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It appears Google is now taking a view on whether ‘tap targets’ (buttons, links etc) are ‘too small’ for users on mobile touchscreen devices:
If we run the Co-operative Bank website through, for example (a site that hasn’t got a mobile optimised site), we get a whole list of recommendations:
At the moment, the ‘see screenshot’ link is inactive.
Google is also recommending that the viewport is configured for mobile users, effectively calling the Co-Op bank website out for showing the same site to users on mobile as on desktops:
Back at PubCon in October this year, Google’s Matt Cutts advised users that their mobile organic traffic is likely to be negatively impacted if they offer users a poor experience. These recommendations could give us some insight into a number of factors that could be taken into account (aside from things like use of Flash and mobile load speed) when Google is considering whether or not you are offering such users a good experience.
What’s interesting about this is that Google specifies on the new user experience recommendations that these recommendations are, “not currently a part of the overall score.”
Not currently part of the score. Does this imply that they are about to become a part of the overall score? And as some of these are out and out user experience recommendations (rather than Page Speed recommendations) does that imply that the future of Google’s own Page Speed tool lies in becoming more of a ‘user experience’ centric tool. Given the focus Google is placing on users and the tight link between load speed and user experience, it would certainly make sense that, if Google can offer recommendations in improving things for users, that it should do!
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this!
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Tesla is dominating the US electric vehicle sector so much that its rivals are starting to look like unprofitable, low-volume niche EV makers. What's amazing is that Tesla is accomplishing these feats with just two vehicles: the Model 3 sedan and the Model Y crossover.
Why it matters: According to a Reuters analysis of US EV sales data for the first half of 2023, only a few electric vehicles are selling at high enough volumes today to warrant a full-scale assembly plant. This was despite global automakers launching dozens of new electric cars in the country.
This was highlighted recently when Ford opted to halt the construction of a $3.5 billion battery facility in Michigan. Ford's decision comes as analysts questioned whether the US electric vehicle market will grow fast enough to support automakers' high-profile investments. Ford, together with its peers from legacy auto, has committed billions to the EV transition.
Ford's decision to hit the brakes on a planned $3.5B battery plant in Michigan highlights a challenge for Tesla's growing crowd of rivals in the U.S. market: Tesla is pushing most of them into unprofitable, low-volume niches - Reuters— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 27, 2023
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The data: From January to June, Tesla sold 325,291 vehicles in the US. In comparison, GM's Chevy Bolt was a distant 34,943. Ford, Hyundai, and Rivian were next in line. All of Tesla's vehicles placed in the Top 12 of the country's rankings, with the Model 3 and Model Y being number one and two, with first-half sales of 200,000 and 160,000 units, respectively.
On a brand-by-brand basis, Tesla was able to outsell its next 19 competitors 10 to 1 during the first half of the year. This was according to data from S&P Global Mobility.
Cox Automotive also stated that while Tesla has surrendered some of the US' EV market share to rivals, the electric car maker still commands a very large portion of the segment — nearly two-thirds. None of Tesla's competitors have commanded more than 10%.
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It doesn't look rational that Tesla's valuation could be more than double that of two large automotive manufacturers, overnight.
As cool and sustainable as electric-powered cars sound, there is still a certain amount of runway before this eventually (if it does) go mainstream. In 2014, Nissan had initially targeted 1.5 million electric car sales by 2020. Today, total accumulated unit sales are just about 400,000.
Even so, for electric vehicles to dominate the market, that would require a tectonic shift in the demand and supply of oil globally. Until the cartels figure a way to decouple from this economic dependency, vehicles powered by traditional energy sources will likely remain a core part of the automotive sector. Hybrids however are an interesting case.
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Focus On: Upsher-Smith builds business with focus on novelty, quality
Innovation and products — those are the two foundations for Upsher-Smith Labs, the generic pharmaceutical company that celebrated its 100th birthday last year with a pledge that the next 100 years will be even more exciting than its first century.
It is heady times for the Maple Grove, Minn.-based company. Powered by the support of Japan-based Sawai Pharmaceutical, which acquired the company in 2017, Upsher-Smith aggressively is moving forward. The company has about 435 employees, 50 products and a new 300,000-sq.-ft. addition to its headquarters, which will house a proposed state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
“Since its inception 100 years ago, Upsher-Smith has focused on creating innovative, life-enhancing products that the healthcare providers and patients can trust,” said Rusty Field, the company’s CEO and president. “Our founder, Alfred Upsher Smith, revolutionized the treatment of congestive heart failure by perfecting the refinement of digitalis and, for the first time in history, producing it in a standardized potency. Today, we draw on that tradition, as we continue to offer innovative, high-quality products that improve lives.”
In 2019, for example, Field said that Upsher-Smith acquired two branded treatments for acute migraine in adults: Tosymra (sumatriptan) nasal spray and Zembrace SymTouch (sumatriptan) injection.
“These treatments take a proven medication, sumatriptan, and utilize novel delivery systems that relieve migraine quickly and effectively,” he said. “Whether through acquisition or organic growth, we will never stop trying to bring innovative products to market that truly serve the needs of patients. We also continue our tradition of manufacturing high-quality generic products. Going forward, we plan to bring a greater diversity of generic products to a wider array of U.S. customers than ever before.”
Field views that building a sense of trust with its partners is the key to the company’s long-term success. “Our health partners trust us because they know we make high-quality, high-value products, and that we bring them to market in a consistent way,” he said. “We are totally committed to delivering for our partners — from suppliers to patients, pharmacists to physicians — now and in the future.”
Support from Sawai Pharmaceutical is helping spur sales and profits. Field said that Upsher-Smith and Sawai plan to leverage each other for worldwide growth, bring more value to stakeholders and help their patients. That backing also is allowing Upsher-Smith to continue expanding its Pathways Platinum Pass Program, a best-in-class savings and support program that Field said significantly can reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients.
Education also is a huge part of the services provided by Upsher-Smith, especially with new products like Tosymra. “We reach out to healthcare providers through various medical meetings. At the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society, we introduced Tosymra to a broad audience,” Field said. “At the Child Neurology Society, we shared research about epilepsy, migraine prevention and Qudexy XR. We have also shared data on Vigadrone at the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. Through meetings such as these and through our sales and marketing teams, we are constantly reaching out to share information about our products, as well as to spread the word about our savings and support programs, specifically the Access Pathways Platinum Pass.”
Not bad for a company that traces its roots back to the early last century. In 1919, the company’s namesake — a chemist and pharmacist, as well as a recent English immigrant to the United States and director of the well-regarded Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy — began his quest to take the cardiac drug digitalis to the next level of innovation. He tilled the fields of his Wayzata, Minn., farm, planted foxglove seeds into the soil, and later harvested their purple-and-white flowers to extract the drug. Upsher Smith started the company Upsher-Smith that same year, and operating in a laboratory in nearby Minneapolis, he figured out how to deliver digitalis in a standardized potency — an advancement never before achieved since the drug’s discovery, and one that put Upsher Smith’s fledgling business on the map.
Over time, physicians and pharmacists throughout North America made sure that this improved medication benefited thousands of people suffering from congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Yet at mid-century, the pharmaceutical industry underwent a revolutionary transformation as synthetic drugs overtook those derived from plants and other natural sources, huge chemical conglomerates grew powerful, and the most successful companies invested heavily in building large sales forces. By the 1960s, despite its early promise, Upsher-Smith had receded into the background.
That all changed in 1969, when Ken Evenstad and his wife Grace received a call from one of her relatives. Her uncle Jim — James Upsher Smith — was selling the family business. Nearly extinct, Upsher-Smith was a very small company with a name that still meant something to pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers and Evenstad, a 25-year-old, Minnesota-born pharmacist with entrepreneurial inclinations, but little money, wanted to buy it. Driven to become a pharmacist because he wanted to help sick people, Evenstad soon came to feel he could help patients even more through his business pursuits, so he scraped together $1,500 and became the new owner. He already had a product idea and had been looking for a vehicle for selling it.
Evenstad’s first venture was the product SSKI (potassium iodide oral solution, USP), an expectorant for certain lung conditions. The new product was a huge success and Upsher-Smith continued to break new ground, with pioneering advances in the manufacturing of unit-dose generic medications, which helped reduce drug dosing errors and improved the care of hospital patients. These advancements also ushered in a period of rapid growth, as sales reached $1 million by 1977, then doubled in only two years.
Upsher-Smith then capitalized on its momentum by introducing a series of new products and making a major real estate acquisition. The introduction of Klor-Con (potassium chloride) and anti-arrhythmic medication Pacerone (amiodarone HCl) tablets signaled the arrival of branded generics, and the purchase of Rosemont Pharmaceuticals in 2001 hailed the arrival of new expertise and additional manufacturing capacity. In short order, the company quickly built a new corporate headquarters in Maple Grove, added a Morristown, N.J., office to tap into regulatory expertise on the East Coast and then expanded the Maple Grove headquarters yet again.
Ken’s son, Mark Evenstad, took the reins of Upsher-Smith in 2003, having spent his formative years learning the business from the inside. Under Mark’s leadership, Upsher-Smith experienced tremendous growth. He expanded beyond generics into the production of innovative central nervous system branded therapies — the highlights being the development and launch of seizure disorder drug Qudexy XR (topiramate) extended-release capsules in 2014 and the ultimate FDA approval of seizure rescue drug Nayzilam (midazolam) nasal spray.
Today, the company is in the midst of a strategy to double its on-
market offerings. Last year, it launched Vigadrone (vigabatrin) for Oral Solution, indicated for the treatment of infantile spasms, further building on Upsher-Smith’s existing portfolio of epilepsy medications. Soon after, an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement for six ophthalmic and otic generics brought new dosage forms into the company’s portfolio. Then came the return of Klor-Con and potassium chloride product families — one of the company’s biggest product families — in 2019, positioning Upsher-Smith to continue manufacturing and again marketing private label and branded potassium chloride products.
Field said to expect more acquisitions of generic and targeted brand opportunities that will leverage the company’s capabilities and allow it to dominate its markets, as well as expand into new areas. “Over the next few years, through both internal research and development and external partnerships, we will substantially expand our pipeline,” he said. “This effort is being supported by an investment in infrastructure with the construction of a state-of-the-art, efficient, high-quality manufacturing facility at our Minnesota headquarters.”
“Upsher-Smith is one of the oldest, most trusted names in the pharmaceutical industry,” Field said. “For 100 years, we have brought gene-rics and brands to a wide array of customers backed by an attentive level of service, strong industry relationships and dedication to uninterrupted supply. Let’s think about where we could partner.” dsn


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'European beef farmers should be paid to not produce beef for 5 years'
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) has said that beef farmers should be paid to reduce output due to high supplies and poor farmgate prices currently.
Its suckler chairman Dermot Kelleher has suggested that a €200 per breeding cow incentive is needed to reduce numbers in light of oversupply of beef in Europe and the complete lack of profitability in the sector.
“We need to learn from the strategy applied at EU level to deal with the dairy crisis in 2016 where the strategy was a rational move to reduce production to deal with the supply/demand imbalance.”
ICSA proposes that this incentive should be available on an EU-wide basis at a rate of €200 per cow per annum for up to five years on a voluntary basis.
The scheme would be based on a reference year of 2016 and the payment would be linked to the reduction in calves registered compared to 2016.
'Farmers sick and tired of losing money'
“ICSA believes that farmers are sick and tired of losing money to produce beef when there is so much uncertainty around viable markets.
“This strategy would expose the hypocrisy of Food Wise 2025 expansion targets by sending out a clear signal that anything less than €200 per cow net profit is unacceptable. It would expose the deadly consensus that farmers should be satisfied with just breaking even.


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Snapchat is now rolling out a shoppable augmented reality Lens feature, intended for use by advertisers around the world.
As part of an effort to monetize the service, Snapchat has introduced their existing shoppable ads that serve as an easy way for marketers to connect with their audience – appearing to potential customers natively through their app. The shoppable augmented reality takes things a step further – extending the company’s machine learning-based Lenses feature that allows users to share images with effects placed on their face. The Lenses feature has since been expanded to advertisers, which effectively encourages users of the app to include a fun advertisement in a snap they’re sending to friends.
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In an effort to extend the benefits of advertising even further, Snapchat is introducing a new shoppable augmented reality feature that will allow users to click a button to experience whatever the advertiser intends – such as letting them visit a website, watch a promotional video, or even install an app. These changes may make Snapchat more friendly towards advertisers while still maintaining the usability that many enjoy about the application – a benefit the company definitely needs as the struggle to monetize in the same way applications like Facebook and Instagram have managed to do so successfully.
While Snapchat has plans to roll out the shoppable augmented reality feature to a large number of businesses, there are only four brands included in the pilot project, including Clairol, King, STC Entertainment, and Adidas. To give an example, Snapchat users will be presented with a shoppable augmented reality experience for the Deerupt running shoe that offers a button that links to the Adidas website. By taking the effort out of connecting with products that they’re interested in, these advertisers will likely enjoy increased conversions and higher sales overall as users of the app can simply follow a link rather than having to turn to a search engine for more information about a product or service.
Snapchat remains, first and foremost, an easy platform by which to share pictures – and the AR lenses have become a large part of that. While many still share regular pictures, selfies are made much more interesting by the addition of filters and lenses that really spice up a photograph. As mentioned above, Snapchat has struggled to find a way to show advertisements in the same way that more established social networks can, and the idea to include a shoppable augmented reality feature may make for an advertisement that is extremely effective while remaining non-intrusive. If companies can manage to develop lenses that appeal to users, the spread of their product’s influence may increase dramatically while Snapchat users just have fun with lenses.
The shoppable augmented reality feature, in particular, may appeal to younger users, as they’re the primary market for the Snapchat lenses. The app’s user base in general slants heavily towards the younger crowd, and with younger people being more internet savvy – often blocking advertisements online – finding unique ways to get their products in front of the average user is likely what will separate the great brands from the rest when it comes to appealing to this growing market.
According to Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, more than 70 million of its users “play with Lenses in the Snapchat camera every day.” Users spend an average of three minutes using lenses each day, and around 250 million snaps are shared with some form of AR involved. While three minutes a day may not seem like a huge amount of time, the fact that these snaps are going out to millions of people over the course of a day is great news for advertisers who have worked with Snapchat to develop appealing lenses that make use of shoppable augmented reality.
“Because the camera and AR sit at the heart of Snapchat, we believe we’ve driven mainstream awareness for the medium,” a company spokesperson said.
“Shoppable AR Lenses give brands a new way to leverage our unique scale — more than half of the 13-34-year-old population of the U.S. plays with our AR Lenses each week on average — to drive real and measurable ROI, whether that’s through sales, downloads, lead gen, or video views,” added Peter Sellis, the director of revenue product at Snapchat.
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Sony may be the company doing the big push for gaming to support 3D HDTVs, but Microsoft has a few tricks up their sleeves as well.
Next-gamer.de today reports that at Gamescom they were shown Halo Anniversary running with full 3D support. Not sure yet how heavily promoted this option will be, but it’ll be a nice little bonus feature for those with a 3D HDTV set-up.
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Coffee prices are percolating
Posted: Monday, May 30, 2011 6:01 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — People are paying more to fuel up these days — on coffee.
Coffee price increases have outpaced even the hike in gasoline prices the past year.
A one-pound can of ground coffee sold for $5.10 in April, up 40 percent from $3.64 the year before, according to the Department of Labor.
By comparison, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $3.83 on average on May 24, up 37 percent from a year earlier.
And while fuel prices are expected to stabilize, coffee increases could continue for some time because the prices that coffee companies pay for unroasted beans are still climbing — fast.
J.M. Smucker Co., the maker of grocery store stalwart Folgers and of packaged varieties of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, said recently it is raising the prices of most of its U.S. coffee products by 11 percent, its fourth increase in a year.
Kraft Foods Inc., Peet’s Coffee and Tea Inc., and Starbucks Corp. also recently hiked their prices for brewed and packaged coffee.


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Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone is now available to pre-order in the new pink colour option at Phones 4u stores.
The pink handset will arrive on retailers' shelves in January 2014, with prices starting at £33 a month on 3G contracts from a range of operators.
The new colour option features a gold surround running along its edges, and joins the black, blue and white variants which are already on the market.
Customers who purchase the pink Galaxy S4 throughout January will receive a free wireless speaker worth £120.
The new models is powered by the same chipset as the existing versions, hosting a 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, 13-megapixel and Super AMOLED Full HD display.
The pink Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available to pre-order via Phones 4u's website.
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30 Jul 2015 − Stabilising demand in France, Italy and Spain and a sharply slowing Russian market and decline in Ukraine are some of the principal factors behind the current situation on Europe’s flexible packaging market.
27 Jul 2015 − Italy’s producers of corrugated board and corrugated board packaging that are represented by Gruppo Italiano Fabbricanti Cartone Ondulato (GIFCO) regard their past financial year as a good one.
23 Jul 2015 − They still have a rather negligible market share but already they are being observed closely by the metal packaging industry with some even perceiving them as a rising threat: aerosol cans made of PET.
22 Jul 2015 − Despite long lead times for new brown kraftliner prices – i.e. from May in isolated cases, contracts in June and agreements starting on 1 July – higher prices are gradually finding traction on the market.


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Codemasters has accused a rival studio set up by the publisher's former chief executive Nicholas Wheelwright of poaching staff and causing disruption to its development schedule.
According to High Court court documents obtained by the Daily Mail, Wheelwright's Playground Games poached key employees of Codemasters in order to give itself a head start of around 12 months on the development and marketing of its own games.
Those employees had access to trade secrets and confidential information, stated Codemasters, adding that their departures had caused delays to development of its own games.
"Those employees constituted a ready-made top-rate racing games development team. Between them they had some 100 years of experience in creating, developing and producing first-class computer racing games," stated the writ.
It added that poaching the team had enabled Playground to present itself to publishers such as Microsoft and Sega as a business with substantial experience.
The Colin McRae: DiRT publisher named 15 of its former employees in the writ, and stated its intention to seek unspecified damages and/or an account of profits in relation to Playground's actions.
Wheelwright founded Playground Games in November 2009 along with another former Codemasters executive, Trevor Williams.
The studio's website is currently advertising a number of art, design and engineering jobs.
Last week Codemasters confirmed it had secured former Sony Worldwide Studio VP Jamie MacDonald as its new senior VP of production.


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Hey! Who's that arriving this evening at the launch of the exhibition 'Ugly, Drunk and Stupid', part of the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival?
Why, it's none other than Jo Waite, the actual curator of the exhibition, photographed by Bernard Caleo, the virtual curator.
(Not an hour later, a real ugly, drunk and/or stupid person will sway up to the gallery, smash into one of the windows and then weave away into the night...)
The exhibition features grotesque portraits and comic strips by Melbourne comic book makers: Andrew Weldon, Jo Waite, Michael P Fikaris, David Blumenstein, Kirrily Schell, Neale Blanden, Mandy Ord, Tim Molloy, Bernard Caleo, Sarah Howell and Tolley.
It's on at the Town Hall Gallery at the Hawthorn Town Hall and runs until Sunday 5 October. On Saturday 4 October there will be a talk at 2pm about the 'ugly' tradition in comic book art and then from 3pm there will be an 'ugly draw-off', a comic jam at which you can draw an ugly mug onto a beer coaster.
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After hitting the reset button multiple times, Sony has dropped out of its planned Steve Jobs biopic and put the project into turnaround, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed.
Dan Lyons, the tech blogger who skewered Apple for years on the popular blog ‘Fake Steve Jobs‘, is making a return to tech blogging as editor-in-chief of Gawker’s anti-Silicon Valley site, Valleywag. Current Valleywag EIC Nitasha Tiku is leaving the … Read more ›
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Aaron Sorkin's Jobs has already seen David Fincher, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Christian Bale drop out for various reasons, and now Sony has decided to follow in their footsteps. The studio has decided to put the project in turnaround, which means that this is officially the part in the rom-com where Sorkin sits... More »
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Telephony company bought by TPG and Silver Lake in 2007 is weighing chapter 11 bankruptcy filing
At a 2007 meeting to discuss a potential buyout of Avaya Inc., some employees of private-equity firm TPG expressed concerns that the company was at risk of becoming technologically outmoded, a “buggy-whip business,” as one put it.
To them, Avaya’s business of installing and managing corporate phone systems appeared vulnerable to the same forces that were making landlines scarce in households across the U.S., according to people familiar with the meeting.
But their concerns, not unusual in deal deliberations, didn’t prevent TPG from partnering with Silver Lake on a roughly $8 billion deal to take Avaya private. The firms were betting that Avaya’s sales of corporate telecommunications gear would chug along while they cut costs and teed up a profitable exit.
Instead, the ensuing financial crisis decimated corporate spending. And when companies started buying again, Avaya faced stiff competition from rivals Cisco Systems Microsoft and, later, from Internet-based phone services.
As sales fell, Avaya began to buckle under the weight of a multibillion-dollar debt load the buyout firms layered on and pension obligations largely dating back to the company’s time as a unit of AT&T
Now Silver Lake and TPG stand to lose most of the more than $2 billion they invested in the buyout and two related acquisitions. Avaya is weighing a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to slash its $6 billion debt load.
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THE boss of Sainsbury’s has dismissed calls for longer opening times on Sundays.
Justin King said the current rules that allow big stores like his to trade for up to six hours were a “very British compromise”.
He added: “I have never had a letter from a customer asking us to open longer on a Sunday.”
King’s comments came as Chancellor George Osborne confirmed plans to allow supermarkets and other large stores to open all day on Sundays throughout the London Olympics and Paralympics.
But critics fear the move will be used as a smokescreen for full-scale deregulation of Sunday trading hours.
King insisted: “Sunday is a very special day for our staff and customers.”
He was talking as Sainsbury’s announced upbeat trading for the last 10 weeks, with sales growing 2.5%, taking the figure for the full year to 4.5%.
Sainsbury’s is the first supermarket to reveal the most recent trading data, But it comes amid turmoil at arch-rival Tesco, which last week saw UK boss Richard Brasher quit following the chain’s first profit warning in 20 years.
Asked if he was enjoying Tesco’s troubles, King said: “We don’t require anybody else to fail for us to succeed.”
But he gave the game away when he admitted: “I am someone who is very competitive, I am a frustrated sportsman.
“I like winning – and we have now been growing for seven years in a row.”
In a dig at its rivals Morrisons, Asda and Waitrose, King claimed it had “led on quality” over the past year, spending more than £85million on boosting its fresh food offering.
King is hoping for a sales boost from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Olympics and Euro football tournament this year.
But he warned shoppers faced a tough 2012: “I don’t think we are seeing any signs of increasing confidence. The surveys show that people are still very concerned.”


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Checking Market Share Up for Grabs
Credit Unions & FinTechs Take Checking from Banks
Lake Forest, IL (April 24, 2019) Banks are losing checking account market share to credit unions and FinTech firms such as Apple Pay, and others. Why? “Regulation, less free checking, streamlining of checking account offerings, move to multiple account relationships, and more competition from payment systems are the reason for changing market share,” states Michael Moebs, Economist and CEO of Moebs Services, an economic research firm.
The Moebs Checking Market Share Study shows consumer checking was over 340 million accounts at the end of 2010. The number of checking accounts increased 4.8% to over 359 million by 2018. Yet, according to Moebs, “banks’ share declined (0.8%), while credit unions spiked 39.9%. Banks lost a net of 2.1M accounts from 2010, claiming none of the 16.9M in checking growth since 2011. Credit unions netted 16.3M new checking accounts and thrifts the rest.” READ FULL ARTICLE
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Digicel has dispensed with roaming charges across its Caribbean markets, effective October 1st, 2013.
A release from the company said the move which applies to voice, SMS and data roaming charges sees customers being able to communicate for the same “great rates” that they pay at home when they travel in the Caribbean.
According to the release, Digicel customers will not be charged an activation fee when roaming in the Caribbean.
It said: “As the first operator in the region to dispense with roaming rates, Digicel is reaffirming its commitment to customers and to ensuring that they always benefit from best value”.
The release quoted Patricia Maher, Digicel Country Manager, as saying, “We have done extensive research across the globe and what we are offering with “Roam Like You’re Home” is quite simply the best roaming plan in the world as it gives customers the freedom to use their phones abroad as they do at home without having to worry about the cost.
“We are thrilled to be revolutionising the world of roaming and to be rolling this out across the region. In doing so, we are ensuring that our customers can use their Digicel phones while roaming without being afraid of high charges”, she said.
The release stated that this move by DIGICEL “comes on the back of the fantastic customer reaction to Digicel’s “Same Rates a Yaad” plan launched in Jamaica which has since been mirrored in markets like Barbados, Panama and Trinidad and the company’s ongoing mission to ensure that customers get more for less”.
Brian Finn, Digicel Group Commercial Director, comments; “At Digicel, we are always looking for new ways to drive value to our customer base and to keep people connected. We are proud to be the first operator to be making this move and to be ensuring that our valued customers can communicate easily and economically wherever they are in the region.”
He continued: “This is all about giving our customers the freedom to communicate as they wish when they travel without the fear of running up high bills.”
The move which applies to voice, SMS and data roaming charges sees customers being able to communicate for the same great rates that they pay at home when they travel in the Caribbean.
It will be in place across the region by 1stOctober 2013 and Digicel customers will not be charged an activation fee when roaming in the Caribbean.


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The Last Guardian Delayed Until December, Fans Wonder If They’re Trapped in the Twilight ZoneImages via Sony Games News The Last Guardian
In a move that almost borders on parody at this point, the PlayStation 4-exclusive The Last Guardian has been delayed once more, this time until Dec. 6.
In development since 2007, announced in 2009 and planned for a release on the PlayStation 3 in 2011, The Last Guardian had already become a long-running joke after numerous internal shakeups, constant delays and long spans of silence, leading to rumors the game had finally been canceled.
But at E3 this year, Sony dramatically revealed that The Last Guardian, the spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of Colossus, finally had a release date: Oct. 25. It was what the game’s eager fans had been waiting years for. The game was alive and well, and it was definitely on its way.
But like Sisyphus, cursed by the gods to endlessly push his boulder to the top of a hill every day, only for it to roll back down again, so too must fans endlessly endure as their excitement and anticipation for The Last Guardian builds, only to see it crumble at the last second as the game’s release is pushed once again further into the future.
In a short blog post, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Shuhei Yoshida announced that The Last Guardian would be delayed until Dec. 6 to give the team time to polish the game, which had “more bugs than anticipated while in the final stages of development.” Yoshida at least acknowledged the game’s endless delays, saying, “A delay is a difficult decision, particularly with this game.”
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad,” and all that. Honestly, what’s six weeks on top of the seven years we’ve already waited? We don’t mind waiting a little longer to cry our eyes out over that dog-eagle thing.
You can read Sony’s full blog post below.
The Last Guardian development team is fast approaching major milestones in production and has made the tough decision to delay the release of The Last Guardian a few weeks. The Last Guardian will launch on December 6, 2016.
Fumito Ueda, gen DESIGN and JAPAN Studio have a wonderful vision for The Last Guardian’s touching, emotional journey of friendship and trust, and we want to deliver the most polished experience possible for our fans who have supported us for so long. A delay is a difficult decision, particularly with this game, but we have encountered more bugs than anticipated while in the final stages of development. To ensure that The Last Guardian delivers on the experience that the game’s creators have envisioned, we need to take the extra time to work on those issues.
Our development continues to push itself to the fullest and we look forward to revealing new content toward launch.
We appreciate your continued support.


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The tractor manufacturer John Deere acquires King Agro22 March 2018
With this transaction, it acquires the capacity of the Valencian company in carbon fiber technology
The American company Deere & Company has reached an agreement to acquire the manufacturer of carbon fiber technology products King Agro, headquartered in Valencia and with a factory in Picassent. The two companies had already entered into an agreement in 2015 for the development and distribution of carbon fiber pieces for John Deere machinery for use in the agricultural sector.
The agreement between both companies provided users with more versatile, resistant and durable self-propelled spraying equipment thanks to carbon fiber, a technology that has ended up convincing the American company of the advantages of including the Spanish company in its group.
For John May, Agricultural Solutions Manager at John Deere, “this transaction offers the customers of John Deere the opportunity to even further benefit from the unique knowledge, design and experience of King Agro in carbon fiber technology”.
King Agro is a family-owned business with close to 180 employees and an experience of 30 years in the development of carbon fiber products. In agriculture, it has focused on innovative designs that improve productivity and lower costs. The brand will continue as such after its integration within the group.


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Kochi: Seafood exporters bought some Rs73 crore worth of fish, squids and shrimps directly from fishermen and their cooperative societies in the fiscal year to March, without dealing with agents and middlemen.
“This may be an insignificant amount compared with the country’s overall marine exports (worth more than Rs7,500 crore in 2007-08), but it’s a major step and will likely to be taken forward in the coming days,” said Kuruvilla Thomas, marketing director of the Marine Products Export Development Authority, a government trade promotion body.
New take: A fisherman sorting his catch at a beach in the district of Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu. (Photograph by Namas Bhojani / Bloomberg)
The programme has the backing of the Seafood Exporters Association of India, or Seai. Several exporters, including Nila Sea Foods Pvt. Ltd and Kadalkanni Frozen Foods Pvt. Ltd in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, and Capithan Exporting Co. in Kollam and Blue Water Foods and Exports Pvt. Ltd in Kochi, both in Kerala, have been buying directly from fishermen societies since last year, said G. Vivekanandan, chief executive of the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies.
Not surprisingly, agents have put up stiff resistance as the direct purchases have resulted in a 5-10% loss in their margins, Vivekanandan said.
“Besides, the credit facility under direct buying is short term unlike earlier, when some agents delayed payments for months even after receiving money from exporters,” he ?added.
A similar experiment was tried in the 1980s but failed as exporters had depended solely on agents. But with the success of the latest initiative, even companies catering to the domestic market are considering adopting a similar model.
The direct purchases were handled by about 65 fishermen societies with memberships totalling more than 15,000 in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Vivekanandan expects the federation to extend the market for direct purchases from fishermen and rope in more export houses. Thomas, too, expects the programme to be extended. “It is necessary to break the present supply chain to ensure that fishermen get a better deal.”
The authority also proposes to establish a market intelligence system that will collate prices at various fish-landing centres and pass on the information to fishermen at sea by mobile phones.


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The growing trend for organic food products worldwide increased organic farming in India. The organic food exports from India increased by 50% to INR 5,151 crore in FY 2018-19.
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development (APEDA) declared that exports of organic food produce stood at Rs 5151 crore as against Rs 3,453 crore in 2017-18. The export volume in 2018-19 was 6.14 million tonnes. India produced 2.67 million tonnes of certified organic products which include oilseeds, rice, sugar cane, cereals and millets, pulses, fruits, spices, vegetables, dry fruits, tea, and coffee. Moreover, India produced organic cotton fiber. Domestic demand for agricultural organic produce is around Rs 2500 crore. In addition, India witnessed a two fold increase in demand is accounted for chemical and pesticide-free produce.
The most demanded organic food products include soybean, sesame, flax seeds, pigeon pea, red gram, tea, and some medicinal plants. Organic product’s major destinations include the USA, Switzerland, Canada, the European Union, Australia, and Israel. In addition, Germany is one of the biggest importers of organic products from India while there is a good demand in Taiwan, South Korea, and Canada.
The total area under the cultivation of organic farming as registered with the National Programme for Organic Production on 31st March 2019 was 3.56 million hectares. This includes a 1.94 million cultivable area and 1.49 million hectares for the collection of wild harvest. Madhya Pradesh is on the top of the list with the largest area under the cultivation of certified organic farming. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh also followed it. In 2016, Sikkim set the record of converting its entire cultivable land for the production of organic food produce.
APEDA also organized Biofach, India’s largest international trade fair for organic products to encourage the demand. Paban K Borthakur, APEDA chairman said that demand for India’s organic agricultural products is about Rs 8500 crore out of which 60% is international. The NPOP certification has also increased India’s credibility in international trade for organic products.
In conclusion, the increasing demand for organic products can change the Indian Agriculture scenario with proper training to farmers. Stringent rules in many countries for the import of food products also lead to many farmers opting to produce organic food. In addition, there is a huge domestic demand in metropolitan cities for organic food.


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Carl Icahn/Manitowoc10 Feb 2015
US manufacturer grants Icahn board seats to avoid proxy fight
US manufacturer Manitowoc, which recently unveiled plans for a break-up amid calls to do so from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, reached a truce with the veteran corporate agitator on Monday ahead of its annual general meeting later this year.
Icahn, who controls nearly 7.7% of Manitowoc, will get a seat on both the company’s own board and that of the food service unit the latter intends to hive off as a separate entity next year. Manitowoc also accepted Icahn’s demand for bolstering corporate governance norms at the food service division following the planned spin-off, saying that the unit’s directors will face reelections every year.
In exchange, Icahn has pledged to endorse Manitowoc’s existing slate of directors at the firm’s AGM, as well as to not criticise the management publicly.


text: News Designer Date 24 June 2011 Lauren Milligan Picture credit: PA Photos MATTHEW WILLIAMSON is inviting eight special guests to join him for an evening of fashion and conversation - and you could be one of the chosen ones. Williamson - and his friend and muse Cat Deeley - will host the eight winners at the new Haagen-Dazs VIP Boudoir in London, where he'll talk for the first time about the inspiration behind his most famous gowns."As part of The Boudoir VIP experience, I'll be bringing together a collection of my most iconic designs and celebrity gowns from the past 13 years and discussing my inspirations behind each one," Williamson told us.For your chance to join Williamson and Deeley, or to attend the Boudoir after the launch with seven of your friends for a makeover and styling session, register at www.facebook.com/haagendazs. But until the celebratory event begins, Williamson is focused on the job at hand."I have just finished our pre-spring 2012 collection," he said. "I was inspired by the photographer Araki and the collection has a Japanese influence illustrated in clean, fluid silhouettes, with Tokyo cityscape prints against traditional Japanese gardens and florals."SEE WILLIAMSON'S PRE-SPRING COLLECTIONYOU SHOULD SEE: The Matthew Williamson show archive...TODAY IN HISTORY: Why was Kate Moss "livid"?


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Attention quality scored the highest for audio ads with the highest voiceover volume compared to ads with the lowest voiceover volume and the ads that had too many competing elements within the
creative at 25%, according to a controlled-study data released Tuesday.
Advertisers are increasing their use of short-form vertical video content from social campaigns on larger screens.
I began covering market intel/measurement tech firm Skai as Kenshoo when Aaron Goldman, now Mediaocean CMO, ran marketing. VP of products Crissi Cupak has worked at Skai since 2013.
A new study by Mrge, a global platform for commerce advertising, defines what is means to combine performance marketing, commerce content, and affiliate marketing. Data suggests changes are afoot.
"We estimate Snap will generate $234 million from 'My AI' sponsored links in 2024," New Street Research analysts note in a report published today, estimating Meta's AI agent ad buys could generate
$6.7 billion next year.
Advancements in machine learning, automation, and data analytics continue to push media-mix modeling back into marketers', advertisers' and agencies' tool chests to measure and evaluate marketing
Salesforce data shows mobile has become the remote control for shopping, said Salesforce VP/GM of Retail Rob Garf. Mobile and social have become the entry point for consumers to engage with the brand.
Microsoft said early Monday morning that Sam Altman will lead the company's new in-house AI team after the OpenAI co-founder was ousted from his startup on Friday.
A Comcast/Xumo survey found 70% of ad buyers using FASTs started doing so within the past 12 months.
AMC will have a rough road into 2024, according to analysts. Following a Q3 decline of 18% in ad revenue to $147 million, UBS Research estimates AMC will tumble 20% to $630 million for full-year 2023.
Google asked Comscore to examine 15 Super Bowl LVII campaigns that ran on YouTube to determine how they reach viewers who watch the ads exclusively on CTV. Here's what it found.
The ad industry has actively poured billions of dollars into automating processes from ad serving to bidding and creative advancements for a chance to streamline processes and reshuffle job
IVT rates, inclusive of ad fraud, are elevated within inaccurately labeled CTV, in-app mobile and desktop traffic, finds a new report.
Recovery during challenging economic times is a difficult process and risk can explode in directions marketers could not imagine, even with progressive technologies like machine learning and AI.
Ad Net Zero provides a roadmap for the advertising industry. But will it work?
Now that we're seeing real fungibility of linear TV annual ad spend into CTV and streaming TV platforms, we should care about the quality of the digital video ad units capturing that spend.
More than 80% of marketers plan to increase their retail media investment and 96% realize first-party data is vital to successful ad strategies, LiveIntent reports.
Product-placement ads have been replaced by dynamic and programmatic ad insertions based on data collection.
A research study explored the complexity of bidding environments and how current solutions perform for advertisers.
Scott Simonelli, CEO of audio research and analytics platform Veritonic, believes that as more people listen to audio and podcasts, ad dollars will shift in unexpected ways.
Messages about economic forecasts are mixed and muddled this year. Third-party data and research companies have divergent views on how consumers will spend money. McKinsey & Associates released data
in June that suggests "optimism is trending upward, but spending isn't."
A link between sustainable ad practices and positive attention metrics shows that the longer an ad was viewed on a page, the lower the carbon emissions, according to a recent study. Here's why. The
analysis proved a spot in view for 10 seconds produced 64% less carbon emissions than a spot with a 5-second in-view time. The Scope3 carbon emissions model, which calculates the total grams of carbon
dioxide released from digital impression delivery (gCO2e), was the standard measurement used for the study.
DoubleVerify released findings from its research examining evolving cookie deprecation strategies and the shift toward user privacy and its impact on digital advertising.
"We've already begun working with four pilot advertisers and IPG Mediabrands," Samsung's Justin Evans disclosed.
How do you NOT get to Carnegie Hall, if you're Paramount's upfront pitch team? You practice dining, dining, dining!
Nearly a third of advertisers say they'll allocate more than 20% of their upfronts budgets to streaming platforms.
"Only ad networks/exchanges showed lift," reads an analysis from Standard Media Index, which shows video sites crashing 9% due to year-ago comps with Winter Olympics sales.
"My feeling is it's a blip and we'll see that stabilize in the next wave," predicts Advertiser Perceptions' Sarah Bolton, who has been tracking ad exec concerns about trust in advertising and
The ANA, 4As, CIMM study comes days after the networks announced a media-owner committee to set new currencies, and concludes sellers have been aggressively working with individual agencies.
NBCU saw an opportunity for an inflection point in 2022 and executed what is probably the best sell-side research and marketing effort to restructure the TV ad marketplace since Turner's Media at the
Millennium shifted billions of dollars from broadcast to cable.


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Darknet Market Sites
OFAC Sanctions Darknet Market, Virtual Currency Exchange stolen virtual currency and illicit drugs through its Russian-based site. Dark net marketplace "voluntarily" ends operationson April 30 this week is it a law enforcement takeover or will a new site emerge to. Recently some of the most infamous darknet markets were either taken down by law enforcement and their admins arrested (Dream Market, Wall. By R Broadhurst 2022 Cited by 7 darknet markets that sold opioids enabled observation of the impact of law of 10,367 known Tor sites as 'suspicious' or criminal and 48 percent as. A seizure banner has been published on the marketplace's website. The secret darknet includes websites that can be accessed only with specific. How to access these black market websites.
Dark Net Markets Going Out of Business: Where are Users Headed to Next? closed sites could open a free vendor account on Dark Market by. Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), on Tuesday announced the official takedown of Hydra. By A Afilipoaie 2022 Cited by 9 choice of their market. Marketplaces are also reaching out to sites on the clearnet1 such as reddit, and what is the darknet market Dark Net news sites such as darknet market sites. Across the site's six-year history, Hydra has sold a variety of illicit goods, such as illegal or counterfeit drugs, forged documents, and tools. On the day that Dream Market announced it was shutting down, Europol, FBI, and DEA officials announced tens of arrests and a massive crackdown. A seizure banner was published on the marketplace's website. The secret "darknet" includes websites that can be accessed only with specific.
Dark net drug markets are very similar in appearance to regular everyday online market places such as eBay and Amazon. Today, some of the most vibrant underground economies exist in darknet markets. These are internet websites that look like ordinary. A seizure banner has been published on the marketplace's website. The secret darknet includes websites that can be accessed only with specific. Some of these opportunistic darknet market sites markets quickly shut their doors, while others were scams to take advantage of buyers looking for new places to. By J Brosus 2022 Cited by 77 Cryptomarkets are online marketplaces, located on the darknet, that facilitate the trading of a variety of illegal goods, mostly drugs. OFAC Sanctions Darknet Market, Virtual Currency Exchange stolen virtual currency and illicit drugs through its Russian-based site.
By AC Dwyer 2022 Darknet wallstreet market Marketplaces (DNMs) are places where illicit goods, such as narcotics, stolen credit card details, and weapons, are bought and sold. By R Broadhurst 2022 Cited by 7 darknet markets that sold opioids enabled observation of the impact of law of 10,367 known Tor sites as 'suspicious' or criminal and 48 percent as. The dark web or darknet has been defined as the hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browser. Kaspersky Lab. Among the four sites, Ferum Shop is by far the biggest, accounting for 256 million in BTC from the illegal proceedings. Trump's Dumps was. Hydra Market had been operating since 2022 and was accessible via the Tor browser. The site has been taken off the internet. The market was. As well as Silk Road, police forces worldwide must now add new sites, Agora, Evolution, Pandora, Blue Sky, Hydra, Cloud Nine, Andromeda, Outlaw.
By AC Dwyer 2022 Darknet Marketplaces (DNMs) are places where illicit goods, such as narcotics, stolen credit card details, and weapons, are bought and sold. The wallstreet market url images on this page are screenshots taken from real dark websites. Online "Darknet" Markets. The internet has changed the world, including the ways that. Another site, Silk Road darknet market sites was launched soon to capitalise on the brand. This market is still in operation and topped the Reddit darknet market list at the. The ban on Hansa was instigated by a site moderator and was supported by Dutch authorities, who infiltrated the marketplace on June 20, 2022. Dream Market, the top known Dark Web marketplace at the time of writing, recently announced it was shutting down. According to Dream Market site. A seizure banner has been published on the marketplace's website. The secret darknet includes websites that can be accessed only with specific.
By using the People Nearby feature, drugs and sex are just a couple of clicks away. If certain websites are not protected by HTTPS encryption, exit nodes can know just about everything you’ve done within the Tor service. This reduces the likelihood of vendors who are actually scammers or law enforcement utilizing the site for entrapment and exploitation. It has no wallets and you pay as you buy, It mostly serves the USA (altough recently is darknet market sites trying to expand to Europe). In July 2017, significant law enforcement operations compromised or completely took down multiple international darknet markets. This service could be robbery, providing false identification documents or even murder. Two 13-year-old boys in Park City died last year after buying a synthetic opioid known as "pink" on the underground web market.
Your customers are going to have to be okay with buying drugs that could be degraded from being exposed to environmental conditions if the wallstreet market link drops are outside (placing them inside of buildings exposes both you wallstreet market darknet and your customers to more scrutiny). It also identifies measures that law enforcement agencies can take to find and destroy these sites, which deal mostly in the sale of illicit drugs and the transfer of digital information stolen in various data breaches. Like all of the other markets we’ve reviewed previously, Monopoly Market is hosted on the Tor network, meaning that you’ll need a special browser called the Tor Browser to access it.


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Are Nashville companies better off than 4 years ago? A look at the numbers
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Is your business better off now than it was four years ago?
That question, rattling throughout this year's presidential elections, is also provocative on the corporate level. Results from an unscientific poll we put out today showed a resounding answer from Nashville businesses: No.
Certainly there are a lot of ways to cut that. So in the interest of assigning some numbers, we drew on year-round Nashville Business Journal research and found that when you look at revenue, the answer is actually "yes" in most cases.
Among the 89 privately held companies for which the Business Journal had numbers, 61 percent were bringing in more revenue in their most recent annual financial results (in this case, 2011 revenue) than they were in 2008. Among the 30 public companies with data going back that far, 86 percent were bringing in more revenue than in 2008, when the financial crisis took hold a few months before President Barack Obama took office.
Now, before you declare this analysis as: a) debunking a Republican talking point, or b) putting out bum information to carry water for the Democrats, consider a few things.
First, revenue growth is how almost every company touts progress, and it's the best we've got for such a wide group. Certainly, profitability — money made minus costs, which may be rising or falling due to cuts — is the ultimate measure for the head of a company or its investors, but that data isn’t available for the private companies (getting revenue is hard enough). You could also get into return on assets or return on equity, if you had the numbers.
Second, there are lots of ways to define "better off."
Brian Reisinger covers banking/finance, state government and manufacturing. You can follow him on Twitter at @BrianJReisinger.
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Slim Down This Summer
Summertime means the livin' is easy — unless you’re spending your time sweating over your bathing-suit body instead of enjoying warm summer weather with family and friends.
Fortunately, there are tons of fresh summer foods that can help you whittle your waistline before Labor Day.
Unlike many foods when you're trying to lose weight, when it comes to summer fruits and vegetables, more is better. Regular consumption of seven or more servings of produce a day is linked to a lower risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, according to a new epidemiological study published in the Journal of Epidemiological Community Health.
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To find out which superfoods you should add to your summer diet to lose weight or maintain your shape, we turned to Anita Mirchandani, R.D. and founder of Fitmapped.com, and Dara Gurau, R.D., who also blogs about healthy cooking. Check out their picks for the top superfoods above.
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Apple lobbies against ‘right to repair’ devices
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Apple and other tech giants have been lobbying against state legislation in New York aiming to make it easier for consumers to fix their iPhones and other devices.
The Fair Repair Act would require companies producing phones, tablets, printers, farming equipment and other devices to sell replacement parts and tools to the general public. This would make it possible for third parties to repair broken electronics using recycled parts from old devices, extending the lifetime of products and reducing e-waste.
The bill would also prohibit ‘software locks’ that restrict repairs, and would require some companies to make repair guides publicly available.
As the cost of repairing broken iPhones and iPads at official Apple stores is so high, consumers are encouraged to buy new products rather than repair old ones. This has been blamed for generating extra e-waste. Apple has said that it is opposed to third parties repairing its devices as that could enable other companies to learn its trade secrets, as well as making it harder to keep products secure for consumers.
Apple, Verizon, Toyota, Lexmark, Caterpillar, Asurion and Medtronic collectively spent $366,634 between January and April this year fighting the legislation in New York alone. Apple lobbied two other bills in New York State during the period, and lobbied against similar legislation in 2015 and 2016. The Consumer Technology Association, which represents thousands of electronics manufacturers, is also lobbying against the Fair Repair Bill.
In contrast, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition – a collection of independent repair shops with small employee numbers, and the only group lobbying for the legislation – has spent just $5,042 on lobbying efforts.
Other state legislatures, including those of Massachusetts and Illinois, are proposing similar bills. While Apple and other tech giants are suspected of opposing the legislation in other states, only New York’s lobbying disclosure laws make their spending transparent.
Legislators in Nebraska have shelved similar legislation after lobbying pressure from companies including Apple. Nebraskan farmers have been vocal in supporting the bill, which would allow them to diagnose and fix faults in their equipment with tools and manuals currently kept secret by manufacturers.
State Senator Lydia Brasch reported having been lobbied by an Apple representative, who, according to BuzzFeed News, told her that the legislation would turn the state into a “Mecca for bad actors” if the legislation passed, and that Apple would stop opposing the legislation if phones were exempted from the legislation.


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Google Plus Facebook Will Unveil Hyperfaçade at Gala
Menlo Park, CA- Newly merged company Google Plus Facebook announced that they will showcase a state- of- the- art, holographic presentation at the company’s Welcoming Gala on Oct 14th. The presentation will take place at the end of the evening’s festivities and will demonstrate a turning point in the future of technology. Included in the façade will be an introduction of Google Plus Facebook’s new features, a featurette from sponsored charity Intek, and a spectacular holographic show. After the show, attendees are invited to meet with Intek founder Bob Jones for more information and first access to the façade technology.
Hyperfaçades are the latest in 3-D digital technology. By transforming ordinary architectural structures into technological spectacles, hyperfaçades have revolutionized they way in which we manipulate the environment around us. They have been most recently used only for advertising, however Google Plus Facebook has capitalized on this resource and improved on it. Google Plus Facebook seeks to encourage further endeavors into the digital realm by making this new technology more accessible to the public and everyday businessmen.
After the gala, Google Plus Facebook will slowly release demonstration videos of the hyperfaçade, available in the media section of www.googleplusfacebook.com. In addition to demonstration videos, the hyperfaçade technology will also be available as a resource in the Intek program. For more information on hyperfaçades please visit www.googleplusfacebook.com/hyper. For more information on the Intek program please visit, www.intek.org/about.
Google Plus Facebook is an interwoven social utility and online search conglomerate that organizes the world’s information and makes it universally accessible and useful while connecting people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Millions of people use Google Plus Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. It also features different applications and resources to help people navigate and understand the Internet better.


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CHICAGO (CBS) – After a thrilling World Series run last year, the Chicago Cubs hope to do it again in 2017.
Single-game tickets go on sale Friday morning!
There’s no magical formula, but experts say patience and a little bit of luck might be your best bet. Log onto Cubs.com and join a virtual “waiting room.” For high-demand games, people will be selected randomly to purchase tickets. For lower-demand games, you’ll probably have an easier time buying tickets. Today at least.
The Cubs’ front office says demand is higher than ever and tickets are expected to go fast.
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Demolition works have begun at CinemaWorld in Douglas following its closure last October.
Crews have moved on site to tear down the much-loved former cinema, which will be replaced with an Aldi supermarket.
The cinema had been in operation for 25 years in Douglas village.
Construction on the new Aldi site is due to commence immediately after demolition works are complete, with plans to open by the end of this year.
The 1,000 square-metre store will be powered by 100% green electricity, with free car parking available for customers.
The development is expected to generate 20 new permanent jobs at the store and support up to 60 construction jobs during the building phase.
Niall O’Connor, Managing Director Aldi Mitchelstown Region, said the supermarket would be a boost to the area, which already has a Dunnes Stores.
“This is great news for shoppers and for employment in the town," he said.
A Tesco supermarket in Douglas is currently closed following a devastating fire at Douglas Village Shopping Centre last summer.


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“What the cable industry is promising with 10G are speeds that are ten times faster than today’s fastest networks, along with low latency or network responsiveness. The tech is symmetrical, meaning fast speeds apply to both uploads and downloads. The backers of 10G also say this futuristic broadband will be more secure and reliable, of which time will tell.”
“This year we began delivering 1 gig residential broadband services to our customers’ homes and we are committed to deliver 10 gig residential broadband services to our customers’ homes. It’ll bring lower latency, more capacity, higher speeds, better security.” – Pat Esser, President of Cox Communications
“But the point of the group's 10G push, according to the NCTA, is to build the speed and capacity that can enable new experiences and meet demand for future innovations. That's especially relevant at CES, when companies from around the world pack Vegas with tech that needs high-capacity networks to function, like devices to manage smart homes or those that create immersive experiences like augmented reality.”
“The NCTA is partnering with CableLabs and Cable Europe to try to steal some of the marketing thunder from 5G wireless chest-thumpers at CES this week.”
“Intel will provide 10-gigabit-per-second chips for upgraded cable TV broadband networks as a number of cable firms tout a technology roadmap amid a possible 5G wireless challenge from Verizon Communications.”
“Cable providers had plenty to be proud of in the past year, rolling out gigabit speeds to 80% of homes, but the industry is proving that it’s not content with standing still by introducing a 10G broadband initiative. And no, cable didn’t come to that name just by doubling 5G. At a breakfast panel at CES Wednesday morning, NCTA pres/CEO Michael Powell said the name shows a drive to deliver 10G speeds to consumers around the globe. It will live side-by-side with 5G and WiFi to support future tech needs while delivering faster speeds. Sounds like a lofty goal, but most of the innovation battle has already been fought on this front.”
“The cable industry joined the fray this week at CES 2019, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, by unveiling ‘10G,’ a reference to cable companies’ goal of providing wired broadband service at 10-gigabit speeds. The acronym is unrelated to cellphone carriers’ fifth-generation wireless technology, though the parallel branding wasn’t lost on wireless executives.
‘Cable companies want to highlight their efforts to boost broadband speeds beyond the 1-gigabit speeds on offer today,’ said Brian Dietz, a spokesman for cable trade group NCTA. ‘Our industry felt like it was important to be in that conversation as well,’ he said.”
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This day marks a sad anniversary in Brussels : On the 22th of May 1967, a big fire broke out at the Innovation Department Store, taking innocents shoppers hostages of a killing fire in the 1901 Horta building.
The store was organised around a big glassroof and stairs, typically the way department store were organised at the time with staircases and big counters. It’s said that there were some 1000 clients trapped inside and there were 323 casualties and 150 injured. The disaster shocked the whole country and everyone remembers where he/she was and what he/she was doing that fateful day. The department store was famous for organizing events of all kind and that time there was an « american week » going on. We’re in a post-WWII, swinging sixties period and all what was american was really trendy and attracted a lot of families, including american citizens living in Brussels at the time.
At Roots Tech this year I met an american man (unfortunately can’t find the little note on which he wrote his name but will be most please to credit him) who was eating in the store restaurant when the fire broke out. This is what he told me when I met him : « When we realized that the store was in fire, we calmly got up and orderly left the building. We were then led to safety where we witnessed the firemen and police fighting against the fire. » After all those years, he still remembers the moment very well even if panic’s not the first feeling that his memory brings back to us which was a bit surprising for me when we see the photographic sources of the event.
( A Innovation fire survivor with his grandson- (c) Marie Cappart)
After the terrible event, things were never be the same for the retail world, safety measures were taken as was the conception of department store in Brussels, moving more and more towards shopping malls located outside of the city and more accessible by car.
The big fire of 1967 will be a event Brussels will never forget. It was on everybody’s mind when a fire broke out in a Forever 21 store two years ago in the same street than the Innovation.
A TV archive of the event is to see on :


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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has directed its members to suspend all operations across the country.
This directive was contained in a statement signed on Tuesday by IPMAN Chairman, Mohammed Kuluwu.
IPMAN also ordered marketers to suspend payment of ordering products from source until further notice.
According to IPMAN, “the critical situation as it affect our sourcing and selling of product at lost and the action of the authority to impose the selling of product at a lost price on our side”.
Nigerians have been buying fuel at varying prices with some filling stations selling as high as N390 in Lagos State.
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Update 2 (17 November 2015): Please see our updates below in relation to subsequently disclosed conflicts of interest for this research.
What do you think makes obese people obese? Are you imagining fried food, gallons of Coke and bowls full of sugar-filled candy? These are the demonised foodstuffs we're often told are primarily responsible for developed nations' obesity crises, but according to a new study, they're not the real culprit for America's weight problem.
Researchers at Cornell University examined 2007–2008 data to examine the links were between the consumption of soda, candy and fast food and obesity in the US. What they found may come as a bit of a surprise. According to the research, for 95 percent of adult Americans there's no link between their consumption of junk food and their body mass index (BMI). Wait… what?
"Simply put, just because those things can lead you to get fat doesn't mean that's what is making us fat," said David Just, co-director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, as reported by Matt Hayes at the Cornell Chronicle. "By targeting just these vilified foods, we are creating policies that are not just highly ineffective, but may be self-defeating as it distracts from the real underlying causes of obesity."
According to the findings, it's only those at the very extremes of the weight spectrum – the chronically underweight and the morbidly obese – whose consumption of junk food is tied to their BMI. For 19 out of 20 people in the US, the amount of junk food consumed invariably varies, but it doesn't seem to be tied to their body size.
In other words, the causes of obesity are more complex than our propensity to indulge in nutritionally bereft fast food, soft drink and sweets – no matter how good they taste sometimes.
So if soda pop, chocolate bars and greasy hamburgers aren't what's making us fat – none of which the researchers say we should eat, by the way (sorry, guys, there's no such greenlight here!) – then what is?
Well, the answer isn't in this research, but finding the answer will lie in examining people's overall levels of sedentary behaviour, their exercise habits and assessing their inadequate intake of healthy foods, chiefly fruits and vegetables, but also healthy proteins, carbohydrates and other food groups.
"If you want to try and prevent obesity, or want to create policy that is going to help people, simply addressing the availability of junk foods and sodas isn't going to do it," said Just. "This isn't the difference between fat people and skinny people. It's other things."
The researchers have published the following infographic to accompany their study, which helps clarify some of the finding's key points (and a high-res version is available here). The study itself is published in Obesity Science & Practice.
Update 1: We've received a lot of enquiries from concerned readers as to whether this research was funded by Coca-Cola, which would raise an understandable red flag in many people's eyes, especially given the authors' findings. However, to the best of our knowledge, there's no such funding from Coca-Cola for this study, nor any outside or corporate funding involved.
The study is from researchers at Cornell University, and if you follow this link to see the pre-peer-reviewed version of the paper, you can see that the first page clearly states "There were no outside sources of funding" and "There are no conflicts of interest to disclose".
Update 2 (17 November 2015): In response to further reader feedback on this particular study, we've gone back and rechecked the pre-peer-reviewed version of the paper linked to above, which has subsequently been revised after we wrote our original story. The edited paper now states a conflict of interest, which is that one of the authors "is a member of McDonald's Global Advisory Council, and he is on the Executive Board for the EAT Initiative for Sustainability", which was not information we were made aware of when originally researching this article.


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For 2022, Starbucks has a swath of new ready-to-drink coffee beverages that’ll be rolling out later this year to local grocery stores, national retailers, and convenience stores as well as online.
If you’re into oatmilk, a few new products will be available. Starbucks Cold Brew Dark Chocolate Oatmilk features creamy oatmilk and rich dark chocolate flavors. It’s already heading to shelves in 40-ounce bottles with a $4.99 suggested retail price. Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino Coffee Drink with Oatmilk will come in two flavors — Caramel Waffle Cookie and Dark Chocolate Brownie.
If you’re into boxed cold brew, the brand is bagging and putting into a box its Cold & Crafted coffee drink that features no preservatives, lower sugar, and less calories than other coffee drink options. Starbucks Cold & Crafted on Tap is a 72 fl oz offering with a $15 suggested retail price. It’ll be available later this year in two flavors — Black Unsweetened and Coffee with a Splash of Milk.
If you’re into coffee that comes in aluminum cans, Starbucks will be adding a new flavor to two existing coffee drink lines. The canned Nitro Cold Brew line, which made its debut in 2020, will be getting a new Splash of Sweet Cream flavor ($3.69 SRP), and the Tripleshot Zero Sugar line, which also debuted in 2020, will be adding a Milk Chocolate variety.
Finally, if you’re into coffee drinks inspired by world travel, there’s the new Hazelnut Tiramisu flavor that’s part of Starbucks’ Bottled Frappuccino Passport Series ($3.40 SRP). It follows last year’s Chocolate Churro flavor.
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After numerous delays, a few development hiccups and gamers less-than-enthused about some of the demo footage, Comcept USA has finally announced that the official release date for Mighty No. 9 has been set in stone for February 9th, 2016.
The news was made over on the Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter page where it was announced that the game would be released digitally and physically in North America starting February 9th, 2016. The game, a couple of short days later, will also be made available to the rest of the world beginning February 12th, 2016.
The news was met with less than savory responses from the community of backers who helped financially bring the game to life. There's a lot of jaded quips and smarmy responses from gamers who don't trust that the release date is final and who also feel as if a lot of negativity has shrouded itself around the Mighty No. 9 project due to a lack of proper communication and a lot of back-end deals beyond the backers that Comcept made to help bring the animated TV show to life based on Mighty No. 9 and the publisher deals they made with Deep Silver.
What's more is that this latest release date news comes after multiple other posts that also had promised release dates only for the game to be delayed time and time over.
Many gamers are completely okay with games getting delayed, including Uncharted 4, but what a lot of people are not okay with is not getting the full truth on why the game is getting delayed or constantly having issues pop out with last minute clarifications on the delay.
The reason Mighty No. 9 was moved into early 2016 for PC, portable gaming devices and home consoles is because Comcept claimed that there were issues with the online portion of the game. They didn't specify exactly what was wrong with the online portion but that was the reason given.
On the Kickstarter page the team simply stated...
Others had problems with the fact that the game looks far less enticing than what a lot of people were anticipating, especially when games like 20XX have been released and feature the kind of organic Mega Man experience that a lot of fans have been craving.
Of course, this is not to completely discount Comcept and their hard work over the past couple of years. There's still time to pull it all together and finalize a game that looks and plays great, or at least that's what a lot of fans are hoping for when February rolls around.
This isn't to say that all Kickstarters end up with a lot of delays and disgruntled fans. Some good examples of games that have done well with the platform and with the crowd that follows it are Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun: Hong Kong and FTL to name but a few.
Here's to hoping that Mighty No. 9 doesn't disappoint.
Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.
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The Galaxy Nexus was first named as a target on Jan. 20 on Florian Mueller's FOSS Patents blog. But an unnamed Samsung official tells the Korea Herald that Google's first Android 4.0 device isn't on the list of supposedly infringing devices provided by Apple.
“We’re aware that there was a hearing involving Apple’s slide-to-unlock feature after our patent infringement case last Friday and a series of products in the Galaxy lineup were accused there, but what we’ve discovered is that the Galaxy Nexus wasn’t one of them,” the company official said.
The unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- what's in the unadultered Android 4.0 code, actually, and is not a feature specific to Samsung devices -- at the very least looks and feels different than the slide-to-unlock bar on iOS. In Ice Cream Sandwich, you have a ring that you pull to the left to launch the camera application, or right to unlock the phone. Apple's iOS has a button that you slide to unlock the device. (See our picture above if you've somehow never seen the iOS unlock screen before.)