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ROME (dpa-AFX) - Italy's consumer price inflation slowed marginally in June, data from the statistical office Istat showed on Tuesday.
The consumer price index climbed 0.7 percent annually in June, following a 0.8 percent rise in May. The flash estimate was 0.8 percent.
The latest inflation was driven by a fall in prices of non-regulated energy products and durable goods.
Core inflation, which excludes energy and unprocessed food, rose 0.4 percent in June, same as seen in May.
On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in June.
The EU measure of harmonized index of consumer prices, or HICP, rose 0.8 percent annually in June and increased 0.1 percent from the previous month.
Separate data from the statistical office Istat showed that the trade surplus rose to EUR5.34 billion in May from EUR3.36 billion in the corresponding period last year. In April, surplus was EUR2.85 billion.
Exports grew 8.0 percent year-on-year in May, following a 5.8 percent increase in April.
Imports rose 3.4 percent yearly in May, after a 6.8 percent increase in the previous month.
Data also showed that the import prices rose 1.0 percent annually in May and increased 0.4 percent a month ago.
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Feast your eyes on this.
The team behind Pergola on the Roof and this year’s Pergola Paddington Central are rolling up their sleeves and starting the build on another new dining spot. It’s called Feast Canteen, and it’s going to be settling into the food court in Kings Mall in Hammersmith next year. Here’s…
HOW IT WORKS
It’ll be a slick space, promising to ‘dial the canteen concept up a notch’ with their characteristic design touches and enough room to seat up to 350 people. They’re going to be inviting a rotating series of guest restaurants to helm the kitchens and plate up some of their most popular dishes, which will be available to eat in, take away or even have delivered. So let’s take a look at…
To kick off the project, there are currently four restaurants confirmed to take up the reins:
- Breddos Tacos, serving up their lauded tacos and Mexican small plates;
- Salvation in Noodles, with a modern take on home-style Vietnamese cooking;
- Born and Raised, bringing British ingredients to artisanal pizza bases; and
- Patty & Bun – pretty much the kings of the burger scene.
All of which you’ll be able to mix and match…
…So there won’t be any trade-off.
NOTE: Feast Canteen is set to open in January 2018. We’ll be back with the full scoop nearer the time, but until then, you can keep an eye on things and sign up for their soft launch HERE.
Feast Canteen | Kings Mall, King Street, W6 9HW

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Nintendo announces the holding of a new Nintendo Direct tomorrow, February 9, in the evening. Get ready, we’re expecting something heavy.
A month into 2022, Nintendo finally decides to broadcast its first-ever Nintendo Direct of the year, shortly after Sony’s State of Play. The firm, which recently shared the sales figures for its Nintendo Switch, announces that the broadcast of the event will take place February 9 from 11 p.m.. As the message on Twitter indicates, the whole thing should last about forty minutes.
See you on 09/02 at 23:00 for aof approximately 40 minutes devoted primarily to upcoming Nintendo Switch games during the first half of 2022.
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— Nintendo France (@NintendoFrance)
What to expect ?
As usual, the Nintendo Direct will focus on upcoming releases coming to Nintendo Switch. In this case, the studio declares to put the emphasis on the main games coming out in the first half of 2022. We will undoubtedly have a reminder that OlliOlli World is already available on the platform and that the indie game Welcome to Elk is also expected on February 10.
Then we are still waiting for news of the title Figure 2: Creed Valley which still has no release date. As for the games announced, we will no doubt be told about the next Kirby, which is scheduled for March 25, Triangle Strategyscheduled for March 4 or even Chocobo GP expected March 10.
Finally, according to rumors, the darling of this Nintendo Direct would be a new Mario Kart game, exclusive to the Nintendo Switch. Indeed, this follows rumors concerning the development of a Mario Kart 10, skipping a ninth opus. Some had predicted an event to announce it in February. Will it be this Nintendo Direct? Only time will tell.
How to follow the Nintendo Direct in French?
To attend the event, nothing could be simpler. Go to Youtube at the time indicated to access the broadcast subtitled in French, or to this article in which we include an embedded version of the video.
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Facebook could walk away from its own cryptocurrency project and drop out of its governing body if it cannot assuage the concerns of US regulators, Mark Zuckerberg has claimed.
Testifying before the US Congress on Tuesday, the 35-year-old chief executive sought to reassure politicians that the new digital coin, Libra, will fully comply with US laws, saying that his company would not stay on board unless it does.
His answer raised the surprising possibility that the Libra Association, the Geneva-based body set up by Facebook to manage the new currency, would continue on without the one company which has so far been both its driving force and its public face.
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GST refunds worth Rs 54,378 cr cleared till July
GST refund claims of Rs 54,378 crore of exporters have been cleared by the Centre and state tax officials till July end, the finance ministry said today.
As of July 31, 2018, the total amount of Integrated GST (IGST) refund claims disposed by CBIC is Rs 29,829 crore, taking the disposal rate to 93 per cent.
Besides, Rs 24,549 crore has been paid on account of Input Tax Credit (ITC) to exporters who claimed refund by filing RFD-01A.
Of this, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has cleared Rs 16,074 crore, while the state authorities have refunded Rs 8,475 crore.
"The CBIC has successfully concluded the Third Refund Fortnight from July 16-31, 2018. Till July 31, 2018, the total GST refunds disposed by the Centre and the States are to the tune of Rs 54,378 crore," the finance ministry said in a statement.
During the third refund fortnight, the IGST refunds of amount Rs 3,391 crore have been sanctioned by CBIC.
"The remaining GST refunds pending with CBIC will continue to be processed expeditiously. However, the exporters are requested to ensure that the correct procedure of filing returns, giving accurate information in Shipping Bill and submitting RFD01A Application Forms to the jurisdictional formations are followed for quick disbursal of their GST refund claims," the ministry added.
(This article has not been edited by Zeebiz editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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Ellie Warburton’s Cake Opens Wednesday at Stonegate
An upmarket cake shop run by one of Britain’s best-known bread companies is promising delicious treats in the heart of York.
The Ellie Warburtons Cake opened its doors on Wednesday in Stonegate, a 300-year-old building that most recently housed the Yorkshire Terrier Pub.
The venue has seating for 30 customers, who can either eat or take away.
The range includes premium sweet treats, special blended coffees, locally sourced teas and a menu of other baked goods, including a first for Warburton – their very own Banana Fruit Bread!
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Warburton is already famous for its bakery products, which include breads, bagels and crumpets.
Ellie Warburtons Cakes draws on the 146-year legacy of the family business, which began in 1876 when Ellie Warburton began baking bread to offset the recession at the family grocery store.
Allen’s first batch of four loaves and six cakes sold out in less than an hour. Within two weeks the small Bolton shop was renamed ‘Warburton the Bakers’ and the business has grown from strength to strength ever since.
Now, five generations later, Ellie has made a name for her business with a line of eight cakes, including an indulgent cookie dough with caramel slices and zesty ginger with orange cake.
The cake recently appeared on Channel 4’s Inside the Superbrands series, featuring Warburton, as a result, the online store was completely sold out in one evening!
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The Stonegate store in Skipton follows another, as well as a pop-up store that last year did business in James Street, Harrogate, which, along with other pop-ups, tested products before ‘releasing in the woods’.
Warburton Chairman Jonathan Warburton said: “We are thrilled to bring Eli Warburton Cakes to the buzzing City of York.
“This new store with the Eat In concept gives customers the opportunity to sample our line-up of mouthwatering cakes along with a menu of baked goods at this central location.
“We are continuing to bring with us the Warburton ethos – the core of quality and taste – through the Ellie Warburton range of deliciously delicious cakes. Following the success of our two pop up locations in the North, we are looking to build on our loyal fan base. Let’s look forward to cake lovers and bread fans alike!
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Debbie Rudkin, who heads up Warburton’s cake business, told the press: “We’re really excited to open our second store in York and our first day was great, with so many people coming to try and buy the cake.
“The people of York were really complimentary about the store as well, enjoying the relaxed atmosphere – great coffee and cake for sure too! Many of them stayed to enjoy their cakes, but we stayed with the families at home Also sold too many cakes to share with you. We couldn’t have asked for a better Opening Day!”
Or for more business details and to order online, visit: www.elliewarburtonscakes.co.uk.


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DALLAS — Neiman Marcus still believes in fantasy for Christmas, but the luxury retailer is also widening its price range.
Neiman’s launched its 83rd annual Christmas Book Tuesday with a pointed notation that 40 percent of the 400 items cost less than $250. Even the fantasy gifts, which include a $250,000, two-seater plane, are less expensive than last year.
“We have more options in terms of pricing,” Burt Tansky, president and chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus Group, said during the catalogue launch at the Dallas Contemporary art exhibition space. Asked about prospects for holiday after 12 months of same-store sales declines, Tansky said, “We’re taking a wait-and-see attitude. We just finished September, and it’s too early to comment.”
The 160-page catalogue features fashion, accessories and jewelry by Donna Karan, Alexander McQueen, Valentino, Gucci and Michael Kors, among others, as well as contemporary and bridge labels.
Lower-priced gifts include a $35 portable iPod speaker, $120 electric corkscrew and $150 enamel bookmarks by Jay Strongwater.
“The trend of this book is more about people sending gifts,” said Ginger Reeder, vice president of Neiman Marcus Group and chief wrangler of the fantasy gifts. “People are not buying necessarily for themselves.”
As for whimsy, the lead “His & Hers” gift is an Icon A5 sport aircraft, an amphibious plane designed for recreational flying and packaged with pilot training and its own trailer. A prototype was filmed for “Iron Man 2,” set for release in May, but the plane won’t be available until 2011.
“There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether Neiman Marcus would offer fantasy gifts in the Christmas Book this year,” said Gerald Barnes, president and chief executive officer of NM Direct. “Our belief is that even in financially challenging times there is a place for fantasy, especially during the holiday season.”
Other attention-getters include a $200,000 dinner for two at Manhattan’s famed Algonquin Hotel with eight prominent authors, including Malcolm Gladwell, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and George Stephanopoulos, to benefit First Book, which provides new books for underprivileged children, and a 470-horsepower 2010 Jaguar XJL sedan for $105,000.
Willy Wonka would be proud of the Cupcake Car, a four-foot-wide electric automobile that looks like a cupcake topped with thick frosting. The $25,000 car spins in place like a top and reaches a speed of 20 miles per hour, inventor Keith Johnson said.
Another quirky item is a piece of art made from a five-inch African Flower Beetle embedded with pocket watch gears by artist Mike Libby. Reeder said she included the $8,500 item for its “new Gothic” qualities. British artist Michelle Brand offers a chandelier made of sanded plastic bottles for $12,000.
The catalogue also presents an electric motorcycle, the Mission One, which can hit 150 mph and costs $73,000.
Two behind-the-scenes experiences are a winemaking lesson, dinner and art tour at the estate of vintners Kathryn and Craig Hall in Napa Valley, Calif., for $20,000, and a chance to make and bottle whiskey with Maker’s Mark master distiller Kevin Smith in Louisville, Ky., for $7,500.
The list is humbler than last year’s fantasy array, most of which were priced upwards of $100,000, with some in the millions. A few did sell: the $245,000 collection of every top-selling 45 RPM record from 1955 to 1990; 10 custom BMW 7 Series sedans with trips to Germany for $160,000 each, and a $25,000 10th-century Viking ring.
Reeder said the lack of $1 million-plus gifts was not intentional or a response to the recession.
“After we had our meeting [to make final selections], I realized we didn’t have a million dollar gift,” she said. “I just didn’t have anything that was that special at that price point.”
The annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic in Pacific Palisades this weekend drew Kate Hudson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Laura Dern and more. See pictures of the star-studded event on WWD.com. (📷: @chelsealaurenla) #wwdeye
In his new book “Hollywood Royale,” Andy Warhol’s Protégé Matthew Rolston celebrates the Eighties revival of Hollywood glamour. Featuring more than 100 portraits taken by Rolston from 1977 to 1993, the book contains photos of icons like Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, and @drewbarrymore, pictured here in 1991. “Hollywood Royale,” out today, will be accompanied by an exhibition opening at Los Angeles’ Fahey/Klein Gallery on March 1. #wwdeye
"Nowadays when life is not so happy with everything going on in the world, I think people come to me for a little bit of whimsy and color and fun." - Designer Rebecca De Ravenel on her cult-favorite jewelry line. (📸 : @vsteves) #wwd40
“Everyone is talking about how the retail industry is struggling, but I think it’s an incredible time because brands who are doing something different and innovative are setting themselves up for the future,” said @adamgoldston, who founded the luxury athletic brand @apl with his brother @ryangoldsten. The Goldston’s are part of WWD’s 40 under 40: a group of industry notables. See the rest of the list on WWD.com. (📷: @vsteves) #wwd40
@eyeswoon blogger Athena Calderone debuted her first-ever cookbook, “Cook Beautiful,” which is heavily centered on the presentation and visual expression of food. Pictured here are her miso glazed carrots from the book. Get the recipe on WWD.com. (📷: @johnny_miller_) #wwdeye
“It’s passion that helps get anybody to a certain point and it’s what’s propelled me,” said Kith founder @ronniefieg, one of WWD’s 40 under 40: a group of industry notables who are changing the face of retail, fashion and beauty. Fieg, who opened a Manhattan flagship on October 7, began his career at age 13 as a stock boy and salesman for footwear chain David Z. “I think staying true to [my] beliefs, hard work and passion have gotten me to where [Kith] is today.” See the rest of the 40 at WWD.com. (📷: @vsteves) #wwd40
25-year-old @samweaving is about to break out this fall, starring in Netflix’s horror film “The Babysitter,” fittingly out today on Friday the 13th. That’s not the only place you’ll be seeing her, though — Weaving’s got a role Showtime’s “SMILF” and another alongside Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Though she’s got a full plate at the moment, there’s one role she’s got her eye on: Marilyn Monroe. “I’m a little too young at the moment, but it’s on my bucket list,” the actress told WWD (📷: @dandoperalski) #wwdeye
BFF's Poppy Jamie and Suki Waterhouse celebrated the launch of their bag line Pop x Suki at Nordstrom last night. "The line is really about our friendship, and how we are so different but complement each other," said Waterhouse. 👯 (📷: Katie Jones) #wwdeye
After designing the new @louisvuitton and @bulgariofficial flagships and a @chanelofficial boutique opening in Japan, @petermarinoarchitect has another project on his plate: The Lobster Club. Located in the Seagram Building, it’s the famed architect’s first restaurant project in New York, serving up modern Japanese brasserie-style cuisine. Bronze hues, bespoke material detailing, blush and chartreuse tones and a heavy emphasis on Picasso can be seen throughout. Mark your calendars for Nov. 1 for the much-anticipated opening. (📷: @clint_spaulding) #wwdeye


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PSN Store Update Delayed…
Today’s European PlayStation Store update seems to have been delayed today, according to PS3Fanboy.
“Unfortunately, a minor technical problem has caused a delay to today’s PLAYSTATION Store for PS3 release of new content. We will get the content uploaded for you as soon as is possible.”
The ETA for the store update is tomorrow, so stay tuned to Console Monster!


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WyoTech celebrates new facility
A number of representatives of the powersports industry in Southern California stopped by WyoTech Fremont on Aug. 19 for an open house celebrating the educational institution’s new state-of-the-art motorcycle technology training facility.
WyoTech’s motorcycle technology programs provide students with the technical skills to diagnose, service and repair a wide variety of motorcycles, including Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha, BMW, Ducati and Triumph.
The new 30,000 square foot motorcycle training facility houses nine classrooms, two labs, 48 lifts, two dynomometers and 14,000 square feet of motorcycle shop space.
A part of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., WyoTech has seven schools and more than 6,000 students nationwide. The campuses provide training in transportation technology and maintenance, including automotive, diesel, collision/refinishing, aviation, motorcycle and marine technologies. Campus locations include Blairsville, Penn., Boston, Mass., Daytona Beach, Fla., Laramie, Wyo., Fremont, Oakland, Calif., and Sacramento, Calif.
“We believe strong demand exists for motorcycle technicians and are excited about adding these new programs to our existing technical and trade offerings,” said WyoTech Fremont President Mark Millen.
All of the motorcycle technology programs offered by WyoTech are accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology.
Griffith Park Sidecar Rally scheduled for Oct. 22
Learn all about sidecars and see some of the most unusual hacks in the world at the 35th annual Griffith Park Sidecar Rally, scheduled for Oct. 22 at Crystal Springs Picnic Area in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park.
Presented by Side Strider, Inc. and the Sidecar Industry Council, the event is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free to spectators. For more information, visit www.sidestrider.com/event.htm or call Doug Bingham at 818/780-5542.
Team Sheriff Rides Honda
American Honda donated two Honda CBR600RR motorcycles to L. A. County based Team Sheriff Racing, Inc., a unique law enforcement outreach program designed to provide youth and adult motorcycle riders with alternatives to unlicensed motorcycle operation and illegal street racing.
Staffed by off-duty L.A. County Sheriffs, the program’s on- and off-track events create about 6 million impressions annually.
“Because we are a privately funded, non-profit organization, we depend on the support of our sponsors to ensure the success and longevity of this program,” said Deputy Michael Churney, Team Sheriff rider/director for the program. “American Honda’s donation of these bikes strengthens our ability to reach out to at-risk riders, and ensures our continued success.”
Other powersports firms sponsoring Team Sheriff include AiM Sports, 2Wheel Tuning, Arrow Special Parts, Chatterbox USA, Clear Alternatives Lighting, Constructors Racing Group, Dynojet Research, Galfer Braking Systems, Helimot Incorporated, IZYK Design Works, Kendon Trailers, Lockhart Phillips, Mechanix Wear, N-Style Graphics, OFD Racing, Pelican Products, Race Tech Suspension, RK Excel Racing Chains, Sharkskinz Racing Bodies, TyrSox Tire Warmers, Utopia Optics and Vortex Racing Components.
To learn more about Team Sheriff, Inc., including how to become a sponsor or start a similar program in your community, visit www.teamsheriffracing.com
Cycle Barn Sets Speed Record with ZX-14
The Lynwood Cycle Barn in Lynwood, Wash., has a new way to increase store traffic — a world record-setting motorcycle.
The Cycle Barn MotorSports Group, in cooperation with Faulkner-Livingston, recently set a world record for the fastest production motorcycle when rider Paul Livingston took a 2006 Kawasaki ZX-14 to 189 mph at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.
The ZX-14 ran in the 1650PP class, which requires a stock frame, engine and appearance. Livingston set the record at El Mirage in California at 186 mph, and then outdid himself at Bonneville by attaining 189mph.
With the record set, a new rider has been given the opportunity to improve on the speed. Seattle rider Mark Briant already took the bike to 190 mph and has qualified for a second run in an attempt to better the speed reached by Livingston.
A sister bike to the record 2006 Kawasaki 2006 ZX-14 is on display at Lynnwood Cycle Barn.
“We want to prove that our ZX-14 is the fastest production motorcycle made,” said Jim Boltz, owner of the Cycle Barn MotorSports Group. “We look forward to taking the bike over 200 mph.”
Florida Cycle Theft Gang Nabbed
Motorcycle retailers and riders in South Florida can feel a bit more secure when parking their bikes in public following recent arrests in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
A year-long investigation into a motorcycle theft ring ended August 12 with raids at six locations, the seizure of dozens of stolen bikes and vehicles, and the arrests of six people facing charges ranging from racketeering and conspiracy to dealing in stolen property.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office says Fredrick “Tony” Woods, a former mechanic, was the key middleman in a group of thieves responsible for hundreds of brand new and late model motorcycles being snatched from South Florida streets. Many of the bikes were then smuggled onto container ships and sent to buyers in the Caribbean.
According to detectives, the ring would target only new or almost new motorcycles with retail values up to $23,000 each. They would grab them from private homes, businesses, or even look for opportunity to steal bikes from riders who happen to pass them on the road. psb
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Telltale Games is working on the follow-up to one of the greatest zombie games I’ve ever played, but season two won’t be here until fall, at the earliest, and that’s still a ways off. Thankfully, they’re giving us a bonus episode that will bridge the gap between the first and second seasons of their amazing episodic tale, and it’s coming sooner than you might expect.
The Walking Dead: 400 Days will begin rolling out on the many platforms it’s coming to starting tomorrow. Head past the break for every release date, divided by platform.
Tuesday, July 2nd – PlayStation Network (North America)
Wednesday, July 3rd – PC/Mac (Steam, Telltale Games Store)
Friday, July 5th – Xbox Live (Worldwide)
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Thursday, July 11th – iOS (Worldwide)
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Head knock as scuba sales slip
SPORTS goods manufacturer Head has slashed profit forecasts after holiday cancellations by American scuba fans hit sales of its diving equipment.
Since the 11 September disaster, thousands of North American divers have scuttled plans to visit their favoured haunts in the Caribbean and Mexico, leading to a dramatic sales shortfall of Head's Dacor and Mares dive suits and equipment. On a smaller scale, Europeans have shied away from trips to the Red Sea and popular spots in Asia.
Diving equipment sales, which make up about 18% of Head's business-would fall 5% to 10%, it warned. Bob Kosian, head of corporate development, said: 'Hopefully this is just a temporary phenomenon and people will soon go back to taking holidays'.
Overall, Head warned that operating profits would be about $10m (£7m) lower than the expected $33m for the year after the group also accounted for the one-off costs of setting up an ambitious UK distribution operation.
At a price thought to be about $5m, Head has unravelled a distribution contract with Sportline to take its British operations in-house.
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is raising its stake in Dada Nexus Limited, investing $800 million in the on-demand delivery company’s newly issued ordinary shares to take majority ownership of the company. JD.com now owns 51 percent of all Dada Group shares.
With the investment, JD.com aims to help both companies further diversify their retail services and enable its partners to optimize cost, efficiency and experience and accelerate their intelligent digital transformation.
“We have long maintained close cooperation with Dada Group to jointly provide integrated online and offline solutions for the retail industry, and to enhance the intelligent digitalization capabilities of our partners,” said Lei Xu, CEO of JD Retail. “Our increased investment will facilitate both sides to promote the expansion of on-demand retail and delivery, as well as omnichannel collaboration.”
Dada operates two separate local on-demand platforms: JDDJ (JD Daojia), an online marketplace for retailers and brand owners, and Dada Now, a delivery platform open to merchants and individual senders across various industries and product categories.
JDDJ generated gross merchandise value of RMB 25.3 billion ($3.9 billion) across its platform in 2020, an increase of 107 percent year-over-year from RMB 12.2 billion ($1.9 billion) in 2019, while Dada Now saw 1.1 billion deliveries for the year, a 46 percent jump from the 753.8 million carried out in 2019.
In a recent quarterly earnings call, Philip Kuai, chairman and CEO of Dada Nexus Limited, cited Iresearch data that JDDJ was China’s largest local on-demand retail platform in 2020, with market share increasing to 25 percent from 21 percent in 2019. Additionally, Dada Now remains the largest open on-demand delivery platform in China, with market share increasing to 25 percent in 2020 from 19 percent the year prior.
“We are excited to further deepen strategic cooperation with JD.com,” said Kuai. “Leveraging JD’s devoted strategic support, we will better fulfill demands for local on-demand retail and its delivery on JD, covering various scenarios and categories, and expand our omnichannel cooperation. Together, we will continue to provide consumers with superior experience, empower retail and brand partners and achieve a win-win for all.”
JD.com first acquired 47.4 percent of Dada Nexus Limited in April 2016 in a transaction that merged the online giant’s JD Daojia “online-to-offline” (O2O) supermarket platform with Dada’s crowdsourced last-mile delivery platform. In 2018, JD.com and Walmart joined forces to raise another $500 million for the platform.
In Dada’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Kuan touted JDDJ’s fulfillment updates, which have integrated warehousing, picking and delivery in a “systematic, digitized and standardized fashion,” to significantly improve operating efficiencies and reduce costs.
In 2020 alone, fulfillment expenses for JD.com, which primarily include procurement, warehousing, delivery, customer service and payment processing expenses, increased by 31.7 percent to RMB 48.7 billion ($7.5 billion) from RMB 37 billion ($5.7 billion) for the full year of 2019.
Last year, the company also invested $100 million in sourcing and logistics management company Li & Fung to further develop its digital supply chain.
JD’s logistics unit is so vast that it filed for an IPO of its own through the Hong Kong stock exchange in February. The company has not specified the amount it hopes to bring in through the offering, but JD is estimated to raise about $5 billion by floating shares of the unit, with the total value of JD Logistics possibly reaching $40 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.
While the company’s deliveries largely concentrate within China’s “Tier 1” and “Tier 2” cities, JD.com sees more of an opportunity to crack the country’s “lower-tier cities” with both Dada-operated platforms seeing growth in those regions. The JDDJ platform entered 200 new cities alone in the fourth quarter. GMV in lower-tier cities increased by 150 percent year over year during this quarter for JDDJ, according to Kuan.
The closing of the transaction is subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions and procedures, including applicable governmental filings, and there can be no assurance that clearance from applicable governmental authorities will be granted. JD.com has agreed not to sell, transfer or dispose of any shares acquired in the transaction for six months after the closing.


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U.S durable goods orders climb 1.2% in February despite the Coronavirus pandemic
- U.S durable goods orders climb 1.2% in February despite the Coronavirus pandemic.
- U.S durable goods orders jumped 0.4% on a year over year basis in February.
- Core capital goods shipments surged 0.7% in February versus 1.1% in January.
The U.S Census Bureau released its monthly report on new orders for the U.S manufactured durable goods in February on Wednesday. The data showed durable goods orders to have unexpectedly increased in the U.S in February. Due to the strict restrictions from the government directed at minimizing the fast spread of COVID-19, however, analysts expect the demand to go down in the upcoming months that will reflect as a decline in the U.S durable goods orders.
The Commerce Department announced a 1.2% growth in the U.S durable goods orders in February. Data for January was also revised on Wednesday that now suggested a 0.1% increase in orders as compared to a 0.2% decline as suggested earlier. Economists had expected a 0.8% drop in U.S durable goods orders in February.
U.S Durable Goods Orders Jumped 0.4% On A Year Over Year Basis
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On a year over year basis, the increase in durable goods orders was recorded at 0.4%. February’s increase was largely attributed to the transportation equipment that climbed 4.6% last month versus a 0.9% drop in January.
Civilian aircraft posted a 0.3% decline in new orders in February while a 1.8% increase in motor vehicles and relevant parts orders was also reported last month.
Excluding aircraft, non-defense capital goods saw a 0.8% decrease in new orders in February. In January, as per the revised data, it was capped at a 1.0% growth. Known commonly as the core capital goods orders, these are closely followed by the Commerce Department for valuable insight into business spending plans.
While primary metals, machinery, computers, and other electronic products posted a decline in new orders in February, electrical equipment, appliances, and related components were seen in demand with a 1.3% increase last month.
Core Capital Goods Shipments Surged 0.7% In February
Core capital goods shipments printed a 0.7% decline in February. It is a reliable measure for equipment spending for the government in the calculation of the GDP. Core capital goods shipments had previously surged 1.1% in January.
Business investment in the U.S has contracted in the past three quarters in a row that marks the longest run since the financial crisis of 2009. Economists blame Trump Administration’s trade war with China to have contributed the most in weighing the business investment.
The forex market responded moderately to the economic data on Wednesday. EUR/USD dropped 1.0830 to 1.0795 following the release of the Commerce Department’s monthly report on the U.S durable goods orders.


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After the company released the first product using the new Turing architecture, the $10,000 behemoth RTX 8000, they've now released the real beef. Gamer-oriented RTX 2000 series includes RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and the top dog RTX 2080 Ti.
Each three cards will also come in a Founder Edition version, as expected.
What makes the new GPUs better than the previous GTX generation, you might ask. Well, pretty much everything you need to know is in the R of RTX, and that is ray tracing.
Turing-based GeForce RTX cards have now a separate ray tracing cored, called simply RT Core, that allows the GPU to excel at that specific technique. This makes the calculations on lighting and shadows much faster. That obviously means not only less computing time but potentially much more photorealistic detail.
When it comes to performance not regarding ray tracing, we'll just have to see after the first tests, but for now we can assume there's at least a slight boost.
GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti pre-orders have already started but they will be in stores starting on September 20. MSRP $699 and $999 respectively, and an extra $100 and $200 respectively for the Founder Editions.
GeForce RTX 2070 will be available in October starting at $499, and $599 for Founders Edition.
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Every year since 1984 Britain has run a deficit on the current account of her Balance of Payments. What this in effect means is that each year British businesses and consumers have purchased consistently more goods and services from abroad than they have been able to sell. But is this a problem?
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What you need to know
- Google's self-driving car project now has an iOS app.
- Waymo started way back in 2009, and Waymo One is celebrating its first birthday.
- Waymo One is a self-driving pickup service, and iOS users in Arizona can now get in on the action.
Google's Waymo One pickup service is now available on iOS, giving some users to chance to take part in Waymo's early rider program.
As reported by 9to5Google, Google's Waymo One service was launched a year ago and has been available on Android since April of this year. It's focused around Google's self-driving car project, Waymo. The app allows users to call for a lift, much like Uber, however when your car turns up, there won't be a driver inside. Instead, Waymo's autonomous Chrysler minivans will pick you up and take you to your destination.
Anyone in the US can download the iOS app, however, the service only currently operates in Arizona. Specifically the Phoenix East Valley area. If you live there, you're eligible to sign up for Waymo's early rider program, which currently has more than 1,500 monthly active riders.
Over 100,000 rides have been taken since the service launched in 2017, and the number of weekly rides has tripled since January of this year. The app's description states:
Get there with Waymo - the World's Most Experienced Driver™
The Waymo app makes it easy to get where you're going in a safe, smart and comfortable self-driving car. What started as Google's self-driving project is now taking the stress out of people's everyday drives and making it safe and easy for everyone to get around. Take your next ride with Waymo — the World's Most Experienced Driver.
If you live in the Metro Phoenix area in Arizona (including parts of Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert) you can get a ride with Waymo One, our self-driving service, and be a part of the future of driving.
Recently, the app has been improved to include a dark mode for riding at night, and the ability to listen to your own music whilst you're in the car. You can even honk the car's horn from the app, not sure if that last one's a good idea though...
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Chongqing- China's most significant annual shopping festival, Double Eleven, which falls on November 11, has become one of the country's dominant economic forces, with e-commerce platforms offering attractive discounts for customers.
As the time for consumers to get their favorite stuff at the best price, the Double Eleven of this year saw 552 million parcels handled in a single day, 1.8 times the usual daily average, according to the State Post Bureau.
Initial statistics from major e-commerce platforms showed robust growth for global brands during the festival season, as Chinese consumers strongly demand imports.
Data from Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com showed that on its first day of presales for this year's shopping festival, the value of orders for products on its global brands' platform surged 178 percent year-on-year.
Another major market player Tmall said that more than 1,600 new overseas brands participated in the Double Eleven festival for the first time, bringing thousands of limited editions of new products.
More industrial clusters in China with conventional foreign trade advantages have achieved global business expansion through exports via cross-border e-commerce, a new business form of foreign trade.
In the eyes of Kevin Feng, founder and chairman of OSell Group, cross-border is to help China's traditional production and trade enterprises use the latest Internet technology and big data, making the traditional trade chain shorter.
Through cross-border e-commerce, overseas consumers can obtain product information from manufacturing countries more conveniently and with lower prices, while exporting countries can access sales channels and consumer information, thus boosting production and industrial upgrading.
As one of China's top cross-border e-commerce companies, OSell formed an overseas localized cross-border service platform with the Belt and Road Initiative and global resources, highlighting three overseas distribution regions: the Middle East, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Africa.
"We have set up many offline warehouses, experience stores, and sales service teams abroad, as well as information and financial links online between Chinese factories and overseas distributors," said Feng. "Through online and offline methods, Chinese goods can be directly served to the global terminal in one step."
"Double Eleven is a huge event in Singapore where everyone is looking forward to this shopping festival," said Yan Jiang Tan, director of operations of ACS Freight Services Pte Ltd representing YPL Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of YPL Chongqing.
One of the major areas that Tan's team focuses on is providing last-mile delivery for e-commerce shipments imported from China. "For overseas warehouses like us, the opportunity is always in handling shipments and delivering the goods," he said.
"The buyers are always looking forward to receiving the delivery of the items they brought from the e-commerce platforms," he added. "We foresee an increased demand for products shipped via e-commerce channels during this Double Eleven shopping festival."
China's Double Eleven shopping festival is not strange to foreign countries. The Indonesian team of OSell would also make some promotions to increase sales during such shopping festivals, including cooperating with third-party payments to offer customers more discounts, said Melisa Cipto Wulandari, sales manager of the Indonesia branch.
Talking about the world's largest shopping festivals, Double Eleven and Black Friday, Feng said there are still some differences in sales channels, methods, and volume.
For example, more than 90% of the Double Eleven sales activities are online, while the promotions of Black Friday are still mainly held by traditional shopping malls. The Double Eleven almost covers the full range of categories, series, ages, and uses, while on Black Friday, only individual sellers take several products to make some coupons and discounts.
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Google Chromecast. The Chromecast device differs in that you plug the dongle into the HDMI port of your TV and "cast" the screen on your phone or tablet to your TV. This means that your phone acts as the remote for the Chromecast, which makes it a little more difficult to use that other dongles. Still, the overall idea of using internet television content and placing it on your television to watch on a large screen is at play.
A Nielsen report showed that during the fourth quarter of 2011, the number of people paying for television had dropped by 15 million people (a rate of 1.5 percent), and the number of cable subscribers dropped by 2.9 million. A 2012 Deloitte report said 9% of television households dropped cable service during 2011 and an additional 11% planned to cancel their service. Sanford Bernstein estimates 400,000 dropped pay video services during the second quarter of 2012, up from 340,000 in 2011. One reason for the drop was college students' returning home for the summer, while the companies made up for the loss in other quarters. However, the number of new homes paying for television service is less than the total number of new homes. Another possible reason is services, such as time shifting and live recording capabilities, that were once exclusive to pay television services, are now being offered to cord cutters. Although the number of subscribers usually increases in the third quarter, in 2012 only 30,000 people added pay television service, according to a study by the International Strategy & Investment Group. Cable lost 340,000 subscribers (with Time Warner Cable accounting for 140,000 of that number) and satellite gained only 50,000; telephone companies added 320 subscribers. Throughout 2012, pay television added only 46,000 new subscribers, out of 974,000 new households overall, according to SNL Kagan. 84.7 percent of households subscribed, compared to 87.3 percent in early 2010.
Aside from those streaming behemoths, an increasing number of cable channels have launched their own independent services. HBO Now is at the high-end of this category, but many stations offer the ability to stream their shows for free, albeit with a few commercial breaks. And then there’s Dish Network’s newly launched Sling TV service, which streams a variety of live cable channels, including ESPN, for $20 per month.
Keeping recordings on a server has its benefits, like making them available on different devices or a backup when your connection (or the service itself) fails, but it can also complicate things. Sling TV adds an extra $5 for DVR access, and on certain services you'll find that recording doesn't work with channels like HBO. Some YouTube TV customers have complained that the system points them to video on-demand copies of shows that include unskippable ads instead of their recordings, so read the fine print and check user reviews first.
Like PlayStation Vue, AT&T's DirecTV Now has several tiers, starting with $35 a month, going to $50 for 80+ channels, $60 for 100+, and $70 for 120+. That does include Viacom stations and all the networks except CBS; the priciest plan offers up multiple Starz-related channels; HBO and Cinemax are here but for $5 per month extra each; Showtime is $8 per month extra.
The question of "when does it make sense?" can easily be rephrased as "how much money can I save?" and one of the biggest factors will be the price difference between combined internet and TV service or just internet. These are also the options that vary the most widely based on where you live, and the availability of promotions or contracts that can keep prices down for a short time.


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VANCOUVER (PRWEB) July 18, 2019
Canadian entrepreneur Dr. Tyler Wish and National Access Cannabis Corp. (“NAC”) (TSXV: META) today announced the official launch of NACBio (“NACBio” or the “Company”), a cannabis intelligence company that is committed to becoming the gold-standard for real world cannabis insights.
The Company’s intelligence platform is utilizing modern data intelligence capabilities and information derived from large cohorts of cannabis users to provide cannabis product companies with data-driven insights for product development; and to offer cannabis retailers, medical providers, and consumers with evidence-based recommendations for selecting the best products.
Tyler Wish, CEO of NACBio commented, “One of the core challenges faced by both cannabis product companies and consumers today is a lack of precision and consistency in the product/customer experience. Variation in human biology, cannabis products, and consumer preferences can lead to a wide range of end-user experiences. We have assembled the NACBio intelligence platform to empower the next generation of cannabis innovation by enabling industry and consumers to gain a much deeper and data-driven understanding of the relationship between cannabis, human biology, and outcomes. In addition to our strategic relationship with NAC, we are in active discussions with other leading cannabis companies to form an industry intelligence consortium, to both contribute to, and benefit from NACBio’s intelligence platform.”
"Today we celebrate the public launch of NAC Bio Inc., a data intelligence company dedicated to supporting the commercialization of next-generation cannabis products to better meet the needs of patients and consumers," said Mark Goliger, CEO of NAC. “With 30 currently licensed locations in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, NAC has successfully assisted tens of thousands of Canadians with secure, safe and responsible access to legal recreational cannabis in Canada.”
“Under Dr. Tyler Wish's guidance, NACBio will utilize cutting-edge technologies and approaches from the domains of data-science, genomics and digital health to better understand how cannabis works and is used by patients and customers in the real world, leveraging NAC’s robust and growing data set as well as information from several cannabis industry partners throughout the value chain. Over time, the NACBio intelligence platform, is expected to both enhance outcomes for patients and consumers while providing NAC and its partners with critical market insights that provide a competitive advantage, empower innovation, and drive future growth.”
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NACBio is a data intelligence firm focused on accelerating the digital research, innovation, and commercialization opportunities within the global cannabis industry. By connecting the dots between users, products, and outcomes at enormous breadth and scale, NACBio is enabling cannabis stakeholders to optimize outcomes by having a much deeper and data-driven understanding for how cannabis works in the real world. For more information, please visit nacbio.com.
About National Access Cannabis Corp.
NAC is Canada's largest recreational cannabis retailer by provincial store count. With a portfolio of 30 retail locations nationwide, NAC is the leader in secure, safe and responsible access to legal recreational cannabis in Canada. Through its Canada-wide network of Meta Cannabis Supply Co.™ and NewLeaf Cannabis™ recreational cannabis retail stores and NAC Medical's cannabis clinics and pharmacy partnerships, NAC enables the public and registered patients to gain knowledgeable access to Canada's network of authorized Licensed Producers of cannabis. NAC is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol (TSXV: META).
About Tyler Wish
Tyler Wish is a Canadian biotechnology entrepreneur focused on data-driven medicine and computational drug discovery who received his PhD in medicine from Memorial University. He is the CEO of NACBio, a privately held cannabis intelligence firm that is engineering a deeper data-driven understanding of the relationship between cannabis and human biology.
Tyler previously co-founded Sequence Bio, a biotechnology company that is leading Newfoundland’s 100,000-person genome sequencing initiative designed to advance big data drug discovery. Over the years, he and the company were profiled at numerous industry, investment and public-policy forums including BIO Investor Forum, The Precision Medicine World Conference, Canada 2020, and Bloomberg TV.
A key player in the broader Canadian innovation ecosystem, Tyler supported recent Canadian Federal Legislation (Genetic Non-Discrimination Act), was a member of BIOTECanada’s Emerging Company CEO Advisory Committee and was appointed as one of ten Canadian Innovation Leaders by the Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. He is currently a board member for the Board of Actua, Canada’s leading youth STEM education outreach organization.


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A consultation has been launched to find out if car park users would like a ‘pay on foot’ system at the Avenue de Chartres multi-storey car park in Chichester.
Chichester District Council is considering introducing the system as part of its Parking Strategy.
It would like to know whether users of the car park would prefer this type of system, as well as what they think about the car park.
“Currently, users of the car park ‘pay and display’, meaning they have to work out how long they will be before even entering the city.
“The ‘pay on foot’ system would allow people to pay for their parking at the end of their visit,” says Kenrick Garraway, assistant director for the economy at Chichester District Council.
“The ‘pay on foot’ system could benefit shoppers as they could stay as long as they like without fear of overstaying their pre-selected parking time. It could encourage more people to stay longer in our city and enjoy the many wonderful shops and attractions that we have on offer.”
If the new system is introduced, barriers would need to be installed at the entrance and exit to the car park, and new pay machines at various locations around the car park.
The survey will run until Sunday December 9. It can be found online at www.chichester.gov.uk/consultations
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The month of September has been a great month for the Skyline Group of Companies. We have had two separate third-party organizations recognize our continued growth – 20 years and still going strong!
Canadian Business’s Growth 500 Ranking:
For over 30 years, the Growth 500 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies has been Canada’s most respected and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now published in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com, the Growth 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. The full list of 2019 winners, and accompanying editorial coverage, is published in the October issue of Report on Business magazine—out now—and online at Growth500.ca.
The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies
The Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranking program aims to celebrate entrepreneurial achievement in Canada by identifying and amplifying the success of growth-minded, independent businesses in Canada. It is a voluntary program; companies had to complete an in-depth application process in order to qualify. In total, 400 companies made the ranking this year.
“As we near the end of our 20th year, I am pleased with the growth we have achieved to date, but I am far more excited about what is still to come for Skyline,” stated Jason Castellan, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Skyline Group of Companies. “Receiving external recognition like this only validates what we already know – Skyline is a company powered by amazing staff. Our group of incredibly dedicated and talented staff has not only helped fuel our growth, but has set us up for even greater things in the future as we continue to innovate our investment products and the services we provide.”
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A £100 million proposed retail park in Newry could create 1,000 jobs, a developer has predicted.
An original plan for a business and retail park on a site once used by HMRC has now been expanded to take in newly purchased adjacent lands.
The new facilities would be located next to Damolly retail park.
The proposals include business and retail units and housing.
Newry-based developers Damolly Developments said the park would generate 700 jobs during construction and would sustain 1,000 jobs in operation.
The original blueprint for a 30-acre site was granted planning permission in 2014. It has now been redrawn and expanded to 35 acres.
The new plans are now set to go out for public consultation.
Eamon Breen, representing Damolly Developments, said: "We are hugely excited by the plans which complement the previous approval and which will regenerate this area and cement Newry's position as the leading business and retail centre on the Belfast-Dublin axis.
"Newry city has a retail catchment in excess of 379,000 and three million within a 75-mile radius.
"It attracts many shoppers from Dublin, Meath, Louth and Monaghan. The expanded development will be in an area of the city that is highly accessible and takes the burden off areas that are congested with commercial and domestic traffic."
He added: "We are confident that the proposals for the Newry City Business and Retail Park are exactly what is needed for the region at a time which sees question marks over the future of the border.
"By consolidating Newry's retail and business strengths and fulfilling the city's development strategy we are helping make the place the number one go-to destination on the island of Ireland and to create as robust a local economy as can be achieved in the face of post-Brexit uncertainties."
A pre-planning application notification has been lodged with Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.


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Kohler recently unveiled an all-new range of large diesel industrial generators at a global launch event in Strasbourg, France. The company’s new KD Series includes generator sets in nodes between 800 kVA and 4200 kVA, which are powered by an entirely new line of G-Drive engines, also introduced at the event. The generators will be available globally under the KOHLER and KOHLER-SDMO brands and are designed to deliver extreme durability and ultimate reliability in a variety of emergency and prime applications. Targeted industries include: data centers, healthcare, water treatment, oil and gas, telecommunications, mining, and more.
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Self-declared "mad scientist" Bertrand Nepveu wanted to take a sip of beer but couldn't see the bottle while wearing his start-up's virtual reality headset.
So the dreadlocked engineer looked for a solution to not being able to see real objects while being plunged into a virtual world. His company Vrvana repurposed the cameras in its "Totem" prototype, which had been designed to sense a user's position, to allow users to also view their surroundings.
The breakthrough led Apple to acquire Vrvana for $30mn in 2017. That acquisition is just one of a dozen purchases in the fields of virtual and augmented reality that the iPhone maker has made over the past six years.
Apple's own headset, the long-awaited culmination of all those deals and a huge investment in research and development, is shaping up to be its most significant new product since the iPhone.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6 could be the $2tn company's last big gathering before the headset is unveiled as early as this autumn, giving it a final opportunity to rally fans and chart a course to a new generation of computing hardware.
Little is known about Apple's new product, but Vrvana's "pass through" video system is expected to be a key feature. The idea is to turn the enclosed world of VR headsets inside-out, enabling the device to allow users to also see the physical world around them overlaid with digital images.
"We re-spun everything to merge AR and VR, for the first time, in a single device," said Nepveu, who declined to discuss his work while at Apple before leaving last year.
Such breakthroughs have led to confidence that Apple may once again launch a device that could transform the tech, media and entertainment industries as it has previously with the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
"I do believe there is a path that you [won't] need your phone and [augmented reality] glasses will evolve to be the next computing platform," said Cristiano Amon, chief executive of Qualcomm, chip supplier to the world's largest device makers, including Apple, Samsung and Facebook's parent Meta.
While few analysts expect AR to go mainstream overnight, researchers at Citi expect that 1bn people — roughly the number of iPhone users today — will be wearing headsets by 2030, supporting a market worth up to $2tn in revenue.
To achieve that lofty target, Apple and its Silicon Valley rivals are racing to solve technical challenges. For many, the way VR cuts off users from the world is awkward and anti-social. Some users have complained they feel vulnerable or silly wearing bulky headsets. Enough gamers injure themselves for "best VR accidents" to proliferate on YouTube.
Those issues have led existing headsets made by groups such as Meta to remain a niche product with few regular users other than gamers.
Timoni West, vice-president of emerging tools at Unity, a video games software company that works closely with Apple and iPhone app developers, calls this "the biggest problem" in VR.
Most people have little interest in wearing something that West compares to a scuba mask. "It can still be kind of scary," they said. "And for a class of people who want to be able to see everyone else in the space with them, then it's kind of a non-starter."
The VR market remains tiny in comparison to PCs and smartphones, but it is currently dominated by Meta. Sales of its Quest 2 headset reached an estimated 10mn units last year, giving Meta 78 per cent of the VR market, according to research house IDC. That gives Meta a significant head start over Apple in understanding what consumers want and luring app developers on to its platform.
Meta now has 17,000 employees working on "metaverse" tech, with a budget of about $3bn per quarter. Mark Zuckerberg has said its higher-end "Cambria" headset — another hybrid VR/AR device with pass-through video similar to those rumoured for Apple's first device — will launch later this year.
That investment makes it unlikely that Apple's first headset will do to the Quest what the iPhone did to the BlackBerry anytime soon.
"We're nowhere near to [Apple chief executive] Tim Cook stepping up on stage and saying, 'this is the device that replaces your smartphone'," says Sam Cole, CEO of FitXR, a VR fitness app.
Multiple innovations are needed in fields as varied as battery power, user interface and physical comfort for VR and AR headsets to move from niche gaming applications to become part of a daily routine for tens of millions of people.
When Apple created the iPhone, its biggest breakthrough was to replace a physical keyboard with a multi-touch screen.
Matt Tullis, a senior executive at Tencent-backed start-up UltraLeap, predicts that using natural hand gestures, rather than games controllers or joysticks, will be essential to taking AR mainstream. "Hand-tracking will be to [AR] what multi-touch was to the iPhone," he said.
Tipatat Chennavasin, a VR investor at the Venture Reality Fund, said he expects Apple's first headset to be an expensive device aimed at professional designers and developers, the same customers who first adopted the Macintosh decades ago. "This is not the iPhone moment, this is the Mac moment," he said.
Apple's advantages over Meta are seen in its expertise in blending services, software and hardware, including the design of its own ultra-efficient chips. It also has an army of millions of iPhone app developers ready to rewrite their software to run on what is rumoured to be called Apple's "RealityOS" platform.
Sahar Fikouhi, founder of ARki, an iPhone AR app for viewing architectural models in 3D, experimented with the Microsoft Hololens but said only Apple's platform could reach a wider audience.
"We are trusting that Apple is going to be the company that produces a headset with mass-market appeal," she said.
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No Liquor Shops On State, National Highways From April 1, Supreme Court Orders
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Come April, liquor shops will not be allowed on highways, the license of existing shops will also not be renewed. The Supreme Court also ordered that liquor shops must be at least 500 meters away from state and national highways. The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur also ordered that liquor banners and ads be removed from these spots.


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Pennsylvania milk cash receipts down 27 percent in 2015
Cash receipts in Pennsylvania from marketings of milk during 2015 totaled $1.99 billion, 27 percent lower than 2014, according to King Whetstone, director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Northeastern Regional Field Office. Producer returns averaged $18.50 per hundredweight, 28 percent below 2014. Marketings totaled 10.7 billion pounds, 1 percent above 2014. Marketings include whole milk sold to plants and dealers and milk sold directly to consumers.
An estimated 69 million pounds of milk were used on farms where produced, 5 percent more than 2014. Calves were fed 83 percent of this milk, with the remainder consumed in producer households.
Pennsylvania milk production increased 1 percent in 2015 to 10.8 billion pounds. The rate per cow, at 20,387 pounds, was 266 pounds above 2014. The annual average number of milk cows on farms was 530 thousand head, unchanged from 2014.
The complete Milk Production PDI publication and all other NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov.


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Looking for a sleek-looking NAS for your home? Take a look at this slab of metal.
The Network Attached Storage market is heating up as more consumers hop aboard and start storing data locally on the home network. TerraMaster has an affordable, yet powerful option available called the F4-220, which sports four drive bays, an Intel processor, and a metal chassis. All sounds good so far, but does the software part meet expectation after unboxing, and is setting up a painless experience?
Every week, numerous games launch on Xbox One, but which ones truly stand out? Here are some of the biggest and most anticipated titles launching across Microsoft’s platforms next week.
Next week we have one new “AAA” release on Xbox One, but there are still a few surprises here and there. Notably, No Man’s Sky is finally launching on the console, and The Banner Saga 3 is a great improvement over the previous games. With that in mind, here are all the biggest games launching next week, between July 23 and July 27, 2018.
An online petition asks fans to sign in an attept to save Microsoft’s mythical Andromeda project. Do you think it’ll make much of a difference?
A couple of weeks ago, news of Microsoft’s mythical Andromeda project being possibly canceled swept the online world, which had many fans in a bit of a panic, so much so a petition showed up online asking fans to sign and convince Microsoft that people do in fact want a foldable mobile device running Windows 10.
Microsoft could save ‘Surface Andromeda’ with an Insider Program for hardware
But the question we have for you today is, have you signed it? Do you think signing an online petition makes much of a difference when it comes to Microsoft products? The petition itself has already gained over 16,000 signatures, which is pretty impressive for a device that hasn’t even been officially announced yet.
Yeah, it was all about Amazon Prime Day. And other stuff.
Amazon Prime Day has come and gone. (Though some deals definitely are lingering.) Did you buy anything? Did you stick your head in the sand and pretend that uncontrolled amounts of consumerism aren’t actually a thing?
Doesn’t matter, really — because billions and billions of people (OK, probably more like millions) did take advantage of Prime day.
And it should be no surprise that the Amazon Fire TV Stick led the way, followed by Fire TV 4K pendant. Personally I’d stay away from the underpowered sticks, but it’s hard to argue with a $39 streaming device.
The 50-inch Toshiba Fire TV Edition came in fifth — again, not a huge surprise given the price.
No Fire TV Cube in the Top 10? That’s not overly surprising, either, given how new it is. (And that it’s the most expensive, even on Prime Day.) If you’re still deciding whether to pick one up, check out our video review:
Ah, Nintendo, breaker of hearts and crusher of dreams. How can one company be so good at releasing such limited quantities of the coolest items ever?!
The Nintendo NES Classic Mini has been hard to nab from the get-go. When it was first released, people waited in line for hours in the hopes of snatching one up — myself included. This little gadget hit the reseller market fast after stock was depleted, selling for up to $1,000. Seriously. It was once thought to be gone forever, and it left thousands of fans upset, knowing that they may never have the chance to revisit their childhood favorites on an actual Nintendo machine. (Yes, you can emulate retro games. No, it isn’t the same. Don’t @ me.)
Kona, the open-world mystery thriller released in 2017, has been ported over to VR.
If you haven’t yet had a chance to play through Kona on a standard monitor (colloquially known as the pancake version), it’s the story of Carl Faubert, a Korean War veteran who’s been hired to investigate some shady goings-on in the barren, cold land of Northern Canada. Since its release into Early Access in 2016 and full release in 2017, Kona has racked up an overall “Very Positive” score on Steam, with most people agreeing that it’s well worth the money if only a bit short on content. We even covered an early version of the standard Kona, stating that “Kona mixes exploration, puzzle solving, and story to create a compelling narrative.”
Kona has now been reworked to include VR support, officially working on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and not seeming to work at all on Windows Mixed Reality (WMR). This DLC doesn’t come free, costing about $5 for those who own the standard game already and about $16 for a complete bundle. Let’s take a look at whether or not Kona VR is worth the extra money based on how well it performs in VR.
If you’re an Xbox fan looking to upgrade your old 2013 Xbox One, or even an old-school Xbox 360, there are two main console options for you to consider.
The Xbox One S launched in 2016, with all-new 4K capabilities, including UHD Blu-ray and support for 4K media streaming, including Netflix. At the same event, the Xbox One X was announced, built to power 4K media, Blu-ray, and games, wrapped in the smallest Xbox console ever made.
At face value, the primary differences are price and power. The Xbox One S can be purchased for around $249, whereas the Xbox One X clocks in at $499. The Xbox One S is only slightly more powerful than the Xbox One of 2013, outputting games at around 1080p. The Xbox One X is far, far more powerful, outputting games at full 4K with enhanced textures, visuals, and other effects.
Still, there are many other nuances to consider when examining the differences between the two, and we’ll go through and work out which might be best for you.
Ever since No Man’s Sky was announced for Xbox One, gamers have been clamoring for footage from the console. According to various sources, there’s a strict embargo of July 24, 2018 — when the game launches — and it’s impossible to find footage. Luckily, that changed a few hours ago because a YouTuber by the name of “Architect” posted a video recorded from the console. No Man’s Sky looks like a smooth experience on the system and should be even better on Microsoft’s upgraded console.
Recently, a Resident Evil 2 remake was announced at the PlayStation E3 2018 event. Unfortunately, it was unclear if the game was a PlayStation 4 exclusive or coming to other platforms. Luckily, we reached out to Capcom and the team provided us with confirmation that Resident Evil 2 was indeed coming to Xbox One on January 25, 2019 with Xbox One X enhancements in tow.


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• Samsung has announced that global channel sales of the company’s flagship smartphone, GALAXY S III and its two predecessors GALAXY S and GALAXY S II have surpassed 100 million units sales as of January 13, 2013.
• Samsung GALAXY smartphones are intuitive and easy to use, display photos and videos on dazzling screens, and deliver a premium user experience with a design that is elegant and feels natural.
• The GALAXY S, has reached over 24 million global channel shipments, achieving 10 million of these during the first seven months after its launch in June 2010.
• Building on this success Samsung launched the GALAXY S II in April 2011. This smartphone reached around 40 million shipments, achieving 10 million global channel sales in just five months.
• In May 2012, Samsung unveiled the GALAXY S III - a smartphone designed for humans and inspired by nature. It revolutionized the user experience, and was critically acclaimed, achieving 20 million global channel sales in just 100 days – which made it Samsung’s fastest selling smartphone yet.
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Celine Dion at Caesar’s, David Copperfield at the MGM Grand, Google at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company wallpapered the Vegas monorail and plastered the words “Hey Google” on every rentable screen in town. Take that, Donny and Marie.
Let's talk about the word "classic." Classic can mean "timeless," as in an ageless beauty that never fades or a joke with a punchline that always hits. It can also mean "old," like the candy red '57 Chevy you'll probably never see on a modern highway. Which one describes the BlackBerry Classic?
Google today announced a multi-pronged News Initiative, which Chief Business Officer Phillipp Schindler described as a way to bring together all of the company’s efforts to work with the journalism industry.
With little fuss or fanfare, Cleo, the London-based startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot as a replacement for your banking apps, has begun quietly offering its service to U.S. customers. Just 21 days in, I understand the U.K. fintech is already signing up 1,000 users across the pond per day.
The fallout from the story concerning Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, the misuse of personal data and how much Facebook knew about all this, has quickly made its way into the halls of government.
One of the better 360-degree cameras out there just got a lot better: The Insta360 One, a standalone 4K 360 camera with a built-in iPhone or Android hardware connector now supports FlowState onboard stabilization.
According to this report, Ford is pursuing a deal to purchase the abandoned Michigan Central Station. Located just outside downtown Detroit, the massive transit station has set empty for about 30 years and recently became a symbol representing a decaying Detroit.
The average American woman is plus-sized, but only 18 percent of clothing sold in 2016 was size 14 or higher. This disconnect in the world of fashion looked like an opportunity to a team of four former Gilt execs, who are today launching a new e-commerce site, CoEdition.
Rachio, the company that builds WiFi controllers for your garden sprinklers (think Nest Thermostat, but for watering your plants instead of heating your house), is back with a new one. They’ve also raised $10M in a Series B round. So what’s new in this Gen 3 version? A new hardware design,
Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs outside of China that their iCloud data was being moved to a Chinese company’s servers was done so accidentally.
Google is temporarily halting advertisements worldwide for addiction and rehabilitation centers, following a report last week showing it was acting as a platform for shady referral services earning huge undisclosed commissions. Read More
David Letterman seems to be taking the title of his new Netflix show very seriously: On the very first episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, he’s joined by former U.S. President Barack Obama. The episode has plenty of funny moments,
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Thin is in, if these alleged iPhone 6 dummies are to be believed.
French tech news site Nowhere Else posted images sourced from a Chinese forum that depict what it describes as plastic models of an upcoming iPhone 6, which might have been constructed for third-party accessory developers. The dummies are much thinner than current models, and look like they could house the 4.7-inch screen long-rumored to appear in future iPhones, though specific dimensions weren't released.
While the provenance of the images is suspect, they do closely resemble some renders — also unconfirmed — that were leaked last week. As 9-to-5Mac points out, the Ukrainian website that originally posted the renders has at least some credibility, and Business Insider notes that the Chinese forum has also served as a source for accurate leaks in the past.
Apple Insider, however, calls the dummies "highly suspect," pointing to the protruding rear camera and absence of the dual True Tone flash found on current iPhone models.


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General Motors executives demonstrated the power of industrial determination this past week, pledging to join ventilator manufacturer Ventec Life Systems to increase production of the medical equipment in short supply during the COVID-19 crisis.
Within a five day period, GM is said to have found suppliers for 95% of the necessary components, and is working to outsource the remaining parts needed to produce 200,000 ventilators at its plant in Kokomo, Indiana. The facility had previously produced mechanical parts for GM.
“With GM’s help, Ventec will increase ventilator production,” said Chris Kiple, Ventec Life Systems CEO. “By tapping their expertise, GM is enabling us to get more ventilators to more hospitals much faster. This partnership will help save lives.”
Seattle-based Ventec has only been in business since 2017, but has proven to be highly successful in producing lightweight and portable ventilators.
According to GM CEO and Chairman Mary Barra, GM is working closely with Ventec “to rapidly scale up production of their critically important respiratory products to support our country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to explore ways to help in this time of crisis.”
Despite a tweet from President Trump that he had denied GM’s offer to produce ventilators because they “wanted top dollar,” Barra said production will begin with retooling at GM’s Kokomo plant at its own expense. Ironically, only minutes later, Trump again took to Twitter, this time to scream: “General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!!,” he tweeted. Making Trump’s statement even more perplexing is the fact that General Motors no longer owns the Lordstown plant, having sold the facility to a manufacturer of electric vehicles last year.
At 4 pm on Friday, Trump used the Defense Production Act to “force” GM to make ventilators that it was already in the process of producing.


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Last month at the SAE World Congress in Detroit, Charged came across a very interesting booth in the career development section. Atieva, a company we’ve heard little about, is hiring a lot of engineers for a new EV project.
“Atieva is designing and creating a breakthrough electric car in the heart of Silicon Valley,” says the company’s promo material. “We’re redefining what a car can be, by building an iconic new vehicle from the ground up.”
OK, you’ve got our attention. More details, please!
Atieva was founded in 2007 by Bernard Tse – a Tesla VP and board member from 2003 to 2007 – and Sam Weng, a former Oracle executive. Unlike other automotive companies that start with vehicle design prototypes, the co-founders started Atieva to focus on advancing core EV technology. According to Google Patent Search, Atieva now holds over 100 patents for battery, motor and control system technologies.
Representatives remain tight-lipped about the details, but at some point Atieva decided to shift focus and design a consumer EV from scratch. For the past 7 months, the company has been hiring engineers to build its design team from about 100 to 300 key personnel. It recently moved to a larger facility in Menlo Park, CA and is actively looking for more real estate to develop vehicles.
Atieva’s website says the engineers who join the team will “work with some of the best, most accomplished minds in the industry,” and that’s no exaggeration. In addition to Tse, the company’s team currently includes many top ex-Tesla engineers who were critical to the initial design of the Model S. Combing through Atieva’s staff on LinkedIn, we found 12 employees who used to work for Tesla, or about 10% of its current design team.
One reason we’ve heard so little about Atieva is that it doesn’t seem to need any cash at the moment. Press releases, prototypes and demonstrations are tools that many startups use to build a buzz and lure investors. But thanks in part to Tesla’s sky-high valuation and the very experienced team Atieva has already assembled, it has had no problem raising capital to enter the EV market. Atieva representatives told Charged that the company secured a 9-figure sum in private equity funding last year, bringing its total to “significantly more” than the $131 million listed currently on CrunchBase.
Even with money in the bank, the company needs to come out of stealth mode to attract the best talent. That’s why Charged found Atieva in Detroit at one of its first public events. “The fact that we’re here is a pretty big deal, because we’ve been underground for so long,” Atieva’s Roger Evans told us. Evans is one of those former Tesla employees (a noise, vibration, and harshness engineer) now at Atieva. If you want to join him and get in on the ground floor of what could be the next Tesla-style automotive startup, head over to Atieva’s site to apply. The company currently lists about 35 engineering positions, and 2 openings for more recruiters to help it ramp up quicker.
Atieva tells us we’ll hear more details about its plan to “challenge the idea of what a car can be” in a couple months.