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Nissan’s latest generation Electric Leaf arrives at a price
Nissan this week released their latest generation Leaf electric car- an important model for the Japanese importer given that the Leaf is the world’s biggest selling electric car – 410,000 electric Leafs have been sold since 2010, now in 51 world markets and the latest model arrives here after being named the 2018 Global Green Car of the Year. The first generation Leaf arrived in 2011 and some 635 were sold through 12 Nissan dealers. The new model, a five door hatch, will be sold through Nissan’s 89 strong national dealer group who have all installed EV charging hardware – so where to from here – electric car sales in the first half of this year tallied just 316 vehicles, 78 less than in the same period in 2018. Not a very encouraging sign – the reason is simple, early adopters of electric cars will pay heavily – the new Nissan Leaf is $49,990, a similar sized and equipped new generation Mazda 3 is $20,000 cheaper – and yes an electric car is cheaper to run as Nissan showed this week. I drove the Nissan Leaf around Melbourne suburbs this week and to be honest I was underwhelmed by the experience – quiet yes, smooth and torquey – the new Leaf now has 110Kw of power, 320 Nm of torque and range of 270km – enough for most drivers to do their weekly commute without having a charge – the battery capacity now 40kwh compared to 24 kw/h in the first generation. Despite the lift in technology the initial purchase price is still the biggest downer to Nissan Leaf ownership. I’m David Berthon.
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Dorothy Creaven is the co-founder & CEO of Element Wave, a Mobile Marketing Automation technology built for Betting and Gaming. TotallyGaming.com caught up with her to discuss how operators have been adapting to the mobile platform.
Mobile has become the only platform that really matters in gaming, according to William Morris, the new commercial manager at Element Wave.
Dorothy Creaven, the co-founder and CEO of Element Wave, the 2013 winner of the Start-Up LaunchPad competition at EiG, tells TotallyGaming.com about her career path so far and her aspirations for the future.
Digital advertising company Fresh 8 was crowned the winner of the EiG 2014 Start-Up LaunchPad at Arena Berlin today (Thursday) after what the judges called the “strongest set of presentations” in the history of the competition. Fresh 8 secured 36% of the audience vote, followed by Discount IF (28...
Winning the EiG (Excellence in iGaming) 2013 Start-Up LaunchPad competition led to offers of investment in Element Wave as the company became “immersed” in the iGaming industry, according to co-founder and chief executive Dorothy Creaven. Element Wave, Element Software’s push notification and...

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“… we’ve hit peak app. At least a thousand new apps pour into Google and Apple’s app stores every day, but the vast majority will struggle to find an audience: Smartphone users download zero new apps in a typical month. Teenagers are especially notorious for deleting all but the most essential apps on their phones, which is great news if you’re Snapchat and bad news if you’re, say, Domino’s Pizza. Further exacerbating the ‘haves and have-nots’ problem, a full 94% of revenue in Apple’s App Store comes from just 1% of all publishers.
The smartest people in tech have already figured this out. Rather than try to convince us to download new apps (the theory behind the whole ‘App Constellation‘ trend of 2014), they’re pulling everything we could possibly want inside the apps we already have. Facebook is building ways for us to transact and communicate with businesses inside Facebook Messenger. Same idea behind Kik’s Bot Shop. Snapchat wants us to shop directly from its ads using its own currency, Snapcash. You can even order an Uber car from inside Slack.
Messaging apps haven’t taken over our phones quite yet, but from where I sit, they’re in a good position to. Next time your uncle has a great new idea for an app, tell him it’s too late—the app gold rush is over.”


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Klaviyo, an automation platform for B2C businesses, has formed an integration with Amazon’s Buy with Prime.
The new offering, the Klaviyo for Buy with Prime, enables users to sync their Buy with Prime orders and customer data with Klaviyo.
“It’s becoming increasingly challenging for businesses to stand out in today’s ecommerce market — which means it’s crucial for businesses to utilize their own customer data to fuel more personalized marketing efforts and cultivate brand loyalty,” says Rich Gardner, senior vice president of global strategic partnerships at Klaviyo.
The new arrangement will allow clients to “sync, access and analyze shopper data from purchases made using Buy with Prime,” Gardner adds.
According to Klaviyo, firms using Klaviyo for Amazon Buy with Prime can:


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The Blue Lagoon destination in Iceland might be thousands of miles away from most people, but its skincare benefits might be available in retail stores close by.
Blue Lagoon Iceland Skincare has increasingly been expanding its presence in the U.S., both online and in physical stores. The brand — which offers products like serums, retinol and face masks — is currently available in 10 retail doors in the U.S., including Neighborhood Goods and The Conservatory. Its products also just recently started being sold on Nordstrom.com this month.
Known for its geothermal waters, the Blue Lagoon destination was founded about 30 years ago by an Icelandic physician and has since evolved into a business that includes spa experiences, research and development and hospitality. Shortly after its inception, the founder hired a team of scientists as well as a head of research and development who then created the skincare product line. Blue Lagoon currently has nine skincare products and six body care products, and its ingredients are sourced from the destination itself.
The Icelandic destination, whose algae reduces collagen degradation and catalyzes the production of collagen, is already quite popular among Americans. Roughly half of Blue Lagoon’s 1.2 million expected visitors this year will come from the United States. Given the popularity of the destination and its skincare benefits, executives told Modern Retail that the expansion to the U.S. allows the company to reach customers who’ve already been to Iceland as well as acquire new customers.
“That’s about 600,000 Americans who are going to pass through, many of whom did fall in love with the skincare line,” said Melissa Bramowitz, managing director, U.S. for Blue Lagoon Iceland Skincare. “A natural next step is to make those products more available to the U.S. customers once they return home.”
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Its skincare business is still a small part of Blue Lagoon’s overall business, which includes the destination and hotel, Bramowitz said. But it is growing 100% year-to-date across all its distribution channels. Blue Lagoon Iceland Skincare products are also available on its website, on Neiman Marcus’s website, Moda Operandi and on Starboard Luxury Cruise.
While Blue Lagoon’s website has been available to U.S. shoppers for a while, it wasn’t until this past year that the company began doing more outreach and wholesale launches. Its brick-and-mortar launches, at the moment, are focused on states the company believes would have more of Blue Lagoon’s core customers, such as New York, California and Texas. It also plans to keep working with a highly curated selection of prestige retailers.
“The U.S. is also one of the most complex and exciting markets in the world for beauty,” said Franca Zanovello, head of wholesale U.S. for Blue Lagoon Iceland Skincare. “The U.S. also seems to be ahead with what sustainability means for beauty brands.”
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By entering the U.S., Blue Lagoon also plans to ride the clean and sustainable beauty trend that is currently growing in popularity in the country. The U.S., in general, is an attractive market to get into due to its size and the spending power of American shoppers. Irish fashion retailer Primark, Australian pet brand Dog by Dr Lisa and Chinese lifestyle retailer Miniso may be retailers in different categories but they all have a common goal of growing their U.S. presence over the past two years.
Cosmetics and beauty is an industry worth nearly $100 billion in the U.S., according to recent findings from Insider Intelligence. “Just the anti-aging segment of the beauty industry holds an incredible piece of the overall market share,” said Katherine Toll, principal at consultancy firm the Parker Avery Group. “That has only been increasing over the past 10 years. It has not shown any type of decrease.”
Although U.S. shoppers are willing to pay for good quality beauty products, Toll said it is a “noisy space” given the number of options that Americans have. International brands, she said, have to invest significantly in tactics that would help familiarize Americans with their products. Additionally, brands looking to enter the U.S. have to be prepared to ramp up their supply chain capabilities.
Blue Lagoon said that the company is holding pop-up events with Neighborhood Goods, where customers can have mini facials, hand massages and drinks. These events allow customers to try out their products and learn more about the company.
“We have a combination of that customer base that has experienced Blue Lagoon in person by traveling there and is happy to suddenly find us,” Zanovello said. “At the same time, there is the customer that has not been to Iceland that can discover us through these experiences in store.”


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Electric-vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc. said Monday it will not produce its Model S sedan with a 40-kilowatt hour battery, citing lack of demand for lower-range EVs and boosting prospects for more expensive, higher-range plug-in vehicles.
It also means the cheapest car offered by Tesla -- backed by $465 million U.S. Department of Energy loan -- will now cost more than $60,000, even after a $7,500 federal tax credit.
Range anxiety is still cited as a chief reason customers shy away from all-electric vehicles, but Tesla says it has evidence that customers will pay more for extended electric vehicle range.
"Customers are voting with their wallet that they want a car that gives them the freedom to travel long distances when needed," Tesla said in a release.
About 4 percent of Model S customers chose the 40 kWh battery, the smallest of three offered by California-based automaker. Those customers instead will get the more expensive and longer range 60 kWh battery -- which costs about $62,400 after a $7,500 federal tax credit -- but will be software limited to 160 miles, the same range as the 40 kWh battery, which costs about $10,000 less.
The 60 kWh battery has a range of 230 miles and an 85 kWh battery, at a starting price of $72,400 after federal tax credit, can travel up to 300 miles on a single charge.
Sales of lower-range, less expensive electric vehicles have sputtered. Ford Motor Co.'s Focus Electric, with a base price of $39,200 and a range of 76 miles, and Nissan Motor Co.'s Leaf, with a new starting base price of $28,800 and a range of 75 miles, have sold only in small quantities.
Tesla made the news as part of a quarter-ending statement. The automaker also announced that Model S sales exceeded 4,750 during the first three months of the year, up from the expected 4,500.
The extra sales mean Tesla will be completely profitable for the first time when it officially announces its first-quarter financials. An earnings release date has not been set. The automaker lost $90 million during the fourth quarter last year.
CEO Elon Musk previously said he expects Tesla to deliver 20,000 vehicles this year.
"We're on track to sell every car we make," Musk said in February. "We could say goodbye to every store and every salesperson (today) and still meet that target."


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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2018--
Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) plans to issue its 2017 financial results news
release after the market closes on Wednesday, February 21, 2018. The
Company will not host a conference call and webcast.
Throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Texas and California,
Dynegy operates nearly 28,000 megawatts (MW) of power generating
facilities capable of producing enough energy to supply more than 23
million American homes. Through our retail business, we serve 1.2
million customers who depend on reliable, affordable energy to grow and
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Just Eat (LON:JE), a leading global hybrid marketplace for online food delivery, today provided a post-close trading update for the year ending 31 December 2019, and announced that it has agreed to partner nationwide with McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland.
2019 concluded in line with the Board’s expectations. We now expect to report uEBITDA of around £200 million, with group orders of 254 million and revenue of approximately £1.0 billion. UK order growth in 2019 was 8%. Order growth in our other markets during Q4 followed similar trends to those seen in Q3 2019, with good momentum in Australia, Italy and Switzerland and continued strong growth in Canada.
We have agreed to partner nationwide with McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland which will see Just Eat becoming McDonald’s second exclusive delivery partner for McDelivery. The partnership will be implemented during 2020. McDelivery has proved extremely popular with customers in the UK and Ireland since its launch in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
This follows the successful roll-out of Just Eat’s delivery capability in the UK, with broad geographic coverage being an essential prerequisite to partnership, and also follows the announcement of the partnership with Greggs
* 2019 uEBITDA includes the negative impact from the acquisitions of Flyt, Practi and City Pantry which is expected to be approximately £10m
* Guidance range for 2019 revenue and uEBITDA was £1.0-1.1bn and £185 – £205m.
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“We are pleased to confirm uEBITDA towards the top end and revenue broadly in line with the guidance range we provided at the start of 2019, notwithstanding the significant developments during the year.”
“We are delighted to announce that we have agreed to partner in the UK and Ireland with McDonald’s. This partnership, along with our recently announced relationship with Greggs, will require significant investment but will accelerate our growth ambitions and enhance our market position by offering our customers the widest choice available.”


text: Road Transport and Highways Ministry is considering a Rs 4,000 crore overhaul of around 80 border check posts across the country to ensure seamless flow of goods ahead of the implementation of GST. An app to link check posts under state governments as well as the Centre is also in the works, the government has said. “The Ministry would be one of the the biggest contributors towards the GST regime. There are check posts under the state government as well as the Central.The government is keen to implement the biggest tax reform since Independence from April 1 next year and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) aims to iron out a multi-layered indirect tax system, subsume all other indirect taxes and usher in an uniform tax structure. It was conceptualised in 2006 under the United Progressive Alliance-1 government.The Minister said that once the GST is rolled out, it will facilitate the inter-state movement of goods and therefore, the need has been felt.


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Television ads for fast-food children's meals were compared with adult advertisements to assess companies' compliance with self-regulatory pledges.
Fast-food marketing can have an impact on children's food preferences and behaviors. The food and beverage industry has initiated some programs to self-regulate their marketing, including the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI). This study examined national television advertisements from the top 25 U.S. quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains, to assess whether companies were complying with their self-regulatory pledges.
A total of three QSR advertised children's meals: McDonald’s, Burger King and Subway. Together, McDonald’s and Burger King were responsible for 99 percent of the ads for children's meals.
Four children’s television stations—Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney XD, and Nicktoons—aired 79 percent of the advertisements aimed at children.
Sixty-nine percent of ads aimed at kids included mention of toy giveaways. Movie tie-ins were present in 55 percent of children’s advertisements, compared with 14 percent in adult advertisements.
Ads targeting children also were more likely to include strong branding. Images of food packaging were present in 88 percent of ads aimed at children, compared with 23 percent of ads targeting adults.
McDonald’s aired 44,062 ads, and 40 percent were aimed at kids. Burger King aired 37,210 ads, with 21 percent aimed at kids.
The self-regulatory system encourages advertisements to focus on actual food products instead of premiums and tie-ins. The authors concluded that McDonald's and Burger King "did not follow through with their self-regulatory promises during the study period."
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This study assessed national television advertisements for the top 25 QSR chains that aired between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Those advertising meals for children were compared with adult advertisements from the same company. Two coders evaluated all advertisements, conducting visual and audio assessments of branding, toy premiums, movie tie-ins, and depictions of food.


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On September 28, Kazakhstan will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Almaty for the first time. Leading specialists will come together to discuss the latest news and the future of blockchain technologies in the country.
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference is a network of large blockchain events organized by Smile-Expo Company in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Tallinn, Prague and Stockholm.
Blockchain is being actively developed in the country. The government is aimed at technological modernization of the economy. Especially for this purpose, officials created a governmental program ‘Digital Kazakhstan’ paying special attention to blockchain.
The team from the international financial center ‘Astana’ will design the infrastructure for the development of this technology. Besides, Kazakhstan will become the second country regulating cryptocurrencies at the state level.
What to expect from Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Almaty?
The conference will consist of three large discussion blocks:
Introduction to bitcoin: overview of the cryptocurrency market. Participants of the block will discuss development tendencies of digital currencies in Kazakhstan as well as all over the world. Special attention will be paid to regulation of cryptocurrencies at the governmental level.
Blockchain and practical solutions based on the technology. Blockchain experts will share their experience in creating projects on the basis of the distributed ledger technology and will tell visitors about difficulties developers face.
ICO. This block will be entirely dedicated to a popular issue of digital token crowdsale. Speakers will describe all the stages and pitfalls of ICO.
The conference will also feature panel discussions. The business community and everyone interested in fintech will be able to talk to world-class experts.
Moreover, participants of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Almaty will have a chance to visit the exhibition dedicated to the cryptocurrency industry where they can see new mining hardware, software, payment systems, blockchain products and other solutions for the B2B and B2C audience.
During the exhibition, participants will have an opportunity to speak to representatives of mining and blockchain companies, cryptocurrency exchanges, bitcoin wallets, law and IT firms and more.
You can read the program of the event and register on the official website of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Almaty.


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Volkswagen and Tesco have collaborated to roll out free EV charging stations at over 100 stores.
Last year, the German car giant and supermarket chain announced a new partnership with Pod Point to install around 2,400 charging points for shoppers to access for free.
With the rollout under way, over 100 Tesco stores now have the chargers available to use — said to offer EV owners more than 1,000 miles of free driving.
According to Volkswagen, around 50 minutes of charging at the 7kW points will provide around 22.5 miles of range to the average electric vehicle. Over the course of the year, this adds up to approximately 1,170 miles in total.
Jason Tarry, Tesco UK & ROI chief executive, said: “We’re now well on our way to achieving our ambition of installing more than 2,400 EV charging bays across 600 Tesco stores.
“Providing customers with charging points offers them a sustainable choice and giving them the opportunity to charge their car for free while they shop is another little help to make their lives easier.”Enquire on a new Volkswagen
Erik Fairbairn, founder and chief executive of Pod Point, said: "With the rollout now under way, we are witnessing a pivotal moment for the UK’s rapidly expanding public charging network.
“Providing smart, easy-to-use chargepoints at this scale is likely to accelerate the transition to electric cars up and down the country. Being able to top up while you shop at so many locations makes it more convenient to go electric than ever before."


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HARIDWAR: Nepal prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is on a on a four-day visit to the country on Sunday visited the Patanjali herbal food park in Haridwar. Arriving there amid tight security arrangements he also took a tour of the whole facility.
Later in a meeting with yoga guru ramdev and Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna it was decided that Patanjali will set up a herbal food park in Nepal on the lines of one in Haridwar. Besides, a acharyakulam and a university will also be set up. Ramdev and Balkrishna will shortly visit Nepal to work out modalities for implementation of these agreements.
Stressing that Patanjali can act as a strong link between the two countries, he said the organization can play a role in Nepal’s economic development. He noted that herbs in huge quantities are brought to Patanjali from Nepal and are used for various products. “It will be of immense benefit to us if these are used there as Patanjali is doing here,” he remarked.
Ramdev responded to Dahal’s request by saying that Patanjali will emulate the same model of prosperity for Nepal on the lines of its business in India. “We will set up herbal food park and a university in Nepal. Not a single rupee from the profit generated from this business will be brought to India. Instead it will be invested in Nepal for the benefit of its people,” he said.
Balkrishna said that a blueprint of all projects of Patanjali to be initiated in Nepal will soon be worked out.
Speaking at Patanjali, Dahal said that for him sacrifice in personal life and prosperity in social life is of utmost importance. “To me yoga guru Ramdev and acharya Balkrishna are the best examples of this ideal,” he said. “Both of them has shown the world a way to prosperity by combining traditional knowledge of yoga, ayurveda with modern science which others should try to emulate,” he added.
About 40% of the six million employees working in India's modern, rather than traditional, retail sector could likely lose their jobs in the next four months if the government does not intervene, Kumar Rajgopalan, chief executive, Retailers Association of India (RAI), told Reuters.
“We have taken a decision of advising members to close all restaurants starting tomorrow across India because we are endangering a lot of employees. We will never be able to survive the guilt if a fatality occurs at our end,” the restaurant association president Anurag Katriar said.


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Govʼt killing pálinka business - says Natʼl Pálinka Council
The National Pálinka Council (PNT) says the black market in home-distilled pálinka and the spread of illegally operated distillery services are killing the pálinka market by creating invisible competition, aided by the government loosening home distillery regulations while keeping legal and professional rules strict.
The council says the government should draw clear boundaries between pálinka and home-distilled spirits for personal use in order to keep the pálinka business in Hungary afloat.
While the restoration of pre-2010 conditions is impossible, according to the council, the business would be saved if the government faced up to the existence of the black market and kept distilling for personal use within legal boundaries. The PNT argues that the current regulations make illegal pálinka sales possible by allowing private distillers to produce a much higher quantity of spirits than what consumers need.
The PNT argues that after a successful period between 2000 and 2010, the situation started to change, worsening especially after 2015, when changes in the regulations made it impossible for the pálinka industry to explore the extent of illegal and invisible competition. Ever since, legal sales of pálinka are stagnating, while the number of registered distillery services (where people bring fruit to be made into pálinka by a third-party distiller) has fallen; all the while, alcohol consumption in Hungary is constantly growing.
The control of private distilleries is the responsibility of municipalities, and the PNT says there is no realistic data available about pálinka produced for personal consumption. The extent of illegal distilling can only be measured by extrapolating from data available from investigations of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV).
The last time NAV seized equipment was in March, in Veszprém County, according to the press release. Authorities seized three private distilling machines, 450 liters of alcoholic products, and more than 2,500 liters of mash waiting for distillation.
It would take five years for a private distiller (in the case of 50% alcohol content) to create this amount of pálinka, paying HUF 300,000 of taxes. For the same amount of pálinka, a commercial distillery would have to pay HUF 1.5 million, says the PNT.
Additionally, tax-stamped, commercial pálinka is classified as a "food product not useful for peopleʼs health" from 2019. The council says the government is aiming to make privately distilled pálinka tax-free, ignoring the existence of the black market and endangering the industry. The PNT argues that overregulation of non-private distillers is making their operations impossible.
The council says it is ready to cooperate with the relevant ministries and offer solutions that may save the pálinka industry.
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"We think this represents one of the biggest business opportunities of all time, since the creation of the Internet, " Dan Ammann, GM's president and chief of autonomous vehicle strategy, told investors.
The automaker's president Dan Ammann reportedly said during the event that GM now makes about $30,000 per sold vehicle, but that it could make hundreds of thousands per vehicle through ride-hailing and delivery services.
"For GM to get the benefit they're looking for, they need these cars on the road at scale as soon as possible", said Navigant Research analyst Sam Abuelsamid.
"Looking for a clear path" screens facing the driver and passengers read several times during the trip, when the auto stopped next to some traffic cones or behind double-parked vehicles. GM added that there was still much more hard engineering work to be done.
Giancarlo Stanton rumors: Marlins have trade framework in place with Giants, Cards
The Marlins are said to have interest in second baseman Joe Panik , who won't be a free agent until 2021. Obviously, it's his decision as to where he gets traded because of his full no-trade clause.
Some of GM's share surge has come from investors betting on its investments in self-driving and electric cars, although the company's profits are driven entirely by demand for trucks and SUVs in North America, and its growing sales in China.
Delphi, an automotive supplier, has said it expects commercial vehicles to be using its autonomous system in limited areas in 2019.
GM says operating its self-driving cars will cost 40 percent less per mile than other ride-hailing firms that have to pay drivers. Delphi recently bought autonomous software startup NuTonomy and is also partnering with BMW AG, chipmaker Intel Corp. and camera and visual recognition software maker Mobileye. An employee in the back will be able to stop the vehicle by pushing a button but won't be able to steer the vehicle. GM believes it's too early to discuss branding, but the first cars will likely be versions of the Chevy Bolt EVs Cruise is testing now.
Abuelsamid said it makes business sense for mobility services like Uber and Lyft to shoulder the initial expenses of costly electric and autonomous vehicles.
Yemen rebel leader to Saudis: Let's 'turn the page'
The war in Yemen is one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, killing at least 10,000 people and leading to widespread hunger and disease.
GM didn't say exactly where it plans to launch its driverless ride-hailing service, but identified "dense urban environments" in the.
GM hasn't yet said whether it will operate the service itself or pair up with the likes of Uber or Lyft, which it invested $500 million in past year.
The slides posted on GM's website also say the company is the leader in the field, but is focused on self-driving vehicles safety.
Tiger Woods finishes Day 2 tied fifth
We should all probably sit down, take a deep breath, and try to temper our excitement about Tiger Woods . His score could have been lower if not for three bogeys but he was pleased with his solid putting.


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An iconic Winnipeg fashion label is teaming up with one of Canada's largest department stores.
Sears Canada announced Thursday it will partner with Nygard Partnerships to grow the Nygard Slims line to more than half of the department-store chain's 95 full-line stores by November 2015.
The announcement comes after a year-long pilot project.
"Nygard's investment in Sears Canada is a statement of their confidence that they can continue to reach the right customers for their brand both on the selling floor in Sears Canada's stores and online at sears.ca. Partnerships like this provide an opportunity for us and our business partners to grow and strengthen branded businesses in our stores. Nygard's investment in store fixtures, labour, replenishment, and marketing will provide an enhanced shopping experience for Sears Canada's customers," Sears Canada executive chairman Brandon G. Stranzl said in a release.
Nygard rolled out its Slims line in 2014 and has international expansion plans later on this year with sights set on the UK, Germany, Italy, India, China, Japan and Australia.
"We've enjoyed a multi-decade relationship with Sears Canada focused on superior product, improved business potential and great customer service," Nygard Partnerships CEO Peter Nygard said in a release.
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- Bitcoin already jumped 42% from the $3,850 low
- “Max ache in all probability resides someplace between $6,000 to $7,000” – Arthur Hayes
- “If gold’s being bought to lift money in an emergency, then it’s doing its job as a protected haven” – Brien Lundin
A day earlier than the market went right into a full-on panic mode due to Bitcoin price crashing almost 45%, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes revealed an everyday note on March 12th on his trade the place he talks about how regardless of buying and selling under $8,000 Bitcoin outperformed most world fairness indices in 2020.
However not anymore. The world’s main cryptocurrency is down virtually 30% on yearly foundation buying and selling round $5,230 after going to $3,850 on Bitstamp and additional decrease at $3,600 on BitMEX.
Nevertheless, Hayes believes that we received’t be revisiting $3,000, which we didn’t do precisely, however “max ache in all probability resides someplace between $6,000 to $7,000 Bitcoin.” Hays additionally famous that in these instances any crypto hedge fund shall be getting misery calls and dumping cash right into a falling market which is able to solely push the value decrease.
Yesterday, the Seychelles-based trade liquidated a billion-dollar worth of positions solely to go down earlier than it may push BTC even decrease. The trade went on-line solely to be down once more.
BitMEX suspended once more
Liquidation engine going mayhem
Funding window ended & I believe extra liquidations popped up resulting from funding
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Buying and selling quantity and volatility goes off the charts and the market is in “extreme fear” and “the concern and uncertainty going through humanity is sufficient to encourage a world margin name,” stated Hayes.
Traders promoting property to lift money
These previous few days the US inventory markets skilled a rout of a degree that was final seen within the 2008 monetary disaster that has them tumbling into bear territory. The misery amongst buyers due to the black swan occasion coronavirus (Covid-19) combing with oil price war not solely affected bitcoin but in addition the normal safe haven property gold and Treasuries.
Whereas the Treasury yield has fallen to their all-time lows as buyers pile into them, even gold couldn’t escape the consequences of the buyers’ want to leap into money.
“Because the shares had been sitting on their restrict down, buying and selling halted, and unable to fall additional, buyers wished to liberate capital earlier than Lagarde’s speech,” said analyst Mati Greenspan.
“The proof of that is that many different commodities additionally bought off at the very same time. Right here we will see gold, platinum, palladium, gasoline, and sugar all plummeting across the similar time, a few of them even worse than BTC.”
After falling 4.5% on Thursday, gold rose 1% on Monday however remains to be on monitor to publish its greatest weekly drop in about seven years.
“If gold’s being bought to lift money in an emergency, which is what seems to be occurring now, then it’s doing its job as a protected haven,” stated Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Publication.
However for bitcoin, correction means the digital asset shedding all of the traits of being a protected haven. Bitcoin is likely to be buying and selling like a risk-on asset nevertheless it nonetheless possesses the properties of being a retailer of worth asset.
Bitcoin to run again to $20,000 by year-end
Bitcoin has been following the inventory markets for the previous month and on March 12, the sell-off worsened as we misplaced $8,000 degree. In these previous two days, Bitcoin has misplaced greater than 50% of its worth, which is way greater than the normal markets however this sort of volatility or drops for the crypto market is not unprecedented.
In the meantime, the inventory market jumped on the again of the Federal Reserve pumping $198 billion into short-term financial institution funding operations. Bitcoin jumped as we speak as properly, up 42% from the 2020 low we put in yesterday and is at the moment hovering round $5,250, nonetheless, this has been with out the intervention of any central financial institution or authorities.
Based on Hayes, as central banks press the print cash change into “beast mode,” by reducing charges to zero and asserting open-ended QE, bitcoin and gold will respect in worth however it would take time.
“Bitcoin ought to get pleasure from a pleasant run again by means of $10,000 in direction of $20,000 by yr finish,” wrote Hayes.


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Is Paypal support for bitcoin coming soon?
Last week, we discussed how the online payment platform created an opportunity for digital currency wallet developers when it announced that it will soon stop supporting select mobile operating platforms such as Windows Phone, Amazon and Blackberry.
Well, that story was apparently just the tip of the iceberg.
Reports recently surfaced that Paypal has applied to patent a modular payment device that accepts digital currencies.
The application, which can be seen on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website, described the device as having a chassis that contains a payment module database, which, in turn, stores information about funding source and security.
The payment module determines that the identifying information in the device “matches an authorized modular device identified by the security information in the payment module database.” Once confirmed, the module will enable the transmission of “at least some of the funding source information from the payment module database to conduct a payment transaction.”
Paypal’s proposed system will involve several virtual currency cards that corresponds to a specific wallet, which stores at least one private key that enables it to transfer the digital currency associated with one of more public addresses. The patent application already describes how the online payment company currently manages digital currencies including bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin.
The application will enable a possible digital currency integration for Paypal, a plan that the company has been hinting at for some time already.
The online payment platform submitted a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission back in 2014, in which it noted that its merchants could start—at that time—accepting bitcoins via its partnership with Braintree. Merchants could use customizable APIs that can be found in the Paypal Payment’s Hub to integrate bitcoin into their shops for digital products.
Bitcoin’s price stretched to a high $535 on Wednesday morning, with 13.47 million bitcoins in available supply.


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The Bastard of Winterfell, the former 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, is alive! Game of Thrones ended months of agony, intense debate and late-night Reddit reading (only me?) among its fans by resurrecting Jon Snow. For the TV industry, I can’t help but compare linear TV to Jon Snow: back from the dead.
In reality, TV has never really been dead. Ad spend continues to increase and its sheer reach can’t be matched by any other platform. When I say “back from the dead,” I mean the perception of linear TV as an un-measurable, un-optimizable medium.
Just like Melisandre brought Jon Snow back, big data and analytics have brought TV “back” as the most powerful marketing channel for advertisers. (That sentence might be the geekiest thing I’ve ever written and that’s saying a lot.)
Going Full Circle
Fragmentation is rampant in today’s TV landscape, and viewers have scores of ways to access their favorite programming. The rise of digital channels and their subsequent ad spend has also skyrocketed. And why not? Digital provided advertisers with measurement, targeting and optimization opportunities that they traditionally never had with TV.
With all of these factors at play, it’s no wonder many considered linear TV dead. But, like my husband who said, “Meg, Jon Snow’s dead, deal with it,” they are so very wrong. Take a look at some of these stats:
- It’s been estimated that the average person watches between 1,300 and 1,800 hours of TV a year.
- Globally, advertisers spent close to $200B on TV ads last year and that’s expected to grow in 2016 due to events like the U.S. election, the summer Olympics and the Euros.
- A recent study showed that advertisers who reduced TV spend experienced a combined loss of $94M in returns.
Linear TV remains the most effective form of advertising due to its sheer reach. And now that it’s measurable and optimizable, advertisers who went away have been coming back to TV in droves. In fact, this is one of the most prevalent observations coming out of this year’s Upfronts.
The Role of Data
So what’s brought TV back from this perceived death? Our own version of The Red Woman: data (oh, I’m not done yet with GoT references!).
Traditionally, TV advertisers relied on audience/ratings data to gauge campaign performance. The issue here was that the data was received six+ weeks after a campaign aired. Advertisers had no timely way of knowing how spots performed or the opportunity to make “on-the-fly” changes to optimize on-air campaigns. It’s no surprise that some advertisers turned to other, more measurable outlets.
In recent years, analytical technologies have finally turned TV into an optimized marketing channel. Leveraging same-day spot and response data (phone, app, web, SMS, etc.) lets advertisers target, measure and optimize TV campaigns just like they do with digital. Combine TV’s massive reach with same-day insights on how campaigns impact ROI, and advertisers have a very powerful tool to work with.
Complementary Media Strategies
As advertisers come back to TV, i’?s important to note that I don’t mean they should abandon efforts in other marketing channels. It shouldn’t be an either/or strategy where you replace one for another. Rather, the most progressive advertisers are embracing a complementary media strategy – taking advantage of multiple channels and understanding how they interact with each other to impact desired outcomes. (TVSquared’s CTO, Kevin O’Reilly, wrote an excellent blog post on this topic.)
Think about it this way: a whopping 87 percent of consumers use second-screen devices while watching TV. When people are interested, they immediately engage with a brand. With stats like that, it’s easy to see how linear TV boosts other media outlets for advertisers.
Linear TV can be measured, it can be targeted, it can be optimized, it can work in conjunction with other marketing outlets – and it is far from dead. Plus, anyone who watches GoT knows what we say to death: “not today.”


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Realty major DLF on Monday said it has sold 1,113 luxury apartments in Gurugram for Rs 7,200 crore within three days of pre-launch amid strong demand for residential properties.
In a regulatory filing, DLF announced “pre-formal launch sales of approximately Rs 7,200 crore for its latest luxury residential development, DLF Privana South in Gurugram.”
In March last year, DLF had sold 1,137 luxury apartments, priced Rs 7 crore and above, in its housing project in Gurugram for over Rs 8,000 crore within 3 days.
Now, DLF has launched new project ‘DLF Privana South’ which is spread over 25 acre in Sectors 76 and 77, Gurugram.
“This luxury residential offering by DLF was sold out within 72 hours, in its pre-launch phase,” DLF said.
The project will comprise 1,113 luxury residences across 7 towers, presenting 4 BHK apartments and penthouses.
DLF Privana South will be part of a larger development, “DLF Privana” spread over 116 acre.
Aakash Ohri, Joint Managing Director and Chief Business Officer, DLF Home Developers Ltd, said, “The swift pre-launch sellout serves as a testament to the increasing demand for high-rise luxury developments by DLF, delivering the highly aspirational DLF lifestyle.”
To discourage bulk bookings, each buyer was allotted only one unit, with about 25 per cent of the sales coming from Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), and a booking amount of Rs 50 lakh.
DLF has developed more than 158 real estate projects and developed an area in excess of 340 million square feet.
DLF Group has 215 million square feet of development potential across residential and commercial segment.
The group has an annuity portfolio of over 42 million square feet.
DLF is primarily engaged in the business of development and sale of residential properties (Development Business) and the development and leasing of commercial and retail properties (Annuity Business).


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High Glycemic Food Triggers Diabetes - Although diabetes mellitus diabetes is often called, is actually the main factor of this disease is not caused by excess sugar. According to research, foods with a high glycemic index is the culprit diabetes.
The glycemic index (GI) is an indicator of fast or slow carbohydrates in the food element in improving blood sugar levels in the body. Foods with a low GI safer for people with diabetes and obesity.
Results of analysis of 24 studies published since 1997 and 125,000 people trace the adult diet, and concluded that people who consume less fiber and processed foods often high-risk of diabetes.
"The food was quickly raise blood sugar levels that will make the pancreas work harder to produce insulin after a meal, every day,"said Dr.David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston that much research on diabetes.
Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Oxford, UK.
In general, the respondents in the study were eating about 139 grams of sugar. In any added sugar as much as 100 grams per 2000 calories daily, a person's risk for developing diabetes mellitus up to 45 percent.
"Very easy to get 100 grams of sugar, especially if we are not careful in choosing the right foods," said Heidi Silver, nutrition expert who was not involved in the study.
Foods with a low GI, such as fish, meat, vegetables and fruits are high in fiber, nuts, brown rice, or dairy products.
Communities also have to know which foods have a high GI. For example, ripe bananas have a higher sugar content than those who still mengkal.
Foods such as protein bars or fiber bars also need to watch out because it is not the same as the fiber from vegetables or fruits. In developed countries generally many food products that are labeled glycemic index.
On the internet quite a lot of information about the IG table food. One is www.glycemicindex.com


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Exports have played a critical role in the electrical manufacturing industry’s ability to weather the global downturn, Timothy J. Gill, director of economics for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association said at a recent economic forum in Washington.
The industry -- which produces motors, circuit breakers, transformers and other equipment for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity – has become very globalized. Sixteen percent of factory shipments for lighting are now exported compared to 10 percent in the late 1990s and the share of non-lighting products being exported has grown to a third of all shipments from the low-20 percentile in the late 1990s, Gill said at the National Association of Manufacturers’ event on Oct. 19.
Imports now represent 45 percent of the industry’s U.S. sales and 40 percent of the sales for other equipment, he said.
The top three export destinations for electrical equipment are Mexico, Canada and China, which are the top export markets for U.S. goods overall. Electrical manufacturers annually export more than $1.2 billion to South Korea, which is now one of the top 10 destinations for U.S. electrical equipment. Gill said the new free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea will have a “significant impact” on industry growth.
Exports have been one of the nation’s few robust growth areas during the recession and slow recovery. U.S. goods and services exports in the first seven months of the year are up 16 percent to $1.2 trillion and are chipping away at the large trade deficit, which is why the Obama administration is hard at work trying to make it easier for companies to sell their products overseas.- Eric Kulish


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Jennifer Garner made news recently for wearing a one piece bathing suit. Yup, in America it’s a big deal when a 40 year old actress and mother of three does not appear in a bikini with ridiculously toned abs four months after giving birth. Garner Unveils Sexy Post Baby Body in a RetroSwimsuit!” gushed US magazine.
A real luxury brand is naturally attached to style or even fashion, but always refuses to follow ephemeral trends. Sales should logically avoid it. At the same time, luxury ready to wear consists in renewing collections and wardrobes. THE 81 YEAR OLD Pontiff first lost consciousness Fri day night al o’clock. “Short of a miracle, he could be expected to die at any the Vatican radio said just after noon, im ploring the world’s half bil Roman Catholics to pray ‘or their supreme spiritual ruler. Doctors said such ups and downs were not unusual for persons gravely ill with peri tonitis.
‘Although this is obviously a sad time, we would like everyone to remember Nicky at his happiest riding a motorcycle. He dreamed as a kid of being a pro rider and not only achieved that but also managed to reach the pinnacle of his chosen sport in becoming World Champion. We are all so proud of that..
Many activists, leery of the Republican Party’s embrace of “religious freedom” measures, are pushing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and commerce. Some are working to secure greater legal protections for the transgender community. Others are working to draw attention or draw to the plight of LGBT youths, homeless people, and elderly people..
The direct audio messages of the ad are nothing short of a cheesy marketing tactic that attempts to relate Adidas’ product with generic, yet powerful expressions. Furthermore, Adidas’ camera work exemplifies that of a full length film’s cinematic trailer. The wide frame view, coupled with a dynamic EDM track makes the ad seem more like a contemporary action movie trailer than anything.
In addition, a rising birth rate and improving healthcare infrastructure in developing countries such as India, China and Brazil are also fuelling the growth of the global toxoplasmosis testing market. However, the lack of awareness among people about parasitic infections and economic downturn and saturation, and the high cost of toxoplasmosis tests are restraining the growth of the global toxoplasmosis testing market. In addition, stringent and time consuming regulatory policies also impede the market growth..


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PayPal announced that its payment service is coming to the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes, and iBooks on iOS devices and Macs today, starting in Canada and Mexico with the US and other countries to follow soon. Setting up PayPal works the same as adding a credit card:
Paying with PayPal is simple. Customers with a new or existing Apple ID can select “PayPal” as their payment method from their account settings in the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes [and iBooks] from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac, or on iTunes from their PC.
After PayPal is enabled, purchases from the selected Apple ID will be made from the customer’s PayPal account.
Adding PayPal should expand the universe of customers making purchases from Apple’s stores by creating an alternative for people who don’t have or don’t want to use a credit card.


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Under the terms of the agreement, a subsidiary of SiriusXM purchased $172.5 million of Series A preferred stock upon execution of the agreement on June 9, 2017 and today purchased an additional $307.5 million of the Series A preferred stock, the companies announced in a press release Friday. The Series A preferred stock is convertible into common stock at a purchase price of $10.50 per share.
Upon the closing of the purchase, SiriusXM chairman Greg Maffei, CEO James E. Meyer and CFO David Frear were named to the Pandora Board of Directors; Maffei was also named Chairman of Pandora. Elizabeth Nelson left the board, which now consists of nine directors.
The move caps a tumultuous transitional period for Pandora, which was a digital radio pioneer, but has lost ground — and many millions of dollars — in recent years in its attempts to become a full-service streaming company as it lost listeners to services like Spotify and Apple Music. Three weeks after the Sirius deal was announced, co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren left the company. New CEO Roger Lynch, formerly of Sling TV, starts on Sept. 18; acting CEO Naveen Chopra spoke optimistically about the company’s road ahead at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference earlier this month.
Pandora’s revenue in 2016 was $1.3 billion with losses at $343 million. The company had 4.85 million subscribers as of 2017.


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News & Events
- 02 Jul 2016
- Hetero launches Biosimilar Bevacizumab
- Hetero, one of India's leading generic pharmaceutical companies, today announces the launch of Biosimilar 'Bevacizumab' in India for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) under the brand name 'CizumabTM' Read more
- 16 Dec 2015
- Correct trademark name of Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir is 'Ledifos'
- This is with reference to the press release dated 9th December 2015 on the DCGI approval for Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir. Hetero would like to clarify that there was an error in the brand name of the fixed-dose combination drug 'Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir'. It was published as Ledisof.


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- News in Vietnam
- 14 February 2022
Nestlé Vietnam and the journey to becoming the most sustainable business in 2021
Returning to Vietnam in 1995, Nestlé Vietnam is operating four factories with a total investment capital of 730 million USD. On average, businesses buy 20-25% of Vietnam’s total coffee output to serve production and export, contributing about 700 million USD/year.
While solving the problem of combating climate change has not yet come to an end, the emergence of the Covid-19 epidemic has made Vietnam’s economy face challenges in all three fields of the economy – society – environment. Perhaps never before has the path of business sustainable development become so tricky.
HONOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE AFTER ONE YEAR OF BUSINESS FLEXIBILITY
At the beginning of December 2021, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry the Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development organized the Vietnam Sustainable Development Business Forum (VCSF 2021) with the theme “Towards A better decade of sustainable development: Leaving no one behind” and the Announcement Ceremony of Sustainable Enterprises in Vietnam (CSI 2021).
VCSF 2021 takes place in the context of the spreading Covid-19 pandemic and its heavy impact on Vietnam’s socio-economic development. From issues of health and safety of people, production and business activities of enterprises are stalled, broken along with the challenges of climate change and natural disasters that reduce people’s livelihoods.
It can be said that the sustainable development of Vietnam in all three fields of economy – society – environment is facing many challenges. Within the forum’s framework, the message of sustainable development and ways to deal with climate change has been deployed by the Organizing Committee through a series of seminars with the content: National strategy for green growth phase period 2021 – 2030.
Regarding CSI, after being organized for the first time in 2016, it has increasingly made a strong impression and spread in the business community in Vietnam. CSI 2021 has officially honored Nestlé Vietnam as the most sustainable enterprise in 2021, continuing to mark the mark of an international brand that has always made constant efforts to develop the community in a volatile fiscal year.
Sharing about this achievement, Mr. Binu Jacob – General Director of Nestlé Vietnam, said: “In all activities, Nestlé works closely with partners in Vietnam to “Create Common Value” which is to contribute to the general development of society while ensuring long-term business success, those goals, if they are to be sustainable, must be associated with a vision into the future.”
NESTLÉ VIETNAM AND THE MARKET OF BECOMING THE MOST SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES IN 2021
Among international businesses doing business in the Vietnamese market, Nestlé’s bird’s nest symbol has become familiar to generations of domestic consumers. Returning to Vietnam in 1995, Nestlé Vietnam is operating four factories with a total investment capital of 730 million USD. On average, businesses buy 20-25% of Vietnam’s total coffee output each year to serve production and export, contributing about 700 million USD/year…
All of this shows that Nestlé demonstrates the company’s long-term commitment to development in Vietnam and its desire to improve the quality of life and contribute to a healthier future for generations of Vietnamese families.
By the end of 2021, Nestlé Vietnam had excellently marked itself as the most sustainable enterprise in Vietnam 2021 in the field of manufacturing. This is the third year in a row that Nestlé Vietnam is in the top three most sustainable businesses in Vietnam. According to the assessment of VCCI experts, Nestlé Vietnam has met the Sustainable Enterprise Index 2021 with 119 indicators, including measures of business performance, indicators of the governance process, indicators on environmental protection, and social indicators.
From 2020, Nestlé’s sustainable development strategy is defined with sustainable goals and actions and towards a comprehensive approach focusing on plans to “renew” and “regenerate” for natural ecosystems. Accordingly, the commitment to sustainable development to make life healthier and happier, helping develop prosperous and robust communities, Resource management for future generations will be closely linked to the same goal of preserving resources for future generations.
Nestlé has set out a roadmap to cut carbon emissions in stages towards net-zero (Net Zero) emissions by 2050. At the end of 2021, Nestlé Vietnam announced its commitment to go plastic-neutral by 2025, 100% including the packaging recycled. Along with the journey of building a group of Green Ambassadors, Nestlé Vietnam has implemented a series of CSR programs such as Say no to single-use plastic, collect and sort used packaging… At 1,500 schools, This business encouraged children to bring back empty cartons to separate the plastic and recycle it into basketballs and benches for use in schools and the community. This reduces waste in the environment and has the effect of educating children about the importance of recycling.
In production activities, aware that agriculture is a source of greenhouse gas emissions accounting for 60 – 70% of the Group’s emissions, Nestlé Vietnam decided only to purchase raw materials derived from regenerative agriculture to encourage farmers to change farming methods.
Through the NESCAFÉ Plan project, Nestlé Vietnam has distributed more than 53 million coffee seedlings to farmers, renovated 53,000 hectares of aging coffee areas in the Central Highlands, and organized more than 246,000 training courses on farming techniques. Sustainable cooperation for 300,000 farmers, helping 21,000 farmers achieve 4C international coffee certification. Mr. Binu Jacob said that although they cannot reach the goal of building regenerative agriculture in a short time, Nestlé Vietnam is committed to providing only products from regenerative agriculture until 2050.
The promotion of the circular economy has also become an essential task in Nestlé’s development strategy in Vietnam. In 2018, all Nestlé Vietnam factories achieved the goal of zero emissions into the environment in production, towards the 2030 goal of zero impact on the environment in the production process.
“Nestlé is one of the few companies that pursue sustainability based on the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We are working hard to implement many activities to reduce poverty, improve human health and protect the planet,” said Binu Jacob – General Director of Nestlé Vietnam.
Not only playing the role of the most sustainable enterprise in 2021 but Nestlé Vietnam is also honored by the Vietnam Business Network to Support the Development of Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE) as a typical enterprise committed to gender equality work. Since 2020, this business has cooperated with the Vietnam Women’s Union to implement the “Nestlé accompanies women” program. Through activities on nutrition communication building a model to support women to become economic owners, the program has attracted more than 4,000 members in 10 provinces and cities, creating positive impacts and changes for the lives of the Vietnamese people.
Entering 2021, the negative impact of the epidemic on the market’s consumer demand, the limited production system during 3T operations, the lack of labor supply between the lockdowns… made Nestlé Vietnam faces many difficulties. “Faced with new challenges, we soon decided to prioritize three goals including taking care of our employees and their safety, ensuring business continuity, and sticking to the direction of sustainable development. . This is always the guideline for all activities of Nestlé Vietnam”, said Mr. Binu Jacob.
With what Nestlé Vietnam has strived to achieve in its journey of more than 100 years, those who love this international brand have a basis entirely to keep their faith in the good things they will continue to create in the future next time.
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Back in March one of our most read blog posts asked two questions: is Meerkat all its cracked up to be? And just what is Periscope?
Well now, two months later, we are going to revisit these questions and look at how live video streaming via social media has developed in its first few months.
In answer to the first question; it would appear that no, Meerkat is not all its cracked up to be – although not through a lack of creativity and initial promise, more due to fierce competition from Periscope and Twitter.
The second question, ‘just what is Periscope?’ will hopefully be answered in more detail here, as we look at Pericope – the story so far.
So what is Periscope?
Periscope is the live video streaming app, bought by Twitter for $86 million in January. It allows users to broadcast video taken on their phone, wordwide in real time. It was bought by Twitter after the initial success of rival Meerkat, an app that provides a similar service.
Why is Meerkat falling behind?
Meerkat was the initial front runner in the live video services, however the video streaming app required the user to post a link on Twitter as a gateway for other users to view the video. Recognising the initial success, and huge potential, of the service that was being used on its own platform, Twitter bought the app Periscope to act as a competitor to the fast-rising Meerkat. Extra investment and functionality means Persicope is prevailing and Meerkat is fading into the background.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Periscope?
The strength of Periscope lies in the ease at which live video can be shared and saved. An added string to the Periscope bow is the decision to make the app available to Android, after previously only being available to Apple customers.
The main weakness lies in the barrier to view the live video streams. Not only do you need the app in order to share a live video, you also need to download the app in order to view the videos being shared, something not everyone will have the patience or willing to do. A further weakness of the app is the quality of video and sound produced when shared live, which sometimes can be similar to a faulty Skype or FaceTime video call.
What are the opportunities and threats?
As discussed in a previous Pelican blog post, the opportunities of services such as Periscope and Meerkat are limitless, with Meerkat proving a particular hit at music and tech festival South by Southwest. The potential threats however, appear to be surfacing more quickly than the opportunities. Stories of privacy, piracy during live sporting events (such as the Mayweather – Pacquaio boxing fight) and content of an ‘adult nature’ being shared have appeared more regularly than ones of success.
How has Periscope been used so far?
Periscope provided a powerful platform for journalists on 27 April during the Baltimore riots, reporters used their iPhone to broadcast live without restriction video of the civil unrest taking place. A number of high profile celebrities have been quick to use the technology with Arnold Schwarznegger answering fans questions and requests live and Stan Collymore capturing pre-match video of football games he is about to commentate on.
So what’s next?
It looks like Periscope and Meerkat have a lot of work left if they are to capture the imagination and attention of social media users. Early figures show that we are still very much in the awareness stage of the brand development for both companies. As figures from Horizon Media (below) show, the two services are a long way short of being on the public consciousness when compared with other video apps such as Snapchat, Instagram or Vine.
In terms of awareness Meerkat has the initial advantage, although there is a big difference between awareness and active users, on which Periscope appears to hold the lead. Periscope was downloaded more than a million times in its first week but Twitter has not revealed usage figures for it since then. Mobile data stats from Mobidia indicate that both services are something of a niche pursuit, with less than half a percent of US mobile users using the app in a given month.
While the possibilities of video streaming apps caused a stir in early 2015, and the expansion of Periscope to Android looks like a positive step, the technology still has some way to go before it can rival the likes of Instagram or Snapchat. Getting over the initial hurdle of raising awareness and understanding of what the app actually does will be the first step, only once this has been achieved can brands, organisations and celebrities fully explore the capabilities of live video streaming.
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The global advertising economy remains strong and will grow by 5% this year.
However, ad spend growth in North America will trail that of Latin America, Europe and Asia/Pacific — entirely due to a lack of political dollars.
That’s not a surprise. What could be surprising for some is the slowdown in U.S. digital growth already seen in 2019.
The summer 2019 update of MAGNA‘s advertising forecasts shows that advertising revenue is expected to grow for the 10th consecutive year in 2019, reaching $600 billion.
The first key takeaway: Digital, even on a digital level, is propelling this growth.
On a global level, linear advertising sales will shrink by 3% as digital ad sales will accelerate by 14%.
The second big takeaway: Digital is very much driving growth in the U.S. But, digital growth has started to slow down in the first months of 2019, having reached a 52% market share at the end of 2018.
North American ad spend growth is forecast at 3%. This compares to 7.3% for Latin America, 4.8% for Europe, and 7.4% for Asia/Pacific — even with political and economic uncertainty in these regions.
Furthermore, the U.S. is still the No. 2 global contributor behind China in incremental ad spending, representing some $6.4 billion annually (compared to $7.9 billion for China and $1.8 billion for the No. 3 nation, the United Kingdom).
In fact, the U.S. and China alone represent half of all global growth.
And, worldwide, the majority of ad budgets will be in digital formats, claiming 51% share, MAGNA notes.
What forms of digital media are growing faster than others, on a global scale?
To little surprise, all are growing — but social media is in the clear lead.
While a slowdown in digital growth in the U.S. is making headlines and grabbing attention, it is having very little impact on any slowdown in ad dollar growth.
In fact, on a global level, MAGNA increased its forecast for 2019 growth, from 4.7% in December 2018 to 5.0% today. Why? It pointed to “stronger-than-expected advertising activity in the first half of 2019 in several key markets, including the U.S. and China.”
However, the lack of major cyclical events is playing its part in creating a hazy worldwide outlook for ad dollar growth. MAGNA notes:
- The lack of major cyclical events will affect editorial media types (TV, print, radio, out-of-home, digital display, banners and video) that traditionally benefit the most from those. Editorial ad revenues will stagnate at $366 billion this year, while direct digital ad sales, including search and social formats, will grow by 15%.
- Digital advertising sales (editorial and direct) will continue to grow by double-digits, although it will mature compared to 2018: 14% this year compared to 19% last year. Traditional linear ad sales will decrease by 3%. Digital ad sales will represent more than half of global ad sales for the first time this year: 51% ($304 billion).
TRADITIONAL MEDIA TROUBLES
For readers, a look at how radio and TV stand against digital is perhaps the biggest concern.
The short answer: It’s not good.
Television ad revenues will shrink by 2% this year on a global scale, to $175 billion, while print ad sales will decline by 10% and radio by 1%.
Further, out-of-home will continue to outperform traditional media, with 5% growth forecast worldwide for 2019.
Vincent Létang, EVP of Global Market Intelligence at MAGNA, and author of the report, notes, “Global ad spend continues to grow as the economy remains strong in key markets but two factors are slowing down the growth rates in 2019: one is cyclical (the lack of major events in 2019, following a record year in 2018) while the other is structural: digital ad formats maturing (from 19% in 2018 to 14% this year) as they now account for more than half to total advertising sales.”
He did note, however, that “product innovation” (smart homes, cloud services, OTT, 5G) and “marketing innovation” (direct-to-consumer brands) will continue to drive ad spend growth this year and next.
D2C can even extend to television: The biggest talking point following the NBCUniversal Upfront Presentation held in mid-May in New York was the creation of a free-to-consumer digital app housing a plethora of NBC programs available on demand, thus providing addressable advertising solutions to hungry marketers.
But, these innovations may not be coming fast enough.
Excluding the U.S., linear TV ad revenue will actually increase slightly in 2019 (1%), as they did in 2018.
As Letang explains, “Television continues to benefit from strong demand from traditional verticals sensitive to brand safety (CPG, pharma, automotive outside the U.S.) and the technology sector ramping up its TV spend. Strong demand combined with shrinking supply (ratings decline pacing between 2% and 10% per year in most markets) triggers high CPM inflation that contributes to stabilizing TV revenues in many markets.”
Television, he continues, also benefits from an increasing volume of campaigns from D2C disruptor brands (Uber, AirBNB, etc.) that used to be digital-only in their marketing approach but have started to campaign on editorial media too (mostly TV, OOH and podcasting).
Still, the U.S. and France, Letang says, are each seeing non-traditional television advertising sales against TV programs (e.g. online or over-the-top ad-funded VOD). This is helping television broadcasters to stabilize total advertising revenues. “These are growing rapidly as consumption develops (+10% to +20%) but from a low base (no more than 5% of total television revenues today),” he says.
TV’s efforts, however, are far more meaningful on a global level than those seen by Radio or Print.
“Although some brands are outperforming, publishers and radio broadcasters have not yet developed their digital sales to the point where their growth would offset the erosion of traditional linear formats,” Letang says.


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Mobile demand-side platform Jampp was acquired by Affle on Wednesday. It’s a mobile marketing company with a presence in India and Singapore.
There’s nothing like a little uncertainty (ahem, Apple) to spark M&A.
The mobile advertising industry has been experiencing a massive wave of consolidation in the wake of privacy-related platform changes.
Since February, AppLovin has acquired Adjust, Digital Turbine bought AdColony followed by Fyber, Zynga snapped up Chartboost and Vungle grabbed GameRefinery and TreSensa. (Vungle also bought AlgoLift in October of last year.)
“One of the main rationales in joining forces is being able to attack app advertiser problems from different angles and having a wider product set to help them throughout the user life cycle,” said Diego Meller, co-CEO and co-founder of Jampp, which was among the last independent mobile DSPs on the market.
“A lot of the consolidation we’ve seen recently has been about…looking to have multiple pieces of the puzzle,” he said.
In Jampp’s case, Meller said, its technology will help enhance what Affle has to offer and vice versa. Affle has a product suite for marketers with tools for user acquisition, brand marketing, retargeting and ad fraud detection. Affle also provides data and ad monetization services for publishers.
But Jampp brings technology Affle doesn’t yet have in its portfolio, in the form of a programmatic user acquisition platform.
“We see a lot of complementary strengths for our platforms and are confident that by leveraging these, we will strengthen our cost per converted user business and deliver greater scale and ROI to our customers,” said Anuj Khanna Sohum, CEO, chairman and managing director of Affle.
Jampp also has a presence in countries where Affle does not, such as Latin America and North America – and vice versa. Although Jampp has a small office in Singapore, it doesn’t yet have much of a footprint in Asia Pacific, which is Affle’s home base.
Although both Jampp and Affle are strong in Android-heavy regions, Jampp’s North America business gives it a purview into the iOS ecosystem, which has been roiled by Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency changes.
“There are many different ways in which we can help each other,” Meller said.
And that was true even before the deal officially closed. Meller and Khanna Sohum finalized the acquisition across time zones without ever meeting in person, which is emblematic of the art of deal making during a global pandemic.
Although Jampp declined to share a deal price, the company has been growing organically since its one and only funding round, Meller said. Back in 2015, it raised $7 million in Series A funding.
Jampp, which employs 96 people, will continue to operate as an independent entity within Affle.
Affle has been publicly listed on the National Stock Exchange and BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) in India since 2019.
Including Jampp, Affle has acquired nine companies since 2012, including omnichannel marketing platform Vizury in 2018 and app marketing and recommendation platform Appnext last year.


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A well-known card shop at Intu Derby is holding a closing down sale.
Paper Kisses has put large red posters in its windows declaring "everything up to 50% off".
The shop - which also sells party supplies - is next to Game on the ground floor of the shopping centre.
A worker at the store said staff had not yet been given a date as to when Paper Kisses would close for good.
Last summer the shop put up similar posters advertising a closing-down sale - however Intu bosses claimed no such closure was taking place and asked the shop to remove the signs.
Staff at the time gave a final trading day of June 17 last year but the store has remained open since.
The shop sells cards, party balloons, wrapping paper and other stationery.


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Microsoft revealed a new wireless holographic headset the HoloLens alongside new operating system Windows 10 at an event held in Redmond, Washington on Wednesday.
Rather than take on rival companies Sony and the Facebook-owned Oculus in the field of virtual reality, Microsoft has invested in augmented reality, which overlays digital elements into a user’s physical environment.
The HoloLens headset will overlap holograms into a user’s vision of their environment, and will run the new Windows 10 independent of a tethering smartphone or computer. Users can create their own holograms within the company’s HoloStudio and 3D print the finished result.
Alex Kipman, who was one of the key developers behind the Xbox’s Kinect sensor, said the HoloLens was the “first fully untethered holographic computer".
The headset is expected to go on sale within the next few months.
Windows 10 will be available as a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows Phone customers in the first year the software is available. The price for customers hoping to upgrade after the one year cut-off point has yet to be announced.
New features include revamped web browser Spartan - the company’s first in 19 years - which Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana will be integrated into to deliver a more personal service than ever before.
The new system will work across all Microsoft platforms, including Windows phones, desktops, laptops, tablets and Xbox One, and feature a single app store for all devices - a unified model which has served Apple well in the past.
The company gave the world its first look at Windows 10 in September last year, when it confirmed the famous Start menu had been reinstated after having been done away with in Windows 8, which was launched in 2012.
The company chose to skip using the name Windows 9 to mark a departure from the much-maligned previous system, which was much criticised for its tablet-optimised interface.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella hinted at the difficulties faced in the past in an optimistic closing statement, saying: "We want to move from people needing Windows, to choosing Windows, to loving Windows."


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|Customers shop at Aeon Supermarket in Hà Nội. Experts said local retailers should control imports to promote high-quality Vietnamese products in the local retail system, thus creating favourable conditions for the development of the local economy. — VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng|
HÀ NỘI – Domestic retailers must improve competitive ability as the sole way to compete with foreign retailers for their survival in the future, according experts in the retail industry.
At an online dialogue on the Government website chinhphu.vn yesterday, on improving competitiveness of Việt Nam’s retail industry, Võ Văn Quyền, head of the domestic market department under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said Việt Nam has 8,660 markets, 800 supermarkets, 168 trading centres and 1 million household shops, while the modern retail channel has met 25 per cent of local consumer demand. The domestic retail industry is at the first stage, while the nation has a large population with an increasing income. Therefore, Việt Nam still has immense potential to develop the local retail market.
However, local retailers have seen growth of foreign retailers on the domestic market with international economic integration, and that was a big challenge for them in terms of survival and developing in the market, he said.
Nguyễn Thành Nhân, general director of Saigon Co-op, said that competitiveness would create dynamics for local retailers to improve their abilities. Foreign retailers entering the local market would force local rivals to improve their competitive ability and learn from foreign firms. The local retailers need to have specific competitive and development policies.
Đinh Thị Mỹ Loan, chairwoman of the Association of Việt Nam’s Retailers, said competitive ability was of larger interest to the association and its members, especially due to difficulties in economic development and lower purchasing power.
Local retailers have improved their competitive ability in the recent past and the association has also supported them in increasing competitive ability.
The association has joined hands to build policies, legal documents and legal framework for retail service industry, she said. Other important tasks of the association have included training for staff and managers in the retail industry and development of a combination between the association’s member firms and producers.
Loan encouraged local retailers to overcome challenges of shifting from traditional retail models to modern models and investing in a chain of shops and retail supermarkets to develop modern retail.
Local retailers should control imports to promote high-quality Vietnamese products at the local retail system creating favourable conditions for the development of the local economy.
Việt Nam’s retailers have co-operated to develop over the past 10 years but the co-operation has not been efficient, Loan said. Now, there should still be co-operation among local retailers and they must evolve suitable co-operation strategies while the state management offices should create a fair playground for local and foreign retailers to encourage development of local retailers.
Quyền said the Ministry of Trade and Industry has had the support of enterprises in production, building of brand and increasing competitive ability. However, the enterprises must develop and protect their brands. – VNS


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (March 15, 2011)—World natural rubber markets remained volatile in the face of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant disaster that struck northern Japan, although an organization of rubber-producing nations said it doesn't expect an appreciable affect on NR demand.
“The disaster is unlikely to have a noticeable impact on global economy, as Japan has not been a driver of the global recovery from the economic meltdown in 2008,” the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries in a press release issued from its Kuala Lumpur headquarters. “Moreover, the tsunami-hit region is far from Japan's economic hub, which is the area from Tokyo South to Osaka.”
“Japan accounts for 7 percent of the global demand for natural rubber,” the ANPRC said. “The closure of a handful of auto tire plants in the country's northeast region for a few days cannot impact on the commodity's global demand in a significant way.”
Meanwhile, NR prices have fallen by more than 20 percent on world markets in the past two weeks, though the latest market figures show them going up again.
March 15 prices on the Singapore Commodity Exchange show Technically Specified Rubber 20, or tire-grade rubber, at $4 per kilogram for June delivery, down from $5.18 per kilo March 2. Rubber Smoked Sheets 3 stood at $4.39 per kilo for June delivery today, compared with $6 per kilo March 2.
Nevertheless, RSS 3 traded 11 to 19 cents per kilo higher on March 15 than the previous trading day, according to the daily newsletter from RCMA Commodities Asia. TSR 20 traded 15 to 20 cents higher, RCMA said.


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On the surface, this stock is rising for good reason.
“If I had to pick any stock that could rise 10 times in value this year, it would be BlackBerry,” I wrote in early January. “If BlackBerry stock rose 1,000% in 2021, it would still trade at a healthy discount to its peer group. This isn’t even factoring in any organic growth, which could surprise analysts over the next 12 months as its end markets start to gain traction.”
Shares are rising for exactly those reasons, but there’s also a secret tailwind: the Reddit group WallStreetBets.
You should know WallStreetBets
You may have heard of WallStreetBets, the group behind the infamous GameStop stock surge. The group is now a global phenomenon.
“The group WallStreetBets is a longstanding subreddit channel where over 3.5 million Reddit users discuss highly speculative trading ideas and strategies,” explained CoinDesk, adding that “the community has caused huge disruption to financial markets.”
It really is that simple. Internet users aggregate online, share ideas, and funnel their combined power into investments. Sometimes those ideas are value-based; others rely on technical analysis or momentum trading. In any case, the group has proven a force to be reckoned with, nearly destroying several hedge funds in January alone.
BlackBerry is the group’s latest target.
BlackBerry stock went on steroids
WallStreetBets applied the same methodology to BlackBerry that it used to pump the stock of GameStop. Specifically, the group targeted companies with high short interest.
If highly shorted stocks rise in value, many of those short-sellers are forced to cover their position. That requires buying the shares back, sending the price even higher. The result is what analysts call a short squeeze.
“BlackBerry is a stock which has had a high level of short interest in recent years. Accordingly, investors focused on squeezing short-sellers have targeted BlackBerry,” explained Fool contributor Chris MacDonald.
But this isn’t just a momentum play. When I called the company my top idea for 2021, I was referencing the businesses strong underlying fundamentals. Shares have long-term catalysts that could keep the rise going for years to come.
Should you buy this stock now?
It’s never easy to time the market. Ray Dalio has likened it to playing poker with the best. What you can do, however, is place long-term bets on businesses that are likely to be worth significantly more in the future. What happens in the interim shouldn’t be much concern to you.
BlackBerry isn’t a phone company anymore. Today, sales are driven by its cybersecurity software portfolio, which protects next-gen devices like autonomous vehicles, IoT, and more. The world is getting more connected, and BlackBerry is securing those endpoints.
Compared to other cybersecurity stocks, like CrowdStrike, BlackBerry still trades at a 70% discount. And that’s after the recent surge.
In the wake of the WallStreetBets pump, BB shares could remain very volatile, but it’s still an ideal holding for patient investors playing the long game.


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The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is gearing up for the launch of its next Vivo T1 5G smartphone in India. Now, in a new development, key specifications of the device have surfaced along with the pricing details ahead of its arrival in the country. The device has been tipped to come with a Qualcomm processor as well as a triple rear camera setup by the renowned tipster Yogesh Brar. The specifications of the device are seemingly different from the version of the smartphone launched in China. As a matter of fact, speculations suggest that Vivo T1 5G could be a completely distinct smartphone from its version available in China. Let’s find out more.
Specifications of Vivo T1 5G
The Vivo T1 5G smartphone in India is expected to arrive with a 6.58-inch full-HD+ LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The device is anticipated to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 SoC paired with up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM. The handset could offer two RAM storage options of 4GB and 8GB coupled with 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage. These specs completely differ from the Chinese variant as it was launched with a 6.67-inch display and was powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM. The Chinese variant offered up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
As far as the camera module is considered, Vivo T1 5G is expected to feature a triple rear camera setup headlined by a 50MP camera alongside two 2MP secondary cameras. The front of the device is expected to have a 16MP selfie shooter. The Chinese version, on the other hand, comes with a triple rear camera setup comprising of 64MP primary camera with an 8MP ultra-wide and 2MP macro shooter.
The Indian variant of the Vivo T1 5G is speculated to be backed by a 5000mAh battery and support 18W charging, whereas the Chinese variant offered support for 44W fast charge technology with battery power being the same. Vivo T1 5G is expected to feature a 3.5mm headphone jack and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner as well.
Price Details of Vivo T1 5G
Tipster Yogesh Brar shared via tweet that the price of the upcoming Vivo T1 5G will be under Rs 20,000; however, he didn’t mention a particular price tag. The Vivo T1 5G launched in China in October 2021 comes at a price tag of CNY 2,199, which is roughly around Rs 25,800. Vivo T1 5G in India is expected to launch on February 9.


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A historic Tyneside town is celebrating its first festival.
The festival of Wallsend will draw on the link between the Segedunum Roman Fort and the town over the years.
The event, on Saturday, July 7, kicks off with a procession through the town from Segedunum led by a group of people dressed in Roman attire.
They will imitate a sacrifice when they arrive at the Forum shopping centre to invoke the gods' blessing on the day.
Other attractions will include an outdoor crafts market, community and professional entertainment and a roller skating rink for children.
John Fleet, town centres manager, said: "Wallsend is beginning to recover a sense of identity and pride.
"We want to encourage people to feel a sense of pride in their community.
"It will be an open event, right in the commercial centre of the town.
"Working in partnership together in this way, we can put our town centres on the map."
Local schools, Wallsend People's Centre, the Forum shopping centre, the Buddle Arts Centre and the Wallsend Business Association are all involved.


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Shoprite announces plan to pull out of Nigeria
Shoprite, Africa’s biggest grocery retailer, has announced plans to leave Nigeria after 15 years.
The Cape Town-based retailer has started a formal process to consider the potential sale of all or a majority stake in its supermarkets in Nigeria, it said in a trading statement for the 52 weeks to end June, which was released on Monday, August 3.
Bloomberg reports that Shoprite is considering selling its Nigerian operations. This process was initiated after the retail chain said in November that it was reviewing its supermarket operations outside South Africa and would consider exiting certain countries if that would help reverse regional sales declines.
Shoprite has been battling currency-induced inflation surges in several other African countries.
International supermarkets (excluding Nigeria) contributed 11.6% to group sales, and reported 1.4% decline in sales from 2018. South African operations contributed 78% of overall sales and saw 8.7% rise for the year.
As a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, customer visits declined 7.4% but the average basket spend increased by 18.4%.
This comes just weeks after it was revealed that another popular retail store, Mr. Price Group, is making plans to close its Nigerian business to focus on its home market business in South Africa.
Below are reactions from Nigerians to the news that Shoprite is pulling out of Nigeria.


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Bharti Airtel Ltd (BRTI.BO)
Wed, May 10 2017
May 10 India's NSE index gained on Wednesday and breached the 9,400 level for the first time as consumer stocks rallied on better monsoon forecast, while index heavyweight Bharti Airtel surged after reporting strong subscriber growth.
MUMBAI Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile telecoms network operator, reported its smallest quarterly profit in more than four years on Tuesday, as free services offered by upstart rival Jio sparked a price war which has eroded sales and margins.
* Rival Jio's free services has disrupted sector (Adds details on results, background)
MUMBAI, May 9 Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's biggest telecoms operator, reported a 69 percent drop in quarterly profit, missing market expectations as a price war launched by a rival carrier last year weighed on its earnings.
* Airtel and Ola join hands to roll out integrated digital offerings for customers
* Says Airtel and Amazon announce partnership for online content experience on Amazon Fire TV stick with voice remote Source text - (Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), India's largest telecommunications services provider, announced a partnership with Amazon for Amazon's Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote, which was launched in India today.) Further company coverage:
* Says ALT Balaji integrates Airtel payments bank as a payment platform Source text - (http://bit.ly/2pHhvWY) Further company coverage:
* Airtel Digital TV says airtel 'internet TV' is priced at INR 4999/- with 3 month digital TV subscription. Source text: [Airtel Digital TV (“Airtel”), the DTH arm of Bharti Airtel, today launched ‘Internet TV’ – India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV, which brings the best of online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels. This marks yet another industry first from Airtel that has been at the forefront of innovation in the DTH category] Furt
BRIEF-Bharti Airtel completes transfer of 11.3 pct stake in Bharti Infratel to Nettle Infrastructure
* Says completed inter-se transfer of 11.32 % stake in Bharti Infratel to Nettle Infrastructure Investments
MUMBAI India's Bharti Airtel said it sold a 10.3 percent stake in its telecom tower unit Bharti Infratel to U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for more than 61.9 billion rupees ($952.75 million).


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By FileTrekker 4 years ago, last updated 4 years ago
Exciting news this past week as CD Projekt Red officially revealed that there will indeed be multiplayer coming to the much anticipated Cyberpunk 2077, but sadly not until the single-player content has been fully released, including DLC.
This means that we're looking at a good few months after the game releases. The studio are currently hiring for eight multiplayer-related roles, which gives us an indication that development on the multiplayer component is probably in it's very early stages.
The company confirmed that the main game, releasing in April 2020, is the first step on the road, with the follow-up free DLC being their next priority. Once all the single player content has released, the company will be refocusing on delivering multiplayer.
We had hoped that multiplayer would be coming at some stage, as it has been long hinted at by CD Projekt Red, but it's great to get official confirmation that the feature is on the game's road-map.
Stay tuned to GameFront for more on this as we learn it.
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Lidl plans to invest $100 million for a distribution center in Covington, Ga., that will serve as the company’s regional headquarters.
The facility will be 925,000 square feet and will supply Lidl stores across the region, according to a news release. Lidl described the distribution center as centrally located for its store network in the state and for future expansion plans. The chain has opened four stores in Georgia and has 85 stores overall throughout the East Coast.
“We look forward to breaking ground on Lidl’s fourth regional distribution center in the U.S. and hiring hundreds of new team members in Georgia,” Lidl U.S. chairman Roman Heini said in the release. “This centrally located facility will allow us to efficiently deliver outstanding quality products to our customers at the lowest possible prices and expand our network of stores across the region. We thank Governor Brian Kemp and local leaders for their tremendous support during this process.”


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Good morning. Some headlines in tech over the last 12 or so hours that aren’t mobile-specific but are making an impact on the larger tech ecosystem:
Amazon bought Twitch for a little over a billion dollars, $970 million of that in cash, according to Eric Johnson at Re:Code. The video game livestreaming service, which came out of Y-Combinator 2007 class’s Justin.tv, has 55 monthly active users, the brunt of which are free and being monetized off of advertising. However, there’s a growing subscription business that makes up 600,000 users, giving the service a more diversified revenue stream which I’m sure appealed to the folks at Amazon. What was especially interesting about this story is that Twitch was already marked as an acquisition target just days earlier by Google; however, sources at the WSJ say the search giant got cold feet over the last few weeks and pulled the plug on the deal. (edit: Business Insider, citing Forbes, claims it broke down due to antitrust issues) That gave Amazon the opportunity to sneak in and complete the transaction. So was this a strategic move for Amazon or merely a defensive acquisition to make Google weaker by proxy?
Facebook’s news feed algorithm, EdgeRank, will attempt to crack down on linkbait-y headlines. So the media organizations that make a living off of hyperbolic headlining (BuzzFeed, Upworthy & a host of others) will now be subject to what amounts to informal penalties: their stories will be given less weight by the algorithm and will not show up nearly as frequently in most users’ news feeds. The algorithm will also be giving credence to publishers who post links using Facebook’s now-standard paste-a-link format (which automatically produces the URL/caption) rather than pasting that link within the context of the article itself. You can see examples of both scenarios on Facebook’s press page announcing the changes, which explains it in better detail.
Finally, this was an interesting interview with John Siracusa, he of the exponentially long Mac OSX review. (You can see examples of this at his Ars Technica author page) Some would say he’s swimming against the tide by writing such long-form content but his argument is that people are actually starving for this kind of in-depth analysis, which is hard to argue against considering his reviews actually sell as E-Books on Amazon….and more importantly, sell well.