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Has DVD Copy Protection Been Outlawed In France?
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A year and a half ago a French court decided that a woman who bought a copy protected CD has bought a defective product that needed to be replaced by the record label. However, the court made it clear that it only applied in that one case. However, a nearly identical case having to do with DVDs seems to have resulted in a more widespread ban on copy protection for DVDs (as found on Boing Boing). Remember, France is also the same country that recently suggested that downloading unauthorized content for personal consumption was probably legal too — while musicians are asking the industry to stop suing fans for sharing music. Of course, France is also the place where you can get thrown in jail for publishing a security warning or linking to illegal content (not hosting it yourself). It’s also the same country that seems to misunderstand the point of trademark law — so it’s not like they’re a perfect nation when it comes to understanding the nature of content these days.
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There is not doubt that this decision will be appealed and that the appeal court will stay the judgement pending the appeal, so while it may seem like a radical decision, it’s not over yet…


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TOKYO (AP) -- Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday it would cut auto production at its two domestic plants due to sluggish demand in the United States.
Japan's third-biggest automaker will slash output by 28,000 units, mostly Infiniti luxury models, at its factory in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, Nissan spokeswoman Ikue Matsuura said. The production cut would last five months starting from November, she said.
"Our sales in the United States remained sluggish. We must adjust our output accordingly," the spokeswoman said.
Nissan also planned to cut production by 37,000 units, mostly the sport utility vehicles Murano and Rogue, at its plant in Fukuoka, southern Japan, from November to March next year, Matsuura said.
Nissan's sales in the United States dropped 37 percent year-on-year in September due to slowing demand as American consumers tightened their purse strings amid the deepening financial crisis.
The Asahi daily said Tuesday Nissan would slash the number of temporary workers at its domestic factories to cope with the poor U.S. sales. The spokeswoman declined to confirm the report.
Last week Nissan said it was laying off 1,680 workers in Spain due to weak demand.

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Could you create a stylish outfit for just $6 or less?
LIFELINE is posing a challenge to the people of Ipswich to create a stylish and unique outfit for just $6 or less at its annual $2 clothing sale this weekend.
Lifeline area supervisor Jenny Auld said the day provided an opportunity for the store to sell surplus stock as well as offering customers great deals on quality clothing.
"It's a lot of fun, people can come down to hunt for that elusive bargain or designer piece for just two dollars," she said.
"In previous years it has been very successful; it's one of our main fundraisers of the year.
"Families will often come and get their kids clothing for the rest of the year.
"Some people even bring in large containers or doonas to put all of their clothes in and come back three or four times, it's quite a popular event within the community."
Ipswich manager Colin Hannigan said people also came to the sale to find something different outside of mainstream fashion options.
"One woman bought her wedding dress for just $2 - it fitted her like a glove, you'd think it was custom made," he said.
"Families can also come and buy sets of clothes for their kids that would usually cost a lot in mainstream stores.
"It gives people who usually wouldn't be able to afford it the chance to get some quality clothes in time for Christmas."
Mr Hannigan said Lifeline were hoping more than 2500 people would attend the sale.
"We've also put the challenge out to fashion bloggers as well as community members to see what they can come up with for six dollars or less," he said.
"The event serves two purposes for us, it helps take the financial pressure off of families and people who may be struggling in the lead up to Christmas and it also allows our staff to share a positive experience with their community.
"That's why we do it at this time of year."
The Lifeline $2 clothing sale will be held at the Ipswich Showgrounds from 9am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.


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Crown Upholstery to open school, aims to bring more people to the industry
By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA
After 23 years of working on furniture, Jesica and Wes Breitenbach are moving toward the next step at Crown Upholstery: opening a school.
There used to be several schools for upholstery in the area, the couple said. There was even a program for the trade at nearby Fulton High School. A lot has changed in upholstery over the years.
“For many years, this industry has been tight-lipped, secretive, hard to get into. That’s just kind of the old school way of what it was,” said Wes. “As the years and decades have gone by, schools have closed, suppliers have closed, shops are closing and no one is taking them over because of their closed style of working.”
The Breitenbachs want to change that, in part to help their own business, and because they want to see the art of upholstery continue. With nearly a year and a half worth of work in their shop, the couple said anybody who goes into upholstery has the potential to be as busy as they want to be. The demand for upholsterers has remained high despite closing shops. “Our industry is really suffering because of that lack of education,” Wes added.
Right now, Jesica and Wes have one full-time worker and a former apprentice who recently joined the business full-time. Wes said it took around two and a half years to train their apprentice, but it also took roughly the same amount of time to find a quality full-time worker.
“If I could hire two more full-time upholsterers, I absolutely would,” Jesica said. “But there’s nobody to hire.”
This is where the school comes in. Jesica and Wes said they wanted the format to be more of an open workshop where people can come in with projects and learn what they need. Classes are one night a week for four weeks. People can sign up for multiple four-week sessions if they would like. Jesica added they will also start offering “weekend warrior” classes in the summer that cover more specific topics. The space will have tools available for people to use, as well as fabric and materials for sale. Jesica said they want the space to be full service. “Anything that needs to get done, you can get done over there,” she said. Classes start on March 22, but the Breitenbachs will have an open house in the space on March 5.
The school will be in a separate location from Crown Upholstery’s everyday workshop. Jesica added that when they are not hosting upholstery classes in the space, she wants to make it available for other artists to teach classes.
Over the years, Wes has said he’s had many goals and ideas of what success would mean to him. Every time he’d hit a goal, he’d make a new one. Now that the opening of the school is on the horizon, Wes said his new idea of success would be to have one of their students open their own upholstery business that’s better than Crown Upholstery.
Wes also said he hopes that the school will bring more attention to the upholstery industry. He added that when the Breitenbachs first moved to Knoxville 14 years ago, there were 10-15 upholstery shops or quality workers fixing furniture out of their homes. Since then, that number has dwindled to three shops and one person doing work out of their home.
The couple added that it’s not just the actual upholstery shops either. There is a group of ancillary businesses that have started to shut down as well. The Breitenbachs used to be able to buy their fabrics and materials locally from a supply shop. After that closed, they needed to start ordering materials to be shipped in, and oftentimes the fabric comes from one place and the foam materials come from another. The same can be said for mechanics that can work on industrial sewing machines. Wes said they have to travel to either the Middle Tennessee area or North Carolina to have their machines repaired. One local business Crown Upholstery can still rely on is woodworking shops. Crown Upholstery works with three woodworkers in the Knoxville area. But Jesica said that even those businesses are backed up with work.
“It’s a small industry, but it really supports a lot of other things,” Wes said.
With 40-60 email requests coming in a week, the Breitenbachs are busier than they’ve ever been at Crown Upholstery. In addition to working on people’s personal furniture, the business also works in some corporate spaces and with local businesses. Jesica said they see “the gamut of things,” with vintage pieces, family heirlooms, and more. This often means that no two pieces of furniture are the same to work on.
“It revolves a lot around problem-solving,” said Wes. “There are times where we’ll spend days trying to figure out how to get something done and then we’ll never see anything like it again.”


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At the age of 37, David Beckham continues to be in the spotlight both for his good looks and technical skills. One week ago the world media covered his transfer from the Los Angeles football club Galaxy to the French club Paris Saint Germain. And here’s now his new ad for H&M filmed by Guy Ritchie, the movie director of the fabulous movies “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch”.
It is not the first time Beckham features in underwear campaigns for this swedish brand of cheap clothing which loves to flirt with rich stars and famous designers.
Should you be tomorrow at the airports of Seville, Alicante, Malaga or Mallorca, you wil see a new airline landing or taking off under the brand name Iberia Express. These four cities will be the first overed by the new Iberia venture.
The new Spanish airline will focus on cheaper and competitive ticktes and will be covering the cities where Iberia already flies to. In half a year and according to Iberia’s chairman Antonio Vazques, “Iberia Express will be covering 20 destinations in Spain and Europe with its 14 planes”.
Iberia Express flights will operate within the Iberia network and provide connections with other Iberia flights and will also be part of the OneWorld alliance. It remains to be seen whether this company will be able to compete in an already crowded market and where Iberia has already an affiliated low cost company, Vueling, which operates to major destinations in Europe.


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The HashCash Blockchain network HC NET enables enterprises to move assets and settle payments across borders in real-time using Blockchain technology. The network uses the native digital asset HCX to conduct transactions quickly and securely. Every operation on the network consumes a small amount of HCX.
HCX was available only for institutional purchase last year. It will now be open for individual purchase starting March 1.
The California based company has partnered with multinational banks, currency exchanges, corporations and payment networks to facilitate retail remittances, cross border corporate payments and trade finance activities through its blockchain network HC NET.
According to a source, the company is also hosting a blockchain consortium of diamond merchants and a consortium of insurance providers on HC NET.
The Diamond merchants are using the network for tracking the provenance of diamonds though their supply chains and settling payments. The insurance consortium is experimenting with smart contract automation in processing claims and preventing fraud.
A more comprehensive list of financial organizations on HC NET is available on HashCash partners page.
This year HashCash and a few of its Banking partners have come out and made joint announcements of their collaborations.
Alfa-Bank, Russia’s largest Commercial Bank, earlier declared that it partnered with HashCash to set up a Domestic Payment Ecosystem on HC NET. German Banks such as CommerzBank also joined the network for Blockchain based cross-border payments.
HashCash MD, Raj Chowdhury last year led the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) initiative to create interoperability standards for major blockchain platforms.
At the time of writing this article, the network asset showed a 24 hour trading volume of USD 40 million.
The live network and HCX asset performance is available in public domain.
The network also publishes a blockchain explorer which shows the transactions happening on the live and test network in real-time.
HCX can be purchased by downloading the mobile app Paybito. Paybito is a multi-signature wallet and a crypto exchange that uses bank level security features to protect user from hacks.
HCX will be made available to Android users and can be purchased with USD and INR. Crypto traders in other countries can send Bitcoins from their wallets to the paybito app and purchase HCX using Bitcoins.
“The universal utility of HCX drives its demand on the network. HCX will be available in all major exchanges of the world in the next few months”, said Raj Chowdhury, MD of HashCash and a well known figure in the blockchain world.


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Basketball is one of the most followed sports in the USA. Just like European countries have a craze for football, Basketball, too, has a fanbase of millions of people. With such a craze, several brands often chose to bank upon this factor and opt to make sportspersons–the brand ambassadors of their brand. However, in the latest development, popular brand ‘Nike’ said on Monday that Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is no longer affiliated with the athletic wear giant.
Here is why the brand opted for such a move.
The news of Irving no longer being allowed to promote ‘Nike’ was first reported on Twitter by Shams Charania, senior lead NBA insider for The Athletic and Stadium. With this move, Nike will not launch Kyrie 8 signature shoe.
It is being speculated that this development has swept in after the basketball profession received severe public backlash on his social media post about “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake up Black America”. He, as reported by Footwear News, “repeatedly refused to denounce antisemitism in the days following the post, and only apologized after he was suspended by the Brooklyn Nets for at least five games.”
Nike also issued an official statement on this development.
The official statement by Nike
“At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism. To that end, we’ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately and will no longer launch the Kyrie 8. We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone,” Nike said in a statement released on November 4.
This development comes days after popular brand ‘Adidas’ cut ties with popular American rapper Kanye West for his antisemitic rants.


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Recent data from Lumina Intelligence suggested that there has been a 1.3% rise in Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) visits compared to the previous year. This increase can be attributed to consumers actively seeking affordable meal options amidst the ongoing cost-of-living challenges.
According to the most recent monthly report from the Eating and Drinking Out Panel, covering the four weeks up to 16th April 2023, there has been a noticeable growth in both the demand for Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) options and the sales of key fast food items.
Specifically, there was a 2.5% increase in the consumption of chips, wedges, and fries compared to the previous year, and a 2.8% growth in burger sales.
In addition to the growth in Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) visits, lunch occasions have also seen a year-on-year increase of 0.8%, driven by a higher number of consumers returning to offices.
As a result, there has been a rise in sales of sandwiches (up by 0.5%) and salads (up by 2.2%). The increased interest in healthier eating among consumers, coupled with a greater availability of lighter meal options from food operators, has contributed to the surge in salad sales.
During the specified period, the overall penetration of eating and drinking out on a weekly basis experienced a 2% increase compared to the previous year. This growth can be attributed to the rise in consumer confidence, which was bolstered by the Bank of England's statement that the UK is unlikely to enter a recession this year.
However, despite the improvements in market penetration, there has been a disparity in spending growth, which has only reached 3.8% year on year. This indicates that the increase in spending has not kept pace with the level of inflation.


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German police boss wants violent games ban
Hessen German Police Union boss Heini Schmitt has said that all violent video games should be banned in the wake of this month's German school massacre, in which one German teenager attacked his school before dying in a shoot-out with police.
The high-profile police figure is concerned that one-third of young people use the escapism of "virtual worlds" regularly, while age ratings are routinely ignored.
Schmitt concedes that hard evidence suggesting that games can be held accountable is thin on the ground, but he argues that games can't be dismissed either, hence the need to legislate against them.
"The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames," he offered, according to GamePolitics.
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September isn’t in the books yet, but the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) already is figuring it has been a record month.
The GPA issued a press release Monday in which it said the Port of Savannah was on track to achieve a monthly record for September by moving more than 400,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). This follows all-time record volumes in August.
“We frankly didn’t anticipate growth for the months of August and September, but we are gratified by the loyalty of our customers and the dedication of our employees,” said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch in the statement. “Although there is still much work to be done, Savannah’s status as the Number 1 export port means it will play a critical role in the nation’s economic recovery.”
Based on cargo bookings, the GPA was projecting more than 5% year-over-year growth in September.
It’s been a tough year for U.S. ports, now eager to share good news. Earlier in the year, the GPA was battening down for a May with 37 blanked sailings. In a normal May, there are no canceled calls at Georgia’s ports.
“There are going to be two tough months at the end of our fiscal year,” Lynch said then.
Despite coronavirus-caused supply chain disruptions, the GPA ended the fiscal year June 30 down only 1% from the previous year.
Much of the success was attributed to the Appalachian Regional Port (ARP), the GPA’s inland terminal in northwest Georgia, which handled more than three and a half times the cargo during the 2020 fiscal year than it did the year before.
The GPA said this week that the ARP also had record volumes in August, with similar results expected for September. The ARP nearly doubled its cargo for August to 6,156 TEUs, the GPA said.
The GPA board on Monday approved adding six container storage bays — 230 TEU slots — to handle additional demand at the inland terminal. The bays, which will be added by the end of the year, will increase ARP’s annual capacity by 15,000 TEUs.
The GPA said the inland terminal provides an alternative to an all-truck tray to and from the Port of Savannah for target miles in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Each round-trip container offsets 710 truck miles on Georgia highways, according to the GPA.
GE Appliances recently opened a $32 million logistics center in Murray County, Georgia, just two miles from the ARP. And Huali Floors, a manufacturer of resilient flooring, has announced plans to establish its first U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility there.
The GPA said other ongoing projects to increase capacity include the Savannah Harbor expansion project, now 75% complete, and the Mason Megal Rail Terminal, which is nearly 50% finished. The port authority recently reconfigured a portion of the Garden City Terminal yard to add more than 11,000 TEUs of container storage and purchased an adjacent parcel to increase the size of the terminal to 1,345 acres.
Savannah volume down just 1% and total tonnage a record
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Georgia ports don’t foresee volume bounceback anytime soon
Click for more American Shipper/FreightWaves stories by Senior Editor Kim Link-Wills.
Hopefully the Savannah Harbor expansion can help to bring more ships/containers into the Garden City Terminal. Savannah has been hit hard economically (from lack of tourism due to COVID) and the much needed jobs/revenue can’t come soon enough!
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Global drone manufacturer DJI has announced the release date of their next product as 15 May 2019. With the product teaser ‘Unleash Your Other Side’ being promoted across their website and social media channels, its oceanic theme and underwater imagery has got everyone wondering what’s coming.
There are two strong contenders, with the first being an underwater drone. This would be a big step into the deep blue for DJI, who have previously focused their efforts on airborne unmanned aerial solutions. However, 2018’s release of the Mavic 2 Enterprise Series and Phantom 4 RTK alongside this year’s Matrice 200 Series V2 release shows DJI are also leading the way to accessible and technologically advanced enterprise solutions.
So, why not add an underwater drone to their enterprise arsenal?
An underwater drone has the capacity to drastically improve safety and efficiency across a range of subaquatic inspections including hull/dock, reservoir dam, infrastructure and aquaculture inspection. Chasing Innovations are already doing it with the Gladius Mini, so why wouldn’t DJI want to get in on the underwater action?
Perhaps DJI want an underwater drone to diversify their already strong selection of travel photography and videography platforms? With the portable Mavic Series and the Osmo Pocket already leading the way for travel bloggers and holidaymakers alike, an underwater offering would truly allow exploration into another dimension.
Speaking of which, whatever happened to the Osmo Pocket Waterproof Case? Promoted ever since the Osmo Pocket release in November 2018, the highly anticipated accessory has never actually materialised to be sold by DJI.
Could this be our first clue to DJI’s 15 May product release?
Which brings us onto our second contender, a state-of-the-art underwater action camera to rival the likes of GoPro, GoXtreme and Akaso. The biggest clue we’ve seen so far is in the product teaser itself, which draws some major parallels to GoPro’s previous promotional imagery with its oceanic theme and clear representation of underwater sports and activities like freediving and snorkelling:
Team this with our other clues including the non-existent waterproof case for the Osmo Pocket, DJI’s expanding travel photography and videography offering and the timing of the Spring/Summer release date, and we’re fairly confident in our conclusion. If this is what’s coming on 15 May, we’re excited.
How do you think DJI will “unleash your other side”?
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“I’ve been a fan of Buffalo Wild Wings for many years, and this is an exciting time for the brand,” Tick added in a statement. “Through the capabilities and resources of the Inspire platform, we’re building a talented team to ensure that Buffalo Wild Wings is well positioned for long-term growth.”
John Bowie, who has been serving as interim president of Buffalo Wild Wings since February 2018, will resume his responsibilities as chief operating officer. “John has done a remarkable job leading Buffalo Wild Wings and helping us create a new vision for the brand,” Brown said. “His knowledge of restaurant operations is unmatched, and he is a wonderful asset to the brand’s leadership team.”
Backed by Roark Capital in the deal, Inspire Brands formed February in the wake of Arby’s $2.9 billion purchase of Buffalo Wild Wings. It unveiled late August plans to build a $32 million headquarters in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The company said the expansion would take place over the next six years and create more than 1,100 jobs. Inspire Brands received $1.1 million in incentives through Georgia’s Regional Economic Business Assistant program. The company has said it could purchase “brands that space multiple occasions, up and down the spectrum.” Not just multiple brands in fast food, casual dining, and fast casual, but big hitters, too. Brown didn’t offer specifics in February but said Inspire Brands Inc. envisions buying no more than 10 chains, with systemwide sales between $1 billion–$4.5 billion each. He also said the company would look at adding a mix of franchise-owned and company-owned chains.
The Tick hire follows Buffalo Wild Wing’s August appointment of Seth Freeman as chief marketing officer. Like Brown, Freeman clocked time at InterContinental Hotels Group, where he worked across several brands, “leading high-profile guest experience and design initiatives, partnering with franchisees across over 2,000 locations to drive growth, and overseeing award-winning marketing campaigns for Holiday Inn Express,” the company said. Most recently, Freeman was head of global brand and commercial performance for Holiday Inn. Previously, he was a senior brand manager at The Coca-Cola Company, where he directed end-to-end brand stewardship for Gold Peak Tea and sponsorship integrations with NASCAR and FIFA World Cup for the Coke brand.
Brown was senior vice president of global brand services at InterContinental. Additionally, he worked as president of brands and commercial services and executive vice president at Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., as well as positions with Northwest Airlines, Expedia, and McKinsey & Co.
It’s not overly surprising to see Buffalo Wild Wings build a leadership team outside of the typical restaurant executive bounce-around formula. Brown has referenced the multiple-chain portfolios used by hotels as an example for the company’s possible structure. He said he wants to organize the company like Hilton Hotels & Resorts. The company uses one loyalty program for all its different properties. Inspire Brands would stand out from its competitors in this fashion, as most companies stay within a specific segment. Darden, Brinker International, and Bloomin’ Brands, for example, operate casual dining chains across different full-service fields. YUM! Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, sticks to fast food, as does Restaurant Brands International with Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes.
The idea being that Inspire Brands could capture more visits from the same customers, and service all manners of guests across all dayparts, price points, and interests.
Also tapping a marketing guru to lead Buffalo Wild Wings fits the brand’s recent directives.
The chain struck a deal with fantasy site DraftKings to kick off a football-focused new campaign for the NFL season. This included an exclusive fantasy game, value menu, marketing push, and other activations, especially in regards to its Blazin’ Rewards program. Notably, the Blazin’ Fantasy Football game, available on mobile through its rewards app and exclusive to rewards members, allows customers to compete for prizes each week, including free wings for a year, gift cards, and points.
READ MORE: Buffalo Wild Wings fires up new menu, logo, marketing campaign.
It also used the occasion to launch a fresh creative campaign, developed by Figliulo&Partners, called “Escape to Football.” Buffalo Wild Wings refreshed its logo as well with a neutral brown and honey mustard color palette and an updated buffalo that is forward-leaning. The football-focused menu launched September 6 and features new items starting at $5.
There are two new items: Bratwurst & Fries, and a 38-ounce domestic pitcher of beer option. The menu will be available Monday through Friday at participating locations.
- Bratwurst & Fries
- 38-ounce Domestic Pitcher
- Cheeseburger & Fries
- Tall Craft or Import Beer
- Specialty Cocktails
Before going private, Buffalo Wild Wings estimated its financial performance for fiscal 2017 with same-store sales ranging from negative 1.6–1.7 percent, with total revenues for the year between $2.067–$2.069 million compared to $2.026 million in the prior-year period. In the third quarter of fiscal 2017, the company reported a net earnings decrease of nearly 20 percent as its cost of sales rose to 30.8 percent of restaurant sales from 28.9 percent during the same quarter last year. Buffalo Wild Wings posted adjusted earnings per share of $1.36. Same-store sales decreased 2.3 percent at company-owned restaurants and fell by 3.2 percent at franchise locations. Overall sales rose by 0.5 percent to $473 million while revenue also increased 0.5 percent to $496.7 million.


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No, don't forget: a Ubisoft Forward has already been there, precisely on July 16th, and we also followed it together on the Twitch channel of FreeTechTips. But apparently it was not intended to be a simple isolated event to cover the gap of the canceled E3, but a new format, in the style of Nintendo Direct, which allows you to independently manage your ads, without depending on other external events. .
In fact, just today, somewhat surprisingly, the French software house announced that there will soon be another Ubisoft Forward: precisely Thursday 10 September, at 9 pm (but the pre-show will start already at 8 pm).
The presentation trailer of the event shows us many well-known faces, which in all probability we will return to see: and therefore for example we expect new trailers and sequences played by Watch Dogs: Legion and Immortals: Fenyx Rising. But also for those titles – perhaps the most anticipated – that do not appear, such as Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Far Cry 6, which was unveiled for the first time on the occasion of the Ubisoft Forward in July.
And for For Honor, Hyper Scape and Rainbow Six Siege players there will be an extra incentive, in addition to curiosity, to follow the event live, with various bonuses for the respective titles that can be unlocked during the presentation.
The best quality / price ratio of 2020? Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite, on offer today by Tecnosell at 265 euros or by Amazon at 319 euros.


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After coming away with the Best technology innovation award at the world beverage innovation awards 2017, held at Drinktec, German start-up Mitte has now made prototypes of its countertop water system that purifies water by distillation and offers cartridges to deliver healthier drinking water.
While some other systems remove minerals in water along with contaminants, the company claims it is able to re-mineralise the purified water with natural ingredients, ‘adding vitality and taste while making water healthy for consumption’. Each cartridge produces 400 litres of mineralised water.
Paula Montaldi, business development manager at Mitte told FoodBev Media about how Mitte allows users to personalise their daily drinking water with three different mineral cartridges containing varying levels of natural minerals and ingredients.
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Subaru Dealers Fall Short on 2010 Legacy, Outback Inventory Levels
Subaru posted strong sales gains for 2009, closing out the sales year a full 15 percent ahead of 2008. That momentum, combined with the initial success of the 2010 Subaru Legacy and Outback vehicles, has dealers worried that supply isn't keeping up with demand as inventory levels drop nationwide.
The Lafayette, Indiana, plant that makes the two cars is currently working overtime, including weekend shifts, trying to keep up with the heightened demand of the all-wheel-drive vehicles. As it stands, the nationwide supply hovers at a mere 10 days. "Our biggest challenge is to get product to dealers so they can achieve another sales increase," said Subaru COO Tom Doll. When asked just how many Legacys and Outbacks Subaru dealers could sell this year, "we don't know, because we don't have excess inventory," said Phil Porter, chairman of the Subaru National Dealer Advisory Board.
The rest of Subaru's inventory stands at a 30-day supply, half the industry standard. Subaru is adding extra tooling to its Lafayette facility this April to expand capacity. In January alone, the Japanese automaker realized a 28-percent sales increase over the same period last year. Porter believes the added capacity and production will allow Subaru to surpass last year's sales record.
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BOFFINS AT IBM have seen the future of supercomputing and it is a tiny sugar cube shaped stackable box.
A report at the BBC tells us that scientists at the firm's Zurich research labs are working on the boxes, which they say will be driven by the need to be green more than their power.
Dr Bruno Michel told the BBC that future computer costs will hinge on green credentials rather than speed. "In the past, computers were dominated by hardware costs - 50 years ago you could hold one transistor and it cost a dollar, or a franc," he said adding that now transistor costs were "1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page".
So forget hardware costs, said Michel, think about the planet. "In the future, computers will be dominated by energy costs - to run a data centre will cost more than to build it," he said. "In the future, the 'Green 500' will be the important list, where computers are listed according to their efficiency."
In order to save power, computers must conserve heat, he explained upon introducing the IBM Aquasar system, which is small, stackable and water cooled. "We currently have built this Aquasar system that's one rack full of processors," he told the BBC. "We plan that 10 to 15 years from now, we can collapse such a system in to one sugar cube - we're going to have a supercomputer in a sugar cube."
We recommend not keeping the computers anywhere near any tea making facilities. µ
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Jakarta, Indonesia – According to new facts from SiteMinder, the world’s major open up resort commerce system, hotels in Indonesia are now dealing with their optimum volume of bookings from worldwide attendees given that February 2020.
SiteMinder’s Entire world Hotel Index, the top indicator of lodge reservation and guest arrival traits globally, shows that so significantly in July, 45% of bookings to SiteMinder’s Indonesian lodges for upcoming stays have been from intercontinental travellers — a development that has been accelerating given that February 2022 when limits on incoming travellers ended up relaxed.
In comparison to prior to the pandemic, scheduling volumes to SiteMinder’s Indonesian resorts are at this time at 88% of 2019 levels, up from a very low of just 7% of 2019 stages in April 2020.
Commenting on the information and the market’s restoration, SiteMinder’s current market vice president – Asia Pacific, Bradley Haines says, “With a solid reliance on international journey, Indonesia’s lodging sector has surely felt the repercussions of restricted world movement more than most in the latest years. Nevertheless a trait of this interval that’s represented in this knowledge is the pace at which points can alter.
“With countless numbers of both substantial and tiny hotel operators in Indonesia that add noticeably to the country’s financial state, but haven’t normally experienced obtain to the technological know-how that we can present, there is a great opportunity awaiting just about every Indonesian accommodation business enterprise presently, as global travel rebounds.
“As the world’s major open up resort commerce platform, we imagine in the electric power of technology to not only assistance Indonesian companies continue to be open, but to thrive, as the region all over again welcomes the entire world. Our platform presents resort operators with a solitary place to sell, industry, deal with and improve their organization. It gives hoteliers versatile pathways to start out, improve or scale their enterprise through award-profitable distribution and advertising and marketing systems, 24/7 assistance and the largest ecosystem of very best-in-course hotel engineering integrations, applications and companions.”
SiteMinder, which has not long ago produced the following generation of its platform to much better assist the accommodation sector, has worked thoroughly with Indonesian enterprises throughout a extensive interval, furnishing it with a unique standpoint on the nearby landscape.
Describing SiteMinder’s impact, Reza Rizky, the E-Commerce and Electronic Marketing and advertising Supervisor at Citradream Hotels by Ciputra, which operates lodges in Cirebon, Semarang, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Bintaro, claims, “I am happy to have been just one of SiteMinder’s first at any time Indonesian customers, and have been with the organization for in excess of 10 several years now. In that time, SiteMinder has been a remarkably secure technologies lover, no issue the conditions, making it possible for me to get a excellent night’s rest! The thing I like most about their tech is the person expertise, it is really simple to have an understanding of. They also have a neighborhood team in the area, which is a big upside.”
To celebrate the return of international journey to Indonesia, and to focus on its implications for nearby accommodation businesses, SiteMinder will be web hosting a roundtable celebration on July 29 at the Trans Resort Bali, that includes a panel of general managers from the community lodge industry.
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UK consumers are spending increased amounts on brands that play a role in defining their identity, but adspend is failing to match this behaviour, research has found.
Brits spent £1.7trn on so-called "identity categories" – defined as products and services that have meaning as status symbols or means of self-expression – from 2012 to 2017. In 2012, these categories accounted for 47% of discretionary spending, but by last year this had increased to 52%, a study from magazines body Magnetic and Enders Analysis shows.
But while consumer spending in identity categories has increased 14% since 2015, adspend in these categories has grown by only 2%. In many sectors, consumer spend has increased, while adspend has fallen – with the starkest differences being in eating out (consumer spend up 14%, adspend down 24%) and pets (up 31% versus down 15%).
In contrast, adspend on computers and gaming shot up 28% in the same timeframe, despite an 18% drop in consumer spending. Travel, gardening and music were also areas that bucked the trend, with the growth in consumer spend matched by a similar rise in adspend.
Douglas McCabe, chief executive of Enders, said the reduced adspend on many identity categories was due to budgets moving towards online direct response channels and was symptomatic of "short-termism" in advertising.
He said: "In this part of the market, identity is understood as a set of individualistic, rather than social, identifiers and attributes – a clear missed opportunity. Taking advantage means understanding which media allow marketers to reach customers as members of identity groups, rather than just as a target demographic."
The research proved that consumers were willing to "significantly shell out on their personal interests", according to Magnetic chief executive Sue Todd.
"Publishers have recognised this and are now able to deliver offers and content off the page, in areas such as events and ecommerce," Todd said. "But advertisers are yet to catch up."


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What’s real and what isn’t? Collectors hope James Spence Authentication can tell them. He’s not the first–or last–member of the family to have a passion for signatures.
Autograph authentication can be a tricky business.
Those paid for their opinions use a combination of factors to render a judgment that can make a seller big money–or disappoint someone who thought they had the real deal. Part experience, part technology, part comparison and part opinion, it’s a relatively new field that’s grown in the wake of Operation Bullpen.
JSA has blossomed into one of the hobby’s biggest. Used by autograph collectors, dealers and card manufacturers, the business was born from a family hobby.
The Parsippany, New Jersey-based group was profiled by the nearby Morris County Record.


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Last week's launch of Microsoft’s Surface product is a good thing for tablet veteran Fujitsu, even if it only shows the battle is actually between Android and iOS.
The Japanese vendor, in its various European incarnations as International Computers Limited and Fujitsu-Siemens, has often been a lonely voice pushing tablet-like form factors. It currently aims its own Windows 7 and Android tablets at business customers, and is considering whether to launch its Android smartphone in the European market.
So Dr Joseph Reger, CTO at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, might be expected to be rather put out that now the technology building blocks for a mass commercial tablet appear to be in place, Microsoft is barging in with its own hardware platforms based around the upcoming Windows 8.
“I’m not panicking at all,” he told The Register in London last week. “Two things can happen. It’s successful, and grabs market share and the market is growing.”
Alternatively, “If it’s not successful, that brings clarity. Then we know the tablet space is a fight between Android and iOS.”
And, he continued, “If both are successful, then we can have a debate about what’s more important.”
For Fujitsu, what’s important – apart from shifting its own branded kit – is being able to sensibly plug mobile devices into the corporation. The vendor was a big fan of BYOD, Reger said, particularly when the D element was Fujitsu's own devices.
However, that endorsement was conditional on employees' devices being “manageable” by the corporation – and enterprise management platforms, tools and services are, unsurprisingly, a major preoccupation of the firm.
“Without that, BYOD is one of the most dangerous things ever,” Reger declared.
He said that while the extremist positions were for companies to supply just one device, or to accept “any device”, the sensible position was for companies to support a reasonable degree of choice among users. ®


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Microsoft may be busy wowing gamers today at E3 in Los Angeles, in particular with a rather amazing Minecraft demo built for its HoloLens augmented reality glasses, but that doesn’t mean the company has overlooked its non-gaming users. Monday, it also just extended the reach of its popular Skype chat application by rolling out the Web app to users worldwide.
“Skype for Web is perfect if you normally use Skype on your mobile, but want to quickly get to your calls and IMs on a bigger screen, writes Microsoft’s Jonathan Watson. “Or perhaps you’re sitting at a Windows or Mac computer in an Internet café or hotel that doesn’t already have Skype downloaded.”
After several months of beta testing in limited locations, the instant messaging component of the app now works on Chrome OS and Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS X. Even in its currently limited form, the update should offer a boost for Chromebook users—and another validation of Google’s Web-only approach for its Chrome OS platform, a strategy that looked rather questionable when it launched back in 2009.
With everything from Office to Spotify now able to run happily in a Web browser, Chrome OS is a much more viable proposition than it was six years ago, and Skype will be the latest essential app to make the transition. Heavy-duty programs like Adobe Creative Cloud, the full Office suite and iTunes are now the exception rather than the rule.
Not that Microsoft particularly cares about keeping Google happy though—it’s much more interested in getting its apps on as many devices and platforms as possible, a relatively recent strategy that it doesn’t seem to be easing back on.
When it comes to Skype, it seems unlikely that Microsoft’s engineers have only just realized the benefits of broadening its scope. Features, like syncing conversations and calls through a browser, have been available on Google Hangouts for a while; Facebook Messenger does it as well, as does its sibling service, WhatsApp. Now Microsoft is prepared to allow non-Windows platforms to enter its peripheral vision too.
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You can pick almost any aspect of today’s technology to find an area where the big names are competing directly against each other—VR, maps, office apps, wearables—and messaging is no different.
Microsoft engineers have confirmed that Skype will be an integral part of Windows 10, which itself is designed to move fluidly between computers, tablets and smartphones. Apple’s iMessage also syncs across multiple (Apple) devices, while Google’s Hangouts is available just about everywhere.
Facebook doesn’t have an OS to call its own, but it would like Messenger to turn into one; if not, it can always use WhatsApp as a safety net. Text, audio and video messaging is a crucial part of the puzzle for dominating desktop and mobile, and the tech giants know it.
Which brings us back to Skype for the Web—it ultimately means access for more users in more places, and that’s a win for Microsoft, even if along the way it has to shift some of its focus away from the desktop and the Windows behemoth it created.
As Microsoft becomes more Google-like in its approach to putting apps on competing platforms and the Web, it leaves Apple out on a limb: Apple Music, iTunes and some limited online iCloud functionality aside, its software is very much locked into its hardware. Time will tell which of the two old rivals has backed the right horse.
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This week, our research team tracked more than 95 tech funding deals worth over €975 million, and close to 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
As always, we are putting all of them together for you in a list sent in our round-up newsletter next Monday (note: the full list is for paying customers only, and also comes in the form of a handy downloadable spreadsheet).
We've also got some news for you: we're already gearing up for the second edition of the Tech.eu Summit! Save the date:
24 May in Brussels.
If you haven't seen them yet, we've made all the videos from the Tech.eu Summit last May available as a playlist on our YouTube channel - enjoy!
With that said, let's get down to business with the biggest European tech news items for the past couple of days (subscribe to our free newsletter to get this round-up in your inbox).
What happened this week in European Tech?
>> Notable and big funding rounds
>> Noteworthy acquisitions, mergers, IPOs and SPAC deals
Evernote, the note-taking and task management app founded over 20 years ago, has been acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons.
Istanbul-based mobile gaming giant Rollic, Zynga and Take-Two subsidiary, has acquired Popcore, an independent mobile game developer based in Germany.
Artomatix, an Irish software company that has developed AI technology, which can automate the creation of 3D content, has been acquired in a deal believed to be worth up to $60 million.
Cornhill, the London-based FX provider, has been fully acquired by iBanFirst, one of Europe's largest providers of foreign exchange and international payments.
Oscillate plc has signed conditional heads of terms to fully acquire Hi55 Ventures, trading as fintech company Hi, in a reverse takeover.
Global communications firm Cision has acquired Factmata, a UK-based social and news media monitoring startup.
Nutracheck, a diet and lifestyle tracking and coaching app based out of the UK, was acquired for an undisclosed sum by magazine publishing group Immediate Media.
Regulatory reporting firm Regnology has acquired Belgian RegTech b.fine.
>> Interesting moves from investors
London-based Index Ventures is reaffirming its commitment to helping founders get their ideas off the ground and prepare for the road ahead with the launch of its second dedicated seed fund, Origin II at $300 million.
Qualitas Energy, a European investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition and sustainability investments, has held a first close of its €1.6 billion target fund at more than €1.1 billion.
Announced at Slush this week, the EIC Fund, the equity investment vehicle of the European Innovation Council, has assembled its first batch under the Horizon Europe initiative, taking 35 investment decisions amounting to equity investments of €190 million.
The European Innovation Council also revealed this week that its shortlist for European deep tech scale-ups, the ScalingUp TOP50, accrued €527 million in new funding over the past 12 months.
Munich-based VC firm, VSquared Ventures has launched its newest fund – a €165 million early-stage fund aiming to support deeptech innovators addressing global problems.
Hampshire-based Simplyhealth, a health solutions provider, has launched its new venture capital fund, Simplyhealth Ventures, at £60 million.
Despite delays due to the situation in Ukraine, GR Capital's second fund raises €30 million.
VC Round2 Capital has achieved an inaugural close for its second fund, aiming to raise €100 million to provide loans to growth-stage software businesses.
Self-described “crypto-anarcho-eco-capitalist” Stefano Bernardi, who’s been quietly angel investing for the past few years from his home in the Italian mountains, has raised a new VC fund.
>> In other (important) news
The UK government has blocked the takeover of the country’s largest microchip factory by a Chinese-owned firm over concerns it may undermine national security.
German machine translation startup DeepL is completing a major investment round led by Silicon Valley venture firm IVP that could lift its valuation to $1 billion.
There have been tons of lay-offs lately, what more to say? Just search for what's happening at European tech companies like Spotify, Typeform, Wayflyer, Hopin, UiPath, Juni, Jimdo, Pipedrive, Dance, etc. as things ain't looking pretty.
Sequoia-backed grocery startup Getir is reportedly close to buying its troubled rival Gorillas in a heavily discounted deal said to be worth less than $1 billion.
In related news, Just Eat Takeaway.com and Getir have announced a pan-European partnership that will see Getir’s entire product offerings integrated into JET’s listings and delivered directly via Getir drivers/riders.
Revolut has surpassed 25 million customers worldwide amid an expansive growth strategy which will see the super app launch in India, Mexico, Brazil and New Zealand in the near future.
London has lost its crown as Europe’s biggest stock market to Paris as economic growth concerns weigh on UK assets.
British food delivery app Deliveroo has exited the Australian market, citing “challenging economic conditions” and the “considerable” investment required to make the subsidiary profitable.
EU policymakers have reached a deal on the budget for next year, and with the focus squarely on tackling the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, research and innovation do not feature at the top of the policy priorities.
Brussels is to launch a new satellite constellation for secure connectivity
Online fashion giant Zalando has discontinued its pre-owned online store Zircle.
>> Recommended reads and listens
Mass global job cuts at Meta, Twitter, Stripe and other technology giants are bitter news for their staff in Dublin, coming just before Christmas. But analysts said they were a “wake-up call” for the side-effects of Ireland’s over-dependence on big tech.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is on a “collision course” with Brussels, as the social media platform faces new scrutiny under landmark EU laws to police Big Tech that came into force on Wednesday.
As the world moves into economic headwinds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. That was the message this week at the Slush conference in Helsinki from Niklas Zennström.
Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required for it to claim Ireland as its so-called main establishment under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Europe is currently too reliant on China for technologies and should be wary of this dependency, Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin said.
Ireland has raked in billions from tech giants. But what if the golden goose flies the nest?
A deep dive into digital bank N26.
Vauban's cofounders Rémy and Ulric lift the veil on their acquisition by Carta.
Balderton's "Founders guide to B2B sales"
Orange Ventures and Orange Fab work hand in hand to support startups while driving their own business interests. A perfect case of corporate-startup collaboration.
With new notions of quiet quitting and hybrid working, the old ideas of living to work and being chronically busy now seem outdated as the pandemic ushered in a new era of achieving work-life balance through a variety of means.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of the Swedish fintech, believes Klarna is getting unfair media coverage by media outlets compared to credit card firms.
Deloitte’s scale-ups ecosystem brings together different players, from governments and academia to investors, corporations, and, of course, startups and scale-ups.


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Last night brought Style Week Orange County 2013 to a close, with the finale runway presentations from FIDM’s Debut students along with the second part of the Cadillac: Couture Design Competition at Fashion Island. It’s been a week full of great fashion and fun – thank you to everyone who took part in STYLEWEEKOC 2013 … here’s a look at some of our favorite moments in the last few days:
And that’s a wrap, folks! Thanks SO much for joining us this year at Style Week Orange County 2013 – can’t wait to see you all again next year!
We all love a dramatic shoe with a gorgeously high heel – we love it even more when it’s actually wearable and comfortable and that’s Vince Camuto. Vince Camuto’s first and only California boutique opened this week at Fashion Island! Located near the koi pond between SEE Eyewear and Lucky Brand Jeans, Vince Camuto offers […]
At Back to School: Endless Summer Festival, popular YouTube style vloggers Maddi Bragg and Suede Brooks will host a meetup to showcase their top looks for back-to-school on Saturday, August 15 from 2-4 p.m. We chatted with them to get their style favorites and what trends they’re most looking forward to for fall …


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Leading cryptocurrency platform, Blockchain.com has launched Borrow, a new product offering for users to borrow USD-denominated stablecoins against crypto held in their Blockchain.com Wallet, thus becoming the first major cryptocurrency platform to offer lending directly to everyday consumers.
The launch follows Blockchain.com’s successful launch of an institutional lending desk last August, which has rapidly increased originations from $10M in the first month to $120M in November. By offering the retail market access to the same liquidity pool as institutional investors, the firm is addressing the shortage of USD on both sides of the crypto market.
Commenting on the new Borrow feature on Blockchain.com, Peter Smith, the firm’s co-founder, and CEO said in a press release shared with Coinfomania:
Institutional and retail investors have the same financial goals – grow wealth and manage risks – but the tools at their disposal are vastly different. Now, with our suite of trading products and Borrow, retail users can trade like the big guys without selling the crypto they’ve stockpiled or leaving their Wallet.
Starting today, users in over 180+ countries can borrow USD Digital stablecoins against bitcoin held in their Blockchain.com Wallet.
As soon as the collateral is posted, users receive their loans and are free to use the coins however they see fit. To close a loan, users simply pay back the amount owed when it is convenient or aligns with their investment strategy.
Notably, the new “Borrow” product on Blockchain.com follows the exchange’s earlier integration of payment gateways for the British Pound and Turkish Lira, and listing of popular crypto projects Algorand and DGLD.
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Counterfeit shoes used to consist mostly of Nike knock-offs and other athletic footwear, but these days the fakes are going high-end. Counterfeiters are now selling luxury brands like Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo, which retail for upwards of $600. And of course, there are those ever-popular Ugg boots that cost $200 a pop for the real deal.
Good fakes go way beyond the painted red sole that those Louboutins are known for, however. A clever counterfeit includes a replica shoebox, dust bag and even minor packaging details like the tiny moisture-absorbing micro-tech insert, said Randazzo.
She recommends steering clear of sales at flea markets or street vendors. But with shoes, the best way to spot a fake may just be the old Cinderella method, "when you put them on, you'll know," Randazzo said.
For the Super Bowl, federal agents prepped for the largest sporting-goods related counterfeit bust ever.
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If you aren't done - or overdone - with Halloween after handing out gobs of candy to pint-sized princesses and sweet-loving superheroes today, you can still buy groaning ghouls and ghostly garb at Spirit stores this weekend.
The retailer will close its stores for the season after Sunday shopping hours, said district manager Vivian Rabun.
There are 17 in the Valley, including shops at Scottsdale Pavilions, Indian Bend Road and Loop 101, and in Paradise Valley Mall, Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard.
Also near the popular east Phoenix mall is a Halloween Express store in an open-air shopping center anchored by Target.www.arizonafarmersmarkets.com/
After Halloween Express closes for the season, the company plans to open a Christmas Express store in the spot, said mall spokeswoman Courtney Papillon. She did not know the date of the Christmas store's debut.
A farmers market is scheduled to launch Saturday and continue on Saturdays through May in Old Town Scottsdale.
The event is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Old Town parking lot on the northwest corner of Brown Avenue and Second Street.
The new weekly event will feature more than 40 vendors selling a variety of organic vegetables and fruits, flowers, herbs, a coffee roaster, and an assortment of items including pastries, jams and baked goods.
The event is free, and, according to the city, it is dog- and family-friendly. For more information, visit www.arizonafarmersmarkets.com.
Drive-through gourmet coffee bar Dutch Bros., which has just one Valley location at 1037 S. Rural Road in Tempe, is brewing plans for a Scottsdale shop.
The company plans to capture caffeine lovers on the go at Papago Plaza, on the southwest corner of McDowell and Scottsdale roads, in late November.
A Dutch Bros. at Gilbert and McKellips roads in Mesa is expected to open in December. A second Tempe shop at Mill and Southern avenues and a Gilbert version are planned for early 2009.
Founded in southern Oregon in 1992 by brothers Dane and Travis Boersma, Dutch Bros. Coffee is believed to be the country's largest privately held, drive-through-only coffee company in the country.
There are more than 130 locations in Oregon, California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona.
Jim Thompson, who spends his summers in Oregon and winters in the Valley, is building the local stores. He said he wanted to bring the hometown brand to his winter haunt. Thompson said the shops offer more than good coffee, such as gourmet tea blends and "the world's best smoothies."


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Port Blair, Feb 03: A delegation of Islands Tour Operators is participating in the ongoing Travel Fair OTM at Mumbai. The participants are promoting brand Andaman through the stall of Tourism Department, Andaman Administration. The fair will be for three days from 3rd to 5th February and is being held at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai.
Andaman Pavilion was visited by Mr. Satpal Maharaj, the Minster for Tourism, Culture, Govt. Of Uttarakhand along with other foreign dignitaries. The participants have expressed their gratitude towards Tourism Department for providing them this opportunity to promote Brand Andaman.


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Why it issues: Home lawmakers launched new antitrust payments on Friday which may change the tech trade as we all know it. The payments tackle anticompetitive follow and – if handed – may have big ramifications for the dealings of Apple, Google, Fb, and Amazon.
Collectively known as “A Stronger On-line Economic system: Alternative, Innovation, and Alternative,” the proposed payments had been launched following over a yr of investigation into the aggressive practices of Massive Tech corporations.
Consultant David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, led the investigation. He stated: “Unregulated tech monopolies have an excessive amount of energy over our financial system. Our agenda will stage the enjoying subject and make sure the wealthiest, strongest tech monopolies play by the identical guidelines as the remainder of us.”
This agenda initially consists of 5 proposed payments, every of which goal anticompetitive digital follow differently. One invoice would prohibit corporations from giving their very own companies and merchandise desire over these of their rivals – like how Google boosts its personal merchandise in search outcomes, or Apple does it on the App Retailer.
One other would enable the Justice Division or the Federal Commerce Fee to pressure massive corporations, like Amazon, to interrupt off components of their enterprise that might create a battle of curiosity, like Amazon Fundamentals.
An extra invoice would block giant corporations from shopping for up smaller rivals, in the best way Fb did with Instagram again in 2012.
Though the investigation into Massive Tech was a bipartisan effort, it’s price noting that Democrats and Republicans at the moment appear to disagree on the answer to among the issues they uncovered. It’s additionally unclear what number of members assist every of the brand new payments – though at the least one Democrat and one Republican had signed on to every of the brand new measures by the tip of play on Friday.
What is evident is that the proposed modifications may reshape the tech trade and alter the best way its greatest actors function. It’ll be fascinating to see how this one performs out.


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A Reuters poll shows that analysts think we’ll soon witness the first crash of the mobile phone market since 2001. The experts expect the global growth to be 3% in Q4 and 2009, which is really bad when compared to the 10% of recent years. There is however an expectation of growth in the last quarter of 2008, at least with 11.6%, compared to Q3, as everyone will rush to buy gifts in the holiday season.
The most important phone manufacturers are following the trends and analyst statements, as they’ve decreased production and learnt their lesson from the 2001 crash, when the market went down really bad. Less demand is a factor for the decrease of production, which pretty much spells loss of profit for great companies like Sony Ericsson, who already had a pretty bad year.
European will feel the worst fall of all continents, since on this market everyone has a phone, and quite an advanced one, so they’re not planning on changing it too soon. Geoff Blaber, analyst with research firm CCS Insight claims that things will get uglier than they did in 2001, unless the day is saved by emerging markets, but that may depend on the cost of the handsets sold in the respective markets.


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The Cotton Development Organisation (CDO) has announced an indicative or minimum price of sh500 per kilogramme for this seasonâ€™s cotton crop
The Cotton Development Organisation (CDO) has announced an indicative or minimum price of sh500 per kilogramme for this seasonâ€™s cotton crop.
CDO managing director, Mrs. Jolly Sabune, disclosed this on Saturday while officiating at the Farmerâ€™s Day celebrations for C.N. Cotton Limited, the owners of Kachumbala Cotton ginnery in Kumi district.
Sabune said the latest price is up from sh350 offered last year.
She said however, farmers were free to negotiate with buyers for better prices.
She said some farmers were able to sell their cotton at sh700 during the last season. But Sabune added that cotton prices were determined by the prevailing international prices offered by the major buyers who were based in the United States and Japan.
She disclosed that 95% of the cotton produced in Uganda was exported in a raw form that made it difficult for her organisation to determine the price.
She told about 200 contract farmers from the districts of Kumi, Pallisa and Sironko to respect their contractual obligations.
Okello Ocero, the chairman, Uganda Cotton Ginners and Exporterâ€™s Association, Magambhai Patel, the C.N. Cotton managing director, and the MP for Bukedea County, Dr. Peter Eselle attended the ceremony.
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- With traveling more popular than ever before, some destinations are significantly cheaper to visit than others.
- Kyoto, Japan, is 16% cheaper to visit in June than December, so consider going during the summer months.
- Hamburg, Germany, has seen more year-to-year growth in visitors than popular cities London and Venice.
International tourism is on the rise. According to the World Tourism Organization UNWTO, international travel was up 6% in the first quarter of 2017 compared to 2016 — that's 21 million more people vacationing on foreign soil. That doesn't mean a trip to Europe or Asia is necessarily in your budget, however.
While popular destinations like Paris and London can have travel costs that are prohibitively high, some international cities are far friendlier to the wallet. GOBankingRates consulted Booking.com's list of up-and-coming destinations — based on year-over-year changes in bookings — to find some less-expensive travel spots around the globe. If you're set on taking the family overseas, you might want to consider one of these affordable vacation destinations.
See some of the most amazing architecture in the world firsthand in Shanghai, one of the three cities that experienced the most year-over-year growth in bookings, according to Booking. Perhaps consider visiting in the winter — the prices in December and January are lower than those in June, the site found.
Just remember: When traveling here — or anywhere abroad, for that matter — take time to uncover popular tourist scams to protect your money while abroad.
Dublin is an increasingly popular destination for tourists. And looking at January, June and December data, Booking found that June is the most expensive month to travel to this Irish city. On the flip side, traveling during January and December is 32% and 23% cheaper, respectively.
One of the best parts of visiting Dublin is that you can cover a lot of ground in little time. According to The Savvy Backpacker, you can see the best sites in two to three days. One site you have to see: the city's sleek and modern Samuel Beckett Bridge. For more ideas, check out these 40 free things to do on your European vacation
Another up-and-coming destination, Edinburgh costs about $148 a day to visit, according to Budget Your Trip. This calculation includes accommodations, food, entertainment and other costs. And Booking's data shows hotels are 14% cheaper in January.
There are many great sites to check out in Edinburgh before the destination gets too expensive, such as the Edinburgh Castle — one of the most iconic landmarks in the city.
Kyoto is also rising in popularity. If you've always wanted to visit, perhaps consider a summer trip to this Asian city. June is 16% cheaper than December, according to Booking. While you're there, stop by the Toji temple, which houses carvings, statues, paintings and more. To get the best deals to this destination, book your trip at the right time.
Singapore is just one of many Asian destinations experiencing strong tourism growth year-over-year, according to Booking. However, rising demand could push travel costs higher — and Singapore is already pretty expensive.
According to Expatistan's Cost of Living Index, Singapore has the third-highest cost of living in Asia, behind only Hong Kong and Tokyo. And according to Budget Your Trip, the daily average budget is about $111. So, plan accordingly to visit everything Singapore has to offer, including the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands.
Considering how cold Sweden can get, it's not surprising that visiting Stockholm in January is 26% less expensive than visiting in June. But this up-and-coming destination has an average daily budget of $167, so you might want to save a little extra money before you book a vacation here.
Copenhagen has increasingly become a popular travel destination. But if you have trouble with the cold, you might miss out on the cheapest time to visit. Currently, it's 40% cheaper to see Copenhagen in January than June.
If you do decide to splurge on a summer trip to the city, be sure to visit beautiful Nyhavn. Have dinner at one of the colorful houses that have been converted to fancy restaurants and listen to jazz music as you gaze at the canal.
Thailand is known for being one of the most affordable places to visit in the world. So, although Bangkok is an up-and-coming destination, it remains cheap compared to other global hot spots.
Still, you should take advantage of its affordability while you can, and experience some of the city's must-see attractions — including the famous Wat Phra Kaew (the Temple of the Emerald Buddha).
Booking.com found that Ho Chi Minh City experienced the highest year-over-year growth in bookings. A beautiful, exotic locale, this Vietnamese city boasts the Buu Long Pagoda, a breathtaking and calming temple. For more beautiful trip ideas, discover some of the breathtaking sights around the world you can see for free.
Demand for travel to Taipei is on the rise — it's the #4 up-and-coming destination on Booking's list. With demand going up, prices potentially will as well. To avoid paying more for travel, opt to visit in June, when prices are 15% cheaper than in January.
When you arrive in Taipei, visit the Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest buildings. In the tower, you can shop, dine and check out the observatory.
This Austrian city has experienced more year-over-year growth than Madrid or Florence, according to Booking. If you're trying to save on travel, avoid booking a trip for December and perhaps aim for January. Booking's data shows January is 14% less expensive than December. When you're there, make time to see St. Stephen's Cathedral, one of Vienna's most symbolic sites.
Chiang Mai is another city in Thailand benefiting from strong year-over-year increases in bookings. The growth in Chiang Mai's popularity has caused some parts of the city to become saturated with tourists, according to Budget Your Travel. Still, it's worth visiting to explore the ancient temples, check out the elephants and shop the Sunday markets.
This city is known for its rich culture and colorful architecture, like the stunning Park Guell. And Barcelona is becoming a popular tourist destination, with significant differences in price depending on when you decide to go. For instance, traveling in January is more than 30% cheaper than June.
Tourism has been growing over the last couple years in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, according to a 2016 report by Research, Information and Statistics. The city offers plenty of fun activities. But simply exploring Amsterdam's traditional buildings and famed canals will satisfy any explorer.
Another up-and-coming travel destination, Warsaw is an old, traditional cultural center of Eastern Europe, and the Old Town is a great historical site. But know that a summer trip might be more expensive — January and December are 28% and 15% less expensive, respectively.
Moscow might be a long plane ride away, but it offers incomparable sites and a fascinating cultural heritage. Moscow ranks on the lower end of Booking's list, but it's still considered an up-and-coming destination.
Take advantage of the affordable prices while you can. According to Budget Your Trip, the average daily travel cost in Moscow is $60, which includes expenses such as food, entertainment and accommodations. Compared to other European destinations, Moscow isn't too bad on your budget.
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Following AT&T's takeover of Time Warner, company executives are looking to expand HBO in the age of streaming, according to a New York Times report.
Now that AT&T has acquired HBO , it's reportedly contemplating possible changes to the media property.
AT&T executive John Stankey, who following the company's $85 billion takeover of Time Warner last month became chief executive of Warner Media, spoke about these changes in a June 19 town hall meeting at HBO's Manhattan headquarters among 150 employees, The New York Times reported Sunday.
"It's going to be a tough year," Stankey said, according to a recording, which The New York Times obtained. "It's going to be a lot of work to alter and change direction a little bit."
At&T executives reportedly said they'd take a "hands-off approach" to HBO, but their comments suggested they wouldn't be uninvolved.
Stankey reportedly said that in the future, HBO would significantly boost its subscriber base and the hours people spend consuming shows. To do that, it would need to create more content and transition HBO from an operation focused on its Sunday night lineup into something bigger and broader, the Times reported.
Stankey said viewers need to spend "hours a day" watching HBO programs, according to the report. "It's not hours a week, and it's not hours a month. We need hours a day. You are competing with devices that sit in people's hands that capture their attention every 15 minutes."
He reportedly added that he wants more hours of engagement. "Why are more hours of engagement important? Because you get more data and information about a customer that then allows you to do things like monetize through alternate models of advertising as well as subscriptions, which I think is very important to play in tomorrow's world."
A Warner Media representative who attended the meeting said Stankey discussed boosting engagement across the entire company, not just at HBO, and that Stankey and HBO CEO Richard Plepler were on the same page about how the media property should proceed.
AT&T didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Plepler, who hosted the talk, asked Stankey how much money AT&T would invest. Stankey reportedly said simply, "I do believe there needs to be stepped-up investment," later adding, "We've got to make money at the end of the day, right?"
"We do that," Plepler reportedly responded.
"Yes, you do," Stankey reportedly said. "Just not enough."
HBO has made a steady profit; for the past three years, it's put more than $2 billion a year toward programming, while making a profit of almost $6 billion. But it'll have to increase its spending if it wants to compete with the likes of Netflix, which reportedly plans to spend $8 billion this year. Stankey never said the word "Netflix" at the meeting, according to The Times, but suggested HBO had to "become more like a streaming giant to thrive in the new media landscape."
"You've earned the dynamic amongst your customer base that when you put a new piece of content out there, people will try it, just because they trust you're going to be putting something in front of them that they might like," Stankey reportedly said. "We now need to figure out how to expand the aperture of it without losing the quality."
AT&T has been pushing into the streaming space, launching a $15-a-month sports-free television-streaming service last month called AT&T Watch TV. The service is centered on Time Warner's Turner collection of channels and doesn't include HBO.
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FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Researchers have suggested opportunities are being missed to prevent listeriosis from pre-packed sandwiches.
Eating pre-prepared sandwiches served in hospitals was the most common source of Listeria infections in England and Wales between 1981 and 2015.
Scientists said repeated incidents, despite guidance on reducing the risk of listeriosis in healthcare settings being available, shows lessons are not being learned, with risk factors having similarities to those described previously.
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And according to the complaint that one lawsuit is about serious money: “The amount in controversy far exceeds the minimal jurisdictional limits of this Court, and damages exceed $1,000,000.”
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FOOD SAFETY NEWS – Officials say a Salmonella Weltevreden outbreak linked to imported, cooked, frozen shrimp is over, but they are concerned some consumers may have the shrimp on hand.
As of Sept. 21 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the outbreak over. At least nine people in four states were sickened.
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CNN Business – After years of declining sales, Subway is hoping to reintroduce itself to customers and convince them to give its sandwiches a shot.
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HERE are three ways switching to an electric vehicle could help you save more than £3,000 a YEAR.
The eco-friendly cars are significantly cheaper than their petrol-powered counterparts, an expert says.
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According to research by Vanarma, EV owners could pocket £3,108 each year in savings – that’s an extra £259 per month or £12,432 throughout your car’s lifetime.
A spokesperson for the auto-experts said: “With the UK’s cost of living on the rise, many drivers may be looking at long-term changes they can make to alleviate the pressure.
“Of course, the asking price of an EV is often higher than an equivalent petrol or diesel, but Vanarama’s research shows the day-to-day savings currently swing in favor of electric.”
Here’s how you can save.
Low emission zones
Low emission zones (LEZs) charge drivers of highly-polluting cars a fee in a bid to encourage them to use more eco-friendly ways of traveling in those areas.
But Vanarma’s data says EV drivers could save £175 a month through LEZ exemption, which equates to £2,100 per year and £8,400 per average total vehicle ownership, which is estimated to be around four years.
Not paying for fuel
The research also says not paying for fuel at the pump could save around £72 a month.
This works out at £858 per year and £3,432 per average total vehicle ownership, according to experts.
The spokesperson added: “The fuel savings, from NimbleFins, include the cost of charging an EV, based on the average British driver’s annual mileage of 7,600 miles.”
Car tax exemption
Some EV owners are exempt from car tax – saving around £13 a month.
This works out at £150 per year, and £600 per average total vehicle ownership from not having to pay car tax, according to the findings.


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Overall supply chain and logistics tech spending will rise to $87.8 billion over the next three years. That’s according to new research from Logistics Trends & Insights, LLC and American Global Logistics (AGL). The study shows that U.S. companies will spend more than $2.5 billion in disruptive logistics and supply chain technologies by 2022. The report, “Supply Chain Technology Investment Outlook,” explores the rapid growth in supply chain IT investment and which technologies are likely to take the lead in the next five years.
In transportation and logistics it can be hard to predict what’s coming up. We saw a peak in market volumes and extremely tight capacity in July 2018, and then unpredictable softening in September, which few would have predicted. When SONAR data is studied it verifies current industry thinking regarding volumes and tech trends. Will things be soft or not? There are trends and seasonality but who knows about interest rates and tariffs for instance?
Bending the corner into 2019, there is a wide variety of interesting technology coming out. But it’s really only interesting if you can get people to play (and pay!). There’s so much fragmentation on the capacity side of the equation. It’s impossible to get all those companies to adopt a single technology, and if you can’t get to that tipping point a broker’s always going to be able to find a better price. It’s hard to get distribution and change the way a lot of companies do things. There are tens of thousands of truckers that actually value the relationship, and if someone’s getting them down the road and making things connect, then they’re going to value that. If a driver wants to use his TMS, he or she can do that. If someone wants to go online and automate, that can be done. The industry is extremely diverse, and you have to deploy to many levels. A slick tech solution might solve issues for one small niche of the market, but will it ever be widely adopted?
Predictive analytics can play their part, but sometimes the buzzwords get overused. Everyone wants to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain and there are uses for both, but neither (or anything else) is a cure-all, end-all. If a company is really scaling you have to use analytics to improve service, processes, price discovery, and margins. It’s all about applying mathematics to the situation. According to Ginni Rometty, chief executive officer of IBM, “One of the reasons why some people say they haven’t gotten as much value from AI is that the workflow didn’t change. You have to reimagine the kind of work and how it should be done for this to work the best.”
Off-the-shelf solutions will work for a small company getting started, but the complexity of processes increases as a company grows. If a company’s workflow has to be adapted to someone else’s tech, you’re out of luck. Will small brokers be able to reap the benefits of the tech and get to the critical mass to use the technology? Probably not. You need a large marketplace, high ratings for service, and the ability to automate.
Massively configurable technology is what you want. Those who have built to scale and have processes and automated it are likely more competitive and successful. You have to be fairly clever with how you develop it on the back-end and make it configurable on the front-end to do what the customer wants to do.
We recently discovered one such company with nVision Global. Their Impact TMS provides the visibility and management of global shipments from creation through delivery. A company can now, in effect, integrate all the features one demands in a TMS solution with nVision Global’s other technologies, such as Freight Audit and Payment, Freight Claims, and Business Analytics. They are one of the few providers we have found that can offer these solutions in a single package and still offer a configurable TMS solution that meets a user’s exact needs and specifications.
While some get swept away by the hype, success will mean being able to build tech and relationships. Yes, relationships still matter. Whether amongst each other or your customers. That’s what life revolves around. That being said, tech makes people and companies more efficient, and that’s the differentiator.
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The two companies are hoping ARYx's novel drug, ATI-7505 will provide a solution to gastrointestinal disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gastroparesis (delayed emptying of the stomach) which affects four to seven per cent of the global population
ATI-7505 is an oral, serotonin type 4 (5HT4) agonist that is currently in Phase 2 development. ATI-7505 has been shown to have prokinetic properties (increases upper GI motility.
Based on its mechanism of action, initial studies has shown show that ATI-7505 prevents the regurgitation of stomach contents into the oesophagus and accelerates the emptying of the stomach.
Under terms of the agreement, ARYx will grant P&G rights to the worldwide development and commercialisation of ATI-7505 in exchange for a $25m (€19.8m) upfront fee, milestone payments, and royalties on product sales.
In addition, ARYx has an option to co-develop and co-promote ATI-7505. In total, payments could reach $435m over the life of the project, including $250m that could be earned prior to commercialisation.
Additional terms also state that ARYx will receive royalties, with the rate escalating upon the achievement of varying sales targets. No further terms of the agreement were disclosed.
"P&G's sales force, and close relationships with gastroenterologists and general practitioners, also makes this collaboration an excellent strategic fit for ARYx," said Paul Goddard, chairman and chief executive officer of ARYx Therapeutics
"We are gratified that P&G shares our passion for improving the safety of drug therapy which has been the major focus of ARYx since it was founded."
Four to seven per cent of the global population represents approximately 250 to 450m people. GERD sufferers can manifest itself as symptoms such as heartburn and regurgitation.
More than 50 per cent of all diabetics suffer from gastroparesis, or more than 85 million people worldwide.
Gastroparesis can lead to severe symptoms such as pain, nausea and vomiting, and even malnutrition.
ATI-7505 is not the first serotonin type 4 (5HT4) agonist to hit the market for gastrointestinal disorders. Propulsid (cisapride), achieved nearly $1bn in global sales, but was withdrawn from the market in 2000 due to side effects.
ATI-7505 was designed using ARYx technology to retain the identical mechanism of action, while eliminating the safety issues.
Clinical trial results to date support this target product profile, but larger studies are required to confirm the drug's efficacy and safety.


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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformations in the retail sector, with one retail expert stating that 2020 saw “a 10-year evolutionary leap toward digital” in retailing. In line with the digital-first mindset that the retail industry is adopting, Microsoft has launched Microsoft Cloud for Retail to enable intelligent retail.
Microsoft’s retail-specific cloud service aims to connect experiences across the shopper journey with integrated and intelligent capabilities. Microsoft Cloud for Retail brings together disparate data sources across the retail value chain, enabling retailers to realise the full potential of their data. The service will offer retail-specific solutions while also unlocking the power of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Advertising.
To find out more about Microsoft Cloud for Retail, read the full article here.
Given the rapid advancements of medical technology and the events of 2020, it’s no surprise that the healthcare business intelligence market is projected to expand substantially. The size of the healthcare BI market 5.40 billion USD in 2019 and is expected to reach 15.14 billion USD by 2027, according to a current analysis by Emergen […]


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The carmaker's well-heeled clientele are demanding something electric.
As global automotive brands go, Bentley has been reluctant to follow its peers - even those who also belong to the monolithic Volkswagen Group - in pursuing pure-electric propulsion with any urgency.
But that's not for a lack of demand; brand CEO Adrian Hallmark told Top Gear recently that Bentley's clientele are perfectly eager for the luxury marque to begin offering sustainable, emissions-free vehicles.
"It's fascinating," Hallmark says. "We had a customer dinner to launch the Bacalar. They were all collectors. All passionate about their cars. But they are equally passionate about the future of cars. They want them to be environmentally and ethically sustainable. They are looking for transparency, a decarbonized powertrain and sustainable interior materials."
As a matter of fact, Hallmark says, 39 percent of luxury car buyers are actively shopping for an electric car, reflecting a sizable portion of the market. And despite its reluctance to get started, Bentley is nonetheless determined to be the first marque under the Volkswagen umbrella to become 100 percent carbon neutral.
"We have the best opportunity to get there first, as Bentley," Hallmark says. "People want the most exotic traditional technology. But for their daily driving car they want the right kind of new product and will pay a premium for it."
So why is Bentley holding back? Battery technology. In past interviews with the press, Hallmark has suggested that battery technology is not yet sufficiently evolved to power a Bentley vehicle satisfactorily, as the marque has no intention of giving up its traditionally large, heavy design aesthetic.
"We will launch our first battery electric vehicle in the middle of the 2020s because we anticipate in five years the increase in power density - or the introduction of solid state batteries - will allow a 30 per cent-plus improvement in performance," Hallmark told Top Gear.
However, before that date finally arrives, Bentley could dip its toes into the EV pool with a special high-price, limited-driving-range coachbuilt Mulliner - perhaps even a recreation of one of its classics.
"We've been asked if we could 'build a car exactly like an R-Type Continental that's also fully electric and I don't care if it's got 100 miles range, thank you very much,'" Hallmark says. "The answer is 'yes we could.'"


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Audi of America, Kia Corp and Porsche said on Friday that buyers of its electric vehicles will lose access to federal tax credits of up to $7,500 once President Joe Biden signs a $430 billion climate, health and tax measure. The Volkswagen AG unit said only the Audi plug-in hybrid electric will retain its existing federal credit through the rest of the year. Audi said the legislation set to be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday "will have consequential impact on our business and to our consumers."
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Innoviz Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: INVZ) reported second-quarter FY22 revenue growth of 78.3% year-on-year to $1.797 million, missing the consensus of $1.93 million. It expects InnovizOne sales to continue to increase and it also targets selling the first samples of InnovizTwo later this year. EPS loss of $(0.21) beat the consensus loss of $(0.25). Innoviz held $246 million in cash and equivalents. Innoviz has been selected as Volkswagen AG's (OTC: VLKAF) CARIAD SE (Volkswagen CARIAD) direct LiDA