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Electric car Stories June 9
One little Swiss microcar (technically a quadricycle) has made a disproportionately sized splash. The pint-sized four-wheeled electric vehicle known as the Microlino may be petite, but it’s got a long line forming out the door counting over 30,000 reservation holders. And today the company officially opened its configurator to let those early adopters begin building their own Microlino vehicles ahead of full-scale production.
Electric car Stories May 12
Microlino has just unveiled its Pioneer Series, a limited edition of 999 electric vehicles to be produced on its Turin, Italy, assembly line and destined for its earliest backers.
Electric car Stories January 27
India-based Ola Electric made a splash with its high performance and low cost S1 Pro electric scooters, which are now taking India by storm. With its sights set on global expansion, the company announced today that it is opening a new R&D center in the UK for both two-wheeled and four-wheeled electric vehicle development.
Electric car Stories December 22, 2021
Taking your electric car on a holiday road trip? Reduce your costs and carbon footprint, and make your trip safer with these 10 quick tips.
Electric car Stories October 18, 2021
Electrek was invited to try out the cheapest EV in the world, which is manufactured by Changli. It was hilarious, cute, “cheap” in every way, and a wild exercise for the imagination. Even though it doesn’t retain its famed price tag, the US importers have put great effort into adding back value where the shipping costs took it away.
Electric car Stories December 26, 2019
The global auto industry will need fewer employees in the future. That’s evident from the tens of thousands of jobs axed in 2019 for a host of reasons. The world’s manufacturing regions that survive (and thrive) in the 2020s will be the ones that embrace new technology. Rust-belt Ohio is emerging as a shining example of how EVs can become the savior – not the destroyer – of US auto-manufacturing jobs.
Electric car Stories July 4, 2019
The 1898 Riker Electric, a pioneering race-winning electric car that bested gasoline vehicles, is heading to public sale for the first time.
Electric car Stories May 28, 2019
Oil and gas company Chevron recently announced that it’s bringing electric vehicle chargers to its gas stations — meanwhile, one of its lobbyists is spurring a fight against EV infrastructure in Arizona.
Electric car Stories March 29, 2019
During a rally in Michigan, President Trump mocked electric cars, but it sounded like he had a few questions about the technology. Here, we try to answer them. expand full story
Electric car Stories September 14, 2018
Electric car Stories October 30, 2017
The electric car revolution always had a perceived chicken and egg problem with charging infrastructure. This perception is starting to dissipate as both industries are growing rapidly side by side.
A new report on the status of the U.S. EV charging industry is giving us a new look at the market and confirms that over 50,000 charge points (public and private) are now in operation in the country. expand full story
Electric car Stories September 28, 2017
A new study from iseecars.com shows that out of the 10 fastest-selling used cars on the market in the US today, 6 of them have plugs – 3 plug-in hybrids and 3 fully electric vehicles.
The top spot belongs to the fully electric Fiat 500e, followed by the BMW i3. The i3 is listed in the study as a plug-in hybrid, despite the base model being electric – we’re not sure if the two models were counted separately or just bundled together for the purposes of this study. Both the i3 and 500e have been popular on the used market in the last year, as many of the cars have been coming off 3-year leases, putting a bunch of lightly-used lease return electric cars on the market at attractive prices.
Also in the top 10 are the Prius Plug-in in 4th place, the Nissan LEAF in 6th place, and the Ford Fusion Energi and Tesla Model S rounding out the list in 9th and 10th.
Electric car Stories September 20, 2017
Electric car Stories July 13, 2017
The auto industry is once again attempting to slow down the rollout of electric vehicles.
Virtually all automakers, except for Tesla of course, have sent a letter to the Chinese government in an attempt to have them drastically weaken their zero-emission vehicle mandate. expand full story
Electric car Stories February 1, 2017
In a future where the world’s car fleet is rapidly transitioning to electric vehicles, gas stations will be forcefully downgraded to simple convenience stores and consequently, they will lose a significant revenue stream brought in by people stopping for gas but buying something at the convenience store.
Some oil companies have accepted that the transition is happening and started installing electric vehicle chargers at their gas stations. Shell is the latest major company to jump on board. expand full story
Electric car Stories November 14, 2016
U.S. regulators took an outrageous amount of time to decide on this fairly simple issue, but now it’s finally here. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that electric and hybrid cars will need to emit a sound at up to 19 mph to protect pedestrians.
The sound emitting device will need to be in all new electric and hybrid cars manufactured starting in September 2019. expand full story
Electric car Stories October 3, 2016
The 4ekolka: an impressive 3D printed, all-electric city car
There are quite a few ideas and concepts floating around out there to build compact, mobile and versatile electric cars for the city. We have smart with their fortwo and forfour EVs, Spiri, and Amber Mobility, just to name a few.
Today, we wanted to share with you a pretty neat concept coming out of Prague: the 4ekolka. What makes this car most interesting is not that it’s a battery-powered car, but the fact that it is 3D printed.
Electric car Stories September 26, 2016
In the US, carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation, primarily coal, have long been the main air polluter in the country, but it’s about to change. Continuing its long declining trend since the 2008 financial crisis, emissions from electricity generation are about to be surpassed by emissions from the transportation sector in the US. expand full story
Electric car Stories September 22, 2016
Today at High Tech XL in the Netherlands, Amber Mobility unveiled their weekly €33 ($37) subscription based service that will allow users to find a shared electric vehicle, called the Amber One, whenever, and wherever for their business or personal use. Unlike the ride-sharing concept that Spiri envisions, Amber Mobility hopes to offer the public the ability to ‘own’ an EV, without actually owning it.
Electric car Stories September 21, 2016
You might remember the article that we wrote a month ago about the Danish startup, Spiri, that is looking to offer a new twist on carpooling services. Combining the ideas of car sharing networks, like car2go, and ride-sharing services, like UberPool, all into one business, Spiri will aim to be the first company to provide its own fleet of electric vehicles for passengers to drive for free in exchange for picking up riders going the same direction who will then pay a small fee similar to other forms of public transport except with the added benefit of driving you all the way to your end destination.
Electric car Stories September 19, 2016
A new all-electric VW has hit the roads! No, we aren’t talking about all the EVs that Volkswagen Group has been hinting at and announcing recently. We are talking about a project from an aspiring mechanical engineer who converted a classic 1969 VW Karmann Ghia into an all-electric car with the help of his father.
Electric car Stories September 3, 2016
After covering Scott Masterson’s Bayliner 175 all-electric boat conversion last month, we have now learned of another interesting electric conversion. Electric vehicle enthusiast, Rich Rudman, transformed a 1984 4×4 Toyota extra-cab pickup truck into an EV with batteries from a Nissan Leaf.
Electric car Stories June 23, 2016
Students at the Academic Motorsports Club of Zurich (AMZ) in Switzerland announced that they broke the world record of electric car acceleration with a small vehicle built for the Formula SAE. The group released a video of the race car, called ‘grimsel‘, accelerating from 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in just 1.513 seconds. expand full story
Electric car Stories June 16, 2016
Earlier this year – not long after the Dieselgate scandal – the Volkswagen Group announced a new direction for its lineup of vehicles with a plan to introduce 20 new electric vehicles through the group’s brands by the end of the decade.
Today, the automaker extended the timeline to 2025 and said that it will introduce “more than 30 new electric vehicles during the next 10 years”. Earlier this year, CEO Matthias Müller was talking about both all-electric and plug-in hybrids, but now he is making a statement to go all-electric and confirmed that the “more than 30 new models” will all be “purely battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs)”. expand full story
Electric car Stories June 14, 2016
It looks like Germany is about to become the first major country to set an official deadline for a ban on gas-powered cars. India recently confirmed that it is evaluating a scheme for all its fleet to be electric by 2030 and both the Dutch government and the Norwegian government are discussing the possibility to ban gas-powered car sales and only allow electric vehicle sales starting also by 2025.
But while the Netherlands and Norway are fighting over the technicalities, a senior government official in Germany confirmed they will impose a mandate for all new cars registered in the country to be emissions free by 2030. expand full story
Electric car Stories June 12, 2016
GreentechMedia did the work to determine “Solar Made Up 64% of New Electric Generating Capacity in the US in Q1 2016.” This first quarter is part a potential 119% growth in the solar industry in 2016 – greater than $30 billion in revenue. And these announcements are on top of many other recent solar proclamations – 1,000,000 rooftops, record low pricing, leadership in jobs count and growth, whole countries running on renewables and more. With the Earth setting record warm months, every single month, its good that solar power is becoming sexy – but can we keep up the pace long enough to win the war?
Electric car Stories June 10, 2016
Yesterday, 9to5Mac.com reported that Apple Inc has founded a new, fully owned, subsidiary known as Apple Energy and that this entity had applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC regulates power companies) to be able to sell electricity and other power grid services to anyone that is not a public utility. Does this mean that you can now buy clean electricity made on the roof of the Apple Spaceship? Unless you are a large corporate electricity user within 10-30 miles, probably not. However if we step back and take a broader view, something interesting is happening – the likes of Apple, Google, Ikea and others including even Walmart are showing us a small piece of the future of much smarter electricity grid owned by many instead of the few.
Electric car Stories April 28, 2016
I managed to come into a lease of a Ford Focus Electric starting in August 2013, and this is my review of my time with it. For a little bit more background on me, and my newest primary car, please check out my review of my Cadillac ELR here.
The Ford Focus Electric (FFE) is an excellent first all-electric car to market. Coming out starting in 2012, there was not much competition, and in my opinion it was the best all-electric on the market at the time.
Electric car Stories April 27, 2016
Earlier this week, we reported on German Chancellor Merkel planning to get directly involved in the negotiations with the auto industry over electric vehicle incentives though a meeting held yesterday. Apparently the meeting went fairly well since local media are already reporting that the two parties struck a deal albeit not as generous as previously expected. expand full story
Electric car Stories April 26, 2016
I think we are witnessing the start of a new (but long overdue) trend this year. The few established automakers still pushing fuel cell hydrogen vehicles appear to be warming up to battery-powered electric vehicles instead. Honda, Toyota and Hyundai, arguably the automakers most stuck on hydrogen, all announced new electric vehicle programs in the past few weeks. expand full story
Electric car Stories March 28, 2016
India’s Power Minister Piyush Goyal recently announced plans for an interesting program that could see the nation’s whole car fleet becoming 100% electric by 2030. It represents one of the most ambitious goal for the electrification of transport in a large country.
The program would let people buy electric vehicles with zero down payment financed by the state and drivers can then pay for the vehicle at the rate they are saving on gas. expand full story
Electric car Stories March 24, 2016
Dyson, a British technology company best known for designing and manufacturing vacuum cleaners, is reportedly building an electric car following investments in solid state batteries. Last year, we reported on the company acquiring Michigan-based solid-state battery startup Sakti3 for $90 million and announced plans to build an important $1 billion battery factory to mass produce the next generation battery technology. expand full story
Electric car Stories March 8, 2016
Subaru unveils new car platform to support electric vehicles [Gallery]
Subaru and its parent company Fuji unveiled a new car platform this week. All of its future models will be built on it with the first one being the next Impreza, which will go on sale later this year.
Interestingly, the automaker also confirmed that the new platform is built to support hybrid and all-electric vehicles for future models.
Electric car Stories March 1, 2016
According to a report from Silicon Valley Business Journal, Apple has recently leased a 96,000-square-foot industrial property in Sunnyvale, California. The property was originally home to a Pepsi bottling plant, but Apple now occupies the entire space. It has widely been reported in the past that Apple is testing its Project Titan electric car initiative in Sunnyvale, with the company reportedly operating a shell company called Sixty Eight Research out of the city.
Electric car Stories February 29, 2016
The Bloomberg New Energy Finance report that came out last week (press release at bottom) says that in 25 years, electric vehicles will make up just 35% of new car sales. That means that in a generation from now, 65% of people will still be buying petroleum-based cars. It is hard to imagine a world where this few EVs makes any sense, even given BNEF’s own data.
The report and the numbers it presents are much too conservative for any reasonable circumstance. Take its own lede for instance:
“Continuing reductions in battery prices will bring the total cost of ownership of EVs below that for conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025, even with low oil prices.”.
Why would anyone buy a gasoline car when an electric or even a plug-in hybrid costs less than a gas car? Electric cars are cleaner, quieter, faster and safer than equivalent oil cars. Keep in mind that 2040 is 15 years after the cost of an electric car passes parity with oil in their scenario. Furthermore, by Bloomberg’s own estimates, batteries will reach less than one-third of today’s break-even prices.
At the core of this forecast is the work we have done on EV battery prices. Lithium-ion battery costs have already dropped by 65% since 2010, reaching $350 per kWh last year. We expect EV battery costs to be well below $120 per kWh by 2030, and to fall further after that as new chemistries come in.”
In fact, under certain reasonable circumstances, it costs less to own a Chevy SparkEV than a comparable gas version today. Fleet vehicles too. If you drive a lot and gas isn’t cheap but electricity is, the numbers already make sense.
The US department of energy has a handy calculator (above, current prices) which shows that in every state in the union, even with insanely cheap gas prices, it is still on average 50% cheaper to run on electricity than on gasoline. That means once battery/electric engine powertrains reach parity with combustion, it is really game over for oil.
So somehow 65% of people in the year 2040 will want to pay a huge premium for a fossil fuel engine car? Even if the world weren’t heating up this makes no sense at all… expand full story
Electric car Stories February 22, 2016
Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and 38 company and environmental group leaders signed a letter proposing that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) lets VW off the hook in California for having cheated on reporting emissions in its diesel cars and in return, VW would be forced to significantly invest in electric vehicles or other zero-emission vehicles manufacturing in the state.
According to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag (via Reuters), the EPA, potentially inspired by the proposal, asked Volkswagen to manufacture electric vehicles at its Tennessee plant as part of the current negotiation over the fix of the more than 500,000 diesel vehicles in violation of pollution limits in the US. expand full story
Electric car Stories February 19, 2016
Brace yourself for some misinformation in the coming months.
Gandhi said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
It looks like electric vehicles are still in the “fighting phase” as we learn today that billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are planning to back a new group of lobbyists with a focus on “boosting petroleum-based transportation fuels and attacking government subsidies for electric vehicles”, according to refining industry sources talking to the Huffington Post. expand full story
Electric car Stories February 18, 2016
SK Innovation, a battery cell maker part of the South Korea-based chemical and energy conglomerate SK, confirmed (via GreenCarCongress) that it has been selected as the supplier of battery cells for Mercedes’ upcoming line of electric vehicles.
Last month, Daimler green-lighted 4 new long-range electric vehicles, which will reportedly be two sedans and two crossover SUVs. The automaker will need an important volume of battery cells if it plans to manufacture these upcoming vehicles in significant volume. expand full story
Almost half of GM’s propulsion division is now working on electric and alternative drivetrains
While announcing the renaming of its GM Powertrain to GM Global Propulsion Systems this week, the automaker gave us a glimpse at the structure of the division and disclosed that almost half of its engineers are now working on electric and alternative propulsion systems.
Electric car Stories February 17, 2016
When unveiling that all-electric RapidE concept last year, Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer announced that the automaker will take an investment from a China-based group to develop the production version of the RapidE concept.
Today, the company announced the creation of a partnership with Faraday Future backer LeTV, or LeEco or Leshi (the group goes by many brand names), to develop and manufacture the RapidE. The group says they are now focused on bringing the vehicle to market in 2018. expand full story
Only two months ago, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval approved a $335 million incentive package in a deal to secure that Faraday Future will build a $1 billion electric car factory in the state, more specifically in North Las Vegas. Now after the company reportedly broke ground at the site just a few weeks ago, we learn that Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz is questioning Faraday’s financial health after inquiries and a visit to China.
It looks like Faraday is subject to its fair share of scrutiny, especially after both Nevada and Tesla were criticized over the size of the incentive package the state agreed to give Tesla to build its Gigafactory near Reno. The package has been widely reported to be worth $1.3 billion and contributed to Tesla’s image as been dependent on government subsidies, but it’s important to understand that the incentives are spread out on 20 years and contingent on Tesla spending close to $100 billion at the factory during the same period. expand full story
Electric car Stories February 9, 2016
As part of a Reuters report that Porsche wouldn’t be quite as profitable in the short-term, it was revealed that the German luxury automaker and part of the Volkswagon g Group will spend a whopping $1B Euros to retrofit its factories to produce Mission E and theoretically other electric cars and variants… expand full story
Autocar is out with a new report today claiming inside information on Volkswagen’s first electric car to be built on the new MEB platform. MEB is the platform unveiled at CES last month and showcased in the company’s microbus concept: BUDD-e.
The platform will allow VW to bring to market electric vehicles made to be electric from the ground up. It is based on the now familiar concept of a large battery pack extending flat between the axles. expand full story
Electric car Stories February 7, 2016
Dragtimes has its first P90D Ludicrous 0-60/100 MPH video up and the numbers they got beat Tesla’s already impressive estimates… expand full story
Electric car Stories January 22, 2016
According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, the Apple veteran employee who has been overseeing the company’s “Project Titan” electric car initiative is leaving the company. The report, citing “people familiar with the matter,” says Steve Zadesky, who has been with Apple for 16 years, is leaving the company for “personal reasons.”
Electric car Stories January 13, 2016
Germany joined the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance (ZEV Alliance) last month and committed to make all passenger vehicles emission-free by 2050. Today, Reuters reports what seems to be the government’s intention to make the first actionable move toward the ZEV Alliance’s goal. expand full story
Electric car Stories January 12, 2016
Tesla had an incredible year for sales and deliveries in 2015. The California-based automaker delivered 50,580 vehicles last year, which represents a 60% increase over the previous year. It’s hard to find any weaknesses with such an incredible sales performance. Yet the company increased its deliveries in almost all markets but Norway, where according to registration data, Tesla delivered the exact same number of Model S’s in 2014 and 2015: 4,039 units. expand full story


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Editorial: How China Can Prevent Systemic Risk
The banking regulator has recently announced its punishment for a number of banks involved in illicit practices in 2017, imposing record fines totaling more than 2 billion yuan ($308 million).
China Guangfa Bank, which was found to have fabricated loan guarantee documents in a high-profile bond default scandal, was fined 722 million yuan. However, other players involved in the 1.1 billion-yuan bond, including underwriter Guangdong Equity Exchange and an Alibaba Group-affiliated internet platform that sold the bond, have not been held responsible.
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Blackthorne Participate in Russian British Business Forum
03 Dec 2018
Blackthorne participated in a panel discussion at the recent Russian British Business Forum which focussed on Innovations and technologies as a factor of export growth. This yearly event organised by the Russian Trade Delegation to the UK is held at the QE2 Centre in Westminster and is the premier UK-Russian trade event.


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Over the past year, Europe’s strongest economy in terms of GDP, enjoyed the world’s most sizeable flow of investments, goods and services turnover, which make up the country’s current account surplus.
An estimate by the Munich-based economic institute Ifo, obtained by Reuters ahead of publication, has it that Germany’s current account surplus, namely the flow of goods, services and investments, stood at some $293 billion in 2019, becoming the world’s largest for the fourth consecutive year. Japan’s account surplus occupies second place, amounting to $194 billion, per the German research institute.
According to economist Christian Grimme, the German surplus increased last year by almost 16 billion euros to some 7.6% of gross domestic product (GDP), with Germany’s current account surplus linked to the fact that German products and services sold overseas prevail over those imported to Europe’s largest economy.
“Stronger exports to the US due to the stronger depreciation of the euro and increased exports to the UK, where demand recovered somewhat, saw total German exports rise sharply again in the second half of the year”, Grimme pointed out.
Last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed pride for German cars, one of the country’s major export items, admitting though that many were manufactured in the United States.
Earlier, in September, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz suggested that Berlin could channel billions of euros into the EU economy should the bloc face a crunch.
He pointed out Germany’s role as the “largest economy in the middle of the European Union”, with Angela Merkel hailing the stance and dubbing it “an active policy against the crisis”. The rhetoric emerged against the backdrop of talks about a possible recession in the July-September period prompted by some disappointing figures including a 0.1 percent quarter-on-quarter dwindling of the German economy.


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09 Jul Government rules are slowing down 5G phone launches, tech association warns | Light Reading
Federal rules designed to prevent excessive radio-frequency emissions and interference are slowing down the 5G marketplace in the US, according to a new complaint by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). This trade group represents tech companies and holds the annual CES trade show.
“As innovators race to develop and deploy products and services for the 5G economy, companies sorely need greater flexibility to market and pre-sell devices to the public prior to obtaining FCC equipment authorization,” CTIA wrote to the FCC in a recent filing. “The Administration and the Commission have made 5G global leadership a priority yet the current prohibition on conditional sales to consumers and the very limited ability to import devices prior to authorization, even for activities to ready such devices for retail display, impede innovation in 5G, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and more.”
The CTA argued that the FCC should allow device makers to accept pre-orders from consumers for their devices prior to receiving FCC authorization to sell the gadgets. The association said the move would give manufacturers a better sense of end-user demand, help smaller manufacturers reserve factory space and attract investors, and reduce waste.
Further, the association argued that device makers should be able to import a “limited number” of devices into the US in order to ready their retail strategies. “Preparing for a global product launch is an intense, multistep process, yet the current rules offer only a limited ability to import devices prior to FCC authorization. Manufacturers are unable to undertake pre-marketing activity such as software imaging, packaging, and preparing devices for retail display, thus delaying the timeline for consumers to be able to physically examine devices,” CTA wrote. “The inability to front-load preparation of display devices unnecessarily delays consumers ability to experience the devices once they are fully launched at retail.”
One of the FCC’s jobs is to certify every device sold in the US that emits RF signals, to ensure the gadget does so at agency-approved levels.
The CTA couched its request in the context of the US push toward 5G network technology. “If the US is to be a global leader on 5G and technology verticals such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, our nation cannot afford these types of delays,” the association wrote.
That’s noteworthy considering companies and associations across the technology industry have used the “race to 5G” argument to push their own agendas, whether it’s to release additional spectrum for commercial uses, to make changes to cell towers more easily, or to obtain government funding for research and development projects.
The CTA filed its petition on the topic to the FCC earlier this month. Given the agency’s efforts to streamline rules to benefit the 5G industry, it’s like the CTA will find a receptive audience at the agency.
Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading | @mikeddano
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Apple has sent out a teaser on its website, promising discounts to UK customers this Friday, 28 November.
While it may seem that the company has just pulled out the date from nowhere, in the US it is dubbed Black Friday, as it is the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Traditionally Black Friday has been discount shopping day in America, with many retailers cutting prices for one day only.
Christmas shopping event
If you flick your browser to the UK Apple store, there's a teaser about the online promotion.
"Mark your calendars now. Until then, start your research by browsing the Apple Online Store to find iPod, iPhone, and Mac gifts for everyone on your list."
It is unknown what the discounts will be like, but it shows that not even giants like Apple are immune to the economic slowdown, offering sales that usually happen after Christmas.


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Tesla Inc is a well known disruptor of a number of industries. The automotive industry was taken back by the initial success and attention their long-range electric vehicles drew in. Electric car manufacturers have tried to make an impact on the market before but none have come close to the buzz Tesla created. Now, Elon Musk and his innovative automotive manufacturing company, Tesla have another industry in their sights, trucking.
The long anticipated event to unveil their electric Semi-Truck has finally come. Thursday night, 11/16/17, the event was filled with VIP’s from a number of sectors all waiting to see what the innovator had in store. It’s official name, Tesla Semi is just as logical as his vision for the world. Musk wants to create a sustainable automotive industry and the Tesla Semi could help dramatically reduce emissions while also driving down the cost of shipping goods. Able to travel 500 miles on a single battery charge, fully loaded with 80,000 pounds and driving at 65 mph, this is another major industry disruptor heading to the world of trucking.
“Even with 80,000 pounds it’ll get to 60 mph in 20 seconds,” Musk said (https://usat.ly/2hxswIB). This is impressive when compared to any diesel powered semi-truck on the road today. Musk also explained that a conventional diesel truck is 20% more expensive to operate than a Tesla Semi. This breaks down to $1.26 per mile rather than the $1.51 per mile for today’s semi-trucks.
Reservations are now open and start at $5,000 per truck. Production is expected to begin in 2019. As of now, no official price has been set for the Tesla Semi.
Every truck will also come with Autopilot standard. Furthermore, with no engine, there is also an incredible new design feature which can help improve safety. The driver’s seat is placed directly in the middle of the cabin and pushed toward the front. This will give drivers a better view of the road and their surroundings. Tesla’s cars have been awarded extremely high crash ratings because they have no engine, increasing the crumplezone and dramatically decreasing the chance of catching fire. This innovative new piece of equipment could have a lasting impact on not only the supply chain but the way manufacturers transport their goods.
The manufacturing industry pays close attention to their shipping costs. When transporting heavy industrial components or equipment, fuel burn is a concerning factor. However with Tesla’s Semi fuel is a nonissue. Utilizing Tesla’s innovative truck could cause shipping costs to plummet. It will be interesting to see what kind of widespread impact this has on manufacturers bottom lines.
There are still concerns about if Musk can keep these exciting promises or if the automotive manufacturer will be able to produce enough to keep up with demand. The Model 3 has faced some tremendous production issues and this has been a common problem throughout Tesla’s history. Musk continues to work vigorously to hammer out these bottlenecks but it could still be a very real concern for both customers and the company. Only time will tell if the unique manufacturing processes that will go into the Tesla Semi can avoid those issues that have plagued the consumer friendly Model 3.
As Elon Musk and his companies continue to disrupt major industries, the world waits with bated breath to see what the Tesla Semi means for the future. The automotive industry was skeptical at first that Tesla could rise above the conventional idea of an automobile and revolutionize the industry. Now, with the Trucking industry in their sights, they stand to have the same kind of disruptive impact on a brand new sector.
Manufacturing Talk Radio will be keeping a close eye on the development and production of the Tesla Semi so be sure to check back soon for the latest details.


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“…Growing up in a coffee farming family was an inspiration for me to venture into the business.” Ssegawa John Bosco a youthful farmer from Mpenja -Gomba District narrates.
Ssegawa revealed this to the JKCC team that had paid him a courtesy call at his. He narrated that he grew up on a coffee farm where he witnessed how much his parents had to toil to make money from coffee to pay school fees for him and siblings.
He now grows Robusta Coffee on 40 acres where he harvests over 200,000Kgs a season. Ssegawa has also been certified by UCDA to offer free Consultation / Guidance to fellow farmers.
Julius Kalulu, CEO JKCC who led the delegation expressed concern that such good farmers fail to access the coffee market and instead fall prey While meeting with the farmers and assessing their needs, I asked them about coffee of exploitative middlemen.
He also noted that he had earlier met with some farmers he asked about the coffee prices – and none of them could tell the price of coffee. “Such a farmer will not take care of the quality and productivity of their operations. Coffee production is declining. Farmer are not making investments in value addition and are not even consuming their own coffee.” Said Kalulu.
Kalulu added that farmers are selling coffee on trees, rather than after harvest a factor he said is affecting the quality of coffee.
Esther Maraka, Business partner JKCC appreciated the fact that Ssegawa ignored the negative thinkers and concentrated on Coffee farming. and industry.
Known nationally as the main cash crop and foreign exchange earner in Uganda, coffee farming has provided for many families.


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Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo is here with a huge surprise! A few days back, Oppo introduced a new ‘Made in India’ smartphone brand called Realme. The company has also listed the first smartphone of this online-only brand called Realme 1. Interestingly, Realme smartphones will be exclusively available only on Amazon India.
Seeing this latest step by Oppo, one can easily say that this move is going to upset the Xiaomi and Flipkart partnership. As for the Realme brand, the smartphones are designed for the young Indian consumers. The smartphones of this online-only brand will range across Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000. Additionally, the first smartphone by Realme is all set to make its debut on May 15 via Amazon.
Realme 1 Smartphone: Specifications
As of now, not much has been revealed about the upcoming smartphone in India. However, one look at the pictures reveals a ‘Black Diamond’ rear panel with triangular cut patterns. This similar design was also seen on Oppo A3 and Oppo F7 Diamond Black smartphone. Similarly, even the pricing details have not been revealed as of yet.
However, seeing that Realme is set to compete against Xiaomi, we can expect a similar price tag like the Xiaomi Redmi 5A. Furthermore, a microsite on Amazon India reveals a few features of the Realme 1 smartphone. According to the listing, the smartphone will flaunt a unique Black Diamond back design. The rear panel will also sport a camera sensor along with LED flash.
The design of the smartphone looks very similar to the latest Oppo smartphones in India. Apart from the design, the listing also mentions the durability of the Realme 1 smartphone. The durability of this upcoming smartphone will be one of its key highlights. As a matter of fact, the smartphone has undergone 20,000 drop and USB tests and 100,000 button tests to assure its quality.
Seeing how the smartphone is so closely similar to the Oppo A3, we can expect it to be an affordable and toned-down variant. And whether or not Realme is here to compete against Xiaomi will become clear only once the pricing and specification details are disclosed.


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Long Island, NY’s Mid-Tier Summit is an event organizer which hosts eSports tournaments for a wide variety of games including but not limited to, Super Smash Bros., Dragon Ball FighterZ, Street Fighter V, and Call of Duty WWII. At the beginning of June, the company announced their next step forward into the world of eSports. The company has founded their very own eSports team. President and Lead Tournament Organizer, Alex handpicked each individual that would be taking a spot on the new Mid-Tier Summit eSports team.
CEO of Mid-Tier Summit, Joe had this to say about the company’s new eSports team, “Since the inception of this company, it has been our vision at Mid-Tier Summit not only provide world-class tournaments, but also world class players to challenge the competition. This has been something my business partner Alex has always been exceptionally passionate about, and Alex took the time to hand-select every player that has joined our team. He has really put together a special group of players, and I am really excited to watch them show the world what Mid-Tier Summit is all about.”
Gigamax Games has been following and attending Mid-Tier Summit events since August of 2017. Since then, they have continued to impress the Long Island, NY competitive gaming community. Their events, their prizes, and the company has continued to grow. The future looks bright for the video game tournament organizers and now, eSport team owners.
Based in Long Island, NY, Mid-Tier Summit is an event organizer and now eSports team owner. Hosting a variety of tournaments, the company has an exciting year lined up. For more information on Mid-Tier Summit and news about the incredible team, be sure to follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and keep up with all the action on the Mid-Tier Summit community page on Gigamax Games.
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Heritage Village Resorts & Spa, Goa & Manesar reopen to bookings
The Haryana government on Sunday extended the ongoing lockdown till 5am on June 21, but considering a sharp decline in Covid cases, it allowed more relaxations in the rules.
As the unlock process begins in various states of the country, many hotels and resorts are now looking to reopen doors, and welcome guests. The Heritage Village Resort & Spa has announced the re-opening of both its resort properties - Heritage Village Resort & Spa, Manesar and Heritage Village Resort & Spa, Goa.
Kapil Agarwal, CEO, Select Family Office & Hotels, said, “The safety of guests and team members is our priority and we have put in place enhanced safety protocols to ensure this. All our team members are vaccinated and we require that all our guests are either vaccinated or carry a Covid negative test report, otherwise a Rapid Antigen Test will be administered on site. We have individual AC units in all our rooms to ensure clean and safe air. Last but not in the least, oxygen concentrators are also available in case of any emergency.”
The pet-friendly 157-room, Heritage Village Resort & Spa, Manesar is a Rajasthani Haveli-themed resort spread over 12 acres located just off the Delhi-Jaipur Highway (NH 8). The property also doubles up as a wellness retreat.
The Haryana government on Sunday extended ongoing lockdown till 5am on June 21, but considering a sharp decline in Covid-19 positive cases, it allowed more relaxations in the rules.
Under the new rules, all shops will be allowed to open from 9am to 8pm daily, while malls will be allowed to operate from 10am to 8pm. A notification issued by the Haryana government said restaurants and bars (including in hotels and in malls) will be permitted to open from 10am to 10pm with 50 per cent of the seating capacity.


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To mark the 20th anniversary of its relationship with Barcelona, Nike is releasing a commemorative jersey featuring a mash-up of every home shirt of the last two decades. The limited-edition jersey, which will not be worn on the pitch, fuses numerous iterations of the club’s stripes on the front, back and sleeves. The Barça x Nike 20th Anniversary Jersey will be available on Wednesday on nike.com and at select retailers (Nike).
SETTING A STANDARD: The Barça Innovation Hub and FIFA created a standard format to unify the monitoring data that football teams collect during training and matches. Each club had previously stored that information differently. The announcement was made on Friday at the Sports Technology Symposium hosted by the club.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: The Barça Experience on Hainan Island, China, opened on Sunday. The facility includes an interactive 4,000-square-meter museum and a megastore as well as a Barça Academy Pro with six pitches. The Barça Experience Haikou Exhibition Centre -- the first outside of Barcelona -- is one of the pillars of a strategic partnership between Barcelona and Mission Hills Group (Barcelona).


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Indianapolis International Airport’s first regularly scheduled international air cargo flight not only is a boost to the city’s growing life sciences initiative, but also promises to strengthen the city’s position as one of the nation’s top logistics and transportation centers.
The weekly international air cargo service between Luxembourg and Indianapolis is the result of a partnership between Roche Diagnostics, Schenker Logistics, Cargolux, Indianapolis International Airport and US Customs and Border Protection. The Luxembourg to Indianapolis flight, which carries diagnostic equipment and supplies and other cargo, arrives every Friday.
Once on the ground, cargo aboard the massive Cargolux Boeing 747-400F is unloaded and temporarily stored before distribution in specially designed warehouse space at the Indianapolis Maintenance Center (IMC). The cargo aboard the jumbo jet ’ 24 tons of cargo in all ’ is unloaded in about an hour.
“The addition of international air cargo service to Indianapolis International Airport further establishes Indianapolis, the Crossroads of America, as a key transportation and logistics center. This service not only will benefit our airport, but also will provide a needed service to our business community, especially our life sciences industry,’ Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson said.
“This is a great first step to growing our international air cargo business. I hope other international air cargo carriers will also realize Indianapolis’ strategic advantage for both logistics and transportation,’ Peterson said.
Added Airport Director Patrick Dooley, ‘With backing from the mayor’s Air Service Task Force and the Indianapolis Airport Authority, our strategy has been to aggressively pursue every opportunity to expand and market air cargo business at the airport. This shows that our efforts to position Indianapolis as a global air cargo destination are paying off.’
‘This new service is a win for the city, the airport, but most of all for businesses across Central Indiana because it gives them access to lucrative air cargo markets across Europe, Asia and beyond,’ Dooley said. ‘This truly makes Indianapolis a gateway to the world.’
For Roche Diagnostics, whose North American headquarters is in Indianapolis, bringing international cargo through the airport reduces the time it takes for the company to get products to its customers and provides a cost savings, giving both the company and its customers a competitive advantage.
‘A cornerstone for Roche Diagnostics is innovation. This new transportation process is a great example of innovation, as it will significantly reduce the time that our products spend in transit thereby allowing us to better serve our customers,’ said Kent Kost, president, Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
‘We are proud of the work done with the City of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, Cargolux and Schenker Logistics to further simplify our business processes,” Kost added.
Officials with Schenker Logistics, a key partner in the international air cargo initiative, said the new Indianapolis service will benefit both the business community and the city.
‘Schenker is very pleased to announce the expansion of our Indianapolis operations to include a direct flight from Europe. Bringing a direct flight to Indianapolis has allowed us to increase our customer satisfaction, improve our operational effectiveness and generate some well deserved recognition for the City of Indianapolis,’ said Thurman Walker, branch manager of Schenker’s Plainfield office. ‘This is a great accomplishment for Schenker and I want to thank our customers, US Customs and Border Protection and the Indianapolis Airport Authority for their support.’
For Cargolux, the new Indianapolis gateway means even better service to a host of international clients.
‘The new Cargolux gateway Indianapolis proves very beneficial for our overall distribution network, in line with our expansion plan, and will meet the highly sophisticated requirements of our clients, with ma


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Buyers circle as Clinton Cards follows Game and Peacocks into administration.
Up to 300 of Clinton Cards’ 771 stores could close in any deal done between potential buyers and administrator Zolfo Cooper, sources close to the situation indicated.
Although Zolfo Cooper declined to comment on numbers, its joint administrator Peter Saville said: “It is likely that a number of stores will need to be closed.”
Sources told Retail Week that rival Card Factory as well as private investment firm OpCapita, which owns Game and Comet, have approached Zolfo Cooper. GA Europe is also thought to be interested in the Birthdays chain.
Clinton Cards was tipped into administration, jeopardising around 8,000 full and part-time jobs, after its largest supplier American Greetings acquired the retailer’s £35m debt from banks Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. American Greetings – owed $25m by Clintons – called in the debt, which the retailer was unable to pay, and subsequently Clintons hit the wall.
A source close to the situation said Clintons’ management were “shocked” at the decision.
The US-based company said it stopped supplying the retailer because it defaulted on payments.
American Greetings chief executive Zev Weiss said his firm “may ultimately participate in the ownership of the business”.
Weiss said: “We would like to see Clinton Cards continue as an important retailer in the UK greeting card market. We expect that our recent investment will allow us to work closely with the administrators. We believe that properly managed, and with the appropriate capital structure, Clinton Cards could be both an important and profitable retailer.”
Saville was confident Clinton Cards is “an attractive proposition for a range of potential buyers”. It is expected private equity firms may cast their slide rule over the retailer, because of its market-leading position. One source familiar with the market said there is “loads of potential online and overseas through franchising to English-speaking countries”.
The source speculated that Hallmark could launch a bid to protect its business as one of Clinton Cards’ key suppliers. “Do you think Hallmark will stand back and let this happen?” he said.
It remains unclear whether founder Don Lewin may attempt to wrest back control.
The struggling retailer’s chief executive Darcy Willson-Rymer was due to reveal findings of a strategic review that included a proposed CVA to shut stores.
Clinton Cards has reported falling sales and profits after being battered by supermarkets, online specialists and rivals such as Card Factory.
Clinton Cards timeline
- 1968 Founded by chairman Don Lewin in Epping, Essex
- 1988 Floats with 77 shops
- 1994 Acquires 83 stores from Hallmark Cards to take its portfolio to 360
- 2004 Acquires Birthdays
- 2011 Darcy Willson-Rymer becomes first chief executive from outside the Lewin family and begins business review
- May 2012 Collapses into administration


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Marshall Foiles of Buckminn’s D&D Harley Davidson recommends wearing a helmet.
“We recommend wearing helmets. A helmet is a great thing; it’s going to save your head. If you go down, it’s the only thing that’s going to save your head,” he said.
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Ohio law requires helmets for certain motorcycle riders, and passengers must also wear helmets when the driver is required to do so.
“First year rider or with a permit, you have to wear a helmet. Other than that, it’s a choice,” said Foiles.
According to 2017 data from the OSP, 157 fatal crashes involved motorcycles and only 29 percent of the motorcyclists killed were wearing helmets.


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2016 MacBook Air Latest Rumors, Leaks & News: New Portable Laptop To Get A Major Upgrade
Much to the public's disappointment, there was no release or reveal of the 2016 Apple MacBook Air at this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Even more so, the powerful, lightweight laptop has not received an official date for availability in the market. Loyalists and those interested in the item will, in the meantime, settle for rumored release dates, educated guesses and half-confirmed design plans.
Rumors generally revolve around the MacBook Air being even thinner and lighter than the current available ones. According to Yibada, the upcoming generation will have 13-inch and 15-inch variants. And because the current line of MacBook Air laptops are the only ones currently without Retina display, it is expected that Apple will provide the 2016 versions with this feature.
On the keyboard, the device is expected to sport a Touch ID and OLED touch panel. It reportedly will also have four USB Type-C ports.
The same publication states that Apple is likely to hold a separate press conference to put the rumors to rest, as this is what the company did last year. The press conference is expected to occur either some time within the month, or in August.
Parent Herald adds that both the 2016 MacBook Air and the 2016 MacBook Pro are still expected to be released within the fourth quarter of this year. However, the MacBook Pro is expected to hit markets sooner than the MacBook Air.
Still, there are those that believe the MacBook Air will be arriving in 2017, if at all. According to MacWorld, Apple may just discontinue the Air line altogether. This would include both the MacBook Air and the iPad Air.
Logically, this move would make some sense, as the upcoming MacBook Pro is supposedly thinner and lighter than ever before as well. The iPad Pro is said to be the same as well. However, removing this would mean that Apple is giving up its lowest entry lineup.
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- Business of Brands
Burgered: Is McDonald's on a self-destruction mode in India?
Can McDonald’s come out of the present crisis without its image getting deeply fried?
It’s not fast: from 27 outlets opened in 2012, launches plunged to just 1 in 2017. It’s neither flexible: the bitter infighting between the local joint venture partner and the global brand has been dragging on for four years, and there seems to be no end to it. It’s not even friendly: from worms to lizards to fungus to finger nails, all kinds of ‘foreign’ objects have been reportedly served to consumers along with burger and fries.
Rule Number 2: “It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them,” is one of Kotler’s oft-quoted gyans in the B schools. Forget delight, the deteriorating quality of food served in McDonald’s North and East India restaurants would evoke disgust.
“There is not a single day when the restaurants are not plagued with issues with regard to the supply chain and product quality,” confesses Madhurima Bakshi, the whole-time director on the board of Connaught Plaza Restaurants (CPRL), which runs McDonald’s outlets in North and East India. “The volume of foreign objects, sub-standard food quality and supply issues have risen multifariously,” she adds. CPRL temporarily suspended operations at 43 out of its 55 outlets in Delhi last week as it failed to get its regulatory licenses renewed.
Clearly, the brand which made Indians familiar with American fast food has been dealt a body blow. Little did the Father of modern marketing realise that consumers would add another ‘F’ word to express their disgust for brands that don’t stick to three Fs and customer delight: a four-letter word!
When a brand, reckon marketing experts, takes a hit, the ripple effect is felt by all stakeholders.
“If there is negativity and turmoil at the back-end, what will be served a t the front end to the customer will be possibly fried lizards and buns with fungus and more,” says brand strategist Harish Bijoor. Compromising on the quality of food served to consumers in some parts of the country doesn’t augur well for the brand which has strict quality standards across the globe.
“Different strokes for different people is not a great dictum for a global brand,” he says, adding that McDonald’s needs to realize that India is a very important market for brands today. India, he lets on, hosts more brands than any other country does today. If you want to make it big in the world of brands, you need to be a big success in India. “To that extent, the India act needs to be as global and at par with global standards as any,” says Bijoor.
It’s not only what’s going wrong with one part of the operations that should worry McDonald’s, the possibility of it hitting the West and South part of operations is equally worrisome. After all, brand reputation, good or bad, spreads like a wild fire.
“Consumers know ‘McDonald’s, and not Bakshi’s McDonald’s or Jatia’s McDonald’s,” says Ashita Aggarwal, head of marketing at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research. They recognize the golden arches, familiar ambience and consistent quality burgers and fries. “So, the hit to McDonald’s in North and East will affect its brand equity nationally,” she reckons. The brand sales will surely be affected nationally and competition will jump up at this opportunity to fill the space in consumer lives, Aggarwal adds.
The four things, point out branding experts, that a brand needs to invest and maintain are: reputation value (that comes from product performance); symbolic value (what brands stands for and role it plays in consumer’s life); experience value and relationship value. While McDonald’s had been paying little attention to last two for some years, the consumers were tolerant, like family members are to each other, as they believed in brand and had strong emotional connect. But the blow came when the first two (reputation and symbolic value) were hit and suddenly the relationship of reliability and being like a family member changed.
Aggarwal contends that Indian consumers are tolerant and enduring only till a point. “They accepted ‘Maggi’ again in their lives only when they found the quality uncompromising,” she says, adding that McDonald’s is running out of time in getting its act together.
However, Amit Jatia-owned Hardcastle Restaurants Limited (HRPL), that operates McDonald’s outlets in West and South India, dismisses such fears. “It is business as usual for us,” said a spokesperson from HRPL, declining to comment more on the subject.
While it might be ‘business as usual’ for HRPL, it definitely portends ‘roaring business’ for McDonald’s rivals in the coming weeks.
“I am lovin it,” says chief marketing officer of a rival burger chain requesting anonymity. “McDonald’s actually doesn’t need a rival. It’s on a self-destruction mode in India,” he grins.
Can the brand, which gave burgers a generic name like what Bisleri did to mineral water, fight back? Well, the jury is still out.


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stock was falling Monday as investors reacted to Elon Musk’s latest postings on Twitter, where signs pointed to the CEO of the electric-vehicle maker imminently selling 10% of his stake in the company.
Tesla (ticker: TSLA) was down 5.5% in premarket trading in the U.S., with the company’s Frankfurt-listed shares (TL0.Germany) down 6% after opening 9% lower.
Musk asked his 62.8 million Twitter followers this weekend if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, promising to abide by the results of the poll. Almost 58% of the more than 3.5 million respondents to the Twitter poll voted for him to sell.
The billionaire Tesla CEO is considered the world’s richest person by virtue of his holdings in the EV company, which has seen its share price soar 190% over the last year and some 3,100% over the past five years.
Musk framed the Twitter poll in the context of a debate over whether the richest Americans were paying their fair share of taxes. Congress had considered taxing billionaires’ unrealized investment gains as a way to address the issue, but dropped the idea.
“The only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock,” Musk said on Twitter, noting that he doesn’t receive a cash salary or bonus for his corporate roles, at Tesla as well as at aerospace company SpaceX.
Russ Mould, an analyst at broker AJ Bell, said Monday that the Twitter poll “effectively signals that he is going to dump stock on the market. In technical terms this is known as a share overhang, and it is something that would typically force the share price down.”
“He is so rich that he probably doesn’t care if his actions cause the Tesla price to fall a bit,” Mould added. “However, he also has a duty to act in shareholders’ interests which he hasn’t done in this situation because the incident has already destabilized the company’s valuation.”
But the analyst also noted that Tesla’s share price potentially hasn’t fallen as much as one might expect—and that could be because investors are taking Musk’s comments with a pinch of salt. The high-profile CEO has made bold statements on Twitter in the past which have later been reversed—like saying Tesla would take Bitcoin as payment, before backtracking on the plan.
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Recent advances in technology are ushering a whole new era of innovation. While drone technology has been around for almost a century now, it is only recently that it has gained traction in areas like wildlife conservation, weather prediction, agriculture, etc. Industries have begun realizing the capabilities of drones and the impact it will have on businesses.
According to statistics, the global market for business services using drone technology is valued at $127 billion. From delivering pizzas and burritos at your doorstep to providing medical supplies during an emergency, there are a lot of ways in which drone technology is changing our lives. The popularity of drones is increasing rapidly, and its impact could be felt across various sectors.


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HP said the restructuring will help improve its branding, a challenge for a massive and storied technology company with a role in everything from computers to consulting. Unlike, say, Apple Inc. or IBM Corp., HP lacks an identity that people can associate with it, Wu said.
Ultimately, HP will have to define the "big picture" of what the company stands for, Wu said. "What is HP?"
Gillett said HP is "trying to get back to a more integrated, coherent identity as a company."
"What I will be watching is whether they will translate that into more coherent, more integrated product innovation and consumer experience," he said.
HP, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., had briefly combined the two businesses before, under the leadership of Carly Fiorina. Mark Hurd reversed that when he took over as CEO in 2005, when the printer division was still thriving.
The printing and PC units together made up about half of HP's $30 billion revenue in the November-January quarter.
Revenue from the printing division was $25.8 billion in the fiscal year that ended in October, down 13 percent from three years earlier. Meanwhile, operating profit of the printing division has dropped 13 percent to $4 billion over the same period.
The PC division, while less profitable, has held up better. Revenue has dropped 6 percent from 2008, to $39.6 billion, while operating income has been flat, at $2.4 billion.
HP's stock fell 52 cents, or 2.2 percent, to close at $23.46 on Wednesday.
AP Business Writer Michelle Chapman and AP Technology Writers Michael Liedtke and Peter Svensson contributed to this story. Liedtke reported from San Francisco.
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Effective July 1, 2019, certified non-lead ammunition is required when harvesting any game with a firearm in California.
Federal Premium is now offering a lead-free version of its popular Power-Shok rifle ammunition. Power-Shok Copper is designed to deliver the same dependability, but in a non-lead bullet. Shipments of Power-Shok Copper are now being delivered to authorized Federal Premium dealers.
Federal Premium re-entered the muzzleloader projectile market in a big way last year, with the introduction of its revolutionary Trophy Copper Muzzleloader Bullet. Featuring the company's innovative B.O.R. (Bullet Obturating Ramp) Lock MZ system, the new submission was crafted to provide top-notch accuracy in a non-sabot design. It served as a game changer for the industry, and Federal hasn't slowed pace: in 2016, the folks in Anoka will be rolling out a lead version. Here are five things you need to know.
In December 2014, Congress approved the Fiscal Year 2015 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. Included in the act were a number of pro-gun provisions pushed by NRA-ILA that prevent the Obama administration from implementing its anti-gun agenda.


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The global economy is undergoing a major shift. As the U.S. and Europe – Ontario’s two traditional trade partners – struggle through the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, developing economies race ahead. And as they push the boundaries of global competition, Ontario must adapt. With this in mind, last June, the
The Path Towards a More Competitive, Globally Connected Ontario An interview with Josh Hjartarson (HJ), Vice President, Policy and Government Relations, at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC). Following the recent release of the Emerging Stronger 2013 report, the Ontario Business Report (OBR) interviewed Josh Hjartarson via telephone to discuss policies aimed at transforming Ontario’s
Ontario’s ties to India have grown stronger in the past year, mainly as the result of behind-the-scenes work in the trade and investment communities.This reinforced relationship can only benefit both economies, with Ontario SMEs particularly well-poised to benefit. Satish Thakkar, president of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce, sums it up succinctly: “Business happens once you
While emerging markets get a lot of media attention, the United Kingdom remains one of Ontario’s key export and investment partners. The U.K. is Ontario’s second largest export market after the United States, with $14.5 billion in exported goods, comprising over nine per cent of the province’s total in 2011. Among Ontario’s investors, U.K. companies
With shipments of $20.5 billion in 2010, chemistry is Ontario’s third largest manufacturing sector. That’s not surprising when you consider that chemicals account for about 10 per cent of the cost of every new car and home we buy.
Two years ago NOVA Chemicals had doubts its sprawling Sarnia complex would still be in operation at the end of the decade, succumbing to rising oil prices…
They went looking for diamonds in the rough, but found something perhaps even more valuable. In 2002 DeBeers, the world’s leading diamond miner and trader, ventured into Ontario’s far north muskeg near Hudson’s Bay seeking the precious stones. What it discovered instead was copper and zinc. But that was enough to spark
Few products are developed with as much care, carry as much hope or are subject to higher standards than medicines. Medicines help us fight disease, live longer and better lives, often save our lives. Roche Canada, a division of Swiss giant Hoffmann-La Roche, is at the centre of some of the world’s most innovative diagnostic
A year ago, a glittering Toronto International Film Festival party at Birks Jeweler’s flagship store on Bloor Street’s Mile of Mink launched (de facto, at least) one of Canada’s most glamorous and coveted products: diamonds. Not just any diamonds, but diamonds from De Beers Canada’s Victor mine in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario.
In 2009, Toronto-based jewelry designer Reena Ahluwalia was invited by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and De Beers Canada to design a unique setting for the very first diamonds taken from Ontario’s first diamond mine – the company’s Victor Mine. These diamonds have been set in the historic Mace of Ontario. The ceremonial mace –


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Two men in Australia have been fined £1,600 each for selling alcohol without a licence following a sting operation by the New South Wales Liquor, Gaming and Racing authorities.
Jed Clarke, operating a service as the Beer Baron, appeared undeterred, according to a report in The Age, telling people that the service will continue and deliveries would recommence.
Another service called "The Blind Pig" also said that they would carry on, saying "The pig lives on!" and vowing to continue illicit alcohol sales.
The men operated a delivery service for alcohol, exploiting a loophole in Australian law that allows firms to deliver alcohol past a midnight sales ban if it’s bundled with food or ‘gifts’.
The Beer Baron is described as a "24 Hour Alcohol Home Delivery Service with the Baron himself delivering booze on his bike."
The Beer Baron sells a six pack of beer with a packet of crisps for $20 or a bottle of Finlandia vodka, and crisps, for $60, although currently the Baron is offering a special of three bottles of Vodka, and a single bag of crisps, for $165.
The Australian authorities threatened further action if the men continued to operating their delivery service.


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DC Releases Landmark DETECTIVE COMICS #1000 Issue; Iconic Bat-Signal to Light Up Across the Globe; Partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs Of America; Exclusive Fan Festivities; and More
Yearlong Celebration Kicks Off at SXSW with 1.5 Million Bats Flying from Austin’s Congress Bridge
To mark the 80th anniversary of Batman, DC today unveiled plans for a global commemoration of the World’s Greatest Detective. Kicking off this March at SXSW, the multifaceted campaign for DC’s Caped Crusader will feature exclusive celebrations, special theatrical engagements, the milestone release of DETECTIVE COMICS #1000, live events and first-ever Batman brand partnerships. As fans join together under the campaign’s tagline of #LongLiveTheBat, DC’s timeless character will be honored through Batman Day in September when the Bat-Signal lights up in major cities worldwide.
First appearing as socialite turned crime-fighter Bruce Wayne in DETECTIVE COMICS #27 on March 30, 1939, the Dark Knight has stood as a symbol of determination, bravery, and justice to generations of fans for 80 years. He has influenced every area of modern entertainment, appearing in countless comic books, Saturday morning cartoons, multiple television series, video games, theme parks and experiences, toys, collectibles, apparel and lifestyle products, as well as, blockbuster animated and live-action films. There have been Batman trading cards, board games, and newspaper cartoon strips, and the U.S. Postal Service has even honored Batman with his own postage stamps. Batman is a multi-billion dollar icon who continues to reign as the most popular single Super Hero ever created.
To commemorate this milestone, custom artwork was created that pays homage to Batman’s legacy in all forms of media. The Batman profile pencil design is by beloved longtime DC artist José Luis García-López, and digital paint design is by Admira Wijaya. This graphic will be featured throughout the celebration.
DC will honor #LongLiveTheBat throughout 2019, including Batman’s 80th anniversary on March 30 and Batman Day on September 21. As part of this yearlong celebration, there are many ways fans can participate.
- Paying homage to the Super Hero’s 80-year publishing history, DC will present two commemorative books: including the landmark collector’s issue of DETECTIVE COMICS #1000, on sale at comics shops March 27, and a special hardcover release, DETECTIVE COMICS: 80 YEARS OF BATMAN THE DELUXE EDITION, available March 12.
- SXSW in Austin, Texas, will kick off the global celebration with multiple fan experiences, photo opportunities, limited-edition merchandise and Instagrammable mural by a local artist. SXSW will also set the stage for an incredible moment when more than 1.5 million bats fly into the night over Austin’s famous Congress Bridge on March 15.
- DC will celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary with panels at major conventions, including a dedicated “Happy Birthday, Batman!” panel at WonderCon in Anaheim on the actual anniversary, March 30.
- Generations of fans across the globe will gather together to honor the timeless hero on Batman Day, September 21. The Bat-Signal will light up in major cities worldwide, alongside a wide array of fan celebrations, including interactive photo opportunities, live music, food, games and more. Plus, fans will race across the finish line in their favorite Caped Crusader attire in a series of 5K and 10K runs in select cities.
- Families can celebrate #LongLiveTheBat at multiple Six Flags locations across North America in August with extended hours, exclusive Batman-themed experiences and special merchandise. Warner Bros. theme parks across the globe, including Warner Bros. Movie World Australia, Parque Warner Madrid, and Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, will host Batman 80th anniversary events.
- Madame Tussauds locations in Orlando and Sydney will unveil interactive fan-friendly experiences, photo opportunities, and special merchandise in September.
- In May, collectible art boutique MONDO will host a curated anniversary exhibit at its Austin gallery celebrating iconic Batman cover art throughout the years.
- The global touring exhibition THE ART OF THE BRICK: DC SUPER HEROES will celebrate the Dark Knight with a special Batman edition, beginning this September in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Romics—the comic book, animation and gaming convention in Rome, Italy—will host an immersive Batman 80th anniversary exhibit in April.
- Designed for fans of all ages, visitors to Shanghai this summer will be treated to a first-of-its-kind special exhibit celebrating Batman.
- Otter Media brands Rooster Teeth, Crunchyroll, VRV and Fullscreen will celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary through a variety of programming and social campaigns designed to amplify DC’s global campaign.
- AT&T will activate across retail, digital and DIRECTV, which will celebrate the anniversary with a Batman-branded channel. Plus, AT&T customers will get insider access through AT&T THANKS to Batman content, comics, merchandise, exclusive fan experiences and more.
- Television broadcast partners worldwide will host Batman programming marathons in March and September.
- Cartoon Network in the U.S. and key territories will host exclusive Batman themed programming and stunts for kids in March and September.
- DC Universe—DC’s digital subscription service—will be celebrating in a big way with the promotion of Batman content in March and September.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of America will join Batman in a first-ever partnership to celebrate kids, teens, and youth development professionals who stand up for positive change in their communities. The campaign kicks off in April during National Boys & Girls Clubs Week.
- In honor of military appreciation month this May, DC will partner with the USO, the iconic military support nonprofit, on a special Batman-themed USO2GO kit featuring comics, movies, TV shows, games and more. The kit will offer a fun diversion for service members stationed in remote locations around the globe, connecting them to home and all things Dark Knight.
- Fans in the UK can join in raising awareness of Genetic Disorders UK by wearing an exclusively designed Batman t-shirt on Jeans for Genes Day in September.
- WB and DC are also joining forces with an extensive list of retail partners, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, iTunes, Walmart, GameStop and Google Play, among others.
- Global partners such as LEGO, Mattel and Funko will release exclusive Batman 80thanniversary products throughout the year.
Conceived by artist Bob Kane with writer Bill Finger, Batman is humanity’s timeless hero. And he’s just getting started. More details on the global celebration will be released in the coming months.
Fans can join in on social media using the hashtag #Batman80 and #LongLiveTheBat. Visit www.Batman80.com for the latest news and updates.
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South Africans, followed by Filipinos, use the Internet most with a daily average of over 10 hours.
The amount of time people across the world spend online has surged remarkably in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the trend showing no sign of slowing.
A recent report titled "DIGITAL 2022 – Global Overview" offers insights into digital trends, including daily time spent on the Internet and social media platforms.
Across all devices, the average Internet user aged 16 to 64 spends six hours and 58 minutes online per day, found the report by New York-based agency We Are Social and social media management firm Hootsuite.
South Africans spend the greatest amount of time online each day, as its working-age Internet users are online 10 hours and 46 minutes daily, followed by the Philippines with an average of 10 hours and 27 minutes.
Countries including Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, Mexico, Indonesia, UAE, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, Portugal, Russia, Israel, Singapore, India, and the US also spend more time than the average on the web.
People in Japan, on the other hand, spent the least amount of time on the Internet as they had a daily average of four hours and 26 minutes.
Social media's role in professional activities
"Filipinos and South Africans are also considerably more likely to use social media for work than the global average," the report said.
That was "with more than one-third of internet users aged 16 to 64 in both countries saying that social media plays a role in their professional activities," it added.
The main reasons for using the Internet, according to the report, included finding information; staying in touch with friends and family; keeping up-to-date with news and events; watching videos, TV shows, and movies.
Other major uses listed were researching how to do things; finding new ideas or inspiration; accessing and listening to music; researching products and brands; and filling up spare time and general browsing.
People were also using the internet for education and study-related purposes; researching places, vacations, and travel; researching health issues and healthcare products; gaming; business-related research etc.


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As diehard Magpies fans queued overnight to be first in line for the new Newcastle United change strip, the club's financiers will be rubbing their hands.
Supporters were happy to part with #40 for this season's green and black away kits with the first six getting them for free.
And after their long wait at St James' Park the first 50 were invited to Shearer's bar for a free full English breakfast.
Julie Cain, 42, of Byker, Newcastle, was the first in the queue when the supporter's shop doors opened at 7am. She said: "I'm always here for every strip launch, I came at 8pm last night for this.
"It scares me to think how much I spend on strips every year. I get the home and away kits, the change kit, the cap, the training T-shirts, the normal T-shirts and all the other things. I spend more than #1,000 a year."
And fans young and old waiting in line for today's launch admitted they happily part with hundreds of pounds a year to keep up with their team.
Last year merchandising made United more than #22m with branded products accounting for #8m or 9% of the club's turnover.
Match day ticket sales made the club 38% of its revenue last year at #33.9m, while a new deal between the Toon and Adidas was worth a reported #25m.
Replica kits are a massive source of revenue for clubs, many of which launch new home and away strips every season.
The market is worth more than #200m, according to UK-based consumer research analyst Mintel.
Newcastle United are keeping in step with demand with the launch of the away kit today and the new biennial home strip in May.
Next in line was Liam Kennedy, 13, of Leadgate, near Consett, who goes to St Bede's school, Lanchester.
Liam's dad, William, 47, a plant operator, said: "We've been down before but this is the first time we've been near the front of the queue. I spend hundreds of pounds a year on strips and things."
Philip Bailey, 33, of Shiremoor, North Tyneside, said: "I'm a baker and I normally get up at 4.30am but I'm on holiday. My son, Jason, wanted to come along, so I thought there was no harm."
Jim Cannon, 56, a retired community police officer, of Wallsend, said: "My daughter loves to come down and she was up at around 4.30am to wake me up and make sure we were one of the first people down here."
Toon superfan Nigel Morris, 26, from Seghill, Northumberland, who has bought every Newcastle United home and away shirt for the last 15 years, said: "I buy them out of loyalty and they are quite fashionable nowadays."
Hazel Hebron, head of retail for Newcastle United, said: "We're really pleased with the launch.
"We've had people waiting since last night. It has all gone extremely well."
Newcastle United leave the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal trailing in their wake when it comes to fans, a new report reveals.
A survey by Continental Tyres of all 92 league clubs in England and Wales named the Toon fans the most committed in the country after travelling 22.8 million miles last season to watch their team.
Sunderland fans were named in second place after following the Black Cats 22.3 million miles last season.
How we compare
How does Newcastle United compare with other clubs when it comes to the cost of replica shirts?
Newcastle United - #40
Manchester United - #39
Arsenal - #39
Liverpool - #39.99
Celtic - #39.99
England - #29.95
Chelsea - #34.99


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DUBLIN, March 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
As chief executive officer of the world's largest advertising company, WPP Plc, Martin Sorrell is no stranger to big windfalls. Sorrell has made in excess of USD 172 million over the past six years in annual pay, and is set to receive his biggest payment yet of USD 99.6 million for last year's salary and bonus. The head of WPP is Britain's highest-paid chief executive officer and it's possible that this trend could continue for the next few years. The global ad spending market is set to grow at a CAGR of 6.21% by 2019, according to a report available from Research and Markets, offering WPP the chance for further growth in terms of ad sales and shares.
WPP says the high rate of pay received by Sorrell and other company executives is justified by the superior returns generated for investors. WPP shares have more than doubled in the past five years, and stock was up 0.5% to 1,572 pence in London yesterday, valuing WPP at GBP 20.4 billion.
The various advertising market sectors are expected to experience strong growth over the coming years, ensuring a stable and expanding base of advertisement customers. The global outdoor advertising market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.44% by 2019, as noted in an industry report, and WPP are consider industry leaders in this area.
Another area that could offer WPP strong returns is the mobile advertising market. The global mobile ad spending market is forecast to grow at an impressive CAGR of 38.12% by 2019, as stated in a market report. This strong growth, combined with the low costs of digital advertising, could result in greater market shares for WPP and even bigger windfalls for Martin Sorrell.
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In a move that has been talked about for the last few weeks among those in the tech industry, Google, the world’s leading search engine that turns 15 today, unveiled an update to their search algorithm. The move, which is being called the Hummingbird update, was made to help the search engine provide better answers to more complex requests.
It’s being deemed as the biggest rewriting of the Google algorithm since 2000. The world’s most popular search engine will stop relying on matching keywords and attempt to begin connecting meaning to all searches. Experts agree that the move comes in response to users asking more of the search engine. With mobile phones and tablet devices, people are using voice activation technology to ask more complex questions and enter longer phrases.
As with the Panda and Penguin update before it, businesses are scrambling to figure out what impact the algorithm update will have for their business. Ken Wisnefski, president and CEO of WebiMax, a leading digital marketing firm believes that the update won’t have the impact of updates like Panda and Penguin before it saying, “Companies that put their trust in black hat search engine optimization tactics by purchasing backlinks and stuffing keywords were already penalized and will continue to do poorly in the rankings. Hummingbird is about helping users who want more accurate results for their given search.”
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900 properties in Yucatan are rented on this platform, representing 35% of the accommodation spaces on offer….
MERIDA – “The regulation of the electronic lodging platform Airbnb is urgent, at this moment 35% of the accommodation spaces in Mérida and the municipalities of the coast are reserved through this digital tool,” stated the Mexican Hotel Association of Yucatan (AMHY).
The president of the AMHY, Héctor Navarrete Medina, pointed out that the sales growth figures of this platform impact the sector of Yucatecan hoteliers, since currently between 5% and 6% of the hotel occupancy of the state is done through this App.
In a review of the Airbnb site, it was highlighted that in the last three years, the lodging space rental platform has grown dynamically, and at the moment about 900 properties in Yucatan work through this US company, which really concerns Yucatecan hoteliers.
The hotel sector leader said that the 35% of the accommodation spaces in Mérida and the coastal municipalities are reserved through this platform and that it is necessary to regulate it.
“Mexico is already the fifth largest country in the world for reservations through this cybernetic platform, and this forces the federal government to intervene to establish a registry and mechanisms of fiscal responsibility for the owners of these hosting spaces,” he said.


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A widely quoted report in the New York Times details a partnership between Barnes & Noble and Google to create a same-day book delivery service utilizing Google Shopping Express. According to the report, “book buyers in Manhattan, West Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area will be able to get same-day deliveries from local […]
San Francisco Bay Area
Starting on Thursday, book buyers in Manhattan, West Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area will be able to get same-day deliveries from local Barnes & Noble stores through Google Shopping Express, Google's fledgling online shopping and delivery service.
E-book author Victoria Hudson doesn't like Amazon or the power it seems to wield with independent writers.
She didn't want to sell her book and short stories on its Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, something she calls "too restrictive to authors." Instead she chose an alternative book distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area called Smashwords.
"I want my work to be available in as many places as possible," she said.


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February 10, 2024 Sore over the continuous import of Chinese cloth at under-billing, the textile traders and manufacturers here have decided to go to Delhi tomorrow to hand-over the keys of their units to the Central Government. The affected industrialists said that despite sending several representations to the Centre in the last few months, nothing has been done to save the textile sector.
The industrialists gathered here today under the banner of ‘Swadeshi Vyopar Association’ and decided to stand united on this matter. The industrialists held a meeting today and said that many of the textile units were already shut, and if the government failed to curb the practice of under-billing cloth from China, the textile industry would be ruined. The industrialists alleged that a handful of officers were hand in glove with the ‘black sheep’ in the profession due to which the entire industry was suffering. The industrialists will meet the Textiles Minister tomorrow.
The industry, putting allegations on the government said though the government was in losses to the tune of several crores of rupees in taxes, still it has failed to curb the practice.
Talking to The Tribune, Tarun Jain Bawa, chairman Bahadurke Textile and Knitwear Association and Federation of Textile and Manufacturing Association of Ludhiana, said that filament polyester cloth, the import duty for which was 25 pe rcent, was coming in bulks from China.
“Actually, polyester was coming while the import duty was being paid for cotton fabric at the rate of just 5 per cent by showing that cotton fabric was coming. There was direct tax evasion of 20 per cent. Now how is this possible without the connivance of Customs officials? We have written to the Government of India many times but to no use,” said Bawa.
Another textile manufacturer from Ludhiana said that there was under billing of fabric, like polyester was Rs 320 per kg while it was shown that fabric was for Rs 80 per kg (price for cotton cloth in papers). “Not even a yarn is available for Rs 80 per kg, and some black sheep were getting cloth for Rs 80 per kg,” said the manufacturer adding that on average about 500 such containers came to India. Each container had 22,000 kilograms of cloth. “We cannot survive when bulks of under billed polyester are reaching India and authorities are not taking action,” added Bawa.
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- New MSME payment rule leads to many cancelled orders
- India’s cotton yarn exports to surge by 85-90% in FY2024: ICRA
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- CITI Indian textile bodies urge Piyush Goyal for cotton stability
- Ludhiana’s Hosiery & Knitwear Sector In Trouble Amid Slow Demand
- Panipat News: यार्न, फैब्रिक और टेक्सटाइल मशीनरी के मेगा ट्रेड शो का आज शुरू
- Textile mill associations urge government for financial support