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2012 was the year the rot set in at Apple. The core of the problem was its flagship iPhone. (Let’s not even mention the iPad Mini.) After years of innovation, the 5’s splashiest feature was…a bigger screen that simply aped Android rivals. Its slim connector rendered current accessories redundant, while the Maps app was so woeful, it sent anyone looking for Berlin to Antarctica. Suddenly, carrying an iPhone no longer conveyed instant cachet but rather a helpless submission to the whims of Cupertino nerds, more conformism than effortless cool. This year looks to be even more bruising as Apple preps for a juicy battle with an old rival that’s finally fighting back: BlackBerry.
Sure, even the most dedicated keyboard apologist will admit that manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) lost its edge with a clunky operating system, unexciting handsets and a worldwide service outage that tainted BlackBerry’s rep for rugged reliability. But RIM has jettisoned its CEO and streamlined its workforce, reshaping the 29-year-old company into something more akin to a start-up. And now, RIM is launching new handsets and a reimagined OS.
Until recently, the company relied on an OS built a decade ago for two-way paging devices that strained to cope with data-heavy smartphones. Think of it like splicing a Skoda engine into a Ferrari. The answer was simple: Rebuild the entire OS, reengineering it for the future of mobile computing. Some of the tech tricks are useful, if unshowy—the QNX platform makes it faster and easier to update software, for example—but others may make Apple acolytes envious. Time Shift is a camera tweak that auto-detects people in a photo and lets you scroll before and after a shot to correct blinking or red eye; astonishingly, you can do it one face at a time. BlackBerry Balance is like cellphone schizophrenia. With one swipe, you can switch from a work to a personal setup, so those dealing with sensitive information, like lawyers, no longer need to juggle two handsets.
“Smartphones are an extension of you, a personal brand, and the problem is that Android and Apple are becoming almost indistinguishable—touchscreens with lots of apps. It means you’re now just part of a herd,” says Kyle McInnes of fan site Blackberrycool.com. “But BlackBerry 10 is speaking to a very particular type: It’s all about action, productivity, a tool for entrepreneurs.”
RIM’s shot at Apple might succeed, given the device’s resilience elsewhere in the world. In Indonesia, fans camp out overnight before the newest hand-set is released, and in Nigeria an entire movie, BlackBerry Babes, centered around women harassing their boyfriends to buy them the devices. And when a snapshot of a down-to-business Hillary Clinton became a viral meme, she wasn’t holding an iDevice. Power brokers, Hillary made clear, had never abandoned the BlackBerry. As Kevin Michaluk of Crackberry.com explains, “BlackBerry is for people who have shit to do and need to get it done. The iOS was really for people who didn’t have enough to do and were looking to kill time.”
Among BlackBerry’s loyalists are the fashion pack. Stylist and TV personality Joe Zee, who resisted the lure of Apple until recently, still hasn’t let go of the stalwart on which he’s written entire columns. “In the front row, everyone does work on a BlackBerry— until the show starts, and then they switch to an iPhone to take pictures.” (Time Shift is an answer to that.)
Finally, it seems that even for technology, the adage “Everything old is new again” could apply. Paul Birardi of Odin New York Menswear remembers being at a meeting with 13 or 14 people, “and I was the only person with a BlackBerry,” he says. “And someone said, ‘Oh, my God, you’re carrying vintage.’ ”


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African women are the backbone of their continent and a credible alternative for a new and more humane society. That's why Italy is supporting their nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize 2011.
For years the Internet has been a tool for watching videos on YouTube, social networking, reading the news, and checking one's emails. Today, it is being promoted to have a new functionality: instrument of peace. The Internet is being backed on a global scale for a nomination of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Here are the details…
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Onix Strengthens its Collaboration with Google Cloud to Provide Advanced GenAI Capabilities and Solutions
The leading cloud consulting company accelerates customer innovation with new generative AI-powered solutions
- This collaboration aims to introduce generative AI-powered solutions that drive innovation and enhance efficiency for shared customers.
- As one of the inaugural launch partners for Google Cloud's revolutionary genAI-powered experiences, Onix will offer comprehensive AI strategy consulting and delivery services.
- These services will enable customers to navigate the realm of safe and ethical genAI deployments, effectively optimizing their business operations.
- "Generative AI consulting and delivery capabilities from Onix will bring new and innovative solutions to organizations across industries," says Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate VP, Global Ecosystem and Channels at Google Cloud.


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At More Than 1,300 Pounds, Fritos® Corn Chips Sets Guinness World Record® For Largest Fritos Chili Pie® At State Fair of Texas®
October 1, 2012
Pepsi Co. press release
Thousands of excited fair attendees today gathered in Big Tex Circle at the State Fair of Texas® to watch the Fritos brand cook up the world’s largest Fritos Chili Pie® in celebration of Fritos® corn chips’ 80th anniversary. Weighing in at 1,325 pounds – featuring 635 bags of Fritos chips (10 1/2 ounces each), 660 cans of Hormel® Chili without Beans (15 ounces each) and 580 bags of shredded cheddar cheese (8 ounces each) – the Guinness World Records® title was officially set for the biggest-ever Fritos Chili Pie, which yielded approximately 5,000 single-serve samples for fair attendees.


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(Reuters) – Deliveroo shares rose on Wednesday, the first day retail investors could trade stock bought during the food delivery group’s initial public offering (IPO), while some of its riders cycled through London to demand fair pay.
At 1411 GMT on the first day of unrestricted trading, Deliveroo’s shares were up 2.1% at 286 pence, but still about 25% lower than the IPO price, following a hefty first day tumble when it made its stock market debut in London last week.
Deliveroo was given an initial valuation of 7.6 billion pounds ($10.46 billion) through a 390 pence price tag per share.
“Though Deliveroo has risen…on the first day of trading available to retail investors, it’s too soon to tell whether this is a vote of confidence in the stock,” said Connor Campbell, an analyst at Spreadex.
“The real test for the company is going to be the coming months.”
About 100 cyclists and moped riders rode from Shoreditch in East London to Deliveroo’s headquarters in the City on Wednesday, asking for fair pay and basic workers’ rights during a demonstration organised by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB).
“Sometimes I’m able to earn a living wage that I’m comfortable with for one shift. And then the next shift I can go out and work for hours, and literally earn nothing,” Kerry Hargadon, 25, who has been a Deliveroo rider for six years, told Reuters.
“5 POUNDS AN HOUR”
Musician Jason Bond, 32, who started riding for Deliveroo when work dried up at the start of the pandemic, said that while some shifts brought in decent pay, others left him with less than the minimum wage.
“You can be earning 5 pounds an hour,” he said.
A Deliveroo spokesperson said that in a survey carried out on Tuesday, 88% of riders said they were happy with the company.
“This small self appointed union (IWGB) does not represent the vast majority of riders who tell us they value the total flexibility they enjoy while working with Deliveroo alongside the ability to earn over £13 an hour,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
The poor stock market debut in London, which saw around two billion pounds wiped off Deliveroo’s valuation, came after heavyweight investors such as Aberdeen Standard Life and Aviva sat the deal out, citing concerns about gig-economy working conditions and the outsized voting rights that will be handed to founder Will Shu.
Antonio De Negri, founder and CEO of London financial boutique Cirdan Capital said the company needed to recoup this lost value.
“One solution could be, for example, to offer part of the shares with more voting rights to those institutional investors interested in the business model of the British platform,” he said.
“SMILING THROUGH THE PAIN”
Still, for some investors, the gig-economy model remains shaky at best, with workers considered independent contractors with few legal rights and benefits.
In March, Uber Technologies announced following a court defeat that it would offer guaranteed entitlements to its more than 70,000 UK drivers, including holiday pay, a pension plan and limited minimum wage.
Deliveroo said in its IPO prospectus that it is involved in legal proceedings in a number of countries as it faces challenges around the status of its drivers.
Small retail investors who bought shares via a “community” share offer, allowing Deliveroo’s customers to participate in the listing, were hurt by the first day losses as London Stock Exchange rules prevented them from trading until today.
“I am smiling through the pain and going to hold. I will ride it to 0 if I have to,” said Sam Elliot, a London-based primatologist who invested 250 pounds.
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(Reporting by Julien Ponthus, Abhinav Ramnarayan, Paul Sandle, Elizabeth Howcraft and Danilo Masoni; Chart by Ritvik Carvalho; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)


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Financial markets have taken fright after Donald Trump fired the latest shots in an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies by announcing $60bn (£42.5bn) of further tariffs on China.
Amid relief in Brussels that the EU had won a temporary reprieve from Trump’s already announced action to protect the US from imports of steel and aluminium, Wall Street braced itself for retaliation from Beijing.
Trump told reporters that the US trade deficit with Beijing was out of control at about $504bn.
“It is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world. It’s out of control,” the US president said as he signed a memorandum. “We have a tremendous intellectual property theft situation going on, which likewise is hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Just 24 hours before tariffs were to be enforced on the EU, the Trump administration announced it was exempting the bloc, along with Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea, while trade talks with those nations were ongoing.
The Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, welcomed the development in a tweet from a summit of EU leaders in Brussels. “A trade war would have damaged both sides,” he said.
About £35bn worth of Chinese imports to the US will be affected by tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium.
The White House said Trump would direct the office of the US trade representative to publish a new list of proposed tariffs within 15 days. They are likely to cover sectors such as robotics, hi-tech trains and aerospace. There will then be 30 days for responses. In January Trump imposed tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
Peter Navarro, director of the office of trade and manufacturing policy, told reporters the US was “strategically defending itself [from] … economic aggression”.
US stock markets reacted negatively, with the Dow Jones dropping more than 300 points on Thursday. Caterpillar, 3M and Boeing – all with significant exposure to China – were among the biggest fallers. Bank and tech stocks also fell. At one point, the index was down 500 points, though by lunchtime in the US it had recovered on news that the tariffs would be subject to a period of consultation to be down 1.1% or 287 points. The FTSE-100 closed down 86 at 6952.59 – the first time the index has closed below 7,000 since December 2016.
China has warned it would take “all necessary measures” to defend itself. Hua Chunying, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, referred to imports of US soybeans, aeroplanes, cotton and cars, saying they could be viewed as examples of unequal trade. The US also “refuses to export what China wants”, she said, possibly referring to restrictions on technology and military sales.
“We are firmly against unilateralism and protectionism. China will not watch our legal interest being harmed,” Hua added.
Dozens of industry groups signed an open letter to the White House last weekend warning that “the imposition of sweeping tariffs would trigger a chain reaction of negative consequences for the US economy, provoking retaliation; stifling US agriculture, goods and services exports, and raising costs for businesses and consumers”.
The EU has argued in recent months that as a close ally of the US it should be exempt, and had threatened to impose a series of retaliatory measures including import duties on their products.
Speaking before Trump’s comments, the US trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, told a Senate committee that the president had personally decided “to pause the imposition of tariffs with respect to those countries” with which trade talks were ongoing.
Trump has had few kind words to say about the EU, claiming it had made life difficult for US exporters.
Earlier this month he told reporters: “The European Union has been particularly tough on the United States. They make it almost impossible for us to do business with them.”
As the proposed further tariffs on China were unveiled Trump called for the EU to respond to his temporary amnesty with a willingness to cut tariffs on US exports to Europe. The EU’s response is among topics on the agenda at an EU leaders summit dinner on Thursday.
Cecilia Malmström, the EU commissioner for trade, held two days of talks with her US counterpart, Wilbur Ross, before the announcement.
The reprieve for the EU was only given a cautious welcome by British steel makers.
Gareth Stace, the director of UK Steel, warned that US protectionism would still have a heavy impact on European countries unless Brussels took its own measures to stem the flow of aluminium and steel into the EU.
“Tariffs are set to divert millions of tonnes of steel away from the US towards other open markets,” he said. “At 40m tonnes a year, the EU is by far the largest import market in the world and will be the obvious target for major steel exporters to the US such as Turkey and Russia.”
He added: “The top priority here must be for the [European] commission to swiftly introduce safeguard measures to guard against further expected import surges.”


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2022. 08. 03
Development of a disinfection Robot Harmless to the Human Body and Targeting the Global Market
Hyundai Robotics, which has been leading the domestic industrial robot market for the past 30 years, has recently introduced serving robots and disinfection robot to the market one after another, and is evolving into a "mobile service robot" company.
Starting with supplying a serving robot jointly developed with KT to the Daegu Marriott Hotel in March 2021, Hyundai Robotics has been supplying autonomous serving robots used in hotels and restaurants, and plans to develop and release a disinfection robot harmless to the human body for the first time in Korea.
While most of the disinfection robots on the market so far have limitations that they cannot operate in the same space as humans due to human hazards, the Hyundai quarantine robot, which is scheduled to be released this time, applies a "plasma" sterilization method to enable face-to-face quarantine.
This product is equipped with eight types of sensors to detect and remove ultra-fine dust and organic compounds (TVOcS), and has various functions and customer convenience, such as checking air quality status at a glance through a 10-inch LED screen at the top of the product.
This functional advantage can be applied mainly to the lobby or office space of buildings, especially in complex commercial buildings, hospitals, schools, etc., where it is difficult to install air purifiers or sterilizers, so it is expected to replace dozens of air purifiers used per building.
In addition, it has passed domestic and foreign institutional certification for 10 harmful bacteria and 5 harmful gases that cause viral diseases such as COVID-19, and the amount of ozone generated is also significantly lower than that of other companies.
The product has received high attention from domestic and foreign customers since it was first introduced at the Hannovermesse 2022 in Germany, and has been recognized for its high product power by promoting joint business with Vodafone, Europe's largest telecommunication company.
Seo Kyung-seok, head of Hyundai Robotics' service robot division, said, "I think Hyundai Robotics will play a leading role in the rapidly growing service robot market, and it will be a future flagship business with sales of 40 trillion won in sales within the next 10 years."
Product inquiries can be made through Hyundai Robotics Service Robot Agency and Email (firstname.lastname@example.org).
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Snap ($SNAP), the disappearing-message-chat app that has become a $22 billion publicly-traded company that's in a process of reinventing itself as Instagram and others chase its tail, recently announced that it would be laying off about 100 people. According the CNBC, these layoffs would consist largely of engineers.
This is the first time Snap has laid off engineers, and it's a sign that the company's change in strategy runs deeper than simple marketing. The company recently redesigned its app (much to the chagrin of many of its users) and is rumored to be gearing up to release another iteration of its Spectacle video glasses.
Despite the layoffs, however, the company is still hiring. This is probably a sign, then, that these layoffs are more the result of a change in company focus and strategy than contraction. In fact, as of today, the company has 159 job openings listed on its site.
The number-one category they're looking to fill? Engineering, by a long shot, followed by Sales & Marketing in a distant second.
In fact, Snap engineering hiring has been on an uptick for a long time, especially since the new year when, one could surmise, company higher-ups made some tough decisions about where they'd be going from a product and engineering standpoint.
In other words, it looks like Snap is looking to replace many of its engineers with... engineers. Just of a different sort.


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Wipro Shopper Care and Lights is thinking about withdrawing sanitisers from the marketplace as the desire for these types of products has dwindled due to lessen in Covid-19 severity.
The business may possibly also withdraw some variants of other categories that were introduced through the pandemic, reported Vineet Agarwal, chief executive officer of Wipro Consumer Care. He, on the other hand, did not give details on the merchandise the company is preparing to withdraw from the current market.
“The only product which is probable to be pulled off is sanitisers,” Agarwal stated, including: “Sanitisers, definitely, gave us great profits in the two FY21 and FY22. But that is pretty much down to zero… Other types and some variants that we had launched will be eliminated.”
The firm is seeking to just take the acquisition route to strengthen its foothold in the current market that it is previously current in. The maker of Santoor soaps programs to deepen its existence in acquiring international locations like the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. “We can look at much more acquisitions in these regions to make our presence stronger,” Agarwal explained. The business will also search at acquisitions in India as properly.
“Fortunately, from March, international vacation has resumed and, hence, we will be able to evaluate a variety of providers a lot much better,” he said.
The acquisitions the company plans to make will be in its present types — individual care, skincare, and residence treatment.
Wipro Buyer Care Ventures, the expenditure vertical of the firm, has invested and its overall investment decision is just shy of Rs 100 crore.
“We are fairly satisfied with the efficiency of that fund.
We are now open to devote in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam and Indonesia,” Agarwal reported.
Wipro Purchaser Care Undertaking only picks stake in begin-ups, the corporation does not intend to purchase these firms to run them but discover from these firms to get a improved comprehension of the emerging developments.
In FY22, the company’s earnings stood at Rs 8,630 crore. It sees 52 for every cent of its revenues from its global operations and 48 for each cent from the India enterprise. The cleaning soap model Santoor, its second-largest soap model in India, crossed Rs 2,000 crore last calendar year, Agarwal said. In conditions of current market share, Santoor is amount 1 in five states — Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.
Agarwal stated the desire was impacted in March and April, but recovered in June. The rural need was strike a lot more than urban demand from customers due to inflation.
He, even so, stated the cooling off of commodity rates, coupled with the reduction in gas costs and a great monsoon, would revive the need.


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It has been quite obvious that there was quite a backlash from the 3DS, various complaints were heard regarding such things as battery life. However, the console still sold well, with over 15million units sold. Read on to see what Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said on the matter.
Despite the growth of mobile gaming, there remains a strong market for traditional handhelds, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said. And it seems he is right!
“Last summer, when the sales pace of the Nintendo 3DS was slow, there were extreme remarks saying, ‘With the penetration of smartphones, will there still be a market for handheld hardware?’ which was almost equal to ‘Handheld hardware is not necessary anymore'” he told investors.
“I believe we proved that such opinions are incorrect.”
The 3DS was quite an expensive console in it’s launch, with a sales slump, Iwata had been forced to cut the price of the 3DS in order to pull the system out of its spiralling decent, Nintendo has been making a loss on each system sold, but this won’t be the case for much longer.
“In the first half of the next fiscal term (starting April), we are now anticipating to get out of the situation that we sell the hardware below cost,” confirmed Iwata.
Could this possibly lead to more, and better, game support for the system and maybe even a price cut? Do let us know what you think in the comments section below.


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Inflation witnesses slight ease in the beginning of April
ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on April 3 for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000 registered a increase of 0.09 per cent as compared to the previous week, ARY News reported.
The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned group was recorded at 204.91 points against 204.72 points registered in the previous week, according to data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
The weekly SPI has been computed with base 2007-2008=100, covering 17 urban centers and 53 essential items for all income groups and combined.
The SPI for the combined group decreased by 0.03 per cent as it went down from 212.78 points in the previous week to 212.72 points in the week under review.
As compared to the last week, the SPI for the income groups from Rs.8001-12,000, Rs.12,001-18,000 and above Rs.35,000 increased by 0.09 per cent, 0.04 per cent, 0.37 per cent and 0.17 percent respectively while the income group Rs.18001-35,000 remained stable.
During the week under review average prices of 14 items registered decrease, while that of 15 items increase with the remaining 24 items' prices unchanged.
According to the data disclosed by PBS, the items which prices rose during the week included: onions (4.10 per cent), potatoes (3.95 per cent), milk fresh (2.11 per cent), chicken (1.71 per cent), moong pulse washed (1.02 per cent), curd (0.72 per cent), salt powder (0.63 per cent), red chillies loose (0.52 per cent), gur (0.37 per cent), mash pulse washed (0.28 per cent), wheat (0.26 per cent), bananas (0.10 per cent) and mutton (0.04 per cent).


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Consumers plan more time with shopping apps, less time at stores
There may be slightly shorter queues at checkouts and more parking spaces this year. According to a new report from PriceGrabber, fewer consumers intend to spend their time traipsing around the mall this year and, instead, plan to use apps to improve the shopping experience.
Almost half of U.S. online shoppers plan to make fewer trips to the stores for holiday gift purchases this year, says PriceGrabber. Instead, many will make use of shopping apps on their mobile device.
Of the 2,469 respondents to PriceGrabber's survey, almost a third (31%) already have shopping apps on their mobile device, of which 82% plan to use them when buying holiday gifts this year. Furthermore, 32% plan to download new shopping apps as the holiday season approaches.
Coupon apps were the type of shopping app most popular with respondents with 70% planning to download one in the coming weeks. Comparison shopping apps (66%), price check apps with the ability to scan barcodes (63%) and apps specifically developed to searching for Black Friday deals were also planned downloads in preparation for holiday shopping.
"Instead of clipping coupons, shoppers are scouring the internet and turning to their mobile devices to find the best deals. Our survey data states that 82 percent of consumers who already have shopping-related apps will use them in an effort to save money when purchasing gifts this season," said Rojeh Avanesian, vice president of marketing and analytics of PriceGrabber.
"With mobile shopping growing at a rapid rate, it will be interesting to see how retailers will gain the shoppers' attention in the competitive mobile market space this holiday season."
According to Accenture's latest annual Holiday Shopping Survey, released this week, more than half of shoppers (56%) said they intend to arm themselves with a mobile device in-store so they can research and purchase items online.
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The new PUBG Mobile update is going live on Android
Fans have been waiting around for it but now it looks like the brand new PUBG Mobile update is going live.
Android users are confirming the downloading arriving in their regions, so you can expect it to drop into mobile stores for everyone very soon.
While the new update is now rolling out on Android, iOS players appear to be waiting still.
It’s likely that the game will start popping up soon on Apple devices, although there’s no guarantee how long the wait may be.
The new PUBG Mobile update adds a heap of new content to the game, which has proved very popular with Battle Royale.
The free-to-play title now includes a first-person mode, which is one of the big new features.
Players will also be able to view new weapons in the game’s armoury mode, as well as play a new arcade mode.
The new mini-zone map will be live as soon as you download the new update, and adds more speed to the normal Battle Royale experience.
Players can also expect a new post-match results screen, not to mention the ability to mute individual teammates.
Tencent have also been teasing the new Royale Pass Season 1, which will include new unlockable cosmetic rewards.
As mentioned above, while the Android download is now rolling out, it doesn’t mean all players will get it at the same time.
There could be a wait for some who live in different areas, with India apparently one of the first places to get the new patch.
For those who want to read about all the new features and changes coming to PUBG Mobile, you can find the official patch notes below.
PUBG Mobile update 0.6.0 patch notes...
- 1st person perspective
- Royale Pass Season 1
- Mini-Zone: A smaller map, more resources & air drops!(New Arcade Mode)
- Weapon & airplane skins
- View weapons in the Armory
- Pistols now get their own UI
- Melee weapons can destroy tires
PATCH NOTES CONTINUED...
- Individual teammates can be muted
- Post-match results screen
- Tier Protection System
- Asian character models
- Able to link 2 social networks
- Added room cards
- New items in the shop
- Items can be gifted
It follows news of the new emulator released by Tencent, that lets users play PUBG Mobile with a mouse and keyboard.
"Tencent’s best-ever emulator for PUBG Mobile," reads the official description. "Flexible and precise control with a mouse and keyboard combo."
However, the PUBG Mobile PC emulator is limited in terms of matchmaking, but is ideal for players who don't enjoy the touch controls.
It's unclear if the new PUBG Mobile update will be rolling out a slightly different time for emulator users.


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The 2017 Toyota Highlander in Lima, OH coming to the Allan Nott Toyota showroom has been "significantly enhanced" for the new model year. Given the fact that the crossover SUV market is one of the most competitive in the entire global automotive industry, Toyota had to work pretty hard to ensure the Highlander stays on top. Just about every piece of available technology has been upgraded for 2017 and the automaker's engineers have added more performance without sacrificing much, if any, of the crossover SUV's native fuel economy scores. The updated 2017 Toyota Highlander crossover SUV is scheduled to arrive to dealerships during the fall of 2016.
As one of the first crossovers every produced, the 2017 Toyota Highlander in Lima, OH continues the model's tradition of bringing style, technology, comfort and performance to its owners. Almost every element of the crossover is designed to show the strength of the 2017 Highlander. This includes its very bold and athletic stance on the road as well as the rest of the refreshed exterior accents. Sharp-eyed observers of the 2017 Highlander will notice the revised designs of the upper and lower grilles for a more luxury look..
The biggest change made to the 2017 Toyota Highlander in Lima, OH comes with what is offered under the hood. Toyota is bringing a 3.5-liter, V-6 engine to the crossover SUV that now features direct fuel-injection and is mated with a brand new eight-speed automatic transmission. Final figures for the horsepower and fuel-economy scores from the Environmental Protection Agency have yet to be released for the 2017 Highlander. Although, the automaker has promised that the addition of the new powertrain will have excellent results for both categories. Additionally, the new V-6 engine for the 2017 Toyota Highlander will have Start/Stop functionality to help further conserve fuel.
Base models of the 2017 Toyota Highlander in Lima, OH will still be powered by a 2.7-liter, four-cylinder engine. Customers of Allan Nott Toyota may also be interested to hear that Toyota is introducing a new trim grade for the 2017 Highlander. The new SE options package will add some unique style features as well as sport-tuned suspension. Drivers will love the engaging handling profile of the 2017 Toyota Highlander SE which will be helped by the special 19-inch aluminum alloy wheels.


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Microsoft has released two new trailers and revealed the release date for Halo 5: Guardians. The two trailers show two sides of the story where Master Chief and Locke go against each other. Watching two Spartans going against each other is going to be fantastic!
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And here is the Locke version:[youtube width=”602″ height=”350″ video_id=”tHQiYPiNVEE”]
343 Industries is set to change things up with Halo 5 after they took over the Halo franchise from Bungie with Halo 4. Will their changes improve the game or just anger fans? Guess we’ll find out later this year.
Halo 5: Guardians will release exclusively for the Xbox One on October 27.


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KABUL—As many as 12,000 Afghan civilians have fled villages along the border with Pakistan since mid-June, seeking refuge from frequent artillery barrages fired by Pakistani security forces, displaced families and the United Nations say.
"Afghans are fleeing village by village," said Ilija Todorovic, head of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office that covers the mountainous Afghan border provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar targeted by Pakistani fire. "The shelling started in January, picked up in the spring and intensified in June with entire towns destroyed."
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In a recent stream, Twitch streamer and VTuber CodeMiko showed off some of the amazing augmented reality technologies she uses on a regular basis.
In recent years, one of the biggest trends in the streaming world has been the emergence and explosion in popularity of VTubers, streamers on both Pull out and YouTube with a virtual avatar instead of a typical face camera. Many VTubers like Ironmouse have gone on to become some of the most successful developers on their platforms, with Ironmouse becoming the most subscribed streamer on Twitch earlier this year and agencies like Hololive becoming household names in the streaming world. One of the most prominent developers among these talents is CodeMiko.
CodeMiko experienced tremendous popularity in 2021 in the wake of the VTuber boom, with the streamer quickly becoming one of the most popular talents on Twitch. Her success on the streaming platform has seen the creator since expand her content beyond Twitch and YouTube, signing up for the return of popular gaming TV channel G4 last year and being lauded by multiple news outlets for her innovative content. Now, a clip from one of CodeMiko’s recent streams has shown off some of the impressive hardware the streamer uses to bring her character to life.
The clip from a recent stream shows some of the augmented reality technologies CodeMiko uses when streaming, and demonstrates an AR camera working through a glove-attached device. The impressive AR glove allows Miko to freely move her camera as if she were manipulating a real camera, with the software capturing her full range of motion and facial movements. The streamer also demonstrates various uses for the free camera, showing some uses such as taking photos for Instagram and showcasing the virtual space created for the character.
CodeMiko’s impressive stream setup sits at the high end of a VTuber industry that’s becoming increasingly easier for newcomers to jump into. The VTuber boom of 2020 and the subsequent rise in popularity of talents like Hololive’s Gawr Gura and Ironmouse has led many developers to create software that allows users to easily create VTuber models for their own characters. The massive trend has even led to high profile streamers like Pokimane and LilyPichu trying VTubing after its massive success.
CodeMiko’s success as a VTuber is just part of a streaming industry that has seen a massive surge in virtual avatars in recent years, with many VTubers amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The trend has even led to big companies like Disney and Sega trying to turn their iconic mascots into VTubers, with characters like Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails debuting in those roles. CodeMiko’s impressive lineup serves as the culmination of a fast-growing industry that will continue to evolve as VTubers become more synonymous Pull out and the streaming world as a whole.
MORE: Nijisanji EN’s new wave of VTubers, Noctyx, has record-breaking debut


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TORRANCE, CA – Several industry awards were presented at the 2011 Conference of Automotive Remarketing (CAR) held in Las Vegas March 9-10.
Remarketer of the Year Award Winner
Bobit Business Media and Vehicle Remarketing magazine presented the Consignor of the Year award to Darrin Aiken, assistant vice president, vehicle remarketing for Wheels Inc. Aiken was voted Consignor of the Year in an online ballot by remarketing industry professionals. He began working for Wheels Inc. in 1989 in the Vehicle Remarketing Department as a Regional Sales Manager. In 1997 he was promoted to Director of Remarketing and in 1999 he was promoted to his current position of Assistant Vice-President of Vehicle Remarketing. Recently, Darrin has also taken on title maintenance and Vehicle Inventory Management departments and has successfully integrated them into the Remarketing Department. Darrin is a Member of the International Automotive Remarketing Alliance, the Used Truck Association, Nation Association of Fleet Resale Dealers, and participates on both the Manheim Client Advisory Board, and the ADESA Advisory Board.
(Left) Mike Antich, editor and associate publisher at Bobit Business Media, presents the consignor of the year award to Darrin Aiken, assistant vice president, vehicle remarketer for Wheels Inc.
Consignor of the Year Award Winner
Bobit Business Media and Vehicle Remarketing magazine also presented the Remarketer of the Year award to Dave Angelicchio, past NAAA president and owner/general manager of the Pittsburgh Independent Auto Auction. Frank Hackett, executive director, National Auto Auction Association accepted the award on Angelicchio’s behalf who was unable to attend the ceremony due to a family emergency.
(Left) Antich presents the Remarketer of the Year award for Dave Angelicchio to Frank Hackett, executive director, National Auto Auction Association who accepted the award on Angelicchio's behalf.
Warren Young Fellowship Award Winner
Bobit Business Media’s very own Ed Bobit was presented with the Warren Young Fellowship award by Jay Cadigan, NAAA president and senior market vice president for Florida Manheim. He was presented the award for his contributions to the remarketing industry. The Warren Young Fellowship was created in honor of Warren Young, Sr., a pioneer of the auto auction industry. The award recognizes major contributions to the National Auto Auction Association and acknowledges sustaining support for the NAAA Warren Young, Sr. Scholastic Foundation, Inc. goal of improving access to post-secondary education through scholarships and educational assistance.
(Left) Jay Cadigan, NAAA president and senior market vice president for Florida Manheim, presents the Warren Young Fellowship award to Ed Bobit, chairman for Bobit Business Media.
Xamplas Earns Certified Automotive Remarketing Certification
Gus Xamplas, VP of remarketing for Donlen Corp., was also recognized as the most recent Certified Auto Remarketer. Xamplas is responsible for the sale of all off-lease vehicles including employeepurchases.com and auction sales, valuation of vehicles, and review of residuals. With more than 30 years’ experience in the auto finance and leasing industries, Gus has deep industry knowledge and uses that to create solutions that benefit Donlen’s customers during the entire remarketing process. Prior to Donlen, Gus was vice president of credit risk management for Wells Fargo Financial, former senior vice president of consumer leasing at Bank of America, and senior vice president of retail credit at First of America. Since mid 2007, The International Automotive Remarketers Alliance (IARA) Certification Program has offered remarketing associates insight into the industry through a comprehensive, thought-provoking curriculum. Professional remarketers participating in the program strengthen their core knowledge of remarketing principles, enhancing their professionalism and ability to better serve their clients.
(Left) Gus Xamplas, VP of remarketing for Donlen Corp., is presented his certificate as a Certified Automotive Remarketer by Matt Marks, executive director for the IARA.


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Jaimie and Jon Clark came for a visit and we all spoke SEO and a lot more. Jaimie Clark is the VP of SEO at Centerfield, she was previously the Head of SEO at Wirecutter, a New York Times company...


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A number of other research analysts have also weighed in on TTD. Jefferies Group began coverage on Trade Desk in a report on Monday. They set a buy rating and a $35.00 target price for the company. RBC Capital Markets began coverage on Trade Desk in a report on Monday. They set an outperform rating and a $33.00 target price for the company. Susquehanna began coverage on Trade Desk in a report on Friday, September 23rd. They set a positive rating and a $40.00 price objective for the company. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on Trade Desk in a report on Wednesday, October 5th. They set a buy rating and a $30.00 price objective for the company. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, Trade Desk presently has an average rating of Buy and a consensus price target of $33.13.
Trade Desk (NYSE:TTD) traded up 0.19% during trading on Monday, hitting $26.32. 27,464 shares of the company traded hands. Trade Desk has a 12-month low of $23.50 and a 12-month high of $33.40. The company’s market capitalization is $290.44 million. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $27.35 and a 200 day moving average price of $27.35.
In related news, Director Eric B. Paley sold 299,979 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $18.00, for a total value of $5,399,622.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink.
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Gone are the days of retiring to rocking chairs and crossword puzzles. Baby boomers are becoming the new faces of the business world. Reportedly, of those who continue to work past the age of 65, almost 20 percent of them are self-employed. In Minnesota and across the country, business formation among retirees seems to be growing faster than among any other demographic.
The success older men and women are finding in the marketplace is due to a number of factors. Most people have gained a wealth of experience in their lifetimes, and those areas of expertise bring unique perspectives to business plans. In many cases, those years of experience have also helped boomers establish a rich network of potential clients and customers through social, business and personal relationships. Boomers are also living longer, healthier lives, often enabling them to be productive for up to 20 years or more past the traditional age of retirement.
Why would someone choose to start a business after a lifetime of working? While each person may have his or her own answer, one common reason is that entrepreneurship is a lifelong dream they are finally able to achieve. Others may also admit that their pension is not going to meet their needs, and starting a business is a way to supplement their income. Some simply cite the fact that they want to stay active and productive after retirement.
The Kauffman Index of Startup Activity reports an 11 percent increase in business startups among people ages 55 to 64 in the past year. Some feel these newly motivated retirees will provide a much needed economic renewal in the country. Minnesota baby boomers seem to be making their share of business formation, working closely with experienced attorneys to ensure that their businesses have the maximum opportunity for success.
Source: Forbes, “The Boom In Boomer Entrepreneurs: Why Older Workers Are Finding Entrepreneurial Success … Or Not“, Michele Markey, June 30, 2016


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Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: why stimulus isn’t likely to cause inflation, how the pandemic is strengthening large corporations, and some links from around the web.
Monetary Aggregates and Inflation
Congress is nearing a deal on a second major COVID-19 stimulus bill, which would put $900 billion in the hands of American consumers through cash transfers and enhanced unemployment insurance. That would bring 2020’s fiscal stimulus spending to $3 trillion, on top of the trillions in Federal Reserve lending.
The upshot is an expansion of the M2 money stock — which includes hard currency, bank reserves, and certain debt instruments — by more than 25 percent. In the past, this large an increase in the money supply would have been expected to put upward pressure on prices, with more money chasing fewer goods. But financial markets and survey data predict inflation well below the Fed’s 2 percent target for the foreseeable future.
How is this possible?
In part, it reflects the caution of businesses and consumers navigating the pandemic. While the amount of credit and currency in the U.S. has expanded, so has the savings rate. As Tyler Cowen pointed out in a Bloomberg column today, corporations’ preemptively borrowing to cushion their balance sheets leads to an increase in monetary aggregates but not in aggregate demand. And that borrowing is unlikely to spur inflation in the next few years because businesses will only spend this new debt if the recovery is weak and demand is low. Otherwise:
[The] recovery will proceed at a rapid clip, and businesses will have extra cash on their hands for a while. That likely would translate into lower borrowing for the rest of the year and a smoothing of monetary flows — and no major increase in inflationary pressures.
The same dynamics apply to household spending. If the recovery is slow, individuals will use stimulus and unemployment checks for fixed costs. Otherwise, they’ll likely save it. In other words, economic strength could be inversely correlated with inflation in the next year or two.
The pandemic has also brought about other medium-term deflationary forces. For instance, widespread adoption of remote work means less spending on travel, food, transportation, etc., while the relocation of workers to lower-cost geographies could reduce wages.
So don’t expect price increases anytime soon. The more the economy gathers steam, the more the money supply will stabilize.
Around the Web
Congress is nearing an agreement on a second stimulus bill. The package is expected to total $900 billion, the lion’s share going to $600 checks to households and an extension of enhanced unemployment insurance.
SEC charged stock-brokerage platform Robinhood with misleading its customers. The company will pay $65 million in penalties for neglecting to disclose the revenue it received from firms executing its customers’ trades:
“Between 2015 and late 2018, Robinhood made misleading statements and omissions in customer communications, including in FAQ pages on its website, about its largest revenue source when describing how it made money — namely, payments from trading firms in exchange for Robinhood sending its customer orders to those firms for execution, also known as ‘payment for order flow,’” the SEC said.
“One of Robinhood’s selling points to customers was that trading was ‘commission free,’ but due in large part to its unusually high payment for order flow rates, Robinhood customers’ orders were executed at prices that were inferior to other brokers’ prices,” the statement added.
Quantopian, a startup backed by hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, closed shop in October. The platform gave users data and tools for building trading algorithms and used the best of those in a proprietary hedge fund. The crowdsourcing model ended up underperforming:
Even high-priced hedge fund managers are struggling to outwit the market these days. “If you needed surgery done in a hospital next week, would you let someone who’s just read books on medicine do it?” asks Mathew Burkitt, a veteran trader and quant who shut his own hedge fund four years ago.
Quantopian’s bet was that this kind of elitism might give it a competitive edge. By offering everyone on the internet free access to data, tutorials, and tools, it sought to beat the army of Ivy League Ph.D.s by picking the best quant strategies from the world’s untapped geniuses. It was the wisdom of the crowds, applied to the nerdiest corner of Wall Street—radical, sure, but a logical extension of a burgeoning gig economy and a tech revolution that was opening up access to ever-deeper market data.
Large corporations have fared much better during the pandemic than small businesses have, largely due to more robust balance sheets and access to capital markets. A new NBER paper finds yet another way in which COVID-19 has made big business better off:
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the focus of job-seekers toward larger and more resilient companies. NBER researchers Shai Bernstein of Harvard Business School and Richard Townsend of the University of California, San Diego, in joint work with Ting Xu of the University of Virginia, study job search behavior on the AngelList Talent platform (27907). They find greater relative interest in job postings from larger firms, particularly among searchers with more education and experience, after the onset of the pandemic. Searchers also relaxed their reservation criteria for new positions, becoming more receptive to opportunities that promise lower wages or might require relocation. The findings raise questions about how the pandemic, or other economic downturns, affect the flow of talent to start-up entrepreneurial firms.
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In another casualty in the hotel aggregation space, Bangalore based RoomsTonite has closed down, just days after Chennai based Stayzilla shutdown its operations.
Bangalore-based last-minute hotel booking app RoomsTonite has closed down operations, even as a few hotel vendors claim the company owes them dues.
Founded in 2014, RoomsTonite used to provide hotel deals. The app enables users to book hotels for up to three days in advance.
Started by IDS Solutions Chairman Suresh John, RoomsTonite eBookings offered hotel booking facility at the last minute in over 275 cities.
In an email exchange with Moneycontrol, a person claiming to be the manager of Ahmedabad-based El Dorado Hotel claimed that the company owes dues for the last six months. The claim could not be verified.
The startup raised USD 1.5 million angel funding in December, 2015 from angel investors such as Venkat Vardhan, promoter of DNA Networks, Mohammed Bin Abdul Rehman Al Khalifa, Chairman of Caravan Group, Ralph Berezan of Berezan Group and Balamurali Krishna of IDS Software.
The app was useful for those travelers whose travel plans got firmed up at the last minute.
According to a media report, a promised investment failed to materialise and due to that the company began to face funds crunch. A few employees from total workforce of 90-95 people were absorbed in IDS.
Besides IDS Software, Suresh John previously founded RezNext, an online distribution platform for hoteliers and channel managers.The shutdown comes days after Chennai-based Stayzilla announced closure of operations.


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Cheerful caroling could be heard through the halls of Seattle Children’s today thanks to two very special guests, Ciara and her friend Kelly Rowland. They surprised patients and families in the inpatient playroom with a holiday concert, accompanied by guitarist Barry Black. But that wasn’t the only surprise they had in store for kids at the hospital. The GRAMMY winners teamed up with Amazon and brought holiday cheer to patients and families in another very big way – with one of the largest Amazon deliveries of the year – a six-foot tall Amazon gift box filled with Amazon Fire HD 7s and Amazon Fire HD 8s for patients at Seattle Children’s.
“Caroling with the kids was the perfect way to brighten up the holidays at the hospital and surprising patients with gifts made it very special,” said Ciara.
Amazon’s delivery has become an annual tradition that brings joy to patients and families. This marks the fourth year Amazon has generously donated devices to the hospital, as well as gift cards for patients in the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (OBCC), a community clinic located in Seattle’s Central District.(NICU), and toys from Seattle Children’s Amazon Wish List to families at
“We are proud to give back to such amazing organizations and #DeliverSmiles during this special time of year,” said Sam Kennedy, an Amazon spokesperson. “We really appreciated the opportunity to partner with Ciara to make the holidays brighter for these deserving families and children.”
— Ciara (@ciara) December 16, 2017
Pascuala Mejia-Canastuj, 5, was excited to meet Ciara and Rowland, and was eager to help them open the giant Amazon gift box. According to her mother, Suzanne Weir, Pascuala loves to sing and dance and wants to be like Ciara when she grows up.
The last few weeks have been filled with doctor visits, and so singing carols in the playroom was a nice break.
“They brought a smile to these kids’ faces,” said Weir. “It helped get our minds off things and made us feel better. I felt like a weight had been taken off my shoulders. We could just relax and have fun.”
Pascuala has been in the hospital since the beginning of December. She recently underwent a liver transplant. Today’s visit helped celebrate a milestone: they got to go home.
An unexpected visit
Kourtney and Jake Harding weren’t expecting to be at Seattle Children’s this week, but a visit to the emergency department altered their plans. Their son, 6-month-old Ryder, was diagnosed with a bone infection and needed surgery.
Today, the family joined other patients and families in the playroom for the holiday concert. For Kourtney, who is an avid fan of Ciara and Rowland, the visit was surreal. It was a welcome surprise that brought joy to their family. Ryder loved the music and even got a hug from Rowland.
“They didn’t have to take time out of their busy lives to visit the hospital, but they did,” said Kourtney. “It was pretty cool to see all the kids so excited. We can’t thank them enough!”
— KELENDRIA ROWLAND (@KELLYROWLAND) December 16, 2017
Jamming in the hallway
Declan Champers, 5, couldn’t contain his excitement when he heard Ciara and Rowland caroling through the halls. He stopped them and told them to “Wait right there.” Declan immediately went to his room to grab his guitar.
“He just wanted to play music with them,” said Declan’s father, Jesse Champers. “He has a song in his heart and loves music.”
The hallway jam session was just what the doctor ordered. Declan has been inpatient at the hospital since the day after Thanksgiving. Getting to play music with his new friends lifted his spirit.
“It was nice for him to get out of the room,” said Champers. “It was also encouragement for us moms and dads.”
Coding for a cause
Patients and siblings were also invited to Seattle Children’s schoolroom to join the Amazon Future Engineer team to learn about technology and create their own apps and games in a special event called Hour of Code.
Tanya Gunnell and her son, Ian Gunnell, are a long way from home. They traveled from Idaho to receive treatment at Seattle Children’s for a rare form of leukemia. Ian, 11, has been at Seattle Children’s since the end of August.
When they heard about the event, they were excited to participate.
“This opportunity is great for Ian,” said Gunnell. “He gets to meet new people and interact with them while also being exposed to new ideas. He’s excited to learn and is engaged in something new to expand his learning. The schoolroom is Ian’s school while we’re here.”
The event was a reprieve from their daily routine at the hospital.
“It’s nice to see him doing regular kid stuff,” said Gunnell. “It’s a break from our have-to-dos, like taking medicine on a schedule and checking his blood count.”


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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ThreatMetrix™, the fastest-growing provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced the results of the ThreatMetrix 2012 State of Cybercrime study, which surveyed U.S. business managers and IT executives within retail and financial services organizations. Results show that 45 percent of these organizations experienced a cybersecurity attack in 2012.
Malware, Trojan and phishing attacks, lost or stolen mobile devices and data breaches were among the most common IT security attacks experienced by retail and financial institutions. According to ThreatMetrix, these attacks are also the most disruptive due to the sophistication of the Trojans used in these attacks.
"We've seen a trend this past year where fraudsters who have traditionally attacked larger financial institutions are now working their way down to less protected organizations," said Andreas Baumhof, chief technology officer, ThreatMetrix. "Due to the fact that these Trojans are readily available, fraudsters utilize the same sophisticated Trojans used on banks and financial institutions to attack online retailers, smaller payment processors and government entities. While banks are more familiar with these types of attacks, less sophisticated organizations are less prepared and typically do not have the right tools in place to defend themselves."
According to the study, a combination of both company and consumer data is compromised during security breaches. Despite this, less than one in five respondents made significant changes to their IT security systems as a result of an attack. Even more alarming, nearly a third of organizations continued as normal following an attack. According to Baumhof, regular updates must be made to cybersecurity platforms every year to keep the technology relevant.
"Cybersecurity and fraud prevention too often seem like insurance – once a company implements a strategy, it is never thought of again unless an attack occurs," said Baumhof. "Even after an attack, company owners think if they've operated a business for ten years as is, they do not need to change their security solutions now. The fact is, once an attack has happened, cybercriminals will keep coming back if significant changes are not made to your cybersecurity platform. The question is not if they will come back, but when."
Understanding the frequency at which these cybersecurity threats occur allows companies to build an efficient security infrastructure to protect against them. In addition, implementing a holistic cybercrime strategy, rather than just utilizing one or two security features, can help better protect companies from malware, account takeover and other threats.
For more information on this study, download the full report at http://info.threatmetrix.com/ThreatMetrix_Security_Online_Fraud_Prevention.html
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With Thailand and Bangladesh slowly overcoming the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the trade relations between the two countries posted over 40% growth in 2021 compared to the previous year 2020, sources said.
Thai exports to Bangladesh were recorded at $1231.9 million while Bangladesh’s export to Thailand was recorded at only $54.84 million in the 2021 calendar year, according to the statistics of the Thai trade commission.
Thai export to Bangladesh was recorded at $859.23 million in 2020 while Bangladesh’s export to Thailand was recorded at $50.82 million during the same year. The bilateral trade between Bangladesh-Thailand recorded $1067.9 million in 2019, $1259.45 million in 2018 and $1317.43 million in the 2017 calendar year.
The World Bank (WB) also forecast 3.1% growth in the Thai economy this year while the growth is expected to post 4.1% in 2023.
While talking to this correspondent, a director of the Thai-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TBCCI) said Bangladesh’s export basket is highly dependent on readymade garments that share over 80% of the country’s exports.
Bangladesh’s export earnings crossed $52.08 billion in the outgoing fiscal year 2021-22 on the back of a record shipment by the readymade garments sector.
In July-June, the country’s apparel shipments recorded $43.34 billion, sharing more than 81% of the country’s exports, according to sources at the EPB.
Knitwear and woven apparel exports reached $23.21 billion and $19.19…
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When "master sushi chef" Akifumi Sakagami opens the New York branch of his famed Ginza Onodera in December, the restaurant will join a small but growing number of establishments that forgo a custom that's normally central to the American dining experience: tipping. Like at Onodera's locations in Honolulu, Tokyo, and elsewhere, the Manhattan outpost will adopt a service-included pricing system.
The sushi omakase — to be enjoyed at the 16-seat counter or at a table — is expected to cost somewhere around $300 to $350, says Steve Hall of Hall PR, who represents the restaurant. If that turns out to be true, Onodera will rank as one of the city's most expensive sushi bars after Kurumazushi ($300) and Masa ($450), neither of whose prices reflect service. Hall said many of the details are still being worked out so it's not yet clear whether Onodera will offer more affordable options, as is the case in Hawaii, where dinner costs $160, $200, or $250.
While tipping is not customary in Japan, service-included policies are still in the minority in New York, even at Japanese restaurants. Sushi Yasuda famously did away with gratuities in 2013; other Big Apple institutions where tipping isn't necessary include Per Se, The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, Atera, Dirt Candy, and, as of this week, Craft, but only during lunch.
More New York restaurants are expected to switch to service-included systems in the coming year to help cope with rising labor costs. The state's tipped minimum wage, which is what waiters and bartenders make before tips, will rise by $2.50 to $7.50 in January; operators can avoid the impact of that law by raising prices, banning tips, and paying their service-staff the full minimum or more.
Onodera will also open a West Hollywood branch in 2016.


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When you look at the industries that 3D printing is destined to disrupt in the future, the list is long and distinguished. Here is our take on the state of 3D printing, the ways companies are using it today, and how it's going to revolutionize the future of business.Read now
MakerBot, a 3D printer maker owned by Stratasys, rolled out the Method X, a manufacturing workstation that utilizes its parent's materials and industrial printing expertise.
The Method X is designed to produce manufacturing grade parts with ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) material, a 100 degree Celsius chamber and Stratasys SR-30 soluble supports. The Method workstation line starts at $4,999.
Desktop 3D printers have struggled with real ABS material as well as heat and engineers have to develop workarounds to avoid cracking and warping. Method X is designed to reduce shrinkage rates and produce parts that are durable.
MakerBot said that Method X is the only 3D printer in its price class that uses SR-30 material.
For Stratasys, MakerBot could become a key brand for growth since it targets downstream markets that may ultimately expand to more industrial printers. MakerBot has had its share of turmoil, but if it could generate any sales momentum it could give its parent, which is primarily focused on the industrial market, a boost.
MakerBot's Method line of 3D printing workstations is aimed a reinvigorating the brand. David Gewirtz recaps the road to MakerBot's Method lineup.
As for the parent of MakerBot, Stratasys reported second quarter net income of $1.2 million, or 2 cents a share, on revenue of $163.2 million, down from $170.2 million a year ago.
The company said performance in the Americas was strong, but interim CEO Elan Jaglom said that there's a slowdown in capital spending in Europe. Stratasys projected 2019 revenue of $670 million to $700 million with non-GAAP net income of 55 cents a share to 70 cents a share.
Should MakerBot gain any momentum it could provide some insulation for Stratasys, which is tethered to macro economic gyrations with its big industrial customers.


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The Shanghai factories of Tesla and SAIC started producing again on Tuesday following weeks of lockdown due to a wave of omicron infections that have put the country’s auto production in a deep freeze. However, further halts loom large, as many other auto parts makers struggle with getting government permits to restart operations.
Why it matters: China’s auto industry is still far from getting back to total production. This week’s resumption is limited, and the wider industry faces various challenges, such as supply chain shortages and a limited workforce.
- Shanghai and its neighboring regions are a key hub for China’s auto industry.
Short-staffing: Although Tesla and Volkswagen partner SAIC got their employees back to work earlier this week, smaller auto parts makers on the government’s whitelist for business resumption are facing challenges in putting their workers on assembly lines.
- “We basically failed to call back our employees today even though we had government permission for resuming production,” Ye Chunlei, a director of Daimay Automotive Interior, a supplier to auto majors such as Tesla and Volkswagen, told Chinese media 36Kr on Thursday.
- Ye estimated that only 40% of the company’s employees were eligible to return to the factory, adding that the resumption order had not been communicated to lower-level government departments, such as the local neighborhood committees responsible for managing the lockdown in the apartment complexes across Shanghai.
- Tesla only has enough inventory of spare parts and materials for about one week of production, sources told Chinese media Caixin on Thursday. The US EV giant said on Wednesday in its earnings report that “limited production has recently restarted,” and the company continues to “monitor the situation closely” without revealing further details.
Logistics disruption: Despite easing restrictions from Shanghai authorities, automakers are having trouble getting parts and materials as new lockdowns across the country continue to hit the auto supply chain.
- Freight carriers around Shanghai are finding it challenging to secure vehicle passes that allow them to deliver goods to China’s largest metropolis. Further complicating matters, the requirements for vehicle passes vary among different regions, Chinese media Caixin reported on April 15, citing a local carrier from the eastern city of Wuxi.
- Truck drivers are also required to submit multiple documents to prove that they are Covid-free, including negative tests from within the previous 48 hours and health codes that show they have not been in any known high-risk environment.
- The volume of highway traffic in Shanghai and the nearby provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui plunged by 65% on April 18 compared with a year ago, according to numbers released by the Ministry of Transport. The volume of highway traffic nationally in China is also down by 40%, according to the same statistics.
New rules to resume production: Shanghai released a new guideline on April 16 to help companies prepare for resuming production.
- More than 250 auto firms in Shanghai are now mandated to implement strict health and safety rules at their plants to qualify for resuming production, including running in a “closed-loop” production system where workers live on-site.
- Other measures include daily testing of employees, restrictions on group dining, and limiting movement, according to guidelines (in Chinese).
- The rules state that workers should wear face masks at all times, except when eating or drinking, and that all visitors are required to take an antigen test on-site and have proof of a negative covid test result within 48 hours before their arrival.


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Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy have rather a lot in frequent. That’s by design.
After 27 years, Amazon could have a brand new CEO for the primary time. When Jeff Bezos steps down in July, he’ll get replaced by Andy Jassy, an organization government who joined Amazon in 1997, solely three years after its founding. Jassy has for the final 15 years run Amazon Internet Companies, Amazon’s unsexy however progressive and extremely worthwhile cloud computing enterprise that controls a couple of third of the cloud trade and powers web sites huge and small all throughout the globe.
Jassy will likely be taking the helm as Amazon’s energy reaches new heights. The pandemic has boosted on-line procuring, and Amazon topped $100 billion in quarterly income for the primary time — it reported $125 billion, really — over the past three months of 2020 alone. However with that rising energy, Amazon is going through unmatched scrutiny — from antitrust regulators, from labor activists pushing to unionize Amazon warehouses, and from politicians who consider nobody firm ought to have such an affect in industries as different as retail, logistics, and cloud computing.
With Amazon’s outsized affect on the financial system and society, a few apparent questions come to thoughts. How will Jassy’s arrival as CEO influence the 1.three million individuals who work for Amazon? And extra importantly, what is going to his tenure imply for the lots of of hundreds of thousands of people who find themselves instantly or not directly affected by Amazon’s services and products throughout the globe?
There’s rather a lot we will’t ensure of, since Jassy doesn’t take over for a number of extra months and Bezos will stay energetic on new firm tasks as government chairman. The Amazon founder’s degree of involvement at that time can’t but be identified. However Recode spoke to greater than a half-dozen former Amazon executives who’ve labored with, or for, Jassy up to now to glean insights about what the brand new CEO’s arrival would possibly imply for the corporate and the shoppers who depend on it, opponents who concern it, and workers who work for it.
In Jassy, these sources described an organization chief who shares a variety of attributes with Bezos, and that is no accident. Bezos has created a set of firm practices and management ideas inside Amazon which are espoused by high leaders like Jassy who finally rise to the highest on the firm. These frameworks are supposed to assure not solely a gradual drumbeat of latest progressive services and products but in addition a secure layer of firm management beneath Bezos who exhibit an identical degree of unmatched ambition that the founder does.
For Amazon beneath Bezos, although, that ambition to infiltrate new trade after new trade, and “invent on behalf of consumers,” has created blind spots and collateral harm that may quickly fall on Jassy to handle. Right here’s a take a look at what he could be like on this new function.
How a lot is Jassy like Bezos?
There are definitely variations in persona and pursuits between the 2 leaders. Jassy, for instance, is a large sports activities fan, in contrast to Bezos. However the former Amazon execs who spoke to Recode largely targeted on the various similarities between the 2 leaders. The rationale for a number of the similarities may be traced again to considered one of Jassy’s first roles at Amazon.
After initially working as a advertising and marketing supervisor for Amazon’s e-commerce enterprise, Jassy served as Bezos’s first technical adviser, a task that might turn out to be extremely coveted amongst excessive achievers at Amazon and is thought internally because the “shadow.” Workers chosen for this function spend between one and two years accompanying Bezos to each assembly and serving as a sounding board for the chief government. However a key a part of the shadow function can also be to learn the way Bezos thinks and the way he arrives at choices.
“The place Jeff is underrated is he’s a terrific instructor,” mentioned Colin Bryar, a former Amazon government and Bezos’s second “shadow” who’s the co-author of a brand new ebook known as Working Backwards: Insights, Tales, and Secrets and techniques from Inside Amazon. “He would give you insights nobody else comes up with, however he would spend the subsequent two to a few minutes to elucidate how he bought there. That’s the place I feel Jeff shined, and Andy discovered a variety of that, too.”
Amazon and Bezos additionally prefer to boast about its “buyer obsession,” and former Amazon executives say Jassy is a believer and practitioner of this supreme too. This buyer obsession has led to historic breakthroughs just like the creation of Amazon Prime, the web’s most profitable membership program, in addition to the myriad AWS instruments that everybody from startups to large companies use to run their on-line companies. However that very same buyer obsession performs a task in creating real-life prices for that success — whether or not or not it’s a front-line workforce that some say Amazon pushes too exhausting, market sellers who say Amazon makes use of knowledge to unfairly compete in opposition to them, or the sale of AWS facial recognition instruments to regulation enforcement that critics say may be abused.
A type of firm critics is Tim Bray, a former AWS VP who left the corporate very publicly final yr within the wake of Amazon’s firing of warehouse staff. Bray wrote a scathing weblog submit saying his exit, citing “a vein of toxicity” working by Amazon’s tradition. However reached by cellphone on Tuesday, Bray was effusive in his reward of Jassy.
“Unqualified, I’m a fan,” Bray instructed Recode. “He’s a fully terrific government.”
Bray has had a 40-year profession within the tech trade, however mentioned, “AWS was by a large margin the best-managed place I’ve labored, together with locations I used to be the CEO.”
Bray, who mentioned Jassy lives and breathes the Amazon supreme of “buyer obsession,” recounted an anecdote of a colleague prepping him for a gathering with Jassy. Bray was instructed to place any arguments he was going to make for one determination over one other through the use of AWS buyer suggestions as his reasoning. The tactic labored.
“I consider Andy because the world’s best product supervisor,” Bray mentioned. “The [product manager] function is to function the bridge between the engineers constructing and the shoppers who want the stuff, and ensure they perceive one another and the correct issues get constructed.”
So how ought to one account for the disconnect between Bray’s screed about Amazon upon leaving the corporate with this reward for its new CEO? The previous AWS VP mentioned he doesn’t consider Jassy performed a task within the whistleblower firings that set Bray off.
Jason Kilar — presently the CEO of WarnerMedia and the previous Hulu CEO who was once a colleague of Jassy’s at Amazon — drew one other comparability to Bezos.
“He’s simply bought unusually excessive judgment,” Kilar mentioned of Jassy. “The simplest approach to describe it’s that Andy is true rather a lot. There are hundreds of thousands of selections that get made at an organization like Amazon day by day and what’s vital is that you just get a variety of these choices — and a very powerful choices — proper.”
Jassy can also be the uncommon company chief who possesses the flexibility to shortly perceive the in-the-weeds particulars of a undertaking or drawback, but in addition the broader context of a given scenario, in keeping with Invoice Carr, the previous VP of Amazon Prime Video and the co-author of the brand new Working Backwards Amazon ebook.
“The hallmark of most nice leaders at Amazon is that they mix ardour and buyer obsession with the flexibility to dive deep into the small print, the metrics, the [profits and losses],” Carr instructed Recode. “However a terrific chief at Amazon can function at 50,000 ft above sea degree as properly, and Andy is a type of folks.”
Jassy’s consideration to element could typically come throughout as excessive. The highest government nonetheless critiques each Amazon Internet Companies press launch earlier than publication, in keeping with a current profile on Enterprise Insider.
How will Jassy’s new function influence Amazon’s ambition?
Like Bezos, Jassy’s ambition is exemplified by an ultra-competitive nature. He’s the uncommon Amazon government who publicly criticizes opponents — the corporate isn’t speculated to be “competitor-focused” in spite of everything — most notably at AWS’s annual trade occasion known as re:Invent.
Jassy additionally signed off on the corporate’s public dispute with the Trump administration over the federal government’s determination to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft as a substitute of Amazon.
However maybe extra importantly, Bezos picked a successor who has exemplified ambition otherwise: by invention. Bezos considers Amazon an invention firm — not merely a retailer or a media firm or a cloud computing large. Some model of the phrase “invent” appeared eight instances within the founder’s letter to workers saying the CEO transition.
So it is sensible that Bezos selected a successor who performed an important function in inventing Amazon Internet Companies — the corporate’s fastest-growing and most-profitable enterprise division. By launching AWS, Jassy didn’t simply assist create a brand new enterprise for Amazon; he helped create a brand new trade in tech. It helped change the sport for all the enterprise world, which is why main firms like Zoom and Netflix and ESPN depend on AWS to energy their companies and providers, even when they compete with Amazon in different methods. As a substitute of web firms having to arrange knowledge facilities, AWS made it attainable for firms to not must construct their very own knowledge facilities. As a substitute, they’ll merely lease computing energy and knowledge space for storing from Amazon to stand up and working quick, and to scale up and down way more simply.
Since then, Amazon Internet Companies has expanded its choices in myriad methods, together with into controversial areas like facial recognition software program. Civil rights teams, just like the ACLU, have argued that the know-how “is primed for abuse within the palms of governments” counting on it as a surveillance software and alleged that the know-how is biased in opposition to folks of shade. Within the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests final summer season, Amazon introduced a one-year moratorium for police use of the know-how, and known as on Congress to publish federal tips.
However inevitably, the expansion of AWS after being began within a web based retailer speaks to Jassy’s capability to construct groups that disrupt industries that appear far afield from Amazon’s origin.
“He’s an inventor,” Kilar instructed Recode.
Amazon and Bezos additionally developed different backstops to attempt to make sure that the corporate will hold creating new enterprise strains and merchandise properly into the long run, irrespective of the CEO: inside processes — like the corporate’s well-known “working backwards” paperwork — in addition to the corporate’s 14 Management Ideas.
“Jeff invented not simply a variety of merchandise however a brand new approach to run an organization, what he calls and we name an invention machine,” says Carr, the previous Amazon VP and the opposite co-author of the Working Backwards ebook.
How will Jassy deal with mounting scrutiny of Amazon?
Amazon’s success in lots of industries has made it fashionable with prospects. However the firm’s different pursuits — and the way it achieves them — have additionally led to unmatched scrutiny. Jassy’s time at AWS gives some insights into how he’ll deal with the broader company’s even greater issues.
2020 was an excellent yr for Amazon from a enterprise perspective, however a really unhealthy yr from a scrutiny perspective. So Jassy will inherit the corporate at a turning level. Prospects proceed to buy on Amazon, use AWS instruments, and watch its video streaming service in report numbers, however its longtime place as probably the most beloved firms is in peril as criticisms mount from many angles and in lots of components of the world.
Amazon has confronted public criticism from labor activists and politicians — in addition to from a few of its personal workers — over its remedy of front-line staff. Throughout the early days of the pandemic, there was backlash over the firing of workers who spoke out about these issues, and a subsequent media firestorm when leaked notes uncovered that the corporate’s high lawyer labeled a Black warehouse organizer that Amazon fired as “not sensible, or articulate.” Amazon is now going through a union vote at considered one of its Alabama warehouses, which, if profitable, may drastically influence how Amazon manages its huge front-line workforce.
Bezos was additionally pressured to testify earlier than Congress for the primary time ever amid an antitrust investigation that culminated in a report accusing Amazon, in addition to Apple, Fb, and Google, of anti-competitive practices that should be reined in. (The European Union introduced antitrust costs in opposition to Amazon in November.) In the meantime, the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) has been probing Amazon’s enterprise practices, and on Tuesday introduced Amazon would pay $61.7 million in a settlement over again ideas owed to its supply drivers. Recode additionally not too long ago reported that considered one of Amazon’s sharpest antitrust critics, Lina Khan, is gaining traction in a bid to turn out to be one of many company’s 5 commissioners.
And once more, Jassy’s personal group, AWS, has invited its personal intense scrutiny in recent times, particularly for promoting its know-how to regulation enforcement. In an interview at Recode’s 2019 Code Convention, Jassy defended the corporate’s facial recognition initiative, Rekognition, whereas calling for the federal authorities to introduce nationwide tips. “Simply because tech may very well be misused doesn’t imply we should always ban it and condemn it,” he mentioned.
In response to a query about Amazon persevering with to promote the software program within the face of worker anger, Jassy cited considered one of Amazon’s management ideas, which is “Have spine; disagree and commit.” Translation: “We heard your objection, workers. However I disagree.”
Beneath Jassy, AWS has additionally continued to do enterprise with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), regardless of protests from inside and exterior activists pressuring the corporate to chop ties with the federal government arm accountable for immigrant household separations.
But when the Rekognition and ICE conditions can inform us something about Jassy, it’s that he, like different high Amazon executives, received’t bend to inside or exterior strain that he doesn’t agree with. In any case, it took a once-in-a-generation nationwide racial reckoning to get Jassy and Amazon to concern the moratorium on police use of Rekognition within the first place.
Trying forward, Jassy ought to get used to extra scrutiny, however he’s had some observe at dealing with it and has proven glimpses of how critics and workers alike ought to count on him to deal with the larger stage.
“I don’t assume it’s going to be in any method new to him when it comes to the highlight or the expectations of us have for him, each internally and externally,” Kilar, the WarnerMedia CEO and former colleague, instructed Recode.