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The royal has upped sticks to move to the UK to be with her Prince, who proposed to her in October 2017.
Since then Meghan has been adapting to royal life, making friends with the like of Victoria Beckham, 35.
It is likely that the stunning young actress would have had a hen do, but what would she have planned?
Meghan Markle’s hen do took place at a spa in the Cotswolds at the glamorous £6,000-a-night Soho Farmhouse, a source revealed.
Meghan Markle royal wedding news: Hen do cost revealed - what might Suits actress have spent?
How much would a weekend away like this cost?
Red7, a planner for hen and stag dos, have estimated the cost if a hen do such as this one, as well as others that famous women have had.
Meghan Markle hen do cost
Hen Party at Soho Farmhouse
Estimated number of guests = 12 (Red7 average)
Boutique cabin prices = start at £350 per night
Full body massage at Cowshed spa = £160pp
Afternoon tea for 12 = £25pp
3 course meal in the Main Barn restaurant = £42pp
12 bottles of Tignanello (Meghan’s favourite wine) = £135 each
Meghan Markle: Hen do cost revealed - what might Suits actress have spent?
This sounds like a large sum, however it is nothing compared to the hen dos of other women.
The hen do specialists revealed that Coleen Rooney had one of the most expensive hen dos, more pricey that Kate Moss and Kim Kardashian.
Colleen had a Holiday to Miami, holiday to Tenerife and a spa day plus night out in Manchester, which cost a whopping £54,700.
Kate Moss took 30 friends to the Isle of Wight Festival with VIP passes and a stay in Priory Bay Hotel costing £5,133.
Kim Kardashian on the other hand had a trip to Paris with 20 friends, which cost £33,791.
Royal wedding: Meghan Markle has been adapting to royal life, making friends Victoria Beckham
Royal wedding: Meghan Markle’s hen do took place at a spa in the Cotswolds
Meghan Markle’s wedding dress might be made by a designer loved by fellow feminist Emma Watson, 28.
Bookies are being forced to slash the odds on one UK designer after fellow British fashion expert Henry Holland chose the Scot as his pick for the 36-year-old actress's royal wedding.
It was recently revealed that Meghan Markle is “hugely excited” to join the Royal Family by Prince Harry himself.
The 33-year-old praised his bride-to-be Meghan Markle, 36, and said she was “hugely excited” to help young people across the Commonwealth.
The prince received a special cheer from the audience when he mentioned Meghan’s name.


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Nissan is ending operations in Russia. The enterprise has announced that it has offered its assets to the Russian governing administration for a solitary Euro, which truly seems like 1 hell of a offer looking at Nissan estimates the determination will price the small business around 100 billion yen – or $687 million USD.
With 2,000 personnel found in the place, the automaker expressed some amount of money of regret for pulling out. But the geopolitical condition is generating it challenging for any enterprise that moves a lot of merchandise on Western markets to proceed functioning within of Russia. We’ve presently observed a handful of automakers vowing to abandon the region, together with accommodations and rapid food stuff chains. Although the the vast majority of these firms are marketed to the point out or rich magnates to turn out to be generic variations of their former selves, this has proven significantly more difficult to complete when automotive factories come into perform.
“On behalf of Nissan, I thank our Russian colleagues for their contribution to the business enterprise in excess of quite a few many years,” Nissan President and CEO Makoto Uchida said in a Tuesday statement. “Though we cannot keep on working in the industry, we have uncovered the most effective possible solution to assist our folks.”
Nissan leaves behind a sizable staff base, all of whom will reportedly get some variety of work safety for 12 months, a factory in St. Petersburg, and the Gross sales & Internet marketing Center found in Moscow. Nonetheless, it has retained the possibility to acquire all that again in just the up coming 6 several years, equivalent to the offer Renault produced through its possess Russian pull-out.
As for how this will have an impact on Nissan, the automaker produced 56,000 autos on a yearly basis at the St. Petersburg plant prior to the pandemic with the organization experiencing a 6.5 percent share of the overall market in 2018. But due to novel hurdles pertaining to the Russo-Ukrainian War and supply constraints stemming from pandemic-connected constraints the automaker does not foresee the pullout getting any more harmful to its bottom line than sticking around.
Renault was not so blessed owing to its significant ties to AvtoVAZ – Russia’s major automaker. The firm seemed visibly hesitant to take out alone from the marketplace until eventually Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky resolved French lawmakers, mentioning Renault by title. Following elevated political force, the enterprise sold all of its property to the Russian govt.
“Renault, Auchan [and] Leroy Merlin must end sponsoring the Russian war device, and the murder of young children and women, rapes, robberies and looting committed by the Russian military,” Zelensky mentioned in a online video handle to France’s National Assembly. “All organizations ought to don’t forget that values are value extra than revenue.”
Ideally, Renault feels equally, simply because the business expects its internet money for the 2nd half of 2022 to be €331 million ($322 million USD) lighter than originally presumed. On the surface, it seems impossible that Renault will be having a strike whilst Nissan thinks it’ll be breaking even. But the previous entity holds about 30 p.c of the Russian market place (all over again because of largely to possessing been a the vast majority stakeholder in AvtoVAZ). Nissan’s share is a portion of that and has been little by little shrinking over the very last handful of many years.
Lots of other automakers have vowed to suspend or limit functions in Russia following Western sanctions were being released, even though most really do not have the kind of sales volumes or localized belongings for it to genuinely matter. While there have been exceptions – which includes Toyota, Suzuki, AB Volvo, Daimler Truck, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.
Volkswagen is yet another big brand in the region and has presently announced it would stop all exports to Russia whilst simultaneously suspending production at crops in Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod. However it did not look thrilled about the prospect of getting rid of enterprise. The organization made its announcement in March, incorporating that it was hoping the sweeping sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States would be clarified.
Renault and Nissan’s choice to abandon Russia have remaining a lot less to the imagination. They’re out of the current market completely, with the risk of acquiring again their outdated things getting still left on the table. Although they’ll be impacted differently by the pullout, the duo look to be savoring a momentary realignment and have expressed an curiosity in strengthening their marriage. Earlier this 7 days, the pair declared that they would be keeping meetings to focus on the foreseeable future of their ongoing alliance – creating point out that the Japanese automaker was thinking of investing in a new electric powered motor vehicle undertaking helmed by its French spouse. Although this is unlikely to drop outside of the purview of the present $26-billion financial commitment designed to ensure the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance goes all-electric.
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East Africa’s most celebrated musical artist Diamond Platnumz has broadened his horizons thanks to this new venture, a new perfume that that will soon hit the shelves of a store near you.
The fragrance which goes by the name Chibu, whose tagline is ‘The Scent You Deserve’, was introduced to the masses by the East African superstar on his Instagram page in a short video post.
The ‘Salome’ hitmaker recently said in an interview that he was investing in businesses. “Family has made me learn how to invest in business ventures. I’d want people not to refer to me as an artiste who was once on top of his game but has nothing to show for it today,” he told TZ website Bongo5.com.
Although it is only now that it is being markerted, the artiste says the perfume has been in the works for years.
“It took me years to make the whole world to be in a small Bottle,” SDE quoted him.
The 100 ml perfume is enclosed in a sleek black box with Chibu gold logo plastered across it, and from the looks of things fans will have to cough some real cash to own one.
The perfume already has a dedicated Instagram account with over 1000 followers.


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Suzuki Motor Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are two world renowned car makers that have been talking about the possibility of a partnership since October. After months of negotiations, the two auto giants had finally shaken hands. The new improved direction will focus to bring both of them atop of the ultimate trend in their industry, namely green technology. They intend to create from now on products that are eco-friendly while still redefining the sophistication for vehicles.
On Monday, Toyota Motor Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp. announced the partnership. The new project was inaugurated with the approval of both boards and also with a signed memorandum of agreement. The main goal of the partnership is to facilitate to one another their own bank of expertise. The reinforced project will come up with products specially created for new emerging markets in their industry. The vehicles of today’s world have to be environmentally friendly thanks to green technology and also answer high standards of performance.
Thus, Toyota will have the freedom to access the secret that made Suzuki the dominant brand in the Indian auto market. On the other hand, Suzuki will be repaid with the introduction of Toyota’s latest innovative technology. Some of their recent achievement cover upgrades in the automated driving, low-emission products, as well as artificial intelligence.
While their official statement neglects the possibility of a capital unity, both companies are excited to come up with breakthroughs in domains like the technology of safety or green technology. This is the moment that will allow Toyota to complete its ultimate mission, that of entering the Indian market.
This new project is possible after Suzuki broke up with Volkswagen AG. Back in 2015, these two organizations were under a cooperation of their own. However, they were both discontent with how things evolved since they united their forces together. Suzuki was unwilling to let Volkswagen take so much control as it wanted over part of its operations. On the other hand, the German automaker didn’t agree with its partner’s move to buy diesel engines from Fiat and not from Volkswagen.
The managing director at CLSA, Chris Richter, commented the new partnership as a risky move for Suzuki. The car maker might lose its dominance in the Indian market. On the other hand, the company highly needs access to innovative technology, which Toyota is abundant in.
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Well-known dive industry retailer Rick Newton passes away
(DiverWire) The dive industry lost a well-known and popular figure last month as Rick Newton of Rick’s Dive ‘N Travel Center in Little Rock, Arkansas passed away.
Robyn Newton writes this week, “This year is our store’s 35th anniversary, so we are going to celebrate Rick and the anniversary with RUTH (Rick’s Underwater Treasure Hunt) and memorial dive with some of the proceeds going to the Alzheimer’s Assn for research. We are aiming for an early June event. Rick’s ashes will be scattered in the waters of Wakatobi and along the Buffalo River in Arkansas.”
The following statement was posted on the store’s website:
Our founder, Rick Newton, lost his hard fought battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease January 27, 2013.
Robyn, Sandy, Tom, Mike and our staff of instructors will continue providing divers with the same service and professionalism our customers have come to expect at Rick’s.
But most of all, we will continue to have fun “blowing bubbles” and training divers. Rick would have wanted that.


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With travel restrictions across ANZ still in place for the rest of the world, Thinkerbell and Jetstar are encouraging Aussies and New Zealanders to make the most of their own backyards without the regular crowds. It comes as the trans-Tasman bubble officially launched last week.
Over the past month, giant Jetstar 'Available for a limited time only' artwork has begun to pop up - showcasing some of the best holiday destinations that are currently on sale, and accessible with Jetstar.
Rolling out nationally, the 'Available for a limited time only' platform sees artists turning sand, surf, rooftops and just about anywhere you can holiday, into canvases for artwork.
Tom Wenborn, executive creative tinker, Thinkerbell says: “Australia and New Zealand truly are the lucky countries, and right now we have both sides of the Tasman to ourselves to explore. We’ve loved helping to highlight some of Australia and New Zealand’s favourite destinations in a uniquely Jetstar way.”
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Shimla, May 30 (IANS) A bumper sweet cherry crop this year has gone sour for farmers in Himachal Pradesh. The high yield has pushed prices so low that growers are getting 25 to 35 percent less than what they received last year.
Horticulture department officials say the total cherry production is set to touch a record 1,000 tonnes. It was 419 tonnes in the last fiscal and 698 tonnes in 2007-08.
As a result, market prices have dropped heavily fetching very low returns to the growers. ‘The high production of cherries has considerably brought down the prices,’ Gopal Mehta, a prominent grower in upper Shimla, told IANS.
He said the best varieties of black cherry picked from organic farms was selling at Rs.230 to Rs.270 a kg in the Delhi wholesale market this year, whereas it fetched between Rs.350 and Rs.380 last year.
A high yield in other cherry-growing states like Jammu and Kashmir has led to a glut in the market, said Diwan Negi, another grower.
‘We are selling a box of ordinary red cherries in the wholesale market in Chandigarh at Rs.80-100. Last year the price was above Rs.150,’ Negi said.
According to him, the farmers are hardly making any profit as the costs of labour, packaging and transportation have risen manifold over the year.
Said Sahzad Mian, a trader from Delhi: ‘We are daily procuring 500 to 1,000 boxes of high quality cherries from Narkanda. This year the prices are quite comfortable.’
Narkanda, some 65 km from Shimla, is the hub of cherry production. Cherries are mainly grown in the higher reaches of Shimla, Kullu, Mandi, Chamba, Kinnaur and Lahaul and Spiti districts. At least 10,000 small farmers grow cherries on 405 hectares as an alternative crop.
Horticulture director Gurdev Singh said some of the farmers are just dumping the crop.
‘Without studying the proper market mechanism like its demand and supply, they are sending their produce to those markets which have already been flooded with cherries. Since the shelf life of the cherry is five to six days, the farmers are selling the crop in panic,’ he said.
Cherry harvesting in the state will continue till July 15.
The economy of Himachal Pradesh is dependent on horticulture, apart from hydroelectric power and tourism. Besides cherry, apple, kiwi, strawberry, pears, peaches, apricots, almonds and plums are the major commercial crops of the state.
The fruit industry is worth about Rs.2,000 crore annually.
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The production and consumption of textiles is associated with a significant adverse effect on both the environment and the climate. With this year’s theme, the adjudication committee wants to focus on the fact that the Nordic Region can be a pioneer in the necessary transformation of the entire textile value chain.
“The unsustainable approach to textiles is a global problem, but we in the Nordics have a special obligation to adapt and to change behaviours. Our consumption is gargantuan and has an impact far beyond our national borders. In short, we buy too much, use what we buy too little, and then we don’t recycle enough,” says Cilia Indahl, head of the adjudcation committee for the Nordic Council Environment Prize.
This year’s theme covers the entire life cycle of textiles, from the production of the raw material to the design, sale, repair, reuse, recycling, and disposal.
“We’re in a situation where we have to reduce our consumption, extend the life of textiles, and introduce circular business models. We hope that the Nordic Council Environment Prize can help show that a sustainable textile industry is possible and that there are already many good examples to draw inspiration from,” says Cilia.
Read more about this year’s theme below:
The textile industry poses many challenges – social, environmental, and climate-related. Sustainable textile production and a greater awareness of textile consumption in the Nordics can help to encourage positive development on a global level.
The dominant business model in textile production and consumption is one based on low-quality products, fast fashion, and ever-growing consumption. The textile manufacturing industry all too often offers badly underpaid work and violates human rights. Above all, recent ethical issues such as child labour and forced labour have changed companies’ procurement decisions.
Since clothing and textiles are part of a complex global system, it’s important that we look not only at the social impact of the supply chain, but also at its environmental impact. Every second, a truckload of textile waste is burnt or sent to landfill. The textile industry accounts for four percent of global freshwater consumption and is taking over agricultural land from food production. An especially large quantity of water and land is used in the production of cotton. The textile industry is also responsible for 10 percent of industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, 16 percent of pesticide use, 20 percent of global emissions of water pollution, and 35 percent of microplastics in the ocean.
The multidimensional and systemic problems of the textile and clothing industry mean that changes are needed at multiple levels, by multiple stakeholders.
The textile value chain includes:
- Raw material production and procurement
- Textile material manufacturing
- Product manufacturing
In order for this system to be sustainable, the use of new bio-based, recycled, and recyclable textiles is needed, among other things. This requires products to be designed in accordance with the principles of a circular economy, while manufacturing needs to safeguard social sustainability and provide adequate information about product and corporate responsibility. In addition, business models are needed that cater for the borrowing, renting, sharing, repairing, repurchasing, and recycling of products. Extending the lifespan of textiles is more important than reducing wear and tear.
Both global and local responsibility are needed within this system. Each and every stage and stakeholder is interrelated. The Nordic textile industry, retail industry, fashion designers, and consumers can act as role models and, through their decisions, they can influence the extent of textile use and the supply chain as a whole.
The 2023 Nordic Council Environment Prize will be awarded to a key player that is pursuing the systemic transformation of the textile industry, textile services (service design), and clothing consumption in a way that is sustainable on a global scale. The theme of this year’s Nordic Council Environment Prize supports the following global sustainable development goals: SDG 12, SDG 9, and SDG 17.
We hope that the Nordic Council Environment Prize can help show that a sustainable textile industry is possible and that there are already many good examples to draw inspiration from.
Anyone can nominate a candidate
The Nordic Council Environment Prize is the only one of the Nordic Council’s five prizes for which the public can put forward a candidate.
The deadline for nominating a candidate is Tuesday 9 May.
Who can be nominated?
The prize is awarded to a Nordic individual, enterprise or organisation that has managed to integrate consideration for nature and the environment into its business or work in an exemplary way, or that has made an extraordinary positive contribution to nature and the environment in some other way. The winning entity must have a Nordic perspective and operate in the Nordic Region and/or in relation to parties outside of the Nordic Region.
The Nordic Council Environment Prize was first awarded in 1995 with the aim of raising awareness of work on the environment in the Nordic Region. The Nordic Council also awards literature prizes for both adult literature and children and young people’s literature, a music prize, and a film prize.


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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has continued his company’s fierce criticism of Apple and called the App Store a “disservice” to developers.
In an interview with Financial Times, Sweeney explained his reasoning behind taking Apple to court.
The long-running feud between Epic and Apple is the result of the latter’s infamous “walled garden” mobile ecosystem that many see as anti-competitive.
While Google has faced similar criticisms, its relatively open approach – allowing for sideloading and installing third-party app stores – has enabled Apple’s biggest rival to avoid the same degree of scrutiny.
“They prevent all other app stores from competing with them on hardware that’s owned by a billion end users,” explained Sweeney. “That’s the first tie and that completely obstructs all competition and market forces that would shape better app stores and better deals for consumers.”
Executives from Apple’s old rival, Microsoft, have even weighed in with their own experience of being accused of running a monopoly in the company’s heyday.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told a US House antitrust committee in 2020 that the App Store impedes competition far more than Microsoft did all those years ago. Smith also agreed with the assessment of Congressman David Cicilline who called the 30 percent cut taken by Apple “highway robbery”.
That same year, Basecamp CEO Jason Fried penned a letter over Apple’s rejection of his company’s email app called Hey. In his letter, Fried said he mostly has a problem with the “absence of choice and how Apple forcibly inserts themselves between [the] company and [its] customer”.
Apple has sought to ease concerns around the large cut it takes of developers’ profits (in 2021, Apple was estimated to have generated $85.1 billion in gross app revenue globally) by introducing the Small Business Program.
Under the Small Business Program, developers earning under $1 million for their apps per calendar year – which is the vast majority – will be able to keep more of their profits. Apple will take a 15 percent cut from developers eligible for the program.
However, Apple preventing the use of external payment processors still means that developers have to give up 15 percent of their profits—which many believe remains disproportionate.
For comparison, here are the cuts taken by third-party payment processing services:
- PayPal (3%)
- Mastercard (2%)
- Visa (2%)
Apple differs from those services in helping to promote apps and offering hosting services. That warrants a higher cut, but not 5-7x more.
Some regulators have begun stepping in to force Apple to allow third-party processing services.
For example, the Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) recently ordered Apple to allow dating apps in the country to use alternative payment systems. Japan’s Fair Trade Commission agreed to close its App Store investigation in return for Apple supporting external payment systems but it was limited to just “reader” apps like Spotify, Netflix, and others.
Apple has vowed to continue taking a commission from transactions away from its own payment system.
Sweeney, as you’d expect from the CEO of the game studio behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, is excited about the metaverse. However, he’s concerned that “the current monopolies will use their power the become the next monopolies”.
Currently, Sweeney sees Meta as an ally. He’s pleased with the investments they’re making and – while having some concern about the 30 percent cut taken by the Oculus Store – praises the fact it allows sideloading and third-party stores. He also appreciates that Meta contributing “to standards and practices that lead towards an open metaverse.”
Of course, things can change. Facebook was one of the centralised web 2.0 giants that has led to the appetite for web 3.0 to return control and content ownership to both developers and users and resist creeping digital authoritarianism.
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Google is updating Google Go, its lightweight version of Search made for devices with less powerful specs and less quality access to the internet. In the update, the company is including a natural language processing and speech synthesis AI-powered reading aloud function.
To put it in the most simple of terms, you click a button and Google Go will read whatever it is that’s on your display. For example, you’re reading an exposé on any ol’ subject. Should you wish to be read the piece instead of reading it all to yourself, simply have Google Go read it to you out loud.
With built in controls, you can customize the speed of speech playback and can also have Google Go simply read a select passage. Don’t worry, though, as the AI behind the scenes won’t read things that aren’t important to the context, such as ads, we assume. According to Google, “This technology relies on AI to determine which parts of a page to read, and which to leave out, so you only listen to what is important.”
Google capped its press release with, “In the future, we’d like to bring the ability to listen to webpages to more Google products. Long term, we hope this is just one way we can use AI to make accessing the web easier for everyone.”
So, yeah, bring this to Chrome next?
If you’re located in an area that supports Google Go, download the update from the Google Play link below.


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Hostess closing will shutter 3 Ohio bakeries, cut 867 workers
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Hostess Brands Inc.'s shutdown has cost 867 Ohioans their jobs.
The liquidation of the brand, which the company blamed on worker striking, will shutter three Ohio bakeries, in Defiance, Northwood and Cincinnati, in addition to five bakery outlets around the state, with two in Central Ohio.
The Northwood plant, just outside of Toledo, was one of 11 Hostess facilities nationwide to have workers strike.
The maker of snack food classics such as Twinkies and Ding Dongs, as well as Wonder Bread, said it would lay off most of its 18,500 workers nationwide and close 33 bakeries and 565 distribution centers, as well as 570 outlet stores, according to a press release.
Hostess has a history of financial troubles, first filing for bankruptcy in 2004, leaving a trail of closures and layoffs that reached Ohio. In March 2009, the iconic brand, then called Interstate Bakeries Corp., shuttered its downtown Columbus Wonder Bread plant, cutting 87 employees because of what it called declining bread purchases.
Emerging from bankruptcy later that year, it changed its name to Hostess Brands Inc. and moved its headquarters from Kansas City to Irvin, Texas.
In April 2010, the still financially troubled company closed its nearly 90-year-old Akron Wonder Bread bakery and laid off 100.
And in January of this year, it fell back into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Hostess announced Friday morning it would liquidate after it failed to reach an agreement with its striking union workers. The company said it would look to sell its assets, which it expects to garner interest, as soon as the liquidation gets bankruptcy court approval. It shut down its website around 9 a.m. Friday morning and CEO Greg Rayburn told CNBC the company is “hopeful” it can sell the brands.
Evan Weese covers funding and capital for Columbus Business First.
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Despite having been in production for less than a month, the 2011 Jeep® Grand Cherokee has already received a Top Safety Pick award by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the highest rating.
The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee joins the 2010 Dodge Journey, 2010 Dodge Avenger*, 2010 Chrysler Sebring*, and the 2010 Jeep® Patriot (equipped with available seat mounted air bag) as 2010 Top Safety Picks, according to IIHS.
IIHS president Adrian Lund said, “…buyers of the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee are getting state-of-the-art safety for the best protection in the most common kinds of crashes, and electronic stability control, which our research shows can help prevent crashes altogether.”
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Five times would not the charm for the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite, both of which snapped a four-week winning streak, ending lower on a weekly basis for the first time in almost a month. The market responded not only to a rise in Treasury yields, but also the likelihood that the hawkish stance the Federal Reserve has adopted to combat rising inflation might be here to stay.
While the prospect of “peak inflation” remains a possibility, there has been no indication — at least from Fed policy makers — of any plans to remove the foot off the rate hike gas pedal. And this sentiment sent a blow to market on Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 292.30 points, or 0.86%, to end Friday’s session at 33,706.74. The S&P 500 gave up 55.26 points, or 1.29%, to finish at 4,228.48. Of the eleven S&P sectors, only six closed higher for the week, lead by Consumer Staples as the top gainer, while the Communication Services was the worst performer.
The tech heavy Nasdaq Composite, which has been a strong out-performer during the recovery, declined 260.13 points, or 2%, to end at 12,705.22. For the week, the Nasdaq took more of the punishment, falling 2.6%, while the S&P 500 fell 1.2%. The Dow slipped just 0.2%. This marks the largest weekly decline for each of the major benchmarks in almost six weeks. Some analysts have been questioning the length of the rally from the May lows, wondering when will the inevitable would pullback occur.
While the earnings from the S&P 500 companies have been better than expected, and injecting optimism into the market, valuations have gotten somewhat stretched in the process. While stocks are still off their peaks, expected earnings have also been slashed. As such, some pundits have argued that the “risk-reward” had gotten less favorable, especially after the S&P 500 index had broken above a resistance level of 4,231, which has been closely watched as a metric that affirms the bottom was reached.
Now the attention has turned to the Federal Reserve, which meets in September, and investors are wondering what actions they plan to take. I warned last week that it was premature to raise the “all clear” flag. The market’s penchant for knee-jerk reactions was the premise for that warning. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see stocks, namely the S&P 500, trade in a tight range of 100 to 150 points in the next two months until there is clearer direction of the impact of Fed decisions. Until then, here are the earnings I’ll be watching this week.
Zoom Video (ZM) - Reports after the close, Monday, Aug. 22
Wall Street expects Zoom to earn 93 cents per share on revenue of $1.12 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to $1.36 per share on revenue of $1.02 million.
What to watch: Shares of Zoom might have moved impressively, rising almost 45% higher from its 52-week low in mid-May. But currently trading at around $100, the video conferencing specialist still has ways to go to regain its all-time high level of almost $600. And due to increased competition from Microsoft (MSFT), Zoom might not ever reach that level. Last week analyst Tyler Radke from Citigroup downgraded the stock to Sell from Neutral, citing "new hurdles to sustaining growth.” Radke noted that Zoom’s growth has always been more challenging. Adding, "although new SKUs such as Phone are promising, we believe increasing churn in [small and medium business]/online, and rising competition in enterprise will more than offset new product strength and drive estimates below consensus.” That said, Zoom’s valuation remains appealing given that the company continues to generate strong free cash flow. MKM Partners analyst Catharine Trebnick initiated coverage of the company with a Buy rating due to several "key catalysts" in the months ahead. Trebnick who has a $135 price target on the stock, noted that the slower growth outlook has "created more attractive entry points for investors." To reverse the stock’s bearish trend, in addition to growth re-acceleration, Zoom on Monday will have to issue strong revenue and earnings forecast.
Salesforce (CRM) - Reports after the close, Wednesday, Aug. 24
Wall Street expects Salesforce to earn $1.03 per share on revenue of $7.7 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter earnings of $1.48 per share on revenue of $6.34 billion.
What to watch: Wall Street analysts have reversed the pessimism that has hurt Salesforce stock heading into its earnings report. Down nearly 26% year to date, and nearly 40% from highs above $300 last November, Salesforce has been impacted by the re-pricing of tech stocks amid the recent correction. This is even though the company hasn't shown it felt any adverse impact from the macro conditions. Not only has its quarterly revenue growth maintained a growth pace in the mid-20s, Salesforce has grown its CRM market share during the downtrend. The the first quarter, the company revenue grew 24% year over year, easily surpassing the 19% growth rate analysts expected. Heading into this quarter, investors should expect another strong beat. Analyst Brian White of Monness, Crespi, Hardt has a Buy rating and a $225 price target on Salesforce, expecting 20% upside. Salesforce is "uniquely positioned" to capitalize on the digital transformation trend that so many companies are undergoing,” White noted. The analyst highlighted that, although expected revenue growth could slow in the quarter to $7.69 billion, it would still reflect a 4% sequentially increase. The company’s SaaS business model and its customer relationship management continues to be industry standard. But on Wednesday investors will focus on Salesforce’s billings and booking metrics to assess whether the strength of the business in the quarters ahead.
Nvidia (NVDA) - Reports after the close, Wednesday, Aug. 24
Wall Street expects Nvidia to earn 49 cents per share on revenue of $6.7 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to $1.04 per share on revenue of $6.51 billion.
What to watch: Driven by prolonged supply chain headwinds, semiconductor stocks have struggled for most of the year. Although Nvidia has been broadly considered the best of the bunch, the company’s weak outlook has put a damper on its growth expectations, causing a 10% plunge in the stock after it warned of disappointing Q2 gaming revenue. Surprisingly, the company’s revenue projection were not only below street expectations, but it suggests little-to-no growth at all. While this might represent a solid buying opportunity for the stock, there’s still the question of when will it bottom out. Analyst Tristan Gerra of Baird who rates the stock as Neutral with a $150 price target, does not expect an immediate recovery. "While the sharp and below-expectation slowdown in data center revenue in the quarter was due to supply chain disruptions, according to Nvidia, we model slowing [year-over-year] and [quarter-over-quarter] comps ahead," Gerra wrote in a note to clients. The entire chip industry has also suffered a decline in average selling prices, which analysts believe will impact the company’s gaming revenue and datacenter revenue. To reverse the stock's decline the company on Wednesday will need to talk positively about its growth prospects for the next quarter and beyond.
Peloton (PTON) - Reports before the open, Thursday, Aug. 25
Wall Street expects Peloton to lose 77 cents per share on revenue of $682.94 million. This compares to the year-ago quarter when the loss was 56 cents per share on revenue of $936.9 million.
What to watch: Peloton stock has spun out of control for some time. The exercise machine specialist has been hurt from a combination of factors. Aside from waning consumer demand, the brand has also been hurt from some negative headlines. But the company is taking steps to firm up its business, including experimenting with "Fitness as a Service," which it hopes can get more people excited about the product, as well as price increases on select items such as the Bike+ and Tread products to boost its profit margins. Analyst Ronald Josey at Citigroup has applauded these moves, saying "While it remains early in Peloton’s turnaround, given continued strong engagement levels and its evolving go-to-market approach, we believe the service can build out its subscriber base.” Josey reiterated a Buy rating on Peloton’s with a price target of $28, expecting Peloton’s new strategy can lead to expanding gross margins and free cash flow. With reset expectations, on Thursday investors will want to hear how the company plans to deliver revenue and profit growth in the quarters ahead.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.


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GAME locations will be holding midnight Switch launch
Posted on February 16, 2017 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch
Various retailers around the world are planning a midnight launch for Switch. Among these is GAME, a store based in the UK.
Well over 200 GAME locations will be open to sell Switch units as soon as March 3 rings in. The full listing of participating stores is located here.


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Occupy Sacramento protestors took advantage of Black Friday activities today to spread the word about "shopping small."
About 35 protestors marched from Macy's in Downtown Plaza to Old Sacramento with a message for shoppers.
LANEY: "To inform them that we would prefer that they shop locally, and support the local economy, and not to use their credit cards which benefits the banks."
Sean Laney was one of the protestors. None were arrested at today's action.
Occupy Sacramento has an unlikely ally for the shopping local cause.
Credit card giant American Express is backing a nationwide push for Small Business Saturday.
The Occupy Sacramento movement says they're not working with American Express, and in fact they urge people not to use credit cards.
A number of downtown Sacramento businesses are participating tomorrow in Small Business Saturday and are advertising sales on Facebook.


text: Sochi Russia winter games are to be held in 2014. The Olympic event will give the city global exposure. Massive amounts of contracts have been awarded for new facilities and a new hwy leading to the ski hill. It is reported to be the most expensive hwy ever built. Sochi has been a popular holiday retreat for Russians and Europeans. Visit Sochi Russia Winter Games for more information.


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JD.com operates an online platform that facilitates online purchases and delivery of products to clients. Lui Qiangdong founded the company in 1998, and the company has continued to expand and achieve growth, as reflected in its financial performance. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic created lockdowns and movement restrictions. As a result, the demand for online purchases skyrocketed. The company leveraged this opportunity by enhancing the provision of its services and added its product catalogue. During this period, the business supplied almost all items, including groceries, electrical, and luxurious goods, making the business register a thirty-nine per cent increase in sales to 2031.2 billion yuan. The company’s net income also rose by 2.5 billion yuan.
The employees are the greatest asset that drives business success. Although the company realized improved profit, the business can achieve better sales when employees are committed to achieving the organizational goals and objectives. Therefore, the JD management has offered to review employee’s salaries to motivate them further. The company announced a salaries review in its We Chat account, proposing a fourteen percent base pay increase. The increase would benefit all the JD’s employees, who totaled 370,000 after the company absorbed about 100,000 employees to cater to increased demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company hopes that by July 2021, all its employees will benefit from the new salaries.
JD’s move to review employee’s salaries attracted mixed reactions across Chinese social media platforms. Most users were bewildered by the company move to implement salary increase across all employees serving in different grades. Implementing an equal pay rise among various company professionals meant that the delivery driver, sales personnel, IT team, logistic personnel, and HR manager would receive a similar percentage increase in their salaries. The move was in contrast with what many e-commerce organizations had implemented on their firms. Additional, economists had projected that average wages in China had grown by 4.3 per cent in 2020. During the first quarter of 2021, the growth had accelerated to 12.4% per cent and offering employees an increase of fourteen per cent; people considered it a ridiculous and challenging move that would have financial implication on the firm.
People across social media platforms were astonished at how the JD had successfully leveraged through its difficulties. Two years ago, the company was wading through financial hurdles, and the CEO had announced various measures to keep the company afloat and profitable. The CEO had devised a strategy that allowed drivers to receive payment based on their productivity. JD.com HR evaluated drivers productivity based on the number of delivery and used this figure as the principal metric in determining their pay. Besides, a college student had accused Liu of rape, which did not resonate well with the company’s customers. The accusation and his detainment at Minneapolis had affected the company reputation and caused a significant decrease in the company’s sales.
JD.com had successfully waded through these challenges, and the company had posted a massive profit by the year ended 2020. The management now believed by revising employees’ salaries, the company would emerge even more potent. Liu also sought to further strengthen the company financial position by initiating an initial public offering. The move would enable the general public to acquire shares with the company; thus, playing a role in its management and operations. The move would also allow the firm to fulfil the Chinese government regulation and avoid increased incidences that have resulted in the government crackdown on the Big Tech industries.


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Same-store sales globally at McDonald’s increased at a bigger than expected rate of 2.4% during November, as the largest fast food group in the world succeeded in reversing its decline that was reported in early November for October.
Analysts had expected just a 0.16% increase globally at restaurants in the chain that had been open for a minimum of 13 months.
CEO Don Thompson said the company was strengthening its focus on the priorities globally that have the most impact on customers through optimization of the menu, modernizing the experience enjoyed by customers and broadening the brand accessibility in order to move the business ahead amidst the current competitive and economic challenges.
However, last month the Big Mac giant reported its monthly sales had dropped, the first time that happened in nine years. Those results surprised many investors who had been expecting weakness in Asia and Europe but were off guard due to the decline in same store sales in the U.S.
The decline was blamed on the weak economy by McDonald’s and its heightened competition that has been offering savings coupons. Since then it has promoted its $1 items more. It also replaced the president for its business in the U.S.
Sales system wide for McDonald’s were up 4.8% for November. In the U.S., same store sales were up 1.4%. The company noted that strong results in Russia, the UK and other areas were partially offset by a weak month in Germany.


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Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun to resign citing 'unprecedented crisis'
Kwon Oh-hyun, Samsung Electronics' CEO, vice chairman, and the head of its hugely successful components business, has announced his resignation. He will step down from the CEO role, as well as his positions on the board and as CEO of Samsung …
Samsung Electronics on track for record third-quarter as chips soarReuters
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Domino's GPS-powered pizza tracking is available in many more places
The company says approximately a quarter of its stores will have the tech in place by the end of 2019.
Opera's latest browser update will show you how much you're being tracked
Seeing that info could help you avoid sketchy sites.
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Some things don't need to stay in your location or search history.
Firefox update adds detailed tracking reports and password tools
A new dashboards shows exactly how many cookies Firefox blocks in a day.
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"Tag your everyday items... and never lose them again."
Intel will use multi-camera, 3D athlete tracking in the 2020 Olympics
The tech will allow data overlays during 100-meter sprint replays.
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Alamo City travelers double the demand for local vacation rentals, says report
Airbnb guests are flocking to San Antonio in bigger numbers than Air Force recruits flock to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland for basic training.
A new report from Guesty, a provider of software for management of short-term rentals, says the number of summertime bookings for vacation rentals in San Antonio is up 133 percent compared with the same period last year (June 1-August 31).
San Antonio ranked fourth for the uptick in summertime rental bookings in major U.S. cities, preceded by Philadelphia (294 percent), Chicago (283 percent), and Phoenix (223 percent), Guesty says.
Dallas (82 percent), Austin, (71 percent), and Houston (45 percent) also are experiencing a rise this summer in the number of travelers seeking vacation rentals compared with last summer.
Rental reservations in 2021 will generally cost 30 percent more in the U.S. compared with last year and 28 percent more compared with 2019, Guesty says.
“The increase in pricing is no surprise, considering pent-up demand [for] travel and the widespread lifting of restrictions,” the software company says.
A survey earlier this year by professional services firm Deloitte found 40 percent of Americans were planning to take a vacation between Memorial Day and the end of September. Thirty-four percent of those travelers indicated they were heading to the beach, while 27 percent were plotting big-city stays.
A majority of summer travelers (85 percent) in the Deloitte survey said they would stay in a hotel, compared with 23 percent who were opting for a private rental. More than one-fourth (28 percent) of rental travelers stayed at a private rental for the first time during the pandemic or plan to this summer.
“The pent-up demand for travel, coupled with the flexibility of remote working options, will drive more Americans to hotels and private rentals this summer as an escape from the everyday,” says Ramya Murali, a principal in Deloitte’s consulting practice.


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Registrar cashed out earlier than market turmoil hit.
Like many belongings, the worth of bitcoin fell precipitously in latest weeks. The worth of a bitcoin has fallen in about half.
One area title firm had the great fortune of promoting a cache of bitcoin earlier than the market tumbled: NameSilo (OTC: URLOF) offered over 84 bitcoin at USD $9,957.15 every on February 19. That gave it gross proceeds of USD $839,000.
At Friday’s value, it will have solely been value about $440,000.
The corporate collected the bitcoin as funds from its area title registrar clients. Within the earlier days of cryptocurrencies, I consider most corporations that accepted cryptocurrency for cost instantly transformed them into money to dump the danger of value adjustments. That’s clearly not the case with NameSilo.


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Dietary crazes that elevate ingredients such as kale and quinoa to ‘mythical status’ are responsible for a misleading health food culture that can be so stressful it’s actually counterproductive, a leading nutrition professor has warned.
In a passionate diatribe, King’s College London Professor Kevin Whelan says the never-ending line of new specialist diets has a tendency to give certain ‘super foods’ a reputation that they don’t deserve – and can even inadvertently prevent people without much money from getting the nutrition they need.
Whatever happened to a nice family meal?
If that wasn’t enough, strict diets can spoil family meals or time with friends as the cook sometimes has to cater for several specialist diets, he says.
“It’s not a very exciting thing to say – but a good diet is not coconut oil, or the Atkins diet or the paleo diet. A good diet is eating a wide range of fruit and veg, whole grain cereals and healthy fats ,” said Professor Whelan.
The Atkins diet is low on carbohydrates and high on protein, while paleo cuisine revolves around ingredient presumed to have been available during the Paleolithic era. This includes fruit, veg, nuts and meat but not dairy, grains, sugar and alcohol.
“It’s not a very exciting thing to say – but a good diet is not coconut oil, or the Atkins diet or the paleo diet,”
“What is it about nutrition. People either want something that is two millenia old that the Chinese used to do or they want something which has just been developed and is hot off the shelf,” said Professor Whelan.
“In truth, there’s very little difference between kale and spinach or kale and brussel sprouts. Nor is there much difference between quinoa and cous-cous. Yet for some reason they’ve taken on mythical nutritional properties,” he said.
This concerns him, in part, because he worries that, in some cases, a diet of kale and quinoa may wrongly make people think it’s ok to smoke, eat burgers and do little exercise the rest of the time.
Social justice concerns
But there is also a ‘social justice’ element.
“There is something really very, very challenging to me about saying that to have a healthy diet you need to eat organic, paleo, food from health food stores. You don’t. You can buy your brussels sprouts and tomatoes from a market store or Aldi or Lidl and, that can be really really good health,” he said.
“Those messages aren’t being heard because being they’re been completely clouded out by high proteins, by Atkins, by paleo and by these other messages,” Prof Whelan said.


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Daraa Governorate Also is Affected by Chicken Price Increase
In the markets of Daraa governorate, the prices of chicken are rocketing, reaching the double in the past few days, triggered by the material’s scarcity for reasons topped with the rising cost of production and climate-related factors, during winter, which resulted in the farmers’ massive losses.
The phenomenon is not limited to Daraa governorate, as it is witnessed in the rest of the Syrian provinces, according to the Syrian regime’s media outlets, including Tishreen newspaper, which quoted the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Protection on March 10, that the rise amounted to 35%, where a chicken meat’s kilogram is being sold for 2300 Syrian pounds.
Jamal Shuaib, the Assistant Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Protection, told the newspaper the following: “We ordered that the directors of supply departments examine the status of the new prices, because the decrease in the chicken prices is not in Damascus alone, but in all the governorates.”
Rising Production Costs
In winter, raising chicken batches requires heating means, but the increase in the fuel (diesel) prices is boosting the costs of the production process because the farmers have to provide heating around the clock.
Mahmoud, a 33-year-old owner of a slaughterhouse, told Enab Baladi that the rise in the chicken meat prices in the governorate has to do with its scarcity in the market because chicks were not being raised in the winter.
He added that the losses that affected the poultry farmers last year triggered them not to raise chicks in the past three months, December, November and February, explaining that “poultry farms need heating, which is costly, particularly in the shadow of the increase in the prices of fuel, for the price of a single liter of diesel in the winter amounted to 500 Syrian pounds. […] Winter is the season of diseases, where poultry develop flue and demand highly expensive medicines.”
The slaughterhouse owner’s statements correspond to the findings of the tour that the Tishreen newspaper conducted, visiting several chicken meat shops in the al-Jazmatiya market in al-Midan, Damascus, for the owners of these shops said that “the price increase is due to the death of a massive number of chickens because of cold and lacking heating means as a result of the scarcity of fuel and many farmer’s dependence on coal for heating the chickens, which did not really meet the need.”
This is in addition to the increase of the costs of raising chicken and the high prices of fodder, which led to the closing down of 17 poultry houses in rural Damascus, while many of the farmers have stopped selling chickens until the currently being raised chicks are grown, turning into chickens, and ready for sale.
Price Increase Affects Demand
The sudden increase in the prices of chicken from 650 to 1000 Syrian pounds in Daraa, led to the people’s abstinence from buying this commodity, according to Mahmoud, the slaughterhouse owner, adding that the sales rates, compared to the previous months, have markedly decreased, “for the people are barely buying pieces of chicken meat, let alone buying a whole chicken.”
Abu Salim, a 57-year-old man, told Enab Baladi that the increase in the chicken meat prices promises the citizens additional burdens, especially with the increases in the prices of other materials needed every day, on top of which is fuel.
Abu Salim added that “earlier on, I used to buy a chicken, weighing 2 kilograms, for 1300 Syrian pounds, but today to buy a chicken of the same weight, I have to pay 1800 Syrian pounds.”
According to Abu Salim, the soaring prices were not only limited to raw chicken, as it also affected the prices of roasted chicken, for the price of a single roasted chicken amounted to 2800 Syrian pounds, while the price of a single Shawarma sandwich varied between 350 and 500 Syrian pounds.
The increase in the prices of chicken in the various Syrian governorates cannot only be attributed to the losses that befell the farmers in the past three months due to weather conditions and the rising costs of production, for the affair also relates to the latest steps undertaken by the government of the Syrian regime, which provided for regulating and preventing the entry of smuggled Turkish chicken into the markets.
On March 12, al-Watan newspaper, close to the regime, quoted the Assistant Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Protection Jamal Eddin Shuaib, as saying: “The Directorates of Domestic Trade in the governorates, in cooperation with the General Customs Administration, have intensified their patrols in the markets, until they prevented the entry of smuggled Turkish chickens almost completely.
It is worth mentioning that on the Syrian markets the smuggled Turkish chicken meat was being sold for prices less that of the local chicken meat.
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Discover the Rising Stars №012 | Interviews TensorChip Vice President Shang Huibin
Alibaba Cloud Innovation Center has introduced a new column, Discover the Rising Stars, to shed light on the backgrounds of entrepreneurs and company innovations. Through interviews, live streams, and other media approaches, we will deliver valuable news stories from multiple perspectives and dimensions, to offer you the real voices of entrepreneurs and to witness the power of technological innovations.
China’s AI chip industry is still in its infancy, but with the development of AI technology there is a large potential market for AI chips capable of meeting the demands of AI applications. The sixteenth episode of Discover the Rising Stars interviews Shang Huibin, Vice President of TensorChip, which won the Emerging Talent Award at the China’s 5G Industry Innovation Entrepreneurship Contest’s national finale, about TensorChip’s innovations in AI chip technology.
Tapping the Potential of China’s AI Chip Industry
TensorChip was founded in 2019 on the principle of “Algorithm — Chip — Memory-computing Coordination” to provide enterprises with “AI + Business Algorithm” chips and solutions.
In 2020 the global AI chip market was valued at over US$ 10.1 billion, and according to projections by Jazzyear, China’s domestic AI chip market value could reach CNY 55.7 billion by 2023. With the arrival of super data centers, the popularization of AI applications, and the development of cloud — edge — end user integration, China’s AI chip enterprises have strong market potential.
“AI technology is currently trending, but computing power depends on chips, and domestic chip utilization has much room for improvement,” Shang Huibin said.
“Right now there are three different development models for the domestic chip industry. The first is to make GPU products like NVIDA (the inventor of the graphics processing unit or GPU) as a domestic alternative. But because the market is dominated by monopolies and because it’s hard to keep up with NVIDA in terms of functionality and processing power, this route is difficult. The second is support or accelerate common operators extracted from mainstream algorithms. But chips made for old operators aren’t compatible with the new operators. The third is our approach, that is, we took into consideration the disadvantages of the previous two models and developed the reconfigurable memory-computing AI chip.” Shang Huibin told us.
As a core technological innovation in China’s chip industry, TensorChip’s memory-computing technology and reconfigurable technology help overcome GPU industry barriers and the homogenous competition within big data AI.
China’s Leading Digital Memory-Computing and Reconfigurable Technology Chips
Using advanced reconfigurable memory-computing chips and technology, TensorChip’s chips have all the power and GPU flexibility of ASIC chips, while also having a higher price-performance ratio. With reconfigurable technology, algorithms can be upgraded while keeping costs down; while memory-computing architecture increases computing power and decreases latency, making it perfect for 5G and other low-latency AI computing tasks. Reconfigurable memory-computing processor (RMUs) bring together the flexibility of reconfigurable architecture with the power of memory-computing technology.
TensorChip Currently Has Three Core Products
The first is CloudCard, an AI Inference Calculation Card, which uses advanced memory-computing architecture with deep optimization of the memory wall and compile wall for stronger and more efficient large-model support. Its RMU chip uses hot hard compression, and the design of its high resolution processing components gives it an energy efficiency ratio of 15.2TOPS / W, or 10–15 times that of a traditional GPU, with flexible operator variable capability and high compatibility with deep-learning deployment environments.
The second is EdgeChip, which offers cost effective and low power-consumption AI inference, providing powerful computing support for all kinds of edge computing. It supports flexible algorithm deployment for edge computing and custom operators from clients, providing innovation for multi-mode and multi-scene edge computing.
The third is an AI Acceleration SDK, which provides one-stop deployment for hardware engineers with 3–500 times typical AI performance and friendly compatibility for open source ecologies. It supports ARM / RISC-V / X86 platforms and smooth migrations to clients’ own algorithms. TensorChip’s products are widely applicable in cloud computing, self-driving vehicles, smart security and other fields, and provide integrated chip computing services to help customers integrate their own algorithms and platforms for efficient large scale production.
TensorChip’s products have numerous advantages. For example, using the AI accelerator pack (tinyAI SDK) to deploy RISC-V core AIoT applications has been found to be 11.01 times faster than other AI algorithms for Nuclei UX 600 AI applications. These clear advantages led Nuclei to choose tinyAI as first SDK to support UX600 graphics AI computing and acceleration. The tinyAI SDK incorporates AI model pruning and customization, and is optimized for RISC-V core storage and architecture. TinyAI not only makes AI computing easier on RISC-V on-device platforms, it also greatly improves AI algorithm performance, and helps make on-device AI a reality.
Expert Technology Team Tapping the Boundless Potential of AI
TensorChip’s core team come from AMD, Renesas Semiconductor, MediaTek, Yangtze Memory Technology Corp., and other international leading companies, and have years of experience in the chip and hardware acceleration industries.
Co-founder Dr. Chen Wei has a B.A. and M.A. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is an expert in memory-computing AI chips with over 50 patents in the field, while Shang Huibin worked for 12 years in the artificial intelligence and chip industries. TensorChip’s core team not only has academic training, but rich industry experience.
When asked about the challenges TensorChip is currently facing, Shang said that “AI computing takes place mostly in the virtual world of the cloud, but there are many application scenarios for AI in everyday life, as well as in edge environments where there are privacy concerns; and these kinds of needs can’t be met with traditional products.” But these difficulties also put Shang in mind of AI’s limitless potential, the privacy and security of intelligent user terminals, and the huge storage and data analysis capabilities of the cloud. He looks forward to the evolution of intelligent machines and the internet of things.
Currently TensorChip is engaged in AI cloud computing product prototyping and testing, and is working with its partners on internet, industrial intelligence, autonomous vehicle related projects. The success of TensorChip’s RMU is a sign of the rapid development of China’s chip industry, which is driven by high technology and patents. By finding practical development scenarios for advanced technology, China’s chip industry will continue gaining in strength, which is not only good for the industry, but for China’s efforts to become a high technology leader.
Deep Ties with Alibaba Cloud, Competition Success Allows a Better Understanding of Future Needs
TensorChip’s advanced AI chip technology has brought the company remarkable success in industry competitions. In 2020 at the 3rd China IC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition the company won second prize in the Angel Category, and was the only chip company among the four finalists at the 2020 Audi Digital Sales Innovation Contest. In 2021 TensorChip won the Emerging Talent Award at the China’s 5G Industry Innovation Entrepreneurship Contest’s national finale hosted by Alibaba.
Asked about the relationship with Alibaba, Shang said, “Last year we partnered with T-Head to work on artificial intelligence, and this year we participated in intensive accelerators in Shenzhen and Hangzhou sponsored by Alibaba. In addition the 5G industry competition has helped investors understand our projects and has helped us understand future customer needs. During the competition the committee provided very helpful advice for companies in the startup stage. Alibaba Cloud’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center has also been very helpful. As TensorChip grows, we hope we can continue working with Alibaba.”
In 2021, TensorChip has attracted millions of investment in its AI computing reconfigurable architecture chips, and Shang Huibin says that the company will continue researching core technologies, and will follow Chinese industry trends in using technology to create social value.


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1. Steve Hatch, regional director, northern Europe, Facebook
The self-effacing, thoughtful head of Facebook’s booming sales operation has been an inspirational leader and communicator for the UK sales team, which could overtake Channel 4 and Sky by ad revenue next year. The former MEC UK chief executive’s efforts won him a promotion to an expanded role including the Nordics this autumn. With a non-executive directorship of Trinity Mirror, Hatch knows that Facebook’s dominance has raised alarm and is anything but complacent about the challenges ahead.
2. Kelly Williams, managing director, commercial, ITV
The boss of Britain’s biggest TV sales house has raised ITV’s game. "Suzuki Saturdays" with Ant & Dec was an innovative use of talent and intellectual property; there was creative ambition with the Queen’s 90th birthday ad-break takeover and the switch-off of ITV’s channels for "I am Team GB"; and the ITV upfronts gala was another success. The reward for Williams and deputy Simon Daglish was Media Week Sales Team of the Year. Williams has also been a champion of TV and queried what he calls the "truthiness" of online metrics.
3. James Wildman, chief revenue officer, Trinity Mirror
Trinity’s sales chief had a good year in a bad market. Wildman showed leadership with his push for joint newspaper ad sales, bedded down the Local World acquisition, kept up the fight against printism and invested in sponsorship to back the ad industry. The New Day flopped and ad sales have been tough, but it says a lot about Wildman’s charms that agency say confess they find it hard to say no to this relentlessly upbeat salesman. Oh, and Trinity won News Brands Sales Team of the Year at the Campaign Media Awards.
4. Jonathan Allan, sales director, Channel 4
"JA" is a showman who flew on to the stage attached to a zipwire at his upfronts and did his Rio-themed presentation for Media Week Sales Team of the Year in beach shorts. He kept up Channel 4’s reputation for innovation with an airtime giveaway that led to the Maltesers ads during the Paralympics, the launch of interactive spots and a commitment to diversity in his own blokey team. He also retained the BT Sport sales deal after marathon talks. Some wonder if Allan hankers after a new job.
5. John Litster, managing director, Sky Media
Litster’s operation had to make savings in 2016 with a move from Victoria to Osterley, as Sky felt the pressure on TV subscriptions and Premier League costs. Renewing Discovery’s contract took months, and Viacom’s Channel 5 looked to have done well out of the first year of its Sky deal. But Litster is a savvy operator who has had his eye on the bigger picture as addressable TV ads and international sales gain traction – even before Fox made a bid for Sky in December.
6. Mike Gordon, chief commercial officer, Global
Gordon’s commercial operation has been growing rapidly beyond spot radio – most notably with creative solutions and programmatic on the Dax platform. But the ex-News International executive may be most excited about Global’s push into live music after acquiring a series of festivals. He knows how to throw a party after years of hosting Capital’s Jingle Bell and Summertime Balls.
7. Karen Stacey, chief executive, Digital Cinema Media
Cinema couldn’t ask for a more enthusiastic cheerleader than Stacey – whether it’s hosting the DCM Cinema Awards at Ham Yard Hotel or championing ROI at its upfronts at Bafta. The former Bauer Media radio executive has seen her revenues surge 14% in the first nine months of the year – growth that other "legacy" media owners can only dream about.
8. Matt Bush and Peter Cory, agency sales directors, Google
This cheerful double act stepped up to be joint heads of the UK agency sales team in the spring, taking over from Mark Howe. They have an open, positive approach that should serve Google well, after a tricky year when its offshore ad sales structure came under fire from MPs. Mobile search is the growth driver for the frontmen of Britain’s biggest media owner.
9. Jason Cotterrell, UK managing director, Exterion Media
His team may have looked like a racing certainty to win Transport for London’s expanded Tube contract but no-one thought Europe’s biggest outdoor ad sales deal was a "gimme" for the incumbent. Cotterrell, a 20-year Exterion veteran, won the fiercest of pitches against JCDecaux with a promise to upgrade the TfL estate and is now focusing on a demanding, long-term sales target of £300m a year.
10. Dominic Carter, chief commercial officer, News UK
His boss, Rebekah Brooks, says "we must offer different things" to advertisers, and Carter’s task has been to deliver. He relaunched the commercial arm as The Bridge, rebooted the newly free Sun website and revived Luxx for luxury brands in The Times, plus there was the acquisition of talkSPORT owner Wireless Group. No-one thinks it has been easy, even for canny Carter, in this tough market.


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InfoSAWIT, NEW DELHI – Minister of Trade Indonesian Republic, Zulkifli Hasan emphasized, India is one of crude palm oil (CPO) export country from Indoensia. He took CPO exporter to be ready and anticipate the increasing demands from India particularly heading to Deepavali a religious day every 24 October.
Zulkifli Hasan told that in Indonesia–India Roundtable Business Engagement which was running on Monday (22/8/2022) in New Delhi, India. It was part of trade mission of Ministry of Trade to India which he himself led it. The trade mission was joined by 10 companies from Indonesia that run CPO, pulp and paper, furniture, coal, and plastic tools.
The Ambassador of Indonesia for India, Bhutan Ina Hagniningtyas Khrisnamurthi and General Director of National Export Development, Didi Sumedi.
“India is the first country I visit in the trade mission. Besides as the strategic partner, India is the biggest CPO consumer from Indonesia. and to anticipate the increasing demands heading to Deepavali on 24 October 2022,” he said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, recently.
Zulkifli Hasan also told, CPO plays significant contribution to the economy in Indonesia namely in the employment and poverty alleviation for sixteen million smallholders and workers in palm oil sector. CPO does play important roles for many kinds of industries, such as, cosmetics, housing, foods, and drinks.
“Indonesia as the main CPO producer in the world, and India as once biggest CPO consumer in the world, there should be cooperation to develop trust in trade and investment to develop CPO and its derivative industries. CPO product from Indonesia has guarantee of sustainability and safe for health,” Hasan said.
Prior on Friday (19/8/2022), Zulkifli Hasan did bilateral meeting with Minister of Trade and Industry India, Piyush Goyal. It discussed the way to make bilateral relationship better.
“We came to a conclusion that the two big countries ‘the powerhouse of Asia’ and the members of G20 would cooperate to welfare the people. I chose India as the first visit in abroad as Minister of Trade to lead the business trade mission,” he said. (T2)


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The holiday season is about giving – but there are many children who need more than just toys.
Actress Marlo Thomas has been devoted to helping children through her work with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and this year, Food Network star Sandra Lee is pitching in, too.
“After I visited St. Jude in Memphis, I wrote a column about them in my magazine,” Lee said. “And I really got into the detail on how the hospital works, and how the families are treated, and how the kids are treated – and what it must be like to go through that.”
When Lee’s line launched at K-Mart, the company asked her to help them come up with a new ornament for St. Jude’s, which has partnered with 60 retail companies to kick off its annual “Thanks and Giving” campaign this past November.
To date, these efforts have raised more than $312 million. And, that money helps in a big way.
“The donations mean greater health care because St. Jude (doesn’t) charge you, even if you don’t have insurance,” said Nakesia Shephard, whose 11-year-old son, Keshaun, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2011. “We had no health insurance, (but) they didn’t turn us away, and we’re so grateful for that.”
Keshaun is now in remission and feeling great, he told FoxNews.com.
Lee sent the Shepards on a shopping spree at a New York City K-Mart. They will bring gifts back to sick kids at St. Jude’s.
“I can’t wait to get back and see the joy on the kid’s faces when they see the great gifts,” Shepard said.
They will bring gifts back to sick kids at St. Jude’s.
Keshaun even agreed to dress up as Santa Claus when they hand out the presents, which he thinks will be “pretty fun.”
If you want to get involved, look for the St. Jude logo when you are shopping. Then, you can make a donation at the store’s register or purchase special items, like the St. Jude bear ornament ($5).
You can also make a donation by visiting StJude.org
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This Pensacola coffee kiosk serves caffeine flights and they're all the buzz downtown
Pensacola is buzzing about a new coffee kiosk downtown that serves you your morning pick-me-up in a fun and unique way that's new to the area.
The business is Buzzed Brew Coffee and that concept that people can't stop talking about is caffeine flights.
"People can come in and build their own, they can mix and match different coffees, different lotus," Buzzed Brew owner Crystal Millard said Thursday. "...The possibilities are pretty endless."
The aesthetically pleasing presentation and shareable nature of a beverage flight is mostly synonymous with craft breweries. But Millard has applied that concept to her coffee menu, and she said the early returns have been great.
"It's been amazing," she said. "I announced that they would be available late Thursday, and by Friday I had people coming in getting them. Saturday was just a crazy long line in here."
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Just this summer Buzzed Brew locked down a kiosk at the new downtown outdoor dining hall that is The Garden at Palafox + Main. Millard came from Washington state and the Pacific Northwest — a region that's fairly familiar with java — in 2018 and launched Buzzed Brew at the start of this year.
Her rise from small, lemonade-style stand in January 2021 to a kiosk in one of downtown's hottest hubs for food and drink was only elevated by the introduction of the caffeine flights. The options are the "Top Sellers" for $10 and a "Build Your Own" for $12.
The "Top Sellers" includes Buzzed Brew's Palafox Cold Brew, the Barrancas Latte, the White Sands Latte and the Gulf Coast Sunrise Lotus. The latter is a light, cool mixture of guava and peach with pink lotus and orange juice. The White Sands is a white coffee, which in and of itself has been a talker among Millard's customers for its local scarcity.
"It's roasted different than traditional coffee," Millard said, of white coffee. "It's roasted for less time at a lower temperature so it has a completely different color, a different taste. It holds onto more caffeine as well during the roasting process. When people drink it they say, 'Oh, it feels like I'm drinking a milkshake.' Like, it doesn't have that dark coffee flavor."
The mix-and-match flight options allow guests to order secret menu items; all they have to do is inquire.
"You can come in and get a Cinnamon Toast Crunch in your flight, or a Milky Way," Millard said. "We did a 'Baby Yoda' for Pensacon and that was like a pistachio-caramel coffee."
In the week or so since her flights were introduced, Millard said her favorite part of the process occurs when customers bring the wooden flight boards back along with some feedback.
"It's so fun when they come back and I get to say, 'What was your favorite, what did you think?'" Millard said. "And just hearing their response about their favorite or hear them say, 'Wow, I didn't know white coffee existed.' Or, 'the lotus was just so refreshing.' That kind of stuff. So it's been a lot of fun."
Buzzed Brew Coffee is open at The Garden between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. from Thursday through Monday. The kiosk is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for now.
The Garden at Palafox + Main is at 501 S. Palafox St.
Jake Newby can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or 850-435-8538.


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The team at Cyberith has been working hard on its Virtualizer omni-directional treadmill for virtual reality (VR) experiences since raising over $350,000 USD on Kickstarter earlier this year. The company has been keeping fans in the loop with newsletters about the device’s progress since then, and has today confirmed an intriguing piece of information that will bring the kit to other VR head-mounted displays (HMD) alongside the Oculus Rift.
Cyberith has confirmed that it is finalising Bluetooth integration in the Virtualizer, meaning the kit will be able to connect to smartphones. This means that smartphone-based HMDs such as the Durovis Dive and even Samsung’s Gear VR will now be able to work with the device. Crucially, this will allow for unteathered VR experiences on the Virtualizer where the Oculus Rift requires a wired connection to a PC.
“While ideas like the Google Cardboard are fun and will surely give people a glimpse of what’s possible in VR these days, the Samsung Gear VR is an actual VR device with a powerful display and impressive head track that left us stunned after our first try,” the company wrote in its latest newsletter. “We are convinced more mobile VR devices will follow once the GearVR is being released and in order to let you guys choose from all the HMDs available, Bluetooth support is an absolute must.”
Elsewhere the company stressed that it was currently prioritising getting the Virtualizer ready to ship to the first backers in March 2015. There’s still some time to go then, which should mean the company will be able to handle demand. VRFocus will continue to follow the Virtualizer moving forward, reporting back with any further updates.


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Business is looking kind of grim over at Whole Foods Markets. It just released third-quarter results that show its recent over-charging scandal took a bite out of sales. And the latest news about 365, the new and more moderately priced concept it is developing for Millennials, increasingly has observers worried about cannibalization.
For the quarter, the Austin, Tex.-based grocery retailer says total sales rose 8% to $3.6 billion -- a record. But on a comparable-store basis, sales gained just 1.3%, well below analyst expectations.
And while it’s clear that the overcharging scandal -- which New York investigators called one of the worst cases they had ever seen -- hurt results in this past quarter, it seems just as evident that burned consumers are in no hurry to come back to a company that has long struggled to shed its “Whole Paycheck” nickname.
“Whole Foods Markets efforts to overcome its high price perception will now become increasingly difficult given the negative media attention around over-charging, and the process of rebuilding trust with customers could take time and act as a headwind,” writes Karen Short, an analyst who follows the company for Deutsche Bank. “In fact, in the near-term, it may not get credit for any price reductions given its tarnished image.” (She says the company is rating Whole Foods as a “hold” rather than a “sell” based on its strong cash position.)
And Short, who predicts that comparable-sales results may turn negative ahead as a result, also says the plans for the new 365 chain “create more concern than comfort.” In part, that’s because some cannibalization between the 365 and legacy stores is inevitable. But she also questions whether the company can achieve its stated goal of 1,200 Whole Foods stores “if the 365 format gains traction.”
And at Sterne Agee CRT, analyst Charles Grom downgraded Whole Foods to a neutral rating, based on “a higher level of uncertainty about the long-term ramifications of pricing problems,” as well as the expanding organic offerings of Whole Foods’ competitors and the 365 problem. “This wall of uncertainty will likely last beyond the next few quarters, putting the stock into purgatory for the foreseeable future.”
And while Whole Foods has positioned the 365 expansion plan as a strategically offensive move, citing success stories like Nordstrom Rack, Grom isn’t convinced. “It is becoming increasingly clear to us that 365 is more of a defensive concept with no clear pathway to success,” he writes, and “could easily prove unsuccessful given an already crowded space.”


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Auto shoppers have demonstrated a predilection for online research for years, and that behavior is now carrying over into the mobile sphere. A report from Mojiva, a mobile ad network that relied on analysis of its own data, along with a Q1 2012 survey, found that 69% of consumers in the US were interested in researching the purchase or lease of a vehicle using their mobile phone.
And auto consumers are showing some receptiveness to mobile ads that aligned with their shopping needs. Almost half of respondents said they considered deals and offers to be the most valuable information they could receive after clicking on a mobile advertisement. Additionally, one in five said they were interested in clicking on ads to learn about the features of a vehicle, or to watch a video about it. The same percentage of respondents said they valued ads that allowed them to sign up for future deals and offers, or other communications.
Exposure to ads also led a significant number of respondents to direct action. As of March 2012, fully 57% of respondents said they would browse a website as a result of seeing an ad on their phone, while 43% said they would download a mobile app. And 38% said they would request more information after watching a mobile ad.
Because of the high cost of vehicles, along with a great need to “touch and feel” (and test drive) before you buy, it is unlikely that sales conversions will start to take place on mobile devices anytime soon. But mobile campaigns have the potential to shape consumers’ opinions at the early stages of their research process, and push them along the sales funnel. Car Dealers and OEM’s that incorporate mobile into their overall strategy, instead of considering it an afterthought, will benefit from the practice.


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Sanderson Farms stands firm on antibiotic use in poultry
The CEO of US poultry producer, Sanderson Farms, has vowed not to eradicate the use of antibiotics in its poultry rearing practices, in a move which breaks the recent trend of other US companies.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Global Staples Forum, Joe Sanderson, chairman and chief executive officer of the poultry processor Sanderson Farms, said "This is not something that we take lightly, and frankly, after doing our homework, we do not plan to withdraw antibiotics from our program, and there are three main reasons".
Sanderson cited animal welfare as the first reason. Second, Sanderson said ceasing the use of antibiotics does not fit with his company's programs focused on sustainability and environmental responsibility. Finally, Sanderson said ceasing the use of antibiotics would have an effect on his company's food safety efforts.
A main concern voiced by Sanderson was the control of enteritis and he said there is nothing currently available or coming in the future to address the condition. Also he couldn't imagine "having a diagnosis, knowing what's wrong with them and not taking care of them."
"Particularly when there's no evidence whatsoever that using these antibiotics really does cause antibiotic resistant bacteria," he said. "There's no evidence. And even the people that have made the announcements that they were going to stop using antibiotics say there's no evidence that this causes antibiotic resistant bacteria."
Going against the grain
Sanderson's views are opposed to the current movement by other US chicken processors such as Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms who have both announced plans to shift away from the use of antibiotics in poultry production.
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