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It certainly looks like the legal battles Apple is currently embroiled in is starting to wind down. According to reports, Apple has offered Proview a settlement regarding the trademark dispute over the iPad name. While the amount of money offered to Proview was not disclosed, Roger Xie, a lawyer for Proview, revealed that there was still a “big gap” between the amount that Apple is offering and the amount of money that Proview is asking for. Will they eventually settle on a number that both sides will agree to? That remains to be seen but for now it looks like steps are taken to end this legal dispute once and for all.
Just in case you might have missed out on all the legal drama, it was a few months ago when Chinese company Proview sued Apple claiming that they infringed upon the iPad trademark which they own. Apple naturally disputed this, claiming that they bought the rights to the trademark from a Proview subsidiary. Both sides refused to give in which lead to a drawn-out courtroom battle, but now it looks like things are starting to wind down as both companies have agreed to settlement talks.
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- iPad Pro Rumored For 2015 Release, iPad Mini Might Be Discontinued


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Manolo says, Ayyyyyy, the Times of the New York they have done the article on the fashion blogs! And there is the picture of the Manolo’s internet friend the Barneys Girl, and she is indeed most beautiful and super fantastic.
With names like Fashionologie, Kiss Me, Stace, Shoewawa and Now Smell This, the more popular fashion blogs are compelling enough that “to ignore them is to run the risk of seeming out of touch,” said Brandon Holley, the new editor in chief of Jane, the young women’s style magazine. Readers identify with bloggers’ idiosyncratic, rebellious voices, said Ms. Holley, who has added two online diarists to her stable of contributors. The blogs, which are updated weekly, daily and sometimes hourly, are a platform uniquely well suited to fashion news, she added.
“Fashion moves so fast, ” Ms. Holley said, “that readers find the blogs keep up better than even the tabloids like Us Weekly.”
Writing with a candor not often glimpsed in the pages of that celebrity weekly, or in W, InStyle or Harpers Bazaar, bloggers form an opinionated, informed and spirited community. They may be a long way from displacing Vogue as a fashion authority, but they are steadily gaining clout with consumers and marketers.
“In coming months we can expect that fashion blogs are probably going to have the same kind of influence that we see in widely read blogs about gadgets and high tech toys like BoingBoing,” said Bob Wyman, the chief technology officer and a founder of PubSub, a search engine that offers a weekly rating of a blog’s popularity based in part on the number of links that appear in the content and also the number of postings.
This it is exactly what the Manolo said many months ago in this very blog.
The Manolo he is confident in predicting that the fashion blogging, it is only in its infancy, and that it will grow in the importance over the coming two or three years. Indeed, look for more of the fashion industry insiders to begin their own blogs.
Of the course, this it was not the especially prescient prediction, but the Manolo he takes the pride in it nonetheless, and he notes that indeed the fashion insiders, like the Beverly Feldman, they now have their own blogs.
This article by the Ruth La Ferla, it is quite good, but, sadly, for some reason, the Manolo he was not mentioned. Happily, many of his internet friends they were!


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For the last two years, industry veteran Scott Grout has given back to the local tech scene as an investor, mentor and adviser to the next generation of companies.
“I had the opportunity to see dozens of companies over that time,” said Grout, who was CEO of RadiSys Corp from 2002 to 2011. “Overall, I am so impressed and happy with the level of startup activity and the different technologies being worked on. It’s a very vibrant startup community.”
So vibrant, he has jumped in the middle of it joining cloud performance and traffic management startup Cedexis as CEO.
What made this company different from the others he has invested and advised?
“I tried to identify the companies that could go to $100 million, $200 million or $500 million,” he said. “As I worked with different startups and looking for those that have potential to do something big, this is one of a handful that I think has that opportunity.”
Cedexis, which was founded in 2009, has roughly 50 employees and develops software used by clients to monitor the performance of cloud infrastructure and where things aren’t working re-route traffic.
“The end market is very frothy and vibrant, and it’s the early days of the cloud,” he said. “Only a small amount of IT infrastructure and compute is in the cloud, but it will grow like crazy in the next 10 years.”
Grout had started advising the company in January but took the CEO position just last week. He intends to continue to be active in the startup community but will likely pull back on some of his mentoring work.
For the rest of this year, he is focused on scaling Cedexis' business. The company, which has been doubling revenue for the last three years, already counts brands such as Airbus, Comcast, LinkedIn, Mozilla and Nissan as customers.
This year, the company is focused on growing sales in North America — it already has strong sales in Europe — and adding other geographies. The company is based in Portland but has another large office in Paris, a development office in San Francisco and a sales office in Chicago. The global team is expected to grow, and in Portland, Grout is looking for developers, marketers and product managers.


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Ascend Performance Materials, the Houston-based company that makes plastics, fibers and chemicals used for clothing to sporting goods, credits new plastics designed to withstand higher temperatures as a key factor behind its strong financial performance last year.
Ascend created new grades of thermoplastic polymers, materials that melt at certain temperatures and can be formed into shapes and harden upon cooling, at the urging of motor vehicle manufacturers that are building more efficient vehicles, including turbocharged engines and hybrid vehicles that use a combination of electricity and gasoline. "Temperatures under the hood are going up," said Ascend's chief executive officer, Phil McDivitt. Car makers need components that will withstand the higher heat.
Ascend is No. 4 on the Chronicle 100.
McDivitt, who got the top job this year after heading the nylon division, also cited temperature-related innovations in zip ties for a solid 2016. The latest generation of these straps, which are used for industrial, auto and home applications, won't break in extreme heat or cold.
Ascend reported revenue of $2 billion in 2016. The company is owned by SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in New York. Ascend was founded eight years ago when SK Capital bought St. Louis-based Solutia, a maker of nylon chemicals, plastics and fibers. The new company was launched in Houston.
The company has 2,400 employees companywide, including 850 in Houston. It has five manufacturing sites including one in Alvin, two in Alabama, and one each in Florida and South Carolina. The company ships about 60 percent of its products overseas, with some of its biggest customers in Europe and Asia.


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Home sales forecast brighter in '07
"Markets that boomed in the last five years boomed too much, and now they are coming down," Lereah says.
Prices were high, and builders responded by adding a flood of new homes to the market. When prices continued to rise, investors saw potential and bankrolled even more homes. When buyers stopped buying, the markets that flew the highest had the farthest to fall.
Molly R. Boesel, a Fannie Mae economist, wrote in a February commentary that sales will likely post another negative year in 2007, but that most of the decline is expected from a reduction in investor demand. Consumers, on the other hand, will likely jump back into the market.
The Federal Open Market Committee
of the Federal Reserve agreed when it issued
its Jan. 31 statement. In that statement, governors
said they were encouraged by "tentative
signs of stabilization" in the housing
"These are the first stages to getting the markets back into balance," Seiders says.
But even as consumers get back
in a buying mood, housing markets won't necessarily
spring back to previous heights. Part of the
reason is because there is still a large inventory
on the market, Lereah says.
One way economists rate homes
sales is by calculating how many months it would
take to sell all the homes listed for sale at
the current buying rate. At last count, Lereah
says it looked like there were between 6.8 months'
and 7 months' worth of homes sitting on the
market right now. He says that number will likely
fall to between 6.6 months' and 6.5 months'
worth by year's end. But that is still above
the 5.5- to 6-month inventory that signals a
Looking foreword, Lereah says
2007 will likely see an additional 1 percent
fall in sales -- but only compared with 2006
numbers, meaning sales will have hit bottom
and begun to rebound by year-end.
"We are not looking for a
big expansion, but it will be an expansion --
a sluggish expansion," he says.
Michael Giusti is a freelance writer
based in New Orleans.


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Walmart Lawsuits – Why Women Are Filing Walmart Lawsuits This Year
Many women are filing a Walmart lawsuit this year because they were mistreated by their employers. One such case is called Renati v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and it has already been filed in the Northern District of California. Like Radtke, Hicks left Walmart because she felt she had no upward mobility. Neither of them received the same amount of pay as their male counterparts, and they were unable to advance in the company.
The suit was filed by two Florida Walmart employees.
The lawsuit cites several violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including denying accommodations to workers with disabilities and pregnant women. Moreover, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees. Therefore, if Walmart denied women’s requests for accommodation, it violated their rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law also prohibits companies from denying equal treatment to women and minorities based on their gender.
The lawsuit claims that Walmart denied women promotions and access to management training programs, claiming that the company does not have an equal pay policy. This is a longstanding issue. The company did not offer equal pay for equal work, but women were not excluded from applying to management training programs. Furthermore, the companies discriminated against women because they did not have the same experience as their male colleagues. While this is not the only injustice, the allegations are still important to women and deserve a fair trial.
Another Walmart lawsuit involves the same issues as the Dukes case.
The Dukes case was dismissed in 2001, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission later granted the plaintiffs’ right to file a suit. In the new lawsuit, the companies are alleging that Walmart discriminated against women in hiring and promotion processes. Their actions contributed to the growing prescription opioid crisis. So, the company is facing a legal battle to protect its employees. For more information, visit the official website of the company.
The Walmart lawsuit is one of the most popular women’s discrimination lawsuits. This time, nearly 100 women are suing Walmart for gender discrimination. The company’s policies have resulted in the discrimination of women in the workplace. The lawsuits claim that the company violated the rights of both men and women in the workplace. This is not the first Walmart case. Many others have filed similar cases against other companies.
The Walmart lawsuit is closely related to the case that was dismissed in 2001.
Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission declined to dismiss the case, the plaintiffs’ case was pending before the Commission, which then granted the woman the right to sue. The lawsuit claims that the company discriminated against women and did not provide equal opportunities to all employees. However, the women filed the Walmart lawsuit in Florida and other states as well, and they are seeking damages and accountability for the wrongdoing they experienced.
A lawsuit filed in Florida by Borders and Woolbright has been filed in the Southern District of Florida. The women allege that the company failed to provide necessary accommodations for pregnant workers with disabilities. This is a violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which requires employers to give pregnant employees the same accommodations as disabled employees. The two plaintiffs are seeking millions of dollars in compensation in the Walmart lawsuit. So, the women have a right to be heard and are suing Walmart for discrimination.
The Walmart lawsuit is related to the Dukes case.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dismissed the Dukes case in 2001, but the lawsuit in Florida was still pending. She sued the company to gain her rights to sue. Her case is similar to Dukes’ and has been dismissed several times. The plaintiffs’ attorneys claim that Walmart policies have discriminated against women. The company should also pay her for the costs and time she has spent.
The Walmart lawsuit is a continuation of the Dukes case. Initially, the Walmart lawsuit was dismissed in 2001, but the company appealed the decision. The lawsuit was filed by a woman named Hope Garcia, who claimed that she was fired because she was a woman and that she had a disability. She later sought to reinstate her employment with the company, but she was subsequently fired. She sued the company in hopes of getting justice for herself and her family.


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U.S. Senate Committee Recommends FTC Inquiry Into Trucking Fuel Cards
The Senate Appropriations Committee is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to open an anti-trust investigation into trucking fuel cards, spurred by truck stop operators who say concentration in the business hurts their members. The committee put a request for the FTC investigation into that agency’s 2003 funding bill July 24. If the measure becomes law, the FTC would have to report its findings within 180 days. Natso, a trade group representing truck stops, lobbied hard to push the FTC investigation.


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As businesses are heading in the direction of digitalization, software program advancement marketplace is turning into a lot more technically advanced with embracing hottest technologies. It is aiming to supply high-course software program products and services to their clients/customers. Owing to the advancement of impressive and elaborate products, software program products tests is fast finding its application and strategical relevance in distinctive phases of software program advancement existence cycle.
In accordance to the hottest exploration performed by the products tests companies in New Jersey, it is unveiled that the need for products tests is predicted to increase by fifteen% this year. Now businesses are intended to remain aggressive in phrases of overall performance and stability. Also, testers are struggling to resolve concerns imposed by new technologies, consequently resulted in the huge adoption of automation tests and other technologies which are largely shaping this IT marketplace.
Below, we are outlining a number of hottest trends evolving out for software program products tests. It would be interesting to examine that how leveraging these trends can assist enterprises as effectively as tests pros to strategize their products tests services.
Large Facts & Analytics Screening Will Expose Their Probable:
Now, Large knowledge and analytics have manifested their prospective to the organizations because of to their capability of providing useful insights on crucial company factors. However, majorities of the companies have by now manufactured investments in Large Facts, it is further predicted to increase a lot more than $210 billion by the year 2020.
For this cause, companies would need to have to strategize close to Large Facts tests to check huge chunks of knowledge availed from numerous sources. To maintain the integrity of the knowledge, companies would have to have high analytical techniques, tools, and frameworks, so undoubtedly it is going to acquire a huge leap this year.
Agile and Continual Integration Will Continue being Necessary:
Given that agile advancement methodology facilitates adaptability and transparency across numerous procedures, organizations are looking at to commit in agile tests.
Also, with applying constant integration (CI), builders can immediately combine their code into a shared repository. Additionally, they can effortlessly recognize bugs all through the iteration and can rectify it at the principal developmental stage. This way, agile and CI makes certain customer’s demands by offering a high-quality products at a quick pace.
DevOps Adoption Will Rule The Marketplace:
Vast majority of the companies have by now invested in DevOps and it is going to increase continuously since DevOps offers the advantages of cross-functional capabilities major to more quickly recovery, a lot more deployments, and small failure costs. Hence, probabilities are, that IT industries can soon have an intensive in-home group of builders and testers.
Mobile & Cloud-based tests Will Turn into Advance:
Now, the market place is flooded with smartphones gross sales majorly because of to the advent of cell applications. Researches have unveiled that till now end users have downloaded close to 300 billion apps which eventually has generated a income of $78billion.
The astounding growth of smartphones and the cell app acceptance method will continue to keep cell tests as a critical component of tests tactics. Also, since industries are concentrating on offering seamless consumer encounter for cell gadgets, the need of cell tests will regularly increase.
Apart from this, cloud computing will also increase majorly because of to providing cost-economical company alternatives. In truth, by 2020, it is predicted that cloud will hugely have an affect on crucial company selections worth about a trillion bucks. Also, industries will migrate a lot of new tests procedures these as- like DevOps tests, cell app tests etc. to the cloud. Possibly, container-based alternatives will acquire a lot more relevance than virtual equipment.


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MILTON, Ga. – The newest moving of red dirt in Milton is at the corner of Ga. 9 and Windward Parkway, in an outparcel of the Walmart shopping center. It will become the future home of a Navy Federal Credit Union.
Navy Federal Credit Union calls itself the world’s largest credit union with more than four million members and $54 billion in assets. Founded in 1933, it began with seven members and now serves any branch of the military (including Coast Guard) and their families.
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The US tech giant indicated its intentions while answering a question from developers about their demand. Google took pre-submitted questions from developers.
Since last month, when Google announced its intentions of enforcing a 30% cut on in-app purchases for Play-distributed apps and other policies, Indian startup founders and tech entrepreneurs have been criticising the company’s move. Many, including most notably Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, have slammed the 30% charge as an example of Google abusing its dominance. In a conference for mini-app developers, Sharma targeted Google and called the tech giant a “toll collector” as he talked about the Paytm Mini App Store.
After facing criticism from the Indian startup ecosystem over its Play Store policies, Google, earlier this month, deferred the implementation of the policies for Indian app developers by six months to April 2022.
Earlier, in a blog post, Google had said that it was “deeply committed to the success of the Indian ecosystem — we do not succeed unless our partners succeed.”
In September, nearly 40 entrepreneurs had presented their views to the government through a virtual meeting chaired by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) secretary Ajay Sawhney. Meanwhile, it was reported that the Indian government is developing an Indian App Store to challenge the Google-Apple duopoly. Although, there has been no confirmation from the government on that front.


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With SunTrust Park set to open in a matter of days, the Atlanta Braves will be reintroducing MLB’s Ballpark app to fans.
According to Greg Mize, Director of Digital Marketing at the Braves, content within the app won’t just be baseball-specific, though. It is the first time Major League Baseball Advanced Media is allowing a MLB team to incorporate such content.
SunTrust Park is situated near The Battery Atlanta, a development area that includes restaurants, retail, housing and other features. Mize said that when he and the Braves researched the possibility of building a separate app for The Battery, it didn’t make sense. Other retail and development apps they examined didn’t receive significant download rates, and if a consumer used an app, it was for just one time. Instead, having one consolidated app experience was the ultimate decision.
“It’s exciting for us because we’re pioneering that experience between a ballpark and a non-baseball venue,” Mize said of The Battery content being embedded in Ballpark.
“We’re placing an importance on the ticketing elements, whether it’s purchasing tickets or accessing your bar codes for the game and parking. We’re partnering with Waze and Uber on efficiently getting to the ballpark. There’s a huge need for having the Ballpark app for coming to the venue…We view the app as a core component to a fan’s game day experience.”
As Mize alluded to, included within the Ballpark app will also be information provided by the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, Waze. Through a partnership with the Braves, Waze and Cobb County, if the Department of Transportation closes a road, re-routes traffic or impacts anything on the ground, fans will be notified in real-time through the Ballpark app without having to wait for a smartphone alert.
Also, a new built-in feature called Remedy — which was designed by Atlanta-based Kenzie Lane Innovation and the same founders of Experience — will assist in enhancing the fan experience and providing better overall customer service.
“If someone didn’t have an experience at SunTrust Park that met his or her standards or our standards, it’s an opportunity for them to raise their hand and for us, an opportunity to ‘Remedy’ the situation,” Mize explained, adding that the Braves will be Remedy’s first customer.
Through artificial intelligence technology, a fan can send his or her issue in via Remedy, which will then alert the Braves and their guest services department to the problem so they can improve the fan’s experience at SunTrust Park. Additionally, premium ticket holders will be able to order concessions via Bypass, a new addition to the app, and have it delivered to their seat. Another artificial intelligence feature called Satisfi will also help Braves fans navigate the new venue. Ask a question about the nearest bathroom or hotdog stand, and the app will send you to the nearest location.
If you’ve ever stood in a concession line at a sporting event and missed a crucial game-changing play, Ordr has you in mind—by creating an efficient way to order food or merchandise from your seat at the venue so your eyes are where they’re supposed to be: on the action.
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As MLB Pitch Clock Seems Imminent, Tech and Data Can Help Prevent the Possible Downside: Pitcher Fatigue
Pitch clocks may arrive in MLB as soon as 2023. And while it certainly will speed up the games, preliminary research has shown that a shorter amount of time between pitches can increase levels of muscle fatigue in pitchers and potentially lead to arm injuries. The experts say the MLB needs to be “smart about implementing it.’’
- Joe Lemire
- May 18, 2022
Drafted late in the first round by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Utah’s Devin Lloyd Has Already Partnered with Rally, whose $Baller Coin is the rage for some brand new rookies throughout the NFL. But Lloyd, with experience from NIL, seems prepared to handle his business, on and off the field.
- Joe Lemire
- May 16, 2022


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COVID-19 Hotel Heroes for supporting the environment
The pandemic presented many challenges and concerns for those of us working in the sustainability arena. The necessary COVID-19 prevention measures resulted in a sudden global escalation in the production and disposal of single-use items such as masks, gloves and wipes. There was a spike in energy and water consumption due to various washing and sanitisation measures that were required, along with an increase in the use of environmentally hazardous substances such as bleach to carry out cleaning tasks that previously involved products that were less harmful to biodiversity.
When travel almost came to a halt in March 2020, thousands of hotels all over the world closed their doors and the focus was almost entirely on business survival, leading to concerns that environmental matters would be put to the back of everyone’s minds. However, Travelife Certified hotels continued to show concern for their environmental impacts.
Our 2020 COVID-19 survey showed that over 93% of hotels were concerned about how the pandemic would affect their ability to work towards their environmental goals, with 99% saying that they wanted special support from us in terms of how to manage sustainability alongside the important COVID-19 hygiene standards they had to comply with, or during long-term closures.
We quickly responded through the development of the Travelife COVID-19 Operational Guidance Kit that was peer reviewed by UN Environment y en la página de ABTA health and safety team. This guide included advice, tips and ideas that helped hotels maintain strict COVID-19 prevention measures whilst minimising waste, energy consumption and the use of environmentally hazardous substances.
We also included a checklist for hotels that had closed to helped them ensure that food was not wasted, energy and water consumption was minimised, and that they were caring for any animals that were dependent on them. Finally, our guide contained tips and ideas for looking after the welfare of their staff and community.
We were pleased to see many hotels around the world using this guide to implement more sustainable transmission prevention measures, and we were extremely proud that the support we offered hotels resulted in us being a 2020 WTM Responsible Tourism Awards winner.
Although 94% of all Travelife Certified hotels surveyed were closed between March and June 2020, 89% said they still took actions to maintain their environmental commitments. All of these properties are heroes in our eyes and here are just two examples.
Limak Limra Hotel & Resort, Turkey
Located in Antalya, Limak Limra Hotel & Resort found a way to reduce the use of single-use wipes and mini hand sanitiser bottles by providing guests with cloth handkerchiefs that were soaked with an alcohol-based sanitiser. These were just as effective as the disposable wipes yet staff were able to collect used handkerchiefs from guests then put them through a sanitising laundry cycle so they could be safely reused.
Like many properties, they removed their self-service buffet to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, using staff to serve food instead and leading to a drastic reduction in food waste.
Alcudia Garden Aparthotel, Spain
Composting food waste generates over 90% less greenhouse gas emissions than decomposing food in landfill, so we were pleased to hear that Alcudia Garden Aparthotel in Mallorca didn’t let the pandemic stop them from continuing work on an important composting project. In 2020, despite the business challenges they were facing, the property fully implemented a system to ensure that food waste generated from buffets and kitchens is collected and composted for use by organic farmers. This was a result of a pilot project they began in 2016 and the property is now an example of circular economy best practices that other hotels in the Balearics can look to.


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Scoop: Nick Fox to assume Bill Ready's Google role
Nick Fox, the vice president who heads up Google's long-term bets, will takeover Google's commerce, payments, and Next Billion Users businesses on an interim basis, Axios has learned. This change comes after Tuesday's news his predecessor, Bill Ready, will become CEO at Pinterest.
Why it matters: Google has access to an enormous pool of users, with an estimated 3.4 billion on its Chrome browser alone. Any commerce or payments product it could make would be a potential threat to other fintechs and e-commerce tech businesses.
Of note: On the payments side at least, Google has faced a lot of turmoil in recent years, muddying the company's ability to deliver its past vision. In March 2021, Caesar Sengupta said he would leave after 15 years with the company, which led to several others also exiting.
- It was after Sengupta's exit that Ready's role at Google — in which commerce and payments were run by one person — came into existence.
- That fits into a broader strategy for Google, in which it seeks to work with merchants and banks rather than as direct competitors to them. It has also sought to more closely tie its maps, e-commerce, ads, and payments products together.
Background: In nearly 20 years with the company, Fox has held a variety of roles. At one point, he helmed up the company's communication products, including Google Voice and Hangouts, as well as its Adwords unit.
- Fox will continue to report to Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google. Raghavan was previously overseeing Ready, too.
- His most recent title was vice president for product and design, search and assistant
“Bill has played a key role in setting a new vision and strategy for Commerce and Payments at Google," a Google spokesperson tells Axios. "We will continue building on this strong foundation to make helpful, commerce experiences universally accessible for our users and our partners."


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Research In Motion said it won't start selling phones with its new software platform until the "later part" of 2012 and had to take a US$485 million inventory-related charge on its PlayBook tablet as part of another poor earnings report for the strug...
Apple's extraordinary run over the last few years may begin to show signs of slowing next year--its first year without visionary leader Steve Jobs.
Tablet sales at 18.1 million units during the third quarter were somewhat lower than expected, but stronger-than-expected demand during the rest of the year will give the market a boost, according to market research company IDC.
Apple's iPad 2 is now available from all three major Australian telcos after Optus announced that it would begin to sell the tablet from today on a range of contract plans.
In a reorganization of its mobile business, Intel said Wednesday it has formed a new group, called the Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) that will focus on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices.
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and...
Despite the widespread belief among Apple-watchers that the next-generation iPad would launch in March 2012, a Citigroup analyst believes it could be earlier that that.
There will be two million iPhone 3GS units produced in the quarter ending December 2011, despite the handset now being more than two years old, it has been claimed.
If recent rumors about Apple's imminent tablet plans are true, the third-generation iPad will arrive sometime between February and April 2012.
Just when we thought the $99 Hewlett-Packard TouchPad was gone forever, the tablet that refuses to die is coming back for one last sale, according to online reports. A limited quantity of refurbished TouchPads will reportedly go on sale at HP's eBay ...
The future of webOS has been hazy since HP announced in August that it will discontinue its webOS line of devices. The HP Veer 4G faded into oblivion, but the HP TouchPad has enjoyed numerous fire sales since the announcement. Today, HP announced tha...
As an open-source project with uncertain backing, webOS has a tough road ahead of it, analysts said on Friday.
Vodafone has become the first Australian telco to announce availability of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet, with pre-orders for the device opening today at 4pm on both 12 and 24 month contract plans.
Samsung has finally won the right to officially sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia, following the Federal Court of Australia's decision to reject Apple's request to appeal today.
The Novo7, a 7-inch tablet available in China that runs Ice Cream Sandwich, is set to arrive in the United States in the coming months with an expected price of $99.
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MILAN — Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had to know, according to the appellate court judges who in April handed down a guilty verdict in their tax trial.
On Wednesday, the judges explained that decision and concluded, “It is not at all believable that the designers, once made aware of the project [to avoid Italian taxes], could feel they were operating legally.” The judges underscored that, in delegating to others, there is also an obligation of company principals to provide direction to those same subordinates. The appeals court, headed by Judge Laura Cariati, dismissed the possibility of ignorance in the matter, which the designers claimed in their defense. Instead, Cariati saw “an intentional” plan to avoid a higher tax rate in Italy, compared with rates in Luxembourg.
Following investigations that began in 2008, initiated by the Guardia di Finanza, an Italian police force under the authority of the national minister of economy and finance, Dolce and Gabbana were charged with tax evasion related to the 2004 sale of the Dolce & Gabbana and D&G brands to the designers’ Luxembourg-based holding company, Gado Srl. The Italian tax police reportedly consider Gado essentially a legal entity used to avoid Italy’s higher corporate taxes.
The judges expressed their belief that Gado was only fictitiously based in Luxembourg and that the administration and main location of the company’s activities were in Italy. They underscored the fact that the project profited the designers the most, in turn confirming the responsibility of all the defendants.
The appeals court upheld the decision of the lower court, ruling the defendants guilty, albeit with a two-month reduction in their jail sentences.
Dolce, Gabbana and accountant Luciano Patelli were sentenced by the appeals court to one year and six months of jail time. Last June, the Italian designers and Patelli had been sentenced to one year and eight months in jail, plus legal expenses for omitted tax declarations.
Dolce’s brother Alfonso, Dolce & Gabbana general director Cristiana Ruella and finance director Giuseppe Minoni were sentenced to one year and two months in jail plus legal expenses, reduced from the original sentence of one year and four months.
None are likely to serve jail time, given the Italian practice of waiving incarceration for sentences of less than two years. And the designers are appealing fines potentially in excess of $550 million based on what Italian revenue authorities claim are unpaid taxes related to the sale of the brands to Gado.
The defendants’ lawyers, who are expected to appeal to the highest court, the Cassazione, filed their appeals in November, and during the first hearing at the appeals court in March, Milan general prosecutor Gaetano Santamaria unexpectedly rebutted the allegations, overturning the tax service’s arguments, and asked for all the defendants to be acquitted. Santamaria said that the case was “groundless,” and that the verdict last year “contrasts with common sense.”
The defendants, who have always denied all charges, were acquitted last June on the second count with which they were originally charged, regarding the valuation of the company and the tax rate paid.
The defendants were originally absolved of the claims by a lower court in April 2011, but the Cassazione in November 2012 overturned that decision, saying that tax avoidance, or tax mitigation, on an earnings declaration is a criminal offense under the law. A trial at the first court level began in December 2012 and wrapped up at the end of June last year.
@tradesy is turning the concept of a showroom upside down with its new space in Santa Monica. Here, the company plans to hold events, art exhibits and a showcase rare fashion pieces like this Louis Vuitton boxing set. Get all the details on Tradesy’s first showroom on WWD.com. #wwdnews
Spotted last night at the @erdem x @hm launch event: Kate Bosworth, Rashida Jones, Kirsten Dunst and Selma Blair. The party, which took place in LA, also marked the opening of their pop-up shop. “I was interested in creating a collection that wasn’t in any way disposable. It was about pieces you’d create and keep forever, things that have a permanence to it,” designer Erdem Moralioglu said. #wwdeye (📷: Katie Jones)
Renee Zellweger in yellow in 2001 and again in 2017. Chosen as one of the 12 @pantone Leading Spring Colors (and dubbed “Meadowlark”), it only makes sense that the bright hue stands the test of time and is making a resurgence this season, seen already on stars like @blakelively and @gigihadid. (📷: Donato Sardello & @rexfeatures) #wwdfashion #tbt
Dior’s 70th anniversary celebration continues with a new exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. “Christian Dior,” which is scheduled to run through March 18, takes a look at the founders tenure from 1947 to 1057 and feature 40 designs. Pictured here is an evening gown from the Ailée, fall 1948-49 haute couture collection. #wwdfashion (📷: Brian Boyle)
As one of the most recognizable models in the world, Christy Turlington Burns has an insider’s view of the fashion industry and the allegations of sexual harassment swirling around it. “I can say that harassment and mistreatment have always been widely known and tolerated in the industry. The industry is surrounded by predators who thrive on the constant rejection and loneliness so many of us have experiences at some point in our careers,” Turlington told WWD, along with her suggestions for how the modeling world should protect younger women and men. Read more on WWD.com. Link in bio. (📷: Tony Palmieri) #wwdnews
@asics America has tapped a new brand ambassador: famed DJ/record producer @steveaoki. This initiative is intended to set the tone for the new brand identity and philosophy and will include partnerships with influencers and in-store and off-line activations that will continue into next year. This is Asics’ most significant marketing effort in two decades, and is expected to attract younger consumers to the brand. #wwdfashion
24-year-old Jean Prounis is redefining the rules of jewelry. Formerly a studio assistant to Jemima Kirke and a design apprentice at Ghuran, she focuses on handcrafted subtleties and ancient goldsmithing techniques. “There was a really sterile feel in the environment and I wanted to have jewelry with character that shapes how you wear it everyday,” Prounis said. Each piece is hand made in New York, either by Prounis or three other jewelers in the district. #wwdfashion
“These collections continue to build on that vision, empowering differently abled adults to express themselves through fashion,” said @tommyhilfiger of his line of adaptive apparel, which launches today. The line consists of 37 men’s and 34 women’s styles based upon the pieces from the spring Tommy Hilfiger sportswear collection. #wwdnews


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343 Industries, has announced a new eSports league dedicated purely to Halo. Held in conjunction with the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, this new league will create a single sanctioning body for overseeing all competitive Halo games; and it starts with a US$50,000 grand prize tournament.
The Halo Championship Series will begin shortly after the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection later this month. Teams of four players will compete in online and offline tournaments to earn points throughout the league pre-season. At the end of this period, which 343 is currently saying will be March, the top teams will be invited to the grand finals. No details have been provided for the finals have been provided, so there is still some waiting to be done.
An invitational tournament to celebrate the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be held on 8 and 9 November; where additional details about the championship series will be revealed.
Halo has lost quite a bit of ground to other triple A first person shooters like Battlefield and Call of Duty, not to mention the competitive first person shoot scene is mainly dominated for Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Whether this exercise is capable of bringing the shine back to a series that has not had a new release since November 2012 remains to be seen; although it might spur Electronic Arts and Activision to do the same for their own games.


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When it comes to defensive sectors, so called because they hold out against the onslaught of tough economic times, they don't get much more defensive than telecommunications. Buoyed by a service that people keep using even when cutting back elsewhere, and aided by their duopoly status, the UAE's two telecoms companies are practically guaranteed to make investors happy when annual results are announced in the coming week.
While three years of breakneck growth at du may be over - its chief executive says the company is approaching the day when it is no longer a growth story - the story of the country's second operator is still a compelling tale. The smart money says that the UAE will not be adding a third operator any time soon, and regulatory reforms expected to be introduced this year - including number portability and broadband internet competition - will help du.
More important, Etisalat, the national telecoms company, is seriously undervalued. Just one of the 17 analysts tracking the company recommends selling its shares; 14 say buy, estimating that the company is trading at a discount of as much as 78 per cent. The reason, most analysts agree, is that the value of Etisalat's international operations, which now reach 17 countries, is not priced in by the market.
It should be. While most of Etisalat's international units remain in the unprofitable early stage, the company is building strong positions in vast emerging markets such as Nigeria, Egypt and Pakistan. It has asked regulators to allow it to purchase a majority stake in its Indian subsidiary, which will launch operations in the world's fastest growing telecoms market this year. Analysts say Etisalat's current stock price is a fair reflection of the value of its domestic business, so an Etisalat share bought today effectively includes a free share in a giant, sovereign-backed, emerging market telecoms group. Seems like a good deal to us.


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For months, I’ve been watching with interest the publicly traded search engine company headquartered in Mountain View, CA, just miles from where I lived during the dot com bubble. SearchGuy.com went public in May through a reverse merger. For SearchGuy.com, the bubble is not over. The company runs from press release to press release as it tries to grow into its valuation.
The company had 100 million outstanding shares and at one point had a stock price of $0.75, giving it a market capitalization of $75 million. Today, it is trading at $0.589, but last week it “retired” 50 million shares, so now it has only 50 million outstanding shares and a market cap of just under $30 million. Sill, that’s not bad for a company which has never announced revenue and whose company headquarters in Mountain View are actually just an executive suite. (To keep overhead costs down.)
Today, in an exciting announcement, the company announced it is partnering with Valueclick’s Search123 for paid search results. This is significant because it isn’t just SearchGuy announcing something it is thinking about doing, or telling us what it is going to work on next, like so many past press releases. This time, it’s an actual partnership with a good company.
Searchguy’s traffic is still extremely low, but a couple of times it has broken into the Alexa top 100,000, usually after a good press release or two.
I may sound a bit sarcastic, but I’m actually extremely hopeful that SearchGuy will grow into its valuation through execution and deals. I want to see small startup companies be able to access capital from public markets.


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CHENNAI: Ten retailers in electronics and home appliances industry have written to Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for restarting operations in districts. Major retail chains including Viveks, Shahs, Girias, Vasanth and Co are among the signatories of the letter.
The industry fears impact on one lakh families because of job losses and a drop in direct and indirect tax revenues to the state.
"It has already been 45 days since we've closed our operations. We request you to allow our operations in individual districts. Further delay will result in loss of jobs to the tune of 30%-40% that is around 10,000 families will lose their livelihood. Lakhs of families are dependent on this industry’s manufacturing, logistics, service engineers and advertising agencies," the letter stated.
The retailers estimated Tamil Nadu consumer electronics and home appliance market at nearly Rs 7,500 crore per annum. Stressing upon the revenue, GST contribution and the number of jobs created in the state, the retailers said collectively the industry employs around 25,000 front line salesmen and approximately 1500 backend employees.
“We have a lot of expenses lined up, including rent, salary and government bills aggregating to Rs 300 crore. We request you to allow our operations in individual districts where we have been asked to shut down and we assure you that we will follow all the ruled laid by the government rules,” read the letter.


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I recently completed my 14th Virus Bulletin conference paper, co-written with Intego’s Lysa Myers, on “Mac hacking: the way to better testing?” to be presented at the 23rd VB conference in October, in Berlin. The paper itself won’t be available until after the conference, but the abstract is on the Virus Bulletin conference page here.
Many of us have got wiser to email spams and scams – but cybercriminals are in the perfect position to “fine tune” their attacks. Our tips might help you avoid the “click of death”…
Fake adverts could be used to “remote control” internet browsers on a massive scale – allowing for cheap DDoS attacks, where millions of unwitting web users “attack” target sites.
New analysis and white paper detail how ESET researchers helped stop criminal hackers exploiting a Brazilian government website to retrieve data stolen by Trojan code that used spam and a Chrome browser plugin to steal confidential data from online banking customers.
Borrowing an iPhone charger – or using one in a public place – might be more risky than you think. Researchers from Georgia Tech showed off an attack this week which used a modified iPhone charger to infect an iPhone 5 with spyware in under a minute.
One in six adults use the name of a pet as the basis of their password, and two-thirds use their partner’s name, according to a new survey commissioned by Google.
A new ransomware infection scares its victims by invoking the name of the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Cyber Security Division – and frightens users further by posting a webcam picture.
Members of a Russian cybercrime forum attempted to frame respected security blogger Brian Krebs by mailing 13 bags of heroin to his home and alerting police.
A hi-tech spoofing attack took “remote control” of a 213-foot yacht – steering it off course, without anyone touching the steering wheel.
NASA is no stranger to peering into nebulae in space – but the space agency found itself perplexed by the more Earthbound puzzle of cloud computing security, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General.
A Twitter account used by international news agency Thomson Reuters was compromised this week, by hackers affiliated to the Syrian Electronic Army.
Recently, our anti-virus laboratory discovered an interesting new modification of a file virus known as Expiro which targets 64-bit files for infection. File-infecting viruses are well known and have been studied comprehensively over the years, but malicious code of this type almost invariably aimed to modify 32-bit files. One such family of file viruses, called
Beat the heat, find somewhere cool to compute! But first check our tips on how to more safely navigate the mall, lobby, library, coffee shop or wherever you go to chill out with your digital devices.
Earlier estimates of “trillion-dollar” damage to the world economy may have overstated the financial impact of cybercrime, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Many people leave phones and tablets “open” to criminals – both the cyber variety, and the ordinary, non-cyber kind. Our tips should help your handset safe.
Two researchers are to demonstrate a “hack” that allows control over automobile systems including brakes and steering in models by Ford and Toyota – overriding the commands sent by the driver.
A new study aims to identify the sort of people who are most likely to fall for phishing scams – and has found that women, introverts and the overconfident are more likely to confuse “real” email with phishing scams.
Spyware is a growing threat on Android phones, according to research by Kindsight Labs, a division of Alcatel-Lucent.


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ATI offers intelligent end-of-arm technology solutions to OEMs for advanced industrial and surgical robots
Novanta, a technology partner to medical and advanced technology equipment manufacturers, has agreed to acquire US-based ATI Industrial Automation for an upfront cash payment of $172m.
Under the deal, ATI will receive additional contingent cash payments from Novanta based on 2021 financial performance.
Based outside Raleigh, North Carolina, ATI offers intelligent end-of-arm technology solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for advanced industrial and surgical robots.
ATI CEO Bob Little said: “We are excited to join Novanta at this stage of our development. We expect the combination of competencies and cultures to create better opportunities for our customers and employees.”
ATI is engaged in the development, manufacturing and selling of products such as robotic changing systems, force/torque sensors, and collision sensors for industrial, collaborative and medical robotic applications.
The company’s products are said to help OEMs and end-users to enhance safety and productivity of their robotic systems.
Established in 1989, the company employs more than 350 employees.
Novanta CEO and chairman Matthijs Glastra said: “ATI is a fantastic business with proprietary intellectual property in attractive and growing markets.
“The business adds intelligent technology solutions and expands Novanta’s position in mission critical robotic applications, such as electric vehicle production, medical robotics, and collaborative robotics.
“In addition, the transaction creates a nearly $250m Precision Motion Segment with significant engineering competency to further accelerate our growth.”
Subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals, the deal is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year.
Global investment bank Harris Williams is advising ATI on the sale.


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The 2015 FIA Formula E Visa London ePrix marked one of the first major implementations of contactless mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) technology in Europe, allowing visitors to pay for purchases with their Visa card.
Visa Europe's investment in the booming fintech startup scene is beginning to take shape, with the card scheme claiming to have established relationships with 100 entrepreneurs with fresh ideas for transforming payments in its first 100 days.
Visa Europe is partnering with one of Germany’s most important Payment Service Providers (PSP), Computop, to implement the digital wallet V. me by Visa in German online retail payment solutions on a large scale.
UK-based retail accelerator TrueStart has forged a strategic alliance with Visa Europe Collab to steer startups with cross-over potential to the card scheme's innovation hub for advice and mentoring.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Lloyd A. Carney as a new independent director, effective June 11, 2015. Mr. Carney will also serve as a member of the Board’s Audit and Risk Committee.
Visa is harnessing the power of crowdsourcing for an app that helps tourists find destinations that are off the beaten track.
Visa Inc. announced at a recent meeting of the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)-sponsored Credit Card Working Group (CCWG) that effective October 2015 it will accept airline-supplied flight manifests as a remedy for fraud payment card chargebacks.
Visa has signed four of the UK's largest banking brands for the full-scale commercial roll out of its V.me digital wallet for online shopping.
Visa Europe Collab, Visa Europe’s international innovation hub, today opens the call for entries for a new competition, developed in partnership with The Accelerator Network, for advanced stage startups and entrepreneurs.
Smart devices are on track to replace cash and cards as UK mobile payments are projected to hit over £1.2bn a week by 2020, according to research by Visa Europe.
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Microsoft Surface Phone Or Surface Pro 5 Likely To Feature Dual-Sided Screen, Patent Suggests [VIDEO]
With the recent launch of the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S8, and the Galaxy S8+ smartphones and the arrival of the equally anticipated iPhone 8 just around the corner, smartphone enthusiasts got a lot to shout about this year, and if a recently discovered patent is anything to go by, tech buffs can look forward to getting their hands on a foldable Microsoft Surface Phone in near future.
Thanks to the hype surrounding Microsoft Surface Phone, the internet is rife with all sorts of rumors and leaks about the Redmond-based tech titan's new flagship smartphone dubbed, the Surface Phone. Adding more fuel to the already burning rumors about the purported handset, a Microsoft-made patent has found its way on the internet.
As expected, tech pundits and other sources began hazarding guesses regarding the recently surfaced patent without wasting too much time, some even going as far as claiming that it is associated with two of Microsoft's most awaited devices -- the Surface Phone and the Surface Pro 5. Interestingly, the patent seems to be hinting at a device featuring dual display.
While this sneaking suspicion stirred conversations among smartphone lovers, it's worth noting that the device in the patent looks more like a tablet, and not a smartphone. It offers a peek at an unnamed device that features a regular screen on one side, while its other side seems to be made of electronic paper, according to Express.
If this comes to fruition, there will be no need for Type Cover accessory that the Surface Pro 4 comes with. Plus, the patent shows that the second screen could be used to control the device's music choice and play games as well.
The e-paper screen, on the other hand, could probably transform into a bunch of buttons/controls that allow users to interactively play their favorite games on the device. There's also a possibility that the patent could actually be hinting at a newfangled feature that the Surface Phone is likely to come with.
This theory coincides with a previous report from The Verge that indicated the Surface Phone might have a foldable form factor with two or three displays. However, none of the previously surfaced reports about the Microsoft Surface Phone got a nod from the software giant, and not everyone seemed convinced either.
Another report from TrustedReviews centering on the latest patent, which was filed in September last year, say it might be for a tablet design rather than the Surface Phone. Since the e-paper section is expected to be a cover, removable and more importantly, touch sensitive, the report suggests that Microsoft could be prepping a new e-paper Surface or Surface Pro cover.
Nothing is set in stone yet and Microsoft seems to be in no mood to divulge more details regarding the long-rumored Surface Phone and the Surface Pro 5 devices. Besides, tech gurus believe it's highly unlikely that the company might come out with this kind of technology.
Zealous Surface fans who have restlessly been waiting for the new Surface Phone's launch should bear in mind that companies usually use a patent to protect their ideas and not to suggest what aces they have up their sleeve. But fret not; more concrete details are likely to surface online in near future and you can watch this space for more Surface Phone and Surface Pro 5 related news and updates!


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Partnering with startups makes enterprises future-ready: Sangeeta Bavi of Microsoft
Partnering with startups can help startups build future-ready products, according to Sangeeta Bavi, Executive Director, Digital Natives at Microsoft.
“Partnering with startups is like a crystal-gazing experience for what is coming in the future. It is crucial for Microsoft for technology and business models,” Sangeeta Bavi said at YourStory’s flagship startup event TechSparks 2022.
Highlighting what enterprises can do for startups, she said that the enterprises can factor in buying some of their SaaS (software-as-a-service) solutions from startups. “Enterprises can provide the right kind of programme to help startups optimise their cost lines as they grow. The other thing is tech mentorship–while startups have a great idea, at Microsoft we provide them with mentorship to scale and develop their ideas,” added Sangeeta.
Startups can also partner with Microsoft by applying to its Founder’s Hub programme which offers them mentorship from the company, connecting with venture capital partners of Microsoft in India and globally.
“What we can do at Microsoft for 12-18 months of your journey is to bring down the technology cost to zero dollars and look at adding to your topline. Microsoft sells in 192 countries and we can help these startups sell in these countries,” said Sangeeta. She added that Microsoft will continue to be a platform play for startups to scale and go global.
For startups looking to pitch to enterprise-backed accelerator programme and mentorship modules, Sangeeta says that often knowing the kind of support they are looking for helps them connect faster.
“Having clarity on what you want from that partnership is important. There are multiple enterprise startup programmes – the ability to have the clarity to say that this is what will help go to market faster or build a differentiated product or expand geographically helps,” signed off Sangeeta.
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Fredrik Wester has spoken out to defend Paradox Interactive's approach to premium DLC for its strategy titles, insisting it's a "fair and balanced way to release content."
The publisher has been criticised by some players for the sheer amount of additional content release for its games. Crusader Kings 2, for example, has seen over $300 worth of DLC released since it launched in 2012.
Some Paradox fans see this as too high a cost of entry, particularly in an era when so many games offer free post-release content to keep players engaged.
In a Twitter thread, Wester -- former CEO and now executive chairman of the Paradox board -- said the DLC model is "based on the idea that you pay for new content after the full game release" and "helps to finance the further development of the game, which is of gain for all players."
He adds that Paradox does indeed do free updates and upgrades every time it releases new DLC so those who choose not to buy get additional content to play with. This "would not be possible to fund" without other players buying said DLC.
Wester also notes that multiplayer matches are run in a way that connects players without DLC to those who do have it, so they can access all content in multiplayer without having to pay for it. This, he says, "has been a way for us to avoid splitting up the player base."
"I know this is not a flawless model and that a lot of new players get intimidated by seeing a game with hundreds of [dollars] in DLC," he wrote. "However, we also run deep discounts on all our games and DLCs regularly.
"Like with all business; if you don't think it's worth it, don't buy it."
He wrapped up by adding that the DLC model "allows us to experiment more" and make more interesting content over time, and that he personally favours cosmetic DLC since they have no gameplay effect but still help to fund development.
"Is this a perfect model for releasing content? No," he concluded. "Are we constantly working to make it better? Yes. Are we listening to feedback from players? Yes.
"Are we listening to people who 'BLURG BLARGH GREEDY BASTARDS DLC BAD OOGA BOOGA'? No."
GamesIndustry.biz addressed this issue with Paradox's new CEO Ebba Ljungerud last year, where she echoed many of Wester's points. She also pointed to the amount of hours and value available in a title like Crusader Kings 2, thanks in no small part due to the extra content.
"We have to deal with the issue of people being conditioned by how other games in the industry work. And the conditioning is, if you don't get all of the content then you're missing out on something, which is not true in our games," she said.
"We need to get better at bundling and presenting stuff on our product pages, so that when you come in you're not inundated with a torrent of DLC and you feel like you're getting gouged."
Last week, Wester appeared on a GameLab panel hosted by GamesIndustry.biz, where he said the 70/30 revenue split operated by digital stores such as Steam is "outrageous."


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Battle Of Bottles In Osun As Guinness, NBL, International Breweries Jostle For Drinkers’ Throats
Leading breweries in Nigeria are currently entangled in a business war in Osogbo to get more consumers as the Osun Osogbo festival commences.
Osogbo the state capital of Osun is the home of the Osun Osogbo sacred groove, a sacred forest inscribed as a UNESCO world heritage site is along the banks of Osun River.
The Nigeria brewery had enjoyed the monopoly of parading their products in a carnival like manner for a period spanning close to eight years in what was tagged as the “Osun Osogbo star night” before it was changed to “Goldberg night” to promote the introduction of its latest brand of beer to consumers.
Guinness however made incursion to the state capital last year organising her own “Osun Osogbo Guinness night” where the company’s products are on sale to consumers.
This year’s edition of the festival now has the Osun based international brewery, the latest entrant into the business war to get consumers by the country’s leading breweries, making the festival in Osogbo spiced with the display of the products of Nigeria’s leading brands in brewery.
The newly renovated Freedom Park by the state government houses both Guinness PLC and International breweries at the old garage end of the city, while Gbogan-Ibadan Road Osogbo is the home of Nigeria brewery stand.


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Craft brewer BrewDog agrees new joint venture deal with Budweiser to make beers in China
- BrewDog said China is currently responsible less than 1% of its overall sales
- Beers like Punk IPA will be produced at Budweiser’s craft brewery in Putian
- The joint venture is anticipated to be fully operational by the end of March
Craft beer maker BrewDog is to expand operations in China after forging a tie-up with Budweiser to brew some of its best-selling drinks and open more bars in the country.
The Scottish firm said the joint venture would enable it to capture more of a rapidly growing market, which is already the world’s largest beer consumer and producer, but where less than 1 per cent of its current sales are derived.
Under the arrangement, BrewDog beers, including Punk IPA, Elvis Juice and Hazy Jane, will be manufactured at Budweiser’s craft brewery in Putian, based in the eastern Chinese province of Fujian.
Hosting production in China will also enable it to ‘significantly reduce’ carbon emissions and logistics costs from not importing the beer from Europe, the firm added.
It marks BrewDog’s second joint venture in Asia, with the first launching in Japan in September 2021 as part of a partnership with multinational beverages giant Asahi, the owner of Grolsch and Fuller’s brewery business.
Growth: BrewDog is expanding operations in China through a tie-up with Budweiser
Since announcing the latter deal, the privately held company said its sales in Japan have more than doubled.
James Watt, BrewDog’s chief executive and co-founder, hailed the ‘transformational partnership’ that would help deliver the group’s beers ‘to every corner of the world’s biggest beer market.’
He added: ‘Chinese drinkers love craft beer, but the sector is still very new. In Budweiser China, we have found a partner that shares our growth vision for BrewDog in China and is perfectly placed to support our rapid growth in the region.
‘We’ve always wanted to significantly grow our share in China – this new JV will enable us to do just that as we look to continue to grow our business globally.’
The joint venture is anticipated to be fully operational by the end of March.
Alongside this, BrewDog said it had struck a deal with a Budweiser China affiliate to expand into South Korea and would open multiple new hospitality sites across China by 2026 to add to the sole bar situated in Shanghai.
At the start of last September, the company blamed massive cost hikes, including soaring energy prices, on its decision to close six pubs in London and Scotland.
In a social media post revealing the closures, Watt accused the ‘zombie’ [UK] Government of ‘sheer rabbit in the headlights paralysis’ as he warned the British hospitality sector was at risk of losing half its pubs and bars from rising costs.
Ambitious: BrewDog boss James Watt hailed the ‘transformational partnership’ that would help deliver the group’s beers ‘to every corner of the world’s biggest beer market’
Watt has himself come under fire over multiple scandals in recent years concerning his personal behaviour and BrewDog’s business practices.
Two years ago, a letter signed by a group called ‘Punks with Purpose’ claimed he presided over a culture of fear that had left some employees ‘burnt out, afraid and miserable’ and suffering mental illness.
Watt apologised to those who signed the letter and launched an independent review of the firm’s culture and practices, which included a company-wide salary review, mental health support for staff and an ethics hotline.
But a few months later, a BBC Scotland documentary interviewed former United States-based staff alleging he acted inappropriately with women at work, claims Watt denied.
Soon afterwards, the Guardian newspaper wrote that he had employed private investigators to look into people whom he thought had engaged in a smear campaign against him.
Responding to the reports, Watt said it was necessary to hire the private detectives as he had been the victim of a 2-year plot from ‘malicious individuals’ to damage him and BrewDog.


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BMW teamed with a realty firm to stage posh home driveways with its luxe cars
Auto maker and Canada's Heaps Estrin Real Estate added high-end models to multi-million dollar listings
Sep 12, 2019
House hunters in Toronto looking to keep up with the Joneses may find they’re up against more Bimmers than expected.
As part of a campaign from FCB Canada, BMW Canada and real estate firm Heaps Estrin are partnering to place high-end BMW vehicles in the driveways of multimillion-dollar homes currently on the market. It can be tough to get products in front of very wealthy buyers, but nearly everyone tours a home before buying it. And who could miss the car in the driveway?
In driveways of homes with listing prices between $2.9 million and $5.9 million, potential new neighbors saw one of three models: the BMW X7 SUV, which starts north of $70,000; the classic M5 sport sedan, which will set buyers back at least six figures; and the limited-edition electric i8 Roadster, which can be had for as little as $160,000, assuming one is available.
The cars show up in photos in digital home listings and make real-life appearances for open-house events.


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On Monday, Lululemon Athletic (NASDAQ:LULU) announced that it signed an agreement to acquire an in-home fitness company, MIRROR, for $500 million. Lululemon hopes that MIRROR’s high-quality content and versatile platform will build on its ecosystem and fuel its three-point growth strategy. In April 2019, Luluemon identified three growth drivers—product innovation, omni-guest experiences, and market expansion.
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been an increased demand for personalized remote exercise content. Brynn Putnam launched MIRROR in 2018 and raised $72 million. Through the company’s wall-mounted mirror device, it offers weekly live classes, on-demand workouts, and one-on-one personal training. Meanwhile, Lululemon made an initial investment of $1 million in MIRROR last year. So, the acquisition could expand the partnership between Lululemon and MIRROR.
The acquisition could close in the second quarter of fiscal 2020. However, the deal has to meet the necessary closing conditions. After the acquisition, MIRROR will operate as a stand-alone entity under Lululemon. Putnam will still serve as the company’s CEO and report directly to Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald.
On the acquisition, McDonald said, “In 2019, we detailed our vision to be the experiential brand that ignites a community of people living the sweatlife through sweat, grow and connect. The acquisition of MIRROR is an exciting opportunity to build upon that vision, enhance our digital and interactive capabilities, and deepen our roots in the sweatlife. We look forward to learning from and working with Brynn Putnam and the team at MIRROR to accelerate the growth of personalized in-home fitness.”
Lululemon stock rose
The announcement about Lululemon’s intent to acquire MIRROR improved investors’ sentiments. The company’s stock price rose 4% in the after-hours of trading on Monday. Lululemon has returned 27.1% year-to-date as of Monday. Investors’ excitement about reopening stores, strong fourth-quarter sales, and growth in e-commerce sales drove the stock higher. However, the lower-than-expected first-quarter performance offset some of the increases. So far this year, the company has outperformed the broader equity markets and its peers. The S&P 500 Index has declined by 5.5% this year as of Monday, while Nike (NYSE:NKE), Under Armour (NYSE:UAA), and Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) have fallen by 5.4%, 54.5%, and 20.3%, respectively.
Since Lululemon’s acquisition announcement, Cowen raised its target price from $311 to $335. Overall, analysts’ consensus target price was $320.42, which represents a 12-month return potential of 8.9%. Wall Street favors a “buy” rating for Lulululemon. Among the 35 analysts, 65.7% recommend a “buy,” while 34.3% recommend a “hold.” None of the analysts recommend a “sell.”


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There is a very distinct trend in video rentals. Kiosk rentals are increasing rapidly, as kiosks appear more frequently in grocery stores, mass merchandisers, and quick-serve restaurants, according to research by the NPD Group.
Kiosks rentals are expanding rapidly that I wouldn’t be surprised if kiosks are available at gas station convenience stores in the near future. In fact, Kiosk rentals have grown way faster than DVD rental subscriptions (ala Netflix), which have only grown 2% in the last year. Kiosk rentals are popular for 2 reasons;
1. They are relatively cheap at around $1 per day for a DVD rental
2. They are easily accessible – one could simply rent a DVD on the way home from the grocery store;
Continue reading Kiosk Video rentals growing rapidly, but for how long?
Continuing its apology for the outage, Skype has sent an email saying sorry for any inconvenience, as well as. Below is an email from Skype CEO Tony Bates offering 7 days of credit for current subscribers.
Sorry for any inconvenience
Continue reading Skype offers subscribers 7 days of credit for outage
Skype apologizes for the worldwide outage last week that had most users unable to use Skype services. Below is an email from skype CEO regarding the outage and offering 30 minutes of free calling to landline phones (note: some information in email letter has been modified to protect privacy).
Sorry for any inconvenience
Continue reading Skype apologizes for outage and offers 30 minutes of calling
The blogosphere and the twittersphere is aflame with the news that Skype has an outage, making it clear that this outage is BIG – in terms of news and in terms of the duration of outage.
With more than 500 million friends, it is not surprising that many many people notice when Skype is down. According to a Skype blog post, about two thirds (2/3) or users still cannot log in. Skype is working on activating new ‘supernodes’, but at this moment, I cannot even get to the Skype blog .
Smartphones are clearly becoming a commonplace phenomenon. In the USA, smart-phones now comprise more than 20% of all cellular phones, and this number is expected to rise to more than 40% in a few years.
What’s most interesting about smartphones is that, unlike feature phones, smartphones can have a useful second life.
Continue reading An afterlife for smartphones
Imagine meeting someone new or a friend a colleague after a long time and you decide to exchange phone numbers with that person. Exchanging a phone number the usual way would mean asking the other person for his/her contact information, typing in his/her name and phone number, storing it in the phone’s address book, calling the other person, and then having the person type in your name and storing your information.
Continue reading Bump my iPhone and I’ll call you
Last month Skype announced an agreement with Digium, the primary developer of the asterisk open-source IP-PBX software, to enable Skype from Asterisk. What this means is that one could make skype calls, even long distance and International telephone calls, from your office office phone as well as receive skype calls on your office phone. The initial versions will only support voice, with video support to be supported in the future.
Continue reading Skype moves into the Asterisk IP-PBX
A Boston-based company called MobileSphere has just announced a service called Slydial to send a voicemail to any mobile phone in the U.S. without having the risk of the called party answering the call. Anyone can send a voicemail by calling 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425) and entering the phone number of any U.S. mobile subscriber. The service is free, but you have to listen to a 10-second audio advertisement.
What MobileSphere has done is to figure out a way to connect you directly with different U.S. cell phone providers voicemail systems.
Continue reading When its awkward to talk to someone……just leave a voicemail
Harris Interactive, a market research firm, has conducted a survey of 9,132 adults conducted in 4Q of 2007 to find out the telephony usage patterns of U.S. adults. The survey shows that about 14% of adults are cord-cutters, up from about 10% in 2006. The percentage of adults with landline phones has dropped slightly to 79% from 81%. This shows that the number of people who use a cell phone exclusively for voice communication (i.e. have no landline phone), also called cord-cutters, is increasing.
The Chart and the table below show the telephony usage patterns among U.S. adults
Continue reading Telephony Usage among U.S. Adults shows Cord-cutting continuing
On 3/31, I noticed this new “New! Gmail Custom Time” notice on Gmail. Curious to know what it was, I clicked on it but the link didn’t work at that time. I was surprised that a Google link was not working, but didn’t take much notice beyond that.
Turns out this was an April Fool’s joke (The link started working on 4/1). I didn’t fall for it, because I heard about the joke before I got to the link on 4/1 (shown below), but I didn’t realize the joke on 3/31 either.
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It is hard to overstate how significantly the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected the legal industry. Most courts are all but closed, and many states are suspending jury trials for both civil and criminal matters. In addition, numerous law offices are shuttered as attorneys and staffers are forced to get by from working at home. Firms of all sizes are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and many small firms are experiencing a number of unique consequences from the unfolding crises.
Impact Of Court Closures
As many people within the legal industry are already aware, most courts have suspended in-person appearances for the foreseeable future. The last court appearance I attended in person was on March 13th, and the courthouse at that time was so deserted, it looked like The Shining. Although many courts are still deciding motions on submission, and are holding hearings, conferences, and the like through remote means, court appearances are not happening in all but emergent matters.
Most big firms can get by without court appearances. Indeed, many Biglaw firms and other larger shops do not rely on court appearances for significant billable hours and rather churn their bills mostly on memos, letters, and briefs that need to be written even if physical court appearances are suspended. However, a number of smaller firms rely on volume in order to make money, and need physical court appearances, and travel time to and from those appearances, for a huge chunk of their billable work.
When I was a “street lawyer,” I regularly had three or four court appearances a week, and a deposition every few weeks. Since most of my 44 cases were not too complicated, the vast majority of the hours I billed on these matters were related to court appearances. The average court appearance would take two or three hours, and usually I could bill at least half of my travel time too, so I ended up billing a substantial sum for each appearance. In addition, there are numerous per diem attorneys that almost exclusively rely on court appearances to make a living. Without physical court appearances, many small firms and per diems are only going to bill a fraction of the hours they billed during normal operations, and such attorneys are going to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Increases In Certain Types Of Work
Although many firms are experiencing business interruptions and other negative effects from the COVID-19 crisis, ironically, one type of legal work has seen an uptick of activity in recent weeks. Many businesses and people hoped to hold events over the next several months, whether it be conferences, weddings, or other types of gatherings. Because of crowd restrictions that have been put into place in many jurisdictions, and other impracticalities, numerous parties are attempting to terminate a variety of event contracts.
Most landlords and licensors have been relatively agreeable to cancelling events or postponing them free of charge to a point in the summer or fall. However, some of these parties are less willing to cancel agreements to hold such events. In addition, even if parties are willing to cancel events, there are oftentimes disagreements about how much deposit money should be refunded because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My firm and other small shops have seen an uptick in inquiries about event cancellations, and this work can somewhat help blunt the immediate financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic is also having a substantial impact on the way that small law firms conduct business development. Under normal circumstances, small firm lawyers will typically take business contacts to coffee, lunch, or dinner in order to talk about the potential client’s legal needs and how the firm can help. Now that most restaurants, coffee shops, and other establishments are closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face meetings to discuss new business have become extremely difficult to arrange. Of course, this development is also impacting larger firms, but bigger shops are more likely to have a few large, institutional clients who may go through a traditional request for proposals and pitch process. However, smaller firms that often rely on a variety of clients in order to stay busy are facing a number of challenges in developing new business.
Better Ability To Adapt
It should be noted that on a certain level, smaller law firms may be able to better adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic than many Biglaw shops. For instance, numerous solo practitioners and small firm lawyers already work from home to save on real estate costs and because of convenience. As a result, the home confinements required by the COVID-19 pandemic may not create as much of a disruption for small firms as many Biglaw shops currently face. Furthermore, smaller law firms often have fewer redundant employees and are financially leaner than many larger shops. This may allow smaller firms to better deal with harsher economic realities that everyone may soon face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In any case, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting firms of all sizes, and each shop faces its own challenges based on its practice area, size, and a number of other factors. Solo practitioners and small firm lawyers are facing unique difficulties due to the pandemic. However, because smaller firms are often more flexible in their operations, these shops may be better able to weather the storm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at email@example.com.
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Marks & Spencer recalls three mussel-based products
2 December 2013
Marks & Spencer is recalling from consumers three of its mussel-based products, following a small number of reports of illness in the UK. The company is recalling the products as a precautionary measure while investigations are taking place. The FSA has issued a Product Recall Information Notice.


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San Francisco: (IANS) Facebook-owned Instagram has expanded its new video-music remix feature Reels, which takes inspiration from the Chinese short video making app TikTok, to France and Germany. Instagram Reels was first launched in Brazil last year as a pilot. According to a TechCrunch report, Instagram will now enable users to share Reels to their main Instagram feed, in addition to Stories. Instagram Reels allows users to record short, 15-second video clips set to music or other audio and share those on the platform.
Just like TikTok, users can soundtrack their ‘Reels’ with a huge catalog of music, or borrow the audio from anyone else’s video to create a remix of their meme or joke. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that in India, TikTok has gone ahead of Instagram. He also mentioned that TikTok works much like Instagram’s Explore feature. Facebook’s experimental app division has also introduced a new iOS app called Collab for making and mixing music with friends. The social network also has a stand-alone app called ‘Lasso’. Currently available in the US, users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music, similar to what they can do on TikTok. Google-owned YouTube is reportedly working on a TikTok rival called Shorts, to be introduced by the end of this year.


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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is expected to announce the Huawei Nova at IFA this year, however it may turn out to be a lot more than just another handset…
Huawei has released a new teaser for their event which will be kicking off one day before IFA 2016. The slogan “Defy Expectations”, seems to suggest a new handset launch. Analyst Xiang Ligang reported that the company could be revealing the Huawei Nova during the event, however it’s now possible that the company could be planning a new brand altogether. Chinese news outlets have reported that the Nova handset could actually be an entirely new brand altogether, rather than just a new handset.
Is the Huawei Nova just a phone?
The Nova device was previously expected to be aimed at women, with a female-centric design. There’s not much concrete information about what exactly this will include, but current rumours suggest a gold, metal chassis.
The additional sub-brand would mean that Huawei effectively has three different brands targeting different areas of the market. With just a week to go before September 1st, all will be revealed then. The company is also expected to unveil a couple of smartwatches at IFA, after this mysterious launch.
For more news, visit What Mobile’s dedicated news page.


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Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) global brand, Budweiser, today announces two multi-year partnerships with two of the top international football leagues, the Premier League and LaLiga. As a long-time partner of the FIFA World Cup™, Budweiser’s association with football is well-known. Now the brand is broadening its support for the beautiful game through new partnerships with two of the world’s most renowned football leagues.
The partnerships will be activated across five continents and in more than 20 countries* including the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, India, Chile and Nigeria.
As the world’s most valuable beer brand, Budweiser’s sponsorship of the Premier League and LaLiga aims to bring fans closer to their football heroes through a series of unique programmes across the globe. Through its partnerships, Budweiser – the King of Beers – will create opportunities for fans to celebrate their favourite players both on and off the pitch. The year-long campaign will include throwing exclusive viewing parties for fans, limited edition packaging available in retail showcasing the iconic league trophies and creating content that highlights the greatness of the players on the field and the cultural impact of the players off the field.
“We are excited to kick-off these long-term partnerships with the Premier League and LaLiga, two world-class football competitions. These partnerships will allow us to further connect with key consumers and football fans across the globe,” said Pedro Earp, Chief Marketing Officer at AB InBev. “We are passionate about football, and so are our consumers, so we couldn’t be prouder to celebrate the sport, the players, and most importantly, the fans.”
Matt Leadbeater, Marketing Manager of Budweiser UK, said: “To us, football is more than just a game – it’s a chance for fans across the world to come together and celebrate, which is why we’re so excited to further our football legacy through our sponsorship with the English Premier League and Spanish LaLiga.”
Premier League Interim Chief Executive, Richard Masters said: “We are delighted to announce Budweiser as a new Premier League partner. Budweiser has a track record of innovative football sponsorships, including partnering with the FIFA World Cup™ over many years. We look forward to working together to bring our new partnership to life and capturing the imagination of our fans all over the world.”
LaLiga President, Javier Tebas added: “We’re committed to growing the passion for football around the world. This historic partnership with Budweiser will only add to the growing excitement and anticipation for this year’s season and we’re thrilled to have them as partners. The global visibility of Spanish clubs will be strengthened thanks to this agreement.”
This latest announcement forms part of Budweiser’s wider support for English Football, with the beer brand announced earlier in the year as the Official Beer of the England Senior Women’s Team and also of Wembley Stadium connected by EE – the home of football.
Budweiser’s sponsorship will kick-off the football season, beginning in August, with the brand’s largest*** integrated marketing campaign this year which includes a new TVC, OOH campaign and new packaging design.
Budweiser will be using the new sponsorships to help drive footfall in both the On and Off Trade. Sport is a huge occasion within pubs and bars with 22% of visitors going to watch games and the average spend of sports fans 39% than the average British pubgoer. Through a national campaign Budweiser will help to drive footfall and increase rate of sale in pubs. Exclusive, year round kits will be available to on trade customers to strengthen the association between pubs and the Premier League.
Within the Off Trade, the partnership will help retailers to take advantage of the huge opportunity provided by fans watching games at home. Unique packaging celebrating top players will be live across Budweiser packs. On pack promotions will run from the first game offering fans the chance to win tickets to matches.
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Eons in Line, or Eos?
As security queues extend to Timbuktu at major airports, customers look for alternatives. Thus, the recent boon in business for high-end and charter airlines that operate out of smaller airports. Eos and Maxjet airlines, which fly between the U.S. and London's Stansted airport, report an upsurge in ticket sales following last week's terrorism scare. Eos is much nicer than Maxjet, but both boast business class seats only--as well as shorter lines and more personalized service. Interestingly, their prices are comparable--if not less, in the case of Maxjet--to the legacy carriers' business and first class seats. But as legacy passengers waited hours in line this week, or discovered their flights canceled, Eos and Maxjet passengers encountered little worse than 15-minute delays. If you're an east-coaster (sorry west coasters--Eos and Maxjet haven't extended their service to California, although I think Maxjet is considering it) planning a trip to London in the near future, you might want to give these carriers a try. At the very least, check out their websites and get a price quote.


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Green Leaf cap promising to cut transport emissions and improve recycling rates to be piloted on supermarket's own-brand wine
Morrisons has become the first major UK retailer to introduce a new environmentally-friendly wine screw cap it claims will cut carbon emissions and make the bottle easier to recycle. The supermarket...
Tech giant quadruples number of locations for US customers to hand in old iPhones as part of recycling and reuse drive
GreenBiz releases its latest update on soaring renewables demand from US corporates
Record amount of future new wind capacity will be financed from last year's investment, according to WindEurope
Nation known for its natural beauty is under pressure with extinctions, polluted rivers and blighted lakes