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There’s a massive chip shortage is yet another market-impacting event this year. To summarize — semiconductor chips, used in everything from cars, intelligent fridges, smartphones, and computers, are complicated to make. There’s a shortage of materials that allows the few companies responsible for chip-making to create them. In addition, manufacturing these chips takes a long process and, thanks to COVID-19, supply-chain issues have caused delays and problems for manufacturers. Coupled with an increase in demand, this has created a shortage that is impacting many industries.
For a more comprehensive understanding of how these chips are created, check out this fascinating primer by Bloomberg.
The chip shortage is an urgent crisis across multiple industries
The chip shortage was hardly discussed until near the end of the year, where mentions of the chip shortage spiked and continued to increase through 2021. On AlphaSense, we found over 32,600 documents containing the phrase (and associated terms) “chip shortage,” “with the bulk of mentions occurring within the last three months, evidenced by the 185% 90-day increase.
Across Company Docs, the mentions have risen even more dramatically. For example, we found 2,258 company docs referencing the chip shortage within the last twelve months. But the number of documents published has risen 250% over the previous 90 days.
Among these documents, the following were the top ten industries that were most discussed.
To better understand how these industries are reacting to this chip shortage, we found critical insights across multiple documents from some of the largest companies most affected by this crisis.
Semiconductor & Semiconductor Equipment
MaxLinear Inc | 10Q Quarterly Report Q1 2021
Although the Company has benefited from increased demand for certain of our products from the work-from-home environment in the second half of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, a sudden increase in demand for electronics containing semiconductor chips and stockpiling of chips by certain firms in China blacklisted by the U.S. has exacerbated bottlenecks in the supply chain, resulting in a global semiconductor chip shortage impacting the Company’s industry. Some chip manufacturers are estimating this supply shortage may continue into 2022. While these chip manufacturers are working to increase capacity in the future, and the Company is continuing to work closely with our suppliers and customers to minimize the potential adverse impacts of the supply shortage, such shortage may have a near-term effect on the Company’s ability to meet the increased demand on specific products and hurt its operating results beginning in the second quarter of 2021 which may continue into 2022.
MKS Instruments | Q1 2021 Earnings Call
John T. C. Lee
President, CEO & Director
“…I would say, in general, Scott, if there are chip shortages or any commodity shortage, prices tend to move up just because of supply and demand. And I would say broadly; we see areas where that’s happening concerning electronic components. But really, it’s about trying to get the electronic components because, as a percentage of our bomb, our capacitor or resistor is not that large. So it’s all the other stuff that goes around it; that’s a bigger part of the bomb. So I think in general, there are going to be these pressures to increase prices while we have these shortages.”
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co LTD | Q1 2021 Earnings Call
Vice-Chairman & CEO
“Our customers are currently facing challenges from the industry-wide semiconductor capacity shortage, which is driven by both structural increase in long-term demand as well as short-term imbalance in the supply chain. In addition, we are witnessing a structural rise in underlying semiconductor demand as the multi-year megatrend of 5G and HPC-related applications are expected to fuel strong demand for our advanced technologies in the next several years. COVID-19 has also fundamentally accelerated the digital transformation, making semiconductors more pervasive and essential in people’s life.
“In addition, the need to ensure supply security is creating [a] short-term imbalance in the supply chain, driven by supply chain disruption due to COVID-19 and uncertainties brought about by geopolitical tensions.
“…To address the structural increase in the long-term demand profile, we are working closely with our customers and investing to support their demand. We have acquired land and equipment and started the construction of new facilities. We are hiring thousand[s] of employees and expanding our capacity at multiple sites.TSMC expects [s] to invest about USD 100 billion through the next three years to increase its ability to support the manufacturing and R&D of leading-edge and specialty technologies. Increased capacity is expected to improve supply certainty for our customers and help strengthen confidence in global supply chains that rely on semiconductors.
“…The automotive market has been soft since 2018. Entering 2020, COVID-19 further impacted the automotive market….and our customers continued to reduce their demand throughout the third quarter of 2020. As a result, we only began to see [a] sudden recovery in the fourth quarter of 2020.
“However, the automotive supply chain is long and complex with its inventory management practices. It takes at least six months from chip production to car production, with several tiers of suppliers in between. TSMC is doing its part to address the chip supply challenges for our customers.
“In January of this year, TSMC announced that capacity support for automotive customers is our top priority. Since then, we have worked dynamically with our other customers [s] to reallocate our wafer capacity to support the worldwide automotive industry. However, the shortage further deteriorated due to the unexpected snowstorm in Texas and the fab manufacturing disruption in Japan. Nevertheless, together with our productivity improvement, we expect the automotive component shortage from semiconductor to be greatly reduced for TSMC’s customer by the next quarter..”
Auto-Components & Automobiles
ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. | Q3 Fiscal 2021 Results Press Release
The Company’s financial results were negatively impacted by disruptions and shortages in the supply of critical components and materials globally, primarily semiconductors affecting its OEM customer’s production, which was an indirect outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic and, to a lesser extent, specific weather-related shutdowns in the southern United States resulting in production interruptions in the resin supply base. Combined, management estimates these issues reduced revenue by approximately $40 million and Adjusted EBITDA1,2 by roughly $13 million for the Q3 Fiscal period. As a result, income would have been about $258 million, and Adjusted EBITDA would have been about $38 million for the quarter.
Magna International Inc | Q1 2021 Earnings Call
Seetarama Swamy Kotagiri
CEO, President & Director
“In terms of headwinds, the entire industry is experiencing supply constraints, in particular, a global semiconductor chip shortage. We expect the chip shortage to continue to have an impact throughout the year. In addition, supply issues, particularly in chemicals and resins, are driving higher commodity costs for us in the remainder of the year.”
Vincent Joseph Galifi
Executive VP & CFO
“Our assumptions for light vehicle production have been lowered for North America, reflecting the ongoing impacts of the semiconductor shortage and increase in China as a result of continued strong production.”
Volkswagen AG | Q1 2021 Earnings Call
“…COVID continues to have an impact on our society, on ourselves, and our business. At the same time, the shortage of semiconductors had put added pressure on the whole industry….We have managed COVID and the semiconductor restrictions well so far. However, we still have limited overall visibility on the financial impact of the semiconductor shortages. Therefore, while we expect a more difficult Q2, we still see a good chance to recover a significant amount of the vehicles lost in the second half of the year.”
Chairman of Management Board & Group CEO
“SAIC was probably most hit by the shortage of semiconductors in the group. So that is why we see — and there were also write-downs, which we had to make for some of the assets from former projects. So let us know recovery for SAIC within the following quarters.
“...semiconductors are becoming more relevant for our industry year-by-year basically as the car becomes an Internet device, you can imagine, and the amount of semiconductors we have in the car is growing every year, and it’s also to differentiate the vehicles to have the suitable semiconductors. The right semiconductor design is critical for the car’s performance and connectivity and primarily for autonomous driving. So we get into more direct contact with semiconductor manufacturers on the design side. That’s a continuous process. And we are, for sure, in the crisis mode, talking directly to the — I would say, the first tiers than the second tiers of the semiconductors, let’s say, the NXPs, Infineon’s and even to the foundries, which at the end where the bottleneck happens at TSMC and the other foundries Stuttgart.
“So this dialogue is established. We are directing — contacting, and it will increase over the years. For the current crisis, I would differentiate two aspects. In the next quarter, we see our two incidents: [the] failure of 2 or 3 semiconductor plants in the U.S. because of winter storms and one fire that broke out in the Renesas plant. Two of those plants — of those four– were dedicated 100% to automotive, which is what we currently are seeing on the horizon, and that’s going to hurt because as the pipeline runs empty, now that’s going to break the industry. You hear the figures from all over the world.
“The rest is a general shortage of semiconductors because of the fast growth of the Internet of Things, IoT, which primarily uses the same technology, 54-nanometer technology as the automotive industry. And there, we have a constraint. We are working on that with the big suppliers with Infineon, Intel, worldwide to ensure that we get more capacity for the coming years, but there is the investment required. Investment in that kind of technology is not the general investment, which is currently executed. Most of the investment in semiconductors goes into 9-nanometer, 5-nanometer processes.
“So we have to make sure that we switch faster from, let’s say, the old technologies into new technologies. We are working out a comprehensive plan with all the semiconductor manufacturers to make sure that we get our future growth expectations, let’s say, guaranteed with the semiconductor supply. But it’s hard work, and it will take time.”
Ford Motor Company | Q1 2021 Earnings Call
James D. Farley
President, CEO & Director
“The semiconductor shortage and the impact to production will get worse before it gets better. We believe our second quarter will be the trough for this year.
“…As you would expect, we’re committed to learning from this crisis to be a much stronger company. So we’re taking this opportunity to revamp our supply chain to eliminate vulnerabilities down the road. This is especially relevant as we consider semiconductors, battery cells, and other commodities critical to modernization and transformation.
John T. Lawler
VP & CFO
“The vehicle incentive portion is based on the number of vehicles awaiting sale and dealer inventory and the expected incentive per unit, and both of those fell in the quarter due to the supply disruption.
“Now we do expect the working capital and the timing differences to normalize as the semiconductor supply is restored, as dealer stocks rebound and incentives return to more normal levels. And we believe this process will take several quarters and will most likely extend into 2022.
“…So we’ve updated our outlook to include the expanded impact of the global chip shortage, and the Renesas fire largely drives that. While the situation is a significant headwind, we have definitive actions to address a full range of potential outcomes. So we now expect to lose about 50% of our planned Q2 production, an increase from the 17% loss in Q1, making Q2 the trough for our performance this year.”
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LAS VEGAS – The U.S. economy has grown at an average rate of 4 percent per year, according to veteran broadcaster Stu Varney at the Electronic Retail Association’s 16th annual convention here.
Mr. Varney, who spent 18 years with CNN before moving to Fox News in December 2003, criticized the constant negativism of the mainstream press.
“In three years, the value of the U.S. economy has increased by $2.2 trillion,” he said. “That’s the size of China’s economy. In three years we’ve added a China-sized economy.”
Currently an economist with Fox, Mr. Varney summed up the state of the global economy, providing an economic backdrop to direct marketers attending the annual show for those involved in direct response television.
The “Greatest Story Rarely Told,” Mr. Varney said, is that “this is a dynamic, rapidly expanding economy in which we’re doing business.”
Strong economic growth in the U.S. is driving growth worldwide and the global economy has expanded by 5 percent each year, which is better than it’s been for the past 25 years, Mr. Varney said.
“The Greatest Story Not Yet Told,” on the other hand, is one of demographics.
“Demographic changes will make profound changes throughout the developed world,” Mr. Varney said. “Fertility rates in the developed countries have fallen very sharply.”
Countries like Germany and Italy with falling birthrates face larger groups of retirees being supported by a much smaller number of working people, who are having fewer children.
“By the year 2020, 55 out of 100 people in Italy will be 65 or older,” Mr. Varney said. “This isn’t an economically viable society – it’s like a giant Fort Lauderdale.”

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Kenneth Cole said something interesting in Forbes this month.
He learned quickly after starting a footwear company that his job isn’t just to “create great-looking shoes.” He had to find out what people wanted to wear, then give it to them – just in his own way.
This mental shift is elegantly simple – but hard. Especially if we’re selling the result of an art or craft – we want to focus our attention on getting better at the craft – create better-looking shoes, if you will.
Read the full blog post HERE


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Greenfield welcomes Kieron Cooper as a new addition as it looks to further develop the production support team on the dayshift. Prior to joining Greenfield Kieron worked for a large precision engineering company gaining valuable experience in an engineering environment then moving onto the administration side of the business. Before this he was accounts manager were he managed stock replenishment for several large accounts Dixon’s, Amazon & Tesco.
Kieron will be ensuring the delivery of direct manufacturing information is fully documented in the MRP system with detailed work instructions to the production teams. As well as monitoring factory technical status for clients projects across the business. We believe Kieron will be a major asset that will have a positive impact on the day to day running of the business systems.
Operations Director Simon Walker said, “We already have secured significant new business planned to start in the first quarter of 2018, so it’s important to expand our internal capabilities to support this new business. The key is to have it already in place as we move forward. Extending the manufacturing support team and the introduction of Kieron will allow us to see significant benefits in a short space of time.


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Arturo Fuente cigars has expanded its international footprint.
The new line features a shade-grown wrapper from Brazil.
The San Cristobal de La Habana Harimau Malaya is a Regional Edition cigar made exclusively for the Southeast Asian country.
A trio of Dominican limited-editions are expected to start reaching retailers at the end of the month.
General Cigar Co. is coming out with a new Miami-made cigar called Cohiba Serie M.
Now we know what these cigars taste like, as Cigar Insider has rated the entire line.
Aganorsa Leaf is adding a massive torpedo to its JFR Lunatic Maduro brand.
The core Cuban Por Larrañaga line is getting a new, regular-production size.
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Fost Plus, the Belgian non-profit organisation responsible for the selective collection, sorting and recycling of household packaging waste in Belgium has awarded Dutch recycling company Morssinkhof Rymoplast Groep a 9-year contract for the recycling of PET trays and bottles in a new factory in Belgium. The new plant, to be located at Neufchâteau, in the province of Limburg, will be the organisation’s fourth recycling centre in Belgium.
Fost Plus is a government-recognized organisation responsible for the selective collection, sorting and recycling of household packaging waste in Belgium. The organisation was established in 1994 as a voluntary initiative by the business community. Fost Plus recycles almost 95% of the household packaging on the market every year thanks to the efficient collection of glass, paper-cardboard and PMD (plastic, metal and drinks cartons). To that end, the organisation works closely with stakeholders through the chain: companies, federations, authorities, intermunicipalities, collection, sorting and recycling companies and the general public.
In October 2021, Fost Plus introduced a new Blue Bag in which, unlike the previous one, households may deposit almost all the domestic plastic packaging they use. This is then taken to be sorted in the five advanced sorting installations for plastic packaging waste in the country. In order to be able to handle the volume of incoming waste, more plastics recycling capacity was needed. Having built three recycling centres in 2020, Fost Plus is now building the fourth, which will be managed by Morssinkhof.
According to Fost Plus’ managing director Wim Geens, ‘with the award of this contract and the guarantee of efficient recycling into secondary raw materials in our country, the circle is closed’. He added that 95% of the volume supplied by Fost Plus is intended to return to the Belgian market.
Stefan Morssinkhof, owner of Morssinkhof Rymoplast said his company was investing 30 million euros in the construction of the factory, that will set a new standard for the recycling of complex PET packaging such as PET trays and opaque PET bottles. “We are proud to be able to expand our activities in Belgium, as a recycling hub in the heart of Europe.”


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Huawei starts to roll out Nougat beta update to the Honor 5C
Huawei wants to bring the Nougat to their Honor 5C smartphone and the first step in that direction has already been taken. Today, the Asian OEM has commenced the beta programme for the Nougat on the Honor 5C unit, and those that have signed up for this kind of programme can apply for it now.
Currently, this beta test is being carried out in India and we have no idea whether beta testers would be recruited in other parts of the world soon too.
For the beta programme, there’s expected to be two batches. The first batch would be made up of 50 users and these ones would be tasked with testing the first release. The second batch would, however, consist of 100 users who would be testing the second release. For you to apply for the Honor 5C Nougat beta programme, make sure your unit has its model number starting with NEM-L22.
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Sony is starting a new initiative in beta testing future system software updates on the console. As they get ready to launch the next big system update for the game they are looking for beta testers. While Japan and Europe both saw the applications open yesterday, North American applications are now being taken to be part of the beta for version 5.50.
Those interested in beta testing 5.50 can register here. Sony says that registration will stay open from now until the start of the beta which is expected to begin in February. There only seems to be one stipulation in registering for the beta — those who register must be 18 years or older.
Once the beta begins Sony will close off the registration process, so if you’re interested you should get that entry in by the end of the month as no concrete timetable other than “February” was given on the PlayStation blog.
Those that do sign up to beta test 5.50 will receive an email with instructions on how to download the beta software, and thankfully, beta testers will be able to roll back to previous versions of the beta if they choose to do so.
While Sony has held beta tests for System Software Updates before, this one is going to allow you to opt-in for future betas automatically. As token of thanks for testing the software and enrolling in the program to receive the updates automatically, Sony is giving away a PSN avatar.
Sony has not announced what features will be coming in Update 5.50.
- This article was updated on:March 8th, 2018


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Have you been curious about Blackout, yet unwilling to spend money on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 because you’re unsure if it’s for you? Well, you’ll soon have a chance to form a proper opinion of the new fangled mode, thanks to an upcoming free trial that Activision has announced and started promoting.
Black Ops 4‘s much talked about campaign killer and new focus will be made free for trial purposes, starting on January 17th. Said free trial will only run for a week, though, and will conclude on the 24th.
Blackout is, of course, the series’ new battle royale mode. Within its large-scale confines, players are dropped into a massive map and left to their own survival skills. That means having to forage your own weapons, ammo and med kits, while trying to survive in a mode that only offers one life.
Staying on the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 front, it’s worth mentioning that the game also received some updates on console (and will later on PC). They added:
- Debut of Gauntlets and new Elixirs in Zombies on PS4
- A new week of Featured Playlists and the addition of Elevation and Madagascar to map rotation for Black Ops Pass owners in Multiplayer
- New-and-improved console looting interface in Blackout
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Raley’s has opened a new wellness-focused supermarket concept called Market 5-ONE-5 in downtown Sacramento.
Located in the city’s historic R Street District, the 11,000-square-foot store caters to consumers who seek healthier fare and want more details about the food they eat — and who are frustrated trying to decipher food labels and translate ingredient lists. In fact, its mantra of “organic, nutrition and education,” or ONE, is reflected in the Market 5-ONE-5 banner.
Products sold at Market 5-ONE-5, which held its grand opening yesterday, are minimally processed, organic, sustainably sourced and free of ingredients not found in nature. This is in line with the preferences of many consumers, the retailer said, citing Pew Research Center findings that nearly 75% of Americans think organic food is healthier and 72% weigh price when deciding to buy organic versus non-organic food.
“Market 5-ONE-5, and what it stands for, has been a vision of ours for a long time,” explained Michael Teel, chairman and chief executive officer of Raley’s, owner of Market 5-ONE-5, which is part of West Sacramento, Calif.-based Raley’s but is managed independently. “Its purpose is to offer our community access to fresh, nutritious and affordable food. Its mission is to help people live healthy, vital lives by taking the guesswork out of understanding nutrition.”
Described as “reminiscent of a neighborhood market,” Market 5-ONE-5 offers full grocery shopping — with an emphasis on fresh items — as well as eating and socializing, including wine by the glass; beer and kombucha on tap; and a coffee, tea and juice bar. The store also serves up seasonally prepared cuisine for on-site dining, including indoor and outdoor seating. Customers also can have food delivered to their homes, and catering services are available to local businesses in Sacramento.
In providing more transparency about its products, and to better educate customers, Market 5-ONE-5 said the store will have experts on hand to offer guidance and share their knowledge of food and nutrition. They include chefs, foodies, urban farmers, nutritionists and a registered dietitian.
That goes toward helping simplify the shopping experience for the 78% of Americans who say they find a lot of conflicting information about what to eat or avoid, the retailer said, referring to a survey from the International Food Information Council Foundation.
“Market 5-ONE-5 is about conviction to a core set of principles,” stated Raley’s President Keith Knopf, who is providing strategic direction for the concept. “We don’t stock products we don’t believe in, so customers can trust everything on the shelves. Our team members know exactly where our products come from, what is in them and how they were produced.”
Expansion of the Market 5-ONE-5 already is being explored. While there are no definite plans at this time, additional sites in other urban markets across Northern California are being evaluated, Raley’s Spokeswoman Chelsea Minor said.
Overall, Raley’s has 122 stores in California and Nevada under the Raley’s, Bel Air Market, Nob Hill Foods and Food Source banners. The company also recently acquired six stores in northern Nevada from Scolari’s Food and Drug. Five Scolari’s locations are slated to be converted to the Raley’s banner and one Sak ‘N Save store is set to retain its name and become part of Raley’s Food Source division


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The American Payroll Association released a new Paycheck Maximizer application for the smartphone that could result in fatter paychecks for workers throughout the year.
Paycheck Maximizer is designed to help workers properly fill out a Form W-4 to better match the taxes withheld from each paycheck to cover their actual tax liability. Last year, the average tax refund was over $3,000, an overpayment of more than $250 a month in taxes.
“We wanted this app to help Americans where they need it most — their paycheck,” says Dan Maddux, executive director of the APA. “A quick adjustment to an employee’s Form W-4 can reduce how much tax is taken from his or her pay, giving a boost on the next paycheck and beyond.”
The app is free for download for iPhone and Android smartphone by visiting www.mypaycheck.org.
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FIA member firm Skytra is a young and innovative company developing indexes to underpin derivatives products that will allow airlines to hedge passenger ticket prices.
A London-based subsidiary of aerospace giant Airbus, the firm was created in 2019 with the goal of creating the data and infrastructure necessary for the aviation industry to help risk-manage revenue volatility. And since air travel generates roughly $1 trillion in annual revenue but 90% of that revenue is booked less than 90 days before the travel date, hedging ticket price risk is a tremendously important issue.
In fact, a whitepaper released on 15 February by an aviation financial analyst and Program Manager at Toulouse Business School calculated that reducing revenue volatility tied to ticket prices could materially improve airlines’ credit quality and financing costs — resulting in potential savings of up to $7.7 billion annually.
Particularly the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw tremendous ticket price volatility and tens of billions of dollars in government bailouts for airlines, Skytra's value proposition is quite clear.
While a lot of hard work has gone into building Skytra's data models in the hopes of supporting related derivatives markets, Skytra CEO Mark Howarth notes that the core idea of revenue hedging is not particularly new. In fact, the airline industry already uses derivatives to power a wide array of risk management strategies that cover fuel prices and foreign exchange rates.
"Markets to hedge commodity revenues have been around for 500 years in Amsterdam and Japan for a reason," Howarth said. "We want to support exactly the same kind of tools and facilities for revenue hedging across passenger airline tickets, and we want to do it in a straightforward and standardized way."
Howarth, a veteran of derivatives markets who previously worked at firms including Nomura, Merrill Lynch, UBS and Bloomberg, notes that the majority of Skytra's staff are financial services professionals. That means they understand the need to create regulated indices to power "vanilla structures and contracts" banks will actually use, he said.
In January, Skytra obtained approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be the regulated Benchmark Administrator for its air travel price indices. This regulatory approval now allows customers to use the benchmarks to price derivative contracts, which will initially be traded in OTC markets, facilitated by banks and inter-dealer brokers.
The benchmarks themselves are based on US dollars per revenue passenger kilometre in six jurisdictions:
- Air travel within Europe
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Elise Weber, co-founder and its chief sales and marketing officer, says Skytra's Price Indices are based on a comprehensive ticketing database and not simply upon a scaled-up data sample. Skytra’s database include both direct ticket sales commercialised by airlines as well as indirect transactions through third parties like internet booking portals. Thanks to a partnership with the International Air Transport Association the data set covers 83% of worldwide ticket sales by value on a daily basis — and is then in turn cross-referenced with independent data sources. Skytra's indexes reflect real-time current trends as they are calculated on a daily basis and offer retroactive pricing back to 2013 using historical data.
"We did a couple of iterations involving the index end-users and financial intermediaries to make sure they are fit for purpose before getting them approved by the FCA," Weber said. "Airbus knows how difficult it is to run an airline, and with the creation of Skytra want to support their customers in increasing their financial predicatbiliy. Our interests clearly are aligned in getting this right."
Matthew Tringham, the firm's chief strategy and product officer, said that the challenging environment caused by COVID-19 offered a true stress-test of Skytra's indexes, proving they can be resilient and offer insights even in times of unprecedented disruptions.
"We revised our rules and methodology to accept much, much smaller amounts of input data," Tringham said. "And we were still measuring realistically the price of air travel even with a market size that is 90% smaller than it was before."
He adds that while more radical scenarios caused by COVID-19 are likely behind us, including air traffic coming to a full halt in some regions for a short period of time, pricing volatility will remain a major issue for the industry going forward. Travel demand closely follows public health policies, and ticket pricing can change dramatically in a short period of time as airlines move to right-size operations and adapt pricing as various regions see swings in supply and demand trends.
Skytra CEO Mark Howarth said that he wished Skytra could have been in existence before COVID-19, and been able to offer the sort of mature markets he hopes to see for hedging ticket price risks in the future. But he stresses there is tremendous short, medium and long-term potential in the value proposition regardless of recent events. Air ticket prices have always been volatile and we don’t foresee this changing in the near future. On contrary, price volatility has increased up to 200% in certain markets as we could observe on our Skytra Price Indices. He believes that as for every new instrument, it will take some time for everybody to get familiar with it but he is very confident the aviation industry will get there as it’s a tailormade tool
"Alternative products aren't easy, and we're familiar with derivatives markets and the work that goes in to getting that first trade over the line. But it's worth it, because it's really compelling when you think about the business of airlines and ticket prices," Howarth said. "Whether we're educating people on the customer side or the market development side or just attracting staff to come and join the business, when we explain what Skytra does everyone just says 'Yes, obviously, of course! Why wouldn't you want to do that?"


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Like they say, nothing in life is free. But a recent software loophole discovered in McDonald’s promotion system allowed two software developers to get as many hamburgers they wanted, for absolutely free. In the world of cybersecurity, software vulnerabilities are sometimes exploited by hackers and bad actors to fulfill their bad, selfish motives. But it’s not necessarily the case all the time. There are bad people (black hat hackers), but there are also some good people (white hat hackers) in the cybersecurity industry whose aim is to make the online world a safer place.
So here we tell you what actually happened!
What is McDonald’s Promotion System?
First things first, you need to understand McDonald’s promotion system. It’s the same system that offers its customers rewards for their orders. Going by the report published in Vice, two German software developers dug deeper into the code behind McDonald’s promotion system. Soon, they discovered a vulnerability that would allow them to get pretty much anything from McDonald’s, without paying anything.
The duo attempted to experiment with the flaw in Berlin and successfully generated €17 voucher. This voucher was then used to place an online order. Bam! The order was placed and processed successfully! At first, the developers didn’t want to go to the store. But they went to the store eventually to explain the situation to the store manager.
To their surprise, the store manager did not find anything problematic with their order and suggested they should take their order. The duo then ordered 15 burgers from another McDonald’s store. Similar to their first order, this new order was also placed and processed successfully without any problem.
This time, however, the duo informed the manager about the situation and cancelled the order before it could be prepared by the workers. In the end, these two developers established contact with McDonald’s customer support to inform them about this hack, which didn’t work for some reason. The publication that first reported the story then reached out to McDonald’s. However, the food chain didn’t acknowledge the problem.
Thankfully, the flaw was eventually fixed and both the developers were rewarded by McDonald’s for their discovery.


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Marshall Group, in cooperation with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a recall of their Bio-Fuel Gel due to a fire hazard, according to recent news sources.
About 39,000 products are subject to recall. The product was sold in home and garden stores, gift shops and online from November 2010 through August 2011 for $7.99 to $11.99.
The product is called Marshall Gardens PatioGlo Bio-Fuel Gel. The gel has shown to ignite without warning and transfer to nearby people and objects when being poured. The manufacturer has received four reports of the danger, resulting in three injuries that required treatment at a hospital.
The gel was sold in 32 oz. size plastic bottles. The label says “PatioGlo bio-fuel gel” or “Citronella PatioGlo”. Model numbers PG-32 and PGC-32 (Citronella) are affected by the recall. Consumers can return the bottles to their store of purchase for a full refund.
As a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer, consumer safety is my number one priority. The lawyers at our firm know that even with all of the rules and regulations imposed on product manufacturers things can still go wrong and sometimes companies even put profit before safety. If you or a loved one has been affected by a dangerous product please do not hesitate to call a product defect lawyer right away. The longer you wait the more chance you have of losing evidence for your potential product liability case


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Wurl, a provider of streaming video distribution and advertising services for connected TV (CTV), has announced that all of its key growth metrics continued to accelerate in the third quarter of 2020. The company grew viewership sharply and served 129 per cent more ads for its partners than in the prior quarter.
“Everything is accelerating. Leading studio brands are distributing their highest quality programming to CTV on new streaming channels. Streaming viewing time is exploding and advertisers are following the viewers,” Wurl CEO Sean Doherty said. “Outpacing the growth of SVoD, ad-supported streaming services are the go-to destination for millions of TV viewers around the world.”
Numbers grew in Q3 2020 from Q2 2020 across all key distribution and monetisation metrics on the Wurl Network:
“As the success of our new streaming service proves, linear streaming is quickly becoming the new TV,” said Shawn Eldridge, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Content at Plex. “Viewers are cutting the cord and moving to free streaming TV services, where they can enjoy the curated content discovery of traditional TV plus an added layer of customisation.”
“We have created a winning CTV monetisation combo, bringing together the unmatched efficiencies of our AdSpring ad targeting and insertion service with our free AdPool marketplace,” Doherty said. “For a growing number of our customers, AdPool revenues that we pay them exceed the fees they pay us each month for Wurl distribution and monetisation services. We’re paying our customers to use our service.”


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Reopening in September, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) will be launched as the ultimate inspiring world class event platform for all.
Reintroduced as “Beyond MICE, Beyond Venue”, the venue signifies its reinvention to serve all kinds of events ranging from MICE to lifestyle such as conferences, exhibitions, concerts, gaming, fashion-shows, e-sports, arts & crafts and much more.
The new QSNCC is five times larger than its previous iteration. With more than 300,000 sq.m of total space, the venue is primed for both large scale events as well as meetings.
It can also accommodate face to face, hybrid or virtual events. It will also focus more on sustainable events with an aim to operate at the forefront of sustainability technologies and environmentally friendly designs.
To redefine the convention center in Thailand, a fresh retail concept called “Bangkok Active Lifestyle Mall” (BALM) has been introduced in an effort to attract a variety of customers from health and fitness enthusiasts to workers and families. At the heart of Bangkok, it will be more than 100 retails covering more than 11,000 sq.m. With its connection to Benjakitti Park, the new green hart of Bangkok frequented by exercise lovers, visitors can also enjoy natural daylight and view from the centre and do pre/post business activities at the park.
Recently QSNCC has prepared special offers and privileges to welcome all international organisers and visitors with “Hotel Partnership” program. In the first phase, QSNCC has collaborated with 13 leading hotel partners in Bangkok and tourism provinces to provide a great variety of benefits to organisers and participants who work with the centre, including complimentary MRT or BTS pass, special rates for rooms, check in services at QSNCC and so on.
“With our capabilities in providing a full range of services for all types of events, QSNCC will be the new event platform destination in Asia” said Mr. Sakchai Pattarapreechakul, CEO of N.C.C. Management & Development Co., Ltd.
The venue has confirmed to hold more than 130 events lined up for 2023, expecting over 13 million visitors per year. With more events flocking to Thailand, including Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2022 in November, the QSNCC will bolster Bangkok’s MICE offering. This is reinforced by the fact that the border of Thailand has been opened, and the nation has dropped its post-arrival Covid-19 quarantine which includes wearing face masks in now voluntary in Thailand.
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The Apple iPhone 14 Pro is an upcoming smartphone that was recently launched by Apple on September 7, 2022. However, it will be released on September 16, 2022. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro has been available in India since September 14, 2021. In this article, we will compare the Apple iPhone 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro.
The Apple iPhone 14 Pro in India is priced at Rs. 1,12,900. Meanwhile, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro has a price tag of Rs. 1,04,900. As we move further, we will explore the features of both smartphones. Read On!
Apple iPhone 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro: Specs
|Product Name||Apple iPhone 14 Pro||Apple iPhone 13 Pro|
|Release Date||September 16, 2022||September 14, 2021|
|Display||6.1-inch OLED||6.1-inches Super Retina OLED|
|Processor||A16 Bionic chipset||A15 Bionic chipset|
Apple iPhone 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro: Design and Display
Apple iPhone 14 Pro
In terms of design, Apple will entirely get away with the notch design. Meanwhile, Apple will have rectangular edges and camera bumps to the new iPhone 14 Pro. In addition, you’ll also see rounded corners with elegantly designed curves.
On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro includes a power button on the right and an alert slider on the left. Moreover, you get sapphire glass for camera protection and a ceramic shield to prevent any cracks on the phone.
The Apple iPhone 14 Pro, like the 13 Pro, have a 6.1-inch OLED display with a 2556×1179-pixel resolution and 120Hz ProMotion technology display panel. You’ll also witness an always-on display feature on the Apple iPhone 14 Pro. The iPhone 14 Pro is well crafted with the stainless steel and ceramic shield front textured matt finish.
On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro features a 6.1-inches Super Retina OLED display. The smartphone has a 120Hz ProMotion display. The refresh rate is a massive help when playing games or scrolling through social media.
Another significant change you’ll observe in the Apple iPhone 14 Pro over the iPhone 13 Pro is that the 14 Pro is to come with a pill-shaped camera cutout. Until the Apple iPhone 13 series, Apple has gone with the traditional notch for all of their iPhones since 2017, but things should finally change now. The pill-shaped front camera cutout will accommodate the Face ID and front selfie sensors. This will make the display more immersive and better for media consumption.
Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Also Read: Apple iPhone 13 Pro Review.
Apple iPhone 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro: Processor and Storage
The Apple A16 Bionic chipset will debut on the Apple iPhone 14 Pro with the 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU. The processor will be highly efficient, leaving behind the iPhone 14 A-15 Bionic chipset.
On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro has the newest Apple A15 Bionic chipset. The chipset is efficient and is faster than most of the processors in the smartphone market. The phone has better GPU scores when compared to the Apple iPhone 13.
Furthermore, the Apple iPhone 14 Pro has four variants: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB of storage. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro offers four variants of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB paired with a single RAM variant of 6GB.
The Apple iPhone 14 Pro comes with some significant camera setup upgrades. You will see a 48MP camera sensor in an iPhone for the first time, which will be a massive upgrade from the current 12MP module. The camera will then be able to click some high-quality shots, which shall produce ultra-clear photos, even when you zoom in on the clicked pictures.
On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro sports an excellent triple camera setup on the back. The setup includes a 12MP primary camera, 12MP ultra-wide-angle lens and a 12MP Telephoto camera with 3X optical zoom capabilities. The smartphone still has one of the best camera systems in the smartphone market.
The Apple iPhone 14 Pro also comes with an amazing 12 MP front-facing camera. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro has a single 12MP selfie camera.
Battery and Charging
Let’s check out the Apple iPhone 14 Pro vs Apple iPhone 13 Pro batteries. The Apple iPhone 14 Pro features a 3,200mAh battery capacity with 20W charging. Moreover, the smartphone charges up to 50 per cent in just 30 minutes. On the other hand, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro features a 3,095mAh battery with Fast 20W charging support. The phone also supports wireless charging. The smartphone charges up to 50 per cent in just 30 minutes.
The Apple iPhone 14 Pro will soon hit the Indian market and will be launched on September 16 in India. However, the Apple iPhone 13 Pro is available in the Indian smartphone market. If you are looking for a premium smartphone device, it is one of the best choices you can make.
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The announcement came as the San Jose tech giant announced that their profits rise 23 percent in the last quarter, when compared with a year ago.
They also say sales increased by 8 percent. Those results far exceeded the company's own forecast and analysts' expectations.
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There have been many strides made in North America in the world of virtual reality (VR), especially in Canada, with there being a good selection of VR rollercoasters to get the mass of the public into the new tech. It has now come that Canada is leading the way in terms of cinematic VR, with North America’s first VR movie theatre.
We have already seen a couple VR cinemas popping up around Europe, but this is the first time we have seen it from across the Atlantic Ocean. Vivid VR, co-founded by Toronto-based Gary Tam, Ran Mo, and Crystal Chen, is the name of the startup, and it has already been open for two days – it will, however, only be temporary for now. Although it won’t be showing feature-length films, only five to ten minute long short films using what looks to be Samsung Gear VR head-mounted displays (HMD).
In a report by Techvibes the two Co-founders spoke about the implication of taking on this new venture, and why they think they are onto something great: “The truth is most people just don’t have devices at this point,” explained Ro. “Once they actually do have the opportunity to try it they will realize the power and immersive nature of virtual reality and want more of it. So we are trying to pioneer that industry and give people the opportunity to actually experience it,” added Tam.
The cinema has 20 seats where customers will receive a brief demo, followed by pushing play on the HMDs and relaxing to the film. The films featured will include animation and live-action, with swivel chairs for them to enjoy the full scope of VR.
Time will be the greatest factor as when the end of August comes around, the owners will be able to judge whether or not they will make it a permanent space.
For more on the latest developments, news, and updates in the world of VR, make sure to check back with VRFocus.


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The Chinese ambassador to Uganda, Zheng ZhuQiang has defended his citizens’ dealing in retail trade in the country citing lack of a legislation that bars foreigners from trading in a particular business.
His response comes at the heels of an outcry from Ugandan traders asking government to stop foreign nationals from dealing in petty trade like running kiosks as opposed to setting up big factories.
In an email exchange with a local newspaer last week, Mr ZhuQiang said the complaints were as a result of commercial competition, which should be corrected by the market forces of demand and supply in a liberalized economy.
“First of all, there is no law in Uganda that prohibits foreigners from retailing. The complaints result from commercial competition. Thus, it should be solved by the market itself. More importantly, I hope relevant parties could handle the issue according to the rule of law,” said Mr ZhuQiang. Last month, traders dealing in building materials in Nakasero, Kampala City, closed their shops to protest against Chinese traders, who they claim are selling similar products at the lowest prices.
The traders want the government to take the Chinese traders to industrial parks since they came to the country as industrialists not merchants.
However, Mr ZhuQiang explained that the core principle of China’s policy on Africa is to connect assistance to African countries, including Uganda, for their independent and sustainable development with China’s own development, achieve win-win cooperation and common development.
In a telephone interview on Friday, Trade Minister Amelia Kyambadde told Step FM that the matter of foreigners dealing in petty trade is still being discussed by Cabinet.
“It is our fault as Ugandans and it is not right to ask such questions to the Ambassador but I will let you know of the amendments we are making when I am back into the country,” Ms Kyambadde said.
Despite her earlier stand that government wants to ring-fence petty trade for nationals, Ms Kyambadde has since said there is no provision in the law excluding foreigners from carrying out trade in the country.
At the end of last year, statistics from Bank of Uganda (BoU) valued trade between Uganda and China at $737m (Shs2.6 trillion).
A rapid growth is being projected with the bulk of imports standing at – $710m (Shs2.5trillion). On why all contracts under China-funded projects are given to Chinese firms, Mr ZhuQiang defended the move saying their firms buy local content.
“While doing infrastructure projects in Uganda, Chinese companies pay high attention to using local contents,” he said.


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Friday September 11,2015 : BOOMING GAMES CONTENT FOR BITCASINO.IO
Developers full portfolio of 3D slots integrated with Bitcoin operator's platform.
Bitcasino, a Bitcoin online casino and sportsbook operator, has signed a games content agreement with 3D slots developer Booming Games which will see the latter's full portfolio of 21 products integrated with the online gambling website.
The games include Marketplace, Ice World and Fort Knox – all compatible with mobile and tablet devices.
A spokesperson for BitCasino.io said, "These slots are extremely high quality, in terms of usability, graphics, and 3D animation. The portfolio of games ensures we deliver an immersive experience for our bitcoin-only players whether it’s via desktop or mobile.”
Max Niehusen, managing director of Booming Games, said: commented: “We are confident that our slots will provide a diverse mix of classic and original high-end features."


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The Indonesian government invites APEC member countries to make efficient travel arrangements for citizens between APEC members in order to increase tourist visits.
This is done so that citizens’ trips between APEC countries become easier and faster without reducing the comfort aspect. This was conveyed by the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu after a meeting of the Dialogue on the High Level of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in the field of Travel Facilitation (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, High-Level Policy Dialogue on Travel Facilitation) in Bali, October 1, 2013. Let’s say Indonesia’s tourism sector requires cross-ministerial cooperation and commitment so that the problems faced in the sector can be resolved as soon as possible. Mari also explained that Indonesia’s tourism sector was constrained by several things, including air transportation problems related to airport infrastructure development and visa problems. “The biggest obstacle is the visa, the government should immediately provide a free visa program so that it can attract foreign countries to invest here. In addition, it must be supported by existing technology so that the process becomes fast,” Mari said. state trade and investment. Indonesia currently continues to enhance cooperation with ASEAN countries and APEC countries in facilitating visa applications. Not only Visa, the problem of technological cooperation systems such as the auto gate must also be implemented immediately. For example, in Cengkareng (Soekarno Hatta Airport) you can register your name and your passport, so there is no need to go to immigration and can go online. Exchange of data on people and technology systems with good cooperation between countries can facilitate APEC’s journey and without ignoring the security system in our country, foreign countries will feel comfortable in Indonesia, “said Mari Elka Pangestu. Added by several developed countries such as America and Australia has applied an electronic visa to speed up the journey. “The provision of electronic visas is very good, to make it easier for us to use it, such as buying airline tickets that are already equipped with numbers,” he said. “Tourism growth occupies the highest position in the Asia Pacific region. In Indonesia alone, tourism occupies the five largest contributors to the export of goods and services to foreign exchange. For this reason, increasing facilitation in increasing tourism travel needs to be carried out between institutions such as immigration, finance, transportation, transportation, and security. Facilitating growth requires coordination with various fields such as law and human rights, customs and excise, tourism, and transportation, “said Mari. Furthermore, Mari explained that the meeting also discussed a number of breakthroughs on the use of visas that were considered successful, namely the APEC Business Travel Card, which is the APEC business travel card that allows users to get special routes. In addition, there is also cooperation that involves transferring technology and exchanging data between countries, namely accelerating the process of a permit for tourists visiting APEC member countries. Meanwhile, customs classifies visitors or items included in the trusted category. “Hopefully, leaders can encourage agencies related to tourism, transportation, immigration, customs, and security to work together in realizing the initiatives of the APEC economic leaders to realize the APEC travel facilitation initiative,” said Mari. UN Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization Taleb Rifai added, the WTO UN study said that travel facilities and connectivity would certainly be able to increase revenues in APEC countries. Discussion of APEC High-Level Policy Dialogue on Travel Facilitation formulates a joint agreement to strengthen the connectivity or connectivity of goods, services, and people through tourism synergy. The focus of the discussion included visa facilitation, increased passenger information, trusted tourist programs and environmentally friendly airport programs. Furthermore, this joint agreement was recommended at the APEC Leaders Declaration which was held on October 6-8, 2013.


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Scott Silverman is a familiar name and face in e-commerce, having served as executive director of Shop.org for over a decade. During his tenure, his focus was developing digital ways to sell tangible things. In his new role as co-founder and VP Marketing of Ifeelgoods.com, Silverman’s focus will be on a newer trend in e-commerce: virtual goods, including digital rewards and incentives.
Nothing to sneeze at, given it’s estimated some $1.6 billion will be spent by consumers this year on social games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars. So we caught up with Silverman to discuss his new company – and a just-announced deal with Facebook.


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Teads Appoints Dominic Proctor as Advisor to the Board
New York, May 30th, 2018 – Teads, the inventor of outstream video advertising and the No. 1 video advertising marketplace in the world, today announced that former Global President of GroupM, Dominic Proctor, has been named as an advisor to the company’s board of directors. Proctor will leverage his vast experience as a leader of creative and media agencies to help bolster Teads’ client relationships and strategic focus on revolutionizing advertising experiences for today’s leading brands.
After more than 35 years in the advertising industry, Proctor has extensive media and marketing experience in multiple top agencies. As Global President of GroupM, Proctor was responsible for over 30 percent of the world’s media buying market, reporting directly into Sir Martin Sorrell and leading a team of over 30,000 employees in 110 worldwide markets. Prior to his role at GroupM, Proctor founded Mindshare, WPP’s first media agency, and was the CEO of J. Walter Thompson in the UK, where he developed a mastery of media and go-to-market strategy. Proctor has also long supported numerous charities, having served at Tommy’s as a trustee for over 24 years, and as Chairman of London Landmarks and Try For Change.
Dominic Proctor remarked, “It is an honor to be working with Teads, a company that has demonstrated true innovation and resilience in the ever-evolving media landscape. Given my three decades of experience leading media and creative agencies, I’m very well positioned to help Teads grow the company’s strategic brand relationships and increase awareness for its differentiated advertising offering in the market.”
“We are elated to have someone as esteemed as Dominic join as an advisor,” said Bertrand Quesada, CEO, Teads. “All of us at Teads look forward to receiving his guidance and strategic perspective on how to best navigate our explosive growth and bring our innovative advertising experiences to brands everywhere.”
Teads, founded in 2011, is the inventor of outstream video advertising and No. 1 video advertising marketplace in the world (source: comScore). Publishers work with Teads to create brand new video inventory, monetizing it through their own sales force, Teads sales force or programmatic buying.
Teads’ outstream video and viewable display advertising solutions encompass a series of formats inserted deep into media content, like the inRead, displayed inside articles. Teads inRead has been changing the game within the advertising industry by creating unprecedented levels of premium video inventory, which did not exist before.
Brands and agencies can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, through programmatic or managed services.
Teads has a team of over 670 employees, 120 of whom are on the innovation team, across 35 offices in 24 countries.
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Leading on-premise wholesaler Paramount Liquor has revealed its intention to launch a new retail banner group with former ALM executives Jon Fernandes and Fergus Collins to lead the venture, alongside Paramount founder, Mark Rowe.
Paramount currently has three distribution centres in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, and while the group has not yet divulged details of where the new banner’s stores will be located, it makes sense Paramount will take advantage of its existing network.
Rowe explained the reasons behind this big step into the off-premise for Paramount.
“Paramount has traditionally been a 95 per cent on-premise based business and as a result, we have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 shutdown of bars, restaurants and cafes across Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia,” Rowe said.
“Post COVID-19, it is evident that we need to diversify our business into the retail channel and the best way to do this is by using our existing reputation for paramount service and bringing on experienced personnel who played a significant role in moulding the retail banner group environment that exists today.”
Rowe also welcomed Fernandes and Collins to the team, saying their experience in Australia’s liquor retailing channel, will be crucial to the success of the new banner group.
“We feel that the addition of Fergus Collins & Jon Fernandes to our newly established retail banner group will provide us with the experience and expertise that we need to make this truly independent marketing group a huge success.” said Rowe.
Fernandes brings over 26 years of knowledge regarding the Australian liquor industry to Paramount, with experience ranging from independent retailer owner/operator to General Manager Merchandise at Australian Liquor Marketers [ALM].
More recently he extended his experience into the grocery market with Metcash, leading teams in innovation strategies for both Export and e-Commerce.
“I am extremely pleased to be back within the liquor industry family and excited to be working with the Paramount team in retail. There is something genuine about a family owned independent wholesale business working for the success of family owned independent retailers,” said Fernandes.
Collins also brings considerable experience and expertise to the new business after a six-year stint as the CEO of ALM, from 2007 to 2013.
He led the transformation of ALM from a wholesale business to a retail and wholesale business while building the IBA independent retail network.
“Independent retailers aren’t looking for corporate slogans, they are not a chain, they value local over national and service over shareholders,” Collins said.
“I’m really excited to be working with Mark, Leigh and Nathan and the whole Paramount team to bring true independence back to the independent liquor marketplace.”
Paramount said that additional details regarding the new retail banner group will be announced shortly.


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In some areas of the country, the arrival of a big chain store is greeted with excitement. In others, it's welcomed with protests. Right now in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood, such a fight is being waged against preppy menswear brand Jack Spade.
The company signed a lease to take over a former bookshop in the Mission but has been stymied by city regulations and vocal citizens. According to our SF site, in 2006 local voters passed a series of tough rules designed to keep out major retailers.
If a store has more than 11 locations and has a recognizable "look," well, good luck getting a lease. Jack Spade has only 10 locations nationwide but is owned by parent company Fifth & Pacific (formerly Liz Claiborne), which also owns Juicy Couture, Kate Spade and Lucky Brand. A Stop Jack Spade Commission has been formed; Jack Spade has halted work on the storefront, currently leased for $12,000 per month.
Spade's VP of retail told Mission Local that the brand is simply misunderstood. "I think when people get to know what Jack Spade is about, that we don't belong in places that are more commercial, they'll believe we will be a good fit in the Mission and that we'll respect what goes on there," she said optimistically.
Update: Jack Spade has issued an official statement on the situation. It reads: "We appreciate the outpouring of passion regarding the Mission District and the possibility of the JACK SPADE boutique opening there. It is this passion for the neighborhood that drew our brand to this location in the first place. However, there have been erroneous reports concerning the financial details of our lease agreement in the media and we would like to emphasize that these have been exaggerated. As a company policy, we do not disclose details regarding lease agreements. JACK SPADE hopes to join the community, add color and flavor to it, and offer the men of the Mission District and San Francisco our own take on the uniqueness this neighborhood wants to preserve."
· Mission Neighbors Tell Jack Spade to 'Jack Off' [Racked SF]
· Jack Spade tries to sneak into a beloved Mission spot, triggering a community backlash [SF Bay Guardian]
· Five Things to Know About SF's Formula Retail Policy [Racked]


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Before India, Tesla EVs touch down in Nepal. Models, prices and other details
KATHMANDU : US electric vehicle giant Tesla is yet to enter the Indian market but its electric vehicles have already touched down in the neighbouring country of Nepal. This despite the fact that Tesla, the company, hasn't officially made its debut here.
Around seven Tesla electric vehicles - four Model X Long Ranges and three Model 3 Standard Ranges, have reached the Himalayan country in 2020. Five of these have already been sold here, as per an official of ARETE International, the organisation looking after marketing of the electric vehicles here.
Also Read : When, how and what of Tesla's India entry
The Model X Long Range costs 3.5 crore Nepali rupee (approx ₹2.18 crore) and Model 3 costs 1.25 crore Nepali rupee (approx ₹78 lakh), both ex-showroom prices. The electric vehicles coming to the country have been imported from South China EXIM Ltd in Hong Kong, China, by automobile dealers Shreema Distributors and ARETE International.
On the downside for now though is that there are no authorised Tesla dealerships in the country or any after-sales service outlets.
As per a report in Himalayan Times, in Nepal's budget for the current fiscal year, a new policy was introduced allowing any auto dealer to import a vehicle of any brand by paying 30 per cent extra duty.
Currently, a Model X has been put on display in One Darbar Mall in Kathmandu, Nepal, where prospective customers can get all the information from executives of ARETE International about the Tesla electric cars. As per another official of the organisation, around 15 more Model 3 sedans have been booked by customers here and the waiting period for deliveries is around two months.
Model 3 is the more preferred model when compared the Model X owing to the high price point of the latter. "Out of four Model X imported to the country, two have been sold. The other two are still unsold due to the high price of the vehicle," said an official not wanting to be named.
The Himalayan country does not have any public charging infrastructure and those buying electric vehicles here have to charge it at their homes.


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Samsung hasn’t managed to integrate the fingerprint sensor of its upcoming Galaxy S9 smartphone into the device’s display, suggest newly leaked images of the device. And it’s going to cost about a hundred bucks more than last year’s Galaxy S8, according to the latest anonymous report from the mobile industry.
The fingerprint issue represents a significant failing, and not just because Samsung has missed its opportunity to become one of the first smartphone makers to introduce such technology to the mass market. (The first such phone, from Vivo, recently became available for preorder.) The placement of the fingerprint sensor just below the camera on the rear of the Galaxy S8 was one of the chief criticisms of that device, with reviewers and users complaining about smudging and obscuring the lens when performing fingerprint scans. Now, with the Galaxy S9, it looks like Samsung has placed the fingerprint sensor… right below the rear camera.
At least the camera system looks good. Samsung has hinted that the camera will be the main focus of the Galaxy S9, and the leaked images depict one model with a single camera, and another with a dual camera system, which should enable the kind of depth sensing found on Apple’s iPhone 8 and iPhone X devices. Speaking of which, the latter seems to have inspired Samsung to up the price of its new flagship device, with a report out of the UK suggesting it will cost £100 more than the S8 did at its launch, and that an equivalent price hike can also be expected in the US. That would put the price tag around $850 – markedly less than the iPhone X’s thousand-dollar price, but a considerable jump that appears to be inspired by Apple’s brinksmanship.
Of course, while demand for the iPhone X far outstripped supply at its launch, signs have recently emerged suggesting that sales were ultimately much weaker than anticipated, with many speculating that it’s the device’s high price that kept consumers away. So Samsung’s price hike for the Galaxy S9, not to mention its refusal to reposition the fingerprint scanner, could turn out to be an important obstacle to market success. It better have a really good camera.


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The popularity of cryptocurrencies reached heights back in 2017, and since then people have been very actively interested in it. We notice that a huge number of new cryptocurrency services are emerging, new traders are entering the game, popularizing various blogs and YouTube channels about cryptocurrency. [Read more…]
Cryptocurrencies are definitely an emerging currency despite being famous as being volatile. More and more people have started investing, trading, mining, and developing programs that cater to the blockchain and crypto industry. In fact, even established companies and organizations are even starting to venture into cryptocurrency. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, is one such example when they released https://anon-system.live. Meanwhile, other companies have started offering cryptocurrencies as payments, including to content creators. [Read more…]
The launch and emergence of new platforms inevitably create opportunities for new fans to create a name on their own and seal their own brand. The decentralization of digital media will be no different from all this to come.
Much has been written and commented on the ideal benefits of decentralized media, such as resistance to censorship. This has also covered benefits for consumers, such as lower costs and direct relationships with publishers. [Read more…]


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With the World Cup kicking off tomorrow for fans here, readers can follow the football matches with The New Paper (TNP) on the go.
The paper's Football Kaki Live app for iOS and Android has been updated and readers can view full match schedules in Singapore time, as well as get live scores and live text commentary during matches.
Readers can also check out TNP's news mobile app launched on Tuesday which rewards them with points for reading articles, commenting on them and offering news breaks.
Premium content on the app - including an interactive digital version of the paper - will also be free for users until June 23.
The new app can be searched under "The New Paper" in the iTunes App store for iPhones, or the Google Play store for Android devices.
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STATE TIMES NEWSRAMBAN: District Magistrate, Ramban, Mussarat Islam has ordered to keep the Zonal Seed Store in Agriculture Complex at Maitra in Ramban open on all days and exempted it from lockdown restrictions.Even during the J&K wide ongoing Corona curfew, the supply of agriculture inputs from this store remains available on all days from 10 am to 5 pm including the Sundays and Gazetted holidays so that the farmers get uninterrupted and timely seeds and other things.According to Chief Agriculture Officer, Ramban, Farooq Ahmed Bhat more than 100 Qtl seed has been sold out on subsidized rates to the farmers from this zonal store till date.In view of the current Kharief season the CAO, Bhat has deputed Agriculture Extension Officer, Jagdish Bali alongwith AEO, Munish Gupta at the Seed Store for the continuous and hassle-free distribution of seed during the curfew.
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This week: younger folks opt for “no-click” search results, Bing Ads is rebranding, and podcast ad revenue is on the rise.
Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing.
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Former Google Engineer Who Stole Trade Secrets Is Pardoned: Live Updates
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Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
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Trump pardons ex-Uber and Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
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Coronavirus may be the reason many want or need to try working remotely, and video editors may have a head start, according to Blackbird, if they use the company’s video editor, made for the cloud.
We’re seeing how current events have spurred a huge amount of thinking and planning about how workforces operate effectively. While many of the changes translate in factories closed, events cancelled and other businesses seeing their productivity reduced, some companies are finding they are required to spend less money on office space, infrastructure and travel.
As Twitter tells its employees to work from home, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have instructed parts of their workforce to work remotely, in turn surging demand for videoconferencing and online meeting services like Zoom. What began as a rapid response by businesses in China has spread to global hubs, such as Silicon Valley, as a policy to discourage centralized congregations while keeping the economy going.
A live webinar for companies
As ProVideo Coalition noted before, the COVID-19 outbreak has accelerated a long term trend of flexible and more sustainable home and remote working. This has resulted in a significant rise in the use of virtual meetings and demonstrated the efficiency gains this flexible working brings, as everything from conferences to commerce is re-thought.
What’s happening is something we were told the Internet would bring, but that has not happened until now, at least not as some imagined it. In fact, the emergency adoption of remote work appears to contribute to speed up the transformation and this will lead to long-term changes in workforce behavior, according to analysts including Roberta Witty, at research and consulting firm Gartner, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The company has a special report – “Overcoming COVID-19 Through Pandemic Preparedness” – available on its website, and will have a live webinar on March 10, under the title “How Your Business Can Respond to Coronavirus (COVID-19)”.
The one-hour webinar explains participants how to take prudent steps to prepare for pandemics as part of business continuity management. The webinar covers the 10 steps for pandemic preparedness, crisis management solutions, and the power of data and analytics. Hosted by Gartner, the webinar will look at how technology is even more critical for business success in this new epidemic environment.
Blackbird, a video editor for the cloud
According to Blackbird “those working in the professional video production industry have a head start, particularly those able to edit video remotely with Blackbird as easily as if they were on site with their original material”, because, the company adds, “Blackbird is the only professional video editor available in a browser. Production staff can work with Blackbird from home on Mac or PC with all the editing tools they need – even on bandwidth as low as 2 Mb/s. It’s a genuinely distributed ecosystem meaning that remote production teams can access video fast from any laptop, making it immediately available worldwide.”
Blackbird is, says the team behind the app, “the world’s fastest cloud video editing and publishing platform. Developed from the ground up just for the cloud, Blackbird delivers unbeatable speed, scalability and quality of editing tools and video output. Accessed through any browser, easy to learn and needing only limited bandwidth to use, Blackbird powers significant productivity and efficiency benefits to any enterprise-level organisation working with video.” With Blackbird video content creators can easily edit and publish video from home or anywhere else.
With the current crisis very much a developing story that ProVideo Coalition has covered since February, many more companies in hotspot zones will likely begin considering or enforcing home working. When eventually everything does calm down, we may just find that this global disruptor has accelerated positive changes in the evolution of work.


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We’ve just got wind of another Air Jordan 4 release for 2019, in which the sneaker celebrates it’s 30th anniversary.
This time around it appears to be linked to new Houston Rocket and Jordan Brand Athlete, Carmelo Anthony.
Details are still up in the air for this potential release, but we do have word of it’s color blocking and should look pretty much like our rendition below.
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Wi-Fi 7 promises up to 3 times better connection speeds than current Wi-Fi 6 itself .
The first phones with support for the recently announced Wi-Fi 7 will hit the market as soon as early 2024.
This is highlighted by DigiTimes , who cites inspection laboratories and backend houses in his report.
What is Wi-Fi 7?
Wi-Fi 7 is the new generation of the wireless internet connection standard.
Thanks to the leap in technology, it can use 320 MHz channels and is compatible with 4K quadrature amplitude modulation technology, which allows much faster connections than the current Wi-Fi 6.
Therefore, it is expected that the cell phones that carry them can accept at least 30 to 40Gbps.
In everyday use, speeds fast enough for next-gen AR/VR, 8K video streaming, and gaming devices.
In comparison, Wi-Fi 6 features speeds of up to 9.6 Gb/s, and Wi-Fi 5 has a maximum of 3.5 Gb/s.
Phones will be the last
Wi-Fi 7 will hit routers and laptops first before hitting smartphones.
In January, MediaTek demoed Wi-Fi 7 , and Intel has said it plans to adopt the technology in laptops by 2024 , with the technology appearing in major markets in 2025.
Qualcomm is also working on Wi-Fi 7 chip options that are expected to appear in the same time frame.


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Buying a car is supposed to be a satisfying feeling. You’ve paid for the thing, and now you can do what you want with it. Right? If only it were so simple.
General Motors and John Deere are both claiming in hearings with the U.S. Copyright Office that even when someone buys a car, the software that coordinates how everything moves is customized and subject to copyright protection. Their argument is that since the vehicles can’t run without this special software, customers are subject to an “implied license.”
In a hearing about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Tuesday, GM attorney Harry Lightsey told the copyright office that, “It is [GM’s] position [that] the software in the vehicle is licensed by the owner of the vehicle.”
John Deere explains it this way:
In the absence of an express written license in conjunction with the purchase of the vehicle, the vehicle owner receives an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle, subject to any warranty limitations, disclaimers or other contractual limitation in the sales contract or documentation.
The big battle here is over who should be able to access the electronic control units that turn software commands into physical actions for things like steering and braking. Not only does access provide people a window into a car company’s proprietary code, it also allows independent mechanics and hobbyists to fix the cars. The copyright office is weighing an exemption that would allow these third parties to continue repairing cars. But GM and other car companies are going to great lengths to defeat the exemption.
Proponents of it, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argue that restricting access could stifle competition and impede innovation. In Wired, Kyle Wiens argues that vehicle manufacturers could undermine the basic concept of ownership. But there are also safety concerns about letting anyone access and modify car code. People who don’t know what they’re doing—or even just make mistakes—could make a car dangerous to drive without realizing it. And if a car were sold used, it would be difficult for the new owner to detect any software changes.
Jacqueline Charlesworth, general counsel for the U.S. Copyright Office, told AutoBlog, “That’s a troubling prospect that in an ordinary used-car transaction you have to be worried about whether there’s been a software modification.”
The copyright office will hold a second hearing on the subject next week and plans to make a determination in July. Car software really is the ghost in the machine.


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It looks like T-Mobile has actually released the Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120. This isn’t exactly ground breaking BlackBerry news as you can already get the 8120 on AT&T, however, T-Mobile did miss their initial launch date for the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 by over a month, so, many T-Mobile subscribers have been waiting for this.
What is really cool about the T-Mobile version of the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is that you can use its Wi-Fi capability to connect to HotSpot@Home, T-Mobile’s UMA technology that allows users to make unlimited calls over the internet for an additional $10 per month. This could come in handy for those BlackBerry users that make a lot of calls from home or places where Wi-Fi is readily available while keeping your monthly costs down.
The T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl 8120 sells for $350, offers an instant $150 rebate with various monthly plans.


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KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Huawei has launched its latest Y Series smartphone, Y6 II, in the domestic market.
Issuing a statement, the company said that the new handset will be available at Rs 19,999.
“The brilliant looking phone with smooth performance provides ultimate convenience to its users at pocket-friendly price.
The phone is available in gold, black and white colors,” reads the statement.
The phone has 5.5-inch display and is powered by 64-bit octa-core processor.
It has 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory and 3,000 mAh battery.
Similarly, it has a 13 mega pixel rear camera and 8 mega pixel front shooter.
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Palace is making its way to New York.
The skate brand, which is headquartered in London, took to Instagram to post a cryptic video earlier this week with the date “5.5.17” spinning against a city backdrop. And today the brand confirmed it would open in New York with another Instagram video featuring Jonah Hill, a Chihuahua, a robot and a dancing Palace logo.
Palace was founded by former skater Lev Tanju in 2009. Tanju opened a London shop in 2015 and he’s created a strong following with his graphic logo and collaborations with brands including Adidas and Reebok.


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A new activity this year is the inauguration of a global tourism innovation hub, highlighting the UNWTOs role in and commitment to innovation. Furthermore, the awards ceremony of the 1st UNWTO Tourism Startup Competition will be held in partnership with Globalia, the leading tourism group in Spain and Latin America.
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) announced the launch of registration for GBTA Convention 2019. Next years Convention will be held in Chicago, August 3-7, 2019.
Attendance Approaches 1,100 with Record-Breaking Turnout
Airports Council International (ACI) World today kicked off the sixth Airport Chief Executives Symposium (ACES) by calling for governments and industry worldwide to work together to accommodate soaring air traffic demand and allow airports to grow sustainably.
Focus is on high level of security, more efficiency and quality of passenger experience
WINiT to Debut Education Sessions and Booth Presence in Berlin
Growth best facilitated through flexible and consistent regulatory frameworks
Airports must play key role in development of future air services
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and the Peoples Government of Guilin, China held the 12th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism Trends and Outlook on 25-27 October 2018. This years edition – The Future of Tourism: Road to 2030´, aligns with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Hosting the first-ever Airline Leaders' Forum in Mumbai, Sabre created a unique forum for airlines, travel agents and travel management companies from across the country to delve into industry best practices regarding merchandising, distribution and fulfilment that will enable a successful evolution towards the future of travel.


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The new Apple TV 4K was released just over a week ago. The updated third generation of Apple's media streamer gets the same A15 Bionic chip found in the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, doing away with the need for a cooling fan. That reduces noise and case dimensions. There's also updated support for HDR10+ video.
Now, another brilliant update looks set to make its way to the platform. Twitter user and self-proclaimed Apple TV aficionado, Sigmund Judge, has shared a handful of screenshots from a developer beta of tvOS 16.2, showing off a new feature called Recognise My Voice.
Recognise My Voice works by taking the Siri voice recognition data from your iPhone and linking it to your Apple TV profile. In theory, that means that Apple TV will be able to tell who is speaking and use that to tailor suggestions to your specific profile.
It's a feature that is already present in the Apple HomePod range, enabling users to receive personalised playlists when they ask Siri to play music, for example. Adding it to Apple TV seems like a sensible next step for Apple's smart home offering.
I hope it features parental controls. I can just imagine a kid asking Siri for dragons and being met with an episode of Game of Thrones. In theory, they should have their own voice recognition data, so it should be possible to block. Parental controls are already present on the best streaming services, such as Netflix and Disney Plus, so this should be an easy feature to include.
So, can you install this now? Not quite. At the moment, the updates seen in Judge's tweet are part of the developer beta. That means it's not available to the general public just yet. Judge said in a later tweet that the ETA was November, but this is unconfirmed.
When it does get released, though, Apple TV users are in for a much better experience.


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As the trade war with China rages on and emerging market equities enter a full bear market, do you know the best opportunities to capitalize on?
On the upcoming webcast, The Trade War is a Buying Opportunity in Emerging Markets, Kevin Carter, Founder and CEO of EMQQ, will explore the improving fundamentals in the consumer growth story of emerging markets and identify a unique set of circumstances for investors. Specifically, the webcast will delve into the greater influence of the new consumer wave in emerging markets, their preference for online shopping via the smartphone and ways for investors to gain targeted exposure to the rapidly expanding e-commerce segment.
ETF investors can also tap into the consumer spending potential of the rising middle class in the growing emerging markets through the Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF (NYSEArca: EMQQ). EMQQ provides exposure to the growing emerging market consumer sector, notably those related to online retailers or the quickly expanding e-commerce industry.
“The vast majority of emerging market consumers have never owned a car, have never had a big box retail store to drive to, nor have they owned a computer of any kind, let alone one with an Internet connection. Without this traditional consumption infrastructure in place, Ecommerce companies are enabling emerging market consumers to ‘leapfrog’ this stage of economic development entirely, moving on to the 21st century patterns of consumption now increasingly dominant throughout the developed world,” according to an EMQQ note.