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The self-reliance movement goes mainstream
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Survivalist used to be just another way of saying right-wing extremist who either hated the government, thought the world would end…or both.
But then Hurricane Katrina hit, the economy collapsed, and Superstorm Sandy devastated New York City and New Jersey.
“People are feeling anxiety about the economy, the threat of pandemics, you name it,” says Jim Rawles who runs the website SurvivalBlog. “Preparedness has become big business.”
Sales have only continued to grow at the Ready Store, an online firm that sells emergency preparedness supplies.
“The most expensive thing we sell is a year supply of food. It’s about $3,500,” says marketing director Jonathan Dick.
Dick estimates consumers spend half a billion dollars a year on things like water storage tanks, shelters, battery-powered radios and of course food rations.
And then there are all the trade shows, like the Self Reliance Expo, run by Ron Douglas, an entrepreneur in Colorado. Douglas says visitors can attend a broad array of classes.
“Soap-making, candle-making, I think we have bread-baking…full-on gardening classes. Raising rabbits,” he says.
Douglas — who charges $10 for a two-day pass to the Expo — says he’s seen his crowds swell from several thousand a few years ago, to more than 10,000 these days. You don’t have to tell him that this self-reliance industry is becoming more mainstream, he sees it.
“You’ll see a guy sitting three in dreadlocks and flip-flops and two seats down is a camoed-out guy, and two seats down from him is a mother with a stroller,” he says.
When it comes to marketing though, Jonathan Dick at the Ready Store says the industry still has some work to do.
“If you start shopping around, you’ll notice there is a lot of doom and gloom out there. And frankly, I think it’s a lot of people trying to get people to buy stuff by making them afraid,” he says.
Dick says in a way, loading up on solar panels, extra food and equipment isn’t much different than an insurance policy that customers — hopefully — won’t ever need.
But if they do…
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Being a mobile phone user in Ethiopia comes at the risk of receiving nearly 120 spam texts per month—the highest rate globally.
And it’s not just Ethiopia as South Africa and Kenya also rank in the top three for countries where users receive the most spam texts across the world, data from Truecaller, the Stockholm-based caller identification app, shows. In total, African countries make up nine of the top 20 ranked countries for spam texts received. The rankings are based on data on spam texts received by users between Jan. 1, 2019 and Oct. 30, 2019.
Users in Nigeria, Africa’s largest mobile market, receive around 65 spam texts monthly despite a regulatory clampdown in 2016 allowing users to activate “do not disturb” features to block spam texts. But, as Quartz Africa reported, a key flaw in the regulation allowed telecoms operators, who are major spammers themselves, argue that they were exempted.
The spamming isn’t limited to texts as mobile phone users on the continent are also susceptible to receiving spam calls. Three countries—South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt—all feature in the top 20 ranked countries in that regard but the source of spam calls vary in each of those countries.
While telecoms operators account for the most spam calls in Egypt (74%) and Nigeria (85%), in South Africa, scams are the leading source of spam calls. The scams range from phony job offers to tech support fraud soliciting sensitive bank account information. Telecoms operators account for only 10% of spam calls in South Africa. Regardless of source however, the rates of spam calls has increased in all three countries over the past year.
The high spam rates across many of Africa’s fast-growing mobile user markets have seen Truecaller grow popular given its call blocking and identification features. With Truecaller users granting it access to their contacts list among a range of other permissions, the company has aggregated a database of contact details from millions of users. As such, when a Truecaller user receives a call from an unsaved number, the app can match that number with a name from its vast database. In exchange for free use, the app leverages its vast user base for mobile advertising.
But the app itself has also courted controversy and data privacy questions over its methods. In Nigeria, where Truecaller has around 2.9 million active users, local regulators are investigating it for “potential breach of privacy rights of Nigerians.”
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Griffin Launching Official Lightning Connector Cables Next Week
Though there have been several unofficial third party Lightning accessories, Griffin’s accessories will be the first official third-party standalone Lightning connector cables on the market when they launch next week.
Griffin’s new cables with Lightning Connector are affordable charging solutions that are built to resist kinks and tangles. The cables work perfectly with Griffin’s family of PowerBlocks and PowerJolts as well as Apple’s USB power adapters, or plug into a computer's USB to sync with iTunes.
The company is offering several different cable configurations:
- 2’ straight USB-to-Lightning cable ($16.99)
- 3’ straight USB-to-Lightning cable ($18.99)
- 4’ coiled USB-to-Lightning cable ($24.99)
- 9.8’ (3 meter) straight USB-to-Lightning cable ($29.99)
Earlier this month, Belkin introduced two official Lightning accessories, including a car charger and the Charge + Sync Dock. Scosche has also announced car and home chargers, although its products have yet to begin shipping.
Apple has been maintaining strict control over its Lightning connectors, which has made it difficult for third party manufacturers to introduce new accessories.
Vendors that launch Lightning-related accessories must produce them in Apple-approved facilities. The Lightning connector also requires controller chips to take advantage of adaptive technology, which has delayed the release of third party Lightning accessories.


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As we've previously reported, Amazon has been contemplating raising the cost of its popular Prime shipping service by as much as $40. However, when we polled our readers, that news didn't go over so well. In a DealNews survey, 65% of respondents said that they would definitely not pay more for the service.
That said, Amazon's latest move might have many of you warming up your fingers, getting ready to do some cancellation-clicking, because we've learned that the mega-retailer has just hiked the price of Prime in Europe. An annual subscription in the UK jumped from £49 to £79 ($131) and from €29 to €49 ($67) in Germany. The ostensible reason for the overseas hikes is that Amazon has bundled Lovefilm, a previously stand-alone video-streaming service, into Prime and thinks it adds enough value to warrant a higher cost.
Since these price hikes are tied to the combining of services and, in the US of A, we already have our video bundled with our Prime, we should be safe from any price hijinx, right? Well, perhaps. Amazon's domestic video streaming options are generally considered to be scant and/or unsatisfactory, but if the site super-charged the content so that it's as good as Lovefilm supposedly is, Amazon may similarly feel that the service is worthy of a higher cost.
Of course, the other way to view this situation is to assume that the higher prices in Europe are setting a bad precedent, and it's only a matter of time before Amazon turns its price-enlarging ray on services in the US. There's also the third way to look at it, which is that we could all save a bit of money by moving to Germany, where the new "higher" price is still $12 less than it currently is in America. (Ich möchte Amazon Prime, bitte!)
Jeff Somogyi is a media editor for dealnews.com, where this story first appeared.


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Happening tonight at the Cajundome Convention Center, Lafayette Travel will kick-off its EatLafayette campaign with the Taste of EatLafayette event and Louisiana Seafood Cookoff. Seafood chefs from around the state will battle for the title of Louisiana Seafood King or Queen while guests sample cuisine from 60 participating restaurants.
KATC’s Richie Mills is there this morning with more information.
The Taste of EatLafayette event will be held tonight from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
Tonight marks the kick-off of Lafayette Travel’s EatLafayette campaign which runs from now until September and offers deals and specials each week from restaurants from around Lafayette.
Three of the 12 contestants participating in this year’s seafood competition are from restaurants in Lafayette and Breaux Bridge.
Chefs will start cooking at 5:00 pm and the winner will be announced by 8:00 pm.
Visit lafayettetravel.com for more information on the EatLafayette campaign or for tickets for tonight’s Taste of EatLafayette event.


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The May Precision Metalforming Report shows that 42% of participants expect an improvement in economic activity during the next three months—modestly down from 45% in April—while 48% predict that activity will remain unchanged, up from 45% last month. Meanwhile, just 10% report that activity will decline—the same percentage reported in April.
Other findings: The vast majority of metalforming companies forecast incoming orders to increase or remain fairly steady for the next three months. In fact, 46% anticipate increased orders—compared to 50% in April—while 39% expect no change, compared to 37% the previous month. On the down side, only 15% predict a decrease in orders—up from 13% in April.
More good news: 54% of participants reported that average daily shipping levels are above levels of three months ago—down from 61% in April—while 34% report no change, compared to 29% in April. Only 12% report that shipping levels are below levels of three months ago.
“May’s business conditions report shows that 85% of PMA members expect new orders for May through July to either be higher than the past three months, or to remain flat, at fairly good levels,” said William E. Gaskin, PMA president. “This confirms that the metalforming industry is well on its way toward a significant recovery, which began in the summer of 2009 after a two-year slide. Also, data from PMA’s monthly orders and shipments report show conditions in the industry are improving, with new orders rising above the 12-month rolling average for the past nine months and shipments above the 12-month rolling average for the last eight months. In addition, data from the 100 companies in the survey’s control group indicate that orders grew in the first quarter by 50% compared to the first quarter of 2009 and shipments increased by 35% during the same period.”
The full May Precision Metalforming Report is available online.


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Loblaw Companies Ltd. on Dec. 3 recalled selected lots of President’s Choice brand coleslaw due to possible salmonella contamination.
Dec 04, 2019 by Tom Karst
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, has introduced a bill designed to allow regulators easier access to animal farms during investigations into the source of foodborne illness outbreaks.
Nov 25, 2019 by Chris Koger
The Food and Drug Administration will be collecting romaine samples in California and Arizona for a year to test for salmonella and E. coli following several foodborne outbreaks linked to the lettuce.
Nov 18, 2019 by Chris Koger
CORRECTED: In response to a distributor’s refusal to recall Mexican papayas implicated in a salmonella outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration has alerted all of its customers and is pursuing other actions.
Jul 19, 2019 by Chris Koger
The Food and Drug Administration, which inspected a Del Monte Fresh Produce processing facility in the wake of salmonella cases linked to vegetable trays, has found no trace of salmonella.
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(CORRECTED) Despite requests from the Food and Drug Administration, the distributor of Mexican papayas named by the agency in an outbreak of salmonella has declined so far to issue a recall.
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The Food and Drug Administration has named Cavi brand whole fresh maradol papayas distributed by Agroson’s LLC, Bronx, N.Y., as the likely source of 71 cases of Salmonella Uganda.
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The Food and Drug Administration is investigating an outbreak of salmonella linked to whole fresh papayas from Mexico.
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Western Digital wants computing enthusiasts and small businesses to take advantage of NAS. Is the market ready?
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Industry voiceWe look at why 2015 is going to be a big year for flash, and how it will impact data centres and our working lives.
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In its first month in 2017, Netmarble’s Lineage 2: Revolution mobile game generated $176 million in one month. That helped Netmarble launch a lucrative initial public offering later on in the spring of 2017. But now the company is back, announcing that he massively multiplayer online mobile game topped $1 billion in less than a year.
Simon Sim, president of Netmarble US, made the announcement at the Epic Games’ session on the State of Unreal at the Game Developers Conference. It’s a pretty astounding number for a single mobile game. Lineage 2: Revolution has high-end graphics built with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4.
In the game, as many as 200 players can fight each other at once. Many people thought this kind of battle could only happen in a PC game.
Licensed by NCSoft and built by Netmarble, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) game on mobile has helped the South Korean company go global.
Netmarble is publicly traded and has a market value in excess of $8.9 billion. Netmarble recently launched Blade & Soul: Revolution in South Korea, and it hopes to score big with that graphically beautiful game as well. In the open world of Blade & Soul, thousands of players can play at the same time. It is currently the No. 1 and No. 2 game, respectively, iOS and Google Play. The game will be coming to the West soon.
Also today, Netmbarble confirmed that its action-RPG game — the King of All Fighters All Star — is coming to the West as the company announced the game will be available in North America, Europe, and Latin America this year on iOS and Google Play.
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|Angel Medical Systems' Guardian System heart monitor--courtesy of Angel Medical Systems|
Angel Medical Systems' Guardian System heart monitor is actively being sold in Europe and Brazil. But $27.5 million in new financing will help the company reach the long-awaited regulatory finish line in the U.S.
The Shrewsbury, NJ, company says the new money will help it complete a U.S. pivotal trial involving 660 patients. Assuming all goes well and the trial meets all of the required endpoints, expect a PMA submission in 2013.
Angel's regulatory pathway reflects a broader strategy increasingly used by smaller medical device companies to seek regulatory approval and commercial sales outside of the U.S. first. They often turn to Europe, South America or elsewhere, because they can gain approval with shorter time and expense. That data gathered from international use often informs subsequent U.S. trials, or an eventual U.S. regulatory submission.
In Angel Medical's case, the company's Guardian monitor is already CE marked in Europe, and doctors are actively implanting the device in Germany and selling it in Europe and Brazil. (Interestingly, St. Jude Medical ($STJ) licensed some of the technology for its own implantable cardioverter defibrillators, which are available in Europe and being tested in the United States.) The device is designed to give "continuous intracardiac ischemia monitoring" and alerts, and comes in both implantable and external versions, according to its website.
The new funding, termed "aggregate financing," will help support continued commercialization of the product in Europe and Brazil, and also work on a next-generation ischemia monitoring device.
Angel's investment round drew new investor SOAM Angel Partners, plus existing, venture capital, strategic partner and angel investors, according to the company.
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The company, that is! They Think, Therefore They Are No More*, Think Global AS is filing for bankruptcy.
The electric car maker that launched its North American operations in northern Indiana has filed for bankruptcy protection in Norway, a major creditor said Wednesday morning.
Think Global AS plans to liquidate its assets, according to a statement from its exclusive battery supplier, Ener1 Inc.
Ener1, which engineers and makes its batteries in the Indianapolis area at its EnerDel subsidiary, notified investors Wednesday that the company would take a charge of more than $32 million on unpaid loans and accounts receivable from Think Global.
Wonder if anyone sold "short"?
*More properly, "They Think Globally, Therefore They Are No More".
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Carnival Cruise Line has selected PepsiCo as the preferred beverage partner for its North American fleet, beginning in January 2020.
“At Carnival Cruise Line, we invite our guests to Choose Fun, and now with PepsiCo’s extensive portfolio of brands, we’re able to give them more ways to choose a beverage that suits their taste, mood and preference,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “PepsiCo’s line-up of beverages will give our guests access to leading brands in growing non-soda categories like iced tea, a reduced reliance on plastics, and alternative ways to deliver and serve water and other beverages.”
Carnival Cruise Line will begin serving a broad selection of beverages from the PepsiCo brand portfolio, including brands like Starbucks ready-to-drink coffee and Bubly sparkling water.
“Our brands both celebrate having fun and offering something special for everyone, making PepsiCo and Carnival Cruise Line a great match,” said Anne Fink, president of PepsiCo Global Foodservice. “We’re excited to share the voyage as we create enjoyable, seamless experiences for Carnival Cruise Line passengers while they enjoy their fun vacations at sea and ashore.”
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Apple and Disney have now halted advertising on social media platform X amid an antisemitism storm with owner Elon Musk.
The corporate boycott has gathered pace after Musk replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, calling it "actual truth".
Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all stopped advertising on X, US media reports.
The European Commission, TV network Paramount and movie studio Lionsgate have also pulled ads from the social media platform.
The corporate boycott also follows an investigation by a US group which flagged ads appearing next to pro-Nazi posts on X.
However, a spokesperson for X said the company does not intentionally place brands "next to this kind of content" and the platform is committed to tackling antisemitism.
The SpaceX entrepreneur has denied he is antisemitic and said his comments referred not to all Jewish people but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other unspecified "Jewish communities".
The White House has condemned Musk's endorsement of the post.
Spokesperson Andrew Bates said: "We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms."


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Jose ‘Apollo’ Pacamalan (MEnvMgmt ‘05) is the founder of the Rice-Duck Movement Inc., offering subsistence farmers in his homeland of the Philippines, an organic, climate-smart, accessible and more viable rice production system.
Apollo’s Master in Environmental Management studies at Flinders University (where ducks are a valued part of campus life) put him on the path to this vital community development work.
He says, ‘I went back to the Philippines after two life-changing years at Flinders, and started to work with non-government organisations to expand and develop the Integrated Rice-Duck Farming System value chain and its underlying principles.’
As a result of Apollo’s business model, in the Philippines more than 1,000 hectares of conventional rice farms now incorporate ducks. The ducks fertilise the rice crops, increase production by eating insects and other pests, while also producing meat and eggs for additional family nutrition and income for the smallholder farmers, who are often living on the poverty line.
‘My Flinders experience gave me the technical foundation and a sense of focus that allowed me to recalibrate this farming system and work with local authorities to reduce poverty, increase employment and contribute to reducing malnutrition in the countryside,’ says Apollo.
His ultimate goal is to increase rice production from 1,000 sacks of milled rice a day to 12,000 sacks daily in order to meet 100% of the province’s demand.
Apollo has recently developed a food-pack made from organic unpolished rice and iron-rich culled duck meat that can be rolled out in emergencies and also used to eradicate malnutrition among school-age children in the community.
As the new head of provincial agriculture in Misamis Oriental, one of his first actions is launching a new program, the quest for “EGGcellence”. The program will provide a million pesos to local governments to assist resource-poor households to produce one million eggs per year – a 10% share of the local market.
Apollo says, ‘The greatest accomplishment in my work is when I see poor farmers and households grow in terms of their skills and talents in farming systems.’
Jose Apollo Pacamalan was awarded a 2018 Flinders University Distinguished Alumni Award for his significant contribution to the rice farming industry in the Philippines by pioneering the Integrated Rice-Duck Farming System. The climate-smart agriculture system makes rice production safer for farmers, rice grains healthier for consumption and has increased rice productivity.
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$2.1 million investment expected to create 20 new jobs
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Oppermann Webbing, a maker of tie-downs and webbing for cargo transportation, today announced plans to expand its current operations in Anderson County. The $2.1 million investment is expected to generate 20 new jobs.
“We are excited about the opportunity to expand our operations in Anderson County. We are seeing an increase in demand for our products and increasing our production space will help us meet our customers’ needs. South Carolina has offered us an excellent business environment and a skilled workforce. We appreciate all the support we’ve received from state and local officials,” said Roland Hossli, general manager of Oppermann Webbing.
Oppermann Webbing Inc. will expand its facility in Piedmont with an additional 38,000 square feet of space for the company’s production operations. This will add capacity to the weaving area and warehouse space. The company expects the expansion to be completed by mid-December.
“South Carolina continues to show that it is the right place for companies from around the globe to do business. Oppermann Webbing’s success and growth here is another sign of that. We celebrate the company’s $2.1 million investment and the creation of 20 new jobs in Piedmont,” said Gov. Nikki Haley.
Since January 2011, South Carolina has recruited more than $7 billion in capital investment and more than 17,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector.
“Today’s announcement provides another boost to our state’s manufacturing sector. Manufacturing is the key to wealth creation. When companies like Oppermann Webbing expand and create new jobs, it has impact throughout the local and state economies,” said Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt.
“This is another exciting announcement for District 6 – a minimum of 20 more jobs and $2.1 million in investment,” said Anderson County Councilman Ken Waters. “Piedmont is rapidly becoming a successful hub of global industry and this expansion announcement is more evidence that we are a business-friendly county that works alongside our companies and provides an environment that allows industry to prosper.”
The company plans to begin hiring for the new positions in November. Anyone interested in job opportunities with the company should contact the SCWorks center in Anderson at (864) 226-6273 at that time.
For more information about Oppermann Webbing, please visit www.oppermann-bandweberei.de.


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Retail round-up: Final BHS stores to close, Sports Direct uses Ashley’s brother's firm to deliver overseas, and Findel approaches Terry Duddy for chairmanship.
BHS name to disappear as final 35 shops to close
BHS’s long era on the UK high street will end this week as the remaining stores shut their doors, This is Money reported.
The final 35 stores of the retailer are likely to cease trading after administrators Duff & Phelps were called in back in April.
Thirteen stores will close today, while the last 22 will shut on August 27, after the administrators failed to secure a buyer for the department store chain.
Sports Direct uses Ashley’s brother's firm for international deliveries
Sports Direct reportedly pays the company owned by Mike Ashley’s elder brother, John Ashley, for handling online orders outside the UK, according to the Financial Times.
The sportswear retailer has not disclosed this arrangement in its annual report as a related party transaction.
The Financial Reporting Council is thought to be looking into the agreement with John Ashley-owned Barlin Delivery and the non-disclosure.
The City watchdog has not yet launched an official inquiry, but could so if it finds evidence of wrongdoing.
Barlin receives a share of the revenue from Sports Direct’s website orders that are dispatched overseas. The retailer says such orders account for about 6% of its £2.9bn revenue.
A page on the retailer’s website that explains Barlin’s role says the company “does not sell goods, but only delivers them”.
Findel approaches ex-Home Retail boss Duddy for chairmanship role
Home shopping group Findel has approached former Home Retail chief executive Terry Duddy to take over as its chairman, according to Sky News.
Duddy is understood to be among a “number of people” sounded by advisers to the mail order retailer, after Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley failed to place himself as chairman of Findel, in which his firm owns a 30% stake.
Another potential candidate is believed to be David Shearer, a specialist in corporate turnarounds.
The role is currently occupied by David Sugden, decided to quit three weeks ago.


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Google Pixel 7 series India launch confirmed
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Google is gearing up for its annual developer conference I/O 2022 which is slated for October 6, 2022. The company will take the wraps off the new-age Pixel 7 series comprising the vanilla Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro. Until the Pixel 7 series availability was expected in the international markets. But seems like google is finally bringing both these handsets to the Indian markets as well. Google had only released the affordable Pixel ‘a’ series models in the country since the Pixel 3 series. This new development comes as a delight for Pixel fans in India.
Google Pixel 7 Series India Launch Confirmed Officially
Google will be announcing the latest Pixel 7 series models at the I/O 2022 event which is slated for October 6, 2022. Alongside the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro, the company is also bringing the Pixel 7a. The rumor mill has already been giving us a sneak peek of the upcoming premium Pixel series phones. Now, a fresh listing at the e-commerce giant Flipkart confirms both the high-end Pixel series phones will be launched in the Indian sub-continent as well.
Just to recap, Google hasn’t released any flagship Pixel model since the Pixel 3 series. We only have seen the Pixel 4a, Pixel 5a, and the Pixel 6a in the country but not their high-end versions. But the latest dedicated Pixel 7 series microsite on Flipkart is a clear indication that Google is finally breaking its past trend and revamping its flagship smartphone lineup in the country.
As of now, the Flipkart microsite only mentions coming soon along with the products. It doesn’t reveal the exact availability timeline for the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro in the country. Given the possibilities, we can expect both Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro to debut around the same time as the international markets in India. Google could make some official announcements related to the same in the coming days.
It is not clear yet if Google will also introduce the affordable Pixel 7a in the country alongside the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro. We might have to wait for the brand to release the affordable Pixel 7 variant in the country. We are still waiting for some announcements from Google regarding the same and will keep you updated with the details.


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You may want to check the meats you bought for your next charcuterie board, as there has been a recall issued for over 50,000 pounds of ready-to-eat meats due to listeria concerns.
Approximately 52,914 pounds of charcuterie meats are being recalled as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety (FSIS) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have discovered that the meats have been in contact with listeria which causes the infection listeriosis.
The FSIS announced on Sunday that they discovered the issues during a routine inspection when listeria was found on surfaces that the meat have been in contact with.
Below are the meats that were produced from May 23 through Nov. 25, 2022, and were shipped to retail locations across the United States from Dec. 23, 2022, through Jan. 17, 2023, that are being recalled.
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|FREDERIK’S by Meijer||Spanish-style charcuterie sampler tray||6-oz. plastic tray||4/15/23|
|Boar’s Head||Charcuterie trio||6-oz. plastic tray||4/13/23, 4/14/23 and 4/15/23|
|Colameco’s Primo||Naturale genoa uncured salami||7-oz. plastic tray||12/23/23|
|Colameco’s Primo||Naturale black pepper uncured salami||7-oz. plastic tray||12/22/23, 12/30/23 and 1/17/24|
|Del Duca||Sopressata, coppa & genoa salami||1-lb. plastic tray||4/13/23 and 4/14/23|
|Del Duca||Calabrese, prosciutto & coppa||1-lb. plastic tray||5/6/23|
|Del Duca||Genoa salami, uncured pepperoni & hard salami||1-lb. plastic tray||5/4/23|
|Gourmet Selection||Sopressata, capocollo, hard salame||12-oz. plastic tray||4/14/23|
Those that purchased any of the meats above are advised to throw away the product or return the meats to the place they bought them from. The FSIS has reported that there have been no confirmed reports of reactions due to the consumption of the products above.
Symptoms of Listeriosis
- Muscle aches
- Stiff neck
- Loss of balance
- Convulsions are sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms
Listeriosis is an invasive infection that spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. Those that are considered high risk of listeria are those who are pregnant, over the age of 65 or have a weakened immune system, according to the CDC. Symptoms can start within two weeks after the consumption of contaminated food.
Below are the labels of the products being recalled:
Click here to read the full recall notice.
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Pacific Arts Market (PAM) is extremely excited to announce a major expansion to our business. On Friday, October 1st, 2021, we had our big Grand Opening. We have taken over the entire building at 1448 & 1450 W Broadway in the heart of South Granville. This doubles our art space with the opening of “The Gallery” and “The Studios” (Downstairs – 2339 sq. ft.). Upstairs, you will continue to find “The Market”, 2,419 sq. ft. of locally handmade art and craft treasures, which opened on December 1st, 2018.
“We want to support the wonderful artists in our community and make them feel like they are part of the fabric of Vancouver”, says Owner Crystal Cornthwaite. “We have created a very supportive atmosphere that is relaxed and inclusive, making it possible for artists to create, sell and interact with other art lovers.”
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Clive Young, editor of PSNEurope’s US sister title Pro Sound News, speaks to Harman Pro president Mohit Parasher for an update on the company’s ongoing restructure since its 2016 acquisition by tech giant Samsung…
We went through a massive change last year,” said Mohit Parasher, president of Harman Professional Solutions & EVP of Harman, speaking in early January 2019. The understatement kicked off his first major sit-down with the press since Harman Pro began a radical corporate transformation in September 2017. With the first results of changes starting to come in, Parasher was ready to provide into the whirlwind that began when consumer electronics giant Samsung acquired all of Harman for $8 billion in November 2016.
“We are already seeing the positive impact from the restructuring we completed last year,” stated Parasher. “In fact, 2018 was a record year for orders booked. This was driven by our highest ever year of audio product sales, as well as record growth in sales outside of the US. In addition to this record setting revenue, we also drove strong growth in profitability.” In summary: “We saw good growth despite all the disruption.”
And there was disruption. Harman Pro’s changes affected all of its brands – AKG, AMX, BSS, Crown, dbx, DigiTech, JBL Professional, IDX, Lexicon, Martin, Soundcraft, Studer and SVSI – with 650 layoffs as it closed numerous offices and facilities worldwide, consolidating into three “Centers of Competency,” with acoustics headquartered in Harman Pro’s existing facilities in Northridge, CA; electronics, DSP, and video and control tackled in AMX’s hometown of Richardson, TX; and lighting centred in Martin Professional’s longtime base, Aarhus, Denmark.
Parasher explained the thought process behind it, and the considerable investment that followed, ranging from IT outlay and reinventing facilities to hiring upward of 350 new employees. “Many people were skeptical, and I understand that, but we were very clear from day one that this is a business that we are going to invest in and grow,” he expressed.
Bringing together the various brands’ teams into physical proximity with the Centers of Competency was key to that strategy. “The idea behind it was that we have a collection of many brands, but we never really got to leverage the power behind them the way we should, because each brand operated in its own silo,” he said. “There was a huge potential to combine them all and put them in a platform [the Centers of Competency] that includes engineering, sales and marketing, after-sales service, tech support, and pre-sales. People call it a restructure; I call it reconstruction.”
The changes continue: new Experience Centers have been built around the globe to demonstrate the company’s solutions for different markets, from recording to live sound to immersive retail environments. Elsewhere, within Harman, a new company-wide IT platform handles sales forecasting. “We created a big repository of all of [our] engineering knowledge – terabytes and terabytes of knowledge – on one platform,” recalled Parasher. “Any engineer on any of our sites can access anything at any time and learn from each other.
Many of the company’s new hires, notably in engineering and software, are from outside the pro audio industry; Parasher himself came to Harman Pro two years ago after a successful run on Harman’s consumer electronics side. While consumer audio tech often adapts advancements from pro audio, Parasher wants to draw from the consumer world, namely its design philosophies. “There is a massive need for making things easy to use and install,” he asserted. “Our industry is a little bit slower to adapt because the installs are bigger [so] the decisions are larger; it’s not like buying a $100 speaker or $200 headphone.”
At the same time, he also wants to rethink products’ industrial design (“just because it’s behind a rack doesn’t mean it has to be ugly; you can make it good-looking at the same price”) and their ability to integrate with not only other Harman products, but the industry in general. “In the old AMX world, we had our own programming language, our own way of doing things, so we were closed off to the world,” he lamented. “Make it open, discoverable, connectable. It’s ok – customers will choose some competitors’ products to connect with yours? It’s fine, it puts reverse pressure on us to be best in everything we do. The customer should get the best product, the best choice.
“We believe we have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to transform the pro industry,” said Parasher, “because we have this portfolio of products, this great team, this great business channel, and a great owner like Samsung that is willing to invest, so there’s no excuse.”
To that end, there’s both short- and long-term goals in play. This year, the company will be placing emphasis on specific segments, notably video and control, with a number of products hitting in mid-2019.
For the long-term, widescreen view, Parasher plans to draw from the R&D elsewhere in Harman and Samsung, and bring it to bear on Harman Pro’s world. “You’d be surprised at the amount of technology that we can draw from the connected car business,” he shared. “Nobody in the pro industry can afford the thousands of engineers needed to develop products in secure Linux. Almost 80 per cent of the work on Linux that would be required is already done, so we can bring it into the pro industry. It’s the same thing with industrial design, except that’s from the consumer side, the services side and the Samsung side. Bringing all these things together is the opportunity for us to unlock value.”
For now, however, buoyed by Harman Pro’s record sales in 2018, Parasher is looking for the company to continue hitting milestones in the months and years ahead. “We are right on target to achieve what we committed to as a team,” he said. “It’s our responsibility to say, ‘what do you think the industry should look like?’ And we should drive towards that. We started that journey 20 months back, and I’m very pleased with where we are.”


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The crypto division of Square, Square Crypto, has recently hired Matt Corallo. The announcement was made on Twitter. He was one of the co-founders of Blockstream and a prominent Bitcoin dev. He previously worked on Chaincode Labs, too, where he passed almost three years.
Corallo commented on the news affirming that he was very excited to be a part of the team. According to him, it will be very exciting to experiment on Square Crypto and to make Bitcoin even better.
During an interview, he affirmed that the work will be different from what he is used to, but that the bigger the problems, the more you need talent.
The whole project is set to be open source, so the upgrades made by them can be used for others interested in Bitcoin as well.
Square Crypto Is Building Its Team
Corallo was just the newest addition to the company created by Jack Dorsey. Since the announcement of the initiative back in March, many people have been wondering who would be working on it.
The goal of the startup is to create a small but good team that will have a single designer and some software engineers.
Before him, Steve Lee was hired. He worked as a Google director previously and was hired to lead the new team. At the time, he affirmed that the team would be focused on creating the technology that could complement Bitcoin and make it more efficient and mainstream.
Author: Lorraine Mburu
Mike Pompeo, the U. S. Secretary of State, wants to regulate Bitcoin (BTC). According to him, the asset should be regulated in the same way that all other financial transactions which made online currently are.
During a recent interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, he affirmed that anonymous transactions are very risky and that terrorists might start to use it if they remain unregulated. According to him, the country has moved forward a lot when it comes to tracking money, so not doing it would open a breach for illegal activities.
To him, if anonymous transactions become the norm, this would greatly decrease the security of the whole world, which can become an issue as time passes.
The host of the show, Koe Kernan, brought up that the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin affirmed that more Bitcoin is used for illegal activities than cash. Pompeo supported the other secretary in his allegations against crypto.
According to Mike Pompeo, however, the main difference between him and his colleague is that Mnuchin wants a very tight and specific regulation on Bitcoin, while he believes that the asset should just be regulated as any other asset currently is.
Unfortunately, neither of the secretaries seem to understand Bitcoin very well. It has been proved several times that fiat currency is used way more than Bitcoin in money laundering and terrorism financing, so there is no excuse to keep being ignorant on the subject.
Bitcoin is also very hard to regulate, so they would probably have a very difficult time to do the same that can be done to similar digital transactions.
Author: Lillian Peter
The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently decided to emit a cease and desist order against ICO Rating, which is a company focused on researching about the crypto market and rating the best investments.
According to the SEC, ICO Ratings has violated the Securities Act. The company is being accused of describing securities to get a certain direct or indirect compensation from the group that issues the investment.
This happened because the company charged fees in order to create the reports of the investments. As some of the tokens listed on the platform were considered securities, the company broke the law. The illegal reports were also widely published on social media, which is also against the norms.
The SEC affirms that ICO Rating was paid over $100,000 USD by companies and groups that issued ICOs to have them rated. These payments, however, were never disclosed to the readers of the site, meaning that they could end up investing in these security tokens without knowing that they were seeing something that the SEC considered to be a paid promotion.
ICO Ratings was ordered to cease all activities, give the money back (plus interest) and then pay a civil money penalty that would be over $160,000 USD.
Author: Gabriel Machado
Facebook is having a hard time convincing regulators and lawmakers to approve its new digital coin Libra. Now that both the United States and India have presented concerns about the project, it was the time for the European Union to do it.
Antitrust regulators from the EU are currently investigating the potential that Libra has for “anti-competitive behavior”, according to Bloomberg. The Libra Association, they believe, could easily turn into a monopoly that could easily shut the doors from rivals in the industry.
While Facebook would mainly use the token, the Libra Association would reunite several major companies in the technology area which are said to join forces in order to regulate the process.
The officials from the commission are concerned that Libra may be used in order to create restrictions for the competition and that Facebook and the Libra Association will not handle customer data as well as they say they will, which is quite frankly not surprising. Facebook has quite a bad track record when it comes to protecting information from its customers.
There is an investigation going on right now in order to determine whether Facebook may use its power unfairly to weed out competitors or not. Facebook, according to Bloomberg, has declined to comment on the investigation right now.
Facebook’s Libra, in case you lived under a rock the last few months, is a sort of semi-centralized cryptocurrency that would be used by Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users all over the world. As its user base would be simply huge, there are several concerns about how much power Facebook and the Libra Association will have on their hands after the launch.
Author: Denis Miriti
Robert A. Cohen, the former head of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cyber Unit, will be joining Coinbase’s law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP soon. According to the reports, he is the newest partner in the company.
The executive worked with the SEC for 15 years and quit last month. Every eye was on him ever since, as people were wondering where he would go. After his departure, the division of the SEC is without a leader temporarily, as no one was announced to take his place.
His former unit was, in fact, very focused on the crypto world. It was created back in 2017 by the SEC to check issues involving the blockchain technology.
During his work with the cyber unit, Cohen oversaw several lawsuits and legal activity. He also got famous as he pursued legal action against several Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). One of the most high-profile cases was the one against Kik Interactive, which happened recently.
Recently, Cohen affirmed that the SEC carefully choose who to go after. Their goal was to get some high-profile cases in order to get the word out. This way, more companies would understand the risks of illegal ICOs and would stop it without the SEC needing to go after every company out there.
Now, Robert A. Cohen has changed sides and will help Coinbase. He is, however, legally barred from speaking with any SEC official for around a year. There are regulations which prevent him from using too much of his influence now that he is out of the public service.
Author: Gabriel Machado
David Chaum, a pioneer in the crypto world, has recently decided to launch a new cryptocurrency called Praxxis. According to him, Praxxis will be a token that will follow his original vision for digital money.
He affirmed that the new project is set to have upgraded security and be quicker and more scalable than the other cryptos in the market. The idea is, like Bitcoin’s main goal, to replace cash. Chaum was recently interviewed by The Block Crypto and revealed more details about the asset.
He affirmed that it is based on the Elixxir blockchain and that it will also follow Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of cryptocurrencies. He believes that Bitcoin is a great way to store value, but it is currently missing some key features in order to be used properly as cash. His goal is to create a currency that can fully satisfy scalability, decentralization and security.
This new protocol is also set to be “quantum-resistant”, meaning that even quantum computers will not be able to hack it. This is the kind of threat that many people are already predicting that the future will bring, so it is certainly a good idea.
At the moment, the new revolutionary currency is being backed by private investors. However, a token sale will probably happen whenever the protocol is finally ready.
The Father of Digital Currencies
David Chaum is the real father of all digital currencies. While the figure nicknamed as Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin and ushered us into the current era of crypto, Chaum was the first to come up with Ecash back in 1982.
He started a company to create it in 1990, only to went bankrupt in 1998. The idea of Ecash inspired Satoshi and led to the creation of Bitcoin.
Author: Hank Klinger
Rokkex, a crypto exchange based in Estonia, has recently started a new partnership with the French Ledger wallet, which is known for its popular hardware wallets. The company will now integrate its services with Ledger’s wallet for enterprises: Ledger Vault.
The vault will be used to secure the assets of the company with highly advanced security measures.
The Estonian company was created last year as a fully regulated platform, so it will have wealthy clients that will want to protect their assets. According to the founder and CEO of Rokkex, Lukas Krikstaponis, the first tests with the technology were very successful. The head of Ledger Vault, Demetrios Skalkotos, has affirmed that they can provide full transparency and protection from attacks.
By using this product, the clients will retain full access but they will have additional protections such as cold storage and other guarantees. This is important because several exchanges have been hacked recently, meaning that security is now more important than ever. Many exchanges try to secure the assets themselves and
Ledger Wallet was first launched in May 2018 to be used as a security tool that could target institutional investors.
The product has a structure that helps most companies because it works with multiple authorizations, meaning that its governance infrastructure can be used by institutions that share the assets with different investors.
Author: Gabriel Machado
A total of 11 new projects have announced this week that they joined the Messari Disclosures Registry. The registry includes several projects, the most popular new ones are Cardano, V Systems, Lisk and Beam, all which are in the top 100 crypto projects by market cap. Akropolis, Fusion, Keep, Permission, Orbs and Elrond were also added.
With these new projects becoming a part of it, the registry now has a total of 54 projects. Back when it was launched at the end of last year, the Messari registry had only 12.
The Messari Registry
The registry was created to bring more transparency to the crypto market. Each project can decide on its own whether to participate. If the project does participate, they disclose information about their business to investors, which can check the database at any time before they invest in it.
According to the founder of Messari, Ryan Selkis, being able to find basic information about cryptocurrencies is essential to make good investments, which are able to let the industry move forward.
It was in order to distribute information freely that the registry was first created back in 2018. With the new companies that were listed now, the Messari Disclosures Registry is set to become even more important. Cardano alone has a market cap of over a billion USD and a large community, so its entrance is bound to attract more curious investors to the database.
Author: Daniel W
Amaten, the largest gift card company in Japan, has recently started a new partnership with Aelf, a blockchain firm. Now, the two companies will band together in order to provide blockchain-based gift cards to their clients.
The plan is to create a framework that would be used to tokenize gift cards and let people use them via a blockchain-based platform. This way, people will be able to easily track them, which can end up decreasing fraud in the sector.
According to Tom Kanazawa, the chairman of Amaten, the current system was never really evolved. The digital revolution changed the world some time ago and the industry continued to be stale. Now, the company will have to evolve together to remain competitive and offer a better service to its customers.
Kanazawa also affirmed that the current system has some very basic flaws and that they make it really inconvenient for people to use the system. This is, he believes, the perfect use case for the blockchain technology.
The gift card industry is huge in Japan. According to the official data, it is a $21 billion USD industry locally. However, the global market is worth $340 billion USD. This means that Amaten will initially focus on Japan, but the company is ready to move forward internationally after some time.
With the upgrade, the company is expected to hold its position as the leader of the industry, its chairman affirms. At the moment, Amaten holds 70% of the market, so only extreme staleness could ruin the dominance of the company.
Author: Gabriel Machado
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has recently decided to approve IOI Capital and Market’s application for membership. The new company is set to offer digital securities based on the Hyperledger Fabric technology.
Now that the company has the approval of the entity, it can issue its securities to clients. According to the co-founders Hamid Gayibov and Rashad Kurbanov, the plans are to launch the platform in September.
The company had to wait around 18 months in order to be approved. FINRA has a huge backlog and it is common to take over a year to approve companies, which can get in the way of their plans sometimes.
Fortunately, this gave the company time to prepare. Kurbanov affirmed that the company wanted to make sure that all investors would end up receiving all necessary protections from them, which is why the company has already implemented all the systems that will ensure its security.
Iownit, the technology that was developed by the group based on Hyperledger, will be used to manage the technological part of the securities and create a more efficient market, according to the company’s founders.
The name of the new platform, which sounds like “I own it”, was inspired by how the blockchain can be used to secure records. All named that had blockchain in it were rejected. According to Kurbanov, many people wanted names such as Block Security or something similar. He decided to hold on because he was against following trends that were so obvious.
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It happens on every flight, no matter what destination travelers depart from. Flight attendants ask passengers to turn off their cell phones and everyone breathes a sigh of heavy trepidation at the risk of missing an important call or text message.
According to AOL Travel News, there is an actual reason for the no-electronics requirement. Airlines need to make sure passengers are listening to instructions about safety by the flight attendants at the beginning of the flight. In addition, having electronics shut off during take off and landing reduces the possibility of of loose objects blocking exits should an emergency occur.
It also helps reduce the risk of interference with avionics. Researchers aren't 100 percent sure what sort of effect electronics might have on the clarity of airwaves, but it's better to be safe than sorry, according to the FAA website.
Emirates Airways and Singapore Airlines allow cell phone usage, reports AOL, so why not America? "We are not seeking a way to use cell phones in flight. Our customers have made it clear they do not want phone conversations in flight," said American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith.
So while it's not exactly clear what effect portable electronics have on airplane capacity, the general consensus appears to be: it's better safe, than sorry.
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After Twitter, Meta, and Amazon, Google's parent company, Alphabet, is reportedly planning to fire as many as 10000 underperforming employees. As per a new report, the Big Tech company plans to get rid of nearly 6 per cent of its workforce amid the rough global economic conditions. This comes after three top tech companies, including Meta, Twitter and Amazon fired thousands of employees across the globe in the last few weeks.
According to a report coming from The Information, Google plans to evaluate the performance of its employees through a new ranking and performance improvement plan. It is believed that the new performance management system could help managers push out thousands of underperforming employees around the start of 2023.
The report suggests that the rating option in the new performance management system will help managers rate team members and accordingly plan their bonuses and stock grants. So, if someone is found slacking at work or not putting in effort, using the new performance management system, managers will be able to rate them or avoid paying them bonuses.
Google's parent company Alphabet hasn't officially confirmed layoffs yet. But a couple of months ago, CEO Sundar Pichai hinted at upcoming layoffs.
Speaking at the recently hosted Code Conference in Los Angeles Pichai said, "we want to make sure as a company, when you have fewer resources than before, you are prioritizing all the right things to be working on and your employees are really productive, that they can actually, have an impact on the things they're working on so that's what we are spending our time on."
During the same conference, Pichai also referred to microeconomics and said that the company has become slower after an increase in the employee count. "The more we try to understand macroeconomics, the more we feel very uncertain about it. The macroeconomic performance is correlated to ad spend, consumer spend and so on." "Across everything we do, we can be slower to make decisions. You look at it end-to-end and figure out how to make the company 20 per cent more productive," the Google CEO said.
Google, just like any other tech company out there, hired a lot of employees after the pandemic but is dealing with a number of financial issues now. Earlier, Pichia warned employees who do not take their work seriously. He also said that people who do not take work seriously will need to face serious outcomes.
Pichai told employees to focus more on productivity. "There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have.[We need to] create a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer-focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity," he told employees in a memo sent back in August.
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Britain’s shopworkers and delivery drivers have been celebrated along with retail giants at the 27th annual Retail Week Awards sponsored by Salesforce.
The awards celebrate retail’s frontline heroes, biggest innovations and most successful businesses in what has been another challenging year for the sector, with Tesco, HelloFresh and ASOS being awarded top prizes during the sparkling London ceremony on 26 May.
And this year’s judging panel was made up of an impressive line-up of 15 experts, such as Liz Evans, Managing Director of Asda, John Lyttle, CEO of Boohoo, Manju Malhotra, CEO of Harvey Nichols and Pano Christou, CEO of Pret.
This year’s winners include:
Jhorvis Tyrell, a warehouse operative at Marks & Spencer in Castle Donington, Derby, won the American Express Distribution and Delivery Hero Award. Judges described his strength in overcoming challenges caused by long-term unemployment, a learning disability and visual impairment and the tragic deaths of his father and grandfather as a ‘beautiful story of human endeavour.’
The prize’s runner-up John Mark Brown was hailed a lifesaver for preventing a fire from engulfing a Co-op store and neighbouring buildings and businesses in in Alloway, near Ayr in Scotland. The delivery driver acted quickly to move a smoking delivery lorry away from the store’s delivery bay and neighbouring businesses and unhooked its trailer before it caught fire.
The Parcel Pending by Quadient Store Hero Award was awarded to M&S Falkirk store manager Brian Torley for leading his shop’s transformation into a top three M&S Foodhall whilst bringing his team and the community together following the traffic deaths of two colleagues and his sister.
And the winner of The Page Group Diversity Champion Award, EE store manager Prince Okoro, was singled out by judges for going ‘above and beyond’ in driving change across the business and ensuring his colleagues in Dalston, London, took part in initiatives to embrace the diversity aof their store’s local community.
Meanwhile Tesco fought off the competition to win the prestigious Microsoft Grocer of the Year Award. Judges said: “Tesco keeps reinventing itself and is now using Clubcard to deliver great results. It’s a data-driven, promotional transformation which is going down really well with customers and showing up in their increased market share.”
With sustainability and the race to net zero high on the global agenda, Co-op was awarded the Relex Responsible Retailer Award. Judges commented: “Responsibility is immersed in everything Co-op does and it’s just miles ahead of anybody else. It’s more aggressive in terms of plastic recycling and set the example when it comes to carbon neutrality.
ASOS was awarded the The Adyen Fashion Retailer of the Year Award. Judges said: “ASOS were our first choice for the way they have reinvented and moved forward over the last year. It’s an incredibly complex business model and with the integration of Topshop, they have saved a British Icon.”
Ascential’s Price & Promo Specialty Retailer was awarded to popular meal-kit company,Hello Fresh. A nod to the fact that the food delivery phenomenon is here to stay, given the pandemic’s lasting impact on changing consumer habits.
And The Very Group won The Salesforce Best Retailer over £250m, following a rapid growth in sales and customers during the pandemic, as well as The Salesforce Best Place to Work, with the online retailer now ranked as the best UK retailer for work-life balance by job site Glassdoor. Judges said: “They know who their customers are and they’re excellent at serving them. Their passionate commitment to their people also comes through loud and clear.”
Individual trophies were also presented to:
- The Okta Retail Activist: Jo Whitfield, chief executive of food at The Co-op
- The Retail Leader: Roger Whiteside, CEO of Greggs
- Outstanding Contribution to Retail: Theo Paphitis, Chair, Theo Paphitis Retail Group
Hanna Jackson, Retail Week Managing Director, commented: “The future of shopping is exciting, with new technology paving the way for more immersive experiences, and changing customer behaviour driving product and business model innovation. Our award winners show that UK retailers have remained focused on innovating their businesses, products and experiences despite another difficult year for the industry.”
The Retail Week Awards 2022, whose headline sponsor is Salesforce, is a symbol of excellence in the retail sector, providing a platform for industry-wide recognition and a celebration of outstanding work.
Full list of winners:
The Okta Retail Activist: Jo Whitfield, Chief Executive of Food at The Co-op
Retail Leader: Roger Whiteside, Greggs
The AlixPartners Outstanding Contribution to Retail Award: Theo Paphitis, Chair, Theo Paphitis Retail Group
The Microsoft Grocer of the year
- Winner: Tesco
- Silver: Marks & Spencer
The Adyen Fashion retailer of the year Award
- Winner: ASOS
- Silver: H&M U.K. & Ireland
Best retailer under £250m
- Winner: REISS
The Salesforce Best Retailer over £250m Award
- Winner: The Very Group
The Salesforce Best Place to Work Award
- Winner: The Very Group
Ascential’s Price & Promo Specialty retailer of the year
- Winner: HelloFresh
The Relex Responsible Retailer Award
- Winner: The Co-op
Best New Store Award
- Winner: Situ Live, Westfield Shopping Centre, London
- Silver: Eataly London
The EXL Customer Experience Award
- Winner: Screwfix Sprint
Best Own Brand Range or Product Award
- Winner: Simply Be – Own Brand Lingerie, N Brown
The Parcel Pending by Quadient Store Hero Award
- Winner: Brian Torley, Store Manager, M&S Falkirk
- Silver: Joanne Hammond, Store Manager, Poundland
- Silver: Steve Tappin, Store Manager, Holland & Barrett
The American Express Distribution and Delivery Hero Award
- Winner: Jhorvis Tyrell, Warehouse Operative, M&S
- Silver: John Mark Brown, Delivery Driver. The Co-Op
- Bronze: Andrew Wiseman, LGV Team Manager, Ocado Group
The SAP Head office hero Award
- Winner: People Team, New Look
The Page Group Diversity Champion Award
- Winner: Prince Okoro, Store Manager, EE
- Silver: Peter Batt, Divisional Managing Director, The Co-Op


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DoorDash is launching three new in-app safety tools for its delivery people, the company announced on Friday. The food delivery platform is introducing driving insights, expanding its Apple CarPlay integration to more states and adding speed limit notifications to its in-app navigation interface.
With the new driving insights feature, delivery people will learn about their individual driving habits. Using the same location information already collected from a delivery person’s phone, the Dasher app will now start to identify rapid changes in braking and acceleration. DoorDash believes that by providing these insights to their drivers, they can learn about their personal driving behaviors and promote safe driving practices.
Driving Insights are now available in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Miami, Charlotte, Palm Beach, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.
DoorDash started piloting Apple CarPlay integration for the Dasher app earlier this year in select markets, and is now rolling out to 17 U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., Des Moines (IA), Sarasota (FL), Little Rock (AR), El Paso (TX), Huntsville (TN), Toledo (OH), Grand Rapids (MI), Rochester (NY), Myrtle Beach (SC), Reno (NV) and Augusta (GA). With CarPlay, DoorDash drivers can sync their iPhone’s interface with their car’s infotainment systems and see the app’s navigation interface on their car’s built-in screens.
Although DoorDash has long shown the posted speed limit for a road to drivers, the company’s app will now add on-screen indicators that displays how their individual speed compares to the posted speed limit. The new feature is now available to all drivers who use in-app navigation.
Today’s announcement comes as DoorDash introduced a suite of safety features earlier this year. The company began reducing notifications sent to delivery people when they were driving, started prompting customers to not text delivery people while they were driving, launched a one-tap messaging system for delivery people to quickly send messages like “I’m on my way to the store” or “I’m waiting for for your order” and more.


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Sometimes it pays to have a pool.
Jim Battan, of West Linn, Oregon, has made revenue of $177,000 in less than two years renting out his pool through an app dubbed the “Airbnb of pools,” according to CNBC Make it. (The outlet said it verified the revenue through documentation.)
Swimply, a venture-backed startup founded in 2019, allows people to rent out their home pools by the hour. Hosts can require a minimum of hours when purchasing.
Battan told CNBC how he brings in the cash as a “pool provider,” from monitoring the chemicals to keeping it clean. He and his wife, Lisa, work on the side hustle.
“Unless you’re retired or don’t have a day job, it takes a lot of time to learn about pool chemistry and management,” he told the outlet. “I look at my pool chemicals probably five to 10 times a day.”
Battan added to CNBC Make It that he spent $110,000 on his pool initially and has spent about $37,000 in upkeep over the last 10 years.
Battan cites his love of luxury resorts for his success in bringing people in: He guessed 65% to 70% of his customers were repeat customers.
“My wife and I are very used to five-star luxury resorts, so we know what excellent customer service looks like,” Battan told CNBC Make It. “Part of that is ensuring all the needs are anticipated: responding appropriately to queries, greeting [guests] with a smile and making sure that all their needs are satisfied, and then disappearing.”
The reviews are enthusiastic, too. On the pool’s rental page, it appears that all of Battan’s 385+ reviews are five stars.
“This is more than just a pool it is a little retreat!” one Battan pool-renter wrote. “Located in the rolling farmland of West Linn, this pool is located on a large and private property… The hosts are wonderful!”
Because the home is rural, there are no HOA regulations to deal with, Battan added to the outlet. (Though one day, he added, the couple hopes to move to Portugal.)
Like outside, the Swimply competition is heating up. More hosts are joining the platform, and, Battan added, people have more options for scratching the swimming itch as they start traveling more than they did during the early pandemic.
Still, Swimply CEO and co-founder Bunim Laskin told the outlet revenue from bookings is up 100% since last year.
In December 2021, Swimply raised $40 million in funding, less than a year after pulling in $10 million in backing, per TechCrunch.
“As the word gets out about Swimply and we add additional hosts to the platform, we are also adding just as many additional users … Top pools will always be in demand,” he told CNBC Make It.


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G-20 Tourism Expo 2023
Representing Swosti Group of Hotels and Institution from Odisha at the G-20 Tourism Expo 2023 held in Jaipur and
organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, FCCI, and Department of Tourism, Government of Rajasthan,
I saw the top figures in governance, policymaking, and business converge on one stage to discuss the future of India's
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Altaba Inc, formerly known as Yahoo! Inc, said that it has settled three ongoing legal cases relating to Yahoo’s previously disclosed data breaches for $47 million, reports Reuters. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Altaba said the settlement "marks a significant milestone in cleaning up our contingent liabilities related to the Yahoo data breach." In 2016, Yahoo said at least 500 million accounts were hacked in 2014. The breach included data of names, email addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers and encrypted passwords of Yahoo customers. At the time, Yahoo said 'state-sponsored actors' were behind the attack, although it did not furnish any evidence. The same year, Yahoo reported that it discovered a breach from August 2013 which affected 1 billion of its users. Both breaches were revealed when talks were ongoing for Verizon to buy Yahoo! Inc. During the first disclosed data breach, Verizon had said that it had a ‘reasonable basis’ to believe the incident represented a material impact and said it may withdraw the $4.8 billion deal. The deal eventually went through, but Verizon cut the price by $350 million. After Verizon's acquisition was completed, Yahoo reported that the 2013 breach affected all of its 3 billion users, instead of 1 billion number it initially reported. Edit: The headline has been updated to remove the year 2014 since the 3 cases are across different years. The error is regretted.
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When we measure the success of a nation, we traditionally look to Gross Domestic Product, employment rates and inflation as key economic indicators. But what if there was another way to measure the true health of our economy, people and planet?
It’s a question Dr Katherine Trebeck, Political Economist and founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, is asking as she reimagines the entire economic system as we know it and leads a global movement in the process.
What is a wellbeing economy?
Dr Trebeck defines a wellbeing economy as an economy designed to serve people and the planet rather than the other way around.
“Today we see the environment and people as inputs into the economy. And the wellbeing economy idea flips that on its head and asks how the economy can be designed to meet the needs of communities and individuals around the world,” she said.
This mindset shift is bold and means rethinking how we measure our economic systems as well as production and consumption processes.
“It’s inherently thinking about what value is, what are the most important things that people really need, what matters most to them, and how the economy can be in service of that?”
Why we need a wellbeing economy
Dr Trebeck says redesigning our economic system is desperately needed because business as usual hasn’t delivered on enough fronts.
“We can’t keep using 20th century recipes and assuming if we just blindly grow the economy, that will lead to the outcomes people want. Whether it’s a reduction in poverty, good quality jobs, or increased living standards,” she says.
“We know that so often growth goes to those at the very top, those who have already got wealth, we’re not seeing it trickle down the way proponents of Carte Blanche growth claim.”
The ABC reports new research from the Australia Institute found increasing profits going to corporate Australia have accounted for more than two-thirds (69%) of the nation’s inflation problem.
That compared to 18 per cent related to the compensation of labour (wages and super), and just under 14 per cent for small business gross income.
A wellbeing economy would take a quality lens and instead look at what kind of growth was needed, for whom and how.
How are we positioned in Australia?
Governments around the world are starting to prioritise a wider set of economics measures, with Scotland recently appointing a Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy for the first time.
In Australia there’s been talk of a wellbeing budget at the Federal level with the treasury starting to map out a ‘matters’ statement, however Dr Trebeck says this is just the beginning.
“What will be key is whether measures will be used for upstream holistic policymaking to tackle some of the challenges Australia faces at their root cause, rather than spending so much money on downstream crisis acute service provision.”
This means rethinking what activity will we incentivise or power down and revisiting current regulations and business models.
“How will we generate economic activity from the community up, rather than hoping for this mythical idea of trickle down? How can everyone have good jobs that deliver a sense of meaning and purpose, and don’t just treat people as Just-In-Time inventory?”
Dr Trebeck says many businesses are already leading the way by committing to their local communities and creating production processes, which are in line with a circular economy while they wait for government policies to catch up.
“There are incredible organisations in Australia wanting to go on this journey with people and share with each other. Get involved, support them and be excited about this agenda, because it’s one of the most necessary conversations Australia needs to be having.”
Summit endorsing partner B-Lab Australia and New Zealand provides B-Corp certifications to businesses integrating social and environmental considerations into their business models.
Join Dr Trebeck at the Social Impact Summit on the 3rd and 4th of July.
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Electronics & Engineering Singapore Celebrates 60 Year Anniversary
Electronics & Engineering Pte Ltd (E&E)celebrates its 60 year anniversary this year and had their anniversary dinner at Shangrila Hotel Singapore on January 26th 2011. Since starting in 1951 it has grown stronger to a 60th anniversary this year.
It is not easy to stay a float in Sound system industry for so many years but E&E Singapore just did it. Artistic Controls salute and wish to congratulate E&E for it successfull days and many years to come.
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May 9, 2011 |
KOLKATA: When ITC forayed into lifestyle retailing and the stationery segments a decade ago, it did so with premium brands 'Paperkraft' notebooks and 'Wills Sport' apparel range and then launched mass-appeal brands 'Classmate' notebooks and 'John Players' menswear. The strategy paid off. Today, ITC tops the notebook market in the country and is a major player in apparel. Now, the tobacco-to-hotel conglomerate wants to replicate this top-down strategy-of entering a segment with a top-end brand and then launching one or more mass products-to grow its personal care and food businesses.
July 29, 2004 |
Ravi Naware, chief executive of ITC's foods division, started the foods business two-and-a-half years ago. Today, it is present in four segments: ready-to-eat meals, staples, confectionery and snack foods with brands like Aashirvaad, Kitchens of India, Mint-O, Candyman and Sunfeast. Mr Naware spoke to Asha Rai on issues relating to ITC's food foray. Excerpts: Did ITC get into foods because its surplus cash had to be deployed profitably, or because it intrinsically believes food is a great business story?
April 16, 2007 |
NEW DELHI: For six years there have been no fullstops in ITC. Now, fresh from upgrading a 30-year relationship with Starwood Hotels & Resorts from the Sheraton badge to the top-of-the-line Luxury Collection tag for his seven biggest metro hotels, ITC chairman YC Deveshwar can add another line to his three mantras "From seed to stomach", "From fibre to fashion" and "From tree to text". Dare we suggest, "From rural to royal?" or " From livelihood to luxury"?
July 30, 2014 |
KOlKATA: The diversified ITC Group has reported a 16% increase in quarterly profits, helped by higher cigarette prices and robust performance of its agri-business. The tobacco-to-hospitality conglomerate on Tuesday said net profit for first quarter ended June stood at Rs 2,186 crore compared with Rs 1,891 crore in the year-ago quarter. Net sales during the period increased by 25% from a year ago to Rs 9,164 crore. ITC's higher cigarette prices helped cushion the impact of lower cigarette sales volume.
August 27, 2010
By Janat Shah & Debabrata Ghosh The question of what makes supply chain leaders different from the average performers in an industry has often confounded researchers and practitioners alike. Through our research, we found a common underlying observation that the leaders 'converse' in a different language than their competitors. While the average performers fret over the problems of poor infrastructure, unorganised nature of transportation, warehousing and long turnaround time at ports in India, supply chain leaders think differently.
April 22, 2011 |
PUNE | BANGALORE: Food companies' rush to capitalise on the multigrain 'fever' is giving a new air of respectability to coarse cereals , once known as the poor man's staple. The market for jowar, bajra and ragi is witnessing a turnaround never seen before as urban Indians begin to take a more active interest in what comes off their plate. Jowar, or sorghum, is the biggest beneficiary. Price of this cereal — seen lower down the scale from wheat until a few years ago — has tripled in the past three fiscals, beating even its superior cousin in the game.
October 19, 2012 |
KOLKATA: ITC Ltd reported 21.2% jump in net profit at Rs 1836.42 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, on back of 19.6% growth in net sales at Rs 7146 crore. The Kolkata-based marketer's non-cigarette FMCG business, comprising of packaged food, personal care, lifestyle retail and stationery products, registered robust revenue growth of 26.4% at Rs 1690 crore and reduced losses by 45% at Rs 30.31 crore over same period last year. boosting the company's over-all profitability.
July 2, 2014 |
NEW DELHI: Anuradha Narsimhan recently quit as marketing head at Britannia, the country's second-largest biscuit maker, to join A Mahendran's consumer start-up. In return, she gets a sizeable chunk of sweat equity as part of compensation. The package could be close to Rs 15 crore, assuming certain milestones are met, said a person aware of the details. The company being set up by former Godrej Consumer Products managing director Mahendran is funded by Goldman Sachs and Mitsui Global Investment and is working on a range of products such as chocolates, snacks and beverages.
July 5, 2003 |
NEW DELHI: The food industry is finding it hard to swallow shrinking margins and growing competition. As a result, the market is expecting a shakeout and a host of mergers and acquisitions over the next few months, with both brands and food divisions changing hands. Companies looking for a good deal include US multinationals Cargill, Bunge and ConAgra, along with Indian tobacco major ITC. According to industry insiders, they are all waiting to either buy out a competitor to ease pressure or exit the business.
March 30, 2010 |
Here is one of modern retail's best-kept secrets. The real game is not what you sell but how you keep the money moving. More than anything, cheap trade credit has bankrolled the country's retailing explosion. ET helps you join the dots. Trade credit is pretty straightforward. In everyday buying and selling, there isn't enough ready cash for every bill. People understand this. So when Company A buys from Company B, it routinely asks for some time to pay. This ranges from a week, fortnight, three weeks, to one month or more.


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Oppo is going to bring a new smartphone of their A series to the market soon.
The Oppo A16 has recently published on the US FCC certification site.
From there, its known the battery capacity and model number of the phone, besides the camera module of the phone has come to the fore.
Our guess is that the Oppo A16 phone will launch in low mid range.
Let’s find out what information came up from the certification site about this upcoming phone from Oppo.
According to the FCC certification site, the model number of the Oppo A16 phone is CPH2269.
The typical battery capacity of this phone is 4,980 mAh. But it will market as 5,000 mAh battery.
It is not known that this phone will support fast charging or not.
However, fast charging technology is present in most of the current phones, so that the phone will come with this technology.
Again, the design of the back panel of the Oppo A16 has known from there.
Although its display, other information including the processor is still unknown.
However, we can expect that soon this phone will seen on other certification sites and its specifications will known from there.


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Flying Cars Could Hit the Skies by 2018
Flying Cars Could Hit the Skies by 2018
The PAL-V is the world's first flying car to hit the consumer market and these flying cars could hit the skies by 2018.
The PAL-V is not the only flying car company that is planning to get airborne in the next couple of years as companies such as AeroMobil, and Terrafugia are also planning to launch their own versions of these futuristic aero-vehicles.
Flying cars by 2018
The Personal Air Land Vehicle (PAL-V) Liberty is likely to be the first flying car intended for general adoption and real world application.
The first PAL-V model was developed in 2012 and the company plans to deliver its first car by the end of 2018. Within the first year of production they hope to produce 50 to 100 models and a further few hundred by 2020.
The planned price is €299,000 EUR ($335,250 USD) for the sport version and €499,000 EUR ($559,500 USD) for the first edition.
Pilots Licence Required
Cost isn’t the only consideration if you are contemplating buying a flying car. Future customers will need to acquire both a flying licence and a driving license before they can use the vehicle.
Each car will be required to undergo 150 hours of flight testing before being approved by regulators and the industry.
The PAL-V is only one of many flying cars initiatives in development at the moment. As the MyVehicle.ie blog posted before, Toyota is planning to bring a flying car to the 2020 Toyko Olympics although the end goal for the Toyota model may be just to carry the Olympic torch, rather than being destined for mass production.
AeroMobil, and Terrafugia both use propulsion systems that are found on regular aeroplanes as opposed to the Pal-V’s gyrocopter technology for take off. Aeromobil are already accepting pre-orders for 2020, while Terrafugia is expected to deliver their first aircraft in 2019.
It is looking very likely that flying cars will be the future of transport and this year, 2017 will be a breakthrough year for flying cars. With these new flying cars, it would greatly decrease traffic congestion, cut down airport flight times and provide alternatives for people living a long way from work. Flying cars would also become a means of transport in countries where there is a lack the infrastructure for consistent large scale flights.
Obstacles to be overcome first
Not everyone is so sure about flying cars though. Elon Musk who is the founder of Tesla isn’t so sure flying cars are the future of transport. He told Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin:
“Obviously, I like flying things, but it’s difficult to imagine the flying car becoming a scalable solution.”
Some of the main criticisms of the flying car concept is the fact that it would need to produce a lot of down force to stay in the sky. This down force inevitably produces a lot of noise and wind turbulence and may well be more dangerous than road cars.
If a flying car was to be involved in an accident or have some other catastrophic failure, passengers and debris could quite literally end up falling from the sky. The PAL-V has handled the the first issue with its gyrocopter, which keeps speed in check and is a key safety feature.
Before we see flying cars in an airspace near us, there are some major obstacles the industry needs to overcome first. While the interest in these new futuristic aircraft is encouraging, we shouldn’t take the acceptance of any pre-orders for flying cars as being interchangeable with government policy or even approval.
(As always, if you or a family member are considering buying a used car, don’t buy until you run a car check report with MyVehicle.ie where you will find out the true history of the vehicle.)
Justin Kavanagh is a recognised leader in automotive intelligence and vehicle data supply to the entire motor industry. He has almost 20 years experience in building systems from the ground up. As the Managing Director of Vehicle Management System, he understands the need and importance of trustworthy and reliable vehicle history and advice to both the trade and the public.
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The German based automaker BMW has brought its new M235i to the 2014 Detroit Motor Show, where the model has made its local debut.
Officially unveiled just a few months ago, the brand new BMW M235i Coupe is entering our news once again, this time with the carmaker making its public debut at NAIAS. The model in question is the sportiest version of the new 2-Series range, being priced from 44,025 USD in the United States. BMW says that the 2-Series is 72 mm longer, 32 mm wider and it has a 30 mm longer wheelbase than the previous 1-Series Coupe. Its trunk capacity stands at 390 liters.
The BMW M235i is taking its power from a 3.0 liter TwinPower Turbo inline-six gasoline burner, producing a total output of 326 HP (240 kW) and 450 Nm (332 lb-ft) of torque. The 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) sprint in this model takes just 4.8 seconds with the optional 8-speed automatic transmission or 5.0 seconds with the 6-speed manual. Top speed has been electronically limited to 250 km/h (155 mph). Just like we said above, prices for the brand new BMW M235i Coupe have been set at 44,025 USD, over-seas.


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On 13th June 2012 Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has announced in 2012 World Worldwide Developers Conferencethat the App Store of Apple iOS has finally hit the download mark of 30 billion. He also mentioned that Apple has paid out $3 billion to the App developers by this time for developing app for their operating system.
Tim Cook also stated that Apple has become the leader in app market as it already has got more than 400 million accounts which are active and registered with credit card to the iTunes Store. So, the app store has become the place from where Apple has been making huge money being the largest ever holder of customer credit details. It also indicates the safety and risk free online app store services of Apple for which such a huge number of people all over the world are getting connected with them.
In spite of being the most popular online app store Apple doesn’t provide access to all countries but as Tim Cook stated, the Apple App Store will expand to some extent and as a result 32 new countries will be added to the app store list. So, very soon the total number of nations which will have access over Apple App Store will be 155 in total.
Everyone especially fan boys were excited about the revelation of Apple’s ultra-modern Retina Display of MacBook pro and spring release of iOS 6 but the speech of Apple’s CEO not only make the fans happy but also make the developers, competitors and market observers interested about the next projects of Apple. So, to some extent it can be said that the World Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 has brought something positive for all from the top innovators of technology world including Apple. Now everything is depending on time. Let’s see what happens.


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Recently, Xiaomi has been introduced its latest Xiaomi 13 series smartphone in China. And now, Company confirmed that there is one more variant in the 13 series that will soon join- Xiaomi called this Xiaomi 13 Ultra. The smartphone will definitely be more expensive than the 13 Pro model.
Leaks and rumors have already started to surface on the internet about the upcoming Xiaomi 13 Ultra, which suggests some interesting details.
Xiaomi 13 Ultra- all rumors so far
So, it has already been confirmed Xiaomi 13 Ultra will soon join the 13 series. Leaks suggest that the upcoming Xiaomi 13 ultra will feature the next level of periscope zoom camera. According to the tipster Kartikey Singh, Xioami’s upcoming Xiaomi 13 Ultra will feature an improved and latest periscope lens on the rear.
Furthermore, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra will be armed with the best photographic capabilities that “will shock everyone”, said tipster Kartikeya Singh. Its predecessor Xiaomi 12s Ultra also has some impressive camera specs such as Sony’s latest IMX989 1-inch camera. So, it is much more expected to see the successor with a more improved camera and new photographic capabilities.
Currently, in the smartphone market, Samsung has a monopoly with its superior zoom lenses but in the upcoming time, we might get to see a worthy competitor. Definitely, Xiaomi is trying to bring more improved periscope cameras with more superior quality and clarity which will surpass Samsung’s zoom lenses. Moreover, tipster Kartikey Singh said that “Since last 2 years no-one was able to challenge Samsung in long magnification zoom which made Samsung lazy and they are using the same hardware for 3 generations now but next year things will start changing and this monopoly will come to an end”.
Xiaomi 13 Ultra Rumored Specs
- 6.9″ AMOLED display, 3200 X 1440 resolution
- 50MP + 50MP + 12MP + 12MP
- 12GB of RAM and 256GB of Storage
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
- 32MP Selfie Camera
- 5,500mAh battery
- In-display fingerprint sensor
As of now, we don’t have any details about the Xiaomi 13 Ultra smartphone such as when the smartphone will hit the market. which specifications does it hold? etc. The only option we have is to wait for an official announcement.
Abhinav has been writing about technology for over 2 years now. He holds a degree in Engineering and is obsessed about smartphones, Laptops, and wearables. He can always be seen scrolling on Twitter and Instagram while he isn’t working.


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A British model posted photos of her 'nightmare' experience shopping for bikinis in a high street shop.
Many women will relate to Sonny Turner's plight. She shared a recent trip that left her frustrated by the lack of options for women of her body type.
Sonny posted some photos to Instagram that capture her issue with a black bikini she'd found. She said it highlighted "the reality of shopping as a thick/plus-size woman".
"Changing rooms can be scary places," Sonny wrote. "I am wearing the largest size from one of the most popular high street stores sells in bikinis which is 12-14 [8-10 US size]."
"High street store bikinis do not cater for women of my body type. Majority of online stores don't either. NO ONE GETS IT, so for any upcoming designers I got come tips for u."
Sonny added that some women need underwire, cup sizes that correlate to bra sizes, and better coverage.
"We need straps that aren't so tight it's as thought our neck is about to snap off," she added. "We need bikini bottoms that don't give us wedgies when we walk."
Sonny talked to Mashable about her experience: "High street shops only have like three sizes which is ridiculous as we live in 2017 there's more than 3 body types."
She also said that shopping made her feel "abnormal" and that social expectations are warped.
Sonny added: "You don't have to be a plus size woman to have bikini struggles. Make clothes for all sizes and bodies."
Other lines include tropical print patterns, striped Aztec-style designs, and a tasseled bikini top. The range is called '2 Sizes Bigger'.