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|Bid||12.75 x 800|
|Ask||12.80 x 1400|
|Day's Range||12.69 - 13.28|
|52 Week Range||12.09 - 17.59|
|Beta (3Y Monthly)||1.17|
|PE Ratio (TTM)||63.12|
|Earnings Date||Aug 27, 2019|
|Forward Dividend & Yield||0.45 (3.44%)|
|1y Target Est||16.70|
Shares of Apple and Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies were pummeled on Friday as President Trump responded to new tariffs from China with a tweet saying he's demanding that American companies "immediately start looking for an alternative to China."
(Bloomberg) -- HP Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is leaving the company to attend to a family health matter. Enrique Lores, head of the printing business, will take over and is already looking to make changes at the world’s second-largest personal computer maker.Lores, 54, has been working with HP’s board on a "comprehensive global review of the company’s strategy and business operations” over the past year, according to a statement. He will share some of his conclusions and plans on Oct. 3 at a company event."The need for us to keep reinventing is more important than ever," Lores said. "I have great confidence in the direction we’re going to be taking on the company."HP shares fell in after-hours trading on concern HP’s profitable supplies business is still struggling. Toner and cartridge sales have been crimped by third-party suppliers, particularly in China, that sell cheaper alternatives."Clearly printing is under pressure," said Shannon Cross, an analyst at Cross Research. "The question is how much of this is inventory and how much of this in an ongoing secular challenge?"The change in leadership should be seamless and it will help to have a representative from the printer unit running the whole company and making that business a priority, Cross added.HP has been trying to transform itself in the midst of a stagnant PC market and a printer business that faces an uncertain digital future in which offices use less paper. The company has tried to sell more expensive computers and sign up customers for subscriptions.Born in Madrid, Lores is currently head of the the Imaging, Printing and Solutions business. In the latest fiscal quarter, sales from this division fell 5%, including a 7% drop in printer supplies, highlighting the challenges Lores is taking on.HP shares fell 6% in extended trading, after closing at $18.93 in New York. The stock is down about 8% so far this year.Printer supplies revenue was worse than the company expected, Weisler said on a conference call with analysts. The unit’s performance was hurt by changes in company leadership outside of the U.S. and a weaker economy, he explained. Supplies revenue won’t grow next year and the printer market will remain "soft," Chief Financial Officer Steve Fieler said on the call. Investors will see his successor take "significant" action to reduce the company’s cost structure, Weisler told analysts. A 30-year veteran, Lores worked his way up from an engineering intern position to roles that included running the office that managed the split from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2015. He’s been instrumental in improving the company’s cost structure and organization which has helped profitability, the company said. He becomes CEO officially on Nov. 1.Lores also held senior roles in the commercial PC business and in sales. He led the 2017 acquisition of Samsung Electronics Co.’s printer business.Weisler, 52, took over when the split with HPE became official on Nov. 1, 2015. Since the start of trading on Nov. 2, HP shares have gained 55%, outperforming the S&P 500 index. Revenue has climbed 19%.“There were many that doubted us,” he said in an interview. “We’ve reinvigorated and reinvented this company.”He declined to give details of his family situation but said he needs to move back to his home country of Australia. “I really need to go and tend to that,” Weisler said.(Updates with comments from conference call in 10th paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Ian King in San Francisco at email@example.comTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at firstname.lastname@example.org, Alistair Barr, Andrew PollackFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Enrique Lores, a 30-year HP veteran and the president of the Palo Alto information technology company’s Imaging, Printing and Solutions business, has been unanimously appointed the next CEO starting Nov. 1.
The new supercomputer is called "Aitken," named after American astronomerRobert Grant Aitken, and it can run simulations at up to 3
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is down 0.4% YTD, lagging the S&P 500's 14.3% gain. For such an established company, the stock has seen a lot of movement in the past year.
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (HPE), today announced that it is positioned as the only company in the Leaders category by Forrester Research, Inc. as part of The Forrester New Wave™: Wireless Solutions, Q3 2019 report. In the Forrester New Wave™ for Wireless Solutions, Forrester evaluates the emerging market for wireless solutions, identifying the eight most significant vendors in this space.
Hewlett Packard's (HPE) Q3 fiscal 2019 results are likely to benefit from the growing momentum in Value Compute portfolio. However, a fall in the tier-1 server shipments is a downside.
In this article we are going to estimate the intrinsic value of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (NYSE:HPE) by...
Citi analyst Jim Suva cut his estimates on HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Dell, citing “a more difficult macro backdrop” for enterprise hardware spending.
HP Enterprise (HPE) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Shares of DXC Technology Co. rallied 4.8% in afternoon trading Monday, after the technology consulting company said it won a $666 million award in its dispute with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. . Under terms of the award by an arbitration panel, the $666 million will consist of $631.8 million in damages and $34.3 million in pre-award interest. In addition, the award includes post-award interest at an annual rate of 3%, compounding quarterly, until the award is paid out. Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares (HPE) rose 2.4%. DXC shares have plunged 40.9% over the past three months and HPE's stock has declined 10.3%, while the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF has rallied 5.6% and the S&P 500 has tacked on 2.4%.
Cloud networking is the fastest-growing segment in the wireless industry, Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord told the Business Journal on Wednesday, and the San Jose company didn’t have the technology to keep pace before it acquired Aerohive.
The contract is significant as the company prepares to be acquired by HPE, a deal Cray's CEO was hesitant to make.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will conduct a live audio webcast of its conference call to review its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2019, which ended July 31, 2019.
Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE). On November 8, 2018, a class action gender-based pay discrimination lawsuit was filed against the Company on behalf of a putative class of female employees alleging that the Company systematically underpaid its female employees compared to male employees performing the same or similar work, in violation of the EPA Labor Code, among other things. Recently, the court presiding over the case denied in part the Company’s attempt to have the case dismissed, allowing it to proceed.
Deep integration of HPE and AMD technologies set new standards for performance, efficiency and security vital for enterprise workloads in the cloud and the datacenter
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") downgraded Unisys Corp.'s ("Unisys") Speculative Grade Liquidity ("SGL") rating to SGL-3 from SGL-2, changed the outlook to negative, and affirmed other ratings, including the B2 Corporate Family Rating ("CFR"), B1 senior secured rating, and B3 senior unsecured rating. This rating action follows Unisys's announcement of the partial repayment of $129.3 million principal amount of the 5.5% Convertible Senior Notes due March 2021 ("Convertibles") for consideration consisting of cash and newly issued shares.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced Monday that it had acquired the business assets of Santa Clara-based MapR, one of several Big Data companies that have struggled since raising large investments several years ago.
(HPE) is acquiring the “business assets” of MapR, a once-promising artificial intelligence and analytics startup. HPE (ticker: HPE) said Monday that the transaction includes MapR’s “technology, intellectual property and domain expertise” in AI and machine learning. The company said it plans to support existing deployments of MapR’s software along with ongoing renewals.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stock fell 6.15% on Friday amid fears that President Trump’s trade war with China could hurt its business.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has acquired the business assets of MapR, a leading data platform for artificial intelligence and analytics applications powered by scale-out, multi-cloud and multi-protocol file system technology. This transaction includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics data management. HPE welcomes MapR customers and partners and plans to support existing deployments along with ongoing renewals.
"The ratings affirmation reflects continued strong operating performance and robust liquidity at Mphasis Limited, Marble II's 52.3% owned operating entity and its only investment," says Sweta Patodia, a Moody's Analyst. Mphasis' performance remains in line with Moody's expectation with revenue growth of around 20% and EBITA margins of around 17% for the 12 months ended June 2019. Apart from currency impact, the growth has mainly been driven by new deal wins within the 'Direct International' customer segment that remains the largest contributor to Mphasis' revenues.


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So, how popular is the tablet? (No, not THAT kind of tablet!)
The tablet PC was never very popular, but the times they are about to change. As prices continue to fall, these devices are positioning to outsell notebooks, netbooks and laptops combined by year's end. Personal computer sales have slumped worldwide as smartphones and tablets have proliferated and gained in popularity. The average selling price for a tablet declined 15 percent in 2012 to USD$461. Prices are collapsing.
FORBES tells us "Adobe’s Digital Index analyzed more than 100 billion visits to over 1,000 websites and determined that tablet web traffic at 8% has surpassed smartphone’s 7%. Their combined 15% share is more than double the 7% at December 2011 and up 50% from about 10% in June 2012."
Music Week ::: UK music mag DIY launches new weekly tablet-only title (by Tina Hart) DIY, the UK-based music magazine, has launched a new weekly title - DIY Weekly, available from today (March 11) via Apple Newsstand.
The new DIY Weekly title will be available every Monday, featuring journalism and photography, alongside video, audio, integrated e-commerce and interactive content, specifically created for the digital format.
DIY Weekly follows on from the thisisfakediy.co.uk website - which last year celebrated a decade of establishment. It also has a monthly print magazine, launched in 2011.
Initially available on iPad as single issues or via subscription, DIY Weekly will eventually be rolled out on iPhone, Android and Kindle. The weekly will operate alongside the monthly title, with DIY maintaining commitment to print.Read more »
Tablets are going to school. News Corp's education division, Amplify, recently introduced the first tablet computer built specifically for the classroom. According to various sources, school districts will be able to buy a WiFi device for $US299 with a two-year subscription at $US99 per year. A tablet with mobile connectivity will be sold at $US349 with a two-year subscription at $US179 per year. Specs: Amplify is a 10-inch screen tablet that uses the Android operating system. It is designed for primary and secondary school markets. News Corporation has partnered with AT&T to provide wireless connectivity for the devices, which will be available in September.
FT.com ::: There's an initiative in Thailand to give tablets to nearly 2 million schoolchildren. FT estimates about ten manufacturers will be in on the bidding to supply the devices at about USD$10 apiece.
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With the promising new technology, comes more promising new technology! Ubiquitous Energy of Cambridge, Mass. is developing a coating that when deposited on the screens of tablets and electronic readers would convert sunlight into energy for the devices.
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Concerns over Christmas this year amid turkey and toy shortages
News / Sun 19th Sep 2021 at 08:16am
BRITS could face a frugal Christmas with turkeys and toys in short supply along with empty supermarket shelves and rising living costs reports the Mirror.
Christmas dinners could be “cancelled” is the warning from the UK’s biggest poultry supplier due to the shortage of carbon dioxide gas (CO2).
At the same time there are set to be shortages of toys coupled with a reported general rising cost of living, partly down to the pandemic and Brexit.
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For information purposes, here is an article in The Independent that highlighted possible problems with gas supplies if we pursued Brexit.


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A New “Facebook Home” Panel Rumored For Android
There’s a ton of speculation regarding Facebook’s April 4th event, and WSJ was quick to lead some of these to merely some additional integration for HTC’s BlinkFeed that some of us were already quick to hate. Now, more rumors have emerged from one of our trusted sources, and everything points to the even being something larger than just that. And think about it, with the fact that you can already get Facebook updates on HTC’s service, it makes no sense for Facebook to hold an event that’s focused on bringing you news on something you already have.
First we did see that the press invitations specified that Facebook wants us to see their new Home on Android. Now a new tweet from @evleaks mentions that “The version of Facebook for Android currently on this device needs to be upgraded to support Facebook Home.”
So yes, for those of you that were expecting a Facebook phone, well, things don’t seem as real or ready as you thought. And for those of you that want an enhanced experience with Facebook, it does seem as if we will be getting just that. Stay tuned for the news as we cover the event on April 4th.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of the following companies made notable moves in the stock market on Friday:
Adolor Corp. ADLR shares advanced 8.2%, gaining after the pharmaceutical company said an economic analysis of patients from a Phase III clinical trial for its drug candidate Entereg showed users ended up spending on average one fewer day in the hospital, lowering their hospitalization costs. The product is intended for use in speeding up the recovery of patients who have undergone bowel surgery. See full story on drug stocks.
Aeropostale Inc. ARO, +11.11% shares gained 10%. The teen clothing retailer late Thursday reported a better-than-expected second-quarter net profit of $38.6 million, or 57 cents a share. It also projected third-quarter earnings in a range of 76 cents to 78 cents a share, compared with a consensus of 75 cents a share as estimated by analysts. See full story on retail stocks.
Akorn Inc. AKRX, +0.05% shares gained 8.7%. The pharmaceutical manufacturer said it would increase the aggregate number of common shares that may be issued to 11 million from 5 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Friday.
J. M. Smucker Co. SJM, +0.79% shares rose 4.3%. The company, best known for its jam, said first-quarter net income rose to $98.1 million, or 83 cents a share, from $42.3 million, or 77 cents, earned in the same period a year ago. Sales rose 58% to $1.05 billion, reflecting its acquisition of Folgers Coffee.
Salesforce.com Inc. CRM, -0.98% shares jumped 16%. Late Thursday, the software company reported a second-quarter profit that more than doubled from a year ago. Salesforce had earnings of $21.2 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenue of $316.1 million. During the same period a year ago, Salesforce earned $10 million, or 8 cents a share, on $263.1 million in sales. See full story on tech stocks.
U.S. Airways Group LCC, -0.22% shares rose 5% as new Air Transport Association data released late Thursday showed the deterioration in the airline industry may have hit a bottom. See full story on airline stocks.
Zumiez Inc. ZUMZ, +10.50% shares advanced 14%. BMO Capital markets upgraded the stock after the sports retailer's second-quarter results came out on Thursday.
Avigen Inc. AVGN shares fell 3%. MediciNova Inc. MNOV, -0.58% said it will acquire the biopharmaceutical company, which is developing a potential treatment for neuropathic pain, for $1.24 a share in cash or secured convertible notes, under an agreement announced Friday. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, pending the approval of stockholders and other considerations.
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. BRCD shares slumped 5.1%. The company reported late Thursday that third-quarter sales rose to $493.3 million from $365.7 million a year ago, but this was shy of analysts' $503.7 million forecast. Excluding one-time items, Brocade would have reported earnings of 12 cents a share for the latest quarter, according to results issued late Thursday. Read more on Brocade.
Foot Locker Inc. FL, +1.50% shares fell 8.5% after the company said late Thursday that unexpectedly weak sales caused it to break even in the second quarter. A year ago quarter, the athletic footwear retailer posted net income of $18 million, or 11 cents a share. Revenue for the three months ended Aug. 1 fell nearly 16% to $1.1 billion from $1.3 billion. The stock is down nearly 25% from where it was trading a year ago.
Intuit Inc. INTU, +0.37% shares dropped 7.2%. Late Thursday, the computer software firm reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $70.7 million, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of $475.8 million. Excluding one-time items, Intuit would have lost 10 cents a share. For the first quarter of fiscal 2010, Intuit estimates it will lose between 24 cents and 28 cents a share, and pegged the loss at 15 cents to 19 cents a share with one-time items excluded. Read more on Intuit.


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The underlying fundamentals of the U.S. economy are better than, or at least nowhere near as bad as, the panic that set into Wall Street starting late last week and extended into Monday, according to several newly released reports.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday said July sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 5.4% from the month before, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 507,000 units.
This marks a big turnaround from a 7.7% drop in June from May. Home sales are 21.2% higher through the first seven months of this year than to the same time in 2014.
“Today’s report is in line with other government data and improving builder sentiment and shows a gradual but consistent housing recovery,” said National Association of Homebuilders Chief Economist David Crowe. “As job growth and consumer confidence continue to strengthen, the housing market should make additional gains this year.”
The report follows a separate one from last week showing existing-home sales steadily increased for the third consecutive month in July. Stubbornly low inventory levels and rising prices, rather than any larger economic issues, are likely to blame for sales to first-time buyers falling to their lowest share since January, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.59 million in July from a downwardly revised 5.48 million in June.
Sales in July remained at the highest pace since February 2007. They have now increased year-over-year for 10 consecutive months and are 10.3% above a year ago.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the increase in sales in July solidifies what has been an impressive growth in activity during this year's peak buying season.
"The creation of jobs added at a steady clip and the prospect of higher mortgage rates and home prices down the road is encouraging more households to buy now," he said. "As a result, current homeowners are using their increasing housing equity towards the down payment on their next purchase."
Single-family home sales increased 2.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.96 million in July, the highest since February 2007, and are now 11% above the pace from a year ago.
Consumer Confidence Jumps, Leading Indicators Slip
Also on Tuesday, the private research group The Conference Board reported its Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined sharply in July, rebounded in August.
The index now stands at 101.5, up from 91 in July. The Present Situation Index increased from 104 last month to 115.1 in August, while the Expectations Index improved to 92.5 from 82.3 in July.
“Consumers’ assessment of current conditions was considerably more upbeat, primarily due to a more favorable appraisal of the labor market,” said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at The Conference Board. “The uncertainty expressed last month about the short-term outlook has dissipated and consumers are once again feeling optimistic about the near future. Income expectations, however, were little improved.”
The survey was conducted before the big drop on Wall Street late last week and into Monday.
This report came in the wake of one a few days earlier from the group that showed its Leading Economic Index for the U.S. declined 0.2% in July to 123.3, following a 0.6% increase in June, and a 0.6% increase in May.
The index is used to predict where the American economy is headed in the next three to six months.
“The U.S. LEI fell slightly in July, after four months of strong gains. Despite a sharp drop in housing permits, the U.S. LEI is still pointing to moderate economic growth through the remainder of the year,” said Ataman Ozyildirim, director of business cycles and growth research at The Conference Board.
Service, Manufacturing Activity Throttle Back
Meantime, on Tuesday a first look at how the nation’s service sector is performing shows it losing momentum this month, hitting its second lowest level since January.
The Flash U.S. Services Purchasing Managers’ Business Activity Index from the financial information services provider Markit fell from 55.7 in July to 55.2 this month, but is still well above the neutral 50 threshold.
Companies that reported a rise in business activity generally cited improving U.S. economic conditions and rising new business volumes. August data, nonetheless, pointed to a marked slowdown in new business growth from the three-month high recorded in July. The latest increase in new work received by service providers was the slowest since January and softer than the average since the series began in late 2009. Some survey respondents commented on more subdued business sentiment and cautious spending patterns among clients.
“August data signals a renewed slowdown in U.S. service sector growth, and this comes hot on the heels of a 22-month low recorded by the latest flash Manufacturing PMI survey,” said Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit. “Moreover, service providers’ new business volumes expanded at the slowest pace since January, suggesting that underlying momentum within the U.S. economy had shifted down a gear even before the recent global market turmoil and escalating worries about China’s growth outlook gathered on the horizon.”
Meantime, U.S. manufacturers indicated a renewed loss of momentum during August in a report last Friday, with output, new business and payroll numbers all increasing at a slower rate than in the previous month.
As a result, the headline seasonally adjusted Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index dipped from 53.8 in July to 52.9 in August. That's still above the neutral 50 threshold, but the lowest since October 2013.
The main factor weighing on the headline index was a slowdown in manufacturing output growth from the three-month high recorded during July. Also, the latest rise in production volumes was the weakest since the weather-related slowdown recorded in January 2014. Some survey respondents cited a cyclical slowdown in new business growth, as well as heightened uncertainty regarding the demand outlook in August.
The survey indicated a solid expansion of overall new order volumes received by manufacturers, but the rate of growth moderated slightly since July. Subdued export sales remained a drag on new business intakes in August. Reflecting this, new work from abroad decreased for the fourth time in the past five months, with a number of firms attributing the decrease to competitive pressures related to the stronger currency exchange rate. There were also reports that weak capital spending among energy sector clients continued to weigh on some manufacturers’ order volumes.
“August’s survey highlights a lack of growth momentum and continued weak price pressures across the U.S. manufacturing sector, which adds some fuel to the dovish argument as policymakers weigh up tightening policy in September,” said Moore. “With the headline PMI swiftly losing ground after a modest rebound during July, the latest figure now points to the weakest overall pace of manufacturing growth for almost two years.
According to survey respondents, the strong dollar continued to put pressure on export sales and competitiveness, while heightened global economic uncertainty appeared to have dampened client spending both at home and abroad. Alongside this, manufacturers of investment goods widely cited growth headwinds from the slump in capital spending across the energy sector.


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Last week, Twitter’s original CEO, Jack Dorsey, confirmed he was re-joining the company to head up product development. Dorsey returns to Twitter to correct some mistakes and address backlash from vocal digerati and, more importantly, from members of the Twitter ecosystem. Blogger complaints killed Twitter’s QuickBar, an iPhone app feature with a badly executed advertisement. Soothing the companies trying to build businesses around Twitter APIs will be more difficult. Twitter partners and competitors alike want to see how Dorsey will align Twitter products with its best business opportunities.
Dorsey laid out some of his early thinking at a Columbia University appearance. He conceded Twitter needs to be clear about its platform and product direction, and advised third-party Twitter developers to stay away from mainstream client apps. Rather, they should focus on integrating technologies like geolocation, recommendations, filters and mobile sensors. Actually, Dorsey acknowledged that Twitter client maker TweetDeck was great for a minority of high-value Twitter power users. Twitter itself, he said, should focus on attracting and serving more mainstream users — the ones that are consumers of Twitter content rather than creators.
Serving Mass-Market Consumers
Developing for the masses will help Twitter continue its evolution from an incestuous microblogging tool for techies, journalists and social media professionals into something a lot like a broadcast medium. ComScore tracks about 20 million U.S. monthly users of the Twitter site (undercounting mobile and client access, perhaps by 20 percent). One API watcher says the vast majority of Twitter accounts follow fewer than 10 others. Twitter must fix that if it’s going to bring value to mainstream content consumers.
Twitter’s history leads it to focus too much on connecting users to other users, rather than users to topics. Its first-screen promotions to “see who’s here” and view “Top Tweets” link to people or brands, or to individual tweets. Popular “Trends” displayed through a local filter on a user’s personal page is more topical, and more in line with mainstream online media approaches, where current headlines, “most popular” and local news/weather/events lead. Mass sites tell me “most popular” is far more effective in generating clicks than “related items.” Dorsey should prioritize collaborative filtering over complicated content management taxonomies.
But Twitter should also collect channels of topics to help unsophisticated users follow more relevant feeds. Twitter already partners with Sulia to deliver curated topic channels to other media companies based on Sulia’s editorial and algorithmic analysis of expert content. It should use those topic and time-driven channels itself. Twitter could promote recommendations with a smarter version of Twitscoop’s real-time topic cloud.
What About Advertising?
Though its ad platform is a product, Dorsey didn’t say much about revenue generation at Columbia. He admitted it was a challenge for marketers to tie together Twitter’s three current ad formats: Promoted Trends, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Tweets. Lately, Twitter has been telling advertisers to concentrate on Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends at the expense of Promoted Tweets that run in a user’s feed.
In theory, the site takeover approach of a Trend could mimic timely, mass-reach advertising used by portals like Yahoo and AOL to great success for movie studios and holiday-themed sales. But a Promoted Trend now is a barely highlighted little text unit. Twitter’s attempt to feature it on the QuickBar attracted derision from digerati, who complained of its lack of relevance (and who probably use TweetDeck on their desktops, anyway). A smarter play would be a flashier ad unit on the Twitter.com site, where mainstream users congregate.
Better contextual targeting could alleviate some of the complaints about relevance. (Promoted Tweets show up as a result of Twitter searches.) If Twitter doesn’t want to manage a targeted ad marketplace, it could draw on the expertise of OneRiot, a company that’s trying to build a real-time ad network for other Twitter clients.


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Swiss Post is extremely reliable and punctual in delivering letters and parcels to its customers
Swiss Post delivered parcels and letters extremely reliably last year. Swiss Post exceeded the requirements of the postal legislation once again in 2018. 97.4 percent of A Mail letters and 98.9 percent of B Mail letters arrived on time. For parcels, 97.2 percent of PostPac Priority consignments and 97.7 percent of PostPac Economy consignments arrived on time at the customers.
The challenges of delivering parcels and letters on time and reliably are increasing. The causes are traffic congestion, more online purchases and customers’ desire to receive Internet orders as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, Swiss Post has managed once again to exceed the requirements of the postal legislation for letters and parcels. For parcels, in 2018 Swiss Post exceeded the already high quality values of the previous year. And this despite the fact that the volume of parcels has increased to 138 million consignments. This corresponds to a growth in parcel volumes of more than 6 percent. Nevertheless, Swiss Post delivered 97.2 percent of PostPac Priority parcels (+1.2 percentage points) and 97.7 percent of PostPac Economy parcels (+0.2 percentage points) on time.
Swiss Post wants to respond to the increasing volumes of parcels in good time. Therefore, by 2020, it will build three new regional parcel centers in Cadenazzo (Ticino), Vétroz (Valais) and Untervaz (Graubünden), to continue to reliably and punctually deliver the steadily increasing volume of parcels. The three new regional parcel centers will relieve the pressure on the three existing parcel centers in Daillens (Vaud), Härkingen (Solothurn) and Frauenfeld (Thurgau). This is because parcels will be sorted and delivered in their respective regions, rather than transiting via the current parcel centers. In the future, for example, parcels that are posted in Ticino and delivered in Ticino will be sorted in Cadenazzo and will no longer be sorted at the Härkingen parcel center. This shortens transport routes and times, reduces transport volumes and minimizes the overall climate impact.
Raising the bar even higher
In the case of letters, too, Swiss Post was very punctual in 2018 and exceeded the requirements of the postal legislation. Although not as significantly as in the previous year, Swiss Post once again provided its customers with a very reliable service with 97.4 percent for A Mail letters and 98.9 percent for B Mail letters. However, Swiss Post has higher expectations of itself and takes these results as an incentive to return to the high quality levels of 2016 and 2017 in 2019.
Swiss Post often uses the railways to transport nearly 1.9 billion addressed letters, but traffic congestion also affects the punctuality of postal items. The fact that the high delivery figures from the previous year were not quite attained in 2018 and slightly declined for A Mail and B Mail letters by 0.2 and 0.1 percentage points, is partly the result of the more demanding traffic situation between letter and logistics centers.
Independent scientific measurements
The high quality and punctuality of the delivery of letters and parcels is due to the excellent work of Swiss Post’s employees – their commitment during the pre-Christmas period from November to December is particularly impressive. This good performance is reflected in the scientifically conducted delivery time measurements.
For this purpose, around 90,000 test letters (domestic letters) are sent each year. And parcel delivery times are measured using a scientific sampling method including around 2,400 test consignments. In order to obtain reliable data, these measurements are conducted on behalf of Swiss Post by the independent market research institute GfK Switzerland AG in accordance with European standards. Another independent company, Consult AG, also monitors these measurements. The supervisory authority PostCom checks and approves the year-end results.
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In a bid to tackle plastic pollution and support small UK businesses, one Berkshire based entrepreneur has launched e-commerce site that is plastic free.
With its mission to ‘make living without plastic easy for everyone’, Plasticfreethings.com is an online marketplace that connects sellers of everyday plastic-free things with consumers. Products include kitchen items, toiletries, stationery, toys and gifts.
The goods are plastic free and they are packaged in plastic-free materials, including the tape.
Founder, Sarah Cruse, says: “Although there are many eco-retail sites out there that offer environmentally-friendly alternatives to mainstream products, we take further measures to be sustainable in all aspects of the business. At Plasticfreethings.com we only source sustainable products that are made in the UK and ensure items are dispatched according to our strict plastic-free guidelines.”
Indeed, the idea for Plasticfreethings.com came about when Cruse became frustrated by the amount of unnecessary plastic that would turn up with her own orders. “I would take ages sourcing products that were deemed to be plastic-free only to have my items delivered in plastic wrapping or bubble wrap,” she says. “This completely undermined why I bought the product in the first place. I therefore decided to take action by launching my own plastic-free business.”
The move taps into a growing demand from consumers for ‘green’ products. A recent study by E.On found that more than a third (36%) of UK consumers say that they are buying products from companies with strong environmental credentials. A further four in five (80%) say they are planning to purchase goods and services from businesses they know have made a concerted effort to be environmentally friendly.
It also comes as leading UK retailers from Dixons Carphone, New Look, Marks & Spencer’s, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons to N Brown Group, Wickes and Wilko are backing a new British Retail Consortium-led plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
The BRC’s Climate Action Roadmap, supported by 63 retailers, aims to see stores and warehouses powered by net zero electricity by 2030.


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Although prices continue to rise and more and more Canadians are forced to make tough decisions about the spending they can afford, new data from the NPD Group reveals that foodservice industry traffic in Canada reached near pre-pandemic levels in May.
The data found that foodservice traffic was just one per cent off its May 2019 mark. On a year-over-year basis, Canadian restaurant visits and trips to other commercial foodservice outlets increased by 16 per cent between May 2021 and May 2022.
Driving the May traffic growth was a 321 per cent gain in dine-in Canadian restaurant visits compared to a year ago. However, even with this hugely encouraging triple-digit growth, dine-in visits, which were hit hardest by pandemic-related restrictions, are still 28 per cent below May 2019 traffic, according to NPD’s continual tracking of the Canadian foodservice industry.
Off-premises ordering from foodservice outlets — carry-out, drive-thru, and delivery — is currently down from the strong growth experienced during the pandemic lockdown periods but remains significantly above pre-pandemic levels. For example, foodservice delivery was down nine per cent this May compared to a year ago, but orders were 79 per cent above the May 2019 level.
Morning meals, which includes breakfast and morning snack periods, were the strongest performing daypart in May, with visits up 24 per cent compared to a year ago and down one per cent from May 2019.
Lunch was close behind with a 21 per cent increase in traffic versus a year ago and an eight per cent decline in visits from three years ago. The lunch visit decline from the pre-pandemic traffic level shows that most consumers have not resumed their pre-COVID routines, like workday lunches, says the NPD Group report. Meanwhile, foodservice visits at supper grew by 14 per cent this May compared to last year and were up seven per cent compared to May 2019.
“While the recovery continues to take hold, so does the re-definition of the foodservice landscape,” says Vince Sgabellone, NPD foodservice industry analyst. “The industry needs to adjust to these changes by understanding how consumers currently use foodservice throughout the day and how they will use it in the future.”


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Microsoft to offer apps to mobile platforms
Microsoft (MSFT) is working on making movies and TV services for Android and iOS, according to a report by Windows Central. Currently, Microsoft’s apps are exclusively available to Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and Xbox consoles through the Microsoft Store. However, users will soon find the company’s app on the most popular mobile platforms.
The tech giant is making efforts to develop dedicated apps for iOS[1. formerly iPhone operating system] and Android to attract more customers to buy digital movies and TV shows on the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft wants to attract users to Microsoft Store
After the shift from Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft has been making efforts to bring the best of the apps of Windows 10, including Edge and Microsoft Launcher, to iOS and Android. The two apps could get millions of downloads from the Apple and Google app stores. Microsoft is also planning to make movies and TV apps available to mobile devices to serve all movie lovers.
The company also notified users that they can switch from a Windows phone to an Android device in 2018 and continue using most of Microsoft’s software and services.
Growing popularity of streaming giants
Microsoft’s video content offering could struggle to gain users amid the growing demand for online streaming content provided by Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon (AMZN). In 2017, Netflix spent $6 billion to launch 30 new original shows, while Amazon spent $4.5 billion on original and acquired content. Online streaming service Hulu also invested $2.5 billion on content in 2017, while Apple and Facebook (FB) allocated $1 billion last year to acquire new content.
However, according to reports, there is some video content not offered by online video streaming subscription services but still available on the Microsoft Store, iTunes, and other digital storefronts. Microsoft also believes that a lot of people prefer to buy digital movies and TV content and that it can offer them a massive content through iOS and Android phones.


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Feb 20, 2015 -- As Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 draws near,
Autodesk is gearing up to unveil the latest updates to the award-winning game creation tools, including an exclusive technology preview. Throughout the show, Autodesk will also highlight developers behind some of 2014’s most popular AAA and indie titles with customer presentations and a gaming-themed Design Night featuring guest speakers, a pop-up arcade, 3D-printed swag and more.
Preview of New Game-Making Tech from Autodesk
Wednesday, March 4, 3:30-4:30pm, Moscone Convention Center, West Hall, Rm. 3003
Autodesk is offering an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek at the development path of a recent addition to its suite of game-making tools.
Autodesk Customer Showcase
In the Moscone Convention Center, West Hall, Rm. 3003, Autodesk customers from AAA and indie markets will take to the stage to talk about the tools and techniques they use everyday to create great games. Audiences worldwide will also be able to view the presentations via live stream on AREA, which include:
Character Cloth and Hair Tech in Bungie’s “Destiny”
Wednesday, March 4, 11:00am-12:00pm
Learn firsthand from Tom Sanocki and Natalie Burke how Bungie’s team of artists created the token cloth and hair featured in the hit first-person shooter “Destiny.”
Blending Cinematic and Gameplay Animation in “The Order: 1886”
Thursday, March 5, 11:30am-12:30pm
See how the team behind third-person shooter “The Order: 1886” re-thought traditional animation systems and developed new approaches to blend motions in believable ways.Animators Adam Byrne and Daniel Sipes illustrate how they used advanced engine technology to render all of the cinematics in real-time for the game.
Making Games, Building Community, Being Indie
Thursday, March 5, 4:00-5:00pm
A panel of indie game makers from Cupcakes & Critters, Modern Dream and Barking Mouse Studios share their secrets to success in this panel about building and maintaining ties to the indie community.
GDC-Themed Design Night
On Thursday, March 5, from 6:00pm-10:00pm Autodesk will transform its Gallery into a gamin haven, as it continues its recurring Design Night event series. In honor of GDC, this month’s soiree will feature exhibits, speakers and hands-on activities related to game design. It will take place at the Autodesk Gallery on One Market St., second floor, and general admission includes access to food, open bar, presentations, exhibits and activities. For pricing and additional details visit: http://www.autodesk.com/gallery/design-nights
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Will Technology Bring an End to ID Fraud? AU10TIX Thinks So
The world today is completely wired online. People like me and others who are working in the tech industry know this to be a forgone conclusion. Everything from reading the news to ordering groceries has moved to the Internet. If you are one who still ventures to stores for shopping, technology is right alongside, as you can simply scan your phone at the checkout register and pay for your goods, without any paper money exchanging hands. Services like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, as well as other online wallets, are a necessity for consumers to keep up with vendors who have transitioned to the digital age of payments.
Fintech is one if the latest trends to skyrocket in popularity, with consumers uploading more and more sensitive information, such as credit card details, online. Yet with the string of recent security breaches at major retailers, and Apple entrenched in a legal battle with the FBI over the privacy of information, the age of fintech poses various problems for both consumers and vendors alike. Much of the security emphasis for online transactions is placed firmly on customer information protection, while not much is done on the side of merchants and financial institutions. This leaves the vendors in a bind, wasting valuable time pouring over documents searching for deception, rather than dealing with more business-related issues.
ID fraud is not just a problem in the financial sector, but for international security as well. Thousands of refugees have flocked to Europe, which also revealed a slew of fake passports being identified, with countless others falling through the cracks. The influx of people has led to border agents being overwhelmed lacking the necessary resources and overhead to keep up. With technology’s current influence on the world, why is there not a solution for ID fraud yet?
In November of last year I traveled to Israel and on the first night there I went to a group dinner in Tel Aviv where one of the people I met was Ron Atzmon, who for the past 20 years has been involved in advising startups and developing businesses on technology, security, and finance. During our meeting, he and I discussed the various problems associated with ID fraud, including costly manual ID authentication that is wrought with human errors. With a world that is plugged in as ours, he elaborated on the technology deployed by his latest startup, AU10TIX, an automatic service that authenticates official documents and IDs, in a matter of seconds.
Atzmon, who is the managing director of AU10TIX, describes it as airport level technology that is used to validate passports, driver’s licenses and other official documents, employed by banks and other financial institutions that operate a large majority of their business online. Atzmon and his team want to provide a technology service that will save time and money, while removing human error from the equation. In addition, AU10TIX will also generate records of IDs and documents scanned for future cross-referencing.
“Fintech vendors are seeking solutions that are both fraud-safe and regulations-compliant,” added Atzmon. “Our technology offers, fast turnaround speed, and complete security. With AU10TIX, an online fintech retailer can authenticate a client’s ID in just 10 seconds, saving valuable time and resources.”
How is this possible? Imagine you are an online retailer dealing with large financial transactions. You need to authenticate various documents and IDs required by regulations for online finance. AU10TIX will automatically validate all the documents required for the transfer of funds, and they claim it takes mere seconds to complete. Atzmon points out that AU10TIX is not just an advantage for their clients, but is also hassle free for the consumer. All that is needed on the customer side is the submission of the required documents and ID images, then technology will takeover and do the rest.
The technology used by AU10TIX is definitely a step in the right direction towards combating ID fraud. However, it still must contend with the more commonly accepted methods of OCR and data recognition, coupled with manual checks. If they can convince major payment and Fintech institutions to implement their solution, it could have a major impact on the way that companies authenticate official documents and IDs.
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The iPhone 6 rumors now point to T-Mobile offering the smartphone to its customers starting on Sept. 20.
The company has implemented vacation blackout dates between Sept. 20 and 22, according to a report from TmoNews. This confirms a Sept. 20 release date for the device. Similar blackouts have been put into play during the release of past iPhones and other high-profile smartphones and tablets.
Despite the Sept. 20 blackout and T-Mobile, reports regarding the iPhone's release at AT&T and T-Mobile have been conflicting. Some have even stated that their blackout periods will be sometime in Oct.
The iPhone 6 or 5S could be unveiled on the same day as the iPad 5th generation model and the iPad Mini 2.
The new iPhones are expected to be unveiled at a Sept. 10 media event and a new Bloomberg report states that the company will also use this event to introduce its new line of tablets.
The Sept. 10 unveiling event planned for the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S or 6 was originally reported by AllThingsD earlier this month. Various other sources have also confirmed this date for when Apple will introduce its new products.
Bloomberg mentions in its recent report that the new iPads are expected to debut at the event; however, nothing has been confirmed by Apple at this time. This is also the rumored release date for iOS 7.
Apple will begin rolling out the new software on that date, according to an email sent by the company Nuance that specializes in powering Siri's speech recognition capabilities.
The email was sent out to developers using the company's API and in the body of it Nuance claims the General Availability date for iOS 7 will be on Sept. 10.
"As you are probably aware, iOS 7 GA will be released on September 10th," read the email. "The NDEV Program has pre-qualified that SpeechKit 1.4.5 works properly on iOS 7, but we encourage you to conduct your own testing to ensure that when the upgrade happens, your Nuance speech services continue to work seamlessly."


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Domino's Pizza Group reported growth in the first half of the year, but spooked investors with sales growth that was slower than the rate of expansion.
Sales for the whole group were up 10.5 per cent to £546.5m, although this included the addition of the Nordics area, which added £14.9m in sales.
Pre-tax profits also grew by 9.1 per cent to £44.6m.
In the UK and Ireland, sales were up 7.3 per cent to £522.7m compared to the same time last year.
But analysts at Librerum pointed out that 3.5 per cent growth in the number of orders the lagged behind the 6.5 per cent rate of store expansion.
Shares fell by over six per cent this morning.
Why it's interesting
A stalwart of food delivery, Domino's faces competition from the likes of Deliveroo and Uber Eats.
The company has countered this by pushing its technology offer, seeing an average of 73 people using its app every minute, rising to 916 during peak hours. Today also marks the launch of Domino's ordering via the Amazon Echo. Two thirds of orders were placed online.
But analysts were concerned today by the rate of expansion. Domino's plans to open 90 stores in the UK this year, having added 40 so far. Yet order count growth has been comparatively slower.
However, today's announcement also promised a £4m investment in improving value and a new advertising campaign, which is thought to be aimed at addressing the disparity.
What the company said
Chief executive David Wild said: “Whilst we acknowledge that our UK consumers are currently more cautious about the economic outlook, we’re focussing on growth investment with our franchisees; boosting marketing; improving customer engagement and enhancing our leading position in food delivery."
The group also revealed that the most popular day for ordering a pizza was the May Day bank holiday, when more than a million pizzas sold across the country.


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In early July, it became known that the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was checking a deal to take over the gaming giant Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. Today, September 1, UK regulators declared about the need to study this transaction more carefully.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has expressed concern that the massive $68.7 billion acquisition could hurt Microsoft’s competitors, which could do well to restrict access to games from Activision Blizzard’s vast library. CMA officials also fear that “the combined company will stifle competition in the emerging cloud gaming market.”
The British authorities have given both companies five days to come up with proposals to address their concerns, otherwise they will conduct a more thorough investigation. Microsoft President Brad Smith said his company is “ready to work with the CMA on the next steps and resolve any issues.”
Regulators around the world are scrutinizing the deal, which was announced in January. So far, only Saudi Arabia has announced approval of the purchase of Activision Blizzard.
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Developer selling NYC parking spaces for $1M each
Motorists in New York have been known to engage in shouting matches over parking spaces, and when they do find one just in the right place - like right in front of their apartment building - they'll recount the tale for years.
But just what is a parking space in the Big Apple worth? One developer thinks $1 million - the same as a 960-square-foot home in San Francisco or an auctioned-off space flight with a Hollywood star.
Atlas Capital Group is offering 10 such spots underneath its still-being-developed condominium in lower Manhattan, according to The New York Times.
The pricey spaces will stand at 200 square feet, which means they will cost $5,000 to $6,666 a square foot, the Times reports. That's more than the condos upstairs, which will go for $3,140 to $3,170 a square foot, the Times says. That's even more than the $920,000 median home price in pricey Manhattan, according to the Times.
Spaces don't typically sell for this much in New York but they have been inching closer on the whole, the Times reports. A few spaces have been selling for $500,000, according to the news organization.
A 2011 survey by Collier's International determined that New York is the most expensive place to park in the country.
The portfolio of Atlas Capital Group includes $2.5 billion in residential, office and retail spaces around the world, according to the firm's website.


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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At an auto show, having an impressive display steers people in, and Subaru once again has transformed its space into a virtual forest. And right in the middle of the forest is the all-new 2024 Forester.
Eyewitness News got a sneak preview a couple of weeks ago to see the car in the daylight. The Forester is a model that's been a core part of Subaru showrooms for years.
"Forester and Outback tend to be the two biggest selling vehicles in our lineup. So as far as the success of Subaru as a brand, Forester is incredibly important to us," said William Stokes with Subaru North America.
Crossovers rule the roost, still. And Nissan has a new trick to make their 2024 Rogue stand out: built-in Google, search, maps, the whole thing.
"It's all about integrating your life, with your drive. Because we want everything to be right there at your fingertips," said Chad Fishburne with Nissan North America.
Hyundai announced a partnering with a technology many of us use all the time. You can buy almost anything on Amazon these days, and soon, that'll include a new Hyundai.
"You can choose your preferred model, color and features. And check out entirely online, in a shopping experience you already know and trust," said Marty Malick, Amazon's vice president of corporate partnerships.
Like maybe the new 2024 Santa Fe, the chunky new iteration of Hyundai's crossover SUV being shown in Los Angeles for the first time.
No word on whether Hyundai's upscale sibling Genesis will soon be put into Amazon carts, but it brought its new 2025 GV80 Coupe to the show stand.
Sometimes adding a new edition is worth an unveiling, and Kia has added X-Pro to the Sorento lineup. A very popular model for them.
"When we introduced the fourth-generation a couple of years ago, it immediately became one of the hottest sellers in our lineup. It captures the right space, the right size, it just makes a lot of sense," said James Bell with Kia USA.
Meanwhile at Ford, a very California edition of the Mustang GT called, fittingly, the California Special. If a convertible isn't your thing, the GT/CS will be available as a coupe, too.
You won't see every 2024 model here, because a number of brands have decided to sit this one out. But there's still plenty to look at, and the show runs for 10 days, including all four days of the long Thanksgiving weekend.


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Metacafe has changed the payment conditions of its Producer Rewards program, lowering the the amount paid to video creators by more than half. According to a post on Metacafe's blog today, under the new terms, producers accepted into the program will earn $2 for every 1,000 views. Previously, producers were paid $5 for every 1,000 views.
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The world’s most popular social network has taken nothing but beatings since it went public a few months ago. The holiday weekend saw a 5.3% drop in Facebook’s share price, leaving them at $18.08 at the close of Monday.
Facebook’s shares opened at $38, and the $18 mark would represent less than half of the original IPO price. One of the reasons that people continue to drop shares is that BMO capital markets moved their prediction from $25 to $15 for Facebook’s bottoming-out price.
“We expected investor attention to return to fundamentals after the technical challenges presented by lockup expirations over the next six months have been absorbed by the stock,” said BMO. Another 240 million shares will be available for release in October, and 1.4 billion shares held by employees and internal investors will be released for sale on November 4th.
However, the most pronounced cause of the spiral downwards is the less-than-promising revenue forecasts. Analysts from several different companies lowered their 2012 revenue estimations by over a billion dollars, saying that poor ad revenue is beginning to take its toll on Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook is continuing to struggle with how to put ads on the mobile version of their website without destroying the user experience completely.


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Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive book exerpt from “The Man Who Heard Voices” in this weeks issue (#886 July 14, 2006). The article contains a slew of pictures, and a good chunk from the book. The […]
The L.A. Times recently featured an article about the upcoming book “The Man Who Heard Voices” in which among other things, tells Shymalan’s side of the break-up with Disney. The article reveals parts of the book in […]
Amazon.com has recently posted the cover for the upcoming book about M. Night Shyamalan and his movie Lady in the Water.


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Business News›PNG Jewellers
Ditching gold as old, Indian grooms tie the knot with platinum
Young urban grooms in India are increasingly opting for platinum jewellery, such as chains, bracelets, and earrings, as an alternative to gold amid rising gold prices. Platinum is currently trading around ₹25,000 per 10 grams, compared to gold prices exceeding ₹61,000 per 10 grams. The trend is providing some relief to the bride's family, which traditionally gifts jewellery to the groom during weddings.
Star shine hard to come by for jewellery brands as celebs jack up endorsement charges, put stringent conditions
A senior executive of a prominent jewellery brand, asking not to be identified, said the asking price of big stars is roughly around ₹8 crore a day. "It's becoming unviable for the business. Even at this hefty price, they are reluctant to give more than three days in a year to the brand they are endorsing, won't change costumes more than two times on the day of shooting, and won't work more than eight hours on that day including traffic time."
Style by design: Jewellers love this chain male
The Cuban link chain has a thick texture. It is interlocked in a unique pattern to accentuate the links. The chain is said to be synonymous with the hip-hop culture of the 1970s and made popular by DJ Kool Herc while hosting hip-hop block parties in the Bronx.
Dangling a carat: Gold shines brighter this festive season even as battle rages in Gaza
Gold prices, which stood at ₹57,415 per 10 gm before the attacks by Hamas, have shot up to ₹60,612 in the past fortnight. "The upward trend has been visible since the month of Shraadh," said Saurabh Gadgil, managing director of PNG Jewellers.
Tanishq, Malabar Gold and other jewellery giants put their hallmark on small towns
As much as 70% of Tanishq's 436 stores are outside large cities - 38% in places with 200,000-plus population and 32% in smaller towns - with the remaining 30% in metros and mini-metros, chief executive Ajoy Chawla said. Some of these are located in places such as Kudal in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, Bhawanipatna and Angul in Odisha, and Mirzapur and Balia in Uttar Pradesh.
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Creating the next Cartier: Indian jewellers can aim for a $30-billion opportunity with some brandingIndia is known for mass and fast manufacturing of jewellery. However, working on nuances such as design development, innovation and production can help it be seen as much more than just a low-cost manufacturing centre.
Augmont ties up with Home Credit, Kalyan Jewellers, PNG and EbixCashDigital gold platform Augmont on Monday announced its strategic partnerships with Home Credit, Kalyan Jewellers, PNG, ONeCode, and EbixCash to promote digital gold as a product.
Jewellers getting more inquiries for gold after RBI withdraws Rs 2,000 notesIn fact in the last two days, the actual gold purchase has been less in exchange of Rs 2,000 notes due to strict Know your Customer (KYC) norms although sources said some jewellers have started charging a 5-10 per cent premium, taking the gold prices to Rs 66,000 per 10 grams level.
Akshaya Tritiya: Jewellers expect pick up in sales on softening of gold pricesJewellery from 5-33 grams and coins in 1-2 grams range are popular this year, he said, adding that this year, after Hallmarking, jewellery has become more popular than coins.
Akshaya Tritiya: Jewellers expect pick up in sales on softening of gold pricesIndian jewellers have witnessed a rise in demand for gold on the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya, thanks to recent softening of gold prices. Chairmen of All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC) and PNG Jewellers affirmed that footfalls have been good since morning and the yellow metal is available for purchase at Rs 56,500 per 22 karats.
Gold likely to lose sheen on high prices this Akshaya Tritiya; jewellers expect 20% dip in demandDuring Akshaya Tritiya, 40 per cent of the business is done in the south, 25 per cent in the west, 20 per cent in the east and the remaining 15 per cent in the north, GJC chairman Saiyam Mehra said.
PNG Jewellers ropes in Madhuri Dixit as its brand ambassadorPune-based jewellery major PNG Jewellers has signed Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit as its brand ambassador for the next two years. Madhuri Dixit will represent the brand globally and across India, and will feature in PNG Jewellers' upcoming advertising campaigns, social media content, and other brand promotional activities.
Gold, jewellery glitter as Dhanteras witnesses robust sales this yearDhanteras is regarded as the most auspicious day in the Hindu calendar for buying items like precious metals, utensils and other valuables. Many people also buy vehicles.
Jewellers expect footfalls to increase during DhanterasJewellers are expecting the footfalls to increase during Dhanteras, spread over two days of the weekend, with consumers getting in to markets. Dhanteras, which marks the first day of Diwali in India, is considered an auspicious occasion to buy gold and silver as part of Hindu festivities.
Inflation to impact gold buying this Dhanteras: World Gold Council"Unlike the Diwali season of 2021, this season may not have the advantage of pent-up demand or savings from muted wedding celebrations fuelling higher gold purchase. Having said that, this is a busy buying season, and with gold being a valuable hedge against inflation, any further price declines in the coming weeks could result in a surge in demand," said Somasundaram PR, regional CEO, India, WGC.
PNG Jewellers set to revitalise its silver jewellery brand across 35 storesSilver Jewellery has come back in vogue in a big wave across the globe as well as in India. The brand will focus on showcasing bold, edgy, young and trendy designs created through leading edge innovations in jewellery manufacturing at pocket friendly prices to attract millenials and a growing Gen-Z audience that appreciates fashion forward and future ready brands.
Hike in import duty on gold to fuel smuggling; review decision: Industry bodiesAll India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC) Chairman Ashish Pethe said: "The sudden hike in gold import duty has taken us by surprise. We understand the government's situation as regards the Indian Rupee versus the US Dollar. But this hike will put the entire industry in a spot and may encourage smuggling".
Akshaya Tritiya begins on a positive note; jewellers expect biz of up to 30 tonneAll India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council Vice Chairman Shyam Mehra said, gold prices have come down to around Rs 50,500 per 10 gram from Rs 55,000-58,000 per 10 gram, giving boost to consumer sentiment.
Jewellers expect sales during Akshaya Tritiya to surpass 2019 levelWith general sentiment boosted by easing of Covid restrictions, economic growth coupled with inflationary expectations should support higher in-store gold buying during this festive season, though price volatility will act as a headwind, he noted.
Akshaya Tritiya begins on sombre note; jewellers expect 10-15% salesAll-India Gems & Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC) chairman Ashish Pethe said, jewellers are expecting only 10-15 per cent sales this Akshaya Tritiya in places where the lockdown is not imposed or there are partial shutdowns.
PNG & Sons: A gem among luxury jewellersThe jewellery brand has a business presence across 29 retail stores in India.
Jewellers plan big for next financial year following demand revival, duty cutMalabar Gold & Diamonds plans to open 90 stores in India and abroad in 2021-22 at an estimated investment of Rs 2,700 crore. The company wants to increase the number of stores to 750 by 2023 from 260 at present, chairman Ahammed MP told ET. “Our plan is to take the turnover to Rs 50,000 crore by 2023. In the last fiscal, our turnover was Rs 27,000 crore,” he said.
High prices, COVID-19 take sheen of Dhanteras; gold, silver sales down up to 35%The buying was heavily restricted to light weight jewellery, coins and precious stones due to lower purchasing power and high gold rates, they said.
Pre-Diwali Dhanteras sales of gold and silver see some shine on 1st half of FridaySpeaking to , All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council chairman Anantha Padmanaban said, "we are witnessing steady footfalls since morning. However, the momentum is expected to pick-up towards the evening as Friday is a working day." WGC Managing Director, India, Somasundaram PR said there have been "mixed responses" since Thursday evening but the sentiment is much better today.
Jewellers bet on 'Dhanteras'; expect to clock 70% of last year's bizJewellers are expecting a revival in retail sales this festive season as the yellow metal has always been an integral part to festivals in India, particularly so during Dhanteras, Diwali, and the ensuing wedding season.
How 'one nation, one gold price' could soon become a realityGold is an imported commodity and, therefore, the import price is the same across the country. But jewellery associations in different parts of the country fix different board rates, leading to multiple prices.
Indians start buying physical gold before Diwali despite high pricesJewellers said that Dussehra demand has perked them up and they are expecting a much better Diwali. They said the pent up demand is already showing and even the fear of the virus has dissipated as the recovery rate goes up.Load More
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Jan. 13, 2013
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-- The leading mobile apps marketing firm in Nashville Tennessee, iHuman Evolution’s CEO, James Rickman reports that an alliance between major retailers and Facebook is set to be announced by Mark Zukerberg, Facbook’s CEO. Major retailers are climbing on-board the Facebook mobile apps platform including Samsung, Pet Smart, FedEx,Abercrombie & Fitch and WalMart. Mobile apps open up new revenue opportunities using social network ecommerce applications for retail businesses. It’s a cost effective way to improve customer brand loyalty says Mr. Rickman. Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! is also excited to transform the way consumers shop using mobile advertising and mobile marketing apps. Read Article Report Click Here http://ihumanevolution.com/Mobile_Apps_Ecommerce.html
iHuman Evolution, Nashville’s top mobile Internet company reports 55% of consumers shop using mobile Internet devices. Mobile users rely heavily on social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Increasingly, retailers are developing creative ways to target location based sales using QR code coupons, geofencing and mobile marketing SMS text message alerts says James Rickman, CEO of iHuman Evolution.
Facebook is set to post third-quarter results Jan. 30, 2103. The company sales reportedly rose 33% to $1.50 billion in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period, faster than the growth rate of 32% in the two previous quarters, according to Bloomberg.


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The OFT has spoken. GCap has agreed to dispose of BRMB, Beacon, Wyvern and Mercia in the West Midlands and sell Heart 106 in the East Midlands to ensure that its merger with Global Radio can go through without any more regulatory intervention. They’re mostly good stations, which will have been hard to let go, but the new prize is definitely worth it.
I mentioned in a previous post that I felt in the East Midlands that they would sell Trent, Leicester and Ram rather than Heart 106 as losing Heart would have caused them some brand disappointment. However, the smoke signals coming out of GCap suggest that there’s a deal on the cards where the Heart brand will be licensed to the new owner, which will seemingly keep their network intact.
Though as they’ve apparently been allowed to keep selling Smooth, it’ll be interesting to see whether they’ll still be able to represent Heart 106 nationally as well.
So, who’s going to buy the discarded bunch? Bauer surely has to be at the front of the queue to add them to their Big City Network – but would GCap want to sell them to its major One/Heart network competitor? I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw someone else joining the fray.
It will also be interesting to see whether this is the final move, or just one of the elements of this round of radio Monopoly?


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Welcoming Neil Ryan as our new CEO
As we enter a new year of business for LIGNIA, we’re also welcoming a new CEO to our company.
Neil Ryan, who has a background in the chemical industry, will be replacing our CEO of five years, Hans Ng.
We’re delighted to welcome Neil into the LIGNIA family. He brings with him a wealth of management experience, including 25 years with Dow Chemical. His knowledge and experience will enable LIGNIA to continue to grow in the global timber market in 2020 and beyond.
And it’s not goodbye for Hans either – he’ll be staying with LIGNIA on a full-time basis and will focus on business development. With a background in the international timber trade as well as the marine industry, Hans is keen to continue further developing LIGNIA’s business model with our commercial colleagues.
Hans has led the development of LIGNIA over the last few years from a start-up business to a global award-winning manufacturer with three branded products in both the marine and construction sectors. The change in leadership was solely his decision and was made due to changes in his personal life.
2020 will be a significant year for LIGNIA. We’re working with distributors worldwide to supply our modified timber to the construction and yacht markets and we have plenty of exciting projects in the pipeline. We're looking forward to the year ahead, with Neil at the helm.


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Direct writer Churchill has received the accolade of best car and home insurance provider in the Consumer Finance Awards.
The award was based on a poll of more than 4,500 readers of the Guardian and Observer. They are the first consumer finance awards organised by a national newspaper.
Churchill chairman Martin Long said: "The award was based on such issues as friendliness of staff, quality of literature and flexibility of cover. I am particularly pleased that the quality of our service is continually recognised – on this occasion by customers, the most important people."
Churchill has grown to 1.4m policyholders since established by Long in 1989.


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Bitcoin finally rallies, best day so far in four months
- 6 months ago
Bitcoin finally managed to breakthrough the support levels, up 15% to $4,370.30.
The best it has seen for the last four months and dragging with it other digital currencies as Wednesday saw double-digit gains for most major coins.
Analysts have pointed out to the similar pattern back in last September when Bitcoin begun its meteoric surge to its all time highs.
Whether the phenomenon repeats itself however is still subject to speculation.
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March indicators come in like lambs
Consumer inflation, excluding cigarette prices, lost ground for the second consecutive month, largely because of falling prices for electricity, natural gas and fresh produce.
March consumer price inflation edged down to 0.4 percent year-on-year, its lowest level since 1999. February inflation was 0.5 percent. Consumer prices, excluding cigarettes, fell to 0.2 percent.
Prices of private services rose 1.9 percent year-on-year, but declines in the cost of natural gas (14 percent), agricultural and livestock products (0.8 percent) and oil (21.4 percent) dragged down the overall inflation rate.
Many are concerned the decline in consumer prices may be an indication the Korean economy could be entering a period of deflation.
However, analysts believe the local economy continues to display weak but definite signs of recovery as core inflation remained above 2 percent, registering 2.1 percent in March.
Core inflation excludes oil and agricultural produce, which tend to be particularly volatile. It is often used as an indicator of an economy’s fundamental strength.
“The positive impact of lower oil costs usually comes six months after [the price starts dropping], which would be the latter half of the year at earliest. Relatively inexpensive oil will eventually result in lower prices for products and allow households to spend more, accelerating the recovery of the domestic economy.”
Meanwhile, exports and imports both fell in March, yet there was a trade surplus for the 38th consecutive month thanks to sharply reduced imports. It was also the third straight month the dollar value of Korean exports dropped.
According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, March exports were valued at $46.9 billion, down 4.2 percent year-on-year, while imports were $38.6 billion, down 15.3 percent. The result was a trade surplus of $8.4 billion.
Cheaper petrochemical and refinery exports were the biggest reasons why the overall value of exports slipped, the Trade Ministry said.
When excluding oil-related products, the value of exports in March grew 0.2 percent. In terms of sheer volume, Korean exports grew 6.4 percent year-on-year in March.
Large-capacity portable solid-state drives (SSDs) recorded the biggest export growth last month of 45 percent year-on-year to $860 million.
Offshore plant exports grew 13.6 percent to $3.7 billion, while semiconductor exports were up 3.4 percent to $5.4 billion.
“Despite continuous export declines, I don’t think this is a sign of trouble since both export volume and our companies’ profitability are improving,” said Kwon Pyung-oh, deputy minister for international trade and investment. “In particular, export volumes of petrochemical and other oil products have increased, and low oil prices have strengthened the Korean won and enhanced corporate profitability.”
Slumping imports are seen as an indication of the persistent sluggishness of the domestic economy.
However, the Trade Ministry says imports of consumer products actually increased 9.4 percent. The ministry explained that overall imports declined because of reduced shipments of major raw materials like crude oil and steel panels.
According to the ministry, international prices of Dubai crude oil plunged to $54.70 per barrel in March, down from $104.40 a year earlier.
Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol recently said he is worried about the nation’s key economic indicators like consumer price and trade indices and will take that into consideration when making monetary policy decisions.
The market took his remark as a sign the central bank might further cut its already record low benchmark interest rate when its monetary policy committee next meets in May.
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The United Nations has warned that the global economy faces “a US$2 trillion hit” in a “doomsday scenario” after the World Health Organization declared a worldwide pandemic.
As the Covid-19 disease spreads across the planet and the battle switches from China to Europe and the United States, concerns are growing that global growth will be wiped out as consumer demand evaporates.
“From an economic perspective, the key issue is not just the number of cases of Covid-19, but the level of disruption to economies from containment measures,” Ben May, the head of macro research at Oxford Economics, said in a report this week.
“Widespread lockdowns such as those imposed by China have been enacted in some virus hotspots [such as Italy],” he added, pointing out that these measures could cause panic and weaken the global economy even more.
First detected in Wuhan last December, the virus quickly spread across the world’s second-largest economy from the capital of Hubei province before infecting more than 110,000 people in at least 110 countries in less than three months.
According to the WHO, the death toll has now reached more than 4,000.
Already the economic impact has been immense with worldwide markets tanking as major institutions and banks cut growth forecasts.
In a March report, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, announced it had downgraded its 2020 predictions for almost all countries. Then on Monday, the UN Conference on Trade and Development went even further and predicted that global GDP could take “a $2 trillion hit.”
“One ‘doomsday scenario’ in which the world economy grew at only 0.5%, would involve ‘a $2 trillion hit’ to gross domestic product,” Richard Kozul-Wright, of the Globalization and Development Strategies at UNCTAD, said, adding that collapsing oil prices had been “a contributing factor to the sense of unease and panic.”
On the day that the UNCTAD rolled out its report, world markets went into meltdown. Hysteria over plunging oil prices and supply-chain chaos added to the uncertainty.
“Few countries [are] unlikely to be left unscathed by the outbreak’s financial ramifications,” Kozul-Wright said in a statement. “Apart from the tragic human consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic, the economic uncertainty it has sparked will likely cost the global economy [at least] $1 trillion in 2020,” the study stated before revealing that “doomsday scenario.”
Dwindling consumer demand will not only act as a brake but drag down further GDP growth while the speed of the spread of the coronavirus has caught economists and analysts struggling to keep up.
The UBS Group summed up the situation perfectly with the tag line “we are revising … everything” in a note released on Thursday.
“To take on board the spread of the virus (additional consumption pull-back and supply chain disruption across multiple countries), the slow pace of normalization in China, the collapse of oil prices, and the additional disruption we expect over the next four-to-six weeks, we have revised our forecasts for countries as well as all major asset classes,” the Swiss multinational investment bank said.
“In the pandemic scenario, we expect global growth in 2020 to fall to 0.8% (with 18 of 28 countries in recession),” UBS added.
As for Asia, if China, Europe and the United States catch influenza, the region will end up on life-support.
South Korea and Japan are battling their own outbreaks while the ASEAN countries of Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are bracing for the economic fallout.
After suffering early infections in January, countries such as Singapore, Vietnam and the Phillippines appear to have contained the epidemic while new cases in Thailand have declined.
But the business impact will still be severe.
“During the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, tourism from China to countries such as Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines dropped by as much as 90% before rebounding the following year. But regional economies have become much more dependent on Chinese tourism since then. Today, visitors from China make up around 40% of all tourist arrivals in the region, up from less than 20% before SARS,” Anne Oeking, an economist at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office in Singapore, said.
“Even a relatively short-lived embargo on Chinese travel will have a much bigger impact this time around. Tourism’s contribution to economies of the region has increased almost everywhere since the early 2000s. In 2018, the tourism industry was estimated to have contributed more than 30% of Cambodia’s GDP, and more than 20% for Thailand and the Philippines. A drop in visitor arrivals from China and other countries [would be] damaging for the ASEAN+3 region,” she wrote on the East Asia Forum website.
Looking at the broader issues for major Asia-Pacific nations, the outlook is just as chilling.
“Among major economies outside of China, the OECD forecasts the largest downward growth revisions in countries deeply interconnected to China, especially South Korea, Australia and Japan,” Stephanie Segal and Dylan Gerstel, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington, said.
“Major European economies will experience dislocations as the virus spreads and countries adopt restrictive responses that curb manufacturing activity at regional hubs. As a result of depressed activity, the United Nations projects that foreign direct investment flows could fall between 5% and 15% to their lowest levels since the global financial crisis [between 2008 and 2009],” they wrote in a commentary.
In the meantime, that “$2 trillion hit” might end up looking rather conservative if the Covid-19 outbreak continues to wreak havoc across the planet.


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76% of patients think pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to provide information and services that help patients manage their own health. Nearly as many respondents— 74%—indicate that the most appropriate time to initiate outreach is when they start taking a medication, although half of the respondents are open to receiving assistance after they have begun a course of treatment or are considering switching.
There’s a new boss in U.S. healthcare: the consumer according to a survey of 2,339 U.S. residents .The research paints a clear picture of a population displeased with its overall healthcare experience — and with rising expectations for transparency, value, and customer service, as well as a willingness to seek healthcare services from less traditional sources. The healthcare market as we know it is being upended, and the consumer is in the driver’s seat. Consumers, particularly younger ones, increasingly expect healthcare to work the way other digital markets work, with user-friendly interfaces, clearly defined pricing and wide spread options designed to meet their needs. Their other buying experiences have made them more savvy and skeptical, and they want to know what they’re getting before they spend.


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The most important agricultural product in the country entered among those affected by the coronavirus. The crisis in China , where 10% of its sales are directed, as well as the isolation of Italy create the perfect storm.
Yesterday the price of the box of 43 kilograms fell to 5 dollars in the spot market , in relation to the $ 10.30 in the middle of last month and $ 6.30 which is official price (minimum support).
Apparently producers who have signed a contract are safe, since they should be paid over $ 6, however, that is no guarantee, some companies apply strategies to make discounts.
Ecuador exports more than 350 million boxes per year (6.8 million tons), which generated $ 3,295 million in 2019, 24.1% of non-oil sales, just below the shrimp, according to the Central Bank of Ecuador (ECB)
Exporters have said that the crisis caused by the coronavirus will become evident in the month that runs (March), as some importers are failing to comply with the payments . This affects more the provinces of Los Ríos, Guayas and El Oro .


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It's 2018, and as a civilization, we've come a long way. No, there are no flying cars (yet), but we all carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets, can own drones, and can argue with strangers from all around the world as long as they have internet access.
And yet women are still having to ask their partners to help out around the house. What gives?
Last month, Blogger Constance Hall went on a highly-relatable rant about spouses assuming responsibility for housework, and women everywhere are all, "🙌 🙌 🙌 ."


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Semiconductor wafer transfer equipment maker Cymechs will receive funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy to develop new wafer transfer robots used in chip production lines, the company said on Wednesday.
The company will be eligible to get up to 8 billion won in funding for the next five years to develop the robots.
A total of 12.4 billion won will be spent on the project and Cymechs will secure the remaining 4.4 billion won from other private entities that are planning to take part.
Up to now, South Korean semiconductor companies relied on imported transfer robots for over 90% of those used in their production lines.
Cymechs will co-develop them with precision motor maker Komotek and Korea Aerospace University. The developed robot will be tested by an unnamed semiconductor maker based in South Korea, the company said.
Cymechs CEO Eom Ju-yong said the company aims to secure around 100 billion won in sales from its robot business by 2025.
The company posted 15.3 billion won in operating profits and 95.8 billion won in sales in the first half of 2020, a return to profit and a rise of 197.8%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.


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EcoGeek loves giant metaphors. In New York, an area called the Iron Triangle – it’s in Queens near Shea Stadium and is presently home to auto shops and a ton of pollution – may be in the sights of the old eco-rifle. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would like to see the area overhauled and turned into a “vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood” in the city’s largest ever green development project.
From the Mayor’s office:
“Through the remediation of heavily contaminated land, the use of innovative green building technologies and the development of considerable parks and open space, Willets Point can and will serve as a model for sustainable development.”
Knocking out auto shops and replacing it with sustainably-built homes and other businesses? Replacing some 1,300 jobs with over 6,000? And a Republican’s calling for it? EcoGeek needs a drink.


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While it is not unanimous in the scientific community, the concept of food addiction is gaining more and more support among experts. Some behaviors related to eating could indicate the existence of this psychological disorder.
Various experiments, carried out in both animals and humans, showed that, in some cases, food activates the same reward and pleasure in the brain as addictive drugs. The reaction is observed mainly during the consumption of foods rich in sugar, fat and salt.
We discussed with several doctors and endocrinologists about food addiction and named some warning signs that people should be aware of. According to the specialist, if a person has at least three of them, it is advisable to seek the help of a professional.
A person who has this type of eating disorder is constantly thinking about food, according to the doctor. Plus, they always feel like eating something, no matter what time of day or your mood.
Health Experts emphasized that one of the favorite hobbies of people addicted to food is going to restaurants and cafes, something directly related to food intake.
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Another sign that the relationship with food is unhealthy is a relationship between mood and food. If after eating, the person becomes very cheerful and, on the other hand, if they become irritable with the slightest feeling of hunger, there may be a tendency to food addiction.
They also believe that feeling guilty after eating food is a clear symptom of food-related psychological problems.
Eating compulsively is considered by many experts a behavioral addiction, that is, a habit that escapes the control of the person, as well as addiction to shopping or gambling. Food addicts often continue to eat excessively despite the negative consequences of their actions. Also, it’s not uncommon for them to have trouble stopping their behavior, even if they want it or have tried many times.
The help of a professional is essential in diagnosing and treating food addiction. To re-establish a healthy relationship with food, it is advisable to seek a psychologist, Pavlova stressed.
A professional’s help is essential for diagnosing and treating food addiction. To re-establish a healthy relationship with food it is advisable to look for a psychologist, Experts stressed.


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The U.S. Army CIO has released a new policy for Internet of Things (IoT) device cybersecurity which mandates that all Army personnel who are approved to telework remove or turn off all IoT devices in their workspaces.
“As a result of the pandemic, we saw a drastic expansion of our digital ecosystem which introduced new cybersecurity risks. So, we’re elevating and expanding our protocols to make telework offices more secure for our current and future digital Army workforce,” said Army CIO Dr. Raj Iyer.
The Army reiterated that teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the risk posed by IoT devices as the typical home may contain 70 IoT devices on average.
The policy defines IoT devices as a network of items or applications that connect to the internet and emanate from several different technologies. The policy specifically said it applies to:
- “Bluetooth wireless devices, speakers, mobile phone headsets, intercoms, hubs, home routers, printers, computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, smartwatches, auto devices, gaming consoles, TV, home entertainment centers, digital audio players, portable media, players, digital video recorders, webcams, cameras, sensors, fitness trackers, medical devices, weighing scales;
- Smart home devices, kitchen appliances, washer and dryer machines, lights, home electric systems, smart energy management systems, smart security solutions; and
- Personal home assistant applications on mobile devices.”
The Army said that when smart IoT devices are powered on, they constantly listen and collect data by recording audio, transcripts, and even video. The policy raises concerns with cybercriminals and foreign adversaries exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses to gain access to classified information.
“This new policy aims to prevent data leaks and protect privacy of critical unclassified information, personally identifiable information, and operational data,” a press release from the Army CIO said.
Due to this, Army military, civilian, and contractor personnel must protect themselves and the Army’s mission by:
- Removing all IoT devices with listening functions from the work area;
- Turning off or removing all personal mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets, in the work area; and
- Disabling audio access functions on personal assistant applications and devices.