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Microsoft's next version of Windows, known alternatively as Windows 9 and by the code name "Threshold", is reported to be set for a public unveiling on September 30th.
The report from The Verge's unnamed source adds that the date of the press event might change, but that the plan is to launch a preview version of the next version of Windows for developers on September 30 or shortly after the official reveal. Currently, rumors claim that Microsoft may launch the final version of Threshold, which may or may not get the official name of Windows 9, sometime in the spring of 2015.
Microsoft has already stated that the next version of Windows will bring back a version of the Start menu for the desktop UI that went missing with the launch of Windows 8. It will also have the ability to run Modern apps in windows on the desktop. Rumors about Threshold claim that Microsoft may do away with the Charms bar in Windows 8, along with adding support for virtual desktops and the Cortana digital assistant that's currently being used for Windows Phone 8.1.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Crown Heights artisanal matzoh selling for twice the price in ritzy Upper East Side stores
Jews across the world will spend eight days noshing on the cracker-like food during Passover starting Monday. Religious law forbids eating bread during the holy week honoring the Hebrews escape from Ancient Egypt.
Most city supermarkets carry factory-made matzoh for under $5 a box.
The artisanal matzoh has become increasingly popular - but finding it outside of Brooklyn is a tough feat.
“People are willing to pay a lot for tradition,” said Benny Rogosnitzky, the cantor at the swanky Park East Synagogue on E. 67th St. “There is no one in Manhattan making these types of matzohs.”
Upper East Side shops said they carry D & T versus other Brooklyn bakery brands due to its rare recipe blending white and whole wheat flour.
Obsatz sells his boxes for $30 a piece.
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DALLAS, Sept. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Bank today named Senior Vice President Rhonda Davenport Johnson as its National Director of Retail Sales and Service, effective immediately. A 27-year veteran of Comerica, Davenport Johnson is now responsible for the development and leadership of all retail sales and customer service banking activities nationally, including overseeing all banking centers and contact centers. She reports to Michael J. Aust, executive vice president and executive director of Comerica's Retail Bank.
Since joining Comerica in 1987, Davenport Johnson has held positions of increasing scope and responsibility in banking center management, including as a Retail Bank regional manager in Michigan, and has served in other business roles, including Business Banking, new business development and operations. In her most current role as director of the Comerica Bank Loan Center (CLC), she oversaw all CLC operations for compliance, mortgage, home equity, consumer and small business loans generated through Comerica's national operations.
Davenport Johnson earned a bachelor's degree in business as well as an MBA from Western Michigan University, and is a 2008 graduate of the Graduate School of Retail Bank Management administered by the Consumers Bankers Association.
Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Business Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica reported total assets of $65.3 billion at June 30, 2014.


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The time has come to look at how Apple devices are performing (in sales) in their markets.
Yesterday, we learned that AirPods newbies already have great numbers and that they are out ahead of even Beats wireless headphones. The race in the smartphones and computers is a little more complicated, but it seems that Apple has done well in them in recent months.
According to a survey by Kantar Worldpanel, the iPhone market grew 6.4% from September to November 2016 in the United States. The presence of iOS continues to be less than that of devices with the Android system in the places where the research was carried out, however there was growth of iOS in most of them, mainly in the “pre-Christmas” period, when three models of iPhones reached the top of sales.
The iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6s were the three most popular smartphones in the US at the beginning of the holiday period, totaling a 31.3% share. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge were the fourth and fifth best sellers in the U.S., with Samsung capturing 28.9% of smartphone sales.
In Britain, the sales figures for iPhones skyrocketed, reaching an increase of 9.1% compared to the same period in 2015. Still there, Windows Phone had a drop of 7%, which may be directly related to the increase in iOS across the region.
However, despite the fact that the market favored the iPhone in the USA, Britain, France and Australia, there was a fall in Germany and China. In the latter, Android devices achieved 7.2% growth, even though the iPhone 7 topped the list of best-selling devices in urban China – followed by the Oppo R9.
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If the iPhone is between highs and lows in countries, Mac sales appear to be holding steady, even though the market as a whole is on a tightrope.
THE Gartner reported that during the fourth quarter of 2016, Apple managed to sell around 5.4 million Macs worldwide. Comparing this number with the previous year, when the company sold 5.3 million, there was an estimated growth of 2.4%. In this last quarter of 2016, Apple managed to capture 7.5% of the market, slightly more than in 2015, when it reached 7%.
Lenovo, HP and Dell remain at the top of global sales – and continue to grow, just like the previous year. ASUS was ahead of Apple by a small difference in number of sales; in percentage, it was equal to the Apple with 7.5% of the market, a fall of 8.5% in relation to 2015.
Global computer sales reached 72.6 million units during the fourth quarter of 2016, down 3.7% from the previous year’s fourth quarter. Total sales for the year were 269.7 million, down 6.2% compared to 2015. Apple estimates it sold around 18.6 million Macs in 2016, against 20.3 million in 2015. That means that the entire computer market is falling – and there seems to be a plausible explanation for that.
Stagnation in the computer market continued in the fourth quarter of 2016, as “pre-Christmas” sales were weak due to changing buyer behavior. The large computer market has been static, as technological improvements have not been sufficient to provide real market growth.
Even innovations in formats such as 2-in-1 notebooks and some thinner and lighter ones appeared; there have also been technological improvements such as increased battery life. This market has grown rapidly even for its committed users. However, the increase provided by enthusiasts is not large enough to drive growth in the global market.
–Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.
In the United States, there are another five hundred; Apple manages to do very well there. In the fourth quarter of 2016, the company managed to sell 2.1 million computers, reaching 12.8% of the market. In comparison with the previous year, there was an increase of 6.4%.
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Regarding worldwide sales, there is still a small difference in the numbers of another data analysis firm, IDC. According to her, the number referring to the fourth quarter of 2016 for the sale of PCs is 70.2 million and, of Macs, 5.26 million. Unlike Gartner, IDC saw a 0.9% drop in the market for Apple.
The real figures on Apple’s performance, we will know as soon as it reveals its next financial results, on January 31st.


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TORONTO — Canadian fashion retailer Aritzia is spinning its minimalist private label Babaton into freestanding stores this fall.
The Vancouver-based company will launch its first Babaton location at the CF Toronto Eaton Centre later this year, bringing together the brand’s full range of upscale product — including T-shirts, jackets,pants, oversize ribbed sweaters and slipdresses.
Babaton’s 2,000-square-foot Toronto location will be designed by Aritzia’s in-house team.
The timing for the rollout “has much to do with the success of the Babaton brand,” according to Aritzia’s chief marketing officer Oliver Walsh.
“In recent years Babaton has become increasingly popular with our customers from a design point of view because it caters to those who love minimalist design,” Walsh added.
Babaton’s current price points range from 35 Canadian dollars, or $26.60 at current exchange, for T-shirts to 495 Canadian dollars, or $376.20, for jackets. That range has become increasingly appealing to younger career women who comprise Babaton’s core demographic.
Though future store rollouts have yet to be unveiled, Aritzia has “strong growth ambitions” for Babaton, according to Walsh.
“We have a very clear vision for the Babaton brand. That is why we would not make any expansion decisions until we had a prime brand for a prime retail space,” Walsh said. “The Toronto Eaton Centre is an important shopping destination in North America.”
Babaton now becomes Aritzia’s third in-house label to morph into a freestanding shopping destination. Wilfred and TNA — two other in-house brands shepherded by Aritzia — operate six freestanding locations in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The Wilfred brand will also see more store locations opening in Canada this year.
The Babaton rollout comes as Aritzia continues with its own aggressive expansion plans for 2016, which will see the launch of three new Canadian stores and four locations in the U.S., including Boston, Long Island, N.Y., Walnut Creek, Calif., and Los Angeles.
Aritzia will also relocate four of its current stores in Burnaby, BC, Toronto and Calgary to larger locations in 2016, as well as expand existing locations in New York’s SoHo and the company’s Vancouver flagship. The retailer hopes to have 61 Canadian locations by the end of 2016.


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Nissan has unveiled research that will enable vehicles to interpret signals from the driver’s brain, redefining how people interact with their cars.
The company’s Brain-to-Vehicle, or B2V, technology promises to speed up reaction times for drivers, leading to adaptable cars that will make the driving experience more pleasurable.
Nissan will be demonstrating capabilities of this exclusive technology at the CES 2018 trade show in Las Vegas this week. It involves a driver wearing a device that measures brain wave activity, which is then analysed by autonomous systems. By anticipating intended movement, the systems can take actions – such as turning the steering wheel or slowing the car – 0.2 to 0.5 seconds faster than the driver, while remaining largely imperceptible.
“When most people think about autonomous driving, they have a very impersonal vision of the future, where humans relinquish control to the machines. Yet B2V technology does the opposite, by using signals from their own brain to make the drive even more exciting and enjoyable,” said Nissan Executive Vice President Daniele Schillaci. “Through Nissan Intelligent Mobility, we are moving people to a better world by delivering more autonomy, more electrification and more connectivity.”
This latest announcement from Nissan is the result of research into using brain decoding technology to predict a driver’s actions and detect discomfort.
By predicting signs that the driver’s brain is about to initiate a movement – such as turning the steering wheel or pushing the accelerator pedal – driver assist technologies can begin the action more quickly. This can improve reaction times and enhance manual driving.
What’s more, by detecting and evaluating driver discomfort, artificial intelligence can change the driving configuration or driving style when in autonomous mode.
“The potential applications of the technology are incredible,” said Dr. Lucian Gheorghe, senior innovation researcher at the Nissan Research Center in Japan. “This research will be a catalyst for more Nissan innovation inside our vehicles in the years to come.”


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by Phyllis Schlafly
The technology industry has dispatched its fat-wallet lobbyists to demand that the new Congress vastly increase the number of foreign computer software techies and engineers who can be imported on H-1B visas. This demand is based on the claim that we suffer a labor shortage in those fields, but that's a bare-faced lie to erect a smoke screen around the real reasons.
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Many bitcoin holders remember the chaos and controversy surrounding the Bitcoin fork in August, which resulted in the creation of Bitcoin Cash, a new currency that is dividing the crypto industry to this day. Forks are controversial as some believes it threatens the legitimacy of the original chain. It is one of blockchain technology’s biggest hurdles as the technology attempts to break into the mainstream market. But, with any new technology, there is room for improvement and innovators ready to put in the work. Cypherium, a team of developers with backgrounds at Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT), are going against all odds to build a blockchain that processes transactions at the speed necessary to manage high volume data.
Currently, there is so much data trying to be processed on the Bitcoin Blockchain that it simply can’t keep up, similar to the way a computer slows down when the hard drive becomes full. It has to think longer and harder about simple commands, applications take longer to open, etc. Cypherium’s blockchain will be able to process thousands of transactions per second, making it a true competitor in the global market.
Cypherium believes it’s blockchain is more useable for everyday transactions like getting coffee or grocery shopping because of the low transaction fees and faster transaction rates. Currently, the Bitcoin Blockchain can only process 7 transactions per second. Compared to VisaNet, which is VISA’s (V) electronic payment network, which can process 2,000 transactions per second, this is almost unusable and is severely impacting Bitcoin’s ability to grow. In order for blockchain technology to make a significant impact in the mainstream market, it must be able to process more transactions and do so more efficiently. Cypherium’s blockchain looks to provide a faster, more secure and convenient alternative to the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Blockchain’s immutability is due to the process of verifying transactions. It’s a group effort with a system of checks and balances in place to sift out frauds, hackers or any other threat to the network. All participants must agree in order for the transaction to be verified, known as reaching consensus. Until now there have only been a few different methods of reaching consensus; all with their own rules, pros and cons. The different methods of reaching consensus share a main goal of verifying transactions as a group with no single participant more powerful than another. Cypherium, however, suggests a new consensus mechanism that combines the strength of two of the most popular methods, while rectifying their weaknesses. This hybrid consensus method will enable groups to come to agreement more quickly, while keeping the integrity of the system.
Cypherium has already begun building their blockchain, and also be holding a token sale in December. Their token, CRS, will fuel the transaction fees within the network. It will also be used as a monetary reward to the individuals verifying the transactions. While there are risks that accompany all currencies, Cypherium greatly reduces the risk of large value fluctuations of their token by building it on top of a blockchain that doesn’t rely on forking.
Governance disputes have led to value fluctuations and controversial forks in recent memory. Cypherium’s technology offers a solution to resolving governance disputes over the blockchain, encouraging a more stable currency. Cypherium, with their experienced team and innovative forethought, are experimenting with the possibility of creating a blockchain that is capable of becoming the cornerstone of blockchain technology in the consumer’s daily lives.


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Redmi 8 smartphone was in rumours for the past couple of weeks and now it has finally got a release date. The all-new budget smartphone is scheduled to hit on October 9 in the Indian market. Some of its fresh specs and details have also been revealed. Let’s take a look.
The company’s VP shared a poster that confirmed the launch date of the budget smartphone. It also revealed some highlights of the phone. According to the company, the smartphone will have upgraded cameras, a bigger battery, and a decently powerful SoC. The poster mainly flaunts the dual camera setup on the phone, sadly the camera hardware is not revealed yet.
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Redmi 8 smartphone was also spotted on Google Play console that tipped some of its specs. The budget smartphone will rock a larger HD+ display with a dot notch at the top of the screen. It will come powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 SoC which is the same chipset in the newly launched Redmi 8A. The device will come with a base configuration of 3GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.
It will also house a bigger battery with some sort of fast charging support. The exact battery figure is unknown but more than 4,000mAh battery is for sure happening. It will also feature a physical fingerprint scanner at the rear. The smartphone will run on Android 9 Pie out of the box with MIUI on top of it.
There’s just a couple of days left for the unveiling and we might not know, a hands-on leak might pop-up. If more details on the phone are outed we’ll be the first one to notify you on the same.
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LONDON — Stella McCartney has inked a long-term worldwide licensing deal with the Italian company Simonetta, which specializes in children’s wear. Simonetta will begin developing, producing and distributing the Stella McCartney Kids collection beginning with the spring 2022 season.
The brand said the strategic partnership “will turbocharge the growth” of the Stella McCartney Kids business. It added that the collection will be sustainable, with the two companies “coming together to protect the planet for future generations” creating clothing and accessories, “with the least environmental impact.”
Stella McCartney Kids includes styles for girls, boys and babies up to age 16, and is distributed in multibrand shops, department stores and through Stella McCartney stand-alone stores.
Gabriele Maggio, chief executive officer of Stella McCartney, said: “This new partnership with Simonetta will take Stella McCartney Kids to the next level by combining a high level of knowledge and expertise in the category — increasing the brand’s positioning and growth potential across international markets.”
Niccolò Matteo Monicelli, head of Simonetta said his company’s licensing portfolio will be “further and significantly expanded with a prestigious brand that fills us with pride and motivation.”
Stella McCartney works with a number of Italian factories for sustainable sourcing and manufacturing. McCartney’s eco-friendly stretch denim is made with mushroom and seaweed dyes. The fabric is known as Coreva and is made by the Candiani denim mill.
McCartney often shows in Milan due to the brand’s strong supply chain in the region. “A lot of our manufacturers are in Italy, a lot of [our] fabrics were created in Italy, and a lot of people who work in the house of Stella McCartney are Italian. They’ve all embraced us from the start,” she told WWD in an interview in 2018.
Simonetta is a leading company specialized in luxury children’s wear with a sustainable approach to sourcing and manufacturing. In 2017 the company was acquired by Isa Seta SpA. The company manufactures for third parties and also sells its own brand clothing.


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In the world of vegetable milk, the basic ingredients are everything. The variety is dazzling, including cashew milk, soy milk, coconut milk, almond milk, oat milk, and even macadamia milk. We call them milk, but they don’t work like cow milk. It has a bitter taste when heated and separates when cooled. Until recently, no real dairy product was imitated.
That was exactly that NotCo, A start-up company founded in Chile wanted to do. Over the months starting in 2019, scientists there have developed artificial intelligence techniques to find plants that may function like milk at the molecular level. However, there were times when humans had to intervene, as when casein, the main protein in milk, was simulated by algae that turned drinks into an appetizing shade of blue.
Then the scientists landed on something promising, not blue.
“This is weird milk!” The company’s CEO, Matias Muchnick, recalled what he said after his first taste. “what is that?”
Two of the important ingredients were pineapple and cabbage. This is something that humans have never dreamed of pouring into breakfast cereals. This product, called NotMilk, uses more than 12 ingredients, including chicory root fiber, coconut oil, and pea protein to create what the packaging calls a “plant-based alternative milk.” Introduced in Carton: Black Erased Cow Painting – Erased.
With Impossible Foods, Announced last year NotMilk was further investing in the development of its own fake dairy milk prototype. NotMilk claims to make vegan milk that can taste, cook and whisk like beef. years ago. However, NotCo takes a unique approach, using algorithms that help scientists solve the biggest mysteries of plant-based foods. It is delicious enough for omnivores and emits less carbon dioxide than dairy products.
NotMilk is sold at Whole Foods in the United States, is sold in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and will reach nearly 3,000 US grocery stores this year.Investor Including Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, which owns Whole Foods. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) NotCo also manufactures plant-based mayonnaise, ice cream, and burgers using the same basic technology.
NotMilk’s success depends on its ability to fulfill its promises and its ability to wrap people around what it is.
Is it milk? Isn’t it milk?
“Of course, it’s provocative,” Muchnick said. He said that raising those questions and learning the answers is all part of the process of knowing milk.
So Dairy industry is struggling Demand with Vegetable milk boom, Shoppers have become accustomed to seeing cartons Almond Breeze And Rice dream.. But to find out what’s in NotMilk, they need to flip the container over and look at the ingredient list.
Steven Williamson, CEO of the company, said other companies have tried to market themselves without labeling their foundations. Forager projectMake organic plant-based foods, including milk. RippleFor example, the front of a milk bottle does not mention the basic ingredient, peas, and calls itself “plant-based.”
“No one has succeeded on an undifferentiated basis,” Williamson quoted. Autory As the most successful plant-based milk on the market. “Until now, the base has been important.”
For running Larisha Bernard Make dairy products freeOn the vegan website, along with her husband Andrew, I asked her her own question when she heard that NotMilk intended to imitate dairy products. “Does that mean GMO? Does that mean it was created with some ambiguity in the lab?” She said. “We had to do our own research.”
Knowing how to make milk, she was comfortable using it to soak cookies and make creamy sauces such as alfredo and macaroni and cheese. “This is the closest thing we remember tasting milk,” said Bernard, who has been vegan for over two years.
A side-by-side taste test comparing NotMilk and milk showed a difference. Compared to dairy products, NotMilk is a faint note of coconut and pineapple, slightly veggie in shade and sweetened on both the nose and mouth. One taster said the flavor was much less sweet, but reminiscent of cow milk agitated with fruit loops. When it comes to texture, it felt like a dairy product.
Milk has had many consequences for coffee. When poured into various roasts and branded brews, it sometimes broke and did not foam into thick, silky foam, instead creating large foam. Muchnick states that the pH of some coffees can cause separation and recommends using at least one-third of Not Milk for coffee. “The gush may not be enough to stop the separation,” he said.
Aside from that, all four tasters agreed. As such, NotMilk was delicious and much more like a dairy product than any other vegetable milk.
But is that good for you?General criticisms of imitation meat such as: impossible And Beyond Hamburgers are that they have Equivalent amount Highly processed of saturated beef fat.Something like Burger King And Dunkin’Donuts Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol added these meats to the menu Passed famously so that.
Will Brucywitz, a gastroenterologist and advocate of a plant-based diet in Charleston, South Carolina, has enough data on whether imitation milk and burgers are healthier than the original animal-based products. And no research, he said. He probably did, but expressed concern that NotMilk was a “super-processed food.”
Muchnick disagreed with its properties. Or was it processed? Or is it fresh? Or is it natural? The industry calls many things that are not natural “natural.” “
Diet and nutrition have long been polarized, and confusing, Subjects – Over the past few decades, we have accepted and avoided fats, gluten, sugar, and even carbohydrates. That’s why Muknik was attracted to the food industry. A financial major from Santiago, Chile, playing rugby and eating meat “very hard”, he had an internship at JP Morgan in Hong Kong when he had an inspiration.
“One day eggs are good for you. Another day eggs are bad for you,” he said. “Whenever the industry causes so much turmoil, it’s because the system is broken.”
He thought the food industry was running on outdated technology. Together with data science-focused computer scientist Karim Pichara Baksai and plant genome biochemist Pablo Zamora, he set out to create an AI-driven food approach to the algorithm. I provided information and taught what works. The goal was to create a plant-based food that removes animals from the equation without sacrificing flavor.
It took a year and a half to create the base of the algorithm. Today, vegetarian Muchnick, who is still working on dairy products, has been prototyping and scaling the product in four months, thanks to an algorithm named Giuseppe after an Italian artist in the 16th century. Say you are going. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Draws a portrait that fuses human characteristics with plants.
The industry is not lacking in controversy.Vegetable milk had to be Address regulatory challenges Around the world, we are facing backlash from dairy farmers and their supporters.European Union where plant-based products cannot label themselves as “oat milk” or “cashew yogurt” Recently withdrawn A rule that would even prohibit them from comparing themselves to dairy products after protests from supporters and consumers. Still, in England Oatly is labeled As an “oat drink”.Other brands Go with “m * lk”.
NotCo is facing in Chile Proceedings The dairy union has filed a claim that the company has accused milk and demanded that it stop using images of cows in packaging and marketing.
Muchnick, who wiped out the proceedings in response to the dairy industry’s loss of market share, says NotCo has never claimed that milk is bad. I haven’t faced similar challenges in the United States, but it wouldn’t be surprising to say “these things always happen” right away.
Especially in the rapid growth of NotCo. Muchnick says milk sells “incredibly well” at Whole Foods. The full half gallon is $ 4.99, Same as Horizon Organic Milk.. (Whole Foods spokespersons couldn’t share a particular number of sales, but confirmed NotMilk was a strong retailer.) The company is looking to expand into Canada and Mexico. The goal is not just to appeal to vegans and vegetarians. Muchnick shows that 92% of consumers do not fall into any of these categories, according to their research.
“The only way we move the needle is if we have access to the mass market,” he said.
Of course, there is only one way to do that. It’s about writing down the cows that are the biggest competitors out there.
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Tudor’s Back – Tudor’s Black…All Black
To mark the Rugby World Cup 2019, Tudor have teamed up with the New Zealand All Blacks to present a watch that will have collectors clamouring. And good luck to them, they’ll need it to snag one of these limited pieces! Introducing the Tudor Black Bay Chrono Dark.
Heritage by Name
In 2010 Tudor unveiled a whole new strategy which debuted with the Heritage watches — inspired by references from the brand’s heavy back catalogue. First out of the traps was the Heritage Chronograph, which was a reinterpreted Home Plate watch and then 2011 heralded the Heritage Advisor. It was in 2012, however, that things got really tasty with the launch of the Black Bay. A watch that seems so prevalent and part of our everyday horological landscape today, was born only seven short years ago!
The familiar rugged Osyter-esque case and iconic snowflake hands are now utilised across a vast number of watches that make up the Black Bay family. Red, Black, Blue, the 58, Chrono, Steel and Gold, Bronze, GMT and so on, all have the familiar DNA that has made Black Bay one of the hottest watches on the market.
When Tudor announced that New Zealand’s national rugby team were joining the family of ambassadors, there was only one watch that was going to come out of the back of the scrum — the Black Bay Dark. Launched in 2016, featuring the in-house calibre MT5602, the Dark was a fully black PVD-coated dive watch with cool red depth rating, red triangle bezel insert and those trademark snowflake hands.
It was the first black PVD watch to officially come out of the Wilsdorf camp. It was the perfect marriage for the All Blacks rugby team. But now, they have their own piece. And as I mentioned before, you’re going to want one.
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The Black Bay Chrono Dark picks up where the original PVD’d dive watch left off. Created in partnership with the All Blacks, the Black Bay Chrono Dark is a new version of the Black Bay Chrono with recent improvements that we first saw on the Steel and Gold version this year, at Baselworld.
Compared to the first version of the Black Bay chrono, the new models have a two piece bezel (like the early Tudor chronos), a more shallow rehaut which brings the dial nearer the glass (which is a small but visually very obvious tweak) and also a slimmer case, therefore making it wear more like a Daytona than a Big Block. The watch is supplied on a matching black bracelet that is also PVD coated, as are the chrono pushers and winding crown.
The big news, especially for collectors, is that this is a limited-edition piece. The only time we have ever seen anything similar to this, was the Pelagos LHD that was individually numbered but not limited.
The Black Bay Chrono Dark is limited to the number of players that have ever been called up by New Zealand to play for their national rugby team, the All Blacks. Since its creation in 1903, up until today there have been 1185 All Blacks players and so that will be the number of Black Bay Chrono Darks made.
But it gets better! Every time a new player gets called up to play, Tudor will produce another Chrono Dark. Conservatively, that could be around six per year. That’s a true limited edition and a first for Tudor or Rolex. The launch of the watch is taking place at a special event to mark the beginning of the Rugby World Cup in Japan this September, at Tudor’s first boutique in Tokyo. What a way to kick off the World Cup!
Self-winding Manufacture Calibre MT5813 (COSC); hour, minute, small running seconds; chronograph with 45-minute totalizer; date; 70-hour power reserve
41 mm steel PVD-treated case and bezel with aluminium insert; water resistant to 200 m
Matte black PVD-treated steel bracelet with matt black PVD-treated folding clasp and safety catch


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Madden NFL 25 Officially Announced (AKA Madden NFL 14)
Written Friday, February 01, 2013 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
EA Sports has announced that Madden NFL 14 won't be called Madden NFL 14 at all. Instead, it'll be titled Madden NFL 25 to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary. It's in development at EA Tiburon and will be coming in August.
“There’s no better way to celebrate and mark the culmination of 25 years of innovation than by naming this year’s game Madden NFL 25,” said Cam Weber, EA Sports' GM of American Football . “This year’s game will push the boundaries with gameplay and feature innovations that will lay a very strong foundation for the next 25 years of this storied franchise.”
As usual, there'll be a cover vote, with 32 all-time NFL greats and 32 present-day NFL stars in the frame to take the Madden NFL 25 cover. In other Madden news, the series has managed to reach 99 million units in lifetime sales, accumulating revenue of $3.7 billion.
Madden NFL 25 will be launching on August 27th, 2013.


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Google has launched a pioneering augmented reality game that connects real life with a mobile game world through geo-location technology. This has led to a speculation on the game’s implications for Google’s customer interaction management capabilities.
The game, named Ingress, challenges players to visit certain physical locations in their neighbourhood in order to take charge of local landmarks and territories.
Beyond simply driving customer engagement however, this new initiative from Google also provides the search giant with a source of highly lucrative CRM data on the movements and activities of its consumers.
In terms of customer interaction management, the game will provide Google with an important opportunity to target consumers with highly specialised offers and services based on previous behaviour. In the future, this could also be combined with augmented reality technology, including the forthcoming Google Glass, to visually integrate details of nearby landmarks with the user’s view of the physical world.
“This is classic Google,” comments Blair MacIntyre, director of the Augmented Reality Laboratory for the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“They may get information about new monuments, and that actually helps them generate more interesting search results, because these are the things that local people say are interesting.”
To discover more about the latest developments in the world of customer interaction management, view other recent numero blog articles here.


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There’s Much To Be Said For On-Cam Poker
Online Poker certainly has lived its fair share of comeback magic in recent days. What with everyone suddenly stuck at home, and Poker rooms practically in a hibernation of sorts for months on end, it can be said that players were made to rediscover those creature comforts associated with taking on their arc-rivals from their armchairs.
Poker’s migration from Vegas-style rooms laid out with tables and chairs and dealers donned in colourful shirts and bow ties, to high-tech digital technology and cyberspace, can only be described as a migration of magnificent proportions. But even so, many believe that much room remains for improvement. And the answer to how to go about improving the live entertainment value of the game may very well be found with the humble webcam.
The Tech Is Nothing New
But according to It’s Not Luck Poker’s James McGeorge, webcams used for live Poker streaming as part of a regular feature associated with online at-home games isn’t a new idea. In fact, it had been none other than 888Poker to give it a go a couple of years ago.
But McGeorge also remembers how more than half of all players used to prefer either covering their webcams or turning the cameras off altogether – something he says he now believes should have been outlawed right off the bat.
Playing cam tournaments used to be a great deal of fun, said McGeorge of the on-camera games. He recalls having especially enjoyed the mucking and joking about that used to accompany those games – not to mention the face-pulling.
But since McGeorge, and without a doubt many others just like him, so enjoyed these so-called “cam tournaments”, why then didn’t it stick? According to the Twitch host’s interpretation of the situation, it had been a combination of things that killed off the online Poker webcam, with the players themselves not exactly free of all blame.
More Pros Than Cons
As with almost everything in life, the use of webcams in online Poker has a list populated by pros as well as cons. On the maybe not side of things there are players voicing legitimate concerns over cybersecurity, privacy, breach of identity data, etc. Also, people want to know exactly what will become of the video footage streamed from the privacy of their homes.
But on the plus side, there are more than just a few points justifying a strong argument in favour of bring back the webcam – and this time making it mandatory. Reasons in the affirmative include online Poker room administrators being able to confirm that players are indeed playing solo, not making use of cheating software or ghosting, not hanging about waiting for weaker players to join a table before taking a seat, and so on.
And aside from all of the above, so points out McGeorge, there’s something quite fun about seeing exactly who it is you’re up against.


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FCG has advised Mynt AB in its authorisation application as issuer of electronic money
FCG has advised the Swedish fintech company Mynt AB, in its authorisation application as issuer of electronic money according to the Swedish Electronic Money Act. Mynt is a provider of smart corporate credit cards, flexible financing and spend management that helps business customers. Mynt was granted its authorisation as an e-money institute on June 23rd 2021 by the Swedish FSA.
FCG’s assignment team consisted of, among others, Christine Ehnström (Partner and Head of GRC Advisory), Nicole Personne (Director and co-head Outsourcing) and Eric Blomdahl (Senior Associate).
“It has been a pleasure to assist Mynt in the work with their application. FCG looks forward to following the launch of new products and features – such as the prepaid card – when Mynt is now among the very few Swedish companies operating under an e-money license”, says Christine Ehnström, Partner and Head of GRC Advisory at FCG.
“We have been happy to work with FCG throughout this process. FCG’s team has been a perfect match for our needs, and with excellent competence in this space. For us it has been a learning for our organization as well to make sure we can comply with the regulatory requirements. We now look forward to continue our growth of our smart corporate credit card offering”, says Baltsar Sahlin, CEO of Mynt.


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KPMG’s The Pulse of Fintech is a biannual report showcasing key activities and trends within the fintech market globally.
By Ian Pollari and Anton Ruddenklau | KPMG
After a record-setting 2018, the first half of 2019 got off to a quiet start for fintech investment globally—mirroring a trend seen in the broader VC market. The steep drop-off reflected the lack of blockbuster deals, such as the $14 billion raised by Ant Financial or Vantiv’s acquisition of Worldpay for $12.9 billion, during the first half of last year. Global uncertainty, regulatory changes in China, and the US-China trade tensions likely also contributed to the decline.
Fintech investment in Asia Pacific plummeted during the first half of 2019. Nevertheless, despite the ongoing concerns around Brexit, it got off to a very strong start in Europe. While well off the pace required to match 2018’s massive in- vestment record, fintech investment in the Americas was also very good during the first half of this year.
After losing some of their luster in 2018, blockchain-based cryptocurrencies got a fresh breath of life in H1’19 with Facebook’s announcement of Libra, expected to launch in 2020. The new cryptocurrency is being collectively driven by the Libra Association, a consortium including organizations like Visa, Mastercard, Uber and Andreessen Horowitz.
While payments continued to draw the most significant attention from fin- tech investors across most jurisdictions, H1’19 also saw the continued maturation of the fintech industry as a whole and the broadening of its definition. Areas like wealth-tech, prop-tech and reg-tech grew substantially on the radar of investors.
We discuss these trends and other issues in this edition of the Pulse of Fintech, in addition to delving into key questions permeating the fintech market today, including:
- What is driving the strength of Europe’s fintech market?
- What are wealth-tech and prop-tech—and how are they evolving into key areas of investment?
- How is cross-border investment propelling the fintech industry forward?
- What does the Facebook Libra announcement mean for cryptocurrencies?
- How are regulatory changes in China impacting fintech investment?
Number of deals down as investors become more discerning
Reflecting deals seen in the broader investment market, global fintech investors showed a preference toward a smaller number of larger deals during H1’19, particularly in the more mature markets—such as the US, Germany, the UK and fintech verticals—like payments and lending. In these sectors, investors have gained a better sense of the vertical winners and the emerging platforms that will be sustainable, and concentrated their investments accordingly. The next 12 to 24 months will be a critical period for many platforms that haven’t been able to achieve scale; consolidation is likely to increase as they look for ways to survive and gain market share.
Fintech investment in the Americas remains strong and diverse
The Americas saw a great start to the year in terms of fintech investment. While well off pace to match 2018’s massive investment high, investment was very strong compared to all years previous. While the US dominated the fintech investment space, Canada and Latin America also saw big deals in H1’19. Three enormous M&A deals were also announced in H1’19, including Fidelity’s acquisition of Worldpay ($43 billion), Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data ($22 billion), and the merger of Global Payments with Total System Services ($21.5 billion). Should these deals close before the end of the year, the US will easily set a new record for total fintech investment.
Reg-tech industry showing normal growth volatility after strong 2018
While there was a boom in reg-tech investment in 2018, in H1’19, both the number of deals and total funding dropped considerably. This highlights a distinct trend of peaks and valleys seen in reg-tech investment since 2014. Given regulations like GDPR, PSD2 and MiFID II/ MIFIR, reg-tech will likely continue to be a major focus for investment for the foreseeable future.
Globally, a number of financial institutions are investing in reg-tech in order to fill compliance gaps, reduce the cost of compliance, integrate and get ahead of new requirements, and even detect enterprise risks before the regulators. As digitalization, machine learning and AI reshape the financial services landscape, business models and risks are also becoming more complex— which only increases MMR risks. Over the next few years, there will likely be rigorous investment in building out regtech solutions focused on MRM controls, validation and governance.
While much of the reg-tech investment focus has been driven from the EU, activity in Asia Pacific is increasing. Singapore’s FinTech Association recently launched a SFA reg-tech sub-commit- tee to promote reg-tech innovation and adoption of technologies and to work with other associations (e.g. Hong Kong (SAR), China, Japan) to promote the application of reg-tech. In SAR, the HKMA continues to manage a fintech sandbox to help drive innovation, while the Securities and Futures Commission is in the process of assessing the potential for reg-tech. Both China and Australia are also zoning in on reg-tech, with the China Securities Regulatory Commission pushing for the adoption of reg-tech to help strengthen controls over fintech usage, while the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is funding studies to investigate how NPL could help detect misconduct and improve regulation.
The slow start for fintech in early 2019 must be put in context. Not only are there multibillion-dollar deals inked but yet to close, but also, the current pace of deal value, should it be maintained, would result in 2019 being the second-most investment-rich year of the decade by far. The volume diminution is more a sign of inflated prices in VC taking a toll on overall activity, particularly at the early stage, so it is more a product of supply and demand rather than an overt signal of a winding-down cycle.
After a blockbuster pair of quarters for fintech in 2018, the first quarter of 2019 proved to be a tad more sedate, in terms of deal value recorded. Q2 was even quieter. However, together they add up to another very strong year for fintech capital investment. Interestingly, deal volume recorded another lackluster slide, capping off five straight quarters of diminishing counts. VC activity, or rather lack thereof, plays a large role in the decline. This suggests that the industry as a whole may be cycling through a typical settling period as more mature M&A dominates investment activity while the venture pipeline refills.
*Pollari is Global Co-leader, KPMG Fintech practice at KPMG International and is passionate about technology and its application to financial services (Fintech). This led to him authoring Australia’s first local study into its potential opportunities. Ruddenklau is Global Co-Leader of Fintech for KPMG International and a Partner and the Head of Digital & Innovation for Financial Services in KPMG in the UK.


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Apple I computer fetches $387K in Christie's auctionA rare Apple I computer from 1976 and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak brought in $387,750 in an online auction held by Christie's.
Apple I on display at the Smithsonian. Photo via Wikipedia.
The final price for the historic machine was actually less than predicted, as a working Apple I brought in $671,400 in an auction in Germany earlier this year. Bidding on the most recent Christie's auction began at $300,000.
Still, the asking price for an Apple I has gone up considerably in recent years. For example, an Apple I in "superb" condition sold for $174,000 in a Christie's auction in London in 2010.
The system that went for nearly $400,000 is one of the first 25 Apple I computers ever assembled. It is inscribed with the serial number 01-0025 in black ink.
Only 200 Apple I computers were made, making the systems a rare collectors item. Between 30 and 50 units are believe to still exist.
When the Apple I was first released in 1976, the computer sold for $666.66. The systems were hand-built by Wozniak, who added his "Woz" signature to original documents included in the most recent auction.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The San Francisco District Attorney’s office announced convictions of two people in Walgreens thefts.
Lugo Romero was convicted and sentenced after he pleaded guilty to felony grand theft and misdemeanor petty theft.
He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and one year probation.
Romero was featured in a widely-circulated video grabbing things from Walgreens and leaving on a bike after the theft spree.
Ahmad Shabazz was found guilty by a jury April 1 on 13 of 14 counts of misdemeanor petty theft, brought against him for five different incidents.
Walgreens has shuttered 11 of its San Francisco locations since 2019, citing high levels of retail theft. Walgreens claimed that providing security in the San Francisco locations is 46 times more expensive than the chain’s average.
A 2019 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows Walgreens had been planning consolidation as a cost-cutting measure, which led some elected officials such as Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents the Haight and the Western Addition on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to accuse the company of dishonesty. Mayor London Breed said at the time that “a lot of factors come into play.”
Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that San Francisco has the highest rate of property crimes among the 20 largest U.S. cities.
After the high-profile Union Square robberies shortly before Thanksgiving, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other Bay Area prosecutors in creating the Bay Area County District Attorneys alliance to combat organized retail theft operations throughout the region.
His office has also partnered with ALTO, an international organization that coordinates the loss prevention efforts of retailers, police, and prosecutors.
“Whether the work of organized retail theft rings or of individual suspects, the burglaries impacting our local businesses will not be tolerated,” Boudin stated in a news release. “The sentence and verdicts handed down are just one way we are working to hold individuals accountable for harm caused by retail theft in San Francisco. We are also continuing our work with partner agencies to dismantle the organized networks which make these crimes profitable.”
Romero has been given a stay-away order from two Walgreens stores, two employees and a CVS. Shabazz’s sentencing is April 15.


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Hey high tides! We're back again and now it is September, Apple's "signature" month where they unveil their new creations. This time they revealed the new iPhone 11, their newest smartphone. There are many new additions that came with this new piece of technology. The iPhone 11 is now equipped with two cameras and the "Pro" edition has 3.A 12-megapixel wide camera with a 26-mm, f1.8, 6-element and 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 13-mm, f2.4, 5-element, 120-degree view. The front-facing camera has been updated to 12 MP with wide-angle selfie support when the phone is in landscape. You can also take 4K video at 60 fps, as well as slow-mo videos which they call "Slowfies".
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20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures have signed new distribution agreement with the DVD-by-mail service, which comprise a 28-day holdup on new releases.
The deal is related to one signed by Warner Bros. with Netflix in January. As with that agreement, the Fox and Universal deals offer Netflix more flattering financial terms on new releases in trade for the delay.
Net objectivity and the National Broadband Plan are together active and fine. Opposite to the media fury and expert punditry in the wake of a US constituency court verdict rebuffing efforts by the FCC to enforce its decision on Comcast, there were no broader allegations concerning the common authority of the FCC.
Hitting the nail on the head - in retrospect, the TT RS is like a perfect half of Audi's top end car, the R8 V10.
The TT has an engine with half the number of cylinders and roughly half the displacement of the R8 V10. It has the similar all-wheel drive and the eagle-eyed headlamps look pretty similar as well. And also, both cars came out in
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F. Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State University y Courtney Bir, Oklahoma State University
About 10% of Americans over the age of 18 consider themselves vegan or vegetarian as of January 2022.
That’s the main finding of an online survey we administered to 930 Americans, selected to be representative of the U.S population in terms of gender, education, age and income. The margin of error is plus or minus 2%.
Based on our findings, which will be published in a forthcoming academic journal article, we believe that this group of people, numbering some 16.5 million, is evenly split between vegetarians and vegans. Vegans don’t eat anything derived from animals, including eggs, milk and honey. Vegetarians avoid eating the flesh of animals, including beef, pork, poultry, fish and seafood.
Environmental activists urge Americans to shun meat. And adopting a vegan diet is increasingly fashionable because of the growing list of celebrities such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Stevie Wonder and Natalie Portman who say they refrain from eating animal products.
To be sure, the average American still consumes a lot of meat and poultry: more than 250 pounds per person every year, plus another 20 pounds of fish and shellfish. But additional evidence does suggest that the share of Americans on plant-based diets is rising.
When Purdue University agricultural economist Jayson Lusk led a survey of over 1,000 Americans monthly from 2013 to 2017, he found that only about 5% of Americans considered themselves vegan or vegetarian. That matched the results of a 2018 Gallup poll.
A more recent version of this survey using similar methods, now headed by Glynn Tonsor, a Kansas State University agricultural economist, has found that this proportion now stands at about 10% in January 2022. That’s the same as our estimate, and it offers further evidence that the share of Americans who are vegans or vegetarians has doubled in recent years.
However, not everyone who identifies as vegan or vegetarian sticks with their diet all the time.
A minor scandal arose when New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a self-proclaimed vegan, confessed that he occasionally eats fish. But Adams is no anomaly. It’s common for people who describe themselves as vegetarian to occasionally eat fish or meat. Food researchers like us call them partial vegetarians, but they might refer to themselves as flexitarians.
And there are probably more partial than true vegetarians in the U.S.
We see two good explanations for that. Some people eat so little meat they truly are more of a vegetarian than a nonvegetarian, so when asked in a survey they select the identity that best describes them. Another explanation could be the common tendency to misrepresent your own behavior in line with what you believe others will find virtuous.
Will this trend toward more vegans and vegetarians continue? Only time will tell, but food companies will certainly be watching.


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The Food and Drug Administration will soon be monitoring a series of applications that have been developed for smartphones recently that exist for medical use.
USA Today reports that the existence of the iPhone and other smartphones has prompted some developers to create apps meant to monitor its users’ health. Some of these apps are simple enough as they help users calculate their daily calorie intake or how much they need to exercise in order to lose a certain amount of calories. However, some apps are more complex than that and these are the ones that the FDA will regulate.
Some of these applications include outside gadgets that you can plug into the phone such as arm cuffs to measure the user’s blood pressure. These tools include apps that can monitor irregular heartbeats and even measure lung function. The FDA has already approved 75 of these applications and the agency estimates that 500 million smartphone users will use health apps by 2015.


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2016 Audi Q8 Release Date, Price, Interior, Specs – Audi is by far the most important competitor for the BMW brand, but until recently they didn’t have any real competitor for their X6 model. This is set to change with the upcoming 2016 Audi Q8.
The new Q8 is undoubtedly going to share the same platform as the Q7 but in this case it will have a lower roofline, and will be slightly shorter and wider, and will contribute to its overall assertive design.
It is a proven fact that most people in the West are not anticipating the brand new 2016 Audi Q8 with bated breath in comparison to the Chinese who are eager for the Q8. The Chinese market is known to demand SUV’s that look sporty and good and behave in a similar manner to a sports car.
2016 Audi Q8 specs
Being based on the same platform as the 2016 Audi Q8 also mean that the car will also come with the same MLB modular platform just like many other SUV’s from the Volkswagen use, and which is known to limit the engine choices to a few.
Another thing the auto maker is going to consider is the sales volume, as previously mentioned the new Q8 will not sell much in the West and therefore its cost will be kept on a bare minimum.
Most of the interior will most likely be shared with other Audi’s roster. There are also talks of the German auto manufacturer making available an all-electric model for their Q8, but the details are scanty.
2016 Audi Q8 interior and exterior
Things inside the new 2016 Audi Q8, will be much similar to what you might expect to find in the A8. With that said, you should expect the new Q8 to come with a dissimilar dashboard than that of the Q7.
This would certainly make the current users ecstatic since there were too many models that had the same interior design layout.
Inside the cockpit, changes bound to take place will include a redesigned dashboard and centre stack. At the dashboard will be a 12.3” screen that will get rid of the instrument gauges and the MMI display that cluttered the centre console.
The Audi connect module will come handy for technology savvy passengers who would want to connect their smartphones or tablets using Wi-Fi connectivity.
Moving forward, the new 2016 Audi Q8 exterior, on the other hand, will be much identical to the Q7 almost all fonts. As already mentioned, the roof is still going to come with the same arch as that of the coupe, while at the back, we should expect something alike to the RS6.
Up front, the new changes will be expected to be reflected on the larger hexagonal grille that will come with a bolder mesh insert and outline. Having vertical slats, the bumpers will now be shrunken.
Moreover, the European market will now get the laser high beam headlights that will make use of a subtle curve that the previous the previous year’s model had, and will be able to make use of a camera detection system that will detect oncoming traffic.
Another forthcoming change will be the elimination of the vertical running contrast stripe located above the rear air intake. Behind the vehicle, the taillights will get the trapezoidal shape in favour of the old circular units.
2016 Audi Q8 engine
The Audi automakers said that thy would like to make the upcoming new 2016 Audi Q8 one of the fastest cars in the industry and the only way they would have achieved this is by enhancing their engines specs.
There will be a 6L W12 twin turbo engine which currently powers the Bentley cars, with very minimal information, you should expect the new 2016 Audi Q8 to come with a possible power output of about 600 hp and 550 pounds of torque.
With the power output, you should expect the new 2016 Audi Q8 to sprint from standstill to 60 mph in less than 3.8 seconds. The top speed will be somewhere around 175 mph which will basically make the new SUV the fastest in the market today.
2016 Audi Q8 release date and price
The pricing details for the American market are not yet out, but in Europe, the new 2016 Audi Q8 V10 will come with a price tag of around 165,000 Euros. The model is expected to arrive in showrooms in the summer of this year.


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MI lifts restrictions: Capacity at 100% indoors, no more mask mandate
UNION PIER, Mich. -- It’s a momentous day in Michigan’s fight against the coronavirus, as the state lifts all remaining restrictions – and it happened a week and a half early.
While Michigan has been reopening gradually for months, Tuesday marked the end of capacity limits for any industry and the mask mandate – whether you’re vaccinated or not.
Establishments can still make their own rules, but as far as statewide orders, there’s no plan for any restrictions to return.
“Effective today, our Pure Michigan summer is back and we can realize it,” said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Gov. Whitmer celebrated the end of Michigan’s epidemic orders 10 days before the original July 1 date.
“It’s been a grueling 15 months, we’ve all been pushed to our breaking points physically, emotionally and mentally,” said Whitmer.
Restaurant owners, one industry with the tightest restrictions, feeling ease as they’ve made it to the other side.
“For the last 15 months, the most occupancy we’ve had has been 50 percent, we were closed completely and carry-out only from November to early February and then allowed to reopen at 25 percent occupancy,” said Jennifer Trout, owner of Red Arrow Roadhouse.
Just because capacity is at 100 percent, doesn’t mean operations are – continued staffing and shipping shortages have led Red Arrow Roadhouse in Union Pier to get rid of carry out for the summer.
“It was a small, small portion of our business – less than five percent – that obviously shifted to 100 percent for many months, now we’re down to it being 25 percent but that’s still a volume we can’t sustain when jumping back up to 100 percent occupancy,” said Trout.
But – excited to focus on their diners and no longer enforce capacity limits or a mask requirement.
“We’ve had to turn tables as fast as we can to accommodate people and we’re able to stop policing customers which is a huge relief to staff.”


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PVR and HP launch India’s first virtual reality lounge
NEW DELHI: PVR along with HP has launched Asia’s first virtual reality lounge. Called HP VR Lounge, virtual reality lounge has opened at PVR ECX, Mall of India, Noida. The concept involves four VR pods supported by the recently launched HP Omen gaming laptops, which is also VR-ready.
It has also been mentioned that the HP VR Lounge will provide a library of content across different genres such as drama, fiction, sci-fi, horror, action and more.
“HP’s innovation in the area of VR is yet another first from us where we continuously strive to provide the latest technology and world class experience to our customers. Our partnership with PVR will bring the best of technology for PVR patrons to touch and feel virtual reality,” added Ketan Patel, senior director, personal systems, HP India.
PVR plans to roll out 10 such VR lounges across different cinemas in India.


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IGN and GameStop Combine Online Content and Media Sites
IGN Entertainment, the online gaming content site, and GameStop, the largely offline games retailer, are integrating their online media and retail offerings in an effort to target videogamers from discovery to purchase.
The partnership is an unusual effort, given content and retail are not often so explicitly combined.
As part of the deal, said the companies:
* IGN will be creating branded media advertising products on GameStop.com, and will be its sales representative online. Consumer advertisers will be able to buy branded ads on the retail site.
* IGN content will appear on GameStop.com, with all kinds of cross-linking, and there will be copious buttons for e-commerce on IGN.com.
* GameStop will be buying its ads on IGN.com.
* The traffic of both GameStop and IGN will be combined. Currently, GameStop has 7.2 million monthly uniques worldwide and IGN’s videogame content has 28.9 million.
IGN, which is profitable, has been pushing hard to grow its branded advertising recently, as well as its traffic.
And, over the summer, it introduced IGN Social, adding social elements, such as gamers talking with each other, to its content offerings.
(Full disclosure: IGN is a division of News Corp., which also owns Dow Jones, which owns this site.)


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Apple has officially begun sending press invites for their next event which is scheduled for September 7th. The even has been rumored to occur on this date for quite some time now, however it’s now been confirmed by Apple themselves that this is indeed the official date.
Over on Apple’s official September 2016 event page, the company states that the keynote will take place in San Francisco at Bill Graham Civic Center and start at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Viewers can stream the entire event here on their iOS 7 or later device, their Mac running OS X 10.8.5 or later and Safari 6.0.5 or later, or their PC with Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. You’ll also be able to stream the show on your Apple TV 4 via the Apple Events app, while those of you on the second- or third-gen TVs can watch via the same method.
The invitation being sent out this year is very simple, with unfocused lights arranged in the outline of the official Apple logo appearing over a dark background with plain, with text at the bottom saying, “See you on the 7th”. We can’t really make anything out of this invite, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled for anyone who does.
We’re expecting the iPhone 7 to be announced at this year’s September event which will look very similar to the iPhone 6 family. Rearranged antenna lines, the removal of the headphone jack, and the possibility of another speaker grill at the bottom of the device will be the physical differences between it and the 6, while a thinner form factor may also make its way to the 7 (6SE?). An A10 processor is expected to be loaded into the latest iPhone alongside a minimum of 32GB of storage. In addition, an upgraded camera system on the standard 7 is also expected, while the 7 Plus/Pro will likely get a dual-camera system on the rear. We may also see a new darker color option become available that may or may not replace Space Gray.
Apple Watch wise, we’re expecting the Apple Watch 2 (or Apple Watch ‘S’) to definitely featured a GPS and a very similar design to the original Watch. At the time, there’s not much else to share about the upcoming wearable from Apple, however the larger 42mm variant may feature a bigger battery than the standard 38mm model.
While they seem pretty unlikely to arrive, Apple may also unveil new MacBook Pros at this year’s September event. These computers will feature a slimmer form factor, an OLED touch bar which will replace the Function keys at the top of the keyboard to deliver (ironically) more functionality to the laptops, USB-C ports (around 3 or 4 of them to be exact), a Touch ID sensor where the power button is, and likely upgraded internals. New MacBooks don’t normally come during a September Apple event and are usually held off until October, however we may be surprised since last year’s Fall event jammed the iPhone 6s/Plus, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, new Apple Watch colors and bands, and the fourth generation Apple TV into one single event.
Nonetheless, we’ll have much more on Apple’s upcoming event and how to watch it as we approach the magical September 7th date. Stay tuned to MBEDDED for the latest!


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Tobii AB Interim Report Q1 2016
Stockholm, May 4, 2016 – Tobii AB today reported its results for the first quarter 2016. The Group showed stable growth and a step toward consumer markets through the launch of the world’s first gaming notebook with eye tracking.
January – March
- The Group’s sales totaled SEK 252 million (229), an increase of 10%. Adjusted for currency effects, the increase was 9%.
- Gross margin was 73% (74%).
- The Group’s operating loss amounted to SEK -17 million (-8).
- The combined operating profit from Tobii Dynavox and Tobii Pro totaled SEK 33 million (34) while investments in Tobii Tech had a negative impact on the Group’s earnings in the amount of SEK -49 million (-41).
- Earnings per share was SEK -0.29 (0.01)
- Tobii Tech and MSI launched the world’s first gaming notebook with eye tracking.
- Ubisoft launched two major game titles with integrated support for Tobii eye tracking.
- Tobii Dynavox launched the first eye-controlled product upgraded with the new eye-tracking platform Tobii IS4.
Today at 10:00 a.m. Tobii will arrange a conference call with web cast presentation for media, analyst and investors. Please find dial-in details on Tobii’s website under Interim Report Q1 2016.
Tobii discloses this information pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication on May 4, 2016, at 08:00 a.m. CET.
Sara Hyléen, Corporate Communications Director of Tobii, tel: 46 70 9161641, email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Tobii is the global leader in eye tracking. Our vision is a world where all technology works in harmony with natural human behavior. Tobii operates through three business units: Tobii Dynavox makes specially designed computers that are controlled by eye movement or touch screens for use by people with special needs due to spinal cord injuries, CP, ALS or other medical conditions. Tobii Pro develops and sells eye-tracking equipment and services used today by more than 2,000 companies and 1,500 research institutions, including all of the world’s 50 highest ranked universities. Tobii Tech further develops Tobii’s technology for new volume markets, such as computer games, personal computers, virtual reality and vehicles. Tobii is headquartered in Sweden and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (TOBII). The group has over 600 employees. For more information, please visit www.tobii.com.


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Winners at the FWD awards tell Tan Parsons about how their success is boosting their businesses.
The wholesalers that took top honours at the Federation of Wholesale Distributors Gold Medal Awards have revealed what a boost the recognition is delivering to their businesses.
Claire Buckel, symbol development manager at Today’s member Dee Bee Distribution, claimed the top honours for the customer support category. She says that besides being a tremendously prestigious award in its own right, it is a brilliant way of showing your customers how much you care.
Within hours of her victory, the news had been posted on the Dee Bee website, urging interested retailers to get in touch.
“Winning was one of the proudest moments of my life,” said Buckel. “There’s a lot of passionate people in wholesale and it means a lot when you are recognised for your work, when you put your heart and soul into your job. It’s a great accolade and it shows people just how passionate we are about our business.”
One of her greatest successes in 2014 was helping a retail customer whose business was losing £6,000 a week since a Co‑op opened on the same street. She put together a plan of action with the customer, based around increasing the chilled range and the bakery section, offering home deliveries to elderly customers, and putting in a free cash machine.
“Within seven months the business had claimed back every penny in weekly takings.”
Creed Foodservice, a member of the Country Range Group, took home the award for wholesaler service to foodservice. Managing director Philip de Ternant said he considered this particular title to be the ‘blue riband’ award of the industry.
“As a business that is completely focused on ‘delivering quality’, this external peer recognition for excellence gives us confidence in expressing our brand to potential customers, as well as giving existing customers confidence in their choice of foodservice wholesaler,” he said.
He added that the highlight of 2014 for Creed has been how the business has adapted as a team to two external influences: the loss of a major account and the team’s commitment to managing the exit professionally at all levels; and the recent EU allergen legislation, which came into effect on December 13.
De Ternant said: “There is no doubt many were unprepared, but the feedback from our customers regarding our execution has been extremely positive. And, of course, securing the gold medal is another highlight.”
Driver Martin Hancox from Landmark member Blakemore Foodservice was also celebrating after being crowned delivered wholesale driver of the year.
Blakemore Foodservice Wakefield general manager Mark Flynn said: “Martin is an extraordinary asset who always puts 110% into his role. Martin has been with the company for just over three years and has gone far above and beyond his expected duties. He is dedicated both to the team and, more importantly, to his customers.
“I’d like to say a huge congratulations to Martin for winning this award. His commitment to the business and all his hard work is very much appreciated.”


text: Microsoft has announced yesterday Windows 8.1 ,the upcoming update for over 1.5 billion Windows 8 users world wide. In a features briefing ,the media and participants got to know the key features of Windows 8.1. Microsoft plans to offer the update starting from April 8 this year. The update will be delivered via internet as like a service pack . You do nothing for it ,just wait . Head off to know the new features now ..


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Dilsukhnagar shows guts, returns to normal
Two days after the twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, shopkeepers and locals are determined to get life back to normalcy. While curious locals continued to throng the blast site, shopkeepers decided to open their shops on Saturday, Presley Thomas and Anshuman Poyrekar report.india Updated: Feb 24, 2013 00:02 IST
Two days after the twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, shopkeepers and locals are determined to get life back to normalcy. While curious locals continued to throng the blast site, shopkeepers decided to open their shops on Saturday.
“I opened the shop today because we want to defeat the cowards who carried out the blasts,” said M Murtuza, who has a general store at the Dilsukhnagar market.
“Their aim was to destroy the market, and create fear in the mind of people. We want to show them that we are not scared,” said Murtuza, whose shop is barely 10 metres from the blast site near the bus stop. He escaped unhurt because he was not at the shop on Thursday.
For some the blasts came as a shock. “I had just finished watching a Telugu serial on the television at my shop, when I heard a noise. I first thought a bus tyre had burst and was stepping out when I heard the second blast,” said T Ashok, a bag seller just opposite the blast site near Konark theatre.
All that Ashok could see was fire emanating from Anand Tea corner and people running.
Karan Mor, another businessman said, “I was busy with my customers when I heard a loud sound. When I came out, I saw bodies lying in a pool of blood, and injured people screaming for help.”
Mor was particularly critical of the Hyderabad police. “I have a CCTV installed to monitor our shop premises. After the blasts, policemen came asking for the footage. I almost got into an altercation with them when I told them that I do not record any footage.”
Mor said whenever the police gets a alert, they should tell the shopkeepers to take extra care. “I am not asking them to publicise a terror alert. But there are about a 1,000 shops in the market, and if the police just tell the big businessmen to take precautions, incidents like these blasts can be easily prevented.”


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India Today TV visited several parts of Mumbai and asked the citizens their reasons for not wearing masks, to which they threw barrage of excuses.
Updated : June 24, 2021, 5:52 pm
Honda has launched the new Gold Wing in India with a price tag of Rs 37.20 lakh ex-showroom that puts it at Rs 10 lakh over the outgoing BS4 Gold Wing. Find out what you get for all that extra coin.
Updated : June 16, 2021, 2:19 pm
Tesla chief and cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk has a responsibility and should not put out social media posts that can have a direct impact on prices, Sumit Gupta – CEO and co-founder, CoinDCX GO, told India Today Tech in an exclusive conversation.
Updated : June 11, 2021, 4:19 pm
Covid’s deadly second wave has sparked off
a ‘fearodemic’. People are afraid of dying, of
losing their loved ones, of being alone, of losing
their jobs—anxieties that add a new dimension of mental-health issues to the ongoing crisis
Updated : June 5, 2021, 1:45 pm
The value of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, has fallen sharply during the weekend. The cryptocurrency is currency retailing below $35,000. Other popular cryptocurrencies have also fallen over the weekend. Check latest trends and prices.
Updated : May 31, 2021, 10:14 am
Iran has banned the mining of all authorised and unauthorised cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin till September 22.
Updated : May 26, 2021, 7:36 pm
Aimed at both gamers and content creators, the Asus TUF Dash F15 is priced at Rs 1,40,990 in India. I have been using the TUF Dash F15 for more than two weeks now, and here is my full review.
Updated : May 24, 2021, 8:03 pm
Bitcoin has been on a downward trajectory ever since billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that his car company will stop taking payments in Bitcoin, citing environmental reasons.
Updated : May 17, 2021, 2:16 pm
Elon Musk in a reply to a tweet "clarified speculation" saying that Tesla has not sold any Bitcoin.
Updated : May 17, 2021, 1:11 pm
Vitalik Buterin, who is the co-founder of Ethereum has donated $1 billion worth of coins to India.
Updated : May 14, 2021, 12:30 pm
Bitcoin has become a thing ever since Tesla Chief Elon Musk has extended its support to cryptocurrency
Updated : May 14, 2021, 10:37 am
Xiaomi has introduced its new and first Redmi smartwatch in India. The electronics maker had launched Mi Watch Revolve last year as its first ever smartwatch in the country.
Updated : May 13, 2021, 1:20 pm
Xiaomi had introduced the Redmi Note 10, Redmi Note 10 Pro and Redmi Note 10 Pro Max in March and has now added the Redmi Note 10S as another affordable option to the line-up.
Updated : May 13, 2021, 12:29 pm
Infinix had earlier launched the Hot 10 Play in India and the Hot 10S in other countries.
Updated : May 12, 2021, 4:51 pm
Redmi's product director had confirmed that Xiaomi is expected to launch the Mi Pad 5 not this month but in the second half of the year.
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Israel-based crypto brokerage Coinmama has suffered a data breach affecting 450,000 of its users.
— Jacob Canfield?(Official Account) (@JacobCanfield) February 16, 2019
“Today, 15th February 2019, Coinmama was informed of a list of emails and hashed passwords that were posted on a dark web registry,” it said in a statement.
“Our security team is investigating, and based on the information at hand, we believe the intrusion is limited to about 450,000 email addresses and hashed passwords of users who registered until 5th August 2017. This comes as part of a larger breach affecting 24 companies and a total of 747 million user records.”
In December, Coin Rivet interviewed Coinmama CEO Asaph Schulman.
“People are flocking to us,” he said. “We’ve had existing customers coming back to us as they see the opportunity to buy crypto and we’ve had a huge influx of new people buying their first Bitcoins. The herd mentality is very strong.”
Check out the full interview here.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author should not be considered as financial advice. We do not give advice on financial products.


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Chrysler dealership closing list includes Redwood Falls, Worthington and Tracy dealerships
Published 05/14/2009, West Central Tribune and Associated Press
Updated 12:10 p.m.
NEW YORK — Chrysler LLC wants to eliminate roughly a quarter of its 3,200 U.S. dealerships by early next month, saying in a bankruptcy court filing today that the network is antiquated and has too many stores competing with each other.
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While there’s no shortage of headlines screaming about Monsanto’s (MON) genetically modified crops, it’s hard to know how much we should actually care about them.
And I don’t mean as consumers. The issue of GM crops is a sticky subject — much stickier than many organic-loving, Occupy-Monsanto-marchers would like to admit — and, quite frankly, this isn’t the time or place.
I mean whether we should care as investors.
In case you missed it, unapproved genetically engineered wheat was found growing on an Oregon farm last month, which in itself engineered some panic — especially from Asian countries that get a good chunk of their wheat from the U.S.
Now, a few farmers are suing Monsanto, claiming the scare has harmed them financially by impacting wheat exports (Japan and South Korea canceled deals in the wake of the news) and prices.
While it is not yet known “how widespread the unapproved wheat is, or if it has contaminated food supplies,” perception itself can pose a huge problem — especially because Asian consumers are extra-sensitive to genetically engineered foods. They’ll tolerate GM crops for animal feed (possibly thanks to the extra level of the food chain?), but GM food that goes straight to the mouth? Not so fast.
Few Asian countries allow imports of such cereals for human consumption … and Asian countries matter in the wheat-world. Take a look:
- The U.S. is the largest exporter of wheat. In 2013, we are projected to export 18% of the global trade — a whopping 925 million bushels.
- Almost a third of the global trade of wheat goes to Asia. Asia imports more than 40 million tonnes of wheat annually — or 1.5 billion bushels. And yes, the U.S. is its largest supplier.
- From June 2012 to May 2013, Japan alone snatched up 3.1 million tonnes of U.S wheat, with South Korea grabbing 1.1 million and China tallying 1.5 million.
- Reuters also noted recently that Chinese purchases by June 2014 are estimated to rise 21% to 3.5 million tonnes, according to the USDA.
Those are big numbers, and a little fear can go a long way. Abah Ofon, an analyst at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, told Reuters regarding the Oregon incident: “This is adding to concerns that already exist on quality and availability of food wheat globally.”
Joyce Liu, an investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore, added: “I won’t be surprised if other countries start canceling or reducing their purchases of U.S. wheat, particularly Asian countries, putting pressure on wheat demand.”
The parallel example being cited: In 2006, a big chunk of the U.S. long-grain rice crop was contaminated, leading to import bans in Europe and Japan and lowered market prices. (The company at fault later paid $750 million to growers as compensation. )
Plus, considering that Monsanto hardly has a sparkling reputation to begin with, it seems like the news of such an incident — even without actual widespread contamination — could be enough for a similar outcome. Right?
I’m not convinced.
Let’s start with Monsanto itself. Yes, if Monsanto loses the lawsuit, it wouldn’t be a good thing for the company’s bottom line. But it sure wouldn’t be the end of the world. The amount of the dispute hasn’t been released, but officials says it “exceeds $75,000.” Monsanto, as the world’s largest seed-maker, is a $52 billion company that made $2 billion last year alone. That’s a drop in the bucket.
And in terms of perception, the corporation has faced piles of bad publicity time and time again. That means two things: First, Monsanto’s claims that the incident was indeed isolated (and that it was maybe the result of sabotage) may actually be true, but few are considering that because … well … it’s Monsanto.
And on the flipside, it can wait for the headlines and hype to die down, then keep chugging. Consider that Monsanto was outpacing the S&P 500’s breakneck run over the past year until this incident. The stock also slid from 2008 to 2010 — the years following a not-so-hot portrayal in documentary Food Inc. — but since then has been on a general upward trajectory .
Plus, there has been speculation that genetically modified foods are gaining acceptance, including the conversion of one of the industry’s original protesters.
If you’re skeptical, though, you could take another angle: The further-blemished reputation of Monsanto may be a good thing for second-place seed-maker Dupont (DD). As has seemed to be the case for years now, Monsanto soaks up all the bad press, often shifting the dialogue so the corporation itself is seen as the problem … not GM crops.
Still, in both cases, the future will in large part be determined by legislation in Washington — and I’m no crystal ball. If widespread contamination is discovered, there will likely be a push for stricter control. At the same time, any outcry may lead to more Prop 37-like proposals … but no passages.
With that in mind, let’s flip to the other side of the coin: wheat buyers. If Asian companies indeed turn their backs on possibly contaminated crops, that sounds bad. But the slackened demand could actually be a good thing for wheat users — Kellogg (K), General Mills (GIS), Molson Coors (TAP), and Anheuser Busch (BUD), for example — who can snatch up the crop at lower prices.
Instead, a bigger problem will be if the crop turns out to be largely contaminated, as a smaller crop would have the opposite effect on prices. Even in that case, though I actually wouldn’t worry. If prices were to go up — whether for that reason, or for those trying to get wheat from within Asian countries low on supply — that cost can easily be passed onto consumers.
And don’t think for a second that folks might stop buying wheat-related products if that comes to pass. To be frank, most consumers lack awareness about what they eat — especially if there is a layer or two of processing between the commodity and whatever is purchased at the supermarket.
The bottom line: In terms of wheat input — even if you’re worried about putting GM wheat in your own body — this scare shouldn’t really upset your stomach from the investing side.
At the time of publication, Oursler had no positions in the securities mentioned.


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WSJ: Developers vs. App Store (October 1, 2020)
Apple’s stock-market value hit a new record this year, but its longstanding disputes with app developers are bubbling over into public view. WSJ explains why high-profile companies like Epic Games, Spotify and Tinder are at odds with App Store rules.
CNET: Epic v. Apple Trial Outcome, Explained (Sept. 10, 2021)
The judge in the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial just handed down her decision, and you might be keeping some extra cash in your pocket because of it. CNET breaks down the outcome (and how it could affect you) if you’re an iOS user.


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Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day
Good morning. Markets are showing relief at a cooling of U.S.-Iran tensions, Brexit red lines have been set out and Nissan responds to Carlos Ghosn. Here’s what’s moving markets.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be “standing down” from further escalation of tensions between the two countries following the missile attack on a U.S. base that Pentagon officials believe was not designed to kill any American personnel, rather just send a message. The U.S. will impose more sanctions on Iran but Trump did offer a diplomatic olive branch, vaguely suggesting that another nuclear deal could be negotiated. For markets, it should go some way to reducing the jitters, though it does raise the question of whether markets are showing cool judgment or dangerous complacency.
The stalls are being set out for another year when Brexit is likely to remain very high of the agenda in U.K. politics. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met and set out some red lines for the negotiations which are set to take place over the course of the coming year, though von der Leyen warned very clearly that getting a full and comprehensive exit deal done by the end of 2020 is “impossible.” Elsewhere, European Central Bank officials still think there's a risk a no-deal Brexit happens while Goldman Sachs Inc. likes U.K. stocks for this year.
Carlos Ghosn, the world's most famous white collar fugitive, used his two-and-a-half hour news conference in Lebanon to assail Japan's justice system and make allegations about executives at his former employer, Nissan Motor Co. Nissan bosses responded to the accusations mostly with derision, keeping the war of words going. Ultimately, the news conference seems unlikely to change the picture for Ghosn or indeed for Nissan, where the stock is still trading near recent lows and it faces the same challenges of slowing sales and huge investment requirements as other global car companies. Not that this means the noise will fade any time soon.
It will be a busy day for those trying to fully gauge the health of the U.K.’s retail sector as supermarket chain Tesco Plc and clothing and food firm Marks & Spencer Group Plc both update on the Christmas period. The others that have already reported, including apparel retailer Next Plc and Tesco’s grocery rivals J Sainsbury Plc and Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc, have held up relatively well against gloomy forecasts but all say the environment is tough. After Thursday, when we also get numbers from home-furnishings firm Dunelm Group Plc, greeting card merchant Card Factory Plc and pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers Plc, we’ll know better exactly how tough things are.
Asian stocks bounced on the toning down of the rhetoric between the U.S. and Iran and European stock futures indicate a similar rise will occur when markets open here. Oil pared its recent gains and gold, the safe haven assets of choice in recent days, also dipped. More data will arrive on the state of Germany’s economy with industrial production numbers, plus there will be a bevy of European Central Bank and Federal Reserve officials speaking over the course of the day.
What We’ve Been Reading
This is what’s caught our eye over the past 24 hours.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are stepping back.
- Anglophile entertainment is hot property.
- Actually, a 4-day week may be debated in Finland.
- How the Catholic Church limits abuse payouts to victims.
- The U.K.’s best-paid jobs in 2020.
- TikTok security flaws may have exposed videos to hackers.
- Outrage at the cost of sandwiches in the U.K.
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Wells Fargo upped its guidance for T-Mobile’s fourth-quarter results after the carrier painted a rosy picture on its performance.
T-Mobile released preliminary fourth-quarter results Tuesday, confirming that it added more than 5 million net customers for a fourth straight year.
The nation’s third-largest mobile network operator saw 1.1 million net branded postpaid additions during the quarter, 891,000 of which were phone customers. It ended the year 3.6 million branded postpaid net customer additions, hitting the top of the range of 3.3 million to 3.6 million such subscribers.
“T-Mobile’s Q4 postpaid net adds (107,000 million) and postpaid phone adds 891,000) both beat our estimates, so we are modestly revising our Q4 revenue estimate upward to $10.91 billion (from $10.88 billion previously,” Wells Fargo analysts wrote in a research note. “We’re also revising upward our Q4 adjusted EBITDA ($2.53 billion vs. $2.51 billion previously) and core EBITDA $2.38 billion vs. $2.51 billion previously).”
Like other research firms, Wells Fargo believes T-Mobile will continue to gain share in a wireless market has essentially slowed to a crawl. That growth will continue to slow, however, compared to recent years that saw T-Mobile zoom past Sprint to become the country’s No. 3 mobile network operator.”
“Looking into 2018, we believe T-Mobile will be able to leverage its customer momentum and again lead the industry in postpaid customer adds, albeit at a slightly slower pace vs. 2017 due to smartphone market saturation and continued low churn from competitors.”
MoffettNathanson Research this week hailed T-Mobile’s revised fourth-quarter guidance, citing it as evidence the overall U.S. market is returning to health despite failed merger talks between Sprint and T-Mobile.
“This morning’s pre-released results painted an encouraging story of the four-player market. The results are broadly in line with our expectations … but that should be seen as good news,” Craig Moffett wrote in a note to investors. “T-Mobile’s continued subscriber growth, in the context of a relatively benign competitive backdrop, is broadly confirmatory of the view that the wireless market is getting healthier, not sicker.”