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Watch NVIDIA’s keynote at CES 2016 – the company is getting into super-computers for self-driving cars
NVIDIA proved over the years that the company is not just about making graphics chips but it’s also capable of steering into different directions. The brand name can be found on some PC chipsets, console graphics and even gaming tablets (NVIDIA Shield) but in the near future, NVIDIA will be a name for a super-computer for self-driving cars.
This year CES 2016, the company unveiled its project aimed to develop the fast-pacing self-driving cars technology. You can watch the full video stream below.


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The Black Matte New Tesla Roadster
I am totally floored by this picture of the new Tesla Roadster in black matte. I am truly stunned when I look at it. Words that come to mind are powerful, majestic, eye-catching, stealthy, futuristic, iconic, and anything else that represents a marvelous wonder of technology.
I thought the Cybertruck in black matte was the Batmobile, but I am changing my mind after seeing this new Tesla Roadster. It looks absolutely incredible.
Tesla has made reservations for this car available and even done this in multiple countries, but the company has been very quiet about it as of late.
Perhaps someone should ask Elon Musk on X.com when Tesla plans to release the new Tesla Roadster, and we'll see if he responds with "two weeks". That was his response earlier today when asked when customers would be able to use FSD version 12.
The New Tesla Roadster is a marvel of technology - and I believe it will be even more of a marvel than the Cybertruck, which has been getting a ton of attention and enthusiasm lately.
You May Also Be Interested In: Elon Musk - about two weeks until customers can use FSD 12.
Why Tesla Needs To Release This Car
Tesla needs to release this car - but they don't need to do it right now. The Cybertruck is doing a great job adding free advertising and a "halo" effect to Tesla as a company.
Once the Cybertruck hype dies down over the next year or so, the new Tesla Roadster being released will cause the same responses that the Cybertruck is doing and people will want to see it - especially if a black matte Tesla Roadster drives around like this one.
Here are the specs of the new Tesla Roadster:
- Range: 620 miles
- Reservation Price: $50,000
- Total Price: $250,000 (more with the SpaceX rocket)
- Speed: 250 miles per hour (or more)
- 0-60 mph: 1.9 seconds
- Seats: 4 people
- Drive: All-Wheel Drive
- Wheel Torque: 10,000 Nm
This is a very fast and aero-dynamic car. If you listened to the Joe Rogan podcast from a few years ago, Joe asked Elon about the Tesla Roadster coming up, and Elon said it would have an option for a SpaceX rocket.
This option would remove the back seat and put the rocket in the back where the seats would have been. This will allow a 0-60 mph time of probably around 1.2 seconds, and Elon said that the car would even hover a couple feet off of the ground.
Elon Musk was asked about when it would release a few years ago, and said that the Cybertruck, Model Y ramp, and other things would come first and that the new Roadster would be dessert. He said it will have a Plaid power train and will have a very advanced battery.
I'm really looking forward to this releasing. I think we'll start to get more news about it once the Cybertruck has ramped.
In Other Tesla News: The windshield wiper on the Cybertruck is HUGE.
What do you think about this black matte New Tesla Roadster? Would you get one if you can afford it?
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Everyone is curious to see what our intrepid team of brexiteers will come up with. Will they go for the Norway option, with free market access, but free movement of people budget contributions and no input into regulations (not so much take back control, but give up control). That doesn’t sound like it is what people voted for.
Maybe we want the Switzerland option, with free movement of people and a lack of access for the banking sector and services — well that could screw London quite badly and it isn’t what people voted for.
How about the Canada option? Well CETA was on the way as a comprehensive trade agreement with the EU, but it isn’t in force yet, and it needs completely rewriting because if we leave we would probably want to take our portion of the tonnage of potted shrimp and suchlike with us (this is what the Article 50 negotiations are going to be about, carving out the UK portion of existing trade agreements). CETA doesn’t include services and took years to put together, and now it is all wrong. It isn’t a good template to use to draw up a UK/EU trade agreement.
How about the default, full Brexit to WTO rules? Well that means tariffs and it means the EU must impose tariffs on us or they can’t impose tariffs on other WTO members because they have to give all WTO members the status of their most favoured nation. We can’t be more favoured than Singapore for example or any external tariffs the EU is imposing on Singapore become illegal.
You might think that we have run out of options at this point, but no! There is one left. With the Unilateral Continuity option we just leave the EU but say we want to have informal tariff free trade with the EU, whilst reserving the right to impose tariffs elsewhere if we want to. This is completely contrary to the principals of global trade since the 1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and puts us in an extremely exclusive group of countries. I call this the Somalia option.


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Caguas partners with Google my Business to benefit town’s small operations
The Municipality of Caguas announced the integration of the town’s small and medium-sized businesses into the Google My Business platform to guarantee greater visibility for them in the digital universe, in addition to boosting the city’s economy.
Mayor William Miranda-Torres said the initiative’s goal is to increase sales for municipal businesses by 1%, which would represent $50 million in new revenue that, among other benefits, would allow the “sustainability and creation of new jobs and a technological presence that ensures a promising future for Caguas.”
During a presentation, Miranda-Torres explained that during the COVID-19 emergency — and prior to that, Hurricane María — online tools such as videoconferences, sales, consultations, education, and remote work, “became very relevance to uphold the economy, which allowed that a large part of the businesses could keep their operation in the new normal that surprised us at the beginning of 2020.”
Commercial activity generated about $5 billion in Caguas in 2020, “a figure that will undoubtedly increase with this new initiative to boost commercial visibility,” he added.
This integration with Google my Business, coordinated by the municipal Economic Development office, formalizes the presence of the town’s businesses in the two most important search platforms: Google Search and Google Maps, whose metrics reflect that four out of five people turn to these search engines to find local information.
Initially, there will be 2,500 businesses listed, but joining the Google my Business program will be open to any operation in Caguas, town officials said.
“We started the project by researching the digital reality of the city’s businesses. We established whether they have an account on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, if they have a website, as well as if they have created and optimized their Google My Business account,” said Zamia Baerga, the town’s Economic Development secretary.
“We’ll provide each business with their information, and we will offer 12 free seminars during this year for them to learn more about the existing platforms and strategies to increase their clientele and, finally, we’ll create or improve their listing on Google My business,” she said.
Meanwhile, Pedro Juan Hernández, president of Digital Presencial LLC, the company that is in charge of the implementation, said “the fact that a business has its data correctly integrated into the platform significantly increases its opportunity to expand its clientele, sales and profitability.”
“However, more than 60% of entrepreneurs have not been able to learn or take the time to integrate the data of their businesses, losing a great opportunity. So, we’ll take care of creating, updating and optimizing the information of all of the businesses that are registered at the municipal level free of charge.”
Exact geolocation, hours of service, phones, images, videos, offers and keywords are being uploaded by each business, improving its position in the most important search engine globally, he added.


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Graph databases have had it pretty good the past year or so. Some highlights since the end of 2013 include:
- Gartner for the first time allowed graph databases to be included in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management System (ODBMS).
- Graph database management systems saw a more than 250 percent increase between January 2013 and January 2014, outperforming other NoSQL database categories, according to DB-Engines.
- Forrester Research reported that graph databases will reach over 25 percent of all enterprises by 2017.
- Talk about big names getting into the action, with Google releasing Cayley, an open source graph database, and companies like Oracle, SAP, and IBM throwing somewhat wider nets into this ocean. Meanwhile, players that already built their street credibility in the space, including Ontotext and Neo Technology, saw new releases or made updates to recent releases.
Neo Technology, in fact, has had its own good year on a number of counts. For one thing, it was included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management System, and also named by the research firm to its list of Cool Vendors in DBMS, 2014. It was dubbed by DB-Engines the leading system in the Graph DBMS category of database management systems, ranking 23 out of 210 systems. InfoWorld recognized it for a 2015 Technology of the Year award, too. And $20 million in Series C funding came its way, as well.
The vendor also announced early in January that it just closed its strongest year yet, reflected by its highest number of new customer acquisitions and 120 percent annual recurring revenue growth over 2013. A major product release in 2013, Neo4j 2.0, which hit 500,000 downloads – including an update late last year for speed and scalability – also helped propel the company forward. Neo Technology cites among its customers Walmart, which is looking at data from the graph perspective and running collaborative filtering algorithms in real time to provide personalized recommendation experiences for users. Also in the mix is eBay, Earthlink, UBS, CenturyLink, Pitney Bowes, Cisco, Medium, CrunchBase, Polyvore, Elementum and Zephyr Health. (See our story Graph Databases have Impact on Healthcare Sector here, for a look at how Zephyr is leveraging graph databases as the healthcare and life sciences industry begins to take greater advantage of the technology.)
Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem says the growing market for graph databases is in part a response to internal pressures that build up every day at organizations – pressures that require them to get more value out of the relationships in high-volume and high-velocity datasets.
“One thing we see that is tangibly happening is that datasets people work with of course get bigger, and also we see clearly that connection between entities, so the connected datasets, are exploding in size,” he says, regarding internal pressures faced by many businesses. “That huge explosion in the datasets that people handle exerts a huge force of pressure on existing infrastructure.”
Just take the case of IT operations/network management in enterprises and telcos, brimming with data flowing through from various IT infrastructure components – switches, routers, hubs, and so on. It’s critical that IT leaders understand how these entities all relate to each other so that they can make sense of the data and take appropriate action. For instance, if alerts on a monitoring dashboard light up for dozens of servers, do they have an efficient way of knowing that all that hardware has failed at the same time because it’s all connected to a firewall that is connected to a power supply unit that went down and took the firewall with it? Or do they have to plough through mountains of individual reports and chase down a bunch of dead ends before the relationships become clear?
That was a tricky enough issue to deal with a decade ago when an enterprise data center for a global business might have 1,000 servers. But how much more difficult is that problem to deal with today when that same business has grown to encompass thousands of physical and virtual servers. “Imagine,” Eifrem says, “if you are the operations person trying to manage what probably amounts to 50 billion connections.” If you can in real time see the dependencies between that power supply, that firewall, and those servers, the root cause of the problem is more immediately obvious, as is what needs to be done to fix it.
Another use case that enterprises have to deal with internally relates to Master Data Management, such as modeling organizational hierarchies. That world has changed a great deal in the last couple of decades; instead of single reporting lines to a manager, today’s workplace is a more networked environment, with individuals taking on multiple roles and projects, and moving seamlessly around the business. “If you were writing software for internal HR systems 20 years ago, your dataset would be a lot smaller in the number of connections than it would be today, even if your business has the same number of people,” he says.
The other force bringing attention to graph databases is competitive pressure, he believes. “Graphs,” says Eifrem, “are eating the world.” There’s a reason for that, which is that products that use relationships and connections in data typically can drive a more nuanced view of the world, and that can lead to better value for the business and its customers.
Neo Technology has seen that occur for its own customers, including in the online dating realm where social connections play a role. While other matchup sites using relational database technology might be able to look out a couple of hops in the social graph to make a potential love connection, a graph database can look dozens of hops out to recommend the best potential partners. All things otherwise being equal, he says, the site that provides the best matching algorithms that can leverage all those connective data tissues wins.
Graph Databases Reach Out
Neo4j stores data in nodes connected by directed, typed relationships with properties on both – also known as a property graph; users are able to efficiently store, handle, and query highly connected elements in their data models. But even as graph databases have extended their reach to support use cases like the ones above, and been picked up by some big, brand name companies, Eifrem wants to see the technology adoption lifecycle “go beyond the ‘alpha geeks’ and drive to the late majority market.”
That’s going to require making the technology easier to use for that community, even though the company’s launch of Version 2.0 took many steps in that direction. It was “a super, super-important release for us,” says Eifrem. The new version made labels a part of the data model so that users could tag and index data to more effectively understand relationships between datasets. It included enhancements to its Cypher declarative query language that is used to develop Neo4j graph applications, along with an interactive browser and query environment with a visual interface for data discovery. Six months after its release, Neo4j’s user community size doubled, he says, “all because of the ease of use features.”
Still, he sees incremental work to continue “to polish up the surface, documentation and really importantly, the integration with frameworks, with tooling, and just be part of the normal technology they use,” he says. There’s room to get Neo4j (and presumably other graph database technology) better integrated into the well-used Microsoft stack, for instance:
“There’s no drop-down in Visual Studio for Neo4j to click, click, and off you go,” he says by way of example, nor is there a way to automatically authenticate Neo4J users in Active Directory. “Those are the types of things we think need to happen with graph databases, not to get to [Forrester’s predicted] 25 percent [enterprise penetration] by 2017 mark but to get to 100 percent,” he says.
While the 2.1 and 2.2 updates to Neo4j that followed the 2.0 release were more “inside-the-engine” focused, emphasizing data import, performance, and scalability, Eifrem says he’s looking forward to updates in 2015 that will again put an emphasis on ease of use. For example, the company will laser in on making sure that it is as convenient as possible to write Cypher applications in your programming language of choice. “We think this is going to be a significant step up in terms of usability,” he says.
“Now we are getting to scale. If we roll out these kinds of improvements to significantly reduce friction, that means tens of thousands of new users. That rolls into hundreds or thousands of new enterprises using us, which is pretty exciting.”
There will be challenges in getting the word out to the world about how important graph databases can be, he admits. So 2015 also will be a year of working to “make sure the world understands how valuable it is to take existing applications and re-imagine them from a graph perspective to gain a big advantage, or build completely new products and services based on graphs.”


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Long gone are the days when a smartphone was just another technological fad. For a modern person it is as essential and crucial as a pair of shoes or a toothbrush – an integral part of our life. That’s why the common fear is to lose or break your precious device. After the shattered screens the liquid damage appears to be the second universal cause of smartphone malfunctioning. It has been estimated that in 2016 more than 900.000 devices got damaged by liquids daily.
The industry has acknowledged the issue long ago and came up with two basic solutions. The first one is strictly mechanical. Some manufacturers use rubbery insulators or gaskets to keep the device waterproof. Samsung, for instance, chose to design Galaxy S7 as a completely sealed unit. This approach, however, leaves much to be desired, as it makes repair and maintenance of such devices somewhat problematic. The second solution is nano- or chemical vapor coating, spearheaded by such companies as HzO and P2i. The trick is to coat the device with an extremely thin layer of a water repellent chemical compound. When water touches the surface it separates into droplets that easily roll off. This makes the phone water resistant but not completely waterproof. In other words you still can’t take such a device to the bath, at least not yet.
The future of nano-coating is brighter than it may seem. P2i, for instance, have been a major player in the field since 2011. They are already backed by Lenovo, Huawei, Motorola and Nokia. Now they are working on a new barrier coating that can be applied onto the circuit board and the battery of a smartphone, making the device truly watertight. We should see the first handsets utilizing the improved formula as soon as 2018. If it proves to be a success – such companies as Samsung, HTC and LG will be eager to opt for it. P2i have announced recently that even Apple showed some interest in their technology. Last year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were the first water resistant handsets from the tech giant, which proves once again that Apple means business.
The adoption of the technology can create a positive resonance industry wise as it will eliminate the need of mechanical protection and untie the hands of the designers. The 2018’s Samsung Galaxy S9, for instance, could see a major redesign as there would be no need for a sealed housing. We could also see the return of removable batteries on the industry’s flagmans. It should be noted, however, that the technology is still pretty expensive, so there’s no chance to see coated budget models in the nearest future. Anyway, whether it will be a P2i’s nano-coating or an analog it is safe to say that your favorite smartphone manufacturer is doing everything they can to provide you with an ultimate bathtub experience.


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Shares of Chinese live-streaming platform operator Scienjoy Holding Corp. (SJ 0.37%) were trading more than 55% higher as of 11:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday after the company announced a new strategic alliance with Snipp Interactive (SNIP.F 0.40%).
Scienjoy is partnering with Snipp, which helps its corporate clients run their loyalty and rewards programs, to develop two major initiatives. The first will be a new rewards system that will enable Scienjoy broadcasters and users to earn more points on its platform, which they can then exchange for digital awards.
Scienjoy and Snipp will also explore ways to allow Scienjoy users to create their own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are digital files such as art, video, and audio, stored on a blockchain -- the same digital ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies.
The overall goal is to enable Scienjoy users to use the points they acquire through the new rewards system to purchase NFTs made from snippets of their favorite broadcasters' live-streams.
"With approximately 250 million users and 300,000 broadcasters across our ecosystem, we are well-positioned to help our partners increase their outreach efficacy," Victor He, chairman and CEO of Scienjoy, said in a statement.
The steep gains of Scienjoy and Snipp, which was also up by more than 23% Tuesday morning, were likely fueled by the NFT news. Investors have been pouring money into NFT stocks as the market for the digital assets has exploded in recent months.
However, NFTs are a very new and risky asset class. Most NFT-related stocks have been incredibly volatile, and I would expect the same from Scienjoy, so invest with caution.


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Hey Chipotle lovers, a new menu item will bring a little more olé to your favorite Chipotle dish!
Pollo Asado, a new grilled chicken option, will be introduced to Chipotle restaurants in the United States and Canada starting on March 13 (Canada) and March 14 (U.S.). It is the first new chicken addition to the brand in 29 years. The Pollo Asado is grilled and seared, tossed in a spice blend, tangy marinade, freshly squeezed lime, and cilantro.
The Pollo Asado was initially tested at Chipotle restaurants in Sacramento and Cincinnati, with customer feedback on par with the success of Chipotle’s introduction of their smoked brisket. Chipotle exceeded the growth of analysts’ expectations with their smoked brisket. In the most recent quarter, Chipotle saw a jump of 15.2% in sales compared to the expected growth of 14.8%.
With recent supply chain issues and price hikes of beef, avocados, labor, and transportation, Chipotle CEO Jack Hartung says there is room to raise prices, although he hopes to avoid increases. “We have never had resistance when we raise prices, and we hope to never find out we went a little too far,” Hartung told Yahoo Finance.
Those who want to give Chipotle’s new chicken offering a try will pay about .65¢ more than their original chicken offering, with the average price of a Pollo Asado entreé at $9.11.
Chipotle is celebrating its new chicken with zero delivery fees on Pollo Asado orders made through the Chipotle app and Chipotle.com from March 14 through March 20 in the United States.
“Chicken is easily our most popular protein, with many of our most loyal Chipotle customers ordering it the majority of the time,” Chris Brandt, Chipotle’s chief marketing officer, said in a statement.


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Vectornate USA Relocates Global Headquarters to East Windsor Township
Published on July 18, 2022
FOR RELEASE: July 18, 2022
Mayor Janice S. Mironov, surrounded by Council Members and Company Executives, announced Vectornate USA has relocated their global headquarters from Mahwah, New Jersey to a 56,860 square foot facility and campus at 493 Old Trenton Road. Vectornate USA, a South Korean-based manufacturer and distributer of an array of medical diagnostic products, is working towards bringing manufacturing from overseas to New Jersey to produce diagnostic products made 100% in the USA. The company has already added 20 employees to the local economy, with plans to add additional jobs.
Mayor Mironov stated, “We welcome Vectornate USA to our globally-based and technologically advanced business community which already calls East Windsor home. The decision to relocate their global headquarters and make a major investment in East Windsor Township will generate tax revenue and create additional high-growth job opportunities in the community. Vectornate USA’s relocation demonstrates once again the tremendous attraction of the Township for research and innovation companies.”
Mayor Mironov added, “East Windsor has successfully attracted another international company due to our strategic central location, excellent access to transportation, highly skilled workforce and a business-friendly hands-on local government environment that responds to the needs of the business community.”
Vectornate USA, founded in South Korea in 1991, is a manufacturer and distributer of several brands, most notably MedSchenker and Vectorfog. The company will continue to manufacture and distribute an array of medical diagnostic products including their trademark Smart Transport Medium offering faster and more accurate results in medical sampling and swabs as well as their patented fogger machines which serve the healthcare, agriculture, pest control and restoration industries. Vectornate USA also produces plasma disinfectors, medical collection kits, lab supplies, and diagnostic machines for laboratory slides.
Mayor Janice S. Mironov and Council Members join Vectornate USA executives to cut the ribbon celebrating the opening of their new global headquarters facility in East Windsor Township. Pictured (from left to right) are: Council Member John Zoller; Council Member Marc Lippman; Walter Garvey, Vectornate USA Sales Director; Mayor Janice Mironov; Sean Yeom, Vectornate USA President; Amin Rojas, Vectornate USA Manager of Human Resources, and Deputy Mayor Peter Yeager.


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It’s only July, but mergers and acquisitions in the media, information, marketing, software and tech-enabled services sectors are on track to surpass 2016 and 2017 full-year levels.
That’s according to JEGI, which counted 950 transactions during the first half of 2018.
Excluding the Time Warner and Twenty-First Century Fox mega-deals, those transactions are worth roughly $140 billion, the New York City-based investment bank estimates.
Relative to recent years, transaction volume during the first half of 2018 declined modestly, relative to recent years, while transaction value increased dramatically.
Indeed, transaction value during the first half of the year increased a whopping 43%, compared to the same period in 2017.
Among other factors, a notable increase in the number of large-cap transactions (worth more than $1 billion) was responsible for the uptick in value, year-over-year.
Yet by JEGI's reckoning, the first half of 2017 was an “easy comp” to beat in terms of transaction value, given the quiet M&A market following the shocking 2016 presidential election results.
Among other notable transactions that took place earlier this year, Thomson Reuter divested a majority stake in its largest, but low-growth Financial and Risk business unit to a consortium of investors led by Blackstone.
With an implied enterprise value of $20 billion, JEGI saw the deal as underscoring two key market trends: the degree to which mature companies are driven to reorganize for future growth; and the extent to which private-equity firms enable large-scale divestiture and reorganizations.
Signaling big shifts in the digital-media food chain, 2018 also saw the recently approved AT&T/Time Warner transaction, along with Comcast and Disney’s ongoing battle for Twenty-First Century Fox.
AT&T, of course, also dropped $2 billion on AppNexus, a top programmatic advertising platform.
No matter how bold they might appear, JEGI sees the recent moves by AT&T and Comcast as highly defensive, reflective of smartphone saturation, pricing pressure for carrier and cable services, and intensifying competition from Netflix, Amazon and others content streamers.
Put another way, JEGI believes ]AT&T and Comcast are being forced to cross industry lines in search of growth from digital advertising.
Also of note, transactions in the database and information services sector were down dramatically, partly due to heightened concerns over consumer data privacy.


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Many Americans are currently being forced to quarantine or work from home as Omicron surges, which is causing the demand for groceries to rise at the same time that supplies are remaining low thanks to worker absenteeism and other issues. The fact that processed food and produce companies are experiencing significant backlogs is only making the problem worse.
These shortages are particularly pronounced in the Northeast, where severe winter weather has led to even more problems with supply lines. Right now, American retailers are reporting that 12 percent of their normal stock for food, beverages, personal hygiene products and household cleaning products are entirely out of stock. When it comes to food products specifically, retailers report being out of 15 percent of their usual inventory.
Those consumers who do manage to find what they need are paying significantly higher prices than they did even a year ago. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the consumer price index rose 7 percent in 2021 in the quickest increase seen since 1982. The price of steak is up 21 percent, while the price of bacon is up 19 percent, eggs are up 11 percent, and cereal is up by six percent.
According to Reuters, the consumer packaged goods industry is missing roughly 120,000 workers while just 1500 jobs were added last month. The National Grocers Association reports that many of its grocery stores are operating with less than half of their usual workforce.
Many people have been quitting their jobs as the stresses of working at grocery stores rise. Employees have been working in person throughout the pandemic and contending with angry customers who are upset about food shortages and COVID measures like mask requirements. In response to the exodus of grocery workers, several supermarket chains have been offering better benefits, tighter security and higher pay in hopes of attracting new workers.
Several experts have said that the situation will continue for at least another month. For example, the CEO of ConAgra brands, Sean Connolly, told investors: "It's entirely possible for all of us to project that the next month or so could remain strained with the supply chain as Omicron runs its course."
Increases in the price of gas have caused supermarkets' transportation costs to skyrocket, with perishable produce growers across the West Coast now being forced to pay nearly three times the trucking rates seen before the pandemic to ship their goods before they spoil. Some produce growers have been holding off on shipping to retailers until the freight costs go back down. Meanwhile, a significant volume of cargo ships remain docked outside the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles waiting to unload.
Some of the food categories that have been seeing shortages include baby formula, aluminum, cream cheese, chicken, and dog and cat food. Toilet paper is also in short supply in many areas, with some stores instituting limits on the amount that people can buy.
The CEO of the grocery store chain Albertsons announced that the Omicron variant is impacting its supply chain's ability to recover and expects supply challenges to persist for the next four to six weeks. He said that although his supermarkets have been experiencing several product categories being completely out of stock for a few months now, they're doing their best to make their stores presentable and give consumers as much choice as possible.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you as a smartphone owner is dropping your device and cracking the screen. This is annoying because you have to spend money to replace the screen, and those replacements can be expensive. Google Play has kicked off a new screen replacement service that owners of the Nexus 5 smartphone will want to be aware of.
The policy went into effect this week, according to reports, and Google Play will offer one free replacement of your Nexus 5 smartphone if the screen is cracked or it gets water damage. The tip on the replacement policy comes from a Google+ user named Joshua D. who says he called in about a cracked screen yesterday and was told the policy just went into effect.
The way the program works is Google Play will send you a brand new device in the mail, and you ship them back your damaged device. There are a few caveats to the service.
One is that Google Play will put a hold on your credit card for the purchase price of the device to cover the risk that people won't ship the damaged devices back. Another caveat is that the replacement plan is only good for devices purchased directly through Google Play according to some users. Some reports indicate that the replacement is only valid in the US. Check out our review of the Nexus 5 smartphone for more details on the device.


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NEW YORK — Across the nation, there’s a silent frustration brewing about an age-old observe that many say is getting out of hand: tipping.
Some fed-up shoppers are posting rants on social media complaining about tip requests at drive-thrus, whereas others say they’re drained of being asked to go away a gratuity for a muffin or a easy cup of espresso at their neighborhood bakery. What’s subsequent, they surprise — are we going to be tipping our docs and dentists, too?
As extra businesses undertake digital cost strategies, clients are routinely being prompted to go away a gratuity — many instances as excessive as 30% — at locations they usually would not. And some say it has change into extra irritating as the value of gadgets has skyrocketed on account of inflation, which eased to six.5% in December however nonetheless stays painfully excessive.
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“Suddenly, these screens are at each institution we encounter. They’re popping up on-line as properly for on-line orders. And I concern that there is no such thing as a finish,” stated etiquette skilled Thomas Farley, who considers the entire thing considerably of “an invasion.”
Unlike tip jars that consumers can simply ignore in the event that they don’t have spare change, consultants say the digital requests can produce social stress and are tougher to bypass. And your generosity, or lack thereof, may be laid naked for anybody shut sufficient to look on the display screen — together with the employees themselves.
Dylan Schenker is one of them. The 38-year-old earns about $400 a month in suggestions, which offers a useful complement to his $15 hourly wage as a barista at Philadelphia café situated inside a restaurant. Most of these suggestions come from shoppers who order espresso drinks or work together with the café for different issues, corresponding to carryout orders. The gratuity helps cowl his month-to-month lease and eases some of his burdens whereas he attends graduate college and juggles his job.
Schenker says it is onerous to sympathize with shoppers who’re in a position to afford expensive espresso drinks however complain about tipping. And he usually feels demoralized when folks don’t depart behind something additional — particularly in the event that they’re regulars.
“Tipping is about ensuring the people who find themselves performing that service for you’re getting paid what they’re owed,” stated Schenker, who’s been working within the service business for roughly 18 years.
Restaurant etiquette:Should you tip on takeout orders?
Traditionally, shoppers have taken satisfaction in being good tippers at locations like eating places, which generally pay their employees decrease than the minimal wage in expectation they’ll make up the distinction in suggestions. But teachers who research the subject say many shoppers at the moment are feeling irritated by computerized tip requests at espresso outlets and different counter service eateries the place tipping has not sometimes been anticipated, employees make not less than the minimal wage and repair is often restricted.
“People don’t like unsolicited recommendation,” stated Ismail Karabas, a advertising professor at Murray State University who research tipping. “They don’t wish to be asked for issues, particularly on the unsuitable time.”
Some of the requests may come from odd locations. Clarissa Moore, a 35-year-old who works as a supervisor at a utility firm in Pennsylvania, stated even her mortgage firm has been asking for suggestions currently. Typically, she’s pleased to go away a gratuity at eating places, and typically at espresso outlets and different fast-food locations when the service is sweet. But, Moore stated she believes shoppers shouldn’t be asked to tip practically all over the place they go — and it shouldn’t be one thing that’s anticipated of them.
“It makes you’re feeling unhealthy. You really feel like it’s a must to do it as a result of they’re asking you to do it,” she stated. “But then it’s a must to take into consideration the place that places folks in. They’re paying for one thing that they actually don’t need to pay for, or they’re tipping after they actually don’t need to tip — or can’t afford to tip — as a result of they don’t need to really feel unhealthy.”
What is the rule for tipping?
In the e-book “Emily Post’s Etiquette,” authors Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning advise shoppers to tip on ride-shares, like Uber and Lyft, in addition to meals and drinks, together with alcohol. But in addition they write that it’s as much as every particular person to decide on how a lot to tip at a café or a take-out meals service, and that buyers shouldn’t really feel embarrassed about selecting the bottom prompt tip quantity, and do not have to clarify themselves in the event that they don’t tip.
Digital cost strategies have been round for a quantity of years, although consultants say the pandemic has accelerated the pattern in direction of extra tipping. Michael Lynn, a shopper conduct professor at Cornell University, stated shoppers have been extra beneficiant with suggestions in the course of the early days of the pandemic in an effort to point out help for eating places and different businesses that have been onerous hit by COVID-19. Many folks genuinely wished to assist out and felt sympathetic to employees who held jobs that put them extra in danger of catching the virus, Lynn stated.
Tips at full-service eating places grew by 25.3% within the third quarter of 2022, whereas gratuities at fast or counter service eating places went up 16.7% in comparison with the identical time in 2021, in accordance with Square, one of the most important corporations working digital cost strategies. Data supplied by the corporate exhibits steady progress for the identical interval since 2019.
As tip requests have change into extra frequent, some businesses are promoting it of their job postings to lure in additional employees regardless that the additional cash isn’t all the time assured.
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In December, Starbucks rolled out a brand new tipping possibility on credit score and debit card transactions at its shops, one thing a gaggle organizing the corporate’s hourly employees had known as for. Since then, a Starbucks spokesperson stated practically half of credit score and debit card transactions have included a gratuity, which – together with suggestions obtained by way of money and the Starbucks app – are distributed based mostly on the quantity of hours a barista labored on the times the guidelines have been obtained.
Karabas, the Murray State professor, says some clients, like those that’ve labored within the service business previously, need to tip employees at fast service businesses and wouldn’t be irritated by the automated requests. But for others, analysis exhibits they is likely to be much less prone to come again to a specific enterprise if they’re feeling irritated by the requests, he stated.
The closing tab may also impression how clients react. Karabas stated within the analysis he did with different teachers, they manipulated the cost quantities and located that when the test was excessive, shoppers not felt as irritated by the tip requests. That suggests the perfect time for a espresso store to ask for that 20% tip, for instance, is likely to be on 4 or 5 orders of espresso, not a small cup that prices $4.
Some shoppers may proceed to shrug off the tip requests regardless of the quantity.
“If you’re employed for an organization, it is that firm’s job to pay you for doing work for them,” stated Mike Janavey, a footwear and clothes designer who lives in New York City. “They’re not imagined to be juicing shoppers which can be already spending cash there to pay their staff.”
Schenker, the Philadelphia barista, agrees — to a sure extent.
“The onus should completely be on the homeowners, however that doesn’t change in a single day,” he stated. “And that is the perfect factor we now have proper now.”


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CHENNAI, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Presents Users With More HD Infotainment, Real-Time Breaking News, Timely Updates and has Been Optimized for the iPhone's Retina Display, Also Makes its Debut on the iPad
Galatta app, developed by Galatta Media Private Ltd. to provide the latest celebrity updates and real-time breaking news in the Indian movie world, has announced a version upgrade, featuring exclusive photo galleries and a vibrant video section. Measuring up to the hype it generated at the market, Galatta app's version 1.3 comes just 2 months after the app's worldwide launch this May.
Galatta app is the complete movie tracker that provides fans with the highest levels of infotainment on a stylish, rich and lustrous interface that ensures an overall incredible reading experience. The response for the application has been tremendous and the feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive. Galatta app was featured in the 'What's Hot' section of the US and Indian App Stores in the News category and ranked #22 in the News category at the App Store(India).
In its upgraded avatar, Galatta app has a lot more media to offer - new photo galleries and a separate section devoted to videos. Users can virtually step into the glam showbiz world by surfing through galleries of movie stills, parties, events and celebrity photos. With the addition of the latest HD movie trailers, it has now become easier for users to discover and decide what to watch. Galatta app has been optimized for iPhone Retina Display to provide sharper text, richer graphics and enhanced video content, letting users delve a lot deeper into movie content. Other enhancements include its new push notification to keep up with the latest news and gossip in the movie world.
Galatta has also become a universal application, as it is now available for the iPad. "On its launch, the response Galatta app received was nothing short of spectacular. The expectations of the current media-savvy generation have propelled us to come up with a version update that provides users with a richer, smarter and a more streamlined experience. Our flagship product, now compatible on all iOS devices, is continually being overhauled with new features and functionality, to give our users what they have come to expect," said Venkatesh C.R., CEO of Galatta Media.
Galatta app is also available in the Google Play store for Android phones and tablets. Windows Mobile and BlackBerry versions of the app will be available by the last week of July.
Download Link: http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/galatta/id523417478?mt=8
About Galatta Media Private Limited:
Galatta Media Private Ltd. is the creator and publisher of Galatta Cinema magazine, the largest circulating English Cinema Magazine in India for South Indian movies, and is also the force behind Galatta.com - a leading Indian video portal, the world over. For more details visit: http://www.galatta.com.
Primary Media Contact: Venkatesh C.R, firstname.lastname@example.org, 91-44-26200160
SOURCE Galatta Media Private Limited


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Denim Tears Releases Capsule Reflecting on 400th Anniversary of American Slavery
The collection initially released at a Manhattan art event last weekend.
After launching a pop-up at Procell in New York last week to showcase his “The Hissing of Summer Tears” capsule, Tremaine Emory has now released the limited-edition collection online. Featuring a mix of graphic sweatshirts, T-shirts, and a zine, the assortment is a way for Emory to reflect on a milestone in American history, the 400th anniversary of when slavery first started.
Pieces are printed with floral and cotton designs and patched with “Virginia” branding, commenting on the beginnings of enslavement in the colony of Jamestown. The sleeves have then been emblazoned with “1619” in black numbers on each side, referencing the exact year that the the critical period began. This capsule kicks off an ongoing series that the designer has planned as a means of paying homage to the historic moment.
The capsule is priced from $50 USD to $160 USD, and available now at Denim Tears’ webstore.
HYPEBEAST caught up with Emory last month, in which the No Vacancy Inn co-founder talked about his creativity and family legacy.


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Since the release of Disruption earlier this year, readers everywhere have been waiting on tenterhooks for news of the sequel. Earlier today, Jessica Shirvington gave us our very first glimpse of Corruption.
There you have it! Jess is busy proof-reading book two and frankly we couldn’t be more excited. Not that we’re super fans or anything but a careful squint at the page on display reveals there’s a definite mention of Quentin in the story. Can you deduce anything else?
Corruption will be out in November. Are you as excited as we are? If you look anything like this lady, then your answer is yes.
Read an interview with Jess here and watch the trailer for Disruption below.


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“Plus, being in the Google Hangouts ecosystem you can mix us with other apps,” Lahoutifard told me. “You can activate a prepared logo, namebar, and presentation title, or you can show a PowerPoint.”
Vidyo already provides the software that powers Google Hangouts on Google+.
Blue Jeans unveiled a massive update to its standard pricing today, adding a new licensing model that offers companies unlimited “all you can meet” videoconferencing plans for as low as $10 per user, per month.
Are we more productive in the office or out?
“We want to price equivalent to a voice call,” Shapiro says. “Our competitors offer an inferior product for more money: Blue Jeans 15 time more, and other competitors 300 times more.”
Editor’s Pick “Imagine the yoga teacher doing online yoga to 50 people,” Shapiro said. “Think about an audience of 100 million people … for instance buying a subscription for an online Zumba class.”
Blue Jeans Network, the company that offers super-simple video conferences in the browser, is announcing the first-ever videoconferencing integration with Salesforce.com.
Editor's Pick Video is the new audio. With more emotion, more nuance, and more effective real-time communication, videoconferencing is growing at a 20 percent annual rate in business.
VidyoVidyo president, chief executive, and co-founder Ofer Shapiro
Vidyo is now offering high-quality video conferencing on the Apple iPhone 4S, the company said today.
Vidyo has raised $22.5 million in a fourth round of funding for its high-quality video conferencing. The company plans to use the money to expand its sales worldwide and develop better, more immersive and inexpensive “telepresence” technologies.


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The Met Gala is the biggest fashion event of the year—and it’s so exclusive, even celebrities struggle to get an invite. But for regular folks, there’s still a chance to check out the amazing fashion on display, through your TV or computer. The gala itself will not be televised, but the red carpet will be, so you’ll be able to gawk at the over-the-top styles at the same time as the rest of the guests.
E! will broadcast a Live From the Red Carpet special Monday night, anchored by Giuliana Rancic, stylist Brad Goreski, journalist Elaine Welteroth and fashion expert Zanna Roberts Rassi and featuring interviews by correspondent Zuri Hall. You can tune in beginning at 6:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, or check it out a half hour beforehand for a special E! News broadcast dedicated to the gala.
The network will also stream the red carpet on Facebook Live, E! Online, the E! app, Apple News and YouTube starting at 6:30 p.m Eastern, 3:30 p.m. Pacific. That broadcast will be anchored by Paper magazine’s Drew Elliott and fashion expert Tiffany Reid.
If you’d rather just follow along on social, keep in mind that the Met Gala has a strict policy against social media. But that has never really stopped stars from posting tons of selfies on Met Gala day, from getting ready through to the afterparties.
This year’s Met Gala theme is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” which takes a look at the influence of Catholicism in fashion. The cohosts of the gala this year are Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace, so get ready for some head-turning, and possibly controversial, looks on the red carpet.


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Google was barred from working with Huawei on new device models or providing Google’s apps including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, the Play Store and others for preload or download on these devices.
Huawei was left to upgrade the AppGallery, their alternative to the Google Play Store and which became the default app store for its newer devices including the Huawei Mate 30 series, the recently launched Huawei Y7p and the Huawei P40 series which will be launched in Kenya very soon.
Apps not available on the AppGallery could be downloaded from the third-party app stores or run apps through the browser and create links for them on the home screen such as YouTube.
Sideloaded Google apps could run errors as they require access to Google mobile services and is the reason Google Maps will run into hitches when using it.
There is a Google Maps alternative on the Huawei AppGallery. HERE WeGo just became available for Huawei devices.
The mapping app that was on Windows-powered apps when Nokia owned HERE will now become a must-have utility app for Huawei users.
The app still has excellent functionalities that give Google Maps a run for its money including the ability to retain all the same navigation features offline as it does online.


text: Talon International Inc. reported a turnaround from loss to profit in both the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. The Woodland Hills supplier of zippers and apparel accessories reported net income of $7.5 million (8 cents a share) in the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to a loss of $872,000 (-4 cents) for the same quarter the previous year. Revenue grew 5 percent to $11.9 million. No analysts follow the company. For the full year, Talon reported net income of $14.8 million (26 cents a share) compared to a loss of $2.6 million (-12 cents) compared to the previous year. Revenue grew 18 percent to $52.4 million. In a conference call Monday, Chief Executive Lonnie Schnell noted that total sales were up and operating costs down in 2013. Additionally, Talon benefited from the settlement of a trademark infringement litigation that resulted in $350,000 for the company. “We had several major accomplishments in 2013 that we were very pleased with; our operating income was clearly one of those,” Schnell said in a statement. Shares were unchanged at 25 cents in trading on the over-the-counter market.


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GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK, DUBAI, UAE, October 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
- Prodea Systems Aims to Equip Millions of Households With Intelligent Connected Solutions
Prodea Systems, a global technology innovator, today launched ROS, its award-winning intelligent digital home hub, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
"The MENA region, with its diverse and 'digital native' population, has a demographic unlike any other in the world," said Anousheh Ansari, CEO and co-founder of Prodea Systems. "Its hunger for connectivity, content and the very latest in advanced consumer technology provides a perfect environment for our intelligent home solution, and this market continues to lead our business growth strategy."
Prodea's flagship intelligent digital home hub, ROS, features an innovative, intelligent multi-application platform, designed and engineered by Prodea with significant investment in research and development. Its technology has been validated by service providers and consumers worldwide as the first solution of its kind. It delivers on the promise of the connected digital home for all users, regardless of technical know-how. The combination of Prodea's white-label platform with managed services support creates a simple-to-use, personalised consumer experience that is accessible anytime, anywhere and through any device such as TV, PC, Mobile, iPad and iPhone.
Users can enjoy a host of multimedia functions, ranging from voice over IP (VoIP) and video conferencing, to video-on-demand, music hosting and popular social networking applications (including Twitter and Facebook), home security, e-health and e-learning services. Applications are presented in a user-friendly icon display that can be accessed from any device with a simple broadband connection. By integrating the solution with an online app store, consumers can continually grow their suite of applications and enhance their digital home experience.
Anousheh Ansari added, "Our innovative and robust product has already sparked interest amongst telecom providers and partners around the world. At GITEX this week we are introducing our multi-application solution in partnership with anayou under the "NXT" brand. Through agreements such as this, we open up a new spectrum of exciting broadband services for service providers and their customers across the region."
For more information and a demonstration, please visit us at the du stand at GITEX Technology Week, 17th - 21st October 2010.
About Prodea Systems
Prodea Systems, based in Plano Texas, is a privately held company formed by the Ansari family, inventors and proven entrepreneurs with a history of building companies based on industry-changing technologies. Prodea Systems is their latest endeavor to address the challenges of today's increasingly complex digital home and connected small business environment and combine state of the art technology and simplicity in a single command center for the everyday consumer.
The Prodea Systems platform provides a turn-key, white label solution for traditional and alternative service providers who require continuous and timely delivery of new and innovative services to their subscribers over the existing broadband infrastructure.
Prodea's solution uniquely enables carrier-grade services to be delivered directly to a variety of fixed appliances in the home or automobile, as well as mobile lifestyle devices including smart phones, portable media players or laptops. Additional information can be found at http://www.prodeasystems.com.
Launched in 2010, anayou is the new brand name for 21st Century Digital Arabia Company Limited and a new online destination for Arabia.
anayou is a product of the du Media Lab, which has now been spun off as a separate company.
anayou aims to be one of the leading MENA-based digital services company across the web and mobile and digital TV landscape, providing an open marketplace to connect with and serve consumers.
It will offer high quality entertainment, gaming and sports content, in one place, in Arabic, English and French.
About Anousheh Ansari (CEO and co founder)
Anousheh Ansari is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Prodea Systems, a market transforming technology, simplifying people's complex digital lifestyle.
As she launched her company, on September 18, 2006, she also blasted off for an nine-day expedition aboard the International Space Station and captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer. She also earned a place in history as the first astronaut of Iranian descent, the first Muslim woman, and the fourth private explorer to visit space. This was the accomplishment of a lifelong dream for her.
As a successful serial entrepreneur and active proponent of world-changing technologies and social entrepreneurship she, along with her family provided the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million cash award that helped launch a new era in private space exploration.
Prior to her Space ventures, Anousheh served as co-founder, chief executive officer and chairwoman for telecom technologies, inc. After earning three key U.S. patents and growing 100% sequential year over year, she successfully merged her company with Sonus Networks in a major financial transaction.
Anousheh is a member of the X Prize Foundation's Vision Circle, as well as its Board of Trustees. She currently works to enable social entrepreneurs to bring about radical change globally, with organizations such as ASHOKA, which supports social entrepreneurship around the world, including the Middle East and Central Asia.
Anousheh is a life member in the Association of Space Explorers and on the advisory board of the Teacher's in Space project. She has received multiple honors, including the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Southwest Region.
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Cyren Web Security received the CyberSecurity Breakthrough awards for the second time.
Cyren’s web security platform has received “Secure web gateway solution of the year”, “Hosted Email Security solution of the year”, and “Secure web gateway solution of the year” award for the second time in a row from CyberSecurtiy Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes top companies, technologies, and products in the global information security market. This year’s program attracted more than 3,000 nominees from more than 14 countries.
Cyren web security, a secure web gateway delivered in 100% cloud, protects devices from high-level malware, ransomware, phishing, and more. The strong policies and report feature provide real-time monitoring system. Also, the service operates on the SaaS enterprise security platform operated by Cyren, which integrates web security, email security and archive, DNS security, and cloud sandbox.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
The CyberSecurity Breakthrough awards program, part of the Tech Breakthrough Awards organization, is dedicated to respecting information security and the corporate, product and people of cybersecurity technology.
CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards offer a platform that openly recognizes the performance of innovative information security companies and products in categories such as cloud security, threat detection, risk management, fraud prevention, mobile security, web and email security, UTM, and firewall. For more information, visit https://cybersecuritybreakthrough.com/
Cyren provides internet security solutions such as web security, mail security, and anti-malware products. The services protect transactions of more than 600 million users in 190 countries from various daily threats. Jiran have exclusive partnership to distribute Cyren products in APAC region.


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By Brendan Sasso - 12/20/11 04:13 PM EST
The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) celebrated AT&T's decision on Monday to abandon its planned $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile in the face of opposition from both agencies.
“Consumers won today," Sharis Pozen, chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said. "Had AT&T acquired T-Mobile, consumers in the wireless marketplace would have faced higher prices and reduced innovation. We sued to protect consumers who rely on competition in this important industry. With the parties’ abandonment, we achieved that result.”
AT&T wanted to buy T-Mobile in part to gain access to T-Mobile's cellular airwaves. The deal would have helped AT&T relieve congestion on its crowded network.
AT&T also argued the merger would allow it to make investments that would have created jobs.
But the Justice Department sued to block the deal in August, arguing the merger of the second- and fourth-largest wireless carriers would have stifled competition. If the deal had been approved, AT&T and Verizon would have controlled about 80 percent of the wireless market.
As AT&T and T-Mobile geared up to defend their deal in the courtroom, the FCC took its own step toward killing the deal. Last month, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski recommended holding a months-long administrative hearing to review it, saying he was unconvinced it would benefit the public.
The FCC agreed with the Justice Department that the merger would have reduced competition and also rejected AT&T's argument that the deal would be a job-creator. The FCC concluded the combined company would likely lay off thousands of workers.
“The FCC is committed to ensuring a competitive mobile marketplace that drives innovation and investment, creates jobs and benefits consumers," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said on Monday. "This deal would have done the opposite."
In a news release on Monday, AT&T said that if it cannot gain access to more airwaves, "customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled."
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson promised AT&T will continue to invest in its network and urged Congress to pass legislation to free up more airwaves, or spectrum, for mobile devices.
Genachowski said he agreed that Congress should give the FCC the authority to auction spectrum to cellphone carriers.
"The U.S. mobile industry leads the world in mobile innovation, and we agree with AT&T that Congress should pass incentive auction legislation that will unleash new spectrum for mobile broadband," he said.


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Among all of New England’s Internet expertise, a local retailer has quietly created a $5 billion web-based business selling decidedly nontechnology products: office supplies.
Staples Inc. in Framingham has built an e-commerce business second only to Amazon.com Inc. among U.S. retail websites — a business that now represents about one-third of Staples’ total revenue. And it has done so by focusing less on the latest web innovations and more on how to make buying online as simple as possible for busy office managers.
Its strategy is working. The company, scheduled to release its 2007 financial numbers next month, generated $5.2 billion in third-quarter revenue — $1.7 billion of which came from its web-based and catalog-based sales. Its website processes 40,000 orders a day, with a typical transaction price of just under $200.


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In the June 27 article, “Nursery eyed for historical passive park,” the date was incorrect for an upcoming public meeting, due to a reporter’s error. The meeting will be held Saturday, July 12 at 9 a.m. at the former California Nursery Co. at 36501 Niles Blvd. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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Long-term U.S. mortgage rates crept higher this week, upping the costs of borrowing to purchase a home just as more of the millennial generation is entering the real estate market.
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The children’s voices cry out to us. The voices of those murdered senselessly because of the grotesque number of guns in America. The voices of those still living, wondering, “Will I be next?” Our sacred scripture exhorts us, “Do not stand idly by as your neighbor’s blood is shed.” (Leviticus 19:16) This verse speaks resoundingly to the scourge of gun...
Once again, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are being used to spread conspiracy theories and sow division.


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We all really want to avoid the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), but it can be difficult to navigate the grocery store aisles without accidentally putting a brand that still uses BPA in your cart. To help with this, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released a new report analyzing which brands continue to line their cans with BPA.
Some of the brands are surprising; some not so much. However, the number of brands using BPA is shocking. According to the EWG:
- “78 brands, or 31 percent, used BPA-lined cans for all products. About 46 percent of the brands in this group did not say whether they were working with can suppliers or packaging manufacturers to shift to BPA-free cans or to test substitutes.
- 43 percent of all brands gave ambiguous or incomplete answers to questions about their use of BPA and/or did not respond to EWG’s queries.
- Companies that said they had eliminated BPA or were in the process of doing so did not disclose the substitutes they were using, an omission that had the effect of slowing scientific study of the possible hazards of these substitute materials. Only 13 brands volunteered even a vague description of the alternative can coatings they use.”
The global canned food market will be worth more than $100 billion dollars by 2020, but they stand to lose a lot of that market share if we stop buying their health-compromising products.
Amy’s Kitchen, Inc. sets the gold standard. It uses BPA-free cans for ALL its canned goods and makes this policy transparent on its website. The company also just received approval to build one of the first non-GMO, organic, fast-food drive-thru’s right across the street from a dying mega-company’s golden arches (McDonald’s).
Here are the companies you should avoid if you don’t want hormone-mimicking, endocrine-disrupting chemicals wrecking your health:


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Pentax is the number one camera make in terms of satisfaction according to a new report.
The report, by JD Power and Associates, has found that Pentax ranked higher in online satisfaction with DSLR camera owners than other makes.
"Pentax's customer base has shifted since 2011 from casual photographers to those who consider themselves semi-professional or professional photographers," said Sara Wong Hilton, director at J.D. Power and Associates. "In fact, across the industry, the results indicate a slight increase in self-identified semi-professional photographers, possibly leading to the purchase of more high-end camera systems."
For more information, visit the JD Power and Associates website.


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Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's biggest private employer with 1.4 million workers, rolled out a plan that includes hiring more than 100,000 veterans in the next five years.
Wal-Mart on Tuesday pledged to hire veterans, many of whom come from Afghanistan and Iraq and are having a particularly hard time finding employment. The company said it plans to hire every veteran who wants a job and has been honorably discharged in the first 12 months off of active duty. The program, which will start on Memorial Day, will include jobs mostly in Wal-Mart's stores or in its Sam's Club locations. Some will be at its headquarters, based in Bentonville, Ark., or the company's distribution centers.
Dave Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman, says that the company hasn't worked out the details but it will “match up the veterans' experience and qualifications.” Simon, who served in the Navy, said that veterans have “a record of performance under pressure.”
“They're quick learners, and they're team players. These are leaders with discipline, training, and a passion for service. There is a seriousness and sense of purpose that the military instills, and we need it today more than ever,” he said.
In addition to hiring veterans, Wal-Mart said it will spend
$50 billion to buy products made in the U.S. over the next 10 years. According to data from Wal-Mart's suppliers, items that are made, sourced or grown in the U.S. account for about two-thirds of the company's spending on products for its U.S. business. The company said it plans to focus on buying more in areas such as sporting goods, fashion basics, storage products, games and paper products.
The final piece of Wal-Mart's plan is to help part-time workers transition into full-time employment if they desire to. About 75 percent of its store management teams start as hourly associates, and their average pay is $50,000 to $170,000 a year, said Bill Simon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart's U.S. business.
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Diversinet announced its first quarter revenues for 2010 were $576,000, down from $2 million during the same period last year. According to the company, the decrease is largely attributable to AllOne Mobile's failure to pay its quarterly minimum commitment of $1.75 million per the two companies' licensing and revenue share agreement inked in late 2008. The two companies are currently moving toward a settlement that would likely terminate the original agreement and see AllOne Mobile paying at least some of the money it owes Diversinet.
Diversinet's agreement with AllOne Mobile may come to an end as early as next month. Once free from that agreement and with a new product line, Diversinet is poised to capitalize on growing momentum in the mobile health space:
"During the quarter... [Diversinet] introduced a major new release that makes implementing mobile health faster and easier to deploy, along with secure SMS capability that offers broader accessibility," Diversinet Chairman and CEO Albert Wahbe stated in a company release. "With our new emphasis on mobile health, we expect to benefit from the strengthening and widespread market demand for the secure mobilisation of health information, driven by both clear economics for healthcare organizations and new U.S. federal legislation providing healthcare IT funding and incentives."
AllOne Mobile worked with Diversinet on a handful of major mHealth initiatives, including a pilot program with the U.S. Army that provided "wounded warriors" with their health information securely accessible from their mobile phones. The AllOne Mobile app enabled care givers and providers to help the veterans manage their care regimens, especially those for traumatic brain injuries. While two of AllOne Mobile's health apps have disappeared from Apple's AppStore, the mCare app, which is offered to those "wounded warriors" in the pilot is still available through the online store. The other apps, which were created for use by various health insurers customers are no longer live.
For more on Diversinet's first quarter financials, check out the company's press release here.


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Sun rises on new home of wasabi... Hampshire
According to Japanese legend, wasabi, the plant that puts the zing into sushi, was discovered hundreds of years ago in a remote village in Shizuoka. Tokugawa Ieyasu, a warlord, was so impressed that he declared it could only be grown in that area.
In terms of potential rivals, Ieyasu probably did not have Hampshire in mind.
Now a British company is growing wasabi and selling it to Umu, a two-Michelin-star Japanese restaurant in London, as well as exporting it to Europe.
The farm’s exact location is secret, because wasabi is said to be the most expensive vegetable in the world: the company sells the plant for 25p a gram.
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A weakened AMD antitrust case against Intel has been scheduled for trial in 2009 after a federal judge dismissed some charges brought against Intel by its chief rival chip manufacturer.
The trial will proceed in U.S. Federal District Court in Delaware. However, Judge Joseph Farnan granted Intel's motion to dismiss some of AMD's charges relating to foreign conduct on jurisdictional grounds. The judge ruled on that portion Tuesday, saying that AMD manufactures its processors in Germany and assembles them in Malaysia, Singapore and China.
"The Court concludes that the alleged injuries suffered by AMD as a result of Intel's foreign conduct are foreign injuries that occurred in foreign markets," the judge ruled. "The Court concludes that AMD lacks standing to pursue its claims based on foreign injury."
Intel said it was "pleased" with the decision.
AMD is also pursuing antitrust charges against Intel in various foreign courts and some of its complaints remain to be aired in the Delaware court.


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Congratulations to Newry-based, Two Stacks Irish Whiskey who have been named as a ‘brand to watch’ in 2023 by the Spirits Business Magazine.
Interestingly, Two Stacks are just one of two NI brands named as a ‘brands to watch’ in 2023 by the influential industry magazine.
Two Stacks Irish Whiskey located on the Chancellors Road in Newry is described as “a disruptive brand that surpassed its targets in 2022.”
Its year-on-year growth in revenue has also hit 50% from this time last year. Next year, the brand hopes to expand its global footprint, spotlight innovation and promote its new Double Irish Cream Liqueur, which launched last month.
The company also pioneered the development of the first single malt in a can, a global innovation that is proving a major success in export markets such as the US.
The business was founded by partners, Shane McCarthy, Liam Brogan and Donal McLynn.
Shane McCarthy, Co-Founder of Two Stacks said:
“We aimed to increase our five export distribution partnerships to 15 this year and completely smashed this target, with more than 25 new export partners. The business is also benefiting from the opening of our new blending and bottling plant in Newry.”


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Taxing sugar levels in carbonated drinks can prevent 2 million cases of diabetes and heart disease in the United States, as well as premature deaths from these diseases.
At various levels in the United States, sugar tax is a potential way to improve public health. A new study showed that taxes on sugary drinks can lead to a significant improvement in the status of Americans everywhere and reduce health care costs, but the size of the benefit depends on the structure of the tax.
Many taxes on sugar-containing drinks are based on volume, that is, a tax can be, for example, 2 cents per ounce of the total beverage volume or 3 cents per teaspoon of sugar. This is aimed at reducing the consumption of the product by increasing its value. San Francisco introduced such a tax scheme.
However, the multilevel tax that applies in the United Kingdom, Chile, and France may have different levels for volumes, depending on the sugar content in drinks per ounce of its volume. There are also taxes based on the absolute sugar content of a product that exists in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. They are calculated as tax per gram of added sugar. The last two types of taxes are considered more effective.


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Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce firm, has struck a deal to pay $382 million for a major stake in Enlight Media, a premier film and TV production network in China.
According to an Enlight stock exchange filing, the venture capital unit of Alibaba—Hangzhou Ali Venture Capital—purchased the share at 24.22 yuan per piece (3.83 in dollars) in private placement.
The purchase of the film and TV company continues the e-commere giant’s jump into entertainment: last year, Alibaba spent $800 million for a majority stake in Chinese film studio ChinaVision Media Group, which is now Alibaba Pictures Group.
Yahoo recently made a big move with its Alibaba holdings. In January, Yahoo’s board of directors authorized a plan for a tax-free spin off of its Alibaba Group Holding into a separate company—titled SpinCo — whose shares will be distributed pro rata to Yahoo stockholders.
After the spinoff, Yahoo still holds its 35.5 percent interest in Yahoo Japan, the company said on Tuesday. SpinC owns Yahoo’s remaining 384 million shares of Alibaba, which are valued at $40 billion at the end of January.


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CAMRA is delighted that, after 10 years of our campaigning, MPs have today voted to introduce a market rent only option for licensees tied to the large pub companies – a move that will secure the future of the Great British Pub.
The government was defeated by 284 votes to 259 with MPs from all parties voting in favour of a new clause to the Small Business Bill that will empower pubco licensees to choose between a tied agreement and a market rent-only agreement that will allow them to buy beer on the open market.
Allowing more than 13,000 pub tenants tied to the large pub companies the option of buying beer on the open market at competitive prices will help to keep pubs open and ensure the cost of a pint to consumers remains affordable.
The large pub companies will no longer be able to charge their tenants prices of up to 60p a pint higher than open market prices.
This simple choice should spell the end of pubco licensees being forced out of business through high rents and tied product prices.
Thank you to the 8,000 Camra members and campaigners who lobbied their local MP to help make this happen and to those MPs that voted to support pubs. Camra are now urging the government to accept the outcome of the vote.
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Blog: Anyone got a light?
Chris Brook-Carter | 5 October 2005
Life is full of little pleasures, is it not? A cold beer on a hot day. That first cigarette of the day. But, hey! What say you, we make these little pleasures even smaller, by putting them together?
German company Nautilus GmbH Laboratoriumsbedarf has developed a 6.3% ABV lager with three milligrams of nicotine alkaloids per 250ml can. Three cans of the drink will provide you with the equivalent amount of nicotine as a pack of 20 cigarettes.
NicoShot is being marketed as a nicotine replacement therapy “designed to satisfy the nicotine urge whenever you want a cigarette, but can’t smoke,” says Richard Davis, president of Beverage Marketing USA, which handles publicity for NicoShot.
The drink is expected to be launched in Ireland shortly… a country with a smoking ban.
Today is SABMiller's final day. Some time this evening, Brussel's time, the second-biggest brewer in the world will be subsumed into the biggest, creating a beer behemoth of unprecedented proportions....
No, this is not PepsiCo's new ad slogan for its Mountain Dew brand....
Major wine players flocked to China ready for online giant Alibaba's 9.9 Global Wine and Spirits Festival, which took place on 9 September....
In May, Heineken's CEO, Jean-François van Boxmeer, called Vietnam the "poster child" for international beer thanks to strong demographics and growing demand....
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September 24, 2020
Alec Gores has plenty of experience with SPACs. Now, the veteran investor is ready for his biggest bet yet.
September 20, 2020
Snowflake's incredible IPO and a string of other highly profitable debuts join fintech mega-deals, fitness fundings and more in our recap of the week.
September 17, 2020
Apollo Global Management and its plans for a $750 million special-purpose acquisition company are the latest sign of how private equity has embraced the rise of SPACs.
September 16, 2020
Long-time SPAC founder Martin Franklin is behind the UK's first blank-check company IPO this year.
The Hut Group, the company behind such ecommerce brands as MyProtein and Espa, saw its shares jump as much as 30% in its first day of trading.
September 14, 2020
PE-backed Allegro has announced its plans to list in Warsaw just weeks after Poland's consumer watchdog launches probe.
September 13, 2020
The growing crop of alternatives to the traditional New York IPO joins Nikola, TikTok, JC Penney and more in our recap of the week.
September 9, 2020
Guild Esports, co-owned by the soccer legend, is planning to list in London just a few months after launch. But the increasing popularity of esports may not guarantee a successful market debut.
September 8, 2020
Defense supplier Hensoldt plans to go public in Frankfurt as the European IPO market shows signs of recovery.
August 31, 2020
This note continues our coverage of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), which have surged in popularity in 2020 as companies look for pathways to public markets.
Analysis: Becoming a publicly traded company will raise Palantir's profile. And taking shots at its critics and peers is only likely to amplify the scrutiny it faces in the months and years ahead.
August 30, 2020
The unicorns are coming to Wall Street, which joins the SEC's new rules for direct listings, TikTok, Warby Parker and more in our recap of the week.
August 28, 2020
The SEC has approved a new type of direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange that permits companies to sell new stock, adding yet another pathway to the public markets outside of traditional IPOs.
August 24, 2020
Bay Area software companies including Asana, Snowflake Unity Software and JFrog filed to go public Monday, in the biggest flurry of filings in recent memory.
August 16, 2020
Talk about RedBall Acquisition's $500 million sports SPAC joins Brooks Brothers, Airbnb's looming IPO and more in our recap of the week.
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June 21, 2022
The specialist e-retailer is looking to strengthen its e-bike and tennis position in its core European market while rolling out a similar playbook in the U.S. through a combination of organic growth, M&A and third-party services, it revealed at the Jefferies investor conference.
S&P Global raised the Italian luxury sneaker maker’s company rating and the rating on its €480 million senior secured notes to B from B-, citing growing sales and DTC expansion.
Miracle Miles Group Inc., the boot, sandal and sneaker maker, has closed a $100 million Series A funding round, jointly led by IDG Capital and Sequoia Capital China.
FitFighter Inc., a NY-based startup which sells fitness training devices and a training app, raised $2.5 million in a seed round that was led by Jennus Innovation with participation from Abraham Trust.


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(Medline Renewal, a medical device re-processing company, is expanding by doubling their existing space in Redmond | Photo by Timothy Park)
In this fourth quarter of 2020, there is quite a bit of moving and shaking going on in the manufacturing sector. Here is a listing of some of the manufacturing companies that are either relocating into Central Oregon from other areas, are new businesses or are expanding their existing operations. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, but rather a sampling of some of the movement happening in the region.
In Redmond — Source: Jon Stark, senior director, Redmond Economic Development Inc.
- i3DMFG — Contract manufacturer that makes parts for various industries (medical, military, firearms, etc.); preparing to open a new space on Lake Road in Redmond, moving here from The Dalles.
- BasX Solutions — Manufacturer of high-efficiency cooling systems and solutions in Redmond; adding 75,000 square feet to its existing facility.
- Medline Renewal — Medical device re-processor; expanding by doubling their existing space.
- We’re The Wurst — Formerly a bratwurst/sausage food truck business in Bend; now going into full-scale manufacturing and opening a facility in Redmond.
In Bend — Source: Don Myll, Bend Area director, Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO)
- BMS Technologies — Mailing, printing, online bill paying and software solutions; constructed a new 30,000-square-foot production facility in Juniper Ridge*.
- Brian’s Cabinets — Custom cabinet manufacturer; constructing new 20,000-square-foot production facility in Empire Industrial area.
- Picky Bars — Makes and distributes gluten- and dairy-free energy bars for extreme athletes; expanding by raising capital to fuel company’s growth.
- SmartyPits — Personal care products manufacturer specializing in aluminum-free deodorant; moving into new 6,000-square-foot production facility in central Bend after relocating from California.
- Thuren Suspension Technology — Off-road vehicle suspension manufacturer; expanded by constructing 6,000-square-foot production facility in Juniper Ridge*.
- Lonza (formerly Bend Research) — Contract development and manufacturing for the biotech industry; expanded by building new production facilities on the Lonza campus in NW Bend.
- NanoMetrics — Manufactures optical process control and measurement devices for semiconductor and other high-technology industries; expanded production facilities.
* Juniper Ridge, at the corner of Cooley Road and Highway 97 — 500 acres of city-owned land now earmarked for industrial use.
In Sisters — Source: Caprielle A. Lewis, Sisters Area director, EDCO
- Holy Kakow — A premium coffee shop supplier of organic chocolate sauces and coffee syrups, will co-occupy just over 5,000 square feet of a brand new 13,426-square-foot spec building in Sun Ranch Business Park, a mixed-use district in Sisters.
- Nechville Banjos — Founder Tom Nechville recently relocated to Sisters from Bloomington, Minnesota; has purchased building and plans to open retail and light-assembly location in downtown Sisters, a block away from the headquarters (production facility) of Preston Thompson Guitars.
- The recent City Council approval to rezone 15 acres of private land within the city limits to light industrial is attracting additional manufacturers to Sisters, primarily in the natural products and outdoor industries, as well as expansion of local specialty food and beverage companies. These projects will develop new workforce opportunities for the Sisters community and region in the next several years.
In Prineville — Source: Kelsey Lucas, Prineville/Crook County director, EDCO
- Top Dog Fabrications — A startup operation as of July, focusing on CNC plasma, commercial metalwork, TIG/MIG welding and CAD/CAM designing. This is a husband-and-wife team that relocated from Western Oregon.


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Male sellers on eBay have an edge over women, study findsFebruary 19, 2016
Successful sellers on eBay know certain things matter: item description, appealing photos, strong seller ratings and, of course, price.
Now, a study published Friday in the journal Science suggested another factor might make a subtle difference: whether the seller is a man or woman. Using data supplied by the company, researchers analyzed some 630,000 auction transactions on eBay in the United States and reported that, on average, when men and women with equal selling reputations sold the same products, women received lower prices than men.
The difference was far less pronounced for used items: Women sellers received about 97 cents for every dollar men received. But with new items, where the authors say direct comparison is easier, women received about 80 cents on average for every dollar men sellers received.
"The basic point - that people have different expectations of women versus men, and so we treat them very differently in the world - it's fascinating and depressing," said Linda Babcock, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who was not involved in the study.
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"On eBay, wow," she added, noting eBay's fame as a forum where anyone can sell anything. It also does not require that sellers identify their gender.
The study did not paint a universally negative picture for women. For some items, like toys and pet products, women received somewhat higher prices than men. And women tended to have better reputations as sellers although they tended to have less selling experience.
Nor did the study, which controlled for seller reputation, experience, number of photos and other elements, indicate that buyers were consciously discriminating. Male and female buyers appeared to treat women sellers the same, the authors said.
"We actually think that most of it is unconscious," said Tamar Kricheli-Katz, a professor of law and sociology at Tel Aviv University, who conducted the study with Tali Regev, an economist at IDC Herzliya. "The fact is that most of us have biases. We hold them unconsciously, and it makes it difficult to change."
Claudia Goldin, a Harvard economist and expert on gender wage gaps, said the study was intriguing but needed more analysis.
The researchers said eBay allowed them access to data on transactions, sellers and buyers, including gender. They evaluated transactions from 2009 to 2012, focusing on the 420 most popular items in eBay's broader categories, and on auctions because no negotiation is involved. Sellers considered to be stores were excluded.
EBay did not provide financing for the study, but set conditions, according to the authors and to editors at Science. The researchers' contract allowed eBay to approve any study before publication, mostly for potential disclosure of proprietary data and trade secrets; the authors said eBay "ended up approving the study without asking us to drop any of our results."
A few female sellers said they believed some buyers reacted differently because they were women.
Melanie Fodera, 21, a senior at Albion College in Michigan and a seller for about seven years, said when selling a Detroit Lions jersey for "$100 or best offer," she was offered $50.
"I countered $75, and their message to me was, 'You don't know what this is worth because you're a girl,' " said Fodera, who usually sells women's clothes and has an eBay page decorated with roses.


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The upcoming Apple Watch 8 could have a massive 47mm flat screen, matching the design of the iPhone 13 Pro. Here’s what you need to know.
Apple is all set to unveil its latest version of iPhone, the iPhone 14, at its “Far Out” event scheduled for September 7, just a week from now. The Cupertino-based tech giant is also expected to launch the new Apple Watch 8. While much has been made of the new pill-shaped and perforated design of the iPhone 14 Pro variants, the upcoming Apple Watch Pro is expected to feature a massive 47mm flat screen, matching the design ideology of the iPhone 13 Pro.
According to rumors, Apple is expected to launch 3 variants of the Apple Watch this year: Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch 8 and the new Apple Watch Pro (Rugged). While the Apple Watch SE is expected to be an affordable and toned down version of the Apple Watch 8, the new Apple Watch Pro or Apple Watch Rugged is a brand new watch, with even better features and specs than the already impressive Apple Watch 8.
Apple Watch rumored features and specs
According to the Japanese website Mac Otakara, the rugged Apple Watch Pro will have a large 47mm body and a flat screen, just like the design of the iPhone 13 Pro. This would make the Apple Watch Pro 7 percent larger than the largest standard Apple Watch model. Earlier, Apple analyst Ross Young revealed that 45mm will not be the largest variant of the Apple Watch 8 as the company is expected to launch a new 50mm variant this year.
Earlier, analyst Mark Gurman tipped it could have a special body temperature sensor. The Pro model comes with a price tag of about $900, almost the same price as the iPhone 13 Pro.


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KALAMAZOO, MI— The Kalamazoo Wings are inviting the public to design a specialty jersey to be worn by the team on December 16, 2017, in a game against the Brampton Beast. Fans will have a three-week window, beginning on Monday, July 10, to submit their work to the email handle email@example.com.
Fans, amateur artists, or anyone interested is encouraged to submit a jersey/sock design, with a deadline of Monday, July 31. These jerseys will be worn during game action and then auctioned off at the conclusion of the contest, with the proceeds benefiting a local charity.
Submitted designs will be considered by the Kalamazoo Wings staff and narrowed to a top-10 list of finalists. The final ten jerseys will be voted on by fans of the Kalamazoo Wings Hockey Club Facebook page from Tuesday, August 1 until Monday, August 7.
The Kalamazoo Wings staff and ownership will then decide on a winner and reveal the decision on Tuesday, August 8.
Entire contest details (including templates and rules for submission) can be found below.
For an entire list of rules and regulations, visit: http://kwings.com/jerseydesign
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Switch Mobility, the next-generation electric bus and light commercial vehicle company, and subsidiary of Ashok Leyland Ltd, had recently announced strategic steps to further solidify its progress towards developing net zero carbon mobility. Dr Andrew Palmer has been appointed as Executive Vice Chairman & CEO and other key leadership positions were announced. Former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan banker and senior lawyer, Dr Miranda Brawn, and auto industry veteran, Mr J M Alapont, were recently inducted to the Board.
In April, Switch Mobility had announced technological collaborations with various partners, including Siemens, to deliver e-Mobility solutions that offer the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for CV customers. As part of its ramp-up, Switch Mobility has already signed customer agreements and LOIs with leading logistic and ecommerce operators.
Dr. Andrew Palmer, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Switch, commented, “Switch already has a head start in the e-Mobility space, with our vehicles already clocking millions of miles in service. We want to increase our reach further and work with different stakeholders to encourage the faster adoption of net zero carbon mobility. With key leadership positions being filled, we are raring to go and are ready to transform the transport mobility space. Technology and innovation will continue to be pivotal in realising our aspirations in the e-bus and e-truck space.”
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