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There was a fast recovery in Bitcoin price with the statement that depositors will be safeguarded at the Silicon Valley Bank and the expectation of a 25-basis point rate hike from the Fed on March 22. One of the biggest cryptocurrencies in the world increased 8.7% each day to $ 22,455. In actuality, the price of Bitcoin at the time this article was written was $25,940.83. As a result, it eliminated all losses from the previous week.
How Has the Bitcoin Price Been Affected by the Recent Events?
Gold and cryptocurrency demand soared with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank in the US. Today, cryptocurrencies began to move quickly. Bitcoin climbed to a nine-month high of $26,501. In short, with the SVB crisis under control, the Bitcoin price has skyrocketed.
The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
Traders have been following the events at Silicon Valley Bank in the US with great attention in recent days. The most important reason for this was that Circle, the issuer of USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, had $3.3 billion in reserves at SVB.
Following the SVB’s collapse, concerns about what would happen to this reserve grew, leading to significant sales of USDC. Because of this, USDC failed to maintain its value at $1 as it should have and dropped below $ 0.90 on Saturday. This caused a loss of confidence and sales in the general cryptocurrency market.
However, in response to the SVB problem, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and US Treasury Department intervened. The market volatility stopped after it was revealed that depositors could withdraw their money despite the bankruptcy, which increased the value of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin.
Why is Bitcoin Price on the Rise?
Investors looking for alternate returns have been looking to cryptocurrencies for the past four days. The increase in cryptocurrencies quickened following today’s US inflation statistics. On March 14, US February inflation figures were announced. While inflation was 6% on an annual basis, it was observed as 0.4% on a monthly basis. After the inflation data, sharp rising were recorded in the cryptocurrency exchange. For example, Bitcoin rose to $ 26,386. Thus, the popular coin achieved its highest value in the last nine months.
On the other hand, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said in his presentation to the Senate Banking Committee that the Fed would raise interest rates at a higher rate than expected to rein in inflation. Moreover, Circle recently announced that USDC operations have returned to normal and that it has partnered with Cross River Bank as part of its commitment to expand its banking partners. In light of Circle’s announcement, the value of Bitcoin rose to $ 22,455.
New tendencies that we haven’t seen before are emerging as the crypto sector gets more established. Bitcoin, which was once considered a niche asset, is now behaving more like a traditional asset. Also, it becomes susceptible to the same market factors that impact mainstream markets.
Bitcoin’s price is impacted by changes in the overall state of the economy as well as international events that have an impact on established markets, in addition to news about institutional use and restrictions of cryptocurrencies. For example, global events such as the collapse of Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank have affected the price of Bitcoin.
Even if these events don’t directly affect the price of Bitcoin, they will affect other cryptocurrencies, which in turn will affect Bitcoin. In summary, the last quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 were very volatile for the price of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin.


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Mark Beaver: Sales Director (Baker Perkins Inc)
Mark Beaver has been appointed Sales Director for Baker Perkins Inc. in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He is responsible for sales of the company’s systems and services to producers of cookies and crackers, bread, confectionery, ready-to-eat cereals, snacks and pet food.
Mark was the Business Director for cereal, confectionery and snack systems for Baker Perkins Ltd. in Peterborough, England from 1999 through 2013, and brings broad international experience and in-depth knowledge of the food industry to his new role.
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Geoff Hawley has been appointed Strategic Development Manager for Baker Perkins Ltd. in Peterborough.
Geoff has over 30 years’ experience in the food industry worldwide, including spells as Baker Perkins’ international sales manager for the bakery sector based in the UK, and as sales director of Baker Perkins Inc. at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
His new role encompasses wide-ranging responsibilities including strategic and product development, skills development and mentoring, and key account management.
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28 Jul, 2020
John Keells Foundation (JKF) recently launched a campaign to support small entrepreneurs in street food and catering services as part of John Keells Praja Shakthi initiative in Colombo 02, a location which has a long history of street food culture.
Branded as #KeepItSafe, the Campaign focuses on Food Safety and Hygiene as a key to enhancing market demand and income levels of food entrepreneurs. While the requirement for training and capacity development was identified at a forum with the food entrepreneurs held on 25th February, the campaign was launched to coincide with the World Food Safety Day commemorated on 7th June 2020 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contribute to food security, human health, economic prosperity, market access and sustainable development. Due to COVID-related restrictions in conducting onsite training, video clips on aspects of food safety and hygiene were developed by JKF with the support of Chefs of Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts and shared with identified groups of food entrepreneurs during the months of June and July.
Users have shared positive feedback such as follows:
“This is a very useful video, Thank you for sharing” and “මෙය ඉතා වටිනා වීඩියෝවකි. ව්යාපාර සදහා පමණක් නොව අප මුළුතැන්ගේටද ඉතා සුදුසු උපදෙස් දුන්නට බොහොම ස්තුති.”
JKF plans to continue capacity building and livelihood support for this group of entrepreneurs through future programs customized to relate to the post-COVID environment.


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Gina Raimondo, a spokesman for the Commerce Department, confirms that President Biden doesn’t know whether he’ll ease tariffs on Chinese imports as he weighs inflation against the employment impact.
According to Raimondo, he is balancing the impact of tariff reductions on inflation with the potential harm they may cause to U.S. workers. The matter is extremely important to him, she stated. Ms. Raimondo and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are among cabinet members who think a limited tariff cut would benefit U.S. businesses and consumers.
Raimondo said that the answer depends on how and what products are used, but it seems to have some merit. It is up to the president to make that decision, and he has been briefed several times.
Labor groups argue that the tariffs have protected domestic manufacturers and encouraged them to invest at home. U.S. Representative Katherine Tai said the tariffs are a powerful tool for confronting China about its failure to comply with a bilateral trade agreement signed under the Trump administration that was supposed to lower the U.S. trade deficit. In tight midterm elections, Democrats feel vulnerable to Republican accusations that they are weak on China and have urged the White House to resist pressure to ease some tariffs.
Moreover, economists and administration officials believe a tariff cut would only have a limited one-time effect on prices.
Also complicating the discussions have been China’s elevated tensions over Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s and other lawmakers’ visits to the self-ruled island this summer. China’s war games around Taiwan have led Biden administration officials to recalibrate their thinking on whether to scrap some tariffs or potentially impose others on Beijing,
Due to team divisions and his own caution, Mr. Biden has put off a decision for months, while other issues, such as the war in Ukraine and the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, have taken precedence.
A source familiar with the situation says he is regularly briefed on the pros and cons. The president has been presented with a package that includes options to reduce consumer product tariffs and allow importers to request exemptions.
Under Section 301 of the Trade Act, another proposed action would be to launch a new investigation into Chinese subsidies and state-owned enterprises to protect its strategic industries, including information technology, electric vehicles, biotechnology, and aerospace, which may result in new tariffs.
A tariff cut was expected as early as July, targeting back-to-school items like bicycles, clothing, and other consumer goods not strategically crucial to U.S.-China economic competition. Between July 2018 and September 2019, former President Donald Trump imposed tariffs ranging from 7.5% to 25% on Chinese imports worth roughly $370 billion.
Due to the tariffs, Chinese imports are more expensive for U.S. companies, and consumers pay more for products. Inflation control is an important goal for Biden, a Democrat, ahead of the November midterm elections, in which Republicans may gain control of one or both houses of Congress.
U.S. and Chinese trade deals were signed in 2020, but the U.S. kept most levies on Chinese imports to ensure compliance with the accord’s provisions, including promises to increase U.S. purchases.
During the Trump administration, more than 2,200 import categories were exempted from tariffs, including many critical industrial components and chemicals, but those exclusions have expired since Biden took office in January 2021. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has only reinstated 352 of them. Over 140 U.S. lawmakers and industry groups have urged her to increase the number dramatically.


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The truck driving industry has been reporting a lack of available drivers for many years. However, the truck driver shortage exacerbated supply chain disruptions during the pandemic more than ever, which has resulted in congested ports and empty shelves for retailers. According to the American Trucking Association’s (ATA) annual survey, the average wages for truck drivers across the industry rose by 11 percent last year. Whether working in the for-hire commercial long haul market or as an employee at an in-house fleet managed by a large company, truck drivers have seen a substantial increase in compensation as the demand to move goods continues to surge across the country.
Companies such as Walmart Inc., PepsiCo, and Sysco Corp. have offered appealing salaries and benefit packages to recruit truck drivers in an industry known for tough working conditions and high freight demands. Retailers have been anxious to restock inventory that was depleted during the COVID-19 pandemic, while manufacturers are eager to get the parts and materials needed to restore their stalled productions. The upswing in demand has made it difficult for trucking companies and transportation divisions of retail and manufacturing businesses to keep up without enough truck drivers and industry workers.
Last year, the truck driving market became so sparse that many commercial fleets got jammed up, requiring them to seek more reliable drivers. The ATA estimated that the United States was short a record high of 80,000 truck drivers last year, and that number could more than double by 2030. As a result, trucking companies have been under extreme pressure to hire and retain drivers since the beginning of the pandemic, with driver turnover being over 60 percent in some cases.
Walmart operates one of the largest in-house trucking fleets in the United States, and expressed its intention to raise company drivers’ starting pay to as much as $110,000 a year last spring. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers was $47,130 in 2020. In some states, as many of 90 percent of trucking companies have increased truck driver pay.
Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., one of the largest trucking companies in the country, revealed in its last quarterly earnings report that its spending on salaries, wages, and benefits increased by almost 20 percent. The ATA’s study also showed that almost all operators that contract to move entire truck loads for a single customer offered bonuses to truck drivers for referrals to their company. The average referral bonus for truck drivers is now $1150, which is an increase of $150 from their previous study. Some trucking companies have also implemented incentive programs that encourage safety and provide added compensation to drivers for performing well.
These incentives offered by large trucking companies are all in attempt to keep their supply operations running efficiently. The Cass Freight Index, which is closely watched and issued by Cass Information Systems Inc., showed a decline in freight shipping demands year-over-year in May and June of this year. Although trucking companies hired approximately 73,000 workers between July 2021 and July 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hiring pace is beginning to slow. Large trucking companies, including Old Dominion and Yellow Corp. have also reported lower shipping counts.
Despite recognizing an improvement in their ability to recruit truck drivers, financial officers of some of the largest truckload carriers note that both recruiting and retaining responsible drivers remains a challenge. Importantly, the rise in truck driver compensation continues to impact consumers across the United States every day. Even when trucking companies are successful in recruiting new drivers, they often having to keep truck drivers’ hours cut back and pay them a higher rate. This increases costs to employers, and who in turn pass increased costs to both consumers and small businesses.
The country’s economy has been directly affected by the increase in trucker drivers’ salaries and bonuses, with inflation being at its highest in almost 40 years. Higher transportation costs have been triggered as truck drivers expect more pay and companies seek to pass on their increased expenses. Some trucking companies have had to go back to their customers and request extra compensation to ensure their drivers get paid what they need and expect. Other trucking problems relate to productivity issues at ports and rails or customers taking longer to unload freight. Truck drivers who get paid per move have not making as much money due to longer wait times.
In December of last year, the White House announced a series of actions intended to recruit new drivers and bolster the trucking industry. The government’s Truck Action Plan includes:
- Expediting commercial truck drivers’ licenses
- A 90-day challenge intended to expand registered apprenticeships
- Outreach and recruitment focused on veterans
The White House acknowledged that an outdated infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a historic volume of goods moving through the United States’ economy have all played a part in the strained capacity across the trucking supply chain.
In such a tight trucking market, companies continue to feel pressure to stay competitive in order to hire and retain good workers, thus directly affecting industry practice, the economy, small businesses, and individual consumers. The experienced consumer law attorneys at Francis Mailman Soumilas have been recognized throughout the United States for their work in consumer protection litigation. Our firm has been protecting consumers’ rights for more than two decades.
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No more callers, we have a winner. The Seahawks take first place in the Who Has The Most Unusual New NFL Uniform competition.
“Crazy uniforms … the Seahawks have the best uniforms out there right now,’’ Packers tight end Jermichael Finley said Tuesday at Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the launch of the five-year partnership between the NFL and Nike included the unveiling of new uniforms for all 32 NFL teams.
No, the Seahawks won’t be garbed in as wild a design as Nike created for the University or Oregon, but the Seattle threads have undergone the most dramatic transformation. There were players from every team on hand modeling the updated uniforms as Nike takes over for Reebok, and for 31 teams the changes are negligible or non-existent.
The Giants and Jets retained their uniform style but the Seahawks went for a complete makeover. There’s a new, deeper blue, the introduction of “wolf grey’’ as a color, and neon lime green outlines around the numbers and down the sides of the pants. There’s also a native-American-inspired wing pattern featuring 12 “feather trim’’ wing designs running down the pant legs, paying homage to the Seattle fans, the “12th man.’’
Otherwise, the Nike Elite 51 “Speed Machine’’ uniforms to be worn in the NFL this season feature technological changes. The base layer is 22 percent cooler, the uniforms are 8 percent tighter in fit (players like the “shrink-wrap’’ feel), 5 percent drier and are made of more flexible material.
“The uniform is great, man,’’ said Victor Cruz, who received the honor of modeling the Giants uniform, joining an array of NFL stars including Ben Roethlisberger, Michael Vick, Andre Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Wes Welker and Brian Urlacher. “It’s comfortable, it’s light, it feels good to wear.’’
Shonn Greene, the Jets representative, said, “It’s new material, pretty light, you can breathe through it.’’
Most every team’s jersey includes a new “Flywire’’ neck collar with modified seam lines. One noticeable difference on the field will be the Nike footwear, and for the first time players will wear shoes in team colors rather than white or black.
The Giants are making one stylistic change. In the past they’ve worn their five-stripe gray pants on the road and three-stripe gray pants at home but this season they are going with the five-stripe grays for home and away games. Joe Skiba, the Giants equipment manager, hinted this is in preparation for new alternative pants (possibly in red) for the 2013 season.
There was never any thought of making any real alterations to the Giants uniforms.
“We are who we are,’’ Skiba said. “What everyone’s got to realize is our uniform, our symbol is very iconic. The New York Yankees don’t change many times, the Montreal Canadiens don’t change many times. That’s something we have to think about as an organization.’’


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Yelp won the dismissal of a lawsuit by shareholders who claimed they were fraudulently misled about its reviews.» Read More
UPS delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts' expectations on Tuesday, as improved margins offset a slight drop in revenue.
Ford Motor delivered quarterly earnings that topped analysts' expectations on Tuesday, helped by continued strength of its North American sales.
Technical analyst Todd Gordon tells why the recent reset in the stock market could be setting the stage for the next leg higher.
Honeywell International said it would buy the utility consumption meter business of Melrose Industries for 3.3 billion pounds ($5.14 billion).
Google has halted its pursuit of making Google+ a rival to Facebook with the search giant even admitting its service was "confusing".
This weekend former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee made a bid for some attention by criticizing the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran.
Payments start-up Stripe said that it had raised new funding from investors like Visa, valuing the company at $5 billion, the NYT reports.
DuPont cut its full-year earnings forecast, citing the spin-off of its performance chemicals unit and a weak demand for agricultural products.
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Reddit’s head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company. She is the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month.
Procter & Gamble will appoint David Taylor as its next chief executive officer, succeeding A.G. Lafley, Dow Jones reported.
Customers of the largest state-run Obamacare exchange can see price cuts if they move out of their current plans.
While there is speculation the current El Niño could shatter records, weather watchers may not want to get ahead of themselves.
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As a result he set up his laptop up to block his access to Reddit, removed himself from Snapchat and placed limits on the amount of time he spends on his former employer's product Facebook.
Mr Rosenstein has now taken this a step further, by setting up a parental control feature on his i Phone that bans him from downloading any new apps.
This included causing people to feel hostile, upset, nervous, afraid or ashamed, according to reports in The Telegraph.
A warning by Zuckerberg that people could spend less time on Facebook in the short term as a result of the changes sent the company’s stock .40 lower to 9.37...Andrew Gamez-Heath, from Lincoln, took a test as a precaution at the start of a new relationship.
Many of his friends didn't even know he was gay when he wrote the post which was shared thousands of times.
The venture capitalist, who has banned his own three young children from the site, took particular aim at the ways people communicate via social media, including hearts, likes, and the thumbs-up.
The comments were made by Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth Chamath Palihapitiya left Facebook to start up his own venture capital business.
Groq hopes that this revolutionary chip 'can empower companies like Facebook and Amazon, Tesla, the government to do things with machine learning and computers that nobody could do before,' according to Mr Palihapitiya.
The key to creating the chip is to squeeze heavy and highly sophisticated computation into less silicon – something which Google's TPU is one step ahead of its competition with.
A former Facebook software engineer has turned his back on apps, despite playing an instrumental role in their success.
Justin Rosenstein is concerned that what started as a Silicon Valley success story could end in a future where people are permanently distracted Mr Rosentstein's concerns are backed up by the latest scientific research into apps, which points to the negative effects that they can have.
'We've done a lot of work and research with outside experts and academics to understand the effects of our service on well-being, and we're using it to inform our product development.
'We are also making significant investments more in people, technology and processes, and – as Mark Zuckerberg said on the last earnings call – we are willing to reduce our profitability to make sure the right investments are made.' In October Justin Rosenstein, who developed the iconic 'Like' feature for the social media site, revealed that just a decade later, he has cut himself off from the allure of notifications and other online distractions.
The comments were made by Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth.


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NFT Distribution has acquired Carmarthenshire-based NR Evans in a deal that values the temperature controlled specialist at approximately £20m. It is the third acquisition in the UK by NFT owner EmergeVest. The Hong-Kong private equity investor bought NFT in April 2014 and Palletforce in August 2015 and MD Heath Zarin said it “would not be our last” acquisition in the UK. “We are very excited about NFT’s domestic and international growth prospects and ability to provide an ever-expanding suite of […]
The Department for International Trade’s publication of a revised list of temporary tariffs on truck imports if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement once again raises the question of the impact of commercial vehicle pricing on haulage operating costs and profitability.
Even if customs clearance is reinstated following Brexit, leaving the EU remains the best thing for the UK, according to Europa Worldwide Group MD Andrew Baxter.


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The Sandbox, a metaverse gaming platform, experienced a 30% surge at one point in its SAND token's price following the announcement of an MoU with the Saudi Arabia Digital Government Authority (DGA). SAND's price is currently up about 20% since February 6, as of writing, at $0.8477.
The COO of The Sandbox, Sebastien Borget, revealed the new partnership on Twitter along with its objective to jointly explore, advise, and support each other in metaverse activations. The SAND token is also approaching its scheduled unlock on February 14, releasing 12% of the token's supply.
The Sandbox's agreement with Saudi Arabia's DGA signals that more national organizations are exploring the metaverse, following the trend of major legacy companies such as Walmart and Amazon who are entering the metaverse gaming platform space.
South Korea, known for its early adoption of web3 technology, will see its capital city Seoul create a metaverse version the city.
As we've seen, The Sandbox has been making strides in the metaverse space and has even secured a partnership with Saudi Arabia. This partnership is a clear indication of the potential and growth of the metaverse market.
However, the upcoming RobotEra project is taking the metaverse market to new heights by offering a more immersive and interactive gaming experience with the added integration of virtual and augmented reality. With the ability to construct and customize robots, landscapes, and buildings, and monetize gameplay, RobotEra is set to bring a whole new level of excitement to the metaverse.
And with the success and recognition of The Sandbox, it's only a matter of time before the world takes notice of this new project and the unique features it has to offer. The partnership betweenRead more on cryptonews.com


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Rebecca Minkoff Supports Women’s March 2018 through partnership and Launch of Newest Social Platform, RM SUPERWOMEN
New York, NY – January 22, 2017 – In lieu of a fashion show this season, Rebecca is focusing her efforts on activism in alliance with The Women’s March. She’s made a significant monetary donation to the cause and in support has launched a campaign along with key activists and women in the movement — highlighting their voice and stances.
Last week, Rebecca launched the partnership with this year’s Women’s March by sharing a portrait series featuring the stories of leaders of the Women’s March Movement, the women of the Women’s March Committee, influencers, actresses and trail blazers in the women’s movement on her e-commerce site, RM.com, social and digital communities.
At the Women’s March in New York, Rebecca (and team) started Saturday morning alongside a performance given by Connie Lim of MILCK, dressed in Rebecca Minkoff. Various celebrities, including Jessica Alba, America Ferrera, Sophia Bush, Jenna Dewan, Mandy Moore, Victoria Justice, Krysten Ritter, Zosia Mamet, Catt Sadler, Jamie Chung, among others, all showed their support and solidarity wearing their Rebecca Minkoff GRL PWR Sweatshirts. At the Women’s March Rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, January 21st, leaders of the Women’s March Committee can be seen marching in select Rebecca Minkoff styles. Rebecca was able to bring women from all coasts and cities together in solidarity for this historical weekend.
In conjunction with the Women’s March partnership and as an extension of the Rebecca Minkoff brand philosophy, RM Superwomen is a newly launched social space (online + events) that inspires women to lead a fearless life through stories, experiences, conversations and more — shared from one Superwoman to another.
RM Superwomen originated from Rebecca’s desire to spark, and encourage, an authentic dialogue of knowledge and inspiration between both leading and aspiring women — encouragement within a congested digital atmosphere.
“Fearless doesn’t mean you don’t have fear. It means that, as you look fear head on, shaking in your boots, you do what’s scaring you anyways. And sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. But really, it’s only losing if you’re too scared to try, and it’s only failing if you give up — otherwise, it’s experience. That’s why I started this group… to share and exchange ideas because, I wanted to create an atmosphere that would remind us, and provoke us, to stay fearless,” Minkoff said of the platform.


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Kenneth Branagh's four-hour version of the Shakespeare play previously rumored for high-definition release is officially coming this August.
Warner Brothers has confirmed 'Hamlet (1996)' starring Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, and Richard Attenborough is coming to Blu-ray on August 17.
Specs have yet to be revealed, but the release will be a digibook and supplements will include: Commentary with Kenneth Branagh and Russell Jackson, Introduction by Kenneth Branagh, To Be On Camera: A History with Hamlet, 1996 Vintage Cannes Film Festival Promo, and Hamlet (1996) Trailer.
Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $34.99.
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The largest selling brand of Pakistan has recently signed a deal with Opera Mini which will allow QMobile to provide pre-installed Opera Mini app to its users. The app will be available in upcoming android-based QMobile smartphones. However, QMobile users will also be able to download the app from Google Play store as well as from m.opera.com.
Opera Mini is among the most praised browsers available and it provides a very nimble and smooth internet browsing experience. A recent update to the software resulting in Improved UI, additional gesture controls and new Omni bar support has made it even more appealing to use.
CEO of QMobile, Mr. Zeeshan Akhtar while sharing his views on the occasion stated that, “Internet access has the power to change lives since it not only helps to bring people closer, but also is a great repository of information. Adding to the significance of Handsets having faster internet, he further added that ‘Within a short time frame, QMobile has become the best-selling handset brand, because we offer our users a range of affordable and reliable handset. Now, we are going a step beyond, making our smartphones more compelling by preinstalling useful apps such as Opera Mini so that our users can benefit and enjoy the internet.”
On the other hand, Mr. Lars Boilesen, The CEO of Opera Software while sharing his sentiment stated that, “In the past 20 years, our mission has been to make internet browsing possible on all kinds of devices, from low-end feature phones to the latest smartphones. The internet should not be the privilege of a limited few. We feel that Opera Mini is a perfect fit for growing markets such as Pakistan and are glad to partner with market leaders such as QMobile helping to bring more people online.”


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In November, Western Australia will be highlighted in a new food and wine event in the Margaret River Wine Region in Australia’s South West.
“Australia has a few good food and wine festivals, but Margaret River Gourmet Escape will be a truly international standard event, providing a fantastic attraction for locals and visitors,” Stephanie Buckland, CEO, Tourism Western Australia said.
The four-day event will include guest like the owner of the famous Fat Duck restaurant in the United Kingdom, Heston Blumenthal, and owner of world’s number one ranked restaurant for the third time, Noma, Rene Redzepi from Denmark as well as many high profile Australian chefs and celebrities.
Simone Horgan-Furlong of Leeuwin Estate Winery, which will play host to the Gourmet Village, said, “Margaret River is making wines that are being recognized alongside the great regions of the world, yet we’re still such a youthful industry. To have this kind of benchmark festival created within our region to showcase what we do, and bring the world’s leading identities in food and wine to the district – it’s a very exciting proposal.”
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The dealership, which is expected to open in February or March, will be the second Infiniti dealership in Jacksonville. The first, which is owned by another dealer, is the Atlantic Infiniti on Atlantic Boulevard.
“I think Infinity has got a big opportunity to grow even more in North America,” said President and CEO Jack Hanania. “We had a hard fought battle to get Infiniti. We were up against a lot of good dealers.”
But the company has been growing. Last year Hanania added a Fiat dealership and announced agreements to acquire an Acura dealership in Miami from the Esserman Automotive Group, which is the company’s first dealership outside of Northeast Florida.
The company also announced plans for the only Maserati dealership between Orlando and Atlanta. It is expected to open in April.
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The national female under-17 team, the Black Maidens have received donation from a non-governmental firm known as Visma Foundation.
Staff of the foundation on Wednesday, October 24, paid a visit to the team at the Ghananaman Soccer Centre of Excellence where they have been camping, to present a long list items to them.
The items included boxes of water from Paradise Pac, packs of toilet rolls, sanitary towels, mosquito coils and hair products from Maxim Ghana Limited among others.
The donation follows a similar one made by the foundation to the Black Queens two weeks ago.
Presenting the items on behalf of the foundation, Nana Ama Adez Essel who is the spokesperson of the foundation said that the gesture is a show of their support to the Black Maidens as they head into the 2018 World Cup.
Assistant coach, Baba Nuhu Mallam who received the items on behalf of the team praised Visma Foundation for staying true to their words of donating to the team. He commended Mavis Amanor and her staff for the good work. He also called on the corporate world to take a cue from Visma’s generosity and help the team as they prepare for the World Cup.
The Black Maidens have been drawn in Group A of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup alongside tournament hosts Uruguay, New Zealand and debutants Finland.
The Maidens will be making their 6th consecutive appearance at the competition which will be held from November 13- December 1.They are expected to leave Ghana this week to South Africa to continue preparations for the tournament.


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Bangalore based home service startup Helpforsure builds AI backed chatbots that helps businesses and end-users to automate electronics repair jobs with the DIY solution
Researchers at security company, Lookout, have identified a family of malware, referred to as 'SonicSpy' on Google Play Store, that can remotely control infected Android smartphones, the media reported.
Smartphones running the Android operating system are the next potential target for cyber attacks,
Google has rolled out its anti-phishing mechanisms for the Gmail app for iPhone users that will warn you about potential phishing attacks when you click on a shady link.
WhatsApp will soon facilitate instant money transfer via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction system, shows a new Beta update by the Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform.
Xiaomi in an official statement said that it strongly disagrees to allegations made by eScan
Recently there were reports quoting industry watchers that several Indian companies and some government institutions have been seeing an increase in cyber attacks from China
Over 2.3 million infections and 13 families of ransomware were detected on Windows in the second quarter of 2017, a new report revealed on Wednesday.
A new batch of spyware named 'Lipizzan' that could capture users' text messages, voice calls, location data and photos has been discovered and blocked by Google.
You can make calls, send messages, and even post to social media using the ring.
Slack showcased new tools designed to make it easier for developers to build apps for the company’s workplace collaboration software.
LinkedIn Lite was launched during LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's visit to Bengaluru in September last year and is entirely developed by the company's Bengaluru R&D unit.
mAadhaar app allows users to carry unique identification profile on mobile, which can be used to verify biometric details with no need to carry Aadhaar's hard copy.
Some reports say Microsoft could launch a Surface phone, spinning off the success of tablet computers by that same name.
With control over hardware and operating system, Apple is better equipped to popularise its ARKit technology than Google’s attempts with Tango AR on its fragmented Android ecosystem
A CopyCat malware affected over 14 million Android devices last year, rooting eight million of them and earning the hackers behind the attack approximately $1.5 million in fake ad revenues in two months, Israel-based IT security provider Check Point has revealed.


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Fat Cat Comics is at 278 Main Street in Johnson City,
NY—practically across the street from the original Main Street store.
Here's a map to the store.
Fat Cat History
- May 4, 2013 — Free Comic Book Day, 2013.
- May 5, 2012 — Free Comic Book Day, 2012.
- October 29, 2011 — Halloween party with cake, and costumes, and cats.
- November 27, 2010 — Grand Re-opening Celebration with, as usual, cake and cats.
- ...and some pictures of the store taken that day.
- October 23, 2010 —Fat Cat Comics moved back "home" to Main Street! The Cat has moved to 278 Main Street in Johnson City. The new store is across the street and just west of the original Main Street store, and only about three blocks from the Avenue B location.
- August 1, 2010 — The Fat Cat Books store in Johnson City, is now Fat Cat Comics (you shouldn't notice a difference!) Brian Perry, owner since July 1976 is handing the reins over to Tawna Lewis, who has managed the store for 20-some years.
- July 17, 2010 — The Cat's 34th Anniversary with cake...and cats.
- July 8, 2010 — Press release announcing change of ownership.
- July 12, 2010 — Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin story on the change. Here's an excerpt:
Fat Cat Books to change hands
JOHNSON CITY Fat Cat Books will begin a new chapter Aug. 1 when Brian Perry, founder and owner of the business, hands the shop over to longtime employee and friend Tawna Lewis.
On that date, the store, at 15 Avenue B, will go by Fat Cat Comics. ...
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An article published last month on Forbes.com said 2017 "goes down in history as the most important ever" in the grocery industry.
On the same day that article appeared, Target announced it was buying grocery delivery startup Shipt for $550 million, illustrating perfectly what the Forbes article said: "The food world around us is changing at incredible speed, and the industry must evolve."
It's a daunting landscape for the biggest players, the national chains with immense buying power, so imagine the challenges for the "mom and pops" still fighting for position and relevance amid conditions and buying habits that change so rapidly.
Barely six months ago we wrote: "That Fishers Foods has grown and adapted and survived the merciless grocery business for 84 years is a testament to family, hard work, perseverance and taking pride in the role the business plays in the community and the lives of its customers."
So we're certain it came only after exhaustive consideration of all options that third-generation owner Jeffrey Fisher announced Monday the family would be closing two of its seven locations, effective Jan. 22: Cherry Avenue NE and Harrison Avenue SW, both about a five-minute drive from downtown Canton, where other shopping options are few.
"As Canton's only locally owned and operated grocery store chain, we have always valued our connection with our customers, our employees and our community," Fisher said. "We really had hoped to keep these two stores open to serve our loyal customers, but for the good of our workforce of more than 350 people and the vitality of our other five locations, we cannot continue to operate them."
Fisher said operations at the Cherry Avenue and Harrison Avenue stores had become unprofitable, citing population declines in their neighborhoods and changes in shoppers' habits for buying groceries.
In conjunction with the announcement to close the two stores, Fisher said his remaining five locations would begin offering a new online ordering and pickup service called Fishers To Go and new packages of prepared ingredients and recipes called Chef Kits by Fishers.
Fishers To Go will launch Wednesday at the Fulton Drive store in Jackson Township. The next step, home delivery of groceries, is expected to become available in March, the company said Monday.
In-store pickup and home delivery reflect rapidly growing trends in the grocery industry.
Business Insider reported last month the online grocery market is expected to reach more than $100 billion in sales — representing more than 20 percent of all grocery purchases — by 2025. Roughly 30 percent of U.S. consumers tried online purchasing for groceries in the past year.
As more and more shoppers are turning to the convenience of online ordering, grocers big and small are looking for ways to keep pace. Partnerships offer one avenue; belt-tightening in other areas is a second way to stay competitive.
If you are inclined to try anyone's online ordering services or fresh food kits, we encourage you to give Fishers the opportunity to earn (or keep) your business. As we've written previously, quality products and friendly service have been linchpins of the Fishers stores for 80-plus years, and even with changes swirling around their industry, we expect those traits to remain a constant.


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LOS ANGELES — Adult image marketers may have an intriguing new traffic source available to them, via the growing world of social photography.
Social media, networking and search are all the rage these days, with initiatives such as Google’s rapidly rising “+1” program and the “likes” of Facebook, among the many options that viewers have for praising a particular piece of content.
Given consumers’ propensity for photo sharing and the always-available accessibility of modern camera phones and online venues for image display, it was inevitable that more robust social tools would be added to this arena.
Enter Photorank (www.photorank.me), a new service designed to measure a photographer’s influence across a range of social media platforms, including Facebook, Flickr, Instragram, Lockerz, Picplz, Twitpic, Twitter and Yfrog; compiling a Photorank Score as a measurement of the user’s social photo-sharing activities.
According to the company, its Photorank Score ranges from 0 to 100, with 100 being the highest score. It is based on overall photo activity on various social networking sites and is heavily weighted towards activity within the past 21 days — providing its users with ample motivation to perform more frequent photo updates. Other ranking factors include the number of “likes” and other positive comments that photos receive.
Photorank parent Olapic co-founder Luis Sanz says the service is based on an algorithm the company developed to rank user-generated photos submissions.
“At Olapic.com, we have to deal with large amount of user generated photos, and we found that being able to identify the best pictures was really important to create a good user experience,” Sanz said. “We also found that the ‘reputation’ of the people uploading the pictures was the best proxy to identify them, and that’s how we started developing an algorithm to measure it.”
As for ways of improving your score — and your general success as an image marketer, the company blog offers a valuable tip: “It’s simple; take good pictures that people care about and engage with your community.”
“Uploading a large amount of pictures will lead you to increase your activity score,” the blog added. “But if they have poor quality and people just ignore them, your overall score will decrease.”
This commonsense approach to ratings also provides an insight into what it takes to profit from any media marketing endeavor — including the savvy use of adult-oriented images for social photography and search marketing — as a tool to boost traffic and revenues.


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Ghana takes trade fair online
The Ghana Association of Home Based Entrepreneurs (GAHBE) will hold the trade fair online from February 25 to March 25.
The expo will allow entrepreneurs to showcase their goods and services to Ghana’ s 1.3 million-strong internet audience, without the usual logistical problems and costs of a bricks and mortal trade fair.
The event will be held here.
Abel Duncan, Chief Executive Officer of GAHBE, moved to allay any fears of cyber crime and assured businesses that measures had been put in place to avert such occurrence.


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The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy metals.
But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their children with many other products that are far worse.
The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. And why? Because they're made in America.
American products poisoning American children
The top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys
5. ADHD drugs
9. Fluoride in the water
11. Fast food
18. Dryer sheets
Keeping your health priorities straight
It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny


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Around 10 million antigen test kits are expected to be ready by July 15. This move will mark a significant shift in India’s testing strategy which has so far focused heavily on the Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) format. The number could be much higher if more manufacturers of such a kit get the green nod from ICMR and AIIMS.
ET has learned that the Centre is looking at ways of introducing Do-it-Yourself (DIY) antigen tests over the next few weeks. “The idea is to make it easy for citizens to test themselves through a home-based kit. It will be like those simple at-home pregnancy tests. A good set of instructions on the usage of the kit should enable everyone to test themselves. This will also help ease the pressure on hospitals laboratory systems and healthcare staff. Discussions are on,” senior officials involved in these talks told ET.
ET gathers that the Centre has already been holding dialogues with the test kit manufacturer to repackage the antigen kits for home delivery or availability in local pharmacies.
Discussions are underway on how to ensure that these temperature-sensitive kits can be kept insulated until delivery/usage for a home test.
The government will closely watch the performance of the antigen kit and its efficacy as it is put into use from Wednesday in Delhi.
While the antigen testing on field- beginning with Delhi this week- will be priced at about Rs 450 per kit, the DIY testing kit- complete with temperature control and usage directions is expected to be kept under Rs 1,000.
The antigen testing strategy, in fact, officials said will become the largest testing technique over the next few weeks owing to its ease of use and speedier test result.
The move comes as India is aiming at taking its testing figures from the current 1.5 lakh- 2 lakh tests a day to building a capability for over 4.5 lakh tests by next month.
It is learnt that the Centre is also preparing to write to all state governments on the same- asking them to ramp up testing in a big way by bringing in antigen testing.
The antigen test will be especially targeted for use at hospitals- particularly when non COVID patients come to hospitals for dialysis, chemotherapy, blood transfusions and other treatment and the protocol may require COVID testing.
Since the antigen test is more reasonably priced and give a result within 15-30 minutes, it would be a more useful testing tool for such a scenario, officials pointed out.
Officials said that while the quicker and less expensive antigen testing will be the first and biggest testing tool, the RT-PCR (Covid-19 Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction)- the ‘gold standard’ of COVID 19 testing in India will remain the next round of wide testing format.
For rural areas, it is the TRUNAT machine network- Tuberculosis testing machines remodified for COVID testing- that will form the third base of the testing strategy.
The antibody testing will be the fourth testing tool which will be used selectively in containment areas and other locations to assess mass response to COVID-19.
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Yorkshire stores at risk as Homebase announces 42 closures
Homebase has announced plans to close a number of stores by early 2019.
The company provided a list of 42 stores marked for potential closure, endangering as many as 1,500 jobs.
Wakefield’s Ings Road store was not among the list of closures.
Homebase has announced plans to launch a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), which will allow them to seek arrangements with creditors.
The CVA will allow the company to make changes to its store portfolio and create a strong platform on which to continue its turnaround. Creditors will vote on the CVA on August 31.
It is anticipated that the 42 stores will close in late 2018 and early 2019.
In a statement, the company said: “Homebase’s sales performance and profitability declined significantly under the previous ownership over the last two years. In addition, the company has faced an extremely challenging retail trading environment reflecting weak consumer confidence and reduced consumer spending. These factors have had a significant adverse impact on Homebase’s trading position.
“After a comprehensive review, Homebase has concluded that its current store portfolio mix is no longer viable. Rental costs associated with stores are unsustainable and many stores are loss making.”
The list of proposed closures includes the chain’s Whitby and Bradford stores.


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J.C. Penney Names Outgoing Saks Steve Sadove to BoardMatt Townsend
J.C. Penney Co. named outgoing Saks Inc. Chief Executive Officer Stephen Sadove to its board, bringing in a luxury-retail executive to help CEO Mike Ullman turn around the department-store chain.
Ullman reclaimed the top job in April on an interim basis to stabilize J.C. Penney and help it rebound from ex-CEO Ron Johnson’s failed transformation. Sadove is set to leave Saks when its acquisition by Hudson’s Bay Co. is completed. That’s also when he will join J.C. Penney’s board, the Plano, Texas-based chain said today in a statement.
His appointment signals “that he’s a potential successor to Mike Ullman,” said Liz Dunn, an analyst at Macquarie Group in New York. “He’s very strategic. He’s good at marketing and cost containment. He’s got the department-store experience. He’d be an excellent candidate.”
J.C. Penney said yesterday that its sales decline slowed in September and that the improvement will last through the end of the year. The company is in the midst of a turnaround after sales plummeted and losses piled up during and after Johnson overhauled almost every aspect of the chain in an attempt to appeal to younger and wealthier shoppers.
J.C. Penney rose 1.5 percent to $7.89 at the close in New York. The shares have slumped 60 percent this year, the worst performance in the 10-company Bloomberg U.S. Department Store Index.
Sadove, 62, didn’t respond to requests for comment. Kristin Hays, a spokeswoman for J.C. Penney, declined to comment.
While Saks is a smaller chain of about 100 stores, compared with 1,100 for J.C. Penney, Sadove has experience with a similar type of customer in Saks’s outlet locations, Dunn said. Sadove, who became CEO in 2006, expanded the OFF 5TH stores to more than 60 as a way to drive sales when growth at its full-price locations stalled.
“He’s managed complex businesses throughout his career,” Dunn said. “And the off-price business means he has experience with value positioning.”
Sadove is the second director to join J.C. Penney’s board since Ullman came back. Ronald Tysoe, a former vice chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc., now Macy’s Inc., was named in August as activist investor Bill Ackman resigned from the board after sparring publicly with fellow directors over how to reverse the sales slump.
Sadove is chairman of the board of the National Retail Federation and a director at Colgate-Palmolive Co. and Ruby Tuesday Inc.
J.C. Penney also said today that Geraldine Laybourne, a director since 2009, will step down from the board.


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December 30, 2010 12:31pm
Preview Exquisite Lineup
Source: AEE Press Staff
by: Company Press Release
Exquisite Multimedia, Inc. (Booth #83) will be displaying its numerous lines at the 2011 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), January 6-9 in Las Vegas. In addition, media and consumers will have the opportunity to learn more about exciting new studios Exquisite Films and Extreme Comixxx.
In addition, fan favorite porn star Charlie Chase will sign at Exquisite’s booth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
For more than ten years, Exquisite Multimedia, Inc. has produced and distributed some of the hottest, kinkiest sex available to watch on DVD and other platforms. The launch of Exquisite Films is the corporation’s first foray into generating quality content geared towards capturing the interest of female consumers in addition to its loyal male fan base.
Throughout the Expo, Exquisite Multimedia’s principals and directors will be available to media for interviews. Exquisite Multimedia directors attending AEE include: Rodney Moore; Jordan Septo (Venom); Kelly Madison (Kelly Madison Productions); Ryan Madison (Kelly Madison Productions); Jonathan Sable (Ultimate TGirl); Craig Daze (Darkside Entertainment); Francesca Le; and Mark Wood. To schedule an interview with any of Exquisite Multimedia, Inc.’s principals or directors, visit Booth #83 or email PR@ExquisteFilmsXXX.com.
Please check out Exquisite Multimedia’s complete AEE news release.


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Xi Jinping urges efforts to spur enterprise innovation and nurture SMEs
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to promote enterprise innovation and foster more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are specialized and innovative.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a congratulatory letter to a conference regarding these enterprises' development that opened on Thursday in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Noting that SMEs are an important force in promoting innovation, boosting employment and improving people's livelihood, the Chinese president voiced his hope that they can play a larger role in enhancing the stability of industrial chains and supply chains and advancing economic and social development.
He urged officials at different levels to build a favorable environment for the development of SMEs, beef up support for them, help grow their confidence, focus on efforts to promote their innovation and improve the protection of intellectual property rights to nurture more SMEs with high growth potential, advanced technology and strong market competitive edge.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, read Xi's letter during the opening ceremony of the conference hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.


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Arcadia is preparing to launch a CVA within the next 48 hours, Retail Week has learned.
Sir Philip Green’s fashion group is understood to have been encouraged by the response of property owners following crunch talks over the last few weeks.
Sources close to the business said “most” major landlords had been “really supportive” of Arcadia’s proposed plan, which would include the closure of 57 stores across its Topshop, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Wallis fascias.
However, Arcadia and its advisers Deloitte have been struggling to garner similar support from the Pension Protection Fund. It is understood the two parties remain locked in discussions over the proposals.
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Toshiba Singapore Digital Products and Service Group (DS) today introduced the Canvio Portable Hard Drive Slim, with a capacity of 500GB.
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April 13, 2011 – Thomann reports that as of March 2011, the MUSIC Group brands BEHRINGER and BUGERA have generated record sales revenue with the prominent European retailer, becoming their number one selling vendor. After a year of partnership under the MUSIC Group’s innovative new sales and distribution model, both groups are extremely proud of the growth achieved.
Thomann Musikhaus Managing Director Hans Thomann comments, “With BEHRINGER and BUGERA, we are experiencing growth rates that we have not seen in the history of our company. Customers realize and appreciate the unbeatable value of the BEHRINGER and BUGERA products.”
MUSIC Group Chairman and CEO Uli Behringer noted, “We are very proud to have become Thomann’s largest supplier, as the unprecedented demand has exceeded all our expectations. Our immense investments in technology and quality systems are truly paying off, and we are honored that our customers are realizing the tremendous quality and value they receive with our products. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their trust and support.”


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Sany Heavy Industry Co., China’s biggest maker of excavators, may cut its unit-sales forecast for this year as government efforts to curb property speculation slow construction.
“Given the weak market, I think there’s a need to adjust our sales target,” Xiang Ru’an, the company’s vice president, said in a May 5 phone interview. The company, based in Changsha, Hunan province, had expected to boost sales 41 percent from last year to 29,000 excavators, he said, without elaborating on the size of the potential target cut.
Nationwide excavator sales plunged 41 percent in the first quarter, according to the China Construction Machinery Association, as falling house prices and a slowdown in new railways damped demand. The slump has weighed on Sany’s sales even as its wins market share from Komatsu Ltd. and Caterpillar Inc., and adds bigger models used in mining.
Sany aims to boost its share of China’s excavator market to 20 percent among major brands from 13.8 percent last year, Xiang said. The company plans to win customers with large, low-cost models that can compete with overseas makers’ products, he said.
“We will keep the market-share goal,” Xiang said. “This is the key for staying competitive.”
The company’s first-quarter market share climbed 7 percentage points to 18 percent, according to an April 28 statement. Sales totaled 7,000 excavators, it said, without giving year-earlier numbers.
Sany expects mining to account for as much as 20 percent of its excavator sales this year from less than 10 percent last year, Xiang said. Construction’s share will probably slip to about 30 percent from more than 40 percent, he said.
The company, run by China’s second-richest man, Liang Wengen, fell 0.5 percent to 14.81 yuan at the close of trading in Shanghai. It has climbed 18 percent this year, outperforming the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index’s 11 percent gain.
To help boost sales overseas, Sany last month completed the 360 million euro ($470 million) acquisition of German concrete-pump maker Putzmeister Holding GmbH. China Communications Construction Co. has also agreed to use Sany concrete-pump trucks, excavators and crawler cranes for a project in Qatar. The work includes developing a port and a stadium for the 2022 soccer World Cup.
China’s home prices fell to a 14-month low in April as the government pledged to maintain property curbs, according to SouFun Holdings Ltd., the nation’s biggest real-estate website owner. Construction of new rail lines has slowed after a fatal-train crash and monetary tightening last year.


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Shubham Banerjee generated a low-cost Braille printer with a toy. Now, the 13 -year-olds startup is attracting investors and shaking up an industry to help the visually impaired
When not disrupting an industry, ripening his fellowship or pitching prospective buyers, Shubham Banerjee can be found encountering his board, brainstorming with architects or knocking on the doors of venture capitalists. Such is the life of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
He is 13 years old.
Yes, I started young, he said this week, as “his fathers” drove him from academy, still in his navy blue uniform, to converge a potential investor. But you ascertain, Ive been playing with Lego since I was two years old.
Others may consider Lego a toy but Shubham, precocious even by Silicon Valleys guidelines, considers it a tool for technological innovation.
The eighth-grader applied Lego to create a low-cost Braille printer that he designed over long evenings at his familys kitchen table in Santa Clara, an hour south of San Francisco. The idea is to book Braille reading materials from a personal computer or electronic design on to paper using grown specks instead of ink.
His startup, Braigo Labs, has received undisclosed seed capital from patrons who think it could shake up world markets for the visually impaired.
Shubham wants to develop a desktop printer that costs around $350, rather than the usual $2,000, and weighs merely a few pounds rather than 20. He likewise hopes though this remains science fiction for now to develop refreshable digital Braille, so the blind can read tablets and laptops.
The founder and public look of Braigo Labs is too young to clue reports or write cheques so his mother is the official chief executive. “His fathers”, Niloy, initially from India, acts as the board.
Shubham designed the idea as local schools discipline bazaar programme last year, after he expected his mothers how the blind read. Google it, they replied.
He said he was shocked has found that a market of 200 million people, most in developing countries, are dependent upon clunky, expensive gear. I decided to hack it, he said.
He applied a Lego Mindstorms EV3 gear robotics kit to build a prototype which won a district fair rivalry and rendered local sound. “His fathers”, himself an operator and serial entrepreneur who works at Intel, invested $35,000 to get Braigo Labs off the ground last summer.
Shubham improved a most sophisticated 2.0 version using an off-the-shelf desktop printer and Intel computer chip who are capable of carry electronic verse into Braille before printing.
Intel administrations then invested an undisclosed summing-up for a share in the company, preparing the schoolboy one of the youngest entrepreneurs to receive venture capital.( Mark Zuckerberg was a relatively crusty 19 -year-old when he launched an embyronic version of Facebook .)
Hes solving a real problem, and he wants to go off and disrupt an existing industry. And thats certainly what its all about, Edward Ross, head of Inventor Platforms at Intel, told the Associated Press.
The Banerjees are use the money invested to repay about five outside architects to work on the product.
Shubham hopes to launch the third largest version this summer, starting by sending about 25 prototypes to dazzle universities for feedback before scaling up product. Agents from the Royal National Institute of Blind People are due to move out from Britain to review the technology.
Every other epoch after academy were encountering investors, Shubham read.
His father brimmed with optimism. Its a great make, he read. Were focused on fetching this is something that market so real people can benefit.
Shubhams favourite topics at academy are maths and discipline. Classmates were relatively chilled about his entrepreneurial sideline, though some sensed opening, he read. A few have asked if they can be part of my company.
Shubham also dialogues, play-acts guitar and American football game hes a quarterback. He said his heroes were his parents and business icons Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
But becoming a billionaire is not necessarily on the orders of the day. I conclude Id like to be an operator or a surgeon, he said.
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Marchesini Group at Fachpack 2016
Marchesini Group will be at Fachpack 2016, the European trade fair for packaging, technology, processing and logistics. It will take place from 27th to 29th September at the Exhibition Centre of Nuremberg. The Group’s participation in Fachpack, just like that of Interpack in 2014 and Achema in 2015, confirms how important the German market is for the Marchesini Group, which has been managed since 1984 by a branch in Viersen, in the north of Germany.
Specifically speaking, Marchesini Group Germany has an “after-sales” structure for technical assistance and spare parts service in order to assist its customers locally and to proficiently meet their needs. Over the years, it has sold more than 1,000 machines in the three areas for which it is responsible, satisfying the requirements of a market that is strategically important to the Group in terms of mutual growth and for the exchange of technological input that this partnership has produced. German pharmaceutical customers, which are mostly multinational enterprises, have brought new technological challenges that Marchesini Group has taken up: resulting in the creation of new, original and technologically state-of-the-art packaging solutions, capable of solving every packaging problem, some of them even quite complex. For this reason, the products which have made history in the production of pharmaceuticals in Germany are packaged with machines and lines designed and built by Marchesini Group.
What is about to become the biggest national thermoforming hub in Italy will be inaugurated shortly after Fachpack ends in October (17th – 21st). For this new factory – which is rising brick upon brick on a building site of over 14 thousand square meters in the industrial zone at the south end of Carpi – Marchesini Group has invested 10 million Euro, inspired by the forecasts of the blister market growing over the coming years, thanks to the ease-of-use and perfectly sterile conditions offered by this product. Once the Hub is up and running, which has taken 300 workers to build in 14 months, it will avail of the top experts of this sector and will employ more than 150 collaborators of the Group.
The opening of the new factory will consist in an Open House (which has now become a classical event for Marchesini) to be held over five days of festivities and meetings of experts. German customers, but also customers from across the whole world, will be given the opportunity to visit not only the actual production facilities, but also the beautiful city of Carpi. All of this will bring new life to Emilia Romagna and give major national importance to this industrial district.


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Hyrule Warriors, the Dynasty Warriors-esque action game set in The Legend of Zelda universe, is coming to Wii U this year. And developer Tecmo Koei hopes the game is a big hit, obviously.
Speaking in interview with Nikkei Trendy regarding the company’s goals for the upcoming fiscal year, Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa revealed selling a million copies of the upcoming Wii U game was among them.
“In addition to our Warriors series fan base, Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda is also a very popular series with a large fan base, and I think it will become a great new market,” said Erikawa. “Because of The Legend of Zelda’s legion of fans overseas, we are aiming to sell more than one million copiesworldwide.”
As Erikawa pointed out, given the immense popularity of both franchises, one million sales doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. This project seems like a good opportunity for cross-pollination, pulling in folks from both sides of the aisle to experience something new. Maybe they’ll even sell a few consoles in the process.


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Ubisoft has cracked down on cheaters in the PC version of Tom Clancy’s The Division, and will implement new anti-cheat systems in the upcoming update, PCGamer reports.
The game is set to receive a massive update on 12 April 2016, which will include the addition of Incursions and long-awaited changes such as the ability to trade items.
The Division’s April update will also allow players to report each other for cheating via a “/report [user]” command.
The report function flags players for inspection, and action will only be taken against reported players if they are found to be cheating.
Ubisoft’s punishment for cheaters is harsh enough to ease the frustration of PC players who have run into them regularly.
After an initial offense is confirmed, cheaters will be suspended for three days without warning – and if they are found to be cheating when they return, they will be permanently banned from The Division.
As is often the case with multi-platform releases, cheaters are only a major problem on the PC version of Tom Clancy’s The Division.


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Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' to Focus on Performance, Quality
After the Worldwide Developers Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard." True to rumors, the release will focus on performance rather than new features.
We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more, said Bertrand Serlet, Apples senior vice president of Software Engineering. In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the worlds most advanced operating system.
A new technology called "Grand Central" will make it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Also introduced is Open Compute Library (OpenCL), which extends the computing power of the GPU to any application written with OpenCL commands. Snow Leopard will also raise the software limit for RAM to 16 TB.
Beyond speed enhancements, Snow Leopard will also include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Apple is aiming for the software to ship in "about a year."
Other announcements made at WWDC include 3G iPhone, 2.0 Firmware, SDK, MobileMe.
Update: Apple posted a Snow Leopard page on their website.
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As part of its ambitious “No American Left Unscrewed” Plan, your friends and protectors at the federal level have found another concession on which to muscle in: Farmer’s markets. In a perfect film noire scene, you can almost hear the words “Nice small farm ya got here, Mac. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
According to the group Local Harvest the new regulations under the Food Safety Modernization Act which was passed back in 2010. The act was passed to keep food produced by industrial agriculture safe. That move, in and of itself was a good idea. Another good idea was the exemption given to smaller farms. That exemption meant that these small farms did not have to cope with the long list of regulations that the industry must follow. That exemption is going away. Now some will say fair is fair, if the industrial ag folks have a list of rules to keep people safe, so should the small, or hobby farmer. But can we try for some perspective here? There is a few light years’ worth of distance between a factory farm with hundreds acres of chemically processed produce that will go into bagged salads or thousands of chickens jammed into cages that will go into plastic wrap; and the guy or gal with a few acres of vegetables and twenty or so chickens who hauls the fruit of his or her labor to the local farmer’s market on Saturday mornings.
The rules, which will require government inspections of local produce and meat, and will also require a fee for the small farmer to be able to sell the product do not in reality apply to 90 percent of the farmers out there, since they are not producing the high-risk foods that require the stringent requirements of the FDA. On top of that Cornucopia Institute notes that even the FDA has admitted that the application of the rules will put some medium and small farmers out of business. And on top of that the rules won’t do a blessed thing for food safety, since the small to medium farmer is not the one breaking the rules. The rule breakers, says the Institute, are the factory farms and uninspected imports. I talked to one small farmer who is anticipating coughing up around $4700 a year to sell his produce, which will go under the FDA microscope and isn’t optimistic about his future.
The upshot of this, according to Local Harvest is the shuttering of more farms and fewer options for those who might want food gracing their tables that is not full of hormones, or chemicals.
Now some may be wondering why I am standing up for small farmers and farmer’s markets on Townhall. Good question. And I remember a few years ago when liberals were getting steamed over conservatives becoming interested in organic foods.
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As you have probably heard, General Motors has issued recall notices for 2.5 million cars, including Chevy Cobalts, HHRs, Saturn Ions, Pontiac G5s, Pontiac Solstices, and Saturn Skys. Those vehicles have faulty ignition switches that may move out of the on position while driving. This can result in the engine being shut off, power steering and brakes being disabled, and airbags failing to deploy in the event of a crash.
GM is facing pressure to tell owners of the 2.5 million cars that the cars are unsafe and shouldn't be driven. One personal injury attorney has asked a federal judge to order GM to tell owners of the recalled vehicles that the cars shouldn't be driven until the ignition switches are replaced. The judge is expected to issue a ruling soon.
In addition to the legal situation, a U.S. Senator has asked for his constituents to sign a petition demanding that GM get the cars off the roads. He has also sent a letter to the CEO of GM asking for a stronger warning by GM to the owners of the vehicles about the recalled vehicles' safety. In testimony before a Senate subcommittee, GM's CEO said that if she felt there was a serious risk posed by the vehicles, she would have "grounded" them. She claimed that the vehicles are safe as long as the driver has nothing hanging from the ignition other than the ignition key.
Unfortunately, GM knew about this defective ignition switch issue since 2004. However, they did not choose to do a recall until this year, which has resulted in 13 deaths and 31 crashes. Many companies choose to put profits ahead of consumer safety, and they are legally accountable to consumers who are injured by their defective products. If you have been injured because of a defective automobile or another defective product, call the Houston product liability attorneys at Kennedy Hodges at 713-489-9493. We will be happy to consult with you on your case. Call to learn more.