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The registration is a part of Coinsquare’s goal to bridge the hole between conventional monetary markets and the decentralized ecosystem.
In August, the Canadian Securities Directors (CSA) instructed all crypto buying and selling platforms working in Canada that they have been anticipated to provide their major regulator a pre-registration endeavor and acknowledge that they’re certain by the identical investor safety guidelines as different securities merchants.
Coinsquare Capital Markets Ltd. and Crypto.com have been the primary to conform.
“When you commerce crypto immediately in Canada, you’re investing outdoors the absolutely regulated conventional monetary system with its inherent safeguards and protections,” stated Coinsquare CEO Martin Piszel because the registration was introduced this week. “Immediately, Coinsquare turned the one registered crypto IIROC supplier and market member. Now, for the primary time, Canadians have the chance to spend money on crypto belongings, understanding that they’ve full IIROC protections.”
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Together with Coinsquare’s new standing as an IIROC funding supplier, the agency can be now authorised to function an Different Buying and selling System (ATS) which it intends to develop over time to offer a liquid and clear market, in the identical approach conventional equities are traded.


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Kirk Harnack has been named vice president of Telos Products for the Telos Alliance, a newly created position. His title had been executive director of worldwide sales.
“Kirk has done much in broadcasting,” COO Marty Sacks wrote in a letter to customers. “He’s been a station engineer, has operated a contract engineering firm, has owned radio stations and has told the story of Telos, Omnia and Axia on every continent. He is brimming with creative ideas for making the Telos Alliance product line more attractive, and for brand-new products as well.”
Also, Christina Carroll becomes senior vice president of global sales.
“Christina’s sales leadership has seen our Linear Acoustic division grow exponentially, and she is intimately familiar with how to equip and support a highly effective sales organization,” Sacks wrote. She now will oversee the sales organization of all four of the company’s brands: Telos, Omnia, Axia and Linear Acoustic.

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Quick refresher: Snap unveiled the biggest Snapchat redesign in three years last fall and began rolling it out broadly this month. The goals were to make the app simpler to use and to more cleanly delineate “social” interactions from “media” consumption. “Your friends aren’t content. They’re relationships,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said in a peppy marketing video last fall about the new app design.
But many Snapchatters are up in arms, complaining that it’s harder to find messages and friends on the new “dynamic” friends page. More than 1 million people have signed a Change.org petition demanding that Snap scrap the new design. “The new layout is horrid,” one user wrote in a one-star review on Google Play. “Consider the old layout or I may even delete the app. It’s such trash now.”
Spiegel, speaking Thursday at an investor conference, indicated Snap isn’t going to change course. “Some of the complaints we are seeing are reinforcing our philosophy,” he said. For instance, some Snapchat users complained that the celebrities they follow on the platform aren’t in their friend list anymore, about which Spiegel commented: “They’re not your friends.”
Yes, the jury is still out on whether the Snap decision on the resdesign was a serious miscalculation. It’s possible that millions of irritated users actually junk it. But if history is any guide, the brouhaha will fade.
The tech industry is rife with examples of design changes that prompted users to throw conniption fits, before the hubbub abated within a few months — and usage on each of the platforms continued to climb:
- When Instagram changed its logo two years ago, many fans completely hated it: The New York Times dubbed it “The Great Instagram Logo Freakout of 2016.” Earlier that year, Instagram switched users’ feeds from chronological to algorithmically sorted presentation; that led to, yes, a Change.org petition to keep Instagram chronological signed by 343,000 people. Spoiler alert: Instagram didn’t go back to the old design.
- A staunch contingent of Twitter purists fought against its move to expand from 140 to 280 characters, which went into effect for all users in November. The result? Twitter reported that average daily active users grew 12% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017.
- Back in 2012, an eternity in internet time, Facebook (horrors!) switched from “Walls” to the now-established Timeline format. “It was basically the end of the world for a few weeks,” per a CNN report, citing a poll at the time that found less than 10% of Facebook users liked the change.
- Let’s not forget one of the most disruptive changes in recent memory: Netflix’s decision in 2011 to split DVD rentals from its streaming service, which some believed was a monumental error. True, Netflix made some mistakes (remember Qwikster?) and saw heavy churn from what effectively was a price hike. But ripping off that Band-Aid was the right thing to do — and now Reed Hastings and crew are riding high, with a booming streaming business and DVD-by-mail sidecar that still throws off cash.
The list of tech product-design changes that have angered people could go on and on. Less than a year ago, Netflix eliminated the five-star content rating system, moving instead to thumbs up/thumbs down ratings. Many customers hated it. But the world has kept turning. Netflix has continued to grow.
Snapchat itself has been through hand-wringing over prior app tweaks.
In 2014, after it added the ability to send text and video chats, “Not only were teenagers saying they didn’t like the update; they also didn’t understand how it worked,” Business Insider wrote at the time. And two years ago, Snapchat merely changed its font — leading to a “meltdown online,” according to a Digiday story, citing an analysis of 3,000 internet comments that found 74% indicated negative sentiment.
And it’s worth pointing out that Spiegel and the rest of the Snapchat team fully anticipated a backlash over the latest redesign.
“There is a strong likelihood that the redesign of our application will be disruptive to our business in the short term, and we don’t yet know how the behavior of our community will change when they begin to use our updated application,” the CEO said in prepared remarks on the company’s Q3 2017 earnings call. But, he added, “We’re willing to take that risk for what we believe are substantial long-term benefits to our business.”
What benefits, exactly? Snapchat believes the new app puts it in a better position to monetize media content. Among the changes, the company says Snapchat Discover will become “uniquely personalized” for each user. And the company has said that it will bring top creators into the revenue-sharing pool — an incentive for influencers to produce more content for the right-hand (media) side of the app.
“This redesign, if it delivers on its promise to serve quality content in a targeted way, could be just what Snapchat needs to increase eyeball time on the app,” Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CEO of social-analytics firm Socialbakers, commented after Snap showed off the new look last November.
In any event, chances are good that the current fuss over the Snapchat redesign will evaporate pretty soon — and no one will remember what the big deal was about.


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The so-called Wi-Fi phone, which will allow Skype users to access the service and call anyone anywhere in the world, is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2006. The companies also said pricing would be announced in that time frame.
The idea, company officials said at thehere, is that Luxembourg-based Skype's members will be able to use the phone on any wireless Internet connection out of the box after entering their username and password. A PC will not be required.
The phone will work on encrypted Wi-Fi networks, as long as a user has the proper network ID, but it will not work on paid Wi-Fi systems like those offered at many bookstores and cafes. However, the system is not designed to work seamlessly across multiple access points.
"We will be able to (multiply by 10) the number of Skype users around the world," said Netgear CEO Patrick Lo. "We will free people from the inability to call people around the world because it's too expensive."
Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom joined the demonstration by placing a call to Lo's Wi-Fi phone.
Skype allows its users to call each other for free, regardless of geography. They can also call non-Skype users via its SkypeOut service. The company, which, creates revenue through premium offerings such as SkypeOut, as well as through voicemail and call forwarding features.
Lo said that the Skype Wi-fi phone will be aimed at consumers, and not initially at businesses.
"The business community will require more upscale (devices)," Lo said. "You have to be able to roam between access points."
According to an October study by Jupiter Research, 20.4 million U.S. households are expected to subscribe to one form of VoIP service or another by 2010. But a study by In-Stat suggested that it would take the availability of wireless-compatible phones in order for VoIP to be widely adopted.
Skype is not the first VoIP provider to offer a stand-alone Wi-Fi phone. Already, services such as. But Vonage and many other VoIP providers charge customers a monthly fee, regardless of whether users call in or outside the network. Skype differentiates itself with its free in-network service.


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Profit increases at China’s industrial companies grew again in October, largely helped by firms in sectors such as mining and raw materials manufacture, reports Bloomberg. Profit for the month grew 24.6% year-on-year to RMB 818.7 billion ($128 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday, compared with an increase of 16.3% in September. For the first 10 months of the year, profits increased 42.2% from a year earlier to RMB 7.16 trillion.
“Operations of industrial firms have continued to improve thanks to the policies to secure supplies and stabilize prices,” Zhu Hong, a senior statistician with the statistics bureau, said in a statement accompanying the release. Profitability of consumer goods manufacturing turned positive in October with a rise of 3.6%, after plunging in recent months, Zhu said, as companies prepared for Single’s Day shopping spree.
Profits at companies in the mining industry have been soaring this year as prices of commodities from coal to oil surged. Coal production companies saw profits increased by 438% year-on-year, about 69.6% higher than the previous month, as the government urged companies to ensure supply amid a power crunch.
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In March 2012, the National Science Foundation released the results of its "Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey" study, a rigorous, careful, wide-ranging longitudinal study on the use of trademark, copyright, and patents in American business. The study concluded that, overall, most businesses don't rate these protections as a significant factor in their success (in 2010, 87.2% said trademarks were "not important"; 90.1% said the same of copyright, and 96.2% said the same of patents).
What's striking about the survey is that even fields that are traditionally viewed as valuing these protections were surprisingly indifferent to them — for example, only 51.4% of software businesses rated copyright as "very important."
In a very good post, GWU Political Science PhD candidate Gabriel J. Michael contrasts the obscurity of this landmark study with the incredible prominence enjoyed by a farcical USPTO study released last year that purported to show that "the entire U.S. economy relies on some form of IP" and that "IP-intensive industries" created 40 million American jobs in 2010. The study's methodology was a so sloppy as to be unsalvageable — for example, the study claimed that anyone who worked at a grocery store was a beneficiary of "strong IP protection."
The NSF study doesn't merely totally refute the USPTO's findings, it does so using a well-documented, statistically valid, neutral methodology that was calculated to find the truth, rather than scoring political points for the copyright lobby. It's a study in contrasts between evidence-based policy production and policy-based evidence production.
61.7% of businesses manufacturing computer and electronic products report that patents are "not important" to them.
96.3% of businesses with less than 500 employees report that patents are "not important" to them.
45.6% of businesses with 25,000 or more employees report that patents are "not important" to them.
53.6% of businesses classified in the information sector (NAICS code 51 – i.e., a sector we'd expect to rely heavily on copyright) report that copyrights are "not important" to them.
Overall, businesses report that trade secrets are the most important form of intellectual property protection, with 13.2% of businesses calling trade secrets "very important" or "somewhat important." Trademarks are a close second, with copyrights and patents significantly farther behind.
Trailing in last place is sui generis protection for semiconductor mask works, although that is no surprise.
When asked, vast majority of businesses say IP is not important [Gabriel J. Michael/To Promote the Progress?]


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The Jakarta Post
Four Indonesian franchise owners have just been granted with an 'Indonesian Franchise go International' award at the Indonesia Franchise and Business Concept expo, recognizing the success of international expansion and development of a global brand.
The awarded franchise are Alfamart, Es Teler 77, Kebab Turki Baba Rafi and Bebek Ayam Pak Ndut. According the panel of judges, each of these homegrown brands have been successful in expanding their franchise and marketing their product to foreign countries.
Kebab Turki Baba Rafi is an Indonesian phenomenon. Beginning with two pushcarts in Surabaya in 2003, it has since become Indonesia's biggest kebab franchise and currently boasts more than 1,200 outlets in Indonesia.
After launching an immense expansion project in 2009, the franchise now has outlets in seven other countries; Philippines, Malaysia, China, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, and The Netherlands.
"Right now we are preparing to go to Africa. There are two proposals from Ivory Coast, Mauritius and Nigeria. We are currently in negotiations and the potential franchisees have visited our Baba Rafi office in Indonesia. Hopefully we will open in Africa in the first quarter of 2016," Baba Rafi founder Hendy Setiono said.
Alfamart, which boasts a 30 percent market share among Indonesia's domestic-focused multitude of expansionist mini-market businesses, also recently expanded to The Philippines, opening 60 outlets in 2015. In 2013, the company established Alfamart Retail Asia Pte. Ltd. in Singapore to support their international operations.
Es Teler 77 has a total of six outlets in three countries; Singapore (three outlets), Malaysia (two outlets) and one outlet in Australia. During the awards, it was recognized that the Es Teler 77 franchise model differs from the norm as, instead of a franchisee paying a license fee to own a franchise, the franchise store remains under the ownership of the company.
"In the beginning of our global expansion, we decided that it would be our main mission to keep the authentic taste of Indonesian food. Thus the current foreign franchise outlets are owned by our company," said Es Teler 77 commissioner Anton Widjaja.
Lastly, Bebek Ayam Pak Ndut having successfully opened its first foreign outlet at Lucky Plaza Orchard Road, Singapore, in June 2015, has added its active outlet number to a total of 25. (ags)
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The inFamous 2 beta has been extended due to PlayStation Network's ongoing downtime, it has been confirmed.
Developer Sucker Punch has said that more details will be announced once the online service is back online.
"We've decided to extend the beta," tweeted the firm. "Once PSN is back up, we'll determine by how long, but rest assured: your outcry has been heard."
Users that had downloaded the beta and accepted the end-user agreement before the downtime took place have been able to play offline.
The beta, which allows users to create their own missions and share them with the community, went live on April 12.
PlayStation Network has been down since last Thursday. Sony has confirmed that the outage was caused by an "external intrusion", and it has recently investigated the possibility of credit card security.
Yesterday, hacker group Anonymous said that it was not behind the attack.
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Mango mania is back in town: One aam for all, from UP’s Yogi to Delhi’s Kejriwal
More than 500 varieties of mangoes to be exhibited at the 29th edition of the Mango Festival in the Capital.Updated: Jul 06, 2017 11:26 IST
Mango lovers, you’re in for a treat.The Mango Festival returns with it’s 29th edition, beginning today. Organised since 1988, this fest celebrates the magnificence of king of fruits. But, not everything will be the same — you can expect to find something uncommon like a Yogi Mango, this year!
“We have grown a new variety of mangoes in our farm and will soon have a meeting to suggest that it should be named Yogi Mango – inspired from Yogi Adityanath [Chief Minister of UP]. We name mangoes after those who have done something for the nation and deserve respect. In our eyes, our chief minister has done that,” says Tariq Mustafa, a mango grower from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar – who plans to display more than 150 varieties of mangoes at the festival.
Alongside a mango mandi, there will be a quiz based on facts around mango, and a mango eating. There will also be some chefs present at the venue, to demonstrate some mango recipes. But the value for money will be a stall that will allow the visitors to pay Rs 100 and eat as many mangoes as they can.
And that’s not all. Alongside a mango mandi, there will be a quiz based on facts around mango, and a mango eating contest. “India has the longest mango season, which makes it even more important for us to celebrate this fruit. There will also be some chefs present at the venue, to demonstrate some mango recipes. But the value for money will be a stall that will allow the visitors to pay Rs 100 and eat as many mangoes as they want,” says Puja Joshi, general manager, Delhi Tourism.
And, of course, there will be mangoes in all sizes, from that of a grape to that of a papaya! “We will also display rare varieties such as Gula Mango – which smells like a flower and has juice that is thinner than water. Also, there will be Kejri Mango – which grows in huge numbers, and Rajiv Gandhi Mango – which was named so because it’s a very good-looking mango,” adds Mustafa.
The evenings will have cultural activities including street plays and magic shows. So, just before summer makes way for the monsoon, eat mangoes and be happy!
- What: Mango Festival 2017
- Where: Dilli Haat, Janakpuri
- When: June 30 to July 2
- Timings: 11am to 8pm
- Nearest Metro Station: Janakpuri (East) on Blue Line
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Mick Hager (photo from mickhager.com)
“I’ve got more time than I have money,” motivational speaker Mick Hager says. So when he decided to try to boost sales (and, in particular, the Amazon.com ranking) for his upcoming book, he took an inexpensive but labor-intensive route. He spent 300 to 400 hours, but just $180, in his bid to drum up sales.
Mr. Hager contacted me offering to provide an inside look at his campaign, after reading my column last month about authors who try to juice their sales rankings at online booksellers. His account of his campaign shows the lengths to which authors might go for better numbers, and the potential pitfalls of the approach.
I wrote in my column about companies that charge authors to send out email “blasts,” targeting popular authors’ email lists with messages promoting another writer’s new book, and offering an incentive for buying the book from Amazon or another online bookseller on a specific day to boost the rankings. Mr. Hager tried doing the work himself for his co-authored business-advice book, “Monkey Business,” which was set to be published this month. He paid $60 for a program that promised to pull email addresses off of Web pages. Then he spent about two hours each night, for six months, using the software to pull email addresses from Web sites for relevant organizations such as local chambers of commerce and professional groups for human-resources managers. After removing some irrelevant addresses, and using a $120 program to verify the email addresses were still working, Mr. Hager was left with a list of about 637,000 — and he was ready for his blitz.
“Monkey Business” was published on April 3. Less than two weeks later, Mr. Hager started blasting out his email to the addresses he’d gathered, using a free mass-email program. The email urged recipients to buy the book from Amazon.com on April 17, and email the digital receipt to Mr. Hager. In return, they’d get a few business-advice materials from the author. (I got a copy of the email.) He says he took steps to stay on the right side of the federal antispam law, such as offering an unsubscribe feature.
But he says his free email program failed to deliver most of the messages he’d sent. The email program was also slow, and was still delivering messages after Tuesday, diluting the “Amazon Day” effect. He said he will try again this week, targeting April 26 as his next Amazon Day, with an email program that cost $100. Nonetheless, his book jumped from an Amazon sales ranking of about 300,000 overall before the email blast to 5,000 at its peak on April 17 — and No. 34 in Amazon’s motivational-books category. (He sent me screenshots showing the rankings. An Amazon spokesman didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.)
He told me he’s “very unhappy” about the technological mishaps, but “blown away” about hitting No. 34. Does that make him a bestseller? “I don’t know,” Mr. Hager said. “My publicist says yes. I still sit here and wonder about it.”
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - The federal Economic Development Administration has approved a grant of nearly $450,000 to Oregon State University to jump-start the use of new engineered wood products in the building industry.
The National Center for Advanced Wood Products Manufacturing and Design, a collaboration between Oregon State and the University of Oregon, will develop testing to help integrate mass timber construction into Oregon's building code standards, while maintaining a close working relationship with the Oregon Building Codes Division.
The goal of the center is to develop new wood products, such as cross laminated timber, or CLT panels, that can be manufactured and certified for use in Oregon. It will also try to create economic opportunities for rural communities that have lost jobs to globalized commodity markets and dramatically reduced harvest levels.
"Code approval for new uses of wood products in these markets requires dedicated performance testing," said Geoff Huntington, director of strategic initiatives for the OSU College of Forestry. "This testing is key to unlocking the engineered wood supply chain to meet growing demand."
Developers in the Northwest and Pacific Rim countries may use CLT for its resilient, energy-efficient properties. The D.R. Johnson Lumber Company in Riddle, Oregon, has become the nation's first certified manufacturer of CLT for construction purposes.
"We will use funds to work with manufacturers and commercial developers to complete performance testing of Oregon-manufactured wood building components for specific projects," said Huntington. "Our objective is to make CLT and other innovative uses of mass timber products technically feasible, economically viable and accessible alternatives for architects and developers seeking to use Oregon products to meet growing consumer demand for healthy, sustainable buildings."
Projects using innovative mass timber projects are already in the planning stages in Portland and Corvallis. In Portland, LEVER Architecture is designing a 12-story CLT building in the Pearl District, and in Corvallis, OSU plans to use the material in constructing new teaching and research facilities for the College of Forestry.
Geoff Huntington, 541-737-9103
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Science, Tech & Environment
We’ve all heard that Volkswagen cheated to meet emission standards for its “clean diesel” vehicles. We know these cars can emit up to 40 times the legal limit of NOx emissions. But what exactly does that mean for our health? Now, thanks to research from MIT and Harvard, Volkswagen owners know.


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ZTE was accused of dodging United States sanctions on Iran in 2016, by selling technology from the U.S. to Iran through multiple shell companies. The U.S. Department of Commerce threatened to cut off ZTE from all its supply chain partners in the United States, which ZTE avoided by paying nearly a billion dollars in fines.
The ban went into force last month, after the DoC said ZTE had not complied with the agreement by not disciplining select employees involved in the operation. The move heavily crippled the company, which has shut down most operations while it works with the Department of Commerce. President Trump tweeted this morning that he is working with China to remove the supply chain ban.
President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2018
ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from U.S. companies. This is also reflective of the larger trade deal we are negotiating with China and my personal relationship with President Xi.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
The move surprised many, not just because it's the first time the president has made a public statement about ZTE, but also because the Department of Commerce and Treasury Department were strongly against the ban being lifted. No other details are available at this time.


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Beyoncé is launching an active wear line for women.
The singer announced the 2016 spring/summer collection Thursday called Ivy Park. It's a collaboration with Sir Philip Green of the retail giant Arcadia Group. The collection will be available April 14.
Beyoncé said in a statement that she lives "in my work out clothes but I didn't feel there was an athletic brand that spoke to me." She said she wants the collection to "inspire women who understand that beauty is more than your physical appearance."
Beyoncé also launched IvyPark.com and released a video showing the pop star modeling the new clothes. Her daughter, Blue Ivy, also appears in the video.
The line will be available online and in Topshop stores, Nordstrom, Selfridges and others.


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On the last 28th and 29th of June, the second edition of the Brazilian iGaming Summit (BiS 2022) took place in the city of São Paulo.
The biggest betting event in Brazil featured a vast program and panels with experts from the gaming, lottery, iGaming and media sectors, delivering highly relevant content to the direction of the national industry.
Control + F5, a digital marketing company that has been gaining a lot of strength in the gaming market, appeared again at BiS and also at Afiliados Latam.
Receiving many companies at its stand, Control + F5 was represented by a good part of its team, and we took advantage of the event to interview André Alves, Managing Partner of the company, who addressed topics such as the company’s evolution, market recognition, future plans and other matters.
“The event is the best, the heart of the gambling market in Brazil, there’s no way to be left out”, comments André about the event, which continues: “being here getting involved with operators and developers is very special for us”.
“In the first edition we took home an award, closed some business deals and this year everything seems to be going even better”, says the Managing Partner about the brand’s participation in the event.
“Control Gaming is focused on helping the entire gaming sector in Brazil, not just being a service provider, but a point of support, thinking about professionalism and regulation. We want to be together with the market so that this market to develop”, completes André about Control+F5’s position in the sector.
“[The regulation] is extremely important for Brazil, even more so in the economic moment we are living, we have to approve this”, quotes André.


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ALK Technologies has released a new CoPilot Truck GPS navigation app for smartphones and tablets. This new app takes the company’s powerful CoPilot Truck navigation system and packages it for use on devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Android-powered devices, laptops and Windows Mobile rugged devices.
CoPilot Truck provides truck-specific, turn-by-turn guidance and routing.
“Our new version of CoPilot Truck with RouteSync combines cutting-edge navigation features like drag and drop route adjustment with the industry standard PC*Miler routing that professional drivers are billed on,” said Michael Kornhauser, senior vice president of Enterprise Solutions, ALK Technologies. “It’s a uniquely powerful mobile navigation solution that offers the crucial link between the planned route in the back office and the navigated route in the cab.”
The app features a driver-friendly user interface, up to three alternate route choices, street-level ALK Maps of North America stored onboard the device for offline use, and “major road preview” that shows only highways and Interstates.
CoPilot Truck includes customizable vehicle dimensions for height, length, and weight/axle weight, and drivers can calculate the optimal truck route that is both safe and legal.
The app is available for $149.99 through the iTunes App Store, Google Play and at www.copilotlive.com/truck, beginning the middle of this month.
Subscriptions for 12 months are available for the ActiveTraffic service for $9.99 and Live Fuel Prices service for $4.99. CoPilot Truck v8 customers will be able to upgrade to the new version via a free update.


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eero for Service Providers is a turnkey solution offering you real-time insights, advanced security, and mesh wifi systems to ensure reliable connectivity throughout every room of your customer’s home.
Learn more about eero
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Simplicity & user experience excellence drives eero Wi-Fi adoption for communities & MDUs, company says
Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer eero is betting on communities and MDUs as one of their next growth markets.
September 24, 2023 [Weekly News Brief]
Wi-Fi 7 is rolling out across the world with more devices being released - and the pressure is on for regulators to understand the value of full-band 6 GHz Wi-Fi ahead of WRC-23.
July 27, 2023 [Weekly News Brief]
Roundup: EnGenius’ Wi-Fi 7, VVDN reference designs, Airties & Telecentro in Argentina, & eero targets MDUs
Not everyone is on holiday in July. Here's what's happening in the world of Wi-Fi.
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Latest innovations are empowering operators to serve home Wi-Fi customers better at no additional cost, eero says.
October 02, 2022 [Breaking News]
The reasons for Amazon's acquisition of Wi-Fi mesh vendor eero in 2019 are becoming increasingly clear as Amazon last week released a raft of new eero and eero-powered devices.
November 09, 2021 [News Global]
In 2016 eero was the first to launch consumer mesh Wi-Fi and today, the company is expanding quickly into the service provider market.


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Growing decriminalization and interest in psilocybin have kept the potential future shroom boom on the marijuana industry’s radar.
It’s got cannabis entrepreneurs wondering: Is there profit in the emerging psychedelic industry, and can cannabis equipment be used for mushroom extraction?
Cannabis policy changes in the past decade have empowered extractors to develop potent, high-quality commercial products such as live resin, rosin, solventless or distilled hash and CBD oil while expanding the research of their effects.
Psilocybin appears to be following a somewhat similar trend.
The global psychedelic therapeutic market, which includes more drugs than just psilocybin, is estimated to reach $6.8 billion in value by 2027, according to a recent peer-reviewed study published in the chemistry journal Molecules.
Those numbers might be tempting for cannabis extractors, given a recent glut in the hemp industry and slow progress toward federal legalization of marijuana that has investors wary of cannabis stocks despite the industry’s growth.
So, should cannabis extractors take the leap to mushroom extraction?
The answer appears to be: Maybe.
Psilocybin and cannabis are polar opposites – literally. Cannabinoid molecules are nonpolar, while psilocybin is.
That makes it a challenge to use the same equipment to extract the two, says Ryan Moss, lead researcher and developer at Filament Health, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based psychedelic drug development company that trades on the over-the-counter markets as FLHLF.
Filament Health uses a water-based approach to extract psilocybin.
Moss says that because cannabinoids are nonpolar molecules, typically extracted through CO2, hydrocarbon, butane or ethanol, that equipment wouldn’t suffice to extract a polar molecule such as psilocybin.
There are some exceptions, however.
“I have a feeling that any of the companies using ethanol extraction for their hemp products could probably adapt those technologies to psilocybin extraction. But for CO2 or hydrocarbon extraction, that’s just not going to work very well for magic mushrooms,” Moss told MJBizDaily.
Even ethanol “is not a very good solvent for psilocybin extraction,” he said.
“You would have to end up adding water to that.”
An exact cost of its psilocybin production and extraction is difficult to pinpoint, given the smaller and more limited market for it.
But natural extraction methods of psilocybin are significantly less than synthetic alternatives, Moss said.
A different view
Wesley Ray, a hemp grower in Oregon who is conducting research and breeding with mushrooms, thinks the two could coexist.
A high concentration of CO2 is required to grow mushrooms and is naturally produced in them.
Ray believes that cannabis growers could create a sustainable cycle between the two compounds.
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“And that’s fantastic, because there’s a whole ecosystem that can be created,” he said. “You can take one room and dump the CO2 from your mushrooms into your grow.
“That way, you’re not using propane burners or (additional) CO2, you’re just using growing life to create your CO2.”
But mixing the two could also pose some challenges, particularly with spore cross-contamination.
“If it’s a dry mushroom that you’re bringing into a facility that makes CBD and THC, you’re bringing in potentially mycotoxins or molds or anything else that is associated with those, if they haven’t been dried properly.”
It gets tricky when you mix the two. The best bet is to invest in all new equipment.
One company, Hielscher Ultrasonics in Teltow, Germany, offers technology specific to extracting mushrooms that runs for $7,530.
The machine breaks the cell walls of the mushroom and releases molecules from psilocybin and psilocin – another hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms – into a solvent.
A similar mechanism could be used to also extract cannabis, using ice water-based extraction to break down trichomes, Ray said.
“It just depends on yields, and input costs. Are they profitable as a business? Can you make it profitable?” he said.
Moss argues no.
Cannabis extractors looking into the psilocybin side using the same equipment wouldn’t necessarily be the smartest business venture, he said.
“Some cannabis extraction technologies are more versatile than others,” Moss said, “but these psychedelic compounds are of completely different chemistry.
“Ideally, you would choose a technology that is designed for both mushroom biomass and the compounds you are looking to extract.”
Considerations beyond equipment
Even if extractors can’t use the same machines that extract psychoactive molecules from cannabis for mushrooms, the looming psychedelics industry could be a natural fit for cannabis manufacturers, Ray said.
“The way I see it is a lot of the people who are going to start getting licenses to grow this are going to be the marijuana companies,” he said.
He argues that marijuana manufacturers already have the required security, oversight and blueprint that licensed psilocybin growers are required to have, something that could give them a lead in psilocybin production.
Like cannabis, psilocybin is an illegal Schedule 1 substance in the United States and remains illegal in most countries. Federal research exemptions enable firms to produce the drug for research purposes.
Even in Canada, where there are broader legal opportunities to work with psychedelics, manufacturers say compliance is similar to cannabis research in the United States:
- Everything needs to be logged.
- Security needs to be amped.
- Oversight is strict.
“We can’t just play around with the material,” Moss said. “We need a good reason for using it, (and) we need to keep track of it.
“There’s no way that you could just take out a bunch of magic mushrooms and destroy it all and have no consequences of that.
“Everything must be accounted for, and there must be a reason for why you did something.”
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Smurfit Kappa’s US expansion ambitions have occupied growing speculation among investors after recent documents revealed that a US packaging merger involved two further undisclosed bidders.
Filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, DC, showed that American packaging firm WestRock competed with two other bidders in its successful $3.5 billion (€2.8 billion) acquisition of KapStone Paper, reported the Irish Independent.
Smurfit Kappa has been in the spotlight repeatedly over recent weeks for twice rejecting what it called an ‘unsolicited and highly opportunistic’ takeover proposal by the American paper company International Paper.
The Dublin-headquartered company derives almost three quarters of its Ebitda from Europe, but finance chief Ken Bowles has said that it is looking at possible takeover targets in the US.
A takeover of KapStone would have needed shareholder approval but would not have been beyond Smurfit Kappa’s reach, according to analysts.
Regulatory filings showed two alternative offers, which raised KapStone’s concerns at “Party B's ability to consummate a potential business combination" since it "would be subject to the approval of certain regulatory authorities and Party B's shareholders”.
Meanwhile, a London-based investor said there are “no other assets [Smurfit Kappa] can buy that can be as accretive” as a near €40 a share buy-out offer.
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Hunter Harrison, retiring president and CEO of the Calgary-based Class I railway, has apparently decided to cut his remaining time with the company short, and may be eyeing U.S. railroad CSX as his next move.
Terminal Investment Limited - jointly owned by MSC and Global Infrastructure Partners - will become the largest owner of Total Terminals International, which Hyundai Merchant Marine will also own a stake in.
Shipment volumes for the month slid 1.2 percent from November, but were up 3.5 percent compared with the same 2015 period following a 0.5 percent year-over-year decrease the previous month, according to the latest Cass Freight Index Report.
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The joint container venture between Japan’s ‘Big 3’ will have a fleet capacity of 1.38 million TEUs, making it the sixth largest in the world, and when their 23 new ships are delivered, the merged operation will become the fifth largest carrier.
Five large terminal companies and the Port of Rotterdam Authority filed the “Global Ports Group Agreement” with the Federal Maritime Commission to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the container port industry.
Harold J. Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said the union will oppose fully-automated container terminals in upcoming contract talks with the United States Maritime Alliance.


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Online Counterfeit Credit and ID Card Suspects Collared
Three Florida men suspected of masterminding a cyberspace operation to equip criminals with the tools for fake credit cards and false identification documents face federal charges in New Jersey.
Sean Roberson, 39, and Hugo Rebaza, 31, of Palm Bay, and Vinici Gonzalez, 30, of Melbourne, face charges including counterfeit trafficking and wire, mail and bank fraud in connection with the shutdown of fakeplastic.net.
According to information from the office of New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents oversaw more than 30 "controlled deliveries" of material through the site, which led them to 11 suspects rounded up to date. Among them is a customer, Nashancy Johnny Colbert, 27, of Charlotte, North Carolina.
"This ring of computer criminals ran an online one-stop shop where counterfeit credit cards were a mouse click away," said North Carolina U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins in a prepared release.
"As consumer fraud becomes more sophisticated, law enforcement and prosecutors across the country are joining forces to pull aside the veil of cyberspace anonymity and take down criminal enterprises that pilfer the identities of innocent victims for personal gain."
Investigators said they began watching the site in January 2013. It traded in customized counterfeit credit and debit cards and holographs used in driving licenses. Roberson allegedly started marketing them in April 2011 and took it on line in June 2012, building a subscriber base of about 400.
The suspects are believed to have shipped at least 3,600 packages containing about 69,000 bogus credit cards, at least 35,000 holographic authenticity stickers and some 30,000 holographic overlays for state identification card use.
Authorities alleged that Roberson amassed more than $1,700,000, and estimated that the enterprise resulted in losses as high as $34,500,000, assuming a dent of about $500 for each payment card.
If convicted of the most serious charges, all four would risk prison terms of up to 30 years and fines as high as $1,000,000.


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'Our journey together will begin with a major event in 2018, ' says the statement. However, it now looks like Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics are instead choosing to keep things under wraps for the foreseeable future. Check out the first letters of each sentence in the Tweet below - they spell out Shadow. Honestly, we wish we could share it with you right now, but we're taking a new approach this time around.
"Square Enix is excited to share some big news with you next year", a statement read. No word yet on whether this new Tomb Raider project and Shadow of the Tomb Raider are the same game.
Regardless, fans of the Tomb Raider series will definitely be pleased to see an official confirmation from Square Enix that a third entry in the reboot series is coming. This is pretty interesting considering Rise of the Tomb Raider featured a timed exclusivity deal which prevented PlayStation players from playing the game for a full year after the Xbox One release.


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Reuters | 3 July 2019
Nigeria will sign Africa free trade agreement -presidency
by Libby George
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria will sign an Africa free trade agreement at the coming African union summit, according to a statement posted on the Nigeria presidency’s Twitter feed on Tuesday.
Nigeria, the largest economy on the continent, was one of the last countries that had not committed to signing the deal and its decision to join the bloc will significantly bolster its clout.
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) aims to eliminate tariffs between member states, creating a market of 1.2 billion people with a combined GDP of more than $2.2 trillion.
Apart from Nigeria, only Eritrea and Benin have chosen not to join the zone. President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed concern it could allow neighboring countries to inundate Nigeria with low-priced goods, and confound efforts to encourage moribund local manufacturing and expand farming.
But a panel set up to assess the impact of joining the bloc recommended last week the president “should consider joining.”
“Our position is very simple, we support free trade as long as it is fair and conducted on an equitable basis,” the Twitter feed quoted Buhari as saying.
It added Nigeria would sign onto the deal at an upcoming African Union summit in Niamey, Niger. The agreement with the other signatories came into force on May 30.


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Gourmet sweetmaking firm sees profits rise to £1.7m
The Dublin-based gourmet sweetmaker that produced 14 million jelly beans a day last year has recorded increased revenues and profits.
New accounts just filed by Aran Candy Ltd, trading as the Jelly Bean Factory brand, show that profits last year increased by 2% to €2.39m (£1.7m). This followed revenues increasing by 9% to €12.81m (£9m).
Last year, Scandinavian confectionery firm Cloetta acquired Aran Candy for €15.5m (£11m) in cash. Aran Candy was established by father and son Peter and Richard Cullen in 1998. The firm exports 98% of its production to 60 export markets around the globe with its main market in the UK.
It also exports to the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Korea. Employment numbers grew from 75 to 90.


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Wear OS 3: More details about Pixel Watch launch software revealed with next-generation Google Assistant, Fitbit, Google Pay and YouTube Music services detailed
Earlier this week, Google announced the dates of this year's I/O Developer Conference, discussed separately. Scheduled between May 11 and May 12, Google I/O 2022 is rumoured to be the launchpad for Wear OS 3, an OS update that the company unveiled at last year's conference in partnership with Samsung. While Google has not announced many Wear OS 3 details since last May, beta builds have offered a few insights about it.
Now, 9to5Google has provided more impressions about Wear OS 3, courtesy of the Wear OS Smartphone Companion app. As the screenshots below show, Google will bundle a next-generation Google Assistant for Wear OS, improved Google Pay and YouTube Music apps, and a Fitbit activity tracking tile. Based on previous rumours, Google Assistant will launch with a degree of offline support, which Wear OS 2 versions lack.
Additionally, Samsung has already confirmed that YouTube Music will finally gain music streaming capabilities. For context, Google's latest music streaming service arrived on Wear OS when Samsung released the Galaxy Watch4 series. Unfortunately, it remains unknown when Google will bring Wear OS 3 to existing smartwatches, beyond a vague commitment to the second half of 2022. However, vanilla Wear OS 3 could debut on the Pixel Watch, Google's first and long-awaited smartwatch.


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MOSCOW, December 21. The Ministry does not expect deficit and reduce the quality of the products after the New year, when will enter into force the embargo on the export of some Turkish products. This opinion was expressed by state Secretary, Deputy Minister of industry and trade Viktor Evtukhov. He reminded that Russia already has experience supply constraints from other countries and not lost in the variety of goods.
Turkish Minister: the crisis in relations between Turkey and the Russian Federation can be resolved by March
“I suppose the introduction of a food embargo with Turkey will lead to the rotation of suppliers, and the geography of imported fresh to some extent will change. But it will not affect the range and availability of familiar products. Baptism of fire Russian retail has already passed a year and a half ago (after the embargo on imports of products from the EU – approx. ed.). Empty shelves, shortages, reducing the quality we have not seen and will not see after the New year,” said Evtukhov.
According to him, the situation with the ban on food imports from the EU was for the representatives of Russian retail heavier. “Suddenly terminated the partnerships fostered over the years. However, as shown, a Holy place is never empty, to the domestic market reached new suppliers”, – said the Deputy Minister.
He added that currently the Ministry had not received any signals from the retail sector about the lack of products, the supply of which Turkey occupied a significant portion (tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, citrus). In addition, the network was given the time lag for re-supply, recalled the Deputy head of the Ministry of industry and trade, restrictions on the import of products from Turkey are introduced only on 1 January.
Responding to a question about rising prices, Evtukhov noted that the Ministry of industry and trade monitoring “traditionally” captures the growth in the prices of fresh fruits and vegetables, but this seasonal price fluctuations. “In addition, the prices are quite sensitive to any fluctuations of the ruble, despite the fact that the import in retail accounts for only a quarter of the market”, – said the Deputy Minister.
Embargo against Turkey
As previously reported, the government of the Russian Federation from January 1, 2016, prohibit the importation into Russia of a number of food products from Turkey. So, Turkey will not be able to export strawberries, oranges, tangerines, grapes, apples, pears, apricots, peaches and nectarines, plums, strawberries, and strawberries. In a positive list and also got vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower and broccoli, onion, frozen parts of carcasses and offal of turkeys and chickens. Is prohibited by Turkish cloves and salt.
According to Rosstat, in November 2015, the food in Russia in comparison with October has risen on 1,2% in annual terms – by 16.3%. In November among the observed types of fruits and vegetables significantly increased the prices of cucumbers and tomatoes fresh – 1.7 times and 1.3 times, respectively, the cabbage fresh – 9.9%. However, 6.3% of the lemons fell, by 3.4% carrot, 1.2 to 1.9% – beets, apples and pears.


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Ordinance protecting grocery store employees
moves to full Board
Supervisor Fiona Ma sponsored the Grocery Worker Retention Ordinance
protecting grocery store workers when ownership changes hands.
Supervisor Bevan Dufty, stalwart supporter of workers over predatory
corporate interests, in background.
By Aldrich M. Tan
April 18, 2006
Rebekah Alessi, 50, appealed to city officials at the City Operations
and Neighborhood Services Committee to save her husband's job.
Alessi is a stay-at-home mother raising her daughter Shoshanah,
3 in North Beach. Her husband Gary, 50, works at the Cala Foods
on California Street, one of eight local stores that is poised
to close within the next few years. If Gary is laid off from his
job, his family would have to move would have to move out of the
city to find work, Alessi said.
At Monday's committee meeting Alessi spoke on behalf of her working
husband at Monday's committee meeting in support of an ordinance
that would protect the jobs of over 4,200 local grocery employees
as their respective companies change ownership.
"My daughter and I are here to provide a picture of what
this ordinance is all about," Alessi said. "It's about
being able to let me raise my daughter in San Francisco."
Sponsored by Supervisor Fiona Ma, the Grocery Worker Retention
Ordinance will require grocery employers to retain their employees
for 90 days upon change in control of the grocery store.
"Grocery store workers are a vital part of the community,"
Ma said. "They have been trained on how to treat food properly
and they take their jobs seriously. These workers must be treated
fairly and with respect."
The 90 day grace period gives current grocery store employees
a chance to demonstrate their knowledge and skills of safe food
handling to their new employers, said Michael Sharpe, president
of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local No. 648.
"This is responsible legislation," Sharpe said. "It
protects a group of individuals whose hard labor is finally being
The ordinance comes amidst news regarding management changes
in some of the biggest grocery store chains in the nation, Sharpe
said. Portions of supermarket chain Albertsons Inc. are being
sold to Supervalu Inc., CVS Corp., Cerebus Capital Management
and Kimco Realty Corp. Cala Foods is up for sale and has already
closed two branches in San Francisco.
"The retail food industry is in a serious crisis situation
due to store closures and acquisitions," Sharpe said. "New
acquisitions are causing anxiety for those who are working in
Albertsons Inc. has six stores and 400 employees in San Francisco,
Ma said. Supermarket chain Cala Foods owns ten local stores, represents
1/3 of the large grocery stores in the city and employs over 300
Lydia Rodriguez said she is currently employed at an Albertsons
grocery store in the city. Rodriguez said in she experienced many
corporate mergers and acquisitions in which her own employment
status is uncertain during her 20 years of retail experience.
"This legislation gives me piece of mind and gives me the
opportunity to prove to my employers that I am capable to do my
job," Rodriguez said.
The California Grocers Association is against the ordinance,
local governmental relations manager Timothy James said. James
said the ordinance will discourage grocery stores from opening
or locating in San Francisco, especially ethnic grocery stores
that want to expand their locations.
"Forcing ethnic and specialty stores to retain employees
without unique understanding and knowledge of their operations
will make these companies choose to buy or lease a grocery store
outside the City limits," association president Peter Larkin
said in a letter to the Board of Supervisors.
The association is also concerned about how the ordinance affects
grocery stores only, James said. A growing number of general merchandisers
are also handling food items.
"We call for a legislative analysis of the ordinance because
we believe that the board will be unable to fully deliberate on
the issue without the necessary information," James said.
Tim Paulson, executive director for the San Francisco Labor Council,
said there is always going to be a demand for grocery companies
in the city.
"Eating is a pretty tough habit to break when it comes to
food," Paulson aid.
The Committee motioned to pass the ordinance and move it to a
hearing by the Board of Supervisors in the coming weeks.
"One thing I hear consistently from my constituents is that
they are comfortable at a grocery store when they know someone
who has been working for the store for 15 years is still there,"
Supervisor Bevan Dufty said. "I will decide for the rights
of workers every day."
Supervisors Michela Alioto-Pier, Tom Ammiano, Chris Daly, Sophie
Maxwell, Ross Mirkarimi and Geraldo Sandoval are also listed as
co-sponsors of the ordinance. The latest supervisor to endorse
the ordinance is Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who was watching the
committee meeting from his office. Elsbernd walked into the committee
meeting to announce his co-sponsorship.
"My first job was a grocery bagger at Tower Market,"
Terry McHugh, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 278,
and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd.
Elsbernd signed on as co-sponsor of the legislation mid-way through
Stay-at-home mom Alessi said the committee's decision brought
tears to her eyes.
"I'm so proud to be a San Franciscan tonight," Alessi


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The Edutainment Show 2016, Delhi Chapter, took place at Eros International, Nehru Place on 7th and 8th May. This exhibition covered the media, communication and design education sectors.Â Most institutes in these domains had a presence here.
DSCâ€™s stall displayed the basic ecosystem under the theme – â€œ#CreativityUnplugged@DSCâ€. The focus was on different activities that the students were involved in, in the last academic year, the basic offerings made by DSC in the flagship 2-year course, short-term courses, workshops and the alumni who are in leadership roles today in the industry, making a difference. Education material – brochures, leaflets were also available for enquiries.
The article authored by Prof. Ramola Kumar, Dean, The Delhi School of Communication – â€˜Power of New Mediaâ€™ was published in the handbook. She also presided a panel discussion on ‘Brand Communication in Digital Era’ at theÂ EdutainmentÂ Show. The Panelists included experts from the industry such as Ratno Rudro, Director -Â Creative at Brandcurry Communications, Sarbajit Sarbjana, National Creative Director of Quasar Group M and Sameer Aasht, Founder & Director at Alma Mater PLC.
Prof. Ramola Kumar kicked off the discussion by explaining how the consumer is still â€˜Kingâ€™ and how the new age consumer (C) is on a different plane, always connected. She also pointed out how brands should avoid Digital Darwinism, leverage Brand Empathy and accelerate the engagement rate. â€œThere is a need to know where â€˜Câ€™ is spending their time in the digital arena,â€ she pointed out. Prof. Ramola Kumar also highlighted the importance of Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT), Crowd Sourcing, and going â€˜hyper localâ€™ in this age of digital communication.


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Affluent travelers not only travel a lot, they focus on fitness much more too. Desirable luxury hotel amenities. Top 1%.
Wealthy hotel guests place higher importance on hotel gyms than others, say the results of the 2016 Luxury Travel Report published by consultancy firm Resonance.
The richest travelers not only travel a lot, they focus on fitness much more too. Based on interviews of 1,667 U.S. travelers in the top 1 percent and top 5 percent of household income and net worth, the researchers found that Fitness Centers are twice as important to the top 1 percent compared to U.S. travelers in general (40% vs. 20%).
“We’ve discovered lots about the wealthiest U.S. travelers recently. They rank Four Seasons as their most preferred luxury hotel brand; they visit Caribbean destinations more often than general U.S. travelers; they consider Wi-Fi as the most important hotel amenity and they strongly value ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experiences. Now we find out that they care more about health and fitness than the rest of us, and might also outlive us,” said Resonance team of experts.
Luxury hotel chains have realized this and are taking note. The Westin brand operate runWESTIN — a program partnered with New Balance that provides guests with three and five mile run routes and group runs led by a run concierge. Among the top 1 percent, it’s Four Seasons that ranks highest for Spa and Fitness facilities in the survey.
EVEN hotels, a wellness-focused hotel chain owned by the InterContinental Hotels Group, opened in 2014 specifically to meet travelers’ wellness needs. Every room has a training zone with a yoga mat, exercise ball, foam roller and a mounted fitness wall with resistance bands, plus 19 videos and training guides. And for luxury travelers who may have forgotten their gym clothes, Trump Hotels and Fairmont have partnered with Under Armour and Reebok to help guests style their workout.
“Luxury hotels are paying attention to the emphasis on fitness and wellness. While ‘going green’ may be the mantra for the affordable and price-conscious guest, when it comes to luxury, the future of hospitality isn’t greenness, it’s fitness, so we can expect to see more experiential offerings in health and fitness in the future,” added Resonance.


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Banks close but Cattles trucks on
When banks close branches, no one is happier than Edward Cran, head of door-to-door credit group Cattles. His company is cashing in on traditional lenders' retreat from the High Street, by opening one new branch a week for the next four years.
That will take Cattles' chain from 260 to 800 and add up to 500 jobs annually. Cran says he does not need to do takeovers.
Typical loans range from £150 to £2,500 at interest rates as high as 40pc, usually for customers rejected by banks.
It may not sound like high finance but the formula works.
Pre-tax profits rose 20pc to £47.7m last year, excluding 1997's £15.5m gain from selling its stake in retailer Rosebys. Dividends climbed from 9.8p to 11.8p and there is a one-for-one bonus issue.
Unchanged at 760p, the shares are not cheap at 27-times likely earnings but could go higher, say analysts who forecast £55m profits this year.
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Dec 6 , 2014:For the first time in decades, the U.S. is no longer the largest economy in the world, and China has become number one, the International Monetary Fund says.
The IMF recently released the latest numbers for the world economy, stating that China will produce $17.6 trillion in terms of goods and services– Â compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.
Just 14 years ago, the U.S. produced nearly three times as much as the Chinese, Dow Jonesâ€™ MarketWatch reported.
But each country reports its data in its own currency, according to the IMF website. In order to compare data, each country’s statistics must be converted into a common currency. But there are several ways to manage that conversion and each can result in very different answers.
Another measure of an economyâ€™s strength is its â€œpurchasing power parityâ€ or PPPâ€”the rate at which the currency of one country would have to be converted into that of another country to buy the same amount of goods and services in each country.
China now accounts for 16.5% of the global economy when measured in real PPP terms, compared with 16.3% for the U.S.
Prices aren’t the same in each country, Business Insider suggests. The same shirt will cost you less in Shanghai than in San Francisco, so comparing countries without taking these factors into account is not always reliable.
Though the average Chinese citizen earns a lot less than the average American, simply converting a Chinese salary into dollars underestimates how much purchasing power that person, and therefore that country, might have.
So the IMF measures both GDP in market-exchange terms, and PPP terms. On the purchasing-power basis, China is overtaking the U.S. right now and becoming the world’s biggest economy.
MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends suggests that if you just look at international exchange rates, the U.S economy is still larger than Chinaâ€™s allegedly by almost 70 percent. But, Arends adds, although these measures are commonly cited, they can also be unreliable.
Experts have predicted Chinaâ€™s economy would surpass Americaâ€™s for years and recent conventional wisdom anticipated the change this year.
Chinaâ€™s economy may now be the worldâ€™s largest, but itâ€™s still not the richest. GDP per head is still less than a quarter of U.S. levels, the Financial Times reported.


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MANSFIELD, Mass.—A century-old Mansfield chocolate factory originally scheduled to close this fall will now stay open another year.
A spokesman for
ADM announced last year that it was closing the facility and moving production to a more modern plant in Hazleton, Pa.
The Mansfield factory employs about 70.
Company founder Walter Lowney was responsible for hiring the Italian immigrants whose descendants still help define the town's character. He helped develop the town's water and sewer system and donated park land.
The sweet smell of chocolate from the 1903 factory often wafts through the downtown area to this day.
Information from: The Sun Chronicle, http://www.thesunchronicle.com


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CBD oil seems to be the hot topic these days. You see products claiming to be the best on the market both in stores and in advertisements. But can you
The rise in CBD oil products and stores shows the public’s interest in its usage. There have been many claims regarding its effectiveness for various
Did you know lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States? That being the case, you can imagine the race is on to find a cure.


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The Commonwealth Bank has announced the introduction of cryptocurrency into its banking services, allowing users to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency assets in the Commbank app.
This will make it the first Australian bank to enter the cryptocurrency market.
The details of the bank's cryptocurrency pilot program remain a mystery, including any fees and charges that might be associated with the new platform.
Cryptocurrency is a global phenomenon that traditional institutions have been hesitant to touch. As the power of cryptocurrency continues to grow, customer choice has driven banks around the world to expand their services into the digital market.
This particular initiative is being rolled out in partnership with Gemini and Chainalysis – high profile global cryptocurrency leaders.
A statement released by the Commonwealth Bank reveals that users will have access to ten crypto assets.
CBA has partnered with one of the world’s largest regulated crypto exchanges and custodians, Gemini, and leading blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis. Both partnerships have allowed the bank to design a crypto exchange and custody service that will be offered to customers through a new feature in the app.
The pilot will start in the coming weeks and CBA intends to progressively rollout more features to more customers in 2022. CBA will provide customers with access to up to ten selected crypto assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin.
According to the Commonwealth Bank, the decision to branch into the cryptocurrency world has been made after research discovered that a large portion of their customers were already making use of the service through other means.
“The emergence and growing demand for digital currencies from customers creates both challenges and opportunities for the financial services sector, which has seen a significant number of new players and business models innovating in this area,” said Matt Comyn, CEO of the Commonwealth Bank.
“We believe we can play an important role in crypto to address what’s clearly a growing customer need and provide capability, security and confidence in a crypto trading platform. In looking at ways that we can support our customers, we have made the strategic decision to form an exclusive partnership in Australia with Gemini, a global leader with strong security and a track-record of serving large institutions. CBA will leverage Gemini’s crypto exchange and custody service and integrate it into the CommBank app through APIs.”
Commonwealth Bank’s partnership with blockchain giant Chainalysis is expected to help the bank mitigate the threat of cybercrime conducted through cryptocurrency channels.
The partnership is aiming to make the Commonwealth Bank a more secure and trusted player in the cryptocurrency market.
“Customers have expressed concern regarding some of the crypto services in market today, including the friction of using third party exchanges, the risk of fraud, and the lack of trust in some new providers. This is why we see this as an opportunity to bring a trusted and secure experience for our customers,” said Michael Gronager, CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis.


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A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency). distributed electronic cash system. Laundering services for cryptocurrency exist to service the bitcoin currency,.But the identity of the transacting parties is hidden behind what is believed to be an unbreakable code.The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is gambling that mass-market drivers are going to pivot soon to electric cars, announcing plans Friday to produce 12 new electric models by 2022 and to make electric cars 30 percent.Rickards is the editor of Strategic Intelligence, the latest newsletter from Agora Financial.And the dollar has a monopoly as legal tender for the payment of U.S. taxes. According to John Maynard Keynes and many other economists, it is that ability of state power to coerce tax payments in a specified currency that gives a currency its intrinsic value.It is impossible to destroy a cryptocurrency by attacking any single node or group of nodes.Scientists locate potential magma source in Italian supervolcano.A Storm Surge of Profits Headed Toward the U.S. By Zach Scheidt Posted September 18, 2017 Thousands of the water damaged cars from Texas and Florida will soon be featured on used car lots.Actually, bitcoin is a digital money that you may use in different kind of transaction like paying bills and many more.
Researchers at the University of Illinois would like to sell mobile device manufactures on the idea of adding yet another.Both are looking for ways out of the current system of dollar hegemony, which will only take on added urgency now that the U.S. has imposed harsh sanctions against Russia and is signaling a trade war against China.
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Bitcoin 'hard fork' paves way for new currency 'Bitcoin Cash'Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies present certain challenges to the existing system.As national fiat currencies slowly, but surely, fall by the wayside, or get outright replaced by digital currencies, its time to review the advantages of using.
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Bitcoin is no stranger to extremes: in each of the last four years, it has been either the best or worst performing currency, with nothing in between.Governments have an edge here, because they make you pay taxes in their money.All eyes were on bitcoin on Tuesday as the digital currency split in two.
Just recently there was a ransomware epidemic called Peyta that attacked various computers around the world.He was the principal negotiator of the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) by the U.S Federal Reserve in 1998.One potential solution to the Bitcoin volatility problem I find interesting is to link Bitcoin to gold at a fixed rate.
Meet Bitcoin Cash, the new digital currency that split
This kind of gold-backed Bitcoin might even give the dollar a run for its money as a reserve currency, especially if it supported by gold powers such as Russia and China.
Bitcoin - The Internet of MoneyAnd that exclamation point appears to be a sign of things to come.People say some forms of money, such as Bitcoin or U.S. dollars, are not backed by anything.
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Get started with Bitcoin: find a wallet, buy bitcoin, shop with bitcoin, read bitcoin news, and get involved on the forum.But the sector has suffered from highly publicised scandals like the 2014 collapse of MtGox.Also available are BTC services like cheap money tranfers, a XBT currency data, and more.


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Marking its 150th anniversary this year, renowned toy retailer FAO Schwarz has launched its first mobile app in partnership with eBay. The FAO Schwarz Gift Finder iPhone app allows users to get gift recommendations by selecting from criteria including product category, a child’s age range and gender, and price range.
Once an item is selected, users can make a purchase through the FAO Schwarz storefront after logging in with their eBay account information at checkout. Given that FAO Schwarz is owned by Toys “R” Us, one might have expected to the toy-selling giant to power m-commerce for the app instead of eBay.
But eBay has been at the forefront of mobile commerce, which expects to handle more than $10 billion in transaction volume this year through its mobile apps. With less than two weeks than two weeks until Christmas, though, FAO Schwarz and eBay are getting a bit of a late start in the season with the new app. But what’s a few days after 150 years.


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CCM+E/Seattle Names Kent Haehl Market Pres.
January 29, 2014 at 11:01 AM (PT)
CLEAR CHANNEL MEDIA + ENTERTAINMENT/SEATTLE has appointed KENT HAEHL Market President, effective immediately. He replaces LISA DECKER. Most recently, HAEHL was CEO of CHANNEL ONE NETWORK, a daily global television news network.
HAEHL will oversee the market's overall operations including all station activities and events to help drive sales and achieve revenue targets. "I feel extremely grateful to begin working with such a talented team of professionals at CLEAR CHANNEL/SEATTLE," he said. "I'm looking forward to leading the market to continued success and to unlocking the full potential of our brands in one of AMERICA's greatest cities."
"We are fortunate to bring someone onto our team who has such an expansive leadership and experience base," CCM+E EVP/Operations HARTLEY ADKINS said. "KENT's extensive knowledge of television, media and the industry as a whole will immediately bring additional value to our advertisers and listeners as we continue to provide a greater reach than any other media outlet in SEATTLE."


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EXPOPRO presented the keynote paper at Malaysia
Md. Mamunur Rahman has presented the keynote paper on “Business Opportunities in Power Generation and Infrastructure Development in Bangladesh” at a seminar at MECC Menara MATRADE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
CEO of EXPOPRO, Md. Mamunur Rahman has presented the keynote paper on “Business Opportunities in Power Generation and Infrastructure Development in Bangladesh” at a seminar at MECC Menara MATRADE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In response to an invitation from BMCCI, he spoke in the seminar organized jointly with MATRADE, titled ‘Business Opportunities in Bangladesh’, where over 100 representatives from different business organizations, entrepreneurs, media and Malaysia & Bangladesh government officials were present.
Moreover, the seminar was made possible through the collaboration between Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) and Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) and it has been intended to provide the attendees with the information on business prospect, potential and opportunities that are available in Bangladesh. The Seminar was organized prior to a three-day single-country trade fair, titled ‘Showcase Malaysia-2013’, to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from May 23-25, 2013 aiming to boost Malaysian investment in Bangladesh and make trade ties between the countries more stronger.
Malaysia’s Trade with Bangladesh has been on an upward trend with an average annual growth of 28.8% for the past decade. In 2012, Malaysia’s total trade with Bangladesh was valued at US$1.57 billion. Although trade was in Malaysia’s favor, it is encouraging to note that Malaysia’s imports from Bangladesh increased by more than 80% to US$73.9 million in 2012 as compared to the previous year. These figures indicate that businesses from both countries are looking forward to have more business transactions with each other.
Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) in collaboration with High Commission of Malaysia in Bangladesh, Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) and Malaysia South-South Association (MASSA) will be arranged the trade fair. The Showcase Malaysia 2013 will be the third single-country exhibition for Malaysia in Bangladesh. This event is expected to further strengthen and expand the existing collaboration and partnership in trade and investment between Malaysia and Bangladesh.


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The move followed a meeting with an animal rights group to discuss ethical alternatives to the historic headwear, which is made from the fur of Canadian black bears.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) suggested new designs for the guardsmen's headgear, which could mean the end of the traditional 18 inch tall "busby" fur hats.
The charity had discussed making a similar hat using fake fur but the MoD said finding a suitable alternative to fur, which would perform in all weather conditions was proving elusive.
An MoD spokesman said: "The MoD is actively looking for alternatives to using real bearskin and has arranged an industry day in October to explore this issue further.
"We have invited Peta to attend that industry day and we wait to see whether they will take up our offer.
"In the meantime, we have to maintain existing stocks of ceremonial caps but we are minimising the need to take up new fur by refurbishing existing caps wherever possible."
Peta is proposing a new shape is adopted and has approached designers including Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Marc Bouwer.
Robbie LeBlanc, Peta's director for Europe said: "We can still have very regal looking guards who look fantastic.
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Sideswipe Brewing Co. in Columbus will release its first seasonal brew this week. Pixelated Sun is a hoppy wheat made with a large dose of Citra hops, the brewery reports.
The official description is: "Worshiped as a god in ancient times, its warm glow still warrants celebration in modern days. This light, straw-colored wheat beer is infused with Citra hops, giving it an invigorating, citrusy and hoppy finish. It’s perfect for saluting the solar deity above from the comfort of your lawn chair. Praise the sun."
The beer, which is 6 percent alcohol by volume, will be available in 22-ounce bottles and on draft at select locations around Columbus.
"We already have plans for a fall seasonal beer and we are developing additional beers for future seasonal releases," brewer and owner Craig O'Herron said in an email. "Our three flagship beers — Elegant Hoodlum smoked stout, Fisticuffs IPA and Coop Looter saison — will continue to be available year-round."


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International trade of food crops led to freshwater savings worth 2.4 billion US-Dollars in 2005 and had a major impact on local water stress.
This is shown in a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Trading food involves the trade of virtually embedded water used for production, and the amount of that water depends heavily on the climatic conditions in the production region: It takes, for instance, 2.700 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of cereals in Morocco, while the same kilo produced in Germany uses up only 520 liters.
Analyzing the impact of trade on local water scarcity, our scientists found that it is not the amount of water used that counts most, but the origin of the water. While parts of India or the Middle East alleviate their water scarcity through importing crops, some countries in Southern Europe export agricultural goods from water-scarce sites, thus increasing local water stress.
“Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of our global freshwater consumption and therefore has a huge potential to affect local water scarcity,” lead author Anne Biewald says. The amount of water used in the production of agricultural export goods is referred to as virtual water trade. So far, however, the concept of virtual water could not identify the regional water source, but used national or even global averages instead.
“Our analysis shows that it is not the amount of water that matters, but whether global food trade leads to conserving or depleting water reserves in water-scarce regions,” Biewald says.
Combining biophysical simulations of the virtual water content of crop production with agro-economic land-use and water-use simulations, the scientists were able for the first time to determine the positive and negative impacts on water scarcity through international trade of crops, livestock and feed. The effects were analyzed with high resolution on a subnational level to account for large countries like India or the US with different climatic zones and relating varying local conditions regarding water availability and water productivity.
Previously, these countries could only be evaluated through national average water productivity. “Local water scarcity is reduced through imports of agricultural goods, and therefore saving regional agricultural production particularly in parts of India, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan. But scarcity is exacerbated by exports in parts of Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Afghanistan and the US,” Biewald says. Despite the fact that Europe alone exports virtual water in food crops worth 3.1 billion US-Dollars, the scientists found that international trade of food crops today globally accounts for water savings worth 2.4 billion US-Dollars.
The study, focusing on data of the year 2005, shows that trade has a considerable impact on agricultural production. Trade reduces global crop production and area due to regionally different livestock production efficiencies: one kilo of beef for instance can be produced with much less input feed in the US than in Africa, so it might be more economical for the world to have regions specializing in certain products and exporting them to others.
“In contrast to popular perception, global food trade and the related virtual water flows indeed offer the possibility of relieving water stress and making global water use more efficient,” co-author Hermann Lotze-Campen, co-chair of PIK´s research domain Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities, says.
“When it comes to the implementation of policy instruments which affect global trade – such as trade liberalization, import taxes or agricultural subsidies –, decision makers have to take into account the indirect effects on water as well. To connect international food trade to regional water scarcity can contribute to advance this debate.”
Article:Biewald, A., Rolinski, S., Lotze-Campen, H., Schmitz, C., Dietrich, J.P (2014): Valueing the impact of trade on local blue water. Ecological Economics, Volume 101 [10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.003]
Weblink to the article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000391
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A new paper released by the Adam Smith Institute has called on the government to take back control of UK waters. The report lays out a comprehensive ten-point plan for how Britain can replenish its waters following Brexit, and reveals the full extent of the damage caused by the European Common Fisheries Policy. Dr Madsen Pirie, President of the Adam Smith Institute, joined to discuss this further.
Georgie Frost is joined by Hannah Maundrell, editor in chief at Money.co.uk. Today they discuss concerns over workplace discrimination for BAME groups as well as new plans to charge customers £25 to complain about lost luggage and delays. Plus with almost 335,000 registrations sold over the past year they look at the growing demand for personalised plates. All these stories and more on The News Review.
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The National Farmers' Union is launching a post-Brexit options paper for its members on what trade deal they would like with the European Union and the rest of the world.
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Digital-first media companies may be more likely to thrive on Facebook than stodgy older publishers, but in Scandinavia, legacy media companies are holding their own on the platform.
Recent data from Newswhip analyzes the total Facebook engagements — likes, comments and shares — on top publishers’ web-based content from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland during September.
In terms of overall engagement, the top four spots are taken up by newspaper brands Expressen (Sweden), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Ilta-Sanomat (Finland) and Iltalehti (Finland), with Expressen, owned by The Bonnier Group, fetching nearly 4 million interactions over 10,000 stories for the month.
Legacy publishers have larger newsrooms
If Facebook’s algorithm now favors longer-form articles and original content, then legacy publishers have the large newsrooms to deliver this, points out Daniel Weilar, CEO of independent Swedish news publisher Nyheter24-Gruppen. “In the Nordics, it’s the big publishers that are able to please the algorithm,” adding legacy publishers in Sweden have been “quick and smart” about growing Facebook audiences for the last four years.
Nordics lead in mobile news consumption
Even so, Newswhip’s head of communications, Liam Corcoran, suggests there are a few things that Nordic legacy publishers have at their advantage compared to other markets: One of them is high levels of mobile usage.
According to Reuters Digital News Report, investment in infrastructure and low data charges have helped Nordic countries take the lead in news consumption on mobile. Sweden is leading globally with 69 percent of people using smartphones to access news content. By comparison, in the U.K., it’s below 50 percent, and Germany is lagging at 40 percent. Swedish legacy news media has been developing mobile news services, sites and applications for many years: Aftonbladet and Expressen both have the majority of their online news accessed via mobile devices. This mindset is helpful for building audiences on social.
Source: Reuters Digital News Report.
Freemium paywalls drive social growth
Readers in Nordic countries have a higher propensity to pay for online content, according to Reuters data. In Norway, 27 percent of people have paid for content online in the past year. By way of comparison, no English-speaking country has a payment rate of more than 10 percent, in all likelihood because there’s higher competition for digital eyeballs. Europe, with its many markets and languages, is a tough nut to crack for English-speaking news publishers. Homegrown publishers in smaller countries — Sweden’s population is 10 million people, in Norway it’s 5 million — are more protected by international competition.
Even so, successful subscription publishers that share free content on social tend to build robust audiences. “The preferred approach with Scandinavian publishers is the porous and freemium paywall models, which allows for strong social media growth,” writes Corcoran.
Digital publishers gain an edge with Facebook Live
Where independent publishers are grabbing a foothold is in Facebook Live. In this chart showing the Facebook Live output of a selection of publishers from January to October, the first two Seiska (a Finland) and Metroxpress (Denmark) are originally print titles, and Nettavisen (Norway) and Nyheter24 (Sweden) are digital-first players. Norwegian digital-first news publishers Nettavisen was the fifth-most prolific Facebook Live publisher over the time period, streaming 59 Facebook Live videos, gaining 34,000 interactions.
Still, many legacy publishers are in there, too. Expressen TV, for instance, has the resource to invest in video and has grown its video team from 20 to 60 staff. It aims to stream live videos for 16 hours of the day, with reporters using phones, drones, GoPro cameras and augmented reality technology, according to an interview with Journalism.
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We managed to get a sneak peek at the Paris Motor Show stand of BMW - two days before the show starts! Come with us. Exclusive photos!
Patience. Nothing, we as BMW MOTOR SHOW BLOG crew have a lot.
So, the Paris Motor Show this year starts on Thursday, but we just can’t wait. This is why we somehow managed to get some first impressions from the floors of the Expo Paris …
The BMW stand is still under construction, which is why the cars are not parked at there final place at the moment. Instead they stand behind the stage – where we could take some pictures.
Also on our Facebook page you will find a 360° photo.
The cars on the photos includes the BMW M2 MotoGP Safety Car, the BMW Formula e Safety Car as well as the new BMW 3 Series GT. But there will be some other big reveal on Thursday, as we learned today – since BMW published a picture at their Twitter account. This particular car could not be seen onside at the stand – at the moment. So we are really looking forward to the press conference on Thursday, which you may follow here at the blog via live stream.
Here we go – the photos!
– We also have a 360° photo on our Facebook-page: http://bit.ly/2dnojE9 –
The Paris Motor Show will take place at the Expo Paris, 1 – 16 October 2016. The press days will be on 29th and 30th of September. Expect the BMW MOTOR SHOW BLOG to bring you lots of news and photos live.