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Given that blockchain is a revolutionary know-how, its mainstream penetration is unavoidable. In 2015, a essential examine confirmed that no much less than five million blockchain wallets existed, but in 2019, that user count has attained in excess of 42 million. A regular yardstick to evaluate the achievement of any technology is its relevance and acceptability to people, and for the past decade, blockchain technological know-how has not only transformed the way organizations go about their organizations, but also the way individuals go about their each day transactions.
Even so, amidst all these leaps forward, its mainstream adoption stalls. While factors this kind of as gradual and highly-priced transactions, basic safety considerations and an unfriendly consumer interface are handful of of the quite a few underlying impediments, blockchain enthusiasts should not shed hope just still. While this checklist is neither organized in buy of value nor complete, it spotlights 10 notable crypto pioneers doing work tirelessly to creating a mainstream-ready and hugely functional blockchain ecosystem.
The British-American laptop or computer programmer and founder of McAfee cybersecurity resources strongly thinks that blockchain will knowledge mass adoption just like the world-wide-web. (This Entrepreneur posting describes his sights and stand on cryptocurrency and blockchain.) Specified McAfee’s deep-rooted ties with cybersecurity, his devout aid for blockchain’s progress is understandable as this novel engineering offers vital security solutions by decentralizing facts and computational infrastructure sources.
Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and author who co-founded both Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine. With Ethereum, builders can create a wide array of decentralized apps (DApps) that can run effectively on its network relatively than on one centralized computing area. While its mainstream adoption has not clicked nevertheless, Ethereum is step by step rising every single working day. In point, Ethereum’s developers are operating tirelessly toward resolving existing scalability troubles and planning foreseeable future transactions to both shared community and evidence-of-stake consensus protocol.
Lee is mostly identified as the creator of Litecoin, 1 of the common cryptocoins in the market. In a tweet earlier this 12 months, Lee announced he will improve Litecoin’s fungibility and privateness by adding private transactions, and a couple months ago, In an job interview with Wharton, he said, “ think for guaranteed cryptocurrency will be one particular of the currencies that persons will use it will reach mass adoption just one day. The volatility will come down and things will be priced in cryptocurrencies.”
Antonopoulos is an entrepreneur and badass coder, as nicely as a speaker and writer of Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, and Mastering Ethereum. Institutions in the blockchain marketplace, together with researchers like Diar and incubators like DAO Maker, seek advice from with him. In a Q-and-A session pursuing his “Ideas of the Long run of Money” chat, an viewers member questioned, “Which scalability possibilities must the neighborhood adopt?” Antonopolous replied, “That’s an quick a single to reply: All of them.” He even more explained that scalability problems do not get solved, they only get “pushed further out,” and given that the community expands, new sorts of software and use-circumstances become seen to present new ability troubles.
Szabo is a renowned pc scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer who developed the concept of Wise Contracts, in addition to creating Bit Gold, which a lot of men and women take into account the precursor to Bitcoin. Businesses this sort of as Modium, Ambrosus and Chronicled are combining Sensible Agreement with IOT to enhance traceability. For occasion, the sensor that screens the temperature of meals in transit can report this information to the blockchain and initiate a good deal that executes a payment to the provider.
Voorhees is an American-Panamanian founder of Shapeshift and among the leading-identified serial Bitcoin advocates and business people. In a recent interview in Cointelegraph, he commented that, “Mass adoption needs to be specified according to the specific use circumstance. While we aren’t at mass adoption of any of these groups still, we are absolutely earlier the place of ‘mass adoption’ in at the very least a pair.”
Steinberg is a person of the top Stability Token Supplying (STO) specialists in the industry. He’s the founder of SteinbergInvest, which retains several subsidiaries which includes CPI Systems, the only company delivering white-label STO solutions.Now, he’s foremost the $700M Time Square tokenization task, which may well tremendously boost the adoption of tokenized securities.
Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of renowned venture cash company Andreessen Horowitz. Apart from currently being a potent proponent of Bitcoin and blockchain, he’s among several who believe that that blockchain engineering could enable realign incentives between platforms and users. Andreessen is a crucial trader in many blockchain ventures in fact, he has improvement an sector-centric undertaking money fund. He also operates as a crucial advisor to other institutions aiming to invest in the blockchain sector.
McCalen is a programmer and co-founder of Stellar Enhancement Foundation, which provides low-price tag community utility. Basically, it makes use of a exceptional consensus protocol and a team of trusted anchors, these types of as banking companies and payment processors, to aid near-instantaneous and very very affordable economical transactions on the Stellar blockchain community. This enables end users to trade and cheaply send out revenue throughout international borders. In point, it allows expense-effective micropayments.
Ver is also an American and 1 of the early investors in, and promoters of, Bitcoin. He’s commonly recognized as “Bitcoin Jesus” simply because of is dedication and distinguished support for its adoption. In fact, he utilizes his entrepreneurial spirit to preach the gospel to any person who would listen to funding eahrly crypto startups. Far more so, he invests in initiatives building new crypto protocols and purposes.


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Walmart gave $33 million to Tennessee charities over past year
“It’s our mission at Walmart to help people live better and open doors for those in need,” said Walmart Regional General Manager Shana Bailey-DeSmit in the release. “State Giving Grants allow us to embrace the local communities in which we serve and support local organizations in fulfilling their missions.”
Boys & Girls Clubs, Feed America First and YMCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee were among the Tennessee nonprofits that received grants from Walmart.
The $33 million includes more than $2 million in giving from associates and customers and 17.5 million pounds of food.
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Walmart and the Walmart Foundation announced that over the last fiscal year they gave more than $33 million in cash and in-kind contributions to charitable organizations throughout Tennessee. Globally, the company and its Foundation donated more than $1.3 billion to nonprofit groups, surpassing the previous year’s total by more than $244 million.
Additionally, since announcing the historic Fighting Hunger Together commitment in 2010 to donate 1.1 billion pounds of food and $250 million in cash by 2015, Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities have surpassed both goals one year earlier than projected. As of January 2014, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have donated 1.58 billion pounds of food, the equivalent of approximately 1.32 billion meals, and have awarded $260 million in grants to hunger relief programs in the United States, exceeding their original commitment by four percent. Overall, Walmart has exceeded $2 billion of cash and in-kind commitments to fight hunger at the local, state and national levels.
Alison Nash is the Nashville Business Journal's Associate Editor.
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AAG doubles its Web3 bet with MetaOne dApp Store
Web3 infrastructure company AAG has launched a new decentralized application marketplace, MetaOne dApp Store, designed to simplify the integration of NFT projects and metaverse products.
MetaOne dApp Store also aims to become a community-driven project, with a self-sustaining ecosystem within the larger Web3 infrastructure.
With its range of over 1100 dapps, at launch, this ambitious project seeks to become a one-stop-shop for all things crypto, going beyond games and decentralized exchanges. The team behind her is very committed to the project and puts more emphasis on safety and sustainability.
Focusing on the vision of a community-driven ecosystem, MetaOne dApp Store excludes any high-risk dApps from potential raffles, scams or ponzi schemes. Users are also guaranteed to land on the right website to avoid phishing scams.
A useful feature of the MetaOne dApp Store will consist of informative descriptions and categorizations (e.g. type of dApp, blockchain, supported platform(s), etc.) to learn more about a particular dApp . With this, the platform provides a complete user experience for dapp users, allowing them to seamlessly explore and track applications and resources. Content will be available in written and video form while offering the latest news and happenings on individual dApps.
AAG has several releases planned for the rest of 2022, its next major product launch will be its portfolio in the fourth quarter of this year. The MetaOne dApp Store will also be integrated with the MetaOne wallet, allowing users to connect their wallet directly to dApps. The easy-to-use wallet will provide a one-stop-shop for users’ metaverse and blockchain identity, which is another much-needed UX improvement for using Web3 apps.
“We are very excited to launch the MetaOne dApp Store, providing our wallet users with a gateway to Web3 that makes their wallet more than just a crypto asset management app. The curated list will help users, both those new to blockchain and OGs, navigate the choppy seas of Web3, where a scam is, unfortunately, always around the corner,” said Jack Vinijtrongjit, CEO and co-founder of AAG.
AAG, which stands for “Achip and Achair Global”, has launched a number of new products to expand beyond the play-to-earn (P2E) games that helped make its name, to strengthen its position as as a platform for websites and related applications. commercial infrastructure. MetaOne dApp Store potentially represents its biggest leap forward away from the gaming space.
The company is also expanding its bet on the Metaverse after a successful year of creating value for disadvantaged people who have used AAG to benefit from the Play2Earn revolution.


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To quote the Dalai Lama, “Biologically, females have more potential. And more sensitivity about others’ well being.”
And yet 61% of countries score below 50 out of 100 for encouraging women entrepreneurs. As McKinsey Global Institute forecasted that if women of India are given equal opportunities as men, they could support revenues up to $770 billion in the economy by 2025.
And this cannot be truer than what we have observed in recent times. Women have emerged as a vital cog in the wheel in giving the Indian economy an additional boost. Today, an entrepreneurial woman not only supports her family but also plays a significant role in economic development and social well-being of the society.
Women Entrepreneurship During And After Pandemic
The recent pandemic saw women take on multiple roles beyond wives, mothers and homemakers. The last 3 years saw an unprecedented growth in small businesses mostly run by women who turned their skill and passion into an entrepreneurial venture. This increasing presence of women as entrepreneurs has positively impacted our country’s economic growth.
India has been home to several leading women owned businesses such as Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon), Vani Kola (Kalaari Capital), Falguni Nayar (Nykaa) and Richa Kar (Zivame) to list a few. These women entrepreneurs have played a prominent role by generating employment opportunities in the country, bringing in demographic shifts and inspiring the next generation of women entrepreneurs.
Institutional Interventions To Support Women Empowerment
Today, the country has witnessed an exponential growth of small business women entrepreneurs and has made provisions to support and promote their development. This enhances a balanced growth in the country. Several initiatives are now available to women entrepreneurs through a mixed ecosystem of schemes, networks, partnerships and communities focussed on supporting women entrepreneurs.
So how do we empower our women to become successful entrepreneurs? There are many ways to assist and support women entrepreneurs so that their businesses take off the ground and become a successful reality.
Shift in mindset
This is the most vital condiment in turning a woman into a woman entrepreneur. Create an enabling environment for women’s entrepreneurship development and gender equality. Women need to be rid of their internal/external constraints and become conscious and confident to realize their aspirations. Psychological and cultural factors such as gender, financial and social dependency, physical and mental strength, social skills have to be addressed and overcome.
Develop tools and support services for women entrepreneurs
Aid the women with new technology tools, technical R&D and access to other technology solutions that teach life skills. This will help them create and build a sustainable business model that will then create jobs and add wealth to the country’s overall economy.
Provide them with an easy-access platform
A platform with a host of business-critical services such as mentoring, legal advice, financial know-how, training. Build the institutional capacity of agencies involved in women’s entrepreneurship development. These value add-ons strengthen the entrepreneurial business, making it more robust and help women entrepreneurs avoid pitfalls.
The last few years have created a paradigm shift where most businesses, partnerships and even conversations have moved from offline to online. Hence budding women entrepreneurs need to harness the power of digital and use it extensively to promote their business, hire people and build their brand.
Support institutions and stakeholders who are keen to invest in women-owned companies, through venture funds, corporate venture, private equity and social capital, with incentives.
Simplify business bureaucracy and administrative machinery
It’s easier for women to start their businesses with the least amount of unnecessary red tape. This will also promote a sense of confidence amongst women towards the country’s leadership and policy-makers.
We have established that women-led communities give rise to efficient women leaders which boosts economic growth. What is now important to focus on is the kinds of businesses that women can be most successful in. Because even the most motivated women get confused while deciding on the perfect business idea.
There are numerous business ideas for women, but the best ones would be the one that matches their investment ability, passions and interests, skills and capabilities to name a few key factors.
In conclusion, by investing in women and their communities, states and countries prosper. This generates a multiplier effect and sets a positive example for the next generation of girls. As American author Helen Keller once famously said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
Smile Foundation wants marginalised women to rise up and take complete charge of their lives. With our Swabhiman Programme, you could actively contribute towards these women becoming the change-makers and decision-makers of their lives and the economy of the nation in the long-term. Know more about how you can help here.


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Tim Cook inaugurates a library that's the most extensive historic restoration project in US
Apple Carnegie Library allows visitors to get hands-on with the latest products in the reading rooms.
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Cook, along with company's Retail Head Deirdre O'Brien, Marketing Chief Phil Schiller and city's Mayor Muriel Bowser, inaugurated the library, which has over 200 employees, on Friday.
Thanks @MayorBowser, our phenomenal team in Washington, D.C. and everyone who turned out for the grand opening of A… https://t.co/sof865ON0G— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) 1557598001000
"Avenues allow visitors to get hands-on with the latest products in the reading rooms," Apple wrote in its blog-post on Saturday.
Development on the Apple Carnegie Library began in 2016 and the iPhone-maker calls it its "most extensive historic restoration project to date", requiring lengthy work on facades and details, Apple Insider reported.
Running with the theme of the building - and possibly trying to counter controversy over the relocation of the library's book collection - the store will be hosting a "StoryMakers Festival" series of events between May 18 and June 29, featuring 40 artists.


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CHICAGO -- American consumers continue to seek value in their weekly grocery shopping, "value" means something different for each shopper group and even individual shopper, according to the new Food Marketing Institute report, "U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends, 2005."
The study, which was issued May 1, the opening day of the 2005 FMI Show, additionally reveals that, along with value, consumers are placing the most importance on quality food, a pleasant store environment, and convenient mealtime solutions.
According to the report, shoppers' overall satisfaction with supermarkets is still high (75 percent gave their supermarket a rating of 8 or higher on a scale of one to 10), but they're becoming more diverse, with shopping behaviors being simultaneously influenced by multiple factors, including age, gender, race, and economic status.
Additionally, the increase in single-parent households has resulted in more people who are both the family breadwinner and the primary grocery shopper. At the same time, there are now more single people living alone than ever before, with more money to spend on a per person basis than any other type of household.
On average, consumers visit the grocery store 2.2 times a week, which includes an average of 1.7 visits to the primary store. They spend an average of $92.50 a week per household, of which $70.90 is spent at the primary store.
The top three features trends consumers consider important when selecting a primary supermarket are high-quality produce, high-quality meats, and a clean, neat store. These three features were ranked "very important" in store selection by at least 74 percent of shoppers. Close behind were low prices and a fast checkout. Other crucial factors were the availability of money-saving specials, a convenient store layout, and personal safety outside the store.
Top savings strategies used by shoppers were making a list prior to shopping (54 percent), participation in a frequent shopper program (41 percent), checking the newspaper for grocery specials (40 percent), and stocking up on sale items (24 percent).
Supermarkets are still the primary destination for purchasing groceries, with 93 percent of shoppers naming at least one supermarket among the list of stores where they've shopped in the past 30 days. Supercenters came in second at 41 percent, followed by conventional discount stores and warehouse club stores at 26 percent and 24 percent, respectively.
Today shoppers are more likely to shop many different store types to meet their grocery needs. While 46 percent say they buy their groceries at full-service supermarkets almost all of the time and an additional 29 percent shop at these places fairly often, over half of shoppers say they shop at multiple stores. Almost 19 percent of consumers shop at supercenters, and 12 percent shop at discount stores. Five percent of shoppers visit each of the following channels: drug stores, warehouse club stores, dollar stores, and limited-assortment stores.
Among the additional key findings:
--Younger shoppers are more interested in an exciting shopping environment than any other generation. High-frequency shoppers and high spenders also want an exciting store environment featuring new ideas and products.
--Only a 2 percent to 3 percent of shoppers look for country of origin when buying meat, produce, or seafood. The most important attributes are quality and price.
--Features that Generation Y shoppers consider important are fast checkout, self-checkout, and quick, convenient meal solutions. Although they enjoy eating, they don't like to cook the food themselves; in fact, they show the lowest per-person grocery spending of all shopper groups. The foods they like include ethnic, organic, and gourmet items. They eat out more often than other types of consumers and go to coffee bars the most.
Data for the study was gathered through two independent surveys using the Harris Poll Online database. Online surveys were conducted among a nationally representative sample of 2,001 U.S. shoppers who were at least 15 years old, had primary or equally shared responsibility for food shopping, and had shopped for groceries in the past two weeks. The surveys were available in both English and Spanish to ensure a representative sample of the U.S. Hispanic population.


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Rwanda: Babyl Launches Digital Healthcare System
Friday, July 29, 2016
A new digital health care system for patients to access doctors through their mobile devices was introduced yesterday at the opening of this year’s trade exhibition in Gikondo, Kigali.
The service will allow smart phone holders to download an app while those with feature phones access the service through a USSD code.
Ali Parsa, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Babyl said with the current global population, mobile phones could be used in bridging the gap for affordable health service delivery in all places.
“We live in a world where over 50 percent of the population has little or no access to healthcare yet increasingly, most of us carry a mobile phone in our pockets. So the question for us was ‘can we put most of the healthcare people need on their mobile phone and deliver it to them wherever they are at affordable costs?” said Parsa.
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Now that the game has been announced, Lost Judgment has released some of the first screenshots for the game, which showcase the step up visually the franchise will see with this new instalment.
The screenshots range from showcasing the gorgeous cinematics to giving us a look at combat and even skateboarding. We here at PSU are excited to get our hands on the game and more importantly, see more as we get closer to its September release.
The reveal of the game impressed us and this will be the first worldwide simultaneous release for Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, so we will have to see if they can stick the landing, especially in a pandemic. Catch up on everything that was announced for the game today here.
You can see the Lost Judgment screenshots below:
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Today, mobile device management (MDM) vendor Mosyle announced the general availability of Apple’s Unified Platform, a solution that combines MDM, endpoint security, entity management, and application management into a single solution for deployment and management of Apple devices.
Mosyle also announced that it had raised $196 million in a Series B funding round.
For businesses, Mosyle’s product offers an automated solution to protect and manage Apple devices through a centralized platform, rather than using a patchwork of device management solutions.
Mitigating Apple Device Security Challenges
The release comes as adoption of Apple devices has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with research highlighting that use of Mac laptops in the enterprise increased by 63% in 2021, and 53% of IT decision makers claim that requests for Apple devices have increased over the past two years.
“Apple’s adoption in the enterprise and education markets is growing rapidly. However, customers are trying to manage and protect their Apple devices with generic solutions from Windows-focused vendors who have tailored their offerings to support Apple devices after the fact. And that poses problems. said Mosyle CEO Alcyr Araujo.
Mosyle aims to solve this problem with a unified platform that focuses on securing Apple devices and terminals
“Customers today rely on multiple solutions running on the same endpoint with no integration between them. This makes management extremely cumbersome and inefficient in terms of automation,” Araujo said.
Araujo says that by meeting the needs of Apple devices through a single platform, customers can automate workflows that were previously impossible, such as automatically isolating or wiping a malware-infected device without any manual action.
A dive into the mobile device management market
Mosyle is part of the MDM market, which researchers say will grow from a valuation of $5.5 billion in 2021 to $20.4 billion by 2026, as security teams attempt to implement Security controls on devices located beyond network perimeter defenses.
One of Mosyle’s biggest competitors in the market is Jamf, an Apple device management provider that enables users to automate the lifecycle management of Apple devices with account provisioning, identity management, contactless deployment, compliance monitoring and threat hunting.
The solution is used by more than 60,000 companies and raised $468 million when it went public two years ago.
Another competitor is cloud-based Apple MDM provider Addigy, which offers automated device enrollment, remote monitoring and remediation capabilities.
Mosyle’s native integration for Apple devices helps differentiate it from competitors.
“Mosyle customers have access to premium Apple specialty solutions with native integration and automation for all of their Apple needs at a lower price than any individual module if purchased in isolation,” said said Araujo.
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Lidl to become UK’s highest-paying supermarket
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LIDL has announced pay rises from March next year, which it says will make it the UK’s highest-paying supermarket reports the BBC.
It will increase its minimum pay for employees outside London to £10.10 an hour, with rates of up to £11.40 for more experienced workers.
Higher rates will apply in the capital, the supermarket said.
It added that the increase recognised “the hard work and dedication of frontline colleagues during the last 18 months of the pandemic”.
Earlier this year, Morrisons became the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour.
“Entry-level wages will increase from £9.50 to £10.10 an hour outside of London and £10.85 to £11.30 within the M25 from March 2022, with colleagues earning up to £11.40 and £12.25 respectively, depending on length of service,” Lidl said.
It comes after official figures on Tuesday suggested that employers are continuing to struggle to fill roles, affecting the hospitality and retail sectors in particular.
Job vacancies hit a fresh record high of 1.17 million in October – almost 400,000 higher than before the pandemic.
A German supermarket that pays better than the UK ones? Loving that! Damn Europeans and their better ideas for better treatment of workers!


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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put a stay-at-home order into place in early April that requires residents to remain at home unless they are grocery shopping, going to the doctor or doing something else that has been deemed "essential." Gatherings of more than 10 people have also been banned in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, TMZ Sports reports that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and teammate Ezekiel Elliott have not been following the rules.
Photos and videos surfaced on Saturday that showed the two NFL stars seemingly violating the social distancing protocols. They were shown with a large group enjoying food and drinks. According to TMZ's sources, there were roughly 30 people gathered at Prescott's house for a birthday celebration. The party reportedly took place on Friday night and was catered by Nick and Sam's Steakhouse in Dallas.
This is only the latest example of Prescott drawing attention for seemingly violating the "safer-at-home" order in Texas. He also recently worked out with former teammate Dez Bryant. Evidence of this workout was posted on Twitter by Bryant, including a photo that showed him, Dak, and three others standing shoulder-to-shoulder.
"Do you want to have football this fall? Because this is how we don't have football this fall," one person wrote on Twitter. Several others chimed in and with comments about social distancing and staying six feet away from each other. Although a few others made some jokes about Bryant being incapable of getting "six feet of separation" at this point in his career.
Prior to heading to Prescott's home in Prosper, Texas, for this birthday celebration, Elliott called for his fans to stay at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. He posted an image from Nike that called for people to "play inside, play for the world." Several prominent athletes have posted this on their social media profiles in recent weeks in an effort to get their fans and followers to remain in self-quarantine and avoid large gatherings.
Elliott has also been trying to raise money for those impacted by the coronavirus. He recently announced that he is partnering with the North Texas Food Bank. He will be releasing new merchandise to fans, and he will be using 100 percent of the proceeds to feed locals. He teased several designs on his Instagram Stories on Saturday morning, including one that focuses on staying home during the coronavirus outbreak.
"Stay home. Stay Happy. Stay Healthy. Stay Hungry," the sweatshirt reads. Elliott hasn't yet put this piece of merchandise in his online store, but he is contemplating that idea. Although this design could be met with some criticism following his recent trip to Prescott's house.


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Aston Martin Recalls More Than 5,000 Cars in the U.S.
Some for roll-away risk, others for potential fires
If you buy a luxury exotic, you probably expect it to have more problems than your typical Toyota Camry. It's also not terribly uncommon for exotics to occasionally catch on fire. But if you have an Aston Martin that was built between 2009 and 2016, you should probably call your dealer to see if it's part of the latest recall.
Bloomberg reports that Aston Martin is recalling more than 5,000 cars in the U.S. due to two potentially serious issues. The first recall is to fix a problem that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says "can cause the transmission park pawl not to engage," causing a roll-away risk. The second recall is to fix battery cables that may be a fire risk.
The former affects 3,493 DB9, DBS, Rapide, Virage, and Vanquish cars, while the latter affects 1,953 DB9 and DBS coupes. While that might not sound like a large recall, remember that Aston Martin only sold about 3,600 cars worldwide last year.
Considering that even the least-expensive Aston Martin costs more than $100,000, we highly recommend making sure it doesn't go up in smoke or roll down a hill and crash.
You can also check the NHTSA's website to see if your car is affected, as well as whether or not it's subject to any more recalls.


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The partnership with KaiOS gives Google access to a booming market.
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The five weirdest food trends to watch for in 2014
Earlier this month, the American National Restaurant Association released its culinary forecast for 2014. The purpose of the report, which is based on a survey of over 1,300 American chefs, is to predict the food trends that will dominate restaurant menus in the upcoming year. While a few of this year’s findings are intriguing—Peruvian, for instance, is predicted to overtake Korean as the ethnic cuisine of choice—the takeaways are hardly Earth-shattering.
We learned that local food is still big; that chefs are determined to keep plying non-celiac sufferers with gluten-free foodstuffs; and that buzz terms like “sustainable,” “estate-branded” and “nose-to-tail” aren’t going anywhere. We also learned that charcuterie, quinoa, pickled veggies, hybrid desserts and barrel-aged cocktails are the food items of the future—a bit of a snooze, really, since they’re also the foods of the present. That’s why we scoured the web for some more exciting future food possibilities. Here, in no particular order, are five freaky food trends that could really change the way we eat in 2014.
Animal blood makes a great substitute for eggs, according to a report from Nordic Food Lab, a Denmark-based not-for-profit devoted to “investigat[ing] deliciousness and its systems.” The experimental lab subbed blood for eggs in a variety of desserts—including blood ice cream, blood meringues and startlingly scarlet blood pancakes—and got a panel of adventurous eaters to comment on the results. The only hitch? The difficult-to-mask “bloody aftertaste,” which reportedly caused “intense and unexpected responses” from some testers.
We’ve already become inured to the notion of dropping $15 on a single cocktail, not to mention $10 on a wedge of iceberg lettuce, so it wouldn’t be terribly surprising if fancy bread became the next big thing in Toronto. According to this article, which made the web-rounds earlier this month, the trend is already huge in San Francisco, where diners are willing to pay up to $4 for a slice of luxury toast (and the chance to actively inhabit a Portlandia skit).
First there was chocolate-covered bacon. Now there is ChocoChicken, a soon-to-launch L.A.-based fast food chain from restaurateur Adam Fleischman, the owner of New York’s Umami Burger. As the name implies, the restaurant will specialize in chocolate-flavoured fried chicken. Gimmicky? Absolutely. But then, people probably thought Dorito-encased tacos were dumb, too, and look how they turned out.
According to NPR, the latest cocktail craze to hit the U.S. involves infusing drinks with pure, nicotine-rich tobacco. The resulting concoctions reportedly have a subtly smokey bouquet. They also burn on the way down and, according to at least one study, may be fatal in high doses. Cheers.
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Lotus is slowly rebounding after a difficult past few years, sales have increased to 551 cars from the previous year yielding 1,565 cars sold over the last nine months alone which represents an overall 54 percent boost.
In the UK sales have increased by 88 percent, sales in Germany are up by 139 percent and France saw a 143 percent increase.
These results are attributable to an increase of Lotus dealerships which now totals 150 and 50 more are due to be established by the end of 2015.
The formula is simple, Lotus makes great cars but in the past had a small dealership network. More dealerships mean more customers getting to experience the Lotus brand.
The Middle East and Asia territories saw an increase in demand by 24 and 29 percent respectively.
With money tight over the past two years Lotus could not even afford a stand at a number of key international motorshows. But a revived business plan under new CEO, Jean-Mark Gales, means confidence is returning.
Lotus will be at the 2015 Geneva motorshow where the company will be unveiling a revamped, light-weight and more powerful edition of the Lotus Evoraand possibly for the for the Exige.
The Lotus story is a rollercoaster at times and the hope is the company can finally fulfill its long standing potential.


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Netflix (NFLX) expects its service to stop working on older Samsung (SSNFL) smart televisions starting next month, according to media reports. However, the specific list of models that would lose Netflix support on December 1 has yet to be published. However, Netflix has been sending alerts to customers that are likely to be impacted by the shift.
Netflix plans to sideline certain models due to technical limitations. While Netflix’s decision to sideline older Samsung sets may be well-intentioned, we think the move carries some risks.
Netflix risks losing customers if its service stops working on some Samsung sets
Netflix’s plan to drop support for older models of Samsung TVs may be designed to enhance its customer experience. We don’t know how many Netflix customers could be affected when the service stops working on older Samsung sets. Samsung is the world’s leading manufacturer of television sets. So, we can safely assume that many Netflix customers who access the service on television use Samsung sets.
Netflix customers currently using these older Samsung sets have two options. Firstly, they can upgrade to newer Samsung TVs that support Netflix. The other option is purchasing a streaming device such as Roku that would allow them to continue accessing Netflix on older Samsung sets.
However, these options would require customers to take on the additional expense to retain Netflix access. We believe households on a tight budget might decide to put their Netflix subscriptions on hold when this change occurs. Consequently, Netflix might lose some customers.
Netflix facing customer rebellion over cost
Cost is already a major concern for Netflix customers. According to a KilltheCableBill study, one-quarter of Netflix subscribers in the US feel it is too expensive. Netflix has acknowledged that pricing is an issue. Netflix’s management pointed to recent price increases for the loss of subscribers in the US in the second quarter.
Netflix’s pricing problem seemed to persist in the third quarter. The company added fewer US subscribers in the third quarter than it had projected. Moreover, Netflix’s US subscriber growth in the quarter fell short of consensus expectations.
If faced with changes like upgrading their Samsung TVs, which would increase their costs, we think Netflix customers who already feel the service is too expensive might decide to jump ship. Notably, Disney+ and Apple TV+ offer competitive options to Netflix in terms of pricing.


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UK-based global payment company SumUp announced that it has acquired marketing startup Fivestars to expand its operations across the United States. The company said on Thursday that it paid $317M (approx €273M) in a mix of cash and stock to buy the San-Francisco-based company.
The acquisition announcement comes a few months after SumUp raised €750M in funding led by Goldman Sachs.
Why this acquisition?
The deal will provide SumUp with access to the more than 70M consumer-members and 12,000 small businesses within Fivestars’s network, which currently drives over $3B (approx €2.6B) in sales and 100M transactions per year. SumUp will tap into Fivestars’ local market expertise and trusted commerce network for its nationwide expansion.
“SumUp is a market leader because of our support for, and belief in, small businesses. Our global community of merchants has battled through lockdowns and volatility and we’re confident that this acquisition will further energise the US’s recovering small business economy. Now is the time to make sure our presence is as strong in the U.S. as it is in Europe and, by acquiring Fivestars, SumUp will deliver for U.S.-based merchants as it has in other international markets” says Marc-Alexander Christ, Co-founder of SumUp.
Fivestars’ team, including its CEO and co-founder, Victor Ho, will remain in their roles and operate independently. For the San-Francisco company, the acquisition will result in expanded technology offerings for American small businesses that will help them save money on payments and make money through automated marketing.
Victor Ho, Co-founder and CEO of Fivestars, says, “We founded Fivestars to allow small businesses to thrive in the digital economy and over the years, we’ve achieved just that. Understanding that SumUp shares this mission, it was an easy decision to partner, and together, we look forward to supporting a retail market that champions small business success.”
Fivestars: What you need to know
Founded by Matt Doka and Victor Hoin in 2011, Fivestars provides payments and marketing solutions that combine automation, rewards, and promotions for small merchants in the US and Canada.
The company has raised $115M (approx €99M) from several investors, including Lightspeed, DCM, Menlo Ventures, HarbourVest, Salt Partners, Y-Combinator, and others.
SumUp: What you need to know
Founded in 2011 by Daniel Klein, Jan Deepen, Marc-Alexander Christ, Petter Made, and Stefan Jeschonnek, SumUp is a fintech company that allows businesses of all sizes to receive payments quickly and simply, both in-store and online.
The London-based company supports over 3M merchants globally and operates in 34 markets across Europe, the US, Brazil, and Chile.
With SumUp, merchants can accept credit and debit cards through their smartphones or tablets securely. The company’s mobile card acceptance solution is built on proprietary end-to-end EMV payment technology, terminal hardware, and mobile applications.
To date, the company has raised $1.4B (approx €1.2B) in funding from several investors including Goldman Sachs, Venture Incubator, LLC, BBVA Ventures, Groupon, Life.SREDA, Bain Capital Credit, GS Growth, and others.


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This spring’s retirement of Joe Dorto, president and chief executive officer of Virginia International Terminals Inc., will come after the port’s best year ever.
Sadly, that exit could be the first of many big changes aimed at reshaping the company that runs Virginia’s port operations. Business related to the shipping industry represents one of the biggest drivers of the economy in Hampton Roads and Virginia.
Among the options the state is considering: Replace
the quasi-governmental nonprofit VIT, which built the port into the third-busiest on the East Coast, with a private, for-profit company such as APM Terminals.
It’s a deal opposed by the region’s maritime industry, its truckers, as well as the independent shipping companies.
The reasoning for such a drastic change is based on a claim, pushed by Transportation Secretary Sean Connaughton, that the relationship between the Virginia Port Authority and VIT is inefficient and financially unsustainable.
That justification has now fallen apart.
The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission thoroughly debunked that idea in an analysis released last week.
The JLARC report systematically dismantled the figures and methodology used to support the idea that Virginia’s ports were underperforming and jeopardizing the future economic prosperity of Hampton Roads and the commonwealth.
Previous consultants’ studies, the JLARC report notes, ignored successes posted by VIT and the port authority, failed to mention recent growth or were “desk-based,” meaning they didn’t include interviews with anyone from the port authority or VIT.
In short, they weren’t complete, and certainly not a solid foundation for such a huge decision.
The port’s recent performance troubles turn out to be easily understandable. And – as numbers from this year show – reversible.
The port authority’s 20-year deal to operate APM’s high-tech terminal in Portsmouth will strengthen the port’s long-term market position, but it initially carried significant costs. It also happened to coincide with the worst economic downturn in generations, leading to the annual financial losses that Connaughton and others cited as cause for concern.
But JLARC reported that the port also suffered from declining container traffic from two shipping lines – Evergeen and Maersk – that had signed contracts with APM before the port authority ever struck a deal to take over APM’s terminal. In other words, the transportation secretary and other proponents of replacing VIT were holding the company responsible for an outcome it couldn’t control.
The report does suggest administrative overhead between VIT and the port authority is excessive, and that inefficiencies likely exist. But that shouldn’t require wholesale change in the company that operates the port.
APM’s unsolicited bid, and a competing proposal from another bidder, are still being reviewed by the port authority’s board. Deliberative analysis, however, suggests that neither is necessary, or the right call for the commonwealth.
The current taxpayer-owned structure ensures that the port is run to maximize the return to Virginia and to create jobs. A private operator would concentrate, as it should, on returning the highest profits to its owners.
Del. Chris Jones, a Suffolk Republican, is pushing a series of legislative remedies that would affect the port and the handling of bids to take over operations.
One would prevent the governor from turning over port operations without legislative approval, and it would prohibit the governor from firing board members without cause, as McDonnell did in 2011.
Jones and Sen. Frank Wagner of Virginia Beach are also pushing a plan, backed by other South Hampton Roads lawmakers, to require VIT and the port authority to restructure and become more efficient.
That process already is under way; the port authority’s board has been working toward that end for months.
Lawmakers’ support for VIT, the company that has built the port into the economic engine it is today, marks a prudent and better approach to protecting a critical public asset.


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Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson is to stop selling its talc-based baby powder in the UK and around the world from next year.
The company will replace the product with cornstarch instead after it sparked thousands of legal complaints from women over claims it can cause cancer. Johnson & Johnson denies the allegations and says decades of independent research shows the product is safe to use, reports the BBC.
Talc is mined from the earth and is found in seams close to asbestos, which is known to cause cancer. It was taken off shelves in North America two years ago.
At the time, the company blamed "misinformation" over the safety of the product for causing a decline in sales. The baby powder accounted for only about 0.5% of its US consumer health business when the company pulled it off shelves.
In a statement, the company said: "As part of a worldwide portfolio assessment, we have made the commercial decision to transition to an all cornstarch-based baby powder portfolio. As a result of this transition, talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder will be discontinued globally in 2023.
"We stand firmly behind the decades of independent scientific analysis by medical experts around the world that confirms talc-based Johnson's baby powder is safe, does not contain asbestos, and does not cause cancer." The company added: "We remain fully committed to ensuring Johnson's products are loved by parents and families for years to come."
In 2017 a woman was awarded $110.5 million (£85m) after blaming her ovarian cancer on Johnson and Johnson baby powder. Lois Slemp, 62, from Virginia, Missouri, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012, and the disease spread to her liver.
She claims she developed the cancer after four decades of using talcum products. The company said in a statement that it would appeal and disputed the scientific evidence behind the plaintiffs’ allegation, WalesOnline reports.
Johnson & Johnson's cornstarch-based baby powder is already sold in countries around the world. Johnson & Johnson created a subsidiary, LTL Management, in October last year which is used to assign its talc claims to.
It later placed it into bankruptcy, which paused the pending lawsuits. The company faced costs from $3.5billion (£2.87billion) in verdicts and settlements before the bankruptcy.
This included one in which 22 women were awarded a judgement of more than $2billion. In April, a shareholder proposal calling for an end to global sales of the talc baby powder failed.
Johnson and Johnson baby powder was first sold in 1984. Baby powder is used for preventing nappy rash and for cosmetic uses, including as a dry shampoo.
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A Guysborough County plant that produces fish-oil supplements is getting a $30-million expansion, with $6.2 million in help from the province.
DSM Nutritional Products announced plans Monday to upgrade its Mulgrave facility. The company could receive $6.2 million in payroll rebates from Nova Scotia Business Inc. over the next five years because of the project.
Hugh Welsh, president of DSM North America, said the plant will be expanded, with new machinery and equipment upgrades also planned.
“The engineering is already done,” he said in an interview from Parsippany, N.J. “Construction should start within the next couple of weeks.”
The expansion is expected to be completed by April of next year.
DSM Nutritional took over the plant two years ago when parent company Royal DSM NV, based in the Netherlands, acquired Ocean Nutrition of Dartmouth for $540 million.
The Mulgrave plant, which has been in operation for 15 years, has 145 workers. DSM also employs 60 people in Dartmouth, where its administrative office and research facility are located.
Nova Scotia Business Inc. has signed two deals with the dietary supplement maker related to the expansion.
DSM will receive $1.2 million in payroll rebates over five years from the province’s business development agency if it creates 50 new jobs. The company can earn another $5 million because of the $30-million capital investment.
To receive that rebate, the firm must maintain 200 jobs, with an average salary of $72,000, for a five-year period.
Welsh said the Mulgrave facility, where most of the new jobs will be added, is being upgraded because of rising global demand for omega-3 fish oil. North America is the company’s biggest market, he said.
“Those markets are still growing, but we see a tremendous opportunity for exponential growth in other parts of world where there’s growing middle classes and growing awareness around the beneficial health impacts of taking omega-3.”
DSM officials said the company considered several locations in North America for the expansion before deciding on Mulgrave.
The North American president said the plant’s history, as well as the province’s vibrant life sciences and educational sectors, were factors in the decision to upgrade the Guysborough County operation.
Welsh said the provincial assistance also played a role.
“It’s a very competitive process, and the support of the Nova Scotia government was certainly a critical factor in our decision-making.”
DSM has manufacturing plants in New Jersey and South Carolina. The company’s Canadian operations also includes an animal feed business in Ayr, Ont.
Scott Moffitt, managing director of BioNova, said the expansion will boost DSM’s position as a leader in the natural health products and nutraceuticals sector.
“It is a big investment, and from an industry perspective, we’re very happy to see that happen,” said the spokesman for the life-sciences industry group. “It signifies that Nova Scotia has what it takes for a large international company to be here. That, in itself, is quite significant.”


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It’s been nearly two months since Sony’s ‘Future of Gaming’ PS5 event. Since then, we’ve heard virtually nothing about the next-gen console, other than a DualSense controller session with Geoff Keighley.
Naturally, would-be owners are once again getting impatient. With fans eager for news, rumors of what Sony might reveal next pop up almost daily.
The latest suggests that Sony will showcase the PS5’s so far elusive UI before long. An update to the PS5 dev kit, planned in the next few weeks, will reportedly introduce a ‘retail mode,’ allowing developers to navigate the PS5 in much the same way players will when the console launches later this year.
According to the rumor, studios only have access to a debug mode, and the PS4 UI as the dev kit exists today. As a means to preempt potential leaks laying bare the new UI, Sony allegedly plans to showcase it before long.
The rumor originates from Twitter user Tidux . We’d be generous describing Tidux as an industry insider due to a patchy track record, but with Sony tight-lipped about the next step in the drip-fed PS5 reveal, any rumor is as good as the next.
There’s no way to substantiate and confirm the rumor currently. Nevertheless, the timing seems apt given that ‘Holiday 2020’ is a mere four months away.
During the lead up the PS4 launch, Sony began the PlayStation Aug. 13 Gamescom press conference by having the former president of SIE Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, reveal the PS4 UI while perched on an antique leather armchair atop a stage in front of hundreds of attendees.
It’s unlikely Sony will opt for a similar spectacle this time around due to the on-going pandemic, but a similar laid back, ‘let the console do the talking,’ reveal may be on the cards.
As always, take this one with a pinch of salt.


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Windows Phone 8 Users Get In-App Purchases, Legacy Users Get Left Out
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By tying NFC and in-app purchases together, Microsoft killed support for legacy devices
Microsoft Corp.'s (
Windows Phone 8
is fast incoming and promises to deliver more substance behind the company's already
slick Metro graphical user interface
. But a key storyline has been the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to leave legacy device users out in the cold with no upgrade path to Windows Phone 8. Instead, they get a partial update -- Windows Phone 7.8.
After Microsoft made that clear, much discussion has focused on which features will and won't be included in Windows Phone 7.8.
from the Windows Phone Developer Center on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), which indicate that Windows Phone 7.8 users will
get in-app purchases.
Microsoft chose to launch Windows Phone from the ground up. As a result, certain commonplace features like
cut and paste
were mysteriously absent at launch. Many of those missing features were included in a series of updates -- the biggest of which was
Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango"
But Mango apps still lacked in-app purchases, an essential feature for Android and iOS developers.
Rather than go for half-hearted
near-field-communications (NFC) wireless payments
and in-app payments, Microsoft decided to make a brand-new shiny "Wallet" hub for Windows Phone 8, which securely stores users' credit cards and allows a common payment API.
In-app purchases are only for Windows Phone 8, not WinPhone 7.8. [Image Source: The Verge]
The bad news is that by tying NFC and in-app payments together, Microsoft essentially nixed in-app payments for legacy devices, which lack NFC. It's still possible that the feature might creep into Windows Phone 7.8, but for now MSDN says that in-app payments will
only be available for Windows Phone 8
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WP7 market share grew by 277% in Q2 2012 compared to the previous year, despite the announcement about no WP8 upgrade. Thats 2.5 times the growth of Android and 10 times the growth of iPhones.
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8/7/2012 4:19:56 PM
I am a Microsoft fan, but we all know the facts are that marketshare growth is always huge when your existing market share is tiny. The reality is in the actual volume of handsets being moved, and every android makers is moving more phones individually than all the windows phones combined.
That said though, there is still a lot of room in this space, and I expect Win8Phone to do much better, especially since it has an entire Win8 ecosystem of PCs, laptops, tablets, and xbox to interact with and provide a cohesive ecosystem. Even if the new BB OS is decent, I think MS will take a chunk out of corporate phone purchases because I would expect Win8Phone to play nice with corporate IT policies, and should be easy to manage.
RE: Relevant info
8/7/2012 8:10:06 PM
Gotta love sensationalist headlines. 227% increase from nothing is still...well nothing when compared to the competition.
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According to Automotive News
, new car
shoppers are beginning to shy away from Toyota
thanks to the company's less-than spotless quality and safety reputation as of late. A new study by J.D. Power and Associates has revealed that around 19 percent of new car buyers surveyed said that they had steered clear of Toyota
because of the company's sullied reputation. Last year, that number was a mere 3 percent. Even worse for the Japanese manufacturer, around 15 percent of those in the study said that they'd personally had a bad experience with the automaker and another 15 percent said that they were concerned about the future of Toyota. Those numbers mark a 12 and an 11 percent increase over last year's figures, respectively.
Even so, according to the J.D. Power and Associates study, Toyota is still the third most considered automaker out there, falling just behind BMW
. In a separate study, Kelley Blue Book
found that Toyota is still the number-one most considered automaker, even in spite of the company's rash of recalls
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Bethesda, the company behind the massively popular Fallout series, today announced that the post-apocalyptic RPG series is entering a new medium. A Fallout television series is incoming from Amazon Studios, with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Kilter Films firm producing it.
"Over the last decade, we looked at many ways to bring Fallout to the screen,” said Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard. "But it was clear from the moment I first spoke with Jonah and Lisa a few years ago, that they and the team at Kilter were the ones to do it right. We’re enormous fans of their work and couldn’t be more excited to work with them and Amazon Studios."
The Fallout show has not begun shooting yet and does not have a premiere date attached to it. However, the adaptation has received a series commitment and will be available via Amazon Prime Video if everything goes to plan.
It will be interesting to find out when and where the show will take place in the Fallout universe as well. The games primarily show the post-apocalyptic side of things in the nuclear-power-obsessed parallel universe, though each story jumps between various locations and decades.


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Vivo is set to launch a new device on February 23, 2020. The Chinese phone maker has just sent out invites for the event. The event is set to take place at the Nautic Center in Barcelona on February 23. This is just a day before the start of the MWC 2020, which is set to kick off on February 24.
While we do not yet have all the details of the device that Vivo will announce at the Conference, we know that it will probably be a cutting-edge device. In fact, Vivo may even be considering launching a foldable phone at the event. If this is correct, then it will be a first from the company.
Vivo does not usually attend the MWC officially. In 2018 though, the company showcased the Vivo APEX concept phone. In 2019, Vivo did not even attend the MWC at all. For the Chinese company to now go as far as setting an event just before the MWC 2019, we are expecting something big from the company.
Could this be a flagship device? Maybe a foldable phone? Is this the Vivo APEX 2020? All of these questions will definitely be answered in a matter of weeks or months.
What do you think about this new development from Vivo? Let us know in the Comments section below.


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Hewlett Packard reported fourth-quarter earnings of 73 cents a share, up from a loss of $3.49. The company reported revenue of $29.1 billion, down 3 percent year over year
HP's non-GAAP earnings were $1.01 a share, beating analyst estimates by one penny, according to Yahoo Finance and Thomson Reuters.
The company announced that it returned $763 million to shareholders in dividends and share repurchases during the fourth quarter.
The gains may not be huge, but Wall Street is pleased. HP's stock was trading up 8.27 percent at $27.19 in mid-morning trading.
The Palo Alto technology company is in the third year of a five-year turnaround plan, and continues to battle strong economic headwinds and a sluggish PC market.
For the fiscal year, HP reported net earnings of $2.62 a share, below the company's guidance of $2.67 to $2.71.
Net revenue for the full year was 7 percent lower than last year, coming in at $112.3 billion.
Here's the breakdown based on HP's business units:
- HP's personal computer division's revenue fell 2 percent compared to last year, and its printing division lost 1 percent in revenue year over year.
- HP's enterprise group (servers) grew revenue by 2 percent, but its enterprise services division's revenue dropped 9 percent.
- Software revenue also fell 9 percent, and HP's financial services sales dropped 6 percent.
For Q1 2014, HP expects earnings to fall between 60 cents to 64 cents a share. For fiscal year 2014, earnings are predicted to be in the range of $2.85 and $3.05 a share, which is consistent with the outlook HP gave during its October analyst meeting.
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European mega-ship's maiden voyage
March 15, 2013 -- Updated 1036 GMT (1836 HKT)
Europe's equal largest cruise ship, the MSC Preziosa, tips the scales at 140,000 tons and can travel at speeds of up to 23 knots.
Europe's largest cruise ship
A lot of mouths to feed
Big but not biggest
- At 333 meters long, it is Europe's equal biggest cruise ship
- The 'Allure of the Seas' at 362 meters is the world's biggest
- MSC Preziosa's first official cruise will start March 24
(CNN) -- Europe's largest cruise ship, the MSC Preziosa, set sail on its maiden voyage from the western France port of Saint Nazaire on Thursday.
The ship actually holds the title jointly with its sister ship the MSC Divina, which first set sail in May of 2012. Both measure 333 meters long by 38 meters wide and can hold 4,345 passengers. The mega-ships each weigh 140,000 tons and can travel at speeds of up to 23 knots.
Swiss-Italian cruise operator MSC Cruises says the ship has 30,000 square meters of public area, including pools, a casino and a theater.
The boat is the 12th in MSC's fleet, making it the world's third biggest cruise line, according to company CEO Pierfrancesco Vago.
The ship has quite the interesting back story. According to various reports, a shipping firm in Libya originally ordered it.
But payments were halted in the wake of the Libyan revolution in 2011.
MSC Cruises stepped in and purchased the already-in-progress ship from builder STX France.
The luxury cruise ship is now on its pre-inaugural 9-day/8-night cruise from Saint Nazaire, that will end in Genoa, Italy on Friday, March 22. There a christening ceremony will take place before it departs on March 24 on its first official cruise.
The five-night voyage begins in Genoa and includes stops in Naples, Messina, Tunis and Barcelona.
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LONDON – UK cellular network EE announced the arrival of a new immersive sports viewing experience on Friday. It will offer Augmented Reality-powered tools to those viewing Premier League and other matches as part of its iPhone 12 5G package.
EE And iPhone 12 Seek to Help Fans Kept Out of Stadia
For months, soccer fans in the UK have not been able to go and see their team live. EE is now offering a ‘Match Day Experience’ within the BT Sport App that works with its 5G network and iPhone 12 features to offer an AR viewing experience. The app will provide a 360 view of the pitch, a ‘Watch Together’ tool that lets users video chat with friends and family, with the game on the other side of a split screen, line-ups, formations and in-game stats presented via AR, and event an AR-powered doorway into a stadium. Dolby Atmos sound will also become available later in the season.
The features will be available to users signed up to the networks Full Works Plan for the iPhone 12. They will first be available for Premier League matches broadcast live by BT, which owns EE, on a Saturday lunchtime. UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and Emirates FA Cup matches shown by the broadcaster, as well as some rugby from the Gallagher Premiership, will also get the Match Day Experience. More matches are set to be added in future. Customers taking out a Full Works Plan also get access to Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade.
Marc Allera, Chief Executive, BT’s consumer division, said: “We continually look for ways to offer customers new and innovative services, allowing them to make the most from their smartphone. Our new Match Day Experience features will provide an amazing array of ways to enhance their sports viewing – over the UK’s number one network for 5G.”


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Government rounds off week of green announcements with funding awards for clean transport R&D and tree-planting programmes
New analysis from Bain & Company suggests recycled materials could play dominant role in auto industry supply chains
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Government-backed trial shows that smart charging technologies could slash the cost of recharging from public charge points
Transport for West Midlands takes delivery of 50 new electric buses, as city advances £150m project to convert entire fleet to zero emissions
As EV uptake in developing nations struggles to take off, the UK has announced a string of new initiatives designed to accelerate EV uptake around the world - but do they go far enough?
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Once the top team of about 5-6 positions are in place, Sinha said he will also look to hire someone for the position of the CEO to fill in the shoes of the founders. He, however, added that he would not leave his leadership role anytime soon. “But if you ask me whether I would be running Jabong for next 30 years. The answered would also be a ‘No’,” he said. Sinha’s comments come at a time when there have been reports that Rocket Internet, which owns Jabong, plans to shift cofounders Sinha and Arun Chandra Mohan, currently CEO of Jabong, to new roles within the company.
Sinha said he has strong support of Jabong’s investors to strengthen its core team. A former McKinsey consultant, Sinha was running a few ventures including home solutions firm Aqua Brim before cofounding Jabong. He has also invested in ventures such as on-demand services provider Zimmber, laundry startup Wassup and dating app Tryst.
Sinha and Mohan started the Gurgaon-based fashion portal in 2012 along with Lakshmi Potluri, Manu Jain and Mukul Bafana. While Potluri left to start ecommerce platform Shopify, Jain is now India head for Xiaomi. Bafana is chief product officer at Arvind Internet.
The new search by Jabong for top leaders comes at a time when Snapdeal has hired half a dozen executives from companies such as Coca Cola, Airtel, P&G and Unilever to its top team. Flipkart has hired executives from companies such as Motorola, Google, Yahoo and Amazon to its top leadership.
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Apple has more cash than any other company in the world, but it has not made any big investments since its $3 billion acquisition of Beats by Dre in 2014.
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Doug Kass shares his thoughts on both sides of Disney and why auto stocks are value traps.
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Consumers use messaging apps nearly five times more than other apps, and they are almost twice as likely to keep messaging apps (vs. other apps) on their phones, according to a recent report from Flurry.
Advertising trade reporters like sensational headlines. A quick tour of any advertising news publication will surface data showing television’s decline, with experts predicting its inevitable demise at the hands of digital channels.
The stage is all set for digital advertising to reach the big inflexion point in 2015. First, it was the FICCI-KPMG Media and Entertainment Report, which has reported a 44.5 per cent growth in digital advertising in 2014.


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Wow, that was fast!
Less than a hour ago Rocksmith’s Facebook page posted this:
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“It’s another Tuesday trivia day.
In perhaps the hardest to decode riff teaser yet, Rocksmith’s Facebook page posted this yesterday:
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Seems like there’s leaks happening all over the place when it comes to Rocksmith! It was brought to our attention by Creeko that GameSta has reported the following via Rocksmith’s forthcoming Europe release:
“The European version will also exclusively contain a bass guitar version, not available Stateside.”
When questioned about this statement in their comment section Gamesta Daav replied “We get all our Ubisoft info straight from Ubisoft themselves.”
I was as skeptical as anyone when chrisatkinson35 made his first post on the Rocksmith Forums, “Upcoming DLC Leaked!” I had seen stuff like this all the time and initially dismissed it as an attempt at getting a few choice reactions from people and then to disappear and never to be seen again.… Read More


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The GNC Gadget show is running from the 6th of September to the 12th and there are some amazing electronics on display.
The Tokai Corporation has taken the wraps off a new hand held dual-format dishwasher drier, although quite whether a miniature dishwasher has a future remains to be seen.
CEO Sanjuro Miromoto presented the amazing piece of modern technical excellence to an expectant audience after months of hype.
“The dishwasher can take a full load and once it is finished, you just put it in your pocket and go. It’s really that simple,” the CEO announced.
The handheld dishwasher will also come in a number of different colours so that the fashion conscious can enjoy.
Tokai is expecting this amazing hand held dishwasher to be in every household by Christmas.
The exhibition is now officially open to the rest of the public and gadget hounds have been swamping the mass of gadgets on display.


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ICELAND – Iceland Seafood International, a worldwide processing and marketing company for frozen, salted and fresh seafood is looking for a buyer for its UK business.
Iceland had earlier noted that its UK business was “not a strategic fit” but insisted that the division could be “a great addition to other companies in the sector.”
The facility is based in Grimsby Eastern England and was part of a consolidation exercise in 2020 when a new plant was built in the town to replace another site and a factory in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
In a recent statement, Iceland Seafood International reported they now had a “letter of intent” on a potential deal with “a respected industry player”.
The company further noted that the LOI is a legally non-binding document but its provisions will serve as key terms in the event of the potential transaction.
“The parties have agreed to run a swift due diligence process to complete a binding agreement before the end of December. Any further update on the progress made about the proposed transaction and its financial impact on Iceland Seafood will be provided as appropriate”
In an interview with Just Food, Iceland Seafood’s CEO Bjarni Ármannsson said: “We are experiencing headwinds, which require difficult decisions to be made and sails to be adjusted to change the winds.
We believe in the future and that we are well-positioned in our key markets with well-run value-added operations in Europe.”
At the time, seafood-industry specialist news service Undercurrent, citing unnamed sources, said Sykes Seafood was in talks with Iceland Seafood International.
Just Food indicated that Sykes Seafood did not return a request for comment when it was approached while Iceland Seafood International declined to reveal the identity of the suitor for its UK division.
Talks a deal for the assets with the unidentified buyer however broke down on the second week of December prompting the seafood company to go into yet another search for a potential buyer.
In a brief statement, Iceland Seafood International said: “Negotiations that were based on the LOI were not successful and have been cancelled.
Iceland Seafood will now be in communication with other interested parties and will provide information as appropriate if any of these communications will develop [into] a formal discussion.”
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Tesla’s Powerpacks have been selected as the backup system of choice for Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP), one of the UK’s most prominent science and technology park operators. The big battery is part of the MSP’s ongoing initiative to employ and utilize advanced energy solutions.
The Tesla Powerpack system would be installed outside the MSP’s flagship headquarters, located at the Bright Building in Manchester Science Park. Apart from the Powerpacks, MSP will also be building two charging points for electric vehicles on its HQ’s premises.
According to a press release, the installation of the Powerpacks and the construction of the charging stations would help insulate the MSP from changing commercial tariffs and surging non-commodity prices. More importantly, however, the adoption of green technologies would significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the park operator’s headquarters.
Perhaps the most notable advantage of the Tesla Powerpack system for the MSP, however, would be the big battery’s capability to respond quickly in the event of a power shortage. As could be seen in the performance of the South Australia Powerpack farm near Jamestown, the system could respond to outages in less than a second — far quicker than traditional backup energy solutions like diesel generators.
The Tesla Powerpack batteries are also scalable, which would enable MSP to install additional batteries if its headquarters’ power needs increase. With enough Powerpack batteries, the park operator’s HQ in Bright Building could eventually run all day on its energy storage system alone.
MSP managing director Tom Renn stated that the company is excited about the idea of using Tesla’s Powerpacks as the headquarters’ backup power system.
“As the only UK science and technology park operator to be offering this kind of advanced energy innovation, it’s something we’re understandably very excited about. This pilot installation marks a key milestone in our advanced energy strategy. It also makes good on a commitment to invest in sustainable improvements to our campuses, signed up to as part of our green funding package with Lloyds Bank.
“We have bold plans to harness the opportunities provided by advanced energy. We envisage that within 12 months, the Bright Building will be an energy island – self-sufficient and operating without reliance on the National Grid.”
Tesla’s Powerpacks have so far proven their worth across the globe. Just recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to an islandwide blackout in Puerto Rico by pledging to expand the country’s existing solar and battery solutions 24/7 to support the country’s ravaged energy grid better. Since being hit by Hurricane Maria last year, Puerto Rico has been embroiled in a power crisis, and Tesla has been doing its part helping the island nation through its products such as the Powerpack, Powerwall home battery, and solar panels.
In South Australia, Tesla’s Powerpack farm, dubbed as the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery, continues to support the region’s power grid. The Powerpacks have proven to be so efficient; Tesla is reportedly not getting paid properly anymore since the big battery responds too fast for the Australian Energy Market Operator’s legacy billing system.