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PC magazine Computer Active has been given an overhaul in a bid to try to broaden the audience and take advantage of the demand for advice at the beginners end of the market.
The revamp includes heavier paper stock, improved navigation and more editorial space dedicated to PC problem solving and campaigning on behalf of consumers.
The news section, product reviews and 15-page pull out ‘Workshop’ section have undergone a shake up and there will be more of a lifestyle element to the magazine.
The news pages are expected to feature a wider range of stories and the question and answer section has increased from two to four pages.
Computer Active’s editor, Dylan Armbrust, said he hoped to broaden the magazine’s appeal. The title has a comparatively high female readership – 25 per cent of its readers are women – and Armbrust is hoping to attract more men, as well as women.
“Traditionally, computer magazines have appealed to men more than women but Computer Active has always been the title with the highest number of female readers. It is definitely the plain-English approach and our non-techiness that distinguishes it from the rest,” he told Press Gazette.
Armbrust also aims to place more emphasis on the benefits and use of digital technology, such as digital cameras, wireless home networks and MP3 players, as well as defending the rights of readers. “We are going to be much more aggressive in fighting for the rights of consumers, especially with the online dimension. A lot of people need to know how to cope with things such as online shopping,” he said.
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DLL launched its first bluepaper, “Professionalizing used asset sales with dedicated promotional materials.” This bluepaper was developed after researching 362 manufacturers and dealers that already promote their used asset sales.
In the bluepaper, DLL says that the sale of used assets is becoming increasingly important for manufacturers, partially due to the rise of the circular economy. However, being actively engaged in the used asset market frequently goes against manufacturers’ traditional way of working, which is to produce new products in increasing numbers to keep their factories up and running. Combined with the fear of cannibalization, lower available budgets and a lack of strategic relevance, manufacturers often overlook or underestimate their used asset possibilities.
This bluepaper is the result of researching more than 360 examples of online and offline promotional materials across the construction, transportation, automotive, healthcare, food, agriculture and office equipment industries.
“The majority of our partners are already engaged in the used equipment market. Furthermore, we see that manufacturers and dealers are increasingly starting to look into refurbishment and remanufacturing,” said Rob van den Heuvel, senior vice president of Global Asset Management at DLL. “A clear communication strategy is key to building awareness in the market and successfully positioning a used product offering. Our bluepaper includes many industry examples and provides guidance that can assist manufacturers and dealers in further developing their strategy for used asset sales.”
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BuySeasons will now allow Rubie’s to offer the leading fulfillment operation to our wholesale customers,” said Howard Beige, Rubie’s executive vice president.
Founded in 1951, Rubie’s is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of costumes, accessories and holiday products with office in 15 countries. The lawsuit filed against BuySeasons last week described the firm as a “large manufacturer of retail inventory.”
The plaintiff, Audrey Wilby, said she was told by BuySeasons chief executive officer Rick Barton the acquiring company was interested in the sales forecasting tool she had developed along with her knowledge of it.“Partnering with Rubie’s will allow BuySeasons to dramatically increase our product offering as well as enhance our worldwide sourcing abilities,” Barton said in a statement announcing the deal. “BuySeasons is very excited when we think about the synergistic benefits of this exciting combination as we look forward to enhancing our customer experience.”Terms of the deal were not disclosed and BuySeasons has not responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit.BuySeasons was founded in 1999 by Jalem Getz and sold to Liberty Interactive Corp. in 2006 and The company had 158 employees at the end of 2016. It operates its headquarters and warehouse from a 470,000-square-foot leased facility in New Berlin. Revenues have fallen from $83 million in 2014 to $73 million in 2015 and $52 million last year as BuySeasons faced increased competition from online and brick-and-mortar retailers.


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African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) yesterday announced the commercial launch of the Afreximbank Trade Payment Services (AfPAY), an intervention created to make it easier for specific African financial institutions and their clients to settle international trade on open account conditions.
Afreximbank developed the product precisely to address the financial issues African economies are currently facing as a result of numerous foreign banks leaving the continent, according to a statement.
Financial institutions on the continent have suffered over time due to a decrease in their access to services provided by international correspondent banks that support their international trade.
Due to the reduction in trade lines, African financial institutions’ doors were practically shut to the rest of the world. The main engine of growth is trade, thus if banks are unable to engage in trade transactions, our economy would grow less and poverty will rise.
Across our member states, AfPAY, which has been in a pilot phase for more than a year, presently facilitates monthly payments totalling more than $500 million. A notable participant in the pilot was Zimbabwe, which used the solution in 20 of its financial institutions, the announcement said.
Mr Denys Denya, Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration at Afreximbank, commented on the launch: “African banks have, for at least a generation, been dogged by the limited access to dependable banking partners willing to support their cross-border trade transactions.
“We are pleased to introduce into the market a product which transforms this dynamic, which we believe will accelerate cross-border trade on this continent, connecting Africa with an international financial eco-system that will accelerate its development and economic growth.”
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Bozoma Saint John is best known for displaying her marketing chops at massive corporations including, PepsiCo, Beats, Apple, Uber, and currently Endeavor. The chief marking officer will now grace our television screens in a completely different way, showcasing her own brand with a new documentary series on Starz Network entitled, Being Badass.
It is said to be “a mix between Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Mister Rogers, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In a statement recently released to Fast Company, Saint John said the series’ underlying message is “to show up wholly as ourselves, especially for anyone who feels ‘other-ed’ and that you don’t have the allowance to be fully yourself.” She added, “I’ve had a lot of great feedback from different types of people who have said they appreciate that I’m able to be exactly who I am in all these spaces, even if I’m the one and only.”
This show aims to be aspirational, inspirational, and motivational, but not without its highs and lows. Topics will span across her business and personal life and will showcase her love of fashion and address the challenges of being a single, working mother, and widowed. Saint John’s husband passed away over five years ago after a battle with cancer. Saint John, who graced the cover of BLACK ENTERPRISE last year, will interview folks in similar situations to gain their perspectives.
“I don’t agree with the line that says you walk into an office and you leave yourself outside,” Saint John continued. “I hope this show inspires people to celebrate all the parts of themselves that perhaps are rough around the edges. There’s something we can learn from each other, even if we’ve been through some things that are tough, or we love things that we think are frivolous. All those things are worthy of celebration and exploration.”
In addition to sharing her bold personal stories, there is also a tech element to this: Saint John will dive into her previous positions at Uber and Apple and where she believes innovation will happen next.
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Today, Volvo Cars India has announced that the Swedish auto manufacturer will finally now be making cars in India, as it moves from being an importer of fully built cars to the local assembly of its models. The assembly unit will be located near Bangalore and will focus on models based on Volvo’s SPA modular vehicle architecture. The first Volvo to be assembled locally will be the XC90. The brand will announce other models that will be assembled locally later.
The plan is to achieve this through a strategic alliance with Volvo Group India – a separate company to the car business – that has already been making buses and trucks in the country.
“I am pleased that as of this year we will be able to start selling Volvos that are Made in India,” said Hakan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars. “Starting vehicle assembly in India is an important step for Volvo Cars as we aim to grow our sales in this fast-growing market and double our market share in the premium segment in coming years.”
Volvo’s decision to start assembly in India and market its vehicles as ‘Made in India’ fits well with a similarly named initiative launched by the national government several years ago, which seeks to highlight and promote Indian manufacturing prowess.
While the Indian luxury market is still relatively small, it is forecast to grow rapidly in coming years. Volvo currently has a premium segment share of close to 5 percent and aims to double this by 2020. Volvo Cars in India have had a robust 32 percent growth in sales volumes in the past 2 years and the 2017 trend is as per our plan to achieve 2000 cars, this will give us a growth of 25 percent year-on-year.
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China promised Monday to import more Indian commodities including IT, pharmaceutical and agricultural products in order to make trade between the two countries “more balanced”.
Visiting Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming and his Indian counterpart Anand Sharma said after a ministerial meeting on trade and economic relations here that the two countries will also set up a joint working group (JWG) to look into trade-related issues within 90 days.
The decision was taken at the 9th meeting of India-China Joint Group on Economic Relations, Trade, Science and Technology.
“There has been this issue of data reconciliation, the methodology of calculating the numbers on trade. Both Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming and I have proposed that the issues pertaining to trade data and the methodology should be looked into by a Joint Working Group of senior officials of the two countries. We both have agreed to establish the JWG which will address all trade-related issues, but also go beyond that. The mandate will include trade and investment. It will be set up at the earliest, and will give its recommendations and assessment in three months. But the working group will continue to work on investment and trade matters thereafter also,” Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said.
Both sides also agreed to encourage mutual investment during the meeting. “I have invited Chinese companies to invest in the proposed National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NMIZs), and I am happy that the response has been very positive and encouraging,” said Sharma.
Both countries had also agreed to work on a five-year plan on economic cooperation, he added.
Chen said when the global economy has not come out of crisis, there is great meaning to expand bilateral economic cooperation with India which will also send a positive message to the world.
While stressing trade is the basis of economic cooperation between the two countries, Chen said China hopes to increase bilateral trade with India to 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2015 from 75 billion dollars at present.
He said China encourages its enterprises to shift some of their production bases from China to India if they are needed here.
Sharma said it is unreasonable that the direct investment into each other by China and India only totals about one billion U.S. dollars and called for more investment.
He said India welcomes Chinese investment in the nine envisaged economic development zones in the country, also known as NMIZs, which will become manufacturing bases.
However, he stressed that India welcomes only highly skilled and qualified professional personnel from China in its visa policy towards the country because jobs are precious in India.
He denied that some Indian policies towards Chinese telecom companies are discriminatory with such practices as anti-dumping and barring contracts between Chinese suppliers and Indian users under the excuse of safeguarding”national security”.


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Right off the heels of filing for a $100 million IPO, electric car company Tesla Motors this morning announced that it has hired former Toyota production engineering GM Gilbert Passin to lead the company’s vehicle manufacturing operations as Vice President of Manufacturing.
Passin has 23 years of international automotive experience under his belt, most recently serving as general manager of production engineering for Toyota in North America.
Previously, Passin was vice president of manufacturing at Toyota’s plant in Cambridge, Ontario, which produces over 200,000 automobiles per year.
Passin regards his jump as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’.
In a statement, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Passin’s recruitment fits in the company’s plans to significantly ramp up its production capacity (at present, it has produced some 1,000 cars), particularly with respect to the planned Model S sedan. Musk added that his new VP will also help recruit new employees for Tesla’s California manufacturing team.
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More than 20,000 Self Assessment customers have used HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) online monthly payment plan service since April to spread the cost of their tax bill, totalling £46 million so far, it has been revealed.
Where customers are struggling to pay their bill in full, the self-serve Time to Pay service allows Self Assessment customers to manage how they pay their tax liabilities. Customers can use the online service for tax bills worth up to £30,000 without the need to talk to HMRC. The service will create a bespoke monthly payment plan for the customer based on how much tax is owed and the length of time needed to pay.
Last year, 123,000 customers used self-serve Time to Pay to spread the cost of their 2019/20 tax bill, worth £460 million.
Customers have until 31 January 2022 to complete their 2020/21 tax return and pay their bill. If they can’t pay in full, customers can set up their own Time to Pay arrangement online if they:
have filed their 2020/21 tax return
owe less than £30,000
are within 60 days of the payment deadline
plan to pay their debt off within the next 12 months or less
If customers owe more than £30,000, or need longer to pay, they should call the Self Assessment Payment Helpline on 0300 200 3822.
Myrtle Lloyd, HMRC’s Director General for Customer Services, said:
“We understand some customers might be worrying about paying their Self Assessment bill this year, and we want to support them. To see if you’re eligible to set up a payment plan, go to GOV.UK and search ‘pay my Self Assessment’.”
Self-serve Time to Pay is just one way customers can pay their Self Assessment tax bill, a full list of alternative payment methods is available on GOV.UK.
HMRC urges everyone to be alert if they are contacted out of the blue by someone asking for money or personal information. Customers should always type in the full online address www.gov.uk/hmrc to get the correct link for filing their Self Assessment return online securely and free of charge. HMRC sees high numbers of fraudsters emailing, calling or texting people claiming to be from the department. If in doubt, HMRC advises not to reply directly to anything suspicious, but to contact them straight away and to search GOV.UK for ‘HMRC scams’.


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Valentine’s smoothies, buy your diamond rings for next year now: prices are on the up.
De Beers, the world’s largest diamonds group, says prices are set to rise. According to the company’s index of its own rough diamonds, prices have gained 2% since the start of the year. Underlying profits for the business in 2013 were up more than a third.
The company, 85%-owned by the mining giant Anglo American, predicted the economic improvement would strengthen jewellery sales this year, albeit only slightly as strong demand in the US and China looks set to be partially offset by weakened demand in India, where bank loans are becoming harder to get.
Full-year production of diamonds rose 12% last year to 31.2 million carats from 27.9 million in 2012, highlighting the reason why Anglo upped its stake in the business the previous year. Less sparkling was the rest of Anglo American, where new chief executive Mark Cutifani was unable to avoid a second year of straight losses. Strikes by its platinum miners in South Africa forced it to write down the value of its mines there by $1.9 billion (£1.1 billion).
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Jeff Garzik is a Bitcoin developer who took part in the core team working on Bitcoin’s source code from May 2013 to December 2014. In 2015, he cooperated with venture capitalist and entrepreneur Matt Roszak to found Bloq, a company that provides enterprise-class blockchain solutions for business. Besides that, the company also supports other Bitcoin-related innovations. Currently, Jeff Garzik is Bloq’s CEO. The latest news is all about Jeff Garzik’s United Bitcoin project, which is aimed to be a new hard fork of Bitcoin. UB is supposed to include many improvements, such as expanding size of a block to 8MB, protection against repeated transactions, etc. There are supposed to be 21 million issued tokens of UB, though the future of the project is still unknown.


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Bathroom fittings major Roca Bathroom Products has become a case study in crisis management. ‘Leadership – Roca Parryware Navigates the Pandemic’ shows how the company’s leadership navigated the crisis with grit and eventually rebounded. Surviving the Pandemic When the Indian government announced a nationwide lockdown on March 23, 2020, the Roca India management was ready.
In an interview with Sourcing Hardware, he explains how retailers can achieve excellence in a rapidly changing landscape. He also ranks ‘brand alliance’ and ‘customer experience’ as the most essential ingredients for retail leadership. Sourcing Hardware is the business media for the building products and home improvement industry. What should be the vision of retailers who
PARRYWARE has introduced a new range of water heaters with digital temperature display. The appliance is available in instant and storage versions, in 1-50 litre capacity. Four safety protection features include dry heating cut-off, thermal cut-off, electric leakage insulation, and high hydraulic pressure release. The product is backed by a 7-year warranty on the inner
Bathroom products major Parryware has forayed into the household plumbing pipe segment. It has introduced cPVC pipes and fittings, which are used for potable hot and cold water distribution systems. To begin with, the company will roll out its range in south India where it has a strong foothold. Parryware is the flagship brand of
Leading bathroom products manufacturer Parryware has recently introduced three new colours to its popular ‘Colours Story’ range. According to the company, in-depth research and analysis of colour preferences across markets was undertaken to finally select the new shades. Moving beyond the conventional colours available in the market, the new trendy colours introduced for the season
In 2006 it was a perfect strategic move by Roca, the global leader in bathroom solutions that will celebrate its centenary next year, to acquire market leader and Indian legacy brand Parryware. But in business, landscapes can change dramatically and leadership status can be ephemeral. Parryware, the top-of-the-mind recall brand in its category, is coping


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An ad in The Force Unleashed instruction manual touts an already available Fracture demo.
hope this turns out to be true this game looks amazing
Can't wait to try out the demo. I hope the AI is good.
hopefully true. I want to try this.
They made a mistake in the article, they said the Force Unleashed demo came out on 360 and PS3 the same day. That is not true, it came out on 360 a day or two earlier; so this could very well be true. I would imagine a PS3 demo would follow very soon however.
no not the same day...came out a day be4 the ps3
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A Kent secondary school is one of the first in the country to install a device that works like a vending machine – but in reverse.
Pupils from St George's Church of England School in Gravesend can claim house points or a 5p drink discount every time they feed the device an empty plastic bottle or aluminium can.
Year 10 pupil Zoe Tutt demonstrates the simplicity of the machine
Created by ACM Environmental Ltd, the EcoVend is the first step in changing the way people think about recycling.
To use the device, pupils load empty containers into the chute, the bottle or can is scanned before being crushed and then a reward voucher is printed.
According to Travis Way, managing director or ACM, there are around 18 million plastic bottles used every year, and only 50% of those are recycled.
The school in Meadow Road is one of the first schools in the country to use the machine in one if its canteens.
Head teacher Matt Lillie said: "We're really fortunate to have the machine in our school.
"It's good to see modern technology used so efficiently to engage young people with recycling.
"They enjoy it and I think it's going to have a huge impact on the school environment and the thoughts of the children around recycling.
"We talk a lot about recycling in school, but to actually have something that makes it a little bit more fun and engaging, that's interactive and informative helps teach our students as to what plastic does to the planet when not disposed of properly.
"I think it's a great device and if it can be much more wide spread and go to other schools, that would be fantastic."
Pupils have begun to reap the benefits of the scheme by cashing in on discounted lunchtime goods and scoring points for their houses.
Some have even started hunting for discarded bottles and cans around the school grounds to capitalise on the rewards.
Year 10 pupil George Duffort said: "It has so many benefits knowing that what we're doing is saving the world in some ways.
"The fact it links in with our stewardship values, being a Church of England School, is really great.
"There are loads of facts and figures on the machine, which really makes us think about the environment.
"I'd love to see this sort of thing everywhere, and I think everyone would."
"It helps me consider where I am putting my rubbish, and what impact my actions have when it comes to recycling."
Year 10 pupil Zoe Tutt said: "I think its a really good piece of tech that we can use to make the world cleaner as a generation.
"We can use it as a way to physically see how we're helping.
"It makes me feel quite proud when I use the machine. It helps me consider where I am putting my rubbish, and what impact my actions have when it comes to recycling."


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The show, which has lined up most of the leading regional real estate players with their impressive display of existing and upcoming projects, drew hundreds of visitors and real estate professionals from across the region on the opening day. Shaikh Maktoum was accompanied by Shaikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chief Executive and Chairman of the Emirates Group, and Chairman of Dubai World and President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority.
Shaikh Maktoum took a tour of the show, which hosts 150 exhibitors from more than 28 countries.
The opening day also saw the commencement of several conference sessions, including Retail City, Global Real Estate Seminars and the World Architecture Congress, or WAC, with some of the most respected industry experts taking part in discussions and providing insider knowledge across a range of current hot topics.
Engineer Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality, gave the opening keynote speech at the Future Cities conference, taking the audience through the vision for Dubai over the upcoming 30 years.
Asil Attar, chief executive of Majid Al Futtaim Fashion, presented the opening session of Retail City, discussing the elevation of retail in the Middle East, with Henning Stuben, partner and director for JDS Architects Copenhagen, kicking off WAC by giving his views on the creation of iconic, yet sustainable, structures.
The first session of the Global Real Estate Seminar saw Dubai Land Department, Dubai Properties Group, Damac and Diamond Developers coming together to discuss the outlook for 2012, predicting trends, sectors for growth and opportunity during the next 12 months.
Rohan Marwaha, managing director of Cityscape, said he hoped this year would provide an ideal platform to address the challenges of the industry.
“International exhibitors represent more than 50 per cent of total participation this year and Dubai has grown to become recognised as one of the leading international cities to do business ideally located as a bridge between emerging and mature markets,” said Marwaha.
Also taking place at Cityscape’s opening day was the presentation of the Retail City Awards and the Cityscape Awards for Architecture in Emerging Markets.
Shaikh Maktoum also visited the stand of Falconcity of Wonders, a landmark development in Dubai.
Alharith bin Salem Al Moosa, deputy chairman, Falconcity of Wonders presented to him an overview for the project.
Occupying more than 41 million square feet of land, Falconcity of Wonders is an integrated mega city shaped to represent the falcon, emblematic of the UAE’s heritage. The project will also feature famous international destinations such as Rome, Venice, Beirut, India, and New York.
The purpose-built community is divided into five phases, which will combine various commercial, residential, educational and leisure amenities with entertainment facilities, and include apartments, villas, schools, mosques, community centers, a shopping mall, hotels, restaurants, health clubs and spas, convenient stores and parks, in addition to a Theme Park.
Events to be staged at the DWTC, comprising diverse sectors including construction, energy, technology, beauty, food, healthcare, environment and automotive, will mark the emirate’s post-pandemic economic recovery
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Royal Mail is warning of disruption to deliveries in 12 postcodes across the UK after a wave of staff were forced to self-isolate.
Posties are the latest workers to be hit by the so-called “pingdemic” which has forced thousands of workers to stay home after being messaged by the NHS Test and Trace App.
Pub chain Greene King said it had to close 33 pubs last week due to staff being off, while Wetherspoon told Sky News it had "maybe a couple of hundred" employees that had to stay home.
Iceland and M&S bosses yesterday warned of store closures and reduced hours after members of staff had to self-isolate.
Posties that are being hit by disruption due to the “pingdemic” include those who work in locations from Bath to Blackpool, according to the Royal Mail website.
A notice reads: "Due to resourcing issues, associated self-isolation and safety measures, deliveries in some areas may be disrupted this week."
See the full list below to check if your town or city is affected.
A Royal Mail spokesperson told The Mirror: “The health and safety of our colleagues and our customers is our number one priority.
“In a limited number of areas, we are experiencing some disruption to service due to COVID related absences.
“In impacted areas, we are focused on providing as comprehensive a service as possible to our customers.”
Staff shortages are affecting the following areas and postcodes:
- Bath (BA1 and BA2)
- Blackpool (FY1 to FY6)
- Chorley (PR6)
- Debden (IG7, IG8, IG9, IG10)
- Enfield (EN1, EN2, EN3)
- Henley on Thames (RG9)
- Middleton (M24)
- Newton Abbot (TQ12, TQ13)
- Plympton (PL7)
- Rochdale (OL11, OL12, OL13, OL14, OL15, OL16)
- Southport (PR8)
- Worthing (BN11, BN12, BN13, BN14)
The disruption to Royal Mail deliveries comes as Brits are being warned not to fall for a new delivery scam text doing the round.
The con involves scammers texting people, claiming they’ve had a parcel returned to a Post Office branch or Royal Mail depot - but this message isn’t legitimate.
The text contains a link to a fake website that looks exactly like an official Post Office platform.
It then asks the victim to enter their personal details - including full name, address, date of birth and phone number - supposedly to identify their closest depot and reorganise the delivery.
But in reality, this is sent directly to the scammers, who might use this information to commit identity fraud or gain access to your bank accounts.


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Domain administrator dotMobi is launching a free database of mobile devices, that will allow web developers to deliver services to any device.
The database will ensure that visitors to a website are given information tailored to their device's screen and input methods, and will be available free for mobile developers, as an alternative to the large databases that have been built up before now, by large companies.
“People like Google and AOL and Microsoft have gone out and built large device databases, so services can be more dynamic,” said dotMobi’s vice president of advanced services and applications, Paul Nerger. “But other companies, even ones as big as Disney, can't keep up with all the devices.”
dotMobi is giving away access to the database because its revenue comes from sales of .mobi domains (around 850,000 have been sold). These domains should give mobile users access to content tailored to mobile devices, unlike the .com domains; the database will improve that by handling the wide differences between those devices, said Nerger.
“We're trying to get people to get out of dotcom mode, and to think about the mobile web, and how to really exploit mobile devices.” People will be able to pay for an extra service that gives them updates of changes to specific APIs, for a “minimal” charge of $99 per year, said Nerger. This would ensure, for instance that new Nokia devices would be supported, right away automatically by sites,
Sources for the database include handset manufacturers, operator handset testing teams, and two public domain sources – UAProf and WURFL. Dotmobi has hired one of the founders of WURFL, Andrea Trasatti.
Ironically, the idea behind the dotmobi database might contradict the need for .mobi domains eventually, as .com domains could equally well identify devices and tailor their content, so today's web could go mobile. “I believe strongly that we need a mobile web, and a separate web for mobile devices” said Nerger. “There is rudimentary device detection, but the problem comes with devices like the iPhone or the Nokia N95.” Users should be able to choose a mobile-specific version of their sites, and the .mobi domain will always be intuitive and easy to key in, he said: “It's one web, but you need to communicate your context, and say 'give me mobile or give me classic'.”


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id aware of Steam issues
Fix expected "very quickly".
id Software says it's aware of a few teething problems relating to the enormous barrage of games it launched on Valve's Steam service last night, and assured Eurogamer they would be fixed.
"I was actually looking at the support forums and noticed a couple of things this morning, so I'm furiously sending people texts going 'look into this'," Steve Nix, id's business development director, told Eurogamer.
"We launched a lot of games yesterday and we would expect a few minor issues. But of course - the great thing about Steam is you can fix things very quickly. So we're going to work to make sure these small bugs are fixed very quickly."
You can read the full interview with Steve Nix, among others, when we get back to England and get the time to properly transcribe them for goodness sake we can't be everywhere at once calm down.
And you can read about id's passage onto Steam, announced last night at the QuakeCon press conference, in the news item they're already calling id games coming to Steam. Hang on, where's Dangerous Dave?


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The Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing baccalaureate program at the Fashion Institute of Technology is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The superstars of the fragrance industry were honored last week at The Fragrance Foundation Awards event held at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.
The Fragrance Foundation has announced that Halle Berry and Fergie are among the celebrities to be honored during the annual FiFi Awards Celebration in late May.
The Fragrance Foundation has announced the creation of the new 2011 Consumers' Choice FiFi Awards, which rely 100% on consumer participation.
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Slack Offers a More Grown-Up Option for Businesses
(Bloomberg) — Slack crept its way into thousands of companies with a fun app to exchange office gossip, animated Gifs and the occasional productive discussion with colleagues. The chat-room software would spread throughout small teams, often unbeknownst to a company’s IT department. This is one reason chief information officers don’t love Slack as much as their employees do.
But as competition from corporate software heavyweights Microsoft Corp. and Atlassian Corp. intensifies, Slack Technologies Inc. is creating a more traditional option for large businesses. On Tuesday, the startup will introduce Enterprise Grid, a version of its chat app designed for companies with thousands of employees. It provides the sort of data security, regulatory compliance and company-wide communication tools many big companies consider to be essential.
The long absence of these features wasn’t deliberate. Slack itself was born from a lucky accident. After selling the photo-sharing site Flickr to Yahoo! Inc., Stewart Butterfield went off to start a video game company in 2009. His team in San Francisco strung together a custom chat room to keep them organized through development. Butterfield eventually decided the chat app was more promising and focused on it instead. Since launching Slack in 2013, it has grown to 5 million users, a mix of free and paid accounts. Investors valued the business at $3.8 billion last year. Bloomberg Beta, the venture capital arm of Bloomberg LP, is an investor in Slack.
The app has grown alongside the company, which now has 800 employees. But in its fight to win over much larger businesses, Butterfield discovered they need a vastly different product from the one originally built for his tiny team of game makers. “The nature of the organization really changes dramatically once you get above that threshold of a single team,” said Slack’s 43-year-old chief executive officer.
This is a fact that some Slack competitors realized a while ago. Atlassian’s HipChat actually predates Slack, and while its “hip” factor has since diminished, the software has been embraced by companies of more than 30,000 employees. Atlassian allows businesses to run HipChat on their own servers, which can provide CIOs with a little extra peace of mind. Atlassian is also trying to attract companies with a package of office tools that work together. This month, it spent $425 million to buy to-do list app Trello. “Teamwork is not just about communication,” said Jay Simons, Atlassian’s president.
Few companies execute that particular strategy better than Microsoft. In November, the Redmond, Washington, software giant took the wraps off its would-be Slack killer called Teams. The app comes bundled with Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud service. Bryan Goode, the general manager of product marketing for Office 365, said customers appreciate that Teams works seamlessly with everyday tools like Word and Excel. Microsoft said 30,000 organizations started using Teams just in the last month.
While Slack has generated positive buzz, the sheer size of Microsoft could make Teams a serious competitor, said Greg Arnette, the chief technology officer at Sonian, which helps companies keep online archives in compliance with regulations. “There is a huge tsunami wave that Microsoft sales is pushing to get Office 365 everywhere,” he said. “Never underestimate Microsoft’s sales apparatus when it comes to ramrodding into the enterprise accounts they control. And they control a lot of them worldwide.”
Butterfield’s response to Teams was to take out a full page ad in the New York Times, a move that was seen by some as defensive. And there’s also the looming threat of Facebook Inc. someday getting serious about its long-in-the-works entry into the market called Workplace.
For now, Slack is focused on delivering what many companies have been demanding for a while. Enterprise Grid allows employees of a sprawling organization to send messages to coworkers on different teams and organize into an unlimited number of “workspaces” around individual projects or divisions. Data security and retention policies adhere to U.S. financial and health-care compliance rules. Enterprise Grid also has more sophisticated tools to lock down data and prevent potential loss.
Even before catering to firms with the deepest pockets, Slack proved people were willing to pay for its app. The original service can be used for free before paying a monthly fee of $6 to $12 per user for more features. Slack said it’s on track to generate $150 million in revenue on an annualized basis. For Enterprise Grid, Slack said each customer will negotiate pricing separately, and contracts will be reassessed annually.
Slack has been testing Enterprise Grid for months with several major companies. IBM is the largest, with about 30,000 employees using the service. April Underwood, Slack’s vice president of product, said they learned a lot from seeing how the original service wasn’t a great fit for large companies. “We realized we needed a new product.”


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American e-commerce giant Amazon has announced plans to create 800 new tech jobs by expanding its Austin Tech Hub in Texas, US.
The jobs will be in fields such as software and hardware engineering, research science, and cloud computing.
Since 2011, the online retail major has invested over $7bn and created more than 22,000 full-time jobs in the state.
Amazon’s Austin Tech Hub general manager Terry Leeper said: “In the last four years, we have created more than a 1,000 jobs in Austin.
“With a strong pool of technical talent in Austin and a dynamic quality of life, we are excited to continue to expand and create more opportunity in this vibrant city.”
In addition, the retailer is planning to expand into a 145,000ft² office in Domain 10 to accommodate the additional people. The office will open in 2020.
Besides the Austin facility, Amazon currently operates 16 Tech Hubs across North America, in addition to its Seattle and Northern Virginia headquarters.
Texas governor Gregory Wayne Abbott said: “The state of Texas has cultivated a strong and vibrant business environment, leading to more jobs and greater innovation.
“With today’s announcement and continued investment in the technology sector, Texas will continue to chart a path toward greater economic prosperity.”
Earlier this month, the Arlington County Board approved a direct financial incentive of $23m to Amazon, which is linked to Amazon’s six million square foot office space expansion planned over the next 15 years.


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We have an exclusive new mag that we think you’d all love to get your hands on…
The team at Rising Ballers have given us a sneak peak of “THE NEXT WAVE VOL. 1” – a brand new comprehensive football culture report delving into an array of research topics important to the Gen Z consumer.
Last Thursday, they hosted a prelaunch party to celebrate the upcoming launch of the report. The report is now available for viewing (link below), and it is filled with gems! Coming in at nearly 90 pages of fresh research, this is a must read.
Titled The Next Wave Vol.1, the report is the biggest of its kind and provides key information made easily accessible and completely free – perfect for those interested in developing a better understanding of the football industry, building brand awareness and reputation within football and learning more about how Gen Z interact with the game and its assets.
The combo of quantitative and qualitative analysis produced the most comprehensive coverage – Rising Ballers surveyed over 1,000 young people asking almost 100 questions about all things football. The mag also includes insightful chats with Gen Z footballers from grassroots, non-league and academy levels as well as with experts within the field including current and former players and industry leaders.
To name a few – Marvin Sordell (ex pro and advocate), Molly Bartrip (Tottenham Hotspur Women player), Katie Chapman (ex pro, coach and advocate), Megalie Mendes (AoF), Deese Kasinga (ex pro) and Tyrhys Dolan (Blackburn Rovers player).
The insights are unmatched – Rising Ballers have identified nuggets of information that will have a lasting impact on the industry and on brands looking to expand reach, impression, engagement and awareness. Furthermore, the insights outlined are actionable: with every stat comes major takeaways that will help inform decision-making and drive positive change.
Not only is the research relevant to today’s young consumer, Gen Z, but can evolve to cater the next wave: Gen Alpha. The report includes the most up-to-date research you can think of, straight off the press – reflecting current events and pointing to future trajectories and trends. Beyond just reporting, the mag has a strong storytelling element that acts as a platform for the youth of today to share their often overlooked and unheard opinions and thoughts on the many elements that comprise the beautiful game.
The Next Wave Vol.1 addresses five main topics – namely, Convergence of Cultures, Inauthenticity and Monetisation of Football, Discrimination, Mental Health and Women’s Football – all in the context of how the Gen Z football consumer behaves and engages with the many facets of football. From social media consumption habits to off-pitch engagement to improving EDI… the report covers it all.
The reoccurring theme seems to be authenticity, referenced throughout the report and highlighted at the end. Rising Ballers share that Gen Z are hot on authenticity and value honesty, personality and transparency – essential factors brands should look out for in attempt to develop trust and loyalty. This can be further applied by brands looking to collab with professional footballers and leverage their status and social media presence.
Some of the most startling findings include the fact that racism is overwhelmingly still seen as a big problem in football, with 99% of Gen Z football consumers sharing that racial abuse is a persistent issue. Additionally, Rising Ballers found that of those who have been let go in the past, 73% shared they received little to no support from their team, club and/or manager following release. Mental health is a taboo topic and even more so in the football world.
Here are some more snippets of some of the most eye-opening findings in the report.
Having been given a sneak peek of the report, we’re excited to read the rest of it. Hear from some of the team behind the report…
“We’re very excited to get this out to everyone. Having been immersed within football for a long time, the growth of the game is hugely important to all of us here at Rising Ballers. It was important for us to put this report out there, for free. As we delved into this project, we realised there was so much more to go into. It’s nearly at 100 pages long, but we feel like we’ve only scratched the surface. We look forward to chatting with our friends in the space about more specific research projects, some of which we are already delving into now.” Eni Shabani, Founder.
“We hope this report is read for entertainment and pleasure purposes but also for educational and collaboration purposes. It is the first of its kind and we are extremely excited to share it and really open those important channels of communication. The hard work and team effort has made us all here at Rising Ballers extremely proud of the final magazine!” – Carol Konyn, Report Lead.
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Last week, Starbucks placed a video on YouTube responding to a video posted by the Oxfam Charity. The Oxfam video was launched in conjunction with ‘Starbucks Day of Action,’ held December 16th, when activists visited Starbucks locations across the world in protest of the coffee retailer’s alleged mistreatment of Ethiopian farmers. The Starbucks video calmly addresses the Oxfam allegations, citing an impasse over Ethiopian trademark legalities. Starbucks claims the refusal to sign a trademark agreement with Ethiopia is a stumbling block they hope to resolve on behalf of the farmers.
The coffee chain’s representative goes on to refute the contention that Starbucks refuses to pay a fair price for its coffee reserves and, in fact, routinely pays well above commodity price, and above fair trade price. Unlike many recent ineffectual corporate reactions to social journalism and networking eruptions, Starbucks’ response is unique in that the corporation managed Oxfam’s unconventional assault in a very unconventional way, via YouTube. Regardless of the outcome of this particular incident, the move on Starbucks’ part comes off as unmistakably in touch with today’s communication modes and methods.”
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Very few specifics are known about Nintendo's 3DS, the new handheld it will unveil next week.
We know it will boast a glasses-free 3D display, and be backwards compatible with the old DS software - but Nintendo is keeping back many details until its E3 press conference next week.
However new reports online today claim to shed light on the device, seemingly confirming prior reports that the top panel on the dual-screened handheld is a super-wide 3D display to better show off its new features.
These claims, which originally seem to stem from a sketch made by a Chinese developer (pictured), who claims to have a 3DS development kit and says the device has playback functions for MP3/AAC and other media, plus built-in 3D camera.
It's otherwise very similar to the other DS models, with a microphone, clamshell design and touch-screen (which is smaller than the 3D display)
A Kotaku translation of the claim says "the effect of the [3D] screen is amazing".
The components in the handheld are expected to be those manufactured by Sharp - and these latest details do at least match up to a circuitboard for a new DS model published by US authority the FCC which showed a design which had two different sized screens.
The 3DS was first announced back in March.
Nintendo will offer the first concrete details next week at its E3 press event on Tuesday.
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Oil product demand growth was held hostage by outside forces in late August/early September as issues regarding Syria’s use/non-use of chemical weapons in its ongoing civil war pushed crude oil prices to their highest levels in more than two-years, and lifted refined products prices as well. Add to this the economic instability felt when a major, growing industrialized nation, such as India, sees its currency lose more than 25% of its value in a short period of time, and the observer sees growing instability in many parts of the world. China had already seen its growth fall to single-digits from double-digits.
Meanwhile, Europe seems to have weathered the worst of its most recent recession and is slowly moving into recovery phase. And the US, long a global basket case economically, also seems to be posting better growth numbers in recent quarters. So, can Europe and the US recover enough to lift the other countries out of recession, or will the downward pull be too great?
In one concise document, the reader gains a sense of world supply and demand of refined products and the health of the overall world economy.
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“What it is, you see, is that your Playstations have been cheerfully maxing out your cards for six days now,” confirmed Mr Stringer sheepishly. “We were going to just whistle and pretend it was nothing to do with us, but now a few of you have made the connection between all the hideously overpriced tat the postman’s been bringing you this week, and the phone calls you’ve been getting from your card providers asking you if you’d like your credit limits raised by another ten or twenty grand, isn’t it?”
“You might think a blu-ray remote in a Waterford crystal casing with inlaid mother-of-pearl buttons is a bit extravagant, look you,” he added. “But just wait until the workmen arrive on Friday to tear up your decking to erect the pylons for the 60ft TV screen.”
Data security experts, meanwhile, are advised worried console owners that maybe it is about time they finally grew up and stopped playing with toys.


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- BellSouth and SBC Communications are merging their wireless phone businesses to create the second-largest in the U.S. wireless market, the Associated Press reported.
AP, citing unidentified sources familiar with the deal, said the two companies' boards were meeting late Tuesday to vote on the new joint venture and were expected to announce the merger Wednesday.
The combined company would have more than $8 billion in revenue and 16.5 million customers.
A spokesman for Atlanta-based BellSouth declined to comment. A call to SBC in San Antonio was not immediately returned.
SBC SBC, -4.76% is the number one local phone company in the U.S. with nearly 60 million access lines in the Southwest, Midwest and California, plus more than 10 million wireless phone subscribers in 22 states.
BellSouth BLS, -16.67% focuses its local service in the Southeast. It has has about 4.8 million domestic cellular and PCS customers in 14 states, according to Hoover's Online.
The new company, as yet unnamed, will be looking for other companies and wire licenses to complete its network, according to the AP report.
The BellSouth-SBC venture will be owned equally, and each company will have two seats on the board of directors, the AP said.
BellSouth and SBC also plan to create a tracking stock for the wireless unit, following the example set by other phone companies, according to the source.
AT&T T, -0.83% announced last month that it planned to launch a tracking stock for its AT&T Wireless unit, seeking to raise up to $13.25 billion.
News of the SBC-BellSouth deal comes a day after Bell Atlantic BEL, -1.78% and Vodafone VOD, -1.71% announced that they will unite their wireless operations under the name Verizon and plan to sell a portion of it to the public. See full story.
Shares of SBC closed up 1 1/4 on Tuesday at 46. BellSouth shares also rose 1 1/4, closing at 48 7/8.


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Amazon will fight efforts to unionize by NYC workforce
A rendering of One Court Square in LIC, where Amazon will temporarily move this year; via NYCEDC
During a heated City Council hearing on Wednesday, Amazon said it will oppose efforts by its New York City workforce to unionize. Speaker Corey Johnson asked Brian Huseman, the public policy vice president for Amazon, if the company would allow workers to unionize while remaining neutral during the process. Huseman responded, “No, sir,” establishing a tense tone for the rest of the hearing, the Daily News reported.
The NYC Amazon deal has been completely backwards from the start.
The local community was completely cut out of the process, and important questions weren’t asked before the deal was struck.
— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) January 30, 2019
The oversight hearing is the second of three held by Council members, who hope to get more information on what they call a closed-door deal that drove the tech-giant to choose Long Island City as home to its second headquarters. Amazon announced last November its plans to split its new headquarters between the Queens neighborhood and Arlington, V.A., with each site creating at least 25,000 new jobs.
Public officials and advocacy groups have criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for not including them in discussions with Amazon and for offering nearly $3 billion in incentives and grants.
On Wednesday, Johnson grilled James Patchett, the president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, on why the agreement with Amazon did not include a clause about remaining neutral during unionization efforts. Patchett cited the agreement reached with Amazon to use union building staff through Service Employees International Union’s Local 32BJ and the support from the Building and Construction Trades Council.
“Not all unions. You picked a couple of unions, so some workers were valued, and other workers were not valued,” Johnson said. “And you’re pitting some workers against other workers, which isn’t right.”
Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents LIC and has been a vocal opponent of the plan, called Amazon “dramatically anti-union” in an interview with WNYC on Thursday. He added: “That’s not a New York value. We can’t cave.”
During the hearing, Amazon touted its plans to fund computer science classes at 130 high schools throughout the city and to hire 30 New Yorkers living at NYCHA developments for customer service jobs. Home to about 6,000 residents, the largest public housing project in the country, Queensbridge Houses, sits next to Amazon’s proposed new complex.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Frank Maione, U.S. chief customer officer for Johnson & Johnson, plans to retire from the company this fall.
Frank Maione, U.S. chief customer officer for Johnson & Johnson, plans to retire from the company this fall.
During his 34-year career, Maione made significant contributions to the consumer health care business, according to Jeff Strong, global chief customer officer at J&J.
Maione began his career at Warner Lambert in 1976 as a retail representative in Miami, selling Listerine. He advanced through various roles of increasing responsibility, working in 48 states and more than 15 countries.
After the Pfizer acquisition of Warner Lambert, Maione became vice president of sales for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. In that role, he led his team to become the No.1 sales organization in the industry in 2005, according to Strong.
Since J&J’s acquisition of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare in 2006, Maione has worked as J&J’s U.S. chief customer officer to integrate six consumer sales organizations into one customer-facing team.
"Frank’s hard work during the past three years has provided a strong foundation upon which we can continue to build," Strong stated. "Over the coming months, Frank will work closely with me, the customer development leadership team and our customers to ensure a seamless transition."


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Previously right now, it was documented that manufacturers are inevitably predicted to raise new motor vehicle charges thanks to the bigger charge of raw elements and logistics introduced about by the weakening of the ringgit. The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) stated that as things stand, a price tag hike would be unavoidable.
On the other hand, MAA president Datuk Aishah Ahmad reported motor vehicle firms have not nonetheless resolved to raise vehicle charges, and are continuing to soak up the added prices. Proton is 1 of these automakers, as Berita Harian stories.
In accordance to its deputy CEO Roslan Abdullah, the national carmaker is continuing to soak up the rising expense of raw products so that the selling price of its motor vehicles can be preserved, and had not yet resolved on nearly anything similar to that front.
“Proton has not made a decision just about anything nonetheless for now. If there is (an raise or normally), we will announce in the close to upcoming. For now, we are however seeking to absorb the enhance in expenses,” he told the publication. Even so, he additional included that should expenses continue on to rise and even more effect its vendors, then it was probably that the company would have to pass some of the enhance on to its customers.
The carmaker is already established to revise costs of its models with the re-implementation of the revenue and support tax (SST) into their marketing price. On May 1, it explained that any car or truck orders put from that day would see these only currently being sent just after the SST exemption period of time ends on June 30.


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Tycoon avoids bankruptcy order
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Shipping tycoon Frank Chao Sze-bang avoided a bankruptcy order as a High Court judge dismissed his creditor's petition on Tuesday.
Mr Chao faced a bankruptcy petition brought by Bright Islands Corporation over a sale of a vessel in 1999, but Mrs Justice Doreen Le Pichon ruled that the vessel's value should be dealt with in a separate civil trial.
Bright Islands presented up the petition over an alleged US$6 million (HK$46.7 million) shortfall in the price of reselling a vessel, which had been ordered by a company guaranteed by Mr Chao in 1997. The company failed to pay and led to the resale at a lower price in November last year.
Mr Chao contested the vendor had sold the vessel at a substantially undervalued price.


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CHENNAI: A concoction of strong yet pleasant aromas of seeds, roots, spices, herbs, powders and dry fruits hits us as we enter 130-year-old K Ramasamy Chetty Nattu Marundhu Kadai (country drug store) in Park Town. The shop is abuzz with activity. A staff member tells a customer, “If you are looking for something for your skin problems, this will cure it,” pointing to the Thumbai powder (Leucas powder).
Suresh, the store’s fifth generation owner, while supervising the activities takes us on a tour of the shop, which has been selling nattu marundhu for over a century. “My great great grandfather registered the shop in 1888 but, he began selling these herbs and spices around 1865,” he shares.
As we walk up the spiral staircase which leads us to the storage space, he shows us gunny bags filled with heaps of various dry fruits and roots including jathikai, murungai, vettiver and maasikai. “Since we have been around for ages, people know that our products are effective. We also create awareness on various time-tested cures,” he says.
The sound of wooden drawers and glass cabinets, labelled with the names of respective powders and herbal oils stacked in them, being opened and closed frequently, is part of the background noise. “The store is always filled with customers. In fact, many people queue up outside the shop, even before we open the shutters,” he says.
The store sells ingredients to prepare medicines to treat various conditions including diabetes, kidney stones, joint pains, cancer (early stage), asthma and erectile dysfunction. “The raw materials are sourced from various parts of India including Madurai, Virudhunagar, Amritsar, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh,” he says.
Over a decade ago, these shops saw a dip in sales due to modern medicines and other alternative medicinal practices that crept into the market, but owners of these shops tell us that nattu marundhu is back! “The main reason people didn’t buy nattu marundhu was due to lack of awareness. Now, awareness is slowly increasing and they get to experience the goodness of such age-old medicines,” says Suresh.
Raja of Dhanalakshmi Nattu Marundhu Kadai in Aminjikarai concurs. “We have been running the store for three generations now. We have had our ups and lows in business but this particular period has been very good for us. From youngsters to senior citizens, everyone now prefer nattu marundhu. Parents come to buy products like sitharathai which is given to kids for cold and cough,” he shares.
The price of ingredients sold at these stores ranges from `5 to `2,000 and above. “We sell in grams and in kilos, so the price is according to the quantity. For instance, a few grams of multani mitti is just `5 in our store. So, people don’t necessarily have to buy in large quantities,” explains Suresh.
These shops boast of a diverse clientele. “Some people think that nattu marundhu is only for those who can’t afford modern medicines. That’s not so. We have celebrities — from small screen to silver screen and even politicians who buy medicines from us regularly,” shares Karthik, who runs a nattu marundhu kadai in Pallavaram.
While medicinal spices, herbs and lehiyams — thippili, sitharathai, milagu, vallarai and prasava lehiyam and Diwali lehiyam — were once the popular products, face packs and hair oils have become the new favourites, especially among youngsters. Shreedhar, proprietor of a shop in Adyar tells that most women IT professionals buy face packs in bulk. “They have to sit in front of the computer. They feel their skin is getting damaged and most start getting wrinkles at a young age. So, they buy different face packs and also some ingredients like Kiksili kizhangu, which is good for the skin,” he shares.
Cures ulcers and purifies blood
Naval kottai: Suggested for diabetic patients and for people with dermatological conditions
Kandangathri: Cough, cold, eosinophilia
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The news: Microsoft announced it will acquire game publisher Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal that will turn the software giant into one of the largest game companies in the world and put some of gaming’s most lucrative intellectual properties under its umbrella.
More on this: Activision Blizzard is one of the gaming industry’s largest publishers, owning major franchises like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, as well as mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga. These titles, among others, could now potentially be linked exclusively to Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Game Pass subscription service.
The news comes as Activision Blizzard is battling a unionization effort and is reeling from a months-long sexual misconduct scandal, which stemmed from a lawsuit by the state of California alleging that the company cultivated a “frat boy” workplace culture in which women were paid less and harassed. Employees, fans, and critics have called for CEO Bobby Kotick to step down after a Wall Street Journal report revealed details of his involvement in the scandal, prompting gaming executives and companies—including Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer—to publicly criticize the company. Kotick will stay on as CEO of Activision Blizzard for the time being, per Microsoft’s announcement.
The challenge: The games industry is undergoing a tidal wave of consolidation, with large players like Microsoft, Tencent, and others purchasing game studios with increasing regularity. With a long list of major, lucrative intellectual property now likely to be under Microsoft’s wing, the deal may draw the attention of regulators that have spent the last few years ramping up challenges against Big Tech.
Editor’s note: Our Connectivity & Tech Briefing also covered this story today; here’s their take.


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Ashley Graham is showing off the fruits of her labor, flaunting a noticeably tinnier waist after months of sharing her rigorous workout routine.
The 30-year-old model turned heads on Thursday, showing skin while wearing a crop top during Los Angeles Team Mentoring’s 20th Annual Soiree in Santa Monica.
Graham looked like she’s shed some lbs. and showed off her shrinking waistline in a curve-hugging two-piece. Posing alongside Kathy Ireland at the event, Ashley’s workouts definitely seem to be paying off.
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The producer price index PPI, a measure of inflation at the wholesale level, was tamer than expected on Wall Street, where analysts had expected a rise of 0.1% instead of the 0.2% that it dropped in June. However the core inflation rate rose a hotter-than-expected 0.3%.
Falling energy and food prices unexpectedly put wholesale inflation into negative territory for the first time in five months. Energy prices fell 1.1%, the largest drop since January, with gasoline falling 3.9%. Food prices declined 0.8%, the largest drop since May 2006.
The report showed a 1.4% jump in car prices and personal health products showed a 1.3%.
Producer prices have now risen 3.3% over the past year with core prices up 1.8%.
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The Kansas City, Kan., festival for beer lovers kicked off on Sunday, when thousands of beer lovers turned out for the first time in the city’s history.
The event, which has been in the works for more than a year, is slated to kick off at the citywide Civic Center in downtown Kansas City.
The festivities will feature a lineup of more than 400 breweries from across the country.
More than 600 beer vendors, vendors of all sizes, food trucks, live music and entertainment will take over the downtown square for the four-day event.
Tickets range from $30 to $200, depending on the location and location’s ability to accommodate large crowds.
Kansas City’s Civic Center will be transformed into a festival space for the festivities.


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Colin Kerrigan has been promoted to Vice President of Operations for Horton Emergency Vehicles. Kerrigan joined Horton in 2010 as the Operations Excellence Manager and was promoted to Operations Manager in 2011.
Horton manufactures ambulances and rescue vehicles in Grove City, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. Horton has been the industry leader in innovation and quality since it began in 1968.
“Horton’s investment to transform the manufacturing and supporting processes in to a world class operation, through Colin’s leadership, has further enhanced the company’s focus on quality, increased production capacity and reduced delivery times,” said John Slawson, Horton President.
Prior to joining Horton, Kerrigan held positions with Toyota and AW, North Carolina, developing lean practices in manufacturing of automatic transmissions for domestic and export use. He also brings with him significant experience working with both Honda and International Trucks in his earlier career.
“The commitment from the employees at Horton has been truly inspiring,” Colin said. “From the newest team member to the veteran with more than 30 years service, the Horton team has completely changed the way they think about manufacturing to better serve our customers.”
Horton Emergency Vehicles is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allied Specialty Vehicles, a $1 billion revenue privately held company, comprised of industry leading brands in fire and emergency, Recreation and Commercial specialty vehicle segments, www.alliedsv.com.


text: Analysts for Barclays said in a note to investors that a new 7-inch iPad will be released this fall, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. “Following up on comments made last week, recent research still leads us to believe that Apple may be planning to add another form factor to its iPad line in the 7″ range for the fall,” the note read. The banking firm states that a smaller iPad would be useful in promoting Apple’s education agenda and could also help the company’s gaming efforts. Rather than sullying the iPad brand and iOS ecosystem, Barclays states that a “lower priced iPad [is] a necessary entry point to make the tablet market the size of the PC market by 2015 in terms of units (over 350 million units) – a figure CEO Tim Cook repeatedly mentions.” Apple has long been rumored to be readying a 7.85-inch iPad mini to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. The slate is expected to be priced between $249 and $299, and could launch as soon as the third quarter of 2012.


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Blackberrys to acquire Spykar
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Leading apparel brand, Blackberrys, aims to acquire leading Indian denim maker, Spykar Lifestyle. As per the market reports, the company is in discussion with Avigo Partners, a PE investor that holds a 60-percent stake in Spykar. Prasad Pabrekar, Founder, Spykar, holds the remaining 40 percent stake in the company.
For the past few years, Avigo has been in talks with many strategic players, including private equity investors, to sell its stake in Spykar. These talks have not yet gone forward due to valuation issues.
The products of Spykar, established in 1992, are sold through 1,000 multi-brand and 200 exclusive outlets across India. The company clocked annual revenue of Rs 180 crore in the last financial year. Global investment bank, Lincoln International, is advising Avigo to find potential buyers.
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Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites
It didn’t quite break the Internet, but a 4-hour outage at Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division caused headaches for hundreds of thousands of websites across the United States.
Little known to consumers familiar with Amazon’s online shopping site, Amazon Web Services is a giant provider of the back-end of the Internet. For sites like Netflix, Spotify, Pinterest and Buzzfeed, as well as tens of thousands of smaller sites, it provides cloud-based storage and web services for companies so they don’t have to build their own server farms, allowing them to rapidly deploy computing power without having to invest in infrastructure.
For example, a business might store its videos, images or databases on an AWS server and access it via the Internet.
While not all AWS clients were affected by the outage at one of AWS’s main storage systems, some experienced slowdowns, after a big portion of its S3 system went offline Tuesday afternoon.
Amazon wasn’t able to update its own service health dashboard for the first two hours of the outage because the dashboard itself was hosted on AWS.
“This is a pretty big outage,” said Dave Bartoletti, a cloud analyst with Forrester. “AWS had not had a lot of outages and when they happen, they’re famous. People still talk about the one in September of 2015 that lasted five hours,” he said.
The S3 system is used by 148,213 sites according to market research firm SimilarTech. It has “north of three to four trillion pieces of data stored in it,” Bartoletti said.
The outage appeared to have begun around 12:35 pm ET, according to Catchpoint Systems, a digital experience monitoring company. Operations were fully recovered by 4:49 pm ET, Amazon said. The Seattle-based company did not comment on the cause of the outage.
The most common causes of this type of outage are software related, said Lydia Leong, a cloud analyst with Gartner. “Either a bug in the code or human error. Right now we don’t know what it was.”
The system that went down was the first of what now are three AWS regions in the United States. It is still the largest and is also where AWS rolls out new features, “so it’s disproportionately big,” she said.
AWS began as a profitable sideline to Amazon’s main online sales business but has since grown to become the major player in the arena as well as a major money-maker in its own right for Amazon. In the fourth quarter of 2016, the division accounted for 8% of Amazon’s total revenue.


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Personal cloud storage cannot be underestimated as a market priority. The numbers of personal computers and laptops which have been shipped has dropped because of increased cloud storage and more tablets in the marketplace, according to Trefis analysis. The personal cloud platform is a storage option that can take advantage of spending from the consumers, too, Trefis adds.
For instance, Western Digital (News - Alert) launched My Cloud, a personal cloud storage drive, recently for network attached storage offerings to be offered to individual customers – not just enterprises. My Cloud is accessible across laptops, PCs, tablets and smartphones, and uses such operating systems as Android (News - Alert), iOS and Windows. My Cloud also provides a four-bay cloud storage system, for professionals and small workgroups that need large amounts of digital data.
These trends come as accounts associated with personal cloud storage services were to have surpassed one billion at the end of 2013, according to ABI Research (News - Alert). That represents close to twice as many as were present a year ago.
Looking ahead, the number of accounts will more than triple worldwide, and will reach 3.61 billion by the end of 2018, the “Personal Cloud Storage and Synchronization” study from ABI predicts. Over the same five years, the total data storage used by personal cloud services will jump from 685 petabytes in 2013 to 3,520 petabytes in 2018, the study said.
“Various factors are contributing to the rapidly increasing personal cloud uptake, including the consumerization of enterprise IT and multiple device ownership,” Aapo Markkanen, an ABI analyst, said in a statement. “For storage needs, the most far-reaching driver is the expansion and improvement of camera technologies. In particular, cameras embedded in smartphones have generated large amounts of high-resolution image and video content. This trend toward ubiquitous cameras is only set to intensify, as camera capabilities gain traction in wearable computing and the Internet of Things.”
In light of these trends, personal cloud is vital for digital ecosystems. Alibaba, Apple (News - Alert), Google, Microsoft, and Yandex use their storage services to improve consumer relationships, ABI adds.
“These services are posing a challenge to dedicated, platform-agnostic cloud services, but ABI Research expects the latter service category to co-exist with the ecosystem clouds,” according to a statement from the firm.
“Of the standalone providers, we expect the early leader, Dropbox, to double down on the enterprise, as a way to attract more premium accounts,” Dan Shey, ABI practice director, said. “Meanwhile, it is also interesting to see start-ups with new and arguably more innovative technology propositions entering the market. Players like Bitcasa and Space Monkey are out to test the premise that the cloud could ultimately replace the native device as the primary storage for users’ data.”
In response, Jonathan Feldman recently predicted in Informationweek that “a more pervasive distribution of personally owned compute and storage assets will change the face of IT as we know it.”
A new concern for IT is how employees could decide to bring their own storage to the workplace. “The notion of company employees moving all kinds of data into personally owned compute and storage clouds will freak out IT control freaks as much as employees doing the same with their personally owned devices. But ‘bring your own compute’ and ‘bring your own storage’ are going to happen, and the question is: Will it hit you unaware, or will you plan for it?” Feldman adds.
The 2013 revelations about NSA spying also has led to distrust of the government, distrust of providers of public cloud services, and distrust of security protocols found with the Internet. Private clouds can be a viable alternative.
As these trends continue, Lenovo (News - Alert) announced during the recent International Consumer Electronics Show its Beacon personal cloud storage device, which marks its entry into a promising sector. “Beacon allows users to easily store and share multimedia via their PC or mobile device in the home or remotely. Using the downloadable Android app created for Beacon, users can even turn their Android smartphone into a remote control for the Personal Cloud Storage Device,” according to a company statement. The Lenovo Beacon personal cloud storage device will be available in April. Prices start at $199.
“You can think of it as a home server, everything you’d expect from your home server now, but it’s also your home cloud,” Lenovo’s Stephen Miller told Silicon Angle about the Lenovo Beacon Home Cloud Center.
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IGN The PS4 version of Nervouse System Function will include new features and features, including a new skill tree, new enemy types, new weapon types, and the ability to play as two different characters at once.
There will also be two versions of the game.
The first will be a standard PS4 release that is available on July 17, and a special PS4 Pro edition that will be available on August 1.
Ubisoft has yet to confirm if the game will also support VR, but the company said in a statement that it “has been working closely with Sony and its development teams to deliver an experience that delivers on the promise of PlayStation VR.”
The PS4 is one of the more popular consoles out there, but there are other platforms that also support it.
In 2017, Nintendo announced that it was working on a VR-ready version of the Wii U title Splatoon, which was later cancelled.
This summer, Sony announced the PS4 VR headset, which has a limited capacity for VR play, and it will come out in 2020.
In addition to the PSVR headset, Ubisoft is also developing a VR title for the PlayStation 4 called Nervo, which is due out in 2018.


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Montgomery Hyundai plant production falls to 15-month low.
Faced with a global microchip shortage, Hyundai’s Montgomery plant hit a 15-month production low in September.
The plant built 16,700 vehicles last month. That’s the fewest since June 2020, when the assembly line was partially shut down as COVID-19 raged through the area. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama didn't operate for five days in September because of microchip shortages, plant spokesman Robert Burns said.
A parts shortage forced the plant to shut down production for a week earlier this year and left about 1,000 regular workers temporarily unemployed for seven days, but they still managed to build more than 19,000 vehicles that month.
Burns said the plant is scheduled to operate all weekdays in October. "We are not projecting any microchip or supply issues at this time," he said. "... There has not been any reduction in staffing. In fact, we are still actively hiring new team members to support our operation."
HMMA now makes most of the vehicles the company sells in North America, including Sonata and Elantra sedans, Santa Fe and Tucson SUVs, and the new Santa Cruz pickup. "At this time, HMMA’s supply chain has continued to improve," Burns said. "There are some risks; Hyundai Motor Group Purchasing team is working closely with our parts purchasing team make sure we have parts to maintain daily production schedules."
Shortages and struggles nationwide in car sales
Hyundai’s sales numbers show the wider impact of the shortage, though the South Korean automaker has fared better than most. The company bucked industry trends with record sales in North America from March to June and continued to report strong sales in July. But year-over-year sales dropped slightly in August and September.
The industry as a whole saw sales plummet 25% overall in September, while Hyundai’s sales slipped only 2% last month. That allowed Hyundai to gain market share, and the company predicted that trend will continue as other automakers face even steeper challenges in meeting consumer demand.
Sales of Hyundai’s eco-friendly vehicles rose 348% in September, and the Montgomery plant could be key to expanding those numbers in the future.
Hyundai confirmed in May that it plans to start building electric vehicles at HMMA beginning in 2022, part of $7.4 billion in planned investments across the nation over the next four years.
The Alabama plant launched a $410 million expansion just before the start of the pandemic to add the Santa Cruz to its production line. Those vehicles entered full production in Montgomery this summer.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Brad Harper at email@example.com.


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Picture: Hannah Mckay/REUTERS – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. France’s Olivier Giroud and Kylian Mbappe in action with Argentina’s Angel Di Maria during the final – Argentina v France – at Lusail Stadium, Lusail, Qatar on December 18, 2022.
By Maria Konokhova
As the World Cup 2022 recently concluded in Qatar, positive spillover effects are now being registered around the world. Several countries, despite not being participants, have managed to benefit from the world’s biggest football tournament by boosting their exports to the host nation.
During the month-long tournament, Tanzania significantly increased meat exports to Qatar, with the latter becoming the largest importer of its meat – in particular goat meat. About 37 percent of the meat exported from the East African country during that period found its way to the Gulf state, according to the Tanzania Meat Board (TMB).
“The World Cup greatly boosted demand for meat in Qatar, which is currently our biggest market,” John Chasama, the marketing manager of TMB, said.
In November alone, the country’s meat exports more than doubled, reaching 1,423 tons, up from 632 tons in October, thus registering an increase of 125%. As for the value of the exports, it also surged during the same period from $2.9 million to $5.37 million.
However, the rise was preceded by a decline in the sector, mainly due to droughts, which affected the meat quality. The marketing manager stated that even though the situation hasn’t improved, the impact on goat meat hasn’t been as strongly pronounced as on other types of meat.
“Goat meat is by far the leading export item, accounting for about 74 percent of meat exports at 1,047 tonnes, followed by mutton (343 tonnes), beef (32 tonnes), chicken (0.67 tonnes) and pork (0.2 tonnes),” according to TMB.
Nevertheless, amid the spike in sales during the World Cup, the Tanzanian meat sector faced some challenges related to the transportation issues, which affected an impressive performance.
The business operations manager of Tan Choice Limited, one of the country’s leading meat processing companies, Dr Sero Luwongo explained, as cited by the media, that Tanzania could have exported more than it had sent to the tournament’s host country, “but there were some challenges, especially about transport from Tanzania to Qatar”.
Aside from Qatar, other major markets for the East African nation’s meat include the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Other important destinations are Kenya, Togo, Comoros, China, and Canada.
According to TMB, the country annually produces 581,804 tons of meat and meat products, with 96 percent distributed locally. Recently, Tanzania’s meat industry has been reaching more exports in particular, including enhanced co-operation between the board and meat factories as well as individual livestock keepers in order to expand exports and look for new markets following an increase in investment in value addition of its products.
TMB stated that during the first quarter of 2022, the country exported 3,256 tons of meat with a value of $13 million. The board also announced some measures aimed at increasing exports of meat to 16,000 tons annually by 2026. The measures in particular include enhanced co-operation between the board and meat factories as well as individual livestock keepers in order to expand exports and look for new markets.
Maria Konokhova is a Sputnik correspondent specialising in African studies.
This article was published on Sputnik


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The HP site today
Hewlett Packard officially opened its many doors in Leixlip on Monday, the Leinster Leader reported on June 12, 1997.
The company president and chief executive, Lew Platt, and the Minister for Enterprise and Employment Richard Bruton, did the honours at the former IMP meat plant site.
Now an inkjet cartridge facility, it is on track to create 2,000 high tech jobs by the year 2000.
The 750,000 sq ft factory stands on a 200 acre site and the total investment stands at £328 million.
Currently, a thousand employees work there and it is recruiting at the rate of 50 to 60 per month.
Mr Platt, head of a company with 600 plants in 120 countries, said HP’s commitment was clear.
He hoped their presence here will be a “long term partnership. I would like to say forever.”
In his 31-year link with the company, he said he could think of only one site where they shut down, apart from one in Massachusetts, which was moved to a different location.
Mr Platt said Ireland represented the most rapid start from a green-field site which the company has ever achieved.
“This could not have been accomplished without the outstanding contribution of our Irish employees, suppliers, the Irish Government and the people of Kildare.”
While other computer companies may suffer more from downturns in different economies, the nature of the inkjet cartridge business isolates it from the ups and downs.
While demand for PCs could drop, there is a huge and still growing base for the cartridges for inkjet printers, as PC owners will still have to replace cartridges. These can only be used in HP printers.
Most of the Leixlip produce will go to Europe but it will also ship goods to Asia.
But HP doesn’t sit on laurels. At the moment, 70 percent of sales revenue come from products introduced in the previous two years.
While it is not basing product research and development facilities in Ireland, it will have around a hundred engineers working to improve current products.
The company has 112,800 employees worldwide and has capacity to extend in Leixlip.
Its only problem lies with regard to a lack of technicians and it is working with Intel and state agencies to recruit and train more.
Mr Young paid tribute to the IDA, Kildare County Council, Leixlip Town Commissioners, the community and local residents for their support.
The presence of the company at the site has enabled some locals who had been using septic tanks for years to pipe into the public system.
And only this week, contractors were putting the finishing touches to a new bridge and roundabout close to the site.
Six hundred construction workers are currently employed on the second phase of the project, which will produce print head manufacturing composing wafer and orifice place processing. This will include clean room facilities.
Mr Bruton said HP is a highly ethical company and regularly tops surveys as one of the best companies in the world for which to work.


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Switzerland’s retail trade unexpectedly jumped 0.7 percent year-on-year in June 2019, following a downwardly revised 1.1 percent drop in the previous month and beating market consensus of a 0.6 percent decline. This was the first yearly increase in retail trade since October last year, as non-food sales rose faster (1.7 percent vs 0.4 percent in May) while food, beverages & tobacco sales fell at a slower pace (-0.7 percent vs -2.7 percent). On a monthly basis, retail sales were up 1.5 percent in June, reversing a 1 percent decline in May. Retail Sales YoY in Switzerland averaged 1.24 percent from 2001 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 6.80 percent in September of 2008 and a record low of -4.20 percent in December of 2016.
Retail Sales YoY in Switzerland is expected to be 0.60 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Retail Sales YoY in Switzerland to stand at 1.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Switzerland Retail Sales YoY is projected to trend around 1.60 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.


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Volvo Cars returned to profit in 2013, so confidently declared its chief executive Hakan Samuelsson. "Our target was to break even... but I can declare already today that... we are back in the black, which is extremely positive," Samuelsson told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the 2014 Detroit auto show. Volvo officials remarked that Samuelsson was referring to the carmakers’ operating profit.
Volvo, which would disclose its financial results for 2013 in March 2014, logged an operating loss of SEK577 million ($88.71 million) in the first half of 2013.
Samuelsson said the turnaround was a result of Volvo's restructuring of its dealership network in China, boosting the carmaker’s volume in the country by 46 percent to 61,146 vehicles, as well as to an overhaul of its cost structure around the world.
Thanks to its aggressive cost cuts, Volvo made money despite logging only modest gains in global sales volume in 2013, Samuelsson said. Volvo posted a 1.4-percent jump in sales in 2013 to 427,840 vehicles.
"This year our focus will be growth," Samuelsson said. He remarked if 2013 was “sort of a year of consolidation,” 2014 will be a year of growth."
Samuelsson remarked that a key component of the carmaker’s 2014 growth strategy is the United States market, where it has been struggling. In 2013, Volvo's sales in the US dropped 10.1 percent to 61,233 vehicles, according to research firm Autodata. [source: Reuters]


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COMPANY NEWS; INTERTAN TO CLOSE ABOUT 200 ELECTRONICS STORES
Published: June 6, 1992
Intertan Inc., an electronics retailer, which spun off from the Tandy Corporation in 1987, said yesterday that it planned to close about 200 of its 1,531 electronics stores, most of them in Europe, in a restructuring that will result in a $50 million charge against earnings.
Intertan owns 500 Radio Shack stores in Canada and more than 1,000 Tandy stores in Britain, Belgium, France, Holland and Australia. Under the plan announced yesterday it will close 20 stores each in Canada and Australia and 160 in Europe.


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Chevrolet is fielding a three-pronged gas mileage attack on the market with the 2013 Malibu, ditching V-6 options and concentrating on fuel-efficient fours instead.
New to the range is a 2.0-liter turbo. While it develops a punchy 259-horsepower, highway mileage is a respectable 30 mpg.
One rung further up the efficiency ladder is a new 197-horsepower, 2.5-liter, four cylinder Ecotec unit.
There's no turbocharger to be found on this engine, but highway mileage creeps up to 34 mpg, while the car gets 26 mpg combined. Both use a six-speed automatic transmission.
Most efficient of all is the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco with eAssist, a mild hybrid model which pairs a 15 kW electric motor-generator with a 2.4-liter, four cylinder Ecotec gasoline engine and a six-speed automatic gearbox.
Combined they develop 182 horses and allow the eAssist to reach a combined 29 mpg. On the highway, this figure shoots up to 37 mpg, while city mileage is pegged at 25 mpg.
Fuel cost over 15,000 miles with a 45 percent highway, 55 percent city mix is around $2,000 at today's average of $3.83 per gallon--$200 cheaper than the 2.5-liter car, and $400 cheaper than the turbo.
2.5 models start in LS trim from $22,390, turbocharged cars begin at $26,950 in 3LT trim, while eAssist models begin from $25,335.
The new turbocharged model is sure to be popular, and Malibu sales are already at a 30-year high, reports The Detroit News.
That's in the face of some tough competition, too. A new 2013 Toyota Camry Hybrid is due soon--the current Camry Hybrid already gets an impressive 41 mpg combined--while a Honda Accord Hybrid is due next year as a 2014 model-year car.
Competition comes from Ford too, its 2013 Fusion Hybrid offering 47 mpg in both city driving, highway, and combined. It may cost a few thousand more to buy than the Malibu Eco, but you'll save $800 a year in gas too.
2.5 and eAssist Malibus are already on sale, while the 2.0-liter turbocharged model has just joined the range.