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After falling on hard times, Macy's announced 68 out of 100 stores it plans to close. This includes one location in Las Vegas, which will close by the end of 2017.
The Boulevard Mall's general manager and vice president confirmed that its location is the one closing. Timo Kuusela did not have an exact date for the closure.
He did tell 13 Action News that it presents "exciting opportunities" for Boulevard Mall as it is transitioning to a more non-retail location.
There had initially been reports it was the Fashion Show Mall location, but it was later determined to be Boulevard Mall.
CNBC reports that the company will also eliminate layers of management to cut costs. About 6,200 people in total will be removed from the workforce.
Macy's says it will focus its attention on its best-performing locations and its website. The move will save the company an estimated $550 million a year starting in 2017.
The company's market shares fell more than 9 percent on Wednesday after coming up short in sales during the holiday season. While nearly all stores have seen a positive cash flow, Macy's President and CEO-designee Jeff Gennette said, "their volume and profitability in most cases have been declining steadily in recent years."
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Apple’s much-touted services business has been a viable approach to make up for smartphone saturation, which has served as a profit-making tool for investors.
However, the recent development refers to a different story. In its quarterly financial report on Thursday, Apple takes stock of its gross revenue and net income. But the services business didn’t fare that well in this better-than-expected report. The unit grew 12% from a year earlier to $19.6 billion, trailing the $19.7 billion average analyst estimate, according to Refinitiv.
The services segment — which includes the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iCloud, and other subscription businesses, registered the slowest growth since the fourth quarter of 2015. The current quarter looks a bit gloomy. Apple CFO Luca Maestri said that in the September period, the services business would grow less than 12% due to macroeconomic conditions and a strong U.S. dollar.
Apple shares grew in extended trading on Thursday on the back of iPhone and iPad sales, topping estimates and giving strong sales forecasts. But Wall Street has reason to be concerned based on the slowdown in services, which recorded growth of 27% in fiscal 2021 and 16% in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
Investors generally like Apple’s move into services, because the products are more profitable than hardware and often bring in recurring revenue. The unit had a gross margin, or the profit left after accounting for the cost of goods sold, of 71.5% in the latest quarter, compared to Apple’s overall gross margin of 43.3%.
Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month that Apple’s long-term valuation could rise by 30% if the company focused on making money from its current customers through expanded services.
“We believe Apple shares undervalue the lifetime value of an Apple user,” Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring wrote, citing services growth as a key investment driver.
Maestri said the services business performed in line with its expectations. And even with growth slowing to 12%, it still saw more robust expansion than the company as a whole, which grew by 2%.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the services division was affected by the economic situation. In particular, he cited the company’s ads business, which is one of the smaller services.
“Digital advertising was clearly impacted by the macroeconomic environment,” Cook said. “It’s a mixed bag in terms of what we believe that we saw.” Covid-19 shutdowns may have also made services growth “lumpy,” leading to difficult year-over-year comparisons, Maestri said.
“There have been lockdowns and reopenings and so on,” Maestri said. “So it’s very difficult to talk about a steady-state growth rate for our services business.”
Maestri said the number of iPhone users is still growing, suggesting that the services business can continue to expand by bringing in new customers. He added that music, cloud services, AppleCare warranties, and payments all hit record revenue levels during the quarter.

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That's still well shy of the 50,000 odd apps you can find in Apple's App Store for the iPhone platform. It's also too early to declare that RIM is losing the war; remember that the BlackBerry has had third-party apps available for years now in other stores like Handango, whereas Apple's App Store is about to have its one-year anniversary.
But the App Store has changed the game considerably. Now consumers expect to buy apps right from their devices, and from a central location. RIM still has a little time to improve BB App World before consumers catch on--but not much.Originally posted to AppScout.


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The chairman of the livestock committee of the Irish Farmers Association, Henry Burns, has this week made it clear the United Kingdom is the top target for his country in increasing exports of live cattle
Speaking in Tullamore at an export seminar, Burns said the overall prospects for the live export trade looked positive for 2014 for both calves and store cattle and he expected the live trade to grow substantially this year.
After reporting that the total live export trade had grown by 31 per cent in 2013, with a total of 209,481 animal exported with an export value in excess of €240 million (£198), Burns said one of the big challenges for 2014 would be to open up the live export trade to the UK.
He wanted Irish farm m inister Simon Coveney and the Irish export body, Bord Bia, to act strongly to break what he called the stranglehold the factories and retailers had on the market in order to secure free and open access for Irish farmers and exporters to the UK.
He also revealed that an announcement on a new ferry route for the live cattle trade between Ireland and the UK would be made in the coming months. Burns described the live trade as vitally important for price competition and market outlets across all sections of the livestock trade.
He added the absence of a live trade for finished cattle, particularly to Ireland’s largest beef export market – the UK – was a major problem that had to be addressed to deal with what he described as “an unacceptable large beef price differential between Irish and UK cattle prices”.
Apart from having designs on the UK market, Burns said Ireland was looking at increasing sales of live cattle to the continent with big increases in calves going to the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and France. He expected sales to Italy and Spain to grow in 2014 with the worst of their economic problems now past.
Two decades ago, Ireland had a massive trade in live cattle going to North Africa but that fizzled out in the late 1990s. Burns reported that this business was now open again, with more than 19,000 head being shipped out last year.
This week has also seen an export mission from the English based meat promotion bodies, Eblex and Bpex, heading to Japan, Korea and India to look at the potential for future trading.
Jean-Pierre Garnier, Eblex and Bpex export manager, said on the visit: “Our exports to third countries are growing well and we must aim to replicate our current successes in the Far East and Africa in other important Far East markets and the Indian subcontinent.
“The UK already benefits from market access for pork in Japan, Korea and India and has developed exports of frozen pork to Japan and Korea. Japan offers very good opportunities for grass-fed beef, bovine offal and premium pork products. The potential for lamb, however, is more limited and may require long-term investment. The Korean market is also a longer-term prospect for lamb and grass-fed beef.
“Developing exports has been a key part of our strategy since 2010 and has led to the opening of market access to more than 60 countries for beef and sheep meat.”


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Singapore-based social voice messaging firm Bubbly (formerly known as Bubble Motion) has been acquired for an undisclosed amount by India-based mobile VAS company Altruist Group, which provides telecom services in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. Bubbly, which was known as Bubble Motion before rebranding last year, raised a total of $39 million, and investors, including Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, Palomar Ventures, JAFCO Asia, NGP, Infocomm Investments, and SingTel Innov8, will be minority shareholders in the combined company. Bubbly said it has 40 million users in Asia and North Africa on its voice-based social media platform, as well as 140 million users on BubbleTalk, a voice SMS service. In a statement, Altruist co-founder Dheeraj Aggarwal said, "We are very excited about the addition of Bubbly… It's a perfect complement to our European and African voice platform business which caters to more than 80 million active voice messaging users, which would immediately benefit from the addition of a proven, yet futuristic service." TinyOwl raises $3 million TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd, a Mumbai-based start-up that offers location-based mobile application (app) for ordering food, has secured $3 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, reports VCCircle.
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Not many people start computer companies these days, with fierce competition and dog-eat-dog pricing making other businesses seem much more appealing. But SeaMicro is going for it, in an unusual way.
The Silicon Valley startup is not offering greater performance, the traditional selling point for new hardware companies. Instead, SeaMicro has come up with a radical server design that is designed purely to save on electrical power and space, two commodities that are in short supply in many data centers.
The heart of SeaMicro’s design is an off-the-shelf component, from what some people might consider the wrong shelf. Instead of using a chip targeted at servers, it has selected Intel’s Atom microprocessor chip, a tiny, inexpensive electronic brain that Intel says is perfect for low-end laptops called netbooks–but often suggests is not powerful enough for full-sized portable PCs, let alone servers.
But Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro’s chief executive, contends that Atom has huge advantages in energy-efficiency and is fast enough for many simple chores on the Internet, like serving up Web pages. The trick, he adds, is to pack lots of Atoms together in a clever way that cuts down on all the other components that consume two-thirds of the energy in a typical server.
That’s just what Feldman says SeaMicro has done, assembling a system that is composed of many mini-servers that are about the size of a credit card instead of a pizza box. Some 512 Atom chips in all are contained in a $139,000 system that is 17.5 inches tall, which the company says offers comparable performance to a seven-foot rack stacked with conventional servers.
SeaMicro connects the processors together using internally developed communication chips that Feldman says are much more efficient than standard connections used in servers, and also developed technology that allocates computing jobs to specific chips in ways that save energy. As a result, SeaMicro says, its technology does the same work as conventional servers in one quarter of the space using one quarter of the power.
Of course, the company’s success will come down to just how well Atoms can do server-type chores. Dave Andersen, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, says his students have tried out SeaMicro’s technology and says the Atoms “work well” on many, if not all, computing jobs tested so far.
Feldman is not disclosing customers yet, but he says SeaMicro has them. One person who is watching developments is Mark Seager, assistant department head for advanced technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which buys and uses some of the world’s largest supercomputers. “We are very interested in this concept,” he says, in part because energy bills are a big issue for the lab. “We want to get some of these things in house and play with them.”
SeaMicro, a closely held company based in Santa Clara, Calif., has been laboring in secrecy on its technology since July 2007. It has raised $25 million from venture capitalists as well as some “strategic partners” it will not identify.
How does Intel feel about SeaMicro using Atoms in such an unorthodox way? Jason Waxman, general manager of high-density computing for the chip maker, says it’s simply a matter of applying SeaMicro’s technology to the right job. He compares Atom to a four-cylinder car engine–perfect for tasks comparable to carrying a few passengers, but not for the electronic equivalent of hauling a couple of semi trailers.
Besides, if SeaMicro’s concept takes off, Intel could sell quite a few more Atoms. “Anyone who wants to pack 2,000 of our processors into a rack–that sort of thing is always interesting to us,” Waxman says.


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Automakers Recall 3.3 Million Vehicles Over Air Bags
The Center for Auto Safety is the nation’s premier independent, member driven, non-profit consumer advocacy organization dedicated to improving vehicle safety, quality, and fuel economy on behalf of all drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.
Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda are recalling about 3.3 million vehicles worldwide because the passenger-side air bag could deploy with too much force, sending shards of metal into the passenger area, the automakers said Thursday.
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Worldwide, the recalls announced in Tokyo include about 1.7 million Toyotas, 1.1 million Hondas, 480,000 Nissans and 20,000 Mazdas. Almost 1.4 million of the vehicles are in the United States.
Among the automakers, Honda has had the most serious, continuing problem with air bag. Before Thursday’s action, Honda had already recalled almost two million vehicles since 2008 for an excessively powerful driver’s air bag.


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Letters: Legal marijuana and vaping, I-95 tolls and electric cars
Vaping crisis shows need for legal cannabis
As of this writing, federal officials have said that 12 people in the USA have died and more than 800 have become ill due to vaping. These numbers are sure to rise in the coming weeks.
The exact cause of these illnesses and deaths is not yet known, but the current focus of the investigation by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is chemical exposure due to additives such as vitamin E acetate, which is added to dilute THC oil and increase profits for the criminals who manufacture and sell these black-market products.
Protecting consumers from dangerous products is an essential responsibility of government.This current nationwide crisis is yet another concern that makes it imperative for Delaware to pass House Bill 110 in 2020 and legalize cannabis for adult use.
HB110 will impose a strict “seed to sale” system of tracking and compliance requirements that will enable state regulators to monitor legalized cannabis products through every step in the supply chain. Only by creating a regulated and taxed market can we begin to erode the economic incentives and profit opportunities for criminals and provide our citizens with the safe products they want.
HB110 will replace an existing illegal industry with a taxed and regulated market that will generate substantial tax revenue, create hundreds of jobs, reduce government spending, restrict access and enable law enforcement to focus on serious public safety matters. And as the vaping crisis has shown us, it will also save lives.
Call your locally elected officials and urge them to vote yes on HB110.
—Dan Winschel, Bethany Beach
Tolls contribute to traffic
If DelDOT is serious about reducing the dangerous congestion that occurs every evening on I-95 at the Rt. 896 exits, I propose they lower the tolls at the Delaware-Maryland state line to $1 from 3-6 p.m.
I think at least a third of the traffic would continue on and exit at Rt. 279 instead. We could at least consider it as an interim solution until the new exit construction is finished in a few years.
—Michaelle McGinnes, Elsmere
Don't penalize electric cars
In regards to the recent front-page story reflecting DelDOT's need for more highway project money because of hybrid cars' better gas mileage: A conflict emerges — the hybrid cars using half the gas end up not paying their fair share of the gas tax, based on the miles driven.
The hybrid’s 50 mpg is exactly what our common fight against global warming can use right now. These cars can start significantly reducing a large amount of CO2 from getting into our protective atmosphere.
The article points out that our surrounding states are getting gas taxes much more than Delaware's 23 cents per gallon — Maryland's is 13.7 cents higher, New Jersey is 18.4 cents higher, and Pennsylvania is 34.6 cents higher. Our legislature surely knows that we are long overdue for a gas tax increase (25 years without even an inflation adjustment) and thus we could now get 10 cents to 15 cents per gallon more in taxes and still be competitive against neighboring states and make a large dent in the DelDOT needs.
Extra taxing for fuel-efficient cars and lower taxes for inefficient cars does not make good incentives for encouraging us to go for the hybrids — which I think is saving the hybrid drivers money and is a moral imperative.
—Jim Miller, Hockessin
Help the planet, stop eating dairy
The person who wrote that Wawa should use glass bottles for their milk was partly right. However, the best way to help to help the planet is to stop eating dairy products as well as animal products.
Cows are a huge part of the problem. Better for the environment as well as for everyone's health. Go whole food plant-based.
—Judy Filipkowski, Wilmington


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RICHMOND HILL, Ont. — DesRosiers Automotive Consultants says Canadian auto sales hit a record in July in what has been a banner year for the industry.The consulting firm says vehicle sales for the month totalled 181,834, including 58,231 cars and 123,603 light trucks, topping the previous record for the month set in 2015.That result was 4.9 per cent higher than total sales of 173,304 in July last year, including 59,225 cars and 114,079 light trucks.July is the third record-setting month in a row, and sixth for the year, with only April falling short of setting a new high.DesRosiers says it’s a contrast to the United States, where sales figures have declined for five months in a row in year-over-year comparisons.Ford was the top-selling brand at 27,650 vehicles sold, despite a 7.1 per cent sales drop from last year, while General Motors narrowed the leader’s gap thanks to a 21.6 per cent climb in sales to 25,852 autos sold.
The President has already said he has no intention of making Ranil Wickremesinghe Prime Minister again no matter what the outcome of the case is. (Colombo Gazette) President Maithripala Sirisena says he will take a political decision after the Supreme Court gives a ruling on the dissolution of Parliament.The Supreme Court, last week, deliberated on petitions filed against the dissolution of Parliament and is expected to deliver a judgement any time soon. “I look forward to the constitutional interpretation of the Supreme Court. Whatever it may be, I will take future political decisions accordingly, to the best interest of our motherland, not to the benefit of any person, group or party,” the President tweeted.


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- Wedding e-commerce company Brideside announced that it raised $7 million in funding. This round of funding was led by Beringea
Chicago-based Brideside — a wedding e-commerce company that helps future brides find dresses for their weddings and outfits for their bridesmaids — announced it raised a $7 million round of funding. This round of funding was led by Beringea with participation from Sawdust Ventures and several others.
Including this round of funding, Brideside has raised over $13 million. And the company plans to use the funding to expand and enrich its digital experience.
Founded in 2014 by Nicole Staple and Sonali Lamba — who became friends while attending Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management — Brideside has showrooms in Chicago, Boston, New York City and Charlotte. And the company is also planning to enter a few more markets by the end of next year.
Staple and Lamba came up with the idea for Brideside while Lamba was planning her wedding in 2009, according to Built In Chicago. Lamba believed that the process of planning the wedding was a challenge and needed to be modernized. And Staple had expertise in tech venture capital.
So they decided to take a data-driven approach and launch a personalized digital experience for each client. After a bride signs up on the website, Brideside collects about 50 data points about her to personalize recommendations. And the bride gets connected with an in-house stylist.
With this round of funding, Brideside plans to hire key executives to join its team of about 100 people — of which 95% are women and 35% are women of color.
“The Brideside brand really stands for bringing women together to celebrate. And that means women of all sizes, colors, and ages,” said Staple via Built In Chicago. “We feel that the industry has really neglected a large population of women in the past and we’re looking to change that.”


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Competition is a wonderful thing. It encourages innovation, keeps prices in check, and it brings to our world new and exciting products that create benefits to humanity. But competition and innovation don’t always work for everyone, and all too often the consequences of rapid product development are unnecessary risks to society. And it is this backdrop that provides an interesting, if not fascinating, twist to a new battle between Internet search giant Google and software behemoth Microsoft.
It seems hardly surprising that Microsoft has announced plans to counter the threat posed by Google documents and spreadsheets. Google’s entry into the office productivity market is clever strategy. For years now, Microsoft has been the leader in this lucrative marketplace, holding what many believe to be an unassailable monopoly. Previous attempts to establish a breach-head into the office applications market by various competitors has met with little or no success. Microsoft, for example, have no doubt kept a close watch on Open Office, a suite of office productivity applications which, despite receiving rave critical reviews and being totally free, has caused an insignificant number of customers to shift their allegiance. With this in mind, Google’s announcement of their release of Google Docs could easily have been taken lightly by Microsoft; and it appeared for some time that is exactly what happened. After all, Docs was released as a beta version in September 2006 and Microsoft’s response has been almost 12 months in the making. But Microsoft knows that Google is Google. With a big brand, lots of customers, and huge developer resources at their disposal, the search giant can make things happen. Which is precisely why Microsoft has responded to Google’s web-only offering by creating Office Live Workspace, a program that works with Microsoft Office products allowing people to view, store, and share Office documents online. To many people, this product is a welcome innovation. Mobile workers, students, and travelers will undoubtedly benefit from the increased flexibility that Internet based storage provides, without the arduous task of migrating their Office documents to Google Docs. So what then could be the downside in such rapid development of Internet based software?
The risk to consumers comes from a security threat from Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks which are instigated when a line of code, placed on a malicious but otherwise normal web page, captures a person’s cookie details and potentially gives the hacker access to user names and passwords. A recent report on Google Blogoscoped reveals how such an attack, created in a controlled environment, allowed a ‘hacker’ limited access to another person’s Google account – including Google Docs. Whilst Google are aware of the problem and continue to issue security warnings to webmasters, the fact that a person’s Google Docs area was potentially compromised gives web surfers reason to be concerned. It may also give Microsoft the opportunity to take the high ground on security, and some degree of comfort in their decision to respond slower than usual to a competitive threat.
Indeed competition is a wonderful thing – usually. But it appears that Google’s rush to innovate, to steal a march on a competitor, to bring a product to the market quickly, has shown the dark side of innovation. It’s the dark side where privacy is not paramount and where security is not treated with the highest priority. Unless Google places the privacy and well-being of their customers first, the future for the Internet will be cause for grave concerns.


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Network Ten will begin making entire television programs available for download immediately after they air from early in the new year.
The new service is part of a revamp of the network's online presence which will kick off in February.
Ten's relaunched website, http://www.ten.com.au, will include over 50 sub-sites for each of its individual programs with the aim of building up communities around the shows and download content.
It's part of Ten's plans to continue being relevant to its core audience, the 16-39 age bracket, said Damian Smith, general manager of digital media at Ten.
"There's two big points of emphasis - one is about video, and the other is about community," he said.
"Those are the two things that our audience is already doing online. They're already watching lots of video on the internet or via a 3G phone or their iPods. They're also generally in social networks and talking about programming and Big Brother and [Australian] Idol."
In the past, Ten has supplemented its Big Brother and Australian Idol shows with additional online-only content, such as Australian Idol Backstage.
According to Ten, nearly 20 per cent of the traffic on the Australian Idol site this year for video content.
Ten's new online strategy would see it extend these offerings to all of its shows, said Mr Smith.
He added that, for some shows, Ten would offer full episodes for streaming and/or downloading from its websites, most likely from midnight on the day they air on television.
"It's very much going to be on a program-by-program basis," said Mr Smith, adding that more information would be available closer to the formal launch of the new websites in February.
"For some programs there will be the availability of full episodes, for others it will be highlights and short clips, for other programs it will be additional web-only content."
Unlike Seven and Nine, which offer email, classifieds and other non-TV online services as a result of their online partnerships, Mr Smith said Ten would stay largely focused on television.
"They've [Nine and Seven] got very strong partners in MSN and Yahoo respectively," he said.
"What it means is that their focus is not entirely on television ... they're doing a bunch of other online things that aren't TV.
"Those are good things but they're not the type of things we want to be doing. We're going to be very focused on television and on extending our TV brands on to the internet."
To date, Australian broadcasters have been reluctant to provide full episodes for online viewing, instead opting for short clips and other minor downloads.
However, the practice is relatively widespread in the US. For example, the US version of Apple's iTunes Store offers numerous shows from most of the major US networks. Episodes sell from US$1.99 each.
Mr Smith said it was still to be determined whether the full episode downloads would be advertiser-driven or a pay-per-episode proposition.


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In 2011, it jumped to 722 million, followed by 1.1 billion the following year and a projected 1.5 billion this year, according to Yankee Group.The display of tablets, laptops, PCs and smartphones at Best Buy in the Westfield West Covina mall bears testimony to the sweeping change in consumer preferences. Last week the store’s display featured 26 tablets, 48 laptops and 90 smartphones. And PCs? There were two.The price discrepancies were hard to miss.
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CE Barometer for November: Q4 sees a significant fluctuation
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The CE Barometer survey for November was undertaken during the first three weeks of December.
Construction professionals across Europe participated in this month’s CE Barometer survey.
Results from the barometer have been on a steady decline since May 2023 and results in Q4 have fluctuated significantly.
Looking to a year’s time, respondents anticipate business levels to be worse with 38.2% of votes. Only 26.5% believe that business levels will be better next November whilst 35.3% are hopeful that levels remain the same.
Compared to a year ago, results are not optimistic. Over half (58.8%) of respondents said that business levels are worse than this time last year. This is an increase of 5.5% from October’s barometer.
Despite the lack of optimism, respondents largely feel that business levels are the same as last month. As Q4 comes to a close it is pleasing to see that there have been no dramatic changes.
The year 2023 started off well, but Q3 was challenging for many and it appears that there have been the same sentiments in Q4.


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GM Will Pay $900 Million to Settle Criminal Investigation into Ignition Switches
General Motors (GM) and federal prosecutors have finally come to an agreement after a criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches.
According to Reuters, the American auto giant will pay $900 million in addition to a public admission that it misled the government and the public about the safety of its vehicles. GM had been criminally charged with scheming to conceal a deadly safety defect from its U.S. regulator, as well as wire fraud.
The ignition switch malfunction caused certain GM cars to shut off while in motion, and has been linked to 124 deaths. This could inhibit steering and braking capabilities, as well as preventing the airbags from deploying.
In addition to the steep penalty, GM will be forced to hire an independent monitor to oversee its safety practices, including its ability to fix defects and handle recalls.
Though this announcement settles the criminal charges facing the automaker, GM still has over 200 civil lawsuits filed by consumers impacted by the defect. A special victim compensation fund was established last year to handle all civil penalties GM would be forced to pay.
GM first addressed this issue with the announcement of two recalls in February 2013, according to a Fox News timeline. The initial action recalled 1.6 million cars, while the second increased the total to 2.6 million.
In May 2014, the U.S. government fined GM $35 million for failing to disclose the problems in a timely manner.
In August 2015, the attorney administering GM's compensation fund concluded that the ignition switches were responsible for 124 deaths and 275 injuries. Families impacted by fatal crashes will each receive at least $1 million.


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The tablet PC’s surging popularity could
have a negative impact on the e-reader category.
Although industry forecasts are still showing very
strong growth for the e-reader category, some analysts
think tablets using e-reader apps could impact this category.
“E-readers are at risk from tablets,” said Stephen Baker,
industry analysis VP, The NPD Group.
The research firm Gartner is projecting e-reader sales
will increase 68.3 percent in 2011 to 11 million units. Amazon
with its Kindle line of e-readers is now leading the
market, with a 45.1 percent share, according to IDC. It is
followed by Pandigital, with 16.1 percent, and Barnes and
Noble’s Nook at 15.4 percent share.
Despite this healthy growth curve, Gartner foresees
cannibalization by tablets, but it noted that e-readers have
carved out a solid niche in the consumer electronics market.
The e-reader’s inherent strengths lie in its low price,
long battery life and excellent display.
“With media tablets offering more functionality, e-reader
vendors need to target avid readers who may see the
value of a stand-alone device that performs particularly
well,” said Allen Weiner, research VP at Gartner.
Weiner also believes e-reader vendors will have to
continue to push prices down at the cost of lower margins
or subsidizing the units.
“We think few end users will buy both an e-reader
and a media tablet, so it is important that e-readers
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Spartanburg, S.C. BMW Manufacturing will host the 10th annual Supplier Diversity Conference on Thursday, September 1, at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, SC. The conference, one of the largest supplier diversity events in the nation, is an opportunity for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses to participate in a day of professional development and to network with BMW’s Tier 1 suppliers.
“The BMW Group believes in the value of diversity,” said Dr. Robert Engelhorn, president and CEO of BMW Manufacturing. “We believe that diversity among our suppliers adds value throughout the organization, sparks innovation, and improves productivity.”
This year’s event will be presented in a unique talk show format, hosted by Dion Flynn, actor, director, and frequent guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Flynn’s “guests” will include Dr. Joachim Post, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Purchasing and Supplier Network; Dr. Robert Engelhorn, president and CEO of BMW Manufacturing; Oliver Haase, senior vice president of Purchasing and Supplier Network Americas; Stephanie Vera, operational lead for Supplier Diversity at BMW Manufacturing; and Geoff Foster, president and CEO of Core Technology Molding Corporation.
“It is important to ensure that BMW and our Tier 1 suppliers include diverse businesses in the competitive bidding process,” said Oliver Haase. “The BMW Supplier Diversity Conference is a great opportunity for each participant to meet many of BMW’s suppliers and showcase their abilities. I know that many of these businesses have been awarded national and global contracts with our suppliers.”
A highlight of the day is the Business Opportunity Networking Event where women-, minority- and veteran-owned businesses can meet BMW Tier 1 suppliers and discuss their capabilities. This year’s event includes 232 exhibitors and more than 2,000 registered attendees. Throughout the day, participants will have the opportunity to attend breakout sessions on professional development topics, drive BMWs at the BMW Performance Center, and tour the BMW plant in Spartanburg. Media are invited to attend the Business Opportunity Networking Event from 1 to 5 p.m.
Since the first conference in 2012, BMW and its suppliers have nearly quadrupled spending with women-, minority- and veteran-owned companies. Registration for this year’s event is closed.
Since 1992, the BMW Group has invested nearly $12 billion in its South Carolina operations. BMW Manufacturing is the largest BMW Group plant in the world, producing more than 1,500 vehicles each day and 433,810 vehicles in 2021, a record. The plant exports nearly 60 percent of its vehicles to about 120 global markets. For eight consecutive years, it has been the largest exporter by value in the United States. The model portfolio includes five top-selling BMW X models, four Motorsport X models, and two plug-in hybrid electric vehicle X models. The all-new BMW XM, the first electrified high-performance hybrid model in the BMW M portfolio, will begin production in late 2022. The factory has an annual production capacity of up to 450,000 vehicles and employs more than 11,000 people.
To the extent that historical press releases reference BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC as the manufacturer of certain X model vehicles, the referenced vehicles are manufactured in South Carolina with a combination of U.S. origin and imported parts and components.


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Between February and April 2021, Black Country 2.0 will focus on work to Reboot the Black Country economy.
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Maintaining pressure on Number 11 in advance of the forthcoming budget
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Digital updates provided directly to member inboxes covering aspects of this phase and invitations to exclusive member events
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BLACK COUNTRY 2.0 CONFERENCE – TOWARDS A NEW BLACK COUNTRY ECONOMY
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New research shows that behaviorally targeted ads can do more than figure out what kind of person you are – they can also shape how you see yourself.
There is a way to ensure online advertising, the free web, and privacy can all coexist together.
The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is not all hype. History shows there have been big developments between past mobile generations.
Online advertising is out of control: are Facebook's Instant Pages, Apple News, and Accelerated Mobile Pages the answer?
Online advertising is so out of control, sometimes there's more ads than content.
Instead of arguing over whether adblocking is right or wrong, advertisers and publishers could work to make the web better.
The data tell the story: mobile ads work.


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A container is loaded onto the COSCO Wellington cargo vessel in Gwadar, Pakistan, on Nov. 13, 2016. Gwadar port marked its first export of a large number of containers to overseas destinations, showing that the port has restored the designed handling capacity. (Xinhua/Liu Tian)
GWADAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong said here Sunday that the concept of "one corridor with multiple passages" under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been realized as the first bilateral joint trade convoy reached Gwadar port from China's Kashgar.
Addressing a ceremony celebrating the arrival of the co-organized trade convoy, Sun said this is the first time that a trade convoy successfully passed through the western part of Pakistan from the north to the south. "It proves the connectivity of local roads, and realization of the concept of 'one corridor with multiple passages'," said the ambassador.
He added that the trade convoy is the best reflection of the spirits of mutual consultation, joint construction, mutual benefits and win-win cooperation, and the spirits will serve as the solid basis for the future construction of the CPEC.
Sun also commented that the CPEC has entered into full implementation with remarkable progress as 16 early harvest projects are under construction and tens of thousands of new jobs have been created for local people.
Meanwhile, with the loading of the last container onto the COSCO Wellington cargo vessel, Gwadar port also marked its first export of a large number of containers to overseas destinations, showing that the port has restored the designed handling capacity.
For his part, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the CPEC is destined to transform the entire country and open up a world of possibilities for not just Pakistan but also Central Asian states and the rest of Asia.
He said that China-proposed Belt and Road initiative matches Pakistan's "Vision 2025" and the two projects will enhance connectivity among regional countries and provide opportunities for shared development.


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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd may have dominated online retail on personal computers, but is some way from replicating that leadership in shopping by smartphone and other mobile devices.
Alibaba, which is heading towards a bumper New York IPO later this year, is throwing billions of dollars at figuring out how to thrive as half a billion people, 80 percent of China’s 618 million internet users, go online via mobile.
The Hangzhou-based firm said last month that mobile has become an increasing source of transactions, now accounting for more than a quarter of the value of goods sold across its online marketplaces. But Alibaba’s shift to wireless commerce is a double-edged sword: mobile commerce brings in significantly less revenue than traditional e-commerce.
The quick-hit impulse buys commonly seen on mobile generate less money for merchants, and advertising on smartphones is a challenge few internet companies have overcome. Both problems threaten to squeeze future profitability.
Making life tougher, rival Tencent Holdings Ltd has already planted its flag on smartphone screens with WeChat, the nearly ubiquitous app that has gone from a mobile messaging tool to a digital Swiss Army knife.
“They’re not just competing with other e-commerce companies, they’re going against messaging apps. It completely changes how competitive they can be,” said Sameer Singh, an analyst who writes about technology at Tech-Thoughts.net. “I don’t think the same margins are realistic.”
Alibaba has spent more than $3 billion this year on mobile-focused investments. In its latest initial public offering prospectus, filed in the United States last month, “mobile” was mentioned 304 times – well ahead of “online” (264) and “internet” (144), while “computer” figured just 36 times.
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Alibaba’s leadership is still trying to shore up the firm’s position on mobile, even as the competition surges ahead, said people familiar with the matter.
This includes Alibaba moving beyond its comfort zone and attempting to control how users access content on their mobile devices – though Laiwang, its attempt at a social messaging app to rival WeChat, has seen little traction among users in China.
Alibaba has also invested in Tango, a U.S. messaging app company, and spent more than $1 billion apiece for full ownership of mobile browser UCWeb Inc and digital mapping firm AutoNavi Holdings Ltd.
While these new ventures are in their early stages, Alibaba admits that profitability could suffer.
“Our strategic investments and acquisitions may affect our future financial results, including by decreasing our margins and net income,” it said in its IPO filing. “Increases in our costs may materially and adversely affect our business and profitability, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to sustain our net income growth rates or our margins.”
Alibaba has also driven the mobile percentage of gross merchandise volume (GMV) – the value of goods transacted through its businesses – to 27.4 percent of the group’s total GMV in January-March, up from 10.7 percent a year earlier.
But while mobile may already account for more than a quarter of all transactions, it’s far less profitable than the rest of Alibaba’s e-commerce business. For January-March, mobile made up just one eighth of total online retail revenue.
Nevertheless, monetisation is improving. Alibaba’s mobile monetisation rate – mobile revenue as a percentage of GMV – jumped in January-March to 0.98 percent from 0.47 percent a year earlier, but still less than half of the overall e-commerce monetisation rate.
While Alibaba is making progress in its transition to mobile, Tencent’s WeChat holds the aces.
Tencent doesn’t break down its WeChat users between domestic and overseas, but with close to 400 million monthly active users as of end-March, and overseas user numbers still limited, that could mean that close to four of every five mobile internet users in China is on WeChat.
WeChat started out as a messaging app similar to WhatsApp, but with stickers and emoticons and the ability to leave short voice messages. Today, WeChat, known in China as ‘Weixin’ (micromessage), allows users to book a taxi, find a nearby restaurant, get a deal on movie tickets, read the news and, like Facebook, update their social network profile.
“Of course everybody uses a communications app, WeChat,” Joe Tsai, Alibaba’s executive vice-chairman, told Reuters in an interview in March. “But that’s communications, not commerce.”
“A user coming to use the commerce function is much, much more valuable … we’re very focused on driving usage and engagement on our e-commerce apps,” he said.
Tencent, though, isn’t just in communications. In March, the Shenzhen-based social networking and gaming company bought a 15 percent stake in JD.com, China’s No.2 e-commerce firm and Alibaba’s main online shopping rival. By tying JD.com’s online shopping into WeChat, Tencent has begun funnelling its hundreds of millions of users directly to Alibaba’s competitor.
Last week, Tencent also bought a 20 percent stake in 58.com Inc, known as the Craigslist of China, in a bid to improve its location-based e-commerce business on WeChat and its other social networks.
Baidu Inc, China’s biggest online search engine, is another of China’s internet traffic gatekeepers. Its search app is widely pre-installed on Chinese smartphones, allowing the Beijing-based firm to dictate the results its users see and the websites they visit.
Alibaba depends on its user traffic to encourage its customers, the online merchants, to pay for advertising, its most lucrative source of revenue. In the year ended March 2014, more than half of Alibaba’s total sales came from online marketing services.
“Advertising has always been much less profitable on mobile,” said Ben Thompson, who writes about technology at stratechery.com in Taipei. “The challenge for Alibaba is figuring out a model that works for mobile, much like Facebook had to do.”


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Shares of Oracle (ORCL) are down $1.91, or almost 5%, at $$38.95, after the company yesterday afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and profit that missed analysts’ expectations, and forecast this quarter lower as well.
The results were a “mixed bag,” by all accounts. There was no growth in the traditional license software business’s revenues, a dramatic surge of 59% in cloud computing revenue, and a plunge in Oracle’s hardware sales.
On the conference call following the results, founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison opened a new front in the cloud computing wars: Rather than confined himself to lambasting Salesforce.com (CRM) and Workday (WDAY), has he has in past, he took aim at Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Amazon Web Services:
We’re very excited about the rollout of our generation two infrastructure-as-a-service data centers. These new data centers give us a significant cost and performance advantage over Amazon web services. Plus our new bare metal offering makes it possible for our customers to lift and shift their entire existing corporate infrastructure, data, and applications without any changes whatsoever and move it to the Oracle public cloud. You just can’t do that with Amazon web service. Lift and shift the entire network, BM, database, data, applications, move all of that across to our data center without changing anything. It’s a real advantage. So for the first time, we have this big technology advantage in infrastructure as a service. We expect this will enable Oracle to accelerate our infrastructure-as-a-service business to the same high growth rates that we’re currently experiencing in both SaaS and PaaS. With that, we’re ready for questions.
Revenue in the three months ended in August rose 2%, year over year, to $8.6 billion, yielding earnings per share of 55 cents, excluding some costs.
Analysts had been modeling $8.7 billion and 58 cents a share.
Revenue would have been up 3% if not for the effect of the U.S. dollar rising against other currencies.
Oracle said its total revenue from cloud computing rose by 59% to $969 million. Its “short-term deferred” revenue rose 4% to $9.4 billion.
Total revenue from “on-premise” software sales, including new license sales and support contracts in the traditional fashion, were flat with the prior-year period at $5.82 billion, or 68% of sales.
Hardware products revenue plunged 19% to $462 million.
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, one of two CEOs along with Safra Catz, took a shot at competitor Workday (WDAY):
This year we are on track to sell more than $2 billion of SaaS and PaaS annually recurring revenue. We believe this will be the second year in a row that Oracle has sold more SaaS and PaaS than any cloud services provider. In the first quarter alone, we added more than 750 new SaaS customers including 344 new SaaS Fusion ERP customers – that’s more ERP customers than Workday has sold in the history of their company.
Oracle stock is down 66 cents, or 1.6%, at $40.20, in late trading.
Update: On the conference call following the report, Oracle forecast results this quarter below consensus as well, with revenue in a range of about $9 billion to $9.27 billion, and EPS of 59 cents to 62 cents, compared to consensus of $9.26 billion and 65 cents a share.
Oracle stock is now down $1.24, or 3%, at $39.62.
Following a somewhat confusing report this afternoon from data integration specialists Talend (TLND), CEO Mike Tuchen was in touch via telephone to clear up what he sees as a mistake in understanding the report.
Shares of Talend plunged immediately as the first glance showed a $1.84-per-share net loss, vastly below a consensus of 34 cents per share. The stock at the moment is down $5.49, or 18%, at $26.49.
As I noted in the post, the company has clarified it believes that a third, pro-forma number should be considered, which is, in fact, better than expected.
“We had a little extra excitement,” said Tuchen.
He views the headline reports of a big miss as an “innocent mistake” by parties such as the media and newswires.
As Tuchen explains the mix-up,
In Q2 itself [prior to the IPO on July 29th], we were still a private company, and we had a much smaller number of shares outstanding. And then we went public in Q3, and there were preferred shares added. We didn’t realize that this analyst number [consensus] was using the fully-diluted share count post-IPO.
As Tuchen points out, the IPO prospectus itself included “flash numbers,” a term for preliminary results that are customarily included for the quarter of an IPO, and that are still being given a thorough accounting review. Those numbers can be found on page 6.
The company delivered at the top end of the four projected ranges listed there, for revenue, operating loss, net loss, and subscription revenue. That is, as Tuchen suggests, “a beat across the board.”
“It would truly have been a shocking story,” he quips, “if an IPO comes out, for a company that had completed the quarter before they launched the IPO, and somehow that company went on to miss the numbers!”
No doubt Talend has also learned a lesson: Don’t expect other people to do your math for you and come up with the number you hope they’ll publish.
Meantime, as for the results, Tuchen was “excited about our quarter, with our growth up from 34% to 38%, and having reached cash-flow breakeven.”
Cloud computing, which is becoming a bigger and bigger driver of revenue, along with Big Data, is happening because of things such as Apache Spark, he notes, which is a technology for in-memory database systems built on top of the open-source Hadoop technology for data mining.
“We were the first to support that last year,” he says of Spark. “People now are looking to use it [Spark], and they’re asking what’s the best way to do that. There are also people just looking for the highest-performance, most-scalable platform, and we can serve either need.”
“Our win rate is extraordinarily high right now.”
As for cloud broadly, I asked Tuchen if cloud computing is still just for “test-dev” kinds of work.
Not any longer, he tells me, it’s more and more mission critical, evenly highly-regulated jobs:
That’s really changed dramatically in last several quarters. One of the companies we mentioned on the call is one of the largest pharmaceuticals companies in the world. They’re moving their entire finance division to the cloud, to Amazon (AMZN). You couldn’t find a more regulated scenario, and in health care, at that. And those guys are clearly choosing the cloud. And we are seeing a number of examples of that. The concept of cloud being just for test and dev really has changed recently. Customers are saying they want to do as much as possible in the cloud, and get out of the data center altogether. These are Fortune 500 customers moving entire divisions. And they will have nothing on-premise in the next several years. There’s another pharma company we’re working with that is moving big, entire scenarios, and that company is making the cloud their strategic direction.
Rosenblatt Securities analyst Marshall Senk today advises investors to buy both the old and the new in software technology, initiating coverage of both Oracle (ORCL) and Hortonworks (HDP) with Buy ratings, with price targets of $48 for the one and $20 for the other.
Oracle has made the switch to cloud, writes Senk:
We believe that Oracle has made it through the trough of its business transition to the cloud model and that the company is well positioned to see reaccelera- tion in margins and continued acceleration in cloud momentum over the next several quarters. In particular we point to a strong product cycle (SaaS apps, the new PaaS offering and the 12c R2 database), sales programs that offer customers the flexibility to transition at their pace and an ongoing willingness to be aggressive in M&A to consolidate the market.
Despite “everything moving to the cloud,” as the common refrain goes these days in enterprise technology, there are still young companies being born with an interest in improving the software that enterprises buy to manage their the databases, where they key the information about their customers and products that is the life blood of any company.
Case in point, five-year-old Pneuron of New York, whose CEO, Simon Moss, stopped by Barron’s offices the other day to talk about how the company is changing the market for so-called “business intelligence,” or B.I., a corner of the database world populated by numerous companies, including Tableau Software (DATA), and Informatica, which was taken private last year.
Moss had previously been head of communications software maker Avistar Communications (AVSR). But the more relevant experience is having run analytics company Mantas Inc., which was backed by Safeguard Scientifics (SFE), and sold in 2006 to Oracle (ORCL) for net proceeds of $113 million. Safeguard has pitched in $13.5 million in venture funding along with other backers.
“We are in a philosophical argument with the market,” Moss told me, expressing an element, if not the whole, of the company’s rallying cry in a market he sees as for many years now being an “absolute shambles” of failed projects and broken promises by software makers.
Despite all the Brexit hand-wringing today, and a second day of massive selling of stocks, Amazon.com (AMZN) did alright, closing down better than average, falling $7.60, only 1%, to close at $691.36.
Perhaps the shares were helped by an upbeat note published by Pacific Crest’s Brent Bracelin, who has an Overweight rating on the shares, and an $820 price target, and who believes the company’s seeing a sharp uptick in its “higher value” offerings, such as its “Aurora” database.
The basis of Bracelin’s note is Amazon’s conference last week in Washington, D.C. for public-sector use of Amazon’s cloud computing AWS services, which had 7,000 attendees, he writes, called “AWS Public Sector Summit.”
Database vendors such as Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM) and Teradata (TDC) have been losing business to Amazon.com (AMZN), writes CLSA’s Ed Maguire today, as a result of stunning growth in Amazon’s so-called RedShift product.
RedShift is a “data warehousing” program, which Maguire notes is based on a technology called “ParAccel,” is used to slice databases into more focused repositories of records, for doing analysis on data.
The program is Amazon’s cloud computing alternative to programs from Oracle and the rest that were traditionally sold to IT shops.
Maguire, who has an Underperform rating on Oracle, writes that RedShift has been growing fast by taking share from Oracle and the other no-growth data warehouse vendors:
The market for data warehousing software is highly concentrated. The top five vendors Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Teradata and SAP account for almost 90% of the market, with the remainder distributed among another dozen leading vendors. According to IDC estimates, Amazon (driven by RedShift) has posted the highest growth of any vendor in the Analytic Data Management Software market (237% YoY growth in 2015, with Hortonworks’ Hadoop-related revenue growth of 202% the second fastest). This compares to total market growth of 2.7% YoY to $9.9bn in 2015 [...] We’d note that the 2015 revenue declines for Oracle, IBM and Teradata are almost fully offset by the revenue gains seen by DWaaS and Hadoop vendors. Together, Oracle, IBM and Teradata saw analytic data management revenues decline by $365m YoY. Amazon grew revenues $125m, Google grew revenues $33m for a total of $158m. Cloudera, Hortonworks, EMC and MapR together grew revenues by $153m in 2015. Together the $313m gains from DWaaS and Hadoop vendors do not fully offset declines from Oracle, IBM and Teradata, but it comes close. Notably both Microsoft’s SQL Server platform and SAP’s HANA drove growth for those vendors, but SQL Server is a traditional Relational Database Management System and HANA’s in-memory analytics is another distinct technology.
Shares of Oracle (ORCL) are higher by 82 cents, or 2%, at $39.46, continuing last night’s after-hours gains, after the database giant reported fiscal Q4 revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, but missed by a penny on the bottom line, and founder Larry Ellison said the company has a “fighting chance” to be the first company to reach $10 billion in annual revenue from a pat of cloud computing known as “SaaS” and “PaaS.”
The outlook for revenue this quarter was also slightly better than expected.
On the conference call following the report, Ellison repeatedly chimed in that “We want to be number one, we think we need to be number one, we think we will be number one in SaaS and PaaS.”
CEO Safra Catz, one of two people to hold that title, along with Mark Hurd, told the assembled that “Clearly we are thrilled with our results, with the most obvious thing being that we dramatically over-achieved again in the cloud.”
Catz made a nod to the lawsuit of a former accountant at the company, who claims in a court filing Oracle forced her to fudge numbers to make Oracle’s cloud revenue appear better than it actually is. Said Catz,
Now, as regard to our cloud revenue accounting, we have reviewed it carefully and are completely confident that it is 100% accurate, and if anything, slightly conservative. You can also see the continuing revenue acceleration of our cloud business in the SaaS and PaaS billings and deferred revenue. The gross deferred revenue balance is now nearly $1.4 billion, up 64% in US dollars.
Falon Fatemi, an entrepreneur and former Alphabet (GOOGL) employee, was kind enough to stop by Barron’s offices this afternoon to discuss her latest initiative, Node, a startup based in San Francisco’s SOMA district, stuck in between Pinterest and AirBnB.
Fatemi claims the distinction of having been the youngest employee at the time at Google, starting at age 19 in 2005 and working there until 2011.
She was in town for the Sales Machine Summit conference in Manhattan, being sponsored by Salesforce.com (CRM), which is a partner of Node’s. Her VP in charge of revenue, Daniel Barber, was giving a talk Thursday at the conference.
Fatemi, who has received $7.5 million in seed funding from VCs including Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and Canaan Partners, is aiming to bring a “graph of relationships” to replace plain old searching for information.
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Shares of database giant Oracle (ORCL) are up 70 cents, or 1.8%, at $39.34, in late trading, after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q4 revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, but missed by a penny on the bottom line, and founder Larry Ellison said the company has a “fighting chance” to be the first company to reach $10 billion in annual revenue from a pat of cloud computing known as “SaaS” and “PaaS.”
Revenue in the three months ended in May slipped by 1% from the prior-year period, to $10.6 billion, yielding EPS of 81 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $10.46 billion and 82 cents a share.
Sales would have been flat with the prior-year period were it not for the effect of shifting currency rates, the company said.
Sales of Oracle’s software sold as “cloud service” and “Platform as a service,” rose by 66%, year over year, to $690 million.
The company’s “instractructure as a service” revenue rose by 5%, to $169 million, and total cloud revenue was up 49% at $859 million.
New software licenses were down 12% at $2.766 billion.
Hardware product revenue declined 11% to $725 million.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz, one of two individuals holding the CEO title, noted the 68% growth in “SaaS and PaaS revenue” was higher than the company had expected, and that “margins continued to improve throughout the year, exiting FY16 at 56%.”
Catz said “bookings” in the quarter “were also very strong enabling us to raise our guidance for Q1 SaaS and PaaS revenue growth, which we now expect to be between 75% and 80%.”
The other CEO, Mark Hurd, said that the company “added more than 1,600 new SaaS customers and more than 2,000 new PaaS customers in Q4,” adding that “Oracle has nearly 2,600 Fusion ERP customers in the Oracle Public Cloud — that’s ten-times more cloud ERP customers than Workday (WDAY).”
Oracle chairman and CTO and founder Ellison said the company “expect that the SaaS and PaaS hyper-growth we experienced in FY16 will continue on for the next few years,” adding that the fact “gives us a fighting chance to be the first cloud company to reach $10 billion in SaaS and PaaS revenue.”
“We’re also very excited about the availability of version 2 of Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) — which will enable us to speed up the growth of our IaaS business, which customers want to buy in conjunction with our SaaS and PaaS,” added Ellison.
Oracle did not provide a forecast, something it usually does on its conference call with analysts, which starts at 5 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch that call via a Webcast on the company’s investor relations site.
Update: On the call, the company projected revenue on a “constant currency” basis of $8.62 billion to $8.87 billion, and earnings per share of 56 cents to 60 cents. That compares to analysts’ projections for $8.62 billion and 59 cents a share.
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Recently President Joe Biden said that he will take action to reduce high prices. He notes that prices, on average, have increased by nearly 20% since he took office. Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy because their incomes have increased much less than 20%. Biden says he will fix this.
He sees that the majority of Americans do not approve of his handling of the economy even though growth has been solid, and the unemployment rate remains under 4%. Americans simply feel badly because when prices increase faster than incomes, Americans are forced to buy less, resulting in a decrease in their standard of living.
Biden claims that his policies, coupled with the Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve, brought the inflation rate down from the peak of 9.1% to the current level of 3.1%. He says that is a victory that should be celebrated.
He also says that because the reduction in inflation is not being reflected by positive attitudes, he must do more. Reducing inflation means that prices will not rise as quickly as they have in the past. It does not mean that prices are coming down. But he knows how to bring prices down.
Biden says much of the inflation is caused by big corporations who are price-gouging the consumers. Price gouging means that corporations are just jacking up prices to increase their profits. He wants to put a stop to it.
The reality is that price gouging does not exist. This condition occurs when someone believes the market price of a product is higher than they think it should be. Based on the inflationary increases in the cost of production, corporations raise their prices to maintain profit margins. In the end, however, they just charge the market equilibrium price.
President Biden has economists on his staff. One of them should explain what a market equilibrium price is.
He also complains that there appears to be shrinkflation. He says the Cookie Monster agrees, saying “Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller.”
When corporations are faced with rising costs for both labor and materials, the cost to produce a cookie increases. The corporation has a choice, knowing that they must maintain profit margins.
They could raise the price. However, noting that food prices in general have risen almost 30% since Biden took office, raising the price may mean that consumers can no longer afford to buy cookies. Instead, they often decide to reduce the amount of materials and labor that they use for each cookie.
That way they can sell the cookie for the same price. The difference is that the cookies are smaller. This is noticeable in many food products. Next time you purchase a half-gallon or even a quart of ice cream, you will notice neither are nearly as large as a half-gallon or quart. The companies reduced the size indoors to keep costs done and hold the price constant.
Another way Biden wants to keep prices down to help consumers is to cap credit card late fees at $8. Currently, those fees are $32 on average. Since consumer credit card debt is now more than $1.3 trillion and delinquencies are rising, he feels this will help consumers.
The impact of this will be negligible.
There are two things he can do to not only lower inflation but to actually lower prices. Energy accounts for nearly 30% of the Consumer Price Index. He could drastically lower energy prices by increasing the supply of oil.
He can easily do that by reversing his executive orders signed within days of taking office. The reversal would allow the Keystone Pipeline to be built, allow drilling on federal land, and reduce the difficulty in the permitting process. This would increase the supply and reduce the price of energy.
Biden can also stop the large inflationary increases in government spending. That would reduce total demand and put downward pressure on prices. He is not likely to do either, meaning prices won’t fall.
Biden will just have to continue to complain like the Cookie Monster does.
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The payments ecosystem is undergoing a period of digital transformation, which will spur tremendous growth in money moved around the globe in the next five years.
Consumers and businesses will make 841 billion noncash transactions worldwide in 2023, up from 577 billion in 2018.
The next five years will mark a pivotal transformation in how companies and consumers handle payments.
The impact of payments’ digital transformation is rippling around the world, in both advanced economies and developing countries.
Across major global regions, the total volume of e-commerce transactions is expected to rise 91% over the next five years to hit $5.7 trillion by 2023.
With such impending immense growth, it’s crucial for cheap shared hosting any business that even touches the payments industry to understand what’s ahead.
Take, for example, noncash transactions, which include debit card, credit card, direct debit, and credit transfer transactions that are conducted either online or offline. Consumers and businesses will make 841 billion noncash transactions globally in 2023, a 46% surge from 577 billion in 2018. The rise in global card and terminal penetration, coupled with increasing digital payments volume, will will be the key drivers in this growth.
To successfully navigate this changing landscape, individuals and organizations must understand the full extent to which digital transformation will affect the payments industry, the key drivers of this growth, and how it all relates to the work they do every day.
Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has forecasted the future of the payments ecosystem in The Payments Forecast Book 2018 — and the next five years will be critical for the following four areas:
Global Payments: Asia, North America, and Europe will be the three main growth regions in the next five years, and will make up 70% of all noncash transaction growth by 2023.
US Payments: In the US, P2P and retail payments combined will still be less than a quarter of the size of the B2B payments market by 2023 ($6.3 trillion vs. $27.3 trillion).
US E-Commerce: Total e-commerce spending in the U.S. will surpass $1 trillion by 2023, and the average consumer will spend $2,959 online.
US Emerging Payments: By 2023, 67% of US adults will have used BOPIS (Buy Online Pickup In Store) at least once in the last 12 months.
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Some forty journalists from the various community papers around the country recently completed a 3-day Seminar Workshop on Race with Machines, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism to allow them to cope up with the emergence of technology vis-à-vis the traditional media.
The training was spearheaded by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the national association of newspapers, in partnership with the German-based Hanns Seidel foundation.
Ronalyn V. Olea, Secretary-General of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), any phone can be tracked via mobile phone towers through triangulation and any data, short messaging system calls made can also be tracked.
She pointed out that it is important for people to place basic security features on their mobile devices to avoid unnecessary tracking being done against them, thus, among the basic security tips include set up a screen lock, enable lock sim card and encrypt device and SD card.
The NUJP official claimed that people should adhere to some general precautions to guarantee digital security such as keep devices with them at all times, never leave phones or tablets out in public; use a security code, add a personal identification number; monitor devices for tampering , mark devices with something unique and not immediately noticeable to help one identify it; use tamper-proof security tape at the edge of devices that open easily, especially when asked to leave devices; and keep the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) No. separate from the phone.
According to her, it is also important to install an-virus although some devices have their own, install Ccleaner for android to delete files and clean digital footprints aside from keeping the software updated and turn off WiFi and Bluetooth by default.
Further, she advised people to back up the contents of their phones regularly and making sure to download apps from official app stores and limit the number of apps to be installed to the bare minimum and install apps that are only needed.
Olea told people to review their existing app permissions and disable all permissions to one’s location, camera, contacts, messages and mic unless needed for the said apps to work. Choose to disable the said permissions and enable only when using the same.
People were also told to make sure that the apps being installed are from legitimate developers by checking the app history and when it was last updated. One should not auto save their username and passwords.
More importantly, she advised people not to connect to a public WiFi and set a non-admin account and use it for daily use apart from setting a strong password.
Olea called on the people to update anti-virus and never leave their computers unlocked and for them to keep their operating system and software updated and encrypt part of their hardware.
If people cannot avoid connecting to a public WiFi, they should use VPN for their own protection and avoid being tracked by those intending to monitor their transactions. By Dexter A. See


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Uncertainty may 'puncture' progress
‘Political prickliness’ adds to slowing growth
The EY Item Club and Bank of Scotland today identify some obstacles facing the economy next year, including slow export growth, weakness in Europe and other geopolitical difficulties.
The Item Club, which uses the Treasury model to develop its forecasts, also warns that the potential for “domestic political upheaval” is an increasingly crucial feature of the Scottish and UK outlooks.
Dougie Adams, senior economic adviser to the Scottish Item Club, says: “The prospect of an EU referendum and the challenge of developing a stable framework for enhanced devolution, not just to Scotland but to the other nations and regions of the UK, are becoming the main impediments to investment spending and resultant short and medium-term growth.
“Political stability and predictability has long been one of the UK’s comparative advantages, particularly in the attraction of foreign investment. Political prickliness might yet puncture the investment swell factored into the forecast, undermining continued recovery in Scotland and the UK.”
EY expects Scotland’s economy to grow 2.8% this year, better than any year for seven years, but to fall back to 2% next year. This compares to 3.1% this year and 2.4% in 2015 for the UK economy as a whole.
Bank of Scotland’s purchasing managers’ index shows business activity in the private sector economy rose in November at one of the slowest in rates in the past two years, affected by a slowdown in new orders.
The bank said the primary area of weakness was manufacturing where new orders fell for the third month in a row, partly reflective of a further loss of new export business.
However, the employment situation continued to improve in line with the trend since December 2012. The rate of job creation resumed growth from October’s ten-month low, to the fastest since August.
Donald MacRae (pictured), chief economist at Bank of Scotland, said: “Manufacturing sector output grew despite a fall in new order inflows while new export orders fell for the fifth successive month illustrating the challenge of increasing exports to a stagnating Eurozone economy. All sectors employed more people in a welcome sign of continuing high levels of business confidence. The recovery continues but the pace has eased slightly.”
Adams said: “Scotland may yet experience a Quebec-style neverendum effect, but the possibility of an EU referendum means the performance of the UK economy as a whole, particularly investment, is a hostage to political flux,” he says.
The EY report notes that the Scottish economy has enjoyed a ‘good run’ and while the EY Scottish ITEM Club believes that growth will persist, it proposes that the pace of expansion will ease.
It attributes this potential deceleration to the prospect of consumer caution in the face of interest rate increases and depleted savings, weaknesses in key European export markets and the aforementioned political uncertainty.
And while the report does identify lower commodity prices, high and rising levels of employment and the prospect of wages outpacing increases as mitigating these pressures, it laments the weakness in exporting Scottish goods to overseas markets.
Jim Bishop, Scotland senior partner at EY, comments: “UK growth has helped increase domestic demand for Scottish products, but conversely, the slowdown in key emerging consumer markets like China is having an adverse impact on Scottish luxury goods exports. The predicted rise in Scotland’s economic output is cause for cheer, but the country’s narrow export base is preventing it from really taking off.”
The EY Scottish ITEM Club anticipates that the professional and support services sector will continue to lead the growth charge, with output forecast to expand by 4.3% in 2015. Transport and communication (3.9%), construction (3.4%) and financial services (2.4%) are also forecast to grow in excess of overall growth.
Commenting on these reports deputy First Minister John Swinney said: “Economic recovery in Scotland is now being sustained with the latest GDP figures showing Scotland’s economy growing continuously for two years. With the 26th month of expansion in the PMI, and the most recent forecasts for Scottish GDP growth having been revised up, the economic outlook remains positive.
“Supporting economic growth, by effective work with business and by tackling inequalities, is integral to this Government’s approach to creating a more prosperous and fair society.
“The focus of our economic strategy on innovation and internationalisation is essential to address the headwinds to the recovery, particularly weaknesses in key export markets as well as political uncertainty at the UK level.
“We will continue to do all we can to ensure the positive trends continue, but with further job creating powers, we could do even more to help families throughout Scotland.”


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Travel management company TAG has signed a global agreement with Tramada Systems to implement the company’s cloud-based post-booking software.
TAG first implemented Tramada in Australia a year ago and said the decision to roll out the software globally was driven by results seen in the region. The company claims the trial revealed “dramatic increases in automation and agent productivity”.
Other benefits of the software include access to New Distribution Capability - a new system of technology standards to allow the distribution of airfares and ancillaries through third parties which is being developed by airline association IATA with... and other hybrid content sources, as well as the use of business intelligence in real-time to improve TAG’s bottom line, according to the Travel Management Company: An agency which manages business travel for a company..
The company began implementing Tramada beyond Australia in September, with the software due to be rolled out in the US in 2020, followed by TAG UK.
Stuart Mackay, chief technology officer at TAG, said: “It would be an understatement to say the results TAG has achieved with Tramada are impressive. The level of automation used during our booking process has increased significantly with Tramada, which has improved overall client experience in multiple ways as well as enabling our company to increase cost savings and revenues and improve our ability to be more agile in an ever-changing environment.”
Tramada Systems CEO Jo O’Brien added: “We are delighted to announce this global agreement with TAG, one of the world’s leading travel and event management companies. Their passion and commitment to delivering a personalised service to their clients is matched by their dedication to seamless processes to reduce friction for their agents and clients. From day one, it was clear to both companies that we have a shared vision for the future and we are excited about this next phase as we bring that vision to life.”


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – New information reported by Sports Illustrated about Adidas terminating Rozier’s contract seems to support Rick Pitino’s explanation of phone calls and texts to James Gatto
The issue at hand – crucial phone calls and text messages Pitino made in the spring to an Adidas executive.
The FBI said those calls came after promises were made that Pitino would reach out to pressure Adidas to come up with money for a recruit.
The coach has always maintained he called James Gatto to lobby for former player Terry Rozier whose shoe deal had been abruptly cut by Adidas.
According to Sports Illustrated, says Rozier was cut by Adidas on May 26 because he was seen wearing Nike shoes. The criminal complaint says a phone number, used by Pitino, called Gatto on May 27 and twice on June 1.
Pitino’s attorney has said the FBI does not have recordings of those calls with the coach.


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Google has extended its video ad efforts beyond YouTube, by rolling out its long-promised Adsense for Video program. It's the same format that it has already used on its video-sharing site: The "InVideo" ads, which have been running on YouTube since last fall, show up as a banner at the bottom of the video. When clicked, they open a new window and play a video ad. They'll be offered to publishers that do at least 1 million streams a month.
The spots are targeted and tailored to the content; a Google salesman tells us they'll be able to generate CPMs of up to $15.
Initial publishing partners include ad networks Tremor Media and YuMe (which powers video ads for the nascent NBC Direct); video aggregators like Blip.tv and Revver; and other video sites like My Damn Channel, PinkBike and Howcast.
Meanwhile, Google's YouTube keeps building its share of the streaming market. In December, YouTube accounted for 32.6% of a total of 10 billion video streams served, according to comScore.
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“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value. “ ~ R. Buckminster Fuller, American Architect, Inventor and Futurist
Our planet is facing a waste crisis. Our oceans are suffocating with plastic, clothing has become disposable and if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest carbon emitter in the world. Reassessing our relationship to waste has never been more crucial.
Lozi’s first panel discussion, Manufacturing from Waste Materials, shines a light on how a handful of groundbreaking UK businesses are challenging our views on waste, completely redefining its use by transforming it into an essential component and raw material in their production systems and even building entire businesses around it.
The talk will be hosted by Rose Etherington, editor in chief of Clippings, the fastest growing platform for interior design that offers a new way for interior design teams to fast-track their projects from inspiration to installation. She has been a design journalist for over a decade, including six years at Dezeen where she was the first editor. She began writing for the nascent publication while working as a researcher on the second title for Carlton Books by Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs, Green Design: Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century.
Come hear the industry disrupting thoughts of:
Toast Ale: Did you know 44% of bread is wasted in the UK? Toast Ale has launched a pint-
sized fight to prove that the alternative to food waste is award-winning. They brew delicious craft beer with surplus fresh bread that would otherwise be wasted and gives all profits to charity to fight food waste.
Helen Newcombe, Founder of Davy J, a British swimwear brand that creates beautiful active swimwear, all manufactured in the UK and made using ECONYL® yarn, a nylon yarn regenerated from 100% waste materials including fishing nets and other marine rubbish.
Smile Plastics: As a materials design and manufacturing house, Smile Plastics transforms waste materials into unique decorative panels for the architecture and design industry. Their striking products continue to inspire designers around the world.
And of course Lozi’s founder Soroush who will be discussing our £9.99 collection, made entirely from our waste materials as well as introducing our new method for repurposing our sawdust.
The panel will be held at our Work/Shop at 278 Hackney Road, London E2 7SJ at 6pm on Tuesday 18th September 2018. Doors open 5.30pm. Panel starts at 6pm for an hour. Come join us afterwards for a late opening until 9pm, enjoy a bottle of Toast Ale and discover our Work/Shop first hand.
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Apple's support document includes information for those who need to use camera covers, and it states that the camera cover must not be thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm) and shouldn't leave adhesive residue. Owners who use a camera cover that is thicker than 0.1mm are warned to remove it before closing the laptop. … [Read more...] about The real reason Apple is warning users about MacBook camera covers


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It looks as though MIcrosoft’s experiment with Windows RT is finally coming to an end; the device manufacturer has announced that it will not update the OS to include Windows 10. With Windows Phone and Windows now sharing a similar storefront, there’s no room left for Windows RT.
Microsoft’s preview event for Windows 10 is coming in late January and the company is expected to unveil a host of changes to both mobile and desktop environments. Will fixing the sins of Windows 8 be enough to tempt buyers?
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An association of rice producers and related businesses in the United States said Wednesday it plans to increase the number of retailers selling U.S. rice in Japan.
The goal is to add some 120 retailers before the end of 2004 an additional 300 to 500 tons a year, the USA Rice Federation said. The federation began selling some 100 tons of U.S. rice at 44 stores in the Tokyo area and Kyoto Prefecture in February 2003.
It decided to expand the sales network as the 100 tons met with strong demand and sold out in eight months.
The network of 120 stores would consist of 50 in the Tokyo area, 30 in Fukuoka, 20 in the Kyoto-Osaka area, 10 in Sendai and five each in Sapporo and the Chubu area around Nagoya.
According to the federation, 50,000 to 100,000 tons of U.S. rice is currently sold in Japan a year at prices about 20 percent lower than those of domestically grown rice of similar quality.