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Google has removed an application from its Play store that purported to be AdBlock Plus, a well-known application that blocks online ads.
Germany's Federal Patent Court invalidated an Apple photo-management patent because Steve Jobs showed how the technology worked during a keynote months before the company applied for the patent in Europe.
The first draft of anything is terrible, Ernest Hemingway once said (though in slightly more colorful language). Facebook is applying some similar thinking and allowing users to edit their posts.
Didn't catch that tweet all your friends were talking about? Twitter wants you to see it next time, using a new feature that will notify you of tweets and contacts that Twitter thinks you'll want to know about.
Google has pushed out updates for the iOS and Android versions of Chrome, as the company continues beefing up its browser for use with tablets and smartphones.
Android malware is following in the footsteps of Windows malware with attackers adopting some of the same distribution and monetization techniques despite the major differences between the platforms.
Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Music service to iOS and Android devices, and also adding free streaming via the Web.
China's Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country's smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market.
When smartphone leader Samsung Electronics introduced the original Galaxy Note, it didn't have much competition. Since then, interest for smartphones with 5.5-inch screens -- and larger -- has grown, so the new Note 3 faces plenty of competitors, inc...
Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 3 has faster processors, a bigger screen with better resolution, and more RAM than its predecessor, yet it is thinner and lighter.
Google's decision to name its new Android mobile OS KitKat left some people scratching their heads Tuesday -- isn't that someone else's trademark? -- but the move could raise awareness about the new software, which could be just what Google needs, on...
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By ALAN SHACKLETON
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) will not be taking any action against a Leslieville bakery that was the focus of an investigation after a complaint by a member of the public regarding the sale of baked goods made with alcohol.
In a letter sent to Lynda Paul, owner of It’s The Icing on the Cake bakery on Queen Street East, sent late on the afternoon of Friday, Jan. 8, the AGCO said “it will not be taking any further action” in relation to the complaint.
In an interview with Beach Metro News on Saturday, Jan. 9, Paul said she is happy to put the matter behind her.
“It was so stupid to begin with, and couldn’t have come at a worse time…during a pandemic and just before Christmas,” she said.
Paul has been running the bakery for the past 16 years in Leslieville, and had never previously been visited by any government agency regarding alcohol content in baked goods.
Beach Metro News first reported on the AGCO investigation on Dec. 18. At that time, Paul said she was visited by a compliance officer who said the complaint had been made regarding the alcohol content of baked goods she was selling such as Kahlua brownies, Cointreau fruit cake, and bourbon-peach cheesecake.
“He said they had received a complaint by a person that I was selling alcohol illegally,” Paul told Beach Metro News in an interview on Dec. 18.
Since the complaint had been made, the AGCO had to look into it.
In the Dec. 18 story, Paul said the complaint was likely made as a vindictive act towards her and the bakery.
To see Beach Metro News’ earlier story on this, please go to https://beachmetro.com/2020/12/18/leslieville-bakery-under-investigation-by-province-after-complaint-regarding-alcohol-in-items-such-as-fruitcake-and-brownies/
Those vindictive intentions aimed at hurting her business ended up doing the opposite, said Paul on Jan. 9.
“It backfired on them. I’ve never had so much attention. I was doing radio interviews, and received lots of support from other bakeries and the community.”
Paul said she did not need the stress of the complaint hanging over her and her business these past few weeks and is glad it is over now.
“I would be doing cartwheels right now if I could.”
The AGCO is the provincial agency responsible for regulating the safe and responsible sale and service of beverage alcohol, under the authority of the Liquor Licence Act (LLA).
Businesses that sell “liquor” require a licence under the LLA. However, an exemption to the Act is provided for products “capable of human consumption that contains 0.5 of 1 per cent or less alcohol by volume or 0.4 of 1 per cent or less of alcohol by weight.”
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Indian car manufacturer Omega Seiki Mobility has signed a partnership with Egyptian logistics and distribution company Rabbit Express to supply 20,000 electric tuk-tuks. This initiative is in line with Omega's expansion strategy in Africa, particularly in Morocco and Egypt where the electric mobility sector is booming.
It is a new investment that will accelerate the green mobility sector in Africa. Omega Seiki Mobility, based in New Delhi, India, wants to set up in Africa to produce and market electric tuk-tuks. Initially, the company founded in 2018 by businessman Uday Narang will supply some 20,000 electric vehicles to the Egyptian company Rabbit Express, which specialises in logistics and distribution, and with which it plans to set up a joint venture.
The partnership will enable the production of 30,000 electric tuk-tuks per year at Omega’s new plants in Pune, Chennai and Ahndra Pradesh in India. Omega Seiki is a subsidiary of the Anglian Omega Group, which has operations in India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Switzerland, Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong and invests in electric mobility, high-tech automotive components, infrastructure, supply chain management services and trading, among other businesses.
Omega’s electric tuk-tuks are tricycles that can reach 50 km/h thanks to a 15-kWh lead-acid battery and a silent motor that emits no carbon dioxide (CO2) unlike conventional tuk-tuks.
While Omega Group is teaming up with Rabbit Express in Egypt, a consortium formed in 2021 by Tahya Misr Fund and Dolibaat Egypt is instead proposing electric vehicles assembled with 45% locally manufactured components as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional tuk-tuks. “Bajaj” in Tanzania and Ethiopia, “raksha” in Sudan, “keke-marwa” in Nigeria, the Asian tuk-tuk is a mode of transport that has developed anarchically on the African continent in recent years.


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When it comes to rating new smartphones, even one of the toughest and most objective rating sources, Consumer Reports, concedes that the task is difficult.
In its latest ratings available to subscribers, Consumer Reports listed the new iPhone 3GS on top but noted that other smartphones were close.
In making those ratings, however, Consumer Reports appears to have gone through plenty of late-night soul-searching about how to rate complex products like smartphones, recognizing that personal taste about which features matter most to users comes into play, as well as testing methodology.
"Smartphones are among the most complex products we test, and perhaps most subject to personal preference," Consumer Reports blogger Paul Reynolds wrote about the smartphone ratings.
Reynolds also said the magazine recently revamped its rating methods and scrapped its previous tests of wireless reception because the tests could "no longer adequately replicate real-life reception experience."
Again, the complexity of the smartphone technology came into play in that decision, he added. "Creating reliable reception tests has become steadily more challenging as smartphones add more tasks and use a growing range of reception technologies," he wrote. Consumers Reports is developing tests to more accurately evaluate reception, he noted, and is "wrestling with ways to evaluate a smartphone's speed and versatility -- growing concerns as the devices acquire more sophisticated operating systems and a host of third-party applications."
As for the actual ratings, according to the magazine's blog, the iPhone 3GS has "strong performance in everything but voice quality."
In an earlier head-to-head review of the iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre, the magazine had found that the Pre and the BlackBerry Storm bested the iPhone 3GS in messaging, while the Pre was considered a "superior multitasker" with its card deck handling of multiple applications.
On its 100-point scale, the iPhone 3GS earned a 73, besting the iPhone 3G, the second-generation model, which got a 70. The BlackBerry Storm got 69 points, as did the T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry Bold and Samsung Epix. The Palm Pre and BlackBerry Curve were both rated 67.
Some of the smartphone problems mentioned in recent days on user forums apparently didn't come into account in the Consumer Reports ratings, which looked at display, navigation, voice quality, phoning, messaging, Web browsing, multimedia and battery life. For example, the iPhone 3GS got an "excellent" rating on battery life, even though users are seeing iPhone 3.0 software as a drain on batteries.
And the Pre has recently been rapped by users in forums for hardware glitches. Hardware quality isn't a major factor in the Consumer Reports ratings.
Consumer Reports rated voice quality "fair" on nearly all the top-rated smartphones but commented in its blog that it had recently changed its rating attributes to reduce the value of voice quality, "in part to reflect the growing importance of non-voice use of smartphones." As a consequence, Consumer Reports put more emphasis on display, ease of navigation, and multimedia and messaging capability.
Like any reviewer, critic or ratings group, Consumer Reports recognizes that one rap on a particular brand of smartphone will bring out objections from its fans in force on Internet forums. Past smartphone ratings, Reynolds wrote, "have prompted debate and sometimes disagreement."
Consumer Reports seems willing to leave those comments to its blogs, although the tone is more civil than comments on almost any other smartphone forum.


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Britain’s most blingy dog owner and her pampered pet pooch each wear matching diamond-encrusted necklaces — worth a whopping £50,000.
Louise Harris, 33, and her Yorkshire Terrier Lola, eight, both have matching necklaces that cost a whopping £25,000 each.
The stunning pieces of jewellery are made from platinum and pink and white diamonds, which have been formed into letters to spell DIVA.
Incredibly, former city analyst Louise and Lola were given by wealthy admirers as a gift to celebrate the launch of her guide on how to pamper pooches.
Not content with being the official queen of lap dogs in Britain, Louise has set up a world record attempt on Sunday called Diva Dog Day – hoping to gather the most dogs in outfits under one roof.
Hilariously, the pair will also be wearing matching outfits consisting of a pink frilly dress covered in sparkly sequins and a pink feather headdress for the event.
The lavish pet present was handed over this week as it emerged animal charities revealed they were being forced to deal with handbag dogs which have been so pampered they don’t know how to walk.
Louise, who lives in Essex, said: “The necklaces are so beautiful. I was stunned when they gave them to us.
“I think 25,000 might be quite a lot of money for a dog necklace but Lola is very special she is certainly worthy of wearing such a fine pieces of jewellery – she is the queen of Diva Dogs.
“But I don’t think we will be wearing them just to go for walkies – from now on we will only take them out on special occasions.
“She gets a lot of gifts from me but she is well worth it she helped change my life I went from a bored stressed city analyst to living the dream all thanks to her.”
In the past Louise has lavished Lola with gifts costing more than a staggering £100,00 including tiaras, clothes and a £5,000 custom made bed.
Louise was a former high-flying city analyst before she gave up her 12 hour a day job to open up her own pet boutique in Chelmsford, Essex, called Diva Dogs.
In 2006 she starred with Lola in Sky 1’s A Different Breed and has since dedicated her life to canines.
Blue Cross animal centres in Britain said the number of Paris Hilton-inspired handbag dogs being handed into its care had trebled in the past 12 months, this has more than tripled to 191.
Diva Dog Day is taking place on Sunday from 10.30am at the Brook Farm Training Centre, in Stapleford Abbotts, Essex.


text: Dark Chocolate Healthier Than Juice ...Says Hershey Call it a 'super-fruit,' researchers say By Matt Cantor, Newser User Posted Feb 7, 2011 2:10 PM CST 13 comments Comments In this April 19, 2007 file photo, a bite is taken out of one of Hershey's extra dark assortment of chocolates in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Newser) – Chocolate lovers, rejoice: Your beloved treat may actually be healthier than fruit juice. A comparison of cocoa products to fruit juice powders suggests dark chocolate has more antioxidant power than juices, as well as more of certain chemicals that are good for your heart, the New York Daily News reports. But take note: The study was conducted by Hershey. “Cacao seeds should be considered a 'superfruit' and products derived from cacao seed extracts, such as natural cocoa powder and dark chocolate, as 'superfoods,’” researchers said. In the study, cocoa products beat out blueberry and cranberry powder on the antioxidant scale; cocoa wasn’t, however, found to be significantly better than pomegranate juice. Click for details of the Hershey cocoa study.


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Procter & Gamble manufacture many of the world’s most popular personal care and household products: Crest, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pantene, and Tampax, to name a few. They are also the manufacturer of Gillette razors, both the “refillable” kind and the single-use disposable version. The company’s Gillette factory – the World Shaving Headquarters – located in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the sites in The Guardian story that had recently achieved zero waste status. According to the Zero Waste International Alliance, “Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.”
“…designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials,”
This part of the Alliance’s statement is of special note. If Zero Waste is to mean that a company manages their product to avoid and eliminate waste, wouldn’t one think that said company would thereby not be contributing to the massive amount of waste and trash sent to landfills each and every day around the globe?
Some of P&G products are not only full of toxic chemicals but a few of them are actually designed and made to be thrown away after a single use. P&G’s disposable plastic razors, manufactured by a unit of the company with a facility that has achieved zero waste, accounts for billions upon billions of pieces of plastic that will sit in landfills for the next 1,000 years.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, around 2 billion disposable razors are tossed into the trash each year – in the U.S. alone. How many get tossed worldwide and how is that zero waste?
Sure, some of P&G’s facilities have cubicles where employees have given up individual trash bins in favor of a centralized waste station, as mentioned in The Guardian’s article. And some of the lunch leftovers are composted on-site. But while they have cleaned up their act on the work floor, and made sure to send out press releases heralding this fact, their actions outside the manufacturing plant tell a different story. The company is still profiting from manufacturing tons and tons of plastic waste and toxic products for the world to clean up.
There are 4.6 billion people around the world using P&G products; the amount of waste coming from that use trumps taking away individual trash cans and composting food scraps at a few facilities. Let’s call a spade a spade – this is greenwashing. Instead of taking on the change and evolution of their actual products, P&G has taken the easy way out and called it a day with a press release and some news coverage.
I offered The Guardian this here article for publication on their site but was told by their editor that…
Balance is key our site, which is why I asked you to write the piece. But we are also a solutions oriented site. I share your frustrations with large companies and would much prefer that P&G would stop selling hundreds of millions of wasteful items & creating desires and ‘needs’ for things we don’t need. The reality is that they won’t. They are locked into a system which they are neither prepared nor in a position to break.
So basically, because The Guardian believes companies will never change, they won’t run an article pointing out how wasteful disposable razors are… even after they themselves published a piece praising P&G for putting trash cans in central locations on campus. Balanced? I think not.
We deserve and can do better, we just have to demand it. And we have to hold these media organizations to higher standards rather than just allowing them to greenwash us all.
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As Ryan O’Keeffe pointed out during his presentation at the CHARGE Energy Branding Conference last September, large energy companies with a long legacy of generating and selling electricity, are not normally considered cool.
The company has and is going through a comprehensive overhaul of its image, meaning and role in the fast-changing energy environment. As Mr O’Keeffe pointed out, it was a change in strategy that was long overdue, the company’s old logo was designed when Google was still operating out of a garage in Silicon Valley.
We as a power company can and must play a key role in tackling these challenges.
Enel found itself working in a new energy paradigm and found that how it had been conducting itself for the last fifty years was not going to work in the next fifty years. During the rebranding process, there were some strengths that the brand possessed that would become valuable in the changing energy landscape. By taking a humble approach and acknowledging that a big corporation with a big corporation culture might not foster innovation that could keep up with the time. The brand turned this weakness into a strength by using its global scale and resources to foster open innovation; helping entrepreneurs that are set out to change the energy paradigm even further.
Ryan’s presentation from CHARGE – The World’s First Energy Branding conference can be seen below. Enel was one of the finalists for the 2016 CHARGE Awards as one of the world’s best energy brands. The report on the best utility brands has been published by LarsEn Energy Branding and can be found here. The 2017 CHARGE Energy Branding conference takes place in Reykjavik October 9-10 where the CHARGE Awards will be presented for the second time.
One of the major challenges utilities face is getting the consumers to trust them. Eggert Gudmundsson has an interesting background, after receiving an MBA degree he worked for several years for Philips before returning to Iceland to become the CEO of the countries biggest fishing companies and then became the CEO of Iceland’s biggest fuel and retail company. With this background in commodities, electronics and finally energy, Eggert is now heading the innovative energy enabler eTactica which has developed an EMS for SME’s. The eTactica solution enables energy companies to create tighter bonds with their customers and adds measurable value to their services.
Jim Rogers, the retired former CEO of Duke Energy was the first CEO of a major utility to address environmental issues and once named by Newsweek as one of the “50 Most Powerful People in the World”.
In his presentation at the Green Energy track at CHARGE 2016, Jim talked about the customer relationship during the transformation of the Power Industry in the United States.
Duke Energy has the reputation of being affordable, reliable and safe. No one would say that they were green, they were the highest contributors of Co2 in the United States.
You can’t brand yourself unless you walk the talk.
Duke Energy has cut down Co2 emissions by almost 30 per cent but Jim admits that although the number seems high and the amount of emissions cut is quite large, the company is still a major contributor of Co2 emissions in the United States. For the effort, the company has been on the Dow Jones sustainability index for eleven years.
Branding: it’s not what you say about yourself, but what others say about you.
In addition to cutting down emissions, the company has made some considerable investments in wind and solar as well as investing in solutions that provide customers with rooftop solar.
The key point in adapting to and investing in green technology is to be able to communicate with and educate different stakeholders. The customer expects affordability and the investor want to see that the company will see a return on their green energy investment.
As Jim put it, the company invested in where the wind blows and the sun shines as well as looking at opportunities where the regulatory environment is favourable towards green investment.
The CHARGE team is in full swing reaching out to the brands that were shortlisted by a panel of experts as the World’s Best Energy Brands. The panel consists of specialists in marketing and branding as well as energy professionals around the world. The panel has members in academia, energy companies, energy associations, energy innovation, advertising agencies and marketing consultancies.
We are reaching out to 90 brands in 6 categories of the best energy brands in the world. The categories are established brands, challenger brands, green brands, transmission brands, distribution brands and energy product brands.
The methodology derives from decades of academic research and studies in the fields of marketing and branding to determine how consumers perceive brands in general. To make the measurement more relevant to the energy space, knowledge from recent research on consumer perception of energy utilities was added to make the methodology more specific for the energy space. The methodology is also the basis for the Energy Branding Benchmarking Index (EBBI) which is used by power companies around the world to measure their energy brands.
We will reveal the finalists later this summer, each category can have up to five finalists. The finalists will be featured in the next edition of the best brands report. The report might also feature a selection of shortlisted brands that will not make it into the final selection.
The CHARGE Awards were a great success at the inaugural CHARGE Energy Branding Conference which was the world’s first conference to focus on branding in the energy space. Following the success of last year’s event- we have decided to expand the awards from three categories to six this year.
Stephen Fitzpatrick – CEO of OVO Energy – describes the company as a big small company. As a challenger to the Big Six energy companies in the UK, the company has grown from a simple idea around the kitchen table to servicing over 700.000 customers in the retail energy market and employing around 1.000 people. Even though the company is no longer small, they still act and think like a startup.
Stephen’s presentation was not only on the future of energy but on the future of customer expectations in general and how children growing up to be the consumers of tomorrow are growing up in an on-demand world that gives them different expectations from brands than today’s consumers have. In just three years, on-demand services have revolutionised industry after industry and no one knows how fast the next three years are going to change. But by always thinking like a customer, OVO Energy anticipates being prepared to stay on top of the energy market that might have changed dramatically in an unforeseen way.
OVO Energy was the winner of the first CHARGE Awards and was crowned the World’s Best Energy Brand at the CHARGE Awards ceremony in 2016. The brand did well both in both the score of the global panel of experts but more importantly, the brand is doing an excellent job according to their customers.
Travelling half way around the world, Ari Sargent came from New Zealand to Reykjavik to give insights into one of the most exciting and unique kind of a retail energy brand in the world, Powershop.
Ari described the energy business as being:
Designed and built by engineers, bastardised by economists and muddled by marketers, the power industry continues to deliver one of the most successful consumer confusion programmes of all time.
Powershop decided to turn the power industry on its head by giving power to the people. Just as an example, while most power companies are red or blue, Powershop is glowing pink and goes a different route in their energy marketing message than the stereotypical energy utility.
Powershop needed to present itself as a disrupter in the market that did things differently from the start and was a strong contender for the 2016 CHARGE Energy Awards, being one of the final five nominees.
Energy utilities are facing a brave new world. The deregulation of markets and unbundling of utilities, privatisation and new and different ways of generating electricity on a mass scale have all shaken the reality of the energy companies.
The energy companies are also facing a new challenge; the customer. The customer has the tools of mass information and mass communication in his pocket and has more choices of interaction with brands than ever in history.
Giuseppe Caltabiano is the Vice President of Marketing Integration at Schneider Electric. He gave a presentation on how content marketing and social media are changing the way brands communicate to customers. He went over the basics of storytelling in the new media and what type of content consumers seek out.
The American retail electricity market is a mixed bag when it comes to the variety of companies and markets operating in the country. A majority of the states are yet to liberalise their markets while others have mature liberalised markets and others are in different stages of liberalisation.
KC Boyce is the product director at Market Strategies International. MSI has created a methodology to measure brand trust in the US electric market. At CHARGE 2016, KC went over the brand trust index and showed some examples of how electricity companies in the US have been able to establish more consumer trust.
Among CHARGE2017 keynote speakers is Neville Ravji, CEO of Volterra Energy in Houston, Texas. Neville has been working in the energy industry since 1997 and co-founded Tara Energy in 2002 when energy deregulation was beginning to take hold in Texas.
Neville has strived to bring energy to consumers through a bottom-up approach that involves understanding customer needs by creating macro and micro segments and then providing products that meet these needs and backing them with a fanatical focus on top-notch customer service. Under his leadership, Volterra Energy is successfully executing a multi-brand strategy aimed at various niches, with a special focus on the South Asian market. The company’s brands include Discount Power, Power Express and Volterra Energy.
The products and services offered by Volterra Energy have made them one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. “By its very nature, the product we sell has no distinguishable physical characteristics – so it is very important to be able to differentiate ourselves by creating intangible attributes that appeal to our customers. At Volterra, we have managed to do this very successfully, mainly because of a very experienced and talented team that understands the customer very well. I am looking forward to speaking to my industry peers at CHARGE and sharing our story.”
Dr. Fridrik Larsen chairman of CHARGE Energy Branding Conference said “Volterra Energy is among the few energy companies in the world that have done an outstanding job in identifying segments that they understand and can relate to. The conference is about how energy companies need to connect to the minds and hearts of consumers to be able to participate in the market today and Volterra and its brands are a great example of this.”
The CHARGE 2016 Energy Branding conference reached its high mark at the CHARGE Awards dinner at the Blue Lagoon where the world’s best energy brands were rewarded for their contribution to branding in the energy space. For the first CHARGE awards, 80 energy brands from around the world were shortlisted by an international panel of energy, marketing and branding experts. 15 energy brands in three categories were finally nominated after a thorough screening process. The categories for the world’s first energy branding awards were Best Energy Brand, Best Green Energy Brand and Best Transmission or distribution Energy Brand.
For the first two categories, the brands were chosen from a score that was a combination of customer surveys, a panel of expert and an independent analysis of their competitive environment. The Transmission and distribution category was decided solely by a verdict from the panel.
All of the nominated brands have made their move from the traditional energy utility is perceived to being perceived as brands. Although all the energy brands were nominated due to their outstanding brandingstrategy thatis reflected in great marketing programs, high aspirations, satisfied and engaged customers and inspiring case studies – there could be only one winner in each category.
Check out the video below to see highlights from the CHARGE 2016 Energy Branding Awards event and interviews with representatives from the winning brands.


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Phoenix's agreement to give a $100 million handout to a shopping mall development in north Phoenix was struck down as illegal.
A major economic-development agreement between Phoenix and the CityNorth development has been ruled unconstitutional, meaning the project may not grow into the once-envisioned second downtown on the city's north side.
The Arizona Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the $97.4 million agreement violates the gift clause of the Arizona Constitution, which prohibits governments from granting money or credit to private entities in most cases.
In 2007, the city agreed to give the developer half the sales-tax revenue from the site. The developer, among other provisions, agreed to denser construction and to provide free parking and special spaces for park-and-ride use.
Excellent news. This handout was engineered in a fairly smart bit of rent-seeking on the developer's part. There are two competing shopping mall development sites about a mile apart in a wealthy area along highway 101. The two sites are close, but on different sides of the Scottsdale-Phoenix border, so the developers managed to get Phoenix to pony up tons of taxpayer swag out of fear that stores like Nordstrom would move to the Scottsdale development (more here). The parking subsidy came in at around $30,000 per parking space, and the only public benefit was supposedly that other locals could use the lot, though there are no other structures not within this particular development in walking distance of the proposed lot. Here is the enormous downside that Phoenix now faces for not being able to hand $100 million to the developers:
Representatives of the Thomas J. Klutznick Co. declined interviews but issued a prepared statement saying that, without the agreement, they will be forced to cut the density of the project.
Less density would mean fewer shops, restaurants, hotels and offices and fewer jobs, the statement said.
The company said a "less capital-intensive design" would include surface parking lots covering more than half the development. It also warned that the project will face delays.
Uh, okay. I think I will survive. Their problem is they wanted the taxpayer-funded garage so that they could convert surface lots in their plan to more buildings they could rent or sell. Boohoo. Either it makes economic sense, and they can pony up their own money, or not. Speaking personally, fighting Christmas shopping traffic, I am just fine with lower density shopping.


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The news broke on April Fools' Day, but it was not a prank – a Colorado marijuana dispensary has expressed interest in buying the naming rights of Denver's "Mile High Stadium."
The bankrupt retailer Sports Authority is currently contracted to pay six million dollars for the naming rights at the stadium, which is home to the Denver Broncos. However, its bankruptcy could make naming rights available to other entities.
Should that happen, Native Roots, an expanding pot dispensary business, has expressed interest.
The company even mocked up a version of their logo for the stadium.
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Native Roots' founding partner Rhett Jordan says his company has the money and is a logical choice.
"We have a ton of pride in the Broncos, we're a large corporation in Colorado just like a Coors Light or a Sports Authority," Jordan told KMGH-TV.
One potential name that has been discussed is Native Roots Field at Mile High.
How does the NFL team feel about the possibility of playing in a stadium named after a marijuana dispensary? The Broncos released a statement to KCNC-TV, saying, "Sports Authority has been a great partner for many years and we certainly hope to keep it that way."
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Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), the country’s largest fast food chain, said its net income after tax in 2014 grew to P5.3 billion from P4.72 billion in 2013 on strong system-wide sales, although higher raw material costs weighed down profit growth.
JFC reported its revenues for the year reached P90.6 billion, up 12.9 percent from the previous year.
For the fourth quarter alone, net profit climbed to P1.68 billion from P1.58 billion a year earlier, with revenue rising to P24.9 billion.
“The raw material cost increases in 2014, which averaged 5.4 percent, brought pressure on our profit margins. We made important price adjustments and improved our store and manufacturing expenses during the year,” said JFC chief financial officer Ysmael Baysa.
“We are now very close to fully covering these costs increases and look forward to the full recovery and improvement in gross profit margins in 2015 through lower cost of energy and mmore stable raw material prices,” Baysa said.
“Our general and administrative expenses rose significantly…We view these expense increases as key investments for long term growth and expect these rising overhead costs to be more than offset by higher rates of business growth in the years ahead,” he added.
Its Philippine business grew by 13.2 percent while its foreign operations – including in Southeast Asia, the Middle East region, the United States and China — went up by 13.7 percent.
“Despite rising costs, our Philippine and foreign businesses made significant improvement in profitability. Our Philippine business achieved a double digit profit growth rate while all foreign regions: the United States, China, the Middle East and Southeast Asia contributed profit to the JFC Group in 2014,” Baysa said. Kristyn


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The first prize was awarded to the couple C-Log / Generix Group for the opening in September 2008 of a third textile platform of 18,000 m2 in Saint-Malo, and beyond, for the partnership of the two companies which has allowed the logistics provider to cope with a very strong growth (multiplication by 10 of the number of pieces processed in 7 years).
More than 650 personalities from the world of the Suppy Chain were gathered to attend the ceremony of the Kings of the Supply Chain 2009 in the sumptuous setting of the Lido cabaret. Audrey Zugmeyer and Fabien Esnoult of Supply Chain Magazine opened the evening by thanking the partners without whom the organization of this event would not have been possible.
After this short introduction, Cathy Polge and Jean-Philippe Guillaume wanted to thank all the companies that participated in the competition: “We would like to underline the involvement of the 17 teams that participated this year in these Trophies. We thank them all the more warmly that tonight we have the heavy task of rewarding only 4 “. After recalling the selection process, namely meeting of a jury of experts in November, then public vote at the Forum to separate the nine nominees, the founders of Supply Magazine appealed to the winners.
After this short introduction, Cathy Polge and Jean-Philippe Guillaume wanted to thank all the companies that participated in the competition: “We would like to underline the involvement of the 17 teams that participated in this year’s Trophies. warmly that tonight we have the heavy task of rewarding only 4 “. After recalling the selection process, a meeting of the jury of experts in November, the audience of the nominees, the founders of Supply Magazine appealed to the winners.
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Best Buy No Longer Allows Corporate Employees to Telecommute
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Best Buy's CEO wants "all hands on deck"
, Best Buy will no longer allow corporate employees to partake in company telecommuting.
Best Buy launched the ROWE program in 2005, which stands for Results Only Work Environment. This meant that corporate employees were only evaluated on performance rather than time worked or attendance to the Richfield headquarters. This program didn't apply to store employees.
Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly
has decided to end the ROWE program and start bringing corporate employees into the office. He's doing this because Best Buy has been in a rut lately, and bringing employees into the office encourages collaboration and increased innovation.
“It makes sense to consider not just what the results are but how the work gets done,” said Best Buy spokesman Matt Furman. “Bottom line, it’s ‘all hands on deck’ at Best Buy and that means having employees in the office as much as possible to collaborate and connect on ways to improve our business.”
Just last week, Best Buy laid off 400 corporate employees in an effort to save $150 million. The company also
axed thousands of jobs last year
in an effort to stay afloat financially during times where e-tailers like Amazon were taking over retail with cheaper prices and faster shipping.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer started the
trend last month when she pulled that privilege from the search company's telecommuters. She said speed and quality are sacrificed when employees work from home. In fact, an internal Yahoo email read the following:
"To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices. Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together."
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"because Best Buy has been in a rut lately, and bringing employees into the office encourages collaboration and increased innovation" - translation: corporate has been a Ghost Corporation for a very long time.
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'Cuthbert is free': M&S and Aldi end supermarket cake wars with 'confidential' deal in copyright dispute over Colin the Caterpillar design
- Marks & Spencer had accused Aldi of copying its Colin the Caterpillar cake
- The German discounter made changes to its Cuthbert cake in May last year before returning it to shelves
- But now copyright case between the retailers has been settled 'confidentially'
- M&S said they were happy agreement protected their intellectual property
Marks & Spencer has ended the supermarket cake wars after calling a truce with Aldi.
The British retailer had accused the German discounter of copying the design of its famous Colin the Caterpillar for their rival Cuthbert.
Lawyers had been brought in on the intellectual property claim, which even made it to the High Court last year.
But now both supermarkets confirmed an agreement has been struck to resolve the conflict.
Details of the 'confidential' deal have not been revealed, but it is understood that Cuthbert will not appear again in quite the same form.
Marks & Spencer has settled an intellectual property claim with the German discounter Aldi after it accused them of copying the design of its famous Colin the Caterpillar cake (pictured) for their rival Cuthbert
It came after M&S first launched the lawsuit against Aldi in April last year in a bid to force its rival to take its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake off the shelves and agree to not sell anything resembling it in the future.
In May, Aldi started selling its caterpillar cake again after making changes to its chocolate face design.
On Thursday, Deputy Master Timothy John Bowles signed off an agreement in a consent order filed at the High Court.
The order, which was first reported by The Telegraph, allowed the legal claim to be withdrawn and said the retailers had reached a 'confidential agreement' in November.
M&S has three trademarks relating to Colin, which the retailer believes means Colin has acquired and retains an enhanced distinctive character and reputation.
Details of the 'confidential' deal have not been revealed, but it is understood that Cuthbert (pictured) will not appear again in quite the same form
Nevertheless, the M&S original has spawned a range of imitators since its launch, such as Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly, Morris by Morrisons, the Co-op's Charlie, Cecil by Waitrose and Asda's Clyde.
An M&S spokesman said: 'The objective of the claim was to protect the IP (intellectual property) in our Colin the Caterpillar cake and we are very pleased with the outcome.'
Meanwhile, Aldi said that Cuthbert was now 'free' following the dispute.
An Aldi spokesperson said: 'Cuthbert is free and looking forward to seeing all his fans again very soon.'
M&S and Aldi are also involved in a separate copyright dispute over allegations the German rival copied an M&S 'light-up' gin liqueur product.
The M&S spokesman added: 'Like many other UK businesses, large and small, we know the true value and cost of innovation and the enormous time, passion, creativity, energy and attention to detail, that goes into designing, developing and bringing a product to market and building its brand over many years.
'So it is understandable that we want to defend our intellectual property and protect our suppliers – many of them small businesses that have worked with us for decades.'
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Round Rock-based Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) initially planned to buy 3Par for $1.15 billion, or $18 per share, before rival HP (NYSE:HPQ) jumped into the fray earlier this week with a counter offer of $24 per share.
Freemont, Calif.-based 3Par develops storage solutions for multi-tenant cloud-computing environments. Dell, the No. 2 computer maker in the world, employs about 16,000 in Central Texas. HP, which is also based in California, is the No. 1 computer maker.
The 3Par deal is expected to close before the end of the year. Following acceptance for payment of shares in the tender offer and completion of the merger agreement, 3Par would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, officials said.
Investors, however, appear to be betting that the bidding war for the data storage company isn't finished. Shares of 3Par continued to trade at more than $26 on Thursday morning. The stock is up about 50 percent since HP entered its bid.
For fiscal 2010, the company posted a $1.43 billion profit on $52.9 billion in revenue versus a $2.47 billion profit on $61.1 billion in revenue during fiscal 2009. This morning, shares of Dell were trading at $11.86, up 8 cents, a 0.6 percent increase.
The company has increasingly expanded from its core computer business, releasing its smart phone/tablet computer, called the Streak and its mini smart phone, the Aero this week. The device is the latest in a line of mobile communication devices developed to generate revenue from subscriptions and services rather than hardware. Dell said in July it expects to buy Silicon Valley, Calif.-based hardware and software maker Ocarina Networks Inc.
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A new report out this week sheds light on the growing smoking epidemic in China. China has 301 million smokers—almost the population of the United States—and few of them have any plans to quit smoking. That’s according a survey by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC).
The survey of 13,000 people found that more than half of all adult Chinese men are smokers.
Less than a quarter of adults believe smoking causes diseases like stroke or lung cancer. Only 16% are thinking about quitting in the next year.
According to the CCDC, there’s been little improvement in the smoking rate or exposure to second-hand smoke in the last eight years.
One reason so many people smoke may be affordability. A pack of cigarettes in China can cost less than 75 cents. The report also blamed ineffective warnings on cigarette packs, and weak anti-tobacco policies.
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GTA 5 has been a real success and, now, fans of this game are waiting for the sequel. Unfortunately, Rockstar hasn’t revealed any information about GTA 6 until now, but that didn’t stop a good amount of rumors to surface all over the internet.
According to rumors, the upcoming GTA 6 will come with better graphics and elements that will make the gameplay more enjoyable. GTA 5 still has a good amount of gamers that play the game daily and this is the reason why Rockstar is not rushing to release the GTA 6.
We remind you that Leslie Benzies, the ex-president of Rockstar, has hinted some time ago that the company has “about 45 years worth of idea we want do to”. However, let’s not forget that Benzies has left the company and there are many GTA fans who are worried about the future of this game series.
According to reports, the GTA 6 will most likely be released sometime between 2018 and 2020. Rumors say that the game will be released in time for the launch of the upcoming Xbox Two and PlayStation 5, which are two anticipated gaming consoles. In addition, there are very low chances that the GTA 6 will be released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as both consoles have pretty weak specifications which won’t handle the graphics of the upcoming game. So, if you own an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, we suggest you purchase an Xbox One or PlayStation 4, as many developers have stopped developing games for those old consoles.
There are rumors which indicated that Ryan Gosling will be voicing the main character, while his real-life partner, Eva Mendes, will be the voice of a female character of the game. In other words, a female protagonist will finally come to the GTA game, which will surely make a good amount of female gamers very happy.
Unfortunately, none of these details have been confirmed yet by Rockstar and this is the reason why we should take them with a bit of salt.
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Manheim Remarketing invests in logistics capability
The new additions bring the car transporter fleet to a total of 35 vehicles and will be based at Manheim auction centres in Birmingham, Bristol, Bruntingthorpe, Haydock and Northampton.
Manheim Remarketing handles nearly 500,000 vehicles each year and says it is directly responsible for the movement around the country of the majority of those vehicles. The number of vehicle movements has grown steadily over the past three years by 5% and the number of miles travelled over the same period has increased from 18 million to nearly 20 million miles, an increase of just over 10%.
Mike Pilkington, managing director, Manheim Remarketing, said: 'Following a strategic review of our logistics operation we have decided to increase our owned car transporter fleet to ensure that we can provide our buyer and seller customers with cost-effective and reliable collection or delivery services. There has been a national decline in car transporter capacity since the onset of the recession in 2008 and with the trend towards increasing collection mileages and the overall number of vehicle movements; we felt that this substantial investment was essential to continue to provide balance and flexibility in our logistics operation.'


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Mercury Steam talks exploring the world in Castlevania: Lord Of Shadows 2
Mercury Steam has released a new developer diary video talking about the game world that they have built for Dracula to explore in Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2.
In the time that Dracula has been asleep a city has grown up around his castle and Mercury Steam has built a very detailed European-style city based on their home city of Madrid in Spain as well as Budapest in Hungary.
The castle's architecture is also based on the Spanish architecture seen in the region around Madrid as well as in regions of Hungary, especially Transylvania.
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 is due out on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on February 25th in North America and February 28th in Europe and the UK.
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Minister vows to “continue to bash” supermarket giants
AS THE debate over $1 milk heats up, the federal Agriculture Minister has opted to sell his shares in Woolworths while vowing to "continue to bash Coles and Aldi for their poor treatment of farmers".
David Littleproud issued a statement today saying he intended to sell his 25 shares in Woolworths worth $756.25, noting they returned just $15 last year, to stop Labor "using it as a distraction from the real issue".
The minister will donate the proceeds to the Western Queensland Drought Appeal.
"The reason I've chosen to sell this tiny number of shares was Labor was using it as a distraction from the real issue - dairy farmers aren't getting paid a fair price for their milk," Mr Littleproud said.
"The shares and their $15 return created absolutely no conflict of interest and I will continue to bash Coles and Aldi for their poor treatment of farmers, as well as Woolworths when they deserve it.
"I'll also criticise other companies I have shares in - Commonwealth Bank, ANZ and Telstra for instance - when they step out of line as I have for the two and a half years I've been in politics.
"Had I kept the 25 shares and their $15 return, some media would continue to give coverage to Labor highlighting me owning 25 Woolworths shares which returned $15 last year instead of the fact dairy farmers are not being paid fairly, and dairy farmers can't afford that."
Mr Littleproud yesterday accused Coles of pretending to be a decent corporate citizen and Aldi of "hiding under the stairs" after they failed to follow Woolworths and stop selling milk at $1 a litre.
He said the price war that began eight years ago had been a disaster for farmers.
The minister also hit out at Coles for saying it would run another donations drive to help struggling farmers, calling it a publicity stunt and a smokescreen.
His comments today come after Labor has lost a bid in federal parliament to set a mandatory minimum price for milk, which the agriculture minister labelled as a "cruel hoax" on Australia's dairy farmers.
The opposition's agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon attempted to halt business in parliament to force a vote about asking the competition watchdog to consider a minimum price of milk.
Labor wants the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to test how a minimum farm gate milk price would work to protect the struggling dairy industry.
"Our farmers aren't making money, most are losing money," Mr Fitzgibbon told the chamber this morning.
"The great ironic part of the market is our retailers aren't making money either, but in this case because they choose not to."
Labor was looking to test the Nationals on the vote, but lost 69 to 74, with Mr Littleproud labelling the move as a political stunt.
"This is a cruel hoax to the dairy farmers of this nation," he said.
Mr Littleproud said he was taking steps with the industry to create a mandatory code of conduct, which is due to begin by mid-2020.
Despite the loss in parliament, Labor has promised to investigate a mandated minimum price for milk if the party wins the next federal election.
Labor is also promising to establish a mandatory dairy code of conduct to ensure the market is functioning fairly for all participants.
Woolworths stopped selling its home-brand milk at $1 a litre on Tuesday, upping the price by 10 cents with the extra money to go back to farmers.
Coles said it would not axe its $1-a-litre Coles-branded milk, citing cost of living pressures on customers.
Aldi said low prices were a core promise to its customers, and it did not support retailer-led initiatives seeking to bypass the normal supply chain.


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Runegate Heroes: a new colorful MOBA/RPG from Wargaming.
Remember that last year, WG was massively absorbing mobile studios and opening new development centers, and in June 2017, Wargaming announced the opening of its mobile division — Wargaming Mobile. The mobile market brings a lot of money, at the moment WG Mobile having 4 separate mobile studios.
Wargaming has released a new project called Runegate Heroes on Google Play and App Store. At the moment it underwent a soft launch and is available only in Filipino and Finnish stores. The date of full release is unknown.
It’s a mixture of RPG and MOBA. In total, the game has more than 40 playable characters.
In your command during the 1v1 battle will be just 5 characters. The project is optimized for mobile platforms, so that each battle takes no more than 5 minutes.
In addition to the traditional genre of PvP, the game has a story and a PvE mode.
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GM buyers will have everything at their finger tips.
It wasn't long ago that in-car infotainment could only provide basic functions like radio, or a GPS navigation system if you were lucky. Today, in-car infotainment has expanded to include all sorts of useful features. Apple Car Play and Android Auto have changed the game for in-car app integration, but some automakers aren't ready to give up the reigns on designing infotainment features. General Motors is now launching an industry-first commerce platform that will allow drivers to purchase goods and services right from their cars.
The app is simply called 'GM Marketplace,' and it will allow drivers to pay for goods like food, gasoline or coffee right from their car's infotainment system. GM expects this free service to quickly expand to around a dozen offerings including Dunkin' Donuts, TGI Fridays and Starbucks.
We absolutely love the idea of pulling into a drive-trough and having your order ready without having to fumble around with money. "We are using it also to improve how our customers interact with the vehicle and the dealership network," said Santiago Chamorro, GM vice president of global connected customer experience. GM will remotely send this new app to all 2017 and 2018 model year vehicles that are equipped with MyLink. Owners will have to agree to the download, but a data plan is not required for this service. So far, my link works on Chevy and GMC models, but GM didn't specify if Cadillac models with CUE will also receive this application.
Some of the services, such as ordering Dunkin' Donuts, will require drivers to have an account or profile with the store. Early next year, GM also plans to add the ability to pay for gasoline, but the app currently supports deals and membership rewards at gas stations. The Marketplace will also have a shop section, which offers discounts on oil changes and GM accessories. This is a very nice addition to GM's infotainment system, one that we'd like to see other manufacturers replicate on their own systems.


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Reckitt Benckiser slips 0.3% after announcing $17.9 billion Mead Johnson takeover
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC will acquire U.S. baby-food producer Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. for $16.6 billion in cash, the British consumer goods company said in a statement Friday. Reckitt Benckiser will pay $90 a share, compared with a closing price Thursday of $83.96. Including debt, the deal is worth $17.9 billion. The acquisition of Mead Johnson, which makes Enfamil infant formula, will allow Reckitt Benckiser to bolster its consumer health business, said the U.K. company. It will also let Reckitt Benckiser, whose brands include Durex condoms and Lysol cleaning spray, to build its presence in developing markets such as China, it said. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter, it said.
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Arthur Ashe's legacy continues
The next chapter of the American hero and tennis legend begins now.
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Today, Arthur Ashe's story and impact as an advocate for civil rights are remembered again by the launch of an eponymous clothing brand.
The Arthur Ashe estate worked closely with designer Karl Blanchard, Arthur Ashe's brand director, and clothing designer Jack Carlson to create the lifestyle and tennis brand. The extensive clothing offering on launch includes a U.S.A. heritage performance warm-up jacket and bottoms set, mesh gym shorts, luxe hoodies, cable-knit tennis sweater, and fittingly, four competition tennis racquets.
Ashe, the first Black man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, is recognized for more than his sporting accomplishments. The Richmond, Virginia-born tennis player known through his career for his sportsmanship and respectability, broke barriers growing up in a segregated sporting world. Throughout Ashe's career, he boldly championed racial justice, among many other things, including heart health, HIV/AIDS, and youth access to sports.
The Arthur Ashe brand aims to continue Ashe's legacy by partnering with the Social Change Fund founded by Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade, that aims to liberate and advocate for Black, POC and Indigenous people. The brand will also be supporting The Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund at UCLA.
In conjunction with the launch of Arthur Ashe, there will also be an Arthur Ashe Legacy pop-up at the 2022 US Open, with an exclusive US Open edition t-shirt, cap and tote bag.
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Although, Newell didn't say what games were on number one and two spots, though we have an idea what those game would be. But speaking at a press event attended by PC Gamer this week, bigwig Gabe Newell has hinted that more is on the way. Thy lord Gaben hath descended from on high and proclaimed that Valve will actually be making games again.
At a presentation for upcoming Dota 2-themed card game Artifact at Valve's offices in Bellevue, Washington today, Gabe Newell reiterated that Valve is getting back into developing new games beyond its current roster of multiplayer titles. Of these games, three will be in VR, as Newell revealed in an interview with Eurogamer.
There's no concrete evidence from the presentation that Valve is working on anything else besides the aforementioned VR games and Artifact, but it's still great to hear that a company with a storied history in game development seems to be back to doing what first made it such a beloved figure in the industry.
Valve has been keeping busy managing Steam, so the company behind popular games like Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and DotA 2 hasn't been making many games lately. Not necessarily because the franchise was the best franchise to have ever existed, but because on some level we know we're never going to get it, so we want it even more. "So we started to make some investments to offset that". Now there's pretty much no project in the hardware space that we wouldn't be comfortable taking on.
Interestingly, Nintendo's game development prowess was one reason for why Valve chose to steer itself down such a winding path. He can introduce new capabilities like motion input because he controls both of those things. "That's something we've been jealous of, and that's something you'll see us taking advantage of subsequently".
Valve isn't done with hardware though, but now it'll go "hand-in-hand with software design", meaning you should really keep an eye on what Valve is up to in the coming months.


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We expect there will be 159.1 million monthly mobile phone gamers in the US this year, up 1.2% from 2020. That’s 89.5% of all US digital gamers, making mobile phones the leading device by a significant margin.
The pandemic has brought an influx of new users for subscription OTT, live videos, and video games in 2020, but other activities such as social networking, mobile messaging, and digital video haven’t seen the same bump.
Video games attract younger, cord-cutting viewers, who can be difficult to reach for marketers. The downside is that aggressively inserting ads into games that people already paid for is likely to spark a backlash from gamers, who aren’t shy about criticizing advertisers.
“We have a lot of first-party data coming from the game developers,” said Natalia Vasilyeva, vice president of marketing at immersive advertising company Anzu.io. “We are in a good position here because the more the gamer shares with the game developer, the more the game developer shares with us, and the more we can help to bring more targeted advertising.
Roblox could become a brand advertising powerhouse: Brands flocked to video games for experiential marketing during the pandemic—but Roblox's lasting popularity with kids and its planned ad capabilities could keep it an appealing option even after lockdowns end.


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The profound growth of the Internet of Things is creating new business models in which Big Business is becoming more open and collaborative and creating opportunities for startups, the CVCA Conference in Ottawa heard Wednesday.
A panel of the Internet of Things – in which machines communicate with one another and adjust automatically based on the data they send one another – revealed that this segment offers huge potential. Panelists also said the Internet of Things will be so big and so vast that companies will have to change their models, attitudes and processes. And that’s where the huge opportunities are being created.
“Atlantic Canada is primed for this,” Scott MacDonald, the cofounder of McRock Capital and the moderator of the panel, said later in the day. “It has all the resources needed for this space. It’s a university-rich environment and it has all the talent to capitalize on this.”
MacDonald said the Internet of Things is creating huge opportunity because it is growing so quickly. There are estimates that the segment will be worth $19 trillion by the end of the decade and that 50 billion devices will be connected to each other. In Atlantic Canada, especially in New Brunswick, several companies like Shift Energy, RtTech, Smart Skin and Eigen Innovations are forging ahead with IoT products.
Carl Stjernfeldt, the senior technology principal at Shell Technology Ventures, said major and small oil and gas companies are looking for productivity improvements in their operations, and understand that startups can produce the technology that brings about the improvement.
“There’s a square wave of technology coming into the oil patch and the majors know they can’t develop it themselves,” said Stjernfeldt, whose parent company is Royal Dutch Shell. He added that the big companies are acting “more rationally” and not demanding exclusivity when they adopt new technology. “Access to technology is the key; exclusivity is not,” he said.
In fact, companies are now coming to realize that having more players use new technology helps to improve new products and establishes industry standards, which helps everyone in the long run.
Stjernfeldt’s advice for startups approaching big companies is not to “get stuck in” the R&D division. He said startup founders often get comfortable making connections with researchers but the best route is to go right to the operations managers, the true end-users, and show them how the new product can improve their productivity and/or safety.
Victor Woo, general manager of the Internet of Things at Cisco, said his company is now investing $100 million in young companies involved in the Internet of Things, and is especially interested in what startups are doing in Canada. Last week, the company announced the Cisco Chair in Big Data at the University of New Brunswick.
Major companies are looking for solutions on how machines and devices can communicate, analyse and act instantly, and the complexities and opportunities are endless, he said.
“It’s all about handling data at a planetary level because we’re going to be dealing with 50 billion objects by 2020 and that’s massive,” said Woo.
The panel – which took place the annual meeting of the CVCA, Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity association – also highlighted that large companies are becoming more open to sharing their data because they understand it can result in productivity gains.
“It’s a business model that didn’t exist before,” said Stjernfeldt, gesturing to Woo on his left and a representative of GE Canada on his right. “I’m willing to let someone like Cisco or GE have access to my data. Then they can crunch it and I’ll buy it back. That’s new.”
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As the American toy retailer in Belfast begins it's journey to bring the store Newtownabbey babies r us a close, everything in the store has been marked.
In December, Toys 'R' Us had announced plans to transform the business to meet customer needs in today's UK retail market. By instigating a Company Voluntary Arrangement CVAthe company sought creditor approval to reposition its real estate portfolio for future growth and profitability. With the closure of the Newtownabbey branch, this leaves Belfast with only a 'Pop-Up' store at Castlecourt shopping centre which is to remain open for business as normal.
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Please log in or register with belfasttelegraph. Sign In New to Belfasttelegraph. Profit warnings for UK firms surge to highest Star Gateshead sexy FTSE slips as traders remain cautious before key BrexitStruggling US retailer Toys R Us has confirmed plans to close to a third of its permanent UK stores but says all the branches will remain open through Christmas and the new year.
It is seeking to reduce the size of a further 26 stores along with rent Newtownabey on those and 12 more stores. On 21 December, Toys R Us will ask its creditors to approve a company voluntary agreement CVAan insolvency procedure used by retailers to close loss-making stores.
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The company said it had an ongoing arrangement with the trustees of the pension fund to make additional contributions in respect of the deficit and the CVA would not change that arrangement. In October, it was reported that a number of suppliers had stopped delivering stock to Toys R Us in the UK because of problems with credit insurance.
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1 – P&G and Unilever among brands caught up in India’s ‘profiteering’ dragnet
A semi-judicial body set up after the roll-out of India’s new goods and services tax in 2017 has been taking action against a string of FMCG companies, after accusing them of not reducing prices on a range of products even though tax had been cut on these.
P&G India and Hindustan Unilever are among the brands caught up in a dragnet conducted by the Directorate General of Anti-profiteering (DGAP), though they both deny the allegations of withholding lower prices from customers.
The DGAP is the investigatory arm under the finance ministry that reports to the top anti-profiteering body, the National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA). Already, around 100 cases of alleged anti-profiteering have been referred to the authority.
2 – Securing sandalwood: Demand for sustainability and quality boosts Australia’s dominance
Increasing demand for high quality sustainable sandalwood oil will continue to increase Australia’s global market share, with India’s slice of the sector set to slip.
According to Natalia Nizkopoklonnova, business development manager of APAC for Down Under Enterprises, Australia currently supplies 80% of the world’s sandalwood.
“With India’s supply of sandalwood going down, Australian sandalwood will rise because of its quality and its sustainability.”
The Sydney-based firm supplies natural Australian oils has considered itself one of the major suppliers of traceable and sustainable Australian sandalwood oil.
Nizkopoklonnova estimate that the firm supports around 60% of sandalwood exports in the country.
3—‘Small sample size, questionable methodology’: Australian scientists react to sunscreen toxic absorption study
The results of a recent US Food and Drug Administration study into the toxic absorption of certain active ingredients in sunscreen have hit a nerve with academics in Australia.
Australia, which has taken the use of sunscreen extremely seriously for generations, did not feature in the research. Its academics, however, have reacted strongly to it, with some pointing to some significant flaws.
The paper, published in JAMA on May 6, recommended that active ingredients in sunscreen that are absorbed into the bloodstream above a certain level should undergo toxicology testing.
The FDA researchers had been seeking to determine bloodstream concentrations of four active ingredients. They looked at avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene and ecamsule in four sunscreens applied four times per day for four days.
4 – Chinese cosmetics regulation: how does it work?
In this Editor’s Spotlight, we get an expert overview on thee Chinese cosmetics market regulations: which organisations regulate the market, and what do they require from beauty players?
Chinese cosmetics market is currently the third largest global market for cosmetics, following Europe and the US.
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the total retail sales of cosmetics in China in 2018 accounted for over 260 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of almost 10 %.
It is therefore no wonder that many western and other non-Chinese companies are looking at ways of taking their share of this lucrative market.
Apart from the increasing competition, one of major obstacles to achieving that goal is also ensuring regulatory compliance with the Chinese cosmetics legislation.
5 – Ingredients players come up with smart solutions to CBD regulation.
While regulators in the United States and the EU continue to mull laws that might enable the development of the hemp industry, cosmetic and personal care ingredient players have come up with intriguing ways of circumnavigating existing regulations.
While a number of the larger ingredient players are starting to supply CBD oil and other hemp related products, the recent New York SCC Suppliers Day proved to be a surprise platform for a new generation of CBD derivatives, carefully developed to tick all the regulator's boxes.
Some of the CBD-related ingredient solutions at the show were outlined in a recently published Cosmetics Design article by Deanna Utroske, which also highlights CBD testing technology.
But the most interesting development was the launch of a series of ‘cannabis ingredients without the cannabis’ from major players that included Ashland, Colonial Chemical and CLR Berlin.


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Google’s LG Nexus 5 (2015) could be here sooner than we thought
The rumoured LG Nexus 5 (2015) has always been tipped to land in October, but it might be here earlier than we expected.
That’s according to a new report from a South Korean media outlet, which claims that LG – also from South Korea – is eyeing a September 29 release date for the Google tablet.
Google has always launched Nexus devices in October since way back in 2011 with the Galaxy Nexus.
As such, we’d be quite surprised if the company decided to abandon its release cycle.
What could be more likely is that Google may announce the LG Nexus 5 (2015) on September 29, but not make it available for sale until October.
However, Google has yet to confirm any details regarding an upcoming Nexus launch, so we’re still in the dark when it comes to official information.
Whatever the case, it’s very likely that the LG Nexus 5 won’t be the only Nexus device launching this year.
First off, it’s been widely reported that Google is working on a second Nexus device with Chinese manufacturer Huawei.
That’s tipped to be landing as a Nexus 6, although it’s reported to feature a 5.67-inch display – that’s smaller than the 5.9-inch screen on last year’s Nexus 6.
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There’s also more recent talk of a Nexus tablet being in the works, specifically the Nexus 8.
The Nexus 8 was originally rumoured to launch last year, following on from the 2nd-gen Nexus 7. Instead, however, Google launched a Nexus 9, skipping an 8-inch device.
We still don’t have any information regarding the manufacturer of the mooted Nexus 8 however, so it’s tough to make any guesses as to the device’s specs or design.
Do you think Google is going to unveil three Nexus devices on September 29? Let us know in the comments.
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Seems Reliance Jio is getting extended each time it gets closer to their deadline. According to a new surfaced by TeleAnalysis report, Jio might get a month more to get more subscribers to the Primetime membership scheme. This date seems to be extended due to the non interest shown by the subscribers though a final decision is yet to be taken in the matter. It was speculated that the Jio Happy New Year offer will be ending on 31 March.
The report also added that Jio has so far managed to attract around 22-27 million users as its Prime members. Evidently, Reliance Jio has achieved 50 per cent of its target for Prime subscriptions. However, the actual numbers have not been confirmed by the service provider.
A recent survey conducted by a Bank of America-Merrill Lynch revealed that as many as 82 per cent of respondents said they would stick to Jio after the telco ends its free voice calls and data services. The sample size for the survey was 1,000 Jio users online.
Last month, Mukesh Ambani announced that Jio had added 100 million subscriber mark at an event. At the same event, Ambani also announced the new Jio Prime membership plan. The Prime membership allows Jio members to pay a one-time fee of Rs 99 and continue using the service for the unlimited time. Users will have to pay a monthly tariff of Rs 303 per month to continue the services till March 31.
As offered in the Happy New Year offer, you can make unlimited voice calls and video calls along with 1GB data every day for 28 days. If you are an existing user of Reliance Jio, you can enrol yourself by going to the MyJio app or by going to Jio’s official website. In addition, Reliance Jio has recently announced its ‘Buy One Get One’ offer, which gives Jio Prime prepaid users additional free data benefits.
Reliance Jio is also offering Rs 50 cashback on Prime membership to users, who will recharge via Jio Money app. Users will get an additional cashback of Rs 50 if they recharge with Rs 303 plan using Jio Money app, meaning a total of Rs 100 cashback if they subscribe to Jio Prime membership as well as recharge with Rs 303 plan via Jio Money app.


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Today, Corbis announced the sale of its content licensing business to Unity Glory International, which is an affiliate of the Visual China Group (VCG), a leading Chinese visual communications and new media business. This sale includes the images and motion archives from Corbis Images, Corbis Motion, and Veer, and all their associated brands and trademarks. The sale does not include the Branded Entertainment Network, Splash, or Greenlight, its rights clearance and representation business.
This partnership comes as Corbis today announced the sale of their content licensing business and assets to Unity Glory International, which is an affiliate of VCG, a leading Chinese visual communications and new media business. Under the terms of their agreement, Unity Glory will own and manage the Corbis Images,
Important image metadata is not retained in images after upload to some of the most popular social media sites, according to a study by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC).
Arian Samaly is the new CEO of dpa Picture alliance, following on Edth Stier-Thompson who changed to news aktuell in 2014.
On 6 January 2016 CEPIC submitted a response to ther EU consultation on platform liability.
The CEPIC office will be closed from Tuesday 22 December to Sunday 03 January 2016.
On 9th December, the European Commission has published its Communication on the future of the European copyright framework.Creativity Works! of which CEPIC is a member, takes position.
Delivering on its Digital Single Market strategy, the Commission today presents a proposal to allow Europeans to travel with their online content and an action plan to modernise EU copyright rules.
We certainly don’t need to introduce you to PICTAday, the one-day fair at which image providers and service providers exhibit.


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More lawsuits filed against retailers, others
DENVER — A new round of lawsuits for victims of contaminated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in 2011 includes two lawsuits involving Pueblo residents who allegedly became seriously ill.
The listeria outbreak was traced not to the farm at Holly, but to a packing plant near Granada where the cantaloupes were washed and processed.
The two Pueblo-related lawsuits are among numerous new lawsuits filed in 12 states against retailers who sold the product, the distributor Jensen used and a food safety laboratory company.
Thirty-three people died and 147 in 28 states were infected, according to the Marler Law Firm of Seattle, which is representing many of the victims or their families. They claim they have had total medical expenses in excess of $12 million and their lawsuits seek monetary damages.
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