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December 19, 2011
Woman of Power: Amsale Aberra, Designing a Legacy
Most people are surprised to learn that one of the most respected and celebrated bridal designers in the world is a Black woman. But Amsale Aberra, the Ethopian-born fashion designer who will be honored with a Legacy Award at the 2012 Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit and who has had her creations worn by school teachers to socialites to stars like Halle Berry, is full of surprises.
Like most entrepreneurial endeavors, the Amsale brand was born out of an identified void in the marketplace; and the gumption to fill that void. “I started [my label] right after my wedding in 1985. I was looking for a very simple gown for myself and thought ‘I can’t be the only person searching for this.’ and so I started a small custom business,” says the University of Massachusetts graduate, who supported herself in college through a number of odd-jobs. After graduating, Amsale left Boston for the Big Apple to hone her design skills at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, she landed a job at Harve Bernard. “I was his assistant. We did suits and career type dresses,” she recalls.
When asked what her big break was as a bridal designer Amsale reveals, “When you’re first starting out, every little thing is a big break.” She adds with a chuckle, “When I received that first call [for a purchase] I thought, someone actually wants a dress from me.” Soon, the New York Times came knocking at her door. “They did a profile on me as a new designer in the style section. It really got the attention of editors who later requested wedding dresses,” she explains.
Fast forward to 2011 and that initial small, custom based business has expanded to an empire including the classic collection Amsale, Kenneth Pool for the edgy, over the top bride, Christos, a feminine and soft collection of gowns and bridesmaid dresses of which Amsale boasts, “I don’t do bridesmaid dresses that say bridesmaid. They’re sophisticated.” She also has a red carpet collection consisting of couture eveningwear. In addition, last season Amsale added reality television to her already packed resume with the debut of her WeTV show, Amsale Girls, that allows viewers to observe what goes on behind the scenes of her swanky Madison Avenue showroom. And the talented designer is far from finished admitting that she’s interested in bridal accessories like jewelry and shoes and even a home line. “When we have the right partner, we can do different things. It just has to be the right time,” she says.
For other Black women who aspire to break into the bridal industry as a designer, Amsale offers this advice: “If you’re committed and have a very clear idea, eventually you will succeed,” she shares. But she adds this important caveat, “Have a point of view. There are a lot of designers out there. Doing the same thing as everyone else; it is hard to succeed that way. Be unique about your idea and stick with it,” warns Amsale.
The groundbreaking-yet-humble designer shies away from labels like innovator. “I never really considered myself an innovator. More than being an innovator, I’m someone who is passionate about consistently making a product I believe in,” Amsale admits. She adds, “My line evolved from me being the patternmaker, cutting the fabric and making every dress one at a time. Clearly that is a huge change to where I am today. But what has remained the same is my attention to the entire process. I always think about the bride, the woman wearing the dress.”
Join Amsale and hundreds of powerful women for the annual Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit hosted by State Farm, Feb. 15—18, 2012, at The Ritz-Carlton, Orlando, FL. This exciting, executive leadership summit is your chance to focus on YOU. Network with industry leaders, learn career strategies, find work-life balance, and start creating–and living–the life you really want! Register now and use code DGED12 to receive a $200 discount off the price of registration! (Cannot be combined with other offers).
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New York/Hong Kong - Bitcoin surpassed $11 000 in a matter of hours after hitting the $10 000 milestone, taking this year’s price surge to almost 12-fold as buyers shrugged off increased warnings that the largest digital currency is an asset bubble.
The euphoria is bringing to the mainstream what was once considered the provenance of computer developers, futurists and libertarians seeking to create an alternative to central bank-controlled monetary systems.
While the actual volume of transactions conducted in cryptocurrencies is relatively small, the optimism surrounding the technology continues to drive it to new highs.
Some on Wall Street are embracing the run, with more than 100 hedge funds now dedicated to digital currencies. Others are issuing dire warnings, with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz saying it ought to be outlawed as it “doesn’t serve any socially useful function”
Bitcoin has risen by about 75% percent since October alone, after developers agreed to cancel a technology update that threatened to split the digital currency.
Even as analysts disagree on whether the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation is truly an asset, its $178bn value already exceeds that of about 95% of the S&P 500 Index members and is driving the debate about where financial technology is headed.
“It feels frothy, of course,” said Bob Diamond, chief executive officer of Atlas Merchant Capital, said in a Bloomberg television interview with Francine Lacqua.
“I think the issue here is the disruptive nature of technology” for banks. “Whether it’s the application of blockchain, or their core processing, or delivery to customers or clients, financial services today is being disrupted by technology.”
Fed nominee comments
The rising profile of digital currencies even saw bitcoin feature in the Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday for Federal Reserve chair nominee Jerome Powell, who’s a current board member. Answering a senator’s question, he said that “cryptocurrencies are something we monitor very carefully”, and that at some point their volumes “could matter” for monetary policy, though not today.
“It really is a validation of the fact there’s real enthusiasm, real value and maybe a use case for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,” said Arthur Hayes, co-founder and chief executive officer with BitMEX, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency derivatives venue.
“It’s the start of broader attention and adoption by the investing public.”
There’s no agreed authority for the price of bitcoin, and quotes can vary significantly across exchanges.
From Wall Street executives to venture capitalists, observers have been weighing in, with some more sceptical than others as bitcoin’s rise has grown steeper, sweeping along individual investors.
The number of accounts at Coinbase, one of the largest platforms for trading bitcoin and rival Ethereum, has almost tripled to 13 million in the past year, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
In a move toward mainstream investing, CME Group has said it plans to start offering futures contracts for bitcoin, which could begin trading in December. JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank, was weighing last week whether to help clients bet on bitcoin via the proposed futures contracts, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

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One of the highlights of Friday’s Gooding and Company Scottsdale auction was the sale of the 1963 Iso Grifo A/3L prototype. For many in the audience, it was the first time they’d ever seen the car, and the crowd’s electric reaction helped propel the prototype $100k over its high estimate to a hammer price of $1.6 million.
The A/3L was unlike anything the world had ever seen in 1963. Designed by Giotto Bizzarrini and styled by Bertone’s Giorgetto Giugiaro, the car was first revealed at the Turin Motor Show that year. Company owner Renzo Rivolta immediately approved of the prototype – which would lose a number of interesting touches as it went into production.
Unique to the A/3L was a functionally vented fender and bulging rocker panel that extracted heat from the exhaust headers of the Corvette-based V8 driveline. The lower roofline and beltline were raised for the subsequent production run.
After a stint on the show circuit and then as a factory test mule, the A/3L was imported into the U.S. in the early 1970s. Suffering all the typical indignities of a used car, it was repainted in orange and wore a replacement nosepiece from a later-production Grifo.
A few years later, Winston Goodfellow – a noted classic car author and founder of the Iso/Bizzarrini Owners Club – discovered the car showing 50,000 original kilometers, which is about 31,000 miles.
Goodfellow told friend and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance judge John Ling about the discovery. Ling purchased the A/3L and commenced a full restoration at his Wisconsin shop, Silverstone Restorations. Scott Grundfor from Grundfor Restorations used a CAD computer system to fabricate the original nose shape from period photographs.
Exquisitely restored to its original Turin Motor Show configuration, the A3/L was presented at the 1989 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where it won a class award and the Gwenn Graham Memorial Trophy for Most Elegant Closed Car – the first time the prize had ever been awarded to a postwar automobile. Returning to Pebble Beach in 1995, it won First in Class.
The 28th lot to cross the block on Friday, the A/3L was part of a streak of the first 31 cars (interrupted only by a no-sale of a 1965 Jaguar E-Type) to find new owners on the first day of the auction. Sixty-seven total lots sold on Friday, with only 10 no-sales and one withdrawal.
Unfortunately, three of those no-sales were big ticket items: a 1956 Jaguar D-Type failed to sell at $8.85 million, a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet didn’t meet reserve at $6.4 million, and a 1961 Ferrari Series II Cabriolet was close-but-no-cigar at $1.35 million.
The second day of the auction begins Saturday at 11 A.M. MST, and will be live-streamed.


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Tokyo Games Show 2013: Sony Japan press conference live stream, see it!
September 9 on 15:00 Japan Local Time, SCEJA led a press conference of the Playstation brand. I do not know what we see on it, but Sony has to show something big, maybe PS4 launching date in Japan or new game for her. Watch live stream transmission in this entry. 07:00 am UK TIME.


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EUROPE–Planeta Junior and Giochi Preziosi will present the new 3D CGI series “Gormiti” at a special event for the Italian entertainment and licensing industry.
The event will see Giochi Preziosi present exclusive clips of the new series as well as new products from the “Gormiti” toy collection. The event will take place today, Oct. 26, at Oxygen (Via Campestre Bresso) in Milan, Italy.
The new series follows four kids after they discover One Tower and the Elemental Bracers, which allows them to call and fight with the legendary Gormiti. However, the Tower revealed itself for a reason: the Darkans, Gormiti ancestral enemies, are back and threating all living beings in Gorm. Unprepared, the kids learn how to become true heroes, call on the Gormiti and save their world.
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Path of Exile’sAwakening expansion will officially release on July 10th. Grinding Gear will continue PoE’s storyline into Act IV with the new update. The patch also introduces completely new areas, monsters, and end-game maps for the first time since the game’s launch. New classes of skills are coming, too, along with “masses of new gear” and UI improvements, according to Grinding Gear’s latest press release.
The firm has released a new trailer for The Awakening, which you can view after the cut.


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Vodafone India, as of March 2015, had 97.91 million rural subscribers out of total 338 million GSM technology rural customers, telecom group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) in its recent report said.
“The KisaanMitr is available in 10 languages and is SMS-based service wherein farmers can sign up to get three free SMSes every day. This will also be an app-based service at a later stage,” Vodafone India Chief Executive Sunil Sood told ET.
The UK-based telco has also kept platform open and will allow ecosystem partners including non-profits to leverage it for newer services and is likely to bring in aggregators for the real-time produce market information services.
The process, according to Vodafone, is three-tiered that includes access to basic agricultural information, availability of market-related services and enhance access to financial inclusion and said that access to 3G network will enable new business models.
Sood said that mobile technology can improve agricultural production and contribute to the economic development of the sector. The initiative, he said will allow farmers to get personalized crop advisory, weather information, pesticide composition and market price services.
The service is free and currently available on trial basis and later, it would be transformed into a subscription-based model with minimal charges as the company was not eyeing big revenue from this initiative.
It is estimated that this initiative has a potential to benefit 70 million farmers by 2020 and feels that mobile technology is most ubiquitous to access relevant information.
Vodafone Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific region CEO Serpil Timuray said that mobile connections have a huge role to play and have potential to increase agricultural revenue by 2020.
As a part of Vodafone Foundation, the telco has already launched this program named Vodafone Farmers’ Club in other five markets that include Turkey, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana and New Zealand.


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Apple is squirreling away money to pay for lawsuits related to its iPhone 'batterygate' throttling scandal
- Apple faces government investigations and a class-action lawsuit over a software update that slowed down some iPhone processors.
- Apple says that the software was designed to improve the user experience and prevent unexpected shutdowns in older phones.
- Now, Apple has set aside some money to pay to resolve these issues, according to a recent company filing.
As 2017 turned to 2018, Apple faced a swell of consumer anger.
Users had claimed for years that Apple slowed down their older iPhones through software updates. When one maker of benchmark software produced data and analysis that showed that a few notable software updates did seem to slow down the iPhone's processor, criticism exploded.
Apple said that the processor slowdown was related to aging batteries, and that the processor throttling software was introduced to prevent older iPhones from shutting down unexpectedly. But there was a lot of consumer anger, leading to class-action lawsuits, and even investigations from the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Now, Apple says in a recent SEC filing that it has set aside some money to pay for the litigation as a contingency.
"Apple believes that its iPhones were not defective, that the performance management feature introduced with iOS updates 10.2.1 and 11.2 was intended to, and did, improve customers' user experience, and that the Company did not make any misleading statements or fail to disclose any material information," Apple said in the 10-Q filing. "The Company has accrued its best estimate for the ultimate resolution of these matters."
Apple declined to comment when asked by Business Insider the monetary value of that estimate.
While there are a lot of minor news stories about Apple bugs and issues with its latest products, there are some signs that Apple's battery saga could end up being material to the company's massive bottom line.
As part of its apology, Apple offered discount battery replacements to some iPhone users, which was pointed to by Apple executives as one reason for its sales miss during this past holiday season. Apple replaced 11 million batteries during 2018, up from the 1-2 million it would expect to replace during a typical year, according to Apple blogger John Gruber.
There is also a class-action lawsuit that is starting to progress, as Apple notes in its filing. While class-action lawsuits like that often take years to work through the courts, previous class-action suits have resulted in $450 million judgments against the iPhone maker.
So it's not surprising that Apple is setting aside money to pay for litigation surrounding the processor-throttling update. The filing also noted a lawsuit related to VirtnetX over patents and the battle with Qualcomm as other contingencies.
Here's the full language from Apple's filing:
iOS Performance Management Cases
"Various civil litigation matters have been filed in state and federal courts in the U.S. and in various international jurisdictions alleging violation of consumer protection laws, fraud, computer intrusion and other causes of action related to the Company's performance management feature used in its iPhone operating systems, introduced to certain iPhones in iOS updates 10.2.1 and 11.2. The claims seek monetary damages and other non-monetary relief. On April 5, 2018, several U.S. federal actions were consolidated through a Multidistrict Litigation process into a single action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In addition to civil litigation, the Company is also responding to governmental investigations and requests for information relating to the performance management feature. The Company believes that its iPhones were not defective, that the performance management feature introduced with iOS updates 10.2.1 and 11.2 was intended to, and did, improve customers' user experience, and that the Company did not make any misleading statements or fail to disclose any material information. The Company has accrued its best estimate for the ultimate resolution of these matters."
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Lucapa Diamond Company garnered $10 million at its second rough sale of 2019, achieving an average price of $1,800 per carat.
The miner sold 5,573 carats at the tender, it said Monday. The diamonds are from the company’s Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. Tender sales came to $22.1 million for the first half of 2019, at an average of $3,668 per carat.
The miner held back some special stones, which it will keep in its inventory, including a 130-carat, D-color, type IIa stone it found last month, and a 46-carat pink diamond it recovered a year ago.
Other than Lulo, Lucapa owns a 70% stake in the Mothae mine in Lesotho, with the government holding the remaining 30%. Additionally, the miner is carrying out exploration at the Brooking lamproite project in Western Australia and at its Orapa site in Botswana. Those two projects are temporarily on hold while the company focuses on increasing production from Lulo and Mothae.
Image: Diamonds from the Lulo tender. (Lucapa Diamond Company)


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Twitch Rumored To Be Acquired By YouTube.
According to a variety of, YouTube is set in motion on acquiring Twitch in an all-cash deal that’s worth up to $1 billion. Reports have claimed that these source are close to the situation stated that a deal is imminent with YouTube beginning the process of alerting federal regulators about this proposed deal.
Regulators may be opposed a deal due to the merging of two companies who are in “competition” with one another. After being previously purchased by Google during 2006 for up to $1.65 billion, YouTube has yet to respond to these rumors from reports but according to other reports, the deal is not as imminent as most people seems to believe.
Other new sites have reported that the two people close to this story and the negotiations have stated that talks about an sale that is “at an early stage” and that “a deal isn’t imminent” as no purchase price mentioned from he sources themselves. Lastly, There has been no mention on whether Justin.Tv would become a part of this recent supposed dealing after Kan and Shear changed the name of the parent company to Twitch Interactive.
According to a source, Twitch has also begun to search for ways into obtaining additional source of revenue for the company instead of selling the company. When Twitch first launched in 2011, they secured a total of $20 million from investors such as Thrive Capital and Take-Two interactive. While YouTube does contain a live streaming service for video games like Twitch, utilizing the service such as Twitch would help them in the video game market. Twitch averages more than 45 million visitors a month and accounted for nearly 44% of U.S. live-streaming traffic during the week of April April 7th.
Launched in 2011, Twitch.tv was created by Justin.tv founder Junstin Kan and Emmett Shear, in order to focus more on live stream for video games. Those gaming stream and eSports broadcast have become the backbone of the service, which went over one million broadcaster during much earlier in the year. The even managed to strike a deal between Sony and Microsoft to broadcast games from their company’s respective consoles, the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, in order to allow user to upload videos on Twitch from their systems.


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Jan. 27 -- Pacific Crest Securities Analyst Andy Hargreaves previews Apple’s first-quarter earnings on “Bloomberg West.” Hargreaves owns no stock in Apple.
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Roles of online and offline channels are shifting as consumer behaviour changes in the Greater Bay Area become permanent, study finds.
The Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the retail industry forever, forcing both retailers and consumers to embrace digital platforms, whether they were ready or not. New research from KPMG China, GS1 Hong Kong and HSBC suggests that the retailers who have best survived this rapid transition are those who have been able to cater to the growing level of digital engagement demanded by consumers.
The study, “Retail’s Realignment: The Road Ahead for Omnichannel in the Greater Bay Area,” explores how businesses and consumers in Hong Kong and the rest of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) are embracing the trends and technologies in a retail ecosystem challenged dramatically by the Covid-19 pandemic. A survey of 2,053 consumers and 400 senior retail executives across Hong Kong and nine Mainland China GBA cities and interviews with industry leaders identified the following trends:
1 Consumer shopping behaviour has changed for good
Among Hong Kong consumers surveyed, 50% said they felt more comfortable shopping online since the start of the pandemic, and of those in the nine Mainland China GBA cities, 59%. Around one in four consumers surveyed said they could live without physical stores, while about 60% said they better understand how to search for products online. Meanwhile, retailers interviewed for the study said that shoppers’ new habits will be hard to break, and the gains made by digital channels mean that many shoppers will not return to physical stores.
2 Consumers expect brands to offer an integrated online-to-offline (O2O) experience, with Generation Z leading the charge
respondents from Hong Kong and 85% from Mainland China GBA cities expect retailers to have a better connection between online and offline channels. Despite this, the survey revealed that only 39% of businesses were currently focusing on integration between their online and physical stores, suggesting a significant gap in retailers’ O2O propositions.
At the forefront of these expectations is Generation Z, those born from 1995 to 2010. Analysis of consumers aged 18-24 shows that 73% in Hong Kong and 86% in Mainland GBA cities expect a swift response to product enquiries logged on online chat, and expect brands to use tech including AI to help shortlist new products based on purchase history and style.
Consumers also expressed a desire to be able to engage with brands across social media and other digital mediums, and they expect brands to use technology to improve customer service, ease of payment, logistics and convenient product returns. This suggests that brands and retailers who forge comprehensive O2O strategies that encompass multiple digital points of engagement will enjoy a significant market advantage in the years ahead.
These strategies should take into account the changing roles of online and offline channels, reflecting when, where and how customers prefer to engage with brands and make purchases. For example, for some types of products, customers may prefer to experience and test products in-person at a retail store and then purchase online later; while for others, browsing and purchasing may happen entirely on a brand website, marketplace or social media channel.
3 Demonstrating authenticity and explaining purpose is more important than ever before to build trust with customers
The pandemic has sharpened consumers’ focus on health, sustainability and well-being. In the survey, authenticity was the number-one characteristic that attracted consumers to brands, out of a list of 10 other attributes. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 68% of Hong Kong consumers and 65% of those from Mainland China GBA cities say they are more conscious of a product’s origins.
4 Sourcing, upskilling and reskilling talent remains a key challenge for retailers, highlighting the need for education initiatives
For a majority of the retailers interviewed, sourcing talent with the right skills in digital and data analytics, along with training and upskilling existing staff to build a future-ready workforce, were identified as leading challenges. Executives mentioned IT and systems support, data analytics, and research and development as areas where they are facing the greatest talent shortages, while sales, marketing and communications was another key area of concern. This finding highlights the need for educational institutions to be more proactive in developing relevant digital skills training programmes that can better serve the retail industry.
5 Consumers expect brands to deploy technology to speed fulfilment and reduce costs
As consumers become more adept at searching, shopping and paying for goods online, they expect brands to step up their implementation of technologies to make the shopping process faster and more efficient. They are ready to embrace solutions which help them more easily search for items and recommend products based on their purchasing history, even if this means they have to share personal data. However, concerns remain among consumers about the security of that data – with 76% of respondents overall saying they believe companies provide a moderate, low or insufficient level of data security.
6 The need for comprehensive strategies for the GBA and Southeast Asia is more apparent
The survey reflects that 73% of retailers are implementing GBA-specific strategies across one or more of their business functions. However, where these strategies exist was less consistent: the most common business functions for which retailers are implementing a GBA strategy are sales, marketing and communications (43%). On the other hand, just 16% are developing GBA-specific strategies for finance or human resources and 10% for legal.
Given ongoing regulatory changes as well as tax and legal considerations for cross-border recruitment and capital flows, this suggests that a potential gap exists in how retailers are planning their back-office functions with relation to the GBA. At the same time, many retailers are looking to expand into Southeast Asia, a region that is experiencing rapid adoption of e-commerce, particularly on mobile channels. Industry executives interviewed for the study emphasised the need for adequate localisation of products, services and marketing approaches to appeal to this growing pool of digital-savvy consumers.
【Source: The Bulletin HKGCC , September, 2021】
【2021年9月，文章來源： 香港總商會工商月刊 】


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Wow, this is great news. It's actually not a bad space for that side of the street and I think they can do a much better job with it than ABP did.The au bon pain on Cambridge street in the West end/beacon Hill has closed. There are signs that a flour will replace it and open in the spring. As someone who lives close, this is clearly an upgrade and helps solve the problem of no good fast breakfast place in beacon Hill
Wow, neither of those things were true 5 years ago. I haven’t been into a Tatte since the acquisition, but I was in a newer Flour location a few months ago and didn’t think it was “moderately corporate and sterile.” It was jam packed with people which wasn’t pleasant, but I don’t know what you could mean by your comment.Tatte=corporate and sterile. Flour=moderately less so
Flour is not corporate and sterile in any way, shape, or form. Tatte barely is either -- I agree it's overpriced and not amazing, but they're still all locally owned in Boston and have beautiful spaces.Nice to see it will be a Flour and not a Tatte, those places are multiplying like a disease right now. I didnt even realize a new one had opened in the old B3 spot in Berkley. Tatte=corporate and sterile. Flour=moderately less so
It happened in 2017, per the below. Panera only owned Tatte for about a year, and only then a slim majority stake. The founder is probably happy with where she is now, but fair to say that the perception of having gone corporate was a blow to the chain's reputation, since most people still seem to think that Panera owns them three years later.Not sure this is true. All I can find is that Tatte is owned (majority stake) by Panera. Never saw news it was sold by Panera - can you back that up?
In 2016, Or sold just over 50 percent of her company to Panera Bread and continued to operate Tatte as an independent company. In 2017, when Panera founder and CEO Ron Shaich sold Panera for $7.5 billion to JAB Holding Corp. and left the company, he took Panera’s share of Tatte with him.
Tatte is not owned by Panera.Tatte is also owned by Panera.
Shaich is a local guy, and as well as Tatte he's also a major investor in /owner of Life Alive, Clover, and CAVA.Boston Globe said:Tatte owner Or has also made an effort to publicize that Panera Bread is no longer an investor in Tatte. Panera was sold to JAB Holding Co.
Thank you! Surprised there wasn't more media attention given to this...It happened in 2017, per the below. Panera only owned Tatte for about a year, and only then a slim majority stake. The founder is probably happy with where she is now, but fair to say that the perception of having gone corporate was a blow to the chain's reputation, since most people still seem to think that Panera owns them three years later.
Well, that sucks. I always enjoyed Meritage.Meritage in the Boston Harbor Hotel and one of Boston’s dwindling number of four diamond restaurants(now only six) to close February 15.
I honestly don't have much experience with Pavement, I've been in the Newbury st one and got a regular coffee if memory serves. Seemed nice. Seems way more local and small-businessy than Tatte. They have way more street cred in my bookHow do you feel about Pavement?
I personally like Tatte well enough. The food is overpriced, but I try to go once every other month or so because (while expensive) it’s really yummy!
If it activates the space and means we don’t have retail vacancy, I think it’s a win. I hope the landlords aren’t charging too much to the daycare centers to operate these spaces, though. Where are you talking about?I've noticed that day care centers are now taking up storefronts on seemingly every corner. Does anyone have an opinion on that?
Right, surely any weakness in DTX's retail sector is clearly attributable to a random one-off act of youthful hooliganism, and not the global forces of hyperappreciation of urban real estate conjoined with the Amazon juggernaut.And some wonder why Downtown Crossing retail is anemic.
Youths destroy merchandise, pull out stun gun and mace at Downtown Crossing Macy’s - The Boston GlobeA teenage boy was arrested and a group of juveniles were detained after they repeatedly destroyed merchandise and pulled out a stun-gun and mace at the Macy’s in Downtown Crossing Wednesday afternoon, Boston police said.www.bostonglobe.com


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By DAMIAN J. TROISE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Monday, gaining more ground following the market’s first weekly gain in five weeks.
The S&P 500 rose 0.9% as of 10:18 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 172 points, or 0.5%, to 33,799 and the Nasdaq rose 1.5%.
Technology stocks were among the biggest gainers. Apple jumped 1.9%. Energy stocks gained ground as crude oil prices rose 3.6%. Valero Energy rose 2.8%.
The broader gains come amid several disappointing financial updates from retailers dealing with weaker sales and profit margins as inflation dents consumer spending. Macy’s shed 8.2% and Lululemon Athletica fell 10.1% after issuing cautious outlooks.
The latest corporate earnings are starting to trickle in as investors try to get a better sense of inflation’s ongoing impact on consumers and businesses. Several big companies will report their results later this week, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and UnitedHealth.
The big focus for investors remains how inflation and its impact on the economy will affect the Federal Reserve’s plan to continue raising interest rates. The central bank is trying to make borrowing more difficult and slow the economy to tame inflation, but it risks going too far and bringing on a recession.
Government reports last week showed that the employment market remains resilient. While that’s good for the economy, it also makes the Fed’s job more difficult by putting upward pressure on wages. Investors were encouraged by some of the data that showed wage growth may be tempering.
Bond yields were mixed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury remained at 3.57% from late Friday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track future action from the Fed, fell to 4.23% from 4.26% late Friday.
Markets in Europe and Asia gained ground. A Chinese financial news outlet cited a top central bank official as saying that China’s more than two-year crackdown on internet companies is nearly finished.
E-commerce giant Alibaba rose 1.4%. Late Friday, Alibaba affiliate and leading Chinese financial technology provider Ant Group announced its founder, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, will give up control of the company. The move followed efforts by the Chinese government to rein in Ma and the country’s tech sector more broadly.
Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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Developers and hackers, rejoice! Sony Ericsson will be unlocking the bootloader for a handful of its newer models, meaning no more painstaking custom unlocks and ROM hunts. Plus, it’s all totally legit, so no more grey areas regarding hacking legalities.
The news was announced by Senior Program Architect Karl-Johan Dahlström on the Sony Ericsson Developer Blog. The bootloader option will be available sometime this spring, but it will have its limitations. For instance, it will only work on Xperia Play, Arc, Neo, and Pro models, and the handset can’t have the SIM locked to a carrier. And even then, only particular releases of said handsets will work. Dahlström said the best way to find out if your phone is eligible is by connecting it to the Fastboot tool in the Android SDK.
He explained that the reason it has taken so long to free up the bootloader to developers and the restrictions have mainly been due to business agreements between partners. So in order to not put partners’ noses out of joint, they picked very specific cellphones and requirements to offer the bootloader up.
Regardless, this is still good news for the developing community, and it will be interesting to see what developers on the the XDA Developers or Android Community forums will get up to with the bootloader to hand. For those with earlier Xperia models like the X8, you haven’t been forgotten; there are hacks out there aimed specifically at you.
The usual Geek Tech disclaimer: Only tinker with your phone if you are confident you know what you are doing. If you are going to unlock your cellphone, be aware that you may void your warranty as well as brick your phone if something goes wrong. Don’t say we didn’t warn you and don’t blame us if your unlock doesn’t go to plan.
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1. Underground 1930s London Club Comes Back to Life
“Queer City: London Club Culture 1918-1967” is the result of a collaboration between the UK’s National Trust and National Archives, in which the two organizations have re-created The Caravan, a queer-friendly members club in central London that existed for a mere six weeks in 1934, before being raided and closed by the police. From March 2-26, visitors will be able to visit the club, and even have a drink there during evening openings.
2. Global Art Sales Fall 22% after Market Reactions to Trump and Brexit
Global art sales are down by 22% from 2015, as the Art market reacts to a turbulent year with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. The number of mega-expensive works sold and this represents pieces over the value of $10m for a single work of art has also tumbled by up to 50%. China has regained its status as the world’s top market,over the US another revelation that the west isn’t performing as well as it was a year ago.
3. Metropolitan Museum’s Director Resigns Under Pressure
On Tuesday, Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure as the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after months of growing concerns among staff members and some trustees about its financial health and his capacity to lead the largest museum in the country. The Met said that Mr. Campbell, 54, had made the decision to leave the job he had held for eight years.
4. 20 Artists to Watch at The Armory Show
As The Armory Show opens its 23rd edition, 210 galleries from 30 countries across the globe have converged on Manhattan’s west side. The fair’s 2017 installment boasts not only roomier aisles and bigger booths, but an increase to the number of galleries in the Presents section, which offers solo or duo artist presentations by young dealers, and a revitalized Focus section, bringing in new or rarely seen work curated by Jarrett Gregory. With these changes come an abundance of artists on the rise. These range from young German photographer and Andreas Gursky protégé Louisa Clement, to first-time Venice Biennale participants Fiete Stolte to name a few.
5. A Revelation about Margaret Thatcher’s Spirited Campaign to Get the Thyssen Collection
Margaret Thatcher campaigned hard to bring the Thyssen collection to the UK, recently declassified Downing Street documents at the UK National Archives reveal. At one point in 1988, it looked like the UK prime minister was winning over Baron Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza, but British hopes were ultimately thwarted. His wife, a former Miss Spain, preferred Madrid as a home for the collection that Neil MacGregor, the then director of London’s National Gallery, advised Downing Street was “the most important private collection of paintings in the world”.
6. France’s First Permanent Fashion Museum
The Palais Galliera in Paris has been the setting of several fashion exhibitions in the last four years. Yesterday, it was announced that in 2019—with the support of the fashion brand Chanel—the Palais will open a permanent exhibition gallery, making it France’s first permanent fashion museum. Chanel has partnered with the city of Paris to finance the construction of the new space, which will be called Salles Gabrielle Chanel (The Gabrielle Chanel Rooms), at an estimated cost of €5.7 million euros ($6 million).
7. The Winners of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta have been announced as the recipients of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize – the first time that three individuals have been jointly awarded the prize. Mr. Aranda, Ms. Pigem, and Mr. Vilalta are the co-founders of Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes, which they established in 1988 in their hometown of Olot where they remain based. The decision to bestow the award on a little-known studio is a major departure for the prize, which has historically been awarded to a big name “starchitect” such as Zaha hadid or Frank Gehry.
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The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spinoff movie had a nice run in the theaters and soon it will be available for streaming online. Sure, there are countless websites online that allow you to stream illegal copies of the movie. Those who don’t want to indulge in that behavior will be able to stream Rogue One online starting next month as Netflix will be adding the movie to its […]
Ardent Star Wars fans would have definitely seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when it first hit the big screen last year. They might have seen it even more than once but that doesn’t mean many of them would have stopped wondering about its digital release. Their wait ends soon as Disney has now confirmed the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story digital release date. It has also confirmed […]
Twitter has made a major push into live streaming over the past few months and it’s capitalizing on the release of the upcoming Star Wars spinoff to further push its agenda. The microblogging network has announced today that it’s going to power a streaming event in which the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story cast is going to do a live question and answer session.
Disney has released multiple trailers for its upcoming Star Wars spinoff and it has released a new trailer over the holiday weekend. This is most likely going to be the final trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prior to the film’s release next month. The trailer, titled Trust, is a combination of footage we’ve already seen in previous trailers as well as some new bits and pieces as […]
Star Wars fans are anxiously waiting for the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It’s a spin-off of the main franchise and while events take place in this movie around the same time as they do in the original films, this movie is going to have a plot of its own and a completely separate cast. The new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer has been released […]
The fourth DLC pack for Star Wars: Battlefront is going to be something specific. EA and DICE have already done a good job of recreating locations from the original trilogy and they are now looking towards the more recent parts of the Star Wars universe to bring that content to Battlefront. It has been confirmed today that the fourth DLC for this game is going to be based on Rogue […]
It was rumored back in January this year that in one of the three spin-off Star Wars movies that Disney is going to produce, we’ll get to see Darth Vader once again. It was said that our favorite Sith Lord would return in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Fans have held on to that hope for months and they will be delighted to find out that Darth Vader’s presence […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has had a very good run and while the next movie in this new trilogy isn’t going to arrive soon, there is another Star Wars-related movie that’s going to come out later this year. Today, the first Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer has been released, and from the looks of it the new movie appears to be different from the Star Wars stories […]


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The all-new fifth-generation 2019 Toyota RAV4 comes to market riding a new platform with a bold new look, more upscale cabin, and a wide range of standard advanced safety features. But upper trim levels are pricey, the engine sounds coarse when pushed, while the transmission is programmed for efficiency over sportiness.
All-new last year, the 2019 Volvo XC60 T8 E-AWD carries on with a lovely, subdued design, stunning, versatile cabin, silky ride, and a fuel-efficient drivetrain that features eight-speed automatic. But options elevate the price quickly, premium fuel is required, while the semi-autonomous Pilot Assist system still needs some work.
Mid-cycle updates including the addition of standard advanced safety features keep the 2019 Hyundai Elantra Sport fresh, while the 2.0-liter turbo and fully-independent suspension make for entertaining daily drives. But all is not perfect, as pedal feel and steering feedback could be better, while the 6-speed manual will not be offered next year.
All-new last year, the 2019 Lexus LS 500, the brand’s flagship sedan, impresses with a sinewy shape, sybaritic interior, and serene ride, but falls short of perfection with unimpressive piped-in engine sounds, numb steering, and an improved – but still irritating – touchpad interface.


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Cloud infrastructure – it’s been the talk of the town amongst industry insiders, businesses and pretty much anyone who knows how to use a computer.
Mergers and acquisitions are complicated. No matter how similar the two parties are, joining them together is always an intricate, complex task – so cyber security due diligence is required.
A simple solution for improving the day-to-day activities of the workforce could be by taking a sensible approach to technology innovation.
The internet is ablaze with news about a cyber attack on Parliament, placing heavy emphasis on the need for secure emails and better passwords.
When it comes to business cyber attacks, we have found that organisations are often confident in the defences they have in place.
The UK government launched its five year National Cyber Security Strategy in November 2016, investing £1.9bn to protect UK businesses from cyber attacks and make the country the safest place to live and do business online.
Organisations are only as strong as their weakest link. The National Cyber Security Centre must ensure companies develop a strategy to equip their IT teams.
It may seem overwhelming, but tackling the EU GDPR strategically and logically will make the task more manageable for businesses.
The IPSA breach saw private and confidential details regarding MPs – including salaries, working patterns and holiday entitlements – exposed to the public. But it wasn’t a criminal conspiracy. It was an accident.
The government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017 has found fraudulent emails are the most common form of cyber crime in the UK, and warned businesses make protection a “top priority”.
Consumers place a lot of trust in retailers when making online purchases, especially when it comes to keeping their personal details secure.
Wonga has become the latest company in the data breach hotseat – and many have used the incident to talk about GDPR and cybersecurity.


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There was no shortage of surprises out of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, where the company introduced its new Galaxy S24 lineup to the world. So far, they’re shaping out to be some of the best phones out there — setting the tone for all other flagship releases in 2024. We knew a lot about the Galaxy S24 thanks to the numerous leaks leading up to the event, but there were still things we were expecting that weren’t revealed.
Samsung used its event to show people the power of artificial intelligence in its phones, like how the new Circle to Search feature makes it super convenient to surf for stuff on the devices. There’s also all the AI-assisted sorcery around photo editing with the Galaxy S24 series. And finally, the Galaxy Ring’s teaser at the tail end of the event gives us something to look forward to for later in the year.
But despite all of the announcements, there were still some missing pieces we were hoping to see. Here’s all the Galaxy S24 rumors that didn't happen at Galaxy Unpacked.
144Hz display refresh rate
Very early in the rumor cycle, the Galaxy S24 Ultra was tipped to get a display upgrade with a faster 144Hz refresh rate. That would’ve boosted mobile gaming on the Galaxy S24 Ultra to put it on par with the experience found on some of the best gaming laptops. This would have improved latency ever so slightly, but it ended up not happening. Instead, the Galaxy S24 Ultra features the same adaptive 1-120Hz refresh rate as before.
Which markets are getting Exynos 2400
There was a ton of focus around gaming performance, AI features, and a new cooling system in place with the Galaxy S24 series. However, Samsung didn’t detail the processor in them during Galaxy Unpacked. Even the company’s own infographics shown near the end of the announcement don’t reveal the processors.
We know that the Galaxy S24 Ultra, regardless of the market, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. For the Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus, however, it wasn’t clear what markets will end up getting the Exynos 2400. It’s not a problem for the U.S. versions of the phones because they’ll remain Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but it would’ve been nice for Samsung to at least acknowledge what markets could get the the Exynos 2400 and how it will handle all the new AI-powered experiences.
The concept of phones implementing stacked batteries isn’t new. In fact, there were rumors that Apple was going to use them with the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max — and we also heard about rumors of it coming to the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
Stacked batteries would have allowed for more active materials, resulting in longer battery life for the phone. Due to the increased power efficiency of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, it may be the main reason why this rumor didn’t end up happening. Additionally, a stacked battery design would have increased the weight of the phone significantly.
Faster charging speeds
One of the biggest expectations around the Galaxy S24 series was for Samsung to boost the charging speeds of its phones. Instead, they remain at 45W wired and 15W wireless charging across all three models. That’s not terrible considering how Samsung rates the S24 Ultra to 65% battery capacity with 30 minutes of charging. But compared to the 80W wired charging speed of the OnePlus 12, Samsung could’ve boosted it by a little — at the very least to distance them from their predecessors.
Variable telephoto camera
Arguably on our wish list of what to get with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, there was a rumor that Samsung was going to adopt a variable telephoto camera with the Galaxy S24 Ultra. It’s not really new considering it first appeared on the Sony Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III back in 2021, but it was tipped that the S24 Ultra would ditch its two separate telephoto cameras and use a variable one instead. One leaker indicated it would be a single 3-10x variable telephoto lens, but Samsung went the usual route of keeping them separate and banking on AI to enhance their performance.
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In the fight to protect consumers and restoring access to justice one is rarely surprised by the level of corporate hypocrisy. Yet, last week’s filing by AT&T managed to do just that.
This spring, in AT&T vs Concepcion, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to consumers’ ability to access justice. In ruling that corporations can ban class actions where there is an arbitration clause in the contract, Post Concepcion, companies can potentially isolate themselves from court challenge with an arbitration clause in any contract.
Follow closely the highly illogical logic. To obtain this decision, AT&T, in Concepcion, argued that class actions in arbitrations shouldn’t be allowed because there was no meaningful judicial review of what arbitrators do; yet, they lauded individual arbitration as meaningful, efficient and economically beneficial to consumers. Since consumers now can’t bring class actions in court or in arbitration, the only recourse for a consumer fighting against corporate wrongdoing is to file in arbitration.
As it turns out though, AT&T only likes arbitration if only a few people actually use it. Last week, in response to the initiation of multiple arbitrations filed by many individuals, AT&T sought an injunction against any attempts to arbitrate such claims because, purportedly, the relief sought is akin to class-wide injunctive relief which is outside the scope of what the arbitration agreements permit. Translation: we only like arbitration if it works for us. Because too many people recently tried to bring individual arbitration filings AT&T is now bringing its customers to court.
Perhaps, consumer advocates were right all along. Pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clauses are exculpatory; they are not meant to accommodate anyone but the corporation who wrote the clause.
Written by Delicia Reynolds, Legislative Director, National Association of Consumer Advocates


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Investors are too optimistic about more fiscal help given the rancorous political climate ahead of the November elections. See full story.
Home prices could fall in cities across the U.S. as Americans sour on urban living, says famed economist Robert Shiller
Big Tech’s latest reckoning is coming as it continues to rack up record valuations
The steep ascent of Big Tech, which is fueling a resurgent stock market despite a deepening pandemic, underscores the enduring power of the industry as consumption of it escalates in a work-from-home economy. See full story.
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When Google launched Gmail, Internet users quickly began using the service. Same with Google Maps. But the company has struggled to get people to try Google Plus, its answer to Facebook and Twitter.
On Thursday, in a ham-handed attempt to make Plus seem more appealing, the company said it would allow anyone to send an email to any Gmail user through the social networking service. This follows an earlier move to give every Gmail user a profile on Plus regardless of whether they wanted one or not. The company also recently started requiring people who want to comment on YouTube videos to sign up for Plus.
The company does give Gmail users a way to opt out of unsolicited messages from other Plus users – it took me less than 30 seconds to do so. And Google also says senders will not be able to see the email addresses of the people they are writing to unless the recipients reply.
It’s good that the company is doing at least that much to protect Gmail users from a barrage of unwanted messages. But the fact that it keeps tying its weak social networking site into its stronger products seems desperate. Like Microsoft before it with its operating system and browser, Google is trying to use its dominant position in one field to push a lesser service onto unsuspecting users.
I do know some people who like and use Google Plus, but most of my friends simply aren’t interested in it. They are already on Facebook or Twitter, and find no need for another social networking outlet. No amount of shoehorning by Google executives is likely to change that.


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Driven by the increase in global demand for sensors for the smartphone and automotive markets, Amkor Technology Inc. is adding a new MEMS and sensor packaging line at its facility in Shanghai.
This new, state-of-the-art line will build on the expertise developed at the company's MEMS packaging line in the Philippines, which has produced more than 2.1 billion MEMS and sensors since 2011.
“Because the package influences device performance, MEMS and sensor development requires close collaboration between device technologists and packaging engineers,” John Donaghey, Amkor’s corporate vice president, mainstream products business unit, said. “Our Shanghai expansion allows us to better serve customers in Greater China and internationally.”
The new line in Shanghai uses Amkor’s standard strip-based processes and leading-edge test protocols to speed up the time to market.
Amkor Technology is one of the world’s largest providers of semiconductor packaging and test services. Founded in 1968, the company is a strategic manufacturing partner for more than 250 of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, foundries and electronics OEMs.
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The extremely progressive people of Norway have already replied to Steve Jobs revolutionary statement petitioning the end of DRM yesterday. It is the first official response to the head of Apple.
The statement came from the Norwegian Consumer Council's Torgeir Waterhouse and it said the following;
"We’re happy to see Steve Jobs take on the responsibility that follows from Apple’s role as one of the leading companies in the digital sphere and comment on the complaint issued by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
Our concern is of course that it’s Apple and [the] iTunes Music Store [that] should be addressing the issue of record companies and DRM themselves if it needs to be addressed - and as we’ve stated earlier it’s iTunes Music Store that’s providing a service to the consumers and therefore has the responsibility to offer up a consumer friendly product."
So their is no doubt that Norway sides with Steve Jobs.
The Norwegian Consumer Council had launched a formal complaint to Apple's iTunes music service back on the 25th of January of 2006 claiming that iTunes was "an example of a general trend which is increasingly restricting consumer rights."


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Samsung to challenge jury award to Apple
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Samsung Electronics Co. will challenge a jury's $120 million award to Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement verdict that was "unsupported by evidence," a lawyer said.
Samsung will ask the trial judge and an appeals court, if necessary, to reduce the damages awarded by the jury Friday and Monday to zero, John Quinn, a lawyer for the maker of Galaxy smartphones, said in a statement.
Apple had sought as much as $2.2 billion in damages in the companies' second San Jose trial as the world's top two smartphone makers seek to dominate a market that was valued at $338.2 billion last year.
Samsung had 31 percent of industry revenue, compared with 15 percent for Cupertino's Apple, whose share of the market has shrunk as the touch-screen interface has become more commonplace and rivals have introduced lower-cost phones.
The jury's verdict, which included findings of infringement by both companies, sets the stage for each to seek a judge's order banning U.S. sales of some older devices found to have copied its technology.
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"Of course we're pleased that the jury awarded Apple 6 percent of what they were asking for," Quinn said. "But even that can't stand, because Apple kept out all the real-world evidence and didn't produce anything to substitute for it, so you have a verdict that's unsupported by evidence - and that's just one of its problems."
Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
She said earlier that the jury's verdict "reinforces what courts around the world have already found: that Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products."
The verdict is the eighth-largest jury award in the U.S. this year, and the fourth-largest in a patent case.
After the judge said there was a possible error in the verdict jurors issued Friday, the panel reviewed its calculations Monday and made some modifications, while leaving the total amount of damages the same.
Michael Risch, a professor at Villanova University's law school, said he interprets Quinn's statement to mean that he thinks the damages analysis presented by Apple at the trial "was so unhinged from reality that it could not support any damages."
"Samsung will likely appeal," Risch said in an e-mail. "At this stage an appeal is cheap, even if the total can be reduced by $10-$20 million."
Apple claimed 10 Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S3, violated five of its patents on a range of user-interface designs for the iOS software that powers iPhones and iPads.
Samsung contended that five Apple devices, including the iPhone 5 and versions of the iPod, infringe on two of its patents. Samsung sought $6.2 million in damages.
Apple won infringement findings on three of its five patents. Jurors also found that Apple violated one of Samsung's patents and awarded $158,000 in damages to the maker of Galaxy smartphones.
The jury heard almost four weeks of evidence in the same courtroom where the first trial was held two years ago.


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AEG PS inaugurates Indian solar inverter factory18. October 2011 | Applications & Installations, Industry & Suppliers, Products | By: Becky Stuart
AEG Power Solutions has inaugurated its new 400 megawatt (MW) solar inverter factory in Bangalore, India. While 40 people have already been hired, it is expected that a total of 150 jobs will be created.
A spokesperson tells pv magazine that production has already begun on AEG’s PV.250 and PV.500 solar inverter series at the 80,000 square foot facility, which was built with the help of the company’s German subsidiary in Belecke/Warstein.
They add that while the annual peak load capacity is 400 MW, this can later be ramped up to 1,000 MW.
The next phase of expansion, says the spokesperson, will see the production of uninterruptible power supplies. Manufacture on the company’s Protect Blue product, which is more specifically designed for Data & IT applications, is expected to start in the second quarter of 2012.
"The growing energy demand of the country causes also a higher demand for products, which guarantee an uninterruptible power supply and create a reliable infrastructure for industrial power users. AEG PS offers a consistent product portfolio covering all these demands perfectly," commented Sridhar Murthy, MD of AEG PS in India.
The new facility was officially inaugurated by Horst J. Kayser, CEO of AEG PS, last week. Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India and NS Prasanna Kumar, MD of Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited will also be in attendance.
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It is noted that the losses of other EU countries are much less. UK exports to Russia fell by eight percent, France — by four percent, and the US — the entire 0,6 percent, German economists emphasize.
After the imposition of sanctions, Germany’s exports to Russia declined by about 618 million euros a month. In 2015 alone, Western countries lost 38 billions of euros from restrictions on trade, with 90 taking the percentage of losses in the EU.
In November, Markus Fronmeier, a deputy from the party “Alternative for Germany” (AdG), said that the country had lost thousands of jobs to 42 due to anti-Russian sanctions.
A number of countries, including the United States and European Union member states, introduced restrictive measures against Russia in 2014, linking them to the annexation of the Crimea, and then to the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine. In response, Russia imposed an embargo on the importation of products from these countries, reports "Lenta.ru"


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Competition is stiff in Singapore's mobile operator space. But MyRepublic argues a 4th operator could liven things up more.
4:27 pm on May 26, 2014 by KF Lai
SPH and SingTel are giants of media and telecommunications. Their success, or lack of it, considerably impacts Singapore’s startup ecosystem.
12:01 pm on May 5, 2014 by Terence Lee
M1, Singapore's third largest telco, has launched its 10Gbps and 1GBps fiber broadband services for businesses.
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No price change for existing telco customers using 4G.
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Get ready for the rollout of a mobile wallet app that aggregates a variety of NFC services.
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Aero India 2023 will take place in Bengaluru in a grand manner between February 13 and 17, 2023, following a subdued edition in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The air show will be held at Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bengaluru, where it has been held every two years since 1996.
The Aero India 2023 website indicates that business tickets will cost Rs 5,000 for Indian citizens and $150 for foreign citizens. There has been no increase in ticket prices since the festival’s last edition.
Indian citizens will be able to purchase passes for both the exhibition and air display viewing area (ADVA) for Rs 2,500, and foreign citizens will be able to purchase passes for $50. Passes for foreign nationals have been increased slightly, but the price for Indian citizens remains unchanged. Passes cost $40 in 2021.
Indians can get ADVA passes for Rs 1,000, and foreigners can get them for $50. You can also get a discount if you book by December 31.
On the first three days, it’s just for business people, while on the last two, it’s open to everyone.


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Biometric scanning is not a new development in the realm of technology. It’s been included in a variety of computer systems to unlock devices and open doors.
However, the development of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 allows people to use their fingerprints to make payments to a physical and/or online retailer instead of pulling out credit or debit cards. Although some online banking institutions have the capacity to pay for goods through the use of an app, the Galaxy S5 is the first smartphone that allows users to make local and online purchases through fingerprint scanning.
How biometric scanning can improve our lives
Made popular in mobile devices by Apple’s iPhone 5, fingerprint scanning technology is being redefined as more than just an unlocking mechanism. Further development of the technology could make many other facets of life easier and more efficient. Some of these could include:
Identification of suspects. Police officers could utilize an app connected to a database similar to what is currently used in order to identify an individual.
Medical history evaluations. Doctors and nurses could examine records of a person by scanning a fingerprint, which would improve overall individual care.
Easier and faster retail purchases. Bank accounts linked to biometric data could allow an individual to make purchases, and reduce the need for carrying payment methods as well as decrease the waiting time in a line.
Efficiency for education. Schools could access a student’s records from a national database, thus eliminating the confusion of having those documents transferred during a move. This can also improve the information a college receives during the intake process.
Political voting purposes. Through secured servers, biometric scanning could remove the need to count ballot sheets for votes. This might also increase voter participation if it could be linked to a downloadable app for devices that have biometric scanning installed.
The possibilities are almost endless when you consider the technology involved. Because biometric scanning can be more secure than the most jumbled of passwords, there could be a great deal of uses that haven’t yet been imagined.
Skeptics will find fault in using fingerprint scanning on such a large scale. Due to the NSA developing methods of monitoring conversations, many people fear the use of such technology might not be directed primarily for the purpose it was designed.
Such fears could blunt the development of a promising technology that could vastly increase efficiency of data sharing and access.
Finding fault with biometric technology
Granted, there are legitimate objections to support concerns about the future use of biometric-controlled electronics. Some have suggested that users’ movements could be tracked across the globe using GPS location when their particular fingerprints are repeatedly scanned at various locations.
Fears of government control have already affected how consumers purchase certain goods or use online services.
Throughout history, people have abused technology by turning a development into something other than was originally intended. Too often, innovative concepts were turned into weapons to serve military purposes.
Despite the fears that surround biometric scanning, the positive influence of this technology could help more lives than it may hurt.


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Bryan Fox and Austin Smith have watched the number of snowboarders — and companies that profit from them — balloon in the last decade. Realms where a snowboarder can carve clean, remote lines are shrinking. But Fox and Smith, close friends and professional snowboarders, recently found themselves alone on the front lines against energy drinks.
Last year, Fox and Smith started writing “Drink Water” on the decks of their snowboards alongside their sponsorship logos. It was, their Web site explains, “a friendly reminder to drink water.” Shortly after, Fox and Smith started selling stickers, jackets, T-shirts and sweatshirts with the Drink Water design. Their campaign for water in favor of energy drinks was under way.
“It all stemmed from when Austin was approached by a company,” Fox said of their aversion to the flood of energy drinks into snowboarding. “We began talking about how we should do something more positive than just be downers about something we don’t agree with.”
Despite the popularity of energy drinks, Fox and Smith are emerging as a collective voice eschewing them.
“We kind of felt that we were somewhat alone in that we didn’t like energy drinks,” Smith said. But as the Drink Water message crept through the ranks of professional snowboarding, support broadened.
Soon, widely known snowboarders, including Keegan Valaika and Scotty Wittlake, were wearing Drink Water sweatshirts at contests and in videos.
“It’s been crazy to see the overwhelming support since we started this, that we’re not the only ones,” Smith said. They claim that even athletes financed by energy drink companies have offered encouragement.
Fox and Smith said opposition to energy drinks stemmed from the drinks’ ingredients, which in addition to sugar and caffeine include guarana (a plant that contains caffeine), taurine (an amino acid) and ginseng, as well as the size of doses found in servings. Unlike traditional sodas, energy drinks are not regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
As a rule, the F.D.A. considers these ingredients safe.
“Caffeine is generally well tolerated,” said Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, who has spent a decade studying the effects of energy drinks. “But there’s many physiological effects large quantities of caffeine can have. Increasing blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate. In some, it can lead to cardiac arrhythmias, and hyperactivity and anxiety in young people.”
Fox and Smith say they find the heavy marketing of such products, especially toward younger fans, problematic. Top brands like Red Bull, Monster Energy and Rockstar have swarmed the international sports market, sponsoring athletes, events and video shoots in motorsports, surfing, snowboarding and skiing, mixed martial arts and others. Brand logos appear on event structures like halfpipes, and on athletes’ apparel and equipment.
According to a recent report by the financial services company Morgan Stanley, energy drink sales increased by 12.5 percent during four weeks ended on Nov. 26, with Rockstar (up 30 percent) and Red Bull (15 percent) on top. In the last year, total sales have leapt by more than 10 percent.
Red Bull, which was founded in 1984 and has a dominating 40 percent of the energy drink market, did not comment on the Drink Water campaign specifically, asserting only that athletes should combine plenty of water with physical activity and energy drinks.
Goldberger, the toxicology professor, said: “There could be some increased alertness or enhanced endurance, but it’s not a significant change. They contain a variety of vitamins and supplements that aren’t effective, in my opinion.”
But Red Bull said in an e-mail that its drinks “can make a marked contribution to the enhancement of performance in sports.” Red Bull also pointed to its certification by NSF International — an independent outfit that certifies and creates standards for food and consumer goods — and the fact that its drinks do not contain any banned substances.
Fox said: “We’re aware that energy drinks are pumping money into the industry we rely on. We definitely anticipate a scenario where a company isn’t going to want us to promote Drink Water.”
According to Smith, a television crew member at a New Zealand snowboard event was asked to remove his Drink Water sweatshirt. But the negativity has been minimal, he said.
Fox and Smith also hope to help those in areas of the world with limited access to safe drinking water. Drink Water will donate 10 percent of its profits — driven from its apparel sales — to Water.org, a nonprofit co-founded by the actor Matt Damon that provides clean water and sanitation in Africa, southern Asia and Central America.
“We’re excited when people engage with us in this way,” Nicole Wickenhauser, the communications manager of Water.org, said of Drink Water’s efforts.
Fox and Smith will embark on a snowboarding trip to Asia this month, bent on advancing the Drink Water cause. Stopping in China, they will compete in the Nanshan Open, sponsored by Red Bull.
“We’re saying, ‘Do whatever you want,’ ” Smith said, “ ‘but you can drink water and be just as cool.’ ”


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Kardashian sisters might be sued over makeup line
HollywoodNews.com: The Kardashian sisters might be facing a new lawsuit as they get ready to launch their makeup line Khroma Beauty.
It is reported that Michael Rey, the co-owner of Chroma Makeup in Beverly Hills, is considering legal action against the sisters as he worries his high-end brand might be confused with their discount makeup line, states TMZ. The Kardashian line will be sold at CVS, Sears and Ulta while his business caters to A-list clients.
He has not yet filed a lawsuit, but he is ready to do so if they don’t change the name of their line.
Do you think he will end up filing a lawsuit?
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Albertsons Cos. has teamed up with Instacart to launch its exclusive O Organics Market, a virtual grocery delivery store touting the retailer’s private brands as well as organic, natural and better-for-you products. Currently available in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., with plans to launch in additional markets in the future, the service expands Albertsons’ digital footprint as well as access to its natural and organic private label brands, targeting a wider footprint of health-conscious Instacart shoppers. “With nearly 3,800 items from O Organics, Open Nature and other organic and natural brands, O Organics Market is another important step in our strategy to deliver customers what they want, when they want it”, Shane Sampson, chief marketing and merchandising officer for Boise-based Albertsons, said in a statement.
US: Target expands click-and-collect to 200 more stores
Target Corp.'s kerbside pickup service has expanded to 200 stores across markets in the midwestern, southern and eastern United States, giving shoppers in the areas a new grocery ecommerce option. Drive up, the click-and-collect option, allows users to place an order in the mass-merchandiser's mobile app and have the order hand-delivered directly to their car by a store team member. The 200 locations now enabled for the service are in such markets as Chicago; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Lansing, Michigan; Louisville, Kentucky; Erie, Pennsylvania and South Charleston, West Virginia.
US: Costco Wholesale Corporation reports June sales results
Costco Wholesale Corporation (“Costco” or the “Company”) reported net sales of $13.55bln for the retail month of June, the five weeks ended July 8, 2018, an increase of 11.7% from $12.13bln last year. For the first forty-four weeks of fiscal 2018 the Company reported net sales of $116.81bln, an increase of 12.0% from $104.28bln last year.
US: Walmart to sell Japanese supermarket unit Seiyu
Walmart plans to unload its unit Seiyu, a major Japanese supermarket chain, Nikkei has learned, as the U.S. retail giant reviews its global operations amid intensifying competition from online retailers, particularly Amazon.com. The unit is expected to fetch 300bln yen to 500bln yen ($2.7bln to $4.5bln) and would mark the largest shake-up in Japan's distribution industry since Uny Group Holdings merged with FamilyMart in 2016. Walmart will leave the Japanese market, following the exit of Carrefour in 2005 and Tesco in 2011.
Spar Netherlands adds to delivery truck fleet
Spar Netherlands has announced that it will be adding double-decker trucks, as well as two 'super lorries', to its delivery truck fleet. The double-decker truck can transport 75 containers, as opposed to the 48 containers that a normal delivery truck can carry. The double-decker will be refrigerated on the top deck and non-refrigerated on the bottom deck. According to Spar Netherlands, 90% of its locations can be reached using the double-decker trucks. The new additions will cut down on mileage, fuel usage, and driver hours, as well as overall CO2 emissions, the retailer said.
German union calls for strike by workers at Metro's Real hypermarkets
Labour union Verdi has called on 34,000 workers at Metro's Real hypermarkets in Germany to strike on Friday in protest over a wage agreement that it said would result in 23% lower pay for new hires. "We are fighting for wages that you can live on," Verdi board member Stefanie Nutzenberger said.
UK: Morrisons trials plastic deposit return scheme in supermarkets
Supermarket chain Morrisons is trialling vending machines for the return of single-use plastic bottles to reduce their impact on the environment. The two reverse vending machines will be in the retailer’s stores in Skipton, North Yorkshire, and Lindsayfield, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, for six months and will allow customers to deposit bottles in return for points coupons. The machines accept all plastic bottles that have a barcode and Morrisons own-brand bottles that may not have one.
Kenya: growing ecommerce platform Kilimall
Kenya-based ecommerce platform Kilimall is looking to expand across Africa. Kilimall now operates in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. The retailer plans to extend its operations across all African markets by 2022. With the continued growing demand for online shopping in the region it sees big opportunities in other markets. The CEO, Yang Tao, expects Africa to go through an ecommerce boom in the next five years. Many factors will contribute to this. Such as; the declining cost of internet access, the rise of mobile ownership and government investments in technology development.
Finland's S Group: +2.7% to €5.61bln in H1
Finland-based S Group said net sales in H1 2018 rose 2.7% to €5.61bln. The cooperative said that the pace of sales growth had been driven by its supermarkets and traffic and food shop divisions. S Group said its ecommerce channel had grown sales strongly. As part of the results announcement S Group said it had enjoyed growth ahead of the wider grocery market. Grocery sales rose 5.8% to €3.56bln, with S Group’s chief executive, Taavi Heikkilä, saying: “Our total sales continued to grow steadily during the first part of the year. Our performance benefited from the warm weather of early summer, which has driven footfall amongst our shoppers”.


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Updating apps has become our top priority as updates fix bugs and improve the performance of apps and devices. Well, in this article, you can check for the latest update of the YouTube app to experience better performance and stability.
According to the report, YouTube is the second most used search engine after Google and has become one of the fastest communication methods. Through this, you can connect to millions of people and can send your message to the people through a video or entertain yourself or can learn the things, much more things you can do with it.
There are many famous YouTubers and popular YouTube channels like Technical Guruji, Carryminati, Tech Burner, and more. Adding to this, T-Series is the most subscribed channel in the world, with more than 220+ million subscribers.
YouTube has more than 2 billion active users across the globe, and it is increasing day by day as every app needs an update to improve its performance and remove bugs. YouTube on Android or iOS or any other OS app also needs the update too. For this, developers continuously work to make YouTube user-friendly.
YouTube app is receiving a new update version that brings stability improvements. On the other hand, the latest build aims to improve the respective apps’ overall functioning and features for a better user experience.
According to Inputs revelations, the YouTube app update with stability improvements is rolling out with version v18.05.40. Along with this, it has a huge software package of 108.99 MB.
- Get the latest YouTube Update << APKMirror
Youtube 18.05.35 Update:
YouTube is now getting a new update to improve its features and fix some bugs and issues affecting the users’ experience. The update comes with build number 18.05.35 and a package size of 108.99MB. Now, you can install the latest update via Play Store or directly download it from the link given below.
Download Youtube App –
- Latest Version – APK Link
Youtube 18.04.41 Update:
The YouTube app is getting a new update with version 18.04.41 and updated package size of 108.67MB. This update size is huge, so this update definitely enhances the overall performance and stability.
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Youtube 18.03.42 Update:
The search tech giant is rolling out a new update for YouTube with version 18.03.42. The new update brings new features and improvements and fixes some Functional Related bugs and issues to maintain app stability and reliability.
You can install the latest update through the Google Play Store or directly download it from the link given below. Also, the size of the update pack is 86.25 MB.
- Youtube 18.03.42 Update – Link
YouTube 18.03.36 Update:
Google is improving YouTube app features with version 18.03.36 and an updated package size of 108.66MB. The latest update brings improvements to enhance stability and performance. You can install the latest update through any official store or directly download it from the link given below.
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YouTube 18.02.35 Update:
Google constantly releases new updates for its apps to provide smooth performance. Now, it’s time to learn some new enhancements to the YouTube app. The YouTube app is getting a new update with version 18.02.35. The latest update fixes a few issues to boost the overall performance and stability of the app. The update package size of this update is 108.3 MB.
- Download YouTube 18.02.35 Update – Links
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ORLEN recently opened its newest facility in Ruzomberk. In the next few months, it will open seven more Stop Café points throughout Slovakia.
The CEO of ORLEN Daniel Obajtek explained that the company approaches its expansion with a number of considerations, adjusting its investments to local conditions and market expectations.
In Poland and Czechia, he said, ORLEN invests in modernization, raising the standard and broadening its offers. In Slovakia, on the other hand, the company focuses more on the rapid development of its network.
Obajtek believes that the 2019 revenue figures show that ORLEN Group’s network has been well received in the Slovakian market and still has much potential to grow. ORLEN’s goal is to become a leader in retail sales on the Slovakian market.
“We are fulfilling our plan to strengthen our position on the Slovakian retail market. We just opened a new station there. By the end of the year, we want to double our number of stations in Slovakia to have 20 modern ones,” Obajtek said on Twitter.
Konsekwentnie realizujemy plan wzmacniania naszej pozycji na słowackim rynku detalicznym. Właśnie otworzyliśmy tam kolejną stację. Do końca roku planujemy podwoić liczbę stacji na Słowacji by dysponować 20 nowoczesnymi obiektami pic.twitter.com/dDy1ZnhsJP
— Daniel Obajtek (@DanielObajtek) May 6, 2020
The ORLEN group has been functioning in Slovakia since April 2019. By the end of that year, PKN Orlen began co-branding foreign gas stations. The ORLEN Group tag, with the characteristic eagle’s head logo, has been added to the names of local brands such as Star and Benzina.
Polish products are also available in Slovakia, such as drinks, food, and oil. The network recorded over 260 thousand transactions in 2019, out of which more than 50 percent were non-gas sales.
The gastronomic offer of ORLEN is also the most rapidly growing sales sector – in Czechia sales rose by 320 percent in the last eight years.
The ORLEN Group possesses the largest gas station network in Central and Eastern Europe with over 2,800 stations located in Poland, Czechia, Germany, Slovakia and Lithuania.


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In their role-call of the Top 50 Independent Car Dealerships 2014, automotive magazine Motor Trader have added us into the running to make their future list later on this year.
Each year Motor Trader compiles a list of the top 50 independent car dealerships in the country, which takes into account the number of cars sold, the year’s turnover and the previous year’s turnover, amongst other criteria.
Although we narrowly missed out on making it into the top 50 this year, we were second on a catalogue of hot contenders to make it onto this year’s list. This is based on projections and estimates from last year, and given the growth of the company in recent months, we are confident that we will make the list this year. Not only that, but if 2014’s figures are anything to go by, we will hopefully feature in the top half of that list - if not, higher.
You may have already noticed, but this year we have been focussed on growing cartime by expanding the size of the dealership and improving on the already excellent levels of customer service we provide to our customers. Fingers crossed, with plans in motion for our exciting new collection centre, it won’t be long until this Bury Used Car Dealership is in the Top 10 (or at least that’s the hope anyway!).
The official Top 50 Independent Car Dealers 2015 will be published at the end of this year. Until then, we can only focus on our current plans - whilst providing our customers with ‘a new way to buy a used car’. After all, the people who will decide whether or not we make the cut will be the customers that select us as their used car dealer of choice.


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Some Yellowknife bars choosing to ditch plastic straws
The Black Knight Pub recently made the decision in an effort to be more environmentally friendly
A few Yellowknife businesses are following an international movement to cut out plastic straws.
Last week, Britain announced plans to ban the sale of plastic straws, along with other single-use plastic products. The goal is to reduce waste and protect the environment.
In Yellowknife, The Black Knight Pub recently decided to phase out plastic straws, following similar movements in the rest of Canada.
"We all think it's important to be more eco-friendly," said manager Terry Hartwright, adding the pub also ditched Styrofoam takeout containers for biodegradable ones. The move will cost diners an extra 50 cents.
Hartwright said the pub is phasing out plastic bags and plastic cutlery as well.
"It's just the time we're living in right now. We want to make the Earth a little bit of a better place," said Hartwright.
The pub began eliminating plastic straws about two months ago, but announced its decision on its Facebook page two weeks ago.
Hartwright said the pub has about a case and a half of straws left. Once those run out, he won't be buying any more.
Instead, diners can use biodegradable straws if they ask for them.
The Woodyard Brewhouse and Eatery — another Yellowknife establishment — is also ditching plastic straws.
"The only way we'll serve one is if a customer specifically asks," said co-owner Fletcher Stevens.
"We do find it difficult to get away from it completely ... but we're slowly eliminating straws."
Stevens said the restaurant has worked to be eco-friendly since it opened, by only using compostable takeout containers.
As well, its brewery sends spent grains to Hay River's Northern Farm Training Institute to feed goats and other animals.
Stevens said he hopes to open a greenhouse and grow vegetables as another way to reduce waste.
'[Straws] take forever to break down'
Craig Scott, the executive director of Ecology North, said plastic straws create some of the worst litter.
"They take forever to break down," he said.
"When they do break down, they break down into little pieces of plastic. They never really ever fully biodegrade so it just gets into smaller and smaller pieces."
Scott said getting rid of straws is a step in the right direction and he'd like to see more local businesses follow suit.