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CUPERTINO — The clock is ticking for developers to come up with clever apps for the Apple Watch.
Apple announced Tuesday the debut of WatchKit, a set of tools for developers to design apps for the company’s long-awaited smartwatch, which is set for an early 2015 debut. Apple suggested developers could help users perform simple tasks with the watch, such as shutting off the lights, in addition to checking the status of a flight or the score of a game, citing apps from the likes of American Airlines and ESPN.
But the earliest Apple Watch apps will be extensions of apps for the iPhone, which the timepiece relies on for many key functions. Developers will be able to design stand-alone apps for the Apple Watch starting next year, Apple said.
Apple’s decision to give developers an early crack at WatchKit shows a recognition that apps will be critical to the commercial success of the timepiece, which starts at $349, said Carolina Milanesi, chief of research and head of U.S. business at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a consumer research firm.
“Otherwise, it’s just a glorified watch,” she said.
When trying to drum up excitement about new gadgets among developers, tech companies sometimes grapple with a chicken-and-egg dilemma. They know they need a compelling array of apps to sell their gadgets, but developers can be reluctant to get to work until there are enough devices in circulation, Gartner Research analyst Van Baker said.
“Some will build apps early, betting enough watches will be sold,” he said. “Others will have a wait-and-see attitude.”
That seems to be the approach at Storehouse, a San Francisco-based company that makes a popular photo and video sharing app.
“We’re studying the WatchKit SDK (like many others) today and are discussing what might be interesting for Storehouse,” Storehouse CEO Mark Kawano wrote in an email. “Right now, we haven’t made any decisions on an app for it yet since it’s so new.”
In addition to apps for the watch, developers will be able to deliver “glances,” or quick bursts of relevant information like breaking news, and notifications that prompt users to perform simple tasks, such as adjusting a route on public transit, Apple said. Instagram is working on an app that will let users track their friends’ latest photos and fire off emojis in response.
“Apple Watch allows us to make the Instagram experience even more intimate and in the moment,” Kevin Systrom, co-founder and CEO of Instagram, said in a statement. Given the timepiece’s small face, analyst Bob O’Donnell of TECHnalysis Research predicted that consumers will be selective about the apps they install on their Apple Watches.
“I don’t think people will have hundreds of apps, like they do on their smartphones,” he said. “A few will be important.”
Though the market for the Apple Watch will be limited to those who have an iPhone 5 or later, some analysts are forecasting sizable sales. Analyst Neil Cybart, for one, predicted Tuesday on his blog, Above Avalon, that Apple will sell 20 million to 30 million watches during the product’s first year.
Contact Julia Love at 408-920-5536 or follow her at Twitter.com/byJuliaLove


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Trade barriers linked to political tiffs
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Trade barriers in northern Afghanistan, especially Balkh province, stem from political issues, including Uzbekistan’s improper attitude to its landlocked neighbour, an official said on Tuesday.
Director of Commerce Mohammad Hashim Barna told a press conference traders’ current problems emerged from political disputes. The second key problem was Uzbekistan’s far-from-satisfactory business links with Afghanistan, he said.
Trade is fast turning into a mafia business in Central Asia, where cooperation among neighbours continues to be weak, according to Barna, who said Afghan entrepreneurs were given bad treatment in Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan’s double standards had negatively impinged on the overall business climate at the Hairatan Dry Port in Balkh, he said, suggesting a high-powered delegation’s visit Tashkent to discuss the issues.
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COLLEGE STATION – An older celosia variety – New Look – has been named the latest Texas Superstar release based on its superior performance across the state, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research expert.
The New Look celosia variety was named a 2019 Texas Superstar plant by AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Tech University horticulturalists after years of field trials around the state.
To be designated a Texas Superstar, a plant must not only be beautiful but perform well for consumers and growers throughout the state. Texas Superstars must be easy to propagate, which should ensure the plants are not only widely available but also reasonably priced, said Dr. Brent Pemberton, Texas Superstar executive board member and AgriLife Research ornamental horticulturist, Overton.
New Look celosia is a warm-season annual with bright red plumes that soar above the dark, bronze foliage, Pemberton said. Plumed flowering types are also commonly called “feathered amaranth” or “feather celosia” due to their characteristics.
“The contrast in the red and the bronze foliage is an eye-catcher,” he said. “It just has an exotic look that blends well with any landscape.”
New Look celosia prefers full sun and will tolerate light shade, Pemberton said. The variety also adapts to most soils but requires good drainage and consistent moisture.
Flowers are very long lasting and continually produce throughout the summer season up until the first frost, Pemberton said. The plant and its flowers tolerate light shade and dry conditions when established and will stand up to a Texas summer much better than other celosias of this type.
“This variety has been reliably tough in high temperatures,” he said. “It can take whatever the Texas summer throws at it.”
New Look celosia can be used for bedding, in containers and as a cut flower, Pemberton said. It has been on the market for many years and stood the test of time in trial gardens across the state.
Plants typically grow to 10-14 inches in height with a 12-14-inch spread, Pemberton said. New Look celosia transplants can be started from seed six to eight weeks before the last frost date. They can be purchased or seed can be directly sown in the garden after the last spring frost date. Transplants can be planted after the final frost date either in the garden or in patio containers.
Return flowering can be enhanced by removing old flowers just below the bloom, Pemberton said.
Pemberton said buyers should make sure and look for the name New Look Celosia because similarly named plants are being marketed.
“We have tested a lot of celosia over the years and this one continues to be the best,” he said. “It’s been around a long time, but sometimes you just have a plant in the garden year after year and might take it for granted. Then it catches your attention and you’re like, ‘dang, that is a good plant.’”
Texas Superstar is a registered trademark owned by AgriLife Research, a state agency that is part of the Texas A&M University System. Plants are designated Texas Superstars by the Texas Superstar executive board, which is made up of nine AgriLife Research, AgriLife Extension and Texas Tech University horticulturalists.
More information about other Texas Superstar plants and a list of wholesalers and retailers who stock them can be found at http://texassuperstar.com/.


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Canada's trade deficit grows to largest level ever
'This is about as bad as it gets for Canadian exporters, at least so far,' economist says
- Strong loonie hurt exports to U.S.
- Energy and auto sales decline
The gap between what Canada sells to the world and what it buys from other countries expanded to the largest point on record in July, as its trade deficit expanded to an all-time high of $2.3 billion.
Exports fell 3.4 per cent during the month, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. That was more than the corresponding decline in imports, which were down 2.2 per cent.
Exports of energy products fell 8.5 per cent to $8.2 billion for the month, the data agency reported, while exports of automotive products dropped 5.3 per cent to $5.9 billion.
"This is about as bad as it gets for Canadian exporters, at least so far," Scotiabank economist Derek Holt said in a note following the release of the data. "[And] the details are worse."
Most of the weakness in exports was related to the United States, where exports fell five per cent on a monthly basis. A full 72 per cent of Canada's exports in July were bound for the U.S., Holt noted.
Exports actually increased by 0.9 per cent to the EU, and by 14 per cent to other OECD nations.
"The pattern by country would suggest the difficulties are related to exporting into the U.S. which is Canada’s dominant trading partner and where currency effects are most pronounced," Holt said.
The Canadian dollar rallied in July and August, and currently trades just below the 103 cents US level. That's roughly four cents above where it was at the end of June, at 98.37 cents.
For as long as Statistics Canada has tracked the metric, Canada has posted trade surpluses almost exclusively as the country's economy was largely based on exporting natural resources and finished manufactured goods. But since the recession that began in 2008, the figure has seesawed wildly.
The previous record trade deficit came in September 2010, at $2.33 billion. Tuesday's data for July was slightly larger, at $2.34 billion.


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Millennial dad holiday shoppers to lead way in paying by smartphone
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When shopping in-store for gifts this holiday season, 3 in 10 millennials say they’ll pay at the register with their smartphone. But it’s millennial dads who are leading the way on the digital checkout frontier.
Millennial moms (age 22-35) expect to use their smartphone for in-store holiday purchases at the same percentage as millennial consumers in general, at 31 percent, according to new data from accounting and consulting firm PwC. But breaking out millennial dads shows that almost half (49 percent) say they’ll check out by phone.
Across all consumers age 50 and under, the expected use of smartphone payments for in-store holiday shopping ranged from 21 to 31 percent, while only 8 percent of Americans age 51-70 say that they’ll pay with their device at the register. At age 71 and older, the share drops to just 1 percent.
PwC’s survey also asked consumers whether they expect to check out using their wearable device in stores this holiday season. Instead of millennials age 22-35 leading the charge this time, the most likely cohort to pay with a wearable was consumers age 17-21, at 16 percent.
Again, though, young tech-savvy fathers topped all groups for wearable checkouts, and by a large margin. More than a quarter of millennial dads age 22-35 (27 percent) predicted they’ll pay in-store with a wearable this holiday.
The 2017 Holiday Outlook survey was conducted in July by PwC, the brand name of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Drawing on responses from almost 2,400 U.S. consumers age 13 and older, the survey findings were released Oct. 3.
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- Credit card comeback from recession nearly complete – New card accounts have risen to the level just below 2007, says American Bankers Association data ...
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Shopify have launched a new app called ‘Shop’ – and with it potentially an entire new business – that they intend to compete directly with Amazon.
From early signs, the company appears to believe this new business could be bigger than ‘Shopify’ itself, and may be the next stage in a total rebrand of the company from ‘Shopify’ to simply ‘Shop’.
The app that allows you to buy directly from any brand through the app that signs up that has a shopify store.
That is over 500,000 stores. Currently amazon has over 2.5 million sellers. Off to a good start!
Shopify’s ‘Chief Product Officer’ Craig Miller calling it ‘one of Shopify’s most significant products ever
Shopify will no doubt be hoping the app takes space on users’ home screens, taking some of the attention they use currently to shop at Amazon, Ebay, alibaba, etc.
Currently Amazon's biggest competitors are Alibaba, Google, Walmart, JD,...


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So many beauty companies are participating in Earth Day, we had to shout them out:
Fragrance company Rich Hippie is offering 20% off their all-natural perfumes through April 25th (use code RICHHIPPIE).
Beauty subscription brand Birchbox is teaming up with Ecofabulous.com for an Earth Month Edition box filled with goodies from natural brands like Weleda and Juice Beauty. In addition, 20% of profits from full-sized product sales through May 13 will go to Global Green USA, and shipping will be offset via Carbonfund.org. (subscription to birchbox.com is $10/month or $110/year).
On Friday, Physician’s Formula will be giving away 25 Organic Wear Jumbo Mascaras on their Facebook page (under the “promotions” tab). Aveda is celebrating Earth Month (April) by donating 100% of the proceeds from their “Light the Way” soy wax candle to Global Greengrants water projects ($12 at aveda.com) and by taking donations online at avedaearthmonth.org.
Korres is gifting free ground shipping and a free reusable tote bag with any purchase of $50 or more at korresusa.com (use code: EARTH).
All John Masters Organics products are 25% off through April 25th at their Soho store and at johnmasters.com (use code EARTHDAY).
Whole Foods is taking the confusion out of green shopping by offering its “Look for the Labels” guide to help customers locate organic products more easily.


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DETROIT (AP) – General Motors is recalling at least 7.6 million more vehicles dating back to 1997 to fix faulty ignition switches as the company’s safety crisis continues to grow.
The latest recalls involve mainly older midsize cars and bring GM’s total number of recalls this year to over 28 million.READ MORE: Convicted Killer Dayonte Resiles Sentenced To Life In Murder Of Jill Halliburton Su
The company says it is aware of three deaths, eight injuries and seven crashes involving the vehicles recalled on Monday. GM says it has no conclusive evidence that faulty switches caused the crashes.READ MORE: Coral Springs Police: 3 Separate Crime Scene Tied To One Suspect
The company says it expects to take a $1.2 billion charge in the second quarter for recall-related expenses.
It is urging people to remove everything from their key rings until their cars can be repaired.
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Dr. Rich Fogoros has been blogging here and here about the looming restrictions on sodium by the federal government (urged on by public health experts) that will spell the doom for those of us who like to sprinkle that extra bit of salt on our baked potato. When he came out with the posts about a year ago I considered this to be more likely bombast and Chicken Little-ing by the usually astute DrRich. To maintain the bird metaphor, I would like to eat some crow. (Salt-free of course) Salt restrictions have already reached middle-town America.
It seems that the USDA has released new guidelines for school lunches that dictate a gradual decrease in the amount of allowable sodium until there is only half the amount of sodium slated to be in school lunches by the year 2023, compared to current guidelines. This little kernel of info is found buried on page 10 of the guidelines. Don’t worry though, the guidelines do state that “Extending the timeline…gives the food industry more time to reformulate products, and gives school children more time to grow accustomed to foods with less salty flavor.”
How magnanimous! The USDA is allowing our kids more time to get used to the bland food that will pass as edible fare…to paraphrase a line from Meridith Willson's "Music Man", the food will be "plainer than a Quaker on his day off"!
Why, just last week my wife was discussing the vagaries of school lunches with some colleagues when someone in the group brought up a vignette that was too funny and perhaps too sad to ignore. It would appear that the meals served in the high school cafeteria already are meeting some of the standards for sodium restriction anticipated in the future. Will our kids “grow accustomed to foods with less salty flavor”? Unlikely. Some of the kids who eat at the cafeteria have already figured out how to have their salt and eat it too. They have taken to going to the friendly neighborhood McDonald’s and carting out the tiny salt packets to sprinkle on their government provided sodium-free lunches. I’m almost afraid to post this; who knows if the kids will be frisked for contraband salt in the future if this scheme takes hold.
The issue here is wholesale population restrictions on sodium consumption without knowing the effects this may have on the health of said population. Not to mention the reach of the federal government into our lives and those of our children. I understand the reasons for salt restrictions for those with pre-existing hypertension, but I’m not sure the same principle applies to all of us, across the board.
Besides, as the sneaky little high school lunch eaters have shown, if you want my salt shaker, you’re gonna have to pry it out of my cold, dead, salty hands…


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Con artists are using the lure of bargain Christmas presents to scam people in the north west, police have warned.
Police say the scam warning is part of their Operation Season’s Greetings initiative aimed at protecting the public over Christmas.
A PSNI spokeswoman says the con artists scam an unsuspecting person using a genuine item, such as a TV, camera, or a laptop computer.
“The price always seems attractive. However, once the money has changed hands, the victim will be given the item in a box.
“At home, the victims find that the item they were shown has been replaced – we have had reports of what people thought were laptops turning out to be telephone books, catalogues or televisions without any working parts,” the spokeswoman says.
The most recent reported incident happened outside ASDA shopping centre in Strabane and was believed to have involved three foreign nationals.
The spokeswoman says people in Derry have also been targeted.
“If you are already thinking about presents for the holiday season don’t be tempted by these unrealistic prices - there are no bargains to be had in transactions of this kind. If you are in the market for a TV, laptop or camera, go to an established retailer,” she says.
“At the very least, if something goes wrong, you will know who to approach for replacement or a return of your money.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 0845 600 8000.


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This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (November 5, 2019).
Spanish bank Banco Santander SA agreed to acquire a stake in a U.K.-based payments platform for GBP350 million ($453 million), as European banks hobbled by ultralow interest rates target growth areas.
Santander will purchase just over 50% of Ebury, according to company officials, a banking platform through which small and medium-size companies trade internationally. The acquisition is aimed at bolstering Santander's global payments business and help the bank compete more broadly in trade finance, Executive Chairman Ana Botín said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Santander, one of the world's largest retail banks, is bulking up its commercial business when low rates and political and economic uncertainty are squeezing it and other European lenders, driving them to look beyond their traditional strengths to bolster their businesses. Such banks have alternated between competing with and working alongside fintech companies trying to disrupt established banking operations.
Santander reported last week that its third-quarter net profit fell steeply due to a EUR1.49 billion charge to its U.K. business, which has been hurt by Brexit and regulatory charges. Net profit for the period fell 75% to EUR501 million, while total income rose 6% to EUR12.47 billion.
Ms. Botín said the service is geared toward companies with up to around $50 million in revenue. Currently, Santander helps those companies based in Spain and the U.K. with their global trade, but relies on so-called correspondent banks in other countries to facilitate payments. The transaction will allow clients to conduct their foreign exchange through Santander, Ms. Botín said.
Banks are increasingly relying on transaction banking, encompassing trade finance and cash management, because it serves as a stable contributor to revenue, according to a recent report from Deloitte LLP. At the 10 largest transaction banks by revenue, transaction banking revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has been largely steady since 2015, according to research firm Coalition.
Ebury operates in 19 countries and processed $16.7 billion in payments in 2018. Some GBP70 million of Santander's investment will be used to help the company expand in Latin America and Asia. The transaction is expected to value Ebury at around GBP700 million and close in the first quarter of next year, Ms. Botín said.
Santander is potentially looking to acquire other merchant-acquiring startups, which process payments on behalf of merchants, she added.
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June 20, 2013 |
NEW DELHI: Anglo-Dutch FMCG giant Unilever PLC's USD 5.4 billion open offer to increase stake in its Indian arm Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) to up to 75 per cent, will commence tomorrow and close on July 4. "There has been no revision to the open offer price of Rs 600 per share previously announced. The independent committee of directors of HUL has recommended that the open offer is fair and reasonable," Unilever said in a statement. At present, Unilever PLC has 52.48 per cent stake in HUL. The proposed open offer is valued at USD 5.4 billion.
January 13, 2007 |
Unilever has announced that Michael Treschow, one of Europe's leading business figures, will succeed Antony Burgmans as Chairman of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC at the Annual General Meeting in May 2007. The Swedish Mr Treschow, currently chairman of both Ericsson and Electrolux, will be paid a basic salary of GBP 475,000, with no bonus or share options. Mr Treschow's appointment completes a major overhaul in Unilever's corporate governance structure started in May 2004.
October 30, 2008 |
AMSTERDAM: Unilever PLC, maker of consumer products such as Dove soaps, Lipton teas and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, reported a 63 percent rise in third quarter earnings Thursday owing to sales growth and cost-cutting in the year earlier period. Net profit was 1.64 billion euros ($2.12 billion), from 1.01 billion a year earlier. Sales rose 2 per cent to 10.4 billion euros ($13.5 billion). Chief Executive Patrick Cescau said in a statement that the company had been able to push cost increases through to customers in the form of price rises without hurting sales volumes.
January 22, 2013 |
NEW DELHI: FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Ltd today reported a 15.59 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 871.36 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2012. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 753.81 crore during the same period of the previous fiscal. Net sales of the company rose to Rs 6,433.69 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2012, as against Rs 5,844.31 crore during the same period of 2011-12 fiscal, Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) said in a statement.
June 13, 2013 |
LONDON/MUMBAI: Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever Plc today said it has received approval from SEBI for its USD 5.4 billion-open offer to buy 22.52 per cent stake in its Indian arm--Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL). The company said it has received approval from the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for its voluntary open offer to increase stake in HUL from 52.48 per cent to up to 75 per cent, Unilever Plc said in a statement. "The tender period will commence on June 21, 2013 and will end on July 4, 2013," it added.
June 18, 2013 |
NEW DELHI: FMCG major Hindustan Unilever on Tuesday said the committee of independent directors that looked into parent firm Unilever's proposed $5.4 billion open offer, is of the view that the offer price of Rs 600 per share is "fair and reasonable". "After a review of the public announcement, detailed public statement, the draft letter of offer, and the aforesaid points, the independent directors committee (IDC) is of the opinion that the offer price of Rs 600 per equity share is fair and reasonable," Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL)
February 9, 2013 |
Mumbai: Unilever is rewiring its marketing brain. The maker of Dove personal care products and Knorr soups has kicked off a transformational global project on marketing called "crafting brands for life" , a programme that will enable a fundamental shift in thinking and marketing skills of the company. Importantly, Unilever has chosen India as the place where it pilots the project which will be eventually rolled out in other markets across the world. Three shifts which Unilever likes to describe as "seismic" have essentially prodded the euro 51 billion consumer products multinational to initiate such an exerciseâ€"first , the growing significance of emerging markets, second, the overpowering need for sustainability, and the third being digital revolution.
January 14, 2007 |
LONDON: Unilever has announced that Michael Treschow, one of Europe's leading business figures, will succeed Antony Burgmans as chairman of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC at the annual general meeting in May 2007. The Swedish Treschow, currently chairman of both Ericsson and Electrolux, will be paid a basic salary of GBP 475,000, with no bonus or share options. Treschow's appointment completes a major overhaul in Unilever's corporate governance structure started in May 2004.
December 2, 2008 |
LONDON: Consumer goods major Unilever Plc has announced slashing of 250 research jobs across the world as a part of its restructuring plan to consolidate its research and development activities. The reshaping programme has been announced to combine and streamline group's three global research and development operations into one Unilever R&D organisation to improve efficiency, a company statement said. "As a result of the intended changes, Unilever expects that approximately 390 full-time positions will be impacted, resulting in a net reduction of 250 full-time positions," it stated.
May 3, 2013 |
MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever's board has formed a committee of independent directors to provide recommendation to the shareholders on the $5.4-billion voluntary open offer by its parent Unilever Plc , the FMCG giant said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The committee would consist of all the five independent directors of HUL, namely S Ramadorai, RA Mashelkar, OP Bhatt, Sanjiv Misra and Aditya Narayan, who will chair the committee. On Tuesday, Anglo-Dutch company Unilever offered to buy over 487 million HUL shares for 600 each in a public offer to raise its holding in the Indian firm to 75% from 52.48%, spending $5.4 billion (over 29,000 crore)


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How are Short-Term Rentals Affecting the Denver Rental Market?
There has been increasing talk about short-term rental companies like Airbnb and VRBO in Denver because of rising rental prices and many units being used as short-term rentals. Depending on who you talk to, short-term rentals are either the best thing for Denver or the absolute worst. Proponents say that allowing short-term rentals in the city allow people to make money from properties they already own or are currently paying for. Opponents say that it allows people to trample on residential neighborhoods while contributing nothing to the local economy.
Denver residents have complained about short-term rentals raise rental prices because it keeps useable units off the market and tightens demand. Airbnb claims that it helps middle-class families make their mortgages by allowing them to rent out their homes when they aren’t using them and make some extra money. Technically, short-term rentals are illegal in Denver, but according to Colorado Public Radio there are almost 1700 Airbnb units here. The city is working with Airbnb to clear up regulations and come up with a compromise. The proposed rules will require short-term renters to possess a business license and live on the property they rent.
Some housing experts don’t think that there are enough units going off the market due to short-term rentals to make a dent in the rental market in Denver. If they continue to be mostly unregulated by the city, however, will they eventually swallow up all the affordable housing in some of the most popular neighborhoods? Airbnb is only one of the short-term rental companies flocking to Denver to allow residents to rent their properties. VRBO and Flipkey provide similar services but aren’t as open about their data as Airbnb. Since the data is incomplete in reporting just how many properties are off the market for renters because of short-term rentals, many people remain concerned.
The Denver rental market is loosening for prospective renters because of increased development and new units hitting the market all the time. But, as more people continue to move to Denver, there remains the risk of short-term rentals pushing people out of affordable housing options. The Denver City Council is working on legislation that could put limits on short-term rentals, but their effects on the rental market remains to be seen. With new units going up all the time and new legislation coming, short-term rentals will likely have an unpredictable effect on rental prices.


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Techsembly, the Singapore based e-commerce platform, has appointed Harbour Collective to develop a global brand positioning, brand identity and a full marketing campaign.
Set up in 2019 by successful entrepreneur and founder of giftslessordinary, Amy Read, Techsembly is set to take on the e-commerce giant Shopify.
Of the appointment CEO and co-founder, Amy commented: “Techsembly is challenging the e-commerce norms. I wanted a team that understood what it is to challenge their own industry norms. Harbour is unique because I get the reassurance of senior, experienced big brand thinkers with the agility and lively minds of brilliant specialists, all in one team.”
Mick Mahoney, creative partner of Harbour, said: “It’s great to be working with such a like-minded client. We’re always at our best with brands that are looking to disrupt their categories. It’s in the Harbour DNA. Techsembly are a great opportunity for us to take our approach onto a global stage.”
Techsembly is a multi-vendor eCommerce Platform that enables businesses to reach global markets with country-specific storefronts that behave, look and feel local in foreign markets.
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Torridge District Council have announced the launch of two new financial support packages aimed at businesses whose trading has been affected by Covid-19 and the Omicron variant.
In line with the latest Government directives the support has been designed, with a particular focus for operators in the hospitality, leisure, travel, tourism, and personal care industries and those involved in the supply chain to these sectors.
It recognises the significant disruption the rapid spread of Omicron has caused both in cancelled or reduced bookings and staff absences further affecting the ability of some to operate.
The Discretionary Additional Restrictions Grant fund is already open for applications via the Council’s website. This scheme is a follow-on from the previous distribution of support that oversaw the payment of around £3.6 million to businesses during prolonged periods of shutdown and restrictions.
The aim of the revised scheme is to make sure that the available balance of just under £400K finds its way to the sectors that have been the most impacted under the recent surge in case numbers. As implied the scheme is discretionary and allocations will be calculated on an individual basis with payments ranging from £250 to £6,000.
The second scheme is the Government backed Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant funding, which is focused on business rate payers in those sectors. The amounts awarded will be linked to a set scale dictated by the government and based on the rateable value of a business’s premises.
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A provisional total sum of £3.9 Million has been made available by central government for the District as a whole. This scheme will be open for applications from Friday 14th January although businesses in the district are being encouraged to check their eligibility against both these schemes from the information already posted on Torridge Councils Coronavirus help pages at: www.torridge.gov.uk/coronavirus
The deadline for making an application under both schemes is February 18.
Councillor Ken James, leader of Torridge District Council said: “Councillors and officers have done an excellent job in supporting our businesses and individuals during the pandemic distributing funds to around 3,000 companies and coincidentally around 3,000 individuals as well.
“The latest support schemes recognise that some businesses are still finding the going tough and we want to make sure we distribute every last penny of available funding to those that need it.
“We would urge all businesses to check the eligibility criteria on the council’s website and where appropriate follow the simple application process. I want to thank Torridge Councils Officers and North Devon+, who will be administering the schemes, for their hard work to get all of this in place as quickly as possible, I know the recipients of the funding will welcome their efforts.”
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Work on the next enterprise edition of Java is proceeding at Oracle, with the company eyeing improvements for cloud computing, REST Web services, and other capabilities, an Oracle representative confirmed on Friday.
Oracle made available this week a preview of the open source JDK (Java Development Kit) 7, enabling developers to kick the tires on an upcoming upgrade to the Java platform. But some observers are concerned about a so-called "draconian" license for t...
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We have posted before on how Google is not known as most innovative everywhere. In fact Yandex, a European search engine has a 10 point lead over Google in Russia. This recent article, from WSJ.com, highlighted that Google is experiencing the same problem against Chinese search engine company Baidu.com Inc. Baidu has made claims that they 'out-Google Google'. The company's internal research, they say, shows that their search engine is responsible for 60% of all searches in China. Also in a wsj.com survey, Baidu was voted as the most 'Innovative in Responding to Customer Needs.' This could mean trouble for Google later on since according to Internetworldstats.com, 427 million people search in English, while 233 million people search in Chinese. This shows that it is imperative, and will continue to be important for Google to keep up and increase their presence in the Chinese market. Meanwhile it will be interesting to see how the most innovative company according to BusinessWeek, will maintain their status with the increasing globalization of the search engine industry.
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While it’s certain that Android’s smartphone share is on the rise in the consumer market, Android’s potential success in the enterprise is still up in the air. Google today is introducing one new tool and bringing two updates to an existing service to give its mobile platform a greater chance to gain favor in the corporate world, both for tablets and smartphones.
An updated version of the Google Apps Device Policy app is now available for system administrators and employees alike. New to this version is a feature to locate, secure or remotely wipe a device running Android 2.2 (s goog) or better. These actions are accessible through the My Devices web app, and can be used to ring the phone and change either the device password or PIN security as well. The updated Device Policy app also allows administrators to require full data encryption on Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, tablets. The encryption feature is new to tablets, so admins could already implement this data security on Android handsets.
Google Apps Lookup is a new Android software title that functions much like a corporate Global Address List found in Microsoft Exchange (s msft) environments. Either through voice search or keyboard input, the app searches through the Google Apps contact directory, provided system admins have enabled the “Shared Contacts” feature for the organization. The app, which supports Android 2.1 or better devices, offers one-touch communication options for found contacts: call, IM, email or text message.
This maturing of enterprise features for Google Apps users is key, else Google will cede the lucrative mobile enterprise market to Apple (s aapl), Research In Motion (s rimm), Microsoft (s msft) and even HP (s hpq), as all have or will soon have smartphone and tablets targeted for the business world. Just this morning, Techaisle, an I.T. Market Research firm, noted that 8.8 million tablets are in use within U.S. small and medium business.
I’d be surprised if that number was close to one million tablets at this time last year; even though the first iPad was just launching then, there had to be some Windows Tablet PCs in use. Given that the first true Android tablets only just arrived in February of this year, it makes sense that most of the 8.8 million tablets are iPads, so Google and the rest are already playing catch-up. The right tools, in combination with eliminating Android fragmentation in the enterprise, should help.


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New Zealand producers' input and output prices fell in the second quarter of this year as dairy prices declined.
Producer output prices, which measure the prices received by New Zealand producers, fell 0.5 percent in the three months ended June 30, Statistics New Zealand said. Input prices, representing the prices of goods and services used by local producers, fell 1 percent in the quarter.
Prices for dairy products have weakened this year as farmers increased production to take advantage of higher prices, resulting in a build up of inventory in China and falling demand in some emerging markets. Fonterra Co-operative Group's [NZX: FCG] GlobalDairyTrade auction tomorrow morning will be closely watched after dairy product prices slumped to the lowest level since October 2012 in the last auction. Lower prices for raw milk in the second quarter led an 11 percent decline in the prices received by dairy cattle farmers and a 9.4 percent decrease in input prices paid by dairy product manufacturers, the statistics agency said today.
"Lower milk prices contributed to decreases in both the input and output producers price index in the June quarter," Statistics NZ prices manager Chris Pike said.
In the June quarter, the output dairy product manufacturing price index fell 2.9 percent, reflecting lower prices for milk powder.
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On an annual basis, producer output prices were up 2.5 percent while input prices rose 1.4 percent.
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Blog: How Nestle plans to grow in Nigeria
Hannah Abdulla | 6 May 2014
Nigeria looks set to become the next big thing in the food world
Nestle is reportedly planning on upping its presence in Nigeria. In the past six years, the world's largest food manufacturer has injected US$400m into its Nigerian business and has plans to spend $70m this year. It has set out plans to triple its annual sales in the African country to US$2.2bn over the next decade.
Much of the investment community's focus in the last two decades or so has been on the BRIC markets but Nigeria is among a band of economies gaining favour.
In an echo of the BRIC acroynm, MINT has recently emerged as a neologism for Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. Of these, Nigeria is on track to potentially become one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020.
Earlier this year, Nigeria was reported as having become the largest economy in Africa at present with GDP for 2013 totalling US509.9bn.
In an interview with Reuters, Dharnesh Gordhon, CEO of Nestle Nigeria, outlined the Maggi maker's plans for the country - and said vans would be a key weapon in the company's expansion.
Mobile vans have been positioned at housing estates and colleges "with large populations and little retail presence" in a bid to widen Nestle's distribution base. Gordhon said the company wanted to increase the number of vans from 10 to 2,000.
just-food reported in February that United Biscuits had made a move to buy a stake in Nigerian snacks group A&P Foods with the aim of growing its presence in the country. CEO Jeff van der Eems said: "The Nigerian market has strong potential for UB. It is Africa's most populous country and the biscuit market is projected to continue to grow at double digit rates."
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With an already extensive licensing line of games and puzzles, Jumbo Games is once again increasing its offering with a new line of Finding Dory and Peppa Pig items.
“We’re very excited that our Finding Dory range is out now and we have put a lot of investment into making sure we’ve got the range just right.” Steven Russell, marketing executive at Jumbo Games, told Licensing.biz.
“It certainly is one of our biggest launches this year in our children’s portfolio, as well as Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly and some fantastic new pre-school licences, which are to be announced imminently.”
The range of Finding Dory games and puzzles includes a four-in-one shaped set of Bath Puzzles, a Bath Memo Game and five traditional jigsaws.
The jigsaw line spans a four-in-one Bumper Pack, four-in-one Shaped Puzzle Set, four-in-one Puzzle Box, a Giant Floor Puzzle, an assortment of three puzzles and a 100XL puzzle.
Elsewhere, the firm has debuted its Peppa Pig Party Time Race Game, revealing it is ‘delighted’ by its release having received a ‘fantastic response from retail already, with great listings’.
Russell added: “We worked very hard to make sure we developed the right game for the consumer and we’ve got just that.
“The board game allows children to race against each other in a bid to be the first to arrive at Suzy Sheep’s party, while avoiding several distraction spaces along the way.
“It’s great for children and also helps to develop children’s numeracy and social-play skills, whilst being fun and entertaining.“
Disney Pixar’s Finding Dory , a sequel to Finding Nemo, opens in UK cinemas on July 29th.


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Gentle Monster CEO: Retail driven by humans' 'curiosity'
Chinese tech giant Huawei is partnering with Korean fashion brand Gentle Monster to release eyewear that is both high-tech and stylish.
The storm brought by the new fashion item, which is also a smart device, is impacting the future trends. Gentle Monster's chief executive said the combination of technology and fashion gives new experience to consumers.
Hankook Kim, CEO and co-Founder of Gentle Monster, said that crossover between fashion and technology brings more convenience and new experiences. The smart glasses have speakers on both inner sides, so the wearer can listen to music or pick up calls without being noticed by others.
Huawei x Gentle Monster eyewear is not the first of its kind out of the gate, but it is successful. The two companies focus on design rather than tech, as Kim said, "we are sensitive about the face."
It is hard to keep the technology hidden in the glasses. Kim said that while this is a tough process, Gentle Monster always tries to provide a different experience because the brand believes that people are more focused on newness and value. To provide newness to the customer, "we need technology," he added.
At this point, technology is a helpful way of entering into the market.
Meanwhile, Kim sees trends change around the world in retail. A key trend he mentioned is "redefinition". "People may not need the product but (like) the newness because human beings are all about curiosity," he added.


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BEIJING — China’s yuan-denominated exports in July rose 10.4% from a year earlier, while imports increased 1.6% on year, state TV reported on Friday, citing customs data.
For the first seven months of the year, exports declined 0.9% from the same period a year earlier, while imports dropped 2.6%, data showed.
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China is due to report dollar-denominated trade figures for July later on Friday. (Reporting by Colin Qian and Ryan Woo; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)


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Food manufacturers have been pouring millions of pounds into a last-ditch attempt to block a European plan to put red warning labels on junk food.
In one of the biggest lobbying efforts ever seen in Brussels, lobbyists for Europe's £800m-a-year food industry have been bombarding MEPs with thousands of emails, letters and phone calls and sponsored reports, lectures and conferences ahead of a vote in the European Parliament tomorrow.
They are trying to prevent the European Union adopting the British Food Standards Agency's front of pack labelling system which displays red, amber and green "traffic lights" to indicate levels of salt, fat and other nutrients.
Although the scheme devised has the backing of doctors and dietitians, because it could cut Britain's annual toll of 70,000 diet-related deaths, the retailers Tesco and Morrisons and the multinational firms Nestlé, Kellogg's, Danone, Kraft, and PepsiCo have refused to introduce it. They back a rival scheme called Guideline Daily Amounts, which expresses the nutrients as percentages of an adult's recommended daily intake.
Independent research shows that traffic lights, which have the backing of the British Medical Association and the British Dietetic Association, are more effective than GDAs in putting consumers off unhealthy products. Despite that, in March the European Parliament's environment committee rejected traffic lights by 32-30 votes, following intense lobbying by manufacturers.
One MEP, Carl Schlyter, from Sweden, believes some MEPs shifted their views as a result of the pressure. "In the earlier discussions people were much more open-minded," he said. "But they have been exposed to so much industry pressure that it shifted focus."
A Dutch socialist MEP Kartika Liotard, who sat on the environment committee, said representations were 100-to-one in favour of the industry and during key meetings the room was so full of lobbyists that there were no seats for MEPs' assistants.
The lobbying has now shifted to the 736 MEPs who will vote on the adoption of a unified labelling system tomorrow. They will vote on three options: traffic lights with GDAs and the words "high", "medium" or "low"; GDAs based on percentages per 100g; or a calorie count.
Representations to MEPs by the food industry have been heavily skewed against the colour-coded scheme, claimed Glenis Willmott, the leader of Labour's MEPs.
Ms Willmott, who is also Labour's health spokeswoman, said: "Some food manufacturers... have poured enormous amounts of money, time and effort into challenging these ideas that would give consumers a better understanding of what's in their food.
"They don't want to see traffic-light labels because they don't want this kind of information in such an easy-to-understand format. They prefer complex labels that make it far harder for shoppers to really understand what's going in their basket."
In a report, Corporate Europe Observatory, a business watchdog based in Brussels, disclosed that Commission documents suggested that the PR and lobbying consultancy Fleishman-Hillard had been paid up to €671,000 to promote GDAs by the European confederation of food and drink industries, the CIAA.
"This has been a massive campaign from the food and drink industry, which clearly feels that the traffic light labelling scheme would damage its profitability," said Nina Holland, author of the report, A Red Light For Consumer Information.
The CIAA acknowledges its members spent €1bn on implementing the GDA scheme across Europe, but would not say how much they had spent on lobbying. In a statement the confederation, whose members include the UK Food and Drink Federation, rejected any suggestion its members had been exerting improper influence.
It said: "EU food and drink manufacturers have a legitimate interest in following this piece of EU legislation and we have made sure that European policy-makers are kept abreast of our views on this important draft law."
The vote is expected to be close. Among the groups expected to back traffic lights are the Greens and the centre left S&D which includes Labour, while the centre right EPP is mostly against.
The Eurosceptic ECR grouping including the Conservatives is also likely to vote against traffic lights. The Conservative group said it was too early to reveal the party's position.
Which?, formerly the Consumer's Association, says MEPs have the chance to back a simple system, traffic lights, that could explain what is in their food. Monique Goyens, director general of the European Consumers' Organisation, said: "Independent research tells us the colour-code labelling scheme, already used by some major supermarkets, is the system that shoppers find the most useful and easiest to understand."
The Food Information to Consumers Regulations would automatically become UK law, and would come into force in about three years' time. Labels would be mandatory for "complex processed food", such as ready meals, breakfast cereals, sandwiches, fizzy drinks, and "prepared products of animal origin" such as Cornish pasties.Reuse content


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Google announced that it is signing up with the list of technology giants to deploy blockchain technology in order to use customers fintech and customer support options. The main statement was out on July 23. The Google blog post mentioned that the individuals will also have the ability to try open-source combinations for Hyperledger Fabric and also Ethereum (ETH) in their Google’s Cloud System (GCP) Marketplace, later on this year.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin while speaking at the Blockchain Summit in Morocco Brin on July 8 revealed that he is Ethereum miner. He stated that Ethereum mining was a “side hustle,” which cryptocurrencies are “mind-boggling,” CoinTelegraph reported. The company introduced that it has partnered with two blockchain-focused companies– Digital Property as well as BlockApps. It is to offer new distributed ledger innovation (DLT) solutions on GCP, permitting customers to “check out methods [customers] could make use of distributed ledger innovation structures.”
Ethereum area appears to be pretty excited regarding as a Redditor published “Ethereum concerning Google Cloud” and thrilled Redditor akira_fmx created, “Long overdue! Currently I’ll be able to spin up a node with fewer steps and ideally more affordable!” While another reddior kaibakker wrote, “It shows Ethereum is taken seriously by the tech Giants.”
With the brand-new partnerships, Google joins other gigantic tech business with blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) offerings, such as IBM, Microsoft, as well as Oracle Amazon.com Internet Solutions (AWS), which introduced its blockchain platform for DApps in April 2018. “We’re partnering with Google Cloud to give developers with a complete pile service so they can release the possibility for web-paced innovation in blockchain,” stated Blythe Masters, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset, in a declaration. “This will certainly decrease the technical obstacles to DLT application growth by supplying our advanced dispersed ledger system and also modelling language to Google Cloud.”


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[Funding alert] Rewards-based payments platform TWID raises Rs 10 Cr as seed funding
Bengaluru-based payments app, TWID on Monday said, it has received Rs 10 crore, or about $1.4 million from SCV LLC, a family-owned business of tech entrepreneurs, as part of its seed round of funding.
In a statement, the company said that it has previously secured funds from many marquee investors like YourNest Fund, Whiteboard Capital, and Capillary Technologies.
Launched in June 2019, a brain child of former Fashalot Founders Amit Koshal, Rishi Batra and Amit Sharma, TWID is a mobile-first platform which empowers its users to track all the rewards and loyalty points at one place, and spend them like cash across many online and offline retail stores, making their existing and future reward points valuable.
Currently, the TWID app is available on Google PlayStore.
Speaking about the product, Amit Koshal, Founder and CEO of TWID said,
“Close to Rs 1.15 lakh crore is spent every month by Indian consumers who make multiple purchases through just credit and debit card. On these spends, we earn rewards not just from the banks but even by the brands, both offline and online. These points are simply lying idle and unused because they stay hidden. TWID makes rewards more valuable. By bringing the points in rotation, we’re ensuring a boost to digital transactions in the country through incremental swipes and spends on cards, net banking, and UPI.”
TWID will also facilitate additional earning on the same transaction for both its partners and consumers, Koshal added.
According to the founders, TWID’s partner banks and brands are leveraging the platform to take the value of their rewards to an all-new level for a multi-fold increase in their consumer engagement and steep growth in their businesses.
While, speaking about their investment in TWID, SCV LLC, said,
“In the US, the rewards ecosystem is compelling and completely consumer-centric. As India’s consumption story evolves along with a rising middle class who are price-sensitive, rewards will be the key differentiator for retailers and services providers alike. The TWID platform plays a critical role in the aggregation of rewards across various industries and provides a single source for accumulation, redemption, and ease of use.”
Within the first year of operation, the platform is looking to on-board more than 50 brands and banks with their rewards pool.
The firm is also targeting over 3 lakh merchants to accept TWID, as a mode of payment and over 3 million active users to transact using TWID.
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Anthony Levandowski, the controversial engineer at the heart of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, claims to have built an automated car that drove from San Francisco to New York without any human intervention.
The 3,099-mile journey started on 26 October on the Golden Gate Bridge, and finished nearly four days later on the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan.
The car, a modified Toyota Prius, used only video cameras, computers and basic digital maps to make the cross-country trip…
A time-lapse video of drive, released to coincide with the launch of Levandowski’s latest startup, Pronto.AI, did not immediately reveal anything to contradict his claim. But Levandowski has little store of trust on which to draw.


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Volkswagen delivers 1 mln vehicles in China in Q1
Meanwhile, the sales of Porsches topped 18,1000 units during the same period.
Sales of several of the company's brands hit record highs, it said.
Volkswagen sales reached 755,700 units, up 8.6 percent year on year, with SUVs the main growth driver. Four new Volkswagen SUV models will be introduced this year, the company said.
The company, along with two joint ventures -- SAIC Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen -- delivered 1.01 million automobiles to the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong in the first three months, up 13.4 percent year on year.
Sales of Audis hit 154,100 units, increasing by 41.9 percent, while Skoda sales registered strong growth of 18.6 percent to 79,100 units.
TIANJIN, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Volkswagen Group China registered strong sales in the domestic market for the first quarter of 2018, the company announced on Tuesday.
Volkswagen is the largest automotive manufacturing company in Europe, with 12 vehicle brands, including Audi, Lamborghini, and Bentley, delivered to more than 100 countries and regions worldwide.


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LAVAL, Quebec, Canada NetCom has signed 48-hour data publishing agreements with with a number of suppliers, the company said.
companies include CARDONE, GE Lighting, Goodyear, Gabriel Ride Control,
NGK Spark Plugs and Beck Arnley. Product data will be uploaded to
NetCom Chronos within 48 hours of receipt. NetCom Chronos is a Web-based electronic catalog that features more than 100 million applications and 4,000 product lines.
NetCom Chronos is available to users for free. For more information, go to www.netcomchronos.com


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Just how much water does it really take to produce a pound of beef? The latest video in the Meat Mythcrusher series looks at just that.
One of the most commonly seen myths about meat has been that beef production uses up thousands of gallons of water. But according to sustainability researcher Jude Capper, Ph.D, the real data shows the amount is much smaller than the projected 2,400 gallons one statistic suggested.
Capper said it requires only 441 gallons of water to produce a pound of boneless beef — just a fraction of what is often claimed.
The video series, produced by the North American Meat Institute in conjunction with the American Meat Science Association, also looks at ways to lower the water usage in beef production.


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The Competition Commission has fined two newspaper groups for collusion on the prices charged to advertisers. TimesLIVE says Caxton received a R5.8m fine and the Independent Group R2.2m. This follows a R22.3m fine handed to Naspers's pay-TV subsidiary DStv in May 2017, the commission said.
The Competition Tribunal has confirmed that ArcelorMittal SA can pay off an initial R300m annual penalty in tranches of R100m, in the first year of five years paying off a R1.5bn fine imposed for market fixing. A Business Day report says the first payment due in November 2017 has already been paid, with subsequent payments due to be paid in April 2018 and July 2018.
SA Airlink has been referred to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution on charges of 'excessive and predatory pricing', the Competition Commission said yesterday. Business Report says this followed complaints lodged by businessman Khwezi Tiya, low cost carrier Fly Blue Crane, and the OR Tambo District Chamber of Business between 2015 and 2017 about the Johannesburg-Mthatha route.
The Competition Tribunal has dismissed Massmart’s complaint that Shoprite Checkers, Pick n Pay and Spar were taking part in anti-competitive behaviour through exclusive leases with shopping-mall landlords. In what a Business Day report describes as a blow to Massmart’s strategy to roll out fresh food at its Game stores in malls, the tribunal said that at best Massmart had relied on generalised contentions by some of its rivals in submissions to the retail-market inquiry by the Competition Commission.
Chevron’s branded marketers took aim at Chinese oil giant Sinopec at the Competition Tribunal yesterday, accusing Sinopec of failing to engage the marketers on its plans for Chevron SA, which Sinopec has agreed to buy for $900m.
A company which claims to have a business model to deal with the day to day administrative aspects of property transfers has run up against the legal fraternity, which says transfers in law are the preserve of conveyancers or legal practitioners, notes Legalbrief.
Proposed changes to the Competition Act place the independence of competition authorities at risk, and some of the proposed provisions may even be susceptible to constitutional challenges. A Moneyweb report notes lawyers and economists, including the former Competition Tribunal head David Lewis, have expressed concerns about the legal and commercial implications of the expanded powers given to the Competition Commission and the Minister of Economic Development in the Competition Amendment Bill.
The Competition Tribunal has refused to confirm a consent agreement reached between the Competition Commission and four chemicals companies after a five-year process because the agreement does not specify what aspect of the Competition Act was being contravened.
The Competition Tribunal’s hearing of banks accused of colluding in the foreign exchange market, which was scheduled to start on 24 January, has been delayed until further notice, says a BusinessLIVE report. The tribunal said in a statement yesterday that the Competition Commission had requested a postponement when it submitted a supplementary affidavit on 21 December, saying it intended to join new applicants.
Independent airline companies SA Airlink and Safair are planning a merger in which Airlink will acquire Safair, notes a Business Day report. The two companies said that they would file an application at the Competition Commission for approval to merge under the common umbrella of the Airlink group of companies.
Details of the multimillion-rand broadcasting deal between the SABC and MultiChoice may never be made public if the two companies get their way in the Constitutional Court, notes a Business Day report. The five-year agreement entered into by the two entities in 2013 resulted in the SABC pocketing more than R500m in exchange for extensive rights to its archived content, with an added pact that MultiChoice would not encrypt SABC TV channels when the country migrates to digital terrestrial television.
Standard Bank’s efforts to obtain records of the Competition Commission’s probe into collusion among currency traders at 18 banks were thwarted yesterday after the Competition Tribunal ruled it was not entitled to such records, notes a Business Day report. Given ‘the length of the record, the extent of the confidential information in it and the burden it would place on the commission in preparing it, a reasonable time for production would be at the same time as discovery is made in the (foreign exchange) case’, the tribunal said.
One of the largest owners of SA shopping centres, Resilient Reit, asserted at a Competition Commission inquiry yesterday that exclusivity clauses served no purpose for landlords or the general economy and should be outlawed in SA. A Business Day report says the company’s Johann Kriek made this submission when he answered questions on how leases varied between anchor tenants and line stores as well as how shopping centres supported retailers by bringing foot traffic to towns.
The Competition Appeal Court has given Johnny Copelyn’s Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) the all clear to restructure the gaming interests held by its listed subsidiaries Tsogo Sun and Niveus, says a Business Day report. Just hours before HCI’s self-imposed deadline of 31 October, the court released a decision that could upend 20 years of competition law precedence.
The Competition Commission has been asked to investigate possible collusion and uncompetitive practices related to Eskom coal contracts in a request implicating Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Shanduka Trust. A Business Day report says the newspaper has seen the written request for the investigation, but the complainant sought to remain anonymous.


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One of the most common questions on the minds of consumers is why the price of gasoline differs from place to place.
No other commodity is advertised as prominently as petroleum. Gas stations post their prices on tall signs that can be seen from far away, which allows motorists to easily compare prices from one station to another.
In researching the price of gas throughout the region, The Union found that prices do not vary much within a city. Most gas stations are within a few pennies of each other. However, the price between towns, even neighboring towns, can vary by as much as a few dimes per gallon. And when comparing one region of the country to another, the price can vary by more than $1.
Retail gasoline outlets are tight-lipped about how and why they set the prices they do. The Union reached out to several gas stations in southeast Iowa, but most of them declined to comment. Dipash Gautan, who helps manage the Corner Stop in Washington, was willing to share a few insights about how he determines his station’s price.
“I follow the bigger chains like Casey’s and Hy-Vee. I try to match what they’re doing,” he said. “We have to be at the same price as others in town. If you cannot compete, you won’t make sales.”
Gautan said the price of gas can change with every truck delivery, or even more frequently than that.
“Sometimes I have to change the price [on the digital sign] every day, and sometimes it stays the same for a week or two,” he said. “The price of gas depends a lot on politics, on how the U.S. government handles oil producing states.”
Gautan remembers that the price of gas rose to $4 about eight years ago, prompting a lot of griping from consumers.
“Gas stations are places where people get gas, but we can’t control the price,” he said. “The price is determined by how much gas can be supplied every day and every month.”
Jet Gas Corporation in Houghton, which owns Jet Stop in Fairfield, declined to comment for this article. Cobb Oil in Brighton did not return a request for comment. Casey’s corporate office not return a request for comment, and Hy-Vee’s corporate office said information about its pricing strategy is considered proprietary information and would not share it. Sam Herro, Kum & Go’s director of retail fuels, said he cannot discuss pricing decisions or information about how much fuel his gas stations receive or how frequently they receive them. However, he noted that organizations such as Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) are a good source of information about gas pricing.
According to OPIS, retailers purchase truckloads of gasoline at one of roughly 400 wholesale terminals in the United States. About 220 of these terminals are on pipelines. A typical gasoline truck can transport 8,000 gallons at a time.
OPIS notes that there are 31 “flavors” of gasoline depending on what fuels are mandated in a particular state. For instance, some parts of the U.S. have been deemed high in pollutants, and those areas are required by the Environmental Protection Agency to have reformulated gasoline.
Who comes up with the price of gasoline? OPIS said the most common way retail gasoline is priced is by tying it to a wholesale vendor or “rack” to use the industry lingo. Take the rack price and add in all taxes – federal, state and local – and the cost of transporting the fuel to the gas station. On top of that, retailers add in their own margin, which is what they estimate their own profit to be.
“The retailer always has to be mindful of what his competition is charging, especially if he or she is competing against a ‘hyper-marketer,’” wrote Scott Berhang on OPIS’s blog. “What’s a hyper-marketer? It’s someone like a Wawa or a Costco who sells fuel as a way to get the customer into the store. Many times, those hyper-marketers give up margin for the sake of inside sales.”
Berhang predicts that big-box hyper-marketers will take up more of the market as time goes on.
Mt. Pleasant – an outlier
According to the website gasbuddy.com, the average gas price in the state of Iowa on July 30 was $2.59 per gallon. Gas Buddy maintains a gas station price map showing how the price of gas differs from town to town. The map shows that Mt. Pleasant is an outlier, with gas 20-30 cents cheaper than in neighboring cities such as Fairfield and Washington where gas is between $2.59 and $2.69.
As of July 30, Mt. Pleasant was one of the few cities in Iowa to post gas prices under $2.40. A few other stops along Highway 218 could also claim that, one in Olds and the other just east of Salem. Other cities posting prices below $2.40 were West Burlington, a few gas stations on the west side of Cedar Rapids and some near Altoona.
It’s not clear why Mt. Pleasant’s gas is priced lower than surrounding towns. Kristi Ray, executive vice president of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber Alliance, has a few theories.
“We’re fortunate because we have a number of our convenience stores that are locally owned,” she said. “If you look at the Pep Stop, it’s owned by the Fedler family, and has been in business for years. They set the stage for all the other ones.”
Cobb Oil of Brighton owns the BP, and Jim Reif of Reif Oil in Burlington owns Fast Break.
“I honestly have to say that the reason the gas prices are low is because we’re fortunate to have good local managers who support our community,” Ray said. “That’s not to say that other towns don’t, because I don’t know who owns gas stations in other towns.”
Ray pointed out that Mt. Pleasant is well positioned at the intersection of two busy highways: Interstates 34 and 218.
“We’re on the Avenue of the Saints, and we’re an hour north of the Iowa line, so we’re a good stopping point for people coming from St. Louis,” Ray said. “I remember that when the Pilot Truck Stop opened in 2013, we got a huge jump in sales tax revenue.”
Iowa’s average price of $2.59 per gallon puts it lower than most surrounding states with just a few exceptions. Here are the average gas prices per gallon in other Midwestern states as of July 30, from highest to lowest:
South Dakota: $2.65
The nationwide average price for a gallon of gasoline is about $2.75. That number was as low as $2.25 in January, and was even lower locally where the Quad Cities reported an average price of $1.94. The cheapest gas in the country can be found in the south in states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi where it’s about $2.25 per gallon. The most expensive gasoline is found in California, where it’s more than $3.50 and even $4 per gallon in some cities.
The price of gas, just like any commodity, goes up and down over time. It was at this same national average of $2.75 about nine years ago, just before it skyrocketed to $4 in the spring of 2011. It stayed above $3 per gallon until a precipitous drop during 2014 caused it to fall to $2. After a few months of inching back up, the price bottomed out at $1.72 in February 2016.


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Apeel SciencesFrom the time a farmer harvests strawberries or green beans, they will last — at best — three weeks before they start to rot. It usually takes a week or two for the food to reach the grocery store and then your fridge, leaving you only a few days to eat them.
A Santa Barbara, California-based startup called Apeel Sciences has invented an edible coating called Edipeel that it says can extend a fruit or vegetable's shelf life by as much as five times. If you spray it on a ripe strawberry, for example, the company claims the fruit will last up to a week longer than normal.
Made of leftover plant skins and stems, the coating acts as a barrier that slows the decay process. You can apply it to produce anytime during its lifespan — Apeel even claims they were able to make a bunch of bananas grown at the same time ripen on different days.
A year after its launch in 2016, Apeel has moved into a 105,000-square-foot facility. At least six farms in Southern California, Kenya, and Nigeria are using Apeel's products, CEO James Rogers told Business Insider. The company is also finalizing negotiations to work with at least two dozen packing houses and several farms in Mexico, Peru, and Chile for a "very large commercial rollout" to the US, Rogers said.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Apeel's first products as "generally recognized as safe," meaning they're okay to eat and sell. The company also recently received approval to use Edipeel on organic produce.
Here's how the product works.


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Shop for a good cause at Saturday’s No Fleas Please flea market sponsored by the Animal Care Center of St. John. It runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Winston Wells Ballfield in Cruz Bay.
“I’d like to raise 10 grand,” Animal Care Center President B.J. Harris said.
Last year the organization raised nearly $7,000 at its annual flea market. Although the center gets 10 percent of its $135,000 annual budget from the local government, Harris said it must fund the rest through events like the flea market.
Harris said the center typically has about 20 dogs and 30 to 40 cats a week to care for at its shelter.
Donations of items to sell at the flea market are still coming in, but Harris said Caneel Bay Resort donated outdoor furniture, including tables with glass tops. Additionally, shoppers will find indoor furniture, TVs, stereos, a bicycle, new and used children’s toys, books, kitchen ware, art, appliances, plants, and books.
“There’s even a hot tub,” Harris said.
Donations of items suitable for sale will be accepted all week and until 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Harris said.
She said food and drink will be for sale. Additionally, Harris expects an appearance by a canine enforcement officer and his dog.
Paul Jordan, who heads up American Kennel Club activities on St. John, said that the organization will have a table set up at the flea market but will not do AKC tests that indicate your dog has good behavior. Call him at 513-3703 for more information on having your dog receive the AKC good behavior certificate.
For information on the flea market, call Harris at 513-4670.


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Giorgi Tukhashvili Becomes Co-Founder of Kernel
Giorgi Tukhashvili became the co-founder of Kernel, a startup for simple invoicing and financial instruments. He led the company's product team, and within a year, became a shareholder.
Giorgi met Kernel's team at Startup Grind before launching the startup. The event was attended by team members to discover new opportunities, while Giorgi, as the organizer, helped startups grow and scale.
It should be noted that he has been consulting with commercial and non-commercial organizations for 5 years already. In addition, he has made a significant contribution to the growth of Startup Grind Tbilisi.
The co-founders of Kernel were aware of George's experience in the field of startups and asked for help to get the desired results quickly. In just a few months, he managed to accelerate product development and bring significant value to the company. He also contributes greatly to the development of Kernel's team culture, work processes, and methodologies.
For reference, Kernel operates in three countries - Georgia, the Philippines, and India. The startup currently has more than 30,000 registered users.
The Kernel mobile app was recently launched for the Philippines and India. For the Philippine market, in particular, an online payment functionality has been added. This is the beginning of the stage for offering banking services to customers in the coming months.


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BCH prices pumped over 20 percent in the days leading up to the fork, creating a mild resurgence in the broader crypto markets. Craig Wright, one of the primary supporters of Bitcoin SV, instigated a campaign against Bitcoin Cash (and subsequent rival fork Bitcoin ABC) to claim the legitimacy of the BCH lineage and impose his vision for the future of the currencys blockchain and protocol. Even after forming Bitcoin Cash, some groups wanted to restore the original protocol of Bitcoin and groups who wanted to establish new protocols. Wright visions that BSV will be able to process about 1TB (terabyte) of transactions within the next three years and he says BSV blocks will expand to about 2GB (gigabytes) in just a year from now. Bitcoin s price plummeting from a seemingly stable 6500 USD to below 4000 USD in less than two weeks. However, the price pump was short lived. Spot * By default, pairs are displayed according to "Trust Score". Wright (nicknamed CSW) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist who earlier have claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin. However, the lack of consensus across the industrya combination of exchange support, developer weight and algorithmic hash productionled to an ongoing conflict where by both parties suffered. Similar to the earlier split of BTC and BCH, both coin communities and developers wanted to claim the official title of Bitcoin Cash, thereby holding sway over the majority of investor interest and brand appeal. The Bitcoin Cash was a new currency initiated by bitcoin developers and miners who were worried about the future of the bitcoin currency. Bitcoin Cash ABC is trending higher than Bitcoin Cash SV, and the main reason for this is that most cryptocurrency trading platforms now recognise Bitcoin Cash ABC as the official Bitcoin Cash currency and has given it the title of BCH.
Bitcoin, cash, sV, price, today - TheCryptoUpdates
Even though the Bitcoin SV vs Bitcoin ABC war was a thing, it will settle down quickly as investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts will soon learn to differentiate between the two depending on what they represent. According to, forbes, billy Bambrough, the worst outcome for Craig Wrights Bitcoin SV was looking to become a possibility in December 2018. At present like any token in the market, Bitcoin SV remains unstable and has seen a somewhat volatile January. Bitcoin Cash ABC was able to get a jump start against BSV by controlling a hash rate of 61 with more hash power and a higher profit margin for miners. Which means, if you are confused on which currency among these two to invest in, you should first decide on whether you are looking for a quick or long-term profit. Read more about Bitcoin Cash splitting.
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BSV blocks are currently just 64MB (megabytes) and will expand to support 512MB by the next six months. Bitcoin Cash SV vs Bitcoin Cash ABC. Bloomberg, Ayre continues, We have a clearly defined path and this is now ready for implementation. It has a circulating supply.8 Million coins and a max supply of price bitcoin cash sv 21 Million coins. Bitcoin Cash SV was founded in August 2018 and is supported by platforms such as Bitcoin.
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Billionaire SV representative Calvin Ayre, in a post on Coingeek, capitulated the ongoing conflict to Bitcoin ABC, claiming that their community no longer wants the name Bitcoin Cash, and will move forward with an independent blockchain and version of their of network. 23 has the coin and its supporters surrendering the name of Bitcoin Cash in an effort to move past the senseless nature of the hash war. The most active exchange that is trading Bitcoin Cash. Speaking in an email with. If you wish to find the Bitcoin Cash SV price today, then you can see it here. Start trading cryptocurrency with Coindirect. After the hard fork of Bitcoin Cash in November, both Bitcoin Cash SV and Bitcoin Cash ABC have been trying hard to dominate the market by winning over regarding hash power. 1h 24h 7d 14d 30d 1y -1.2 -0., bTC, eTH, we're indexing our data. However, a new development on Nov. This lead to another hard fork in November which split Bitcoin Cash into Bitcoin Cash SV and Bitcoin Cash ABC.


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Lawmakers in Hawaii are considering a bill that would require all pet stores to spay/neuter cats and dogs before they are sold.
House Bill 243 indicates that an unsterilized female cat can give birth to two litters a year, which, over seven years, could lead to 400,000 cats. Inga Gibson, Director of The Humane Society of the United States, said, “It’s a tremendous issue. We have a large feral cat issue throughout the state. One of the contributing factors is the sale of unsterilized cats.” The Humane Society opposes euthanization and instead supports responsible feral colony management. This means the caretaker of the colony makes sure the cats are sterilized, microchipped, vaccinated, fed, and monitored.
Tish Rothwell, owner of the Pet Depot in Ewa Beach, said she has stepped up and sterilized cats prior to their adoption since 2009, when the owner of a Waianae no-kill shelter died and she took in the animals left behind. The shelters were full and she didn’t want to see the animals euthanized. She made sure they were all sterilized and adopted them out for an amount that covered her medical costs. “We want to be responsible and keep that out-of-control cat population down,” Rothwell said.
Dogs require a longer recovery time after sterilization and there are some concerns about the adoption costs increasing because of the additional care required. Pet store owners may also insist breeders spay/neuter dogs prior to selling them to pet stores. Because customers often want puppies as young as six weeks old, which is too young for sterilization, some fear the bill will increase the sale of unsterilized dogs outside the stores.
If it passes, the bill is to take effect on January 1, 2012.
9 thoughts on “Hawaii Considering Mandatory Sterilization Bill”
Yes, this should have been done a long time ago and not only in Hawaii but everywhere!
I think it’s a good idea too until the animal population gets under control
Terrific idea, wish they would do that here
They need to stop allowing pet stores to sell dogs and cats. It would cut out the backyard breeders and puppy mills. Of course this would also up their costs, so that might help too.
This should be mandatory all over the world to prevent the birth of unwanted/mistreated pets.. It’s a start and yes heavy penalties and jail time for back yard breeders and puppy mills


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Well, by God, it's the least you can do to save the environment:
Better insulation at home, less use of the car and even giving up an electric toothbrush can help people in rich nations halve emissions of greenhouse gases, a U.N. report said on Thursday.
"Adopting a climate-friendly lifestyle needn't require drastic changes or major sacrifices," according to the 202-page U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) book entitled "Kick the CO2 Habit: the U.N. Guide to Climate Neutrality".
Turn off that damn toothbrush and do it manually the way nature intended! That will make a difference. Sillier and sillier.