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Toyota Yaris Cross By Bill McCarthy Built for the European market, Toyota designers says the theme for this beefed-up Yaris was “Easy, Fast, Smart,” defined
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Users of UberMedia’s Twitter apps for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry have found that their favourites have been shut out of the social networking service on Friday. Twitter claims it has done so because of policy violations in the way the company used its data.
The move affects mobile clients UberTwitter, Twidroyd and UberCurrent, meaning that BlackBerry users can now only use the official Twitter app on their phone.
"These violations include, but aren't limited to, a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users' Tweets in order to make money," said Twitter in a statement to Techcrunch and ReadWriteWeb.
According to Twitter, the company has failed to address issues dating back to April 2010, so has therefore decided to pull the plug.
“We ask all developers in Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, as well as the health and vitality of the platform as a whole,” the spokesperson confirmed to the sites. “We often take actions to enforce these rules; in fact, on an average day we turn off more than one hundred services that violate our API rules of the road. This keeps the ecosystem fair for everyone.”
UberMedia's CEO has told TechCrunch that:
“We just talked to Twitter and discussed the various issues they raise. It took us by surprise because they didn’t raise them before. We started making the changes.”
We’ve also contacted UberMedia for an official statement and will update the article if we get a reply.
UPDATE: UberMedia has got in touch with Pocket-lint with the following comment attributed to their CEO, Bill Gross:
"Early Friday morning, Twitter shut off access to its service by several of our Twitter client applications: UberTwitter, Twidroyd and UberCurrent. Twitter then notified us that they believed we were in violation of several provisions of their terms of service.
"We were immediately in touch with Twitter, and the changes they asked us to make were very small. As a result, we have completed the changes, and new apps are currently being posted to their respective stores. Twitter has assured us that as soon as those changes were complete, they would reactivate our applications.
"Twitter also asked us to modify the name of UberTwitter. We began a process of changing the name three weeks ago by polling our users, and we've decided, based on their input, to change the product name to UberSocial, which we completed today.
"To our millions of loyal users, we appreciate your patience during this temporary period. We look forward to continuing our innovations on the Twitter platform."
UPDATE 2: Further clarification from UberMedia has confirmed that Echofon hasn't been affected as we previously reported, even though it's an UberMedia product.
However, the company has confirmed that the apps that have been affected aren't back online yet. They will, hopefully, reappear soon, as "they [Twitter] are aware that we've made the changes."
UPDATE: Twitter has turned the api back on:
"We've given the developers of twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter) access to the Twitter API again. Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications. "When the developer updates twidroyd and Ubersocial, you'll be able to download their updates to access Tweets again on these applications."

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Google's Android One devices will help redefine the affordable smartphone segment, but the Indian market will be a tough call, IDC believes.
The company is now the fifth largest PC vendor, registering a quarterly market share of 6.3%, shipping 4.9 million units.
Apple sent out invitations to an October 16 event expected to spotlight updates to its line of iPad tablet computers.
The industrial development corporation (IDC) has commenced the process of acquiring 3,26,946 sq m of land for a new industrial estate in Latambarcem
IDC has cut its forecast for shipments of tablets and "two-in-one" devices combining tablet and laptop features to 233.1 million.
IDC said Korean handset maker Samsung still continues to lead the smartphone market with 29% share, followed by Micromax at 18%.
A surge in low-cost smartphone sales, notably in emerging markets, helped the Google Android platform extend its dominance in the second quarter.
As hardware prices continue to drop in India, the world's fastest growing smartphone market, software sales is set to play an increasingly important part for smart device vendors.
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Land next to a new housing estate near Netherfield could soon become home to a popular discount supermarket chain.
Aldi have submitted plans for a new supermarket on land at Teal Close.
The proposals have been submitted by Pegasus Planning Group on behalf of the supermarket giant.
They request permission to construct a retail store (Class E) with associated car parking, landscaping and other infrastructure.
The planned car park will have 104 spaces available for parking.
Customers would access the site from Magenta Way off Colwick Loop Road and would lie next to the recently created Rivendell estate.
The plans have been submitted and a decision is expected on May 12 from Gedling Borough Council’s planning committee.
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The famous hazelnut-chocolate spread slashed prices in France giving shoppers a 70% discount on the famously sweet breakfast, lunch, dinner, late-night treat, and the French went wild. Intermarché supermarkets ran a promotion that discounted the Italian spread from €4.50 €1.40, which prompted a mass migration to stores around the country where people went all-out Black Friday. The goods sold out in 15 minutes leaving one person with a black eye.
“They are like animals. A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand,” one customer told French media.
“We were trying to get in between the customers but they were pushing us,” a worker told the news.


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Bellingham Bag Reduction Ordinance goes into effect...August 1st. This was one of the questions at Boundary Bay Trivia Night just the other day...and as the trivia master said, "August 1st can't come soon enough." This has been the general sentiment across town as it has been a year since our last blog post, announcing the passed law. Our community seems more than ready. Bag It Bellingham has been busy hanging posters and doing "Share a Bag" drives at various stores and the Farmers' Market this past month, gearing up for the big day. The City has a great website with a FAQ for Retailers as well as a poster that can be downloaded and printed if a store is interested. 115 posters were delivered to Bellis Fair today and many other stores around town wanted more than one when we stopped by with them in hand. Ross already started offering paper bags for 5 cents the first of July, when Seattle implemented a similar ordinance modeled after ours. The manager mentioned that at least 50% of the customers are not purchasing the paper bags because they don't want to pay the nickel a bag and around 15% of the customers are starting to bring their own bags. They were very pleased with how it was going so far and how receptive the customers have been...and to see the changes occurring. A recent article has a list of cities with ordinances, and their specifics. With so many variations among them, there will be another effort this coming year to pass a statewide ban in OR and WA calling for a ban on plastic and a fee on paper. Meanwhile, we Bellinghamsters are proud for what we have accomplished, thanks to the many volunteers and citizen support in this effort. Come by the Farmers Market this Saturday to pick up a handmade reusable bag by the Bellingham Walkers Club! OR Stop by Haggen and purchase one of the 3 winning designs on their new reusable bags for sale at the registers. The bag pictured on top was the elementary school winner, artwork by David. And as David says on the bag, LET'S GO GREEN TOGETHER.
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Speaking from the sidelines of the LA Auto Show, Toyota marketing executive Bill Fay said the company is weighing whether to include its pending fuel cell sedan into the Prius family.
Earlier last week the company unveiled the FCV Concept in Tokyo as a precursor to a 2015 production version to be launched around infrastructure in California and other states that follow California’s zero-emission rules.
The name Prius is laden with significance both to Toyota and its customers. The automaker has come close to making the Prius into its own brand, and it is already effectively a sub-brand with four models now.
Further, its “Hybrid Synergy Drive” powertrain is to be adopted into a variant model for just about every Toyota and Lexus model offered, but Fay said the choice is still up in the air.
“We haven’t totally decided on a name, but it’ll be interesting to see if we can leverage the Prius name or not,” Fay said in an interview with AutoGuide.com. “We’ve been debating that a lot within the company.”
Fay told AutoGuide that the Prius brand means a lot to customers, and a fuel cell vehicle could fit right in.
He did not say that if Toyota did it, the FCV would be the only Prius with very little in common under the hood with the rest of its siblings.
So, what’s the tie-in?
“People equate Prius to a lot of things, it has a positive name out there regarding technology, innovative products and environmental friendliness,” he said. “Fuel Cell is a little different, but we’ve done some work to see if we can leverage the Prius brand and use it with fuel cell technology, or if the car will have a different name.”
Fay likened the its FCV to the original Prius launched in the U.S. in 2000, and in Japan in 1997. The company won’t be first to market with its FCV but is seeing enormous upside potential with its brand cachet form the “iconic” Prius.
“Potentially it really has a lot of positives similar to the Prius. When we launched the Prius over ten years ago, everyone was like ‘what is this thing?’ and now we’ve sold five million hybrids,” said Fay, adding, “We’re very positive about the potential of the vehicle, primarily because it has zero emissions, it has outstanding range and takes only a couple of minutes to fill up the hydrogen tank.”


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In this article, Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors and executive chairman of HIVE Blockchain Technologies, explores digital currencies, Tesla’s crypto positioning, and the state of gold investments.
The acceptance of digital currencies as a form of payment expanded greatly last week, foreshadowing the increasingly important role cryptos such as Bitcoin and Ether will play in our lives going forward.
Both Visa [V] and PayPal [PYPL] announced they will begin allowing the use of cryptocurrencies to settle transactions. This came a week after Tesla’s [TSLA] announcement that it will now accept Bitcoin as a method of payment, and a month after Mastercard [MA] signalled it would start supporting cryptos sometime this year.
PayPal’s Checkout with Crypto, made available to select US users last Wednesday (31 March), gives consumers the ability to purchase goods and services at as many as 29 million merchants using Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether or Litecoin.
What’s more, there’s no additional transaction fee.
Founded in 1998 by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, among others, PayPal has become a trusted household name. 2020 was a record year for the online payment service as people were stuck at home and companies digitised their operations. Total payment volume was a massive $277bn, a 39% increase from the previous year, while the platform added 16 million new accounts, for a total of 377 million registered accounts.
Very soon, every one of these users will be able to use popular digital currencies to buy nearly everything, from a cup of coffee to a new car. This represents a huge leap forward for the still-emerging technology.
Meanwhile, Visa announced that it became the first payment processing company to settle a transaction with USD Coin (USDC), an open-source stablecoin backed by the US dollar. According to the coin’s website, USDC “is issued by regulated financial institutions, backed by fully reserved assets” and “redeemable on a 1:1 basis for US dollars.” As of 28 March, there were 11.3 billion USDC in circulation.
Not only will Visa users be able to make purchases with USDC, but Visa said it would also one day support new central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as they become available. According to the company, some 80% of central banks are strongly considering or in the process of launching their own national digital currency.
Mastercard is reportedly doing the same, announcing in February that it’s engaging with “several major central banks around the world” as they develop CBDCs. At the moment there’s no word on when Mastercard customers can expect to start paying with cryptos, or even which cryptos will be supported, but it seems likely we’ll hear something soon now that Visa has taken the first step.
Tesla now accepting Bitcoin
Those of you in the market for a Tesla may have noticed that you can already select Bitcoin at…


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If you’d like to look, contrast and shop loans and other financial products, you can visit the new LendingTree website and you may respond to a few questions to really get your loan now offers and you will personalized suggestions. Alternatively, it’s also possible to online payday loans North Carolina download the fresh LendingTree application and build a totally free LendingTree membership locate most of the a lot more rewards for free and contrast and you can shop fund and other borrowing products.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. , /PRNewswire/ — According to LendingTree’s latest vacation financial obligation survey, 35% of Americans took on yuletide debt, down slightly from this past year’s 36%, but the average amount of those who took some on this year is $1,549 . That’s up 24% from last year and is the highest in the eight-year history of the report.
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- 35% away from People in america obtained escape personal debt this season, off somewhat off thirty six% a year ago. not, the average loans taken up reached $1,549 , right up twenty four% from past year’s $step 1,249 .
- 37% of these using up obligations expect to need five months or a lot more to pay it off, up out of 28% just last year. So it payment leaps to help you 47% certainly Gen Xers and you can 42% certainly one of lady.
- 63% ones which took on holiday personal debt did not want to create so, up out of 54% just last year. This present year, the most likely to say it failed to plan to enter obligations is actually lady (68%) and those while making $thirty-five,100 or less a year (67%).
You happen to be a hateful you to definitely, escape debt. That have skyrocketing inflation, this new Federal Set aside elevating rates, and you can total monetary uncertainty, it’s no wonder that we have been seeing the largest expenses dollars improve regarding reputation for that it declaration.
To incorporate salt to the wound, 37% exactly who took on getaway personal debt in 2010 anticipate to just take five days or higher to spend it well, an enormous jump regarding twenty eight% out of a year ago. The news headlines is also worse among Gen Xers ages 42 to 56 (47% when planning on taking four months otherwise lengthened) and women (42%).
« Having millions of Us citizens, you cannot pay back its credit cards entirely daily, » says LendingTree master borrowing expert, Matt Schulz . « Every day life is pricey within the 2022, and it isn’t going to receive any reduced therefore within the 2023. This means that mans financial step area is virtually zero, very one unanticipated bills can put them with debt whether they want it or not. »
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- Call your creditor and ask for a lower LendingTree survey showed that 70% of those who asked for a lower APR in the past year got one, but not many people ask.
LendingTree commissioned Qualtrics to help you perform an online survey from dos,050 You.S. consumers ages 18 to 76 away from . New questionnaire try given having fun with a good nonprobability-depending shot, and you may quotas were used to ensure the take to foot depicted the fresh full inhabitants. All of the solutions was in fact reviewed of the boffins to own quality-control.
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LONDON – Bye, Lightning cable. Good day, USB-C.
Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling according to the remainder of the tech business by adopting a extra extensively used connection commonplace. An enormous a part of the reason being a European Union frequent charging rule that is coming quickly for the 27-nation bloc.
This is a have a look at the USB-C plug and what it means for customers:
WHAT IS USB-C AND HOW CAN I TELL IT APART FROM OTHER PLUGS?
The primary a part of the acronym stands for Common Serial Bus, and it replaces earlier variations of the USB cables used on all the pieces from printers and arduous drives to pc mice and Kindle readers.
The USB-C plug is available in a unique form than its predecessors — an elongated oval. It is also symmetrical and reversible, which eliminates one of many frequent gripes about earlier variations like the oblong USB-A connectors as a result of there’s no incorrect approach to plug it in.
WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT USB-C?
USB-C cables can carry extra energy so laptops could be charged sooner, and so they allow sooner knowledge switch speeds, permitting an enormous trove of recordsdata to be copied from a pc to an exterior arduous drive. On the similar time, they will pump out a video sign to a monitor and provide energy to related equipment.
The USB-C connector is also designed to be future-proof. Its form will not change however newer variations — and the units they connect with — will include upgraded capabilities. Which means customers should beware as a result of older units won’t be capable to help the newest specs.
It is also slimmer than boxy USB-A plugs, making them a greater match for newer units that hold getting smaller.
WHY IS APPLE USING IT?
Apple has lengthy championed its proprietary Lightning connector for iPhones regardless that just about nobody else used it. It resisted the EU’s frequent charging push, citing worries that it could restrict innovation and find yourself hurting customers.
Apple held out at the same time as others began including USB-C connectors into their units. However after the EU proposal gained a key approval final 12 months, the U.S. tech large gave in and did not look again.
An organization govt unveiling the newest iPhone on Tuesday did not even point out the Lightning cable as she launched its alternative.
“USB-C has become a universally accepted standard so we’re bringing USB-C to iPhone 15,” said Kaiann Drance, vice president of iPhone product marketing.
She said USB-C has “been built into Apple products for years” and might now be used on MacBooks, iPads, iPhones and AirPods.
WHAT ROLE DID EUROPE PLAY?
Apple’s shift is an example of how European Union regulations often end up rippling around the world — what’s known as the “Brussels effect” — as firms resolve it is simpler to conform than make completely different merchandise for various areas.
The EU spent greater than a decade cajoling the tech business into adopting a typical charging commonplace. The push to impose guidelines for a uniform cable are a part of the bloc’s wider effort to make merchandise bought within the EU extra sustainable and minimize down on digital waste.
The EU’s frequent charging rule will not truly take impact till fall 2024. It covers telephones, tablets, e-readers, earbuds, digital cameras, headphones and headsets, handheld online game consoles, keyboards and mice, transportable audio system and navigation units.
It additionally standardizes fast-charging know-how and offers customers the precise to decide on whether or not to purchase new units with or and not using a charger.
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WEST CHESTER, PA — The West Chester Police announced that a resident of Nottingham, Pennsylvania has been arrested on theft charges.
Authorities stated that on Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00 pm, 41-year-old Eric Jackson from Nottingham was arrested in West Chester after allegedly committing a retail theft. The incident occurred at a business in the 700 block of W. Strasburg Road. Jackson was taken into custody without incident and transported to Chester County Prison.
Jackson has been charged with Retail Theft and will have a preliminary hearing at District Court 15-1-01.
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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) launched a Consumer Protection Forum to review customer dissatisfaction over poor service delivery on Nigerian IT products.
This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Agency, Mr. Kashi fu Inuwa, on a webinar titled the “Virtual Digital Services Consumer Protection Forum” on Tuesday.
An initial draft for the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Nigeria’s indigenous ICT industry was also presented at the webinar.
The NITDA chief represented by the Director of IT Infrastructure Solutions, IT Infrastructure Solutions said the protection forum would enable the NITDA to settle disputes for customers in an efficient way and would build innovative content for Nigeria’s ICT sector.
He said the rise in complaints by customers on the quality of Nigeria’s indigenous ICT products was a catalyst to the pioneering of the forum and the resolution framework for the industry.
Failure to draft such frameworks may lead to low patronage for Nigerian tech products and services and low employment in the sector. The agency urged Nigerians to use more local content in the industry to ensure regulatory oversight for producers and the consumers,
The NITDA says it wants to maximize challenges due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to the sector and is committed to addressing the issues.


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Machine learning techniques look set to transform the way that utilities companies predict customer usage and production capacity in the years ahead. Utilities take note: when it comes to analyzing data, machine learning could be your best bet for achieving new insights, far outstripping other methods in terms of effectiveness, according to a new report published by analyst company Navigant Research, Machine Learning for the Digital Utility.
While machine learning has existed in parts of the ‘utility value chain’ for years, various drivers are expected to increase its use in other parts of the business, the report says. In particular, it has several advantages over other approaches when it comes to customer segmentation, pricing forecasts, anomaly decision, fraud detection and predictive maintenance. Basically, it’s about jobs that use the analytic processes of clustering, regression and classification.
“The utilities industry is already using self-learning algorithms, particularly in the field of asset monitoring and predictive maintenance, and several reasons suggest the use of machine learning will expand to many more use cases and its adoption will accelerate,” says Stuart Ravens, principal research analyst at Navigant.


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Jaguar is famous for its sporting models. Recently, a new ‘Jaguar F-Type’ vehicle is introduced in the Indian car market. It comes with a hefty price of Rupees 1.61 crores. The model is assembled in India and comes in dual variants. The first petrol variant has a 5.0L V8 495PS engine and comes with the price of Rupees 1.61 crores. The second which is also a petrol variant comes with a 3.0L V6 380PS engine. This variant is priced at Rupees 1.37 crores. These prices are applicable for Mumbai only.
A senior executive from the company said that they are aware of the fact that the market for the luxury car in India is not very big. However, they would still like to display their models to make both buyers and general public become aware of the state of art technology used in manufacturing these vehicles.
He did not say whether they plan to assemble any other model in India apart from the ‘Land Rover Freelander 2’ and ‘Jaguar XF’. He said any further increase in the volume or assembly of new models would depend on the market conditions and sale of cars. He also did not say whether the assembling facility at Pune will be used to assemble any other model from Jaguar.
He said he was very happy to see the growth of 68 % in the sales figures for the recently closed quarter of April – June. However, he again did not share the actual sales figures. The company is happy with the rising sale of ‘XF sedan’ in the country. Normally the waiting period for placing the order and taking actual delivery of the model is between two to three months. However, he said, they are doing their best to deliver the vehicles sooner.


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The authenticators are to be paid by the Sellers, not by ebay or the buyers. It's offering the service to someone who already owns the piece and wants to sell it, and presumably is willing to take the risk that what they are selling isn't faked, in order to give buyers more confidence. This "certification model" paid for by the businesses in the hopes that enough will adapt it and it will become mandatory "professional licensing". Ebay is already in that business, via "Powerseller" status.
It appears too general. If I pay to ask ebay to "certify" that a photo I took of a duck was really taken by me, does ebay turn down the money, or admit that they have no expert qualified to determine it was my duck photo.
The story I had always heard from friends in Taipei's Tech Sector was that Apple had long subcontracted the iPod production to Taiwan (Hon Hoi Precision Tech Group, owned by Terry Gou, aka Foxconn) and that the display geeks in Taiwan - who had been trying to improve touch screens for ATM machines moving from CRT to LCD - introduced it in the model. According to my pals (now retired) Apple realized how important the multi device implications could be and hired an insider from the Taiwan shop to move to a Vancouver subcontractor.
The touch screen technology, according to Taipei geeks, was originally German origin, but the German company had never succeeded in finding a profitable use for it, and they had bought it in a bankruptcy and tried applying it to ATM displays. This article doesn't prove this story, but it does appear to fit the iPod demo story. Maybe someone at
Here is the quote from the article you post which says the Two Decisions (Michigan investment in electric and Hermisillo Mexico investment instead of San Louis Potosi Mexico Ford Focus plant:
Ford had planned to build the Focus, a small car, in the new factory. It will instead move production of the model from Michigan to an existing plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, a move that saves money and limits the amount of capacity devoted to the product.
Your ad homimen attack on WaPo may be true. But a decision to make socks in Michigan is unrelated to a decision to make Twinkies in Mexico's Hermisillo instead of Mexico's Potosi. Trump and Ford CEO are apparently palsy, maybe Trump does deserve credit. I'm simply pointing out that the electric car jobs in Michigan have nothing to do with shifting jobs between two Mexico locations (making Ford Focus in an Escort plant)
I have read the linked article and article in WSJ and WashPost. There appears to be some confusion in the Ars Technica article, and in the summary. The investment in the Flat Rock Michigan plant is to create new electric vehicles, to maintain employment for the Ford Escort employees, as Ford continues its plan to move the Escorts to 100% in Mexico. This is similar to the November story, when Ford moved mature Lincoln manufacturing from Louisville KY to Mexico, but invested in a new vehicle manufacturing in KY rather than close the plant.
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"At Ford, Joseph Hinrichs, president of Ford in the Americas, said the decision to produce the newly announced cars in the United States was made recently and without consulting people connected to Trump. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford shared the news with Trump in a phone call Tuesday morning, though the details of that call were not immediately available.
While the Ford Focus will soon be produced south of the border, Hinrichs said the 3,500 workers who currently make the car at its production facility in Wayne, Mich., will instead build two yet-to-be-named vehicles, and thus those jobs will stay in place."
Trump seems very talented at getting his name into headlines about decisions that have nothing to do with him
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"


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Travel firms and tour operators are keen on the growth of local tourism as international travel continues to be restricted amid fears of the outbreak of new strains of COVID-19. As such MakeMyTrip recently launched the My India campaign encouraging travellers and adventure seekers to explore the lesser-known destinations across the country.
Sunil Suresh, group chief marketing officer at MakeMyTrip, said India as a travel wonderland has incredible experiences to offer. “When we travel within India, we don’t just return with memories but often with awe, pride and a sense of gratitude for the diverse and incredible travel experience that India as a travel wonderland has to offer,” he said. “That’s the emotion we hope to bring alive through #MyIndia, where we will create conversations on the best that India has to offer.” Moreover, the online travel agent has roped in celebrities to promote specific states, like Pankaj Tripathi (Bihar), Mary Kom (Manipur), Ajinkya Rahane (Maharashtra), Guru Randhawa (Punjab) and Sunil Chetri (Karnataka).
Thomas Cook, a renowned tour operator, is also running India Holiday Festival with discounts on local travel packages. According to Mint, it is promoting travel experience similar to popular international tourist spots like Alleppey in Kerala is likened to Venice. The tour operator is using digital video content across YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, in addition to print campaigns.
Rajeev Kale, president and country head – Holidays, MICE, Visa Thomas Cook (India) Ltd, explained that the wanted to create curiosity and help showcase that some popular Indian destinations offer a similar, if not better experience as compared to the most sought-after international counterparts. “In the face of limited international border reopening, we wanted to showcase the spectacular beauty available in our own country, as great alternatives to choose from while highlighting its diversity.”
In December 2020, SOTC and Thomas Cook Ltd’s Second Holiday Readiness Report said that 52 per cent respondents are likely to take a domestic holiday, with preferred destinations being Goa (38%), Himachal Pradesh (29%), Ladakh/Kerala (20%), NorthEast (19%) and Kashmir/Andamans (15%). Daniel D’Souza, president and country head Leisure, SOTC Travel said there is an expected rise of local tourism, offbeat places, and wildlife tours. “Demand has similarly increased for “drivecations” and rural getaways to experience the local culture,” he explained. “Millennials wish to explore the unknown and are keen to escape the city life for more global experiences.”
The Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI), in May 2020, had asked the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India to declare 2021 as “Year of Domestic Tourism in India” to give a direction and purpose to the whole travel industry.


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Nexus 4 will be available in “select” T-Mobile stores today, can also be had off-contract for $499
It’s safe to say that Google had a great day yesterday following the sold out launch of the Nexus 4 at the Play Store. The same can’t be said about customers who weren’t able to purchase the pure Google phone due to the overwhelming demand.
If you’re determined to get your hands on the Nexus 4 this week, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to find one in your local T-Mobile stores today. The carrier has confirmed that it will be selling the handset in “select” stores” a day after the phone made its online sales debut.
Unfortunately, T-Mo hasn’t provided more details on which stores will carry the Nexus 4. It’s best to call your nearest T-Mobile branches before you leave the house if you don’t want to return home empty-handed.
T-Mobile is selling the 16GB Nexus 4 for $199 with a two-year service agreement. Interestingly, you can also get the phone off-contract for $499. The jacked up price boggles the mind, but it’s not totally unexpected. At least, the option is there for folks who don’t mind digging deep into their pocket.
On a more positive note, T-Mobile said that its Nexus 4 variant won’t come with any bloatware. You’ll also get future updates directly from Google, since it’s basically “the same device that customers can buy in the Google Play store”, according to the carrier’s spokesman.
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In the end, we’ll be puzzling the answers to the big questions that loomed in 2020:
What just happened? What will we change? What will it take? What will the future look like?
Those questions could be posed to any number of events – the pandemic, of course, which has brought those same queries to all aspects of life, from the economy to the election…
And B2B payments, too.
The fundamental things apply, as the old song goes, and the pandemic has changed everything, helping to move the needle in how corporates pay one another and communicate, and how buyers interact with suppliers.
In a months-long series of interviews and fireside chats conducted and hosted by PYMNTS, payments executives, investors, bankers and economists weighed in on where we’ve been — and where we must go.
The $20 trillion in corporate payments done through paper checks represents a staggeringly large greenfield opportunity – and there is any number of ways to modernize B2B interactions (and corporate treasury activities in lockstep).
The Big Themes – And The Challenges
The end is as good a place as any to start getting a sense of the big themes taking shape, and how we can get there. In the final conversation of the series, Kevin Phalen, head of global business solutions at Visa, told Karen Webster that collaboration and interoperability will be the new hallmarks of B2B transactions, even though there are multiple rails that can render the infrastructure – with an eye, of course, toward replacing the paper check (and even the fax!).
But to get a sense of the overarching theme governing those who seek to change the way it has always been done: As noted in the keynote that kicked off the confab, taking a page from the late Harvard Professor Clay Christensen, business innovation must consider the “jobs to be done” theory of business innovation. In a nutshell: Companies (and even consumers) “hire” goods or services to get where they want to go, to make progress, to satisfy goals.
“Buyers and suppliers don’t really care about the network, but they want to have the payment. They want the data [and] they want the information,” said Phalen in the final discussion with Webster. Data flows can help break down silos between companies — and even within the firms themselves.
There may not be one set of rails that connects everyone (and everything) — but as Phalen maintained, we’re headed into a longer-term evolution where through standardization of messaging (such as through ISO 20022) and networks such as Visa B2B Connect, platforms can bring together messaging, payment capabilities and settlement to address credit and trade financing activities.
“That’s where the market’s going. That’s where we’re investing,” he told Webster, noting that “smaller firms, in the past, maybe had one or two partners outside the home market. Now it’s many more, and we’ve got to be able to facilitate trade for them.”
But beyond simply making the rails available – akin to a “build it and they will come” mentality – B2B solutions providers face the challenge of creating a strong value proposition that goes beyond displacing checks, as Bruce Lowthers, president of banking and merchant solutions at FIS, told Karen Webster.
“We need to find a way to create something cool that solves a problem and helps our clients so they can get better and more efficient at running their businesses,” Lowthers told Webster. “The reason things haven’t accelerated faster than they have in the past is that no one has come together with that really compelling value proposition to make the move.” Creating the value proposition leaves the door open, according to one discussion between banking and FinTech execs, for partnerships to transform treasury banking, corporate payments and back-office processes simultaneously.
That value proposition may take a while to be fully embraced, noted Deluxe President and CEO Barry McCarthy said. After all, $20 trillion in paper payments is a lot to get rid of overnight. Paper checks are waning, but temporarily. Lower business volumes translate, naturally, into lower check volumes. A temporary lull.
“This is not a catastrophic cliff,” he said of check-ordering trends, noting to Webster that what’s been seen amid the pandemic is “what we have seen in every previous recession.” Checks will hang on and co-exist with digital payments for a good long while.
The Pressure Points
But the pressure points are amassing. In a separate panel discussion with Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire, four executives from various verticals — from freight management to banking — gave a ground-level view of how digital payments are taking root. PNC’s Chris Ward, head of products and innovation, treasury management, said the pandemic, similar to 9/11, is “another monumental event that will drive the shift to electronic payments.” CFOs and treasurers will increasingly see that they need to eliminate dependencies on paper forms of payments and transactions.
That has led banks and others to accelerate their investments in digital channels to help their corporate customers embrace digital onboarding activities, making it easier to initiate transactions using application programming interfaces (APIs).
Innovation, of course, is also coming from other parts of the payments ecosystem – namely, through the venture capital and private equity fund flows that underpin new product and service development. Indeed, as one panel of investors noted, there is heavy interest, even amid the pandemic, in investing in financial services platforms across all manner of verticals, and in helping them grow and go to market. And though valuations may be stretched, fundamentals are indeed sound.
As Bain Capital Ventures Partner Matt Harris told Webster, “If you ask investors, I would say the recognition of the next big value creation opportunity in B2B payments [has] happened. I think in terms of market recognition, 2020 was the breakout year — [and] in terms of commercial adoption, 2021 will be more like it.” Digital transformation remains a top priority, especially in an effort to merge accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.
“Literally, envelopes with checks in them were piling up in an empty office,” he said. “That sort of thing really does get the attention of the treasurer or CFO.”
Moving Toward A Better Customer Experience
The paths toward innovation, and toward bringing suppliers and buyers together, are taking a cue from the great digital shift seen in consumer payments. In one discussion among five executives with payments and supply chain expertise, integration was a key area of discussion. Sarfraz Nawaz, head of digital transformation at J&J Supply Chain, said the new digital reality has forced companies (including his own) to focus on being responsive and agile on order to make supply chains resilient. At the same time, they have to check the myriad boxes tied to mandatory compliance and governance of supply chain management.
“Tech should be an enabler,” Sarfraz said, while platforms can promote the shared goals between departments as far-flung as finance, treasury, sales and marketing – and ties payments intuitively into the process. Within firms, as noted in another panel discussion, lines of communication can be improved between AR/AP departments to make day-to-day cash flow management on the part of CFOs easier, strategic and even in real time.
In the drive toward digitizing and consumerizing B2B payments, said Flint Lane, CEO at Billtrust, buyer-supplier dynamics are changing — for the better. Those dynamics need to get better, as days sales outstanding (DSOs) are rising. Ignore the supplier at your peril, Lane cautioned buyers, in an environment where the mail is 35 percent slower – and where offering digital payment options is critical.
“I have found that on the AP side, more and more of the software vendors are finding it necessary to deliver a great supplier experience or they’re going to see churn in their own payment numbers. Suppliers want to be flexible, but there are limits,” he told Webster.
What Comes Next
Looking ahead, it all may feel like drinking from a fire hose, as corporates and FIs grapple with digitizing and modernizing payment flows and back-end processes. But longer-term roadmaps show that there is room for several payment rails to compete, coexist and even complement one another, as noted in a discussion between Alan Koenigsberg, global head of new payment flows at Visa New Business Solutions, and five executives from payments and messaging networks, services providers and the crypto realm.
Real-time payments and ACH will co-exist for a long time, said observers. Digital currencies loom, too, as stated by Jeremy Allaire, CEO at Circle. “The real innovation cycle is where you layer on the programmability of money as a data type on the internet,” he noted. “There need to be governance models. There need to be regulatory models around it.” Separately, Dr. Paul Sheard, senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, told Karen Webster that there will be more innovation taking place at the central bank surrounding digital currencies, in tandem with private-sector players.
“The Fed and other central banks can get obsessed in the financial markets about monetary policy, but … the nuts and bolts of central banking is around payments and settlements. Everything ultimately is settled in central bank money – at least that’s the way the system works,” he said.
2020 can’t end fast enough, for all sorts of reasons — but we’ll point to this year of upheaval as ushering in a new era for B2B payments.


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If you have stayed away from virtual reality headsets because you couldn’t stand terrible motion sickness, it’s time to give them another try. Samsung has devised a pair of headphones that, when used alongside their VR gear, synchronize the body’s balance system, eliminating that obnoxious sensation.
The Entrim 4D has the ability to send electrical signals to the brain that fool it into thinking you’re actually moving in the real world (even if you’re just flying or driving a car in a VR game). Users are thus able not to just see another world but get into the action and feel the changes in motion. To others, you might be giving your arms and neck a full workout on no music but you will feel like the main actor in a video game.
Entrim 4D is in project stage right now, preparing to be presented at SXSW 2016 festival but Samsung is optimistic that, in the future, it will replace full-motion chairs and will have rotational motion detaction.


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The EY-DBS report, The Rise of FinTech in China, attributes the growth of the Fintech sector in the mainland as driven by multiple factors – “the scale of unmet needs being addressed by dominant technology leaders, combined with regulatory facilitation and easy access to capital. Underserved by China’s incumbent banking system, consumers and small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly turning to alternative providers for access to payments, credit, investments, insurance, and even other non-financial service offerings.”
A consequence of this growth is a rising shortage of Fintech skills.
The China Fintech Employment 2018 Report by specialist recruitment firm, Michael Page China, revealed that 92% of fintech companies surveyed agreed that China is facing an acute shortage of professional fintech talent right now. In addition, 38% of respondents view the quality of talent as a critical factor to the sustained success in the industry.
Rupert Forster, Managing Director of Michael Page North and East China, says, “Within fintech, we are observing a growing demand for talent with skills relating to Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. These skills are also sought after in sectors outside of fintech, such as other Chinese Internet companies, creating a wider talent gap in the market.”
For those looking to hire fintech talent, 85% of surveyed employers expressed difficulty in finding the right people.
Forty-five percent cited shortage of necessary skills as the biggest hurdle. Fintech professionals know they are in demand with 47% stating they had changed jobs in the last 12 months.
What attracts Fintech professionals to switch? Top motivations include strong career path (29%), right company culture fit (24%) and salary (17%). Forty-four percent of those in it for the money say they expect salary increments ranging from 21 – 30% when securing a new job.
“The gap between employer demand for skills and the available talent is not a problem exclusive to Fintech. We see this across many sectors which is purely a reflection of the fast-growing, innovative nature of modern China. The most successful companies are those who are able to implement in-house talent development programs,” Forster explained.


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The Federal Trade Commission has urged graphics chip maker Nvidia to block the $ 40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm on Thursday, creating a powerful company that could hurt the growth of new technologies. I said I would.
Nvidia Corp, based in Santa Clara, California. In September 2020, it acquired UK-based Arm Ltd. from Japanese technology giant Softbank, saying, “We will establish the world’s best computing company for the AI era.”
However, the deal quickly raised concerns that Arm would abandon its business model of licensing chip designs to hundreds of tech companies, including many of Nvidia’s competitors. Arm’s chip design powers many smartphones around the world.
“FTC is trying to prevent the merger of the largest semiconductor chips in history to prevent chip conglomerates from disrupting the innovation pipeline of next-generation technologies,” FTC Competition Director Holly Bedova said in a news release. rice field. “This proposed deal distorts Arm’s incentives in the chip market and allows integrated companies to unduly undermine Nvidia’s rivals.”
The deal claims that the FTC will give the integrated company control over the technology that rivals need to develop their own chips. This can be an obstacle in areas such as data centers and car driving assistance systems.
UK and European Union regulators have also begun investigating transactions because of competition concerns.
“We will continue to work to demonstrate that this transaction will benefit the industry and promote competition,” Nvidia said. It said it “violently disagrees” with the FTC proceedings.
The company added, “We are committed to maintaining Arm’s open licensing model and making its IP available to all interested licensees now and in the future.”
An Arm spokesman introduced the question to Nvidia. A Softbank spokesperson did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
The FTC said the four members unanimously voted to file a complaint and the trial is scheduled to begin in August 2022.
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Microsoft has released what it’s describing to be the “first major update” for Windows 11. Despite it rolling out nine months into the year, the company has opted to refer to it as the ‘2022 Update.’
This major new update for the year-old OS brings with it some quality-of-life improvements that enhance accessibility, productivity, gaming and more.
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Let’s start with the gaming enhancements. Performance optimizations have been made to the OS in order “to improve latency and unlock features like Auto HDR and Variable Refresh Rate in windowed games.” Windows 11 users with higher-end monitors will particularly benefit from these specific improvements.
In terms of more general gaming improvements, all Windows 11 users can now use the new Xbox Game Bar, which now has a Controller bar view. Accessed by pressing the Xbox button on your controller, you can quickly see recently played titles and game launchers. Additional enhancements have also been made to DirectX 12 Ultimate and DirectStorage, with the latter receiving “support across more storage configurations, including RAID 0.”
Microsoft Edge even gets to join in on the list of gaming enhancements.
While most of the work here was already implemented over the summer, Microsoft has used this new update to heavily suggest that cloud gamers make use of Edge as their go-to browser. The reason being that it makes “gameplay from the cloud look sharper and clearer” due to a new Clarity Boost mode. Edge also has an Efficiency mode that Microsoft claims to “improve gaming performance” when you play a PC title natively. Players can also benefit from the new Gaming homepage that will “help [them] discover and engage with their favorite games, and the new Games menu enables one-click access to free casual and arcade games.”
Odds and ends
Beyond these gaming-focused improvements, the 2022 Update for Windows 11 also includes system-wide live captions to aid those who are hearing impaired. Users can also control their PCs and pen text with their voice. The Narrator feature also has new voices to make text-to-speech sound more natural.
For productivity, there’s the new Focus/Do Not Disturb mode that silences notifications, disables taskbar badges, and allows the user to track their elapsed Focus time. The Clock app will prompt you to take breaks every now and again.
New options for Snap layouts will also help with productivity, as you can now more easily send windows to specific locations to help spread out multiple applications at once.
With videoconferencing more popular than ever, Microsoft has also outfitted Windows 11 with a suite of Windows Studio effects for audio and video calls. This includes noise suppression for better audio clarity, background blur and more.
Other minor additions include the ability to once again create folders in the Start menu. File Explorer finally has tabs, as well as taskbar overflow, Nearby Share enhancements, security updates, and more. You can check out the full list of features over on the official Windows Blog.
The Windows 11 2022 Update is currently rolling out as an OTA update to different machines as they become eligible. You’ll know your PC has become eligible when you see the Windows 11 version 22H2 download prompt appear in the Windows Update menu.


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Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. announced unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020 with revenue of $420.6 million, up 5.4%, and up 5.6% on a constant currency basis; which includes the net impact of lower deferred revenue purchase accounting adjustments of $35.9 million.
- Net loss of $207.1 million, or diluted loss per share of $0.66, and adjusted net income of $81.6 million, or adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.26.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $176.1 million, up 18.5%, and adjusted EBITDA margin of 41.9%, an increase of 470 basis points; which includes the net impact of lower deferred revenue purchase accounting adjustments of $35.9 million.
- Completed initial public offering and concurrent private placement of $400.0 million in July, raising net proceeds of $2.2 billion.
Dun & Bradstreet Chairman Bill Foley said, “Our recent IPO was a significant milestone for the company, and another step forward as part of our longer journey of transformation. We are excited about the opportunities that lie ahead at Dun & Bradstreet as we work to drive long-term value and sustained growth.”
Dun & Bradstreet CEO Anthony Jabbour said, “Our performance for the quarter was in line with expectations and we continue to make significant progress in our transformation that ultimately supports our long-term strategic goals. Despite a challenging macro-economic environment, our core business fundamentals remained strong and we continue to be uniquely positioned to support our customers through these difficult times.”
Source: Dun & Bradstreet Press Release


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India’s largest e-commerce company is still private, so here are some alternative ideas until a Flipkart IPO.
The transportation revolution is just beginning, and some chipmakers think heads-up displays could be a new standard.
The company’s turnaround strategy is working, but at the expense of profitability.
Not a fan of the “King of Beers”? You might like the stock anyway.
The parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods is a bright spot among retailers, but that isn’t translating into positive returns.
The sports bar and restaurant chain’s stock soared this week with news that a private equity firm is pursuing the company.
The company hopes investors will show some patience as it invests for the future.
The largest “craft” brewer reported recently, putting the recent share price rally on hold as competition continues to squeeze.
The casual diner had a knockout quarter even while its peers struggle.
Store traffic, digital sales, and new exclusive brands will all feature prominently.
Investing in cyclical industries can be a roller coaster, but highly rewarding in a good year.
The maker of fiber-optic networking parts is up about 80% this year, but still down from the summer months.
The year is winding down, and these sports team owners have a big lead. Will their win streak continue?
Sales continued to rebound, but investors chose to focus on the bottom line.
The stock is up over 60% this year, so expectations were high. The company delivered on most counts.
The company continues to build on its new Internet of Things business.
Social media is still growing and presents a big opportunity for investors. Is this social media exchange-traded fund (ETF) the answer?
The satellite telecom company pleased investors with strong Q3 2017 results.
Higher prices put the brakes on business, but new products are helping offset losses.
The company hosted its its first investor day with soon-to-be CEO Joey Wat. Here are the high points from the presentation.


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Ford workers across the country could down tools if any of the firm’s UK sites are earmarked for closure or compulsory redundancies.
In a joint statement Unite and GMB called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations today (12 April), warning that their members at all five of the car giant’s UK sites were ‘ballot ready’.
In a statement to workers at Bridgend, Dagenham, Daventry, Dunton and Halewood, the Ford national joint negotiating committee said ‘if any location is faced with compulsory redundancies, or plant closure, then each location would be balloted for industrial action’.
The committee, which comprises Unite and GMB representatives, expressed frustration at the company’s lack of clarity over its future ‘footprint’.
It follows a drive by the carmaker to find £2bn in ‘savings’ and a rumoured cut of 10,000 jobs from its European operations amid recent warnings over Brexit.
With the UK being Ford’s biggest market in Europe, accounting for 40 per cent of sales, the unions also demanded that where possible all Ford vehicles sold in the UK should be powered by propulsion systems built in Dagenham or Bridgend, and transmissions made in Halewood Merseyside.
Over the years Ford has gone from employing 100,000 workers at 27 plants in the UK, down to 9,000 at 5 locations which make engines and gearboxes, in addition to design and development.
Commenting jointly Unite national officer Des Quinn and Justin Bowden of the GMB said, “Workers across all of Ford’s UK sites have had to endure the drip, drip of uncertainty, amid cost cutting, proposed joint ventures and statements around the transition to electric.
“Ford’s UK workforce stands ready to meet the challenges currently facing the car industry and has the expertise to lead the way in the transition to electric and alternatively powered vehicles.
“Ford must repay that faith and that of its loyal UK customers by giving workers clarity over their futures and investing in the UK.”
The crisis at Ford, and across the automotive industry, has been exacerbated by Theresa May’s shambolic handling of the Brexit process, the government’s demonisation of diesel and weakening global car sales.
UK car workers are now battling for their future amid a slew of job loss announcements in the UK automotive sector and Honda’s announcement that it plans to close its Swindon factory.
Last month, Unite warned of a deepening jobs crisis in UK manufacturing after jobs figures showed 24,000 jobs had been in lost in the sector in the six months from June to December 2018.
“The jobs crisis in manufacturing will only deepen further as the impact of recent announcements such as Honda, Jaguar Land Rover and Ford feed through,” said Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner.
“The government needs to wake up and shake off its complacency by delivering on its fine words about its industrial strategy with practical support and action for UK manufacturing and the car industry.”
He added, “This must mean throwing its full weight behind the fight to persuade Honda to stay in the UK, in addition to properly supporting the transition to electric and alternative powered vehicles.
“Government must also support wider manufacturing by buying UK steel for infrastructure projects and utilising the talents of UK manufacturing communities to build major assets such as the Royal Navy’s solid support vessels here in the UK.”


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MARION COUNTY - Crime Stoppers and local law enforcement agencies announced Wednesday that they are offering cash rewards for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect or suspects involved in the nine recent armed robberies of Dollar General stores countywide.
The potential awards include Crime Stoppers offering up to $2,000, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office offering $5,000 and the Ocala Police Department offering $2,000.
Since Sept. 1, law enforcement agencies throughout the county have been investigating a string of 25 armed hold-ups that include the Dollar General stores as well as convenience stores and Internet Cafes. The reward money is tied specifically to the Dollar General robberies.
Thus far, one man has been charged in connection with the armed robbery of the Dollar General store in McIntosh on Monday night. On Wednesday, Traquail Lamont Fort had his first appearance before Judge Robert Landt via video link from the Marion County Jail to the courthouse.
Fort, 19, of Silver Springs Shores, is charged with two counts of kidnapping, robbery with a firearm, possession of a weapon by a delinquent felon and tampering with or harassing a witness. Landt declined to issue bond on the kidnapping charges. He set bonds totaling $17,000 on the other charges. The no bond ruling means Fort will remain at the jail.
Landt appointed a public defender for Fort.
In the robbery on Monday, MCSO detectives were told by two store managers that two armed men robbed them and put the cash into a large duffle bag. They described the clothing of the men in detail.
In sweeping the area, deputies found Fort sitting naked and covered in vomit in a car parked on the side of the road near the store. Clothing inside the vehicle matched the clothing seen in store surveillance video and in the descriptions provided by the victims. Evidence including clothing and hair found in nearby bushes also tied Fort to the scene, officials said.
Deputies also found the duffle bag full of cash, but did not find Fort's accomplice.
Fort told detectives he was driving from Gainesville when he fell ill and took a Xanax. He said he pulled off the road and was resting when deputies found him. He admitted the clothing in the car belonged to him.
Officials said Fort's criminal history includes five felony convictions, the last in May 2014 for burglary of a dwelling and grand theft.
Anyone with information about the other suspect in Monday's robbery, or any of the other robberies, can call MCSO at 732-9111, OPD at 369-7000 or Crime Stoppers at 368-7867. Tipsters also can send a text to 274637, using keyword 368-STOP, or visit www.ocalacrimestoppers.com.
Contact Austin L. Miller at 867-4118, email@example.com or @almillerosb.


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The global digital signage market will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 10 per cent in the education sector over the next four years, according to the latest forecast from Technavio, a technology research and advisory company.
The study addresses the current state of the industry and growth prospects from 2017 to 2021, by which point the worldwide educational market for digital signage is projected to top US$1.7 billion. To calculate the size of this market, Technavio’s analysts factored in all revenue generated by third-party providers that have collaborated with educational institutions to design and implement digital signage systems. These providers include integrators like AdFlow Networks in Burlington, Ont., information technology (IT) networking hardware developers like Cisco Systems and screen manufacturers like NEC Display Solutions and Samsung Electronics.
The study suggests digital signage is primarily being used in the education sector to provide effective management of unstructured data when facilitating communications between teachers, staff, students and visitors. Content includes class schedules and wayfinding, sports team updates and announcements of such events as homecomings, job fairs, charity drives and extracurricular activities.
Digital signage has also benefited from the large-scale adoption of mobile devices in education and the digitization of related materials.
“Digital signage content design, publishing and distribution can be done entirely from mobile devices,” says Jhansi Mary, one of Technavio’s analysts. “Also, the information displayed on large screens can be delivered to users’ devices, fostering further connectedness.”
As a result of these trends, the company says many schools’ paper posters, bulletin boards, flyers and other traditionally printed communications materials have been largely replaced by digital content.


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’Outrageous’ car loan commission banned
Car loans that hand salespeople more commission if they charge higher interest rates are to be banned from next year.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reckons the ban will save customers £165m a year in total, or around £100-£200 on a loan.
The ban is long overdue, said debt experts, with Citizens Advice Scotland dubbing the commission “outrageous”.
The FCA said the ban “will increase competition and protect consumers”.
At the moment some brokers and car retailers make a commission on the interest rate they charge customers who take out a loan to buy a car.
The way the scheme works, the higher the interest rate, the higher the commission.
That effectively means “brokers are rewarded for charging consumers higher rates,” said Christopher Woolard, the FCA’s interim chief executive.
It said the ban would save consumers between £100-£200, about 6% of their costs, on a loan, although it expects some consumers to benefit much more substantially.
Even though the FCA announced the potential crackdown on the car financing industry last October, the ban will not take effect until 28 January 2021.
“In the light of consultation feedback and the additional operational pressures which the sector is facing at present the FCA has agreed to give firms limited additional time to implement the new rules,” the financial watchdog said.
“The fact that some car dealers increase consumers’ interest rates just so they themselves can benefit from a commission bump is outrageous,” said Citizens Advice Scotland’s financial health spokesperson, Myles Fitt.
“As motor finance options are on the up through schemes like contract purchases this is the time to make sure consumers are adequately protected against these conflicts of interests.”
Debt adviser Sara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said the ban was “long overdue”.
“The interest rate should reflect the risk that the lender is taking, not how much a car salesman thinks you will pay.”
Banning the commission is the right thing to do, said debt campaigner Mick McAteer, co-director at the Financial Inclusion Centre.
“History and evidence tells us that the combination of fast-growing markets and conflicts of interest in the form of commission payments lead to huge consumer detriment.
“Every mis-selling scandal has that combination,” said Mr McAteer.
“The announcement provides clarity for the industry,” said Adrian Dally, head of motor finance at the Finance and Leasing Association, a trade body for lenders.
“We are also pleased that the regulator accepted our point about the need to monitor the consumer hire market as the ban on discretionary commissions does not extend to personal contract hire agreements.”
Meanwhile Sara Williams warned that the commission linked to interest rates is only one of the ways car finances is mis-sold.
“Too often there isn’t a proper check that people can afford to make the monthly payments for the long contracts,” she said.
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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading on Wednesday:
Moderna — Shares of Moderna surged 22.7% to hit an all-time high, after gaining 27.8% just on Tuesday. The rally came after the biotech company said it is hoping for a clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of April. The company had shipped a coronavirus vaccine to U.S. government researchers for study.
Guardant Health — Guardant Health spiked 7.5% after the medical company beat analyst earnings and revenue expectations for the fourth quarter. Guardant reported a loss of 27 cents per share and $62.9 million in revenue. Analysts expected a 30 cents per share loss on $54.9 million in revenue, according to FactSet. Canaccord Genuity, which has a buy rating on the stock, said in a note to clients that Guardant's forward guidance seemed conservative and should set the company up for future earnings beats.
Sabre — Shares of Sabre plunged 16.1% after the travel technology company missed revenue expectations for the fourth quarter and said coronavirus would hurt first-quarter revenue by $100 million to $150 million. Sabre reported fourth quarter revenue of $941.4 million, while analysts expected $948 million, according to FactSet. The company also reported a decline in operating income, which it said was due to increased technology expense.
Sinclair Broadcast — Shares of the media conglomerate fell 15% after Sinclair Broadcast reported fourth-quarter earnings of an adjusted 94 cents cents a share, below the $1.02 a share expected according to analysts surveyed by FactSet. Sinclair's media revenue was also notably light, below its previous forecast at $1.58 billion.
TJX Companies — Shares of TJX Companies soared 7.2%. The parent company of TJ Maxx reported adjusted earnings of 81 cents per share and revenue of$12.206 billion for its fourth quarter, with same store sales rising 6%. Wall Street analysts expected adjusted earnings of 77 cents per share and $11.83 billion in revenue, according to Refinitiv.
Netflix — Top technology stocks — also known as the "FAANG" group, the colloquial name for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet — all climbed in trading, with Netflix up 5.3% and leading the group higher. The bounce back for the tech stocks came as the broader U.S. market rebounded after a two day plunge.
B&G Foods — Shares of B&G Foods surged 23.2% after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings in line with Wall Street's expectations, according to FactSet, with a better-than-anticipated forecast for 2020. B&G Foods said it expects to see earnings this year between $1.60 a share and $1.80 a share, with revenue coming in between $1.66 billion and $1.68 billion.
J.M. Smucker — Shares of J.M. Smucker rose 1.3% after beating earnings expectations for its fiscal third quarter. The food company reported $2.35 in adjusted earnings per share for the quarter, topping estimates of $2.23 per share, according to Refinitiv. Its revenues of $1.972 billion matched what analysts expected. Stifel said in a note to client that a legal settlement and lower than expected interest costs helped Smucker's bottom line.
SmileDirectClub — Shares of SmileDirectClub cratered 29.4% following its disappointing fourth quarter results. The company, which sells teeth aligners directly to consumers, reported a loss of 25 cents per share. Revenue came in at $197 million, missing the forecast $200 million in revenue, according to Refinitiv. SmileDirectClub also issued weak full year revenue guidance.
Toll Brothers — shares of the homebuilder plummeted 14.6% after the company missed top and bottom line estimates. In the first quarter, the company earned 41 cents per share on $1.33 billion in revenue. According to estimates from FactSet, analysts had been expecting 46 cents in earnings and $1.44 billion in revenue. Raymond James also lowered its rating on the stock to market perform.
Planet Fitness — Planet Fitness shares slid 6.7% after the gym operator issued weaker-than-forecast earnings guidance for 2020. The company expects full-year earnings per share to come in around $1.84. That's slightly below a Wall Street estimate of $1.90, according to a Wedbush analyst. The disappointing guidance overshadowed better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter.
— CNBC's Maggie Fitzgerald, Yun Li, Pippa Stevens and Fred Imbert contributed to this report.
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This week saw the mania that is CES take place in fabulous Las Vegas. It's the week when all the big electronic companies get together to show off the latest and greatest tech they have in their arsenals... and camera manufacturers are no different. Here's what they all had to offer this week.
It's probably the camera that's been talked about the most this week. After several weeks of speculation and leaks, the X Pro1 has finally been unveiled. The retro styled camera is the latest in Fuji's incredibly popular "X" series and features an APS-C sized sensor which the company claims can outperform a full-frame sensor. Bold claims indeed.
If that's not enough, discover more about the camera in our 10 things you need to know about the Fujifilm X Pro1 article, and read about the X Pro1 accessories that will be launching soon.
It wasn't strictly launched at CES, but the Nikon D4 was still big news at the show. We spoke to the company to discover the reasoning behind the 16 million pixel sensor on its latest professional level DSLR.
Canon has also announced a new beauty this week in the form of the G1X. It's the company's new top-of-the-line compact camera, featuring a sensor that is similar in height to APS-C and promises superior image quality. Read our Hands on: Canon G1 X review with video to learn more about it.
Not content with launching that, Canon also introduced two new IXUS compacts to sit in its line-up too.
Olympus, Samsung, Sony and Panasonic news
This was also the week that Polaroid also revealed its Android powered "smart camera". It's supposed to combine the best of digital compacts with the best of smart phone convenience - albeit without the ability to er, phone anybody. Maybe that's the next step though?
Users of compact system cameras can rejoice at the news that Sigma has finally introduced a couple of CSC compatible third party lenses. The new duo includes a 30mm f/2.8 lens and a 18mm f/2.8 lens, both available in Micro Four Thirds and E-Mounts for Panasonic/Olympus and Sony respectively.
Sigma also introduced a new 180mm macro lens for full-frame DSLR users, which the company claims is the first of its kind to feature 1:1 reproduction with an f/2.8 maximum aperture.
That's all for this week. Although CES hasn't seen a host of huge announcements, we're holding out hope that the upcoming CP+ show in Japan will see big hitters being unveiled from the country's big names, including Sony, Nikon and Canon. Now - we're off for a big lie down.
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(Reuters) - Exercise bike maker Peloton Interactive Inc PTON.O on Thursday warned of near-term supply constraints, as demand for its at-home fitness equipment has shot up due to gym closures during the pandemic.
Peloton shares, which have risen four-fold this year, were down 7% in extended trading, even though the company’s first-quarter results topped Wall Street estimates and it raised the annual revenue forecast.
The exercise bike maker’s Connected Fitness revenue jumped 274% to $601.4 million in the quarter while its subscriptions climbed 137% to $1.33 million.
The segment, Peloton’s primary revenue generator, includes interactive fitness equipment with touchscreen that streams live and on-demand classes.
The company raised its 2021 revenue forecast and said revenue would be at least $3.9 billion, compared with its previous forecast range of $3.50 billion to $3.65 billion.
Peloton’s total quarterly revenue surged more than three-fold to $757.9 million. Net profit attributable to Class A and Class B shareholders was $69.3 million, or 20 cents per share.
Analysts on average had estimated the company to report a profit of 11 cents per share on a revenue of $734.2 million for the quarter.
Reporting by Shreyasee Raj in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel and Vinay Dwivedi
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In its earnings report on Wednesday, Facebook formally annoucned that is under investigation by the FTC over antitrust concerns.
In June, it had been reported that the FTC was preparing a potential probe, but the earnings report confirms that the investigation is formally under way. This is in addition to the broader investigation into Big Tech that the Department of Justice had announced on Tuesday.
The FTC did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.
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Blackstone has acquired healthcare staffing company Team Health in a $6.1 billion deal, reuniting the private equity firm with the company it previously owned for eight years.
Blackstone is de-listing the business from the New York Stock Exchange, paying $43.50 per share, a premium of 33 percent on its last closing price. Team Health sells outsourced medical care through 19,000 affiliated physicians and clinicians.
In August the Tennessee-based business reported net revenue of $1.12 billion for the second quarter of 2016, with EBITDA of $119.2 million. At the time it said it expected total revenues of between $4.64 billion and $4.71 billion for 2016.
The company is under private equity ownership for the third time. Blackstone previously bought the company in 2005 for around $1 billion from a consortium of private equity investors including Madison Dearborn Partners, which had owned the company since a 1999 buyout.
In 2009 Blackstone began the process of floating the company, although poor market conditions delayed the sale of its own shares. Blackstone offered to sell 9.3 million of its shares in the company, expected to be priced at up to $16. But the firm ended up selling none of its shares at this point, with shares owned by other investors selling for $12 each.
After delaying its share sales, the New York private equity giant sold blocks of shares over a number of years, fully exiting the company in 2013.
The latest deal includes the acquisition of 8 percent of Team Health’s shares from New York hedge fund Jana Partners. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.


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Ubisoft and IGN announced yesterday that Splinter Cell: Blacklist has gone gold. This means that the development on this title has finished, and that the game is headed to manufacturing for PC, X360, PS3 and Wii U. The game will be released on August 20th and in order to celebrate it, Ubisoft has released a new trailer for it that can be viewed below. Enjoy!
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There, she'd find Jimmy Choo pumps and Marni necklaces to jazz up her work wardrobe of well-cut suits.
"She was one of my best customers," said Paula Landry, owner of the designer shoe boutique that shares a storefront with Angelique clothing store.
"Cherise loved the crazy stuff, the wild shoes, not the mainstream or cookie-cutter. She had an eye and always knew exactly what she wanted and how to put it together."
Since those shopping days, her eye has gotten considerably more refined.
On a recent Thursday morning, Angelle -- dressed in a midnight blue shorts romper and expertly layered gold jewelry -- was back at Victoria's, perusing the shop's latest strappy sandals and platform pumps -- but this time, not as a customer.
After leaving her law firm job to study footwear design and apparel manufacturing at Los Angeles' prestigious Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Angelle, now 29, was seeing her own debut shoe collection, called Omelle (pronounce it ähm' elle), on the shelf of her favorite store for the first time.
Her designs were rubbing heels with the likes of, no less, fashion heavyweights Giuseppe Zanotti and Valentino.
Their spring lineup hit stores this month with the edgy, exaggerated geometry of three-dimensional art projects: calf-high boots that end in an open-toe sandal; pumps with swooping, rounded sides; python prints; conical heels; and booties that lace at the ankle with a large satin ribbon. Prices range from $425 to $1,095.
Crafted in Italy in the same factory that makes Prada footwear, Omelle's offerings aren't for shrinking violets.
The designers showed their line last fall in Paris, New York and Las Vegas and the spring collection was picked up by eight high-end boutiques in the United States and Canada, as well as by Shopbop.com. Fourteen stores have placed orders for fall, including a boutique in Hong Kong and a store in Riyadh owned by a Saudi princess.
Early press has been full of praise. A strappy sandal was featured in the March issue of Elle, while Lucky magazine raved about Omelle's Colette pump. Vogue, The New York Times and industry publications Women's Wear Daily and Footwear News have featured photos of their shoes.
Then came the holy grail for any designer: Blake Lively was spotted this month wearing Omelle's Cecilia bootie on the set of the WB network's fashion-obsessed "Gossip Girl."
For fledgling cobblers just out of school, such early success is rare. Most young designers are long on talent and short on cash.
Angelle, who now lives in Los Angeles, is a Breaux Bridge native who earned a bachelor's degree in fashion merchandising with a minor in business from Louisiana State University.
After moving to New Orleans in 2003, she became more than a casual shopper at Victoria's. When her law firm salary wouldn't cover the three- and four-figure accessories at the store, she relied on her parents' generosity.
As she began seriously considering a career in fashion, Angelle joined Landry on a buying trip to Italy.
"She was very directed. She had an idea and took it very seriously," Landry said. "She showed me her portfolio, and when I saw her drawings, I thought, this girl is amazing."
While enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Angelle worked as a freelance stylist to celebrities and private clients. She also won awards and received an elite internship with the Brown Shoe Co., maker of Via Spiga, Dr. Scholl's, Etienne Aigner and other brands.
LaFave was a graphic designer before embarking on a career in fashion. The two met in design school.
Angelle had contacts that helped secure private investors for their initial start-up. Angelle's father, Randy Angelle, a lawyer, Breaux Bridge city judge and chairman of the board of First Louisiana National Bank, helped show their business plan around.
Just a year later, Omelle's first shoes hit stores. The unusual designs appeal to the fashion-forward shopper.
"We've had them about a week, and they're selling well," Landry said.
Flying back to New Orleans recently to meet her new customers, Angelle watched a woman trying on a pair of sandals.
"It's so exciting and sort of unbelievable," she said. "We've designed this product from paper to the factory and now, oh my gosh, it's on the shelf."


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In recent years many outdoor brands have deliberately set out to be more fashionable, with their clothes now used regularly and not just for sporting activities. For many consumers outdoor is simply a lifestyle product, instead of a technical product for outdoor pursuits.
There has also been huge growth in people wanting to improve their health and fitness, which has driven a convergence between the outdoor equipment and sports markets. People who participate in a sport are typically strong buyers of outdoor equipment and clothing.
After a period of unprecedented growth over the last decade or so, the outdoor equipment and clothing market now faces a much more challenging environment.
Latest figures from the European Outdoor Group1 show the market only growing by 2.1% in value and 1.7% in volume during 2015. Apparel was impacted most, while other categories proved to be more resilient.
Two of the largest European markets, Germany and France, grew by 2.2% and 2.5% respectively, while the UK lagged slightly with growth of 1.8%. In terms of regions, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe performed best, growing by 2.3% and 2.2% respectively. EOG says the market has experienced two consecutive difficult winter seasons and all eyes will be on data showing how the market performed during winter 2016.
With the market saturated – estimates suggest there are now more than 500 outdoor brands – leading players are looking for new ways to position themselves and make their brands stand out among the crowd.
The big challenge for such groups is how to address this broader target market and increase sales without putting at risk their core brand values and unique selling points.
One solution has been for big brands to open their own retail stores in prominent retail locations, thereby attracting new customers to their brands. Indeed, due to the specialised and technical nature of many products in the outdoor market, there is still great value in the store model as consumers want advice and to review products before they purchase.
1: European Outdoor Group – State of Trade report
Against this backdrop we continue to see significant M&A activity. In recent years the market has seen substantial consolidation of the retail base, reducing the number of independent retailers, while at the same time brands have been consolidating giving bigger players more sales opportunities across several markets.


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Research from cybersecurity company CHEQ shows that more than 40% of all traffic online is invalid. For marketers, where fake traffic is present, audiences, customer data platform (CDP) segments and CRMs become “polluted” and campaigns become optimized toward fake users and revenue opportunities are missed.
In 2022, global spend on digital advertising surpassed $600 billion. By applying the average invalid rate for paid traffic against this number, CHEQ estimates $35.7 billion of ad spend was wasted on fake traffic in 2022 by analyzing more than a billion site visits from the 15,000 companies it works with to weed out bots and other fake web activity.
In the State of Fake Traffic 2023 released last week, CHEQ estimates that in 2022 11.3% of all traffic was fake, 5.9% of paid traffic was fake, 5.7% of organic traffic was fake, and 22.1% of direct traffic was fake.
The data also shows 1 in 10 visitors was not authentic, 1 in 50 visitors had malicious intent, $35.7 billion of ad spend was wasted, and $142.8 billion in revenue was lost.
The fake traffic attempting to access advertising and marketing websites amounted to 7.9% of all site traffic. Paid contributed 4.9%, direct 7.5%, and organic 5.7%.
Threat types as a percentage of total fake traffic in advertising and marketing in 2022 include:
The growth of fake traffic in 2022 was broad across all types but there increase more than the rest:
Fake traffic rates by referral sources like paid search ads include:
The top threats as a percentage of all fake traffic in 2022 include:


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The other health benefits from apples
– Support for “solving” the problem of respiratory
According to the BBC, eat at least five apples per week helps lungs work better thanks to antioxidants found in apple peel Quercetin (similar to the substance found in onions and potatoes). Benefits of apple for the respiratory system even more amazing: In a 2007 study, it was found that women who eat more fruits, especially apples helps prevent asthma in the fetus.
– Strengthen the immune system
Like oranges, apples are good sources of vitamin C great, works to strengthen the immune system. Each apple contains about 8 mg of this vitamin, so we will provide about 14% of vitamin C daily needs of the body.
– Prevent Cancer
Information from WebMD said, in 2004, French scientists have found a chemical in apples can prevent colon cancer. And in 2007, a study by Cornell University found more compounds called Triterpenoids likely against liver cancer, colon and breast cancer.
– Reduce the risk of diabetes
A 2012 study published in the journal Nutrition USA (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) concluded, just as Vietnam pear and cranberry fruit, apples have been linked with reducing the risk of diabetes type-2 thanks to antioxidants called Anthocyanins. That was the substance found in vegetables and fruits in red, purple and blue.
– Good for the Brain
Apples stimulate increased production Acetylcholine – connected nature of nerve cells. So, Apple is a good choice to help improve memory and reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s – memory loss as they age.


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But who has actually seen the campaign? Has it been inserted into an advertising page of a newspaper? Has it been posted in the streets? No. Only certain: journalists and bloggers have been, Monday, February 22, a news agency advertising BDDP & Son referring to the launch "a campaign to shock young people" for the association rights of nonsmokers. On the basis of this press release that journalists have reported the information. They were also asked to account Regulatory Authority professional advertising (the ARPP). "There was no advertising campaign. The agency said he was in fact 15 000 cards distributed for acne nightclubs and bars in the Ile-de-France," said Joseph Besnainou, Director General of the ARPP.
But, faced with protests from associations and Nadine Morano, Secretary of State for Family, ARPP issued Thursday a statement calling for "immediate cessation of this campaign." Interference in editorial content as advertising actually existed only in articles that comment.
Friday, Rights of non-smokers and the agency BDDP & Son rubbed their hands, counting the "media effects" beyond their wildest dreams. The campaign was finally released that day in advertising and magazines Shock interview. What to give a minimum of reality if it wants to compete at the next International Festival of Cannes advertising from June 20 to 26, where the presence of campaigns "ghost" is regularly controversy.


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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and what's happening now is that a new upscale hotel, casino and shopping and restaurant development is hiring 12,000 people for permanent jobs.
CityCenter, which is opening in December, is putting the call out for applicants ranging from 165 master cooks to 130 behind-the-scenes workers for Cirque de Soleil.
As many as 1,300 workers are being sought for dealer, slot operator and other gaming jobs.
The project, described as a 67-acre city within a city, also will need 1,200 guestroom staff, workers for the electric CityCenter Tram and people to oversee the development's 8.5-megawatt co-generation plant.
Among the properties that will be hiring are the Vdara Hotel, the Mandarin Oriental non-gaming hotel, the Aria Resort and Casino and the upscale Crystals retail and dining district.
You may have a little competition, though. As of July, the most recent period available, unemployment was at 13.1 percent in the Las Vegas area. For more information, visit www.citycenter.com.