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The firmware update, R8xxXXU1GVI3, released earlier this week, rendered the Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic useless, not allowing them to turn on again once turned off after running out of battery.
Taking quick action, Samsung released a new update to the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic, with a firmware number ending in GVK4. The release notes of the latest update say that the system’s stability and reliability have been improved. However, it does not seem so, as some users complain about their watches being bricked even after the new update.
The latest update also bumps up the security patch level to November 2022, and a “power operation-related stabilization code” has been applied.
9to5Google notes that a handful of threads on Reddit posted about the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classing becoming useless after the latest update, asking what they should do now. So far, there has been no comment issue from Samsung on the matter, but a few users having out-of-warranty watches are saying that the company is asking them to get a new watch.
Meanwhile, for some, the update brings a sigh of relief, as the update fixed the issue of their watch not turning on again. The users believe that the issue does not lie in the software update but in the hardware. The models built last year around August are the ones being more affected than the ones being manufactured recently. We are yet to hear from Samsung on what it plans to do after this recent havoc.


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Things are going from really bad to even worse for Jia Yueting, the bankrupt former billionaire whose interests include shares in Chinese conglomerate Leshi Holdings and U.S.-based electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future.
A lavish 14-floor office building in Beijing owned by Jia for the purpose of incubating his former LeEco tech empire is now being auctioned for 678 million yuan ($96 million), 30% less than its official valuation, according to an online auction platform affiliated to the Beijing court system.
The auction will take place on Nov. 18 and 19. If a buyer is found, the proceeds will go toward paying off Jia’s enormous debts, $3.6 billion of which is still outstanding, according to a statement published earlier this month on the Faraday Future website.
Earlier this month, Jia filed for bankruptcy in the United States after years of being pursued by his creditors. In 2016, Jia took out vast debts to fund LeEco’s aggressive expansion, eventually being blacklisted as a debt defaulter by the Chinese government for failing to repay around 480 million yuan in debt. In total, Jia has been branded a debt defaulter 10 times, leading some Chinese web users to dub him “Mr. Bankruptcy.”

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Tesco Terry and his US backers win their £7billion war for Morrisons by just a penny a share - in high-stakes poker game that could have come from an episode of TV's Billions
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice beat off rival Fortress to buy out the supermarket giant
- The stock market's Takeover Panel announced CD&R offered 287p per share
- Experts suggest it could see a huge shakeup of the UK's supermarket landscape
Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy and his US private equity backers are to be handed control of Morrisons after winning a dramatic £7billion poker game yesterday.
A successful bid for the store – which began in 1899 as an egg and butter stall in a Bradford market – follows a four-month battle for the chain between some of the world's most powerful business moguls.
It ended in a secretive auction with Sir Terry and his private equity paymasters Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) trumping a rival group of investment giants and billionaires by just one penny a share.
At times, it seemed the build-up to the high-stakes deal could have been penned by writers of US TV show Billions, which portrays the often brutal world of high finance.
At 8am yesterday, Sir Terry and his partners set up their base at the City of London offices of the investment bank Goldman Sachs for the final round of the fight for Morrisons.
In expectation of a drawn-out endgame, caterers had supplied food and drinks for the 'war room' on the top floor.
Private equity giant Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has won the battle to buy supermarket giant Morrisons, bringing an end to a dramatic four-month takeover saga
But in the event the highly anticipated auction was over in time for the winning bankers to head off for lunchtime drinks.
Sir Terry made the winning bid of £2.87 a share flanked by Goldman Sachs executives, advisers from the law firm Clifford Chance and CD&R partners.
They were in regular contact with CD&R chairman Don Gogel, regarded as one of the most powerful men in finance.
A seven-minute taxi ride away at the offices of top law firm Slaughter and May, Josh Pack, managing director of rival private equity firm Fortress, had teamed up with investors including US property magnate Charles Koch. Their efforts, which cost the companies tens of millions of pounds, proved futile.
The secret bids reached only the second round yesterday morning before Fortress threw in the towel.
Officials at the Takeover Panel, the regulatory body that oversaw the auction, released news of the final bids at 12.12pm. It marks the end of Morrisons' 54-year stint on the London Stock Exchange.
The sale price – 61 per cent higher than four months ago, before the bidders emerged – highlights the lengths to which private equity firms will go to get their hands on British businesses.
CD&R's £7billion takeover, which will rise to nearly £10billion once debt is taken into account, has been given the green light by the Morrisons board.
A successful bid for the store follows a four-month battle for the chain between some of the world's most powerful business moguls (stock image)
Its chairman, Andy Higginson, recommended Sir Terry's offer last night, paving the way for a shareholder vote later this month.
Mr Higginson said: 'CD&R have good retail experience, a strong record of developing the businesses in which they invest, and they share our vision for Morrisons.'
Sir Terry said: 'We are gratified by the recommendation of the Morrisons board and look forward to the shareholder vote to approve the transaction. Morrisons is an excellent business with a strong management team, a clear strategy and good prospects.'
Highlighting the appeal of British firms to foreign buyers, Mr Pack said: 'The UK remains a very attractive investment environment.'
The Morrison family still has a 5 per cent stake in the company.
It is impossible to know what Sir Ken Morrison, who died in 2017, would think of a private equity owner of the British supermarket, particularly given the reputation of such firms for using high levels of debt to buy companies and then pursue profits aggressively.
But CD&R has made a series of assurances, including keeping the Morrisons head office in Bradford.
Sir Ken inherited the firm in 1952 from his father, who originally set up a stall in Rawson Market, Bradford.
He floated it on the stock market in 1967 and built it to become Britain's fourth largest chain.
The price tag is just 2p a share more than the formal offer Sir Terry's team made in August to the board, but is higher than Morrisons shares have been for a decade.


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BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder. And local skin care and cosmetic products company, Crynx Group, is raising the bar on what Malaysian consumers can expect when it comes to personalising individual beauty.
While established brands tend to cater to the higher-end of the spectrum, Crynx’s business model is built on bringing beauty products to the masses.
“One of the problems that we noticed in the beauty industry was that there are not many safe, quality and affordable treatments that are easily accessible. What we are trying to do is bring something that has proven quality and is safe to use to the mass market,” says Rueben Lee, chief executive officer of Crynx.
And with the expansion of the consumer sector in Asia, Lee believes the group will be able to ride on this wave to grow its presence locally as well as find opportunities overseas. Lee notes that the company’s founding team has the right expertise to bring Crynx forward.
Lee and his co-founder, Lynnie Voon, both have a background in marketing and branding. Meanwhile, his two other co-founders are responsible for the formulation of its products and for the setting of its production standards.
“We believe our products need to be respectful of the fact that dedication to personal care is increasingly coupled with knowledge and a strong sense of understanding of individualised needs,” says Lee.
Lee and his team are looking to build up Crynx’s brand name and invest additional capital for its R&D and product development.
Although Crynx is a home-grown brand with a relatively small customer base at the moment, Lee says the group has developed a product range that can cater to a wider audience. This will help the company in its bid to explore exports to Asean and North Asian markets.
Admittedly, the company has yet to fully penetrate the local market. However, with a population of some 30 million, the Malaysian market alone will not be sufficient to cater to its ambition. Crynx’s goal, says Lee, is to be a global brand and he expects the next phase of its growth to come from regional market expansion.
Crynx is also looking to expand its manufacturing base and its presence in e-commerce to increase its customer base and brand exposure.
Grasping the market
The company has its head office in Melaka, about 150km south of Kuala Lumpur. With an eye on the mid-market segment, Crynx has been focusing its R&D efforts on skin care products that cater to Asian skin, demographic and weather.
From its humble beginning with a single product, Crynx has been charting its growth path through innovation and customisation. Today, it has six series covering different product ranges.
“We have gone through trial and errors, and found that what works is having a focus on products that promote self-indulgence and affordability through creative brand storytelling, eye-catching packaging, diverse product ranges and attractive price points,” says Lee.
Crynx’s main product lines include fruit-based sunscreens, ascend sprays, face cleansers, hydro serums, antioxidant and anti-aging skin tightening creams. Its products are priced around RM129 to RM398.
It currently produces around 400,000 bottles of products per month, including about 150,000 of its most popular product – the face revitalizing spray.
In 2017, the company made a revenue of more than RM5mil and Lee expects growth rate of around 25% to 30% in the years to come, on the back of its new rebranding exercise and push for new overseas markets.
However, Lee expects its domestic volume to remain relatively stagnant this year due to the slowdown in consumer spending.
One of the toughest hurdles for the group, he says, is to get past the approval process of Malaysia’s Ministry of Health. Its certifications are needed for every product before they can be launched.
The approval process for cosmetic and beauty-related products, which can take up to several months, is thought to be even more stringent than Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority or the US’ Food & Drugs Administration.
One of the reasons for the lengthy procedure is due to the halal certification, whereby the ingredients and manufacturing process involved are scrutinised.
“However, this stringent procedures will help inspire confidence in our products,” he says.
The growing e-commerce trend in the retail industry is clear by now. Any budding retailer dealing in consumer products will need to map out a clear online strategy not just to maximise sales potential but also to stay relevant.
Operating under a hybrid system that combines multilevel marketing with e-commerce, Lee says Crynx is able to leverage on its human resources network that can provide customers with that needed human touch as well as rely on the Internet for its mass market reach.
Part of the company’s business philosophy is to open up opportunities for those who are, otherwise, shut out from the mainstream business world by tapping into the massive consumer interest that can be generated from the Internet. This includes students, small business owners and stay-at-home mothers.
“Knowing that we play a part in creating a road map for them to have a sustainable income, and a chance to be involved and keep abreast with the latest developments in business and trends is one of our main motivating factors,” says Lee.
Crynx works by recruiting agents, which then market the products through their own platforms and network. It has around 200 to 300 agents throughout the country and a few in neighbouring Singapore.
For entrepreneurs looking to start a small business, this online retail network is an alternative to more expensive store fronts.
Lee, who has had close to 10 years of marketing and branding experience, says Crynx’s main market segment is made up of women aged 20 to 35. Women in this category, he notes, are willing to spend enormous amounts of money on a bevy of beauty products and treatments and are always on the lookout for products that can stand the test of wear and time.
As this consumer group is also among the most active on social media, online marketing channels provide the best platform to reach out to its target market, says Lee.
The company has been approached by potential investors, but Lee says it will only consider investors with the necessary network or expertise in beauty, skin care or cosmetic-related business. There needs to be adequate synergies for both parties to work together to help expand its market base and raise Crynx’s brand recognition, Lee adds.
In the longer term, Crynx is looking at setting up manufacturing facilities here in Malaysia.
“It will be great if we can develop an internationally recognised beauty product brand name from here,” he says.
Beauty may be skin deep, but Crynx seems to have found the formula to penetrate deep into the hearts of a new generation of image conscious consumers.


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Shares of shoe retailer Foot Locker (NYSE: FL) took a bath following its second quarter 2019 results. The company looked to have cracked the code for brick-and-mortar store success, but it reported negative foot traffic at its stores in all geographies -- here in the states and abroad.
Yet it wasn't all bad. Management said business picked up as spring gave way to summer, and foreign currency exchange rates were the primary reason revenue went backward instead of forward. With the top team at the shoe chain reiterating its positive guidance for the year, this looks like a pretty cheap dividend stock.
A tale of two quarters
Sporting goods and apparel stores have been under assault. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, both categories have struggled the past few years under the weight of online-only retailers -- not to mention online direct-to-consumer efforts from the likes of Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour. Through the end of July, sporting goods and apparel store sales are down 5.2% and 0.5%, respectively, even as overall consumer spending continues to rise over 3% year over year.
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But Foot Locker has been a standout. After reporting a 2.7% increase in comparable-store sales (a combination of foot traffic and average customer ticket), first-quarter 2019 comps grew 4.6%. Management issued forecasts that included mid-single-digit comps growth for the full-year period. That's great news, given the so-called "retail apocalypse" going on out there.
It was therefore a surprise that second-quarter comps came in at a mere 0.8% increase, with declining foot traffic offset by higher merchandise pricing. As with the first-quarter results, poor foreign currency exchange rates -- converting overseas sales back into dollars -- also took a hefty bite out of revenue and caused a 0.4% decline versus a year ago. Excluding exchange rates, revenue would have grown 0.8% because of the slight increase in comps.
Thus, what was shaping up to be a rock-solid year is now in doubt. Paired with the U.S.-China trade war escalation, which could raise prices on shoes and apparel manufactured across the Pacific and dampen consumer spending here, the first half of 2019 isn't looking quite so rosy anymore.
Six Months Ended Aug. 3, 2019
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Data source: Foot Locker. YOY = year over year.
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Here's the upshot, though. Even with things seemingly coming off the rails in the second quarter and a subsequent increase in risk from U.S. tariffs on goods of Chinese origin, Foot Locker maintained its outlook for positive mid-single-digit comparable sales this year, as well as a high-single-digit increase in earnings per share, thanks to the company's share repurchase activity. How's that possible? Well, the top team at Foot Locker said comps steadily improved throughout the quarter; the metric was in low-single-digit negative territory in May, positive low single digits in June, and the targeted mid-single-digit range in July.
Though the shoe chain is up against direct-to-consumer competition from its athletic apparel suppliers, its own digital selling model is a bright spot, too. Second-quarter e-commerce was up 6.5% from a year ago, bringing the percentage of sales from online sources to 14.3% of the total -- proof that a rising tide really does lift all boats, or most of them, anyway.
Thus, I'm staying the course with my small handful of shares in Foot Locker, with an eye to picking up a few more soon. The stock trades for a mere 7.5 times the past year's worth of free cash flow -- basic profits after cash operating expenses and capital expenditures are paid for -- and the dividend is currently yielding 3.6%. Not bad for a retail stock.
Of course, I would be remiss to neglect saying that, though the cheap valuation and dividend offer some margin of safety, shares could tank further if Foot Locker's business fails to sustain some sort of rebound -- or, worse, geopolitical issues sour profit margins. My point is that investors should tread lightly following the second-quarter report card.
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The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration and participating terminal operators will no longer require a physical customs document to be submitted when transferring containers from one terminal to another at the Maasvlakte facility in the Port of Rotterdam.
Ocean carriers Maersk line of Denmark and CMA CGM of France issued general rate increases.
The technologies needed to create remote and autonomous ships already exist, meaning it’s actually a matter of when it becomes a reality, not if, according to the Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative.
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United Kingdom-based chilled food distribution solutions provider NFT opened the largest temperature-controlled quayside distribution hub in Europe at the Port of Tilbury.
INTTRA has secured commitments from five of the top seven global forwarders for its eVGM product, which allows container weight verification data to be transmitted electronically to carriers.
The freight forwarding arm of Danish shipping conglomerate AP Moller Maersk said it will provide weighing and data transmission services to help shippers comply with new SOLAS verified gross mass requirements.


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With over 4,000 employees in 45 countries, Nilfisk is one of the world’s leading providers of cleaning products.
But while their products are focused on cleanliness, internally Nilfisk needed a better way to organize its employee data, both to ensure accuracy and so that Nilfisk’s leadership could use that data more strategically to improve the business.
Across the company, information that was available to one location was not available to another,” says Nilfisk’s vice president of HR Services and Technology. “The only central HR process was a SharePoint-based IDP tool.”
This was frustrating for Nilfisk’s leaders and was ultimately viewed as unsustainable in the face of the company’s growing business needs.
And so, in 2017, the company began searching for a new global HCM solution that would make up for what they lacked.


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Holidays equal paydays for e-retailers
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The sun has set on Cyber Monday, and as retailers wipe the sweat off their brows and pause for a brief moment to look at the sales sandwiched between Thanksgiving and yesterday, many are pleased with what they see. Sales are up for the major online shopping days for many retailers. However, some say the growth is a result of smaller-ticket orders from more shoppers while others say consumers are spending more.
Overall online sales were up sharply on the Monday after Thanksgiving, according to two providers of web analytics software to major web retailers. IBM Corp. estimates sales were up 30% over Cyber Monday 2011 and Adobe Systems Inc. puts the increase at 17%.
Among those reporting big gains was home improvement e-retailer Build.com, whose Cyber Monday sales increased by 40% on Monday compared to Cyber Monday last year, says Christian Friedland founder and president. That made Cyber Monday the biggest sales day ever of Build.com.
However, he says holiday sales growth in general is stemming from more purchases, not big purchases. “There are more orders, but lower average order value and units per order,” Friedland says. He adds that shoppers are spending about 70% more time on Build.com on average this holiday season compared to last. “Customers are spending more time browsing and engaging with the content than ever before,” Friedland says. “This also points to greater consideration and research before the purchase.” Build.com is No. 81 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
Yesterday also marked the highest sales day in history for home goods retailer Wayfair.com, with revenue coming in at $6.4 million, up 60% compared to last year. It says average order value was up 2%, conversions grew 20% and number of products per order increased 10% compared to Cyber Monday 2011. That comes on comes the heels of a 37% increase in holiday weekend sales year over year and $3.5 million in sales on Black Friday alone, Wayfair says. Sales for Wayfair (No. 50 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide) over the entire holiday weekend from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday totaled more than $16 million.
Additionally, the number of consumers who typed Wayfair’s name in search engines such as Google or Microsoft’s Bing increased 117%, Wayfair says. It says that increase likely stems from TV ads it began running in September.
Sales at furniture retailer CarolinaRustica.com are up about 15% for the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday compared to the same time last year, says president Richard Sexton. Shoppers spent more per order yesterday than Cyber Monday last year, helping make Monday the retailer’s best Cyber Monday ever.
“Our average order value is higher, conversion rates are slightly higher, and number of visitors is slightly lower due to our paring down of affiliate programs and more focused SEO efforts,” Sexton says. Sexton points out that the higher average order value at his site could be because furniture is a more expensive, considered purchase that is not typically driven by large promotions such as the 30% to 50% off all items sitewide offered yesterday by apparel retailers Bonobos and Ann Taylor Loft.
Carolina Rustica’s top-selling items over the holidays so far are are beds, dining sets and recliners, and Sexton says shoppers are spending about the same amount of time on the retailer’s site as they did over the holiday last year. “More shoppers are engaging us on social media platforms, coupon sites and sites like Google Shopping, which is why revenue is higher but actual on-site engagement is fairly steady,” Sexton says. Carolina Rustica is No. 675 in the Internet Retailer Second 500 Guide.
One bright spot that seems only to shine brighter as the holiday progresses is mobile sales. Revenue from mobile rose 75% on Cyber Monday 2012 compared to a year earlier at Wayfair. Adobe reports mobile revenue accounted for 22% of total Cyber Monday sales, up 100% from last year. That estimate is based on data from mainly larger retailer clients that alone accounted for more than $1 billion in online sales Monday. While Braintree, a payment gateway and processor, says mobile accounted for 29% of all online purchases for its clients. Braintree’s customers include many retailers active in mobile commerce such as Fab.com and LivingSocial.
Meanwhile, it seems marketers are paying attention for consumers increasing love affair with smartphones and tablets. Digital agency Clash Group reports 100% growth in mobile ad spending between Black Friday and Cyber Monday compared with a year earlier.
Increasingly savvy mobile shoppers are using their phones in stores, other research finds. 13% of online buyers who shopped with a mobile device this Thanksgiving weekend did so while in a retail store, according to a poll of 10,000 online buyers conducted by Bizrate Insights and Forrester Research Inc. Of all those surveyed, 25% of online buyers shopped with a mobile device over the holiday weekend. Of that group 70% used mobile devices to make a purchase, 60% to browse or research products, 56% to check prices and 37% to read product/store reviews.
Indeed, bricks-and-mortar stores—are struggling to keep up with the double-digit percentage sales growth online, according to new data from Chase Paymentech’s Holiday Pulse. In-store sales for the three-day period including Saturday, Sunday, and Cyber Monday rose by 2.1%, with transaction volume increasing 2.6% and average ticket dropping by 0.5%. That estimate is based on aggregated Chase cardholder spending data at bricks-and-mortar merchants.
Other research from the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs finds chain store sales up 4.0% for the week ended Sunday compared to the same week a year earlier. The ICSC tracks sales across about 40 retail chain stores.


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Ted Baker appoints former Joules CFO
Ted Baker has announced the appointment of Marc Dench as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective from today.
Joining the company from digital health platform Health Hero, Dench is an experienced retail and brand leader. Before Health Hero, he spent over five years as CFO and Director of Joules Group and has also served as CFO of Global Brands and International Retail at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Dench will succeed David Wolffe in the role, who has served as CFO since early 2020. Emphasised by the brand, Wolffe has played a crucial role in the first phase of Ted Baker's transformation, leading the company's recapitalisation and helping to put the business back on a path to growth.
Rachel Osborne, CEO of Ted Baker said: "I would like to thank David for his support and dedication over the last two years in stabilising the business and strengthening Ted Baker's foundations. As we look forward, I am delighted to welcome Marc to the team. His extensive retail, brand and digital experience will be a great asset to Ted Baker as we shift our focus to the next stage of growth for this great global lifestyle brand."


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Selena Gomez has recently undertaken numerous Puma campaigns and shoots with the sportswear giant, but now, Sel has taken things into her own hands by creating her very own full-blown collection.
With word floating around that a collaboration was in the works, Puma announced the official title of the capsule made by their very own brand ambassador: Strong Girl, taking a nod to Selena herself’s initials (S.G.). The collection is made by women, for women; Puma describes it as utilising “the legacies of strong women from the past to create classic pieces for today’s girl.”.
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Strong Girl includes sneakers, tracksuits, sports bras, jackets, hats, and more, all with Selena’s personal touch and brand details like “Strong inside and out”.
The full collaboration drops worldwide on December 12, 2018, via Puma’s official website as well as selected Puma retailers.
Check out the pieces below and start writing your wish list.
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Movie theater chain Regal Entertainment Group has begun to check bags in the wake of numerous shootings at theaters around the country, a procedure it acknowledged on its website was "not without flaws" and would inconvenience guests but provide better security.
It's unclear when the policy began, but several local TV stations reported online that customers noticed the change in Texas, Virginia, Florida and Ohio beginning earlier this month.
Regal spokesman Richard Grover did not respond to requests for comment. The company operates some 570 theaters around the country.
On its website, the company says: "security issues have become a daily part of our lives in America" and says that bags and backpacks are subject to inspection before entering."
It goes on to say: "We acknowledge that this procedure can cause some inconvenience and that it is not without flaws, but hope these are minor in comparison to increased safety."


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From a “triangular trade” that sees its nuts shelled in Asia before being shipped to the US, top cashew producer Ivory Coast aims to process more of its own crop for sale in the huge American market.
Starting from the present yearly average of just 10 percent, producers aim to shell half by 2025, Adama Coulibaly, director of the Cotton-Cashew Council, told AFP. This year alone the country’s capacity should increase by 100,000 tonnes.
But processing more nuts domestically will mean a shift away from traditional export relationships, which currently see most raw nuts sent to Vietnam and India. —AFP


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The revolutionary NFT marketplace, developed by NFTonPulse.io to be the ultimate gathering place for NFT lovers, creators, and collectors, has officially launched.
NFTonPulse is prepared for live operation after more than 15 months of development. Creators and collectors will be at the vanguard of the rapidly expanding NFT ecosystem thanks to the marketplace, which is currently in beta on the Goerli Ethereum testnet. It will shortly be launched on the PulseChain network.
Lightning-fast transactions, simple NFT creation, and a streamlined platform that makes it simple for anybody to engage in the NFT market will all be made possible by the debut of NFTonPulse on PulseChain. NFTonPulse eliminates gas fees and adds lazy minting, allowing producers to make gas-free NFTs and choose their royalty percentages. Also, collectors can quickly grow their NFT collections.
HowToPulse is providing an airdrop of their HTP token to early platform adopters to mark the launch of NFTonPulse. For NFT lovers, artists, and collectors, the debut of NFTonPulse is a terrific opportunity to experience the future of NFTs and perhaps receive HTP.
Making and listing NFTs is now faster and simpler than ever, thanks to NFTonPulse. Reduced minting costs allow creators to profit more from their NFTs. With the fees from NFT creation going into the HTP staking pool, the market was created with both makers and collectors in mind.
Creators can receive 100% of the marketplace fees by staking their HTP tokens in the staking pool, which gets the fees from NFT sales on NFTonPulse. The HTP token will carry on their vision of “more accessible decentralized dapps with ideals of financial independence and the right to ownership” by acting as a utility token on platforms and decentralized applications (dapps) created on PulseChain.
HowToPulse has drawn 250,000 visitors since its launch in 2021. The core team has been slavishly creating dapps for the future of Web3 since its inception. As a result, the group has significantly expanded and now has 15,000 social media followers. NFTonPulse was developed as a result of this motivation and expertise.
More and more artists will be able to profit from their work as NFTonPulse expands. The team appreciates the help it has received so far and is eager to see what the introduction of NFTonPulse will mean for the neighbourhood.
Visit https://nftonpulse.io for more details about NFTonPulse.
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After Nintendo announced yesterday that the Nintendo Switch was its fastest selling console ever, with 906,000 units sold during its first month on-sale in the United States, independent research group SuperData has put out a report sharing its expectations for worldwide sales.
According to SuperData's research, Nintendo's new console sold 2.4 million units worldwide in its first month. Nintendo itself had stated last October that it was expecting to ship 2 million units to retailers worldwide for March, so SuperData's predictions presume that they were able to deliver more than initially thought.
Nintendo CEO says current FY financial guidance assumes 2 million units of Switch to be shipped this fiscal year ending in March— Takashi Mochizuki (@mochi_wsj) October 26, 2016
With that in mind, the report forecasts that total Switch sales in 2017 may reach as many as 7.2 million units sold. This would put it at almost exactly half the size of the PlayStation 4 at the same point in its life (it sold 14.4 million units worldwide in its first year) and 3 million behind Xbox One. It also, unsurprisingly, puts it ahead of Wii U growth during its first year. Nintendo's previous console sold only 5.8 million units in its first year on sale, and has only sold 13.5 million overall. If the Switch really is on track to manage 7.2 million in 2017, it'll be halfway to matching its predecessor in just one year.


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The retail giant Walmart remains firm in its plan to face the advance of Amazon in global electronic commerce, but everything seems to indicate that it slowly seeks to change its strategy with the aim of consolidating in markets that are not yet so developed. And there Latin America plays a key role.
Last week, the US retailer formally announced that it withdrew its products from Google’s Shopping Actions service, a venture that allows consumers to buy products from retailers more easily through the company’s search engine, its assistant digital and Express delivery.
This initiative clearly sought to take a portion of the market from the firm of Jeff Bezos, but now Walmart confirmed that it seeks to grow on its own, beyond any association with Google.
Clearly, before this imminent landing, Walmart, which already has a strong presence with physical stores in Chile and other countries in the region such as Argentina, now seeks to consolidate in electronic commerce. And that explains the purchase of Cornershop. In this way the fight between the giants(Walmart and Amazon) moved to Latin America, a region that although it has been showing a strong growth in electronic commerce, still has a lot of room to develop.


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The promotion for San Jose restaurants will last through July 18.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Downtown San Jose is slowly bouncing back after the state's reopening. It's no secret that restaurants can use a boost in business.
This week, 'Dine Downtown' returns. It's being described as the first real push for restaurants, after the state's reopening in mid-June. However, this year brings added importance.
"We didn't snap our fingers and things magically came back to life," Nate LeBlanc with San Jose Downtown Association (SJDA) told ABC7 News. "There's very much still an uphill climb for these hospitality businesses to try to get back to some sense of normalcy."
While eateries that survived the pandemic are back in business, LeBlanc pointed out, "The financial distress that they've gone through has perhaps been slightly eased, but that doesn't help them dig out of the hole that was made in the last fifteen months."
At The Farmers Union, assistant manager Jeff Worrell explained, "We get a lot of people who are very- are fans of the Dine Downtown and will go to every restaurant and try it and see what they have."
The promotion, which kicked off on July 1 and will last through July 18, is packed with prix fixe menus, chef specials, and food and drink pairings- all decently priced.
At Mezcal Restaurant, they're serving up ceviche and margaritas. Co-owner Adolfo Gomez said the idea is to keep it casual.
"We want them to feel comfortable coming in. That's the goal," Gomez shared. "The experience, I think, will be there. The cuisine is there. We have great restaurants, great chefs in downtown. And we want to show them what we are and what we can do for them."
Gomez emphasized, it's been fifteen months too long.
"This is a good time right now. It's a good moment to try and bring that magic back," he added.
At The Shop by Chef Baca, co-owner Rodney Baca is bracing for customers to come with a level of anxiety. Still, he said the annual promotion really puts the power in peoples' hands.
"Maybe some that have been a little scared to leave the house," he told ABC7 News. "Maybe some that are going back in the offices and are like, 'You know what, now there's this opportunity- this little thing going on that we can come try and new place.'"
The timing makes Dine Downtown a lifeline of sorts, as the areas comeback story continues.
"For us to have that little push and to have people- not just in San Jose, but Santa Clara County- come experience how wonderful Downtown is... and can be... They're the start of it," he shared.
There are nearly thirty restaurants participating in the Dine Downtown program.
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Twelve years ago technology spending outside of IT was 20 percent of total technology spending; it will become almost 90 percent by the end of the decade, according to Gartner. Much of this change is being driven by the digitisation of companies’ revenue and their services.
The Nexus of Forces is leading this transformation. The Nexus is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social, mobile, cloud and information patterns that drive new business scenarios.
Organisations are digitising segments of business, such as moving marketing spend from analog to digital, or digitising the research and development budget. Secondly, organisations are digitising how they service their clients, in order to drive higher client retention. Thirdly, they are turning digitisation into new revenue streams. Gartner analysts said this is resulting in every budget becoming an IT budget.
To address these changes, organisations will create the role of a Chief Digital Officer as part of the business unit leadership, which will become a new seat at the executive table. Gartner predicts that by 2015, 25 percent of organisations will have a Chief Digital Officer.
“The Chief Digital Officer will prove to be the most exciting strategic role in the decade ahead, and IT leaders have the opportunity to be the leaders who will define it,” said David Willis, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. “The Chief Digital Officer plays in the place where the enterprise meets the customer, where the revenue is generated and the mission accomplished. They’re in charge of the digital business strategy. That’s a long way from running back office IT, and it’s full of opportunity.”
Willis said the forces of cloud, social, mobile and information are reconfiguring how people work and live. It’s a world in which business and personal lives are intertwined; a world with fewer commands and control restrictions that stifle productivity and innovation.
“It’s an environment where information technology does not define the rules. Instead it is a key ingredient in achieving personal and enterprise productivity and innovation; where technology is so natural and pervasive that we don’t even need to hold it in our hands. It’s just a part of our lives,” Willis said.
However, there is serious work that needs to be done. IT leaders need to make sure they have policies and procedures in place to respond to the new Nexus-driven threats. They must counter cyberattacks, and anticipate new attacks from new sources at a high scale. They will need to respond to “reputation” warfare and defend against social media “mercenaries”. They will also invest in new technologies that support employee-owned devices such as mobile device management, containerisation and virtualisation.
“Security investments are going to dramatically increase,” Willis said. “An already large security market is about to get much bigger, growing by 56 percent from current levels in five years time, while cloud security will almost triple.”
Willis said some companies are already doubling or tripling their security budgets, for example in the health care industry.
Gartner analysts said a key reason for this is regulatory compliance. IT leaders need to anticipate and plan for the coming wave of government interventions and regulations. As information technology becomes pervasive in all operations, regulations from the analog world will come to the digital world.
CEOs want their CIOs to make their impact felt where the enterprise meets the outside world. They want the CIO to unleash the forces that will differentiate their business. They don’t want the CIO spending all of their time automating the back office.
“The value CEOs seek is in digitising the interface between your enterprise and its customer or citizen, creating whole new business opportunities in the process,” Willis said. “The Nexus holds the promise of: new revenue streams; new missions; and new possibilities.”
Gartner analysts said this is the age of the engagement economy, and it is key for IT leaders to engage their employees. Mass collaboration is already becoming critical. Gamification holds a lot of promise for the future. When asked to innovate, engage, or solve a problem, Gartner recommends turning the challenge into a game. However, looking beyond internal gamification, IT leaders need a laser focus on their customers.
“If you cannot explain how every project in your discretionary budget affects the end customer or citizen, don’t do it,” Willis said. “CIOs in every industry recognise that focusing on the customer is the major driver of innovation. The likelihood that a customer will recommend your brand to a friend or colleague matters.”
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Homeolab USA is a Canadian company that makes "homeopathic" remedies for kids; in a warning letter sent to the company earlier this month, the US FTC warned the company that it had discovered dangerous levels of belladonna (AKA deadly nightshade) in its infant teething products, and advised the company that its manufacturing process was putting its customers' safety at risk.
Homeolab is just the latest homeopathic company slammed by the FDA for problems related to belladonna-containing products. For years, the agency has been investigating reports of infants having seizures, losing consciousness, and, in some cases, dying after using such products. The symptoms were all consistent with belladonna poisonings. Last September, the FDA warned consumers to avoid the homeopathic teething gels and tablets distributed by Hyland’s, CVS, and others.
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Look, we’re not all maple syrup lollipops and free healthcare up here. According to the CBC, a naturalized Canadian citizen was held against his will, without charge, for 10 months while immigration officials attempted to verify his identity. 47-year old Nigerian-born Olajide Ogunye moved to Canada with his family in the 1990s and, in 1996, […]
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MediaGo, a deep learning-based intelligent advertising platform under the Baidu Global Business Unit, announced an expanded partnership with GeoEdge, a global ad security and quality leader. This increased collaboration enhances malvertising protection by cracking down on threat actors and fortifying user protection across the advertising industry.
Amnon Siev, GeoEdge’s CEO said, “As malvertising evolves, our security engines are tailored to detect threat actors along the advertising supply chain before they reach audiences. Through our valued partnership with MediaGo, together we’re proud to prevent threat actors from exploiting the advertising infrastructure- safeguarding its partners and audiences.”
MediaGo maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward malicious ads, blocking all instances of malware, malicious content, phishing, scams, fraud, and cloaking ads.
To realize this goal, MediaGo has engaged in collaboration with GeoEdge since its foundation. MediaGo has effectively implemented a comprehensive, multi-tiered ad security audit system that includes:
- Pre-emptive landing page compliance checks: GeoEdge’s tools conduct thorough scans of landing pages before ads are launched. Post-launch, MediaGo continues with routine scans, utilizing GeoEdge’s technology to target and identify potential violation advertising, ensuring that ad landing pages remain safe and compliant throughout their lifecycle.
- Proprietary deep learning system: MediaGo’s in-house review system, underpinned by deep learning, is trained on extensive datasets, harnessing the power of AI to accurately categorize and block prohibited items.
- 24/7 manual monitoring: MediaGo’s dedicated review team constantly scrutinizes ad creatives and landing page content, certifying that all advertisements align with the stringent ad review policies.
- Advertiser qualification checks: Before advertisers onboard, MediaGo conducts a comprehensive assessment of all advertisers’ credentials, preemptively reducing the likelihood of low-quality or non-compliant ads.
“The strengthened collaboration with GeoEdge brings a new, forward-looking enhancement to MediaGo’s ad security review system,” says Brian Mun, Director of Global Partnerships, Baidu Global Business Unit. “The health of the ad ecosystem is critical to all stakeholders and users. MediaGo is committed to elevating ad quality, safeguarding the integrity of our advertising system, and diligently working to offer media partners and consumers the optimum advertising experience.”
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PYRAMIDS, pharaohs, snakes, hieroglyphics and plenty of golden jewels — yep, King Tut is back in town.
Should a childhood fixation with all things ancient Egyptian be rekindled by the arrival of the latest blockbuster Tut exhibition, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” now at Discovery Times Square Exposition, we’ve unearthed a trove of cool spring jewelry that would be the envy of a pharaoh.
Two of this year’s nominees for the accessories award that the Council of Fashion Designers of America will bestow next month found their way to Egypt via quite different routes. The Fallon designer Dana Lorenz, whose current collection is filled with ancient Egyptian iconography, admits to an obsessive addiction to the television series “Lost,” which she regards as “deeply embedded with Egyptian symbolism and hieroglyphs.” Her collection acquired its “spiritual and aesthetic inspiration,” she said, when, in the same week, she found “an incredible vintage King Tut pendant” and caught Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra” on TCM.
Eddie Borgo, whose Cleopatra-worthy gold and pavé crystal collar is made of graduated steps like Egyptian step pyramids, likens the pyramid shape to punk culture with its spiked and studded garb. For a designer who walks a line between Cleopatra and Suzi Quatro, the piece is cleverly of the moment and reassuringly timeless.Continue reading the main story


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An investment analyst has downgraded the stocks of three of America's highest-profile companies – Apple, Amazon.com and Philip Morris – to "sell" status over the moral and ethical issues of their business practices.
While nonprofit groups have urged divestment of certain companies' stocks for decades because of their corporate conduct, a Catholic priest who tracks company behaviour said he could not recall a for-profit analyst ever doing the same.
"It's the first time that I have seen it, yeah," said Father Seamus Finn, director of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate's justice, peace and integrity of creation initiative.
In his Jan. 5 email, the analyst, Ronnie Moas, founder and director of research for Standpoint Research, blasted the conduct of all three companies.
"Philip Morris has the black lungs and blood of 500,000,000 people on their hands," Moas charged. Philip Morris USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altria Group, is best known for several tobacco brands.
As for Apple, Moas said, "For Apple Computers to pay their workers $2 an hour while they have $150 billion in the bank is nothing short of obscene."
Apple has come under criticism in recent years for the low wages and poor living conditions given by Apple's contractors to the Chinese workers assembling Apple devices.
Moas took Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to task for pressuring his workers despite his personal net worth of $27 billion.
"$27 billion and this man is not treating his workers fairly? It boggles the mind."
Amazon had come under fire for putting more pressure on employees working without air conditioning in its warehouses.
"It's what we've been doing for a long time," Finn told CNS, but Moas' action "elevates it to the point where it deserves some attention."


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ANZ has overhauled its leadership structure in Australia following last year's departure of retail chief Fred Ohlsson, giving two executives joint responsibility for the bank's local financial performance.
Mark Hand has been named Mr Ohlsson's permanent successor as retail chief, and digital banking boss Maile Carnegie is taking on an expanded role as digital and Australia transformation executive.
The pair will jointly share responsibility for ANZ's financial performance in Australia, which chief executive Shayne Elliott indicated was a response to the challenges posed by the financial services royal commission.
"It was clear that retaining a single governance and accountability structure is no longer suitable given the size and complexity of the challenges facing domestic banking in Australia," Mr Elliot said in a statement.
Mr Ohlsson, who was ANZ's NZ boss before becoming Australia group executive in 2016, stepped down on December 29.
He assisted Mr Hand throughout January.
Ms Carnegie joined ANZ in 2016 after working for Google as managing director in Australia and New Zealand following 20 years with Proctor and Gamble.
The structural changes to the executive management team will come into effect from March this year.


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The upcoming season of the Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2017, the four-day event will be held from 15 March. President, Fashion Design Council of India, Sunil Sethi stated that associating with Jharkhand as their partner state for the Amazon India Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2017 is in continuation of their commitment to preserve crafts.
Jharkhandâ€™s hidden wonders will be unveiled by designers, who will translate its story through the magnificent swirls of fabric.
Jharkhand Silk Textile & Handicrafts Development corporation, Ltd. will be setting an example by creating new opportunities and making it profitable for weavers by giving them a definitive source of employment while making the best use of available resources.
The highlight of the show will be designer interpretations of the fabric de rigueur - Tussar. The show has been curated by Shaina NC, who will also be presenting her collection for the first time at AIFW.
Other designers include, Pinnacle Shruti Sancheti, Rina Dhaka and Dabiri by Divya and Ambika, the release said.
The event will also witness B2B (business to business) meetings and would be covered through a social media campaigning, The event will run from March 15 to 18 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Lodhi Road, Delhi
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(from Billboard Magazine, April 3, 2013) Ghost Beach, a New-York based pop duo, was selected to have its music featured on an American Eagle Outfitters online commercial in January. Along with this, the group was given the opportunity to be featured on AEO’s digital billboard in Times Square. Instead of using this as a chance to promote their music, the band instead used the billboard space to strike interest on the debate surrounding music piracy.
Ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day helped the band to come up with an ad that would draw attention to the online campaign. The campaign, Artists Vs. Artists, urges followers to tweet their views on musical piracy using hashtags such as “#artistsagainstpiracy” and “#artistsforpiracy” on Twitter and on artistsvsartists.com.
The site debuted on March 18 and over 3000 tweets have been tweeted using the suggested hashtags. The surprising result however was that nearly 3000 of the tweets were for piracy while only about 100 were against it.
Lead singer Josh Ocean was pleased with the small but passionate reaction that the campaign has sparked. “If it gets bigger than our community of musicians, then that’s great. If it just stays within a bunch of our friends talking about this, that’s a start and that’s really cool, too,” Ocean said.
TBWA Chief Creative Officer/Chairman, Mark Figliulo, also likes the direction that this campaign is heading, “It’s a really good thing to get people interacting with your brand in that way. You’re not just telling them what to think, you’re asking them, ‘What do you think?’”
It is becoming more and more common for ad agencies to take on artists and bands as clients to work on projects, big or small. For example, BBDO helped to team One Republic with Save the Children with an original song, “Feel Again.” Often times the ad agencies charge only small fees or even on a pro bono basis.


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Citing the growing number of consumer electronics products that wind up in landfills, Rep. John Sarbanes proposed Friday giving federal agencies $60 million over the next three years to promote recycling of gadgets and computers.
Used electronics represent a relatively small share of solid waste — about 2 percent, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — but it's a segment that is growing quickly. Companies and households tossed between 1.9 million and 2.2 million tons of electronics in 2005. Of that, about 350,000 tons were recycled.
Discarded electronic components create environmental hazards, particularly if chemicals leach into groundwater. But many of those components can be reused, Sarbanes said, potentially reducing the rare-element imports needed to manufacture electronics.
"There's a whole national security element to this, because we don't want to be in a position where we're so dependent on these foreign interests," said the Baltimore County Democrat, who serves on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. "We can pull a lot of that back out of this material on the back end."
The Sarbanes bill would authorize the EPA to create a grant program to spur research on recycling electronics. It also calls for a study to determine the current barriers to electronics recycling.
The issue has received considerable attention in Washington. This week, a pair of House Democrats reintroduced another proposal that would bar the export of some electronic equipment containing hazardous materials. Some recycling companies export discarded electronics to be salvaged in developing countries.
President Barack Obama, meanwhile, created a task force last year that will make recommendations on how federal agencies should dispose of their outdated electronic gear.
Maryland is one of 25 states that have passed legislation on electronics recycling. In 2006, the General Assembly passed a law that requires companies that manufacture certain devices to pay an initial $10,000 fee to support recycling programs. Companies then pay an annual fee of $5,000 unless their leaders develop a recycling program.
Jason Linnell, executive director of the National Center for Electronics Recycling, said states have taken vastly different approaches on the issue, creating a patchwork of regulations that can be hard for national technology companies to follow.


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South Korean electronics giant Samsung has agreed to plead guilty to involvement in price fixing in the US and to pay a $300m (£170m) fine.
Samsung is the third company to admit its guilt
The fine is the second largest criminal anti-trust penalty in US history, and the largest for five years.
Samsung was accused of conspiring with other chipmakers to fix the price of chips sold for use in PCs and mobile phones between 1999 and 2002.
Samsung is the third firm to plead guilty to price fixing in the case.
Also on Thursday, Samsung said its third quarter profits fell 30% to 1.9 trillion won ($1.8bn; £1bn) as chip prices fell - although sales were up 1.4%.
South Korean firm Hynix agreed to pay a $185m fine while German chipmaker Infineon reached a $160m settlement.
The US Justice Department said Samsung and its US subsidiary would enter a guilty plea at the US District Court in San Francisco on Thursday.
In a statement, Samsung said the price-fixing charges against the company had now been "fully resolved".
"Samsung strongly supports fair competition and ethical practices and forbids anti-competitive behavior," it said.
Samsung will now co-operate in the ongoing criminal investigation, which was launched in 2002.
Several Samsung employees could potentially face individual criminal charges.
Four Infineon employees were jailed for six months each after pleading guilty to price-fixing.
"Price fixing threatens our free-market system, stifles innovation and robs American consumers of the benefit of competitive prices," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a statement.
"Today's guilty plea is evidence of the department's ongoing commitment to protect consumers from corporations that engage in illegal conduct."
The case revolved around the pricing of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, the most common type of semiconductors.
Companies directly affected by the price fixing conspiracy included household names such as Dell, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, Apple Computer and IBM.


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- Xiaomi 12 will be the company’s next flagship smartphone.
- Xiaomi 12 can be launched in China next month.
- The smartphone may come with Snapdragon 898 SoC.
Xiaomi 12 will be the company’s next flagship smartphone.
Xiaomi 12 can be the organization’s next leader cell phone and maybe presented as right on time as the following month. The cell phone has been standing out as truly newsworthy for some time and is additionally tipped to be the absolute first cell phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 SoC. Indeed, the chipset is yet to be declared. Qualcomm is facilitating its yearly culmination not long from now where it is relied upon to report the up and coming age of lead chipset and Xiaomi’s true declaration for its telephone can come before long.
Xiaomi 12 can be launched in China next month.
Xiaomi’s last leader cell phone was the Mi 11 Ultra. It likewise launched a couple of other cell phones in the Mi 11 series at the same time, is yet to launch its replacement. India Today Tech had detailed recently that the cell phone producer intends to supplant the Mi 11 Ultra with another lead cell phone one year from now. Thus, the chance of a Xiaomi 12 launching one month from now can’t be precluded. Xiaomi might bring the cell phone to China first and afterward launch it in quite a while, including India.
What’s in store from Xiaomi 12?
The presentation will be the greatest feature of the Xiaomi 12. It will accompany the yet-to-be-revealed Snapdragon SM8345 SoC, otherwise known as Snapdragon 898 SoC. The chipset will be disclosed on November 30. To utilize it, we can likewise expect up to 12GB of RAM on the Xiaomi 12. Xiaomi has been forcefully chipping away at the quick charging tech and the Xiaomi 12 can get an update here too.
The Mi 11 Ultra accompanied 67W quick charging support which can be expanded to 100W on the Xiaomi 12. The cell phone creator might even shock us by furnishing the gadget with 120W quick charging, which is as of late utilized on the Redmi Note 11 Pro+.
The smartphone may come with Snapdragon 898 SoC.
The cell phone is relied upon to highlight a 50-megapixel essential camera with Samsung’s GN5 sensor, which was disclosed recently. Generally speaking, you can expect a triple back camera arrangement which will likewise incorporate a 50-megapixel ultrawide point sensor and a 50-megapixel fax sensor. The last option is relied upon to include a 5x periscope zoom.
There is no word about the presentation size of the Xiaomi 12 yet, it is tipped to include probably the best showcase on a Xiaomi telephone with a high screen-to-body proportion. You might in any case get to see a halfway adjusted opening punch pattern for the front camera.


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Apple’s next quarterly earnings report and call with analysts take place on Thursday. (It’s Q3 for Apple’s fiscal year despite being Q2 on your calendar.) And the company has already warned it may take an up to $8 billion revenue hit for several reasons.
As usual, after the fiscal results come out and the stock market closes for the day, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will talk with financial analysts on a public call about the results and future expectations.
Apple quarterly earnings may take a revenue hit of up to $8 billion
Apple didn’t provide revenue guidance for the June quarter in its previous earnings report. That has become the norm during the pandemic.
But the Cupertino tech giant did warn that global supply constraints and COVID-19 lockdowns in China could sap between $4 billion and $8 billion in revenue in the June quarter.
China’s zero-tolerance policies have prompted several lockdowns and factory closures throughout Apple’s supply chain this year. Apple made due as well as it could, shifting production, but the iPhone maker still expects to take a pretty heavy hit.
And this won’t be the first one. It took a $6 billion hit for the same reasons in the last quarter 2021. And it missed Wall Street expectations for that quarter — quite the rarity for the financial juggernaut.
After modest expectations and good results last quarter, analysts believe Apple will report June quarter revenues of about $82 billion and earnings-per-share of $1.16. Many put a 12-month stock-price forecast at $200, though some aim a little lower, at $180 to $185.
Despite its stance of withholding most revenue guidance, Apple noted it expects gross margins between 41.5% and 42.5% and operating expenses between $11.1 billion and $11.3 billion.
While pandemic-related hardware challenges continue, Apple said it thinks the overall business, including individual segments such as Services, to keep enjoying double-digit growth in the June quarter.
In the hardware department, analysts indicate demand for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro remains unusually strong for this time of year. In particular, iPhone keeps growing in popularity in China, selling well despite smartphone downturns.
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And although Apple also rolled out new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models with M2 chips during the quarter, only the MacBook Pro shipped during it. But it came out toward the end of the quarter, so it may not have a big impact on numbers.
Despite supply constraints, many analysts remain confident Apple will outperform or match expectations in the June quarter. But other doubt Cupertino can overcome the unusually hard hit and may post results lower than expectations.
Q3 2022 versus Q3 2021
In 2021’s June quarter, Apple reported a record-breaking $81.4 billion in revenue with strong growth across all product segments.
That quarter was also the full first quarter of availability for products like the M1 iPad Pro, updated Apple TV 4K and AirTag trackers.
But Apple suffered less from supply constraints in the year-ago quarter and there was no serious concern of a revenue shortfall to the tune of up to $8 billion.
Apple’s Q3 earnings report should be out on Thursday, July 28, at about 1:30 p.m. PT with the earnings call to follow at 2 p.m. PT.


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Apple has won a permanent injunction against most of Motorola Mobility’s products in Germany. FOSS Patents reports that Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz ruled that the products infringe on Apple’s slide-to-unlock image patent, which covers “unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image”. According to the report, the court evaluated three different embodiments of the idea, two of which are implemented on Motorola’s phones—Apple won on those two—and a third which is used on Motorola’s Xoom tablet, and on which Apple did not prevail. The report states that Motorola will likely appeal the decision, at which point Apple will likely try to win on the third embodiment as well; currently, Apple would have to enforce the injunction at its own risk, by posting a bond that could be used to repay damages should the decision be reversed.
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Here’s an amazing Stupid Search Engine Trick: typing the words “view” and “topic” in one query (or “phpbb”) into Bing will crash it.
Here’s an amazing Stupid Search Engine Trick: typing the words “view” and “topic” in one query (or “phpbb”) into Bing will crash it.
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Are you getting the impression that Microsoft is pretty proud of its tile-based, “keep-it-simple-stupid” Metro user interface, as seen in Windows Phone 7? You should. After moving both its MSDN developer site and the Microsoft Download Center to the much simpler layout, Microsoft is about to give its Bing search engine a makeover.
The tiles across the bottom of the Bing screen will show various blurbs of information including local weather, sports and traffic, as well as current trending searches. The idea follows what we’ve seen from Windows 8: that these tiles are meant to display blurbs of useful information in a visually appealing way. And it’s also well-suited for touch-screen devices.
Microsoft Bing chief Stefan Weitz made a pretty significant pronouncement in an interview with The Huffington Post on Wednesday: search as we know it is dead. That’s quite the statement.
In simplest terms, the old fashioned way of search results being nothing much more than a list of returned links just isn’t cutting it — a business model that’s made Google a ton of money.
Lets be fair, though: Bing isn’t that much better. In both cases the two search engines have focused their efforts on “the social,” hoping that is the answer. Google’s social search solution is +1, which gives greater weight to returned results that people in a user’s social circle may have liked. Microsoft is doing something similar, but in that case their using content culled from a friend’s Facebook stream.
Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine).
What’s the Friend Effect? According to Bing, it’s the way that “90 per cent of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision making process.”
While at first some of us (myself included) may have looked at Microsoft’s deal last August to power Yahoo searches with skepticism, the move may finally be paying off–and could be eating into Google’s dominance in search.
Hitwise found in March that the two sites combined now account for 30.01% of all searches in the US, up about a point and a half from the previous month. Google on the other hand dropped, moving from 66.69% to 64.42%, indicating that the people who weren’t using it were likely headed to Bing.
What’s behind this change? It could be that Microsoft’s algorithms are doing a better job at finding what searchers want. Experian Hitwise — who provided this data — found that on Yahoo and Bing, about 81 percent of all searches resulted in a visit to a website. Compare this to Google, which is significantly lower at 65 percent of all queries.
Could it really be that Bing just has a better handle on search? Sounds like Internet blasphemy (Google even accused Microsoft of stealing its search results) but that really could be the case. Microsoft has been hard at work behind the scenes making changes, and it’s clear it’s serious about becoming a player.
I’m still a Google guy, but hey technology changes fast, and that might not always be the case. Go ahead Bing, impress me…
Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan has a great post providing the clearest version to date of Bing’s side of the great Bing-Google kerfuffle. Bing still denies copying Google results–but it sounds like it all depends on the definition of “copy,” and that Bing does incorporate data from searches done on all sorts of sites, not just Google. In my first post on this I said that Bing’s behavior sounded iffy. But the weird thing is, the more that comes out, the harder it is to figure out what I think about this.
Before the whole thing dies down, I hope that Google responds at least once more time, with (A) a reaction to Bing’s explanation as provided in Danny’s story; and (B) some disclosure about whether it uses Chrome and/or the Google Toolbar to do anything even sort of similar to what Microsoft does with IE and Bing Toolbar data.
I’ve been watching the odd debate between Google and Bing executives over Bing’s alleged copying of Google search results wih an uneasy fascination. There’s an interesting question here about legitimate and illegitimate uses of clickstream monitoring to shape search results. But both sides have adopted pissy, confrontational tones that haven’t done much to clarify matters. (All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher thinks the whole affair may be a preview of the Larry Page era at Google.)
But Google engineer Matt Cutts has a new post up which I like: His points seem reasonable and he engages in no sniping or whining. I agree with him that Bing honcho Yusef Mehdi’s “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.” is, at best, confusing given that (A) Bing does seem to have replicated the nonsense results that Google planted as part of its sting operation; and (B) Bing representatives also seems to have defended watching IE users’ clicks on Google and mixing results based on their actions there into the gumbo of Bing’s algorithm.
At the moment, I think that Google has the edge in this tussle, mostly because it’s explained its stance more coherently and (somewhat) more politely. (Of course, reasonable people may disagree.)
If Microsoft’s stance is that it hasn’t been copying Google results (period, full stop), the best thing it could do would be to explain why that isn’t the case–in language as measured and dignified as Cutts’s. Tell us, Bingfolk: Why haven’t your actions amounted to cloning links from a competitor’s search results?
By Harry McCracken | Posted at 12:48 pm on Tuesday, February 1, 2011
I’m attending Farsight today in San Francisco. It’s an interesting conference on search, sponsored by Microsoft’s Bing but featuring participants from Google, Blekko, Wolfram Alpha, and other companies involved in the never-ending quest to make it easy to find stuff on the Web.
Oddly enough, the big news at the event doesn’t involve big news at the event–it concerns Google’s charge that Bing relays information about IE users’ Google searches back to Microsoft, which uses it to influence the results on Bing. Google confirmed the practice by running a sting operation involving “synthetic” search results for unusual searches, and says that Bing is “cheating.” Bing doesn’t deny anything, but says it’s not copying and that what it’s doing has only a minor effect on its results.
Search guru Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, who understands the implications of all this way better than I do, has an exhaustive story and promises more stuff to come. He comes to the conclusion that what Bing is doing is legal, and covered by IE’s terms of service, but that “Bing should develop its own search voice without using Google’s as a tuning fork.” Seems like a reasonable conclusion to me. And I have a hunch that Microsoft will come out of this concluding that it needs to stop doing this, for PR reasons if nothing else…
By Harry McCracken | Posted at 3:10 pm on Tuesday, November 16, 2010
In my new Technologizer column for TIME.com, I write about Google alternatives, including Bing and Blekko. I also say I’m sorry there aren’t more of them: Among both big longtime Google rivals and startups, there seems to be a widespread assumption that Google has the search-engine market locked up and investing in core search-engine technology is therefore pointless.
One of those big longtime Google rivals is Ask.com, which announced last week that it’s going to cease work on its own search engine, use one provided by an unnamed third party, and focus on its Q&A service. Yesterday, I met up with Ask CEO Doug Leeds here at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, and we talked a bit about the company’s change in focus.
Leeds, first of all, said that he was sorry that it didn’t make sense for Ask to continue to build its own search engine from scratch. He pointed out, accurately, that Ask had a history of doing inventive stuff that later showed up in in its larger competitors. (Parts of this 2007 Ask redesign look like a blueprint for Google and Bing in 2010.) He said that made it tough for a smaller site such as Ask to compete based on pure innovation, and factored into the company’s decision to outsource search.
By Harry McCracken | Posted at 12:57 pm on Wednesday, October 13, 2010
I’m at an event at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus, where a bunch of Microsoft and Facebook executives (including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) just finished showing some new Bing features that should start rolling out shortly. The two companies (which first established a partnership four years ago) are working together to integrate stuff Facebook knows about you and your friends into Bing search results, using Facebook’s Instant Personalization feature.
Mostly, what Bing is doing is looking at which Facebook Like buttons your buddies have clicked around the Web, then inserting a module into search results that spotlights pages they’ve given a thumbs-up. We saw examples involving searches relating to cars, San Francisco steakhouses, and the movie Waiting for Superman.
When you search for a person, Bing will also use your Facebook friendships to try and return relevant results–the example we saw involved a search for “Brian Lee” that returned a module with Brian Lees who were friends of the user’s friends.
Boy, am I glad the ridiculousness of smartphone patent wars hasn’t carried over to web search, because Google’s testing of full page previews illustrates everything that’s great about stealing another company’s ideas.
Some Google users are spotting full page previews today, according to Patrick Altoft at Blogstorm. This allows users to see important content from a website without clicking through to the link. Chunks of text containing search keywords are broken into orange boxes, and the entire page layout is visible from within Google search.
Clearly, Google ripped this feature from Bing, where page previews have been part of search since day one. So what? Bing does it differently, with simple, unobtrusive preview boxes that only draw out a few lines of text and other important details. Sometimes the imitation is better than the original, and sometimes it’s worse, but Google’s and Bing’s desire to differentiate themselves is always reflected in the product.
By Ed Oswald | Posted at 1:51 pm on Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Microsoft’s Bing has finally managed to overtake Yahoo in search share according to Nielsen. In August, Bing had a 13.9 percent share, up about .3 percent, while Yahoo dropped 1.5 percent to 13.1 percent during the same period. While its certainly a milestone for the company, in the end does it matter?
Yahoo’s search engine is now powered by Bing, so essentially the two sites are now one in the same. So in other words, Bing’s got 27 percent of the market now. Now add July’s numbers together, and you can see that together they’ve actually lost share.
So where did this share go? Some of it has gone to Google: the company saw its share rise .8 percent to 65 percent of the market, meaning that the much ballyhooed Yahoo+Bing deal isn’t doing quite what it should. Is it cause to worry for Yahoo and Microsoft? I’d argue at this point no, but the companies better hope that things turn around.
“Bing is on an unequivocal roll. It’s no longer a question of whether or not Bing will continue to grow share but one of where will future growth come from,” my colleague Joe Wilcox writes over at Betanews. “Microsoft loses by taking share from Yahoo. The gains that matter must come from Google.”
I agree with Joe — Bing cannot really celebrate these numbers because they aren’t all that positive at face value. Certainly, Bing has upward momentum, but at the same time it almost has to cheer for its competitor to at least tread water because in the end its Google that’s in its sights in the battle for search engine dominance.
When Microsoft started offering sizable kickbacks to people who used its Windows Live shopping features to buy stuff–via a feature called Live Search Cashback which later turned into Bing Cashback–I was instinctively skeptical. It sounded kind of like bribery, and the process of finding deals and collecting your rebate involved jumping through multiple hoops.
And then I decided to invest a sizable chunk of change in a Nikon D90 SLR, a camera that tends to cost about the same no matter which (reputable) dealer you buy it from. I bought one using Bing Cashback and got a crazy-good Cashback deal that saved me $150. Boom–no more skepticism. A hundred and fifty bucks felt like more-than-adequate compensation for the effort involved.
But now Microsoft is saying that Cashback is going away:
In lots of ways, this was a great feature – we had over a thousand merchant partners delivering great offers to customers and seeing great ROI on their campaigns, and we were taking some of the advertising revenue and giving it back to customers. But after a couple of years of trying, we did not see the broad adoption that we had hoped for.
I’m sorry to see it go–and glad to see Microsoft being up-front about its rationale for shuttering it.
[NOTE: Here’s another story I wrote for FoxNews.com. This one’s on cool ways to find information that go beyond Google, and mentions Aardvark.I wrote it last Monday and it was was published on Tuesday–and on Thursday, TechCrunch broke the news that Google was buying Aardvark.)
How much do I love Google? Thanks to the stats provided by Google Web History, it’s easy to quantify: Over the past four and a half years, I’ve Googled for information 43,295 times. That works out to about one search per hour, 24/7/365. If that doesn’t indicate passion for the world’s most popular search engine, I don’t know what does.
But I’d never argue that Google is always the fastest, most effective way to find facts, seek advice, take actions, or simply satisfy your curiosity about the world around you. Actually, there are more viable Google alternatives than ever. For the most part, they don’t compete by trying to out-Google Google at basic Web searching. Instead, they do useful things that Google doesn’t.
I’m nowhere near as dependent on any of these five free services as I am on Google — but I use and recommend them all.
It’s no secret that Apple and Microsoft have one of the stranger relationships in tech. While Microsoft has produced software such as Office for the Macintosh platform, and Apple has opened its doors to Windows with its switch to Intel, they still are highly competitive with each other. But Cupertino’s relationship with Google is souring far faster, which is the perfect opening for Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone.
Apple is apparently in discussions with Microsoft to give the Bing search engine the top spot for search on iPhone, which currently belongs to Google. These talks have been underway for several weeks, BusinessWeek reports, but nothing as of yet has been finalized.
Getting on the iPhone as the default search engine would be a huge win for Bing. I regularly search for things on my iPhone, so just the boost there in search queries would help Microsoft overall in gaining some search share, something it sorely needs. It’s not clear whether any search deal would also extend to the Safari browser, available on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms.
Either way, its pretty likely that Google wouldn’t be completely erased from the iPhone. YouTube is a popular application. Apple would probably also let users switch back to Google in settings just like it already does now if users wish to search using Yahoo. Bing Maps could replace Google Maps, however.
What are your thoughts on the increasingly hostile relationship between Apple and Google? Who stands to benefit most here? We’d like to hear what you think.


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We've been saying for years that the term "lens compression" is misleading, but Lee Morris over at Fstoppers has put together a useful video that explains why this is the case, and demonstrates it with two easy-to-understand examples.
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Sundridge will soon begin hosting a farmer's market Friday evenings on the Lions' Club grounds, which is also home to a children's park.
Tiffany Palmer, who operates the newly opened Smokin' Blond BBQ Shack at Copperhead Distillery, proposed the idea to council.
Mayor Lyle Hall especially liked the plan to hold the farmers' market Fridays because “we don't have much else going on Friday nights.”
Palmer recently moved to Sundridge from the Collingwood area, where she also held a farmers' market.
Palmer told council that farmers' market was also held Friday nights so it wouldn't conflict with Collingwood's farmers' market Saturdays.
Fridays worked because the Clearview event coincided with cottage owners arriving in the area for the weekend. They would include the farmers' market as one of their stops upon arrival.
Palmer reasoned the same should hold true with cottagers arriving in Almaguin Fridays or up for the summer.
Palmer already has commitments from about a dozen vendors “who are showing great interest” and has plans to reach out to about 20 more people.
Some of the vendors will sell artwork, honey or soap, and there are area farmers with a variety of produce.
The Lions' Club grounds include a gazebo and Palmer says that's where bands can provide live music for one to two hours.
“This can draw visitors and locals,” Palmer said.
“It can also help promote the community and local businesses, like myself on Main Street, by bringing people to the area. We've had two years of COVID shutting down things and people want to do things and just be a community again.”
Coun. Fraser Williamson called the proposal “an excellent opportunity,” while Coun. Barbara Belrose said Palmer “knows what she's doing.”
Deputy Mayor Shawn Jackson said the “waterfront is the perfect spot.”
If there is one concern it's the proximity of the farmer's market to the wharf, which Hall says wasn't designed to accommodate a farmers' market.
“But I'm pretty confident something can be worked out,” he added.
Palmer said the goal is to have the vendors set up in the parking area which is owned by the municipality and the market would operate from 5 to 9 p.m.
Palmer said in Clearview the farmers' market worked with the local Lions' Club and each Friday the club would hold a barbeque with proceeds going to one of the many groups the Clearview Lions support.
Palmer is planning to talk to the Sundridge Lions about also holding a barbeque on the site Friday evenings so the club can raise money for its charities.
Palmer said in Clearview the municipality rented pop-up tents displaying the municipal logo to vendors and said Sundridge may want to consider doing the same thing for vendors who don't have their own tents.
“For Clearview it was a nice brand awareness program,” Palmer said.
Jackson said tents with the Sundridge logo is something the municipality should consider as a future purchase and added the farmers' market is “exactly what the town needs right now.”
Hall said everything Palmer proposed sounded “very positive” and it's also something the municipality has tried to pull off in the past but with limited success.
“I'm prepared to make it successful,” Palmer said.
Hall said COVID has left a lot of people “fatigued and they need something.”
“They've been clustered for so long and this is a chance to enjoy the waterfront,” Hall said.
Palmer says vendors would be charged $25 a visit.
The goal is to get the farmers' market running by this month. It will run until Oct. 7 as people head into the Thanksgiving weekend.
Rocco Frangione is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the North Bay Nugget. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.


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Hyundai hydrogen car to do cabbies' test The Knowledge photographing streets of London
The Knowledge is the he famously demanding 2,000-mile training course that London black cab operators have to pass in order to qualify for their Hackney Carriage license.
The photos and videoimages recorded by the car will go towards creating a mosaic of 650,000 street pictures and a 200.5-second time-lapse video of the journey.
Hyundai will record the drive using new softwarethat will control the camera shutter, based on the car's speed, distance traveled and angle of travel to capture the entire journey photographically.
The camera will take a pictures every 6-7 metres, which will mean recording 8,000,000MB of data. A bespoke software engine will then sequence, align and blend the images in real timeto create a continuous image that can be seen online at the end of the challenge.
The project, called A Streetcar Named Hyundai and mapped out by the Ordnance Surveyteam who delivered the Olympic torch route, will take a total of 50 days, from 29 September to 19 November, the car being driven by celebrities and employees of Hyundai UK.
British Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams, a Hyundai ambassador, will launch the journey and will drive the first leg with Hyundai UK's president and CEO,Tony Whitehorn. Whitehorn said: "We're incredibly proud of how far Hyundai has come in the UK in the short space of ten years. During this time our product range has been completely transformed through innovation, design and technology -all of which are encapsulated in the ix35 Fuel Cell. This vehicle is currently the only fuel cell car on sale in the UK and has been tested on the streets of London since 2013."


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Apple could bring back the manufacturing of its iPhone to the US, a big deal for the country - and according to unnamed sources of Nikkei, Apple asked both of its manufacturing partners in Pegatron and Foxconn on ways of bringing iPhone production back to the USA.
Nikkei's sources said: "Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S. Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns". Another source said that Foxconn boss Terry Gou "had been less enthusiastic due to an inevitable rise in production costs", adding: "Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double".
Where did this all come from? Well, considering President-elect Trump has placed Apple front and center during his rallies about hoarding cash overseas and throwing all of its manufacturing out of the United States, he pledged he would make the tech giants manufacture their products in the US - which will significantly boost employment numbers. In January, Trump said: "We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries".
I don't know how that's a bad thing, more jobs for Americans is good, right? But it'll make iPhones and other US-made electronics more expensive! Well, if that's the price we have to pay - I say we should do it. Heck, the total BOM (bill of materials) of the new iPhone 7 is just $225... so surely the rest of the price past $1000 is distribution, profits, marketing, and more. Apple could take a hit with profits per iPhone sold, to offset the increased manufacturing costs within the US.
But it was a statement by The Wall Street Journal that had me iffy on the subject, where the outlet talked about Apple bringing back manufacturing of the iPhone to the US. The WSJ said: "When Jabil Circuit Inc., the world's third-largest contract manufacturer by revenue, needed to quickly ramp up production of its electronics components a few years ago, the company was able to add 35,000 workers in China in less than six weeks".
They continued: "In no other country can you scale up so quickly," said John Dulchinos, vice president of digital manufacturing at Jabil, a St. Petersburg, Fla., supplier to companies such as Apple Inc. and Electrolux SA. "You have the ability to move quickly and there's a really strong electronics supply chain in Asia centered around China".
But the Journal did have a good point about the future of manufacturing, saying: "some manufacturing jobs done in China with human labor could be lost to machines if production moves back to the US". Now that part, I totally agree with. Automation is going to roll through manufacturing jobs like a steamroller in the coming decades, and that's something that not only Apple has to think about, but the US, and other countries around the world - and most of all, anyone looking at a job in the manufacturing and production of anything in these facilities.
Apple boss Tim Cook doesn't like the idea of manufacturing iPhones in the US, as he agrees with many economists that the vocational skills required for Apple manufacturing don't exist in the US. Really? There aren't enough Americans with the skills to manufacture an iPhone in the US? I highly doubt that.