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Port Dickson, 1 February - Institute of Tropical Agriculture (ITA) had organized Long-term Research Grant Scheme Colloquium (LRGS Colloquium) entitled ''Enhancing the competitiveness and suistainability of the poultry industry through improved feedstock'.
Located in Klana Beach Resort, Port Dickson, started from 30 January 2015 for three today, this colloquium aimed is to assess achievement every LRGS project sub and student achievement standard in related projects. Involvement of the industry in this colloquium had given the opportunity to ITA to discuss and consequently get feedback on this research impact to poultri industry in Malaysia. Also attending in this colloquium is ITA's Director, Prof. Dr. Zulkifli Idrus, who is also Program Chief for LRGS Project. 5 representatives from industry involved in this programme, among them were Dr. Ahmad Mujahid from Sumitomo Chemical Enviro-Agro, Senawang, Negeri Sembilan; Dr. Richard Chong from Anitox Company, Klang Port; Dato' Dr. Vincent Ng from Agro Resources Worldwide Sdn. Bhd., Klang; Dr. Tan Chee Kiang from Chareon Pokhpand Malaysia, Port Klang; and Mr. Steven Goh from Delst Asia Delst Sdn. Bhd., Port Klang.
24 students, 3 doctor post and 15 researchers have joined in this colloquium.
LRGS is long-term Grant Scheme granted from Minister of Higher Education Malaysia to conduct high impact research and bring good benefit to our country. ITA had received two LRGS grants, the other grant is Food Security specifically on rice crop.

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Dell has revealed its Black Friday deals.
The company is offering sizable discounts on several devices, including its popular Aurora R10 gaming PC, Alienware 27-inch Monitor, Dell G5 Gaming Laptop and more.
All of these offers are available now and run until December 7th.
Below is a full list of Dell’s various deals.
Aurora R10 (AMD) R7/16/2+512/3080/1000w — $2,299.99 (regularly $3,399.99)
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Seth Godin's Failed Squidoo Site Sells Out to HubPages
After 20 months of tanking traffic, Squidoo.com's founder and president Seth Godin is closing the doors on his user-generated-content (UGC) site. According to Quantcast.com, traffic to the Squidoo site was averaging about 2,315,300 unique visitors per day in November, 2012. The day before its demise was announced, traffic had plummeted to just 358,000 a day, a loss of more than 84%. Translate that to an equivalent loss of income as well.
A revenue sharing site, Squidoo paid half of the money generated from Google AdSense and Display Network ads to the writers of 85,000 articles on the site. For the month of June, that 50% payment equaled just $18,640 – hardly enough to pay the salaries of Squidoo's 15 managers and employees.
Godin made the announcement in a short blog post on the Squidoo website on August 15, 2014, stating, "HubPages is acquiring key content from Squidoo, creating the largest site of its kind in the world." That media spin is more than a little misleading. Squidoo LLC, a privately-held corporation, never owned the content in its website; the copyright is owned exclusively by the individual authors.
Godin's announcement further explained that content would be moved to HubPages.com and that writers could delete their articles or opt out of the transfer and their work would simply vanish online. URLs on Squidoo for transported pages will have 301 redirects to their new locations on the HubPages' domain. The transfer of content began on September 2 with a projected completion date of October 1.
The Sale of Squidoo.com
I asked Marina Lazarevic, Product and Quality Manager for HubPages, if money actually changed hands in the acquisition. Her answer was yes. "While I can't disclose the details of the agreement, I can say that yes, we are paying Squidoo for the assets," she said. It appears that certain technology and user information was purchased.
Squidoo was operated remotely, with employees working from their homes or shared-office spaces in different parts of the U.S., so there are no tangible assets involved in the purchase.
None of the Squidoo employees will be working at HubPages. In a veiled message, Seth Godin discussed the fate of his employees in a post on his personal Typepad blog on August 19: "Many of them are off to start new projects, and some are looking to join teams that are doing important work--people with this much talent don't find themselves in between projects for long."
Of the hundreds of thousands of pages of content transferred, only 175,000 Squidoo user-generated webpages are presently available to search engines, trimmed down from 400,000 in the month before the deal was announced publicly. Though all content will make the move, only the pages now visible to search engines on Squidoo will be accessible to search engines on HubPages.
Before the transfer began, there were 838,700 articles published on HubPages. Of these, 335,638 were coded for search engine crawl. The massive content dump from Squidoo will increase crawlable pages by 52%.
HubPages is gambling that the content will do better on its site. It's a business gamble that not many would take. As Google's Panda algorithm is an ever-present and ever-changing beast which evaluates a site's entire inventory of content and applies across-the-board penalties, HubPages is at risk of losing its successful traffic numbers. Also, it is well known that any existing Google penalties follow URLs directed to a new domain.
The day before the acquisition was announced, the HubPages site received 1,282,894 unique visitors and average traffic was running at 33,145,000 a month for the previous quarter. It will be intriguing to watch how these numbers change over the coming months.
UGC Sites, AdSense Dollars and Backlinks
What happened to Squidoo.com? Looking back, Squidoo was a train wreck ready to happen.
Development of the Squidoo site began nine years ago, two years after Google introduced its lucrative advertising program for Web publishers. It was a time when almost any search query on Google would deliver results displaying a handful of webpages from EzineArticles.com. (Remember EzineArticles? Its traffic from search nose-dived in February 2011 with the first release of the Google Panda Algorithm which specifically targeted so-called content farms, and the site never recovered its search rankings. Since the end of 2012, even having backlinks from that site garners a Google penalty for spam links.)
It was Google's own search engine results combined with its AdSense program which encouraged UGC sites to spring up like mushrooms; and it was Google's Web Search Quality team which eventually targeted these sites and wiped most of them off of the first pages of search results, beginning in 2011.
HubPages was hit hard in Google's cleanup and, although its traffic never returned to pre-Panda levels, it did make a healthy recovery. Squidoo.com survived the great purge of 2011 and came through relatively unscathed. No one really knows why, for that site was stuffed with similar low-quality content, duplicate content, spam, spun content, etc.
Easy Money on Squidoo
Many of those drawn to post articles on Squidoo were attracted by the opportunity to make money from AdSense, especially people who couldn't qualify on their own for an AdSense account, those who got their accounts banned, and those living in countries where AdSense accounts were not allowed. Unlike HubPages, on Squidoo, writers didn't need their own approved AdSense account; all ads from Google used the Squidoo ID for AdSense.
Spammers from around the world used software to generate spun content for the site and targeted lucrative keywords. Other schemers opened sideline businesses selling such articles for $5 each. Countless eBooks were written and sold touting methodology for using the Squidoo site to make fast money online. The spam content poured in.
Easy Backlinks from Squidoo
Like EzineArticles and HubPages, Squidoo was also a link-drop farm, where anyone could post hundreds of 500-word articles, crammed with anchor text links to their Web properties. Since its launch, Seth Godin blatantly marketed the site as a place to post links. In an interview with SearchEngineLand.com's founding editor Chris Sherman in 2007, Godin encouraged businesses and website owners to enlist people to write Squidoo articles as marketing gimmicks for their companies.
In the initial marketing effort for the Squidoo Beta Test, Godin distributed a PDF file in which he said that he was not looking for articles containing content; rather, he was looking for articles containing links to other content on the Web. He even boldly announced that a link from a Squidoo article could increase another website's Google PageRank. This is the mindset which attracted and encouraged the link spam.
Squidoo allowed unlimited outbound links to the same domain in each article. Word spread online among SEOs and webmasters that Squidoo was a top place to get anchor text backlinks. Shallow content filled with link spam flooded the site.
Squidoo was also a venue for generating income from Amazon.com products for people with or without accounts on the shopping site. Articles on Squidoo could have unlimited displays of Amazon products and many articles were uploaded to the site which contained nothing more than dozens and dozens of Amazon links.
The Day of Reckoning for Squidoo
When Google's Panda algorithm annihilated search traffic to top UGC sites such as Suite101, DemandMedia's eHow, Business.com, Helium.com and Yahoo's AssociatedContent, management at Squidoo ignored the inevitable.
The time of judgment began for Squidoo with the release of the 21st Panda update on November 5, 2012. Traffic decreased by 100,000 unique visitors the next day. Two more Google algorithm updates targeted the site in late November and December, the height of the holiday shopping season, cutting traffic down by another 666,700 daily visits. In just 30 days, traffic plunged by 30%.
During the first two months of 2013, Squidoo management played the fiddle by ignoring the crisis and taking no intervention to reverse the downward spiral. On February 28, 2013, and after four months of diminished traffic, Squidoo Head of Community Bonnie Diczhazy, posted this message on the site blog:
"Squidoo faces a serious crossroads, one that effects [sic] our entire community."
In the post, Diczhazy explained that certain content on the website "used to be able to fool the search engines, but it’s not fair to our readers and it doesn't work any longer regardless." To many, this statement indicated receipt of Google warnings and/or manual penalties.
The post goes on to reference specifically the massive amounts of spun content on Squidoo, but the example Diczhazy gave in the blog post was actually for keyword stuffing – another indication that management was clueless about search engine algorithms and Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Diczhazy stated that the company was building software to ferret out spun content and remove it from the site. Clearly, the day of reckoning had come.
Two weeks later, with the release of a new Google Penguin update on March 12 and the last Panda manual update on March 14, the death knell sounded for Squidoo.com. Traffic statistics dropped in a free fall, never to return.
When Squidoo content began transitioning to HubPages on September 2, 2014, Squidoo traffic had fallen to its 2008 levels, the year its measurement statistics were first recorded on Quantcast.com.
Seth Godin's Leadership Failure
In the 16-month period from March 2013 until the demise of Squidoo.com, management made erratic decisions that did as much to harm the website's traffic numbers as the increasing pressure from Google algorithms did. In fact, at times it was difficult to determine which was affecting the site more.
Management Ethical Failures – Squidoo Writers' Payments
The leadership mentality of Squidoo was reflected in its method of payment to its writers. Most of the writers were never paid for their content. Those who were paid did not receive the actual advertising commissions their articles earned from Google advertising. Rather, that income was pooled and divided among writers according to an internal ranking system which was convoluted, opaque, and manipulated by Squidoo management and by some Squidoo content producers.
The 50% Google advertising revenue split with writers was not evenly distributed. The ranking system paid the writers of 2,000 articles a proportional amount of approximately half of the distributed portion of this revenue. The writers of the next 8,000 ranked articles received a piece of 34% of the revenue and the writers of the next 75,000 articles shared a cut of 16%. Writers of 315,000 articles available to search engines received nothing, even if those articles earned money from Google ads. Before traffic to the site began to fall, the amount of money distributed to content producers peaked at $244,920 for one month.
Though the algorithm for determining the ranking system was never fully disclosed by management, it was revealed and well-known that these factors greatly influenced ranking and, therefore, payment tiers:
- receiving push-button 'likes' from other site writers;
- receiving push-button 'likes' or 'blessings' (or downgrades) from a small, elite group of other content producers chosen by management;
- receiving 'likes' from a Squidoo employee;
- receiving awards from a Squidoo employee;
- daily updating an article;
- receiving a click-out to any link for another website or to an affiliate link from a page visitor, including clicks on Google AdSense ads.
Traffic was not a factor.
The Squidoo ranking/payment system encouraged internal traffic, not external traffic. It also fostered gaming of its system by writers who manipulated ranking for their own accounts with automated software and actually selling 'likes', 'blessings' and clicks on links within articles.
People exchanged AdSense clicks on Facebook, forums and other social sharing sites. Some writers sabotaged the articles of competitors by using multiple accounts to vote them down. Some of the gamers had dozens of articles receiving top tier payments and were receiving thousands of dollars a month from pooled income. All of this was known to Squidoo management for it was often specifically reported by disgruntled Squidoo writers, to no avail.
Squidoo employees were also allowed to write articles and compete for extra income from the ranking-system payout pie. In the 30 days before the transfer of content to HubPages was announced, of the articles featured on the homepage of Squidoo.com, more than 50 were written by Squidoo Head of Community Bonnie Diczhazy, writing under her user name Beliza.
Either Diczhazy felt her articles were indicative of the best available on Squidoo or she was greedily double-dipping into tier payments by spotlighting her own content in the quest for 'likes', 'blessings' and comments. Samples of Diczhazy articles which were given site awards for being outstanding – and thus, given a significant boost in tier-payment ranking – are here and here. Resentment of management sizzled among the rank and file.
Crisis Management Failures – March 2013
March 4: Diczhazy issued a new company policy which limited 'likes' to 20 a day per IP address and the 'blessing' system for favored writers was limited to five per day. This, of course, reduced site visits but allowed the gamers to continue by simply using different IP addresses and multiple accounts on the site.
March 11: Diczhazy announced a new page-blocking advertising banner on Squidoo which linked to other pages on the website. This above-the-fold intrusion flew in the face of Google's advice for best practices.
As the Squidoo internal filter cranked up, many Squidoo writers found their entire accounts, some containing hundreds of articles, were removed from the site and two months of earnings were confiscated by management. The filter was a slash-and-burn and completely oblivious to which articles were actually favored by Google and bringing in traffic from search.
Other writers spent frustrating hours trying to please the eyes of a faceless algorithm when their content was locked without an identifiable reason. Emails to management were largely ignored.
Bewildered and furious writers were told that they might get a response from their emails to the company within three weeks or they might never get one, depending upon the whim of management. Most writers received no responses.
On March 21, Diczhazy told writers that the company wanted them to put another Amazon product on their articles, high on the page in the critical above-the-fold space. "Our research indicates this is a sweet spot for the Amazon module", she posted on the company blog. Apparently their research didn't involve a glance at Google's Page Layout algorithm releases.
March 25: Diczhazy announced another round of deleting articles and automated scans to:
"detect thin lenses [articles], spun content, excessive use of keywords and overuse of affilate [sic] ads.
"We're finding that a lot of lenses that have multiple affilate [sic] ads. 50+ in some cases with very little content."
Countless articles, some generating high traffic, were removed from the site. Again, more accounts were deleted and two months of those writers' earnings were withheld by management. Like a squid chewing off its own tentacles, tens of thousands of webpages vanished from the site.
March 28: Squidoo made the decision to NoFollow all outbound links and made history as the only website to slap a NoFollow on all internal links as well. Under ridicule, the decision to NoFollow internal site links was rescinded the next day.
Amid the helter skelter directives from management, Google was also chopping away at traffic to the site. On March 13, the last manual Panda update began. By the end of March 2013, Squidoo traffic was down 59% from its heyday just four months prior.
Seth Godin's Business Plan Failure – Treading Water
In May 2013, webmasters noted the release of a Google Phantom update. On May 29, Google adjusted domain crowding which limited most listings from the same website to two URLs on the first pages of search engine results. This was to allow for more diversity on results pages. For a site like Squidoo which was stuffed with articles with overlapping content, this produced a further traffic fall. (In fact, Squidoo management regularly issued calls-for-content which encouraged multiple articles on the same subject.)
Squidoo floundered and failed to come up with a clear direction for its site. Throughout the rest of 2013, slipshod ideas were thrown at the wall such as: a new homepage design without links to major content sections, encouragement for writers to produce extremely short how-to articles and 250-word product reviews, a new flyout bar which blocked content, new subdomain URLS for some writers' content and for some site topics, a limit of 20 Amazon products and 20 external links per article, removal of articles which had any backlinks pointing to them, and more wholesale cancelling of writers' accounts and pocketing their earnings.
Dissenters among the content writers were banned from the forum and from leaving comments on the site blog. Class-action lawsuits for collection of earned compensation were threatened by devastated authors.
Following the Leader
During the 20-month downfall of Squidoo traffic, founder and President Seth Godin made direct communication with Squidoo writers only twice – in March of 2013 and in June of that year – both times by invitation-only conference calls with a select few writers and staff. Notorious for his blog which accepts no comments, only a few questions were allowed on the 20-minute calls. Bonnie Diczhazy attended the conference calls and defended her management actions by saying that all decisions were made as a group.
Two months before the sale to HubPages was announced, Squidoo released an increased minimum payment threshold for writers of $25, up from the $1 minimum.
When the sale was announced, writers protested and demanded that all earnings under $25 be paid to them instead of being forfeited to Squidoo. Their outrage was made loudly and clearly across social media, forums and blogs. Squidoo reneged and lowered the minimum payment back to $1 for writers' final payments.
In his 160 page missive Tribes, Godin said:
"Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, 'You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.' "
I think he will lose that bet. It's doubtful any in the ex-Squidoo tribe will be following Seth Godin again.
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Latest Telecom News: After four years, Bharti Airtel has exceeded Reliance Jio in terms of increasing the number of monthly subscribers. In September 2020, Airtel surpassed all other telecom companies in the country in terms of subscriber growth. The information was released by the country’s telecom regulator TRAI on last Thursday.
Reliance Jio started commercial operations since September 2016. And since then, Mukesh Ambani’s company was the top on the basis of subscribers count. And within a few days of coming to the market, Mukesh Ambani’s telecom company has acquired 15.97 million new subscribers.
Airtel has seen a huge growth in September 2020. In that month, this telecom company added a total of 3.77 million new customers (Airtel Subscribers September 2020). And Reliance Jio is right behind Airtel in terms of increasing the number of subscribers in September. In September this year, 1.46 million new customers became members of the Jio family. However, the biggest loss has been Vodafone Idea or Vi. Vi lost 4.65 million subscribers in September. On the other hand, MTNL and Reliance Communications lost 5,784 and 1,324 subscribers respectively.
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However, even in this situation, the government telecom company BSNL is turning around. With the exception of Airtel and Jio, where most telecom companies are losing customers, BSNL added 78,454 new customers in September this year. However, in all respects, Reliance Jio is dominating the telecom market in September with 404.12 million subscribers. It is followed by Airtel with 326.61 million subscribers, Vodafone Idea with 295.49 million subscribers, BSNL with 118.89 million subscribers and MTNL with 3.33 million subscribers.
On the other hand, in September this year, the overall number of telecom subscribers in the country has increased at a significant rate. The total number of telecom subscribers in the country in August was 1,167.81 million. That number rose to 1,168.66 million in September. While the number of wireless telecom subscribers in India was 1,147.92 in August, it was 1,148.58 million in September.
In the same way, the number of landline customers has also increased in September. The total number of landline subscribers in the country was 19.89 million in August, up from 20.08 million in September. The country’s broadband subscribers rose 1.41 percent in September. The number of broadband subscribers in India as of August 2020 was 716.19 million. The country’s broadband subscribers were 726.32 million in September.


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A few weeks ago, we sat down with four IT, systems and audit experts to discuss SOX compliance and business systems. You can watch on demand the full panel discussion on audit prep here — but one of the key takeaways was that, for our panelists, preparing their team was just as important as preparing their systems.
NetSuite is the ERP system of choice for more than 63% of tech IPOs. As a growing number of unicorns and other ambitious companies turn to the platform, the community has grown with it. We’re finding that people are eager to share their experiences. Last Tuesday’s webinar, “The Successful IPO: From Those Who’ve Done It Before,” is a perfect example of this.
Most customers come to Strongpoint in anticipation of going public or in preparation for audit after an IPO. Recently, however, an increasing number of public companies are purchasing our products after failing an audit or receiving a warning of material deficiencies. The good news is that, in all cases, the main challenges are entirely avoidable without a great deal of work.


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There has been some confusion surrounding Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE) and high-end Lumia Windows Phones. Nokia Australia recently stated that the hardware won't support the upgrade. Shortly thereafter, Nokia PR in Germany confirmed that all Lumia Windows Phones will indeed support Bluetooth 4.0 LE.
Now, Nokia Australia has backtracked on what was previously said, reaffirming what we originally believed to be the case - high-end Nokia Windows Phones will support Bluetooth 4.0 through a system update.
There you have it, folks. The Lumia 820, 920, 925 and 1020 will all support Bluetooth 4.0 LE with the next major maintenance update, which is due out by the end of this year. Currently, the Lumia 520, 620, 625 and 720 reportedly support Bluetooth 4.0 LE, but those with more premium handsets will be able to take advantage of the energy saved in the near future.
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Celebrate everything guitar this Friday for the 1st World Guitar Day
This Friday, 6th October 2017, will mark the very first World Guitar Day, an online celebration of everything guitar and guitar related.
World Guitar Day will debut with a host of exclusive interviews, live Q&A’s, blogs, and more with some of the world’s most famous and talented guitarists. They will be sharing stories of their musical careers, tips on the guitar, discussing, arguing and poring over the worlds most popular instrument (probably, you’ll have to fact check that).
Two major players already confirmed to be joining the celebrations are blues aficionado Joe Bonamassa who will take part in an exclusive, brand new and in-depth interview. Joe Satriani has also been confirmed to be taking part, answering questions live on Facebook throughout the day.
The day will feature a bunch of guitar-oriented workshops and info, with even free guitar lessons going for aspiring players who are looking for some key advice. Guitarists with a bit more experience behind them will be able to improve their technique, sound and songwriting with tips and tutorials from experts.
It’s not just about the skill and talent of guitarists and the guitar but World Guitar Day will also have a focus and celebration of the guitar’s psychological effects. That includes the way playing the guitar can change and boost your mood as well as the potential mental health benefits in playing an instrument, or just music in general.
You can get involved in the lead up to the big day including a vote on the ‘Greatest Guitar Riff Ever’, a chance to share your guitar rig setup, as well as inspiring others with their guitar stories. The event will be hosted by a variety of music and guitar-oriented outlets, such as Guitarist, Total Guitar, Guitar Techniques, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and TeamRock Radio.
World Guitar Day will be hosted on MusicRadar.com and TeamRock.com. Spread the word with the official hashtag #WGD17 and get involved with the biggest celebration of guitar in 2017.


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The FA of Indonesia (PSSI) have unveiled Mills as their new official apparel sponsors.
Local manufacturer Mills – from PT Mitra Kreasi Garmen – was selected by PSSI to be the new apparel sponsors ahead of other brands where they will replace Nike from this year onwards.
The contract between PSSI and Mills is for two years.
“We have chosen Mills as the new apparel sponsors of the Indonesian national teams. The decision was made after much deliberation and also Mills commitment towards the national teams,” said PSSI President Mochamad Iriawan.
“Mills is a product from Indonesia and in line, with the ideals of Indonesia President Jokowi (Widodo) to support local brands, we have decided to go with them. They have a good product which is comparable to those from the US and also Europe. So we are very positive with this partnership and hope that we can grow together.”
Mills will outfit the Indonesian national teams from the senior all the way down to the age group and on to the women’s team.
They will also provide for seminars and courses for coaches, referees and provincial associations.
The first official event would be Indonesia’s match against Thailand on 26 March 2020 in Bangkok for the second round World Cup 2022 qualifiers.


text: Sony Corp, Japan\'s largest exporter of consumer electronics, had its credit-rating outlook slashed by Moody\'s Investors Service because of weakening demand for liquid-crystal display televisions as well as a stronger yen. The outlook was lowered to \"negative\" from \"stable,\" Moody\'s said in a statement yesterday, while retaining the Tokyo-based company\'s long-term debt rating at A3. Sony faces weakening demand for Bravia TVs after consumer sentiment in Europe and the US declined \"significantly,\" Moody\'s said. Chairman Howard Stringer has sought to end a seven-year 476 billion yen ($6.2 billion) loss from the TV business by outsourcing production to contract manufacturers and eliminating jobs as competition increases with South Korean rivals Samsung Electronics Co and LG Electronics Inc. The company \"may ultimately need to implement a major restructuring of this business,\" Moody\'s said in the statement. Given the negative outlook, an upgrade is unlikely in the short term, it said. Sony, the world\'s third-largest maker of TVs, fell 1.2 per cent to 1,588 yen at the close of trading in Tokyo, extending the losses this year to 46 per cent. The outlook change was announced after trading ended. Samsung is rated ‘A1\' by Moody\'s with a stable outlook, and LG is rated ‘Baa2\' with a negative outlook, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung is the world\'s biggest maker of TVs, followed by LG, according to researcher DisplaySearch. Structural issues A return to a \"stable\" outlook will likely need evidence of Sony\'s ability to successfully address the structural issues, Moody\'s said. Sony will probably struggle to restore its money-losing TV business in a timely manner, even as the yen\'s appreciation against the euro pressures earnings, it said. \"If prolonged weakness in the global economy, the strong yen, the maturity of major digital AV products, or greater competition continue to pressure earnings and the company fails to restore profitability, then its ratings would be downgraded,\" it said. In July, Sony cut its annual profit forecast and said it may sell 22 million TVs in the year ending March 31, compared with an earlier projection for 27 million units.


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With travel suspended between the UK and US since March 2020, the countries have announced a new task force aimed at restarting transatlantic travel “as soon as possible”.
While many countries around the world cautiously reopen borders, the UK still has the US listed as an “amber” destination on its traffic-light system for travel, meaning anyone returning from the US must quarantine for 10 days. The US maintains a wide ban on most inbound travel, though Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has recently spoken about plans to ease border restrictions between the US and Canada for fully vaccinated individuals.
US president Joe Biden is currently in the UK and meeting in-person with Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the first time on Thursday, ahead of the G7 summit. The announcement of the task force came from the UK’s transport minister, Grant Schapps, who tweeted that the creation of the task force would “help facilitate the reopening of transatlantic travel”.
According to a UK government statement, the countries aim to “open up travel between the UK and US as soon as possible”. However, no timeline for when travel could resume has been given. Before the pandemic, more than 5 million Brits traveled to the US and 4.5 million Americans visited the UK each year – more than any other country.
The new travel working group will “make recommendations on safely reopening international travel” and explore options for ensuring “that the UK and US closely share thinking and expertise on international travel policy going forward”.
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Shares of Apple soared 8% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after upping its share buyback and dividend. The company also handily beat Wall Street's profit and sales estimates for the past quarter.
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Auction of pre-Hispanic pieces in France causes uproar in Mexico
Christie's auction house put 40 pieces of pre-Hispanic art on sale on Tuesday, February 9 in Paris, France. The amount raised amounted to 2.53 million euros (61.6 million pesos), which meant "the largest sum of pre-Columbian art at Christie's", it informed.
Mexican authorities pointed out that the patrimony was illegally stolen. The auction was called "Quetzalcoatl, feathered serpent", and three of the objects, according to experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), were not authentic although their description indicated so.
Alejandra Frausto, head of the Ministry of Culture, commented: "The pieces were sold and that is outrageous. Even the fake ones were sold. We will have to continue building, in a diplomatic way, with the French government". The trafficking of archaeological pieces is not a novelty, but issuing letters rogatory is now allowed.
"It is very hostile in the legislation, especially in the French legislation, that the burden of proof is placed on the possession of the pieces. When we talk about the burden of proof of how a piece left illegally, it is tough for Mexico to prove at what time a piece left, under what conditions, and how it left, because it is a matter of illegal trafficking or collectors who made collections at a time when there was not even a law on the matter."
The Mexican government has been able to recover close to 3,500 pieces in the present administration, and indicated that they will continue collaborating with other nations to recover Mexican cultural heritage.
Among the most valuable pieces in the auction was the Classic Teotihuacan Mask, which was acquired by the collector in 1938 and came from the Pierre Matisse Gallery, according to the auction house's website. It had a starting price of 350,000 euros (8.5 million pesos) and was auctioned at 437,500 euros (10.6 million pesos).
Diego Prieto, director of INAH, told Noticieros Televisa that they conducted an analysis of composition, size, shape, and materials and determined that it is a recently manufactured piece. "It is a piece that comes with a very high starting price, but we would not even claim that piece".
Another in a figure of Cihuateotl, goddess of women who die in childbirth, which had a starting price of 600,000 euros (14.6 million pesos) and was sold for 500,000 euros (12.1 million pesos). It is said to be from the Walter Vanden Avenne Collection.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) indicated in a press release on February 3 that "the commercialization of archaeological goods is a crime under Mexican law and that INAH filed the corresponding complaints before the Attorney General's Office. It demanded the companies involved to desist from this practice that negatively affects the universal cultural richness and diversity".
The agency expressed its concern that the auction house does not verify the provenance and authenticity of the items. In 2019, Mexico failed in its attempt to prevent the sale of some 120 pre-Hispanic objects by a French auctioneer. The Millon auction house sold many of those pieces for a price much higher than previous estimates.


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EP Daily Rundown – July 22, 2015
In another fresh edition of the Rundown, Vic and Scott have the latest on the highly-anticipated Shenmue III, and discuss the future of the Borderlands series.
EP Daily Rundown – July 21, 2015
In the latest edition of the Rundown, we discuss Batman: Arkham Knight's ongoing troubles on the PC, and celebrate former EP co-host Jade Raymond heading up a new game development studio.
Scott Porter on Batman: Arkham Knight
Scott catches up with actor Scott Porter to find out what it was like voicing Nightwing in Batman: Arkham Knight.
MotoGP 15 vs. Ride Game Review
Rescue 2: Everyday Heroes Game Review
There are so many wildfires right now, even Jose and Sophia have become firefighters. Here's their review of the new game Rescue 2: Everyday Heroes.
Her Story Game Review
What’s New in XCOM 2?
Jose joins the human resistance with XCOM 2 senior producer Garth DeAngelis to find out what's new this time around.
EP Daily Rundown – July 9, 2015
Today in the Rundown, Vic and Scott build up two new Minecraft games, and tell us what they hope to see at this year's San Diego Comic Con.
EP Daily Rundown – July 8, 2015
James Bond and Batman join forces in the Rundown today. Vic and Marissa shine the spotlight on the new Batgirl DLC for Arkham Knight, and find out how James Bond is heading to Broadway.
Why We’re Excited for Fallout 4
There are loads of big games on the way, but one that stands out is Fallout 4. Marissa gives us all the reasons why she can't wait to play it.
Why We’re Excited for Metal Gear Solid V
Victor spent loads of time playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at E3 last month, and here are all the reasons why he's excited for the game.
What’s New in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided?
Jose catches up with Eidos Montreal's Steve Szczepkowski to find out what's new in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Finding Your Way in No Man’s Sky
Hello Games founder Sean Murray gives us new details on how players will find their way through the massive universe of No Man's Sky.
Batman: Arkham Knight Second Opinion
Watch 20 Minutes of Battleborn Gameplay
If you're anxious to get a new look at Gearbox Software's first-person MOBA game Battleborn, you'll be happy to know that 23 minutes of new gameplay footage has found its way online. This footage was first shown off at E3 last week. From the creators of Borderlands c
Lego Jurassic World Game Review
Magicka 2 Game Review
Jose and our newest reviewer Sophia learn to spell again with a review of the magical action adventure game Magicka 2.
Martin Sahlin on Unravel
We catch up with Unravel creative director Martin Sahlin to spin a yarn about the whimsical new side-scroller.
EP Daily Rundown – June 25, 2015
Today in the Rundown, we've got an EP Exclusive from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé about the future of Splatoon! We also discuss Project Cars 2.
Exploring No Man’s Sky
Jose catches up with Hello Games founder Sean Murray for a closer look at the exploration in No Man's Sky.
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Smart Tech PR Campaign: OKTO Technologies, Smart Buildings Specialist
OKTO Technologies is a leading smart buildings specialist, delivering a range of state-of-the-art integrated technology services across the high end residential, commercial and hospitality sectors.
Ebury’s objective for the smart tech PR campaign was twofold: to showcase OKTO’s expertise on prime residential projects such as 80 Holland Park and Mayfair Park Residences, positioning them as the go-to smart buildings specialist in the UK, and to introduce their new wellness division, OKTOair, to the UK media.
Ebury was tasked with securing regular and thought-leadership coverage for OKTO’s products, services and representatives across a wide-ranging media landscape of news, property, lifestyle and tech trade publications.
Smart Tech PR Campaign Execution
The smart tech PR campaign for OKTO Technologies began with the launch of OKTOair, a new wellness division including a ground breaking air filtration system that Ebury was briefed to bring to the media’s attention.
Through dedicated daily communication with leading technology, property and news editors regarding OKTOair’s unique capabilities, alongside insightful, timely comment and project examples, our smart tech PR campaign helped to secure impactful editorial in a host of key target media.
In addition to this, Ebury has worked closely with consumer and trade editorial contacts across property, lifestyle and construction to build OKTO Technologies’ reputation within B2C and B2B industries, facilitating a series of profile opportunities for MD Philip Dowds, placement of expert commentary and coverage on milestone company announcements.
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Over the course of the smart tech PR campaign, Ebury has secured editorial coverage for OKTO Technologies and Philip Dowds in national newspapers and supplements, including The Financial Times and Telegraph Luxury, as well as top tier luxury property and trade publications such as Show House and PrimeResi.
Alongside traditional media outreach, Ebury also assisted with the organisation of panel discussions hosted by Philip and made introductions to industry-leading developers and business owners, further widening OKTO’s network across the luxury residential sector.
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Intel Shows Off 10nm Cannon Lake Wafer
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Reiterating their message from their Technology and Manufacturing Day from earlier this year, Intel held a similar event in Beijing. However, they have an actual 10nm Cannon Lake wafer on hand to show off how far they are progressing. Going from 14nm to 10nm has proven to be challenging for chip makers. However, Intel is confident that they are much further along and even made announcements regarding their 10nm product portfolio.
The specific wafer shown is from 10nm test chips containing ARM Cortex A75 cores, with target performance in excess of 3GHz. Competing chipmakers TSMC and Samsung have 10nm chips on hand as well. But Intel wants to emphasize that their process technology uses tighter transistors and metal pitches for almost double the density in comparison.
Intel ‘Falcon Mesa’ FPGA with PCIe 4.0
Aside from showing off their 10nm wafer, they also announced their Falcon Mesa FPGA at the event. This FPGA will be the first to use the PCI Express 4.0 interface. The timeline for when PCIe 4.0 will hit the mainstream is not finalized by PCI-SIG for now, but the timing appears to be close enough for launch. This FPGA boasts 112 GBps serial transceiver links and uses Intel’s Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect (EMIB).
Although this is not for the mainstream desktop, it is interesting to see how fast things are progressing lately. It is also understandable following Intel’s restructuring last year. The diversified portfolio is in keeping with the changing market, showing the chip giant’s less reliance on the desktop consumer market. Their future now involves commitment to AI and other industrial areas, as evidenced by their recent acquisitions.


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By Sami Mäkiniemelä, Chief Security Officer, Miradore
Last year, the U.S. saw a 57% increase in the number of cyberattacks — that’s nearly double the 38% increase that was reported worldwide. This rising threat of cyberattacks comes at a time when many companies are cutting costs and reducing staff in response to economic uncertainty. While these cost savings may help a company in the short term, they could be opening the door to catastrophic, long-term consequences associated with data breaches and cyberattacks.
Recent data shows that each of these cyberattacks — whether it’s a malware, ransomware, data breach, or DDoS attack — had a median cost of $18,000 in 2022. That’s nearly double the amount from the year before, up from $10,000 in 2021. The study also showed that nearly half of all American businesses suffered a cyberattack in some way during the last year.
However, as the risks and costs of cyberattacks are growing, concern at the corporate level is not matching the threat. New research shows just 23% of corporate board directors think the risk of a cyberattack is very likely — even more alarming is that 47% believe their company is unprepared to handle a cyberattack if it did come. This could be a serious problem as the costs of these attacks continue to grow, posing a threat to the very businesses these boards are overseeing. That’s why those in the C-suite positions and their board members need to be more proactive about protecting their businesses from this complex and costly threat.
This disconnect between the disinterest of corporate boards and the reality of the threat landscape is especially disconcerting considering the fiduciary and oversight responsibilities these bodies are entrusted with. Boards and their members have a duty to educate themselves about the risks and strategies for cyber resilience in order to take the proper precautions against these attacks.
Here are three essential things board members need to know about cybersecurity today to help protect their companies from future fiscal disaster.
Understanding the importance and impact of cybersecurity is the first and most important step in safeguarding your business.
Cybersecurity can seem very complicated to someone without deep IT or technological knowledge. However, your entire board doesn’t have to understand everything about computer networks and how to protect them against potential attack. They just need to be committed from the top down to enhancing cybersecurity. If not, employees who see their board dismissing cybersecurity concerns are likely to do the same.
Also, cybersecurity considerations need to be part of a company’s overall business strategy. When reviewing corporate financials, board members need to ensure that there’s a robust budget to support regular maintenance and upgrades to company infrastructure that will defend against cyberattacks. Even with the current economic uncertainty and cost-cutting mandates, cybersecurity spending is expected to rise by more than 10% this year compared to 2022. This underscores the importance of this issue for organizations of all sizes.
Poorly managed cybersecurity can risk the entire business.
It’s easy to ignore cybersecurity when nothing happens. But when things go wrong, fixing it after the fact can be problematic and very expensive. Cyberattacks can have significant consequences for a company, such as financial loss and reputational risk. IBM estimated the average cost of an American data breach in 2022 to be $9.44M. But there’s also the reputational damages of lost public trust that are harder to measure and can have a significant negative impact on the business too.
Years after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach, 44% of social media users still have a negative opinion of Facebook — 41% of millennials use Facebook less because of the data breach, compared to 37% of Generation Xers and 24% of baby boomers. According to a recent study, the average financial losses for this particular type of damage are $8,653 for SMBs and $204,750 for larger companies when you combine consultancy expenses, lost opportunities due to damaged corporate image, and marketing and PR activities aimed at reducing the impact to reputation.
That’s why it’s cheaper and easier to make sure in advance that your business is fully protected against cyber crimes before they even happen. With the increasing frequency of state-sponsored and other highly sophisticated cyberattacks, the threat of cybercrime is growing more serious. Fortunately, while cybercrimes are getting more sophisticated so is the technology that helps prevent them. Towards this end, there are a variety of available resources to help stay on top of cybersecurity trends and issues. Government agencies like CISA and the SBA provide essential guidance, while companies like Miradore offer MDM, and cyber intelligence firms like Google’s Mandiant can help companies mitigate risks before, during, or after an attack.
It’s helpful to think about cybersecurity like your home — it’s easier to deter a burglar with cameras, an alarm system, and proper outdoor lighting than it is to recover stolen property after the break-in. By being proactive about cyberdefense before an attack, board members can save their companies money on the bottom line.
Management needs to be an active participant in the company’s larger cybersecurity efforts.
Companies of all sizes should set up an information security management strategy and management committee. Members of the board of directors and senior management team should be on this committee to signal the importance of this issue to the company and its customers. Also, having a presence in that space means the board will be informed of and able to act on any potential cybersecurity incidents in a timely manner, ensuring a more efficient response.
Additionally, board members should push to establish metrics and reports to measure the business impact of cybersecurity. To quote American author and entrepreneur H. James Harrington, “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it.” Boards should keep track of all cybersecurity incidents and how much money and time is spent fixing these, while also looking into how they can prevent similar incidents in the future. Measuring the impact of cyberattacks and progress towards preventing them is a critical step in managing a company’s cyber risk profile.
As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve and expand, the threat of cyberattacks will continue to grow more pernicious. Members of a company’s board of directors have an obligation to understand the basics about cyberattacks and how to prevent them in order to exercise their oversight responsibilities and protect their business from untold monetary and reputational losses.
While there is no one perfect solution or silver bullet for all cybersecurity issues, boards who are committed to this issue should experiment with the available resources until they find a combination of tools that works for them. The right mix of actions and intentions about cybersecurity from the board will ensure the company is in the best position to prevent cyberattacks and respond to any attacks that do come quickly and efficiently.
About the Author
Sami Mäkiniemelä is the Chief Security Officer at Miradore, a software company that offers MDM
services. Sami can be reached online via LinkedIn. You can learn more about the cybersecurity benefits of mobile device management on Miradore’s website.


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Maserati has finally unveiled its 2014 Ghibli midsize sedan, a vehicle which it hopes will help lift its annual sales to 50,000 units a year.
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Many auto makers are adding a diesel engine option to its lineup and apparently the one percent deserves a diesel alternative too.
The 2013 Maserati GranTurismo will make its first official appearance at the Geneva Auto Show next month.
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Investing.com — Here is your weekly Pro Recap of the past week’s biggest headlines in the electric vehicle space: an earnings miss and angry workers at Tesla; a vow from Nio; and a delisting at Lordstown.
Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA), an American truck manufacturer, stole the spotlight this week when its stock price experienced a remarkable 62% surge on Thursday thanks to a significant strategic supply partnership with hydrogen producer BayoTech.
Per the partnership agreement, BayoTech has committed to purchasing up to 50 of Nikola’s Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell trucks over the next five years. The first batch of 12 trucks is set to be delivered between 2023 and 2024.
“Nikola and BayoTech are united by a common goal of providing reliable access to hydrogen throughout the United States,” said Michael Lohscheller, President and CEO of Nikola Corporation.
In return for this collaboration, Nikola has agreed to acquire up to 10 of BayoTech’s HyFill hydrogen transport trailers. These trailers serve a critical role in the transportation of high-pressure hydrogen from production sites to refueling stations.
“BayoTech’s low-carbon hydrogen fuel and transport equipment will play an important part in supporting the adoption of Nikola’s Class 8 fuel cell electric zero-emission trucks,” added Lohscheller.
Along with their partnership with BayoTech, Nikola sealed a deal with Bosch (NS:BOSH) to become the engineering company’s pilot customer for their volume production fuel-cell power modules.
Bosch revealed Thursday that the company is investing $2.8 billion in hydrogen fuel cell technology from 2021 to 2026. According to Bosch, by 2030, approximately 20% of newly manufactured trucks weighing six metric tons or more are expected to be equipped with fuel-cell powertrains.
Production of Bosch’s fuel-cell power module will begin at its Feuerbach plant on the outskirts of Stuttgart and in Chongqing in China.
Shares of NKLA ended trading Friday at $2.25, 19.7% off its high of $2.80, which they hit Friday morning.
According to a letter sent to owners, “The $7,500 federal tax credit will likely decrease after December 31, 2023 for some models. New Model 3 and Model Y vehicles delivered by December 31, 2023 still qualify for the full credit.”
Currently, half of the $7,500 credit is granted if at least 50% of a vehicle’s battery components are made or assembled in North America. The other half of the credit is awarded if the company sources at least 40% of the battery’s critical minerals from the U.S. or a country with a free trade agreement.
These requirements are respectively rising to 60% and 50% next year.
Rivals race to India
One location that does not currently have a free trade agreement with the United States is India, where Tesla has been trying to gain a foothold for years.
According to the Times of India on Thursday, Tesla has reopened discussions for investment opportunities in the most populous country in the world.
Reports from India indicate that the company is in talks with the Indian government regarding an investment proposal aimed at establishing a factory that will ultimately be able to produce 500,000 EVs per year.
The vehicles will have a starting price of 2 million rupees (1 rupee = $0.012), more than twice as much as India’s most affordable EV, the MG Comet, and a half-million rupees higher than the Tata (NS:TAMO) Nexon EV.
Rival automaker BYD (SZ:002594) is also trying to gain a position in the Indian market, submitting a $1 billion investment plan aimed at manufacturing electric vehicles and batteries in collaboration with its partner, Megha Engineering.
According to Reuters, BYD and Megha jointly submitted a proposal to Indian regulatory authorities, outlining their intention to establish an EV joint venture. The long-term objective of this venture is to manufacture an extensive range of electric vehicles under the BYD brand within India.
Shares of TSLA ended trading Friday at $281.38 – up 3.2% on the week.
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My latest "DC Diary" column in India’s financial daily, the Business Standard, focuses on Asia’s new geography of manufacturing:
China has unsettled its neighbors with naval displays and diplomatic spats. But could erstwhile Asian strategic rivals end up as big winners from China’s economic success?
In one sense, at least, Asian economies are already winning from Chinese growth: slack global demand has meant that China increasingly powers the growth of nearly every major economy in Asia.
But the question increasingly matters in another sense, as well: Chinese leaders are committed to rebalancing at least some elements of their country’s economy. And while that, in time, will mean a more competitive and powerful China, it will also create new opportunities for those countries in Asia that get manufacturing and investment policies right.
Why the change? China is approaching the upper limit of its existing growth model. It has emerged from the global crisis earlier and stronger than nearly any other major economy. But China’s leaders are hardly complacent about their country’s future economic path. To the contrary, despite remarkable successes, Premier Wen Jiabao has repeatedly called the current model, which relies disproportionately on exports and fixed asset investment, "unbalanced, unstable, uncoordinated, and unsustainable."
China produces much but consumes little. The creation and perpetuation of its production-intensive economic model owes much to inefficient capital allocation. Few Chinese are reaping the windfalls of China’s growth, and those that are benefiting do so at the expense of the many. Vast regional disparities mean wide gaps in living standards and quality of life. And China’s investment-intensive growth model has exacted heavy environmental and energy costs.
The Chinese Communist Party relies heavily on economic success to assure political legitimacy. And it is now increasingly clear that the major pillars of the existing model are flawed: The global economic crisis provided stark evidence that China’s export-driven economy is vulnerable to dips in demand in the rest of the world. At the same time, China’s industrial and financial policies have introduced distortions and inefficiencies into its economy.
For these reasons, China’s growth model is almost certain to change in coming years as Beijing works to establish a more rational balance between production and consumption and tempers its longstanding preoccupation with GDP growth in favor of a greater emphasis on human capital-oriented growth.
That, in turn, will yield important changes to China’s political economy. The country will become more urban. Capital allocation could begin to shift from corporations to more households. Interior China will become more developed. And Chinese industry will move rapidly up the value chain.
Indeed, Beijing has long been determined to develop higher-value-added and technology-intensive industry, and its huge capacity to mobilize domestic capital gives it the power to do so. That means more competition for multinationals, including in third-country markets as Chinese firms produce substitutable (but cheaper) products. But it will also give others opportunities to fill a vacuum.
Take labor-intensive manufacturing in coastal China. Export-oriented manufacturers are already reassessing traditional production strategies as labor costs rise. There are stronger incentives to relocate production to interior China. And new options are emerging as some choose to leave China entirely rather than relocate inland.
For example, rising costs in China could make Indonesia a more attractive hub for some production. This would help drive Indonesian growth in the near term and ultimately wean its economy off its traditional reliance on natural resource exports. As Chinese demand levels grow, Indonesian manufacturers will also benefit by producing and selling their products in China.
Likewise in Vietnam, Thailand, and even smaller economies like Cambodia. Cost advantages will attract new investments to Vietnam. Regional advantage and stronger intellectual property protection will make Thailand more attractive, provided political risk can be held in check.
For India, rising incomes and higher-value-added production in China could bring benefits too. Real appreciation of the renminbi, alongside growing Chinese demand, would help India narrow its trade deficit with China over the next five years. The deficit has been of growing concern to the Reserve Bank of India and the commerce ministry. And with the growth of manufacturing, not least in southern states such as Tamil Nadu, India could also capitalize in some areas of production as China moves up the value chain.
The National Manufacturing Policy could yield new manufacturing zones with industrial parks, warehousing, and opportunities in special economic zones. And as the Indian government works to increase the share of manufacturing in GDP from around 16% to 25% in a decade, India need not compete only at the bottom of the value chain. It could aim to compete, too, in machinery, auto parts, and even automobiles, particularly through the adoption of new policies at the state level.
But huge obstacles remain. Some in India view this as a backdoor to relaxing labor laws. And such policies could falter, too, on land acquisition.
That would be a shame. Investors are aggressively seeking new opportunities in Asia. So government policies—including new investments in infrastructure, fiscal incentives and tax breaks, and improvements to supply and distribution networks—will shift Asia’s industrial landscape.
Who will be the winners? Who will surge ahead? Policy choices over the next 3-5 years will play a central role in determining the answers.


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A phone that uses glasses-free 3D display, and a tablet that records 3D images. That's one of the major highlights at MWC 2011 when we checked out both the LG Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad, and here's our hands-on impressions of these unique mobile devices.
Most of us have been waiting with bated breath for the new-old HP webOS products. Here, we take a look at the upcoming Veer, Pre3 and HP TouchPad.
We dropped by the booth of Japanese mobile operator, Docomo, for a quick peek at some of their unusual and innovative offerings.
We took a spin at the show floor of the just concluded CP+ camera and photo imaging show and here are some highlights we've collated just for you.
While news of the leaks were rampant all over the net just a day before their official unveiling, both the Samsung Galaxy S II and the new 10.1-inch Samsung Tab still managed to live up to their hype. We took a quick look at these two devices and came back with some good news to share.
At long last, the open secret once known as the PlayStation Phone makes its official debut as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. We share some of our hands-on experience with the Xperia Play and its fellow Xperia siblings, the Neo and Pro.
CP+ is the only large-scale camera and photo imaging trade show in the first half of the year. This year, it was held from February 9 to 12 in Yokohama, Japan. Canon Singapore took the opportunity to show us their latest products that would soon be available.
With Mobile World Congress 2011 coming right up, we round-up some of the most prominent news that have made an impact in the mobile scene, and put in some of our predictions and our own wish lists for the annual exhibition.
AMD has rolled into town to launch its Fusion APU for the Asia Pacific region. Joining the AMD executives at the event were numerous OEM partners, which meant that we got to check out some of the upcoming Fusion powered notebooks, nettops and barebones systems.
What do you do when you've just engineered the world's slimmest 3LCD projector? We say, announce it to the world! That was exactly what Epson did with its new EB-1700 series. Read on to find out what else they've in store.
- M1 puts up S$10/month roaming data passport for Rio Olympics 2016
- The Thermaltake Riing LED RGB radiator fans can be fully controlled with software
- HTC 10 will be available exclusively on Lazada this Friday! (Updated)
- Amazon's new product hub is just for Kickstarter projects
- Habitap and Keppel Land collaborate to build the best smart homes in Singapore
- NVIDIA launches its most powerful graphics card yet, the Pascal-based Quadro P6000
- Xiaomi’s first notebook is the Mi Notebook Air, a svelte machine with a discrete GPU
- Xiaomi announces full-metal OLED-equipped 5.5-inch Redmi Pro smartphone


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Seems as if the internet is still buzzing about Microsoft's latest tablet strategy unveiled on Monday night with a pair of Surface-branded slates. The general consensus seems to be that Apple has nothing to fear with the iPad, which has thus far beaten back all contenders -- including LG, who actually just waved the white flag of surrender on its own Android-based tablet initiative. To find out more, keep reading for all the latest news on this Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
The mobile payment wars are about to heat up, with search giant Google throwing their own hat into the ring on Thursday in a move that pits them directly against credit card providers Visa, Amex and Discover -- as well as those who provide payment solutions, such as PayPal, Square and VeriFone Systems.
Let's face it: At this moment in time, where internet and social deals are concerned, Groupon currently stands as king of the hill. And if you want to sign up for a cool activity or deal on the weekend, venture out and save a pretty good chunk of money, Groupon's the way to go.


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Will Dubai Be The New Diamond Business Hub?
Antwerp in Belgium, the heart of the diamond business is witnessing an exodus of Gujarati diamond merchants. Traditionally based here, they are now opting for Dubai to evade intense scrutiny by Antwerp authorities on suspected Russian-origin diamond imports. This shift comes amidst EU and G7 sanctions imposed in response to Russia's Ukraine invasion. Tighter regulations are leading to arrests and confiscations, signaling ongoing turmoil.


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Congress has passed one of the most historic bills that has ever come across their desks.
The Farm Bill of 2018 has a component among 5 very important rules for the farming industry that will change the face of marijuana and hemp forever.
The House of Representatives in a vote of 386 – 47 and the Senate in a vote of 87 – 13, has legalized the farming of the hemp plant.
Yes, it’s not about marijuana, but with this HUGE step forward in the legalization process of one of the earth’s most valuable and sustainable resource, it paves the way for a positive future for the Federal legalization of marijuana.
Hemp can now be farmed in the luscious soils of Colorado and Kentucky (2 of the biggest hemp farming states). This helps keep farmers in business and it opens up research and development of hemp products.
The hazy gray area of the legality of hemp has been lifted! The bill will essentially open up a whole new era of CBD and hemp products all over the country. Hemp not only has medicinal properties with it’s high CBD content, but the hemp fiber is one of the most versatile and economical resources on the plaet.
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Cars will become dearer in India following a hike in taxes in the Union Budget, presented by finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Jaitley announced a hike in taxes on cars from entry level to luxury ones. Buyers will have to pay a one per cent infrastructure cess on petrol, CNG and LPG cars and an additional 2.5 per cent on diesel cars of all capacities.
A luxury tax of one per cent will be levied on cars above Rs10 lakh, whereas buyers of SUVs will have to pay a high-capacity tax of four per cent.
The minister said the government would be allocating a whopping Rs97,000 crore for building new roads and highways, which should be good news for motorists.
Shares of auto firms fell on the stock markets after Jaitley announced the additional hike in taxes on all cars.


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Samsung’s expected losses from the Galaxy Note 7 catastrophe have soared above $ 5 billion.
The South Korean tech giant announced this week it was killing off its flagship Note 7 smartphone. The move came after reports kept emerging of the devices catching fire — even after Samsung ( had promised customers that replacement phones it was providing were safe. )
Analysts saw the decision to ditch the Note 7 after weeks of crisis as an attempt by Samsung to save its brand image and shield other smartphones from the fallout. But the company is still coming to terms with the financial damage from canning an entire product line.
On Wednesday, it said it expected the move to knock about $ 2.3 billion off its operating profit for the three months to Sept. 30. And on Friday, it forecast a further hit of around $ 3.1 billion to operating profit for the six months through March 2017.
But even more pain could be yet to come. Nomura Securities predicted this week that the decision to ditch the Note 7 would cost Samsung $ 9.5 billion in lost sales and put a $ 5.1 billion dent in profit between this month and the end of 2017. The company’s stock is down around 8% since the start of the week.
Samsung is still trying to figure out what caused some Note 7s to burst into flames. It recalled 2.5 million of the phones in early September, blaming a battery fault. It promised then that replacement devices would be safe.
But reports began to emerge of the replacement phones also catching fire, which forced Samsung to give up on the Note 7 product entirely.
The company has been offering customers financial incentives — including $ 100 credit in the U.S. — to trade in their Note 7s for other Samsung phones.
It said Friday that it’s aiming to expand sales of its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge phones to try to stabilize its mobile business.
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Bridging All Mobile Financial Services (MFS)
Latest Bangladeshi finance update I've found when scrolling news paper online. This initiative implemented by Bangladesh Bank (BB). At the very beginning it was a limited kind of service but now it expanded from one service to another. Mobile Financial Service (MFS) provider companies now allow transaction among them which was not possible in the past.
A particular MFS provider allow transferring money to the similar operator but they are now bridging with other MFS service provider companies. You can find those MFS service provider company names in the news link I've attached with blog at the bottom. Indeed its a great initiative but now question is about the charge. This could be the concern of common people that how much it going to charge when we will transfer money to a different MFS service provider company?
As I said its a very newly launch initiative so at the beginning it could be under observation and also going to be an affordable service for common people. It will charge only 5 BDT (Bangladeshi taka) per 1000 BDT transfer which is not a big amount of charge. According to research, daily around 3000 crore money transfer via mobile financial services or MFS, so people who does regular transaction via MFS will definitely find this initiative helpful.
Bangladesh Bank introduce Binimoy which will establish the bridge among all MFS. User need to register with Binimoy and can use multiple default accounts. This is not end here. MFS also connected to the bank account so transaction from MFS to Bank and card will be also easier than before. There will be two kind of transaction available in this service, one is Direct Payment (DP) from one MFS to another and the other is Request to pay (RTP) and this process will be highly secured according to the information available in the news.
There will be six digit PIN code and also QR code scanning payment system availability. For each authentic mobile number verification they will send one time password (OTP) for each transaction. Binimoy system will have three level of security for data transferring. This system will allow you sending money person to person and also person to business. Security will be tight enough and they want to make it user friendly for common people.
Regular transaction making now become more easier and smooth. This is not limited to agent banking service only, its for common people and this Binimoy system is almost alike using personal mobile wallet. This is also a part of digitalization and government bring this initiative for make the financial transaction easier and faster than ever before. We should welcome this great initiative. You can find more details by visiting the latest news link below.


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Facebook Messenger App Updated
TNI Bureau: Facebook has released an update for its Facebook Messenger app that enables logging in without using Facebook account. The app allows the Android Smartphone users in India to log in with just their name and mobile number. The update is currently available only on the Android phones.
The step seems to be an attempt by Facebook to further increase the volume of users in India through the message App in their mobile phones.
Previously, to log into Facebook Messenger, users had to sign in using their Facebook account, but they can now join the Messenger app without having a Facebook account. For now, the app is available only in countries such as India, Indonesia, South Africa, Venezuela and Australia.
India is one of Facebook’s largest growing markets and there are currently 60 million Indians on Facebook, which is almost half of the total 137 million users in the country. So India is a potential market for the leading social network. Perhaps that is why Facebook has opted for India, while the App is still not available in US.
Though Android phones are still very costly for a country like India, it has become the forerunner in the Smartphone race. While Android phone leads the race with 68.3 % market share of 2012, Apple’s market share of handsets in India is just 1.2% as per a report. And now introduction of the update in Facebook Messenger App (which makes it more convenient to use) will further boost sell of the Android phones.
The latest update of the Messenger App is expected to come out as a great step to fight with its main rival, the WhatsApp, which is currently the Number One free app on Android. But though WhatsApp is free to use in the first year, users need to pay a subscription fees from the second year onwards, but in case of Facebook Messenger App is totally free.
This stands as a strong point in favor of the Facebook Messenger App to grab more number of users. For now, one can send only text message and pics using
the Messenger App, but not video.


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The Los Angeles Auto Show is now open to the public and they will have the chance to see quite of few electric vehicles displayed at the event. Here we take a quick look at most of them with pictures.
As we like to promote at Electrek, the future of ground transport is electric.
Auto shows can offer an interesting glimpse at that future since automakers generally display their latest and upcoming vehicles, which are increasingly electric.
The German automaker has been increasingly investing in electric vehicles since being embroiled in the Dieselgate scandal and they displayed that investment at the LA Auto Show.
All three of electric I.D. concepts were displayed together for the first time in America.
The British automaker also placed its latest EV effort front and center with the I-Pace all-electric SUV.
The company also brought the race version of the vehicle which will enable its upcoming all-electric race championship:
Of course, Tesla is always putting all-electric vehicles front and center, but it rarely shows up at trade shows.
Though it made an exception for Los Angeles two years in a row and brought a Model 3 along.
Interestingly, Tesla’s booth also focused a lot on the company’s energy products and not only its vehicles.
The German luxury automaker is also moving forward with somewhat aggressive electrification plans that have yet to result in any production vehicles – aside from the BMW i3 and some concept vehicles.
They brought both to the show:
As we have often mentioned in the past, Bollinger Motors is a startup to watch in the EV space. Their on/off-road electric truck prototype is impressive and could pioneer a new segment for electric vehicles if they manage to bring it to production.
In the meantime, they brought the prototypes to the LA Auto Show:
There were also plenty of plug-in hybrids at the show, but we don’t care much about those (sorry) since we think they only represent this transition period that we are in right now and not the future.
We have also seen some cool new vehicles, like Sondors new low-cost electric car and Arcimoto’s three-wheeler EV, we are going to have full reports on those soon. Stay tuned.
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Holiday pet photos at Toggle’s: Strike a pose with your pet during a holiday pet photo party at Toggle’s Nov. 30 at the taproom, 1401 Hewitt Ave., Everett. Suggested donation of $15 to go to Save-a-Mutt.
Small Brewery Sunday: Celebrate Small Brewery Sunday with the Brewers Association by visiting a local brewery on Dec. 1. Brewery’s across the country and around Snohomish County will be celebrating independent beer.
Stout Week 2019: Everett’s Middleton Brewing is hosting its Stout Week 2019 between Dec. 4 and 8 at the brewery, 607 SE Everett Mall Way, Suite 27A. Seven stouts on tap on Dec. 4, 5 and 8 with flights available. There will be 20 stouts on tap on Dec. 6 and 7. Tickets for those days are $25, which include a Stout Week glass and four 5-ounce pours.
Farewell to the 18th Amendment at At Large: Everett’s At Large Brewing is hosting a celebration for the end of prohibition at 5 p.m. Dec. 5 at the brewery, 2730 W. Marine View Drive. There will be a photo booth, costumes and special beer releases, including 2018 and 2019 versions of the brewery’s Russian Imperial Stout.
Ugly Sweater Party at Josh’s: Snohomish’s Josh’s Taps & Caps is hosting its annual Ugly Sweater Party at 5 p.m. Dec. 20 at the taproom, 1800 Bickford Ave., Suite 210, Snohomish. There will be prizes for best ugly sweater and Melvin Brewing will be there as well.
Scrappy Punk’s 3-Year Anniversary: Snohomish’s Scrappy Punk Brewing is hosting its three-year anniversary party on Dec. 21 at the brewery, 9029A 112th Drive SE, Snohomish. There will be new beers, food trucks and special growlers.
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Perhaps we are talking about one of the most important and well-known franchises in the world, especially when it comes to shooters. Modern Warfare 2 will be released on October 28 and according to Amazon’s comments, its beta could appear in the month of August.
If you recall, over the years and installments of this franchise, the Modern Warfare 2 beta first happened on the Sony platform; this will continue to be the case due to contracts and agreements that were already active prior to Microsoft’s purchase of Activision-Blizzard.
Modern Warfare 2 will be tested very soon
If everything goes as commented by Amazon, August 15th we can enjoy the beta version of this episode. Due to the agreement with PlayStation, the beta version for Xbox and PC will be released the following weekend. That is to say a week after its availability on the Sony console.
In the meantime, we will continue to wait for new information on the game, this episode raises a lot infatuation


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HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has confirmed to The Indian Express (via TNW) that it is working on a new smartphone after its ill-fated venture into WebOS devices, promising it will offer something new and different.
When asked if a smartphone is in the offing, HP Senior Director Consumer PC and Media Tablets Asia Pacific Yam Su Yin said: “The answer is yes but I cannot give a timetable. It would be silly if we say no. HP has to be in the game.” […]
“Being late you have to create a different set of proposition. There are still things that can be done. Its not late. When HP has a smartphone, it will give a differentiated experience.” …
HP bought WebOS from Palm in 2010 for $1.2b but later abandoned the platform and sold it to LG for use in TVs. Its Veer smartphone was launched in May 2011 and discontinued just three months later.
Given HP’s unhappy experience with a non-standard platform, it seems likely that the new phone will run Android. Early in the process of abandoning WebOS, HP hinted that it could switch to Android, and of course later released a near-stock Android Slate tablet.
The questions, then, become ‘How new and different can an Android phone be?’ and ‘Is there room for yet another front-end for Android to compete with HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz?’
HP’s strength in the enterprise sector suggest that one possible route could be to focus on a business-orientated front-end, a market previously dominated by Blackberry, whose US market share is now less than 5 percent.
One thing’s for sure: given its history, HP can’t afford to get it wrong a second time.
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Steam pre-orders will still be honoured for the game and its DLC.
Deep Silver has announced that Metro Exodus will be a timed Epic Store exclusive and will no longer launch on Steam next month, in a move that Valve has called "unfair."
“Metro Exodus is amazing and is deservedly one of the most anticipated PC titles of 2019,” said Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic. “We are partnering with Deep Silver to launch Metro Exodus, underpinned by Epic’s marketing support and commitment to offering an 88% revenue split, enabling game creators to further reinvest in building great games and improving the economics of game stores for everybody.”
Epic revealed its storefront last month, which gives developers a larger revenue split that Steam, taking only 12% as opposed to Valve's 30%.
“We are delighted to partner with Epic to bring the digital PC version of Metro Exodus to market,” said Dr. Klemens Kundratitz, CEO at Deep Silver. “Epic’s generous revenue terms are a game changer that will allow publishers to invest more into content creation, or pass on savings to the players. By teaming up with Epic we will be able to invest more into the future of Metro and our ongoing partnership with series developer 4A Games, to the benefit of our Metro fans.”
Deep Silver has assured Steam customers who pre-ordered that their order will be fulfilled, along with pre-order bonuses, and any DLC included in the expansion pass through the Gold Edition of the game.
Players who pre-ordered the Standard Edition of the game will still be able to purchase the expansion pass post-launch.
It's not all bad news for Steam users. The publisher has confirmed that the release on the Epic Games Store is a timed exclusive.
"Metro Exodus will return to Steam and on other store fronts after 14 February 2020," reads a press release via PC Gamer.
Valve has responded to the news on the game's Steam page, that reiterates the content availability for pre-order customers before adding, "We think the decision to remove the game is unfair to Steam customers, especially after a long pre-sale period.
"We apologize to Steam customers that were expecting it to be available for sale through the February 15th release date, but we were only recently informed of the decision and given limited time to let everyone know."
You can pre-order the Standard and Gold Editions on the Epic Store now.


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Tilera Blazes New Trail in Custom Chip Architecture
The TilePro family of chips, launched at the end of September by the manufacturer Tilera, is causing a stir in the microprocessor world. The new technology seeks to circumvent the limits of communication imposed on more traditional chip structures by changing the way tiles “talk” to each other on each chip.
CSAIL professor Anant Agarwal, founder and Chief Technology Officer of the company, sees incredible potential in the technology for incredible performance and speed. To read more about the chip, click here.


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Big Bang, WongDoody Craft Brooks, K2 Ads
LOS ANGELES–Athletic shoe companies Brooks Sports and K2 Corp. both look to expand their core consumer base with print campaigns breaking this month.
Big Bang (formerly Big Bang Idea Engineering) has developed a brand-building effort for Brooks inspired by the company’s devoted clientele to attract disenchanted consumers of larger, corporate-driven brands, according to executives at the Seattle- and San Diego-based agency.
“We’re beginning to take Brooks’ small, passionate, grassroots personality [to a broader audience],” said executive creative director Wade Koniakowsky.
The estimated $3 million campaign attempts to dramatize what comfort really means to the everyday runner. One ad highlights the benefits of cushioning by showing a foot sticking up in the air, its sole covered by colorful marshmallows. Another shows a squirrel snoozing inside a shoe to capture the idea of coziness and comfort.
Building on the Bothwell, Wash.-based company’s momentum–its sales were up more than 20 percent last year–the ads will appear in general consumer publications, including Time and Newsweek, as well as traditional fitness and running titles. Event marketing and radio, outdoor, Internet and point-of-sale ads are also part of the media mix, which is being handled by Carat USA.
“Our retailers have embraced the campaign in a big way,” said Tom Daley, Brooks’ director of marketing.
Separately, WongDoody’s Santa Monica, Calif., office has created print ads for K2’s new shoe line, which is rolling out nationwide this month. The line is geared toward the alternative sports audience: customers who need athletic shoes for when they are not snowboarding, skiing or biking.
The estimated $1 million campaign humorously compares K2 wearers with other kinds of people. In one ad, a nerdy chess player is associated with a poodle, toilet and pocket protector, while the K2 kid prefers a Rottweiler, tree and K2 shoes.
“The advertising shows the conflict between mainstream culture and the counterculture of snowboarding,” said creative director Tracy Wong. “It doesn’t explicitly say who wins out, but takes you through a process which is fun, biting and cynical.”
The ads are running in Rolling Stone, Spin, TW Snowboarding and other national publications.
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Renault has unveiled a modern electric version of its iconic city car, the Renault 4, at the Paris Motor Show. With the premiere of the 4EVER Trophy show car, the French marque will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the annual 4L Trophy, a humanitarian rally across the Moroccan desert.
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NASA’s Martian “vehicle fleet” returned to service after a long radio silence
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA gave the latest news about its missions to Mars. Spacecraft are again operating at full capacity after a forced pause taken during the conjunction of Mars with the Sun.
The agency did not send commands to its Mars explorers from November 10 to November 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun.
Sending commands to missions is suspended during this period because hot ionized gas ejected from the solar corona could potentially affect radio signals sent from Earth.
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“We don’t want to give up,” Toyota won’t give up on combustion-powered sports cars. They can find new life thanks to hydrogen
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