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[The F word] Hyperlocal subscription startup DailyNinja raises $3M funding
With the new fund raise, microdelivery startup DailyNinja intends to expand its business across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Gurgaon, and upgrade customer experience.
Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery subscription startup DailyNinja has raised $3 million in funding led by Saama Capital and existing investor Sequoia Capital. The team had raised $1.5 million in October last year, led by Sequoia capital. With this round, the total fund raise is at $4.5 million.
The startup will use the current fund raiseto strengthen its operations in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and expand to Chennai. It also intends to expand its business by acquiring more customers in Gurgaon. The funds will also be used to upgrade customer experience by adding more offerings.
DailyNinja had previously raised funds from well-known angel investors Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon of Freecharge, Aprameya Radhakrishna of TaxiForSure, Anupam Mittal of Shaadi.com, and others.
Founded by BITS Pilani alumni, Sagar Yarnalkar and Anurag Gupta, the idea of DailyNinja came up because the duo personally faced problems managing groceries for their kitchen. Even after using the services of all available e-grocers, they still found themselves running to the local kirana shop even in the middle of the night to pick up a few items.
“A lot of people typically order in the evening or night when they get back home and would like to get things delivered the next morning without any hassle. This led to the concept of DailyNinja,” Anurag explains.
The DailyNinja app allows one to order milk and groceries. Customers can place orders till 11pm in the night and the order is delivered at their doorstep by 7am the next day along with milk. Customers can subscribe to daily milk delivery through DailyNinja, and top up their cart with everyday household needs like groceries, which are also delivered along with milk.
DailyNinja claims to deliver to close to 25,000 households everyday, clocking over 7.5 lakh orders every month. It works through a prepaid wallet, where customers have to make sure they have enough money in the wallet to ensure they can order for the next day. Customers are now used to this process and maintain an average wallet balance of Rs 600 with DailyNinja, recharging twice a month on an average.
“DailyNinja’s business model latches onto the Indian habit of purchasing fresh milk every day. Once this is moved online, the high engagement generated by this habit makes it is easy for the company to deliver groceries, home services and medicines to the customer to help them manage their household in an efficient manner,” Anurag says.
Building the business
“When we started off, the idea was to use milk as a Trojan horse and then sell more to every household, and we wanted to do the deliveries ourselves. In the initial days when it was hard for us to hire and retain delivery boys to deliver milk at 4am, we would join the delivery team and deliver to certain apartments ourselves,” Anurag says.
During one of their deliveries, they came across a milk vendor who was delivering milk three times faster. The duo approached him and proposed he could take over all the deliveries and also get his 250 customers on the app if he partnered with them. They would, in turn, help him collect money from his customers online.
“It was our eureka moment when we figured that if we could solve the problems of existing milk vendors, we could could tap the 60 million households in India who consume milk every day,” Anurag explains.
However the business came with its own challenges. The hyperlocal delivery sector has seen its fair share of ups and downs in the startup ecosystem. The challenge, Sagar adds, is to manage the supply chain well while you scale and make sure deliveries are on time every day.
The team’s approach has been to use the existing network of milk vendors and upgrading milk vendors as DailyNinja vendors. This enables the company to scale while making sure customers are satisfied.
“This round will help us achieve our objective of reaching 100,000 deliveries a day over the next 12 months. Our focus will continue to be on scale while ensuring better experience for our customers, we plan to bring DailyNinja to Hyderabad and Gurgaon soon,” adds Anurag.
DailyNinja is now a team of 80 across sales, technology, product and management. The team claims to have a current annual turnover of Rs 60 crore.
“The DailyNinja team has executed well to build an efficient at-home distribution model that we believe has broad applicability. Sequoia India is excited to continue to partner with them and help them build a much bigger footprint over the coming years,” Shailesh Lakhani, Partner at Sequoia Capital says.
Sagar says that DailyNinja operates on positive unit economics. He says the margins recovered on the sale of non-milk products (groceries) are enough to cover the delivery incentives they pay to their partners. "Our basket is dominated by perishables which has high margins. Our blended margins are about 8-10 percent,” he explains.
While Sagar acknowledges that the sector has competitors across the country that have their own delivery fleet, the DailyNinja approach of using a frictionless approach and partnering with milk vendors has scaled the fastest.
“Our major competitors started out at the same time (late 2015) as us and DailyNinja has scaled the fastest by a considerable margin. This key differentiation in our model has made sure we are larger than all our competitors combined,” he says.
The team adds that 80 percent of the residents of a housing community started ordering from DailyNinja everyday within two-three months of starting operations.


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As the Chinese New Year gets closer, China’s travel rush is beginning. The event is locally known and Chunyun, the travel period, is the largest migration time on the planet. To put that in perspective, China’s National Development and Reform Commission reported that 3 billion trips are expected to be made this year: by train, plane, boat, and land. With the magnitude of traveling it’s only expected that there will be a lot of money to be made.
As Bloomberg reported, “casino operators are wagering that high-roller and recreational gamblers alike will be spending money in Macau (area on China’s south coast) as hotel rooms fill up for the Chinese New Year. Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ: WYNN) saw four million more than average shares trade today totaling just about 6.5 million. The company closed yesterday January 26 at $95.44, and are up 8% January 27 trading at $103.16.
China is the world’s largest gambling center, and this New Year is helping that market dig itself out of a two year slump. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s started cracking down on corruption which greatly attributed to the slump. But VIP gamblers are returning and there has been a 10% rise in Macau’s gambling last quarter totaling $7.6 billion US dollars. The Chinese New Year is set to pile on to this exceptional increase for casinos. All of this is happening in the midst of their attempt to reinvent their casinos by offering more family-friendly (and government compliant) resorts and attractions to draw recreational spenders and casual gamblers.
Macau-based Union Gaming Group analyst Grant Goversten said, “We’re looking for strong hotel bookings with rooms filled with more high-value customers than we’ve seen in recent history, which should lead to very strong Chinese New Year gross gaming revenue…casino operators are bullish about their VIP and premium mass market businesses for the upcoming holiday period.” Demand for hotels are so high that rates are up 20% at the Venetian, Sands Macao, and Sheraton. Wynn Macau, Banyan Tree, StarWorld and the Ritz-Carlton had at least 80 percent of their standard hotel rooms booked over the Jan. 27 to Feb. 6.

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Manufacturers have got off to a buoyant start to the year, aided by home building and renovation activity, a lower Australian dollar and a general global strengthening in the sector.
The composite index of the Westpac-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry industrial trends survey rose a further 2.5 points in the March quarter to 63.
The index has risen steadily since a dip to 55 points during last year's July election. Anything over 50 points is a sign of expansion.
"Businesses are looking to 2017 to be a positive year for profits, driven by rising turnover and a lower Australian dollar boosting export returns," Westpac senior economist Andrew Hanlan said in a statement on Thursday.
Even so, Mr Hanlan said there were some negatives with mining investment trending lower and consumer spending lacklustre, albeit rebounding late in 2016.
Australian Chamber boss James Pearson said manufacturing businesses were starting the year on a firm foundation.
However, businesses will be looking to the May federal budget to ensure such conditions can be maintained.
"The survey demonstrates that businesses are willing to invest but are looking for further assurances on the economy, which the budget can provide," Australian Chamber boss James Pearson said in a statement.
"This budget needs to future proof Australia against economic shocks from at home and abroad through setting public finances on a path to surplus."
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CARDIFF, Wales, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- At least 115 people in Wales, mostly children, have been diagnosed with E. coli, in an outbreak apparently caused by tainted meat supplied to schools.
E. coli, a common bacterium spread by food, can cause an infection that leads to kidney breakdown and death if untreated.
The Independent reports that Tudor and Sons, a meat distributor based in Bridgend, shut down voluntarily a week ago. The company supplied meat to schools and stores in South Wales
At least 32 schools have been affected by the E. coli outbreak and four children have become ill enough to require intensive treatment.


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10.5- and 12.9in iPad Pros on the way
Red iPhone 7 and a 128GB iPhone SE are also rumoured to make an appearance, reveals Leah Yamshon
Spring is just around the corner, which means we’re likely getting close to another Apple event – and the rumour mill is starting to churn. As first spotted by MacRumors, Japanese site Mac Otakara recently claimed that Apple will host an event in March with its new iPad Pro line-up in the starring role. From now until then, rumours about that line-up will swirl.
What’s the latest?
The rumour: Previously, we’ve heard that Apple will expand the iPad Pro to four sizes, including a 7.9in version (the same size as the iPad mini), the current 9.7- and 12.9in options, and a new 10.5in size.
Plausible? Since 10.5in iPad Pro is rumoured to have pretty major design changes, a later ship date could be a necessary evil. As MacRumors points out, retail supplies of the 12.9in iPad Pro are starting to dry up, which does hint at an iPad refresh just around the corner.
A new iPad Pro size
The rumour: When we first heard about a new iPad Pro size, it was 10.1 inches, but a more recent rumour reported in Mac Otakara claims that the new size is in fact 10.5 inches diagonal. Either way, the new in-between iPad may have an edge-toedge display with no Home button, to keep the same footprint as the current 9.7in size.
Plausible? iPad sales haven’t seen much growth lately, so a new size could be just what’s needed to shake up the line-up, but Apple will need to convince buyers that this new model offers some kind of benefit.
New iPad mini or 7.9in iPad Pro?
The rumour: Japanese site Mac Otakara says that the March event will include a new 7.9in iPad. But it sounds like this smaller iPad is part of the Pro line. The 7.9in iPad Pro is rumoured to have a Smart Connector, True Tone display, and a 12Mp
rear-facing camera, which will be standard features across the whole iPad Pro line-up.
Plausible? Absolutely, and this kind of feature parity is a great idea, so people can pick an iPad based on what size and storage they want for their money, not whether they need this feature or that.
What else the March event could hold
The rumour: Apple has a couple other refreshes in the wings, including a 128GB iPhone SE, new Apple Watch bands, and a PRODUCT(RED) version of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which means half the proceeds go to the Global Fund to fight AIDS.
Plausible? Indeed, new Apple Watch bands should probably be expected at every Apple product launch. The iPhone SE’s popularity took everyone by surprise, but it currently tops out at 64GB, so a larger version could prove quite attractive, even if it doesn’t also come with a faster chip or camera upgrade. And Apple’s PRODUCT(RED) iPods all look incredible, so we love the thought of a shiny red iPhone that helps a worthwhile charity.


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KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah has called on state agriculture and food industry minister Yahya Hussin to explain how the Sabah Rubber Industry Board (LIGS) made a profit of over RM100 million in 2016.
In a speech read by his assistant minister Sairin Karno during the LIGS’ annual dinner last week, Yahya said the profit was an accomplishment for a state agency tasked as a facilitator to assist rubber tappers raise their incomes.
Warisan vice-president Junz Wong said in a statement today Yahya’s announcement suggested that LIGS had not been paying fair prices to rubber smallholders.
“I challenge Yahya and LIGS to enlighten the general public on how LIGS formulated the farm value for raw rubber materials such as unsmoked sheet and cup lump.
“How does LIGS determine the dry rubber content (DRC) of this raw rubber material and the pricing of each grade of rubber, such as rubber sheet grades 1 and 2 as well as coagulated rubber grades 1 and 2?
“In Sabah, rubber smallholders produce their rubber according to LIGS’ specifications and are paid a price set by LIGS.
“In Peninsular Malaysia, rubber smallholders sell their produce in the form of day-old cup lumps, in which the DRC is set at 50%.”
The Likas assemblyman said both calculations were based on the international market price for SMR 20 (Standard Malaysian Rubber Grade 20)
“This is why it is extremely important for LIGS to enlighten our rubber tappers as to how they determine the percentage of DRC for the raw rubber materials so that Sabah rubber tappers can determine whether or not LIGS’ prices are fair,” said Wong.
“As an example, what is the DRC percentage for rubber sheets less than 0.5 inch thick and air dried for 7 to 10 days as per LIGS specifications?
“How does LIGS determine the DRC content for materials of this specifications?”
Wong said the rubber smallholders were the unsung heroes of Sabah’s rubber industry, contributing nearly 90% of the total rubber produced in the state.
LIGS, as an agency under the Sabah government, must focus on its core duty to look after the interests of the rubber smallholders as well as the entire rubber industry development by empowering and facilitating the rubber tappers through programmes and funds from the government, stressed Wong.
“LIGS should focus on providing the rubber tappers the best price for their produce instead of making profits,” he said.
“LIGS needs to be transparent and accountable and come clean on how they formulate the price for rubber tappers.
“If this RM100 million profit did not come at the expense of Sabah rubber tappers, where did it come from?”


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Mariah Carey put her 45-pound weight loss on display at the 2015 UNICEF Ball in Beverly Hills, California.
Mariah looked gorgeous in a strapless, low-cut blue and black gown that accentuated her creamy skin and newly slim physique.
Carey, whose weight has fluctuated dramatically over the years, lost 70 pounds after giving birth to twins in 2011, Examiner reported.
The pop icon has since regained some of the weight, and recently lost 45 pounds a portion-controlled diet and low-impact water workouts.
Mariah confessed she hated her body when she was bigger, and now realizes that portion control is critical for weight loss.
“Since having the babies, I realized that 90% of losing weight is my diet,” said Carey, who has her own bestselling perfume line.
Carey, who at 45 doesn’t have a wrinkle on her face, said her anti-aging beauty secrets are sunscreen, hair masks and lip gloss, as Celebrity Health Fitness has reported.
To keep her shiny and strong, Carey uses moisturizing hair treatments to relieve split ends and keep her hair from getting dry.


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Start-ups grapple with numerous challenges and the path to success is often gruelling. For many technology start-ups, product innovation and development are particularly important components to gain a competitive advantage in the market.
As part of its efforts to engage the hardware and engineering start-ups in Singapore to enhance their product development capabilities, JTC organised an industry sharing session on 25 January 2019. Held at LaunchPad @ Jurong Innovation District, GET SOAP-D! (Smooth Out and Accelerate your Product Development), brought together partners like IPI, Flex, Avi-Tech and Mistletoe to share about start-ups’ innovation journeys and the available support to reduce some of the pain points that start-ups may face.
Lee Ya Ling, Technology Manager from IPI, shared how IPI and its open innovation platforms such as
TechExpert, could connect start-ups with industry-specific technical experts for their innovation challenges. By engaging these experts, start-ups can potentially look at a shorter idea-to-market time.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - In characterizing the Amazon Appstore as false advertising, Apple posed "a far-reaching and novel theory that would turn trademark law on its head," Amazon said.
Apple had urged U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton to deny the motion by saying that its false-advertising claim covers service characteristics, not affiliation or sponsorship. In other words, Apple says that Amazon Appstore users might expect the product to share the same qualities or characteristics as the Apple App Store.
But Amazon says there is no real evidence for this argument.
"Despite having commissioned four separate surveys, Apple has no data and can cite no anecdotal evidence that a single consumer knew that the Amazon Appstore had no connection to Apple but nevertheless assumed as a result of public use of the name that Amazon was implicitly and falsely suggesting that the nature or selection available of Android apps sold in the Amazon Appstore had the same qualities found in the Apple App Store," according to the Amazon reply authored by Arnold & Porter attorney Martin Glick.
The only issue before the court is whether the term "app store" is generic, and this claim belongs in the trademark arena, Amazon said.
"Apple's attempt to repackage a garden-variety trademark dispute as a false advertising issue should be rejected," according to the Amazon reply authored by Arnold & Porter attorney Martin Glick.
Earlier in the brief, Amazon said that Apple's "far-reaching and novel theory ... would turn trademark law on its head by allowing a firm to gain protection over a generic term by defining the term just as it chooses."
"Would every hardware store that opens but which lacks the quality and quantity of goods that Ace Hardware offers be guilty of false advertising if it called its store a 'hardware store,'" he asked.
The time for Apple "to have gathered and put forth hard evidence in support of their claims has come and gone and therefore summary judgment should be granted in favor of Amazon on the false advertising claim," according to Amazon.
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All quiet on the property front
POTENTIAL homebuyers are stalling on their purchases according to figures released today showing house prices inched ahead in January.
Property research firm Hometrack said house prices across England and Wales remained mainly unchanged - with a rise of just 0.1%, mainly thanks to strong demand in London.
It showed that a combination of buyers waiting in hope of predicted Bank of England interest rate cuts and a lack of firm faith in the housing market had led to low movement in the housing market.
The study, based on the reports of estate agents across the country, has delivered a cautious outlook despite other sources claiming higher growth.
Property website Rightmove claimed prices rose on average by £2,046 during the first week of January alone as buyers swung into New Year action.
Hometrack's index regularly delivers a more pessimistic view of the property market than other surveys – showing a 1.6% fall in prices in 2005 compared to Halifax's 5% rise.
Activity levels fell by almost 14% in January, according to Hometrack, and prices remained static in 85% of postcode areas. But elsewhere the balance swung towards a more positive outlook, with 9% recording rises in prices compared to 6% reporting falls.
The firm said average property in England and Wales now costs £161,100. Homes took an average of eight weeks to sell and fetched 94% of their asking prices – almost a 0.5% rise on the previous month.
Hometrack said Greater London saw the strongest price gains during January, with prices rising by 0.2%, while in the South West prices rose by 0.1%.
Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack, said: 'The trends in supply and demand reported by agents over the next few weeks will give us a clear view on how strong or weak the housing market will be over 2006.
'The recovery in London is set to continue and spread to the South East over the year. The question is whether the slowdown of last year has resulted in a proper re-alignment of house prices and incomes across all parts of the market.'
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Howard Archer, chief economist at city research firm Global Insight, said Hometrack's study indicated muted house prices in coming months.
He said: 'We expect the upside to be limited by affordability constraints, elevated debt levels and modest earnings growth . This expectation is reinforced by the recent evidence from the Halifax that first-time buyers are increasingly being squeezed out of the market.
'Given these factors, we suspect that buyer interest will wane significantly if house prices see sustained marked increases over the coming months, thereby causing prices to moderate anew.'
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By Yates Electrospace Corp. | January 28, 2020
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Yates Electrospace Corp., whose Silent Arrow platform is bringing disruptive innovation to the heavy payload, unmanned cargo delivery market, has announced the design completion and specifications of a wide-body version of its successful GD-2000 cargo delivery drone, with unveiling set for July 2020 at the Farnborough International Airshow, UK.
Developed by YEC based on real-time demand from U.S. and allied foreign government Special Operators including the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), the new wide-body is 60 percent larger than the standard trademarked Silent Arrow GD-2000, with a 140 cubic foot cargo bay that accommodates five times more life-saving supplies, medicines and tactical cargo.
“The YEC engineering team used current flight data from the inaugural GD-2000 product line along with extensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to optimize the aerodynamics and glide ratio of this rather massive cargo delivery platform,” said Chip Yates, YEC’s founder and CEO. “With two launch customers on hand, our accelerated schedule delivers development units by the end of March 2020 and 10 flight test units throughout the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2020.”
Specification highlights of the new Silent Arrow GD-2000 WB include:
-Gross Weight: 2,000lbs (907 kg)
-Cargo Weight: 1,250lbs (567 kg)
-Cargo Volume: 140cu/ft (4 cu/m)
-Glide Ratio: 7.63:1
-Standoff: 36 miles (58km)
-Logistics: 48ft wingspan (4 spring-deployed wings) stowed in 3.5ft x 3.5ft x 13ft fuselage
Designed for immediate air response and emergency relief, Silent Arrow’s tightly integrated packaging with its unique spring-deployed wing system transported inside the fuselage, high standoff distance and low cost has received enthusiastic reception from both the tactical resupply and the humanitarian and disaster relief markets. Silent Arrow is designed for fixed-wing and rotorcraft deployment of critically needed supplies, cargo and fuel under austere operating conditions and timelines.
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Sea Festival in Vung Tau City
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province Sea Festival kicked off on Tuesday nightlast night at Vung Tau City.
The festival, themed ‘Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Khat Vong Tinh Yeu va Bien Ca’ (Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Aspiration for Love and Sea), is the province’s way of celebrating the country’s 73rd National Day on September 2.
Nguyen Van Trinh, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, said at the opening ceremony, that “The province has potential for developing a sea economy, focusing on tourism. This year, the number of visitors to the province increased 20-25 per cent. Total revenue from hosting services reached VND1.781 trillion (US$76.6 million), a year-on-year increase of 11.6 per cent.”
“The festival, with 17 activities, will provide solutions to turn tourism into the province’s key economic sector by 2020. The festival is also an important event to introduce the province’s achievements in tourism and sea economy, and seek cooperation with domestic and foreign investors,” said Trinh.
The festival has attracted more than 400 businesses and cultural organisations from 26 provinces and cities to participate in 17 economic, cultural and sports activities during the seven-day event.
A trade fair with 843 stalls will be set up to introduce the province’s achievements and potential in economics, culture and society, especially in the fields of tourism, ports, logistics and hi-tech agriculture.
The fair will also showcase products and promote cooperation between businesses in industry, agriculture, trade and services in the province and neighbouring provinces.
Several seminars and workshops on trade and tourism promotion, as well as environmental protection, will be organised
The festival will feature an outdoor electronic dance music concert titled “Sea Run” with pop star Son Tung M-TP, a kite performance, and a beer festival.
A carnival and a parade of classic Vespa scooters will also take place.
Exhibitions will be organised to showcase calligraphy works, orchid flowers and sand statues.
Around 500,000 visitors are expected during the festival, which will end on September 3.


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Well, if nothing else, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration is predictable.
DEA says it will make ‘fake pot’ products illegal
via The Fort Worth Star Telegram
Within 30 days, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will criminalize the possession and sale of “fake pot” products and the chemicals they contain for at least a year while...
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The companies behind Tesco’s second hand car business – Auto Online Limited and Carsite Limited – went into administration earlier this month, after Tesco took the decision to close its Tesco Cars business. It appears that the supermarket giant decided that selling cars isn’t one of its long term goals and is the latest blow to the retailer following poor Christmas trading and a profit warning to shareholders. This isn’t the first time that Tesco has taken the decision to close ventures that don’t live up to expectations: an attempt to set up a property sales business was challenged by estate agents and was eventually shut down.
So if Tesco gets it wrong, what chance do ‘ordinary’ businesses have to get it right? How can business owners avoid company insolvency?
One can argue that Tesco is under pressure from shareholders to continue growing and the only way to achieve that growth is to diversify into new areas. This is a potentially risky strategy, as a well-known groceries brand may not be sufficiently ‘elastic’ to be successful in completely new areas where the brand is unfamiliar with consumers and where existing players put up a spirited resistance to the newcomer.
But it clearly illustrates how even massive organisations, with huge resources and experienced management, can get things wrong.
No-one starts a business with the expectation of failure, but even careful planning and diligent management may not be enough to save a business from hitting the buffers. Many factors can affect a company as it grows and unexpected events can cause problems for any business, big or small.
But the most important thing is knowing when to stop, or at least when to pause and take stock of the situation. In Tesco’s case, they took the decision to cease trading and appoint administrators to deal with the failing car business. No doubt they took advice on what the options were and the administrators may find a way of rescuing some, or all, of the company.
We are often approached by business owners who think that they have come to the ‘end of the road’ and the nice part of my job is where we can rescue a business rather than merely close it down. Sometimes there is no option but to close the doors, but frequently there are ways to breathe new life into a struggling company.
So if your business is struggling to survive and facing insolvency, think of us as the business breakdown service – we identify the problem and provide options to fix the problem – helping you get back on the road. To find out what the options are for your business, call us today on 01709 331300.


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One-fourth of electronics manufacturers believe we are in a recession
Data from IPC show that most electronics manufacturing industry executives see a recession as inevitable.
IPC’s October Monthly Economic Outlook and Global Sentiment Survey found that 27% of industry executives believe the economy is already in a recession, 45% believe the economy will enter a recession in 2023, and 13% believe the economy will enter a recession in the fourth quarter of 2023. Industry executives expecting a recession are bracing for a longer one.
“Tight financial conditions and an uncertain economic outlook are making both businesses and consumers more cautious,” stated Shawn DuBravac, IPC chief economist. “We have reached the end of the post-lockdown rebound.”
Among other conclusions, the IPC survey results show:
- After declining for two consecutive months, the Materials Cost Index rose three points.
- Three-fourths (73%) of electronics manufacturers indicate labor costs are on the rise.
- Ease of recruitment, profit margins, and inventory available from suppliers are presently declining.
- Positively, manufacturers expect to see a decline in backlogs over the next six months.
Inflation continues to dominate the narrative, with the US likely past peak inflation, while the situation worsens in Europe. Europe is expected soon to reach peak inflation, and prices continue to rise. Projections for economic growth in Europe in 2023 have been lowered, and now show a decline for the first time for the entire year.
China’s economy remains below the targeted 5.5% growth expected for the year, with growth likely to be closer to 3% in 2022. The yuan has fallen to its lowest level in 14 years.
IPC surveyed hundreds of companies from around the world, including a wide range of company sizes representing the full electronics manufacturing value chain.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The city of Orlando wants people to know it has more to offer than just Walt Disney World and other theme parks.
City and county leaders met Tuesday at the Orange County Convention Center about a new way to sell central Florida.
Tuesday morning's summit was to give community leaders an idea of where the economy stands in the area and to show them the plans in the works to build upon that.
The creators were able to give WFTV some examples of how they want to reach out and let people know that the area offers more than entertainment options.
One of their key targets will be companies that help other businesses scope out cities to relocate to. Mayor Teresa Jacobs said she thinks the area misses a lot of opportunities by not marketing to the people who already come for business.


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India's Bharti still in talks, media crowns Wal-Mart
By agencies | Monday, 20 November 2006, 06:00 Hrs
Mumbai: India's Bharti Enterprises Ltd. said on Monday it is still negotiating a partnership with major international retailers, amid media speculation that U.S. retailer Wal-Mart Stores may have secured the deal.
Weekend media reports said a deal had been finalised with Wal-Mart, but a spokesman for the Bharti group, which controls India's biggest mobile services provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BRTI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), told Reuters that no deal had been finalised.
Bharti Chairman Sunil Mittal told Reuters last month that a deal was likely by the end of November. He said then that Bharti was in talks with Wal-Mart, the UK's Tesco Plc (TSCO.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and France's Carrefour (CARR.PA: Quote, Profile, Research).
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"Despite media reports that we have reached a deal, we continue to be in talks with all the global majors," the Bharti spokesman said on Monday, declining to specify when a deal may be done. "Any deal takes time."
Indian media have reported that the decision appears to be between Wal-Mart and Tesco. The Financial Express said at the weekend that Bharti and Wal-Mart had finalised a master franchise agreement that would include hypermarkets, supermarkets and grocery stores.
The two would initially invest $100 million, going up to $1.46 billion, the paper said, quoting industry sources.
Foreign retailers are keen to enter India's rapidly growing market, but multiple-brand retailers are only allowed to operate through franchises and licencees, or a cash-and-carry wholesale model, like Metro AG (MEOG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) and Shoprite (SHPJ.J: Quote, Profile, Research) have chosen.
Single-brand retailers are allowed to own a majority stake in a joint venture with a local partner, and the expectation is that India would ease rules on foreign investment.
"Bharti can't lose with either (Wal-Mart or Tesco): both have the size and the branding and a proven track-record in non-home markets," said a retail consultant who declined to be named.
"Ultimately, it would come down to who can deliver the better value and a cultural fit between the two companies," he said.
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Department store Myer has seen online sales boom during periods of government-mandated store closures, and expects to report a small net positive cash position in its FY20 results.
In the last ten days in Melbourne Myer has seen a huge increase in demand for beauty products, with an overall increase in online orders growing by 310 per cent.
Within beauty skincare sales have grown by 430 per cent and fragrances and makeup 330 per cent.
Additionally, demand for homewares have once again grown, up 530 per cent, with small kitchen appliances being the fasted growth area.
Toys have seen a jump by 450 per cent, as parents look to entertain children who are unable to return to school temporarily, and women’s sleepwear and lingerie have grown by 320 per cent.
“With the recent announcement of stage 3 and 4 restrictions in Victoria, we’ve seen our Melbourne customers embrace online shopping to prepare households for the next six weeks,” a Myer spokesperson said.
“We’re prepared for an unprecedented demand in the next few weeks form our Victorian customers, [and are extending] a reduced free delivery threshold and a relaxed returns policy in place, as well as Covid-safe click-and-collect services at selected stores.”
The trend will be welcome news to Myer, which has been forced to close 11 stores throughout Melbourne for the next six weeks, and will be trading with a reduced staff footprint to service click-and-collect and ship-from-store orders.
The remainder of Myer’s Melbourne workforce “will not be required to work for the period of the store closures”.
During March Myer closed all 60 of its stores, and stood down approximately 10,000 team members. It isn’t clear how many staff are impacted by Victoria’s lockdown measures.
And while Myer will release its full year earnings in September industry rival David Jones revealed an 8 per cent decrease in total sales in FY20, impacted significantly by the government’s health advice to Australians to stay home.
It isn’t yet clear what Myer’s full year results will look like, though an extension for the business’ banking facilities should help the department store stay afloat in a period of extreme and rapid change in customer behaviour.
On Thursday afternoon Myer announced it had signed a binding term sheet with existing lenders to amend its banking facility until August 2022. The reduced amount of $340 million, Myer said, is a result of the business’ focus on its balance sheet – having cut its peak debt level from $290 million to $220 million in 2019.
“Securing this new facility with our existing lenders is a testament to the work that we have undertaken during the past two years,” Myer CFO Nigel Chadwick said.
“It is particularly pleasing to have secured this extension to our facilities during such an unprecedented time of economic and social disruption in retail.”


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LG’s G Flex smartphone uses a forward-thinking flexible display, but is the technology still a bit ahead of its time? A new report from The Korea Times explores what seems to be a common screen defect associated with the smartphone: small bumps forming on the display. [Watch our LG G Flex hands-on]
The problem typically manifests as two bumps on the display, according to a Korean mobile retailer who has seen the issue affect nearly every G Flex to come through his shop. The bumps should disappear over time, according to LG. The company, acknowledging the issue, suggests that massaging the lumps out of the display is typically effective.
The formation of defects is directly related to the G Flex’s flexible display technology. LG says the bumps are a result of excessive force and stresses on the device and warns that applying such pressure is not recommended. LG sees the phone’s flexibility as a way to make the device more durable, not as a nifty party trick (at least not at this stage). A spokesperson for the Korea Display Industry Association claims LG was well aware of issues related to their curved OLED display, and while hesitant to do so decided to push forward with a release of the G Flex.
There is no indication that LG has found a way to eliminate the issue at the production level, which likely means US consumers can expect similar bumps when the G Flex launches later this quarter on T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T. Something tells us the American market will be a little less forgiving.
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Tuesday brought many industrial type of companies which should be the seeds of "early cycle recovery". Long time reader Michael Brisky was good enough to take a look at 4 companies I have been keeping my eye on and wrote the piece below - we have a great cross section of the real economy as it covers chemicals, railroads, a general industrial and the largest producer of construction equipment on the planet. As an aside Dupont and UTX have had beautiful charts in this rally - textbook gorgeous in fact. Let's see what these 4 say about the green shoots. Thanks Michael for a great post and if you enjoy this post please check out his blog.
My name is Michael Brisky, and I'm one of Mark's loyal readers/followers. I share many of his sentiments on the market and economy. You can find more of my thoughts on my blog @ http://www.briskycapital.blogspot.com/
The market has seen a strong rally for the past six weeks. This has nearly everyone wondering if the economy is due for a comeback. As the stock market is often cited as a forward-looking indicator, might the economy have bottomed? Lets take a look at some old school U.S. stocks for some indication. These companies all announced earnings within the past day or two. I'm going to look at United Technologies, ., Dupont, and Norfolk Southern.
United Technologies (UTX) is very diversified in the industrial and military sectors. Think Otis Elevators, Carrier HVAC, as well as Pratt & Whitney Aerospace and Sikorsky Helecopter. With this global reach, they should be able to give us a good indication of economic conditions out there:
- . said Tuesday its first-quarter profit fell 28 percent, as frail construction markets dragged down orders for its Otis elevators and Carrier heating and ventilation systems.
- For the quarter, net income attributable to common shareholders fell to $722 million, or 78 cents per share, from $1 billion, or $1.03 per share, in the same period last year. The latest quarter's results include 12 cents per share in restructuring costs and a tax benefit of 3 cents per share. Revenue fell to $12.2 billion from $14 billion. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected earnings of 78 cents per share.
As most of you know, its not so much about the numbers, but what they did relative to expectations. In this case, UTX did well enough, and the market liked it (at least today). They also reaffirmed guidance for FY 2009, which is rare in this market. To give you an idea how much expectations have been lowered in this market, take a look at this quote from Analyst Rick Whittington, "This would have been the quarter the wheels are falling off the bus and it didn't." "It's not a spectacular report. The Carrier and Otis order reports are weak, yet they're not zero."
- Conversely, operating profit at Sikorsky jumped 42 percent to $116 million. Results were helped by strong military orders as the Obama administration moves more troops into Afghanistan, increasing the reliance on helicopters for troop movements and other activities.
- (CFO) Hayes said that although order rates continue to be down, they are stabilizing, particularly in China, which is starting to see some benefits from a stimulus program equal to $586 billion.
Caterpillar's (CAT) results, however, were a little different:
- Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. reported its first quarterly loss in 17 years , hurt by plunging sales and the cost of laying off thousands of workers. It also said the Obama administration should have allocated more money for roads, bridges and other public works under its stimulus plans.
- The $112 million loss highlighted the depth and breadth of a global downturn, as the company suffered double-digit sales declines in most of its businesses. Caterpillar's vast geographic reach and array of products -- including black-and-yellow bulldozers, engines for cargo ships and mining trucks that haul materials like iron ore -- make it a bellwether of the global economy.
- In the first quarter, the Peoria, Ill.-based company posted a loss of $112 million, or 19 cents per share, versus net income of $922 million, or $1.45 per share, a year earlier.
- Equipment sales dropped 29 percent, led by a 46-percent decline in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Sales in North America plunged 30 percent while Latin America fell 16 percent. However, sales in the Asia-Pacific region slipped just 2 percent.
This isn't that surprising as construction and mining projects are some of the first to be put on hold when there is economic uncertainty. CAT was one of the first companies to start issuing Asia! More signs of positivity about the Chinese Stimulus.if you think back a few quarters. So they may be the best indicator for when the cycle turns. But look at
On to Dupont (DD). Dupont is strong into chemicals, building components, and agriculture. Its one of those companies with a lot of moving parts you sometimes wish you could own just part of, instead of the whole thing. Here's their quarterly results:
- Citing a sharp drop in global industrial demand that resulted in a 59 percent decline in first-quarter profit, chemical maker DuPont Co. said Tuesday it is boosting efforts to cut costs and developing additional restructuring plans. The Wilmington-based company also pared its full-year outlook, saying it expects volumes to continue to decline in the coming months, but not as steeply as they did in the first quarter. "It's just a very volatile environment," Chief Executive Ellen Kullman said.
- DuPont reported earnings of $488 million, or 54 cents per share, for the first quarter, down from $1.19 billion, or $1.31 per share, a year ago. Total revenue fell 17 percent to $7.27 billion from $8.77 billion a year ago as DuPont saw a drop in demand for its products in the construction and auto sectors, as well as declines in consumer spending on items such as electronic goods. Analysts expected a profit of 52 cents per share on revenue of $7.74 billion.
- The company cut its full-year earnings outlook to a range of $1.70 to $2.10 per share, from a previous forecast for profit of $2 to $2.50 per share. Analysts expect earnings of $1.88 per share, on average. "This is the fourth time they've cut guidance in six months," said Ed Yang, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. who has an "Underperform" rating on DuPont. "That tells me that it's a very uncertain environment and the fundamentals are extremely weak."
"Dupont has long been considered one of the classic early-cyclical bellwethers for the global economy. If conditions start to get better - in the auto business, electronics, farm economies - it’s going to show up on DuPont’s books before it shows up in the industrial production data the government puts out."
With all of these companies' results, revenue is an important statistic, more so than in other markets. There is a lot of restructuring going on which can have an effect on quarterly earnings, but top line revenue is what it is.
The quarterly revenue stats for these companies YOY:
- UTX down 15%
- CAT down 22%
- DD down 17%
- NSC down 22%
Also if you get the chance, take a look at the attached presentation. It is about Dupont's businesses in China, and their outlook for the future.
Finally, lets look at Norfolk Southern (NSC), who announced earnings Tuesday:
- Norfolk Southern Corp., the largest rail carrier of metals and automotive products in North America, said Tuesday its first-quarter earnings tumbled 39 percent as lower costs could not offset plunging shipping demand.
- The Norfolk, Va.-based company said Tuesday it earned $177 million, or 47 cents per share, compared with $291 million, or 76 cents per share a year earlier.
- Thomson Reuters says analysts expected profit of 54 cents per share on revenue of $2.04 billion.
Its easy to see how their demand slowed. Metals and automotive products. Competitor CSX reported last week with slightly better results, but the overall trend is the same. Railroads were hot last year when energy prices spiked. I do believe high future energy prices could be a bullish catalyst for this sector, but regular old demand is much more important.
There has been talk of rails benefiting from the Stimulus Plan, but I'm not sure. More likely is money for high-speed rails between major cities. This wouldn't have much effect on a company like NSC.My Outlook: Despite the recent rally in the stock market, there is a lot of short term pressure on these companies, as well as the entire economy. They are all scrambling to cut costs to stay competitive. Long term, they are companies that can adapt and continue to thrive. Caterpillar and Dupont should have the most upside for investors as they deal with early-cycle products whose market is likely to respond before the broad economy. United Technologies is a combination of both growth and defense which makes it a solid choice for any portfolio. Norfolk Southern will also be a good global growth play once that trade is back on.Based on the results of these companies, I think the economy still has a ways until we see positive growth. The current rally can continue, but is mostly being driven by speculation in oversold stocks instead of improving fundamentals. Until employment numbers stabilize, we're not going to see much strength in the economy.
But keep an eye on China. One of the big takeaways here is what these companies said this week. Look at the confidence they have in the Chinese Stimulus Plan versus the U.S. Stimulus Plan. It may be a bit of wishful thinking, but these companies and many others are looking for China to pull us out of this recession. We have interesting times ahead.
Thanks for reading!Author has no positions in stocks mentioned.


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A critical shortage of IV bags in general followed an FDA ban on the mass production of intravenous vitamin C according to reports. The FDA limited the availability of IV-C and the pharmaceutical industry halted production of injectable vitamins and minerals, after a 60 minute story about the miraculous recovery of a swine flu patient on life support. The FDA allegedly began to limit compounding pharmacies after injectable steroids produced by the New England Compounding Center were contaminated with a fungus that caused a deadly outbreak of meningitis. Here isRead More
Facebook, Instagram, and Starbucks stores have mostly been trending one thing today…. Selfies with Unicorns. Starbucks came out with a Unicorn Frappuccino and even though there’s no coffee in it people have lost it over this high-sugar drink. This drink packs more sugar than half a dozen glazed Krispy Kreme donuts. Unicorns have that power but do they have the power to save your health from this overdose. The Unicorn Frappuccino is bright pink and blue and topped with edible glitter released on April 19 to much fanfare and colorful instagramRead More
Amazing… Honey on Tap Directly From your Beehive. Now if you can just find some bees.. since they all seem to be disappearing.


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With Far Cry 6‘s recent release date announcement and detail reveals, Ubisoft has already played one of its big cards before its E3 2021 event, Ubisoft Forward. Despite that, the publisher seemingly has more to show off with a new stream set for this weekend.
While Ubisoft stated via its Forward schedule that some surprise announcements are in store, a few big titles are already set to appear, such as world premiere trailer footage of Rainbow Six’s next mainline installment, formally named Rainbow Six Quarantine. Here’s how to watch the show and what we know will (and won’t) be at it.
Ubisoft Forward takes place on Saturday, June 12. The pre-show starts at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET while Ubisoft’s main event starts at noon PT/3 p.m. ET. A post-show is confirmed for 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET, meaning the show will have a total runtime of three hours.
Ubisoft states that the forward will only be officially streamed on its website at Ubisoft.com/Forward. No other streaming sites such as YouTube or Twitch are mentioned but the mention of Twitch Drops being offered during the show may mean there will be a stream there as well.
Many games are confirmed to appear on the stream. While there are some “big” unnamed surprises in store Ubisoft confirmed updates for live titles such as For Honor, Trackmania, The Crew 2, Brawlhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Rainbow Six Siege.
There will also be a world premiere gameplay of Rainbow Six Extraction and more Far Cry 6 coverage. Ubisoft’s new massive multiplayer open-world extreme sports title, Riders Republic will also appear.
Viewers can expect updates on Ubisoft’s Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest, their film Werewolves Within, and other surprises for the streaming service.
The post-show features Rainbow Six Siege community team discussion concerning the game’s top issues and developer talk on the Operator roster’s latest addition, Operation North Star’s Thunderbird. There are also reveals in store, including streamer charms, a community artist bundle, and Sixth Guardian Charity bundle partnerships.
Fans hungry for more of The Division will be upset to hear that it won’t appear at the event. It’s confirmed via Twitter that the game is still set for year-end release but has no updates to share. The Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is also confirmed to not have any presence at Ubisoft’s conference. It is unknown if more Beyond Good and Evil 2 news could be one of the teased surprises, but it isn’t advised to go into the stream expecting it to show up.


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Ljubljana, 28 November (STA) - Iskra Zaščite, a Ljubljana-based maker of surge protection systems, has acquired a majority stake in smart energy solutions company Solvera Lynx for an undisclosed sum, representatives of Iskra Zaščite announced on Thursday.
Owner of Iskra Zaščite Otmar Zorn said the acquisition is part of the company's expansion to smart energy services. "We want to sell Slovenian know-how on the global market," Zorn said about the deal concluded on 22 October.
The purchase of 61% in ordinary shares and all of priority shares in Solvera Lynx will enable the company to make a breakthrough on the energy management market, general manager Goran Vučinič said.
"We are working with many customers abroad who have made us realise that we can expand our operations to new fields and at the same time we wanted to work only with the best development teams as the market is already saturated with average solutions," Vučinič added.
The company's aim for the four-year period running until 2016 is for sales of electronics and electricity management solutions to make up EUR 7-8m in total revenues.
Iskra Elektrika generated sales of EUR 18.4m and made a net profit of EUR 2.6m in 2012. It is aiming to increase revenues by 5% this year.
Its acquisition target is much smaller in terms of revenues, generating EUR 1m in sales last year, but has grown quickly since its incorporation into a stock company in 2008.
The founder of Solvera Lynx Peter Kobal said that teaming up with Iskra Zaščita will enable it to realise its goal of expanding to foreign markets.
"Solvery Lynx has done its homework on the Slovenian market and has grown to a point where the only strategy is to go global. Given that Iskra Zaščite operates successfully in 60 countries, this deal is an ideal platform for realising this goal," general manager of Solvera Lynx Robert Srebotič said.


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The campaign by The Body Shop Canada aims to help endangered species find love and protect forests against exploitation and poaching.
The Body Shop has rolled out a new ‘gorilla’ marketing push on dating app, Tinder, to introduce its Bio-Bridges programme dedicated to helping endangered species find love. Reggie, a Red Shanked Douc monkey from Vietnam, is featured as he looks for his ‘primate’ or at least someone DTMA (down to monkey around).
The movement works to restore wildlife corridors within damaged landscapes, and helps endangered species to reconnect, enabling them to breed and thrive. The brand giant aims to regenerate 75 million square metres of forest by 2020—and protect against exploitation, poaching, and unsustainable harvesting.
From the pet mascot’s profile, users can learn more about said platform. The Canadian-led conservation project is based in north-central Vietnam’s Khe Nuoc Trong Forest where Reggie lives. He is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list of endangered species.
The Tinder placement runs in conjunction with an in-store and online campaign titled Help Reggie Find Love. The effort allows customers to support the programme. Every purchase made at The Body Shop between July and September will fund one square metre of rainforest via Bio-Bridge.
“The Bio-Bridges program is an important component of our Enrich Not Exploit Commitment, the first stage in our ultimate aim to become the world’s most ethical and truly sustainable global business,” said Toby Milton, General Manager of The Body Shop Canada.
According to him, the Tinder campaign is a fun way to reach a new audience, create awareness amongst Canadians around the marque’s global sustainability initiatives, and shows customers how they can get involved. For further information, supporters can visit the campaign’s dedicated website.


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Aerol is all about delivering the latest Android news -- fast. Ever excited about technology, Aerol loves covering all of the great budget oriented Android technology that keeps popping up every day.
E-book readers are an increasingly popular product. With Amazon’s Kindle leading the pack, most of these devices pack Android as their OS of choice. This is mostly because it’s cheap and easy to use.
Binatone, a small manufacturer, already has a proven track record in providing cheap eBook Readers that can also function as Android tablets. There’s the ReadMe Daily, the HomeSurf 7, and the HomeSurf 8 devices. They’re not exactly scene-stealers, but they are decent and usable devices for any prospective user. The company’s latest offering though is pretty unique.
The Binatone ReadMe Mobile has two main features. First is a 7 inch, 800 [...]
Chinese manufacturers are better known for producing cheap knock-offs of other companies’ products. That’s a rather undeserved reputation – these same manufacturers are the ones who usually make the products of such companies like Acer, Apple, and others. This is why you sometimes see an original product coming out of the morass.
The Eking T9 tablet is an example of these original creations. Produced by Shenzhen Guangxuntong Communication Technology, the tablet is supposed to be the world’s thinnest tablet. At least, that’s what the company claims.
All we know about it is the device’s specs and some press shots that make it look [...]
If you’re using Android, you probably have a Gmail account. Google’s wildly successful e-mail service has become an Internet staple – with Google essentially winning the online e-mail wars. Well, e-mail services while convenient for online browsing have a bit of a problem when it comes to actually having access to the messages on your phone when you need it. That’s why Google’s Gmail app for Android smartphones is another big success for the company.
It’s still not perfect though, that’s why the big G has just updated the Gmail app and took the program up to version 2.3.5. There’s quite a kerfuffle around data plans right now, so [...]
College can be a big money pit. Everyone knows that its expensive – that’s why there are student loans after all – but it can actually get pretty ridiculous. One of the prime examples is the cost of textbooks. For what are essentially information aides, you will have to pay a whole lot of cash up to a hundred dollars a book. You sometimes won’t even be using them again after the course!
Well, if you’re in a bit of a bind with textbooks, the usual route is the second-hand shop. However, they’re kind of hit and miss. After all, availability for particular books can be a bit sporadic. However, here’s a new app to help you [...]
Well, we’ve been expecting this for a while – but Dell has finally done it. The company has just fired its opening salvo in the Chinese market and has exclusively released its newest 10-inch Android tablet in China. This is aimed at the emerging Chinese market that the company is hoping to tap.
The new tablet is named the Streak 10 Pro is pretty obviously aimed at the Chinese market, with its Chinese interface and a slew of popular apps pre-loaded. It’s also priced for the Chinese consumer. Tagged at 2999 yuan, it over half a thousand yuan cheaper than Apple’s iPad 2.
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If you haven’t experienced it yet, the Amazon App Store is looking to give the traditional Android Market some stiff competition. The wide selection and the Amazon customer experience are a great combination – so much so that you can’t imagine just how it can get better.
Well, it just did! The Amazon App Store has just rolled out a new update for its popular store. Upping the version number to version 1.15, this update tweaks quite a few things that weren’t quite perfect and this should be a treat for both buyers and developers alike.
So what gets added. Here’s a peek the change log:New Feature: [...]
News is big business. With all of the newspapers on the stands, this is a pretty obvious conclusion. With the dawn of the tablet age, news corporations have been doing their best to translate themselves into the digital medium. This is mostly because the tablet is a perfect platform for reading – portable, easy-to-carry, with a smooth interface.
One of the more popular ways to get the news on tablets are news aggregators. They’re independent applications that collect news for you. Skygrid, a recent release for the Android platform, a perfect example of this type of application.
Right now, the SkyGrid App for Android Tablets is available on the Android [...]
With the current economy, taxes may seem like a pain in the ass. However, no matter how we may dislike them, we still have to do them. And as the old saying goes, anything worth doing is worth doing right. And that’s what Intuit, a small software company that specializes in financial and tax preparation software, is helping you do with its latest release. The QuickBooks Mobile app for Android is a small app designed to work with Intuit’s other products, namely, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, or QuickBooks Online to manage your business’ financial records.
This is great news for any small company or business owner on the go. With QuickBooks [...]
Malware and viruses run rampant in the modern digital age, so you’ll probably need a bit of protection. That’s why you use an antivirus. One of the latest antivirus software to hit the stands is Vipre Antivirus. First hitting the Windows platform, the guys behind it are bringing it to Android. Android may be a young OS, but it’s already plagued with malware – which is why it’s the perfect time for Vipre Mobile to set up shop.
So what does Vipre mobile have to offer? Other than your basic security features for software, there are also some interesting bits that are aimed at phone and text messaging – also for parental controls, if you happen [...]
Cheap Android tablets are probably the standard right now. This is pretty obvious with all of the low-end models being hawked by retailers. The problem is choosing the right one – or at least the most cost-effective one.
The people behind the Andy Pad have been on a PR trip recently to convince people that they’re the best choice. They’ve slowly been releasing info on their Andy Pad product – along with the more high-end Andy Pad Pro.
The 7-inch Andy Pad is a nice-looking piece of hardware, anyway you slice it. The Pro isn’t much different when it comes to physical appearance. They share the same size and white chassis. What they do [...]


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Shares of Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) have been struggling since its late-October earnings report. While Baidu beat on earnings per share estimates, it came up short of revenue expectations. So what should we make of the BIDU stock price being down almost 13% from its highs?
What Was So Bad About Earnings?
The BIDU stock price fell almost 8% in one day following earnings. How bad could it have been? The revenue miss was slight, but guidance came up really short. Management’s forecast for fourth-quarter revenue of $3.34 billion to $3.52 billion was below consensus estimates looking for $3.73 billion in sales.
Could this be a positive though? I think Baidu’s sales estimates came up short because it sold off its takeout and mobile games businesses. Management’s guidance calls for 22% to 29% growth, vs. expectations for ~35%. However, excluding its “disposed businesses,” revenue growth would be roughly 28% to 34%, management says. This is still short of analysts’ expectations, but not by nearly as much.
Underlying metrics are accelerating, and Baidu’s profitability is increasing, too. Operating margins jumped 1,100 basis points in the quarter as operating income jumped 69% year-over-year. Revenue per user soared 31% as the use of AI is helping enable customer growth for Baidu. Many call Baidu the “Chinese Google,” the latter of which is a unit of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL, NASDAQ:GOOG).
Sales are still forecast to grow more than 20% this year and next. Earnings (uncharacteristically) should jump about 60% this year and grow just 4% in the following year. But beyond that, analysts expect 25% growth. As a result, the BIDU stock price trades at just 26.2 times 2017 earnings. That makes it look a lot cheaper than its ~42 times 2016 earnings valuation.
On a trailing basis, BIDU stock looks expensive, and that could be one overhang, even though it shouldn’t be considering its forward valuation. The same could be said for a number of growth companies, including Alphabet, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB).
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We will soon start shooting cinematic content to be used for showcasing the technology developed by the VR-Together consortium. In this post, we bring some of the production effort developed at Artanim, which is currently exploring the use of Apple’s iPhone X face tracking technology in the production pipeline of 3D animations.
The photos below show the iPhone X holding rig, and an early version of the face tracking recording tool that was developed by Artanim. The tool integrates with full body and hands motion capture technology from Vicon to allow the simultaneous recording of body, hands and face performance from multiple actors.
With the recent surge of consumer virtual reality, interest for motion capture has dramatically increased. The iPhone X and ARKit SDK from Apple integrate depth sensing and facial animation technologies, and are a good example of this trend. Apple’s effort to integrate advanced face tracking to their mobile devices may be related to the recent acquisition of PrimeSense and FaceShift. The former was involved in the development of the technology powering the first Kinect back in 2011, the latter is recognized for their face tracking technology, which is briefly showcased in the making of Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. These are exciting times, when advanced motion tracking technologies are becoming ubiquitous in our life.
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January 25, 2024 – Tesla has unveiled its financial results for 2023, revealing a steady increase in revenue and profits despite facing various challenges throughout the year.
According to the report, Tesla’s total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 amounted to 25.17billion,representinga396.77 billion, a significant 19% increase from 2022.
In terms of profitability, Tesla reported a GAAP operating profit of 8.9billionfor2023,withthefourthquartercontributing2.1 billion. The company’s GAAP net income stood at 15billionfortheyear,with7.9 billion earned in the final quarter alone. On a non-GAAP basis, Tesla’s net income was 10.9billionfor2023,with2.5 billion recorded in the fourth quarter.
It’s worth noting that Tesla’s fourth-quarter results included a one-time non-cash tax benefit of $5.9 billion, resulting from the reduction of certain deferred tax asset valuation allowances.
The company’s cash position also remained strong in 2023. Tesla generated 13.3billioninoperatingcashflowand4.4 billion in free cash flow for the full year. In the fourth quarter, the company’s operating cash flow was 4.4billion,whileitsfreecashflowstoodat2.1 billion. Tesla’s cash and investments increased by 3billioninthefourthquarter,endingtheyearat29.1 billion.
During the year, Tesla delivered over 1.2 million Model Y vehicles, making it the best-selling car of any kind globally. Despite significant capital expenditures and research and development costs, which reached record highs as the company focused on future growth projects, Tesla’s free cash flow remained robust in 2023.
In addition to its strong financial performance, Tesla also achieved significant milestones in its energy storage and generation businesses. The company installed a total of 14.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage in 2023, more than doubling its 2022 figure. Profits from its energy generation and storage business nearly quadrupled in 2023, while gross margins from services and other businesses increased from negative 500millionin2019topositive500 million in 2023.


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On the search side, Cortana will now show up right in the revived Start Menu bar on Windows 10 and will direct a lot of internet searches to Bing, as Windows 8.1’s built-in search does now. For smartphone users, the demonstrations showed Cortana taking up the whole screen and displaying voice commands, which can presumably be edited if the software mishears a command.Microsoft was keen to stress that there’s still a lot of development work to do on Cortana. Some of the features on display today won’t be in the preview builds available to developers for five months or more. But voice control is going to be a key part of controlling computers, in Microsoft’s view.Tom Oberheim has pursued a similar philosophy with his Marion Systems products in the 1990s and more recently with the SEM line. Sadly, unlike Dave Smith, he has been unable to negotiate the return of the Oberheim brand name from Gibson who bought his company when it got into difficulties around the same time as Sequential.Tom Oberheim was showing a new Pro version of his original Two Voice from the 1970s. This synth also benefits from the addition of memories to make sure that, when you find that perfect unique sound, you can save it for all time, even if you have used patch cables to create it.
Moog Music, on the other hand, clearly thinks that memories are for wimps and that real men should should know the settings of their favourite sounds by heart and be able to get them back blindfold. To prove this was the case, it had legendary synthesist Susanne Cianni prove that real women can do it too.Cianni was on the booth daily putting the newly reissued $35,000 Modular System 55 through its paces. The huge “wall of sound” as we used to call it, still sounded as great as it did in the late 1960s, especially when Keith Emerson turned up to give an impromptu performance of Lucky Man (original recording – fun starts at 3’20). But does anyone really want to fight with that much spaghetti any more?Elsewhere, Roland offered the JD-Xi, a hybrid of all its biggest hits featuring: an analogue SH-101-style monosynth; a digital polysynth for pads; a drum machine offering both TR-808 and TR-909 kits; and a vocoder.
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This arsenal of sonic sources combined with the on-board sequencer delivers complete workstation to produce dance music featuring all the classic sounds that inspired the genre. There are certain dance music producers who may think that this is all the music device they will ever need in the future.Cortana is also going to be playing a part in another big change that’s coming in Windows 10 (one that was widely leaked): Project Spartan, Microsoft’s new web browser.Based on what was shown today, you’re still going to get Internet Explorer with Windows 10. Microsoft needs to keep it around because of the huge number of legacy applications that are built to work only with it. But its legacy support makes IE clunky and insecure, so Redmond is hoping Spartan is the way forward.In a nutshell, Spartan is a cut-down browser, which Microsoft rather ambiguously said would be optimized for the languages the web is written in today. It’s got a much more, well, Spartan look and feel than IE – one vaguely reminiscent of Chrome – and Cortana is tightly integrated.
For example, one demonstration showed a search for a restaurant’s website using the browser. The results were displayed as normal, but in the top right-hand corner, Cortana pops up with details including directions to, hours of, and a menu for the restaurant.But Spartan is more than a simple browser. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s operating systems veep, demonstrated how websites can be annotated and users can add comments using either a keyboard, a pen, or their finger. Then add the ability to share the annotations and you’ve got something that’s really rather useful.When dealing with multiple websites, Spartan builds a reading list in a menu on the right hand side of the screen. This will also download and store the web pages so that they can be read offline, as well as porting them between PC, tablet, and phone.Every copy of Windows 10 will come with an updated Xbox application baked in. The app has been redesigned to show not only available games but also friends, recent actions, and social forums on a single page – but that’s a minor tweak.
What’s a much bigger deal it that now Xbox and Windows 10 users can play console games with each other online. As long as both players have the same version of the game, they can slay orcs together as though they were sharing the same console.In addition, if you have an Xbox in the house you can stream games to your Windows 10 laptop or PC using the application and even turn the console off remotely. There are limits to this – the Xbox won’t play two games at once and if the game requires a disk it’ll have to be installed in the console. Streaming also won’t work outside a LAN. Still, it’s still a huge step.The other side of this is that Windows 10 users will be able to stream PC apps to their Xboxes to display them on their TV screens. We’re not expecting Excel on the big screen, said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, but it would be easy to do so.Windows 10 will also make full use of DirectX 12. The new software allows developers to at last get full CPU and GPU control for games and Microsoft claimed that this could lead to a 50 per cent performance boost for some games.Microsoft also threw a couple of hardware announcements into its Windows 10 hoopla. The HoloLens was the star turn of these, but Microsoft also showed off its latest move into big screen computing.The SurfaceHub is an 84-inch 4K screen with compute capability and motion sensors built in. The unit is basically a massive digital whiteboard with pen capability built in, as well as the ability to take data from Windows 10 PCs in the room and display information for annotation and sharing.
Microsoft has a peculiar love for these kinds of big screen systems. It bought Perceptive Pixel in 2012 and both Nadella and former CEO Steve Ballmer have raved about big screens. Everyone else seems iffy on the idea, but SurfaceHub is rather nifty in its way.The system runs a version of OneNote that can be used in either individual mode or as part of a shared data group. The motion sensors detect when someone enters the room and switch the system on, and when everyone leaves it automatically wipes itself after backing The enterprise is yet to come.
Wednesday’s Windows 10 preview event was mainly about what consumers are going to get out of the new OS, but that’s only half the story. Microsoft also dropped some interesting hints about what’s coming down the line on the enterprise side.For those who like the idea of public cloud systems, Windows 10 is being constantly tweaked to work with Azure, Nadella said.For those companies that like to keep their data in-house, there will be some major upgrades to Microsoft’s server software, he explained, but also for client systems. The hypervisor technology Microsoft has developed on the server side, for example, is now also baked into client versions of Windows 10 and is key to getting the new security lockdowns to work.
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The next Windows 10 preview build will be pushed out to developers in the next two weeks and there will be more details on the phones given out at Mobile World Congress in March. Updates on Xbox will arrive in time for the Game Developers Conference the same month.There are no firm details on the final launch date for Windows 10, other than an oft-repeated when it’s ready. Given Microsoft’s past release schedule, however, autumn looks like a good bet. For those who hanker after the perfect Jean-Michel Jarre sound to play with their Laser Harp, KromaLaser is finally offering a new hardware solution. Until now if you wanted that authentic Rendezvous II sound, you needed to either find an old Elka Synthex on eBay (and probably get it repaired), or run a virtual synth called Synth’x, aka Synthix from Xils Labs on a laptop live.Neither is ideal for live performance, so KromaLaser has announced a 2U rack called KromaSynth which recreates the sound architecture of the Elka Synthex for those sync-sweep sounds that so many people are convinced actually come from the LaserHarp instead of the Elka being triggered by MIDI.
The architecture of the KromaLaser is much cleverer than the original Elka Synthex though. Each voice is entirely contained on an independent card and anywhere between one and 16 cards can be installed in the individual slots. This means if you only want to trigger from the monophonic laser harp, you can save money by only buying one card in the rack. If you want a 16-part multi-timbral system which allows you to set up drones or trigger/sequenced lines to back your performances, you can also do this. The KromaSynth will be fully demoed in the UK next month.It was actually pretty tough to find groundbreaking technology at NAMM this year. The only truly unique thing I saw was a new product from Roger Linn, founding father and patron saint of drum machines. Now that beatboxes have been fully absorbed into workstations and computer sequencers, Roger has come up with a new MIDI controller. Called the LinnStrument, it doesn’t require previous keyboard training to play, yet permits a level of individual expression which few keyboard players ever achieve.


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Has any recent laptop announcement excited you? Me...
While the Amazon 'wake word' feature improves privacy...
Segways were supposed to be bigger than the internet...
While Elon Musk's vision and candor are transforming...
Messenger joins at least 52 companies and services Yahoo has shut down. Were these bad ideas from the beginning? Or is Yahoo a bad manager?
Apple is smart to make this a multi-year project. Done right, Apple will make switching between iOS and macOS a seamless experience.
All we hear is radio ga ga. Fortunately, video games can lead us down a path of aural enlightenment. My rock music journey began with Sega's gone-too-soon Dreamcast.
No, it's not the keyboard. But it is something that should be top of mind for every internet user.
Serious study is needed to find out why people can't look away from their screens.
There's a lot that's deeply wrong with Mac hardware, and Apple doesn't seem to see it.
I'm not keen on dropping $700 on e-plates, but they could have their benefits.
This year's Society for Information Displays (SID) conference provided a glimpse of the future.
The June issue of the PCMag Digital Edition explores true wireless charging.
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Memes and reactions over every Apple launch event are no different every year and like every other year, Google took a jab at Apple but secretly!
As the Cupertino giant unveiled their latest series of iPhones on September 14, tech giant, Google, preferred to chaff their premium phone rival
A tweet from Google’s nexus account saying “I’d wait for #Pixel6” soon after the launch of iPhone 13 which netizens find to be taunting in nature.
The last tweet from the Nexus account was on October 16, 2017, before google shifted to a new account @madebygoogle which tweets the latest news on Google products and services. However, the old Nexus account was active till July 14, 2019, while replying to customer support @mentions, as per a report by 9to5Google.
The tweet also mentions Google’s answer for iPhone 13 and is all set to be launched later this year, which will compete with Apple in the flagship market. But let’s not forgot Samsung’s S series, the third wheel.
Google recently released the first Pixel 6 teaser with ‘For All You Are’ tagline, showing the first real, non-rendered glimpse of the hardware.
The video teases the design of the Pixel 6, Android 12 elements, and most awaited tensor chip which is new and it looks like Google is also ready to make their own SoCs for their flagship phones like its rivals Apple and Samsung.
Meanwhile, Google hasn’t made any official announcement regarding the launch but as per a report by 9to5Google, the launch date is expected to be October 19 and will be available to purchase by October 28 with no reports currently available suggesting its launch in the Indian market.


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What does a recent dive in consumer confidence about the economy mean – that America is just in a rough patch or something worse, like a new recession or "lost decade" ahead?
The growth of gross domestic product dipped to 2.4 percent in the second quarter, the government reported, down from 3.7 percent annualized pace in the first quarter. And a Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment fell in July. Two other measures, the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence and the TIPP poll's economic optimism index, have fallen for two months in a row.
Although these indicators are shifting for the worse, most forecasters see a dip back into recession as unlikely. Instead, they generally say the economy is simply stuck in a period of disappointingly slow growth due to the lingering effects of the financial crisis and housing bust.
In short, they say it's a time for patience and modest expectations, perhaps, but not time to throw in the towel on the US economy's prospects.
It's a point that President Obama, the nation's cheerleader in chief, tried to hammer home in a visit to Detroit Friday.
"I want you all to know I will bet on the American worker any day of the week," he told a cheering crowd of Chrysler workers. "I have confidence in the American economy.... We are coming back."
But he added that he still has work to do for the economy.
A poll of economists, surveyed by USA Today, found that most have become less optimistic about the economy over the past three months, just as ordinary Americans have. But their average forecast is still for growth, not recession. They call for a GDP growth rate of 2.5 percent in the second half of the year, and slightly higher next year (reaching a 3 percent pace in the third quarter of 2011).
The case for tempered optimism hinges on the view that positive forces can begin to reinforce one another: consumers spending more, incomes rising, businesses regaining confidence to hire and invest. Americans' disposable income edged up, on an inflation-adjusted basis, in the first quarter of the year. Consumer spending has been rising since the middle of last year. Business investment, outside of the housing industry, showed a strong gain in the second quarter.
"I just see a lot of things lining up positively," says Stephen Rose, a Georgetown University economist who recently wrote the book "Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger from the Financial Crisis."
Mr. Rose concedes that it's possible a "double dip" could occur, sending the economy back into recession for a brief time. And he favors continuation of some government stimulus policies, such as aid for the unemployed and for cash-strapped state governments, that will help fuel demand while the recovery gets under way.
But he expects the economic recovery will continue, and that employment growth will reach a sufficient pace – about 250,000 new jobs per month – to bring the unemployment rate dipping below 7 percent by 2013.
Some pessimistic forecasters say it's possible the nation will struggle through a "lost decade," similar to Japan's experience in recent years. Rose says several forces should help the US avoid that outcome, including the entrepreneurial character of its economy. "No buildings were destroyed" by the recession, he says. "Nobody lost their smarts."
One place where he and many of the pessimists agree: The nation's banking system remains a weak spot. Often, recoveries after a financial crisis are slower than those after more typical cyclical recessions.
The aftermath of the crisis may also explain why many consumers feel uncertain about their financial future. Household debt levels remain high. Still many economists say that it's possible for households to repair their finances while also contributing to economic growth through their spending.