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Philippines Data Center Market Size
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*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
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Philippines Data Center Market Analysis
The Philippines data center market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 11.2% during the period 2022-2027. Manila is the most preferred location for data center operators, with 12 unique third-party data center facilities accounting for more than 75% of the country's existing power capacity. Other upcoming cities witnessing increased data center installations include Cebu, Clark, Mindanao, and Laguna.
- In April 2021, the Philippines launched the CREATE Act. One of the factors is to reduce the corporate income tax for companies with net income over USD 95,000 from 30% to 25% and 20% for MSMEs with net income of less than USD 95,000 and assets less than USD 1.9 billion. This move has helped to thrive the data center market in the country due to increased cash in hand for companies for additional spending on IT infrastructure.
- Data center operators partner with local operators to do business in the Philippines market. In March 2022, Globe, a digital solution platform in the Philippines, constructed data centers in the country with ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) and Ayala Corporation (AC), a conglomerate based in the Philippines. Under the agreement, STT GDC and AC will underwrite new shares in Karman Edge Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Globe. This subsidiary will house a carved data center business that could expand halfway with a capacity of up to 100 MW in the mid to long run.
- The country is also witnessing significant investments in the studied market. As per Manila Bulletin, the country is expected to witness many data centers set up by 5-6 operators by the end of 2022.
- However, the country faces challenges in power supply and ESG (Environment, Sustainability, Governance) principles, according to leading real estate services company Santos Knight Frank (SKF).
- Over the past few years, the Philippines has emerged as a key player in the development of data centers because of elements including COVID-19's adoption of the Internet, the rise in popularity of CDNs and gaming, the booming BPO sector, and strategically located data centers.
Philippines Data Center Industry Segmentation
A data center is facility companies use to equip their critical applications and data. A data center is designed on a network of storage and computing resources that allow the transfer of shared applications and data. The principal elements of a data center design include routers, firewalls, storage systems, switches, servers, and application delivery controllers.
The study covers the trends in the data center industry in the Philippines, with a detailed understanding of the current market dynamics and growth opportunities in IT infrastructure, electrical infrastructure, mechanical infrastructure, and general construction. Additionally, the study covers tier types trends, Tier-I and -II, Tier-III, and Tier-IV, along with end-user industries. An assessment of the impact of COVID-19 is also included in the study. Market revenue indicates the total revenue accrued from services, such as base building development, installation and commissioning services, building design and architecture planning, and physical security and DCIM, offered by general construction companies or, in some cases, data center infrastructure providers, such as Arup, Aurecon Group, and PRONET among others.
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Philippines Data Center Market Trends
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Philippines Data Center Market according to our research experts:
IT and Telecommunications Sector to Exhibit Significant Growth Rate
- Singapore and Indonesia have been high-priority locations for most data centers, but the Philippines is now becoming a big player in the market. Many companies have started investing in the country amid the growing demand. For instance, Space DC announced plans to build a wealth of hyperscale data centers in the country by the end of 2022.
- In addition, Beeinfotech PH, a telephone company-neutral data center operator, announced the availability of the first data center in the Philippines. Called "The Hive," the facility is one of the country's largest telecom-neutral data center facilities and can accommodate at least 3,000 server racks on three floors with a rack height of up to 45U.
- With the increasing demand for digital services under the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and recent efforts to improve national connectivity and IT infrastructure, the government is trying to bring hyperscalers and other large partners to the Philippines.
- Property services firm Colliers Philippines sees data center investments doubling to over PHP35 billion in five years on booming cloud services and e-commerce in the global capital of internet usage. In a July 2022 report, Colliers sees the Philippines as "one of Southeast Asia's major emerging data center markets" and predicts that industry investment will increase by 13.4% annually from 2022 to 2027.
- Moreover, the country is also rapidly expanding its ability to provide non-voice BPM and IT services to an increasingly wide range of customers worldwide, with horizontal BPM services in areas such as finance, accounting, and healthcare information services.
- With large flexible rack spaces, telecom-neutral data centers like The Hive are great colocation facilities for hyperscalers. This allows businesses to quickly scale resources and establish a local footprint without the difficult and tedious process of building a DC from scratch.
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Increased Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the Philippines
- The Philippines is gaining pace in outsourcing services to various overseas organizations, including customer assistance and technical services. The Philippine IT industry is promising because it is growing continuously, making this a perfect moment to outsource the various company's technology needs. Hence, in a world where data science and artificial intelligence contribute the most to generating IT revenue, the Philippines' economy is thriving with technological advancements.
- In 2021, the national artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap was introduced by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of the Philippines, making it one of the first 50 nations globally to establish a national AI strategy and policy. According to research estimates, the DTI claimed that adopting AI may boost the Philippine GDP by 12 percent, or US$92 billion, by 2030. In addition, according to the agency, the AI roadmap aims to hasten the adoption and application of AI in the entire country to boost industrial development, foster higher-caliber entrepreneurship, and create chances for Filipinos to earn more money.
- As the Philippines government aims to become an AI powerhouse in the region through its National AI Roadmap, it has established a private sector-led National AI Research Center (NCAIR) to serve as a shared hub for AI research.
- In August 2021, Uniphore, a market player in Conversational Service Automation (CSA), released research findings revealing Filipino consumer perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of video conferencing. The findings also showed that Filipino customers are enthusiastic about using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve their experience.
- Furthermore, an increasing number of internet users are driving the demand for data centers in the country. According to ITU, 15.49 million households in the country are expected to have internet connections compared to 12.47 million in 2021. The additional data generated in the country could be used in AI and ML for advertising purposes.
- Also, the surge in the adoption of artificial intelligence in the Philippines, particularly in Manila, the nation's capital, offers a wide range of job options. Specialists in artificial intelligence are greater in demand than ever since it is a technology that is being used more frequently and expanding. Big data engineer, AI engineer, business intelligence developer, ML engineer, data scientist, research scientist, and robotics scientist are among the most AI jobs in demand that are prevailing in the Philippines.
Philippines Data Center Industry Overview
The Philippines data center market is moderately fragmented. The key players in this market are Fujitsu Ltd, Reliance Group, Capgemini, HCL Technologies Limited, etc. These major players, with a prominent share in the market, are focusing on expanding their customer base across foreign countries. These companies are leveraging strategic collaborative initiatives to increase their market share and increase their profitability. However, with technological advancements and product innovations, mid-size to smaller companies are increasing their market presence by securing new contracts and by tapping new markets.
- May 2022: Ayala Land Inc and PAG's Flow Digital Infrastructure have announced they are partnering to develop a carrier-neutral data centers in the Philippines. The first rollout is expected to target 4.5MW of capacity in Phase 1 of the larger hyperscale facility, which is expected to be ready for service around Q4 2023.
- March 2022: Globe, a digital solutions platform in the Philippines, announced the formation of a joint venture partnership with ST Telemedia Global Data Centre and Ayala Corporation (AC) for the operation, construction and development of data center projects in the Philippines. The expansion of Globe's data center capacity and capabilities will be accelerated by this project, which will also help the company meet the country's sizable and rising demand for data center services from both domestic businesses and international hyperscalers, including some of the largest content providers in the world.
Philippines Data Center Market Leaders
*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
Philippines Data Center Market News
- March 2022: PLDT, through its industry-leading ICT arm ePLDT, is set to build an additional 100MW of data center (DC) capacity beginning with a new hyperscale, telco-neutral, and purpose-built facility in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, Philippines. ePLDT The country's largest DC campus, a five-hectare PLDT property in the expanding industrial city of Sta. Rosa will house VITRO's 11th data center. With the development of an on-site Meralco power substation connected to various additional substations, this hyperscale facility is planned to be Tier-3 Certified and Tier-4 Ready, guaranteeing clients the best reliability uptime. This further reduces the chance of a power outage.
- February 2022: SpaceDC, a Singapore-based visionary data center provider, is working with JLL, a global real estate services firm, to build a secure, resilient network-rich data center called MNL1, which will be located in Cainta, part of Greater Manila. The green data center, which is expected to open in 2022, will be entirely powered by geothermal and wind energy. MNL1 will be the largest hyperscale data center campus in the Philippines, measuring 43,000m2, and will provide 72MW of essential power. The MNL1 will set the bar for energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction with an outstanding PUE of 1.3.
Philippines Data Center Market Report - Table of Contents
1.1 Study Deliverables
1.2 Study Assumptions
1.3 Scope of the Study
2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
4. MARKET INSIGHTS
4.1 Market Overview
4.2 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Forces Analysis
4.2.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
4.2.2 Bargaining Power of Consumers
4.2.3 Threat of New Entrants
4.2.4 Intensity of Competitive Rivalry
4.2.5 Threat of Substitutes
4.3 Industry Value Chain Analysis
4.4 Assessment of Impact of COVID-19 on the Industry
5. MARKET DYNAMICS
5.1 Market Drivers
5.2 Market Challenges
6. MARKET SEGMENTATION
6.1 By IT Infrastructure
6.2 By Electrical Infrastructure
6.2.1 UPS Systems
6.2.3 Transfer Switches and Switchgears
6.2.4 Rack PDU
6.2.5 Other Electrical Infrastructure
6.3 By Mechanical Infrastructure
6.3.1 Cooling Systems
6.3.3 Other Mechanical Infrastructure
6.4 By Type
6.4.1 Enterprise Data Centers
6.4.2 Managed Services Data Centers
6.4.3 Colocation Data Centers
6.4.4 Cloud Data Centers
6.5 By End-user Industry
6.5.2 Telecom and IT
6.5.5 Other End -user Industries
7. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
*List Not Exhaustive
7.1 Company Profiles
7.1.3 Cisco Systems
7.1.4 Dell Technologies
7.1.6 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
7.1.7 Huawei Technologies
8. INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
9. MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE TRENDs
Philippines Data Center Market Research FAQs
What is the study period of this market?
The Philippines Data Center Market is studied from 2018 - 2028.
What is the growth rate of Philippines Data Center Market?
The Philippines Data Center Market is growing at a CAGR of 11.2% over the next 5 years.
Who are the key players in Philippines Data Center Market?
Atos, Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu Limited, Broadcom Inc. are the major companies operating in Philippines Data Center Market.
Philippines Data Center Industry Report
Statistics for the 2023 Philippines Data Center market share, size and revenue growth rate, created by Mordor Intelligence™ Industry Reports. Philippines Data Center analysis includes a market forecast outlook to 2028 and historical overview. Get a sample of this industry analysis as a free report PDF download.


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Speculation is rife after Google’s FCC filings that the new ear pods may hit the market in spite of the coronavirus threats
Tech product companies are facing a unique challenge. On the one hand they face uncertainty over demand due to the ongoing pandemic and its economic impact forcing people to go easy on gadget upgrades. And, on the other there is the challenge keeping a ready-to-launch product under wraps for longer durations.
Last week we spoke about how Apple was considering a delayed launch of its flagship iPhone 12 this season due to an anticipated demand slump as well as production delays. Now it turns out that arch-rival Google seems all set to go ahead and launch its second-generation Pixel Buds as planned in the Spring.
A report published on 9to5Google says that the Pixel Buds passed through the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) suggesting that Google may be all set to launch the ear buds this spring. The company made two FCC filings for wireless earphones with the FCC late last week.
These filings are under two different model numbers, viz., the G1007 and G1008 which indicates two devices. The filings do not specifically mention that these are Pixel Buds and there is no way one can be sure that products appearing on the FCC are getting ready for an immediate release.
However, Google watchers are speculating that the Pixel Buds would be arriving anytime this Spring and the FCC filings are just giving these speculations a fillip. In the past, Google had suggested that the Pixel Buds would have hands-free access to Google Assistant.
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The days of the traditional shop may be numbered, says one of the UK’s largest property owners.
Physical high street stores are likely to be wiped out by the rise of internet shopping, said Aviva Investors, which owns around £20bn of property in the UK, including a number of shopping centres.
The group said that shops would have to offer an enjoyable, personalised experience in order to survive. Shopping centres will also have to become ‘destinations’ in their own right to compete. This is a marked change from the commoditised high street of recent years.
Aviva Investors is reducing its exposure to the UK in its property portfolios. It has sold 110 properties, while buying only six new ones.
Aviva Investors says the market will increasingly polarise into winners and losers. Vulnerable companies are already struggling. The owners of New Look, Brait Capital, are in talks to restructure the group’s £1.2bn debt burden as the group tries to secure its future after a profits slump in the three months to June. The high street is likely to be a victim of rising inflation – as prices for food and other essentials rise, consumers have less money to spend on discretionary items.
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The talks are part of an effort to close the record trade gap between the countries. China sold the United States $162 billion more goods than it bought last year and a larger gap is forecast for this year.
A U.S. treasury official said that Washington is focusing on more than currency issues in its attempts to find a solution to the trade imbalance.
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This was not the REIT’s first purchase, which, until now, had focused its activity on shopping centres. The first acquisition were 3 parcels within the Valdebebas park in Madrid in mid-February.
Galeria Comerciales plans for these 3 parcels are to build a «large commercial and leisure complex with 145.794 sqm for commercial use and more than 9.000 parking spots, becoming a reference in the Community of Madrid», mentioned the release issued at the secondary market, which further informed that this operation was concluded for 55 million euro. The REIT assumes, in the same document, that «this project will be [its] largest commercial complex».


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Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent sums up the problem with book discovery like this: “Right now, it doesn’t really work. New research shows that frequent book buyers visit sites like Pinterest and Goodreads regularly, but those visits fail to drive actual book purchases.”
According to Owen, 61% of book purchases by frequent buyers occur online, but only 7% of those buyers said that they had discovered that book online. To compare, brick and mortar bookstores account for 39% of books sold with a 20% discovery share. (Those stats come from Peter Hildick-Smith, founder and CEO of the Codex Group.)
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US to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from EU
Move set to provoke retaliation and take the Trump administration further down the path of a trade war
US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said negotiations failed to yield tangible deals that Washington could accept
The threat of a trade war between the European Union and the United States has intensified as the Trump administration announced it would impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU at midnight tonight.
The European Union had secured a temporary exemption from US tariffs of 25 per cent on steel imports and a 10 per cent levy on aluminium when the Trump administration first announced the measures in March.
But ahead of a June 1st deadline, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday that talks with the EU had not made sufficient progress to merit an exemption.
Speaking from Paris where he is attending the OECD meeting, Mr Ross said that the president had “decided in the case of Canada, Mexico and the European Union not to extend the exemptions and therefore they will be placed under the 25 per cent tariff on steel and the 10 per cent tariff on aluminum effective at midnight tonight.”
Any new tariffs on aluminium imports into the US will hit the Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick. Aughinish provides alumina to some of the biggest users of aluminium in Europe who then export their products to the US. Much of its output is used for aluminium in the car and aeronautical industries.
In a statement, the Minister for Business, Heather Humphreys, said the Government was “deeply disappointed” by the tariff move. She said she had raised the issue will Mr Ross when she recently visited Washington, while the European Commission had also continuously engaged with the US government on the matter.
“ I regret that these efforts - by the EU trade commissioner, Ireland and other member states - have not resulted in the EU being provided with a permanent exemption from US tariffs,” Ms Humphreys said.
In relation to Aughinish, the Minister said overcapacity in the market combined with tariffs made for “a difficult trading environment”.
“My department, through the enterprise agencies, in particular IDA Ireland, is in close contact with perspective exporting companies who may be affected directly or indirectly as part of supply chains,” she added.
The European Union’s top trade official, Cecilia Malmstrom, indicated last week that she was not confident of a deal with the US despite intensive negotiations.
The Europeans had offered to open up four areas of trade for discussion- including granting the US greater market access to industrial products.
But the offer was insufficient for the US negotiators.
The European Union has warned that it would respond to any tariffs with retaliatory measures. In an initial reaction to the news, a British government spokesman said that Britain and other EU countries are close allies of the United States and should be permanently fully exempted from the tariffs.
Manfred Weber, a top German MEP in the European Parliament and close ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel responded on twitter: “We will have no choice but to defend European industry, jobs and interests. We will not accept this highly regrettable decision without reacting.”
The EU branch of the American Chamber of Commerce urged the US government to reconsider its actions and called on the EU to take a “balanced approach” to the measures. “We are very concerned by the damage a tit-for-tat dispute would cause to the transatlantic economy and its impact on jobs, investment and security across the Atlantic,” its chief executive Susan Danger said.
The Brussels-based organisation said it continued to believe that the EU meets all the criteria set out for a permanent exemption as it does not pose a security threat to the US - the primary reason given by the US for imposing the sanctions in the first place. The Trump administration has invoked a section of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act which grants the US the ability to impose trade sanctions for national security reasons.
Washington’s decision to press ahead with the sanctions is the latest sign that president Trump is following-through with his election promise to put ‘America first’ and pursue a protectionist approach to international trade. China is also in the president’s sights. Mr Ross is due to travel to Beijing this weekend to continue difficult trade talks with China, as the US continues to try and reduce its trade deficit with China.
US stock markets fell on the news, though steel and aluminium stocks strengthened. The dollar strengthened against the euro.
Washington has been renegotiating Nafta with Canada and Mexico but those talks have become stuck over how to rewrite auto content rules. The US has also been trying to force the EU into negotiating and making concessions such as reducing a 10 per cent tariff on automobile imports in exchange for an exemption from the steel tariffs.
It also wants the EU to agree to a quota that would limit European steel and aluminium exports to the US as part of what Washington insists is a strategy to get Beijing to stop flooding global markets with cheap metals.
But Paris and Berlin are against giving into US demands, with French president Emmanuel Macron, a proponent of tougher EU trade policies, adamant there could be no trade discussions “with a gun to our head”.
In March, Brussels approved a list of US products as targets for retaliation that included bourbon, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, jeans, cigarettes and sailboats. A European Commission spokesman said on Thursday: “We are ready to deal with any kind of scenario and to defend the EU interest and international trade law.”
William Lavelle, head of the Irish Whiskey Association warned that “while the EU is justified and right to respond...the Irish whiskey industry would hope we can avoid slipping into what could be a devastating trade war in whiskey.”
Aughinish Alumina is already caught up in US sanctions introduced last month targeting Russian individuals and businesses including Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, the majority shareholder in EN+ Group which in turn owns 48 per cent of Aughinish’s owner Rusal.
The US has extended the wind-down period or individuals doing business with Rusal and also indicated that it would provide sanctions relief to the company if Mr Deripaska relinquishes control.


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Li Ka-shing to plan Yuan IPO in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Li Kashing, Hong Kong's richest man, is preparing what may be the first yuan-denominated initial public offering in the city in the first half of 2011, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
Li, 82, hired Citic Securities International Co. to lead the sale of more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) of shares in a real estate investment trust backed by the Oriental Plaza development in Beijing, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the information is private. HSBC Holdings Plc will help arrange the offering, the people said.
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Charles Li has proposed allowing yuan-denominated share sales in the city. Chinese-currency deposits at Hong Kong banks swelled to a record 217.1 billion yuan in October, according to Hong Kong Monetary Authority data.
"If reaction to the IPO is good, it may very well create a trend for other Hong Kong developers to follow," said Lee Wee Liat, a Hong Kongbased analyst at Samsung Securities Ltd.
Companies have sold more than 62 billion yuan of bonds denominated in the Chinese currency in Hong Kong since 2007, according to a Dec. 20 Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd. statement.
Winnie Cheong, a Hong Kong-based spokeswoman for Li's Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd., didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Joyce Ho, a spokeswoman at Citic Securities International in Hong Kong, said the firm doesn't comment on market rumors. Maggie Cheung, an HSBC spokeswoman in the city, declined to comment. Chinese-language newspaper Hong Kong Economic Times reported Li's plan earlier.
Cheung Kong shares rose 3.4 percent to HK$120.20 as of 3:57 p.m. in Hong Kong trading.
Cheung Kong, the developer controlled by Li, owns 33.4 percent of the Oriental Plaza and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., 49.9 percent owned by Cheung Kong, has 18 percent, according to the companies' 2009 annual report.
Li built the company into Hong Kong's second-biggest developer by market value after he began buying property in the city in 1967 when riots tied to China's Cultural Revolution caused land prices in the city to collapse.
Lorraine Chan, a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong bourse, declined to comment on the proposed offering. The exchange is "ready to support the listing, trading and clearing of RMB-denominated products in Hong Kong," she said in an e-mailed response to questions, referring to renmin- bi, the yuan's other name.
Hong Kong should promote yuan-denominated IPOs, Joseph Yam, former chief executive of the HKMA, said in a public lecture in the city today. Hong Kong is ready to develop a yuan IPO market, Yam said.
Oriental Plaza, covering an area of 100,000 square meters ( 1.1 million square feet), is situated along Beijing's Changan Avenue in the heart of the city. It consists of eight grade-A office towers, a shopping mall, a Grand Hyatt Hotel, and serviced apartments, according to its website.
Shareholders will be selling existing stock in the Libacked REIT, said one of the people. More banks may be added to the sale, the people said.
"This will provide an alternative funding channel for Cheung Kong's development in mainland China," said Samsung's Lee. "Clearly in the next five to seven years mainland China instead of Hong Kong will be the main growth engine for a developer the size of Cheung Kong."
After arriving in Hong Kong as a refugee from China in 1940, Li swept factory floors to survive during the Japanese World War II occupation of the city between 1941 and 1945. After the war, he opened a plastic-flower factory and then started buying real estate in the city. -Bloomberg


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LG wanted to show off how realistic the image on their new IPS monitors is, so they decided to play a prank and scare the crap out of a bunch of people.
In one final attempt to preempt the deluge of Apple and iPhone 5 coverage in a couple of days, LG announced its technically superior (but not ready for U.S. prime time) Optimus G, the first U.S. LTE smartphone with a quad-core processor.
There are two necessary evils that we despise about gadgets: the need for batteries, and the need for cables. LG Chem has now come up with a way to combine both cables and batteries into one thing (a "batterble," if you will) that's a full 50% less evil. It's not quite good, but it's way better than what we've got now.
For years, LG and Samsung have shown off the holy grail of TVs at CES, only to never release them. This May, LG might finally release its incredibly slim and slender 55-inch 3D OLED TV everybody was drooling at in Las Vegas — provided you can afford to drop some serious cash on it.
Here's one way to differentiate your smartphone from the swarms of Android smartphones out there — make your screen even larger than the biggest smartphones currently available and change gears from a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio display to a 4:3 one. That's LG's plan for the Optimus Vu.
We're living in a smart TV, smartphones and smart cars world, so why not smart home appliances that can all be controlled with an app? That's the idea LG is floating around at this year's CES — home gadgets that talk to each other wirelessly.
Who cares if 3D OLED TVs are still a ways off and Sony is quitting the business? The fact remains: 3D OLED TVs give us a look into the future, where TVs are ultra thin and ultra light. LG's 55-inch 3D OLED is purely one panel to drool over, even if we'll never be able to buy one anytime soon.
CES starts next week, and already the hype machine has been turned to 11. Earlier this week, LG proudly announced it be showing off at its booth "the future of TV technology," "the world's largest OLED HDTV" at CES. Uh-huh. And Karolina Kurkova has promised me a date.
I admit that I'm a sucker for a big screen. Do you know what I'm a bigger sucker for? 3D TVs with "ultra definition" resolutions that I'll never be able to afford. LG's delivering the big daddy of TVs at CES with an 84-inch 3D TV that'll make me wet my pants in a few weeks.


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Apple’s first TV advert for the iPhone 4S has been revealed, with the focus of the spot being on Siri, the company’s digital personal assistant. The thirty second clip – which you can see after the break – cuts between multiple possible uses of Siri, the voice recognition system being used to find local locksmiths, check weather reports and adjust calendar entries, all by naturally-phrased commands.
As you might expect from an Apple commercial, viewers are left to be impressed by Siri’s breadth of functionality rather than have each element pointed out to them. One of the key elements Apple made clear at the iPhone 4S’ launch earlier this month was that Siri didn’t just recognize preset phrases but could fathom out natural speech; that intelligence is shown at several points during the ad spot, such as at the end when a user sadly tells Siri “I’m locked out” and the system recognizes she’s likely to want a locksmith.
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The commercial is only likely to play in the US, given that outside of the country Siri’s functionality is more limited. At present, mapping integration and voice-guided local information searches aren’t supported in the majority of the countries where the iPhone 4S is on sale; Apple has said that those abilities will begin to follow on come 2012.
Meanwhile, Siri – or, more accurately, Apple’s default implementation of the voice command system – has come under fire from security experts. They criticized the company’s decision to allow Siri access even when the iPhone 4S is PIN-locked, meaning that unauthorized users could still pick up your phone and send messages, access the calendar and do, well, all of the tasks Apple demonstrates in its advert.
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Here’s the “Speeding Bulletin” video report for the period April 4-10, 2018.
The “Speeding Bulletin” is your weekly Superman news video, recapping the latest events in the world of Superman.
Our top news stories this week included: The CW releases a new “Supergirl” poster announcing the return of new episodes, DC Comics announces that “Action Comics #1000” has reached orders of a half million copies, and Burger King in the USA currently has a series of “Justice League Action” toys for fans to collect.
Merchandise seen in this episode:
- Order the “Action Comics #1” 35g Pure Silver Foil from the New Zealand Mint
- Purchase the Superman Party Balloons advertised in this episode from our Online Shopping page
- Purchase this week’s Superman comic books from TFAW.com
- Purchase “Speeding Bulletin” merchandise from CafePress.com.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There is no room in the inn.
Area hotels are booked and turning folks away who are requesting rooms in the wake of power outages.
"We are sold out," said Josh Gross, reservations manager of Hampton Inn at Southridge. "We've had hundreds of calls. Between yesterday and today we've turned away 255 people. We own Holiday Inn and Wingate in South Charleston. Those are sold out as well."
It's a similar story elsewhere.
Angela Harding, general manager of the Sleep Inn in Cross Lanes, said staff members have not kept track of the number of callers that have requested rooms. All 119 rooms are booked and numerous callers have been turned away.
"The phone hasn't stopped ringing," she said.
The Red Roof Inn in Hurricane was also booked up on Wednesday, according to an operator who answered the phone.
Aside from shelter, folks have been scrambling for supplies.
Many customers have headed to Cabella's at Southridge Center.


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The cornerstone of the plan is financial relief for small-business owners. Stringer envisions a plan of tax credits, which can help owners pay back rent and other expenses quicker and ease the financial stress of reopening. Business with annual revenue of less than $5 million would be eligible.
But some budget experts warn that any expanded tax-credit program for businesses at that scale could result in thousands of applicants and up to $100 million in lost revenue for the city.
“The city isn’t going to make everybody whole,” said James Parrott, director of fiscal policies at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School. “The city can’t do that.”
There is also the question of parameters and how Stringer would devise a program that would justify a business receiving a tax credit based on the complex economic landscape wrought by Covid-19.
“It needs to be thoughtfully designed,” Parrott said. “If someone doesn’t have income for the year, they’re not going to owe any taxes, but a refundable credit has got to be calibrated in a way that’s not going to mean the city will subsidize businesses with losses without limit.”
Stringer also aims to create an outreach team to open doors for small businesses that still have yet to access the remaining $150 billion in the federal Paycheck Protection Program. He would eliminate a 25% tax on liquor licenses for restaurants and allow businesses a 30-day period to address any violations.
“The bureaucracy and multiple agencies you have to deal with, it’s just becoming impossible,” he said.
Stringer’s plan takes particular interest in lessening the onslaught of commercial vacancies dotting the city’s landscape. He would waive the permit and inspection fees for businesses that take over a vacant commercial space in the next 10 months.
Offering tax incentives to businesses and landlords to rent at vacant storefronts is another concrete solution Stringer is considering.
“We always need to keep commercial storefront space active and vital because it promotes safety and shows the vibrancy of the city,” Stringer said. “Perhaps we can create an economic incentive for people to come into these high-vacancy corridors.”
But rather than offering tax incentives, which help only those business with enough money to open, some business owners say the city should work with the federal government to create a fund to backstop business-interruption insurance claims that have not been paid out due to virus exemption clauses.
“We are deep in debt because we don’t have the money to pay our vendors, our rent, and our payroll,” said Robert Schwartz, owner of the 111-year-old Eneslow Shoes and Orthotics in Manhattan. “When you look at business-interruption insurance, we pay it every year forever, and not having it covered now means we have no recourse.”
Stringer’s report also imagines more innovative solutions to spur economic activity, such as expanding open streets to include clothing outlets and bodegas, as well as linking aspiring entrepreneurs with retiring business owners to create continuity for small businesses that might be planning to close.
“Wouldn’t it be interesting to create an entrepreneur program that links older business owners with people who can succeed those businesses and grow them in a different way?” Stringer said.
Schwartz, who has decades of experience running his stores, called Stringer’s suggestion unrealistic.
“The career civil servants, they’ve never made a payroll, and they really don’t understand the problem isn’t the people, the management, or the age. It’s that there’s really no opportunity to do business when there nobody there in a brick-and mortar-setting,” Schwartz said. “There’s nobody coming in.”
When asked about the flight out of New York City and the lack of tourists and millions of citizens that usually spur small-business activity, Stringer responded with a combination of pride and defiance.
“Some will go; more will come back,” he said. “But at the end of the day people want to be here. People want to invest here. They want to do business here.”
Still, store owners say the small-business community will continue to struggle until companies and people return to the city at pre-pandemic levels.
“It’s the No. 1 reason in terms of why business is so horrendous,” said Schwartz, whose flagship store sits at East 32nd Street and Park Avenue. “The buildings are all unoccupied. There’s no people.”


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As Americans hit the road this summer for road trips and other vacations, many may be accessing public wireless networks along the way to stay in touch with friends and family back home, check their emails or do some research on their destination. Next month, college students will start heading back to campus, too, and begin using public computers in school libraries. However, consumers should be careful when logging into public networks to ensure their personal online information is safe.
While public Wi-Fi spots, such as those in coffee shops and airports, are convenient, they can also be a hot spot for cyber criminals. These Wi-Fi networks are ripe for hacker exploitation because they function much like old-fashioned telephone party lines, according to the University of Virginia's Information Technology . Taking some extra steps for precaution can protect against the possibility of identity theft.
If using a personal computer to access public Wi-Fi networks while on the go, there are a number of things you can do to protect the device from hackers. Before taking off on a trip, enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections on your most-used websites, . SSL connections encrypt the information exchanged on a website, making it difficult for hackers to access it. Gmail, Twitter and Facebook, for instance, have such SSL connection options. Clicking on the "Always Use HTTPS" option in Gmail and Twitter, for instance, will enable this security feature.
Turning off the Wi-Fi connection option on your computer before heading out to the airport or other destination where public networks are available is also a smart way to keep hackers out. This will ensure your computer does not hook up to a public network on its own, possibly putting your online information at risk. Once you have arrived at a destination and want to access the Internet, this Wi-Fi option can be turned back on.
For business travelers, using a virtual private network also ensures online safety while on the road. Many companies offer network access to employees while they are traveling, allowing them to hook up to the company's VPN outside the office. A VPN will act as a shield to outside attacks, the LA Times said.
Public Computer Safety
Public computers don't need to have anti-spyware programs installed on them – there are no regulations requiring such protection. So taking extra precaution becomes a necessity to ensure your personal information is kept secure.
Remembering to log out of a website is absolutely a must when using a public computer. Closing the browser window will not necessarily log a person out of a website, leaving that information accessible to the next person who uses the computer. Make sure websites, such as social networks, do not automatically save login information on the computer, as well.
Selecting the option to "browse privately" will also erase your tracks on a public computer. Erasing the history and temporary Internet files once you are done using the computer is another smart step.
Matt Cullina is chief executive officer of IDentity Theft 911.
Data privacy and security took center stage in the news this week when it was announced five men had been indicted in what could be the largest-known data breach scheme in the United States. A report announced by McAfee this week also shined a light on just how expensive cybercriminal activity costs U.S. companies every year: around $100 billion. An Internet scam targeting the birth of the royal baby in Britain and identity theft fears from U.S. veterans also made news this week.
Cybercrime Is Expensive
Companies were reminded how important it is to have proper data breach protection solutions in place when McAfee release a report conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that showed the economic impact of a data breach to a business ranges from $20 billion to $140 billion a year. This is equivalent to about 508,000 lost jobs, the report said. The estimates are even lower than other reports, this week.
Five Men Charged in Largest Data Breach in U.S. History
Five men – four Russians and a Ukrainian – were indicted after U.S. prosecutors say they hacked into more than a dozen company networks and stole more than 160 million credit card numbers, causing the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. The men, who range in age from 26 to 32, started the scheme in 2005 and hacked into databases of companies including J.C. Penney, 7-Eleven and JetBlue, . They were able to access systems by using a SQL Injection attack, which specifically targeted vulnerable databases, . The men then placed malware into the system, allowing them to repeatedly gain access to it.
Scammers Use News of Royal Baby to Lure Consumers Into Identity Theft Scheme
As news emerged this week of the birth of the royal baby, so did an increased number of online scams. Scammers lured Internet users to click on a link by promising images and videos of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. However, once they arrived at the site, the user was asked to download the video player (which was actually malware) or "register" to the site (a phishing scam), . One spam-blocking service reported seeing more than a million scam emails of this sort.
Vet Worries About Sharing Too Much Personal Information Online
Tropp ID and SheerID are services that offer military veterans and their spouses special deals and discounts. However, one retired Army lieutenant colonel recently wrote into the Navy Times saying these sites were asking for what he believed was too much personal information. These sites were asking for vets' to provide a date of birth and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, among other information. Blake Hall, CEO of Troop ID, responded, saying the company only asks for the minimum information for the site to verify a person did in fact serve in the military. SheerID also tried to reassure users that retailers cannot view personal verification information and SheerID cannot see payment information, .
Matt Cullina is chief executive officer of IDentity Theft 911.
A number of states are taking a second look at how they collect and sell patient health information. The move comes as a result of a June report from Bloomberg News and a Harvard University professor that showed some patient information was at risk of being exposed to the public due to Washington state selling medical data.
A number of state public-health agencies collect patient data and sell it to researchers and companies like data-mining firms, . They are exempt from the federal law for medical privacy, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Though the information public health agencies sell does not contain names, addresses or dates of birth, it may include postal codes of where the patient lives, their age and when they were admitted to a hospital. This information, along with other public information, could be used to identify a patient.
Washington, along with Arizona, Nevada and Tennessee, reacted to the June report – beginning an audit of their privacy policies to reduce the chance of medical identity theft. Other states, too, including Alaska, California, Connecticut and Illinois, were already in the midst of their health data collection policies, the source said.
States are looking into whether their policies should be strengthened as data-mining technologies become more sophisticated, making it easier for people to use medical information to identity someone. Also of concern is how the use of electronic medical records is spurring the amount of how much patient data is being generated and then shared.
Nevada health agencies, specifically, are asking the buyers of the medical data what exactly they are doing with it, Bloomberg reported.
Prescription data provider IMS HEalth Inc. is just one example of a company that purchases medical data from state health industries. WebMD Health Group is another. The more data a company has, the more useful the medical information becomes, according to the source. It's expected the medical data industry will exceed $10 billion by the end of the decade.
Some States Still Lagging
At least 26 states sell hospital records. All 50 states were asked by Bloomberg for its June report if they participate in selling medical information. Three said they did not collect or sell such information and 18 said they had no plans to review or change privacy policies. The remainder of the states did not reply.
Matt Cullina is chief executive officer of IDentity Theft 911.
Smishing is an identity theft scheme that involves sending consumers text messages containing a link to a fraudulent website or a phone number in an attempt to collect personal information. This scheme is becoming increasingly popular and consumers should know how to determine if they are being targeted by these criminals to protect their mobile data security.
Earlier this month, the Better Business Bureau was warning consumers of smishing, which has become prevalent in the age of the smartphone. Many mobile phone users keep their personal data, like bank account information, stored on their smartphones, but this information can be accessed by criminals through phishing and other scams. One example of a phishing scam is a criminal sending an alert from a bank asking the cellphone user to follow a link to verify account information, the , such as "reactivate your ATM card" by entering a PIN.
T-Mobile was also warning its customers of the scheme. Criminals could pose as T-Mobile through a text message, scamming users to enter personal information. However, the cellphone provider said it would "never ask you to 'confirm' or 'verify' your sensitive personal information in an unsolicited SMS text message," so users should know immediately that any text message is a scam. Like the BBB, T-Mobile said users should not reply to such text messages, not click on any link in them and contact the business that the criminal is posing to represent.
Take Action, Avoid Falling For the Scam
Consumers should also send these scam text messages to 7726 (SPAM) to cellphone carriers to have the number blocked, the BBB said. If the smishing scam included the name of a bank, contact bank to notify them of the text.
Like phishing, short message service (SMS) text messages, or "smishing," makes consumers think their financial accounts may be compromised, and therefore they follow the fake URL or call a fraudulent phone number even if they suspect it is a scam. But identifying the scam is a consumer's first defense from becoming a victim of the crime.
Consumers should be wary of any message that comes from "5000" or other number that is not a cell number, . A message that is asking a consumer to respond quickly can be a scam, and consumers should stop and think it over before taking action. "Remember that criminals use this as a tactic to get you to do what they want," the article stated.
Some companies outsource the disposal of information technology assets to a third-party vendor that specializes in data destruction or electronics recycling. These vendors can be a cost-effective solution for a business looking to safely dispose of important company devices while ensuring their data is not put at risk. However, to avoid the risk of a data breach even more, some companies actually physically destroy drives and data storage media. This could be seen as the most effective way to ensure no data is stolen once it reaches the trash bin, .
The first national Military Consumer Protection Day will take place July 17. The day is aimed at spreading awareness to military service members and their families on how to protect against identity theft.
The Federal Trade Commission said it received more than 62,000 identity theft complaints from servicemembers, veterans and their spouses in 2012. The frequent relocation and steady income of military families can make them prime targets to identity thieves. This encouraged the FTC and partners to sponsor the new awareness day.
“It’s a great day to empower military and veteran communities with information as the first line of defense against consumer fraud,” the FTC said on its website.
Public.Resource.Org’s head, Carl Mahmud, who’s lobbied for transparency in non-profit tax accounting for years, : “This is only one of several exempt organization databases that the IRS has totally bungled. They’ve become addicted to bad Internet hygiene and it is time now for the Service to admit it needs help.”
BlueBox, a security research firm, said it discovered a “mastery key” loophole for nearly all Android phones that could make it easy for cybercriminals to hack into users’ operating systems. The bug could be used by hackers to steal personal data from Android users and allow the criminals to send people junk messages, .
While there has not been evidence that cyberthieves have exploited the loophole, BlueBox said the implications of this loophole were “huge.” The bug exists in every Android device made since 2009, or 900 million phones, the firm said on .


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From sourcing smart technology integrations to managing staff more effectively, operators are rethinking how their restaurants are run in the face of rising labor costs and an ongoing war for industry talent.
— Erika Adams
Earlier this year, the Cheesecake Factory experienced the worst stock decline within one day in nearly 20 years. In a dismal second-quarter earnings report, the restaurant chain revealed that it had missed revenue estimates by enough that it had to lower its profit guidance for the year. The top reason for the misses? Rising labor costs.
A day before Cheesecake’s earnings were released, the U.S. Department of Labor had announced a significant post-recession milestone. Over the past year, American workers have logged the highest pay increase in the decade since September 2008, according to the the department’s employment cost index, which measures labor costs (including wages, salaries, and benefits) across the nation.
That also means that labor costs are skyrocketing. The minimum wage rose in eighteen states across the U.S. throughout 2018, and is scheduled to rise again in over 20 states in 2019. In September 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded the nation’s unemployment rate at 3.7 percent, the lowest that it’s been in nearly 50 years.
In other words, workers are both increasingly expensive to retain and in very high demand. This is great news for restaurant employees: it’s never been easier to get a job in the industry, and employers are often paying above the minimum wage in an effort to increase staff retention rates. For restaurateurs, however, rising labor costs need to be managed. In order to do that, operators are reconsidering every inch of how their restaurants are run.
Leveraging In-Restaurant Technology
At the Cheesecake Factory, labor costs accounted for 35 to 36 percent of sales throughout 2018. Five years ago, the company’s labor costs hovered in the 31 to 32 percent range.
It’s not possible to simply absorb those cost increases, at the independent restaurant level or at the national chain level. Changes to operations have to be made.
“If labor continues to be an incremental pressure, you have to look holistically at the profit and loss statement. What would change is the point at which technology in the restaurant becomes more affordable relative to the price of labor,” Matthew Eliot Clark, executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Cheesecake Factory, said on the company’s 2018 second-quarter earnings call.
That doesn’t mean that robots are going to start dishing up cheesecakes. It does mean that the restaurants will better leverage labor management tools and subtler forms of automation to implement more effective staff training models, ensuring shifts are properly staffed to cut down on extra costs associated with either overstaffing or understaffing, and automate manual labor where it makes sense.
Shake Shack has been slowly installing order kiosks in a handful of new restaurants in part to offset labor costs especially in markets like Seattle, where the minimum wage is high and labor regulations are more stringent.
“When it comes to kiosks, it’s absolutely one of our goals to decrease the payroll over time, and the number of people that we need,” Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti said on an earnings call in August 2018. “We have not stressed that in these early days. Of course, that’s a long-term goal.”
The point isn’t to replace all of Shake Shack’s front-of-house employees, but rather hire and train a skilled hospitality team to focus on what can’t be replaced by a kiosk: supporting and guiding the customer experience to make repeat diners out of everyone who walks in the door.
Rethinking Staff Management
Salar Sheik, the owner of restaurant consultancy Savory Hospitality in California, told Skift Table in a previous interview that it’s not uncommon to see restaurants in the state with labor costs that run as high as 40 percent of total sales.
Sheik said that soaring labor costs are frequently the top reason that he gets called in to help restaurant operators. Technology solutions are key, but Sheik has also recommended outsourcing some of the kitchen’s prep labor by considering pre-packaged food items versus paying staff to prep every component on the menu.
“We’re really sourcing our products and our menu with labor as number one priority,” Sheik said. “We’re really nickel-and-diming ourselves.”
When New York City raised its tipped minimum wage from $5 to $7.50 an hour in 2015, Sylvia’s, a decades-old staple of the dining scene in Harlem, New York, offset the increase in labor costs by raising menu prices, getting more strategic about scheduling, and “making sure we had strong staff members and weren’t keeping underperforming employees,” the restaurant’s director of operations, Taniedra McFadden, told Skift Table in June 2018. “We had to keep really strong people who could make every step count.”
At the time, McFadden said that Sylvia’s labor costs typically hover at around 21 to 22 percent (lower than average for a full service restaurant) because she closely monitors staff training and development. “An employee is not just a dishwasher. We cross train and use them in different areas instead of bringing in a brand new person to fulfill one need,” McFadden said, although she noted that these fixes only go so far and might not be enough to offset labor increases if the tipped minimum wage (set to raise to $10 in 2019) is potentially eliminated while also managing the upcoming city minimum wage increase (set to raise to $15 in 2019).
“I want to be optimistic that we’ll figure it out, we’ll make a way, but the way we do business is going to be different,” McFadden said. “It probably won’t look like what we do today.”
Pinning Hopes on Fast Casual
Fast casual salad and bowl shops and counter service restaurants aren’t popping up on every corner just because of a sudden rise of speedy eaters who prefer a do-it-yourself dining atmosphere. The business model thrives on lower labor costs: there’s no table service, less people are needed to staff the restaurant, and employees can more easily cross train on a variety of stations.
The New York Times reported that in San Francisco, one of the most challenging labor markets in the country, popular Greek counter service restaurant Souvla operates with labor costs in the mid-20s. Less than half a mile away, at Jardinière, a French fine dining restaurant run by chef Traci Des Jardins, labor costs take up 43 percent of total sales.
National restaurant chains are also turning their sights towards more profitable fast casual models. The Cheesecake Factory will be opening a new fast casual concept, Social Monk Asian Kitchen, in Los Angeles in early 2019. Cracker Barrel launched a breakfast and lunch-only fast casual concept in 2016 called Holler & Dash, and has since expanded it to seven locations. Stephen Joyce, the CEO of Applebee’s parent company Dine Brands told Business Insider that the company is shopping around for a fast casual concept to add to its portfolio.
“We want to get into a category that’s growing faster than the categories we’re in,” Joyce said last May. He hopes to close on a deal in 2019.
Innovative Restaurateurs: Rick Bayless Is Still Stretching His Wings
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After 32 years on the restaurant scene, you couldn’t blame Rick Bayless for kicking back. Instead, he’s rolling up his sleeves, minding each of his businesses — from airport locations to Chicago flagships — with care.


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Sony PlayStation has this morning announced an exciting and brand new page on GIPHY, the largest GIF search engine, giving fans access to exclusive GIFs which they say are "dedicated to moments of gaming greatness, fails and everything in between."
"Tapping into the online language of the next generation of players, the channel has been designed to give gamers a way to express themselves when words just aren’t enough." explains a PlayStation representative.
"The GIFs, which will also be hosted on other social media channels, are fully shareable across all social channels including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and can also be used in text, WhatsApp, iMessage and Facebook messenger.
"Co-created with gamers, the GIFs are made for the players by the players, with an initial selection of approximately 20 designs available and new GIFs set to be added throughout 2017.
"So whether you’re making it rain with Sully, expressing sadness with Sackboy or dancing with a Destiny character, there’s a GIF for every moment.
Just like the one below:
The team at PlayStation also say they have teamed up with a host of top YouTubers to launch the new channel, putting them to the test in a series of challenges and asking them to share their reactions using the PlayStation GIFs.
"First up is Vikkstar123, who will be attempting to win as many online Rocket League matches in a row as he can, using only randomly generated cars and maps in front of his 3.5m followers.
"Among the other YouTubers set to take part are WroetoShaw, Reev, CapgunTom, Morgz, Kieran Brown and TheBurntChip."
The official PlayStation GIPHY channel is now live and players can start sharing their favourite reactions by visiting: www.giphy.com/PlayStation.


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Starting August 1st, 2017, the Bitcoin Cash (commonly named as BCC or BCH in certain exchanges). and then there are places that accept BTS in exchange for hard cash.On OKCoin you can buy Bitcoin Cash (BCC, BCH) and Bitcoin (BTC). and convert the Bitcoins to Bitcoin Cash on a cryptocurrency exchange like LiveCoin.If you are suing the services of a smaller or a local crypto currency exchange,.Miners who want to mine on the new BCC blockchain can begin mining in the new pool on July 22.However, until UAHF activates on August 1, they can only mine bitcoins since the fork has not taken place yet.Bitcoin Press Release: BitConnect Coin (BCC), a cryptocurrency created by BitConnect.co enters next phase of development supported by its own proprietary BCC Exchange.
BCC and CNY Exchange, Bter.com is a bitcoin exchange platform which supports bitcoin, BTC, litecoin, LTC, FTC, feathercoin namecoin, ppcoin, terracoin, freicoin, NMC.We should wait until the abc devs team stated all clear and we may see bitcoin cash drop significantly if all those bch deposited to exchanges.GDAX, the cryptocurrency exchange operated by Coinbase, has made public its intention to launch support for Bitcoin Cash (BCC or BCH) by January 1, 2018.Available for Android and iOS: Try out the new Bitcoin.com Mobile Wallet.
Bitcoin Cash price calculator, convert between Bitcoin Cash and USD, EUR and more fiat currencies with realtime prices.Quote from: viralz on August 02, 2017, 06:00:28 AM to my surprise,.So you want your BCC. (just use the wallet to transfer your BCH to the exchange.
BCC USD: Get all information on the Bitcoin Cash to US-Dollar Exchange Rate including Charts, News and Realtime Price.This means that any user who held Bitcoin at the time of the fork (August 1st, 2017.Get Bitcoin Cash price, charts, and other cryptocurrency info.We are pleased to announce that on August 1st 2017, Bitcoin Cash (BCC).Quote from: grzem on August 02, 2017, 09:05:17 AM Quote from: error08 on August 02, 2017, 07:59:10 AM Quote from: nibor on August 01, 2017, 08:30:54 PM Have tried yobit, Kraken (site not working), OKCoin, Bittrex.
Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-currency. after that you import the private keys from old BTC wallet into a BCC wallet.Cryptocurrency mining pool and exchange platform Viabtc published their statement concerning the possible upcoming Bitcoin User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) on Sunday, stating.
I am using Bittrex and they have already credited my account with equivalent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and I am quite happy with it but as of this reply the wallet for BCH is still offline meaning I could not move my share of BCH nor sell them on the market.Please keep in mind that this is a commercial website that lists wallets, exchanges and other bitcoin related companies.For the time being, people can exchange their BTC to BCC on the ViaBTC exchange.


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Safety plans and procedures have been announced at Burton Market Hall ahead of its reopening.
The town centre building, which houses a whole range of businesses, from cafés to beauty and jewellery stalls, will reopen on Monday, June 15.
East Staffordshire Borough Council has outlined measures that will be in place to ensure safety for stall holders and shoppers.
These include a one-way system to ensure social distancing can be adhered to, while visitors are asked to use hand sanitiser points at both the entrance and exit of the building.
Traders are being encouraged by the council to operate their own safety measures, including limiting the number of people allowed at each stall at a time.
Shoppers are also asked to pay by card where possible.
Councillor Edward Barker, deputy leader of leisure, culture and tourism at the borough council, said: "We look forward to welcoming people back to Burton Market Hall and have put measures in place to help facilitate social distancing so customers can shop safely.
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"Obviously the changes may take time to get used to and we ask everyone to be patient and respectful to others."
It comes as Burton Live's parent company, Reach, has launched the #IAmOpen campaign.
The initiative is designed to help businesses let their customers know that they are both open for business and "Covid-secure" as the Government lifts trading restrictions.


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|So the speculation on when the iPhone release date is ramping up right on cue, with some speculating a release date in June, others saying that the iPhone release date will be in October like last year. Whatever iPhone rumors and news we hear in the coming months will surely include iPhone 5 features and specs, and the current favorites are 4G LTE, an iOS6 update, and the enhancement of Siri and iTunes with iCloud.
There are two camps right now: those who say that Apple will return to a June iPhone 5 release date, and those who think that based on the move last year by Apple to do up an October iPhone 5 release date, this will be the norm from here on out. What do you think? The June camp cites the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) as one of the causes, although Apple seems to have moved away from conferences like the WWDC to do their own announcements. Both the iPhone 4s release date announcement and the iPad 3 release date announcement were the start of this. The iPhone release date rumors season is fully open at this point.
There was a story this week on Macotakara that spoke of the manufacturer Foxconn hiring staff for a June iPhone release, with a recruiter saying "We're looking for 18,000 employees…for the fifth-generation phone." AppleInsider smartly wonders how a low level employee can be so "in the know" about a company as secretive as Apple. Hiring and releasing do not always track together, so this really proves nothing. It's also worth noting that an iPhone release date in the Fall and an iPad release date in the Spring gives Apple 6 months cycles to comfortably focus on each item.
I love how everyone has "sources" inside of Apple that are so in the know when we all "know" that Apple has so much secrecy inside the company that most Apple employees don't have a clue to ANYTHING about the iPad or iPhone when it's in development. But somehow, all of these people outside of the tent are just so dialed in to the inner workings of Apple ...
One of the big rumors of iPhone 5 features right now is the 4G LTE compatibility. The iPhone also usually brings an update to iOS, so this time we could be looking at an iOS upgrade to iOS 6. This is one to watch to see how the rumors and news reports happen in coming months. The iPhone price is largely undetermined with the current model starting at $199.


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Yahoo! today confirmed that it is taking important next steps to reshape the company for the future.
"Today's actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo! - smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require. We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. Our goal is to get back to our core purpose - putting our users and advertisers first - and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal," said Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo!. "Unfortunately, reaching that goal requires the tough decision to eliminate positions. We deeply value our people and all they've contributed to Yahoo!."
Yahoo! has a solid foundation - nearly 700 million users and thousands of advertisers that engage with Yahoo! properties regularly and trust the company with their data and their business. Through its restructuring efforts, Yahoo! intends to grow by responding more quickly to customer needs and competing more effectively in areas where it can win. Yahoo! has identified key parts of the business - a select group of core businesses, the platforms that support those core businesses, and the data that drives deep personalization for users and ROI for advertisers - where the company will intensify efforts and redeploy resources globally, all focused on increasing shareholder value. With a clear focus on profitability and growth, the company will be disciplined in its investments and radically simplify how it builds, launches and maintains many of its properties and products.
Today, the company will begin the process of informing employees about these changes. As part of that effort, approximately 2,000 people will be notified of job elimination or phased transition.
Yahoo! expects to realize approximately $375 million of annualized savings upon completion of all employee transitions. The company currently expects to recognize the majority of an estimated $125 to $145 million pretax cash charge relating to employee severance in its second quarter financial results. The company may incur additional charges in connection with this action. More information will be provided about Yahoo!'s future direction in conjunction with the release of its first quarter financial results on April 17, 2012.
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Eating Blueberries to Lose Belly Fat
Wouldn’t an alternative to sit-ups be wonderful? It seems that blueberries could be that alternative. The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center has completed a study that shows the tiny berry has multiple health benefits, including helping to decrease belly fat. The study talks about phytochemicals, anthocyanins, and naturally occurring anti-oxidants, but for those who just want the facts – the study shows that blueberries have a positive effect on conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome; and, that blueberries were helpful in reducing belly fat – a key condition leading to those diseases.
The 90-day study was performed on rats given blueberry-enriched powder as two percent of their diet. The results included “less abdominal fat, lower triglycerides, lower cholesterol, and improved fasting glucose and insulin sensitivity.” The rats, specially-bred overweight rats, were given the blueberry powder and were put on low-fat and high-fat diets. While both groups showed health benefits from the blueberries, the low-fat diet rats showed decreased risk for the targeted diseases and reductions in weight and body fat. A search The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition results in 123 articles which reference blueberries.
The day after this study’s results were announced, a visit to the local grocery store found empty blueberry displays. A visit a week later found a significant increase in the price of blueberries. Never fear, much like the aftermath of the findings for the health benefits of cranberries, there surely will be blueberry supplemental pills, blueberry juice, blueberry powder, and an increase in recipes using blueberries. Beyond the health benefits found in the University of Michigan study, other studies involving blueberries have found they are beneficial in improving memory, are a good source of fiber, and are helpful with cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Read the study, or at least a summary, and decide if trying blueberries, along with a low-fat diet, could contribute to your health.
Blueberries has many health benefits, high in vitamin C and fiber , blueberries also has antioxidants to help strengthen your immune system and improve your health.
Enjoy blueberries with cereal, in plain vanilla yogurt, on pancakes, as a garnish for salads, and in low-fat milkshakes. According to USDA, there are 84 calories and 4 grams of dietary fiber in 1 cup of blueberries.
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We might consider the 2010s as a decade of ethical consumerism, but in her 20 years of campaigning for an end to animal testing, Michelle Thew says public contempt for the use of animals in developing cosmetics has been constant.
"If you even look back to opinion polls in the 1980s, there was never support for animal testing for beauty," says the Cruelty Free International chief executive. But what she has noticed in her time campaigned is "the willingness of governments to take action and, critically, the willingness of businesses to step up".
Founded in 1898 as the "British Union" – an organisation to oppose experiments on animals in continental Europe – Cruelty Free International is the world's foremost organisation for ending animal testing. They are best known for their Leaping Bunny certification for cosmetics brands, introduced in the 1990s, which are given to companies with no animal testing throughout their supply chain (the companies undergo annual audits). Last year, Covergirl became the largest beauty brand to achieve the certification.
But there can be confusion for consumers who want to buy ethically: a cruelty-free certified product is not necessarily vegan (there are certified products containing lanolin, for example), and the clean beauty trend has resulted in products marketed as "not tested on animals" when they don't meet the certification's standards.
The European Union outlawed cosmetics testing on animals in 2009, and extended this ban to imports in 2013. Over the past 10 years jurisdictions including New Zealand, India, Israel, South Korea and some American states have banned animal testing in cosmetics to varying degrees.
"[The EU] really set the precedent that some markets are closed for business if you want to test on animals," Thew says.
From July 1, Australia will ban the use of data derived from animal tests done after that date to demonstrate the safety of ingredients used solely in cosmetics. The focus on data, not the testing itself, makes sense: according to the RSPCA, no animal testing for cosmetics currently takes place in Australia.
However, some experts have questioned whether the legislation goes far enough; by having a ban which only applies to ingredients used solely in cosmetics, cosmetic products that include multi-purpose ingredients which have been tested on animals can still be made in Australia.
"Phthalates are chemicals that act as binding agents and make products soft and flexible," explains Deakin University law lecturer Dr Jane Kotzmann. "They are used in household cleaners and also fragrances and cosmetics like nail polish and hairspray. Similarly, tricolan is an anti-bacterial agent commonly used in household cleaning products, but also used in cosmetics such as deodorant, soap and toothpaste."
Instead, Kotzmann argues a more comprehensive law would focus on the full cosmetic product or a combination of cosmetic ingredients, as well as include an import ban similar to the EU.
"It's very future-looking," Thew says of the new Australian legislation. "But it is a step and I think it's important to celebrate that step. A lot of the effectiveness will be in the regulation."
Thew's next step is China, where product safety laws requiring cosmetic products to have been tested on animals force beauty brands to choose between going cruelty-free and selling in the Chinese market. There is promise: a pilot program allowing Leaping Bunny certified brands to sell in China without their products being subject to post-market animal testing was introduced last year.
"We need to show that this isn't a choice between animal protection and consumer safety, non-animal methods are better and cheaper," she says, citing cell culture tests and computer modelling as alternatives. "We now have models of human skin to test products rather than shaving the back of a guinea pig. These methods are faster and more human relevant."
With growing support from individual countries, since 2017 Cruelty Free been pushing for a United Nations resolution against animal testing in cosmetics. Last year, the organisation partnered with international skin care company the Body Shop to present a petition with 8.3 million signatures at the UN headquarters in New York.
"There is an animal-shaped hole in the [Sustainability Development Goals] network," Thew says. "What we don't want to see is animal testing moved from one country to another. We want the world to move together."
The developments over the past decade mean Thew believes we are "getting closer to the day where we'll have a cruelty-free world for beauty". However, she feels her work is far from done: it was a conscious decision 20 years ago to focus on the cosmetics industry and, although it has been satisfying to see that landscape change, it isn't the whole of the problem.
"Animals are used for testing for a range of other products – detergents, household products – so, sadly, there's still work for us to do."


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E3 2008: Rachet and Clank for PS3 releases as downloadable content, priced at $14.99
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During an E3 2008 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that Insomniac's Rachet & Clank series will continue for the PlayStation 3 later this summer, as downloadable content priced at $14.99.
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According to reports, Avita's management took the initiative to adjust its salary structure, dozens of managers above the director level collectively signed a new pay agreement, this adjustment does not involve ordinary employees. After the adjustment, management's monthly income is directly linked to sales and increases the floating proportion, while the year-end sales target management pressurizes an additional 10,000 vehicles.
According to the Tramway report, as the decision-maker and executor of the company, the performance of the management is directly related to the operational efficiency and strategy implementation of the company. Therefore, by increasing the management compensation, we can effectively stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of the management team and promote the performance of the company. This kind of salary adjustment behavior may also be a positive response to external changes, whether it is market competition or talent competition, companies need to maintain a certain salary competitiveness in order to attract and retain key talents. For Avita, management taking the initiative to adjust salary is also an incentive and management strategy, which not only shows expectations and confidence in the future development of their own company, but also reflects the drive of Avita's young management who are mainly born in the post-80s generation. Dare to tie yourself to the collective to hit the goal.
Changan Automobile, the most aggressive company in the transformation of new energy, launched the "Shangri-La" plan as early as 2017, announcing that it would completely stop selling fuel vehicles in 2025. At present, Changan Automobile owns three new energy brands, namely, Avita, Deep Blue and Qiyuan. In the planning of Changan Automobile, Avita is the strategic support of Changan New Energy, competing with new power and luxury brands, but it is not easy to achieve this goal.
At the 2023 Changan Automobile Global Partnership Conference, Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile, announced that Avita Automobile will launch four products by 2025, with sales of more than 30-400000 vehicles. Of these, the target is 100000 vehicles in 2023, but according to the current market performance, the pressure on Avita is enormous.
At present, Avita has launched two models, Avita 11 and Avita 12. In 2023, Avita sold 23485 vehicles for the whole year, with an average monthly sales of about 2000. The annual target completion rate is only 1/4 of the planned, of which Avita 11 is 21665 and Avita 12 is 1820. It is understood that Avita 12 listed in November 2023, the price range is 30.08-400800 yuan, the new car positioning luxury medium and large pure electric cars, based on Changan, Huawei, Ningde era jointly developed intelligent electric vehicle network connection vehicle platform (CHN) to build, will provide rear-drive, four-wheel drive version.
Or in order to reverse the situation of Avita, Avita Technology carried out a personnel reshuffle in December 2023. Tan Benhong, former chairman of Avita Technology and CEO, became deputy secretary of the party committee of Changan Automobile and was no longer in charge of Avita Automobile related business. Chen Zhuosheng, former vice president of Avita, was appointed president and took over Avita's automobile management business, while Zhu Huarong, chairman of Changan Automobile and secretary of the party committee, served as chairman.
In addition, in November 2023, Changan Automobile signed a Memorandum of Investment Cooperation with Huawei, which proposes to establish a company engaged in the research, design, production, sales and service of automotive intelligent systems and components solutions. it also plans to integrate the core technologies and resources of the smart car solution business into the new company. According to the Changan Automobile announcement, the business scope includes car intelligent driving solutions, car intelligent cockpit, smart car digital platform, smart car cloud, AR-HUD and smart lights and so on. It also means that Avita may be the first to use Huawei's latest iterative technology, which will be one of Avita's way out, but whether this will help Avita achieve a breakthrough in 2024 remains to be seen.
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On April 20th, on the night of the 2024 Mercedes-AMG brand, a number of new Mercedes-AMG cars were launched. Among them, the new Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E PERFORMANCE F1 Special Edition is officially listed in China, with a price of 1.1918 million yuan.
Zhou Hongyi, chairman of 360 Group, released a video on April 18, revealing that he plans to sell his Maybach 600 to experience the feeling of a new generation of cars. It said that it would give up the traditional luxury car and replace it with the domestic new energy intelligent network combined car. At the end of the video, Zhou Hongyi is still soliciting netizens on the Internet.
On April 19th, Nissan said it decided to cut its operating profit forecast for the year by 14.5% due to lower-than-expected car sales and a number of other factors. After adjustment, Nissan expects a full-year net profit of 370 billion yen for the year ended March 31, 2024.
On April 19th, the glowing version of Polar Krypton 009 went on sale for 789000 yuan. The new car is actually a four-seater version of the extreme Krypton 009 and is positioned as a medium and large MPV. It is understood that delivery of the new car will begin on May 19. Appearance: the design style of polar krypton 009 is similar to that of the current polar krypton 009
On April 19, local time, Chinese carmaker Chery and Spanish car company Ebro-EV Motors signed an agreement to set up a new joint venture in Barcelona, Spain, to jointly produce new electric vehicles with a total investment of 400 million euros. At present, the Chinese Embassy in Spain
The arrival of February 2020 means that the major lists in January will arrive one after another, and the ranking of domestic automobile complaints in January will also be officially released today. According to the statistics of the car quality Network, a total of 5636 effective complaints were received from car owners in the first month of 2020. Affected by the Spring Festival holiday, the number of complaints decreased to a certain extent compared with the same period last year, down 32.3% from the same period last year.
A few days ago, Mercedes-Benz Group and BMW Group have announced their first-half sales. Among them, BMW Group (including MINI) sold 392600 vehicles in China in the first half, up 3.7% from the same period last year; Mercedes-Benz Group (including smart) delivered a total of 377200 vehicles in China.
In the context of the national promotion of energy conservation and emission reduction, including BMW, Geely, Honda, Volkswagen and other car companies have developed and promoted three-cylinder engine models one after another, but they have not been popularized on a large scale. GM's three-cylinder engine is almost more motivational. Its models, including Buick Yinglong, Velang, Chevrolet Cora and Chevrolet Cruze, have only three-cylinder engine options. Consumers believe that the three-cylinder engine has greater disadvantages, in comparison, it will still choose the four-cylinder engine. Earlier, there were media reports that GM would add four-cylinder engines while carrying out the "three-cylinder engine" plan in China.
On the evening of September 1, Zhongtai Automobile announced that its controlling shareholder Tieniu Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tieniu Group") recently received a "civil order" issued by the people's Court of Yongkang City, Zhejiang Province. the court has accepted Tieniu's application for reorganization. The announcement shows that because Tieniu Group is no longer able to pay off its maturing debts, and the amount of book assets is less than the amount of liabilities, it should be determined that assets are not sufficient to pay off all debts, but Tieniu Group's assets are diversified and have core value. Through the pre-restructuring phase of work, Tieniu Group also has a certain restructuring basis. According to the relevant provisions of the Enterprise bankruptcy Law of the people's Republic of China, the court is subject to.
Wave after wave, wave after wave, the quality problems of the new Mercedes-Benz have been exposed all over the network. Recently, the incident of Xi'an Mercedes-Benz owners crying about the protection of their rights spread all over the network. Mercedes-Benz officially announced that it had sent a working group to deal with the incident. At present, the car owners do not agree with the way 4S stores deal with the full refund of their cars. They also question that 4S stores illegally charge 15000 yuan for financial services, and demand a thorough investigation and explanation. However, Zhengzhou Star Mercedes-Benz 4S store also had an accident. It was revealed that Ms. Wang spent 400000 on a Mercedes-Benz car at the Zhengzhou Star Mercedes-Benz 4S store. Less than 24 hours after picking up the car, the steering wheel power system suddenly failed. Ms. Wang asked for the return and replacement of the car, and the 4S store proposed.