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This year at the LDAI: human-centric designs, a newly launched mentorship program, and a strong female representation
The Lexus Design Award India (LDAI) celebrated their third year recently, recognising design excellence across all disciplines of Industrial Designs. The award ceremony, that has been an annual event for Lexus since 2018, is to put into practice its commitment to support and nurture the next generation of India’s up-and-coming designers.
The design event was held as part of the Pune Design Festival, organised by the Association of Designers India. The night featured experts in the design industry, who eagerly anticipated the announcement of the 10 winners of the prestigious ceremony.
Starting the night off, PB Venugopal, president of Lexus India, said, “The number of entries is already 3X compared to the first edition. This also reflects the wealth of design talent we have in this country. At Lexus, we believe in the power of design and how it can help build a sustainable tomorrow. LDAI is our effort at unlocking that power of design.”
Jury member and vice president of Lexus Asia Pacific Division, David Nordstrom added, “It’s not just the high number of entries, the quality of entries are very impressive too. It is heartening to see the convergence of design and technology across all categories.”
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This year LDAI 2020 introduced a mentorship program, a one-on-one golden opportunity for the finalists in the Conceptual categories. Under the guidance of virtuosos of the industry, the finalists witnessed the evolution of their designs as the counselling upgraded their thought process and professional abilities. Winners from this category were shortlisted for the Global Lexus Design Award 2020 (LDA) and have been invited to the Lexus Design Event at Milan Design Week.
The competition called for innovative ideas and transformative solutions for human-centric design. Winners of the LDAI 2020 were chosen from an overwhelming pool of talented entries with a strong female representation; judged by an elite panel of design dignitaries who in turn had a stimulating experience combing through the contestants’ work. The winners of the 10 categories and the Jury’s Choice Award received trophies designed specially by Michael Foley.
The LDA first launched in 2013 as an international design competition attracting rising designers from all across the globe to develop remarkable and breakthrough product solutions that simplify lives.
The Grand Prix winner of LDA 2019, Lisa Marks, an Industrial Designer specialising in combining craft research with algorithmic design, addressed the audience. Her winning entry, the Algorithmic Lace, is a post-mastectomy bra custom crafted using algorithmic patterning to make three dimensional lace. She discussed her project as a collaboration with local craftsmen, incorporating sustainable methods to support the craft communities. With Lexus weighing into her qualifications, she also spoke about the immense recognition and praise that the platform has provided her.


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On 20th, Aug, Huali Coating attended the Shanghai International Auto Manufacturing Technology & Equipment and Materials Exhibition. This exhibition has been held for 8 years since 2004, an international professional exhibition which is the first in Asia with innovation in auto manufacturing technology field. More than 500 Chinese and foreign exhibitors displayed a series of innovative technology and application about auto materials and design, process and equipment, assembly and quality, OEM and electric vehicle technology, automotive engineering and other fields, AMTS2013 five parts was upgraded, for the first time the exhibition scale reached three pavilion, with an area of 35000 square meters, .With the join of industry giants, presenting a feast in the field of automotive technology.
As an excellent supplier of technology and equipment, Huali has taken part in this exhibition, for many years Huali has provided best solutions for auto parts surface treatment and turnkey project, which got highly recognition of many well-known enterprises such as the Baosteel group, Jingwei Co., Ltd, MINTH group, Wangfeng hub, Sinotruk, Shanghai Diesel-engine, Ma Kexun. Through this exhibition, Huali has not only get the favor from many famous suppliers in the field of auto industry, at the same time got fully display among many car manufacturers.

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2017 has seen retail customer experience (CX) pushed to the forefront of the business agenda. No longer an addendum, CX is now on the agenda for directors and board members of retail brands. While traditional retailers are staying afloat, the competition from digital natives is mounting. 2018 will mean new CX strategies for retailers as […]
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Privately owned company owns more than a quarter of market share of fast food chicken industry.
It’s the fast food chicken chain that most consumers outside the US have never heard of. But inside America, the wild popularity of family-owned chain Chick-fil-A has been identified as a threat to major fast food behemoths like McDonald’s and has even surpassed chicken giant KFC.
The title of a recently released market report for McDonald’s says it all: “Chick-fil-A a Serious and Growing Competitive Threat”.
Written by financial services firm Janney, the report notes that the privately owned company held a 26% market share of the fast food chicken industry in 2013 – up from 9% in 1999.
For comparison, in 1999, Yum! brand’s KFC enjoyed a comfortable lead with a 40% share of the market.
Today, that’s down to 22%, several percentage points below Chick-fil-A and enough to make the Colonel turn in his grave.
The recently released results of Consumer Reports’ annual fast food ranking corroborates the popularity of Chick-fil-A, as respondents gave the brand top billing in the category of chicken sandwiches.
KFC landed at the bottom of the heap, after other chains like Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Zaxby’s and Church’s Chicken.
Chick-fil-A found success carving out a niche market selling deep-fried chicken sandwiches, nuggets and wraps since 1946.
The brand’s success is all the more impressive given that KFC possesses more than double the number of outlets as its counterpart. While Chick-fil-A has 1,790 restaurants in 39 states and Washington DC, KFC has 4,500 outposts across the country.
Furthermore, all Chick-fil-A restaurants close system-wide close on Sundays – or “Lord’s Day” – as part of founder S. Truett Cathy’s religious beliefs.
Meanwhile, the Janney report issues some stern warnings to fast food giant McDonald’s, which also offers a slew of chicken-based items on its menu.
While the chain is described as a relatively “small fry” compared to worldwide sales at McDonald’s, the report notes that KFC didn’t see Chick-fil-A’s success coming a decade ago either.
In 2013, McDonald’s generated US$36bil (RM115bil) in systemwide sales, versus US$5bil (RM16bil) at Chick-fil-A.
“While Chick-fil-A remains meaningfully smaller than McDonald’s US today, to the extent it could be ignored as a competitive threat ten years ago, we would argue that it can no longer be ignored as a long-term competitive threat today,” analysts write.
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Do-it-yourself brewery out of business, money
The state’s only brew-on-premise business has closed.
Brew-By-U opened in Greenwood less than a year ago and, according to owner Jeremy Hough, has “run out of money.”
The do-it-yourself brewery was set up to give Hoosiers interested in brewing a place to learn from experts — no need to buy pricey equipment, no mess to clean up. The business at 3021 Meridian Meadows Road also sold home brewing supplies and ingredients.
“I think it was a good idea,” Hough said. “But as a first-time business owner, you learn some things.”
Hough’s long-term plan was to also obtain a small brewer’s permit. He wanted to use the teaching kettles on off-hours to brew beer to sell by the pint.
But he failed to get proper licensing and wishes he would have tried sooner.
“Everybody that came in wanted a beer, and I couldn’t sell them one. That would have made a huge difference.”
The abrupt closing of Brew-By-U leaves about 20 customers with empty pockets and unsalvageable beer.
Much of Hough’s business came through discount coupon websites or via gift certificates. People who purchased coupons through Living Social or Groupon can get their money back. However, if they paid Hough directly, he says there is nothing he can do.
“I am filing for bankruptcy. I feel terrible. I just don’t know what I can do for them.”
And as for the beer, it’s probably bad by now. He is selling the remaining home brew supplies online, and the equipment has gone to auction.
“I think there is still a market for it,” Hough said. “People were always excited about it and had good things to say about it. But like any business, you need money to get by for the first two years.”
Brew-By-U was not Hough’s primary occupation, and he remains in his day job. The three employees at Brew-By-U also worked part time.


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Sainsbury's refrigeration systems are being fitted with a new aerodynamic device developed by Williams Advanced Engineering and Aerofoil Energy. "Aerofoils" is the same technology that helps enhance the performance of F1 racing cars. In the grocery store they’re being used to prevent cold air from spilling out of the front of refrigeration cabinets and instead holding in the cold air to lessen energy consumption in stores.
The retailer, the U.K.’s second-largest grocery chain, has committed to cutting its carbon emissions 30% by 2020 and this initiative is expected to play a part in achieving that goal.
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Gushcloud bags strategic investment from former Singtel and Facebook senior executives
Gushcloud has received a six figure strategic investment from CEO of Premiummall, Loo Cheng Chuan and CEO of MCC International, Ken Cheung, both of whom have joined their advisory board. Loo is the co-founder of luxury eCommerce company, Premiummall, and angel investor/ advisor to several successful startups, including recently acquired 2359 Media. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Loo was the CEO of Singtel Digital Media, and had a track record for building up and heading up innovative digital units for the company, including insing.com, hungrygowhere.com and more. Read full story here.


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The 4.7″ iPhone 6 reminds us of the original iPhone (2007).
So far considered premium features worthy of only expensive high-end mobile devices, water and dust protection make their Western debut on an entry-level, hopefully budget-sensible Android – Sony’s Xperia M2 Aqua.
RBC Capital Markets notified investors today that it expects demand for new iPhones to surge so much so that Apple may sell over 75 million units by the end of this year.
The noPhone may not technically be a smart device, or a real phone for that matter, but it does offer a “technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact”, and so it’s a truly unique… thing, with an unrivaled list of special features.
Defying all the haters that dubbed his work a one-hit wonder affair, “Flappy Bird” phenomenon creator Dong Nguyen is back with an original new product (yeah, right), called “Swing Copters” and featuring basically the exact same gameplay as the erstwhile aviary gold mine.
According to a JPMorgan analyst Apple isn’t going to release iPhones with sapphire displays this year instead its setting up the stage for 2015.
Enough joking around and waiting for Chromebook demand to miraculously start lagging after so many great months, Microsoft is just about ready to take the bull by the horns and launch a super-low-cost Windows 8.1 rival.
It is possible that Apple may ship USB cables that are reversible on both ends with upcoming mobile devices like the iPhone 6.
Alleged details of the next generation iPhone have emerged online today, its A8 processor may be accompanied by 1GB of RAM.
Yet another upcoming top-shelf Motorola smartphone seems to have surfaced online, carrying the ballsy Droid Turbo moniker and a Samsung Galaxy Note 4-rivaling spec sheet.
After gathering numerous bleak pricing hints in regards to the unveiled-but-not-yet-released Motorola Moto 360 smartwatch, it comes as a very nice last-minute surprise that the Android Wear timepiece is officially listed at a palatable $250.
With a little over three weeks reportedly left until Apple finally brings to light the greatly anticipated iPhone 6 pair, the battery capacity puzzle seems fully settled, although the latest purported leaks out of Asia, like all Asian leaks, have to be taken with prudence.
HTC’s fantastic in plastic, affordable, single rear camera-sporting take on the all-metal One M8, confusingly named One E8, is apparently headed stateside, after going live in a handful of European and Asian territories back in June.
California-based Kateeva claims to have invented a flexible coating which can seal OLED displays. Their coating, which costs half the price of other alternatives, would allow for production of bendable screens at affordable prices.
You’d think Samsung would be in full damage control mode now that nearly everything there is to know about its upcoming Galaxy Note 4 is out, but even as a credible, semi-exhaustive list of features transpires, the Koreans insist on keeping mystery in the air.
Unlike Sony, which stubbornly wagers on a proprietary smartwatch OS, Asus reportedly plans to keep its wearable efforts simple and adopt the growing Android Wear platform.
Expected out in the days leading up to IFA 2014, at a press event recently teased by Microsoft, the Nokia Lumia 830 is a visual mystery no more, at least if we assume the newest slate of “leaked” photos is legitimate.
Researchers have discovered that a rapidly spinning asteroid is actually a pile of rubble held together by Van der Waals forces. This may change how we approach defending against asteroids in the future.
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Did anybody go to one of these Hershey's Bliss house parties? Although I'm not a big fan of Hershey's one of my life rules is never to pass up free chocolate.
Here's the info:
You're Invited to Experience Bliss -- The Hershey Company Celebrates the National Debut of Hershey's Bliss(TM) Chocolate by Hosting 10 Thousand Launch Parties
Rich, Creamy, Bite-Sized Hershey Bliss Chocolate Debuts in Three Unique Expressions
HERSHEY, Pa., March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tens of thousands of consumers are invited to experience bliss nationwide -- in celebration of the launch of Hershey's Bliss(TM) Chocolate, a new rich, creamy, bite-size chocolate indulgence from The Hershey Company. As part of the April 2008 launch, Hershey's Bliss Chocolate is hosting 10 thousand chocolate parties in homes across America over the weekend of April 25. The bliss-themed launch parties will introduce guests to Hershey's Bliss Chocolate while transporting their senses into a state of bliss with the world's most indulgent chocolate.
Available in three unique expressions, Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate and Milk Chocolate Meltaway, Hershey's Bliss Chocolate is specially crafted to ensure that every detail contributes to the overall chocolate experience. The slight domed shape of the individual square fits the mouth perfectly allowing the chocolate to melt evenly cascading rich, creamy chocolate notes across the tongue. The finish is satisfying and sophisticated, a lasting reward.
"The chocolate masters at Hershey created Hershey's Bliss for consumers who appreciate the everyday joys in life," said Michele Buck, Senior Vice President, Global Chief Marketing Officer, The Hershey Company. "Hershey's Bliss Chocolate is meant to celebrate that joy and the Hershey's Bliss Chocolate parties brings this experience to life by encouraging party goers to experience and share everyday bliss with their own friends and family."
The weekend of April 25, Hershey's Bliss will be the guest of honor at 10 thousand Hershey's Bliss Chocolate launch parties nationwide. Targeting female chocolate lovers, the parties will celebrate everyday bliss by gathering with friends and family to share personal stories of bliss while sampling Hershey's newest indulgence. To sign up to host a Hershey's Bliss Chocolate Party consumers should visit http://www.houseparty.com/hersheysbliss
for more details or to register.
Hershey's Bliss Chocolate is now available nationwide in 9.6 oz lay-down packages at grocery, mass and drug stores. Hershey's Bliss chocolate is a delicious reminder that "Bliss is everywhere. You just have to unwrap it.(TM)"
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How to create a chart-topper
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Published: March 24 2010 23:24 | Last updated: March 24 2010 23:24
There was dog food in the gift bags at this year’s Grammy Awards, and a dead man has just struck the biggest record deal in history. A decade after Napster began demolishing its profit margins, the music industry is still struggling to adjust to more straitened times. Its online missteps, from suing downloaders to letting Apple’s dominant iTunes store dictate pricing, are so well charted that few outsiders would look to the music business for case studies in how to market their products in the digital economy.
Last year’s charts again spelled out record labels’ dependence on television talent show winners such as Susan Boyle and stars of a more lucrative era such as Michael Jackson, whose estate just signed a $200m-plus deal with Sony Music.
In the past year, however, two acts have emerged that are giving label executives hope that they have not lost the ability to break new talent, and that also offer broader lessons about the power of digital marketing.
Lady Gaga, signed to Universal Music, and Ke$ha, on Sony’s RCA Records label, are vying to be the heirs to a pop throne not yet vacated by Madonna, while firing up digital communities of fans in a way that was impossible 20 years ago.
There are differences between the aloof artistry of Stefani Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s real name, and the raunchy and boozy lyrics of Kesha Rose Sebert, but both have achieved global, digital fame thanks in large part to online word-of-mouth of which brand managers dream.
“Eight months ago no-one knew who this girl was. Now she’s the hottest star in the world,” says Barry Weiss, who last year signed Ke$ha, a 23-year-old who grew up in Nashville. “Ke$ha’s going to be this year’s Halloween dress-up [costume]. Last year it was Gaga. Ten years ago it was Britney [Spears]. That’s how big this feels.”
Music videos make a comeback
Long before the YouTube generation usurped the MTV generation, the music video had become known as a loss-making luxury. Now, thanks to the internet, the music video is coming back into its own.
Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” and the elaborately produced video for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” have become viral hits, with 11m and 9.5m views respectively on YouTube. The “official explicit version” of “Telephone”, Lady Gaga’s controversial nine-minute production, has notched up 22.6m views so far on Vevo, the site launched by Sony Music and Universal Music with YouTube to provide a premium destination for their videos.
According to Barry Weiss, such traffic drives revenues. “It’s penny rates, but the Ke$ha videos will make a lot of money on streams,” he says. Sales of her single got “a big bump” when iTunes featured “Tik Tok” as its free video of the week, he says, but Ke$ha fans have also paid for 100,000 video downloads on Apple’s online store.
Mr Weiss, who runs Sony’s RCA/Jive label group, has watched Ke$ha’s debut single, “Tik Tok”, top the US charts for nine weeks. She has sold 6m iTunes downloads in the US and 2m internationally, and about 1m mobile ringtones and ringbacks round the world. Her debut album, Animal, has sold 1m copies, a “staggering” 50 per cent of them in digital form, says Mr Weiss.
Ke$ha’s appeal is to a hard-partying young crowd more interested in their smartphones than the CDs of Boyle’s older market. As Mr Weiss put it: “18-22-year-old girls and women are getting on the bar in Milwaukee when “Tik Tok” comes on. This is their song.”
Ke$ha came to RCA through Lukasz Gottwalk, or Dr Luke, the pop producer who gave her a break providing vocals for a 2009 hit called “Right Round” by Flo Rida. When RCA began negotiating for a multi-album deal, it was struck by her strong social media following. Once the label had settled on “Tik Tok” as Ke$ha’s first single, it gave it away from July on MySpace as a free stream more than a month before it was due to go on sale on iTunes.
For Mr Weiss, such viral marketing felt familiar. “It was the Britney playbook from 1998-99,” he explains. At that time, the Jive label had been dominated by rap artists but when Spears began her career, Mr Weiss says they “applied street marketing methodology to pop music” by giving out cassette singles of “Baby One More Time” as a young Britney toured shopping malls.
After spreading virally, “Tik Tok” hit iTunes on August 25. Within a week, it had sold 610,000 downloads in the US alone, breaking digital records for a female artist, and soon spread. “We knew “Tik Tok” would be an enormous hit when it broke at number one on iTunes New Zealand with no radio play,” says Mr Weiss.
Radio stations closely watch iTunes, which has sold 10bn songs to date, and calls poured in to Sony from stations round the world, but their interest prompted Mr Weiss to delay his radio launch plans by a month, to mid-October.
Even now, “radio is still the only way you really sell a record”, says Mr Weiss, but his gamble was to heighten the song’s radio impact by letting awareness build online.
Finance executives eager for a hit for the Christmas quarter questioned the decision, and Mr Weiss admits that, when “Tik Tok” was eventually released to stations, “it didn’t explode as the promo guys thought it would”.
The radio play was enough to pave the way for an album release in early January.
“January is dead. There’s no way we would have had the number one album [in the run-up to Christmas]. It would have got lost in the sauce,” admits Mr Weiss.
Other artists, from Lily Allen to Jack Johnson have had viral digital success, but “too often you see their [digital] phenomena pop up and there’s no foresight into how to catch that in a sales net,” says Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard, the entertainment industry magazine.
In Ke$ha’s case, ”the brilliant part” was Sony’s decision to make her album available for pre-sale on iTunes just after Christmas, when new iPod and iPhone owners want to load up their presents with music or spend iTunes gift cards. “They played it perfectly,” Mr Werde says, ”but it helps that “Tik Tok” is an amazing song.”
Animal instantly bumped Boyle’s record off the top of the US chart and sold 152,000 copies in a week.
Unusually, at a time when many worry whether the album format can survive in the digital era, almost three-quarters of Animal’s sales were via iTunes.
Sony priced the album at just $6.99, before raising the price to $9.99 once it saw the pace of sales. “$7 gets kids interested in the artist, so ultimately [she] can have a 10-year career,” Mr Weiss says.
With fans able to buy only their favourite tracks, however, digital albums help point labels to their next single. At the end of Animal’s first week on iTunes, Sony could see that a track called “Blah Blah Blah” was selling almost as well as “Tik Tok”.
“That picked the single for us,” says Mr Weiss.
Ke$ha is now busily promoting her album, with events ranging from a “secret show” in London sponsored by MySpace to performing on American Idol.
Mr Weiss is already calculating how his new digital phenomenon will compare to Spears, a star from the cassette era. “Britney went on to sell 20m [copies of her first album]. We’re not going to do that... But we’re going to do 5m [sales of the Tik Tok single] in America alone and we’ll probably do 8m-10m worldwide.”
A decade ago Jive made $60m-$75m from Spears’s first album, he estimates. “On Ke$ha hopefully we’ll make $15m-$20m.”
Mr Weiss’s father, Hyman “Hy” Weiss, founded a 1950s doo-wop label. “The business hasn’t changed since my father’s day. It has, but it hasn’t,” he says. “One hit used to cover 10 misses. Now it only covers one.”
Even with such digital success stories, the industry is still a long way from its profitable peak. “You can still make money in the music business with hit content. You’re just not going to make the money you used to make.”
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Decodable, the well-funded real-time information engineering and stream processing platform primarily based, partly, on the Apache Flink open-source undertaking, is launching a significant replace right now that goals to make the service extra engaging to giant enterprises. Along with increasing its library of connectors to allow information ingestion from extra sources and a brand new enterprise help possibility, the marquee function right here is the launch of its automated task-sizing capabilities. Because of this, Decodable can now dynamically configure workloads as wanted to optimize efficiency and price.
As Decodable founder and CEO Eric Sammer advised me, he believes that whereas stream processing itself is rapidly changing into mainstream — with Apache Flink changing into the de facto customary — what occurs round that isn’t fairly mainstream but, partly as a result of till now, solely companies with extremely refined engineering groups have been in a position to construct on high of this know-how.
“The analogy I take into consideration is networking switches,” he defined. “We will transfer packets forwards and backwards. The following iteration of that — the half that I don’t suppose is totally mainstream but — is the processing functionality on high of that — the flexibility to remodel and combination. What I believe we might have known as streaming analytics 10 years in the past.”
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Shares in CPI Card Group Inc. were plummeting Thursday after the Littleton-based chip-card maker announced a big second-quarter loss.
CPI Card Group, which makes chip-enabled credit cards, reported a second-quarter loss of $2.2 million, or a loss of 4 cents a share, compared with a loss of $300,000, or a loss of 1 cent per share a year earlier.
Revenues fell to $65.8 million from $73.7 million a year earlier.
In early Thursday trading, shares in CPI Card Group (Nasdaq: PMTS) were down more than 30 percent, falling 82 cents to $1.70.
Read more at the Denver Business Journal: http://bit.ly/2unJe0X


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|Viet Nam's export value till September of this year increased by nearly 10 per cent to nearly US$120.7 billion. — Photo sotrans.com.vn
HA NOI (VNS)— The country's export value till September of this year increased by nearly 10 per cent to nearly US$120.7 billion while imports surged 16 per cent to $124.6 billion.
This has pushed the trade deficit to $3.9 billion, the Ministry of Planning and Investment reported at a meeting in Ha Noi yesterday.
According to the ministry, despite a 1.9 per cent month-on-month decline in September, total export earnings in the first nine months of the year are estimated to increase 9.6 per cent, against the same period last year, to nearly $120.7 billion.
The ministry estimated that the country's export value by the end of this month met roughly 73.2 per cent of the $165 billion annual export target.
Exports to major markets rose significantly in the first nine months with the United States and European Union markets reporting a rise of 19.6 per cent and 12.4 per cent, respectively. The two outlets accounted for 20.6 per cent and 18.9 per cent of the country's total export value, respectively.
Exports to China also rose 12.5 per cent, representing 10.4 per cent of the country's total export value.
In the first nine months, the export growth was attributed to increasing export revenue of processed products, garment, and wood, apart from telephones and components.
Textile and garments rose 10.6 per cent to $17.1 billion; footwear was up 18.4 per cent to $8.8 billion; wood and timber products also rose 9.1 per cent to $4.9 billion, while mobile phones and components surged 34.3 per cent to $23.2 billion.
However, some products saw a decline in exports in the period, of which agri-forestry and seafood products dipped 10 per cent due to decline of three key products – rice, coffee and rubber. Mineral exports also fell 45 per cent because of the sharp decrease in crude oil export value.
As for imports, the ministry reported that September saw an import value of $14.3 billion, up 1.2 per cent against the same period last year. It lifted the import value in the first nine months to $124.6 billion, up 15.9 per cent year-on-year.
In the first nine months, the country mainly imported machinery and equipment worth $20.9 billion, computers and equipment worth $17.3 billion, and cloth and garment accessories worth $11.3 billion.
In the period, Viet Nam mainly imported from Asian markets, which accounted for more than 80 per cent of its total import value.
Newly-licensed large-scale projects spur nine-month foreign investment
Foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in Viet Nam rose significantly by 53.4 per cent year-on-year to US$17.15 billion in the first nine months, the ministry also revealed during the yesterday meeting.
The sudden FDI increase was attributed to several large-scale projects receiving licences in the reviewed period including Malaysia-invested Duyen Hai 2 thermo-electricity in southern Tra Vinh province capitalised at $2.4 billion and the $3 billion-expansion of Korean Samsung Display's project in Bac Ninh Industrial Zone.
According to the ministry, as of September 20, the country granted investment licences to 1,432 new foreign-invested projects worth $11.03 billion, up 44.5 per cent over the same period last year. Meanwhile, it also allowed 461 operating projects to raise their capitals by $6.11 billion, surging 72.6 per cent year-on-year.
During the period, the disbursement of FDI also witnessed a yearly encouraging rise of 8.4 per cent to $9.65 billion.
Earlier, the Minister of Planning and Investment, Bui Quang Vinh, said Viet Nam has set a goal of luring $23 billion in FDI this year with FDI disbursement expected to hit approximate $12.5 billion. — VNS


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Hong Kong’s securities regulator is cracking down on unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges, warning of potential criminal activity in the sector.
The Securities and Futures Commission has implemented a new licensing regime, requiring crypto firms operating or offering services in Hong Kong to comply with stringent regulations.
This move aims to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the financial market, as the cryptocurrency industry witnesses an exponential rise in popularity.
The SFC added that some unlicensed cryptocurrency trading platforms make misleading claims that they have sent the commission license applications when in fact they have not.
The warning emphasizes that applicants who breach pertinent regulations may not be approved for the position as the SFC implements a new framework for regulating crypto retail trading.
The SFC’s action is a part of continuous efforts by Hong Kong authorities to oversee the cryptocurrency market, ensure that all participants adhere to the law, and safeguard investors and the stability of the financial system.
The SFC reminded VATPs who believe they qualify for deeming under the temporary provisions that it
“may decide that deeming is inapplicable if it does not see a reasonable prospect for the VATPs to successfully show that they are capable of complying with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.”
Crypto Exchanges OKX & Huobi: Pledge to apply for license in Hong Kong
The SFC has cleared two local firms to operate for retail investors but has not yet issued any licenses under its new virtual asset framework.


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The rumors about a new Nintendo Switch with upgraded hardware do not stop and should be a current report from Bloomberg become a reality at Christmas time. A new chip from Nvidia is said to support the AI upsampling DLSS in order to improve the resolution of future games up to 4K on the television.
As part of the announcement of the last quarterly figures, Nintendo had a speculated “Switch Pro” rejected and declared that it would not bring a new model of the game console onto the market in the next twelve months. The latest rumors are once again in contrast to the official statement from Nintendo, which did not want to comment on the current report.
Once again, a switch that has been improved in terms of hardware is rumored to have an OLED display from Samsung. According to earlier rumors, an increase in size from 6.2 to 7 inches is planned in the course of the panel change, which would increase the distance to the Switch Lite (test) by 5.5 inches. The Switch Lite is designed exclusively as a handheld and also dispenses with the removable Joy-Cons.
New Nvidia SoC with DLSS support
A higher resolution is not in the room for the new screen, instead, the new switch should be able to output up to 4K instead of the previous Full HD resolution in stationary mode. The computing power required for this is to be provided, among other things, by a new system-on-a-chip with a stronger CPU and more memory from Nvidia, which is currently delivering the Tegra X1 to Nintendo. The Tegra X1 has already been slightly upgraded from the T210 to T214 variant for the 2019 switch. It is not yet known whether Nvidia will continue to drill out the Tegra X1 for Nintendo or switch to the Tegra X2. Another technology could help and at the same time raise further questions.
The right SoC is actually missing for DLSS
Accordingly, Nintendo should support the AI upsampling DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (test) developed by Nvidia, which could explain the speculated output in 4K on the dock with reduced computing effort for the hardware. There is only one catch: So far, Nvidia has only supported the technology on Turing and Ampere graphics cards with tensor cores. Turing is not yet available in Tegra SoCs, and with Ampere only the Orin chip from the automotive segment, which is completely oversized for the switch, would come into question. Tensor cores have been around since the Volta architecture, which the Xavier SoCs use for the GPU. However, there are no consumer graphics cards with DLSS support from Volta. Accordingly, Nvidia would have to release the DLSS technology for older architectures or develop a completely new SoC with DLSS support, which does not seem realistic for a switch upgrade.
Tegra X1 can AI upscaling for videos
AI upscaling, however, not as DLSS for games, but without a distinctive brand name for videos, is available for the Tegra X1 in the current shield (hands-on). So there are still a lot of unanswered questions, despite new rumors.
Switch could cost $ 100 more
When pricing a suspected of Bloomberg Quoted analyst that Nvidia could call up to 100 US dollars more and thus up to 400 US dollars for the “Switch Pro”, although 350 US dollars are more attractive to position in the market. The console has been priced at $ 300 since its launch in 2017.


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New park gives farmers market room to growJune 10, 2019
By CANDY NEAL
HUNTINGBURG — A lot was going on at the Huntingburg Farmers Market Saturday morning.
A guitarist sang and played acoustic melodies as people strolled along the walkway under the market pavilion to look at produce and handmade crafts.
A group of ladies stood in a semi huddle, chatting about their purchases. A grandfather played Frisbee with his grandson near the park’s swings.
This is the kind of activity the organizers of the farmers market were hoping for.
“Just seeing this here, I love it,” said Sarah Flamion, one of the farmers market masters.
This is the first year the farmers market is being held at Market Street Park. And those involved say that the new site has its advantages over the former location, Memorial Gym’s parking lot.
“It’s more convenient,” said Sharla Hurst of Ferdinand. “Before, you brought your tent. Where we were before, you had to bring your tent, or else you’d be directly in the sun.”
She and her husband, Jeff, had homemade noodles and dumpling to sell, along with eggs. They appreciated having the ability to work out of the back of their car, as well as having the pavilion overhead.
“The pop-up tents can only shade so much,” Jeff said. “You’re usually still in the sun under the tent.”
The space underneath the pavilion includes a wide walkway with room for parked cars on either side. Vendors park in a space and place a table behind their vehicle, which leaves plenty of room for customers to walk in between.
And everyone under the pavilion stays covered. So rainy weather, of which there was a little Saturday morning, does not dampen the market.
Arlene Fleck of Duff has sold fruits and vegetables at the market since it started more than 20 years ago.
“This was where the original market was,” she said. At the time, Market Street was not a park; it was a street that looked more like a drive-through parking lot for Old Town Hall.
“We parked in the spaces there and people parked on the other side,” Fleck explained. “The market was to the south, and people would park on the north side and walk over.”
For at least the last 10 years, the farmers market has been held at the Memorial Gym parking lot.
Fleck said she likes the new space that has been created for the market.
Her only concern is the change in visibility. “I’m hoping that enough people know about it and come,” she said, “versus being out where there were two highways before.”
But she’s not too worried.
“As time goes, people will find out it’s here,” she said. “You may miss your occasional drive-by customers. But if they have enough signage, people will come by for the nice atmosphere.”
On Saturday, Fleck had potatoes, eggplants, peppers and cucumbers — and sold out quickly. In the coming weeks, as different fruits and vegetables become ready for harvesting, she will have a bigger variety of produce to sell at the market. “This is a little early for us,” she said.
Event organizers are looking to enhance the event. “The goal was that this was not to just have a place to get your tomatoes and your eggs. The goal was to make this an experience,” Flamion said. “So we’re incorporating the music and the artisans and the activities for the kids. It becomes a experience. You’re just hanging out. We want people to come down and sit enjoy the music and the swings and this beautiful park.
“It super exciting to me to see all that in action.”
The 20 spaces under the pavilion are sold-out with 16 vendors; four vendors are renting two spots. And there are new items this year: gluten-free baked goods, honey, cookies, bucket camping lights and micrograins. They join the vendors who regularly come to sell vegetables, fruits, handmade bags and jewelry, turkey tenders, homemade noodles, cards, soaps and other goodies. Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center is also on hand to conduct blood pressure checks.
“I think people see the excitement in it as well,” Flamion said, “and the potential for growth.”
More spaces are available in the park where vendors can bring their canopy and set up a space.
“We have the space for growth,” Flamion said. “We would love to see this place packed.”
Vendors can contact the Huntingburg Farmers Market through its Facebook page. They can also come to the park on the day of the market to sign up for a space.
The Huntingburg Farmers Market is held from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, and will run through Oct. 19.
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RUSSELL STRAVITZ TO TAKE HELM AT BRYLANE
Byline: Vicki M. Young
NEW YORK — Russell Stravitz, vice chairman of Nexchange Corp., will become chairman and chief executive officer of Brylane on July 5, succeeding Peter Canzone, who is retiring.
Stravitz said Thursday he will join Brylane, based here, on May 29 and work with Canzone during a transition period. The $1.5 billion Brylane is among the most successful catalog operations in the country, built on offering primarily moderate and basic merchandise to underserved and lower-income populations, including special sizes. The Brylane catalog company is a fully owned subsidiary of French retail group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute. It once was a subsidiary of The Limited Inc. and became a public company in 1997 before PPR took it over.
One of his goals, Stravitz said, is to offer Brylane’s customers an increased availability of its brands through a greater variety of distribution channels. He didn’t rule out the possibility of an acquisition at some point.
“My objective is to begin thinking through the different opportunities that we have and will put in motion …We will continue to develop brands, whether expanding on brands we have, developing new ones or possibly be opportunistic.”
The predominant business is in women’s apparel, but Stravitz noted that one focus will be expanding men’s apparel.
Stravitz, who prior to joining Nexchange was chairman and ceo of Rich’s-Lazarus-Goldsmith, also disclosed that the company has created two strategic business units: the Brylane Apparel Group and the Brylane Home Lifestyle Group.
It’s a strategy geared to attempt building the home business, perceived by management as underdeveloped relative to the apparel business. Sheila Garelik, he disclosed, will become president of the apparel group. Currently, she runs the Lane Bryant, Roaman’s and King Size catalogs.
He added that the firm will soon have an e-commerce team to support the development of the firm’s Internet activities.
Stravitz has spent the last two years in the e-commerce industry as a consultant to Cox Interactive Media and with Nexchange, which provides e-commerce solutions for retail.
Brylane mails 600 million catalogs annually under the brands Lane Bryant Direct, Roaman’s, Lerner Direct, King Size, Brylane Home, La Redoute USA, Chadwick’s of Boston, Real Comfort, Jessica London and Sears Shop at Home.


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With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5.
Matt Southern, who's worked on the likes of DriveClub, MotorStorm, and Destruction AllStars, has joined Firesprite as a game director.
After shining on the PS3, these titles deserve to be on PS5.
Where did Sony's racing franchise go?
Here are a few things you should know about Codemasters' new arcade racer.
Things aren't always the same, especially with the screenshots for these games.
Now available to download.
Evolution Studios’ may be delivering an ATV racing game franchise, but that doesn't stop them from making each game fun. And the loyal consumer has seemingly reciprocated, as it's been revealed th... Read More
Sony has announced they will be closing game servers for Motorstorm and SOCOM games on both PlayStation 3 and PSP.
The shutdown begins on 1st October, affecting Motorstorm: Pacific Ridge, Arctic Ed... Read More
Sony's released a single-player demo for Motorstorm: Apocalypse and it's now available for download on the PS store.
The demo will come both in 2D and 3D versions and those who has a 3D tv can pl... Read More
[drop-cap]W[/drop-cap]e’ve some stunning new Motorstorm: Apocalypse screens which will get your adrenaline pumping.
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A Sony rep today told VG247 that the purchasing of the Motorstorm3.com domain should not be interpreted as an announcement.
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For those who have been envious of ByteDance’s immense success across its various consumer products, and more specifically, the recommendation algorithms powering those products, there is finally good news.
With a new brand called Volcano Engine, ByteDance is now making the technologies that drove the success of TikTok, Douyin, Toutiao, etc., available as a commercialized service to enterprise clients for the first time.
Volcano Engine is a suite of services that purportedly assembles the “tools, technologies, and methodology” of ByteDance’s growth legend, covering its recommendation algorithms, audio-visual technologies, data insight services, cloud computing solutions, and more. It is quite literally a copy of the ByteDance's growth hacking “secret sauce”.
According to Yang Zhenyuan, a vice president who oversaw the Beijing-based internet giant's past efforts to develop core technologies like algorithms and data infrastructure, there are already “thousands” of employees scattered across teams building such technologies.
The relationship between ByteDance and Volcano Engine is akin to that of Amazon and AWS. In fact, during the launch event, Yang mentioned AWS, which originated from a set of tools Amazon engineers made for themselves and colleagues, as a key example, commenting that it is the destiny of big tech companies to make their internal technologies available to the public (in the form of new enterprise services).
Volcano Engine has been in a semi-stealthy operation for more than a year now, serving limited customers both external and internal. This is because it is run by a separate subsidiary company under the same name, and sees other businesses within the ByteDance ecosystem, such as companies acquired by ByteDance but operating individually, as customers. The way Volcano Engine is set up means that some of the entire ecosystem’s expenditures on the technologies can now be recognized as the Volcano Engine’s revenue, allowing it to grow in a more organic manner and further realize its strategic significance.
Before it was decided that ByteDance’s core technologies would solidify as a standalone business, Yang’s team had been receiving third-party inquiries on making them available for years. The team was humbled by such inquiries, and decided to run a pilot program with Chinese smartphone maker Vivo.
Seeing the latter’s app store related per-user ad revenue increased by 17% after incorporating a modified version of ByteDance’s recommendation algorithm, the internet giant saw the huge potential of commercializing other technologies that is powering its own growth.
Prior to officially announcing the expanded availability of Volcano Engine today, the company already counts various industry big names including Vivo, Suning, Bilibili, JD.com, China Galaxy Securities, Geely, China Construction Bank,etc., as early adopters.
The key value proposition is that digitizing businesses in hundreds, if not thousands of industries, involves very long and hard work spanning research, navigation, trials, and actual development, but now most of that work has already been done by ByteDance, with many of its own successful products serving as examples. Therefore if businesses aspire to be as successful as ByteDance, and want to skip all that hard work, Volcano Engine would allow them to be closer than ever to their goals.
To dive further into Volcano Engine: the suit offers a very comprehensive suite of tried-and-true capabilities, including personalized recommendation, fast A/B testing, beauty filters, machine translation, automatic content generation, video streaming optimizations, data-driven insights, and conventional cloud computing offerings like compute, storage, and virtualizations, to name a few. ByteDance claimed that their current clients particularly enjoy the fast A/B testing capability, which is one of the most important data-driven tools for decision making on all levels.
ByteDance hopes that clients would value the fact that these services were already proven to work on its own apps with hundreds of millions of users.
Besides tapping into these commercialized services, customers of Volcano Engine can also talk in-depth with the teams that built them to gain more first-hand knowledge. In this way, Volcano Engine is not only “Bytedance’s AWS”, but can also be seen as a growth consulting business. It has three components, according to Tan Dai, the company's general manager: the underlying technologies, the previously internal-only tools built upon the technologies, and the intangible growth methods and experiences. Tan claimed that all three would be provided to Volcano Engine’s clients.
ByteDance has long been looking for opportunities to diversify its income stream, which traditionally relied on ad revenue from its matrix of consumer-facing apps like Douyin and Toutiao. It entered the enterprise market a few years ago with Feishu, a team collaboration software known as Lark overseas. That software is one of the earliest efforts by ByteDance to commercialize its internal tools.
As for whether ByteDance is still keeping some of its top secret capabilities away from the public, the answer seems to be negative. Tan says that ByteDance executives are dedicated to “make everything they’ve built publicly available”.
“ByteDance doesn’t really have a ‘secret’ for growth,” said Yang, rhetorically, “We excelled at the recommendation algorithms, the audio-visual technologies, as well as the data-driven technology stacks… Now we are giving away these ‘secrets’ to our enterprise customers.”
Volcano Engine is also launching a marketing campaign to give away some of the company’s offerings to a first batch of 1,000 small and medium sized enterprises, while continuing to work with more industry-leading enterprises to develop solutions for their respective problems.


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The need for SEO in Greeley seems to be growing by leaps and bounds this year. Now, “Greeley SEO Company” has become a popular Google search phrase. If we back up even a couple years, most businesses in Greeley were often still looking to market their businesses using traditional marketing methods like newspaper advertising and the yellow pages. However, over the past year, it’s like every business owner in Greeley got the same memo that said, “Abandon your phone book ads in favor of SEO.”
I’ve never seen anything like it. As a web development company that specializes in SEO, frankly, we’ve had limited success over the past 15 years working with businesses in Greeley because of their love for traditional advertising but something happened this year. The faucet turned on and now, more than ever, we’re working on SEO in Greeley rather than SEO in Fort Collins as in years past. In fact, this year, we’re on track to do more SEO in Greeley than in all of the other Northern Colorado cities combined. The question is “Why?” Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer but I suspect that it’s due to the declining effectiveness of those other forms of advertising. People have simply quit reading the newspaper and have all but stopped turning to the phone book. When was the last time you pulled out a phone book? Do you even keep it when one lands on your doorstep? How about Google? When was the last time you Googled something? Today? Most people turn to Google at least once a day so business owners as just following common sense when they recognize that they have stopping relying on traditional media and have started turning to the Internet. Where are you in terms of your marketing spending? Here’s a chart showing a breakdown of how businesses are planning to use their budgets in the coming year. Notice how content marketing is gaining in popularity. Content marketing encompasses everything from blogging to writing social media content but it’s apparent that it’s the next big wave.
To read the full article on Marketing Sherpa that discusses the trends seen in the chart, click here.


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It’s the busiest week of the tech calendar! The CES 2021 tech event took place this week and for the first time ever, this year it was virtual only. Owned by the Customer Technology Association (CTA), CES is considered the most influential tech event around the globe; a stage to showcase industry-leading innovators and cutting-edge technologies. As the event dates back to 1967, many of the world-changing tech products we couldn’t live without today were announced at CES, from VCR to virtual reality!
‘This is where the world’s biggest brands do business and meet new partners, and the sharpest innovators hit the stage.’ – CTA
New developments for 2021
Here’s a recap of some of the latest #CES2021 announcements you should know about. Tech giants like Samsung, Intel, LG Electronics, and Sony kicked off the event, debuting their latest prototypes. There were, of course, the more eccentric gadgets such as artificial intelligence collars that detect how your pet is feeling, robot dogs to assist first aiders, and tuneable glasses that allow the wearer to manually adjust their lenses. However, the key themes of the event were VR, AI and 5G.
PCs, Gaming chips and ‘rollable’ smartphones…
There was plenty of discussion around the comeback of laptops and PCs. There has been a notable increase in demand, with the market seeing the largest annual growth in 10 years. Unsurprising given that many people have been looking to invest in an additional work screen over the past 12 months. Due to the increased demand, there was a strong class of 2021 laptops at the event, with silicon being the prominent component. For gamers, AMD’s CEO, Dr Lisa Su, brought a revolutionary processor to the table, the Ryzen 7 5800U. Due to the processors very low consumption and Zen 3 architecture, it offers greater mobility and efficiency and significantly outperforms its competitors in terms of playback and usage.
Sony’s CEO, Jim Ryan, spoke of the success of their late 2020 PlayStation 5 release. The Japan-based business also debuted a new set of Bravia TVs that incorporate cognitive intelligence designed to improve the viewer’s focus and attention. Another standout development was the debut of ‘rollable’ smartphones. LG introduced a smartphone that extends to a tablet with a seamless motorized movement, looking like something straight out of an 80s sci-fi!
Beeta’s best bits?
Whilst we loved hearing about all the upcoming tech developments, we are particularly excited to learn about the Indy Autonomous Challenge. 30 teams, a million-dollar prize and zero drivers! Scheduled for October 2021, the futuristic racing event will feature autonomous cars only, with each competing team developing their own unique algorithm. We will definitely be tuning in!
In line with the pandemic, health tech was a noticeably trending category at the event. Razer showcased Project Hazel, a smart mask with sustainability and design at the forefront. The surgical grade mask has integrated rechargeable ventilators, a disinfecting UV light that eradicates bacteria, lights designed to let you know when to re-charge and a mic to prevent muffling! Our favourite feature though is the transparent panel designed to be inclusive for those that rely on assisted communication. Highly innovative but it does have a slight Bane aesthetic!
We thoroughly enjoyed tuning in to this year’s event but if you missed out you can still register for the #CES2021 digital venue on Feb 15th.


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CheBanca!, based in Milan, kicked off a campaign to create a community for fintech enthusiasts earlier this year. Partnering with the blog Startup Italia and university incubator Polihub, the bank helped host a competition that doled out money and mentorship to fintech entrepreneurs. CheBanca!, the retail banking arm of the Italian investment bank Mediobanca (and no, that exclamation mark is not a typo), is also working to give the young companies under its wing international exposure and determine which ones it could use as vendors internally. The strategy is founded on executives' belief that tech entrepreneurs will greatly shape the future of banking. "I truly believe that most of the innovation in the financial services arena in the years to come will be generated by outsider fintech,"


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To keep the spirits up, Walmart decided to launch a drone light show this year. The all-new magical experience called the “Walmart Holiday Drone Light Show,” will come to select communities across the country. But, for those not fortunate to live close, the drone show will be live-streamed as well.
Parrot has been in the news recently for ending their consumer drone offering, going after DJI by saying that you can’t trust Chinese-made drones as part of their ANAFI USA marketing campaign, and for having their PR Firm push data security reports to the foreground that DJI says contain ‘inaccuracies and misleading statements.’ In the midst of all this, Parrot announces that they will expand their partnership with Dronisos and use the ANAFI platform to do so.
On May 5th, Liberation Day in The Netherlands, the Beating Heart drone show was organized over Rotterdam as a tribute to freedom and an appreciation to those who work day and night for the freedom and safety of others. The show was an initiative by artist duo Drift and art organization Mothership and made. possible by Stichting Droom and Daad (Dream and Action) and the city of Rotterdam. We have seen drone shows from the Drift duo before in Miami and Burning Man. The show is accompanied by piano music and is well worth watching.
After 76 days of being in lockdown, the city of Wuhan in China reopened again this morning. The unlocking of the city, where the coronavirus outbreak started, was celebrated with a massive light show that included a drone light show as well. The drone light show was organized by ZeroTech and HighGreat.


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AFTER THREE MONTHS being open, Bobby Huber's Braise restaurant is settling in. From initially offering dinner service only, the eatery is now servingSunday brunch and lunch throughout the week; Braise is closed Mondays.
"Things have been going well," says Huber, who earned his chops at such restaurants as Ship's Cabinand made a name for himself with Bobbywood. The chef left Steinhilber's to open Braise earlier this year.
Nightly specials and a newly released seasonal menu continue to reflect Huber's depth of skill, as well as celebrating foods available fresh now.
Reflections of summeron the new offerings include Pork Bobbaque served with cornbread; Eastern Shore Clams in fennel and roasted garlic; crab cakes served with fingerling potato salad and pickled peaches; and a fresh fish.
The night of our visit, Your Beach Eats Chef enjoyed a fresh catch of rockfish, perfectly cooked until flaky and tender, topped with a lump crab-infused butter, and served with orzo mac-and-cheese.
Braise is at 3333 Virginia Beach Blvd. Call 961-8131 or visit www.BraiseVaB.com
FRESH FROM THE FARM(ER'S MARKET)
Chef, nutritionist and national cookbook author Suzanne Landry will be at Old Beach Farmers Market bringing her fresh approach to cooking with two demonstrations from her new book, "The Passionate Vegetable."
The demonstrations are at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Aug.?17. They are free and open to the public.
Landry has taught natural foods cooking classes for more than 30 years and encourages folks through the classes and her writing to eat more vegetables and high-fiber whole grains and beans and less meat protein.
She promotes tasty, well-balanced meals that use seasonal produce from local farmers markets, stands and gardens.
The demonstration will feature Fiesta Quinoa Salad, which will include many vegetables Landry purchases from vendors at Old Beach Farmers Market.
For more information on Suzanne Landry, visit www.SuzanneLandry.com.
The Old Beach Farmers Market takes place in the parking lot of Croc's 19th Street Bistro, 620 19th St. For more information, visit www.OldBeachFarmersMarket.com.
VINO, VIDI, VICI - AN ITALIAN WINE DINNER
Cobalt Grille is offering an Italian-themed wine dinner Aug. 22 at the Hilltop eatery. Dishes from chef/owner Alvin Williams are paired with selections from wine steward Arden Allen.
Six courses are served, including a main course of Italian Meatballs with Fresh Fettuccini and Marsala Sauce paired with a 2009 La Girla Birba Vino Della Toscana. The event starts at 6:45 p.m. and is priced at $65 per person; reservations are required.
Cobalt Grille is at 1624 Laskin Road. Call 333-3334 or visit www.CobaltGrille.com.
A CRUSH ON OYSTERS
Tickets for the 30th annual Cape Henry Rotary Oyster Crush charity fundraiser have gone on sale.
The event, which occurs Sept. 22 at The Yacht Club at Marina Shores, drew almost 1,000 folks last year. Tickets are $50.
In addition to the bivalve and Buddy's (Redfearn) Famous Clam Chowder, barbecue, fried chicken and other Southern delicacies are on the menu from Rodman's. Imbibes will include Orange Crush cocktails.
Funds raised will benefit the club's local charities and PolioPlus Fund.
For more information and tickets, visit www.OysterCrush.com.
NEW EATERY BREEZES INTO PEMBROKE
Bahama Breeze Island Grille, part of Darden Restaurants, owners of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Yard House and other eateries, has opened in Pembroke Mall.
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The 8,000-square-foot restaurant seats approximately 300 guests at lunch and dinner, serving Caribbean-inspired dishes like Jerk Chicken Pasta, Coconut Shrimp and Mojo Marinated Pork with Sweet Plantains.
Bahama Breeze offers a happy hour Monday through Friday, 4-6 p.m., and Sunday through Thursday, 10 p.m. to close, with all appetizers half-price and drink specials, as well.
Bahama Breeze is at 4554 Virginia Beach Blvd. Call 473-3264 or visit www.BahamaBreeze.com.
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Rivian is now testing its dual-motor R1T and R1S models in the New Zealand winter. Dubbed the “Enduro” powertrain, the new options will make the electric vehicle maker’s two flagship cars more accessible than their four-motor variants, which currently start at $79,500 USD for the R1T and $84,500 USD for the R1S. With two fewer motors, the Enduro options will start at $67,500 USD and $72,500 USD respectively.
The lower cost will come in handy for consumers, who soon will not be able to make use of previous tax incentives relating to certain EVs. The new regulations will prevent buyers from making use of the $7,500 USD subsidy for any electric SUV, truck or van that cost more than $80,000 USD.
Unfortunately, there’s no precise release date yet for the R1T or R1S using the new Enduro powertrains, but the system is already in use for the vans that Rivian has been producing for Amazon, so hopefully, it won’t take much longer.
Winter testing our ‘Enduro’ dual motor in New Zealand! pic.twitter.com/4yHBTbd4Dx
— RJ Scaringe (@RJScaringe) August 8, 2022
Elsewhere in the automotive industry, Alfa Romeo’s design chief says EVs that look electric for the sake of it make no sense.


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Apple is on an 18-month cycle for the production of its Apple Silicon chips, says a new report from the Taiwanese Commercial Times.
The report repeats information from previous reports, which has also pointed to an 18-month production model for the Cupertino firm’s in-house chips. The report claims that the next “M2” generation of chips will launch in the second half of 2022 and is codenamed Staten, while “M2 Pro” and “M2 Max” chips expected to launch in the first half of 2023.
Apple’s M2 series processors all use the 4-nanometer process and will be updated to the M3 series processors after an 18-month cycle. It is expected that they will be mass-produced using TSMC’s 3-nanometer process.
Apple announced the M1, its first Apple Silicon-based chip, back in November 2020, and expanded the M1 family with the M1 Pro and M1 Pro Max chips in October 2021.


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Collectors will be treated to a first look at the 2009 Ultra-High-Relief Saint-Gaudens $20 gold piece July 30 at the U.S. Mint booth at the American Numismatic Association?s World?s Fair of Money.
The coin, which contains one-troy ounce of gold, will be 50 percent thicker than other U.S. one-ounce coins and have a smaller diameter of 27 millimeters, which was the width of the old pre-1934 $10 gold pieces.
An official unveiling will be conducted by Mint Director Ed Moy following the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. The coin will remain on exhibit for the entire convention.
Collectors will be able buy the new coin next year at a price that will depend on the world market price of gold bullion at the time.
Visit the United States Mint Web site at http://www.usmint.gov/.


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As a region with a huge agrarian platform, Vietnam seems to have plenty of possibility of developing its digital economic system. The country is definitely the second major rice and caffeine producer on the globe and culture still uses 60 percent of the labor force. While products and services and construction www.vietnambusinessforum.de/das-vietnam-business-forum-2018-beginnt-in-hanoi are the reason for 38 percent of Vietnam’s GDP, the state is closely dependent on export products and outsourcing in materials and electronics. The government has focused to improve the digital system of the country, but a whole lot of work is always to be carried out.
The Thai federal government has made significant progress in regulating digital transformation, and it is expected that the digital economy on the country definitely will reach 52 billion ALL OF US dollars by simply 2025. The country’s elevating population of digital customers is required to boost the development rate of digital businesses in Vietnam. Many investors have already started investing in the nation’s digital economic system, and many other sectors are on the rise. This sections format the main troubles, opportunities, and regulatory environment for investors in the digital economy.
To be able to develop digitally, Vietnam is definitely heavily buying its facilities and staatliche information solutions. The government is definitely promoting Ecommerce websites and traditional bookshops, and developing on the web applications pertaining to government departments. These investments are required to increase the country’s foreign engagement, generate thousands of careers, and maximize productivity in manufacturing and handling techniques. Nevertheless, more foreign expense in these areas is required to ensure Vietnam’s competitive advantage over other economies.


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Large numbers of investors and financial analysts have pinned their hopes for the global economy on China's back. The most polluting nation on Earth, one of the most dictatorial and most corrupt nations on the planet is being held up as the future of the planetary economic system.
But China's cheery economic numbers may be hiding a darker set of realities behind the bamboo curtain. Here is one critical look at China's economic situation that is worth a read. The Chinese economy may be in the middle of a huge financial bubble of its own.
China has been buying up commodities worldwide at a frantic pace -- trying to take advantage of bargain basement prices brought on by low global demand. This Chinese commodities "rally" has inflated the Baltic Dry Index and China's economic figures, but it may be on the verge of fizzling.
The emerging problem of toxic Chinese drywall sales to North America is likely to once again raise the issue of the Chinese Poison Train. Toxic products flowing out of Chinese enterprises into world marketplaces should have had a far worse impact on Chinese exports than they have done. Poor quality steel from Chinese foundries is another problem likely to come back to bite the dragon's tail.
The problem of excessive Chinese regulations and limitations on entry into the marketplace continue to give corrupt and inefficient State Owned Enterprises in China an unfair advantage over private enterprise. This corrupt inefficiency shows no sign of going away anytime soon.
The gullibility of those who take Chinese economic figures at face value is difficult to explain, outside of wishful thinking. Everyone is looking for the big score, and right now China seems to be the biggest score around. Wait and see.


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In November 2022, Hero led the two-wheeler sales standings ahead of Honda, TVS and Bajaj in India
In the month of November 2022, Hero MotoCorp finished on top of the two-wheeler sales charts with a total of 3,79,839 units as against 3,49,393 units during the same period in 2021 with a YoY volume increase of 8.7 per cent. Compared to the previous month of October 2022 with 4,42,825 units, a YoY decline of 16.6 per cent was noted.
The largest two-wheeler producer in the world introduced the Vida sub-brand just a while ago. Honda was the second most sold two-wheeler manufacturer in India last month as 3,53,540 units were sold against 2,56,174 units during the corresponding period last year with a healthy YoY sales surge of 38 per cent in India.
TVS Motor Company beat its main rival Bajaj Auto for the third position with 1,91,730 unit sales last month as against 1,75,940 units during the same period in 2021 with a YoY volume increase of 9 per cent. The Chakan-based Bajaj Auto finished in the fourth position with 1,23,490 unit sales as against 1,44,953 units in November 2021.
|Two-Wheeler Brands (YoY)||November 2022 Sales||November 2021 Sales|
|1. Hero MotoCorp (8.7%)||3,79,839||3,49,393|
|2. Honda (38%)||3,53,540||2,56,174|
|3. TVS (9%)||1,91,730||1,75,940|
|4. Bajaj (-15%)||1,23,490||1,44,953|
|5. Royal Enfield (47%)||65,760||44,830|
|6. Suzuki (21%)||63,156||55,662|
This led to a YoY negative sales growth of 15 per cent. Bajaj recently introduced the entry-level P150 sporty commuter positioned below the N160. Only a few days ago, TVS launched the special edition Apache RTR 160 4V with a Pearl White colour scheme and a lighter exhaust system saving one kilogram.
Royal Enfield outsold Suzuki for the fifth position with 65,760 unit sales as against 44,830 units during the corresponding period in 2021 with YoY positive volume growth of 47 per cent. The homegrown retro motorcycle maker brought in the Hunter 350 a few months ago and is well-received by customers.
With a competitive starting price of Rs. 1.50 lakh (ex-showroom), the Hunter 350 rose to second in the monthly sales standings for the brand while the deliveries of the Super Meteor 650 will commence in Feb 2023. Suzuki garnered a total of 63,156 units last month as against 55,662 units during the same period in 2021 with YoY positive volume growth of 21 per cent. The calendar year 2023 is expected to witness a slew of two-wheeler launches as well.


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EDC hopes to spend money to market town
The level of spending -- in this case, very low -- by New Milford's Economic Development Commission is coming under scrutiny.
The first evening of budget hearings in New Milford Tuesday found the joint board of Town Council and Board of Finance members questioning the commission's spending during the current fiscal year.
At issue is to why the commission would need an additional $30,000 for 2012-13 when, through eight months of this fiscal year, just $4,778 of the amount budgeted for 2011-12 had been spent.
"I propose to take a more aggressive approach to advertising and marketing the town," explained Christopher Blocker, the new economic development supervisor.
"I propose creating a scenic tour tourism map to highlight aspects of the town for out-of-town visitors," Mr. Blocker said. "I plan to develop marketing collateral (in the form of brochures and DVDs) to be used when interested investors come to town."
Plans also include taking out ads in national magazines and journals, with online sites targeting high-end investors and businesses, he said.
While not a commission member, Mr. Blocker said he would "present the logical aspects of proposed projects, then it would be up to the commission to act or not."
Members of the joint board asked whether the balance of $25,222 remaining in the EDC's 2011-12 budget could, in fact, be used before the end of this fiscal year.
"We plan to enhance our (EDC) website and upgrade the town website -- to aggressively market the town," Mr. Esposito said. "With Chris on board with some exciting ideas, we're ready to move forward."
Mayor Pat Murphy supports the EDC spending.
"For years we had a $4,800 budget for economic development," Mayor Murphy said, "but you can't drive traffic to the town on that amount."
She added the town's present marketing materials are of poor quality and ineffective.
"They're going to spend this money wisely and drive people to New Milford," the mayor said.
The 2012-13 budget proposal for the Economic Development Department, which Mr. Blocker heads, proposes a $5,608 savings in personnel since Mr. Blocker's $64,000 annual salary is less than former supervisor Vin Nolan's.


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Tennessee Steel Haulers & Co., The Roadmaster Group, and Moore Freight Service have all joined flatbed and specialized transportation company Daseke, the company announced.
As a result of the additions, Daseke saidit is on track in 2017 to hit an annual revenue run rate of $1.2 billion, representing an annual growth rate of 59% in pro forma adjusted revenue since the company’s first year of operation in 2009, when revenue topped out at $30 million.
“We’ve added three exceptional organizations to our family of operating companies focused on unique sectors with promising growth characteristics,” said Don Daseke, president and CEO of Daseke. “We are very proud to be consistent in our flatbed and specialized focus, while adhering to our conservative risk management philosophy, to achieve the growth goals that we presented to the market when we became a public company this past February.”
The Roadmaster Group is the parent company of Tri-State, a high-security cargo hauler. Moore Freight Service specializes in the hauling of sheets of commercial glass with highly customized trailers. Tennessee Steel Haulers & Co., is a flatbed hauler with a 100% owner-operator model .
“With the addition of TSH & Co., Daseke immediately becomes more asset-light in its fleet mix,” said Daseke. “With the combined owner-operators at TSH & Co., The Roadmaster Group, and Moore Freight Service, my estimate is that our asset-light mix run rate will be well-balanced at an estimated 50% by Dec.31, 2017. Those percentages exemplify our long-term strategic goal of managing a lower capital expenditure intensive, asset-right fleet mix.”


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4-8-05 – Women’s business issues will be highlighted in Friday night’s Business Expo in Marshall County. The Business and Professional Women’s Group organized the first ever event that gathers local business in one place – and encourages shoppers to stay in Texoma.
“Having exposure to the public will help them to gain more customers and we want people to shop at home and spend their money here in Marshall County," said Nancy Kerr – President of BPW.
Twenty eight businesses will hold booths at the Expo. It will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the Madill High School. Admission is $10 per person. KXII’s Lisanne Anderson will emcee.
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Amidst all the technology hype going on at CES in Las Vegas this week, Warner Bros. Entertainment somewhat quietly made an announcement with potentially significant implications on the high-def DVD war between Toshiba’s HD DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray disc formats. Warner made an announcement on January 4 that it would release its movies in only the Blu-ray high-definition format, and no longer would offer any of the rival HD DVD formatted discs.
According to Reuters, in talking to Warner Bros Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara the company chose to go the Blu-ray route due to falling DVD says and a “deteriorating U.S. economy”. Tsujihara said the plan was made with the intention of ending the format war and hence ending confusion and split purchases by consumers between the two formats. This move to Blu-ray exclusively is so significant due to the fact that Warner has the industries largest offering of movies and continues to produce big titles, making 5 of the 7 major studios on board with Blu-ray.
This obviously great news for Sony and their Blu-ray toting PS3 game console along with the supporters of the Blu-ray format since it will likely solidify its staying power. Sony will likely not see any large benefits from the change unless more momentum swings away from HD DVD and makers of HD DVD players switch to Blu-ray and start paying Sony licensing fees. This move could also make a significant different for high-definition player sales making an easier decision for consumers who were previously “on the fence” about which format to buy into.


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AMD A10-7870K APU Announced For $137 – Godavari or Kaveri?
AMD today announced that the A10-7870K Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) will be the companies flagship FM2+ processor, which helps explain why AMD lowered the pricing on their APUs earlier this month. This processor was codenamed Godavari for some reason, but it’s basically just a Kaveri refresh as the microarchitecture is still the same as it was on Kaveri and it’s still being by GlobalFoundaries on the 28nm manufacturing process.
On a private phone call with Legit Reviews we learned that the AMD A10-7870K is being positioned at those in the eSports community looking to build a mid-tier gaming rig this summer once Windows 10 is released. The AMD A10-7870K APU has integrated Radeon R7 Graphics (8 GPU Cores running at 866MHz) and is ready for Windows 10 and the DirectX 12 API. It will also support AMD FreeSync displays and Virtual Super Resolution thanks to those features both being enabled in a new driver that also just happened to come out today. AMD believes that this processor will have outstanding gaming performance thanks to these key features and will allow gamers to play popular titles like Dota2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends without needing to run out and purchase a discrete graphics card.
The AMD A10-7870K APU is priced at $137, which is what the suggested price was for the AMD A10-7850K last month. When AMD introduced Kaveri APUs in January 2014 the flagship part was the A10-7850K APU and it was originally $173. Today that 1.5 year old processor has a suggested price of $127 and it can be purchased for $133.95 shipped from Amazon. Since the AMD A10 7870K is the same price as 7850K processor was last month there should be a price change for custom built PCs as they’ll just begin using the new flagship Kaveri APU.
The AMD A10-7870K APU is basically a speed bump of the A10-7850K since the CPU/GPU architecture is exactly the same. So, you have a quad-core x86 ‘Steamroller’ processor with 8 GPU cores that contain 512 GCN stream processor graphics solution. AMD was able to increase the CPU base clock up to 3.9GHz and the max turbo clock is now 4.1GHz. This is a 200MHz increase in the base clock and a 100MHz increase in the turbo clock from the A10-7850K APU! The really big clock increase came on the GPU where AMD was able to increase the GPU clock frequency from 720MHz to 866MHz. This is a 146MHz increase and that comes out to being a 20.3% increase in the GPU clock speed and that means rather significant performance increases in game titles. Not bad when you consider that AMD was able to keep this as a 95W TDP processor!
AMD showed that the A10-7870K is 14.5% faster than the A10-7850K in the synthetic 3DMark benchmark that is popular test to use in the gaming and benchmarking community.
AMD also touted that the A10-7870K APU was able to achieve over 5 million draw calls on the Directx 12 benchmark that 3DMark has for Windows 10. Compared to an Intel Core i5-4570R processor this would be 3.21x more draw calls in DX12 and it makes it 1.69x more efficient.
AMD also showed that the AMD A10-7870K would beat an Intel Core i3-4370 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 discrete graphics card for those looking to build a gaming system for online games on a budget. The AMD Kaveri APU lineup benefits from using fast DDR3 memory, so be sure to invest in 2133MHz or higher memory to get the most from one of these APUs!
Since the architecture is the same we were very curious how AMD able to increase the clock speeds so much on Kaveri? AMD said that 28nm process refinements on the latest wafers have helped and that they have really dialed in the boost states and power management in the software to get this quad-core processor up to 4.1GHz. AMD also said that they took feedback from the community and system builders and have bundled a better CPU cooler with the AMD A10-7870K APU. This helps the processor run cooler and is the real secret sauce as to how they were able to crank up the clock speeds. AMD is now using the CPU cooler from the FX series of processors on this APU! The other added benefit of this CPU cooler is that the fan runs quieter than the previous cooler.
If you are looking to use a Kaveri APU for your next gaming system be sure to give the AMD A10-7870K APU a closer look! It costs just $10 more than the A10-7850K and comes with higher CPU/GPU clock speeds as well as a much better HSF that keeps things cooler and quieter. If you are looking for AMD’s entirely new APU called Carrizo, you’ll need to keep waiting as the next-gen APU platform from AMD won’t be out until 2016.
AMD will also be launching the A8-7670K APU today as well at the $129 price point. This is a quad-core processor with slightly lower clock speeds (3.6GHz base clock and 4GHz boost clock) with everything else being the same as the A10-7870K from what we have been told.


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NUJ: New police guidelines for the media fail to increase openness
The NUJ has welcomed changes to proposed police media relations guidelines which would have prevented the press from speaking directly to officers working on cases, but believes the police could do much more to help journalists report matters in the public interest.
Author: News Desk
Posted on: 28 June 2017 06:26
Julia Barrass Promoted to Commercial Trading Director
Time Inc UK has promoted Julia Barrass to the role of commercial trading director in a move that completes a reshaping of the advertising leadership team across the business.
Posted on: 28 June 2017 06:19
Guardian US launches Inequality and Opportunity in America
Guardian US this week announced the launch of Inequality and Opportunity in America, a series looking at class issues across America.
Posted on: 27 June 2017 06:17
GamesRadar+ Taps Into the Chatbot Trend at E3
Tapping into the world of AI, GamesRadar+ launched their new chatbot at E3, the world’s biggest gaming conference, in mid-June.
Posted on: 27 June 2017 06:12
Redactive to re-launch EIC’s Energy Focus
Redactive has won the contract to re-launch the Energy Industries Council’s (EIC) flagship magazine, Energy Focus.
Posted on: 27 June 2017 06:10
Glamour Beauty Club launches
Glamour, Condé Nast’s women’s lifestyle magazine, and SOPOST, the international sampling company, have announced the launch of the Glamour Beauty Club.
Posted on: 27 June 2017 06:05
Nicky Holt appointed Group Commercial Director at Bauer Specialist
Bauer Media yesterday announced the appointment of Nicky Holt. She will be a key part of the Specialist senior management team as Group Commercial Director at Bauer Specialist.
Posted on: 27 June 2017 06:00
BSME Awards - new look unveiled
The British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) has just released a brand new line up of awards, which the society is describing as the biggest revamp in its recent history.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 08:31
NFRN condemns Johnston Press for “massive” cuts to retailer margins
Independent retailers have expressed their anger after regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press announced it was slashing the retail margin on 41 of its titles to as little as 10 per cent.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 08:11
NME and Thatchers Launch Emerging Artists Project
NME is joining forces with Thatchers Haze cider to launch The Emerging Artists Project – a nationwide search for the best undiscovered talent in the UK.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 07:49
The Sunday Times appoints new Fashion Director
The Sunday Times has appointed Jane McFarland to the position of Fashion Director, working primarily across Style magazine.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 07:21
Mark Allen Group acquires Unity Media
Kent-based Unity Media Plc and its sister company, Unity Exhibitions Ltd, have been acquired by Mark Allen Group (MAG) for an undisclosed sum.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 07:11
DMGT employees volunteer time for Grenfell Tower victims
Following the terrible fire at Grenfell Tower close to DMGT’s London HQ, more than 80 employees have volunteered their time to help victims of the tragedy.
Posted on: 26 June 2017 06:49
WSJ and NT announce Global Storytelling Partnership
The Wall Street Journal and the National Theatre have announced a partnership that will focus on innovative storytelling, immersive content and global membership engagement.
Posted on: 23 June 2017 07:17
David Newell Awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
The chief executive of the News Media Association, David Newell, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the newspaper and publishing industry.
Posted on: 23 June 2017 07:00
Time for a Digital Detox?
The Grazia Unplugged issue, on sale now, is encouraging readers to lay electronic devices aside and rediscover the joy of scroll-free suppers, call-free conversations and textless time-outs.
Posted on: 22 June 2017 08:15
Exact Editions announces management changes
Exact Editions, the digital publishing platform, yesterday announced two senior appointments to bolster its management team.
Posted on: 22 June 2017 08:01
Emerald Launches New Case Study Product
Emerald Publishing has launched Emerald eCase Collection, a new case studies product designed to improve the business school learning experience.
Posted on: 22 June 2017 07:44
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