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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The e-mail says it is from "email@example.com" and has the FTC's government seal.
But it was not issued by the agency and has attachments and links that will download a virus that could steal passwords and account numbers, the agency said.
"It's a treasure trove for identity theft," said David Torok of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "We're concerned. The virus that's attached to the e-mail is particularly virulent."
The agency, which is one of several government agencies investigating cyber fraud, did not know how many people had received the e-mail.
"We've received hundreds if not thousands of calls and complaints, this one may have had a large distribution," he said.
Recipients should forward the e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org, an FTC spam database used in investigations.
Nine percent of people surveyed in a poll conducted in August and September reported having had their identities stolen, Bari Abdul, a vice president at security software maker McAfee, said at a cybersecurity conference on October 1.
You can find the original letter here.
Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.
I’m sure we’re way too small for you to know me. You know, we’re one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux. The last edition, Mandriva 2008 was seen as a pretty good version and we’re proud of it. You should give it a spin, I’m sure you’d like it. We also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an agreement with your company (nobody’s perfect).
We recently closed a deal with the Nigerian Government. Maybe you heard about it, Steve. They were looking for an affordable hardware+software solution for their schools. The initial batch was 17,000 machines. We had a good answer to their need: the Classmate PC from Intel, with a customized Mandriva Linux solution. We presented the solution to the local government, they liked the machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them, the fact that it was open, that we could customize it for their country and so on.
Then your people entered the game and the deal got more competitive. I would not say it got dirty, but someone could have said that. They fought and fought the deal, but still the customer was happy to get CMPC and Mandriva.
So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the machine are being delivered right now.
And then, today, we hear from the customer a totally different story: “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.”
Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone. How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one. You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win too.
PS: a message to our friends in Nigeria: it’s still time to do the right thing and make the right choice, you will get lots of support for it and excellent services!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
AT&T DSL 1.5 mbps service = 0.3 mbps throughput by ZDNet's George Ou -- This hasn’t been a kind week to me when it comes to DSL service from AT&T as I’ve already gone through AT&T DSL setup hell earlier this week. On Saturday when I set up a few extra things for my mother’s home, I ran some DSL speed tests (during non busy hours at a nearby [...]
Friday, October 26, 2007
From Interop, video of Plat’ Home’s Linux Server that fits in the palm of your hand by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Within minutes of arriving on the Interop show floor this morning and beginning my search for something cool to videotape for publication here on ZDNet, we found Plat’ Home’s booth in the back of the exhibitor’s area with two very cool products — both of them tiny Linux servers, one of which fits in the [...]
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Dashwire mirrors your mobile phone content to the web by ZDNet's Matthew Miller -- I recently had the chance to meet with Ford Davidson from Dashwire to discuss their new free service that is starting to roll out today. Dashwire is a service that mirrors the content on your mobile phone to a personal web account. I personally was quite excited about the service because I see it as a great way to manage my photos taken with my devices, stay in touch with people via SMS when I am at work and on my desktop PC, quickly update and manage my internet bookmarks/favorites, and enter contacts with a full keyboard right from my PC. At this time, Dashwire mirrors your photos, videos, text messages, bookmarks (Internet Explorer Mobile only), contacts, and phone calls.
Build the $340 NAS for half the price but double the speed by ZDNet's George Ou -- The thing that has always bothered me with the NAS (Network Attached Storage) market for consumers is that it’s very high margin yet the products deliver very poorly on performance. While that might be great for the product manufacturers bottom line, it isn’t so great when you’re the consumer. Typical NAS devices that allow you [...]
Microsoft matters less every 6 months by ZDNet's Christopher Dawson -- Maybe not for the average corporation yet, or even the average home user, but every time Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu (and with it comes Edubuntu), Microsoft becomes a little less the default vendor of choice for educational computing. I’m still 2 years from a major tech refresh, including server hardware and software. [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The folks at Canonical have started to prepare their servers for downloads of the latest Ubuntu release - 7.10 or "Gutsy Gibbon."
Past Ubuntu releases have been marred by downed servers, as the Umbongo faithful rush to get their fresh code injection. So, this time around, Mark Shuttleworth and crew are doing their outreach early. They've started talking up the OS before it's available on Thursday, hoping to spread out demand a bit.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
That's when Gutsy Gibbon's sequel, "Hardy Heron," is scheduled to arrive. Gutsy Gibbon will have the usual Ubuntu support life span--18 months--but Hardy Heron will be the company's second version to feature long-term support, which lasts three years for the desktop product and five years for the server.
Some of the Gutsy Gibbon work involved introducing new features Canonical hopes to stabilize for Hardy Heron, said Canonical's chief executive and founder, Mark Shuttleworth. Take, for example, the "tickless" kernel, which is designed to reduce power consumption and improve server virtualization performance by letting the processor enter a somnolent state more often.
"I'm quite glad we're not trying to make the decision between tickless and long-term support. This is a fairly radical piece of surgery on the kernel," Shuttleworth said.
Among other Gutsy Gibbon developments are snazzy 3D graphics for the desktop version, desktop search called Tracker and the first incarnation of a Ubuntu Mobile version for portable gadgets.
Read the rest of the article here.
Canonical, Ubuntu Linux distribution’s commercial sponsor, has announced that the release version of Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition will launch Oct. 18.
Ubuntu, the incredibly popular desktop Linux distribution that seeks to deliver the best of open-source software every six months, will be out in a few days. Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the latest GNOME 2.20 desktop.
The latest version of Ubuntu includes numerous new features. In particular, its hardware support has been improved. Besides better plug-and-play configuration for printers, the new Ubuntu includes automatic firmware installation for Broadcom Wi-Fi cards.
Laptop users will also be pleased to see improved support for display systems. With Gutsy Gibbon, full external VGA (projector) support is available out of the box, with easy reconfiguration when hardware is switched. For power users, this release includes the ability to manage multiple monitors.
Read full article here.
Friday, October 12, 2007
The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.
A reproduction of the minutes of trials against the Templars, "'Processus Contra Templarios -- Papal Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars'" is a massive work and much more than a book -- with a 5,900 euros ($8,333) price tag.
"This is a milestone because it is the first time that these documents are being released by the Vatican, which gives a stamp of authority to the entire project," said Professor Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican's Secret Archives.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
If you have wanted to encrypt your Ubuntu installation on your hard drive quickly and easily, with Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" it's become even easier now that the alternate installer supports encrypting partitions. However, the Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Ubiquity installer currently lacks LVM and dm-crypt support.
The Ubuntu Wiki states: "Both the graphical and the alternate installer now support encrypting the hard disk." However, using yesterday's LiveCD with Ubiquity (v1.6.5) still hadn't contained the encryption functionality when doing a manual partition. If the Ubiquity installer doesn't support encrypting the hard drive in time for the Gutsy Gibbon release, we imagine it should ready in time for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, which happens to be an LTS (Long Term Support) release.
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I was somewhat amused to read Michael Gartenberg's comments that Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Please don't tell that to any of the people who last year logged in 40,000 times to the 28 Linux computers at our small town library and community center in Takoma Park, Maryland. These people are using a Linux solution called Userful, which puts up with robust use day in and day out.
What's most fascinating to me is that members of the public have no clue that they're not using Windows. They're able to load up their Microsoft Word files using OpenOffice, and save them back to disk automatically in MS Word format. They surf the web, check email, do instant messaging, view YouTube videos, visit their Facebook page, learn touch typing skills and lots more.
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It's been a while, but we are still around and have decided that it's time to funnel our steady stream of daily changes into a release again.
One main source of improvements has, as always, been FFmpeg, which added support for several new video and audio codecs along with speedups and massive code cleanups.
Full Article here
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The scam on Google's video-sharing site is targeting Xbox owners, urging recipients to collect a prize version of the popular game Halo 3. Anstis said clicking on the link to "winhalo3" leads to a file containing a Storm trojan.
To date, Marshal has tracked around 150,000 of the spam e-mail messages thought to have originated from YouTube accounts.
The e-mail messages are exploiting a vulnerability in the sign-up process, according to Marshal, which reported in August a Trojan designed to generate large numbers of Hotmail and Gmail accounts. A similar vulnerability is being exploited in the case of YouTube, said Anstis, adding that spammers have used intelligent character recognition (ICR) software to circumvent the verification system commonly known as Captcha. The Captcha system, in which a person must read and re-enter a selection of blurred or unevenly spaced letters and numbers into a box before being issued a new account--is used to make it harder for software programs, rather than genuine users, to sign up for services.
"There are ways of subverting those sort of systems," Anstis said. "Service providers need to look at how to prevent that from happening."
The YouTube help center also advises people to exclude the email@example.com e-mail address from spam filtering lists--a fact, Anstis, said spammers are likely aware of.
Security vendor Sophos has also reported the YouTube spam problem. Senior technology consultant for the company, Graham Cluley, said this incident differs from the technique commonly associated with the Storm worm, which typically targets PCs for the job of sending spam.
According to Cluley, the YouTube spamming marks a departure for the junk mailers--instead of using botnets to distribute spam, they can use a familiar Web site to pass on messages.
Anstis said this scam could herald the rise of outsourced bot-herding whereby the botnet controller pays a third party to acquire further bots.
"Now, you can rent time on a botnet network and have a tech support department. If I'm spammer, I would just rent time on a botnet which includes tech support from the botnet owner and a massive resource pool with huge amounts of bandwidth. This may be a third business--selling services to the Trojan operators to help expand their networks. For example, if I own a Trojan network, I pay you 20 cents per bot you get me," Anstis noted.
Microsoft will now allow users of Windows XP to download Internet Explorer 7 without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication.
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is part of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative. It is intended to help prevent the distribution and use of unauthorized versions of Windows. Previously, to download Internet Explorer 7, users had to authenticate to WGA.
"With today's 'Installation and Availability Update,' Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users," wrote IE7 program manager Steve Reynolds in a blog post on Thursday.
Microsoft said that it had dropped the requirement for WGA for security reasons.
"Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, and we're taking a step to help make consumers safer online," said a representative. "We feel the security enhancements to Internet Explorer 7 are significant enough that it should be available as broadly as possible, and this means removing WGA validation."
The representative said that removing the validation did "not interfere with Microsoft's commitment to fighting software piracy."
However, Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, suggested that Microsoft may be concerned over the uptake of IE7. Mozilla develops rival Web browser Firefox.
"I think IE7 adoption is too low according to Microsoft's tastes, partly because many people are concerned with issues with regards to WGA," Nitot told CNET sister site ZDNet UK. "I guess Microsoft's not so happy with the numbers."
There are conflicting statistics available on the popularity of the major Web browsers. For example, according to Web analysis site W3Schools, Firefox has more market share than IE7, with 34.5 percent and 20.1 percent respectively. However, according to Net Applications, Firefox 2.0 has 13.6 percent of market share, while IE7 has 34.6 percent. Both sites indicate that Firefox and IE7 are gaining market share, while Internet Explorer 6 is losing market share.
According to a reader poll on sister site ZDNet, 55 percent of respondents voted that Microsoft had dropped WGA "to try to grow IE7's market share (at the expense primarily of Firefox) by going after the more technical browser audience, many of whom see WGA as little more than another objectionable DRM scheme."
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Randy Hergett, HP's director of engineering for open-source and Linux organization, said at the Gelato Itanium Conference & Expo in Singapore on Monday that Linux is ready to be used in some mission-critical applications, despite a perception that there are gaps in areas such as manageability.
Linux is "ready for most applications," he said, noting that there are telecommunications companies running mission-critical databases on Linux, and overall adoption levels are ramping up.
Citing an HP-commissioned global study conducted by market-research company GCR earlier this year, Hergett said that three out of five decision makers were ready to deploy Linux for mission-critical applications within the next two years, while one in five saw that happening in five years' time.
According to the study, which surveyed more than 600 decision makers who were using some flavor of Unix, security and reliability were the top two concerns in a mission-critical environment.
On whether Linux can satisfy these two requirements of security and reliability, Hergett said: "It does...From a security standpoint, we think Linux is actually very secure."
"With reliability, I think it's not as robust yet (as HP's own iteration) or some of the other proprietary Unix systems, but it's making great progress," Hergett added.
On whether the availability of different flavors of Linux will affect its adoption for mission-critical applications, Hergett said he did not think so.
"In some ways it actually gives those decision makers more flexibility and more choices to choose from," Hergett explained, adding that Unix has several iterations too, and decision makers are "used to having that choice."
The poor man’s all-in-one PC for $380 by ZDNet's George Ou -- Apple has their iMac and Gateway has their One, but both of them are in the $1300 to $2300 range depending on the various options. What about the person on a budget? Can you get something for less than $400? You can but you’re going to have to build it yourself and I really do mean BUILD. It’s [...]


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The Beauty and Personal Care sub-sector has grown rapidly in the past several years, as consumers flock to buy new products from both legacy beauty brands and new start-up brands. An influx of Korean beauty products, such as face masks, and sustainable, natural products are also major contributors to this growing sector.
Sydney, Australia -- October 15, 2019 -- Eyeota, the leading audience technology platform enabling the intelligent use of data, today announced the expansion of its offering in Oceania by partnering with New Zealand-based DOT Loves Data, a data company that joins the dots between data science, marketing, and business strategy to develop data analysis products.
San Francisco, CA -- October 9, 2019 -- Eyeota, the leading audience technology platform enabling the intelligent use of data, today announced entrepreneur and industry veteran Anand Das joined as chief technology officer (CTO) to propel the company’s technological developments through the era of global data privacy regulation. Vasu Cherlopalle has been appointed vice president (VP) of engineering.
It's that time of year when advertisers start to think about their holiday campaigns. So what can we learn from retail advertisers and agencies audience targeting strategies over the last 18 months?
As the year winds down and people around the world start eyeing their holiday shopping lists, marketers need to focus on the nitty-gritty elements of retail spend, such as timing, category and region. Audience technology platform Eyeota released a report breaking it all down, and the differences provide insight for marketers looking to capitalize.

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HarperFiction is bringing the traditional outdoor poster campaign "to life" this weekend by running an on- and offline marketing campaign for novel Missing, Presumed "mirroring a real-time police search in a high-profile missing person’s case".
HarperCollins has worked with Mediacom and creative agency 20ten to devise the "geo-targeted" campaign for the book, by Susie Steiner, that, set in London, Huntingdon and Cambridge, opens with the sudden disappearance of post-grad student Edith Hind. It was published in hardback with the Borough Press yesterday (25th February).
Kicking off at midday today (26th), the campaign starts at London King’s Cross, where consumers will be exposed to a "high-impact digital six sheet panel" of animated adverts promoting the book, with the messaging changing daily, charting the first 72 hours of the hunt for the book's missing character, Edith.
In addition, there are 48 digital sheets track-side along the route to Cambridge which – in referencing the Cambridgeshire Police – specifically speak to Cambridge's commuter audience.
All the campaign messaging uses: "Join the hunt at #MissingPresumed". On the hashtag, consumers will be able to follow the story "live" as it unfolds, with the timing of the tweets coinciding directly with National Rail Advertising.
In total there will be 72 hours of social media activity, on Facebook and Instagram, directly linking to the six animated sheets. The campaign has an estimated combined reach of over 20 million impacts, according to HarperCollins.
Hannah Gamon, senior marketing communications manager at HarperCollins Publishers said: "Missing, Presumed is one of our biggest launches of the spring. We wanted to work closely with Mediacom and 20ten to deliver a campaign that grabbed consumers’ attention in a targeted away, with traditional and online media working together in order to bring a real-time police search to life for consumers."
- Interactive campaign for launch of Ice Twins paperback
- Anna Funder | "The limit of non-fiction... is that you cannot represent what any particular thing was like from inside that person's point of view."
- 'Cat Person' to be published as standalone paperback
- Ebury buys Bartlett's story of 'Missing Cryptoqueen'
- HC inks deals for Cox and Steiner


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Embattled Web pioneer Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) placed a big stack of chips behind its future as a display advertising platform today, offering details of a string of new ad partnerships that it hopes will be enough to convince investors that the company’s turnaround strategy is working.
Speaking this morning at an advertising conference in New York, Yahoo President Sue Decker laid out a vision of Yahoo taking a position at the nexus of online advertising.
“Yahoo is helping to accelerate the transformation of how display advertising is both bought and sold,” Decker said. She described how Yahoo’s role as a technology provider meshes with the deals it is pursuing with buyers and sellers of online display ads.
For the past four months, Yahoo has been among the most scrutinized companies in the tech industry. Since talks with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) over its offer to buy the company broke down, Yahoo has been under fire from many shareholders angry with its board of directors for turning down a higher valuation than they felt it could achieve on its own.
One of those investors, Carl Icahn, has announced his intention to unseat the company’s board at its annual shareholder meeting, which Yahoo said yesterday it had rescheduled for Aug. 1.
If Icahn proceeds with his proxy war, that meeting will be a referendum on Yahoo’s management and investors’ confidence in its ability to reposition the company as a viable ad-driven Web property in the long shadow of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal quoted Icahn as saying that he would seek to dismiss Jerry Yang as CEO if he won control of the board.
With the deals announced today, Yahoo forged deeper connections with companies spread across the online advertising value chain.
Yahoo has signed with Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) to manage display and video advertising for the world’s largest retailer, which will gain access to Yahoo’s network of advertisers. It also becomes the exclusive portal to resell display inventory on Walmart.com.
On the agency side, Yahoo has teamed with Havas Digital to develop a proprietary media-trading platform to connect publishers with advertisers. Havas also plans to adopt Yahoo’s forthcoming ad management platform aimed at simplifying online ad buying and selling.
New content agreements
With CBS (NYSE: CBS), the new deal is more about content syndication. Yahoo is expanding its existing relationship with the broadcaster to host and stream CBS content through the Yahoo TV property in an ad-supported model. Yahoo’s site has already been featuring local news from some CBS affiliates and special features from 60 Minutes.
Broadening the distribution of its online content is consistent with CBS’ recent efforts to warm up to the Web. Just last month, CBS announced that it was buying CNET Networks (NASDAQ: CNET), the popular Internet network, in an attempt to expand its online presence.
Yahoo also came out with some healthy signs about its work with the newspaper industry. Yahoo said that 94 more newspapers have joined its Newspaper Consortium, a technology platform for newspapers to sell locally targeted ads through Yahoo’s network. That brings the total to 779 papers in the network.
Finally, Yahoo offered details about a new initiative to supplement the traditional newspaper circular with an online format. Through a partnership with the ad-placement service ShopLocal, retailers will be able to place the price-promotion offers typically found in a Sunday circular throughout Yahoo’s network, in the hopes of reaching a more targeted audience under a more flexible pricing and distribution model.
This string of announcements comes amid speculation that Yahoo might look to form an alliance with Google or Microsoft to handle some portion of its advertising activities.
For Microsoft’s part, the motivation of a Yahoo acquisition was to better compete with Google in search advertising. Today’s announcements are all centered around the more competitive segment of display advertising.
Microsoft has said that it is still talking with Yahoo about some form of partnership, likely involving either search or display advertising, but that it is no longer actively pursuing an outright acquisition.
Now, investors frustrated with Yahoo’s position will be asking themselves if that position could change should Icahn gain control of the company with his rival slate of directors and force Yang out. They’ll have 58 days to decide.


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Analysts of the spice market think that Kerala and Karnataka will continue to experience slack in the prices of black pepper. Moreover, the situation is unlikely to improve in the coming days, mainly in Kerala, because the rise in COVID-19 cases is still a concern for the state.
Even though the state government has decided the easing the lockdown by phases until the markets can function in full throttle, the increase in prices is unlikely. The situation is the same in Karnataka as per the reports.
In Karnataka, the black pepper is available between $5,25 and $5,38 per kg, and in Kerala, it is being sold between $5,38 and $5,52 per kg.
It is reported that compared to last year, the quantity of harvest for black pepper is likely to be less in Kerala due to the lack of local demand. As a result, farmers have sowed other crops instead of black pepper this year.
In the international market, the price of black pepper is $2,86 per kg, which is less than last year, when it was sold for $3,31 per kg. The spice board of India reported that for 2020-21 India produced 16,300 tonnes of black pepper and which was valued at $81,838 million—comparing this to last year when the production was 17,000 tonnes for black pepper, which amounted to $86,235 million. The numbers indicate that already this year there is a significant lowering in the production by 4% and hence the earning from black pepper is also less.
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William Bryan, acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, has said that his office is working with DHS components to implement blockchain to ensure system interoperability and mitigate vendor lock-in.
He wrote in a FedTech piece published Tuesday that the departmentâs S&T directorate previously partnered with Customs and Border Protection to deploy blockchain and ledger technology to support international trade management for supply chain operations.
According to Bryan, letting government and industry continue implementing closed digitalÂ platforms would limit the growth of new technologies like blockchain, which can help increase visibility in supply chain operations, automate paper-based procedures and prevent cases of fraud.
âThis reality means that DHS S&T must work closely with its partners at all levels â research, development, testing and evaluation â as well as throughout government and industry, so that homeland security applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technology are effective and trusted,â he said.
Research and Markets, a global market research firm, has predicted that the global blockchain industry will reach $7.7 billion in 2022.


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General Mills’ Blue Buffalo ran a cause marketing program at Walmart to tie in to the Nov. 11 observance of Veterans Day last year.
The brand brought its ongoing support of Sierra Delta to the mass merchant, promising to donate $1 (up to $275,000) to the nonprofit for every eligible bag of Blue Buffalo dog food purchased at the retailer throughout the month.
Related retail media activity spanned a carousel ad spotted on the walmart.com home page on Nov. 10. The ad invited consumers to “Help veterans get service dogs” and linked to a dedicated brand showcase within the site. The destination detailed how Sierra Delta helps pair wounded veterans with service dogs and spotlighted qualifying products, which included 6-pound bags of the brand's entry-level Blue Life Protection Formula and 4.5-pound bags of Blue Wilderness.
An aisle violator touted the initiative in stores, where Blue Buffalo products are merchandised in-line and, in many locations, on permanent endcaps. Additional marketing support included a 30-second TV spot and a 10-second recut, sponsored influencer posts seeded by Inmar Intelligence, and multiple social media updates from Sierra Delta.
Originally sold exclusively via pet specialty retailers and online, Blue Buffalo was first spotted on Walmart shelves in early 2019. A circular feature depicting the retailer's "Investing in American Jobs" logo introduced the brand as "now available" that June, and since then the partners have generally maintained a steady stream of co-op activity.
Most recently, Blue Buffalo has been using its walmart.com showcase to promote a "Blue Year's Resolution" incentive dangling a $5 or $15 store gift card with purchase of $25 or $50 worth of qualifying Blue Buffalo products, respectively. A walmart.com home page carousel ad spotted on March 1 — the last day of the promotion, which kicked off Dec. 19, 2020 — linked to the showcase. A 10-second, co-op TV spot supported. The offer was valid across several participating retailers. Toronto-based Snipp Interactive handled.


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It was the lunch-hour rush at the Court Square Diner in New York’s Long Island City on Wednesday, and co-owner Nick Kanellos pointed to the elevated subway tracks that rattle overhead as he fretted over the news that Amazon may build a major outpost in the neighbourhood.
Like many long-time inhabitants, he worries how this once-sleepy enclave in Queens would absorb the up to 25,000 people the online retail giant may employ here as it expands outside its Seattle home base.
“It’s a whole soccer stadium at 8am each day coming in,” Kanellos said, gesturing at the narrow metal staircases leading from the subway platform to the street, already crowded with commuters at rush hour.
Amazon announced in September last year that it was seeking a site for a second corporate headquarters that would eventually employ up to 50,000 people. But it now plans to split its new headquarters between two sites, including Long Island City, according to a New York Times report.
Amazon again declined on Wednesday to comment on its selection process.
Kanellos’ apprehension was shared by other long-time residents interviewed on Wednesday on their home turf, a rapidly gentrifying area that sits just across the East River from Midtown Manhattan.
Few, if any, objected to Amazon.com itself: Many conceded they were happy customers of the world’s largest online retailer, some paying for its Prime membership service. They just fear that their neighbourhood is already bursting at the seams, with scores of glass apartment towers transforming an area long characterized by a mismatched jumble of low-rise buildings.
The cost of this rapid development, residents say, is that local hardware stores and pharmacies have been priced out and an ageing sewer system is often overwhelmed by the more than 10,000 new apartments and 1.5 million square feet of office space built in recent years, according to city data.
Kanellos, 50, took over the Court Square Diner in 1991, when it was one of the few places where the artists then using old factory buildings as studios could sit down for a cheap meal.
The neighbourhood’s cinematic views of Manhattan only heightened the sense it was a quiet village overlooked by the rest of New York City, residents say.
“We felt like we had the place to ourselves,” said Pat Irwin, a musician and composer who for years played with The B-52’s and settled in Long Island City in the mid-1980s.
The 50-story, blue-glass tower that Citigroup built in 1990 was an early harbinger of the transformation. The reports this week that Amazon had decided to build part of its “second” headquarters here, along with an outpost in northern Virginia’s Crystal City, feels to some residents like the death knell for a neighbourhood they love.
“It feels like we’re being walled in and it’s out of control and the neighbourhood can’t handle it,” Irwin said.
Irwin’s wife, Terri Gloyd, is the co-owner of the LIC Corner Cafe, which sits around the corner from MoMA PS1, a major outer-borough arts museum, and sells coffee, cookies and a pastry confection described as “a guava goat cheese Pop-Tart.”
Some of the residents who moved into the new apartment towers have become welcome regulars, even while some artist friends have been priced out of the area, she said. But construction and the ubiquitous film and television shoots, thanks to the proximity of Silvercup Studios, sometimes make the streets barely navigable to pedestrians.
“It already feels so oversaturated,” said Gloyd, who moved here in 1987.
Even so, if Amazon’s arrival brought with it a decent supermarket or helped bring a much-needed school to an underserved area, then perhaps that could soften its landing, she said.
If there is one constant in the crane-filled neighbourhood these days, it is Manducatis, a white-tablecloth, Italian restaurant that Vincenzo Cerbone, 88, has presided over since 1974, after moving to the area in the 1950s. His wife, Ida, still cooks there most days, walking from their home around the corner.
“My husband, in the ’50s, he predicted this,” she said with a proud smile, explaining their decision to acquire property in an area so close to Manhattan, no matter how unprepossessing it seemed at the time.
As for Cerbone, he shrugged at the Amazon news: New York City has always been changing. “These days, everything is new,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s an upgrade or a downgrade.”
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Fitbit Will No Longer Sync With PC And Mac: What You Need To Know
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Amazon's Prime Music service is demonstrably behind competitors like Spotify and Google Play Music. Maybe that's why it's thrown in with Amazon Prime (which most people get for the shipping discounts) as a freebie. But never let it be said that Amazon rests on its laurels when it comes to new features: the latest update to Prime Music adds streaming music stations, like... well, like just about every other music service at this point.
Google Calendar is meant to be precisely that, a calendar. The app serves as the default way you keep up with events and appointments on a stock Android device. As a result, some users were a little miffed when the big 5.0 redesign stripped the app of its ability to display a month's worth of events on a phone's screen at once.
With 5.2, that changes.
5.1 could show a single day, three days, or a week.
A fresh update to the Google App, formerly Google Search, just started rolling out. Don't get too excited yet, it looks like the only user-facing change today is that Nicknames has finally gone into wide release for the users that didn't already have it. The good news is that a quick teardown shows that Trusted Voice might be launching soon, possibly even with this version. There's also a new experiment in the works called Seamless Hotword.
Roku announced some new features for its streaming players the other day, and now those features are filtering down to the Android remote app. In the latest iteration, you get voice search and a new "Movies Coming Soon" feed.
Retweeting something on Twitter amounts to taking that person's tweet and sending it out again on your own personal feed. To add something to the message, users have had to do things the old-fashioned way—beginning a tweet with RT and quoting the text manually.
Now Twitter has improved the experience, embedded retweets the way it does photos.
Slacker isn't a music streaming service. Okay, it is, but it has a twist. Okay, I know, they all have twists. But Slacker isn't just about loading tracks. Think of it as Internet radio. Pandora? No, no, it's nothing like that. Users create and customize their own stations, then—okay, I see what you're getting at. Let's start over.
Slacker is a music streaming service, one of the many available in the Play Store.
Back in December, Instagram made available some new filters for the first time since the app's arrival on Android. These new tools brought even more creative freedom (I know, that's a matter of opinion - just go with it, OK?) to the app, and most hardcore IG users surely appreciated the new options.
Today, update 6.19.0 is rolling out to Google Play, and it brings a couple of other new tools to the platform: Color and Fade.
Adobe Acrobat has been around since the 90s, and its PDF format went on to become the standard way of exchanging documents over the web. Eventually Adobe made the file type open source and competitors began to bring their own innovations to the table, but the company's software remains the most widely adopted way to interact with PDFs.


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If you’ve been working from home during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, you’ve probably noticed a tech glitch or two. Maybe your coworker’s face froze in a Zoom meeting, or you watched a YouTube video that seemed grainier than normal. These might seem like telltale signs that the internet in the US is struggling to support a sustained and unprecedented surge in use from millions of homebound computer users. The actual story of what’s going on is more complicated than that.
There’s been a surge in internet traffic in recent weeks, only part of which is due to more people working from home. That was happening on a smaller scale before the pandemic. As state and local governments have imposed lockdowns across the country, people are now doing everything from home, and a lot of it’s online. People are playing video games online; they’re doing video calls; they’re watching nerve-wrenching press conferences; and yes, they’re surely working part of the time. All that bandwidth adds up.
Despite the internet being an American invention, the US does not have the world’s best internet. So as more people started using the internet more often during the pandemic, it’s warranted that some — tech journalists, internet enthusiasts, and, to a much lesser degree, engineers — have been wringing their hands over whether our network infrastructure can handle a huge spike in traffic. Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted this week that his company,


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According to Sean Kovacs, the GV Mobile developer has some good news to share on Twitter saying that his unofficial Google Voice application GV Mobile should now be allowed into the App Store. He maintain that GV Mobile does not violate any of the new rules regarding the app review guidelines that Apple has laid out for developers.
He even figured why not resubmit his application and try to finally get it back where it belongs.
In earlier July 2009 GV Mobile has made it’s first appearance into the App Store and was later fired by
Apple due to allegedly duplicating the iPhone’s calling and text messaging features. It was also reported that later after the issue, rumors about Apple blaming on AT&T for the removal of the application was arise.


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Squires adds cannabis shop
Vernon’s newest cannabis shop opened its doors June 1.
And it’s in a familiar location – but have no fear, Highlander Cannabis has not replaced Squires Four Pub.
While the Stickle Road watering hole remains closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, management say on Facebook they look forward to reopening soon.
“We just wanted to clarify that Squires Four Pub is just closed temporarily … (the) pub will be back open as soon as they can, as this is just for now, not forever!?
“Highlander Cannabis is an addition to the Squires Four family and is not replacing the pub.”
Highlander opened its doors inside the same building on the Swan Lake auto mile.
The addition to the pub and liquor store on site adds everything the recreational puffer might need – from bevvies to whet the whistle, to munchies to follow the weed.
“With a pub, liquor store and now a cannabis store, there’s no need to go anywhere else,” Highlander said on its Facebook page.


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A Second Tesla Crash Attributed to Autopilot Mode
A Detroit man informed police his 2016 Tesla Model X was in autopilot mode when it crash and rolled over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last Friday.
Albert Scaglione, 77, a Detroit art gallery owner, was traveling with his son-in-law, Tim Yanke, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when his Tesla vehicle crashed and rolled over. The Daily Caller News Foundation has not been able to reach Scaglione, but according to the Detroit Free Press, Dale Vukovich of the Pennsylvania State Police responded to the crash and said that Scaglione told him that he had activated the autopilot feature.
Vukovich filled out a crash report, and according to the Detroit Free Press, Vukovich stated that, “Scaglione’s car was traveling east near mile marker 160 at about 5 p.m. when it hit a guard rail off the right side of the roadway. It then crossed over the eastbound lanes and hit the concrete median.”
After hitting the median, the Tesla Model X rolled on its roof and came to a stop in the middle eastbound lane. The Pennsylvania State Police will have to investigate whether or not the vehicle was in autopilot at the time, and if it was, it will add to concerns over automated vehicles and connected cars technology. According to the Detroit News, both Scaglione and Yanke were injured in the accident, but the report says the severity is unknown.
Tesla told TheDCNF it received a message from the car July 1 indicating a crash event, but logs were never transmitted. “No data at this point to indicate that Autopilot was engaged or not engaged.” Tesla asserted that as it does with all crash events, it immediately reached out to the customer to confirm they were alright and offer support, but were unable to reach Scaglione. “We have since attempted to contact the customer three times by phone without success. It is not possible to learn more without access to the vehicle’s onboard logs.”
The crash came just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a report on a fatal crash May 7 involving a Tesla that was in autopilot mode. Joshua D. Brown, 40, died in Williston, Fla., when his car’s cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky and didn’t automatically activate the brakes, according to statements by both the government and from Tesla. The New York Post reported that Brown was watching a Harry Potter movie while the car was in autopilot mode.
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Mumbai: Dubai-based marine terminal operator Dubai Ports World (DP World) will invest $2 billion in its India operations, company officials said.
DP World operates five container terminals in the country and manages an estimated 40 per cent of the country's container terminal operations.
These include Chennai and Vishakapatnam on the east coast and Kochi, Mundhra and JNPT on the West coast. DP World owns the terminals at Kochi and Vishakapatnam while the Mundhra, JNPT and Chennai container terminals were acquired with P&O last year.
DP World gained control of three terminals in India last year through its $6.8-billion acquisition of UK ports operator Peninsular & Oriental.
"Port investment is crucial for growth of industries," Ganesh Raj, senior vice president and managing director, DP World, said.
Raj said the huge investments undertaken by DP World have made turnaround of Chennai container terminal possible in such a short time.
"Before we took over, the terminal was witnessing a growth rate of 9 per cent per annum. But now it is clocking 22-23 per cent," he said.
DP World is eager to gain a presence in eastern India.
Raj said the company has achieved significant growth in traffic at its Indian ports in general.
India allows 100 per cent foreign direct investment for port development projects. It plans to raise 64 per cent of the proposed investments in ports from private companies. Container traffic is expected to clock growth rates of 15.5 per cent in the next five years and cargo traffic 7.7 per cent.
DP World operates terminals in 24 countries. The company says it has significant expansions under way in India and China.
In the US, however, DP World was forced to sell six ports it acquired in the P&O deal to AIG Global Investment Group in December due to political pressures.


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U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins issued a preliminary injunction against Pittsburgh-based software maker RMG Technologies, whose computer programs, Ticketmaster says, have enabled scalpers to gain rapid, repeated access to its online retail system.
Scalpers' prices for tickets to Hannah Montana have reached as high as $3000. With this ban in place, maybe real people will have a chance to buy some tickets. On the other hand, with prices like those, Miley, oh Miley, stop hiding behind that blonde wig, will you?
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Producer Passes Away From Cancer
"His last few days were peaceful with his family by his side."
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor executive producer Michael "4G" Forgey passed away at 3:15 AM on March 3 from a rare form of cancer known as glioblastoma, his family reported.
"His last few days were peaceful with his family by his side," reads an update on his YouCaring page, where money was being raised to cover his medical expenses and support his children's future.
"Mike was so touched by everyone's support during his fight. His family wants to thank everyone for their kind words and support during this difficult time."
In December, the YouCaring page was established. At the time, Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith also arranged an event called #ForForgey, for which the company encouraged fans to play Shadow of Mordor, stream the game, and use the hashtag to spread awareness of Forgey's situation.
According to an update posted in January, Forgey enjoyed a holiday season with his family and a recent MRI showed a 15-20 percent reduction in the tumor. This was the last update posted before the notice of death on March 4.
As recounted on the YouCaring page, Forgey visited a doctor in May due to a migraine. He learned that he was suffering from a rare form of cancer known as glioblastoma, which he underwent surgery for. However, the primary tumor was inoperable, which led to him undergoing a variety of other procedures.
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Escalade, Incorporated (NASDAQ:ESCA) has been given an average broker rating score of 1.00 (Strong Buy) from the two brokers that provide coverage for the company, Zacks Investment Research reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a strong buy rating.
Analysts have set a twelve-month consensus target price of $16.50 for the company and are predicting that the company will post $0.28 EPS for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Zacks has also given Escalade, an industry rank of 34 out of 265 based on the ratings given to related companies.
A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on ESCA shares. Aegis reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $16.00 price target on shares of Escalade, in a report on Monday, September 25th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded Escalade, from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 3rd. TheStreet upgraded Escalade, from a “c+” rating to a “b” rating in a report on Monday, July 31st. Finally, ValuEngine downgraded Escalade, from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, August 4th.
In other news, CEO David L. Fetherman sold 9,250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $12.11, for a total value of $112,017.50. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now owns 102,729 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,244,048.19. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 20.00% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Skylands Capital LLC boosted its position in shares of Escalade, by 167.8% in the 3rd quarter. Skylands Capital LLC now owns 9,406 shares of the company’s stock worth $128,000 after purchasing an additional 5,894 shares in the last quarter. Rhumbline Advisers boosted its position in shares of Escalade, by 4.9% in the 2nd quarter. Rhumbline Advisers now owns 13,875 shares of the company’s stock worth $182,000 after purchasing an additional 647 shares in the last quarter. Teachers Advisors LLC boosted its position in shares of Escalade, by 18.2% in the 2nd quarter. Teachers Advisors LLC now owns 16,831 shares of the company’s stock worth $220,000 after purchasing an additional 2,586 shares in the last quarter. Strs Ohio boosted its position in shares of Escalade, by 5.8% in the 2nd quarter. Strs Ohio now owns 20,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $262,000 after purchasing an additional 1,100 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its position in shares of Escalade, by 9.0% in the 1st quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 112,632 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,453,000 after purchasing an additional 9,312 shares in the last quarter. 26.50% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Escalade, (NASDAQ ESCA) remained flat at $$12.95 on Wednesday. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 3,100 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,426. The company has a market capitalization of $186.10, a PE ratio of 18.24, a P/E/G ratio of 1.16 and a beta of 0.06. Escalade, has a 52-week low of $11.31 and a 52-week high of $14.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23, a quick ratio of 1.84 and a current ratio of 3.76.
Escalade, (NASDAQ:ESCA) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 2nd. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.06. Escalade, had a return on equity of 9.72% and a net margin of 5.89%. The business had revenue of $41.89 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $40.40 million. research analysts expect that Escalade, will post 0.75 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 18th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 11th will be issued a $0.115 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 8th. This represents a $0.46 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.55%. Escalade,’s dividend payout ratio is presently 64.79%.
Escalade, Company Profile
Escalade, Incorporated (Escalade) is a manufacturer and distributor of sporting goods through its subsidiary Escalade Sports. The Company operates in Sporting Goods (Escalade Sports) segment. Escalade Sports manufactures, imports and distributes sporting goods brands in basketball goals, archery, indoor and outdoor game recreation and fitness products through sporting goods retailers, specialty dealers, key online retailers, traditional department stores and mass merchants.
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba may not be that well known for its maps service, but in 2012 its Taobao service made a quiet foray into maps and last year it paid $294 million for a 28 percent share in Beijing-based auto navigation firm AutoNavi.
Now Alibaba is going all out to strengthen its maps offering, seeking to capture mobile Internet users by building up an ecosystem of various services beyond its hugely successful e-commerce business — which makes more money than Amazon and eBay combined.
To this extent, Alibaba is wooing AutoNavi in a deal that values the top mapping platform in China at about $1.6 billion, as Reuters reports. In a statement released yesterday, Alibaba offered to acquire the whole company for $5.25 in cash per ordinary share — with the assumption that the total number of ordinary shares AutoNavi has stands at 300.4 million shares.
“The market for navigation and map applications and services has become increasingly challenging, as several larger, well-capitalized Internet players in China have become major competitors to (AutoNavi),” Alibaba notes in its letter.
This is a clear shot at Chinese search giant Baidu, which has taken its ‘Google of China’ nickname to new heights with its focus on maps. Last year, it introduced Total View, a Street View-like feature for its Baidu Maps service.
AutoNavi’s mapping app competes with those of Google, Baidu and others, and is rather popular in China. Its number of monthly active users hit 77 million at the end of the third quarter last year, as revealed in its earnings report, while the total number of users stood at 171 million.
The company has acknowledged Alibaba’s proposal, and is forming a committee of independent directors to consider the transaction.
If the deal goes through, it would no doubt be a boost to Alibaba’s march in conquering the mobile Internet space — after all, maps are a key part of a typical smartphone user’s habits — and could form a credible threat to Baidu.
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When Atlantic City news from WMGM TV-40 was shuttered last year, it marked another bye-bye of a golden era gone by. The culprit? A digital world of unlimited news & info. No wonder that traditional use of TV, Radio and Newspaper continues it’s slow decline. Less audience means less advertiser interest.
But hold on there, bubby. Yes, old school broadcast & print are no longer king of the media hill. But there’s still a growing & insatiable thirst for local news and info-tainment from Atlantic City.
Filling the info void for a new Atlantic City is a fresh group of digital media wizards. These boot strappin’ entrepreneurs leverage websites, social media, eMail, pod-casting, mobile apps, and online video.
These online platforms are best suited for reaching Atlantic City’s prime customer: those who don’t live here…but are likely to visit often.
Some digital pioneers work solo on a shoe string budget. Most work their online magic from a kitchen table, basement or garage.
Recently, a more robust effort has emerged from inside the Boardwalk pier in front of Caesars Hotel Casino. A digital start-up called Triax-57 has officially launched. This production/news/multi-media operation from John Heinz occupies a spacious set of rooms that once housed a retail store.
Triax is now offering a wide array of video production services, in addition to on-demand video & live streaming of TV-style programming.
On Jan. 28, the team behind ‘Atlantic City Fashion Week’ spent the day shooting a variety of fashion & life-style segments at Triax. It was truly a professional sight to see. It reminded us of an Atlantic City version of QVC. Very well done.
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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Monday.
Palantir – Shares of the software company dropped 21.3% after Palantir’s first-quarter earnings came in below expectations. The company reported 2 cents of adjusted earnings per share on $446 million of revenue. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv expected 4 cents of earnings per share on $443 million of revenue. Palantir’s second-quarter guidance for revenue and adjusted operating margin was also below expectations, according to StreetAccount.
Rivian – Shares of the electric vehicle maker fell 20.9% following a CNBC report that Ford Motor will sell 8 million shares as the insider lockup for the stock is set to expire. Ford currently owns 102 million shares of Rivian. Ford shares fell 4%.
Uber – The ride-sharing company’s stock dropped 11.6% after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi revealed plans to slash marketing and incentives spending and treat hiring as a “privilege,” according to an email to employees obtained by CNBC. “It’s clear that the market is experiencing a seismic shift and we need to react accordingly,” he said.
Coty — Shares tumbled 7.4% despite an earnings beat from the cosmetics company. Coty earned 3 cents per share on revenues of $1.19 billion in its most recent quarter. Analysts polled by Refinitiv were expecting earnings of 1 cent per share on revenues of $1.15 billion. Coty also raised its full-year outlook based on strong consumer demand.
Tyson Foods – Shares of the beef and poultry producer gained 2.2% on the back of better-than-expected quarterly results. Tyson reported earnings of $2.29 per share on revenue of $13.12 billion. Analysts had expected a profit of $1.91 per share on revenue of $12.85 billion, according to Refinitiv.
BioNTech – The stock rose 3.1% after BioNTech posted a better-than-expected first-quarter report. BioNTech earned $14.24 per share on revenue of $6.37 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected a profit of $9.16 per share on revenue of $4.34 billion.
Twitter – Shares of the social media company fell 3.7% after The New York Times reported on Elon Musk’s financial goals for Twitter, citing an investor presentation. The billionaire — who is acquiring Twitter for $44 billion — aims to quintuple revenue by 2028, cut Twitter’s reliance on advertising and reach 931 million users by 2028, among other objectives set out in the presentation.
Dish Network – Shares dipped 4.5% after JPMorgan downgraded Dish to neutral from overweight, citing “weaker than expected PayTV and wireless results.” Meanwhile, Credit Suisse upgraded Dish to outperform from neutral, saying it sees “sufficient upside” for the company.
Match – Shares of the online dating company slid 4.5% after Wells Fargo upgraded the stock to overweight from equal weight. Wells said shares are “compelling” at current levels.
Virgin Galactic – Shares of Virgin Galactic pulled back by 10.7% as Truist downgraded the space travel company to hold from buy amid concerns over additional flight delays.
— CNBC’s Jesse Pound, Tanaya Macheel, Samantha Subin and Sarah Min contributed reporting.
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Kasha Global Inc, an e-commerce company that provides women’s health and personal care products to customers in Rwanda and Kenya, has roped in another international development finance institution to expand its business.
The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has invested $1 million as equity in Kasha, adding to previous commitments by European peers Finnfund and Swedfund.
Led by founder and CEO Joanna Bichsel, Kasha offers health and personal care products for women. It is active in Rwanda and Kenya and allows users to buy the products either by dialling a number or through an internet platform.
The company was started in 2016. It claims to have delivered over 1 million product units to over 130,000 unique customers. Of those, 63% are low-income customers in Rwanda and Kenya.
The fresh funding adds to money committed by other investors.
Last march, Finnish DFI Finnfund committed $1 million for Kasha. In October, Sweden’s Swedfund provided $1 million to Kasha to accelerate growth and impact across Kenya and Rwanda, improve its platform and support its expansion into other African countries.
Kasha also counts over half a dozen other backers such as impact investment fund Beyond Capital, which is active in early-stage social enterprises throughout India, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda.
PG Impact, an employees’ foundation of alternative investor Partners Group; East Africa Investments, a regional impact investor; Sunu Capital and Sorensen Impact are among Kasha’s other investors.


text: Legislatures on the right and the left are mostly agreeing that it’s time for big tech to breakup, but Thomas Donohoe, author of The CEO’s Digital Marketing Playbook, disagrees. He joins Bold TV to talk to GenBiz and the C-Suite Network about the digital marketing space and what might happen to Google and Facebook. Donohoe’s new book takes a dive into the truth behind digital marketing. He says that 80 percent of companies are only doing the bare minimum when it comes to being seen online. With consumers increasingly finding and buying online, baseline digital marketing isn’t enough. Facebook and Google hold the majority, nearly 60 percent, of the digital marketing space. Donohoe tells GenBiz and the C-Suite Network that to break up those companies makes advertising less effective and less efficient.


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Winterkorn: Ready to fight to remain Volkswagen chief
Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn plans to fight for his post and won’t let himself be easily pushed aside by supervisory board Chairman Ferdinand Piech, people familiar with his thinking said.
Winterkorn, 67, has the backing of others on the management board and is determined to prove his strategy will keep VW competitive in the long run, said the officials, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. A VW representative declined to comment on the CEO’s plans.
Piech told Der Spiegel in an interview published Friday that he was keeping himself “at a distance” from the CEO, and that Winterkorn faced growing supervisory board opposition due to unresolved issues including an ill-fated U.S. sales strategy, the VW brand’s flagging profitability and lack of progress developing a low-cost car. Winterkorn was surprised by Piech’s comments, especially given that the CEO hasn’t had any clashes with board members at recent meetings, the people said.
The falling out is startling because the two have worked closely for decades and Winterkorn has always been seen by insiders as Piech’s likely successor, a role that the 77-year- old chairman said Friday will no longer go to Winterkorn. Exactly how their power struggle will play out is dependent upon the rest of the supervisory board, which in Germany oversees company strategy and appoints top management.
The dispute comes at a key moment for Winterkorn as he works to complete last phases of a turnaround of the automaker that includes snatching the global sales crown from Toyota Motor Corp. — a goal he may achieve as early as this year. Shares of Europe’s largest carmaker have gained 37 percent this year, valuing VW at 117.8 billion euros ($124.9 billion).
Winterkorn won a powerful ally in works council chief Bernd Osterloh, who sits on the board and Friday threw his support behind Winterkorn. Employees hold half the seats on VW’s 20- person board and historically have voted as one block to maximize their power. The backing of worker representatives was crucial to Piech’s ousting of previous CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder in 2006. At the time, Piech hand-picked Winterkorn for the role, calling him a close friend whom he should have appointed to the position sooner.
Also critical in determining who wins is Lower Saxony, the German state where VW is based. Lower Saxony has two board seats. State Prime Minister Stephan Weil was “unpleasantly surprised” by the report, state government spokesman Michael Juerdens said Saturday, declining to give further details on Lower Saxony’s view of the matter.
Removing Winterkorn, whose term expires next year, would be difficult for Piech because doing so requires being able to show that the CEO has steered the carmaker in a direction that has greatly harmed it, according to the company’s articles of incorporation. If workers and Lower Saxony team up to support Winterkorn, Piech would in any case not have enough votes to remove him under the complex voting rules required to do so.
The Porsche-Piech family, which controls the automaker’s voting rights, has five board seats.
Winterkorn’s appointment as CEO in 2007 accelerated the transformation of Wolfsburg-based VW from a struggling industrial behemoth squeezed by high labor costs into a global automotive powerhouse with 12 carefully orchestrated brands ranging from Bugatti supercars to Scania heavy trucks.
“The sharp tone of Piech’s comments toward Winterkorn is a surprise, given that the duo has led VW successfully for years,” said Stefan Bratzel, director of the Center of Automotive Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. “The identified problems aren’t new, but compared to almost all of its competitors, VW as a company is in a very good shape.”
While the main mass-market VW brand has gained buyers in most of the world, the division has failed to win a wider share of auto sales in the U.S. Profitability at the division has also been squeezed by heavy spending on new technology, while progress on getting the MAN and Scania commercial-vehicle units to cooperate has been hampered by internal rivalries.
Acquisitions since Winterkorn became group CEO include sports-car manufacturer Porsche and Italian motorcycle producer Ducati as well as MAN and Scania. The Volkswagen group has more than doubled the number of factories worldwide to 118.
VW’s strong presence in China and the expansion of the Audi and Porsche nameplates in the lucrative luxury-car segment have been key earnings drivers for the group. VW posted record profit in 2014 of 12.7 billion euros.


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US: Deadline set for new import/export system
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The International Trade Data System (ITDS) is designed to cut processing and approval times for companies which currently have to submit information to multiple government agencies, often on paper forms.
Once fully implemented, the ITDS will allow businesses to transmit the information electronically through a “single window”, cutting time and expense for the 50m-plus containers and US$3.8trn of goods crossing US borders every year.
Now President Obama has signed a new Executive Order on Streamlining the Export/Import Process for America’s Businesses, which establishes the December 2016 for ITDS to be completed.
It also requires relevant agencies to transition from paper-based to electronic data collection, and calls for enhanced transparency through public posting of implementation plans.
Meanwhile, the newly expanded Border Interagency Executive Council (BIEC) will be tasked with improving co-ordination among the dozens of agencies working in the import/export arena.
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Date: Friday, November 9th, 2012, 11:44
Category: iOS, News, Software
If you can get the major partners, then a new technology comes closer to being a de-facto standard.
Per AppleInsider, British Airways has confirmed that it will be supporting Apple’s Passbook payment system.
“I’m pleased to confirm that the ba.com team are already looking into our website being able to work with the new Apple app, available with the iOS6 upgrade,” a company representative wrote in an e-mail. “Please be assured that we will get our Passbook-compatible functionality live on ba.com as soon as we can.”
British Airways already offers digital boarding passes through its official iOS application. But the carrier does not yet offer integration with Apple’s Passbook.
Passbook launched with iOS 6 in September featuring support from Delta Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin Australia.
The addition of British Airways would be a major catch for Apple. The U.K.-based carrier has a fleet of 249 aircraft and serves 169 total destinations.
Just this week, Apple updated its own Apple Store application for iOS to add support for Passbook. With the new software, users can purchase gift cards and e-mail them to friends, and those cards can be stored as passes in the Passbook application in iOS 6.
Passbook is Apple’s first stab at offering digital e-wallet type services on the iPhone. Rather than relying on near-field communication technology for wireless transactions, Apple has instead focused on replacing items such as store cards, boarding passes, movie tickets and retail coupons.
One of the first adopters of Passbook was Major League Baseball, which offered digital tickets for four teams at the end of the 2012 season. The league’s digital ticketing operation was “floored” by the initial adoption rate for Passbook, as they found Apple’s service accounted for 12 percent of MLB e-tickets.
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The boss of Dr Martens has celebrated selling the famous British boot firm to “skinheads”.
Private equity giant Permira is walking away with the brand’s parent company R Griggs for £300million.
Dr Martens’ chief executive, David Suddens, admitted private equity outfits were seen as the “skinheads” or “bad boys of the financial world.”
But he claimed the Northamptonshire-based business would thrive under its new owners, adding: “They will back the management team.”
The company turned over £160million in the 12 months to March, with profits of just under £23m. Revenues are on course to top £200million this year.
Suddens has big ambitions, insisting: “We can double the size of the business.”
Family firm R Griggs, based in Wollaston, has been making shoes since 1901 but became famous with its Dr Martens boot in the 1960s.
The boot was the brainchild of Klaus Martens, a doctor in the German army during World War II, but Griggs bought rights to manufacture them in the UK.
They went to become a must-have for skinheads and the punk generation but later became a mainstream hit and are now a global favourite and a British fashion icon.
The Griggs family still owns 91% of the company, with management having the rest. They’re each selling 20% of their stake in the deal.


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In my opinion, we as a nation are long past due to jump on the climate change bandwagon. We have been talking about environmental protection and global warming for generations but have completely failed at passing and implementing any sort of legislation to combat this problem. I am fully supportive of this bill despite what may happen to the economy or my energy bill. The carbon tax would force people and industry to reevaluate how much energy they use and hopefully change our greedy, consumer driven lifestyles.


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Chinese regulators imposed wide-ranging restrictions on the fast-growing financial divisions of 13 companies including Tencent Holdings Ltd and ByteDance Ltd, levelling many of the same curbs employed against Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co in a crackdown on the tech sector.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A dozen Chinese Internet platform companies pledged to avoid anti-competitive behaviors such as forcing vendors to use their platform exclusively, according to a statement on Wednesday from the State Administration for Market Regulation.
SHANGHAI (China Daily/ANN): Tencent Holdings Ltd head Pony Ma said he will cooperate with antitrust regulators as big technology companies in China are facing intense scrutiny for monopolistic behavior that could stifle innovation.
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China’s government has proposed establishing a joint venture with local technology giants that would oversee the lucrative data they collect from hundreds of millions of consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.


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Wall Street’s main indexes jumped on Tuesday, with strength in travel and tech shares as well as in Nike and Micron Technology following their earnings, as stocks rebounded from a coronavirus-fueled rout the session before.
The rapidly spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus has rattled stock markets around the world, triggering volatility in the final month of 2021, which has otherwise been a strong year for equities.
Gains in massive technology and tech-related stocks such as Microsoft and Amazon lifted indexes on Tuesday, as did increases in economically sensitive groups such as energy.
Travel-related stocks surged, including Carnival Corp, Las Vegas Sands and Expedia Group.
“It is clearly a risk-on day,” said David Joy, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Boston.
“This is clearly, at least for the day, investors saying, You know what, we are going to be able to ride through this Omicron surge and come out the other side in pretty good shape.”
Defensive sectors, such as consumer staples and utilities that have led in December, lagged on Tuesday.
Nike shares rose after the sports apparel company’s results beat quarterly estimates for profit and revenue, and it said it was more confident that supply chain issues would ease in its next fiscal year.
Micron Technology shares jumped after the chip company forecast second-quarter sales and profits will beat estimates with shortages easing in 2022.
“If Micron’s forecast is strong, that tells us broadly speaking that demand is strong across many different industries, said King Lip, chief strategist at Baker Avenue Asset Management, adding that Micron’s products “go into so many different industrial applications”.
General Mills shares fell after the consumer staples company missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit.
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Companies Band Together to Require Forced Arbitration as a Way to Avoid Liability
The New York Times recently investigated the increasing use of arbitration clauses placed in consumer contracts by credit card issuers, cell phone providers, financial institutions and other large companies. “From birth to death, the use of arbitration has crept into nearly every corner of Americans’ lives, encompassing moments like having a baby, going to school, getting a job, buying a car, and placing a parent in a nursing home,” the Times observed. It found that “by inserting individual arbitration clauses into a soaring number of consumer and employment contracts, companies … devised a way to circumvent the courts and bar people from joining together in class-action lawsuits, realistically the only tool citizens have to fight illegal or deceitful business practices”.
Some state court judges have called the class action bans a “get out of jail free” card, because it is almost impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with its vast resources.
Corporations claim that class actions are not needed because arbitration allows an individual with a claim to resolve their grievance easily. The Times found, however, that this is not the case. “Once blocked from going to court as a group, most people drop their claims entirely.”
More and more companies are using forced arbitration as a standard business practice. In forced arbitration, a company will not sell a consumer a product or service unless that consumer agrees to arbitrate any dispute that may arise. The consumer must waive their right to sue, to participate in a class action lawsuit, and to appeal. There is no judge or jury, but rather, an arbitration panel — that may be composed of industry representatives — reviews the facts. The forced arbitration is mandatory and the decision is binding.
How did this happen? According to the Times, in July 1999, a meeting took place in New York. In attendance where corporate legal teams from Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Sears, Toyota, and General Electric. At this meeting and at follow up meetings, the participants discussed arbitration clauses as a “means to an end,” with the goal to kill class actions. Thereafter, companies started inserting these clauses into their standard consumer contracts. But when some state and federal district courts refused to enforce them, these companies took the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in a series of decisions has backed the companies’ efforts to enforce these clauses against consumers who often do not even know that they signed such an agreement.
Last year, the attorneys general from 16 states drafted a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warning that “unlawful business practices” could thrive with the spread of class-action bans in favor or arbitration clauses. Last month, the CFPB took action and started the process to stop financial institutions from banning class actions.
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YouTube has eliminated a online video that exhibits Tesla motorists carrying out their very own security tests to figure out no matter whether the EV’s (electric powered motor vehicle) Comprehensive Self-Driving (FSD) abilities would make it immediately prevent for kids going for walks throughout or standing in the highway, as initial claimed by CNBC.
The video, titled “Does Tesla Entire-Self Driving Beta seriously run about young ones?” was initially posted on Complete Mars Catalog’s YouTube channel and includes Tesla owner and investor, Tad Park, tests Tesla’s FSD feature with his own young children. Through the video, Park drives a Tesla Model 3 toward 1 of his children standing in the street, and then tries once more with his other child crossing the street. The car or truck stops prior to achieving the youngsters both times.
As outlined on its assistance page, YouTube has unique principles against material that “endangers the emotional and physical perfectly-staying of minors.” YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez instructed CNBC that the video violated its procedures towards hazardous and unsafe articles and that the system “doesn’t permit information demonstrating a minor collaborating in unsafe things to do or encouraging minors to do risky routines.” YouTube didn’t promptly respond to The Verge’s request for remark.
“I’ve experimented with FSD beta ahead of, and I’d belief my kids’ existence with them,” Park claims throughout the now-eradicated video. “So I’m incredibly assured that it is heading to detect my young children, and I’m also in management of the wheel so I can brake at any time,” Park instructed CNBC that the motor vehicle was under no circumstances traveling a lot more than eight miles an hour, and “made confident the vehicle acknowledged the kid.”
As of August 18th, the online video experienced over 60,000 views on YouTube. The movie was also posted to Twitter and even now stays readily available to observe. The Verge attained out to Twitter to see if it has any ideas to just take it down but didn’t promptly hear again.
The outrageous thought to check FSD with real — residing and respiration — young children emerged following a online video and ad marketing campaign posted to Twitter showed Tesla cars seemingly failing to detect and colliding with baby-sized dummies positioned in entrance of the car or truck. Tesla supporters weren’t shopping for it, sparking a debate about the constraints of the function on Twitter. Entire Mars Catalog, an EV-pushed Twitter and YouTube channel operate by Tesla trader Omar Qazi, afterwards hinted at generating a online video involving actual children in an attempt to verify the authentic outcomes wrong.
In reaction to the video, the Nationwide Freeway Targeted traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a assertion warning in opposition to making use of small children to check automated driving engineering. “No 1 really should threat their lifestyle, or the everyday living of any one else, to take a look at the performance of vehicle technological know-how,” the company advised Bloomberg. “Consumers must hardly ever endeavor to create their personal examination situations or use real men and women, and particularly kids, to exam the overall performance of vehicle know-how.”
Tesla’s FSD software program doesn’t make a motor vehicle totally autonomous. It is accessible to Tesla motorists for an additional $12,000 (or $199 / month membership). At the time Tesla determines that a driver fulfills a certain safety rating, it unlocks entry to the FSD beta, enabling drivers to enter a destination and have the car push there employing Autopilot, the vehicle’s superior driver assistance technique (ADAS). Drivers will have to continue to maintain their hands on the wheel and be all set to choose command at any time.
Previously this thirty day period, the California DMV accused Tesla of earning wrong statements about Autopilot and FSD. The company alleges the names of both of those attributes, as well as Tesla’s description of them, wrongly imply that they enable vehicles to run autonomously.
In June, the NHTSA launched information about driver-support crashes for the initially time, and identified that Tesla autos working with Autopilot automobiles had been concerned in 273 crashes from July 20th, 2021 to Might 21st, 2022. The NHTSA is currently investigating a number of incidents where by Tesla automobiles working with driver-help technology collided with parked emergency vehicles, in addition to about two dozen Tesla crashes, some of which have been fatal.


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ANSR refreshes brand identity with a new logo
Called the ‘Future Beam,’ the new logo is modern, vibrant and shines a bright light on the company’s future, it said in a press statement.
This rebranding reflects a balance between ANSR’s legacy and future positioning. Interconnected with presence and strength, the two parts in the new logo work in perfect harmony, showcasing the collaborative partnerships and end-to-end solutions that ANSR provides to customers, the statement added.
Lalit Ahuja, founder and chief executive officer, ANSR said, “The recent big changes in ANSR’s business structure and vision made us stop and consider how the business is perceived by customers and employees alike. We realised it was time to refresh the brand touchpoints and communicate the organisation’s new, evolving direction with clarity and consistency.”
“As the new chapter of ANSR evolves, our new brand identity is something the employees and stakeholders can be proud of for the long term," Ahuja added.