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Roma Tomato Recall Issued Due to Salmonella Risk
A potential risk of salmonella contamination has resulted in the recall of Roma tomatoes and salad kits distributed to certain Cosco and Safeway stores throughout California, Nevada and Washington.
The FDA posted information about a Taylor Farms Roma tomato and salad kits recall on September 12, after random sample testing confirmed the presence of salmonella.
Although no cases of salmonella food poisoning have been reported, consumption of the recalled tomatoes may pose a potential risk, especially for children, the elderly and those with a compromised immune system.
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The recall includes certain Whole Roma Tomatoes and Sicilian Vegetable Salad Kits. The recalled Roma tomatoes were distributed to Costco stores in Hawthorne and Los Angeles, California as well as certain stores in Nevada and Washington. The recalled tomatoes contain the “Use By” date 9/5 and 9/6.
The recalled Sicilian Vegetable Salad Kits were distributed to Safeway locations in Vons El Monte, California as well as the Safeway Warehouses in Tracy, California and Tempe, Arizona. The recalled salad kits contain he “Use By” dates 9/20 and 9/21.
The Roma tomatoes were processed by Taylor Farms Pacific of Tracy, California, which is one of the nation’s largest producers of salad makings for large-scale stores such as Costco and Safeway.
Salmonella can cause serious infections, with symptoms like fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain typically lasting for a few days in healthy individuals. In more severe cases, salmonella poisoning may spread to the blood stream and cause arterial infections, endocarditis, and arthritis.
The FDA recommends that customers stop eating the recalled products immediately and return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Customers may also contact Taylor Farms Pacific directly at 209-835-6300.
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The World Health Organization is advising adults and children across the globe to cut their sugar intake to decrease the chances of tooth decay, and obesity. Releasing a new guideline, WHO is encouraging the public to decrease their amount of sugar to about 50 grams or 12 teaspoons of sugar a day for adults; which is approximately less than 10 percent of their daily energy in-take. In fact, the WHO is suggesting that a further decrease in sugar amounting to less than 5 percent daily would further lower an individual’s risk of chronic illnesses, such as heart diseases, cancers, and diabetes.
While the WHO’s guidelines does not cover natural sugars found in fruit, vegetables, and milk; it does include processed sugars like glucose, fructose, sucrose, and table sugars.
During a briefing, a representative from WHO, Director of the organization’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, Dr. Francesco Branca stated that they found processed sugars in many, if not the majority of food products on the market today. As such, Blanca adds that it is not hard to go over the daily recommended sugar intake within the new guidelines if someone is use to eating or drinking certain foods .To get an idea of just how much sugar content lies within some food products, take a look at beverages, for example. The average fruit juices can contain approximately 24-26 grams of sugar; while a can of soda pop has about 40 grams or more, which is the equivalent to about 10 teaspoons of sugar.
According to the WHO, daily sugar consumption around the world went up by 10 percent; from an average of 58 grams per person in 2003, to 63 grams in 2013.
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SALEM -- Democrats rebuffed efforts by Republicans in the Oregon Senate to vote on a bill that would make the same kind of tax certainty deal the state extended to Nike last year available to more businesses.
In December, the Legislature passed a bill granting the governor the authority to enter into a contract locking in the state’s current method of calculating corporate taxes with a business ready to embark on a $150 million investment that would create 500 or more jobs.
The legislation was aimed at securing a massive expansion of Nike’s world headquarters, but at the time Republicans said the same deal should be offered to more businesses.
Wednesday, Republicans tried to replace House Bill 2059 with an amendment that would remove the jobs and investment requirements from the Nike bill.
Sen. Larry George, R-Sherwood, said it’s only fair that smaller businesses, which tend to be homegrown, have access to the same deal that publicly traded companies such as Nike and Intel can make use of.
“It removes these caps that only Wall Street investors can access and lets Oregonians access it,” George said.
But the tax certainty offered in the deal that Nike signed with the state narrowly focuses on one aspect of the tax code, which taxes multi-state corporations only on their sales within Oregon. The agreement, signed in December, said if the state moved away from that “single-sales factor” tax system within the next 30 years it would compensate Nike for any increase in taxes owed.
“There is very little likelihood -- almost nil -- that that will ever be changed,” said Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Springfield.
What the contract doesn’t do is shield Nike from any increases in corporate tax rates or new taxes aimed at corporations.
“This is the wrong tool to benefit small businesses,” said Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland. “It’s like buying a tuxedo for a baby.”
The amendment died on a party-line 14-16 vote. The Senate then adopted the original language of the bill on another party-line vote, installing new requirements for those who sell goods on consignment in an effort to regulate estate sales.
The bill now heads to the House, which must approve earlier Senate amendments before it becomes law.


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China's NEV exports up 27.1% in January 2024
Exports of Chinese new energy vehicles (NEVs) maintained a robust trend last month, with 95,000 new energy passenger cars exported in January 2024, an increase of 27.1 percent year on year, according to data released Thursday by the China Passenger Car Association.
Exported NEVs accounted for 26.8 percent of the nation's total exported passenger vehicles during the same month, the data showed.
"The scale advantage of China's new energy industry combined with growing market demand, means more Chinese-made new energy product brands are venturing abroad, with their recognition in international markets continuing to grow," the association said in a statement.
At the same time, increased recognition has been accompanied by Chinese carmakers continuously improving service networks overseas, all of which support Chinese NEV exports, it said.
Based on retail sales data, the price-friendly smaller-sized A0-class pure electric vehicles accounted for nearly 60 percent of Chinese-exported NEV sales in overseas markets last month, the association said, adding that the Shanghai-based SAIC reported better performance in Europe while BYD emerged as a competitive player in the southeast Asian market in January.


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Reliance Retail picked up a 25.8 percent stake in on-demand delivery startup Dunzo, further expanding on its acquisition flurry and signaling its entry into the rapid delivery market.
Dunzo is now valued at about $800 million.
The company was founded by Kabeer Biswas in 2016, and the Reliance investment trumps all the investment the company has had over the last five years.
With the infusion of new capital, Dunzo can now compete with the likes of Big Basket in the rapid delivery of groceries to urban households.
‘Since our inception, we have been razor-focused on providing an unmatched customer experience and this funding round is a validation of our approach. I am proud of the team for tirelessly building the category over the last three years,’ Biswas said in a statement.
‘With the investment from Reliance Retail we will have a long-term partner with whom we can accelerate growth and redefine how Indians shop for their daily and weekly essentials’ the Dunzo founder added.
Dunzo offers 19-minute delivery, as opposed to the 10-minutes proffered by the competition, keeping delivery worker health in mind and the nascent stage of the market.
‘We are seeing a shift in consumer patterns to online and have been highly impressed with how Dunzo has disrupted the space.
Dunzo is the pioneer of quick commerce in India,’ said Isha Ambani, Director, Reliance Retail Ventures Limited.
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The 44 ships include instances where port service providers such as lashing firms have denied service, or port authorities are denying entry to ports. Hanjin operates 98 container ships.
With South Korea's biggest shipping company filing for bankruptcy protection, the vessels, sailors and cargo of Hanjin Shipping are stuck in limbo, stranded at sea, reports BBC.
Ports, fearing they will not get paid, refuse to let them dock or unload. That means the ships are forced to wait for Hanjin, its creditors or partners to find a solution.
It's a case of unprecedented scale, with experts expecting the deadlock to last for weeks, if not months.
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Meanwhile, Spot container freight rates on the major routes from Asia soared by up to 42% today following the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, data from the World Container Index reveals.
“Unpredictable freight rates are not new phenomenon in the container industry, however a major upheaval of supply like this is likely to cause extreme short-term price volatility. Shippers should expect increasing freight costs and tight allocation for several weeks at least,” said Richard Heath, general manager of WCI.
According to TT News, woes at Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s largest sea container shipping firm and the world’s seventh-biggest with a 2.9% market share, are derailing the supply chains of companies that need to send goods well in advance of the year’s biggest shopping season as the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach.
U.S. retailers urged their government to take steps to minimise disruption from the collapse of the world's seventh-largest container shipper as more of its vessels have been seized or blocked from entering ports around the world.


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The 2018 show is set to be bigger and better than ever, with more cars going on display at its new ExCeL Exhibition Centre home. A large portion of the cars will be electric, showcasing the very latest technology available to the industry.
OVO wants to remove barriers to electric vehicle adoption by providing innovative and simple energy technology and solutions – making them the perfect fit to sponsor electric vehicle drivers at the show.
With that in mind, OVO launched its EV Everywhere bundle, which gives EV drivers free membership of the UK’s largest charging network, POLAR Plus, as well as free 100% green energy add-on. Staff from OVO will be on hand at The Confused.com London Motor Show to talk visitors through exactly how they could reap the benefits of this service.
Plus, OVO will be displaying its latest products to guests from 17-20 May, all aimed at electric car drivers to make their EV experience easier. The company’s aim is to ‘power the electric vehicle revolution’ through energy supply and to develop new technologies that make it easier and cheaper to buy an EV.
Alec Mumford, Chairman of The Confused.com London Motor Show, said: “We are thrilled to have OVO Energy on board as sponsor for this year’s event. They really are flying the flag for EVs and doing their all to make owners’ lives easier as the transition into our electric driving future picks up pace.”
Tom Pakenham, Director of Electric Vehicles at OVO, added: “We are excited to be the energy sponsor at the London Motor Show this year. With the momentum for electric vehicles growing across the UK, we are thrilled to show the latest technology products from OVO as part of the experience.”
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With the passage of Proposition 24 (aka the California Privacy Rights Act aka the CPRA aka “V2” of the California Consumer Privacy Act), the California Privacy Protection Agency (PPA) was created. Designed to be an “independent watchdog” for protecting consumer privacy, the mission of the PPA per Prop 24 is to “ensure that businesses and consumers are well-informed about their rights and obligations” and that the PPA “should vigorously enforce the law against businesses that violate consumers’ privacy rights.”
This blog post will explore the core challenge I see facing the PPA which is: how can a small $10m/year agency with 50 people scale itself to effectively protect the privacy rights of 40 million Californians against the most powerful companies the world has ever seen whose business models is predicated on surveilling and processing the personal information of those 40 million people? Especially in light that comparable government agencies (e.g., European Data Processing Agencies, the Federal Trade Commission, etc.) have been mere speed bumps to Big Tech as the problems associated with consumer privacy have arguable gotten worse (e.g. recent exposes on the harm caused by Instagram on teen girls, the tracking and selling of your location, bias in mortgage-approval algorithms, dark patterns, etc.).
Before we dive into this, let’s first get an update on where things stand with the PPA.
The Good News.
With the creation of the PPA, we now have the first ever dedicated agency in the US for Privacy! In terms of PPA’s progress to-date, a 5-member agency board is in place, initial board meetings have occurred, the PPA web site is up and running, an Executive Director has been named and a request for public comments about CPRA regulations have gone out.
And the agency has some teeth —the PPA is tasked with performing 12 functions involving CPRA enforcement, regulation and awareness (which I will refer to as the PPA’s “three legged stool”) — with a budget to implement those functions. The PPA annual budget is $10 million, which is 2.2 times the budget what the California Attorney General (Cal AG) currently provides for regulation, enforcement and awareness around the California Consumer Privacy Act (aka CCPA, which the CPRA supersedes).
In terms of headcount, the Cal AG budget calls for 23 people doing CCPA work, so by multiplying the Cal AG headcount times the 2.2 increase in budget for the CPRA would in theory allow the PPA to hire over 50 people. This would be more than the approximately 40 people that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has working on consumer privacy protection for the entire US.
Finally, we have a strong expert and advocate for consumer privacy in the Executive Director role with the appointment of Ashkan Soltani.
The Not as Good News.
The staffing and budget of the PPA pales in comparison to European Data Protection Agencies (DPAs). Ashkan Soltani recently testified to the US Senate that the German DPA has 745 staff and France has nearly 200 staff. In defense of the backers of Prop 24, they no doubt felt that $10m was the Goldilocks number in terms of being enough to have meaningful impact (2.2x greater than the current amount of money being spent by the Cal AG on CCPA, more people than the FTC deploys for consumer privacy, etc.) but not being too much that it would scare away voters as being too expensive or creating a large government bureaucracy. Of course, the California legislature could always vote to spend more in this area but that is not likely to be considered for a few years while the PPA ramps up.
Now granted, unlike European DPAs, the PPA also does not include Data Protection (e.g. breach notification) and Data Broker regulation under its purview, but nonetheless the PPA has comparatively less privacy-focused headcount than European counterparts. [Side note: I have called for data breach notification and the data broker registry to be consolidated under the PPA to morph it into a broader DPA-like agency.]
In terms of stuff the PPA can control, I do think the PPA has had a slow start out the blocks, in that it took 7 months after the PPA board was in place to finally have the ED hired, meaning that 7 months into the PPA they now just have a fulltime dedicated staff of … 1 person. And per this CPRA timeline, there are several large looming deadlines regarding the CPRA Regulations that are due in the near future and it would have been nice if the PPA had made earlier progress on this front.
So, it will be a massive scramble to get the agency staffed and the regulation work done. It appears that the team will be built through a combination of direct hires (where there is unfortunately only one current open job post), getting the Cal AG to temporarily providing staffing (which the law calls for and it appears that has not yet happened), and through the PPA getting supplemental staffing via State Government retirees pitching in. [Update 10/15/21: a few staff attorneys finally appear to be on loan to help.] [Update 10/16: a second job post has been added.]
Finally, while PPA’s enforcement role does not kick in until 2023, I have a concern that the PPA is so “behind the 8 ball” vis a vis the Regulations that it may lead them to forget or short shrift the third leg of the PPA stool — awareness. More on that later.
The Core Challenge the PPA Faces.
Irrespective of the good and not so good news regarding the first 7 months of the PPA’s existence, a big fundamental issue still looms over the PPA. Namely, how can the Cal PPA — a small $10m/year agency staffed with 50-60 personnel — scale itself to effectively protect the privacy rights of 40 million Californians against the most powerful companies the world has ever seen whose business models is predicated on surveilling and processing the personal information of those 40 million people? Especially in light that comparable government agencies (e.g., European Data Processing Agencies, the Federal Trade Commission, etc.) have been mere speed bumps to Big Tech as the problems associated with consumer privacy have arguable gotten worse (e.g. recent exposes on the harm caused by Instagram on teen girls, the tracking and selling of your location, bias in mortgage-approval algorithms, dark patterns, etc.).
In other words, if the PPA goes about doing privacy protection that same way the European DPAs are doing (and who have in fact greater staff), then while the PPA will certainly add some incremental value, it likely won’t make a fundamental change in the protection of consumer privacy here in California. People often use the quote “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Can the PPA do something different to be more impactful to better protect Californians’ privacy rights?
Considering Traditional Options.
When people look at an independent privacy watchdog’s three-legged stool of enforcement, regulation and awareness, there is a natural tendency to want and ask for more money for all three. The reality is that Cal PPA is not going to get more money any time before the law fully kicks in and is enforced, so we are talking about the second half of 2023. And even then, there will probably have to be a significant event to cause to have more money thrown at the PPA.
People may then consider tighter and tougher regulations be put in place by the PPA as the difference maker in making the PPA more impactful. I do agree that there is an opportunity to add better and more comprehensive regulations, especially in the areas of dark patterns, automated decision making and profiling and support for Global Privacy Control. But the CPRA Regulations must strike a balance between protecting Californians and not ruining the California innovation economy (i.e., not onerous), so regulations can only go so far.
Furthermore, the regulations are only as good as the enforcement. Per the Cal AG budget, the Cal AG only has 2 Program Analysts focusing on consumer complaints about businesses violating the CCPA. So even though the PPA has 2x the budget, adopting a similar staffing model and growing that Program Analyst team from 2 to 4 is probably not going to cut it.
Crowd Sourcing Enforcement and Awareness.
So, I do think the PPA needs to find creative ways to be impactful. One idea is to really engage the people of California in its mission. The reality is that over 9 million voted for Prop 24 in November 2020 which means that people here in California clearly want more privacy protection. By being created through the passage of a ballot initiative, the PPA has a clear mandate, and the people of California will want it to be successful. Therefore, the PPA should leverage that groundswell desire for more privacy protections and try to engage and leverage the people of California in helping make the CPRA a success. Big Tech firms like Facebook have over 60,000 employees and probably more people assigned to changing lightbulbs than the PPA will have staff. But the PPA can and should tap into 40 million Californians.
While there will be public comment on the regulations, the areas where the PPA can really get leverage through the “power of crowds” (i.e., the people of California) are in the areas of enforcement and awareness. The PPA should engage the people of California in the form of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) that give Californians the call to action to help enforce the law by identifying businesses that violate the law, as well as encourage Californians to evangelize to each other their privacy rights (e.g., right to say no to the selling of personal information).
When it comes the “crowd sourcing” of enforcement, Californians should be encouraged via PSAs to report their privacy rights being violated by businesses. The Cal AG has in fact created a “Version 1” reporting tool called the Consumer Privacy Interactive Tool that provides the ability for Californians to report violations, but it is limited to drafting notices to businesses that do not post an easy-to-find “Do not Sell My Personal Information” link on their website. This tool should be greatly enhanced to be more consumer friendly and factor in other privacy rights afforded under the CCPA (and eventually CPRA). It should act as the “call to action” in the PSAs to empower Californians to flag that their privacy rights are being violated. These violations can be flipped over the Cal AG until the PPA takes over enforcement duties in 2023.
Furthermore, for more complex and impactful violations (e.g., beyond simple lack of Do Not Sell buttons or a business ignoring a consumer’s request to correct etc.) that may take significant research, such as the detection of Dark Patterns, the violations of children’s privacy or discriminatory use of algorithms, there should also be a “Privacy Bug Bounty” program put in place. This would broaden who would be finding and reporting violators, provide an incentive to root these out, would provide a workflow and reporting system, as well provide a feedback system to those reporting problems. It would be open to not only California residents but to others who would want to help the PPA find businesses who are violating the law and corresponding regulations. This could be funded by a portion of fines paid out by companies. For more information on a bug bounty system and how it is used, check out this article, and then imagine instead of bugs being reported, that privacy violations are being reported.
As it relates to “crowd sourcing” for awareness, the PSAs also should encourage Californians to educate other Californians on their privacy rights. The reality is that that law is only going be as effective as the number of people knowing and exercising their rights. The PPA should experiment and see if they can “Game-ify” the knowledge of privacy rights that Californians have and also try to get the messaging to go viral. And the PPA should also do annual surveys to get a feel if Californians are increasingly exercising their privacy rights under CCPA/CPRA. Finally the PPA website should be chockful of helpful videos and content for Californians to learn more about their privacy rights and how to exercise them.
Spend for Awareness Now.
The fact that the PPA is understaffed and will focus its hiring efforts mainly on the drafting of Regulation opens up an opportunity. The PPA fiscal year ends June 30th and given that here we are in October, and they only have 1 fulltime and dedicated employee associated directly with the PPA and only one open job posting [Update 10/16: a second job post has been added], that means it will be a slow ramp from a hiring and spend perspective. So, I would guestimate that this fiscal year that the PPA will only at most spend $2 million of its budget. It is likely that if the PPA does not spend the remaining $8 million this fiscal year that money will not be able to carry it over.
My concern is the PPA is so behind on Regulations that they will solely focus on that. They need to multi-task by looking to significantly enhance the Consumer Privacy Interactive Tool and promote the heck out of it with PSAs, as well as provide helpful and Consumer friendly supporting content and videos on their website. And doing this type of campaign can be easily outsourced to a third party so the burden of hiring is not added to the PPA.
And given that enforcement does not start until July of 2023, there should also be a significant amount of money available next Fiscal Year (July 2022 to June 2023) for awareness as well. I would estimate that amount would likely be in the $5 million range in the fiscal year running July 2022 to June 2023. So, what I am proposing is that the PPA has $13 million to spend on awareness over the next 1.5 years in the form of an advanced consumer reporting tool and Public Service Announcements that drive Californians to the tool. That type of money can have a major impact on people knowing and exercising their privacy rights and getting the people of California behind the CPRA and act as counter to the size and might of Big Tech firms who may not want Californians to fully exercise privacy rights or have their bad privacy practices rooted out by researchers.
The reality is if the PPA does not “go big or go home” now with awareness and utilize the money available in light of the lack of staffing and not having to do enforcement until July of 2023, that holding off until later means the budget for awareness will be minimal, and by then they may have lost the opportunity to leverage the people of California in a crowd source manner. And if Californians are not passionate about the PPA and its mission, or see it as be ineffective, then it will make it more likely for California politicians to not object if a Federal privacy law is proposed that preempts State law and kills the CPRA and PPA.
The point of this blog post is taking the same old approach by a privacy watchdog agency may not work. E.g., One could argue that the record FTC fine of Facebook to the tune of $5 billion did not move the needle vis a vis Facebook’s privacy practice. So, the PPA needs to find creative ways to be able scale well beyond its budget and headcount to be on a more equal footing against Big Tech firms that are not adhering to the law. Leveraging and educating Californians is the best way to ensure the CPRA and the PPA is a success, as well as fully taking advantage of what the law allows the PPA to spend.
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According to The NPD Group, the growth of the U.S. prestige beauty market grew 5% in the second quarter of 2014 when compared to the second quarter of 2013 due to strong makeup growth.
Skin Inc. is officially withdrawing its support of the master esthetics bill in California.
According to market researcher Mintel, lip cosmetics currently are the strongest performing color cosmetics segment in terms of growth, poised to reach sales of $1.4 billion in 2014 in the United States.
JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts has announced unveiling of Spa by JW, which offers guests treatments and products designed to Calm, Indulge, Invigorate and Renew.
A letter to California estheticians from Cathy Christensen, editor of Skin Inc. and conference program director of Face & Body regarding changes to the informational Q&A session with the CA state board.
The ISPA 2014 U.S. Spa Industry Study “Big 5” statistics reveal positive trends in 2013 that will continue to stimulate the economy and generate revenue in the United States in the months ahead.
At the recent ISPA Media Event, spas from around the world highlighted their newest treatments, many of which stem from historic customs.
Confused about what's happening with the future of your California esthetics license? Register today to attend this session!
As women continue to struggle to find themselves inherently beautiful, Mintel finds more of them are seeking images and information about “real women” as part of beauty marketing.
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FRIED Chicken fans will be delighted to hear that a new restaurant will soon be opening at the Oracle.
At the spot near the entrance to the mall, where Chick-fil-A was located for months before it closed early last year, Wing Stop will be launching a new branch.
With an extensive menu of chicken dishes, meal offerings and take out, Wing Stop could become a new Reading favorite.
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Photos show posters on location in The Oracle, announcing the restaurant “will arrive soon.”
And a license application confirmed the plans.
Several different chains have opened grocery stores there in recent years, with Chick-fil-A forced to close in March 2020 after opening in October 2019.
The American chicken restaurant has been the subject of controversy and met with a backlash from locals for comments from the company’s chief operating officer opposing same-sex marriage in the United States.
Before that, the site was home to Miami Burger, which also closed after just a few months.
Before that, Ed’s Diner occupied the place.
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According to the official Wing Stop website, there are over 1,500 restaurants open in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, France and the Emirates. United Arabs.
The site reads: “Wingstop quickly became a fan favorite when we first opened our doors in 1994.
“Our exclusive recipes, exceptional food and superior customer service created a demand that could only be met by more locations. “And in 1997, we started offering franchises.
“Today, we are one of the fastest growing concepts in North America, attracting the best entrepreneurs and operators with the motivation and passion to own their own businesses.”
Rapper Rick Ross owns 25 Wing Stop franchises, often promoting the channel on his social media and rapping on his lemon pepper wings in his songs.
It is not yet known when the Reading branch will officially open, although its application for a license to sell alcohol in the restaurant will need to be proven first.
A consultation period on the application will run until March 12.
Wingstop seeks to sell alcohol to be consumed on and off the premises and during the hours from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
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London calls for subsidised broadband
October 20, 2016
The Local Government Association is calling on the government to include a social tariff in its universal service obligation for broadband. The subsidy would give low-income families a basic service of at least 10Mbps, it said. According to an LGA report, one in four adults lacks basic online skills.
The body does not specify what price should be set for affordable broadband but points to an existing scheme offered by BT. BT offers a £9.95 per month broadband and telephone service to people who receive income support, jobseeker’s allowance or other benefits. The LGA wants to see all other providers offering similar schemes but does not specify whether the government should also contribute.
Councillor Mark Hawthorne, chairman of the LGA’s People and Places Board, said: “Good digital connectivity is a vital element of everyday life for residents and can help them cut household bills, shop online for cheaper goods, stay in touch with distant relatives, access their bank accounts and even run their own businesses. “Many government services are going digital by default, and we need to be able to ensure that the most vulnerable and least well-off can afford to use them.”


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BUSINESSDESK: New Zealanders' credit and debit card spending fell in July, ending three months of gains, as Kiwis reduce spending at bars and restaurants in what is traditionally the year's coldest month.
The seasonally adjusted value of total transactions declined 0.8% to $5.5 billion, Statistics New Zealand says. Spending on hospitality shrank 3.4% to $617 million, ending four months of rising bills at bars and restaurants.
Spending on apparel fell 1.5%to $277 million, while durable goods dropped 0.9% to $1.01 billion and consumables declined 0.4% to $1.51 billion. Core retail spending, which strips out vehicle related expenditure, fell 1.5% to $3.42 billion.
The figures come a day after an ANZ Roy Morgan survey showed consumers grew more optimistic this month, with the number of people thinking it is a good time to buy a big-ticket item still outweighing those who don't.
Card spending on fuel rose 0.4% to $619 million, while other vehicle related expending increased 0.2% to $113 million.
Credit and debit card spending on services advanced 0.5% to $174 million and expenditure on non-retail industries shrank 1.6% to $1.17 billion.
Unadjusted spending on electronic cards advanced 1.8% to $5.33 billion in July.


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Loch Duart brings restaurant quality salmon to UK homes
In its latest move to bring consumers the best tasting Scottish salmon in the world, Loch Duart has just launched an online shop. Now, for the first time, foodies and lovers of the finest quality seafood can order their very own portions of salmon which is served in some of the world’s best restaurants and used by Michelin star chefs.
Raised in the rugged coastal waters of Northwest Scotland, Loch Duart salmon are slow grown at small scale and fed a specialist diet high in marine content, leading to an exceptional tasting fresh fish, with up to double the Omega-3 than regular supermarket bought salmon.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Seems like migration between Office 365 plans is coming soon!
This blog post by Mary Joe Foley:
reports that Microsoft recently announced ‘Office 365 transition SKUs’:
Microsoft partners can now make available to customers Office 365 "transition SKUs" which will enable customers in different Office 365 customer tiers to more seamlessly upgrade to a different set of Office 365 offerings. Before today's announcement, Office 365 midsize customers couldn't move to an Office 365 Enterprise plan without having to migrate all their data out and back into a new tenant.
No further details as yet but this is certainly something that will make life a lot easier for customers (and resellers) because in my experience, although most customers want to start out on the cheapest plan as soon as they appreciate the benefits of Office 365 they want to scale up. Allow the option to do so between plans is going to make moving to the cloud a much more flexible option.


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Desk-computer market still lures new makers
It's the kind of statement that makes you do a double take. In the desktop computer business, says Ken Price of Compaq Computer Corporation, ''it's never too late for a newcomer.''Skip to next paragraph
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What? Even when a slew of computermakers have already short-circuited? Even when there are still over 225 companies making personal computers? Even when analysts are warning of a bit-blasting shakeout any day now?
It's never too late, Compaq's spokesman affirms, but ''it all depends on having the right approach.''
The right approach will be crucial to this summer's newcomers: American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) and International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT). About the only thing these two formidable companies and their 200-plus competitors can count on is that IBM will still be a leader. But everything else is subject to change. The business market for personal computers today, those in the industry say, is not the market of last year or even six months ago.
If AT&T is to be successful in its new venture, ''it will have to make it in corporate America,'' says Bill Meserve, a computer consultant at Arthur D. Little Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. No other market ''is large enough to have that big an impact on their revenues.'' And corporate America, Mr. Meserve further explains, is in the middle of reevaluating its computer buying process and priorities.
For instance, it wasn't long ago when performance was the thing corporate buyers wanted most out of a desktop computer. ''Speed, memory ... these were primarily at the top of their priority list,'' Meserve says. ''The people buying then were the innovators in companies, the technologists.'' Performance is still on the list, he says, but now it ranks No. 4 in importance, behind No. 3, service and support.
''The No. 1 item turns out to be comfort,'' he asserts. For the buyer, this means picking a vendor that involves the least risk of criticism from management. Specifically, that has meant choosing IBM, which in 1983 had 21 percent of the corporate market in microcomputers and in 1984 will likely have 28 percent, according to Arthur D. Little research.
Because IBM is the leader in personal computers, software writers follow it like fleas on a dog. And the fact that software ranks No. 2 on the corporate priority list makes the IBM comfort factor that much higher.
It's this shift in priorities that has pushed some business-computer makers, like Compaq, into the corporate limelight and others, like Texas Instruments, into the shadows.
At a time when IBM had its personal computers on allocation, Compaq was supplying the market with good-quality computers that were totally compatible with IBM. Timing was perfect; sales are still rocketing.
On the other hand, Texas Instruments found it had to steer away from the Fortune 1000 market. When TI first introduced its professional computer, ''our initial ads had a big company office atmosphere,'' says Todd Clayton, a marketing executive at the company.''We quickly found that our success was not in the big companies but the small companies.''
Why? Because ''it's heavily IBM in the big companies. I think that the IBM-installed base is a very, very powerful element,'' Mr. Clayton says.
It's the ''comfort'' of AT&T's name that gives it the potential for major market presence, analysts say. ''I don't think their timing is so bad,'' comments Aaron Goldberg, a computer analyst at International Data Corporation. ''They brought another big name to the market at a time when the market is in turmoil. AT&T is saying, 'If you don't like buying IBM, if it's too establishment, here's your alternative for a big company.' ''
AT&T's new personal computer is IBM-compatible, but it runs faster than the IBM PC. It has been criticized for not being daring enough in the technological sense - for being just another IBM clone. Some in the industry believe that AT&T's new desktop computer should have been based on UNIX, a much more powerful operating system from AT&T that is used in its higher tier of computers.


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Shantae coming to 3DS Virtual Console on June 20th
It’s been wanted on the service a while, and now the original Game Boy Color Shantae game has been officially confirmed for the 3DS Virtual Console. Originally released only in the US, the game will now be made available digitally in all regions via the eShop, as mentioned in WayForward’s official announcement here:
So yes, Shantae is now officially confirmed for the 3DS Virtual Console! Is anyone excited for this?


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JJ Food Service has launched a new sushi and Japanese range.
The new line will consist of more than 200 sushi products including soy sauce, gyoza, nori, pickled ginger, tempura batter, noodles and mochi.
The wholesaler will also stock Japanese beer in a bid to be a ‘one stop shop’ for Japanese restaurants. It carried out a survey of 69 sushi and Japanese UK restaurants and takeaways and found 40% of those businesses struggled to find a supplier that could cover their total shopping basket.
“We want to support the independent sector to cater for the UK’s growing appetite for more affordable, quality sushi,” said JJ’s chief products officer Sezer Ozkul. “We want to improve service and convenience, as well as offer quality products, competitively priced. We look forward to bringing our first-class service to this vibrant sector.”


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It was the week that saw SK Telecom score some high-priced spectrum, as Telstra hit new regulatory hurdles over the NBN and New Zealand officially turned its ISPs into copyright cops.
SK Telecom came out victorious in South Korea’s highly contested 1.8GHz spectrum auction, but only after paying a whopping 995 billion won (€657 million) for the licenses.
That’s more than double the initial bid price of 446 billion won, which is why rival operator KT finally walked away from the bidding.
It was also the week that saw the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) throw a spanner in the works of Telstra's plan to migrate its customers to the NBN, stating that the proposal cannot be accepted in its current form.
The ACCC says it’s not happy that Telstra has yet to come up with a compliance plan to structurally separate its wholesale and retail operations by 2018 – a requirement of the deal reached with NBN Co to move its customers to the NBN. Telstra said it would try to reach a détente with the ACCC before its AGM on October 18.
Telstra wasn’t the only telco hit by regulatory problems this week. Over in the US, the Department of Justice filed suit to block AT&T’s planned $39 billion (€27 billion) acquisition of T-Mobile USA on the grounds that it violates anti-trust regulations.
It was also the week that saw New Zealand’s controversial “three strikes” law take effect. The law requires ISPs to send out warning notices to users caught engaging in piracy, and impose fines after the third notice. Some ISPs are worried they’ll be inundated with infringement notices, and that they’re not ready to enforce the policy in any case.
In business news for the week, NTT DoCoMo and KT rounded out their partnership deal with an agreement to share Android apps and content.
Softbank will offload the bulk of its 4% stake in Yahoo to help pay down debt, though the sale will not affect Softbank's 40% stake in Yahoo Japan; and Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA reportedly plan to invest at least $100 million in mobile wallet joint venture Isis, which is a direct competitor to Google Wallet.
Results for the week: SmarTone Telecommunications more than doubled its profit for the year ending in June, on the back of strong subscriber growth and smartphone sales; ZTE reported a 12.3% drop in H1 net profit, despite revenue growing 21.5%; and mobile messaging firm Synchronica generated a 2Q net loss of $2.04 million compared to a loss of $83,000 in 2Q10.
It was also the week that saw fresh news on LTE devices. Samsung announced LTE variants of its Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab devices, although it offered no details on availability and pricing.
Samsung also – accidentally – confirmed it is working on the next Google Nexus smartphone via a cease and desist letter sent by its legal team warning against disclosing details of a device known as the Nexus Prime, according to Geek.com
Meanwhile, Huawei Technologies announced it will launch the world's first TD-LTE router in October. The router will support TDD and FDD variants of LTE, and provide support for up to 32 Wi-Fi devices.
The week’s iPhone 5 Rumor: the screen may be smaller than expected. While the rumor mill has long held that the phone will have a 4.2-inch screen, Taiwan component industry sources told DigiTimes that the screen will be under four inches.
And finally, it was the week in which we learned what Hong Kong’s citizens do with their smartphones.
Google previewed results of an upcoming global smartphone survey they conducted with Ipsos Research that covers 30 markets worldwide, including 11 in Asia. The full results won’t be out for a couple of months, but Google released the findings for Hong Kong.
Among the findings: 37% of Hong Kong smartphone users use their devices to compare or learn about products in stores, and 22% said they’ve decided not to buy a product they otherwise might have bought after using smartphones to comparison-shop. Google’s Ryan Hayward said the findings in Hong Kong indicate that smartphone usage is creating serious opportunities for local advertisers, developers and merchants.


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Independent Media's online department launches Wedding magazine's official website
The Internet department of Independent Media launched the official website of Wedding magazine. The site, like the magazine, is dedicated to wedding celebrations
The wedding industry is a young and promising business for Russia. According to Natalia Kulikova, Editor-in-Chief of Wedding magazine and website, a “wedding boom” is planned in Russia, large Western players are entering the market. “That is why the website of our magazine, which we have been thinking about for a long time, is launched right now. The audience has already matured to turn to the Internet during the preparation for the wedding,” says Natalia Kulikova.
The site will use all the material accumulated by the editors of Wedding magazine over the past years. However, the main emphasis will be placed on various services that will facilitate the process of preparing a wedding: budget calculation, planning a wedding calendar, interactive fitting of wedding dresses, compiling a list of gifts. On the site, users will find the largest catalogs of dresses, honeymoon hotels.
At the launch, the main service of the site was the "fitting room" of wedding dresses.
Visitors to the site choose their body type, upload their photo and "try on" their favorite wedding outfit.


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Finance functions across the globe are under incredible amounts of pressure to be more effective, more efficient and to deliver more than simple score keeping. To put it
As a result of the global growth of its business, Inchcape, in common with many successful businesses, found itself with a familiar problem: countries, regions and markets diverging
United Overseas Bank (UOB), a Singaporean banking organisation, has agreed to acquire the consumer banking franchises of Citigroup (Citi) in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam for S$4.9bn ($3.65bn).
Civista Bancshares has agreed to acquire rival Ohio-based bank holding company Comunibanc for about $50.2m in a stock and cash deal. As per financial data on 30 September
IFAST, a Singaporean wealth management fintech platform, has signed a deal alongside its partner, Eagles Peak, to acquire BFC Bank from Bahrain-based BFC Group for £25m. BFC Bank


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The business climate is collapsing
Business sentiment plummeted last month as the Sydney outbreak of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 forced even stricter stay-at-home orders and COVID-19 leaks resulted in instant lockdowns in other big cities. Business confidence fell to minus 8 points from over 11 points in June, National Australia Bank Ltd said in a statement yesterday. The conditions index – measuring hiring, sales and profits – fell to 11 points from a revised 25 points. The investigation took place from July 20 to 30. The result showed that “optimism is collapsing over the ongoing restrictions,” said National Australia Bank chief economist Alan Oster. “The fear is that lower capacity utilization and a fading work pipeline will cause companies to reduce their hiring and investment intentions.”
Gold nugget deal reached
Sports betting website DraftKings Inc is buying online gaming subsidiary of Golden Nugget Inc in a stock market transaction valued at $ 1.56 billion, the two companies said on Monday. Acquisition of Golden Nugget Online Gaming gives Boston-based DraftKings a well-known brand in the casino and gambling world, and adds more than 5 million customers to DraftKings iGaming accounts, according to a company statement . DraftKings plans to use the combined resources to increase sales and market share, the companies said. The deal, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, is expected to close in the first quarter of next year.
IHG back in the dark
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) PLC yesterday announced a return to profits as the rollout of vaccination and the lifting of lockdowns boosted travel demand. IHG, whose brands also include Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn, reported net profit of US $ 48 million for the first half of the year, compared to a net loss of US $ 210 million in the same period l ‘last year. IHG chief executive Keith Barr said in a statement that domestic leisure bookings in the United States and China have led the way.
Etihad posts $ 400 million loss
Abu Dhabi’s national carrier Etihad yesterday announced a baseline operating loss of US $ 400 million for the first half of the year, driven by a 68% drop in passenger revenues as the contagious Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 is spreading across the world. The figure – although half of the reported loss of US $ 800 million amid the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of last year – reflects the still uncertain outlook for international travel. In the past six months, the airline carried 1 million passengers who occupied an average of 24.9% of aircraft seats, compared to 3.5 million passengers and 71% of seats occupied in the first half of the year. last year.
Tesla’s deliveries to China drop
Deliveries of Chinese-made vehicles by Tesla Inc to the local market fell sharply last month following a wave of negative publicity that resulted in the recall of nearly all vehicles the California-based company has sold in China. The automaker reported domestic shipments to China of just 8,621 vehicles, a drop of 69% from June, when the Tesla plant in Shanghai delivered 28,138 vehicles to the local market. However, exports soared to 24,347 vehicles compared to 5,017, most of which are destined for Europe. That means Tesla’s overall shipments to China last month fell only 0.6% to 32,968 vehicles.
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Carmageddon is upon us: Before we know it, robocars will be ubiquitous and crowd out human-driven cars.
After all, Elon Musk has said that buying anything other than a Tesla that can drive itself will be as financially insane as owning a horse. But horses survived, and driving will too.
Reality check: Automated vehicles will change our lives and our cities — hopefully for the better by reducing traffic fatalities and making it easier to move from A to B.
- But it'll be decades before they arrive in significant numbers, and when they do, they'll be confined to cities, catering to commuters, tourists and urban dwellers.
What's happening: Taking a realistic look at the industry, most experts say...
- The first automated semitrucks on highways could arrive in the next few years.
- Urban delivery vehicles, and then robotaxis, could arrive next. But, they will be confined to certain neighborhoods and limited to good driving conditions.
- Widespread deployment is many years away.
- Meantime, the rest of us will still be driving — though our cars will make it easier through highway-assistance features like Tesla Autopilot or Cadillac Super Cruise.
Key stat: Americans spend nearly an hour each day behind the wheel, traveling 220 miles per week in 2017, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
- If it feels like you're driving more, it's true: Compared to 2014, U.S. drivers in 2017 spent an additional 20 minutes driving each week.
- As many of us know, commuting can be a nightmare.
But "commuting is not driving," argues McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, which insures collector cars and boats and who will forever be a driver. "It's almost a different act."
"Never Stop Driving," a book for which Hagerty wrote the epilogue, is an antidote for the autonomous era.
- It celebrates cars and culture — everything from collecting and restoring old cars to racing and car clubs.
- "It's fun to put away the phone, clear your head, and enjoy a 'whole person' experience rather than being digitally distracted," Hagerty tells Axios.
- Cars have their own social network, after all, as this week's Pebble Beach reminds us.
Between the lines: Digital music didn't kill vinyl records, and automation won't kill driving, Hagerty adds.
- "Cars have been around for 120 years, and they didn’t make horses go extinct. They just took them out of city centers."


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Bre Pettis, a former schoolteacher, and his co-founders Adam Mayer and Zach Smith started MakerBot Industries in 2009 with the hope of making 3D printing more accessible.
They created a 3D desktop printer called the MakerBot. The company was an instant success and sold out of its first 20 MakerBots in just two weeks. Since then, users have created just about anything they could imagine with the device.
This past August the company raised $10 million to expand the MakerBot team and take its invention to the next level.
Pettis says there are many similarities between the personal computing industry and the personal manufacturing industry. He compares his machines to early personal computers like the Apple I.
We recently visited the famed MakerBot Botcave in Brooklyn to see how Pettis and his team are spearheading the personal manufacturing revolution.
Watch the video below to see for yourself.
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- One Of America’s Last Bicycle Manufacturers Is Still Going Strong After 113 Years


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Never heard of Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain that U.S. fast-food chain Burger King recently announced it was buying? In Canada, that's like asking an American, "What's Starbucks?"
The brand affectionately called Timmy's is everywhere in Canada. Tim Hortons has more than 3,000 stores across Canada as well as about 600 in the U.S.


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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — If you are looking to make improvements to your house or repair a deck, you could be running into a problem.
The coronavirus has caused a shortage of lumber and pressure-treated wood.
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Lumber mills in the U.S. slowed their production or stopped altogether during the pandemic, resulting in reduced supplies.
With many people stuck home for months, many residents were busy with do-it-yourself projects, which also contributed to the shortage.
Bulldog Fence in Delray Beach said they have had to tell several of their customers that projects are delayed due to the lack of wood.
Owner Mary Kay Shea said two weeks ago they noticed their suppliers were having problems delivering their orders for pressure-treated wood.
"Now, it is pretty much at a standstill," said Shea.
The lot where Bulldog Fence stores their lumber was noticeably bare on Monday, and described by Shea as "not even enough to do a yard job."
Area hardware stores like Home Depot and and Lowe's also have empty shelves.
"We were kind of rolling and getting into a groove here, and then this little speed bump happened," said Shea.
However, she has come up with another, more affordable, option for her customers during the wood shortage.
She is currently recommended the use of PVC since it is currently a more affordable option.
"There are so many creative options that have come up," said Shea.
Bulldog Fence is hoping the wood shortage isn’t a long-term effect from the coronavirus and other products stay in supply.
"Obviously supply chains and everything were affected by this. So, it is just a trickle-down effect that we just have now run into, so when is the other shoe going to drop?" asked Shea.


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Ferrari Officially announces the Purosangue SUV, the car maker's first-ever four-door production vehicle
September 15, 2022: -On Tuesday, Ferrari disclosed its new Purosangue, the 75-year-old sports car maker’s first-ever four-door production vehicle.
The Purosangue looks such as an SUV, akin to other luxury sports SUVs from brands such as Porsche and Maserati. But despite its size, shape, and higher stance, the company is insisting that the Purosangue, which means “thoroughbred” in Italian, is a sports car designed from the ground up as an actual Ferrari.
The Purosangue should not have a traditional Ferrari shape, but it will sound like a Ferrari. A 6.5-liter power in the new model, a 715-horsepower V-12 engine mounted following the front axle rather than over it, as with the SUVs and crossovers.
Ferrari said the location of the engine and the Purosangue’s transaxle, mounted at the rear, distributes the vehicle’s weight nearly evenly among the four wheels, which improves its handling.
While Ferrari is well known for its two-seat sports cars, the company has been building four-seaters since the 1960s, and all-wheel-drive models since the FF coupe was introduced in 2011. But even Ferrari admitting the Purosangue carries the storied brand into new territory.
Ferrari said that the Purosangue would start at 390,000 euros ($389,000) in Italy, making it the company’s second most expensive production model behind the 440,000-euro SF90 hybrid sports car.
The automaker said that deliveries will be starting n the second quarter of 2023 in Europe, in the third quarter in the U.S, and by the end of the coming year in different global markets.
Despite its hefty beginning price, the Purosangue is to be popular with Ferrari’s affluent clients.
Rival Porsche’s two SUVs, the Cayenne and Macan, together accounted for regarding 55% of Porsche’s production in 2021. But Ferrari won’t be letting the Purosangue get quite that popular. The company plans to limit the display of the Purosangue to not over 20% of its total annual output, or only nearly 3,000 units per year.
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Chip is a US$9 single-board computer by Next Thing Co.. As of now, the company’s Kickstarter campaign appears wildly successful as over US$1 million has been pledged, exceeding its initial goal of US$50,000 by over 20 times.
Friday, 10 Apr 2015
At IDF Shenzhen 2015, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showcased the Intel Curie. See what this tiny, Quark-powered wearable is capable of.
Wednesday, 1 Apr 2015
On a muted note, Intel has released the 14nm-based “Braswell” systems on a chip that aim to power entry-level desktops and notebooks. Find out more about these new systems on a chip here.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2015
Intel has announced the Xeon D SoC product family based on its 14nm Broadwell architecture, representing Intel's third-generation of 64-bit SoCs and a first for Intel Xeon. Read on for more information.
Monday, 2 Mar 2015
At MWC today, Intel announced a new family of mobile Atom chips that will come in three tiers, x3, x5 and x7, similar to the naming standard used by Intel's high-end Core processors. Expect to see the X3 family of chips in entry-level mobile devices, while the x5 and x7 will power mainstream and premium tablets and 2-in-1s.
Wednesday, 16 Jul 2014
A true octa-core processor, a built-in LTE modem, and support for 2K displays and 4K video recording and playback, the MediaTek MT6795 chipset is well placed to compete in the upcoming 64-bit Android era.
Thursday, 3 Apr 2014
Intel wants to ship 40 million tablets this year and they are attempting to achieve this target by accelerating their product offerings with two new updates to the Bay Trail processor.
Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014
In addition to delivering a HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) platform which unlocks the full power of all eight cores, the MT6595 comes with Ultra HD H.265 codec support.
Researchers at Intel Labs have revealed their new low-power graphics execution core, built on the 22nm fabrication process. It is apparent this upcoming graphics core is targeted at mobile devices where power efficiency is crucial.
Wednesday, 18 Dec 2013
An unnamed insider at Qualcomm has admitted that the Apple A7 did indeed cause panic attacks at the firm as no one saw it coming.


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By Retail Touchpoints
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, retailers are now facing the challenge of capturing and maintaining market share and keeping their customers loyal. The good news is that since its global popularization in 2020, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become a real game-changer for merchants looking to boost their business.
For shoppers, BNPL is a seamless payment method that helps break up their purchases into several installments, bringing more cash flow and budgeting flexibility. But for retailers, BNPL, when white-labeled, opens the door to opportunities for better brand equity, increased customer conversion and retention rates as well as stronger relationships with customers.
This is how merchants can reap the benefits of BNPL solutions in today’s ever-competitive market.
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Technology is racing ahead—almost every year, technology trends change wildly, impacting how businesses and marketers use them to reach audiences.
2020 is set to see big changes to the kinds of technology that will become available to companies, as well as how businesses can utilize them to adapt to evolving marketing trends.
We look at the biggest technology trends of the year that marketers need to follow.
Emergence of 5G
5G networks have already become a mainstay in certain parts of the world—though they are still a bit more expensive than the average user can afford.
However, in 2020, 5G is set to become more available and affordable, and brands will be able to tailor their marketing efforts for the high-efficient network.
The reason why the prospect of 5G is so exciting for marketers is because of the incredible speeds it promises—think 4G but 100x times the speed for uploads and downloads.
This means being able to route large amounts of data to control systems and devices, better than ever before.
Marketers could essentially use 5G networks to connect with their audience almost at real-time—data could be processed quickly enough to deliver a personalized experience on the go.
Live streaming on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch will also become faster even when you aren’t connected to a home network.
The possibilities are endless with such high-speed internet, so marketers should be prepared for a major rollout in 2020.
AI Customer Experiences
Artificial intelligence has left the realm of science-fiction and is set to become an essential tool for marketers.
This is particularly true when trying to improve customer experience—AI is now being used to create sophisticated software, such as chatbots, to handle customer queries in real-time.
With the machine-learning capabilities of new AI-powered systems, chatbots are now able to generate responses that mimic human interaction.
From their conversational tone to the amount of data they are able to process to give sophisticated responses to customer queries, AI has improved in leaps and bounds.
Marketers will also find themselves using AI to power data-analytics software—the AI we are now privy to can collate, segment, and analyze data faster and more efficiently than before.
The kind of AI software we are discussing isn’t yet widely available. However, as 2020 wears on, broader versions of this software will become accessible to marketers.
Speaking of AI, sophisticated automated software systems are also becoming the norm in 2020.
Marketing automation has brought massive benefits to businesses, but this technology is only going to get better.
Alongside AI, current automation systems will also be employing robotic process automation—that automates routine, labour-intensive tasks—to make work more streamlined.
This will also help to create more effective job roles within businesses—from manufacturing to HR, a number of tasks will be commandeered by automated systems, thus freeing up employees to take care of more important tasks and decisions.
Even in decision-making, automation is set to play a large part—with the current state of AI only set to improve, software and systems will also be able to participate in decision-making.
Having said that, machines and software are programmed by humans, which means human biases against race, gender, and abilities can influence them.
To create truly sophisticated automated software, you need to ensure that the behind-the-scenes team is as diverse as you want your company to be.
Ecommerce Goes Mobile
The rise of mobile phones has been unprecedented, though, with the increasing capabilities of smartphones, it really isn’t much of a surprise.
People can do almost anything and everything via their phones, which is exactly what they are doing—right down to conducting e-commerce purchases.
But it isn’t just the ability to scan items and make purchases that have gone mobile—payment methods are becoming far more mobile-friendly.
If you haven’t tailored your e-commerce app for Apple Pay or Google Wallet, 2020 is the year you should be doing so. Because customers are relying on these apps now.
And Apple is all set to introduce its very own credit card, so that is another payment system that e-commerce businesses need to be cognizant of.
We are quickly speeding past a cashless world, to one where even cards are obsolete—and we are seeing those changes come into effect in 2020. Can e-commerce companies keep up?
Most marketers associate omnichannel communications with social media, web, and e-commerce email marketing.
But in 2020, omnichannel isn’t going to be focusing only on how you send messages—marketing will have to focus on the experiences customers have.
Marketers need to think about how to engage their audience at multiple touchpoints and across multiple senses.
It won’t simply be enough for businesses to create apps that share information and allow customers to make purchases—it’s about giving them a wholesome experience.
This means reaching out to your audience through conversational messaging apps (the chatbots we mentioned earlier), as well as augmented or virtual reality.
Some businesses have gone against the tech trend to create offline experiences such as self-driving cars and table-top games.
Marketers need to realize that customers aren’t a money-in-product-out segment of society—they are people who want additional value if they are to support a brand.
Businesses will need to be innovative in this area—and this doesn’t mean investing in one-off gimmicks. They may have their value, but they won’t bring in a loyal customer base.
Start working on a multi-experience marketing plan as soon as possible in 2020—it will make a massive difference to your audience engagement and bottom line.
Importance of Transparency
Technology has been used to violate the ethical rights of customers—and this is becoming a matter of concern for marketers, who increasingly need more data from their audience to create personalized and memorable experiences.
Transparency is no longer a luxury afforded to businesses—in 2020, it is a necessity.
Organizations need to let consumers know why, how, and where they are gathering data from and how they plan to use it.
And be prepared to answer when consumers ask these questions—especially on public platforms like social media.
In 2020, transparency will be going hand-in-hand with accountability—the companies that can be as transparent as possible will also be the ones cultivating a dedicated customer base.
The above six technology trends will have a strong impact on marketing strategies in 2020.
Marketers need to be prepared to adopt these technologies and adapt to their new circumstances—that is how they will achieve their 2020 goals and generate more revenue.


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Thursday, 11 Jul 2013
For the second consecutive week since Microsoft released the public preview of Windows 8.1, the company has delivered several bug fixes for the preview OS.
Monday, 8 Jul 2013
Apple has just patented a design that explores the creation of a flexible battery, which suggests that the company could be developing products that would require batteries to take on an unusual shape.
Tuesday, 2 Jul 2013
Notebook contract manufacturers, mostly based in Taiwan, have been reporting low notebook shipments for a while now. However in Q1 2013, shipments hit the lowest point in three years -- lower than even what analysts have expected it to be.
Monday, 1 Jul 2013
Driven by a Intel Haswell i7 mobile processor along with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M graphics, the 13.3-inch XG13 runs on the Windows 8 platform, and features a backlit keyboard, a 2-megapixel webcam, as well as two storage slots.
Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013
HP has announced the launch of new consumer products, including notebooks, tablets, detachables, and All-in-One PCs.
Friday, 21 Jun 2013
The new Samsung ATIV 9 ultrabooks have been updated today with the latest low power processors to give users even longer computing on-the-go. What's more, the flagship ATIV 9 Plus will blow you away with its ultra high screen resolution.
Samsung today revealed an Intel-based convertible tablet that runs both Windows 8 and Android operating systems simultaneously. Known as the ATIV Q, this tablet will also come with the world's highest resolution screen.
Friday, 14 Jun 2013
Featuring an anodized aluminum shell and magnesium alloy body inspired by jet engines and stealth bombers, the Alienware 14, Alienware 17, and Alienware 18 power on the Intel fourth gen (Haswell) i7 processors with NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series graphics.
Thursday, 13 Jun 2013
The Sony VAIO Pro 13 will hit all Sony stores and authorized outlets from end June, while the VAIO Pro 11 and VAIO Duo 13, from mid July.
Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013
Toshiba has announced a slew of products including Qosmio and Satellite P-series gaming laptops, Satellite S40 series laptops for everyday use, Portégé Z10t Ultrabook, Excite Pure / Write tablets running on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean platform, Canvio Connect portable hard drives, palm-held Camileo X150 Full HD camcorder, and a USB Mobile LED Monitor.


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Mobile threats are becoming more complex, and more difficult to deal with as more and more devices become connected, a former vice-president of security trade body ISACA has warned.
Archives - September 2013
Microsoft has released an emergency fix for a vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer - warning that targeted attacks are already attempting to exploit it.
A hacked card reader - similar to the ones used in shops and restaurants - is on sale on Russian forums for $2,000, and can "text" details including PIN numbers to cybercriminals, who empty bank accounts in three hours using teams of money-launderers.
“Hardware Trojans” could be baked invisibly into circuits by attackers, allowing them to grab secret keys from computer components without fear of detection - even by advanced inspection systems using optical microscopes.
Cybersecurity insurance or "cyber insurance" was a hot topic at the latest NIST workshop on the critical infrastructure cybersecurity framework (CSF) in Dallas. Will the CSF become a standard used by insurers to determine rates?
With malicious remote access attacks of the rise it is time to check your computer's RDP configuration and apply restrictions, like turning it off, limiting users, and applying strong passwords
A brainwave scanner could be used as the ultimate biometric “car key” according to researchers at Tottori University - and even prevent carjackings, drunk driving, or accidents caused by drivers falling asleep.
Six Nigerian men have gone on trial today in London for an alleged phishing scam where job offers at London’s exclusive Harrods department store were used as “bait”.
Iron Mountain claims that up to two-thirds of employees work from home in Europe at least part of the time - but a mere 18% of firms offer guidance on how to protect information outside the office.
A new variant on a family of Mac OS X malware which targets Tibetan activists has been found in the wild and shared on the Virus Total website, where security researchers show off new “finds”.
A breach which has leaked personal data for two million Vodafone Germany customers has ben claimed to be the work of an insider, according to Vodafone.
“Passwords are done at Google,” said Heather Adkins, Google’s information security chief - and said that “the game is over” for start-ups relying on passwords as the chief method to keep users secure.
These days cybercriminals will use phone calls, SMS messages, emails, fake apps - and even couriers - in an effort to get your money. The key to staying safe is to recognize behavior that isn’t quite “right” - and catch phishers and fraudsters in the act.
What are the immediate practical implications of the Snowden-prompted revelation that the NSA has broken or circumvented a lot of commercially available encryption? For a start, you should not stop using encryption, but you may want to review how you use it moving forward, Stephen Cobb explains.
Twitter has been hit by a wave of spam promising “pure garcinia cambogia” - a vegetable extract used in weight loss supplements. High-profile accounts such as Jane Fonda's fell victim, with attackers compromising Hootsuite accounts to gain entry.
Apple introduced biometric security to iPhone for the first time with the launch of its new iPhone 5S, featuring what Apple describes as an “intelligent” and “accurate” laser fingerprint sensor.
After taking quite a long break from comment moderation on the WeLiveSecurity blog, I’ve recently started receiving comment notifications and have therefore been able to moderate some of the comments that have I’ve seen, and I thought it was worth passing on some thoughts about the moderation process as I see it. I should make
Keylogging tools to steal personal information from victims are available as a “service” from a site known as PrivateRecovery, which offers the tools for just $25 to $33 a month, according to a list of leaked records seen by researcher Brian Krebs.
Simply holding your phone a few inches from your PC to "hear" signals inaudible to humans will be enough to log in to sites and services previously protected by cumbersome two-factor systems, a new start-up claims.
In this 3rd Hesperbot blog post we’ll look at the most intriguing part of the malware - the way it handles network traffic interception.


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The commercial international trade in rhino horn remains prohibited in terms of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) provisions and would not be authorised in terms of the set of draft regulations, on which the public have the opportunity to comment until March 10, 2017.
That’s according to department of environmental affairs (DEA) spokesperson Albi Modise, responding to the furore around a DEA proposal that could see trade in rhino horn legislated for “personal use”.
“The Cites Convention differentiates between international trade for primarily commercial purposes and international trade for non-commercial purposes, including personal purposes or purely private use,” Modise said.
He noted that commercial purposes were primarily defined in a Cites Resolution adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties, which stated they should be defined by the country of import “as broadly as possible so that any transaction which is not wholly ‘non-commercial’ will be regarded as ‘commercial’.
“The draft regulations include provisions relating to the regulation and requirements for the domestic trade in rhino horn, as well as export under very specific circumstances – and only if specific conditions or requirements can be met.”
Of course, where one sits on the issue dictates the response to the DEA’s proposal.
“Legalised trade in rhino horn will not only significantly improve these communities’ quality of life, but also lessen the pressure on the government to combat illegal poaching,” African Centre for Disaster Studies on the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU) researcher Michael Murphree wrote in an article on the NWU website.
He opined that the idea of establishing limited trade in white rhino horn was a “huge” economic opportunity.
“When a rhino is dehorned in a responsible manner, it grows back to its original length within two years.”
“In order to save the rhino we need to be resourceful and creative rather than sticking to old approaches such as blanket trade bans that have clearly failed.”
Environmental activist Don Pinnock explained on Daily Maverick that the proposed legislation “would permit the sale of two horns per person and their export by locals or foreigners as long as the conduit is OR Tambo Airport”.
“It requires a freight agent and a raft of DNA, microchip and document checking, which the DEA has no hope of administering,” said Pinnock.
In a 2014 study, the DEA noted 62% of rhino experts agreed with the idea of legalising international trade.


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A steel of an Amazon deal?
Representatives of mega e-tailer Amazon were at the old Finkl Steel site on the North Side last week taking notes . . . and pictures . . . of the property, according to a top Sneed source.
It marks the first time Amazon representatives have been spotted visiting sites in Chicago, which is vying with other large North American cities to try to land the company’s second headquarters, known as “HQ2.”
Developer Sterling Bay is targeting Amazon as the anchor tenant for its $10 billion mixed-use, riverfront development on the land it’s assembling in Lincoln Park and Bucktown that includes the old steel plant. Together with the vehicle fleet maintenance facility it bought from City Hall for $104.7 million, Sterling Bay hopes to put together nearly 100 acres for its project, called “Lincoln Yards.”
Lincoln Yards is one of 10 sites being presented to Amazon by the state of Illinois. Eight of those sites are in Chicago, including the state-owned Thompson Center office building and the “Downtown Gateway District,” which includes parts of the Willis Tower, Union Station and the now-vacant old main post office. Oak Brook and Schaumburg sites also are in the mix.
More than 600 of the Chicago area’s movers and shakers have signed on to a committee supporting the drive to win the heated competition for Amazon’s $5 billion investment and 50,000 jobs. Illinois is offering more than $2 billion worth of financial incentives for the company to come here.


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4 Incredibly Successful Companies That Didn't Get A Deal On 'Shark Tank'
It doesn't take getting a deal to make it big on "Shark Tank."
Some of the biggest success stories from ABC's hit pitch show, now in its fifth season, walked away from the tank empty-handed. But it didn't matter. Their companies took off anyway.
"Shark Tank" experts say that, in many cases, the value of getting airtime on the show outweighs the benefits of taking a deal with one or more of the Sharks, which typically requires giving up a precious amount of equity.
"There's been a lot of studies done on how much it's worth to go on 'Shark Tank,' and there's a lot of consensus among veterans that it's worth somewhere between $4 and $5 million dollars in marketing exposure," says TJ Hale, a Phoenix-based entrepreneur and producer of the "Shark Tank Podcast."
That raw marketing value has led to a new class of contestants on the show: people who seem far more interested in filming a segment than haggling for a deal. "I've seen a few entrepreneurs this season where it's pretty evident that they're not interested in doing a deal, but they're extremely interested in the promotion that comes with the show," Hale admits.
For instance, there was Garrett Gee, who came on seeking a $1 million investment in exchange for a 5% stake in his code-scanning mobile app, Scan. After he revealed that the company had already raised $8.7 million, investor Daymond John had to ask: "Why are you exactly here? Is it just for exposure?"
Gee said no at the time, but seemed to suggest otherwise later. He told Business Insider that his decision to go on "Shark Tank" was about 50/50 in terms of seeking exposure vs. the chance for a deal, and he's previously said that some of the startup's investors didn't support Scan appearing on the show in the first place.
Either way, the exposure paid off. After the segment aired, Scan vaulted to the No. 1 spot among paid utilities apps and the No. 20 spot for all paid apps in Apple's App Store, and became the top-selling app in the Windows Phone store.
Scan won't be the last business that profits from "Shark Tank" exposure despite not getting a deal, and it certainly wasn't the first. With the help of Hale and Pierce Marrs, a sales and communications coach who also does a weekly podcast on "Shark Tank," we compiled a list of five companies that succeeded even though the Sharks turned them down.
Founder Shawn Davis didn't get any takers when he appeared in Season 2 asking for a $200,000 investment in Chef Big Shake, a gourmet seafood operation that proudly claims to be the "home of the original shrimp burger." Since the appearance, however, the company's sales have soared from their original $30,000 in 2010 to well over $1 million. What's more, Mark Cuban has called Chef Big Shake the one company he regrets not investing in. "He didn't get an investment, but now he's just killing it," Cuban said.
Derek Pacque, the 20-something founder of CoatChex, a ticket-free coat check system, turned down a $200,000 investment offer from Cuban on the first episode of Season 4. Cuban's offer matched the funding Pacque was seeking, but demanded a 33% stake — more than three times the equity he wanted to forgo. Since the company's appearance, CoatChex has landed contracts for huge events like the 2013 New York Fashion Week, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, and the Super Bowl. The company is projecting to bring in $500,000 over the next six months through a variety of events, contracts, and new leads, VP of Business Development Adam Loos said.
Taylor, Brooks, and Tanner Dame — three brothers from Idaho — pitched their hand-crafted eyewear company to the Sharks in Season 4, but failed to get the deal they wanted. They walked away from two offers of $150,000 that both demanded more equity than they were willing to give up. Since their segment ran, their sales have more than tripled to $1.4 million, and they're projecting $2.5 million in sales in 2014, Tanner Dame said. The company also recently opened a flagship store in Boise, Idaho.
Dave Alwan appeared on Season 4 of "Shark Tank" to pitch his old-fashioned, farm-fresh meat company. He asked for $300,000 in exchange for a 20% stake. Alwan didn't give a great presentation, but the Sharks loved his product. He was doing $1.2 million in sales before the segment aired, and his sales more than doubled in the first six months after his appearance on the show. He's since launched the company on Amazon and QVC, and is projecting sales will reach between $5 million and $10 million in 2014, he told Hale. "He's had the Sharks call him and order from him and give him advice," Hale said. "He feels like he got the best of both worlds."
Despite the tremendous publicity value of appearing on "Shark Tank," sales and communications coach Marrs thinks the payoff ultimately depends on how you come off to the audience. "Just being on the show can be a huge boost for you, but it's only if the Sharks like it," Marrs says. "How much success you have if you do or don't get a deal depends on how much they like the product while you're on there."
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Country set to become second-largest PV market after China this year, says IMS Research.
After three years of solid growth in Jena, the firm invests in a new coating and cleaning facility.
Fiber laser leader expands technology portfolio with buy-out of the Silicon Valley firm.
Thanks to growing demand for both CO2 and fiber lasers, the US company reports a 6% rise in laser sales in the latest quarter.
Another year of single-digit growth says NPD Solarbuzz; China, Japan, India to account for 36% of global demand.
Escalating costs made worse by US import tariffs on solar cells sees 43 jobs lost in Arizona.
Jerry Rawls suggests that threat of the emerging technology has been exaggerated.
Layoffs and cuts to working hours in Northvale and Sarasota expected save company more than $650,000 annually.
€13.5 million investment in Schramberg-Sulen site brings development activity under a single roof.
Zhengrong Shi, founder of the PV giant facing huge bond repayment deadline, blasts move to oust him as “unlawful”.
Organic LED materials specialist reports 'best ever' financial year, and is excited by investments at LG and Samsung.
Russia sees a dramatic 42% increase in FTTH subscriptions, Europe reports “steady” 15% growth, where Lithuania and Sweden lead the way.


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earned 27 cents per share in the second quarter, meeting a consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call, compared with 14 cents in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $8.05 billion, about flat sequentially and up 18% from a year ago. In early June, Intel said it expected revenue for the quarter to range from $8 billion to $8.2 billion. "Intel continued to post strong year-over-year results in the second quarter as our microprocessor business followed seasonal trends and our communications business grew nicely, led by flash memory," Intel said in a press release. "Looking to the second half, we will use our investments in leading-edge capacity to drive growth in our core microprocessor business and expand our presence in chipsets, flash and other communications products," the company said. Intel expects third-quarter revenue to range from $8.6 billion to $9.2 billion. The consensus third-quarter revenue estimate is $8.758 billion, with estimates ranging from $8.573 billion to $9.043 billion. Analysts expect Intel to earn 32 cents per share in the third quarter, compared with 25 cents a year ago. Shares closed at $26.14, down 10 cents. In the wake the report, shares fell $1.28 to $24.86 in after-hours trading.
will report fiscal third-quarter earnings. The maker of such pop technology products as the iMac and the iPod is expected to earn 15 cents per share, compared with 5 cents in the year-ago quarter, according to analysts. Earlier this month Apple said a next-generation iMac desktop computer would be delayed until September, missing an internal schedule and back-to-school season. Apple has traditionally kept a tight lid on new designs and hasn't revealed anything about the latest iteration of the iMac. On Monday Apple said users have purchased and downloaded more than 100 million songs from its iTunes Music Store, which the company declares is the top online music service in the world. Shares closed at $29.22, up 8 cents.
Advanced Micro Devices
will report second-quarter earnings. The semiconductor company is expected by Wall Street to earn 9 cents per share, compared with a loss of 40 cents a year ago. Earlier this week Merrill Lynch downgraded the semiconductor sector to "underweight" from "overweight." Although most stocks in the sector were also downgraded, AMD was spared, and maintained at "neutral." Shares closed at $14.50, up 7 cents.
named Charles H. Giancarlo as chief technology officer. Giancarlo will be responsible for contributing to and communicating the networking company's technology strategy. He will assume responsibility for the Global Government Solutions Group, while continuing to lead Cisco's voice and home networking businesses and serving as president of Cisco-Linksys. Giancarlo will report to President and Chief Executive
. Most recently Giancarlo served as the co-leader of network switching, one of Cisco's core technologies, and as the co-leader of several advanced technologies, including voice, storage networking and network security. A Cisco spokeswoman said the chief technology officer title hasn't had an appointment since 2000, when then-CTO Judith Estrin left the company. Shares closed at $22.14, down 15 cents.
Linens 'n Things
slashed guidance for second-quarter earnings per share to the range of 1 cent to 2 cents on a fully diluted basis, from the previous range of 8 cents to 9 cents. On an operating basis, the home-accessories and housewares retailer expects to earn 10 cents to 11 cents per diluted share, down from prior guidance of a range of 15 cents to 16 cents. Second-quarter sales rose to $578.7 million from $523.7 million a year ago. Analysts were expecting second-quarter earnings of 8 cents per share on revenue of $594 million, compared with per-share earnings of 13 cents a year ago. In a statement the company said, "Overall, our second-quarter results were primarily attributable to a decline in guest traffic, particularly during the month of May." Linens 'n Things will report second-quarter results on July 21. Shares closed at $27.36, up 20 cents. Shares fell $1.36 to $26 in after-hours trading on news of the warning.


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In an exclusive interview, the Goop founder and CEO calls cannabis a “hero ingredient” and tells CNBC about her personal investment in Cann, which produces adult beverages infused with microdoses of THC and CBD. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi
Goop CEO and founder Gwyneth Paltrow is the latest Hollywood celebrity investing in the cannabis industry. The actress-turned-wellness guru just announced she’s backing Cann, an cannabis-infused beverage maker.
Paltrow calls cannabis a “hero ingredient of the future” for wellness and says she was drawn to Cann’s drinks, which are infused with small doses of THC and CBD, as an appealing alternative to alcohol.
“There’s a whole sober-curious movement that’s going on and the cannabis-curious movement that’s going on, this is kind of at the intersection of those things in a way,” said Paltrow.
It’s the first time Paltrow is speaking about a personal investment in the cannabis industry, though Cann is not the first company in the space she’s backed. Financial terms of the Cann deal were not disclosed.
By endorsing Cann, Paltrow appears to be following in the footsteps of Martha Stewart, who recently launched a line of CBD gummies with Canopy Growth. Paltrow — with her 7.5 million Instagram followers and Goop’s 1.5 million Instagram followers and 2.5 million monthly podcast listeners — lends a hefty name to the fledgling cannabis industry, which she believes will become mainstream.
“We’re very clearly and definitively moving in the direction of cannabis being legalized, and I think it should be,” said Paltrow. “I’m actually not a big personal user of it. But I do think that there are amazing medicinal qualities to it and it is really helpful for a lot of people.”
Cann produces adult-infused beverages with flavors like grapefruit-rosemary, lemon-lavender, blood orange-cardamom. The tonics contain 2 milligrams of THC and 4 milligrams of CBD — portions of cannabis compounds that are considered microdoses. Cann’s founders, former Bain consultants Luke Anderson and Jake Bullock, said the point of the smaller doses is to incentivize consumers to have multiple drinks without getting incapacitated.
CBD is short for cannabidiol, which many say delivers the calming benefits of marijuana without the high that comes from THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol.
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When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, all I thought about were horses. After all, how can you be a kid growing up on a farm in Kentucky and not love horses? Not only known for horses, Kentucky is also the land of bluegrass and Bourbon whiskey. Today, Kentucky is also known for its automotive industry.
While Toyota may be moving its U.S. headquarters to Texas, the manufacturing of some of its most popular vehicles is staying in the Bluegrass State. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) just announced the production of its 10-millionth vehicle, a 2014 Camry. In a ceremony at the TMMK plant, located in Georgetown, KY, the company and about 7,000 employees celebrated as the vehicle rolled off the assembly line. The first Camry was made at the plant in 1988, and that vehicle sat beside the 10-millionth vehicle at the celebration.
"Obviously, these two vehicles are worlds apart in many ways, but, at the same time, identical in others - particularly when it comes to craftsmanship and the care and love that went into their production," said Wil James, TMMK plant president.
In addition to the Camry, which has been the no. 1 selling car 15 out of the last 16 years, TMMK also manufactures the Camry Hybird, Avalon, Avalon Hybrid and Venza, as well as both four-cylinder and V-6 engines, said a release from Toyota. In 2015, the plant will become the first in the U.S. to make a Lexus vehicle - the ES350 - adding 50,000 vehicles to the plant's current production capacity of 500,000 vehicles annually.