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DESPITE many protections offered by legislation, SA consumers are still falling victim to shady practices on the part of criminals and, even, established businesses.
That according to Reana Steyn, the Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS), in a statement issued on Tuesday, 15 March 2022, to coincide with World Consumer Rights Day.
“Despite these rights, over the past few years, we have seen that there are major corporates and scam artists that are very willing to take advantage of the public without a second thought,” she said.
Steyn said the OBS regularly deals with matters where some consumers appear unaware of their rights, and obligations, when they deal with the bank. Sometimes these misunderstandings result in a dispute lodged with the office after all attempts to reach a settlement between the parties have failed.
All bank customers have a right to expect to be treated fairly, reasonably and ethically by their bank, she said. This right is reinforced by the banks undertaking not to unfairly discriminate any customer on grounds such as marital status, gender, age or race in the provision of banking services or in the quality (and terms) of the services that are offered to the consumer.
“However, it is important to note that not all discrimination or is unfair,” she added. Banks have special products or service offerings that are specifically designed for members of a target market group. She cited the example of a student loan offered by banks where the repayment terms are considerably more favourable than a personal loan.
The right to apply for credit
In terms of the National Credit Act (the “Act”), all adult natural persons, and every juristic person or association of persons, has the right to apply for credit.
However, the Act also recognises the banks’ right to refuse to enter into an agreement with a consumer provided that the reasons for the refusal are reasonable and consistent with the law and the banks’ risk appetite. For example, the Bank would be within their right to decline an application for credit based on lack of affordability.
Negotiate a better interest rate.
The OBS has also received complaints from consumers who dispute the interest rate charged on their loan accounts and feel that it is too high. Often, a challenge faced in these matters is that the consumers lodge their complaints after they have signed acceptance of the terms and conditions of their agreements with the credit provider.
“Unfortunately, unless the interest rate applied by the bank is not in line with the prescribed rate per the NCA, the consumer will be bound by the agreement and the OBS does not have the mandate to force the bank to renegotiate a better, more acceptable, rate for the customer, simply because the terms no longer suit them,” advised Steyn.
She reminded consumers that they have right to negotiate with credit providers, and preferably shop around, especially if the interest rate that is being offered is not in line with what the consumer deems fair.
“Consumers do not have to accept the first offer they receive from credit providers. Before acceptance of the coffer by the consumer, there is no legally binding agreement. Therefore, consumers have a right to consider and compare the offer made considering the term, interest rate offered, the instalment payable and the total amount repayable”,” said Steyn. She added that after considering the full terms of the agreement, consumers have the right to refuse the interest rate that has been offered and negotiate for a better rate.
“Furthermore, consumers are also not forced to accept the amount initially requested and offered by a credit provider. They have the right to request for the amount to be reduced and be in line with what they believe will be affordable for their pockets,” said Steyn.
‘Set off’ safeguards
Previously, it was acceptable for banks, without prior notice, to transfer monies out of the customer’s account that was in credit (such as a cheque account) and pay the funds into an account that was in default (such as a personal loan account or credit card), with the aim to reduce the customer’s indebtedness to the bank. This principle is referred to as “set off.”
Section 124 of the National Credit Act now regulates set off in respect of credit agreements regulated by the NCA. The aim of Section 124 is to safeguard the rights of consumers in the set off process by giving the consumer a say in the way in which the set off is applied.
The aim of Section 124 is to prevent the banks from having the autonomy to decide to debit the consumer’s account with an amount the bank unilaterally deems appropriate, without prior consultation with the consumer. Therefore, the current legal position is that for any set off to be lawful, it must be conducted in line with the provisions of Section 124.
“This means that the consumer’s written prior authorisation must be obtained, and, in the authorisation, there must be an agreement as to the account to be debited, the amount to be debited as well as the date on which set off will be applied. Lastly, the credit provider/bank is required to provide a notice to the consumer before any set off is made,” said Steyn.
Recently, the OBS has noted that some banks may still be applying common law set off in respect of credit agreements falling within the National Credit Act and it is important that consumers know about their rights when it comes to deductions from one account to pay another account, Steyn added.
Banks closing accounts
The issue regarding the closure of bank accounts is currently topical and is receiving a lot of media attention. Steyn said the OBS is aware of the current class action suit that is being brought against certain banks via the media, but they are not involved in the matter.
Until a new judgement is handed down by the court, the current legal position is that the banks are allowed to terminate their relationship with consumers. The only requirements are that the bank must provide the consumer with a reasonable notice of the termination (30 days or more depending on the number of accounts that the consumer has with the bank) as well as the reasons for the termination. This position is also regulated within the Conduct Standard for Banks.
The mandate of the OBS extends to protecting consumers against abuse of consumer rights by the banks. In the matters relating to closure or blocking of bank accounts by banks, Steyn explained that these usually involve a customer challenging the bank’s reasons for doing so. One of the most prevalent reasons banks have closed/blocked access to the accounts was that the customer’s account was being used or involved in confirmed criminal activities.
In these matters, the complainants most often request that the OBS assists them with either convincing the bank to unblock their accounts or to get their accounts reopened and have their names removed from the South African Fraud Prevention Services list.
” While the OBS can award compensation for loss or inconvenience caused in some instances, this will only be done if the OBS finds that there was wrongdoing in the manner the bank closed the account. However, the OBS cannot force the bank to unblock an account or to reopen one when the bank insists it no longer wants to do business with a consumer. After all, it is the bank, and not this office, that would have to bear the consequences of being in such a relationship,” said Steyn.
Steyn also advised that there has, on previous occasions, allegations made by consumers that their application for credit were unfairly declined due to their race, age, Steyn confirmed that her office takes these allegations very seriously.
According to Steyn, the challenges faced by her office in dealing with such complaints is that there is often lack of evidence to prove that the loan was declined on the basis of the listed prohibited discriminatory grounds. Nonetheless, the OBS calls on all consumers who believe that they were unfairly discriminated against and declined credit or any other banking product or service due to their race or age and have proof to substantiate their allegations, to lodge a complaint with her office for the allegations to be investigated.
Steyn reminded consumers that the right to lodge a complaint against a bank it is one of their fundamental consumer rights. This can be done with the OBS which offers a
Consumers can call 0860 800 900 to lodge a complaint.


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Vietnam a low-risk, attractive destination for investors: Savills
Vietnam, on a competitive basis versus China, other parts of Southeast Asia or India, offers a relative low-risk environment to do business, according to top Savills executives.
“I think that has played out very well and we’re going to continue to see technology companies and other U.S. businesses putting down strong roots in Vietnam,” said Dominic Harding, senior vice president of Savills.
“They’ve come in, and they’ve tested the water hill. They’ve seen it as an attractive place to do business with a good talent base for staff and growing a strong business, and good on sales side and demand side. It’s obviously a great growing market for them to be operating in. Now we’re seeing their continued investment and continued growth in the long term,” he noted in an update on Vietnam Monday.
Harding said it is going to be a positive story for Vietnam’s real estate market, with continued demand for quality office space with good amenities and good environments for people to work in. “I think one of the great stories about Vietnam is its robustness on a global scale. Many years of good growth and we’re continuing to see that.”
Vietnam’s government has a good track record right now of keeping inflation at a reasonable rate, according to Harding.
The country's consumer price index in the first seven months of the year rose 2.54% on average against the same period last year. The World Bank on August 8 put Vietnam's inflation forecast at 3.8% in 2022 due to higher prices of energy, lower than the State Bank goal of 4%.
“I think the way that Vietnam, certainly from my outside perspective, reacted to Covid and has gone through the various pandemic stages has left a very positive impact on the international environment. When you compare it to other parts of the region that are stricter and coming out slower, that’s definitely giving people the confidence to invest in the long term in Vietnam.”
Christopher Marriott, Savills CEO, Southeast Asia, said the expansion of the supply chain and manufacturing is being driven by “China plus One” where Chinese companies have been asked to expand their manufacturing and supply chain to at least one country outside China and the demand from multinationals to expand or create a more robust supply chain in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam will potentially benefit from this, he said. “Vietnam has a very strong work ethic and a very highly educated labor force. We've already seen certainly up in places like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City high-end manufacturing in the technology, and electronics marketplace. With that growth of what I would call a base industry and a high-grade base industry in technology and electronics, it attracts investors.”
Marriott noted that one of the big advantages that Vietnam has at the moment is that it really has the top end of manufacturing.
“We’re seeing raw products in Indonesia. We’re seeing automobiles and agriculture in Thailand, but in Vietnam waltzing is the electronics industry. The technology industry is being driven by a highly educated labor force and the strength of that labor force.
“It is cost-effective now to manufacture in Vietnam and the logistics of both importing and exporting those goods. Importing rural products and exporting goods is starting to improve with the logistics networks. I think there’s a solid investment argument for institutional investors, developers, and international developers to invest in Vietnam.”
He added: “In places like Singapore, all the prices have risen like in China. The cost of executing business, and the ability to import and export have become more difficult. All that business needs is to go somewhere. And I think Vietnam is very well placed to capture some of that demand and obviously increase in demand, especially after a post-Covid period.”
Marriott said investments in Asia-Pacific have shifted toward manufacturing, logistics, and the data center marketplace. With the growth of e-commerce, the expansion of supply chains, and diversification of the supply chain, there have been developments in the manufacturing and business part in Southeast Asia.
“Institutional investors and developers really focus on markets where there's a growth of manufacturing and logistics. In addition, there’s been a growth in the technology side both with e-commerce and general technology, and that is driving demand for data centers to handle the technology traffic,” he added.
The World Bank on August 8 upped its Vietnam GDP growth estimate to 7.5% for the year, much higher than the 5.8% it forecast early June. Investment management firm VinaCapital expects the country’s GDP to grow at least 10% in the third quarter and 7.5% the whole year.
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Talking with my daugter today, I learned that times have changed for our children and I realized for us as well.
It used to be that kids would work hard to out-dress each other–who has the coolest outfit, the shiniest shoes, even the best piercing, but now tech is outgunning fashion.
In my daughter’s school, she says it’s no longer about clothes, but about tech devices–who has the latest iPhone 5, the iPad Mini, the thinnest laptop, the coolest apps, and so on.
How you dress today is less important than what technology you use!
For us adults, this message was brought home by an article in Federal Times (5 Nov. 2012) entitled “Jeans and flip-flops at work.”
As the President of the American Federation of Government Employees Union Local 22 stated: “It’s not about dressing up , it’s about dressing down and allowing the creativity to flow.” Similarly, the Director of Public Relations for Young Government Leaders was quoted as saying: “Today’s young leader feel their work makes a bigger statement than what clothes they wear.”
So the pressure is off with the dress code, but what about the technology your using?
Government Executive (1 Nov. 2012) in an article called “Technology Hand-off,” points out the trend of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and as Darren Ash, the CIO of NRC points out “Apple just released the iPhone 5. In the Android market it seems like a new model comes along every month. We can’t keep up.”
And it’s not just the CIOs that are screaming for relief from the incessant change and speed of technology change, everyone is constantly competing for the new technology…from waiting days in line for the next generation Apple device to doing a device refresh every 2-3 years on average, we are addicted to the “latest and greatest.”
One CIO, who was the first in an agency to get an iPad, took it proudly to every meeting, especially in front of the executives–first it made him look very progressive and “with it,” but then as the iPad envy set in, the whole executive leadership soon were carrying the devices as well.
So out dressing the guy next to you is so blasé, now what’s important is whether you can out-tech them!
Whether it’s clothes or technology, the competition out there is fierce–and the cultural statement is clear–get with it or get run over by it. 😉
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LastPass by LogMeIn, a leader in password management, has revealed their ranking of the most and least secure UK online retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, the analysis has revealed that retailers still have work to do to encourage strong password security and support two-factor authentication (2FA).
LastPass identified the top 10 UK retailers by 2017 e-commerce sales and scored them on their security offerings. Features considered in the scoring included password requirements (length, special characters, numbers), if sites featured a password meter, if sites supported 2FA, what personal information is required at account set-up, and whether sites ran on secure HTTPS vs HTTP.
Key findings include:
· 2FA Fail
Nine out of the ten top retailers still don’t support two-factor authentication, Amazon being the only site that did support it. 2FA provides an additional layer of security toward preventing unauthorized access to an account. Unfortunately, these results tie in with LastPass’ recent Global Password Security Report which found that 45 percent of businesses use multi-factor authentication and that retail organisations are lagging behind other industries in password practices and adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA).
· Despite passwords being a major cause of breaches, retailers aren’t promoting strong password practice
None of the top 10 retailers require special characters when creating a password, and only 2/10 sites (Asda and Very) provide a password strength meter to indicate weak to strong passwords.
· Amazon leads the pack in the UK
Amazon, the largest online retailer in the UK, ranks the top of the most secure retailers, set apart by being the only site to support 2FA. In contrast, Amazon is number 4 on the US Naughty and Nice List.
· All retailers succeeding in site encryption
Every retailer tested runs on HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP. With all communications between users’ browsers and the website being encrypted, this is good news for shoppers entering personal information and card details.
· The Fear of Forgetting: We know that fear of forgetting a password is the biggest reason people reuse passwords, but most sites make it fairly easy to create a new password if you forget it. If a password is forgotten, all 10 sites send users a reset link or a one-time code, rather than sending the original password to the registered email, making it harder for an imposter to pose as a customer to gain access.
Sandor Palfy, CTO of Identity and Access Management at LogMeIn said of the findings “Black Friday has fast become one of the biggest online shopping events of the year: £1.39 billion was spent in the UK on retail sites in 2017. With the wealth of personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive data that online retailers process, all have a responsibility to ensure they take the necessary steps to protect their customers and educate them on best security practices. Consumers also have a responsibility to understand best security practices, so they can choose where to safely shop online.
Weak or stolen credentials continue to play a major role in breaches, so it’s worrying that the most popular UK retailers have pretty lax password requirements when hundreds of thousands of shoppers will be flocking to these sites for a good deal on Black Friday.
Customers should be encouraged to create a strong, unique login that is long and complex, containing a mixture of numbers, letters and special characters with the help of a password strength meter. This password should also be unique so if the worst was to happen and a brand was breached, other accounts would remain secure.
Given the damage a breach can cause organisations and the high-scale attacks in recent years, this should encourage retailers to assess their security posture before they get into the full swing of the holiday shopping period.”
LastPass conducted the online retailer account security research in October 2018. Using market research firm eMarketer’s list of the top 10 U.K. retailers based on e-commerce sales in 2017, LastPass researched key password requirements and other account security features to develop a ranking of the most and least secure retail sites. Each site was analyzed based on a set of 17 criteria, with a scale of either 0 to 2 or 0 to 10 points depending whether and how well the criteria were met.
Criteria includes the following: password requirements, including minimum/maximum characters and character types allowed; whether these requirements and any helpful tips are given; whether the websites employ a password strength meter to encourage longer passwords; the use of security questions; whether HTTPS is used when any information is entered; how much personal information is collected (name, birthday, address, email, phone); the use of two-factor authentication; whether sites allow sign-on using social media logins; and, what companies do if a user forgets their password.
LastPass is an award-winning password manager helping millions organise and protect their online lives, at home and at work. For businesses of all sizes, LastPass provides secure password storage and centralised admin oversight to reduce the risk of data breaches and remove password obstacles for employees. With customisable policies, secure password sharing, and comprehensive user management, LastPass gives IT the tools to strengthen password hygiene across the organisation. For more information, visit https://lastpass.com.
LastPass is a trademark of LogMeIn in the U.S. and other countries.
About LogMeIn, Inc.
LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOGM) simplifies how people connect with each other and the world around them to drive meaningful interactions, deepen relationships, and create better outcomes for individuals and businesses. One of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a market leader in communication & conferencing, identity & access, and customer engagement & support solutions, LogMeIn has millions of customers spanning virtually every country across the globe. LogMeIn is headquartered in Boston with additional locations in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.


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NY (AP) РІР‚вЂќ Americans remove approximately $50 billion in payday advances a 12 months, each racking up a huge selection of bucks in charges and interest. But a little and growing solution that permits its users to simply simply just take an advance to their paycheck could be offering the pay day loan industry a run for the cash.
San Francisco-based technology that is financial Even made headlines later a year ago whenever Walmart, the country’s biggest personal company, announced it could begin providing also’s solution as an element of its worker advantages package. Along with supplying tools that enable workers to trace their spending and conserve money, Even features Instapay, makes it possible for users to advance several of their next paycheck as much as 13 times before payday. Since the user that is even experiencing his / her currently accumulated hours, also does not charge the worker interest from the advance.
Also is regarded as a number of technology businesses have actually popped up in the last few years seeking to get wages to workers faster as well as on need.
Businesses like FlexWage Systems and Instant Financial offer on-demand pay, but those solutions tend to be associated with a debit card granted by the business as opposed to a member of staff’s main https://personalbadcreditloans.net/reviews/jora-credit-loans-review/ banking account.
Even creator Jon Schlossberg has stated publicly that an element of the organization’s objective would be to put the cash advance industry away from company, claiming it exploits the economically susceptible. He shared interior use information exclusively using the Associated Press that displays, at the very least preliminarily, that Even users are less inclined to touch the cash advance market after they subscribe to the business’s solutions.
“You’ve got this industry that is entire of organizations benefiting from Us citizens struggling to reside paycheck to paycheck, and payday loan providers are actually probably the most predatory,” Schlossberg said.
Payday loan providers say they supply a required solution, with several Us citizens not able to show up with money to pay for an urgent emergency that is financial. Additionally they say they provide into the country’s many hopeless, that are often the greatest danger for perhaps perhaps maybe not repaying the mortgage. But experts say the prices and charges are excessive and certainly will trap the borrower in a period of financial obligation that will last months. The customer Financial Protection Bureau, underneath the national government, ended up being wanting to manage the lending that is payday nationwide, but underneath the Trump management the bureau has begun the entire process of reversing those laws.
Even’s data show that roughly 28 % of their users took down an online payday loan into the full months before becoming a member of the solution. Four months after registering for also, that figure drops to significantly less than 20 per cent. Also calculated the figure by learning use behavior of their users from December 2017 until September 2018.
Also is able to inform which users are nevertheless using pay day loans because Also users connect their bank reports to your application.
The business will be in a position to inform what forms of deals a person is making, and if they bear the traits of the loan that is payday or name a payday loan provider once the other celebration.
Schlossberg admits that also could possibly be lacking some pay day loan transactions, especially people where a check can be used rather than a primary debit from the debtor’s account. The data normally tied to the reality that Walmart, definitely its customer that is biggest, just began utilizing the item on December 15, 2017. Schlossberg stated the business is using the services of educational scientists in the effectiveness of Even’s Instapay product versus pay day loan use, utilizing the objective of publishing sometime in 2019.
Walmart could be the company that is only publicly states it utilizes also, but a much spokesman claims this has “more than” 10 businesses opted currently, with 400,000 active members. Also does fee Walmart workers a $6 month-to-month cost to utilize its premium features, which include Instapay.
Customer advocates, that have very long targeted the payday financing industry, stated these were glad to see options to payday advances available but urged caution about their use.
“The decrease is intriguing and possibly promising but too early to attract any conclusions,” stated Scott Astrada, manager of federal advocacy during the left-leaning Center for Responsible Lending.
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F+W Media files for Chapter 11
Company $105 million in debt
By Robert Cloud
F+W Media Inc. and seven subsidiaries filed for protection under Chapter 11 in bankruptcy court.
Currently headquartered in New York, F+W Media purchased Krause Publications in 2002.
Chet Krause started the company in 1952 with his first publication, Numismatics News.
Over the next three decades, Krause Publications grew to more than 400 employees and published more than 40 hobby magazines and 750 reference and how-to books.
In 1988, Krause converted the company to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan and eventually vested the company’s stock to the employees.
In 2002, a group of employee-shareholders voted to sell Krause Publications to F+W Media for $120 million.
In January and February 2018, F+W Media laid off 41 people at its Iola facility.
F+W Media’s petition
According to its Chapter 11 petition, filed March 10 in federal court in Delaware, F+W Media has $105.2 million in debt and available cash totaling $2.5 million.
The company has faced financial problems since 2008.
The market for subscription periodicals had been in decline because much of their content became available online at no cost to readers.
In 2008, F+W Media shifted its focus to e-commerce based on the belief that the periodical customers would purchase other products, such as craft and hobby supplies, related to their interests.
“The Company took on various additional obligations across its distribution channel, including purchasing the merchandise it would sell online, storing merchandise in leased warehouses, marketing merchandise on websites and responding to customer service inquiries,” the court petition says. “Unfortunately, these additional obligations came at a tremendous cost to the Company, both in terms of monetary loss and deterioration of customer relationships.”
According to the petition, the e-commerce “technology was flawed and customers often had issues with the websites.”
By 2018, F+W Media was spending about $6 million to sell e-commerce products, but generated only $3 million in revenue.
In 2016, F+W Media began restructuring its debt and its lenders eventually held a 97 percent equity interest in the company.
In May 2017, in another attempt to restructure its debt, F+W Media made a debt for equity swap with its lenders, which reduced its existing debt from $100 million to $35 million, plus another $15 million in new loans.
“However, largely as a result of mismanagement, the Company exhausted the entire $15 million of new funding it received in the six months following the restructuring,” the petition says. “The Company’s management dramatically increased spending on technology contracts, merchandise to store in warehouses, and staffing while the Company was faltering and revenue was declining.”
On Jan. 8, 2018, F+W Media’s board of directors terminated the CEO and most of the top executives and replaced them with Greg Osberg, who is currently the company’s CEO.
Over the next several months, F+W Media laid off approximately 40 percent of its workforce.
The company has shifted its e-commerce to third-party vendors and sold off more than $10 million in assets.
Although F+W Media’s subsidiaries had more than $67 million in revenues last year, due to continued cash flow problems, the company believes the only viable alternative that will allow it to survive is to sell almost all its assets.


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Dubbed Valentino The Narratives, the show will take place on June 16 at 2 p.m. at the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale. The event will kick off Milan Fashion Week, which runs through June 20.
While the women’s and couture collections are traditionally unveiled in Paris, this is actually a return to the roots, since founder Valentino Garavani presented his first men’s show in Milan in January 1985. No more Paris and its traffic jams.
In 2022, the house launched Valentino House Essentials, a selection of timeless but ever-changing staples that serve as codes for Piccioli’s creative vision, and the project will continue this year.


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Jordan Tyrone Johnson, 21, of Marbury Road, Tullahoma is charged with aggravated robbery and resisting arrest.
A clerk at the Stop and Go Market on North Jackson Street notified police Thursday night around 9:15 p.m. that the store had been robbed.
When Tullahoma Police Officer Daryn Gadeken arrived the clerk, Tabitha Morris, met him and told him that a black male wearing blue jeans, a hoodie, a bandana over his face and carrying a knife had grabbed a cash register from the store and ran behind the building.
The clerk told the officer that while there were no customers in the store, she had stepped outside the store and was smoking when the man came from behind the store and demanded money. She told the officer that she did not have any money and then jumped into her vehicle and locked the door.
According to the clerk, the man then entered the store and grabbed a cash register and ran to the rear of the building.
While searching for clues to the identity of the thief, Officer Kevin Smith found fresh tire tracks behind the store leaving toward Moore County.
Other officers started searching for any suspicious vehicles in the area of the Old Shelbyville Highway and Officer George Dodson spotted one traveling away from the store. The officer stopped the vehicle and reportedly saw a cash register in the floor on the passenger’s side of the car.
Dodson then ordered the man out of the vehicle but he would not do so, but the officer was able to get him out. After getting Johnson out of the vehicle the man allegedly made several attempts to pull away from the officer.
According to Gadeken’s report, the cash register was recovered and had not been opened. The cash was still inside it.
Johnson is set to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court Sept. 26.
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Jeep Compass sales for July 2020 stand at 400 units, as against 511 units sold in same month last year
FCA India has recently issued a recall of Jeep Compass SUV. A total of 547 units have been affected. All affected units are the 2020 Model Year Edition. The recall has been done to rectify a ‘brace nut’ which is a part of Compass’ wiper assembly. FCA India states that this entire recall is a precautionary exercise. Company has further stated that “FCA India is unaware of any MY20 Jeep Compass customer reporting of a malfunction of this nature”.
As per company’s official statement, “The torque-induced brace nut should firmly clamp the wiper arm on to the wiper pivot assembly, enabling them to swivel as one unit when activated. A malfunction of the brace nut can result in the wipers not swivelling when activated by the wiper combi-switch behind the steering wheel.”
Process for Recall
Jeep India has already started reaching out to owners of the affected batch of the Compass. The required re-fitment/tightening of the brace nut should not take more than 15 minutes. Jeep India’s authorized workshops / service centers will ensure that technicians will properly assess the condition of each affected vehicle and if required, rectify the issue for the customer’s SUV at no cost.
Recalls are common in the automotive world. Thanks to stricter guidelines, companies are now forced to declare a potential issue in vehicles and take necessary precautionary actions to resolve the flaw/problem.
Jeep India July 2020 Sales
Latest car sales data for July’20 is also out. FCA India registered a total sales of 400 units in the month of July’20, against 511 units in the same month last year. It saw its market share contracting from 0.3% to 0.2%. Overall sales declined by 22%.
However, if we were to compare its performance from last few months, July’20 has been way better than the first 3 months of FY 2020-21. It is to be noted that the figures quoted represent cars sold by FCA to its dealer partners and not the actual number of cars purchased by customers. However, with the economy slowly opening up, sales of automobiles too have shown some sign of revival, especially in the last few weeks.
Recently, Jeep had also launched the Compass Night Eagle Special Edition. It happens to be the first international limited edition which has been brought to the country by Jeep. The Night Eagle special edition gets darkened out styling elements, both on the outside and inside. Mechanically however the SUV remains the same. As it is a limited edition model, the Indian market will be getting only 250 units. Next, Jeep has started testing the Compass facelift in India. It is expected to be launched by Diwali 2020.


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The billboard in Sydney, Australia, has become an internet sensation after a series of social media posts by an Australian woman.
The billboard, which features a picture of a blonde woman with blonde hair, has attracted the attention of hundreds of people on Instagram and Twitter.
“Brandy, where’s my b****?” the billboard asks.
“Where’s my bikini?”
“Where is my f***ing b****!?”
“I think this is a f***in b****.”
The billboard was created by the Australian-born artist and writer Brandy McLean and her husband, Nathan, with the intention of creating a new type of advertising, she said.
“It’s kind of like a marketing strategy, it’s a social media campaign, it tells people that they can come here and see the brand they’re looking for,” she said of the billboard.
“There’s no branding at all.
I don’t even have any pictures on it.
It’s all just my own words.”
The couple first conceived the idea for the billboard as a way to help promote their business, the McLean Family Foundation, after their two children were diagnosed with autism.
“I knew the opportunity for us to have a billboard that we could put up was going to be huge, so I just said ‘why not make a billboard?’ and that’s how it began,” Ms McLean said.
The couple said the billboard, called Brandy’s B****, was inspired by a viral photograph of a woman with a blonde hair and blue eyes that sparked their curiosity about the condition.
“We’re kind of interested in understanding and we’re looking to the future and how we can do something for kids with autism,” Ms McDana said.
Mr McLean also said that the billboard had become an opportunity for them to talk about the autism spectrum disorder, which affects about 2.3 million people in Australia.
“My kids were like ‘oh my god I’m so proud of you’,” he said.
“I was like ‘well, what can we do for kids like you?'”
The billboard is now up for sale on a website called ‘Brandy’sB****’ and the couple is also selling a line of clothing and accessories featuring their likeness.
The McLeans said the popularity of the advertising campaign has inspired them to start a website dedicated to educating the public about autism and other mental health issues.
“The world is going crazy about it and we want to make sure that it’s not just a big marketing thing, it is an awareness thing,” Mr McLean explained.


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Uber is spending some of its vast war chest on a new facility that could pave the way for self-driving cars to join its fleet of taxis. Today it announced joint plans with Carnegie Mellon University to create the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh. Some of its projects include research and design of autonomous vehicles, as well as vehicle safety technologies.
"The partnership will provide a forum for Uber technology leaders to work closely with [Carnegie Mellon University] faculty, staff, and students — both on campus and at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) — to do research and development, primarily in the areas of mapping and vehicle safety and autonomy technology," Uber said in a blog post. The company added that a formal event for the project will occur in Pittsburgh the coming weeks.
The center will focus on maps, safety, and autonomy
Rumblings of the project were reported earlier today by TechCrunch.
The move shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Last May, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said that self-driving cars were an inevitability for the company's business. "The reason Uber could be expensive is because you're not just paying for the car — you're paying for the other dude in the car," he said during an interview at the Code Conference. "When there's no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away."
While accurate, Kalanick's statement didn't exactly jibe with the company's line that drivers can get rich. It has fiercely attempted to recruit taxi drivers, as well as drivers for other car services with promises of earning more. Kalanick combated that by saying it would be a "multi-decade" transition.
Uber is one of several companies racing to figure out a way to make driving autonomous. Google, Tesla, and a number of automakers are well underway with projects to make cars that don't need drivers. Some of the main hurdles that still exist include computer vision technologies that can identify things on the road (and their behavior), radar systems that can handle inclement weather, cost, and government regulations.
Everyone's racing to ditch the driver
News of the program comes alongside a separate report from Bloomberg about Google wanting to develop its own Uber-like taxi service. That's despite a $258 million investment in Uber made by Google Ventures in August 2013, as well as Google's chief legal officer David Drummond sitting on Uber's board. Google introduced the option to call an Uber car from within its Google Maps app last May, though more recently has shown an affinity for its competitor Lyft in its other services.
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By now, anyone with a smart phone has seen the black square posted on social media feeds or received an email from a company CEO issuing a statement on racial inequality.
Just as brands and companies drive the economy, they also will bear much of the responsibility for using their platforms to drive awareness and make sure diverse voices are heard.
NutraIngredients-USA reached out to several dietary supplement brands and their publicists to see how they are addressing racial inequality.
While many communication managers were eager to help out, others simply stated they didn’t have anything to offer: “At the moment I don’t believe this story is a fit for any of the brands I work with” said one publicist. Another apologized, “I'm so sorry. My clients don't have anything to contribute for this topic. It's an important story though. I really wish I had something to offer.”
Not everyone will have something to offer at the moment, as a lot of companies, employees and clients are still digesting the last two weeks. However, as time goes by, it’s becoming clear to many that inaction isn’t a viable option.
Suzanne Shelton, who has been representing nutrition brands for 30 years, told us that addressing racial inequality is uncharted territory for her and her clients.
“They all have significant sustainability and environmental programs, all are focused on employee well-being, some have quite diverse staff, one does a lot to help refugees, etc. but this specific aspect of social justice is a new issue for many of us. None of my clients are given to empty words or dramatic gestures calculated for effect. No sweeping pronouncements. One client is quietly donating products to herbalists working in impacted communities. Another commented that a one time gesture isn't good enough and they are thinking through what would be authentic and relevant. Still another is having a moment of prayer company-wide.”
She added that her public relations and marketing company, The Shelton Group, donated to several organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and My Block My Hood My City.
Beyond the black square: messages from brands vow to tackle racial inequality head-on
One brand Shelton represents, Balchem, sent a message internally to all staff, which read in part, “We stand in solidarity with the Black community, we believe Black lives matter, we stand against all forms of racism and injustice, we stand for inclusion. However, we must do more.”
Balchem CEO Ted Harris went on to say the company plans to expand beyond their current anti‐harassment training requirements to include programs focused on diversity and inclusion as well as unconscious bias in the workplace. He went on to offer mental health resources and challenged his team to be part of the drive toward change.
Herbalife’s CEO and chairman, John Agwunobi, posted on Instagram, “We must stand up and speak out against racism, not just now, but always. Remaining silent is not an option.”
Agwunobi added that he had honest conversations with employees and distributors about racial inequality. He said the company is also conducting an internal review on the state of racial equality at Herbalife Nutrition so they can “do better.”
Asma Ishaq, CEO of Modere, admitted that she recently had “uncomfortable but imperative conversations” with her teams. She said the most common questions were related to not knowing what to say, or fear of judgment. “We need everyone to participate and take action, not to allow shame or apprehension to prevent them from stepping up. Let’s draw the line in the sand here and focus on working together to eradicate the undeniable racism that still persists. We invite all companies, communities and individuals – especially those who may have neglected to act in the past – to join us in this cause, now more than ever.”
Ishaq added that Modere is donating to several causes. In addition the company is evaluating their employment practices and compensation structure to assure they are free of statistical racial or gender bias. They also plan to establish an Inclusion & Equity Council, create a formal mentorship program for women and minorities, as well as support minority-owned businesses as key stakeholders.
Harborside, a CBD and cannabis retailer in California, said, “When we remain silent in the face of inequalities, we contribute to the systemic racism that we see playing out on our streets. We must stand together against racism in all its forms.” The company said it continues to contribute to community partners that advance social equality efforts and are also exploring additional opportunities to give back to the community.
“It starts with us,” said co-founder and CEO of SmartyPants Vitamins, Courtney Nichols Gould. “Our immediate step is training for everyone inside the company focused on diversity and inclusion at all levels of the organization, as well as providing resources so that everyone can learn, listen and act more effectively as a community that cares about each other. It also means staying true to who we are so we continue to focus on health and how we can help to ensure that everyone has access to the things that make good health possible.”
Individual reactions: The industry needs to step up
Kantha Shelke, Ph.D., CFS, a senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and food scientist & principal at Corvus Blue LLC, a food science and research firm, said the industry is part of the problem.
“We have two pandemics happening concurrently: coronavirus and racism. Dietary supplement companies were jumping in on the coronavirus with claims of ‘we have vitamin D’, ‘we have vitamin C’ or ‘we can build your immunity.’ The silence on the racism front is deafening. The lack of statements from organizations that work with dietary supplements and health foods or natural foods is loud and deafening. It may be because they do not have as many people of color, even though many of the foods and many of their ingredients have has been appropriated from other cultures."
Shelke, a native of India, said that for starters, the industry needs to diversify. “You have Supply Side and you have Expo West and Expo East, and you see these enterprises and you rarely see a person of color, a person with the scientific background in those areas. What you do see is a very disproportionate representation of the marketers. But when you look at who is doing the science behind it, you will see a number of names that are Japanese, Latin American, Asian, Indians, Pakistanis. So you take any product — coconut, turmeric, ginger, most of the science is developed by those people, yet you don't see them being represented or even positioned for recognition. What is recognized is very whitewashed marketing towards a very white community.”
Dr. Shavon Jackson-Michel, director of medical and scientific affairs for DolCas Biotech, said that she has always felt very comfortable, appreciated, and accepted at DolCas. "Our office looks like the United Nations in a sense, which is pretty amazing—but we have never communicated this on a platform or created an agenda around this."
“As a Black woman in America, I know that this is an important issue. In fact, I personally believe our industry suffers from a tremendous lack of diversity when it comes to Black and Latinx representation,” Jackson-Michel observed. “I have not ventured down the rabbit hole to understand why that is yet; but the fact remains that there is very little presence of people who look like me in visible roles in our industry and at major trade shows around the globe, where there are often tens of thousands of people (in seen and lesser-seen roles) I still find that I am often the ONLY black female, and maybe one of a maybe handful of people of African-descent.”
Jackson-Michel, who started working in the supplement industry as a student nutraceutical rep almost 14 years ago, added that when any group lacks sufficient representation “we suffer as a collective.”
“I believe there's a solution, but only if the cast of characters understand the problem,” explained Shelke. “The health and nutrition arena comes across as very caring, empathetic, somewhat hippie-like, ‘love in the air’ kind of a community. But are we embracing diversity as it truly exists? Are they giving credit where it's due? Are they opening doors for those whose backs we have made this industry? That's what we need to see and that's where the movement should be.”


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The University of Manchester has developed a simple and cost-effective method to manufacture graphene-based wearable electronic textiles on an industrial scale. This could easily be scaled for many real-life applications, such as sportswear, military gear, and medical clothing.
Graphene is predicted to be one of the most prominent materials in wearable e-textiles. The new technique could allow graphene e-textiles to be manufactured at commercial production rates of 150 meters per minute. In the new method, the researchers have reversed the previous process of coating textiles with graphene-based materials. Conventionally, the textiles are first treated with graphene oxide, and then the graphene oxide is reduced to its functional form of reduced graphene oxide. Instead, the researchers first reduced the graphene oxide in solution and then coated the textiles with the reduced form.
By making coating the ultimate step, it becomes possible to use a coating technique termed padding, which is currently the most commonly used method of applying functional finishes to textiles in the textile industry. For instance, water-repellent and wrinkle-free clothing are often made by padding.
E-textiles made by a laboratory-scale pad-dry unit, exhibit excellent electrical and mechanical characteristics. The reduced graphene oxide forms a uniform coating around the individual cotton fibers, which results in good electric conductivity, tensile strength, breathability, flexibility, and overall comfort of the fabric.


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There are no sinecures in the auto business. Executives are subject to the whims of customer preference, the uncertainty of the marketplace, and vagaries of macroeconomic forces. In 2012, recession in Europe, a cooling in China, and the rejection of electric vehicles changed the course of careers and companies. Here's a look at some of the likely hot spots in 2013 -- and the executives who will feel the heat.
A look at what's in store for the world's automakers this year will tell a lot about what to expect for cars down the road.
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Each week, The MBW Review gives our take on some of the biggest news stories of the previous seven days. This time, we react to the IFPI’s latest global music industry numbers – and we might do so again this week. The MBW Review is supported by FUGA. (The views in these articles are those of the writer and are not necessarily endorsed by our supporter.)
Yet to transpose this trend with the idea that all premium subscribers are paying $9.99 a month would be an error. Because the truth is, on average, they’re paying a third of that figure.
Why? For one thing, outside of the US and Europe, the actual price in US dollars people are paying for unlimited streaming varies greatly – especially in territories that are economically challenged.
A recent example: Spotify Premium has just launched in Indonesia for Rp 49,990 per month. That’s the equivalent of US $3.80, or $46 a year.
Apple Music, meanwhile, made a bold move by launching in China in September last year, but did so at a standard monthly price of 10 RMB – the equivalent of just US $1.50.
In addition, Spotify and others have been heavily discounting their initial subscription price of late to bump up their premium armies.
In the last quarter of 2015, Daniel Ek’s firm ran a very aggressive deal to tempt in new punters – offering three months of premium Spotify for just $1 in the US market.
“We can reasonably estimate that the average streaming subscriber paid $3.50 a month in 2015. That’s Less than a dollar a week. For all the music ever made.”
And then there are long-running bundle deals; whereby the amount of cash coming back to streaming services is dependent on the offer they have secured with telco partners.
All in all then, the idea of the ‘standard $9.99/£9.99/€9.99 streaming customer’ is a bit of a misnomer.
Today, more so than ever.
According to IFPI’s new numbers for last year’s global recorded music business, premium streaming services generated $2.0bn for labels and artists – across 68m paying customers.
That equates to an AARPU (Average Annual Revenue Per User) for the music biz of $29.41 across 2015.
Divide that by 12 months, and the true average monthly amount that each subscriber is generating becomes clear: $2.45.
It’s important to say ‘generating’ instead of ‘paying’ as the IFPI’s data is compiled from wholesale figures – ie. the cash coming into labels after a streaming service’s margin is removed.
In most cases (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer etc.) this margin stands at around 30%.
We can therefore reasonably estimate that the average streaming subscriber paid somewhere in the region of $3.50 per month throughout 2015 – an annual tally of $42.
To continue the divisional fun (in every sense of the word): that payment equates to around $0.87 a week, and just $0.12 a day.
Less than a dollar a week. For all the music in the world ever made.
A dollar. Also known as: the price of a song on iTunes.
Now, those subscribers on a streaming promotion – Spotify’s $1 for three months deal, for example – are clearly benefiting from a loss leader strategy, after which they will revert to the standard monthly payment.
This should bring up the average revenue coming from these consumers across the course of 2016.
Yet if you’re feeling a little exasperated by how little $3.50 a month seems for (almost) all the music in the world, check this.
According to IFPI’s figures, 900m people played music on ad-funded platforms in 2015, which generated a total of $634m.
That would mean that each music listener on ad-funded platforms – such as YouTube – only contributed $0.70 to the music industry across the whole of last year.
That works out at less than six US cents a month.
Or, alternatively, not far off one cent a week.
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The Government has pledged an additional $20 million over four years towards two key initiatives of the Digital Technologies Industry Transformation Plan (ITP).
Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications, David Clark said the Government was investing in the growth of New Zealand’s digital technologies sector in Budget 2022, guiding the country towards a high-wage, low emissions economy,
“In 2020, the digital technologies sector contributed $7.4 billion to the economy. Since 2015 it has, on average, grown about 77% faster than the general economy,” Minister Clark said.
“We have been working with industry on a Digital Technologies Industry Transformation Plan to help our tech companies fulfil their huge potential as generators of high-value jobs and export revenue.
He said Budget 2022 would provide $20 million over four years towards two key initiatives in the ITP.
“We will support the growth of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Community and take ‘New Zealand’s Tech and Innovation Story’, a marketing initiative led by industry in partnership with government, to the world.”
This will include key global markets such as; the United States, Australia and Europe.
“New Zealand has a number of globally successful SaaS companies and we want that to increase. The SaaS subsector has experienced sustained growth despite the COVID-19 pandemic and nearly doubled both its export revenue and headcount within a five-year window,” said Minister Clark.
“As a small island nation, a long way from traditional markets, a strong digital economy allows us to leverage what kiwis have to offer – no matter our geographic location, the time or place.
“Through this new funding, the SaaS Community can build its momentum further and expand its network. It will also support the delivery of short courses for digital skills development.
“We know for the digital sector to grow, it needs access to the right people. Historically, there has been a “skills mismatch”, but the key to future success is training our domestic talent with the right skills, and encouraging New Zealanders to participate, whatever their background.
“However, if we want our tech workforce to be world leaders, it makes sense they learn from world leaders. Government’s recently announced rebalance of immigration system will help alleviate some of the immediate pressures on industry, enabling businesses to lure skilled labour from offshore.”
The Minister said several key senior roles will receive a fast track to residence pathway through the Green List, including: ICT managers, software engineers, ICT security specialists (if they are paid $120,000 or more); and multimedia specialists (paid $95,000 or more).
“For the Tech Story initiative, the new funding will build on work already underway to promote our vibrant tech sector both locally and internationally. We will begin shifting perceptions of our country and rebrand as a global contender in the tech market.”
“While this is an exciting step for these two initiatives, it’s important to note that the ITP is a long-term vehicle for growing the digital technologies sector. I remain committed to the other industry initiatives which were well supported in consultation, and look forward to releasing the final ITP in the coming months,” Mr Clark said.


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This Halloween, Bugis Junction and Bugis+ are daring shoppers to face their fears with a larger-than-life immersive virtual reality (VR) gaming experience. This is the first time that malls in Singapore are hosting a VR experience of this scale. Three thrilling games are available for shoppers to test their courage, namely Time Zombies, Walk the Plank and Arizona Sunshine Zombie.
The Time Zombies competition that uses the latest Arctic Fox wireless technology, which allows a fully immersive gaming experience without the the burden of cumbersome cables or backpack computers that hinder physical movement. The VR gaming showcase at Bugis Junction and Bugis+ this Halloween will mark Arctic Fox’s debut in Southeast Asia, to the delight of VR gaming enthusiasts in the region.
The thrilling Time Zombies VR competition will take place at Bugis+ Atrium, Level 2, from 13 to 29 October. To take part in the Time Zombies VR Competition, shoppers can either present a receipt with a minimum spend of $20 in a single receipt at either Bugis Junction or Bugis+, or redeem one game play with 100 STAR$® via the CapitaStar app.
For more information, visit www.bugisjunction-mall.com.sg


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Binance and NBA star ad: ignore celebrity advice on crypto
Binance has used a basketball star to warn people about celebrity crypto endorsements
Binance, currently the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has released a teaser advert featuring National Basketball Association (NBA) star Jimmy Butler. In the advert, the Miami Heat player advises people not to listen to celebrities when they tell you to invest in cryptos.
The full ad campaign is set to release on the 7 February. In the teaser, Butler warns the audience that on 13 February, the day of The Super Bowl, “you are going to hear some of the biggest names telling you to get into crypto”.
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL).
Butler goes on to say that the celebrities endorsing crypto in these adverts do not “know you or your finances, only you do”.
The NBA star further elaborates: “Bianance and I are here to tell you, trust yourself and, of course, do your own research, be on the lookout before the game.”
Binance said it has chosen celebrities for its ad campaign that are known for their honesty and independence.
Crypto.com and FTX have bought Super Bowl ad slots
Crypto.com, the world’s fastest-growing crypto platform, and FTX, the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange platform, have both bought ad slots at this year’s Super Bowl.
Both crypto platforms have used well-known individuals to advertise their brands. FTX, in September 2021, announced that Stephen Curry, a three-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, was to become a global ambassador and shareholder of the company.
Curry, who plays for the Golden State Warriors, was not the first high-profile athlete to partner with FTX. Tom Brady, a quarterback for the NFL team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, inked an endorsement deal with the exchange in June 2021.
Matt Damon’s debut in crypto ads
In October 2021, Crypto.com revealed that actor Matt Damon was to star in the company’s ad entitled “Fortune Favours the Brave”.
The advert shows Damon explaining how some men and women have tried their utmost to achieve their aims but have failed, however, there are those who have “embraced the moment” and committed to their goal.
Damon has received a lot of criticism for taking part in the advert. US animation series South Park pokes fun at Damon and his Crypto.com ad in its latest season.


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U.S. consumers and businesses may get more options in wireless service starting next year, with the launch of a new wireless broadband network that aims to provide competition to the incumbent phone companies.
A perfect iPhone? There's no app for that. Apple Inc. will give free protective cases to buyers of its latest iPhone to prevent reception problems that occur when people cover a certain spot on the phone with a bare hand.
AT&T Inc. said Thursday that it's deploying a new, but long-promised, technology to reach more homes with its U-Verse service, which provides cable TV and higher Internet speeds.
Averting a standoff over programming fees, AT&T Inc. said Thursday it has reached a deal to keep channels AMC, IFC and WE tv on the tube for its 2.3 million U-verse TV subscribers.
The recent Consumer Reports decision against endorsing the latest iPhone are likely to have little effect on Apple Inc.'s reputation.
A fight over programming fees has taken a new hostage: the season premiere of AMC's "Mad Men" on July 25.
Shares of Apple Inc. took a hit Tuesday amid investor concerns over antenna reception problems with the latest iPhone and a related decision by Consumer Reports magazine not to recommend the device.
A decision by Consumer Reports against endorsing the latest iPhone because of reception problems threatens to tarnish Apple Inc.'s reputation, yet fans who have braved poor reception for years are likely to keep buying the product.
Consumer Reports said Monday it will not recommend Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone because of reception problems caused by its antenna design.


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Colombia’s internet country code, .co, is becoming a new must-have among global brands such as BMW, Nike, Sony and Visa, as many of the more recognizable .com domain names have all been taken.
Since the domain name’s “pre-launch” phase from February 2010, over 39,000 companies have applied for the two-letter code, including 70% of the companies listed in the Brand Finance top 500.
Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet said that “the launch of the .CO domain represents the next phase in the growth and development of the Internet.”
The e-commerce leader Overstock.com recently paid $350,000 for the snappy O.co address, as it was an “an unprecedented opportunity to add a meaningful online presence that will enhance recognition for the “O” brand.
“For all intents and purposes, the .com reservoir is empty of meaningful domains,” said Tim Draper, founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It’s a constant struggle, especially for start-ups, to find a credible domain name that best describes their business or product.”
The newly available .co domain name is also popular due to its recognition as a pseudonym for “company,” “corporation,” and “commerce.”


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Google Pixel is a company owned by Google. It is a line of an electronic device developed by Google but runs either by the Android Operating System and Chrome OS. They have launched their company in the 2013 February. The first generation of google pixel is the Chromebook Pixels. The company Pixels included laptops, tablets, and smartphone, as well as many accessories.
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Microbrewers will be able to sell half-gallon growlers and open tap rooms under legislation passed by the Senate Tuesday.
Supported unanimously Tuesday by the Senate, SB 186 brings Florida craft breweries victories they say will help them grow. They’ll also gain clearance to open tap rooms, which they had been doing under an exemption in the law meant for promoting tourism.
The measure, which goes beyond earlier bills that only addressed growlers, still must get through the House and be signed by Gov. Rick Scott.
But after the two chambers amended their bills to be nearly identical, the horizon is more promising for Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, who has been pushing to legalize growlers for three years. It’s been a highly contentious issue, pitting longstanding beer wholesalers and sometimes big-time brewers against craft breweries that hope looser regulations will give them the opportunity to grow.
In previous sessions, growlers legislation has been torpedoed at the last minute.
In an effort to align language more closely, Latvala advanced a new version of the bill on the floor just before the Senate’s final vote. It’s a rare move but one he said was needed to help the House and Senate end up on the same page.
“We’ve done it this way to kind of facilitate our negotiations on the other end of the hall,” Latvala said. “I’m not going to represent that the House has agreed to it … I’m going to represent that I think it’s pretty close to final language.”
Now, after near-identical language put forward by Rep. Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, cleared the House Regulatory Affairs Committee in the afternoon, the chambers are close to finding agreement.
“This has been a bill that’s been impossible to negotiate,” said Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami.
But growlers themselves are no longer controversial. This year, the Florida Beer Wholesalers Association came out in support of them.
They and the Florida Brewers Guild, which represents craft breweries, have also found consensus in limiting the number of tap room licenses a single brewer can have at eight.
In the compromise language, lawmakers have worked in provisions for craft distilleries, expanding the number of bottles of liquor that a person can buy. Right now, that’s capped at two bottles per year, but the bills would expand it to two of each brand or four of any one brand.
Both bills also allow for beer tastings and limit the volume of beer made elsewhere that can be sold at a craft brewery to the volume brewed at that site.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has stopped taking new order from Huawei and now they have decided to stop shipping chips to Huawei after mid-September. This decision comes after the US Commerce Department’s expansion of rules to require licenses for sales to Huawei of semiconductors that use US technology.
“We are complying fully with the new regulations and did not take any new orders from Huawei since May 15,” TSMC Chairman Mark Liu told an investors conference. Now under this law, Taiwan based TSMC can sell chips to Huawei if Huawei gets a license from US regulators. This is highly unlikely to happen given the current relationship between Huawei and the US.
Huawei is the biggest purchaser of TSMC silicons. Huawei accounted for 14% sales and 23% revenue share of TSMC in 2019. But TSMC thinks that the Huawei ban is unlikely to have an effect on the company’s revenues. According to TSMC other customers will pick up coveted manufacturing capacity.
It widely reported that Huawei is stockpiling silicons and making very large orders to TSMC so that they have enough supply for the rest of the year. But of course, the supply is not infinite and it will eventually run out. And even if Huawei has enough supply for years they will still be in a bad position as silicon technology is getting better over time. So if the political situation don’t get better over time then it wouldn’t be good for Huawei.
Now Huawei may opt for Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). But SMIC has lagged behind TSMC in major cutting-edge chips to power Huawei’s new products. But according to new rules from the US, in theory, SMIC would also be banned from supplying to Huawei.


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The Ether (ETH) towards the U . s . States dollar (USD) pair has pulled the greatest quantity of traders from The month of january to March 2022, based on buying and selling platform Capital.com.
In the questionnaire, Capital.com noted that in 2021, the most important quantity of traders occured through the Dogecoin (DOGE) to USD pair. However, the ETH/USD pair has had the place for many traders inside the buying and selling platform the very first time.
The questionnaire noted that crypto turnover went up by 93% within the quarter. Regardless of the positive statistic, the report admits that the rise in revenue doesn’t reflect the broader market trends since the number was arrived at due to a couple of single-day spikes in volume.
Capital.com has additionally highlighted the broader marketplace is presently inside a condition of disinterest. Based on Capital.com’s chief analyst David Johnson, the Bitcoin (BTC) downtrend from November to The month of january has influenced retail traders’ curiosity about crypto. Furthermore, the analyst pointed out that crypto traders are “herd creatures” driven by momentum.
After high investor participation within the month of The month of january, the next several weeks demonstrated a decline. In Feb, digital asset traders around the platform went lower by 16%. Within the next month, the amount came by another 10%.
On Monday, ETH’s cost moved nearer to the $2,000 mark as BTC rose above $30,900. However, analysts noted that regardless of the bounce, the prices’ upward trend may finish up less strong compared to 2021’s mid-year performance. However, some analysts also noted that there is a possible ways to bounce as much as $2,700 within the summer time.
Meanwhile, the Ropsten testnet on Ethereum is relocating to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. Ethereum’s developer Tim Beiko shared this news that on June 21, the Ropsten testnet will merge with a brand new Ropsten Beacon Chain which was launched on Monday. Following the transition, two more testnets known as Goerli and Spolia will proceed to PoS prior to the migration for that Ethereum mainnet begins.


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Weekend to-do list: Re-activate Yahoo e-mail account
SAN FRANCISCO — Put this on your weekend to-do list: Reactivate your old Yahoo e-mail address if you want to hang on to it.
On Wednesday, Yahoo said it would start to free up Yahoo IDs that have been inactive for at least a year by resetting them and giving them away to people who request them (or giving them a "fresh start," as Yahoo said in a Tumblr post announcing the move.
You might see a reminder e-mail from Yahoo pop into the Inbox of the e-mail service you're actually using these days. July 15 is the deadline for re-upping. After that Yahoo will let others stake a claim. In mid-August folks will find out if they've landed one.
To wake up a sleepy Yahoo account, simply log back into Yahoo Mail. If you need help accessing your account you can ask for a password reset using Password Helper.
You'll need to continue to log back in at least once every 12 months to remain active on Yahoo.
Concerned about spamminess if you ask for a super simple address that belonged to someone else? We reached out to Yahoo for more detail on how the resetting process works. The company says it's taking action to make sure users receive as little spam as possible and don't receive e-mails intended for the previous account holder.
Yahoo will shut inactive accounts for 30 days before releasing them to new owners and will unsubscribe the accounts from commercial e-mail. All incoming e-mails will receive bounce-back messages, Yahoo said.
The mail cleanup is part of Yahoo's efforts under CEO Marissa Mayer to re-energize the iconic Internet brand. Yahoo recently has revamped its home page, Flickr photo service and buffed up the e-mail service as well.
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7/14/2011 - Tire care lacking among U.S. motorists
A new study is revealing that while a majority of Americans clean their cars at least once a month, they rarely check their tire pressure.
According to a study conducted by the Rubber Manufacturers Association, just 15 percent of motorists know how to determine if enough air is in their tires.
"Checking tire pressure once a month is one simple step that can preserve precious resources, put money back in consumers' wallets and save lives," said Charles Cannon, president and CEO of RMA.
In addition to learning how to properly inflate one's tires, RMA says there are other important aspects of tire care. These include making sure they are properly aligned, that they're rotated so wear and tear is evenly distributed and replacing the tires if the tread has worn away.
Maintaining quality tires benefits both auto insurance companies and motorists, as proper inflation improves mileage and minimizes the risk of vehicles being involved in an accident. An accident-free driving history and fewer miles traveled may lead to lower insurance rates over time.


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Ahead of Ignite, Microsoft will Combine Office and Microsoft 365 Roadmaps
In about a month, Microsoft and many of its employees will head to Orlando where the company will be hosting its Ignite conference. At the event, the company will announce new features and updates to existing products and it also looks like it will be bringing a couple services closer together.
On the support page for Office 365 that shows the product’s roadmap, the company is notifying users that the roadmap for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 will be combined next month.
Considering that Office is part of Microsoft 365, this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise and is likely simplifying the process for the company as they will have one roadmap for these two subscription services. The announcement says that this update will occur in mid-September which is when Ignite is occurring, these changes and the conference announcements are likely related.
Passwords Haven’t Disappeared Yet
123456. Qwerty. Iloveyou. No, these are not exercises for people who are brand new to typing. Shockingly, they are among the most common passwords that end users choose in 2021. Research has found that the average business user must manually type out, or copy/paste, the credentials to 154 websites per month. We repeatedly got one question that surprised us: “Why would I ever trust a third party with control of my network?
At Ignite, one announcement that is expected is the general availability of SharePoint Server 2019. The company has said that product will be available in the second half of 2018 and announcing the general availability of the software at that conference lines up with release-patters from previous years.
If you are headed to Ignite, make sure to let us know as both Paul and I will be attending the show and will be podcasting both Monday and Tuesday from the show-floor.
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Windows Store getting Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE Linux
- Author: Zachary Reyes May 25, 2017,
May 25, 2017, 9:57
The next version of Windows 10 - "Redstone 3", which Microsoft has chose to christen officially as the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update - and the Microsoft Graph, the company's unified application programming interface, are the centerpieces of this new strategy. Microsoft will offer iTunes in its Windows Store at the end of this year.
Last month's Windows 10 Creators update is still fresh on hundreds of millions of devices, but Microsoft is already touting new capabilities that will arrive with the next update of the operating system this fall.
Another feature expands the realm of the virtual clipboard, enabling a copy and paste function from Windows to a smartphone and back again.
A phone icon in the Windows settings menu will prompt users to connect the software to their other devices. The updates will be packaged in what the company is calling the Fall Creators Update and are expected to roll out later this year.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is vying to be more of a trailblazer by expanding its exploration of a new technological frontier that allows people to blend the real world with three-dimensional projections of life-like images.
"With a visual timeline that displays what you were doing when, you can easily hop back into files, apps and sites as if you never left", he said. Along that vein, a new feature called Story Remix will automatically identify the best photos and videos to help people create highlights of their experiences. In addition, Microsoft will add the ability to access OneDrive files on demand from the cloud, without downloading them to the device.
Dubbed the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, it will carry forward the content creation theme of its predecessor with an added emphasis on cohesive cross-device experiences, even when some of the devices involved have an Apple logo or run Android.
"With Cortana, you can pick up where you left off across Windows, iOS, and Android devices".
The Fall Creators Update will be available later this year, Myerson said. Myerson's post says the app "uses the Microsoft Graph to transform your photos and videos".
The app is called "Story Remix". "We are working with developers to create this new frontier in computing and want any developer to get a Windows Mixed Reality dev kit", Myerson said.


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Have you read how much money the marijuana dispensaries made in the first week of being open?
Will Michigan be following in Colorado’s footsteps?
January 1st, 2014 marked the first day that residents of Colorado could purchase recreational marijuana. Thirty-seven dispensaries opened their doors all over the state. In the first day they were open over $1 million dollars worth of marijuana was sold.
The Huffington Post reports that over the entire first week, $5 Million dollars in sales for recreational marijuana was collected.
It has been projected that the combined wholesale and retail sale of recreational marijuana will be about $600 million annually.
You may remember that Colorado residents passed the state’s 25% tax on retail purchases. That breaks down to a 15% excise tax and a 10% sales tax. Those taxes do not include local taxes.
So what does the projection of $600 million annually mean for the state? The math is simple: a projection of $70 million dollars in tax revenue from marijuana alone.
Restrictions on Recreational Marijuana Sales in Colorado
There are restrictions to what residents in Colorado can buy including that one must be over the age of 21 to purchase marijuana. In addition, Colorado residents are legally only allowed to buy up to an ounce per transaction. Tourists or out-of-state visitors are only allowed to purchase one-fourth of an ounce.
The Federal Government Has Agreed to Stay out Of Colorado and Washington’s Way IF:
- They prevent out-of-state distribution.
- Any sales to minors are prohibited.
- Drugged driving is prohibited.
What Does This Mean For Marijuana Sales in Michigan?
According to The Daily Chronic, changes are happening in Michigan as well. Recently, Governor Rick Snyder signed Senate Bill 660. Senate Bill 660 regarded medical marijuana in a “pharmaceutical grade” giving it a Schedule II status. This bill will allow licensed pharmacies across the state to distribute marijuana.
The law allows “pharmaceutical grade” marijuana to be distributed through licensed pharmacies in the state, controlled in a manner similar to drugs such as OxyContin or Percocet. The law requires strict laboratory testing for quality and dosage standards.”
This law can only take affect when the United States also reschedules marijuana on the federal level. Right now, marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I drug.
What do you think? Will Michigan legalize marijuana use? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.


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Biz Buzz: Shuttering Memories for the Making
Memories for the Making is going out of business. Owner Nicole Lemmerhirt said a lot of factors went into the closing, including the lingering effects of the recession as people continue to look hard at discretionary spending. The scrapbook indus...
Memories for the Making is going out of business.
Owner Nicole Lemmerhirt said a lot of factors went into the closing, including the lingering effects of the recession as people continue to look hard at discretionary spending.
The scrapbook industry, once a booming cottage industry, has been one of the areas hit hard by a changing economic landscape as people changed spending habits and what they did with their time. In some cases electronic versions no doubt took a toll and more big box stores also began carrying scrapbook inventory. Just this month, Ahni & Zoe - formerly known as Creative Memories, the St. Cloud-based scapbooking company - announced it was shuttering its operations in North America.
Lemmerhirt purchased the business in 2012 and added those duties to her existing hair salon A-cute Accents Salon. With a lease up, Lemmerhirt said she and her husband did all they could do to bring in customers but it was time to let the business go.
"I don't know my next chaper I have to get through this page before I make the next page," she said. The plan is to continue store operations through Aug. 16 but that will depend on how fast the inventory goes. Almost everything, including fixtures, cabinets and displays are for sale.
Lemmerhirt said it has been kind of frustrating to see customers come in now to buy things during the close-out sale knowing if they had been shoppers before, the store would still be in business.
Lemmerhirt said now her priorities need to be focused on her family.
"I've got two other jobs and not enough hours in my day," she said.
Pearl Vision is moving into new offices this fall with an updated interior and twice the space of the current offices.
The move isn't a great distance, but the changes are expected to be substantial.
Pearl Vision, a family owned business for some three decades, will move to 15674 Edgewood Drive in Baxter in October. The move takes the vision center from current offices at 15574 Edgewood Drive farther north to the Baxter Village, in the space that once housed the Kitchen Place.
Baxter's Pearl Vision will be the fifth in the nation with the new store design, a modern look with a neighborhood doctor focus. The design includes a fresh color scheme with off white walls, butter yellow and lime green accents. Pearl Vision describes the new store design as more boutique in style.
Gull Dam Brewing of Nisswa is getting closer to an opening day and beer brewing with construction work continuing on the tap room. The empty space is now filled with shiny metal for multiple fermentation tanks and brewing equipment.
Downtown Brainerd businesses launched a webpage in a partnership with Visit Brainerd and the Brainerd and Baxter Minnesota Tourism Bureau.
The website is www.downtownbrainerd.net includes a photo gallery, video and business listing. There is information on downtown events, including Street Fest on 7th, which is this weekend, the Zombie Crawl and St. Patrick's Day parade.
In addition to hiring signs in many locations, a number of businesses are renovating including Wendy's restaurant on Washington Street in Brainerd. The dining room remains open during the work on the building.


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Back in February, it was reported that consumers were having Microphone problems with the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL phones. Of course, Google went ahead and fixed the problem. However, it was later reported that Google might have known about the problem before the devices were released.
It’s now August, and owners who were affected by the flaw can now file a claim against Google.
Like all other settlements, it’s not that easy. In order to be eligible for a $20 reimbursement, you have to prove you purchased a device manufactured before January 4th. If Google has already given you a replacement device, you don’t qualify.
If $20 wasn’t enough for you, you can also get up to $350 if you can provide documentation that you experienced the issue on one phone. Furthermore, if you owned more than one device, you can get up to $500.


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NEW YORK — Feb. 7, 2013 — This week the catwalk lights up once again as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week returns to New York City. The 2013 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices present a go-anywhere look with clean lines reminiscent of high fashion, matched by inventive features that meet the customer’s need for constant connectivity, mobility and flexibility.
Equipped with brilliant touch-sensitive screens, blazing processors and the latest Windows 8 apps, these devices on this year’s virtual catwalk are built for superior performance, yet show off remarkable design. So turn down the lights, turn up the music and take in this new experience.


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Microsoft has been working on the Mac version of its Edge web browser for several months now. The company has finally released a preview version of the browser so that those who are interested in testing it out can see just how far along this project has come. Microsoft is now letting Mac users to download a preview version of Edge for macOS.
Microsoft has confirmed some new changes for the Chromium-based Edge browser that it has been working on. One of the biggest additions is an “IE Mode” for Edge which basically means that Microsoft’s legacy Internet Explorer browser would be built into the new Edge. While you may have stopped using Internet Explorer a long time back, the browser is still required by many businesses to load internal sites.
Microsoft confirmed a few months ago that it’s building a Chromium-powered version of its Edge browser. The company has announced today that the browser is officially available for testing. It’s releasing early builds to developers today with both Canary and Developer builds receiving daily or weekly updates with the changes that are in the pipeline for Edge.
Microsoft announced last week that it’s moving to the Chromium open source project for its Edge browser. What that means is that Microsoft’s browser is now going to be built using the same web rendering engine that Google uses for the Chrome. This has led to many questions, one of the biggest being whether Edge will get Chrome extensions support as well. Microsoft has replied in what seems to be […]
It was reported a few days ago that Microsoft could be building a Chrome-based browser for Windows 10. The company today announced that it’s embracing the Chromium open source project for its web browser. This means that Microsoft’s browser will now be built on the same web rendering engine that Google uses for its popular Chrome browser. The company says it will become a significant contributor to the Chromium project […]
Whether you are using a friend’s or your parents’ computer, or you just plainly wish to keep your online tracks secret, private browsing is always a good option – a feature supported by all major web browsers.
Microsoft has announced that it has now added the Web Authentication specification in Microsoft Edge. This will enable more secure user experiences which eliminate the need for passwords and adds support for safer access control methods such as biometrics. It will enable Edge users to sign in with their face, fingerprint, a PIN or portable FIDO2 devices.
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Edge browser for iOS and Android that’s going to appeal to those who don’t like seeing a lot of ads when they surf the internet. The company has revealed that it’s building Adblock Plus into its Edge browser which means that this popular ad-blocking extension will now be part and parcel of Edge for iOS and Android.
It was revealed not too long ago that Microsoft’s Edge browser would soon be released for the iPad and Android tablets. The company released a preview of Edge for iPad earlier this month. The brief beta testing period is now over as Microsoft has rolled out the latest updates for the Edge app on iOS and Android which brings full support for tablets on the platforms.
Microsoft’s Edge browser is much better compared to Internet Explorer but a lot of people still use third-party browsers such as Chrome on Windows 10 machines. However, Microsoft is testing a new method that will essentially force users to open Edge. The company is essentially going to force Windows 10 Mail users to use the Edge browser for links clicked on within the email client.
The first screen (or tab) that you observe while launching a browser is the “homepage.” You may even refer to it as the start page of your browser. As per your preference, you may set it to anything you like. It could be a blank window, a search engine, or a blog.To save time, you should set your favorite website on the Internet as your homepage. Fret not; it is very […]
Earlier this week, Google disclosed a security flaw in the Microsoft Edge web browser after the company didn’t patch the exploit in time. For the second time in a week, the company has disclosed an exploit in Windows 10 that Microsoft has not patched. Google has done the same thing today, its Project Zero team of security researchers has disclosed a security flaw in Windows 10 that Microsoft didn’t patch […]
Imagine finding yourself in a situation when you’re giving a presentation about your company’s products and have to use a competitor’s product just to get through your presentation because a similar product from your company fails. That’s precisely the situation a Microsoft engineer found himself in recently. He had to hit pause on his Azure presentation in a live demo session and install Google Chrome because Microsoft’s very own Edge […]
It was reported earlier this week that Microsoft’s Edge browser could soon go multi-platform. The very next day, Microsoft officially announced that it was launching Edge for iOS and Android. Edge was initially released for iOS and Microsoft said that the Android version would arrive shortly. Today, it has rolled out Microsoft Edge for Android and it’s now available for download.


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Allison Engstrom, development coordinator for Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, discusses the recent model calls for the upcoming American Girl Fashion Show benefitting the hospital. Originally aired on http://www.wfmj.com on January 27, 2015. For more about the show, visit https://www.akronchildrens.org/events.
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Centre of Registers audit finished: schemes uncovered with damages in the millions
When suspicions arose that exclusive conditions were granted for certain companies to pay several times lower prices for data at the Centre of Registers, audit was initiated. Now, the audit’s results have confirmed suspicions.