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Customer Inter@ction Solutions is proud to bestow Soffront with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year, Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements
Fremont, CA (PRWEB) January 23, 2007
Soffront Software, Inc. announced today that Soffront CRM has received a 2006 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) Customer Inter@ction Solutions® magazine (http://www.cismag.com). Customer Inter@ction Solutions has been the leading publication covering CRM, call centers and teleservices since 1982.
"As the leader of mid-market CRM software, we continue to add revolutionary features and functionality to our popular CRM product. Customers routinely tell us that when compared with other mid-market CRM solutions, Soffront CRM leads the competition in both functionality and price," said Manu Das, president and founder of Soffront. "This award acknowledges our dedication to innovation and customer value."
Soffront CRM is a powerful, flexible and affordable solution that readily adapts to a company's processes, workflows and data needs. Available as an ASP hosted solution or as on-premise software, Soffront CRM is quick to implement, easy to use and offers powerful tools to integrate with back office solutions.
"Customer Inter@ction Solutions is proud to bestow Soffront with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year, Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements," said Nadji Tehrani, Executive Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Customer Inter@ction Solutions. "Soffront has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future."
The Product of the Year Award winners for 2006 will be featured in the January and February 2006 issues of Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine. For more information about the 2006 Product of the Year Awards, please visit http://www.tmcnet.com.
Soffront Software Inc. has the experience, technology and focus for mid market companies seeking CRM solutions. A pioneer of CRM since 1992, Soffront offers end-to-end, fully integrated CRM solutions spanning sales, marketing, customer service and employee help desk. With more than 2,500 CRM customers worldwide, Soffront's installed base includes Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized businesses, federal, state, and local governments. Soffront is privately held, debt-free, and profitable.
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Will GTA 5 for PS4, PC and Xbox One release November 7th?
Retailer GameSeek has pegged the release of GTA V for PS4, PC and Xbox One as November 7th.
That's a week earlier than previously rumoured, although neither dates are official as Rockstar has yet to go on record with a proper date.
The next-gen version of Grand Theft Auto V was announced last month by Sony at E3.
November is a busy month for games releases. A November 7th release would put it right up against the release of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

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Last year, import cars’ share of the South Korean market reached a record high as the number of newly registered foreign brand cars rose by 11.8 percent over the previous year.
The Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association said on Jan. 4 that the number of imported cars registered in Korea totaled 260,705 in 2018, exceeding 260,000 for the first time.
As a result, import cars accounted for 16.7 percent of the domestic passenger car market, renewing the previous record of 15.5 percent set in 2015.
By brand, Mercedes-Benz retained its top spot with the registration of 70,798 units. BMW maintained its second place with 50,542 units, but its total sales dropped 15.3 percent from a year earlier. Toyota came in third with 16,774 units, a 43 percent increase from the previous year, followed by Volkswagen (15,390), Lexus (13,340), Audi (12,450), Land Rover (11,772), Ford (11,586), Mini (9,191), Volvo (8,524), Honda (7,956), Chrysler (7,590) and Nissan (5,053).
By engine displacement, automobiles with engine displacement of 2,000 cc or less came in first with 167,174 units (64.1 percent), followed by 77,586 units with displacement of 2,000cc to 3,000cc (29.8 percent) and 13,193 units with displacement of 3,000cc to 4,000cc (5.1 percent).
Last year, the best-selling import model was the Mercedes E300 4MATIC that recorded 9,141 new registrations, followed by the Lexus ES300h (8,803), the Mercedes E300 (8,726), the BMW 520d (7,696) and the Mercedes E200 (7,195).
By region, European cars topped the list with 194,175 units (74.5 percent), followed by Japanese cars with 45,253 (17.4 percent) and U.S. cars with 21,277 (8.2 percent).
By fuel type, gasoline models accounted for 123,272 units (47.3 percent), exceeding diesel models (106,881 units, 41 percent). In 2017, diesel vehicles accounted for 47.2 percent of the market, selling more than gasoline vehicles (42.9 percent). The drop in demand for diesel cars is mainly attributed to a series of engine fires of some BMW diesel cars last year.
Last year, 30,760 import hybrids were newly registered, chalking up a 32.9 percent increase from the previous year. Newly registered import electric cars reached a mere 191.
In December, sales of imported cars totaled 20,450 units, a decrease of 8.7 percent from the previous month.


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Four automakers posted new all-time highs for monthly certified pre-owned sales in March; a month where Autodata Corp. determined the industry turned the second-highest amount of CPO units ever.
And perhaps the industry will need other OEMs to join that performance level in order to keep up with the volume of off-lease vehicles hitting the wholesale market.
Autodata reported that four automakers — Fiat Chrysler, Kia, Maserati and Nissan — closed the first quarter with their highest CPO sales total ever for a single month. The firm indicated Fiat Chrysler turned 23,266 certified units as Nissan moved 18,509 CPO models. Kia recorded 7,513 certified sales as Maserati turned 79 CPO models.
In fact, Autodata mentioned to Auto Remarketing that Fiat Chrysler’s CPO sales total compiled during the first quarter also set an all-time high for the OEM, as its franchised dealers retailed 58,398 units.
All told, Autodata reported that dealers retailed 243,277 CPO units in March, off by just 0.3 percent year-over-year when the all-time sales record was established. That’s when the industry delivered 243,944 certified models.
The March figure also soared past the CPO sales total recorded during the previous month by 15 percent.
For the quarter, Autodata indicated the CPO sales figure came in at 647,373 units, edging 0.1 percent higher compared to the first quarter of last year. The amount also was 0.8 percent higher than the fourth quarter of 2016.
Analysts pointed out that there were 27 selling days in March of this year and last year as compared to just 24 in February of this year. The March sales figure computed into a daily selling rate was 9,010, according to Autodata.
Looking deeper at the March data on a year–over-year basis, analysts noticed that domestic brand share fell 1.8 percentage points to 35.4 percent, as European share increased 1.2 points to 16.3 percent. Autodata added the Asian share edged up 0.7 points to 48.3 percent.
No matter which brand has share, Edmunds senior analyst Ivan Drury explained to Auto Remarketing that it appears OEMs and their dealers are going to have to keep this record or near-record setting pace in order to keep off-lease units from sitting in inventory for too long.
“While we've seen a consistent rise in off-lease each year, it appears that CPO sales are not trending as closely with off-lease as once predicted,” Drury said. “This could be an indicator that we’ve begun to saturate the market.
“CPO, on an overall level, is utilized as a way to distinguish and show differentiation from the rest of the used market, but as we have waves of relatively new vehicles of similar trim levels and mileage, it could be less of a selling point and just seen as added cost when there are so many comparables,” he continued.
Kelley Blue Book managing editor Matt DeLorenzo also looked cautiously at the relationship between off-lease wholesale volume and CPO retail trends.
“The glut of off-lease vehicles needs to be managed carefully because these are the units that provide most of the CPO inventory, thanks to annual mileage caps that make these vehicles more desirable and easier to warranty than high-mileage units,” DeLorenzo said. “These CPO units really don’t prime new-vehicle sales other than being able to flip the current lessee into a new vehicle. That used unit as a CPO becomes an entry-level vehicle to a buyer who may not be able to afford a new model of a particular brand.
“If incentives become so heavy that those buyers are able to actually afford a new vehicle, then yes, there will be an impact,” he continued. “However, manufacturers have the opportunity to manage their off-lease volume by storing cars (that’s already happening) to keep inventories down and prices and margins up. Dealers are more than happy on this count because their margins are usually greater on CPO than new vehicles.”
And as DeLorenzo mentioned, the incentive moves automakers are using to turn new models could leave a rippling impact over to the used department trying to retail CPO units.
“There is no question that huge rebates will have an effect on the used-car market, and CPO vehicles will not be immune to those pressures,” DeLorenzo said. “That said, there’s more to the CPO proposition than just price. Some rebates may be on only the entry-level versions of a particular model or may be offered regionally. A buyer may still opt for a better equipped CPO car that could come in at or just under the price of an all-new car with less equipment. And that’s not to say that makers will be looking to re-lease their CPO cars at attractive rates (this is a small slice of the market, but it could grow) or offer other non-cash incentives and spiffs like extended warranties and subsidized financing to make the CPO deal compelling.
“Still, we are likely to see prices trending downward on both CPO and non-CPO vehicles over the next year as some 3.1 million vehicles are expected to return to the market off-lease,” he continued. “However, overall CPO volumes may remain fairly stable because as a marketing tool these programs are expanding, so the growth in CPO with manufacturers offering or expanding their programs will probably mitigate against a dramatic drop-off in CPO activity.”
Drury also touched on how consumers are weighing the option of purchasing a CPO unit versus a new model, especially one that might have a substantial amount of cash on the hood.
“Consumers who shop both new and used/CPO vehicles are research-intense and tend to spend much greater amounts of time gathering information and searching inventory than those who strictly shop new or used,” Drury said. “Some of this stems from simply having more options, but for a consumer looking to get the best bang for their buck comparing used, CPO and new is vital.
“That said, each consumer also has a number in their head at which point the price premium for a new vehicle over a used/CPO is justified,” Drury went on to say. “Factoring in incentives does add a bit of complexity, but for vehicles with steep new-car discounts there is a much greater chance at hindering the ability to sell a CPO unit or even a standard late model used vehicle.”


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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) - Reservations will open tomorrow for what will easily be one of the most off-beat niche hotels to ever open in Palm Springs -- the Taco Bell Hotel.
Reservations for the pop-up hotel will open at 10 a.m. Thursday on Taco Bell's website.
First check-in at the themed destination -- which will take the place of an existing hotel at 333 E. Palm Canyon Drive -- will begin Aug. 8, and final check-out will be Aug. 12, with no minimum night stay.
``The Bell transforms an existing hotel into its taco-inspired destination offering over 70 rooms,'' according to Taco Bell.
There are four room types for guests to choose -- one king bed, two queen beds, one king bed with a pool view and two queen beds with a pool view.
Pricing begins at $169 per night.
``Space is limited and rooms will be available to Taco Bell super-fans on a first-come, first-serve basis,'' according to the taco chain.
The hotel will feature entertainment, food and drinks, including ``Taco Bell's version of a poolside resort menu'' and a ``Freeze Lounge,'' which will offer ``frosty beverages and a chill lounge,'' the company said.
``The hotel draws on Taco Bell's vibrant palette to create a unique and flavor-filled destination that is the ultimate expression of the brand, unlike anything the brand has done before,'' Jennifer Arnoldt, Taco Bell's senior director of retail engagement and experience, said.
More details on food at the hotel -- which is intended for those 18 and over -- will be announced next month, according to the company.


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- Job-listing site Comparably just released its annual ranking of the 25 happiest large companies to work for.
- Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn topped the list, and other Silicon Valley companies like Intuit and Salesforce made the ranking.
- Retailers Costco and H-E-B ranked in the top 10 happiest companies.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
While you can find ways to be happy in your job even at terrible companies, some places are just better to work for.
Job-listing site Comparably just released its annual ranking of the 25 large companies with the happiest employees. Comparably analyzed anonymous employee feedback on their website to measure fair pay, perks, benefits, and work environment.
While major tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, and LinkedIn — scored high on the list, the retail giant Costco earned the third spot for its worker satisfaction. H-E-B, the Southwestern supermarket chain, also ranked in the top 10 happiest companies.
Here are the 25 large companies with the happiest employees, plus worker quotes provided by Comparably from user posts on what makes their company fun to work for. You can find a longer list with 25 small to midsize companies (as well as Comparably’s methodology) here.


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TRADOS recently held a globalization summit in France with attendees from companies such as SAP, VERITAS, FedEx, Credit Suisse, Monster, GlaxoSmithKline, HP, Intel, Symantec, World Health Organization, and Cisco Systems.
According to the press release, executives identified their top five most important global business issues, in order of importance:
(1) reducing time needed to launch products and campaigns in world markets
(2) increasing customer satisfaction in world markets
(3) reducing globalization costs
(4) expanding into new markets
(5) controlling multinational brands
Interestingly, every one of these issues can be at least partly addressed by an effective global Web site.


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Large tech companies and online retailers are flagrantly dodging their environmental responsibilities by dumping hundreds of thousands of tonnes of electronic waste each year, MPs have argued.
Companies such as Amazon and Apple have adopted practices that discourage recycling and repairs, the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has concluded, at a time when 155,000 tonnes of e-waste is discarded or incinerated each year. This is a significant portion of the total 505,455 tonnes collected by the Waste Electrical sector, according to figures provided by the committee.
The UK generates the second-highest amount of e-waste per person in the world, after Norway, at 23.9kg of waste per person. This is significantly more than the global average of 7.3kg per capita, and the European average of 16.2kg. This has previously been described as a 'tsunami'.
Old electronics are also often shipped overseas where they’re dumped in landfill or sent to countries with poor track records for environmental standards.
The UK is among the worst offenders for exportation, the report found, with roughly 32,000 to 209,000 tonnes of e-waste being illegally exported each year to countries including Nigeria, Ghana and India, including items collected at local authority sites.
This electronic waste crisis in the UK is being exacerbated by the actions of larger companies. Amazon, for example, doesn’t collect or recycle electronics in the way other organisations are required to, the MPs claimed. The report also found that tech companies such as Apple glue and solder internal components in devices, making repairs near-impossible.
In Apple’s case, the MPs said that charges proposed for repair by Apple can be so expensive that it’s more economically viable to replace the item.
"For too long companies like Amazon and Apple have been dodging their environmental responsibilities for the products they sell,” said the chair of the environmental audit committee, Philip Dunne MP.
“Too many devices sold and made by these companies have a limited, and sometimes decreasing, lifespan and end up in bins, eventually going to landfill or incineration. There is no chance of precious metals being retrieved, which could quickly become a huge problem as the rare and disappearing materials are crucial for renewable energy such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric car batteries.”
While these two companies were singled out by name, the report merely uses them to exemplify the lax attitude to environmental matters across the wider industry. Manufacturers such as Samsung and eBay were also highlighted in the report for having inadequate e-waste policies.
However, retailers DixonsCarphone and AO.com have been applauded for their retailer take-back schemes, with DixonsCarphone even allowing people to relinquish electronic goods regardless of where they were purchased from.
The environmental consequences are severe, the report added, contributing to the release of global emissions and toxic chemicals into the environment, including arsenic, lead and mercury. Not processing this e-waste in a constructive way also means losing forever the capacity to harvest precious metals such as gold, silver, copper and platinum that can be reused in the manufacture of other goods.
The report recommended dozens of changes to the law as well as a number of internal practices that should be adopted by tech companies and large online retailers. The government should, for example, enshrine the right to repair in law, and reduce VAT on repair services, as is the case in many EU countries. This would play a key role in enhancing the repair culture in the UK.
The EU parliament, incidentally, passed a resolution only this week to force a "right to repair" of electronic goods, by making repairs more appealing, systemic, and cost-effective for customers. This could be done by extending guarantees, providing additional guarantees for replaced parts, and by providing better access to information about device repairs and maintenance.
Companies should also follow the example set by firms such as DixonsCarphone in setting up clear take-back schemes, and regulators should model the rules around this “exemplary innovation”. This includes arranging and paying for the collection of electronics from a customer’s home, including offering to collect “small” waste.
Amazon and Apple would certainly argue they haven't ditched their environmental responsibilities, with the former launching a $2 billion climate technology fund in June, for example, and the latter pledging to be carbon neutral by 2030.
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IT House reported onhttps://www.zteamsshop.com/los-angeles-lakers/shaquille-o-neal.html August 28 that the game performance test of the Intel Ruixuan A380 graphics card has been released before, which is roughly equivalent to the GTX 1650. Let's take a look at the game compatibility of the card. As a new player in the field of independent graphics, the Ruixuan A380 graphics card performs well on Vulkan or DirectX 12, but it is not very friendly to some old DirectX 9/11 games. Recently, foreign media PC Games Hardware conducted a compatibility test of 50 games on the A380 graphics card, covering masterpieces from 1999 to 2022, which is more in line with the player's usage scenarios. https://www.yteamsshop.com/boston-bruins/patrice-bergeron.htmlAs can be seen from the picture, the Ruixuan A380 graphics card has good compatibility in most games, and some DirectX 8/9/11 games can run perfectly, but "Max Payne 2" cannot run at all. You can follow this table to determine whether your favorite games can be played normally, and then decide your purchase choices. IT House learned that the Intel Ruixuan A380 graphics card adopts TSMC N6 process, has 8 Xe cores, which is a 1024 stream processor, a GPU frequency of 2000MHz, and is equipped with 6GB 96bit GDDR6 video memory. Lanji GUNNIR Intel Arc A380 Photon 6G OC is an overclocked version, the GPU frequency can reach 2450MHz, the whole card power consumption is 92W, and the interfaces include DP 2.0 and HDMI 2.0.https://www.uteamsshop.com/chicago-blackhawks/jonathan-toews.html Lisa Pearce, vice president and general manager of Intel's Visual Computing Group, said the company will focus on optimizing the performance of the Sharp GPU for DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 APIs,https://www.tteamsshop.com/atlanta-falcons/marcus-mariota.html and DirectX 11 will eventually be as good as DirectX 12 compatibility in the future.
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The "Death" and "Life" of Gaming Phones
The flamboyant, game-oriented design highlighted the user's "player identity"; https://www.ateamshops.com/boston-red-sox/mookie-betts.htmlmore aggressive temperature control measures and cooling systems improved the performance of the phone; The battery brings a smoother display effect and longer battery life; the last is "peripherals", that is, custom accessories such as external handles that can improve the operating feel. Now it seems that the mobile phone manufacturers at that time obviously had the idea of learning from the notebook manufacturers, that is, to push the entire mobile phone market into market segments by focusing on products with different selling points. Since mobile games are just a necessity for some mobile phone users, when the phenomenon of product homogeneity is serious, gaming mobile phones born for games may not be the right way to seek differentiation. (Photo source: https://www.vteamsshop.com/los-angeles-lakers/kobe-bryant.htmlRed Magic 7S Pro) Unfortunately, even though it is favored by many manufacturers and occupies various favorable times and places, from the current point of view, the gaming mobile phone market is still a niche market. According to industry sources, even with the Snapdragon 888 as a foil, in the Chinese mobile phone market, the shipments of gaming mobile phones are only about 1.6 million to 1.7 million units a year, which is not much different from the same niche folding screen mobile phones. , which is not a fraction of Redmi's total smartphone shipments of 26.595 million units, and IDC's report shows that China's mobile phone shipments will reach 329 million units in 2021. Why does this happen? The reason is actually very simple. First of all, for ordinary users, the performance release of ordinary mobile phones is enough, and the original features such as high refresh rate and battery life of game mobile phones have long been popularized; secondly, there are still a number of mobile game players. There are few "casual players" who will not play games with high frequency of operation, while for hardcore gamers, handhelds are more common portable game devices. Finally, and most importantly, https://www.wteamsshop.com/chicago-white-sox/bo-jackson.htmlgaming phones don't come cheap. For example, the starting prices of the mainstream gaming phone Red Magic 7 series and Savior Y90 series are 3,999 yuan and 4,299 yuan respectively. As a comparison, the starting sales of OnePlus Ace Pro and iQOO 10 series with “game” as the main selling point The prices are 3499 yuan and 3699 yuan respectively, and the price has also become a major factor restricting the entry of game phones into the mass market. Because of this, after the birth of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1, gaming phones have naturally become the most embarrassing In order to gain an in-depth understanding of manufacturers' views on the current gaming mobile phone market, we specifically interviewed Lenovo Saver. The insiders of the game mobile phone team explained the "giving and giving" of the product of the rescuer Y70 in detail for us. First of all, in terms of product design, the rescuer told Lei Technology that "making a high-performance mobile phone that can be used by mainstream users" was their original intention to design the rescuer Y70.https://www.xteamsshop.com/seattle-seahawks.html Considering that most of the target users are young people who are just entering the workplace, they chose a design that is closer to the public's aesthetics. Of course, under its "formal" appearance, the Savior Y70 also contains beast-like surging performance, which can be said to be a An all-rounder with a mainstream look and a great gaming experience. (Photo source: Lei Technology Homemade) Of course, the launch of such a product does not mean that they will give up the "active cooling" design. The rescuer said that they will also choose the appropriate cooling method according to the positioning and design of different models in the future, whether it is the largest area of VC cooling in the industry, or the industry's strongest dual-fan active cooling, it is essentially to ensure Designed for the user's gaming experience. It is worth mentioning that the rescuer also launched optional products such as cold gel mobile phone case and magnetic cooling back clip, which users can choose according to their own needs. (Photo source: Savior's official website) As a brand with a very prominent "game" attribute on the market, "game" can be said to be part of the Savior family's DNA. As for the rapidly emerging handheld game console market, the savior does maintain a positive attitude towards the category. In other words, they don't rule out the possibility of launching a Savior Windows handheld or a Savior Android handheld in the future. Finally, regarding the positioning of "game phone", Savior does not think that "game phone" is a pseudo-demand, they said: "Savior has received a very good response from the market since the launch of the first-generation gaming phone. If there is a market, we will listen to the voices of users more in the later stage and create mobile phones that are more in line with the habits of different user groups." In fact, the release of the Savior Y70 is enough to confirm that they are gradually implementing this strategic plan - in line with mainstream aesthetics The design of the game, with the support of the surging and powerful beast performance, makes the game phone a main model that can help users to use it every day, and "opens the pattern" on the subdivision track. In my opinion, as the energy consumption of mobile phones has returned to normal, and the mobile game market has not exploded for a long time, today's game mobile phone market has entered a new stage. Manufacturers such as Logitech, GPD and other manufacturers choose to strengthen the game attributes to the extreme. In the future, there will be multiple Android products in the form of handheld devices on the market, while manufacturers such as Savior and Black Shark are moving closer to the daily aspects and try to maintain the normal design situation. Under the enhanced product performance release. Of course, in this interview with the insiders of the rescuer game phone, it is not difficult to find that manufacturers still have a lot of confidence in the game phone market. "It is almost certain that gaming phones will not disappear, but will develop in the direction of taking into account both gaming scenarios and daily use." said Sandwich, senior editor of Lei Technology, "There is still a long way to go for gaming phones, and This road will not be an avenue."
The global mobile game revenue rankings
As the time approaches mid-September,https://www.zteamsshop.com/brooklyn-nets/kevin-durant.html Sensor Tower store intelligence will release more and more reports on August-related statistics, introducing the revenue of various mobile games and manufacturers in August. Today, Sensor Tower Store Intelligence officially released the August global mobile game revenue rankings. According to Sensor Tower store intelligence data,https://www.yteamsshop.com/chicago-blackhawks/jonathan-toews.html in August 2022, Tencent's "Honor of Kings" will earn more than 1.5 billion yuan in the global App Store and Google Play, ranking first in the global mobile game bestseller list. And the report shows that 94% of the game's revenue comes from the Chinese iOS market, and 6% of the revenue from overseas markets. Tencent's "PUBG Mobile" (including "Peace Elite") ranked second on the list with a revenue of about 1.1 billion yuan. Among them, 60.7% of the revenue came from the Chinese iOS market, and the US market accounted for 8.8%. In addition to these two games from Tencent, the other three games in the top five are Mihayou's "Genshin Impact", King's "Candy Crush Saga" and Sony's "Fate/Grand Order".https://www.uteamsshop.com/boston-bruins/patrice-bergeron.html In addition, Sensor Tower store intelligence also summarized the situation in August. Global mobile game players paid 6.6 billion US dollars in the App Store and Google Play, a year-on-year decrease of 12.4%, of which the Chinese iOS market ranked third, accounting for 17.4%. . A few days ago, the agency also announced the global revenue of domestic mobile game manufacturers in August. In August, a total of 40 Chinese manufacturers were shortlisted in the TOP100 global mobile game publisher revenue list, with a total revenue of more than about 13.8 billion yuan, accounting for 38.1% of the global TOP100 mobile game publisher revenue. The top fifteen publishers on the list are: Tencent, NetEase, Mihayou, Sanqi Interactive Entertainment, Fun Plus, Lilith, Lingxi Interactive Entertainment, IM30, Yoxing Network, Shellwood Games, Youta Games, Jiang Entertainment Interactive, lGG, Le Elements, Thunder Games, Tencent still occupies the first place. According to the report, Tencent and Perfect World joined forces to officially launch the light sci-fi open-world game "Magic Tower" in overseas markets. The game immediately topped the download list of the mobile game market in various regions, and became the mobile game with the fastest growth in global revenue in August. NetEase's "Diablo: Immortal" launched in the Chinese market on July 25 performed strongly in revenue, with a month-on-month increase of 234% in August, becoming the highest-grossing mobile game product under NetEase Games in this issue,https://www.tteamsshop.com/baltimore-ravens/sammy-watkins.html and ranking among China's iOS mobile game revenue list 3rd Place. With the decline in mobile game revenue and the overall revenue of manufacturers reversing, it is believed that many game manufacturers will launch activities that are more attractive to players to increase growth.


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Mediatonic would “love” to bring it to other platforms.
One of the surprise video game hits of 2020 is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout – a 60-player battle royale party title inspired by hilarious television game shows like Takeshi’s Castle and Total Wipeout.
Mediatonic – the developer behind this relatively new release – has an FAQ on its website. Within this, it says it would “love” to bring the game to other platforms like the Switch and Xbox further down the line.
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DECATUR, ILL. — Archer Daniels Midland Co. said it will acquire a soybean crushing and biodiesel facility in Deerfield, Mo., from Prairie Pride, Inc. ADM also will form a partnership with Prairie Pride for the biodiesel portion of the business.
“The acquisition of Prairie Pride’s soybean facility and partnership for the biodiesel business were attractive to us because they are aligned with our growth strategy and fit well within our integrated business model,” said Matthew J. Jansen, president of global oilseeds for ADM. “We look forward to working with the 1,000 farmers of Prairie Pride to transform soybeans into food, feed and fuel products used by consumers and businesses around the world every day. And we look forward to becoming a part of the Vernon county community.”
Prairie Pride, Inc. is a producer cooperative formed to convert soybeans into biodiesel fuel and soy meal. The facility began producing biodiesel in late 2007 and processing soybeans in August 2008.


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Sony Corp. this week began holding a new Playstation Network March Savings promotion that credits users for every $50 spent on digital content.
Through Apr. 1, customers will receive $10 back for ev4ery $50 spent in the Playstation Store using their SEN Wallet.
The promotion includes purchase of all digital product, including the Playstation Plus membership.
Sony in Feb. said the game division held an operating profit of $49.3 million, down 86 percent from the year prior.
It sold 6.8 Playstation 3 and Playstation 2 consoles in the quarter, down from 7.4 million one year ago. It forecasts 16 million hardware units sold in the fiscal year ending Mar.
Console software sales declined to 61.7 million from 68.7 million one year prior.
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Sony has just unveiled when their next State of Play is happening. The next showcase will occur at 11 PM BST, 3 PM PT, 6 PM ET on May 9.
You can find the link to the blog post here. That post confirms that we will be seeing some new MediEvil gameplay and that the show will last for around 15 minutes. We will also get a first look at a brand new title from PlayStation Worldwide Studios. Sony will also not be detailing any more of their next generation plans.
With this State of Play coming a month before E3 and Sony not showing up to the show, this will likely be the big showcase for PlayStation this year, with smaller State of Plays coming later in the Summer.
State of Play is PlayStation’s new announcement show. During the last show, we got a look at Iron Man VR for the first time. The PlayStation exclusive, Concrete Genie also got a brand new trailer, revealing that the game will release in Fall 2019. A new trailer for Days Gone was also shown off. We liked the game a lot and you can read our review for it. Sony also announced a brand new title called ReadySet Heroes. This is a dungeon crawler where you battle against other players.
PS VR got a lot of announcements during the show including a release date for London Studio’s Blood and Truth. The Five Nights At Freddy’s franchise is also coming to PlayStation for the first time, with Five Nights At Freddy’s VR Help Wanted.
Be sure to check back this Thursday for all the new announcements. What do you want to be shown off? Maybe some Death Stranding or The Last of Us? Or, do you expect smaller announcements? Are you hoping for some new VR games? And, what could that unannounced first-party title be?


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How will changes to business rates affect you?
Recent uproar from businesses concerning the impending changes in business rates, taking effect from next month, has caused the Prime Minister to reconsider the nature of the changes and the effects they will have on the economy.
What are business rates?
Business rates are taxes paid on non-domestic premises used to operate your business. They are calculated by multiplying the standard set multiplier by rateable value. The amount you pay depends on the size and location of the property, however if your standard rate is below a certain number, you will be classified as a small business and will therefore pay less. Click here to find out how much you will owe with this estimation tool.
Depending on the nature of your business you may also be entitled to business rate relief.
How are they changing?
From 1st April 2017 the rateable value of premises will change to reflect the rise in house prices over the last 5 years, which in some areas such as London and the South East will see a huge increase. Research has suggested that over a third of businesses expect their bills to rise by more than £1,000 a year, whilst more than one fifth expect an increase of over 40%.
How will this affect me?
If your business premises have been affected by increasing demand and rising prices in your area, the likelihood is the amount you must pay will increase. If your premises’ value has fallen, you will be paying less. This could cause an inverse effect on businesses in other areas as opposed to more desirable locations – making it easier for them to profit and expand.
This has caused outrage among MPs who, upon realising the detrimental effects on the British economy this could cause, have called the change an “old-fashioned” and “out-of-date” law, arguing the losses to business through tax will be passed on in their processes through investment cuts and staff costs.
FSB: “Business rates threaten future growth”
A recent survey from the Federation of Small Businesses has shown that 7% of small businesses will be paying more in business rates than rent, with the amount paid in business rates the third highest cost after rent and staffing.
Further figures have revealed that, of the one in three small firms who expect rates to rise, more than half will fear a fall in profits and expect to increase prices and reduce investment to mitigate this. The knock-on effects will be, as you can probably imagine, a slowdown in business.
National Chairman of the FSB Mike Cherry has commented: “Profitability across the UK small business community is already falling. The costs of doing business for small firms are now at their highest levels since early 2014. The last thing we need is a business rates burden so heavy that it threatens the future growth prospects of our entrepreneurs.”
May: “There will be appropriate relief for those adversely affected”
After much backlash from the business community, stressing the adverse effects likely on the economy, the Prime Minister has confirmed the government will be making changes to mitigate these effects.
This intervention has been welcomed by the FSB, after they urged the government to compensate and reflect the losses of those businesses hit hard by the increase in the next Budget.
The FSB has called for the government to implement a higher relief threshold for small businesses operating in London, and a lower cap on increases for larger buildings. This will enable businesses to survive and prosper without paying extortionate tax.
The question for many is will the government take note of these recommendations? And if any are implemented, will it be enough for our small businesses to survive?
How will these new business rate changes affect you? Please tell us in the comments section below.


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Shares of Lumber Liquidators (LL -4.11%), a large chain retailing hardwood flooring products, jumped as much as 18% Wednesday. This came after Bloomberg reported the company's founder is working on a bid to take the company private.
Lumber Liquidators hit a 52-week low roughly a month ago, has shed 41% of its value over the past year, and has plunged 82% over the past five years. It's been a rough ride for investors:
Lumber Liquidators' founder, Thomas D. Sullivan, owns just under 6% of the company's shares via F9 Investments LLC; in the past he's pushed for the flooring retailer to explore strategic options including a potential sale. Sullivan also criticized management from straying away from the original formula of low overhead and expenses that helped grow the chain nationwide; he told Bloomberg that management was "spending money like crazy."
Between the stock's dismal performance over the past five years, and its now trading at a fraction of its all-time high, investors who have hung on with the company are likely ready for a change. That could be Sullivan convincing management to slash corporate expenses while increasing advertising, or the company going private and providing investors with a small stock-price boost and exit strategy. Sullivan's long-term plan could be to convince banks and/or private equity to take the retailer private, then combine it with his current Cabinets To Go business.


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Nokia Intros Lumia 520 and 720; 521 Coming to T-Mobile
Nokia today announced two new Lumia Windows Phones, the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520. The Lumia 520 is Nokia's most affordable Windows Phone. One variant - the Lumia 521 - will be exclusive to T-Mobile USA and arrive in the second quarter. The 520 includes a 4-inch display with super-sensitive touch screen that works through gloves, 1 GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor, 5-megapixel camera, 8 GB of internal memory, and a slot supporting up to 64 GB. The new Lumias include Here Maps, which includes transit navigation. The Lumia 720 is designed for "non-LTE" markets, indicating it may not come to the U.S. It sports a 4.3-inch ClearBlack display covered with curved glass. It is Nokia's first unibody-design phone with a memory card slot. The 720 sports a Carl Ziess f/1.9 lens.
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Microsoft Intros Entry-Level Lumia 530
Microsoft today revealed the Lumia 530, a new entry-level Windows Phone that succeeds last year's 520. The device features the same colorful design language common to Lumia models and includes interchangeable rear shells for personalization.
Cricket Wireless Adds the Nokia Lumia 1320 to Portfolio
Cricket Wireless today announced the pending availability of the Nokia Lumia 1320. The device, which Nokia announced last year, has a 6-inch 720p display with Nokia's ClearBlack technology and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for protection.
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Microsoft Officially Kicks Off Sales of Windows Phone 8.1
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Daimler Chooses Charleston For New Facility
German automaker Daimler AG will pump $500 million into a new state-of-the-art assembly plant near Charleston, South Carolina, that will produce its high-end Sprinter vans. Exact details of the planned facility weren’t disclosed, but construction is expected to begin in mid-2016.
“This plant is key to our future growth in the very dynamic North American van market,” says Volker Mornhinweg, head of Mercedes-Benz Vans, adding the new facility will “allow the company to meet growing demand at a lower cost as well as reduce delivery time.”
Since 2010, most Sprinter vans destined for the U.S. market have been produced in kit forms at the Daimler plants in Dusseldorf and Ludwigsfelde, then shipped to South Carolina for assembly—a practice that’s become “inefficient due to the Sprinter’s growing popularity in North America,” says Mohrinweg.
“This is certainly big news by anyone’s standards in terms of the expansion of Daimler Chrysler resulting in 1,200 new jobs, but moreover, this indicates that South Carolina is rapidly becoming a leader in the automotive manufacturing industry,” said State Rep. Chip Limehouse.
Quoted in the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Limehouse said the expansion “is likely going to attract other car manufacturers to the region and create an automotive cluster in the [South Carolina] Low Country, which could result in a ‘10x factor’ for job creation, similar to BMW in the Upstate.”
The announcement by Daimler, Limehouse added, is transforming South Carolina into “a high-tech automotive and aeronautics manufacturing state,” with the attraction for investment “fueled by the state’s pro-business government and low union rates, as well as Charleston’s quality of life and the Port of Charleston.”
Announcement of the new Daimler plant is the second major move for the company since the first of the year. In January, the North American arm of Daimler subsidiary, Mercedes Benz, said it would be moving its headquarters south from Montvale, New Jersey, to a suburb of Atlanta in a relocation phased-in over the next three years.
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The brand has launched an app that helps blind people know when someone is smiling at them. Designed and built by its creative agency J. Walter Thompson, the app uses facial recognition and a phone’s camera to detect a smile from up to five metres away and notify the app user with a vibration or a beep.
The app is being promoted by a short film, “Feel Every Smile”, directed by Oscar-nominated Lucy Walker, herself partially blind. It stars four blind people talking about smiles and what they mean to them.
They are then given the “smile detector” app with the film following their reactions as they experience someone smiling at them, sometimes for the first time in years.
Listerine will promote the app and the film through its own digital and social media channels. The app has also been endorsed by the RNIB which will also promote it and ensure it is accessible to blind and partially blind people.
Speaking to Marketing Week, Listerine’s brand director Alice Lovell said the brand is looking to move away from the “white smile idea” so prevalent in oral care to focus more on what a smile means and its impact on those around you.
“Rather than the whiteness of the teeth we wanted explore the impact a smile has. People can see a smile from up to 100 metres away and it can have a real impact. We wanted to bring that to life in a real and positive way,” she said.
“We want to champion the power of a smile to have a positive impact on people’s lives.”
The app coincides with the launch of Listerine’s Advance White mouthwash, which Lovell said is aimed at a younger audience.
“We wanted to talk in their space online and bring something heartwarming and thought provoking. It is important as a brand to do something that has a positive impact which is why we wanted to be true to the film and make the app available.
“We want people to view the content, share it and understand and believe in the power of a smile and how powerful it really is,” she explained.


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10-05-06 – The city of Sherman welcomed 150 new jobs Thursday during a grand opening for the new Kohl’s Department Store.
Kohl’s is a nationwide chain that first began back in 1962, and has slowly grown since. The Sherman store is one of 65 opening up nationwide and is one of 814 across the country.
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A few people decided to walk into the Mother’s grocery store in Costa Mesa without a mask. The store manager then locked them in & called the police.
A few people decided to walk into the Mother’s grocery store in Costa Mesa without a mask. When they wouldn't leave, the store manager then locked them in & called the police.
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Ikea's decision could play role in repurposing Marketplace Mall
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from Dennis Wilmot and to recast an inaccurate headline.
It was announced with great fanfare in the summer of 2016 that The Marketplace Mall in Henrietta would become an outlet center rebranded as Marketplace Outlets.
The new outlet mall was supposed to open by fall 2017. But the concept has stalled largely due to a major player on the scene: Ikea is considering the site for its furniture superstore, said mall manager Mike Wilmot.
Among other decisions that still need to be made, Ikea is considering the site — among others — for a furniture superstore, said mall manager Mike Wilmot, but no decisions have been made yet.
The retailer approached Wilmorite, the mall's parent company, as it seeks a location in western New York, Wilmot said.
"Our No. 1 option is Ikea," Wilmot said.
But nothing has been decided yet, and Marketplace Mall plans to continue remaking itself with or without Ikea.
Dennis Wilmot, vice president of leasing at Wilmorite, said in a statement that "there are many considerations, in many forms, for how to repurpose the Macy’s box."
"Ultimately, whatever we decide to do will support our long-term vision for the mall. It is premature to name any prospective tenants but we are aggressively continuing the efforts to convert the mall into an outlet center," Dennis Wilmot said in the statement.
The Sweden-based chain offers unique furniture and home items at a low price and serves up its famous Swedish meatballs in store cafeterias at low prices.
Ikea officials have mentioned that the company is in the midst of expanding its U.S. footprint. Three stores opened or are planned to open in the U.S. last fall alone, in Florida, Texas and Indiana. Announced plans for the coming years include stores in Arizona, and additional locations in Tennessee and Texas.
The closest Ikea stores to Rochester are four in the Toronto market. The only two in New York are in the New York City market. There are over 400 stores worldwide.
"As we endeavor to expand our presence here in the United States we continue to evaluate opportunities as they arise," said company spokesperson Latisha Bracy via email Wednesday. "However, Ikea has not announced any plans for a store in the western New York area."
While Wilmorite awaits a decision, more stores have exited the mall in recent months, including teen retailer Abercrombie and Littman Jewelers as well as The Body Shop that has been there for over a decade. Abercrombie announced it would close 60 stores in the U.S. in 2017 and The Body Shop has been shuttering stores across the country the past few years. Littman is an independent retailer.
Since news spread about Ikea seeking sites in the region, the retailer has been approached by other developers, Mike Wilmot said.
The Getinge Group site on East Henrietta Road was once thought to be in the running. But the real estate representatives haven't heard anything from the retailer, said Bob Moore of Moore Corporate Real Estate.
"As it pertains to Ikea, we are unaware of any current interest that they have in this property," said Moore. That said, the real estate group is in what they believe to be final negotiations with another buyer that plans to use the industrial/office property in the way it was designed, he said.
Ikea stores tend to sit on 20 to 35 acres of property, with a building size of about 300,000 square feet.
Ikea representatives have mentioned that they like Rochester's demographics of college students, a core of its customer base, Wilmot said. There are about 85,000 college students in the greater Rochester area.
Originally built in 1982, The Marketplace Mall has five parcels on 80 acres in Henrietta.
More:Could Rochester get an Ikea? Store scouting Henrietta sites


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The possibility of a Crash Bandicoot reboot for the PlayStation 4 game console might happen after a Swiss retailer called Alcom listed the game on their website. In that story, the source described such performance as "terrible". This new version for PS4 and Xbox One supposedly features enhanced visuals, all of the additional downloadable content for the game and, most impressively, mod support. Rumour has it that the company has not one but two new Xbox One consoles in the pipeline, including a more compact model this year and a more powerful model in 2017. Games like Sea of Thieves, Recore, and Halo Wars 2 are a great start, but Microsoft should also get ahead and announce Halo 5: Guardians coming to Windows 10, along with Gears of War 4 to show they really are intent on moving into the PC space.
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Nintendo (NTDOY) is expected to announce the launch date of its next hardware system, NX, in 2016.
Of course, many other game-makers that will reveal titles at the show don't have their own conferences, and will instead ally themselves with Microsoft or Sony to make the announcement. Time exclusives aren't as exciting as new game reveals, but they accomplish an important goal for a console maker: they establish which console a new player must purchase to play with friends.
Are we in for a surprise announcement and release next week at E3 2016?
That's why you should make sure the Sony PlayStation E3 press event is in your calendar.
The Xbox One Scorpio is the wildcard of the three, with Microsoft having even denied its existence publicly. The 2016 E3 Expo in Los Angeles starts on 14 June and numerous industry's biggest names are gearing up for their pre-show press conferences - often the highlight of the week, given the events place all-new games and hardware centre stage. And then there is the Xbox brand, while the Xbox 360 was a big success (despite the RROD issue), the Xbox One has continued to trail behind the PS4 and it doesn't look like this trend will reverse anytime soon. Little is known of the game at the time of this writing, though Rare has said that it will allow players to group up with their friends, sail the seas, throw one another overboard, stage mutinies and engage in firefights with other bands of pirates.
The company will seek to further extend its lead this year with a more powerful console, a virtual reality headset, and a considerable number of first-party games.


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It’s off-message and tinge deaf — that’s because Victoria’s Secret is struggling, and a #MeToo transformation expected has something to do with it, according to YouGov, a open opinion and information company.
The firm’s brand-perception measure, BrandIndex, found that Victoria Secret’s “buzz score” is disappearing among women ages 18 to 49, down to a measure of 23, compared with a high of 31 usually dual years ago. Data also suggested that fewer women that age are shopping from a code now than did in 2013, during a tallness of Victoria Secret’s hum score.
The #MeToo era’s widespread denouncement of passionate attack and nuisance has nudged that decline, pronounced Ted Marzilli, CEO of information products for YouGov.
While Marzilli concedes that Victoria’s Secret’s sales troubles predate #MeToo and #Time’sUp, these movements, he told me, “have expected done some consumers consider twice about what they value in a wardrobe and in a brand. Politics and character competence seem like apart cousins, though they’re increasingly intertwined in a rarely politicized world.”
He added: “Consider this year’s endowment shows, where many wore black to make a domestic statement, as good as conform shows where many designers used a runway to make a statement — from aphorism T’s to pinkish hats. These events and many some-more are transparent examples of how in today’s world, successful people are regulating conform as a height to disciple opposite passionate harassment, discrimination, compensate inequality and most more.”
“I consider it’s a mistake to relate Victoria’s Secret’s opening with a #MeToo movement. Their [market] share has been dwindling on a Customer Loyalty Engagement Index for a past integrate of years before a hashtags,” he said. “There have been competitors in a difficulty like Aerie that are doing usually swell. we consider that metrics like BrandIndex are, if we will, moments in time, rather than an marker of changeable values among a assembly and a category.”
Indeed, amid a gummy athleisurewear trend, Victoria’s Secret’s sales have been diseased for over a year now, as sporty bralettes obscure Victoria Secret’s signature, risqué lingerie, built around a structured bras, while store trade declines and promotions tighten distinction margins.
But what’s a risk of Victoria’s Secret’s code equity — the sale of voluptuous slip around provocative ad campaigns and conform shows — being woefully conflicting with a informative moment, in that women are vocalization out opposite passionate nuisance and assault?
“I don’t consider they’re tinge deaf, nonetheless there have been those, Brand Keys among them, who have suggested that their ads are some-more directed during group than women. And it’s an easy arrogance that voluptuous photos are antithetical to #MeToo,” Passikoff said. “I positively don’t consider that women have given adult wanting to feel voluptuous and desirable, though if we ask heading [questions whereby] respondents tell we what they contend they think, instead of revelation we what they unequivocally think,” a outcome will be adverse sell scores, he said.
Victoria’s Secret’s loss interest in partial reflects a call of consumer restlessness retailers are facing, he said. As choice-rich shoppers now have a world’s largest mall during their fingertips online, stores contingency work that most harder to prove them.
“Generally speaking, consumer expectations have increasing in a sell difficulty scarcely 30% year over year, and brands usually conduct to keep adult by about 6%,” Passikoff said. “What women enterprise and what brands broach are generally flattering dismal. So we could have likely that, absent extemporaneous explosion of their undergarments, reduce compensation scores are a no-brainer.”
But about a idea that Victoria’s Secret is unequivocally designed for a masculine gaze. The culture’s lens, undoubtedly, is changeable some-more to simulate a womanlike gaze.
“In a stream feminist moment, people are profitable some-more courtesy to women operative behind a scenes in film, media and photography — and how women’s change eventually affects these industries,” reported “The Future 100: Trends and Change to Watch in 2018” from J. Walter Thompson Intelligence. As enlightenment does not exist in silos, how competence that change be informing conform tastes, and a retailers offered that fashion? Food for thought.


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GM Reportedly Kills the Electric Car...Again
Once again, General Motors has killed the electric car. More correctly it has killed anelectric car.
Bloomberg is reporting that GM has ended development of the Cadillac Converj, an extended-range electric vehicle that was to be based on the same technology found in the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. Unnamed executives told the publication that a business plan couldn’t be made for the vehicle, despite the premium prices that could be charged for it under the auspices of the luxury nameplate.
During an appearance in January prior to the Detroit Auto Show, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz told the Conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts that the vehicle was “heading for production.” GM never issued an official announcement either confirming or denying Lutz’ claim, but then-Cadillac General Manager Brian Nesbitt told Foxnews.com “there is a lot of work going on on the Converj. We’re very excited about it. I’d say there are still some approvals that have to take place, but we are working on it.”
Instead, Bloomberg says Cadillac will focus on more conventional plug-in hybrids with smaller , like the XTS concept unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show. Rather than having the ability to go 40-plus miles on a charge, this type of vehicle can travel only short distances in electric-only mode, then operates like a typical hybrid where the internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric motor share the burden of driving the wheels, unlike the Volt which uses an ICE with no connection to the drive wheels only to generate electricity for the electric motor when the battery runs low.
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Cyberthreats are expected to cause roughly 772 billion baht's worth of damage per day to victims around the world this year, of which 85 million baht per day would be realised in Thailand, according to the Stock Exchange of Thailand's (SET) Research Department.
At the beginning of 2023, Thailand had 21 million internet users, representing 85.3% of the total population. This is higher than the global average of 64.4%.
Thai people spend an average of seven hours per day on the internet, falling within the top 10 globally in terms of internet usage.
Thai people also tend to conduct online transactions via their smartphone which lets them quickly explore cyberspace. But as cyberthreats intensify, this is like opening the back door to cybercriminals if they are not sufficiently cautious when conducting such transactions, according to the department.
The damage from cyberthreats worldwide continues to increase. It is estimated that in 2023 the damage would reach up to US$8 trillion, leading agencies around the world to recognise the urgency of addressing cyberthreats.
This aligns with a survey from last year's World Economic Forum which revealed that 95% of corporate leaders agree that cybersecurity is a priority. Indeed, cybersecurity should be considered as part of an organisational risk management strategy.
In Thailand, the threat of cybercrime is certainly on the rise. When considering online complaints about cybercrime threats over a one-year period, it was found that there were 218,210 cases with total damage valued at 31.5 billion baht, or 85 million baht per day.
Most of this damage was conducted at a personal level in cases related to scams via call centre gangs.
Lawsuits related to making online purchases of goods or services but not receiving them, loan shark applications, Ponzi schemes and investment fraud are also on the rise.
As for the damage at the organisational or agency level, according to a report by the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA), 551 cyberthreat incidents took place between Oct 1, 2021 and Sept 30, 2022, of which two in three cases were attacks by hacking the websites of government agencies and other important agencies.
Most of those attacked were educational and public health agencies. Private companies were also affected. Examples would be situations in which access to information or work systems is obstructed, or situations that result in data leakage. In some cases, it takes a long time to fix the problem, resulting in a wide-ranging impact.
The SET advises all sectors to be aware of cyberthreats and work together to prevent them. Be aware of the fact that there is no investment that generates an exaggerated return, the department said.
Investors are recommended to check information directly with the relevant authorities. Be alert, do not rush to invest or make a transaction without first observing sufficient caution. These steps would help reduce the chance of falling victim to a cyberthreat, it added.


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In a recent, brief interview, the new chief marketing officer of Vonage, Ted Gilvar, mentioned three separate times that his primary goal in taking over the role was to make sure that everyone knew that “Vonage means business.” But what exactly does that mean?
Vonage built a name for itself by providing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services to consumers. Rather than considering itself a phone company or a telecom firm though, Vonage regards itself as a communications provider. To support the provision of communications services, it relies on technology, including VoIP. But overall, its value proposition is that it enables users to communicate more readily.
Therefore, it believes that its path to growth is clearest in the business-to-business market. Vonage plans to take its consumer-oriented offer and transform it into a B2B proposition. But the transformation will not involve new product introductions or radical new services. As Gilvar explains, “We’re not launching a brand new product or set of products—it’s really a marketing launch to let everyone know that Vonage means business.” With this marketing launch, it hopes to introduce itself to business customers, as a reliable provider of communications services.
One of the methods it is using to make these introductions is acquisition. In the past couple of years, Vonage has purchased three other firms that already function in the B2B market: Simple Signal, which provides unified communications-as-a-service solutions to small businesses; Telesphere Networks, which offers similar solutions to larger companies; and Vocalocity, which offers cloud-based communication services. Along with these acquisitions, it plans an integrated marketing campaign, including a potential Super Bowl ad, to spread its introductions more widely among potential business customers. Through these moves, Vonage hopes to increase its B2B revenue by 40 percent.
What other considerations does Vonage need to address to gain a foothold in B2B markets?
SOURCE: Kate Maddox, “New CMO at Vonage Will Make ‘Aggressive’ B-to-B Push,” Advertising Age, April 28, 2015, http://www.adage.com


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On July 8, Web development company RustyBrick released its newest mobile application for Android and iPhone users: Minyan Now. The New York-based company, best known for creating a popular phone siddur, uses modern technology to enhance traditional Jewish practices. The company’s latest product is designed to help Jewish men form and find minyans anywhere.
The idea for Minyan Now was inspired by RustyBrick CEO Barry Schwartz and founder and CFO Ronnie Schwartz after they personally struggled to find the quorums necessary for public prayer after their mother’s death. According to Jewish law, recitation of the traditional mourner’s prayer known as Kaddish requires a minyan.


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NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers rejoice! The Beatles are finally coming to the Internet.
1010 WINS’ Alice Stockton-Rossini reports
Apple Inc. says its iTunes service will sell music from the Fab Four. The Beatles have so far been the most prominent holdout from iTunes and other online music services.
Apple Corps Ltd., which manages the band’s affairs, had resisted. The situation was exacerbated by a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. It was resolved in 2007 when the companies agreed on joint use of the apple logo and name, and many people saw that as paving the way for an agreement for online access to Beatles songs.
Until now, to listen to Beatles songs on iPods, you’d have to obtain a CD and “rip” an online version of it — or find someone who already has, legalities aside.
The Big Apple and the Beatles have a long history. The British Invasion officially took in 1964 when the Fab Four landed at John F. Kennedy Airport in 1964 and later appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show .
The group also played the first major stadium concert in history at She Stadium during their third US visit. They played before a crowd of 55,600 people.
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The Biden Administration is taking steps to help alleviate the nationwide infant formula shortage caused when the FDA shut down an Abbott plant in Michigan after recalling three brands of powdered formula back in February. As part of Operation Fly Formula, the administration plans to import 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of three formula brands that are hypoallergenic for children with cow’s milk protein allergies. The first shipment from Germany’s Ramstein Air Base arrived in Indiana on Sunday. The load included 132 pallets of Nestlé Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior, as well as Gerber Good Start Extensive HA. Another 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA formula is expected to arrive in Washington D.C. from Ramstein Air Base in the coming days. From there, it will be transported to a Nestle facility in Pennsylvania.
The White House says this effort expedited a process that should take weeks. “Typically, the process to transport this product from Europe to U.S. would take two weeks. Thanks to Operation Fly Formula, we cut that down to approximately three days,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She added that the administration focused on these brands first, because they serve “a critical medical purpose and are in short supply in the United States.”
In addition to importing formula from overseas, the President also signed legislation to protect low income families from the impact of future shortages. The Access to Baby Formula Act of 2022 allows families to use funds received from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to buy formula products outside of the designated list during a public health emergency or supply chain disruption.
Help For Families Needing Formula
If you are looking for infant formula, the Department of Health and Human Services suggests contacting you local Community Action Agency to find the closest source. The United Way’s 2-1-1 hotline can also direct families to food banks or other agencies that can provide charitable access to formula for those in need. SNAP and WIC participants should contact their local offices for assistance.
Parents should also take advantage of manufacturer hotlines to get emergency access as well as information on alternative formula options. MyGerber Baby Experts is staffed with nutrition experts and lactation consultants who can help parents identify available formulas that meet their baby’s needs. You can also ask your doctor to submit a request through Abbott’s Urgent Product Request Line for the company’s Metabolic Formulas & Similac® PM 60/40.


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Italy’s new-look government has tabled a series of measures designed to encourage uptake of non-cash payments, pressure retailers into accepting cards and make it harder for individuals to evade tax.
Following a meeting of the country’s Council of Ministers late on Tuesday evening, the government on Wednesday published a summary of a new decree that introduces several tax-related reforms alongside the state budget for 2020.
The decree is aimed at cutting out financial crime and tax evasion to bolster the country’s finances and prop up the newly formed coalition government’s ambitious spending plans.
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The Sei Community (SEI), the brand new layer-1 blockchain that claims to be a blockchain sooner than Solana, reached a excessive of $0.250 after the Circle announcement, a greater than 110% enhance from its worth of $0.118 on November tenth.
Circle stated they have been investing within the SEI community to broaden use instances for USDC, its dollar-pegged digital asset.
SEI has barely retraced and is buying and selling for $0.239 at time of writing.
“SEI is designed particularly to handle the first use case of cryptocurrency – the alternate of digital property. This blockchain isn’t simply quick; it’s the quickest, attaining 390ms time to finality and boasts unparalleled pace.
By integration with SEI, USDC will present builders and entrepreneurs world wide one thing they’ve by no means had earlier than: the power to construct merchandise and commerce on an open platform globally, rapidly, and cheaply with instantaneous transaction settlement.”
In keeping with SEI, its trading-focused blockchain community is sooner than Solana’s primarily based on sure key knowledge.
SEI says its transaction finality on its blockchain is 500 milliseconds whereas Solana’s transaction finality is round 2.5 seconds. SEI additionally compares its transactional throughput with Solana by saying Sei Community has the aptitude of 20,000 orders per second (ops) and Solana can deal with 10,000 transactions per second (tps).
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The program, AntiPhorm Lite, runs on users' computers and surfs the Web in the background. With the additional Web-surfing activity, Phorm's platform will be less effective because it will analyze the random clicks along with users' real clicks.
Phorm segments Web users into marketing segments based on clickstream data from Internet service providers, and then encodes that information on cookies it places on people's computers. The company also allows people to opt-out of its targeting program, and that information also is stored on cookies on users' computers.
Phorm, poised to launch in the UK, has deals with three UK Internet service providers--BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse. The company also intends to launch in the U.S.
Although Phorm does not collect personal data like names or addresses, privacy advocates are troubled by the platform because of its sheer comprehensiveness: Internet service providers can capture every site Web users visit and every search query they make, allowing marketers to create extremely detailed and specific profiles. More conventional behavioral targeting companies focus on visits made to sites within their networks.
But despite privacy concerns, this new AntiPhorm application is "is a bit of overkill," security researcher Eric Howes said. "Wouldn't it be much simpler and easier just to delete the Phorm cookie on a regular basis or even block it from being set?" asked Howes, director of malware research at Sunbelt Software. "Without the cookie Phorm's system can't build a profile in the first place."
He added that the application could potentially be used to defeat almost any targeting platform that relies on Web-surfing activity, ranging from cookie-based programs to ad-serving software.
A Phorm spokesman added that the program is unnecessary. "There is a far simpler and safer option available via the Phorm technology itself," the spokesman said. "Participation will always be a transparent choice, so users will be able to switch the system on or off at any time they choose when the technology is deployed in the United States."


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Google is shutting down its online video match streaming company, Stadia, on January 18th, 2023, the organization introduced now. All purchases will be refunded and the technological know-how will continue to be employed for YouTube and other components of its business enterprise, but the consumer-experiencing application and storefront will be shuttered for very good significantly less than 5 a long time immediately after it released, becoming a member of the graveyard of other jobs Google has deserted.
“And while Stadia’s solution to streaming online games for people was developed on a sturdy technology foundation, it has not obtained the traction with users that we envisioned so we have created the tough final decision to start off winding down our Stadia streaming assistance,” Stadia VP Phil Harrison wrote in a weblog put up. “We’re grateful to the focused Stadia gamers that have been with us from the begin. We will be refunding all Stadia hardware buys made as a result of the Google Shop, and all video game and include-on content material buys made by the Stadia keep. Gamers will carry on to have entry to their game titles library and participate in as a result of January 18, 2023 so they can full closing engage in sessions.”
The gaming field veteran went on to say that refunds are envisioned to be done by mid-January, and observe that while Stadia is dying, the tech at the rear of it will nevertheless be readily available to “industry partners” for other joint-ventures, like AT&T’s latest endeavor to bring Batman: Arkham Knight to smartphones by means of streaming. Signs Google was all set to bail have been coming for a though now, but 1 of the a lot more eyebrow-increasing was when Ubisoft introduced Assassin’s Creed Mirage would appear to Amazon’s Luna provider but not Stadia, the first recreation in the blockbuster collection to do so.
Google talked a massive video game back when Stadia was very first unveiled at the Activity Developer Conference 2019, but it was distinct by the time the support introduced later that calendar year that it wasn’t prepared for primetime. The tech was spectacular but promised capabilities have been missing and the start library was not really outstanding. Though Stadia did carry on to include new video games, most had to be ordered a la carte, building it a steep expense for the informal audience it was aimed at. Then Xbox Game Pass arrived together and married a big library with a solitary regular monthly payment. Stadia, meanwhile, reportedly struggled to get large games on its system, investing tens of millions to attract titles like Purple Useless Redemption 2.
Of course, none of that is to say Stadia was doomed from the get started. Google’s monitor report, and Stadia’s possess past, get in touch with into issue irrespective of whether it was at any time correctly fully commited to the formidable endeavor. Stadia’s initially-party studios shutdown final 12 months, scuttling tasks that ended up nonetheless in pre-output and leaving some developers who had moved throughout the region for the corporation experience betrayed. At the time, Kotaku noted that Harrison had told Stadia staff members that Microsoft obtaining Bethesda had been one particular of the explanations for the closures, convincing Google that the price of competing in 1st-party progress was more than it needed to shell out.
“We remain deeply fully commited to gaming, and we will proceed to spend in new resources, systems and platforms that energy the achievement of developers, industry companions, cloud prospects and creators,” Harrison wrote in today’s site write-up.


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The Small Big Idea adds two new feathers to its hat by bagging the digital mandates for Tiny Girl and Mukkti Foundation by Smita Thackeray. The agency will be managing all social media assets for both the brands.
As a part of the mandates, THE SMALL BIG IDEA will be designing and executing social media campaigns and build an engaged communities for both brands. While Mukkti Foundation by Smita Thakeray will focus on the informed, enriched and socially responsible netizens, Tiny Girl content strategy will revolve around engaging parents with young daughters.
Commenting on the new client win, Harikrishnan Pillai, Co-Founder, The Small Big Idea says “We started off as specialists in the media and entertainment space, because the core team came from television. But over the last 2 years, clients from tourism, FMCG, BFSI have found us to be interesting micro-story-telling partners. We see stories as data with a soul. The content that performs has a more engaging soul than the one that didn’t. Guess our experience with entertainment helps us understand and deliver that value.”
“It’s interesting to work on 2 brands that is about girls and women from different backgrounds. Our agenda would be to create content that inspires them to be their awesome self. In this time and age, it’s the responsibility of content creators and brands to uphold the dignity of women while we tell stories and we will ensure that we keep that in mind.” Added Manish Solanki, Co-Founder, The Small Big Idea.
Mukkti Foundation, non-profit organization, which was started Smita Thackeray, works towards women empowerment in India. The foundation believes that building a strong digital presence is mandatory in creating conversations around women empowerment & upliftment. “Mukkti has always believed in quality, substance and personal dedication, but we are also aware that it is rare to find an association which believes in the same values as us. Thankfully TSBI is one of those very few who truly believe in these qualities and it shows in their work and attitude. With acute attention to each detail and active management of every aspect, it really feels as if for TSBI, everything is personal, and that’s what makes us feel as if we are one big team working towards a bigger dream,” said Rahul Thackeray, Managing Director, Mukkti Foundation
‘Tiny Girl’ is a Mumbai based girls’ clothing company that was started operations in 2012 and caters to young girls in the age group of 4 to 14 years. Kanji Patel, Managing Director of Tiny Clothing said, “As it’s our first foray into digital media, we needed someone who not only adept at digital media, but also someone who understood what we stand for. TSBI instinctively comprehended what we would need and we are confident that our partnership will be extremely fruitful.”
In three years since their establishment, THE SMALL BIG IDEA has created a distinct identity for itself and manages digital mandates for some of the biggest brands across verticals like Seychelles Tourism, Principal India, Viacom 18, ZEE Entertainment amongst others.


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The European Union will impose duties from Saturday on Chinese electric bicycles to curb cheap imports which European producers say benefit from unfair subsidies and are flooding the market.
E-bikes coming from China will be subject to tariffs of between 18.8 and 79.3 percent, a filing in the EU's official journal said on Friday, in line with European Commission proposal on which EU countries voted in December.
The anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties are the latest in a series of EU measures against Chinese exports ranging from solar panels to steel, which have sparked strong words from Beijing.
The Commission found Chinese exports of e-bikes to the European Union more than tripled from 2014 until September 2017. Their market share rose to 35 percent, while their average prices fell by 11 percent.
It has also said Chinese producers benefit from controlled aluminium prices as well as advantageous financing and land rights conditions and tax breaks.
Taiwan's Giant, one of the world's largest bicycle makers, which has factories in China as well as in the Netherlands, would be subject to a rate of 24.8 percent.
EU producers include Dutch groups Accell and Gazelle, Romania's Eurosport DHS and Germany's Derby Cycle Holding.
The European Bicycle Manufacturers Association said it applauded the move that it said would shield 800 small and medium sized companies employing 90,000 people.
However, it warned that Chinese e-bike manufacturers were already making their way to Europe via third countries where they were being repackaged.
LEVA-EU, a group including importers opposed to duties, said the tariffs were protectionist and absurd, saying they would hit consumers and other smaller European companies and went against the EU's climate change goals.


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Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies said it gets an additional $60 million (€51 million) funding to scale up ultracapacitors production in its factory in Germany.
Skeleton Technologies’ development plans have received official backing from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Free State of Saxony, within the framework of the “European Battery Innovation – EuBatIn” IPCEI.
Skeleton Technologies – the largest European manufacturer of ultracapacitors – unveiled its plans to develop first-of-its-kind production technology for manufacturing its ultracapacitors, following the official support announced by German authorities in January.
The economies of scale provided by this new technology, combined with the use of Skeleton’s patented “curved graphene” material, will dramatically drive the production costs down, boosting the competitiveness of ultracapacitors as the key enabling technology for the future of transportation and electrification.
“We are continuously investing in R&D – whether it is improving the performance of our products or the process in which we make those products. The next stage of our production will see an implementation of fully automated Industry 4.0 manufacturing techniques – a first-of-its-kind in the ultracapacitor industry,” Skeleton CEO Taavi Madiberk said in a statement.
“Coupled with our curved graphene material, we are able to dramatically decrease the cost of ultracapacitors. The ultracapacitor industry is in the same situation as lithium-ion batteries were in 1999, but our advancements in core technology and production capabilities will be able to show a cost reduction faster than for any other energy storage technology. We have a clear road map to lower it by almost 90% after completion of our 5 years project,” he said.
“With a projected annual volume of around 250 billion euros by 2025, the European battery industry will play a key role in the continent’s economic recovery,” said Christian Müller, CEO of EIT InnoEnergy in Germany, which is one of the drivers of the European Battery Alliance and one of Skeleton’s investors.
Skeleton Technologies has three main locations: its manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf, Saxony, Germany, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Saxony-Anhalt and electrical engineering in Tallinn, Estonia. From its foundation in 2009, the company has grown from 4 to more than 150 people.
“The battery projects under the IPCEIs will give us the critical mass we need for a sustainable and competitive value chain for batteries in Germany,” said Marco Wanderwitz, Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States.