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ASUS has just announced that the Xonar U7 USB sound card and headphone amplifier will be available in Singapore at the end of May.
According a Q1, 2013 report by Canalys, 59.5 percent of all smart devices in the market -- 308.7 million smartphones, tablets and notebooks -- were running Google's Android operating system. Apple was in second place with a 19.3 percent market share and Microsoft had a market share of 18.1, just slightly behind Apple.
If the automakers can get behind a unified standard, we could soon be seeing cars with a standard OS that will let us quickly setup our favorite radio stations, GPS and even seat position settings.
Frustrated that your Surface Pro's pen doesn't support pressure sensitivity in apps like Photoshop? We've the answer for you: Head over to Wacom's website now to download the new Windows 8 driver.
A leaked Google Play Services (v3.1.36) update file contains codes that hint at a new multi-player social gaming network called Google Games. This new gaming network (expected to be revealed during Google I/O) will be similar to Apple's Game Center for iOS and Microsoft's Xbox Live for Xbox, which includes leaderboards, achievements and more.
Facebook Home, Facebook's customized Android launcher app, has not been the overwhelming success CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hoping for. After an initial rush of interest, the app continues to plummet down the Google Play download rankings, showing universal decline in every country.
Friday, 10 May 2013
In the first quarter of 2013, Apple managed to regain fifth place in the Chinese mobile market with an eight percent market share. For the last two quarters in 2012, it was languishing in 6th place, while Samsung remained firmly in the top spot with a 20 percent market share.
ASUS posted a video on YouTube to tease its upcoming products at Computex 2013, which will include a new Transformer tablet with a stylus.
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, claimed that they have been using a quantum internet for the last two and a half years. Their version of such a network involves a hub-and-spoke layout where a central hub is responsible of interlinking quantum networks.
According to a report by PC World, HP will be standardizing the design and features of all of its notebooks and tablets to cut manufacturing costs and help customers better identify its products.


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Home to Cliff Lee, 1706 Rittenhouse is selling just fine in Philadelphia
Though sales of all residential properties were off last year, one Center City condo development that saw a decent amount of activity was 1706 Rittenhouse Square.
The 31-story, 31-condo tower sold $18 million in units during the fourth quarter and sold out its four penthouses — two of which went for $7 million. The solo two-story penthouse for $12.5 million. In all, it has rung up $114 million in sales.
Some of the sales last year went to some of the area’s better-known household names. For example, Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee and his wife Kristen plunked down $4.85 million on a unit. Eli Caplan, who is part of the family who formed Keystone Weaving Mills based in Lebanon, Pa., and his wife Janet bought a condo for the same price as their neighbors, the Lees. Keystone Weaving was co-founded by Caplan’s father Hyman. Now Eli’s son Sloan operates the family business. Parkway Corp. head Joseph Zuritsky, who also was one of the developers of 1706 Rittenhouse, and his wife Renee paid $3.95 million for a unit.
John and Geraldine Tedeschi got a unit for $3.88 million. Tedeschi, a well-regarded pediatrician, formed what is now called Advocare, a private health-care group.
Among the other new condo owners at 1706 Rittenhouse were Bryan S. Weingarten of WP Realty. His company buys and redevelops shopping centers, including the one in Devon where Whole Foods is located. He and his wife paid $3.75 million.
Prices take into account that each unit was sold in different conditions and with different finishes. Some were completely raw, some semi-raw and others just with drywall.
The project has seven units left.
“By the end of the day, I hope to have six,” said Tom Scannapieco, CEO of Scannapieco Development, in an interview on Friday afternoon. Scannapieco developed 1706 Rittenhouse with Parkway. “It is unbelievable. We own the top-of-the market niche. There isn’t any other project that is addressing the ultra-high end market and that part of the market is very healthy.”
Even though the residential market is soft, Scannapieco believes 1706 Rittenhouse has been successful in selling units because of its exclusivity. Only 31 people — matching the total number of units available — can buy in the building, where there are no outside services, retailers or memberships to intrude upon the residential spaces.
The favorable outcome of the project doesn’t mean that the developers are seeking to replicate 1706 Rittenhouse, which cost $140 million to construct, any time soon.
“Right now, it would be really difficult in the current financial environment to get any for-sale residential project financed,” Scannapieco said. “I think it will be a long time before there is another project like this.”
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The move came after another employee at the plant died after falling off a building yesterday morning. Shenzhen police confirmed the death but said they were still investigating whether it was suicide. Nine people have died this year in the series of incidents among workers, while there have been two failed suicide attempts.Getting most of my gizmos used seems somehow nicer. Doesn't it? DOESN'T IT?
Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, making devices for leading global electronics brands.
Labour activists in Hong Kong have threatened to start a campaign for a boycott of Apple's iPhone, one of the many electronic devices made by the 300,000 workers at the Shenzhen plant. Workers are paid the minimum wage and regularly work heavy overtime.
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Mixi, a leading Japanese mobile game and app publisher, announced today that it will launch blockchain-powered games and NFT-driven experiences on the Flow blockchain, which is also home to NBA Top Shot and other upcoming NFT platforms.
Mixi began as Japan’s largest social network, which launched in 2004 and grew to tens of millions of users in the years since. Mixi eventually faded as global competitor Facebook gained traction in the country, but the company rebranded itself as a publisher of mobile apps.
Monster Strike, a popular mobile role-playing/puzzle game that launched in 2013 and has grossed more than $9 billion to date, is the company’s crown jewel. In that time, it has amassed 55 million total players and spawned an anime series and movies.
Monster Strike is a huge hit in Japan, but an English version failed to find a global audience and was shut down in 2017. Mixi also publishes other mobile apps and games, and most recently, Tipstar, a sports betting app that allows users to wager with friends.
Mixi hasn’t revealed much about its plans, but Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of Dapper Labs, which created Flow, stated in a press release that the publisher has a “epic NFT strategy.” According to the press release, Mixi will debut NFT experiences aimed at Japanese consumers.
Mixi’s fortunes are changing after years of declining returns, according to its most recent annual report, with its 2021 fiscal year marking the first in five years with increasing sales and earnings. Mixi cited the launch of Tipstar, increased use of other apps, and in-game collaborations with anime properties such as “Attack on Titan” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion.”
According to DappRadar, the global NFT market has exploded in 2021, with more than $13 billion in total trading volume across marketplaces in the first three quarters of the year. An NFT functions as a receipt for a one-of-a-kind digital item, such as an image, video file, or interactive video game item.
Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot collectibles experience was one of the early success stories in this year’s NFT market boom, with the company reporting total sales volume of more than $800 million to date. Mixi’s President and Representative Director, Koki Kimura, cited NBA Top Shot’s success as a motivating factor in selecting the Flow platform.
“Dapper Labs’ creativity in design and functionality is so outstanding that it almost inspires envy,” said Kimura in a press release. “In the United States, they have already established a significant presence in the sports economy.” We hope to channel that same energy into the Japanese NFT market by converting a wide range of entertainment and sports content into digital assets.”
Dapper is now developing NFT platforms for the NFL, Spain’s LaLiga soccer league, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The Flow blockchain, on the other hand, isn’t just for Dapper: it’s a public network on which other developers can build decentralized apps, games, and NFT marketplaces.
Dapper claims that over 600 teams are now developing on Flow, including upcoming projects such as Jambb and Genies. According to the firm, Flow is now “controlled by the community,” with Dapper controlling less than one-third of the network’s consensus nodes.


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From Europe’s first banknotes, issued in Stockholm in 1660, to the Danish government’s world-first abolition of paper bond certificates in 1980, the Nordic countries have long been at the vanguard of European payment and banking trends.
To consider a more recent development, Nordic countries were first introduced to mobile payments when six large banks in Sweden cooperated to launch Swish in 2012. The app linked bank account details to a phone number, and enabled consumers to transfer money in real-time.
The following year, Danske Bank introduced MobilePay in Denmark and Finland based on a similar premise, while Norway’s Vipps was launched to the public in 2015, quickly becoming the country’s most popular mobile wallet.
Part of the reason Vipps, MobilePay and Swish have been able to ascend to predominance in their native markets is that from the get-go, all three were backed by the countries’ biggest banks as well as the respective central banks and clearing houses.
And although interbank collaboration on digital infrastructure is not unique to the Nordics, countries in the region have traditionally been ahead of the curve when it comes to the cross-border nature of this collaboration.
To date, the collaboration is still strong among Nordic financial institutions, even extending to those that get called “challengers” or “disruptors.” As Ken Villum Klausen, CEO and founder of the Danish neobank Lunar, told PYMNTS, their ambition is not to build everything on their own at all times, and that to deliver a better product to customers, a partnership is always preferable to going at it alone.
Toward Payments Harmonization
As of June 2021, it was announced that MobilePay, Vipps, and Finland’s Pivo will merge to create a new joint wallet and cross-border payments network. Once approved by the European Union’s competition authorities, the merger will set the stage for greater integration within the Nordic payments ecosystem and beyond.
With the consolidation of payment solutions breaking down barriers in these northern European countries, the rest of the continent is soon to follow in the Nordics’ footsteps — as has often been the case in the history of European payments.
When PYMNTS spoke to Vipps’ CEO Rune Garborg earlier this year, his view was that the combined payment solution will be the “strongest wallet in Europe,” enabling the firms to expand their reach beyond the small nations of Norway, Denmark and Finland.
It is worth acknowledging that important strides have already been made in unifying payments and reducing payments friction across Europe, the most notable being the implementation of a single euro currency and the establishment of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).
But there is still work to be done.
As Claus Bunkenborg, CEO of MobilePay, told PYMNTS, “Even though European regulators want to harmonize payments in Europe, there are still a lot of obstacles that we need to overcome before we can easily enable cross-border payments.”
Nordicwide, Europewide … Worldwide?
The good news is that pan-Europeanism and pan-Nordicism are wholly compatible.
Consider the latest collaborative endeavor between Sweden, Finland, and Denmark — the P27 real-time payment network. From inception, P27 was designed with Europewide integration in mind. Because Finland uses the euro and all Nordic nations belong to the SEPA, interoperability with EU-driven frameworks like TIPS will be essential to the project’s success.
Of course, there are still hurdles to be overcome. Having initially been on board, Norwegian banks have pulled out of the P27 initiative, somewhat dampening its pan-Nordic ambitions. That being said, Norwegian apathy on P27 hasn’t affected the Vipps-MobilePay merger and P27 banks still have a large footprint in the country.
Regardless of the occasional political roadblock, up and down the continent, businesses and consumers are demanding seamless cross-border payments in real time. Governments and banks recognize the need for compatibility between neighboring infrastructures if this vision is to be achieved.
What’s interesting about the rising megastructure is that it isn’t an EU project. While Norway and Iceland are closely aligned with the bloc, their status as non-members proves that collaboration on infrastructure needn’t be orchestrated by Brussels.
Even more enticing from an international perspective is that ISO 20022, the standard at the center of efforts to upgrade Europe’s payment rails, is international in its scope.
For the Nordic mobile wallets, one challenge comes in the form of the rising popularity of NFC contactless payments. While Vipps, MobilePay and Swish remain dominant in the field of peer-to-peer and eCommerce payments, when it comes to in-store purchases, the QR-code and Bluetooth-based apps have to compete with the alternative mobile technology, where American Big Tech takes the lead.
In the end, there’s space and need for multiple payment methods in all countries. As the new European payments system emerges from a coalition of national and international initiatives, mobile wallets will find their place among an assemblage of financial technologies that demand collaboration between all stakeholders.
While Europe’s halls of power might resist the influence of Big Tech and U.S. card networks, they too need to be part of the conversation if the continent is to realize its dream of the frictionless flow of money across borders.
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About two months ago, the FCC proposed a rule that singles out Broadband Internet Access Service (BIAS) providers as the target of new, and seemingly arbitrary limits on their ability to collect and use the data that flow over their networks. The comment period closed this past Friday (view mine here), so as summer begins, it may be a good time to reflect on why the FCC’s proposal is misguided, and how it could be saved. Appealing to the old axiom, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” there’s no reason for the FCC to abandon the FTC’s harm-based approach, which served consumers well since the inception of broadband Internet.
Because the FTC is statutorily barred from enforcing the FTC Act against common carriers, the FCC's reclassification of broadband Internet access as a common carriage service effectively benched the nation’s primary privacy and data security regulator. Having kicked the FTC off the field, the FCC set out to solve the problem that it had created. But, rather than sticking to the status quo—a harm-based approach that the FTC had applied since the dawn of broadband Internet—it proposed what can best be described as a model of regulatory hubris. The Net Neutrality era began a little over a year ago with assurances that it would not mark a return to heavy-handed 1970s utility style regulation. But this proposal serves as evidence that those assurances were, as many predicted, empty promises.
The centerpiece of the FCC’s privacy proposal is severe limits on the ability of BIAS providers to collect and use consumer data. The FCC would require BIAS providers to obtain express opt-in consent before collecting or using “customer proprietary information”—a term that appears to mean everything. Similar regulatory requirements can be found only for sensitive financial and health data; the FCC now wants to elevate data on the number of steps you took today or the web sites you visited to the same plane as bank account numbers and medical records. And if that’s not enough, the FCC is also contemplating barring some practices outright as being per se inconsistent with consumer privacy, such as the popular AT&T program that offers a steep broadband discount in return for consumers allowing their data to be used for ad targeting.
The FCC’s plan could make sense if there were some evidence that these restrictions were needed to ameliorate consumer harm, but the FCC so far has yet to make a case. Nowhere does the proposal attempt to identify the exact privacy values that may be at stake, or any nexus between BIAS providers’ data collection and privacy harms. Not only does the NPRM fail to articulate a theory of privacy harm, more importantly, it also lacks any empirical evidence that BIAS providers’ conduct is harming consumers. In fact, the NPRM offers little to support the case to regulate BIAS providers beyond hypotheticals and citations to various FTC reports—which themselves contain no empirical evidence—law review articles, surveys, and popular press articles. For example, the FCC says it needs to stop consumers trading data for discounts because consumers may not fully appreciate the trade that they’re making. How does it back up this paternalistic contention? Citations to the FTC’s Big Data Report, an issue of InfoSecurity Magazine, two law review articles, and an issue of New York Times Magazine—other than a nod to a Pew survey that finds a large plurality of consumers (47%) are comfortable with sharing data for discounts in grocery store loyalty programs, there isn’t a shred of data.
What a slim empirical reed upon which to hang such an ambitious regulatory endeavor.
At bottom, the FCC’s proposals are paternalism; they are designed to “save” consumers from trading their data for lower prices, higher quality content, and more relevant advertising. The usual crowd of privacy activists may find the concept unpalatable, but this is a tradeoff that millions of consumers willingly make every day. They don’t need to the FCC to rescue them.
What’s the upshot of this unnecessary regulation? The most obvious economic consequences are that consumers will be deprived of relevant ads, tailored content, and other beneficial uses of their data. What might be less obvious is that, deprived of a new revenue stream, there is little doubt that BIAS providers will be less likely to provide discounts. This FCC-imposed “tax” on broadband services will make it less affordable, with the greatest impact likely felt in poor communities. What’s more, the FCC plan will reduce BIAS providers’ abilities to invest in their networks. It’s hard to see how this is consumer protection.
Before embarking on this misguided path, the FCC would be wise to see how a focus on consumer harm—guided by economics—saved the FTC over thirty years ago. After a decade of aggressive regulatory expansion, culminating in an attempt to ban advertising to children that led Washington Post to ridicule the FTC as the “national nanny,” the FTC changed course. It began to use its formidable economic capabilities to focus on preventing business practices that actually harmed consumers rather than to micromanage consumer decisions. This path led the FTC from an agency on the brink to one that is respected worldwide.
Although I have had my share of disagreements with the FTC’s handling of specific cases, and wish that it would further integrate economic thinking into its privacy enforcement efforts, the FTC's harm-based approach respects consumer choices and has proven relatively nimble. The FTC, for example, has condemned egregious privacy violations—surreptitious surveillance of intimate activities or unauthorized use of children’s data. At the same time, as long as firms avoid such baseline privacy no-no’s, they are free to adopt any collect and use data as they see fit; the FTC steps in only when a firm tells a material lie about how it collects, uses, or protects consumer data. Unlike the FCC’s one-size-fits all proposal that imposes extreme privacy preferences on everyone, as Commissioner Ohlhausen has explained, the FTC’s approach preserves consumer autonomy by allowing consumers to select the firms that that offer the bundle of price, quality, and privacy they like best.
At the end of the day, the FCC should not be able to invoke poorly-specified and unsupported privacy concerns as a magical talisman to justify hobbling a crucial part of the Internet ecosystem. If the FCC believes consumers are making poor choices with respect to their privacy, and that consumers would be better off it the FCC made these decisions for them, it should have to do the hard work to demonstrate as much. That is what responsible regulators do. If it cannot, it should abandon this effort, and stick with the FTC's harm-based approach that worked for years. If it will not, Congress should act to remove the FTC’s common carrier restriction, and undo this unwarranted FCC power grab.


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Vivo has confirmed that they are entering the tablet market. Last year, Vivo alongside its sub-brand, iQOO, registered trademarks for Vivo Pad, iQOO Pad, iQOO Book, and NEX Book. When the trademarks were filed, we thought that Vivo and iQOO will release their tablet that year but they didn’t.
Although since then, Vivo has not confirmed or made any comment regarding entering the tablet market. However, in the new development, Vivo has now admitted that they are entering the tablet market.
They revealed that their first tablet will be launched in the fourth quarter of the year. Vivo pad is their most recent trademark filed in Europe. The pad was found in the European Union Intellectual Property Office database.
While none of its specs has leaked yet, the render of the smartphone has shown up recently. The render shows that the Vivo Pad will have a flat-screen without a notch cut-out for the selfie camera. This might be that the tablet won’t come with a selfie camera or maybe the render isn’t original.
At the rear, it has a rectangular camera module that houses dual camera sensors and an Led flash. The volume buttons are at the left while the power button sits on the right. The only Chinese brand to have joined the tablet segment is Xiaomi and Huawei.
There are reports that Realme is also planning to launch its tablet and laptop soon. Other Chinese brands that are likely to join the bandwagon soon include iQOO and Oppo.


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Amazon just raised the bar for Walmart and Target to offer ever faster and cheaper shipping for online purchases.
Prime members are soon going to see the default two-day free shipping go to one-day shipping.
In breaking down Amazon's Q1 earnings, analysts focus on the company's announcement that it will cut standard delivery for Prime to one day.
Shares of Japanese game maker Nintendo slipped about 1.3% on Friday after the company announced its earnings on Thursday.
If you use Google apps on your phone, Google keeps a log of everywhere you go with stunning detail. Here's how to stop Google from tracking you.
Amazon's ad sales are still growing, but much slower than before.
The cryptocurrency market shed about $10 billion in value in the space of an hour late Thursday, CoinMarkCap data showed.
Russian tech giant Yandex is still planning an initial public offering for its ride-hailing business, and it's not been deterred by Lyft's struggling stock, according to a top exec.
"Great times" are ahead for consumers of television content at the moment, according to the chief executive of HBO Asia.
Facebook filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against a New Zealand company and three people for allegedly selling fake likes, views and followers to Instagram users.
Tesla chief Elon Musk and the SEC asked for a second delay and requested to provide the court another joint submission indicating whether they have reached an agreement over Musk's Twitter use on or before April 30.
Slack investors are getting up to $28 a share to sell some of their holdings ahead of a public offering.
The quarterly numbers come at a time when Amazon is experiencing slowing revenue growth but fatter profit margins.
Intel removed itself from the 5G race, so now it has to rely on legacy businesses.
Ford is currently testing autonomous vehicles in Miami and Washington, D.C.
Uber is different from its potential market-cap peers in a key way — it's not making money.


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Holiday season jobs being filled now
CAPITAL REGION — It might still seem like summer outside, but now’s the time to sign up for a temporary holiday job.
Hiring has been underway for weeks, and demand is high.
The usual corporate giants are each looking for enough seasonal workers nationwide to populate a mid-sized city: FedEx wants 50,000 or more. Macy’s seeks 80,000. UPS is trying to hire 95,000. Target needs 100,000.
All are taking applications now.
One notable exception is Walmart, which is giving its permanent workers extra hours this year, rather than trying to add seasonal workers.
But even without Walmart, there are plenty of holiday jobs out there.
Bob Nealon, Albany regional manager for Accountemps, said would-be seasonal workers can go to a hiring fair, look online or come to a temporary employment agency like his to find a seasonal gig.
Lots of employers other than big-box stores are hiring, he added, and for much more than retail jobs: Customer service representatives, accounts receivable professionals and e-marketing specialists all are in demand.
“A lot of people think retail first and foremost,” Nealon said, but the holiday rush is more than retail.
“It can be all of the above, really,” he added, and the hours can be part-time, full-time or overtime.
As all those consumer goods are being bought in November and December, there is a concurrent need to deliver them. A UPS spokesman said about 500 holiday-season employees are needed in the Capital Region alone. They’ll get anywhere from $10.20 an hour (package handlers) to $32 an hour (tractor-trailer drivers).
About 35 percent of those seasonal workers will go on to become permanent UPS employees. Company CEO David Abney started as a part-timer, in fact.
Nealon, at Accountemps, said temporary seasonal work is a great way for employers and employees to see each other in action — sort of an audition.
“A lot of people that look for seasonal work are folks that are in a part-time status or people that are unemployed and looking to do something during their permanent job search,” he said.
For those who have been away from the working world a while, the temporary job becomes a chance to get a new work experience on their resume, update and refresh their skills, and meet some local hiring managers and human resources professionals.
“The goal for a lot of people is to just get out into the job market,” he added.
That said, it’s not a time for timidity or relaxation. Workplaces that hire seasonal help are doing so because they are stretched thin and extra-busy. “Hectic and disorganized” is a common situation, Nealon said.
Seasonal workers should take their jobs seriously and be professional about them, even though they may not be working at them very long, he added.
“Don’t undersell the importance of being professional,” he said. “You never know who you’ll meet.”
The companies that retain Accountemps to find seasonal workers for their seasonal surge generally need a roughly 20 percent boost in their workforce, Nealon said, and they outsource their hiring because they can’t take the time to do it themselves.
Wages generally run around the market rate or a little above.
Nealon said there are seasonal jobs through much of the year in various industries. Temporary jobs do not carry health insurance or other benefits, but benefits are available through a job agency if the temporary worker becomes an employee on a long-term basis.
Holiday job search tips
Some suggestions for people hoping to land temporary jobs during the holiday season:
- Start looking before the holiday season if possible.
- Be optimistic even if you start looking late — in the middle of the season, employers may find themselves understaffed.
- Stand out as someone who can work well under the stress of the holiday rush.
- Be professional no matter what industry you’re looking to work in — it’s a “real job,” so dress and behave appropriately.
- Be proactive and call back the managers of places where you’ve applied or interviewed but from whom there has been no response.
- Say you’re flexible and mean it — many employers are looking for night and weekend help through the holidays.
- Work hard, be on time and make a good impression so that you can get a reference or even a permanent job out of the temporary stint.
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The Core Lithium Ltd (ASX: CXO) share price has been one of the worst performers on the ASX 200 on Wednesday.
In afternoon trade, the lithium developer’s shares are down 14% to 86.5 cents.
Why is the Core Lithium share price being hammered?
The selldown of the Core LIthium share price has been driven by broad weakness in the lithium industry today, which is being felt hardest among developers rather than producers.
For example, lithium developer, Lake Resources N.L. (ASX: LKE), which also joined the ASX 200 this week with Core Lithium, is down materially today along with Argosy Minerals Limited (ASX: AGY), Liontown Resources Limited (ASX: LTR), and Sayona Mining Ltd (ASX: SYA).
What’s behind the weakness?
Investors appear to have been selling lithium shares on Wednesday amid news that Germany is planning to defy the European Union by backtracking on future plans to ban internal combustion engine (ICE) cars.
The Financial Times reports that Germany’s finance minister, Christian Lindner, has rejected plans for the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035. This could have a major impact on the number of electric vehicles on European roads in 2035, especially if other countries follow its lead.
Less electric vehicles mean less demand for the lithium that goes into their batteries. And given that there are already concerns floating around about increasing supply of the battery making material, this may not bode well for long term lithium prices.
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On Friday, the Hongqiao Import Exhibition and Trade Center will host events to promote and raise awareness of Brazil’s high-quality coffees in conjunction with the 4th Brazil Coffee Nation Day.
Coffee is inextricably linked to Brazilian history. The plant, which originated in Ethiopia, was introduced to Brazil in the early 18th century by French settlers who established the state of Pará.
Brazil was the world’s largest producer and exporter of coffee by the late nineteenth century. Brazil produces roughly a third of the world’s coffee. As a result, Brazil is dubbed the “coffee nation.”
Additionally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Brazil Specialty Coffee Association, a non-profit organisation founded to raise standards and increase the value of Brazilian coffee production and marketing. Brazil’s speciality coffees cater to a wide variety of palates.
Brazil Coffee Nation Day is a time to commemorate the country’s coffee culture.
On-site barista classes will be provided for free.
China’s coffee culture has grown at a breakneck pace in recent years. Chinese consumers are becoming more sophisticated and demanding. It is critical not only to know how the coffee is made, but also to know where it is grown. Brazil is prepared to supply a diverse range of excellent coffees to Chinese consumers due to its ideal natural conditions and a clean and sustainable environment.
On Friday, a “matchmaking” event will bring together Brazilian producers of high-quality coffee and potential Chinese buyers. Additionally, visitors are encouraged to participate in on-site activities such as speciality coffee tastings and barista classes.


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In the midst of a global pandemic and the chaos that comes with it, many businesses are finding themselves in difficult positions. From people losing their jobs, temporarily and permanently, times are hard right now.
Employees of companies like Walmart and Whole Foods have been dealing with disgruntled employees during this time, requesting better pay and better working conditions while being deemed essential workers.
In efforts to calm down nationwide strikes, Walmart rolled out a major boost for their employees. They distributed a total of $180 million in bonuses to their hourly employees. And they don’t plan on stopping there.
In a press release, Walmart confirms, “We paid nearly $180 million in cash bonuses to hourly associates, with more to come next month on our originally scheduled quarterly bonus payout date.”
Walmart has also taken extra preventative measures to ensure a more safe and sanitary work environment.
“Our focus on our associates’ health and safety continues. We’re conducting health screens and daily temperature checks and providing masks and gloves to all associates. We’ve also added sneeze guards at registers, limited the number of customers in stores, installed social distancing signage and instituted sanitation protocols,” the statement continued.
The retail giant has also afforded people with jobs in this health crisis, with nearly 200,000 new hires on board since mid-March.
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Mining sector reports mounting customs backlogs as SARS battles technical issues
The Minerals Council SA has confirmed that there is a mounting backlog of exports at South Africa’s border posts and ports. Business Maverick understands that this stems from a meltdown in a new software system.
South Africa’s border posts and ports have become snarled because of technical issues related to a new software system introduced by the Customs division of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), hampering crucial exports and imports that are a key lifeline for a struggling economy.
“The Minerals Council is aware of the difficulties with the border posts and customs and is working with all our members in conjunction with government departments and SARS to expedite solutions,” Allan Seccombe, spokesman for the Minerals Council SA, the main industry body for South Africa’s mining sector, told Business Maverick.
Grain SA, the main industry body for South Africa’s grain industry, also confirmed to Business Maverick that it was aware of port congestion.
There have been reports on Twitter that no cargo has moved through the ports since Thursday last week and that container ships are backing up as a result.
SARS said in an emailed response to queries from Business Maverick that it would respond to our questions but had not done so by the time we went to press. A SARS spokesperson had not answered the phone or responded to our WhatsApp queries.
A source with knowledge of the matter told Business Maverick that SARS has introduced a software solution that has been problematic for most of the month and “it has now fallen into heap. Shipping companies are slowing down the vessels coming to South Africa to allow SARS to clear the software backlog.”
SARS said in a statement on 6 June that: “Land border posts are currently experiencing congestion and delays in relation to the cross-border processing of trucks and cargo, with the N4 corridor to Maputo through the Lebombo border post being the most affected.”
It has issued no further statements since on the issue.
On 19 June, the online industry news site Southern Africa’s Freight News reported that SARS systems had gone down and to “expect delays”.
“The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has confirmed via its Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Bulletin Board that it’s experiencing a systems failure. It includes both DPS and CPS — declaration and cargo processing systems,” the Freight News report said. “At 4:13pm the following update was received: ‘Good news, Sars both declaration and manifest are up and running and backlog’s being caught up.’”
It appears the system has gone down again and has had numerous problems during June.
This correspondent flew back to South Africa from Canada via the US on Sunday night and waited for over an hour to get through the passport queue at OR Tambo because the Home Affairs computer network was down. It is not clear if this is related to SARS’ technical issues as Home Affairs is widely regarded as a shambles anyway. (It took 45 minutes before anyone from Home Affairs alerted the swelling queue to the network problem.)
South African exports, which are a crucial source of hard currency and a support base for the rand, have been curtailed in recent years by the ongoing train smash that is Transnet. The Minerals Council estimates that Transnet’s woes in 2022 cost the sector an estimated R50-billion in lost exports. DM


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In an effort to help fill vacancies in the former Pathmark shopping center and make room for a new Wawa, the Falls Township supervisors rezoned a portion of the shopping center, which is located at 500 Lincoln Highway.
Under the approved amendment, the intersection of Arleans Avenue and Lincoln Highway – a 2.036-acre parcel where Arosso, A Touch of Sicily is situated – switches from shopping center to highway commercial zoning. The zoning change allows for the planned demolition of the existing 6,000-square-foot Arosso building and relocation inside the shopping center, and for a 5,585-square-foot Wawa with eight fuel pumps to be built in its place.
“These are old buildings,” said the shopping center’s attorney, Julie Von Spreckelsen. “They’ve been there for decades.”
The supervisors unanimously approved the zoning ordinance amendment following a brief hearing. No one from the public commented during the virtual meeting.
Von Spreckelsen said the zoning change complements the “commercial corridor” on Lincoln Highway and maintains the “character of the neighborhood.”
“It’s consistent,” she said. “It’s good planning.”
In conjunction with the zoning change, the supervisors also unanimously approved a minor subdivision to carve out the 2-acre parcel from the 15.3-acre shopping center. Falls supervisors chairman Jeff Dence said the shopping center owner would still need to return to the township for final approval and zoning relief.
Von Spreckelsen told the board that the roughly 190,000-square-foot shopping center has struggled to maintain occupancies. When the Pathmark closed, the shopping center lost its anchor tenant, as well as two other vacancies. The property owner made physical improvements to the property, yet still has 60,000 square feet of vacancies. The former Pathmark – where Funzilla is now located – took three years to fill.
“We’re trying to repurpose this center,” she said.
In other business, the Falls supervisors granted preliminary and final land development approval for Truck Smart, 905 Lincoln Highway. Truck Smart intends to construct a 5,000-square-foot, one-story addition to allow for numerous overhead doors and better handling of repairs.
Additionally, the supervisors voted unanimously to extend the provisions of its previously approved outdoor dining resolution. Originally, the resolution was approved in mid-June in response to the state’s reopening plan and limited capacity for indoor dining. The township’s resolution was set to expire 90 days following its adoption and was previously extended through Oct. 31. With the latest extension, restaurants will be able to offer outdoor dining until Dec. 31.
Officials noted that the outdoor dining extension does not necessarily pertain to alcohol sales. Falls Township does not have jurisdiction over alcohol sales and consumption. Township attorney Mike Clarke said each restaurant operating with a liquor license must seek approval from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board for approval to provide alcohol outside.
“We’re just granting them the ability to have things outside,” Clarke said.
In other business, Dence said the board has received numerous questions about Halloween and if trick-or-treat festivities would be canceled.
“We don’t cancel Halloween,” Dence said. “Everyone just needs to be safe and use good judgement on Halloween – and have fun.”
The Bucks County Health Department released guidelines earlier this month for safe trick-or-treating, including having kids stay outside at all times, trick-or-treating in small groups, social distancing as much as possible, and wearing face coverings in instances when social distancing is not possible.


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CPF banks on overseas expansion to fuel growth
Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CPF) aims to expand its overseas business and is confident of its financial performance in 2019 meeting targets thanks to positive returns from investments in Thailand and 17 countries, chairman of CPF’s executive committee, Adirek Sripratak, said.
His statement echoed a belief that amid weakening purchasing power, the food business will thrive due to persistent demands especially for the products that are safe, traceable, as well as environmentally and community-friendly.
“CPF is the producer of reasonable protein-rich food, be they chicken, pork, shrimps, fish and eggs, which are all people's main staple. Importantly, CPF adopts an integrated production process. I’m confident that CPF’s business will experience no negative impacts and will flourish as always,” he said.
Adirek revealed that in 2020 CPF will maintain its focus on growing its business, which entails additional investments in potential countries including the 17 countries where CPF's businesses are located. Among the destinations with high growth opportunities are China, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Russia and the United States.
CPF's business growth has been driven mainly by overseas investments in 17 countries, which bring more than 70 per cent of the company’s revenue of more than Bt500 billion. The revenue generated in Thailand is approximately 27-28 per cent of total revenue while exports from Thailand constitute only 5 per cent. Though exports are affected by the dollar-baht exchange rate, imports of raw materials have balanced the foreign exchange impacts.
Adirek admitted that a drought, anticipated to be more severe next year, may negatively affect Thailand’s agricultural sector which relies heavily on water. However, he added that CPF’s livestock business was supported by abundant water sources but the company may face a slight increase in production cost due to the cyclical adjustment in raw material prices. Amid this situation, CPF will maintain its emphasis on production efficiency, cost management, and the quality of products and services, he said.


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Cost of oil futures dropped significantly, reaching at this three-month low, as weak demand and rising Libyan production offset concerns about rising tensions in the country.
Today, Acting Minister of Libya's oil, said that oil production in Libya has risen to 588,000 barrels per day, an increase of approximately 25 percent over the weekend, despite the resumption of fighting between the militias in the capital.
We add that the fighting in Iraq, the second largest producer of OPEC, has not yet spread to the south of the country where three-quarters of its concentrated production capacities.
According to some analysts, the supply of oil on the market enough, but it is likely that it would be excessive by the OPEC countries. World oil demand in 2015 will coincide with the growing supply from the U.S. and Canada. The main demand will be formed by the newly industrialized and developing countries.
"In the oil market now is a correction after the jump in prices in the wake of the Iraq crisis - said BNP Paribas analyst Harry Chilingiryan. - WTI is cheaper because, despite the very high workload refineries in the United States, their oil reserves are still high. "
Market participants expect a weekly report on the U.S. to measure the pace of oil demand from the largest consumer in the world. The American Petroleum Institute will release its report later today, while a government report to be presented Wednesday. Analysts predict that gasoline inventories increased by 900 thousand barrels last week - up to a maximum in March. Oil reserves are expected to have decreased by 2.5 million barrels - up to 380.1 million barrels, while distillate - increased by 2 million barrels.
Also had little impact on U.S. data that showed U.S. retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in June compared with the previous month, showing the weakest growth since January. This was stated by the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. Consumers stepped up spending on clothing, general merchandise and health foods, but cut spending on big ticket items such as furniture and cars. Excluding autos, sales rose 0.4%. Economists had forecast a 0.6% increase in total retail sales and an increase in sales excluding autos in June by 0.5%
Cost of the August futures on U.S. light crude oil WTI (Light Sweet Crude Oil) fell to $ 99.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
August futures price for North Sea Brent crude oil mixture fell $ 2.06 to $ 104.74 a barrel on the London exchange ICE Futures Europe.
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The Star Wars franchise might be one of the largest and longest-running film franchise's in Hollywood, but Star Wars legend Mark Hamill believes that Star Wars fatigue could already be setting in.
Hamill just recently spoke in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on the entertainment news outlet's Awards Chatter podcast, and during the last few minutes of their discussion, the Star Wars actor was asked about the poor box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
While Star Wars fans might have enjoyed the spin-off movie, the film highly underperformed at the global box office, raking in online $393 million against a massive budget of $250 million (excluding the film's marketing costs). Analysts might have pinned this against the film's poor marketing campaign and it's poor release schedule, however, according to Hamill, the problem might be Star Wars fatigue.
"I'm not gonna tell them how to run their business," Hamill said, "but is there a possibility of ‘Star Wars fatigue‘? Yeah, I think there is. I've experienced it, to a certain degree. But they never listen to my ideas anyway, so who needs ‘em?"
Disney CEO Bob Iger also believes in Star Wars fatigue. Last year, the Mickey Mouse House executive announced a slowdown in the production of Star Wars movies, saying that the studio wants to take its time deciding how to produce and market films coming after Star Wars: Episode IX. Disney's new move definitely seems like a response to the mistake they made with Solo's marketing – which doesn't seem like a bad thing when you think about it.
Lucasfilm's next entry, Star Wars: Episode IX, is set for release December 20, 2019.


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Peloton has again expanded the One Peloton Club – which allows members to rent a Bike and bundle the cost of the hardware with the monthly subscription fee – and the program is now available nationwide. Earlier this week, Peloton made the announcement via press release.
Peloton Global Head of Marketing Dara Treseder explained the expansion of the program and its intended impact:
“As the global leader in the connected fitness space, we are committed to delivering convenient, engaging and motivating workout experiences to a broad array of consumers who want to be the best version of themselves anytime, anywhere…Our expanded national rental program allows even the most value-conscious customers to fully immerse in the Peloton experience.”
The current rental pricing is below:
- Original Bike: $89/month + $150 one-time setup fee; $895 to purchase after 12 months
- Bike+: $119/month + $150 one-time setup fee; $1,595 to purchase after 12 months
This pricing includes the All Access membership that must accompany every hardware purchase. Peloton has not indicated whether other devices – such as the Tread or the upcoming rower – will be added to the program in the future.
This nationwide expansion follows CEO Barry McCarthy’s recent interview with Bloomberg, in which he hinted that the One Peloton Club would soon be expanding. This points to part of McCarthy’s overall strategy to become less hardware-centric and more software and content-centric. He told Bloomberg:
“We’re making the bet that if you love our service as much as the rest of our users do, you’ll exhibit low monthly churn and have a high lifetime value,” McCarthy said. “We’ll recoup the investment we made in the hardware plus profit over time.”
The One Peloton Club was first launched earlier this year and has gone through a number of changes in only a matter of months. The program began in a small number of test markets before quickly expanding to additional states. Peloton also lowered the pricing only a few weeks after that. In June Peloton expanded the program to the continental U.S. and made sign-ups available online for the first time since the program’s arrival, before removing the Bike+ from the program shortly thereafter. The Bike+ was added back to the program just last month.
You can visit the One Peloton Club landing page for more information and to sign up.
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*Digital pill that tracks when patients take it approved
A new device has been created that can clip onto birth control packs to make sure women remember to take their daily pill.
‘Popit’ uses a microphone to hear the ‘pop’ sound of a pill being pressed out of the packet and a touch-sensor to detect whether the packet has been handled.
Created by Helsinki-based company, Popit Limited, the device connects to smartphones and if a pill has not been taken, an alert will be sent as a reminder.
The Popit Sense app also stores data about pill consumption and can alert women if they have taken more pills than they should have.
The small clip has a suggested retail price of £59 ($79) and requires the download of an application onto a Android or iPhone.
Teemu Piirainen, Popit Limited Chief Executive Officer (CEO), said: “This kind of technology hasn’t been available before and it opens up exciting new possibilities.
“The investment will enable us to pursue our vision of quantifying medication – we track pills and support the patient in staying on track with medical treatment.”
Also, United States (U.S.) regulators have approved the first digital pill with an embedded sensor to track if patients are taking their medication properly, marking a significant step forward in the convergence of healthcare and technology.
The medicine is a version of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Limited’s established drug Abilify for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, containing a tracking device developed by Proteus Digital Health.
The system offers doctors an objective way to measure if patients are swallowing their pills on schedule, opening up a new avenue for monitoring medicine compliance that could be applied in other therapeutic areas.
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SEC Names White House Aide to PCAOB
Rebekah Goshorn Jurata replaces Kathleen Hamm, a cybersecurity expert who had been seeking a second term on the board.
SEC Pulls Plug on Telegram Initial Coin Offering
“The SEC isn’t playing around. It's time these [ICO] companies recognize this.”
Red Hat Fires CFO Over Workplace Standards
Eric Shander, who had been with the software firm since 2015, helped guide it through its acquisition by IBM.
Fed OKs Rollbacks of Post-Crisis Banking Rules
The Board of Governors voted 4-1 in favor of the changes, with the dissenter saying they would weaken core safeguards.
Target Names SVP Michael Fiddelke as CFO
The retailer conducted an extensive global search before appointing Fiddelke to succeed Cathy Smith.
OECD Takes Aim at Multinational Tax Shelters
A proposed tax overhaul would allow a country to tax the profits of a company even though it does not have a "physical presence" there.
Fed to Buy Treasuries to Ease Funding Strains
The Fed's move to grow its balance sheet comes after last month's “unexpectedly intense volatility” in the funding markets.
Domino’s Misses on Earnings, Launches Buyback
The pizza-delivery giant has been repurchasing shares as sales growth has slowed amid competition from third-party apps.
U.S. Adds Chinese Startups to Trade Blacklist
Ahead of this week's trade talks between the two countries, the timing of the U.S. action "is going to be awkward for the Chinese."
GE Freezes Pensions to Reduce Deficit, Debt
“Returning GE to a position of strength has required us to make several difficult decisions, and today’s decision to freeze the pension is no exception."
PayPal Pulls Out of Facebook’s Crypto Project
The payments company was reportedly concerned Facebook had not done enough to address the regulatory backlash against the Libra plan.


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Visa Economic Empowerment Institute Announces Inaugural Advisory Council Focused on Driving Actionable Policy Solutions
Visa (NYSE: V), a leading global payments technology company, announced today the formation of an Advisory Council for the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute. The Visa Economic Empowerment Institute is a forum for original research and public-private dialogue on payments and public policy. The Advisory Council will bring to the Institute decades of collective insights and experiences from some of the leading thought leaders in international finance and diplomacy in the world today. With the strategic guidance of the Advisory Council, the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute will be able to accelerate its agenda for driving access to digital payments and unlocking new opportunities for economic growth.
The founding members of the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute Advisory Council are:
- Dr. Axel Weber (Chair), former UBS Chairman and former president of the German Central Bank (Bundesbank). Weber is currently a senior global adviser to Boston Consulting Group and a member of the advisory board for fintech provider Raisin. “I am honored to serve as Chair of the inaugural Visa Economic empowerment Institute Advisory Council,” said Weber. “We need to overcome the continued gaps in economic opportunities that are making it difficult for all individuals to equally take part in the global payments ecosystem. I am confident that our collective knowledge and expertise at the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute will help drive impactful strides in public policies designed to empower all.”
- The Rt Hon. Lord Hill, Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom and former European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. “The biggest policy challenge we face in Europe is how to increase the competitiveness of our economy and accelerate growth. If we fail in that, we will fail in everything. Through its research, I hope the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute will help show policy makers what they need to do to strengthen their economies and spread opportunities for businesses to grow,” said Lord Hill.
- Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka, former Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom and chief negotiator for international trade agreements including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Tsuruoka spent 43 years with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “I know firsthand the impact that strategic and international collaboration can have on expanding access to the global economy,” said Tsuruoka. “To be a part of the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute Advisory Council at its genesis is an exciting next chapter to unlock the potential and growth in payments.”
“The Visa Economic Empowerment Institute is a natural extension of Visa’s purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere. Axel, Koji and Jonathan share our passion for economic empowerment and will bring new perspectives to the payments policy discourse,” said Kelly Mahon Tullier, Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer of Visa. “We are thrilled to add the strategic guidance of three global leaders whose collective expertise spans almost a century of knowledge.”
The Advisory Council will focus on amplifying the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute’s three strategic research pillars:
- Imagining an open future for payments: We identify opportunities for the public and private sectors to work together to create and sustain an open and innovative payments ecosystem so that individuals, businesses, and economies can thrive.
- Unlocking growth through trade: Working together, stakeholders can find the right balance to ensure that the digital trade realm is competitive, seamless, secure, and accessible to all.
- Fostering digital equity & inclusion: Our goal in promoting digital equity is to reach the point at which all individuals and businesses can participate in and receive the benefits of the digital economy.
For more information on the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute and Visa’s commitment to economic empowerment, visit here.
About Visa Inc.
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.
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Earlier this week, Google enterprise chief Amit Singh made headlines by saying the search giant was aiming to take 90 percent of Microsoft's enterprise customers with its Apps platform in the coming year. Microsoft is vulnerable, Singh said, because most of its users don't need much of what its Office suite offers.
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Google "“has not yet shown they are truly serious,” White said. "From the outside, they are an advertising company.”
While that's factually correct, as only about 4 percent of the Google's revenue currently comes from enterprise computing, the company has been steadily adding features to its Apps platform, which offers word processing, cloud collaboration, email and other capabilities to business for $50 a year per user.
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“You know, when we talk to consumers, they find it difficult, and so I think one of the things we’ll see when we look to the future is bundling,” Zaslav added. “Some of this disruption and some of these moments of what’s coming may activate a faster transition to things like bringing some of us in the content business together as a way to create more value and create a better consumer experience.”
He gave an example of Max’s recent experience offering content from AMC Networks for a limited time.
“That was Christine Dolan [AMC’s CEO] And J.P [Perrette, WBD’s streaming chief] We get together and say: why don’t we try this, let’s see how it goes. …Let’s see if that helps you grow your direct-to-consumer AMC product.
But the “turmoil” mentioned by Zaslav was also at the forefront of the conference’s concerns. Earlier this week, the company said ongoing strikes by writers and actors would mean a loss of up to $500 million to the company’s 2023 profits.
“If we can get a result soon, the long-term impacts will be minimized, but there are real challenges in the industry here,” Zaslav said, although he added that the company believes writers and actors should be paid “fairly” and “They get fair wages.” “Appreciated” by its corporate partners.
“We’re a content company. We’re a storytelling company. We have to do everything we can to put people back to work,” he said. “But more importantly, this is true for creators, but it’s true for all of us: people should be compensated properly.” “It’s fair, and they should feel appreciated.”
Zaslav also said he believes talent also wants to see impact for their work.
“Great writers, directors and actors want their content to be seen,” he said. “They want the opportunity to influence culture. They want the opportunity to have an impact on how people see themselves and see the world, and that’s what we have to do in this business. But only if we do it together.”
As for the ongoing dispute between Charter Spectrum and Disney, Zaslav acknowledged that “it feels like this is the moment,” but noted that the outcome of the standoff remains to be seen, and that his company doesn’t have any big deals coming up yet. 2025.
“We are on the sidelines of this,” he said. “I think we’re one of the good actors in an industry that spends a lot of money on linear because we believe in it.”
And talk about success BarbieWhich he attributed to his company’s marketing approach.
“When we said we were going to run this as one company, we meant it. Every department in this company has fallen behind Barbie“Shaq, Barkley and Ernie,” he said [Inside the NBA’s Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson] We’re talking about Barbie. If you go to Sweden and you’re watching a football match, at the end of the first half the stadium turns pink and you see that Barbie. All the assets we had turned pink, indicating their strength Barbie. We had shows on HGTV, and every cake on the Food Network for a month was pink. Everywhere you went you saw that, and that’s the power of Warner Brothers.
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Microsoft supremo Steve Ballmer has admitted at a shareholder meeting that the company is late to the tablet party, although he also expressed confidence in the Surface's chances.
The Windows 8-based Surface RT is the first personal computer that Microsoft itself produces and sells. It came out a month ago, more than two and a half years after Apple released the first iPad.
According to a Reuters account of the Wednesday meeting, Ballmer was asked why Microsoft had fallen so far behind Apple.
"We're innovating on the seam between software and hardware... Maybe we should have done that earlier," Ballmer said, adding that he felt "pretty good about [Microsoft's] level of innovation".
The Microsoft chief executive also spoke of a "sea of upside" for the company in the tablet market. This is unsurprising as, although Windows 7 had some touch-friendly features and some manufacturers did make slates based on that version of the OS, it did not make any significant inroads into the tablet market.


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PN2's horror expert, Mike, takes a quick look at upcoming horror title Phantasmal: City of Darkness from New Zealand indie studio, Eyemobi that's currently running through Steam Early Access.
Looks like a Nine Inch Nails music video...which is kinda cool
This game is also coming to Xbox One can't wait.
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LONDON/MUNICH -- BMW has sealed a joint-venture agreement with Great Wall Motor to produce electric Minis in China.
The 50-50 owned venture will make battery-powered vehicles for both partners at a new plant in Jiangsu Province, BMW said in a statement on Tuesday.
The deal is the automaker's second this week in China following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with tech giant Baidu to join its autonomous driving platform Apollo as a board member.
Both announcements are part of a parade of accords announced at a Berlin summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in attendance.
"Today's signing represents a new level of cooperation between China and Germany," BMW CEO Harald Krueger said in the statement on the Mini JV.
In September, Mini revealed an electric Mini concept at the Frankfurt auto show. A production model is expected to go on sale in 2019.
The creation of the venture with Great Wall, called Spotlight Automotive, coincides with China's April decision to ease foreign-ownership restrictions in the country, with the possibility that Western automakers could eventually buy out their local partners.
On Monday, BMW agreed to lift output at a separate venture with Brilliance China Automotive Holdings that will lessen the sting of higher Chinese import tariffs on its U.S.-made SUVs.
The company sold 560,000 BMW brand vehicles to customers in China in 2017, more than the U.S. and Germany combined. China was Mini's fourth-largest market, with around 35,000 units delivered, it said.
"This underlines the brand's additional global potential, which will now be significantly supported through the joint venture with Great Wall Motor," BMW said.
The company pledged last year to build electric models at its factory in Oxford, England. BMW said Tuesday that any plans to expand in China don't affect the brand's commitment to Britain.
Founded by billionaire Chairman Wei Jianjun, Great Wall has become China's leading SUV producer by offering consumers spacious models at prices cheaper than vehicles from automakers including Volkswagen Group and General Motors.


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MFS innovates for rural communities
A customized new mobile money platform aimed at Rwanda’s rural tea farming community has just been launched. The service, developed in digital partnership with other agencies, paves the way for thousands of men and women in rural areas to access cash and be paid via mobile phone for the first time.
July 2016: Until recently, pay day for Evangeline Bikorimana meant sleeping in her day clothes, rising before dawn to travel to her savings cooperative. She says that no matter how early she left home, she would often arrive to find a large crowd of other farmers already waiting in front of her, to get paid.
Evangeline is one of ten thousand tea farmers working on two plantations in northern and western Rwanda who until recently had to queue for a day, sometimes two, just to get paid.
The challenge for Tigo Rwanda’s Mobile Financial Services team was to find a solution that would help this community to access cash easily, and which would simplify their lives.
The result has been a successful partnership that brings local savings cooperatives together with The Wood Foundation, Access to Finance Rwanda and the TRAC Fund.
Thousands of tea farmers equipped with affordable mobile phones can now cash out their salary at the nearest local Tigo Cash point of sale instead of travelling far.©Tigo Rwanda CEO Philip Amoateng introduces the payment solution for agriculture- July 2016.
They are also able to access other financial services and products such as savings and loans for the first time.
According to Tigo Rwanda’s CEO Philip Amoateng, this new initiative closely supports broader financial inclusion which, in turn, is key to driving a growing digital economy on the back of greater connectivity.
“With the rapid growth in mobile phone penetration, mobile solutions can reach remote farmers in a way that no other form of communication can, helping them to improve productivity and increase efficiency throughout the agricultural chain,” he added.
Rwanda’s Minister for Youth and ICT Jean Philbert Nsengimana commented, saying the platform has the potential to become a sustainable business model for other areas of Rwanda’s economy.
He said: “The Tigo Payment solution for Agriculture is one of the best examples of how ICT can change lives. Currently, about 80% of Rwandans live in rural areas; so while we can talk of ‘Smart Cities’, we also cannot forget to talk about ‘Smart Villages’ as well. This platform is an example of what the Smart Village concept is all about. In fact, we need to deliver this platform much faster and to a wider user base.


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In-app purchases generate huge revenues, and mobile app users spend 24 percent more on in-app transactions than on upfront app payments, according to an online consumer survey by Gartner. We kick off this week’s roundup of recent performance marketing, partner marketing, and digital marketing industry news, reports, and insights with research about gender and the in-app purchase market.
Female Consumers Dominate the In-App Purchase Market
As covered by PerformanceIn, women are both more likely to purchase from shopping and gaming apps and are cheaper to acquire, as found by a newly-released report by mobile user acquisition specialist Liftoff. According to the group, females are 34% more likely to buy via an app, whether that’s m-commerce or gaming app purchases, and 40% less expensive than males to acquire as customers. These findings in mind, Liftoff goes as far as claiming that app marketers should be tilting spend in favour of targeting women into 2017.
Facebook Tweaks Audience Network To Favor Advertiser Metrics
Facebook is changing the way it values ad placements across its Audience Network as part of an ongoing transition from proxy ad metrics to actual business conversions, as reported by AdExchanger. The move will boost inventory quality across Facebook Audience Network (FAN) and inevitably create winners and losers among its tens of thousands of publisher partner apps and mobile sites. FAN is a lucrative business that Facebook has invested in heavily this year while shuttering LiveRail and the desktop retargeting tech FBX. FAN allows Facebook to target advertising to its users across partner apps and mobile sites.
Rethinking Today’s Attribution Problem in Digital Marketing
Proper attribution modeling is one of the biggest challenges facing marketers today. Attribution modeling has seen incredible progress over the years, offering increasingly better solutions to track touch points throughout a conversion. While progress has been made, the attribution models that most companies are using today offer a partial solution that tracks only online conversions and channels. Search Engine Land columnist Christi Olson discusses the common gaps in attribution and some ideas for thinking more holistically about your digital marketing campaigns.
LiveRamp Launches IdentityLink To Enhance Cross-Channel Data Resolution
As reported by MediaPost, LiveRamp announced last week the launch of IdentityLink, a product aimed at unifying siloed data across on- and offline channels. LiveRamp offers the ability to onboard all data from any channel, including addressable TV, direct mail, programmatic advertising, point of sale, mobile, CRM and social, to hundreds of marketing platforms, painting a stronger picture of the end user. The company commissioned an industry study that found 92% of all marketers believe that engaging in people-based marketing on digital channels is of crucial importance. However, the same study indicated that only 17% have the ability to develop an omnichannel understanding of consumers.
Digital Advertising Beyond the Impression
The baseline metric for pricing and measuring digital advertising—the served impression—has shaped digital media for more than two decades, as explored in a new eMarketer report. A history of ever-decreasing CPMs for display ads meant that publishers had to achieve massive scale to deliver enough impressions to make money from digital. This led to creating clickbait, slideshows, unskippable pre-roll video ads and other content that was hard to avoid but also frequently low quality. As impressions continued to lose value, advertisers started asking questions about the quality and efficacy of served impressions: How many real, live humans were on the other side of all those impressions being served?


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This year’s Tokyo Game Show was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, an online event has been confirmed by the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association. Tokyo Game Show 2020 Online will take place from September 23rd to 27th.
Along with major publishers taking part, there will also be indie developers showcasing titles. In a recent press release, the organizers also promised “the release of new titles and services.” This is in addition to round-table discussions and esports tournaments which will be live-streamed. You can catch all of the action and announcements via the Tokyo Game Show channel.
It should be interesting to see what developers in Japan have to present especially since we’re waiting for more details on games like Elden Ring, Babylon’s Fall, Granblue Fantasy: Relink and so on. Expect next-gen consoles, especially the PS5, to have some presence as well (perhaps with the unveiling of the rumored Silent Hill reboot). Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more news and announcements.


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Canberra, Aug 16 (IANS) Australian researchers on Thursday said they have developed a software tool to predict when a building will crack or its foundation will move, even when a dam could break or a mudslide occur.
Bennett university partners Dell EMC on data sciences, cloud infrastructure
As part of the partnership, Dell EMC will establish a science laboratory on campus to develop key skills of Bennett University faculty and students.
Jigsaw Academy and University of Chicago launches Data Science and machine learning program
The content and curriculum for the course has been designed by lecturers from University of Chicago and industry experts from Jigsaw Academy.
35,000 Jobs on offer with state's own data science, Artificial Intelligence hub
The CoE, being set up at a cost of Rs 40 crore will accelerate the ecosystem in Karnataka. It will also provide the impetus for development of data science and AI across the country.
IIT-Madras, Applied Materials India to take up research in Artificial Intelligence
IIT Madras strives to stay ahead of developments in technology and welcomes this opportunity to add momentum in research into AI, IT Madras, Director, Bhaskar Ramamurthi said.
GlobalLogic expands office in Bengaluru
GlobalLogic has other centres in Delhi, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Noida.
Telangana and Nasscom to set up AI center; invest Rs 40 crore
The centre will be set up with an initial joint investment of Rs. 40 crore and will be established on a public private partnership model.
Cost-effective digital advertising methods that every brand must adopt
A major advantage of digital advertising is Pay per Click payment mode, which means advertiser does not pay any extra amount to the partner website other than the number of clicks on the advertisement.
UpGrad and IIIT-Bangalore partner with Uber and Gramener for their Data AnalyticsProgram
IIIT-Bangalore and UpGrad had earlier announced their partnership to launch this program, which aims to train over 10,000 professionals in the field of data analytics.
Ex HCL CEO Anant Gupta sets up Rs 100 cr startup fund
This company is founded by former HCL Technologies CEO, Anant Gupta and will focus on next-gen technology incubation and investment.
Process automation and analytics could bring down NPA woes
Digital technologies today are disrupting and repositioning the lives of every banker and customer. Digital platforms and digital interfaces are ubiquitous.
Snapdeal establishes its data sciences centre in California
The data sciences centre will be led by Nitin Sharma, senior VP at Snapdeal. The number of hires made by the company for the centre, however, has not been disclosed.
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Fletcher Technical Community College's student commons received an upgrade in recent weeks with plans for more in the coming months.
The college now hosts a Fresh Market food store that offers a range of food and snacks from fresh salads and parfaits to home-cooked meals such as meatloaf and Chicken Alfredo. The store, owned and operated by Premier Companies, was unveiled on Aug. 15.
The community college officials said the food will change frequently. It also offers a small selection of non-food items to students.
It has a payment kiosk that uses thumbprint recognition technology where students can establish accounts for checkout. The market is also open to the public.
“The opening of the Fresh Market on campus will provide students with expanded food options while pursuing their studies," said Fletcher Chancellor Kristine Strickland. "This new and innovative concept paves the way for campus dining services and we are excited to be able to launch this concept on campus."
Beyond the new market, the college will also open an upgraded student lounge and atrium by Dec. 31. The two spaces will be repainted and refurnished for students.
Both of those projects are financed through a $100,000 donation to the Fletcher Foundation from C.H. "Bobby" Burguieres Jr. and his wife.
“We are so very grateful to the Burguieres family for the very generous donation,” said Strickland. “These dollars will help our college continue to provide the best student experience possible. The funding, which will enable us to upgrade our lounges and provide scholarship dollars to students, will enhance the college’s ability to create community amongst our students.”
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Physicians' group to sack cheese on billboard near Green Bay
Poor Packers fans.
Just few weeks into their new season as Super Bowl champions, they are about to be confronted with a near sacrilegious billboard on their way to Lambeau Field.: the Grim Reaper in a cheesehead and a warning about the health dangers of cheese.
Never mind that thousands of them likely will be chomping on one of the favorite foods of America's Dairyland in the Lambeau parking lot and that one of the largest cheese companies in the world is based in Green Bay.
That's exactly what the nutrition and animal rights advocacy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine had in mind when it agreed to pay $3,500 to buy billboard space in De Pere that is visible from Highway 41.
The image and message are set to be put up Monday, in time for the Packers game against the Denver Broncos the following Sunday. It's a Milwaukee season ticketholders game, and tens of thousands of fans will be driving past the billboard on their way to the stadium.
Isn't the billboard likely to alienate a large number of the fans?
"I'm not concerned about that," said Susan Levine, nutrition education director with the group. "I'm not interested in candy-coating the situation."
The situation, she says, is that cheese is the biggest source of saturated fat in the American diet, one that also is loaded with a high amount of sodium.
"Cheese is the embodiment of every poor food component packed in one food," she said.
She said she hopes the billboard plants a seed and starts people thinking about the health effects of cheese. That's especially true for children who are fed too much cheese by well-meaning parents.
The group also sent a letter to Green Bay Mayor James Schmitt, reminding him that many Wisconsin children and adults are obese or overweight.
Not coincidentally, the group says, annual cheese consumption has soared to 33 pounds person, a threefold increase since 1970.
The letter asks Schmitt to require warning labels on all high-fat cheesy foods sold at Lambeau.
That's just not going to happen, replied the mayor.
He noted that Schreiber Foods, the largest privately held cheese company in the world, is located in Green Bay.
"We are going to protect and defend the cheese industry," Schmitt said. "We love our cheeseheads and we love our cheese."


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Softbank, an investment company, focused on investing in the countries of the Latin American region has invested US$ 200 Million in a Brazilian-based crypto-startup. The investment was passed on to Mercado Bitcoin through Softbank’s fund called “Latin American Fund”, which is normally used to support education, innovation, fintech, e-commerce, and crypto adoption.
An investment company hailing from Tokyo Japan namely Softbank has recently invested US$ 200 Million into a crypto trading firm. The firm which has been provided with the funds is a Brazilian company namely Mercado Bitcoin which is owned by 2TM Group.
Usually, the Softbank focuses on investing in the business which belongs to the countries part of the Latin American region. The latest investment is Softbank’s highest ever investment for crypto which the bank had made in any of the Latin American countries.
It was later confirmed by the bank that the investment funds have been taken out of Softbank’s fund namely “Latin American Fund”. This fund has been dedicated by Softbank for leveraging funding support to Latin American countries. Upon receiving of funds, these countries then utilize these funds towards education, innovation, fintech, e-commerce, and crypto businesses.
On the other hand, 2TM Group is one of the most highly valued businesses in Brazil. The group’s present unicorn status is above US$ 2 Billion. The group currently the Latin American region’s eighth highly valued fintech company.
At the same time, Mercado Bitcoin is currently the most emerging crypto business in Brazil. In a very short span of one year, Mercado Bitcoin has successfully been able to house around 3 million new users. Mercado Bitcoin also told that a flood of new customers came in between the period January to May 2021. There were around 7 hundred thousand new users within this period. Similar were the results with regard to the daily crypto trade volume of Mercado Bitcoin. The firm apprised that the volume it transacted in 2021 is equal to what it had transacted in between 2004 to 2020.
Mercado Bitcoin is growing continuously and according to some crypto traders, it is going to be the world’s biggest crypto platform in the future. Softbank’s CEO, Marcelo Claure, stated that the bank finds huge potential for crypto in the Latin American region. He stated that the region’s crypto space has been overlooked and the whole world needs to focus on the region for crypto purposes.
Softbank’s contribution to the Latin American region is exceptional. The investment company has been investing in various businesses within the region. On several occasions funds have been taken out from the Latin American Fund and gave for investment purposes to notable companies of the region. For instance, frequent investments are sent off through the funds to companies such as Uala, Cortex, Konfio, Creditas, Loggi, and Inter.


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Just hours ago, the world's most hated corporation got even more evil.Monsanto and its allies have just announced they're suing the tiny, rural U.S. state of Vermont to stop a new law that simply requires genetically engineered foods to be labeled. In fact, the mere threat of a multi-million dollar lawsuit nearly caused the state to back off the labeling law altogether.
But Vermont is refusing to back down. They're getting ready to fight back against Monsanto, and have even created a legal defense fund so people around the world can make donations to help them beat back Monsantoâs lawsuit.
Vermont is a small, entirely rural state with just 600,000 people. Vermont vs. Monsanto, one of the most powerful corporations in the world, is a classic David and Goliath fight.
But thereâs much more at stake here than just whether GMO foods will be labeled in a single U.S. state. Vermont is actually the very first state in the U.S. to require labeling, and dozens of other states have said they will require labeling as well -- but only if Vermontâs law can survive this legal challenge.
That's why Monsanto is fighting so hard to kill GMO labeling in Vermont. If we can win here, itâll be a huge step towards the goal of GMO labeling worldwide, and making sure consumers know what they are eating.
Monsanto has been threatening this for weeks, but it's only just filed suit through the Grocery Manufacturer's Association, a trade group of which Monsanto is a core member. And Monsantoâs legal bullying is part of a growing trend of multi-national corporations suing sovereign governments to overturn regulations they donât like. Since the biggest corporations are larger than many countries around the world, itâs critical that citizens of the world band together to fight back.