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For successful stock trading, not only do you need to select the right stocks to buy, but you also need to identify the right industry to invest in.
Driverless cars seem to be having great investment potential. But before you invest in anything, it is important that you learn all you can about the industry and its scope.
Tech and automobile majors are putting in a great deal of money and resources into autonomous vehicles and looking to develop systems that can operate vehicles safely on public roads without any human intervention. When fully developed, autonomous vehicles can transform mobility and transportation in cities. That can in turn transform traffic rules, road and town planning, vehicle ownership, and a lot more. Self-driving cars could be major disruptors. But how close are they to that full realization?
Google’s ($GOOGL) Waymo, which started off as Google Self-Driving Car Project, is a key player in this field. Having conducted extensive testing and experimentation, Waymo claims it could launch a self-driving taxi service by the end of 2018 in at least one American city. To prove that this is a serious plan and not just empty talk, Waymo has placed orders for 82,000 vehicles from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Jaguar Land Rover to modify with Waymo’s self-driving tech. Deliveries are expected to arrive in late 2018.
The vehicles FCA will be delivering are the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans developed jointly by Waymo and FCA. 600 of them have already been built as part of the test fleet of Waymo. Riders of Waymo’s taxi service will also be able to choose the Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle which will be equipped with self-driving tech. That is to be delivered in the coming two years. While the Waymo fleet would initially contain the Pacifica and I-Pace, more vehicles from other manufacturers would be added in future.
Based on the years of testing and its proximity to launching a full-fledged autonomous taxi service, Waymo is the market leader in this industry.
But General Motors ($GM) is getting there too. It was clear just how serious it was about getting ahead in the autonomous race when it purchased the Cruise Automation driverless vehicle startup back in 2016. Soon after, Cruise started its efforts to create an automated ride-hailing service. While GM funded the project and diverted significant resources to it, Cruise has been given the independence to develop the project in the best possible manner. GM’s software may be behind Waymo’s in terms of development, but it is crucially ahead of the other rivals out there. And GM has the car in tow, the Chevrolet Bolt EV. This electric car is being modified by Cruise for incorporating the autonomous vehicle technology, with the modified car being called GM Cruise.
GM’s Cruise autonomous driving efforts have received a big boost with funding worth $2.25 billion from SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund. Not only has SoftBank acquired a 19.6% stake in GM Cruise, but it also gives Cruise access to top ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Didi Chuxing in which it has major stakes. That presents a win-win situation for GM Cruise and these ride-hailing companies. These companies need to have self-driving taxis that can be run profitably, and GM finally gets some customers to get its Cruise self-driving vehicles to.
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700 tonnes of tomatoes a day, starting now
Media Release February 25, 2008
There’s No “La Tomatina
Fight” With These Precious Tomatoes
- 700 tonnes a day, starting now
Hastings, February 25, 2008:
Starting this morning, Wattie’s will be harvesting and processing an average of 700 tonnes of tomatoes a day for the next seven weeks.
Each day 35 truck and trailer-loads of tomatoes will go over the weighbridge at Wattie’s plant in Hastings.
But General Manager of Operations Neville Cameron says there’ll be no La Tomatina-style tomato fights in Hastings, because Wattie’s tomatoes are too precious and the factory wants every tomato it can lay its hands on.
“Harvesting started this morning at 3 am and processing at 6 am, and will continue around the clock until we have all the tomatoes in – around 36,000 tonnes.
“This is the biggest tomato crop in the country and processing is the final stage of a major logistical challenge.”
Mr Cameron says that the tomatoes are coming in about five days later that originally planned (back in August), due to weather conditions. Wattie’s works on a 30-year average of the sunshine hours and temperatures to determine the ripeness of the crop.
“We had a couple of colder snaps over the Christmas period which slowed growth and maturity.
“However, we are very pleased with the quality of the crop which is a tribute to our growers.”
Ten million seedlings of a tomato variety developed to Wattie’s specifications and to meeting New Zealand conditions were planted out during October and November.
The fruit grows on small bushes in paddocks covering 415 hectares on the Heretaunga Plains. They are harvested by up to three harvesters working in unison.
Wattie’s canned recipe products like Mexican Tomatoes, Pesto Style Tomatoes and Savoury Tomatoes have the first call on the harvest and account for around 10 % of the crop.
The bulk of the crop is processed into tomato paste, an ingredient in a very wide variety of Wattie’s products, ranging from baked beans and spaghetti to soups and sauces.
The tomato crop is part of the annual harvest of 127,000 tonnes of fruit and vegetables grown in New Zealand for Wattie’s.

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ChatGPT was launched in November by the startup OpenAI, and became the fastest-growing client app ever as users flocked to try it out. The rapidly bettering technology can produce understandable language and even pictures and movies by crunching via and synthesising big amounts of knowledge. Also featured are Chuma Gullah Gallery with artwork for all budgets of Gullah tradition, Gullah Dolls of Charleston by Genya for handmade traditional African dolls, and The Tiny Tassel for items designed and made in town. The FDLE spent more than $117,000 on security for DeSantis’s inauguration in January, the report found, the largest particular person expense listed.
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APPLE iPADS ITS POCKETS
Steve Jobs put the Internet in the palm of our hands when he unveiled the “unbelievably greatâ€ iPad on January 27, 2010, plugging the gap between laptops and smartphones. The 9.7-inch crystal screen display made the $499, 16-gigabyte device perfect for browsing the web, reading eBooks, watching movies and playing games. The Wi-Fi and 3G models of the iPad were let loose in April 2010, quickly becoming the fastest selling device ever with 3 million units sold within 80 days of its release, and eventually going on to move 4.5 million units per quarter. The second-generation iPad rolled out on March 11, 2011 33% thinner, 15% lighter and with a much faster CPU than its predecessor. The iPad 2 also came equipped with a front and rear camera for FaceTime video conferencing and moved 43 million units last year.
Early buzz for the third-generation iPad, which went on sale in 10 countries today, is overwhelmingly positive. Apple’s newest tablet is poised to break records with a projected 66 million units to be sold for 2012. The major additions are a higher resolution display, 4G wireless connectivity, longer battery life and a camera comparable with the iPhone 4S. Accounting for nearly 75% of worldwide media tablet sales last year, Apple is projected to rule the tablet market through 2015, carrying on its tradition of one-upping itself all while staying ahead of the competition.


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Viber Media, the startup behind the popular cross-platform messaging and VoIP calling application Viber, is today debuting a new application for Windows Phone 8. Co-founder and CEO Talmon Marco said in a recent tweet that the Viber app for WP8 would be arriving in ‘March or April’, so this shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.
The new app, which you can download here, offers both free text and photo messaging, as well as free VoIP calls, making it far more useful.
The application also comes with an interface that has been especially tailored for the latest generation of Windows Phone devices, including a native call screen and support for ‘live tiles’ that allow users to see their latest messages and other information straight from their home screen.
The app is free and supports group conversations of up to 40 people, location sharing and support for 30 languages.
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The UK manufacturing industry continued to grow in March but at a gentler rate than in recent months, according to the CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).
The headline PMI was 57.1 in March – down from above 61 in January and February. Though this latest figure represents a five month low it remains well above survey averages. Anything above 50 indicates the growth.
The PMI figure takes into account output new orders, levels of stock, employment and delivery times.
The biggest factor in the reduced rate of growth in March was a sharp contraction in new order growth. Companies continued to source more new orders at from both home and export markets but the level of growth was weakened in each.
Output prices continued to rise, as they have now for 19 months in a row, with firms experiencing increases in the input costs of chemicals, cotton, energy, food products, fuel, metals, oil, timber and other commodities. Cost rises were also attributed to supply chain disruption and long delivery times and a shortage in stock holdings.
Nevertheless, firms continued to report steadily rising employment figures.
“The big question is…whether the drop in order book growth represents a gathering in momentum of a more worrying slowdown which, alongside rising inflationary pressures, raises the risk of stagflation,” said Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit and author of the PMI.
“On the other hand, even after the March easing, manufacturing production looks to have risen 2% in the first quarter, which would be one of the best performances seen over the past 17 years, and the slowdown may simply represent a temporary easing from an unsustainably strong pace at the start of the year.
“The Monetary Policy Committee’s balancing act between growth and inflation has perhaps become even more precarious.”
David Noble, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, added: “Inflation is still ‘enemy number one’ and the problem of phantom demand, whereby purchasers buy greater quantities of scarce raw materials to mitigate against further price rises, is continuing unchecked. Selling prices have now hit record highs as businesses are forced to pass on these costs directly to customers.
“The next few months will be a waiting-game for UK manufacturers. For now, job creation in the sector remains solid but businesses will be monitoring the situation closely. A continued slowdown could start to have an impact on recruitment. Hopes that the UK economy might start to rebalance towards manufacturing seem to be withering on the vine.”


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The campaign by Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) involves more than 400 businesses across the city displaying posters resembling tombstones. Each poster details the business's name and opening date, but features a blank second date to represent its possible closure. Through the simple tombstone motif, the campaign evokes the potential loss of local businesses – and a sense of urgency for shopper support.
Alongside the posters, the campaign features 100 outdoor billboards, a film and an Instagram account. ‘Buy Toronto Time is about the life or death of an individual business in our city’s neighbourhoods,’ says John Kiru, executive director of TABIA. ‘With a possible end to the pandemic in sight, Torontonians may think that means all businesses will live on. But the fact is they need support now more than ever.’
With global lockdown periods placing new importance on local neighbourhoods, the demand for Micro-mmunity Retail can continue, but requires retailers and consumers to retain their local focus.


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A few months ago, I went to a Japanese handmade goods shop and bought a few handmade gifts.
They had a Japanese tea set.
Then I noticed a few other items, and one of them was a tea set made of bamboo.
It looked like a Japanese garden tea set, but it was actually a Japanese bamboo tea set that looked exactly like the ones I’d bought at the Japanese garden shop.
So I bought that set too, because I wanted to know if this was really a Japanese brand.
I got it in my mailbox a few days later.
The tea set is made of about 400 bamboo pieces, each one about a foot long.
Each bamboo piece is individually wrapped in a bamboo leaf.
It is made with bamboo fiber, which is used to make tea leaves.
I was able to smell the tea in the bamboo leaf, and that is when I realized this tea set was made by Masaya, a Japanese maker of handmade goods.
Masaya is a Japanese company that has about 40 stores in Japan.
In a statement, Masaya said they do not have a product for the United States, but that it has some of the best quality handmade goods in the world.
We are confident that we have made the best handmade items on the planet, Masayas statement reads.
Masaya is the latest Japanese company to make a splash in the luxury goods market.
Last year, Japanese luxury goods brand LVMH unveiled its new fragrance called “Tangerine,” which has been a hit with fans of the company.
Japanese luxury goods maker LVMh announced it would create a fragrance named after its namesake, which has become a favorite of many American women.
LVMH is also a maker of luxury clothing.
Earlier this year, Japanese fashion company YKK announced that they would create two fragrances.
YKK, which was founded in 2007, said they would release their fragrance “Amber Rose” this fall.
American beauty and fashion brand Lush launched their fragrance brand Lush Beauty in 2015.
Their fragrance will be named after the name of the Lush bar.
I am not sure if the new fragrance will make a big splash in Japan or if it will be limited to limited release, but the new scent definitely caught my eye.
I’ve never heard of this fragrance before.
What do you think of this new fragrance?
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Dutch navigation device maker TomTom fell as much as 18% on Thursday as Nokia said it would provide free navigation on its higher-end mobile phones.
The Finnish handset giant said the new version of what it calls Ovi Maps offers turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries in 46 languages, traffic information for more than 10 countries as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries.
While Nokia is a bit player in the U.S. mobile market, it is dominant elsewhere, notably in Europe where TomTom is the market leader in portable navigation devices with a 44% market share.
Lee Simpson, an analyst at Jefferies, said he's most concerned about falling average selling prices for TomTom. But he added that Nokia's move shows that TomTom's purchase of map maker TeleAtlas in 2008 for 2.9 billion euros didn't provide an insurance policy.
"At best, we believe TomTom has been very slow to exploit the key asset in navigation -- maps," he said in a note to clients.
TomTom shares ended 10.6% lower on Euronext Amsterdam, while Nokia rose 0.8% on OMX Helsinki.
Garmin shares fell 4% in U.S. trade.


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Easter candy is piled high on store shelves, but investors looking to profit from shoppers’ sweet tooth should concentrate on less traditional fare, like chicken-flavor Oreo cookies and ruby pink chocolate.
The U.S. is still the biggest confectionery market in the world and brands need to be there, but growth has been hard to come by recently. In 2018, the country’s chocolate sales grew by 3%, according to Euromonitor.
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The campaign hit by India threatens to undermine the recovery
India’s financial markets have mounted a rolling recovery from the recession caused by the devastating second wave of coronaviruses in the country, with stocks near all-time highs.
But outside of cities, rural families are still reuniting their lives even when public health officials warn that a third wave is on the horizon.
“You can see title numbers to return, but that doesn’t mean everything is dory, ”said Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist at CRISIL, a credit rating agency.
The shocking human cost of India’s Covid wave was exposed last month by drone footage showing hundreds of graves buried along the sacred Ganges river.
Despite an acceleration vaccinations are pushing, analysts warn that calamity weighs heavily on India’s economic outlook, also dampening consumer demand that lawmakers hoped to revive growth.
“The population is psychologically traumatized“Said Jahangir Aziz, head of the emerging market economy at JPMorgan.” All investment plans – all sustainable consumption plans – will be postponed. “
Until the emergence of the Delta variant, first noted by Indian scientists in rural Maharashtra in February, the Indian economy was projected to record double-digit growth after a 7.3 per cent contraction last year. .
But the second wave pushed the Reserve Bank of India’s consumer confidence index to an all-time low of 48.5, from 84 before the pandemic. Since April 1, the virus is known to have infected about 18 million people and killed at least 232,000 victims. Analysts suspect that true toll it is much higher.
The RBI has recently reduced its estimate of gross domestic product growth for this year to 9.5 per cent, from 10.5 per cent. JPMorgan predicts that India will grow only 9 percent, which Aziz said will leave the economy about 10 percent lower than its projected levels for the pre-pandemic.
“Anyone connected to the global market will do very well,” he said. “But Indian consumption, Indian investment and small Indian businesses are going to be damaged to a level at which it is difficult for one to even imagine. Beyond the essentials, people are going to be a lot, very careful to buy “.
Workers in India were hit hard last year when 100m jobs evaporated overnight into a tight range, triggering an exodus towards the countryside. By the end of 2020, an estimated 15m former urban workers were still unemployed, while those in employment were earning less than before, according to a study by Azim University Awards.
Strong performance in agriculture, which grew 3.6 percent last year thanks to heavy monsoon rains, and heavy government spending on rural labor schemes have helped ease the blow.
But in a country where patients pay themselves nearly 70 percent of health care costs, the Covid source has forced millions of families to exploit savings, sell goods or borrow to care for their loved ones.
That shock risks depressing consumer sentiment for months, particularly in middle-class and working-class households. “Health expenses they eat into the budgets of families, especially the poorest families, ”Joshi said.
Shobhnath Patel, a 38-year-old karate instructor in rural Uttar Pradesh, said his family had struggled since the pandemic forced the cancellation of their classes, in which two grandchildren lost their jobs in the automotive industry and that brother’s house painting business has collapsed.
When his older brother was hit by Covid in April, the family ran out of his savings of Rs 80,000 ($ 1,080) in an ambulance in the nearby town of Varanasi, doctors ’rights, an oxygen cylinder, medicines and hospital bills in a successful attempt to save him.
Other families in the village of Patel, Paterwa, have suffered similar setbacks, as the virus has affected at least one member of each family and caused a dozen lives.
“The economic situation of most people is at a very delicate point,” Patel told the Financial Times. “A lot of people have spent a lot of money to treat family members. Weddings, plans to build a house or one of these great things should be put on hold. Every family has suffered. ”
Frightened by the second wave, many Indians seem resigned to the inevitability of a third wave, which will also weigh on demand. “There’s a huge amount of uncertainty,” Joshi said. “No one can predict the gravity of another wave.”
India has so far administered 315m doses of vaccine, or about 23 doses per 100 people, well below the threshold for a safe economic reopening, although the pace of inoculation is accelerating. But, as JPMorgan’s Aziz remarked, “any increase in mobility runs the risk of reviving another wave.”
Pessimism is not universal. Saurabh Mukherjea, founder of Marcellus Investment Managers, said that “business activity is recovering rapidly” as restrictions ease, while anxiety over public transport, accompanied by affordable financing, fuels demand. of cars and motorcycles. “No one wants to go on public transportation,” he said.
But he admitted that the sustainability of any backlog of consumer demand depended on the trajectory of the virus. “If we go back to a third wave, we’ll go back to stagnation.”


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The country’s 1% TDS is expected to intensify poor market sentiment and add to the crypto community’s troubles.
For more than three months, India’s crypto community has been bracing for the implementation of a very contentious aspect of India’s forthcoming crypto tax system – the 1% tax deducted at source (TDS). The tax will be charged whenever an Indian buys or sells cryptocurrency.
The tax went into force on Friday, July 1, setting the stage for a test, which is expected to have a detrimental impact on crypto adoption and the market. Calculating the tax’s impact will be a waiting game at a time when the global investment community is experiencing a slowdown.
What exactly is the tax?
The 1% TDS liability is the second key feature of India’s newly enacted cryptocurrency tax law. Another clause went into effect on April 1, imposing a 30% capital gains tax on all transactions.
TDS is a charge on exchanges that deposit taxes on behalf of sellers on their platform. It is determined at 1% of the transaction value. The seller can deduct the 1% TDS from his or her overall tax burden of 30%.
A transaction must be reported to the government within 30 days of the end of the month in which it occurs, and any sum deducted must be paid to the government within the same time limit. Certain types of taxpayers are excluded from the 1% TDS rule for transactions of up to INR 50,000 ($640) each year.
Why is the 1% TDS contentious?
When the crypto tax rules were first published as a proposal on February 1, 2022, the Indian crypto community reacted angrily. Their main point of contention was the 1% TDS.
They argued – and continue to argue – that the 1% TDS is excessive, and that it will kill trading volumes, increase an already high level of brain drain, and make tax on cryptocurrency, collection and understanding extremely difficult for both industry and retail traders, effectively stifling the growth of an industry that was just getting started.
Over the next two months, representatives from the crypto business met with government officials and appealed with them to at least repeal this specific law.
Sumit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of CoinDCX, which was once one of India’s most well-known and largest exchanges but is now a “crypto investment app,” stated that the tax “will cause more harm than good.” Developers and businesspeople may leave to friendlier areas, he claims, and a 30% taxation rate combined with a 1% TDS is “unfair.”
On the other hand, Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister, said that “the government is taxing crypto because people are earning from it,” and that the goal is to “verify the source and trail” without legitimizing crypto.
Regulations are a step in the right direction for the crypto business. However, the combination of 30% taxation and 1% TDS is unjust. I would kindly request that the government review the percentage of TDS and tax.
Taxation and TDS are proving to be a big impediment to the expansion of this industry. “The goal of tracking transactions and openness may be readily achieved in other ways as well,” Gupta tweeted.
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Fairness hearing postponed for Google books dealSeptember 24, 2009 By LARRY NEUMEISTER , Associated Press Writer in Technology / Internet
(AP) -- A judge noted the many objections to a $125 million deal giving Google Inc. digital rights to millions of out-of-print books as he agreed Thursday to postpone a fairness hearing so the agreement can be rewritten to comply with copyright and antitrust laws.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the deal reached last year between some authors and publishers and Google "raises significant issues, as demonstrated not only by the number of objections, but also by the fact that the objectors include countries, states, non-profit organizations, and prominent authors and law professors."
He added: "Clearly, fair concerns have been raised."
The comments in a two-page order indicated Chin had taken a critical look at the settlement after receiving nearly 400 submissions about the deal, many of them expressing disapproval.
The Department of Justice said last week that the agreement as it now stands probably violates antitrust law. That conclusion led plaintiffs including The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to say that they and Mountain View, Calif.-based Google had decided to renegotiate.
This time, the plaintiffs said, negotiations will include Justice Department officials.
Chin encouraged the talks in Thursday's order, saying a fair deal "would offer many benefits to society." He cited a statement by the Department of Justice saying an agreement "has the potential to breathe life into millions of works that are now effectively off limits to the public."
The judge said it made no sense to stage the fairness hearing on Oct. 7 when it appears that the deal will be rewritten. He asked parties to the case to appear on that date to discuss how it will proceed but said he will not hear from objectors or supporters, though they are free to attend.
He said he wanted to proceed "as expeditiously as possible" because the case was already four years old.
In a statement on its Web site acknowledging the postponement, The Authors Guild said: "We'll continue to work on amending the settlement to address the Justice Department's concerns."
John M. Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog who testified about the deal before the House Judiciary Committee, said any agreement should also involve input from Congress.
"The judge put his fingers exactly on the issues in the case," Simpson said.
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Amazon has said it expects to pay out billions in additional costs to prevent labour shortages at Christmas.
The company made the announcement as it posted its third quarterly earnings report, in which it saw its sales continue to grow, however its profitability hampered by labour and logistics challenges.
“In the fourth quarter, we expect to incur several billion dollars of additional costs in our consumer business as we manage through labor supply shortages, increased wage costs, global supply-chain issues, and increased freight and shipping costs,” Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy.
The company’s Q3 sales increased to $110.8 billion compared with $96.1 billion year-on-year, meanwhile its net income shrank by nearly half due to increased costs as a result of the pandemic.
“We’ve nearly doubled the size of our fulfillment network since the pandemic began,” Jassy added.
The figures were within line with some of the company’s July projections, however the company did forecast slower sales growth in Q4.
The ecommerce giant’s shares fell by 5 per cent in after-hours trading.
Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, continued its strong growth with a 39 per cent leap year-on-year, however its bricks-and-mortar division appeared to stall after issues in Q2.
Leaked documents reveal Amazon is falling behind on its ambitious plans to open hundreds of Fresh stores.
The company is also hiring at an impressive pace in a bid to avoid shortages during the festive period, bringing its global workforce just shy of 1.5 million.
It is also hiring an extra 150,000 temporary workers over the busy holiday season.
“It’ll be expensive for us in the short term, but it’s the right prioritization for our customers and partners,” Jassy said.


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TikTok has become more than just a place to dance with lip syncs and funny videos. It has transformed into a full-blown search engine, giving Google a run for its money. Young people are flocking to the platform to search for all sorts of things, from recipes to vacation spots, and even news and information.
“It’s not, like, a true search-engine opportunity yet,” says Sonya Ali, a media director at RPA. But with TikTok’s powerful algorithm that tailors content to the user’s interests, it’s easy to see why young people are turning to the platform as a search destination.
Gone are the days when you had to scour the library for hours to complete an assignment. Generation Z grew up with technology and the Internet, and as a result, have developed social and visual learning skills. They want information fast and TikTok delivers, with its 10-second videos providing quick and concise information. In fact, research shows that Gen Z’s attention span is only 8 seconds, making TikTok’s short video format all the more appealing.
TikTok has already become a prominent source of news and information, with a UK-based survey last year naming it the fastest-growing source of news for adults. TikTok is well aware of its influence, as seen in its recent 60-second ad where a father and daughter turn to TikTok for cleaning tips and home decorating hacks. The ad ends with the tagline “Search it with TikTok,” emphasizing the platform’s growing role as a search engine.
Advertisers have yet to fully embrace TikTok’s search inventory, with the platform’s search ads still in beta and the targeting options not as granular as traditional search inventory. But TikTok is making moves to monetize its search behavior and many businesses will have to understand TikTok marketing if they want to stay relevant in this rapidly growing industry.
So the next time you’re searching for the best Whole30 recipes or trying to plan a trip to Portugal, you might want to “Search it with TikTok.” Who knows, you might even discover something new and exciting that Google could never have shown you. TikTok is proving to be a true disruptor in the search game and it’s only a matter of time before it completely changes the game.


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– Demand for tires is set to return in 2021, with global demand rising to 1.86 billion units according to new detailed market forecasting from Smithers. This is a welcome recovery for the tire industry, after the cumulative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic caused a -10.6% drop in unit sales volumes across 2019-2020.
The new Smithers study, The Future of Tire Raw Materials to 2026 shows how demand for tire raw materials will surge by 12.0% to reach 39.6 million tonnes in 2021.
As stability returns to auto manufacturing and tire plants future, expansion is forecast at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.6%. This will see a total of 44.8 million tonnes of natural rubber, synthetic elastomers, steel cord, fillers, textiles, plasticisers and other chemicals, converted into 2.13 billion tires in that year.
Based on an exclusive market survey and incorporating the latest economic, and tire production data, this report identifies there will be significant shifts in demand for tire raw materials over the five-year forecast period:
These changes are happening even as supply chains for many raw materials are still not recovering from the disruption of Covid-19, which has seen price rises and material shortages through the first half of 2021. As stability returns:
The Future of Tire Raw Materials to 2026 is a definitive business strategy guide available to purchase now priced $6,500 (€5,250, £4,750) from Smithers.
It combines market-leading analysis of technology and post-Covid demographic and industry trends with an authoritative market dataset. This defines the tire raw materials market through 2026, segmented by regional market, material type and grade, and includes exclusive forecasts on current and future tire consumption by vehicle/tire type.
Credits: Smithers Research
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The designer has yet to unveil her new offerings, which now comprise a full line of dresses, trousers and blouses, but she does reveal that the pieces are "classic, elegant, eccentric, extragavant and British." And usually a worrier, Nonoo assured WWD she hasn't gotten there yet. "But we'll see how that goes for the next couple of nights."
Joy Cioci, on the other hand, said she's up at night worrying about "everything" -- not that she has much to be nervous about. At the age of 26, Cioci is no stranger to the industry. The designer has worked with Olivier Theyskens and Tom Ford, and was the former creative director at WiNK. Already touted as one to watch this Fashion Week, Cioci describes her collection as "personal" and "sexy and romantic."


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Huawei has officially released the list of 12 models of Honor devices that are receiving the HarmonyOS 2 closed beta recruitment activity. The company says that nearly 100 Huawei devices are set to receive the HarmonyOS 2 upgrade in China from today, including the Mate 40 series, Mate 30 series, P40 series, Mate X2, and last year’s MatePad Pro series.
In Q3 this year the list will expand to the Mate Xs, Mate 20 series, Nova 8 series, Nova 7 series, Nova 6 series, and MatePad series.
In Q4 the list expands again, to include various Huawei smart TVs, along with the Mate 20 X series, Mate X, P30 series, and MediaPad M6 tablets.
Finally, the company promises that in the first half of 2022 it will even deliver the upgrade to devices as old as the Mate 10 and Mate 9 series, P20 and P10 series, Nova 5 series, and MediaPad M5 series tablets.
These 12 Honor devices are now a part of HarmonyOS 2 closed beta recruitment:
- Honor V30
- Honor V30 PRO
- Honor 30
- Honor 30 Pro
- Honor 30 Pro+
- Honor Play4 Pro
- Honor 20
- Honor 20 PRO
- Honor V20
- Honor V20 MOSCHINO co-branded models
- Honor Magic 2
- Honor Tablet V6 (some models)
According to Yu Chengdong, President of Huawei’s consumer business, there are currently 300+ application and service partners, 1,000+ hardware partners, and more than 500,000 developers participating in the construction of the Harmony ecosystem.


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Hyundai now has a patent for a door that combines a van's sliding door with a gullwing hinge, and the company thinks it'd be great for an RV.
- Erin Marquis
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Are you dismissive of minivans? These days, more and more people are choosing to buy crossovers and SUVs instead of the more family-friendly minivan. If a utility vehicle is the best choice for you, that's great! But don't be too quick to write off the seven minivans on this list
The four occupants of a minivan in Michigan were in for a terrifying ride early in the morning on January 7. Their minivan got lodged under the back of a semi's trailer, and the vehicle was drug 16 miles along Interstate 75. During that time, the driver was on the phone with 911 but couldn't exactly say where the stricken van was because of the snowy conditions.
When the 2016 Town & Country comes to Chrysler dealerships, it will sport something no production minivan has ever had: a plug. That was on bit of news hidden in the massive Fiat Chrysler (FCA) product preview held in Detroit on Tuesday. All FCA would say about the minivan was that the Town & Country PHEV would get 75 MPGe.
Kia has released a second teaser image of the next-generation 2015 Sedona minivan ahead of its debut at the New York Auto Show, and it doesn't leave much to the imagination. The van is a much-needed replacement for the current (aging) model that was briefly withdrawn from the US market and then brought back, nearly unchanged.


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Research conducted by automotive technology provider CitNOW found that 54% of customers expect to visit a dealership as part of researching their next car, compared to 48% in 2010.
Confounding the view from some quarters that the demise of motor retailers could be imminent, the new poll – conducted for the company’s Evolution of the Car Buyer report – shows the opposite.
• 56% have researched the car before they make a visit to a dealership.
• Interest in online video reviews as part of the research process had almost doubled (13% to 25%).
• 36% said they already knew the model they were looking to purchase.
• 60% expect to take a test drive.
• A significant minority – 11.5% - expect to buy a car when they visit.
Over 55s (69%) were the most likely to visit a dealership. Men were slightly more inclined than women to visit dealerships when choosing their next car.
Another key finding was that one third of those asked said they would consider buying their next vehicle entirely online.
The willingness to both purchase online and visit the showroom is perhaps reflective of the same trend – an increase in the trust consumers have in car retailers. Fuelled by a more transparent process which in turn has led to the inevitable boost in service levels, customer confidence seems to be rising.
“Motorists clearly still covet that face-to-face customer experience and want the buying journey to be a personal one with the dealership,” Carol Fairchild, the Commercial Director of CitNOW, said.


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Proponents say two-wheeled electric vehicles are a cheaper, greener option to decarbonise transport
As part of the drive to decarbonise the Australian economy, there has been a lot of emphasis on the need to switch to electric cars.
But advocates say there is a much cheaper and greener electric vehicle to consider – the e-bike.
Although you’d probably have to put yourself on a 12-month waiting list and find at least $40,000 to buy a new electric car in Australia right now, you could get a two-wheeler with a battery that costs less than 10 cents to load, quite easily.
Chris Jones, president of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association, says many of us have forgotten that bikes are a form of transport and often think of them as simply for fitness and recreation.
“It’s a bit sad that this humble, highly efficient and very affordable electric vehicle is often overlooked,” said Dr Jones.
“I think a lot of people, especially in Perth, have always thought of bikes as toys or hobbies; very rarely are they seen as means of transport.”
But that is changing rapidly.
“[E-bikes] are the most abundant electric vehicles on the market today. Electric bikes sell for 10 times more than electric cars,” he said.
They range from around $1,200 to convert an existing bike to an electric motor and $2,000 to $3,000 for a factory-built e-bike, and running costs are “negligible”.
“My e-bike battery is about half a kilowatt hour. Based on Synergy [WA’s energy retailer] rates, it’s anywhere between 3.5 and 7 cents to fully charge the battery,” said Dr. Jones.
‘You’re halfway there before you know it’
In the hills of Perth we met Andy, who had cycled into Kalamunda town center for some shopping.
He bought his used e-bike six months ago after his license was suspended and said it was a practical replacement for the car, and he plans to continue using it even when he got back behind the wheel.
“It’s more fun to go to the shops and get around than to get in the car and drive through traffic,” he said.
“And I didn’t have to worry about fuel, so it’s been good, especially with the price of fuel now. You have a choice of parking spaces.”
He’s used push bikes and motorcycles before, but what surprised him most about the e-bike was how easy it was to get around.
“It’s easier than walking to the car and jumping in it and whatever turns it on and hitting the road,” he said.
“You’re halfway there before you know it.
But it highlighted for him the gaps in cycling infrastructure in his neighborhood.
“Paths could be better, that’s for sure. I wouldn’t have figured that out before.”
Remove obstacles to driving
While there’s nothing an e-bike can do differently than a pedal bike, the electric motor removes the barriers to cycling for trips where people would otherwise use their cars.
It’s also appealing to people who want to ride but don’t have the physical shape or desire to sweat, but want to keep riding, according to Henry Shiel, who works at Fremantle Solarbike e-bike shop.
“We see people who, for example, want to commute a relatively short distance, but don’t feel like they want to sweat too much,” Mr. Sheil said.
“E-biking is like having a little helping hand pushing you, you still put in the effort, but you don’t sweat as much otherwise.
“On top of that, quite a few parents drop their kids off at school with the bikes.
“We also have older people, or people who may have lost their sense of balance, maybe after a little medical episode.”
He said the store had recently sold an electric tricycle to a young man with a disability.
“He can go out with his family and follow them around, and his father told me that has really been a huge advantage for the young man in terms of his independence.
“And there’s definitely a section of people who have decided to phase out the car, for the cost and the environmental impact.”
While most e-bikers choose to pedal while assisted by the motor, they often feel that having a motor to assist them is somehow cheating or not giving them the full benefit of the exercise. biking.
“I absolutely reject that,” Mr. Sheil said.
“I found it [having the motor] meant that I used the bike on days when I could have gone otherwise: “Oh, it’s too windy, it’s raining too much, it’s too hot” and I took the bus, or took the car or whatever thing.
“Whereas with the e-bike, I found that I used the bike a lot more, and so my aerobic fitness felt the benefits.”
Reducing car use is crucial for reducing emissions
Removing the temptation to just jump in the car is essential if Australia is to achieve net zero emissions, says Courtney Babb, senior lecturer in urban and regional planning at Curtin University in Perth.
“As part of the transition to net zero, we need to get people away from cars and reduce car use,” Dr Babb said.
“The focus is on electric vehicles to do that and reduce our emissions that way, but that’s not going to be enough, we actually have to reduce car use.”
He says there is good evidence that e-bikes have done this.
“Research shows that e-bikes replace 20-80% of trips in different cities around the world, with cycling-friendly cities having the highest rates,” he said.
He noted that since the start of the COVID pandemic, there had been growth in bicycle and e-bike sales, but there were still obstacles, and one of the main ones was cycling infrastructure.
“One of the biggest factors that gets people into cycling is having safe cycling environments,” Dr Babb said.
“We have a very good primary cycle network [in Perth]although it could also be better.
“But what’s missing are a lot of secondary connections…cycling on local streets and roads in general is considered unsafe.
“The United Nations recommends that about 20% of transportation budgets be spent on active transportation, and I think about 2% of ours are.”
The extension of subsidies for electric vehicles to bicycles is mentioned
A number of Australian states and territories now offer subsidies and rebates for the purchase of electric cars.
Dr Babb suggested that governments could also consider extending this financial support to e-bikes.
“I think if the government was serious about decarbonising transport, but also addressing some of the problems associated with a very car-centric and car-dependent transport system, we need to think about solutions other than e-cars and providing subsidies for people for e-bikes could be one way to do that,” he said.
“Even with a subsidy or rebate for an electric vehicle, they focus on the wealthiest people on the spectrum.
“With e-bikes, maybe you can reach out to people who don’t have as much money to spend on an electric car and also replace a lot of those commutes in that 15 kilometer watershed where they live. “
Chris Jones agrees.
“I think the fact that really efficient two-wheeled electric transport has been completely ignored by the various existing programs is quite disappointing,” he said.
“I think governments often forget how cheap e-bikes are as a transportation option.”


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The many shades of blue: Women opt for brighter & bolder colours of hair dye for post-crisis makeovers
Cosmetics brands were hit by shop closures & consumers shunning make-up during the lockdown.
Garnier aims to stop using virgin plastic for packaging by 2025
Cosmetics brand Garnier on Monday said it aims to stop using virgin plastic f...
L’Oréal regroups geographic zones and puts an Indian on its global executive committee for the first time
Vismay Sharma, who has been appoint...
E-comm in India is a fantastic revolution, says L'Oréal CEO
India has about 10 mln kirana stores, accounting for 90% of overall consumer products sales. A large number of these are in the hinterland where L'Oréal has a minuscule presence. The market had always been pretty tough for L'Oréal, because it did not have “very basic products that can be distributed everywhere to tens of millions of little stores”.
Pollution concerns in India not skin-deep
Anti-pollution facewashes, toners and face cleansers from brands such as Pond’s, Amway and Lotus have grown 25-30% this year compared with fairness products, which are growing at 8-10%, albeit on a larger base. The country’s top fairness creams include Fair & Lovely, Lotus Whiteglow, Nivea Natural Fairness and Garnier White Complete.
Lotus Herbals plans acquisitions, may sell stake to raise funds
Lotus operates in the Rs 470-crore premium category, competing with L’Oreal’s Garnier and HUL’s Pond’s.
L’Oreal beats Godrej Consumer in urban hair colour race
French company's share in India's urban hair colour market grows to 25.8% in value terms, outpacing Godrej's on back of Garnier Black Naturals.
ASCI pulls up ads starring Ajay Devgn-Kajol, Tiger Shroff & Shraddha Kapoor for exaggerating product efficacy
The council said these ads contravened the guidelines for celebrities in advertising.
Are herbal products really that natural as advertised in India?
In India, buyers often do not have enough information about such products but nevertheless make purchases based on advertisements and market positioning.
Theresa May gets tough on sexual misconduct by MPs after 'dirty dossier'
May was yesterday shown a dossier of accusations of sexual misconduct against some of her Conservative party ministers and MPs.
L’oréal appoints Aseem Kaushik as Director, Consumer Products Division
Aseem Kaushik began his career with L’Oréal India in 1995 with the Consumer Products Division. After spending 7 years in CPD sales, he moved to the Professional Products Division in 2002 in Key Account Management.
Ethics Board extends IAAF officials' suspension
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Cosmetics giant L’Oreal to launch natural hair care products
The new range called ‘Garnier Ultra Blends’ will be spread across shampoo, conditioners and oil and cream segment.
L'Oreal ramps up India operations to be 'billion dollar' firm by 2020
As a part of its 2020 roadmap to become a 'billion dollar' company, L'Oreal is significantly stepping up its research and innovation (R&I) division in the country.
L'Oreal to spread out to more towns across the country
L'Oreal clocked a revenue of Rs 2,500 crore from Indian operations. This included sales of hair and skin care products sold across the country.
Meet international freestyle soccer champion Séan Garnier
With World Cup fever upon us, we got talking to international freestyle soccer champion Séan Garnier who was in Mumbai to judge the Red Bull Street Style National Finals.
L’Oreal India's new product to trigger price battle in hair colour market
L’Oreal India has launched a hair-color product that costs less than 2/3rd of next cheapest offering that could trigger a price battle.
As Indian men say no to body hair Philips, Pansonic, L’Oreal, Garnier, others make money
Shaving, waxing and laser are being aggressively deployed these days in a country where facial and torso hair once separated the men from the boys.


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Interview: Roger Viney, Global Head of Generic Sales, Hovione
EPM Magazine, December 2010
I interviewed Hovione’s Global Head of Generic Sales Roger Viney at the recent CPhI Worldwide; my aim being to find out what makes the company stand out from the crowd. Roger explained how Hovione’s 50 years of serving the pharmaceutical industry has forged a company with, in his words: “a unique culture and offering”.


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U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday agreed with Google that the plaintiffs failed to claim any injury that could be clearly traced to Google’s actions. Grewal wrote in his order that the plaintiffs, who also claimed that Google disclosed the data to application developers and advertisers, can refile their claims.
“A plaintiff must do more than point to the dollars in a defendant’s pocket,” Grewal wrote in his order. For the suit to proceed, the plaintiffs must also demonstrate how Google’s use of the information “deprived the plaintiff of the information’s economic value,” the judge said.
The plaintiffs argue that Mountain View, Calif.-based Google “made money using information about them for which they were provided no compensation beyond free access to Google’s services,” Grewal wrote. “An allegation that Google profited is not enough,” the judge wrote, and doesn’t meet the standard “that such profiteering deprived plaintiffs of economic value from that same information.”
James Sabella, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment on the ruling.
According to Grewal’s ruling, before March 1, 2012, Google maintained separate privacy policies for each of its products, each of them confirming that it wouldn’t use personal identification information of its users for other purposes without the user’s consent.
The plaintiffs in the case claimed the new policy violated previous policies because it no longer permitted users to keep information gathered from one Google product separate from data gathered from another.


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Antonio Amorim is putting a new cork in wine bottles to keep his company’s profits from spoiling, Bloomberg News reports.
After losing sales to synthetic stoppers and metal screwcaps, Amorim said he had found a way to stem a decline in market share through a process that gets rid of “cork taint.” The contaminant can render the finest vintage undrinkable, and costs the wine industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Corticeira Amorim, the world’s biggest maker of wine corks, saw sales decline each year from 2000 through 2004 as consumers turned up their noses at wines with the bouquet of a damp dog. Amorim responded by modernizing plants to cut production costs as he searched for a cure.
Amorim’s process, which steams out compounds caused by a naturally occurring fungus, has helped lower the industry-wide incidence of cork taint to less than 1 percent of wine bottles produced, from as much as 5 percent, said Sonia Baldeira, an analyst at Caixa Banco de Investimento in Lisbon, Portugal.
Meanwhile, however, numerous wineries worldwide continue to make the transition to screwcaps – some for a few of their bottlings, some for all.


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Taubman Centers has sold the 39-acre Cerro Wire property to rival mall developer Simon Property Group.
It’s only a matter of time until Taubman comes to the realization that its mall will never be built.
Voters in Oyster Bay overwhelmingly approved the proposed $32.5 million sale of 54 acres of town-owned land in Syosset in a referendum Tuesday.
A state Supreme Court judge’s ruling has cleared the way for a referendum on Oyster Bay’s proposed $32.5 million sale of 54 acres to a group led by shopping mall developer Simon Property Group.
A state Supreme Court judge has ruled that there are enough valid signatures to force a referendum on whether Oyster Bay can sell surplus land to Simon.
A state Supreme Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order stopping the Town of Oyster Bay from selling 54 acres in Syosset to Simon Property Group.
Taubman Centers has launched a two-pronged challenge to the Town of Oyster Bay’s sale of 54 acres in Syosset to a group headed by a rival mall developer.
The Oyster Bay town board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the sale of 54 acres of surplus land in Syosset to a development team led by Simon Property Group.
Mall builder Simon Property Group has agreed to buy nearly 50 acres of land in Syosset from the Town of Oyster Bay, according to sources close to the deal.


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The second annual Chongqing Global Travel Agents Conference 2019 launched on November 10th and will run until November 15th. Organized by Chongqing Municipal Commission of Culture and Tourism Development and the People’s Government of Nan’an District, the conference aims to promote Chongqing’s tourism industry to domestic and international markets, develop tourism products, and serve as a venue for international exchange and cooperation.
The conference’s itinerary took more than 400 guests from 30 countries and regions, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, and more, on a spectacular journey surveying the current landscape of the tourism industry.
Events include presentations on recent achievements and new highlights of cultural tourism development in the city, project signing, and negotiations. According to conference officials, "the city has been awarded the titles of the "world's top 10 tourist destinations with development potential," and the "world's capital of hot springs." The city was also honored for two consecutive years as the world's number one fastest growing tourist city by the World Tourism and Travel Council.
Presenters covered many topics that have and will affect the tourism industry in Chongqing, developing inbound-tourism and international trade, inbound tourism, developing platforms, and promoting cooperation.
Wayne Russell, a spokesperson with Wendy Wu Tours, reflected on his time at the conference and his visit to Chongqing, “It has been wonderful and my first time in Chongqing, to experience something different than the other parts of China. We’ve got thousands of people coming from the UK a year to China, what we want to do is promote Chongqing to those travelers who have already been coming to China,” he said adding that his company’s next step is to really hone in on and express the beauty of the region for those back home.
The conference also provided a relevant audience for the release of new tourism products, such as the Mega Bee travel APP was released on November 14th. Xiao Yuan Vice president of marketing Hong Kong travel limited, presented the APP. “Human beings have a natural want to explore the world. Tourism accounts for 10%, why only 10 % could it be more? Technology can assist in generating new opportunities,” he said. “When people think of Chongqing, they think of Jiefengbei, but there are many other opportunities here to explore.” The app has an itinerary plan powered by big data to alert tourists of nearby attractions.
In addition, the discussions at this year’s conference revolved around new incentives policies to bolster the inbound tourism market. Another recent and simple change aimed at increasing access to China’s largest southwestern megacity is a 144-hour free visa. The new transit visa, or G- Visa, will enable visitors connecting international flights in Chongqing to stay and explore the city and surrounding areas for up to 6- days starting December 1st, 2019. Nearby attractions that visitors may find attractive are the Three Gorges, Mountainous City, Local Culture, Hot Spring, and Countryside.
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F&M work with Local Council to Support Local Businesses
Known for their commitment, passion and dedication to their local area, F&M Hairdressing have been unveiled as one of three Barrhead businesses featured in a new local advertising campaign by their local council.
Here Today Strong Tomorrow, is a new campaign launched by East Renfrewshire Council encouraging residents and individuals to support local, which will in turn help the local economy, local businesses and allow the town to thrive once again after a very long lockdown period, which say many businesses close for several months.
F&M Hairdressing are a well-known business in Barrhead and support the local community through a variety of different ways such as local advertising, charity involvement and donations, local events and parties whilst also providing the salon as a safe space, as part of the I AM ME initiative – awarded by Police Scotland.
Salon Director Brian MacMillan comments, “To be chosen as part of this new local campaign is a real honour. Our local community is a huge part of our salon, and we do everything we can to give back and support those who have stood by us since we opened back in 2001. We hope this campaign will encourage people to shop local once again and help our local community thrive once more.”
For more information visit F&M Hairdressing here.


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It is hardly news when the Redmond software giant behaves a little oddly. But usually that behavior takes the form of bullying competitors or the self-delusion of believing that it is a major technology innovator.
But Microsoft's unusual behavior over the last few weeks has taken a different form: for the first time, perhaps since the Netscape threat arose in the early 1990s, Microsoft is acting scared.
First, of course, there was the still-unsettled attempt at a hostile takeover of Yahoo. Microsoft may still win that one in the end; but in the meantime, despite roaring into the negotiations full of sound and fury, Microsoft ended up being a cat's paw for both the woefully out-of-his-depth Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and for rogue buyout master Carl Icahn. Then Microsoft, either desperately on the rebound or in a ham-fisted move to make Yahoo jealous, starting making advances at pitiful old AOL instead.
Whatever the strategic advantages of these acquisitions -- and frankly, it's hard to see how bolting one failing search company to another is going to compete any more effectively against a drag racer like Google -- it is hardly the behavior of a company that's sure of its own capabilities and confident in its future.
The old, swaggering Microsoft would have decided that it could win this battle against Google on its own, through a combination of a perpetually upgraded search engine, questionable linkages to existing MS products (such as Vista), raiding talent from Google and Yahoo and strong-arming everyone up and down the distribution and retail chains.
That's how Microsoft used to rule the tech world, and it left both enemies and friends quaking in their boots. It wasn't pretty -- and some of it might not even have been legal -- but that was how MS rolled when it was on top … not groveling to buy some other also-ran.
Ever since the Yahoo debacle, Microsoft has been acting strangely, and one can only conclude that the two events are somehow connected.
Microsoft's suddenly transformed manner first appeared last week after a report, by the systems management appliance company KACE, saying that 60 percent of the administrators it surveyed had no intention of ever implementing Microsoft's year-old flagship operating system Windows Vista -- up 10 percent from last November.
Potentially even more devastating was the fact that more than 40 percent of the respondents said they were actively looking at other platforms, from the Apple Mac OS X to Linux -- while the remainder had either already abandoned Vista or were sticking with Microsoft's older Windows XP.
And that was only half of the bad news, because at about the same time, the influential market analysis firm Forrester Research came out with a report that announced that, more than a year after the introduction of Vista, its acceptance by enterprise (big company) users was "still in the single digits." More chilling, Forrester said, was the fact that even among those few acceptances, most came from automatic upgrades of existing software, rather than conscious adoption by XP users.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer immediately fired off an e-mail to all Microsoft employees reminding them that "the success of Windows is our number one job" and that Microsoft remained "the best in the world at doing software and nobody should be confused about this," in the process suggesting that perhaps even he wasn't sure anymore.


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Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc. will suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign and pay restitution to nearly 4.4 million taxpayers, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. TurboTax is returning to the Super Bowl with its 10th consecutive spot as part of its new 2023 brand campaign designed to remind people that they can come to the platform and not do their taxes. An audit released on Feb. 3 by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that last year, 14 million people who qualified for Free File instead paid what ProPublica estimated could amount to about $1 billion in tax prep services to various companies.
At the end of many of Intuit's ads is a disclaimer in smaller print that states such offers are limited to those with "simple" tax returns. But the FTC argues that the disclaimers "are inadequate to cure the misrepresentation that consumers can file their taxes for free using TurboTax," when in many cases they cannot. As the NFL’s official sponsor for financial and accounting software, as well as tax preparation services and the presenting sponsor of both the AFC and NFC Championship Games, the campaign has the unique opportunity to connect with the league’s 180 Million fans at the height of tax season.
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Impacted customers will automatically receive a direct payment of approximately $30 for each year that they paid for tax filing services that were advertised as free. The company reaffirmed its commitment to providing Americans with free tax preparation and filing and expects to help more than 40 million taxpayers prepare and file their tax returns free of charge over the next three years. "Intuit is clear and fair with its customers, including with the nearly 100 million Americans who filed their taxes free of charge with our products over the last eight years — more than all other tax prep software companies combined," McLean added.
This year, consumers whose adjusted gross income is $73,000 or less can use products in the IRS Free File Program, which are offered by several different companies, to file their federal tax return and, in some instances, state tax return, entirely for free. The complaint says that for years, much of Intuit's advertising for TurboTax's online service has emphasized the message that consumers can use TurboTax to file their taxes for free. The FTC points to TV commercials for TurboTax in which the word "free" is said over and over. This is the third year the brand campaign is focused on the company's TurboTax Live offerings. Leveraging Intuit’s AI-driven expert platform, TurboTax Live matches filers with a tax expert with the experience to handle their unique tax situation, who, in just one meeting, will prepare, sign and file their taxes for them.
FTC Sues Intuit Over TurboTax Ads Offering Free Tax Filing
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general announced Wednesday that the company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services. NEW YORK (AP) — The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York’s attorney general announced, Wednesday. Whether it’s a question of advertising or SEO, the result seems to be that some low-income taxpayers who qualify to file for free are still https://turbo-tax.org/intuit-ad-for-turbotax/ paying for TurboTax this tax season — even after the change in the agreement with the IRS. Lyle Hill, a warehouse worker in Georgia with an adjusted gross income of $10,390 last year, said he was looking to file his taxes for free, but he got confused and ended up paying $120 to file his federal and state taxes through Free Edition. Intuit, he added, declined to refund his fees when he subsequently told the company he’d been steered into a paid option when he’d wanted the free one. Alvyn Velazquez, a student in New York, recounted a similar journey that ended with him paying $120 after going through the Free Edition portal.
Today, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Intuit, the maker of tax preparation software TurboTax, over deceptive advertising campaigns pitching free tax filing products that millions couldn't use. "This agreement should serve as a reminder to companies large and small that engaging in these deceptive marketing ploys is illegal." With Free File, the industry agreed to offer free tax services to people with low and moderate incomes, and in exchange, the IRS promised not to compete against the private companies. The IRS rescinded its promise not to enter the tax return software https://turbo-tax.org/ and e-file services market in late 2019 but so far hasn't offered its own tax filing software. "TurboTax is bombarding consumers with ads for 'free' tax filing services, and then hitting them with charges when it's time to file," said the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Samuel Levine. James said her investigation into Intuit was sparked by a 2019 ProPublica report that found the company was using deceptive tactics to steer low-income tax filers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified — and toward its own commercial products, instead.
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“We empower our customers to take control of their financial lives, which includes being in charge of their own tax preparation,” an Intuit spokesperson told ProPublica in a statement, in 2019. One was through its participation in the Internal Revenue Service’s Free File Program, geared toward taxpayers earning roughly $34,000 and members of the military. Intuit withdrew from the program, in July 2021, saying in a blog post that the company could provide more benefits without the program’s limitations.
Seeing an opportunity, as the Web's social media allegiance switched from Facebook to Twitter, Intuit entered the fray with a TurboTax Twitter ad. The banner, born of a
partnership with Google and Twitter, soothed tax-time anxiety by streaming dynamic, real-time feedback to consumer questions about taxes straight from the TurboTax Twitter page. The goal was to
recruit the social media audience, and enthusiasts responded in droves, resulting in a 69% increase in Turbo Tax Twitter followers over a two-week period. The investigation was sparked by a 2019 ProPublica report which claimed that Intuit executives knew they were deceiving customers by advertising free services that were not free to everyone.
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On Dec. 30, the IRS announced it was revamping a long-standing agreement with the online tax preparation industry in which companies offer free filing to people with incomes below certain levels, a category that includes 70% of filers. The change in what’s known as the Free File program came in the wake of multiple ProPublica articles that revealed how the companies in the program steered customers eligible for free filing to their paid offerings. Under the updated agreement, the companies are now prohibited from hiding their Free File webpages from Google searches, and the IRS was allowed to create its own online tax-filing system. Intuit is accused of steering customers away from the IRS Free File program that is free to 70 percent of taxpayers while using misleading ads to promote a separate "freemium" TurboTax product that isn't actually free to most people. Intuit agreed to the settlement with all 50 US states and the District of Columbia.
TurboTax has received a number of complaints regarding its advertising of the free version. However, state tax filing is not free, and the cost of using TurboTax to file state returns is not presented to the user until they've already completed entering their information for federal returns. The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by issuing an administrative complaint against the company for deceiving consumers with bogus advertisements pitching “free” tax filing that millions of consumers could not use. In addition, to prevent ongoing harm to consumers rushing to file their taxes, the Commission also filed a federal district court complaint asking a court to order Intuit to halt its deceptive advertising immediately.
- Consumers are expected to receive a direct payment of approximately $30 for each year that they were deceived into paying for filing services, James said.
- In one ad, a shopper in a women’s clothing department is greeted affectionately by a store employee who remembers doing her taxes the previous week.
- "The website lists ‘Free, Free, Free,’ and the customers are assuming their return will be free," an internal company PowerPoint presentation reportedly said.
- Under the agreement, Intuit will provide restitution to consumers who started using the commercial TurboTax Free Edition for tax years, 2016 through 2018, and were told that they had to pay to file even though they were eligible for the version of TurboTax offered as part of the IRS Free File program.
- It also has authorized the filing of a separate administrative complaint alleging that Intuit's practices are illegal as they violate the FTC Act.
Alongside its online ad campaign, Intuit also has three active, national television advertisements for Free Edition that have aired more than 12,000 times since premiering in January 2019, according to metrics from iSpot.tv, a company that tracks TV advertisements. And on Facebook and Instagram, there are more than 500 active advertisements that mention the word “free” and redirect users to download the TurboTax app — in which users cannot access Free File — and to the Free Edition landing page. Tax software companies made around $1 billion in revenue by charging people who were eligible to file for free.
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A federal court has denied for a second time H&R Block’s attempt to prevent Intuit from airing two TV commercials for TurboTax that poke fun at part-time tax preparers who work for retail tax chains like Block. Full expense that a user will bear.” According to a Google spokesperson, TurboTax’s ads do not violate its terms. The spokesperson said Google requires advertisers to disclose “criteria for any free offers.” TurboTax discloses that Free Edition applies only to “simple tax returns” on its landing page. Outside of the advertising realm, TurboTax still appears to favor products like Free Edition.
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Games The Shop is one of India’s biggest specialized chain of game stores, and provide some of the best stuff- games, consoles, accessories- all under one roof. GTS have recently opened their fourth store in the Wester Suburbs of Mumbai, in one of the largest shopping complexes of the city, Oberoi Mall.
The director of the company, Anand Khemani, said: “Western suburbs of Mumbai required a Game specialist retailer to cater to its gaming needs and we are delighted to introduce “GAMES THE SHOP” to them.”
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Delhi will be getting their own outlets of GTS in the coming few months. Here are some images of the store:


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The First GMO-Free Restaurant?
Posted on Jul 28, 2013
Chipotle Mexican Grill was the first U.S. restaurant chain to label which of its menu items contained genetically engineered ingredients. Now the company is taking its “food with integrity” approach one step further by trying to eliminate GMO products from its menu.
“We decided last fall that this was something that really mattered to us,” said Chris Arnold, Chipotle’s director of communications. “We don’t have a timeline to become GMO-free, but it is something that is very much in our cross hairs.”
Among the steps the company is taking: replacing the soybean oil used to fry its chips, chicken and vegetables with non-GMO sunflower oil. The chain is also experimenting with non-GMO rice oil in its New York restaurants.
“We are working on the things that are within our control,” Arnold said.
That’s not to say there won’t be challenges along the way, however.
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£1,000 'perk' sparks banks war
BARCLAYS bank has opened a new front in the 'battle of the banks' with a current account offering perks it claims are worth up to £1,000 a year.
The deal is the latest skirmish in a cut-throat war, as High Street giants try to tempt dissatisfied customers away from rivals.
Some have introduced interest of up to four per cent on current accounts, others have offered free insurance deals or pledged to protect customers from overpaying on purchases.
The Barclays Additions Plus account includes family travel insurance, breakdown cover for cars and household appliances, a will writing service and other perks which would normally cost £745.
It also offers a £5,000 interest-free overdraft and a £5,000 interest-free Barclaycard for ten months. This brings the value up to around £1,000.
But there are catches. It will run only for a ten-month period, after which customers will have to pay £12 a month to keep the perks. And it will be available only to those who guarantee to pay in at least £1,000 every month.
The offer is the latest shot in the war for customers, sparked by Halifax-Bank of Scotland when it launched a current account paying three per cent interest. It challenged the stranglehold of giants HSBC, Lloyds-TSB, Barclays and RBS-NatWest, who had cornered the market despite a history of offering poor value products.
But this cosy arrangement is in danger of being blown apart. Consumer bodies have been encouraging a switch from the banking giants. Last week, Which? claimed the major banks are effectively overcharging by an average of £400 a year through poor value deals on loans and savings together with high fees.
Barclays said it hopes its new account will help to attract between two and three million customers. Mike Rogers, managing director of Barclays Retail, admitted competition is hotting up, but scoffed at the deals offered by rivals. He said: 'We believe this new account promotion sets a new value standard.
'In financial terms, it gives the customer far more than an interest-bearing current account. Opening a new current account purely on the basis of interest rates misses the point. The interest on £1,000 at the best rate of 4% is about £30 a year after tax. You have to compare that with £1,000 worth of benefits.'
Which? banking spokeswoman Naomi Newman said: 'It is good news that we are starting to see some more competition between the major banks with the result there are some better deals. However, only very small steps are being made. We would still encourage people to switch banks if they feel they are getting a poor deal.'
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FIFA 18 may have the licences but when it comes to realistic gameplay, PES still gives it a serious run for its money.
Now, thanks to some clever modders, there’s a way of making Konami’s game look even more realistic than FIFA – it just takes a very special camera tool.
The ‘Real Life Broadcast’ mod, which can be found here, is available for those who play the game on PC.
It allows you to select height, zoom level and angle – letting you create the perfect, lifelike broadcast package, which puts FIFA 18’s to shame.
Obviously, different stadiums have different views, but the tool can be adjusted to create the perfect experience.
Let’s have a look at a couple of examples.
Just like in real life, the Anfield broadcast camera is high with not much of the crowd visible.
Now let’s take a look at Real Madrid’s home, the Santiago Bernabeu.
Unlike Anfield, the camera here tends to stay very low and zoomed in on the action – again, something the mod is capable of.
There’s more crowd visible at the expense of wider shots of the field – which may make it harder to play from the back.
Still, if you’re after a way of making your FIFA friends jealous, this mod is for you.
Elsewhere, in the world of PES, Konami has promised PES 2019 will be very different to last year’s game.
European Community Leader Adam Bhatti, told Gamesradar: “The reason I’m going is because it marks a very important stage for the PES series.
“There will be significant changes made to the way we produce the game, and what we offer as a package.
“It’s the biggest change to the product in years, something that we began integrating with PES 2018.
“As mentioned earlier this year, we want to shock football fans each year for the next few years, with certain changes that simply wouldn’t be expected from a yearly title.”
Since Bhatti was appointed to the role in 2013, Konami’s flagship footballgame has seen somewhat of a critical revival – with scores often trumping EA Sports’ FIFA.
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A Texel lamb has become the world’s most expensive sheep after being sold for nearly $490,059 at an auction in Scotland.
The sheep called Double Diamond, sold for $490,059 at the Scottish National Texel Sale in Lanark, Scotland.
The bidding started at $14,047 and significantly increased amid fierce competition between different people.
The final bid was made by a partnership of three buyers, setting a world record price for a sheep.
Double Diamond, which was sold by Charlie Boden from Cheshire, is an embryo-bred lamb.
One of the buyers, Jeff Aiken, flock manager at Procters Farm, told Sky News that a lot of breeders had their eye on Double Diamond as he was a “special animal”.
“I knew he was going to be a lot of money but I wasn’t expecting him to make that much,” Aiken said, “He’s just an outstanding animal. He’s a massive lamb with great confirmation and character, some of which is what breeding is all about.”
“But with the pedigree, you start looking at the smaller details of the lamb – you look at his head, the hair color, the color around his eyes, legs, he was just perfect in every way,” he further added.
Originating from the island of Texel in the Netherlands, the sheep breed is popular among British farmers because of their high-quality meat.


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Trinseo will showcase its commitment to sustainability at the K Show (Hall 6, Booth E57) from October 16-24 in Düsseldorf, Germany. At the forefront of its presence at K Show, Trinseo will prominently highlight its activities advancing the circularity of Polystyrene. The materials manufacturer will outline during K Show its plan to offer 30% recycled content to its customers for polystyrene packaging in Europe by 2025.
Sustainable Plastics Portfolio
Trinseo’s Plastics portfolio of sustainable products featured at K Show will include:
- Soft touch plastics, including Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE) bio-based and biodegradable plastics under the trade name of APINAT™
- Polycarbonate containing up to 75% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content in the rigid touch plastics, portfolio, under the EMERGE™ ECO Advanced Resin series
- ENLITE™ PP LGF Structural Polymers will also be featured, offering the automotive industry a sustainable alternative answering the need for weight savings
Rethinking Sustainability, one of Trinseo’s key themes at K Show, highlights how the company is taking the lead on the development of sustainable products through close collaboration with customers and industry leadership.
New Methods for Polystyrene Recycling
As a founding member of Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), a consortium that explores new methods for polystyrene recycling, Trinseo will also highlight its industry leadership in the development of circular solutions and the adoption of novel technologies to find new methods for polystyrene recycling creating an infinitely recyclable and sustainable material.
Close Customer Collaboration
The cornerstone of Rethinking Sustainability for Trinseo at K Show is the importance of close customer collaboration to deliver material solutions that address key market megatrends relating to the environment. In July 2019, Trinseo released its annual Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility report, marking a full year since the company’s adoption of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards.
“Trinseo’s commitment to sustainability and corporate social responsibility drives us to continuously innovate and improve the long-term impact of our products. As a proactive leader for circular solutions, we are Rethinking Sustainability to help bring about meaningful, positive change,” said Catherine Keenan, Vice President, Public Affairs, Sustainability and Environment, Health and Safety.
During K Show, Trinseo will highlight at its press breakfast on Thursday, October 17, the company’s plan to offer an average of 30% recycled content for its polystyrene packaging customers in Europe by 2025.
Additionally, Trinseo will host a workshop on its stand during K Show demonstrating its leadership in implementing Operation Clean Sweep. As a member of the Circular Plastics Alliance, Trinseo has re-pledged its commitment to Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) the industry initiative to help keep plastic granules out of the marine environment.
Join Trinseo in Hall 6 at Booth E57 to learn more about Rethinking Sustainability.


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It’s not just phones that are being used, TV and radio is peppered with adverts too
Manchester, UK (PRWEB UK) 21 November 2012
The PPI scandal has rocked the financial world in the UK, with few lenders left unaffected by the largest compensation scheme in British history. Likewise few financial consumers have been left un-texted or un-called by claims management companies hoping to secure their business.
According to the MOJ there are around 1000 claims management companies (CMC’s) dedicated to the refunding of mis sold PPI and they stand to gain in the region of £2bn when all compensation is refunded. While many don’t solicit business through cold calling or texting, which is illegal, many do end up legitimately buying customer details that have been sought this way.
Speaking about the issue Adam Fisher, Claims Manager at http://www.FastPPIClaims.org, said: “The issue of harassing texts and phone calls has been around since the beginning of the claims industry and it’s become a lot worse thanks to some PPI companies, it’s not just phones that are being used, TV and radio is peppered with adverts too.”
He added: “By overwhelming the customer with annoying and unwanted marketing messages, PPI companies end up putting people off rather than encouraging them to claim. This is why FastPPIClaims.com don’t do any advertising or phone marketing, we have a website full of information and if people want to claim, they can, with no pressure.”
The problem of cold calls and texts from PPI claims companies has been highlighted recently with Justice minister Lord McNally having written to regulator about his own experiences. The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is currently receiving around 10,000 complaints a month about unsolicited PPI calls, but as yet hasn’t issued a fine for nuisance calling.
Speaking about the problem, Executive Director of Which?, Richard Lloyd, said: 'Our research found that people who sign up to the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) have about a third fewer cold calls, so it is useful. But firms calling from overseas or flouting the rules are still getting away with it.'
Some individuals are fighting back themselves, businessman Richard Herman invoiced one firm £10 for every minute he wasted dealing with their phone calls. After not paying it he took the company to court, taking call recordings with him as incontrovertible proof, the decision went in his favour.
As well as wanting contracts with CMC's to be in writing and not simply verbal; the MOJ are also investigating claims management businesses believed to be commissioning and/or receiving the leads generated from unsolicited texts. As ever; the challenge is identifying who is responsible for the texts and building up sufficient evidence of abuses to take enforcement action.


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By David Kaplan
While YouTube and its parent Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have been promoting ad overlays as the best format for supporting online video, the video site has been slowly employing post-roll the past few weeks, NewTeeVee has confirmed. YouTube began considering using post-rolls to augment its pre-roll and overlay ads this summer. But the decision to go ahead with the format represents something of a reversal for the site. In July, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company had evidence that embedded video ads were much more effective than both pre- and post-roll. Users probably won't feel too put out by the introduction of post-roll, which can obviously be avoided since the video a user chose has already concluded. But it does suggest that YouTube is still struggling with its ad strategy. And as NewTeeVee pointed out, post-roll only runs on a sliver of the roughly 4 percent YouTube videos uploaded by official partners taking part in the site's revenue-share deal.
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(TheLastPatriotNews.com) – BREAKING OVERNIGHT: According to witness accounts from the crime scene, a store “manager” at a Walmart in Virginia shot and killed six people before turning the gun on himself.
The New York Post is reporting in, “At least seven dead after ‘manager’ opens fire in Virginia Walmart“:
“Seven people died at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday night in a shooting rampage that an employee claimed was carried out by a store manager who then turned the gun on himself.
“Officers responded about 10:15 p.m. to a report of a shooting at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake, where they found multiple dead people and injured, police said.
“The city said in a tweet at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday that there were seven fatalities, including the shooter.”
As for the identity of the shooter:
“‘It was wild. It was a manager – one of the managers,’ an employee in a Walmart uniform said in a Facebook livestream, explaining that he narrowly avoided being killed in the rampage.
“‘He blew his brains out and everything. He killed the girl in there and everything. He came in and started spraying. I’m sorry for the victims,’ he said.
“‘I just left the break room … the manager come in there and started capping people up in there, started shooting. Sadly, we lost a few of our associates,’ he added as a woman was heard crying at his side.”
As of this report, police have not confirmed that the shooter was a store manager.
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