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The semiconductor industry was under a "bullish attack" for much of 2021. The iShares Semiconductor ETF ( (SOXX)-was up nearly 40% in 2021. But even that performance was outpaced by AMD, despite strong competition from other companies such as NVIDIA ( (NVDA) - Get NVIDIA Corporation Report), Intel ( (INTC) - Get Intel Corporation Report), and Qualcomm ( (QCOM)
Indeed, AMD saw its shares rise a whopping 55% over the past year. The company has also posted dizzying revenue growth of over 50% in the past five quarters, sports a consensus earnings growth of over 20% per year through at least 2024, and has a robust, nearly debt-free balance sheet.
Wall Street remains bullish on AMD
The consensus among Wall Street experts on AMD shares is bullish. The average rating among 23 analysts offering 12-month price targets in the last three months is a “moderate buy.”
However, despite a fairly bullish outlook, the stock’s average price target is $143, which suggests a roughly 1% downside from current levels. There’s quite a bit of range in price targets, however - the highest price target is $180 while the lowest is $115.
- The latest rating coming from Wall Street was from Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann. He says AMD shares are a “buy” and offers a price target of $180. Mosemann says he feels confident that AMD will continue to maintain mobile momentum and that the company’s solid performance will be enhanced by its impressive efficiencies heading into 2022. He also mentions that AMD will be launching more than 200 premium platforms during the upcoming year.
- Even though he believes AMD will beat guidance in Q4, highlighting notebook shipment increases as well as increases in enterprise demand, Citigroup analyst Cristopher Danely is skeptical of AMD stock. He offers a $125 price target, which he says is due mainly to an inflated current valuation and uncertainties surrounding the post-pandemic macroeconomic environment.
- The most bearish rating comes from UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri. Although he recently raised his price target from $105 to $115, the analyst maintained his hold recommendation and expects a 20% downside from the current price. Despite their solid earnings and guidance reported in Q3, the analyst is skeptical of AMD's ability to stay ahead of Intel’s product roadmap, which he considers to be a key contributor to AMD’s share price.


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Thai PP, PE markets subdued by slowing economy, competitive imports
Thai economy hit by US-China trade war
Thailand’s economy grew at the slowest pace since 2014 in the first quarter of 2019 as the escalating US-China trade war hit the country’s exports, which account for more than 60% of its gross domestic product.
Intensifying concerns about the trade war have also curtailed the country’s demand for polyolefins, pushing Thai buyers to the sidelines amid the uncertainty surrounding the global economy.
A PP distributor noted, “Manufacturers are struggling with cash flow issues as a result of a challenging economic environment, which has reduced demand. Buyers are not interested in making fresh purchases if they are not offered an attractive discount.”
Post-election uncertainty adds to weak sentiment
Thailand has faced political uncertainty since final results from the March 24 general election were revealed on May 9 without a clear winner. Although the new parliament has recently elected the prime minister, the country’s polyolefin market is yet to recover from the uncertainty that lasted several weeks.
Lower-priced import offers
Several players in Thailand commented that the local PP and PE markets are under downward pressure from competitive imports, particularly for Chinese and US origins.
“Local prices are mostly stable this week, however domestic producers face pressure from cheaper imports. We have received a very competitive LDPE film offer from China recently,” a distributor said.
A few converters also opined, “We are keeping our inventories low for now and we expect that the market will remain on a stable to softer trend in the short term. Local producers may reduce their prices in order to preserve their market share against the threat of competitive imports.”
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World's First 3D Printed Rocket Engine Test Fired By Agnikul Cosmos
Chennai-based startup Agnikul Cosmos has become the World's first company to successfully test-fire a fully 3D printed rocket engine - 'Agnilet'. CEO Srinath Ravichandran said the engine had zero assembled parts and comprised just a single piece of hardware. Reportedly, the engine could lift the rocket to 700 km with 100 Kg of payload. Besides, the 3D engine can be produced in under four days though it requires high precision.


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Southfield (CW50) – While working on in New York, Melissa Butler spent her free time making lipstick in her kitchen for herself, after she grew tired of experiencing the beauty industry’s lack of diversity and inclusion. Not only did she see this as the industry determining what the standard for beauty is, but she also noticed the industry setting this standard using chemicals that compromised women’s health.
In 2019, Butler opened The Lip Bar’s flagship store in her hometown of Detroit. Coming home to Detroit felt like the right place to embark on what she believed was a business that was destined for success. The Lip Bar became Butler’s contribution to what is seen as the revival of Detroit. Creating a vegan lipstick line that helped provide a product to women of all races and ethnicity’s without having to compromise their health for beauty was the goal and now The Lip Bar has expanded to more than just lipstick.READ MORE: Pontiac Woman Charged After Allegedly Stabbing 75-Year-Old Sleeping Grandfather
The brands best-selling lipstick, Boss Lady, was designed to match all complexions, which Butler said was to show women that “they’re all bosses and they just need to step into it.”
The Lip Bar quickly became nationally recognized with deals to stock TLB products inside 40 Target stores, eventually leading to availability in more than 450 Targets. The latest expansion of sales comes from a deal with Walmart, which TLB announced on February 15th. Along with the announcement, TLB launched eight new products within Walmart stores. Some of the new products included new primer, eyeshadow palettes, blush, and mascara.READ MORE: Gov. Whitmer Threatens Profit Seizure If Pipeline Keeps Operating
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In the West Midlands, phone at800 if 4G eats your Freeview
Tests have started on whether 4G mobile services due to start later this year on will interfere with Freeview TV broadcasts. A newly-formed body has turned on 800MHz transmitters and opened a telephone helpline for consumers who are affected.
Using the brand “at800” Digital Mobile Spectrum Litd, (DMSL) has switched on temporary transmitters at Cradley Heath and Rowley Regis near Dudley, West of Birmingham, set up a website at800.tv and opened phone lines for anyone affected. The government has estimated that when full-scale 4G services at 800MHz start, up to 900,000 people may need to be given filters which clean up their TV signals and allow them to continue watching digital terrestrial television (DTT), which broadcasts at frequencies between 470 and 850MHz.
4G tests needed
DMSL was set up by to promote 4G services, with £180 million collected from mobile operators, and announced its plan of campaign in February when it appointed Simon Beresford-Wylie (formerly of Nokia Siemens Networks) as chief executive.
The interference is only caused by the 800MHz spectrum auctioned earlier this month, and not by the 4G services already on offer from EE, which are being delivered on existing phone mobile spectrum.
Communications Minister Ed Vaizey has promised that every household in the country Ofcom estimates that about 900,000 homes could be affected, though some early suggestions said the figure could be as high as 2.3 million.
The West Midlands at800 test is designed to see the real impact of the new services. In most cases, any interference can be fixed by fitting a digital filter between the antenna and the Freeview decoder, to block the 4G signals.
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Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Spending to Decline 5.5 Per Cent in 2013
Outlook for Semiconductor Equipment Market Improves, But Remains Soft in Short Term
"Weak semiconductor market conditions, which continued into the first quarter of 2013, generated downward pressure on new equipment purchases," said Bob Johnson, research vice president at Gartner. "However, semiconductor equipment quarterly revenues are beginning to improve and positive movement in the book-to-bill ratio indicates that spending for equipment will pick up later in the year. Looking beyond 2013, we expect that the current economic malaise will have worked its way through the industry and spending will follow a generally increasing pattern in all sectors throughout the rest of the forecast period."
Gartner predicts that 2014 semiconductor capital spending will increase 14.2 per cent, followed by 10.1 per cent growth in 2015. The next cyclical decline will be a mild drop of 3.5 per cent in 2016, followed by a return to growth in 2017.
Although capital spending for all products will decline in 2013, logic spending will be the strongest segment, declining only 2 per cent compared with a 3.5 per cent decline for the total market. This is driven by aggressive investment of the few top players, which are ramping up production at the sub-30-nanometer (nm) nodes. Memory will continue to be weak through 2013, with maintenance-level investments for DRAM and a slightly down NAND market until supply and demand balance returns. For 2014, Gartner sees capital expenditure (capex) returning to growth with an increase of 14.2 per cent over 2013. The foundry segment will see an increase in spending of about 14.3 per cent this year, while both integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), and semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) providers will show spending declines. Beyond 2013, memory surges in 2014 and 2015 and a cyclical decline in 2016, while logic returns to a steady growth pattern.
The wafer fab equipment (WFE) market is seeing continuous quarter-over-quarter growth in 2013, as major manufacturers come out of a period of high inventories and a generally weak semiconductor market. Early in the year the book-to-bill ratio passed 1:1 for the first time in months, signalling that the need for new equipment is strengthening as demand for leading-edge devices is improving. Looking beyond 2013, Gartner sees growth returning to the WFE market with double-digit growth in 2014 and 2015, before a modest cyclical downturn in 2016.
The capital spending forecast estimates total capital spending from all forms of semiconductor manufacturers, including foundries and back-end assembly and test services companies. This is based on the industry's requirements for new and upgraded facilities to meet the forecast demand for semiconductor production. Capital spending represents the total amount spent by the industry for equipment and new facilities.
More detailed analysis is available in the report "Forecast: Semiconductor Capital Spending, Worldwide, 2Q13 Update." The report is available on Gartner's web site at http://www.gartner.com/resId=2519715.
This research is produced by Gartner's Semiconductor Manufacturing program. This research program, which is part of the overall semiconductor research group, provides a comprehensive view of the entire semiconductor industry, from manufacturing to device and application market trends. More information on Gartner's semiconductor research can be found in the Gartner Semiconductor Manufacturing Focus Area at http://www.gartner.com/technology/core/products/research/markets/semiconductorManufacturing.jsp
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An independent Birmingham record shop is bucking the trend for downloads as loyal customers old and new keep returning for their vinyl fix.
Unlike big fish HMV, which recently went into administration, Birmingham’s modest Swordfish Records has survived music downloads and global recessions for more than 30 years.
Friends and business partners Gareth Owen and Mike Caddick opened their first record shop, called Rockers, in Hurst Street, in 1979, selling punk and later New Romantic records.
“It was more of a place to hang out for music lovers and local bands than a business,” said Gareth, from Kings Heath.
In 1989 the shop moved to Needless Alley, off New Street, where it remained until 1996 and changed its name to Swordfish.
In 1996 – the age of Britpop – it moved again, this time around the corner to Temple Street.
Gareth said: “The CD was booming, we were selling literally thousands of CDs every week. But it’s simply not the case any more. We still sell CDs but nothing like the quantity we did.”
However, Gareth is thankful to the regulars who have followed them to their new shop in Dalton Street, near Birmingham Crown Court.
He said: “There are very few record shops in and around the Midlands, so hopefully people will hunt us out.
“At least we were able to continue it. One option was to not run a shop at all and maybe go online.
"But it’s what we do – we really like the interaction and meeting people.
“It’s the sort of shop that appeals to very serious music fans who like to browse. It’s what we trade off really.
“We find that we get customers who we’ve had for 30 years. We also find that we are selling vinyl Beatles albums to 20-year-olds,which is pretty good.
“Our biggest seller this week by a mile is the new Bowie album.”
Among the most expensive sales the pair have seen are two new pressings of Led Zeppelin’s entire album collection for £750.
And original copies of Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix records still pack a punch, selling for hundreds of pounds each.
Vinyl will never be sold to a mass market again, said Gareth, but there are a few reasons why it has become popular once more.
“People got rid of their vinyl when CDs came in. They thought the CD was the big, new, shiny format that was going to replace vinyl,” he said.
“I can remember people selling us whole collections that was going to fund CD buying.
“But now you get thousands of people who think ‘God, I wish I’d not got rid of that’ so they’re nostalgic for vinyl and are re-buying it.
“Then you have got people who have always had vinyl because they’re convinced it’s a better format because it has a warm sound to it.
“We have also got this new market with kids of student age – for things they really like they go out and buy the vinyl.”
Gareth added: “Kids are very open-minded about music, they like buying stuff from the past and new stuff.
“The Bowie thing is a good example – the old fans are buying it as well as the kids, who understand this is where new bands get their influence from.
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"We put a prototype giant mech in game and couldn't see sh*t."
As everyone knows, each and every video game goes through myriads of iterations throughout its development cycle, with creators often leaving heaps of content, including, at times, major game-defining elements, on the cutting room floor. Despite players rarely getting to experience this content, it nonetheless continues to be a fascinating topic of discussion, a fact that's been proven once again by Jake Solomon, a Game Designer and the father of modern XCOM games.
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Recently, the developer took to Twitter to share an insightful tidbit about War of the Chosen, a DLC for Firaxis' 2016 turn-based tactics game XCOM 2. In his post, Solomon revealed that the expansion was initially planned to feature giant mechs that players could pilot, along with customizable interceptors and air combat. This original concept also explains the DLC's internal codename, Ozzy, as a nod to Ozzy Osbourne and the heavy metal theme (battle robots are made of heavy metal, you get the idea).
The plans, however, were not to be executed, as according to Solomon, when they put a prototype of a giant mech in the game, they "couldn't see sh*t", for XCOM's camera angle was not meant for showcasing 30-foot mechs, let alone managing their pathing and other nuances. Consequently, the developers scrapped the idea, opting instead to introduce a plethora of other new content in the DLC, leaving players without pilotable robots.
The developer further clarified that it wasn't an April Fool's prank and War of the Chosen was indeed supposed to be about battle mechs:


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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has expanded its Repair and Reuse grant program to help small businesses as part of the department’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. DEQ launched this program in 2017 as a pilot project, and due to its success, officially re-launched this grant program for 2020. This year, DEQ will award up to $120,000 in grants throughout Oregon.
“I’m excited that DEQ can provide opportunities to support workforce development in communities throughout Oregon, especially during our current economic crisis,” said Lydia Emer, land quality administrator for DEQ.
DEQ’s Workforce Development Repair and Reuse grants provide up to $10,000 for a small business, tribal business or nonprofit organization, or other nonprofits focused on repair and reuse. Eligible Oregon businesses and nonprofits repair, salvage, refurbish or resell common consumer goods such as clothing, electronics and furniture. DEQ defines “reuse” as the return of a commodity into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as originally intended.
“Keeping the repair and reuse sectors economically viable is a priority, and we want to use this grant to help keep reuse and repair businesses operating through the disruptions caused by the current health crisis,” the DEQ’s website reads.
The deadline to apply is June 5. DEQ has broadened eligible costs covered through the Repair and Reuse program to include employee retention. To find grant application forms and instructions, visit https://ordeq.org/DEQRepairandReuse. Applicants with addition questions can contact Marie Diodati at 503-229-5446 or [email protected]
The DEQ is expected to announce information about the 2020 General Materials Management grant program soon.


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The President of Belarus is on a visit to Tehran to discuss bilateral ties between the two economically challenged nations and close Russia allies.
Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "the last dictator of Europe", will meet with Iran’s First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber, parliament speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, and Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
The visit will focus on“emphasis on trade and economic cooperation,” including industry, agriculture, transport, and logistics, according to Lukashenko’s press agency.
“Special attention will be paid to the situation in the region and the world in general,” the press release stated, adding that several agreements on “areas of mutual interest” will be signed.
Alexander Lukashenko, Putin’s ally in the war against Ukraine, said last month that the global situation of Iran and Belarus has forced the two countries to have closer links.
Belarus mainly exports potassium fertilizer, wood and fibers to Iran and imports food products from the Islamic Republic. Annual trade between the two dictatorships reached a peak of just $100 million in 2022, the trip aiming to increase that significantly.
The presidents of Iran and Belarus made the pledge for greater cooperation on the sidelines of the 16th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand in September, to be led by the two countries’ foreign ministers.


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Previously, it’s been shown that obesity can cause changes in the brain, leading some people to over eat food high in saturated fat and refined sugar, as well as cause poorer memory. A new study published by researchers at University at Buffalo found a new physiological trait that can become altered as a result of obesity. Their findings suggest that obese mice have particularly less sensible taste buds than their lighter brethren, and react more poorly to sweets suggesting that obese people may need to ingest more sweets than would be required in normal conditions to get the same sensory bang.
Taste may actually be the most complicated sense, as researchers know less about how this sense works than hearing or sight for instance. This may be because taste is strongly connected with emotions, as various stimuli like bitter, sweet or sour elicit various emotional responses: pleasure or displeasure in various degrees. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective as taste often was the first barrier between us and food that may be unsafe to eat. It also acts as an incentive driver – ever wondered why meat or sweets taste so good? It’s because these high energy foods would have been vital for survival not too long ago, and to make things easier the brain developed a pleasure or reward response to eating high fat and sugar foods. Of course, now that we live in a time of abundance there’s no need to stack up and eat all the fat you can before a predator reels in from behind, faced with the choice, however, a lot of people fall into the trap of overeating.
The taste of food is picked-up by taste buds, most of which are located on the tongue. A typical adult has between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds, while each bud has between 10 and 50 sensory cells. These cells form a capsule that is shaped like a flower bud or an orange. At the tip of this capsule there is a pore that works as a fluid-filled funnel. This funnel contains thin, finger-shaped sensory cell extensions, which are called taste hairs. Proteins on the surface bind chemicals to the cell for tasting. The actual sense of taste itself is relayed to the nervous system through several cranial nerves.
The researchers compared 25 mice obese mice that were fed a high-fat diet to 25 normal weighing mice. To measure how each animal responded to various taste stimuli, the researchers looked at the calcium signaling process that occurs in taste cells. For each kind of “taste” there’s a certain calcium level associated to it which can be measured. The researchers found that in obese mice there were significantly fewer taste cells that responded to sweet stimuli, and as if this wasn’t enough it was also found that those that responded had a weaker response than usual.
“Obesity can lead to alterations in the brain, as well as the nerves that control the peripheral taste system, but no one had ever looked at the cells on the tongue that make contact with food,” said lead researcher Kathryn Medler. “What we see is that even at this level – at the first step in the taste pathway – the taste receptor cells themselves are affected by obesity.”
It was hypothesized before that obese people have a less sensitive taste than thinner people, but this is the first study that has evidence to back this idea up, albeit the research is on mice. Medler and colleagues suspect that this lack of sensitivity might encourage people to over eat just to get the same amount of taste response or pleasure reward, adding further weight to an already vicious cycle.
“If we understand how these taste cells are affected and how we can get these cells back to normal, it could lead to new treatments,” Medler concluded. “These cells are out on your tongue and are more accessible than cells in other parts of your body, like your brain.”
Findings were documented in a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE.
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NEW YORK, May 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Criteo S.A. (NASDAQ: CRTO), the performance marketing technology company, today announced that Benoit Fouilland, CFO, will present at the Citi Small & Mid Cap Conference, to be held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York, NY, on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at 03:05 pm Eastern Time.
Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO) delivers personalized performance marketing at an extensive scale. Measuring return on post-click sales, Criteo makes ROI transparent and easy to measure. Criteo has 2,000 employees in 31 offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, serving 11,000 advertisers worldwide and with direct relationships with 16,000 publishers.
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ACCC relaxes rules for medical equipment suppliers and supermarkets
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(Reuters) – Fb Inc (NASDAQ:) plans to create 10,000 jobs within the European Union over the subsequent 5 years, the social media big stated on Monday, to assist construct the so-called metaverse – a web based world the place individuals can use completely different gadgets to maneuver and talk in a digital setting.
Chief Government Mark Zuckerberg has been speaking up metaverse since July and the buzzy phrase, first coined in a dystopian novel three many years earlier, has been referenced by different tech corporations comparable to Microsoft (NASDAQ:).
“Nobody firm will personal and function the metaverse,” Nick Clegg, Fb’s vp of worldwide affairs, wrote in a weblog publish. “Bringing this to life will take collaboration and cooperation throughout corporations, builders, creators and policymakers.”
Utilizing applied sciences comparable to digital and augmented actuality Fb plans to create a larger sense of “digital presence”, which is able to mimic the expertise of interacting in individual.
The coronavirus pandemic has shifted a lot of the workplace conferences on-line, resulting in the rise of conferencing apps comparable to Zoom, and large tech corporations need to capitalize on this shift.
Fb, which has invested closely in digital actuality (VR) and augmented actuality (AR), together with shopping for corporations like Oculus, intends to attach its almost three billion customers via a number of gadgets and apps.
Zuckerberg believes the metaverse could be accessible throughout VR, AR, PC, cellular gadgets and recreation consoles.
It has already dedicated $50 million for constructing the metaverse, and testing a brand new distant work app the place customers of Oculus Quest 2 headsets may maintain conferences as avatar variations of themselves.
Whereas Fb didn’t say what roles it might rent for and the place they might be based mostly, the corporate has been going through antitrust probes within the area, and is commonly criticised over on-line security and hate speech on its platform.
“We look ahead to working with governments throughout the EU to search out the appropriate individuals and the appropriate markets to take this ahead, as a part of an upcoming recruitment drive throughout the area,” Clegg wrote.
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Suffolk Business Awards 2021: who will be crowned Business of the Year?
- Credit: StrategiQ Marketing
The winner of Business of the Year at this year's Suffolk Business Awards will be selected from our nine category winners by the judges and sponsors, Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and Sizewell C.
From strong financial performance to positive customer, community and environmental initiatives, the winner will have achieved extraordinary things in the past 12 months, making it a business Suffolk can be proud of.
Paul Briddon, president of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, said: “Their achievements and attributes will encapsulate what is striking about the county’s business community: its resilience, especially given the last 18 months we’ve all experienced, its focus on quality and delivery of its promises, its endless inventiveness and flair and also its civic virtues as to how it treats its staff, customers and the wider communities of which it is a part.”
Steve Carroll, Sizewell C senior supply chain manager, said: “We are delighted to support the Suffolk Business Awards again and wish all finalists the best of luck. Suffolk has an amazingly talented business community that we want to continue to work with through the delivery of Sizewell C.
“Sizewell C is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for East Suffolk and will be a catalyst for regional growth, helping the local economy to recover after Covid. The Sizewell C consortium of over 200 businesses estimate that the project is worth £4.4 billion to the region and £2 billion to Suffolk.
“We want as many local firms as possible to work with us in the delivery of Suffolk’s new nuclear power station, which will not only save 9 million tonnes of CO2 every year of its operation, but will be vital in supporting the growth of local businesses.”
Last year’s winner, StrategiQ Marketing, was commended for its clear strategy, focus on excellence and deep investment in people, using some great ideas to get the best out of its team. The winner of this year’s award will be revealed on Thursday, November 18.


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Karachi: Soneri Bank Limited, one of Pakistan’s leading private commercial banks, and Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, announced the launch of the Mastercard World debit card and FalconPay services for the bank’s customers.
Soneri World debit card is one of the most prestigious offerings amongst the category of cards with numerous benefits. Ideal for those who travel worldwide, the card offers customers access to VIP lounges internationally, complimentary services at world-class hotels, and accidental and health coverage, in addition to many other benefits.
FalconPay (powered by Mastercard) is a mobile financial services platform provided by Inov8. It will allow Soneri Bank to target new market segments within its mobile banking platform, while also creating accessible digital channels for the bank to leverage its conventional branch banking, by creating a distribution channel, which is more or less as effective as that of the other players of branchless banking.
The occasion was graced by Mr. Yaseen Anwar, Former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Mr. Mohammad Aftab Manzoor, President and CEO, Soneri Bank Ltd., Mr. Amin Feerasta, Chief Operating Officer, Soneri Bank Ltd., Mr. Ahmed Saqib Asad, Chief Information Officer, Soneri Bank Ltd., Mr. Khalid Elgibali, Division President, Middle East and North Africa, Mastercard, Mr. Aurangzaib Khan, Area Head Pakistan & Afghanistan, Mastercard, Mr. Hasnain Sheikh, Chairman & Co-CEO, Inov8 Ltd., and a number of other senior officials from Soneri Bank, Mastercard and Inov8.
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From ‘FarmVille’ to ‘Mumbai Underworld’, game developers see social networks as the way to drive games in India...
All it took Games2Win co-founder Alok Kejriwal to turn his mother into a regular social gamer was showing her how to send ‘FarmVille’ gifts over the social networking site Facebook. Now, the 60-year-old regularly pays real money to buy “virtual gifts” for her FarmVille buddies.
Available as an application on Facebook, FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game that allows members to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops and trees, and raising even livestock. It has become a smash hit in the cyber space.
Indeed, social games - casual games that are played on social networking sites with a group of friends - are fast becoming the most used online apps among the 52 million internet subscribers in India. And, this has brought domestic game companies with their own popular portals, like Zapak, Indiagames and Games2Win, into the social networking scene.
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This past year, we have been rocked by massive data breaches (Equifax, Cambridge Analytica, and more) and the gross neglect from centralized entities entrusted with our private information. Finally, at the global stage, we are now having important conversations surrounding consumer data and the rights individuals should have when it comes to protecting their personal information.
It’s more important than ever for consumers to take back their data and really examine the standards we should uphold when it comes to consumer data privacy.
This week, Equifax employees were charged with insider trading and a new data leak was reported which exposed the most private information and habits of over 340 million individuals.
Equifax Employees Charged with Insider Trading
In the aftermath of last year’s data breach, researchers have done a deep dive to expose the depth of the damage and assess the clean up. New findings have since come out about how executives conducted themselves during the breach. The Equifax breach was notable not only in the tremendous scale of the breach, but also in the gross mismanagement and misconduct from the company. The company reportedly discovered the breach in July, but it wasn’t publicly reported until September. During this time frame, several executives sold shares, based on insider information.
Last week, a former Equifax software development manager was charged with insider trading. Those who suspiciously sold Equifax stock during this time frame includes several executives such as their Chief Financial Officer and a former chief information officer who was investigated earlier this year. A committee composed of independent Equifax board members has since cleared several of them.
Richard Best, director of the SEC’s Atlanta bureau, said in a statement Thursday, “Corporate insiders simply cannot abuse their access to sensitive information and illegally enrich themselves.”
Suspicions of the trades were first raised after Equifax detailed the timing of the breach, which impacted more than 145 million U.S. consumers who are now vulnerable to identity theft as the hackers likely accessed Social Security and driver’s license numbers, birth dates and addresses.
Continued Problems with Protecting Consumer Data: More Leaks
Another Leak Reported This Week
Within the past week, there has been an even more significant reported data leak. A security researcher found that Exactis, a Florida-based data broker had exposed a database that contained close to 340 million individual records on a publicly accessible server. The exposed database included details for each individual listed, including phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses, and information about the person’s habits and children.
The researcher found the exposed database while searching for ElasticSearch databases visible on publicly accessible servers with American IP addresses. Soon, he found the Exactis database, unprotected by any firewall. While it’s not known if the database has been accessed by any malicious parties, the database was vulnerable for unknown period of time.
Wired reports, “Aside from the sheer breadth of the Exactis leak, it may be even more remarkable for its depth: Each record contains entries that go far beyond contact information and public records to include more than 400 variables on a vast range of specific characteristics: whether the person smokes, their religion, whether they have dogs or cats, and interests as varied as scuba diving and plus-size apparel.”
The database did not include financial information or Social Security numbers, which is the most information most useful to hackers for identity theft, but it does expose individuals to social engineering hacks. It is possible, though, for hackers to cross-reference this data and make their attacks far more potent.
The New Age of Consumer Data Protection
The number of data breaches has only been increasing, making consumer data security a serious concern.
MarketWatch shares this chart on data breaches, as there have been a surge in hacking attacks targeting sensitive information. In the past few years, we have seen significant hacks from companies like Equifax, Target , Yahoo, Dropbox, the Democratic National Committee and many more.
Many of these breaches are related to the poor management of the company which holds your private and personal information. Many companies ask for your personal and private information in order for you to use their platform. What are they doing with this information? Companies have long profited from the collection of private information. Individuals should have the right to know how this information is used.
This year GDPR, passed in Europe, addresses consumer data privacy issues. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.
It’s more important than ever for people to fully understand how their data is being used.
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Mkango Resources Ltd (LON:MKA, CVE:MKA) is buying a stake in a company that has developed a technology to recycle rare earth magnets, which it hopes to employ at its Songwe Hill project in Malawi.
Mkango is buying a 25% stake for £300,000 and will provide a £200,000 convertible loan for HyProMag, which has developed a patented process for extracting and demagnetising neodymium iron boron alloy powders from magnets embedded in scrap and redundant equipment.
The process, developed at the University of Birmingham and named HPMS, has been licensed exclusively to Mkango’s Maginito arm, which aims to blend primary production of rare earth metals from Songwe with recycled production from HyProMag. Mkango has agreed a one-year exclusivity agreement for the technology.
HyProMag’s founding directors include professor emeritus Rex Harris, who first developed the HPMS process; professor Allan Walton, current head of the university’s Magnetic Materials Group; and two honorary Fellows, Dr John Speight and David Kennedy, who are leading world experts in the field of rare earth magnetic materials, alloys and hydrogen technology, and have significant industry experience.
Mkango chief executive William Dawes said: “We are very pleased to be working with the leading team and university in the field of magnetic materials.
“We believe that rare earth magnet recycling and primary production will play complementary roles in the development of a sustainable electric vehicle supply chain and we see clear synergies with the development of Mkango's advanced stage Songwe Hill rare earths project in Malawi.”
Most of the world’s rare earth materials are unearthed from China and Mkango is one of only a handful of rare earths companies outside of the People’s Republic.
As well as such supply constraints, Prof Walton noted that there is “very little recycling of these materials partly due to the technological challenges for efficiently separating magnets from end of life products”.
“This investment in HyProMag will exploit HPMS in order to provide a secure supply of rare earth alloys with a very low environmental footprint. The strategic alliance with Mkango has future potential for supplementing and enhancing products with additional independent supply chains.”


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LOCAL businesses have been wondering where the £1million that Tesco promised for town centre improvements will be spent.
We asked West Lindsey District Council (WLDC), which confirmed that the planning permission for an expansion of the Tesco store has a Section 106 agreement attached to it.
It states that prior to the occupation of the building, a sum of £1million will be paid to the council towards the improvement works to Market Street - including improvements to the footway and carriageway on Market Street, installation of new kerbs and drainage on Market Street and installation of new street furniture.
Planning committee chairman Coun Chris Underwood-Frost said: “The present works are being funded by a grant from the East Midlands Development Agency and a contribution from Lincolnshire County Council.”
“As the Tesco development has not yet started, the developer is not required to pay these monies at the moment. When the Section 106 monies are due, the council will negotiate with Tesco on the best use of this money.”


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Social media giant Facebook has announced to bring 360 video to Samsung's Gear VR - the Virtual Reality (VR) headset launched in India recently.
"Today, we are taking an important step toward improving 360 video in VR: Our powerful dynamic streaming technology for 360 video is coming to Gear VR. Gear VR combines the leading VR software, built by Facebook's Oculus team, with world-class mobile hardware, built by Samsung," a Facebook blog read on Sunday.
Facebook said that they have been developing new technology that will make video in virtual reality work even better. "360 video on Facebook is the first step - it allows you to look around and feel like you are present while watching a video, whether it is surfing in Tahiti or exploring the surface of Mars," the blog further read.
Instead of the entire 360 video in high resolution, theses videos show only the pixels that actually a user is looking at in the highest quality.
To make this work, dozens of variants for every 360 video are made. Each video is tailored to a specific viewing angle and then as a user watches the video, the viewing angle is adjusted rapidly depending on which variant the user is looking at.
"By doing this, we've quadrupled the resolution quality of 360 streaming video in VR by reducing the amount of required network bandwidth by 4x - so videos look clearer and play faster," the blog noted. The video will be out in the next few weeks.
Virtual reality is already something people can touch and feel with the Samsung Gear VR. More than 200 games and apps are already available for the platform in the Oculus store, and people have already watched more than a million hours of video in Gear VR.


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Last week, we livestreamed the first in a series of chats with their scientists, which you can check out above.And stay tuned to our Facebook channel for more livestreams with California Academy scientists in the coming weeks.
Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come from financial scammers or potential child abusers, displaying warnings in the Messenger app that provide tips and suggest you block the offenders.
What problems does the new Facebook review board propose to solve?.It has no influence on the sorts of harassment that regularly occur on Facebook or (Facebook-owned) WhatsApp. It won’t dictate policy for Facebook Groups, where much of the most dangerous content thrives.
The good news is that a relatively very small number of people could actually have been identified by data, and CAM4 says no malicious hackers found it.Other bad news: A Facebook bug caused popular iOS apps like Spotify and TikTok to crash repeatedly for a couple of hours this week.
And lots of apps that don’t use Login With Facebook still use the SDK, which is why the issue Wednesday was so widespread.“It’s something people are not made aware of, and what’s more frustrating is that attempting to block it will break things a user may actually want, such as Login With Facebook.”.
No, it’s not the casting call for a wonky sequel to Knives Out. These are a few of the newly announced members of the Facebook Oversight Board , the independent body that the social networking behemoth has launched to reconsider some of its most important content decisions.
This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.Piketty’s 753-page book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, published in 2013, sold 2.5 million copies worldwide and helped put inequality on the global agenda.Capital and Ideology builds on Piketty’s long-standing argument that inequality has soared across the world since 1980.
But there are also many new books that continue to tell nature, conservation and science stories in creative ways.I’m impressed by the different ways of telling the story, including a children’s adventure series, fun daily readings of nature facts, a literary novel and more.
No wonder it's hell marketing big solutions for the climate crisis to us; many of us think DNA in food is cause for alarm.A seminal book from the heyday of anthropology touches explicitly on meat, flesh, and irrationality: The Raw and the Cooked (1964).
Facebook announced on Monday that it was going to spend $100 million to help local news outlets during the coronavirus crisis.That money was meant to support coronavirus coverage in local publications, but according to Brown, so many requests for that money came in that the company realized that a much bigger sum was needed.
For almost a decade, an Internet Archive program called the Open Library has offered people the ability to "check out" digital scans of physical books held in storage by the Internet Archive.
With a library card, an internet connection, and an e-reader, you can start reading the book right away without ever leaving your house.There are two ways to read your borrowed book: Directly in the Libby app, or on any Kindle device.
What Really Happened: With social distancing and self-quarantining becoming the norm around the world, the internet is becoming even more important in people’s lives as a tool with which to communicate, with platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook assuming even more central roles in how we talk to each other and share information—which makes it a problem when things start to go inexplicably wrong, disrupting that communication in worrying ways.
Beyond saying that authors, publishers, and vendors are responsible for ensuring their books don’t violate any laws, the only other guideline is that Amazon may remove books that provide a “poor customer experience.”.
With the 2020 election now just seven months away, though, newly surfaced social media posts indicate that Russia’s Internet Research Agency is adapting its methods to circumvent those defenses.In September, University of Wisconsin researcher Young Mie Kim started analyzing posts on Facebook and Instagram from 32 accounts connected to the IRA.
For his first photo book, simply titled The Trap, the French photographer captured the Atlanta locales that birthed the ever-popular rap subgenre that shares the tome's name.Desailly spent two months in 2018 criss-crossing neighborhoods in the Georgia capital to photograph what life in the trap looks like.
Soto was right, NYC’s short-term rental market was booming—but what he failed to mention was that it was also largely illegal .On Monday, just four days after Soto’s presentation, the mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement formally announced it had opened an investigation into Guesty, saying that the bulk of the company’s business in New York has likely been unlawful.
This week, Sony and pulled out of two of the biggest gaming events of the year—the PAX East convention and the Game Developers Conference—citing Covid-19, and as Sony said in a statement, because of the fact that "the situation related to the virus and global travel restrictions are changing daily.".No Man's Sky Is Now a Game With Living Spaceships, Which Is Weird.
Another new feature it's testing, called "secure value recovery," would let you create an address book of your Signal contacts and store them on a Signal server, rather than simply depend on the contact list from your phone.
Facebook would transform itself from a college student hangout to the dominant social media service, with a population bigger than that of any country in the world, and was on its way to having more members than any religion.To understand Facebook, you have to understand Zuckerberg.
In the early days of Facebook, founder Mark Zuckerberg was always scrawling away in a notebook.But a new book by WIRED's Steven Levy describes more than a dozen pages Levy obtained from that very notebook.A new report shows that antechinus is ill-prepared for a warming world .
How to read it: Available digitally or in the Birds of Prey: Black Canary collected print edition.How to read it: Available digitally or in the Gotham Central Book 1: In The Line of Duty collected print edition.
“We’ve just introduced an easy way to tell friends that you like what they’re sharing on Facebook with one easy click,” the note says.We think of the new ‘Like’ feature to be the stars, and the comments to be the review.”.
Open the browser menu, click Settings , then choose Privacy and Services to find the three levels of privacy Edge offers.Pick Focused for simple, clutter-free access to your bookmarks and a web search; go with Inspirational to add a background image; choose Informational to add some feeds from Microsoft News.


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Alaska Electric Light and Power is warning customers of a new telephone scam, where a caller posing as an AEL & P employee tries to get credit card information.
Spokeswoman Deb Ferriera says two customers called the Juneau utility this morning to report suspicious phone calls. The scammer allegedly tells the customer they forgot to sign their check, then threatens to cut off power if immediate credit card payment is not received.
Ferriera says the company never demands credit card information over the phone.
“We’re hesitant to provide information on accounts over the phone to begin with without verifying all of the information to make sure that it’s actually the customer,” she says. “And in this case, we certainly would never ask for account number information over the phone. We don’t process credit card or debit card payments within the office, we don’t process them over the phone. There’s a third party that can process that information.”
Ferriera says Juneau Police are aware of the scam. A police spokesman could not be reached for comment.
If you receive a similar call or have any concerns, Ferriera says you can call AEL & P at 780-2222.
- Tribes say filing a petition to adopt in state court is hard to accomplish in remote villages, and requires the services of an attorney.
- That was the message delivered to lawmakers Thursday, as they consider a bill to use the state’s high-risk insurance pool to help stabilize the market.
- If the state were to forgo distribution of passenger taxes, Skagway would lose out on about $4 million.
- The agreement is the first formalization of co-management between the Alaska tribes along the Kuskokwim River and the federal government.


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Shell recognises the importance of industry collaboration in the development of a common standards for electric charging technology. Shell is pleased to join CharIN as a Core member, and looks forward to being an active participant looking at charging infrastructure, communication and grid integration.
Matthew Tipper, Vice President Shell New Fuels said: “A range of different fuels and vehicle technologies will be needed to meet growing demand for transport in a low carbon energy future. Electric vehicles are one of these solutions. We are pleased to join CharIN and take part in the efforts to develop common standards for the technology that will support the increasing number of electric vehicles on the roads wherever and however they charge”.
Shell is already actively developing systems designed to serve the growing number of customers driving electric vehicles. From 2017, Shell will launch electric vehicle fast charging at a selection of Shell forecourts in the UK, with other countries to follow, to serve the ‘on the go’ charging needs of customers.
Shell is also in the early stage of launching an offer to customer fleets in Europe and the US, delivering more efficient charging for their electric vehicles via the use of Shell’s own smart charging technology. This technology can help to both reduce charging costs for customers and integrate this new demand effectively into the power grid. Smart charging technology also optimises the integration of renewable energy sources, by shifting the charge of electric vehicles to a period of the day when supply of electricity from those sources is high. Shell is also developing a R&D technology programme on electric vehicle charging and infrastructure.
Shell is an integrated energy and petrochemicals company, with an average of 92,000 employees in more than 70 countries. Shell aims to meet the world’s growing demand for energy in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible.
Shell is investing in the development of alternative transport fuels including biofuels, liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen and electric mobility.


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Imported liquor to cost more
The Times of India
11 Jun 2009, 2318 hrs IST, Abantika Ghosh, TNN
NEW DELHI: Your taste for fine wines and single malt whiskies just got a lot more expensive. Prices of imported liquor are set to go up by 25% to 30% with the Delhi government notifying its new duty structure for imported liquor last week. This will now replace the additional customs duty that was withdrawn by the Centre in July 2007 in keeping with WTO norms.
As per the new structure, there will now be a revised vend fee which will be 30% of the MRP for brands costing up to Rs 2,000 per bottle. For more expensive brands, it will be Rs 600 plus 20% of the MRP. There is, however, a sliver of good news brands that cost Rs 1,000 per bottle or less may see a minor reduction of MRP.
As per the revised structure, here’s a rough estimate in terms of absolute prices. A bottle of Jim Beam Bourbon Black which earlier was priced at Rs 2,200 will now come for Rs 2,540. Remy Martin Cognac is up from Rs 4,540 to Rs 5,348, Asahi beer will register a small hike of Rs 6 to now cost Rs 126, Dom Perignon Champagne will now cost Rs 14,210 as against Rs 11,800 earlier and a bottle of Glenfiddich 40-year-old Single malt Scotch whisky will cost Rs 3,66,140 against Rs 3,05,200 earlier.


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FREE parking for shoppers in Middlesbrough town centre will continue but will be offered in fewer car parks from today (MONDAY, APRIL 29).
Changes to the town’s popular town centre parking discounts come into force this week.
The scheme was launched as a trial in February 2013 and was extended before Christmas last year.
Last month Middlesbrough Council’s executive considered plans to continue the package of measures, which includes free parking for two hours in the main shopper car parks and all-day parking from £1.50.
Free parking for two hours will continue in Captain Cook Square car park, Buxton Street, Mima, Zetland, and Station Street car parks only.
All day parking fees in Zetland and Station Street will increase from £1 to £1.50, while in Captain Cook, Denmark Street and France Street all day will be reduced from £3.30 to £3.
Councillor Nicky Walker, Middlesbrough Council’s executive member for environment, said: “We know from the feedback we’ve had from businesses, employers and the public that this initiative is already a great success.
“We’re determined to continue to do everything we can to make Middlesbrough great value for shoppers, visitors and workers alike.
“To do that we’re extending the scheme, but partly as unfortunately there has been some abuse of the system within our long stay car parks used mainly by commuters, we’re making some minor changes to ensure it is sustainable.
“We are reducing charges across the majority of our long-stay spaces, and there will still be free car parking for shoppers within walking distance of the town centre.”


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Hyundai invests in Australian car-sharing
Car Next Door receives investment from HMCA, allows users to rent private vehicles
4 Jul 2018
- Hyundai Motor Company Australia (HMCA) has announced its investment in and collaboration with Australian peer-to-peer car-sharing company Car Next Door, which will see privately-owned Hyundai vehicles rented out when they are not being used.
- Set to launch by the end of next year, this service will be delivered through new versions of Hyundai’s AutoLink in-car unit and smartphone application that are currently under development, which will allow owners to list their vehicles for rent by the hour or day to vetted Car Next Door users.
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Hyundai sticks to mid-size cars in AustraliaNo official word on future of Hyundai’s Sonata/i40, but HMCA keeps faith in segment
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In a digital society the distinction between traditional and tech companies will eventually disappear.
Gartners team of analysts have interviewed 15,000 CIO`s world-wide and based on this data they predict that companies will use in average seven years from now to reach their optimal point of digitalisation – defined as a techQuilibrium which is a balance point between being a traditional company and a tech company.
How far have you come in your digitalisation compared to your peers?
“The ultimate digital business strategy is about how quickly and how far organizations can digitalize their internal operations and their external value proposition. The 2020 Gartner CIO Agenda survey showed that, on average 20% of organization's products, services and revenue value proposition are digital. And 39% of their workplace, processes and supply chains have been made more effective with digital technology. However top performing CIO`s said over half their operations are digitalized and a third of their value propositions are digital”, says Valentin Sribar, senior research vice president at Gartner.
Gartner expect that the techQuilibrium point will change over time as people will be more acceptable to digitalization, and regulation modernise. Learn more.
“Currently most organizations need to accelerate their digital initiatives to reach their TechQuilibrium. Because the further you are from your industry’s point of TechQuilibrium, the more likely you will be disrupted”.
Individual enterprises and whole industries will have different points of TechQuilibrium. Not every industry needs to be digital in the same way or to the same extent. According to the survey Media is by far the industry with the highest TechQuilibrium point, followed by Financial Services, Retail and Services while Utilities are lagging other industries.
Benchmark and modernise
According to Gartner 83% of Board of Directors surveyed believe that Digital Giants such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Alibaba among others will have a significant impact on their industry. Traditional companies will increase their digitalization and at the same time the tech giants will move towards traditional. At one point they will meet and will define the techQuilibrium point for a certain industry.
How to improve your company`s digitalization?
Robin Blomquist, digital expert at EVRY, explains.
“In general, companies can improve their internal efficiency significantly. We advise you to consider all your internal processes and consider how they can be simplified and automated. Moreover, make sure you provide your employees with simplified tools in order to increase their ability to work smart and collaborate. As individuals, in weekends we use smart devices and apps at home, while back in the office on Monday we use inefficient applications. We constantly need to reduce lead-time, silos and why should all meetings last either 30 minutes or 60 minutes, rather than more flexibility?”, Robin Blomquist asks.
«We see an increasing number of companies which experience tangible improvements in internal tasks and processes by using RPA-technology”, Blomquist says.
“Technology is changing the notion of what it means to be human,” says Daryl Plummer, distinguished vice president and Gartner Fellow. “As workers and citizens see technology as an enhancement of their abilities, the human condition changes as well. CIO`s in end-user organizations must understand the effects of the change and reset expectations for what technology means.”
During IT Symposium/Xpo, Gartner presented four aspects that are forging a new reality for human use of technology; augmentations, decisions, emotions and companionship.
Gartner predict that by 2023, 40% of professional workers will orchestrate their business application experiences and capabilities like they do their music streaming experience.
“Applications used to define our jobs. Nowadays, we are seeing organizations designing application experiences around the employee. For example, mobile and cloud technologies are freeing many workers from coming into an office and instead supporting a ‘work anywhere’ environment, outpacing traditional application business models,” said Daryl Plummer. “Similar to how humans customize their streaming experience, they can increasingly customize and engage with new application experiences.”
Include AI in major HR processes
In the recent years we have seen a ramp-up in use of cloud solutions. Companies continue to utilize cloud and still huge benefits could be obtained by better and smarter use of cloud technology in all aspect of the operation.
A third important area to consider is faster and better decision-making within organisations. One area with a great potential is HR. Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 40% of large organizations will be piloting or using HR solutions enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) or blockchain, and every major HR process will include AI- or blockchain-enabled components.
“You have to overcome your organisations obstacles”, says Robin Blomquist, digital expert at EVRY.
“It is crucial to succeed in change management, build culture for agility and continued improvement based on trust and involvement”, he says and reminds you that the customers will demand more digitalization as they become more mature.


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Health officials reported new cases of E. coli infections linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant have now reached six states throughout the United States. The CDC also reported two cases in California, two in Minnesota, two in NY, one in OH, and 13 in Oregon. There have been no deaths.
Investigators concluded that an unknown ingredient served by the restaurant is likely responsible for the outbreak - even though no presence of the bacteria has yet been found at any Chipotle location.
Investigators have yet to determine the specific ingredient linked to the illness.
Only a few weeks have passed since the chain shuttered 43 of its restaurants due to an E. Coli outbreak, but believe it or not, it just got worse for the popular Mexican grill.
There have been no other cases associated with this outbreak in Erie County or NY State. The illnesses started on dates ranging from October 19 to November 8 and 16 people have been hospitalized.
No definitive source was identified in the outbreak in the Northwest, saidChipotle spokesman Chris Arnold in an email.
Several civil lawsuits have already been filed by victims in Washington, OR and Minnesota in relation to the E. coli and Salmonella outbreaks this fall.
On Friday, the CDC said three more states had been added to the list, extending the total number of states affected to six.
The chain said they are examining their entire process from farm to restaurant and expanding testing of key ingredients and examining all of their food safety procedures for any areas where improvements can be made.
Three additional states - now, including OH - have reported people infected with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26 (STEC O26) since the last update.
"There has to be a common supplier with a common food item", Marler said.
"Chipotle has been very cooperative with the investigation and has been very forthcoming in allowing the local health departments to conduct restaurant inspection", Burstein said.
Steve Ells, center, CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, eats at a Chipotle location in NY in 2008. "We will leave no stone unturned to ensure the safety of our food".


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Amazon India has announced its annual signature Great India Festival sale that it holds in October. This year the Great India Festival sale will be held by Amazon from October 10 to October 15. The Great India Festival sale will start on October 8 for Amazon Prime members. The sale will feature offers on smartphones, large appliances and TVs, home and kitchen products, fashion, consumables such as grocery & beauty, consumer electronics and more. Also Read - Amazon Mega Music Fest sale: Best deals on TWS earphones, headphones, soundbars and moreAlso Read - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max with Dolby Vision support launched: Price in India, specs
Amazon India announced the Great Indian Festival at its first ever Amazon Festive Home in New Delhi, which was entirely furnished with products bought on the e-commerce platform. Amazon India showcased over 1,600 products from over 100 Indian and international brands, as well as small and medium businesses at the Amazon Festive Home. This merchandise that were on display in the house was meant to give an idea about the variety of what the buyers can expect to see at Amazon India during the Great Indian Festival. Also Read - Huawei Band 6 launched to take on Mi Band 5, brings SpO2 monitor at budget
Amazon India will be offering No Cost EMI options at the Great Indian Festival, not just for those with Credit Cards but this time on Debit Cards as well. As for those that want to avail the No Cost EMI option, but don t have Credit or Debit cards, can avail those using the Amazon Pay option. Customers will be eligible to get a cashback of Rs 300 when topping up their Amazon pay balance.
“As our customers prepare for the festive season, the Amazon Festive Home is an introduction to the kind of selection we have in store for them from India’s biggest brands. Not only are all the products in the Festive Home from Amazon.in but also supported by us and our partners with innovative financing options, installation and after sales service.
“We have worked together with our ecosystem of sellers, partners and brands to ensure that customers experience a bigger and better festive shopping experience,” said Manish Tiwary, Vice President – Category Management, Amazon India.
Besides announcing the Great India Festival sale Amazon has also announced that it is launching three new variants of the Amazon Echo smart speakers – Echo Dot, Echo Plus and Echo Sub – all of which are powered by Alexa. All the new Echo devices can be pre-ordered on the Amazon India website from today and the Echo Dot and Echo Plus will start shipping next month while the Echo Sub will be arriving later this year. The new Echo Dot is priced at Rs 4,999, Echo Plus for Rs 14,999 and Echo Sub for 12,999.
WATCH: Apple iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR First Look
In addition, Amazon Devices also showcased Alexa controlled IR remote to control your TV with voice. A host of third-party, Alexa-enabled devices including Harman Kardon Allure, Jabra Elite 65T, Motorola Verve and Eufy Genie among others were also showcased in the Home.


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Mel Farr hasn’t sold new cars in Detroit for more than a decade, but his passing this week was breaking news in the city, topping many local TV newscasts Monday night.
I ran into him about a month ago for the first time in more than a decade at the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers conference in Orlando.
Besides being a former Detroit Lions football star, Farr was known around Detroit for donning a superhero-type cape and starring in his own TV commercials as the “Superstar” dealer. The commercials were corny but effective.
His Mel Farr Automotive Group of Ferndale, Mich., was hailed as the nation’s largest black-owned dealership company and largest black-owned company in 1998, according to Black Enterprise magazine.
Farr’s automotive group placed 54th on the 1998 Automotive News top 100 dealership groups list.
His group comprised 11 franchises and generated revenues of $596.6 million and at its peak touted Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Toyota, Volkswagen and Mazda franchises.
I recall going to his stand-alone used-car superstore to interview him about his then-new business model of selling used cars and trucks to people with poor credit.
He stocked about 500 3-to-6 year-old vehicles. The business gained notoriety for its use of “On time,” an electronic device that, when placed on a car or truck, allowed him to shut off the vehicle if the buyer did not make a vehicle payment on time.


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It was announced today from China-based bitcoin company BTCC that their Mobi wallet application will stop offering its Visa debit card service to non-European residents on October 15th, 2017, because of the new licensing restrictions from Visa.
In March BTCC released Mobi, a digital wallet app on iOS or Android. BTCC just the other day released Mobi Web, which now allows Mobi users to conveniently and securely view their wallets, send funds, and receive funds from a web browser.
Furthermore, Berlin-based Bitwala, a bitcoin wallet management app also announced they would be suspending service on all existing debit cards for users who live outside of the Visa European territory.
BTCC Mobi, Bitwala and other card providers for bitcoin utilized the Visa network to provide global and continuous coverage. However, according to Visa’s new regulations, only customers in EEA and selected adjacent states will be able to order BTC enabled debit cards.
In the past week, Xapo and Shakepay also announced that they would be halting service of their bitcoin-enabled debit cards to all cardholders who reside outside of the Visa European payment network.
Visa’s Europe network here refers to: Andorra, Austria, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Bailiwick of Jersey, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Both company cards are issued by Wave Crest Holdings Limited, a registered money institution by the Financial Services Commission of Gibraltar pursuant to a license from Visa Europe.


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March 24, 2012 |
Dr. Walter Willett is the chair of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He's also a cow's best friend. Earlier this month, Willett and colleagues, who have studied the link between diet and health for decades, published a study that followed more than 100,000 people over more than 20 years - and found that the amount of red meat they ate was linked to a rise in risk of premature death. The notion that red meat might not be so great for you isn't exactly new, but carnivores cried foul.
March 7, 2013 |
The American Meat Institute has weighed in on a study published this week about eating red meat, and it objects to the study's methods and conclusions. Researchers using data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer of 449,000 people said that 3.3% of premature deaths could be prevented if the consumption of processed red meat -- sausages and bacon, for instance -- was below 20 grams per day. But Betsy Booren, chief scientist at the American Meat Institute Foundation, issued a statement saying the study is “trying to identify a cause and effect relationship using a research approach that won't permit such conclusions to be made.” She criticized as unreliable data that come from participants trying to remember what they ate in the past.
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Since pork producers are successfully marketing their product as "the other white meat," duck producers might do well to launch a campaign for "the other red meat." The resemblance to flank steak, for example, isn't obvious when duck is served whole. But sliced duck breast, fanned out on a plate, is very appealingly meaty-looking. When duck is well browned outside and rare at the center, it is every bit as succulent as a beef steak. Better supermarkets carry or will order duck breast.
June 17, 2013 |
Nutritionists known for issuing warnings about the health risks of eating red meat reiterated their message this week, confirming a link between red meat consumption and Type 2 diabetes -- and showing, in a new follow-up study, that the association persists over time. The team, which included Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist Dr. Walter Willett , reported that people who said they increased their intake of red meat -- beef, pork or lamb -- over a four-year period had a higher chance of developing Type 2 diabetes in the subsequent four-year period than people who said the amount of red meat they ate stayed stable or went down.
March 13, 2012 |
On Monday, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health released a study that linked red meat consumption with increased risk of early death. Probably not surprisingly, the report , which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine along with the editorial “ Holy Cow! What's Good For You Is Good For Our Planet ” from Dr. Dean Ornish (the man who helped convince Bill Clinton to go vegan ), attracted a lot of interest. The American Meat Institute was among the first to dispute the findings. In a statement issued Monday, the industry group criticized the Harvard study for “relying on notoriously unreliable self-reporting about what was eaten and obtuse methods to apply statistical analysis to the data.” During an interview last week with The Times, Kaiser Permanente cancer researcher Lawrence H. Kushi - who was not involved with the Harvard study but said the work produced “important results" - acknowledged that epidemiological studies of survey data aren't as rigorous as a blinded, randomized trial.
April 8, 2013 |
The long-established link between red meat consumption and heart disease may have less to do with the fat in the meat than many have assumed, researchers said Sunday. Writing in the journal Nature Medicine , a team led by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland pointed instead to the nutrient L- carnitine -- a substance involved in the digestion of fat and also a popular dietary supplement -- as a key artery-hardening culprit. ...


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Early last year, we asked you if you would be willing to pay just to watch someone eat food online. Not surprisingly, most of you thought the idea was crazy.
What was surprising was just how popular these live-stream eating shows have become in South Korea. Seo Yeon Park, a popular online eater (is that even the correct term?) quit her job to become a full-time online eater. After all, she makes up to $9000 a month by eating in front of the camera for three hours a day. How? Her loyal fans, of course. Can’t let your favorite online eater starve, right?
After discovering this South Korean phenomenon, The Fine Bros decided this would make for a great reaction video. And who better to watch people eat online than those who are used to being in front of the camera themselves? Check out your favorite YouTubers reacting to live-stream Korean eating shows:
The YouTubers reacted with confusion, disgust, confusion, envy and of course, confusion. Many simply didn’t understand the appeal to watching other people eat.
“People enjoy the vicarious pleasure of my online show when they can’t eat that much, don’t want to eat food at night, or are on a diet,” Seo Yeon explained to Reuters. “One of the best comments I ever received from a viewer who said that she had gotten over her anorexia by watching me eat. That really meant a lot to me.”
And that’s not the only reason people tune in. Apparently, these shows are sometimes viewed simply for company. “For Koreans, eating is an extremely social, communal activity, which is why even the Korean word ‘family’ means ‘those who eat together,'” says Professor Sung-hee Park of Ewha University’s Division of Media Studies.
So what’s the final verdict? While it doesn’t seem like live-stream eating will be a fad in the US anytime soon, no one’s arguing that the job description is something to be envious about.
As one YouTuber remarked, “$9000!? Sign me the hell up!”


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TICKET touts face fines of up to £5,000 if they sell tickets to concerts or sports events at more than ten per cent above the official price, under new laws backed by a West Midlands MP.
Ian Austin (Lab, Dudley North) backed plans for a major crackdown on touts who buy tickets in bulk and then sell them on at a massive markup.
But the proposals were opposed by MP Sajid Javid (Con, Bromsgrove) – who said ticket touts were entrepreneurs providing a valuable service to the public.
He urged MPs to support “the small man or the honest ticket tout who has bought their tickets legitimately and offers them for sale, making a profit for themselves, as opposed to the corporation making those profits”.
MPs were debating proposed new laws which would allow anyone organising a live entertainment event to opt into a scheme protecting them from the unauthorised sale of tickets.
It would then become an offence to sell the tickets for more than 10 per cent above the official price.
The Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill would also make it an offence for touts to advertise tickets before they have officially gone on sale.
This is because touts are believed to collect cash in advance in order to bulk buy tickets once they are officially available, helping to create a shortage.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Austin said: “Many governing bodies have told me that they want proposals that will ensure ordinary grass-roots fans have access to tickets.
“I, too, want to ensure that ordinary fans have access to the primary market and that tickets are not bought up in huge numbers the minute they go on sale by organised gangs.”
He added: “I want ordinary fans to have proper access to the markets.”
But Mr Javid insisted: “This is about people legitimately getting hold of tickets in an honest way, and not prohibiting them from trying to sell those tickets at a profit, whatever that profit might be.
“In fact, such activity is probably an excellent example of the enterprise culture and of what a classic entrepreneur does, as long as – I emphasise this point – they get the tickets legitimately.”


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Luxury cars do poorly in new crash tests
Published 8:11 pm, Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The test is designed to replicate what happens when a car strikes another car or a fixed object such as a tree or utility pole. The test strikes 25 percent of a car's front end into a 5-foot rigid barrier at 40 mph.
The results don't bode well for nonluxury models, which will be the next to undergo the test. Insurance Institute crash test results are closely watched by the auto industry and often lead to changes in design or safety features. Good scores are also frequently touted in car ads.
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Of the 11 cars tested, only the Acura TL, Volvo S60 and Infiniti G earned good or acceptable ratings from the institute, which is funded by insurers.
Four cars — the Acura TSX, BMW 3 Series, Lincoln MKZ and Volkswagen CC — earned marginal ratings. The four others — the Mercedes C-Class, Lexus IS 250, Audi A4 and Lexus ES 350 — earned poor ratings. Marginal or poor ratings indicate that the cars wouldn't protect occupants very well in a real-world crash.
All the cars tested were from the 2012 model year.
The institute said the test indicates that side air bags — which are designed for direct impact T-bone crashes but not for off-center, frontal ones — might not go off in time or extend far enough to protect occupants. In three cars, the BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen, the seat belts spooled out too much after the crash, causing the crash-test dummies to strike hard surfaces. The Volkswagen's door was sheared off.
Mercedes said it didn't agree with its ranking and pointed out that the C-Class is listed as one of the institute's top safety picks. Mercedes said the crash test mimics an unusually severe and uncommon scenario.
“As a leader in automotive safety, we have full confidence in the protection that the C-Class affords its occupants — and less confidence in any test that doesn't reflect that,” Mercedes said in a statement.
Toyota Motor Co., which owns the Lexus brand, accepted the results.
“With this new test, the institute has raised the bar again, and we will respond to this challenge as we design new vehicles,” Toyota said.
But Toyota also noted that it has more top safety picks, 17, than any other automaker.
The institute said it plans to change its criteria for the top safety picks next year to incorporate the new test. The group said it developed the test after years of analyzing real-world frontal crashes, which kill more than 10,000 people annually in the United States.


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Khurshid Alam, the Chief Executive Officer of Bigtruck stated, "Together we will persevere," in a very candid address to employees.
Covid-19 has thrown the entire world in a game of unprecedented and testing times with hard and brittle challenges. Hit by a deadly virus infestation and endless lockdowns, the wheels have come off the various industries in the world. India's logistics industry, for instance, has taken a major hit because of the disruptions caused by the nationwide lockdown.
Increasing the financial pressure on a lot of companies in the industry, especially transporters, Covid-19 has turned to be a bane. While many truck booking and transport services/businesses and platforms succumbed to the atrocities of the pandemic, Bigtruck rose to the occasion with enhanced energy and agility to the challenges of Covid.
As Khurshid Alam exclaims, "Why dream about a return to 'normal' when we can instead refocus on our way forward amidst the disruption of the new normal and create a new path and story."
How has the pandemic led to inefficiencies in Logistics?
Indian logistics businesses suffered major fallout during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. According to IBEF (India Brand Equity Foundation) that contributes over $200 billion to the Indian economy, logistics inabilities overburdened the economic landscape. From operational constraints, delayed supply chains, stuck shipments, order delays, and unemployment, the pandemic has seen a clear decline in numbers. Adding to that, technological incompetence during the lockdown and the lack of modernized equipment/tools requires disinfecting the largely unorganized sector of Indian logistics.
How did Bigtruck find its feet after being battered by Covid-19?
While the lockdown brought the entire logistics and manufacturing supply chain to a grinding halt, Bigtruck and its employees strived to navigate through the ramifications of the massive lockdown with constructive transformations. Beginning from employee well-being, improving organizational structure, upskilling the professionals, and ensuring a strong backbone, Bigtruck took the opportunity to turn the tide on corona virus and gloom in the logistics sector.


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What seafood is native to Maryland?
Here on the Chesapeake Bay, we’re best known for three things: Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, oysters and rockfish (also known as striped bass). You won’t find them fresher anywhere else. The Bay is also home to dozens of other delicious fish including black drum, white perch, croaker and flounder.Jun 8, 2016
Why is crab so expensive right now 2021?
Global shipping issues, including shipping container shortages, are further squeezing the king crab supply chain. Shipping constraints have “compressed” pricing on all sizes of crab, with smaller sizes fetching prices just under those of larger, more premium sizes, Kotok said.
Is Baltimore good for seafood?
And for foodies, there’s a bonus Baltimore has an amazing selection of seafood restaurants. Most people don’t need to visit Baltimore to know that the city is famous for its crabs and crab cakes.10 Mar 2022
What seafood is Chesapeake Bay known for?
While the Chesapeake Bay is known for our iconic blue crabs and oysters, they are only two of many fish and shellfish species commercially caught here. Striped bass, blue catfish, and menhaden are three other significant commercial species.
What seafood is Baltimore known for?
It’s difficult to truly experience the food culture of Baltimore without indulging in its seafood. Known widely for its crab cakes, blue crabs, Old Bay-seasoned steamed crabs, and crab soup (cream or vegetable), this is where you’d want to start your tasting journey – if crab is what you want.
Is Maryland good for seafood?
Maryland is famous for seafood, especially for crabs. This is a waterman’s state where most locals can trace at least one person in their family to the fishing and crabbing industry. In more rural areas, this is still a way of life and that means lots of fresh seafood for Marylanders to enjoy.
Why is there a shortage of blue crab?
The cause of the shortage is something of a mystery. A winter dredge survey showed the overall population fell from 405 million in 2020 to 282 million in 2021, driven largely by a sharp drop in the number of juvenile crabs, which hit their lowest level since 1990.21 Jul 2021
Why is there a shortage of Maryland crabs?
The limited number of worker visas results in an understaffed and overworked fishing industry. So even though crab populations are booming, many won’t make it to our tables if there aren’t enough workers to harvest them.1 Mar 2022
What state is known for their seafood?
#1 California. From San Diego in the south to Crescent City up north, all 840 miles of California’s coastline are home to a truly astounding array of seafood.20 May 2016
What is the seafood capital of the United States?
18 Great seafood: Georgetown, Maine Maine is considered the seafood capital state of the United States for those that like lobster. The entire state is respected as the place that you’ll find the best lobster in the country.27 Nov 2018
Is Maryland known for its crab?
The Chesapeake Bay blue crab is one of the most enduring symbols of Maryland and, not surprisingly, the state produces some of the best-tasting crab meat in the world. The famous blue crab, Callinectes sapidus or “savory beautiful swimmer” has a rich, sweet flavor.22 Jun 2010
What is the most popular seafood in Maryland?
Rockfish. This type of fish may be called “striped bass” in most area of the U.S., but it will always be called rockfish in Maryland. It is the state’s most important commercial and recreational fish species and has been the official state fish of Maryland since 1965.
Are Maryland blue crabs available now?
The peak season for Maryland Blue Crabs is from April to the end of November. The biggest, heaviest crabs are typically harvested during the fall months (September to mid-November).
What seafood is Maryland famous for?
Besides blue crabs, important commercial species in Maryland include striped bass, oysters, soft clams, flounder, perch, spot, croaker, catfish, sea trout, and bluefish.
Does Maryland have good crabs?
With the Chesapeake Bay as a focal point of the state, Maryland is one of the prime spots for fresh crab in America. Whether you like yours fried, steamed or made into a cake, the crab options in Maryland are truly world class. Here are the 10 best places to get crab in the state.
Why did the price of crab legs go up?
“When they’re not catching the live crabs, the crab factories can’t pick crab meat. So, what’s happening is the local crab shops aren’t able to pick any crab meat, so, it drives the price up high.” Dealers said they hope that once the weather gets better, the crabs will start coming in.Feb 2, 2022
What food is Chesapeake known for?
Here on the Chesapeake Bay, we’re best known for three things: Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, oysters and rockfish (also known as striped bass). You won’t find them fresher anywhere else. The Bay is also home to dozens of other delicious fish including black drum, white perch, croaker and flounder.8 Jun 2016
Are crabs still available in Maryland?
When is the Maryland Blue Crab season? The peak season for Maryland Blue Crabs is from April to the end of November. The biggest, heaviest crabs are typically harvested during the fall months (September to mid-November).