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The court's conservatives side with the Obama administration.
It’s launching a national ad campaign, hoping that consumers will pivot away from Gmail.
The company says Ed Markey's questions about its bracelet program are "ludicrous."
The social media company's top privacy officer addresses concerns as some criticism surfaces.
New data shows that most law enforcement requests for access to email occur without a warrant.
The West Virginian, who will retire in 2014, is strongly involved in online privacy issues.
The company joins Facebook and Microsoft for a new initiative to educate developers.
The photo-sharing service is opening an information pipeline to its parent company.
Some of the powers in the FISA Amendments Act are set to expire in December.
It will be a year for action, but will there be real decisiveness of just more kicking of cans?
The social network is making changes this month to help users manage their information.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation that would require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge before they can review a person's emails or other electronic communications.
Move leaves Illinois barred from using law to stop taping of cops by public
The company proposes ending its practice of letting users vote on changes to its privacy policies.
Privacy pushers are trying to turn the high-profile episode into a lesson for Congress.
During a second term, the president can capitalize on new momentum to push his tech agenda.
The group asks the company to explain more clearly what customer data it collects and how it's used.
Browser companies have left out one important detail about the setting: Users will still be tracked.
The network found Christopher Stevens's journal in Libya and reported on its contents.
Opinion: We must protect an open Internet that strengthens our economy and our democracy.


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|01/29/16||Simon Property Group Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2015 Results|
|INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon, a leading global retail real estate company, today reported results for the quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2015.
Results for the Year
Funds from Operations ("FFO") was $3.571 billion, or $9.86 per diluted share, as compared to $3.235 billion, or $8.90 per diluted share, in the prior year period. Included in the 2015 results is $0.22 per diluted share related to a gain upon sale of marketable securities and $0.33 per dilut... |
|01/20/16||Simon Partners With Ivanhoé Cambridge On Premium Outlet Collection - Edmonton International Airport|
|To Open in Fall 2017
INDIANAPOLIS and MONTREAL, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon, a global leader in retail real estate, and Canadian real estate company Ivanhoé Cambridge, announced today they are teaming up to build Premium Outlet Collection – Edmonton International Airport.
The 428,000 square foot enclosed outlet centre in the province's capital city is scheduled to open in fall 2017. Approximately 100 stores will open at Premium Outlet Collection – Edmonton International Airport... |
|01/20/16||The Webster Opens First Location Outside Of Florida At The Galleria In Houston, Texas|
|NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Webster is pleased to announce the opening of its fourth boutique. Located at The Galleria in Houston, Texas, the 5,000 square foot, newly constructed, freestanding building with its own, dedicated valet service, is referred to as the "Jewel Box".
"I am thrilled to have the opportunity to open my fourth location, and first outside of Florida, at The Galleria. This is truly a labor of love and I look forward to sharing my unique and personal perspe... |
|01/12/16||'Death of Pureplay' Report Reveals Online-Only Retail Strategy Challenging and Ultimately Unsustainable|
|L2 report sponsored by Simon Property Group links retailers' success to omnichannel approach
NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- An L2 report released today titled "Death of Pureplay Retail" finds that online-only retailers – referred to as 'pureplay retailers' – are disadvantaged by the high cost of marketing and shipping, making their business model challenging and ultimately unsustainable in the long-term.
By contrast, the report finds that online retailers leveraging physical st... |
|01/12/16||Simon Property Group Announces Reporting Information For 2015 Distributions|
|INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon, a leading global retail real estate company, announced today 2015 year-end tax reporting information.
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|01/08/16||Simon Property Group Sells $1.35 Billion Of Senior Notes|
|INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon, a leading global retail real estate company, announced today that its majority-owned operating partnership subsidiary, Simon Property Group, L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"), has agreed to sell $550 million principal amount of its 2.50% senior notes due July 15, 2021, and $800 million principal amount of its 3.30% senior notes due January 15, 2026. Combined, the new issues of senior notes have a weighted average term of 8.2 years and a weighted... |

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Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund cut its stake in Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ:MNST) by 7.4% during the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 79,729 shares of the company’s stock after selling 6,403 shares during the period. Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund’s holdings in Monster Beverage Corporation were worth $3,681,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. FineMark National Bank & Trust raised its position in shares of Monster Beverage Corporation by 25.7% in the third quarter. FineMark National Bank & Trust now owns 30,590 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,771,000 after buying an additional 6,261 shares in the last quarter. Cigna Investments Inc. New bought a new position in shares of Monster Beverage Corporation during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $674,000. Federated Investors Inc. PA raised its stake in Monster Beverage Corporation by 36.2% in the fourth quarter. Federated Investors Inc. PA now owns 9,346 shares of the company’s stock worth $414,000 after buying an additional 2,483 shares during the period. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC raised its stake in Monster Beverage Corporation by 75.6% in the fourth quarter. Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC now owns 680,725 shares of the company’s stock worth $30,183,000 after buying an additional 293,058 shares during the period. Finally, Calamos Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in Monster Beverage Corporation by 317.1% in the fourth quarter. Calamos Wealth Management LLC now owns 44,743 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,984,000 after buying an additional 34,016 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 66.03% of the company’s stock.
Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ MNST) traded down 1.93% on Friday, hitting $50.31. 3,423,241 shares of the company were exchanged. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $48.80 and a 200-day moving average of $45.81. The stock has a market cap of $28.57 billion, a PE ratio of 40.51 and a beta of 0.91. Monster Beverage Corporation has a 52-week low of $40.64 and a 52-week high of $55.50.
Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ:MNST) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 4th. The company reported $0.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.32 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $742.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $738.54 million. Monster Beverage Corporation had a net margin of 23.36% and a return on equity of 23.36%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 9.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.79 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts expect that Monster Beverage Corporation will post $1.48 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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A number of research firms have issued reports on MNST. Credit Suisse Group set a $59.00 target price on shares of Monster Beverage Corporation and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, May 6th. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $57.00 target price on shares of Monster Beverage Corporation in a report on Friday. Jefferies Group LLC reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Monster Beverage Corporation in a report on Friday. BMO Capital Markets reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Monster Beverage Corporation in a report on Thursday, April 27th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $58.00 target price on shares of Monster Beverage Corporation in a report on Friday, May 5th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eleven have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Monster Beverage Corporation currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $56.71.
Monster Beverage Corporation Company Profile
Monster Beverage Corporation is a holding company. The Company develop, market, sell and distribute alternative beverage category beverages under the brand names of Monster Energy, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Extra Strength Nitrous Technology, Java Monster, X-Presso Monster, Muscle Monster, Punch Monster, Hansen’s, Hansen’s Natural Cane Soda, Junior Juice, Blue Sky, Hubert’s, Worx Energy and Peace Tea.
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Since 2007, we’ve seen the US financial system undergo main adjustments resulting from political and banking policies. They have to also have lived in New Zealand for at the least 10 years since they turned 20 with 5 of these years being since they turned 50. Time spent overseas in certain nations and for certain reasons may be counted for New Zealand Superannuation.
The World Enterprise Summit 2019 was geared toward unfolding the myriad contours of the world financial system and defining the elements that can lead the Indian economic system to newer heights by means of a carefully crafted plenary session and numerous parallel periods & round table discussions that form part of the GBS expertise.
No one can undermine the significance of economics which is a social science that research the production, distribution, commerce and consumption of products and companies. In addition to commerce, there is a excessive degree of corporate and particular person investment between the 2 countries and the US is a significant source of tourists coming to New Zealand.
There may be one main difference between Instagram in the present day and American society greater than a century in the past: Previously, individuals were after an unattainable life-style they saw within the class above them, which was created largely by inherited wealth; Immediately, on Instagram, they’re after the life-style of the categoryâ€ above them that is largely an phantasm crafted by expertise and advertising and marketing.
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For one union in Connecticut, their use of creative t-shirts as a weapon against AT&T Connecticut (AT&T) has finally gone too far. In the past, employees had been permitted to wear union apparel at work, including shirts that read, “If I want your opinion…I’ll take the tape off your mouth” and “I’m not drunk. I’m just a race fan.” However, when employees were given shirts that read “Inmate #” with a black box beneath the lettering on the front and “Prisoner of AT$T” on the back, the company objected more strongly.
On two occasions, during contentious contract negotiations, the leaders of the Communication Workers of America told employees to wear the shirt to work. Hundreds of employees did so, and it caused immediate problems for management. AT&T supervisors instructed employees with customer interaction to change their shirts and issued day-long suspensions to the183 employees who failed to remove them. AT&T requires its public-facing employees to present a professional appearance and does not allow them to wear clothing with “printing and logos that are unprofessional or such that would jeopardize the Company’s reputation.” While a company can ban the display of inappropriate messages on clothing, it cannot stop an employee from wearing union apparel at work. This right is implicit in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.
The union filed an unfair labor practice charge after the suspensions, claiming that AT&T had infringed on employee’s rights when it disciplined the employees who had refused to remove their “Inmate” shirts. AT&T argued that under the “special circumstances” doctrine developed under Section 7, a company may forbid a union message on publicly visible clothing when it reasonably believes that the message could harm its relationship with its customers or damage its public image. The company further stated that it was concerned that the shirts would be cause for alarm or confusion for its local clients in light of a well-known and recent home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut where three people were murdered.
Administrative Trial and NLRB Decision
At trial, an administrative law judge found that AT&T had violated the law when it prohibited employees to wear those t-shirts. On appeal, the National Labor Relations Board affirmed the conclusion, and added that the shirt would not have been mistaken for prison garb and that by the nature of the circumstances it would be clear that the offenders were not convicts. One NLRB member dissented and said that he felt that there was sufficient reason to suggest that the shirts could “alarm customers and thereby damage” the company’s reputation. AT&T then filed a petition to review the Board’s decision in the federal court.
Other companies have invoked the “special circumstances” doctrine to protect their images. One union’s t-shirt stated, “I don’t need a WOW to do my job.” The t-shirt mocked the company’s “WOW” incentive program, and the NLRB agreed that customers seeing the shirt might be less likely to return as customers. Another company banned t-shirts that were distributed by its union that showed employees as carcasses and were labeled as “Road Kill.”
When the NLRB rejected the idea that AT&T met the criteria for special circumstances, the Board noted that the company had not consistently enforced the ban on unprofessional clothing. It had allowed other questionable shirts to be worn at other times and not disciplined employees.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal’s Reversal of NLRB Decision
The federal appeals court said that it believed that the Board should have recognized AT&T’s “straightforward evidence” and allowed that the “Inmate” t-shirt is precisely the reason for the special circumstances noted in Section 7. In addition, the court examined the allowance of the other t-shirts and noted that the “Inmate” shirt was much more problematic than the others. The allowance of the previous union shirts did not mean that the company could not prohibit other unprofessional clothing. The Court admonished the Board that “the appropriate test for ‘special circumstances’ is not whether AT&T’s customers would confuse the ‘Inmate/Prisoner’ shirt with actual prison garb, but whether AT&T could reasonably believe that the message may harm its relationship with its customers or its public image..” As Judge Kavanaugh pointed out, “Common sense sometimes matters in resolving legal disputes,” and further adopted the one dissenting member of the NLRB who got it right: “What would you think about a company that permitted its technicians to wear such shirts when making home service calls?” Fortunately for this company, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has put the brakes on this activist NLRB’s continuing effort to erode the rights of employers.
Prohibiting or allowing the wearing of union t-shirts is not straightforward. A message on a shirt may strike a manager as unprofessional, offensive and obviously not to be worn in public. However, sending an employee home for not changing could have unforeseen consequences. These situations usually arise in the midst of a labor dispute or organizing activity. Before reacting impulsively, it is best to seek legal advice.
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A slogan from Turkey to the world: Unrush Your World
The 11th Ayvalık International Olive Harvest Days is an important platform where the future of olives and olive oil in Turkey is discussed.
Actually, one day is never enough to learn from experts why production has fallen despite the fact that the number of olive trees has increased and how climate change has affected olive production.
Turkey in 2014 exported $100 million worth of olives and $66 million worth of olive oil. For a country which has a centuries-old olive and olive oil tradition, these figures indeed cannot be considered adequate.
Ayvalık International Olive Harvest Days is like a festival with its panels and concerts and was again not sponsored by İzmir’s Sevilen Wines this year, a firm which actually had been sponsoring the event for many years.
Meanwhile, the ban on alcoholic beverage producers from sponsoring festivals as well as advertising and promotion has been in effect for two years.
Recently we learned with a decision printed on the Official Gazette that New Year’s baskets sold in supermarkets will be banned from including alcoholic drinks.
The business of new wine producers who have invested significant amounts in vineyards as well as veteran wine producers is getting tougher because of taxes and new regulations. Exportation looks like a life saver.
The data shared by the CEO of Mey İçki, Galip Yorgancıoğlu, proves this. Mey İçki was founded by the privatization of Tekel’s alcoholic drinks section in 2004 and went under the umbrella of London-based Diageo in 2011.
The company has a total of nine factories in Turkey providing a significant amount of employment in these areas. Its annual exportation is around $44 million.
If we are to make a comparison, the exportation of one company is $22 million less than the total olive oil exports of Turkey.
According to the knowledge Yorgancıoğlu shared, the Mey Group in 2014 contributed $2.8 billion to Turkey’s budget in direct or indirect taxes.
An important mission the group has undertaken is to make the Yeni Rakı brand, which was produced by Tekel in 1994, a world brand by 2020.
Yorgancıoğlu said, “When Mey İçki bought Tekel, at that time, rakı exports were 1.2 million liters. We focused on international marketing activities and in the past four years we have multiplied exports by four, reaching 5 million liters.”
When you consider that the domestic market for rakı is 33 million liters, then 5 million liters is an important figure.
The CEO of Mey İçki said they aim to make Yeni Rakı a world brand by the year 2020 and make this brand one of the top 10 most valuable brands in the global drinks market.
The group is conducting a campaign with the global brand consultancy company Effective Brands to make it a trendy drink attracting the attention of consumers in international markets.
The slogan of the campaign is “Unrush Your World.” The slogan gives the message that it is important to take pleasure from small things in life. People should take time from the rush and spend time for themselves with a good meal. It invites consumers to share, savor and enjoy the spirit of slow.
The pilot sites for the campaign will be conducted in London, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.
A global brand is on its way from Turkey’s alcoholic drinks sector.


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Stricter standards would benefit consumers, U.S. automakers and American troops. That's why it's so shortsighted.
The spending bill due March 23 could make or break many clean energy and sustainability programs.
And that's on an annual basis.
With technology retrofits, it's possible to squeeze even more fuel efficiency out of trucks already on the road.
It's a continous process.
Manufacturers are engaged in a fast-paced fight to deliver efficiency gains that outstrip projected industry growth, says UTC.
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Baggin' on the Environment
The country of China isn't exactly known for being environmentally progressive. (I know, who are we to talk? But still.) So I was ...
So I was surprised when I read that China is banning the production of ultra-thin shopping bags and forcing customers to pay for the bags if they use them.
Flimsy plastic bags are becoming a hugely troubling environmental issue. Because they're so thin, they're often only used by consumers once (and probably just for the half-hour it takes to drive home from the grocery store). After that, they get thrown away, where they either overwhelm landfills or just blow away, creating even more problems.
In China (maybe unsurprisingly), the ban is particularly harsh:
The bags also are banned from all public transportation, including buses, trains and planes and from airports and scenic locations, the government said.
Companies caught breaking the new rules face fines and possible forfeiture of goods, the government said.
It can be easy to dimiss earth-friendly legislation out of the Bay Area. But with China's ban, I bet more and more U.S. cities -- and maybe even states? -- will be exploring similar regulations. Bag bans are the new smoking bans! You heard it hear first.
*UPDATE: New York City leaders yesterday passed a bill requiring retail merchants to collect plastic bags and recycle them. According to the Times , "New York is by far the largest American city to enact so broad a measure to limit the environmental impact of the bags. "
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Multiplayer component confirmed for Mass Effect 3
Casey Hudson, producer at BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect 3 will feature a multiplayer component.
Hudson confirmed that the there will be co-op multiplayer missions in the game but reassured series fans that there is nothing to fear.
He said on Twitter: "Yes, co-op MP missions for #ME3: they're real, and they're spectacular. Rest assured it's nothing of what you've feared. More soon"
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(Crain's) -- Chicago-area home sales fell 28% year-on-year in the fourth quarter, according to the Illinois Assn. of Realtors.
Chicago-area home sales down 28% in fourth quarter
In the nine-county Chicago Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area, 17,364 homes and condominiums were sold in the fourth quarter, compared with 24,120 in fourth-quarter 2006, the association said Wednesday. For the year, home sales in the area dropped 20.5% from 2006.
Chicago-area condo sales fell 28.4% in the fourth quarter and 17.4% for the year.
The median sale price in the Chicago area was $254,000 in 2007, a 2.4% increase over 2006; the median Chicago-area condo sale price was $228,000, compared with $218,893 in 2006.
Statewide, home sales fell almost 23% in the fourth quarter, the association said. For the year, sales were off 16.8% statewide from 2006.
The statewide median price was $201,250 in 2007, down from $203,500 in 2006, the association said.
Included in the Chicago-area statistics were the Illinois counties Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will.


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South Korea is a resource-poor country, with about 97% of its energy dependence on imports. Energy shortages and rising oil prices constrain the economic and social development of Korea. Energy conservation has become one of Korea's most important national strategies. Therefore, the LED industry with significant energy conservation and environmental protection significance has received much attention from the Korean government. In 2008, South Korea proposed â€œlow-carbon green growthâ€ as the national strategy for the future, and the LED industry was promoted as a key area. Large companies participate in the formation of production capacity
The Korean LED lighting industry has developed rapidly in recent years, which stems from the Korean government's promotion policies and mechanisms. The South Korean government has been pursuing a big business strategy under the leadership of the government, and through the government and banks to jointly provide funds for enterprises to cultivate large enterprise groups. In the end, large enterprise groups not only become the mainstay of production and management, but also the backbone of foreign trade, and are the core force for technology development, foreign investment, and information gathering.
The lighting industry in South Korea has long protected SMEs. However, as LED semiconductors become key components, large companies such as Samsung Group and LG Group have been involved in the lighting market. After 2010, the Posco Steel Group, which is headed by large-scale iron producers, and the SK Group, which has advantages in oil refining and communication, also indicated that they are involved in this market. Through large-scale investment by large companies, South Korea has jumped to the second place in the global supply chain such as LED chip manufacturing in a short period of time.
In the downstream industries such as lighting equipment manufacturing, in addition to these large enterprises, venture companies have also been established, and SMEs have shown a positive attitude in entering overseas markets. There are about 900 companies engaged in LED lighting business in South Korea. Samsung Electronics (LED Lighting is part of the Life Appliances Division), LG Innotech, Seoul Semiconductor and other three world-class manufacturers have entered the top five global LED revenues. South Korea's next goal is to achieve the top spot in the global LED industry by 2020. Focus on popularization and boost industry development
The popularity of LED lighting is the key to the development of the LED lighting industry. To this end, the Korean government has successively formulated the "LED Lighting 15/30 Popularization Plan" and the "LED Lighting 20/60 Plan" in 2006 and 2011 respectively. The former aims to achieve 30% of the total lighting revenue of Korea by 2015. The latter will set a long-term goal of achieving 60% LED lighting penetration by 2020.
In order to achieve the medium and long-term goals set by the two plans, various levels of government in Korea have formulated corresponding promotion policies. Seoul City has been very active in the popularization of LEDs. It invested 23 billion won in 2007 and 2009, and replaced 156,000 lighting in transportation facilities and 38,000 lighting in public institutions into LED products. As a result, the annual electricity savings have reached approximately 1.6 billion won. Since then, Seoul City has set its own goal of LED lighting penetration rate, that is, efforts to make the LED lighting utilization rate of public institutions reach 50% in 2014 and 100% in 2018, so that the private LED lighting usage rate will reach 100% by 2030. . To this end, Seoul City plans to replace 7.8 million LED lighting equipment by 2014, including 50% of public agency lighting, or 800,000, and 25% of folk lighting, 7 million.
Underground parking is also a key area for popularizing LED lighting. Since the beginning of 2011, Gyeonggi Province and Daegu City in South Korea have begun to promote the popularization of LED lighting in underground parking lots. In May 2012, Seoul City and Korea LED Association jointly released the underground parking lot for apartments and large-scale commercial facilities. The field of LED lighting popularization business "encourage policy, and began to implement in June. According to this encouragement policy, LED lighting can be introduced free of charge in apartments and large-scale commercial facilities in Seoul, and individuals can purchase LED equipment for replacement of parking lot lighting at a price lower than 40% of the market price. Through this measure, Seoul City plans to replace the lighting of the underground parking lot in Seoul area with LED lighting by 2014 to save energy consumption. If this goal is successfully achieved, it is estimated that the annual electricity cost will be about 32.7 billion won. Cut off the source of high energy consumption lighting
In order to realize the popularity of LED lighting from the source, Korea's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Resources recently announced that South Korea will permanently stop importing and manufacturing incandescent bulbs with low power efficiency from January 1, 2014. South Korea made a decision to gradually abolish incandescent bulbs as early as 2008. At present, there are still about 30 million incandescent bulbs still in use in South Korea. If they can be replaced with more energy-saving lamps, they can save more than 1800 GW of electricity a year, enough to supply up to 650,000 families.
Power shortage is a problem that every year in South Korea will face. This year, due to the use of defective components by multiple nuclear power units, it has been ordered to stop operation. The thermal power plants have frequently failed, and the high temperature weather continues, and the power shortage is particularly prominent. The Korean governmentâ€™s aggressive promotion of LED lighting may ease this problem.
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An enduring complaint about mobile games is their controls, especially when you're trying to play a whizzy 3D game with a clunky mobile keypad.
US firm Zeetoo is one company trying to solve the problem - in its case, with something called the Zeemote. It's a small handheld controller peripheral that communicates with your phone via Bluetooth, and looks a bit like one of the Nunchuks you use with Nintendo's Wii console.
We've written about this before, in connection with the game Fireworks, which is being developed by British startup FinBlade. The Zeemote is basically an analog joystick, although Zeetoo has also developed one prototype that uses an accelerometer for true motion-sensing controls and another with a trackball. The company says the technology has been validated on phones from manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG.
Anyway, the news is that Zeetoo has just secured $6.9 million of first-round venture capital funding (that's about £3.5 million in real money). The cash will help Zeetoo launch the Zeemote as a consumer product, as well as presumably funding more games to use its innovative technology. Developers such as Fishlabs, Sega Mobile and Reaxion are also listed as being onboard.
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Congressman Case receives Small Business Council of America award
U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) has received the 2023 Special Congressional Award by the Small Business Council of America during an event held in Washington, DC.
The Small Business Council of America is a national, non-profit organization representing 100,000 privately held and family-owned businesses.
“I am honored to receive this award, but also appreciate the attention it draws to the importance of small business as a critical economic engine for our country, as well as in my Hawai‘i, where there are more than 137,000 small businesses that make up more than 99% of all businesses in the islands,” said Case.
The Small Business Council of America previously honored Case with its Special Congressional Award in 2006.


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The original Star Wars trilogy goes out of its way to paint Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia Organa as a force to be reckoned with. She’s a better shot than Luke Skywalker, an intelligent commander of Rebel forces, and more than capable of calling Han Solo on his B.S. When she is captured by the gruesome Jabba the Hutt and forced to wear a skimpy costume, she takes back her own freedom, strangling her captor and freeing herself. Leia is one of the toughest and most empowering women in all of popular science fiction.
So it is disconcerting that the popular image of the character for the past three decades has revolved around that skimpy outfit she’s forced to wear during the first act of Return of the Jedi. Out of context, it’s the worst possible way to portray such a beloved character with so much to offer. “Slave Leia” may be iconic, but not necessarily in a good way. However, a new rumor, straight from a veteran Star Wars artist, claims that Disney and Lucasfilm are well aware of this, and that the scantily clad version of the character may soon be retired for good.
This news comes hot on the heels of Fisher telling Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley to stick her guns and not allow any of the new movies to exploit her sexuality. “You should fight for your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I was,” Fisher told her, “You keep fighting against that slave outfit.” It sounds like the woman who wore the “Slave Leia” metal bikini (which recently sold at auction for $96,000) has some awfully strong feelings about it. If that was the defining image of you, and not you kicking Stormtrooper ass, you’d have strong feelings, too.
And that brings us to comic book artist J. Scott Campbell (who has done plenty of Star Wars work in the past) who says that Disney is currently in the process of removing any and all occurrences of “Slave Leia” from future merchandise. Here’s his quote, taken from a Facebook thread (via Making Star Wars):
Daisy Ridley won’t have to fight against anything. Disney is already well on it’s way to wiping out the ‘slave’ outfit from any future products period. You will NOT see and future merchandising featuring the slave outfit ever again. Trust me.
Campbell elaborated further in another comment, claiming that artists aren’t even allowed to draw Leia in a sexy pose:
Very. I’ve heard it from two sources. We can’t even draw Leia in a sexy pose at Marvel, let alone in that outfit! We also had a 3-D SL statue killed at a major manufacturer because there will no longer be any SL merchandise.
Although this is about as far from confirmed as you can get, this carries just enough weight since it comes from someone who has been given marching orders from Disney and Lucasfilm in the past. He even provided a series of variant covers for the first issue of Marvel’s new Star Wars comic, so it’s not like he’s out of the loop. Here’s one of his covers, for the record:
In all honesty, the “Slave Leia” costume being slowly retired can only be a good thing for Star Wars in the long run. With Leia returning to the saga in The Force Awakens as a vital leader of the Resistance (aka, the good guys), most of the new toys and merch will want to play up the fact that she’s a soldier first. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that “Slave Leia” toys exist and that so many fans enjoy cosplaying in that outfit, but it is a problem that it’s become the default version of the character in many instances. The narrative needs to be readjusted.
In any case, this is the kind of choice that gels with the saga’s new direction. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy hasn’t been shy about wanting to inject more diversity into the Star Wars universe and so far, she’s lived up to her word. The Force Awakens stars a woman and a black man. The upcoming Rogue One features an equally diverse ensemble. If Kennedy has her way, a woman will be helming a Star Wars movie very soon, and she’s smart and progressive enough to make it happen. The message is clear: the new Star Wars stories are for everyone, including girls. Your heroes are more than their metal bikinis.
I was recently in a big-box retailer and decided to swing through the toy section to see if the Star Wars toys were still as sold out as ever. They were. Except for the “Slave Leia” toys. They had a ton of those. And those will continue to linger even as Captain Phasma toys fly off the shelves. Welcome to the future. It looks awfully bright.Cool Posts From Around the Web:


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Falguni Nayar's Nykaa has made it to TIME100 most influential companies in the world.
This comes days after Nayar strode into the top 10 list of self-made women billionaires with a massive $7.6 billion wealth. She is the newest entrant in the women billionaires list, according to a compilation released by the Hurun Research Institute.
"Ten years after being founded by entrepreneur Falguni Nayar with the goal of inspiring Indian women, Nykaa has evolved into one of India’s largest cosmetics and lifestyle brands," stated TIME.
"Nearly 10 million people shop there, and a November IPO raised $700 million at a $13 billion valuation—turning Nayar, the CEO, into India’s richest self-made businesswoman. Expansion and marketing led to a 23% drop in net profits in the nine months to December, but revenue grew 65% year-over-year to $376 million," it added.
Which businesses and corporate leaders are shaping our future? The answer to the question was crucial for selecting companies that made it to the TIME100 list this year.
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For two years, Michael Dell was the technology industry's invisible man, toiling behind the scenes to remake the computer maker he founded three decades ago in his University of Texas dorm room.
Now, with his audacious plan to acquire EMC - the largest tech merger in history - Dell, inset, is launching a once-improbable second act. Having helped finance a $25bn deal to take an ailing Dell private in 2013, Dell is teaming up with longtime private equity partner Silver Lake - and taking on considerable corporate debt - in a $67bn bet that EMC's dominance in servers can help him fend off Hewlett-Packard, Amazon and others in the enterprise computing market.
Tech industry second acts have a decidedly mixed record. Steve Jobs rebounded from years in the wilderness and went on to unleash a series of game-changing products on the world. Meg Whitman, who left EBay after failing to reverse a slowdown, is still struggling to turn around HP four years after taking the helm. Dell (50) must prove the case for getting larger when many of his rivals have come to prize agility over size.
Dell was one of the most lionised ceo-entrepreneurs of the 1990s. His signature innovation was a direct sales model that allowed consumers to build their machines online and then get them delivered to the front door.
Sales soared, Dell became one of the best-performing stocks of the decade and its founder-ceo famously suggested that Apple, then struggling, should shut down and give the money back to shareholders.
In 2004, Dell handed the reins to his hard-driving operations chief. Three years later, Dell returned as chief executive after his company lost the PC market lead to HP; later that year he abandoned the pioneering practice of selling products only via the web or by phone.
Tired of dealing with hard questions from Wall Street, Dell decided to take his company private. Even that wasn't easy. Dell had to overcome a frustrated board preparing to appoint a strong second-in-command over his objection, a bid by buyout firm Blackstone Group that may not have included him, and a potential proxy fight by investor Carl Icahn to install a new board that would have replaced him.
Ultimately, Dell prevailed. He has spent the past two years doing things his own way to prepare for a deal like this. That includes paying down debt, giving him more flexibility. He's invested in his core enterprise products of computers and servers - while pouring money into longer-term bets around the general shift to cloud computing and software.
In February, Moody's upgraded Dell and said it was paying down debt faster than expected. The ratings service said revenue growth would probably remain in the single digits for its computer and enterprise groups.
During a call with reporters on Monday to discuss the EMC deal, Dell touted the debt upgrade. He revealed Dell has hired about 2,000 salespeople, noting that remaining private allows him to make investments without an immediate return.
"He doubled down on the focus of the company," said Adriana Karaboutis, who was chief information officer at Dell until last year. "He was very consistent with his message around the products, the customers, the solutions and the service."
Dell pointed to the broader selection of products and services he can offer customers by merging with EMC. The companies complement each other, he said, because EMC has strong relationships with large corporations while Dell has the market for medium-sized companies covered. And Dell is a big maker of servers while EMC's a leading provider of data storage gear. The new company, he said, "will consist of strategically aligned businesses, which will enable increased innovation, customer choice and the ability to attract and retain world-class talent."
Still, Dell risks becoming a slow-moving behemoth when the rest of industry is running in the opposite direction. The new company will have more than $80bn in revenue and tens of billions in debt. Despite complementary businesses, integration will take time - and HP has already said it will use that period to become even more of a threat.
Meanwhile, disruptive competitors such as Amazon are revolutionising the enterprise business by delivering computing power at lower prices over the web. For both Dell and EMC, the main business is selling companies hardware in a "world moving to off-premise, cloud offerings," Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C Bernstein & Co, wrote to investors.
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Sarah’s Dumps owners Sarah and Nathan Williams-Scalise haven’t brought back pop-ups just yet due to the pandemic, but they’re giving Charleston-area dumpling lovers the chance to make their very own Sarah’s Dumps at home with new do-it-yourself kits. Now available online, each kit — which makes 45 traditional dumplings — comes with one package of wrappers (vegan), pre-measured and chopped ingredients, two pairs of stainless steel Korean chopsticks and access to a page with instructions.
Sarah taught virtual dumpling-making classes in April 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, later transitioning to an online business model where she and Nathan delivered 30-packs of frozen dumplings all over Charleston.
“It’s like we’re playing this dump video game and every time we get an order, a social media tag, an email of gratitude or launch a collaboration, it gives us an extra life,” said Sarah, who estimated that she and Nathan hand-make 1,600 dumplings each week. “It floats us through the 12-hour days, the inevitable bickering that life-partners-turned-business-partners have, and the mental villains we face every day.”
The couple hopes to soon bring back in-person classes and pop-ups at local breweries, she said. Until then, the kits give locals a fun and delicious at-home activity.
“The first round is our traditional pork and beef dumps, but if it goes smoothly, maybe we can offer collaborative kits,” Sarah said. “Kits are contactless stoop dropped to people’s homes on the same schedule as our frozen dumps.”
Those who purchase a kit will receive an email with a link and password to a page with cooking instructions, side recommendations and more.
Sarah’s frozen dumplings are available in 30-packs of three different variations — traditional, vegan and buffalo chicken “dumpwing.” You can also find Sarah’s Dumps at Veggie Bin and on the menu at Binky’s Seaside Oyster & Liquor Bar and Charleston Beer Works.
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Scottish business start-up numbers 'rise'
Scottish banks have reported a rise in the number of business start-ups in Scotland.
The Committee of Scottish Bankers (CSCB) said 2,974 new businesses started in the first quarter of 2013, a rise of 9.5% on the previous quarter.
However, the number was 31.9% lower than the same period last year.
The data was based on new businesses that opened accounts with CSCB members RBS, Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Lloyds TSB Scotland.
Businesses classified under Real Estate, Renting and Other Business Activities saw the largest number of start-ups in the first quarter, with 682, followed by Recreational, Personal and Community Service Activities, which recorded 532 new businesses.
There were 473 start-ups in Wholesale and Retail Trade Repairs, while 299 new hotel and restaurant businesses were recorded in the quarter.
Earlier this week, new research suggested Scotland had moved up the international league table in entrepreneurial activity.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 found that total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in Scotland rose last year.
It said activity matched the average for 20 innovation-driven economies.
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A new bill has passed in the New York State Senate that promotes the purchase of state-produced foods. I always try to buy foods and beverages produced in the Empire State, and I'm sure you do as well.
According to our sister station, WIBX:
"New York’s agribusinesses are getting another boost, thanks to the state Senate’s passing of the “Buy From the Backyard Act.”
Co-sponsored by Senator Jim Seward, the bill requires state agencies with food contracts, such as prisons and universities, to buy at least 20 percent of their food from New York sources."
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Yuhan-Kimberly, Korea’s leading hygiene products manufacturer, said its exports increased 28.7 percent to 237.6 billion won ($211.8 million) last year, thanks to strong sales of its diapers and feminine sanitary pads.
Shipments to China, Russia and Turkey accounted for 63 percent, the company said. Products like diapers, sanitary pads and paper towels make up 82 percent.
“Such items could succeed in the world market due to the product quality recognized by choosy Korean consumers,” the company said in a statement.
“Yuhan-Kimberly is striving to drive product innovation by launching new products, normally every six months, to keep up with the rapidly changing tastes of customers.”
Yuhan-Kimberly products on display at a Chinese store. (Yuhan-Kimberly)
A joint venture of Korea’s Yuhan Corp. and Kimberly-Clark Corp., the firm has expanded overseas sales to 54 countries since it made inroads into the Chinese market in 2003.
In 2008, the manufacturer chalked up $100 million in exports of diaper brand Huggies.
According to global market researcher AC Nielsen, the Huggies controls more than 65 and 75 percent shares in premium diaper markets of Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
In Korea, it holds more than 75 percent share in the offline market and between 60 and 65 percent if online markets are taken into account, according to Yuhan-Kimberly, despite intensifying competition with other local makers and those from Japan and the U.S.
The White sanitary pads are available in 24 countries ranging from Russia and Turkey to Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
Yuhan-Kimberly said shipments will increase once it starts operation at its new plant in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, in March.
It also helped suppliers boost exports to nearly 30 billion won last year by localizing materials and broadening networks with them in efforts to shore up their competitiveness and mutual growth, the firm added.
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The Samsung Galaxy S21 series is here, offering a new design, a range of new features, and the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. But there’s one other change that some potential buyers might not be so thrilled about. The Galaxy S21 spells the end of the microSD card slot in Samsung’s flagship phones. None of the models, not even the S21 Ultra, have expandable storage.
I don’t really care, though.
The microSD card was long a convenient and inexpensive way to get additional storage for your phone. And over time, it’s only gotten cheaper. But in 2021, it’s just no longer necessary.
Samsung is, thankfully, making it relatively easy to upgrade the internal storage in your Galaxy S21, so if you think you’re going to need more storage, it’s not overly expensive to get it. The base model of the Galaxy S21 already offers 128GB of storage, which isn’t bad — but if you think you’re going to need extra, it’s only $50 to double that to 256GB. On the Galaxy S21 Ultra, you can jump all the way to 512GB if you wish.
Now, I get that for many people, spending $800 on a smartphone is already a stretch, and that extra $50 can make a difference. But the fact is that it used to be far more expensive just to jump from 64GB to 128GB — and many low-end phones charge a similar amount of money for a whole lot less. Just look at the new Moto G Power, where you’ll pay $50 for an extra 32GB.
And we can’t forget that Samsung’s base prices have gone down this year, a full $200 from the Galaxy S20 series. Upgrade to that 256GB storage option, and you’re still coming out $150 ahead of where you would’ve been with the base Galaxy S20.
Gone are the days when cloud-based apps and services were a novelty, and most people kept their music on their device itself. These days, almost everything is cloud-based, and that’s likely to continue. Music? Spotify? Movies and TV shows? Netflix? Many people even handle basic file storage through Google Drive. And this isn’t a matter of “it’ll happen when 5G gets here” — it’s the case right now with LTE.
Really ,the only thing you need local storage for is apps, and the photos and video you take between time spent on Wi-Fi. And yes, that is an area where you could run into issues, especially if you enjoy lots of mobile gaming and shooting 8K video. But again, if you know that’s what you want from the start — just buy the extra storage.
Cloud storage is no longer the “future” — it’s the present.
Now I realize I’m coming from a place of privilege to not care about local storage that doesn’t incur a recurring cost. And that, perhaps, is the main reason why I would want an SD card slot. But even those who do use local storage for music and videos should be able to get away with using either 128GB or 256GB, even if it means rotating media out every now and then.
Ultimately, doing away with tech like the microSD card slot gets companies like Apple and Samsung closer to the future of portless devices. It may not benefit everyone, but you’ll get used it, as I have. You’ll have to, anyway.
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Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire user base after it failed to put passwords on two of its internet-facing databases.
The China-based app developer left the ElasticSearch databases online without passwords — a U.S.-based database for its international customers; and a Hong Kong-based database containing mostly Chinese users’ data in an effort to comply with China’s data security laws, which requires Chinese citizens’ data to be located on servers inside the country.
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Anyone who knew where to look could access, edit or delete the database using their web browser. And, because the database was listed on Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, they was easily found with a few keywords.
After TechCrunch reached out, Boomoji pulled the two databases offline. “These two accounts were made by us for testing purposes,” said an unnamed Boomoji spokesperson in an email.
But that isn’t true.
The database contained records on all of the company’s iOS and Android users — some 5.3 million users as of this week. Each record contained their username, gender, country, and phone type.
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Each record also included a user’s unique Boomoji ID, which was linked to other tables in the database. Those other tables included if and which school they go to — a feature Boomoji touts as a way for users to get in touch with their fellow students. That unique ID also included the precise geolocation of more than 375,000 users that had allowed the app to know their location at any given time.
Worse, the database contained every phone book entry of every user who had allowed the app access to their contacts.
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One table had more than 125 million contacts, including their names (as written in a user’s phone book) and their phone number....
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Top stories from the domain name business in June 2020.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the domain name business last month. These were five of the top stories on Domain Name Wire:
1. Intel and Metlife terminate their top level domains – Two more big companies have bowed out of the new top level domain program.
2. Registrars: remove phone numbers from Whois – A plea to domain name registrars to save their customers from annoying phone calls, texts and spam emails…
3. Big news: GoDaddy starts redacting Whois information – …speaking of which, GoDaddy has begun masking most information in Whois. It’s now trying to sell customers on protecting their domains from theft instead of buying Whois privacy, which is no longer needed. In case you’re wondering, here’s how spammers find domains to mine.
4. GoDaddy plans layoffs and is closing Austin offices – The pandemic hasn’t been as bad as expected for GoDaddy. However, it’s still laying off a lot of employees and reorganizing outbound sales. Its do-it-for-me social media product has been hit especially hard.
5. Why this odd domain received 227 bids at auction – Usage of these seemingly-random characters might hint at the bidding activity.
Are these domains unstoppable? – I interview Brad Kam, co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, about the pros and cons of its alt-root domains and if there are downsides to “uncensorable” domains.
Security report names domain registrar – Eric Poyton, a security researcher with Awake, discusses his company’s findings of a malware network in which offending domains were all registered through one ICANN-accredited registrar.
Stealing the keys to the internet – Ryan Estrada discusses his crime-caper podcast about ICANN as well as an expired domain story.
The Great Domain Theft – The owner of Tobacco.com talks about how he got the stolen domain back.
The Handshake alternative – Mike Carson explains the registry service he’s creating for Handshake.


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Looking Great in a Bad Economy
Studies reveal which beauty products budget-strapped consumers won’t do without.
By Joanna Cosgrove
The faltering U.S. economy has forced everyone to tighten their proverbial belts and to make tough choices about which purchases are necessity and which are luxury. Oddly enough, the so-called “lipstick index” has proven to be an accurate recession barometer. New market forecasts from Chicago, IL-based Mintel predict cosmetic sales in the U.S. will rise as a result of the recession. In fact, the research firm anticipates a higher growth rate for make-up now than it did just eight months ago (10% over the next five years versus 7%). Though the beauty and personal care sector is struggling overall, Mintel sees some very bright spots, including color cosmetics.
Some women won't skimp when it comes to beauty routines.
Another area expected to weather the recession is anti-aging beauty. Mintel expected sales of anti-aging skincare products to increase 20% over the next five years. One year ago, Mintel forecast 44% five-year growth, but the adjusted market forecast is significant given the current economic climate.
The sun care products is another category expected to experience healthy growth, with sales expected to increase 36% from 2008 to 2013. This is a slight decline from Mintel’s original market forecast of 41% growth, but it still shows that consumers are keen on following dermatologists’ advice to use sunscreen daily.
Mintel said multi-use products also stand to do well. Products such as Clinique’s Youth Surge SPF 15 Age Decelerating Moisturizer, for example, claims multiple benefits: slowing the signs of aging, repairing and strengthening skin and providing sun protection.
And rounding out the types of products expected to survive the recession crunch is convenience products. Today’s women are on-the-go now more than ever. Between demanding careers, raising kids and hectic schedules, they need convenient products to suit their busy schedules. Mintel Beauty Innovation reported that more than one in four (27%) skin care products launched in Q1 2009 boasted “convenience” claims. An example of this trend is Johnson & Johnson Clean & Clear Facial Cleansing Wipes, which come in a portable plastic package and claim to instantly dissolve dirt, water and makeup without water or rinsing.
Though the aforementioned market segments should hold strong throughout the recession, other beauty and personal care markets may not.
“Shoppers are trading down to save money on purchases they don’t deem necessary. So everything beyond deodorant, shampoo and razors is at risk,” stated Ms. Holleran. “Personal care companies need to focus on value, feel-good benefits and new product innovation to keep shoppers interested.”
Just because consumers are in search of value, doesn’t mean that they will forgo $300 anti-aging creams and $35lipsticks in favor of lesser priced drug and mass market store alternatives. In fact, department store beauty products are definitely safe, but they will see declining profits, said Taya Tomasello, senior analyst, Mintel.
“What we’ve seen is that most women…will absolutely not compromise on at least one product in their beauty regimen. It might be the $300 anti-aging cream that they have seen benefits from—it may be the $45 shampoo that does wonders for their dry, brittle hair.But they will continue to buy that product and maybe trade down on others. And they will certainly get all they can out of that $300 bottle,” she said.
“Where department store brands can entice consumers to spend more during this time is to offer more value,” she continued. “I’ve heard from beauty advisors behind the counters that when bonus time comes around, it’s selling out in record time! So they’ll definitely survive, but they’ve got to know that they will be taking a hit during this time.”
Ms. Tomasello pointed to prestige brands like Benefit, Prescriptives and Smashbox which have pulled together product bundles that offer the consumer more products at a reduced cost.“This is very important for them to attract customers at this time,” she said.
At the same time, department store brands must also be conscious of the growing competition from the mass channels, where mass brands are mirroring department store brand product claims - and consumers are taking notice. One mass brand that’s generated a huge buzz thanks to its science-based marketing claims is Olay’s ProX. Despite its $45-$65 cost per SKU, the brand is selling very well.
“I’m very intrigued by the study of sirtuins and any product…claiming to affect sirtuin genes in our skin,” commented Ms. Tomasello. “They are proof that department store brands need to keep their eye on what is happening in mass.”


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iPhone maker Apple Inc. has unveiled the third beta version of the iOS 5 platform for developers with the view of closing the final release of the OS in September.
The new version of the product is going to replace the beta 2 version, which was made available to developers on June 24, this year. The beta 3 version brings along with it added Wi-Fi sync abilities, as well as brand new beta version of the system software for iPad, iPhone and the iPod Touch with a few tweaks here and there, and also a few bug fixes.
One key remarkable change offered by the new product, according to this Macrumors report, are - the ability to turn on and off various location based services, without making any changes to the status of the traffic tools.
Not only that, the company has also included an option to grant or dismiss the access to location based services during the first setting up of an iOS device itself.
Apple, along with the key rival Google, was criticised by various privacy groups earlier when it was discovered in April that the iOS and Android operating systems featured in them tracking files which were unknown to the users.


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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Why Hearst has reason to thank the global Cosmopolitan woman
By Joshua Chaffin
Every two years, editors from the 58 foreign editions of Cosmopolitan magazine descend on Hearst Corporation's Manhattan headquarters for a global summit. And each time, George Green notices that the Cosmo girls from around the world seem to be growing ever more alike.
"If you walk down the street here on Eighth Avenue or in Beijing or Singapore, women look the same. They're wearing the same jeans, they're listening to the same music," says Mr Green, chief executive of Hearst Magazines International. "They don't want to be American but they want to be more like their American sister than ever before."
For nearly two decades, Mr Green has ridden that trend as he has spread Cosmopolitan and other Hearst magazines - including Esquire and Good Housekeeping - around the globe. The company now boasts nearly 200 foreign editions. This year, they are expected to post double-digit growth and account for about a third of the Hearst magazine group's profits - up from about 10 per cent five years ago.
That contribution is particularly welcome at a time when consumer magazines are under pressure in the US. They are facing new challenges for readers and advertisers from the internet. With about 90 per cent of their sales coming through subscriptions, they are also suffering higher postage costs.
"The international business is better than ever," Mr Green says, pointing to places such as eastern Europe and Asia, where growing economies are giving consumers new appetites for luxury items.
As it seeks to expand its global footprint, Hearst is looking at a more developed market: the UK. It has bid £700m ($1.43bn) for the consumer magazine group at Emap, which includes such titles as Heat and FHM.
The deal would bolster Hearst's wholly owned subsidiary, The National Magazine Company, which publishes Cosmo and 18 other titles in the UK. It would also bring the company full circle. The privately held publishing group first ventured outside the US in 1910 when founder William Randolph Hearst bought Nash and Pall Mall.
When Mr Green took the helm of the newly established international division in 1989, he focused primarily on licensing Hearst's famous brands rather than outright acquisitions. The strategy, he says, was more akin to extending an already successful magazine than the risky business of launching new titles.
Along the way, Mr Green has chosen to give an extraordinary amount of autonomy to editors in places such as China and Kazakhstan - allowing them to determine whether the word "orgasm" can appear on their covers and other sensitivities - rather than sending in US editors to oversee them. "I don't have anyone anywhere and I don't have any intention of changing that," Mr Green says.
The more important task for Hearst has been finding the right local partner. One unhappy experience came in Turkey in the mid-1990s when Hearst bought a one-third stake in a newspaper and magazine publisher. "It was making a lot of money," Mr Green recalls. Unfortunately, the Turkish partners also owned a bank, which failed after the financial crisis in the late 1990s. The government stepped in, seizing the bank, and the publishing group along with it.
The pain of that venture, though, has been offset by Hearst's success in places such as Russia, where it contributed $75,000 to a Cosmopolitan joint venture in 1994. In spite of the lean times following the country's debt default in 1998, it now generates more than $100m a year in revenue, and has provided a launching pad into markets such as Ukraine and Georgia.
"It's gut," Mr Green said of his talent for choosing foreign partners. "I think your gut is the accumulation of all the experience you've had in your life."
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Last night’s State of the Union featured two paragraphs on international trade. Let’s not get into a discussion of whether that’s too little or too much for a speech that’s about economic opportunity and job growth, especially for a state like Washington where 40% of all jobs are tied to international trade…OK, I guess we got into that a little bit. But that’s not the point of this blog post.
Let’s talk about those two paragraphs, though. The second paragraph was relatively direct:
Even as we protect our people, we should remember that today’s world presents not only dangers, but opportunities. To boost American exports, support American jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia, we intend to complete negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership. And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union – because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs.
That’s actually not only tangible but good news. There was some uncertainty about whether the Obama Administration would proceed with a US-EU FTA, and now it’s official.
The first paragraph on trade was more subtle, however:
After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan. Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. After locating plants in other countries like China, Intel is opening its most advanced plant right here at home. And this year, Apple will start making Macs in America again.
This section is notable because it never uses the word imports or outsourcing, but rather talks about manufacturing job growth. The thing is, it’s conflating two things that aren’t entirely related. Let’s parse!
First, “After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.” This is a great thing. We love manufacturing jobs, particularly because of their high wages and the high multiplier effects they have throughout the economy. Here in Washington state, about 10% of our employment is in manufacturing.
But then, the rest of the paragraph talks about examples of onshoring work that has been done abroad. Again, fantastic stuff. These investments by leading corporations are a sign that our country is increasing the competitiveness of its infrastrucutre and education and business climate issues…or at least benefitting from global trends like rising Asian wages and increasing fuel/shipping costs that make domestic manufacturing more affordable.
HOWEVER, we want to make sure we don’t miss the (false) connection that is being made that there’s a dichotomy between domestic manufacturing employment vs. global supply chains. One of the findings of the International Competitiveness Strategy is that about 25% of our state’s trade related employment is tied to imports…including jobs in manufacturing. By leveraging global supply chains, Washington companies with retail and manufacturing facilities here can actually increase their success in the global marketplace, and therefore increase domestic hiring in the kind of high-wage, high skill jobs that Americans truly benefit from. We’ve seen that here in Washington with significant increases in Boeing employment, even while Boeing is using global partnerships for some pieces of their airplanes. The jobs in final assembly and related manufacturing have been growing as 80-90% of those airplanes are then sold to foreign customers.
So, hurray Trans-Pacific Partnership & Transatlantic Trade Agreement. And hurray examples of onshoring. But ALSO, hurray successful leveraging of global supply chains that help our companies increase their success and grow jobs for our state’s residents.


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Category : News
NAFA Fleet Management Association is to run two one-day, back-to-back workshops on Developing Fleet Policies and Creating Sustainable Fleets.
A new Cost of Collisions Calculator is now available on The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) website to help employers measure their company’s cost of crashes.
SEAT has teamed up with urban mobility and parking solutions provider Saba to trial a new solution that can deliver drivers’ grocery shopping directly to their car.
Arval France managing director François-Xavier Castille has taken on the newly created role director of international development with immediate effect.
Groupe PSA is to introduce a fourth production team and hire nearly 600 temporary employees by May 2018 at its Sevelnord plant in Hordain, France.
Electric and hybrid vehicles accounted for more than half of Norway’s new car market during 2017, while petrol and diesel volumes were outpaced by plug-ins for the first time.
A new service that can manage all business-related travel costs and make recommendations for optimising employee mobility is now available from TMC.
Kia Motors has confirmed the new Niro EV will have a “substantially larger range” than the competing Hyundai Ioniq.
Autonomous Hyundai models are to be tested in pilot smart cities across the globe from early next decade.
BMW is to offer real-time safety alerts from mid-2018 under a partnership with digital maps provider Here Technologies.
Global fleet management professionals have just weeks left to submit entries for NAFA’s 2018 Fleet Excellence Awards.
A new environmental low emission zone (LEZ) has come into force in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 Jan 2018, which could lead to drivers facing large fines for non compliance.
The number of road deaths in Ireland fell 15% in 2017, according to new figures published by the country’s Road Safety Authority (RSA).
Commercial vehicle registrations across the EU continued to grow in November despite a downturn in pace.
Deutsche Post DHL Group is trialling particulate filters on StreetScooter test vans, said to create the first emissions-neutral vehicle.
Nissan’s head of leasing, specialist fleet sales and rental Michael Stewart has joined Hyundai Motor UK as its new fleet director.
Berlin’s public transportation authority, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), has teamed up with the ViaVan joint venture between Mercedes-Benz Vans and US technology start-up Via to introduce on-demand ridesharing to Berlin.
Volkwagen’s new e-Crafter van has started fleet trials with an international group of major customers.
Daimler has acquired a majority stake in French Uber rival Chauffeur Privé, with a view to fully acquiring it by 2019.
Leasys, FCA Bank’s contract hire company, is continuing its drive for international expansion with its launch into Belgium as it looks to become one of the top five European Contract Hire players within the …
Telematics firm ABAX is continuing its European expansion plans with the acquisition of Danish tracking firm Fleetfinder for an undisclosed amount.
Honda will unveil a prototype of the next Insight hybrid at the Detroit Motor Show, featuring a new two-motor hybrid system aimed at rivalling the economy of the Toyota Prius and Hyundai Ioniq.
Volkswagen Group subsidiary, Electrify America, is to install 2,800 electric vehicle charging points in 17 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States during the next 18 months.
Belgium’s UNIT-E charging network has added 25 rapid chargers along key routes spanning between the French and Dutch borders, enabling easier long-distance travel for electric vehicles.
Groupe Renault and China’s Brilliance have confirmed a deal on a joint venture to manufacture and sell LCVs in China under the Jinbei, Renault and Huasong brands.
Emissions Analytics has extended its EQUA Index programme to test electric vehicles.
Automotive parts and technology company, Denso, has acquired American company InfiniteKey, with a view to developing systems enabling smartphones to be used instead of vehicle keys.
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has confirmed that Dimitris Tripospitis will take on the role of general manager fleet from 1 January.


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Nvidia is happy, as the company has more than doubled its profit in Q3. Graphzilla earned $235 million, or 38 cents per share, vs. $106.5 million, or 27 cents per share at this time last year.
Nvidia did better than Wall Street had expected, as its shares went up 8.1 percent of $2.76 in extended trading Thursday. We are sure that Nvidia will go further up today as it closed at a disappointing $33.84, almost 5 percent down prior this announcement. Intel, AMD, Google and Apple went down at the same time, so this was something that hit all tech companies and set Google back below the $700 mark.
Chief Financial Officer, Marvin Burkett, told investors that Nvidia was largely able to overcome manufacturing limitations during Q3 but he confirmed that Nvidia cannot produce enough chips to meet demand.
Nvidia’s notebook graphics chips sales are up 120 percent year over year, while desktop sales increased by 33 percent. Nvidia has never done better and we expect that Q4 will be even better. You can read more about it here.


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Once upon a time, a tiny company called VoodooPC built some of the most incredible gaming computers around. Now, its owner HP is paying homage with the Omen — the first serious gaming laptop the company has ever made.
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As reported, Intel and Nokia had a big fancy announcement to tell everyone that they're going to be doing something together in the future—the specifics of which wasn't important (or defined) enough to mention today.
Sony has just trotted out the Vaio NW, their new line of Blu-ray equipped, mid-market notebooks, and at 3cm, they are quite slim too.