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The Malaysian auto industry has enjoyed exciting growth in the last year as our economy recovers from the pandemic, and this year looks to be even better. With numerous new car launches expected in 2023, Malaysians look set to be spoilt for choice. From Toyota to Mercedes-Benz, here are the top new cars in Malaysia for 2023.
One of the biggest car companies in the world, Toyota, has some exciting new car releases in Malaysia for 2023. In February alone, Toyota launched six exciting vehicles with three full-fledged Gazoo Razing (GR) sports cars, two vehicles with the GR Sport trim, and the new-generation Toyota Vios.
3 Manual Sports Cars in A Year?!
The GR86 is the successor to the GT86 that was released in 2012 and comes with a host of improvements including a larger 2.4-liter naturally aspirated boxer engine, an overall stiffer chassis, and suspension tuning to make it much more fun.
The GR Corolla, on the other hand, comes with the same 1.6-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine as the GR Yaris but with 300 horses under the hood. Plus, it’s only available with a manual gearbox. The GR Supra has been in Malaysia for a few years but it now comes with an optional manual gearbox – something that fans have demanded since the car first came out. Finally, the Supra can be driven how it’s meant to be driven.
Toyota GR Sport Vehicles
Coming to the GR Sport line of vehicles, Toyota launched the Hilux GR Sport and Corolla Cross GR Sport. Both vehicles retain their powertrains with The Hilux GR Sport’s being a 2.8-liter four-cylinder engine and the Corolla Cross GR Sport’s being a 1.8-liter naturally aspirated mill. Both vehicles receive more aggressive styling, GR badging both inside and out, and slight tweaks in the chassis to give them sportier handling.
Finally, the All-New Toyota Vios
Lastly, Toyota has announced the all-new Toyota Vios on 24 February. It’s built on the Daihatsu New Global Architecture (DNGA) making it a truly next-generation vehicle. The Vios is called the Yaris Ativ in Thailand, and if what’s offered in Thailand is anything to go by, you can expect a long list of improvements in terms of exterior styling, interior trim, tech, and safety features. Toyota is even developing a hybrid powertrain for its A and B segment vehicles so we can expect to have a Toyota Vios hybrid, though it’s not clear if that will be this year.
Read More: Used Third-Gen Toyota Vios Buying Guide
Honda has released several new cars in recent years with the Honda City, Civic, and HR-V, but we can still expect some exciting new Honda cars in 2023 for Malaysia. Honda is expected to launch the updated BR-V and an all-new mini SUV – the Honda WR-V possibly in March.
The seven-seater 2023 Honda BR-V will have a more mature, upscale styling similar to the 2022 HR-V. And while it has the same 1.5-liter engine as before, it should come with better fuel economy. Next up, the Honda WR-V is a new SUV that could give the popular Perodua Ativa a run for its money. It has the staple 1.5-liter engine used in other Honda models and if prices in Indonesia are anything to go by, the WR-V could be cheaper than the City when it comes to our shores.
While the Honda Civic Type-R was recently launched in other markets in late 2022, there’s no news if we’ll get it this year. Equipped with the same 2.0-liter turbocharged engine as before, with various other improvements to the powertrain, it puts out 319 PS of power. If we do get the Honda Civic Type-R in Malaysia in 2023, it will probably be closer to the fourth quarter of the year.
Perodua has been pumping out best-sellers in the past few years and this year seems to be no different. In fact, Perodua’s new car for 2023 was just launched in February and it’s the next-generation Perodua Axia.
While it still comes with the same 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine as before, unlike the turbocharged engine in the Daihatsu Ayla and Toyota Agya that our neighbor, Indonesia gets, the Axia still enjoys some major improvements. It has a brand new DNGA platform, a new D-CVT (dual-mode continuously variable transmission), larger dimensions with a bigger boot, and better tech overall.
The Geely Haoyue which the Proton X90 is based on
Proton has been a little quiet in the last two years when it comes to brand-new model launches, and that’s mainly due to setbacks caused by the pandemic. However, It’s finally going to launch two long-awaited vehicles, namely the Proton X90 seven-seater SUV and the Persona-replacing Proton S50 sedan.
The Geely Emgrand which the Proton S50 is based on
Both vehicles have been spotted testing on the road in full camo numerous times over the past year, so we expect their launches to be imminent. The X90 is based on the Geely Haoyue, while the S50 is based on the Geely Emgrand.
If the Proton X70 and X50 are anything to go by, we can expect Proton’s new cars for 2023 to have upmarket styling, refinement, and be jam-packed with tech features including smartwatch connectivity. With the Proton X Watch, you can remotely unlock your car’s doors, start the engine, turn on the aircon, and more. That said, if you want the X Watch, you’ll have to cough up RM1,499 to purchase it as it’s currently not included with Proton cars.
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Chery isn’t a brand many Malaysians pay attention to, but it has recently made a comeback in Malaysia, especially with its preview of the Chery Omoda 5 late last year. The Omoda 5 brings aggressive styling with a one-piece diamond grille, a swooping fastback-style roofline, and sharp edges. Technical specifications for the Malaysian version of this car aren’t available yet but it could come with a 1.6-liter turbo engine paired with a seven-speed DCT (dual-clutch transmission) producing 195 PS and 290 Nm of torque – very impressive indeed. As it’ll be fully locally assembled, it might have an enticing price as well.
A new car that took Malaysia by surprise in 2023 is the Mercedes-Benz EQS500 4Matic CKD. It’s the company’s first locally assembled electric vehicle (EV) in Malaysia and is RM50,000 cheaper than the fully imported EQS 450+, though, at RM648,888, it’s not affordable by any means. The EQS 500 4Matic has two electric motors giving it 443 PS of power and all-wheel-drive capabilities. It also has a huge 107.8 kWh battery pack for a 696 km driving range.
Nissan announced their new car in Malaysia for 2023 over Valentine’s Day with a rather cheeky post and what they’ve revealed is the 2023 Nissan Leaf. The new Leaf will be an updated version of the 2019 Leaf with minor design updates including new colorways, wheels, and tech updates. Although there’s not a lot of information on the updated Nissan Leaf, you can expect it to come in two versions; one with a 148 PS motor and 270 km of range, and a more powerful one with a 215 PS motor and a 385 km range.
Read More: The Rise Of Chinese Made Cars In Malaysia and Around the World
Is 2023 the Best Year to Buy an EV?
In the past, EVs in Malaysia were prohibitively expensive for most people but that has changed with the introduction of affordable EVs in late 2022. Two Chinese EV automakers that have been making waves with their affordable offerings are Great Wall Motor Malaysia (GWM) and BYD.
GWM currently offers the Ora Good Cat electric hatchback in two variants – one with a driving range of 400 km and the other with 500 km. Prices range from RM140,000 to RM170,000 making the Ora Good Cat one of the most affordable EVs in Malaysia.
BYD, on the other hand, has an electric crossover – the BYD Atto 3. It’s available in two variants with driving ranges of 410 km and 480 km respectively. Being a crossover, it’s slightly larger than the Ora Good Cat, offering up to 1,340 liters of boot space with the rear seats folded down. Prices for the BYD Atto 3 range from RM150,000 to RM170,000.
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Chipmaker Broadcom is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity giant Symantec in a deal that could exceed $15 billion, according to several news outlets.
Bloomberg broke the news about the acquisition talks and the Financial Times and Reuters have managed to obtain independent confirmation from their sources. However, Symantec and Broadcom have refused to confirm or deny the reports.
The news comes after last year Broadcom announced the acquisition of CA Technologies for $18.9 billion. The chipmaker also attempted to buy rival Qualcomm last year, but the deal was blocked by US President Donald Trump.
As for Symantec, the company claims to provide its products and services to over 50 million consumers and 350,000 organizations around the world.
The company recently reported a revenue of roughly $4.7 billion for the fiscal year 2019. The financial report, which showed a smaller revenue than the previous year and what analysts had estimated, was accompanied by an announcement that Greg Clark had stepped down and board member Richard Hill was named interim chief executive officer and president.
If the Broadcom acquisition of Symantec is confirmed, it would be the second time a chip giant acquires a major cybersecurity firm. Intel acquired McAfee in 2010 for $7.68 billion and later renamed it Intel Security. In 2016, however, McAfee once again became an independent company after a sale to TPG that valued it at $4.2 billion.

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Amazon, JP Morgan, and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have announced a joint venture to improve healthcare coverage for their three companies. There are a lot of unknowns as to what this means for the broader healthcare sector. Is this just the start of Amazon disrupting how insurance is provided? Or, is it more limited to squeezing company costs for their combined employee base of 1.2 million?
Perhaps this is the start of a massive transformation where employees are provided their own network of providers employed by the new venture. It is unlikely that Amazon will stop just with the three companies serving their own employees. Bezos, Buffett and Dimon are the A-list of CEOs and most likely think they can disrupt how insurance and delivery of medical services are done. While America is great at offering speedy service for any test or procedure needed, there is high cost of those services. Consumers are seeing rising deductibles, premiums and co-pays and we have an unsustainable trajectory. Companies do not want to accept the rapid growth of their healthcare costs and are looking for ways to get more for their money.
I am looking forward to seeing how these three leading companies find ways to provide services at lower cost. Some players may have to pay a price for that as many smaller provider companies may fall victim to being squeezed out of business by the new giant disrupter. Will we see Amazon Cancer Centers across the United States? Will our routine lab tests be available with Amazon Prime? Will Amazon be negotiating prices and supplying our drugs? Amazon should not be underrated for its ability to create value services that we love. Few of us love our current health insurance companies. Most of us like Amazon.
Changing a $1.4 trillion system is not going to happen quickly. There are so many complexities across the Byzantine American fee for service model. The lobbyists for insurance companies, drug makers, physician and hospital networks are very powerful and will defend their turfs aggressively. Lots of companies are making money in our inefficient system and anyone benefiting will fight to survive. Patients are the ones desperately in need of a break in cost. Amazon has the clout to challenge the status quo but even they will see how difficult major change will be.


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Today Nikon posted a big loss and cancelled their much-delayed DL line of compact cameras announced back in February of 2016. When the DL series was first revealed, it was touted as the answer to Sony and Canon's premium point-and-shoots models like the RX100, RX10 series, and PowerShot G1X Mark II.
Nikon is hardly alone in their problems. As reported earlier, industry wide DSLR sales continue to slide. Some medium format manufacturers like Hasselblad are in turmoil. Only Canon seems to be in good shape and they even projected a profit increase recently.
Notice of Recognition of Extraordinary Loss from Nikon
This is to announce the recognition of extraordinary loss for the nine months ended December 31, 2016 (from April 1 to December 31, 2016), as below.
1. Recognition of Restructuring Expenses
As announced in “Notice of Restructuring” released on November 8, 2016, Nikon Group is currently under a fundamental company-wide restructuring to improve its corporate value as shifting from a strategy pursuing revenue growth to one pursuing profit enhancement.
In accordance with this restructuring, the Group recorded extraordinary loss of 29,790 million yen, mainly incurred from inventory write-downs/write-off in Semiconductor Lithography Business, as restructuring expenses for the nine months ended December 31, 2016.
Also, restructuring expenses in Imaging Products Business and the expenses related to “Results of Solicitation for Voluntary Retirement,” which is released today, are expected to incur in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.
As a result, the total amount of restructuring expenses for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017 will be approximately 53,000 million yen, which is 5,000 million yen increase from the previous estimate of approximately 48,000 million yen in “Notice of Restructuring” released on November 8, 2016.
2. Impact on Consolidated Financial Forecast
The impact of the recognition of restructuring expenses has been reflected in the consolidated financial forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017, as announced today in “Revision of the Financial Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017”.


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With consumers’ increasing awareness of sustainability and building a circular economy, fashion companies, whether fast-fashion retailer H&M or luxury brands, are selling more and more clothing made from recycled materials.
Fibres & fabrics
US denim brand Wrangler has teamed up with Infinited Fiber Company to incorporate Infinna – regenerated, recyclable fibres – into its global denim range for its autumn 2021 collection, the brand’s most sustainable denim yet.
US-based sustainable materials start-up Natural Fiber Welding Inc (NFW) is partnering with outdoor apparel company Patagonia to develop and scale circular solutions in textiles.
Associate professor in the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies from the University of Delaware, Dr Sheng Lu shares a preliminary analysis of the potential impact of China’s membership in CPTPP for related textile and...
International environmental organisation Canopy says more than 400 brands and retailers are now part of its CanopyStyle initiative which aims to transform the fashion industry’s viscose supply chain.


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The company is now looking for a major partner like Samsung or Sony. Source: Displair
Russian start-up Displair, which makes a 3D, screenless multitouch display system has been forced to halt production in China and shut down its office in the city of Astrakhan that housed manual assembly operation due to severe financial difficulties.
What is Displair?
Displair is air screen technology with multi-touch functionality, which can control images using gestures. Images are projected onto a 4 millimeter-thick stream of air with water particles.The system is capable of registering up to 1,500 touches simultaneously, with a response rate of less than 0.2 seconds, making the number of users operating the system at the same time virtually unlimited.
In a statement in January, Displair founder Maksim Kamanin said: “One office will remain. It’s possible that our Moscow team will be forced to move.”
Displair also cut its staff from 46 to 15. “Now we don’t need sales, marketing, PR or manual assembly. We will concentrate on creating technologies, and our remaining employees are focused on that aspect. We will depend on revenue from the lease of 40 existing displays,” said Kamanin.
The company is now looking for a major partner like Samsung or Sony with the production facilities needed to produce Displair. According to Kamanin, Displair is already in talks with several potential partners, but declined to give names.
Air at a high price
The company is working to address the issue of expensive assembly and ultimately reduce the cost of the finished display. Today, a Displair system sells for $12,000.
There have also been issues with the quality of the electronics. The company currently has plans to make modifications to the product in order to be able to move into industrial production. A parallel start-up will sell licenses for technologies developed by the company.
Kamanin said that representatives from tech companies have already shown considerable interest in the factory prototypes and potential cooperation. The company has a number of patents and projects underway that the team hopes will be useful in a variety of consumer products.
Displair’s management has been repeatedly criticized for extravagance, for example, opening its own production facility instead of leveraging the capacity of partners, and paying salaries that were too high while investment in the project remained low. According to tech company database Crunchbase, Displair has raised only $6.38 million. Kamanin, however, justified the decision to open an assembly and research facility in China. “We needed a factory prototype for a large manufacturer to produce our display. Manual assembly is not appropriate for them,” Kamanin said.
In his opinion, Displair projectors manufactured on a production line are superior to those that are hand assembled and will be more appealing to potential partners.
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CREAM, a San Francisco–based dessert franchise that specializes in high-quality ice cream sandwiches and other confections, will launch new mini ice cream sandwiches, a bite-sized version of the company’s popular original ice cream sandwiches.
Starting October 6, the mini ice cream sandwiches will appear on CREAM menus at all locations for $1.99. Mini ice cream sandwiches will initially launch only using CREAM’s original Chocolate Chip cookie, but all flavors of super-premium ice cream and toppings can be used to customize to a customer’s personal taste.
“We understand that our original ice cream sandwiches do not skimp on the size and rest assured, they aren’t going anywhere, but we wanted to give our customers the opportunity to create their own smaller sandwiches,” says CREAM President and COO, Jim Ryan. “It makes for a lighter dessert but also gives our customers another opportunity to mix-and-match the near endless varieties of our ice cream sandwiches.”
CREAM, which is an acronym for “Cookies Rule Everything Around Me,” offers a menu of 20 ice cream flavors and 16 cookie flavors and as many as 15 toppings that customers can mix and match, including vegan and gluten-free options. While the ice cream sandwiches are the main draw, CREAM also has milkshakes, floats, malts, scoops of ice cream, and other baked goods, such as “The Cream Taco,” a waffle cone shaped like a taco loaded with ice cream and toppings.
CREAM currently has 21 locations open and operating throughout California and Las Vegas, with plans to expand its national footprint over the next several years. According to Ryan, 30–40 new CREAM stores will open in 2016.


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The social media giant's ads will be audited by a media watchdog organization as it looks to solve recent issues with inaccurate advertising metrics.
The tech giant's reported plans to produce the low-cost iPhone model in India would allow it to avoid important tariffs and possibly obtain lower labor costs.
Project Loon, Google's balloon-based internet concept, could be close to getting off the ground. Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee has been formally arrested on bribery charges.
The Japanese telecommunications and internet giant that owns most of Sprint is said to be renewing its pursuit of a tie-up between the two wireless rivals.
AT&T's new unlimited data plan drops the previous TV subscription requirement.
In addition to much-discussed disclosures about Prime, Amazon's report included valuable numbers related to its marketplace business, ad sales and capital spending.


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Navigating Map Advertising Nov 19
In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," analyst Yory Wurmser highlights the ways that maps have become integral to the smartphone experience. He breaks down key map ad formats and discusses some of the challenges of working with map platforms.
Fraudsters are trying to make a buck off the ad dollars that flow to mobile. Some research suggests that more than one-quarter of app installs are fraudulent.
Max Jaffe, programmatic practice lead at ad-buying firm GroupM, spoke about how programmatic advertisers are creating more direct routes to the publishers they buy inventory from.
Every week on eMarketer’s “Behind the Numbers” podcast, we take a few minutes to discuss some of the most intriguing headlines of the past seven days. This week, we're chatting about Amazon's controversial HQ2 (er, 3) decision. Plus: Juul's move to quit social, and the rise of the nanoinfluencer.
When it comes to push notifications, getting the opt-in right can make a crucial difference between driving in-app conversions and getting shut out by users.
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As digital marketing becomes more automated, marketers are allocating more of their budgets to marketing technology. Research indicates CMOs spend about 30% of their budgets on tech products.
Spotify will see double-digit growth in 2018, according to eMarketer estimates. We expect 58.4 million people in the US to use Spotify, which represents 20.8% of internet users. This and other digital trends are included in this year's Global Media Intelligence report. Today, we take a look at the streaming audio market.
This year, we expect 46.0 million US households will use a smart TV at least once per month, a 16.0% increase from 2017.


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Russians already got slice of the action: Turns out Domino's not 1st to use pizza delivery drones
Domino’s said on Wednesday it had used drones to deliver two pizzas to Whangaparaoa, just north of Auckland. "This is the future. Today's successful delivery was an important proof of this concept,” said the company’s head, Don Meij, as cited by AFP – which reports Domino’s has claimed the world's first pizza drone delivery.
What they hadn’t counted on though was Dodo – a delivery chain that operates all over Russia and prides itself on keeping up with the latest tech and innovation trends.
In June 2014, together with Russian company CopterExpress, they custom-built a pizza delivery drone and began sales in Syktivkar, Siberia.
“Along with one Moscow-based company we have conducted the first commercial delivery via drones in the world. Until now, many similar variants have been shown on videos, but we tried to deliver real pizza to real customers, and we succeeded,” Dodo Pizza CEO Fyodor Ovchinnikov told ITAR-TASS news agency at the time.
Unfortunately, what started off on a high note with media buzz and positive user feedback, quickly turned sour when the company got into trouble with the regional aviation authorities.
Dodo faced a US$6,000 fine, and although that was later canceled, the company still dropped its drone ambitions in favor of expansion – entering the Chinese market in 2015.
But before Dodo there was Francesco's Pizza in Mumbai, India. It tested drone pizza deliveries even earlier – in spring 2014.


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‘Tis the Season: Dodge Forum’s Holiday Gift Guide
by John Coyle Dodge Forum Like it or not, it’s that time of year again. And whether you’re looking for gifts for your resident gearhead, making sure the little ones gets bitten by the car bug, or trying to slide in a couple of gifts for yourself while nobody’s looking, we’ve got you covered. First […] More »
by Adam Pockross It’s a good thing you guys are on DodgeForum and not some shady enthusiast site, because this is what can happen when you run with the wrong internet crowd. Skip past the jump to see footage of the aftermath from one of the most expensive car crashes ever!
by Patrick Rall With the recent news that Toyota is going to be raising the price on the Tundra by 3%, we got to thinking: why the heck would anyone want to pay good money for a Tundra when they can put that coin towards a Ram instead? Well, we couldn’t think of any good […] More »
Photograph Courtesy of CarScoop by Patrick Rall While Dodge has been tight lipped with information on the 2013 Viper SRT10 set to hit the streets next summer, rumors floating around the internet suggest that when the new American supercar is unveiled (supposedly at the New York Auto Show in April), it will be powered […] More »
Mopar V-10 Competition Off-Road Race Engine Wins in Debut at Baja 1000 in Class 8 Just two-and-a-half weeks after Mopar introduced the new 800 horsepower V-10 Competition Race Engine for drag racing at the 2011 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, the off-road racing derivative of the crate engine made its debut […] More »


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TAS Group enters the company’s capital to accelerate the go-to-market of the contactless payments wallet linked to the Keyble wearables.
Milan (Italy), 22 June 2021– Flywallet S.r.l. (“Flywallet”), the innovative startup that created a digital platform for enabling payments and services through wearable devices with biometric authentication, has signed a reserved investment agreement for the entry of Global Payment S.p.A. (“GP”), a subsidiary of TAS Group’s mother company TAS S.p.A., into the capital with a minority stake.
TAS Group is a multinational company, whose payment software solutions are adopted by commercial and central banks throughout Europe and beyond. More than 100 million payment cards are managed by TAS platforms worldwide. Thanks to its leadership, TAS Group will be a vehicle to accelerate the go-to-market for Flywallet’s mobile wallet, the world’s first for tokenizing payment cards on wearables with biometric authentication. The partnership will also result in a commercial agreement under which GP will distribute Flywallet’s wearables and service platform to TAS Group’s business customers.
Flywallet’s flagship product is named Keyble, a new type of wearable that adapts to the user’s lifestyle, created with eco-friendly materials and inspired by made-in-Italy styles. It consists of a smart device that can be inserted into fashion accessories such as bracelets or watch straps and is equipped with biometric sensors for user authentication and health monitoring.
Through fingerprints or heartbeat measured via ECG, the user can enable in-store contactless payments, passwordless logins to online services, ticketing, loyalty cards, access to gyms, offices and homes, car door locks, digital identity and more. In early 2022, the wearable will be certified as a medical device capable to perform analysis of cardiac arrhythmias, blood oxygen saturation and body temperature.
Flywallet is proposing a unique “Biometric Wearable Platform as a Service” model for e-money and payment institutions, banks, insurance companies and businesses. By connecting via dedicated APIs, the Flywallet Platform allows Partner companies to deliver new types of digital services easily and securely through the proprietary wearables.
Valentino Bravi, CEO of TAS stated: “At TAS, we have always applied the principles of “continuous innovation” to ensure the market a constant technological and functional evolution of our products and services, both through significant investments in R&D – more than 10% of our revenues in the last decade – and through the acquisition of innovative companies.
In 2019, for example, the acquisition of Mantica enabled us to expand our offerings in the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence areas.
Today, we are investing in Flywallet because we are convinced that offering wearable technology that is customizable and adaptable to our customers’ user experiences is a critical success factor.
We also appreciate that this project gives us the opportunity to reaffirm our decades-long commitment to promoting Italian technology in a sector that will undoubtedly improve our lives and make them more secure in the years to come.”
Lorenzo Frollini, Founder and CEO of Flywallet added: “It is an honour for Flywallet to count TAS among its shareholders and partners. Between TAS and Flywallet there is a perfect strategic fit and a total sharing of the company’s core values, including customer centricity and a relentless pursuit of service quality. In the medium term, the strategic partnership with TAS will also allow Flywallet to expand its range of services through the opportunities offered by PSD2.”
TAS Group is specialised in software solutions for electronic money, payment systems, capital markets and extended enterprise. It serves major commercial & central banks and the main Financial Services centres in Italy and Europe, and the main global broker dealers of the Global Fortune 500.
Founded in Rome in 1982, it has been listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since May 2000.
Italian market leader for card management, payment networks access and order management, TAS also operates as key partner in the international market, acting through its subsidiaries in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Serbia, Brazil und North America.
To learn more about TAS visit www.tasgroup.eu
Flywallet, founded by Lorenzo Frollini at the end of 2018 together with Arianna Ludovica Frollini, Matteo Egidi and Alessandro Massimiani, is the innovative startup that connects payment, mobility and health services into a single integrated digital platform putting security first, thanks to biometrics and proprietary wearable and IoT technologies.
To learn more about flywallet visit www.flywallet.it


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Enterprise Singapore says that since 2010, the number of Singaporean businesses operating in Africa has nearly doubled. More than 60 companies have now opened in over 40 countries in the continent.
For example, Arcadier, a tech-start up which eases businesses into online marketplaces, is now helping farmers Nigeria. These agriculturists, located in Cross River State, have cocoa beans and other products that they’re looking to sell locally and to other nations.
Kenneth Low, the co-founder of Arcadier, says that their journey has been an uphill climb, but that they have been coordinating with local government agencies.
However, due to the need to creating supply chain channels and cooperatives, completion has taken time.
Indeed, Singaporean industry experts are considering business ventures into Africa as “long-term play.”
Bu 2025, the e-commerce in Africa is expected to be worth S$102 billion (US$75 billion).
Johan Burger, director of the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies at Nanyang Technological University, says that the pace in which Singaporean businesses in Africa have grown is entirely to be expected because of current challenges, such as lack of infrastructure, cultural understanding, and great distances.
He said, “Africa is far, its risks are less known and people here may not be familiar with the different countries.”
The key for some companies that have brought businesses to Africa is due diligence. The Tolaram Group, for example, introduced instant noodles Indomie to Nigeria. The company did extensive research before launching their venture.
Haresh Aswani, the company’s managing director for Africa, said, “About 20 years ago, each person in Nigeria consumed around one packet of Indomie a year. Today, it is 20 packets a person a year. We created an eating habit, as no one there had noodles in those days. It took us almost 12 years to create a market for noodles commercially.”
The Tolaram Group expects that there will be growth in Africa in the areas of infrastructure, energy and service, as well as a sharp rise in products for households that are packaged, particularly for the food and beverage industry.
The director for international business at construction company Well & Able Holdings, Collin Wee, has said that it takes some education and time for people to adjust to new technology.
He foresees that the continent will comprise 18 percent of Well & Able’s business for 2019. He said, ”Africa is a growing department for Well & Able.”
Well & Able built Mauritius’ first super mall around 10 years ago. Of late the company has ventured into Uganda and South Africa because of faster methods of building as well as greater demand.
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Photos by Laura Hoefer If Tim and Lisa King aren’t working at Forest Lake Greenhouses, the husband and wife horticulturalists are probably tending to their home garden in Florence, South Carolina. Their shared love of plants brought them together more than 30 years ago, and continues to drive their business today.
Tim, a Florence native, took a horticulture class at the local career center during his junior year of high school. When a nearby nursery was looking for part-time help, the instructor recommended Tim — landing him his first job in the greenhouse industry.
He continued working there at the nursery for a year after graduating, and then moved to a large wholesale grower in Charleston. Meanwhile, Lisa migrated to the same company after graduating from Penn State with a horticulture degree. She worked in sales, while Tim served as assistant grower. The two plant-lovers met, started dating and married.
“We came back to my hometown with ideas of starting our own business,” Tim says, “and we never looked back.”
Named after a nearby lake, Forest Lake Greenhouses took shape on the corner of a former cornfield in the summer of 1989. The Kings built two Quonset greenhouses and planted their first poinsettia crop — but less than three months later, Hurricane Hugo whipped through the coast as a Category 4 storm with wind speeds topping 140 mph.
“We just tied ropes over the greenhouse to try to keep the plastic on,” Tim says. “Luckily, we didn’t have any damage, so everything was fine. We grew that first crop of poinsettias — I think it was 2,000 plants — and sold them all that first year.”
After a that stormy start, Forest Lake Greenhouses continued to grow and evolve under the leadership of the Kings. Tim King and his wife, Lisa King Retail growth
The Charleston operation, where Tim and Lisa met, mostly grew blooming potted plants for the florist industry. They initially adopted the same focus at Forest Lake — but added a small retail store to supplement their wholesale production. As new crops came to the retail market, their business shifted drastically.
“We started out mostly growing potted crops and just servicing flower shops,” Tim says. “Then, vegetative plant material came along in the 90s, introducing a whole different class of plant material for the garden center industry. Learning to grow those crops was totally different from the potted crops I’d been growing, so that’s been a huge shift in production.”
While Forest Lake still grows a lot of potted crops, including hydrangeas and poinsettias, they’re now growing more bulbs and vegetative plants for containers and colorful landscapes, while servicing more garden centers —– including their own.
Since starting out as a predominantly wholesale operation, Forest Lake’s business has shifted to 70% retail and 30% wholesale, with Lisa managing retail operations, while Tim, as head grower, oversees production.
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COLUMBIA, SC (WBTW) – Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday issued a mandatory “work or home order” for the state and a customer limit for retail businesses.
Beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, “everyone should stay home unless working, visiting family, recreating outdoor or obtaining necessary goods. Those are the limits,” McMaster said.
“Too many people are on the roads, too many people are on the waters, too many people are in the stores, and too many people are not complying with our request concerning social distancing,” McMaster said.
For retail stores that remain open, McMaster issued a mandatory order that customers must be limited to no more than five for every 1,000 square feet or 20% capacity, whichever is less.
Those who do not comply with Gov. McMaster’s new orders will face criminal penalties including a misdemeanor charge and 30 days in jail or $100 fine for each day of violation.
“Why are we doing this now? Why not wait until later, why not earlier? That is because it is time,” said Gov. McMaster. “According to the data, according to the science, according to the facts, and according to the expert advice and guidance – as we have explained before, it is now time to make these recommended actions required.”
The rate of infection is on the rise and non-compliance is on the rise, he said.
“We hope this order will reduce the rate of infection and also reduce the non-compliance and also reduce the number of people who are losing their jobs because of the necessary orders.”
Also, the state General Assembly was ordered to work on Wednesday.
For churches on Easter, McMaster urged them to stream on the internet or meet outdoors. If they can’t do those, please provide for that social distancing in the church, the governor said.
This is a developing story. Count on News13 for updates as we work to learn more.
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The thieves had pulled a white van up to the back of the snazzy Chestnut Street restaurant Buddakan.
Were they stealing cash, or the giant golden Buddha? A stash of the popular "dip sum" doughnuts?
Nope. They were after the used cooking oil.
With biodiesel production increasing and prices for feedstocks - including used cooking oil - soaring, a waste product that restaurants once paid to get rid of is now a commodity targeted by thieves.
Greenworks Holdings, a group of companies that collect used cooking oil and convert it into biofuel, serves about 13,000 restaurants, mostly in the northeastern states.
"And we regularly lose used cooking oil from about 1,000 of those restaurants every month. It's ridiculous," said Ralph Tommaso, president of a subsidiary, the Association of Restaurant Owners for a Sustainable Earth, based in Lehigh Valley.
In the case of the purloined Buddakan oil, police responding to a 5 a.m. call on July 14 about suspicious activity in a lot off South Third Street found two men in a white van behind Buddakan. The vehicle, later impounded, was equipped with what Lt. Michael Young described as an "elaborate reservoir system": pipes and two tanks that he estimated at 300 gallons each.
Indeed, the setup was so intricate that officials, suspecting the worst, evacuated the area and closed streets.
An ordnance team quickly determined, however, that the stuff in the tanks wasn't explosive. Just slippery.
Arrested and charged with theft were Keith Williams, 23, of the 4500 block of Market Street, and Musayyeb Hunt, 42, of the 4700 block of North 11th Street.
Other places that have been hit include chicken restaurants in Camden and Willingboro, a pizzeria and a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia, a diner in Clifton Heights, and a Chinese restaurant, pizzeria, and saloon in Glenolden, said Tommaso, also CEO of Greenworks Holdings.
Sometimes, the thieves come under cover of darkness and are gone before anyone knows they were there.
But at one Abington eatery, they posed as subcontractors for the oil-collection company.
At first, John Prisco, manager of the Steak & Hoagie Factory Store on York Road, didn't question the legitimacy of the men in the white van.
But he became suspicious when he came in early one morning and they skedaddled. "They pulled away too fast," he recalled. "They didn't say hi."
After police described a similar white van in the Buddakan oil heist, he realized his place might have been hit by the same guys.
Typically, restaurants put used cooking oil out back in bins provided by the collection companies.
In an effort to look legit, some thieves have even stolen stickers with the logos of oil collection companies. They peel them from restaurant oil bins and put them on their trucks.
In the past, the waste cooking oil was collected and used as a feed additive for livestock. But now, all the oil Greenworks collects - more than three million gallons a month - goes into fuel.
Tommaso said thefts seemed to spike in 2008, when the price of petroleum oil went to $150 a barrel and prices for other fuels rose correspondingly.
The price later dropped, but now it's rising again.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center tracks quarterly prices. On March 30, it listed the per gallon price for B100 - pure biodiesel instead of a blend - at $4.31. That is the highest price since July 1, 2008, when it was $4.81
The high price reflects growing demand for biofuel.
Burning it produces fewer emissions than regular petroleum, and it's a way to help the country wean itself off foreign oil. Last year, the biodiesel industry had record production - more than one billion gallons, said Ben Evans, a spokesman for the National Biodiesel Board.
Pennsylvania is one of the major producers, with more than a dozen plants, he said.
Most biodiesel is made from soybean oil. But used cooking oil - referred to as yellow grease once it's been through an initial processing - is less expensive. So the industry would like to rely on it more, Evans said.
The yellow grease supply is limited, however, and not because Michelle Obama's healthy eating campaign is taking off. The stuff is still used as an animal feed additive and to produce soaps and detergents.
Tommaso's company pays restaurants up to $1 a gallon for used cooking oil, depending on quantity and quality. By his estimate, crooks could sell purloined oil for $2 a gallon. So if the Buddakan thieves had two 300-gallon tanks in the truck, they could fill them in a few hours and make $1,200.
With the rash of thefts, Tommaso said Greenworks was resorting to putting locking devices on oil-collection bins - a solution that will cost $6 million.
Domenico Finocchiaro, one of the owners of Eden Green Energy, a Philadelphia oil-collection company on Federal Street, said losing the oil isn't the only cost. To keep customers happy, Eden Green often pays them for oil that was stolen.
Frequently, the thieves are sloppy and spill oil, he said. So, again, to keep customers happy, Eden Green employees go clean it up.
And now, with thefts on the rise and oil-collection companies hurting, Finocchiaro worries that there may be a confrontation between thieves and legitimate drivers. Sooner or later, he said, it's going to happen.
Filing police reports is a waste of time, he said.
To police, "it looks like a victimless crime," said Tommaso, even though his business loses money paying for workers and trucks to collect oil that isn't there.
The thievery has become so rampant that legitimate companies are teaming up to make sure they don't buy oil from thieves. "Unfortunately, if we don't buy the oil, someone else will," Tommaso said.
In time, if security doesn't thwart thieves, the increasing green trend might.
Chris Moyer, sustainability manager for the National Restaurant Association, said some restaurants are installing equipment that will use their old cooking oil to produce energy for their own use.


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One of the largest investors in Ivano-Frankivsk, the American company Tyco Electronics closes plant in the capital of the Carpathian region, writes “Reporter”.
According to the publication, 800 workers have warned about the gradual dismissal. Currently, the city is looking for a new investor.
“Taiko” was included in Ivano-Frankivsk in 2006. The company began construction of a plant on 15 hectares in the area Hryplynska in the industrial site. In the construction of the first production module, the company invested €5 million it all Started with 150 square meters of production space and 70 jobs.
First production was launched in 2008. “Taiko” began manufacturing connectors for airbags in cars and cables for BMW, Opel, Mercedes, Skoda, Fiat. Products exported to the countries of Western Europe.
In 2017 there launched additional production module – the number of employees by the fall exceeded 1 thousand persons. In 2018, the plant planned expansion of production capacity and further to gain another 100 people.
According to the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv, the plant annually paid to the city budget of about 10 million UAH of the tax.
However, last year the company started the interruptions in work. As reports the edition with reference to own sources, because of the ban of diesel engines in Europe, the number of orders sharply decreased. Europeans are not in a hurry to buy a diesel car, choosing hybrids or electric cars.
Last week in Ivano-Frankivsk came to the Board of the company to inform them that the plant is closed. At the meeting people were given two months to find a new job.
Representatives of the Board also met with representatives of the city authorities. As told Deputy mayor Bogdan Bilyk, “Tyco electronics” will gradually reduce production to full closure. Explained it as the optimization of production and logistics, especially in those enterprises where workers are relatively plentiful.
“To people not sharply reduced sales volumes will limit gradually. Social payments and the salary promise to keep. Until the end of the year plan to release the production from our own turnover”, – said Bilyk.
LLC “Tyco electronics Ukraine limited” – part of the Corporation TE Connectivity, American electronics manufacturer and cable electronic components. The company operates in 30 countries with 200 thousand customers worldwide and delivers about 500 thousand different goods.


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By Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC.com News Editor
NEW YORK ( CNBC) -- This year, as I was sorting through pictures for my annual family calendar, I noticed something. A good portion of the pictures I was using were taken not on the brand-new camera we purchased this year, but on my smartphone.
Apparently, I'm not alone. A new study from market researcher NPD confirms that consumers are now taking more than a quarter of their photos and videos on their smartphones.
The percentage of photos taken with a smartphone (
(AAPL) iPhone or any other smartphone) rose to 27% from 17% last year, while the share of photos taken on any camera dropped from 52% to 44%.
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Wesley Medical Center has been named a Consumer Choice Award winner by National Research Corporation for 2012 -2013. The award identifies hospitals that healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image. This is the seventeenth year National Research has awarded hospitals whose consumers have recognized them for providing the highest quality healthcare.
“Customer-centric care is based on the notion of extending patient-centered care to all healthcare consumers who are taking the initiative with their healthcare decisions and demanding higher quality. It advocates an all-inclusive, cross-continuum view of care experiences for all healthcare participants and stakeholders,” said Susan L. Henricks, President and Chief Operating Officer for National Research Corporation. “The goal of this empowering movement and quality improvement initiatives from providers is to provide better outcomes—and create positive consumer perceptions. The Consumer Choice Awards recognizes hospitals that patients have rated as the most preferred places to receive care according to quality and image.”
Winners are determined by consumer perceptions on multiple quality and image ratings collected in the company’s online Market Insights/Ticker survey. This study surveys over 250,000 households representing over 450,000 consumers in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia. From the households surveyed, 3200 hospitals named by consumers are analyzed and ranked based on their Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, with the winning facilities being ranked the highest.
“We are proud to be selected a Consumer Choice Award winner,” said Hugh Tappan, Wesley President/CEO. “Quality healthcare and patient satisfaction are our biggest priorities and, with consumers having choice when it comes to healthcare, we are pleased to be seen by our community as a quality healthcare provider.”
“We congratulate the recipients of the Consumer Choice Awards and salute their efforts to improve performance,” said Henricks.
National Research’s Market Insights/Ticker Survey is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive study of its kind. No other study measures hospital performance and preferences and contains more consumer responses than National Research’s study. The study has a margin of error of + or – 0.2 percent at a national level. Co-winners are named when scores fall within the statistical margin of error for a given market.


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After payments to developers, Apple's revenue share from the App Store during calendar 2015 was approximately $6.4 billion, according to a new analyst estimate.
"Appsumers continue to be highly engaged in the App Store ecosystem which is a long term positive for the company's future products, in our opinion," commented J.P. Morgan's Rod Hall in a memo obtained by AppleInsider.
The figure is based on an Apple annoucement from Wednesday, in which the company revealed that the public had spent $1.1 billion at the App Store in a two-week period covering Christmas and New Year's. Jan. 1 was reportedly the biggest single day in the App Store's history, with over $144 million in traffic.
Apple takes 30 percent of the revenue from App Store purchases, including in-app transactions, which would indicate that a far larger sum was distributed among third-party publishers and developers.
While the App Store is a relatively minor source of income for Apple — the J.P. Morgan estimate is less than a fifth of what Apple generated from iPhone sales in the September quarter alone — strong app sales are essential to the company's health. It depends on apps as a reason for people to buy iOS devices.
People who buy iOS apps are also more likely to be "locked" into the Apple ecosystem, since they would suddenly lose that content after switching to Android or Windows.


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Lloyds TSB is set to rebrand to become Lloyds Bank, with most of its branches and products operating under the title by the end of 2013.
Lloyds Banking Group is currently changing its brand strategy as it aim to reflect the disposal of a part of its business through the TSB brand.
Neither Halifax or Bank of Scotland – which have themselves recently seen their own brands altered to separate the two having previously operated as HBOS – will be unaffected by the move, as will the marketing department of Lloyds TSB.
Graham Lindsay, managing director of customer experience for Lloyds Banking Group, explained that the announcement was the first step in the company’s ‘planned journey’ towards the new Lloyds bank brand.
“We are introducing the new brand on a phased basis over the course of the next few years. This minimises disruption to our customers and ensures that we make the change in the most cost effective way possible,” he added.


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About 180 gallons of paint will mark the end of a decades-long partnership between Southwest Airlines and SeaWorld.
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Intel’s plans to increase chip production in China may not materialize. As reported by the Western media, the company was to run into a wall built by President Biden’s administration. Thus, it may turn out that the availability of chips will be worse than previously assumed.
The Americans openly admit that they aim to prevent China from using American technology and know-how to develop advanced technological solutions. This is not surprising, but on the other hand, the idea of blue is potentially very important for the availability of chips in the world. Intel definitely will not oppose the will of the government, especially since it is supposed to get a gigantic amount of funding from Congress for internal research and production. We’re talking about more than $52 billion. So even the prospect of increased affordability once the China plant is up and running is not attractive by direct comparison.
So Intel has to look for an alternative solution, which will be the hardest. The production capacity of the largest manufacturers in the world is very limited, and new plants take up to several years to build and are very expensive. The closest to installing a new one is TSMC, which will also benefit from the aforementioned funding from the U.S. Congress. The European Union also wants to get into the game, planning to invest heavily in the chip manufacturing sector.


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Switzerland is implementing new legislation to better protect its citizens’ data (“revFADP”), replacing the longstanding Federal Act on Data Protection of 1992. The revFADP improves the processing of personal data and grants Swiss citizens new rights consistent with other comprehensive data protection laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR) and UK GDPR. This important legislative change also comes with a number of increased obligations for companies doing business in Switzerland. Companies must quickly get up to speed on the revFADP requirements because the Act takes effect on September 1, 2023. Companies should not assume that compliance with the GDPR and UK GDPR equals compliance under the revFADP. While this revised legislation has many similarities to the GDPR, there are a few stark differences companies should be aware of. Here is the breakdown of what companies should know.
On December 13, 2022, the European Commission published a draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF or DPF”) signaling the potential return of the framework allowing the flow of personal data between the EU and the United States. Although this is a draft decision, if approved, it will ease trans-Atlantic data flow and ease the restrictions that were placed after the 2020 Schrems II decision invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework for cross-border transfers. This draft adequacy decision ultimately concluded that the DPF provides an adequate level of protection of personal data.…
As you consider the end of the year and beginning of a new year, we in Taft’s Privacy and Data Security Practice thought to provide you with a simple list of data protection resolutions you might consider, both professionally and personally.
1. Get strong! Now is a good time to make a change in passwords for your accounts, and specifically make them strong passwords (i.e. ten characters or more, including an upper and lower case letter, number, and…Continue Reading 2023 Privacy and Data Security Resolutions
With less than three months until the California Privacy Rights Act goes into effect on January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “Agency”) released updated proposed regulations on October 17, 2022 (the “Regulations”). The Regulations govern compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which will be amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the “CCPA”). The Regulations modify the initial proposed regulations that were released on July 8, 2022. We discuss the key changes from both versions below.
Important: The written comment period will not end until November 21. Accordingly, it is possible these Regulations may change again.…
Continue Reading Rush to the Finish Line: The California Privacy Protection Agency Releases CPRA Modified Regulations
The Colorado Attorney General (AG) recently published proposed rules for the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). These draft rules shed light and clarify how the Attorney General plans to carry out the CPA when it goes into effect on July 1, 2023. These proposed CPA rules are a draft that is not yet finalized and therefore are subject to change. In the upcoming months, the Colorado AG will engage with key stakeholders and the public on feedback regarding these proposed rules. While the draft CPA draft rules are months away from finalization, the proposed rules are intended to help entities understand the AG’s requirements for when the CPA becomes effective. Below are a few key highlights of the draft CPA rules as they currently stand, which supplement the AG’s prior guidance from April 2022.
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Once again, California is setting trends in the world of privacy laws. On September 15, 2022, California’s Governor signed the first comprehensive state law to protect children’s online safety. A week later, on September 23, 2022, the New York Senate introduced a similar bill.
New York’s newly introduced Bill, S9563, the Child Data Privacy and Protection Act (“Bill”), largely mirrors the newly passed California law but has some added protections and procedures that online products targeting children must follow if the law is enacted. …
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The answer is simple; delete it (unless retention is required by law or contract)! Virtually every company processes personal data in some form or fashion. The term “processing” is defined broadly under most data protection laws to mean “any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data.” The general rule is that when a business’ processing of personal data is complete, the data must be returned or deleted. Typically, data deletion arises:
- when required contractually (i.e., in data processing agreements to comply with applicable data protection laws such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (“GDPR”) Article 28(3)(g));
- when requested by data subjects exercising their “right to be forgotten”/deletion/erasure under applicable data protection laws. This means that, in some cases, even if a company’s processing of personal data is incomplete, the processing can be cut short if a person requests that their data be deleted.; and/or
- as a requirement to do business with other companies. In some instances, data deletion or a process for deletion must exist to do business with other entities. For example, Facebook requires companies to have a policy/process for individuals to request their data be deleted (even if there is no applicable law imposing this requirement on the company) if a company wants individuals to create an account on the company’s website using their Facebook credentials.
Ransomware – a demand for a monetary payment to regain access to one’s data or network – continues to rock the charts as cyber criminals’ go-to, get-rich-quick scheme. As we know, the pandemic spurred the work-from-home or hybrid movement that likely will continue for years to come. With more and more employees working from home, more data is being shared remotely, leaving the door open for missed or inadequate computer and technology security. Phishing and fraud schemes and social engineering methods used to demand ransom are particularly attractive as they target and take advantage of the number one security risk – a company’s people.
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The California Attorney General’s office recently announced that French multinational personal care and beauty products retailer Sephora, Inc. has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), making it the first settlement under California’s landmark privacy law.
The CCPA is a first-in-the-nation law that was passed in 2018 and went into effect in 2020. It gives Californians the right to know what information a business collects about them and shares; the right to delete personal information collected from them; the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information; and the right to not be discriminated against for exercising all the right the CCPA gives them. Oftentimes, online retailers allow third-party companies to install tracking software to monitor a consumer’s shopping trends.
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If you haven’t already seen the notifications in the Taft Privacy and Data Security Mobile App, we wanted to make you aware or remind you about some important security updates issued by Apple affecting multiple products. CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) is recommending consumers update their devices as soon as possible.
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The grocery distribution center of the future has arrived—and you can find it just north of Toronto.
Sobeys Inc.’s new highly automated distribution center, in Vaughan, Ontario, is the first of its kind in Canada. The facility can handle an amazing 320,000 cases per day—three times the number of Sobeys’ conventional DCs—and can ship more than 1.4 million cases per week.
The size of eight football fields at 500,000 square feet, the Vaughan facility services the dry grocery needs of Sobeys Ontario network of food stores operating under the Sobeys, Foodland, FreshCo and Price Chopper banners. The DC is the largest of its 23 distribution centers, featuring a ceiling height of 65 feet and 30 receiving bays and 41 shipping bays. The centerpiece is an automated case-picking system that builds mixed SKU pallets in a store-friendly and aisle-ready fashion.
Founded in 1907, the company is more than 100 years old, but that doesn’t stop Sobeys from being among the most forward-thinking retailers in Canada. “Retail is rapidly changing and very competitive and we need to keep up with the times. We wanted to be able to improve service levels at the lowest possible cost,” says Francois Vimard, chief financial officer. “The only way to do that was with an automated DC.”
A multi-million dollar investment, the DC reflects Sobeys’ ongoing commitment to innovation. The retailer decided to build the DC in Ontario because that is where it has the largest concentration of stores. “With an automated DC, you need sufficient volume to justify the investment in automation, and Ontario offered us that,” says Vimard.
Vimard, a 15-year veteran of Sobeys, oversaw the design and construction of the facility, which began in 2007. The building was completed in October 2008. “Once the building was finished, it took about a year to install and test the automation technology,” says Vimard. “We began shipping product in July 2009.”
The company consolidated grocery from its Milton and Whibty distribution centers into the Vaughan facility, leaving those two DCs to focus on fresh products including meat, produce and dairy.
“Prior to opening the Vaughan facility, we had some capacity issues in terms of assortment and volume, and we were integrating more and more DSD in our network to improve the service levels to our stores as well as to provide a better assortment,” says Vimard. “That was bringing our cost per case up, so we wanted to get more products into the network with less cost. We also needed to better control our inbound flow from our vendors.”
Employee retention and a shrinking labor pool were also concerns. “Like most grocery distributors, we have high turnover in our DCs, and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety [Canada’s version of OSHA] may pass regulations that restrict the amount of weight an employee can move in one day,” says Vimard. “In addition, the population is aging and we realized that if we didn’t find a solution, in 15 years we were going to have a serious labor problem.”
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Just like in the United States, competition in the grocery arena in Canada is fierce. With more than $15.2 billion in annual sales, Nova Scotia-based Sobeys is the second largest supermarket retailer in Canada, trailing behind Loblow Cos. Ltd., which posted $27 billion in sales last year. And Wal-Mart Canada Corp. continues to expand, with plans to open 35 to 40 more supercenters this year, adding to the 85 it already operates. The supercenters combine general merchandise with a full supermarket.
Sobeys, like many of its U.S. counterparts, grew through acquisition. At one point, the company was operating 17 separate POS systems under four different legacy systems across Canada. “It was a great challenge for the organization just to get basic information,” says Vimard. “To get to the next level, we had to invest in both technology and logistics and we had to integrate them coast-to-coast so we could have a full view of the business.”


text: Photograph: Elrond / MediumThe know-how firm, Elrond, has simply introduced that it’s now an official member of the Trusted Web of Issues Alliance (TIoTA) which is a big group of not less than 50 completely different corporations who’re collaborating to create a number of help techniques to facilitate IoT adoption utilizing blockchain know-how and different comparable strategies.Typically, the TIoTA works to ascertain cooperation with main corporations everywhere in the world, to help IoT adoption by bettering requirements, creating extra vital and exploitable alternatives, in addition to doing their respective finest to develop IoT-suitable know-how.With the Elrond community, all members of the alliance will see improved effectivity within the type of cheaper transaction charges and far larger throughput. This can undoubtedly improve buyer person expertise (UX) throughout all TIoTA members. The Elrond group is certain that the community with its velocity and spectacular scalability, can be an enormous plus for the IoT ecosystem.In response to the announcement, the scalability is well achieved via vital developments in Safe Proof of Stake in addition to Adaptive State Sharding. This makes the Elrond Community fairly well-matched and ready for the brand new part of the web, a part the place there can be a necessity for severe enhancements on present know-how and seamless and speedy trade of knowledge and worth is to be assured.Beniamin Mincu, the CEO and Founding father of Elrond has additionally commented on this, iterating the corporate’s skill to push for the actualization of the brand new IoT. Mincu famous:“Our immersion with the Trusted IoT Alliance is a big step ahead for realizing the sensible and real-world purposes of what Elrond Community can obtain. Alongside the traces of TIoTA’s enterprise, IoT and blockchain members, Elrond’s public, sharded blockchain can present the infrastructure that’s obligatory for the digital financial system to blossom.”The TIoTA has spoken about Elrond’s potential enter for the affiliation. The Chairman of the TIoTA who can also be Cisco’s Head of Blockchain, Anoop Nannra, has additionally expressed some pleasure about Elrond. He stated:“Elrond supplies a scalable worth switch protocol for the digital financial system. We’re thrilled to have Elrond be a part of our group and contribute to our collective targets to ascertain finest practices for the market and to commercialize trusted initiatives.”In response to The McKinsey World Institute, there can be nearly 30 billion units with a direct web connection by the following yr. The TIoTA hopes to attain a protected, safe and extremely scalable area for the IoT by 2025. By then, it’s believed that achieved feats ought to embody quick machine to machine funds, unmanned provide chain distribution and administration, together with many extra autonomous and interoperable actions.The TIoTA is already made up heavy hitters within the know-how and finance business. The listing of its members consists of Bosch, Cisco, KPMG, Siemens, Consensys and VeChain amongst others.


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Japan's rising Internet star preaches gospel of blogging
By Yuri Kageyama
After developing some of the country's hottest Net ventures, the 37-year-old entrepreneur has a new mission: Making the journals known as Web logs, or blogs, not just a thriving business but also a key element of everyday life here.
Ito's blog draws ceaseless chatter from a burgeoning cyber-community on a range of topics from Iraq to the U.S. presidential election and the latest in technology.
People from around the world swap links to news stories and humorous video footage in a crisscrossing web of friendships and streams of consciousness that shift as quickly as real-life conversations.
Blogs easy to set up
Blogs are far easier to set up than Web pages nearly as easy as sending e-mail so a whole new class of people can participate, Ito argues.
Bloggers can comment on and add links to photos, news articles and other blogs. Now hot in the field is mobile blogging, or moblogging, which involves creating posts from wireless devices such as camera-equipped phones.
"Web logs are doing a lot of what people were excited about the Net when it first came out the fact that anyone can be a publisher," Ito said at his Tokyo office while clicking now and then on blogs.
Ito stands out as a rare cosmopolitan entrepreneur in a nation where the elite tend to be notoriously conservative and insular. Possessing a Westernized upbringing fairly unusual for Japanese, Ito "got" the Internet just as it began to catch on in the 1990s.
A college dropout, he is the founder and chief executive of Neoteny, a venture-capital firm that has raised $40 million. Ito has helped set up or run such companies as Infoseek Japan, the nation's second-largest portal after Yahoo! Japan, as well as Rakuten Inc., Japan's biggest Internet shopping site.
When not jetting around the world to lecture in France about mobile technology or sit on blogging panels at U.S. tech conferences, Ito advises the Japanese government and appears on Japanese talk shows.
Known to friends as Joi, Ito keeps up an intense blogging habit, visiting 190 blogs regularly and averaging five hours a day reading and writing blogs. He's even stopped drinking to spend more time on blogs and less in bars.
'A fantastic curiosity'
"Joi is an incredibly dynamic person," said Justin Hall, an American writer on technology culture and a friend of Ito's for several years. "He's got a fantastic curiosity. His metabolism or something he's wired a little different."
The issues Ito and other bloggers cover are broad human rights, cool Web sites, cooking and, of course, blogging about blogging.
Blogging is so integral to Ito's life that he recently decided against expanding Neoteny's dozen-company portfolio to focus on Six Apart, the California company behind Movable Type and TypePad, among the leading tools for blogging.
He promotes the technology in Japan as chairman of Six Apart's Japanese subsidiary.
Ito also leads the international and mobile operations of Technorati, a Web service that ranks blogs by popularity and monitors the Net for the latest buzz among bloggers.
Blogs have been rapidly growing in popularity in Japan, catching on especially in the past year at a pace that's believed to lag only the United States. At least a dozen companies in Japan provide blogging services. Internet service provider Nifty, which licenses Six Apart's software, has drawn about 25,000 bloggers.
Most of the blog services are free so far. But once blogging gains acceptance as a self-publishing medium, business opportunities such as advertising and premium photo-sharing services should emerge.
Ito has yet to launch a specific moneymaking service for bloggers, but he has created a Neoteny blogging team to feed the fad.
Blogs here look similar to those in the United States. People comment on the news and music, pass around jokes, rate restaurants.
In a society that emphasizes conformity and harmony, blogging makes it easier for people to express unpopular opinions and get tangled in emotional debates.
"The neat thing about weblogs is you find each other," Ito said. "It gives you a feeling of empowerment. For grass-roots movements and things like that, it will be great."
Junjiro Hara, who has known Ito for decades, is sold on blogging and prefers it as an outlet for his views than his real job at major newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
"Japan can't change for the better until it becomes a place where everyone starts blogging," Hara said.
For Ito, promoting blogging came naturally in a life already devoted to bridging Japanese and American cultures.
Ito was born in Japan but spent parts of his childhood in Canada and the United States because his father worked abroad. While in Japan, Ito attended international schools. He became fluent in English and Japanese while always feeling slightly outside mainstream Japanese society.
Ito joined friends from international schools in creating Japan's first Web pages.
"People thought we were crazy. But we had great confidence because we saw that it was going to be giant one day," said Cyrus Shaoul, one of Ito's international-school buddies. "The point wasn't to make a lot of money. The point was to change the world."
Ito believes blogging will one day prove as influential as the printing press.
"Blogging will fundamentally change the (way) people interact with media and politics, and provide us with an opportunity to overhaul our outdated democracies," he said.
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Internet icon Yahoo! has revealed what might just be the biggest hack in recent history.
The company confirmed that a hack, which took place in 2014, saw details associated with 500 million user accounts being stolen. Who could be responsible for these actions? Well, the firm believes that these weren’t necessarily bedroom hackers acting on their own…
“A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor,” the company wrote in the statement.
Compromised account information may include “names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers”.
The Yahoo hack certainly rivals the likes of MySpace and Sony’s breaches, for starters
The company said that, at this stage, they believe payment information and unprotected passwords were not taken.
“Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500-million user accounts was stolen and the investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo’s network,” the company added.
Yahoo! has also taken steps to secure accounts of affected users.
“These steps include invalidating unencrypted security questions and answers so that they cannot be used to access an account and asking potentially affected users to change their passwords. Yahoo is also recommending that users who haven’t changed their passwords since 2014 do so.”
In terms of sheer numbers, the hack bests the MySpace hack, which saw a massive 427-million passwords stolen.


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Google ads are also subject to tax, and changes in global tax policy are parsed.
For years, some European countries have been unhappy with the U.S. tech giants. Because they think these companies make a lot of money from Europe, but pay very little tax. Now, to avoid losing revenue, governments in several European countries have introduced digital service taxes that will be taxed on the basis of income earned by U.S. technology companies from their own consumers.
A few months ago, the UK imposed a 2% tax on any revenue generated by search engines, social media services and the online market.Last month, Apple, Google and Amazon all announced price changes for UK corporate customers to offset the UK government's digital service tax.
Apple has changed the way it pays developers on the UK App Store. In addition to the usual 20% VAT payment to the government for each purchase, an additional 2% fee is added, and then the rest of the money is split between the developer and Apple, which means less money on both sides.
Not only in the UK, but in an email to some third-party developers, Apple also said it would change the price of some apps and in-app purchases in the App Store to reflect tax changes.
Since the VAT rate in Germany has been reduced from 19% to 16% (effective July 2020), a 3% new digital service tax has been added in France (on top of the existing 20% VAT) and a 3% digital service tax in Italy (on the basis of the existing 22% VAT). Elsewhere, applications sold in Chile will be subject to a new VALUED of 19 per cent, while applications sold in Mexico will be subject to a new value added tax of 16 per cent. For Saudi Arabia, VAT has been raised from 5 per cent to 15 per cent, while in Turkey the existing 18 per cent VAT will be added to the digital service tax of 7.5 per cent.
Previously, Apple would often adjust the cost of its app store to address differences in tax systems and currency valuations between countries. For example, app store prices for British consumers have been raised by 25 per cent in the after-hours fall in the value of the pound as a result of the Brexit vote.
Google, meanwhile, will also increase the cost of all ads it buys on Google ads in the UK by 2%.
In an official message sent by Google, it says:
As of November 1, 2020, Google will start adding an charge to subsequent bills or statements for ads that run in a specific country:
Ads in Turkey: Increase regulatory operating expenses by 5% on your bill or statement.
Ads in Austria: Increase the Austrian digital service tax charge by 5% on your bill or statement.
Ads in the UK: A 2% increase in UK digital service tax charges on your bill or statement.
Google said it had added regulatory operating expenses for Turkey because of the complexity and cost of complying with Turkish regulations. As for Austria and the United Kingdom, the cost of the digital service tax stems from the new digital service tax introduced in those two countries.
Not just in Europe and google Ads, Google Play wrote in a recent email to developers:
Google Play is about to make changes to the way withholding taxes are handled for sales transactions to customers in Brazil.
No matter what payment method you earn from a Brazilian customer's purchase transaction, you should pay Brazilian withholding tax. Until now, Google has been responsible for 30% of the withholding tax applied to your sales transactions.
As of September 1, 2020, Google Play will no longer be liable for this fee and will deduct in full the Brazilian withholding tax applicable to your related income from the share of proceeds we pay you.
Google will continue to provide you with services and follow changes in tax regulations, adjust Google's tax practices accordingly, and notify you of the changes.
We understand that this may have an impact on your business in Brazil and he would like to remind you of these changes. We strongly recommend that you consult a professional tax advisor to understand the tax implications of this change.
In addition, from 1 September, Amazon will increase the cost of third-party sellers by 2% in the UK. It told sellers that it had put the price increase on hold while it discussed the UK digital services tax, but now that the legislation had been passed, Amazon wanted to inform customers that it would increase the cost of Referral, Meeting by Amazon (FBA), FBA storage monthly fee and Multichannel Solutions (MCF) fees by 2 per cent in the UK to reflect this additional cost.
More and more countries are following the example of European countries in introducing digital service taxes, such as in Southeast Asia, where Indonesia has adopted the form of Internet value-added tax. Under Indonesia's new rules, non-local foreign companies that sell digital products and services worth at least 600 million rupiah ($41,000) or generate at least 12,000 user traffic per year are subject to 10% VAT.
In response to the recent introduction of new tax policies related to the mobile Internet in several countries, several major technology companies now hope that in the area of digital tax-related, through cooperation between countries to develop a unified global standard.
A Google spokesman told The Guardian that the company would continue to "encourage governments around the world to focus on international tax reform rather than imposing new, unilateral taxes," while an Amazon spokesman told business Insider: "Like many other companies, we encourage governments to reach global agreements on digital economy taxation at the OECD level, rather than unilaterally, so that national rules will be consistent." It's clearer and fairer for businesses. "
For this round of global mobile Internet-related tax policy changes, it is worth going out to sea mobile developers to pay special attention to and take appropriate measures.
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San Francisco: Microsoft’s unified communications platform for office “Teams” has garnered greater than 20 million day by day lively customers, the corporate has mentioned.
“Teams has more than 20 million daily active users. What is more, while these users start with simple text-based chat, they quickly move on to richer forms of communication and collaboration. For instance, last month Teams customers participated in more than 27 million voice or video meetings and performed over 220 million open, edit, or download actions on files stored in Teams,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday.
In the meantime, its rival “Slack” final month introduced that it as 12 million lively customers.
With this milestone, Microsoft Groups now has nearly double the variety of lively customers when in comparison with Slack.
With availability in 53 languages throughout 181 markets, Groups is powering teamwork for purchasers world wide, together with Emirates, FedEx, Lexmark, The Adecco Group, KONE, and McCann Worldgroup.
Moreover, Microsoft additionally unveiled a toolkit known as The Artwork of Teamwork, which it describes as a brand new on-line curriculum constructed across the 5 attributes of a profitable crew: Shared goal, collective identification, self-awareness and inclusion, belief and vulnerability and constructive rigidity.


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iPhone 5C is shockingly expensive
I am watching CNBC's coverage of the Apple event, and one of their reporters said that the iPhone 5C will be $549 off-contract, which is amazingly expensive. And Techcrunch has just confirmed that, as well.
I've said over the past few months that $349 would be the absolute max price off-contract if they wanted to compete in emerging markets. I can't really understand how this could open up new people to the Apple ecosystem when they are counting on selling this in countries where people make $400 a month. I don't really see this changing the dynamic for Apple in those crucial parts of the world where they need to see growth and compete with Android.