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Most of these banned apps were targeted at children
Reports indicate that a majority of these banned apps were targeted at children up to 12 years old (with 89% banned from Google PlayStore and 86% banned from Apple’s App Store). Additionally, 66% of the apps banned from Google PlayStore had dangerous permissions – these permissions allow the apps to access restricted data while also running actions that can impact one’s device. For instance, 19% of these banned apps can access the device’s camera, while 27% can access GPS features.
It’s important to note that even though Google PlayStore and Apple’s App Store have banned these apps, they can still function on the device they were installed on. In other words, if your smartphone already has these apps installed, the ban does not affect their ability to mine your data.
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Samsung recently suspended the production of its Note 7 smartphones after news of the device catching fire and causing various issues for the users.
Now, the company is all set to launch its latest Galaxy S8 and the rumors regarding its features have already started popping up on the internet. Below, we are going to discuss seven features of the Galaxy S8, which are definitely worth waiting for!
Samsung Galaxy S8 will pack a 4K high-resolution screen, which is more advanced and is suitable with the VR headsets. The VR is the future of mobile technologies, and that is why Samsung is also considering adding the 4K display on its next smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S8 will come with an Edge-to-Edge display, meaning there will be no physical button. There will be a digital home button, and the screen will look bigger and sharper.
Samsung Galaxy S8 will pack dual camera lens to improve the quality of your photos. Previously, we have seen the dual-lens cameras in the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus. According to some rumours, the rear camera in this flagship will be 30 MP and also there will be a 9MP shooter on the front.
Faster than previous models
The tech websites are reporting that the Samsung Galaxy S8 will be a faster device than the previous Galaxy smartphones. It will come with a 6GB of RAM and a powerful Qualcomm processor. The internal memory of this device will be 128GB, and there will be a 64GB version as well.
Apple has recently removed the headphone jack from its iPhone devices. Now, Samsung is also planning to abandon this jack. Although there are not any confirm reports about it, the rumours on the social media suggest that there will be no headphone jack in the Samsung Galaxy S8.
Samsung Galaxy S8 will possibly come with a large 4200 mAh non-removable battery, which will give great timing to this device. You will be able to enjoy surfing the web and playing heavy games all day long.
Samsung Galaxy S8 will come with a powerful fingerprint scanner, which will accurately scan the fingerprints. Moreover, you can add an extra layer of security on your S8 by using the fingerprint lock. There are rumours that the Fingerprint scanner of S8 will be included inside the glass of the device.

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Listed below are recent posts across all of CalRecyle's blogs.
Plastic Recycling Gets a Legal Boost: World’s Highest Standard for Recycled Content Could Drive Up Demand
California just took an historic step to combat plastic pollution and accelerate the state’s transition away from fossil fuels to a cleaner, green economy. Under a first-in-the-nation law, the state will require new water, soda, and other beverage bottles to contain 50 percent recycled plastic by 2030.
The bold new requirements in AB 793 (Ting, Chapter 115, Statutes of 2020) make California’s minimum recycled plastic content standards the strongest in the world, advancing the state’s mission to:
Create strong domestic markets for recycled materials. This will increase the demand for recyclable plastic from manufacturers, giving it more value and lowering how much of it ends up polluting the state and filling landfills.
Reduce dependence on new plastic. Since plastic is made from oil and never biodegrades (it only breaks into toxic microplastics), the law will help California fast-track climate progress and create less toxicity in the air and water.
“California has long led the way on bold solutions in the climate space, and the steps we take today bring us closer to our ambitious goals,” said Governor Newsom when he signed the legislation. “I thank the Legislature for taking these important steps to protect the planet and public health.”
Beverage Container Recycling Boost
The minimum recycled content standards for plastic beverage containers subject to California Refund Value (CRV) could also help improve profits for beverage container recycling centers by greatly increasing demand for recyclable plastic.
“Higher scrap values for recycled plastic due to increased demand for the material will help California recyclers impacted by changes in global prices for recyclable materials,” said Ken DaRosa, acting director for California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle).
In 2018, China implemented “National Sword,” a combination of policies aimed at limiting contamination in recyclable materials by restricting imports of those materials. The resulting declines in global scrap market values, coupled with domestic beverage container market shifts toward low-value plastic and away from higher-value aluminum, have challenged the business model of traditional recycling centers.
Plastic Pollution Solution
Manufacturers often find it cheaper to use new plastic compared to recycled plastic because of lower oil prices in recent years. This has been exacerbated further by reduced demand for oil during to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2019, California sold beverages in 12.6 billion plastic CRV containers. An average of 15 percent minimum recycled content was used to make those bottles, according to data reported to CalRecycle by beverage manufacturers. Increasing the amount of recycled plastic used in the manufacturing of beverage containers will help increase demand for recycling and make California more self-sufficient and its economy more circular, while reducing the state’s reliance on fossil fuel-based manufacturing sources.
“Limiting California’s dependency on new plastic will conserve resources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that come from mining and refining new raw materials,” added DaRosa.
California’s New Standards
The new law establishes standards for recycled content in California Redemption Value (CRV) plastic beverage containers sold in California. Manufacturers will be required to use at least:
15 percent recycled plastic in new containers by 2022.
25 percent recycled plastic in new containers by 2025.
50 percent recycled plastic in new containers by 2030.
AB 793 grants CalRecycle the ability to review and possibly reduce the minimum content standards to ensure they are achievable. Beverage manufacturers have the right to petition the director once per year to review and adjust the requirements.
The law gives CalRecycle the authority to conduct audits and investigations to ensure the standards are met. Beverage manufacturers that fail to achieve the requirements are subject to a 20-cent penalty for each pound short of the mandated targets.
All penalties go directly into a new Recycling Enhancement Penalty Account to support the recycling, infrastructure, collection, and processing of plastic beverage containers in California. For more information on implementation of AB 793, please sign up for the Beverage Container Recycling listserv here: https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Listservs/Subscribe/132Posted on In the Loop by Linda Mumma on Oct 20, 2020
Since 1986 California has kept 400 billion plastic, glass, aluminum, and bi-metal containers out of our landfills and off our streets by recycling them. Despite our recent loss in the number of conveniently located recycling centers because of dips in the global aluminum scrap market, California still recycled around 18.5 billion beverage containers in 2019.
By continuing our commitment to recycling, we can keep these materials from adding to pollution and our already growing landfills.
In 1986, California passed the Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act with these goals:
- To reduce litter and landfilled trash
- To use recyclable material for manufacturing, rather than mining the planet for new materials.
California gave consumers a financial reason to recycle in 1986 to reduce litter and save materials discarded after one use.
Do We Want a State Littered with Bottles?
We drink most beverages away from home, so having a returnable deposit on the containers can motivate the purchasers to return used bottles and cans for their nickels or dimes. Not all consumers will go to the trouble to recycle, but the redemption program incentivizes others who find a bottle to return it for its monetary value.
In 2018, Californians bought 24.5 billion redemption eligible bottles and cans and recycled about 18.5 billion of those.
That’s 18.5 billion bottles and cans not dumped in our streets, waterways, and ocean to join the plastic from other sources polluting our planet, filling our seas, and killing our marine life. An often-cited study from the World Economic Forum estimates that by the year 2050, the world’s oceans will have more plastic than fish.
Plastic bottles: Designed to use for a few minutes. Built to last forever.
Plastic Breaks Into Toxic Microplastic
Plastic containers might be designed to use for a few minutes, but they are built to last forever. Even if discarded in streets or landfills breaks down into smaller pieces, but it can only become toxic microplastics that poison our bodies and environment. It will never biodegrade into harmless organic matter like most glass does.
Do We Want Microplastics In Our Bodies?
Unknowingly, we each ingest an average of 50,000 pieces of these microplastics each year in liquids, fish, and other foods. We breathe in about the same amount. We don’t yet know the effect these microplastics have, but they may cause immune reactions or have other health impacts.
Recycling Stretches Our Limited Resources
Discarding bottles and cans instead of recycling them means we must constantly use new materials to manufacture the 24 billion new beverage containers we buy every year.
Recycling also brings:
million tons less greenhouse gas emissions since the bottle bill passed—equal to saving
nearly 96 million barrels of oil.
- Less dependence on harvesting resources like aluminum, which is
expensive and environmentally destructive to mine, but may have increased
demand as more nations ban single use plastics
- Reduced demand for landfill space
The best thing you can do for California’s environment right now is to continue recycling. If you discover that a retailer obligated to redeem and listed on our database will not redeem your bottles and cans, please report them to CalRecycle’s help line: (800) RECYCLE.
We follow up on every complaint. Let’s work together to keep recycling — for our environment and our future.Posted on In the Loop by Heather Jones on Jan 27, 2020
During the holidays many of us gather to share special meals, exchange gifts, and enjoy ourselves. As you prepare to host gatherings for your loved ones, consider how your celebrations create waste that contributes to climate change and adds to the growing amount of plastic in landfills. Are you being naughty or nice to the planet?
Here are three ways to get on the planet’s Nice List this holiday season
Naughty: Throwing Food in the Trash
Nice: Lowering Food Waste with Meal Plans and Composting
Meal Plan for Zero Food Waste
Many of us consider lavish spreads of favorite holiday dishes the hallmark of a caring host. But excess food gives off high amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane once it’s dumped in a landfill. This is a major cause of climate change.
Rethink your hosting ideals, brand your gathering eco-friendly, then don’t overbuy or overcook.
Use the food GUEST-IMATOR tool to plan how much to prepare. If there are leftovers you know you won’t finish, send food home with your guests in reusable containers.
Clean your plate or compost the rest.
Try composting your food waste. If your curbside organics collection doesn’t accept food, ask local community gardens if you can contribute to their compost bin.
Consider setting up your own home compost. It can help grow healthier, heartier plants. Winter is the ideal time to start compost that will be ready to add to your garden in the spring.
Easy tips for starting to compost
Naughty: Single-Use Plastic
Nice: Reusable Dishes and Utensils
“Disposable” Plastic Lasts Forever
Many hosts choose the ease of disposable plates, cutlery, and cups for holiday gatherings. But that plastic your guests use for just a few minutes will never biodegrade. It stays on the planet, slowly breaking down into toxic microplastics.
About 10 percent of all trash is plastic. Forty million Californians create more than 3.2 million tons of plastic waste every year.
Reusable plates and cutlery give the gift of a cleaner planet. Less trash in landfills is worth a few extra minutes of cleanup.
Naughty: Dirty Recyclables
Nice: Clean Recyclables
Rinse Containers Before Recycling
Recyclables tainted with food or water can leak onto surrounding paper and cardboard, and create a contaminated, unrecyclable mess. In 2018 China stopped accepting certain US mixed recyclable shipments because many arrived full of mold and had to be thrown away in landfills.
Clean your containers to keep recycling from becoming garbage.
Not sure about that greasy pizza box? Tear off the oily parts and toss those in the trash. The remaining clean cardboard can go in your blue bin.
Check out this quick video on recycling contamination.
With a few small changes, you can make a difference for the planet even as you enjoy this festive season. Get more eco-friendly holiday hints to use this year.Posted on In the Loop by Syd Fong on Dec 23, 2019


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Prepared Foods readers select Kellogg Debuts HI! Happy Inside Cereal as their favorite new product launch from November 2018
January 7, 2019
Kellogg Debuts HI! Happy Inside Cereal is a 3-in-1 cereal makes digestive wellness support easily accessible in food that enriches people's daily lives and provides a choice that people will feel happy inside about.
New lines include bars, tortilla-style protein chips, and pizza
December 11, 2018
The Chase team started with the logo, using a bold, sans-serif font and making the custom “Q” slightly larger. Design exploration revealed that the original signature letter “E,” designed as 3 floating bars to signify energy and movement, was the most memorable component, so it was adapted to work with the other letters.
Coffee Snacks expands JavaUp energy bar distribution through East Coast
December 7, 2018
“JavaUp provides an anytime, convenient, on-the-go way to get your coffee ‘fix’ in a delicious nutritious bar,” says Lisa Newmann, founder and CEO of JavaUp. “It’s exciting to watch our business expand in the Northeast region and we’re confident 7-Eleven customers will jump at the chance to JavaUp!”
Collagen adds versatility, value to everyday foods and drinks, says Gelita
December 4, 2018
Collagen is considered one of the most versatile and important ingredients in modern health and nutrition markets—including its use in functional foods. Although collagen is largely known for its benefits to the human body—ranging from skin health to strength in tendons and ligaments—its use is more commonly associated with nutritional supplements.
The Garden Lites Frittata line is the latest product to reinforce the company as an innovative leader in the frozen food category
December 3, 2018
Garden Lites also unveiled a major brand refresh to strengthen its unique positioning. Garden Lites is prominently featuring its new sub-brand name "Veggies Made Great" on its packaging and boldly highlights "veggies as the #1 ingredient."
Innovative cereal supports digestive wellness with prebiotics, probiotics, and fiber
November 20, 2018
According to a recent survey commissioned by Kellogg and conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 US adults, while 29% of Americans say they know about probiotics, prebiotics are a mystery for the average American.


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In the context of 920,000 tonnes or 1.3 billion meals of food being thrown away each year in the UK food & hospitality services sector, out of which an estimated 75% could have been eaten,xliv London has launched a new voluntary scheme for cafes, pubs, restaurants and wholesalers to reduce food waste, saving thousands of pounds in the process.
FoodSave, launched in November 2013, is a project to help small and medium-size food businesses reduce their food waste, put surplus food to good use and dispose of unavoidable food waste more responsibly, through processes such as composting or anaerobic digestion. It offers food waste audits and promotes simple measures, such as offering customers different portion sizes, measuring side dishes in cups, using leftover food for its soup of the day and menu specials, and raising staff awareness of what not to throw away.xlv
The FoodSave scheme, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the London Waste and Recycling Board and the Mayor of London, has been run in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association that delivered FoodSave for food service and hospitality businesses (including restaurants, pubs, staff canteens, hotels and cafes) and Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming that ran the project for retailers, manufacturer and wholesalers.
By March 2015, the FoodSave scheme has helped around 200 of London’s small hospitality businesses better manage their food waste, reduce food waste by over 150 tonnes and divert over 1,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill (an estimated equivalent of 3,270 tCO2exlvi), while saving businesses over £350,000 associated with waste reduction and disposal. At the same time, the project holds many lessons for London to drive food waste down across the city hospitality sector.
Reasons for success
London has seized the opportunity of external funding to build an innovative public-private partnership with hospitality sector representatives and individual businesses to start addressing food waste through a voluntary food waste reduction scheme, while using the project outcomes as valuable lessons to guide future citywide food waste reduction programmes.
When/why might a city apply an approach like this
Cities having identified food and green waste as a major issue and considering it as special focus, or cities with ambitious climate change targets in general (since food waste generates significant portion of GHGs) should consider this approach, in particular to stimulate action among private actors.
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- Key Impact
- The city of London has used external funding to build an innovative public-private partnership with hospitality sector representatives and individual businesses to start addressing food waste through a voluntary food waste reduction scheme
- Emissions Reduction
- The Food Save scheme has helped around 200 of London’s small hospitality businesses reduce food waste by over 150 tonnes and divert over 1,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill (estimated equivalent of 3,270 tCO2e)
- Financial Savings
- 920,000 tonnes or 1.3 bn meals of food being thrown away each year in the UK food & hospitality services sector, out of which an estimated 75% could have been eaten


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The first goal of the initiative is for responsibly-sourced seafood to comprise 50 percent of the company’s inventory by 2018. Part of that goal will be sourcing over 15 percent from fisheries or farms certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC).
Hyatt has already been partnering with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to stop sourcing very vulnerable seafood species. With WWF’s help, the chain conducted an assessment of global seafood procurement processes at its hotels and identified steps it could take to improve the sustainability of its seafood sourcing practices.
One step it will take is to focus first on certain species including salmon, shrimp, grouper, Chilean sea bass and tuna. Another step is instituting a complete ban on procuring and eating shark fin at all of its restaurants and food and beverage outlets around the world. This step builds on its 2012 commitment to remove shark fin from all restaurant menus. Hyatt will also have employees involved in food and beverage offerings at the company’s owned and managed full-service hotels undergo a sustainable seafood training program developed with WWF. All of these initiatives will be measured with WWF analysis and recommendations.
Massachusetts is about to test drive a law to deal with the mounting issue. Back in January, the state government announced that a statewide ban on commercial food waste would take effect on Oct. 1, 2014. Regulated by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), the ban requires any entity disposing of at least 1 ton of organic material per week to either donate or re-purpose the useable food. The remaining food that can’t be used will be either sent to an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and converted to energy or to composting and animal-feed operations.
Residential food waste from small businesses is not included in the ban which affects about 1,700 businesses and institutions across the state.
Kimberly-Clark is a big company with well-known brands like Scott, Depends and Huggies. It has also made some real strides in sustainability, as its latest annual sustainability report shows.
The company achieved a 26.4 percent reduction in water use in manufacturing in 2013, beating its 2015 goal of 25 percent. The report attributes the reduction to a more efficient manufacturing footprint, water conservation programs, and upgraded water and wastewater systems.
All totaled, Kimberly-Clark completed six major water reduction projects last year. For example, it made upgrades to the wastewater system at its Northfleet Mill that allows more than half of the wastewater to be recycled and reused.
When it comes to sourcing, Kimberly-Clark has also set lofty goals. The target is to source 100 percent of its wood fiber from suppliers who have achieved third-party certification of their forestry activities by 2015. Clearly, the company can meet those lofty goals as it met its target in 2012. A 2016 target is to achieve 100 percent chain of custody certification. All of the Kimberly-Clark tissue mills in North America and Europe are already chain of custody certified, along with about 50 percent of its mills in other regions. By 2025, the company plans to source 90 percent of the fiber in its tissue products from environmentally-preferred sources, including Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified wood fiber, recycled fiber and sustainable alternative fibers. It has already sourced 71.7 percent from environmentally preferred sources.
Local authorities in Beijing announced that the city will ban coal sales and use by 2020 to reduce air pollution, Xinhua News Agency reports.
Six Beijing districts will stop using coal and will close coal-fired power plants by 2020. Coal use is expected to drop to less than 10 percent by 2017. Other fossil fuels, including fuel oil, will also be banned.
Coal burning accounts for 22.4 percent of Beijing’s PM 2.5, small airborne particles that contribute to smog. Coal use also accounted for 25.4 percent of Beijing’s energy use in 2012.
The main driver for coal reduction is air pollution, which is notoriously bad in Beijing. Back in February the Guardian reported that Beijing spent a week “blanketed in a dense pea-soup smog.” Beijing’s concentration of PM 2.5 particles rose to 505 micrograms, far above the 25 micrograms the World Health Organization recommends as a safe level.
In 2013, 92 percent of Chinese cities didn’t meet national ambient air quality standards, and coal burning is responsible for almost half of China’s overall PM 2.5 pollution.
Recycling old materials is built into Bacardi Limited, the largest privately-held spirits company in the world, and is part of the company’s history. Bacardi founder, Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, opened his first distillery in 1862, and repurposing old whiskey barrels was part of his original plan. Flash forward to the present, and Bacardi is still recycling. Bacardi Bottling Corp.’s 92-acre Jacksonville, Florida site recycles materials used to bottle Bacardi rum. The site is the only bottling plant for Bacardi rum branded products sold in the U.S. A variety of materials are recycled at the bottling plant including glass, plastic, aluminum, paper and wastewater.
Bacardi also focuses on reducing the weight of its packaging and reducing hazardous waste. Packaging makes up about 57 percent of its spending on raw materials, totaling about 400,000 tons. Packaging is also responsible for half of the company’s extended carbon emissions, which include emissions from its own operations and those of its suppliers. Since 2008, Bacardi has reduced the weight of its packaging by 23,000 tons, a 7.1 percent reduction. The company’s hazardous waste decreased by 1.5 percent in 2013.
Smucker’s latest CSR report states that the company is committed to developing a “fully sustainable and traceable palm oil supply chain.” It set a target that palm oil purchases will come from “responsible and sustainable sources” by December 2015. In 2012, Smuckers began buying palm oil from Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified sources, and received RSPO certification in January 2013.
As a result of the new policy, a shareholder proposal filed by Clean Yield Asset Management and Green Century Capital Management was withdrawn. The food producer is currently valued at $10.8 billion in market capitalization. Its brands include Smuckers’ jams and jellies, Jif peanut butter, Crisco, Folger and Dunkin’ Donuts.
Mars, Inc. has big sustainability goals. Its 2040 target is to eliminate all fossil fuel energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from its direct operations.
One way it is working towards that goal is by investing in renewable energy. It announced in April that it will invest in and build a new wind farm in Texas, which will help it meet its 2015 goal of 25 percent reduction of fossil fuel energy use and GHG emissions. Its fourth annual Principles in Action Summary contains other sustainability targets and initiatives.
Making its supply chain more sustainable is also important to Mars. As a large and global food company, it uses vast quantities of things like palm oil and cocoa. In March, it launched a new Deforestation Policy and committed to a fully traceable palm oil supply chain by the end of 2015. Mars is also the largest purchaser of cocoa from certified sources, and has increased its purchase of certified cocoa to 30 percent. The goal is 100 percent certified cocoa by 2020.
WhiteWave Foods met its 2015 goal to source Certified Sustainable Palm Oil for 100 percent of its liquid creamers in 2012, three years ahead of schedule. The company, whose brands include Silk, Horizon and Earthbound, set the target in 2010. Palm oil is an ingredient used in many of its liquid creamers, and the palm oil industry has a high impact on the environment due to deforestation.
WhiteWave Foods recently released its first corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, which goes on to detail other environmental achievements, including reducing packaging, waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Despite production volume increasing in both North America and Europe, WhiteWave has managed to reduce GHG emissions. It cut GHG emissions in North America by by 32 percent per gallon of product while production volume increased by 57 percent since 2006.
Meanwhile, the company also slashed carbon emissions by 39.5 percent per ton of product in Europe, where product volumes have grown by 22 percent since 2007. While cutting emissions, the company also increased onsite renewable energy production by 30 percent and reduced waste sent to landfill by 47 percent in its European operations.
The line contains 78 different products with 19 different styles, including baby clothes. For grown-ups, the line features basics like underwear, leggings, camisoles, T-shirts and long johns. In May, Pact launched a Fair Trade certified women’s T-shirt sold exclusively at Whole Foods. This new line will be sold at retailers across the U.S. including Whole Foods and Amazon.
The Fair Trade certified line is produced in a factory in India. For every purchase of a Fair Trade certified garment, Pact will donate a percentage of the sales to a worker-controlled fund. The workers will vote on how to spend the funds which include a disaster relief fund for factory workers, a scholarship fund for workers’ children, infrastructure improvements in their local communities, or a cash bonus.
Cotton is a major world commodity, accounting for almost half of textile production. Traditional cotton farming is hard on the environment, however, as pesticide and artificial fertilizer use is heavy.
The crop accounts for 10 percent of global pesticide use and is grown in about 80 countries around the world. Cotton also needs much water: An average of 10,000 liters of water is used to grow 1 kilogram of cotton, but it can require three times as much if farming practices are poor. However, through the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) farmers are reducing their pesticide, artificial fertilizer and water use.
In 2005, Ikea and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) started joint cotton projects, and both are founding members of the BCI. The purpose of the initiative is to develop more sustainable cotton production methods.
BCI started with just 500 farmers and a goal to develop more sustainable cotton production methods. Now, through BCI and its partners, 43,000 farmers in India and Pakistan alone are using more sustainable cotton farming techniques, as the latest BCI report shows. Project farmers in Pakistan were the first in the world to produce licensed Better Cotton.
The British supermarket chain, Sainsbury’s announced that one of its stores will be powered by its food waste. All of the electricity used by the store in Cannock, England will come from what’s called anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste into bio-methane gas that is used to generate electricity. Sainsbury’s partners with Biffa which has anaerobic digestion facilities. Through its use of bio-methane gas, the store is able to come off the national grid for its electricity use. Biffa is one of the leading waste management companies in the UK. The company operates a number of food waste treatment facilities in the UK which recycle or reuse 100,000 tons of food waste a year.
The food waste that powers the stores comes from Sainsbury’s stores across the UK. Any food waste that is not fit for charitable donations or animal feed is sent to the anaerobic digestion facility in Staffordshire and is converted into energy. The electricity for the Cannock store is sent directly through a new 1.5 km long electricity cable from the Staffordshire facility, which opened in 2011. The Staffordshire facility is the largest one in the U.K. that uses food waste, and is licensed to process 120,000 tons of food waste a year.
The Kroger Co. has reduced energy use in its stores by 34.6 percent since 2000, saving more than 2.5 billion kilowatt hours (kWh). That’s enough electricity to power every home in Charlotte, North Carolina for a year — or the equivalent of taking 362,000 cars off the road for a year. The largest supermarket chain in the U.S. and fifth-largest retailer in the world, Kroger recently published its eighth annual sustainability report, which includes its energy usage reduction efforts.
Kroger’s manufacturing plants also continue to reduce their use of electricity and gas. As of this year’s report, they have saved enough energy to power 8,411 American homes for a year, and cut enough gas to power 442,446 American homes for a year.
Its manufacturing plants are also reducing water use: In 2013, Kroger manufacturing plants reduced water use by 61 million gallons of water. That is equivalent to the annual water use of 1,455 American homes. Additionally, water use at stores in four of its western divisions was reduced by 7.6 percent last year. These figures crushed an initial 5 percent company-wide reduction target for 2014.
One of the chain’s most notable targets is to eliminate 1 billion paper and plastic bags in its stores by 2015 — and it has already eliminated more than 300 million plastic and paper bags. Safeway is also halfway toward the goal of sourcing of all of its fresh and frozen seafood from either sustainable sources or sources making credible improvements by 2015.
Additionally, Safeway has a goal of producing zero waste across all of its operations. (To qualify as zero waste, a facility has to recycle or divert at least 90 percent of materials that would have been sent to landfills.) A total of nine of its 13 distribution centers and nine of its 20 U.S. manufacturing and food processing plants have already achieved zero waste.
Taking things a step further, two of the grocer’s California distribution centers, Santa Fe Springs and El Monte, haven’t had a trash pickup since. The two facilities combined are almost 2 million square feet and serve over 270 stores.
The British supermarket chain Asda is the first retailer to publish a sustainable seafood report.
The report, titled Wild Fisheries Annual Review, lists all of the fisheries used by the supermarket chain between Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, 2013. The report contains management and sustainability information for all of the fisheries that supply the supermarket chain with wild fish. Seafood from aquaculture (fish farming) is not listed, but Asda hopes to include this information in next year’s report. (As the name implies, it will be published every year.)
The report names each fishery, and information is provided on the location and catch methods, plus sustainability assessments that include environmental impacts.
The report is part of Asda’s commitment to ensure its wild seafood is responsibly sourced. That said, the company knows that some fisheries it obtains seafood from need work and is working to address the issues. One example is Asda’s pledge that all ambient canned and pouched tuna will be line-caught or caught using fish aggregation device (FAD)-free methods by the end of 2014.
Next time you reach for a MillerCoors brew, you can rest assured that the company is doing its part to be environmentally sustainable.
The company has greatly reduced its water and energy usage, according to its latest sustainability report. From 2012 to 2013, MillerCoors reduced the barrels of water it takes to brew one barrel of beer by 9.1 percent. The second largest brewer in the U.S., the company also slashed energy use by 15.6 percent from 2012, saving 1.6 billion mega joules of energy last year. MillerCoors has eight major breweries, and all of them reduced energy use.
Water is a big part of brewing beer, so reducing its usage is not an easy feat for any brewery. From 2011 to 2013, MillerCoors saved over 1.1 billion gallons of water. That’s enough water to fill 1,783 Olympic-size swimming pools or meet the needs of more than 11,500 average American households for a year. One of the ways it achieved the water savings is by converting its Fort Worth Brewery from steam heating to a pasteurizer reclaim system, which uses recirculated water instead of fresh, incoming water to cool beer after pasteurization. It also installed water reclamation systems in six of its eight major breweries, which saves tens of millions of gallons of water a year.


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Those figures are just the first six hours alone in the country.
China has predictably gone completely crazy over Apple’s newest version of its smartphone — in a country madly obsessed by consumerism and the rise of the Tuhao (Chinese nouveau riche), it can only be explained as such, the country of over 1.3 billion has made everyone’s favourite fruit company that much richer by selling nearly an iPhone every ten milliseconds, or a thousandth of a second.
The numbers tell it all: each of China’s top three three mobile phone carriers registered over a million iPhone 6 orders in the first six hours of availability, according to NetworkWorld citing Tencent. If they were queuing for state rations under Mao, they’re now queuing for the latest smartphone from Cupertino in a China that has now truly flourished under Deng’s reform and opening policies.
3 million equates to a sixth of the whole population around metropolitan Beijing, or just a third of the whole of urban London. Converted to hours, this is about half a million per hour, or 8,333 per minute, or 138 per second, or just over one every ten milliseconds. The figure of three million is already a full third of the first weekend sales of the iPhone 5s.
But this does not mean the iPhone has “just” landed on mainland China. Overseas Chinese communities aside, other parts of the Chinese world have also been able to get their hands on Apple’s newest smartphone, including Hong Kong, where there has also been massive smuggling of these devices onto a grey market on the mainland.
The iPhone was a relative latecomer in China, not “officially” arriving in any part of the country until July 2008 (Hong Kong), and only making a very late entry into the mainland in October 2009. There were hurdles this time round which might have precluded a worldwide first release of the iPhone 6 in China as it was also being released in the US, UK and other countries. Still, it has been wildly popular with every new release. The iPhone 6 Plus is no exception: Chinese consumers seem to have a passion for big-screen smartphones (link in simplified Chinese), and the 6 Plus will only endear it to consumers in the world’s most populous country.
On offer for China are somewhat pricier iPhone 6 units (link in simplified Chinese), with the most expensive model (the 128 GB iPhone 6 Plus) costing CNY 7,788 (no contracts needed). However, prices for entry-level iPhones remain cheap; the iPhone 6 (16 GB) starts at a “mere” CNY 5,288.


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Great Job, Internet!: The internet’s predictable but funny response to Twitter’s planned changes
Twitter is planning to implement a new algorithmic timeline fairly soon. The point of the change is to give more weight to popular and “relevant” content that could potentially make a user’s experience a lot better. Though details are somewhat vague, it seems that the social networking service is taking a page straight out of Facebook, which has long used a similar timeline tactic/structure.
But as news spread, the Twitter faithful became pretty irate despite assurance from co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey that “we never planned to reorder timelines next week.” Still, the change is happening eventually, and several beta testers have already tried the new version (and they didn’t exactly love it). The Verge has recently confirmed that “this will be the new Twitter by default—but you will be allowed to opt out of the new timeline.”
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Melanie Phillips works with clients to create practical solutions for their data collection, management, and security practices.
Melanie advises clients in various critical areas, including incident response planning, incident response, consumer breach litigation, and regulatory enforcement actions. She has worked on cybersecurity incident and data breach investigations for a range of clients, including enterprise-wide network intrusions. Melanie also assists clients with digital crime investigations. With more than a decade of litigation experience, including in key areas of trade secret, employment, and consumer protection matters, she has a holistic understanding of the key drivers of privacy and security in organizations big and small.
Melanie has dedicated countless hours to pro bono work over her career, focused on issues relating to domestic violence. She was awarded the Honorable Benjamin Aranda III Outstanding Public Service Award in 2014 in recognition of her work with the Los Angeles County Bar Association Domestic Violence Clinic. She also earned the Pro Bono Award at Orrick for her outstanding commitment to pro bono work in 2007 relating a complicated VAWA petition on behalf of an Iraqi interpreter working for the United States military.
The latest appellate decision in the nearly 20-year legal battle between Ajaxo and E*Trade highlights the importance of expert discovery and a well-developed trial court record for a plaintiff attempting to claim reasonable royalties for trade secret misappropriation.
The saga between Ajaxo and E*Trade began back in the late 1990s, with Ajaxo, a six-person company, approaching E*Trade, seeking to support its wireless access and trading business. In response, E*Trade asked Ajaxo for a technical paper and live demonstrations, during which E*Trade’s engineers peppered Ajaxo with questions. One E*Trade senior engineer, Dan Baca, made a copy of Ajaxo’s technical binder. After E*Trade sent Ajaxo a draft letter of intent—with everything but the dollar amount filled in—E*Trade had a change of heart and told Ajaxo it was simply too small to be an E*Trade partner. Instead, E*Trade acquired these services a short time later from Everypath, a company that it had been meeting with simultaneously, and where Dan Baca started to work shortly after attending the Ajaxo meetings. READ MORE
Trade Secrets Watch has been covering the escalating economic tension between China and the U.S., including the U.S. Trade Representative’s investigation on China’s alleged IP theft under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, dueling imposition of tariffs in March 2018, and the USTR announcement of products against which it proposed to impose 25 percent import duties. READ MORE
In Direct Technologies, LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc., the Ninth Circuit set forth an interesting take on what is sufficient to demonstrate reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“CUTSA”). In the case, plaintiff Direct Technologies, LLC asserted a trade secret misappropriation claim against defendant Electronic Arts regarding the disclosure of its usb drive prototype for Electronic Arts to a third-party. The district court granted summary judgment for Electronic Arts, finding that no reasonable jury could find that Direct Technologies had taken reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of its prototype. READ MORE
As many loyal TSW readers know, we’ve been watching the ongoing saga involving ex-Korn Ferry recruiter David Nosal wind its way through the courts since the early days of this blog. And last month, the highly anticipated Ninth Circuit opinion in United States v. Nosal was issued on July 5, 2016 (“Nosal II”). This was the second time the Ninth Circuit had issued a ruling in the case relating to charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (the “CFAA”). In April 2012, an en banc panel dismissed five of the eight CFAA counts against Nosal (“Nosal I”). A jury subsequently convicted Nosal of the remaining three CFAA counts, as well as two Economic Espionage Act (“EEA”) counts in April 2013 and Nosal was sentenced to 366 days in prison, three years supervised release, community service, $60,000 in fines, and restitution. READ MORE
The Council of Ministers announced that the Luxembourg presidency had reached a “provisional agreement” with the European Parliament representatives regarding a new Trade Secret Directive (“Provisional Directive”) on December 15, 2015. READ MORE
How do two companies end up liable for nearly $50 million in damages relating to confidential, trade secret materials? Like many romances gone awry, this tale arose from actions taken under cover of secrecy that did not look as good in the clear light of day.
The sordid affair involved the greeting card company Hallmark, the consulting company Monitor Company Group, L.P. (“Monitor”), and a related private equity firm called Monitor Clipper Equity Partners (“Clipper”). READ MORE
Companies victimized by intellectual property theft may have a new weapon: asking state attorneys general for civil prosecution under unfair competition laws. Three states have used this tactic already—each time directed at foreign entities.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley brought the first action in 2012. The case alleged that Narong Seafood, a Thai seafood-processing company operating worldwide, was using unlicensed software programs, giving Narong an unfair advantage over local businesses. In response to this action, Narong signed an “Assurance of Discontinuance,” paid a $10,000 penalty to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and agreed to comply with the Massachusetts unfair competition statute.
California joined Massachusetts in early 2013, when Attorney General Kamala Harris sued two foreign apparel manufacturers — one Indian and one Chinese — under the state’s unfair competition statute. The complaints allege that the companies use pirated computer software programs as part of their manufacturing process, and that this piracy allows the foreign companies to save costs and gain a substantial and unfair advantage over competitors in California who pay for the software they use. READ MORE


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United Airlines and OTG Management have unveiled a collaboration of chefs and designers, along with leading-edge electronic payment technology at the airline’s hub at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Finavia is collaborating with World Duty Free Group (WDFG) to develop the Helsinki Airport shopping experience.
Lotte Duty Free has unveiled their new retail offer at Guam International Airport, which has seen it completely transformed.
Travellers using Miami International Airport (MIA) now have new dining and shopping options to choose from after two more opened this month.
Joe Bates rounds up the action from September’s Airport Business & Trinity Forum in Macau.
Cairns Airport has unveiled a new health and beauty shop in the departure lounge of its domestic terminal.
Chris LeTourneur and Andrew Fayn report on the growing trend of opening shopping malls and other retail facilities on airport sites.


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Otherwise, the self-made business whiz might never have developed Spanx, her vast line of shapewear that has gone global to smoothe the bulges of everyone from red-carpet regulars Tina Fey and Miley Cyrus to untold female politicians, candidates’ wives, women most of us have never heard of, and yes, even guys with beer bellies and muffin tops. (The male line is called, what else? “Manx.”)
This week Blakely, 41, joined Forbes magazine’s club of the World’s Billionaires. As Number 1153 on the overwhelmingly male list of 1,226, she is the youngest woman to get there “without help from a husband or an inheritance,” according to an upcoming Forbes profile.
“She owns 100% of her private company, has zero debt, has never taken outside investment and hasn’t spent a nickel on advertising,” says the magazine. Others who made the list on their own in years past include multi-media queen Oprah Winfrey (currently Number 442), and Meg Whitman who struck it rich while CEO of eBay (Number 913)..
As a woman of a certain age who regularly and gratefully encases assorted body parts in Spanx, I cheered loudly at the news of Blakely’s massive fortune, even while celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America, who these days encourage young women to excel in math, science and entrepreneurship. Talk about a confluence of female achievement, despite the demeaning distraction of Slutgate.
Blakely’s story is pretty inspiring. The Florida-born daughter of a personal injury lawyer who had hoped to follow her father into the courtroom, terrible test scores instead made her tap her considerable business savvy. The type-A Blakely--think champion debater and high school cheerleader--began developing bandage-strength footless panty-hose in her 20s to fill her own personal need: Something to cover those pesky underwear lines when she wore white slacks.
Using $5,000 in savings and her invaluable experience selling office machines door-to-door, Blakely created a kind of millennial girdle and set out to market it in department stores, one retailer at a time. Her breakthrough came in 2000 when Oprah dubbed Spanx a “favorite product of the year.” Known as much for her roller-coaster weight as her “live your best life” mantra, Winfrey has said all she needs “is a good bra and pair of Spanx.”
In 2001, Blakely--an all-American blond with a dazzling smile--went on QVC and sold 8,000 shapers in six minutes flat. The rest, as fashionistas on several continents will attest, is history.
Annie Groer is a former Washington Post and PoliticsDaily.com writer whose work has also appeared in Town & Country, More and the New York Times. She is at work on a memoir.


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TOY store Hamleys is going global.
It is opening a shop in Dubai next year followed by others in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Chief exec Nick Mather said the firm, which is owned by Icelandic investment group Baugur, is also looking at India and China.
"Expansion and our new website will deliver Hamleys' magic throughout the world," he said.
Hamleys opened its first overseas store in Denmark last year. As well as its flagship in London's Regent Street, it operates from five UK airports.


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Work from the “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” project is on display in the windows of Macy’s Herald Square.Macy’s Herald Square has unveiled seven new window displays featuring paper looks and sculptures, as well as a series of large pencil drawings, created by students in the Departments of Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Fine Arts. The work can be seen in the windows on Broadway between 34th and 35th streets through January 26.
The Macy’s display is part of the exhibition “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” that was on view at Pucci’s Gallery Nine Showroom in December. The pieces for that exhibition were created as part of a collaboration between an interdisciplinary group of Pratt students and Ralph Pucci International, one of the world’s leading mannequin designers.
The semester-long study in texture and form challenged the students to dress Pucci’s Spring 2011 GIRL 2 mannequins entirely in paper using only a white palette.
The project was led by Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, acting chair of the Department of Fashion Design, with the help of Anita Cooney, chair of the Department of Interior Design; Steve Diskin, chair of the Department of Industrial Design; Josh Longo, visiting instructor in the Department of Industrial Design; and Donna Moran, chair of the Department of Fine Arts. The “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” exhibition highlighted the best work from the project as selected by Ralph Pucci and others.
“As soon as I saw the students’ work I knew immediately I wanted to showcase it in our Broadway windows,” said Paul Olszewski, director of windows, Macy’s Herald Square. “The creativity and craftsmanship that the students exhibited on this project is just amazing. At Macy’s we truly believe in promoting art and artistry in our windows. It is this fusion between art and fashion that really makes our windows unique, and working on this collaboration has been no exception. I’m excited for the students, as well as for the thousands of people who will get to view these incredible designs,” he added.
From its inception, Macy’s Herald Square was a store unlike any other, and over the past 150 years it has become a true New York City icon. Built in 1902, Macy’s Herald Square was the first building to have the modern day escalator. Since then, Macy’s Herald Square has continued to be a trendsetter and today, “America’s Largest Department Store” covers an entire city block with 10-and-a-half levels of merchandise.
“This exhibition truly highlights Pratt’s exceptional programs and superb students who aspire to work in the art and design fields,” said Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, acting chair of the Department of Fashion Design. “In every piece, the paper was transformed to a point where we no longer see it for what it was but for what it has become—something completely new and unexpected,” she added.
A panel of distinguished judges selected the top three looks and top sculpture, which were announced at a December 7 event. The winning looks were created by Dana Otto (Industrial Design ’11 from State College, Pa.), Meredith Lyon and Beatrice Weiland (Fashion Design ’12 from Newburyport, Mass. and Bexley, Ohio, respectively), and Thom Forsyth (Interior Design ’11 from Boston, Mass.). Su Ting Chen and Samantha Johnson (Interior Design ’11 from Maspeth, N.Y. and Pullman, Wash., respectively) received the top prize for their show-stopping sculpture. The winning designers received awards in the form of 12-inch mannequins hand sculpted by Pucci designer Michael Evert.
Those on the judging panel represented some of the best and most creative minds from the worlds of fashion and design and included Linda Fargo, vice president of fashion, Bergdorf Goodman; Nicole Fischelis, vice president of fashion, Macy’s; Greg Mills, founder of Greg Mills Showroom; Jens Risom, furniture designer; Anna Sui, fashion designer; Deborah Turbeville, photographer; and Vicente Wolf, interior designer.
“When I saw the work, I was blown away,” said Ralph Pucci in a December 2010 interview with the New York Daily News. “These Pratt students are incredibly talented.”
Select works from “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” including a sculptural piece by Emily Vislocky (Industrial Design ’11) and 12 paper looks will travel to EuroShop, a global retail trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany, that will take place from February 26–March 2, 2011. COFRAD Mannequins, a French-based family-run mannequin business, will display the work and Pucci’s Spring 2011 GIRL 2 mannequins in a show, titled “COFRAD Presents Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci.” In addition, graduate interior design student KC Weakley ‘s (’11 from Brooklyn, N.Y.) large pencil murals of the Pucci mannequins that were on display as part of “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” will be featured in WALL (Glitterati Press, 2011), a book on Ralph Pucci International’s wall murals.
A full exhibition catalog of “Pratt + Paper & Ralph Pucci” is also being produced and will include photographs of the work by Antoine Bootz.
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June 4, 2018
Mexico pork tariff could escalate Iowa's losses to US$560 million
US pork producers in Iowa, already dealing with a 25% tariff on US pork exports to China, could face another trade hit, with Mexico considering a 20% tariff on hams and pork shoulders, Des Moines Register reported.
Growing trade worries have cut pork prices in recent weeks, costing Iowa producers about US$560 million, said Dermot Hayes, an Iowa State University economist.
Mexico is the largest export market for US pork, based on volume. The country bought US$1.5 billion of US pork last year, followed by China-Hong Kong at nearly US$1.1 billion.
The tariffs are "potentially devastating news for Iowa's pig farmers and the rural Iowa economy," said Gregg Hora, president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.
The state is the US's biggest pork producer, raising about 40 to 50 million animals annually.
The association said about 27% of all Iowa and US production is exported, accounting for nearly 40% of an average animal's value last year.
Hora said he hopes the US, Canada and Mexico trade officials stop using food as a "negotiating tactic."
The added costs with the tariffs hurt consumers in China and potentially Mexico.
"We've worked many years, spent a lot of time and money building trade relationships to expand markets in Canada, Mexico and other key economic trading countries," Hora said.
"We're concerned about the loss of market share we've built up over the years," he said, adding that he hopes US trade officials "rectify this situation immediately."
US President Donald Trump recently announced the country would implement a 25% tariff on steel and 10% tariff on aluminum imported from Mexico, Canada and the EU.
In response, Canada said that it would levy tariffs on US$12.8 billion in US goods, including steel, aluminum and whiskey.
Europe has proposed targeting US icons such as Harley-Davidson, Levi's jeans and Kentucky bourbon. Mexico also said it would look at tariffs on steel, blueberries and other products.
The threat of pork tariffs comes during peak demand - summertime grilling.
"This should be an extremely profitable time for producers, but that's no longer the case," Hayes said.
The pork industry normally would look to China to buy its excess pork, "but China's now closed," he said, with its tariffs making US products less competitive.
He said producers had been close to breaking even financially before the tariffs were introduced, but now they're looking at losses.
Most producers should be able to withstand the hit, with strong profits since 2014. "They're going into this with really strong balance sheets," Hayes said.
Even though the trade disruption hurts Iowa farmers, it will help consumers with increased pork supplies.
- Des Moines Register


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KFC announced on Jan. 27 that it is releasing a Double Down Dog sandwich in the Philippines. The sandwich features a hot dog covered in cheese and fitted into a bun-size piece of fried chicken. The chain has no immediate plans to release the sandwich in U.S.
KFC announced it is releasing a Double Down Dog sandwich. Here's a look at other outrageous fast food items through the years.
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MacNN: Apple has more cash on hand than the U.S. government
As pointed out by several publications, as of yesterday Apple — the world’s most valuable technology company — has more cash and marketable securities on hand than the federal government does, according to the U.S. Treasury’s own daily statement. At the end of June, the iPad and Mac maker had $76.2 billion on hand, while the government currently has $73.8 billion in operating cash balance.
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The fitness app market just gained another giant competitor with deep pockets. Facebook(S fb) plans to acquire ProtoGeo Oy, a Finnish software company that’s most well-known for making fitness tracker app Moves, ProtoGeo Oy said on Thursday.
Moves is able to record a wide range of activities in addition to tracking the fitness app standbys of walking, biking, and running. For instance, it can identifiy whether a user is riding on public transit.
The app requires no external hardware, but instead uses sensors already built into smartphones. Moves does most of its data processing remotely, on ProtoGeo’s servers, and a Facebook spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal that the algorithm that determines the different kind of activities is protected by a patent.
Like other recent Facebook acquisitions WhatsApp and Oculus, Moves will continue to operate independently, adding another stand-alone app to Facebook’s growing stable. Although Facebook did not disclose the price it paid for the company, a Facebook spokeswoman said the sum is likely nowhere near the size of other recent acquisitions.


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- U.S. consumers are expected to buy or lease 16.4 million new cars and light trucks in 2014, according to the National Auto Dealers Association.
- That figure agrees with a forecast by Edmunds last October.
- The increase would be a 5.1 percent improvement over U.S. sales in 2013.
McLEAN, Virginia — U.S. consumers are expected to buy or lease 16.4 million new cars and light trucks in 2014, according to the National Auto Dealers Association.
In a statement, NADA Chief Economist Steven Szakaly said: "Consumers will be far better off in 2014 than last year. Employment is improving. Debt has been reduced, and home prices across all regions of the country will remain stable or will rise, yielding a positive wealth effect."
As a result, NADA is predicting a 5.1 percent sales increase in 2014, compared to 2013 when U.S. light-vehicle sales reached 15.6 million units, marking the fifth straight year of increases since the global financial crisis.
Sales in 2013 would've been even stronger, said Szakaly, had it not been for "a series of contentious fiscal crises in Washington and a federal government shutdown last fall."
The NADA prediction agrees with a forecast by Edmunds in October that also said to expect sales in 2014 to reach 16.4 million units, the highest level since 2007.
At that time, Edmunds.com Chief Economist Dr. Lacey Plache said: "Even though the economy has yet to achieve the momentum typically seen in previous recoveries, enough progress has been made toward recovery that consumer willingness to buy new cars has not been daunted by recent fiscal crises."
Dr. Plache cited a number of reasons for the anticipated strong sales, including demand from buyers who had deferred purchases during the recession, a large number of expected vehicle lease returns and increased trade-ins of older vehicles, in addition to overall improvements in the economy.
Edmunds says: Consumers are in a buying mood, which means that showrooms should be busy places this year.


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Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer Toyota has unveiled the final production version of its first fully-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), the bZ4X.
The new bZ4x is also the first model under Toyota’s bZ Series, dedicated to its battery-electric vehicle line-up. The world’s best-selling carmaker has stated that it will launch 15 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) worldwide by 2025.
Toyota did not announce a price range or sales target for the bZ4X but noted that joint development and procurement of core components with affiliate Subaru would help rein in the normally high cost of producing BEVs.
“The model would also initially be built on a mixed line with gasoline-engine cars, both in Japan and China. It will be sold in Japan, North America, China, and Europe starting in mid-2022,” the company said.
The car will be available in front-wheel and four-wheel-drive versions, with the latter having a range of roughly 500 kilometers (310 miles). In the absence of a charging station or in crisis situations, a roof-mounted solar panel can be utilized to charge the battery, according to Toyota.
The Toyota bZ4x is based on the concept version of the SUV that was showcased earlier this year. The e-TNGA platform, which places the battery on the floor, supports the electric SUV. This layout helps lower the center of gravity, increase cabin space and also improve chassis rigidity, as per the company.
“The bZ4X will also feature the third generation of Toyota Safety Sense, with an improved Pre-Collision System to recognize vehicles that are oncoming and cutting in; low-speed acceleration suppression; and emergency stopping assistance,” Toyota noted.
The automobile company will officially launch the bZ4x in December, with sales expected to commence in early 2022, as per the reports.


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Microsoft puts its stamp on email security
Meant for use by organisations small and large, Antigen products work with Exchange and are part of Microsoft’s strategy to become a player in the security software arena
Microsoft plans on Tuesday to launch updated and renamed Antigen email security products, nearly a year after completing the takeover of their maker, Sybari.
Meant for use by organisations small and large, the Antigen products promise to cleanse email of spam and viruses. They work with Microsoft’s Exchange email server software and are part of the company’s strategy to become a player in the security software arena. Last week, Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, a consumer security product.
“Microsoft is committed to providing a comprehensive and integrated set of products to enable a defense-in-depth strategy,” said Steve Brown, director of product management in the security, access and solutions division at Microsoft. “Today’s announcement is about us bringing those capabilities to the Exchange environment.”
Microsoft has removed the Sybari label from the products. Starting on 1 July, Microsoft will sell four scanning titles: Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and the Antigen Messaging Security Suite. Also available will be tools to manage those scanning programs: the Antigen Enterprise Manager and Antigen Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager.
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Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy said on Thursday that the Indian economy is growing at 6-7 per cent this year and "investor confidence is at a historic high", news agency ANI reported. "India has become the software development centre of the world. Our foreign exchange reserves have crossed $400 billion," the IT czar said while speaking at an event in Gorakhpur. The comments from Mr Murthy come at a time when the economy is facing its worst slowdown in nearly five years, with some sectors staring at lakhs of job cuts.
Mr Murthy further said: "Our government have to become more citizen friendly and remove obstacles to entrepreneurs to create larger and larger number of jobs. Our economic policies have to be less populist and more based on expertise."
Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy in Gorakhpur: Our economy is growing at 6 to 7 per cent this year. India has become the software development centre of the world. Our foreign exchange reserve has crossed 400 billion dollar. Investor confidence is at a historic high. (22.08) pic.twitter.com/jglAGxwRI4ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) August 23, 2019
India's GDP or gross domestic product grew 5.8 per cent in the January-March period. With that, India lost its position as the fastest-growing major economy of the world to China for the first time in one-and-a-half years.
For the full financial year 2018-19, which ended on March 31, India's GDP growth stood at 6.8 per cent - the lowest level recorded in nearly five years.
Passenger vehicles sales in the country plunged 30.98 per cent in July compared to the corresponding period a year ago, according to data from industry body SIAM or Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. That marked the worst decline recorded since December 2000, when the industry sold a fifth of the vehicles it sells currently.
According to Ram Venkataramani, president, Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), the crisis in the auto industry is unprecedented. The 15-20 per cent cut in production by vehicle makers has led to a crisis like situation in the auto component sector.
"Most of the auto component makers are managing the downturn by reducing the number of working days and retraining the workers... If the trend continues, an estimated 10 lakh people could be laid-off," he has said.
While the government has said that growth could be "relatively slower" in the April-June quarter, many economists have lowered their projections for the financial year ending March 31, 2020.
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered its GDP growth projection for 2019-20 to 6.9 per cent, from 7 per cent forecast in the June policy.
The central bank also underlined the need for addressing growth concerns by boosting aggregate demand. It has eased the key interest rates by 110 basis points (1.1 percentage point) so far this year.
Calls for a fiscal boost from the government for sectors like automobiles have been growing in the past few weeks.
Government intervention in the private sector creates a moral hazard, Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said on Thursday.
"I think we expect the government to use taxpayers money to intervene every time there is a sunset phase," he said.


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Flamingo AI Limited (ASX: FGO), AI company and provider of cognitive virtual assistant and unsupervised machine learning technologies, has 10 clients progressing through paid trials or software and services contracts.
In a comprehensive business update, FGO said it is well funded to deliver against its current goals.
The current focus for FGO is predominantly on large insurance enterprises, with its sights set on three Fortune 100 firms in the US. The company also reports it has made early inroads into the telecommunications sector.
Across FGO's 10 clients currently using the company's virtual assistants, all but one client is using the virtual sales assistant; the remaining client is instead deploying the virtual service assistant.
FGO's client Nationwide Financial Services has extended its engagement with the company, continuing on a monthly recurring revenue (MRR) basis.
FGO has two clients in live-evaluation mode, Liberty Mutual and AMP, where end-customers are interacting with their AI cognitive virtual assistants. Both clients have negotiated extensions of the contracted trial period to further test the longer-term automation continuum of the platform.
FGO's clients CHUBB, CUA and WISR are moving through the trial phases towards user acceptance testing preparing for live evaluation mode where the client's end customers will interact with Flamingo AI's virtual assistants.
The small cap is progressing discussions with MetLife Asia (Singapore) in further scoping the use case for the trial of the virtual assistant.
Two new clients are progressing through early stages of trial implementation. At this stage, these contracts do not have a material impact on FGO's cash flow.
FGO has three products in various stages of maturity; ROSIE, MAGGIE and LIBBY.
LIBBY is FGO's new development, and the company has received significant interest from the market for this type of knowledge engine product.
The company has developed all its own unique machine learning and customer journey technologies and related intellectual property in-house. At present, seven patents are pending, progressing or are due to be submitted.
While the majority of FGO's revenue is currently generated from paid trial contracts, the company expects to see additional conversions of clients to MRR over the next six months.
With regard to sales, a number of new client opportunities in the US and Australia are currently being progressed, and the company's overall sales pipeline of opportunities has doubled in the last six months.
FGO has recently employed four sales team members across the US and Australia, as well as a product owner, responsible for ensuring the commercial applicability of the product.
The company has identified a growing interest in its technology and similar products coming from C-suite Executives, in particular for the unsupervised machine learning (LIBBY) capability that the company is currently developing.


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South Korea’s first-generation e-commerce platform Interpark, which gained popularity as an online book store and a ticket sales platform, is now up for sale.
The company has confirmed reports that it had tapped security firm NH Investment & Securities to oversee the sale though no final decisions have been made.
Multiple reports have said the firm is seeking to sell 28.41 percent of its shares, currently owned by CEO Lee Ki-hyung and affiliated persons.
With its market capitalization standing at around 456.3 billion won ($389.6 million) and management rights, the shares being sold are estimated to be worth between 150 and 170 billion won, according to industry sources.
Following the news, its shares enjoyed a jump in price, up 28.5 percent at one point on Tuesday.
The move is seen as a sign of the demise of first-generation e-commerce platforms in the country following the sale of eBay Korea to Shinsegae Group.
In a $3 billion deal announced in June, Emart, Shinsegae’s supermarket arm, acquired 80 percent of eBay Korea’s shares.
With the country’s online retail industry dominated by Naver and Coupang, the acquisition of the third-largest e-commerce operator is set to boost physical retail giant Shinsegae’s e-commerce business and reshape the market.
Interpark – a portmanteau of internet and theme park -- opened as the country’s first online retail website 1996 and first grew as an online book store before branching out into concert and tour booking.
But its market share took a hit following its sale of Gmarket to eBay Korea in 2008.
As the coronavirus pandemic hit the tourism and entertainment sectors, its revenue was down 7.1 percent at 3.1 trillion won last year, suffering an operating loss of 11.2 billion won.
Its operating loss during the first quarter of this year was 6 billion won.
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_: For his part, the President of the Jordan and Amman Chambers of Commerce, Khalil Al-Haj Tawfiq, stressed during the tour that there is no increase in the prices of any food item with the nearing of the holy month of Ramadan and that there is a decrease in the prices of many products, pointing out that the food stores have provided various offers on basic materials.
He said that the markets are ready to receive the holy month, expecting the commercial movement to increase gradually with the payment of salaries.
He pointed out that the events in Bab Al-Mandab imposed a challenge on the import of fresh chilled meat, which does not exceed 90 days for lamb meat and 120 days for veal, and foreign companies have refused to export to Jordan and the region in general since the diversion of commercial ships to the Cape of Good Hope takes longer, which reduces the shelf life of meat.
Al-Haj Tawfiq explained that traders resorted to importing meat via air freight, which is a more expensive method, and have raised t
he prices of chilled meat, stressing that there are multiple alternatives available to citizens from different origins.
He stressed that Jordan is ready and distinguished by the availability of basic materials in times of high demand and at encouraging prices, considering that the citizen is the one who decides to buy from any place he wants, in light of the existence of about 10 thousand retail stores in Amman of different sizes.
He praised the government’s willingness to support the private commercial and industrial sectors and assist them in dealing with any issues that may impede supply chains or raise prices, among other things.
Source: Jordan News Agency


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Frustrated Toyota customer has waited a year for airbag fix
Toyota Canada tells customer it has 'no date' for replacing defective airbag
- As a result of our Go Public investigation, Barb Fleming will finally receive an airbag.
An Abbotsford, B.C., senior citizen is frustrated by a year-long wait to get her Toyota Corolla repaired, with no estimated date for a fix in sight.
Barb Fleming's vehicle is part of the worldwide recall of defective Takata airbags that first started to unfold three years ago.
It's the biggest recall for a safety defect in automotive history, and the latest numbers show it affects more than 100 million airbags installed in vehicles manufactured by 14 major auto companies.
Approximately 4.3 million airbags in Canada are affected.
Last July, Fleming received a recall notice in the mail from Toyota Canada, warning her not to let people ride next to her in the front, because a defective passenger seat airbag could rupture and shoot metal shrapnel, resulting "in injury or death to vehicle occupants."
Worldwide, 11 people have been killed by the airbags, and more than 150 injured.
"It's scary," says Fleming. "I don't want one of my friends getting hurt. Or one of my family."
'I feel like I'm driving Miss Daisy'
Since receiving the recall notice, Fleming has been waiting for a second notice from her automaker, informing her she can get her vehicle repaired.
The 85-year-old Fleming says many of her friends have stopped driving, or don't drive at night, and rely on her for transportation.
This recall has forced her to tell friends and family to sit in the back seat.
"I feel like I'm driving Miss Daisy,'" says Fleming, trying to be lighthearted about what is actually a huge inconvenience.
"It makes me not want to drive my car," she says. "This is really affecting my life."
Toyota still has no time frame for fix
After calling her Abbotsford Toyota dealership several times in the past year, Fleming emailed Toyota Canada recently to ask when her airbag would be replaced.
The company wrote back saying it is "currently finalizing the list of affected vehicles" and had no "estimated time frame ... at this time."
"It's ridiculous," says Fleming. "Almost a year to make a list? That's enough time to figure it out."
When Go Public asked Toyota Canada when Fleming could expect the repair, the company told CBC that replacement airbags have started rolling out in Canada, but that "additional details, unfortunately cannot be shared at this time."
The company did not offer Fleming a replacement vehicle, although in the U.S., Toyota has provided some customers with that service.
Transport Canada lacks power
Transport Canada has no authority to force automakers to give customers an estimated time frame for repairs.
Proposed legislation currently in the Senate will require manufacturers to provide an estimated repair time for defects.
"What we would have is the ability to require them to let us know the time frame," says Kim Benjamin, director general of motor vehicle safety for Transport Canada.
"And if, in assessing their data, we don't think it's the appropriate time frame, then we could charge them."
Benjamin says the risk of harm from the defective Takata airbags is relatively low in Canada, pointing out that the problems seem to occur in hot, humid areas like the southeastern United States.
Automakers have divided North America into three categories of risk — A, B and C. Canada is deemed to be in category C, with the lowest risk.
"If that's the case, why did Toyota urge me not to put a passenger in the front seat?" says Fleming. "Now I can't do that, knowing I've been warned. I don't feel good about that."
Since Transport Canada can't hurry carmakers along, Benjamin suggests Fleming — and other frustrated drivers — become squeaky wheels with their manufacturers.
"It's the manufacturer that is responsible for conducting the repair, as well as scheduling the repair. I would keep the focus back on the manufacturer to do it in a timely manner."
Other automakers keep mum
Go Public asked other major automakers affected by the Takata airbag recall whether they had started replacing the faulty devices in Canada.
Most refused to say how many of their vehicles are affected, or discuss plans to replace the potentially dangerous airbags.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was the most forthcoming, saying it had 400,000 airbags affected in Canada, and that one-third had been brought in for service and fixed.
The company says it has plenty of replacement airbags on hand, and is urging customers to bring in their vehicles if they are on the recall list.
The automaker is also offering a free rental program for affected customers.
Barb Fleming says it would be nice to have a rental vehicle, but mostly she wants a new airbag for the car she bought new in 2007 and has lovingly maintained.
"I'm an old bag, who wants an airbag!" she says in exasperation.
Transport Canada says of the four million airbags affected in Canada, 630,000 (or 14.7 per cent) have been replaced.
Consumer protection legislation
Critics say Canadians affected by the recall are being poorly served by Transport Canada, which administers the Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
"It's a shell of a safety act, because it doesn't have any enforcement powers," says consumer advocate and author of the Lemon-Aid car guide series, Phil Edmonston.
"It doesn't have any huge fines. It doesn't have any subpoenas. And every time they think there's a problem with a car, they have to go to court to get that car recalled, and that goes on for years."
After watching the Takata airbag situation unfold last year, Edmonston wrote a letter to Transportation Minister Marc Garneau, urging him to strengthen Transport Canada's powers when it comes to recalls.
"I said, 'Look, Minister Garneau. You're an astronaut. You wouldn't fly a space shuttle with Takata airbags. This is not rocket science.'"
Last month, the federal government introduced a bill that would give Transport Canada the authority to issue a recall. Only car manufacturers currently have that ability.
It would also require car companies to conduct the remedy free of charge for the consumer, and would prevent new vehicles from being sold in Canada until they're repaired.
"This is a monumental piece of legislation," says Edmonston. "I don't know of any other consumer law that is going to have so many ramifications in people's lives."
Airbag waiting game
Takata has said it can produce about one million airbags a month.
Given that 100 million airbags are needed, customers who aren't deemed "high priority" could be waiting years before their cars are fixed.
The day after Fleming spoke to Go Public, she had an appointment to play cards with a group of friends and give someone a ride.
"I'll tell her, once again, to sit in the back," says Fleming, with a hint of resignation. "Maybe I should buy myself a chauffeur's cap."
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- An earlier version of this story incorrectly said proposed legislation currently in the Senate wouldn't grant the power to force automakers to give customers an estimated timeframe for repairs. In fact, the new legislation would require it.Jun 21, 2016 3:37 PM PT
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The Italian direct-to-consumer footwear brand has teamed up with the American designer to launch its first collection of high-heeled shoes. The capsule, debuting on the shoe label’s online store on Nov. 12, includes pumps and over-the-knee boots with stiletto heels, as well as platforms and ankle boots, crafted from a range of materials, including mirrored napa leather with snakeskin textures, suede and patent leather. The color palette spans from classic tones of black, taupe and brown to bright shades of red, emerald green and pink, along with leopard patterns.
“We wanted to start our new journey in this new product category with a top-notch designer in this sector, that could give us actual credibility,” said Scarosso brand manager Gaetano D’Angiulli, explaining the company’s decision to ask Atwood to design the capsule. “We though he was the right door opener in this market sector, that we are keen to explore.”
“I think that this collaboration represents a perfect match, since Scarosso is a great manufacturer of Italian shoes and I’m a designer with a strong experience of the Italian design,” said Atwood. “My goal has been to design classic styles, sorts of staples in a woman’s wardrobe thanks to their combination of rich materials and essential yet impactful design. I think that Scarosso is having the chance to enter the high-heeled shoes market with a ‘wow’ effect.”
This is not the first time that Scarosso collaborates with Atwood. Last year, marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the brand and the designer unveiled a capsule collection of velvet slippers embellished with New York restaurant Pietro NoLita’s “Pink as F–k” motto.
While Scarosso started its business in the men’s shoe segment, the women’s collection accounts over 30 percent of the company’s total sales. “We see great potential in the women’s business, which continues growing,” said D’Angiulli.
The company, which produces its collections in Italy, counts Europe as its largest market, accounting for 60 percent of Scarosso’s total sales, that in 2021 increased 60 percent compared to the previous year.
The United States are the brand’s second market, accounting for 30 percent of the company’s sales. “We are getting great results in the U.S., where we see great opportunities for further growth,” said D’Angiulli, explaining that the company’s success in the market has been boosted by a strategy leveraging digital marketing and efficient logistics.


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Not Such Big Spending to Celebrate the Big Game This Year
(Bloomberg) -- Of the estimated 186.6 million U.S. adults planning to watch Super Bowl LV on Sunday, some 86% are expected to make purchases for the occasion, with food and beverages the most popular, according to the National Retail Federation. But, in a sign of the pandemic times, total spending is forecast to drop 19% this year to $13.9 billion -- or $74.55 on average per person -- the lowest since 2014. A whopping 72% of respondents to the group’s annual survey -- 23 percentage points higher than last year -- said they had no party plans.
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Ripple Price Analysis: XRP/USD drops below $0.20 psychological level.
IOT/ USD: Binance adds IOTA to its Flexible Savings service.
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The IOTA price continued to surge on Tuesday, enabling the native currency of the "next generation blockchain" project to surpass Ripple's.
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Robots to the rescue of media
Today's writers struggle under a growing pile of news noise and a shrinking number of humans to sort it all out. The Associated Press recently came up with an answer in the form of tech, made by Automated Insights, to automate the production of company earnings pieces. Poynter reports AP's managing director Lou Ferrara as saying that won't mean job cuts, but a new model to create double the amount of journalism.
Glass by remote
We all know there's no way around looking a little silly wearing Google Glass. But among the accessories springing up for the augmented reality eyewear is Remotte, a way to control Google's device by remote control.
Remotte pairs to Google Blass over Bluetooth and functionality is controlled using the Remotte touchpad. You can take a picture or record video by using the centre button, and developers can make new Glassware that taps into the real time data gathered by the accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure and temperature sensor built into the Remotte.
A job and a pint
Ironically-named Irish drinking hole Sober Lane recently found a novel way to recruit its next batch of staff members, restricting applicants to using Snapchat. "Sober Lane D4 now hiring, applications via SnapChat only "SoberLaneD4. Make an impression if you want a profession," the pub tweeted. Owner Ernest Cantillon was apparently trying to cash in on the importance of first impressions, saying his hiring strategy would give potential hires only 10 seconds to sell themselves.
The real deal
>Therealreal.com has cornered the market on luxury consignments sold online and now it's branching out with an app to tell users what luxury brands are actually worth at resale. Realbook allows searches by brand name or product type, which return an estimated price range. You can also brose images and prices for samples within each estimate and buy similar products on the Realreal website.
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New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with startups and address ‘Prarambh: Startup India International Summit’ on 16th January 2021 at 5 PM via video conferencing.
The Summit is being organized by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on 15-16 January, 2021. The two-day Summit is being organised as a follow up of the announcement made by the Prime Minister at the fourth BIMSTEC Summit held in Kathmandu in August 2018 wherein India committed to host the BIMSTEC Startup Conclave.
The Summit marks the fifth anniversary of the Startup India initiative, launched by the Prime Minister on 16 January, 2016. With participation from over 25 countries and more than 200 global speakers, the Summit will be the largest startup confluence organised by the Government of India since the launch of the Startup India initiative. It will witness 24 sessions with focus on enhancing multilateral cooperation and engagement with countries from around the globe to collectively develop and strengthen the startup ecosystems.