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February 16, 2013
The performance marketing industry has long anticipated a federal answer to the online sales tax/nexus issue – and Thursday that answer came a big step closer to being realized with the introduction of the Marketplace Fairness Act in both the U.S. House and Senate.
Sponsored by 53 U.S. senators and representatives, the proposed law is meant to address weaknesses in prior legislation designed to make it easier for states to collect sales taxes on online purchases.
The bill would give states the right to mandate sales tax collection by retailers, whether or not they have an in-state physical presence or nexus. Such a presence includes stores or distribution centers. If enacted, the law would overturn existing federal law that says states can mandate tax collection only by retailers with nexus in their states.
To date nine states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island) have passed affiliate nexus tax legislation. The nexus tax laws require out-of-state advertisers who exceed $10,000 in sales to consumers within the state via affiliate referrals to collect a sales tax. The nexus tax legislation has, in the words of the Performance Marketing Association, “devastated the incomes of 76,000 affiliate marketers.”
On Thursday PMA Executive Director Rebecca Madigan applauded the introduction of the Marketplace Fairness Act in a blog post, calling this development the “best Valentine’s present for the performance marketing industry.”
For more information about the Marketplace Fairness Act and what it would mean for the industry, read this piece by InternetRetailer.com.
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Military navigation software will be used on Poraris ATVs.
Updated: November 04, 2013, - 08:16 PM
Some say Myron Kunin, founder of Regis Corp., never met a business he didn’t like. Others insist he never saw...
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Creighton's monthly economic survey of Minnesota and eight other states dropped to its lowest level of the year, hurt by the government shutdown and low crop prices.
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The St. Paul company beat Wall Street projections, posting a 15 percent jump in total sales.
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The Eden Prairie-based 3-D printer firm offers Halloween enthusiasts glowing plastics.
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The company is bringing back the two Northshore Mining production lines to fulfill a new contract with a U.S. steel...
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Shares are trading at a 52-week high after Minnesota's most valuable company reported a 5.5% jump in third quarter profit and lifted its outlook for the rest of the year.
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Elmo helped unveil a database designed to help manufacturers across Minnesota.
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Polaris results beat expectations and the company raised its outlook for the rest of the year. Investors hammered the stock, however, after it has risen sharply over the last three months.
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Real Madrid and Barcelona Form a Partnership for Crypto and Metaverse!
Two of the biggest clubs in football are now formally members of the Metaverse. Real Madrid and Barcelona, two Spanish football teams, will work together on cryptocurrency and metaverse products. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has received trademark applications from Real Madrid and FC Barcelona (USPTO).
Real Madrid and Barcelona in Metaverse!
Metaverse trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis shared the news on Twitter. According to the news, on August 11, Spanish football clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid are partnering on a joint cryptocurrency and Metaverse trademark application. Within the scope of the partnership decision taken by its competitors, there are virtual reality games, clothes, shoes, hats, cryptocurrency transaction management software, and similar initiatives.
In recent weeks, Barcelona has gained recognition in the NFT industry. The NFT, which honors famed footballer Johan Cruyff's famous goal, sold for $693,000. The first piece of digital art to represent the club's heritage and legendary Johan Cruyff goal. In the upcoming months, the club has stated that it will release 9 additional songs. To assist Barcelona's Generation Z supporters, NFTs will be developed. It has also been appearing as a component of a plan to use new technologies to motivate people.
Metaverse and NFT Trademark Applications Hit Record Levels!
Football powerhouses REAL MADRID and BARCELONA have filed a joint trademark application covering:— Mike Kondoudis (@KondoudisLaw) August 11, 2022
⚽ Virtual reality gaming
⚽ Virtual clothing, footwear, headgear
⚽ Cryptocurrency transaction management software
...and more!#FCBarcelona #RealMadrid #Metaverse #Web3 #Crypto pic.twitter.com/OpqcE9Xf3j
Expansion to Web3 and related trademark applications is not limited to football and sports. According to the responsible trademark office, Mastercard has filed at least 15 trademark applications related to cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and Metaverse. By the end of December 2021, Walmart had filed at least seven trademark applications indicating its retail group's entry into cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Also, the American bakery company Panera has registered a trademark for 'Paneraverse'.
Between January 1 and May 31, it was announced that more than 2700 Metaverse-related submissions were made to the USPTO. In the same period last year, there were only 507 applications. According to McKinsey, global investment in Metaverse reached $120 billion by May this year. Moreover, the investment made until May has more than doubled last year's total since then. In addition, according to the statements, the number of trademark applications made to the USPTO regarding NFTs is increasing. According to Kondoudis, more than 4,000 NFT-related trademark applications were registered with the USPTO in the first 3 months. In addition, last year, this figure was only 363.


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For so long, the world has looked upon the ingredients of far flung European cuisines as a source of prestigious consumption. Think along the lines of truffles and foie gras.
But the tables have been turned – at least in the world of mixology.
“More bars are using local ingredients and applying modern techniques to indigenous ingredients,” says Alex Kratena, founder of P(our) – a non-profit organisation that looks to bolster the synergy of the global drinks industry by sharing ideas in annual symposiums.
The indicators have been brewing independently in each country, but a survey of bars from Tokyo, to Seoul, and Bangkok to Taipei reveals that the movement is, in fact, widespread across the continent.
In Seoul, Terry Kim, owner and head bartender of Alice notes that ginseng, dried jujubes and maeseal (a type of Korean plum) are taking pride of place next to premium soju and imported whiskies.
Mark Huang, Director of Woo Taipei, notes the same: “These days, we have a variety of themed-bars opening in Taiwan showcasing more of Taiwanese cultural flavour, the usage of local ingredients, spices and local tea leaves.”
In Japan, Hiroyasu Kayama, head bartender and owner of Bar Benfiddich in Tokyo adds that more bars are also using Asian spirits to craft their tipples. More distilleries are using Japanese botanicals like kinome, Japanese cypress and bamboo leaf in recent years.
“These trends exist because people [are] appreciating more details, focusing on quality and perfection,” says Lester Ligon, head bartender of ABV in Manila.
For Antonio Lai, he uses local ingredients because the taste is slightly different. "And it's always good to focus on local elements by supporting our local farms in Hong Kong. Without our support, one day the farming industry will vanish."
To be sure, cocktails with an Asian or tropical twist are not new. Drinks like the Singapore Sling or even mai tais have been around for a while. But the difference is stark.
The ingredients used now are far more niche, often depending on the mixologist’s creativity and palate rather than run-of-the-mill recipes. Some, like Kayama as well as Singapore’s Anti:dote bar, even grow their own edible greens to use.
The focus is also on elevating local producers and ingredients. “Bars and certain local distributors are helping each other to showcase the best Filipino products and the freshest produce the country has to offer,” says Ligon.
And the most interesting part: even bars in Paris are starting to use Asian ingredients. The New York Times, for instance, noted that pandan – the fragrant leaf used in Southeast Asian cooking – has been the latest trendy ingredient in the French capital.
Perhaps the tables really have turned.
Recommended reading: View more cocktail stories here.


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The company behind some of the most stylish games you will ever play ATLUS now has a Developer page on steam. The only game on there right now is Catherine Classic. This could be the step towards ATLUS games like the Persona series finally coming to PC something people have been asking for forever. Reports stated at least Persona 4 Golden and Person 3 could be coming in the immediate future! Aside from the Persona series ATLUS has a range of games for every taste of gamer. PC Gamer’s upcoming PC Gaming Show, airing this Saturday, June 13th for two hours starting at 11 am PST, has promised a few surprises. One of those surprises seems to be Atlus’ announcement that “something” is coming to PC.<—Previous Article
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County complex offering document shredding Saturday
MANSFIELD — Burlington County residents can shred confidential documents and recycle electronics and other e-waste from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Burlington County Resource Recovery Complex off Columbus Road.
Residents will be able to stay in their cars as volunteers unload the items.
Recyclable items include: TVs, computers (including monitors, laptops, keyboards, mice and cables), printers, scanners, desktop copiers, fax machines, cellphones, game consoles, VCR/DVD/MP3 players, rechargeable batteries, holiday lights, microwaves, stereos and related equipment, record players, vacuum cleaners, irons, toasters, blenders and mixers.
Confidential documents such as bank and credit card statements, tax returns, or papers with Social Security numbers on them will be shredded on-site. Already-shredded paper also can be recycled. Up to four bags or boxes of documents per car will be accepted.
Binders, plastic folders, computer disks and plastic credit cards will not be accepted. Only county residents, but not businesses, may attend. ID is required.
For more information, call 609-499-1001 or email email@example.com.


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Are you doing your part?
In times of intense discussions on ethics in politics, the Brazilian Institute for Competition Ethics (ETCO) runs a campaign to raise awareness among market, bakery and bar owners about the importance of everyone doing their part to have a country without corruption. The campaign started in the cities of Guarapuava (PR) and Franca (SP). Approximately 2 merchants will be impacted by the campaign that warns about three themes: sale of smuggled or stolen products, payment of taxes and trade in alcohol and cigarettes for children under 18. ETCO takes advantage of the contact with retailers to also publicize the campaign of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) “Say no to small corruptions”, which addresses various illegal or unethical attitudes, such as stealing cable TV, skipping lines and buying counterfeit products.
To have an idea of the size of the problem, in the first quarter of the year, the illegal cigarette market reached 57% of the total in the interior of São Paulo, a growth of 15 percentage points over the same period last year, and exceeding the average national rate of 45%. In 2017, the smuggling of this product caused a leak of R $ 1,2 billion in the collection of the State of São Paulo, with 15,1 billion units of illegal cigarettes circulating freely in the market. In Paraná, the loss was R $ 293 million in the collection, with 3,3 billion units of contraband cigarettes circulating freely in the market.
Despite the authorities' efforts to combat this crime, 48% of cigarettes sold in Brazil are illegal (according to Ibope) and come from Paraguay.
"ETCO stands out in the ethical defense of competition and in strengthening business morals"
What is the role of ethics in the country's development – and, in particular, what is the role of competitive ethics in this mission? Although with similar roots (ethos/mos), for common sense, in the world


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Incredible invention was earmarked for success
1 November 2011
His idea for a compact but crystal-clear audio system that is both easily portable and very powerful won Bradford Backus, a research scientist at UCL’s Ear Institute, not only the London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge but also a number of other internal and external awards.
Royalties from the iPod speaker system, known as the rCube and manufactured by Arcam, have helped Bradford to develop the soundBADGE, a small but accurate noise dosimeter which measures the levels of noise a wearer is being exposed to and which could help tackle the growing problem of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).
In 2010 What Hi-Fi? Magazine chose as its Product of the Year a portable iPod speaker system called the rCube. It is the brainchild of UCL research fellow Bradford Backus, and was inspired by his love of tapdancing. Tired of lugging an unwieldy boombox around Boston when he was a student at MIT, Brad dreamed of an audio system that would be small enough to fit into a book bag but powerful enough for a (very loud, if need be) student party.
The idea took shape when Brad joined UCL’s Ear Institute in 2006 and attended a workshop of the London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge, where he met his business partner, Steven Gildorf, an MBA student at London Business School. With the help of UCL Advances, the two formed Audio3 and developed a business plan.
Audio3 won the London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge and the Provost’s Prize in 2007, as well as a Bright Ideas Award in 2008. Audio3 invested their prize money in developing a top-quality prototype, which was subsequently produced through a licensing deal with elite British hi-fi maker Arcam. The rCube is now distributed around the world in outlets like Harrods.
Brad has since advised Camden-based loudspeaker designers Ferguson Hill, to whom he was introduced through the HELO programme run by UCL Advances, on their prototypes. He has also reinvested the royalties from the sales of rCube in his second invention, the soundBADGE.
Developed with the Royal College of Music and London South Bank University, the soundBADGE is an easy-to-use noise dosimeter that accurately measures the levels of noise a wearer is being exposed to, and comes from Brad’s interest in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) – “ironic”, he laughs, “given my first invention.”
He says: “We are living longer and louder lives, so NIHL is
on the increase. The soundBADGE could help prevent some of this loss, improve quality
of life for those at risk and save our health services some money, too. We are looking to manufacture the
product ourselves here in the UK, largely thanks to the knowledge, experience
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LAPLATA, Md. --Blackie Wills might not mind if his convenience-store chain, Dash In Food Stores, adopted a new retail motto: Dash in and stay awhile.
There’s no denying that a growing number of Dash In locations are becoming increasingly warm and inviting—all part of an ongoing and ambitious $2.5 million to $3 million store remodeling project.
And just like the motto says, when customers feel comfortable, they tend to stay longer and spend more. That’s the goal at the chain of 65 existing Dash In stores located in Delaware, Virginia and Maryland. The LaPlata, Md.-based company is earmarking about $75,000 to $100,000 per store to reach a higher level of customer satisfaction, Wills said.
“We see this as an investment in the brand [that] provides us the ability to change customer perceptions,” Wills, director of real estate and development for The Wills Group Inc., told Convenience Store Products. “Customers now tend to come into the remodeled stores and comment, ‘This is a Dash In?’ ”
About five years ago, Wills began imagining a new look, one that would involve shifting from metal to wood/millwork interior designs and fixtures, and how it could serve as a cosmetic rejuvenation for outdated store formats. As the company adds new stores and remodels existing ones, customers see a chain that’s starting to resemble the look of the leaders in other retail channels, such as fast-casual, Wills said. Prompting the decision to remodel was the chain’s shift to made-to-order foodservice fare instead of its previous hot-hold offerings.
This store vision took shape in 2010 when Dash In went on a retail asset-purchasing spree, snatching up 1,000-square-feet legacy snack shop stores from both Shell and Exxon. Rather than retrofit, Dash In opted for complete raze and rebuilds. The company is on target to add six to 10 new stores per year over the next several years.
“The interiors are being transformed—we wanted to shed the former look,” Wills said. “The shift to made-to-order was a major factor, and I don’t think we could have made this switch and kept the former look. It was important to create a newer, better kind of in-store experience for customers.”
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Integrating pre-engineered cabinet fixtures with the unique combination of aesthetic appeal and durability was top of mind with Dash In.
Wills scouted for and found the right partner to tackle the job in Richmond, Va.-based Merchants Fixture, which has National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) certification.
“We first talked to Merchants Fixture in May of 2014, and they have since done seven stores. They will remodel another nine into next year,” Wills said. “Over the next five years, we plan to remodel 40 stores.” Wills appreciated Merchants Fixture’s expertise with millwork and their creation of shop drawings.
When the conversion was made, not only did Dash In opt for what was already higher-quality wood-based millwork, but they splurged on the “Cadillac” of fixtures in the form of Cambria stone countertops, “creating a richer customer experience,” he said.
A store’s success can hinge on the in-store design plan, as the costs of cabinets make up the largest percentage of all in-store costs—not including POS—both in new construction and re-modeled stores, said George Wright, president of Merchants Fixture.
Wills liked the teamwork and ongoing communication Merchants brought to the table. “The first store Merchants did for us, we did a walkthrough and performed tweaks to the millwork package. We had shelving designed one way—but we elicited some feedback and incorporated some changes,” Wills said.
Store downtime at Dash In during the conversions was minimal as Merchants was able to “work in stages to keep stores open all the time—even working off-hours,” Wright said. “This effort can take two weeks if you have to do it in stages rather than full-on.”
Wills wasn’t able to quantify how this initiative translates to additional sales or additional foot traffic in stores, but predicts those results will be more readily tracked with each passing fiscal quarter.


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Electricity powers new free Green Cab downtown
Cab holds 5 passengers, can drive on roads with speed limits 35 mph or less
MADISON, Wis. — Green Cab unveiled a new golf cart/car hybrid cab over the weekend that is run entirely on electricity.
The cab holds five passengers, can drive on streets with speed limits of 35 miles per hour or less, and is free.
Green Cab employees said the cab lives up to the company’s name.
“It’s obviously the greenest taxi cab in the town because it’s electric so people support that ideas, as well as something that they can access around State Street and the Capitol quite easily,” Green Cab Manager Phil Anderson said.
Anderson said the company will likely purchase more electric cars, and that the service will stay free.
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Domino’s Pizza Israel has found online consumers, CEO Yossi Elbaz said.
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“Twenty-four percent of sales at our Ramat Gan store are already made online as part of our online pilot,” Rami Levy, the owner of the eponymous independent supermarket chain Rami Levy Chain Stores Hashikma Marketing 2006 Ltd. said Tuesday at the annual Israel Internet Association conference in Jerusalem.Speaking at the conference’s panel on Israeli consumer behavior, he said: “Before we entered the field, online sales at Shufersal and Mega accounted for 1% of sales.We saw that the price was very fixed, and online shoppers used the Internet because they had no choice due to a lack of time or inability to go to the store. I believe that within 10 years 20% of food sales will be online.“Online shopping isn’t only about price. The price is a determinant, but if you don’t provide quality and service, you’ll fail.”Bookseller chain Steimatzky Ltd. said it was not relying on the Internet.“In contrast to the success of Amazon.com, e-commerce in books isn’t very developed,” Steimatzky vice president for marketing Orly Finkelman said.“This is because of the very high density of bookstores, online prices are the same, and because of the stronger shopping experience in a store, compared with the Internet. Online book sales at Steimatzky account for less than 1% of the company’s sales.”Domino’s Pizza Israel has found online consumers, CEO Yossi Elbaz said.“Consumers’ willingness to go online is very high if they get a user-friendly and reliable interface that offers an experience that they adopt with love,” he said.“We’ve been able to achieve 52% of sales via our online and mobile app digital channels. We’ve set a target of 60% for this year.
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I’ve scoured the internet to find you today’s funniest/important/scariest/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Big Tech Wants To Kill The Leap Second
The extra time has triggered internet outages and disruptions, they claim. (CNET)
2 The QAnon ideology thrives in the primaries
But savvy Republicans avoid explicitly presenting themselves as believers. (NYT $)
+ Donald Trump refused to read lines condemning the Capitol rioters during a speech. (Reuters)
+ The Pennsylvania Democratic candidate’s social media game is outstanding. (The Guardian)
4American pedestrians are in real danger
Roads built only for vehicles threaten the lives of humans trying to cross them. (Voice)
+ London is experimenting with traffic lights that give priority to pedestrians. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Facebook is even worse without news
By unplugging the articles, the platform feels like a content graveyard. (Atlantic)
+ Its failure to curb hate speech continues to fuel violence in Ethiopia. (Initiated)
+ Meta’s insistence on copying TikTok is getting a bit embarrassing. (Axios)
+ Instagram’s makeover has not been well received by users either. (Tech Crunch)
6 algorithms are distorting our sense of style
Fueling a flat, generic taste designed to appeal to everyone, but no one. (New Yorker $)
+ We also face pricing algorithms designed to squeeze us for every penny.. (NPR)
7 Roblox bends over backwards to appease Chinese censors
And even that didn’t stop it from having to close there after just a few months. (Motherboard)
+ Chinese gamers use Steam wallpaper app to push porn past censors. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Inside the ongoing war over e-book lending
Physical libraries are embroiled in debates over copyright law. (WP $)
9 tech entrepreneurs sell stocks in their lifetime
Because, why not? (New Yorker $)
10 Prepare For The Return Of The Glasshole
Companies are desperate to sell us smart glasses, but do we really want them? (The edge)
+ Why Facebook uses Ray-Ban to claim our faces. (MIT Technology Review)
quote of the day
“Where will he go next? Good luck there, little bag.
—Finbarr Taylor, whose suitcase went missing on a flight from California to Glasgow, is sadly tracking his bag’s journey around the world with an Apple AirTag tracker, reports Bloomberg.
The big story
Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law
In Wilton, Connecticut, Dutch company ASML builds the world’s most sophisticated lithography machine, a crucial process used to create transistors, wires and other essential components for microchips. The team’s speed and accuracy are key to tracking Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors crammed into a microchip doubles roughly every two years as the components get smaller and smaller, which makes chips cheaper and more powerful.
It took ASML $9 billion of R&D and 17 years of research to refine its industry-leading extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chip machine. But the effort and time it took to get there raises inevitable questions. How long will EUV be able to maintain Moore’s Law? And what will happen next? Read the full story.


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Thirteen-year-old Sam is ready to become an Eagle Scout. Currently a Boy Scout, Sam chose a project at Gainesville’s Haven Attic Resale Store to fulfill his Eagle Scout Service Project, which is a requirement for becoming an Eagle Scout.
“Sam’s project is to organize three of our bays at the Gainesville store,” said Stormy Palmer-Porter, Haven’s manager of retail business. “We use the bays to store goods for our stores, and more importantly, to store goods for veterans and the homeless who are getting a fresh start.” Stormy said Sam’s project has multiple levels. Sam has worked hard to have items donated to build and complete weatherproof shelving for the bays. Sam orchestrated a large group of volunteers to help accomplish this project. He has cleaned out the bays, gone through the inventory and organized the bays so that they can be used efficiently. Sam and his team of volunteers also used paint leftover from painting his bedroom to stencil inventory categories onto the walls.
Sam’s mother Toby said Sam originally planned to do his Eagle Scout Service Project elsewhere, but changed his mind and decided to do his project at the Haven Attic Resale Store after he volunteered at the store with his church. Toby said, “We started going to the Attic with missionaries in our area that we met through church. One time they asked if we could give them a ride to the Attic and serve with them. I hadn’t thought about it, but my son also needed community service hours. He started volunteering in April and fell in love with the volunteers and the store and everything going on at the Attic.”
Stormy said Sam should be very proud of his work at the Attic; his efforts will help the store better serve the community for years to come.
If you’re interested in volunteering with Haven, please visit https://beyourhaven.org/Volunteer.
Sam poses in one of the bays he was tasked with renovating at Gainesville’s Attic Resale Store.


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The past couple of months saw more news about the smartphone AP segment than has been seem in a long while. This includes a dramatic moment for Huawei’s Kirin processor, having its production forcefully halted just when it has achieved number 2 position in global market share. It also includes the race to acquire ARM, the dominant multi-core CPU architecture used by smartphone APs. In this short article, Digiecon takes stock of the recent developments.
This report maps the status of the industry in the latter-half of 2020, exploring the impact of three years of strong central government support for the technology and the impact of broader trends such as the US-China trade-war. While there is undoubtedly significant hype around artificial intelligence in China, areas such as machine learning and computer vision continue to be the focus of investment and research as China develops the capabilities for a self-sufficient AI industry.


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BOSTON–There’s more to Spring Break than catching rays and sipping on rum drinks. For a group of Harvard MBA candidates and working professionals, now is the time to double-down on their startup ideas, reports BostonInno.
Rohan Ganesh, Ben West and Andrea Coravos all HBS students, as well as Sydney Rossman-Reich and Angela Nicholas, have decided to stage a Startup Lockdown. Over the past 3 years, it’s been an organic, unofficial tradition for a group of 5 people – previously 5 HBS MBAs but, this year, 3 HBS students plus 2 professionals – to get together during Spring Break and dedicate themselves to testing 5 separate business ideas in 5 days., according to BostonInno.
Five days. One idea per day.
“A week-long experiment in accelerated business building to prove that with clear focus and thoughtful collaboration, we can achieve more than we ever thought possible together,” says Startup Lockdown website. “Rapid consumer research, rapid prototyping, rapid consumer testing, and rapid iteration culminated in exceptional execution. What can be done in 24 hours?”
The 2016 team marks the third class of Startup Lockdown. The experiment began this year on Sunday March 13.
“It’s like having 4 brains to borrow for a week,” Ganesh said at the group’s website. “It’s a huge benefit, particularly given our backgrounds.”


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DTI opened speed-marketing
novel at Sandugo Trade Expo
Tagbilaran City, Bohol, July 21 (PIA) -- SEVENTEEN suppliers speed marketed their products to 12 buyers, mostly tourism providers here in a market matching activity held at the mezzanine of the Prawn Farm and Grill at Island City Mall June 21 in time for the 2011 Sandugo Regional Trade Expo.
Speed marketing, a novel marketing initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to directly market–link crafts, processed food and fresh produce suppliers to resorts, hotels, restaurants and groceries providing tourism services in Tagbilaran and anywhere else in Bohol, the project concept paper reads.
“The basic idea is to give local suppliers and producers, who are mostly farmers, a venue to market link their products to prospective buyers from the tourism sector,” explains Blair Panong, trade and industry development specialist explains.
Buyers are assigned tables while suppliers are given 10 minutes to talk and introduce their products to the buyers. Here, within the allotted time, they discuss their requirements to suppliers, order volume, product specifications, delivery schedules, payment terms and other business concerns, he added amid a buzz of informal presentations in tables not far from the event secretariat.
“After ten minutes, a bell signals the suppliers to move clockwise to present their products to the next buyer, until all have talked and presented their products,” according to DTI Bohol’s Marisol Balistoy.
The DTI organized marketing activity is one of the sideline events of the 2011 Sandugo Trade Expo, also unveiling at the Block of the ICM.
Along with market matching activity, also presented during the four-day trade expo are fora on corporate social responsibility, Green Growth Awareness and a Small Medium Enterprise Summit highlighted by Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo.
The trade expo, which highlights greening business and winning markets, “opened up countless opportunities for local producers a new promising market for their fresh produce and organically grown products,” says a supplier member of the Bohol initiators of Sustainable Agricultural Development (BISAD).
The source was presenting organic rice in bulk, organic vegetables and corn coffee to tourism industry suppliers during the marketing event.
Local products market-linked include processed food in banana chips, corn coffee, local chocolates (tableya), assorted organically grown vegetables, pork chicharon, organic rice, rice of the japonica variety, ginger tea (salabat), coconut vinegar, dried and pureed mangoes, souvenir items, soap and liniments and raffia place mats and rolls. (Rey Anthony Chiu)
Bohol to get “LBK-inspired”
Mobile health clinics here
CALAPE, Bohol July 21, 2011 (PIA) – LONG before the Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan (LBK) caravan rolled to a stop here, Bohol had health services caravan chugging to more than 28,000 beneficiaries of free integrated government services in seven missions.
Governor Edgar Chatto shared this to health authorities who manned consultation clinics and dispensed free information in a caravan that presents itself as a template of the administration’s priority health agenda.
President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has identified the provision of universal access to quality health care on top of the government’s concerns.
The caravan, which Department of Health (DOH) authorities admit is just a small vehicle to give free rides to those needing quality health services but which local governments could copy.
LBK, a comprehensive maternal, child and family planning service caravan coasted to its fifth stop in a 10 stop visit to selected cities and towns across the country, said Dr. Irma Asuncion.
The LBK loads with it a comprehensive DOH and partners’ health promotion caravan which features a customized bus with clinic compartments, fiesta themed health promotion arena of interactive exhibits, health classes, story telling sessions and entertainment shows.
Now with a novel mobile clinic concept parking before them, local leaders reveal a plan to get a similar unit for Bohol, in fact with a diagnostic capability.
Bohol Representative Rene Relampagos detailed a plan to get a similar mobile clinic for Bohol while he urged Capitol to provide the complementation of medical professionals and logistics for the clinic to be truly mobile.
According to Dr. Asuncion, who heads the National Center for Health Promotion, the LBK is aimed at informing and educating families in destitute areas about the importance of maternal and child health.
Governor Edgar Chatto said the concept is not as new to Bohol who has been driving similar program packed in Health and sanitation, Education and technology, Agriculture and food security and Tourism and livelihood caravans.
The LBK is not hard for us to understand because we have been into HEAT Caravan, he said before a crowd gathered at the new Calape Sports Gymnasium.
Even then, Chatto thanked the DOH for bringing a program of disseminating information, services and education especially on advocating for more Boholano champions for health care.
He however revealed that the LBK has awakened in him a reality: that the HEAT caravan should now include prenatal services after realizing that maternal health is also an issue in Bohol. (Rey Anthony Chiu)


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In the week when bitcoin hit a new high, we look at what’s been going on in the world of cryptocurrencies this week.
22 Oct 2021
Bitcoin hits new high of over $67,000
Bitcoin hit a new high this week, hitting $67,016, boosted by the launch of a new ETF that tracks the cryptocurrency’s price (see below). It has risen by more than 130% since the start of the year – though not without a lot of volatility. The new high leaves bitcoin as the world’s 13th biggest currency with a market cap of $18.85m, says the Independent, surpassing the Swiss franc and Russian rouble. In terms of the world’s biggest companies, it now ranks higher than Facebook and Tesla.
Bitcoin ETF launches with more in the pipeline
As you may have read in Dominic’s Money Morning this week, the ProShares Bitcoin Futures ETF launched on the New York Stock Exchange this week. The ETF will hold futures that track the bitcoin price. Two more ETFs from Van Eck and Grayscale are also set to launch.
The SEC’s decision not to oppose the fund is “a sign that major global regulators are becoming more comfortable with crypto-backed products, even if they remain cautious on the industry more widely” says the FT.
Pennsylvania bitcoin miner debuts on Nasdaq
Stronghold Digital Mining (Nasdaq: SDIG), which mines bitcoin using energy from waste coal, made its stockmarket debut this week. It launched at $19 a share and quickly climbed to $31.90, ending its first day of trading at $28.90. The company went public via a traditional IPO rather than using a special purpose acquisition company as it gave investors more confidence, having been “been vetted by the SEC the regular way”.
The company takes spoil from Pennsylvania’s coal mines – co-founder Bill Spence reckons there are 840 slag heaps dotted around the state – and uses “fluidised bed boilers to remove toxins”, says CNBC, which helps produce the power used to mine bitcoin. The company made a loss of $3.5m in the first half of the year on revenues of $7.9m
Want free crypto? Just get your retina scanned.
In the hopes of getting some free cryptocurrency more than 100,000 people have had their retinas scanned by a startup called Worldcoin, reports the FT, as part of a project to distribute digital money to over one billion people worldwide.
The idea is to give the coins to everyone on earth free tokens, based on the ethereum blockchain which, the company says will “increase individual empowerment and equality of opportunity on a global scale”. The retina scanning is to prove you’re a human; once you’ve been eyeballed, you will at some point in the future receive your crypto.
The company has so far distributed 30 “orb” eye-scanning devices around the world, and hopes to “distribute 4,000 devices per month”.
The Orb “captures an image of a person’s eyes, which is converted into a short numeric code, making it possible to check whether the person has signed up already. If not, they receive their free share of Worldcoin”, the company says on its website.
HMRC to send “nudge” letters to cryptocurrency investors
HM Revenue and Customs is planning to send cryptocurrency investors “nudge letters” reports the FT, “warning them to check they have paid the right tax”. Investors will be urged to check they have paid the appropriate amount of capital gains tax or income tax on their holdings, but “it does not necessarily mean you have made an error on your tax return”.
HMRC says it is just helping people get their tax affairs right. “We regularly undertake activity to educate customers who might need help. Our letter asks cryptoasset holders to review their transactions to ensure that they are declared correctly”, it said.
FCA goes on TikTok to warn of cryptocurrency risks
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial regulator, has launched a campaign on video-based social media platforms TikTok and Youtube to warn young cryptocurrency speculators of the risks they face, reports the i newspaper. The campaign, called InvestSmart, wants people to ask themselves five questions:
1. Am I comfortable with the level of risk? Can I afford to lose my money? 2. Do I understand the investment and could I get my money out easily? 3. Are my investments regulated? 4. Am I protected if the investment provider or my adviser goes out of business? 5. Should I get financial advice?
The FCA is worried that investors are buying high-risk products with little knowledge of the dangers. It surveyed 18-40 year olds and found 76% made investment decisions “driven by a sense of competitiveness with friends or family”, 43% saying they wanted to “beat their peers when it came to making returns”.
“We don’t want to limit choice”, said the FCA’s Sarah Pritchard, “we are just asking investors to pause and consider. Are you prepared to lose all your money? If the answer is yes, then fine.”
Cybercriminals have stolen almost £150m of cryptocurrency so far this year
Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime, says cybercriminals made off with £146m in cryptocurrency in the first nine months of this year, reports the Daily Mail. That’s 30% more than in the whole of 2020. A total of 7,118 reports of cryptocurrency fraud, with the average victim losing £20,500. One in ten victims were aged between 18 and 25, and more than half were under 45. Criminals create “fraudulent advertisements with photographs of unsuspecting celebrities and use made up quotes to offer fake testimonials to make their offer look legitimate”
Cryptocurrency markets this week
- Bitcoin rose 6.6% to $63,211
- Ether rose 8.6% to $4,108
- Dogecoin rose 8% to $0.24
- Cardano rose 1.5% to $2.19
- Solana rose 27.5% to $202
What to look out for
Iran set to pilot its central bank digital currency
The Central Bank of Iran is to pilot its own “national cryptocurrency” soon, says Bitcoin.com. The Islamic Republic is “studying potential risks and benefits” and will launch it “once the Money and Credit Council approves it”, said Ali Salehabadi, the governor of the central bank.


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Marriott Hotels and Netflix have partnered to make guests feel more at home.
Folks staying at select Marriott Hotels can now sign into an existing Netflix account, or subscribe to the service via an app on the hotel's Internet-connected guest room TVs.
Sure, a mobile device will do the trick while you're away from the living-room big screen. But why stream Daredevil fight scenes on a 5-inch display when you can prop up the extra pillows and watch the heroics on a flat screen?
"Because consumers are choosing to take their streaming content with them when they travel, Marriott Hotels is making the industry's first rollout of Netflix a priority," Matthew Carroll, vice president of Marriott Hotels brand management, said in a statement.
The first hotel brand authorized to offer direct access to Netflix accounts, Marriott has already rolled out the service to six properties: New York East Side, San Jose, Princeton, Newport, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Bethesda.
Six moreWashington, D.C., San Francisco, Atlanta, Dayton, San Juan, and Anaheimare set to launch this summer. The company hopes to expand Netflix to 100 hotels by the end of the year, and nearly all of its 300-plus U.S. properties by late 2016.
"Our members tell us they want to watch Netflix anytime, in any place where they have an Internet connection," said Bill Holmes, global head of Netflix business development. "Through our partnership with Marriott, they'll get to watch their favorite movies, TV shows and Netflix originals on big screens just like they do at home."
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"Our collaboration with Netflix responds to changing consumer preferences in the way our guests access and watch content, while recognizing the leading role Netflix is playing in driving this transformation," Carroll said.
The news comes just days before the streaming service kicks off season three of its popular Orange Is the New Black prison drama, which returns on Friday, June 12.
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In a recent survey of almost 1,000 Uber and Lyft drivers, it turns out more money doesn't equal happiness.
The TNCs want voters to give them a break after the historic passing of AB 5.
OCT. LCT Editor's Edge: The outcome helps preserve the legal luxury ground transportation industry while clarifying the debate over fairness and rules.
Assembly Bill 5 could upend the TNC business model by making it more difficult for them to classify workers as independent contractors.
Of all the fares Jalopnik examined, Uber kept 35% of the revenue, while Lyft kept 38%.
An operator gets pre-trained chauffeurs, while they gain a much better gig.
By forming their own corporation, TNC workers could win leverage over companies that refuse to consider them employees.
A coalition confirmed it gave money to gig workers to cover the costs of travel and expenses for the day.
Getting into the nitty-gritty of monthly finances can create the data for more profitable decisions in your operations.
A California Senate committee moves the proposal forward as crowds rally for and against it.
Protestors say the $72 million purchase shows how the wealthiest Americans live in luxury on the backs of exploited workers.
The IRS believes many people driving for Uber and Lyft cheat on their taxes, and it wants Congress to help crack down.
This comes after rules kicked in Feb. 1 ruling drivers must make a minimum of $17.22 an hour.
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Talk Money Week - Nobody In The Dark lights up London and Bristol
We’re delighted to share that Good Things Foundation has partnered with Mastercard, Joseph Roundtree Foundation, Clean Slate, APLE Collective and spoken word poet Hussain Manawer, to ‘Leave Nobody In The Dark’ and shine a light on the millions of people who are still in the dark about their digital finances.
This week is Talk Money Week; an annual awareness week which aims to get the nation talking about money and promote financial wellbeing across the UK. To kickstart the campaign, Mastercard has lit up buildings in London and Bristol for 19 minutes and 40 seconds to represent the 19.4 million people in the UK who are unprepared for the economic downturn which will follow the pandemic.
The Leave Nobody in The Dark campaign provides 1-2-1 support, access to devices and a digital hub to give guidance. The hub provides handy hints and tips from us and Quids in! Magazine.
Whether your learners are worried about staying safe online, need help organising their finances, or if lockdown has particularly impacted their financial situation, the Nobody in the Dark hub is there to help.


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Think on the bright side. Nine billion people is a lot of people to sell stuff too. But can the world handle it?
At Fortune's Brainstorm Green conference Wednesday, business and environmental leaders were cheery.
"I definitely vote for opportunity," said Glenn Prickett, chief external affairs officer for the Nature Conservancy. "I don't think you can be in the conservation community and not be an optimist."
"We all must think of it as MORESteve Hargreaves - Apr 14, 2010 4:31 PM ET
You see them at the supermarket - plump, ripe red tomatoes that look so healthy and tasty. But then you realize they're organic, and likely to cost twice what the shabby slicing tomatoes do. So back on the shelf they go.
Yet buying organic is not only good for the body, it's good for the earth. So how to bring more organic food to more consumers at a cheaper price?
Expand research MORESteve Hargreaves - Apr 14, 2010 3:11 PM ET
Water...it sustains all life.
Yet consider this: Worldwide, 80 countries suffer from water shortages, including highly productive agricultural areas in northern China, the western United States, and northwest India.
Four thousand children under the age of five die each day from water-born diseases. Almost 40% of all the water used in agriculture - the biggest consumer of water by far - is wasted.
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Lots of people love seafood. But most people know the oceans are overfished, and no one wants to be an eco-jerk. So which types of fish are OK to eat, and which should we avoid?
The answer: generally small fish that reproduce quickly and don't eat meat are OK. That means catfish, tilapia and carp, among others.
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Fourteen critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer were among the targets of Microsoft's monthly batch of security patches released Tuesday. In all, it fixed 46 vulnerabilities across products including Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
If you can't wait for that critical patch to secure your system from some just-discovered bug, IT security firm Qualys may have an answer, through new security software that can secure the trouble spot until the patch arrives.
A critical vulnerability in glibc, a core Linux library, can be exploited remotely through WordPress and likely other PHP applications to compromise Web servers.
A fault in a widely used component of most Linux distributions could allow an attacker to take remote control of a system after merely sending a malicious email.
Webmasters who patched their sites against a serious SSL flaw discovered in October will have to check them again. Researchers have discovered that the vulnerability also affects implementations of the newer TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol.
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The collapse of British travel giant Thomas Cook is having a ripple effect on the travel industry across the world, as destinations dependent on the group’s business are left high and dry.
The world’s oldest travel agency closed last week after banks and the British government refused its request for a bailout, leaving more than half a million travelers stranded.
Hundreds of hotels in Spain that are dependent on its business are now facing imminent closure if the government doesn’t intervene.
“There are 500 hotels which are going to close immediately due to the collapse of Thomas Cook, and the situation could get worse if the government doesn't take immediate action," Juan Molas, head of Spain's Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation, told business daily Cinco Dias.
Of those hotels facing immediate closure, 100 were exclusively dependent on Thomas Cook, he said, while the rest counted on the firm for between 30% and 70% of their clients. Worst hit are those in the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, where 40% of hotels are affected.
The association will urge Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto to take immediate action at the next Spanish tourism board meeting on Oct. 7.
"The busy season is starting and Thomas Cook had 30% of air capacity," Molas said, indicating the disappearance of the package holidaymaker could affect some 1.3 million airline seats, with Tenerife and Lanzarote particularly hard hit.
Other sunny destinations, including the 13 Greek getaways from Corfu to Crete, will have to grapple with the financial loss. The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) estimated that the economic impact on Greek businesses may be anywhere between €250 million and €500 million (US$273.295 million-US$546.590 million).
The “situation is not simple; Thomas Cook’s bankruptcy will have a negative impact on Greek tourism in terms of revenue for 2019. The data will be finalized by the Bank of Greece at the end of the year,” Greece’s Deputy Tourism Minister Manos Konsolas said in a statement.
To ensure that tourism performance in 2020 is not impacted, the ministry is preparing new promotional and advertising campaigns.
Turkey’s Tourism Advisory Council said it estimates that Thomas Cook owes the local sector more than €350 million (US$381.08 million), adding that it was impossible for the amount to be repaid in the short- and medium-term.
Egypt’s struggling tourism sector is also assessing the impact of Thomas Cook’s folding, which brought 250,000 tourists to the country every year.
Minister of Tourism Rania al-Mashat told Bloomberg that Thomas Cook’s bankruptcy will affect Egypt, referring to the canceling of 25,000 reservations for April 2020, according to Blue Sky Group. However, the country has worked hard to diversify its tourism markets.
In the aviation market, Thomas Cook’s subsidiaries known as Thomas Cook Airlines UK, Thomas Cook Scandinavia, and Thomas Cook Spain operated dozens of flights a day. As travelers look to rebook flights served by Thomas Cook Group, they have accused rival airlines — including Ryanair, British Airways, and TUI — of inflating flight prices by as much as 400%.
The UK's The Sun newspaper reported that one passenger found a flight with British Airways from London to Orlando, Florida, was £1,978 after the collapse, up from £437 before.
A spokesperson for British Airways told Sky News that the flight prices are based on supply and demand, and denied targeting Thomas Cook routes specifically.


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TVs get bigger, fancier, pricier
Buyer's remorse may be a thing of the past for purchasers of new television sets.
You know the feeling: plunking down cash or a credit card for a new display, only to find a better bargain in a few months that leaves you resentful.
So far this year, the average retail price of flat-panel displays and the average price that consumers are paying for TVs is rising. Retailers and TV makers like selling higher-priced models because they make more money off them. And shoppers increasingly are willing to pay for sets that are bigger and have more features.
"The person who comes in wanting to spend $500 ... will spend $1,200 or $1,900" if a set has what they want, said Tom Campbell of Video and Audio Center, an L.A.-based chain. "In that price range now you can get a smart TV."
For years, the TV industry trained consumers to expect price decreases, says analyst Paul Semenza of NPD DisplaySearch. "It is just hard to keep driving down the costs so rapidly."
The average retail price of sets for sale has risen to $1,243 from $1,124 last year, says research firm IHS Technology. Consumers are spending on average about $881, up from $865.
"If consumers have more expensive TVs offered to them, they also tend to spend more," says analyst Tom Morrod of IHS.
TV makers are starting to cater to that shopper.
Sharp is shipping a 90-inch TV ($10,999) to select retailers, the largest LCD TV with a full array of LED backlighting for better images. Sharp already offers 80-inch displays ($4,999.99), as well as high-end Elite LCD TVs in 60-inch and 70-inch sets ($5,999.99 and $8,499.99), part of a joint operation with Pioneer.
"This is a rich segment for the industry right now," said Mark Viken, vice president of marketing at Sharp Electronics.
Consumers are replacing their TVs faster, too. The average set being replaced this year is 7.6 years old; last year it was 8.4. And as they become accustomed to high-definition TV, consumers are opting for bigger sets when they replace or add a set, Semenza says.
Other TV makers touting 50-inch or larger premium-priced sets:
-Sony with its 65-inch Bravia XBR ($5,499) and Corning Gorilla Glass frameless display.
-Samsung LCD and plasma Smart TVs with voice control and face recognition, starting at 51 inches ($2,199.99).
-Panasonic's Smart Viera 55-inch VT50 plasma display with eight built-in speakers for improved audio ($2,499.99).
-LG Electronics' top-of-the-line 55-inch Cinema 3D Full LED Smart TV ($3,599.99) with gesture-controlled and voice-recognition "Magic Remote" control.
But the influx of larger, higher-priced sets into the marketplace doesn't mean shoppers won't find good sale prices. "It is still a very competitive landscape," said Shawn DuBravac of the Consumer Electronics Association. "There are going to be promotions headed into July 4th, but more importantly, immediately following that you have the Olympics. It's a big viewing event."
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Enterprise mobility solutions company Tango Networks has named Jim O’Brey senior vice president of sales for the Americas. He will lead business development for the company’s portfolio of mobility solutions.
O’Brey, who has worked in telecommunications for more than 25 years, comes to Tango from Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he led a national sales force. Before that, he managed a global wireless and wireline sales organization in the Verizon-Vodafone Enterprise Services division.
O’Brey also has experience at Nextel Partners, AT&T and AirTouch Communications.
“With his experience, Jim O’Brey truly understands what both service providers and enterprises need when it comes to mobility,” said Doug Bartek, president and CEO of Tango Networks. “We have the solutions to fill those needs, and by leveraging Jim’s sales and business development experience, we can now reach out more effectively to service providers, channel partners, customers and potential customers.”
Frisco, Texas-based Tango works with disributors, channels and integrators to promote and sell its mobility services. The company promises marketing assistance to its partners, as well as access to its technical and marketing materials; and support.


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Dairy Queen to launch in India
Fast food chain Dairy Queen is to launch in India’s QSR (quick service restaurant) market. Previous talks with brand Retail Reliance had fallen through, but Dairy Queen is on the lookout for new partners to help introduce the restaurant in India.
American group Berkshire Hathaway owns Dairy Queen, which runs 6,000 stores in 19 countries, with a headquarters in Minneapolis. A source, when discussing expansion into India said, “The company would initially want to look at opening around 100 burger stores here”.
Other fast food chains have recently launched in India, including Fat Burger. Burger King and Wendy’s. The group chairman of Cybiz Corp Samir Chopra – which is currently introducing eatery chain Carl’s Jr to India was optimistic about the future, stating, "If you look at India's QSR market, it has, surprisingly, been growing despite the inflation”.


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Yesterday’s peak of 24,776,635 simultaneous users is a new record.
For the sixth time this year, Steam has set its own record with the highest number of simultaneous players ever recorded on Steam.
Millions of people were blocked when Steam saw an unprecedented number of players returning online at the same time when the pandemic first surged. To date, the largest number of simultaneous players seen on Steam was 22 million users.
Today, according to SteamDB (thanks, PC Gamer), Valve’s PC platform hit a record high with 24,776,635 concurrent users joining the service yesterday.
As of this writing, that number has dropped to 22.6 million, but it’s still above the latest record of 22 million. It’s only speculation, but the combination of cold weather, the blockade of the pandemic, and the release of Cyberpunk 2077 are all believed to have influenced the numbers.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the record of 18.5 million simultaneous players, originally set to PUBG’s popularity in January 2018, has been broken several times. On February 2, a new high of 18.8m was set when China was blocked before and after the Chinese New Year, and just a week later, it was set again when 19.1m came online when the CNY was extended. I did.
When Europe was blocked in March, Steam set another new record on March 15 when we were online at 20.3m. On the 20th, this was defeated again-21.1 million people were online at the same time-and that record topped again on March 21, 2020.


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Fresh Direct, an online grocery retailer created for city dwellers, will soon be in the South Jersey burbs.
Beginning Jan. 28, time-strapped residents in Camden and Burlington counties will be able to take a trip to the Internet instead of the supermarket to shop for food. And they can have groceries delivered to their front door.
Those in Gloucester County who want the convenience of shopping from home will have to look elsewhere. Fresh Direct executives said there are no immediate plans to offer service there. ...


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A Hamilton, Ont. startup wants to help small companies and large enterprises alike improve their software through a global network of testers.
Jason Hamilton-Mascioli, founder and CEO of Testlauncher Inc., believes the software industry doesn’t take testing seriously enough, leaving it late in the development process or relying too much on customer feedback after software has shipped.
“We are at an embryotic stage where other industries such as semiconductors value the QA process,” he says.
According to the Systems Science Institute at IBM, the cost to fix an error found after product release was four to five times as much as one uncovered during design, and up to 100 times more than one identified in the maintenance phase. The cost of a bug goes up based on how far down the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) the bug is found. When a bug is found in production, the code needs to go back to the beginning of the SDLC so the development cycle can restart.
Hamilton-Mascioli said that unlike other businesses which attach themselves to a third-party testing company with credibility in its market, the software industry still has room to grow and learn with regard to QA. “There is a notion that they have to do everything themselves.”
Testlauncher is looking to disrupt the software industry, he said, and help customers improve their development teams by using QA support and its services to build better applications faster.
The company launched its new global test management service this week, offering personalized enterprise testing by matching the most qualified testers from around the word with the companies who need them based on a unique matching algorithm to build custom tester “dream teams” based on more than 50 attributes, such as location, physical devices, specialties and experience. Testlauncher uses Slack to facilitate communication.
Testers are often not taken seriously in many businesses, Hamilton-Mascioli said, and Testlauncher is addressing the problem by providing an environment where testers are well-rewarded and get paid on par with software developers. He said the company differentiates itself with its matching capabilities by assigning testers to projects based on coverage and skills with a focus on manual testing. “We know what the testers are really good at. Testers get the testing jobs they like to do.”
Testlauncher has testers deployed all over the world, applying both functional and exploratory testing to mobile apps, SaaS offerings and e-commerce sites. Test plans are built in collaboration with customers and the focus on manual testing is also critical differentiator, said Hamilton-Mascioli, because internal QA departments are often set up as a lab environment and Testlauncher’s team of testers can run an app through its paces on a broad ranges of devices from around the world from the perspective of an end user.
Another benefit for enterprises is Testlauncher’s ability to scale up quickly, said Hamilton-Mascioli. Internal QA teams are often idle, whereas Testlauncher can cost-effectively share resources across different customers. “We can push upwards of 500 hours of testing a day.”
According to CapGemini, the average spending on QA testing as a percentage of a company’s total IT budget has risen from 18 per cent in 2012 to 26 per cent in 2014, and is expected to reach 29% by 2017, driven in part by the growth of SaaS-based applications and the specific challenges posed by testing them.


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For the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the Commission is proposing a new, dedicated €4 billion programme to empower and protect consumers and enable Europe’s many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of a well-functioning Single Market.
The European Commission has reapproved with conditions, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Ziggo by Liberty Global. The merger was first approved in 2014. Following the annulment of this approval by the General Court in 2017, the Commission has reassessed the merger.
Today, the European Commission and national consumer protection authorities published the results of an EU-wide screening of 207 websites offering fixed/mobile phone, internet, audio and video streaming services.


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Video games reporter Ben Skipper sums up the biggest gaming stories from the past seven days.
Jun 3, 2017
Video game news round-up: Overwatch moon map, Nintendo Switch Online and amp; Pokemon Gos summer plans
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Advanced Micro Devices AMD, +3.27% said Friday that it is selling $600 million of its 7.75 percent senior notes due 2012 in a private offering. The company said it expects the deal to close by Oct. 29. AMD said it intends to use the proceeds of the sale to prepay its German unit's term loan.
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John Brown boards the 07.43 from Surbiton and strikes up a conversation with his wrist watch. He tells it to divert his office phone to voicemail for the morning, asks for the latest stock prices from the Hang Seng, dictates a couple of letters, then tells the watch to call his bookmaker.
If he did this today, the only effect would be that he'd get the train compartment to himself, since he would be taken for a madman. But within five years, his only problem might be how to make himself heard above the sound of his fellow passengers all bellowing at their own watches.
Much of the necessary technology for this scenario already exists. Mobile phones like the Genie or Spark from Philips can understand up to a dozen pre-recorded short dialling instructions, such as 'office' or 'bookie'.
Philips claims phones with vocabularies of 50 or more words are already feasible.
Japan's national telephone company, NTT, piloted a voice-controlled, watch-sized phone at the winter Olympics, and Seiko has just launched a wrist watch computer, the Ruputer, in Japan.
Swatch says a GSM version of its Swatch Talk wrist watch phone will go on sale next year, although this will not be voice controlled. And the first generation Swatch Talk, which operates as a domestic cordless phone with a 300m range, should be in the shops by Christmas.
But effective voice recognition requires a lot of computing power, which is difficult to provide in a small mobile device - hence the limited vocabulary of phones such as the Genie.
The alternative is to put voice recognition software on the phone network.
This enables more fancy functions and allows users to take advantage of technology updates without buying another phone. It will give the ability to deploy applications that were previously impracticable on a touch-tone phone.
You would be able to say: 'Get me the latest on the FTSE Index', or 'Transfer calls from my office to my mobile phone between 3pm and 5pm', or 'Play my last three voicemail messages from Bill'. You would have the beginnings of your own voice-controlled personal assistant, with scheduling, diary, address book and so on.
Voice-controlled phones would also be much safer for drivers to use.
According to the Transport Research Laboratory, dialling a number can be as distracting as trying to read a map while driving. Voice-controlled dialling needs no hands.
In February and March, Cellnet piloted a service which lets customers dictate documents via their mobile phones. These were converted using a voice recognition system from British software company Speech Machines, checked by human operators then emailed back to the customer. Cellnet hopes to launch the service later this year, subject to agreement with Speech Machines.
So if you get a letter which begins 'diddle-de-dum, diddle-de-dum', you'll know where it was composed.
Paul Bray is a freelance IT journalist.
CRN pulls out the key information from Microsoft's Q4, which took the vendor above $100bn for the year
Investment will include an AI research centre in London
John Coulston outlines Rackspace's plans to partner with the channel in the UK
Chris Bunch of Microsoft partner Cloudreach gives his take on this year's Inspire conference


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I wrote recently about how the number of mobile devices dwarfs all other media and how this staggering this statistic is. A recent study puts the number of mobile devices at 3.3 billion, up from the previous number of 2.7 billion. That is one mobile device for half of the world’s population.
Tomi T Ahonen provides some context on these new numbers:
- Growth is accelerating, not slowing down as many predicted
- 3.3 billion is the number of devices, not the number of people. Many people have more than one phone. Italy has a 140% subscriber rate. The number of people using mobile devices is 2.55 billion which means there is still room to grow.
Much like Tomi’s previous article, the real perspective comes from his comparison of the number of mobile devices (3.3 billion) to things we take for granted. For example. there are only 1.5 billion people in the world who have credit cards.
The New York Times just published a retrospective piece by David Pogue in which he looks back on tech trends in 2007 and then starts thinking about 2008. His verdict?
2007 was the year of the cellphone’s marriage to the Internet. All kinds of interesting phones and services were made interesting because they married Internet data with the phones in our pocket: iPhone, GrandCentral, Teleflip, Google Mobile, Pinger, SimulScribe, SpinVox, and so on.
But if you think there was a lot of cellphone news this year, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The coming year is going to be the real Year of the Cellphone.
Pogue cites three big metamorphoses in the U.S. mobile phone world:
- Mobile phone carrier networks are starting to accept design innovations from handset designers and manufacturers, instead of just driving features themselves.
- Google’s mobile Android operating system.
- The masses are revolting: pushbacks on draconian contracts, cancellation fees and the like are finally starting to make a change in carriers’ business practices.
Pogue is looking to 2008 as the real year of the cellphone:
…as convenient as cellphones are, I don’t think anybody will complain if they get better. And in 2008, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
Read the article at the New York Times web site
Please join us as we celebrate the grand opening of our new office space and the birth of our new company:
- Thursday, Dec 13th at 5:00pm
- Cloud Four
107 SE Washington St., Suite 440
Portland, OR 97214
- Map (The main entrance to our side of the building is on SE Stark St)
Festive drinks and light appetizers will be served! RSVP if you get a chance (but feel free to drop by).
We got keys to our office late Thursday afternoon, and by the end of the weekend, the office was together and ready to go. That’s a lot of painting and hauling and lifting and drilling!
We’re settled in now, and getting some work done. Our neighbors are very friendly, and our view expansive. We’re a happy bunch of Clouds.
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Cory First Choice Home Delivery has been named a finalist in the 101-plus Employee category in the 2014 NJBIZ Business of the Year awards program.
World consumption of furniture for 2015 is forecasted to grow by 3.4 percent compared with this year, according to the new "World Furniture Outlook 2015" report from CSIL Center for Industrial Studies in Milan.
The Detroit Lions and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are joining with Unifi’s Repreve recycled fiber brand to kick off #TurnItGreen week, Dec. 1-7.
Bedding retailer Mattress Firm (NASDAQ: MFRM) reported third-quarter 2014 net sales of $464.3 million, an increase of 42.3 percent compared with the same prior-year period.
Hooker Furniture (NASDAQ: HOFT) has set a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share.
Serta Simmons Bedding will be the presenting sponsor of the 7th annual Ante4Autism poker tournament to be held during the January Las Vegas Market.
Ready-to-assemble upholstery producer Simplicity Sofas has been selected as a finalist for the most innovative product of the year by the Real Estate Stating Association.


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Akshaya Tritiya, one of the most auspicious occasions in the Hindu calendar, will be celebrated on May 3 this year. Many people start new business ventures on this day and also buy valuables including gold, diamond and silver.
Akshaya Tritiya falls on Shukla Paksha Tritiya of the Vaishnava month and people welcome Goddess Lakshmi on this day by purchasing metals like gold. People believe that whatever one buys on this occasion stays forever.
According to astrologers, this year, the muhurat for Akshaya Tritiya will start at 5.39 am on May 3 and continue till 5.38 am on May 4.
Star of Mysore spoke to a section of gold and diamond traders in Mysuru yesterday on the gold buying trend. While jewellers are pinning their hopes on Sunday and Monday for a sales boost, evidence suggests that customers are shying away from gold purchase due to various factors.
Chandrashekar, Marketing Manager, Bhima Jewels, B.N. (Bengaluru-Nilgiri) Road, said that when compared to Akshaya Tritiya during the pre-pandemic levels, business has picked up since the last two days. “We are offering attractive discounts to customers on gold and diamond purchases and this too has increased walk-ins to the store. We are hopeful that the sales will increase two or three days before the festival,” he added.
Spike in next two days
Sharafuddin, Store Manager, Malabar Gold & Diamonds, B.N. Road, said “The sales have not touched pre-COVID levels. We faced losses for two years and compared to that situation, the figures are looking up. We have good offers and still there is time for sales to pick up. Earlier, there would be huge bookings days ahead of Akshaya Tritiya and it used to spike two to three days before the festival.”
Response has been encouraging at Jos Alukkas on B.N. Road. “After two years of pandemic, it looks like people have been waiting for gold purchase during Akshaya Tritiya. We are seeing many bookings and walk-ins will pick up on Sunday and Monday. Our staff have been told that there will be heavy rush and we have taken all measures to handle the crowd and also deliver the product,” said Sio, Jos Alukkas Store Manager.
“The priorities of next generation are changing and maybe they are not giving importance to gold purchase. As traders we have to devise new strategies to woo customers and that is the reason we have interlinked gold, diamond and silver purchases to attract buyers,” said Adarsh K. Murthy, Managing Director, A. Shankara Chetty and Sons, K.R. Circle.
“Pre-pandemic sales were very good and in the last two years we lost business. This year till now, it is below average. Earlier, there used to be a lot of advance bookings. I think people still have the fear of the fourth wave and are saving money for emergencies,” he said.
Balakrishnan, Store Assistant Manager, Joyalukkas, B.N. Road, said that customers have increased to the store since the last one week. “The last Akshaya Tritiya was in 2019 and then COVID came. This year, we are expecting more crowds. We have customers for ready-purchase and also bookings. Plus there are telephone enquiries asking for attractive offers. We are expecting an increase in timings as we will open from 8 am,” he said.
Liquidity crunch in market
Tholasi Jewels (V.V. Mohalla) Managing Partner Harshanandana Tholasi says that the response has been average. “Nothing great as we had a couple of years back. There is a liquidity crunch in the market and people are feeling insecure to spend on gold and diamonds. Also, people have a feeling that COVID has not gone yet and they would need money to buy essentials like medicines and bear hospitalisation charges,” he said.
“We are pinning hopes on the last two days. Even in pre-COVID period, we had average sales before the festival and on the day of the festival, we had a huge rush,” Harshanandana added.
Kalyan Jewellers at Lashkar Mohalla has pretty good walk-ins and also bookings. “But gold rates are high now. Otherwise, there would have been an overwhelming response. Now after two years, wedding season has started and people will compulsorily purchase gold. Akshaya Tritiya tempo will last for a week or so and wedding purchases will continue,” revealed Ranjith, Store Manager.
Best price all year round
Prakash Jewellers on Shivarampet Road offers the best price 365 days. “We are a trusted brand and we don’t have any special offers. People can compare our prices with other shops and make a purchase. Business has been good. We are getting calls from regular customers and many guest customers are also making enquiries,” said Sachith, Manager.
Vinod, Store Manager, Tanishq Jewellery, B.N. Road, said sales are good at the outlet and they are expecting more takers for the exquisite designs. “The last two years were a washout. Now we are seeing a lot of bookings and also in-store customers. This year, Akshaya Tritiya has come at the beginning of the month and we have a Sunday and a Monday before the festival. Sales will get a boost on those days,” he added.
People still troubled
Prasanna Kumar from Raj Diamonds on D. Devaraj Urs Road said that business has been average and when compared to the last two years, the sales are good. People are still under trouble and there is a threat of fourth wave too, he said.
Deepak of Jewel Mandir on D. Devaraj Urs Road said, “Clearly it is not going to be the Akshaya Tritiya where one will see people rushing to buy gold because the price point has still not been accepted by consumers. Gold prices are high and people must have the budget to buy. We had high expectations and sales are disappointing. Moreover, it is difficult to predict people’s mentality.”
600 outlets in Mysuru
President of Mysuru Shroff Association (Jewellers Association) C.S. Amarnath said that during the pre-pandemic period, there would be 400 to 500 bookings three to four days in advance. “This time there is no pre-COVID charm in gold purchase and it will take time,” he said. Amarnath is also a partner for Lalitha Jewellery Mart on Ashoka Road.
“There are over 600 gold and diamond outlets in Mysuru, big and small and our enquiries across the board have revealed that sales are yet to pick up after COVID. We are hoping for the best in the next three days,” he added.


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IKEA has been dabbling in the smart home market quite a bit, and while commonly pitched to the DIY audience, its products can often be unique and hard to ignore with the value they bring to the home. Take for instance, the SYMFONISK light/speaker combo, or its FYRTUR motorized shades. The newly announced IKEA VINDSTYRKA air quality sensor is no different.
“Although we spend most of our time indoors, many of us tend to forget about indoor air pollution,” says Henrik Telander, Product owner at IKEA of Sweden, in a press release. “We take for granted that the air in our homes is clean, but small everyday activities like cooking or cleaning can contribute to poor air quality just as much as industry or traffic. With VINDSTYRKA, our ambition has been to create an affordable high-performing air quality sensor to help our customers become more aware of the quality of the air they breathe in their homes.”
While no specific price for the device has been announced yet, it is likely to keep in line with IKEA’s stance on affordability, putting it underneath some of the more high-end sensors. For comparison, the Airthings View Plus, which can measure a massive spread of values including Radon and Air Pressure in the home on top of being highly integratable into other smart home systems, ranks in at $299 MSRP.
Features of the IKEA VINDSTYRKA
The IKEA VINDSTYRKA monitor features a sleek, modern design with an oversized display screen, showcasing all information front and center. The company notes it can measure particulate matter up to 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), humidity, temperature and TVOC (total volatile organic compounds).
According to IKEA, the device will work as a standalone product, however, the company states it will also come packed with plenty of integration potential that will greatly enhance the value of the product and those it connects to. For instance, the company has stated that by connecting to other devices, it can be used as a switch to switch on purifiers or ramp up fan speeds when high pollutant levels are detected.
Specifically, IKEA mentioned its STARKVIND air purifier in the example, however, the VINDSTYRKA will launch Matter-ready, opening up the potential integrations even further. The company also notes that by connecting VINDSTYRKA to the DIRIGERA hub, air quality data can be transmitted directly through the IKEA Home Smart app. The app can then also be used to set up the aforementioned integrations.
The app is also where most of the programming for additional functions will take place. For instance, users can use the app to set up integrations with a STARKVIND purifier, though IKEA does mention it is not specifically limited to the Starkvind purifier.
No specific date has been stated for the release of the product, however, the company states it will launch globally sometime in April 2023, a month ahead of National Clean Air Month.
This article has been updated as of 03.24.23.
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Facebook which has been the talk of the town for the last month due to its massive IPO size and its brandname seems destined to sell off from its IPO level. The reason is quite obvious . The company is valued at more than $100 billion despite having $1 billion in profits giving it a P/E of more than 100. Its business model of generating Google like profits from its ubiquitous platform is yet to be proved and still it is one of the most valued companies on the planet.
There is no disputing the fact of Facebook dominance in social media but its model of making money is far from proved to give it such a huge market value . The underwriters of the company are said to have massive amounts of shares worth billions which they have bought to hold the company’s stock price above the IPO price of $38. The trading was marked by a number of glitches which is now being investigated by SEC. This has become a regular occurance reducing trust in the US capital market systems . A lot of the future earnings power is already built into the stock price of the company at $100 billion. It will take a lot of effort to get to the earnings level to justify the market price . In the fast changing technology landscape that is a huge risk . 3 years ago nobody would have questioned the dominance of Nokia and RIMM in the mobile space . But now these companies are fighting for survival. Stock picking is a game of probabilities and in the case of Facebook the current stock price does not justify the risk in buying it.
Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research Group in New York, told The Sunday Telegraph that Facebook’s shares were implausibly priced for “perfection” as he cautioned clients against buying shares in the company.
His bearish recommendation came less than 24 hours after Facebook’s stuttering debut, marred in part by technical difficulties, which saw its shares end the day just 23 cents higher than its float price, at $38.23, valuing the company at $104.2bn.
The lacklustre first day performance came in spite of Facebook’s shares opening at $42.05 on Friday morning, and surging as high as $45 at one stage.
Company filings after the market closed on Friday night however revealed the extent to which the banks who led Facebook’s initial public offering – in which $16bn of shares were sold to new investors – were forced to move in to the market and buy shares in order to keep the price above the $38 level. Morgan Stanley, Facebook’s lead financial adviser, ended the day with 162m shares, worth $6.16bn. Other banks including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs also bought shares, ending the day with $3.2bn and $2.4bn holdings respectively.


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Intel’s 6th generation Skylake processors are already claiming better management of thermal temperatures, voltage during workloads, and its potential to increase operating system efficiency. If you are running a device using Skylake processor with Windows 10, you are going to be delighted. The processor utilizes a design change called “Speed Shift”, that enables the OS to hand over control of the frequency and voltage to the Skylake processor. This technology from Intel is now called Speed Shift. Although it is is not enabled right now in Windows 10, but it is coming in a fall update.
Apparently, Speed Shift was a technology that was announced early on in Skylake’s roadmap, but without OS support for it, the technology was overlooked, if not forgotten entirely until now. Fortunately, Microsoft and Intel worked together to bring the technology up to speed.
Even though Microsoft and Intel’s efforts have gotten Speed Shift ready and primed, the technology is still not available to Windows users with Skylake processors. Microsoft’s Fall update to Windows 10 is said to include a patch to enable Speed Shift for PCs housing Skylake processors.
Years ago, Microsoft and Intel partnered on designing processors that would showcase the best of what Windows could offer consumers. While the line between Windows and Intel’s offerings hasn’t always been as taught as Apple hardware and its A-line of processors, Windows users appear to be still benefitting from years of continued Intel evolution.
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Transport giant J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: JBHT) said today it has added five of Daimler’s AG’s FUSO eCanter electric-powered medium-duty box trucks to its fleet, the first time the company has utilized electric vehicles.
Hunt, based in Lowell, Ark., said it will deploy the trucks in its final-mile division, and will use them for home deliveries in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. and in the greater Houston area.
The vehicle has an 80-mile range on a full charge. Each vehicle has a 16-foot trailer, and each has a gross vehicle weight (tractor, trailer and cargo) of just under 16,000 pounds, Hunt said. Compared to a conventional diesel model, the vehicle’s operating costs for the eCanter can be up to $2,000 lower for each 12,000 miles driven, according to the company.
The vehicle is currently being used in six cities in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) was the first transport carrier to deploy the truck in the U.S. DHL utilizes the vehicle in Germany.
Hunt was one of the first companies to commit to Tesla’s semi-electric tractors, reserving 40 vehicles in November 2017.
In the transportation and logistics circles, blockchain has been an enigma - a technology that holds extensive promise on paper, and yet on the flip side, is extremely hard to implement.
Canopy Growth says retail availability of its recreational cannabis productions have increased as it reported record revenues on the newly legal Canadian market.
Several more feet of snowfall, whiteout conditions likely to delay drivers in the Sierras this weekend. It’s been a busy season, especially compared to last winter.
Today on FWNOW, Market Expert Donny Gilbert gives his best advice to brokers. What do you do when volumes remain high and tender rejections are at an all-time low? Plus, what's happening this weekend with the weather?
There were only ever two good reasons for Amazon to build a headquarters in greater New York City.
What the Truck is going on in all things freight this week? We are visited by two special guests for this week’s episode: Zach Strickland and making his “inaugural debut” Michael Crosby. Weekly Market Update: What is happening from a carrier’s perspective, and what is happening from a shipper’s perspective? We’ve got the yen and the yang. Futures: And as a matter of fact, it’s these two different points of view that make for a trucking freight futures market: Houston and Dallas. And then Zach and Chad play a round of Big deal, little deal (what’s the deal with you)?
Dana Inc. (NYSE: DAN) beat Wall Street’s consensus revenue expectations of $1.91 billion for the fourth quarter of 2018.
Willie Frank Spight III had a number of options for how to spend his midwinter, two-week study reserved for seniors project, but he wanted some real life, real-time experience.
Electric vehicle startup Rivian announced a $700 million funding round led by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today, February 15. The investment comes after the Michigan-based company unveiled its all-electric R1T pickup and R1S SUV last fall.
Containerized import volumes increased 9 percent last month over January 2018 totals.