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Whether you’re an eCommerce company, a brick-and-mortar store offering delivery, or a transport company, you’ve likely noticed a worker shortage as a result of the pandemic, particularly a shortage of delivery drivers. Hiring has become more difficult during these tough times, and it seems like it may get worse in the coming months.
In this article, we will first take a look at the different elements and events that led to this driver shortage; then, we will propose an innovative solution that will allow your company to hire more workers and increase their productivity.
Why is it so difficult to hire delivery drivers?
Driver shortages were a problem before the pandemic, but they have gotten worse in recent months, causing disruption in the supply chain. It's becoming a real struggle to hire and keep drivers, and here's why.
Drivers leaving the profession
More job opportunities in different industries. Since the onset of the pandemic, many delivery drivers have left the profession to start new ones. As the market is currently offering more job opportunities and being a delivery driver is considered a difficult job, some drivers have switched to the construction, warehouse, or manufacturing industries.
Workers are needed in many different industries, so some drivers are choosing jobs that are less physically demanding or that offer a better salary.
An aging workforce. While the pandemic has made things worse, worker shortages were an issue even before COVID-19. As we mentioned earlier, being a delivery driver is a tough job that doesn’t pay much; therefore, fewer and fewer people are willing to do it these days. Furthermore, many drivers are doing it temporarily and don’t stay long enough to replace the ones retiring.
Vaccine status and people getting sick
Another reason for the driver shortage could be related to vaccine requirements. Since Canada requires international drivers to be fully vaccinated, those who are unvaccinated will not be able to make deliveries anymore.
The American Trucking Association estimates the driver shortage was about 80,000 last year. Companies are concerned that they will lose more drivers. According to Lakowski, president of the Ontario Trucking Association, in an article for CP24, “Trucking companies will lose 10 to 15 percent of their workforce.”
Besides, with more and more people getting sick because of COVID-19, companies are finding it difficult to deliver orders. "As of the New Year, we have so many people having to quarantine, there are days when we are oversold by 20%," Kriska General Manager Tammy Cryderman said in a CTV News article.
A difficult job for most drivers
Physically demanding. Being a delivery driver is not an easy job nowadays, and fewer and fewer people are willing to perform a physically demanding job if the salary is not worth it.
Few to no tips. Customers usually don’t have cash to tip drivers, and since drivers used to get a lot more money from tips, this is a real loss for them.
High expectations from available drivers
Noticing this shortage of drivers, the ones that are still willing to work may have more demands. They understand that companies are struggling to find workers and that they will have no trouble finding work, so they don't hesitate to impose their own rules, telling companies, "I want this and this, and if you're not willing to give me that, I'm not taking the job."
How can you hire more workers during these difficult times?
In order to recruit drivers, companies have to change their approach and review their offer so they can attract the attention of skilled drivers. Companies want to hire experienced drivers for safety reasons, which makes it more difficult to find workers.
While being a delivery driver might not always be easy, making more money is usually what drivers care about the most and what could significantly increase their motivation to work. However, not every company can afford to increase their drivers’ salaries.
This is why, at CIGO Tracker, we’ve come up with an innovative solution that will allow you to attract more drivers without having to increase their salaries. We’ve recently launched CIGO Pay, a platform designed for drivers to earn more tips. Here is how it will benefit your workers and your company:
#Making up to 30% of their salary in tips
Tips are important for drivers as they can make up to 30% of their salary, a significant amount that would definitely increase their motivation.
Talking to our customers, we’ve learned that drivers used to make more money as they used to receive more tips from customers.
In a world where people are barely using cash anymore, it becomes more complicated to tip drivers when they deliver orders. As a result, many drivers have lost an important part of their revenues, making it less worthwhile for them to work as delivery drivers.
Therefore, we have launched a platform that would allow customers to give themselves digital tips upon delivery.
#Fast and easy
It is very easy for your customers as they just have to click on the link sent to them and, in a few clicks, they can send digital tips to your drivers. There is no need to enter a credit card number or any other information.
In the same link sent, customers will also be able to give feedback on their delivery, as you can see in the image below.
This method has been successful so far, as many drivers have started working for companies like DoorDash or Uber Eats. These companies make it very easy to tip drivers via their apps.
#Hiring more drivers
Knowing that they can earn 30% more of their salary in tips will attract a lot of potential drivers without your company having to spend more on their salary. You will be much more likely to convince them to take the job by just showing them the platform and how easy and intuitive it is.
Also, with this method being relatively new, you will have a considerable advantage over your competitors as you will be offering drivers the opportunity to make more money for doing the same job.
#Increasing motivation and productivity
Keeping employees motivated is essential for any employer who wants to have a solid rate of productivity. Motivated drivers will be more likely to complete more deliveries than those who lack motivation.
Not only does CIGO Pay allow you to hire workers more easily, it is also more likely to increase their motivation and productivity as the more deliveries they do, the more tips they will earn. They will also certainly make sure to offer a good delivery service, as they know their tips depend on it.
If you would like to learn more about CIGO Pay, how to use it, and all its benefits, visit its website at https://cigopay.com.
Meet CIGO Tracker
CIGO Tracker is a best-in-class, cloud-based platform to increase deliveries, service calls, and pick-ups for your business. It scales as you need it and provides a state-of-the-art, “last mile” delivery experience that will thrill your customers.
Driven by innovation, an unwavering commitment to customer service, honesty, and trust, CIGO delivers the best, most flexible delivery tracking software in the industry.
At CIGO, we are always on the lookout for new features that we can add to our delivery software to improve your daily operations. If you would like to learn more about our delivery software, book a demo today.
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JD quarterly sales rise but loss balloons
Chinese e-commerce company JD boosted second-quarter revenue by 31.2 per cent, but losses ballooned nine-fold.
JD quarterly sales reached RMB122.3 billion (US$218.5 billion) for the three months to June 30, with net service revenues of RMB11.8 billion (US$1.8 billion), up 51 per cent year on year.
On a rolling 12 month basis, annual active customer accounts increased by 21.5 per cent to 313.8 million in the year to June 30.
The operating margin of JD Mall was just 1.1 per cent, although that was an improvement on the 0.8 per cent of the same period a year earlier.
JD chairman and CEO Richard Liu said the e-commerce business was continuing to win over new personal customers. “We are also seeing more corporate clients, both Chinese and international, leveraging JD’s superior technology and retail infrastructure to help take their businesses to the next level. We will continue to prioritise technology innovation to empower our partners with enhanced capabilities and improved efficiency, helping us to realise our ‘Retail as a Service’ strategy, and driving our next phase of growth.”
The net loss from continuing operations attributable to shareholders was RMB2.213 billion (US$334.4 million), compared to RMB287 million for the same period last year.
Despite continuing losses in what is along-game business, JD is attracting investment. In June, Google invested $500 million as part of a new strategic partnership.
“We are pleased to see continued healthy performance in the second quarter, with solid revenue growth and improved margins in our core JD Mall business,” said Sidney Huang, CFO, in a statement “Our new business initiatives continue to gain impressive traction across the industry. We will maintain a balanced, long-term approach to investing in the technologies that will define the future of retail.”
During the second quarter, JD expanded its leadership position in fulfillment capabilities among China’s e-commerce companies. As of June 30, JD operated 521 warehouses covering an aggregate gross floor area of 11.6 million sqm in China.
The company had more than 170,000 merchants on its online marketplace, and 173,904 full-time employees at the end of the quarter.

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Among vocal proponents of co-marketing, Chris Hoyt stands out as a man with a mission.
The president of the customer marketing division of Ryan Management Group, a Westport, Conn., consulting firm, Hoyt has put more than a few noses out of joint with his persistent questioning of Efficient Consumer Response and everyday low pricing.
In public and private, Hoyt has questioned the sense of major industry initiatives he says are focused on cost-cutting rather than revenue generation. Co-marketing, he will tell any retailer or manufacturer who will listen, is the real future.
"Merchandising is selling more to customers who already shop in a store," he says. "But marketing is aimed at all of the consumers who live in the area of a store. Its function is to attract new customers."
Hoyt explains that food retailing has evolved from mass marketing through regional and category marketing to the present period dominated by micromarketing. While the mass-marketing era was characterized by consumer pull and manufacturer control, the consolidation of the trade and advent of scanning beginning about 1980 led to fact-based selling and, by the end of the decade, to greater trade control.
In the 1990s, an awareness of micromarketing has led to more store-specific approaches and much talk of "partnering," which in reality has mostly meant "milk the manufacturer," he says.
In the co-marketing future, which Hoyt contends will arrive by 1995 or so, leading manufacturers and retailers will develop brand and category marketing plans together.
"What we will see is an emergence of a strategic vs. an ad hoc approach to retailing, in which retailers become marketers rather than price merchandisers," he says.
Hoyt cites a University of Chicago study on "Data-Driven Micro-Marketing," published last July by professors Xavier Dreze, Stephen J. Hoch and Mary Purk, which he said "just nails EDLP." The results of testing in Dominick's Finer Foods supermarkets show that demographic marketing is far better, he insists.
Hoyt says he has "run the numbers" on ECR, too. By his analysis, efficient replenishment will likely save 3% to 4%, while efficient trade promotion will yield maybe a 1% cost saving, not 4%-plus as predicted.
"Continuous replenishment, which by the way has been around since 1973, will drive some costs out of the system," Hoyt maintains, "but it will take 10 years to make the transition to EDLP, not 'best practice in two years,' as ECR proponents say."
For efficient assortment to be effective, he adds, retailers must organize for category management, "which requires a complete cultural change in the stores," a transition he says will also take time.
On the manufacturer side, Hoyt warns that the traditional separation between classic marketing and classic sales will not be easy to bridge, although he concedes that "trade promotion is bridging the gap somewhat."
Not surprisingly, expressing these views has made Hoyt a magnet for criticism from ECR's strong proponents. In private conversations following a recent conference, two executives told Brand Marketing in clear terms that they felt Hoyt's critique of ECR was irresponsible and destructive.
Other critics are more tempered. Richard Alt, vice president of national accounts and trade relations for Dial Corp.'s consumer product group, also takes a dim view of the argument that ECR demands too much too quickly.
"I think that's a smokescreen," he says. "Whether every step is implemented has nothing to do with whether ECR will benefit retailers and manufacturers. You can find some area to work on with nearly every one of your customers."
Indeed, in Alt's view, co-marketing "fits well with the efficient promotion operating strategy of ECR."


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E-MOTIVE by FVA – the 14th International Conference on Electric Vehicle Drives and E-Mobility – took place 21 and 22 September, 2022 in CongressPark Wolfsburg. Around 160 participants from research and industry traveled from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey to join in the conference’s 10 sessions, 38 presentations, and accompanying trade exhibition. Exhibitors included AVL Deutschland, CSM Computer-Systeme-Messtechnik GmbH, FVA GmbH, IBS Precision Engineering, Optimol Instruments Prüftechnik GmbH, Stiefelmayer-Lasertechnik GmbH & Co. KG, and Volkswagen AG. Institutes present at the conference included FAPS, IMKT, RWTH Aachen, Speed4E, and the KIT Institute of Thermal Process Engineering (TVT).
International experts from leading companies and institutes exchanged information on the latest e-mobility research results and industrial practices – including with this year’s E-MOTIVE sponsor Volkswagen AG, initiators FVA e.V., FVV e.V., and VDMA, event organizer FVA GmbH, and many more.
The two day conference featured high-quality speakers and a scientific program. Dr. Tobias Böhm from Volkswagen AG kicked off the first day of E-MOTIVE, followed by Alexander Krick from Volkswagen AG and Dr. Benno Pichlmaier from AGCO GmbH who introduced sessions with their keynotes.
During the sessions and the dinner speech by Wolfgang Müller-Pietralla from Volkswagen AG, participants gained deep insights into the topics of drive systems; e-machines; mechanical and mechatronic systems; production: concepts, volume, and flexibility; power electronics, DC/DC converters, and charging technologies; batteries – cells and systems; design and testing; and Speed4E.
Following the success of this year’s conference, everyone is already looking forward to the next E-MOTIVE in 2023.
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Jaguar Land Rover and BMW are joining forces to develop the next generation of electric drive systems.
Jaguar Land Rover and BMW Group announced a collaboration to develop the next-generation Electric Drive Units (EDUs) to support the transition to an ACES (Autonomous, Connected, Electric, Shared) future through the advancement of electrification technologies.
The companies will share their knowledge and expertise of electrification; Jaguar Land Rover brought the world’s first premium battery-electric SUV–the Jaguar I-PACE–to market, alongside plugin models, and BMW Group has developed and produced several generations of electric drive units in-house since the launch of its BMW i3 in 2013.
“The transition to ACES represents the greatest technological shift in the automotive industry in a generation. The pace of change and consumer interest in electrified vehicles is gathering real momentum, and it’s essential we work across the industry to advance the technologies required to deliver this exciting future,” explains Nick Rogers, Jaguar Land Rover Engineering Director.
He adds, “We’ve proven we can build world-beating electric cars, but now we need to scale the technology to support the next generation of Jaguar and Land Rover products. It was clear from discussions with BMW Group that both companies’ requirements for next-generation EDUs to support this transition have significant overlap making for a mutually beneficial collaboration.”
The joint investment in research and development, engineering, and procurement across the supply chain will provide the necessary economies of scale to support increased consumer adoption of electric vehicles.
A team of experts from both companies will engineer that EDUs to deliver the specific characteristics required for their respective products. The EDUs will be manufactured by each partner in their own production facilities; Jaguar Land Rover will be at its Wolverhampton-based Engine Manufacturing Centre (EMC). This plant will be the centre of propulsion system manufacturing, offering full flexibility between clean Ingenium petrol, diesel engines, and electric units. The plant is further complemented by the Battery Assembly Centre at Hams Hall, which will supply electrified powertrain systems to Jaguar Land Rover’s global vehicle plant.


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Norway: Inflation hits highest level for 5 months in June
Consumer prices rose 0.18% in June over the last month, stable from May’s 0.18% rise. Looking at the details of the release, prices for housing and utilities dropped in June, while price pressures for transportation rose. Meanwhile, food and non-alcoholic beverages prices shrank at a quicker pace.
Inflation came in at 1.4% in June, up from May’s 1.3%. June’s reading represented the highest inflation rate since January. Annual average inflation was unchanged at May’s 1.4% in June while core inflation rose to 3.1% from the previous month’s 3.0%.


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New system being installed
Tickets for the npower League 2 visit from Cheltenham Town on Saturday December 8th, and all other home games this season, will go on sale on Tuesday.
We would like to apologise for the delay, but the club are in the final stages of installation of a new, improved ticketing system which will be up and running on Tuesday.
As one of the improvements, soon after launch, supporters will be able to select specific seats on line. In the meantime there will be a temporary online selling facility when the system launches while the seat selecting system is installed.
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Hotel group Accor has ousted its chairman and chief executive Denis Hennequin and put a transition team in charge saying it needed to accelerate the implementation of its business strategy.
The French group's board held an emergency meeting yesterday and said in a statement that it had unanimously voted to terminate Hennequin's mandate with immediate effect.
Hennequin is the third chief executive to be ousted from Accor, Europe's largest hotel group, since US investor Colony Capital invested in the group in 2005. In January 2011 former CEO and chairman Gilles Pélisson quit citing "strategic differences" with the board.
Although the company praised Hannequin's approach, saying it was on the right track, it added that it needed to accelerate the implementation of its strategy to refocus its business, expand internationally and reinforce its brands.
"The board took note of Denis Hennequin's reservations and unanimously voted to terminate his mandate with immediate effect," Accor said.
Accor has appointed chief operating officer Yann Caillere as chief executive, while board member Sebastien Bazin, the head of Colony Europe, has been made vice-chairman to replace Philippe Caillère, who was named non-executive chairman.
Philippe Citerne, non-executive chairman of Accor's board of director, said: "On behalf of the board, I would like to pay tribute to Denis Hennequin's new and creative perspective on the hospitality business and for the quality of our exchanges during his mandate as chairman and CEO, and also at the time of his departure. I am confident in the future development of the group."
Denis Hennequin added: "I am particularly proud of the work achieved by our teams, franchisees and partners under my guidance. Together, we have successfully expanded Accor enabling record growth over the last two years and creating a new, dynamic brand-based approach. I am confident that everyone will continue to uphold the values that drive the group's success: a spirit of conquest, imagination, performance, trust and respect."


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China Bike Sharing Startup
It has been proved by a Bloomberg survey on bikes that the two leading bike-share startups of China namely oFo and Mobike have moved up to the profit of $100 million for the development of their investors. It has been observed that both the companies have risen in the market due to a variety of factors that were involved in making them unique. Mobike has started a program in Shanghai that will work without the government’s support while the other leading bike start-up oFo has inaugurated a program that will work as a bike share campus in Beijing and will spread its network in twenty main cities of China. Some tips if you want also launch your own startup in China.
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oFo’s most famous investor Didi Chuxing has bought Uber’s China program in the month of August. According to Quartz, this investment will help the company to rise beyond success in the university system that will surely be most successful than Mobike which has also a connection with Uber. It should be kept in mind that the founder of Uber China’s executive was Davis Wang.
The top-rated startup of China Didi Chuxing is already providing taxis, cars, and buses and now it has started introducing two wheels vehicles. Didi claimed that this year it has invested ten million dollars in China’s most popular bike-sharing start-up known as OFO. Before buying Uber’s China business, Didi got one billion dollars from Apple this summer.
This bike service started as a student project in 2014 which is working through an app on iPhone and Android. It started working from the influential university of China’s capital Peking University. Till present, it has expanded its network in 20 cities to the number of 70,000 bikes in different campuses and thus claims 1.5 million users that are taking roundabout 500,000 rides every day. According to news, OFO has earned 4 million in funding for biking.
It is not only a single start-up OFO working around the country, although there are a number of local bike-sharing programs too and also there is a startup formed by an Uber executive that is working as a well-known bike-sharing program in China.
According to a survey, Chinese consumer needs exceed others in terms of bike-sharing programs. It means there are a lot of bike consumers in China while the supply is a bit limited.
According to Forbes, China has beaten Italy in terms of bike sharing programs in 2013, and now this program and now it covers 400,000 units that are ten times the bike-sharing units of France.
From luxury goods to mass transport alternative
From the 19th century, bikes are used by the public until 1979 the economic change the demand for bike use raised and they were considered as the higher goods being consumed in the market. Till then one among five people had a bike which was considered as high consumption. From then the production of bikes increased which made cycling less expensive and affordable for everyone. And thus bike became a popular ride around China.
As a result of rapid change in Chinese economic growth mostly in urban road transportation and cultural changes, these factors made cycling popular. After increased car ownership which lessens the popularity of cycling still could not beat the demand for bikes which exceeded the demand for cars in the 19th century. Today in Shanghai there are 9.43 million bicycles available for the population of 20 million people and mostly these people use bikes to travel to the workplace rather than taking the facility of public transport. In 2011, Hangzhou broke the record by supplying the world’s largest number of bikes.
According to a statistical report, round about 55.4 million bikes are sold in China. China is known to be among the list of the major exporters of bikes to the Asia Pacific and U.S markets and is considered as the largest producer of bikes as compared to them.
China is under the influence of its two largest growing bike startups that have risen in terms of profits within days of each other. It has been claimed that one of them has an exceptional valuation of $500 million. According to news, from a start-up named OFO in Beijing, Didi has earned up to $100 million from global firms and thus has provided the company with at least half a billion dollars in the last two years. Mobike has raised $100 million from Asian-based investors. Fundraising is high for companies particularly at the stage of their development which increases their value later.


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One year on from APP's commitment to zero deforestation, corporate clients are starting to return
Any business that has been targeted by Greenpeace for supporting deforestation in its supply chain will know the issue is not something to be taken lightly - the global campaign group has a habit of making...
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GameStop Corporation GME put on sale Tuesday the latest consoles from Sony Corporation SNE and Microsoft Corporation MSFT but soon exhausted the “very limited” stock.
What Happened: Gaming Twitter account Wario64 gave out information to the online-only stock on Tuesday.
The information was later confirmed by GameStop through a tweet.
New consoles alert -- A limited number of PS5 & Xbox Series X console bundles have become available here: https://t.co/DjRiMhmVgI— GameStop (@GameStop) March 9, 2021
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A tweet put out over two hours after by GameStop alerted customers that the company had already sold out the Xbox Series.
Why It Matters: As of press time, both the consoles were marked “Out of Stock” on the game retailer’s website.
On Tuesday, Target Corporation TGT was reported to have both the disc and digital editions of PS5 in stock but those too were sold out, the Verge reported.
There have been shortages of PS5 consoles since the day the device was launched in Japan in November.
The shortages have not dissuaded Sony from launching the console in new markets such as China. Sony sold 4.5 million PS5 units last year.
Price Action: GameStop shares closed almost 26.9% higher at $246.90 on Tuesday and rose 5.71% in the after-hours session to $261.01.
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Lawyers of the fast food chain launch probe into activities of separatist entrepreneurs
The McDonald's fast food chain said its lawyers were investigating after entrepreneurs in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine started selling hamburgers and fries out of a restaurant that the company shut down two years ago, Reuters reports.
The company pulled out of Luhansk in May 2014 for security reasons after the city was seized by the Russian-backed militant forces.
But since then, the company said, the restaurant premises in Luhansk was unlawfully taken over. Photographs sent to Reuters by a witness showed the restaurant was now open and selling food that looks similar to that served in McDonald's restaurants worldwide.
On the outside of the building, the McDonald's sign had been doctored to leave only the letters "Mc", and the blue-red-and-light blue flag of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic was attached to the roof.
The letters "Mc" and the flag of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic are seen on the roof a building, which before housed a McDonald's restaurant in Luhansk, Ukraine, April 29, 2016. (Reuters Photo/Stringer)
The spokeswoman for McDonald's Ukrainian operation said no one had asked the company if they could re-open the branch in Luhansk.
Reuters journalist could not find out I who was operating the restaurant in Luhansk as people answering the phone at numbers listed for the restaurant said they had no connection to the business.


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The numerous health benefits and home remedies have managed to keep Turmeric in the news. More recently, the yellow spice, often used in curries, has gained quite a reputation because of its immunity-boosting quality during the coronavirus pandemic. India’s Union Health Ministry and other Ayurvedic practitioners recommended consuming some amount of turmeric daily for better post-COVID management.
Turmeric is a product of Curcuma longa, a plant belonging to the ginger family. Turmeric’s medicinal properties are usually derived from a compound called curcumin. Several studies have found that curcumin, which is the yellow pigment in turmeric, has a wide range of health properties.
As the world tries to get hold of the yellow spice, let’s take a look at the vast spectrum of health benefits and some common myths linked to turmeric or haldi.


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AMV pitched against AKQA, Tullo Marshall Warren, Big Mouth Media and the incumbent on the business, McCann Manchester.
AMV handles digital communications in-house in an operation headed by Charlie Cannell. Its i-Chameleon digital venture was merged back into the main agency, dropping the brand name, several months ago.
The agency already handles Sainsbury's Finance above the line, while TMW handles its direct marketing account.
AMV will now be briefed with creating digital advertising campaigns, as well as web build projects, for the company's seven core products.
Jan Cutting, the head of customer acquisition at Sainsbury's Finance, said: "We are very excited by the ideas presented by AMV." Farah Ramzan Golant, AMV's chief executive, said: "This is a great win for us against big competition."


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Aug. 24, 2017 | By Stone Tillotson
Counterfeit and compromised parts are increasingly making their way into the consumer supply chain. A research security team from Ben-Gurion University recently published a paper detailing how cell phones, tablets, laptops, and others are easy targets for compromised parts. The proliferation of on-the-go devices has led to a growth industry in pop-up fix-it shops, offering everything from replacement-screens-while-you-wait to near rebuilds. These shops exhibit wide variation in quality, but most alarmingly, they usually do not possess the capability for in-depth supply chain verification. This gap allows replacement parts containing malicious driver code, once installed, to interface directly at a system level, thus bypassing the usual security and code signing requirements for accessories. Malicious parts may not even need privilege escalation or to exploit the rest of the phone to wreak havoc. A compromised touch screen alone would be sufficient to capture a majority of user activity and without displaying any signs of doing so. A compromised user would often be helpless in even identifying that such a compromise has taken place.
IISP Analyst Stone Tillotson: "Racing home, you're desperate to check your front door. After getting excellent service during a lock-out, a casual internet search revealed your locksmith to be a convicted burglar, your new flatscreen foremost on your mind...
That's the scenario we face with replacement parts, but then, which new locksmith will you call for peace of mind? The invasiveness and cryptic nature of attacks like this make them incredibly difficult to detect. The military has been confronting this for years now, but this problem is only recently making its way into the consumer world. Even vendors which attempt to lock down their supply chains have the occasional misstep. Readily breakable glass screens, probably the typical cell user's biggest headache, are the biggest facilitator and the lack of widespread, affordable device servicing by manufacturers is the next. Resolving either of these would put a huge dent in the viability of this attack vector. Perhaps with device driver verification and signing, it could be even more diminished. Nevertheless, these kinds of attacks are predicated on a willing user handing over a device with security needs to an unknown party for the express purpose of physical access, and as the adage goes: With physical access, there is no security."
A co-author of the Ben-Gurion project, Yossi Oren, will be at Georgia Tech on Sept. 13 to present his findings to doctoral students.
For further reading
- Research Paper, Ben-Gurion University: https://iss.oy.ne.ro/Shattered
- ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/a-repair-shop-could-completely-hack-your-phone-and-you-wouldnt-know-it/
- U.S. Government Accountability Office: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-213T
- Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpyevp/ibm-malware-usb-drives-storwize


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Italian ceramic machinery sets off for China
Italian ceramic technology will once again be in the spotlight from 29 May to 1 June in Guangzhou for the 27th Ceramics China, the sector's most important exhibition in Asia. A major showcase for international businesses, the event will extend over an 80,000 square metre area in the Canton Fair Complex, where the Italian ceramic machinery and equipment producers will be hosted in a joint pavilion coordinated by Acimac and the Italian Trade Commission, ICE.
The Italian delegation will include leading companies such as Air Power, Bongioanni, BMR, Capaccioli, CMF Technology, Colorobbia - Industrie Bitossi, LB, Manfredini & Schianchi, Setec, Siti-B&T Group, System and Tecnoferrari. Other companies will be taking part outside the joint pavilion, including Sacmi Group, Intesa, Smaltochimica, SRS, Tecnografica, TCK, Mectiles, Plastorgomma, Lamberti, Sibelco, Vetriceramici and Inkside.
At the Acimac stand visitors will be able to pick up the special Chinese issue of the magazine Ceramic World Review with its extensive coverage of new digital tile decoration technologies, a topic that is in the spotlight at this edition of Ceramics China.
Alongside the latest-generation technologies, the Italian presence at the exhibition will also be marked by two outstanding initiatives organised by Acimac and ICE on the first day of the show, 29 May. In the afternoon there will be a seminar on the theme of digital decoration, where Intesa (Gruppo Sacmi), Siti B&T Group-Projecta, Durst e Tecnoferrari, will give detailed presentations discussing the development of the technology. Then, at 7.30 in the evening, the Foshan New Media Park will host the Italian Design and Technology Night, a convivial event where Chinese ceramic producers will have a chance to enjoy Italian taste, flavours and design.
During the evening, the Acimac China Design Award will be presented to Chinese ceramic companies that have excelled in the production of ceramic tiles using Italian technology.


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Summit Broadband appoints new CEOSummit Broadband appoints new CEO
Kurt Van Wagenen has been named CEO of Summit Broadband, a portfolio company of Grain Management. #pressrelease
June 5, 2023
ORLANDO, Fla. – Summit Broadband ("Summit" or the "Company"), a leading fiber-optics telecommunications provider in Florida, today announces Kurt Van Wagenen as CEO. Summit is a portfolio company of Grain Management, LLC ("Grain"), Washington, D.C.-based investment firm and solutions provider to the global broadband industry.
Kurt Van Wagenen is a 30-year-veteran of the telecommunications industry with a background in corporate strategy and integration; engineering and operations; and consumer sales and service. Prior to joining Summit, he was President, CEO and Board Chair of FirstLight Fiber. Van Wagenen is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Summit has been a fixture in the Florida community for nearly 30 years. Through its ongoing development initiatives, the company continues to expand its reach through strategic and organic growth channels, serving multiple industries and communities across Florida.
Read the full press release here.
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The farmer who found the egg was eating with 12 pals - including some battery chicken
farmers - who were attending a wedding in the area.
A FARMER whose stock was wiped out by foot and mouth allegedly tried to fiddle compensation so he could build a battery chicken
unit, a court heard yesterday.
Even in France they can boast Edith `All Englishmen are homosexual' Cresson (who perhaps resembles a battery chicken
run riot in a black lace factory but still looks better than Theresa Gorman).
Considering the lack of paper work and health checks the only really memorable incident was when Tommy Smith allowed daylight to enter a battery chicken
farm building and caused a riot with the chickens.
The treatment of animals in most Muslim countries may actually be far more humane than what goes on in the average British slaughter house or battery chicken
I appreciate that not everybody will have the same level of care in an institution that treats thousands of people a month, but to say that her husband died like a battery chicken
is over-egging the pudding somewhat.
The print on the box described it thus: "Bland battery chicken
and glutinous rice scantly covered in a few spices and artificial ingredients, not made to an authentic Indian recipe.
They will get on and they will be treated as a proper and appreciated client, not just a big three battery chicken
More and more consumers are concerned about welfare improvements in local farming as well as the ecological and health impacts of using battery chicken
Indeed, Harry Wallop, the UK Daily Telegraph's consumer affairs correspondent, was quoted earlier this year for his prediction that ready-to-wear "disposable fashion will go the way of the battery chicken
& quot;: consumers just won't stomach it.
It's rather like serving your own wonderful home-grown veg with a battery chicken
that never saw daylight.
These days, TV chefs don't just cook on television, many of them also highlight issues related to their craft and, in the case of Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, have gone to great lengths to campaign on issues including school dinners and the conditions found in battery chicken


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Nissan is reportedly going to preview the successor to the current 370Z at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show.
Nissan is reportedly going to preview the successor to the current 370Z at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. The preview is likely to be a concept car, but it will preview the next Z, which will be “smaller and lighter” according to Nissan development chief Andy Palmer.
The concept version will likely feature an electric powertrain, but the production version will have a traditional gas powered engine, but an electric version could be a possibility. The next Z will also continue to offer a high-performance Nismo version as well.
Speaking about the Toyota GT86/ Scion FR-S, Palmer said that he doesn’t want to position the next Z as a competitor to Toyota’s rear-wheel-drive coupe. Instead he wants it to be a “next generation sports car.” His goal is for the next Z to be the poster model for the next generation of car fans.
“Kids in the UK are no longer taking their driving test,” he said, “and we have to energize those kids. The car has been demonized to them, so we have to find a new way to recall them.”


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Markets are buzzing about the recent news that appeared on the media – some of the reports stated that Chinese tech giant Tencent is planning to invest in Ripple. Is China’s Tencent Ripple Partnership news true? Now, market participants are sending mixed messages. However, the company did not confirm the news yet.
16 March, AtoZForex – Numerous online reports claim that recent speculation about Tencent’s investment in Ripple might end up being the speculation in reality. According to the Tencent, the company has no upcoming plans for the collaboration and investment in Ripple. Some of the online reports quote the officials of Tencent denying the news.
Is China’s Tencent Ripple Partnership news true?
Initially, the news about Tencent denying the upcoming Ripple investment came from China. The Chinese website view.inews.qq.com appeared to be the first to bring the news to the public. The tweet from journalist Lulu Yilun Chen, stated the following:
“#Tencent PR just denied the company has any interest to invest in #Ripple. So much for the 2 min hype.”
Just some days ago market was speculating that Tencent is planning to invest in Ripple. It is known that the speculation was about the Chinese tech company considering the investment of up to 2 billion dollars in Ripple. The rumours also mentioned that Tencent would buy major stakes in Ripple. In fact, this Chinese tech giant already holds stakes in popular companies like Tesla, Snapchat and Spotify.
The community of Ripple investors have shared a mix of reactions in regards to this news. Some of the investors suspected that the market has been manipulated in order to lower the prices and then buy the XRP by so-called market “whales.” Other suggested that it is important to pay attention to the news’ details:
“Peeps need to understand that there is xcurrent, xvia and xrapid, all are different. When you hear a ‘ripple partners with….’ please read about what the partnership is for”
Tencent Looks into utilizing Ripple for Wechat?
In addition, on the popular forum reddit, users seem to warn each other not to believe “Tencent Partnership” news without any official confirmation from the company representatives. Some of the users argue that the idea behind the investment would have been to combat the competition on mobile payments by utilizing Ripple technology into its messaging application Wechat.
As of the moment, the market is still buzzing about the Tencent Ripple Partnership news. However, we are still waiting for the official confirmation from the Tencent.
Think we missed something? Let us know in the comments section below.


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Epic CEO Admits The Truth About Epic Games Store
It's no secret that gaming giants like Epic Games and Microsoft have recently been gathering exclusive titles under their belts. However, for the most part, the numbers behind the acquisitions have been kept under lock and key. Now, due to the current court battle between Epic Games and Apple, fans have an idea of just how much money Epic Games has spent on the free titles its storefront offers — and how that has not paid off, just yet.
Read more on: newsbreak.com


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In just Additive Manufacturing, which happens to be one of its five major areas of focus, the company has not only added some 7 to 8 new customers in India over the past six months, but is also actively looking at foraying into markets outside India.
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, in just four years since Wipro began building it, seems to be gearing up for the next leap ahead. Consider this: In just Additive Manufacturing, which happens to be one of its five major areas of focus – the others being hydraulics, water treatment, aerospace, automation solutions – the company has not only added some 7 to 8 new customers in India over the past six months, taking the total number to 25, but is also actively looking at foraying into markets outside India.
Speaking to Business Today, Pratik Kumar, CEO, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering says: In additive manufacturing, we have expanded our customer footprint in India and feel it is time for us to also look beyond India and get a foothold in some of the more prominent markets in additive manufacturing such as Europe and the US.
Elaborating on the options, he says, “We are planning to build our sales presence as well as make a foray into Europe or US markets, using the inorganic growth route. Even if these are not large scale companies, considering this to be an emerging area, we are hopeful that in the next nine to 12 months, we should be able to get into overseas markets as well”. Explaining why it makes sense to seek a foothold outside India, he says, “because there is a larger market out there and it is more mature.” There is apparently a lot for all players along the value chain – be it the manufacturers or service providers like Wipro Infrastructure.
Foray Into Industrial Automation Solutions
What also seems to be exciting people at Wipro Infrastructure is its new baby – its latest foray into industrial automation. In just six months into the business, it is taking serious strides. G Sundararaman, company’s senior vice president and head, automation solutions says, the automation solutions space is highly fragmented with niche solution providers and there are few reputed, organised corporate players offering an integrated suite of offerings in the automation space, which is a good reason Wipro wants to make a dent here. Ask the goal-oriented Pratik Kumar on the target here and he says, “We want to emerge as one among the top players in the next three years.” On the key attraction at the moment for it in India, he says, is the fact that productivity is still low in the country and labour costs are constantly going up.
The company is building a partnership ecosystem for automation products with automation product companies like Mitsubishi and others. And then, as this space requires, follow it up by binding the products to an ecosystem and to deliver the overall solution. The end goal being apparently to help industry improve efficiency, productivity and ensure cost reduction. It is looking to include some players from the pharmaceutical sector, auto and auto- ancillary players apart from the FMCG space. In just about six months, efforts have gone into putting in place a core team, bringing experts from the industry, establishing the partnership eco-system. It has already announced one with Mitsubishi but apparently is in dialogue with others though Pratik Kumar would not name anyone. Plus, it has been holding multiple pilots for several organisations. To get an early head start here, Kumar says, the company is open to the idea of taking the inorganic growth route.
Wipro Infrastructure, which has targets to attain half a billion dollar business in a year from now, is perhaps a company to watch from the Wipro fold. – Business Today


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HFactor (www.hfactorwater.com), the first-to-market functional water that caters to the health, wellness and lifestyle challenges and needs of today’s active consumers, announced its e-commerce expansion into online retail giant, Jet.com. HFactor captures and harnesses the power of enriched molecular hydrogen, which, based upon voluminous scientific research conducted over the last decade in more than a dozen countries, has unprecedented and unrivaled antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, muscular performance and recovery benefits. Sourced and packaged in the United States, HFactor comes in a specially-designed four-layer pouch, which keeps the hydrogen contained, ensuring the product’s purity and efficacy.
"Jet.com is another key retail partner and will further aid consumer awareness and access within the e-commerce space," notes Gail Levy, Founder and CEO of HFactor. "While we greatly value our brick and mortar partners, we recognize that some consumers prioritize friction-less online transactions, an area of efficiency where Jet.com continues to excel."
This announcement comes on the heels of HFactor’s entrance into GIANT Food Stores nationwide. HFactor, a premium product that was specifically developed for multi-channel mass distribution, is currently available at more than 1,100 retail stores, including GNC, 7-11 and CIBO Express, as well as influential independent health & wellness retailers and on Amazon.com. Jet.com will be the third online retailer to offer HFactor, alongside Amazon.com and HFactor’s own website. HFactor’s hydro-packs will be available for purchase as a 6-pack or a 24-pack under the grocery category on Jet.com.
Founded in 2013, HFactor is the first functional water supercharged with the documented benefits of hydrogen – a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. HFactor is naturally infused with hydrogen to provide refreshing hydration plus therapeutic benefits for fitness, health and lifestyle recovery and wellness. It comes in a carry-anywhere pouch that optimizes the integrity and pureness of its hydrogen content, which is created without additional chemicals or magnesium. Sourced and packaged in the United States, HFactor is a premium product that was specifically developed for multi-channel mass distribution. Currently, HFactor is available at more than 1,100 retail stores, including GNC, GIANT Food Stores and CIBO Express, as well as influential independent health & wellness retailers, and on the HFactor website and on Amazon.com. www.hfactorwater.com


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OAKLAND — Even ghosts and ghouls can’t resist a little merriment this election year.
If you’re thinking of poking some Halloween fun at this year’s presidential candidates, stop by Piedmont Avenue Pumpkin Patch where you can find Hillary Clinton masks, Donald Trump sunglasses and, for a truly out-of-body experience, her and his presidential playing cards.
It’s the 21st Halloween bash for the Piedmont Avenue Pumpkin Patch — which has come a long way since it first set up shop more than 20 years ago at the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Pleasant Valley Road, where Il Piedmonte apartments are now located.
“We’ve run our pumpkin patch since 1996,” said Jon Goldstein, who co-owns the business with Robbin Lee. “Kids who came here when we first opened are now bringing their own kids.”
The pumpkin patch moved across the street after the apartments were built and is now located beside J. Miller Flowers — which Lee owns with her sister Valerie Lee Ow — and has added a haunted house and Halloween store to the mix.
Montclair resident Meghan Boots was looking for pumpkins this past Saturday with her 4-year-old son Dexter Brown, who toted a Golden State Warriors T-shirt, but plans to be Batman for Halloween.
“I like that there’s lots of pumpkins and skeletons,” said Brown, who chose one of the mini pumpkins to take home.
Boots said the Piedmont Avenue patch is convenient and “just Dexter’s speed.”
“It’s like a gift to the community,” Boots said. “There’s no need to drive an hour to Half Moon Bay to look for pumpkins, especially with a little kid.”
It’s not a huge patch, but there’s a big choice, everything from traditional Jack O’ Lanterns and good-for-baking Sugar Pie pumpkins, to gnarly Goosebumps and exotic Turban Squash varieties.
Jonah Voyageur, 7, was fresh from a game with the Flaming Dragons, his Montclair Soccer Club team. He’s planning to be a ring-tailed mongoose for Halloween this year.
“My mom makes my costumes,” said Voyageur, who was admiring some glittery spider rings in the Halloween store and “just looking for fun things.”
Voyageur stopped short of a visit to the haunted house, which operates under the watchful eye of the mysterious new Ivy Monster, which, according to rumor, crept over the next-door neighbor’s fence to be part of the fun.
Not to be a scaremonger, but the haunted house will give you a jolt, especially if you’ve forgotten to pick up your morning Java. Not to worry, though.
“We have a scary and not-so-scary haunted house,” said Goldstein, a sound engineer by trade, who designed and created the chilly villa. “For the little ones, we turn on all the lights and turn off the scary noises.”
Watch out, though, for that beatific Mona Lisa at the entrance to the haunted house. She’s about to morph into something a little less sweet. And that crib full of “babies” — don’t call me when you need a sitter.
The Halloween shop, a fun-packed alleyway that leads from the avenue into the outdoor Pumpkin Patch, is crammed with everything from gravedigger and baby elephant costumes, “Game of Thrones” and Pokémon accessories, Miss Piggy and Dory face masks, ghosts galore and even doggy skeletons — a friendly nod to the store’s “greeters,” Lee’s mini dachshunds, aptly named Pumpkin and Blondie.
“They’re the real stars of the show,” Lee said.
More surprises are in store for Halloween adventurers, according to Goldstein.
“Next weekend, Oct. 15 and 16, we’ll have a raffle for tickets to Disney On Ice ‘Passport to Adventure,’” Goldstein said. “There’ll be prizes for shows in Oakland and San Jose.”
Stop by for a meet-and-greet with friendly — and not-so-friendly — ghosts and ghouls, daily through Oct. 31.
What: Piedmont Avenue Pumpkin Patch
Where: 4414 Piedmont Ave., Oakland
Hours: Open daily, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., through Oct. 31
Information: www.PumpkinPatch.info or 510-967-9363


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Catholic churchmen call on international community to help save the Amazon rainforest
As wildfires continue on their path of destruction through the Amazon rainforest, Catholic bishops from Latin America have called on the international community to take measures to save the “lung of the world.”
In a letter titled “We raise our Voice for the Amazon,” leaders of CELAM , the coordinating body of Latin American bishops’ conferences, emphasized that the fires should be of concern to the entire world.
The appeal emphasized “the seriousness of this tragedy, whose impact is not merely local, or even regional, but planetary in scale.” According to a Tablet report, the bishops wrote:
“Amazonia is a region rich in biodiversity, it is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious, a mirror of humanity which, to defend life, calls for structural and personal changes from all human beings, states, and the Church. This situation goes beyond the sphere of the Church in the Amazon because it addresses the universal Church and the future of the whole planet…What happens in the Amazon is not a local matter, but has global reach. If the Amazon suffers, the world suffers.”
According to a CNN report, environmental organizations and researchers are attributing the environmental disaster to the actions of rangers and loggers who intentionally lit fires to clear the land.
“The vast majority of these fires are human-lit,” said Christian Poirier, the program director of non-profit organization Amazon Watch, reported CNN.
The consequences could have an irrevocable effect on the planet, according to environmental activists. The Amazon rainforest is said to produce 20% of the world’s oxygen, and its loss would increase carbon production and contribute to climate change.
The bishops’ appeal was signed by by CELAM President Miguel Cabral, Archbishop of Trujillo, Peru, and the two vice-presidents, Cardinal Odilo Scherer, archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil, and Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua.
The disaster comes months before Pope Francis’ planned October Amazon Synod, as the bishops note in their letter:
“The hopes raised by the Amazon synod called by Pope Francis are now dimmed by the pain of this natural tragedy. To our brothers and sisters of the indigenous peoples who live in this beloved territory we express our closeness and unite our voices with theirs to cry out to the world for solidarity and prompt attention to halt this devastation.


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Speaking at the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ annual conference last week Clive Briault, manager of retail markets at the FSA, told delegates that as well as delving into the sub-prime sector, lifetime mortgages were near the top of the list as a priority ‘higher risk’ area.
He says: “We will be paying particular attention to these products within our work on financial promotions and product disclosure.
“I know that the CML has been doing good work with lenders who offer these products to raise standards ahead of regulation.”
Dean Mirfin, business development director at Key Retirement Solutions, says: “I certainly think lifetime mortgages is an area that needs some scrutiny, purely because it hasn’t been looked at before. It’s an area that needs to be properly understood and we would welcome the investigation.


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As online store changes, bargains made on-line are becoming progressively more virtual and remote. In fact , offers made web based are not actually linked to the items being acquired or the cash to be paid. In fact , remote deals have been around for as long as the phone, wire money transfers, and automated share markets. They involve https://technoonline.net/paperless-board-meeting-software-for-secure-communications/ distant occasions and opaque layers of intermediaries. The Trade Cops is one of this trend. However , the Trade Cops is not yet ready to begin patrolling on-line deals.
As of last year, net sales accounted for a lot more than $5. 5 billion in total consumer spending this trip shopping time of year. Adobe estimates that consumers spent a total of $3. 4 billion during the weekend and Wednesday. Nevertheless, only 0. 5% of those consumers found very much online. The reason behind this low achievement charge is that customers cannot differentiate a good deal coming from a bad you. The upside of internet deals is that companies would prefer sell 12 substandard offers than a single decent a single.


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Man carrying umbrella triggers Va. mall manhunt
"It definitely was an assault rifle," the guard said. Dozens swarmed and evacuated the mall during a failed 10-hour search
By Amanda Codispoti
The Roanoke Times
ROANOKE, Va. — Both 911 calls reporting a man with a rifle at Valley View Mall in Roanoke were from security officers at the retail complex — one relaying a secondhand report, the other watching a 40-minute-old surveillance video, according to emergency call recordings. The first call, from a mall guard at 5:05 p.m. Monday, reported that another mall worker had seen a man with "a big assault rifle."
The second call, at 5:37 p.m., was from a Macy's loss prevention detective, who breathlessly told a police dispatcher, "It definitely was an assault rifle." The calls sent dozens of city and state police swarming the mall and prompted an evacuation and a failed 10-hour search of the region's largest shopping complex.
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The Fort Scott Aquatic Center will open at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, June 22nd, 2020.
Due to COVID-19 and extra precautions put into place, there will be NO pool passes sold in 2020.
There will also be NO locker rental.
Credit card purchases will NOT be allowed.
Gift card purchases will NOT be allowed.
Daily passes and concessions will be sold on a cash basis ONLY.
There will be NO flotation devices allowed.
There will not be any deck chairs set out.
Patrons of the pool may bring their own deck chairs for their use and take with them when they leave.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please call City Hall at 223-0550 if you have questions.


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Today in mobile marketing – ESPN to launch over-the-top sports service after Disney’s $1B investment in MLB’s BAMTech; Snapchat versus Instagram: Which app will rule once and for all?; The White House’s new Facebook Messenger bot makes it easy to send a message to Obama; From download to deposit, mobile banking only as safe as your app.
Articles Tagged ‘mobile banking’
Following a successful trial of voice security technology, Barclays is now rolling it out to all customers, enabling them to avoid passwords for added convenience.
First National Bank of Pennsylvania is optimizing its banking services for mobile with a new application that allows clients to receive push notifications regarding account activity and approve time-sensitive fund transfers for their organizations.
Financial services brand USAA has rolled out a new feature within its mobile application enabling consumers to leverage voice commands to complete tasks such as depositing a check and transferring funds, a tool that will be beneficial for visually impaired users.
TD Bank has launched a complete renovation of its mobile application for iOS that brings in Touch ID, more banking capabilities, such as scheduling recurring transfers, and a brand new navigation interface with intuitive power.
NEW YORK – A Citibank executive at Forrester’s CXNYC 2016 detailed how the bank sought to determine all the pain points for customers and discovered a need for payment account setup on mobile, which quickly accounted for 35 percent of signups after the fix.
Chase is boosting the mobile capabilities of its peer-to-peer payment program to gain traction against PayPal and others with new features such as real-time transfers.
While the five largest banks in the United States continue to race forward in mobile banking, including all offering pre-login account balance information, Bank of America has pulled far ahead in product research and cross-selling on mobile, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
Mobile banking is struggling to grow in the United States compared to other countries as millennial and Gen X customers focus on the quality of a bank’s application when deciding where to do business, according to a new report from Adobe.
Capital One continues to extend the reach of a new mobile-first credit monitoring service, CreditWise, by bringing it to Android users as the financial organization prioritizes anytime, anyplace interactive services.


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For all those shoppers who feel chocolate bars, cartons of drink, toilet rolls and countless other products have been getting smaller, now comes official confirmation.
Renewables will be able to provide more of the UK's energy when companies are able to store it more efficiently. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA.
Tesco is launching a same-day delivery service across the UK to compete with online retail giant Amazon. The UK's biggest supermarket chain already allows customers in London and the South East to order groceries for same-day delivery.
Chris Grayling: 'I am a supporter of Crossrail 2 but given its price tag we have to ensure that we get this right.' Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock.
Budget airline Ryanair says it has made a "non-binding offer" for loss-making Italian carrier Alitalia. In May, Alitalia filed to be put into special administration for the second time since 2008.


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Trump’s targeting of Vietnam is misguided
Vietnam is increasingly caught up in Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies. The culprit is its trade surplus with the US — on track to reach $50bn this year. In June the US president berated the country for treating it “even worse” than China on trade, and imposed huge tariffs on some of its steel imports. Vietnam responded, like China and the EU before it, by committing to increased purchases of US goods. This commitment was reiterated again recently while Hanoi also joined the US in banning Huawei from supplying 5G telecoms equipment.Yet unlike these vast $13-14tn economies Vietnam is a $240bn economy with per capita income just two-fifths of that in China. Subjecting Vietnam to the same arbitrary US trade policies as larger, richer economies with more capacity to respond must be avoided. Export growth across Asia has collapsed this year amid the ongoing US-China trade spat and weaker global growth. Vietnam is an exception. Exports have continued to increase, albeit more slowly than last year. Components such as phones, computers and electronics, have all recorded strong growth and exports to the US, long Vietnam’s top trade partner, have outperformed. Yet despite the steady rise in Vietnam’s export capacity over the past decade it still accounts for less than 3 per cent of US imports, far below the 17.5 per cent from China. Worries over relabelling of goods to avoid tariffs is a legitimate concern which Vietnam has pledged to address. It is also the stated reason for the steel tariffs of up to 456 per cent announced in July. The US believes steel is being rerouted through Vietnam to avoid anti-dumping measures imposed on Taiwanese and Korean steel. Cambodia has also come under fire, with the US fining several companies for relabelling goods to avoid Chinese tariffs.Punishing Vietnam for unfair trade practices is ill-judged. Firstly, Vietnam’s ability to circumvent US tariffs on Chinese goods is limited by the vast difference in the scale of exports. US imports from China dropped by around 12 per cent so far this year but remain seven times those from Vietnam. There is also disagreement over the extent to which the goods imported are subject to tariffs. An often cited example is a sharp increase in Vietnam’s exports of mobile phones to the US. Mobile phones are only subject to US tariffs from December 15. Secondly, the recent jump in China’s exports to Vietnam also runs into a scale issue. China is increasingly exporting computers and electrical components to Vietnam, but by much more than Vietnam’s exports to the US have increased. Vietnam’s ongoing economic development is vital context. The country is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia during the past decade, after China and India. Since joining the WTO in 2007 foreign investment has surged, particularly in the export sector, infrastructure has improved and labour is in ample supply. Vietnam has also signed a number of trade deals to boost its export-led growth model. Internal dynamics in China also matter. Rising wages have eroded competitiveness and multinationals are increasingly considering adding capacity elsewhere. Vietnam is unlikely to be the last country targeted. US tariffs against Japan in the 1980s and its use of more than 2,000 trade remedies to counter perceived unfair trade practices over the past 45 years point to a penchant for protectionism. Mr Trump appears to be working his way down the list of the US’s largest bilateral trade deficits where Vietnam ranks fifth. India, in eighth place, lost its preferential access to the US market in June. Malaysia could be the next target.


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I`ve said it once and I`m saying it again: the upcoming Insignia lineup is said to offer to best design, interior details and extremely potent engines under the hood, in all its forms, be it the Insignia standard version Grand Sport or the recently spied Sport Tourer.
The latter was recently was recently shot down by spy photographers from carscoops magazine, the test-mule undergoing some road tests in full camouflage, before ending up in dealerships in December.
Once it will arrive under the GM`s badges – Opel, Holden, Vauxhall and Buick – the new Insignia Sport Tourer will come with some new styling design that will bring it closer to the new Insignia standard version.
We are looking here with a sloping roofline, updated front and rear bumpers, new headlights and taillights and fresh wheels.
Another important aspect of the Insignia Sport Tourer will be the new architecture – the E2 from GM – which will shed off around 175 kg and will make it more high-performance than the previous generation. As a contradiction, this will also add 9cm to the wheelbase, which will make it visibly larger in dimensions.
Under the hood, the new platform will allow the fitting of new engines, one of the most important ones being the new 2.0-liter gasoline engine with 247 horsepower, which sends the power to all axles via an eight-speed automatic gearbox, set as standard.
Other engines also include the 1.5-liter turbo petrol, found on the same entry-level variants, adding a wide choice of diesels. The full details will arrive in December, just before Christmas time!


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Apple's App Store, iTunes store and other services were back online Wednesday afternoon after a DNS error crippled them for much of the day.
The services went offline at around 2 a.m. PT and were unavailable until just after 1 p.m. PT, according to Apple's status page. Its iBooks store and Mac App store were also affected, as well as its iCloud service, though that was out for only four hours.
Many customers were unable to make purchases while the services were down, meaning it may have cost Apple millions of dollars in lost revenue.
"We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning," Apple told cable network CNBC earlier. "The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. We're working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience."


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A little slice of the Midwest is coming to Glendale.
On Friday, the Greyhound, with its Great Lakes-style wings and beer, will launch its second location, this one in the Wine Vault building on South Brand Boulevard.
While the new location — under six floors of wine storage at 933 S. Brand — inspired the owners of the Highland Park-born sports bar to offer an elevated wine list (and oysters), co-partner Steve Williams said the new spot will retain the original spot’s casual neighborhood vibe.
“We do a concept and a service that is very approachable,” said Williams. “It’s a place people can go to three or four times a week.”
Most of the food offerings ring distinctly “comfort” and mirror the flagship location’s menu, which includes burgers, fish and chips, pizza and signature chicken wings. It reflects the down-home Midwestern origins of co-partner Matt Glassman, who founded the restaurant, Williams said.
What sets the Greyhound’s wings apart is a conscious choice to use smaller wings, according to Williams.
That increases what he described as the “sauce-to-meat” ratio.
“I don’t think most people would say that the rubbery meat on the inside is the best part of the wing,” Williams said. “The wing is just a vessel to get the sauce into your mouth.”
Despite the Midwest ethos, the Greyhound’s teams are local.
“What a great way to kick off the Dodger’s post-season,” said Jennifer Hiramoto, Glendale’s assistant director of economic development, who said she’s excited to see activity along Brand’s so-called “Boulevard of Cars.”
Philip Lanzafame, the city’s director of community development, agreed it’s good to see dining and entertainment options seep into neighborhoods and commercial areas where there’s less of a concentration of options.
“There’s lot of people who live around there and a lot of people who work around there,” Lanzafame said. “So we do want amenities to be spread out, so people [across the city] can take advantage of them.”
Instead of explicitly choosing Glendale, Williams said Glassman and fellow co-partner Ryan Julio were drawn to the 3,300-square-foot space, which happened to be where they stored their wine.
When the pair inquired about leasing the ground floor, it so happened that a catering business occupying half of it was looking for an exit.
That space has housed several restaurants over the years, including now-shuttered Cinnabar, Lanzafame said.
Acknowledging that Glendale is in many ways different from Highland Park, Williams said the local location will be a test of the restaurant’s adaptability.
“We’re ready to mold to what the neighborhood wants us to be,” he said.


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Samsung has officially announced it will host a Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday, August 23, 2017. The invitation for the event is pretty straightforward with what it’s going to announce: showing a border with no bezels on the sides, and minimal bezels on the top and bottom, with the phrase “Do bigger things” inside. There’s also a blue stylus, just in case the hint wasn’t clear enough.
Earlier this year, Samsung launched the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ to plenty of praise from both owners and reviewers. But now a lot of attention has been placed on the back half of 2017, when Samsung is expected to launch the followup to last year’s Galaxy Note 7.
This year will likely see the arrival of the Galaxy Note 8, which should cruise along with plenty of the momentum that the Galaxy S8 brought Samsung earlier this year but also add a few new tricks for good measure. For those of you out there who have been waiting to hear when Samsung will announce the newest flagship phone, the wait is over.
So, August 23 is when we’ll see the Galaxy Note 8 unveiled. Are you looking forward to it?


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|Turkey and ... Beer?|
The Brewer's Association launched a website, Beer and Turkey, that helps consumers pair craft brews with different Thanksgiving staples.
|Sources: Brewers Association, Ad Age "research"|
Trade groups as diverse as the Brewers Association (a consortium of craft-beer makers) and the Loire Valley Wine Bureau are centering their marketing efforts around claims that their beverages provide the perfect pairing for the most mainstream of meals, which -- unlike New Year's Eve (champagne) and Christmas (red wine) -- isn't already dominated by a particular drink.
"The opportunity is huge," said Julia Herz, marketing director at the Brewers Association. "Nobody is entrenched in Thanksgiving; it's anybody's choice [what they want to drink]."
To capitalize on that, the Brewers Association last year launched Beer and Turkey, a website devoted to informing consumers how best to pair beers with their Thanksgiving meal (and helping its occasionally marketing-challenged membership make the same point with customizable press releases).
Bigger palates, bottles
The site's recommended pairings include Oktoberfests or brown ales with turkey, pilsners with mashed potatoes or creamed corn, and amber ales with holiday seasonings such as sage. It also recommends buying larger-format bottles -- preferably the 750-millileter size associated with wine -- which are easier to share around a table.
The brewers also claim beer was part of the original Thanksgiving. "The pilgrims were beer drinkers," Ms. Herz said.
The message appears to be sinking in. Last year, the first of the promotion, saw craft-beer sales jump 13.3% during the two weeks surrounding Thanksgiving, according to Information Resources Inc.
It is unlikely the pilgrims had much exposure to Loire cabernet franc, but area vintners are pushing their midweight, herbaceous, fruity wines as ideal pairings for the Thanksgiving Day meal: light enough not to overwhelm the turkey but robust enough not to be overwhelmed by the often more-flavorful side dishes.
Sipping in person
Lacking the funds for a media blitz, the Loire has focused on influencing media by hosting a series of "Thanksgiving dinners" at posh restaurants in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Washington, Boston and, this year, Chicago, where a gourmet version of the traditional meal is prepared and paired with a series of cabernets.
The hope is for the wines to end up being recommended in local newspaper or magazine wine columns when the subject of what to serve on Thanksgiving comes up and to raise awareness of Loire wines in general. "It's a tool to illustrate how well these wines pair with food," said a spokeswoman for the Wine Bureau.
While the spokeswoman added that sales of Loire wines have picked up in recent holiday seasons, the Loire cabernet francs have several major commercial obstacles to becoming a widespread Thanksgiving choice. For one, the region lacks the well-known brands that its richer rivals in Bordeaux and Champagne possess, and most of the labels tend to mention the appellation in which the grapes were grown -- usually Chinon or Bourgeuil -- rather than the type of wine. Then there is the inevitable confusion that results when wine novices try to differentiate cabernet franc from its better-known cousin, cabernet sauvignon, typically a much heavier wine.
That, and they're, uh, French.
There's also far from a consensus that cabernet franc is the best wine to pair with Thanksgiving dinner. The influential wine critic Robert Parker suggests red zinfandel, The Wall Street Journal's wine column touts aged American cabernet sauvignon and many other critics point to pinot noir as ideal.


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Shanghai CRED Buys New Zealand Resort, Eyes Chinese TouristsTracy Withers
Shanghai CRED Real Estate Co. has purchased a New Zealand resort hotel as well as an adjacent vineyard and golf course which it plans to develop and promote to wealthy Chinese tourists.
Acquisition of the Peppers Carrington resort at Karikari, about 330 kilometers (205 miles) north of Auckland by road, was completed recently after being approved by the government in July, Shanghai CRED said in an e-mailed statement.
The resort “can provide the sort of holiday experience that high-income Chinese and other international tourists are seeking,” Guo Gui, general manager of Shanghai CRED, said in the statement. His company has been involved with similar properties in China and will promote Carrington through its many tourism contacts, he said.
China is New Zealand’s second-biggest source of tourists after Australia. Spending by Chinese visitors is predicted to surge 55 percent by 2018, according to government forecasts published in August.
Shanghai CRED bought the 1,100-hectare (2,700-acre) property from a U.S.- based owner, it said in the statement. The purchase price was treated as confidential when the Overseas Investment Office granted consent in July, and isn’t being disclosed, Cedric Allan, a New Zealand spokesman for the buyer, said in a telephone interview today.


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Nintendo releases trailer for The Legend of Zelda
The Nintendo Switch games list now includes one of the highest reviewed titles of all time.
The Legend of Zelda on Nintendo Switch has hit new heights following its release on the new console and Wii U.
That’s according to metacritic, which now places the Zelda title among some of the most highly-rated reviewed games ever.
It is now placed in the top 5, behind the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PS) and Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3).
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has an average score of 98 from reviewers, one behind the Ocarina of Time which sits on top with 99.
However, the Nintendo Switch games list isn’t exactly bulging with AAA games currently and this could be critical moving forward for the Japanese company.
This is due to a new prediction that states the Nintendo Switch could sell over 5m units this year and would certainly be near the top of Nintendo's own estimates.
Even though higher-ups at Nintendo have predicted that the Switch could sell as well as the Wii in the long run, the outlook remains cautious for such a unique design hitting the market.
However, analyst firm Superdata has painted quite a rosy picture for Nintendo, saying the main aim will be to convincing gamers that this is a must-have second device to buy.
"The biggest challenge for Nintendo is to convince console gamers to purchase the Switch as a second device, as many have already committed to a PlayStation 4 (53.4m installed base, worldwide) or Xbox One (26m),” The SuperData report states.
“Asking $300 for a new console without a bundled game is a comparatively higher barrier to entry for consumers, considering that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are already discounted and come with a free game.”
But as stated above, Nintendo Switch games will remain the key to some of these objectives moving forward.
The SuperData report also states that while Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be enough to fuel sales this month, new titles will be needed to keep the momentum going toward the holiday season.
This week also saw Nintendo Switch Amazon Pre Orders failing to show for some fans, who have hit social media to reveal their own disappointments.
Tracking codes have failed to materialise, leaving many fans unable to confirm whether they would see their console arrive today, or tomorrow.
Here’s one report from a Reddit user, who got in touch with Amazon customer services after seeing his order was under the dreaded “preparing for shipment,” status.
“Thank you very much Okay, I’m going to be 100% honest with you because I don’t want to give you any false information. We’ve been receiving a lot of contacts about this issue,” The Amazon service advisor is quoted as saying.
“The problem is that all orders for the Nintendo Switch are being a little delayed since we still have not received any of them.
“We are still waiting and they are on their way to our facilities but we don’t have any further information I do want to make it up to you for this inconvenience though So what I can do is this.”
It’s unclear if these problems continue to persist and will likely hear more on Monday when deliveries begin again.
The March 3 release date has been and gone, although most retailers are already out of Nintendo Switch stock.
Nintendo recently told MCV that retailers would have stock available at launch, but in very limited quantities."It’s true pre-orders are very strong but we still expect Nintendo Switch to be available at some retailers on Day One," Nintendo's Nicolas Wegnez explained. "We do expect shipments to steadily come.
"[Pre-orders are] very strong, which is obviously a very encouraging sign, but as we all know this is not a sprint but a marathon, which is why we are so busy preparing strong plans for the months following the launch."
If you haven't already reserved a Nintendo Switch, then Toys R Us is probably your best shot at getting one.
Customers are encouraged to visit local Toys R Us stores today in order to reserve a console for tomorrow.
Of the two stores Express Online contacted, both had Switch consoles available for launch, but we were told that customers would need to reserve immediately.
Nintendo Switch Games, Pre Order and Stock news
We'd advise phoning your local store to find out more.
Elsewhere, a Tesco spokesperson said that "customers should pre-order for the Nintendo Switch", which suggests that stores won't be selling to walk-in customers. The website is still accepting pre-orders, giving an estimated delivery date of March 7.
A GAME representative also told Express Online that the console was out of stock, explaining that pre-orders are currently working in a kind of queue system. Essentially, the earlier you pre-order, the sooner you can potentially get hold of one.
HMV is also working on a pre-order system, and has already sold out ahead of launch.
None of the Sainsbury's stores Express Online contacted had any consoles in stock, but one employee said that the bigger stores might be receiving units. Again, it's worth checking with your local store to be find out.
Express Online is yet to hear from ASDA about walk-in stock, but the website is listing it as sold out.
Amazon is currently sold out, although third-party sellers are bound to start listing consoles from tomorrow. CEX is also likely to receive stock, but you can expect to pay more than the recommended retail price.


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By delivering innovative solutions for our customers we have been able to self-fund organic growth at an industry-leading rate.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2012
UpStream Software, an analytics Software as a Service (SaaS) company specializing in revenue attribution and customer targeting, today announced it has been named one of the Bay Area’s fastest-growing privately held companies of 2012 by the San Francisco Business Times. UpStream earned the ranking #52 based on its revenue from fiscal 2009 to 2011, during which it grew 125% percent.
"By delivering innovative solutions for our customers we have been able to self-fund organic growth at an industry-leading rate," said John Wallace, CEO of UpStream. "This award recognizes the tremendous partnership that we have with our customers and the dedication and hard work of our entire team.”
This acknowledgement follows UpStream Software’s inclusion, for the first time, in the Inc.5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. UpStream is ranked #1429 overall on the 2012 Inc. 5000 and #59 in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers on an annual basis to conduct research and produce the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies List. The list compiles the fastest growing independent and privately-held organizations in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Private firms are ranked by revenue growth from 2009 to 2011.
The rankings appeared in the October 26, 2012 edition of the San Francisco Business Times and were announced at an awards reception on October 24 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
UpStream Software (http://www.upstreamsoftware.com/) is a San Francisco start-up that provides actionable marketing intelligence solutions to multi-channel retailers. UpStream’s technology taps into a retailer’s big data to create a holistic view of each customer’s online and offline activity. Retailers use the cloud-based software to understand their actual ROI for each marketing treatment, and how to optimize going forward.


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There have been many milestones in Eugenia Kim’s expansive career, from iconic celebrity moments and having her designs in films to winning the CFDA Award for Accessories Designer of the Year. Last February, she celebrated yet another one, as she honored two decades of her namesake brand with her 20th-anniversary retrospective, which featured some of her most memorable styles. The celebration continues with the launch of an exclusive capsule of the iconic designs at Barneys.
“I went through 20 years’ worth of product and looked at old Polaroid photos just trying to think of what people would remember me for,” says Kim. “Whether that was Jennifer Lopez at the VMAs wearing my designs or Madonna modeling a cap in L’Uomo Vogue, or even the haircut hats i made for Zoolander—there just have been so many moments.”
Creating the special capsule for Barneys brought a sense of nostalgia for the designer, as it was the first retailer to pick up her collection in 1998. Kim explains that it had been a goal of hers to be stocked at Barneys, but things didn’t exactly go according to plan after her first meeting with Sarah Blair, SVP/DMM for Women’s Accessories. “Sarah had seen my line in ’98 and said that she liked it, but I was so unexperienced at the time that I assumed it meant she was buying it! The New York Times wanted to run an article about me in their style section, and when they asked where Eugenia Kim hats would be carried I blurted out, ‘Barneys New York.’ Sarah called me the next day and was like, ‘You can’t just say that without an order…but now we need to get the hats in the store ASAP!’ That’s how it all started,” she laughs. Needless to say, the two laugh about the story now, and Blair says, “My initial impression [was that she was] an earnest designer with a lot of moxie. Sometimes you just have to cannonball from the onset!” Eugenia Kim’s hats have been stocked at Barneys ever since.
Now, 20 years later, the anniversary collection includes mini berets, Madonna’s leather cap, the iconic haircut hats, the Ciggy Fascinator (originally worn by Kim to accept her CFDA Award in 2004), and the playful Eyela Headband and Maki Fascinator. As for the future of the brand, Kim wants to continue to branch out into other accessory categories and perhaps expand into bridal. With her eye for fashion-forward styles and creative approach to design, the whimsical label is sure to have continued success for decades to come.


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E-business guide released
- 18 June, 2003 16:21
The Federal government has launched e-businessguide, a tool it claims will provide small businesses with practical information on how to maximise the benefits provided by e-business.
Federal Minister for Communications and IT, Senator Alston, said the e-businessguide was funded by the Government to provide straightforward information and guidance on e-business for small businesses operating across Australia.
“Effective use of the Internet can enable businesses to reach more customers, help them to be more efficient and provide new avenues to conduct their business,” he said.
A spokesperson for the department said the guide helped small businesses gain access to information on the benefits of e-business or build on strategies already in place.