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According to Reuters, crypto trading platforms in India are still having a hard time opening accounts with financial institutions. This makes it more difficult for them to operate in the country.
Banks are still holding back from working together with crypto exchanges
Despite the fact that cryptocurrencies are not officially banned in India, banks are still avoiding cryptocurrency exchanges. It seems they have decided to do so because of the advice given by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Back in March, the RBI said it would be taking a “calibrated position” on a cryptocurrency ban. India’s Supreme Court lifted an earlier RBI rule that prevented banks from offering account services to crypto trading platforms.
While there is no ban in India to offer payment services to cryptocurrency exchanges, customer complaints have flooded all major Indian exchanges because their clients are unable to withdraw using mainstream payment methods.
Due to ongoing issues with traditional payment methods, partnering with payment processing companies is becoming a suitable stop-gap measure. This has allowed platforms that still want to offer cryptocurrency services to their customers to continue to do so.
There are already smaller payment methods in India that offer instant transfer services for exchanges. One of these services is the Mumbai-based payment processor, Airpay.
Airpay reportedly delivers its services to Coinswitch and Binance-owned WazirX. However, given India’s estimated 15 million cryptocurrency investors, such payment channels are not optimised to provide services on a large scale and can end up being insufficient.
Exchanges using these methods can face downtimes
To get a handle on the situation, major platforms like WazirX have to stop crypto/fiat trading on certain days, and only offer peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions. Some other exchanges are reportedly resorting to manual settlements for bank deposits and withdrawals. Others, such as Bitbns, have created their own basic payment processor that enables some essential transactions, as the systems do not require prior approval from the Reserve Bank of India, the central bank.
Crypto exchange stakeholders state that relying on P2P channels and other alternative trading methods comes with a higher risk to the customer and can expose them to fraudulent activity.


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As Google shifts its YouTube Red subscription service to two different plans; YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium, it's making the transition light in the pocketbooks of current YouTube Red subscribers by offering the higher-priced tier for the same price they're paying now. Additionally, if you're not already a YouTube Red subscriber, you can secure the $9.99 monthly price when the service switches over by subscribing to YouTube Red before Tuesday, May 22.
Current YouTube Red members won't need to do anything. You're already locked in.
If, however, you've never subscribed to YouTube Red, now is the time to join (if you were already thinking about it) because you'll get all the extra goodies that come with YouTube Premium at the price of YouTube Music Premium.
All you have to do is sign up for a YouTube Red subscription now.
How to sign up for YouTube Red
First off, I highly recommend signing up for YouTube Red via a web browser because it'll cost you an additional $3 if you sign up directly through the iPhone app.
That being said, you can sign up for YouTube Red on your iPhone via a web browser. Here's how.
Make sure you are signed in to your YouTube account in your web browser before you start.
- Navigate to YouTube.com/Red
- Tap Try It Free.
- If you don't already have a credit card enrolled with YouTube, enter your credit or debit card information.
- Enter the zip code associated with the card.
- Tap Buy.
You'll be enrolled in a one-month free trial, after which you'll be charged $9.99 per month, even after the price increases to $11.99 — until Google decides to increase the price, that is.
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2018 is set to be a year of continued challenges for small businesses and changes in practices should be in store for many of you. Here we set about the main opportunities and threats for your small business.
The budget was relatively well received and growth is on the horizon for UK SME’s. Global growth is forecast to be better than expected, which should have a knock on effect for UK businesses.
November’s autumn budget saw an investment of £13bn in funding to The British Business Bank and an effort to address the lack of R&D in businesses. There will also be efforts to address the shortage of STEM skills and a national retraining program focused on digital skills and construction.
From April, business rates will rise in line with the lower Consumer prices Index (CPI) level of inflation, not the Retail Price Index (RPI). This should help businesses cope with rate rises, a move worth £3.9bn to UK businesses over the next 5 years, according to Chancellor Philip Hammond.
The budget looked at 5 main areas for focus:
- Ideas: Raise R&D investment to 2.4% of GDP by increasing incentives for businesses.
- People: Increase investment in technical skills including an additional £406m to address the shortage of STEM skills (science, technology, engineering and maths). Also investment in retraining. The idea is to provide better jobs and greater earning power for all.
- Infrastructure: some significant upgrades to infrastructure – increasing the National Productivity Investment Fund to £31bn, supporting electric vehicles through developing the charging infrastructure, and building up the digital infrastructure for “4IR”.
- Business Environment: Schemes to increase productivity – reviewing the lack of productivity in small and medium firms and working with businesses in “Sector Deals”.
- Places: Focus on building more prosperous industries that build on local strengths. Focus on intra-city transport. £42m to pilot a “Teacher Development Premium” that will give £1000 to teachers in underperforming schools to be used on training.
Greater economic uncertainty
Uncertainty in the market place are causing businesses some anxiety – and it’ not just down to Brexit. Growth in credit card debt and personal loans outstrips growth in earning by nearly 5 times, according to the Bank of England. Over leveraged consumers and companies may lead to a slowdown in spending and investment.
An increase in the living wage could also put some strain on smaller businesses and lead to difficulties in recruiting new talent.
Prepare for GDPR
Coming into effect on the 25th of May, GDPR will mean that businesses of all shapes and sizes are going to fundamentally change how they operate. See our 2017 article for more information about how and why it is being implemented, but in a nutshell it represents tougher fines and stricter regulation for data keeping.
Don’t dismiss GDPR as being irrelevant for your business – any business that processes personal data of EU citizens is subject to the regulation. That includes customers, suppliers, partners and employees.
The importance of implementing proper data control measures is particularly important with cyber-crime in the increase. 875,000 SME’s were affected by cyber security breaches in 2017, yet almost half plan to spend less than £1000 a year on cyber security. It is worth researching the risk to your business and seeing whether insurance against cyber-crime would be a useful option for you.
The growing ‘Gig Economy’
More than a quarter of UK SME’s now rely on ‘gig economy’ workers – workers with one or more short term contracts or doing freelance work. Instead of working 9-5 for a single employer, they are taking the opportunity to make earning money more relaxed and enjoyable. This may be a signal for businesses to offer increased flexibility to employees.
However the gig economy represents an opportunity for small businesses in the sense that flexible working works both ways and may be a better use of time and money to recruit labour as and when needed. However, businesses should be aware of the lack of security gig economy workers are exposed too, with a quarter of SME decision makers acknowledging that the work can be exploitative.
Get to grips with Blockchain
It’s becoming increasingly important for businesses – no matter their size or sector – to stay up to date with recent technological advances. There are many new tech buzzwords that you should become familiar with in 2018 –for example big data, 4IR and the IOT.
One of the most important of these advances is Blockchain. Blockchain is an online, distributed ledger that has numerous potential applications for small businesses. For more information about Blockchain and IOT in the insurance world, see here.
With the new risks emerging in the marketplace, brokers will be crucial to your business in helping you navigate the challenges of 2018. A good broker will seek to understand SME clients and their business needs and support them by making sure they have the correct cover to protect them against the emerging risks in the marketplace.
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Amazon touted a successful Prime Day this week and some of the top selling items both in the U.S. and abroad were safe to say, interesting and odd at the same time.
The top selling item was Amazon’s Echo Dot. Amazon was heavily pushing its own products on Prime Day and hours before, by making deals available for Alexa customers days before. The Echo Dot was also the best-selling product from a manufacturer in any category across Amazon globally, according to a press release from the company.
Other Amazon products that received a thumbs up from customers in the U.S. and abroad included Amazon’s Fire Tablets and Kindle Devices, the new Element-55-inch 4K Ultra HD smart LED TV – Amazon Fire TV edition, which was the best TV deal in Amazon history. With regard to items from other manufacturers, in the U.S., the Instant Pot DUO80 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker and the 23andMe DNA Tests for Health + Ancestry held the top spots among customers.
In the U.K., technology and gaming came out on top, including the TP-Link Wi-Fi Smart Plug, which works with Amazon’s Alexa, and the Sony PlayStation 4.
Technology was also a win in Spain, as the top selling items were the SanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, the Motorola Moto G PLUS (5th Generation) Smartphone and the Lenovo IdeaPad 310 Laptop.
For Mexico, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning-to-USB cable and Nintendo Switch were their two top choices.
Japan wasn’t about the technology. Instead, their top selling items were SAVAS Whey Protein and Happy Belly pure bottled water. Italy also stayed away from technology with their top selling items being Finish All in One Max tablets and Caffe Vergnano 1882 Espresso Machine.
India had its OnePlus 5 phone and a Seagate Expansion 1.5TB portable external drive as their two top selling items.
Germany and Austria’s top selling items were the PlayStation Plus Membership and Soda Stream. France and Belgium favored the same membership along with Game of Thrones – The Complete Season 1 through 6 on Blu-Ray.
China’s top selling items were the Fisher Price Sooth and Glow Seahorse and “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” hard cover book.
Last, but not least, Canada’s top selling item was the Instant Pot DUO80 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker 8QT and an eight pack of AmazonBasics AA Rechargeable Batteries.


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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 12, 2012
Haystack Technologies, the creators of the DASH7 wireless standard, announced HayTag, a product for pet lovers who want a better way of keeping their pets safe and secure. Using HayTag with their smartphones, pet owners can quickly locate a lost pet; receive an alert when a pet leaves the premises; or organize a search for a lost pet among other HayTag users - all without invasive implanted microchips or unattractive GPS collars.
“HayTag demonstrates the potential of our technology when combined with smartphones,” said Patrick Burns, CEO and Co-founder of Haystack Technologies. “More importantly, HayTag addresses an urgent need for a better way to recover the millions of pets lost annually, many of which are unfortunately, never reunited with their owners.”
HayTag consists of a remarkably tiny, lightweight tag that is easily attached to a pet collar and configured through a smartphone equipped with a small HayTag adapter and free HayTag application made available in the iPhone App Store. Upon losing a pet, HayTag users can immediately scan their neighborhood using the HayTag application and invite other HayTag users to help with the search. Users can also configure HayTag to generate alerts if a pet leaves or enters a pre-defined area.
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“We see far too many people devastated when they lose loved pets and they have only traditional – and largely ineffective ways – to find them,” said Scott Delucchi, Sr. Vice President, Community Relations, with the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA in Burlingame. “Simply stated, HayTag can save lives and heartache and be a lost pet’s ticket home.”
How To Buy
HayTag is available through the Indiegogo crowdfunding website at http://www.indiegogo.com/haytag between now and December 5, 2012. Pledges (pre-orders) begin at $99 and delivery is scheduled for March 2013.
Based in San Francisco, California, Haystack Technologies is the worldwide leader in DASH7 open source tools and support. As the original architects of DASH7 Mode 2, OpenTag, and founders of the DASH7 Alliance, the Haystack team is the driving force behind the most promising low power wireless networking technology in the world. Haystack was founded in 2010 (formerly known as Blackbird Technology) and is privately funded. For more information, visit our website.
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Hengrui partners X-Body to bring AMD antibody to China
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Few Chinese pharmaceutical companies are capable of independently developing novel antibodies, which require costly equipment, skilled employees and investment in R&D. But Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, a major Chinese firm based in Lianyungang, has decided to take the plunge through a new partnership with the US therapeutic antibody developer X-Body Biosciences, with an eye on the growing Chinese market for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Written by Andrew M. Dahdal, Janos Barberis, Prof. Gordon Walker, Prof. Jon M. Truby and Prof. Douglas Arner.
In the midst of 2020’s global pandemic, an unlikely alliance was formed between COVID19 and technology. The nature of the virus alongside containment measures has resulted in almost seamless inception for digitalisation. I.e, social distancing and (now) online meetings.
Financial technology is of no exception. In this article, we explore further the impact of COVID19 on Fintech. Read the first debate on how the pandemic will impact InsurTech and Payments here.
Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding: Using behaviour for the benefit
The wisdom of crowds is perhaps most apparent in the context of mass consumer behaviour. The purchasing behaviour of the consuming public provides real-time indications of trends and fashions. However, it can just as easily highlight public consternation and even full-blown panics. Using digital financing tools to aggregate purchase information (of medical supplies for example – or toilet paper as in the case of Australia) these data points can help identify emerging panics in given population centres. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics technology develops, such sources of information can be easily correlated with other data sets (such as for example, social media communications) to provide even more specific measures of public sentiment.
On a more practical level, various online communities around the world have begun to organically coordinate and crowdsource information in order to help efficiently design, manufacture and distribute medical supplies where they are needed most These groups include engineers, chemists, logistics expert and many other professionals as discussions and ideas are moderated and filtered through various socially co-ordinated channels.
Crowdfunding initiatives (and their supporting platforms) are emerging as vital decentralised lifelines in times when the capabilities of centralised governmental control are being severely tested. Members of the public who might otherwise feel powerless in the face of the virus, have committed millions of dollars to COVID-19-related crowdfunded causes. These include everything from a high profile crowdfunding campaign launched by football superstar Zlatan Ibrahimović, to less high-profile causes relating to people facing economic hardship due to virus-related job loss. Even the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has turned to crowdfunding, whilst a GoFundMe page for the San Raffaele hospital in Milan has raised over 4 million Euros hitherto. Further, leading Ethereum crowdfunding platform GitHub has likewise announced it will have public health focussed funding round.
Although start-up funding via crowdfunding platforms will take a hit due to the virus, the platforms themselves are proving both useful and versatile. The case can even be made that crowdfunding is, in fact, helping the fight against COVID-19 through its ability to financially support, for example, frontline medical staff who have contracted the virus and been forced into self-isolation (without pay).
The norms of social interaction are shifting due to concerns over the spread of the virus. People across the world are have been instructed to minimise physical contact in the course of their everyday lives in order to slow the spread of the virus. Digital wallets supporting contactless payment and other forms of contactless transacting are proving to be not only more convenient and faster than traditional cash or card transactions, but also more hygienic. The decades-old drive towards a cashless society now has an even more compelling justification.
Housebound or Household name: What will stick?
As quarantine procedures are being implemented in countries where the virus has appeared, millions of people around the world are being restricted from leaving their homes in what is being dubbed ‘social distancing’.
This is changing peoples habits. This change can be measured by looking at the significant spike in e-commerce activity, home entertainment use adoption (i.e. streaming services) and home delivery services. Digital financial services and payment platforms are a key component of the online commercial sphere people have been forced to occupy.
The response to COVID-19 is essentially a large-scale social experiment. The shock is priming people’s behaviour towards more online and digital options. Once the crisis resolves, it is very likely that the habits, cost savings and convenience factors made available to consumers through this crisis will stick.
There is a precedent.
Following the 2008 crisis, financial institutions began to favour video-conference meetings over cross-border travel as part of cost-cutting measures. Banks invested in the necessary hardware and people were incentivised to use these (at the time – new) tools. 10 years later, videoconferencing is the norm for many meetings around the world and is sustaining many sectors (such as education) in these unprecedented times.
Given that the digital infrastructure already exists, the COVID-19 outbreak will likely be the catalyst propelling an even faster adoption of activities relying on digital financial services.
Tokenisation: At risk?
Certainly one of the more controversial innovations where digital finance and the COVID-19 crisis overlap has been the announcement of a so-called ‘CoronaCoin’ crypto-currency. The idea behind the token is that the supply of the coin will diminish every 2 days at a rate connected with the fatalities caused by the virus. This will push up the price of the coin rewarding investors with a return. The total supply of the tokens is based on the global population and 20% of proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross. What utility the coin provides, or where the coin can be used remains unclear and many (including Forbes magazine) have labelled the cryptocurrency a macabre gimmick.
As noted by the developers of CoronaCoin, however, the idea of a cryptocurrency where virus or diseases are an underlying asset-condition, is not dissimilar to the World Banks 2017 ‘Pandemic Bonds’ which were designed to help developing nations facing infectious disease outbreaks (but which are currently being offloaded by investors and have never, even now, paid out).
COVID-19 has impacted global trade and finance with a vengeance. The magnitude of the disruptions and the scale of the actions being taken by governments is unprecedented. Throughout this crisis, the digital financial infrastructure which has largely emerged (and matured) since the financial crisis of 2008, has silently accommodated relief efforts on several fronts. Insurance, money transfers, commercial transactions and fundraising have all proven resilient and responsive in the face of the virus. As efforts ramp up to find a vaccine and help victims recover, FinTech is proving to be a latent but vital social infrastructure amongst the chaos. It is clear that digital financial technologies are helping to steady the ship and steer a path out of the current challenges.
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When it comes to farming, most people picture the family farm as the source of their food, but the supermarkets are now buying from big agriculture meaning the smaller farms need to find new revenue sources. Elena LaQuatra takes a look and tries to answer, ‘Where Have All the Farmers Gone?’
An in-depth study and analysis of Pennsylvania’s agriculture reveal major weaknesses facing the industry. For starters, an aging workforce.
Tadd Burch and his brother, Tim, are sixth generation farmers owning and operating Burch Family Farms. Tadd remembers his days as a kid, growing up on their North East property. “My dad would get you up early in the morning, even on Saturdays, and say, ‘hey, no cartoon watching, let’s go, we got things to do!'”
Making money today, much more difficult for the family, forcing them to branch out and diversify. The Burches operate their own country market, a winery, a bakery, several satellite markets, a deer processing business, and sell wholesale to the Amish.
Selling wholesale to grocery stores like Giant Eagle, Wegman’s, and Tops no longer an adequate source of income.
Nick Mobilia, of Arrowhead Winery, says, “Over the years, the bigger chains come in, they get bigger, they buy another store, they buy another division. Now you’re not dealing with mom and dad anymore… I’m dealing with a broker for these big companies.”
Grocery stores are buying larger quantities for less money. Local farmers are no longer able to compete against bigger farms and greenhouses that can supply multiple semi-truck loads of orders. Local farmers are taking a hit. Tadd telling us, “Last fall, we didn’t sell one apple to any local grocery store.”
You may think the apples, for example, you’re picking up at your grocery store were grown locally… maybe in a neighboring state at the furthest. Take a minute to look closer… what you find… may surprise you.
“They can get a lot of that stuff shipped from overseas cheaper than buying it locally… [So it’s coming from… really anywhere?] Oh yeah.”
Nick says, “They’re probably coming from Mexico, they’re coming from China, they’re coming from Turkey, they’re coming… you know, any place… Germany, France.”
While making money continues to be a struggle for farmers, spending money to sustain their farms continues to skyrocket. President of Erie County Farm Bureau, Mark Muir, says, “John F Kennedy made the comment, ‘Farmers are the only ones that pay full retail on all their imports, but sell on the market at wholesale.'”
The cost of farming equipment, alone, adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Farmers must also have every aspect of their operation inspected often, making sure they’re following strict regulations. “So it just keeps putting a layer and layer of expenses on a farm that’s only going to be in operation like four months. And you’re getting to a point where you can’t just keep absorbing these costs. So, a lot of people are just getting out of it,” Nick tells us.
In addition to the aging farmers calling it quits, the millennial generation has little interest. Tadd saying, “Farmings in a bad situation right now, in my opinion.”
Tadd fears the family farm may not continue for a seventh generation. “Me and my brother may be it… I don’t want my kids doing something where they’ve got to work a lot of hours and not get anything back out of it… and struggle… I don’t want that for my kids.”
Though his kids love the farm, Tadd says they may not have the love of farming. The backbone to our country that’s seemingly getting weaker as the industry continues to change.
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Students fix flawed OV-chipkaart system
When it comes to train travel, students know best. Today, students of the Technical University of Delft presented their ideas to make the electronic OV-chipkaart more user-friendly.
Ever since the electronic OV-chipkaart was introduced in the Netherlands, train commuters have been complaining about the horrors of checking in and out, recharging their card and activating products.
Collaborating with researchers, a group of students at the Technical University of Delft worked on six projects to make the OV-chipkaart more user-friendly. Today, they presented their ideas.
Student Shen-Kao Cheng (25) developed an app that allows travelers to view their travel products, recharge their card, buy tickets and passes, and make sure that they’ve checked out. The app could also be used to check in and out with a mobile phone, possibly making the plastic OV-chipkaart no longer needed.
Another innovative idea sprung from 26-year-old Léon Groot Obbink, who noticed that hordes of people are trying to get through the entry gates at busy train stations during rush hour. To tackle this problem, Groot Obbink designed gates that work by a reversed mechanism: they are always open, and they close automatically if someone doesn’t check in or if someone doesn’t have enough credit on their card. “The gate now forms a barrier, while, as a public transport company, you want to invite travelers to come in – except for free-riders”, he told Dutch news broadcaster NOS.
Unfortunately, the ideas developed by Delft University offer no quick fix. Shen-Kao Cheng’s app, for example, can only be implemented if the current cards are replaced by new ones. The app is currently under review with public transport companies. If they decide to go ahead with it, perhaps a new generation of cards and gates will operate more smoothly. But for now, the OV-chipkaart will continue to cause irriation. Next time you’re cramming your way onto a busy train platform or you’re standing in line for the ticket machine, just remember that revolutions are slow.


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MULLICA HILL, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Wineries are being hit hard by the high cost of supplies, and they are also facing supply shortages.
While there isn't a wine shortage, the cost to package and ship bottles of wine has gone up, according to some employees at wineries in New Jersey.
Rich Heritage, the director of sales and marketing at William Heritage Winery, said he is trying to find ways to reduce packaging costs by selling wine in a can and wine on tap.
"It's been a real challenge. Honestly, in the 11 years I've been doing this, this is the worst I've ever seen," said Heritage.
Some of those costs are passed along to the consumer, increasing the price of a bottle of wine.
"I have noticed, yes, but it's OK. It's still an enjoyable product," said Tymeka Hurst, from Berlin, New Jersey.
Heritage said at his Mullica Hill winery he's taking a hit on profitability by trying not to significantly increase prices for customers, while his costs have gone up
"I would normally pay $900 in freight for a truck of glass. We're now paying like $1,800 in freight plus the surprise $500 surcharge on the invoice as well," said Heritage.
Prices have also stacked at Autumn Lake Winery in Williamstown, according to Megan Cosentino, the tasting room manager at Autumn Lake Winery.
"The price of wine has gone up because things like labels have gotten more expensive, things like corks have gotten more expensive," said Cosentino.
A local economist said he doesn't think winemakers will drop their prices, so he recommends customers spring for reusable big bottles.
"Start buying your wine in bulk...use less glass," said Michael Lahr, director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service.
Many people said they will order less when going out.
"We'll still be out drinking, but you're looking more for quality," said Tiffany Lindabury, of Marlton, New Jersey.
At William Heritage Winery they're trying to get creative by extending hours and bringing local music, to get people out.


text: In Detroit, talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union broke down Saturday morning, 9-15-2019. The Union now says at 11:59 pm they are going out on strike. This is the UAW's first strike since 1982. It will impact 49,000 GM workers. General Motors says the two sides remain very far apart in their negotiation over a new agreement. There are many workers in Texas who will be affected by this strike.


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In a survey that indexes consumption trends based on credit card usage information, the index in the first half of last month fell by more than 18% from the same period last year.
Due to the state of emergency caused by the spread of the new coronavirus, consumption such as travel and eating out continues to decline.
Nowcasting, a data analysis company, and JCB, a major credit card company, publish an index that looks at consumption trends after protecting privacy based on card usage information.
According to it, the index from the 1st to the 15th of last month was 18.3% lower than the same period last year.
By field, "Travel" was minus 64.8%, "Accommodation" was minus 53.2%, and "Eating out" was minus 47.9%, showing a particularly large drop.
It seems that the effects of refraining from going out due to the state of emergency and shortening the business hours of restaurants are continuing.
However, compared to the previous survey in the latter half of January, the negative range of "travel" and "accommodation" has narrowed, and the company surveyed said, "Because the pace of infection spread has slowed down, we refrain from going out. It can be seen that the tendency to do so has weakened. "


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Amazon’s courting of self-published authors through services like Kindle Direct seems to be paying off, at least in part. The retail and publishing giant announced at industry event Writer.ly that a quarter of the best performing books from the week preceding the event on the Amazon store were self-published, either directly or via the author’s own imprint publisher.
The ease with which authors can now upload content they themselves have created and distribute it to a readership base that either may not have heard of them, or that they’ve built up already in niche online environments has already been given a huge amount of treatment already and doesn’t bear repetition. What’s key about this particular piece of news is that it underscores how successful Amazon’s own predatory market-share capturing initiatives have been.
Traditional publishers have of course already responded with self-publishing initiatives of their own to reach out to independent authors, but it’s worth mentioning that Amazon’s omission of any indication about the revenue these independent books have accrued is probably due to the fact that big name traditional authors, who work within the boundaries of traditional publishing contracts, are probably still the most profitable segment in fiction-publishing and that self-publishing’s difference to the bottom line, outside of (arguably anomalously) hugely successful self-published novels is slim.
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One of the most critical safety components in cars, the air bag, is rapidly becoming a central concern of automakers and regulators.
Recalls related to air bags have affected at least 10 million of the more than 30 million cars recalled in the United States so far this year, according to a New York Times review of regulatory records.
On Monday, seven additional automakers said that they were recalling more than three million vehicles worldwide because their air bags, made by the Takata Corporation, could rupture and send debris flying inside a car.
The move is the latest in a series of recalls related to air bags made by Takata, one of the world’s top automotive supply firms, which has run afoul of regulators and prosecutors.
In April and May of last year, several Japanese automakers, along with BMW, recalled a total of 3.6 million cars over the same defect. Then on June 11 of this year, Toyota expanded that recall by 2.3 million vehicles — many for the second time, though for a different air bag — because, Takata said, it kept inadequate records. The number of recalled cars could still rise as automakers discover more models fitted with defective air bags.
Those numbers reflect in part stepped-up scrutiny by regulators, particularly in the United States.
The recalls announced on Monday, which included cars made by Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Ford, Chrysler and BMW — were responding to an investigation opened this month by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after it received three complaints of injuries caused by the air bag inflators’ rupturing.
A Honda spokesman said the company was aware of more than 30 injuries and two deaths in the United States related to all the Takata air bags.
For those who have been injured, the consequences have been devastating.
In 2010, Kristy Williams was stopped at a red light in Georgia when the air bags manufactured by Takata in her 2001 Honda Civic spontaneously deployed. She was hit by metal shards from the canister that housed the air bag’s propellant; the shards were sharp enough to penetrate the fabric of the air bag and puncture her neck and carotid artery.
Ms. Williams required several operations and later suffered seizures and several strokes, her lawyers said in a statement at the time. Within nine months, Honda and Takata reached a settlement to compensate Ms. Williams. The terms were not disclosed, and Honda had no further comment, though it confirmed Ms. Williams’s injuries were among the 30 cases it had linked to defective airbags made by Takata.
The recall on Monday also reflects a long-term change in the auto industry, where more automakers use the same parts, said Brett Smith, the program director of industry analysis at the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan.
Takata has about 20 percent of the air bag market, in a field dominated by three major suppliers: Takata; the Swedish-American manufacturer Autoliv, which has about 35 percent of the global market; and the American supplier TRW Automotive, which has about 20 percent.
Takata began making air bags in 1988, seeing an opportunity when American regulators began to require them.
The company grew rapidly, investing heavily in research and also expanding through acquisitions. In 1988, it acquired the industrial fabrics unit of Burlington Industries, based in Greensboro, N.C., and reorganized its operations to manufacture air bags there. Then in 2000, Takata acquired a majority stake in a German air bag manufacturer, Petri.
Overnight, Takata had become one of the largest air bag manufacturers in the world.
Takata’s experience, growing through acquisition, is not uncommon in the global auto supply industry. Mr. Smith said that the recession accelerated the consolidation among global parts suppliers.
“The 2008-9 period led to a lot of acquisitions, a lot of closures,” he said in a telephone interview.
Today, even though Takata has a spotty safety record — faulty seatbelts that it manufactured forced recalls of almost nine million cars in the 1990s — carmakers have continued to use the company.
“There aren’t a lot of air bag companies left,” said Sean Kane, president of Safety Research and Strategies, a consulting firm in Massachusetts. “Takata is a global supplier for a number of automakers.”
It is unclear when Takata became aware of possible defects in its air bags, some manufactured over a decade ago at its plant in Mexico.
Takata said in a statement on Monday that it thought excessive moisture was behind the defect.
Moisture and humidity could be seeping inside inflators, destabilizing the volatile propellant inside, said Haruo Otani, an official at the vehicle recall section of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Japan.
American regulators said they had received six reports of air bag inflator ruptures, all in Florida or Puerto Rico, before Monday’s recalls.
“Based on the limited data available at this time, N.H.T.S.A. supports efforts by automakers to address the immediate risk in areas that have consistently hot, humid conditions over extended periods of time,” the agency said in a statement.
Honda’s most recent recall covers about two million cars in North America and replaces defective parts in the vehicles’ air bags.
Nissan also issued a recall of 755,000 cars worldwide with Takata-made air bags, including 228,000 in North America.
Mazda said it would call back about 160,000 cars for the same issue, about 15,000 of those in North America.
Honda has been hit particularly hard, with a total of about 7.7 million vehicles recalled worldwide because of problems with inflators provided by Takata, a spokesman, Chris Martin, wrote in an email.
Typically, the inflator’s metal case ruptures because the propellant inside was not properly prepared and creates more pressure than intended, sending shards of metal into the passenger compartment.
If the failure is on the driver’s side, the driver may be struck.
On the passenger side — because the bag is in the dashboard — the shards are more likely to go up and not toward the occupant.
Honda first issued a limited recall of its Accord and Civic models in 2008, saying air bag inflators could blow up violently, propelling dangerous debris into the car.
Two deaths in the United States have been linked to exploding air bags, in Oklahoma and Virginia, both in 2009 and in Honda vehicles. In both cases, Honda and Takata settled with the families of the victims.
Last week, Takata said that it had improperly stored chemicals and had mishandled the manufacture of explosive propellants, used in the air bags, at its plant in Mexico. The manufacturer had also failed to keep adequate records of quality control, making it difficult to identify vehicles with potentially defective air bags and prompting a second round of recalls.
“We take this situation seriously, will strengthen our quality control and make a concerted effort to prevent a recurrence,” the company said.


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India's multibillion-dollar skin lightening industry has come under fire after a popular Bollywood actor lashed out at India's obsession with fair skin and highlighted a persistent bias against darker faces.
Adidas and Reebok are the world’s most transparent brands, but despite achieving the highest scores, they still have a long way to go towards being completely transparent, according to Fashion Revolution.
Walmart has released its tenth annual Global Responsibility Report, which looks at the company's progress during fiscal year 2017 in advancing the key areas of opportunity, sustainability and local communities.
An industry watchdog released an audit today claiming that the G-III Apparel Group is violating labor laws in China, and bringing more controversy to the Ivanka Trump line, which is produced under license by G-III.
European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to ban online retailers from treating consumers differently depending on where they live, impacting e-commerce sites like Amazon and Zalando as well as music streaming services.
Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday the Internet should be a utility available to the whole world, putting his weight behind a UN call for e-commerce to boost developing economies and help fight poverty.


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Grand Union lands COI's safe sex task
campaignlive.co.uk, Friday, 06 October 2006 12:00AM
Grand Union has won COI's online brief to promote safe sex to young people.
The agency won the Department of Health account after a two-way final shoot-out against Profero.
Grand Union will devise digital communications for an integrated campaign launching in mid-November and will also design and develop a new consumer website.
The campaign is part of an initiative to reduce the number of sexually transmitted infections among 16- to 24-year-olds by promoting safer sex through the normalisation of condom use.
Grand Union will also develop a stakeholder website to support the initiative. It will be aimed at public health practitioners, healthcare communicators, administrators and promoters.
Rob Forshaw, a partner at the agency, said: "Removing the taboo that exists around condom use among young people is something we feel is well suited to interactive media."
The Government last year increased its advertising budget to £50 million in response to figures showing a rise in the number of STDs.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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Tech giant, Apple has rolled out a new iOS 15.1.1 update to fix iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 dropping call issues almost a month after the launch of iOS 15.1, which enabled its long-awaited SharePlay feature.
The new update comes with bug fixes specifically for Apple's more recent phone models, including one meant to improve their call drop performance.
To get the new iOS 15.1.1which is a fairly minor update, visit the Software Update under General in the Settings app.
Apple major update iOS 15.2 is still in beta testing and it is expected to bring some more significant features. The upcoming software will add playlist search to the Apple Music app and the capability to bulk rename tags in the Reminders app. It will also show when a game is from Apple Arcade if you search for it and will tweak the Macro mode toggle.
iOS 15.2’s beta is also designed to protect younger users from inappropriate imagery by scanning incoming and outgoing pictures for “sexually explicit” material.


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Canada Goose Holdings Inc. managed to soar above the pandemic and post its biggest sales quarter ever over the holidays.
Now, Dani Reiss, president and chief executive officer, is looking to keep the altitude and go higher, building out the parka-maker’s lifestyle offering with new product categories and continuing the digital momentum that has helped propel the brand — and fashion — during the pandemic.
Canada Goose’s revenues for the fiscal quarter ended Dec. 27 increased 4.8 percent to 474 million Canadian dollars — a new record — up from 452.1 million Canadian dollars a year earlier.
Direct-to-consumer revenues in mainland China rose 41.7 percent as Canada Goose’s global e-commerce revenues increased 39.3 percent. Physical retail is still hamstrung by COVID-19 and seven of the company’s 28 stores are currently closed due to the pandemic.
Canada Goose was profitable in the quarter, but saw its comprehensive income slip 8 percent to 105.5 million Canadian dollars from 114.7 million Canadian dollars.
That was more than enough for Wall Street, which pushed shares of the parka-maker up 22 percent to $42.90 on Thursday.
“The third quarter is always our biggest quarter, this is our largest quarter on record — in the middle of a pandemic,” crowed Reiss in an interview with WWD. “We delivered against our strategy and outperformed our expectations.”
Reiss’ overarching plan and message has been remarkably consistent before and through the pandemic.
He sees Canada Goose as a brand based in function — first and foremost the company’s parkas keep the wearer toasty — and builds from there.
The company came into the pandemic with a lot of sales momentum and a new business in China that has continued to grow as that country opened back up from its COVID-19 shutdowns.
But even where consumers are locked down, the brand has been able to continue to grow.
“We were able to strategically deploy resources and change course in season to really bolster our digital platform,” Reiss said.
When the world opens back up — fingers crossed this year — Reiss said more resources can go back into stores. “Going forward, it’s going to be really important to have great synergies between brick and mortar stores and between our online platforms.”
Asked about the impact of the near-complete travel shutdown, Reiss steered back to the power of the brand.
“Consumers are going to buy our products wherever they are and if they’re able to travel, great. And if not, they’ll be able to buy them at home,” he said.
Soon there’ll be more Canada Goose to buy, with the brand launching footwear in the fall.
Reiss said more categories were coming after that.
“People want real products, people want authentic products, people want things that work and we’re a function-first brand,” Reiss said.
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Trump accuses Harley-Davidson of being 'first to wave the white flag' on trade
Tuesday - 26/06/2018 09:45
President Donald Trump brought the world's two biggest economies to the brink of a trade war Friday by announcing a 25 percent tariff on up to $50 billion in Chinese imports to take effect July 6. Here's how it could affect the U.S. economy and consumers. (June 15) AP
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump attacked Harley-Davidson for moving some production overseas, suggesting Monday that the U.S. motorcycle maker was being disloyal in Trump's trade war with the European Union.
"Surprised that Harley-Davidson, of all companies, would be the first to wave the White Flag," Trump tweeted Monday as he departed for a campaign trip to South Carolina.
"I fought hard for them and ultimately they will not pay tariffs selling into the E.U., which has hurt us badly on trade, down $151 Billion. Taxes just a Harley excuse — be patient!"
The Europeans are targeting iconic U.S. products like motorcycles, blue jeans and bourbon in retaliation for Trump's tariffs on European steel and aluminum. The motorcycle tariffs rose from 6 percent to 31 percent, adding an average of $2,200 to the cost of a motorcycle.
Trump has championed Harley-Davidson from the beginning of his presidency, calling the brand a "true American icon" in a meeting with company executives shortly after taking office. And he's frequently invoked the company in his trade rhetoric, saying "they're treated very unfairly in various countries."
But the company itself has warned that tariffs could end up hurting U.S. jobs. Moving production overseas, it said Monday, was "the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe."


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News stories featuring LG and NFC:
June 3rd, 2013
Brazilian mobile network operator TIM, part of the Telecom Italia group, has started an NFC payments pilot in partnership with Bradesco Bank, with plans to commercially launch the service by the end of this year....
March 27th, 2013
"NFC has reached the point of no return," says practice director John Devlin. "It all hinged on handsets; and next year we will see half-a-billion devices in the hands of consumers as it becomes more widely integrated."
March 21st, 2013
Canadian mobile network operator Rogers has added three Android and four BlackBerry NFC phones to the list of devices that work with its Suretap NFC payments service. The new phones are the LG Optimus G...
February 11th, 2013
The January/February issue of the monthly trends bulletin from the NFC World team's business intelligence service examines the impact on the mobile wallet market of the new Facebook Card, the arrival of NFC in the home and the latest mobile wallet business developments from around the world.
January 16th, 2013
The Korean consumer electronics maker has added an NFC-enabled refrigerator, washing machine, oven and vacuum cleaner to its lineup of NFC phones, smart TVs, media hub and speakers.
January 7th, 2013
LG is to unveil a range of home entertainment equipment with NFC capabilities at the CES show in Las Vegas this week. Products to be demonstrated include Cinema 3D Smart TVs featuring "Tag On", a...
November 19th, 2012
The sale suggests that Apple's interest in acquiring Authentec lies with the company's innovative combined fingerprint and NFC solution, which is not part of the division being acquired by Inside Secure, and will lead to renewed speculation that Apple will include NFC in future iPhones and other devices.
September 18th, 2012
LG's flagship Optimus G smartphone is to start shipping in Korea next week and will arrive in "key global markets" from October, says the company. The NFC-enabled handset runs Android 4.0 and sports a quad...
May 28th, 2012
A new LG smartphone, the LS860 Cayenne, is set to come with NFC, according to leaked details published by Brief Mobile. The high end device is expected to ship in the fourth quarter of 2012...
May 21st, 2012
A new quad core smartphone from LG looks set to include NFC. A leaked photo of the LG Eclipse 4G LTE published by Brief Mobile shows an NFC antenna mounted inside the battery cover. The...
May 11th, 2012
The LG Optimus Elite is now available to pre-order from Virgin Mobile USA for US$149.99. The NFC device will begin shipping on 15 May with Google Wallet included — the first time that a US...
May 9th, 2012
Mobile network operator 2degrees and prepaid card issuer Snapper have teamed up to enable commuters in the city of Wellington to pay for public transportation and purchases in local merchants with an LG Optimus Net NFC phone.
May 4th, 2012
NFC phones developed by HTC, Intel, LG Electronics, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony have all now been certified for contactless payments — and have the right to carry a new 'MasterCard PayPass Ready' logo.
April 25th, 2012
"It's still very early days for mobile payments and we know [it] will take time to build a mobile commerce ecosystem, but we're very committed to this goal and are encouraged by the progress we've made to date," says the search giant, as it makes unlocked Galaxy Nexus NFC phones available for US$399.
March 7th, 2012
Turkcell now has 50,000 active users of its Cep-T Cüzdan NFC mobile wallet service, the Turkish carrier's Ergi Şener has told NFC World, and plans to expand the service to include mobile coupon and loyalty...
February 28th, 2012
LG has announced two more Android smartphones that come with NFC. The Optimus L5 and Optimus L7 are part of LG's new L-Style series which, the company says, provide "a timeless design with finer details...
February 27th, 2012
The three card issuers' 100 million customers will be able to store a full range of credit, debit and prepaid cards, as well as loyalty cards and special offer coupons, on their NFC mobile phones.
February 24th, 2012
LG has taken the wraps off another NFC smartphone, its third this week, in the run up to Mobile World Congress 2012. The LG Optimus 4X HD will feature a 1.5GHz quad core Tegra 3...
February 22nd, 2012
LG has unveiled another NFC smartphone, its second this week, in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress. The LG Optimus 3D Cube is an Android smartphone set to be released in Korea by SK...
February 21st, 2012
Smartphone maker LG has unveiled the Optimus LTE Tag, a new smartphone destined for the Korean market. The handset has a 4.3-inch touch screen, a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, and runs Android 2.3. It also has...
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Local Online Ad Network hires key talent from
Merrill Lynch and Yahoo while growing 200% in
First Half of 2009.
New York, NY (July 21, 2009) – Yodle Inc., a leader in local online advertising and lead generation, announces two important additions to its executive team today. Michael Gordon has joined Yodle from Merrill Lynch as Chief Financial Officer and Erin Brockman has joined from Yahoo! HotJobs as Vice President of Client Services. The new executive hires come as Yodle continues to grow rapidly, recently reporting 200% growth from first half 2008 to first half 2009.
Michael Gordon brings more than 16 years of financial management and business experience to the CFO position at Yodle. As CFO, he will oversee finance, accounting, human resources, corporate development and legal affairs. At Merrill Lynch, Michael served as Managing Director in the Media and Telecom investment banking group. Michael has raised over $20 billion in capital for clients, including many initial public offerings, and advised clients on over $50 billion in mergers and acquisitions transactions. During his almost 13 years at Merrill Lynch, Michael developed relationships with clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to startups and leading private equity firms. Previously, Michael had worked in brand management at Procter & Gamble. He is on the Board of Directors of Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger organizations.
VP of Client Services Erin Brockman, with more than 12 years of experience, is responsible for driving customer satisfaction. Prior to Yodle, Erin served as the VP of Operations for Yahoo! HotJobs, where she successfully led the transition from a high-growth start-up to an industry-leading media and recruitment solutions business. Prior to Yahoo!, Erin served in management positions at GotSchool Market and Kozmo.com.
"As Yodle continues to grow – despite a tough economy – we're proactively tapping the best talent to lead the company in meeting booming local online business demand," said Yodle CEO Court Cunningham. "Michael and Erin are no exception, and we're confident that their expertise will help propel Yodle to the next level of growth, delivering the best customer value and the highest ROI to local business owners possible."
Michael and Erin are the latest additions to Yodle's already impressive management team, which includes longtime IAC marketing veteran Bryan Chupp who joined as Senior Vice President of Marketing in April 2009. In January, Yodle announced the completion of a $10 million Series C funding round led by JAFCO Ventures.
Yodle provides local businesses with a simple and affordable way to get new customers and phone calls using online advertising. Yodle is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed an integrated approach to signing up and serving local businesses that are transitioning their marketing budgets online. Yodle is headquartered in New York, NY with a presence in 25 major cities across the United States and has hundreds of employees helping thousands of customers. To find out more about Yodle, go to www.yodle.com.
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The much rumored Sony Xperia Z3 has currently been found on Chinese certification TENNA with a complete specs sheet for the device. According to the source, the Xperia Z3 will host a 5.2” IPS LCD display with 1080p resolution. Dimension wise, the device will be 7.4mm thick which has reduced from 8.2mm as in the previous Xperia Z2.
The chipset has been bit upgraded with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 clocked bit higher at 2.5GHz supported with the same 3GB of RAM. The primary camera is the same with 20.7MP Sony Exmor sensor and the secondary camera will be 2MP capable of recording videos at 1080p resolution. The device could be having a 16GB of in-built storage with a microSD card support. Xperia Z3 is believed to be available in a new color option of Amber as an replacement to purple.
However, what is missing from the TENNA specs is the IP rating of the device. The Xperia Z2 has currently IP58 certification and we expect the Xperia Z3 to come with the IP68. Well, things will more be clear just few days from now on September 3 when the device is expected to be announced officially.


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After what seems like decades of waiting, the official release date for James Cameron's Avatar 2 seems to have been confirmed by 20th Century Fox! The studio recently dropped a few release dates for upcoming blockbusters, one of them being an untitled project by James Cameron's own Lightstorm Entertainment, for December 21st, 2018. Deadline reports the only possible title for this date is Avatar 2. Not to mention, previously Cameron had announced that the sequel would hit theaters two years from now around Christmas time at this year's CinemaCon and that its three sequels would release in 2020, 2022 and 2023.
As new details arrive concerning the long-awaited Avatar sequel, we'll be sure to keep you posted.
Thanks to Deadline for the news!
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According to Commerce Queensland state policy manager, Nick Behrens, Queensland businesses could have lost millions during the Optus outage on Tuesday and the telco could be facing a major compensation bill…
According to Commerce Queensland state policy manager, Nick Behrens, Queensland businesses could have lost millions of dollars in revenue during the Optus outage on Tuesday and the telco could be facing a major compensation bill…
“The cost to the Queensland economy will be significant – every hour a million dollars is spent in Queensland,” said Behrens. “Businesses are highly reliant on telecommunications for commerce to occur nowadays.
“If there are individual businesses that have had one-off impacts of $3000 or more, then it doesn’t take long before the costs of this outage rise into the millions.”
The Optus network collapsed after a worker mistakenly cut through a fibre optic cable
at a building site in Molendinar on the Gold Coast; making landlines, mobile phone services, internet and even ATMs unusable.
Optus has publicly apologised for the incident and are even talking about compensation for affected businesses.
“Firstly we are apologising to people and secondly we are encouraging business customers to contact their account managers to discuss the impact of the outage on them and work out what we can do next in terms of compensation,” Optus spokesperson Maha Krishnapillai said.
Source: The Australian


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Crypto Regulation and Taxes by Country
Disclaimer: The text below is an advertorial article that is not part of Cryptonews.com editorial content.
The crypto market may be global, but every country has taken its own approach to this new financial industry. Some countries make it easy for crypto businesses and investors to operate in order to promote growth. Others take a harder line and have laid out many hoops for crypto users to jump through.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at crypto regulation and crypto taxes in Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
Estonia has positioned itself as one of the best countries for tech startups in Europe. The country initially brought its startup-friendly approach to the crypto industry, but has changed its tune in recent months.
The country’s new regulations took effect on June 15, 2022. Now, crypto companies in Estonia must meet stringent transparency and anti-money laundering requirements. They cannot have anonymous accounts, which were previously allowed.
In addition, there are minimum capital requirements for crypto businesses. Exchanges, wallet services, and token issuers must have at least €100,000 in capital. Transfer services must have at least €250,000 in capital.
To receive a license from Estonia’s Financial Intelligence Unit, the country’s financial watchdog, companies must pay an application fee of €10,000 and hire an internal auditor. The business must also have a physical, registered office in Estonia.
Right now, it is estimated that acquiring a license will take 4-5 months. The country awarded its first crypto license under the new regulations in September.
Crypto businesses in Estonia are taxed the same way as other corporations. Most companies pay no taxes on profits. Instead, they pay a 20% tax on dividends or profit distributions.
Lithuania is another country that has generally taken a welcoming approach to cryptocurrency businesses. The country updated its crypto regulations in June, with most of the new requirements for crypto businesses taking effect November 1, 2022.
The country now offers 2 types of crypto registrations: Cryptocurrency Exchange Authorization and Crypto Wallet and Custodian Services Authorization. Both registrations are overseen by Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service. To obtain a crypto registration, businesses must first register as a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP).
VASPs are required to have at least €125,000 in capital and anonymous accounts are not allowed. They are also required to have a Lithuania-based AML-officer, also named Senior manager. who works solely for one crypto business. AML-Officers are not company heads, but rather employees with a high position. VASPs must have a senior manager who resides in Lithuania, but the company does not need to have a registered office in the country.
Crypto businesses are taxed similar to other businesses in Lithuania. For most companies, the income tax rate is 15%. Small businesses with 10 or fewer employees and less than €300,000 in revenue may be taxed at a rate of 0-5%. Dividends are also taxed at a 15% rate.
The Czech Republic offers an extremely lenient regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are not recognized as legal tender and are instead classified as commodities. Cryptocurrencies are not regulated as their own asset category, as they are in other countries.
New crypto businesses in the Czech Republic can establish themselves as limited liability companies, following the same process as any other type of business. The capital requirement is 1 CZK, equivalent to about €0.04. There is also a government registration fee of 6,000 CZK, or around €243.
Crypto businesses must have a registered office in the Czech Republic for at least 1 year. It need not be a physical office and companies are not required to have local employees.
Importantly, crypto companies must follow anti-money laundering and know your customer requirements set forth by the EU.
All crypto businesses pay the Czech Republic’s 19% corporate income tax rate, which applies to both business income and capital gains.
Poland has classified crypto businesses as their own category of financial businesses and introduced a flexible regulatory structure.
All crypto businesses in Poland must register with the country’s Register of Virtual Currencies, which is maintained by Poland’s Tax Administration Chamber. There are multiple types of crypto licenses that companies can choose when registering.
Crypto businesses can be set up as a limited liability company, just like any other type of business in Poland. However, there are a few requirements specific to crypto businesses.
Crypto companies are required to report annual financial statements. Only crypto companies with more than 50 employees or more than €5 million in annual revenue must conduct annual audits.
Crypto businesses pay a 19% corporate income tax rate. For businesses with annual revenue of €2 million or less, the tax rate is discounted to 9%.
Cryptocurrency in Slovakia is overseen by the National Bank of Slovakia. However, the National Bank of Slovakia has not issued any regulations or licensing requirements for crypto businesses. In the absence of country-level regulations, crypto businesses must adhere to EU anti-money laundering requirements.
Crypto businesses can be set up as private joint-stock companies and are required to register with Slovakia’s Trade Licensing Authority. This registration comes with a €5,000 capital requirement and businesses must have a physical office in Slovakia. However, they are not required to have local employees.
All businesses in Slovakia, including crypto businesses, pay a corporate income tax rate of 21%.
Bulgaria is another country that does not explicitly regulate cryptocurrencies. The country does not recognize Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as legal tender and has not made efforts to categorize digital assets separately from existing financial services.
As a result, crypto companies in Bulgaria face minimal requirements. There are no licenses required to open a crypto business. A new company can be set up as a limited liability company with a €1 capital requirement and no physical office or local employees in Bulgaria.
Notably, Bulgaria is part of the EU, so crypto businesses must comply with the EU’s anti-money laundering requirements for crypto businesses.
Crypto businesses pay the standard corporate income tax rate of 10%, plus an additional 5% tax on dividends.
Crypto Regulations Compared
The table below summarizes crypto regulations and taxes in Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
|Business registration||Limited liability company||Limited liability company||Limited liability company||Limited liability company||Private joint-stock company||Limited liability company|
|Capital requirement||€100,000-€250,000||€125,000||1 CZK||5,000 PLN||€5,000||€1|
|Local office required||Yes||No||No||No||No||No|
|Anti-money laundering officer required||Yes||Yes||No||No||No||No|
|Local employee required||Yes||Yes||No||No||No||No|
|Tax rate||20% dividend tax||0-15% income tax, 15% dividend tax||19% income tax||9-19% income tax||21% income tax||10% income tax, 5% dividend tax|
Crypto regulation in Europe is constantly evolving, with each country setting their own rules alongside the EU’s rules for all member states. Some countries offer more lax regulatory environments than others, so it’s important for crypto businesses to fully understand the regulatory landscape.


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Morrisons boss David Potts believes consumers became “increasingly savvy” and “cautious” over Christmas as the UK’s Brexit date rapidly approaches.
Potts said shoppers were more “conscious” of the country’s political situation during retail’s golden quarter and were increasingly thinking about “how that may affect them personally” in the year ahead.
The UK will leave the EU in less than three months, on March 29 – and the government is yet to agree a Brexit deal.
Morrisons registered a 3.6% uplift in like-for-like sales during the nine weeks to January 6 despite the ongoing uncertainty, but the bulk of its gains came through its burgeoning wholesale arm.
Supply deals with the likes of Amazon and McColl’s drove wholesale like-for-likes up 3% during the period. But same-store sales in its core supermarket business grew 0.6% – a marked slowdown from last year’s 2.1% increase.
Morrisons has singled out its Best premium ranges in previous years as being a driving force behind its festive sales growth. But Potts said spend was more “broadly” split across its good, better and best tiers at Christmas 2018, in comparison to “the prior two or three years”.
‘Savvy and conscious’
Potts said: “People became increasingly savvy and conscious of both the macro political situation in the country and how that may unfold in 2019, and also how that may affect them personally.”
He suggested part of the cautiousness was driven by a hangover from “a big spend up in the summer”, following the heatwave and England’s run to the World Cup semi-finals.
Potts added: “We saw the start of it in October where, although we don’t talk about the weather much, it was quite a feature. And going into November there was a sense that customers were a bit more cautious, a bit more careful with their spending, and a feeling of uncertainty within the country may have led to some of that feeling.
“Sentiment improved towards the end [of December] when customers probably thought: ‘It’s Christmas, we’re going to look out for special items’, as well as being very conscious of what their total spend was over Christmas.”
Potts cautioned that the shift in the consumer psyche would continue throughout 2019. He said that, “in the opening days of this calendar year”, Morrisons shoppers “have been very much on the lookout for great value for money”.
Yesterday, Morrisons launched a fresh wave of price cuts under its rolling Price Crunch initiative, slashing prices of 900 “store cupboard favourites” by an average of 20%.


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Gamersmint: Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media at Sony, Patrick Seybold has declined that Sony were offered a choice to buy back database which the hackers stole from them after hacking into the Playstation Network.
surprising? The fact that Sony denied being made such an offer by hackers or that the hackers are apparently trying to sell of the info?
If i answer you i tend to be less sarcastic that i wanted to be. ;)
Stealing info on the internet isn't like stealing an item from the store.... The info is all still there, there is nothing to buy back. Even if it did work that way, what hacker would stick his neck out trying to actually make that transaction? The whole thing is ridiculous on so many levels. Who buys into this nonsense? If anyone on the type of forum being described in the linked NY Times linked in the article made such a proposition it was purely in jest, just to get a laugh.
link, can't belief they're covering such filth. I mean they really think these hackers have all that info? It's ridiculous. Glad to know, Sony denied it outright. Also, the hackers aren't that dumb to call up Sony and offer them to sell it back.
well IF this is true at least one good thing has come from it....they only have 2.2 million CC details out of a potential 77 million (i say potential as theres no was PSN has 77 millions accounts hell in my house alone there’s been over 100 accounts made and 11 made on XBL)
Don’t be foolish why? would a huge company buy back it's own database when these pirates have clearly wiped it‚ they will get caught though sony are on to them.
I haven't heard Sony apologize yet.
why would they? if u where going to buy some milk from the shops for ur mum and u get beat up and the milk gets stolen when u get home will u say sorry to her, or would jsut just say i got my ass handed to me, and sony did say sorry but they dont have to
I haven't heard any apologies from anonymous yet!!
How are you so sure it's them?
Anon also said they can't control all thier members even though they say they won't attack psn "anymore". I don't trust someone who break into people site.
Guilty until proven innocent
I'm still waiting for a PSN Parody of the "we're sorry" south park scenes.
First extortion and blackmail then prison time for some hackers
Yes,how surprising... PSN accounts include PSP owners too.I bet that Sony regrets boasting about that figure now.
Well.... I'm sure they have regular backups...
Sony didnt have such a shitty security system behind its servers then it wouldnt of got hacked in the first place, and the fact that they withheld some infomation from it users was bullshit.
I don't think the hackers would even contact Sony in any way... They would have been tracked down.
You can't believe any article posted on here (N4G) whether it is negative or positive about the current situation. For the people worried about their information just keep an eye on your statements at the moment.
On top of that they should place a fraud alert with the 3 credit agencies just in case. It's not a negative thing to have on there and can be lifted whenever or when 90 days end. It requires people to contact you when you (or someone else) try and open an additional line of credit. Which in my opinion could be the most dangerous thing here. Repairing credit is a lot harder and more time consuming then telling visa that fraudulent activity took place. Anyone interested can google "Fraud Alert".
The fact that they are trying to sell this information really says something of their intellect. This is so widely publicized that you have a high chance of selling to a federal agent. Its like I stole the Mona Lisa, its all over the news for weeks and then i start seeking buyers over the internet. Anyone with a brain would walk away.
May 3 please get here already
It makes no sense. Why would they risk contacting Sony when they are out for blood? Also why try to sell info back if they could just as easily start a credit spending spree. They probably ( if this is even true) realized that the info is useless and encrypted. They can't even use what they have for anything even if they wanted to unless the plan is mass email scams and viruses
It's a preposterous concept. You don't have the IQ to break into Sony's systems and steal information and then turn around and offer to sell it back to them considering everyone knows that money is easier to track than an IP.
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GCC retail banking focus for briefings
Dubai, March 5, 2013
EFMA, a leading non-profit retail banking association, and consultancy Oliver Wyman have organised senior briefings with banking executives in Dubai and Doha to discuss the opportunities and threats for retail banks in the GCC.
The briefings will also discuss the revenue growth potential of the region, the institutional requirements for realizing it and the strategic imperatives for the GCC banks, in both their domestic and foreign markets.
The briefing is set to take place on March 17 in the offices of Emirates NBD in Dubai, while the Doha briefing is scheduled for March 19 at La Cigale Hotel.
Oliver Wyman models see banking revenues in the region quadrupling over the next 20 years, ahead of growth in developed markets.
Greg Rung, partner in Oliver Wyman’s Retail & Business Banking Practice will provide an overview of the revenue growth potential of the region, the institutional requirements for realizing it, and the strategic imperatives for GCC banks, in both their domestic and foreign markets.
Differences in future growth rates mean that the picture of global banking will fundamentally change soon, with emerging markets contributing as much banking revenue as developed markets.
Oliver Wyman sees developed markets’ share of global banking revenues falling from 77 per cent in 2010 to 55 per cent by 2030.
The GCC has entered a critical growth phase, and retail banking will be the largest part of revenue growth in the region. As the economy grows, both consumers and small businesses become credit-worthy, and retail lending begins to take off. Some parts of the retail business remain underdeveloped, however, such as mortgages and business banking in Saudi Arabia.
“In order for this growth to happen, there is the need for certain enablers,” said Greg Rung, author of the research and host of the Dubai and Doha meetings. “A good infrastructure, free competition, efficient legal processes and regulation and political stability are necessary for the retail banking sector to develop with no hiccups.
Michael Pearson, a strategy and corporate development expert and author of the Efma report “Innovation in Retail Banking” will add to the debate by discussing innovations in retail banking worldwide. – TradeArabia News Service
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In September 2016 the quantity of international visitors rose by 11% and the inflow of tourists increased by 34.2%. The statistical indicators were introduced by Giorgi Chogovadze, Head of the National Tourism Administration of Georgia.
Only in September, 631 302 international visitors arrived in Georgia, up 62 615 ones compared to the same period of 2015. The quantity of tourists made up 304 814 ones, up 77 660 ones compared to September 2015.
The highest inflow of tourists was registered from Azerbaijan (+7.6%). Armenia is second (+4.2%), Russia is third (+31.3%), Turkey is fourth (-21.5%) and Iran is fifth (+571.9%), Chogovadze noted.
The January-September indicators prove that the country maintains growth tendency. Total quantity of international tourists made up 4 879 031 visitors, up 384 690 ones compared to the same period of 2015 (+8.6%). At the same time, the quantity of tourism visits made up 2 156 731, up 352 411 compared to the same period of 2015 (+19.5%).
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BRANDON – As Joy Trosper packs up the hair products, combs, scissors and capes to move her salon a couple of miles down the road to her new space, she sees her experience at the Westfield Mall in Brandon as exactly what she needed it to be — an incubator.
Trosper, who immigrated from Japan in 2003, put in her time sweeping hair at a salon in South Tampa while she went back to school to earn a license to cut hair in the United States.
“I’m only nine years in America,” Trosper said. “If I can make it, anybody can make it.”
With an American license in hand, she took a job at a chain hair salon at the mall so she could observe the mall’s clientele.
“I said, ‘Let me see what kind of people come to the mall,’ and I watched the people while I worked at the salon,” she said.
She watched the people who came in the salon, but mostly she watched the ones who didn’t. She observed the clothes they wore, the bags they carried and determined that the Westfield had enough foot traffic for her to open a higher-end salon in another wing of the sprawling suburban shopping complex.
Since she had signed an agreement with the salon chain when she started working, she was not allowed to take any clients from them.
“I didn’t take their clients,” she said. She had to start from scratch.
So, when she opened Tessani Hair Studio in November 2007, she started with 100 percent walk-in clients. Her salon appeals to a higher-end customer. She set her prices to target a more upscale client than the other salons nearby and worked hard to earn their loyalty.
The secret, she said, is that cutting hair in her home country of Japan was simply harder. She grew up in the business trying to satisfy particularly demanding clients.
She signed a five-year lease with the mall and built her clientele from walk-up traffic. Now her lease is up and only 5 percent of her customers are walk-ins. The rest are regulars, referrals and people who found her online. “That’s why I’m ready,” she said.
Using the mall
“This is definitely an atypical way for a business to use the mall,” said Mitchell Rice, CEO at RMC Property Group in Tampa. It’s not unheard of — just atypical.
“A regional mall is a source of tremendous traffic,” he said. “The occupancy expense is usually higher and the traffic often justifies that.”
Many businesses can only survive in a high-traffic environment like the mall.
“Businesses lower their occupancy rate and make it more convenient for customers, but they risk a drop-off in new customers,” he said.
That’s a risk Trosper is willing to take.
A fresh start
People in the salon business are also in the business of fresh starts.
“This is not just for me,” Trosper said. “It’s for my clients.”
She got a loan from Fifth Third Bank to help pay for the lot — an old Bruster’s Ice Cream that had gone out of business — and the buildout.
She declined to say how much she had to borrow, but the cost of the land and the buildout will exceed $1 million.
“The clients deserve a better place and my employees deserve a place to be proud of,” she said.
Trosper is hiring nine people at her new salon, an increase from three she had in the mall. She is adding massage therapy to the list of services her team will provide customers. “I want to give everybody a job,” she said.
She wants the new 2,400-square-foot space to inspire pride from her customers and her staff. “I want people to say, ‘Oh, that’s my salon!’”
This year will be her last Black Friday at the mall. It will be the last time she and her team will have to be at work at the crack of dawn to keep from being fined for having their door closed during business hours.
“I work seven days a week — mostly 12 hours a day,” she said.
“I promised my husband I would be closed on Sunday,” after the move to her new studio. “He’s gonna drive me crazy.”


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Vodaphone, which owns 50 per cent of Vodafone Australia, saw global revenue of about AUD$65.7 billion last year, and unnamed ‘sources familiar with the situation’ have told reporters from the Bloomberg agency that AT&T is laying the groundwork for purchase by identifying other potential buyers for Vodafone.
The move would see AT&T able to compete with the top handful of companies in the ever-growing space. If they joined forces, Vodafone and AT&T would become huge telecoms player, with a market capitalisation exceeding $250 billion and large-scale operations in the U.S. and across Europe. The joint forces could count around 500 million wireless subscribers worldwide, making it able to challenge Google and Apple on handset subsidies.
Any bid would have to wait until Vodafone completes its massive US$130 billion sale of its half share of Verizon Wireless, which would be a regulatory impediment to any acquisition by AT&T.


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New Delhi, Feb 22 The central government on Wednesday said that India and Australia will cooperation in the field of civil aviation security.
Copenhagen, Feb 22 A Danish court Wednesday extended by four weeks the preventive detention of the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the alleged mastermind of the massive corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea since October 2016 and led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment.
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Stickers Express in Hagatna has been operating its business on Guam for 26 years, printing banners, t-shirts, and stickers for customers.
Elaine Takashi, the owner of Stickers Express, told the Pacific News Center how the idea of the business came about.
“My husband was the one who wanted to start the business,” said Takashi. “He thought about doing stickers, signages and stuff like that. That is how he started so many years ago. He’s tired of working for other people. So, he ended up doing it and here we are doing it now.”
Same day printing stickers, t-shirts, and banners are some of the products Stickers Express offers to patrons of the Agana Shopping Center.
“We can print t-shirts, stickers, and banners,” she said. “We do it while you’re waiting and if we aren’t so busy then we do it the same day.”
Prices range from customized stickers for $5 to windshield size stickers at $20. The company also prints multiple colored t-shirts for $25.
Overall feedback from customers has been positive.
“They love the outcome of t-shirts, stickers and banners,” Takashi said. “Sometimes I cut it and they will just watch me peel the stickers. They are so amazed at how it is being done.”
For the last 13 years, Stickers Express has been located in the Agana MarketPlace in the Agana Shopping Center. It has now moved into a new and bigger location across the MarketPlace, which is holding its grand opening on May 20.
She shared with PNC what patrons can expect.
“My grand opening is May 20,” Takashi said. “We will be giving out items, free stuff, and we have other donations from companies that we will be giving out also. We will be giving out stickers, and t-shirts. We will print on the same day if you win the raffle.”
For more information, contact Stickers Express at 671-989-8615.