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Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has renewed its MoU with Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation to transform urban mobility across the city.
The partnership is aimed at developing modern public transit systems featuring open-loop EMV tap-to-ride technology, which allows riders to tap their existing payment cards, mobile wallets or wearables to pay for their transit fares, e-tickets, electric vehicle charging, toll fees and car-park fees.
Tap-to-ride is becoming increasingly popular, with Visa’s network having processed over one billion tap-to-ride transactions on global transit systems in ten months.
Visa’s recent Future of Urban Mobility Survey found that 91 per cent of riders expect public transit systems to offer contactless payments, and nearly a third cited contactless payments as a top feature that would entice them to use public transit.
Dung Dang, Visa country manager of Vietnam and Laos, said, “The use of contactless payments will improve the travel experience for all commuters, making journeys more smart, seamless and secure. Going cashless and paperless will also help to reduce the environmental footprint in the city. We are excited to continue our collaboration with Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation to implement more acceptance points across the city, as this is an important part of the nation’s smart city agenda.”
In Vietnam, the pandemic has altered payments, including the leap from physical cards to contactless payments and from cash to cashless. According to the 2022 Visa Consumer Payment Attitudes Study, Vietnam has seen an increase in contactless payment usage since 2021.
Now, 83 per cent of consumers are aware of contactless transit cards, with usage ranging from mobile apps, prepaid cards, and debit cards. Four in five consumers said they used contactless cards for transit at least once a week or more often, with Gen X, Boomers, and the Affluent segment using contactless cards most often.
The city's transport department's first MoU with Visa saw contactless tap-to-ride payments rolled out in 50 buses in Ho Chi Minh City. Under ther enewed MoU, the department is aiming for a 20-fold increase to 1,000 buses. Visa and the transport department will also continue to engage on initiatives and public policies that will drive smarter mobility across the city.
Tran Quang Lam, director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport said “Smart mobility is a key strategic objective in the transformation of Ho Chi Minh City. We are thrilled to be partnering with Visa to provide all citizens with more utilities through seamless and modern technology innovations.”
He added that Ho Chi Minh City was adopting measures to develop a smart city, including the establishment of an interconnected online ticketing system for public transport. The plan states that by 2025, all bus public services will accept e-tickets. Hence, the use of cashless payment for public transit will be the normal when Metro Line 1 begins service in 2024.
“The city transport department recently worked with Visa to roll out EMV contactless payment technology on bus routes. We are pleased to see Visa promoting and boosting digital transactions in transportation. The transport department and Visa will further collaborate and develop optimised strategies to implement cutting-edge technology to cut down on commuting times for service payments,” he said.
In the initial years of collaboration, the two sides engaged in a fruitful sharing of experiences. Last year, delegates from the city transport department visited Singapore to attend a knowledge-sharing tour organised by Visa. The trip demonstrated the organisations’ efforts in supporting the future of smart mobility and opened discussions on transit policymaking and open-loop systems.
“Visa’s experience in managing urban mobility projects in over 640 cities globally, and 50 cities in Asia Pacific, provides the city transport department access to global best practices in smart mobility. To expand universal support, Visa will open up Cybersource, our world-leading global payment management platform for enhancing digital payment infrastructure. This will afford all payments processed the security and fraud-screening capabilities of Visa, making smart transport safer and more accessible for all,” said Dang.
|Students benefit from Visa’s financial literacy initiative
A financial literacy programme organised by Visa has provided essential financial education to nearly 8,000 students in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City through online and offline training sessions, teaching basic financial knowledge and money management skills.
|Visa invites Asia-Pacific’s top startups to shape payment future
Visa has announced an open call for startups across Asia-Pacific to apply for the Visa Accelerator Program 2023.
|Students supercharge SMEs in Visa and CCVSA’s Financial Literacy programme
Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has announced the three winning teams from its 10th annual Vietnam Financial Literacy programme, with H2L taking home the first prize.


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NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service is now available on Roku
Peacock, which offers a combination of entertainment, news, and sports, launched nationwide in July. It was available to stream on a number of different set-top boxes and video game consoles, but it was absent from Roku. Neither NBCUniversal nor Roku could come to an agreement over a split in advertising revenue, leading to a standoff between the two companies. Tedd Cittadine, vice president of content acquisition at Roku, called the newfound agreement a “very positive and mutually beneficial partnership” in a statement to The Verge.
“We are excited by the opportunities to integrate NBC content within The Roku Channel while we also work together with Peacock on the development of a significant and meaningful advertising and ad tech partnership,” Cittadine said.

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There's no better excuse to indulge in the big flavours of American cooking than Fourth of July celebrations. Mark US Independence Day in style with these great US-inspired recipes.
Callan Boys Efforts to revive falling sales unleash a new wave of creative virtual menu additions and all-day brekkie.
Stephanie Wood President Barack Obama's firm views on the subject of guacamole have brought the dish to the centre of international debate.
Whether in the slow cooker, or on the stovetop, here's a way to cook and eat that ticks all the boxes: healthy and wholesome, comforting and convenient.
Clare Sibthorpe Castle Hill's Crooked Tailor has opened its doors, offering soul-warming classic food, a rotating cocktail list, and a relaxed atmosphere.
Canberra paleo stars the Merrymaker Sisters, Emma and Carla Papas have launched a new cookbook.
Owen Pidgeon Radishes are one of the few garden vegetables that you can grow the whole year round. Here are Owen Pidgeon's tips on producing them.
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Online payments platform Paytm has today launched its new “All-in-One” QR code product at an event in New Delhi. It integrates some of the most commonly used payment platforms in India including Paytm wallet, any UPI app, and even Rupay debit cards.
With this, it has become the first product to accept payments via Rupay debit cards. This means you can simply scan this new QR code using Paytm to pay via your wallet, any other UPI-enabled app (such as Google Pay, PhonePe, or WhatsApp) or a banking app’s scanner to pay via your Rupay debit card.
This development from Paytm comes after RBI mandated that businesses with an annual turnover of more than ₹50 crores need to offer customers low-cost digital payment options, including BHIM UPI, UPI QR Code, Aadhaar Pay, and debit cards, and more.
One of the major benefit of Paytm’s ‘All-in-One’ QR code is that no Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) fee will be levied on either on the customer or merchant. The government has taken this step to boost the use of digital payment solutions, especially its own UPI payments platform in India.
Along with this, the company has also launched a Dynamic QR display which integrates a 3.5-inch display at the center of the QR code stand which shows dynamic QR code for single orders. It has also announced Paytm SoundBox which will speak out loud the last transaction, that too in multiple languages almost instantly.
Further, the company is looking to allow merchants to customize their “All-in-One” QR code and has launched QR merchandise. Instead of the standard stand, businesses can choose to order a customized stand with a radio, calculator or message.


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After the Urus, this new small SUV would represent the right way for Lamborghini to tackle the Porsche Macan.
Lamborghini has been marketing the Urus since 2018, a large ultra-sporty SUV designed on the same platform as the Audi Q7 / Q8 and other Porsche Cayenne. With its 650 horsepower, this Urus is currently establishing itself as the most efficient SUV in the world. It costs a little over 200,000 euros to purchase.
When will there be a more affordable SUV model in Lamborghini's range? This is exactly what Bat Not Bad imagines on Instagram, with a styling study showing an ultra-sporty compact SUV incorporating the brand's stylistic codes.
An electric model
This small SUV, entirely virtual and unrelated to Lamborghini, would have an electric powertrain. Exactly like the future Porsche Macan, which will also have a mechanism without fossil fuel. But it is difficult to see Lamborghini offering a model of this kind, which could be sold for less than 100,000 euros: for a manufacturer with such an exclusive image, it seems impossible.


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Mercedes-Benz India has opened its eighth showroom in Kerala. The automaker now has 93 outlets in 45 cities, making it the highest by any premium car manufacturer in the country.
The new dealership, Rajasree Motors, is located in Thiruvananthapuram and was built in just four months with an investment of Rs 3 crores. It is spread across 9,000 sq. ft. and boasts of an display area showcasing seven cars at a time. The carmaker has appointed 15 skilled professionals trained to cater to customers and provide the best of services.
Thiruvananthapuram is a key emerging market and the new outlet will cater to neighbouring regions as well. Mercedes-Benz is on an expansion drive focusing on tapping the potential of Tier II and Tier III cities across India. Such new dealerships will extend their reach to many more places and cater to a wider audience across the country.


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Toshiba Corp.'s chief executive has resigned, along with two of his predecessors and other top executives, as the prominent Japanese industrial conglomerate continues to grapple with the fallout from a high-profile accounting scandal that has shaken Japan Inc.
The resignations on Tuesday accompanied the release of a third-party investigation into the company's accounting practices carried out by a former head of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, which found Toshiba's senior management put relentless pressure on subordinates to meet unrealistic profit targets. Since the financial crisis, the investigation uncovered, Toshiba's managers overstated profits by more than $1.2-billion (U.S.), a massive sum considering the thin margins of the ailing Japanese electronics industry.
"For the company to rebuild, there needs to be a renewal of the management structure," Toshiba president Hisao Tanaka told a press briefing as he resigned and bowed in apology.
The first hint of trouble at Toshiba emerged in early April, when the company said it was investigating potential accounting irregularities, and became more clear in mid-May when the company said it would need to correct previously issued financial results. The final figure of overstated earnings was roughly three times what the company initially suggested, a result of what the report described as a "corporate culture in which one could not go against the wishes of superiors."
On Tuesday, Toshiba chairman Masashi Muromachi said he will take over as interim president, and the company will continue to look into more management changes that it will unveil in August. "The entire Company will make every effort to regain the trust of shareholders, investors, all other stakeholders and the public, and asks for your understanding and ongoing support," Toshiba said in a statement.
Toshiba – which makes everything from tablets and laptops to home appliances and nuclear reactors – has roots stretching back to a small Tokyo factory built in 1875.
The company grew rapidly by supplying the Japanese military during the Second World War and expanded around the globe during Japan's boom years in the postwar era. But, starting in the 1990s, unending economic stagnation in Japan severely crimped the company's ability to eke out profit from its still-substantial revenue – which was $63.1-billion in fiscal 2013.
Gerhard Fasol, founder of Tokyo-based consultancy Eurotechnology Japan KK, said Toshiba's situation is similar to that of many other large Japanese electronics companies, such as Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.; the company may have felt it had to "save face" rather than admit to failing in the wake of the financial crisis, he said.
"Toshiba, essentially, has not grown over the last 17 years, and [net] income is very, very small. There was a lot of pressure on Toshiba to improve results – and this pressure apparently resulted in this accounting issue," said Mr. Fasol, who contrasted Toshiba's failed efforts at cleaning up corporate governance with more positive results at Hitachi, which has appointed foreign board members.
The Toshiba scandal follows revelations in 2011 that Olympus Corp. engaged in a 13-year accounting fraud. It also comes as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Japan Exchange Group, which runs the Tokyo Stock Exchange, continue to push and promote corporate governance reforms in Japan – where outside corporate directors are rare, boards are known for shunning radical strategic shifts and directors are often senior leaders of a company's various divisions. On June 1, a new corporate governance code took effect, aiming to boost sustainable growth in Japan, despite an era of stagnation and persistent deflation.
The long-time group CEO of the Japan Exchange Group, Atsushi Saito, said in June that he was "ashamed" of Toshiba's accounting practices, but remained confident that corporate governance in Japan was gradually improving.


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South-West states have started feeling the heat of the strike action embarked upon by members of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) as prices of beef, food and vegetables in the markets have skyrocketed.
AUFCDN, which is an affiliate of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), commenced a nationwide strike last Thursday following the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum given to the federal government to attend to its demands.
The union had demanded the protection of its members, payment of N475 billion compensation for lives of members and properties lost during the #EndSARS protest, and the Shasa market crisis in Ibadan.
It also demanded the dismantling of all roadblocks on federal highways where their members are harassed and money is extorted from them by the authorities.
The strike entails closing all routes between the North and South for vehicles conveying cattle and food items. Such vehicles are stopped from reaching the Southern region.
SaharaReporters gathered that there is over a 200 percent increase in the cost of food items in Lagos markets.
A yam dealer, Beatrice, said that the blockage had not only affected the cost of food items transported from the North but every other food item.
She said, “As you can see, I really don't have much stock here because they are not allowing the trucks to come into the South, so the ones we have here have become more expensive. This one (displaying a small tuber of yam) costs N700, nothing less. I am selling it at that price because it is from my old stock. I learnt the ones they manage to bring in now are very costly.
“The market is now very dry. Look in those directions (pointing to tomato sellers), you'll see that they are very unaffordable, we are even tired.”
A butcher at Kara Market, Akute told SaharaReporters that the market had been shut since Monday morning as there were no cows to kill. He stated that the abattoir has been shut since last Thursday and that the situation was affecting beef sellers and consumers in the area.
“I have a store at Kara market and this morning, when we got there, we realised it had been locked up. The trucks that bring in cows to the South are no more coming so there is really nothing to work with. The cows butchered last week were even few in number. That's the reason why food items are costly.
“There's no way you can go to the market now and anyone will sell beef of N500 or N1, 000 to you. Beef, in particular, is very very expensive. If anyone sells to you, check that meat very well, it's not a good one. Some people have already started buying fish, getting used to how to eat fish rather than meat. Some will start buying frozen chicken, turkey or even the fresh ones but you know, all these things will also be affected and their prices will also increase.”
Another market woman who sells cowhide (ponmo), while reacting to a question on why her wares were expensive, quipped, “Is Ponmo not a part of the cow?”
From her store and the stores of other ponmo dealers like her, the cowhides available ranged from N150 to N250. Asked why the usual N50 and N100 cowhides were not available, she said, “As it's affecting the real beef, that's the same way it's affecting ponmo. We usually buy a portion of ponmo (Owo kan) at N8, 000, that's for the big ones but now, we buy it at N12, 000. In this market, I am the only one selling ponmo of N150, go to other people, they sell for N250 and you will not get it cheaper.”
Truly, others sell at N250 for ones s SaharaReporters later found out.
SaharaReporters observed that pepper sellers were not left out. Four pieces of small tomatoes were sold at N100 while double of that went for N200.
A pepper seller said a basket of tomatoes sold for N7, 000 before the strike was now N25, 000. According to her, the price difference for Habanero pepper and red bell pepper is double that of tomato.
“For the one we are selling now, we all contributed money to buy a basket, then we shared it because it was too expensive and we didn't know what would happen later. A sack of habanero pepper that used to cost N8, 000 is now N35, 000, they even sell the rotten ones for as high as N18, 000 but who will buy rotten pepper from us? I'm talking of a small sack of pepper. People don't even understand what is happening yet, they come here and see that we are selling four pieces of tomatoes at N100, they angrily leave. We are also not happy with it.
“As I said earlier, four or five traders now buy a basket of tomatoes or pepper and share whereas before now, some of us would buy half a basket, but now, we can't even do that because we cannot afford it?”
The costs of other food items such as onion, smoked fish, and others are gradually increasing due to the strike.
A Hausa trader said onions had also become very expensive. He said he was selling six pieces of small onions for N100 while one medium-sized onion was sold at N50.
“Our people have decided to stop transporting food items to the South. As it's affecting you, it's also affecting me because I'm the trader and even though I make gain from here, the money will be expended on other things I don't sell but I have to buy,” the trader said.
In its reaction, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum warned the AUFCDN to desist from blocking the passage of food items and consider the consequences if the South is to do the same.
Speaking with SaharaReporters, the South-West representative and National Publicity Secretary for Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin said the forum will take a step very soon if the association does not call off the strike.
“They will hear from us very soon. They will hear from us if they continue their nonsense but our reaction will not be just for newspaper publication, they will surely hear from us,” he said.
He also described southerners as hard-working people who worked on farmlands before the invasion of killer herdsmen and their cattle on the farms.
“We have warned the bandits who are behaving like blockheads in the North that blocking tomatoes and food items is not the way to go. They had better stop the nonsense before we are forced to act. We are not lazy people, if not for the animals from their areas that destroyed our farms, we produce food too," he said.


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‘Lilac Review’ launched to level up disabled entrepreneurship in UK
A major new independent review into addressing and overcoming the inequality faced by disabled-led businesses has been launched with backing from the UK Government.
Disabled entrepreneurs currently account for an estimated 25% of the nation’s 5.5million small businesses but represent only 8.6% of total small business turnover. Small Business Britain estimates suggest that levelling up opportunity could unlock an additional £230 billion in business turnover.
The Lilac Review aims to identify, and seeks to break down, challenges faced by disabled entrepreneurs. Issuing an action plan to drive greater change across entrepreneurship it will call for organisations across the UK to commit to a series of goals.
Jointly chaired by the Minister for Small Business, Kevin Hollinrake, the Minister for Disabled People, Mims Davies and Victoria Jenkins, CEO and Founder of adaptive fashion brand Unhidden. The Lilac Review launched on 1 February 2024 and will take place over an initial two-year period.
Kevin Hollinrake MP, Minister for Small Business and Co-Chair of The Lilac Review said: “We are committed to ensuring the UK is the best place in the world for anyone who wants to start and scale up a business.
“That’s why I am delighted to co-chair The Lilac Review to support the UK’s disabled entrepreneurs so they can follow their passion and create their own success story, without restrictions or barriers.”
Following research and consultation with a wide variety of stakeholders - particularly disabled entrepreneurs - interim research findings will be shared later this year, with a final report and recommendations set for the end of 2025.
The need for The Lilac Review was highlighted by the ‘Disability and Entrepreneurship report’, launched by Small Business Britain in March 2023 in partnership with Lloyds Bank.
Consulting over 500 disabled founders across the country – in one of the largest studies of its kind in the UK – the report found disabled entrepreneurs face significant barriers to start and grow businesses, such as higher start-up costs, challenges accessing funding and support, as well as a lack of credit by wider society. While 35% of founders said their disability has positively impacted them as an entrepreneur, over half said they had no external support when starting up, 72% lacked appropriate role models to guide them and 55% received no financial support.
Earlier research from the Access 2 Funding campaign also shows that 84% of disabled founders don’t feel they have equal access to the same opportunities and resources as non-disabled founders. While further research also shows that disabled people on average face an additional £975 a month in costs due to the ‘Disability Price Tag’, before business costs.
Victoria Jenkins, CEO and Founder of Unhidden and Co-Chair of The Lilac Review said: “The contribution of the disabled community to society is so much higher than people are made aware of. To be able to help remove some, or all of, the barriers that are impacting us is a lifelong mission of mine and so many others. We are also worth more than what we can, or can't, contribute from a financial respect and I hope to highlight that as well over the next two years, alongside powerful and important voices in the community.”
Driven by insight from disabled entrepreneurs, a wide audience of stakeholders will be consulted as part of The Lilac Review’s research into the challenges and solutions in this area.
A number of disabled founders will sit on the Review’s Steering Board, as well as representatives from the wider business community and UK Government including: Small Business Britain, Lloyds Bank, eBay, BT, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), The Entrepreneurs Network, Business Disability Forum, and academics from ARU Peterborough university.
Minister for Disabled People and Co-Chair of The Lilac Review Mims Davies MP said: “Disabled entrepreneurs currently make up a quarter of all small business owners – they are at the heart of our economy and its paramount they get every opportunity to succeed and thrive in their sectors.
“I’m delighted to be co-chairing the Lilac Review, which will help us make sure the UK is the best place to do business and to be a disabled entrepreneur – where your ideas and endeavours will be supported.”
Once published, The Lilac Review will share recommendations for supporting disabled entrepreneurs and a call-to-action for driving positive change across society – particularly around accessibility and inclusion in entrepreneurship.


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When European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -2.20% Google €2.4 billion last June for abusing its dominance to clobber rivals, Josh Hawley in Missouri took notice.
Mr. Hawley, the state’s attorney general, launched his own antitrust investigation into the same allegations in November and has demanded a copy of all evidence Google has given the EU. Other state attorneys general are talking to Missouri about sharing information, according to people familiar with the discussions. “We are all watching the European proceedings,” says Mr. Hawley.
Ms. Vestager, a 49-year old Dane, has become the public face of Europe’s effort to rein in technology firms and the de facto global regulator for the U.S.’s tech giants. Her approach to companies such as Google and Apple Inc. is having a ripple effect around the globe, influencing regulatory action not only in the U.S. but in countries including Brazil, India and Russia.


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As part of London Tech Week, UKBAA’s next TechInvest pitching event, delivered in partnership with the Mayor of London, will showcase cutting-edge, women-led businesses harnessing the power of technology to address the major global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event will showcase 10 standout start-up to scale-up businesses that are actively raising £250k-£3m to expand and grow. Applicants can be working in any tech sector but should demonstrate that their innovation offers ground-breaking and disruptive solutions with a strong potential to scale.
If you're working with, or investing in an early stage London-based women-led business raising investment in the range of £250k-£3m, we want to hear from them.
Applications to pitch are open until midday on 28th May.


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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 03/12/14 -- Piksel, a global provider of video monetization software and solutions, has announced key appointments to its product organization, strengthening the business for future growth and development.
"At Piksel, we have a vision for our customers to deploy customized video platforms quickly, cost effectively, and globally. These systems will harness the power of live video; allow for secure transmission of copyrighted material; implement storage with an eye toward cost, speed, and regulation; provide feedback and analytics to ensure profit and customer satisfaction; and do so instantly and to any location. While we don't believe there's a single shrink-wrapped solution that does this right now, we're focused on strengthening the tools and applications that can speed time to market and drive down deployment costs overall. These products and solutions include our core over-the-top (OTT) framework, Piksel 2Si for companion screen content, Piksel OVP, and our managed services business which underpins the performance of our customer deployments. The expansion of our global product team is a great enhancement to our ability to deliver on this vision," said Piksel's Chief Product Officer, Mark Portu.
Piksel would like to welcome Sean Everett and Paul Hodgson, who add depth to a team that includes Brian Benitez and Dan Bleeker, who joined in mid-2013:
- Brian Benitez, Senior Vice President of Product.
Brian is a web veteran with a career emphasis on complex media management and publishing applications. Brian was involved in the web's earliest efforts to deliver audio and video online including the Internet's first commercial website Wired Magazine's Hotwired. He has since led product teams in both consumer and enterprise software, most recently as vice president of product at Cinchcast. Brian will be focused on driving innovation within the product organization and is a graduate of University of California with a BA in English.
- Dan Bleeker, Senior Vice President of Software Development.
Dan is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of software industry experience across video, mobile, document, and knowledge management, voice recognition, and end-user application. In this role, Dan is tasked with coordinating product development, collaboration, and best practices across Piksel's global team. Previously Dan has worked as a consultant, served as senior vice president of product strategy and development for The FeedRoom and was a key founder in three companies: Curo Technology, TierTwo Systems, and TeamDirection. He has a bachelor and a masters degree in engineering from the University of California.
- Sean Everett, Product Manager - OVP.
Sean's fascination with technology began at 5 years old with an Apple IIe computer. Since then, his career has ranged from retail store management and consulting to Fortune 100 Boards to founding multiple startups. He's built many apps including one that saved a life from suicide and created an emotion-sensing, artificially intelligent friend named Kiiy. Sean's focus will be driving significant feature enhancements for Piksel OVP, including adding a digital signage application to the suite. Sean is a math graduate of the University of Iowa and a business graduate of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
- Paul Hodgson, Product Manager - Piksel Services
Paul has a lengthy background working with Tier 1 broadcast and media clients, in particular with the delivery of some of the first to market video solutions for BSkyB, Channel 4, ITV and Foxtel. Paul's experience ranges across engineering, infrastructure, commercial, service delivery, operations and client management, principally in the media and health verticals. In his new role, Paul is focused on developing the product strategy for Piksel's managed services offering and maximizing opportunities across professional services engagements. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Northumbria University.
We help the world's leading brands maximize their reach and return with video.
Comprised of a global team of experts we call "televisionaries," Piksel has helped to design, build, and manage online video services for major media companies like AT&T, BSkyB, Celcom, Mediaset, Sky Deutschland and Televisa, as well as enterprise brands like Airbus, Barnes & Noble, and Volkswagen.
Headquartered in New York City, Piksel offices can be found throughout Europe and the Americas, serving more than 1,600 clients in over 50 countries.
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers is now open.
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The IoT is changing the way enterprises conduct business. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, discuss how businesses can gain an edge over competitors by empowering consumers to take control through IoT. We'll cite examples such as a Washington, D.C.-based sports club that leveraged IoT and the cloud to develop a comprehensive booking system. He'll also highlight how IoT can revitalize and restore outdated business models, making them profitable...
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Designing IoT applications is complex, but deploying them in a scalable fashion is even more complex. A scalable, API first IaaS cloud is a good start, but in order to understand the various components specific to deploying IoT applications, one needs to understand the architecture of these applications and figure out how to scale these components independently. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Nara Rajagopalan is CEO of Accelerite, will discuss the fundamental architecture of IoT applications, ...
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In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Bruce Swann, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe, will discuss how the Adobe Marketing Cloud can help marketers embrace opportunities for personalized, relevant and real-time customer engagement across offline (direct mail, point of sale, call center) and digital (email, website, SMS, mobile apps, social networks, connected objects). Bruce Swann has more than 15 years of experience working with digital marketing disciplines like web analytics, social med...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Enzu, a leading provider of cloud hosting solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Enzu’s mission is to be the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions worldwide. Enzu enables online businesses to use its IT infrastructure to their competitive advantage. By offering a suite of proven hosting and management services, Enzu wants companies to foc...
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Customer experience has become a competitive differentiator for companies, and it’s imperative that brands seamlessly connect the customer journey across all platforms. With the continued explosion of IoT, join us for a look at how to build a winning digital foundation in the connected era – today and in the future. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Nguyen, Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe, will discuss how to successfully leverage mobile, rapidly deploy content, capture real-time d...
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IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? How do you coordinate the diverse moving parts that must come together when developing your IoT product? What are the key challenges addressed by Data as a Service? How does cloud computing underlie and connect the notions of Digital and DevOps What is the impact of the API economy? What is the business imperative for Cognitive Computing? Get all these questions and hundreds more like them answered at the 18th Cloud Expo...
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The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren’t yet translating into a true “cloud” experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the “private cloud” market? In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Nara Rajagopalan, CEO of Accelerite, will explore the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences betwee...
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As cloud and storage projections continue to rise, the number of organizations moving to the cloud is escalating and it is clear cloud storage is here to stay. However, is it secure? Data is the lifeblood for government entities, countries, cloud service providers and enterprises alike and losing or exposing that data can have disastrous results. There are new concepts for data storage on the horizon that will deliver secure solutions for storing and moving sensitive data around the world. ...
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What a difference a year makes. Organizations aren’t just talking about IoT possibilities, it is now baked into their core business strategy. With IoT, billions of devices generating data from different companies on different networks around the globe need to interact. From efficiency to better customer insights to completely new business models, IoT will turn traditional business models upside down. In the new customer-centric age, the key to success is delivering critical services and apps wit...
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, US — Archer Daniels Midland Co. plans to stop producing dry lysine in early 2021 and produce only liquid and encapsulated lysine products.
“Animal nutrition is a growing and evolving industry, and as a global leader in this space, we’re proud to meet customer needs with modern, innovative products,” said Pierre Joseph Paoli, president, feed ingredients and additives of ADM. “We’re seeing good growth from existing and new customers, and we’ve received great feedback as we’ve worked closely with producers to transition them to our liquid lysine products and delivery systems, as well as to our innovative new encapsulated lysine products.
“Simultaneously, market conditions for dry lysine have eroded, as global industry capacity has expanded faster than demand. We are pleased to continue to invest to serve our customers with cutting-edge ingredients and services, while simultaneously refocusing and strengthening this segment of our Animal Nutrition business portfolio.”
Lysine is an amino acid and is used to address the nutrient requirements of animals and improve production performance for producers to deliver milk, meat and eggs to consumers.
ADM has been working with swine and poultry feed producers to assist with the transition to liquid lysine by installing equipment in their plants and providing service through the company’s online inventory management system.


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Bromsbury Consulting (http://www.bromsbury.com), a provider of software strategy and development services, announced today the availability of iXign, a solution that categorically enhances the security of your business infrastructure and improves the experience of your visitors and contractors. Available at (http://www.ixign.com), As a fully-digitized system, iXign streamlines the check- in process by capturing images, sending instant visitor notifications,
In the consumer sector and in many other industries, transformation programs often fail. Creating a “performance infrastructure” can help ensure that yours won’t. Disruptive forces abound in today’s business environment. Technological innovation, regulatory changes, pressure from activist investors, and new entrants are just some of the forces causing disruption, even in historically less volatile business sectors.
Companies that offer best-in-class customer experiences grow faster and more profitably. To reach this level, insurers must relentlessly improve customer journeys across channels and business functions. The difference between great and poor customer service has always been clear, and businesses on the wrong end of this
Organizations say they want to have more data insight and while 74% of firms say they want to be “data-driven,” only 29% say they are good at connecting analytics to action. That is the problem. Evidence shows business satisfaction with analytics went down 21% between 2014 and 2015, despite big investments in big data. What
Even good managers can miss the early signs of distress. The first step is to acknowledge there’s a problem. Often times managers are already right into a crisis without recognising that their situation is worsening. They’re not necessarily bad managers, but they’re often working under a set of paradigms that no longer apply and letting the power


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Indian zero-alcohol beer pioneer Coolberg has highlighted culture and price challenges as the sector’s toughest hurdles to cross in the country, whilst also laying out plans to create a new category of fizzy drinks in hopes of drawing in the mass market.
The US Food and Drug Administration will not object to the use of certain qualified health claims regarding consuming certain cranberry juice and supplements and a reduced risk of recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) in healthy women.
Delving deeper into a popular remedy that has lacked solid scientific backing, a new placebo-controlled study found that cranberry juice consumption lowered clinical urinary tract infection (UTI) episodes in women with a recent history of UTIs.
Consumption of a low-calorie cranberry juice cocktail could help lower the risk of chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes and stroke, say researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Daily consumption of a low-calorie cranberry juice may improve certain risk factors of heart disease, including blood pressure and triglycerides, says a new study from the Agricultural Research Service at the USDA and Ocean Spray Cranberries.
Ocean Spray has made its first international acquisition with the cranberry processing business of Cran Chile, providing the cranberry giant with a strategic South American location and increased capacity.
Last week global cranberry leader, Ocean Spray, announced it was working on settling the long-running and divisive debate about how best to measure the berry’s active constituents – but the move has not been welcomed by the man who won the world’s first-ever...
Ocean Spray has waded out of its Massachusetts cranberry bogs and into the fiery and divisive debate about accurately measuring the berry’s health benefit-delivering proanthocyanidins (PACs) – a longstanding tete-a-tete it says it can end once for all...
Ocean Spray will change its auction policies to add certainty to opening prices the cranberry leader said after closing its latest cranberry concentrate auction that saw prices rise 17 percent over three selling periods.
EuraCran plans to seek a modification or cancellation of the French DGCCRF notification on the appropriate method for assessing PAC in cranberry products that bear a health claim, as it claims there are “factual or scientific mistakes” in the evaluation.
In the first of a four part special edition focused on cranberries, NutraIngredients looks at the market for the berry, with its entrance into the indulgence sectors an indication perhaps that health positioning is no longer the sole driving force behind...
Ocean Spray's Ingredient Technology Group has formulated a lower cost sweetened dried cranberry (SDC) product to meet demand for cost-effective and value-added ingredients in the face of rising commodity prices.
Cranberry is no longer just for Christmas as growth in consumer
demand has helped the little red berry find its way into some 900
brand new products this year - a staggering rise from the 2006
position of 54 launches, according to...
After rejecting an $800 million offer for its juice business from
Northland Cranberries early last year, US co-operative Ocean Spray
has decided the time is right to enter into an agreement with its
US cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray will roll out a plumper
version of its health ingredient for use in bakery products onto
the European food market in the next few months, hoping to see
value-added ingredients boost a bottom line...
Last week we reported on the possible downgrade in share ratings
for Ocean Spray following the resignation of the cranberry
co-operative's CEO. Troubles continue this week with Northland
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Electronic manufacturer Samsung Electronics continues to seriously working on portable computer market (notebook).
Despite playing for two years, Samsung has dared to issue a premium grade products at affordable prices.
Samsung Notebook Series 5 AMD [...]
Have you ever felt annoyed when someone you do not know to keep trying to be your friend on Facebook? Several steps were quoted by CNET, Friday (11/02), the following could be a solution.
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Did you know that we can upload photos to Instagram and specific Page on Facebook as well? If you do not know, the following easy steps:
1. To be able to share photos in a Page on Facebook, run the first app Instagram and go to Options.
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The Samsung has confirmed that they will continue cooperation with Apple.
After emergence page report quoted the Korea Times on Monday, (10/22), about the possibility of termination of their partnership with the Apple.
Today, the Samsung has confirmed [...]
Engaged in “patent war” in 10 countries in the last year.
Although Samsung continues to marginalize the competition to win the market of smartphones and tablets in the world, Apple is apparently still dependent on the South Korean technology [...]
Beat the record photo teen star Justin Bieber.
Obama seems destined to be the person who created history. Being the first black president in the United States and the second democrat politician who was elected president for two terms in a row since World [...]
The event introductions latest smartphone Samsung, Galaxy S4, South Africa is considered too sexy woman indulgence.
Because of this, the South Korean manufacturer is finally formally apologized.
Quoted from Techradar, Monday (25/3), an event held in [...]
Samsung finally sealed on March 14, 2013 as the beginning of the emergence of new smartphone, Galaxy S4.
Excerpted from The Verge, Monday (2/25), is the boss of Samsung, JK Shin, which ensures that date when he was commenting on the 2013 MWC Barcelona.
Compel Apple to admit mistakes.
The adage “already fallen, hit by the stairs anyway” seems to fit the subject at Apple in the case of the lawsuit in the UK. After the appeal was rejected British High Court, in London, the U.S. tech giant [...]
New news about the successor to the Galaxy S3 smartphone reappeared. This time, Samsung will release it issued on March 15, 2013.
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A man named Jim Stickley so far recorded more than 1000 bank he had robbed.
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Japanese volunteer Michi Kurihara (right) works with msME associations in Antique to help them develop new product lines using flying fish as raw material
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Antique has tapped the assistance of a Japanese volunteer to develop new food products from Antique in a move to boost tourism and livelihood in the area.
Japanese volunteer Michi Kurihara, 30, was dispatched to the agency under the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Volunteer Program in 2016.
A Food Science major from Tokyo University of Agriculture, Kurihara is working with nine micro, small and medium enteprises (mSME) associations in Antique to also help them develop new product lines or variances from existing processed food such as confectioneries using muscovado, tomato sauce, peanut cookies, and condiments for noodles with veggies using flying fish as raw material.
Antique can sell said condiments as ingredient in Japanese food that some local restaurants serve in Panay Island.
In Japan, flying fish is seen as a culinary staple which when fried can be an ingredient for ‘washoku' or Japanese dishes. This type when processed may also be used for seasonings as well as for various culinary dishes like Ramen or Udon.
Kurihara said since the species are endemic in Antique, the province can develop the product as an alternative source of income for fisherfolks.
With the Philippines' rising restaurant culture, the flying fish presents a niche for mSMEs in Antique. DTI and Kurihara are planning to hold cooking demonstrations in hotels and restaurants in Antique to explore new markets and generate feedback from potential customers.
"It's also very cheap to source flying fish in Antique and by establishing a cooperation mechanism among DTI, Department of Science and Technology (DOST), and local government units, the flying fish could be further developed as a potential food product," she added.
"I hope to help the province improve food safety standards and connect mSME producers with relevant government agencies to support product development and marketing needs," said Kurihara.
"We appreciate the support of Kurihara in advocating for good manufacturing practices among food processors. She is a big help as we finalize the proposal for shared services facility for food processing and toll packaging compliant to FDA's food safety standards. This facility will help the micro entrepreneurs enter the mainstream market by complying with buyer requirements," said Ma. Arlene Galopo, senior trade and industry development specialist in DTI.
In a market where manufacturers compete by innovating products, Antique's flying fish products could well be a homegrown idea that could fly high.


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Samsung launched the Galaxy Tab S3 more than a year ago and the company is now gearing up to introduce the next generation slate named the Galaxy Tab S4 in a bid to get the better of the upcoming iPad Pro family. Sure enough, a leaked image has revealed that we might see a number of significant upgrades on the device, including one that will give the slate better security options for the user.
Galaxy Tab S4 to Get Increased Screen Real Estate as Samsung Intends This Tablet to Take on the 10.5-Inch iPad Pro Model
As a whole, the construction of the tablet isn’t expected to change much but the image shows that the screen dimension has increased. Unlike the 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S3 with an aspect ratio of 4:3, the new tablet will have a 10.5-inch screen with a 16:10 panel. This is the same aspect ratio that was seen on the Galaxy Tab S in 2014.
Samsung had tried reducing the top and bottom bezels significantly to keep up with the changing times. To achieve this, the physical home key and other capacitive buttons have been eliminated. It now has on-screen buttons, quite like the ones on Samsung’s recent handsets. The home button on the tablet will not be pressure sensitive though.
The source of the leak has also mentioned some other features. For instance, the tablet will have an iris scanner, but its level of reliability is going to be found out during rigorous testing. It will also have DeX support that will enable the tablet to give a desktop-like functionality through a compatible dock, but it is unclear how big of an encumbrance that will be present to the user.
In terms of performance, you should expect plenty of it. The tablet will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, which is an upgrade from Snapdragon 820-powered Tab S3. Additionally, it will have 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, which is a decent combination of internals but let us hope that the price tag stays competitive.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 is expected to be introduced by the end of August or at the beginning of September during the IFA 2018 in Germany along with a Book Cover Keyboard add-on to maintain some productivity on the tablet.
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Australia Cuts 80% of Plastic Bag Use in 3 Short Months
Three months after two of the largest supermarket chains banned plastic grocery bags, an estimated 1.5 billion bags have been prevented from use, the Australian Associated Press reported, citing the National Retail Association.
Overall, the bans introduced by Coles and Woolworths last summer resulted in an 80 percent reduction in the country's overall use of the single-use item, the retail group revealed.
"Indeed, some retailers are reporting reduction rates as high as 90 per cent," National Retail Association's David Stout told the news service.
Initially, some customers felt "bag rage" about having to BYO-bag or fork over 15 Australian cents (11 cents) to buy a reusable one. Woolworths execs blamed slumping sales on "customers adjusting" to the plastic bag ban. Coles even briefly backed down on the bag ban and caught a lot of flak from environmentally conscious shoppers for giving away reusable plastic bags.
But the good news is that it seems most Aussies haven't found it too hard to adjust to the change—and that's fantastic for our landfills, oceans and the greater environment, which have become dumping grounds for our plastic waste.
Stout applauded the progress but shared hopes that the Australian government will get behind a nationwide ban. New South Wales, the nation's most populous state, is the only state that has not legislated to phase out single-use plastic bags.
There has been a growing movement to ban or tax these bags. Around the world, at least 32 countries have bans in place, according to reusable bag company ReuseThisBag.
"We're still seeing a lot of small to medium bags being used, especially in the food category, and whilst I get some comfort that the majors have done this voluntarily I think there still needs to be a ban in place," he told the Australian Associated Press.
"For business, for the environment, for the consumer and of course even for councils which have to work to remove these things from landfills, there's a multitude of benefits on a whole to doing this."
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‘Companies Should Not Be Allowed to Use Hazardous Ingredients in Products People Use’: Michelle Pfeiffer Speaks Up for Safer Cosmetics
The beauty products we put on our skin can have important consequences for our health. Just this March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that some Claire's cosmetics had tested positive for asbestos. But the FDA could only issue a warning, not a recall, because current law does not empower the agency to do so.
Michelle Pfeiffer wants to change that.
The actress and Environmental Working Group (EWG) board member was spotted on Capitol Hill Thursday lobbying lawmakers on behalf of a bill that would increase oversight of the cosmetics industry, The Washington Post reported.
By Julia Conley
Scientists at the United Nations' intergovernmental body focusing on biodiversity sounded alarms earlier this month with its report on the looming potential extinction of one million species — but few heard their calls, according to a German newspaper report.
The climate crisis is a major concern for American voters with nearly 40 percent reporting the issue will help determine how they cast their ballots in the upcoming 2020 presidential election, according to a report compiled by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Of more than 1,000 registered voters surveyed on global warming, climate and energy policies, as well as personal and collective action, 38 percent said that a candidate's position on climate change is "very important" when it comes to determining who will win their vote. Overall, democratic candidates are under more pressure to provide green solutions as part of their campaign promises with 64 percent of Democrat voters saying they prioritize the issue compared with just 34 percent of Independents and 12 percent of Republicans.
President Donald Trump has agreed to sign a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill that will help Americans still recovering from the flooding, hurricanes and wildfires that have devastated parts of the country in the past two years. Senate Republicans said they struck a deal with the president to approve the measure, despite the fact that it did not include the funding he wanted for the U.S.-Mexican border, CNN reported.
"The U.S. Senate has just approved a 19 Billion Dollar Disaster Relief Bill, with my total approval. Great!" the president tweeted Thursday.


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NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 LHR graphics card was released almost a year ago, and NiceHash unlocked the series, enabling 100% crypto mining speeds. Since its inception, there have been many attempts to avoid LHR. This technique is designed to discourage crypto miners from buying gaming graphics cards, but as we’ve observed, it’s crypto by achieving 70-80% of mining speed with NB Miner and Quick Miner upgrades. Miners were able to make significant profits with GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs.
NiceHash has chosen to improve QuickMiner, a cryptominer based on the Daggerhashimotto algorithm for mining Ethereum or ETH, now that mining enthusiasts have subsided. Using the same software, we unlocked up to 70% of hash rates in August 2021 and unlocked mining rates of up to 80% in future versions.
Below is the hash rate of the unlocked RTX 30L HRGPU provided by NiceHash.
With the latest upgrade, crypto miners can now achieve 100% mining rates even when using RTX 30 LHR graphics cards. The latter is designated as a variation of the “write hash rate”, but the RTX3080 and RTX3080LHR produce the same hash rate.
Mining may not be as profitable as it was a year ago. The RTX 3090 TI produces approximately 125-130 MH / s. That’s $ 4-5 per second. This means that you can pay for it in just 400 days (more than a year). This was before considering the cost of electricity. The RTX 3080 earns around $ 3-3.5 and takes 250-280 days to recover your investment.
Cards are much cheaper and are back at MSRP level again, but it seems that it’s no longer worth investing in mining hardware, but those who already own an RTX 30 LHR card can mine faster than existing hardware. You can enjoy rates and more income.
NVIDIA’s “LHR” effort wasn’t destined from the beginning. While it allows retailers and distributors to raise the price of non-LHR cards and make more money, despite the fact that they were available in limited quantities, miners The first meant avoiding “LHR” -specific game cards, and prices soared significantly.
Overall, NVIDIA LHR looks like it’s nearing the end. Mining isn’t as intense as it used to be, and now that the GPU is back in stock, we can finally say goodbye to this feature.


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DETROIT: When it comes to making and selling cars, the auto industry thinks and acts globally: There is near-seamless coordination between parts suppliers, factories and dealerships.
But when an unsafe car needs to be recalled, that global coordination breaks down - in part because governments do not demand it. The consequences are sometimes deadly.
There are no international standards for determining what's unsafe and should be recalled, or how car owners should be notified. Some countries have strict safety regulations and a clear process that automakers must follow when they learn about a defect. But many do not.
"We've witnessed recalls occurring in one part of the world while the same defects go unremedied in others, sometimes for years," said Sean Kane, a safety advocate and president of Safety Research and Strategies. "That should not happen."
Six years ago, Honda began recalling driver's side air bags in the U.S. The air bags, made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp. at a now-shuttered plant in Georgia, can inflate with too much force, spewing shrapnel into the vehicle. But it wasn't until November of this year - after the death of a driver in Malaysia - that Honda recalled driver's side air bags in small cars sold in Europe and Asia, even though the air bags were made at the same time in the same Georgia factory.
Governments are the safety watchdogs, but regulations vary widely and there's little cooperation between nations. Automakers, for the most part, get to decide when and where their cars will be fixed. Some auto executives say they would support global safety standards - but are also aware they save money by limiting recalls to certain regions or skimping on safety features in countries that don't require them.
Safety advocates say governments need to keep better track of potential problems and alert drivers to them more quickly. They're hoping new technology that allows direct communications with the cars themselves can help bridge the gaps.
Automakers used to design cars regionally. Cars in Europe shared few parts with those in the U.S., so when a vehicle needed repairs, the recall rarely spread past international borders.
That's no longer the case. A car like the Ford Focus is designed to be sold everywhere, with only minor tweaks to satisfy local tastes and regulations. It's made in nine different factories around the world.
Car parts are global as well. Almost all the major automakers use air bags from Takata, which has 56 plants in 20 countries. The Japanese company makes around 22 percent of the world's air bags, according to Valient Automotive Market Research.
The approach saves money, but some experts question whether companies compromised safety in the rush to go global. Auto analyst and engineer Tadashi Tateuchi says he believes Takata and Honda, Takata's biggest customer, were overly focused on globalization and boosting sales and allowed safety issues to fall through the cracks.
Honda responds that the air bags sold in the U.S. were different, and more advanced, than those involved in the Malaysia crash. Even though they both ruptured, determining the underlying cause took time.
"The ability to make timely recall decisions therefore cannot and should not be viewed as a simple process," Honda spokesman Chris Martin said.
Despite decades of talk, at the United Nations and elsewhere, little progress has been made getting governments to harmonize safety standards.
Safety runs the gamut. In Europe and Japan, cars are rigorously tested before they go on sale. In the U.S., automakers self-certify and cars are tested only after they go on sale. In Mexico and India, cars don't have to meet any government safety standards at all.
Likewise, countries differ on how to treat a problem. The U.S. requires automakers to report a safety defect within five days of its discovery, even if the cause hasn't been determined. Other countries, like Colombia, want automakers to have a fix in place before they report a recall, so customers know what will be done. The U.S. requires automakers to report recalls that originate in other countries, but it doesn't inform other governments when it orders a recall here.
John Krafcik, the president of auto buying site TrueCar.com and Hyundai's former U.S. chief, says there's also discrepancy in what's considered a safety defect. In the litigious U.S., automakers are more prone to repair minor problems.
In July, for example, Ford recalled 368 Transit Connect commercial vans in Puerto Rico because they had European labels with pictures on the gas caps. U.S. regulations require English words, not pictures. So Ford had to swap out the labels.
The modes of notifying owners also vary. In the U.S., automakers must contact owners by mail every three months; in Brazil, they have to buy radio and newspaper ads to announce recalls. China leaves it to dealers to contact owners. Most countries don't have systems set up to track vehicle identification numbers, so it's hard to find cars that have been sold multiple times.
The lack of a cohesive system contributes to huge disparities. In 2013, there were 714 vehicle recalls issued in the U.S., where 28 million cars, trucks and motorcycles were called back due to safety issues. That outpaced the rest of the world. In Europe, which has around the same number of cars on the road as the U.S., there were 110 recalls. In Japan there were 303. China had 130, Brazil had 74. India had no numbers available.
Some auto executives say global standards would allow them to work from one playbook when designing cars. Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has often complained that the U.S. and Europe have different rules for the direction of the beams from their headlights, for example. The U.S., Europe and Japan have three separate sets of safety rules; most countries adopt one of those - or a combination of them - when establishing their own regulations.
"There's no reason why there should be three different global guidelines on what makes a safe car," Krafcik said.
Global standards might also ease the recall process, since cars would have less variation between markets. Air bags in Malaysia, for example, would automatically be the same as those in the U.S.
But low or nonexistent standards also save money for automakers and car buyers. Nissan didn't even include air bags in the $5,000 Datsun Go it now sells in India and South Africa.
"We are starting with a world that is uneven in the distribution of safety," says Adrian Lund, the president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an insurance-funded group that crash tests U.S. cars. "There are companies that are questioning whether they should have to put all this safety equipment on vehicles."
Nissan says the Go meets local safety standards and has other features like better brakes to help drivers avoid accidents.
Automakers can also save money - hundreds of millions of dollars, in some cases - by dragging their feet on recalls or limiting them to one region.
Ten years ago, the U.S. government fined Toyota $16 million for delaying a recall of 4Runner SUVs with defective steering rods in the U.S. That defect was linked to three fatal crashes here.
This summer, two years after a recall in Europe, General Motors finally recalled the Aveo in the U.S. because corrosion was wearing down the brakes. Meanwhile, in Europe and Brazil, people are still driving Ford SUVs with 1.6-liter EcoBoost engines that were recalled in the U.S. two years ago because of a fire risk. Ford says it hasn't acted abroad because no fires have been reported in other regions.
General Motors, whose mishandled recall of defective ignition switches is now blamed for at least 40 deaths in the U.S., says it has spent much of the last year improving its methods for anticipating safety problems.
GM President Dan Ammann says an entire floor of the company's headquarters is now devoted to sifting through social media, complaints, dealer comments and other channels to spot potential safety problems. When GM finds a problem, he says, the company quickly scans the globe to see what other cars are affected.
"We've gone out and found issues very early and acted on those issues right away rather than seeing how it evolves," Ammann said.
Krafcik says the job of alerting owners to recalls will get easier within a few years, as connected cars let automakers send recall notifications directly to the dashboard. Tesla Motors is already fixing problems by beaming software updates directly into cars, while GM's OnStar system sends a message to the dashboard if there's a recall.
"Every car is going to be a transmitting node, for traffic management and safety," he says. "You will press a button to arrange a service appointment."
But it could take decades for that sort of technology to migrate all over the world.
In the meantime, Lund says, getting local people involved in their own safety - instead of imposing global standards - might be the best route. He is a trustee with the Global New Car Assessment Program, a nonprofit that sets up independent crash-test facilities and publicizes the results. The group has established vehicle testing programs in Southeast Asia and Latin America over the past four years, and it's working on a program for India.
"What you want it for everyone to be educated about safety, and learn that people are being injured and killed and don't need to be," Lund said.


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India has crossed 100 Internet Shutdowns in 2018, but very little is discussed about how they affect daily lives. MediaNama is publishing a series on the impact that Internet Shutdowns have on people’s lives. These were originally published by the Centre for Internet & Society, and written by reporters working with 101Reporters.com, in a report which was released on May 17th 2018.
By Avijit Sarkar
Darjeeling, West Bengal:
Chitra Dutta, 80, owner of a courier service in Darjeeling called Turant, says the 108 days of bandh (strike), including the 100-day ban on internet, had almost paralyzed her business. The shutdown on ground and that of the internet led to courier packages being undistributed for three months. Despite suffering severe loss of revenue, Dutta says she had to pay her employees’ salaries during the bandh, and “it won’t be before March next year” that she will be able to make up for the losses.
When Darjeeling suffered 108 days of bandh called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), the worst hit were businesses in the hills. What made it even more difficult for traders to cope up with the loss was the complete absence of internet services, as several of them depended on the medium to run their operations.
GJM’s movement for Gorkhaland picked up momentum when Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) government tried to impose Bengali as a compulsory subject for all schools in West Bengal in early 2017. GJM party chief Bimal Gurung called for an indefinite bandh of all activities in the hills from June 15. It led to several incidents of arson, violence and deaths in retaliatory police action. From June 18, internet services were banned in Darjeeling and Kalimpong. The ban was lifted on September 25.
Dutta’s Turant, a third-party firm, has a tie-up with major courier service providers Bluedart and Ecospeed to distribute their consignments in Darjeeling and around. Another major player in the delivery business, Amazon, had finalized Turant as its service provider in the hills just before the internet ban, but the deal remained in a dicey state after the situation worsened and Darjeeling was cut off from rest of the state, she says. Her business largely depends on a software to track the goods and communicate with business providers and customers, but the prolonged breakdown of internet has brought it to a halt. Dutta says they used to deliver around 40 parcels per day before the shutdown, but no business materialized during the bandh.
Bitter days for tea trade
Girish Sarda, a third generation owner of Nathmulls Tea and Sunset Lounge, an online-cum-retail business outlet that exports Darjeeling tea, says he is disappointed with the state of affairs in the hills.
“Ninety per cent of my business is internet-based. In international trading if you stop supplies to your client for three months, they will source tea from elsewhere to run their business. Clients from Japan started asking me how I was surviving,” says Sarda.
Explaining the losses he faced due to the internet shutdown, he says, “Only 5% of my business is operational at present. I have six months of tea produce and I don’t know how I am going to sell that. It will take months for me to get back on my feet. I’m gone. Things are still hazy here and god only knows when the situation will return to normal.”
The harvest season’s second plucking (of tea leaves), called the second flush, is considered to provide high quality premium tea, and draws the best price. The shutdown in Darjeeling overlapped with the second and the third flush, which occur between the months of June and August, and October and November, respectively. Sarda says, “The bandh ensured there was no second flush and a poor third flush. The entire tea industry has seen the worst phase ever. It may take three years to get back to normalcy.”
Darjeeling produces around 8.9 million kg of tea per annum. Of this, around 20 lakh kg is premium tea and sold at high price, according to S K Saria, owner of Rohini and Gopaldhara Tea Estates. While 80% of the tea produce is sold through auction in Siliguri and Kolkata, the rest is sold directly by traders in Kolkata and Darjeeling, including the 45-60kg tea per day sold online.
Hotel business too saw a downfall in the Darjeeling hills. Vijay Khanna, secretary of Gorkha Hotel Owners Association, says, “Most of the hotel bookings are done online, and we need the internet to check these. The sudden shutdown has left the hotel industry in a bad shape. Clients from abroad could not be informed of the sudden closure of all establishments and few even failed to understand what a bandh is.”
“It was and still is a very difficult time for the industry. Neither the state nor the central government is interested in our plight. There are just a handful of tourists here. Darjeeling hills are out of business,” Khanna says.
Restraining GJM’s ‘message’
Bimal Gurung, the GJM chief who floated the party in 2007 to capitalize on the growing public disenchantment with Subhash Ghisingh’s way of leading Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), realised the power of internet and social media early on, and utilized the medium to push the propaganda for Gorkhaland statehood through his party.
Several audio and video messages, where Gurung alleges the present TMC government and the chief minister of dividing the hill people by creating separate bodies for each tribe and taking them for a ride, had been going around on WhatsApp and other platforms before his call for an indefinite strike in Darjeeling. West Bengal government responded to the GJM’s call for strike with a heavy hand, initiating police action against protesters and raiding Gurung’s home and offices. However, the Gorkha community residing in the Dooars and Terai region kept on getting his messages throughout the shutdown period as internet was on in these regions.
The movement only kept the Gorkhas away from critical resources like internet that fortify their market, and has not led to any productive dialogue towards statehood yet. The combined effect of internet ban and indefinite strike has hurt the economy of the hills so bad that it will take months to recover.
Avijit Sarkar is a Siliguri-based journalist and a member of 101Reporters.com, a pan-India network of grassroots reporters.
Cross-posted here with permission under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Photographs by Syeda Ambia Zahan.


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Sales restrictions placed on Tesla Motors by Texas could put the brakes on the state’s hopes of landing the company’s planned $5 billion lithium-ion battery plant.
The automaker cannot sell its electric cars directly to consumers in Texas due to state laws – among the nation’s strictest – that protect and regulate auto dealerships.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already said that franchise restrictions would keep his company from building a possible truck manufacturing plant in Texas and Ohio, which has enacted similar laws.
Tesla has said it would locate its wind- and solar-powered “gigafactory” that could employ about 6,500 people in Texas, Arizona, Nevada, or New Mexico.
Texas lawmakers have sent a letter to Musk touting the state’s business-friendly reputation, but Tesla officials have suggested the state’s restrictions on its sales made it less attractive as a location for the plant, reported The Texas Tribune.
The state prohibits automakers from selling vehicles directly to customers in Texas and instead requires them to sell through regulated franchise dealers.
Other states have enacted similar laws, including Arizona – which has laws nearly as strict as Texas.
Texas consumers may purchase Tesla cars through the company’s website.
Auto dealers say the rule protects consumers and ensures the livelihood of Texas dealerships, but Tesla officials said the laws are outdated and inefficient.
The electric car maker showcases vehicles at two “galleries” in Austin and Houston, but employees are prohibited from discussing prices or other aspects of buying the vehicles, which must be delivered to buyers in an unmarked truck and then be unwrapped by the buyers.
Nonetheless, more than 1,000 Texans have purchased Tesla vehicles through this process.
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The Alpine Vision is the latest in a string of concept cars that have sought to forecast what the French marque’s new model will look like, following the A110-50 concept of 2012, the Alpine Vision Gran Turismo design revealed last year, and the more recent Alpine Celebration concept presented this past summer.
If you know your history of Renault’s sports car relative, you’ll recognize the design cues on the Alpine Vision Concept. The quad front lights, rear window shape and overall profile all unapologetically nod to Alpine’s exceedingly pretty A110, a sixties sports car with a strong rallying CV.
The Alpine Vision Concept is a near perfect modern interpretation of the A110 and it is a perfect competitor for Porsche’s 718 Cayman or the Alfa Romeo 4C. The Alpine Vision is driven by its rear wheels, the turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine built by Renault Sport is mounted in the middle, and that operates through a twin-clutch paddleshift gearbox. The Alpine is expected to weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 2300 pounds and have between 250 and 300 horsepower.
“Motorsports and sports cars are deeply rooted in the DNA of Groupe Renault,” said Carlos Ghosn, Groupe Renault Chairman and CEO. “Today we are announcing Alpine. This is an exciting next step in our strategy to leverage talent and technology between road and track, and we look forward to reaching new customers in the sport premium cars segment.”


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OnePlus has announced its popular One phone will be available across the entire European Union, arriving in 16 new countries.
With just a single handset released so far, the Chinese handset maker has managed to grab more than its fair share of attention through the One's affordable $350 price tag coupled with high-end specs and its different take on Android.
Ahead of its third quarter 2015 launch of the successor to the One, OnePlus is expanding sales of the device to a number of new countries, mostly in central and eastern Europe. The handset originally launched in 17 countries in 2014 across North America, Western Europe and Asia. More recently, it launched the handset in India and Indonesia.
The new EU markets include Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The good news for would-be buyers in the 16 countries is that they won't need to suffer the frustration of using the original invite system to buy the One, which left many users frustrated. OnePlus last month announced a secondary system to make it easier for those without the right contacts to buy a device, allowing anyone to register to buy the device a 24 hour window every Tuesday. That system will be available to buyers in the new markets too, OnePlus confirmed.
As elsewhere in Europe, the 16GB One is available for €269 while the 64GB One is available for €299.
The EU expansion comes on the heels of a busy year in which the company has expanded from 30 employees to almost 700. OnePlus has also been developing its own OxygenOS, which OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei on the company's tour of Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest this week.
The company opted to develop its own OS after its deal to ship the One to India with Cyanogen came apart due to an exclusive arrangement Cyanogen Inc had struck with Indian smartphone maker Micromax.
OnePlus was forced to stop shipping the One with Cyanogen in India but still its version of Cyanogen to other markets. While the tie-up remains intact, OnePlus is developing the OS to give it more control over the destiny of software on its devices.
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Soaring water bills help United Utilities to higher profits as dispute over spending plans with regulator continues
Water giant United Utilities cashed in after higher water bills led to a 75 per cent rise in annual profits.
The group, which serves the north west of England, said pre-tax profits rose from £311.8million to £544.7million on revenues that were up from £1.6billion to £1.7billion.
But once accounting quirks were stripped out profits rose 11 per cent, the company said.
Profits rise: United Utilities, which recently hiked water bills, said annual profits rose 11 per cent
Shares, which have risen 10 per cent in the last 12 month, ticked up 2.5p to 855p in mid-morning trading.
The group, a member of the FTSE 100, is at loggerheads with regulator Ofwat over its spending plans for the next five years.
In December the group submitted plans for sewerage spending between 2015 and 2020, saying it needed to fork out £3.6billion of billpayers’ money. But Ofwat poured cold water on the plans, saying the giant only needed to spend £2.5billion.
UU has until the end of June to set out evidence for its planned spending spree. In this morning’s annual results it said it was ‘in detailed dialogue with Ofwat to understand this difference and provide any further evidence required to support our submission’.
Chief executive Steve Mogford said: ‘Customer satisfaction continues to improve, underpinned by strong operational and environmental performance, and we believe there is scope to deliver further improvements.
‘We are continuing to improve the quality, reliability and resilience of our assets and increased capital investment in our network to £836million this year.
‘We are reinvesting around £280million of our outperformance, providing benefits for customers and the environment.’
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Despite COVID-19 disruptions, there are clear indications of economic revival in India, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said Saturday.
Addressing the Plenary Session of CII: Horasis India Meeting 2021 on India's Emerging Industry and Trade Architecture", Piyush Goyal said that exports from India are going up and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are at their highest.
"Indian industry is indeed on a growth path. The highest ever merchandise have been logged for exports in a quarter (Q1 2021-22, $95 billion) in the history of India (more than 18 pre cent from Q1 of 2019-20). In July (till the third week), exports were at $22.48 billion, at an increase of 45.13 per cent with respect to the same period in 20-21, and more than 25.42 per cent with respect to 2019-20," the Minister said.
He further added that labour intensive and employment generating sector of Engineering goods has also registered a growth of 33.70 per cent in the third week of July with respect to 20-21.
"India has broken into the top 10 list of agriculture produce exporters as per World Trade Organisation report. The Indian growth story is now being reflected across all the sectors from the ease of doing business to exports and from startups to services, India is taking giant leaps in each sector," he said.
There is a new energy in India's startup space, the minister added. "In just the first six months of 2021, India has been to see 15 more unicorns," he noted.
Piyush Goyal said that today, India is the preferred destination for Industry, Investment and Innovation.
"This situation has arisen as a result of consistent efforts to bring structural changes in the last seven years. Some of these key changes include large scale digitisation, modernisation, simplification and facilitation," the Minister said adding that growth-centric reforms have enabled India to embark on a holistic economic transformation and as a result, the country is growing with "SPEED - Stability, Productivity, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Demand."
"Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has set itself upon the path to becoming "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" - self-reliant and self-sufficient. Aatmanirbhar Bharat is the recipe for rebuilding, revitalising and building resilience in the economy. 'Self Reliant India' does not mean closing our doors to the world, on the contrary, it empowers us to engage with greater confidence and competitiveness," he noted,
Mr Goyal also implored that Indian Industry must rest on strong foundations of "quality, productivity and economies of scale". He said that under PM Modi, India decided to revolutionise its manufacturing sector by bringing the PLI Scheme - to produce national manufacturing champions in each sector.
Speaking about the progress and opportunities in the Textile sector, the Minister said that India's textile sector is one of the largest employers in India and is now poised to become the largest exporter as well.
He said that all stakeholders of India's economic progress and participants in the session should look for emerging short-term and long-term growth opportunities.
"Vaccines, pharma products, ICT-related goods and services, etc are good possible areas of opportunities for immediate and short-term need exist. In long term, areas like digitisation, clean energy and GVCs remain great areas of growth. Sectors like Agri, Textiles, Engineering goods, Electronics, Marine products, Shipping services, etc also offer great opportunities for the nation," he noted.
The Minister added that the Government of India is standing strong with a resolve for "Building a strong India of Tomorrow".
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