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Dallas-based i2 Technologies Inc., provider of supply chain, transportation/distribution and order fulfillment technology, has received a $15 million equity investment from Q Investments, a private investment firm and one of i2`s significant investors.
As a result of the investment, Q Investments acquired an additional 1.92 million shares of the company`s common stock priced at $7.80 per share, the closing price on June 23 when the investment was approved by the i2 board of directors. This investment increased Q Investments` equity holdings in i2 to approximately 7.6 million shares, representing just over 30% ownership of the company.
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I2 says the two transactions represent a significant effort to close the company’s cash-to-debt gap of $40 million. It had approximately $277 million in cash and equivalents as of March 31 and approximately $317 million in debt due at the end of 2006. "I2 is committed to achieving financial stability to earn the confidence of our customers and shareholders and this investment is one element of our plan to eliminate this cash-to-debt gap as soon as possible," said i2 CEO Michael McGrath.
"Our latest investment in i2 demonstrates our continued confidence in the company`s products, management, industry leadership and market opportunity," said Michael Diament of Q Investments. "This investment helps i2 improve its net debt position and demonstrates our commitment to i2`s future."

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Many economists are expecting a recession in the U.S. sooner than later, but one CEO isn’t worried.
Any signs of economic trouble are “certainly not affecting business at the moment,” Fender CEO Andy Mooney told Yahoo Finance in an interview in New York City. “Any business category where there is an emotional connection, sport from my Nike experience, music from my Fender experiences, those businesses are not recession-proof, but the recession-resistant.”
Mooney added: “The American consumer is especially resilient. … They are increasingly discerning, I believe in terms of the product purchasing and ... they're very bankable for the long run.”
Bullish on guitars
“The guitar industry has been growing steadily for the last decade on average high single-digit, low double-digit growth,” said Mooney. “Our growth has actually been outpacing industry growth because we have been gaining share in almost every category over the last five years.”
Unlike competitor Gibson, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year with as much as $500 million in debt, Fender made slightly more than $560 million in global revenue in 2018, according to the company.
Fender’s appeal to women
The legendary American guitar maker, which counts heavyweights like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix as its customers, has had a solid run since it was founded in 1946. The privately-held company made history in the 1950s by introducing the Telecaster, which quickly became a hit. It followed up with the Stratocaster in 1954.
Mooney noted that over the years, women have become a big part of the Fender equation. According to the company, about 50% of new guitar buyers are women. And despite being big-ticket items, women were “predominantly buying it online,” Mooney added.
“The in-store environment can be pretty inhospitable for a first time player,” he explained. “And I think even more so for women because they don't have a lot of female sales associates to relate to.”
At the same time, the company is facing some pressure in the UK: The company’s European arm is facing allegations by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that involve alleged pressuring of companies to sell its instruments at high minimum prices. Mooney said that the company was working on it.
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Analyst Believes With The 5G iPhone Expected Next Year, Major iPhone Upgrades Will be Pushed Too
According to CNBC, analyst Jun Zhang said in a note to clients that he believes Apple will face fundamental deterioration over the next six to 12 months.
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Apple shares fell nearly 1.5 per cent on Monday after research and investment banking brokerage firm Rosenblatt Securities downgraded the iPhone maker to "sell" from "neutral". According to CNBC, analyst Jun Zhang said in a note to clients that "We believe Apple will face fundamental deterioration over the next six to 12 months".
"Adding to our ‘sell' thesis, we believe new iPhone sales will be disappointing, iPad sales growth will slow in the second half of 2019, other product sales growth, such as the HomePod, AirPod, and iWatch, may not be meaningful to support total revenue growth," said the analyst. The Cupertino-based giant would, however, maintain its $150 price target, said the analyst.
Apple's shares were down to $200.90 in early trading. According to Business Insider, Apple received a downgrade from Rosenblatt Securities owing to slow iPhone sales in June and expected production cuts for the XR model. "We believe Apple reduced iPhone XR production for Q3 in order to prepare for the ramp of the new iPhone models and because of weakness in sales in Q2," Zhang added.
The company has made a new push towards generating revenues from launching services such as Apple TV+, Apple News and Apple Music.
The new iPhone, likely to be launched in September, is expected to house a triple-camera system and a new chipset.
"With limited upgrades for the new iPhone models in the fall and expectations of a 5G iPhone in 2020, we expect major iPhone upgrades to be pushed out to the second half of 2020," said Zhang, adding that iPhone XS may have been "one of the worst selling iPhone models in the history of Apple".
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The popular Chinese smartphone brand Oppo recently teased the India launching of its new Oppo Reno 8 series without revealing the launching date but there is a report which suggested that the company will announce the device in the country on July 21. Now before the launching of the upcoming devices, the specifications of the latest Oppo Reno 8 Pro and Reno 8 have surfaced online along with the details about the new Oppo Pad Air. So let’s get into the article to check out the newly surfaced details about the latest Oppo devices.
Oppo Reno 8
It is reported that the Indian variant of the latest Oppo Reno 8 smartphone will feature a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with a 90.8 percent screen-to-body and a 90Hz refresh rate along with a 20:9 aspect ratio and 409ppi pixel density.
It is also said that the device will feature a triple rear camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide lens, and a 2-megapixel macro camera. The smartphone will feature a 32-megapixel Sony IMX709 sensor on the front.
The source also claims that the device will house a 4500mAh battery with 80W fast charging technology and it will run ColorOS12 based on Android 12 out of the box. It is also reported that the device will be available in the colour options such as Shimmer Gold and Shimmer Black.
Oppo Reno 8 Pro
Coming to the Oppo Reno 8 Pro Indian variant, it is reported that the device will be powered by Dimensity 8100-Max mobile processor along with Oppo’s proprietary Marisilicon X imaging chip. The source also claims that the device will feature dual Sony flagship sensors and will be capable of recording 4K Ultra Night and 4K Ultra HDR Video.
It is also reported that the device will have a fingerprint scanner and that will enable you to unlock the smartphone in just 0.2 seconds. The smartphone is expected to arrive with up to 12GB RAM and 256GB storage and the device is believed to be priced between ₹42,000-₹46,000 in India.
Oppo Pad Air
The source says that the Indian variant of the latest Oppo Pad Air will feature a 10.36-inch 2K IPS LCD display along with quad stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos.
It is also reported that the device will be powered by the Snapdragon 680 chipset along with a 7100mAh battery with an 18W fast charging solution. The device will be available with 4GB (Plus 3GB virtual) RAM and 128GB storage.
Separately, it is reported that the company will also launch an affordable tablet in the market of India and the same will be an online-focused device. It is also reported that the device will be priced between ₹10,000 and ₹15,000 serial but the source did not reveal any information about the specifications of the device.
So let’s wait for a confirmation and we recommend you to stay tuned with us for the latest updates from the technological world at your fingertips.
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ACH payment volume increased by more than 475 million transactions in 2009, bringing year-end total transaction volume to 18.76 billion, a 2.6 percent increase over 2008 activity, according to NACHA, the electronic payments association. Year-over-year comparisons demonstrated strong volume increases in ACH native electronic payments — direct deposit, consumer internet transactions, and B2B transactions — and in back office check conversion. In addition, NACHA is reporting a continued positive trend in risk mitigation, witnessed by the ongoing decline in the unauthorized debit volume.
While ACH volume continues to increase, unauthorized debits have been on a multi-year downward trajectory. The number of ACH debits returned as unauthorized in 2009 declined 9.6 percent over 2008. These transactions constitute 0.02 percent of total network volume.
ACH native electronic payments (non-check conversion transactions) increased by 4.15 percent in 2009, showing an increased preference for non-check, fully-electronic, payment options. These payments constituted 12.19 billion transactions on the ACH Network.
Direct deposit continues to deliver a big chunk of network volume. For 2009 year-end, there were 4.54 billion direct deposit payments, an increase of 4.9 percent over 2008, despite the 10% unemployment rate.
B2B transaction volume was up to more than two billion payments in 2009, an increase of 3.2 percent over 2008. The largest growth was in corporate trade exchange transactions, which carry business remittance information along with the payment. These payments increased by 9.19 percent over 2008, reaching more than 60 million transactions. In addition, the number of B2B addenda records with the remittance information increased by 8.52 percent year-over-year. The increases in this transaction volume and addenda records with remittance information demonstrates that growth continues for companies using the ACH Network for transmitting robust information.
Overall, year-end 2009 consumer Internet transactions were up 8.75 percent to nearly 2.4 billion payments. Internet-initiated volume has been on an upward trajectory which continued through the close of 2009 with a substantial 9.7 percent increase over 2008. NACHA and ACH Network participants have continued to manage risk well on these transactions. Year-over-year comparisons show a significant 13 percent decline in the number of unauthorized web debits, with an overall unauthorized rate of return at a nominal 0.04 percent.
Back Office Conversion continued its growth pattern as more companies seek ways to streamline administrative tasks for processing checks presented by their customers. In 2009, BOC transaction volume more than doubled (104.56 percent) over 2008, resulting in 160.5 million transactions.
Comparing 2008 and 2009, total federal government ACH transactions increased by 5.52 percent to 1.21 billion transactions, while dollars increased 7.22 percent to $4.29 trillion. The Treasury's Financial Management Service has released data that indicates that the federal government saves $0.925 for every ACH credit used instead of a check. In 2009, there were 1.08 billion government ACH credits, representing a $1 billion cost savings for the federal government.
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The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce is reaching out to the Charleston City Council, board members, top investors in the chamber, and others in an effort to promote and and support the plans to redevelop downtown's Union Pier property.
The idea is to educate the business community on the $37 million economic impact that the cruise ship industry brings to the area in order to get support to build a brand new cruise terminal that would be pleasing to the eye as well as better manage traffic in downtown Charleston.
The reason for supporting the cruise business and the Union Pier plan is the broad economic contribution of both the port and the cruise industry to Charleston,” the chamber said in a statement released yesterday. “Thirty-three percent of cruise visitor are coming to Charleston for one to two nights ahead of embarkation and staying in area hotels, dining out and visiting attractions. More importantly, an estimated 40% of visitors are coming to Charleston for the first time.
First impressions mean a lot, and the Chamber hopes to make a lasting one with the Union Pier redesign.
Head over to the Charleston Regional Business Journal for the details.


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Los Angeles, CA – Action Shot™ camera kicked things off with a bang at this year’s X Games 17 with athletes Travis Pastrana and Rob Dyrdek unveiling the brand new Action Shot™ camera to the public. The two mega-celebrities showcased the new affordable POV camera during an autograph signing to hundreds of fans at the ESPN Zone in LA Live.
Before the doors were even opened, over 500 fans had already lined up outside the unveiling to get a glimpse of the new camera and receive photos and autographs from their favorite athletes. Not only did fans receive autographs from Travis and Rob, but the first 40 fans in line, some of whom were camped out since 5am, received an Action Shot™ camera before they even hit shelves nationwide. The lucky recipients were able to use their Action Shot™ cameras and get personal greetings and messages from Pastrana and Dyrdek themselves.
In addition to the cameras, fans got to see the entire product line on display, which includes, waterproof casings ($19.99), high impact cases ($9.99), deluxe mounting kits ($24.99) and portable video viewers ($29.99). All of which brings the Action Shot™ camera ($49.99) to the next level.
Travis and Rob had a blast with their fans and wanted to thank everyone who came out to see the newest, most affordable, user-friendly POV camera out there. Action Shot™ hits shelves at Walmart, Target, Toys R’ Us and Kmart nationwide August 1st. Go be one of the first to grab your Action Shot™ so you can Shoot it and Share it just like Travis and Rob.


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The Skate franchise was never as popular as its main rival Tony Hawk, but the trilogy of games still garnered a die-hard fanbase that's eagerly awaiting a new entry. However, while those fans celebrated the addition of Skate 2 to the Xbox backward compatibility list (as a nostalgic stopgap, if nothing else), publisher EA almost immediately put a damper on the excitement by emphasizing that it's still turning Skate 2's servers off this December.
To be fair to our corporate overlords, maintaining the server infrastructure for legacy games is a notable expense, though some of these titles likely still earn the companies revenue on digital storefronts. Still, it's unfortunate timing, especially considering that fans have been asking for Skate 2 to be added to the Xbox One and Xbox Series X backward compatibility list for years now.
Turn switch to "off" — In a tweet responding to Xbox's expansion of its library, the official Skate Twitter account stated that the servers for the game will be turned off on December 10, 2021 on both Xbox and PlayStation. "It's not an easy decision and not something we take lightly," the post states in part. As you might expect, the top reply to the tweet castigates EA for "killing the mood" brought on by the announcement. Oof.
Let's be honest: there probably aren't that many people playing Skate 2 these days on any given weekday, though we might be wrong. That said, this move by Xbox is exactly the sort of thing that would give the game a second wind, if only for a few weeks or so. At least you can still play the game's single-player mode.
The wait continues — Though the Skate series hasn't seen a fresh entry since 2010's Skate 3, EA announced that it was reviving the series back in 2020 with a new studio called Full Circle. There's still no real word on what that new Skate game will be like, or if it'll even be called Skate 4, but at least that's something that franchise fans can look forward to. In the meantime, there's always Skate 3, which was way better than Skate 2 anyway.


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eBay plans to accept payments in Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum.
Reports indicate that e-commerce and retail giants “eBay” will soon enter the cryptocurrency world, by accepting payments in cryptocurrency.
Over the past 12 months, many large companies and corporations such as AMC theatres and PayPal have accepted crypto payments.
Does eBay accept encrypted payments?
According to a report by the news website The Street, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone said that eBay will make an important announcement on March 10. Which includes the company’s ability to accept payments in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum).” He said, “We don’t accept cryptocurrencies right now. But on March 10th, we’ll go deeper into all of these things, payments, and ads. Cryptocurrency payments, a way to attract a young audience to our platform.”
He continued, “The company already accepts NFT tokens trading. It may soon accept cryptocurrency payments.” Currently, eBay has yet to provide a specific date regarding the market acceptance of crypto payments.


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SteamDB, a website that logs new listings on Steam and not affiliated with Valve, recently logged a new listing for a product that is very likely to be the PS5 exclusive Returnal.
The game, codenamed “Oregon,” is accompanied with tags such as “rogue-like,” “sci-fi,” and “bullet hell,” all appropriate descriptions for Returnal. What’s more is that there are also references to “Tower of Sisyphus” and “Atropos,” both of which appear in the 2021 game developed by Housemarque.
Returnal was also listed in the massive NVIDIA GeForce Now leak from September of last year, which documented thousands of titles that are claimed to be moving to Steam.
If true, Returnal would join fellow Sony titles Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and God of War in appearing on PC. PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan also recently made statements that he would like to see at least half of their game releases to also be on PC and mobile by 2025.
What do you think? Will Returnal soon be making its way to Steam? What other PlayStation properties would you like to see on PC? Leave your thoughts in the comment section, and join our official Discord server for more video game discussions!


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McDonald’s Great Britain adds a new element to its Festive menu 2022 – and it should be a hit with fans of the most important meal of the day. The Mighty McMuffin will appear on the fast food giant’s breakfast menu later this month, joining this year’s Christmas offer list alongside McCrispieBig Delicious Festive cakeCheese Melts and McFlurry’s Celebration.
The new breakfast treat features a delicious McMuffin with sausage, egg, bacon, cheese and ketchup or brown sauce. You can choose one for £3.99 on its own or for £5.59 as a meal with hash brown waffles or young potato waffles, which were announced as part of a big menu change in October.
McDonald’s also announced the launch of its annual Reindeer Ready Christmas Card Tour, where friends and families can take and pick up a holiday photo to send to loved ones, along with free McDonald’s holiday food offered at each stop. The tour will stop in the following cities:
- ColchesterTollgate Centre, Stanway, Colchester – Wednesday 23 November
- SwindonOrbital Shopping Park, Thamesdown Dr, Swindon SN25 4AN, 2-6pm – Thursday 24 November
- DerbyMeteor Retail Park, Mansfield Rd, Derby DE21 4SY, 3-7pm – Friday 25 November
- LlandadnoMostyn Champney Retail Park, Llandudno LL30 1RY, 2pm-6pm – Saturday 26 November
- DoncasterWheatley Center Retail Park, Wheatley Hall Rd, Doncaster DN2 4PE, 12.30pm-4.30pm – Sunday 27 November
McDonald’s 2022 holiday menu items and prices
- Mighty McMuffin: £3.99 on its own or £5.59 as a meal
- Great taste: £5.29 on its own or £6.89 as a meal
- Big Tasty with bacon: £5.89 on its own or £7.49 as a meal
- McCrispie: £4.99 or £6.49 as part of a meal
- Porridge for melting cheese: £2.29 per bag of four or £5.99 per promotion
- McFlurry Celebrations: £1.79
- Festive cake: £1.29
When does McDonald’s holiday menu start in stores?
https://www.farminglife.com/read-this/mcdonalds-announces-surprise-new-breakfast-item-just-in-time-for-launch-of-the-festive-menu-2022-in-stores-3927412 McDonald’s announces a new holiday menu item


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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 5:24am
Reader Terry Westley points us to yet another example of how companies are recognizing that content is advertising. Disney has apparently released a free iPhone game that's fun on its own, but which also serves to help promote an upcoming movie release. While some will dismiss this as just being a cheap way of advertising, you have to wonder what happens when movie makers start making these sorts of games really, really good. Then what happens to game developers who think they can get away with charging for their mobile phone games? Suddenly it becomes a lot harder to support that model if there are other businesses that are using a model where, the more games that are given away for free, the more it helps the rest of their business.
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Same-day delivery's for suckers – now a Chinese ecommerce giant has three-hour delivery
A couple of days ago, we flagged Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers partner Mary Meeker's presentation at the D11 conference, and looked at the special attention she paid to China. Among the many data points she had to share about the world's biggest Internet market, Meeker included a slide that showed how ecommerce giant Jingdong (formerly 360buy) offers same-day delivery in more than 25 cities. The delivery routes, she noted, could be tracked via a map, and shoppers could even make contact with the delivery people as they did the job.
Well, today, Jingdong has more news on the same-day delivery front, and guess what: It's getting even faster. The company has announced that it is introducing three-hour delivery, and it is expanding its same-day delivery order hours from 11am to 3pm. That means that while shoppers once had to place an order before 11am to receive the shipment the same day, they now have up until 3pm, meaning the orders will arrive between 7pm and 10pm.
The new delivery options are available in six major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
In the US, of course, even Amazon is just getting started with same-day delivery, and Google made a big show of starting a trial program in one city: San Francisco. Crowdsourcing startup Deliv is focused solely on the same-day delivery challenge. The consequences are significant, with Farhad Manjoo predicting that Amazon's same-day delivery service will eventually destroy local retail.
In China, the consequences are more significant along intra-sector competitive lines, with Jingdong constantly trying to step up its game against Alibaba's dominant Taobao and Tmall while trying to fend off other online retailers, such as electronics giants Some and Suning.
The stakes are high for Jingdong, which has raised more than $2 billion in venture capital, including a $700 million round in February led by a Saudi prince, and is still not profitable. Analysts interpreted the giant funding round as a sign that Jingdong will be racing Alibaba to a public offering. The retailer has reportedly had to delay IPO plans in the past, amid suggestions that is has been bleeding cash in the price wars that have characterized China's ecommerce sector in recent years, and that it has "lousy operating margins."
While Jingdong is expected to be profitable by as early as the end of this year, some analysts think it still may not go public until 2014 as it spends the intervening time building up its logistics network.
Three-hour delivery might help push that mission forward, but even if the move looks good on the consumer side for Jingdong, it's not going to make life any easier on the backend.
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Not only have business-to-business sales on the Internet risen steadily from January to September last year, online consumer spending has not dwindled with the downturn.
According to the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), business-to-business revenues among locally based companies rose 26 percent to $15.9 billion (S$29 billion) in the third quarter of 2001, from $12.6 billion in the first quarter. Online business-to-consumer sales also grew 13 percent to $355 million in the September quarter, from $314 million in the March quarter.
These are the first findings from a series of quarterly e-commerce surveys conducted by the IDA. The inaugural study kicked off last April as a joint effort with the Gartner Group, involving interviews with 2,000 locally based companies.
Explaining the upward trend, IDA Online Development Group Chief Executive Kaizad Heerjee said, "There is a critical mass of consumers for e-commerce, and companies are taking advantage of it.
"They see that e-commerce is a growth accelerator...and are adhering to it to make their businesses more profitable," Heerjee said.
"In today's economy, when competition is global, having an e-business will also give them an edge over competitors," he added.
He could not say if such growth will be sustainable this year. However, the IDA expects last year's B2B and business-to-consumer revenues to top $60 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively. This is compared with about $50.9 billion in B2B sales in 2000. The figures for 2000 were supported by a more extensive annual study conducted by the IDA and Singapore's Department of Statistics.
From January to September last year, the wholesale and retail sector in the B2B space registered the highest growth of 68 percent to $6.3 billion in sales. This segment was also the largest contributor in terms of revenue, with about 39 percent share of the online B2B market in the third quarter. This was followed by the banking and finance industry, which had about 35 percent share.
Meanwhile, the banking and finance segment in the business-to-consumer arena posted the highest growth rate of 25 percent over the January-to-September period; online sales were $222 million in the third quarter. The industry alone accounted for over 60 percent of the total business-to-consumer revenues in that quarter.
Hardest hit was the manufacturing field, which saw online B2B sales plummet almost 50 percent to $931 million over the nine months. In the business-to-consumer space, the segment also dipped 50 percent to $22 million in the same period.
As Heerjee noted, "The decline is in line with the downturn in the manufacturing sector."
According to figures earlier released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, revenues from manufacturing exports were down 12 percent last year after a sterling 15 percent expansion in 2000. The sharp contraction was attributed to a lower demand for electronics products and the weak U.S. economy.
Irene Tham reported from Singapore.


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Johor Sultan drove Mahathir to the airport in his first-gen Proton Saga: Here are 5 things to know about the classic Malaysian car
Did you know the first-gen Proton Saga won prestigious awards in the UK? Here are 5 things to know about the Proton Saga.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said it will allow Proton to tap its green-car technology.
Jaguar Land Rover says 40,000 UK jobs and £80 billion of investment are threatened by a ‘bad Brexit’
Jaguar Land Rover is Britain's biggest car manufacturer and exporter. One in three cars sent overseas by the UK are Jaguars or Land Rovers and 80% of the 621,000 cars it sold in 2017 were sold internationally. 20% went to Europe.


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In recent times, there have been increasing concerns around data breaches and other security threats among companies and individuals alike. The use of new techniques and complex technologies has been both a bane and a boon here. Some stakeholders believe that the risk of data breach increases with growing technology adoption, while others believe that it can be mitigated. In a time when businesses are moving towards a paperless world, it is imperative for both companies and individuals to be aware about safeguarding their digital information.
Understanding the risk quotient
The risks associated with technology adoption cannot be ignored. It has been observed that many organisations may put themselves and their customers at risk by not following the basic procedures to defend themselves from data breaches.
Seasoned cyber criminals could have a defined approach and focus on targeting specific devices, mainly used by top chief executive officers (CEOs) and executives, for obtaining and then selling or utilising the data.
In many large data breaches, the cyber criminals adopted low-tech approach in contradiction to general perception that data breaches involve complex techniques. This revelation led to a need to take a deeper look at how companies could potentially be exposing their confidential data due to oversight and ignorance in areas that are not top priorities in their cyber defence agenda.
We conducted an exercise to highlight how the confidential data of both companies and individuals be available in the open market. As part of the study, previously used (second hand) hard drives and mobile phones were purchased from online portals and local shops that sell used (and old) devices.
The focus of the exercise was to obtain a fairly wide mix of devices, ranging from different models and specifications, which would be used by companies as well as individuals. We prepared a database containing model numbers of hard drives and mobile devices that companies and individuals use. A specific model number of hard drive is typically used on network attached storage devices that store files of employees at a central location. This would generally contain confidential and sensitive data.
The team mined the online and physical market place to identify used devices on sale that matched the required model number.
A forensic data retrieval exercise was conducted on 25 devices, comprising 15 hard disks (of tablets and laptops) and 10 smart phones. This resulted in the recovery of 248,747 documents. Out of these, there were about 15,557 word documents, 22,192 excel sheets, 11,942 PDF documents, and 31 e-mail files. We also identified large amounts of insecurely deleted data, which we could easily recover using basic forensic techniques.
The objective was to evaluate the risks that companies could potentially face due to improper disposal of enterprise storage devices and how forensic data recovery procedures are capable of retrieving confidential data that could compromise organisations. The exercise further revealed that the recovered data could identify the company, individual and financial or strategic information, which in reality could have been misused by cyber-criminals or even competitors. Closer analysis showed that in some cases, users had not wiped their personal data through factory reset or deleted their email configuration on mobile phones. This meant, that on inserting a new SIM card or activating Wi-Fi, the (previous) user’s emails started syncing again and were accessible.
In addition, your current mobile device may be vulnerable to data theft. As most individuals use these for official as well as personal usage, the risk may be higher as they would want to share files or folders from people beyond the company, install multiple applications (open source paid applications), use external hardware to store or transfer files and folders, and even have unauthorised downloads. These may, with or without the intent of the employee or any third party, result in theft or compromise of important confidential enterprise data and credentials.
What could be done?
Safeguarding business data is paramount, and companies could implement mandatory encryption policies on both computers and mobile devices. When disposing old IT assets, their storage can be forensically wiped and a maker-checker control implemented to cover all devices. In case of loss or theft, procedures could be set up for employees to alert the organisation and facilitate wiping the data remotely. Individuals can also enable encryption and remote wipe features on their devices as an added measure.
To minimise losing essential and confidential data, employees can keep separate official and personal devices, or at the least, personal usage should be done in partitions or virtual machines (depending on device) that are configured by the IT security department.
Employees should also refrain from installing any application from unknown or untrusted sources, and inform IT if any specific software or applications are required.
They could also avoid connecting to unknown external devices to transfer data, especially from official laptops, by setting up a strong IT security infrastructure. Companies can also institutionalise strict procedures for disposal of enterprise devices. Most of these will also be relevant and available to individuals, and not just companies to mitigate potential data breaches.
The above article first appeared in Mint and can be accessed here http://bit.ly/2oxatnt


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January 24, 2020: The long awaited free-trade access the US now enjoys with Canada and Mexico, has sent exports of feed ingredients, feed and pet food soaring!
Since the vital implementation of the much-welcomed, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), these key exports have now more than quadrupled to over over US$3.2 billion. Back in 1993 exports of these products to Canada and Mexico were just US$669 million.
Constance Cullman, President and CEO of the American Food Industry Association (AFIA), said:“I am excited for the opportunities that will come from the implementation of – the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USMCA access builds on the success of NAFTA by facilitating greater market access, regulatory transparency and accountability among the three trading partners.
For sure, it also sends a message to our other trading partners that the United States is serious about enhancing trading relationships, supporting U.S. businesses and exports and setting a new standard for how trade agreements with the United States are expected to appear.
In addition, many American Feed Industry members operate integrated businesses – where they have operations in the United States, Mexico and Canada – and, thus, the USMCA trade agreement will certainly further facilitate activity growth across all their variously located business units,” added Ms Cullman.
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Sky Expands Partnership With HBO to Counter Netflix on Drama
20 April, 2017, 11:40 | Author: Alberta Rodriguez
The entertainment and communications group which owns Sky News reported growth in customer numbers across its European markets on Thursday, but warned that the broader consumer environment remained "uncertain".
A fall in operating profits for the first nine months of Sky's financial year overshadowed a rise in revenues, the company said in an earnings statement.
SKY has said rising costs from screening Premier League football and a "weaker United Kingdom advertising market" has dragged on profits.
Helped by the weak pound, revenue rose 11% year-on-year to £9.64bn, while growth on a constant currency basis stood at 5%. Over the past twelve months, Sky plc added 769,000 new customers, including growth of 106,000 in the third quarter, and taking total customer base to 22.4 million households.
However, when stripping out the impact of the TV rights, costs rose by just 2%, despite the roll out of its new Sky Q product in the United Kingdom and launch of Sky Mobile, and Sky+ Pro in Germany.
Sky is the subject of a £11.7 billion takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox.
The tie-up stirred fears that the Murdoch family would gain too much control over Britain's media and the United Kingdom government has announced its own probe into the deal. The companies will aim to get the first production onscreen in 2018. In late 2014, Sky changed its name from BSkyB after buying Sky Italia and a majority holding in Sky Deutschland.
"HBO and Sky have for many years shared a common creative culture and a common vision for the development of high quality drama", said Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch. Revenues from the UK & Ireland lifted 4 percent.
"Looking forward, we enter the final quarter of our fiscal year in good shape".
But Theresa May's decision to call a snap general election little more than a month later on June 8 put that in doubt. Another general election in the United Kingdom wasn't scheduled until 2020, hence the need for a Parliamentary vote.
Guo has been linked to Ma Jian, a former deputy head of China's intelligence service who was charged with corruption in February. Chinese President Xi Jinping sees extravagance and corruption as an existential threat to the Communist Party.
The spokesman said Manafort is "taking appropriate steps in response to the guidance" he was given by the Justice Department. Information for this article was contributed by Nataliya Vasilyeva, Lynn Berry and Stephen Braun of The Associated Press .
Demetra Turner, 44, a resident of the West Calumet Housing Complex who has yet to leave, urged others to keep pressure on the EPA. Geertsman explained East Chicago and the state of IN have a poor history with treating the city's drinking water for lead.
Bruce Young, Silverman Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University Langone Medical Center. Williams won the Australian Open in January, beating her sister Venus in the championship round.
Although debris from MH370 has washed up onto African beaches and islands in the Indian Ocean, the main wreckage was never found. The airline reached a deal for the service provided by US-based Aireon , FlightAware and SITAONAIR .
Previously, if the need arose, an employee could use the Uber app to have a auto pick up their client or customer. The Uber Central dashboard, which is available worldwide, also lets employees track the status of rides.
He added that Japan needed to apply pressure on Pyongyang to "seriously respond to a dialogue" with the global community. Zhongnanhai sells the trucks to a dealer in the border city of Dandong before they are resold to North Korea, he said.
Ayo Oke was pictured trying to get through to the Vice President's office but was denied entry by security operatives. The National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which led by Mr Oke, had laid claim to the money, Mr Buhari's office said.
Nintendo Switch firmware 2.2.0 download available now
With the scarcity of the Nintendo Switch , the idea of getting hold of an emulator can be awfully attractive. The applications may give you misleading information about computer problems when there aren't any problems.
Nintendo's first Switch sales numbers are out
Nintendo says the Switch is its fastest-selling console in history - besting the Wii and the Super Nintendo, among others. That means Nintendo sold more copies of Breath of the Wild for the Switch than it sold of the Switch console itself.


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Some major sports teams have official products, such as an official drink or service. But why not have an official 3D printer?
It could make sense; imagine an american football team that has custom-printed pads, each precisely fitting the players. They could be made onsite and on demand. Pro teams typically spare no expense for equipment, so any additional cost due to 3D printing wouldn’t be noticed. In fact, the equipment might even be donated by the manufacturer in exchange for the publicity of being the “official 3D printer” of the team.
Why hasn’t this happened yet? We think it’s because there’s a missing link between the printers and the application. Today, even if a manufacturer made such an offer, someone would have to create the software, tools and designs to make the “custom pads” or other products used by a team. Today that isn’t the case.
But it could be, if someone took up the challenge. We suspect they’d easily partner with any of the major 3D printing companies.


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Digital Unveils Upgraded Ultrix Operating System
The Associated Press
August 23, 1988
BOSTON -- Digital Equipment Corp. on Tuesday unveiled an upgraded version of its Ultrix software in what analysts said was a new commitment to software that many brands of computers can use.
In a surprise, Digital also said that 10 percent of its revenue _ almost $1 billion _ came from computer systems that primarily use the Ultrix operating system.
Digital, the No. 2 computer maker behind International Business Machines Corp., also announced new software for hooking computers of different makes together in networks.
Digital's Ultrix is a base layer of software that allows customers to run the same programs on a variety of different computers. It is a version of the Unix software created by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Digital said its new Ultrix is the first that complies with all industry standards and specifications, including the ones announced Monday by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The new version of Ultrix, called Ultrix-32 Version 3, ranges in price from $2,100 to $56,000.
Digital until last year had been reluctant to give wholehearted support to Ultrix, preferring that customers use its own VMS software, which only works on Digital computers.
"What Digital is recognizing is that they will have to meet the user demand for open systems and they are prepared to put money and organizational commitment behind that," said Nina Lytton, an analyst with the Yankee Group.
Digital said the new Ultrix software is applicable to engineering computing, scientific research, government agencies, and aerospace, automotive and oil industries.
"I think we're responding to a marketplace change in demand," said Don McInnis, Digital's vice president for engineering systems. "More and more customers are interested in open operating systems and we'll be responsive to that."
Digital also played a role in founding the $100 million Open Software Foundation, which announced Monday it would set up headquarters in Cambridge. Digital, IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and four other big computer makers formed the consortium to develop a software operating system that no single company would control.
Industry analysts viewed the project as a move by those computer makers against AT&T and its partner, Sun Microsystems Inc., which together controlled the popular Unix operating system.
Digital in September 1987 reorganized its marketing structure to include operating systems and in December appointed two vice presidents responsible for Ultrix, marking a major change in emphasis.
At the news conference, Digital said revenue from computers, software and services based on its Ultrix operating system now accounts for about 10 percent of total revenue. Digital last year reported revenues of $9.39 billion.
"It seems to have been a well-kept secret on the outside," independent analyst Sonny Monosson said. "I never realized it was so high."
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Sega has announced that Yakuza 5 will finally be coming west sometime in mid-November, “if all goes to schedule.” (Editor’s Note: Sega has changed the blog to just say TBA 2015, so we’ll see if this release window is a solid one).
The publisher talked up the game’s English localization over on their official blog:
“Unfortunately, it’s a little later than we would’ve liked, and a few weird development bugs that popped up in localization caused the delay,” Sega said on their blog. “Without getting too technical, there were just certain parts that didn’t like switching the Japanese text out for English, and we had to actually search through the source code to find a fix, taking more time than we expected. But! Everything is more or less back on track.”
Yakuza 5 originally shipped in Japan back in March of 2012.
Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 6 were announced back during this year’s Tokyo Game Show. The former is a remake of the original Yakuza for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, while the latter is the next entry in the game, exclusively for PlayStation 4.


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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will invest $1.5 billion in the telecommunications and digital services business controlled by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, bringing total new investment in Jio Platforms Ltd. to $15.2 billion since April.
The Public Investment Fund will hold a 2.32 percent stake in the arm of Reliance Industries Ltd., the Mumbai-based company said in a statement Thursday.
The deal, the 11th into Jio in about two months, adds to the list of high-profile backers betting the company will disrupt India’s massive consumer market with its technology. Reliance Industries has vowed to pay down net debt to zero before March 2021, while using its roughly 400 million wireless phone subscribers as the cornerstone of an e-commerce and digital business.
Ambani’s $65 billion digital unit has sold about 25 percent in stakes to buyers including Facebook Inc. and US private equity firms including KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and General Atlantic.
The investments boost Ambani’s momentum in shifting his sprawling conglomerate, India’s largest company, away from dependence on oil refining and petrochemicals toward telecommunications, e-commerce, online entertainment and payments.
“We at Reliance have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for many decades,” Ambani said in Thursday’s statement. “From Oil Economy, this relationship is now moving to strengthen India’s New Oil (data-driven) Economy.”
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Cyber Monday is the Monday after Black Friday which is the Friday that is after the Thursday that is Thanksgiving in the United States. Got it?
Cyber Monday, now five years old, has become a major online shopping day in the U.S. It is when people presumably buy the items they could not find in local stores on Black Friday. Most online buyers know that is more myth than fact.
Today’s web shoppers are more like the Troll in the childrens story “The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff.”
Unlike the Troll, the shoppers are smart enough to wait for the deals. Many already have a Plan B if they don’t get what they want.
This year, while the buyers examined the deals that walked across the bridge “tip-tap, tip-tap, tip-tap” they were distracted by the cry of Dow Jones in the distance.
Dow Jones exlaimed “Now, I’m coming to gobble you up!”. The Dow gobbled almost 680 points – the fourth worst loss on record. Not that I need to draw a line between the economy and shopper confidence, but web buyers have become smarter. Much, MUCH smarter. Many may have already made up their minds of how much they will and won’t spend.
The first blast of news for Black Friday said sales were up 10%. By midday Monday, it was obvious the numbers were down. The first news – maybe off of press releases – gave an excuse to stores to keep prices higher for Cyber Monday – and see what happens. Some may opt to keep prices higher, take the loss in sales and maintain the better profit margins. And a few will not. THESE stores are where the bargains may well be.
Now does this work with a WII gaming console? No. At least I don’t think so.
Does this work with flat screen televisions? It might.
Games? Board games, at least.
Remember how the story ends: “And the Billy Goat flew at the Troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones”.


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A walk down any shopping thoroughfare in North Brooklyn, NYC, or much of urban USA will show a good percentage of “Retail For Rent” signs. In the past decade the square footage of empty retail in NYC has doubled. Many of these empty spaces were once filled with thriving independent businesses. The causes of this effect vary and sometimes gang up on the small business. An unaffordable rent increase once the lease is up, similar businesses moving in that divide the customer base, online mega-marketplaces, their customer base leaving the area are just some of the reasons. Each business was served an individual cocktail of lethal issues which caused them to close up for the last time.
“It is becoming nearly impossible for merchants in our community to keep up with the cost of doing business, compete with online markets, and turn a profit.”
— Grand Street BID Executive Director Erin Piscopink.
The last few years the losses of many long-term mom and pop businesses have been a series of heartaches for this community’s patrons. Sometimes an exit is more natural, due to the owner deciding to retire or illness, like in the cases of Mug’s Ale House and Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern. The service industry is still mostly immune from online sales as online delivery/take out is still done mostly in house. However, ghost restaurants are an evolving trend: with virtual or commissary kitchens that focus on takeout only and use third-part delivery services.
“It has become increasingly difficult for retail brick and mortar businesses to survive the piling on of new expenses, legislation, and regulation,” said Grand Street BID Executive Director Erin Piscopink. “Over the years, the majority of our retail spaces on Grand Street have become occupied by service businesses because it is becoming nearly impossible for merchants in our community to keep up with the cost of doing business, compete with online markets, and turn a profit.”
Three businesses closed in 2018 that I was a regular customer of, and all of them cited the increase in their rent renewal as being the reason for moving on. Two were on their sixteenth year of operation in the community and one was on their eleventh year. Whisk, the last one referred to, was located on 231 Bedford Avenue. Whisk’s Facebook post on April 21, 2019, which announced their closing, stated that business was prosperous enough to sustain their first rent increase of 114% (where they went from paying $8,625 per month to $18,452). The last increase would have put their rent at $26,500 per month. Whisk has since moved to 197 Atlantic Avenue and the spot they occupied on Bedford Avenue looks to be divide into three commercial spaces, one of which is filled by Hungry Ghost Coffee.
On the other hand, independent landlords are another form of small business. They have their own expenses to pay.
“Landlords/property owners are usually responding to the increases they must meet to satisfy the city’s bottomless coffers!”
— Betty Cooney, Executive Dir. Graham Avenue BID
Betty Cooney, Executive Dir. Graham Avenue BID sees other components that drive up commercial rents. “As far as crazy rents…talk to your local elected representatives about easing commercial property taxes which drive up your rents and also urge them to reduce the fines and small business cost of doing business with the city. Landlords/property owners are usually responding to the increases they must meet to satisfy the city’s bottomless coffers!” she said.
In her role as executive director of the Graham Avenue BID for nearly twenty years, Cooney has seen change in her district. She advises, “Online sales are hard to compete with, but offering local delivery, installation help and other information not provided by Amazon etc. make them more appealing to the less savvy customers/or the older customers who are challenged online. Find ways to personalize your services and let them know who you are and how long you’ve been in their neighborhood. Also build your customer base don’t rely on what used to be or used to work; things are changing and so must you!”
On November 14, 2019 Council Member Stephen Levin introduced Intro 1796, his legislation that would establish a system of commercial rent registration and regulation applicable to retail stores of 10,000 square feet or less manufacturing establishments of 25,000 square feet or less, and professional, services or other offices of 10,000 square feet or less.
“We have a big vacancy rate in the city and turnover is enormous. It’s not just the Amazon effect. In a lot of areas, the rent has gotten so high that small businesses can’t afford it. I’ve seen small businesses closing down constantly and it’ll always be about the rent,” stated Levin in a Crain’s New York Business piece published on November 11, 2019.
Mayor de Blasio advocates for a state vacancy tax. On the January 27, 2020 Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) de Blasio stated, “There is a crisis now, first it’s a capitalism problem — the laws allow a landlord to jack-up the rent as much as they want. Second problem is a consumer problem — if you love your local business you have to spend money there. The city and state can do a lot more. The state piece is very powerful here, the vacancy tax.
… I want to see Albany act to put a tax in place that stops the landlord from jacking up the rent and leaving the vacant property.” This tax would penalize landlords whose rent increases have driven a business out and the space to remain vacant for an extended period of time.
As for now, the power is in the hands of the consumer. Go forth, enter a store, and make a purchase.


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A one-stop-shop for agriculture in Chatham-Kent is set to be launched online.
The Chatham-Kent agri development committee announced the website to council ahead of their grand opening and site launch Nov. 5
“We offer this to all of Chatham-Kent,” said Jamie McGrail, vice-chair of the group. “Use it as much as you can. This is a tool to show what Chatham-Kent has to offer.”
McGrail said the site will include agriculture business listings, event listings, featured content about local farmers and agriculturalists.
She added it is exciting that a lot of investment is going into the agricultural sector in Chatham-Kent.
“We’re not stale, we’re not stagnant, we’re moving forward and that’s a huge thing,” McGrail said.
The site will be located online at www.wegrowfortheworld.com.


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Weekend Outdoors Report w/ Barry Foster (Nov. 20, 2014)
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Value-added distribution is normally the first port of call for any overseas vendor looking to break into the UK with disruptive new technology.
But like a Torquay B&B in high season, have some VADs effectively placed a "no vacancy" sign over their doors as they focus their resources on the successful franchises they have built up, or retrench back to their core business?
According to Adam Davison, director of products at Cloud Distribution, start-up vendors looking to take their first steps in the UK currently have few places to turn.
"The VADs out there are adding value to the vendors they have taken to market but unfortunately they are full and any new vendor coming along has a challenge," he said.
This could be particularly critical given the new wave of technology surfaing in areas such as cloud, BYOD and software-defined networking (see panel, bottom).
Davison (pictured below), who joined the distributor last month following stints at start-up vendors including Expand Networks, Meraki and Exinda, argued that the clutch of VADs that were formed in the noughties no longer have the bandwidth to take on new technologies, branding them victims of their own success.
"The resource and marketing gets sucked into their original vendors that have got big and need their numbers done," he said, adding that this had caused him "consistent frustration" during his vendor career.
"From a vendor perspective, I think there is a need for an evangelistic, next-generation, innovative distributor to help them create a market from scratch," he said
On the face of it, Davison has a point. After all, it has been about five years since the likes of Cohort Technologies and VADition - now Exclusive Networks - burst on to the scene. And many of their key vendor partners have matured into lucrative franchises demanding substantial manpower, for instance Palo Alto and Fortinet in the case of
VADition, and PGP - now owned by Symantec - in the case of Cohort.
At the same time, there are signs that the bleak economy has forced some of the larger, more established VADs to place fewer bets on emerging technologies in favour of fortifying market share with their top vendor franchises.
According to Stuart Reay, who ran distributor Arc before it was acquired by Exclusive Networks in 2009, this has left a vacuum in the distribution sector.
"From the outside looking in, vendors are finding it very tough to find appropriate distributors in the UK," said Reay, who has been out of the industry since he left Exclusive two years ago.
"I have been contacted by seven vendors desperate to know if I am coming back because they have nowhere to go."
Paul Judd, who recently founded security and networking distributor Heatherside, agreed: "Salesmen will always sell whatever they think is easiest to sell. I think there is a gap at the level of introducing shiny new products that need to be evangelised and have a market built for them."
Change of focus
Unsurprisingly, this is not a picture recognised by all established VADs.
Computerlinks director Dave Ellis said the distributor, which now turns over more than £150m in the UK, formed a new technologies unit in 2010 to ensure it could give sufficient focus to emerging, disruptive technologies.
The business unit now has about 15 dedicated staff and carries about nine vendors, including mobility platform vendor Globo, software-defined networking specialist Arista and datacentre management outfit Raritan.
"What Cloud Distribution said pays credence to what we did two to three years ago," he said.
"We want to leverage the footprint we have in the wider business as a lot of these technologies work well with the core vendors, but we felt they needed a dedicated level of push. We may have fallen into the trap of becoming less entrepreneurial if we had not done this."
Ellis said Computerlinks will continue to throw its muscle behind new technologies due to the higher margins and cross-sell opportunities on offer for resellers.
"It would be a dangerous game to refocus on the 80 per cent of business that comes from 20 per cent of your vendors and customer," he said. "From an end-user perspective, if resellers are providing them with a view of the whole market, they will be viewed as a strategic partner.
"There have been a number of distributors that have retrenched and almost gone the other way, which is surprising given there is a lot going on in the market."
Barrie Desmond, group marketing director at Exclusive Networks, accused some of the newer VADs of lacking an identity or sufficient market knowledge.
"There are a lot of people out there stating the obvious," he said. "There are disruptive technologies looking for market acceleration - that is obvious. What is not obvious to a lot of people shooting from the hip is that you have to have the contacts and the know-how and the investment in heavy-duty resources to make that happen if you are to act as a true proxy for those vendors."
Desmond added that the vendors recognised that everything that Exclusive Networks does must tally with its vision around very specific concepts such as the "smarter social enterprise".
"If you look at some of these newer VADs, they are not lighting up the world with strong propositions," he said.
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of Wick Hill, agreed that the market is already served well by the current crop of VADs.
"The death of new product distribution has been greatly exaggerated - there are a reasonable number of small VADs out there. But there is a strong case that a lot of vendors who come to distribution should not be in distribution in the current state of their development.
"Distribution is cheaper than direct sales but they would be better served first doing some early sales engagement with a couple of resellers and then going to distribution once they can show they have a working business model."
IT channel consultant Bruce Hockin agreed that emerging VADs must pick an area on which to focus.
"They must be known for excellence in a particular area, and be the best in that space," he said.
Technologies of tomorrow
Where the VADs are placing their bets in 2013?
Sales of software-defined networking - where control is decoupled from hardware and given to a new layer of software - are set to mushroom from $360m (£225m) this year to $3.7bn by 2016, according to IDC. This growth potential convinced Juniper to shell out a whopping $176m on newborn SDN outfit Contrail Systems in January, on the heels of VMware's $1.26bn acquisition of Nicira last summer. Dave Ellis, director of new technologies at Computerlinks, said: "SDN appears to offer real benefits for end users in terms of flexibility and business agility. It should be able to reduce management costs and overheads."
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of Wick Hill, said the imminent arrival of wireless networking standard 802.11ac would be a "game changer" for the channel. Although sales of devices with the specification - to be ratified this year - are not set to reach full swing until 2015, 802.11ac will in theory enable multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1Gbit per second. "This will lead to a significant shift in businesses moving to a true wireless environment as you will be able to deliver WAN-quality performance over wireless," said Kilpatrick. "Instead of people having wireless in the office, the office will be wireless."
Health and fitness technology
Devices that measure patients' exercise, consumption of tablets or blood pressure will take off in 2013, according to Widget chairman Mark Needham. Widget already works with fitness tracking vendor Fitbit and Needham predicted that health fitness technology would become a category that many retailers will form over the next year. "I have friends who are doctors, and they say one of the biggest problems right now is patient compliance," he said. "It is certainly a channel opportunity on the retail side or for anyone who sells into medical."
Flash array is the buzzphrase currently taking the storage channel by storm as advances in solid-state storage technology enable emerging vendors to challenge the age-old economics of storage. Take Whiptail, a flash array start-up which has just received $31m in funding and claims to have grown revenue fourfold last year.
Channel consultant Bruce Hockin said: "Over the next three years the enterprise market will witness a seismic shift as flash technology matures from a tier 0/1, optimisation play to a bulk storage alternative. Vendors focusing on building all-flash arrays will emerge as serious alternatives to established players in their traditional markets."
The big data market is set to swell by seven times the rate of the overall ICT market over the coming years, according to IDC, and will hit $23.8bn by 2016. But Chris Patton, sales director at VAD CDG, picked out data transparency as a related sector that is set for frenetic growth, pointing to the recent IPO of Splunk as a testament to its potential. "It is about getting insights into your business at a machine level but also from the huge amounts of data the business creates," he said. "It's going to be massive and it should be an area resellers are embracing as there is a lot of opportunity out there."
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2021 is a big year in our fight against climate change. In a summer, which has seen record-breaking temperatures across the world, the evidence of humanity’s impact on the environment is becoming more and more obvious.
With conditions reaching new levels of severity, the world’s leaders and top scientists will be convening at the 26th Conference of the Parties (31st October to 12th November), also known as COP26, to negotiate how the world will respond to the mounting challenge of climate change. Aside from committing to reaching net-zero by 2050, attendees will also pledge to invest $100bn per year to finance the world’s crackdown on climate change.
If this goal is to be achieved, the involvement of financial services providers, such as banks, will be essential. However, there are other ways financial institutions can help combat climate change.
One environmental issue that financial institutions can play a key part in addressing is the world’s crippling consumption of plastic. By reusing discarded plastic products, such as water bottles and plastic bags, banks can drive sustainable transformation by offering greener banking solutions.
But, before we look at the solutions, it’s critical we understand the problems which wasted plastic poses to our planet.
More plastic, more problems
The world’s consumption of plastic is well documented, and the numbers are truly staggering. Here are few statistics that highlight our plastic problem:
- Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute
- Over the course of just one year, the world uses 5 trillion single-use plastic bags
- Today, we produce about 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, which is nearly equivalent to the weight of the world’s human population
Sadly, with this level of consumption comes the climate problems emanating from the production and disposal of plastic.
The production process of plastic has traditionally been powered by fossil fuels, a core contributor to the world’s rising temperatures. If our current plastic production grows as currently planned, the emissions produced could reach 1.34 gigatons per year. This is equivalent to the emissions released by more than 295 new 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants by 2030, damaging the climate.
The disposal of plastic is equally problematic, with our heavy consumption leading to the irresponsible discarding of excess plastic waste. In fact, our oceans could contain more plastic than fish by 2050. Aside from outnumbering the world’s population of aquatic creatures, microplastics are often consumed by sea animals. Once consumed, these microplastics can increase the chance of disease and impact reproduction in these animals.
Another core goal of COP26 is ‘adapt to protect communities and natural habitats’. For this to be possible, the world at large must do better to limit its consumption and wasting of plastic products.
Upcycled banking – how discarded plastic can power financial services
With literally tonnes of discarded plastic to use, what can financial institutions do to redirect waste for a more productive purpose? One answer is in the form of eco-friendly bank cards.
Bank cards are the ubiquitous financial services tool found in the wallets of millions worldwide. But, while traditional PVC bank cards are certainly put to good use compared to other plastic goods, their production and disposal does pose climate challenges. In fact, the amount of plastic used to produce bank cards every year is equivalent to the weight of 150 Boeing 747s. What’s more, the production of six billion bank cards produces a carbon footprint equal to 500,000 passengers flying from New York to Sydney.
However, advances in technology have seen the development of new, sustainably sourced bank cards made from otherwise discarded materials. For example, many card manufacturers have turned to using ocean plastic as the base material for bank cards. By upcycling plastic floating in our oceans, banks have the potential to recycle one plastic bottle for every card issued.
In 2019, we teamed up with American Express, Parley for the Oceans and Siegel + Gale to introduce the American Express Green Card made from 70% reclaimed plastic. Through our contribution to this project, Thales was named winner of the 2020 Élan Award of Excellence in the Unique Innovation category by the International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA).
Climate change is an issue that all industries must face up to in the coming years. But it’s important that organisations, such as banks, are diverse in the way in which they tackle this issue. While funding sustainability initiatives is a strong start, there are many other areas which can be addressed through the adjustment of business models.
Read more about our recent partnership with Parley for the Oceans here.


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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Electronic cigarettes is an industry on the move. But parallel to its growth is pushback from health officials, who equate vaping to traditional smoking.
Late last week, Erie County banned vaping in all places that already prohibit smoking, a move that’s left local e-cig shop owners fearful of the future.
Despite the opposition, vaping has grown into a multibillion-dollar business. And it’s become especially popular in western New York, according to industry professionals.
“Normally we do shows on the east coast or southern California, but we chose western New York because of the high smoking rate,” said Steve Mac, an owner of ECC and VPX, which spearhead events like this weekend’s vaping convention in Niagara Falls. “The national average is around 18 percent. And here in Erie and Niagara county, it’s anywhere from 26 to 28 percent.”
It’s become a go-to for people trying to kick the habit of traditional cigarettes.
“Our product does not kill people,” said Andrew Osborne, the owner of Vapor Trail Electronics in south Buffalo. “Our product saves people’s lives. And when the alternative is a product that killed 500,000 people a year, it’s a no-brainer.”
But just as it’s popularity is catapulting into the mainstream with conventions across the country, local governments are starting to speak out against it.
Industry leaders say legislation like what was approved by Erie County legislators on March 27 — which follows the same move in February by the city of Buffalo — is misguided.
“Bans like the Erie ban and bans in other parts of the country, what it’s saying to the outside world is that vaping is bad, or at least as bad as cigarettes,” Mac said. “And that could be off-putting to people who are trying to stop smoking.”
And while vaping remains legal in their own shops or outdoors, local vapor store owners are fearful of the issue snowballing.
“The public vaping bans are bad for our industry because it discourages smokers from switching. It tells people that this is smoking,” Osborne said, pointing to his vaping device known as a mod or AVP. “That it’s just exchanging one habit for another.
“What’s more important is from the small business perspective,” he added. “The bar owners, the offices every business owner has the right to choose for themselves, and what Erie County did was tell every single small business owner that they don’t know how to run their businesses.”


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Today, McKay is pushing "Project Tomahawk," a movement backing companies that support freedom. He encourages individuals to switch to affordable American-made consumer goods that are not produced or manufactured by megacorporations with hidden agendas.
In a recent stop of the "ReAwaken America Tour" at Myrtle Beach, McKay and Brighteon.TV host Bryan Ardis talked about the chokehold that megacorporations have on people's lives.
The "criminal cabal-powered poison distribution centers," as they called them, include companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, which have been selling poisons that people unwittingly use for their babies. Moreover, companies like Gilead Science, which made remdesivir, continue to operate while putting people in danger.
These companies are killer machines. McKay said the best way to stop their chokehold on people is by boycotting them in favor of smaller American companies.
"If you want to bring down the people that are trying to kill us, shut off their money by not buying their poison," McKay said. "You're putting it on your baby's, on your skin, in your laundry room – and it's all carcinogenic." (Related: Banners4Freedom exposes Big Pharma lies, the truth about COVID vaccines – Brighteon.TV.)
Through Operation Tomahawk, McKay wants people to shut off the cash flow of these companies. A direct energy company that had been in business for 37 years felt the cut when people started shutting off their cash flow.
This movement is unprecedented. Fewer people are doing business with these megacorporations, and these cuts are coming in waves. People are getting into the fight of helping shut off the cash flow of these cabal-powered companies, and it's just a matter of time before tens of millions of people shift in the same direction.
According to the Operation Tomahawk website, 63 percent of the price people pay for goods adds no value to the end consumer. Billions of dollars each year are spent on advertising with media companies, fund distribution and big box stores. Instead of giving this money to companies like Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble, people can instead spend them on better, safer ingredients from companies that support American freedom.
Moreover, McKay pointed out that people have been frequently lied to about needing drugs for the rest of their lives, but this is not the case. Big Pharma companies are targeting individuals by making them believe people need vaccines and drugs for the rest of their lives to curb diseases.
Previously, McKay spoke about governments mandating vaccines to the point of coercion, eventually taking away people's freedom in deciding to get inoculated on their own.
While the government did not literally hold people down to give them vaccine shots, there were too many restrictions for those unwilling to do so: Children couldn't go to school, employees could not go to work, and many others could not fly or use public transportation, go to public places like restaurants and sports games, or go out to shop without proof of vaccination.
"Unfortunately, there is a great deal of fear surrounding the information on COVID-19. Fear cancels rational thought. This fear is and will be used to promote mandatory vaccination. We cannot let this happen," he said.
One of the most targeted individuals, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, are the elderly and the diabetics. (Related: Lori Gregory: Big Pharma making money by targeting huge patient populations with often unneeded medical interventions.)
Operation Tomahawk encourages people to make a difference to affect change.
It is not asking people to do anything outside their ordinary routines. These items are the ones they have already purchased, with quality that is second to none, but with prices that are comparable or even better than the products from cabal-powered companies.
Watch the video below to know more about the Project Tomahawk.
This video is from the BrighteonTV channel on Brighteon.com.