an attempt to locate a little something positive to say about the latter models. “Dave is the more powerful idea that ‘v’ has some strength to it. Bob would seem a minimal casual for an HR functionality.”
If you ended up to ask us, we’d say to skip the trend and choose for a little something initial. (Glimpse, we still try to remember the sentient computer HAL in 2001: A Place Odyssey. We also remember that points did not go so perfectly for the people today in HAL’s existence.)
Really don’t expect the fashion to fade absent at any time quickly, however. If there’s a constant pattern, states Placek, it’s that “people consider to replicate success.” Mainly because Harry’s and Casper are seemingly executing perfectly, other companies will naturally think it’s truly worth a shot, way too.
The very good information, states Learn, the Berkeley-centered pro, is that, “in general, a bad identify is not likely to kill an intrinsically very good item or firm. The excellence of the supplying can conquer numerous naming weaknesses. Except it’s unpronounceable. Or forgettable. Or you get sued. A ton of founders,” she states, “have conquer suboptimal names.”
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Even when there are new brands like Lava, Karbonn, Xiaomi and Huawei coming up – which are comparatively newer as Sony has been around even before these companies, even these new companies are dishing out great products.
Just as with other companies, there is usually some excitement when Sony Xperia launches a new phone. The Xperia range of phones has since moved to Android from Windows Mobile OS, and the Sony Xperia Z5 Dual promises a great experience for users. Launched in September 2015, the mobile phone accepts two Nano-SIMes and has a 5.20-inch touch screen display. This is ideal for watching videos and music via mobile. Along these lines is 1080 by 1920 for the screen. The PPI boasts 424 pixels.
Memory is obviously an important component of any phone, and the Sony Xperia Z5 has 3GB of RAM while its internal storage capacity has a capacity of 200GB when expanded using a microSD card. The company has also targeted people who love taking photos by offering the 23-megapixel primary camera at the back and a 5-megapixel front camera that will cater to people who like taking selfies. Sensors play a critical role in a phone, and this particular phone has a gyroscope, accelerometer, ambient light sand proximity sensors.
Its 2900mAh non-removable battery is used to power the phone. It measures 146.00 x 72.00 x 7.30 (height x width x thickness) while weighing 144.00 grams. When it comes to connectivity, you can go for Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, FM, 3G, 4G.
One of Sony’s latest smartphone’s, the Sony Xperia M5 that was unveiled in August last year, is scheduled to enter the European sooner than later. The Sony M5 is IP68-certified, which makes it water as well as dust resistant. The device will also get the Marshmallow update. However, it is not known when that will exactly happen. The device is only 7.6mm thin and weighs only 142 grams. The device has excellent 21.2MP back and 13MP front camera.


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Beijing on June 10th news, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. electronic coupon website Coupons.com said today that it has received $200 million in financing from institutional investors.
Coupons.com says it will spend about half of its money on corporate expansion, including strategic acquisitions and marketing campaigns. Steven Bauer, Chief Executive Officer (Steven), said the remaining funds will be used to repurchase shares from existing investors and employees in the hands of Boal.
Bauer declined to disclose the identity of the investor or the company’s financial position. According to insiders, the latest round of financing will be $1 billion valuation of the company, the company expects revenue this year will reach $100 million.
Bauer said the company’s revenue mainly by the consumer print coupon number is calculated, rather than quantity according to the actual recovery coupon calculation.
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, an analyst at the research firm comScore (Andrew Lipsman) said that in the past year, Coupons.com has been a leader in online coupon market. ComScore statistics show that the number of access coupon websites in April more than 38 million people. Among them, the number of independent visits Groupon 10 million 800 thousand people, LivingSocial independent access to the number of people, Coupons.com, the number of independent visits to is 6 million 500 thousand.
Coupons.com existing staff of more than 300 people, this year may be increased by about 100 people. It now has offices in Silicon Valley and London, and plans to set up new offices in Chicago, Losangeles and New York.


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SOUTH HADLEY -- Big Y Foods Inc. plans to close its 501 Newton St. store on or before Feb. 9 in the face of increasing competition, including competition from the company's own newly-renovated store nearby on Willimansett Street.
Of the 27 full-time employees at the Newton Street store, Big Y has been able to find jobs elsewhere in the company for all but two. Most will work at the Willimansett Street location. Of the 65 to 70 part-time workers, 50 have been transferred elsewhere within Big Y, according to company officials.
"I think every business has to continually look at cost and duplication of effort," said Claire M. D’Amour-Daley, vice president corporate communications for the Springfield-based supermarket chain. "We have been blessed with a great staff at that store.”
Big Y's lease on Newton Street is due to expire. Big Y has had the two South Hadley stores for 10 years since acquiring the Newton Street location from A&P / Super Food Mart in 2003. The pharmacy at Newton Street will close on Jan. 19, and the prescriptions will be transferred to Willimansett Street.
"The competitive landscape has also changed in South Hadley in the last five years," D’Amour-Daley said. "Just look at the stores you have within a five-mile radius."
Customers now have their choice among nearby Aldi, Super Walmart and PriceRite locations. Up the road in Hadley, there is a Trader Joe's and a Whole Foods.
Big Y's Willimansett Street store is newer than the Newton Street location, having opened in 1998. And Big Y spent $1 million renovating Willimansett Street in 2010, she said.
In Westfield, Big Y has no plans to close either of its stores, D'Amour-Daley said, although the company did close its pharmacy at the store on East Main Street there.
Like South Hadley, Big Y has two Westfield stores with one having once been an A&P / Super Food Mart. Westfield also has a PriceRite and a Stop & Shop, and city's Walmart location is expanding.
Founded in 1936, Big Y currently employs over 10,000 workers at 64 stores throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The chain has recently opened new stores in Franklin and in Lee, Mass. Plans are in the works for two new Connecticut stores and one in Holyoke, D'Amour-Daley said.
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The government has reduced VAT on hot meals, accommodation and attractions from 20% to 5% for the next six months.
It is expected that some hospitality companies will not fully pass on the benefits of the tax reduction to customers because they are struggling to recover from the financial blow suffered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Number 10 said, “We want businesses to pass the benefit on to their customers if they can,” but will not force businesses to do so.
The Treasury claims that households could save £ 160 due to the changes.
Pret A Manger has announced that it will cut the price of its coffee from Wednesday, before doing the same with hot dishes from Friday.
The firm said the price of a takeout latte would drop from 35p to £ 2.40 due to the tax break.
It is one of many channels to announce hundreds of layoffs after the lockout.
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McDonald’s said it was recommending that its franchises reduce the price of popular items on its menu and meal offerings.
He said he plans to cut the price of Happy Meals by 30p and breakfasts by 50p, with price cuts also recommended for Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and McNuggets.
Meanwhile, the other fast food giants KFC have pledged to cut the price of sharing the buckets by £ 1 – and some “fan favorites” by 50p.
And Nando’s is committed to passing on “100% of the benefits” of the tax break to its customers, thus reducing the price of a quarter of chicken by 55p.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the reduction last week, saying it would remain in effect until January 12, alongside plans to give people a 50% discount, up to £ 10 per capita, on eating out. restaurant in August.
Cold takeouts – such as sandwiches or salads and alcoholic beverages – are not covered by the tax reduction.
The pub chain Wetherspoon said it would use the hot food and cold drink measures to help fund lower prices on some of its more popular beers.
But beer industry leaders described the decision as “misleading,” with a joint statement by Tom Stainer, chief executive officer of Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), and James Calder, chief executive officer of the Society for Independent Brewers (Siba).
“Like all pubs, Wetherspoon will not be able to benefit from a reduction in VAT on beer sales and it is disappointing to see them mislead customers into believing that cheaper beer prices are the result direct from the Chancellor’s actions, “they said.
Bernard Donoghue, director of the Association of Major Tourist Attractions (Alva), said he believed the reduction would go to help sites “fix their finances rather than being passed on to customers”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson said, “We want businesses to pass the benefit on to customers if they can, and almost four-fifths of businesses said they did so in 2008.
“But we recognize that many of these businesses have been closed and without income for months, and pricing decisions are ultimately for the business rather than the government. “


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Wild Oats Markets Inc. oats lowered its third-quarter and 2004 earnings outlook partially because of higher-than-expected investments in Southern California and Texas, new store openings and non-cash restructuring charges. The Boulder, Colo., natural and organic food markets chain now expects a loss for the third quarter of 20 to 22 cents per share and a loss of 13 to 17 cents for 2004. The company also expects same-store sales growth for 2004 to be between 1 and 1.5 percent. Shares of Wild Oats closed Friday down 6 cents at $7.45.
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Panoramic photographs of virtually every street in Bradley Stoke have today been made available on the Google Street View website.
The search engine and mapping giant has extended its controversial street scene recording service to cover 95% of the homes in the UK.
Launched in the UK in March 2009, the service previously covered the central Bristol conurbation, but didn’t extend beyond Filton to the north.
Images of the area around the new Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke show the new town centre still under construction, meaning that the pictures were taken sometime before October 2008.
Google has come under fire from critics who claim that the detailed pictures represent an invasion of privacy but the company counters this by pointing out that Street View only shows imagery visible from public roads. The service also uses technology that automatically blurs both faces and licence plates.
To use Street View, go to Google Maps, type in an address or post code and drag the yellow ‘peg man’ symbol onto a street shown in the main map display.
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DFDS Norfolkline’s offer for Scottish veterans to travel for free on their Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry has been featured on a shipping news website.
Ships Nostalgia – the world’s greatest online community for people worldwide with an interest in ships and shipping – provided a link to more information about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
DFDS Norfolkline – who provide Scotland’s only direct ferry link to Europe – tied in the offer with the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuations and allowed former servicemen or women to travel with up to three family members and a car to the Belgian port, which is an hour from Dunkirk.
DFDS Norfolkline’s Chris Newey is quoted in the article saying: “These men and woman are heroes, so offering help to get them to Dunkirk to commemorate their fallen comrades is the least we could do.
“It may be that some veterans were planning on travelling to Dunkirk but were put off by the thought of the long drive.”
The full article can be read on Ships Nostalgia website and was secured as part of a succesful PR campaign carried out by the Holyrood PR.
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Slightly Mad Studios founders Ian Bell and Andy Garton have formed a new mobile and social games studio named Gamagio, to support platforms including Facebook and iOS.
"Gamagio is creating new gaming experiences, new ways to play and interact, and we see social and mobile gaming as key to that," said Bell.
Bell is currently head of studio at Slightly Mad and Garton development director, with the pair's previous focus being on hardcore racing simulations including GT Legends, GTR 2 and the more recent Need for Speed: Shift spin-off series for EA.
Although the new company has not yet announced any specific titles it has revealed its propriety high performance, crossplatform mobile engine supporting Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
"Our class-leading social gaming engine has been built from the ground up to support the leading edge HTML5 technology, which is central to the ever changing social and mobile gaming landscape, as well as plugin free 3D graphics standards such as WebGL," said Garton.
Gamagio boasts over 50 staff working on multiple titles, with the company hinting that it will reveal its first games this summer.
A full, premium profile listing for Slight Mad Studio is available to view on the GamesIndustry.biz Global Business Directory.


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Sandoval County’s Prevention and Intervention Programs and Senior Program partnered to collect warm clothes for the county’s seniors.
“Any assistance that helps to mitigate colder conditions during the winter months is always helpful, and we appreciate the community’s support,” Community Services Director Anne Ryan said.
According to Ryan, seniors are more vulnerable to the cold and many are on fixed incomes.
Graying with Grace, a national program that helps senior citizens in need, says elderly people do not generate their own heat as well.
This clothing drive is a way to combat that for seniors who can’t afford warm clothes.
Sandoval County is accepting these items:
- Coats & jackets (lightly used/new)
- Sweatshirts & ponchos (lightly used/new)
- Beanies (new)
- Mittens & gloves (new)
- Blankets (new)
- Scarves (lightly used or new)
- Warm socks (new)
The warm clothing drive started Nov. 1 and will continue until Dec. 15.
The collection bin is at 711 Camino del Pueblo in Bernalillo. Hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.


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Royal Caribbean announced it had decided to redeploy its Independence of the Seas from the UK in 2020, and instead keep the vessel in Port Everglades FL to offer more voyages to RCCL's private Bahamian island CocoCay.
As a result of the change, RCI has begun informing clients who had sailings booked on Independence of the Seas from Southampton UK in 2020 that their cruises were canceled.
On the UK website, Royal Caribbean explained that "guests affected by the itinerary change will be offered full refunds and a ‘Future Cruise Credit’ for use on alternative sailings."
The Quantum-class Anthem of the Seas will be back to the UK for 2020, adding more options for travelers out of Southampton. Independence OTS will stay in the Caribbean instead of homeporting in Southampton in 2020.


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If you think that the problems plaguing the Ola S1 Pro electric scooter are all over, here’s a recent incident which indicates that it is not all over for Ola Electric. Ever since its launch, the Ola S1 Pro is reported to be suffering from several quality and reliability issues related to its software and mechanicals. One of the most common issues was the breakage of the front suspension unit. Here’s another incident of the front suspension of Ola S1 Pro breaking down, which has been reported in India.
The entire details of the said incident have been shared by an Ola S1 Pro owner named Sanjeev Jain via a Facebook post on a group Ola Electric Public Group. In this post, Sanjeev mentioned the issue of his Ola S1 Pro suffering from front suspension breakage six days after he took the delivery of the electric scooter.
The picture which Sanjeev posted on the group shows that the front suspension unit of the S1 Pro has completely broken. There are no visible signs of any impact or accident, and it seems that the suspension got broken on its own or might have come off after hitting a pothole or obstruction. As claimed by Sanjeev, the scooter looks all-new.
Not the first time
Ola has already come under a lot of flak for several quality-related issues, and it is not the first time such an issue has been reported. The internet is already filled with several S1 Pro owners posting about this issue. A few months ago, an S1 Pro owner from Assam claimed that his son got injured due to the malfunctioning of the scooter, while he was riding. Ola Electric pulled off his riding data and said that the rider was overspeeding at that time. While these claims are yet to be proven, the same goes for the claim posted by Sanjeev Jain about his new S1 Pro.
Apart from suspension breakage issues, several other S1 Pro owners have reported other concerns like software malfunctioning issues, which include the scooter going into reverse mode on itself and a sudden spike in acceleration without giving any input. An S1 Pro user from Maharashtra also reported an incident of a fire outbreak, which garnered a lot of attention in the web world. Such quality concerns are not only plaguing the image of Ola Electric but also discouraging those people who are contemplating their decision of buying an electric vehicle.
New Ola scooter coming soon
Ola is working on a new affordable version of the S1 Pro that will be launched in the Indian market soon. While there are not many details available on the upcoming scooter, the price details are likely to be out by the end of this month.
Ola is also working on in-house developed li-ion batteries. Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal shared an image of a Li-ion battery cell. Bhavish says that it is the brand’s first indigenously developed Li-ion battery cell. However, he did not reveal any details of the new product.


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Kensington Palace has been given a fairy tale-worthy facelift for a new exhibit, “The Enchanted Palace.”
Fiat scion Lapo Elkann is passing through Tokyo to launch a limited edition Alfa Romeo Brera.
Costco and Omega watches at odds over copyright law.
Macy’s, Penney’s, Nordstrom among defendants in most recent suit filed by Card Activation Technologies Inc.
Executives at the Global Retailing Conference said established brands need to blend their core values with cutting-edge creative and business strategies.
Fergie celebrated her May Elle cover and talked about the name of her first fragrance, Outspoken by Fergie, at a luncheon on Friday.


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According to the Symbian Foundation, the independent, non-profit organization aimed at bringing innovation to the mobile space, it managed to ship a number of around 300,000 mobile phones each day during the second quarter of the ongoing year. A total number of 27 million devices were moved in the time frame, far more than what other mobile platforms managed to ship.
“The Symbian Foundation today revealed it has shipped over 27 million devices in the Q2 period. This equates to almost 300,000 per day, 207 per minute or over three a second. These figures, released in Canalys’ latest report (www.canalys.com/services/reports/spmt), highlight Symbian’s continued position as the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, which has now become the first to be shipped in over 25 million devices in the space of one quarter,” the Foundation announced recently.
Mountain View-based Internet giant Google announced not too long ago that it is currently activating around 200,000 mobile phones each day, double the number of devices it used to activate daily about three months ago. The figure certainly seems to be one of the most impressive, especially when taking into consideration Android's short life on the market, but it would easily pale when put side by side with sales of other OSes, such as Symbian.
“These figures make for very positive news for the Symbian community. The smartphone market place has become more crowded than ever. So the fact we continue to outsell our competitors by such large margins, combined with all the feature commitments and developments published on our roadmaps, make us highly confident in our outlook and we will continue to embrace the challenges ahead,” Lee M. Williams, Executive Director of Symbian, commented on the Canalys report.
The Symbian platform has been a market leader for quite some time now, but other mobile operating systems are getting closer to taking the smartphone market crown from it. According to some of the latest reports, the OS is losing market share fast, and Android might catch up pretty soon. Even so, the OS should remain a leader, especially since the upcoming Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 flavors should make it more competitive on the market.


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As more of the UK’s businesses open up, FastSigns is demonstrating how its custom signs can help to keep them Covid-safe.
Signs and graphics to encourage social distancing and direct customers through one-way systems are now a must-have for businesses everywhere. To showcase how these solutions can be effective and consistent with each company’s branding, FastSigns has been highlighting its range of custom signage and graphics solutions.
One area the sign franchise advises using custom graphics is directional signs, particularly in high-traffic areas like the entrance to your business and communal corridors. FastSigns explains:
“As visitors, patients or customers arrive at your business, are they easily guided to where they need to be? Maximise this first impression by instilling confidence with well-marked signs that don’t blend into the background. Designate contactless pickup areas and direct traffic with signage specifically designed to mirror your branding. Feather flags, A-frames and site identification signs can be moved as needed to adapt to traffic flow.”
The franchise also says that its custom solutions can brighten up dull fixtures like acrylic screens on reception or till areas. Its vinyl signage easily adheres to plastic screens and can be regularly changed, meaning companies can display everything from on-brand design to important information in places where they’re going to be seen. FastSigns can even produce frosted vinyl, which is ideal for privacy and creating a better ambience in places such as restaurants and bars.
Even the ground can now promote a brand’s values or image, thanks to high-quality, customised social distancing stickers. Companies will be keeping their customers and staff safe and, if they choose the right design, can engage their audience in yet another innovative way.
The sign franchise can offer custom solutions for every kind of business, whether you’re a shop, restaurant or medical clinic. Who says staying safe during the pandemic has to be unsightly?
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Bitcoin payment processor BIPS has thrown out its traditional exchange provider, Mt. Gox, in favour of Bitstamp.
Two anonymous authors have published what amounts to a manifesto for preserving decentralized control in Bitcoin.
The higher the bitcoin price, the more funding that seems to pour out of VCs and into bitcoin businesses.
Bitstamp has revealed itself as a serious contender for the title of the world's most popular bitcoin exchange.
Last Saturday saw the first meetup for UK-based cryptocurrency Feathercoin at the Oxford Blue pub in Oxford.
Find out how US restaurant delivery network Foodler has made it easier to buy food with bitcoin.
Bits of Gold has partnered with Global Money Transfer, enabling Israelis to purchase bitcoins at their local exchange bureau.
BitFantasy is a new online role playing game in which players can trade with each other using bitcoin.
Litecoin founder Charles Lee on the origins and potential of the world's second largest cryptocurrency
Litecoin's creator Charles Lee speaks out about Mt. Gox, Bitcoin, and what's missing from his altcurrency.
CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and looks at the factors involved in the bitcoin mining arms race.


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We asked Volkswagen to comment on the reports from China and we received the following statement from Dr. Christoph Ludewig, Deputy Head of Corporate Communications: “We don’t comment on pure speculations.” (Update 2/13/2019)
Ever since Renault’s Dacia budget brand started to become very successful there has been talk about VW’s intentions to set up a low-cost brand as well.
That is yet to happen, although the VW Group recently assigned Skoda to lead its low-cost project called “India 2.0” in the world’s second most populous country. A similar move appears to take place in China, where the FAW-Volkswagen joint-venture is rumored to introduce a new affordable brand this year called Jetta — after the popular economy sedan.
According to reports from Sina Auto and CarNewsChina, the Jetta brand will launch with three cars: the Jetta VA3 (the current VW Jetta), the Jetta VS5 SUV based on the Seat Ateca, and the Jetta VS7 SUV based on the Seat Tarraco.
The Jetta-branded cars will reportedly feature their own logo and will be built by FAW-Volkswagen in a plant located in Chengdu. Seat is not officially present in China, so selling the Ateca and Tarraco under a different brand in China won’t affect the Spanish company.
The story behind the Jetta brand is interesting as it has been in the making for quite a while now. Volkswagen originally wanted to make it a budget brand but since the Seat Ateca and Tarraco aren’t exactly cheap, the automaker has decided to market it as an affordable marque targeting young car buyers.
Young people are a huge demographic in China and right now VW doesn’t sell cars that these customers consider attractive. That’s where the Jetta brand will come in, or at least that’s what VW is hoping.
There’s one problem, though: the name is undoubtedly very famous in China but the younger generation there associates it with cheap cars for taxi drivers. VW’s marketing machine will have a lot of work to do to change that perception. Expect the Jetta brand to debut at the Shanghai Auto Show in April.
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Michigan cannabis sales go live.
A handful of cannabis shops opened their doors to legal adult use sales yesterday after regulators announced last week that those who held an adult-use retail license who also had a medical cannabis license could transfer up to 50% of their medical products to their adult-use inventory.
There will almost certainly be continued bottle-necking, the kind that we saw in Massachusetts, which has become typical of early rollouts. There were the usual winding lines:
And there are early product shortages, which has also become expected on day one of legal sales in just about any jurisdiction.
As Cannabis Wire has previously covered, Michigan’s licensed cannabis industry will have a bit of a California problem on their hands when it comes to the existing illicit market.
Still, Michigan is poised to be a top market in the US. (This is in part why former Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton announced in September his role as executive chairman of Michigan cannabis company Gage Growth Corp.)
Minnesota expands its conditions list.
The Minnesota Department of Health has added chronic pain and macular degeneration as approved conditions for medical cannabis use starting next July.
Next August, additional product types will also be allowed: “water-soluble cannabinoid multi-particulates (for example, granules, powders and sprinkles)” and “orally dissolvable products such as lozenges, gums, mints, buccal tablets and sublingual tablets.” Right now, only oils, pills, topicals, and vapes (not flower) are allowed. Edibles are not allowed.
TSX to CannTrust: shape up or ship out.
Last week, Canadian cannabis company CannTrust announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange warned it that if certain disclosures aren’t filed by March 25, 2020, the company’s stock will be delisted. CannTrust says it will meet that deadline.
The company has yet to file these disclosures, which are primarily restated and audited financial statements, as a result of its ongoing turmoil with Canadian regulators, who discovered that cannabis was cultivated in unlicensed rooms. (Some recent Cannabis Wire coverage of that fallout here.)
Investor-side additions at Canopy Growth and Canopy Rivers.
The former has added as VP of investor relations Judy Hong, formerly a managing director at Goldman Sachs’ global investment research division focused on the beverage and tobacco industries in the US.
The latter has added to its strategic advisory board Thirty Five Ventures, which is owned by Kevin Durant of the NBA (Brooklyn Nets) and his manager and sports agent Rich Kleiman. The partnership will look at cannabis investments while “leveraging the group’s experience in brand development, marketing, and the sports and entertainment industry.”
Aurora gets the greenlight from Ireland.
The company’s High CBD Oil Drops were approved for Ireland’s Medical Cannabis Access Programme, signed into law this summer, which means the Canadian cannabis company can now import and distribute the product to patients. This will be one of the first medical cannabis products available by prescription; approved conditions for the program are epilepsy, MS-related spasticity, and chemo-related nausea.
Harborside has a new CFO, and Trulieve has a new CMO.
The former has named Tom DiGiovanni, formerly in the same role at Canndescent, another top operator in California. The latter has named Valda Coryat, who led marketing for the National Mango Board.
JAMA: parental cannabis use is associated with “increased” youth use. (And mothers play a significant role.)
For a study published by JAMA Open Network, Harvard researchers conducted a cross-sectional study that examined data from nearly 25,000 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health from 2015 through 2018 to determine if parental cannabis (and tobacco and opioid) use was associated with misuse of these substances by teens and young adult offspring living under the same roof.
This survey gathers data on lifetime and past-year use of legal substances like tobacco and alcohol, and “illicit drugs” that include cannabis, cocaine, and methamphetamine, for example, as well as misuse of prescription medications like opioids, stimulants, or sedatives.
The study found that “parental past-year marijuana use was consistently associated with increased unadjusted risk of past-year marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol use and opioid misuse among both adolescent and young adult offspring.”
The study discussion continued, “even if a parent had lifetime (without past-year) marijuana use or relatively less frequent use, unadjusted prevalence of past-year substance use among offspring was generally higher than those whose parents never used marijuana.”
The researcher highlighted the important role that mothers might play in the risk of youth use, because “adolescent offspring’s substance use appeared to be particularly associated with mother’s marijuana use status.” After researchers adjusted for various factors, the “results indicate that the mother’s marijuana use status was more than a substance use risk factor and suggest the differential and pivotal roles that a mother plays in the development of her adolescent offspring.”
There were limitations to this research. Researchers, for example, did not have access to data that revealed potency, how cannabis was consumed, whether that consumption happened at home in front of kids, or whether the adolescents somehow had open access at home.
“Regardless of mechanisms, clinicians and parents should be aware of the significant influence of parenting, parental marijuana use, and the poor prognosis associated with early marijuana initiation,” the study noted.
The researcher suggested targeted youth use prevention campaigns like mass media efforts that pull from tobacco cessation campaigns, “including school- and community-based programs and changing statewide or community-wide policies and norms.”


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4. Apple iPad Mini
Apple joined the mini tablet market this year to do battle with the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, among others. The 7.9-inch iPad mini is thinner and lighter than the competition, weighing in at 0.68 pounds and measuring just 0.28 inches. And while the iPad mini doesn't offer the Retina display (the resolution maxes out at 1,024 x 768), the device does come with the Lightning connector, a 5-MP rear-facing camera and 1.2-MP front-facing camera (unlike the iPad 2), and it supports the new iOS 6 platform (unlike the original iPad).


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Powermat Charging Stations May Soon Require App
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Powermat today announced a new "mobile engagement platform" that will allow public charging station providers such as Starbucks to push marketing directly to phones via an app. Companies that choose to deploy the new platform will be able to require users to download and install the app before their phones will charge. The technology uses location beacons to verify phones and switch charging pads on or off as necessary. The app can display promotions, including ads and discounts for products at that location. The platform benefits charging location providers, and thus encourages the installation of more public charging stations worldwide. Users can use either the Powermat-branded app, or a store-branded app. Powermat is providing an API to partners to enable this functionality in their own mobile apps. The Powermat app shows all nearby charging locations, and can list promos and discounts available at nearby charging spots. Once users have the app installed, stores can also use the platform to push promos to nearby users as they walk by. This allows nearby stores with charging locations to compete for customers by offering discounts. Current public Powermat installations - including Starbucks - already include the cloud-connected hardware and beacons to support this new platform.
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Waze has installed a series of new Bluetooth beacons in NYC tunnels that permit accurate positioning for drivers using smartphones for real-time navigation. GPS signals generally don't reach into tunnels.
Feb 11, 2020
Samsung today announced its new flagship phones for 2020: the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra. In the US, all three models support 5G and are powered by Qualcomm's newest top-end Snapdragon 865 chipset paired with 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
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Qualcomm today announced Quick Charge 5, the latest version of its standard for fast-charging battery-powered devices such as phones. Version 5 is a huge leap over Quick Charge 4, promising four times faster charging.


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Cristiano Ronaldo caused a stir at Euro 2020 even before he stepped on to the field to help Portugal defeat Hungary on Tuesday night.
The Portugal captain removed two bottles of Coca-Cola kept in front of him at a Euro 2020 press conference, encouraging people to drink water instead.
The 36-year-old moved the cola bottles aside as he sat down to speak to the media before Tuesday’s Group F opener against Hungary.
He followed it by holding a bottle of water before shouting in Portuguese: “Agua!”
Coca-Cola — one of the official sponsors of Euro 2020 — posted a loss of 1.6 per cent on shares following Ronaldo’s gesture.
The drinks company’s share price dropped from $56.10 to $55.22 — meaning the market value of Coca-Cola went from $242bn to $238bn — a drop of $4 billion.
Coca-Cola released a statement on Tuesday night stating: “Everyone is entitled to their drink preferences.”


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Google makes MIT professor's dream of '$100 laptop' a reality
BOSTON (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) began selling basic laptop computers to schools at a price of $99, meeting a price point that prominent MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte famously held out in 2005 as key to bringing computing power to the masses.
The Internet giant said on Monday that it will be offering the steep educational discount on Series 5 Chromebooks from Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS) through December 21. They typically retail for $249.
Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child Foundation failed to meet his ambitious target, which critics said would be impossible to meet when he set it. His XO laptop currently sell for about $200.
Still, he is widely credited with helping to launch the era of low-cost portable computing.
The creation of relatively low-cost laptops from his foundation pressured industry giants including Intel Corp (INTC.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) and Dell Inc DELL.O to develop inexpensive versions of their products such as the netbook.
Information on the program is available at (googleblog.blogspot.com)
(Reporting By Jim Finkle; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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MIAMI — Celebrity Cruises will be the first cruise line to deploy a ship from U.S. waters in more than a year, a major milestone for not only the company but for the entire cruise industry.
Celebrity Edge, which has met all CDC requirements and standards, will depart Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on June 26 on a seven-night Caribbean cruise with Captain Kate McCue, the first and still-only American female Captain, at the helm. The news was tweeted by Celebrity Cruises CEO and President, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo with just three words: “Someday is here.”
She added the following: “For the past 15 months our conversations with friends and loved ones about seeing the world have been accompanied by the phrase ‘someday.’ I’m beyond proud and excited to say that day has arrived.
“The power of travel has a way of healing our souls as we connect with cultures, sights and experiences that bring greater joy and renewed energy to our lives. Nothing compares to these experiences at sea and now the wonder of these journeys returns.
“We’ve been preparing for this day for months and, on behalf of all of us at Celebrity Cruises, we’re ready and we can’t wait to welcome our guests aboard once again!”
Travellers looking to sail the Caribbean this summer can choose between Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries. All Celebrity ships will sail with a vaccinated crew. U.S. guests ages 16 and older must be fully vaccinated and, as of Aug. 1, 2021, all U.S. guests ages 12 and older must be fully vaccinated. Requirements for non-U.S. guests vary, with more details here: https://www.celebritycruises.com/healthy-at-sea.
Named ‘one of the world’s greatest places’ by Time Magazine, Celebrity Edge offers a modern cruising experience with offerings like the ‘Magic Carpet,’ the world’s first cantilevered floating platform, two-storey luxury villas with private plunge pools, the botanical Rooftop Garden, and The Retreat, a private resort-within-a-resort.
With the news about Celebrity Edge, eight of the 15 ships in Celebrity’s fleet now have plans to return to sailing in 2021. Here’s an overview:
First announced in March 2021, the Celebrity Millennium will be the first in the fleet to sail with guests again as well as the first ship in the industry to sail the Caribbean. It will make its return to service in St. Maarten on June 5, taking in Aruba, Curacao and Barbados over seven nights.
In April, Celebrity announced its return to Europe with the news that Celebrity Apex, its newest addition to the fleet, will be making its world debut in Athens on June 19 with seven-night sailings to the Greek Isles. The cruise marks a history return to Greece for the company, which was founded there 33 years ago.
The U.S. summer sailings also follow the news that beginning July 4, the mega-yacht Celebrity Flora will resume sailing the Galapagos Islands. It will be followed soon after by the award-winning Celebrity Xpedition and 16-passenger Celebrity Xploration on July 24 and Sept. 18, respectively.
Celebrity announced its long-awaited return to Alaska will begin July 23 with seven-day itineraries sailing roundtrip from Seattle on the Celebrity Summit. The ship, which recently underwent a US$500 million renovation, will offer nine sailings through mid-September.
To simplify the luxury experience, Wi-Fi, drinks and tips are now ‘Always Included’ on every Celebrity cruise. Plus, Celebrity’s ‘Cruise with Confidence’ program provides flexible cancellations and best-price guarantees.
For information on Celebrity’s health and safety measures go to https://www.celebritycruises.com/healthy-at-sea.
For more information on the new U.S. summer sailings go to https://www.celebritycruises.com/2021-2022-cruises.


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Movistar reaches 10m global subs
January 29, 2019
From David Del Valle in Madrid
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has reached 10 million TV subscribers worldwide, according to its own data from the end of the third quarter of 2018.
Some 5.12 million households around the world receive Movistar via IPTV, most of them in Spain with around 4.2 million homes; 3.72 million receive their sigal through satellite and 1.04 via OTT. In Q3 2-18, Movistar captured 470,000 subscribers worldwide.
Movistar has a notably strong presence in the Latin America market where the company is speeding up its penetration thanks to OTT.


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Despite the barrage of negative news surrounding a declining ad spend as a result of COVID-19, there are some areas of spend growth shining through. And some of those areas fall outside the expected realms of FMCG staples and e-commerce.
When considering new launches, the role that advertising plays is consistent: Advertising drives awareness; awareness drives trial; and trial drives volume. It makes sense therefore, that when compared to existing products, new products are more reliant on advertising support to grow.
While the industry pines for the days when the stadiums were packed with fans, the empty venues have made leagues and broadcasters think differently about how they deliver commercial value to partners via new assets and inventory that have been rolled out with the absence of crowds.
As the events surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have resulted in an increase in younger Australian’s interest in home improvements and gardening, it’s worth exploring the next generation of Do-It-Yourselfers.
Faced with uncertainty about the future, advertisers and marketers have exercised caution and are closely scrutinising their spend and activities to ensure their people and businesses remain viable once life returns to normal.
All over the world, people have flocked online as a key news source to understand the latest updates on the COVID-19 global health pandemic. For media sellers, this means audiences are growing, and for ad buyers, reaching their desired and highly engaged audience has never been easier.
Even during a crisis like the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, businesses need to consider strategic plans and continue to invest in their brands. Continuing to invest in advertising will help set your company up for success when life eventually settles into a new normal.
The resounding question advertisers are asking right now is if they should advertise. In fact, many advertisers have chosen to reduce their ad volumes and spend. However, this strategy of limiting advertising is not sustainable with coverage COVID-19 here to stay for at least the medium term.
As the media industry navigates COVID-19 and its greatest period of upheaval in modern memory, having the right data to understand if your ad will command consumer attention has never been more critical.
Staying put is what’s best for reducing the spread of the COVID-19, but home bound consumers are having an immediate impact on brands. Marketers now have to reduce spending while continuing to engage buyers. How can businesses support their brands and make money in such uncharted waters?


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Bravo! Drogas Latvia has won the Best eStore in Lavia in Household and Personal Hygiene category at Latvian eCommerce Award.
The Latvian eCommerce Award is one of the most influential and prestigious awards in the market. More than 500 eStores are being evaluated by customers who have shopped online in the past six months. The award aims to promote eCommerce growth in Latvia and highlight the best online stores in the market, serving as role models for the industry.
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EA SPORTS is now the state video game partner involving Bundesliga Champions, Bayern Munich and released loads of new FIFA 17 screens hots in addition to gameplay footage.
Following FIFA 17 coins Juventus cope, EA Sports has declared another new partnership together with German Champions Bayern Munich, in a further whack to fellow football opponents Pro Evolution Soccer.
Like Juventus, Bayern are now the “Fifa 17 Coins” of EA Athletics, which means the A language like german team has recieved the whole headscan treatment.
“Powered by Frostbite, FIFA 17 will characteristic new and updated three dimensional headscans of stars just like Neuer, Robben, Lewandowski and Coman, ” reads a statement for the official FIFA 17 web site.
In addition to that Bayern’s home stadium, the Allianz Arena, has also been exposed to life and recreated in-game as EA SPORTS become the official video game companion of FC Bayern.
As expected this announcement has brought with it a good amount of new screenshots of many key Bayern players (down below), as well as the latest behind the scenes video (above) which shows a little bit of gameplay too.
Last month EA Sporting activities named German footballer Marco Reus because games new global cover star, replacing the out involving contract Lionel Messi.
The Borussia Dortmand superstar beat stiff competition from the kind of Man Utd’s Anthony Martial, Chelsea’s Eden Hazard in addition to Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez being voted cover star of the year’s Xbox One as well as Playstation 4 game.
Fans cast more than 3. 1 million votes on EA’s website because of their cover favourite, with Reus emerging for the reason that victor.
He is a highly-decorated winger, and is widely regarded among the most dangerous attackers in Europe, named Footballer of 4 seasons in Germany in 2012.
Reus was also just lately named captain of Dortmund, and will be sporting the captain’s armband to the season ahead.
In addition to naming their cover star, EA Sports has also spent the previous couple of weeks talking up your games latest fut seventeen coins gameplay enhancements, each linked to one of many games four ambassadors who were in the running to the cover.
There’s been a set-piece edit, new methods of fighting, a series of changes to boost movement off the ball and a lot recently an overhaul of the physical play mechanics.
This is also besides the games massive graphical change that has seen EA Sports for Cheap FIFA 16 Coins implement DICE’s Frostbite engine, giving the series which added sense of fidelity, especially in the online games new Career mode known as ‘The Journey’.
FIFA 17 is introduced worldwide on September 29 and will be coming to Origin regarding PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Fans who pre-order the actual FIFA 17 Super Deluxe Edition might get up to 40 FIFA Final Team Jumbo Premium Silver Packs, Team of the Few days loan players, and other FUT written content.


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Avon mall grand opening slated for Friday evening
AVON — The town of Avon will celebrate the opening of the Main Street Mall and Possibility Plaza on Friday from 4-7 p.m. The Grant Farm Band featuring Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone will be on stage for a free outdoor concert. Avon’s first winter market will be open with food, trappings, crafts, drinks, free hot cocoa (while supplies last) and performance art filling out the community gathering.
“I am constantly approached by Avon citizens and residents of the Vail Valley who share with me how impressed and pleased they are with Avon’s recent capital improvements and investments in special events this past year,” said Mayor Jennie Fancher. “Most pronounced is our spectacular new pedestrian mall, which begins in the center of town and connects to the Recreation Center. This dynamic community place has been seven years in the making and to be able to celebrate its completion during the Birds of Prey weekend is both thrilling and rewarding.”
The town has recently installed a new 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships monument in the most central roundabout on Avon Road, which marks the importance of the east Avon restaurant and retail center and to the west Avon’s dominant lodging base, including the new Wyndham Hotel, pedestrian mall, recreation center, library, Nottingham Park and performance pavilion. New LED streetlights have been installed on Avon Road to improve safety and energy efficiency, and a major segment of the regional trail has also been constructed this year along the road.
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The celebration will emanate from Possibility Plaza, which is the primary plaza of the new mall just east of the Wyndham. Traveling west the, mall features 17 bronze statues, climbing boulders and the Carrie Fell mural at the Seasons building. The pedestrian mall connects to Avon’s Transit Center and Westin gondola via Lettuce Shed Lane, with direct access to restaurants, businesses and Avon’s new town hall.
The grand opening is a precursor to the 13 days of Apres Avon, which will be held daily from 2-5:30 p.m. during the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships.
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Int’l cruise ship docks at Hundred Islands
ALAMINOS CITY—The Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) is fast becoming a top destination for international cruise ships, the latest of which is the luxury cruising vessel MS Seabourn Sojourn that docked on April 6 near the islands.
The Bahamas-registered cruise ship carried more than 400 tourists, most of whom toured the islands or went swimming and snorkeling in the park’s waters.
This was the second time the ship had included the HINP in its itinerary. The HINP was also the destination for cruise ships, MS Europa in 2013, MS Europa 1 in 2014, and MS Europa 2 in 2015.
The HINP was the Seabourn Sojourn’s first stop this year, after sailing from Hong Kong, said Errol James Chicano, regional product manager of Intercruises, the cruise ship’s local tour operator.
It has become a cruise line attraction because it offers visitors a glimpse of Pangasinan history, has abundant island tours and safe areas for swimming, Chicano said.
The cruise companies also consider the security of the area and local government’s programs for tourists, he said.
Ship captain Hamish Elliot said it was nice to be back to the Philippines “with a new crew and new passengers who appreciate the beauty of your country and the people who are so friendly and so welcoming.”
Some of the passengers have attachments to the Philippines, like Susan Lederland whose father, Charles Tighe, was assigned to Sangley Point in Cavite province after World War II.
“He told me about the beautiful places in the Philippines,” said Lederland, who is from Texas in the United States.
Susan del Mundo, 72, said she has a “Filipino-Australian granddaughter, as my son is married to a Filipina.”
They are two of the 430 Americans and Europeans who joined the Asian cruise, which will also take them to Manila, Boracay in Aklan province, and Coron and Puerto Princesa City in Palawan province.
Alaminos Mayor Arthur Celeste said such tours boost the city’s tourism industry as the companies managing the ships pay rentals for the islands, which are closed to other tourists during the cruisers’ stay.
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Iron intake falls short among Australian infants
Up to 90% of Australian infants, aged six to twelve months have a dietary iron intake that falls well short of recommended targets, according to findings from the Australian Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (OzFITS).
And this could have significant implications for the child’s development, says PhD candidate, Najma Moumin from the University of Adelaide’s Medical School who conducted the study.
Speaking on a recent Healthed podcast, Ms Moumin said the finding was important as the second half of infancy was the time where there was a high demand for iron.
“The first two years of life are marked by rapid growth and development, and dietary patterns and taste preferences are established in this period, ” she said.
By six months of age, an infant’s iron stores were depleted and if the child had been exclusively breast-fed to that point, as per the guidelines, there would not have been any supplementation ...


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The manager, one of the heavyweights of fashion industry in the United States, left the chairmanship of J. Crew after fifteen years leading the company.
J. Crew loses its utmost responsible. Millard ‘Mikey’ Drexler, up till now chairman of the US group, abandoned the company to focus on other projects. The manager, utmost responsible of Drexler Ventures fund, has a share of 10% in J. Crew.
Drexler is an historic manager in fashion industry in the United States. Apart from its trajectory at the head of J. Crew, the executive has also been one of the makers of Gap’s development, where it created the brand Old Navy and gave a boost to the company until placing it as one of the largest groups of an international level.
The manager joined J. Crew’s team fifteen years ago as chairman and CEO after investing 100 billion dollars in it. In 2006, Drexler founded the chain Madewell. In June 2017, the manager left the charge of CEO at J. Crew and was replaced by Jim Brett.
After Drexler’s departure as chairman of J. Crew, Chad Leat, another historic manager of the group, will occupy his position. These movements in the top leadership of the company take place two months after Jim Brett, chief executive, abandoned the company after not being able to achieve the agreed objectives.
J. Crew is currently led by four members of the managing board
Now, J. Crew is led by four managers of the company: Michael Nicholson, Chief Operating Officer; Adam Brotman, Chief Experience Officer; Lynda Markoe, Chief Administrative Officer, y Libby Wadle, President of Madewell.
Simultaneously, the group has been involved for some years in a restructuring process of its commercial network, which entailed the closure of fifty stores in its local market. On May 30 of 2018, the company operated with 228 J. Crew stores, 121 Madewell stores and 175 outlets, apart from their e-commerce platforms.
During the third quarter, J. Crew reduced its losses to 5.7 million dollars, in comparison with 18.4 million dollars in the red from the same period the previous year.


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It’s not going to be a good year for smartphones. The global market is expected to dip 2.5 percent year on year, with Japan leading with a 6.5 percent drop.
APAC GPUaaS market poised for 40 CAGR by 2025
The global GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) market is expected to jump tenfold from around US$700 million in 2018 to US$7 billion by 2025, according to Global Market Insights. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is expected to lead this charge with a compounded annual growth rate of more than 40 percent between 2019 and 2025.
The future of database is in the cloud
Unsurprisingly, a Gartner report is predicting that three quarters of all databases will reside in the cloud by 2022. Only five percent of migration will remain on premises.
Robots to replace 20m jobs by 2030
Nearly one in 10 jobs will be replaced by robots by 2030, according to a paper released by Oxford Economics. Entitled How Robots Change the World, it highlights that up to 8.5% of the global manufacturing workforce could be displaced by industrial robots just 11 years down the road.
Goodbye and good riddance, iTunes!
By Edward Lim
Apple’s announcement that it is killing of iTunes is music to my ears. It’s about time!
India PC market slides in Q1
Weak consumer demand, high inventory from previous quarters, and supply issues for Intel chips are among the reasons why the India PC market slipped in Q1. According to IDC, the segment dropped 8.3 percent to 2.15 million units that quarter.
Google fires first salvo at Huawei
By Edward Lim
It was only a matter of time before the spat between the US and China went up another level. And this week, Google joined in the fight by pulling out support for China’s world number 2 phone maker Huawei.
Huawei bucks the trend as global smartphone shipment shrinks in Q1
While its competitors struggled, Huawei strode ahead and emerged the winner in the worldwide smartphone market in Q1. Though it’s still behind market leader Samsung, the China-based smartphone giant narrowed the gap with an astounding 50 percent growth in the quarter, according to IDC.
Worldwide cloud services to grow exponentially through 2022
The day my Google Pixel died
By Edward Lim
When my trusty Google Pixel froze last week, I took it as a case of overuse and attempted a reboot. It proved to be a series of fruitless attempts as the Android-based smartphone simply could not be revived. The furthest I got was to the opening screen (see above) but there was absolutely nothing I could do there — the screen just froze again before launching into another reboot.
OnePlus 6T: Impressive, nifty and fun
By CY Lim
The OnePlus 6T has been out in the market for a couple of months now and as one who received it as a gift within the first few days of its launch, I am definitely glad I made the switch from my sluggish Oppo A77. Setting up and transferring data was a breeze especially since it was an intra-Android migration. Within an hour or so, I was ready to go.
Global wearable market to grow 26% in 2019
Worldwide shipment of wearable devices will touch 225 million in 2019, an increase of 25.8 percent from 2018, according to Gartner.
Global smartphone shipment slides 6% in Q3
Smartphone vendors shipped 355.2 million units in Q3, down six percent from the corresponding quarter last year, according to preliminary estimates by IDC. This is the fourth straight quarter of year-on-year decline.
Samsung and Xiaomi neck-to-neck in India in Q2
Xiaomi and Samsung shipped 9.9 million smartphones each to India in Q2. Together they account for 60 percent of the total shipment that quarter, according to Canalys.
PC market inches up 2.7% in Q2
Global traditional PC shipment posted the strongest growth in more than six years during the past quarter, according to IDC. Total shipment was 62.3 million units, which translates to a 2.7 percent year-on-year growth.
100m smart speakers by end of 2018
Smart speakers are picking up steam with the installed base expected to hit 100 million by the end of this year, according to Canalys. That’s 2.5 times the size of end 2017.
China tops IDC’s smart cities awards
China has emerged tops with five out of 19 winners in the 2018 IDC Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA). Taiwan and Singapore were next with four and three awards respectively across 12 functional categories.
Banking spend drives external storage Q1 growth in India
Banking led professional services, manufacturing, telecommunications and government to contribute more than 80 percent to overall external storage market in India in Q1, according to IDC India. The quarter saw a jump of 12.7 percent year-on-year to US$84.1 million.
Smartwatch market heading towards steady growth
The worldwide wearables market is adjusting as smartwatches continue to come to the forefront. In the coming years, smartwatches will encompass more features and functionalities.
Dell EMC widens lead on HPE as worldwide server revenue grew 33.4% in Q1
Dell EMC turned in a stellar performance in Q1 by growing 51.4 percent in server revenue, enabling it to widen the gap with second-place Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) which nevertheless grew an impressive 21.5 percent.
Huawei and Xiaomi lead smartphone growth in Q1
China smartphone makers Huawei and Xiaomi grew strongest as the market recovered in Q1, according to Gartner.
Power efficient chipsets to drive edge AI
Power efficient chipsets are set to be the main driver as artificial intelligence (AI) moves makes a significant shift from the cloud to the edge, according to ABI Research.
ICT spending in APAC (sans Japan) to hit US$1.5t in 2021
Information and communications technology (ICT) spending in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) will hit US$1.5 trillion in 2021, according to IDC.
Google moves to top of smart speaker market in Q1
Google has ousted Amazon from the perch of the global smart speaker market. According to Canalys, Google shipped 3.2 million units with its Google Home and Google Home mini series , surpassing the 2.5 million units of the Amazon Echo series for the first time in Q1.
India smartphone market posts strongest Q1 shipment
The India smartphone market shipped 30 million units in Q1, the strongest Q1 performance ever and an 11-percent growth year on year, according to IDC.
8m autonomous vehicles by 2025
ABI Research expects eight million consumer vehicles shipping in 2025 will feature SAE Level 3 and 4 technologies, where drivers will still be necessary but are able to completely shift safety-critical functions to the vehicle under certain conditions, and SAE Level 5 technology, where no driver will be required at all.
APAC PC shipment down 3.9% from Q1
The downward trend continues for worldwide PC shipment with a 1.4 percent drop in Q1, making it the 14th consecutive quarter of decline, according to Gartner.
VR to impact retail and marketing
Virtual reality (VR) has been tipped to be the next innovative technology to improve and impact retail and marketing.
India is fastest growing smartphone market in 2017
India has become the fastest growing smartphone market in the world with total shipment growing 14 percent to 124 million units in 2017, according to IDC.
Apple Watch outsells Swiss watches
How the watch industry has changed! As a show of its strength and popularity, Apple Watch has taken the crown, not just among smartwatches, but outselling the entire Swiss watch industry in Q4. Now, that’s quite an accomplishment!


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A growing number of companies are renting out goods and services as a result of consumers seeking short-term solutions - and the trend is set to continue.
As economic uncertainty continues to bite, consumers are seeking not only value for money, but value for their time spent, and as a result are choosing to rent, rather than buy certain products.
And Pippa Goodman, a trend consultant at market research firm The Future Foundation, told Huffington Post UK the practice of renting is here to stay.
"This is a trend where we see long-term growth potential," she said. "As a nation, we're being a lot smarter and savvier with our money, and consumers are increasingly worried about their waste impact on the environment too."
Goodman said that despite the focus on saving the pennies, we still have a need for novelty entertainment, luxury items and rich experiences - finding a more cost efficient way to do that is simply the next step.
Recession psyche and the integration of technology into consumers' lives has re-booted Brits' approach to consumption, which has led to a rise in what the Future Foundation calls the ‘alternative ownership’ models - evolving long-established options such as renting and second-hand purchase into more contemporary offers.
This 'pay-as-you-live' mentality is resulting in more companies renting goods people are currently used to buying.
Brits are used to renting luxury cars, but could they rent other luxury goods in future?
Zipcar - a car sharing and rental service which allows you to rent cars for hours, rather than days - is becoming increasingly popular with businesses as well as consumers.
Mark Walker, general manager for Zipcar, told Huff Post UK that start-up businesses often wanted the convenience of being able to rent a car as and when they needed it, rather than pay a large outlay cost of buying and maintaining a vehicle.
"If you're a small company the last thing you want to deal with is a high fixed cost, what they need are variable costs; that's something we hear loud and clear from businesses."
Zipcar produced some research this week which estimated the value of pay-as-you-live lifestyle in the UK is £22.4 billion.
Unsurprisingly, cars topped the list of things that Brits would most consider hiring and sharing, but it also found many of us would not rule out hiring less traditional items, such as art (49%), clothing (47%) and children’s toys (54%).
The top items Brits own, but no longer use and could rent out, include a bicycle (21%), prams (19%), Blu-rays and DVDs (15%), car seats (13%) and books (11%).
And the main reasons given for hiring, rather than buying, are not being able to afford to buy it (53%), cost per use (60%), depreciation in value (38%), ongoing maintenance costs (45%) and flexibility to upgrade or change models (29%).
A whole host of other businesses are seeing the potential in offering rental services including ParkAtMyHouse, which offers people space on their driveways, GirlsMeetDress, which rents out luxury clothes, Mini-Lodgers, which shares baby and young children equipment such as car seats, and Deskwanted, which rents out office space.
One company seeking to exploit the number of homeware items consumers have gathering dust in cupboards and garages is Storemates.
Founder Shaff Prabatan set up his marketplace for people to rent out storage space for others to use was set up in January 2012, but already he's seeing opportunity to expand.
"I've been gathering anecdotal evidence, speaking to people on the street, and asking what they wouldn't mind renting out from their homes - and there's a huge list," he told Huff Post UK.
"They offered everything from paddling pools to bread-makers to their lawn mower. Others wanted to rent out their tennis racquets."
Would you consider hiring out a paddling pool, rather than buying one?
Prabatan is convinced people's attitudes are changing and that the advent of sites like eBay, where consumers sell goods to each other, was going a long way to convince cynics who are worried about the quality of goods on offer.
"People will do more peer-to-peer trading in future," he said. "This isn't a short-term event - once people's behaviours have changed they won't go back - no-one's predicting that low-cost airlines will lose customers when the economy recovers, it's the same with this."
Currently however, the number of people willing to try this new way of consuming goods is small; just 19% of of 18-54 year olds and 10% of over 55s would choose to hire, rather than buy goods, according to Zipcar.
If a business wants to consider renting its goods out, Zipcar's Walker recommends starting at a hyper-local level.
"With us, we initially just had eight cars in the original locality, then as we branched out we were able to scale up."


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- The release of Cavli’s LTE CAT M1/NB1/NB2 C42GM Smart IoT Module based on GCT GDM7243i is a key highlight in this partnership
- The C42GM smart IoT module is Sigfox compatible and this makes it a good option for organisations focusing on hybrid connectivity solutions
It said that C42GM, the latest addition to Cavli’s C-Series family, comes with an integrated eSIM, GNSS, CAN controller, and BLE4.2. The C42GM smart IoT module is Sigfox compatible and this makes it a good option for organisations focusing on hybrid connectivity solutions. A wide variety of LPWAN applications/use cases like trackers, wearables, smart utility meters, and other sensor-based solutions for smart city projects can be seamlessly powered with the eSIM integrated C42GM smart IoT module with global connectivity.
Running pilots with customers around the globe
The company said that the partnership with GCT Semiconductor is positioning Cavli Wireless as a preferred global partner for many enterprise IoT projects where the market is demanding connectivity hardware products with a high level of integration.
Presently, it is running pilots with customers around the globe. The first IoT module from this partnership – C42GM will start shipping out globally, on a mass production basis from Q1 2021.


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More than 60,000 attendees convened in-person from around the world to discuss the convergence of mobile, the potential of the metaverse and transforming vertical industries
The GSMA is celebrating a vibrant and dynamic edition of MWC Barcelona and there was no doubt it was the place to do business. The world’s largest and most influential connectivity event hosted over 60,000 attendees from almost 200 countries. It was the centre of discussion and debate, the place where leaders in the mobile ecosystem continued charting the future to achieve the full potential of technology.
“Nothing beats MWC in person, and it was exciting to bring our community – which is so passionate about connectivity – back together to discuss the opportunities that lie ahead.” John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Ltd. said. “On behalf of the GSMA, I would like to thank all of our attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and partners who came together to make MWC22 so productive, safe, and successful. I also want to thank Barcelona City Council, Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministry of Economy and Digital Transformation, Fira de Barcelona, Tourism de Barcelona (the Host City Parties), the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Mobile World Capital, and the people of Catalonia and Spain. Your support is unwavering, and your creativity, hospitality, and perseverance continually inspire us.”
Over four days, more than 1,900 companies joined MWC22 Barcelona to showcase the role of mobile technology in unleashing connectivity, exploring 5G Connect sponsored by Salesforce, Advancing AI, Internet of Everything, CloudNet by Kyndryl, FinTech, and the Tech Horizon.
Thought leadership from entrepreneurs, government ministers, and extraordinary people pushing the boundaries of our imaginations spoke from stages across the event. From traditional industries to award-winning filmmakers speakers challenged and inspired attendees to think about new ways of leveraging technology.
Vertical collaboration, startup innovation, and much more at MWC22
Again this year, the Ministerial Programme at MWC was the centre of global digital policy debate. With more than 160 delegations from countries and international institutions around the world, policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and the international development community exchanged experiences and views on how to build policies for a digital world, maximise the potential of 5G, close the digital gap, and meet global climate targets. As the world becomes increasingly digital, there was broad agreement that we need more collaboration and cooperation amongst all stakeholders to expand digital inclusion for all. This year, leaders like Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman of the U.S. FCC, and Minister Paula Ingabire of Rwanda not only contributed to the conversation in the Ministerial Programme, but brought their policy priorities to the MWC keynote stage.
All-new for this year’s edition, Industry City, co-delivered with Knowledge Partner Accenture showcased demos from the FinTech, Manufacturing, and Automotive sectors. With a buzz of activity, Industry City was a must-see space at the event. Visitors had the opportunity to experience a range of Summits covering robotics and smart mobility topics through interactive metaverse tours and demonstrations from partners and the GSMA Foundry programme.
Focus on the local entrepreneurial startup community returned with the 4YFN (Four Years from Now) programme – supported by platinum sponsor BStartup Banco Sabadell – as it welcomed over 500 international startups and over 300 speakers to share insights on how to drive the ecosystem forward. Competing for more than €24 billion of investment, 200 startups pitched to leading funds, VCs, and CVCs during the event.
MWC22 by the numbers
- Over 60,000 unique people attended in person
- Around 500,000 unique virtual and daily viewers on MWC22 and partner platforms
- Representation from almost 200 countries and territories
- Over 1,900 exhibitors, sponsors, and partners
- Over 1,000 speakers, 97% in person and 36% women
- More than 50% of attendees were Directors and C-Suite executives, 20% were CEOs and founders, 25% were women
- Millions tuned into MWC22 Barcelona content via Mobile World Live global syndication and official national and international broadcasters.
- More than 1,600 international journalists were onsite


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Oh no. We thought the recent break in reporting such stories was behind us, but once again the PSN is down, at least in the UK.
Players are taking to twitter, reddit, and Facebook to air their grievances at the latest PSN outage. We can confirm that The Games Cabin can’t get online with the service at the time of writing, but we’ll keep an eye on it and let you guys know if anything changes.
Today is Black Friday, so perhaps the thousand of new PS4s connecting to the network is what’s causing the PSN to have a wobble, but that’s juet.our best guess at the moment.
For the time being, Sony UK is suggesting players go through the usual motions of restarting their routers, waiting three minutes, and the rest of it. Of course, we have indeed gone through the suggested steps to no avail.
Stay tuned with The Games Cabin for further updates.[Update: It looks like PSN is slowly returning to full functionality as we’re able to get online and browse the store at the time.of writing this update. Yippee!]


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If you are wondering whether Apple’s claims about the very good battery life of the iPhone 13 Pro Max are also true compared to the competition, you should take a look at the comparison video of a Galaxy S21 Ultra from PhoneBuff.
Various disciplines, such as watching movies, reading emails or just staying in standby mode, are standardized via a robot arm. It turns out that Apple’s A15 is very efficient. The iPhone still has about 25% battery left at the end of the test when the Galaxy turns off.
Thus, Apple has not only overtaken its own old predecessor versions in battery runtime with the iPhone 13, but also the current Samsung competition.
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As of at the moment, Thursday, February 27th, 2020, Bitstamp has simply introduced that they’ve upgraded to full native SegWit assist on their alternate. This implies Bitstamp customers will now be capable to create pockets addresses for depositing cryptocurrency by utilizing the brand new Bech32 deal with format.
Though proudly owning Bitcoin could be thrilling, sending and receiving cryptocurrency tends to be a bit extra difficult. That’s as a result of of the truth that customers should rigorously preserve observe of their pockets addresses, and one thing as small as making a typo whereas coming into a vacation spot deal with might imply the loss of their valuable digital cash.
Previously, Bitcoin addresses had as much as not less than 34 characters, consisting of randomized digits and lower-case and upper-case letters. However now, with the brand new Bech32 format, vacation spot addresses on Bitstamp will not be case delicate.
Ultimately, the aim behind the brand new replace is to make Bitcoin transactions extra environment friendly, whereas additionally lowering the chance of by chance sending crypto to an invalid or mistaken deal with.
The Advantages Of New Bech32 Addresses
Bech32 is a brand new Bitcoin deal with format, which has been created particularly to be used with SegWit expertise.
And in accordance with Bitstamp, “We’ve at all times supported the event of new applied sciences that may assist Bitcoin attain its full potential to retailer and switch any quantity of worth wherever on the planet rapidly and cheaply.”
Bitcoin customers will nonetheless be capable to select the outdated deal with format, nevertheless, the Bech32 format will assist enhance the effectivity of every transaction as a result of it can cut back the quantity of area wanted on the blockchain. And on high of this, utilizing the brand new format additionally reduces the chance of human error.
With out exception, all Bech32 addresses will begin with the symbols, “bc1” and won’t be case delicate. In different phrases, there will likely be a lesser likelihood of anybody making a spelling mistake whereas typing in an deal with or simply by chance sending their cryptocurrency to the mistaken vacation spot deal with.
Moreover, Bech32 addresses additionally characteristic an automated deal with format examine, which helps to make sure that customers are certainly sending their cryptocurrency to a sound deal with.
Making The Swap
As talked about, Bitcoin customers should still use the outdated deal with format.
Nonetheless, Bitstamp suggests that each one customers make the change to the brand new format, just because it can assist make transactions that rather more environment friendly. With this, the alternate has robotically generated new addresses for all their current prospects.
“Attributable to this technical improve, we now have generated new Bitcoin deposit addresses for all our prospects. Please be sure to’re utilizing your new deal with earlier than you ship any BTC to Bitstamp.”
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