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A builder from Guelph has bought a 2.4 acre block of downtown Kitchener – bordered by Madison, King, Cameron and Charles – for $3.6 million, or $1,500,000 per acre.
Fusion Homes bought the property and plans to put two highrise towers on site, plus townhouses and some retail.
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“We are planning a substantial mixed-use development on the property,” Lee Piccoli, president of Fusion Homes, said.
At least two highrise buildings are to be constructed and very likely some townhouses as well. The company will look into the demand for office and retail space in that area, but that will not be a large part of the project.
Piccoli did not want to speculate on when construction will begin.
“I am very bullish on downtown Kitchener,” Piccoli said. “When the opportunity came up, we jumped at it.”
Surface-parking lots now dominate the block where a used-car lot and a car rental agency operate.
“I think as a developer you’re always trying to see something, not as it looks now, but as it looks three or five years from now. So that is something that we found really attractive about the property,” Piccoli said.
King Street East has seen slow, steady improvement since the City of Kitchener built the $22-million farmers’ market, which opened in 2005.
Since then, three bakeries, two restaurants and a small grocery store have opened on adjacent blocks. Abandoned homes on Madison, Eby, Cedar and Duke streets have been renovated and occupied.
Fusion Homes’ move follows, by six years, the creation of a special program — called the economic development investment fund — that pumped about $100 million into different downtown projects.
“The mayor and the council seem really committed to the redevelopment,” Piccoli said.
The past 10 years have seen a growing list of high-density development in the core and central neighbourhoods, including — the Sandhills development and Iron Horse Towers on Queen Street South, the Kaufman Lofts on King Street, Lofts on Mansion, Le Marche Residences behind Your Kitchener Market, The Regency at Queen and Weber streets and the Drewlo apartments on Victoria Street South adjacent to Victoria Park.
Over at WonderfulWaterloo.com, we’ve been talking about the need for a grocery store downtown. Looks like the City also sees the need. While looking over the zoning for the King Street East mixed0use corridor, I found this:
“Two submissions were received requesting that staff consider an increase to the amount of permitted retail floor space. One submission made this suggestion citing the example of a food store use that would require greater leasable floor area than the 1,000 square metre limit currently defined in the Official Plan and MU Zones. Staff agree that 1,000 square metre limit on retail floor area could preclude a larger format food store use. Staff are also of the opinion that a larger format food store use would be consistent with the Official Plan Policy intent to serve adjacent residential neighbourhoods, and further could be catalytic for future residential intensification within the corridor. Staff note that a large food store may not be appropriate in all areas of the Mixed Use Corridor, and therefore propose to focus the applicable Official Plan Policies and Zoning provision enabling such a use to a the portion of the King Street East Mixed Use Corridor located between King Street East, Charles Street East, Preston Avenue and Cedar Street South.
Official Plan Amendment OP09/04/COK/HH and a revision to the draft proposed zoning in the King Street East Mixed Use Corridor were drafted to implement this suggested revision. Staff recommend increasing the retail floor space limit from 1,000 square metres to up to 5,000 square metres on the ground floor for food store use provided that it be internal to a large mixed use development.”
Between this proposed development and the City Centre condos by Andrin, there are four new towers coming to a downtown King Street in the next few years, plus a lot of infrastructure development like the new Kitchener Transit Hub. Pretty cool!
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Harbor Club St. Lucia Curio Collection by Hilton announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with luxury celebrity Champagne brand Cheurlin Champagne. Created by NBA star Isiah Thomas and winemaker Thomas Cheurlin, this Champagne hails from the Aube region of Champagne, France. Here, the Cheurlin family creates some of the best low-sugar Champagnes in the world.
The St. Lucia-based property now brings three varietals of Cheurlin to guests: Le Champion, Célébrité and Rosé de Saignée. The hotel’s restaurants and bars serve them, marking the first time via ISIAH Imports that Cheurlin Champagne is available in the Caribbean. Before Isiah joined the brand in 2018, the Champagne was only available in Europe.
“I was personally introduced to the brand Cheurlin by my long-time friend and NBA Hall of Fame recipient, Isiah Thomas back in 2016, and after tasting the product, I shared with him that I had to have the champagne in all of my hotels,” said Lester Scott, CEO, Caribbean Hospitality Management Group, and managing director, The Harbor Club Hotel. “I believe that the clean taste and zero added sugars of Cheurlin Champagne will soon grow to be a fan favorite for our international and local guests alike.”
Guests can now order Cheurlin Champagne at the hotel’s dining destinations. The new partnership rounds out the hotel’s exciting offerings in Rodney Bay, from swim-up pool guestrooms to excursions exploring St. Lucia.
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United Airlines remains firmly committed toward sustainability in aviation. The latest development in its eco-conscious goals includes working with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures to commercialize the production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) with biotech firm Cemvita Factory. Cemvita looks to develop a revolutionary new way to produce SAF by using carbon dioxide and synthetic microbes. Additionally, United Airlines Ventures (UAV) recently announced an equity investment in Fulcrum, and United has invested more in SAF production than any other airline in the world.
Hyatt recently announced plans to open more than 20 luxury and lifestyle hotels and resorts in Latin America and the Caribbean through 2024. Some of these new openings include expansion of Hyatt brands into new markets.
Upon arriving in Rome, I was delighted to return to the magical Hotel Hassler Roma for the first time in 20 years, in part because the hotel enjoys an iconic location adjacent to Roman landmarks: the 16th-century Trinita dei Monte Church, Villa Borghese and the Spanish Steps, where the Piazza Spagna welcomes the world and near chic fashion boutiques on Via dei Condotti. Owner, president and general manager Roberto E. Wirth, the fifth generation of a famous Swiss hotelier dynasty, made Hotel Hassler Roma an icon in the international 5-star hotel scene.
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Google has introduced some new changes to its Play Magazine app, which now has been bumped up to version 2.0. The change comes on the back of a similar effort towards Google Play Music and its Play Store, both of which received their respective updates recently. As part of the enhancements brought about at the Play Magazine, the app now sports a cleaner and organized look and the interface looks brighter. A new slide out bar has been introduced to switch views from Read Now, Library, and Shopping mode. Purple has emerged as the theme color for the Play Magazine, though it still lacks features such as bookmarking, copy and paste, or highlighting.
As per news coming from Taiwan, trial production of the 5th gen iPad is set to kick off soon with volume production expected to begin in July. Initial plans call for the shipment to stabilize at around 2-3 million by September.
As for the iPad 5′s specifications, Digitimes has some interesting bits to share. For instance, the site is claiming the new iPad will come with the same display resolution of 2048 x 1536, though the differences lie elsewhere. This being that the glass substrate to be used in iPad 5 will be thinner by 0.2mm from the 0.25mm thickness as is seen in the iPad 4. The touch panel to be used in the iPad 5 will be based on GF2 tech, which employs 1 layer of glass and two layers of ITO film, whereas the same in case of iPad 4 was based on G/G bonding technique.
The sources further claim iPad 5 will be using “one LED light bar for backlighting” whereas the iPad 4 used two LED light bars. The report also confirms what has always been rumored, that the next gen iPad will be lighter and sporting thinner bezels.
The two South Korean companies, LG Display and Samsung Display, alongside Sharp are among those believed to have been contracted to supply the iPad 5 display.
The 2013 edition of the Google I/O event was without any fancy hardware launches, something that many analysts had predicted. There wasn’t even a new Android update announced, which analysts were definitely expecting. Many are now suggesting that Google I/O might just have returned to the way it used to be, with the focus back on developers instead of the products or the consumer oriented approach it had developed in the last few years.
However, that does not mean it has been all about boring lectures or discussions that exclude the consumers. Rather, Google did have some nice features to announce, some that are sure to have industry wide ramifications. Mentioned below are some cool features that the Google I/O 2013 has yielded.
Google Play Music All Access: It’s the answer to the likes of Spotify, Rdio, or even the upcoming Apple’s iRadio. It combines your personal music tracks to the millions present in Google Play Music so you can have what is best described in the words of Chris Yegra “radio without rules.” The system is also programmed to find stuff that you might like based on your listening preferences. Users will also have the option to create personalized radio stations based on songs or artists they like, or just through a specific genre. The song list can be pulled up with a single tap, and if All Access’ recommendations are not to your liking, you can remove them from the list with a single swipe of your finger. The service is priced quite conveniently at $9.99 per month, after month long free trial period. Or for those who just can’t wait to hop on to the All Access bandwagon, Google will reward them with a subscription fee of $7.99 per month before June 30. In the end, Google’s ability to strike a deal with the big time music labels before Apple is quite impressive.
Maps: This is another area where Google has put in a lot of effort. This has led to the map being more informative and detailed than ever before. When you search for a place, Google not only pulls up the map, but also provides you with useful recommendations for the area. A pop-up also provides you with a 360 degree view of the place you have searched. Videos can be accessed right from the map, which is now transformed into an interface. Also, the maps are now more personalized so that users will be able to highlight areas or create landmarks as per user’s choice. And once you have clicked on a suggestion or landmark, a new map pops up to show related attractions as well. The map’s navigation features have been enhanced, as it now provides not only driving directions to a place you have selected, but also walking and biking directions, including public transit. Users are also warned of traffic jams and will be provided with alternate routes to avoid them.
Google Now: This has been a cool addition to the Jelly Bean package and now it has become even smarter thanks to the Knowledge Graph based search that has been fine-tuned even further. As such, the Google virtual assistant will be able to answer not only questions you have directly asked, but will also anticipate details that you may want to know about. This was demoed at the conference by asking Google Now the population of India. In such a scenario, Google Now will not only answer the query but will also furnish details of how the population compares with other related countries and so on. The virtual assistant will also accept voice commands for tasks like setting reminders and so on.
Photo Tools in Google+: Google has introduced some cool photo editing tools to its two year old social networking platform Google+ in a bid to rake up some excitement around it. Among the features introduced is Highlight, which can identify if the pictures are hazy or overexposed, identify landmarks, or even find faces sporting a smile. The Auto Enhance feature eliminates noise from low light images while also softening wrinkles. Auto Awesome is another cool feature that can identify a photo scene and provide corrections accordingly. In short, it is designed to automatically make a photo awesome.
Lastly, while Google was expected to launch a slew of hardware, which includes next gen versions of Nexus 7, Nexus 4, or even a new Chromebook, the lone hardware announcement during the conference was the Samsung Galaxy S4 running the stock Android version. The S4 will reach markets towards end June, but is priced a hefty $650.
Microsoft is all set to officially launch the next iteration of Windows, version 8.1, in October. Towards this, volume production of notebook devices based on Windows Blue is set to kick off in September. However, it remains to be seen is whether a new version of Windows will be enough to spur demand in the notebook segment that is finding increasing competition from tablet devices. The fact that Microsoft isn’t extending any incentive to the notebook manufacturers, such as reduced licensing fees, isn’t helping things either. As of now, Microsoft is offering licensing subsidies for devices with a display size smaller than 11.6 inches.
Meanwhile, in another related development, Microsoft is all set to enter the budget tablet segment with a new Surface RT variant that will have a display of 8 inches and is set for a June launch. The tablet is likely to sport a price tag of around $249 – $299 and is being put together by Pegatron Technology. The 8 inch touch panels are being sourced from Samsung and will be built around a Tegra chip. A bigger 10.x inch Surface RT is also in the pipeline, which will be launched during Q3 this year. However, analysts are skeptical about the success of the smaller Surface RT device, considering the less than enthusiastic response the bigger cousin managed to evoke. Further, competition is set to become even more fierce in the smaller tablet segment with Apple and Google set to launch follow up devices to their successful devices, the iPad Mini and Nexus 7. Samsung also has a few offerings lined up in the budget tablet segment, as well. Microsoft is expecting sales of the two Surface RT variants to reach a million units a month.
There is no word though what the successor to the Surface Pro will be like. Microsoft’s tablet sales in the first quarter of 2013 have stood at 900,000 units, with Surface Pro being the majority contributor to that figure.
The 2013 edition of the Google I/O Conference may not have been about fancy hardware launches or even a new iteration of Android (both of which were hotly anticipated), but that does not mean there weren’t any important or interesting announcements made. There is the very interesting new feature that Google launched aimed primarily at the educational sector. Google Play for Education marks an entirely new addition to the Google Play Store and comprises of apps aimed at making learning a fun filled experience for the kids.
Not surprisingly, the Google Play for Education section also integrates Google+ groups, and the inherent benefit is that a teacher can push a single app to all their students to form a particular group in a single push. As long as the teachers create the groups and direct the apps, Google will have the app delivered to all the devices in that group.
Google stated that the apps that have been included are those that have been recommended by teachers, which adds a lot of pedigree to the Play for Education section. It also allows the apps to be purchased via the school’s (or even a school system’s) billing account rather than via a single person’s credit card. That does make a lot of sense, considering any apps purchased will be paid for by the school authorities rather than having to use an individual’s credit card and reimbursing them later, thus saving a lot of hassle.
Lastly, Google also has stated the new Education segment won’t just be limited to apps, but will also comprise of books and videos as well. All of which will be organized by genre and the intended age group. Overall, it’s a nice move that will help students and teachers make the best of digital tools in furthering the cause of education.
If you have been longing for a way to chat with your peers that are hooked on to their Android or iOS devices using the Blackberry Messenger, here comes your moment under the summer sun. The company, during the Blackberry Live 2013, made the announcement, though it will depend on Apple and Google approving such a move.
“For BlackBerry, messaging and collaboration are inseparable from the mobile experience, and the time is definitely right for BBM to become a multi-platform mobile service. BBM has always been one of the most engaging services for BlackBerry customers, enabling them to easily connect while maintaining a valued level of personal privacy. We’re excited to offer iOS and Android users the possibility to join the BBM community,” revealed Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President, Software Product Management and Ecosystem, at BlackBerry.
The service will only be limited to chatting in the initial stages, but will grow to include other aspects as well. These include BBM Voice, BBM Video, and also BBM Channels during the later stages. The latter is a new addition which is described in the company press release as a “social engagement platform within BBM that will allow customers to connect with the businesses, brands, celebrities and groups they are passionate about.”
The service will continue to be free, and the other usual goodies associated with BBM chats will also be present. These include the trusted Delivered and Read statuses, depicted as D and R, which has come to be trusted by users as a surefire means of knowing when their messages have been delivered and read.
So it’s now up to Google and Apple, and once approved, the BBM chat app will be available at both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store as a free download.
The battery life of a tablet is one of the biggest factors you have to consider when selecting a tablet device and the best in the business is good for no more than half a day of run time. Tablets can be a great companion just about anywhere, but not for camping holidays where you are away from charging facilities for days. It’s here that the Earl fits in. The creation of a Seattle based company Squigle, the Earl’s claim to fame is its around 20 hours of battery time. What’s even better is that the tablet also includes a solar panel that can charge the device in 5 hours.
While fascinating, there is no new breakthrough technology in use here to produce the best battery backup times. The Earl’s secret of the 20+ hours of battery times is its 6 inch front-lit E Ink display sourced from LG. Another cool aspect of the tablet is its IR touch array that allows for the tablet to be operated even with gloves on. Also, the tablet is unlike any other on the market, what with its 0.6 inch thick covering that is water and mud resistant. The tablet lacks an integrated camera, though.
The Earl boasts of the usual connectivity options of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC. The tablet will also tune in to AM and FM radio once completed. Also, to live up to its claims of being a true “backcountry survival tablet,” Earl will also come pre-loaded with a 100,000 topographic maps of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The tablet runs a customized version of Android 4.1 operating system.
However, these features are still in the developmental stages and the Earl’s makers are looking for a $250k funding to ensure the tablet enters the production line and debuts in the market, where it’s expected to be priced $249. If it indeed comes together, you will have the goodness of both an e-reader and a tablet without having to recharge so frequently.
Some inquisitive sleuthing by the folks at Android Police with the Google Glass app ‘MyGlass’ codes has come up with unexpected results. The information included codes that pertain to real-time and turn-based multiplayer games. This was the biggest indication of something like Apple’s Games Center coming from Google, and is confirmed just days ahead of the Google I/O conference.
All of it points out to a new addition to the Google Play Store dubbed “Play Games.” All of the finer details are missing at this point, though from what we do know now, the prospect of being able to save game progress in the cloud does seem awesome. Then, of course, there will be active syncing across all devices, which will ensure you will be able to catch up with the game regardless of the device. Other cool aspects of the game include matchmaking, achievements and goals, player invites, leaderboards, and scoreboards for tracking progress, as well as many other features.
Google’s plans seem pretty exciting, and many believe Play Games could be better than the iOS Games Center, which in itself is quite comprehensive. Expect the full details from the Google I/O conference, which kicks off this Wednesday.
Remember Notion Ink and its ubiquitous Adam tablet device? The Indian startup had built excellent pre-release hype, though it wasn’t long before the buzz fizzled out. What followed next was a hibernation period that was quite long for tech standards. However, the lull is now broken with the Adam II making it to big scene.
Notion Ink chose the National Technology Awards event held in India to launch the Adam II. Fortunately, the company has provided clear insight for the tablet, including its price, though the only missing piece is its availability details both within and outside the country.
As for the specs, the Adam II will be seen sporting a 1.5 Ghz Dual Core ARM Cortex chip and 1 GB RAM. NI didn’t mention how much internal memory the tablet will have, though the company pamphlet does mention of a microSD card slot with a max capability of 32 GB. The tablet will be powered by a 6000 mAh battery, and Notion Ink claims that’s enough to deliver ten hours of “nonstop entertainment.” The tablet also includes a 2 megapixel HD camera along the front and the rear, which means the company might have given up on the unique swivel camera design seen on the first gen Adam. Upfront, it’s a 10.1 inch display lit up by 1280 x 800 pixels. The tablet runs Android 4.2.2.
However, if you thought that’s all the new Adam II has to offer, there is a nice little surprise in the form of a secondary display along the spine. The monochrome display is designed to provide the user with all Android notifications and will save the user from firing up the entire device each time there is a notification available. A sim card slot, a micro USB port, and a HDMI port pretty much round off the spec sheet for the newest Adam. Also, the Adam II marks a changed strategy for Notion Ink, which is aiming the tablet for the mass budget segment, priced as it is at a quite decent ₹ 12,000.
Tablet shipment figures for the first quarter of 2013 are already here and they present an interesting scenario. For instance, according to a Digitimes report, tablet shipment reached 31.93 million for the first three months of this year, which represents a decline of 26.1 percent on quarter but increased by 66.1 percent on year. However, IDC is reporting an even more optimistic shipment figure of 49.2 million for the quarter.
However, both Digitimes and IDC seem to be unanimous regarding the iPad, reporting shipments of 19.5 million of the Apple tablet during the period. However, while the iPad continues to be at the top of the heap, the trend seems to be on the slide. Apple still has 39.6 percent of the tablet market to itself, though it used to be 43.6 and 58.2 in the last two preceding quarters. Analysts claim it’s quite normal, as Apple generally records a weaker first quarter after strong sales during the holiday season. Apple has recorded a year over year growth of a healthy 65 percent.
Samsung and Asus make up the second and third slot with sales of 8.8 and 2.7 million respectively. The individual figures might not be too inspiring, but both companies have reported 288.7 and 267.6 percent increases in sales respectively compared to the same period a year ago. Microsoft, according to IDC, managed to make it among the top five tablet makers with shipment of 900,000 of its Surface devices.
However, there are some contradictions that come to the fore that pertain to the operating system that dominates the tablet segments. While Digitimes is claiming the Apple iOS accounts for a dominating 61 percent of the total tablets shipped in Q1, IDC is pegging the figure at lower than 40 percent for iOS, with the Google Android making up 56.5 percent of all the tablets shipped. According to Digitimes, Android and Windows make up 31 and 8 percent of the total tablet shipment.
Another interesting finding of the Digitimes research is that the smaller tablets measuring 7 inches or so that are in greater demand, accounting for 56 percent of the tablets shipped in Q1. Tablets measuring 9 and 10 inches make up 22 and 20 percent of the shipments.
Barnes & Noble has some suggestions if you have been wondering what would make the best Mother’s Day gift this year. The company has reduced prices for its lead offerings, the Nook HD and Nook HD+ devices, so that kids can pamper their mothers without breaking the bank. The 7 inch Nook HD can be purchased for $149 and $179 for the 8 GB and 16 GB versions respectively. This marks a reduction of $50 for both the versions. Similarly, the bigger 9 inch Nook HD+ is now up for grabs at a more affordable $179 and $209 for the 16 GB and 32 GB respectively. The discount there is even steeper at $90. The price revision comes within just a week of both the tablets being made accessible to the Google Play Store, which means there is a vast source of online digital content that the tablets can access. Both the Nook tablets are reading oriented and lack front and rear cameras. However, the lower cost should make up for those, more so since there are now more than 700,000 apps to tap into along with millions of songs, reading material such as ebooks and digital magazines, and video to keep engaged. The deal lasts for only a week and will be effective for purchases made through the B&N online stores as well as retailers like Best Buy and Target.
The Apple App Store is about to reach an important milestone: the 50 billionth app download. To celebrate the landmark, Apple has announced a $10,000 worth of gift cards to whomever downloads the 50 billionth app. The download figure now stands at 49.2 billion and counting, which means there are about 800 million downloads to go before the benchmark is reached. The last time Apple has doled out such a prize money was when the 25 billion apps download figure was reached. The amount offered then was also $10,000, which went to Chunli Fu from China. Interestingly, that happened in just last March, which means the next 25 billion apps are being downloaded in just over a year’s time. The next 800 million downloads could take place in another 15-20 days. Apple has also stated those who download the next 50 apps will be rewarded with a gift card worth $500.
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen huge investment in a number of fast grocery delivery services. One of the most significant is Berlin firm, Gorillas, which transports fresh produce by e-bike and aims to serve its customers in 10 minutes.
The Nottingham Post reports that the firm’s latest ‘dark’ warehouse (one purely for online shopping) is in Radford. The firm also runs operations in London, Manchester and Southampton.
Up to 2,500 groceries, drinks and household items are available. Customers order through an app and items are then picked in the warehouse before being handed over to an e-bike rider for delivery.
Unlike many firms reliant on bike couriers, the riders are employed directly. Gorillas also provides them a branded “speedy e-bike”.
Gorillas aims to be, “faster than you,” and claims its average delivery time is just 10 minutes.
“We believe that the weekly grocery run is outdated because people’s lives are increasingly spontaneous and shopping habits change accordingly,” co-founder Kağan Sümer told Tech Crunch.
“Additionally, this pandemic has accelerated the need for grocery deliveries. If we can order clothes and trinkets and have them delivered to our door, the same should be said for our essential needs.
“Gorillas helps customers get what they need when they need it, whether this is their weekly grocery list or the tomatoes they forgot for tonight’s pasta recipe.”
He also says the business is geared towards supporting local businesses. “From butchers, bakers, coffee roasters to breweries, as well as a broad range of small brands – we want to elevate local brands and give them a platform and a voice, building a healthy ecosystem where we are helping and supporting each other in each neighbourhood we land in.”
After initially appealing to typical early adopters, Sümer now believes the firm’s users encompass, “pretty much anyone you’d meet in a supermarket.”
Gorillas was only founded last May, but is already valued at over €1bn after raising $290m in its latest round of funding in March.


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Back in December 2020, Kune Foods, a Kenyan on-demand food delivery startup, launched its services with high hopes. Six months down the line, it raised its first million dollars in venture funding, further spurring hopes of a promising trajectory. A year later, Kune shut down due to unsustainable operations costs. Its production cost averaged $1.56, while its gross margin averaged $1.44. Though the company could have attempted to implement measures to offset the losses and remain afloat, the success of the first round of venture fundraising created expectations that did not match the reality of the market that the company was operating in.
Similar stories abound across Africa. Startups like Notify Logistics (Kenya), Andela and Efritin (Nigeria), and KuBitX (Pan-African) all started off with promising prospects during their initial rounds of fundraising, only to end up completely failing or having to drastically alter their business models to remain in their respective markets. Andela is maybe the most notable case as the company was forced to shut down all its offices and go remote to reduce costs only one year after raising more than USD 100 million in 2018.
Conversely, startups such as DPO Group, a payment solutions company which raised 100 million dollars in funding from angel investors and debt financing in 2016, and Paystack, a payment processor, raised 20 million dollars from grants and venture capital in 2022. In 2022, DPO Group went on to be acquired by London-based payment solutions giant Network International. Paystack was also acquired by an Irish-American financial services company Stripe in 2022.
The perks of diversity
What primarily helped these startups stand out was their ability to expand and present an appealing business model for acquisition. While companies like DPO Group and Paystack initially raised moderate funds compared to those like Andela, the diversity of their funding sources has allowed them to deploy expansion efforts consistently. The risk of funding for startups drying up is omnipresent; this much is clear. But much like the lesson of the age-old adage “do not put all your eggs in one basket”, relying on one source of funding, in this case, venture funding, threatens the African Startup boom before it takes off.
The global economic downturn is one of the early warning signs that startups should look elsewhere to quench their investment needs. Unfortunately for African businesses, mergers and acquisitions are predicted to be the primary growth strategy for startups worldwide. At the same time, data shows that investors anticipate significant reductions in their investment rates, which does not bode well for African companies.
It doesn’t help that many are primarily in seed and pre-seed investment rounds; the average period for startups’ exit through merger and acquisition is six to ten years, and this is in more developed markets. These two dynamics, along with the vast number of African startups that have come to rely more and more on venture funding over
the years, raise concerns about a financing collapse.
Venture funding in a global economic contraction
Despite venture funding reaching new heights in 2021 (USD 681 billion globally), it seems that the hopes of more stable financing are likely to fade. In 2022, the industry raised 445 billion dollars, a 35% annual decline that signifies a definitive downward slope. However, it is not an abysmal figure compared to the overall investment industry which shrank by more than 7% between the second and third quarters of 2022 alone.
Africa’s burgeoning tech and startup industry, one of the most dynamic in recent years, stands to become the biggest loser because it has been the biggest winner. While total venture investment declined globally in 2022, financing for African tech companies through venture funds increased by 8%. Funding for the overall startup ecosystem was even more impressive, up more than 34% to billion dollars for 2022.
Breakout vs break even
The success African startups had in 2021, while it remains impressive, is an outlier. In line with the global economic outlook, in 2022, most deals were closed in the first half; the second half recorded a year-on-year decline in both funding and deals.
This is not surprising considering that investors all over the world are gearing up to implement more cautious, if not ascetic, investment strategies. Venture funds raised more than 150 billion dollars for the second consecutive year in 2022 at 168 billion dollars; with all forecasts projecting contractions across every front except this, less of these funds are expected to finance developing economies. Within investment circles, venture funds’ unallocated capital (dry powder) is notorious due to the lack of pressure to invest; a deficiency that is always exacerbated as markets plunge into uncertainty.
Investors also recognize the benefits of providing alternative financing options. Many, like the Amazon-backed Alluvial Fund, invest in multiple African startups such as Flutterwave and Kobo360 through a combination of grant funding, venture capital, and debt financing. Such developments highlight not only the potential but the need for a multifaceted approach to fundraising. With African startups and the continent at large looking to adopt sustainable practices and cement their place in the modern marketplace, a stable and durable approach to financial flows is the next vital step. The continent has been dynamically working on integrating itself into the fold of international markets in recent years in recognition of this, and any hopes of weathering the coming financial winter rely on strengthening its place as an active player in the modern world.


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The Internet has recently been flooded with reports of Google’s premium Home Max smart speaker (as well as other Cast-enabled Google devices) crashing the Wi-Fi connections for users repeatedly. The search giant has acknowledged the issue, giving an explanation and announcing that a fix will be released today itself.
If you weren’t aware of this issue yet, let me give you some background. Google’s product forums recently saw an uptick in complaints about the Home Max crashing TP-Link routers upon connection. It was later found that the issue extended way beyond these two devices, causing crashes for Chromecast and Asus, Netgear and other routers as well.
The only plausible explanation for the time being that ‘Google Cast’ products were sending an insanely huge amount of traffic through the network in a short duration, thus, causing the connection to choke and routers crash. This had forced the users to then shut down and restart the routers to get it up and running once again.
But, Google has today published a completely new support page under the Device support section to shed more light on this issue. It describes the reason for constant Wi-Fi network crashes as under:
“People with an Android phone and a Chromecast built-in device (such as a Chromecast or Google Home device) on the same Wi-Fi network may experience this issue.”
This means the problem is restricted only to Google’s ecosystem and users using any Cast-enabled in tandem with iOS device won’t be facing any network crashes. But, you wouldn’t have to worry for long as the search giant has confirmed that a fix for the annoying Wi-Fi crash bug is in the works and will be rolled out to most users today itself. It will be delivered to affected devices via a Google Play Services update.
And as the users have been doing until date, Google also recommends rebooting the phone and Cast device to curb the issue. It is also a good idea to update the firmware of your Wi-Fi router to face lesser crashes until the Play Services update goes live. So, are you one of those unlucky people who’ve been facing this issue? How often do you face the crash? Let us know in the comments down below.


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Due to the closure of Chalmers Bakery at Bucksburn in Aberdeen, the company has transferred all production and wholesale orders to its Ballater bakery.
Ten more jobs have been created as a result, as well as increasing the workload required of the Golf Road bakery and extended operating hours.
Chalmers – which has operated in the City and Shire for 63 years – has told Aberdeenshire Council planners that the proposed new operating hours are vital to sustain the business and keep staff employed.
Currently, dispatches of products from the site cannot take place outwith the hours of 6.30am to 5pm Monday-Saturday.
Now the business wishes to begin dispatching orders at 4am Monday to Friday and 3am on a Saturday.
In a statement to planners, director Pamela Chalmers says if the retrospective application was to be fail, it would be of “great detriment” to the business.
“If the application was not successful,” she says “we unfortunately would not be able to fulfil our orders as required resulting in a major loss of business and jobs.”


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The new owners of Secret Cinema have got their Hollywood ending. Nearly three years after setting sights on the immersive filmgoing experience, they are reigniting its global expansion plans as part of a strategy to become the Netflix of live events.
When they first came to London in early 2020 to discuss a possible takeover, the company was celebrating a hit adaptation of a show from that streaming platform – more than 100,000 fans would ultimately attend its real-world imagining of Stranger Things.
But two months later the UK entered lockdown and Secret Cinema, used to charging as much as £139 a ticket for its £9m immersive screenings with actors and elaborate sets recreating worlds from Star Wars to Dirty Dancing, found itself embroiled in a row over almost £1m in emergency aid it received from the government’s culture recovery fund.
“We first met with the management of Secret [Group] in January 2020, right before the pandemic,” says Brian Fenty, a co-founder of the US-based digital ticketing firm TodayTix Group, which acquired the parent company in an $100m (£88m) deal late last month.
“They had Stranger Things going on in London, which was exceptional, and had woven these relationships with [Hollywood] studios. They were attracting audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Then the pandemic got thrown at us. We had to focus on our team of 300 employees, so that took a pause.”
Along with the rest of the live events industry, Secret Cinema took a hammering throughout the pandemic. Turnover fell more than 60%, from £15.7m to £6.1m, between 2019 and 2020, and slumped to just £452,000 last year, with pre-tax losses topping £12m over the last three years.
Under the leadership of Max Alexander, the former telecoms executive and former managing director of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatre empire Really Useful Group, the UK-based cultural phenomenon had been on the brink of going global.
Just before lockdown, Secret Cinema launched its first international event, taking Casino Royale to Shanghai, after a UK production with 120,000 attenders and an £8m box office. Unfortunately, Covid meant its run was cancelled after six weeks.
And a freshly signed multi-year deal with Disney, which would ultimately lead to its production of the Guardians of the Galaxy, currently running at Wembley Park, promised to unlock a treasure trove of crown jewel franchises to drive expansion plans.
The deal with TodayTix, founded by the Broadway producers Fenty and his lifelong friend Merritt Baer (they met at theatre camp as kids), was supposed to provide the financial muscle – until Covid shuttered live events.
“Everyone around us in the first quarter or two of the pandemic was saying ‘What is your streaming pivot, isn’t streaming your saviour?’ or ‘Are you getting another job, Brian?’” says Fenty, who began his business career developing marketing and ticketing for the New York Yankees. “But for us [in-person] events were not just the past but also the future.”
TodayTix, which has branched out into creating its own events including a supper club in New York’s Times Square and holding concerts with Broadway stars in Brooklyn, now wants to go beyond ticketing tech to become a full media company.
“Think about other tech companies that got into content,” says Baer, whose résumé includes producing The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino and receiving a Tony award for Death of a Salesman. “Netflix is a great example. In the early days, they were looking to learn from just renting out other people’s movies. Now look at their content business. TodayTix Group has a fantastic opportunity.”
Secret Cinema is part of that strategy. With backers Bain Capital and Great Hill Partners, TodayTix intends to set it back on the path to global expansion.
The search is on for permanent locations in London, Los Angeles and New York, to allow longer runs of the most successful shows, and a US tour of productions is planned for next year.
“We want to extend the same approach and strategy to rotate shows, and let them run,” says Fenty. “Any West End producer, when they have a hit on their hands, will keep them running. It’s about flexibility.”
TodayTix acquired Secret Cinema from Active Partners, a London-based private equity firm co-founded by the former BBC chair Gavyn Davies, which has invested in businesses including Soho House, the food chains Honest Burger, Leon and Caravan as well as the cycling brand Rapha.
Active Partners had acquired Secret Cinema founder Fabien Riggall’s majority shareholding in 2016. Riggall, who started the business in 2007, retained a minority stake and, while not actively involved in the business day-to-day, only resigned as a director last month.
Riggall seems keen to stay in the creative industries, starting four new companies this year under the Metrodome name, although it is understood that the buyout of Secret Cinema includes non-compete clauses that restricts setting up a copycat operation.
One of Riggall’s new companies is transforming the derelict Allders department store in Croydon, south London, into an arts and entertainment space. Shopping centre Westfield abandoned plans to develop the site last year.
The British taxpayer also has a £4m stake in Secret Cinema through the government’s Future Fund, which is managed by the state-owned British Business Bank, set up during the pandemic to provide loans to startups.
Like all of Secret Group’s investors, the government will receive staged payments for its stake over a three-year period based on the performance of the business.
Fenty and Baer say they fully back the Secret Cinema management and model, despite the business never having made an annual profit in its 15-year history.
“It is about giving them access to marketing, to working capital,” says Fenty. “Secret Cinema’s home is London, and forever will be.”
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A Denver attorney has filed a new ballot initiative that would allow grocery stores to sell full-strength beer, wine and liquor and would permit convenience stores to sell full-strength beer as well.
Blake Harrison, who filed a ballot measure in November to let grocery and convenience stores sell wine and full-strength beer, submitted the new proposal Wednesday, two weeks after a House committee killed a bill that would have allowed full-strength beer sales at convenience stores. The new proposal has the backing of both the Colorado Retail Council, which represents chain grocery and convenience stores, and the Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, which represents locally owned convenience stores.
Initiative 48, which is set for a hearing before a state title-setting board on April 7, removes mandates from Harrison’s first proposal on how much space must be set aside for craft beers and wines, allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell whatever they would like. It also expands its language to permit spirit sales at grocery stores and tightens its language so that only full-strength beer sales are allowed in convenience stores.
Colorado law, written shortly after the end of Prohibition, permits grocery and convenience stores only to sell reduced-strength beer now. These stores have been asking for an expansion of their permits since 2008, when the Legislature allowed liquor stores to open on Sundays, greatly reducing the market grocery and convenience stores had for their low-alcohol products.
Representatives for grocers and convenience stores, who did not back Harrison’s original plan, said they re-evaluated their strategy after the bill on full-strength beer sales in convenience stores became the third bill of its type to die in committee in the past three years. A measure to allow grocery stores to buy the liquor licenses of local liquor stores, House Bill 1279, is slated for a committee hearing later this month, but observers believe it will have a tough time passing.
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Washington wines are well-known for their quality. Now a recent study confirms the industry is also a growing powerhouse for the state’s economy.
Commissioned by the Washington State Wine Commission and conducted by Stonebridge Research, the study shows Washington wine contributes $8.6 billion annually to the state economy and supports nearly 30,000 jobs.
The study analyzed wine related data by county. The Yakima Valley American Viticulture Area (AVA) and sub AVAs like Red Mountain and Rattlesnake Hills are located in two counties (Yakima and Benton). These two counties combined have 42,193 acres of wine grapes and produce 51% of the wine in Washington. They also account for $1.45 billion in direct and indirect economic impact from the wine and related industries while supporting 8,341 jobs.
According to the report, the Washington wine industry produced 11.2 million cases of wine in 2010 and generated more than $237 million in annual tax revenues in Washington. In addition, direct winery revenue topped $1 billion in 2010 and generated wages of nearly $1.2 billion within the state.
The study had a number of things of interest. At the time of the report there was 739 licensed wineries. Readers should be cautioned that a license does not necessarily mean they have a tasting room. Some of those wineries are not actively in production, others hold multiple licenses while some are producers who focus on wholesale to retail outlets.
As for tourism, wine is crucial to our industry, in particular here in Eastern Washington, ‘where the grapes are grown.’ The report estimates that there are 2.4 million visitors to Washington wineries, resulting in $1.05 billion in wine related tourism expenditures.
I did take exception to one broad comment that the researchers made: “Many of Washington’s wine regions do not track visitor numbers and, unfortunately, like many U.S. wine producing regions, do not develop the targeted visitor promotion strategies which such information permits.” It is difficult to count visitors, but tracking their numbers alone does not lead to targeted promotional strategies: gathering good data on your visitor does. Maybe the researchers meant ‘track’ in the sense of gathering data and research on wine visitors. Here in the Yakima Valley, our organization, the Yakima Valley Visitors & Convention Bureau, conducted studies of our visitors in 2010 (the majority of which were at wine events and wineries). This data, along with other research and industry data, has helped us to craft very effective and targeted wine tourism marketing efforts.
Some interesting facts from the Washington Wine Commission report:
- While the five largest producers represent more than 70% of wine production, the next 30 wineries account for about 20% to 25% of production, with several hundred very small producers delivering about 5% of the state’s total production.
- Except for the largest producers, the majority of the wine produced in Washington is
sold in the Pacific Northwest, with 35% or more sold within the state.
- Not only are visitors to wineries and vineyards important sources of wine sales themselves but,
perhaps most importantly, research has repeatedly found that such visits have major, sustaining
impacts on both visiting consumers and trade. These visitors become the winery’s “brand
ambassadors,” passionate advocates for their “discoveries.”
- The wine consumer “demographic” is a very attractive consumer segment: affluent, well-educated and adventurous.
The bottom line is Washington wine has come a long way, is a powerhouse for our state’s economy and holds great potential for the future.
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Kmart fans, we have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is that your beloved retail giant dropped a brand spanking new range of home living and decor items this morning (July 29). The bad news is that a bunch of items are already sold out online.
The latest living range collection from Kmart has been “inspired by Australian flora, fauna, people and places,” a statement on the drop reads. It displays earthy tones, raw wood finishes and includes art from Yorta Yorta artist Holly McLennan-Brown.
On the new range, Kmart’s Divisional Merchandise Manager, Meryn Serong, said, “We are so proud of our latest living collection here at Kmart. We love to celebrate our Australian culture and are proud of the increased importance we are placing on our Australian heritage. We can’t wait to see how our customers respond to the new range and look forward to seeing how they style their favourite pieces within their own homes”.
According to a rep from Kmart, the biggest trends to keep an eye out right now include:
- Bringing the outdoors in, with plants, décor in earthy tones and beautiful, nature-inspired art
- Creating a sanctuary within our homes, using warm colours and textures
- Pairing up your occasional chairs to create a cosy lounge nook
- Creating a Pinterest worthy pantry! Decluttering your kitchen space with storage containers and labelling
Worth keeping in mind if you need some design inspo, right?
The collection landed in-store and online on July 29, 2021, but seeing that many Aussies remain in lockdown presently it appears the online stock for many of these items has been snatched up rather quickly.
Stand out items appear to be:
New Beginnings Framed Canvas [by Holly McLennan-Brown] – $25 (listed as back online soon)
Caramel Velvet Chair – $89 (out of stock online)
Rattan Look Shelving Unit – $59 (out of stock online)
Arch Display Shelf – $49 (out of stock online)
What remains available, at the time of publishing, however, includes:
Capsule Entertainment Unit – $49
Woven Side table – $35
Woven Lounge Chair – $79
Caramel Glazed Dinnerware – $3 per item
Woven Braid Loop Rug, Extra Large – $119 (coming soon)
Queen Bed Woven Arch Bedhead – $129 (coming soon)
Update: We’ve reached out to Kmart about the possibility of online stock being replenished and the team advised that quantities of the new range will be updated throughout August so stock limitations will only be temporary.
But until then, best get moving on anything you like. If this morning proves anything, it’s that popular items will not be around for long.
This article has been updated since its original publish date.


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Bethesda just laid out the rest of the year for Fallout 76 players, and it doesn't look half bad.
Microsoft and Nintendo are teaming up for an historic cross-platform achievement, according to a new report.
Players now know where in D.C. The Division 2's first raid will take them.
If recent leaks are to be believed, Xbox's E3 2019 is going to be insane.
Sega has offered a first look at the Hidden Volcano and Frozen Junkyard tracks for Team Sonic Racing.
$30 million will be up for grabs during the Fortnite World Cup Finals.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition and Halo Wars 2 are free-to-play on Xbox One for a limited time.


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Little Caesars launched its PODs program in December, giving the nation’s third-largest pizza chain a shot of adrenaline that could accelerate its footprint in the coming years.
The POD program adds a modular unit to the company’s prototype portfolio, offering franchisees the ability to open units much quicker and requiring a much smaller space to do so. The modular units are constructed off-site in partnership with Las Vegas-based Kitchen Podular, then transported to their destination on a truck.
Little Caesars’ first POD location opened in December in Keokuk, Iowa, and while it’s too early to understand full performance metrics, the system’s franchisees are showing significant interest, according to Bryan Ketelhut, the chain’s national director of non-traditional and development services.
“We have the first one open and a few more in development and there is a lot of interest from the franchise community. A lot of them want to see how the first one goes and we are able to tell them that first experience has been a great experience. I anticipate a lot more coming into development this year as franchisees can see it, visit it, walk through it, and understand it,” Ketelhut said during a recent interview.
To be sure, Little Caesars is hardly the only restaurant concept experimenting with modular prototypes. Smalls Sliders has nearly 200 such units open or under development, for instance. Several coffee chains are also experimenting with modular concepts, as are açaí concepts, chicken concepts and a few Domino’s franchisees.
There are plenty of benefits, according to companies that have embraced the trend, including speed-to-market, cost and energy efficiencies, and more prevalent real estate opportunities. Ketelhut reiterates that it’s too early for Little Caesars to understand the full realm of benefits for his company, but he is optimistic there will be several.
“The biggest selling point for us was to get to market a lot faster. We have quite a lot stores in development that are traditional freestanding, inline locations. There are a lot of developers out there that like to purchase the land and develop stick build locations. What attracted us to this, is it requires less acreage that a franchisee would have to acquire – a quarter instead of over an acre they would typically need with a large stick build,” he said.
And, while the modular unit is being constructed off-site in Las Vegas, the franchisee is able to complete all of the on-site work prior to the unit’s actual arrival. The process takes about three months from start to finish.
“Everything is manufactured and permitted off-site. After 90 days, it’s shipped on a tractor-trailer and dropped by a crane on a concrete location. Then we Caesar-ize it on site and go right to market and start selling pizzas,” Ketelhut said.
In addition to speed-to-market, Ketelhut adds the POD is “innovative looking and really stands out,” which is providing a bit of a competitive advantage along a restaurant-heavy corridor in Keokuk.
“As a customer, it’s something you would want to stop by and take a look at,” he said.
The unit could also qualify for a full tax write-off for operators in certain markets because it’s considered a piece of equipment. And, there is also the potential for energy savings; traditional, freestanding units are about 1,400-to-1,600 square feet versus PODs, which are a little over 1,000 square feet once the glass enclosure and storage spaces are added.
Ketelhut wouldn’t disclose Little Caesars’ current unit count or ultimate development plans with this added protype. According to Technomic Ignite data, the chain finished 2022 with about 4,175 locations and, in November, the company announced several new franchise agreements with multiunit opportunities remaining in “regions across the U.S.” He did note that this new program will be a big part of Little Caesars’ development plans moving forward.
“This could be a huge tailwind and it goes back to those site requirements. Finding a quarter acre site is a lot more feasible and cost effective, so this gives (franchisees) another option,” Ketelhut said. “We have a lot of white space throughout the country for new development. We are growing and growing at a fast rate, and this is another tool for us to do that.”
Contact Alicia Kelso at [email protected]


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Some parts of the federal government should stay shut down
We are entering the third week of the federal government shut down and, as yet, American society has not devolved to the level of Fury Road. The fact that the United States has continued to function more or less as it did before with something like 25% of the federal government shut down demonstrates that federal government is at least 25% too big.
But when I saw an article titled ‘The government shutdown is holding new craft beers hostage‘, even I began to worry. Then I read on.
The government shutdown is threatening to halt new beer releases from breweries across the US.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approves labels and, in some cases, recipes for new concoctions of beer, wine, and spirits. The federal agency has been closed as a result of the shutdown, which is now in its 13th day.
Brooklyn, New York-based Interboro Spirits and Ales is already feeling the impact of the agency’s closure.
“We release new beers every other week,” said Laura Dierks, CEO and founder of Interboro. “Right now, we’re looking at not being to sell certain beer in February because of this.”
Dierks can continue selling new beers within New York state, but in order to sell across state lines, she needs federal approval.
“We’re dependent on that revenue,” she said.
The shutdown is also delaying the permitting process for breweries that have applied to open new locations.
Even if the shutdown ends soon, delays could persist for weeks.
“It’s almost certain there will be a backlog when the shutdown ends,” said Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers’ Association, a trade group representing breweries.
Breweries can continue submitting their requests for approval on new labels, recipes, and locations during the shutdown. But none of them will be processed until the shutdown ends.
But much regulation serves no useful purpose at all. It either serves to protect politically connected (mostly larger) producers from competition, or it is just a pointless waste of everyone’s time and effort (except for those paid to enforce it). The beer label approval functions of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau are a good example of the latter. The Bureau should stay shut down. How many other federal bodies are there like this?
John Phelan is an economist at the Center of the American Experiment.


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- Harveys, the furniture store, has shifted its £18 million advertising account out of Enter and into Uber.
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- JWT London has picked up the CRM business for Lastminute.com after a competitive pitch.
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- Lingerie company Triumph retains Optimedia in Malaysia.
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Since its introduction a couple of years ago, Google Talk has remained relatively low key compared to other instant messaging and voice-over-IP solutions. However, according to a report on the Search Engine Journal, the software could be about to make headlines again. The site says members of the Google Blogoscoped forums spotted a screenshot on a Google apps resources overview page that shows a rather interesting new feature on a Google Talk window: a dial pad.
According to the Search Engine Journal, the screenshot may be evidence of a brewing attempt by Google to compete with Skype's SkypeOut service, which allows Skype users to call land lines and cell phones from their computers. Google could potentially undercut SkypeOut's fees, either by supporting it via advertising or by offering users discounts if they pay with Google Checkout. Google might even use voice recognition to deliver context-based ads a la GMail, the report speculates.
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Samsung rumored to bring 5G-capable Galaxy A51
Samsung’s Galaxy A50 was one of the company’s best sellers in 2019 and there are high hopes to carry the momentum with its successor - the recently launched A51. According to a new report, Samsung is preparing to bring a 5G version of the A51 which will make its way to the South Korean market soon.
The new device is stated to come with the SM-A516N model number. The “N” at the end of the build number signifies 5G devices for the Korean market. For reference, the international variant of the regular A51 sports the SM-A515F designation.
We’ve seen similar naming strategy from Samsung before with devices like the Note10 (SM-N970F) and the Korean Note10 5G (SM-N971N).The only other clue for the A51 5G is that it will come with 128GB base storage.
Given that the regular A51 packs the Exynos 9611 chipset which doesn’t support 5G connectivity out the box, Samsung will either have to bump the SoC to something like the Exynos 980 or hook up an external Exynos 5100 5G modem instead.
There’s also the possibility to go with Mediatek’s new Dimensity 1000 5G or 800 5G chipsets as the two companies are reportedly negotiating a partnership. We’ll just have to wait for some certification listings to clear things up.
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Most of your county doesn't even have 5g why blah so much.
- 12 Jan 2020
Please confirm if samsung a51 comes with a screen protector and a cover?
- 11 Jan 2020
And I hope you noticed that It's 1000L, not the Dimensity 1000 . Anyway, both 1000L and 1000 are better than SD 765G .


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Pepsi Co.
said Thursday its fourth-quarter net income was $1.4 billion, or 90 cents a share, compared to $719 million, or 46 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Net revenue rose 4.5% to $13.3 billion from $12.7 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research were looking for earnings of 90 cents a share, on average. For 2010, the beverage company predicted earnings-per-share growth of 11% to 13% when compared to 2009 earnings of $3.71 a share. Shares of PepsiCo closed Wednesday at $60.28.


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The Federal Trade Commission released a report on apps targeted at kids today, saying it's concerned with a lack of clarity around privacy and data collection. In July of last year, agency staff took to both the iTunes App Store and the browser-based Android Market to examine kid-focused content available through each ecosystem. Searching for the word "kid," employees collected the first 480 apps offered by each marketplace, randomly choosing 200 from both for detailed examination. They scoured the landing page of each app for information related to the type of app, its intended audience, data collection, social network integration, and in-app purchase capabilities, among other criteria. Needless to say, they weren't pleased with their findings.
Fresh off the ongoing iOS contacts controversy, the issue of data collection transparency is placed front and center here, and the results aren't good. "In most instances, staff was unable to determine from the information on the app store page or the developer’s landing page whether an app collected any data, let alone the type of data collected, the purpose for such collection, and who collected or obtained access to such data," the report states. The FTC spreads blame to Apple, Google, and app developers for failing to provide clear and easy-to-understand information on the data gathering tendancies of software parents are downloading for their children.
On the Android side, just 24 percent of the 200 surveyed apps required no special permissions to run. Of those that did, only three provided reasons for why those permissions were necessary on the app's storefront page. The FTC wasn't any more satisfied with Apple's methods. Chief among its concerns are a lack of transparency around Cupertino's approval process for youth-focused apps and developers offering few details on what information an iOS device is collecting during app usage. The FTC suggests the creation of a simplified system that would make things more convenient for mobile users. "Armed with such information, parents can make knowledgeable decisions about the apps they choose for their children, and embrace these technologies with more confidence," it says.
Ominously, the FTC also says the report is intended to serve as a warning to the mobile industry in regards to potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The agency says it plans to conduct further research over the next six months to discover whether such violations exist and if enforcement may be necessary. The Wall Street Journal notes that the report comes following a $50,000 settlement collected by the FTC after it found numerous apps from developer W3 Innovations were collecting email addresses of those under 13 without parental consent, so it's reasonable to think that more fines could be in the cards.


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All the way working hard, this news is really hard to bear but it’s true Microsoft’s Share have dropped due to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has dropped 25% of share from when the the Windows Phone 7 has been selled out in USA and they just had 9% of the market share originally in November 2010 and now it’s 6.7%. This was kicked out by comScore.
But this could also be due to delayed NoDo updates, isn’t ?? But they forgot that Microsoft’s Market Place have more than 20.000 Applications in just one year.


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In a piece published on the Makeup Museum’s Instagram, New York dermatologist Erno Laszlo prescribed Jackie with his eponymous products after a consultation. Beyond the topical, the doctor also suggested a specific diet: Two hard-boiled eggs, “Hollywood toast” with honey, tea, skimmed milk for breakfast; beef, broiled, cottage cheese or “something of the like,” and skimmed milk for lunch. Meat, watercress salad or “whatever vegetable” rounded out dinner.
The doctor also recommended she eat fish, “no matter what kind of how.”
“An icon of beauty and style, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is still today one of the most recognizable First Ladies of the United States,” the caption says. “In this never-before-seen document dated May 1, 1963, the Makeup Museum is unveiling for the first time new insights into how Mrs. Kennedy maintained her flawless appearance. The skincare consultation notes from @ernolaszlonyc dated May 1, 1963 was typical of the detailed personalization that the Erno Laszlo Institute created for all clients at that time. Erno Laszlo’s chief historian and branding officer Patricia Schuffenhauer explains the holistic approach of the instructions that Mrs. Kennedy was meant to follow, and even some of the products recommended for President John F. Kennedy himself.”
Of course, Onassis wasn’t the only celeb the in-demand Dr. Laszlo treated. According to the brand’s site, he “specifically created Phormula 3-8 for Marilyn Monroe to heal a scar on her stomach and kept her well-stocked with Active Phelityl Cream, an all purpose moisturizer, for her signature on-screen glow.”
Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn also trusted the doctor’s advice.
“I owe 50 percent of my beauty to my mother,” Hepburn famously said. “And the other 50 percent to Erno Laszlo.”


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Binance also announced that they had been in talks with Maltese banks with the objective of providing Fiat transactions, which means they can offer an on-ramp for fiat to crypto transactions in future together with fiat buying and selling pairs on the trade. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gave its blessing for bitcoin futures to be traded on two major U.S.-based mostly exchanges: 바이낸스 수수료; Link Website, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the CBOE Global Markets Exchange. The NFT Marketplace just like the OpenSea may be obtained in two modes that embrace building up the platform from scratch which might require a high diploma of precision in pre-production whereas the other mode in designing the NFT Marketplace is by constructing the platform as per the user-specified specs by the OpenSea Clone Script, Maticz can assist you construct your NFT platform as per your want. Another great function on the Binance platform is Spot Grid Trading. The original crypto coin has leapt 20% to two-month highs at $30,182 over the previous 11 days after BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, revealed hopes for a spot bitcoin trade-traded fund (ETF) within the United States. Inaugurated on January 20, 1917, Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States.
Part of this have to hustle pertains to the country’s financial state of affairs, where the official inflation rate now stands around 15%, with food inflation even higher. You merely want a wallet where you’ll obtain the payment from anyplace. Bitcoin, an digital payment methodology based mostly on Mathematical proof was developed in 2008. It was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto in a creative thought that folks may trade and trade independently of any central physique that may very well be transferred electronically in a protected and safe manner. It was launched in July 2017 in China following an initial coin offering (ICO) that raised $15 million from traders, who acquired the native Binance Coin (BNB) in trade for his or her capital. It is situated 57,91 million kilometers away. For starters, they permit investors to buy and promote on a regulated, secure exchange with transparent prices and sturdy track records. 1.5 billion together with exchange of tens of millions of dollars on the each day foundation.
Please observe that The Daily Hodl participates in internet online affiliate marketing. Bitcoin was first released in 2009 by nameless coders below the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, was began in 2009 by a group of unknown individuals under the identify Satoshi Nakamoto. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died on June 25, 2009. He died of died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication. This is computationally unlikely to happen, as it might require the fraudster to leverage no less than fifty one p.c of all the processing energy in the system. The more customers dedicated processing power to verify transactions, the more durable the issues would become. If somebody wished to mess with the historical record of transactions, he or she must not only alter the block containing the transaction but additionally construct out all of the blocks that adopted it in an effort to substitute the prevailing shared ledger. The computer systems on the network confirm transactions in chunks of information known as blocks. In this fashion, new bitcoins entered circulation, and folks had a reason to place their computer systems to work. Bitcoin mixing services like Coinomize enable users to ship bitcoins to the location and obtain bitcoins from different customers.
Technical issues: Binance has previously encountered technical problems, like as system outages and slowdowns throughout moments of high demand, which annoyed some users. The favored exchanges like KuCoin, Binance, and so forth. additionally supply such orders to permit traders to commerce automatically. Each digital foreign money is traded on online exchanges and saved in cryptocurrency wallets. But Nakamoto had to repair a couple of issues: How may you guarantee that a digital unit of currency couldn’t be copied indefinitely? Nakamoto proposed that whichever pc (or system of computer systems) offered the correct reply to verify a block of transactions would receive an award of bitcoins. A would-be fraudster needs to spend some bitcoins a second time. While bitcoins are a high-profile blockchain implementation, any transaction-primarily based exercise could reap the benefits of the technique. Blockchain technology relies upon a shared report of transactions throughout a peer-to-peer community of computers. Once a block joins the chain, it’s locked in throughout the community, with all the computer systems linked to the community able to see the block. If a number of computers are providing up block verification solutions, the system as a whole will go with whichever chain of blocks is the longest.


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Bolton Council will continue to provide valuable public services, with some changes to keep everyone safe in accordance with the national lockdown restrictions.
On January 4, the government announced a national lockdown for England in order to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Under the regulations, residents are asked to stay at home unless absolutely necessary.
Libraries, Bolton Museum and other venues:
Libraries across Bolton will continue to offer an order and collect service, essential computer use, and the Home Library Service will run as normal.
Unfortunately, browsing and study space will not be available.
In line with lockdown restrictions, the Museum, Museum Shop, Historic Halls, History Centre and Aquarium will all be closed.
Bolton Market and Heaton Fold Garden Centre
In line with lockdown regulations, non-essential retailers as well as hair and beauty services in the Lifestyle Hall and Outdoor Market will close.
Essential traders will operate as normal including those providing food and produce, hardware, mobile phone services, watch repairs, plants and flowers, pet supplies, chiropody and the mobility shop.
Cafés and food stalls can continue to provide a takeaway service.
The public toilets at Bolton Market will also remain open.
As an essential retailer, Heaton Fold Garden Centre will remain open as normal.
The maximum number of mourners for a funeral service at Overdale Crematorium is 26 in the West Chapel and 16 in the East Chapel.
A maximum of 30 mourners can attend a burial service.
Weddings are restricted to six people and should only take place in exceptional circumstances.
Anyone working at a ceremony does not count towards the overall limit.
Household waste and recycling centres:
Household waste and recycling centres will remain open as usual, but residents are asked to only use them if absolutely necessary.
There has been an increased demand and the public are advised that individual centres may close for short periods to ease congestion.


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Paris Hilton looked effortlessly elegant in all black while attending the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The 41-year-old heiress was joined by her mother Kathy Hilton, 63, who supported her as she received the coveted Fashion Entrepreneur Award for her many fashion ventures.
Paris cut a chic figure in an outfit that hugged her curves well.
Honored: Paris Hilton, 41, looked chic in a black blazer dress as she joined mother Kathy Hilton, 63, at the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, where she was being honored
The Simple Life star’s area blazer dress was buttoned to just below her bust and accented with a lustrous satin slim shawl collar.
The look was slightly imposing thanks to the padded shoulders.
Paris’ outfit only reached to her thighs and emphasized her long, toned legs.
She perfectly paired the all black item with a shiny set of pointy pumps and added extra sparkle to her look with a diamond necklace around her neck.
Back in black, the Simple Life star’s area blazer dress was buttoned to just below her bust and accented with a lustrous satin slim shawl collar. The look was slightly imposing thanks to the padded shoulders
Legs for days: Paris’ outfit only reached up to her thighs and emphasized her long, well-trained legs. She paired perfectly with the all black item with a shiny set of pointy pumps
Although Paris’ outfit looked quite demure and business-like from the front, she turned around on the red carpet to reveal a more striking back.
The blazer featured a sloping neckline that revealed her exposed back, covered only with horizontal strands of jewels, along with a thicker back that ran down the middle.
The occasional DJ caught the eye with her gorgeous blonde locks swept to the side of her immaculately made-up face with thick, wavy strands, while the rest of her hair was tied in a high ponytail that was twisted up all the way down.
Kathy complemented her daughter with a black blazer adorned with a beautiful floral embroidery.
Surprise: She turned to reveal a drooping neckline that revealed her back, which was covered only in horizontal strands of jewels, along with a thicker back that ran down the middle
Flower power: Kathy complemented her daughter with a black blazer adorned with pretty floral embroidery
Rubbing elbows: Paris and Kathy mingled with celebrities at the awards ceremony, including Christina Aguilera, who looked edgy in a green leather blazer, and hair and makeup artist Etienne Ortega
She kept the rest of her look subdued with a black blouse and pants with slits at the bottom, and she wore black heels embellished with sparkling silver star and moon designs across the toes.
Paris and Kathy joined some celebrities at the awards ceremony, including Christina Aguilera, who looked edgy in a green leather blazer with peak lapels, and hair and makeup artist Etienne Ortega, who wore a ski hat and double-breasted pinstripe suit.
Paris was honored for her fashion projects at the ceremony, and last month she launched her latest collection, the Iconic Tracksuit collection.
“Tracksuits have been iconic since the 2000s ✨ I’ve collected hundreds of tracksuits over the years and I’m so excited to now launch my own Iconic Tracksuit collection,” she shared on Instagram in late March. “I enjoyed every aspect of the design process, from selecting and testing the softest velor fabrics to making sure all the finishings, details and embellishments were just right.”
Paris posed in a bubblegum pink velor tracksuit from her collection to launch the line.
New venture: Paris was honored at the ceremony for her fashion projects and last month she launched her latest, the Iconic Tracksuit collection
Daily Front Row Fashion Awards 2022 HONORS
Brandon Maxwell – Designer of the Year
Paris Hilton – fashion entrepreneur
Russell James – Lifetime Achievement
Elizabeth Stewart – fashion visionary
Barbie – fashion influencer
Maeve Reilly – Style Curator Award
Bryce Scarlett – Hair Artist of the Year
Adam Ballheim – Music Stylist of the Year


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Remember the search engine Ask Jeeves? It was renamed Ask.com in 2005 in an attempt to launch itself as a regular search engine. However, despite its popularity amongst those online users keen to search the web using alternatives to Google, it has always languished behind the “big four” search engines. Now, as zdnet has reported from TechCrunch Disrupt 2011, Ask.com is giving up competing with the likes of Google and Bing. It is going back to what its name implies and is launching itself as a question and answer site.
According to searchengineland, Ask.com has been working on its transition back to its origins for more than a year. However, the relaunched site, while keeping its old-fashioned Jeeves logo, has moved with the times. Users obtain information based on a model of computer-generated answers and user-generated content, which is also available as an iPhone app, with Android and tablet apps to follow shortly. Apart from web-based searches, the site also has image and video search pages. I quite liked the video search facility, which has 15 categories with videos viewable in thumbnail preview formats.
As searchengineland points out, the combination of social content and mobile features will set Ask.com apart from search engine competitors, however there are plenty of other Q&A sites with a social element. One cannot help wondering if the online question and answer space is getting a little crowded.
Quora, another social Q&A site was launched with great fanfare at the beginning of the year and has proved to be very popular. Other similar sites have been and gone, notably Google’s Aardvark and Google Answers. Answers.com, Yahoo Answers and increasingly Facebook Questions, are other popular social Q&A sites, so Ask.com’s success is by no means guaranteed. There are many more. By the way, for those wishing to explore the proliferation of these sites further, socialcompare.com has a useful comparison of Q&A sites.
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Dutch battery maker Lithium Werks BV will spend $2.6 billion on a gigantic lithium-ion cell factory in China as demand for electric vehicles continues to surge.
It marks the start of Lithium Werks’ ambitious 15 to 20 year plan to build multiple gigafactories across the world.
The company plans to have installed production capacity of 500 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of lithium-ion batteries per year by 2030.
The agreement between Lithium Werks and a Chinese partner would see a 600,000 square metre battery gigafactory built in the Yangtze river Delta.
Lithium Werks founder Kees Koolen said demand for lithium-ion batteries would increase 10-fold over the next decade alone , with 10,000 GWh worth of capacity required in the next three decades.
“We are grateful and happy to work with our Chinese partners — the first to support our strategy to have a factory in their country,” he said.
“Speed of execution is key as is evidenced by building permit and other regulatory processes in China being completed within 100 days.
“Other countries and partners are invited to take up the dialogue in order to accelerate the roll out in other locations.”
The Megafactories are coming
By 2028 these mega battery factories — such as those gigafactories being built by Elon Musk’s Tesla — would need 840,000 tonnes per year of lithium, 193,000 tonnes per year of cobalt, 1.1 million tonnes per year of graphite anode, and 480,000 tonnes of nickel chemical, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence boss Simon Moores said last month.
“The money is going into the mega factories, and it’s going into expanding the lithium industry by four or five times,” he said.
In August 2018 there were 42 mega factories built or being built – up from three in 2015.
In September that number had already increased to 45, and by mid-October that number was already over 50.


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DALLAS – Leeds Bradford (LBA)-based Jet2 (LS) has revealed that it has returned to profit for the first half of the 2022/23 financial year, thanks to booming demand as Covid restrictions were eased.
The low-cost leisure carrier posted pre-tax profits of £505 million (US$610.1 million), some 44% higher than in the same period in 2019. Net profit was £356 million (US$429.9 million), up from a loss of £164 million (US$198 million) last year.
Meanwhile, revenues increased to £3.58 billion (US$4.3 billion), up from £429 million (US$518.1 million) for the same period last year.
Phillip Meeson, LS CEO, said, ”Our leisure travel business has continued its encouraging recovery following the reopening of international travel in early 2022. Strong customer demand, in particular for package holidays, plus a robust pricing environment and considered cost control, have underpinned a substantially improved financial performance compared to recent Covid impacted summer seasons, but also against pre-Covid summer 2019.”
Meeson went on to say the airline had encountered “a difficult return to normal operations.” LS had to pay over £50 million (US$60.4 million) in delay, compensation and passenger reimbursement costs. This was despite the airline managing to avoid large-scale cancellations due to staff shortages at many UK and European airports. Various supply chain issues also hit in-flight sales.
The airline recently announced a firm order for a further 35 Airbus A320neo family airframes. This was on top of the 36 A321neos ordered in August 2021. It also has the option to increase the number of airframes to 71. At the time, LS said the deal was ‘to meet the future anticipated growth of its Leisure Travel business and to refresh its existing aircraft fleet.’
Looking ahead, Meeson said that forward bookings were “encouraging” and that average load factors were “broadly in line with summer 2019 at the same point and pricing strong.” However, he also warned that heightened costs associated with “fuel, carbon, a strengthened US dollar and wage increases” could put its profits margins under pressure.
Featured Image: LS is planning on retiring its long-serving Boeing 757s by 2026. Photo: Adrian Nowakowski/Airways.


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Earlier this week, Anything World unveiled its machine learning animation software to the public, with a free tier for educational and personal use. The company also announced that Unreal Engine support will arrive in December – it currently offers integration with Unity – and it just raised $7.5 million in new funding.
One obvious use for algorithmic animation on the fly is to simply put it in the hands of players, allowing them to take 3D models from a huge library – the company uses sources like Google Sketchfab for free models – put them in the world and see them animate naturally . (Or at least as naturally as the system can make it. The first time they gave her a pineapple, the program turned it upside down and made it jump through the leaves like a spider. It has improved since then.)
Anything World is also offered as a professional game development tool. Ubisoft is already using it for prototyping, and Anything World CEO Gordon Midwood says it’s also useful for quickly fitting 3D models (determining their bones and joints) and creating animations that can later be tweaked manually.
Vehicles and bipeds can be modeled and animated in the just-released version of Anything World, but Midwood says the company will soon start adding new categories: humans and other bipeds, swimmers, insects, and so on. Another existing tool that automates the creation of human characters is Mixamo, and Midwood wants Anything World to compete in this area by the middle of next year. Also next year, he said, the company will introduce an upload tool that will allow users to run their own 3D models through an automated rigging and animation algorithm, not just those in the Anything World database.
Another reason Midwood thinks Anything World will be well received as a game development middleware is that model building isn’t the average 3D animator’s favorite part of the job – it’s the most boring part of the job. As for the “Metaverse” controversy, Midwood says the company “sees the potential for web3 in games” but has no plans to start minting NFTs itself.
We don’t do speculation, NFT creation, trading, pay to play or anything like that, but we don’t make any distinction, so if you want to do those things with [нашего программного обеспечения]you can do it.


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Bitcoin users in india
Am in being a net savy and CSE ug when a came across BTC few months back the and following its foreign exchange market.The four-year-old Unocoin is one of the more popular cryptocurrency exchanges in India, enabling its 400,000 users to. trades only bitcoin.
Convert Bitcoins (BTC) and Indian Rupees (INR): CurrencyWhile most of BItcoin is in the grey area, Bitcoin mining is merely the usage of computing equipment to calculate.Crypto products offered through Bitcoin-India.org should be considered HIGH RISK.
Bitcoin use in India | Liberty BlitzkriegAre Indian regulators so slow to accept the truth of virtual currencies that they are willing to put Indian users of cryptocurrencies at risk.Calculator to convert money in Bitcoin (BTC) to and from Indian Rupee (INR) using up to date exchange rates.Invest your Bitcoins in Cloud Mining Contracts for the Maximum Returns on your Investment.The government of India (Ministry of Finance) formed a Committee to decide fate of Virtual currencies in.Global Markets Google Set to Launch New Payment App in India Will Super Costly iPhone X Be Able to Compete in Indian Market.That is a tough question to answer at this point until the RBI come out with something concrete.
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The India reserve bank warns against bitcoin for its lack of security and regulation, despite coming out in favor of digital currencies and blockchain.Some politicians are demanding that bitcoin be declared illegal in India.The startup has nearly 3.7 lakh unique customer logins and sees 2,000 daily.
Although Bitcoin is in no way related to this, I wanted to see how close I could get to any laws that could present a roadblock.Bitcoin, also called a mobile currency or a crypto currency,.Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are. marking a clear premium on the Indian bitcoin.
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The Present and Future State of Bitcoin in IndiaThere has been a steady gain in interest in Bitcoin in India.If we keep fiat out of the system, then Bitcoin is unregulated in India.A new bitcoin exchange, Unocoin, has launched in India amid a growing interest in cryptocurrency.Moreover, retailers in India who sign up through Coinsecure are safe from any Bitcoin price volatility that may occur down the line.Bitcoin machine gives an easy and fast way to buy and sometimes sell bitcoins for cash.
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Reserve Bank warns against Bitcoin use - The HinduThey do face severe delays and problems in withdrawals of Fiat that can take over 2 weeks.Bitcoin mining Company Offering Cloud Based Mining Contracts.
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India has an unbanked population of 41% according to RBI statistics.It is time to wholesale fire all government parasites and replace them all with a true P2P socialist democracy.But do consult a tax consultant on any other charges to be paid.I am about to setup a Mining farm in India by using commercial electricity.The easiest place to buy, use, and accept bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
Bitcoin is once again feeling the squeeze from government regulators.Bitcoin Use In India To Be Decided Soon, Govt Forms Committee.Buy Sell and Store Bitcoins in India. Users who had Bitcoin on Unocoin wallet as on Aug 1, 2017, now have an additional equivalent amount in Bitcoin Cash as well.Latest bitcoin users News, Photos, Blogposts, Videos and Wallpapers.
Blockchain is planning to bring their software platform to India through Unocoin. claims that their platform will give users greater hold on their bitcoin purchase.The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.Do check on forex regulations though as this may come into play when moving BTC out of India.Are there any decent BTC exchanges in India which accept NEFT transfers or local cheques in exchange for bitcoins.


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One of the largest food manufacturers in the Dayton region will continue as a nonunion shop.
Officials from ConAgra Foods on Monday confirmed workers on Oct. 25 voted against forming a union in Troy.
“We value our people and are committed to cultivating a positive and productive work environment,” said a spokesperson from ConAgra, when asked to comment on the vote.
ConAgra is the 34th largest employer in the region with 734 workers, according to Dayton Business Journal research. It has invested millions of dollars in recent years to grow its Miami County operations, which produce Slim Jim meat snacks as well as school lunch pizza, sandwiches, ready-to-eat pepperoni and bulk cheese.
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