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Android smartphone owners are now longer stuck with browsing for new apps on the small screen of their device — Google has just launched a new web-based version of the Android Market that can be accessed using a web browser on any computer.
The Android Market web site isn’t quite as slick as the similar iPhone app store accessed with iTunes, but it’s very easy to use. Apps can be browsed both by category and free/paid versions, and can be rated and reviewed by users.
Better still, apps can be installed on an Android smartphone directly from the web browser — just click the ‘Install” button and it’s sent to your Android smartphone wirelessly (although judging by some of the comments, this feature is still a little troublesome).
The Android Market web site was announced as part of a larger Google event that also introduced version 3.0 of the Android operating system, called Honeycomb. Rather than smartphones, Android 3.0 is intended for new tablet computers designed to compete with the Apple iPad, though no models are on sale just yet.


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"This time of the year, 90 percent of what we buy is either locally grown or sustainably raised or caught product," says Demetrios Atheneos, chef and owner of the Oak Barrel Brasserie and Taphouse in Valley View. That includes produce, obviously, but also meat, dairy and seafood.
But while seafood doesn't often make it to the top of the favorite local foods list — especially during summer when heirloom tomatoes and berries are around to steal the spotlight — springs and lakes have seasons too. And a not-so-fresh fish is a lot easier to sniff out than an aging watermelon.
Atheneos knows the importance of a fresh catch. "Our menu-item fish is either sustainably caught or locally raised," he says. The closer to home the fish starts off, the sooner he can get it to plate. So all the walleye at the Oak Barrel is Lake Erie walleye from Canada (apparently it's illegal to fish commercially for walleye in Ohio).
In addition to showing up on nightly specials such as fried fish tacos, local walleye is the star of the Oak Barrel's fish and chips, which is fried in Kentucky Bourbon Ale beer batter, and a walleye po' boy with a vinegar-and-local honey slaw and a house-made pickle.
"We've been lucky this summer, and we actually haven't had a down week yet," he says, "which is great for Ohio, [because] our seafood options are kind of limited."
At one time, Atheneos might have thought he was stuck with the few Lake Erie fish he could get. This year, however, the chef discovered Homestead Springs, an aquaculture operation in Fredericktown (about two-thirds of the way from Cleveland to Columbus) that not only is raising rainbow trout, but doing so cleanly and responsibly.
Responding to whether he has noticed a difference in taste between wild and farmed trout, Atheneos says, "Most of what you see in the marketplace today is all farm-raised, as far as the wholesale market. But these are actually out of fresh water springs out of Ohio."
They're still farmed, true, but Homestead Springs' 200-acre trout farm uses sustainable filtering processes, pumping 1,000 gallons of fresh water from the underground aquifer each minute, and no antibiotics. Because the operation isn't overly large and its clients are nearly all in Ohio, the fish don't have to be shipped cross-country, frozen en masse.
Atheneos prefers to give these delicate white fillets a light crust of pistachio, which he says pairs well with the taste of trout, then pan-sear them and serve the fish over a seasonal side dish: orzo pilaf with a pea tendril salad from Chef's Garden in Huron, for example.
"In the winter it's a little harder for us to get some of the ingredients," Atheneos says. "We'll change the preparation on it as we change our menu every season."
Specifically, look for different sides such as whipped potatoes or risotto, "something a bit more hearty," he says. And observe how even an ingredient that can be found locally year-round can reflect the flavors and textures of the season as much as a basket of farmers market produce.

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By December of 2020, more than 120 million people streamed YouTube and YouTube TV on their TV screens, up 20% from the 100 million who did so in March.
That jump and other insights were highlighted in a pair of blog posts by the company. One was written by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s product chief and a keynote speaker today at an online streaming conference by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The rise in TV viewing of YouTube has been emphasized by the company before, but it has particular relevance now for advertisers. In the 2021-22 upfront season, they will be able to measure their YouTube connected-TV campaigns with Nielsen for the first time.
“Viewers are leaving behind traditional primetime, and we’re finding at YouTube that the new primetime is personal,” Mohan wrote. “People want the freedom to stream anything whenever they want, whether it’s a favorite movie, a hard-to-find
music performance, a premiere sports event, or even a tough workout.”
While YouTube is thought of as a mobile phenomenon, where most of its viewing remains, the growth on TV screens has been staggering. During the key months of the coronavirus pandemic, with traditional TV programmers thrown off track by the absence of sports and the shutdown of production, viewers migrated to YouTube. The Google-owned platform became a key means of connection in the entertainment business, particularly for theater companies and cultural institutions. In December 2020, YouTube said, one-quarter of logged-in YouTube connected-TV viewers watched more than 90% of YouTube programming on the bigger screen.
Watch time on TV screens showed large jumps across various categories, with music content up 50% year over year, cooking up 40%, humor up 60%, travel up 40% and education content up 50%.
Mohan noted YouTube’s place in the larger context of the streaming boom of the past couple of years. “While much has been made about the complexity and fragmentation of audiences, the number of ad-supported platforms with scale is actually pretty small,” he wrote.
Citing Comscore data, he said 82.5% of connected TV reach in the U.S. is controlled by just five streaming services: Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Disney+. Only two of those (Hulu and YouTube) sell ads. An estimated 41% of all ad-supported streaming watch time in the U.S. happens on YouTube, Mohan added.
In his talk at the IAB conference, Mohan said YouTube Shorts will come to the U.S. and other territories in the “coming weeks and months.” The short-form offering is being tested in India, where it has accumulated 3.5 billion views, seeing the rate of viewing triple, the executive said.
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Square Enix concluded the concert by Final Fantasy VII in Los Angeles, California, releasing a new trailer for the remake of Final Fantasy VII. At the conclusion of the trailer, the game's release date has finally been announced and yes, the March 3.
No further information on the title has been released aside from the new trailer. Tetsuya Nomura, posted an update on Twitter and informed us that more details will be revealed during the Square Enix conference (tonight at 3:00 am).
Final Fantasy VII Remake will be one of the absolute protagonists of the Square Enix conference. Stay tuned for more updates.


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>> You could call it China's digital gold rush. The latest trend in the country's love for virtual gift giving. State banking giant ICBC has become banking digital pack are so called micro gold with the real thing. An idea based on popular app WeChat's virtual cash envelopes which are exchanged in an astonishing 46 billion times over the Lunar New Year Holiday alone.
In that same period $14 million worth of gold was also sent by mobile users. Reuters Adam Jordan says the new fad could be a gateway for millennial customers.>> To a certain degree these online goal gifting markets are a bit gimmicky. They're a great way of luring in younger consumers on their smart phones and it's a bit different from giving just digital cash.
You're giving a bit of gold whether that's digital or even tied to some real gold behind it which people are going to eventually cash out on. People like ICBC, China's biggest bank, they say this is a great way of luring in these consumers into the more traditional gold products that they sell.
These guys start on WeChat and hopefully and end up migrating to the products that they have traditionally sold through the bank.>> For many young Chinese gold has emotional and economic significance. And property is losing its investment appeal as prices spike.>> Some of the young consumers we spoke to mentioned their family and their parents' generation.
And what they said was that their parents had invested in gold but through gold bars or buying jewelry as gifts or an investment. What they're doing now is they're taking that history and tradition and moving it online so perhaps the younger 20 something year olds can't afford to spend money on a house yet.
But they can afford to put some money into an online gold account and keep that for the future as a small investment.>> Analysts see China's millennials as drivers of the new economy. One trading platform saying they make up 60% of the online gold market. That's picked the interest of Beijing which last week called on tech firms to start on piling in to the gold trade.


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German Fashion Store Owner Says Raided in UBS Tax Probe
Albert Eickhoff, the owner of a luxury fashion retailer in Dusseldorf, is among scores of UBS AG (UBSN) clients targeted in a German tax-evasion probe that led to nationwide raids.
Eickhoff, 76, said he’s among the suspects in the probe by prosecutors in Bochum, Germany. Investigators said yesterday they raided the homes and offices of about 100 UBS clients to look into allegations they may have hid money in Swiss bank accounts to evade German taxes.
“They came to me and looked around in my house for about half an hour and later also in my office,” Eickhoff said in an interview today. “They didn’t confiscate anything.”
German authorities have bought compact discs with account data for people who put money in Swiss or Liechtenstein banks, leading to probes of thousands of potential German tax cheats. Former Deutsche Post AG Chief Executive Officer Klaus Zumwinkel in January 2009 received a two-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay a 1 million-euro ($1.27 million) penalty for tax evasion.
The North-Rhine Westphalia finance ministry said last week more than 7,100 citizens in the German state have reported themselves as tax evaders since 2010. German authorities have spent 9 million euros to buy disks with bank-account data, leading to more than 3 billion euros in additional tax payments nationwide, the ministry said in September.
Eickhoff said he asked UBS in June to close his accounts and have the outstanding tax paid. The bank didn’t do so, he said, because it thought it advisable to wait until a planned tax accord between German and Switzerland that would regulate how to handle the cases takes effect.
The planned tax treaty is threatened by a veto of the upper house of Germany’s parliament, which is dominated by members who are in opposition to Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition. Wrangling over the treaty has centered on provisions for taxing assets previously hidden by Germans in Swiss bank accounts, which the opposition says are too lenient.
An official at Zurich-based UBS said the bank can’t comment on potential or existing client relationships.
Eickhoff, the founder of the Eickhoff Koenigsallee department store in Dusseldorf, discovered Gianni Versace in 1976 and organized the designer’s first fashion show. He was also the first German retailer to import clothes from Giorgio Armani and Roberto Cavalli. His business was founded in 1961 and has annual sales of about 25 million euros, he said.
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Invitation for organisations to participate in MSWSA 2021
The importance of being financially savvy cannot be underestimated – especially against the backdrop of a declining economy and the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no doubt that financial literacy is essential to the growth and development of our nation.
In Momentum and Unisa’s Consumer Financial Vulnerability Index, published late last year, it was found that more consumers were worried about their finances than staying safe against the Coronavirus.
For consumers to be able to understand and negotiate the financial landscape, manage risks effectively and avoid financial pitfalls, especially during these difficult times, they require access to information and education.
Money Smart Week South Africa (MSWSA), an initiative of the National Consumer Financial Education Committee (NCFEC), is a financial literacy campaign aimed at motivating and empowering South Africans to become better educated about their finances.
MSWSA 2021, held in conjunction with Global Money Week, is taking place virtually between the 22 and 28 March 2021 and will consist of a host of online events throughout the week, all of which will be live streamed on www.mswsa.co.za.
Any organisation, institution or individual across various sectors including financial institutions, Non-Governmental Organisations, (NGOs), Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs), companies, schools, universities or communities are invited to apply to host a digital event and to join this national collaboration to expand financial education in South Africa.
The low savings culture and the failure to service debt, together with a decline in disposable income, and the financial impact of the pandemic, makes a campaign such as MSWSA 2021 even more vital to improve the ability of consumers to make sound and informed financial decisions. After all, one financially literate person in a home can influence an entire generation.


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“The retaliatory tariffs are expected to have an additional impact in terms of duty incidence of about $217 million (approximately) on these 28 products imported from US,” Goyal said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The US imposed a global additional tariff of 25% and 10% on import of steel and aluminum products in March last year.
“In response, the government of India has imposed retaliatory tariffs on 28 products originating or exported from the US with effect from 16th June,“ Goyal said.
India has been continuously engaged with US on this issue, as part of the ongoing bilateral trade dialogue. The US did not accede to India’s request for withdrawal of these duties.
With the retaliatory tariffs, maximum duty of $98.7 million will come from imports of almonds on which 17% additional duty is imposed followed by $24.5 million duty from 20% higher tax on diagnostic reagents.
Besides almonds and diagnostic reagents, India imports apples, phosphoric acid and binders for foundry moulds from the list of 28 products on which it has raised tariffs.
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This week, the jpost podcast brings you a special episode on why the coffee giant failed in israel. Full list consumer: homeware sodastream lees carpets keter plastics caesaria carpets gemini israel ventures landmark ventures leumi bank mizrahi starbucks on the list of bdsthe list given above doesn't include any well known international clothing company do you have such. Here is a great article on why it failed: why starbucks failed in israel tldr: howard schultz did not do due diligence in understanding the israeli market he based his understanding of israeli coffee culture on tel aviv and a bad cup of coffee i. It's an odd point of pride, perhaps, but israelis take a strange satisfaction in the fact that their country is the only one where starbucks, the international coffee giant, failed on social media, when the factoid is raised as part of a clever tourism marketing campaign or even an effort to. Starbucks swot analysis: starbucks swot analysis for 2017 - stock forecast based on a predictive starbucks set its sights on israel, they opened 6 locations in tel aviv, and hired 120 employees to run the stores within a year, the decline was so great that future projects, such. Starbucks wants customers to know it doesn't fund israel and doesn't have stores there.
I wrote a post recently about gaza-related political boycotts against us food corporations including starbucks, coca-cola and mcdonald's the day after i wrote this post, protesters in lebanon forced a beirut starbucks to shut down for the day a few days later, protesters smashed windows at. A guest post by bryant simon fans and critics of starbucks like to joke, or bemoan, that the idea that starbucks is everywhere a cartoonist once imagined starbucks opening stores in its own bathrooms some urban planners worry about the so-called starbucks effect, about the creation. Howard schultz, who as ceo of starbucks built the coffee company into a global empire, is stepping down as its chief executive, the company said. The american coffee chain starbucks announced this week that it did not fund israel in an attempt to ward off calls for a boycott of its business in a statement posted on its website, the company clarified that neither the chain, nor its jewish ceo howard schultz, ever transferred funds to israel. Starbucks recently made an official announcement that neither it, nor its ceo howard schultz, in any way provide financial support to israel or the israeli military but in spite of this announcement, the popular american.
Analysis of a failed venture: starbucks in israelavner barnea -competitive intelligence strategic consultant, israel 1 s. Experience israel and starbucks that is what experience israel is all about it brings people to a place where spiritual intimacy with god can take place. Starbucks israel (hebrew: ) was a coffee chain in israel, opening in 2001, with six locations in tel aviv before closing in 2003. Why israelis didn't like starbucks or why americans like bad coffee ten years have passed since starbucks closed their six branches in israel.
Established in 1994, aroma's red-and-black signs are as ubiquitous as dunkin' donuts signs in the united states, and the fare of israel's flagship coffee chain is just as dependable. Starbucks corporation is an american coffee company and coffeehouse chain starbucks was founded in seattle he is a recipient of several israeli awards including the israel 50th anniversary tribute award for playing a key role in promoting a close alliance between the united states and. 2 mktg/303 starbucks: brewing customer experience through social media it's not an accident that starbucks is the no 1 brand on facebook and twitter. Introduction starbucks purchases and roasts high-quality whole bean coffees and sells them along with fresh, rich-brewed, italian style espresso beverages, a variety of pastries and confections, and coffee-related accessories and equipment primarily through its company-operated retail stores. Find great deals on ebay for starbucks mug israel and starbucks mug poland shop with confidence. Mabrookah heneidi 1 star i'm extremely disappointed with starbucks in jordan -- they continually charge for things that customers do not request -- in particular the medium espresso.
Washington -- the global coffee company starbucks released a statement this week to clarify apparent misconceptions about the company's patronage of israel in a fact sheet updated aug 5, starbucks notes it does not support any political or religious causes, adding that neither. Howard shultz, the chairman of starbucks is an active zionist in 1998 he was honoured by the jerusalem fund of aish hatorah with the israel 50th anniversary friend of zion tribute award for his services to the zionist state in playing a key role in promoting close alliance between the united. The company said in its statement that it closed its starbucks stores in israel in 2003 due to on-going operational challenges that we experienced in that market.
In israel, american stores dot shopping malls and mcdonald's branches proliferate but one chain you won't see is starbucks starbucks has franchises around the world, but its brief experiment with israeli stores lasted just two years, from 2001 to 2003 maybe, as some have suggested, starbucks. Is it true that starbucks closed its stores in israel for political reasons no we do not make business decisions based on political issues we decided to dissolve our partnership in israel in 2003 due to the on-going operational challenges that we experienced in that market.


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The sluggish post-pandemic economic recovery in China has sparked concerns among investors. While the world’s second-largest economy, China’s contribution to the aggregate revenue of companies in the S&P 500 is only around 5%. Despite this relatively small percentage, it is essential not to overlook the potential implications.
According to Citi’s Scott Chronert, a slowdown in China’s macro conditions may raise concerns but is unlikely to alter the overall US equity outlook. In a worst-case scenario where all China revenue is lost, S&P 500 earnings could experience a decline of approximately 7%. However, even a 5% drop in China revenue would only result in a mere 0.3% decline in earnings per share for the index. Should half of China’s revenue be wiped out, the S&P 500 EPS would fall by about 3.4%, as estimated by Chronert.
Investors should not dismiss the possible consequences, as the knock-on effects from a slowdown in China could lead to future challenges.
Potential Impact on S&P 500 Earnings
If all China revenue disappeared:
- S&P 500 earnings would fall by approximately 7%.
With a 5% decline in China revenue:
- Earnings per share for the S&P 500 would experience a modest decline of only 0.3%.
Finally, if half of China’s revenue vanished:
- S&P 500 EPS would decline by about 3.4%.
It is crucial to recognize the interconnections of the global economy and how developments in China can have ripple effects worldwide. While the immediate impact on the S&P 500 may be limited, investors should remain mindful of potential future implications stemming from China’s economic slowdown.
Impact of China on US Companies
Only 5% of the S&P 500’s revenue is tied to China, but certain companies in the index have a higher risk due to their significant weightings. This includes tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Tesla, and Meta Platforms. These “Big 7” companies derive more than 10% of their revenue from China. While the overall risk to the index is relatively small, there may be pockets of risk, volatility, and dispersion if China experiences a significant slowdown.
It is worth noting that tech-heavy companies are not the only ones with exposure to China. Industries such as autos, household products, and pharma also have above-average exposure. This could potentially lead to a shakier profit outlook for these companies.
Additionally, there is a third category of businesses that are even more at risk. U.S. companies that rely on China for 30% or more of their revenue include Las Vegas Sands, Aptiv, Estée Lauder, Lam ResearchCorp, Western DigitalCorp, and Micron Technology.
Investors are cautious as Chinese stocks continue to face uncertainty. Despite positive news about Chinese retail sales and industrial production, foreign investors withdrew nearly $15 billion from Chinese stocks in August. This indicates a “wait-and-see” approach among investors.
Overall, while the impact of China on U.S. companies may vary across different sectors, it is crucial for investors to closely monitor these risks and be prepared for potential challenges ahead.
Evaluating U.S. Stocks Amidst Chinese Market Volatility
As the year unfolds, U.S. stocks have managed to maintain relative stability compared to their offshore Chinese counterparts. However, this respite has been often short-lived, as gains driven by optimism for an economic recovery have repeatedly given way to concerns over government inaction. Consequently, certain investors may perceive stocks with substantial exposure to China as less appealing in the current climate.


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Aston Martin is leveraging CloudXR technology in its Valhalla VR Experience, enabling customers to virtually customise their cars and experience an immersive connection with the vehicle.
Aston Martin’s latest virtual tool to help Valhalla owners specify the brand’s first hybrid supercar is demonstrating how the British luxury brand is combining the physical and virtual retail experience.
Showcasing the Valhalla VR Experience, developed with Zerolight and using Nvidia’s CloudXR technology in the run-up to this year’s Monterey Car Week, the business will be demonstrating how the wireless VR headset allows customers to view a detailed 3D digital twin of their Valhalla.
Aston Martin said the engineering focus of the Valhalla has been to create an immersive, uninterrupted connection between the driver and the car and that using 3D VR technology supports this driver-centric approach right from the specification stage using the VR technology,
Valhalla customers can choose the exact specification of the car’s interior while virtually sitting inside it before choosing the exterior specification as they walk around the car.
Renato Bisignani, Aston Martin’s marketing chief, said: “As well as celebrating new entrants to our stunning portfolio, we are also pushing the boundaries of digital technology to provide a glimpse into our future.
Through an immersive VR experience we will bring customers virtually inside the cockpit of Valhalla, getting the best understanding yet of this unique, driver-focused, elite performance car.”
Aston Martin told am-online.com that while the Valhalla VR Experience is a first for the business in terms of using virtual reality to support clients speccing their cars, it had already begun to explore the combination of physical and virtual experiences in retail.
“For example, in June we opened our first ultra-luxury flagship, Q New York, which offers an ultimate blend of digital and physical car configuration. As part of our custom-made appointment, clients will be able to visualise their personalised Aston Martin on a 10.5 metre x 3.5 metre LED wall capable of providing an ultra-high definition, 360-degree view of any Aston Martin in real-life size.”
The business will also use Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology allowing clients to combine the touch and feel of physical colour and trim samples with live configuration on the screen.


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Not since peanut butter and chocolate has there been a more natural match than the digital organizer and the cellphone.
The digital organizer -- also known as the personal digital assistant, or PDA -- acts as a portable electronic calendar, address book and note pad. Cheap, hip and useful, these gadgets have become increasingly common among mobile professionals, students and others on the go.
The cellphone, another form of portable technology, performs several of the same functions. Even the most rudimentary cellphone has a way of storing phone numbers in a kind of electronic address book. Calendar and note pad features are not uncommon. Many of today's cellphones even receive e-mail.
But for some time, this natural marriage between two popular and useful devices has been frustrated. Would the phone merge into the PDA? Or would the PDA be incorporated into the phone? More important, would users pay a premium to get a single device that does double duty?
This may be the year those questions are finally answered.
Falling prices for chips and, especially, for tiny computer screens have given manufacturers more flexibility in trying out new configurations. Meanwhile, wireless companies have been experimenting with next-generation network technologies that make it easier to send data, as well as voice messages, over the airwaves.
The result has been an explosion in the variety of portable devices that will help mobile users shuffle data and voice calls to and from wherever they happen to be.
One example is the Pocket PC Phone Edition offered by wireless carrier T-Mobile. The lightweight device is essentially a digital organizer with the stub of an antenna built in, enabling the user to make voice calls. Alphanumeric paging, e-mail and remote Web-surfing are a few of the other features, besides the usual calendar, address book, notepad, etc.
At $499, the Pocket PC Phone Edition isn't cheap. But it's not terribly more expensive than some high-end cellphones. And it's competitively priced compared with the separate purchase of a cellphone and PDA.
Recently, Microsoft and hardware partners Hitachi and Samsung announced that they would introduce even more "smartphones" that combine mobile computing power with wireless voice and data connections.
Other recent examples of this trend include devices that enable users to take a digital photo with their cellphone and then instantly send that image across the Internet. Samsung is extending this idea further in the form of a cellphone that can record and transmit digital video.
Later this year, Hitachi will introduce its Multimedia Communicator Pocket PC, which includes keyboard, organizer functions, wireless phone and data access, Web-browsing and digital photo capabilities.
It's an intriguing glimpse at the future. But before we get too carried away with what may be possible, let's remember a cautionary note on how promises of digital performance aren't always realized.
In a recent cover story on cellphones, Consumer Reports magazine reported that U.S. cellphone callers continue to be plagued by a variety of woes, including poor call quality, billing errors and problems connecting to emergency services.
Although it's clear that our cellphones are becoming increasingly sophisticated and powerful, it looks to be a bumpy road between here and the day when they're as reliable as regular wired phones and Internet connections.


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- Microsoft stopped issuing patches following the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities because users with AMD devices are becoming "unbootable" with a blue screen after the Windows security updates, according to the company. Microsoft found that certain AMD chips don't "conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations."
- Microsoft is working with AMD to resolve issues presented by customers impacted by the Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). However, Microsoft instructed users to contact AMD directly for specific chip-related inquiries, according to a Microsoft spokesperson.
- The company acknowledged that customers with older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and 8, "will notice a decrease in system performance," according to a company statement. But users running Windows 10 on older hardware may also face the same decrease in performance.
Vendors impacted by the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws have been frantically issuing patches to vulnerable customers.
Meltdown and Spectre are said to grant access to bad actors to "otherwise protected kernel memory," allowing them to exploit personal information or release more malware onto a device, according to researchers. There is no way of knowing if someone's device has already been exploited.
The only way to eliminate all risk is to replace the CPU hardware. The patches distributed by vendors including Microsoft, Apple and Google are only to mitigate further risk.
Meltdown impacts nearly all modern Intel chips from the last two decades while Spectre affects other modern processors and smartphones. Chip manufacturers are under mass scrutiny as nearly every device with a chip is vulnerable.
However, Intel announced it would not be issuing a recall. CEO Brian Krzanich said the fix is much easier than "overblown" reports are saying, reports CNet. Prior to the exploits' disclosure, Krzanich sold of a portion of stock, raising concern over the timing.
The company maintains the decision was already arranged with an "automated schedule." But due to the size of the sold stock, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to look into it, reports Bloomberg.


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Jaén’s Aceites Campoliva, makers of Melgarejo, seeks to otpimize the healthfulness of extra virgin olive oil.
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U.S. researchers find that men who consumed more vegetable fat had a lower risk of lethal prostate cancer.
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The health benefits of a specific olive oil could be easier to assess with a new Greek system to measure the content of key compounds.
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A new study shows that the positive effects the Mediterranean diet can have on the heart are immediate.
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The addition of a small amount of olive oil to the diet appears to improve blood vessel function according to a new study by U.S. and Italian researchers
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Ads claiming Unilever’s Flora Cuisine cooking oil provides “45 percent less saturated fat than olive oil" can stay on TV after the UK advertising watchdog found they are unlikely to mislead viewers.
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Research has led to the development of a new molecule from hydroxytyrosol, a potent antioxidant found in olives, to reduce risk of HIV virus transmission.
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New research shows that olive oil might be the best choice of salad dressing when it comes to absorbing nutrients from the vegetables.
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The product follows a study that found that the fatty acids present in extra virgin olive oil encourage regeneration of the skin, while increasing its hydration, elasticity and strength.


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A number of other analysts have also recently commented on JWN. Stifel Nicolaus upped their price target on Nordstrom from $44.00 to $58.00 and gave the stock a buy rating in a research report on Friday, August 12th. Vetr upgraded Nordstrom from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $47.50 price target for the company in a research report on Tuesday, July 26th. Telsey Advisory Group upped their price target on Nordstrom from $40.00 to $53.00 and gave the stock a market perform rating in a research report on Friday, August 12th. Credit Suisse Group AG restated a hold rating and issued a $40.00 price target on shares of Nordstrom in a research report on Friday, August 12th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price target on Nordstrom from $38.00 to $47.00 and gave the stock a sector perform rating in a research report on Monday, August 15th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eighteen have assigned a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. Nordstrom has an average rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $47.23.
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) traded down 1.10% during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $51.31. The company had a trading volume of 476,394 shares. The company has a market capitalization of $8.90 billion, a PE ratio of 21.86 and a beta of 1.04. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $51.30 and a 200 day moving average of $46.67. Nordstrom has a 1-year low of $35.01 and a 1-year high of $75.67.
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 11th. The company reported $0.67 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.56 by $0.11. The business earned $3.65 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.67 billion. Nordstrom had a return on equity of 47.22% and a net margin of 2.95%. The business’s quarterly revenue was down .2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.93 earnings per share. On average, analysts predict that Nordstrom will post $2.73 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, September 13th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 29th were issued a dividend of $0.37 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, August 25th. This represents a $1.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.85%. Nordstrom’s payout ratio is currently 62.98%.
In other Nordstrom news, insider Daniel F. Little sold 5,270 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $52.00, for a total transaction of $274,040.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 68,088 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,540,576. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Company insiders own 7.03% of the company’s stock.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Pacer Advisors Inc. increased its position in Nordstrom by 5.6% in the second quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 2,632 shares of the company’s stock valued at $100,000 after buying an additional 140 shares during the last quarter. Evercore Wealth Management LLC increased its position in Nordstrom by 9.1% in the second quarter. Evercore Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,779 shares of the company’s stock valued at $106,000 after buying an additional 231 shares during the last quarter. WFG Advisors LP increased its position in Nordstrom by 51.7% in the second quarter. WFG Advisors LP now owns 2,906 shares of the company’s stock valued at $111,000 after buying an additional 991 shares during the last quarter. Blue Chip Partners Inc. purchased a new position in Nordstrom during the second quarter valued at approximately $114,000. Finally, Synovus Financial Corp increased its position in Nordstrom by 66.1% in the second quarter. Synovus Financial Corp now owns 3,046 shares of the company’s stock valued at $116,000 after buying an additional 1,212 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 65.48% of the company’s stock.
Nordstrom, Inc is a fashion specialty retailer in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Retail and Credit. The Retail segment includes approximately 115 Nordstrom branded full-line stores in the United States and Nordstrom.com, approximately 167 off-price Nordstrom Rack stores, two Canada full-line stores, Nordstromrack.com and HauteLook, and other retail channels, including five Trunk Club showrooms and TrunkClub.com, its two Jeffrey boutiques and one clearance store that operates under the name Last Chance.
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The regional market for construction materials is half-full or half-empty, depending on your perspective.
On the positive side, Little Falls Lumber Co. Inc. in Herkimer County expanded into the area in May, when it opened a lumberyard on Main Street in Clifton Park.
The company, which also has stores in Syracuse and Rochester, already had an Albany customer base and decided it would be easier to service those commercial accounts by having a local inventory, said Glenn Bunce, general manager.
Nevertheless, in doing so, Little Falls is going up against Curtis Lumber, Home Depot, Lowe's, Stock Building Supply and others that have strong name recognition among builders, contractors and do-it-yourselfers at a time when new home construction has slowed.
"Having them closer will save a little money on trucking and freight," said Mark McClenahan, chief estimator at U.W. Marx Construction Co. in Troy. "I'm glad to see they're in the neighborhood. I don't see them as a competitor to Curtis or the big-box stores. They're really pitching to a different audience than your typical building supply store."
Little Falls joins Erie Materials, which opened a 110,000-square-foot store at 99 Railroad Ave. in Albany in March 2006, as new entrants in the market with a storefront presence. Erie, part of a nine-store chain based in Syracuse, sells roofing, siding, windows and doors to contractors.
"If you ask all of the other distributors, they'll say it's slow," said Mike Dominikoski, general manager at Erie. "I can't say that for us. We're jamming. We're extremely busy."
Just as local builders and contractors were getting more options when shopping for construction materials, Stock Building Supply announced in early August it was closing its 13,000-square-foot location in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County.
Seven people work at the store, whose last day of business is Sept. 15. The closing is part of a cost-cutting move for the Raleigh, N.C., chain, which is shuttering 23 stores in 34 states, said Lisa Mask, spokeswoman. The Stock store in Rotterdam, which was acquired two years ago from Bellevue Builders Supply, is one of 320 nationally that will remain open.
"It's in an area that's predominantly rural," Mask said of the Palatine Bridge store. "We basically concluded that the market wasn't sufficient to justify the investment."
Overall sales are down at independently owned building supply stores due to the slowdown in new home construction, said Rita Ferris, president of the Northeastern Retail Lumber Association, which has 1,200 members in New York and New England. That's based on anecdotal observations since the Rensselaer-based trade group doesn't track actual sales.
Compared to other parts of the Northeast, though, the Capital Region has fared relatively well because of the stability of the state government work force, Ferris said.
The association's membership doesn't include retail giants Home Depot or Lowe's.
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) the largest home improvement retailer in the world, reported its second-quarter sales fell 1.8 percent compared to the same quarter last year, down to $22.8 billion. Its consolidated net earnings also fell, from $1.9 billion, or 90 cents per share, to $1.6 billion, or 81 cents per share, this year.
Home Depot Chairman and CEO Frank Blake said in a prepared statement that "the challenging housing market continues to present us with a tough selling environment" and that the housing and home improvement markets would remain soft into 2008. Home Depot has nine stores in the Capital Region.
Lowe's, the No. 2 chain, did better overall during the second quarter, although stores open at least a year in the Northeast are selling less than they were a year ago. Lowe's (NYSE: LOW), which has 1,424 stores in 49 states, continues an aggressive expansion that includes a new store being built behind Northway Mall in Colonie, its eighth in the Capital Region.
Total sales at Lowe's increased 5.8 percent during the quarter, to $14.2 billion, and net earnings climbed 9 percent, to $1.02 billion, or 67 cents per share.
Philip LaRocque, executive vice president of the New York State Builders Association, said that while the number of building permits issued statewide from January to May fell from 5,600 last year to 4,300 this year, permits for buildings with five or more units increased during the period, from 8,800 to 10,300.
Overall, permits issued through May for all building sizes fell from 18,569 to 18,017 (the figures are compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau and generally increase 10 percent to 20 percent when adjustments are made, LaRocque said).
"Other parts of the country are suffering more than we are," LaRocque said. "I just hope we bottomed out. ... I think these [new] lumberyards are taking advantage of the next surge, and there will be one."
Locally, the number of permits issued for single-family homes in Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Schenectady counties totaled 371 through the first six months of the year, compared to 404 during the same period last year, according to Pam Krison, executive officer of the Capital Region Builders & Remodelers Association.
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HubSpot is turning to another Boston-area tech company to boost its global sales efforts.
The company has signed a one-year contract for more than 400 of its global sales representatives to use sales coaching software from Qstream, a Burlington-based company whose technology was originally developed at Harvard Medical School. Financial terms of the deal, which Qstream announced on Thursday, were not disclosed.
HubSpot’s sales reps will use Qstream’s data-driven “Coaching Hub” to take brief scenario-based challenges on their mobile devices, covering topics like product messaging. The employees can then compare their scores on Qstream’s leaderboard, which Qstream said is meant to drive competition among peers and increase engagement.
“We chose Qstream because it’s designed for how sales people work.”
Using the results from those challenges, Qstream’s analytics software turns that data into coaching actions, giving sales managers a better way of prioritizing coaching plans and identifying knowledge gaps across the entire team. Qstream said its customers on average see a 35 percent increase in proficiency, a 20 percent higher quota attainment, a 3 percent bump in gross margin and a 12 percent gain in market share.
“It’s mission critical that we not only ramp our new reps to full quota quickly, but ensure that our entire sales force is at peak performance,” Channing Ferrer, HubSpot’s vice president of sales and operations strategy, said in a statement. “We chose Qstream because it’s designed for how sales people work.”
Qstream uses a scientific approach to “rewire the brains” of sales professionals — as its CEO, Duncan Lennox, told BostInno in an interview last December. The company said its software has been validated in more than 20 randomized control trials.
The company raised a $15 million financing round last December, which brought total funding to $23 million. The company now has over 400 customers and more than 120 employees. It was named as one of the top 100 companies in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 last year for growing median annual revenue by 290 percent from 2012-2015.


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Manufacturing boom puts the pinch on industrial space
From the L.A. print issue: Los Angeles is used to rapid growth. But even by L.A. standards, the burgeoning demand for industrial real estate in the area and its adjacent counties is eye-popping.
This fact might not fit the stereotypical image of La La Land as the capital of media and entertainment, but the industrial and manufacturing base here is a major contributing factor to the region’s massive economy. If L.A. were a country, it would have the 17th largest economy on earth. If you include the areas south, down to Long Beach and on to Anaheim in Orange County, the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures the gross domestic product at $866 billion.
Riding the e-commerce wave, and benefiting from two of the largest and most active ports in the world — Los Angeles and Long Beach — manufacturing here is strong. In addition to Hollywood movies, all sorts of things are made in L.A. Apparel manufacturing accounts for roughly 60,000 jobs. The aerospace industry employs 65,000. Overall, Greater Los Angeles has more than 510,000 manufacturing jobs, making it the largest industrial base in the United States.
That manic level of production and trade requires millions of square feet of industrial space for manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and logistics.
Nearer the ports, businesses are focused on the import-export trade; farther inland, logistics for e-commerce companies support new industrial development. “The largest driver is the transformation of retail from brick and mortar to e-commerce,” said Steven Bellitti, a senior executive vice president at Colliers International.
Transwestern, a national real estate company based in Parsippany, New Jersey, reported that the amount of industrial space under construction in Greater Los Angeles had surged 39 percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter.
The base asking rates for industrial space ended the second quarter at 62 cents per square foot — up 3 percent from the previous quarter, and 9.3 percent year-over-year, according to Colliers. The overall vacancy rate is a thin 2.6 percent, and in some submarkets, such as Downtown L.A. and the South Bay, it dips below 1 percent.
Jeffrey Rinkov, CEO of commercial real estate company Lee & Associates, based in Orange, California, said the industrial market here is simply playing catch-up to the real estate revival that hit other parts of the market sooner.
“Industrial rental rates were somewhat flat or declining from 2008 to 2013,” Rinkov said.
But he said things began to turn in early 2015. “We have started to see rent growth, a strengthening of the tenant base and real downward pressure on vacancy rates.”
Naturally, the story differs somewhat across Greater L.A.’s various submarkets, but the themes of low vacancy and increasing rents remain consistent.
Central Los Angeles
There’s not much industrial space left in the core of Los Angeles, which is defined as the area between the 405 and the 710 freeways, and between the 134 and the 105.
The area has the region’s oldest industrial building stock — and an ultralow vacancy rate of 1.4 percent — but only 113,600 square feet of new industrial space is in development. Yet, with roughly 252 million square feet of industrial space, Rinkov said the market in this area is “seeing expansion of garment-related business, food processing and cold storage, and some smaller manufacturing and assembly operations.”
To complicate matters, much of the older industrial space is in the process of being converted to more profitable uses, including luxury condos, creative workspaces and high-end restaurants.
Such changes account for the fact that asking rental rates for industrial space are 30 percent higher in DTLA compared with similar space in the nearby Commerce and Vernon submarkets.
The city of Commerce, just south of East L.A., has a microscopic industrial vacancy rate of 0.8 percent, according to Colliers. The market conditions are a bit looser in Vernon, which is located across Interstate 10. The 5.2-square-mile unincorporated city has a residential population of — and this is no typo — 200. It has 90 million square feet of industrial space, with a vacancy rate of only 2 percent. Vernon’s manufacturing base is largely focused on apparel manufacturers, including Trinity Sports, Intimate Attitude, National Corset Supply House, Karen Kane and One Clothing.
A key advantage of manufacturing in Central Los Angeles is that it tightens up the retail supply chain substantially, allowing fashion companies to roll out new styles in as little as four weeks, according to the Colliers report, “as opposed to the months-long fashion cycle using traditional overseas supply chains.”
South Bay Port Area
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together handle about 40 percent of all imports into the country, making Greater L.A. the nation’s largest port in terms of tonnage handled.
It also makes the South Bay a particularly significant industrial market — and one where there’s little available space on offer, putting pressure on rents. Asking rental rates, which bottomed out at 52 cents per square foot in 2011, have climbed to 70 cents. Vacancy rates ended the second quarter at 1.3 percent, holding steady with the previous quarter. And the nearer to the ports, the tighter the market conditions become. The vacancy in the Long Beach and Harbor Cities submarket has narrowed to 0.7 percent.
The situation is unlikely to improve anytime soon. There is only 1.6 million square feet of space under construction in a 212 million-square-foot market.
But South Bay is also one of the rare places with recent construction projects that measure 1 million square feet or more. The Brickyard project in Compton consists of two buildings scheduled to be completed this year — one at 525,400 square feet, the other at 481,600 square feet. The development is only 10 miles from the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports, and seven miles from LAX. Compton is also literally surrounded by freeways.
The Brickyard facility, backed by Clarion Partners, also makes a point of marketing itself for e-commerce, claiming on its website that it provides “a perfect supply chain and eCommerce solution.”
Inland Empire and beyond
The industrial building boom is largely occurring on vacant land in the Inland Empire, which stretches east to Riverside and San Bernardino. Historically, development in the L.A. basin has had a tendency to spread outward, run out of space, then spread outward some more.
In the second quarter of 2016, 15 million square feet of industrial space was sold or leased in the Inland Empire, Colliers reported. That marked the 27th consecutive quarter that the industrial space in this submarket posted positive absorption levels.
With a location about an hour and a half from the ports, logistics is the buzzword here. As Transwestern real estate measures it, this large and somewhat vaguely defined region has about 20 times more warehousing than manufacturing space.
Size is a factor. Although some industrial developments total more than 1 million square feet among multiple buildings, Colliers’ Bellitti said he couldn’t find industrial blocks of space that were at least 1 million square feet in the same building.
The Citrus Commerce Center in West Fontana, a large ongoing development, will have 1.9 million square feet of Class A warehousing spread among three buildings. Building 3 is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017. Leasing is being offered for 203,000 square feet, including 40 trailer stalls, 80 auto stalls and a clearance height of 36 feet.
One of the few 1 million-square-foot structures in the pipeline is the upcoming building for the Duke Perris Logistics Center in Perris. One building in this industrial complex opened in 2015. It has 783,407 square feet of space, including 36-foot ceiling clearance and 118 dock doors. Another building is planned at 1.24 million square feet and is slated for completion in April 2017. Both buildings are fully leased, said Chris Burns, who is in charge of Duke’s Southern California business. He said many of the tenants are e-commerce companies.


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Brighton Beach stores on alert after fur coat robberies
Residents and business owners in Brighton Beach say they are concerned for their safety after two shoplifters recently made off with a pair of expensive fur coats. Surveillance video shows a woman stealing a $7,000 mink coat from Snow Image on Brighton Beach Avenue last week, and the owner says another woman snatched a $3,000 jacket the week before. The owner says he caught the second suspect on tape because he installed more cameras after the first robbery. Neighborhood Association President Pat Singer says the incident is unfortunate, and that businesses need to do as much as they can to avoid burglaries. Police are still searching for the suspects. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.


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The 21-year-old announced to her followers that she'd just tried cereal with milk for the first time.
Kylie Jenner today became the latest member of the Kardashian clan to join Adidas’s growing roster of superstar collaborators. Following in the footsteps of her sister Kendall Jenner and brother-in-law Kanye West, the 21-year-old cosmetics mogul has teamed up with the sports brand to re-launch the ’90s sneaker ‘Falcon’ by Adidas Originals. “I’ve always loved Adidas,” says Jenner, who announced the partnership via an Instagram Story.
“The problem isn’t Kylie. The problem is America. If she didn’t exploit it, someone else would have."
Think what you like about Kylie Jenner, you can’t deny she’s proved her business prowess. In fact, that’s an understatement: the 20-year-old is set to become the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. The prestigious business magazine has chosen Jenner as the face of their ‘American Women Billionaires’ cover for their August issue, which depicts Jenner in a businesslike in a black blazer and slicked back hair.
Jenner shared a photo of herself with her BFF, plus-size model Jordyn Woods, dressed up as fire and ice, which was a great opportunity for the reportedly pregnant 20-year-old to focus on her makeup.
The 20-year-old hasn't confirmed she's pregnant -- but that hasn't stopped the internet from weighing in when it comes to her baby's name.
Originally cast to play Selma Hayek’s daughter in an upcoming French movie, Ollia Tzarina found herself reconsidering her Hollywood dreams when the film fell through. From Surrey, England, Tzarina admits her fashion label was purely a coincidence during a difficult time.
Kylie and Kendall's controversial new bag resembles a Chinese takeout box, is emblazoned with a red tiger, and has the words "KK Express Los Angeles, CA" on it.
Denim has been a mainstay in our lives since… well, forever. But the standard jeans of your younger years are no more. Skinnies are already dying a slow and painful death (thankfully) with looser styles reigning on the catwalks and in celebrity wardrobes. But some famous faces have taken denim to the next level, customising jeans to a point where they are barely recognisable. From Kendall Jenner’s invisible style to extreme slits pioneered by Rihanna and Ariel Winter. It’s not just celebrities taking jeans to the next level. Online favourite ASOS has unveiled a jeans-skirt hybrid that’s bound to make your skin crawl. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for non-stop inspiration delivered fresh to your feed, every day. For Twitter updates, follow @YahooStyleUK . Read more from Yahoo Style UK: You can show off your bare bum in Vetements’ new jeans 10 denim pieces that every woman should own A bedazzled burger box now exists thanks to designer Julien Macdonald
Madame Tussauds in Hollywood revealed Kylie Jenner‘s wax figure on Tuesday night, and is canniness is unreal. The 19-year-old reality star posted a photo on Instagram of herself on Tuesday night next to the figure, which might as well be her real life twin. The only tell-tale sign that it’s not actually Jenner is the recognizable outfit. thanks @tussaudsla for this amazing honor! go visit my girl tomorrow in Hollywood and see the actual dress I wore to the Met Gala last year! A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Jul 18, 2017 at 8:58pm PDT


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By letting us live through the real epic last year, Road 96 is once again getting people talking about it through their social media. The journey that allowed you to follow a group of teenagers determined to escape a totalitarian regime is not yet over.
New desert crossing
Posted on Twitter on January 20 by Digixart, a new image of the game Road 96 has been made public and does not appear to match any of the locations visited in the main campaign of the adventure.
As stated during our interview with the creative director of Road 96 during AGFD last year, the arrival of Montpellier-based studio Digixart to PLAION (formerly Koch Media) allows the latter to look at things broadly: the potential appearance of an expansion or even a sequel, so not very surprising.
Despite this rather cryptic posting, no other information about this new upcoming content has yet been released, although the studio’s responses in the comments to their post seem to lean more towards the upcoming DLC rather than the sequel itself.
As a reminder, Road 96 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch.
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NYK has signed a joint-venture agreement with Vietnam Ocean Shipping Agency Corporation (VOSA)* to establish NYK Auto Logistics (Vietnam) (NALV), a logistics company for finished cars. On December 2, a signing ceremony was held at the NYK head office in Tokyo and attended by Vu Xuan Trung, general director of VOSA, and NYK president Tadaaki Naito.
NALV will be owned by NYK (80%) and VOSA (20%) and will offer high quality services for inland logistics such as the storage, delivery, and PDI** of imported cars to Vietnam, where sales are strong and increased demand is expected.
NYK currently has a stake in over 40 companies all over the world providing finished car inland logistics, often combining inland logistics with sea transport by RORO vessels to offer a total logistics service. NYK plans to offer a similar comprehensive service throughout Vietnam.
Based on the company???s "More Than Shipping 2018" medium-term management plan, the NYK Group will utilize its accumulated expertise of high-quality transportation services around the world to secure stable profits.
* Vietnam Ocean Shipping Agency Corporation (VOSA)
A shipping agent that is part of Vietnam National Shipping Lines (VINALINES), a government-managed shipping company in Vietnam.
** PDI (pre-delivery inspection): Services for finished vehicles ??? such as final inspections, repairs, and parts application ??? before delivery to car dealer.


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Just What’s Legal And Illegal About CBD Oil In Tennessee? Hemp Plant Or Marijuana Plant.
Concerns bordering the closing of several Rutherford County services have actually proceeded; so Information Channel 5 determined exactly what is appropriate in addition to forbidden concerning CBD oil in Tennessee.
Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies shut 23 stores once they had been caught candy that is apparently marketing contained CBD oil.
It had been an act that triggered dispute in addition to inquiries. Professionals reported it is vital that you eliminate the confusion up on what’s lawful as well as what’s maybe not in terms of cannibas things.
” CBD mostly comes from hemp and in addition for those who have hemp-derived CBD items which is wholly legal within the U.S. and Tennessee,” said instructor Elliot Altman, who is one of the specialists that are leading CBD oil in Tennessee.
He directs the Botanical Medical Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University, legitimately cultivating hemp.
It might appear to be cannabis, but Altman is clear, “We usually do not expand marijuana.”


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JUL 27, 2021
More on this: Ebike sales in the US grew 145% from 2019 to 2020, per research from NPD Group cited by The New York Times. The growth was mostly spurred by people’s need to get around while remaining socially distanced during the pandemic. Demand for ebikes remains high with 600,000 sold last year in the US.
JUL 7, 2021
In comparison, those who don’t, report seeing an ROI of 36:1, according to Litmus’ research. But a major change is coming to email marketing analytics. Expected this fall with iOS 15, Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection update will affect what email marketers will be able to know about target recipients, including data like opens and location, hindering the sender’s ability to personalize.
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JUL 22, 2021
Report: US Sports Video 2021. Article: Google plans foray into Japanese cashless payments with pring acquisition. Article: Global ad spend will grow more than 10% this year as economy recovers quicker than expected.
SEP 6, 2021
Tamara is an expert analytics executive who has led data initiatives across multiple industries including digital, publishing, finance, research, consulting, and retail. As head of customer insights, she works with clients to realize the value of the insights that live in their data and the power of ActionIQ to make data-driven marketing a reality.
JUL 19, 2021
Report: US Mobile Payments Forecast 2021. Article: Google plans foray into Japanese cashless payments with pring acquisition. Article: What's driving growth in proximity mobile payment usage?
OCT 14, 2021
The company’s consumer and business segments account for most of its income, according to its Q2 2021 report:. Consumer Services: This segment includes checking accounts, plus prepaid debit cards and secure credit cards. It constitutes nearly half of Green Dot’s most recent quarterly revenue.
OCT 11, 2021
Then, reports emerged of Tesla planning to provide energy directly to Texas households through a new subsidiary called Tesla Energy Ventures. That residential energy business could make up 30% of Tesla’s total revenues by 2030, according to Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter, per Bloomberg.
SEP 30, 2021
The UK is also home to mature neobanks that offer similar PFM tools—and even trading in the case of Revolut—per The UK Neobank Competitive Edge Report 2020. Chip’s expansion abroad lets it capitalize on growing fintech activity in less mature markets. For example, although fintech ecosystems in France and Germany are burgeoning this year, they still trail far behind the UK.
SEP 27, 2021
In the report, 16.7% of respondents deemed it “extremely valuable” and another 26.2% felt it would be “very valuable.”. However, only two out of seven sampled Canadian banks offered a cash flow feature, suggesting that unmet need is sizable. RBC could benefit from broadening its digital money management mobile lineup: It came in fourth for the category, even though it finished first overall.
JUL 20, 2021
Report: US Time Spent with Mobile 2021. Article: Over 70% of US podcast listeners fast forward through ads. Article: Nearly a third of all US media time will be on mobile this year.
AUG 19, 2021
Insider Intelligence subscribers can learn more about retail ecommerce trends in Latin America by reading our July reports:. Latin America Ecommerce Forecast 2021. Global Ecommerce Forecast 2021.
SEP 10, 2021
The news: The US neobank is poised to complete a $510 million Series E funding round, rocketing its valuation to $2.5 billion, up from approximately $700 million, CNBC reports.
JUL 16, 2020
This report looks at the progress of the PPP up to June 30. Three Key Questions This Report Will Answer:. How effective has the PPP been so far at getting stimulus funding to areas that need it? Which banks have been the most active PPP lenders so far? How effective has the PPP been so far at getting stimulus funding to industries that need it? WHAT'S IN THIS REPORT?
JUL 21, 2021
In July 2020 research by Kantar Media, senior marketers worldwide were planning to raise their ad budget or resource allocation for social media Stories by 54% in 2021—second only to the 65% increase for digital video ads.
JUN 24, 2021
Report: Worldwide Digital Ad Spending 2021. Article: Bank of America reports uptick in spending as consumers get ready for post-pandemic splurge. Article: iOS 15 will bring US state IDs to Apple Wallet.
SEP 7, 2021
Watson’s report: WhatsApp: A case study in consumer trust.
AUG 20, 2021
The news: Revolut’s new product, “Payday,” will enable users that work at participating companies to withdraw up to 50% of their salary one day after the next pay cycle, Silicon Republic reports.
OCT 15, 2021
The news: Socially conscious US neobank Aspiration has debuted its first credit card offering, dubbed the “Aspiration Zero Credit Card,” CNBC reports. More on this: Aspiration positions itself as the anti-bank and targets customers with equal passion for the environment and against banks. Many of the benefits of the Aspiration Zero card align with the neobank’s environmentally conscious mission.
OCT 12, 2021
Go deeper: To learn more about how remote patient monitoring is taking root across US healthcare, check out our Remote Patient Monitoring report.
OCT 8, 2021
The news: The number of healthcare apps that integrate with certified electronic health records (EHRs) increased 20%—from 600 apps to 734 apps in 2020, per recent research by the HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Tech (ONC).
SEP 24, 2021
Go deeper: To learn more about how digital health companies are disrupting the healthcare AI space, check out our AI in Healthcare Administration report here. (edited).
SEP 20, 2021
Why it’s worth watching: BNPL users are 67% more likely to trade cryptos than non-users, according to Zip’s internal research—but Zip isn’t the only BNPL provider that sees opportunities in the space.
SEP 2, 2021
Go deeper: Read more about the transformative power of AI within insurance in our AI in Insurance report, detailing use cases across the front, middle, and back office.
JUL 6, 2021
How to utilize trendspotting, and where it fits into your digital research strategy. Best practices to measure, track, and improve engagement metrics and website performance. Plus, UK health and beauty retailer Boots shares the customer preference trends they’re seeing right now. Presenters:. Chloe Nicholls is product marketing manager at Similarweb for the Digital Research Intelligence solution.


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City of Powell River will re-examine the bike lane and parking conflict in front of Mitchell Brothers store in Cranberry.
As part of the study, city staff will also examine traffic speeds along the corridor from Mitchell Brothers to DA Evans Park.
At the Tuesday, April 2, committee of the whole meeting, mayor Dave Formosa said he wanted to bring back the matter of parking in the bike lanes near Mitchell Brothers.
“I’ve been speaking with the owner of the store and the manager,” said Formosa. “The folks at the store really wish we would reconsider our deletion of this area to park.”
Formosa said he was suggesting the matter comes back and that if council wants what is known as a sharrow, the road could feature both parking and a bike lane.
“I would like to bring it back to council for discussion and a vote on whether we could make this a sharrow,” said Formosa.
The mayor said he had heard that the Mitchell Brothers owner did not have a problem with the bike lane, but that was not the issue.
“I think he had a big problem but he was just afraid to say anything,” said Formosa. “He has a brand new business and he’s trying to make ends meet and make payroll.”
Mitchell Brothers manager Matt Rekve said the frustrating part for the store is that the busy season is coming.
“We are not against cyclists; we just want to share that space and get our parking back,” said Rekve. “We would really like to get this dealt with sooner than later.”
Councillor CaroleAnn Leishman said this area was part of the municipal cycling plan and work has been done in consultation with Powell River Cycling Association. She said she thinks the cycling association should be contacted because the issue is bigger than debating the matter at council.
“There’s a reason for the bike lane and it’s for safety of cyclists,” said Leishman. “I understand the concerns absolutely but having a sharrow on a busy road like Manson [Avenue], I know that as a cyclist when you go around cars, people open their car doors on busy streets.”
Formosa said there are areas of the city where cars and cyclists interact all of the time.
“There’s no bike lane,” he added. “You use your skills as a driver or cyclist to keep yourself safe.”
Councillor Jim Palm said there are not that many bicycles on the road and there are many cars, and there are a lot of visitors to Mitchell Brothers.
“We have to make this work for everyone and I don’t agree that this is a cycling association issue,” said Palm. “They were in on the grant writing and got what they were looking for with bike lanes along that avenue, but it’s our job to look after our businesses and to look after our cyclists. History has always worked in terms of safety on the road. If you watch what you are doing, like we have for years and decades, you can make it work.”
Councillor Cindy Elliott said she did not have an issue with revisiting whether there should be a sharrow. She also wanted to tack on speed limits in that area.
“In my opinion, it isn’t safe, whether there’s a bike lane there, parking or sharing, there is no way of making that particular area of town safe, with trucks going through, without lowering the speed limit,” said Elliott. “Nobody should be going over 30 kilometres per hour in that area. It’s all part and parcel of the safety issue.”
Formosa said adjustments have been made to speed limits on the side roads, and asked if Elliott was suggesting a reduction in speed limits from DA Evans Park to the liquor store and from the liquor store past Mitchell Brothers to a 30-kilometre-per-hour zone. Elliott responded affirmatively.
The committee gave consent that staff return to committee of the whole with options on implementing vehicle parking and the use of sharrows across from Mitchell Brothers store on Manson Avenue, in consultation with the Powell River Cycling Association and the store owner, and staff review lowering the speed limit in the commercial area from DA Evans Park through to Mitchell Brothers store.


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This year’s 52nd issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine has announced that Inio Asano’s Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction manga will resume in the magazine’s combined 2019 second and third issue on December 10, 2018. Asano had stated last month that the manga will return in December 2018. The series went on hiatus in February 2018. The manga returned from its previous hiatus in November 2017.
The series revolves around the strange everyday life of the very ordinary high school girl Kadode Koyama, her friend Ouran Nakagawa, and others in a world where a giant mothership has appeared over Tokyo.
Asano launched Dead Dead Demon’s Dededededestruction in Big Comic Spirits in April 2014. VIZ Media is publishing the manga in English.


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The other day there were new shots of sleek photo sessions, conducted personally by Karl Lagerfeld-not for the first time, the master of the world of fashion shoots campaigns for well-known brand of Barrie, specializing in the production of knitted things.
No wonder this: three years ago, the brand has become the fashion house Chanel, whose Creative Director is a Couturier. It is worth noting that before one of the largest manufacturers of knitwear and cashmere in the United Kingdom and France have cooperated more than 25 years.
The main character of regular shooting became Lily Collins-the pictures show the actress posed in things of a new line of the brand.
As we have informed, in may 2014, Collins starred in a campaign for that Lagerfeld's clothes, to present the first collection of ready-to-wear.


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South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare Holdings reported a 23 percent drop in full-year profit on Wednesday as heavy losses from its Venezuelan business and a weak performance in its home market weighed on earnings.
The firm has been expanding rapidly outside South Africa, where a heavily regulated pharmaceuticals market has put a cap on growth, and in its latest push announced this week it would buy GlaxoSmithKline’s portfolio of anaesthetic drugs for $370 million.
Sales in South Africa were down 1 percent to 8.1 billion rand ($564.13 million) and now represents 23 percent of the firm’s revenue.
Aspen, which earlier this month also concluded a deal to take AstraZeneca’s anaesthetics brands outside the United States, has positioned itself to ramp up sales outside its home market Chief Executive Stephen Saad said.
“We are now looking for economies of scale,” said Saad, adding that the company was adding products, such as the anaesthetics, that fit in with its therapeutic platform.
The latest acquisition has boosted its sales force in China to more than 600 people, which Saad sees as a key market.
Aspen said headline earnings per share (EPS) fell to 889 cents in the year to end-June, compared with 1,149.9 cents a year earlier.
Headline EPS is the main profit measure in South Africa and strips out certain one-off items.
Excluding a 870 million rand ($60.76 million) write down charge in Venezuelan operations, headline EPS would have grown by 10 percent, Saad said.
Shares in Aspen were up 2.5 percent at 344.22 rand by 1320 GMT, recovering from a drop of 1.7 percent before its results.


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Mcdonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) hit a new 52-week high on Wednesday after Citigroup raised their price target on the stock from $171.00 to $189.00. Citigroup currently has a neutral rating on the stock. Mcdonald’s traded as high as $178.96 and last traded at $176.96, with a volume of 2263063 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $178.49.
A number of other equities research analysts have also weighed in on MCD. Zacks Investment Research raised Mcdonald’s from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $199.00 target price for the company in a research report on Friday, October 26th. Robert W. Baird reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 target price on shares of Mcdonald’s in a research report on Wednesday, October 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. set a $180.00 target price on Mcdonald’s and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 24th. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their target price on Mcdonald’s from $190.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 24th. Finally, Telsey Advisory Group lifted their target price on Mcdonald’s from $175.00 to $195.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 24th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $188.93.
In related news, EVP Francesca A. Debiase sold 15,136 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $176.17, for a total transaction of $2,666,509.12. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 17,306 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,048,798.02. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Stephen Easterbrook sold 201,123 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $175.63, for a total value of $35,323,232.49. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 48,925 shares in the company, valued at $8,592,697.75. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 221,041 shares of company stock worth $38,839,407. 0.22% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
The company has a market cap of $134.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.56, a PEG ratio of 2.54 and a beta of 0.66.
Mcdonald’s (NYSE:MCD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 23rd. The fast-food giant reported $2.10 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.99 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $5.37 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.28 billion. Mcdonald’s had a negative return on equity of 130.19% and a net margin of 24.56%. The company’s quarterly revenue was down 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.76 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Mcdonald’s Corp will post 7.75 earnings per share for the current year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 3rd will be paid a dividend of $1.16 per share. This represents a $4.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 30th. This is an increase from Mcdonald’s’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.01. Mcdonald’s’s payout ratio is presently 60.66%.
Mcdonald’s Company Profile (NYSE:MCD)
McDonald's Corporation operates and franchises McDonald's restaurants in the United States and internationally. Its restaurants offer various food products, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages, as well as breakfast menu. As of December 31, 2017, the company operated 37,241 restaurants, including 34,108 franchised restaurants comprising 21,366 franchised to conventional franchisees, 6,945 licensed to developmental licensees, and 5,797 licensed to foreign affiliates; and 3,133 company-operated restaurants.
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BusinessWeek’s contacts claimed that 70% of the 750,000 trial users generated by AT&T’s 30- and 90-day trial promotions for the service — in addition to the 28,000 signed up in its first month – converted to paid subscribers, which would translate to roughly 525,000 new subscribers.
All told, Beats Music’s supposed 553,000 new subscribers would generate $5.52 million a month in revenue for the $9.99 a month service. Beats Music did not respond to a request for comment on these numbers at press time.
Spotify, founded in 2006, reported having some 6 million paid subscribers as of 2013, meaning the service has added an average of about 857,000 new subscribers per year since its beginning.
The dramatic growth would significantly affect the bottom line of the music business — earlier this week, reports from the RIAA revealed that streaming services generates 20% of the industry’s total revenue.
Beats Music recently raised $60 million in funding, the majority of which will be used for marketing, according to Billboard sources.
As well, the service recently acquired Topspin, the previous domain of Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers, to augment its artist services within the platform. “We’re committed to establishing Beats Music as a conduit for the artist-fan relationship, a platform where artists have a voice, and a provider of useful data and analytics on how fans interact with artists and their music,” Rogers wrote at the time. “This acquisition puts our money where our mouth is.”


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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
There are plenty of good reasons to buy organic produce, but nutrition may not be one of them, suggests a new study.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Fathers on a high-fat diet are more likely to produce daughters with a higher diabetes risk, a new study suggests.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Dirty 'kitchen' tools reveal that cavemen were grinding their own flour and preparing vegetables for meals at least 30,000 years ago, according to new research.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Bernie's Basics We know vitamins and minerals are essential for good health. But what do they actually do in our bodies?
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Babies born with low vitamin D levels are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have found.
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Germs living in the gut may cause higher rates of allergies, chronic stomach upsets and even obesity among children living in industrialised countries, say researchers.
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Lesson Plan Students use nutrition information to calculate the number of teaspoons of fat and sugar in their favourite food and drinks.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Dr Karl on triple j Do animals in different countries have different accents? What's the difference between white and brown sugar? If Jupiter is a gas planet, why can we see the impact of meteorites on its surface?
Thursday, 22 July 2010
The identification of key molecules that make gluten toxic could one day help those with coeliac disease, says an international team of researchers.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
We've all been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But does it really matter if you skip it?
Monday, 10 May 2010
A glass of orange juice may not only help the vitamin pill go down, it may be as effective as the supplement itself.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
A cup of green tea a day may keep the dentist away, according to new research from Japan.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables may have an effect at reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Mounting evidence on the effect of micronutrients on DNA damage calls for a re-evaluation of recommended dietary intake values, say researchers.
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Supermarket lights help keep spinach fresh and producing new vitamins, according to US government researchers.


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Forget Visa, This Company Is The Future of Payments
When it comes to financial dealings, cash is still king, accounting for 85% of global transactions. Still, credit card usage has been growing steadily for a decade. That has helped shares of Visa (NYSE: V) rise roughly 25% annually since the company’s 2008 initial public offering (IPO).
Now, all eyes are on the mobile payments market. This industry is expected to grow from $50 billion in 2014 to nearly $150 billion by 2019, according to the research firm Forrester. That sets the stage for another investment opportunity in the financial transactions market.
#-ad_banner-#In July, PayPal Holdings (Nasdaq: PYPL) was spun off from corporate parent eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY). The spin-off was long overdue. As long as PayPal was officially a property of eBay, there was little chance it would partner with Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), one of eBay’s largest competitors. Now that PayPal is independent, the partnership restrictions related to eBay are gone. A potential partnership with the largest online retailer is a huge market opportunity and could be a huge catalyst for the stock price.
PayPal has been a phenomenal growth story. Launched in 1998, the company was one of the first to enter the electronic transfer space. In 2002, it was acquired by eBay for $1.4 billion. When eBay spun PayPal off to operate as a standalone company, it had a market value of $40 billion. And it’s not yet a “mature” company: transactions and total payment volume have been growing at a rate of more than 20% per year since 2012.
PayPal’s size is a huge competitive advantage. While many mobile payments start-ups burn cash and are awash in debt, PayPal has $4 billion in cash and short-term investments on the balance sheet and negligible debt. This advantage allows PayPal to outspend or acquire emerging rivals. PayPal has already brought Venmo, a person-to-person money transfer and digital wallet service, into its portfolio; and it also acquired Braintree, a service that allows small merchants to accept Apple Pay, credit cards, and other money transfer services. Both services doubled their transaction volumes in 2014.
The acquisition that has the biggest potential for the company is that of publicly traded Xoom (Nasdaq: XOOM). Xoom is an international money transfer service that allows customers to use the service without needing a bank account or even an Internet connection to receive funds. This technology allows billions of people around the world that are outside the banking system to seamlessly transfer money. The World Bank estimates that there are still nearly two billion adults without a bank account. Suffice it to say, Xoom is also growing at a rapid clip.
Investing is all about projecting the future, and nowhere is that more difficult than the payments space. PayPal has a number of advantages that make it a favorite to thrive in this competitive space. It has the first-mover advantage, the diverse platforms and technology, and the capital to grow by acquisition.
Risks To Consider: The biggest risks to PayPal are technology related. Can PayPal continue to attract new users to its platforms? If it can, it gains more leverage for negotiations with merchants while suffocating competitors.
Action To Take: Shares of PayPal will be volatile, but for investors looking for a chance to earn the huge 20%+ returns per year that Visa has delivered since its IPO, PayPal is the best opportunity to match such gains.
Editor’s Note: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg calls it “the greatest revolution yet.” And one little-known company owns a near-monopoly on the key technology making it possible… To see our latest research report on this shocking $2.2 trillion breakthrough — and how you can profit — visit this link.


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FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world's leading supplier of solar microinverters, today announced it hosted a Made in Mexico event yesterday at the Flex manufacturing facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Company was honored to welcome Christopher Landau, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, to the event as he received a facility tour and overview of Enphase’s investment in Mexico.
In September 2018, Enphase announced the expansion of the Company’s manufacturing partnership with Flex Mexico to better serve its customers while maintaining its core competency in product quality. Starting in July 2019, Enphase began shipping its IQ 7™ microinverters from Mexico into the U.S. markets, helping the Company to improve customer delivery times, increase global capacity and mitigate tariffs.
As a result of its commitment to manufacture in Mexico, Enphase has invested in equipment and manufacturing capacity, which has enabled Flex Mexico to hire more than 650 direct employees. At the Made in Mexico event, Enphase showcased its manufacturing line at Flex Mexico, and reiterated its expectation to produce more than one million Enphase microinverters by the fourth quarter of 2020.
"U.S. companies like Enphase are a testament to the great benefits that arise when our two nations work together," said Christopher Landau, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. While at the event, Ambassador Landau expressed that U.S. manufacturing operations in Mexico have benefits on both sides of the border, and cited Guadalajara as an example of a city in Mexico that has solid growth potential in the technology sector.
Enphase entered Mexico’s solar market in 2010. In May 2020, the Company started shipping its products manufactured in Mexico to customers in Mexico, who are benefitting from Enphase’s best-in-class technology and reduced shipping times.
"To ensure our customers have had access to high quality clean energy for more than 25 years, we only partner with proven and highly vetted manufacturers,” said Jonah Greenberger, CEO of Bright in Mexico. “Enphase has been a critical part of our strategy since 2014, and thousands of installed systems later, we continue to be very pleased with Enphase products.”
“Enphase has been a key supplier of Solares since 2010, when we decided to buy its superior technology products,” said Arsenio Fernandez, CEO of Solares in Mexico. ”We have purchased more than six generations of Enphase products, and we believe it is one of the most trustworthy companies doing business in Mexico.”
“We are pleased that Ambassador Landau took time out of his busy schedule to visit the Flex Mexico facility, and we appreciate his support of U.S. companies investing in Mexico,” said Badri Kothandaraman, president and CEO of Enphase Energy. “We would also like to thank Flex for being such a strong partner as we expect to continue to increase our manufacturing capacity in Mexico and support our customers in the region.”
For more information about Enphase in Mexico, please visit the website.
About Enphase Energy, Inc.
Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company, delivers smart, easy-to-use solutions that manage solar generation, storage and communication on one intelligent platform. The Company revolutionized the solar industry with its microinverter technology and produces a fully integrated solar-plus-storage solution. Enphase has shipped more than 28 million microinverters, and over 1.2 million Enphase systems have been deployed in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit www.enphase.com and follow the company on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Enphase, IQ 7, the Enphase logo, and other trademarks or service names are the trademarks of Enphase Energy, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements related to the expected capabilities and performance of Enphase Energy’s technology and products, manufacturing operations, and the quality of products and services provided by its partners. These forward-looking statements are based on Enphase's current expectations and inherently involve significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including those risks described in more detail in Enphase's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents on file with the SEC and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Enphase Energy undertakes no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or changes in its expectations, except as required by law.
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Source: Enphase Energy, Inc.


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GEORGE TOWN: Malaysians have not really grasped the rationale behind the movement control order (MCO) as there are still a lot of people gathering to take away their food or chilling out at food courts on Wednesday (March 18).
At one eatery in Penang, many customers were seen waiting for their food order, while few others were busy chatting about the MCO.
"My business is not open today. I'm just here to look at the situation," said one person who declined to be named.
Some customers have also found ways to sort of dine-in by having their drinks packed in plastic bags on the table. Others put their packed drinks inside cups.
Dozens of customers were spotted queueing for their food as the premises no longer served the tables.


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Since they were knocked off the ‘top supermarket’ pedestal a few years ago, you’ve got to give it to Woolworths for trying – they’re fiercely competitive, and now they’ve brought out new ads showing that they’re cheaper, and it’s backed by independent Nielsen research.
The only problem is… Nielsen doesn’t support these claims.
SMH reports Woolworths published ads over the weekend that stated Nielsen data from June, July and August proved its prices were cheaper than Coles, however Nielsen has refused to validate these stats.
“It’s official, we’re cheaper. We don’t just think so … it’s independently proven,” the ads said.
Nielsen’s Asia Pacific executive director and head of marketing, Michael Walton said, “We do not in any way support or validate the current Woolworths advertising claims that compare Woolworths’ pricing with their major competitor – it’s something Nielsen simply does not do.
“Clients conduct their own analysis on this data and their teams draw their own interpretations and conclusions.
“The recent advertising campaign by Woolworths reflects Woolworths’ own internal analysis and interpretation of Nielsen data. Nielsen does not make public endorsements on a client’s own analysis or interpretation of its data”.
“We’re not claiming it’s incorrect – we simply don’t endorse these claims,” Mr Walton said.
So it’s still up in the air whether Woolies is really the cheapest, because it’s up to interpretation.
Fairfax Media obtained an internal memo from Coles managing director John Durkan that said,
“Over the weekend Woolworths claimed in advertising that its prices are now cheaper than Coles, based on data from market research firm Nielsen.
“I want to assure you that this statement from Woolworths is completely untrue.
“I am confident that our customers will respond positively to the reality we deliver – not the tricky perceptions created by one of our competitors”.
Woolworths has spent more than $200 million to reduce the prices across stores.
We want to know today, do you feel that Woolies’ prices are cheaper than Coles?


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The PS4 arrived in Japan on Saturday and has already sold in excess of a quarter of a million units.
It also beat Wii U’s debut performance (308,570) although fell short of PS2’s (630,552).
In its first weekend in the UK PS4 sold over 250k units.
As of last week global PS4 sales stood at 5.3m units. It’s safe to say that number will have likely hit or even succeeded 6m units by now.