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The 4G landscape gets curiouser and curiouser: Dan Hesse, CEO at WiMAX champion Sprint-Nextel Corp. has reconfirmed his previous statements that the carrier would consider a switch to LTE technology if the move proved prudent; this in the wake of the news that the HTC Evo 4G handset volumes were simply so low as to possibly hamper Sprints WiMAX plans entirely. Now, it appears that a potential LTE-tastic tie-up with T-Mobile USA could be in the works yes, its another resurfacing of that old saw.
Thats a whole lot of 4G shakeups in a 24-hour period, if you ask us. And the implications for U.S. wireless competition as well as LTE device availability are well worth considering should this scenario roll out as rumored.
To date, Sprint was able to sell only 300,000 units of the Evo before running into shortages, estimates Macquarie Group. This week HTC said the holdup for shipping more is getting large-touch displays from Samsung its the same component thats leading to shortages of Verizon Wireless Droid Incredible. While Samsung is spending $2.2 billion to ramp up production with more factory power, fruit of that investment wont start rolling off the presses, as it were, until 2012. While laptops and dongles can, attractively, take advantage of WiMAXs higher speeds, its the handset game thats expected to be a differentiator for LTE when AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and others start turning up those networks in the coming months. In fact, Samsung already has an LTE phone ready for Q4 thats bound for the Metro PCS network in Las Vegas at launch.
All of that translates to Sprint losing its first-mover momentum in the 4G space, hampered by device availability. The early move to 4G has benefited Sprint from a marketing perspective, but it hasnt really proven out in a major way in subscriber growth, said Dan Hays, telecom partner at PRTM.
“We thought we would have more of a head start than we’ll end up having,” Hesse told the Wall Street Journal. “Because of the recession last year, general high-tech capacity was taken offline and now it needs to be brought back up.”
Any decision to move to LTE for new builds could solve part of this conundrum while contributing to LTE economies of scale (and therefore, more device availability). It would also harmonize North America to a common, global standard good news for roaming and service interop despite frequency variances among carriers. Sprint earlier this year admitted that it was doing a technology evaluation, sending out RFPs for LTE to be better able to weigh its options.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Hesse this week embraced the idea and intimated that an LTE announcement was imminent. He also noted that Sprint has plenty of spectrum to support its existing WiMAX footprint as well as an LTE build. He also acknowledged that the idea of a merger with the LTE-supporting T-Mobile would make sense: T-Mobile needs spectrum and footprint to build out LTE; Sprint has it. Sprint could use all those young data-users that T-Mobile supports, plus the marketing expertise. T-Mobile gains a business user story. Etc. Together they also would be better able to compete with their larger rivals. That has sparked off a firestorm of speculation (again) that the two are headed to the altar. However, Hesse did not comment further, but neither did he deny that talks were in the works.
Such consolidation would, however, whittle down what is already an arguably small amount of nationwide wireless competition in the market. One path to challenge this issue would be wholesale plans; Verizon for its part has already said it would offer LTE resale and leasing to rural carriers. Sprint is wholesale-friendly already; it owns 51 percent of WiMAX operator Clearwire Corp., whose business model is significantly based on taking on MVNOs. This could also lay open the path for the FCC to auction off the D-block 4G-ready nationwide public safety spectrum with a new national entrant requirement.
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Beyond Meat was a viral sensation that’s now viral in a whole different way.
The company sells artificial “meat” made from plant proteins, but a whistleblower who shared information with Bloomberg News suggests that’s not the only organic material in the fake burgers.
According to the whistleblower, the firm’s Pennsylvania factory has some serious sanitation issues, including potentially dangerous fungi and bacteria on the production line.
Pictures from the factory show storage rooms with mold growing on ingredient containers, and Bloomberg reported that multiple samples of the alleged food product tested positive for Listeria in 2022.
Internal company documents shared with Bloomberg include reports of foreign objects such as string, metal, wood, and plastic turning up in the imitation critter.
Shortly after its initial public offering in 2019, Beyond Meat’s stock price ballooned to more than $234 per share, but now the shares trade for less than $15.

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Fujifilm India said it eyeing 15% overall growth by the end of 2016 after successfully launching its first-ever ‘Made in India’ Eco Solvent Printer driven by FujiFilm technology. “The launch of Vybrant 1800 is Fujifilm’s first step towards developing our products in India. With this launch, we aim to strengthen our presence in the Indian graphic arts segment. Also Read - Fujifilm Instax Mini40 launched in India: A closer look of this instant camera in pictures
The graphics arts business is one of the most important drivers for Fujifilm’s growth in Indian market. The company is looking at achieving a 15% overall growth by the end of 2016,” Fujifilm India managing director Yasunobu Nishiyama said in a statement. With our world-class printing technology, we are focused on delivering high quality, technically advanced print solutions that help printers develop competitive advantage and grow their businesses, he added. The Vybrant 1800 printer targets indoor and outdoor signage and branding applications market. Also Read - Fujifilm India to hold free online photography workshops throughout April
Aligning his company’s future growth to the current scenario, Nishiyama added, “The push given by the government’s Make in India initiative gives us great scope for our business. Since the market outlook looks positive, we want to utilise this opportunity to our best and so we offer our new Fujifilm Inkjet Technology – Vybrant 1800, manufactured in Pune.”
The company is also looking at developing more products in Indian market, he said. The FujiFilm Vybrant 1800 printers have been exclusively developed and manufactured by Macart Equipment Pvt Ltd, the leading manufacturers of inkjet printers in the country, with their manufacturing units in Pune.
Fujifilm India has already installed this product in many top private and government hospitals in India and is promoting the importance of early detection. In Graphic Arts, the company opened its First Demo Centre showcasing its Wide Format Inkjet (WFIJ) printers and their multiple applications in Mumbai last Fiscal.


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The new shooter from Infinity Ward beats GTA V’s three-day $1 billion record.
Activision Publishing has sold more than $1 billion of Call of Duty: Ghosts into retail stores worldwide as of day one. The game, which was developed by Infinity Ward and Neversoft, has beaten all previous Call of Duty records and also edged out GTA V, which took three days to hit $1 billion.
"Call of Duty is by far the largest console franchise of this generation," said Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. “More people have played Call of Duty this year than ever before, logging four billion hours of gameplay. And in the last 12 months, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, including its digital content, generated more revenues than any other console game ever has in a single year. Although it is too early to assess sell-through for Call of Duty: Ghosts, it’s launching at a time when the franchise has never been more popular.”
Millions of people are already playing Call of Duty: Ghosts online. Since its release yesterday, Call of Duty: Ghosts has moved to the #1 spot as the most played game on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft. Additionally, Activision confirmed that on Xbox 360, average player sessions for Ghosts have been longer than either Black Ops II or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, during the same time period.
Call of Duty: Ghosts launched at 15,000 midnight openings around the world. Fans around the world shared their excitement in social media, with Call of Duty-related terms trending an astounding 20 times globally on Twitter in the last 24 hours.
"Ghosts is an amazing game which ushers in the next generation of Call of Duty. The team at Infinity Ward has delivered yet another epic thrill ride in the campaign, and what I think is our best multiplayer game yet,” said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. "This is the must have launch title for the next generation of consoles, and we expect Call of Duty: Ghosts to be the most successful launch title for the Xbox One and PS4 by a wide margin. In fact, according to GameStop, Call of Duty: Ghosts is their most pre-reserved next gen title.”


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They’re all closed.
Movie Theaters. Bars. Nightclubs. Arenas. Cafes. In New York, Broadway and museums are shuttered. In San Francisco it’s even more dire. Across the country and the world, cities are shutting down, leaving humans from Seattle to Shanghai without traditional ways of finding distraction.
The mandate for social distancing that has proven essential at slowing the spread of the coronavirus will cut about $12 billion of entertainment revenue from the U.S. if the shutdown lasts until July, as President Trump signaled. Billions more are not being spent on creating new content as film and television production is frozen.
Things could get a lot worse.
“This is definitely unprecedented and turning everyone’s lives completely upside down,” says Ryan Borba, managing editor at concert tracker Pollstar.
The concert and live event industry brought in $34 billion last year, according to market research firm IBISWorld. Simple math suggests that a three-month shutdown at this time of year could cost that industry $7 billion of lost revenue. Any longer and it starts to cut into the popular summer concert season, which for LiveNation, the world’s biggest concert promoter, is when 70% of its attendance begins passing through the turnstiles. That’s bad news for the producers, songwriters, technicians and the 269,025 concert employees, including janitors, security personnel and ticket collectors. That’s not to mention the world’s top-earning musicians, all of whom make the majority of their money performing.
“We’re beginning to see it affect the entire music ecosystem,” one prominent artist manager who told Forbes on the condition of anonymity. “We’re getting calls from our agents about promoters canceling individual shows. Songwriters and producers have canceled flights into L.A. for sessions, so it’s starting to trickle down to the songwriting and production communities as well.”
On New York’s Broadway, where all 41 theaters are closed, the hit could be about $600 million, based on the amount they pulled in between mid March and July of 2019. During the 2016-2017 season, those theaters also supported more than 87,000 jobs and contributed $12.63 billion to New York City’s economy, according to Broadway League.
The effect on movie theaters is far more drastic. A complete shutdown across the U.S. will mean a $4 billion hit on the box office if they remain closed until July. On March 18, less than a month into the crisis, the national association of theater owner requested a bailout from the government.
“From the point of view of studios they are hemorrhaging money on the movie side,” says Mike Bloxham the senior vice president of global media and entertainment at research firm Magid. “There is a lot of money disappearing in China while 70,000 theaters are still closed.”
Once they do reopen, distributors will begin battling to squeeze a large number of films into a limited number of opening dates, including some major releases that include the latest James Bond movie, Disney’s Mulan and Marvel’s Black Widow, all of which have been pushed back.
“No one can precisely predict when public life will return to normal, but it will return,” Patrick Corcoran, the president of the National Association of Theater Owners, said in a statement on Match 17. “When those titles are rescheduled, they will make for an even fuller slate of offerings than normal as they are slotted into an already robust release schedule later in the year.”
Last year, entertainment companies spent $121 billion to create original content and they were expected to spend even more this year as new platforms, like short-form video platform Quibi, emerge and streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime continue to plow through cash to produce new shows that lure in subscribers. Disney, Netflix, Universal and a number of other studios have all but shut down U.S. production. In California alone, that activity supported more than 722,000 jobs and $68 billion in wages, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. In New York City, television and film production support about 10% of total employment, whether directly or indirectly, and generates almost $9 billion each year.
“Right now, we’re working to keep everyone safe, support the industry and find ways to help it come back stronger than ever,” a spokesperson for Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment said.
The sentiment mirrored that of Colleen Bell, the executive director of California’s Film Commission who said, “The entertainment production industry in California has overcome challenges in the past, and it will endure this sudden shutdown. Until the COVID-19 situation improves, the focus is rightfully on the public health crisis. After that’s behind us, the industry will once again thrive here in the Golden State.”
While those logistics will reverberate widely across show business sectors, consumers may be in for even bigger, long-lasting changes.
For TV shows, the near-term effects could be disappointing for fans looking forward to fresh episodes of their favorite shows. FX’s Fargo has shut down production and will have to delay new episodes. More series are sure to follow. Streamers have already changed the way we watch TV—introducing binge-watching and slowly eliminating cable subscriptions—and the more that cable and broadcast series are delayed, the more likely we will continue to move away from the appointment viewing of television’s past.
In film, a far more dramatic shift just happened: consumers may no longer need to fight crowds at movie theaters on opening nights. Universal Studios announced Monday that it would begin releasing films like Invisible Man, Emma and The Hunt available for in-home, on-demand rentals despite the fact that these films were only recently released, blowing up the entrenched windowing schedule that gave theater chains exclusive rights to show movies first before they were released to in-flight entertainment, rental platforms and then television. Sony followed, releasing Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot for digital purchase only 11 days after its theatrical release.
Others will likely do same and if they do, it could lead the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to change their theatrical-release rule, which only allows films that open in a theatre and stay there for seven days to be considered for Oscars. It may also prompt Netflix to tighten its grip on the entertainment business with the purchase of a theater chain of its own. In 2018, the streaming giant looked at buying Landmark Theatres, but Cohen Media Group beat Netflix to the arthouse chain.
“If this continues for a long time, that will cause a change in how we consume content and allow newer titles to get to home video much faster,” says Asaf Ashkenazi, the COO of Verimatrix, a technology company that works with distributors in Hollywood. “If it’s a new title, you can delay it, continue to follow the traditional system and just wait. Or you can be more experimental and go directly to selling or renting online, which will allow more people to access it and get the revenue now.“
Other businesses are also turning to streaming, including concert-streamer StageIt. The startup, which offers concerts from the likes of Jon Bon Jovi and Sara Bareilles, is on track to have revenue of $250,000 this week—about the same as its best month until now—and added 10,000 subscribers in two days while hosting virtual festival “Shut In & Sing.” Even New York’s Metropolitan Opera is in on it, streaming nightly performances.
The stars themselves are also shifting their approach to how they entertain and communicate with fans. “Together, at Home,” a new series of online concerts presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Citizen, has recruited Chris Martin and John Legend to give casual concerts from their living rooms via Instagram Live, taking requests from fans and singing songs like David Bowie’s “Life on Mars.” Using Instagram, pop star Lizzo led a meditation, Frozen’s Josh Gad read kids a story, and, on Twitter, Yo-Yo Ma played a “song of comfort.” Entertainers have already fully embraced this kind of direct connection with fans and the pandemic may only accelerate that.
Inside Kylie Jenner’s Web Of Lies—And Why She’s No Longer A Billionaire
Earlier this year, Kylie Jenner sold half of her cosmetics company in one of the greatest celebrity cash outs of all time. But the deal’s fine print reveals that she has been inflating the size and success of her business. For years.
More than a decade into their fame, the Kardashian-Jenners tend to induce eye-rolls and sighs among jaded media consumers. But when it comes to their wealth, even critics of reality TV’s first family are intrigued; the Kardashian-Jenner machine—and the cash it generates—has been the subject of articles, podcasts, even books. But no one cares more about the topic than the family itself, which has spent years fighting Forbes for higher spots on our annual wealth and celebrity earnings lists.
So when the youngest of the clan, Kylie Jenner, sold 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics to beauty giant Coty in a deal valued at $1.2 billion this January, it was a watershed moment for the family. One of the greatest celebrity cashouts of all time, the transaction seemed to confirm what Kylie had been saying all along and what Forbes had declared in March 2019: that Kylie Jenner was, indeed, a billionaire—at least before the coronavirus.
“Kylie is a modern-day icon, with an incredible sense of the beauty consumer,” Coty chairman Peter Harf gushed when announcing the acquisition in November.
But in the deal’s fine print, a less flattering truth emerged. Filings released by publicly traded Coty over the past six months lay bare one of the family’s best-kept secrets: Kylie’s business is significantly smaller, and less profitable, than the family has spent years leading the cosmetics industry and media outlets, including Forbes, to believe.
Of course white lies, omissions and outright fabrications are to be expected from the family that perfected—then monetized—the concept of “famous for being famous.” But, similar to Donald Trump’s decades-long obsession with his net worth, the unusual lengths to which the Jenners have been willing to go—including inviting Forbes into their mansions and CPA’s offices, and even creating tax returns that were likely forged—reveals just how desperate some of the ultra-rich are to look even richer.
“It’s fair to say that everything the Kardashian-Jenner family does is oversized,” says Stephanie Wissink, an equity analyst covering consumer products at Jefferies. “To stay on-brand, it needs to be bigger than it is.”
Based on this new information—plus the impact of COVID-19 on beauty stocks and consumer spending—Forbes now thinks that Kylie Jenner, even after pocketing an estimated $340 million after tax from the sale, is not a billionaire.
As with other Kardashian ventures, Kylie’s business began as a way to cash in on a minor scandal. The youngest of the family, she spent more than a year denying tabloid speculation that she was using lip filler injections before eventually finally fessing up to it in May 2015. Far from embarrassed about being caught in a lie, she—and her shrewd mother, Kris—seized it as a marketing opportunity.
With $250,000 of her earnings from modeling, endorsements and Keeping Up With The Kardashians appearances, Kylie launched her first batch of 15,000 lip kits, consisting of a lip liner and matching lipstick, in November 2015. Thanks to clever Instagram marketing, the $29 kits were gone in less than a minute. “Before I even refreshed the page, everything was sold out,” she later told Forbes.
By the end of 2016, Kylie had dozens of new products and a reputation as a skyrocketing new entrant in the cosmetics industry. A few months after her sister Kim Kardashian West scored a Forbes cover in July 2016, Jenner publicists began a campaign to “get a Forbes cover for Kylie.” Revenues were $400 million over the business’ first 18 months, they said, with a personal take-home of $250 million for Kylie. Pressed for proof, they opened up their books. During meetings at Kris Jenner’s palatial Hidden Hills, Calif. estate and the family accountant’s office nearby, Forbes was shown tax returns detailing $307 million in 2016 revenues and personal income of more than $110 million for Kylie that year. It would have been enough to put her at number two on the Celebrity 100 list, behind Taylor Swift, the accountant was quick to point out. But the documents, despite looking authentic and bearing Kylie Jenner’s signature, weren’t exactly convincing since the story they told, of ecommerce brand Kylie Cosmetics growing from nothing to $300 million in sales in a single year, was hard to believe.
After speaking with a handful of analysts and industry experts who also found the Jenners’ claims implausible, we settled on a more reasonable estimate for our 2017 Celebrity 100 list: $41 million in overall earnings for Kylie, good for the No. 59 spot. Kris was “so frustrated,” the Jenners’ PR flack shot back. “We’ve done so much.”
Two months later, a story appeared in WWD, a trade publication known as “the bible of fashion,” using the exact numbers the Jenners first tried to give Forbes. “There has been raging speculation about the size of her business, with guesstimates ranging from $50 million up to $300 million,” the story reads. “Well, here’s the bad news for more-established beauty players: Jenner’s surpassed the higher figure with ease. Kylie Cosmetics actually has done $420 million in retail sales—in just 18 months—Kris Jenner revealed…” It was the first time the Jenners publicly disclosed the size of the business, the story boasted—“and they provided WWD with documentation.”
That sky-high revenue number—repeated everywhere from People to CNBC and Fortune—took hold. By the summer of 2018, when Forbes set out to calculate Kylie’s net worth for our list of the richest self-made women, the industry’s opinion of Kylie’s business had shifted. Those huge revenues were “totally possible,” said one analyst, adding that she had heard similar numbers herself. Another suggested revenues were around $350 million. The estimates kept climbing. Revenues were $400 million, according to a Piper Jaffray research note in 2018. An Oppenheimer report projected sales would top $700 million by 2020.
The Jenners offered us their own number: 2017 revenues were up 7%, they said, to $330 million. “No other influencer has ever gotten to the volume or had the rabid fans and consistency that Kylie has had for the last two and a half years,” an executive at ecommerce platform Shopify, which manages Kylie’s online store, told Forbes at the time. Based on her rapid success—certified by industry sources plus those 2016 tax returns—Kylie appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine in July 2018, ranking 27th on our listing of the richest self-made women. At age 20, she was worth $900 million, we estimated, and would soon become the youngest self-made billionaire ever.
“Thank you for this article and the recognition,” Kylie Instagrammed. Kim Kardashian West tweeted her congratulations—twice. “I am SO proud,” Kris Jenner wrote, finally pleased.
The next month Kylie celebrated her 21st birthday at West Hollywood nightclub Delilah, in a Barbie-themed blowout complete with a pink ball pit, performances by Travis Scott and Dave Chappelle—and bartenders in black t-shirts with Kylie’s Forbes cover printed on them, her face plastered next to the words “America’s Women Billionaires.” By early the next year, she officially crossed the ten-digit threshold.
Any doubts that Kylie wasn’t a billionaire were seemingly erased in November 2019, when $8.6 billion (revenues) Coty announced it was snapping up 51% of Kylie Cosmetics for $600 million, effectively valuing the business at about $1.2 billion. The deal gave the struggling, 116-year-old Coty a hip, social media-savvy brand to help turn around its sagging balance sheet. It gave Kylie a major chance at expansion, plus a boatload of cash and apparently clear proof of her billionaire status.
In a call with stock analysts, Coty’s chief financial officer heralded the deal as “a compelling financial equation” that would help “make Coty a modern, growing and profitable beauty payer.” The analysts were immediately skeptical. It looked like Coty was paying way too much for a celebrity brand that could prove to be just a fad, one charged. Another asked how Coty could be sure Kylie will remain committed to promoting the business in the years to come.
Then there were Kylie’s financials. Revenues over a 12-month period preceding the deal: $177 million according to the Coty presentation—far lower than the published estimates at the time. More problematic, Coty said that sales were up 40% from 2018, meaning the business only generated about $125 million that year, nowhere near the $360 million the Jenners had led Forbes to believe. Kylie’s skincare line, which launched in May 2019, did $100 million in revenues in its first month and a half, Kylie’s reps told us. The filings show the line was actually “on track” to finish the year with just $25 million in sales.
“I think everybody was surprised,” says Wissink, the Jefferies analyst, who was on the call. “The negative that came out of that announcement was that the business was a lot smaller than everybody had expected.”
So much smaller in fact, that there’s virtually no way the numbers the Jenners were peddling in earlier years could be true either. If Kylie Cosmetics did $125 million in sales in 2018, how could it have done $307 million in 2016 (as the company’s supposed tax returns state) or $330 million in 2017?
One explanation: Kylie’s business quietly fell by more than half in a single year. If so, Coty paid up for a “high-growth” brand that is actually a much smaller business than it was just a few years ago. (Coty would not answer any questions about Kylie Cosmetics for this story.) Data from ecommerce firm Rakuten, which tracks a select number of receipts, suggests there was a 62% decline in Kylie’s online sales between 2016 and 2018.
Still, virtually every industry expert polled by Forbes thinks the business couldn’t have collapsed by so much so quickly. “It seems unlikely that much revenue could have evaporated overnight,” says Evercore analyst Omar Saad. “There doesn’t seem to be any evidence the business has cratered,” adds cosmetics veteran Jeffrey Ten, who has led companies like Note Cosmetics, Nyx and Calvin Klein Beauty. “If so, why would Coty buy it?”
More likely: The business was never that big to begin with, and the Jenners have lied about it every year since 2016—including having their accountant draft tax returns with false numbers—to help juice Forbes’ estimates of Kylie’s earnings and net worth. While we can’t prove that those documents were fake (though it’s likely), it’s clear that Kylie’s camp has been lying.
There’s also the issue of profit: Forbes had been estimating that her business, which has little overhead, was notching 44% net margins. But Coty’s filings indicate that Kylie’s profits are likely lower than we figured, since her EBITDA margin—which factors in some, but not all, of her expenses—is only around 25%.
For years the Jenners insisted that all of those profits went directly to Kylie because she owned the business outright. But Coty’s purchase agreement specifically lists a “KMJ 2018 Irrevocable Trust,” controlled by Kristen M. Jenner, as owning a profit interest in Kylie Cosmetics. Upon the sale, the document says the trust would get a capital, or ownership, interest in the company. The Jenners initially told Forbes that the trust holds money Kylie Jenner earned before she turned 18 and that Kylie is its beneficiary. But the trust appears to have been created well after Kylie turned 18, and the Jenners declined to offer any proof to back up their claims. Given the lack of clarity—and the history of lies—we’re erring on the side of caution and assuming that the trust belongs to Kris Jenner. That means Kylie Jenner owns an estimated 44.1% of Kylie Cosmetics, rather than 49%.
“You have to remember they are in the entertainment business,” says Ten. “Everything in entertainment has to be exaggerated to get attention.”
Taking all this new information into account and factoring in the pandemic, Forbes has recalculated Kylie’s net worth and concluded that she is not a billionaire. A more realistic accounting of her personal fortune puts it at just under $900 million, despite the headlines surrounding the Coty deal that seemed to confirm her billionaire status. More than a third of that is the estimated $340 million in post-tax cash she would have pocketed from selling a majority of her company. The rest is made up of revised earnings based on her business’ smaller size and a more conservative estimate of its profitability, plus the value of her remaining share of Kylie Cosmetics—which is not only smaller than the Jenners led us to believe but is also worth less now than it was when the deal was announced in November, given the economic effects of the coronavirus.
Coty’s share price has fallen more than 60% since the deal was struck, and even better-performing competitors like Ulta Beauty and Estee Lauder are still down single digits. Add that to the fact that Wall Street tends to think Coty paid too much to begin with and there is no way to realistically peg Kylie’s net worth above a billion—despite her massive cashout.
As usual, we asked the Jenners for input on our numbers. But pressed for answers on the many discrepancies, the typically chatty family did something out of character: They stopped answering our questions.
Additional reporting by Chloe Sorvino.
Kendall Jenner Settles Fyre Festival Instagram Post Lawsuit For $90,000
TOPLINE Trustees working to claw back money owed to investors, lenders and attendees of the 2017 bankrupt music extravaganza Fyre Festival settled a lawsuit with model and influencer Kendall Jenner for $90,000—less than half of the $275,000 she was sued for in connection to a promotional Instagram post.
- Jenner is among entertainers such as Blink-182 and Pusha T who were paid for their involvement in the festival—which promised days of parties, luxury accommodations and gourmet food, but was instead a complete flop, and generated multiple lawsuits.
- Bankruptcy law allows trustees to recover, or claw back, payments made before a company filed for bankruptcy, and Jenner and other entertainers were sued by Fyre Festival trustees to recover money for creditors.
- According to court documents, Jenner was allegedly paid $250,000 to promote the festival in a single, now-deleted Instagram post, along with an additional $25,000 a few days after the post went live.
- “So hyped to announce my G.O.O.D Music Family as the first headliners for @fyrefestival,” Jenner wrote in the deleted post, according to court documents. “Use my promo code KJONFYRE for the next 24 hours to get on the list for the artists and talents afterparty on Fyre Cay.”
- The lawsuit alleges that Jenner did not indicate she was paid for the Instagram post, and “intentionally led certain members of the public and ticket purchasers to believe” her brother-in-law Kanye West, G.O.O.D’s founder, could attend or perform at the festival.
- Jenner, who has 129 million Instagram followers, denied any liability connected to the lawsuit, according to court documents; the settlement still requires a judge’s approval, and, as the Wall Street Journal reported, will avoid spending more time and money on litigation.
Over $26 million. That’s how much money Fyre Festival investors ultimately lost, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Fyre Festival—which promised attendees (who paid anywhere from $500 to over $250,000) a two weekends-long party full of marquee music acts and models like Jenner and Bella Hadid—was a failure. The reality, as chronicled in two documentaries and mocked extensively, involved FEMA tents, cheese sandwiches in foam containers and stranded festival-goers. None of the promised entertainers showed. The Fyre Festival fallout resulted in multiple lawsuits. Its founder, Billy McFarland, is serving a six year prison sentence for multiple fraudulent schemes. He requested compassionate release in light of the coronavirus pandemic. It was denied.
In 2019, Forbes reported that Jenner held 34 U.S. trademark applications among the over 700 owned by the Kardashian clan (that’s Kim, Kanye, and sister Kylie, along with Kendall).
As TikTok Takes Over America, It’s Making A Disney Executive Its New CEO
TikTok, the ultra-popular short-form video app, has hired a top Walt Disney DIS Co. executive to be its new CEO.
Kevin Mayer, who ran Disney’s video-streaming business, will also serve as the chief operating officer of ByteDance, the Chinese-owned parent company of TikTok. Mayer was seen as a favorite to get the top job at Disney but was passed over to replace Bob Iger in favor of Bob Chapek earlier this year.
“Kevin has had an extraordinary impact on our company over the years,” Chapek said in a statement. “Having worked alongside Kevin for many years on the senior management team, I am enormously grateful to him for his support and friendship.”
Disney has been badly damaged by the pandemic as Covid-19 forced it to close its lucrative parks and cruise line businesses. Iger has taken back some control over the company—he remains the executive chairman—while Disney rushed to assemble a $6 billion debt offering in March. It has furloughed workers and cut pay with Chapek agreeing to halve his salary and Iger agreeing to forgo one entirely.
Mayer could not be leaving for a more different environment. TikTok was already a big hit before lockdown—and has seen its popularity soar since. It was downloaded more than 315 million times in the first quarter, according to data from SensorTower, which tracks app downloads. That figure represents the most downloads in a single quarter that SensorTower has ever counted up.
Mayer was the deals guy at Disney, acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox. And there was nothing more important to Disney recently than the expansion of its streaming business, which has proven a success. Disney+ launched last year and was downloaded 14.1 times in 2019, more than even Netflix NFLX (11.9 million) or Hulu (8.1 million). Disney said it would spend $1 billion in the first year alone on original content for the streaming service, building out a line-up that already includes the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and soon a recorded version of the musical Hamilton.
Mayer will face some challenges ahead at TikTok. It has become an off-and-on-again target of criticism that its Chinese ownership makes it a security risk. And a group of 20 advocacy groups last week filed an FTC complaint that it hadn’t lived up to a deal reached with regulators last year to better protect children using its app.
He replaces Alex Zhu, one of the founders of Music.ly, the China-based app that ByteDance bought in 2017 and turned into TikTok. Zhu had made efforts to do what Mayer will now have to do: convince America that TikTok isn’t a threat.
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TradeHelp partner, Stelrad Radiators, has been shortlisted for an award in the Insider ‘Made in Yorkshire’ awards for 2017, to be held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on 20th April 2017.
The company has been shortlisted in the category for Manufacturer of the Year – with a turnover of more than £25 million. Stelrad’s South Yorkshire site handles the UK radiators business, coordinating an advanced production and distribution operation that spans a major 17-acre site. Stelrad produces over 2.5 million radiators for the UK heating industry, all of which are processed through its National Distribution Centre en route to customers the length and breadth of the UK.
“We’re delighted to have been shortlisted this year in these awards and we’re looking forward to the announcement of the winners on 20th April,” said David Taylor, Operations Director for Stelrad. “We’re proud to be a Yorkshire business and we’re proud of the growth we’ve seen in our business and the wide range of quality products we produce in Mexborough. We’ve all got our fingers crossed and hoping for victory in the awards, but being shortlisted with a number of other high class Yorkshire businesses is already a mark of success for us.”


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Netscape, which is run by America Online (AOL) these days, has launched a massive new revamp (which can be found here while it runs in beta) of an effort that shifts this once traditional online news portal to an interactive and vote-based “Web 2.0” interface that has been dubbed by many as a potential “Digg-killer.”
Essentially, this is the classic story of a massive company moving into the space where a small one is thriving through force of innovation and verve. And the big question, of course, is: will the e-Walmart crush the very soul from the Web 2.0-Mom and Pop Shop?
There are a number of interesting factors to look at here. Still massive thanks to the millions of subscribers that it has, AOL is now losing subscribers and it’s difficult to say whether or not the once mighty ISP will be able to stem the tide. And even with its large subscription base, that does not automatically translate into audience at the new Netscape.com.
Quite simply, the product has to be there, and there are dozens of start-ups in the space – including Digg, Reddit, and Shoutwire – already soaking up the “user moderated” (stories are submitted and then voted upon by users; the most popular ones get selected or elevated to the site’s front page, thus grabbing the most attention) content space.
So, does the new Netscape make the grade? It’s got a lot of potential. The best thing about it is that it encourages submissions in more than two dozen categories, including Celebrities, Politics, Money, and Religion. The tech-centric market leader Digg (which will expand its own focus soon, according to reports) has until now insisted that all story submissions are in some way related to technology. It also utilizes social bookmarking in the way of tags, which is a nearly obligatory social media feature these days, allowing for someone to easily click a word like Blogcritics and find every story related to that fine media source.
On the downside, the registration, submission, and voting process are still a bit clunky, which could be disaster in a game where zipping to a competitor site takes less time than it took me to write this sentence. However Weblogs and now Netscape-guru Jason Calacanis insists there will be improvements: “The DIGG crowd has been having a great time slamming the New Netscape over the past 24 hours, but if you look beyond their venom they actually have some amazing suggestions—the best ones so far in fact! I've been responding to every single one that comes in as quick as I can.”
Publishing 2.0 sums up the current debate perfectly (and creepily echoes a real-world conversation I had just yesterday): “On the face of it, the news that AOL/Netscape is launching a Digg killer suggests that if Digg, Reddit, and other imitators had a chance to sell, they should have taken it. It also suggests that Web 2.0 start-ups may be vulnerable to the goliath media companies with huge reach swooping in to eat their lunch — the low barrier to entry sword cuts both ways.”
And if that’s not enough, this weighty uber-ton bomb of a sentence drops next: “This will effectively be a large-scale test of Web 2.0 ideology.”
If nothing else, this development is more confirmation that “Web 2.0 ideology,” whatever that is, has penetrated traditional online media sources and is certainly here to stay. Web 2.0 can really be seen as a continuum of tools and resources that have continually increased the power of the user while decreasing the importance (or at least the prominence) of the content provider.
Today, we see how blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and “Web 2.0” news sources that encourage user moderated submissions and voting are creating new ways of looking at the world.
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Internet gambling software designer BetSoft Gaming has announced the release of two new titles in its Slots3 series in "Under the Sea" and "The Exterminator".
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Tesco game trade-ins go nationwide
Friday 20-Aug-2010 10:45 AM Exchange games for in-store credit
Tesco has rolled its video game trade-in service nationwide after what must have been a successful trial back in February.
A number of print adverts are offering £12 for 2010 FIFA World Cup on PS3, £17 for Mario Kart Wii, £14 for Alan Wake on 360 and £19 for the 360 version of Red Dead Redemption.
The catch is that any money made from cashing in your old games can only be used in-store, but since 60 Tesco stores in the UK are now selling pre-owned games as well there's no reason you can't pick up some bargains.
This will probably rub the likes of THQ up the wrong way a bit. The publisher recently said it's looking to beat the pre-owned market with premium online content.http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=261024


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Normura stated that there would be two side stories and a kh3 not too long ago he's announced kh3d and re:coded but... isn't there suposed to be another title scince khre:coded is a remakeKhruler 21:33, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
Yes there is going to be one more title and it is believed that the secret video at the end of Re: Coded will be of this untitled game or KH3D, so far though there has been no released information regarding any part of this unknown game. And after this untitled game will come KH III, but that again won't be the end of the series, just a part of it called the Xehanort Saga (Leviathan657 21:38, August 3, 2010 (UTC))
- KH3 will not come after that. There has been no information from Nomura on KH3, besides that he has absolutely no current plans to do it.Glorious CHAOS! 22:46, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
"Most recently, Nomura has stated on Twitter that there are currently three new Kingdom Hearts in production, the last of which being Kingdom Hearts III. Nomura plans to release one of these unknown titles in 2010, and has also stated that Sora will be the series' main character until the very end. In an interview revealed in the recently released Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania, Nomura stated that though Kingdom Hearts III will wrap up the story so far, everything up until Kingdom Hearts III is just the first part of an "even bigger series." He refers to this first part, which is unfolding now, as the "Xehanort Saga," and that Kingdom Hearts III will mark the end of this saga, but not the end of Sora's adventures. The next game in the series is previewed in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep in a secret movie titled Blank Points. A title for the Nintendo 3DS was also confirmed for release at E3 2010 which currently holds the working title Kingdom Hearts 3D."
Yeah well this says differently, its on the site and your saying its wrong, if so then it should be removed but I believe that your the one that was wrong instead (Leviathan657 02:50, August 4, 2010 (UTC))


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Vogo allows customers in India to rent moped-style motor scooters and pay for them by the minute.
The service currently operates in Bangalore and Hyderabad, although it’s likely to expand further using its new funding.
The start-up plans to purchase an extra 100,000 scooters with the investment from Ola. Its service will also be integrated into the main Ola app, which has 150m registered customers.
The business isn’t the only service offering temporary moped-style scooters in India. Rival service Bounce raised $12.2m from Accel Partners and Sequoia India earlier this year.
“Our investment in Vogo will help build a smart multi-modal network for first-last mile connectivity in the country,” said Ola chief executive Bhavish Aggarwal on Tuesday.
“Vogo’s automated scooter-sharing platform, backed by Ola’s expertise in this space can help transform our cities.”
Last year, Ola launched a bicycle-sharing service in India. Ola Pedal allows customers to rent bicycles through the Ola app and to pay for them by the minute.
Large ridehailing businesseshave sought to integrate similar scooter services into their apps.
Uber purchased electric bicycle and scooter sharing business Jump earlier this year and has begun to offer those services inside its app.
Uber also invested in electric bicycle and scooter service Lime in July. It has been reported that Uber has considered purchasing either Lime or its competitor Bird, although both companies have denied that they are for sale.
Lyft, a US-headquartered competitor to Uber, purchased bicycle-sharing business Motivate earlier this year for around $250m.


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Three out of five businesses plan to increase their overall marketing budgets this year, which is more than at any other time since the height of the economic crisis.
This increase is largely driven by digital channels, with 71% of companies planning to increase the amount they invest in digital marketing. In comparison only a fifth of companies (20%) are planning to increase traditional budgets over the next year.
The findings come from the new Econsultancy/Responsys Marketing Budgets Report 2014, which is based on a survey of more than 600 client-side marketers and agency respondents within Econsultancy’s community.
Some 60% of client-side respondents say their companies are increasing their overall marketing budgets for 2014, compared to 54% last year and 47% in 2010.
Replatforming and deploying major updates are some of the most stressful moments for an ecommerce team.
These moments are vital for staying ahead of the competition, for introducing innovative new features or responding to user testing, but they’re also the point at which things can go most wrong.
Too often when you or your agency throw the hypothetical switch you end up with a site that’s got serious bugs or, even worse, no site at all.
What can you do to ensure that the deployment of your new platform, or of important revisions to your existing one, run seamlessly and effectively?
Brands invest a lot into creating TV ads so it's not surprising that marketers want to get as much value as possible out of the content they've created by using them in digital advertising campaigns.
However, marketers are often repurposing and using TV ads online in pre-roll or mid-roll spots. The ads launch automatically without the device user having any choice in the matter and the TV ads are generally out of context with the content around the ads.
Anyone watching on-demand TV content knows that this is a frustrating ad experience, and it’s even more of an intrusion on the smaller screens of tablets and smartphones.
A study from our R&D department shows that eight out of ten people are annoyed by ads which self-initiate on their handheld devices.
Consumers’ acceptance for interruptions on their digital devices is far lower than on TV, and the ad is considered a significant intrusion to their content consumption.
I am subtitling this post, ‘products become services, services become transparent’.
Econsultancy researcher Andrew Warren-Payne sent me a list of internet of things developments, products that have emerged over the past year and are now available.
He knows I’m interested in internet enabled things as I’ve written a few posts before about what to expect and about why everyone is so fascinated by the IoT.
I’ve tried to keep the discussion rooted to what marketers need to know about IoT. It’s easy to get carried away talking about fridges that know when you’ve run out of milk but realistically there’s no demand for that. It won’t be happening any time soon.
But what will be happening is the gradual transition from one-off purchases where the customer is never to be seen again. This will transition to services, where a customer’s purchase ‘talks’ to the store or manufacturer and a relationship is established throughout the product lifecycle.
Whether it be refills, repairs or upgrades, the seller can keep in touch to potentially make you a more loyal and valuable customer.
Additionally, customers will be able to demand accuracy and transparency from many service providers, as internet enabled devices afford greater data analysis, or life-logging. Cost-saving could be a major benefit, for consumers and suppliers.
So what are these emerging products Andrew has spotted?
Cadbury UK certainly made a splash when it showed up as one of the early adopters of Google Plus.
Despite its near immediate success on the platform (the brand gained 1.2m followers in a matter of months) many others have been slow to get on board with the not-so-new social network.
I wanted to share with you how Cadbury has used the platform to take its content marketing strategy to the next level.
After the fiasco that was the EU 'cookie law', the words 'EU directive' are sure to strike fear in the UK's marketers and ecommerce professionals.
Now, there's another EU directive on the way, which has implications for UK retail. It's the Directive on Consumer Rights and aims to improve consumer protection when shopping online.
To be fair, there are some good points in the directive, but also some that may concern retailers if this comes to pass, depending on the final implementation.
On January 10, the British Retail Consortium released official figures reporting a 19.2% year on year growth in online purchases between December 2012 and 2013.
Online trading in general represented 18.6% of total non-food sales for the final month of 2013, a substantial increase from 16.5% a year earlier.
During busy shopping periods, British consumers have embraced the opportunity to purchase online, having enjoyed Black Friday sales just as much as their US counterparts and effectively created a buzz around Cyber Monday- where unprecedented consumer and sales figures made it the busiest online shopping day of the season.
Figures from eBay showed that mobile visits increased nearly 116% on Cyber Monday, with mobile orders increasing by almost 98% over the Thanksgiving weekend.
From analysing our own data management platform, we have found that since September 2013, 30% of online traffic now originates from mobiles.
20 senior execs from a wide range of industries as diverse as broadcast television, pharmaceutical, publishing and financial services gathered in New York last November as Econsultancy hosted another Digital Transformation roundtable.
Ever since IBM's seminal 2011 study 'From Stretched to Strengthened – Insights from the Global Chief Marketing Officer Study', CMOs have been reporting a concern that they are underprepared for digital - shorthand for changes in consumer behavior, an explosion in the volume of data, the proliferation of channels and device choices and the effects of social media.
According to a recent Econsultancy study, only 23% of the Fortune 500 could consider themselves to be in any way whatsoever shielded from the effects of digital.
It was suggested that those who might fall into that category are generally companies that dig things out of the ground and process them, but perhaps even they will see soon their industry disrupted by digital technologies.
Everyone who attended on the day agreed that true Digital Transformation is a heavy lift and there is often a greatly delayed gratification from the process.
Nearly all of the organizations represented at the roundtable had experienced significant disruption to their business models from digital.
The attendees told us afterwards that the most valuable part of the day was hearing from their peers in other businesses, learning what had worked for them, what hadn't and how they had overcome the challenges they faced.
Four keys rose to the top of the discussion...
For the second year running, Econsultancy has published a freely available trends briefing about digital trends in South-East Asia, based on the Digital Cream Singapore event for senior client-side digital marketers held in November last year.
Digital Cream Singapore 2013 brought together more than 120 B2B and B2C in-house marketers from around the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and beyond to discuss best practice and common challenges in digital marketing, and learn from each other.
Delegates discussed a wide range of topics, ranging from managing and making sense of audience and customer data, increasing personalisation and loyalty, to using video marketing and cross-channel marketing.
Google helps us all market our services. That statement can start a healthy debate amongst many in the media, but I think I'll stick with it.
Of course, Google has to market itself, too.
Even the biggest and most successful companies must market themselves in some channels. Apple, for example, may shun social media, but it's all over the television and out-of-home and has a distinctive presence on many high streets.
So, I thought I'd round up some examples of Google's marketing that have stuck in my mind and continue to leave me mindful of Google's all-conquering innovation.
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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging local authorities across England to roll out their own financial support packages to small firms and the self-employed struggling during lockdown.
The call comes after Lincolnshire County Council unveiled a £12m grant scheme aimed at businesses in the region that have not benefited from the Government’s previous support schemes, and smaller businesses with 50 employees or less.
This could be a lifeline for many thousands of company directors, the newly self-employed, and sole traders the wrong side of income threshold who are still being left out in the cold, unable to access the help they need. FSB is urging local authorities in England to follow Lincolnshire’s example, rolling out schemes to offer help to small firms in their region.
The main grant scheme is set to launch at 12 noon on Tuesday, February 23, followed by the other schemes in early March.
A support scheme for directors launched at the end of last month in Northern Ireland. FSB has worked with accounting experts on proposals for how the UK Government can help business owners who have been left out of income support initiatives.
Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) National Chair Mike Cherry said: “Times are tough for small businesses and the self-employed. The latest round of restrictions have brought renewed disruption and mounting financial pressure, with balance sheets already in a much worse state than when the pandemic began. Current grants struggle to cover costs.
“It’s great to see Lincolnshire County Council at the forefront, leading the way by offering this additional direct grant scheme, in particular to those that have not yet received any financial help.
“With the support of central government, we would like to see other local authorities following suit and creating their own schemes to ensure these left out groups elsewhere in the country are given the support that is so desperately needed.
“Of course, this is not an endless pot of money and £12m won’t stretch to cover all businesses that need the funds. The UK government needs to make sure it is stepping in, to help top-up funding where schemes are oversubscribed. While it should be up to local authorities which businesses would be eligible, we hope any council that follows Lincolnshire’s example will look favourably and generously on those who have been able to claim little or no help so far.”


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Another new and exciting feature rolls out from the biggest social networking site in the world, Facebook and this time, emoji invades the comment section.
Facebook is expanding reaction emojis to comments so that users can now intensify “love,” “wow,” “haha,” “angry,” and “sad” to replies.
Facebook spokesperson said on a statement. “We’ve heard from people they’d like more ways to show their reaction in conversations on Facebook, so we’re rolling out the ability to react to comments,”
You can add reaction on posts by pointing over the like button.
Try and see how your friends will respond to your reactions.


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In a statement to the ASX on Thursday, APA, which was a small administration services business, said it has secured cornerstone commitments of $8.5 million for the proposed listing of Australian Dairy Farms Group.
Bell Potter Securities is acting as lead manager of the bookbuild to raise a total of $14.5 million.
“It is clear to us that institutional investors share our view that there is a significant opportunity to consolidate Australia’s fragmented dairy sector," chairman
The company, which owns two diary farms in Brucknell, near Warrnambool in Victoria’s south-west, says its “vision" is to build scale by acquiring other farms.
This scale will “deliver revenue and cost synergies to produce 50 million litres of milk per annum within two years".
The revamped Australian Dairy Farms Group will have three directors.
Mr Hackett also chairs Trustees Australia, an ASX-listed broking, advisory and custodial services minnow which owns 33.6 per cent of APA according to the latest accounts.
Keith Jackson, a former chief executive of Tegel Foods and Adrian Rowley, who is an owner of Watershed Dealer Services, are the other two directors.
One of the dairy farms in the new listed vehicle was owned by a dairy syndicate associated with Mr Jackson, but Mr Rowley said there is no profit being made by Mr Jackson or associated entities from selling the farm.
Mr Rowley said the short-term business plan is to buy more farms and sell milk to dairy processors in the region.
“The main investment thesis is the meaningful revenue uplift you can get and bonuses for volume. As you aggregate and increase volume there will be more scope to do that," he said.
The company does not plan to build its own processing capacity.
Mr Rowley said the intention is to buy farms at the “bottom of the cycle".
He said the company expects to generate a return on capital of 10 per cent to 12 per cent and that figure will increase as scale build from two farms to 10 farms.
Optimistic yearly forecasts
Those returns are predicated on a milk price of $6.50 per kilogram of milk solids.
Last year the company produced an average of 8240 litres per milking cow.
According to Dairy Australia, the top 25 per cent of dairy farms in Victoria’s south-west generated a 3.7 per cent return on assets. The top-performing farm in the 75-farm Victoria-wide sample returned 10.2 per cent on its assets.
In Australia, the average cow produced 5525 litres of milk last year, although Victoria’s south-west is widely recognised as the best dairying region in the country.
The APA-owned farms are currently supplying Fonterra but Mr Rowley said the milk would go to the highest bidder and the company was confident it could get bonuses from processors for its volume.
Fonterra’s latest milk price increase put its average farm-gate milk price for the 2013-14 season at $6.95 per kilogram of milk solids.
Milk prices in Victoria are linked to the export prices which are driven by global dairy commodity prices.
Prices for commodities such as milk powders have been dropping after a sensational boom driven by demand from Asia.
The Australian Financial Review


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- definition for diplomacyThe British Glass entry features its three-year programme to facilitate collaboration between glass manufacturers and government to create a decarbonisation action plan – setting out the sectors’ priorities for energy efficiency and decarbonisation in areas such as research and development, technology implementation, energy infrastructure, recycling, skills and funding. In April of this year all ten of the UK’s large-scale glass manufacturers signed up to the voluntary action plan. British Glass is calling for seminar presentations, based on practical examples of large manufacturing businesses securing funding for improvement in energy efficiency and carbon reduction, for a one-day glass industry event in November 2017. Torquay’s Fenster Fabrications is set to feature in an upcoming episode of ITV 1’s hit home improvement show Love Your Home and Garden. Euroglaze trade customers are seeing returns on the company’s ongoing marketing investment, with leads generated now being distributed directly to them. “Historically, reducing emissions has simply meant financial penalties for industry – which creates conflict between government and business. But British Glass firmly believed that sectors which took advantage of this opportunity to influence government strategy stood to reduce costs, develop resilience on energy pricing and gain a competitive edge over businesses that didn’t become green economy leaders. The Barnsley based REHAU fabricator has seen a surge in enquiries from installers and consumers in response to its ongoing advertising, PR and web campaign and these are being passed to its stockists and distributors nationwide. Owing to the property’s location in heart of the Yorkshire Dales, it was also vital that the new windows and patio doors offered superior thermal efficiency and acoustic performance as well as ease of operation and an attractive appearance.
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So I was not the only one who thought that FFV are just another gimmick put up by the “Big3”. So gas price outside Ann Arbor is priced between $2.13-2.23, this does not mean that its going to stay like that forever. So these guys say oh, buy a FFV, be a patriot, buy American, save the economy. Do people forget we are a Capitalist democracy, when it comes to goods and services, Americans look for the best deals. It has nothing to with a patriotism. If Ford,GM and Chrysler build good fuel efficient cars, people will buy them. But, no these guys want to try and hoodwink the American buyer and call on they patriotism. If this article offends your patriotism, then you may have a problem, because patriotism has nothing to do with what kind of bloody car you own. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary Patriotism is defined as love or devotion to one’s country, yes, I support the USA, but I am not going to become a patriot by buying a car that gives lousy gas mileage. Check out how through a clever combination of marketing and gimmickry that would make P.T. Barnum blush, domestic automakers claim to be “green” while diverting attention away from the real issue: A federal tax loophole is creating an artificial market for ethanol, while stifling the development of new technologies by automakers that would put more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road.Read the article by William O’Keefe “Ethanol is a Gimmick and not an answer to high gas prices”.
Source: Mercury News
GM has teamed up Chrysler & BMW, and have plans on taking on Toyota and its hybrid technology head on. Now we all know two brains are better than one, lets see what we get out of three. Imagine the amount of resources these guys will be pooling together, instead of competing with each other, these auto giants will be able to produce a hybrid car that can potentially beat the Pruis, albeit it may be a few years before we see a prototype, but imagine having a hybrid that has the power of a GM truck, sleek design of a BMW and looks like the Chrysler Crossfire. To catch Toyota, GM and its partners are adopting common specifications for a hybrid system built around a GM automatic transmission. They will use a single factory to build hybrid systems, a GM plant in Baltimore, achieving economies of scale none could realize on its own. The three-way alliance on gas/electric hybrids is a sign of the times as automakers search for partners as a way to save money globally on purchasing, product development and new technology.
Source: Hybrid Efort: Trio takes on Toyota
If you have a spare 100k hanging around and gathering dust in your bank account, and you want fully powered electric vehicle. Guess what you can buy one from Tesla. The Tesla Roadster has a range of 250 miles, says the company. The EV1, with the best nickel metal hydride batteries, could go about 150 miles under ideal conditions. A full charge of the EV1 could take eight hours. The Tesla’s lithium-ion batteries can be raised from the dead to a full charge in 3 1/2 hours and, unlike the EV1, the Tesla will come with its own portable charging pack so it won’t be range-tethered to its home charging station.
So when are we mere mortals ever going to be able to buy such a car, never. Great idea, just built for billionaires. Now all we need is for someone transfer this technology into the mainstream automobile industry. Big 3, look this one is on the house. Yeah, I know was it GM who tried this earlier in the 90’s.
The last three weeks have been crazy, especially since I got a job offer and started work three weeks ago, I have been swamped, but now that things are finally getting down to a routine (sort of), I was totally cut off from the rest of the world, gas prices are at $78 a barrel, people are bombing each other, Italy won the Football World Cup (not without controversy), what the hell happened in the last four weeks. So with gas currently retailing anywhere between 2.89-3.05 a gallon in Ypsilanti, MI, is it worth owning a hybrid now. We all know that the initial cost of hybrids are high but these cars give about 20 miles more than conventional vehicles and for every gallon of gas saved on a hybrid, that prevents 18 pounds of CO2 being emitted. But mileage alone isn’t enough to outweigh hybrids’ disadvantages for most drivers, said Philip Reed, consumer advice editor for Edmunds.com, a consumer finance-oriented Web site. Looks like that Smart car option is looking better day by day.
Last week I was able to get a ride in a super-charged MINI Cooper, this animal was fully loaded. I just fell in love with that little beast. It had 214-hp engine/ 6 speed MT and costing between 18-20k depending on the type of trim. A bit pricey for such a small car, and I would have expected the fuel economy on this car to be really good but it gives about 25/32 city/hwy MPG.When compared to my Mazda3 AT which gives 28/35 city/hwy MPG. But then this little beast has more hp that my Mazda3, so who am I to say anything. Would I buy a MINI if I could, YES!! Imagine how easy parallel parking is with this car (I failed parallel parking), literally you can park this car anywhere. Now this is a small car with attitude.
Earlier this year or was it last year, I forget, Ford said it would sell 250,000 hybrids by 2010, this week Bill Ford said that the Ford Motor company would concentrate on the FFV program. Currently, there are 12 E85 fueling locations in Michigan. Ford and the other Detroit Automakers plan on producing two million FFV by 2010. Seems that these guys have some “corny” plan in mind. To read the full article click here.
Due to resounding sale success in Canada, DaimlerChrysler plan on launching the gasoline version of the Smart Car in the US. This car will target the urbanite’s who consider themselves to be outside the main stream of car owners. DaimlerChrysler Inc. said high gas prices and the unexpected success of its two-seater Smart car in Canada convinced it the brand will sell in the U.S., too. A redesigned, second-generation version of the Smart that will meet U.S. emission rules will go on sale in a new dealer network in the first quarter of 2008, DaimlerChrysler president Dieter Zetsche said Wednesday. Its time big cities in the US started getting people to drive smaller cars. If you are an urbanite/student then this car is the solution to all those parking problem. Con, if you are late for work you cannot use the excuse anymore, that you could not find a parking spot for this car.
Newsflash from GM (apparently off the record), GM plans on building a plug-in hybrid that can be recharged from any domestic electric outlet. GM plans on unveiling this car at the Detroit Auto Show next year. GM now wants a share of the hybrid market which the Big Three lost out to Toyota. General Motors Corp., losing sales to fuel-efficient cars from Toyota Motor Corp., is developing a hybrid-electric vehicle with a battery that recharges at any outlet.
Now that hybrid car demand is on the rise and the profit margins are attractive, GM wants a piece of the pie.


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Mogu Inc – ADR (NYSE: MOGU) has announced that Hangzhou Juangua Network Co., Ltd., a composite associated unit of the company, has arrived into conclusive arrangements with Hangzhou Ruisha Technology Co., Ltd. to increase and acquire directing equity interests in Hangzhou Ruisha.
The deal is subject to certain closing conditions
Under the conclusive contracts, Hangzhou Juangua will buy equity securities from the current stockholders of Hangzhou Ruisha and contribute for added equity interests in Hangzhou Ruisha, at an amassed consideration of RMB50 million in cash. As a result, MOGU will constructively possess 59.62% equity interests in Hangzhou Ruisha after the dealings. The dealings are subject to routine concluding conditions.
Hangzhou Ruisha is dedicated to supporting brands with one-stop and tailored amenities for full-domain processes, counting a widespread diversity of operational amenities, data podiums, and other software facilities, as well as value-added amenities such as traffic assignment.
Qi Chen, MOGU’s chairman and chief executive officer, observed, “Hangzhou Ruisha’s resolutions are progressively pursued after by makes which would like to clinch online evolution in spite of partial procedural and functioning involvements. This speculation is an imperative step in MOGU’s progress towards a more widespread environment for live video transmission e-commerce.”
Mogu Inc Over-all incomes reduced by 23.6% to RMB90.9 million from RMB119.0 million through the same period last year
Mogu Inc’s total incomes in the fourth quarter of 2021 have reduced by 23.6% to RMB90.9 million from RMB119.0 million through the same period last year. In addition, its agreement proceeds dropped by 1.7% to RMB65.2 million from RMB66.3 million in the same period last year, chiefly due to the rearranging of the company’s trade towards an LVB-focused ideal.
The marketing amenities incomes declined by 34.5% to RMB11.9 million from RMB18.2 million in the same period last year. The reduction was chiefly due to the streamlining of the company’s trade towards an LVB-focused model.
Other incomes reduced by 60.2% to RMB13.7 million from RMB34.4 million in the same period last year, chiefly due to a decline in virtual direct transactions. The cost of income declined by 35.4% to RMB37.9 million from RMB58.6 million in the same period last year, chiefly due to a cut in the charges related to lesser virtual direct transactions.
Sales and promotion expenditures diminished by 44.5% to RMB43.4 million from RMB78.2 million in the same period last year, chiefly due to an enhanced outlay on labeling and user attainment actions.


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March 11 , 2016 , Theale, UK – Clearswift, a global cybersecurity innovator and data loss prevention specialist, and Dexceo, leading Scandinavian security distributor, today announced a partnership bringing Clearswift adaptive data loss prevention solutions to the region. Dexceo CEO, Dennis Wøldike, having previously worked with Clearswift, is delighted to be given this opportunity; “I appreciate...
Clearswift, a global cyber security innovator and data loss prevention specialist, and SecureMySocial, provider of the world’s first comprehensive social media information-leak-prevention technology, today announced a joint offering that will enable businesses to protect critical information from threats regardless of employees’ locations or the medium used for communication.
As enterprises become larger, managing employee behaviour becomes harder and the risk of a breach occurring within an organisation intensifies. Companies are aware the threat looms large, with 40% of firms expecting a data breach in the next 12 months, as a result of employee behaviour and employees indicating widespread lack of awareness of good cyber security practice.
Clearswift released new information that underscores the need for educating employees about security. The results show a dramatic disconnect between employees and IT within an organization with 73 percent of U.S. employees believing their company provides sufficient training on how to protect sensitive information, while 72 percent of IT professional believe that employers are not doing enough to educate employees.
Around half have access to company IP or other information they deem above their pay grade Research reveals value of company information is poorly understood across the board Theale, UK, 5 November 2015 - Clearswift, a global cyber security innovator and data loss prevention specialist, today detailed that based on its research only 39% of UK employees recognise that intellectual property (IP)...
Clearswift announced that it has joined F5 Networks’ Technology Alliance Program (TAP). In partnering with F5, Clearswift gains recognition for its established adaptive data loss prevention solutions and is able to maximise the value proposition offered to joint Clearswift and F5 customers.
Finance and HR departments, and the people working in them, represent the biggest information security threat to business, according to global data security professionals. Nearly half, 48% said finance departments posed a security threat to their organisation, and 42% said the same of HR (40% and 48% respectively for UK respondents).
Mount Laurel, N.J., US – July 29, 2015 - Clearswift, a global cybersecurity innovator and data loss prevention provider, today announced more results from the independently conducted survey on enterprise security practices by Loudhouse, a technology and B2B research firm. The latest data reveals that 35 percent of employees would sell information on company patents, financial records and customer...
New research by Clearswift amongst 4,000 employees in the UK, Germany, USA and Australia, found that for £5,000 – the price of a family Caribbean holiday or less than three months of the average UK monthly wage - 25% would sell such data and risk both their job and criminal convictions.
Clearswift has begun its FY16 with a host of award wins and accolades highlighting its position as a global innovator in the data loss prevention arena, with world-leading technologies and the highest quality customer service.
Today Clearswift launches ARgon for Email, a world first adaptive data loss prevention (DLP) solution. ARgon is powered by Clearswift’s unique, award-winning Adaptive Redaction (AR) technology enabling organisations to easily implement adaptive DLP functionality within their existing email security infrastructure, reducing risk from next generation inbound and outbound information threats.
New research from Clearswift, the global data loss prevention company, has uncovered a dramatic rise in security threats directly caused by individuals inside organisations. A staggering 88% of businesses polled internationally have experienced an IT or security incident in the last 12 months, with 73% of those attributed to their employees, ex-employees, contractors and partners (known as the extended enterprise), compared to last year’s figure of 58%.
If you are looking for an SSL Content Proxy which automatically detects and blocks access to SSL servers with expired, revoked or self-signed certificates please view the Clearswift Secure Web Gateway for more information.
Following the publication of its latest Annual Review Clearswift, the leading innovator in critical information protection, discloses its financial and corporate progress during the past fiscal year. During the second year since its acquisition by Lyceum Capital, Clearswift has seen the highest level of net new bookings for four years, as well increasing revenues (£21.1m) and 23% EBITDA.
Theale, UK – Friday 23 May 2014. Following on from the news that eBay, the global online retail giant, has been hit by a cyber attack - with user accounts and users’ personal information being compromised - Clearswift , a cybersecurity company, reveals the immediate consumer response to the breach. Online research conducted by YouGov for Clearswift, reveals that since the cyber attack was made...
Clearswift has started FY15 by establishing its position as a leading innovator in the cyber security and critical information protection arena with a string of awards and industry analyst endorsements.
Clearswift, an innovator in cyber security solutions, today announces the acquisition of the intellectual property rights, the customer base and the partner network of Microdasys, a market leader of web traffic protection technology.


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In a move to create a more focused approach to payments, BITS, the business strategy and technology division of The Financial Services Roundtable, and The Clearing House Payments Company, the bank-owned, global payments clearing and settlement organization, announced that the BITS Payment Services Steering Committee (PSSC) will join the Clearing House's Strategic Payments Forum. The result, claim the groups, will be a single, bank-driven focal point for payments issues for the financial services industry.
The decision to merge the committees came out of joint discussions, according to Catherine Allen, founder and former CEO of BITS. "The [BITS] Payments Strategies group consists of payments czars from the large financial institutions. When BITS became part of the Financial Services Roundtable, the focus on payments was augmented by other topics, such as risk management," she relates.
At the same time, the Roundtable included financial services firms other than banks. The PSSC members were looking for something a bit more bank-centric in which to advance their payments efforts, Allen says. The result was joining the PSSC with the Clearing House's Forum. "Strategically, this is a better place for the group," she continues. "This will not only reduce redundancy of efforts in the industry, but many of the PSSC members were members of the Forum as well, so this just made sense."
According to Rick Leander, EVP of The Clearing House responsible for the Strategic Payments Forum, participants in both groups were looking for a way to create one place where they could concentrate on payments issues. "The industry is going to face some pretty important issues over the next few years, and they need a place where the right constituency can come together and deal with payments issues across the various silos."
Payments Execs Come Together
Leander indicates, however, that it is not the goal of the new group to be an oversight body for all things payments in this country. "The goal of this organization is to provide a place where payments executives can come together and share ideas and work on the issues that are important to them," he comments. "Getting the right players together with a common vision adds clarity to the marketplace." Among the primary agenda items for the newly combined organization are mobile payments and associated security issues, remittance standards for B2B payments, payments fraud and risk, and the migration from paper to electronic payments.
The new group, which will continue to operate under the Forum moniker, will be cochaired by Wells Fargo EVP Mitch Christensen and SunTrust SVP Ward Gailey. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo is a member of the Clearing House while SunTrust is not. This combination was deliberate, explains Leander. "Because we are going to continue to operate under the umbrella of The Clearing House, we want to make it clear that nonowners have an equal voice in this forum too," he says.
"The industry recognizes the need for a more centralized payments focus," BITS' Allen says. "Everything is very siloed so we need more consolidation in the payments area, but it must be bank-driven."
Retail Payments Business Moving More Toward Mobile
Banks Need To Provide Consumers With More Convenient Payments Options
B-to-B Payments Still Relies Heavily on Paper
The road to B-to-B e-payments will be a long one, says Celent.