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Honkai: Star Rail Release Time, Pre-Load Details, File Size, and Platforms
With more than 10 million pre-registered users, excitement is through the roof.
HoYoverse’s upcoming sci-fi adventure Honkai: Star Rail is nearly here, and players are gearing up for its launch across PC and mobile. Honkai: Star Rail is a free-to-play, turn-based RPG from the studio behind Genshin Impact. It boasts a similarly eye-catching art style and plenty of characters to collect, as well as swappable parties of four.
Here’s what you need to know about jumping into Honkai: Star Rail as soon as possible.
Honkai: Star Rail Release Times
Honkai: Star Rail will launch on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. However, since the game has a global simultaneous release, players in North America will gain access to it the day prior, on April 25 at 10 p.m. Eastern. Below are the launch times for Honkai: Star Rail’s global release:
- April 25 at 7 p.m. Pacific
- April 25 at 10 p.m. Eastern
- April 26 at 3 a.m. British Summer
- April 26 at 4 a.m. Central European Summer
- April 26 at 7:30 a.m. India Standard
- April 26 at 11 a.m. Japan Standard
- April 26 at 3 p.m. New Zealand Standard
Is Honkai: Star Rail on PlayStation?
Honkai: Star Rail will launch for PC and mobile via iOS and Android. It’s currently in development for PS4 and PS5, but developer HoYoverse hasn’t revealed its release date.
Earlier in March 2023, Honkai: Star Rail’s lead programmer Yang Yu said the PS4 and PS5 versions will launch “in the near future,” but did not specify an exact release date. For now, players will have to try the game on PC or mobile.
What Is the Honkai: Star Rail File Size?
On PC, Honkai: Star Rail will initially clock in at around 10.12GB, while the mobile version will take up around 7GB of storage space.
Is There a Honkai: Star Rail Launch Bonus?
Players who complete pre-registration prior to the game’s launch on April 26 are granted bonuses, and it looks like over 10 million users have taken advantage of the rewards thus far.
Pre-registering for Honkai: Star Rail gives players access to 20 Star Rail Passes, which is one of the game’s main forms of currency, along with the 4-star character Serval. This character will focus on the Lightning Element and is a member of the Landau family.
Likewise, HoYoverse is offering an additional signup giveaway on Twitter, wherein players have a chance of winning a $100 gift card.
Honkai: Star Rail launches on April 26, 2023.


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There has been news before that the US president has been using a Blackberry which this rumour has been true. Even though the Congress has allowed the use of iPads and iPhone devices, the use of Blackberries in the National Lab has dropped from 1000 to 700.
In addition to that, 17000 employees are being shifted to the cheap Gmail services which is going to reduce 50% costs. Engadget has mentioned that since the iPad’s are allowed, will Obama stop the use of RIM Blackberry?
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(Bloomberg) — AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. fluctuated in premarket trading after the company said it plans to sell up to 11.55 million of its common stock to repay debt and finance future acquisitions.
Its shares briefly dipped after the announcement before resuming gains. AMC was last little changed, up less than 1% to $61 after climbing as much as 24% earlier. Thursday’s filing for the potential sale comes two days after AMC sold 8.5 million shares to Mudrick Capital for $230.5 million. Those shares were then flipped and sold for a profit as the New York-based investment firm told clients AMC’s stock was overvalued.
The company is warning investors that they could lose their entire investment should they buy its shares.
“The market prices and trading volume of our shares of Class A common stock have recently experienced, and may continue to experience, extreme volatility, which could cause purchasers of our Class A common stock to incur substantial losses,” AMC said in its filing.
The filing allows for shares to be sold at-the-market, which is unlike a traditional stock offering because the buyers are found in the open market where retail traders thrive. Stocks sold in traditional offerings are purchased mostly by institutional investors. B. Riley will handle the transaction.
A frenzied rally on AMC shares has pushed shares in the money-losing stock up nearly 3,000% this year and left it with a market capitalization of $31.3 billion, making it more valuable than half of the companies in the S&P 500 Index.
“Issuance creates a dilution risk but can aid deleveraging,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Geetha Ranganathan said in a note Thursday.
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As seen in the pictures above, the GameCo booth was part of the larger G2E floor, but at the same time, it was also its own detached area. Call it a skill-based biosphere of sorts. A place showcasing the company’s video game gambling machines.
The booth was busy, and people enjoyed the games. Plus, once inside, you no longer felt like you were moving from booth to booth at G2E trying to avoid eye contact with vendors and their hired help selling everything from slot machines to massage chairs. Inside the GameCo booth, you were fully immersed in the GameCo experience.
This detachment is by design.
The conservatism of the casino industry
“The theme of our booth is the casino of the future, now,” said GameCo CEO Blaine Graboyes.
Graboyes appears to be implying the casino industry is behind the times. There is never-ending talk about making the casino floor more appealing to a younger demographic. However, the industry is slow to evolve. Graboyes believes the solutions aren’t in the pipeline. Rather, they already exist in the form of GameCo’s skill-based games.
“The slot player is aging, and there’s a need and an opportunity to bring in a younger, newer demographic,” Graboyes said.
In the CEO’s opinion, the games can be integrated with existing products to create incremental revenue — his answer isn’t displacing slots or table games — and pull in younger customers.
The issue is convincing casinos it’s in their best interest to add skill-based games.
Selling casinos on skill-based games
The current benchmark for gaming machines is handle. In other words, how much money players pump into a machine on a daily basis. That metric leaves skill-based games at a severe disadvantage.
According to Graboyes, GameCo generates the same occupancy as slot machines and a higher average wager. The problem is, GameCo games last about 60 seconds. That makes them five to 10 times slower than the typical slot machine.
This is an issue with two solutions: one obvious and one not as obvious.
Solution #1: Increase bet frequency
First, Graboyes said the frequency of bets is something his company is already addressing through a patent-pending solution. It should be ready in the next generation of games.
According to Graboyes, if everything goes to plan, the next generation of GameCo machines will have a faster pace of betting than most slot machines.
Solution #2: Create a new narrative
“It’s about changing the story about what are the benchmarks for these games in the market,” Graboyes said. “The benchmark is bringing in new customers.”
Graboyes went on to say:
“We just finished a report [where] we estimate that the lifetime value of a net new casino gamer is $35,000 – $40,000. That is a massive opportunity for our industry to grow the player base and the revenue opportunity.
“It’s really important to start to look at how are we going to change the decline and stagnancy around gross gaming revenue in general and slot gaming revenue in particular, and right now I don’t see a lot of other products in the market that have the opportunity to do that.
“We want to help the industry continue to move along and build these spaces, attract these customers, and capture that lifetime value.”
A customer realizes that lifetime value through a combination of gaming, entertainment, food and beverage, and more.
As John Phillips, a representative of a PR firm working with GameCo, said during the interview:
“There’s a synthesis of tying all of these things together to create a comprehensive customer experience. It’s not just the skill based games; it’s the whole culture that’s being created around them.
“You can already sort of see ways for cross-promotional marketing opportunities where you got the mixed media, the food and beverage; it’s this whole environment.”
Selling the customer on skill-based games
In addition to convincing casinos, skill-based game developers like GameCo are trying to get the word out to gamers that these products exist. There’s also the challenge of marketing the games to older, more traditional casino customers.
“One of the big things that we’re doing is just engaging with the community,” Graboyes said. “Things like speaking at the event and sharing how our games work.”
This outreach is crucial. When he asks casino customers what they think about skill games, the typical answer is “I don’t know what to think.” Like handing an iPhone to someone whose been using a Motorola flip phone for the past decade, there’s a pretty steep learning curve. Most slot players don’t know what skill-based games are or how they work.
“A big part of it for us is just educating the market,” Graboyes noted.
Educating traditional casino customers
Some solutions GameCo is trying include:
- Showing the odds of each outcome on the pay-table.
- Creating easy-to-navigate help files, so players understand how the games work.
- Displaying the math behind its games on its website.
As Graboyes put it:
“The more that we explain, the more that we align the player’s mental model with how the games actually work, the better the games are going to perform, the better for the casino, the better for patron, and we address this responsible gaming and problem gambling issue.”
Because of the skill-based gaming industry’s nascency, there’s a lot of trial and error.
GameCo is constantly tinkering with every aspect of the games. Testing includes trying out bench-seating and bar top games to swapping out one game for another to see which performs better.
“Slot machines are 120 years old; they are perfectly optimized,” Graboyes said. “We’re the first company to do this, and it’s only been a year. We need to test and learn and optimize. So we’re constantly iterating and making agile changes to the game. The things we learn we’re able to quickly incorporate into the gameplay.”
Will a casino be willing to commit to skill-based games?
A number of casinos are giving skill-based games a shot on their floors. Graboyes said GameCo currently has 60 machines on casino floors. That is a number he expects to rise to 250 by the end of the year too.
That being said, none of the casinos are showing a strong commitment to skill-based games at this time. Casinos understandably want the games to prove themselves before they dedicate resources to marketing.
In true catch-22 fashion, that might not be possible though, that is, until a casino commits and creates the right environment for the games to thrive.
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iBUYPOWER Partners with Tiger Direct to Unleash Gamer Extreme 966 with Powerful Core i7-960 Processor
New system will be available in all 33 Tiger Direct Stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, providing customers with a hands-on experience before they buy
El Monte, CA - March 17, 2011 - iBUYPOWER, a leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce the availability of the new Intel Core i7-960 powered Gamer Extreme 966 system at all 33 Tiger Direct stores in 5 states and Puerto Rico. This will be the first time that iBUYPOWER customers in major markets like Chicago and Miami will have to opportunity for a hands-on experience with the system before they buy.
"Our customers are hardcore gamers that expect a flawless gaming experience each time they sit down in to play," said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. "We wanted to share that positive experience with new customers, allowing them to test drive one of our systems at a local Tiger Direct retail center."
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With the focus on major resources projects, Papua New Guinea is missing the opportunity to develop a thriving agri-tourism sector, Papua New Guinea Women in Agricultural Development Foundation (PNGWiADF) President, Maria Linibi tells Business Advantage PNG.
As it stands, many people in the sector in Papua New Guinea think agriculture is limited to growing and selling crops, but Linibi says the industry has potential beyond traditional farming.
‘There is a big gap in the market for the promotion of traditional crops and farming methods to tourists.
‘The memorandum of understanding is a step towards an effective agri-tourism sector.’
‘The agricultural sector must broaden their thinking and embrace the opportunity to work with the tourism sector, which will benefit both industries, the economy and the local community,’ Linibi says.
In October 2017, PNGWiADF and a number of local agricultural organisations signed a memorandum of understanding at the Pacific Week of Agriculture in Vanuatu to strengthen cooperation between the two sectors.
Linibi describes the memorandum of understanding as ‘a step towards an effective agri-tourism sector’.
‘When people travel they want a unique, local experience.’
She says the agreement recognises the importance of the agricultural and tourism sectors working together and outlines a way forward for a partnership.
A successful agricultural-tourism sector will be a great benefit for the economy, ‘with potential for farmers to sell fresh produce directly to major cruise ships, hotels and restaurants’, she adds.
‘Tourists will have the opportunity to visit local farms and to taste traditional recipes. The tourism sector is likely to boom.
‘When people travel they want a unique, local experience, and we can offer this through the development of a strong agri-tourism business.
‘Tourists will want to spend money to come to Papua New Guinea if they can experience locals preparing food using indigenous crops.’
While the memorandum of understanding is a move in the right direction, Linibi believes the lack of communication between both sectors and the government remains a concern.
‘With more cruise ships coming to Papua New Guinea’s shores each year, there is great potential.’
‘We need the agricultural and tourism sectors to come together to talk about the opportunities and for the government to support this discussion.’
Limited funding and government support for initiatives is another concern, and Linibi says she would like to see the government providing financial support for the right projects.
‘With more cruise ships coming to Papua New Guinea’s shores each year, there is great potential to develop a booming agricultural-tourism sector that will attract a growing number of tourists.
Linibi says tourism is a ‘second priority’ in PNG. But with tourism growing, as the country becomes more accessible, the agri-tourism sector has the potential to thrive.
‘There is a great demand for agricultural-tourism in Papua New Guinea and it will be a missed opportunity if we don’t work together to build the industry.’


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It hasn’t been announced yet, but Samsung has already created a web page for the Galaxy S21 FE. We’ve been writing for months about this Fan Edition model that now appears to have been announced. Possibly in 2021.
This page was created by no one else Evan Blass Observed. It was a Samsung employee in the UAE who pushed the publish button too soon. The page in question is offline now.
The question now is whether Galaxy S21 FE It will be announced in 2021 or at least 2022. Samsung has not yet sent out invitations for this Unpacked event. On the Samsung website, the device is given the type number SM-G990E / DS, which at least shows that this is a dual-SIM phone.
S21 FE . dump event
Samsung should already S21 FE Announcing in January that it was eerily close to releasing s 22 in a. It is usually announced in February. The announcement of the Galaxy S22 series may also have been delayed.
All we can do is wait. There is around S21 Fan . Edition So much has already happened and plans have been changed so much that we dare not make any predictions about it. This unfortunately also applies to s 22.


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Sir Ian Good, chairman of The Edrington Group, said in the company’s accounts that plans to raise excise duty by 30 per cent by 2013 were “very disappointing”.
His comments came as Edrington revealed the financial pressures that led it to close its site in Speyside last November. Profits fell 17 per cent in 2008/9 as the global recession flattened sales, the accounts show.
Sir Ian said: “On the one hand, politicians claim they want to encourage leading industries in the UK to be world-class yet impose swingeing domestic taxes on a truly world-class industry.
“It is particularly harmful as we argue for fair treatment from governments abroad.”
Edrington’s exports to the US market fell 11 per cent in the year to March, with worldwide volumes down 5 per cent. Famous Grouse managed to increase its volumes and profits partly thanks to two new blends.


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Recent electric vehicle (EV) news has been dominated by a flurry of funding announcements for chargers across the country. The announcements were spurred by the federal government’s declaration of July 11 to 15 as #EVWeek.
It began with an investment of over $2.5 million in the Manitoba Motor Dealers Association and the national non-profit Eco-West Canada to help support the installation of up to 400 EV chargers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The chargers are expected to be installed by the end of 2023.
Toronto-based climate tech company Peak Power also received a $765,000 investment through Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program (ZEVIP) to install 117 V1G chargers, valued at over $1.6 million.
ZEVIP is a $680 million program meant to address the lack of charging and refuelling stations for zero-emission vehicles, one of the major barriers to consumer adoption of the vehicles. This year’s federal budget provides an additional $400 million to Natural Resources Canada for the program, extending it to March 2027.
The chargers will be installed across several mixed-use developments in Ontario with the company’s Synergy technology — meant to reduce strain on the grid by avoiding peak demand times. SWTCH Energy Inc. is co-developing the software while Signature Electric will install the hardware and supporting infrastructure.
More EV charger announcements
Shell Canada also announced it will install 79 Shell Recharge fast charging points at 37 retail stations across Canada by the end of the year. It will be helped along with a $3.95 million ZEVIP investment. Shell Canada has 25 charging locations in the country currently.
“In Canada we are planning to have over 500 chargers by 2025, and globally we are hoping to have well over one million by 2030,” Kent Martin, Shell Canada’s general manager of mobility, told the Canadian Press.
The Nova Scotia provincial and federal governments announced a $361,875 investment via ZEVIP in Ravines Properties Limited to install 112 EV chargers at new multi-unit residential buildings in Halifax.
Among the other announcements are Hydro-Quebec receiving $4.6 million for 840 chargers across the province; $2 million to P.E.I.’s provincial government for up to 250 chargers; $1.7 million to B.C.’s government and the City of Burnaby for 128 chargers; the Northwest Territories received $414,000 for 72 chargers; and the New Brunswick Power Corporation got $350,000 to install 52 workplace chargers.
In total, nearly 2,000 chargers were announced last week.
Currently, Canada has about 16,000 charging ports in 6,800 locations, with 90 per cent of them in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. Transportation accounts for 25 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
By 2035, Canada plans to have only zero-emission light passenger vehicles on the road.
Lion Electric trucks qualify for funding
The Lion Electric Company announced Canadian customers can receive up to $150,000 in funding under Transport Canada’s newly launched Incentives for Medium and Heavy-duty Zero-Emission Vehicles (iMHZEV) program.
Under iMHZEV, the federal government will provide $550 million in funding for the purchase or lease of medium and heavy-duty trucks over the next four years.
All of the company’s (LEV-T) electric trucks qualify for the funding, and depending on the province, customers can stack their incentives.
Previously in June, SustainableBiz reported on the Canadian and P.E.I. governments investing $6.5 million to purchase 35 electric school buses from the Saint-Jérôme, Que.-based company in the 2022-23 fiscal year.
Exro shares mid-year update
Exro Technologies Inc. CEO Sue Ozdemir shared a mid-year company update via webcast, which included a virtual tour of its under-construction Calgary facility. The 37,000 square foot location will run on clean energy solutions with the capability to produce 100,000 of Exro’s Coil Driver units annually.
An October 2021 report from independent third-party tester AVL states the Coil Driver, in development since 2016, has a “motor (that) generates significantly more torque . . . It is also observed that the switching between different modes is seamless.”
Exro is also building another manufacturing facility in Mesa, AZ.
The update also stated the company’s announcements from May are proceeding as planned. That includes an agreement with Vicinity Motor Corp., starting with 100 Coil Drivers for Vicinity’s (VMC-X) Lightning buses, along with a production slot, system pricing and commissioning services.
The other announcement was with ev Transportation Services, Inc., (evTS) a Boston-based specialty electric vehicle manufacturer, to supply 1,000 Coil Drivers beginning in 2023 for use in evTS’ 2023 FireFly vehicles.
FLO CEO appointed to electrification transportation board
FLO president and CEO Louis Tremblay has been appointed to the board of directors for the Alliance for Transportation Electrification (ATE) — a consortium of utilities, automotive OEMs, EV vendors and NGOs across North America working to increase EV adoption.
FLO was founded in Quebec in 2009 as a subsidiary of AddÉnergie Technologies Inc.
Meanwhile, the ATE was founded in late 2017 and has grown to 55 members as of 2021.
Tremblay’s appointment has been effective since ATE’s June 27 board meeting in Charlotte, N.C.
FLO also recently announced its first U.S. EV charger assembly facility in Auburn Hills, Mich. The facility is expected to help FLO achieve its goal of producing 250,000 EV chargers for the U.S. market by 2028.
Montreal to host global lithium battery conference
The selection committee for the International Meeting on Lithium Batteries (IMLB) has chosen the Palais des congrès de Montréal to host its global conference in 2026, which the city last hosted in 2010.
“I was immensely pleased with the news. After supporting Montréal’s bid in 2010, it only seemed natural to get involved in the process of bringing IMLB 2026 to the Palais,” said Dr. Karim Zaghib, a Concordia University professor and chair of the IMLB 2026 in a statement on the selection.
“This conference will help broaden the reach of the Québec and Canadian ecosystem, and its supply chain of battery parts, as also promote the emphasis we are putting on the green circular economy within the field.”


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DO you remember your first birthday? These parents will definitely never forget the party they threw for their one-year-old.
TikTok user Maggie, who posts under @tattoomaggie, revealed how she and her partner spent £800 on McDonald’s fries and burgers.
In a video, Maggie showed off the very lavish fast food spread, which included more than 80 boxes of fries and a huge box of burgers.
She wrote: “The food I got for my daughter’s 1st birthday.
“The kids were happy.”
Maggie confirmed that the McDonald’s branch had received “heaps of notice” in order to prepare the whopping feast.
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And while many people were concerned about how soggy and cold the chips would be left out on the table, Maggie replied: “I have never known so many people concerned about the temperature of the chips. Kids did not care!”
While kids and adults alike tucked into the Maccies spread, Maggie said her own tot only had “about 3 chips.”
When people asked about the cost, she said: “About $1000 and we got about 5/6 buckets of KFC.”
Many people were quick to comment on the video, which has racked up nearly 700,000 views.
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One person wrote: “Dream come true.”
Another joked: “and y'all didn't invite me.”
And the party fun didn’t end there, as the mum showed off the epic decorations and activities she had set up - mainly for the adults.
In a follow-up video she showed adults enjoying an inflatable slide, a blow-up water park and a skate park.
Maggie also showed how their back garden has an old McDonald’s playground with slides that they spruced up for their kids.
One person commented: “Y’all having more fun than the kids.”


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From today (Blue Monday), legendary Factory Records graphic designer, Peter Saville, is releasing a second iteration of limited edition t-shirts in support of suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), following the massive success of last year’s t-shirt release which had over 1,000 sales.
This year, the t-shirt features the opening lyric, ‘How does it feel?’, from New Order’s momentous track ‘Blue Monday’, alongside ‘CALM 2024’ displayed in the iconic colour coding – the same one featured on the 12-inch sleeve and video. The addition of the lyrics for this year’s t-shirt is designed to help open up conversations about mental health and suicide.
‘Blue Monday’, taking place on the 15th of January this year, is the day often associated with being the most depressing day of the year due to factors like the winter blues and lack of funds following the festive period. It is also the name of one of New Order’s most popular tracks released following the band’s inception in 1980 – in fact, it’s the best-selling 12-inch single of all time.
100 per cent of the profit from t-shirt sales will go to CALM’s lifesaving work supporting anyone struggling with their mental health. The designer Peter Saville first rose to fame by creating artwork for Factory Records, a label he co-founded in Manchester in 1979 and later designed the ‘Blue Monday’ sleeve for New Order in 1983.
New Order are ambassadors of CALM, and have previously spoken out about mental health and suicide prevention. Together, they use their platform to help shred the stigma of suicide and access mental health services.
Commenting on the limited edition t-shirt New Order said: “Starting a conversation with somebody could be the most important conversation that person ever has. It could be life-changing. So with ‘how does it feel’ we felt, as CALM ambassadors, we had the perfect lyric and message to get out there on the 2024 edition of the CALM Blue Monday t-shirts that Peter Saville has so beautifully designed. And knowing that all the money raised will help make sure CALM are there for even more people who are struggling makes it even more powerful.”
Campaign Against Living Miserably CEO Simon Gunning said: “Blue Monday is a track that transcends generations and one I’ve always loved – with the opening line ‘How does it feel’ resonating with me and so many people. The track and the meaning behind perfectly align with the work we do at CALM to help shred the stigma of suicide and offer support to those struggling. Mental health affects us all and we know that one in five will have suicidal thoughts in their lifetime.
“We’re so proud to work with Peter Saville and New Order – the t-shirts are a brilliantly creative idea that will reach people with the clear message that no matter the day or how you’re feeling – help is there.”
The t-shirts are available to buy now via https://lnk.to/bluemonday-calm-2024 for £25. While supplies last. Warner Music UK Ltd will donate £10 per t-shirt to Campaign Against Living Miserably, charity number 1110621. To find out more about more about CALM or for help and advice head to thecalmzone.net.


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For those of you who were maybe worried about the total car count in Gran Turismo Sport worry no more. In a recent interview, President of Polyphony Digital, Kazunori Yamauchi has said that in total Gran Turismo Sport will end up with around 400-500 cars. His exact quote is below:
“In the end, there will be around 400 to 500 cars and all cars have been re-modeled, and there won’t be any standard cars.”
This is great news as not only will fans get a huge amount of cars but they won’t be the standard modeled cars that were found in the past few Gran Turismo games. A thing to keep in mind though is that from the sound of his quote it probably means that all of those cars won’t be available on Day 1. Whether they add more cars for a price or for free after launch we don’t know yet.
He also said that the game will have content for those who don’t want to play the online Sport mode.
“The offline contents of GT Sport are very ample and complicated. Sport Mode is a small part of the game, but not all. The traditional pleasure of the GT series is still there, old fans can enjoy the game as usual.”
He also stated that the game will feature less tracks/locations than previous installments. They are also planning on hiring real Formula 1 coaches to train the players who make it far in GT Academy. One thing is for sure and that is Gran Turismo Sport is starting to sound really good and if you’re looking for a new Simulation Racer this year Gran Turismo Sport is pretty much the only choice.
Gran Turismo Sport launches exclusively on PS4 on November 15. Are you excited to play it? Tell us in the comments below.


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A fine piece of journalism by John Shiffman and Duff Wilson of Reuters about the difficulties in preventing military use equipment from finding its way to China. It tells the story of a batch of rad-chips, used in satellites, that have been spirited out of the US to China, where they are likely used for its space program. The story gets into all the nuances around the legality of high-technology purchase and export and the issue of China. “By its very definition, black market smuggling is hard to monitor and quantify. Quite often, sensitive US technology is legally shipped to friendly nations and then immediately and illegally reshipped to China.”
I am convinced that this legal-illegal export conundrum is going to begin the affect the shape of the global economy. No longer will it be open borders, free trade, and let’s all hope for the best. The calculus will have to change. But how is anyone’s guess.
The White House is bright enough to realize that the future for the US economy is creating high-end, high-tech, sophisticated goods and services. At the same time, the US is increasingly in a race with China, for increasing technological abilities. China, starting at a lower level, knows it must also pursue new tech industries if it doesn’t want to escape a stagnant, middle income economy trap future. The US must build those industries bigger for the sake of its own future in the world.
To use a term coined by sci-fi author John Brunner the “brain race” is on.
And while it’s not like the Cold War when the global economy was severed, any wide disparities in new technology between China and the West will increasingly carry the potential for destabilization.


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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has been working closely with security agencies in Beijing to develop a “safe and controllable” alternative to Android and iOS. The U.S. mobile platforms (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) run more than 95% of smartphones in China. The Chinese government has been pushing to purge foreign technology from its sensitive agencies, especially after Edward Snowden revealed widespread spying by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Alibaba’s PMOS includes ‘Police Chat’
Currently, more than 4,000 Chinese law enforcement officials are using a highly secure smartphone OS developed by Alibaba, reports Bloomberg. The Hangzhou-based company provides securities authorities an encrypted mobile OS that includes “Police Chat” messaging platform, said Lu Yu, assistant to the director of China’s First Research Institute. Lu was speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Beijing last week.
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For the use of Chinese security authorities, Alibaba’s Professional Mobile Operating System (PMOS) comes preloaded with smartphones made by ZTE. It indicates that Alibaba founder Jack Ma is willing to work closely with Beijing to fulfill President Xi Jinping’s agenda of replacing foreign technology in critical sectors with homegrown alternatives by the turn of the decade.
The Chinese government has also been developing its own platform called China Operating System (COS) to rival Android and iOS. Lu said, “We have to make sure nothing secretly happens to our phones.” He said Alibaba’s software is not for commercial purposes, but to meet the requirements of people who have security concerns.
Alibaba and the Ministry of Public Security jointly developing PMOS
Alibaba has also developed its own YunOS for consumers, which is a forked version of Android. The product has failed to gain a foothold, even in China. As far as PMOS is concerned, the Ministry of Public Security sets the standards for apps running on PMOS. The ministry is actively involved in its development by contributing the encryption process.
China is not the only country looking to get rid of Android and iOS. Last month, Russia’s Minister for Communication and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, sought the help of Jolla to build a Russian operating system. Moscow aims to bring down the share of non-Russian mobile platforms from over 95% today to below 50% by 2025.


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According to a forum post on MyCrysis, which spotted the rating, the game will be released by EA Korea. The listing only went live today.
And this is for the original game, which has been on PC since its release in 2006: Crysis 2 released earlier this year in the country.
It launched in the US and Europe back in March.
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FIFA 21 Release Date Announced
FIFA 21 will offer a more realistic soccer experience thanks to improved animations. In FIFA 21, dynamic lighting, faces, hair, jerseys will have a more realistic structure. FIFA 21 will offer a more realistic soccer experience thanks to the improved animations. With the scheduled publishing feature of YouTube, the FIFA 21 promotional trailer date has been announced. The FIFA 21 release date is 9 October 2020.
According to the information shared by the Twitter user with the user name ChrissyG_x, Trent Alexander-Arnold wearing the Liverpool shirt in the source code of the promotional trailer, Joao Felix, Atletico Madrid’s young star, Erling Haland striker of the Borussia Dortmund team and striker Kylian in Paris Saint Germain Includes Mbappe.
Also Read: Harry Potter game will debut in 2021.
Electronic Arts removed the codes of these football players from their source code shortly after this incident occurred. According to the leak in the source code, more than one football player is expected to be on the cover of FIFA 21.


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SANTA ANA — In an effort to crack down on illegal businesses and clean up neighborhoods, the Santa Ana City Council endorsed a plan Monday to limit garage sales to four designated weekends each year--one every three months.
If the ordinance is approved, anyone holding a sale outside the four designated weekends could have their goods impounded by the city.
Rather than vote on a previously drafted ordinance limiting the sales to two weekends in May and two in October, Councilman Ted R. Moreno asked that the four weekends be spaced evenly throughout the year to accommodate residents who might be moving from their homes. The council will take up the issue again next month.
The sales are a constant occurrence in some Santa Ana neighborhoods, where residents scatter worn clothing, used appliances, furniture, tires and televisions across front lawns, driveways and commercial parking lots, hoping to earn a few dollars.
More than half a dozen people spoke in favor of the crackdown Monday, complaining that some residents hold garage sales weekly--if not more often--and should be required to obtain business licenses and operate in commercial zones.
"Santa Ana is looking like a Third World country. . . . I hope the City Council takes some action and bans yard sales," said resident George Estrada.
"When you see people that have nine television sets, seven baby strollers and nine bedroom sets, that's not a yard sale," resident Betty Biner said. "I think it's become a disgrace and a blight on the city."
Council members and Santa Ana's numerous city-sponsored neighborhood associations have overwhelmingly supported a measure cracking down on the garage sales.
For many, however, the sales are an occasional practice that bring in needed dollars and serve a community of low-income shoppers who don't have cars to get to the closest swap meet or cannot afford the prices of secondhand stores.
Gilbert Belmontes, a resident of southwest Santa Ana, urged the council not to restrict the sales, and to focus instead on more serious problems plaguing the city. Belmontes said he holds garage sales in order to show his children what it means to earn an honest dollar in difficult times, he told the council.
"This is an honest way to do things. You are hitting at the people who are suffering the most economically, who make up the very core of this city," he said.
He said the people who abuse the privilege and turn the sales into businesses should not be allowed to "ruin" the majority's right to earn a few dollars.
Code enforcement officials estimate there are between 300 and 500 garage sales on any given weekend day, making it far too cumbersome to enforce existing law, which allows only two garage sales a year per address.
That law, adopted in 1990, said garage sales could be held on three consecutive days, and restricted the goods to those of a "household nature." As outlined by the council Monday night, the new ordinance would restrict the sales to four designated Saturdays and Sundays.
Councilman Thomas E. Lutz also asked for a provision allowing churches, organizations like the Boy Scouts, and neighborhood associations to continue to hold sales as fund-raisers.


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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
- Mark Doherty has been promoted to managing director of Thai Union-owned, U.K.-based seafood company John West. Doherty has worked at the company for 15 years as an account controller and commercial director, according to his LinkedIn.
Doherty replaces Paul Stephenson, who stepped down as managing director earlier this month.
“I am delighted with the appointment of Mark as the new managing director for John West,” Thai Union Europe President Paul Reenan said in a release. “It is a testament to his dedication and commitment to our business over 15 years. His appointment to this role is also a reflection of the strong talent management done by Thai Union to deliver on the full potential of our people. John West has a strong identity in healthy nutrition, game-changing innovation, and a very talented team that Mark will lead into the next stage of profitable growth.”
The appointment comes four months after John West announced its profits had dropped around 78 percent in FY 2023.
- Michael De Caro has exited his role as vice president of manufacturing and product development at Peter Pan Seafood and joined Seattle, Washington U.S.A-based Pandion Seafood as its managing director.
- Gabriel Viteri has been appointed chief of new business ventures at Acme Smoked Fish. Viteri, who has been with the company since 2022, is currently the company’s acting COO. The position Viteri has accepted was created to propel and drive strategic business expansion, Acme said.
"Embracing the next chapter of growth with Acme is truly exhilarating,” Viteri told SeafoodSource. “Our journey in the smoked fish business has been remarkable, and now, with access to cutting-edge systems, talented individuals, streamlined processes, and invaluable connections, we're poised to venture into exciting new opportunities. It's evident that to thrive in today's competitive landscape, we must dare to explore beyond our familiar waters. Together with Acme, we're primed to chart new territories and redefine success."
- Nils Ove Haland Riise has left his position as director of international sales at seafood industry analysis firm Kontali, headquartered in Kristiansund, Norway. Riise held the role for six months, and has yet to announce his next career move, according to his LinkedIn.
“Last week marked the end of my journey with Kontali. It's been an incredible six months filled with challenges, opportunities, and unforgettable experiences in the aquaculture analytics industry,” Riise wrote on LinkedIn. “Transitioning from the media sector into a completely new industry was both a challenge and an exciting opportunity. My background in media unexpectedly proved to be invaluable as I applied tactics learned in that field to my role at Kontali.”
Riise’s departure follows Kontali’s recent acquisition of the Nasdaq Salmon Index, which provides pricing data for Norwegian salmon exports.
- Julie Hohmann has been appointed as a national sales account manager for Pacific Seafood. Hohmann spent the past nearly 11 years at Ocean Beauty Seafoods as a national retail sales manager, according to her LinkedIn.
“It's been an amazing start, and I'm already impressed with the thorough training program, family-like culture, high-quality products, and industry experts at Pacific Seafoods,” Hohmann wrote on LinkedIn.
- Singapore-based cultivated seafood company UMAMI Bioworks appointed Arijit Das as its upstream process development scientist. Das has a background in bioprocessing technology and has a doctorate from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India.
“I am thrilled to contribute my Ph.D. in bioprocessing technology, along with my industry expertise in upstream process development, to further the future of cultivated seafood,” Das said in a LinkedIn statement.
- Dustin Hamilton has been appointed as COO of Nissui-owned UniSea.
“I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Operating Officer at UniSea, Inc.,” Hamilton wrote on LinkedIn. “For the highest-quality, Alaska-processed pollock, cod, and crab, come to UniSea.”
According to his LinkedIn, Hamilton began the role in March 2024.
- Leknes, Norway-based aquaculture service and fish health company STIM has appointed Nora Lyso as a key account manager. According to her LinkedIn, Lyso began the role in March 2024. Previously, she worked at Nova Sea as a project employee operational technician.
-Suffolk, Virginia U.S.A.-based seafood supplier Wanchese Fish Company has appointed Jack Crouch as its national sales manager.
"I am thrilled to be part of a family company that is committed to quality, sustainability, and state-of-the-art processing,” Crouch said in a release. “My goal is to contribute to the company's continued success by expanding market uptake of its signature Patagonian scallops and southern king crab products in North America.”
Crouch previously worked for six years at the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and later joined SCS Global Services as its sustainable seafood sales manager in March 2023.


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The Singles Day is the biggest shopping event in the world. In less than a decade, Alibaba Group transformed an extravagant celebration for young single adults in China into a major global event that involved thousands of retailers and hundreds of millions of buyers of all ages. It has been extended to other e-commerce operators and will include more physical stores than ever before this year. The great stranger of this year is how far the trade war between the United States and China will reduce sales.
1.-Why is it called the day of celibacy?
When November 11 is written numerically, 11/11, the four figures evoke "naked branches", the Chinese expression for the unrelated. On Chinese university campuses in the '90s, 11/11 became one celebration of being single in a culture that emphasizes relationships it has been an 'antidote & # 39; for Valentine's Day. The growing middle class of the country has turned this phenomenon into a phenomenon.
2.-Why does the Day of the Singles revolve around shopping?
When he started to build the company, Alibaba's billionaire co-founder, Jack Ma became interested in the idea of centering a shopping promotion around a party, Inspired by the tradition of the mega-discos of "Black Friday" in the United States. He chose November 11th from 2009. Initially, his company's marketing has encouraged consumers to do so pamper yourself to celebrate that you were single. But the day has never been limited to the suns, and is aimed at all demographic groups. But, which never escapes from the stage, it will be 2018 as president of Alibaba for the last time, because on January 1, 2019 he will hand over the reins to his dolphin: Daniel Zhang.
3. -Is an event exclusively by Alibaba?
Although Alibaba was the first to link the Day of Bachelors to consumerism, many rivals joined. JD.com makes promotions such as Vipshop and a number of other e-commerce companies. Amazon.com, a small player in China, started its business First day in 2015 in the United States to increase a similar shopping frenzy. A fundamental difference between Alibaba and Amazon is that the Chinese company is a digital property for merchants and consumers to find one another, while the empire founded by Jeff Bezos You have a lot of your inventory to sell.
4.-Is single day only for Chinese buyers?
While China dominates sales, Alibaba is trying to make it more global. This means involving foreign brands in selling to the Chinese. He is also working on promote your websites in English, as the Alibaba.com wholesale sales platform. The 2018 edition will once again involve AliExpress, which targets consumers abroad, and Lazada, its business in Southeast Asia.
5.- How big is the Day of the Singles?
In 24 hours, it sells more than double the five days of unbridled shopping in the US that begins Thanksgiving and extends to "Black Friday" and ends the "Cyber Monday". Each year has exceeded the previous one, with an increase in sales last year of 39% to 168.2 billion yuan (24.2 billion dollars). This is on par with the gross domestic product of some small European nations. Most purchases are made in Taobao and Tmall, the main shopping sites of Alibaba.
6.-What will change this year?
It remains to be seen whether higher tariffs, resulting from the commercial tensions with the United States, will reduce the enthusiasm of consumers. On the other hand, Alibaba has significantly enhanced the physical element of Day of the Singles, accelerating investments in shopping centers, stores and delivery services, in what defines its "new retail" initiative ". Alibaba predicts that 2018 will be the biggest single in history.5


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Welbilt has given the first measurable insight to just how devastating Covid-19 has been for the foodservice equipment sector by reporting a 52% sales reduction in what its CEO called “the worst quarter in the history of our industry”.
The company said it plans to boost its efforts in areas such as ghost kitchens and enhanced sanitation as it seeks to bounce back from the slump that occurred as most of the major markets it serves were shut down at the end of March.
Sales at the US-based firm declined from $426m (£320m) to $206m (£155m) during the three months to 30 June, leading it to suffer a $17.4m (£13.1m) loss versus a profit of $20m (£15m) the year before.
Welbilt said the decline reflected the closure of the hospitality industry across the world, stalling demand for commercial foodservice equipment.
April appears to be when the market hit rock bottom, with sales declining 60% year-on-year, before improving sequentially in May and June as restaurants and other professional kitchen operators were allowed to gradually reopen.
June net sales decreased 40% from the prior year, the company said.
President and CEO, Bill Johnson, commented: “We are pleased with our margin and cash flow performance during the worst quarter in the history of our industry due to the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. We remained very focused on protecting the health and safety of our employees while implementing aggressive cost reduction actions in late March. These actions helped us deliver positive margins and cash flow, and keep liquidity consistent with the prior quarter.”
Welbilt said the rapid drop in demand associated with the pandemic caused “unfavourability” in both material cost and manufacturing costs, but cost reduction initiatives including redundancies and furloughing led to savings.
The company told investors that it expects third quarter sales to decrease between 30% and 35% year-on-year.


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They can do it 80 percent of the time
If you are determined enough to make a fake fingerprint of a phone, you can unlock it 80 percent of the time, according to a new Talos security study.
An electronic padlock which unlocks with a fingerprint or an app connected by Bluetooth to your phone does not work, according to the FCC.
Probably not the best for your video communications
While many are switching to Zoom to solve their coronavirus lockdown communications problems, the video conferencing software has been dubbed a security nightmare by those in the know.
Time to get rid of humans for total security protection
Over 90 per cent of cyber data breaches were caused by user error last year, according to analysis of data from the UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) by the cyber security awareness and data analytics company, CybSafe.
Lets hackers in and makes them a cup of tea
Cisco is urging customers to update its Firepower Management Centre software "after users informed it of a critical bug that attackers could exploit over the internet".
We are living on the edge
Axis Communications Johan Paulsson, CTO has issued a list of his top five technology trends that will have an impact on the physical security industry next year.
Seems to be a theme lately
A quarter of UK businesses are gambling with the continuity of their business by not having any form of a disaster recovery plan in place, according to new research.
Security for the many, not the few
Britain’s Labour Party was using a $20 a month “basic security” service to protect its website when hackers attempted to force it offline last week and temporarily slowed down online campaigning.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Evolving threats and hacks have had the biggest impact on moving the cybersecurity industry forward in the last 25 years, according to 39 percent of respondents to a social media poll conducted by Infosecurity Europe.


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The Swiss super automatic espresso machine manufacturer said Eiermann’s diverse set of 'coffee, technology and branding’ experiences will be key in driving its growth plans
Andre Eiermann, Global Marketing Director, Eversys
Eversys has appointed Andre Eiermann as its new Global Marketing Director to broaden its reach across international markets.
The Swiss super automatic espresso machine manufacturer said Eiermann’s extensive coffee industry background will be ‘invaluable’ in driving its marketing efforts and the expansion of the Eversys brand.
Having joined Swiss coffee trader Volcafe in January 2000, Eiermann has since held several brand manager roles at Mondelēz International, managerial marketing positions for UCC Coffee in Switzerland, and most recently served as General Manager for Victoria Arduino in Australia and New Zealand.
In a press release Eversys added that Eiermann had founded a coffee academy, launched a specialty coffee range, competed and judged in barista competitions and published a book on specialty coffee.
“Having had the pleasure of knowing Andre for quite some time, I am absolutely thrilled to welcome him aboard the Eversys Team. Not only is he an all-around fantastic individual with an insatiable appetite for knowledge, but he also boasts an incredibly diverse set of experiences that allow him to seamlessly bridge the worlds of coffee, technology, and branding. It is with great anticipation that we look forward to seeing Andre’s contributions to the Eversys brand. His passion, drive, and unique perspective promise to bring a fresh, dynamic energy to the Eversys,” said Christian Haueter, Commercial Director, Eversys.
“I am excited to join Eversys in Switzerland and to continue my coffee journey with such an innovative, technology driven company with a vibrant start-up mentality and a warm human touch,” Eiermann added.
Eversys is expected to complete the expansion of its Sierre production facility by the end of 2023, increasing capacity by 46%. The development will enable the increased production demands of producing a fully automatic coffee machine for cold brewed coffee.
Further indicating the Swiss super automatic espresso machine manufacturer’s growth plans, Eversys has opened regional offices in the UAE and Singapore within the last six months to boost customer engagement and cater to increased demand for super-automatic coffee machines across the Middle East and south east Asia.


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The Vancouver based company earlier sent samples of its omega-3 product to numerous customers in Europe. At the request of some of those customers, LeanLife recently shipped additional samples in quantities sufficient for use in large volume production trials.
These production trials typically follow initial testing and satisfaction with the product specifications and quality certificate provided by LeanLife.
READ: LeanLife Health's omega-3 production plan wins funding from Canada's National Research Council
“One of these food producers creates a variety of milk related products that are sold throughout Europe and through 500 stores in the United States,” said the company.
With the potential for “large scale demand” for its product, LeanLife said it is upgrading its equipment to increase its production capacity and build inventory to shorten the lead time between future orders and delivery.
Efficiency boosted by new reactor
The upgraded reactor used in its proprietary process will boost LeanLife's production capacity by 400% making a substantial improvement in throughput and order fulfillment.
Leanlife said the new reactor will also result in reduced labor and cost of production thereby increasing profit margins for the company.
"The indications are that we will need to increase production capacity for 2020,” said LeanLife Health CEO Stan Lis.
“We are therefore upgrading our facilities to put the company in a position to meet this potential customer demand for our plant-based omega-3 product," he added.
LeanLife has developed a patented process to isolate Omega-3 fatty acids from flax (linen) seeds — one of the richest plant sources of this essential fatty acid.
The company is riding one of the hottest wellness trends as LeanLife omega products are available in the form of oil, emulsion or powder with purity in excess of 98% and have a two-year shelf life. The products are sold as additives to commercial food processors making such items as bread, noodles and milk products. The higher ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats in LeanLife’s oils offers health benefits, the company said.
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Yahoo And Facebook Resolve Patent Disputes, Hug It Out
Here's a bit more from the newly-happy duo: "Under the agreements, which include a patent portfolio cross-license, the parties will work together to bring consumers and advertisers premium media experiences promoted and distributed across both Yahoo! and Facebook. Yahoo! and Facebook will also work together to bring Yahoo!'s large media event coverage to Facebook users by collaborating on social integrations on the Yahoo! site.
"We are excited to develop a deeper partnership with Facebook, and I'm grateful to Sheryl and her team for working hard together with our team to develop this dynamic agreement. We are looking forward to building on the success we have already seen to provide innovative new products and experiences for both consumers and sponsors," said Ross Levinsohn, interim CEO of Yahoo!. "Combining the premium content and reach of Yahoo! as the world's leading digital media company with Facebook provides branded advertisers with unmatched opportunity."
Going forward, it looks as if the companies will actually be working together to strengthen both brands. Love it when punches become huge.


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They may have been spotted at the exclusive Parisian pop-up, orchestrated by Rihanna herself, but it came as no surprise that Bella Hadid was quick out of the starting blocks when it came to wearing the first pieces from Fenty, the new label launched by the singer under the LVMH group. Take a look.
On May 24, Rihanna opened the doors to the first exclusive pop-up dedicated to Fenty, her new label developed alongside LVMH. The collections are designed for all women, envisaged as common threads to unite all body shapes. It was down to Bella Hadid to debut the first of Rihanna's designs in the streets of New York, wearing a white denim dress, inspired by the waspish corset, one of the designer's favorite looks, as she explained during an interview with Vogue Paris. As for accessories, the American model wore a pair of graphic neon sandals, with statement sunglasses to match, tapping into the futuristic sportswear trend emerging this summer.


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Now that Huawei is (sort of) allowed to do business with US companies again, this means that in terms of smartphone operating systems, the company should be allowed to use Google Play services moving forwards. However, there is also the question of its own operating system, and what this change means for it.
Could Huawei ditch its development in favor of Android? Or could they be developing both side-by-side? That remains to be seen, but for those who aren’t looking forward to a forked version of Android, you might be relieved to learn that Huawei apparently has plans to show off EMUI 10 at a developer conference held this August.
For those who don’t use a Huawei phone, EMUI is basically its own themed version of Android that comes bundled with its phones. EMUI 10 is expected to be based on Android Q, which means that for at least one more Android update, Huawei will still continue to use Google’s version of Android.
The company did previously promise that its existing handsets will be updated to Android Q, so there is a good chance that this preview of EMUI 10 will be for those phones, but whether or not it will also be applicable to future Huawei phones is a different story that we’ll just have to wait and see.


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The mobile phone market is undergoing a shift, thanks in part to new market entrants stealing attention from the "big five", according to IDC's latest Mobile Device Technology and Trends report.
The latest quarterly research found that the industry shipped over 317 million handsets in the past three months, representing growth of approximately 15 per cent year on year. According to Samsung's latest results, it accounted for more than a fifth of these sales, as it reported 63.8 million handsets sold during the second quarter.
IDC also revealed that manufacturers have shipped 620 million handsets in the first six months of the year, largely on the back of lower prices and increased awareness about smartphone capabilities.
"Lower smartphone average selling prices, increased consumer interest and aggressive expansion plans on the part of key suppliers will keep the device type growing above market growth rates," said Ramon Llamas, a senior research analyst at IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends division.
"That worldwide growth was driven primarily by vendors outside the top vendors is particularly noteworthy."
The top five comprises Nokia, Samsung, LG, RIM and Sony Ericsson, but IDC said that their dominant positions are threatened by firms including Apple and Motorola. However, to dismiss the world leaders would be "a mistake", Llamas explained.
"Each currently enjoys broad distribution, a deep portfolio and brand recognition. Moreover, each is in the midst of refreshing its respective product portfolio, with greater emphasis on smartphones during the second half of this year," he said.
"Still, the upward pressure from vendors outside the current top five, particularly Apple and Motorola, will provide tough competition in the quarters to come."
Western Europe saw an increased demand for smartphones, and sales grew as a result. The fact that many vendors cut prices to tempt users will also have had an impact, as has uptake of the Android operating system, which IDC explained had been popular among purchasers.
Meanwhile, the traditional mobile phone market has declined. Nokia was the overall winner in the mobile market in the quarter, shipping more handsets than second-placed Samsung and third-placed LG combined.
However, IDC added that Nokia could struggle in the smartphone market, and is already facing challenges from vendors in emerging markets.
BT wants to make the public switched telephone network history within eight years
Personal data being purloined by third parties via Facebook Login API
MacOS and iOS are better off apart, says CEO Tim Cook
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SINGAPORE (Sept 15): The worst is over for Malaysia’s palm oil plantations, according to a sector note by DBS Research published on Wednesday, forecasting output recovery and an export jump.
However, despite a 9% on-month increase in output in August, the recovery was still 10% below forecasts, says analyst Ben Santoso. This led to a cut of Malaysia’s full-year output forecast of 18.4 million MT, 2% below previous forecasts. September output is now expected to increase 18% on-month to 2 million MT.
August exports jumped 31% on month to $1.5 million MT, 17% above forecasts, according to Santoso. This was driven by shipments to India, China and Europe, with demand from India stoked by Diwali festivities. The demand is expected to continue for the rest of the year owing to the monsoon season.


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Key takeaways from the February 2024 issue:
Prices rose at a significantly faster rate than expected in the first month of the year, which may influence the Fed’s decisions on whether to cut rates in the near term. Retail sales slowed in January, falling almost a full percentage point from December. This decline may be partially attributed to bad weather, however, consumers continue to dine out despite higher food prices. While consumer household finances remain mostly sound, credit card debt reached a record high of $1.13 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023, with nearly 10% of that debt being seriously delinquent.
- Retail sales were weaker than expected to start the year, but spending on foodservices continued to rise.
- Inflation accelerated in January.
- Interest rate cuts now appear unlikely during the first half of 2024.
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In recent months, Airtel and Ola have all been roiled by controversies linked to comments on social media.
Experts said Reliance LYF would want to tap the wearable devices market--which is expected to be between $14 billion and $40 billion by 2020--to complement its mobile devices.
Payments banks have to follow the foreign investment rules that cover commercial banks. This means, foreign holding, such as by Vodafone, can’t be more than 74%.
The Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) unit plans to bundle this with bandwidth and talk time, in contrast with rivals that offer data and voice packs.
Vodafone is among the first 11 entities that have got the Reserve bank of India’s nod to operate payment banks.
As e-commerce space gets saturated, investors zero in on firms developing artificial intelligence solutions
As the ecomm space gets saturated, investors sniffing out the innovative use of technology are zeroing in on companies developing artificial intelligence.
Enterprise segment contributes 30% to the revenue of Tata Teleservices
Last year the company entered into a joint venture with Uno Minda for a battery factory, which would become operational in September.
As subscribers shift to data-based services, telecom operators have been wanting to strike revenue-sharing deals with companies such as WhatsApp and Skype.
Michael Bell said the hall mark of a successful wearable device will be something sleek and fashionable that performs limited functions, but does so with impeccable accuracy. In an interview with ET, Bell said the hall mark of a successful wearable device will be something sleek and fashionable that performs limited functions, but does so with impeccable accuracy. Edited excerpts follow.
The telecom unit of Reliance Industries is fast putting up critical infrastructure and conducting trials to bring in affordable handsets and devices before the rollout. "The company wants to launch its network through a tier-II city like Coimbatore and Indore and come to the metros later," a person familiar with Jio's plans told ET, a view backed up by some analysts the paper spoke to.
The deployment of the fourth generation long-term evolution (LTE) technology in India will realistically start only by mid-2015 or 2016. Handsets which support this band, or any LTE band for that matter, are very expensive currently, he said.
Aircel could become the second company to launch 4G services in India.
Indian telcos have started to migrate to an internet-based network backbone.
BlackBerry is in talks with leading Indian telecom operators to bundle its mobile phone instrument with attractive data plans.


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Swiss chocolate maker Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli said it had agreed to acquire family-owned U.S. candy business Russell Stover, making it the No. 3 chocolate manufacturer in North America.
Lindt and Sprungli CEO, Ernst Tanner, told CNBC that the deal was an "unique opportunity" and was worth in excess of $1 billion.
"(It's) a good position to be in," he said. "With our power of innovating and introducing new products Russel Stover would greatly benefit," he said.


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- $600 million
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Jay Leno's Garage, The Tonight Show
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Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Earlier this month, Pew Internet released its annual Future of the Internet report. The survey of 900 leaders forecasts the future direction of online media. In turn non-profit strategists can glean insights into the future, and how to steer their individual programs. This year's research report dove into five critical areas.
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When you think personal finance software, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Quicken. While Quicken has been a mainstay on Windows desktops for years, its Mac presence has been less than stellar. That changes today, with the release of Quicken Essentials for Mac. Re-built from the ground up and integrating lots of features from Mint.com, Quicken Essentials is a great addition to the Mac software space.
Facebook is planning to open a new office outside of its Palo Alto, California, headquarters, and the office of Texas Governor Rick Perry announced in a Facebook note (how appropriate) that the state is willing to offer Facebook $1.4 million in incentives to establish the new operation — along with its 200 jobs — in the city of Austin.
Ever wanted to Facebook friend someone you just met right on the spot? Until today, that wasn't easy. But now, if you have an iPhone, all it takes is a single bump, courtesy of the Bump iPhone app. For those of you unfamiliar with the app, Bump allows you to share contact information with friends simply by bumping your phone once with another friend's phone (note: They much touch to work, you can't just shake it in the air).
We recently looked at an example of Twitter collaboration in the music world, but this may be the first case wherein the micro-blogging network was used for mainstream sample clearance. Pitchfork reports on an exchange initiated by Erykah Badu on Twitter, seeking last-minute clearance for a sample from the Wings song "Arrow Through Me." Looking to connect with Paul McCartney, she appealed to anyone who might help connect her to him or a closer contact in the chain.
A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world's largest social network now own the patent for the news feed. Patent #7,669,123, first unearthed by All Facebook, credits Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and former Facebookers as inventors and assigns the rights to the patent to Facebook, Inc.
Facebook will soon roll Facebook Credits out to even more application developers, so it has publicly announced that it will take 30% of the revenues earned for goods sold via Facebook Credits. Facebook Credits make up Facebook's virtual currency; the currency became available to some users last spring. Those users could buy gifts with it.
By now, you have probably heard of the Bloom Box, the green fuel cell device that promises to soon power our homes. After appearing on CBS' 60 Minutes last week, its sand-based fuel cells generated a ton of buzz and media attention. Yesterday, Bloom Energy launched the Bloom Box in front of hundreds of investors, press, and well-known figures, including General Colin Powell (who sits on the board), California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Google Co-founder Larry Page.
MOG, an on-demand music streaming service with backing from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, has raised $9.5 million in a new round of funding. MOG, which has already raised over $10 million in angel and Series A rounds, launched in December with the goal of muscling into the subscription music business, with its value proposition being its $5-per-month price and 256kbps streams. Competitors include Napster, Rhapsody and Spotify (though Spotify has yet to launch in the U.S.).
The folks at Engadget have managed to dig up a full changelog of the upcoming Palm Pre and Pixi webOS update, version 1.4, and it's definitely an interesting one. Besides bringing a couple of bug fixes, it's also quite loaded with new features, some of which long-awaited, such as video capturing and editing, sending videos over MMS, and Adobe Flash 10 support for the Pre.
A couple of days ago we wrote about a new Twitter phishing attack, which spreads via messages such as “This you????”, followed by a link to a fake Twitter login page. Need proof that the attack is very serious? You need not look very hard, as BBC correspondent Nick Higham and the Guardian's head of audio Matt Wells (along with thousands of other users) have sent spam messages, which means their accounts were compromised.
Besides being the most awkwardly named mobile operating system ever, Symbian^4 (that's the official name) is also a very important step for Nokia, who (although Symbian still dominates the worldwide smartphone market) has been struggling to make Symbian competitive with touch-friendly Android and iPhone OS. Now, Fierce Wireless has managed to briefly try out the upcoming iteration of Symbian, as well as a couple of videos and yes, it really does look like Android and iPhone OS UI.
For some reason, every time an Internet phenom gets big, someone feels the need to pen a rap about it. Well, with location-based services of the verifiable rise, it was only a matter of time before Foursquare got the autotune treatment. Allow me to present: "Badges Like Us." First there was K-Mac's "Twitter Ruff," then there was JDirty's People of Walmart rap, now "Newby" and "Mr.
Reebok is once again looking to stir up the Internet with a racy viral video, this time around featuring Chuck Liddell – of UFC fame -- and girlfriend Heidi Northcott working out in the nude. The video, which appears to have been first leaked to TMZ, has the look and feel of being shot without Liddell or Northcott’s knowledge. However, it’s now being confirmed by a variety of outlets that the stars are in on it and are actually wearing Reebok ZigTech shoes as part of an ad campaign.
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Just when you thought you had social media figured out, Google has shaken things up with a new entrant into the market: Google Buzz. It’s integrated into Gmail, which means right out of the gate it potentially has an audience of tens of millions of people.
The guessing game surrounding Twitter’s imminent launch of an ad platform just got a little bit more focused. The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog reports that Twitter’s ad plan is tied to Twitter search (and third-parties that use the API), uses Twitter’s 140 character limit, and includes a self-serve platform akin to Google AdWords. Succinctly, it describes the plan as "Copy Google." As Twitter’s been implying all along, the idea here is to be as non-invasive as possible.
Google has just added a new "Nearby" tool to the Search Options panel that lets users refine results for a custom search experience centered around location. The new location-based search option is now available to English users of Google.com. To access it, simply conduct your search as normal, select "Show Options" -> "Nearby." From there you can switch between your default location and a custom (manually entered) location.
Twitter phishing attacks caught some users off-guard this week, and some expressed surprise that such attacks remain effective. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised: Not only do we tend to trust direct messages sent by friends, but the rise of short URLs and a trend towards federated login systems (Facebook Connect et al) may further confuse new users. That's the topic of my CNN column this week. Check out the column at CNN.com >>.
Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet. The video -- created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources -- highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today.
China's 400 million or so Internet users will soon be able to enjoy a new online video service. Baidu, the country's top search provider, has announced plans to create a new video-on-demand website. With the domain name Qiyi.com registered, Providence Equity Partners (a global private equity investment firm that put $100 million into the Hulu pot) will invest $50 million to develop the advertising-supported online video business -- with Baidu retaining majority ownership.
While NBCOlympics.com has a really cool Twitter Tracker, much of its online strategy for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has left much to be desired. In addition to not airing events live to people on the West Coast, the network has made some downright bizarre decisions about what events to stream online at NBCOlympics.com. Fortunately, the Men's Hockey Semifinals between the USA and Finland will be streaming live today at 3:00 p.m.
Coming to the MashBash party in Austin next month? Every week until the event, we'll be giving away 2 Sony bloggie MP4 Cameras to attendees. Winners will receive their cameras upon arrival in Austin, and you're invited to capture video clips of your time there -- your videos will be shown on the big screen during our MashBash party. What's more, you'll receive VIP access to the MashBash! To win one of 4 Sony bloggie MP4 Cameras, enter the contest on our Facebook page.
Twitter fundraising has steadily been on the rise in the last two years. Twitter has been used to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities and charitable causes, and has been used to spread awareness about social issues. But it takes more than posting multiple tweets a day to get the job done. We talked to a few Twitter fundraising pros about what they've found to be the best practices.
The Nielsen Company measured online buzz around Olympic athletes and found that skiers Lindsey Vonn (U.S.) and Alexandre Bilodeau (Canada) are the most buzzed-about gold medal athletes for their respective countries. The analytics company compared online buzz surrounding gold medal winners in both Canada and the United States.
The European Union's Data Protection Working Party has given an express order to Google: Ditch Street View images taken in the UK after six months. Computerworld reports that the working party found Google's current 12-month retention time for the images to be a "disproportionate" length of time. The party reported being "concerned that Street View continues to give rise to data-protection issues," despite Google's compliance with the initially laid-out requirements.
Teresa Basich is the Content Marketing Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Writing On Purpose and is @TransitionalTee on Twitter. The Olympics. They’ve been talked about, reported on, blogged about, tweeted, YouTubed, Facebooked, Flickred, and then some.
Do you frequently make bad-decision texts -- the kind of texts that likely show up on Texts From Last Night? Well, then, you should probably download TigerText, a new iPhone app that will let you delete those digital mistakes from another person's phone. TigerText [iTunes link], which was released yesterday, could be a boon for cheating politicians and foolishly sexting teens alike, according to founder Jeffrey Evans, who claims that he named the app before the Tiger Woods scandal.
Somewhat quietly, myYearbook remains one of the most popular social networking sites, with 20 million members and a place in the top 30 most trafficked websites in the U.S. Now, the site is publicly disclosing some of its financials. According to CEO Geoff Cook, the company ended 2009 with an annual revenue run rate of $20 million (meaning its revenue for the most recent 12 months) -- up 70% from 2008.
In January Twitter application maker Seesmic acquired Ping.fm. Today the updated Seesmic for BlackBerry application is the first to integrate the Ping.fm service into the fold, which means Twitter users can now use the BlackBerry app to simultaneously update 50 different social sites. The fresh-faced BlackBerry app also includes multi-account support for Twitter, integration with Twitter photo-sharing service TweetPhoto, and three different size options for photo uploads.
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International Islamic Trade Finance Corp (ITFC) to open Dubai office in 2016
The Jeddah-based International Islamic Trade Finance Corp (ITFC) plans to strengthen its global network of offices in an effort to increase the use of sharia-compliant banking in merchandise trade.
"We want to be closer to member countries - to do this we need to decentralise our activities," said Hani Salem Sonbol, chief executive of the ITFC, a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB).
The ITFC, which currently has offices in Jakarta, Dakar and Istanbul, will move more staff there and open a branch in Dubai in 2016 to serve as a gateway to Africa, he added.
Islamic trade finance, which follows religious principles such as a ban on interest, accounts for only a tiny fraction of the trillions of dollars of bank-intermediated trade finance conducted globally every year.
But the ITFC, which uses its expertise and funds to facilitate Islamic trade finance, says it is expanding its activities partly through new business with countries outside the traditional core areas of sharia-compliant finance in the Gulf and southeast Asia.
Last month, it signed financing agreements with Djibouti, Comoros, Mali and Mauritania, and is exploring transactions in Guyana, the newest member of the IDB Group, Sonbol said.
The ITFC approved transactions worth $6.1 billion in the financial year to last October, up from $5.2 billion a year earlier. It more than doubled financing approvals to sub-Saharan Africa; Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey saw some of the biggest individual increases in approvals.
Difficulties in the global economy could dampen further growth but the ITFC aims for around $7 billion of approvals this year, Sonbol said.
Traditionally, Islamic banks have not become heavily involved in trade financing as it often requires large balance sheets; they have left such business for Western banks to dominate.
To overcome this, the ITFC has developed a network of more than 70 financial institutions which last financial year provided $4.2 billion via 25 syndicated deals, representing 68 percent of the institution's total trade financing. The rest came from its own resources.
Strategic partnerships are growing: Last year, the ITFC closed a $350 million export syndication in favour of Turkey's export-import bank, and in February it signed a partnership agreement with Morocco's largest lender by assets, Attijariwafa Bank.
The ITFC's mandate is to promote trade among countries of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Trade within the group accounted for 19.5 percent of OIC countries' total trade in 2015, up from around 12 percent in 2011, and the ITFC aims for 26 percent by 2025, Sonbol said.
The IDB is the largest shareholder in the ITFC with 37.6 percent of paid-up capital; Saudi Arabia holds second place with 16.9 percent. Last year, the ITFC's general assembly approved an increase of Iran's subscription by 8,500 shares, which once paid would allow it to take third spot behind Saudi Arabia.For all the latest banking and finance news from the UAE and Gulf countries, follow us on Twitter and Linkedin, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube page, which is updated daily.


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Patrick Reilly moderated and Teresa Griffin joined a panel presenting “The EU Collective Redress Directive: Collective Consumer Lawsuits Coming to the EU” at the 2022 MedTech Conference.
The European Parliament formally endorsed new legislation for collective actions — Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 on Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers and Repealing Directive 2009/22/EC. This Directive required EU member states to enact laws to permit collective consumer lawsuits. The Directive was designed to harmonize enforcement of consumer protection laws, safeguard consumer interests and protect against abusive lawsuits. Qualified entities, including consumer organizations and public bodies, will be enabled to bring representative lawsuits on behalf of consumers against traders for violations of a limited list of 66 EU laws, including general consumer laws, data privacy, energy, financial services, telecommunications, travel and tourism, and environment and health.
The panel presentation analyzed what the EU Collective Redress Directive means for companies doing business in the EU. Patrick, Teresa and colleagues have written a series of updates focusing on the Directive’s implications for entities directly or indirectly doing business in EU nations, to explain what you need to know about the coming changes in the EU. Please scroll down for these Suggested Readings.


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March against Monsanto protesters in Mtubatuba, South Africa today.
Monsanto, the folks who brought you Roundup and all those patented Roundup Ready genetically modified crops they peddle, was the target and marches and rallies in more than 400 cities across the global today by folks angry at the firm’s control of so much of the world’s food supplies.
Big Agra’s been in a state of flux of late, with major mergers in the offing, as BBC News reported Thursday, when Bayer announced it wanted to buy the company:
There has been speculation for some months that Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, could become a target for either Bayer or BASF.
Bayer, which has a market value of about $90bn, is the second-largest producer of crop chemicals after Syngenta.
Monsanto, which has a market capitalisation of $42bn, attempted to buy Swiss rival Syngenta last year.
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text: In an acknowledged sale, Stone Brewing of California announced it has accepted an offer for its Berlin brewery and tasting room from BrewDog of Scotland. Located in the Mariendorf section of Berlin, it is the second Berlin location for BrewDog, which will also open a new facility in Hamburg later this year. BrewDog will continue to produce beers for Stone Brewing in Berlin, along with its own brands. Industry insiders believe the Stone project was too much too soon for the original owner and suggest smaller breweries and tap rooms may have proved more successful. The new owner will move in on May first.


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Following complaints from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Microsoft Inc. (MSFT), the European Commission said Tuesday that it has initiated two formal antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI) inquiring whether the company used some of its standard essential patents to distort competition in the internal market violating EU antitrust rules.
Motorola, which is being acquired by Google Inc. (GOOG), had sought and enforced injunctions against Apple's and Microsoft's flagship products on the basis of patents it had declared essential to produce standard-compliant products. The commission will probe whether Motorola through this action failed to honor its irrevocable commitments made to standard setting organizations.
In these commitments, Motorola engaged to license those standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory or FRAND terms. Motorola had given FRAND commitments to the relevant standard setting organizations, when the second and third generation mobile and wireless telecommunications system standards, the H.264 video compression standard and the standards for wireless local area network technologies were adopted.
The commission will examine whether Motorola's behavior amounts to an abuse of a dominant market position prohibited by Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU or TFEU.
Article 102 TFEU prohibits the abuse of a dominant position which may affect trade and prevent or restrict competition. The commission will also assess the allegation by both Apple and Microsoft that Motorola offered unfair licensing conditions for its standard-essential patents in breach of Article 102 TFEU.
The opening of proceedings means that the commission will examine these cases as a matter of priority. "The Commission will assess whether Motorola has abusively, and in contravention of commitments it gave to standard setting organisations, used certain of its standard essential patents to distort competition in the Internal Market in breach of EU antitrust rules," a statement read.
In late January, the commission had opened proceedings against Samsung to investigate whether the company has failed to honour a FRAND commitment in licensing negotiations, including by seeking injunctive relief before the courts of certain member states in relation to standard essential patents.
MMI, which closed at $39.23 on Monday, is losing 0.10 percent in pre-market trading.
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Mattel creates new film division to turn toys into movies
It’s not exactly a “Toy Story” sequel, but Mattel is redoubling its efforts in the entertainment industry by launching a new film division.
The El Segundo-based toy maker announced Thursday that it is launching Mattel Films to focus on developing and producing motion pictures based on the company’s toy brands.
The group will be led by producer Robbie Brenner, who was previously a partner and president of the film division at the production and talent management company The Firm, as well as president of production at Relativity Media.
She was a producer on the 2013 movie “Dallas Buyers Club,” receiving an Academy Award nomination for best picture.
Mattel Films, which is based out of the company’s headquarters, won’t be a full-fledged studio. The division intends to use third-party sources for producing and financing as a way of limiting risk.
Mattel isn’t new to the entertainment business. The company launched Playground Productions five years ago to turn its properties into movies and TV shows across multiple platforms. But the division flopped badly with “Max Steel,” the 2016 feature based on the Mattel action figure.
Playground was eventually absorbed into Mattel Creations, a division intended to centralize the company’s content production.
Mattel Films is a new division of the company focused on developing and producing motion pictures based on the company’s iconic and globally-recognized franchises, which include “Hot Wheels.” Mattel Creations will continue to focus on animated shorts.
The company said Brenner will report to Chief Executive Ynon Kreiz.
Kreiz was named CEO of Mattel in April as part of an effort to turn around the toy maker, which has been struggling with weak sales. He previously headed YouTube’s Maker Studios, a producer of short-form online video content.
The company said in June that it was cutting more than 2,200 jobs, or 22% of its global non-manufacturing workforce. The layoffs came after Mattel reported lower-than-expected second-quarter earnings as revenue fell for a fourth straight quarter.
Mattel has so far failed to emulate the success of Hasbro, which turned its Transformers action figures into a multibillion-dollar movie franchise. A movie based on Mattel’s Barbie has been in development for years, most recently at Sony.
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The Los Angeles Times reported this week the Petersen Automotive Museum will make significant changes to its collection and facilities under its new owner, businessman and car collector Peter Mullin. According to the Times, about a third of the vehicles in the museum’s collection have been sold or put up for sale.
The Petersen’s new executive staff intends to “breathe some life into the museum,” in the words of Executive Director Terry Karges, via refurbishment of the Petersen’s facilities, which are located in a former department store in downtown Los Angeles. According to the Times, future visitors can expect to see more French cars, including exhibits on loan from Peter Mullin’s own collection and that of the Mullin Automotive Museum, as well as additional exhibits on motorcycles, motorsports and technology.
Explaining the decision to sell such a significant portion of the museum’s collection, Karges cited a lack of space and the quality of cars being auctioned off. He said many are in need of significant restoration.
In an official statement about the changes, Karges said, “We are in the planning stages for a total transformation of our museum and an expansion of our mission. Our founder Robert E. Petersen’s vision of a museum that encapsulates Southern California car culture will be preserved and protected as a destination not just for car lovers but for all people interested in the art, design and history of the automobile.
“As with any well-curated museum, our collection is constantly evolving and we are making room for new additions and vehicles that will make a major impact on future exhibitions while also culling some vehicles that can still be procured when necessary for display.”


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Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, has been included in the annual WealthTech100 list for the third year in a row.
The 2021 WealthTech100 was launched today by specialist research firm FinTech Global. The prestigious list recognises the world’s most innovative tech solution providers addressing the digital transformation challenges and opportunities faced by asset managers, private banks and financial advisors.
The WealthTech industry has grown dramatically over the last four years. Total funding to the sector has more than tripled since 2016 from $2.8bn to $9.3bn at the end of 2020, according to figures published by FinTech Global.
As a result, this year’s process to identify the leading 100 companies in the WealthTech space was more competitive than ever. A panel of analysts and industry experts voted from a list of over 1,000 businesses. The finalists were awarded a place on the list for their innovative use of technology to solve a significant industry problem, or to generate cost savings or efficiency improvements across the investment value chain.
FinTech Global Director Richard Sachar said, “Established banks and investment firms need to be aware of the latest innovations to remain competitive in the current market, which is heavily focused on digital distribution and increased use of customer data, and even more so post Covid-19. The WealthTech100 list helps senior management filter through all the vendors in the market by highlighting the leading companies in sectors such as client acquisition, financial planning, portfolio management and digital brokerage.”
Luigi Marciano, Objectway’s Group CEO and Founder, commented, “The WealthTech 100 lists the firms that wealth and asset management leaders need to consider for their digital transformation strategies and new business models. The consecutive inclusion in the top 100 makes us proud and fosters our plans to constantly improve our cutting-edge proposition and effective delivery.“