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Apple reportedly develops a new type of laptop or tablet device with a touchscreen display, an ARM processor and 4G LTE connectivity. The device is called "Star" internally, and some prototypes have already been made in China.
Recent rumors suggest that Apple intends to use ARM chips in MacBooks, and Star might turn out to be one of the first
Sources in the supply chain have been in contact with 9to5Mac for months and claim that The star is currently manufactured by Pegatron, a Chinese device manufacturer that already mass-produced other iOS devices. Pegatron has been producing Star prototypes since January 2018, some of which have already been delivered to Cupertino.
The device has touch screen, SIM card slot, GPS and compass. It is also waterproof and runs the EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) boot system used in Macs. This seems to indicate that the Star is a kind of MacBook that may be Apple's first ARM-based notebook.
But on the software side, it gets a bit weird. Obviously, the model number N84 is leading a derivative of iOS to 9to5Mac . The star is considered a brand new iOS device family, unlike iPhones and iPads, device families 1
Apple's attitude towards MacBooks with touch screens is well known, but the star could change all that if this report
Es It is currently unclear what type of product the device will actually be, but Apple has patents for Surface-style MacBooks, where the touchscreen part can be detached from the keyboard. I've been waiting for years for iOS and MacOS to merge, and I would certainly love my MacBook to become a tablet and vice versa.


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See how the CSU is addressing the economic consequences of COVID-19.
Despite the Valley’s high temperatures, the appeal of traveling and enjoying leisure activities and entertainment around the state exists and contributes to the state’s overall tourism tax revenue. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, Arizona’s estimated tax revenue from lodging, restaurants and bars, retail and amusement was well over $67 million in June alone, according to the Arizona Office of Tourism. So what’s Arizona’s summer economic forecast for 2021 after a cautious pandemic year?
Kathleen O’Brien, chair and lecturer in Buffalo State’s Hospitality and Tourism Department, and founder of the on-campus dining club, Campus House, talks about the current environment for restaurants as country emerges from COVID, and what may lie ahead.
The Lee Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently awarded nearly $1 million to eight companies developing solutions that could help spur recovery in the hospitality industry amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
As casinos in Las Vegas enter the second month of reopening since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, UNLV gaming researchers say they can draw upon insights from industry collaborators in Sweden, a country that took a more open approach to the crisis compared to other governments.

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Home sweet home: Business women
Thousands of women in Jakarta have registered home businesses since the authorities made it possible for them to do so.
Ida Ayu, a 41-year-old woman from the Indonesian island of Bali, worked at a consulting firm but found it impossible to balance the long hours with being a mother. “I spent no time at all with my children,” she says.
So four years ago Ms Ayu decided to start her own business, selling fiery rice dishes from her native island at stalls in Jakarta. “The work hours are more flexible and I can find time for my family.”
In 2018 the Jakarta government allowed residents of the capital to register a business at their residential address for the first time.
As of September this year, 28,000 small business had registered. Almost 60% of those businesses were owned by women like Ms Ayu. It shows how a simple change to the rules can encourage women’s entrepreneurship.
After registration, home businesses saw their sales increase by 10% on average, according to a telephone survey of 3,463 people commissioned by Prospera.
“Giving women the flexibility to work at home without breaking the law increases economic productivity,” said Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, lead gender adviser at Prospera, which supported the Jakarta government to draft the new regulation.
“It also keeps women out of the informal economy where they are more vulnerable to exploitation,” she added.
Millions of Indonesian women leave the labour force each year after they have children and most do not return.
At almost 30 percentage points, the gap between the proportion of Indonesian men and women who participate in the labour force is the widest in East Asia.
The loss of so many women from the labour force is a major drain on productive potential. Prospera estimates that it costs the economy about US$15 billion a year.
Indonesia’s economy would be US$123 billion larger by 2025 if it reduced the gap between the proportion of men and women who work by one quarter. That is equivalent to the annual economic output of Central Java.
Making it simpler for women to work from home is one way of supporting them to remain economically productive after they start a family.
In the past, strict city regulations meant that it was impossible to legally run a business from a residential address in Jakarta.
Many women continued to work but were forced into the capital’s vast informal economy, where they earn less for doing the same work and have less protection from exploitation. Getting loans and other services to expand a business is also more difficult for small businesses in the shadow economy.
Sixty-three percent of female respondents to Prospera’s poll said they registered their businesses to fulfil legal requirements.
Thirty-nine percent said they wanted improved access credit, and 37% said they wanted access to government support such as training.
Ms Ayu hopes that she will now be able to recruit more staff and share the benefits of increasing household earnings and spending more time with family that she has seen since starting her business.
“I expect my business to grow even faster.”
For further information contact: Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Senior Adviser, Gender and Social Inclusion, email@example.com


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AppNexus expends significant resources – technical, financial, and human – to protect publishers, advertisers, and consumers from the many potential negative impacts of the complex online advertising ecosystem. The extraordinary scale of deployed third-party widgets, including advertising tags, attracts bad actors to the advertising space to find ways to manipulate this ecosystem for profit. Our obligation at AppNexus is not just to prevent these issues for AppNexus clients, but to make sure that we protect consumers and the broader Internet ecosystem from bad actors. At its core, our mission is to create a better Internet, and consumer protection is at the heart of what we do.
AppNexus engineers quickly identified the potential problem and began patching the vulnerability. At 4 PM on March 4th, last Friday, we rolled out a patch globally that resolved the issue on the AppNexus platform. You can read more about the details to our fix here.
In summary, I believe that Randy's blog post was a timely wake-up call for all of us who spend our lives and make our livelihood on the Internet. It's not going to be easy, but it's our shared responsibility to create a better Internet – together.


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SHANGHAI, Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, China's largest online video and entertainment service provider announced the launch of over 200 shows for next year and planned to team up with Baidu on more AI applications in the online entertainment sector.
The vast trove of titles to be produced and streamed next year include the return of several mega-hit dramas such as adventure dramas Tientsin Mystic and The Lost Tomb as well as The Rap of China, a hugely popular talent show produced by iQIYI this past summer. In the pipeline are also some brand new shows including Hot Blood Dance Crew and Clash Bots.
iQIYI also unveiled a plan to cooperate with Baidu, Inc., Chinese search engine giant and a leading artificial intelligence (AI) player in China, to explore more possibilities of incorporating Baidu's AI technology into iQIYI's capacity in entertainment content production.
Such undertaking has put iQIYI on a solid path to "become a great company driven by technology innovation", Gong Yu, founder and CEO of iQIYI, told the press conference in Shanghai earlier this week.
"iQIYI has not only had the people who understand the entertainment industry better than others, but also 'machines' that have the know-how about entertainment," Gong said. "So what drives iQIYI ahead is not only our strength in content production, but also our technology innovation capability."
The company has already benefited immensely from its dedication to sci-tech innovation including the application of AI, which has improved productions, sourcing, distribution and marketing to monetization.
For instance, AI technology has helped iQIYI come up with the right ideas for content production and investment, and developed the best strategy to promote contents. Currently, the online traffic-prediction system developed by iQIYI is around 88% accurate in predicting the number of views a drama could receive up to 12 months before its premiere on the video platform.
In terms of content production, the AI-supported intelligent system has played an important role in playwriting and casting for original shows developed by the company. The cutting-edge technology has also been widely applied in the company's daily operations from video encoding, clipping, key-word searching to filtering, which has improved the operation efficiency greatly.
In addition, iQIYI has also developed numerous functions with AI technology such as smart tag, smart clip and content recommendation, contributing to the company's marketing and advertisement businesses and offering better experience for its users as well.
Gong Yu was joined at the news conference by Wang Xiangjun, iQIYI's Chief Marketing Officer, Wang Xiaohui, iQIYI's Chief Content Officer and TV star Huang Xiaoming, Guan Xiaotong and Li Xian. Among other guests are Cao Zenghui, a vice president of Chinese social media firm Weibo Corporation and Ma Dong, founder and CEO of Mewe Media, a Chinese video content developer.
iQIYI has been leading the Chinese entertainment industry by committing itself to smart technologies and their application in content production, innovation in marketing and business model development since 2010.
Latest statistics from China's marketing consulting firm iResearch in September shows iQIYI remains a leader in both mobile and PC video markets. iQIYI app has been installed in 541 million mobile devices including cellphones and tablets by the end of September. The app was used 17.8 billion times by users who spent combined 6.1 billion hours in September.
In terms of the PC market, iQIYI reached 380 million users during the month who accessed to the iQIYI site via personal computer and they spend 2.1 billion hours in total, according to iResearch.
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Earlier, we had reported that the German-based motorcycle brand, BMW Motorrad is expected to announce its 310cc siblings by the end of June or starting July for the Indian market. And now, the brand has unveiled launch date of G310R street racer and the G310 GS adventure tourer, which is scheduled for July 18, 2018. The delivery will commence by mid-August. Meanwhile, various dealers have started accepting the bookings for the machine with a token amount of Rs 50,000.
Partnering with the TVS Motor Company, both the machines were developed in Germany but will be manufactured in the TVS’s plant in Hosur, India. The Motorrad G310 siblings will be sharing their engines from the Apache RR 310. Powered by a 313cc displacement, single-cylinder liquid-cooled Fuel Injected unit will chunk the power of 34 PS and peak torque of 28 Nm.
As far as pricing is concerned, G 310 R is expected to price around Rs 3.1 Lakh (ex-showroom) against the KTM Duke 390 which is tagged Rs 2.67 lakh on-road. While the G 310 GS is expected at 3.4 Lakh (ex-showroom) which will be launched against the Royal Enfield Himalayan, which is priced at Rs 1.9 Lakh on road and Kawasaki Versys X-300 (Rs 5.27 lakh, On-Road).
Meanwhile,KTM India has confirmedthat it will be launching its KTM 390 Adventure next year in the country. Though the brand has not confirmed any timelines we expect it to hit the Indian roads by April 2019, after its global launch at the Milan Motorcycle Shows, which is scheduled for November 2018. Further, it isexpected to be priced in between Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh (ex-showroom).


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January 22, 2018
Automaker Bentley Motors is exploring the future of British luxury through a partnership with the United Kingdom’s Royal College of Art (RCA).
The design collaboration between Bentley and the Royal College of Art challenges second-year post-graduate students to contemplate and conceptualize “the meaning of future British luxury in the year 2050.” The students were asked to consider areas such as craftsmanship, materials and technology and what these concepts will look like in the future.
Bentley’s collaboration with RCA will explore the future of British luxury through a variety of topics.
The automaker’s own Stefan Sielaff, design director, is an RCA alumnus, graduating from its Intelligent Mobility program. In a statement, Mr. Sielaff said, “Bentley has always been a leader in luxury, and with our collaboration we are asking these millennial students for their vision of the future.
“We are looking for ideas and concepts that could potentially lead us in new and interesting directions, using the perspective of these digital natives -- from all over the world -- to see things differently,” he said. “I enjoyed a wonderful education at the RCA and these second-year students are the ones who will be designing the cars of the future -- the tastemakers in training, if you will.
“That’s why this challenge is so exciting and relevant. What will British luxury mean in 2050?”
Bentley design director Stefan Sielaff graduated from the Royal College of Arts' Intelligent Mobility program. Image credit: Bentley
Later this year, Bentley and RCA will share the top concepts conceived.
This shortlist will be selected by a judging panel featuring Mr. Sielaff and Bentley’s head of exterior design JP Gregory and head of interior design Romulus Rost. Judges from the RCA include Dr. Chris Thorpe, senior tutor in intelligent mobility at the RCA, tutor Guy Colborne and visiting professor J. Mays.
The winning student will receive an internship at Bentley’s design department located in Crewe.
“How can we create a truly emotional response to a personal journey over the next 30 years?” asked Dr. Thorpe in a statement.
“In an increasingly virtual and digital world, how can the elements of physical materiality and our sensory response be orchestrated and composed to meet our deepest human needs and desires? These are the areas we are exploring with Bentley,” he said.
British automaker Bentley Motors sees the future of mobility as a joining of technology and craftsmanship.
In an address at the 2017 Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, Bentley’s then-chairman/CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer shared his projections, explaining how he expects the car buyer’s needs to evolve over the next decade. From concierge services to a mobility club, the brand is thinking about what ownership means going forward (see story).


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Leon’s buys The Brick in $700-million deal
Canadian furniture chains Leon’s and The Brick are joining forces, but will still be marketed under separate banners.
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Leon’s Furniture Ltd. has bought its competitor The Brick Ltd. in a deal worth roughly $700-million, it was announced Sunday.
Leon’s will pay $5.40 per share, representing a premium of about 62 per cent on Friday’s closing price of $3.50 for The Brick shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The two chains will continue to be marketed under separate banners, with administrative offices in Toronto and Edmonton, where The Brick was founded in 1971.
“During these economic times, where we have seen multiple American corporations make inroads in our country through acquisitions, it is a pleasure to see two successful Canadian retailers reach such an agreement that will better serve Canadian consumers,” said to Terry Leon, president and chief executive officer of Leon’s.
In a release issued Sunday night, Leon said the transaction will give the brands access to national buying opportunities in merchandising and marketing and a national distribution network that will enhance online shopping capabilities.
Leon’s, founded in 1909, currently operates 76 stores across all provinces except British Columbia. The Brick opened its first store in Edmonton in 1971 and has 230 stores operating under multiple banners, including The Brick, United Furniture Warehouse, The Brick Mattress Store and Urban Brick.
Terry Leon will remain CEO of Leon’s and will be CEO of the combined entity. Vi Konkle, who was president and CEO of The Brick, will still be president of The Brick.
Bill Gregson, who stepped down as president and CEO of The Brick in April 2011 to become executive chairman of the board, will stay on as an adviser and is expected to join the Leon’s board. Mark J. Leon will continue as chairman of the board at Leon’s.
Four shareholders — William Comrie, the founder of The Brick; Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., a Toronto-based financial services holding company; Chou RRSP Fund; and Gregson — owned about two-thirds of all The Brick stock. They have entered into irrevocable voting support of the deal.
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General Motors to pre-empt Tesla
Reuters reported that General Motors and other Detroit automakers, including Ford (NYSE:F), “don’t want to leave the door open for Tesla” as they did in passenger cars.
However, legacy automakers, including General Motors and Ford, didn’t foresee EVs’ (electric vehicles) huge potential. Before Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) entry into EVs, they were making electric cars just to meet the emission standards. Tesla showed legacy automakers how EVs could be profitable at the same time. Now, these automakers don’t want to repeat the same mistake with electric vans—a segment Tesla hasn’t ventured into yet.
Already competitive electric van market
While Tesla hasn’t entered the space, it doesn’t mean that the market isn’t competitive already. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has invested in the EV start-up Rivian. The company ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian. Also, Electrek reported that UPS has ordered 10,000 electric delivery vans from start-up Arrival. Ford also announced an electric transit van.
Will electric vans disrupt the commercial market?
Reuters reported that UPS’s senior director of fleet maintenance, Scott Phillippi, thinks that electric vans could disrupt the commercial market. He said, “It’s going to be similar to what the Model 3 has done for the consumer market.”
General Motors’s BV1 electric van
General Motors’ van is code-named “BV1.” The company will likely start producing the van in late 2021. BV1 will likely share some components with General Motors’ future electric pickups and sedans. The van will have the company’s new Ultium advanced battery system. Apart from competing with Tesla, General Motors might have a lucrative business opportunity in mind.
Morgan Stanley likes the idea
Techcrunch cited Morgan Stanley’s research regarding the electric vans. According to Morgan Stanley’s research, delivery vans are a logical fit for electrification with predictable routes and high utilization.
Overall, Tesla Model 3 has enjoyed tremendous success in the consumer markets globally. It will be difficult for any vehicle to replicate this success in any other segment. We’ll have to see if General Motors can achieve this feat in the commercial space with its electric van.


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A profit warning will always make a company’s share price fall, but what clues are there that a profit warning might be on the way or that some other kind of trouble will drastically affect a company’s share price?
1. When a company in the same industry is in trouble
When the demise or ill-health of a company in a particular industry hits the headlines, attention tends to focus on the viability of others in the same line of business.
Carillion’s collapse in January meant that people scrutinised other outsourcing companies. Capita, which runs schemes such as the television licence and the congestion charge, confessed that all was not well with it either and issued a profits warning. Its share price fell almost 50% as a result.
Other outsourcing companies such as Interserve and Serco also saw significant drops in their share prices.
2. When a company announces a new strategy
In February the AA’s chief executive Simon Breakwell proudly announced the company’s new strategy.
He said: “The strategic plan I am setting out today will unlock the full potential of the AA by delivering targeted and strategic investment in our people, our products, our systems and operations.”
Unfortunately the new strategy came with a catch – lower profit forecasts and a cut in dividend. The AA’s shares promptly fell by 25%.
3. When there is a data breach
When the story broke that Facebook may have allowed political analysis consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s presidency campaign, to harvest the personal data of 50m Facebook users, $50bn was wiped off the company’s value.
With the US Federal Trade Commission reported to be investigating Facebook’s role, investor suing the social media company and advertisers getting twitchy, Mark Zuckerberg eventually broke cover to say he was “really sorry”.
Last year, a data breach at credit reference agency Equifax saw its share price plummet by more than 30%. Personal information from 145.5m consumers was hacked from its computer systems, including names, social security numbers, birthdates and addresses.
4. When commercial rents are due
Businesses tend to pay their rent four times a year. It is paid three months in advance and the old quarter days of 25 March, 24 June, 29 September and 25 December are still used on many leases in England and Wales.


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Henry Repeating Arms announces two new lever-action rifle models for 2019: the Long Ranger chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor and the handsome .22-caliber American Eagle.
Federal Premium has announced the addition of three loads to its American Eagle rifle line of ammunition.
Federal Premium has announced that it will be expanding its American Eagle Varmint & Predator lineup with the addition of new 90-grain 6.8 SPC and 6.5 Grendel loads. The new loads are meant to combine accuracy, consistency and performance on target with an affordable price tag. Shipments of the new products are being delivered to dealers now.


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Sumit Malhotra: Yes, the drop has continued. But it is not a drag on the top line, because at best Nomarks will contribute around 6% to our total revenue. So, it's no big drag.
The bigger problem lies in our lead brand — Bajaj Almond Drops. This quarter, volume of Bajaj Almond Drops grew by only 1%. This is the real concern. Nomarks, on the other hand, is 6% of us at best. It won't effect us much even if it drops by 20%-odd.
ET Now: Are regional players and companies like Patanjali a reason behind lower volume growth in key product categories?
Sumit Malhotra: There are product categories like toothpaste some food products where Patanjali has already had an impact in terms of market share. Yes, Patanjali is making waves — not only because of market share but also because of the noise and the media frenzy. But in hair oil, it has not really done much. They have a light hair oil which at this moment is not even 0.1% of the market.
I believe that the segment that will get affected by Patanjali’s foray will be the Ayurvedic hair oil space. That is one space Patanjali is really putting its might behind. But in the last quarter, Ayurvedic oils were just around 3% of the total brands sold in the hair oil segment.
ET Now: If FMCG players are spending more to reach out to customers, what then explains the dip in volume growth? It is because dipping inflation has cut into you pricing power?
Sumit Malhotra: That could be one reason. But in the third quarter the biggest joker in this pack was urban growth, which was either flat or negative. As I have already told you, rural slowdown is where the issue is. That is one part of the problem.
The second part, I believe, is that there is a certain amount of down-trading that is happening. One reason why companies like Patanjali are doing well is because they price their products lower.
The third factor, albeit tenuous, is a pan-India one — sentiment. Consumer sentiment is quite low today. Consumers are not willing to experiment as much as they used to. Experimenting consumers do not stick to one brand for long time. If this experimenting is losing traction because of falling sentiment, then that is where you have a big problem.


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Earlier last month, we heard that A.K. Shoe Repair on East Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue was facing a rent increase, which would leave the proprietor, Albert, either finding a new space or closing the shop that he took over from his father.
Unfortunately, the shop closed for good yesterday.
DNAinfo had more details about the situation here in an article titled "Cobbler Craft Dying Out As Rents Rise, Cheap Shoes Proliferate, Skills Wane."
In the case of A.K. Shoe Repair, Albert P. says his landlord plans to more than double the monthly rent for his space at 350 E. 9th St. from $2,000 to $4,500. Adding that to the cost of electricity and gas, $500 a month, and the price of a month's supplies, $1,500, the price of keeping his business open would amount to roughly $270 a day. With those expenses, it's no easy task to turn a profit charging no more than $20 for rubber heel replacements.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A.K. Shoe Repair needs a new home