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Chevrolet is launching a campaign for the all-new Silverado pickup truck with a spot on tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship.
The campaign also includes “disruption” marketing: In a first for the automotive category, an image of the Silverado will be integrated into the traditional brown packaging on 7.1 million Amazon boxes.
The 60-second “A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘n Roll” from Commonwealth//McCann shows how the truck is designed and engineered for all facets of America. The ad features a variety of truck owners quoting the lyrics of Donny and Marie Osmond's signature song from the ‘70s, which Chevy’s top U.S. marketing exec calls “poetry.”
Paul Edwards, U.S. vice president of Chevrolet marketing, declined to put a dollar figure on the campaign, but said spending would be “significant.” A press release refers to it as Chevy’s “most comprehensive integrated marketing and social campaign.”
In another first, Chevrolet leads the other General Motors divisions in using neuroscience to test the effectiveness of the spots. About 500 consumers were tested using the medical equipment that measures brain activity in response to what is being viewed.
Edwards says the findings were helpful and he could definitely see using it again.
“It was insightful because in many cases it validated what our approach already was in a very genuine way,” he says. “People can’t lie — or say what they think you want them to say — it’s the body’s response. What it measures is your willingness to approach the ad or reverse from the ad. What is its likeability? We tailored the executions based on that feedback, but we didn’t make any wholesale changes.”
The use of neuromarketing by automakers dates back at least 15 years. Ford of Europe and the former DaimlerChrysler have used it to test marketing messages, while Hyundai has used it for feedback on car designs.
Edwards calls the spots an “evolution or a freshening” of the “Real People, Not Actors” spots and said future executions for the Silverado after the initial launch spots will include that four-year-old, ongoing creative approach.
Two additional spots will debut during the first half of the year. “Official Truck of Real People” shows how it’s a pickup truck for every use, from work to play. “Tailgates” shows the truck’s rear being used over the decades, highlighting the industry-first, segment-exclusive power up/down tailgate.
Chevrolet also created dedicated, in-language, Hispanic-market versions of the campaign to help ensure Silverado maintains its position as the top-selling pickup among Hispanic buyers. The Hispanic spots are from Casanova Pendrill, McCann Worldgroup's Hispanic agency.
In another automotive first, Chevy will sponsor the 9 p.m. ET version of the video game "HQ Trivia" on Jan. 8, giving players the chance to win a Silverado.
Chevy is also sponsoring custom front-cover designs for magazines including Bon Appétit, ESPN, GQ, Motor Trend, Rolling Stone, Southern Living and Sports Illustrated.
Custom integrations featuring the truck will air tonight on NBC's “Manifest” and ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” As part of the launch week, the Chevy Silverado will have a placement on the Amazon, Bleacher Report, USA Today, CNN and YouTube homepages.
Chevrolet partnered with the American Cancer Society to reward a family with the experience of “camping” in the Daytona International Speedway infield — sleeping in specially outfitted Silverado truck beds.
Also, for the first time ever, the Daytona 500 will be paced by a pickup truck. Dale Earnhardt Jr. will lead the crowd to the green flag in an all-new Silverado.
Additional integrations with Pandora radio, Turner Networks and NBC's “This Is Us” will roll out over the coming months.


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A minute ago social media began to suspect that Kanye West would be making a shocking return to the Nike brand when he was spotted wearing a pair of Nike Vandal High “Terminator”‘s, but unfortunately for sneaker aficionados nothing ever came after that moment.
While he’s since gone back to wearing wild ass Adidas Yeezy boots, slides, and male struggle stripper boots, today (Jan. 21) he dropped a hint that not only could he be working with Nike again, but this time with their crown jewel brand, Jordan. Taking to Instagram to post the famous Jumpman logo that is a silhouette of one Michael Jordan, Kanye captioned it with “” to get the sneaker world in a frenzy in a matter of seconds.
Could the long-awaited Adidas/Jordan collaboration be on the way? Will Yeezy be leaving Adidas for Jordan Brand? Are the OG Air Yeezy’s going to finally be getting retro’d as we’ve been pleading for over the past few years? We certainly hope any of those three are happening.
In the second pic of the post it’s a screenshot of an old post which stated that Michael Jordan’s son, Marcus, wanted to have a four-way conversation with Kanye, Michael Jordan, and DJ Khaled. Just today Khaled was hanging out with Kanye and posted his time with Ye on IG. Could they have come to some kind of agreement on a collaboration while they were kicking it? We have no clue, but what we do know is that Khaled’s pair of Nike Air Yeezy “Net”‘s came apart while he was kicking it with Kanye West and that sh*t hurt our sneaker loving hearts.
That’s what happens when you keeps your kicks on ice for years. Wear your damn sneakers!!
Are y’all looking forward to a possible Kanye/Jordan collaboration? Should they just retro the Air Yeezy collection? Let us know in the comments section below.
The Return Of “Air Yeezy”? Kanye West Teases Jordan Collab, Allegedly was originally published on hiphopwired.com

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For the second time in 2008, Hibernian Direct Insurance has been added to the ValueIreland.com Overcharging List of Shame.
As reported in Saturdays Irish Times, this week the Hibernian Direct has had to repay 370 of their customers a total of €16.608, as well as a €45,000 fine to the Financial Regulator. This was because the Financial Regulator determined that Hibernian had broken the consumer protection code.
According to the Irish Time article:
The breaches related to the sale of optional extra cover in relation to motor policies sold by Hibernian. The regulator found that Hibernian did not provide all the information required by the code when selling these extras.
In another case of providential timing, this is the first time in 4 years that the Financial Regulator have fined a financial services company (at least that they’ve told us about) who was found to have unfairly taken (read: stolen) money from their customers.
It was only last Tuesday that the Irish Examiner highlighted the fact that these companies normally get away free and easy for such actions.


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They may have broken the internet with their Breakfast Wrap, but the team at Mrs Browns Bakery are back again with a Christmas bonanza that’s got everyone talking again.
The launch of their Festive menu is the talk of the town again, and one dish in particular is getting everyone very excited.
Known as ‘The Fat Santa’, the meal contains a whole CHRISTMAS DINNER inside a baguette.
Georgie Rowe, owner of Mrs Browns Bakery, said: We’ve sold this for four years and is already been popular but when we re-launched the Christmas menu again this year it just went crazy.
“The feedback has been crazy.”
No expense has been spared and no corners have been cut, with the meal containing all the trimmings too: Hot layers of roasted turkey, swede & carrot mash, homemade roast potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy.
It’s popularity is already huge, with the venue selling out of turkey by 2pm every day since it’s launch on Tuesday.
Ms Rowe added: “There’s been so much interest that we’ve had to turn people away.
“It’s nice to see that so many people are interested.”
Other dishes on the festive menu at Mrs Browns Bakery includes the ‘Nutty Elf’ (Nut Roast, Veggies and sauce), ‘Big Bird’ (Turkey stuffing and sauce) and the ‘Melted Snowman (toasted turkey, Brie and sauce).


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TALLAHASSEE, Fl.a (WTXL) — It's "Back To School" Sales Tax Holiday Weekend and that means big savings for anyone looking for a good bargain.
As you can imagine this year is different because of COVID-19.
Academy Sports + Outdoors is following all local recommendations from the CDC and our local community and employees there are ensuring everybody has a safe shopping experience at their store located on Mahan Drive.
"Implementing the six-feet social distancing rule as well as markers being placed around the store for customers to get an idea what a safe distance is to stand from each other," said T'Keyah Taylor, the store manager at Academy. "We've got a team member disinfecting carts."
Items from clothing, footwear, and certain accessories costing $60 or less are tax-free this weekend.
This also includes school supplies selling for $15 or less.
The annual tax-free weekend ahead of the school year is hopefully lifting the financial burden facing many families during the pandemic.
A survey released by the financial firm Deloitte suggests shoppers nationwide are expected to spend more than $28 billion on back-to-school supplies.
Much of that shopping is happening online.
Those who do venture out are not taking any chances.
"It gives us a little anxiety that it's still going on," said Luke Grabowski, a customer at Academy. "But, I mean, we wear our mask. We carry hand sanitizer. We try to stay away, social distance as much as we can."
The tax-free weekend lasts through Sunday, Aug. 9. For more details click here.


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A PALAZZO Advisory & Acquisition study reveals that while bonuses are shrinking in many industries, over 92% of PR, marketing and advertising agencies gave 2009 bonuses to employees at all levels.
As part of the intensive media outreach to build awareness of online coupon site RetailMeNot.com, Schwartz Communications deployed an established PR tactic—sending a gift to the desks of tier-one journalists and Web producers. The Holiday… Continued
The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. was able to create a video with staying power. While it’s tricky to predict what will strike a chord with consumers, “Love” videographer Ted Passon provides insights into making a video that stays within a reasonable budget.
The usual practice in the market research world is to target an elite few when testing products and/or concepts. Now, online survey company Infosurv and BrainJuicer, in the U.K., are turning that adage on its head—the new thinking banks on the premise that large groups of people are wiser than an elite few.
When Cisco Canada’s director of corporate affairs Willa Black came up with the idea of the One Million Acts of Green campaign, it was a risky proposition to sell, both internally and externally. Here are some tips from Black on pushing your Big Idea through:


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Though the vast majority of gift cards have traditionally been of the plastic type and sold in person, a sea change is occurring in the gift-card industry and has more consumers buying gift cards online and more retailers offering improved online gift card experiences – such as personalization and incentives, according to a recent survey by CashStar.
The 2009 Pre-Holiday Online Shopper Gift Card Survey of online US shoppers revealed that 68% of online shoppers agree that buying a gift card online that can be sent via e-mail is more convenient than having plastic cards shipped to a gift card recipient. Additionally, 80% of online shoppers say that if their favorite store or restaurant offered a personalized online gift card on their website, they would be more likely to purchase an online gift card from that retailer.
Personalization is Important Success Factor
A key factor for success for online gift cards is personalization, the study found.? Half of all respondents said they have decided against giving gift cards in the past because they were not personal enough. An overwhelming majority (85%) of online shoppers who are planning to give gift cards this holiday season expressed interest in purchasing personalized online cards that can be sent via e-mail. And 70% reported that the ability to personalize a gift card is important to them.
Incentives More Critical than Ever
Nearly nine in 10 (88%) of online shoppers in the survey indicate that they would be more likely to purchase a gift card that has an incentive attached (i.e. send a $50 gift card and get a $10 gift card for themselves).
“Delivering compelling offers and incentives is much easier in the digital marketplace for retailers, as fulfillment is much less expensive and is immediate,” said CashStar CEO David Stone. “And savvy retailers understand the benefit of offering a $10 incentive card to drive traffic to the store or site, where the consumer typically spends 60% more than the card’s face value.”
Additional survey findings:
- Print-at-home is becoming increasingly popular. Survey respondents print the following at home: coupons (70%), boarding passes (48%), concert/movie tickets (30%) and gift cards (14%).
- Online shoppers interested in ‘green’ alternatives. More than half (56%) of respondents said they are more likely to purchase online gift cards because they are better for the environment than petroleum-based plastic cards.
- Gift cards remain popular choice this holiday. A third of consumers plan to do more of their holiday shopping online than they did in 2008 and 40%? plan to give gift cards (of that number, 70% plan to give between two and five gift cards this year).
- Siblings and friends top gift card recipient list, while restaurants top gift card category. Online shoppers say that their top gift card recipients are siblings (48%) and friends (45%). Restaurants topped the gift-card category list with 59% of online shoppers planning to give restaurant gift cards. General retail and consumer electronics were close behind with 56% and 35% respectively.
About the survey: The national survey was designed to provide insight into the holiday gifting behavior of online shoppers. The survey was conducted in October 2009 via Zoomerang and is based on 800 respondents (43% male, 57% female).


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BRANTFORD, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Mitsui Top-tec is making an investment greater than $100 million to extend production operations in southwestern Ontario that form a constituent wanted for electrical cars.
Ford says the funding into the plant in Branftord, Ont., might be impaired to create motor cores, a work impaired to form the motor that powers electrical cars.
Mitsui Top-tec largest shoppers are Honda, Toyota and Nissan.
Ford says the corporate will viewable a fresh facility and assemble greater than 100 jobs.
The province says Mitsui is the one corporate in Canada that creates motor core portions for electrical and hybrid cars.
Ford says the province is making an investment $3.1 million for the growth.
The funding is the original within the province’s push to turn out to be a pace-setter in electrical car production.
Mitsui Top-tec opened its first Canadian manufacturing facility in April 2017, with plans of growth. The preliminary plant in Brantford value $38 million.


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The beta for Amazon’s upcoming MMO New World eclipsed 200,000 concurrent gamers over the weekend as gamers put together for the sport’s launch in August.
Testing for the sport, which began early final week, will run till the start of subsequent week. And whereas the beta is “closed,” anybody who pre-orders the sport can get entry.
The sport’s present 24-hour peak is 200,856, in line with Steam Database. Solely 5 different video games have the next peak concurrent participant rely over the course of the previous 24 hours.
New World’s closed beta began on Tuesday, July 20. Quickly after, the sport hit more than 190,000 concurrent players, however it hadn’t fairly reached that landmark 200,000 determine.
One motive for the closed beta’s huge reputation has been its publicity by way of content material creators on Twitch.
Previously week, New World is the fourth most-watched sport on the platform with 23.6 million hours watched. High content material creators who’ve performed the sport embrace Fextralife, TimTheTatman, and JoshOG.
In the meantime, Twitch’s hottest MMO streamer Asmongold has racked up some viewership for the closed beta on his alternate Twitch account (zackrawrr), the place he doesn’t partake in the identical form of theatrics you’d anticipate from his principal channel (Asmongold).
Amazon’s testing for New World hasn’t been all optimistic notes, although. Early on, some gamers with high-end graphics playing cards reported that the sport was killing their GPU, forcing Amazon to address the issue.
These issues appeared to solely have an effect on folks with a really particular mannequin of GPU, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090. EVGA has since supplied to switch folks’s GPUs in the event that they have been damaged whereas taking part in New World.
https://dotesports.com/mmo/information/new-world-breaks-200000-concurrent-players-on-steam | New World breaks 200,000 concurrent gamers on Steam


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The Audi RS6 Avant launched in 2013, but already working on her facelift. Spies FOUR WHEELS photographed 2015 model station wagon while testing in Europe, still covered by a relatively heavy camouflage.
The "EcoSport Hyundai" is coming. The ix25 will be based on the new generation i20 platform and will be presented in April during the Hall of Beijing. In the meantime, the prototypes run on testing in the snow, as shown in our act.
The Mercedes-Benz would be working on developing a new SUV, which would be positioned below the newly presented GLA (above). According to information from the British magazine Auto Express, the Class X would be even lower than the GLA.


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17 January 2012 | Angeline Albert
More than 30 public bodies and businesses in North West England have asked their key suppliers to disclose their carbon use online.
A total of 31 buying organisations are participating in ‘dCarbon North West', a collaborative project to reduce carbon emissions by liaising with suppliers through web-based tool CAESER.
The purchasing organisations, which include 24 councils in the North West, are engaging with 2,500 key suppliers using CAESER. The system, operated by NQC, allows suppliers to disclose information about their emissions online and follow a self-assessment process. This then provides a benchmark of their environmental, social and economic performance against their buying organisation’s expectations and industry best practice. It assesses suppliers’ low carbon plans and gives them a rating from green (meeting sustainability targets) to red (a lot more work to do), as well as outlining their strengths and weaknesses.
Other buying organisations participating in dCarbon North West include four fire and rescue services, Transport for Greater Manchester, the University of Manchester and Manchester Airports Group. Suppliers involved in the programme include Canon UK.
Manchester City Council is using the system with its top 1,000 suppliers, including stationery providers and construction companies. It hopes the tool will help its vendors become more efficient, save money and win more contracts.
Councillor Nigel Murphy, the authority’s executive member for the environment, said: “Over the next few years, companies that invest in environmentally friendly technologies will be the real winners and support from this project will help our suppliers find out what difference this can make to them and their employees.”


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Britain’s richest gypsy, born in a caravan, is set to become a billionaire as her home park empire continues to grow.
Alfie Best, who was born on a roadside near Leicester, now lives in a £6m mansion in Surrey.
The 52-year-old began his business career selling cars and vans as a teenager, setting up a group of mobile phone stores when he was 20.
Now, more than 30 years later, he runs Wyldecrest Parks, which operates 91 mobile home parks across the UK and is valued at £700 million.
The entrepreneur has even gone as far as to afford to buy his own £4.5 million helicopter designed by Aston Martin.
And as his business grows, his star looks set to become the world’s first gypsy billionaire.
Alfie Best, pictured here with his new £4.5million Aston Martin-designed helicopter, is set to become the world’s first gypsy billionaire.
The 52-year-old, pictured here for last year’s TV show Undercover Bigg Boss, owns Wildcrest Park, which operates 91 mobile home parks across the country.
It’s a dramatic change from his childhood to growing up in the traveler community, but Mr. Best says that even with his enormous wealth, he knows what’s most important.
They told Sun ‘It’s not really about making any more money. I believe once you’ve made five or ten million, you don’t need any more money than that.
‘As far as I’m concerned, there’s so much money in the world because it allows you to do everything.
‘After that, it’s really about creating something that makes a difference. I get criticized a lot but I have broad shoulders. You just have to take it and accept it and feel that I am lucky.’
The entrepreneur, shown here at a grand screening of The Courier in August last year, says he already has all the money he needs as far as he is concerned.
Modest Beginnings: Mr. Best was born into poverty but said he had a happy childhood. He is depicted as a child with his mother and father
The multi-millionaire, who ominously says we’ve entered a global recession, says: ‘In my opinion, you get what you deserve when it hits the fan.
Despite ongoing issues such as the cost of living crisis, Mr Best is set to cross the £1 billion mark next year as the value of his investments and business soar.
He added: ‘Depending on how the market plays out, we will have £1bn in assets by the end of next year. But I am a realist – anything can go wrong, you can go up and come down as fast as you can.’
After turning down a £950 million offer from a hedge fund for his park business, he hasn’t stopped spraying cash for as long as he can, with his latest purchase, a £4.5 million helicopter.
“Loads of dough and too much time are the two most dangerous things because passive hands work for the devil,” he said.
‘We can all party too much, we can all enjoy ourselves too much and I never thought I’d say that, but we can all work so hard.’
In 2015, when he was only worth £200 million, Mr Best told MailOnline that he did not feel ‘success’.
‘What’s successful? I’m still working stuff out as much as the next person,’ he said.
‘I’m in a position lucky enough to know that I’ve made some good choices, but the truth is that I’m a little silly.
‘I wake up every morning and I pinch myself and thank my lucky stars that I have had the privilege of being there.’
Yet Alfie – who has lunched with former Tory prime minister John Major and boxer Mike Tyson – still describes himself as frugal, amid fears that he may still lose everything he had for a flash. work done.
To his humility, he even turned down a request to be included in the Sunday Times Rich List in 2011.
‘I never spend more than my means. Everything I buy is for sale – from the cars I drive, to my homes. And I know that everything I have has value,’ he said.
‘Don’t get me wrong, of course I have enough to be comfortable with. But I have gone through a recession and live in fear of being in that situation again.
‘When you’ve gone through a tough downturn, it changes you. Even though it was 25 years ago, I remember it like yesterday.
Success: 45-year-old Alfie Best was born into a poor gypsy family by the side of the road, but is now worth millions
That recession came in the early 1990s, when Mr. Best started his first business – a van rental center and dealership in Forest Gate – at the age of 16.
He learned the salesman ropes at the age of ten, when he sold door-to-door sales as part of his father’s tarmac business.
‘Have you ever heard of the expression ‘talk fast like a gypsy’? They said.
‘When I was trying to sell with my father as a youngster, I had 30 seconds to make my point before the door closed in front of me. It taught me a lot about the basics of being a good salesman.’
But, four years after starting his first business, Mr. Best ran into financial trouble. With huge mortgages on his home and business and a nationwide recession, he lost almost everything.
He said: ‘I had never been through a recession at the time and I couldn’t understand how bad things were going to get.
‘What came every day was a day of new learning that I hadn’t seen before and I had no choice but to draw from my experiences. Of course, it was soul destroying.’
Mr Best said he managed to hang ‘by the skin of my teeth’ by renting out his house, increasing his bank loan and sleeping in his car for three months as he desperately tried to turn his fortunes around.
When things finally hit rock bottom, Mr. Best knew he needed to get another job. He noticed that two businesses that flourished during the recession were takeaways and phone shops.
Port Haverig Marina Village, Cumbria, one of the permanent trailer portions of Wildcrest Park nationwide
Another site, Badgers Retreat Park in Richmond, North Yorkshire, is set on 26 acres of land.
So he went to a nearby phone shop in East Ham, begged for a job as a tea seller, and spent three months taking suggestions.
Three months later, he started his own mobile phone business by taking a loan. Within 18 months, they had 13 shops across London.
He said, ‘I had made the right decision at that time. ‘I remember when I went to visit my bank manager, his exact words were: ‘You are a very unconventional businessman’.
After selling that business, Mr. Best moved into commercial property and now has industrial units spread across the country covering up to 80 acres.
A few years later, his wife, Emily, suggested that he should do something in which he had more experience and knowledge. He decided to start a business in the motor home industry, having bought his first business in 2001 for £1.7 million.
That business has gradually expanded and now Wyldecrest Parks operates 91 mobile home parks across the country.


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One Finance, the Nigerian company behind the PayLater service has secured a “BB” credit rating from Global Credit Rating. This is the first credit rating for any African fintech company.
Some exciting news for us – being the first in Nigeria to secure a global credit rating is a strong indicator that your financial partner is in good shape.🏋🏾♂
Check out the article! https://t.co/7UKrxwrzgm
— Carbon (@get_carbon) December 11, 2018
A credit rating is a risk management tool that’s used to determine the creditworthiness of a company, city or country that issues debt. Using several metrics, a credit rating explains how likely a debt will be repaid.
Now credit ratings are not investment recommendations. They are just for informational purposes. Ratings are divided into two categories: investment and speculative grades.
One Finance’s BB rating is speculative and signifies that the company has a lot of prospects, but for now faces slight uncertainties.
Nevertheless, the news comes as a huge boost for the company behind the highly popular Paylater lending service. Since launching the service two years ago, Paylater now has over one million users and disburses around 1,500 loans per day.
What Does the Rating Mean for the Company?
According to the rating agency, One Finance’s BB rating signifies a stable outlook. It arrived at this following a rigorous and testing process that analyzed the company’s finances and operational risks.
And this offers a lot of leverage for the startup in a number of ways.
Nigeria fintech Paylater gets credit rating ahead CBN regs Quartz Fintech companies in #Africa are increasingly playing in spaces dominated by traditional financial institutions. In a continental first, One Fin… https://t.co/rLgCMvbTnZ via @theafricamentor #tech #entrepreneur pic.twitter.com/E4aVkbJaYK
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First, it offers a benchmark that allows investors to gauge the health of the company. This could even help the company engage in more impressive financing rounds, similar to the sort we only hear or read about internationally.
We want to look at pockets of funding in Nigeria and it’s easier if you have a credit rating
Second, the rating also gives significant recognition to Paylater’s own measure of assessing user’s credit worthiness. Since it launched, the service has relied on its own algorithms to make recommendations about what the limit of a user’s borrowing should be. The BB rating shows that this system is quite effective.
Third the credit rating offers a new measure for regulatory agencies to understand fintechs better. The BB rating shows that everything about One Finance’s operations is great, but the only uncertainty stems from regulators.
And Nigerian regulatory bodies have constantly affirmed their commitments to regulate fintechs to ensure their innovations are more industry compliant and safe for customers. But there’s been no acceptable measure so far. In fact, the recent CBN draft for payments companies only restates this confusion.
However, the new credit rating and the methodologies used could provide a new way for regulators to observe fintech growth and risks.
And One Finance is hoping that this happens. Chijioke Dozie says the credit rating allows his firms to be “held to the same levels of transparency and scrutiny as other leading financial institutions in Nigeria.”
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[Top Bankers] South Korea Bankers Club Chief Calls for Tighter Regulation on Big Tech
President of the Federation of Korean Banks, Kim Gwang-soo (KFB)
This is one part of a series of interviews and analysis of top South Korean bankers, policymakers, and investors who lead the financial industry here. This is the first delivery. — Ed.
Banks are facing intensifying competition from IT companies as consumers gravitate towards digital financial services tailored to their needs.
However, the president of the Federation of Korean Banks, Kim Gwang-soo, believes that lenders have distinctive competition that could overcome the challenges posed by fintech rivals.
“While the big technology and fintech companies play a role of intermediaries in the provision of financial instruments, the banks are experienced in a wide range of services and offer a high level of security,” Kim said during a press conference that he marked his 100th day in office on Tuesday.
The bureaucrat-turned-banker was chosen late last year to head the nearly century-old organization KFB, which represents financial institutions doing banking and related business in Korea. Kim’s new leadership role in South Korea’s top bankers’ club came at a critical time when the market is rapidly moving from physical to digital. In the course of the rapid transformation, Kim has rarely raised concerns about banks facing tighter restrictions than emerging fintech platforms, saying such an environment is not fair to existing players.
“Concerns have been raised that the market dominance of Big Tech could hamper stability in the financial industry and recently introduced digital financial policies could cause reverse discrimination against existing financial institutions,” he said.
His comment came as major internet platform players such as Kakao and Naver threaten to overshadow banks with one-click digital payment systems and data-driven services based on their vast customer bases. .
At the center of the intensifying digital war between incumbents and newcomers is MyData, a government-led project that grants business licenses to financial institutions and technology companies to expand access to customer information across in order to promote personal credit information management services.
The banks’ MyData service will be more reliable than those offered by tech-heavy rivals, as the former are already under strict internal control and a strong security infrastructure, Kim said.
“I think that banks will be able to provide a personalized one-to-one product to the customer because it is a product provider that directly designs and sells financial products,” he added.
What the government needs to do is separate big tech from fintech and come up with a new set of regulations to strengthen monitoring of big tech’s credit risks, according to Kim.
“Tighter regulation is needed for big tech platforms that have a big (market) impact,” he said.
Recently enacted legislation on financial consumer protection, set to take effect on March 25, is expected to place a greater burden on banks and hamper their efforts to digitize their operations. For fair play, the new law should apply to fintech and big tech companies, not just banks, he added.
“In the midst of the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, contactless services are progressing faster than expected. Banks need more efforts to transform into platform companies to develop long-term competitiveness,” she said.
Kim is one of Korea’s top financiers who rose to the top tier of the industry after decades of government service.
Before entering the private sector, he worked for the Ministry of Finance and the Financial Services Commission for 30 years.
Before joining KFB, Kim served as Chairman of NongHyup Financial Group for more than two years from April 2018.
During his tenure, NongHyup Financial Group posted a record net profit of over 1 trillion won (US$874.4 million) for two consecutive years.
His strategic decisions on building the foundation for digital transformation and expanding global business were said to have helped the financial giant with a large client base in the agricultural sector secure future growth. Now, as head of the KFB, Kim is also facing market pressure to adopt the ESG principle.
For starters, the organization added two new departments on sustainable management and legal affairs last month, but there has yet to be a big push for change, particularly in governance.
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Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2 smartphone is here. The company launched the second-generation version of its bezel-less smartphone Mi Mix, launched in October 2016, at an event in Beijing, China. The Chinese smartphone maker has launched Mi Mix 2 just a day ahead of the official unveiling of Apple's next iPhones on September 12 at an event in California. The company is speculated to launch three new iPhones - iPhone 8 or iPhone X, iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus.
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The recent volcanic activity of Mount Agung in Karangasem impacted Bali's tourism with numerous flights cancellations resulting in low hotel occupancy. (Shutterstock/File)
The Tourism Ministry has reportedly allocated Rp 100 billion (US$7.36 million) for a Bali tourism recovering program.
Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said the budget would be allocated for three months to prepare for the year-end holiday season.
Arief, as quoted by kompas.com, added that he had been requested by the ministry’s deputy minister for overseas promotion I Gde Pitana to handle the budget.
On another occasion, Arief explained that the Rp 100 billion budget would be used to promote Bali to international tourists, including for Hot Deals, a 50 percent discount program for tourists visiting Bali.
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TATA Motors used the recent the Futuroad Expo 2019 event in South Africa to launch two new models for its HCV (heavy commercial vehicles) Ultra range of trucks.
The new 7.5t Ultra Plus 1418 and an AMT variant of the Ultra 814 variant were unveiled in Johannesburg, joining the 5.5t Ultra 1014 and three models from the Prima range – the Prima 2528.K 6 x4 Tipper, Prima 3338.K 8×4 Tipper and Prima 4938.S – at an official event.
While the Ultra AMT 814 is from the existing range, the Ultra Plus 1418 is an entirely new multipurpose vehicle in the Heavy Commercial Vehicle (HCV) range.
The Ultra Plus 1418 is powered by the TATA New Gen 5.0L common rail engine. It will be available in wheelbase options of 4900 and 5300 mm.
The vehicle will also offer a payload capacity between 7-8T making it ideal for both medium and short haul distribution, said TATA, adding that the tractor head offers class leading value and low cost of operation.
According to local media, Rudrarup Maitra, head (commercial vehicles), Tata Motors International Business, said that South Africa market is one of its strategically important hubs in Africa as it continues to expand across the continent and the nearby Middle East market.
The Free Press Journal quoted Maitra as saying: “As a brand, we would like to be in the top three in any segment or sub-segment that we participate in, in each country that we are in and I think that is how we pick and choose where we are going to be present and how we are going to be present.
“The whole of sub-Saharan Africa as well as southern Africa has been key for us for the past 10 to 15 years. We are getting increasingly committed to Africa. I only see this relationship getting deeper.”


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Samsung Galaxy S9 Sunrise Gold edition might be headed to the US
Leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks) has hinted that the Sunrise Gold variant of the Samsung Galaxy S9 may arrive in the U.S.. The new model was recently launched in Korea, but Samsung hasn’t yet confirmed U.S. availability.
Replying to a tweet from The Verge which said the gold and burgundy models wouldn’t be released Stateside, Blass replied “Oh yeah?” and posted some renders of gold model.
Unlike the Korean devices at the top of the page, Blass’ renders include the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus model names on their respective rears — something that only appears on U.S. Samsung variants, Blass informed me.
The Burgundy Red model is slated to go on sale in China and Korea this month, while the gold model will land in a few more markets from June. We can only speculate for the moment, but if one of the devices was to hit the U.S., it looks like it would be the gold version.
The Sunrise Gold and Burgandy Red models join the existing Midnight Black, Titanium Gray, Coral Blue, and Lilac Purple Galaxy S9 variants; the models are identical in everything but color.
Check out what we thought of Samsung’s latest flagships in our Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus review at the link.


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Tiedemann Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) by 19.5% in the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 13,592 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,215 shares during the quarter. Tiedemann Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance were worth $599,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance by 2.8% during the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 69,985,653 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $5,480,577,000 after acquiring an additional 1,926,108 shares in the last quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. increased its holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance by 24.7% during the 2nd quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 18,502,701 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $1,448,939,000 after acquiring an additional 3,662,302 shares in the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB increased its holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance by 1.0% during the 3rd quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 10,182,388 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $786,284,000 after acquiring an additional 96,552 shares in the last quarter. CI Global Investments Inc. increased its holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance by 4.8% during the 2nd quarter. CI Global Investments Inc. now owns 5,931,592 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $464,503,000 after acquiring an additional 270,182 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its holdings in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance by 14.4% during the second quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 5,905,909 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock worth $462,500,000 after buying an additional 741,875 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 61.18% of the company’s stock.
WBA has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Deutsche Bank initiated coverage on shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in a report on Monday, December 4th. They set a “hold” rating and a $78.00 price target for the company. Raymond James Financial reiterated a “market perform” rating on shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in a report on Wednesday, September 27th. Leerink Swann downgraded shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 1st. Loop Capital set a $90.00 price target on shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, October 26th. Finally, SunTrust Banks set a $72.00 price target on shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Sunday, October 15th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, fifteen have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $86.20.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ WBA) traded up $0.69 on Friday, hitting $76.07. 6,458,366 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,450,000. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 0.96 and a quick ratio of 0.47. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc has a twelve month low of $63.82 and a twelve month high of $88.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $75,340.00, a PE ratio of 21.01, a PEG ratio of 1.28 and a beta of 1.22.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) last released its earnings results on Thursday, January 4th. The pharmacy operator reported $1.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.27 by $0.01. Walgreens Boots Alliance had a net margin of 3.19% and a return on equity of 19.15%. The business had revenue of $30.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $30.39 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.10 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 7.9% on a year-over-year basis. research analysts expect that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc will post 5.67 earnings per share for the current year.
Walgreens Boots Alliance declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, October 25th that allows the company to buyback $1.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization allows the pharmacy operator to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually an indication that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.
In other Walgreens Boots Alliance news, Director William C. Foote sold 2,736 shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $67.37, for a total transaction of $184,324.32. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 16,415 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,105,878.55. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, Director John Anthony Lederer purchased 20,000 shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance stock in a transaction on Thursday, October 26th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $67.00 per share, for a total transaction of $1,340,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 50,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,350,000. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. 14.80% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
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Pit Road have released a diorama scene featuring the Battleship USS California being attacked by the Japanese naval air forces during the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1/700th scale.
Heller have re-released the 1/400th Marceau + Zerstörer Z31 as a starter twin kit set.
Aoshima are to release a waterline series British Heavy Cruiser HMS Kent in 1/700th this month.
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There is a great build feature of one on Model Shipwrights front page by Nikos Kosmadakis.
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Amazon’s Just Walk Out is a cashierless technology that is scheduled to come to Amazon’s full-size grocery store for the first time.
Amazon has announced that the new 25,000 square foot Amazon Fresh store is bigger than the Amazon Go Grocery store, which is only 10,400 square foot. This is a minor milestone as Amazon continues to expand its technology.
The new Amazon Fresh will be the company’s 14th Fresh location in the United States when it opens on June 17 in Bellevue, Washington.
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In 2020, Amazon opened a 35,000 square foot Amazon Fresh store that used its high-tech Dash Carts. It started the speculation that the company’s Just Walk Out technology is not suited for larger stores.
However, Amazon has always maintained that Just Walk Out, which uses a series of overhead cameras and pressure-sensitive shelves to automatically detect what the shoppers put in their respective cards, can scale up stores of any size.
Also Read: Amazon to Open a New Grocery Store with Smart Carts, Alexa Assistant
Amazon’s Vice President of Physical Retail and Technology, Dilip Kumar, said that bringing Just Walk Out technology to a full-size grocery space with the Amazon Fresh in Bellevue showcases the technology’s ability to adapt to new selection and new environments.
Kumar added that the new technology will help even more customers enjoy a faster and easier way to shop in their stores and the company is open to feedback on its latest offering.
Amazon stated that when customers arrive at the new store in Bellevue, Washington, they will be prompted to choose a checkout option. Traditional checkouts will still be there for the customers who are more comfortable using them.
If customers decide to use the Just Walk Out technology, they can enter the store by scanning a QR code in the Amazon app, inserting a linked debit or credit card, or scanning their palm, according to CNBC.
As soon as they leave the store, they are automatically billed for the items in their virtual cart, and a receipt is sent digitally to them.
The new store uses of Just Walk Out. However, it won’t feature the Dash shopping carts that Amazon released in its first Fresh grocery store in 2020, according to The Verge.
Amazon declined to say whether it would be bringing Just Walk Out tech to its pre-existing Amazon Fresh stores in the United States.
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, the technology appear in Fresh-branded locations that are similar in size to Amazon’s Go stores in the U.S.
In addition to Amazon’s own stores, the company also provides Just Walk Out to third-party retailers. Amazon stated that Hudson markets, OTG CIBO Express, and Delaware North are three external retailers that have started to roll out the technology at various locations.
What is Next for Amazon Go?
According to CMSWire’s interview with Akram Assaf, Co-Founder & CTO at Bayt, Amazon could continue to roll out the technology to more Amazon Go stores and license the technology to retailers.
Amazon will try its best to conquer the market, depending on how good or convenient the Just Walk Out technology is.
As soon as the world goes back to normalcy after the pandemic, Amazon will be able to see just how impactful this technology is and whether or not customers want it.
Related Article: Amazon Launches First Physical Store Without Cashiers Outside US, Taking it a Step Further as Shoppers Won’t Need to Pay With Cash
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The adidas YEEZY 700 "Sun" that drops this week will be the first 700 model to be released at $240. All of the previous 700 releases have had a retail price of $300, which has much of the sneaker community and internet sleuths speculating on why. Is it because the YEEZY 700 doesn't sell well? Are they changing to cheaper materials? Was it overpriced to begin with? Is it just a bad colorway? Is it because Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are rumored to be getting a divorce?
The answer is probably much simpler than the buzz-pushers of the world would like it to be. It's no secret that Kanye's YEEZY line, both sneakers, and clothing, is priced on the higher side. It's also no secret that compared to years of the other models selling out instantly, the 700 line does not sell near as well. That said, selling well and making a profit doesn't mean products have to sell out before you can add them to cart.
For the past ten years or so, Kanye has benefitted from being a part of one of the most talked-about families on the planet, the Kardashian-Jenner clan. The fusion of audiences from the beauty world, television entertainment, gossip blogs, that Kim brings to the table, combined with the hip-hop, streetwear, sneakers, that Kanye brings to the table is undeniably the cause of a shift in the landscape of sneakers that I wrote about for Complex about 5 years ago. It's impossible to quantify the value of the entire group of people that have been pushing Ye's sneakers and clothing line, especially when you consider that most of the family members and friends that post YEEZY photos have fan pages for themselves that also have millions of followers.
I might be overly optimistic, but I still think, despite all of the crazy things that Kanye has done and said, all of the benefits of marrying Kim Kardashian were just added to the genuine feelings he has for her and their kids. That said, I'm not denying that the most obvious benefit to joining the Kardashian-Jenner family for his YEEZY brand is the millions and millions of people that see his latest releases a few days before they drop on the dozens of family member IG pages. However, the price drop for the YEEZY 700 isn't a doomsday preparation for the pending divorce.
The goal for Kanye West from the earliest mention of his talks with adidas was to be able to allow everyone in the world a chance to wear YEEZYs. Resellers, or more specifically people that think that everything can be resold, have driven the prices down significantly on the secondary market. Combine that with adidas production numbers of nearly every colorway reaching into the millions and tens of millions, and the money left on the table for the secondary market is minimal compared to the early days of when I was at StockX. If you were into reselling YEEZYs in 2016, you could easily double your money on nearly every release. 5 years later, the latest releases are hardly worth the time it takes to flip them when you take into account the taxes, fees, and shipping charges.
I think that's all part of the plan for Kanye and adidas. As the product line widens and the volume of shoes sold goes through the roof, the only way to reach a new audience and bring more people into the world of wearing YEEZYs is to lower the prices and offer them to a lower-income range of customers. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me to see another Calabasas-like entry-level model from Kanye West and adidas in the near future to widen the customer base even more.
Then again, I'm just speculating like everyone else, and I could be completely wrong. That's what continues to make the sneaker game fun, though.


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According to the report, Pine Labs is expected to have raised $100-150 million, making it India’s first unicorn of the year with a valuation of $1.6 billion.
Talking about the investment, Lokvir Kapoor, Founder and Chairman of Pine Labs, said, “This relationship is a great validation of the top-quality products that Pine Labs delivers to merchants. Together, we have a unique opportunity to use Mastercard’s global presence and technology infrastructure to enhance our growth and enable us to meet the growing needs of customers in India and beyond.”
Founded in 1998 by Lokvir Kapoor, Rajul Garg and Tarun Upaday, Pine Labs started as a card-based payment and loyalty program for the petroleum. Later in 2012, Pine Labs pivoted to becoming a full-stack merchant platform by offering POS payments, loyalty and gifting programs and analytics to its customers.
Over the years, Pine Labs has expanded its offerings to over 3,700 cities across India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The company claims to process payments worth $30 billion every year through its network of 140,000 merchants and across 450,000 network points.
While it took Pine Labs almost 22 years to become a unicorn, the company has continued to grow its presence and become a leading player in the market. The latest partnership has positioned the company to dominate the instalment-based payments on consumer goods market which is expected to reach $52.2 billion by 2025 from $16.9 billion in 2021.
Talking about the partnership, Ari Sarker, Co-President of Mastercard for the Asia Pacific, said, Smart devices are transforming how people shop. With this partnership, we’re continuing to build innovative solutions and provide people with new ways to pay right at their fingertips. By joining forces with Pine Labs, we are reinforcing our strategy to deliver choice to consumers and to be the partner of choice for our customers in South Asia and around the world.”
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Steps away from the Third Avenue Bridge is a small shop that brings warm memories to Amaurys Grullon and customers who grew up in the Bronx.
Displayed in the window are colorful quarter waters, Goya Adobo seasoning and Arizona ice tea bottles. All are items that immediately reminded Grullon of the constant trips made to his favorite deli every day growing up.
Amaurys Grullon, CEO and co-founder of Bronx Native, created the brand to highlight the Bronx through art, media, apparel and events. He said the idea sparked after an unsuccessful search for Bronx-based merchandise. He also wanted to offset negative stereotypes that constantly plagued the borough.
“I created this brand because I was born and raised in the Bronx my whole life,” Grullon said. “I heard negative things about my home, my people, my borough and I was not having it. So I said what can I do to change the narrative, to change the stigma and to change people’s perspective of the Bronx because I think the Bronx is the most beautiful place on Earth.”
After completing work in media and projects as a designer, Grullon decided to create the brand in early 2016. The grand opening of the store followed in late 2017 after a two-week pop-up shop.
The previous owners of the space recognized the amount of traffic and sales Bronx Native was bringing to the community, so Grullon was granted two more weeks to host events and sell merchandise.
Those extra two weeks turned into a long-term lease and Grullon was able to turn Bronx Native to a cultural hub in Mott Haven.
During Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign that eventually led to her unseating former Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, Bronx Native was one of her first stops during the campaign trial.
Following the shocking upset election, Grullon was contacted to create shirts to go alongside the release of Ocasio-Cortez’s 2019 Netflix documentary “Knock Down The House.”
Grullon said the marketing plan was a good experience for him. There was also a live screening of the documentary and shirts were given out.
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The couple will divorce after 18 years of marriage. Griffith, fifty seven, filed for her fourth divorce in June 2014. Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith are set to divorce after 18 years of marriage, they have announced. She has additionally been married to Steven Bauer, also an actor. Actress Melanie Griffith filed for divorce from husband Antonio Banderas on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, ending their 18 years of marriage.
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Despite asserting their divorce was a pleasant one and even making the effort to look facet by aspect in Bandera's 2014 movie Automata - a premiere that occurred amidst their divorce proceedings - Melanie ended up feeling hollow after this last divorce.
Banderas, after all, famously wed fellow actor Melanie Griffith the 12 months after his divorce from Leza, in 1996. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Melanie Griffith filed for divorce Friday from Antonio Banderas, her husband of 18 years. Antonio Banderas Divorce Settlement: Generally talking, Antonio and Melanie's divorce was somewhat civil.
For the first years of their marriage, Melanie and Antonio made the decision to maintain their funds apart. Previously, she was married to Don Johnson, whom she divorced once and later remarried. Griffith filed for divorce in June 2014 after 18 years of marriage.
Griffith was married to actor Don Johnson twice and likewise Steven Bauer. In a brand new interview with Folks , Antonio Banderas referred to as his ex-wife, Melanie Griffith, his greatest pal. After she and Banderas finalized their divorce in 2015, the actress let the world know she wouldn't be walking down the aisle ever once more.
The Break Up: Melanie and Antonio announced their loving and friendly” split in summer 2014. They share a daughter together, Stella Banderas, who's now 23, and Banderas helped elevate Griffith's daughter from her earlier relationship with Don Johnson.


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U.S. Congressmen to ITC: "Step Off Microsoft"
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Eight Congressmen wrote a letter to the ITC opposing the Xbox 360 ban
A group of Congressmen wrote a letter to the International Trade Commission (ITC) in opposition of an import
ban against Microsoft's Xbox 360 console
Congress members Dave Reichert, Norm Dicks, Jim McDermott, Doc Hastings, Adam Smith, Rick Larsen, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Jaime Herrera Beutler signed the letter, which urged the ITC to think twice about the Xbox 360 ban.
The letter was prompted by an ITC investigation into Motorola Mobility's patent infringement claims against Microsoft. As a result, ITC administrative law Judge David Shaw has recommended that the Xbox 360 console should be banned. The issue is the H.264 codec, which Motorola has patents associated with the video codec.
However, the above-mentioned list of Congress members along with companies like Verizon and Nokia disagree with the ban. In the letter from Congress members, it said a ban on the Xbox 360 could threaten high-paying U.S. jobs as well as economic growth, since the Xbox 360 is one of the top gaming consoles in the U.S. at the moment.
In addition, the letter noted that an exclusion order could hurt third-party investments that provide products and services for the Xbox 360 and depend on its sales. Game developers, publishers and retailers mainly fall under this category.
U.S. consumers could stand to lose as well, according to the letter to ITC Chairman Deanna Okun. Without the Xbox 360, competition in the gaming industry could be stifled and lead to an increase in prices for game consoles and titles.
"For these reasons, we urge you to consider carefully the implications a negative ruling in this matter would have on our economy, consumers, industry and jobs in Washington State and throughout the country," said the letter.
Motorola had also sought to ban the Xbox 360 and Windows 7 OS
in Germany last month
The letter to the ITC can be found
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6/14/2012 10:33:52 AM
Agree, but that's not the only problem. A complete ban because of use of a codec that is a minor feature of the device?
The problem here is that there is no ability to award damages in an ITC action. This is just bad law by congress. Congress needs to require that the ITC can't ban unless the plaintiff can satisfy the above four factor test.
In a normal court, the law is that the court uses a 4 factor test to determine whether to award a plaintiff a permanent injunction: (1) that it has suffered an irreparable injury; (2) that remedies available at law are inadequate to compensate for that injury; (3) that considering the balance of hardships between the plaintiff and defendant, a remedy in equity is warranted; and (4) that the public interest would not be disserved by a permanent injunction. This test does not apply at the ITC.
In my opinion, Motorola fails on factors 1-3. 1 - Motorola hasn't suffered an irreparable injury since they don't compete in the game console market; 2 - money (damagers) can clearly compensate Motorola; 3 - Motorola doesn't compete in the game console market so how is there any hardship to Motorola?
Again, congress needs to change the law here to avoid these ridiculous ban orders by the ITC and force these companies to go through the regular court system where damages is an option, or at least force the ITC to apply the four factor test before banning a product.
RE: Now we know who can be bought...
6/14/2012 12:09:16 PM
Great post. I would submit that they also fail on point 4., that is the permanent injunction would not serve the public interest (as in causing economic harm, lost jobs, etc.)
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Adobe’s acquisition of New York based start-up Frame.io for $1.28 billion highlights the meteoric rise of cloud based collaborative workflows, stimulated further by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although latency and resource coordination continue to challenge those considering cloud-based remote live production, the distributed architecture model is steadily gaining traction as a cost-effective alternate to hardware-based on-premise projects. To date this IT-centric architecture has not been deployed for high-profile productions like the Super Bowl or World Cup, but remote IP-video contribution, production and distribution has allowed second-tier sporting events to be televised globally whereas they might not be - due to cost and fully remote access - using traditional production methods.
New, in-cloud, pay-per-use business models offer new advantages to occasional REMI, field reporting, remote event production and similar content producers and distributors with a better business model to remain competitive and profitable without huge ongoing capital investments.
The pressure to extract more revenue from ever shrinking budgets, due to expensive content rights contracts, is causing Broadcasters to re-evaluate—and in many cases reduce—how they spend their money on production tools and infrastructure. Recognizing this, live production technology providers like Grass Valley are getting “creative” in how they sell their products and cloud-native systems.
Dolby Laboratories has partnered with Box, Inc.’s Content Cloud to provide audio production professionals with an automated signal processing platform that helps content creators deliver better content faster, right from their desktop, anywhere in the world.
While many professionals have come to understand how to configure IP-based infrastructures to handle the distribution of audio and video files, managing specific devices on the network has been extremely complex, at best. Recognizing this, Lawo has developed a new software management platform called Home that makes it easy to set up, manage and benefit from the flexibility, scalable nature and signal-agnostic design that comes with IP infrastructures.
Coming off a whirlwind of three new acquisitions in the past six months, Telestream said it has carefully navigated the past year and emerged stronger than ever. The company actually increased profitability in a time of challenge for many others in the industry.
With its core business in live sports production, Grass Valley has seen its revenue contract significantly over the past eight months but with a new integrated software-defined product roadmap, it looks to bounce back while “reducing the pain” of migrating to IP. This insight, and more, was revealed during a virtual press conference presented by company management in early October.


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HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Zhongwang Holdings (1333.HK) priced its initial public offering at the lower end of an indicated range, according to a term sheet obtained by Reuters on Thursday, raising $1.3 billion in the world’s biggest IPO so far this year. (peHUB Note: shareholders include Olympus Capital Holdings Asia)
The public offering of Asia’s largest maker of aluminum extrusion products was ambitious in its size, pricing and timing, given the 94 percent drop in global IPO proceeds so far this year and the ongoing financial and economic crisis.
The offering attracted fewer retail investors than expected, but the proceeds raised were more than the $1 billion the company initially planned to raise.
The HK$7 per share IPO price values Zhongwang at around 11 times forecast 2009 profits, a relatively high multiple in the current climate.
“There are a whole lot of good stocks trading at around 10 times their earnings, so it’s quite likely Zhongwang will drop further after it lists,” said Patrick Shum, chief portfolio strategist with Karl Thomson Securities.
“Ten times valuation would be a good time to buy this stock.”
The pricing was near the low end of an indicated HK$6.80-HK$8.80 range, as jittery retail investors were reluctant to buy shares and institutions were unwilling to buy at the high end, sources said. The sources were not authorised to speak publicly about the deal.
The IPO’s Hong Kong retail tranche was undersubscribed as local individuals bought just 69 percent of the shares allocated to them, said another source with direct knowledge of the deal. Underwriters will increase the allotment of shares for institutional investors from the original 90 percent target.
“Retail investors are worried the market might fall sharply,” said Kingston Lin, associate director at Prudential Brokerage Limited.
Despite concerns of a deadly flu outbreak spreading from Mexico, Asian markets are holding up, with the MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan hitting a six-month peak on Thursday.
China Zhongwang sold 1.4 billion shares, or nearly 26 percent of its enlarged share capital, making it the world’s largest IPO since China South Locomotive (1766.HK) (601766.SS) raised $1.57 billion last August.
Liaoning-based Zhongwang makes two main types of products. Its industrial aluminum is used as parts and components for railway cargo, metro rails, trucks and autos. Its construction aluminum is used in the fabrication of door frames and window frames and interiors in upscale buildings.
In the IPO prospectus, Zhongwang said 2008 revenues nearly doubled to 11.3 billion yuan ($1.65 billion) mainly from the demand and higher margins of its industrial aluminum. The company’s projects include a Beijing airport terminal and Beijing Olympic games venues.
Company officials and the firm’s bankers marketed the deal in Asia before heading to Europe and the United States for meetings with institutional investors there.
Zhongwang has said it would use the proceeds to expand capacity and buy equipment, as well as for working capital, debt repayment and research and development.
The world’s biggest listing this year was the $828 million February IPO by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co (MJN.N). Global IPO proceeds so far in 2009 plunged to $3.2 billion, compared with $51.5 billion in the year-ago period, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Zhongwang shares will trade under the 1333 (1333.HK) Hong Kong stock code and debut on May 8.
Macquarie (MQG.AX), CITIC Securities, JPMorgan (JPM.N) and UBS (UBSN.VX)(UBS.N) were the joint lead managers of the deal. CITIC Securities, JPMorgan (JPM.N) and UBS (UBSN.VX)(UBS.N) were the bookrunners.
By Michael Flaherty and Fion Li
(Additional reporting by Parvathy Ullatil; Editing by Ian Geoghegan and Muralikumar Anantharaman)


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Hero MotoCorp expecting robust Q1 result on rural recovery, low base
Hero MotoCorp is seen as the biggest gainer as the rural market recovers since the company’s reach cannot be matched by any of its rivals
New Delhi: India’s largest two wheeler manufacturer Hero Moto Corp Ltd is expected to witness double-digit increase in its revenue and net profit in the April-June quarter (Q1), riding on surging demand for its entry-level motorcycles on the back of revival in rural demand and the low base in the corresponding period as demand dipped before the implementation of goods and services tax (GST).
According to automobile sector analysts, Hero MotoCorp will be the biggest gainer as the rural market recovers since the company’s reach cannot be matched by any of its rivals. Rural markets contribute almost 50-55% of the total volumes of the company.
Also, this is the first time in five years the volume growth in the motorcycle segment has outpaced that of the scooters which has been growing in double digits.
“The low base and surging rural sales will help the company report strong top line but increasing cost especially raw materials may have an adverse impact on the Ebitda margins. Also, tax exemption in the Haridwar capacity has exhausted which may also impact a bit. Overall it should be a strong quarter for Hero MotoCorp,” said an analyst with a foreign brokerage firm.
Analysts at brokerage HDFC Securities Ltd expect the company to report revenue growth of 13% year-on-year driven by a sales growth of 13% while operating margins are expected to contract by 52 basis points y-o-y to 15.7% led by input cost pressure.
One basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.
“Demand outlook for FY19 is positive across segments, driven by healthy rural sales momentum, expectation of normal monsoon for the third year in a row, and a pick-up in economic activities,” said Abhishek Jain, analyst at HDFC Securities.
Hero Moto Corp sold a record 2,104,949 units in the April-June period, surpassing the earlier record of 2,022,805 units set in the second quarter of FY18.
Overall, sales of motorcycles in the first quarter of the current fiscal increased by 19.47% to 3,651,542 units while the same for scooters increased to 1,818,235 units.
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There’s some argument about whether flagship stores have a place in a retail environment where consumers are locked into the convenience of online shopping, especially since the pandemic. In 2020, Wells Fargo analysts maintained that retail executives are ”admitting that while once a critical marketing vehicle, flagships are no longer a worthwhile drag on profitability.”
But that attitude comes from nearly a quarter century of retailers treating their stores like a brick-and-mortar manifestation of their websites, according to Lee Peterson, executive vice president of thought leadership and marketing at WD Partners, speaking before a National Retail Federation audience last week.
It’s understandable, given consumers’ attitude toward shopping. In a WD Partners survey of 2,500 people, More than 63% said they prefer to shop online. They prioritize ease and convenience, with their top seven reasons for going to a store skewing toward the functional, like trying things on, getting them the same day or making a return. At the bottom were ranked seven more emotional reasons like discovery or fun — which came in last.
“Going shopping is dead,” Peterson said.
The fault lies in our stores
WD’s research found that consumers do appreciate three things about shopping in stores — discovery, inspiration and interaction with associates.
“Stores should not do what websites do. Stores do one thing, websites do another thing, and stores can do things that websites can’t,” he said. “You don't have to go to the store, so you have to want to go to the store.”
Peterson touted several retailers that are successfully leveraging physical locations’ three-dimensional, in-real-life opportunities to create a vibe that he said is difficult if not impossible to achieve online. They include Yeti’s Austin location, Sephora’s Paris flagship, and, in New York, the Petco at Union Square and Crate and Barrel in the Flatiron district.
“Discovery, inspiration, associates, the vibe — this is what gets [people] off the couch and into the store,” he said. “Where’s the love, where’s the vibe, where’s the coolness? It’s not getting them off the couch, because it doesn’t exist.”
Most of the stores featured in Peterson’s presentation have embraced visual merchandising and creative store design that he noted didn’t require expensive build-outs.
“Remember store design?” he said. “And visual merchandising — it’s a lost art.”
Retailers are also under-staffing their stores and under-appreciating their staff, according to Peterson.
“I have two words for every retailer about associates: pay them,” he said. “Pay them, pay them! The more you pay them, the better they will be, that's just the bottom line.”
He quoted Sam Walton, who once said that Main Street retailers could successfully compete with Walmart — not by trying to be Walmart, but by doing what Walmart can’t do. It’s the same with stores versus websites. Stores are in dire need of creativity, and retailers should apply the elevated design, merchandising and staffing that are found at their flagships to all locations, according to Peterson.
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Irish brewer C&C's bid to grow its cider brands in the UK has been knocked off course by the British weather.
Shares in C&C, maker of Magners, slumped by more than 12% in early trading after it admitted that it will miss its sales and profit targets for this year.
It said the recent bad weather, and price cuts from competitors, have undermined its performance over the key summer period, when it was hoping to attract new customers.
"Very poor weather in June and into July together with continued heavy price-led competition is likely to lead to a weak second quarter [April-June]," it said today.
C&C admitted that it now expects operating profits to be flat against last year. Just two months ago, the company told investors its operating profits would be 15-25% higher this year than in 2006, when it recorded €212.6m (£144.2m).
It expects to grow sales volumes year-on-year in 2007, but by less than previously expected.
The company's shares were down €1.29 at €8.85 in Dublin.
Over the last few years C&C has been energetically promoting Magners as a premium cider brand in the UK. It has achieved significant market growth – with underlying sales growth of 130% in the UK between March and May this year.
It is currently trialling Magners in Barcelona and Munich, but will not know until at least October whether the cider could be popular there.
Magners is sold as Bulmers cider in Ireland. In the UK it competes with Scottish and Newcastle's Bulmers Original brand, which is also marketed as a cider drunk best with ice.


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During today’s Quarter 4 earnings call, Disney made a few new announcements about the launch and the future of Disney+.
Disney+ Will Be Available on Many Devices
Now at launch, the Disney+ app will be available on Roku, PS4, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android, iOS Chromecast, and Xbox, along with Samsung and LG smart TVs.
FX Programming is Coming to Hulu
According to Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, FX content will now have a streaming home on Hulu. This will include a back catalog of FX shows and movies, along with new episodes, which will be added to Hulu just hours after they air. FX content will come to Hulu in March 2020.
What About “Consumer Confusion”?
When asked whether he’s concerned about how many streaming services exist now and how many new services are launching, Iger said that consumer confusion isn’t the problem that some news outlets are making it out to be. He compared the selection of streaming services on the market to websites and apps. There may be many to choose from, but generally, viewers know what they’re looking for and are capable of comparing services to find what works for them. A wide variety of services isn’t a negative. It’s simply offering more options to allow viewers to find exactly what they want to watch.
Feedback on the Pre-Launch in The Netherlands
Ahead of the US launch of Disney+, the company gave viewers in The Netherlands the opportunity to test Disney+. While the new, original content that will be available on November 12th was missing during the test run, this was a chance for users to try out the features and comment on any issues with the streaming service.
Iger said that there was praise for both the interface and the user experience from those in The Netherlands. He commented that users were happy about the ability to download content for offline viewing, going on to comment that the company is pleased with the “technical soundness and reliability of the platform.”
Expansion to New Markets
Disney+ will launch in the US on November 12. Soon after, Disney+ will launch in Australia and New Zealand on November 19th.
Iger also announced that Disney+ will expand to Europe in March 2020. The UK, France, Italy, and Spain were listed specifically, though Iger mentioned other locations would be included as well.
Is the Platform Ready for a Surge of Subscribers?
One question brought up during the call asked about the deal with Verizon which will give Verizon Unlimited customers a free year of Disney+. Iger was asked f the platform will be able to handle the rush of new subscribers when the service launches. Iger repsonded with full confidence, saying “We believe that we’re really ready for scale” and noting that everything is in place to prepare for the launch.
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Deeper data dive finds $5.5 billion in uncounted newspaper industry revenue
Years of negative reports on ad revenue losses could leave the newspaper industry muttering, “I demand a recount.” The Newspaper Association of America has just completed such an exercise and found some solid gains that have been overlooked previously in its own measurements.
New statistics released Monday produced these findings:
- Circulation revenue was up 5 percent year-to-year in 2012. That is the result of new digital-only subscriptions and the higher prices being charged for print-only and print-plus-digital bundles. Paid print circulation volume continued to fall during the year, but that was more than made up for by the higher rates.
- “Other” revenues from a variety of related businesses rose 8 percent for the year, led by digital marketing services up 91 percent over 2011.
- These new revenue streams, together with niche publishing, weeklies and direct mail, not previously measured by NAA, accounted for $5.5 billion in 2012 revenues.
- So the industry’s total revenue for the year was just $38.6 billion, compared to roughly $33 billion if ad revenue ($22.5 billion) and circulation revenue ($10.5 billion) were the only activities counted.
- Though ad revenue fell 6 percent for the year, total industry revenue was off only 2 percent in 2012 compared to 2011.
The new statistics are based on a survey of 17 companies, representing about 40 percent of industry circulation and 50 percent of revenues. Because this is a different and slightly larger group of companies reporting results, there are small discrepancies with NAA’s previous estimates of advertising and circulation.
The more comprehensive measures also yields a new picture of an increasingly diversified income stream. NAA estimates that print advertising now accounts only for 46 percent of total revenue. Circulation makes up 27 percent, digital advertising 11 percent, new revenue sources 8 percent and niche and direct marketing 8 percent.
The big growth areas — digital marketing services and circulation revenues — are likely to continue their momentum through 2013. Many prominent companies like Gannett and McClatchy switched to digital paywalls and print-plus-digital bundles midyear in 2012. They will gain more revenue by having those plans in place for the full year in 2013. Other companies like Scripps and the Washington Post are just starting digital subscriptions this year.
Some of the revenue activities are so new that companies themselves have not been measuring them separately. For example only nine of the 17 reported figures for digital agency and marketing consulting services in which newspapers provide guidance to local businesses in developing their web and mobile presence and using social media. Only seven of the 17 reported event marketing as a separate revenue category and three reported commissions on direct sales through e-commerce.
On the other hand, the report takes in other revenue activities that have been developed gradually over the last decade and were flat or slightly down for the year: commercial printing, distribution of national newspapers and other material, niche publication, direct mail and related weeklies.
These statistics did not seek to measure other enterprises owned by some of the larger companies or any international operations.
Some other findings of note:
- Mobile ad revenue doubled in 2012 but still accounts for less than 1 percent of total industry revenue.
- Digital ad revenues, which increased 4 percent for the year while print continued to fall, now comprises 17 percent of ad revenue.
- In digital advertising there is wide variance in results among individual companies. The NAA reports:
In the interest of full disclosure, I need to say that I was among the instigators for this broader measure of the industry’s revenues. A year ago my colleagues and the Pew Research Center and I gave prominent play in the State of the News Media report to the statistic that the ratio of print as losses to digital ad gains in 2011 was 10 to 1. It got even worse last year, at 16 to 1.
But there were already signs that the industry had been growing some newer activities and that a full measure of “other” would provide a less gloomy balance of revenue gains and losses. Pew’s Tom Rosenstiel moved to become executive director of the NAA’s American Press Institute at the start of this year. In that position, he also oversees the association research and statistics and asked companies for the more detailed and comprehensive revenue data.
These measures are new enough that the results may be slightly less exact than the traditional categories that NAA has measured for decades. On the plus side, they establish a new basbaseline against which gains and losses in year to come can be identified.
I have earlier noted that as the industry responds to investor demands for stabilizing and growing revenues, the next question may be the profitability of these activities compared to its still shrinking base of print advertising. An extra dollar of print advertising is nearly pure profit, while the new digital subscriptions are expensive to market. Commercial printing is highly competitive and operates on tight margins.
Still, today’s results show the industry doing considerably better than the doomsters say, with at least a chance to turn total revenues positive this year or in 2014. That will not happen, however, if the shift from print advertising to an array of digital marketing options accelerates.


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The Business Travel Agencies Association of Russia (BTAA) and Euroexpo have begun to prepare the 5th International Exhibition and Conference "MIBEXPO Russia 2009". Due to recent developments in business and leisure tourism industry worldwide, this years topic is "Business Travel: Times of Changes". The conference is going to be held on 23rd September 2009 within the framework of Moscow Autumn Travel Industry Week (MATIW), which combines Otdykh LEISURE, LUXURY Leisure and MIBEXPO Russia.
It is obvious that now there is the time of breaking stereotypes and old busniness rules to find new strategies and busniness options. Therefore this hard and tough times should be used to create new standards, improve and change strategies, which help the branch to go through the crises make it more effective for everyone afterwoods.
The conference has already become tradition and one of the most important events in the field of business tourism and MICE industry in Russia. Well-known international and Russian experts are going to give lectures on global trends and future development in the international business travel industry from different points of view. The costs of participation at the conference are not increased, they stay the same as in 2008.
The organizing team of MIBEXPO Russia decided to configurate the exhibition hall in a new and more comfortable way. Furthermore, special sponsor- and partnership packages were created and can be looked through at https://www.tourismexpo.ru/mice/en/participation/sponsors.php. These packages are definitely great opportunities for effective advertisment at the exhibition.
The prearranged appointment system for visitors as well as the corporate visitors program are going to be implemented soon. Visitors will have the possiblity to register online soon.
For further information, registration and stand reservation please feel free to conatct me or visit us at https://www.tourismexpo.ru/mice. 12.05.2009


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There’s long been a mutual love-in between the Japanese photographic industry and the country’s younger women. But having graduated from Puri Kura photobooth stickers, cellphone snaps and sleek and shiny compact digital cameras, growing numbers of Japanese women have taken to more serious camera technology in recent years to create their own art for personal blogs featuring “yurukawa” images —a term that combines the words “yurui” meaning loose and “kawaii” for cute — and for other social media like Mixi and Twitter.
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- A model presents Canon’s new digital camera EOS Kiss X-50 at a trade show in Yokohama on Feb. 9.
And now, on top of specialist magazines like “Joshi Camera” catering to what are becoming known as “Camera Gaaru (girls),” camera makers are turning out sophisticated single lens reflex, or mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras specifically targeted at women. With good reason: According to the country’s Camera and Imaging Products Association, women’s use of single-lens reflex cameras with interchangeable lenses has increased from 2.3% of the total Japanese market in 2004 to 11% in 2009, increasing by 3% between 2008 and 2009. Read More »


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It wasn’t terribly long ago that Bitcoin information and wallet provider Blockchain.info announced they had surpassed the 1.5 million in terms of MyWallet users, and a quick peak of the charts available on the service’s website today reveals that number is significantly higher.
A total of about 1.9 million users are utilizing the service (and they’ll quickly be closing in on a whopping 2 million users), on average carrying out between 20,000-30,000 transactions on a daily basis.
Transaction volume on the MyWallet service fluctuates on a daily basis, averaging in the 80,000-100,000 BTC range.
And if you’re curious as to how much has been transacted on the service to date, you might be shocked to learn that it’s not in the millions. Rather, billions.
Specifically, $21.5 billion United States dollars.
By comparison, wallet competitor Coinbase hosts 1.5 million consumer wallets, with a rate of growth less than that seen by Blockchain.info.
Coinbase does not release specifics in terms of transaction volume, etcetera.
New iOS Wallet App Coming Soon
While we’re on the topic of Blockchain.info, the service is soon planning to re-release their application to the iOS App Store following an abrupt removal last year by Apple.
The application — which is redesigned — was inadvertently published on the App Store this weekend.
Upon downloading the application, only the older version of the app displayed, but the screenshot above provides a good indication as to what the redesigned interface will look like.
As of this time, we do not see the app listed on the App Store anymore. A company employee took to Twitter to note that “is [was] a pre-release copy that was inadvertently made temporarily available,” adding that a “full release will be [available] in near future”.
Overall, some exciting things happening at Blockchain.info. We can’t wait to see what they do next.


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quote from the independant 25 Aug2010 : about the time the expansion was probably started …
China, meanwhile, is interested in nurturing a homegrown video game industry that generates revenue for the country rather than acting as an economic and cultural drain.
The government has expressed a marked preference for the use of Chinese history, legend, and of course a respect for social norms as opposed to the appropriation of foreign origin stories.
For this reason, Blizzard and its Chinese licensee NetEase have been introducing modifications that improve the game’s acceptability.
NetEase also runs the wildly popular Fantasy Westward Journey and Westward Journey II, both of which are based on the 16th century epic Journey to the West
the original article here on the independant :