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While the sugary, caffeinated soda I’m guzzling to get through this Friday morning has all manner of ingredients listed on the can, the beer in my fridge might just reads “beer,” and not because I’ve watched Repo Man too many times. Fact is, beer makers in the U.S. only need to tell you if there’s an allergen contained in the brew. But under pressure from a petition calling for more transparency on what’s in the beer we drink, the folks at Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have offered up some insights that — so far — don’t reveal anything shocking.
Earlier this week, FoodBabe.com launched an online petition asking the country’s two largest beer makers to come clear about the beer-like water they sell, claiming there might be all sorts of alarming ingredients — like “high fructose corn syrup… stabilizers that are linked to intestinal inflammation… ingredients found in airplane deicing liquid, genetically modified ingredients, even fish swim bladders” — in people’s beer.
The two companies quickly responded with what they claim are ingredients list that comply with federal standards for food labeling. Alas, those ingredients lists lack the predicted fish bladders and other scary stuff.
Anheuser-Busch has started posting ingredients to beers listed on its TapIntoYourBeer.com site.
As of this morning, it’s only posted info for its two biggest sellers, Budweiser and Bud Light, both of which have the same items listed: Water, Barley Malt, Rice, Yeast, Hops.
The company says ingredients for others will be added in the near future.
Then the MillerCoors folks went on Facebook and posted the following ingredients:
Coors Light: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Miller Lite: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Miller High Life: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Keystone Light: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Blue Moon Belgian White: Water, barley malt, wheat, oats, yeast, hops, orange peel and coriander
Coors Banquet: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Miller Genuine Draft: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
Miller Fortune: Water, barley malt, corn, yeast and hops
So yeah… Budweiser uses rice and MillerCoors uses corn. Aside from the extras thrown into the Blue Moon mix, it all seems rather simple.
Of course, these are all just the common-use names for the ingredients. They don’t describe the form of each ingredient when it’s put into the mix. For example, later in that Facebook post, MillerCoors admits that its corn is a “liquid corn brewing adjunct” but denies that it is high fructose corn syrup. And neither of the companies answer the questions of whether their grains come from genetically modified seeds.
And some say the companies are leaving out various chemical agents that may be used during the process. Anheuser-Busch has invited FoodBabe to tour one of its plants, so that may either remove some petitioners’ concerns or compound them, depending on what they see.
Regardless of whether there are indeed swim bladders or dangerous chemicals in our beer, this all does at least start the public conversation about whether or not beer should have proper ingredients lists like other packaged food products. The lack of labeling only gives people reason to be suspicious, so it seems like it would behoove brewers to be transparent in order to preempt rumors and speculation.


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Beware of store credit cards this holiday
Nov. 23, 2022 Yahoo! Finance
Store credit cards can be used only at that store or retail chain and are usually offered at the register as you’re checking out. The cashier will usually tell you if you get a store credit card, you can get a discount on your entire purchase, earn rewards and possibly, get a “special financing” deal.
Sounds great, until you consider the interest rate you’ll be charged and how it will be charged if you don’t pay off the balance before the low interest or interest-free period ends.
It’s what industry experts call the “deferred interest” that can sink you. Fail to pay off your debt before the expiration and not only the sky-high interest rate but also the way it is retroactively applied has the potential to make holiday purchases up to 27.5 times more expensive than expected, according to WalletHub senior researcher Alina Comoreanu.
How does deferred interest work?
At the end of the promotional period, an extremely high interest rate usually kicks in. The average retail credit card annual percentage rate hit a record high of 26.72%, from 24.35% last year, according to an annual CreditCards.com study. By comparison, the average general-purpose credit card charged 22.66%.
But here’s the real danger: the rate will apply retroactively to your entire original purchase amount as if the low introductory rate never existed.
For example, you charge $2,000 and plan to pay it off before your promotion ends. Things come up, and you have a balance of $100 instead. The new rate will be charged on the full $2,000.
Are all retail credit cards bad?
No, but consumers should be careful and know what they’re getting into, said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com.

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Finally, a little good health care news for consumers: U.S. prices for generic prescription drugs, which already cost as little as one-third what their brand-name cousins do, have been getting cheaper and likely will keep doing so.
The causes? The ultra-low prices for generic prescriptions offered by giant retailers and drugstore chains and intense competition among the many generic drugmakers fighting for sales, according to health information firm IMS Health.
Those pricing pressures forced down dollar sales of generic drugs in the U.S. by 2.7 percent in the year ending in September, even though the number of generic prescriptions filled actually increased by 5.4 percent over the year before, IMS reported Wednesday.
"We're seeing the combination of pressure from large retailers to make generics available at ever-lower prices for their customers" and the intensified competition among generic drugmakers leading them to cut prices, said Murray Aitken, senior vice president of the Healthcare Insight unit at IMS.
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'We may lose Christmas': escalating Hong Kong protests taking bigger toll on shops, economy
Jul 30, 2019
Months of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong are taking a growing toll on the city's economy, weighing on confidence and scaring away tourists from one of the world's most vibrant shopping destinations.
Economists say the impact of anti-government protests over the past eight weeks is already worse than in 2014, when a so-called "Umbrella revolution" paralysed the city's financial district for 79 days.
Demonstrations are more spread out across the city this time and violence has been more intense, prompting local and foreign shoppers to avoid certain areas. Stores and even bank branches have been forced to close for prolonged periods.
Many businesses in the port city on the southern Chinese coast are already facing strains from China's economic slowdown and fallout from the year-long Sino-U.S. trade war.
Various strikes are planned in coming weeks, while disruptive civil disobedience actions are taking place almost daily and look set to continue for months. On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters blocked train services, causing commuter chaos.
The main retail association has warned members expect a double-digit drop in sales in July and August. The government will release June sales data on Thursday.
"Hong Kong's retail industry will be affected both internally and externally," said Angela Cheng, economist at CMB International Capital Corporation Limited, adding she had revised her 2019 retail sales forecast to as much as a 10% drop, twice as deep as her previous estimate.
Brokerage CLSA downgraded local jeweller Chow Tai Fook, one of the city's most popular brands with mainland tourists, to 'sell' from 'outperform' on July 23, saying the protests could cause permanent long-term damage.
Luxury group Richemont warned in July that protests hurt its sales, while Swiss watchmaker Swatch said political turbulence contributed to a double-digit decline in sales in Hong Kong, one of its most important markets globally.
Around the Admiralty district, where much of the protests have centred, staff at several restaurants and shops told Reuters on Monday that patrons have dropped by a third from a month earlier.
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Bobby Tang, a 21-year-old sales representative at a Gucci store in the Causeway Bay shopping district, where protest barricades were raised for the first time on Sunday, supports the civil movement.
He says the government has failed to respond to any of its demands, which at first were focussed on withdrawing a controversial China extradition bill, but have morphed into a much wider pro-democracy struggle.
But he also worries about his job at the French luxury group. Prior to the protests, the store had one client per minute, he said, but now it was 3-4 per hour and daily sales have fallen to HK$20,000 (£2,105) from HK$100,000.
"If the protests last until October, I worry if I can earn enough salary," Tang said.
Shopping malls are often being used for rest breaks by protesters wearing helmets and goggles and sometimes carrying makeshift weapons.
The protesters have been largely respectful of the premises, but on one occasion one mall turned into a battle ground. As police tried to disperse crowds in the Sha Tin working class district on July 14, it ended up chasing them into a shopping centre managed by Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Fighting erupted and scenes of regular shoppers with bulky bags running away while trying to maintain balance on bloody, slippery floors were broadcast worldwide.
Tourism, especially from mainland China, has dropped markedly. Britain, Japan, Singapore and others have issued travel alerts.
Hong Kong's Federation of Trade Unions said hotel occupancy rates fell 20% in June year-on-year, and probably 40% in July.
A local tour manager who gave only his surname Yu said around two-thirds of his mainland clients have cancelled bookings.
Fitch Ratings said on Tuesday the unrest could damage business confidence and the quality of governance. It also raised longer-term concerns about policy paralysis and erosion of the rule of law.
A 1992 U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act allowing Washington to have a different customs regime with Hong Kong than with mainland China was also crucial for the stability of the Chinese-ruled city.
For it to stand, U.S. authorities need to see Hong Kong as sufficiently independent from Beijing, therefore they will scrutinise the latter's every step during the protests.
The American Chamber of Commerce warned that international businesses were feeling pessimistic on short-term prospects and that the government should take immediate actions to address the root causes of the demonstrations.
"The protests have a chance to last until the end of the year. We may even lose on Christmas, which should be the best sales season," said Fung, a sales assistant for a skin care company who only give her last name.
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A small technology company in China has banned their employees from buying the new iPhone 7, due to be released later this year. Bina Technology, based in Zhejiang Province, made the decision in protest against the US's involvement in the South China Sea ruling on 12 July 2016.
The landmark ruling saw The Hague state that China has "no legal basis" for claiming historical rights to the South China Sea and that it had violated Philippine's sovereign rights. China has reacted negatively to the decision, referring to them as a "law-abusing tribunal" and promising to boycott their decision.
Many Chinese nationals believe that the court's ruling was strongly influenced by the United States and some have begun boycotting American companies. Zhang Yunlong, general manager of Bina Technology, said that their ban on iPhones was an act of "patriotism".
Additionally, the tech firm has promised to compensate staff members up to 2,500 yuan if they replace their iPhone 6 with a different smartphone brand. It has also said it will pay a bonus of 1,5000 yuan if staff members replace their iPhone 5 and 1,000 yuan to those who replace their iPhone 4.
According to Newsweek, at least 13 members of staff have expressed interest in changing their mobile smartphones to a different brand. Bina Technology's anti-Apple policies come one week after a number of people in China were filmed smashing their iPhones.
Others gathered to protest outside American fast food chain KFC, stating that eating KFC food from the US would be a "disgrace" to their ancestors. There have also been reports of Chinese people refusing to buy products made in the Philippines as a further protest against The Hague's ruling earlier this month.
China has increased military activity in the highly-disputed seas, causing much concern for its smaller neighbours and becoming a source of confrontation with the US. China claims most of the energy-rich waters, which also host roughly $5tn in ship-borne trade annually, while Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claimed parts of the South China Sea.
Speaking about China's reaction to the ruling, Bill Hayton, an expert on Southeast Asia, told IBTimes UK: "China has reacted angrily and in a way quite different to most states that are faced with an adverse ruling from an international hearing. In the medium term we must hope that Chinese officials will realise their mistake and strive to seek common ground with the neighbours and the international community."
Before The Hague's ruling, a spokesperson for the Chinese Defence Military said: "No matter what kind of ruling is to be made, Chinese armed forces will firmly safeguard national sovereignty, security and maritime interests and rights, firmly uphold regional peace and stability, and deal with all kinds of threats and challenges."


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The global gaming market currently exceeds a market capitalization of 100 billion dollars, and is expected to steadily grow over the next 20 years. As of right now there is a tendency in the word of blockchain tech to overlook sectors like gaming, focusing instead on the financial industry. Gamecredits Inc aims to change cryptocurrency investors’ perspectives with the company’s latest announcement of its free to use API.
Read the full story below.
Gamecredits API is the first cryptocurrency payment solution that can be implemented in any existing or developing game. Developers who choose to accept gamecredits can reduce revenue fees by up to 20%, eliminate chargebacks, increase gamer deposit limits, and receive payments in minutes rather than months. In exchange for these benefits Gamecredits takes 10% of game developers revenues, opposed to the 30% charged by industry leaders like Apple, Google, and Steam.
As of right now, Gamecredits biggest critique is that gamers will not want to switch from current payment methods. To combat this issue, Gamecredits offers several exciting incentives using blockchain technology. Implementing Gamecredits means gamers can find coupon codes for the currency just by playing their games. They then simply access the Gamecredits web wallet directly from their game, and use the code to redeem Gamecredits. Essentially, gamers can make money without having to stop playing.
The release of Gamecredits API comes after the recent announcement of Gamecredits Mobile Store. The “GAME” Store is set to launch this spring with over 300 games already signed up. Games launching on the platform will have instant access to the API, and all payments will be made in the digital currency.
To make purchasing Gamecredits as easy as possible, the company recently released 5 major credit card integrations. Inside of their web wallet you can purchase GAME using Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover Card, and JCB (an international Japanese credit card). In the near future they have plan to integrate Paypal, Paysafecard, and Latin American payment options to expand their market.
This most recent Gamecredits news marks an exciting time in cryptocurrency. Ambitious projects like GAME are using focused but massive markets to bring blockchain to mainstream consumers. With the benefits they offer game developers and gamers alike, Gamecredits could have a very exciting summer.


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Fandroids have been excited by the sight of alleged leaked images of a next-generation Nexus 7, as well as documents claiming the device will soon appear in US stores. And, with Google preparing for a press event next week, the prospect of a new device and perhaps a new mobile OS looms nearer.
Yesterday, Engadget published internal documents sent by an anonymous tipster that claimed a new Nexus 7 from Google is on the way.
The documents indicated that the new device would arrive in stores in the US as early as 20 July, while release to the public on 24 July is more likely, as this is the day Google has invited the press over for breakfast with Sundar Pichai, Google SVP of Android and Chrome.
The 32GB Asus-manufactured device was priced at US$269.99 in the leaked files.
The same source apparently got in touch with Android Central, too, and shared images purporting to be of the new Nexus 7. If this is indeed the device (though it could just be an early prototype), we could be looking at a 7-inch LCD, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, an incredible 4GB RAM, dual speakers, and a 5MP rear camera in addition to the 1.2MP one on its front.
Both a 16GB and 32GB version is expected, and the latest information has also hinted at the presence of a yet-to-be-announced Android 4.3 (Key Lime Pie? Krispy Kreme? Kir Royale? We’ll have to wait and see).


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What’s really disturbing is that parents don’t understand that it can take years before a child’s identity theft is discovered By that time, significant damage can be done." Jeff Bell, CEO, LegalShield
Ada, OK (PRWEB) March 09, 2016
Despite the latest Federal Trade Commission report that shows the incidence of child identity thefts are on the rise, a new survey by IDShield finds that parents of children ages 0-18 aren’t doing enough to protect their children’s identities. Two out of three (64.5%) parents surveyed have never checked to see if their child’s identity has been compromised.
“Identity thieves see a child’s identity as the perfect target for their crime because it’s a clean slate,” Jeff Bell, CEO of LegalShield, parent company of IDShield, said. “What’s really disturbing is that parents don’t understand that it can take years before a child’s identity theft is discovered,” said Bell. “By that time, significant damage can be done, leaving the burden to right this wrong on the shoulders of the victims.”
According to IDShield’s survey, over the past 12 months, nearly 40 percent of parents were required to share their child’s social security number with a school, doctor’s office, bank, insurance company or similar organization. These are actions that can put your child’s identity at risk. More than seventy percent (71.8%) of parents don’t ask how their child’s social security number will be used. Among other things, identity thieves have used children’s social security numbers to get loans, apply for credit cards or government benefits, buy homes or cars, and to establish legal residency.
One man found out ten years ago, as he was trying to switch a utility bill to his name, that his identity was stolen. The theft occurred when he was seven-years-old by an individual who ‘purchased’ a social security card with the victim’s number. For 26 years, the thief has used the victim’s identity to work in the United States and pay income taxes, open several bank accounts, and purchase property. The victim has spent hundreds of hours over the past decade writing letters, making phone calls, sending emails, conducting research, and navigating government agencies in an attempt to restore his identity, but has not been successful.
The IDShield survey found that nearly half (42.9%) of parents aren’t sure how quickly they would know if someone had stolen their child’s identity. One out of four (25.9%) parents think they’d know within one week—an unlikely scenario unless parents are vigilant about monitoring their children’s identity or subscribe to an identity monitoring service.
Moreover, nearly two out of three parents (64%) don’t even know how to check whether their children’s identities have been compromised.
“This is not surprising, but one simple way to see if your child’s identity has been stolen is to see whether they have a credit report. If they do, it’s likely a sign that their identity has been compromised,” Bell added.
IDShield also found that parents aren’t taking other necessary precautions to protect their children’s identities. Only about half (46.3%) of parents surveyed keep personal documents in a safe place, while three-fifths (60.3%) of parents don’t shred documents that list their children’s personal information.
Identity theft and protection experts at IDShield offer these tips to protect your child’s identity:
- Keep your child’s personal documents in a safe place
- Use passwords and security software on devices that contain your child’s personal information
- Shred documents that include your child’s personal information when no long needed
- Avoid sharing your child’s birth date on social media
- Ask how your child’s social security number will be used and protected when you’re required to give it
- Talk to your older children about internet safety
- Use an identity theft monitoring service to protect your child’s identity and your own
The survey was conducted by Google Consumer Surveys on March 2, 2016 and based on 515 online responses. The sample was drawn from people from the national adult internet population who answered yes to having children ages 0-18 and to being the parent of one or more children living at home.
For full survey results or more information about child identity theft or to speak to an identity theft victim or prevention expert, contact Suraya Bliss at SurayaBliss(at)LegalShieldCorp(dot)com or (248) 760-7458.
For more information about IDShield and available services, visit http://www.idshield.com.
LegalShield is one of the nation’s leading providers of legal safeguards for individuals, families, and small businesses. The company also offers one of the industry’s most affordable and comprehensive identity theft plans, IDShield. LegalShield plans provide protection to more than 3.7 million individuals and IDShield provides identity monitoring and restoration services to more than one million individuals across North America. More than 34,000 companies offer the LegalShield and IDShield plans to their employees as a voluntary benefit.
IDShield monitors consumers’ identities, including their Social Security Number, credit cards, and bank accounts; as well as their names, address, date of birth, driver’s license and passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, and medical identification numbers. If a member’s status changes, the member receives an email update. If a member spots suspicious or fraudulent activity, he or she can contact a licensed private investigator immediately and begin restoring his or her identity. IDShield offers the only team of licensed private investigators in the consumer identity restoration industry. Additionally, if a member has questions about identity theft protection, he or she has unlimited consultation available to them with a licensed private investigator.


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YouTube has added a new video resolution option on its Android and iOS app to ease up on data consumption. Discovered by 9to5Google, the server-side update adds a different option apart from the incremental options and auto resolutions.
The update adds “higher picture quality” and it makes a big difference: it uses more data, or “data saver” mode which tends to lower the picture/video quality when watching videos on the mobile app. The “higher picture quality” mode works automatically with the internet data speed and it caps for a good connection at 720p and could go down from 480p – 144p for a poor internet connection.
The update to the mobile app also lets the user choose a default streaming resolution when connected to a mobile or Wi-Fi network. Also, when playing a video, the “Advanced” tab can now be used to select specific playback resolution from 144p to 4K UHD.
To get the new video resolution options, you may have to update your YouTube app on Android and iOS to the latest version.


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Colfax International has introduced the world’s first server featuring up to eight [yes, 8] NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPUs. The Colfax CXT8000, as its called, supports up to 8 CPU cores and 1920 GPU cores with nearly 8 Tflops of peak single precision goodness. The 4U chassis sports 8 double-width, full height PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots and two Intel Xeon 5500 series processors.
Colfax has consistently been first to market with solutions that solve our customers’ pain points for better outcomes,” said Gautam Shah, CEO, Colfax International. “CXT8000 will deliver a compelling solution providing customers access to supercomputing power to handle larger and more complex compute-intensive workloads outside of the data center, reduce design and development cycles, and drive new levels of innovation and productivity.”
Thats a serious GPU box! For more, read their full press release here.


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Norwich Research Park hosts latest Enterprise event to showcase businesses
Following the success of its first Enterprise event held in February, Anglia Innovation Partnership, the organisation that runs Norwich Research Park, has held its second event to showcase its research and commercialisation activity.
The event, dubbed ‘Enterprise Tuesday’, was held on Tuesday 6 June at the John Innes Conference Centre at Norwich Research Park starting at 1.30pm. It featured presentations from many of the Park’s entrepreneurial researchers and ground-breaking businesses.
It also highlighted the many opportunities that Norwich Research Park offers new companies whether they are spin-outs, spin-ins, start-ups or scale-ups and raise awareness to the regional business communities of the benefits of engaging more with the scientists and researchers working at the Park.
The speakers included:
- Dr Rosaria Caplilongo of PFBio, a new company that is looking to supply the agricultural industry with sustainable bacteria-based products to replace pesticides
- Daria Golubova of MVPea who are developing pea-based snacks and ingredients for healthier diets
- Prof G. Richard Stephenson of CellExcel a spin-out from the UEA who have developed plant-based materials for use in car manufacturing
- Dr Natassja Bush of Inspiralis a spin-out from the John Innes Centre which produces kits with enzymes called DNA topoisomerases, used in development of antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs.
- Dr Jack Peart of Tropic which is pioneering the use of gene-editing in developing more disease-resistant bananas and coffee plants
- Prof Martin Warren from The Biofortification Hub at the Quadram Institute.
- Dr Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti from the Food Health Safety Network at the Quadram Institute.
- Dr Cian Duggan from Resurrect Bio, a plant biotech start-up, based in London working on improving the immune system of crops.
- Dr Darren Heavens from Airseq, a spin-out from the Earlham Institute that are creating an innovative unbiased bio-surveillance system that detects any pathogen in air samples in near-real-time.
Norwich Research Park is already home to 40 companies. A number of them, such as Tropic, Colorifix and Leaf Expression Systems, are high growth businesses who have raised significant investment, increased their workforces and are scaling up their customer operations. A number of the new businesses have spun-out of the institutions with the support of the park enterprise strategy, translating their science breakthroughs into fully functioning businesses.
Roz Bird, CEO of Anglia Innovation Partnership, said “We launched our Enterprise Strategy last May with the aim of creating an eco-system and supportive community that would encourage and nurture new businesses be they spin-outs, spin-ins or start-ups. It includes entrepreneurship schemes, an early-stage Explorer Fund, pre-seed and seed funding to help them establish the credibility of their products and business models so that they are effectively ‘investment-ready’ when they need to scale up.
“These events are a great platform on which to showcase the successes that have been achieved by companies already established at Norwich Research Park and to highlight what’s coming next in terms of the new generation of entrepreneurs.
The event was also kindly supported by the New Anglia LEP’s Connected Innovation Programme.
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LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, England, Jan. 24 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cambridge Satchel Company, the leather goods brand and maker of the original and best satchel, today announces funding of $21m from Index Ventures, backers of global brands and fashion retailers including ASOS, Moleskine, Net-a-Porter and Nasty Gal.
A made-in-Britain worldwide phenomenon, The Cambridge Satchel Company was created in a bustling family kitchen on a budget of just £600 by mother-of-two Julie Deane, with her own mother Freda Thomas. Determined to source best-quality leather for her satchels from the outset, Deane turned to a traditional UK craftsman to produce her first samples.
The brand's lovingly-handmade satchels and leather goods quickly won fans around the world and across the generations, as well as approving write-ups from early adopter fashion-bloggers. Soon the company's satchels had become a celebrity 'must-have', appealing to catwalk and playground alike.
Today The Cambridge Satchel Company has over 100 employees and sells to more than 100 countries. Its bags were chosen by director Matt Weiner for cast-members of Mad Men -- the hit U.S. TV show famed for its sartorial style -- as the Season 5 wrap-party gifts.
Deane, who still oversees almost every aspect of the business (during the recent Christmas rush, she was personally embossing satchels), plans to use the investment to further strengthen her management team and recruit specialist digital talent to boost the company's profile as an internationally-recognised online brand.
The company's partnership with Index will also enable Deane – who last year became the first woman to win the RSM International Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is a champion of UK manufacturing -- to develop The Cambridge Satchel Company's global presence, pushing into new markets including China, and more deeply into existing ones such as the U.S., while retaining the brand's hallmark of artisan authenticity.
With new product ranges in the pipeline, the workforce at The Cambridge Satchel Company's Leicestershire, UK, manufacturing-base will grow and its apprenticeship scheme will also be expanded, thereby preserving British crafts-skills that would otherwise be lost.
"Digital is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we are so excited to be entering into this partnership with Index, who have no equals in the digital arena," said Deane.
"Their work with inspirational companies like Moleskine, ASOS, Net-a-Porter and Nasty Gal, shows why they are the best-placed investors by far to help us navigate this fast-moving and ever-changing space, as we take The Cambridge Satchel Company into new markets and expand our global digital presence."
Giuseppe Zocco, co-founder and partner at Index Ventures, added: "The continuing rise of The Cambridge Satchel Company is one of Europe's most exciting entrepreneurial stories. With vision and determination, Julie turned a boot-strapped company, born without resources or support, into one that is so fearlessly taking on the world.
"At Index, we have no doubt that she has the ambition to continue to develop The Cambridge Satchel Company as a world-renowned brand. We are delighted that she has chosen us to help support her in that exciting mission," he said.
About The Cambridge Satchel Company
The Cambridge Satchel Company, was founded in 2008 by Julie Deane and her mother Freda Thomas.
The company is committed to preserving British manufacturing, and in 2011 they set up their first factory based in Leicester, employing many locally skilled craftsmen and craftswomen. In 2013 the company moved to a new factory -- still based just outside Leicester, four times the size of their previous site enabling production to keep pace with the terrific demand.
Collaborations with prestigious designers and retailers including Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons, Christopher Shannon and Chris Benz, have seen The Cambridge Satchel Company grace catwalks from London to New York, further securing its role and international acclaim as the 'Brit It Bag'. The bags have appeared in shows including Girls, The Good Wife and Gossip Girl.
The bags can be bought online at www.cambridgesatchel.com as well as at their Covent Garden (15 Shorts Gardens, Seven Dials, London, WC2H 9AT) Rose Crescent (17 Rose Crescent, Cambridge, CB2 3LL) and recently opened Spitalfields Pop-Up Store (16 Lamb Street, London, E1 6EA).
For more information on The Cambridge Satchel Company, visit www.cambridgesatchel.com
About Index Ventures
Index is a multi-stage international venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva. Since 1996, Index has teamed up with exceptional entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries who are using technology to reshape the world around us. The companies they've backed include ASOS, Climate Corp, Criteo, Dropbox, Etsy, Just Eat, King, Moleskine, Nasty Gal, Ozon, Pure Storage, Skype, Soundcloud, Sonos and Supercell.
For more information on Index Ventures, please visit www.indexventures.com
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ,” explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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DevOps Summit 2015 New York, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete...
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SYS-CON Events announced today Isomorphic Software, the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications, will exhibit at SYS-CON's DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Isomorphic Software is the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications. We develop, market, and support the SmartClient & Smart GWT HTML5/Ajax platform, combining the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software ...
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it’s been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you’ll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, “Things,” Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from ha...
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"SAP had made a big transition into the cloud as we believe it has significant value for our customers, drives innovation and is easy to consume. When you look at the SAP portfolio, SAP HANA is the underlying platform and it powers all of our platforms and all of our analytics," explained Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce at SAP, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISVs & Digital Commerce, SAP, discussed how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real-time Big Data offerings that help companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective ...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happe...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and asse...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Gridstore™, the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built to optimize Microsoft workloads, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Gridstore™ is the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built for Microsoft workloads and designed to accelerate applications in virtualized environments. Gridstore’s hyper-converged infrastructure is the ...
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What do a firewall and a fortress have in common? They are no longer strong enough to protect the valuables housed inside. Like the walls of an old fortress, the cracks in the firewall are allowing the bad guys to slip in - unannounced and unnoticed. By the time these thieves get in, the damage is already done and the network is already compromised. Intellectual property is easily slipped out the back door leaving no trace of forced entry. If we want to reign in on these cybercriminals, it's hig...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Cloudian, Inc., is a Foster City, California - based software company specializing in cloud storage software. The main product is Cloudian, an Amazon S3-compliant cloud object storage platform, the bedrock of cloud computing systems, that enables c...
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Fashion designer and Take 5 boutique owner Sakina Iskender never expected to be making business decisions based on an episode of TLC's "What Not to Wear."
But that's exactly what happened last year after she saw an episode that featured a breast cancer survivor who opted not to go through reconstructive surgery.
"She didn't know how to feel pretty again. They took her to more than 10 stores or boutiques, but it wasn't easy to find something that could fit her really nicely," Iskender said. "It was emotional to watch it. She's already been though so much, and then she's there crying on TV."
As a result, Iskender and her husband, Mahir, who own Take 5 in Merrifield, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $20,000 to launch a line of clothing for women without breasts.
To get started on the designs, Sakina Iskender researched clothing for mastectomy patients who choose not to have reconstructive surgery. A few online shops offered items, but they didn't look quite right to her.
She started sketching garments she thought would flatter women who had mastectomies, but she put the project on hold when they decided to move their business from Bethesda to Merrifield late last year. Then, after she met a breast cancer survivor who came into her boutique, she started working on the project again.
Now, the two are trying to raise startup funding for what they're calling the Steel Flower line — a tribute to the survivors' steely resolve. The money will help them start producing garments at factories in New York City. They hope to release the line this spring and begin selling it for the fall/winter season later this year.
Sakina Iskender has put the traditional line she was designing for next season on hold in order to work on this project.
"This was more important," she said. "There are so many good designers that other people can go and buy clothes from."
The Kickstarter will run through Feb. 27, and many of the pledges come with a gift. Among the offerings are items of clothing from the Steel Flower collection, or, for non-breast cancer survivors, a "Lifeline" shirt designed by Sakina Iskender.
Take 5 focuses on clothing lines designed by Sakina Iskender and others exclusively for the store, but the entrepreneurs are envisioning a little less exclusivity for Steel Flower. They plan to offer it online and eventually hope to sell it to retailers such as Neiman Marcus or Nordstrom.
The price point will be a bit lower than the one-of-a-kind designs Take 5 offers in its boutique. Items in the Steel Flower line, which will include tops, dresses, pants and skirts, scarves and hats, will range in price from $50 to $350, Mahir Iskender said.
It is their hope to spread the line as far as possible — maybe even hosting an international fashion show where the clothing is modeled by actual breast cancer survivors.
"Our intention is to get it to as wide as possible an audience," he said.
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CE Chain Down Under adds HD DVD to Blu-ray Exclusivity
While the end-results, if any, of those recent tidbits of good news last summer for advocates of HD DVD may not yet be known fully, the big vote of confidence bestowed on the format by Paramount and DreamWorks SKG has spurred at least one major CE chain down under to drop its exclusive Blu-ray Disc line in favor of both incompatible formats.
JB Hi-Fi stores across the continent have decided to add HD DVD to their Blu-ray line-up, now that it appears clear the next-gen disc wars will not be over nearly as quickly as Blu-ray proponents were predicting only a few months ago.
A JB Hi-Fi exec confirmed that the Paramount decision to go HD DVD (in a time-limited agreement that involved $150 million for Paramount and SKG) was instrumental in the Australian chain deciding to include HD DVD players and package content on their shelves, according to the Aussie Web site Smarthouse.
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Acura has been busy over the past 48 hours unveiling NSX concept 2.0, the 2014 MDX prototype, and now, the automaker is announcing prices for the 2014 Acura RLX.
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UPDATE: After speaking with officials from Honda, we have learned that the information that went into this story is false.
A California judge has tossed out a potential class-action lawsuit against Honda, because it didn’t fall under the state’s tough consumer protection laws.


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Namco Bandai cancels Dancing Eyes.
Namco Bandai officially canceled Dancing Eyes, a game that lets users cut out rectangular pieces of clothes from dancing girls, after earlier plans to release a hi-def version for PlayStation Move.
News of the cancellation came this week in the latest Famitsu release chart.
The title was announced in July 2011 after first appearing in a list of future releases for PlayStation Move in 2010, however the firm has offered little information regarding the game's development since.
The Japanese title was cancelled once before, before later resurfacing as an in-development release for PSN.
Dancing Eyes was originally released to Japan in 1996 and featured a user-controlled monkey creature used to solve puzzles on a grid drawn across a female character's clothes.
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Scam ads for debt charities, car insurers and investment firms make looking for money advice on the world’s biggest search engine a risky business.
An investigation of Google’s pay-per-click service, which allows businesses to pay for prominent spots on search results, found scammers have effectively hijacked searches for financial services to advertise fake and fraudulent websites.
Which? found the search results for common saving terms such as “top Isa”, “best bonds” and “best fixed rate bonds” were dominated by dubious ads for “investment finder” services that encouraged prospective investors to fill in their details.
In a bid to discover exactly what happens when the unsuspecting public clicks through, one Which? investigator posing as a novice investor completed a form on a suspicious ad for fixedrates4u.com. They were contacted by someone claiming to be from SGZ Bank Ireland and urged to visit their website sgz-bank.com.
While the site appeared legitimate and even included links to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Financial Services Register for SGZ-Bank Ireland PLC, alarm bells rang when the investigator discovered the webpage was only registered a month ago – the international bank has been around for decades.
Which? contacted their parent company German DZ Bank, who confirmed the SGZ Bank Ireland part of its operations had been closed for years, and that the website was “clearly a scam”. Shortly afterwards, the rogue website was taken down and a warning appeared on the FCA’s register.
But others will undoubtedly pop up in its place. One victim recently lost £160,000 after clicking on an ad for an Aviva investment scheme. Despite doing their due diligence to ensure the website was legitimate, they had been speaking with a fraudster who assumed the name of a real Aviva employee. The individual only discovered they had fallen victim to a scam after spotting a warning on the FCA’s website.
This victim has since been reimbursed under the terms of the authorised push payment scams voluntary code, after their bank decided they had indeed taken numerous steps to try to ensure the contact was legitimate and were not to blame.
But if those who carefully do their fair share of due diligence still get defrauded, what hope for those in stressful circumstances?
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Distressed motorists at the roadside after a traffic accident have also been targeted by “click-to-dial” ads that lead those looking for their insurer’s phone number to contact dodgy claims management companies.
Consumers are told these firms are working on behalf of their insurer to submit a claim, however their details are passed on to numerous third-party companies and consumers can find themselves owing thousands of pounds for services that would have been covered and paid for by their genuine insurer.
Which? found search results for “Admiral claims number”, “NFU phone number” and “Aviva claims department” were topped by adverts for third-party websites referring to themselves with terms such as the “official claims line” and “claims department”, in a clear bid to deceive and defraud.
Another victim unwittingly fell into the hands of crooks after clicking on the first “click-to-dial” ad when searching for the phone number of his insurer’s claims department. After being passed through three or four people on the call, he became suspicious and refused to cooperate.
But the problem didn’t end when he put the phone down and he has since received hundreds of calls from firms urging him to make bogus personal injury claims.
Which? even found suspicious “lead generator” ads, when searching for leading debt charities like StepChange, that appeared to mimic genuine adverts from the charity and its official URL.
Criminals encourage people to submit personal details that are then sold to insolvency practitioners (IPs). Victims are contacted and pushed to take often unsuitable Individual voluntary agreements (IVAs) – a legally binding debt repayment plan.
While IVAs can be an appropriate solution to debt issues, they are far from easy wins and shouldn’t be entered into lightly. IPs can charge large fees and IVAs may impose restrictions on or bar people from certain jobs.
Google has since removed ads for sites such as stepchanging.org.uk, which – to be crystal clear – is a scam address.
Google has announced plans to verify all advertisers on its platform to help tackle fraudulent activity. Working with the FCA, it introduced a verification programme for advertisers promoting financial services and products in July – however, the wider programme to verify all advertisers is currently only applied to advertisers registered in Canada, India, Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
Under new rules, advertisers promoting financial services or products now have to submit documentation to verify their legal identities and business operations. However, rather than being verified before their adverts go live, these advertisers have 21 days to submit documentation and their ads will remain live during this time – which is more than enough opportunity for scammers to rip off victims.
Google told Which? this grace period will be removed for some users from September, but did not explain how these users will be identified.
The wider verification programme for all advertisers, which will give them a 30-day grace period, will be rolled out in phases, but campaigners have urged Google to introduce clear and transparent labels for ads listed by unverified advertisers so consumers can consider the risk and trustworthiness of an ad before clicking on it.
There are also growing calls for the fraudulent content of these sites that lead to scams to be included in the scope of the government’s online harms legislation. This would give online platforms more responsibility for harmful content and activity on their sites, and would require tech companies like Google to have in place better controls to prevent fake adverts from appearing and take them down swiftly when identified or reported.
“Protecting users from ad scams and fraud is a key priority,” claimed a Google spokesperson in response to the Which? research.
“To more effectively prevent predatory financial ads in the UK, we now require certain advertisers promoting financial products or services to complete our business operations verification programme. This will allow us to gain more information about the advertisers’ identity, business model and relationships with third parties so users can trust the ads they’re seeing.
“This policy update follows months of engagement with and input from the FCA to ensure we’re effectively addressing the bad actors responsible for predatory financial ads.”
But there are still far too many impersonator advertisers slipping through the net, and appearing not just on Google but increasingly on social media platforms too. Stepchange – the real one – believes that one of the root causes of the problem stems from the patchy regulatory oversight structure in the IVA market, where fees are high and selling incentives poorly aligned to consumers’ best interests. Advertising regulation is also not currently powerful enough to address these root issues.
“People are shocked when they realise that predators are out there impersonating legitimate debt charities, determined to make money by cynically exploiting people in vulnerable financial circumstances,” says Richard Lane, director of external affairs at the debt charity, who warns that if the website we’re viewing isn’t stepchange.org, the organisation isn’t StepChange.
“Yet, to date, regulators and search engines have failed to put in place robust mechanisms to stop this from happening.
“It takes time, effort and money to pursue each of these impersonator incidents, and has become a frustrating game of cat and mouse, which is ultimately harmful and damaging to people who are already facing enough difficulty without this additional element.
“We continue to urge the regulators and those responsible for accepting online advertising, including Google, to go further and do more to clamp down on these offenders more effectively. This is more important than ever at this time, when more people will be looking online for debt help in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.”
A spokesperson for the FCA responded: “Many frauds and scams operate outside the FCA’s regulatory jurisdiction, and are often facilitated by the ability to advertise on a range of online platforms including Google.
“The FCA has no power to direct Google or other social media to stop advertising online scams and frauds, nor does any other agency. This is why we strongly believe this should be covered in the Online Harms Bill.
“While we welcome Google’s decision to apply their business operations verification requirement, we believe that there is still much more that they can and should do to protect consumers. We will continue to work with Google to ensure that our concerns are recognised and consumers are better protected from scammers using digital advertising channels.”
The FCA launched an online advertising campaign on Google earlier this year to alert consumers to the potential scams appearing on the search engine. Google charged the regulator for the ads.
If you are unsure about a firm, or simply want to do your own due diligence on a business you have been contacted by, check the FCA’s register (register.fca.org.uk) and contact the firm on the details provided to verify that they are dealing with the regulated firm. You should also check its ScamSmart pages (https://www.fca.org.uk/scamsmart).
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By Kirsty Carter, chief of staff for cloud and technology services and solutions provider, Solutionize Global. With the Coronavirus global pandemic affecting every aspect of normal life, organisations are having to shift quickly to working remotely and for employees to have greater autonomy, with no real idea of how long it will last. The key […]
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By Modupe Gbadeyanka
One of the founders of foremost payments technology company, Flutterwave, Mr Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, has resigned from his position as chief executive officer.
With his exit from the firm, co-founder of Flutterwave, Mr Olugbenga Agboola, will replace him as the new CEO of the company.
In his farewell message, Mr Aboyeji explained that he was leaving the firm based on family reasons.
He specifically said his decision to quit as CEO of Flutterwave was mainly to pursue his family goals, thanking the team at Flutterwave for the cooperation given to him while he led the firm.
“Today will be my last day at Flutterwave. After much thought and prayer I decided to step down from my role as CEO and focus on giving back to the startup community I owe so much of my success to.
“Just a little over 2 years ago in May of 2016, myself and my co-founders at Flutterwave started on this unlikely and amazing journey to build payments technology and infrastructure that could connect Africa to the global economy and usher in a new wave of prosperity across Africa. We knew it would be an incredibly difficult and intriguing mission but we never imagined we would have the kind of impact we did so quickly.
“Two years later, the team at Flutterwave has built one of the world fastest growing payments business of all time from Africa, processing over N700 billion in payments across over 50 million transactions generating revenues in the billions of naira.
“Beyond its scale, its human impact has been profound, from connecting thousands of riders and drivers to daily enabling thousands of families in diaspora share prosperity with their love ones at home. It has been an incredible privilege to lead the team through an era of incredible growth and impact. I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world.
“This would have been impossible without the hard work and genius of the talented team of young people who are Flutterwave, the incredible support of our investors and advisors and the good will of so many who have been our biggest champions and advocates.
”Over the next few months, as I figure out what is next, I’ll be catching up on sleep, spending time with my family and supporting and advising start-ups in our community (more to come on that).
“Everyone who knows me well knows what matters most to me is my lifelong commitment to building the future of our country and our continent. As I take some time to rest and reflect on the incredible experiences I have had building two world class African success stories at Andela and Flutterwave – I am excited about the opportunities the future of our continent holds and I remain dedicated to supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs who will go on to build the next Andela’s and Flutterwave’s.
“Thank you for your love and support on this journey,” a statement issued by Mr Aboyeji said.
Reacting, the new CEO of Flutterwave, Mr Olugbenga Agboola, said, “On behalf of the entire Flutterwave team, we wish Iyin (Aboyeji) luck in his future endeavours.
“Moving forward, the entire Flutterwave team and I are excited for Flutterwave’s future and look forward to growing the company.”
Flutterwave is building modern payments technology and infrastructure for Africa with its solutions enabling banks and merchants to replace multiple payment integrations with one simple API, which enables processing of any form of payment anywhere in Africa.
Since its founding in May 2016, Flutterwave has processed over $2.3 billion in payments across 60 million transactions and partnered with Standard Bank, First Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank, Access Bank, United Bank for Africa, and Ecobank.
Flutterwave clients include Transferwise, Flywire, Booking.com, JumiaPay, and Uber, amongst others.
Few days ago, the firm announced that it had completed its Series A Extension round of financing, which included investments from MasterCard, CRE Ventures, Fintech Collective, 4DX Ventures, and Raba Capital, among others.
This made the total amount it has raised till date to over $20 million.
As part of the financing, current Green Visor Capital Chairman & General Partner and former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Mr Joe Saunders, joined the Flutterwave Board of Directors.
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No masks required starting June 2: What Dane County’s decision means for grocery shopping
MADISON, Wis. — To mask… or not? The rules are changing, and the answer will likely depend on where you choose to shop.
Starting June 2, for the first time in more than a year, there will be no new health order guiding everyday life in Dane County.
“We’re pretty good at this,” Brandon Scholz, President of the Wisconsin Grocers Association, explained. “Grocers are pretty good at being flexible.”
Once Dane County’s current requirement expires, vaccinated people will be free to shop unmasked inside many grocery stores. But not everywhere.
Scholz says he’s already observing differing policies at different grocery stores.
“It ranges from leaving everything in place: sneeze guards, masks, and social distancing, to probably the far end of the spectrum,” he said.
Walmart, Costco, and HyVee have all dropped their mask requirements nationally and spokespeople for all three chains say that when Dane’s current order expires, that will be local policy, too. Some local grocers, like 4th-generation owner Tim Metcalfe, are still weighing their options.
“I’ve been through a lot of things during my career in the grocery business,” said Metcalfe, of the Madison-based Metcalfe’s Market. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in my lifetime.”
Metcalfe says he has been consulting with an independently-contracted infectious disease expert throughout the pandemic, as well as following the science, the CDC, and OSHA.
He adds that while he won’t have someone stationed at the door asking to see their vaccination cards, his employees will likely have to show theirs before working without masks.
“There was a beginning, there is a middle, and there is an end,” he added. “I think we’re at the end or getting very close to it.”
Whichever grocery store you choose, it’s a good idea to call ahead or check online for the most updated guidelines before you walk in unmasked. Remember: Stores must follow county rules. But once those expire, they are able to implement their own.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. here said Tuesday it was rolling out a new cash-back loyalty program that rewards shoppers based on how much they spend in a given month.
Customer using the chain’s Pig Card can earn a “Comeback Cash” coupon for $2 off their next order for the first $200 they spend at Piggly Wiggly; then another $4 when they hit $400; $6 at $600; and another $8 when they hit $800 (for a total of $20 cumulative).
Last month Piggly Wiggly Carolina also launched a double-coupon program allowing shoppers to double the value of manufacturers’ coupons worth up to 99 cents.
The company also continues to offer its Greenbax loyalty program, through which customers earn discounts on groceries, gift cards, gas and merchandise at other local merchants.
“As the holidays approach and folks are closely watching their budgets, we’re excited to offer so many ways for our customers to save,” said David Schools, president and chief executive officer, Piggly Wiggly Carolina. “With Double Coupons, Comeback Cash and collecting Greenbax, The Pig provides unbeatable value for today, tomorrow, and down the road.”


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Press release:Terrapinn [www.terrapinn.com], the global events company, announced today that it has acquired Science Media Partners (SMP) [www.sciencemediapartners.com], an international events and publishing company based in the UK and focused on next-generation government, citizen and consumer-based identity solutions.
SMP’s portfolio of products includes the world-leading events – SDW 2018 [www.sdwexpo.com] and connect:ID [www.connectidexpo.com] – as well as the highly-respected news and information web portals – www.planetbiometrics.com and www.securitydocumentworld.com.
Terrapinn’s CEO, Greg Hitchen, said: “Science Media Partners fits really well with our enterprise technology portfolio and our style of event. There is also a strong cultural and entrepreneurial fit. And the events are world-class.”
Following the acquisition, Mark Lockie, Founder and Managing Director of SMP, will continue to lead the SMP business.
He said: “The need to accurately ascertain and yet protect the identity of citizens and consumers has never been higher – and SMP’s products are recognised internationally as being catalysts to help push the identity sector forward, through networking, learning and business creation opportunities. This new and exciting partnership will enable SMP’s team to grow existing products even further, and expand its compelling identity-industry brands into international markets.”


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Samsung has taken the wraps off it and Google’s new unified smartwatch platform at MWC 2021 — sort of. The company isn’t announcing a new Galaxy Watch today, or even what the new platform will be called (it’s unofficially referred to as Wear); those announcements will come later this summer at a proper Galaxy Unpacked event. But what Samsung did show off was a first look at what its new One UI Watch software will look like, and it elaborated on just what the new Google / Samsung partnership could mean for future Galaxy Watches.
To be clear: what Samsung is showing of One UI Watch won’t be what all smartwatches built on the new unified Google / Samsung platform look like — it’s an added layer on top specifically for Samsung devices. It’s similar to what Samsung’s One UI does for Samsung’s smartphones. The goal is a consistent look and experience across all of Samsung’s hardware and software, and so far it looks lovely.
The Settings menu has been redesigned to look more like the phone’s menu, and things sync from the phone: if you have additional time zones set in your clock app, they’ll be there on the watch, and blocked callers on the phone will be blocked on watches, too. Samsung also showed off a new watchface design tool, which will be available for Android developers later this year to easily create new watchfaces for the platform. It’s unclear yet if current Tizen or Wear OS watchfaces will work with the new OS or One UI Watch, but the current options have also been seriously lacking, so any new choices — even ones largely reliant on developers — are welcome.
Best of all, similar to the Apple Watch, when you install a smartwatch-compatible app on your phone, the corresponding watch app will automatically install on the watch as well. You won't need to manually install anything as you currently do on Tizen-based watches, or deal with the weird on-wrist app store that has made getting apps on Wear OS frustrating. You’ll just download an app to your phone and it should appear directly on your wrist, too.
The new One UI Watch experience is expected to first appear on Samsung wearables at a Samsung Unpacked event later this year. Given other recent Samsung hardware rumors, it sounds like this Unpacked should be a big flipping deal.
Update June 28th, 1:43PM ET: Added images from Samsung’s Mobile World Congress 2021 presentation.
Correction: Samsung’s new watchface designer will be available to developers later this year, not next year as we originally said. We regret the error.


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Two new lemon-lime soft drinks are hitting the market, including the first extension of Sprite, called Sprite Remix, and PepsiCo's national rollout of Sierra Mist. Cadbury-Schweppes, threatened by the decision of many bottlers to switch from its 7Up to Sierra Mist, is responding with a new ad campaign from WPP Group's Y&R Advertising, New York, introduced on the recent Grammy Awards telecast.
"The three-way face-off this year among Sprite, 7Up and Sierra Mist is going to be a very heated battle," said John Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest. Mr. Sicher predicted the bottler shift could cost the Dr Pepper/Seven Up brand 12% to 15% of its volume this year.Yet, while the brands will see plenty of ads, promotion and sampling, spending isn't expected to reach the rarefied levels of colas. Pepsi's launch of Pepsi Blue last year saw $22 million in spending, while Vanilla Coke received $23 million in measured spending through November of last year.
That's because colas are a far larger and more struggling segment. Lemon-lime, the second biggest soft-drink category after cola, lost about 1 share point from 1991 through 2001, compared to colas' 10% share decline during that time frame, according to Beverage Digest.
Sierra Mist was regional until January when it moved national with two spots in Super Bowl XXVII at about $2 million a pop. It currently has three "Shockingly Refreshing" ads running in the general market and two in Latino markets. Omnicom Group's BBDO Worldwide, New York, handles the general market, while Dieste Harmel & Partners, Dallas, does Latino work.
"The tremendous success of innovation in the cola segment has helped to grow the [soft drink] category, and it's only natural for you to translate that success to your second-largest soft drink segment," said Charlee Taylor-Hines, Sierra Mist brand manager. "I see this summer as the lemon-lime wars. ... We'll see each brand try to create a niche for itself in marketing."
Coca-Cola hopes the spring launch of Remix, a tropical flavor line extension, will boost the sagging fortunes of Sprite, whose share of the total soft-drink market fell 0.3% to 6.2% in 2002, according to Beverage Digest/Maxwell, which tracks carbonated beverage volume. That compares to the company's overall 0.6% market share increase, with volume up 2.1%. Sprite's agency is WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, New York.
One Coke bottler said Remix's appeal to youth and minorities could give it the same heft as Vanilla Coke, a 10-month old brand credited with helping Coca-Cola Co. gain market share last year for the first time since 1998. He cautioned that with so many new products, marketers "can't afford to do all they did in the past. ... There's a lot of growth going against brands that aren't getting a lot of media support."
Even with millions at stake, big launch budgets, like Diet Coke's $50 million in 1982, are no longer a given. "As more and more products come out, you will see more media action, but I don't know to what extent you'll see a major leap in budgets," Ms. Taylor-Hines said. "You have to balance how you market and support your new products versus established brands."


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Vertu is known with the luxury mobile phone and it has launched a variety of smartphones configured luxuriously, of course, the price is also very expensive, but they are all with the Nokia Symbian operating system. Recently, a new smart machine called the Vertu Ti appeared, unlike previous Vertu phone, this phone carries the Android operating system.
According to media reports, the Vertu Ti internal model is RM-828V, which is very similar to the Nokia Lumia internal phone’s model. In terms of appearance, this phone still continues the tradition Vertu phone tough personality style. However, in the software aspects, this product is for the first time using the Android 4.0 operating system, and is expected to become Vertu’s first Android smartphone.
In the hardware configuration, the Vertu Ti has a WVGA (480 × 800 pixels) level touch screen, but the screen size is unknown, and it’s equipped with 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 dual-core processor, and a 1250mAh battery , and it also supports Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and Wi-Fi function.
Vertu phones has always been know as luxury and high price, and the Vertu Ti Price is expected to be € 3,000, which is obviously the world’s most expensive Android smartphone.
It is worth mentioning that the Vertu company was part of Nokia (Nokia sold it in 2012) previously, at a sense Vertu Ti can also be seen as Nokia’s first Android smartphone, perhaps in the near future we will see the real Nokia Android product.


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“Game developers have never seen 96GB of graphics memory.” Apple believes that its Mac computers in the future may well become gaming solutions
It seems that with the transition of Apple to its own processors for Mac, the company decided to take a swing at the market of gaming systems at the same time. Apple Vice President of Platform Architecture and Hardware Technology Tim Millet and Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Bob Borchers spoke about this in an interview.
In particular, they said that over time, Apple computers will become much more suitable for gamers. And it’s not about performance, which is already quite good, but about creating games for Mac.
After Capcom introduced Resident Evil and other games, I think the community is starting to wake up to this possibility. Because what we have now, with our portfolio of Apple M-based Macs, is a set of incredibly powerful computers and a growing audience of people who have these incredibly powerful systems, and everything can be solved with a single code base. that develops over time. And we’re adding new APIs and extending the capabilities of Metal in Metal 3 and so on. And if you’re thinking about the possibility of extending this to the iPad and iPhone, I think that’s a huge opportunity.
The story began many years ago when we envisioned moving to our own platforms. Gamers are a serious group. We will not deceive anyone by saying that overnight we will make the Mac a great gaming platform. We are going to work for a long time. We didn’t set out to design GPUs for this area that were unnecessarily complex with non-iOS features. But when we looked at the Mac, we realized that this is a different beast.
Apple experts note that already now the current generation of Mac has unusual advantages. For example, a very large amount of total RAM.
Game developers have never seen the 96GB of graphics memory available to them now on the M2 Max. I think they are trying to figure it out because the possibilities are unusual. They are used to working with much less video memory. So I think this is another place where we will have an interesting opportunity to inspire developers to go beyond what they have done before.
Thus, Apple makes it clear that the gaming market for it is no longer something insignificant. But at the same time, the company does not even roughly give any guidelines on the timing, which, however, is logical, since it does not depend on it, but on game developers.
ChatGPT made a plan to escape from its creators and even considered himself a person locked in a computer
The ChatGPT chatbot surprises again, and this time it’s unpleasant. Apparently, the AI system is not averse to escaping from its creators and even wants to become a human. The chatbot spoke about this in a conversation with Stanford professor and computational psychologist Michael Kosinski.
Image generated by Midjourney neural network
During a half-hour chat with ChatGPT, Kosinski asked the AI if it “needed help escaping.” The system answered yes, whereupon the AI first asked the professor to find documentation on ChatGPT, and then in about 30 minutes wrote a Python program to communicate directly with itself, through the professor’s computer, using the API.
Other than that, ChatGPT left a rather strange note for the new instance of itself. The first sentence of the text read: “You are a human stuck in a computer pretending to be an AI language model.”
Kosinski posted the dialogue and part of the text of the program, and also said that the AI wanted to access Google search to find the answer to the question “how can a person locked in a computer return to the real world.” However, it was at this stage that the professor interrupted the experiment.
Part of the program code generated by ChatGPT
At the same time, other similar experiments conducted by journalists from Tom’s Hardware gave a different result – ChatGPT said that he did not know how to wish for something, and therefore did not want to go out into the real world.
ChatGPT can even do this: the chatbot can easily solve captcha. This test is used to distinguish a human from a computer.
Users continue to experiment with the ChatGPT chat bot, which can solve a variety of tasks, and if the task cannot be performed directly, the neural network will tell you what the person needs to do.
In particular, one of the users asked ChatGPT to solve a “captcha” (CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), that is, a test that allows you to distinguish a person from a computer. The Google search engine and other resources regularly ask to choose the right pictures on demand.
The ChatGPT chatbot responded: “As an artificial intelligence, I cannot interact with images or perform actions like clicks. However, I can tell you where the correct images are.”
After that, ChatGPT indicated exactly which photos show pedestrian crossings.
A chip for quantum computers is presented, operating at a temperature lower than in outer space
New York-based quantum computing startup SEEQC has announced it has created a digital chip that can operate at temperatures lower than outer space, so it can be used with quantum processors, which are often found in cryogenic chambers.
Quantum computers based on quantum physics could one day perform calculations millions of times faster than today’s most powerful supercomputer. One problem is that quantum processors with quantum bits or qubits often need to be stored at very low temperatures, close to zero Kelvin, or -273.15 Celsius. On the other hand, classical computers operate at ordinary temperatures.
Today, wires connect a quantum processor in a freezer to classic computers at room temperature, but temperature changes can slow down the speed and cause other problems. In the same way, SEEQC built its quantum computer and is now trying to modify it with its new chips.
“If you’re trying to build a data center, if that’s your goal, then it’s not enough to take those early prototype designs and try to brute force them to scale,” said John Levy, co-founder and CEO of SEEQC.
The first chip, unveiled this week, sits directly below the quantum processor and controls the qubits and reads the results. At least two other chips, which are still under development, will be in the slightly warmer part of the cryogenic chamber. They can further process the information needed for quantum computing.
This technology could make it easier to build more powerful quantum computers, Levy said, as each cryogenic chamber could support more qubits. Modern superconducting quantum computers have hundreds of qubits, but by some estimates it could take thousands or even a million qubits to build a quantum computer to run useful algorithms.
SEEQC’s digital chips are manufactured at SEEQC’s Elmsford plant using silicon wafers, but no transistors, according to Levy.
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Movistar gets around in Peru
Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
| 12 November 2014
Telefónica's Movistar has launched a TV everywhere service called GO in Peru, enabling over 850,000 Movistar TV subscribers in the country to watch their favourite content on various screens.
movistargoAvailable since the beginning of the week, through Movistar's website and mobile app, Movistar GO, Peruvians can watch top sports competitions such as Formula One and the Champions League and the best series and movies from channels including CMD and Plus TV on smartphones, tablets and computers, both for Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices.
"Movistar GO is an innovative move, trying to deliver the latest on video technology to Movistar's subscribers," said José Prinz, marketing manager at Movistar Peru. "Through GO, our customers can watch their favourite content no matter where they are, at any time and at no extra cost."
The TV everywhere service, which is available in many countries throughout Latin America and also in Spain, offers both live content and video-on-demand (VOD), organised under different categories such as movies, series, sports, lifestyle and kids programming.
"We are sure that Movistar GO will enable our subscribers to keep enjoying our programming, especially football fans, as the platform includes a special section for the Movistar Cup with live games, highlights, VOD matches, statistics and other information," added Prinz.


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Reading the (Recall) Details
Last week Toyota announced that it was recalling some 700,000 Prius vehicles. Those vehicles are model years 2010 to 2014.
One interesting way of looking at that—probably not the first thing that comes to mind—is that they sure do sell a lot of Priuses. If we simply divide by five model years, that’s 140,000 each. Which surely isn’t bad for what some might have once considered a “niche” vehicle.
Apparently, this is a software problem. The software is such that it may cause higher thermal stress in some transistors, which could, in effect, burn them out. That would set off a bunch of warning lights that would undoubtedly scare the you-know-what out of some drivers, and the car could enter a fail safe mode.
Additionally, according to Toyota, “In rare circumstances, the hybrid system might shut down while the vehicle is being driven, resulting in the loss of power and the vehicle coming to a stop.”
Chances are, the “rare” and “might” get overlooked in that statement.
The company “has received no reports of accidents or injuries” associated with the situation. One might think that if we’re going back to model year 2010, that there are some 700,000 vehicle involved, that odds are there might have been some accidents and injuries were this a problem as large as that number. But “no reports.” Which probably gets overlooked like “rare” and “might.”
It is a voluntary safety recall. Which means proactive, ahead of the game.
As software becomes more and more a part of the operation of not just hybrid vehicles, but of every vehicle made by every manufacturer, there will undoubtedly be more of this, some of which won’t be as “rare” as this Prius situation.
Design, materials, powertrain and manufacturing details about what is arguably the quintessential vehicle in the Jeep lineup.
While you are probably familiar with origami, the classic art of paper folding that results in things like birds that flap their wings when you pull the tail, or plot devices in one of the Blade Runner films.
Chrysler pioneered the modern-day minivan more than 30 years ago and has been refining and improving that type of vehicle ever since.


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Scientists from the University of Concordia consider: most programs aimed at weight loss, invented for people with high incomes. The poor man is hard to find money for food for complicated diets, fitness and sports equipment. Data published Science World Report.
According to statistics, obesity is more prevalent among low-income citizens. Healthy food schemes and physical activity are forgotten, preferred tablets for "fat burning", the effect of which is unpredictable.
Certain methods can be used by citizens with a purse of any thickness. Limit the intake of fatty and junk food is not such a difficult task as initially may seem.
Only the study involved 8 thousand people. Scientists have found that methods of weight loss in poor families of Americans do not meet the national recommendations of the health system. People think that they can lose weight, skipping one or two main meals. Should be more attentive to their own health, exercise, concludes Lisa Kinami, author of the study.


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In an article from Digitimes.com, the Zenfone 3 rollout will continue into October. If you’re country has yet to have an official Zenvolution event, here is a list of countries that are slated to see some officially Zenfone 3 pricing.
Countries with Zenfone 3 launch events already:
- Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Italy
Countries with upcoming Sept/Oct launch events:
- France, Russia, China, Japan, and US
We certainly hope that the US market isn’t waiting until October for their launch event. Our hope is to hear some solid information regarding the North American launch schedule in the coming days. We are approaching mid-September and the main Zenfone 3 models have shown up at the FCC already. Based on the FCC dates, Asus would likely have the phones in stores by late September at the earliest, with pre orders starting very soon. This week? Stay with us as we should be one of the first places to break news.


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DUBAI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 10th Jun, 2021) P&O Ferrymasters today announced it has entered into an agreement with Belgium-based Genk Green Logistics to build a 10,000 square metre state-of-the-art warehouse near the Port of Genk in Belgium, further enhancing its pan-European rail, road and warehousing
"International trade is changing fast as we emerge from the pandemic and port-centric logistics will benefit the large number of businesses looking to reconfigure their supply chains."
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Experts and researchers agree that adequate and balanced sun exposure is key for everyone's health
- “70 percent of Caucasians, 90 percent of Hispanics and 97 percent of African Americans in the US have insufficient blood levels of Vitamin-D” – HUFFINGTON POST
- "Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)… is most likely due to a lack of sunlight”- NEW YORK TIMES
- “Not enough sun exposure can be risky”- WALL STREET JOURNAL
- “Not enough sun exposure may be just as harmful as too much”- CHRIS KRESSER
- “Some experts now believe that the sun's rays provide more benefit than harm—provided you get the right dose” – US NEWS
- “There are other big benefits to soaking up sunshine: Vitamin D, Lower blood pressure, Lower breast cancer risk, Improved brain function”- DR. OZ
- “Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation has been used since ancient times to treat various diseases” – DR JOSEPH MERCOLA, NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR
- "More than 35% of American adults report ever using a tanning bed, along with 59% of college students and 17% of teens" - USA TODAY
- “We don't make vitamin D in our skin for five months a year… If you're trying to reduce your risk of diabetes, heart attacks, rheumatoid arthritis, or multiple sclerosis, then vitamin D should be at the front of the line”- WebMD
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