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Pokemon Go is in everybody mouth these days. And many marketers are asking how to leverage the mobile app game for their business purpose – especially small and local businesses.
Just lately, the team from Slant Marketing came up with some data that shows how businesses can use Pokemon Go players for their own business – and if it is only food traffic from players that still realize the world around them.
The survey of Pokemon Go players shows that an incredible figure of 82% of those mobile players have come to visit a business when playing the game. Business that managed to „lure“ players in their shops were lucky. Quite a significant number of those players stayed at that particular business longer than others.
The research data also reveals that Pokemon Go players behave like nomads. Over half surveyed (51%) answered they it was their first time that they visited the shop or business when using the app. So, Pokemon Go can become a real lead generator if used properly.
According to the data, almost three out of four Pokemon Go players (71%) replied they came in the local store as it was close to a PokeStop or Gym. Meaning that locations stored in the game attract players to come in the stores, very often these shops were small local businesses.
But the results of the Pokemon Go players also show a great opportunity of local business compared to the national chain stores. The study states that more than one in two players (56%) visited a local business when playing Pokemon Go. So, just the chance of catching some creature of the Pokemon Go game makes people come to the local stores.
We are sure that Pokemon Go is just one of those new game trends that mix real and virtual worlds in a mobile app or device. And that it is only a trend can be seen in the development of the app stores that have taken away the leading position of the mobile game in app stores lately as of poor monetization. Still, augmented and virtual reality opportunities for businesses have just started, and especially local stores should pay attention to mobile opportunities like Snapchat, Instagram or Pokemon Go.
The infographic of the Pokemon Go user study can be found here…
Now, another report from Schneider Electric called „IoT 2020 Business Report“ delivers some new findings on how large organisations will leverage Internet of Things technologies as a serious business tool by 2020. Their study is based on feedback by 3,000 business leaders from twelve countries.
According to their global survey, 75% of respondents were optimistic about the opportunities IoT presents this year. Almost every second out of three (63%) companies use IoT to improve their customer experience and analyze customer behaviour in 2016. They hope to solve problems faster, achieve better customer service and customer satisfaction ranking.
Furthermore, cost savings in automation seem to be high on the agenda, above all building (63%) and industrial automation (62%). As results showed the improvements in automation technologies almost half of the companies (42%) say they want to implement IoT-enabled building automation systems within the next two years.
The key driver for IoT is mobile for two out of three companies (67%). Thus, they plan to implement IoT via mobile applications this year, and 32% even in the next six months. Again, cost savings of up to 59% is the major driver for IoT implementation.
The confidence is the value of knowledge gathering and sharing already exists inside most companies surveyed. 81% feel that the data and/or information generated by the IoT is being shared effectively throughout the organisation. Fears are lower than expected. Only 41% of respondents connect cybersecurity threats with IoT business challenges.
„We’re past the point of questioning whether IoT will deliver value. Businesses now need to make informed decisions to position themselves to maximise IoT’s value in their organisation.“ Dr. Prith Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer, Schneider Electric
However, Schneider Electric does not only publish numbers of their study but also provides the following predictions that business leaders might take into consideration.
1. The next wave of digital transformation.
IoT will bring operational technology (OT) and IT together while fueling a mobile and digitally enabled workforce: As more companies both expand and deepen their digitisation programmes enterprise-wide, IoT will increasingly take centre stage. This new wave of transformation will be enabled by more affordable “connected” sensors, embedded intelligence and control, faster and more ubiquitous communications networks, cloud infrastructure, and advanced data-analytics capabilities.
2. Insightful data.
IoT will translate previously untapped data into insights that enable enterprises to take the customer experience to the next level: When thinking about the value proposition of IoT, most businesses point to efficiency and cost savings as the key benefits. Yet access to data – including previously untapped data – and the ability to translate it into actionable insights, the hallmark of IoT, will deliver greater customer-service transformation and new opportunities to build brand/service loyalty and satisfaction.
3. Premise-to-cloud confidence.
The IoT will promote an open, interoperable and hybrid computing approach, and it will foster industry and government collaboration on global architecture standards that address cybersecurity concerns: While cloud-based IoT solutions will grow in popularity, no single computing architecture will monopolise their delivery. IoT instead will flourish across systems, both at the edge and on premise, as part of private cloud or public cloud offerings. Making IoT available across heterogeneous computing environments will help end users adopt IoT solutions in the way that best suits their security and mission-critical needs while also offering entities with legacy technology infrastructures a logical and manageable path forward, allowing them to transform over time.
4. Innovations that leapfrog existing infrastructure.
IoT will function as a source of innovation, business model disruption and economic growth for businesses, governments and emerging economies: Just as the Industrial Revolution, birth of the Internet and mobile revolution have driven advancement, innovation and prosperity, so will IoT. Businesses and cities alike will deliver new IoT-enabled services; new business models will emerge; and, in particular emerging economies will have a significant opportunity to quickly leverage IoT without the constraint of legacy infrastructure, essentially leapfrogging old ways. In fact, McKinsey forecasts that 40 percent of the worldwide market for IoT solutions will be generated by developing countries.
5. A better planet.
IoT solutions will be leveraged to address major societal and environmental issues: IoT will help countries and their economies respond to the biggest challenges facing our planet, including global warming, water scarcity and pollution. In fact, survey respondents identified improved resource utilisation as the number one benefit of IoT to society as a whole. In concert with the private sector, local and national governments will embrace IoT to accelerate and optimise current initiatives to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in accord with the breakthrough COP21 climate agreement, whereby 196 countries pledged to keep global warming under the threshold of two degrees celsius.
The Internet of Things has been seen as the main revolution from a technology perspective. The hype seems to be at an all-time high. Real business value is not only saving money though. Customer service improvements, better process optimization and smarter work and life opportunities will have big potential to bring IoT business value to enterprises in the future.
What is your experience on the value of IoT for your business?
They blog from the first row at catwalks. They share cool design gadgets on Instagram. They strike a pose with a selfie in front of 5-star hotels on Pinterest. And, they record „Let’s plays“ for Youtube while testing the latest computer games. The one thing they have in common? They are online influencers. A digital species that challenges and changes the marketing world of models, testimonials and the publishing industry.
According to an annual Nielsen study, it is a common knowledge that people trust most in recommendations of people they know. In the past, marketers put models or celebrities in this „recommendation seat“. It was meant to address two benefits: Brands intended to grasp some of the consumers’ attention by trying to hitch-hike on the wave of VIP awareness and public relevance. And, they used the reach of magazines and the trust those public voices had for the people.
It seems to me that the tables are turning now, and marketers have to rethink their brand extension strategy.
1. Models – the personalization dilemma
When using models, brands couldn’t tell exactly which audience they were addressing. It was a marketers’ and model agent’s best guess which model fits which brand. However, a model does not have a transparent target-group. They are just faces without any open address books or lead list.
Social influencers are their own agents. Their content markets their personality, their personality defines their content, their reach expresses their quality. They have got fans, followers, and friends that everybody (not only when following them) can see. A clear defined and dynamic target-group that is commited to them and engages with them on a regular basis. What they say gets read. What they state is trusted. In fact, their consumer opinion becomes one of the most trusted sources that people believe in – more than traditional ads of any kind.
Just imagine the influence on purchase intent, when an influencer is posting online to a large audience of friends and fans. Social influencers are perceived of their active and growing audiences as „more real“ than models, somehow even as „friends“.
But also the traditional model business is affected by the upcoming influencer trend: Previously interchangeable and relatively anonymous faces are now increasingly becoming personal brands thanks to their personalized Instagram and Snapchat channels and/or (mostly fashion- and beauty related) blogposts. Consequently, numerous models with significant reach are also acting as influencers to their audiences.
2. Testimonials – the authenticity dilemma
Testimonials need to match brand authenticity and follow the brand message in order to become valuable for marketers. Serious investment in dollars does not allow a testimonial’s mistake. Contracts are long-term and include testimonial involvement not only in all brand campaigns but also in personal PR and marketing engagement during the contracting period.
Money counts for testimonials – as much as monetary rewards do for online influencers. This is definitely true for the fashion and beauty industry, states the „Fashion & Beauty Monitor“ report in partnership with Econsultancy named „The Rise of Influencers„. However, three out of five surveyed influencers believe that the „relevance of brand in relation to own area of expertise „is essential when collaborating with marketers. Influencers are very well aware of their personality as brand that has to be secured and consequently, they do not sell everything just because they are asked to. Of course, this in return means a certain loss of control for marketers when working with powerful influencers. Just to state an example, years ago, I offered MINI a cool opportunity to collaborate with me. I fear the idea never reached the BMW four-cylinder tower – perhaps for fear of losing brand control?
Think about it: How authentic can testimonials be that are selected by brands as of their popularity in sports, fashion and lifestyle? Testimonials sell their media value. On the contrary, engagement with influencers can only work when brands do not act too commercial with them and meet their personal authenticity. Social influencers are personal brands; authentic brands that companies can collaborate with.
3. Publishers – the relevance dilemma
When content from influencers gets more attention (and is trusted more) than content from advertising, relevance becomes a critical tipping point. For years, marketers and PR experts were convinced that „serious“ traditional publishers are more relevant to readers than bloggers or any other form of social media active people. Thus, they invested serious dollars in brand building activities with the publishing industry. Today, these very media houses are approaching influencers to increase their declining media value.
A recent study by Collective Bias shows that content from influencers is viewed for more than 2 minutes (which is 7 times longer than the digital display ad average with a view time of just 19.2 seconds). Plus the relevance of someone’s personal opinion -whether rating, recommendation or review- has become of high value for consumers. Now if content from an influencer is relevant and perceived as being „authentic“ , publishing is facing serious competition in the future.
However, relevance needs to meet relevance both ways. Just putting brand messages into the mouth of online influencers won’t accelerate a brand’s value. In order to become relevant to an influencer and his or her audience, a brand needs to be „love-brand“ in a social influencer’s mind. If not, the influencer will be perceived (and probably also act) like a traditional publishing product without a media-kit.
Solving the dilemma – budget and advertising strategy
The world of testimonials, models and publishing is changing with the rise of influencers.
More and more companies and brands start working with social influencers. I personally doubt that they will completely replace models, testimonials and publishing houses, but the future will tell. However, the world of recommendations will be redefined by a new species.
According to a recent #BrandofMe study, brands invested 1 Bio. USD in 2015 in influencer programs on Instagram only. Influencers earn between 500 and 10.000 USD per Instagram photo or Youtube video – obviously depending on their media reach. Which means that some influencers get paid as much as some publishers for their ad space. A lot of budget that moves away from traditional brand building worlds.
The question is what values more to brands in terms of business impact: tradition or progression. But that question can only be answered when brands understand the power that online influencers can have on and in the sharing economy.
With their annual study called „Mobile Elite“ (2013 and 2014 versions here) CNBC has been focussing in the last two years on how executives use their mobiles for business, and when and how it helps them doing their business more effectively. A survey that is tracking senior business executive’s use of mobile devices across Europe, Asia and the US.
Now, they have come up with their latest update „Mobile Elite 2015“ that more or less global executives have become mobile in terms of reaching a mobile device saturation point. Already more than 9 out of 10 business executives access the mobile web to get the latest business content and news updates via their tablets or smartphones (of which they have in average 6 (!) devices at home). Compared to last year, the access to „news feeds“ has shown the highest growth for smartphones (45% to 60%). Their main time of reading the news is in the morning of weekdays (87%), predominantly with interest in financial news and stock prices (71%). Six in ten business leaders say they access the news via mobiles in the morning.
However, when we think that the weekend is a „news off time“ for business execs, we might prove wrong. More than over six in ten business decision makers check their news and business content over the weekend. It is their time to deep-dive into content as time allows them to. Like last year’s results it becomes clear that as of the mobile options most of the top management does not differentiate between weekday and weekend any longer. Mobiles keeps them in the business all days. Furthermore, the second screen phenomenon can also be seen at business executives. TV might still be their main source of content delivery in the morning (51%), but three out of four (75%) watch TV at the same time as using their mobile device (6% more than in 2014), or maybe on their mobile devices.
„With mobile saturation at an all-time high, we’re now seeing business executives shifting their attentions towards a more connected lifestyle. With a slowdown in hardware innovation in 2015, the survey suggests that global executives are unlocking the potential of their technology to be more connected, more of the time. We could be witnessing the start of the next mobile renaissance.“
Mike Jeanes, Director of Research, EMEA, CNBC
Even more interesting to see is that the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has found their way into the business executives homes. Just about four in ten business leaders operate apps at home via their mobiles. This means that top decision makers become „early drivers“ of technology by the use of mobile devices and wearables. More than every second respondent (54%) claimed to like the idea of hands free technology. This means they do not want to end their mobile journey with smart homes and smart security systems. Still, when it comes to cyber security business leaders are now „extremely concerned“. More than three out of four (82%) value mobile data privacy and security a „concern“, while admitting (41%) it is the most important technological influencer for 2016, followed by cloud technology (35%) and mobile e-commerce (34%).
The study shows that the C-Suite might be fully mobile but also understands and respects the responsibilities it needs to create a sustainable future.
Would you agree?
Many companies find that their people, processes and products lack digital maturiy, digital capabilities and digital innovation. Now, a recent study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte Digital finds that most employees (and not only GenY!) are not happy how their companies understand and leverage digital transformation. They want to work for the digitally mature management teams and leaders.
The report called „Strategy, Not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation“ surveyed over 4,800 business executives across 27 industries and 129 countries. The main finding is that the opportunity to digitally transform and to turn a business into a digital business depends largely on a digital strategy enabled by leaders who understand to create a culture that is open to change and reinvent an organization.
The study also makes clear that digital maturity of brands is based on the talents that companies can safe and hire these days. Over 75% of the digital mature companies agree or strongly agree that their organizations provide the necessary skills to capitalize on digital trends. Against those stand the immature companies where only 15% say that their organizations have a clear and coherent digital strategy.
Companies that are not yet digitally developed and advanced tend to focus on operations and what technology can do for them in an operational, tactical way. However, digitally advanced companies leverage their products always evaluating the digital transformation view in their strategic approch.
Interestingly enough, the study proves the agile way of doing bsiness and inventing products in the future. Those compannies that are igitally maturing organizations are more open to taking risks than the laggards. Over 50% of those laggards fear the risk as a major shortcoming. Embracing failure as a „prerequisite of success“ seems to become the new standard if companies want o be innovative and fast in driving digital transformation.
Not surprisingly, the maturing organizations are nearly twice as likely as less digitally mature entities to have a single person or group leading digital transformation process. The fluency of these leading digital companies is highly appreciated by employees – but it is not based on technology. Translating the capabilities of technology into value creation is much more challenging for companies but delivering the value that digital transformation needs. And leaders seem to (90%) understand the technology according to their employees.
The main message of the study for us was that leaders (70%) encourage their employees to innovate with digital technologies. Now, the study does not tell the readers how the managers are empowering their employees, in which way they provide motivation or technological ways to do so (which as we know ist he masterclass that most managers have not visited yet), and how much they have succeeded with their approach. In the last years, we have learned that most companies are exactly on that spot blank. Defining the ambition, delivering creative concepts, leveraging the sustainability of the concept, and finding the right processes was often the biggest effort in our projects for companies.
One of the latest reports around social media tells us that measuring ROI (60%) is still the most challenging aspect for marketers when facing all their social media efforts. This is the main message from a report by Simply Measured and TrustRadius.
The findings that are based on some survey data from almost 600 social media practitioners between February and March 2015 also show that other top challenges are tying social activities to business outcomes (50%), developing a social media strategy (48%), and securing enough internal resources (40%).
Although the main message is clear, there are some small variances between company sizes when separated int small businesses (1-50 employees), midsize companies (51-1,000 employees), and enterprises (more than 1,000 employees). While smaller companies struggle setting up and developing their own social media strategy, enterprises are trying to secure enough internal resources to master their social media efforts.
The integration of social media into the overall business is also a big way to go obviously. First of all is the alignment of social media goals with the overall business goals not fully connected. But even more challenging is the question whether all the efforts generate some business impact. Many marketers are working intensely with data and analytics to optimize their marketing strategies but the proof seems not yet been given.
Maybe this is all based on the missing tool strategy, which is also one of the major findings of the report (not surprisingly based on study makers). How to manage and measure social media activities, is often not a question of whether companies know the tools but still they are predominantly sourcing the monitoring out for example, and then wonder why data gets not interpreted properly. Also, some are not happy with their tool choice.
The findings are not surprising when the targets from all three company sizes is brand awareness. Still, companies should be able to better understand KPIs in the social selling process. It seems that companies and brands still have not yet understood the value of a friend, follower, LIKE, share or a comment. Furthermore, they still do not have the opportunity to link their data findings and their social media engagement back to some CRM database in order to leverage data sets around their customers. Furthermore, the missing social sales strategy combined with a clear lead processing and management is essential, and most companies do not have an answer here. Obviously, a lot of support in the social media set-up is still appreciated.
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A recent study 2015 Content Marketing Survey by content marketing agency Castleford states that the amount of marketers committed to content marketing is increasing. According to their results 65% (compared to 48% one year ago) of marketers want to boost their content marketing next financial year. Their plans is to invest more in time and resources.
Even more, 97% of participants of the survey said they will increase or retain their current level of investment. And the respondents also face the support of their C-level executives. Of the responding marketers 76% replied their C-level executives viewed content marketing „quite positively“ or „very positively“.
Obviously, there are also some challenges involved in content marketing creation wit time (45%) and budget (29%) being the biggest problem. Just, 3% that mentioned their C-level buy-in is their biggest challenge to content marketing will be probably persuaded over time, we think.
In terms of content marketing tactics the study shows that social media (81%) is still the favorite online marketing tactics in this field. However, the biggest growth opportunity shows video marketing and paid promotion of content for the next year. 61% are already using video marketing, (increase of 13% compared to last year). This is probably also driven by the main players Facebook and Google.
The variety of content marketing is also growing though. Almost every second marketer said that they use five or more different online marketing channels (45%).
Although Castleford director Rob Cleeve is confident with the development of content marketing, he also makes clear that marketers need to deliver results with it as well: „In my experience, content marketing is claiming an increasingly large share of overall marketing budgets, which is going to mean more pressure to show how it’s benefiting the bottom line.“
Content marketing definitely has changed the advertising industry drastically. However, the main challenges involved are the appropriate use of data with content to drive the right story in the right context to the right user at the right time. Here we see massive problems for many marketers still in our work with customers. Post-it recently explained it nicely in a video that leverages their banner and ask many question in terms of how retargeting actually kills good content marketing in terms in the example of banner ads.
The infographic of the study carries all relevant results of the Castleford study.
Some years ago and in many seminars, we make clear that the 3Rs of social consumers will revolutionize the sales world: ratings, reviews and recommendations. However, the question arises what make people recommend brands and services? What is their intrinsic motivation or human driver that makes them push out more positive comments around a brand.
A recent infographic by Social Media Link pulled together the most important findings of a study that surveyed 24.000 social media consumers. Still, the best customer experience that leverages recommendations is „a positive experience with the brand“ (93%) and „receiving a free product or sample“ (79%). On the other hand, a poor customer experiences motivates sharing, too. 71% stated „a negative experience with a brand“ makes them write a review as well.
The survey respondents also mentioned that they are more likely to trust a product recommendation on Facebook than any other social network (71%), followed by Instagram with only 38%.
Not surprisingly, Facebook and retailer websites ist he place to discover new brands and services (53%). However, for purchasing the retailer becomes more important and after purchasing a product people use predominantly Facebook to share their buy (54%) – again Instagram comes in second place.
Now, when you think you just need to give a free product to someone, it makes them write a review or recommendation, you might be wrong. Although, 88% trust friends’ and family members’ reviews when these write about their give free product in exchange, the bloggers only come in at 78%. BUT: Is payment included in exchange for the review, trust-level goes down – especially at bloggers to 48%. Still, the best way ist o have apersonal story which is authentic, not animated and personal.
It is a poor testimonial that B2B enterprise executives give their demand generation efforts. According to recent survey conducted by ANNUITAS, most of their campaigns aren’t meeting the goals oft he leading company heads. When just 2.8% of rsurveyed respondents say their campaigns are effective, most of us will wonder what needs tob e done to become more effective.
The study titled „Enterprise B2B Demand Generation Research Study“ focussed on marketers in the B2B enterprise space with 500+ employees and over $250 million in annual revenue.
The study shows that there is obviously a massive disconnect between what marketing departments want to deliver and how the results should look like. Measurement, metrics and KPIs seem not at all aligned with the business goals which somehow surprises bearing in mind that the industry is talking about this phenomon for quite some time now.
Still, marketing decision makers are not very much successful with their demand generation. When 60% state they don’t feel successful with their tactics and just under three percent feel very effective, it speaks a clear language.
The study comes alongside some recent survey by… which also shows that one oft he challenges ist he alignment with sales departments and their leaders. Many companies still are not clarifying what needs tob e done to deliver on demand generation efforts.
Especially when it comes to lead generation, the quality of leads is a point of unalignment. In terms of goals, the quality of leads is for 77% the most pressing goal, followed by customer cross-sell/upsell (56.6%), volume of leads (51.9%), and brand awareness (50.9%).
The survey proves that demand generation is not meeting buyer expectations. Whether it i content marketing or the creation of buyer personas, marketers need to improve their knowledge and capabilities in demand generation in order to meet business expectations. Companies need to invest in coaching and training when they keep up with the market and have a clear demand generation strategy.
Very often the question in our seminars come up which platforms, content types and tactics to use on social media. Now, a recent report by Eccolo Media enlightens us – although it has to be mentioned that the basis for the survey was a fair small number of 100 people responsible for influencing or making B2B technology buying decisions (33% influencers, 67% decision makers) but conducted in a series of three different reports.
The survey makes clear that just about every one in three B2B technology buyer (38%) states to not have seen any content from vendors on social networks over the past six months that influenced a business purchase. And now just think how much time you invest in all your information process towards B2B buyers.
It also found that 34% of responding people claimed they have seen vendor content on Facebook in the past six months that helped with a purchase decision. Now, this might be as the base was predominantly US marketers but still it shows the power and influence of the biggest social network also on B2B tech buyers. LinkedIn came in as the second most influential network. 32% said they found meaningful content there, Google+ was mentioned by 28%, YouTube 27%, and Twitter 20%.
The early stage decisions in the sales cycle is for tech buyers most useful when it comes to finding content on social media. However, the challenge is awareness (31%) and understanding (36%).
In terms of the content most welcomed and consumed 25% of the surveyed people think case studies from vendors on social media are best to work with. Further content types they liked to consume were technology guides (16%) and whitepapers (16%).


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Top Invest in Holland Stories in 2017
Last year, the Invest in Holland network shared stories of companies that helped make Holland a center of innovation. In 2017, the Netherlands saw expansions in streaming services and data centers, celebrated the long-term investment of international companies and served as the location for major developments in food and health. Below are the highlights of 2017 and the companies that chose the Netherlands as their Gateway to Europe.
Netflix grew its European headquarters in the Netherlands with the opening of a new customer service center. The new Amsterdam-based hub will service ten European countries as well as other international markets and create 400 new jobs. With its new facility, the streaming company joins other North American tech giants with service centers in Holland, thanks to the country’s robust digital infrastructure and access to European markets.
Global interconnection and data center company Equinix opened its new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in the Amsterdam Science Park. The $113 million facility, called AM4, enables companies to extend network structure into the digital age and enhance workload performance. In addition, AM4 conserves energy by not using mechanical cooling, furthering Holland’s commitment to a circular economy.
Global technology leader Infosys announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art office space in Amsterdam. As part of the expansion, the company plans to take its service offerings across Artificial Intelligence, automation, data and analytics, as well as many other advancing sectors. The new office serves as a representation of Infosys’ commitment to the Dutch market.
Consumer goods multinational Unilever started construction on a Global Foods Innovation Center in Wageningen. The company’s commitment to bettering the global food system was a key driver in the decision to invest in Holland. With the establishment of a research & development center, Unilever will serve as an active part of the University in Wageningen’s food ecosystem. By expanding in Holland’s Food Valley region, Unilever gains access to top talent and other industry-leading businesses with a focus in the sustainable growth and innovation in the agrifood sector.
European Medicines Agency
Following Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, the EU sought relocation for European Medicines Agency to a remaining EU member country. The Netherlands was selected as the location of the new EMA headquarters out of 19 bids. The EMA was established in 1995 and has around 900 current staff members. The large majority of EMA employees expressed willingness to move with the agency to its new home in Amsterdam.
Merck Performance Materials
Merck Performance Materials, a leading science and technology company, opened a new production facility in Veldhoven, near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The new facility, which involves an investment of around € 15 million, will focus on liquid crystal window modules. The expansion furthers the company’s expertise as the market and technology leader in liquid crystals for display systems across a wide range of products. Merck’s location in the Netherlands allows the company to reach businesses across the globe that seek the latest developments in interactive displays.
Japanese firm Kikkoman – the world’s leading producer of soy sauce – celebrated 20 years of success in the Netherlands. Kikkoman Foods Europe opened its first production facility in 1997 in Hoogezand-Sappemeer. Since then, the company has found continued success in Europe due to the rising popularity of sushi. With support for education, sustainability and cultural exchanges, Kikkoman has proven over and over its commitment to Dutch society.
The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency looks forward to welcoming innovative businesses that invest in Holland in 2018. To stay up to date on Dutch investment news, visit our news page.29 January 2018

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A number of SEC filings on Tuesday reveal plans by JPMorgan to launch what it calls a "Cryptocurrency Exposure Basket," a basket of 11 stocks by companies considered to have some exposure to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
According to the documentation, the included U.S.-listed stocks were selected based on whether J.P. Morgan believed they were directly or indirectly "related to cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, including as a result of bitcoin holdings, cryptocurrency technology products, cryptocurrency mining products, digital payments or bitcoin trading."
The basket includes names familiar to the Bitcoin space, such as MicroStrategy (MSTR), Square (SQ), Riot Blockchain (RIOT), PayPal (PYPL), and CME (CME) among others.
The product would give investors a new avenue to pursue exposure to Bitcoin without buying bitcoin themselves.
Despite the telling name, JPMorgan states in the filings that "the notes do not provide direct exposure to cryptocurrencies and the performance of the Basket may not be correlated with the price of any particular cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin."
The developments come after JPMorgan recently sent a report to clients of its JPMorgan Private Bank, which included educational material on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.


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Fast food restaurants are not to blame for obesity
Fast food is not the cause of increasing childhood obesity according to the latest research fast food is not to blame the link between eating at fast food restaurants and childhood obesity appears to be a byproduct of a much larger problem. Do fast food restaurants contribute to obesity such as supersize me and fast food nation as well as reports in the popular press have frequently suggested that fast food is at least partly to blame for the us's rising obesity rates. A qualified yes vote fast food alone is not to blame for obesity, but it is a huge contributor considering the millions of people served at fast food restaurants versus any other eating establishment, fast food restaurants hold a particular responsibility to provide nutritious, tasty and. Eating out has become part of our everyday lifestyle as a registered dietitian nutritionist, i am often asked, is fast food healthy to which i reply, yes.
The spread of fast-food restaurants and supersized meals is not to blame for america's obesity crisis, new research suggests. Is fast food to blame for childhood obesity most overweight people blame their obesity on a genetic deformity that you are born with i've explained to you factors and reasons as to why people choose fast food restaurants, but not why their unhealthy. Fast food is not to blame for childhood obesity, poor eating habits learned in children's home are, says a new study conducted by the university of north carolina at chapel hill. Millions of people in the united states are considered obese as waistlines continue to increase, people are asking the question: who is to blame is it because american's have become lazy and are more irresponsible with their food choices are fast food chains the bad guys are we all.
Fast food restaurants take a lot of heat for the rise in obesity in the united states, but is it really their fault a research survey conducted by two food economists revealed that most people believe individuals are to blame for their own obesity - not restaurants, grocery stores, farmers, or. Is junk food to blame for the obesity epidemic junk food does not appear to be a leading cause of obesity in the united states in fact, consumption of soda, candy and fast food was not linked to bmi for 95 percent of the population. The main reason many american kids are fat isn't fast food, says a new study. Fat epidemic linked to chemicals run amok fast food not solely to blame for obesity, new research suggests below: x jump to discuss comments below.
Does fast food cause obesity does fast food cause obesity in short yes while it is certainly not the only cause, in conjunction with other factors, fast food restaurants are a big part of the obesity problem. Are we taking it too far by blaming fast food restaurants for obesity when is it individual responsibility and when is it appropriate to place blame. Does eating at fast-food restaurants make it harder there's ample research on foods and diet patterns that protect against heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other chronic conditions but obesity rates have skyrocketed (1,2. The super-sizing of america: are fast food chains to blame for the nation's obesity article by jenny murphy speakoutcom - june, 2002 americans are getting fatter and fatter. Fast food - not responsible for obesity 3 pages 670 words february 2015 saved essays people need to watch their calorie intake and the portion of food they eat, not shifting the blame on fast food restaurants.
Fast food restaurants are not to blame for obesity
These factors are the reasons that fast food restaurants are to blame for the rising obesity and health risks across america 2013 nancy neff fast food and obesity people know that fast food is not good for them.
Obesity lawsuits in court negligence many of the plaintiffs that go up against fast food restaurants say that the food they receive is not as healthy as the restaurant would have them believe and that the quality of the food is not what was advertised in commercials. A new study on childhood obesity has people asking whether to blame the clown and the king or just mom and dad yale health researchers yesterday released the report on fast food nutrition and adver. Several studies have shown that the increase in fast food restaurants over the past few decades has resulted in a negative impact on the already outrageous obesity rateaccording to the national bureau of economic research, the number of fast food restaurants over the past thirty years has. A research on fast food: are we taking it too far by blaming fast food restaurants for obesity when is it individual responsibility and when is it appropriate to place blame. Junk food not to blame for obesity epidemic people just eat too much, researchers suggest the researchers found that consumption of soda, candy and fast food was not linked to weight gain for 95 percent of the population.
Do you think fast food restaurants are responsible for child obesity fast food restaurants are responsible for child obesity: here are some reasons why i think that fast food restaurants are not to blame. Bbc news online examines who, if anyone, is to blame for rising rates of obesity home news sport radio the world's largest fast food chain announced plans to introduce the decision by mcdonald's to introduce healthier foods in its restaurants will not by itself solve the problem of. Is fast food to blame for ghana's obesity epidemic in sum, the history of obesity in ghana reaches far beyond the recent influx of fast food restaurants to fully address the concerning issue of obesity in ghana and africa at large.


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An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: T-Mobile is eliminating data plans for new customers -- and for current ones who opt in. The company is getting rid of all its wireless data plans and instead offering new customers one unlimited plan, T-Mobile said Thursday. Under the new plan, everyone will get unlimited talk, text and high-speed 4G LTE data. The company has also changed prices for unlimited. The first line will be $70 a month, the second line will cost $50 a month and additional lines will be $20 a month for up to eight lines with auto-pay turned on. The price is $5 more a month without auto-pay. For a family of four, the new plans will cost $40 a month per person. While this plan will benefit those looking for unlimited, it will cost more for people who have been subscribed to the lowest data plans. The current plan starts at $50 for 2GB of data per month. This means individual customers on its new plans will pay $20 more a month. But the new price is lower than the cost of unlimited right now. Today, T-Mobile customers who want unlimited pay $95 a month for an individual line.
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The PlayStation VR2 — Sony’s second virtual reality peripheral and its first one for the PS5 — is finally out tomorrow and Gran Turismo 7 will be there to support it via a timely software update. It happens to be one of the most impressive ones, too: not only does the v1.29 GT7 update allow PS5 owners to play almost everything in Gran Turismo 7 in virtual reality, but it also marks the advent of GT Sophy, Sony’s artificial intelligence experiment, on the company’s latest home entertainment system. This is potentially huge and one of the reasons why this particular update — combining VR and AI — may go down as one of the most important in the history of the Gran Turismo franchise.
First things first: as promised, this update brings practically the whole of GT7 in the virtual reality environment afforded by the PS VR2. The only thing that players cannot enjoy in VR is the two-player split-screen mode (which is perfectly understandable). Other than that, everything can be played in VR, including online multiplayer, plus there’s an exclusive “VR Showroom” function available in the Garage area and the car dealerships where “players can admire all the stunning details of the ultra-high-definition car models in a variety of locations and lighting settings”, as per this official PlayStation blog post. Nice!
Then there’s GT Sophy. Sony’s much-discussed artificial intelligence-based driver is made available to the general public for the very first time with this GT7 update in the form of a special, time-limited (until the end of March) event called “Gran Turismo Sophy Race Together”. Gamers can go head to head with GT Sophy either one-on-one (with identical cars and settings) or against four GT Sophy-controlled drivers in four successive races with different performance level cars. This event is meant to “showcase the superhuman driving skills of GT Sophy”, as Sony puts it, and players are required to have reached Collector Level 6 in order to participate in this event. Not a problem to whoever decides to take on GT Sophy, that!
It’s worth noting that this is not the actual full, proper implementation of GT Sophy in GT7 that’s coming at some point down the line — it’s just a preview of it and a great way for Polyphony Digital to gather more training data for the AI agent behind it, obviously. It’s also worth noting that this special event is only available for the PS5 version of the game, despite this AI experiment having been originally built on the PS4. Here’s hope that Sony did not decide to just ditch the PS4 version of GT Sophy and that it’s still planning on making it available to PS4 owners in the future, as it’s the kind of extra functionality capable of seriously extending the longevity of GT7 (especially for veteran players of the game).
Since these two headline features, based on VR and AI, are PS5-exclusive, Polyphony Digital has also included additional content that PS4 owners can enjoy too. There are five new cars on offer — the Citroen DS21 Pallas 1970, the Honda RA272 1965 and the Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 plus Offroad and Street versions of the exotic Italdesign Exeneo Vision GT — a new racing course (the classic Grand Valley track in four different layouts) as well as six new races, two new Extra Menu Books and some new functionality in Scapes. The v1.27 GT7 update comes in at around 8GB for the PS4 and PS5 versions of the game and it’s available right now. Go get it!


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WebVR is a framework built by the W3C Consortium that intends to make it easier for developers to develop rich and interactive VR experiences with web technologies – that simply run within the web browser.
Today Microsoft has announced that they have started to develop support for WebVR within the Edge browser, and are actively contributing to the WebVR project at W3C along with Google, Oculus, Mozilla and others.
Since the work on WebVR support for Edge has just begun, there isn’t actually much to show for it. It is, however, good to see Microsoft adopting and working on new and upcoming standards.
Why this is a challenge
VR is an industry still in its infancy – it is, however, an incredibly innovative industry where the technology has to be at the cutting edge of what is possible today.
The hardware something like the HTC Vive uses has been developed after decades of trial and error – with tons of research from various industries.
A VR experience demands an extraordinary amount of power from every piece of hardware. While the display has to push 90 hertz, at an incredibly high resolution – the GPU has to render each frame two times, for the two eyes. VR is an incredibly hard challenge, and we are only at the first generation of its commercial journey.
One of the main barriers for VR is the barrier to entry – not only are devices such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive extremely expensive at the moment, but there is also a severe lack of good content for them. The easier it becomes to build content for VR, the better developers get at building it.
A standardized WebVR support across browsers would certainly help the VR industry tremendously – we just have to hope the standard is powerful enough to realize the potential of VR.


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The Comme des Garcons Black Shop arrived at Dover Street Market London today, who will be the only shop in the world carrying the range, aside from the Tokyo store. For the occasion three custom giant 210cm (6.8 feet) tall Bearbricks have been created and stand proud in the windows of Dover Street Market as of today. The CdG Black Shop will be inside DSM for three month.
Of course they also received the Comme des Garcons Black Collection, a range created in collaboration with Medicom. The range includes t-shirts, hoodies and Bearbrick metal jewelry. Check out the products in detail after the jump.


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Dallas – AT&T Cruisecast, the satellite-TV service for
the car that officially launched in June, has ceased activations and is no
longer taking orders for its receivers.
“RaySat will no longer be supporting any more activations of AT&T CruiseCast from this point moving forward” and is “not fulfilling any equipment orders, anymore,” said a message on the phone of Bill Blades, program manager at RaySat, which partnered with AT&T to create AT&T CruiseCast.
An AT&T CruiseCast spokesman was unable to respond yesterday. It is not clear whether service will continue for existing customers.
The $1,299 CruiseCast system offered 22 channels of video and 20 channels of audio and was carried by more than 600 retailers, including Car Toys and Crutchfield. It required a service fee of $28/month.
The product is no longer shown on Crutchfield.com although it is still shown on CarToys.com.
A competing car TV service from Audiovox, using Qualcomm’s FLO TV, is expected to debut in the fourth quarter. Equipment will carry a price of approximately $599 to $699 with one year of free service.


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Clearstone Venture Partners has been quietly incubating a considerable number of consumer Internet startups recently. First we found some vague details on SPOCK, and earlier this week I bumped into ThisNext, an online shopping discovery company, that has raised $3.5 million, led by Clearstone, of course.
ThisNext CEO Gordon Gould describes the company’s idea for “Shopcasts” as a list of top-ten-style products from online influencers like chefs, and professional rock climbers. The shopper can click through to buy the item and the influencer gets paid. I checked out ThisNext’s site, which is in private beta and will launch August 21st, and played around with the discovery and recommendation features. I’m a sucker for products recommended by sites like Coolhunting and Dailycandy and ThisNext sounds like an easier more powerful way to access that type of data.
The interesting part is the technology behind the service that creates a set of metrics based on which recommenders have the most influence, among other things. Gordon compares some of the features to Flickr’s “Interestingness”.
Clearstone VC Sumant Mandal says price comparison shopping on the Internet is relatively good now, while discovery of items is still relatively poor. ThisNext will tap the “the empowerment of the micro-influencer,” Sumant says. AOL exec Jason Calacanis must think it’s pretty cool too –he’s on the board.


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President Trump’s Asia trip highlighted the difficulty in reducing barriers to entry for American companies to key Chinese sectors. American innovation in the electronic payment services sector, for example, places the US’s leading finance companies on the cusp of a breakthrough into the coveted Chinese marketplace.
But, China’s unfair trading practices threaten to turn an enormous growth opportunity into a costly economic problem for US companies and a probable security problem for American consumers.
The global payment cards market now totals 14 billion cards with a billion new cards issued last year alone. The fastest growth is in the Asia-Pacific region, with China contributing disproportionately to the rise in card holders.
Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay, a Chinese company, account for 80 percent of all cards. According to RBR’s “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2022” study, rapid expansion of the Chinese cards market has helped UnionPay to increase its share of cards globally to 43 percent in 2016, and to extend its lead over Visa and Mastercard.
Not only have Visa and Mastercard lost global market share to UnionPay, but UnionPay is consolidating its position as market leader by exploiting Chinese access to external, including Western, markets. UnionPay is positioning itself as an alternative to Visa and Mastercard in a number of foreign markets, especially Russia and several Asia Pacific nations.
UnionPay is seeking external markets in anticipation of domestic competition from the likes of Visa and Mastercard once these American companies obtain domestic licenses to operate in China. But, UnionPay’s concerns about counteracting competition in its home market are overblown, as the Chinese government remains committed to securing the best of both worlds for Chinese payments companies.
China is the prime example of a national government seeking to slow down the global growth in the payments sector. They are doing this, principally, by erecting barriers to American companies’ prospective entries into the Chinese marketplace.
The fact that China has not played by international rules regarding e-payments is well documented. China permits only a Chinese entity (i.e. UnionPay) to supply electronic payment services for payment card transactions denominated and paid in renminbi in China. Other service suppliers can only supply these services for payment card transactions paid in foreign currency. China also requires all payment card processing devices to be compatible with UnionPay’s system, and that payment cards bear UnionPay’s logo.
The US has longstanding objections to these Chinese restrictions and requirements pertaining to electronic payment services for payment card transactions and the suppliers of those services.
Following a formal American complaint filed in 2010 with the World Trade Organization, on July 16, 2012, the WTO issued its report in the dispute over Chinese measures affecting electronic payment services. The WTO required China to open up its payments industry to foreign competition.
Yet, China is still not playing by international rules. China has not yet opened her domestic market.
Allegedly, that will change. The Chinese government regulator recently announced that it will allow, belatedly, American entry into China’s payments marketplace. However, the Chinese have supplemented their apparent lowering of protectionist barriers with significant regulatory caveats.
Regulatory guidelines allowing American companies to begin the licensing process suggest the Chinese do not intend to permit “full and prompt market access” anytime soon. American companies may submit an application for a license, but they cannot begin operating in the Chinese market.
Furthermore, companies such as Visa and Mastercard will be forced to build new data centers in China. All these companies’ data processing for the Chinese marketplace must be performed domestically on the Chinese mainland.
Compliance with such onerous regulatory demands will result in a huge increase in Visa and Mastercard’s annual overheads. This increase in costs will come at the expense of new jobs for would-be additional Visa and Mastercard employees back in America.
But, China’s over-regulation of her domestic payments market is not simply an economic problem for American companies and workers. American payment companies’ unfair treatment by the Chinese could have other, far more damaging results for the American people.
For example, Mastercard’s global payments network and research operate via central switches. Once the company’s data processing center is operating in mainland China, it may be prey to cyber attacks either by, or at the behest of, the Chinese regime.
There would be enormous security concerns related to the Chinese being given the veritable keys to Mastercard’s payments kingdom. With unfettered access, the Chinese government potentially could see all of Mastercard’s customer data, including the confidential financial records of untold millions of Americans.
More formally, and ominously, the likes of Mastercard must submit to a “national security review.” This security vulnerability was heightened by the new e-commerce treaty signed this summer between China and Iran.
Hopefully, Trump administration officials impressed upon their Chinese counterparts that the payments sector, a uniquely American innovation, can be a win-win for both nations’ economies if U.S. companies are greeted by a rational Chinese regulatory environment.
Patrick Basham is founding director of the Democracy Institute, a Washington-based, politically independent research organization.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NTD.tv


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Jay-Z Makes $56 Million Bid for Scandinavian Music Streaming Company Aspiro
Jay-Z is looking to do it again! The rapper and business mogul has made a $56 Million dollar bid to purchase Scandinavian company Aspiro. Aspiro is a media technology company that streams music through subscription. The company is said to be similar to Spotify, and should the deal officially close, may become it’s ultimate competitor.
Jay Z and his companies see the move to Net streaming of music and video as something listeners want — and a way to promote artists’ music, says Peter Globokar, managing director of mergers & acquisition advisory firm Mooreland Partners, which is advising Aspiro.
The move fits with Aspiro’s need to continue its international expansion, he said in a statement. “While the offer is in its early days, once completed it will likely lift Aspiro and its advanced music streaming service to a new level,” Globokar said.


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Shenzhen free of contaminated rice
With fears over contaminated rice spreading all over China, residents in Shenzhen have nothing to worry about. A rice sample taken from a market in Shenzhen showed that the rice met the national food safety standard as reported by the city market supervision.
In the past three days heavy metal contamination of rice caused a public outcry when Chinese media reported a survey that showed ten percent of the rice samples taken from various provinces contained large amounts of cadmium. Cadmium a heavy metal is known to cause bone problems among elderly people.
The city market supervision administration conduct sample test of rice being sold in the city every year, and the latest test done showed that the sample are not contaminated with the heavy metal and have met the country’s food safety standards. Although details on where the sample rice was produced and purchased were no yet available, a spokesperson from the administration assured the media that they will release details soon.
Experts said that the situation can get worse, since the main cause of product contamination can be blamed upon soil pollution due to China’s rapid industrialization.


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Danube Building Materials, the leader in construction, building materials and shop fitting industries, has announced its expansion plan that aims to penetrate the Africa market and strengthen its presence in the Middle East through dealer and franchise networks. This follows the opening of the first 'Danube BUILDMART' branch at in India, which marked the leading company's 22nd global store. Specifically, the company revealed that it expanding to Qatar and other parts of Saudi Arabia and Oman, as well as in China, where it currently has one of its major manufacturing plants.
Initially established as a building materials supplier, Danube transformed into a one-stop shop concept called 'Danube BUILDMART' in 2009, offering products from a host of reputed vendors as well as expert product and design advice under a single roof. Today, there are a total of nine 'Danube BUILDMART' stores in operation, which the company hopes to grow to 16 branches by 2010 through the AED 200 million expansion plan it has embarked on since the second quarter of this year. Including its non-'BUILDMART' stores, the company has a total of 22 global retail facilities – 16 in the UAE, two in Oman, one each in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and two in India as well. The company has also invested AED 50 million in a new 1.3 million square feet manufacturing facility in TechnoPark, which will be functional by early 2011.
"With the global economy approaching the recovery phase and investors starting to regain confidence in the regional market as a result of massive government actions to revive the construction and real estate industries, we are expecting the demand for building materials in the Middle East and Africa to witness a significant increase this year," said Rizwan Sajan, Chairman, Danube Building Materials. "We have already made massive investments toward additional manufacturing hubs to boost our production and sufficiently address the expected rise in demand, and now our focus is to establish highly convenient 'Danube BUILDMART' stores in the most strategic locations within our target regions."
Danube has also recently launched an AED 15 million 'Danube BUILDMART' in Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai, thereby marking its third retail branch to be based within a mall, which is a new concept pioneered by the company. Spanning an area of 15,000 sq. feet, 'Danube BUILDMART' in Ibn Battuta Mall offers products from a host of reputed international and regional vendors under a single roof, installed in an actual home set-up to allow customers to enjoy a more personalised shopping experience with excellent service and design assistance.
"Staying true to our commitment to being the pioneer in the industry, we are taking major strides to acquire major market share thought the MENA region in the next five years. We believe that this is the perfect time to expand to be able to place ourselves in a strategic position to fully leverage the opportunities once the market fully recovers," concluded Sajan.
Driven by the significant growth it has witnessed in the recent years, Danube recently announced that it is looking at an initial public offering (IPO) listing in Saudi Arabia or the UAE within the next 5 years. Targeting to secure AED 2.5 to AED 3 billion in total revenues in the next three to four years, after hitting a total of AED 1 billion in annual turnover despite the challenges presented by the financial crisis, the company revealed that it is also open to dual listing in both countries.
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According to a recent study from IHS, the United States will lead the world in both initial deployment and early adoption of autonomous vehicles. Japan is expected to catch up ahead of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 both in terms of industry coordination and investment. By 2025, global sales of autonomous vehicles will reach almost 600.000 units, estimates IHS expert Egil Juliussen. This translates into an impressive compound growth rate of 43% between 2012 and 2035, albeit starting from a rather low level.
Factors driving the proliferation of autonomous driving (in all variations) include new societal, business and mobility trends like ride sharing, car sharing, and rising investment by all parties of the automotive value chain including new players. ”Future mobility will connect and combine many different modes and technologies, and autonomous vehicles will play a central role,” explains Jeremy Carlson, principal analyst at IHS Automotive. The market watchers also expect that entirely new vehicle segments will be created, in addition to traditional vehicles adding autonomous capabilities.
Once existing obstacles related to liabilities, regulation and consumer acceptance will be eliminated, the U.S. market will see earliest deployment of autonomous vehicles in 2020 with several thousands vehicles. Subsequently IHS expects a steep incline in vehicles sold – within the next 15 years (starting 2020), the market researcher expects some 4.5 million units in the U.S.
Despite a late start China will quickly overtake the U.S. as the largest market for autonomous vehicles. By 2035 the country will be the largest single market for cars with some level of autonomy, resulting in sales figures of 5.7 million units, believes IHS.
Europe with its large traditional carmakers will achieve some 4.2 million units by 3035. The lion’s share of 3 million are expected to be sold in Western Europe, and IHS attests the Old Continent industry technology leadership, at least in its premium segment.
A number of challenges however could pose a serious threat to user acceptance and viability of autonomous driving schemes, IHS emphasizes. On the technology side, these challenges include software reliability and cyber security. In addition, the lack of – or the necessity to establish – regulatory standards and legal frameworks could emerge as a roadblock.
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Continuing with its policy of 'fragmentation and consolidation', Google announced that it is merging Google Wallet, Android Pay and a myriad of other services under a single platform. In a company blog post, VP of product management for payments Pali Bhat described this as more of a rebranding than a change to the underlying products or technology. He said the products being brought together include Android Pay (Google’s mobile payments and loyalty platform) and Google Wallet (its peer-to-peer payments app). “With Google Pay, it’ll be easier for you to use the payment information saved to your Google Account, so you can speed through checkout with peace of mind,” Bhat wrote. “Over the coming weeks, you’ll see Google Pay online, in-store, and across Google products, as well as when you’re paying friends.” As of now, Google has announced a few initial partners which include Airbnb, Dice, Fandango, HungryHouse, and Instacart. Considering Android and Google's reach that number is expected to grow significantly. What about Google Tez? How does all of this affect Google Tez, the UPI based payments platform that Google has pushed in India? The company's post only makes a brief and vague mention that "We will also be bringing these experiences to Tez users in India—stay tuned." When reached out, a Google spokesperson for India said that Tez will be unaffected by the announcement but will be bringing all the additional Google Pay functionality to India’s users, developers, and businesses through Tez. Tez at present uses the Unified Payments Interface which…
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Media business might quickly become civilian casualties in Google’s escalating shopping war with Amazon.
A recent report from the Info( paywalled) writes about Google’s ambitious shopping efforts. In its effort to contend with Amazon– whose digital advertisement program is revealing real signs of intruding on the Google-Facebook ad duopoly– Google has actually been adding sellers to its Express shopping (which will reportedly rebrand to Google Shopping). This program will be how the search huge attempts to beat Amazon: People will look for items on Google.com and after that have the ability to purchase them through smaller sized merchants while still utilizing the platform.
However one thing the Info report doesn’t point out is how Google’s shopping ambitions will adversely impact how media business monetize their own content. The change will likely have a considerable effect on affiliate marketing link earnings, which is among the manner ins which publishers have actually been trying to offset marketing headwinds over the last couple of years.
Back in the good old days, digital advertising was more diversified and sites were able to generate reasonably steady earnings. Now the advertisement market share has concentrated towards the 2 biggest platforms– Google and Facebook– and media business have seen revenues plunge. As an outcome, organizations have actually looked for other methods of earning money; affiliate connecting is one such model.
Affiliate linking works therefore: Publishers include particular products on their websites and include a link to make a purchase. If readers choose to purchase said products, the sellers– normally Amazon– provide them a (tiny) cut for assisting to assist in the sale. For sites like the Wirecutter and CNET— which have ended up being go-to sources for item recommendations– affiliate linking and search engine optimization have ended up being a solid way to generate significant earnings.
But things may be altering quickly, as Google continues to advance its e-commerce efforts; Google seems constructing a shopper recommendation algorithm. For instance, when I search “best blender,” I am provided sponsored blender options at the righthand side of the search engine result. A little methods down is another Google-made list of the very best blenders, feeding recommendation material from the website healthykitchen101 com.
Then, if I scroll down even further, there’s another box that provides a lot more suggestions– and it points out the myriad sites on which they’ve been rated.
This area, if it were to end up being included more prominently, could substantially eat into affiliate earnings that would otherwise go to media companies. Although Google is linking to these recommendation lists, it is utilizing that material to feed its own recommendation engine. Not just that, but the leading link provides a way for users to bypass the articles themselves and find a seller by means of Google. In essence, it’s taking these websites’ content, while handicapping their capability to monetize on it.
This brand-new widget does not show up in all of my searches, so it’s likely an experiment for the time being. For other item searches, Google highlights one individual evaluation short article at the top, teases its material, however does not link to external sellers. This is a little less disruptive than the very first example, but it still relies on these websites’ content for an automated search suggestion.
I connected to Google several times for comment and will upgrade this post if I ever hear back.
For websites like the Wirecutter, this might be a significant blow. The New York Times– owned site uses this revenue design to help the total company rely less on the volatile marketing industry. So far, it’s been an excellent bet. In its latest incomes report, the New York Times Business reported $494 million in “digital other income” for all of2018 This metric is likely a little north of what the Wirecutter generated for the newspaper that year.
Media business, nevertheless, likely aren’t part of Google’s shopping formula. For the digital juggernaut, it’s all about completing with Amazon– particularly in light of the fact that its core marketing organisation is beginning to see slower-than-expected growth. At its last earnings report, Alphabet missed out on profits expectations by nearly a billion dollars– which provided financiers the impression that its biggest cash engine was starting to decrease. As Amazon continues to buy its growing marketing organisation, Google now seems to be attempting to find other ways to beat the competition.
In the meantime, this looks like just an experiment. We’ll see if Google decides to roll out the brand-new shopping feature further. If it does, expect to see some publishers suffer.


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Nintendo has reconfirmed the Nintendo NX March 2017 release date.
In its latest annual report, Nintendo detailed its research and development activities for the future. Several topics were detailed, including Nintendo’s hardware development. The Japanese gaming behemoth, states to be devoted to the development of the Nintendo NX, which will feature a “brand-new concept” and is to be released in March 2017.
With respect to hardware, Nintendo continuously investigates and undertakes research on fundamental technologies spanning data storage technology such as semiconductor memories, display technology such as liquid crystal displays, and electronic components, while it also carries out research and development activities to examine the applicability of various technologies including interfaces such as touch panels and sensors, wireless communication, networks and security to the field of home entertainment. Nintendo is also devoted to the development of a gaming platform codenamed “NX” with a brand-new concept, which will be launched in March 2017 globally.
Earlier this year, Nintendo already announced that the NX would be released in March 2017, but recent rumors claimed that the NX would be delayed into late 2017 due to a VR function being added to the console.
Recently, during Nintendo’s 76th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, chief Director of Manufacturing and Director, Hirokazu Shinshi, stated that manufacturing of the Nintendo NX is still being prepared.
“While making the same product for a long time, the amount manufactured changes based on things like the Christmas season. It’s easy to automate unchanging production amounts, but it’s difficult when they do change. We’re thoroughly communicating with our partners to make adjustments. As for the NX, manufacturing is being prepped. We’re considering how much to automate”, Shinshi said.
We can only hope that Nintendo will release its new console in March next year. Nintendo will reveal more about the NX later this year. We will keep you posted.


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Late last year, Qualcomm told us that GPU updates through the Play Store would be possible, starting with its new Snapdragon 865 chipset. According to XDA Developers, Xiaomi is the first company to have accomplished the feat, rolling out a GPU driver update for its Snapdragon 865-powered devices through its Chinese app store.
This raises a few questions, because more recently we thought that Qualcomm's driver updating magic was a result of Google's Project Mainline. As much seemed to be implied when we spoke to the company about the subject last year. But, Google has been talking about updating GPU drivers through app stores since 2017, long before Mainline came about. And, it turns out, Xiaomi's solution doesn't depend on Mainline at all.
For the full details, you can check out XDA's original coverage below, but the short version is phone manufacturers can snag updated drivers from Qualcomm, repackage it for their own use (since Qualcomm isn't distributing them themselves), and with a few changes to the system, allow the newly-downloaded driver to take over — possibly only in some cases on a per-app basis, based on a whitelist.
This new update delivers some optimizations for a handful of games like Fortnite and PUBG.
So far, only Xiaomi seems to be rolling out updates in this way, though there are plenty of other Snapdragon 865-equipped phones out there from a wide number of manufacturers. Hopefully, we see similar GPU updates landing via the Play Store.
Our coverage has been updated to include Google's first announcement of GPU driver updating through app stores from 2017, which also predates Project Mainline.
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The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned the general public to be careful in taking more than recommended doses of popular over-the-counter (OTC) allergy medicines.
The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, NAN reports.
Adeyeye stated that the warning became necessary following reports of diphenhydramine (Benadryl) abuse among Nigerians.
She said that overdose on allergy medicines, including diphenhydramine (Benadryl) could lead to serious heart problems, seizures, coma or even death.
“The Benadryl Challenge is allegedly making the rounds on TikTok social media application, encouraging teenagers in videos to take overdose on the over-the-counter drug in order to hallucinate.
“Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine used to temporarily alleviate symptoms due to hay fever, upper respiratory allergies, or the common cold, such as runny nose and sneezing.
“Consumers, parents and caregivers should store diphenhydramine and all other OTC and prescription medicines out of children’s reach and sight,” she said.
The director-general urged the public to always read the Drug Facts Label included on OTC medicines for important information on dosing and safety.
She also advised consumers to report adverse events related to use of medicines to the nearest NAFDAC office, NAFDAC PRASCOR [20543 or 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-623322) TOLL FREE from all networks).
Adeyeye added that the public could also report via email@example.com or via eReporting platforms available on the NAFDAC website www.nafdac.gov.ng and Med Safety Application available for download on Android and IOS stores.


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Amazon is slotting its global content line-up in to place by finally confirming its Lovefilm movie service will ship on its Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire units in the UK.
We had been waiting to hear Amazon’s intentions for the movies part of its content suite overseas. The HD and Paperwhite are selling in the country from today.
This announcement confirms Amazon is not rebranding Lovefilm as “Amazon Video”, as it operates in the States, in Europe – at least, for now. It is important because movies and TV had been a missing part of Amazon’s Kindle content puzzle overseas.
Amazon acquired Lovefilm outright in January 2011 after holding an earlier large investment.
Like its peers, Lovefilm is moving on to an array of devices. But Lovefilm’s announcement says its app is “deeply integrated” in to the Kindle Fire HD, including pause-and-resume across devices plus the Whispersync- and IMDB-powered “X-Ray for Movies” (also available in Amazon Video) that provides cast and other background data during playback.
Amazon also opened Fire HD and Paperwhite sales in Japan this week.


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By Misaki Bwamable,
Kima foods has officially opened a farmers’ center in Mbata Village, Bwesumbu Sub-county in Kasese district.
Mr. Francis Baita, the director Kima foods told this radio that the farmers’ center was mainly for crop preservation purposes without which, the farmers lose their crops.
Mr. Baita who called for ownership of the center by the local community, said the centre would guarantee continuous crop production like cereals and vegetables that will now remain fresh for weeks till they reach their target market. Mr. Baitha speaking1…………
He asked Kasese to popularize Bwesumbu subcounty and the surrounding areas for the production of vegetables for improved diet and as a source of livelihoods. Mr. Baitha speaking2…….
Some of the skilled youth in Mbata village including, Mr. Ibrahim Mukenda like many others commended Kima foods for the skills training that will improve their daily incomes besides the farmers’ center that has provided some jobs.
Earlier, Mr. Baita has had earlier asked the local community and leaders to make good use of the center whose establishment was basically to make the locals financially independent. END


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Starbucks shares dropped as much as 4 percent in late trading after it reported sales growth that missed analysts' expectations on Thursday.
The coffee chain said it saw global same-store sales increase by 4 percent during the quarter, below Wall Street expectations of 5.7 percent, according to FactSet. The company saw lackluster sales growth across all regions.
Starbucks saw comparable store sales increase by 4 percent in the Americas region, 3 percent in the China/Asia Pacific region and decrease by 1 percent in the Europe/Middle East/Africa region. Analysts had expected sales growth of 6.2 percent in the Americas, 4.6 percent in China/Asia Pacific, and 2.8 percent in Europe/Middle East/Africa.
CEO Howard Schultz said that the company has a "clear line of sight to returning our U.S. business to historic levels of comp sales growth which had been at or above 5% for the 25 consecutive quarters prior to Q3."
In particular, Schultz called the U.S. sales growth figure an "anomaly" during a conference call with investors and analysts.
"With candor and humility, we acknowledge that in certain areas we did not execute as well as we could have in the U.S. in Q3. Had we done so, we certainly would've reported stronger U.S. comps," he said.
The Starbucks CEO explained that the company had underestimated the "interdependence of Starbucks Rewards and Happy Hour." The coffee chain recently revamped its loyalty program to a spending-based structure, a change which Schultz described as a "one-time event, a once in a decade change."
Schultz said that the buzz surrounding these "powerful initiatives" competed for "customer mindshare during a discrete period of time." He concluded that the company should have let the promotional program breathe a little.
Starbucks posted third-quarter earnings per share of 49 cents on $5.24 billion in revenue. Analysts expected the coffee chain to post earnings of 49 cents a share on $5.33 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
The Seattle-based company said that its loyalty program grew 18 percent year-over-year to 12.3 million active members in the United States.
The coffee chain said it still sees adjusted full-year earnings of $1.88 to $1.89 a share. For the current quarter, Starbucks said it expects adjusted earnings between 54 cents and 55 cents a share.
Starbucks also slightly lowered its sales forecast and said it now expects full-year sales growth to rise at a mid-single digit percentage rate. Starbucks previously expected full-year sales growth to come in somewhat above the mid-single digits.
Last week, Starbucks said it will raise the wages of workers at its company-operated U.S. locations this fall, following accusations of cutting employee hours. Schultz said that workers can expect at least a 5 percent base pay increase, effective Oct. 3.
The coffee chain recently raised the price of its beverages. Shoppers now drop another 10 cents to 20 cents for each espresso beverage; tea latte prices increased by 10 cents to 30 cents each. The company said it expects the price of an average order to increase by about 1 percent as a result of the price hikes.


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AUSTIN -- Like many retailers, Austin retailer, Tesoros, is doing all it can to convince people to spend this holiday shopping season.
This year just didn t quit compare. We just didn t have the traffic, said Julie Wollenhaupt, an assistant store manager. Tesoros is a wholesale distributor of folk arts and crafts.
According to national figures, so far this holiday season, retail spending is up less than one percent. That s the lowest since 2008 during the deep recession.
Austin shoppers expressed mixed spending habits.
I think overall, we re spending less in Christmas shopping and hitting the bargains after Christmas, said Annette Faehnle, an Austin native who now lives in Key West.
Jesse Bejarano, visiting her daughter from out of state, said I stayed the same. I m basically the same.
Her daughter, Rena Shrader, was more confident.
I felt more comfortable spending more money this year than before, Shrader said.
As a result, it s not surprising other retail stores provided mixed answers too. Some said sales were slightly up, while others said this year has been a disappointment.
I think retailers are always hoping for the best. They re almost always disappointed, which means their expectations aren t right, said Professor Daniel Hamermesh, an economist at the University of Texas in Austin.
Hamermesh said he suspects the looming fiscal cliff could have impacted shopping habits this year. If Congress doesn t reach a deal next week, most Americans will see a tax increase in 2013.
The only reasonable explanation, if this is in fact a decline in spending, or not much of a rise in spending, is the possibility that my taxes will be going up in January. Hamermesh said.
I think it s always in the back of your mind; whether you re thinking about it or not. It is definitely playing a factor, Faehnle said.
Some economists think weather, like Hurricane Sandy in October, played a part in weaker than expected sales.
Hamermesh does not think it played a factor. He also suspects sales figure will likely increase when final numbers are released as early as February.
These are very preliminary numbers. This happens every year. People somewhat go crazy about the numbers and oftentimes they turn out better, Hamermesh said.


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New ‘South Park’ special pokes fun at NFTs
The second half of South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID, the second of a whopping 14 specials arriving on Paramount Plus in the coming years, took aim at the NFT craze, with creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker not so subtly hinting that they aren’t buying into the hype surrounding digital tokens.
The special arrives on the subject of NFTs via Victor Chaos, an adult version of Butters who scammed unwitting victims by convincing them to stake their savings and other assets on NFTs, making billions of dollars off of their misfortune in the process.
“It’s gone: my savings, my house. But I have this little green panda on a skateboard,” says one poor soul who fell victim to Butters’ scheme.
Butters, for his part, is still trying to scam even more people into investing in the digital tokens when Stan and Kyle come to him for help. “If you just believe in NFTs, then I believe in NFTs, then they believe in NFTs, and we make all kinds of fucking money,” he says as he attempts to pitch his childhood friends on the idea.
NFTs can be a confusing concept, so don’t feel bad if you’re struggling to wrap your head around the idea. They can essentially be thought of as a certificate of authenticity for digital artifacts ranging from images to videos, or even online news articles like this one.
While some NFTs are selling for monumental prices in the range of tens of millions of dollars, the craze has also drawn plenty of criticism from skeptics like Stone and Parker, who see the idea as a scam designed to dupe people into spending money on artifacts one can easily save to their computer with the click of a mouse.
South Park fans interested in learning more can head to Paramount Plus to check out both parts of the new Post COVID special.


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Maruti unveils new Zen model to take on Santro, Indica
The car will be available in four variants with a price tag ranging between Rs 3.19 lakh and Rs 4.02 lakh.Updated: Dec 05, 2006 19:44 IST
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Tuesday unveiled Estilo, a new model of Zen, signalling dynamic efforts to strengthen its presence in the fastest growing segment of the industry.
The car will be available in four variants with a price tag ranging between Rs 3.19 lakh and Rs 4.02 lakh (ex-showroom in the Capital). The new Zen is expected to take on Hyundai Santro and Tata Indica.
It will be available in eight colours. Zen Estilo will be available to customers for Rs 3,19,403. And while Zen Estilo Lxi will cost Rs 3,48,403, Zen Estilo Vxi ABS has a price tag of Rs 4,02,403.
Earlier this year in March, Maruti had discontinued Zen in its earlier avatar.
The first-generation Zen was launched in 1993 and the company had sold 7.60 lakh models until March this year, including the export of 1.22 lakh units.
At the time of discontinuation of production, Maruti was selling nearly 4,000 units of Zen every month in the domestic market.
Zen Estilo is roomier than the original Zen and has a 1,061 cc engine. It delivers 64 bhp, thereby making it an ideal vehicle for Indian city conditions, Maruti officials say.
Explaining the company’s strategy for launching the car, Maruti Managing Director Jagdish Khattar said, "Young people in India today desire products with contemporary styling and international appeal. The new Zen will appeal to this new India, just as the original Zen appealed to the India of mid-1990s. It incorporates features and attributes that are uniquely suited to India and valued by Indian car buyers."
The compact car A-2 segment has posted 27.5 per cent growth between April and October this year with 4.08 lakh units being sold compared to 3.2 lakh units in the corresponding period last year. As a result, the share of the A-2 segment cars to total sales rose to 63.7 per cent as against 60.6 per cent last year.
However, Maruti grew at a rate less than the industry average as it had discontinued the production of the first generation Zen. Maruti sold 2,30,137 units during April-October this year, a growth of 23.5 per cent from 1,86,035 units in the same period last year.
Maruti’s marekt share in the A-2 segment in the seven months of the financial year is 56.4 per cent.
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Von Maur, along with brother Charles, transformed a small downtown store to a midsized department store chain operating 33 units in 15 states.
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Sales rose by just 0.1 percent in September, following a weak August.
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This week, we are proud to announce that we have added the soon-to-be-launched fine art company, A.R.T., to our roster!
ModulART by A.R.T. represents a new way to create, collect, and think about contemporary art. It is designed to make high quality, original art more accessible to more people, with a fully customizable series of modules including Wall A.R.T, Mural A.R.T., and Shelf A.R.T. It’s art….rethought.
A.R.T. will be launching their website & e-store as well as a Pop-Up studio in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn on March 18th, 2010.
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Tag Archives : TVS Apache
Available with two tyre options. TVS Motors launched its Apache RTR 200 4V in Goa recently. The company had soft launched the bike in Chennai.
Priced from INR 88,542 (ex-showroom Mumbai). The TVS Apache RTR 200 4V that was introduced in January this year is finally reaching its customers. According.
Expected to launch towards the end of this year. As per a report, the TVS Akula concept, showcased at the Auto Expo 2016, will be.
Sales target is 7,000 units in the first year. The Himalayan Times reports that Jagdamba Motors, the authorized distributor of TVS two wheelers in Nepal,.
Here is a list of two wheelers that are expected to launch in or around March. Most of them were unveiled at the Auto Expo 2016..
Is it a mere upgrade to the smaller Apaches or does it have the capacity to cater to a diverse audience? There was indeed a.
To hit the road next month. TVS Motor Company displayed the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V at the Make In India Week at the MMRDA.
Launched last month. TVS Motor Company showcased the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V and the new TVS Victor at the Auto Expo 2016 in Greater.
Based on Apache 200, powered by a 212.4 cc engine. TVS Motor Company has presented the TVS X21 at the Auto Expo 2016 in Greater Noida..
Both models reportedly based on BMW G310R. RushLane reports that TVS Motor Company has planned to unveil two concept motorcycles at the Auto Expo 2016.
Will not be produced. RushLane has posted a rendering of what a fully-faired TVS Apache RTR 200 4V would look like, with no change in.
Fuel injected variant will come only with Pirelli tyres. Speaking to IndianAutosBlog, Vinay Harne, Head of R&D at TVS Motor Company, disclosed that the TVS.
BMW had nothing to do with the Apache. When asked about BMW Motorrad’s involvement in developing the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V given that the.
Here is a technical specifications comparison between the FI version of the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V and its perceived competitors in terms of power.
Here is a technical specifications comparison between the TVS Apache RTR 200 4V and its closest competitors – the Bajaj Pulsar 220F and the Hero.


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January 13, 2022 (Newswire.com) –
Madison Logic, the leading global digital Account-Based Marketing (ABM) platform, today announced that it has received its highest Critical Capabilities score for Orchestration of Display Advertising, with the highest category score evaluated in the Gartner Critical Capabilities 2022 Report, and it has been positioned by Gartner as a Challenger in the Magic Quadrant 2022 Report based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Clients have reported Madison Logic’s ability to activate digital account-based marketing programs across ABM Content Syndication, ABM Display Advertising, and ABM Social via LinkedIn is unique amongst the vendors evaluated in the Report. This multi-channel digital approach has proved crucial to driving growth at leading organizations around the world.