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"The new president of Mexico [Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador] has changed his rhetoric quite considerably," Ross said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box, " adding he expects "substantial progress" regarding trade within a year.
"He likes the idea of redoing NAFTA," Ross said. "He's got a very good team overlapping with the former president to conduct the negotiations."
Trump threatened to raise tariffs to 20 percent on European cars coming into the U.S, and asked the Commerce Department to study whether vehicle imports threaten national security. The threat also hangs over negotiations with Mexico and Canada on NAFTA.
Earlier this month, Ross told CNBC that it was too "premature" to say whether Trump's auto tariffs would come to pass.
Ross has repeatedly defended the administration's aggressive approach on tariffs, saying it will deter what the White House calls unfair trade practices that Trump pledged to end.
"We've been in a trade war since the end of World War II," Ross said Thursday. He added the "trade war idea" is nothing new.
The Commerce Department under Ross first recommended imposing heavy tariffs or quotas on foreign producers of steel and aluminum in February in the interest of national security.


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Organics may have enjoyed growth rates of 20% or more in the last decade or more, but there is still a need for more education about the product’s benefits, industry sources said.
However, a promotional strategy that works for one company might not be effective for another, they add.
“Education is a two-edged sword,” said John Harley, sales manager of Anthony Vineyards Inc., Bakersfield, Calif. “If you go out and try to promote, it’s a two-edged sword for an organization like ourselves that grows conventional and organic. Is one better than the other? Not in our estimation.”
Anthony’s strategy involves promoting the best of both produce worlds, Harley said.
“It’s what the consumer wants and what they perceive is better for them,” he said. “If you promote organically grown products, it’s how you promote it that matters. If you promote it as being better than a conventional grape, you’re basically destroying yourself.”
Let the consumer make that decision, Harley said.
The organics industry should always look for opportunities to educate consumers about its product, and the product will draw them naturally, said Laura Batcha, marketing and public relations director for the Greenfield, Mass.-based Organic Trade Association.
“I think there’s still a high need for more education,” she said. “What we’ve found is the higher the level of education of what organic production practices mean, the higher percentage of purchases of organic products.
“With our fastest-growing demographics in the market, there’s going to be a continuing need for organic education.”
That is a major philosophy driving marketing efforts at San Juan Bautista, Calif.-based Earthbound Farm, said Samantha Cabaluna, communication director.
“We definitely need more education about exactly what organic is, not just what it’s not,” Cabaluna said. “Most people know that organic farming avoids the use of conventional pesticides, fertilizers, irradiation, and GMOs.
“But it’s equally important for people to understand that organic farming is a regenerative practice that builds soil health and protects the environment in many other ways, too.”
Teaching consumers about organics is an ongoing process, as well, at Los Angeles-based World Variety Produce Inc., said Matt Stocks, organic vegetable buyer.
“I don’t think you could ever get enough,” said Stocks, whose company markets organics under the Melissa’s label. “In organics, there’s something new every day.
“A grower is trying something different with a commodity that wasn’t offered organically before. The challenge is how to incorporate that in your set and your cooking. We welcome that.”
Years of informing the public about organics is just a beginning, said Roger Pepperl, marketing director for Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers Inc.
“A lot more does need to be done,” he said. “People are confused about what organic is.”
Retailers have been good partners in helping get the word out to consumers, said John Long, sales manager in the Selah, Wash., office of Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M Cos.
“They’re moving product out there, and it has grown,” Long said. “They’ve been educated pretty well the last 10 years and know their business pretty well. The key will be if the consumer picks the product up in the long term.”
The evolution of the organic business requires more information to be conveyed, said Bill Schene, salesman for Valliwide Marketing Inc., Reedley, Calif.
“You continue to let people be informed about new farming practices, new technologies available to organic farmers,” he said.

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One day ago, Elon Musk declared that the upcoming second-generation Starlink internet satellite would contain cellular antennas for phone connections in the US. Currently, only T-Mobile is on board, but other operators should follow suit.
Now, the tech billionaire confirmed via a tweet that this same connection would allow direct connections with Tesla vehicles. He didn’t go into details – just a simple yes to a Twitter user’s query.
Will Tesla cars get this feature too in the future to connect directly to Starlink satellites for emergency calls/texts?
— Dave Lee (@heydave7) August 26, 2022
To permit updated Starlink satellites to connect directly to cellphones, SpaceX will use a portion of T-Mobile’s existing 5G spectrum, the ‘mid-band PCS.’
During the event, Elon mentioned that the satellite-to-cellular coverage from Starlink will be capable of providing a 2-4 Mbps link that everyone will share in the satellite’s coverage area.
This won’t be enough for premium connectivity features, such as live-streaming video from your Tesla’s cameras. Still, a connection that works at all is probably better than no connection.
Tesla has dialed down the connectivity packages with its electric vehicles. The cars purchased before the end of June 2018 include Premium Connectivity at no extra charge. Still, those purchased before July 20th, 2022, have at least the standard connectivity package with in-car maps and navigation.
Such connections are available for the vehicle’s lifetime. So, adding the Premium Connectivity subscription to a Tesla that doesn’t have it presently costs $9.99 per month or $99 annually.
T-Mobile plans to incorporate this “Coverage Above and Beyond” with many of their existing plans at no extra cost, so the connection to Starlink’s new cellular-broadcasting satellites would be a life-saving feature that should be made available standard with Tesla vehicles.
But hold your horses – there’s still plenty of time until phones and Tesla vehicles gain this functionality. SpaceX’s considerably enormous Gen 2 Starlink satellites will be the ones with the additional antennas to support cellular connections, launching on SpaceX’s Starship rocket in 2023. Its service is anticipated to initiate in late 2023.
No matter how optimistic Musk can be with his futuristic projects, this feature could be delayed as SpaceX works to deploy the satellites.
Those wondering about used electric cars purchased today from Tesla, they “will have Standard Connectivity for the remainder of the eight years from the first day your vehicle was delivered as new by Tesla, or the first day it is put into service (for example used as a demonstrator or service vehicle), whichever comes first.”


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Amazon Web Services offers top eight cloud computing predictionsBy Ryan Noik 7 May 2015 | Categories: news
Attend any IT conference, round table, or discussion on cloud and there is a very good chance that Amazon Web Services will come up, if not several times then most certainly at least once or twice.
The reason for this is the e-commerce giant has made a steady push into the cloud market, and captured many businesses and enterprise’s attention with its clout.
Thus, when the company offers up its thoughts and predictions on the megatrend of cloud, it’s a good idea to take notice. Dr Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, explained that in the past 18 months, cloud computing has enabled great innovations both in consumer and enterprise products as it has become the new normal for organisations of all sizes.
Cloudy with a chance of change
“Cloud is now the engine room for inventions by young businesses as well as transforming established companies into lean, fast moving innovators. It is safe to say cloud computing is already having a broad impact,” he continued.
Vogels noted that despite all of the amazing innovation we have already seen, we are still on Day One of the technology, with much more to come.
“In the second half of 2015 and beyond cloud will power exciting innovations that will touch every area of our lives,” he enthused. He highlighted eight trends that he expects to become more prevalent in the rest of this year and beyond it.
1. Cloud analytics are everywhere.
Vogels explained that there is almost no consumer or business area that is not impacted by Cloud enabled analytics. While this is often hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game, analytics, he pointed out, is becoming more prevalent. From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by Cloud based analytics.
2. Cloud enables self-service analytics.
In the past analytics within an organisation was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralised data warehouse running on specialised hardware. However, in the modern enterprise this scenario is not acceptable. Vogels elaborated that analytics plays a crucial role in helping business units become more agile and move faster to respond to the needs of the business and build products customers really want. Unfortunately though, businesses tend to still be bogged down by this centralised, oversubscribed, old style data warehouse model – an impedance that Cloud based analytics completely changes.
In practical terms, this means that a business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the Cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for. It can be a small, two node, data warehouse that runs during the day, a big 1000 node data warehouse that just runs for a few hours on a Thursday afternoon, or one that runs during the night to give personnel the data they need when they come into work in the morning.
3. Cloud will enable everything to become smart
These days everything has the ability to become “smart” - a smartwatch, smart clothes, a smart TV, a smart home, a smart car. However, in almost all cases this “smartness” runs in software in the cloud not the object or the device itself.
In case general users think that Cloud analytics is only relevant to enterprises or businesses, they would be wholly incorrect. Vogels pointed out that whether it is the thermostat in your home, the activity tracker on your wrist, or the smart movie recommendations on your beautiful ultra HD TV, all are powered by analytics engines running in the Cloud.
4. Cloud Analytics improves City Life
Vogels noted that Cloud analytics is not limited to the home or smart devices – it can also take information from the city environment to improve the living conditions for citizens around the world. A good example is the work the City of Chicago is doing.
Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic. The data from these sensor stream into the Cloud where it is analysed to find ways to improve the life of its citizens. The collected datasets from Chicago’s “Array of Things” will be made publicly available on the cloud for researchers to find innovative ways to analyse the data.
5. Cloud enables the Industrial Internet of Things
Vogels noted that often when we think about the Internet of Things (IoT), the tendency is to focus on what this will mean for the consumer. However, he believes that in 2015 we will see the rise of a different IoT - the Industrial Internet of Things. Industrial machinery will be instrumented and Internet connected to stream data into the cloud to gain usage insights, improve efficiencies and prevent outages.
Whether this is General Electric instrumenting their gas turbines, Shell dropping sensors in their oil wells or Kärcher with fleets of industrial cleaning machines all of these will send continuous data streams for real time analysis into the cloud.
6. Cloud enables video analytics
Along with industry, Cloud analytics will likely leave its mark on video. While, Vogels explained, for a long time video was recorded to be archived, played back and watched, with the unlimited processing power of the Cloud there is a new trend arising: treating video as a data stream to be analysed. This is being called Video Content Analysis (VCA) and it has many application areas from retail to transportation.
He elaborated that a common area of application is in locations where video cameras are present, such as malls and large retail stores. Video is analysed to help stores understand traffic patterns, and analytics can then provide the numbers of customers moving as well as dwell times, and other statistics. This allows retailers to improve their store layouts and in-store marketing effectiveness.
Another popular area is that of real time crowd analysis at large events, such as concerts, to understand movement throughout the venue and remove bottlenecks before they occur in order to improve visitor experience.
7. Cloud transforms healthcare analytics
Another sector we can expect to be touched by Cloud is the healthcare arena. Vogels pointed out that data analytics is quickly becoming central to analysing health risk factors and improving patient care. Despite healthcare being an area that is under pressure to reduce cost and speed up patient care, Cloud is playing a crucial role and helping healthcare go digital.
He continued that cloud powers innovative solutions such as Phillips Healthsuite, a platform that manages healthcare data and provides support for doctors as well as patients. The Philips HealthSuite digital platform analyses and stores 15 PB (petabyte) of patient data gathered from 390 million imaging studies, medical records, and patient inputs to provide healthcare providers with actionable data, which they can use to directly impact patient care. “This is reinventing healthcare for billions of people around the world. As we move through 2015 and beyond we can expect to see cloud play even more of a role in the advancement of the field of patient diagnosis and care,” he said.
8. Cloud enables secure analytics
Last but not least, is another topic that crops up time and again – security. Vogels concluded that, with analytics enabling so many new areas, from online shopping to healthcare to home automation, it becomes paramount that the analytics data is kept secure and private. The deep integration of encryption into the storage and in the analytics engines, with users being able to bring their own encryption keys, ensures that only the users of these services have access to the data and no one else.
Based on what we have seen and heard from multiple companies to date, we have a prediction of our own – this is certainly not the last time we have heard about the phenomena and potentially phenomenal, wide-reaching impact of Cloud and analytics.
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The DAWN Everyday Wildlife Champions gets its big launch this week in New York. On Wednesday, July 8th IBRRC’s very own Jay Holcomb will be appearing on the NBC Today television show along with Dawn celebrity spokesperson, Minnie Driver. The pair are scheduled to appear in the fourth hour (10-11AM) with Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb.
IBRRC and the Marine Mammal Center are working with DAWN to promote the new program that will contribute to each organization for every DAWN bottle purchased.
The specially marked bottles of DAWN are on store shelves now and for every bottle purchased and activated, DAWN will donate 50 cents to IBRRC and 50 cents to the Marine Mammal Center.
You’ll need to “register” your bottle on DAWN’s website. They just want your bottle ID number, zip code and where you bought the DAWN.
Ready to activate your donation? Go to Dawn Saves Wildlife


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Brands: Reinvent yourself before reinventing your industry
For the last 19 years Interbrand has been carrying out its Best Global Brands report. This year, the theme of the study is ‘Activating Brave’, which examines the role that brand strength plays in the transformation of the world’s leading businesses.
The results this year show that in these volatile and uncertain times, it is the brands that have the confidence to make bold and decisive moves that are creating the most impact, and delivering exceptional results.
And one of the defining traits of a standout brand is the ability and bravery to disrupt itself, before it falls victim to disruption by the competition.
The cycle of disruption and renewal is good for customers, because it means they can get what they want faster, cheaper and easier. It’s good for progress and it keeps the world moving forwards.
However many businesses fail in the cycle, which is a high price to pay. Being able to disrupt their own models is a necessary survival tactic that keeps brands ahead of the curve.
To create the Best Global Brands rankings and report, Interbrand analyses across ten factors of ‘Brand Strength’. These include factors internal to the organisation, such as Clarity and Governance, as well as external, customer related, factors such as Authenticity and Engagement.
When we analysed this database of information, we noticed something very significant about the top 20 growing brands from 2014 onwards. These brands scored significantly higher than others on two specific factors: Relevance and Responsiveness.
What this means in practice is that the brands that are growing their own value the most do two things. They are highly customer-centric, creating and offering products and services that are extremely relevant to customer needs. And they are agile enough to evolve and adapt rapidly as customer needs continue to evolve and adapt.
The fastest growing brand in our study this year is Amazon, which has increased its brand value by an impressive 56%, climbing to the third most valuable brand in the world and only the third brand to top $100bn.
Amazon has achieved this remarkable success practicing the relevance and responsiveness we identified as vital to growing brands. It has kept a relentless focus on customer-centricity, and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the customer happy, even if this means reinventing itself and disrupting its own business models.
We can trace several revolutions and evolutions in the life of Amazon. Originally established as a bookseller taking on the traditional in-store model, it has grown into a one-stop shop for anything and everything customers may need.
The journey has not always been linear either. Back in late 2014 for example, analysts were disappointed by third quarter results that were around $250m short of forecasts.
Some interpreted this as Amazon starting to lose momentum and speculated that customers were put off by its acrimonious dispute with the publisher Hachette over e-books.
With the benefit of hindsight, we can now see that Amazon was intentionally cannibalising some major product lines, offering free or nearly free music, video and e-books, in order to draw millions more customers into its ecosystem.
Far from a sign of weakness, Amazon was intentionally disrupting not only other retailers but also itself, in pursuit of its long-term goal of ownership of the entire retail market. The purchase of Whole Foods, an addition to the Amazon Grocery offering, has seen it step into the traditional groceries sector.
And now Amazon is set to make its most audacious move yet, with a new focus on the US healthcare system, alongside JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway. Transforming this dysfunctional system will be the brand’s biggest challenge yet, but the signs are positive that it can be done. All three companies have begun at home, by focusing on improving the quality and lowering the costs of healthcare for their own employees before bringing any solutions to market. Amazon as the saviour of the troubled US healthcare system would be a reinvention on a scale as yet unprecedented.
Netflix, a new entrant to the table in 2018, is another prime example of a company that has turned its business model on its head, transforming itself in service of its mission.
From the outset, Netflix aimed to crush Blockbuster by shipping DVDs by mail and abolishing late fees. But then it took the game to a whole new level when it began streaming movies and TV shows and, finally, investing vast sums in original content.
Today, Netflix is one of the world’s most successful content-creators, spending a colossal $12bn on programming in 2018 alone and is in constant pursuit of innovation and improvement. Netflix has innovated by embracing options as they become available rather than shying away from them. The original postal model, for example, was improved by the addition of express delivery, prioritising customer centricity over operational costs. While video streaming wasn’t a new idea, it was Netflix that embraced it and the existing customer base, which already trusted the brand to innovate for their benefit, got them to the next level.
In practical terms, it takes a great deal of courage to imitate Amazon or Netflix. From the CEO down, companies must be infused with a culture of experimentation, a willingness to take risks and a willingness to fail.
It takes a relentless focus on the customer as well as the ability to simultaneously look through your business, your customers’ worlds, and the market in which you operate, through both a microscope and a telescope.
Brands need to sweat over the details whilst simultaneously plotting a course towards a long-term vision.
Mike Rocha is the global managing director at Interbrand Economics


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Skoda India has opened a new state-of-the-art dealership facility in Bangalore, Karnataka. The company has partnered with PPS motors, which also deals with several other brands such as Kia and Ford to open the new facility.
With the new facility, Skoda aims to strengthen its position in Karnataka. It also aims to establish a strong foothold in the southern markets of our nation. The new dealership facility features the new Corporate Identity and Design, which are part of the brand's global redesigning process.
The Czech auto manufacturer announced earlier that it will increase sales and service touchpoints by two times across the country by 2022. The expansion plan is part of the brand's ‘INDIA 2.0' project.
Speaking about the new facility itself, the sales and display area spans over 4,500 square feet and will accommodate at least four cars. Additionally, the new facility also includes a service workshop area.
It is spread across 18,000 square feet and houses ten mechanical stations and body shop bays. The new facility employs 75 trained personnel and can service over 5,500 vehicles per annum.
Mr Zac Hollis, Brand Director, ŠKODA AUTO India, said, "To ensure preparedness for INDIA 2.0 launches, we at ŠKODA AUTO India are continually striving to expand our network reach, across the nation, so that not only more and more customers can experience our products but also enjoy easy access to our customer-centric aftersales solutions."
He further added, "Bangalore is a key market for us in South India, and we are confident that our partnership with PPS Motors will be pivotal for the brand and will further strengthen our foothold in Karnataka."
Mr Rajiv Sanghvi, Dealer Principal, PPS Motors Private Limited, said, "We are delighted to partner with ŠKODA AUTO India and introduce a new dealership facility in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The modern architecture and streamlined business processes will provide the ideal backdrop for the presentation of ŠKODA AUTO products."
The company also announced that it has successfully rebranded its entire network of 83 sales and 58 service touchpoints across 69 cities in India. The automakers invested over Rs 1.200 million, along with its dealer partners, in the biggest rebranding campaign in its history in the country.
Thoughts About The Skoda's New State-Of-The-Art Dealership Facility In Bangalore
The new Skoda facility opened in Bangalore will follow the brand's new design. It will feature high-quality materials, new design, effective lighting solutions, architectural graphic elements, and warm wooden tones create an inviting atmosphere. All in all, it will provide the best possible experience for existing and potential customers.


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The results show that 44% of respondents trust to leave data with Apple, compared to 48% for Google and 53% for Amazon.
The Washington Post survey drew attention to the disconnect felt by many consumers between the companies they trust and the products they use.
The report highlights how most Americans use iPhones and iPads, shop on Amazon, and spend hours on Facebook and TikTok. Despite this, these companies barely achieve 50% of consumer confidence. This means that the average user does not trust the companies or the people who manage them when it comes to privacy, but cannot help but use their products.
Many responded that they couldn’t avoid using certain devices or services, despite some doubts about how companies use data. As for Apple, 44% of those polled said they trusted the company, while 40% said no. And 16% provided no response.


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Fornova’s top 6 hotel blogs of 2020
Even though last year was challenging for everyone, we learned lots of important things to help us with the recovery of travel and hospitality. Based on our traffic data, in case you missed any of the insights, here are our most popular blogs of 2020:
1. Why the COVID crisis will increase Google’s dominance in the hospitality industry
Before we knew the devastating impact coronavirus would have, our CEO Dori Stein touched on the rise of Google as an online travel agency (OTA) but without the service and now, as we look to the ‘new normal’ it’s likely Google’s dominance will step up a gear.
2. Will your hotel rate shopper give you the edge in the race to attract post-COVID-19 bookings? Discover the key questions you need to ask now…
As COVID-19 restrictions gradually begin to ease in some countries, revenue managers and their colleagues need to hit the ground running if they are to steal an early competitive advantage by winning those all-important bookings and gain market share.
3. Webinar on Competitive Intelligence post-COVID-19
The Coronavirus epidemic brought the entire global travel ecosystem to a standstill and resulted in thousands of hotels being shut down. When demand eventually picks up, there are questions that we thought were worth answering.
4. Hotel Distribution Analytics in a Post-COVID World
Hoteliers grappling with the business impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are faced with a difficult distribution challenge. On the one hand, there is the short-term need for the revenue obtained by putting heads in beds; this is the lifeblood that keeps staffers employed and the lights on. But on the other hand, there are also long-term profits to consider, which often necessitate a more stringent distribution approach.
5. Free hotel cancellation policies are now the new norm
As hotels around the globe do whatever it takes to survive the Covid-19 crisis, a fundamental shift is taking place in hotel cancellation policies with hotels increasingly offering free cancellations in a bid to convert bookings.
6. Hotels need to guard against aggressive country rates campaigns
In the battle to secure those elusive room bookings, online travel agencies (OTAs) and hotels will do almost anything in the current climate to win sales and an unrelenting country rates strategy, also known as point of sale (POS) pricing approach, is a key part of their arsenal.


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Apple released the first Beta version of its iOS 10.2 software to registered developers on Tuesday.
The biggest change that comes with iOS 10.2 is to the popular emoji keyboard, which now has more than 70 new characters.
The new emojis now include an astronaut, a face-palm and the long-anticipated avocado.
New hand images have been introduced including a fingers crossed emoji, and face-palm character.
In the career section, there new emojis include a firefighter, welder, astronaut and even a rockstar.
They all have different genders and races.
The long-standing red-dress dancing woman has also been joined by a male equivalent, wearing a blue suit while pulling disco moves.
This is a step further to ensure equality among Apple's customers.
The delivery date is expected to be mid-November but registered developers have been given access to the Beta version.


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Steamforged Games recently announced a capital investment of £4m from Foresight Group. Those of us who understand the world of mergers, takeovers, and investments understood that a pot of money this sizeable would come with conditions attached. With the huge delay to Dark Souls, the failure to launch of God Tear, and most importantly the huge production problems of Guild Ball in having most of the teams still unavailable for retail purchase, those conditions were likely to include being able to sort of their supply chain issues. Steamforged have done extremely well in taking themselves from being a cottage industry to a strong player in the games market, with franchise deals to produce boardgames of popular video games producing a huge amount of revenue. But trying to do this yourself without a qualified and experienced executive team can be difficult. Spalding, with his extensive CV that includes roles at Hasbro and Dreamworks, may well be exactly the person they need to help advise young CEO Rich Loxam. This strengthens a board that already includes recent addition, and games industry legend, Ian Livingstone.
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EmbodyDNA is a new fitness app with a goal of creating a personalized fitness plan that's tailored using DNA.
Last year, a weight loss feature 'Snap It' could identify foods an individual should avoid by simply snapping a picture of their body. Based on the success of the algorithm, the company 'Lose It' evolved the app to introduce personal genetics in addition to basic calorie tracking.
Users will be asked to provide a saliva sample to 'Helix,' a personal genetics company that partners with 'Lose It.' After a six to eight week analysis, the results will be available through the accompanying app, informing the individual of a history of food patterns that are inhibiting their personal weight loss goals. The app can tell users what type of metabolism they have, what their fitness levels are and detect intolerances to dairy or gluten.


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02 April – 06 April
Business sentiment in Japan dipped in the first quarter this year but the economy is still healthy with companies struggling to find workers.
US equities opened lower on Monday, with pressures from Washington and Beijing leading to losses for consumer stocks.
Amazon shares sank more than 4 per cent in morning trade after Donald Trump took another swipe at the ecommerce company.
UK banks are selling asset-backed securities at the fastest rate in years, with activity set to increase further as the withdrawal of a Bank of England support programme forces lenders to find alternative sources of funding.
Eurozone factory bosses have provided the latest evidence of punctured momentum for manufacturers, pointing to the third successive month of slowing growth in a closely-watched survey.
Huawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist party and the wherewithal to spy and steal intellectual property rights.
The assets in Neil Woodford’s flagship fund have dropped below £7bn for the first time since 2015 because of disappointing returns and a spate of redemptions by investors who have grown frustrated with the UK’s most high-profile portfolio manager.
Tesla has finally broken through some of the production bottlenecks that have been holding back its all-important Model 3, although the rate it is making the cars remains below its own, twice-revised target.
China’s planned retaliation to the string of tariffs imposed by the US hit global markets on Wednesday, knocking everything from Boeing shares to soyabeans, as the spectre of a trade war intensified.
Chinese pharmaceuticals companies jumped on Wednesday after Beijing announced plans to implement preferential tax policies for producers of generic drugs.
Oil has started the second quarter at a crossroads after trading in a narrow range so far in 2018 with the industry split over whether crude can sustain any rise of more than $70 a barrel.
Boeing shares fell 4 per cent on Wednesday after China said it was considering imposing punitive tariffs that could hit some of variants of the US aircraft maker’s biggest selling family of aircraft.
India’s central bank has held its benchmark interest rate steady at 6 per cent as expected, but sharply reduced its predicted inflation rates for the new financial year at its bi-monthly policy meeting.
Babylon, the British digital health start-up that uses artificially intelligent algorithms to assess illness, has struck a deal with Chinese internet giant Tencent to offer its technology on the group’s WeChat social messaging platform.
JM Smucker is beefing up its pet food portfolio with the addition of Ainsworth Pet Nutrition in a deal worth $1.9bn, even as it eyes slimming down its (human) food offerings with a potential sale of its US baking business.
Wall Street powered back from steep morning losses to close firmly in positive territory on Wednesday as initial market panic over the US’s escalating trade spat with China gave way to hopes that the two countries would eventually reach a compromise.
The Trump administration says the ultimate goal of its threatened tariffs on imports from China is to bring back manufacturing jobs in the US. Jason Andringa, who runs an agricultural and construction equipment maker in Iowa, says they could have exactly the opposite effect.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is to launch a range of new funds that exclude firearms manufacturers and retailers following a deadly school shooting in Florida in February.
The Italian government is to buy up to 5 per cent of Telecom Italia, as the battle for control of the former state-owned company intensifies.
Cargill, the world’s largest commodity supplier, has raised the alarm over a potential trade war with China, just as it reported a pick-up in commodity markets.


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Google recently announced that it has purchased BeatThatQuote.com. This is Google’s fourth UK purchase within the past year and they paid £37.7m for the privilege. If you have never used BeatThatQuote.com, think Compare the Market or Go Compare, but on a smaller scale and without the annoying adverts. The founder John Paleomylites should be very happy with the price he achieved, considering it made a loss of £2m last year.
The other three UK purchases which Google made in 2010 are PlinkArt, Phonetic Arts and Simplifymedia. The move into the market of price comparison is an interesting one for Google. It is envisaged that BeatThatQuote.com will continue to run as it is, but its profile will undoubtedly be raised with its tie in with Google. This isn’t the first time John Paleomylites has built up a website from scratch then sold it on. In 2000 he sold JCP for £40m to Sun microsystems.


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Princess Diana ‘brought huge interest’ says Ingrid Seward
Princess Diana was known as one of the most fashionable women in the world back in the '80s and early '90s. The one-time member of the Royal Family would stun at events in the latest designs from French fashion houses including Christian Dior and Chanel, while also promoting homegrown British fashion houses such as Catherine Walker.
However, her style was not admired by everyone, as according to Lady Colin Campbell her “glamorous” attire got her into hot water with the royals.
Speaking in her latest YouTube video, the aristocrat addressed the well-dressed women who had inspired the younger generation of the firm, including Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.
She shared: “Princess Diana, the Queen, Princess Margaret, when they were younger they were ultra-glamorous, if not more so than the Princess Of Wales!
“A word of warning that had to be whispered into Diana’s ear was that she had strayed over the line into hyper glamour and that her clothes had become too important a part of her public image, and she was making the mistake that Marie Antoinette had made."
Princess Diana was known as one of the most fashionable women in the world back in the 80s
Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, during her reign she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending.
Although the former French Queen was a divisive figure in history, many around the world still see Princess Diana as being a fashion icon even today.
When she married Prince Charles aged 20 in 1981, her wardrobe comprised “one long dress, one silk shirt, one smart pair of shoes, and that was it”.
Hence she dashed out to buy “six of everything” in the run-up to the royal wedding.
Quite the admission from the woman who went on to become one of the world’s most enduring style role models.
In the years that followed her fairytale appearance on the steps of St Paul’s in her fabulously OTT wedding dress, designed by the Emanuels, the princess cultivated a contemporary wardrobe that always honoured protocol, but still reflected her personal penchant for prints and pops of colour.
The evening gowns chosen by the princess defined a generation, as she moved through the bold-shouldered ’80s with a growing confidence.
A list of her favourite brands reads like a roll call of the British fashion industry’s leading lights at that time: Catherine Walker (today a staple of the Duchess of Cambridge’s wardrobe), Bellville Sassoon, Victor Edelstein and Donald Campbell.
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In the mid-’90s, by then separated from Prince Charles, Princess Diana began to write her own fashion rules as she embraced international brands, including Dior bags, Chanel suits, Versace evening gowns and Jimmy Choo heels.
As she became known for her humanitarianism she blossomed into the world’s most-photographed woman, travelling the world and making headlines with every hemline.
As time has passed, the princess' off-duty attire has come to be just as influential as her preference for sleek shift dresses and pearl chokers.
Photographs of her leaving the gym, or taking her young sons to school now circulate on Instagram as inspiration for a new generation of fans of the princess’s style.
Her sartorial influence has been such that her daughter-in-laws Kate and Meghan often pay tribute to her in subtle ways.
Meghan wore Diana’s ring on the evening of her wedding night, and just like Kate, she had Diana’s blue ribbon sewn in her wedding dress.
Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cambridge’s maternity dress was also a touching tribute to Diana.
Sadly the Princess Of Wales died in a car crash with her rumoured boyfriend Dodi Fayed while in Paris on 31 August 1997.
Though the posted speed limit was 30 mph, the driver, Henri Paul, reportedly approached the entrance of a road tunnel at Paris's Pont de l'Alma driving at approximately 70 mph. According to reports, Paul lost control of the car and collided into a pillar in the middle of the highway.
Paul and Dodi were pronounced dead at the scene.


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– Announce Bharat-2 Ultra, to be available from November 2017 onwards
– Enjoy Vodafone SuperNet 4G on Micromax Bharat2 Ultra
Mumbai, October 24, 2017– Vodafone, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers and Micromax, the foremost Indian mobile brand, today announced the launch of India’s lowest priced 4G Smartphone with Vodafone SuperNet 4G connection for just Rs.999/-.
With a combined vision of accelerating the growth of data adoption, Vodafone and Micromax will work collaboratively to introduce the best consumer mobile experience. The smartphone ‘Bharat2 Ultra’ is a new smartphone under Micromax’s successful 4G smartphone ‘Bharat series’ that aims to bring better camera, battery and display options for the new smartphone users in the most affordable category.
Under this partnership, the existing and new Vodafone customers will have to buy Micromax Bharat-2 Ultra smartphone priced at Rs.2,899/- and will have to simply do a recharge of at least Rs 150/- per month for 36 months.(The recharges can be of any denomination totaling to a minimum of Rs. 150/- per month.) At the end of 18 months, users will receive a cash back of Rs. 900/- and after another 18 months, a cash back of Rs. 1,000/- respectively, in their Vodafone M-Pesa wallets, enabling them to transact digitally or withdraw cash, as per their convenience.
Commented Mr. Rahul Sharma, Co-founder, Micromax, “The Bharat-Series, has been aimed for acquisition of the first generation smartphone users. This partnership with Vodafone will help bring in the next phase of smartphone adoption by hand-holding consumers to upgrade them from feature phones to smartphones. We believe that greater device affordability and low cost data packs will drive increased smartphone adoption, as there is still a huge gap. At Micromax we want to give superior device experience in an affordable way and Bharat range is a testimony of the same, having already sold more than 2 million handsets.”
Speaking about this offer, Avneesh Khosla, Associate Director – Consumer Business, Vodafone India said, “We are delighted to partner with Micromax to democratize the 4G smart phones at a never before price of under Rs. 999/-This will help fulfill the aspirations of several million phone users across the country who desire a smart phone but couldn’t afford one. It will also encourage current non users of 4G to upgrade and enjoy a richer user experience with Vodafone SuperNet 4G.”
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Updated: Apr 18, 2020
The ongoing recall of airbag inflators that could explode and injure riders has added another 1.7 million vehicles to its list, from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Subaru, Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler Vans, Mercedes, and Ferrari were all included in the latest recall from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Friday morning. The recall is part of a larger recall of Takata airbags, which can hurl shrapnel if they explode after deteriorating over time due to heat and humidity. The issue has resulted in at least 23 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The list of new recalls is a long one and drivers are encouraged to go to the NHTSA website and enter their vehicle identification number to see if their car is affected. But here’s a top line rundown of how dramatically the various automakers are affected by the latest round:
The company is recalling 826,144 vehicles, including various Forester, Legacy, and Outback models from 2010 to 2014.
Some 288,779 vehicles from model years 2010 to 2017 are affected.
The German automaker is recalling 119,394 vehicles, including Audi and Passat models from 2015 to 2017.
Just over 266,000 vehicles from the model years 2000 to 2004 and 2007 to 2015 are being recalled.
Another 159,689 vehicles made between 2015 to 2017 are included.
Got a Model S from 2014 to 2016? It could be one of the 68,763 vehicles recalled from the company.
The high-end auto manufacturers is recalling 11,176 cars, from a variety models from the 2014 to 2018 model years.
The Takata recall is one of the largest in U.S. history and is being phased with automakers. Last September, Honda and Acura recalled 1.4 million vehicles for the issue and in December, Toyota and Lexus recalled 65,000 vehicles. Ford has previously agreed to pay $300 million to settle consumers’ economic loss claims connected to the Takata recall.
According to the NHTSA, there are 50 million defective Takata airbags in 37 million U.S. vehicles.


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Great wars can be fought over food, and it isn’t restricted to Biryani or Pizza anymore. Comfy and humble foods too have ardent fans and you shouldn’t mess with them, at least on the Internet. Recently, British daily The Guardian wrote an article on jackfruit and how the fruit has become a “vegan sensation”. The article written by Zoe Williams went viral but not for the reasons the author would have liked, as it angered jackfruit-loving people not only from India but also from many parts South-East Asia, where it is enjoyed a lot.
Writing about the national fruit of Bangladesh and state fruit of Kerala, the writer in her article wrote, “The Indian fruit used to be left to rot on the tree, but has become a fashionable meat substitute.” The statement triggered a negative response from desi ‘chakka’ and ‘kathal’ lovers as they argued, the fruit is consumed widely by Indians in both its raw and ripe condition. Also highlighting how the fruit is not exclusive to just India but is widely available and consumed by many other tropical countries.
“A spectacularly ugly, smelly, unfarmed, unharvested pest-plant native to India,” the article continued to describe the tropical fruit which many saw as a slander. “Some people ate it, but only if they had nothing better to eat,” the article read.
As the writer tried to highlight how jackfruit became a hit meat substitute among vegans only in 2017 and many international brands like Starbucks used it in their vegan wraps, many highlighted how it has forever been compared to taste like meat and even has a name, gachh pantha (lamb of the tree) at least in Bengal.
While some questioned the research that went in writing the article, others dubbed it as “food racism” online, slamming the newspaper and its writer. Many also wondered why it isn’t a thing until discovered by the western world and blasted the writer for her “colonial hangover.
This isn’t just offensive it’s… spectacularly ignorant? Like, how culturally unaware do you have to be to write an article like this?? https://t.co/lqixANo58V
— Nuri Tal (@CastNuri) March 30, 2019
Why is it that only if the Western world says ‘yes’ then it’s acceptable/fashionable food? It’s an insult to the people who eat jackfruit/ackee etc to be told these are weird. Totally disrespectful article @guardian Please get someone authentic to write about these foods. https://t.co/5p1aOB6kP3
— Susmita Bhattacharya (@Susmitatweets) March 30, 2019
Hey @zoesqwilliams your story in the guardian is bullshit.. without any basis you’ve claimed that Jackfruit rots on trees in India.. have you even BEEN to India? Doubt it !!
— #Chowkidar Rammohan B Alurkar 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 (@RammohanAlurkar) March 30, 2019
@zoesqwilliams told my Bengali mum about your jackfruit article. She was not happy. She said the writer needs to go and talk to an Indian or Bengali grandma. We make chutneys, biryani, feed it to the cows, you can eat the blossoms with salt and pepper and tamarind
— S (@scootinby) March 30, 2019
“Pinterest named it as one of the hottest food trends in 2017”
I am so over these western “food trends”. EVERY single one of them have been around for CENTURIES and are staples in many non-western diets. https://t.co/RAv4S4dT6r
— Iman (@peakiman) March 30, 2019
.@zoesqwilliams your @guardian article about Jackfruit is uneducated and racist. Jackfruit has for example been used in Indonesian cuisine (Gudeg) for many, many years. Your claims about its status 5 years ago are 100% bullshit. @guardian you should delete this article, its false
— Dave (@the_bitter_end) March 30, 2019
White people ran out of countries to colonise, so now they’re colonising our fruit https://t.co/vcJqH0OFE6
— ꦲꦶꦏ꧀ꦩꦃ (@hikkuT) March 30, 2019
There is literally a jackfruit tree growing in the backyard of my childhood home, and probs a ton of SEAsian homes as well. SEAsian vegans also have been using jackfruit as a meat sub since the movt started in this region. White people are so tiring honestly?? https://t.co/DJGquYVGFd
— 🌿 tita niyong lahat 🌿 (@yourtitakate) March 30, 2019
Y’all we have DIFFERENT preparations of DIFFERENT stages of the jackfruit in Bengali cuisine. Let me go back home to my cookbook/notes but off the top of my head, kathal bichir jhol, the seeds in a soup. Echorer dalna, the fruit in a curry. This is making me personally offended.
— Pratiti (@DebPratiti) March 29, 2019
This article is written from a completely western and white perspective and shows a clear lack of understanding of food journalism. Zoe’s first encounter of Jackfruit was in @Starbucks, which is not her fault but is she really the right person to be commissioned to write this?
— Katrina (@katrinamirpuri) March 29, 2019
@guardian @zoesqwilliams I suggest you look up Arthur V. Dias and his Jackfruit campaign in Sri Lanka (1918). I don’t really know what people in Kerala were doing, but I assure you that Jackfruit has been a staple part of Sri Lankan diet for well over a century.
— Nisansa de Silva (@NisansaDdS) March 29, 2019
Really? @guardian @zoesqwilliams Just because the West has discovered it doesn’t mean it wasn’t eaten (and relished) before. And no: a food item doesn’t win the lottery just because it’s now trendy in London #colonialhangover https://t.co/R8QpW9qDeZ pic.twitter.com/VPAJzUcRcu
— Priyanka (@priyankalind) March 28, 2019
— Dilini Algama (@dilinialgama) March 28, 2019
@jackfruit the ubiquitous ‘chakka’. I remember in Kerala , starting summer this vegetable /fruit found its way into every dish that you had to run mile to avoid getting it in your plate .Every part was food, unripe ripe, pericarp, seed ,pulp, chammini…
— sarath chandran (@pockyarsarat) March 28, 2019
75% thrown away? Who told you this and whats the source? In kerala, ripe jackfruit is prime product and there a dozen varieties of it.Some are eatem raw, some cooked. We dont even spare the seeds! Im from kerala..
— Rohit രോഹിത് (@rohit24r) March 29, 2019
And while we’re at it, can we stop pretending that we vegans discovered or have “levelled” up food items like jackfruit, tofu, or banana blossom which have been integral part of culinary cuisines for c e n t u r i e s
— John (@jjsvegankitchen) March 29, 2019
The @guardian seems to have enraged many Indians about jackfruit.
In West Bengal it’s well loved and known as ‘gacher patta’ (lamb of the tree).
But I’m not sure I’d personally go to war over it. Though am happy to watch from a bunker …
— Saptarshi Ray (@Saptarshi_Ray) March 29, 2019
The article suggested three ways to eat the fruit — stewed to make “pulled jackfruit”, as fried patty burger and as “base mulch” like toppings for tacos. Now, people who have been consuming it for ages want to teach the writer the right way to have it — the traditional way.
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Marc O’Brien is the former CEO of Visa UK. He is joining a new startup crypterium. The new startup is to ensure that people can spend crypto in an occurrence of every day. Marc O’Brien led Visa Ireland and the UK from the year 2008 to 2014. He is joining crypterium as CEO.
Last year the startup incorporated in Estonia. It raised a total of $52 million at the end of the last year through ICO. ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering.
About the startup crypterium and how will it be helpful
A group of entrepreneurs found this startup. The main motive of the startup crypterium is to make it easy for paying with cryptocurrency. According to Marc O’Brien, this must be easy to pay in an everyday situation like the bitcoins. In recent days it is difficult to use cryptocurrency as an everyday payment method.
Now for exchanging the money of bitcoins through normal bank account takes 3 to 7 days. What will be the job of startup crypterium now is the main question. It will serve the normal people with the seamless process.
The startup crypterium will also create an opportunity for the consumer to pay for everyday items. Sheffield Haworth is the executive recruiter. He searched and hired Marc 0’Brien. According to Marc O’Brien, they are basically searching for financial services team which is having experience.
The main motive of the startup crypterium
Now the crypterium is hoping to partner either Mastercard or Visa. This partnership will help them in launching virtual cards or cryptocurrency cards. According to Marc O’Brien, the virtual card will be having a link with the wallet. While transactions the card will receive a request in their system. After checking that the bitcoin account is having sufficient balance they will allow the transactions through it.
This will take place within few seconds. They are basically looking forward to making it a global operated business. The startup crypterium is taking the advice of the top level to structure themselves. They will launch this in US, Singapore, Latin America along with an appropriate and right license.
There is a team of 3 people of crypterium in London. In Moscow, the team constitutes 10 people. According to Marc O’Brien, they are considering this as offices in Singapore, New York and Miami. They are hoping to launch their first products by autumn.


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A recent study published in JAMA Network Open suggests biologics filgrastim, pegfilgrastim, infliximab and insulin glargine all saw their prices drop in response to biosimilar competition.
The study by University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy’s Alvaro San-Juan-Rodriguez et al. analyzed pricing data from SSR Health, according to a Healio report.
“Biosimilar prices are estimated to be 15% to 16% lower than originator products, but it is unclear how list prices, net prices and discounts for the originator products change with biosimilar competition,” the researchers wrote.
To read more on Healio, click here.


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At right, CeBIT Australia 2016
Taking on business technology’s biggest issues, CeBIT Australia will host six strategic panels, facilitating a dynamic conversation between Australia’s brightest business minds, 23 – 25 May 2017 at ICC Sydney.
A CEO panel will offer advice on how to lead high performance organizations, moderated by Tim Reed, Chairman, Innovation Task Force, Business Council of Australia, the panel will include Pip Marlow, Managing Director, Microsoft; Kate Burleigh, Managing Director, Intel Australia New Zealand; Ray Pittman, President & CEO – Australia & New Zealand, CBRE and Geoff Culbert, President & CEO, GE Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, plus more.
The Women in Technology panel will discuss how to improve accessibility, participation and leadership with Kerri Lee Sinclair, Innovation Expert & Board Member, Springboard Enterprises Australia; Jo Burston, CEO & Founder, Job Capital and Inspiring Rare Birds; Julie Canepa, Head of IT Australia & New Zealand, Cisco, plus more.
Chaired by Amy Mullins, Executive Director, Women’s Leadership Institute Australia, the panel will outline how companies can better support women to achieve their technology career aspirations, how to attract and retain a greater proportion of female technology professionals and the importance of fostering female talent.
Panellist and CEO of Job Capital and Inspiring Rare Birds, Jo Burston is passionate about the diversity issues which continue to challenge the technology industry, and commented on the issue ahead of her appearance on the panel next May.
“We are constantly reminded that many areas of ICT are facing a skills shortage, yet the percentage of women in technology is disproportionately low at all levels. There needs to be a shake-up and we want to look at how the industry can help facilitate this change,” said Burston.
Key to the future success of the Australian technology industry is the aspiration and engagement of the next generation with STEM skills, which will be addressed at The Next Generation Technologists panel, chaired by Kylie Walker, Co-Chair, National Research and Innovation Alliance and CEO, Science & Technology Australia. Panellists Alan Noble, Head of Engineering, Google Australia and New Zealand; Kelly Tagalan, General Manager, Code Club Australia and Solange Cunin, Founder & CEO, Cuberider will talk about how to support foundation STEM skills to reduce future industry skill shortages and outline lessons from technology start-ups on how to recognise and attract the best and brightest future leaders.
Moderator and CEO of Science & Technology Australia, Kylie Walker, recognizes the development of STEM skills at the grassroots of the Australian education system is key to unlocking future innovative thinking.
“Developing and fostering STEM skills in the next generation of Australians is vital if we are to continue to grow our technology and innovation industries. CeBIT Australia will provide a forum for our STEM sector leaders to frankly examine the reality of the skills shortage, and share insights into how we can build a bright future for Australian science and technology,” said Walker.
The SME Business Growth panel will discuss how to streamline and grow business with the aid of technology. Providing helpful tips on how to pick your way through the technology minefield while also assessing the risks and benefits involved, the panellists will cover a variety of topics including how to best spend your digital dollar, how to acquire customers and which tools to consider, to help run an effective business and mitigate cyber risk. Panellists will include Nicola Mills, Group Managing Director, Pacific Retail Management; Vasko Ckorovski, Chief Technology Officer, Temple & Webster and Tim Fung, Co-founder and CEO, Airtasker.
The CIO panel will feature Paul Russell, CIO/CTO, Yahoo7; Angela Donohoe, CIO, Bpay and Angela Coble, Director Business Technology (CIO) Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson who will debate how CIOs accelerate business growth and innovation to reshape agile and sustainable digital organisations. The Innovators panel with Brett Adam, MD & VP Engineering, Zendesk and Mark Cripsey, Chief Digital and Data Officer, Myer who hold innovation as a core principle, and will outline how technology driven innovation will deliver significant value.
The Strategic Panels are free to attend and will feature 45 of Australasia’s leading business and technology leaders sharing insights on the primary challenges and opportunities that the sector faces, at CeBIT Australia, 23 – 25 May 2017 at the International Convention Centre Sydney, Darling Harbour.
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We are delighted to announce that we have launched a new printing company – Print Kent.
Over the past couple of years we have seen huge growth in print, and it is for this reason that Print Kent was formed. Its creation indicates significant growth for the company, and we will now offer quality digital printing work at unbeatable prices.
From shiny new business cards to eye-catching flyers; roll-up banners to company brochures – Print Kent has it covered with an extensive range of print services. There are already over 1,000 products available on the website, while free next day delivery is also available.
The launch of Print Kent signals exciting times.
Due to our market-leading prices and quick turnarounds, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for our print services. Now is a great time for growth and we are responding to this by launching Print Kent.
Our aim was to offer an all-round print solution for customers, so we invested in a new website, a new dedicated service manager and the latest print technology. We’re delighted to announce that Print Kent is now up and running and is fully operational.
Print Kent boasts the very latest print technology after investing in new, state-of-the-art digital inkjet presses from Hewlett Packard.
We’re always looking out for new technology to help improve speed, quality and efficiency for our print clients.
The launch of Print Kent marks a successful couple of years for Fusion Media. We were recently awarded two awards – ‘Best Full-Service Marketing & Corporate Communications Agency in Kent’ and ‘Kent’s Most Reputable Marketing & Communications Agency.’
We have also been nominated for two international marketing awards following our highly praised work on SALTEX, Europe’s largest grounds management show, which takes place at the NEC in Birmingham. The winners will be announced in the new year.
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Cruise Ship Illness Still Cause for Concern
Journey Owl advise that cruise ship illness is still a serious problem in 2014
May 17, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Journey Owl is a leading UK personal injury and holiday sickness claims company that provides their customers with expert assistance on daily basis. This expert team are focussed on providing customers with the highest level of service and they have helped hundreds of customers get the compensation they deserve. The company specialises in a host of claims from holiday illness to cruise ship passenger claims and work injury to personal injury and more. Journey Owl advised that cruise ship illness has been a hot topic for the past year with the outbreak of the norovirus, which left hundreds of passengers ill throughout the world.
This year alone there have already been three incidents of the norovirus, which have affected over three hundred people on two different cruise ships. The first outbreak was aboard the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas where one hundred and five passengers out of three thousand ended up with the norovirus. The week before one hundred and seventeen passengers and crew had the virus.
The third incident was aboard Princess Cruise Crown Princess where one hundred and fifty two passengers out of four thousand contracted the norovirus. A spokesperson from Journey Owl advised the problem is that the norovirus is highly infectious. It starts out in contaminated food and water and soon passes from person to person. "The problem is that when aboard a cruise ship you have thousands of people in a small space, the virus is able to spread with ease." The norovirus leaves its patients with inflamed stomachs, severe pain, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting. Journey Owl advised that the number of cruise ship illness claims have skyrocketed in the past year as cruise ships scramble to try and contain this infectious virus. Many of them have had the ships deep cleaned by independent cleaning companies and yet the disease continues to break out while the ship is at sea.The company advised that even the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) has been involved, ensuring procedures are put in place to reduce the risk of the disease spreading.Journey Owl have already handled a large number of claims in the past few months from passengers who arrive home too ill to work, losing income and finding themselves bed ridden due to ill health caused by this disease.
About Us: Journey Owl is a team of experts who deal with personal injury claims, work accident claims and holiday sickness claims. The company has years of experience in the industry and has helped hundreds of people with their claims, awarding them thousands in compensation. Journey Owl is a UK based company that focus on high levels of customer service. The dedicated team offer all customers the best service and help them every step of the way to help them win the compensation they deserve. To find out more or to find out how to file a claim, visit their website at http://journeyowl.com.


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The call they had been waiting for came through at a bad time: “Kelly Wearstler is coming.” Scaffolding cluttered the sidewalk and the windows were boarded up with plywood. It was a particularly rainy September in Los Angeles, and wind howled into the showroom. Gary Christensen, director of Mehraban Rugs, had been trying for months to get the superstar designer to swing by, and she had chosen to come in the midst of a renovation of the showroom’s facade. There was little time to appreciate the irony. “She’ll be there in 20 minutes.”
When Sammy and Soheil Mehraban decided to overhaul the exterior of their rug showroom, it felt deep. The brothers had been in the same spot on La Cienega for 27 years. It was the place where their third-generation family business—purveying Persian rugs and custom carpets—had flourished. The building was a point of pride, the anchor of a uniquely American success story: The family emigrated from Iran, established the business in a new design community, and purchased a two-story structure in one of the biggest cities in the country. The Mehraban name was displayed prominently on the dusty pink granite exterior.
“[Renovating] was a very big decision,” Soheil Mehraban tells Business of Home. “We had a lot of emotional connection to the old facade, having done business under this roof for years. My tears came when they took down the arched window. Our father loved the old building. I’m also a firm believer in the power of change. Change is necessary. So, we changed.”
People pay attention when a new design showroom opens (or closes mysteriously). Mostly we reserve judgment for the interiors, sizing up an environment like produce at the farmers market. Especially in cities like New York or Chicago, where space is at a premium, it’s not unusual to find a showroom on the second or third floor, making a visit an act of premeditation rather than discovery. But in Los Angeles, the outside matters. Here, some design brands have seen a storefront face-lift lead to a noticeable uptick in business.
Mehraban’s new glass-and-steel facade is in league with the sleek, modernist look of a gallery with expansive windows and natural light. Their recent cosmetic upgrade has made a remarkable impact on the company—and not only in sales. The refresh also cemented a shift in the company’s aesthetic evolution: For a while, Mehraban had been moving in a modern direction, with a focus on California creatives. “Some of the best design in the world is being done here in Los Angeles, and it goes all the way back to Charles and Ray Eames, and their iconic pieces,” says Christensen. “And we really need to own that, so we said, ‘Let’s have everything designed in L.A.—our work is totally different than what anybody else is doing.”
The renovation paid off. And the process wasn’t as painful as it could have been: Wearstler saw past the chaos and placed a major order with Mehraban: rugs for her buzzy new hotel, Proper, launching in Santa Monica. One hitch: They needed to be done in two months. Mehraban hustled to make the deadline, coming up for air in April just as Legends of La Cienega was revving up. San Francisco–based designer Gary Hutton and Dallas–based Chad Dorsey designed Merhaban’s windows on their big debut. “I said to Sammy and Soheil, ‘We're ready to receive the world,” says Christensen. “And there's going to be an expectation that we live up to this facade. We can deliver.”
The $1-million-dollar renovation attracted instant attention. After the team installed artist Liesel Plambeck’s cashmere and silk Year of the Snake rug in the window, calls flooded in. One was from celebrity photographer Cliff Watts. Longtime clients started checking in. Designers sent messages asking about the rugs they saw displayed while driving by. “Everybody is taking our appointments where they weren't necessarily before, and people are taking our calls more,” says Christensen. Mehraban has been so busy, the company has hired one new person a month since finishing the remodel in April.
The exterior has also become a new selfie destination: so many people have been taking pictures, the company created a hashtag and custom barcode that links the website. “I think that it's redefining the sense of who we are,” Christensen says of the update.


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The next-generation Maruti Alto will be based on the new HEARTECT platform.
It is no secret that Maruti Suzuki is working on the next-generation Alto hatchback. The company has already started testing the new Alto on Indian roads. A new media reports claim that the new Maruti Alto is likely to be launched in June or July 2019. The report further claims that Maruti Suzuki has stopped production of the current Alto 800 hatchback in India.
Maruti Suzuki had launched the Alto hatchback in September 2000 in India. The new safety and crash test norms will come into effect by October 2019. The upcoming crash test norms will include full frontal impact, off-set front and side impact tests. Adding to it, the government will bring the stringent BSVI emission norms by April 2020. All these have forced the automakers to upgrade their existing models. In fact, number of cars will be discontinued from the market before the end of this year. Read – 5 Big Changes Expected in New-Gen Maruti Suzuki Alto
The outgoing Maruti Alto won’t meet the upcoming safety and crash test norms. It is expected that the new-generation model will be based on the new HEARTECT platform that also underpins the Wagon R hatchback. What’s interesting is that the report claims that the next-gen Alto will only be available with a 1.0-litre petrol engine options. Also See – Tata plans to launch a new small hatch to rival Kwid and Alto
It will be called the Maruti Alto K10 and will rival the likes of Renault Kwid and Hyundai Santro. The new model will have a SUV-ish styling and is expected to be inspired by the Concept Future S unveiled at the 2018 Delhi Auto Expo. The next-gen Alto will grow in size and will offer more space inside the cabin. It will also receive a major bump in price. Previous media reports also claim that the new model could receive the new 666cc, 3-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, which is more powerful than the 800cc engine.
Video – Maruti Vitara Brezza Long Term Review
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Analytics-IQ Launches Email-IQ(TM): Predictive Technology Solution for Email Marketers
ATLANTA, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Analytics-IQ, Inc., a leading provider of predictive solutions for the marketing industry, today launched Email-IQ(TM), the industry’s most innovative tool that verifies and scores email addresses to boost delivery and open rates.
Designed by industry experts to provide the ultimate vehicle in performing targeted email tasks, Email-IQ goes far beyond traditional email verification tools in the market today. The solution uses analytics to allow marketers to easily identify who is most likely to receive and open emails, and then send their messages to a highly targeted audience.
“With email being the most cost-effective method to reach customers and prospects, you need a system that does more than simply validate email addresses,” said Dave Kelly, CEO of Analytics-IQ. “That’s where Email-IQ steps in. We’ve built a solution using a sophisticated analytical engine combined with historical and behavioral data to drive better email performance and ultimately improve marketers’ reputation scores.”
Through a private beta offering conducted earlier this year, Analytics-IQ found that the average Email-IQ user experienced increased delivery rates by 30 percent, and increased open rates by as much as 200 percent.
How It Works
Marketers can simply upload an email address file to the Email-IQ system, and within moments, Email-IQ will validate each email address using the latest in SMTP (“ping”) technology to accurately verify an email address is open for business. Email-IQ then checks the email database against more than 360 million bad addresses including historical bounces, opt-outs, spam traps, complainers and deceased individuals.
What sets Email-IQ apart from other email delivery solutions is the ability to predict the likelihood of each recipient actually receiving and opening the email and viewing the content using a proprietary analytical engine and uniquely relevant data. Email-IQ applies a score of 1 to 5 to each address for its deliverability and open propensity. Marketers can quickly suppress lower ranking addresses and target those with higher scores.
On top of scoring, Email-IQ provides the richest enhancement data from Analytics-IQ from over 100 distinct demographic and psychographic sources, enabling marketers to see the type of individual behind the email address, and build even more accurate profiles.
“We realize there is no silver bullet with email,” added Kelly. “Many providers offer ping (server handshake) technology. Our differentiator is leveraging a large historical file combined with proprietary technology to improve email deliverability and open rates.”
Founded in 2006, Analytics-IQ provides businesses with a fresh approach to marketing analytics and modeling. The company offers a full suite of custom analytical services, including response and risk modeling. Marketing solutions from Analytics-IQ are based on the company’s proprietary segmentation tools and database that consists of 1,500+ demographic, psychographic, attitudinal, and econometric attributes.
Analytics-IQ is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit www.analytics-iq.com.
Email-IQ from Analytics-IQ is the industry’s most targeted email analysis solution that verifies and scores email addresses to boost delivery and open rates. With Email-IQ, marketers can immediately identify who is most likely to receive and open emails. Going far beyond a simple email verification tool, Email-IQ was developed by industry experts in marketing analytics as a fast, easy solution that helps email marketers maximize delivery and open rates.
For more information, visit www.email-iq.com.
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Whether you find this particular feature useful or not, fingerprint scanners on smartphones are here to stay, at least until a company replaces them with a new technology (perhaps Samsung with its alleged iris scanner tech?). In any case, some of the most recent flagship smartphones take advantage of fingerprint scanning technology, including the iPhone 5S, the HTC One max and the most recent Pantech Vega Secret line-up. Surprisingly enough, both Samsung and LG have failed to introduce this type of tech in their latest high-end smartphones, but both Korean giants are bound to catch up.
Today we’ve stumbled across new reports indicating that the LG is working on introducing a fingerprint sensor on two of its upcoming devices – the LG G3 and the G2 Pro. More details after the break.
LG to Adopt a Fingerprint Sensor for the G3 and G2 Pro
According to the Korean Media, LG will incorporate fingerprint recognition technology in at least two of its upcoming devices: the LG G2 Pro phablet, and of course, the LG G3. As to where will the fingerprint sensor be located, the report says that it will likely be found on the back of the handset, which kind of is to be expected, given that the G2 introduced the back located volume and power controls.
Allegedly, LG was initially planning on fitting the G2 with such a sensor, but due to the lengthy development process and low yield, the Korean company had to delay the introduction of its fingerprint scanning technology. Sounds rather familiar, doesn’t it?
Yup, Samsung was originally planning on fitting the Note 3 with a sensor as well, but had to push it back due to production issues.
In any case, based on the most recent rumors, LG is expected to release the G3 in May, whereas the G2 Pro should hit the shelves even earlier than that. Until then, feel free to share your thoughts below. What’s your take on the presence of fingerprint scanners on a smartphone?


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In cities with professional hockey teams, it seems that the only thing on ice these days is sales — at least at the bars, restaurants and other small businesses that cater to sports fans. Business at the Great Waters Brewing Co., a brewpub located near the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn., is down 20 percent since the start of the lockout. For owner Sean O'Byrne, it's a painful reminder of the 2004-05 lockout that wiped out the entire NHL season. "The economic times are different now, and I think the one thing that's become apparent to me is the sort of ripple effect the hockey strike has," he says.


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Producer Geoff Keighley Teases "10 World Premieres" Scheduled for The Game Awards 2015
Following last year’s successful debut of the new annual awards show, producer and gaming personality Geoff Keighley is ramping up the excitement for next week’s upcoming The Game Awards 2015, and along with it brought some new teases at new reveals that will occur at the event.
Keighley teased through Twitter that next week’s The Game Awards 2015 will provide “10 world premieres” over the course of the evening, alongside 10 on-stage awards that will be handed out during the event.
The exact definition of “world premiere” may be a little loose, as it may not necessarily be 10 world-premiere game announcements, but also new trailers for previously-announced games, demos, etc. We’ll just have to wait and see, however, for what Keighley and company have in store for The Game Awards next week.
The Game Awards 2015 will air on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 from Los Angeles, CA.
10 world premieres. 10 on-stage awards. @thegameawards 2015 next Thursday night live.
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Buzz for Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid is heating up as the movie hits theaters May 26. Now, details have also been released about the highly-anticipated Little Mermaid soundtrack, which fans can now pre-order online.
The 2023 Little Mermaid soundtrack features all the memorable songs from the original 1989 animated film, plus four new original songs composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken (who wrote the original Oscar-winning score). Original lyricist Howard Ashman (who passed away in 1991) is also credited on the new release.
Halle Bailey’s rendition of “Part of Your World” (as Ariel), was issued as the lead single from the project, and the new Little Mermaid soundtrack will also feature favorites like “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl” (with revamped lyrics) and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” sung by Melissa McCarthy’s Ursula.
In addition to Bailey and McCarthy, the star-studded cast includes Javier Bardem as King Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian and Awkwafina as Scuttle.
In a recent interview with Variety, Miranda teased a couple of the new songs for the live-action film, including “For the First Time,” which is sung by Ariel when she sets foot on land — yes — for the first time. Diggs and Awkwafina also perform a rap song titled “The Scuttlebutt.”
Want to listen to the new Little Mermaid soundtrack? Stream Halle Bailey’s “Part of Your World” and all the other songs for free through Amazon Music Unlimited. The streaming service is currently offering a 30-day free trial that will let you stream The Little Mermaid live action soundtrack online free, in addition to millions of other songs and albums.
The Little Mermaid soundtrack comes on the heels of Bailey’s official Little Mermaid doll, which was released earlier this month and became an instant best-seller online. The Disney store has also released a collection of official Little Mermaid merch, which you can shop here.


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The consortium behind a new €2bn town centre planned for Bray, Co Wicklow, has been granted planning permission for the development of a discount foodstore on part of the Industrial Yarns site in the town.
Both Aldi and Lidl were in a bidding war to buy the site from the consortium, which comprised the Kelly, McCormack and Flynn development families, the Newlyn Group, Durkan New Homes and Pierse. Paddy Kelly and Pierse have since had well-publicised financial difficulties.
The consortium bought the 62-acre former Bray Golf Club and the adjoining Industrial Yarns site from Dwyer Nolan for almost €90m in 2003.
The consortium is hoping to attract Dunnes Stores as an anchor tenant for the main shopping centre and also plans to develop an eight-screen cinema, a hotel, apartments and offices, in a scheme that had been promoted as a rival to the Dundrum Town Centre. Planning permission for that element of the scheme was granted last year subject to conditions.


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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Cosmose AI, a Shanghai-based analytics software provider that anticipates how people shop offline, raises $12M seed led by TDJ Pitango and OTB Ventures — Keeping abreast of shopping trends online is straightforward enough — whole categories of startups achieve this with predictive modeling.
Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; sources: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag after a major investment under two years ago — KEY POINTS — SoftBank is selling its stake back to Wag after investing in the struggling dog-walking start-up more than two years ago, sources say.
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week — Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic. — 3 with 3 posters participating
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The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers — Verizon says the archivists it has blocked breached its terms of service. — Verizon, which bought Yahoo In 2017 …
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Education software company Instructure says it is being acquired for $47.60 per share or ~$2B by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo — Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo …
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Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead — Back on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead. A decade later, the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not recognize it.
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Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos — Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in videos you can then share.
China accounted for nearly half of the global facial recognition business in 2018 per IHS, but it is facing competition from rivals from Japan, US, and Israel — What do Uganda´s police force, a Mongolian prison and Zimbabwean airports have in common? All three are in the process …
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An overview of 5G rollout plans in the US, technical limitations of millimeter-wave, mid-band, and low-band 5G frequencies, the state of 5G hardware, and more — 5G is many things—but the most interesting part is what it will eventually become. — 127 with 80 posters participating
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Nancy Pelosi is pushing to remove language similar to Section 230 from the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which could delay its passage in the House — New opposition from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week left the tech industry at risk of losing a cherished trade deal provision that could help cement its liability shield.


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The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is approaching and the press starts to see all sorts of speculation about some of the brand new handsets Moto G5 Plus, which could get grand launching at the trade expo event in Barcelona. The specifications of the anticipated smartphone are currently leaking on the internet. The only missing from the jigsaw was the price.
The Moto G5 Plus will feature a 5.5 inch full HD Super AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. It is likely powered by a Snapdragon 625 processor paired with Adreno 506 graphics. Notably, the Snapdragon 625 processor has been lately used on a lot of Smartphones including Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and Lenovo P2.
The handset is allegedly packed with 4GB of RAM and it will come with 32GB storage which could be boosted through microSD card. The benchmark tips that the Moto G5 Plus will run Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box.
The smartphone photography specs are excellent. The G5 Plus has said to sport a 13-megapixel rear camera. It is an all new shooter for this generation. For selfies, it could apparently pack a 5-megapixel front camera. Furthermore, the so-called Moto G5 plus has passed through Indonesian certification site claiming the model number Moto XT1685.
It will sport a fingerprint scanner at the front and will have circular camera panel that could be found at the back. The iconic Moto M logo expected right below to the circular Moto G5 Plus camera panel at the back.
The press claimed that the new smartphone will come in a silver color variant. The 3080mAh battery will hopefully keep users going all day. The Moto G5 Plus steps up the game with a fresh new metallic design that looks sleek and smart.
The Moto G5 Plus had significant leak and specs appears to fit of what the consumers expect. Lenovo's upcoming G5 plus Smartphone are widely expecting its revelation at the company's February event.


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Pretend giveaways, private seller scams and countless fake webshops: The amount of online fraud surrounding the PlayStation 5 is evidence of just how scarce this coveted piece of tech still is.
Sadly, gamers still need to be on the lookout for scams when trying to track down a rare PS5, after Sony clearly exceeded its supply after market launch in November.
Months after the PS5 launch, it remains practically impossible to pick up this console in shops due to the ongoing chip shortage on the world market – and gamers are growing more and more desperate.
Cybercrime experts from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) are warning that online fraudsters have long grown wise to the demand and are trying their hardest to exploit this.
One fraud network is currently acting in a particularly brazen manner, putting a number of fake shop pages online that imitate the exact design of Sony’s PlayStation pages to give you the feeling you are ordering a PS5 directly from the manufacturer.
These fake shops are elaborately designed, and only minor spelling mistakes and image details with Cyrillic packaging inscriptions give them away.
Almost all of the sites used by the fraudsters use the phrase “PlayStation” or “PS5” in the internet address, while some also use “Sony” to appear legitimate.
The problem is that once officials shut down a website, the fake shop soon reappears at a new internet address, according to tech news website Heise Online, citing cybersecurity company urlscan.io.
Despite all the warnings to buy PS5 consoles only from established dealers, too many customers are still falling for scams like this, according to the security analysts, and given the ongoing shortage, there appears to be no end in sight. – dpa
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Ten Kens Interviewed On SoundFreak
Ten Kens were interviewed last week by SoundFreak in the build up to the release of their second album ‘For Posterity’. Talking about the new album, their new sound, looking forward to their up-coming shows in Canada and their plans for a US and European tour.
Read the full article here.
‘For Posterity’ is ready for pre-order through the FatCat web store before it’s release on the 6th of September.
The single of the same name is available to purchase today here
Current Canadian tour dates:
03 Sept – Club Lambi, Montreal, Quebec
16 Sept – New Music Fest, Barrie, Ontario
24 Sept – Sneaky Dee’s, Toronto, Ontario
29 Sept – Pop Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
14 Oct – The Rivoli, Indie Week Canada, Toronto
21 Oct – Halifax Pop Explosion, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Forbes magazine has ranked the best midsize companies nationwide and eight located in Connecticut made the grade, based on anonymous surveys with employees.
- #136 Lego Group, Enfield
- #148 ESPN, Bristol
- #173 WR Berkley, Greenwich
- #181 FactSet Research Systems, Greenwich
- #229 Priceline, Norwalk
- #282 Bob's Discount Furniture, Manchester
- #354 Diageo, Norwalk
- #455 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven
Forbes reported that it teamed up with market research company Statista to identify companies liked best by employees with our annual ranking of America’s best employers. Their ranking was divided into two lists: one for the top large companies with more than 5,000 U.S. employees, and another for the top midsize companies with 1,000 to 5,000.
To create the list, which can be found by clicking here, Statista surveyed 30,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. All the surveys were anonymous, allowing participants to openly share their opinions.
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Maruti Suzuki Swift 2018 Facelift launch is around the corner and if sources are to be believed then the company will be showcasing the car at the upcoming Auto Expo in Delhi. The launch will mark the entry of the third generation model of the popular hatchback that has been one of the highest selling models in India.
If the ongoing rumours are true then we believe the company has been able to price the car very competitively undercutting the competition by a huge margin. The new Swift will be offered at 4.75 Lakhs for the base Lxi variant with standard airbags and ABS.
Maruti Suzuki Swift 2018 Facelift To Be More Fuel Efficient Than The Current Model
The third generation of the Maruti Suzuki Swift will bring along a host of changes to the current car. The exterior is completely different and looks sportier than the outselling model. The A-pillar is blacked out in classic Swift style and the headlamps and tail lights are now completely revamped. Coming to the cabin of the 2018 Swift the features and technology are taken utmost care of by Maruti Suzuki.
The infotainment screen on the top end trims will now come with Apple Carplay and Android Auto along with the mirrorlink technology. The steering wheel has a flattened bottom which makes aims to make the handling better than before.
The engine options in the new Maruti Suzuki Swift 2018 Facelift are expected to remain the same as the current model but the 1.0 litre turbo petrol from the Baleno might make its way to the car too. The 1.2-litre petrol and the 1.3-litre DDis Diesel will be retuned and since the car is now built on a lighter platform the car is expected to return a fuel efficiency of 26 Kilometres to a litre. If Maruti Suzuki does decide to bring the Swift in a hybrid avatar this may increase to as much as 32 km/l.
Maruti Suzuki Swift 2018 Facelift Launch Details
Maruti Suzuki is expected to showcase the car at the Auto Expo in Delhi next month and the launch may happen there itself or sometime soon after. Since the company already has a premium hatchback to counter the likes of Elite i20 and the Jazz, the Maruti Suzuki Swift 2018 Facelift will be undercutting the price of the Baleno by a huge margin. Expect the prices of the base variant to start from as low as 4.75 Lakhs in India.


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India's largest private company, Reliance Industries, says it will invest $US30 billion ($A32.46 billion) over three years to finish projects across its sprawling businesses.
Chairman Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, also said the energy giant would start offering high-speed 4G telecommunications services next year as it diversifies into new areas to build revenues.
"The next two years ... will see us focused on executing and progressively bringing these projects on-stream in petrochemicals, refining, retail and Jio," Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday.
"2016-17 will be the first full year in which the complete benefits of all these investments will be available to our shareholders, consumers and the society," he said.
Reliance Jio, the conglomerate's telecoms arm, hopes to launch 4G mobile and broadband services in 2015 in India, one of the world's biggest markets for mobile services adding millions of new consumers each year.
Ambani told shareholders that Reliance was investing around $US12 billion in the telecoms business and the firm should see returns soon.
The owner of the world's largest oil refining complex, Reliance receives most of its revenues from its energy empire but in recent years it has ventured into new businesses.
Its retail arm has also grown to become the country's largest supermarket chain.
Ambani also announced the appointment of his wife, Nita, to the firm's board, after a new law stipulated that listed companies must have a female director. Several top firms have also opted for family members.
Reliance shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange reacted little to the announcements and were down 1.48 per cent at 1073.80 rupees.