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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) do not seem to be losing their momentum as they continue to attract a wide range of users. Now, VCR Group, a hospitality firm based in New York City, has opened NFT offerings for its clients.
The company has announced the launch of a live token sale available to its private dining club in NYC, known as Flyfish Club. The club is exclusive to members only.
NYC restaurant exclusive to NFT holders
The announcement from the company noted that those who wanted to access the seafood restaurant needed to buy their membership through blockchain. This membership will be sold to members in the form of NFTs.
On its website, VCR Group has provided reasons why it has chosen to work with NFTs. The announcement reads, “by utilizing NFTs, FFC is able to create a loyal, member-community that we can provide special experiences for. NFTs create new modernistic financial models, which will allow FFC to deliver an exceptional and sustainable product for years to come.”
The website shows that potential customers select from the two types of memberships listed. One of these memberships is the regular tier that allows members to access the main dining area, outdoor space, cocktail lounge and special events. This membership cost 2.5 ETH, valued at around $8300 at the time of writing.
The second type of membership comes at a higher price. The membership is known as Flyfish Omakase, and it will allow members to access all the offerings available on the regular tier. Additionally, it will give access to a 14-seat Omakase room going for 4.25 ETH.
The website also adds that NFT holders with the Flyfish membership can lease their tokens to those who do not hold any tokens. The tokens can be leased monthly, or they can be resold. Reoccurring annual fees will not be charged. The NFTs are exclusive to memberships, but clients can buy their food and drinks using USD.
Flyfish Club is the second offering from Group. The company had earlier opened a Japanese restaurant serving omakase-style.
Not the first restaurant to support crypto
Flyfish Club is not the first restaurant to have crypto-related offerings in its services. The boom in NFTs and cryptocurrencies has created a niche that restaurants are exploring to attract a new clientele.
Recently, Crypto Street Restaurant in Florida opened a crypto-themed wall art restaurant. The menu was also inspired by cryptocurrency names.
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Last week, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) published the latest electric switching numbers on its site, which shows that, as of Oct. 31, more than 178,000 residential customers have switched to a new electricity provider. Nearly all of these residential customers switched to a retail electric supplier in the last eight months.
Customers who are considering choosing a new electricity provider can find a wealth of information on the ICC’s consumer education website, PluginIllinois.org as well as the Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) Consumer Education Guide.
Constellation is dedicated to providing residential electricity consumers with as much information as possible so that they can accurately compare offers against the utility’s “Price to Compare” and other offers. For more information about shopping for electricity, consumers can also check out our webpage (https://home.constellation.com/Promotion/ElectricityChoice). ComEd residents can also watch this short video and Ameren residents can learn more by watching this short video.
Are you one of the thousands of residents in Illinois that recently switched electricity providers? Tell us what your experience has been so far.
Small businesses are struggling as restrictions are put in place to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The government has responded by issuing SBA disaster declarations across the United States and by passing emergency assistance legislation, including the CARES Act, opening up the availability of government small-business loans to help keep businesses open
We’ve created this list of tips to help you stay mentally, emotionally and physically healthy while social distancing during the COVID-19 spread. “Social distancing” is a term that has taken over the media and our lives recently.

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QuantumScape Corporation, just disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) its new cooperation with another top ten automaker in the world. Prior to this, QuantumScape has achieved a public listing through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Although the stock price has been quite depressed this year, the majority of investors are very optimistic about the content of the new announcement, which has greatly boosted QuantumScape's stock price.
Prior to this, QuantumScape has reached a cooperation with the German automotive giant Volkswagen Group to jointly build a pilot battery manufacturing plant. The latest document submitted to the SEC disclosed its new cooperation with the second giant in the field of automotive OEM manufacturing.
It is reported that the two parties will cooperate to evaluate solid-state lithium battery prototypes and purchase 10 MWh products on the QS-0 production line. But before it is officially put on the market, it still needs to complete a series of verification tests.
OEM manufacturers have already evaluated early batteries, and in the mid-term they will also verify QuantumScape's more advanced prototype batteries, which are expected to be delivered before QS-0 production in 2023.
Single diaphragm and single-layer soft pack battery shown in QuantumScape investor PPT
As QuantumScape's first factory, QS-0 hopes to complete the early-stage battery manufacturing here. As one of the few EV solid-state power battery research and development companies in the industry, these batteries are considered to have a number of advantages compared with current products.
First, it has significant safety advantages due to the reduced use of combustible materials. Secondly, high-density materials also bring longer cruising range for electric vehicles.
In its filing with the SEC today, the company also mentioned its first early/mid-stage manufacturing plant. In addition, in the investor update shared at the end of the second quarter of this year, QuantumScape also disclosed some details about current research projects and facilities.
For example, the company chose to build a QS-0 pre-production plant in San Jose, California, and leased 197,000 acres of facilities for this purpose. Moreover, QuantumScape said that it has ordered long-delivery equipment, which means that there will be new machines arriving one after another in the future.
Finally, although QuantumScape's market value has plummeted by more than 50% since the beginning of 2021, the new announcement still allowed the stock price to rise by 14%, and its current market value is approximately US$9.8 billion.


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New Year’s resolutioners aren’t the only ones hoping for a new look in 2019 — fast-fashion retailer Zara changed its logo for 2019. And the change, which features a new font with overlapping letters, isn’t sitting well with customers.
Since the company started in the ‘70s, the brand has only ever changed their logo twice, once in 2011 and now in 2019. The first change was fairly subtle, they simply added some spaces in between the letters creating the logo that customers know and love today. The 2019 design got rid of those spaces — and then some — creating the jumbled, overlapping logo that will be everywhere before we know it.
Designed by creative firm Baron & Baron, their founder Fabien Baron also created the visual imagery for the new Zara marketing campaign. Baron helped design typography for many luxury brands, like Dior and Coach. Perhaps this feeling of luxury is what Zara was trying to achieve?
What do their fans thing of the new look? Well, very few are impressed. People took to Twitter to point out their disappointment. Some users thought the brand made a mistake and forgot the spaces.
— Silvia Sguotti (@SilviaSguotti) January 30, 2019
Others noticed a comparison between their new logo and the size range of their clothing.
— Michael Badham (Double Verífied) (@Badham) January 30, 2019
While some compared the cramped logo to their cramped racks during a sale.
Zara’s new logo is a nod to their over stuffed clothes rails at sale time pic.twitter.com/Myo46jB1wg
— Craig G Mo 🎄🥑🍇🍑🎄 (@craig_g_mo) January 31, 2019
One user said it’s perfect—because it represents how they feel when they’re in a Zara store, “constricted, anxious and stressed.”
The new Zara logo is honestly perfect, in that it perfectly illustrates how I feel when I’m in Zara constricted, anxious and stressed pic.twitter.com/hKxZ5VRdU8
— Dáithí (@dvidmaguire) January 30, 2019
Bottom line? Fans aren’t into it. But it’s only a matter of time before this logo becomes the new normal and people forget the old one even existed.


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Walmart-owned e-commerce firm Flipkart has launched a smart assistive interface feature called ‘Saathi’ to help first-time online shoppers and enhance the shopping experience of its customers on the platform.
Flipkart’s Saathi feature will be available in text and voice interface. It includes key actions in the form of pop-up texts followed by audio, to help users to understand and follow the instructions.
“Flipkart is committed to bringing the next 200 million consumers online and solving for that in every possible manner. This personalisation of technology is a key element of our vision for Bharat and all our innovations are centred on this. As 80-90 percent of our resources are devoted towards building the ecosystem for Bharat, we are confident of such initiatives bringing about a massive change in our efforts to democratise e-commerce in India.” says Kalyan Krishnamurthy Group Chief Officer at Flipkart.
The new feature is targeted at customers across tier 2, 3 cities and beyond in rural India, who are still new to online shopping.
Flipkart makes heavy investments across all verticals to enhance customer experience. In September, it had launched a Hindi interface to boost its customer acquisition process across the country.


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NEW YORK, United States — Condé Nast and Hearst Magazines, both global publishers of glossy fashion magazines and other special and general interest titles, are facing a major budget crunch. The coronavirus crisis is crippling its advertisers, who are tapping credit lines and minimising expenses as they ride out store closures.
Print publishers were already vulnerable: Readers have moved online and to social media, where they are harder to monetise, both via subscriptions (a competitive market) and advertising (a lower margin business), and there is more competition for their attention. Both Condé Nast and Hearst have responded in recent years by investing in video and events, and continuously trimming the costs associated with making magazines.
The coronavirus crisis and its economic fallout will only push fashion magazines to work harder to prove their value in a market where Instagram is the go-to for discovering new brands and hearing directly from celebrities. In many cases, brands continued to advertise with legacy publishers because of longstanding relationships and the promise of connecting with big-spending, highly educated readers. Now, it’s unlikely those intangible qualities will be enough to sustain partnerships at the same level.
The rival publishers have so far taken different approaches to managing what’s in front of them — and anticipating what’s to come, reflecting longstanding cultural differences in the way the businesses are operated.
In a memo to staff on Monday, Condé Nast Chief Executive Roger Lynch told employees that the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ is taking further cost-cutting steps than initially anticipated as it prepares for “substantial impact from [the coronavirus] crisis on our business.”
In addition to a hiring freeze and delaying some internal operational projects, Lynch announced furloughs and reduced working hours for some undisclosed roles that will be supported by government aid packages like those being developed in the UK and Europe. Lynch wrote that layoffs are a “last option,” and will be decided by the end of May.
Condé Nast employees who earn a base salary of more than $100,000 per year will have their salaries reduced by 10 to 20 percent, while Lynch and board members from outside the company will see salaries reduced by 50 percent. Other senior executives on the leadership team, which includes Vogue’s Anna Wintour, will have their base salaries reduced by 20 percent. These changes will go into effect May 1 and last at least five months.
“We aren’t alone in needing to take actions like this – companies around the world are all facing similar challenges and responding accordingly,” Lynch wrote. “I understand the impact this will have on many of our team members, and I appreciate all of you who will join me in taking temporary salary reductions, so we can limit that impact as much as possible.”
With a potentially expensive unionisation looming, Hearst’s coronavirus response has focused not on layoffs or furloughs, but added benefits. Employees with Covid-19 will be fully paid for up to 26 weeks, and those who are caring for someone with the virus can be paid fully for up to two weeks. Employees caring for kids who had school cancelled also receive an additional two weeks of 100 percent paid time off. No salary reductions are planned, according to a representative for Hearst.
The publisher and its employees are currently waiting on a decision from the National Labor Relations Board about different elements of the union’s bargaining units. Hearst staff announced their intentions to unionise in November, in what could be one of the largest in the country, seeking better benefits and transparency around salary increases. The process has been contentious, particularly in the first few months.
But while these recent steps reflect a reduction in revenue related directly to the pandemic, both Condé Nast and Hearst have been in reaction mode for years.
Condé Nast, which earned its reputation under former chairman Si Newhouse by making big investments in new titles, editors and editorial overhauls, has been more likely to shutter print editions or entire publications while keeping the main money-makers like Vogue and Vanity Fair on the monthly print schedule. It also still makes big bets on journalism: The New Yorker, which has a highly profitable subscription business, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for Ronan Farrow’s reporting on the Harvey Weinstein misconduct allegations.
The strength of Condé Nast’s brands has sparked rumours that the Newhouse family, the owner of Condé Nast under parent Advance — which used to fuel the magazines with its newspaper and radio business — may put all of or some of its titles up for sale. (The company has denied this time and again.)
Hearst Magazines — part of the much larger Hearst Corporation, which has stakes in ESPN as well as business and medical data companies — makes fewer headlines for its journalism but has increasingly grown in reach, especially after the 2018 acquisition of Rodale, the publisher of titles like Men’s Health and Runner’s World. Hearst is known to be more conservative, frequently cutting costs in order to keep it in the black. It rarely closes magazines, for example, but is more likely to cut the number of issues they publish. Esquire, for example, went from eight issues per year in 2019 to six issues per year in 2020. Marie Claire went from 12 issues per year in 2017 to nine issues per year in 2020.
Regardless of the approach, both companies must now contend with the realities surfaced by the pandemic. Neither has grown an alternative revenue source to rival advertising, which means they must pivot fast or find new ways to convince brands that they remain worth the investment.


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NANJING - While imposing strict measures including mass testing and widespread travel restrictions to contain the latest Delta variant outbreak, China, the world's second-largest economy, has continued to drive economic growth.
The Chinese mainland reported 24 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with the majority in Jiangsu province in eastern China, according to the National Health Commission. Jiangsu's Yangzhou has become the latest hotspot for this round of infections, logging 546 cases in total.
The recent COVID-19 resurgence first emerged in Nanjing, the provincial capital of Jiangsu, where several airport cleaners were found to be infected on July 20 during a routine test.
Chinese authorities have quickly clamped down on local flare-ups with measures like mass nucleic acid testing, targeted lockdowns, and travel restrictions, which has led to a distinct downward trend in new infections, as Nanjing, for example, has registered only one case in the past three days.
"The tightened measures will inevitably affect some people-intensive industries in the short run, but they are necessary for the long-term economic recovery," said Wu Chaoming, an economist with Chasing Securities, noting that China's economic recovery trend for 2021 is unchanged.
China's economy has staged a strong rebound, having grown 2.3 percent last year amid the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Owing to the low comparison base and its consolidating recovery, the country's economy expanded 12.7 percent year on year in the first half of 2021.
According to Wu, although the current Delta variant is highly contagious, its overall impact on China's economy may be more limited, because China is now experienced in containing the spread of the virus and can better coordinate control measures and economic development.


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SINGAPORE -- Recession in major economies around the world has hit Southeast Asia's pivotal tourism industry, but increased domestic and regional travel by cash-squeezed travelers based in Asia means some countries will be hurt less than others.
Governments around the region are cutting forecasts for income as both long-haul tourists and business travelers get increasingly cost-conscious. That is a problem because tourism accounts for a hefty 6% or more of most economies in Southeast Asia.
Still, some low-cost countries with attractive tourist spots and large homegrown populations should lose out less.
"People may find it increasingly attractive to travel within the region, and countries like Malaysia and Indonesia will benefit from that," said CIMB-GK economist Song Seng Wun.
Changing travel habits could also prove a boon for the region's budget carriers such as Tiger Airways, AirAsia Bhd. and Jetstar, as well as low-priced hotels.
"We are already seeing a trading down by businesses, which is benefiting us," said Mark Lankester, chief executive officer of Tune Hotels, a low-cost provider of accommodation owned by the founders of AirAsia.
Demand for rooms from business and leisure travelers at the company's two hotels in Malaysia is strong and the company hasn't delayed plans to open 100 hotels by 2011, including in Bali, Phuket and Jakarta.
"We feel confident we will be able to maintain the high occupancy rates that we currently do in the new hotels," Mr. Lankester said. The occupancy rate for both hotels is about 80%, the company said.
Indonesia's Tourism Society expects the country to suffer from the economic slowdown. It forecasts foreign tourist arrivals of 6.1 million to 6.2 million this year, below the government's target of seven million though still above 2007's total of 5.5 million arrivals. The government, meanwhile, is still targeting eight million arrivals in 2009.
Malaysia, where tourism contributes 7% of gross domestic product, will also suffer given that neighboring Singapore, the source of half of the country's international visitors, is in recession.
"The outlook for 2009 remains unclear at this stage. At best it will remain close to the 2008 figure," said Ngiam Foon, president of the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents.
For this year, Malaysia now expects to receive 22.5 million tourists who should spend an estimated 55 billion ringgit ($15.2 billion), up from 20.9 million visitors who spent 46 billion ringgit in 2007.
But analysts said there could be an increase in domestic vacations as more residents choose to travel locally rather than overseas.
The Philippine government has warned, too, that it isn't likely to meet tourism revenue targets for this year.
Last year, a record 3.1 million tourists visited the Philippines, contributing around 3% of the country's GDP. Philippine Tourism Secretary Ace Durano forecast that 2008 arrivals will probably increase 5% to 6% instead of the targeted 8% to 10%.
"With some mature markets in recession and the possible contagion going into next year, we know international travel will soften, so what we're trying to do now is ensure that total demand -- combined local and international -- will still be up to support the ongoing expansion in the local tourism industry," he said.
Some said the pessimism on regional tourism is overdone and that failure to reach ambitious 2008 targets is less worrisome than it looks.
"When the targets for 2008 and 2009 were set, they were based on numbers achieved in 2007, which was a very strong year for Asian economies and the travel industry," said Alvin Liew, an economist with Standard Chartered.
And weak regional currencies should help some travelers worried about their budgets. As of Monday, for example, the rupiah was down 24% against the U.S. dollar this year while the ringgit had slid 9% and the peso 16%.
The government of Singapore, a key financial center and a stopover for travelers going elsewhere, has warned that arrivals and income from tourism will fall short of this year's targets of 10.8 million people and 15.5 billion Singapore dollars (US$10.2 billion) In October, visitors to the country fell 8% from a year earlier, to 843,000.
That has already prompted hotel chains to slash rates by as much as 30%, according to local press reports. Singapore's hotels recorded about S$178 million in room revenue in October, down 0.3% from a year earlier and the first drop in almost three years.
Tourism in Thailand, which in 2007 had 14.8 million visitors, naturally is getting seriously impacted by political unrest that for the past week severed Bangkok's busy air links with the world.
While the city's two airports are now expected to be functioning normally by Friday , the way hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded or inconvenienced by the shutdowns will have a lingering impact on tourist numbers. Dozens of countries have issued warnings to avoid traveling to Thailand.
Indian tourism, too, faces a downturn after the terror attacks in the commercial capital of Mumbai.
—Piyarat Setthasiriphaiboon, Supunnabul Suwannakij, I-Made Sentana, Cris Larano, Maria Khong and P.R. Venkat contributed to this article.
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SINGAPORE: Consumer-focused Petra upbeat after Q3 results
Petra's core branded consumer business recorded “strong” profit growth
Petra Foods, the Singapore confectioner, has reported higher third-quarter profits as it starts life as a consumer-facing business after selling its cocoa ingredients arm.
The company booked a 3.5% increase in underlying net profit from its consumer business to US$14.8m for the three months to the end of September.
In June, Petra completed the sale of its cocoa ingredients business to Barry Callebaut and is now focusing on consumer products.
Its reported third-quarter net profit was up 42.4% as the company lapped the third quarter of 2012 when the cocoa ingredients arm made a loss of $3.9m.
Losses from the cocoa ingredients business made this year before the June sale meat Petra reported a drop in nine-month earnings.
While the divestment of its cocoa arm has been completed, Petra said it is still required to consolidate the half year ended 30 June into its nine-month results. During the first half, the cocoa business was impacted by "significant" headwinds affecting cocoa ingredients suppliers globally, Petra said.
Petra posted a net profit of US$4.7m in the nine months to the end of September, compared to earnings of $42.6m a year earlier.
Over the first nine months of 2013, Petra said its core branded consumer business recorded "strong" profit growth of 9.7% to $43.7m. This was achieved on the back of 71.% increase in revenueto $379.9m.
The performance was driven by "dynamic" regional consumption, as well as "strong" own brand sales, Petra said, which reflected the "success" of the group's investments in innovation, brand-building initiatives, new product launches and enhanced sales and distribution capabilities.
Last month, it emerged Petra and Barry Callebaut were disputing the final price the Swiss chocolate giant will pay for the cocoa ingredients business.
The world's largest B2B chocolate group has applied for a discount of US$98m on the deal, which was struck last year and closed this summer for $860m.
Petra has rejected the claim, arguing it does not have a "proper or valid basis and/or have not been properly substantiated or justified".
Barry Callebaut said the two sides would now "apply the dispute resolution mechanism" included in the takeover contract.
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ReachLocal, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
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ReachLocal, Inc. announced that it entered into a separation agreement with John Mazur, the company Europe's Chief Executive Officer, who is leaving the company to return to the United States and pursue other opportunities. Craig Harris most recently as Co-General Manager of Asia and Co-Managing Director of Australia, will become the new Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Europe. Stephen Prestidge, who also joined the company in 2008 and has been Mr. Harris' partner as Co-General Manager of Asia and Co-Managing Director of Australia, has been promoted to Managing Director of Asia and Australia. Mr. Mazur will continue in his current role through January 14, 2013, and thereafter will serve as a Senior Advisor until February 28, 2014 to assist with the transition of his responsibilities to Mr. Harris. Mr. Mazur will continue his employment until the Termination Date on the same terms and conditions as prior to entering into the Separation Agreement.
ReachLocal, Inc. Announces General Availability in Canada of ReachEdge
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ReachLocal, Inc. announced the general availability in Canada of ReachEdge, an easy-to-implement marketing system that helps SMBs get more customers from their marketing spend. ReachEdge is a key component of ReachLocal's new marketing and commerce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) suite of products, which help local merchants digitize their businesses, operate more efficiently and maximize the return on their investments. ReachEdge was recently released in the U.S., where it has been met with favorable customer response. So many business owners make significant investments in online marketing and advertising, only to have the majority of their leads slip through the cracks. If they don't have a website that engages visitors and turns them into leads, have a mobile website, quickly respond to new leads, routinely follow up with their best leads, or know which of their marketing campaigns are working, they are likely wasting those investments. ReachEdge is a comprehensive marketing system that gives business owners the tools and support they need to get the most out of their marketing dollars. It combines a smart website, easy-to-use lead management software and a powerful mobile application that work together to help SMBs convert more visitors into leads and more leads into customers. ReachEdge product features: Smart Website; Professionally designed, incorporating best practices for lead conversion; Optimized version for smartphones and tablets; Custom content creation; Advanced capture technology (tracking phone numbers, automatic contact information capture); Integrated with social media presence; Search engine optimized content and features; Self-service updates; Optional live chat module; Lead Management Software; Real-time notification of new contacts via text message, email or mobile app alert; Call recording; One-touch lead classification that kicks off automated marketing; Automated lead list building; Reminder notifications of active leads; Custom, branded lead nurturing emails; Mobile Application; Prioritized list of new contacts and active leads requiring follow-up; Full information on each lead, including call-recordings and email/form details; Lead source and engagement reports; Closed loop reporting on revenue driven by each marketing source; Detailed performance reports available via web portal.
ReachLocal, Inc. Announces Executive Changes; Reports Unaudited Consolidated Earnings Results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2013; Provides Earnings Guidance for the Fourth Quarter of 2013 and Full Year 2013
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ReachLocal, Inc. announced that Josh Claman will become the President of the company. As Chief Revenue Officer, Josh has led its continued global expansion and efforts towards enhancing and improving go-to-market strategies. With his more than 25 years of experience building and leading sales and service organizations across Asia, Europe and the Americas, including with Dell, Josh is well suited to help lead the company in the next phase of its global growth. The company also announced that Nathan Hanks resigned as an officer and director of the company.
The company reported unaudited consolidated earnings results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2013. For the quarter, revenue was $133,148,000 against $118,891,000 a year ago. Income from operations was $127,000 against $1,117,000 a year ago. Income before provision for income taxes was $308,000 against $1,150,000 a year ago. Net loss was $1,122,000 or $0.04 per basic and diluted share against net income of $836,000 or $0.03 per basic and diluted share a year ago. Adjusted EBITDA was $7,302,000 against $7,221,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP income from operations was $1,117,000 against $4,671,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes was $1,150,000 against $4,704,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP net income was $2,630,000 or $0.09 per diluted share against $4,458,000 or $0.15 per diluted share a year ago. Operating cash from continued operating activities was $13.9 million compared with the net cash from continued operations of $9.5 million for the prior-year period, reflecting changes in timing of underpayments and rebates, among other balance sheet items.
For the nine months, revenue was $382,023,000 against $335,106,000 a year ago. Income from operations was $827,000 against $560,000 a year ago. Income before provision for income taxes was $1,349,000 against $898,000 a year ago. Net loss was $1,898,000 or $0.07 per basic and diluted share against net income of $162,000 or $0.01 per basic and diluted share a year ago. Net cash provided by operating activities was $25,735,000 against $31,878,000 a year ago. Additions to property, equipment and software were $16,148,000 against $12,067,000 a year ago. Adjusted EBITDA was $21,243,000 against $17,190,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP income from operations was $11,074,000 against $10,076,000 a year ago. Non GAAP income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes was $11,596,000 against $10,414,000 a year ago. Non-GAAP net income was $8,501,000 or $0.29 per diluted share against $9,819,000 or $0.34 per diluted share a year ago.
For the fourth quarter of 2013, the company expects revenue in the range of $133 million to $136 million and adjusted EBITDA in the range of $8.8 million to $9.8 million.
For the full year 2013, the company expects revenue in the range of $515 million to $518 million and adjusted EBITDA in the range of $30 million to $31 million.


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Bristol Compressors announces closure
USA: Virginia-based air conditioning and refrigeration compressor manufacturer is to close its doors with the loss of 470 jobs.
The financially-troubled company announced yesterday that it will wind down operations at its plant in Bristol, Virginia, in the next 60 days.
There have been a succession of lay-offs in recent years at its 800,000ft² Bristol plant but a company spokesman said the most significant contributor to the closure was the failure of its business in the Middle East – the company had opened a sales office in the UAE in 2015.
Things had looked brighter at the beginning of this year when the company announced a “game changing” deal to develop new high efficiency compressors and systems with DHX Electric Machines.
Established in 1975, Bristol Compressors was once a subsidiary of York International. As demand for its compressors increased, the company added a plant in Sparta, North Carolina in 1994, but this closed in 2001.
Following York’s purchase by Johnson Controls in 2006, the Bristol business was acquired by investment company KPS Capital Partners. It was subsequently bought by current owners, the New York-based Garrison Investment Group, in 2012.
The company was also involved in the early development of scroll compressors. In 1995, Bristol established Scroll Technologies in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in a 50/50 joint venture with Carrier. That business was acquired by Danfoss in 2006.


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Data storage company Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter results Friday 8:00 AM ET. It is widely expected that the unfavorable market conditions will weigh on the overall performance this time.
Analysts see a 48% fall in fourth-quarter earnings to $0.84 per share. The dismal estimate reflects a projected 18% fall in revenues to $2.33 billion, which is broadly in line with the management’s expectation.
The continuing fall in the prices of flash memory, due to faltering demand for NAND chips and oversupply, is the biggest challenge facing the company. Also, competition from industry rivals like Samsung and Western Digital (WDC) has intensified.
While the general weakness in demand will continue to be a drag, the growing market for smartphones with high storage capacity is good news for the industry. Considering the cyclical nature of the sector Seagate represents, demand is bound to recover helped by the rapid adoption of mass data storage systems. To grab the opportunity, Seagate has been focusing on high capacity storage devices capable of supporting large cloud computing systems.
With claims of having shipped the first-ever 16-terabyte drives in the March quarter, the management earlier issued upbeat guidance for the second half of the year, when it expects to leverage the popularity of mass data storage systems.
Another factor that could aid Seagate’s revenue growth in the to-be-reported quarter is the recent launch of upgraded IronWolf hard disks with significantly higher capacity. Of late, the company has been witnessing a marked increase in the shipments of 12-terabyte products and a sequential improvement in the average capacity per drive.
Earnings of the Cupertino, California-based tech firm dropped sharply to $0.83 per share in the third quarter, owing to a decline in revenues, but came in above the estimates. At $2.3 billion, the top-line fell short of expectations.
Western Digital this week reported a decrease in fourth-quarter adjusted earnings to $0.17 per share, reflecting a double-digit contraction in revenues to $3.6 billion. The weakness is attributable to the falling demand for flash memory.
Though Seagate’s shares regained strength early this year, after slipping to a low last year, the momentum waned in recent weeks. The stock gained about 19% so far this year. It has lost about 14% in the past twelve months.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced fourth-quarter 2022 financial results, reporting a double-digit fall in adjusted earnings and an increase in revenues. Fourth-quarter revenues increased 7% annually to $11.5
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) reported fourth quarter 2022 earnings results today. Net revenues decreased 2.3% year-over-year to $6.1 billion. Net earnings attributable to Altria increased 65.6% to $2.6 billion
Semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) reported a decline in fourth-quarter earnings, despite an increase in revenues. Earnings, excluding special items, dropped to $0.69 per share in the


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EA is set to release a brand new update has not posted anything yet
The trade logic overhaul will also address assets whose trade value is somewhat unique to professional American football: draft picks. Madden's franchise mode has had the means of trading upcoming draft picks since Madden NFL 13 in 2012. EA Tiburon says it's"completely realigned the base value of Draft picks to work with fresh Player Value changes." Additionally,"teams have more nuanced viewpoints of valuing players and draft picks in their own and opponents."
A note from developers expanded on this notion with an example: A star player could be worth a first-round draft selection in a one-for-one trade. But the fact he is an older celebrity who could possibly retire shortly lowers the yield value to a second-round pick, since the team who gets the celebrity will not have him .
Another significant change is that a quality-of-life feature that Madden lifers have long requested: A record of all award winners, Super Bowl participants, winners, along with other information, over the multi-year lifespan of a Franchise playthrough. In Maddens to date, players' career total figures were retained, but not divided by individual year. And, unless someone was writing down it at a three-ring binder, the results of the alternative reality that consumers had created were missing as soon as they started a new year.
Madden NFL 21 started in August on PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One, and was so underwhelming on this creation of hardware as to earn the lowest review scores in history. On the PlayStation 5 along with Xbox collection X, though, more powerful visuals and more real player movement and gameplay (especially in the game) gave the match a little lift. It was bought and played record-breaking numbers.
But longtime fans still resented the absence of focus to Franchise mode, whose latest significant update came in 2016. Tweeting under the hashtag #FixFranchise after Madden NFL 21's launch caught the interest of EA Tiburon developers, who promised the 3 rounds of Franchise updates culminating in Thursday's patch.
Madden 21 Is Making Player Trades Fairer & Easier To Know
EA is set to release a brand new update for Madden NFL 21 that will tackle a different longstanding problem with Franchise style, making player trades easier to understand and more realistic. Since its launch last year, the latest variant in the NFL sim has been met with a mixed reception from critics and fans. Some have even called for the NFL to fall EA and place another company in charge of video game adaptations due to a perceived lack of advancement in the series during the last few years.
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RIYADH: (RAHNUMA) China will adjust import and export tariffs on some goods from Jan. 1, in order to speed and promote development and expand domestic demand, the Finance Ministry said
Export tariffs on aluminum and aluminum alloys are to be raised, the ministry said in a statement, citing the tariff commission of China’s state council, or Cabinet.
The current import tariff will stay on seven types of coal until March 31 next year, with tariffs adopted for most favored nations from April 1, the Finance Ministry said in a separate statement.
As the world’s second biggest economy battles a surge in COVID-19 infections after Beijing’s abrupt U-turn on stringent curbs, it will set tariffs to zero on ingredients of some anti-COVID drugs, so as to ease the financial burden on patients.
To meet shoppers’ demands, import tariffs will be further lowered on coffee makers and juice extractors, the tariff commission said.
As competition grows with the US on technology issues, China has decided to further reduce the tariffs for most favored nations on 62 types of information technology products from July 1 next year.
That step will cut China’s overall tariffs to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent.
Foreign video games
China’s video game regulator granted publishing licenses to 44 foreign games for domestic release, including seven from South Korea, further lifting rigid curbs that have hammered the industry for 18 months.
South Korean gaming stocks, including Netmarble Corp.,NCSOFT, Krafton, Kakao Games and Devsisters jumped between 2 percent and more than 17 percent in morning trade on Thursday, a day after Chinese authorities granted publishing licenses.
The approval of seven South Korean games is significant because China has restricted the import of South Korean content since a 2017 dispute over South Korea’s installation of a US missile defense shield. Before this new list, only two South Korean games had been approved.
Among the imported online games approved by the National Press and Publication Administration are five to be published by Tencent Holdings such as “Pokémon Unite” by Nintendo and “Valorant” by Riot Games, according to a list the regulator released.
The regulator initially released a list of 45 approved imported games. It removed Yoozoo’s “Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming” later on Wednesday, without giving a reason. Yoozoo appears, however, to already have a license, according to a document the authority published in September.
The regulator also approved 84 domestic games for the month of December, according to a separate list released on Wednesday.
Yuan edges higher
China’s yuan edged higher against the dollar in thin year-end trading on Thursday, though its gains were capped by investors’ concerns over the spread of infections since the government began dismantling its zero-COVID regime earlier this month.
The Chinese currency is also on course to book its biggest annual loss since 1994, when China unified market and official rates, having depreciated by 8.85 percent against the dollar in the year-to-date.


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What kind of company is eBay?
a) the kind of company you wish you had been offered stock in before it went public;
b) an online auction that's one alternative to avoiding the long lines at Macy's this holiday season; or
c) a virtual flea market in which eBay works with sellers to gin up sales, but turns a "blind eye" to rampant sales of counterfeit items, much in the same way that Napster connected millions of copyright infringers who traded music?
Tiffany & Co., the iconic purveyor of silver, jewelry and crystal bearing its trademark, is seeking to convince U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan that the right answer is C.
Judge Sullivan is presiding over a trial on Tiffany's claims that eBay "is currently, and has been infested with many thousands of counterfeit Tiffany items."
Much of the jewelry sold on eBay using the Tiffany trademark—in fact, the "overwhelming majority"—is fake, the company asserts.
And because this is widely known, Tiffany asserts that eBay should be held liable for contributory infringement of its trademarks.
The suit, pending since 2004, and, should Tiffany's prevail, may require eBay to change its business model and take on the primary burden for pre-screening the millions of items on its site.
EBay, in turn, would like the judge to find eBay to be an online forum for "classified advertising" that puts sellers and buyers of items it never sees together. Indeed, eBay says that over the years it has made "enormous efforts" to root out counterfeiters --- but that the trademark owners, not eBay, bear the ultimate responsibility for protecting their rights.
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Daniel Craig’s Final Outing as James Bond Earned $56 Million In Its US Box Office Debut
No Time to Die had an average opening at the US box office compared to the last three Bond films. The projected numbers for its debut were around $80 million, but it managed to reach only $56 million. It is not a surprise to anyone that the James Bond movies are most popular among audiences aged 35 and older, but Amazon seems to have different plans for the franchise moving forward.
In all fairness, No Time to Die is set to do well overall and is expected to earn some $700 million globally. It cost $250 million to produce and will have a good box office but could have benefited more from the boost that younger audiences could give to any movie. Speculations indicated that Amazon might want to get the attention of those viewers by streaming TV series at Prime Video and injecting new life into the franchise.
James Bond Could Appear On Both the Big Screen and Streaming TV
The eventuality of a Bond TV series does not appear to mean that 007 will not return on the big screen. On the contrary, it probably means that the franchise will run productions for both types of media. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who are the producers behind it, have insisted that Bond will endure on the big screen as he has during the past six decades. Still, it looks like the focus of any future film installments will make an effort to appeal to audiences in their teens and early 20s.
There will certainly be a new direction for the James Bond movies and franchise after that purchase of MGM by Amazon. While Jeff Bezos has hinted that Amazon will reimagine MGM’s IP for the 21st century, any plans for a streaming series will certainly have to get the approval of Wilson and Broccoli because they have control over the creative direction of the series.


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A look at the hottest deals, business moves and upstart entrepreneurs for May 23 from around the country, as reported by The Business Journals and other local business publications.
Deals and money plays
Silicon Valley… A good debut for Zendesk has Box and 11 others lined up for post-Memorial Day IPOs.
Silicon Valley…Thumbtack, a marketplace for local services, scores$30 million
San Francisco… Arrythmia diagnostic company IRhythm lands$17 million.
San Francisco…Generator Ventures hooks up with Formation Capital to back companies in the aging and long-term care market.
Upstarts and bold moves
Boston… Personal organizer startup Springpad is toast.
Silicon Valley…Tangible Play’s games blur the boundary between iPads and physical object. Now, it’s looking for crowdfunding validation.
Pittsburgh… Online shopping startup Tailored Fit is adding national retailers to its roster.
Boston… OpenView Venture Partners, in an effort to boost its marketing prowess, has hired execs from HubSpot and Brightcove.
Each business day, we scour the news from local business publications from around the country—from our partners in the 43 markets covered by American City Business Journals as well as from others—to find the most interesting deals of the day, entrepreneurs, and upstart moves. Connect with me on Twitter @kbernhardjr.
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Blog: Will Roshen be on the block now its owner is the Ukrainain president?
Katy Askew | 5 June 2014
Petro Poroshenko's ascent to the presidency of the Ukraine could see the world's 18th largest confectionery company put up for sale as the "candy king" turns his attention to the pressing issues of the day, like sweet-talking Russia.
In the run up to the presidential election, Poroshenko reportedly told German newspaper Bild that he would sell the business to "wipe the slate clean" and "focus on the well being of the nation" were he to win.
The seizure of Roshen's Russian assets during the election campaign would certainly stand as proof that mixing politics and business in a powder keg of political tension might not be a recipe for success.
Last month, the Ukrainian confectioner lost an appeal to overturn the Russian authorities move to freeze Roshen's Russian bank accounts following a trademark spat with part state-owned Russian firm United Confectioners. The total amount seized in cash equals RUB2.8bn (US$80.5m).
While Roshen is yet to confirm whether it will be sold, attention has turned to who could emerge as potential bidders.
Much speculation has focused on whether Mars or Nestle would be interested in strengthening their hand in a region where they are already leading players. Russian reports have also suggested a potential takeover by Orkla - but given the Norwegian firm's strategic evaluation of operations in the region this seems a less-than-likely outcome. Lotte Confectionery has also be touted as a potential suitor. And what of United Confectioners itself? Would the politics of the situation prove a boulder to the firm, which has previously indicated its intention to grow sales outside Russia?
What is clear is that operating in the volatile climate of eastern Europe offers both opportunity and risk to multinational confectionery groups. According to Mintel, a research firm, the market for confectionery in Eastern Europe increased at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2% between 2004 and 2009. But will the growth potential on offer be enough to assuage concerns over current political instability and an uncertain operating environment?
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After clearing some regulatory hurdles, Microsoft has finally closed on a $7 billion acquisition that brings Nokia’s Devices and Services business into the software and cloud services giant’s ecosystem. The companies first announced the deal on Sept. 2, 2013.
“Today we welcome the Nokia Devices and Services business to our family. The mobile capabilities and assets they bring will advance our transformation,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a statement, nearly eight months after his company set out to snap up the smartphone maker. Echoing a now-familiar theme, Nadella said Microsoft remains “focused on delivering innovation more rapidly in our mobile-first, cloud-first world.”
The acquisition, originally expected to close during the first quarter of 2014, encountered some resistance in China over concerns about potential changes to the patent licensing fees charged to the country’s device makers, namely Lenovo, Xiaomi and ZTE. On April 8, Microsoft announced that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce had officially signed off on the deal.
Microsoft also gave up on acquiring Nokia’s factory in Masan, South Korea. Nokia, now a telecommunications technology provider and mapping software company, will also retain ownership of a factory in Chennai, India, due to tax liens that prevent the transfer of the property to Microsoft.
In the wake of the transaction, former Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop will head up the Microsoft Devices Group as the division’s executive vice president, reporting directly to Nadella. The business unit encompasses Nokia’s hardware, including its Lumia smartphone line, along with Xbox, Surface tablets, large-scale Perceptive Pixel (PPI) touch displays and hardware accessories. Approximately 25,000 Nokia employees will be transferred to Microsoft.
According to Elop, the deal poises Microsoft for further growth in the post-PC world.
Elop asserted that the “vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer.” In a statement he predicted that Microsoft now has the “opportunity to introduce what we like to call the next billion people, the next billion people to connect to the Internet, to Microsoft, because they’ll have an opportunity perhaps to have a first Skype experience, or a first experience with Bing, as an example.”
“And so there are literally billions of people who can be exposed to Microsoft for the very first time,” added Elop.
Nokia was Microsoft’s premier Windows Phone partner. While the mobile operating system lags far behind Google Android and Apple iOS, it has seen some encouraging growth in select markets.
Citing IDC figures, Microsoft said Windows Phone is the “fastest-growing platform among the leading operating systems,” with a year-over-year increase of 91 percent. Microsoft’s smartphone OS now occupies the third spot, after surpassing beleaguered BlackBerry.
With Nokia in the fold, Microsoft hopes to narrow the gap between it and its rivals. Microsoft plans to “target the affordable mobile devices market, a $50 billion annual opportunity,” stated the company.


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The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new tips for the quantity of lead in processed meals for infants and younger youngsters below 2 years of age, which the company says will result in important reductions in publicity to the poisonous substance. metallic.
The brand new tips embrace a restrict of 10 elements per billion of lead in fruit, some greens and yogurt, and a restrict of 20 elements per billion in root greens and dry grains. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf mentioned the brand new requirements might result in a 24-27 % discount in lead publicity from meals.
“The proposed motion ranges introduced at present, together with our state and federal companions, in addition to trade and growers to establish mitigation methods, will result in long-term, significant and sustainable reductions in publicity to this contaminant from meals. Caliph mentioned in an announcement in regards to the new laws.
These meals take in very important vitamins from the surroundings, which additionally means they take in dangerous toxins, similar to lead, that may be dangerous to people when consumed, the company mentioned in an announcement. It isn’t potential to utterly eradicate such contaminants from the meals provide.
The company’s new steering comes as a 2022 research discovered that just about all do-it-yourself and prepackaged child meals comprises some degree of poisonous heavy metals similar to lead and arsenic.
A research by the Wholesome Infants Shiny Future Alliance discovered that 94 % of prepackaged meals include toxins.
The FDA’s new steering is a part of its “Nearer to Zero” program, which seeks to cut back childhood publicity to pollution.


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Country music icon Willie Nelson, long an advocate of marijuana legalization, is putting his money where his mouth (and joint) is by launching Willie’s Reserve, a new marijuana brand to be introduced in Washington and Colorado over the next few months.
Snoop Fails on Marijuana-Related ‘Family Feud’ Question, Steve Harvey Loses His Mind – Cannabis News
Snoop Dogg squared off against Sugar Ray Leonard on Celebrity Family Feud, and the very first question was right up Snoop’s alley.
Comedian and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg announced in March she was teaming up with California edibles producer Maya Elisabeth to tackle a new medical cannabis demographic:women who suffer from menstrual cramps.
If you’ve ever dreamt of saying the words, “I just applied for Willie Nelson’s weed company,” your dreams are about to become a reality.
TUCSON – Snoop Dogg visited a Tucson marijuana dispensary and talked about legalization before his concert Thursday. The rapper took photos with fans at Purple Med Wellness Center. He has launched new products he is selling to dispensaries.
The Game is going green as the brand ambassador for a new cannabis line.
Whoopi Goldberg has had it with cramps and had it with stoner jokes, and now she’s doing something about both. Goldberg announced Wednesday that she’s launching a medical-marijuana company with Maya Elisabeth, one of the leading “canna-businesswomen” in the field, with a line of products designed to provide relief from menstrual cramps.
Wiz Khalifa Partnering with Cannabis Company to Release His Own Marijuana Strain 'Khalifa Kush' – Marijuana News
Wiz Khalifa is setting his sights high: The rapper is entering the big weed business.


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MVNO FreedomPop’s Unreal Mobile service has struck a new deal with AT&T to provide Unreal Mobile customers with AT&T SIM cards.
FreedomPop launched Unreal Mobile in the U.S. earlier this year on Sprint’s CDMA network. Unreal Mobile, which is designed to compete with postpaid plans, has garnered some 50,000 customers to date, according to a report from Mobile World Live. But the CDMA deal constrained the number of devices that were eligible to be used on the network.
Under the new deal with AT&T, customers with GSM devices will now be eligible to access Unreal Mobile’s offering using SIM cards from AT&T. Customers can purchase an AT&T SIM card to use with their GSM smartphones for $4.99. Unreal Mobile also sells smartphones directly.
The launch of Unreal Mobile was in response to the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, which enabled FreedomPop to take advantage of the deal by launching a more competitive offering. Unreal Mobile plans include 1 GB high-speed data for $10 per month, 2 GB for $15, and a 5 GB plan for $30 per month. Each of those plans includes extra features such as Wi-Fi calling, OTT streaming, mobile ad blocking, and a free VPN for private browsing. The plans also offer international calling but not international roaming.
“A year ago, there was no way Sprint would have allowed us to offer Unreal,” Mauricio Sastre, FreedomPop’s SVP of strategy and carrier relations, told FierceWireless earlier this year. “Today however, their hands are tied, as Sprint and T-Mobile are held up in regulatory approvals contingent on their ability to demonstrate that competition won't suffer. Given that FreedomPop’s platform is enabling large companies like Dish to launch new MVNO brands in months, we decided to use it for our own purposes.”
FreedomPop itself launched on Sprint’s WiMAX network back in 2012. The company already has a deal with AT&T for SIM cards and LTE mobile hotspots, which it struck in 2016. Late last year, the MVNO partnered with retailer Target to offer its phones and services in 1,100 Target locations around the U.S. Target is selling FreedomPop SIM cards for $5 and Android phones starting at $59.


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February 10 may go down as a momentous day in real estate history.
That’s when a 70-year-old brick home in the St. Petersburg, Florida suburb of Gulfport sold for the equivalent of $654,310, where the asset exchanged was represented by a non-fungible token.
Worldwide sales of non-fungible tokens, better known – of course – as NFTs, catapulted from $94.9 million in 2020 to $24.9 billion in 2021, according to an analysis of 10 different blockchain ledgers by DappRadar. In the past year, NFTs pole vaulted from mostly commodifying art and digital assets to an array of spheres including – very preliminarily – real estate.
The creation of the NFT real estate market thrusts a spotlight onto a Silicon Valley company specifically throwing itself into real estate, blockchain and NFTs. It also gives real estate agents ideas.
“Absolutely, I will offer an NFT option to sellers within the next year,” said Richard Hopen, a Compass agent in Short Hills, New Jersey. “It’s a great marketing tool for the right type of listing. NFTs are new and associating one with a house is likely to attract media attention.”
NFTs in real estate are, for the moment, a grossly impractical novelty act that, publicity aside, offer tenuous benefits to agents. But, to many, the intersection of NFTs and real estate holds great promise. And for homebuyers and agents alike, they raise the important question about what precisely is the problem NFTs and the blockchain claim to solve.
How a real estate NFT works today…
On a Facebook video chat, Amy Heckler of Heckler Realty in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida answered real estate agents’ questions, surrounded by a white and red Heckler Realty banner and two office plants. Heckler was the listing agent of the auctioned off Gulfport home. As she catalogued her experience, bubbling excitement around NFTs transformative thrall slowly subdued.
The Gulfport seller, Heckler explained, created a limited liability company that held ownership of the home. In creating a Delaware LLC, the Florida seller and Heckler joined forces with Propy, a five-year-old company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Propy then guided the seller into minting the LLC as an NFT. NFTs are digital tokens providing a certification of authenticity that you are acquiring the rights to what an NFT represents. For example, purchasing an NFT of a JPEG of a painting transfers the intellectual property rights of the painting. For the Gulfport home, the NFT did not represent the property itself. It represented LLC ownership of the property. <<<<<Article continued on HousingWire.com.
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Shop price inflation slowed to 1.8% in May, down from 2% in April, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
Food inflation increased to 2.2%, up from 2% in April, while non-food inflation slowed to 1.6% last month, compared with 2% in April.
While past rises in the price of oil continued to put pressure on transport costs, clothes and electricals are cheaper than they were last year, as retailers held prices down “in the face of customers’ reluctance to spend”.
The DIY, gardening and hardware category “continued to exert the most upward pressure” while inflation in the furniture and floorcoverings category continued to accelerate, reporting its highest inflation rate, 3.7%, since January 2008.
Annual deflation returned in the clothing and footwear category in May after inflation of 0.7% in April.
BRC director general Stephen Robertson said shop price inflation slowed compared with last month “despite big rises in some costs”.
He said: “Past rises in the price of oil continue to put pressure on transport costs. International shipping prices are up over a third. Cotton prices are up 40 per cent.
“With margins already being squeezed, a VAT increase would be an inflationary pressure too far.
“Food inflation was up slightly, but that should ease. Tinned and packet foods were the main cause because recent falls in commodities, such as wheat and coffee, have yet to work through to shop prices.”
The Index found that the “reversal of the VAT cut, past falls in the exchange rate and a rise in commodity prices” have all contributed to recent rises.
It said: “Our central estimate is that shop price inflation will remain fairly stable for the remainder of the year, providing there are no further changes in VAT, no major supply shocks and foreign exchange markets do not suffer from sustained and prolonged volatility.”


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Three days ago as I entered a rather impressive marquee I was greeted by hundreds of councillors, businessmen and influential individuals, all buzzing about the launch of the cities new procurement website: finditinbirmingham.com.
Based upon the massively successful finditinsandwell.com, the website aims to relocalise procurement by showcasing services offered by Birmingham based businesses, encouraging networking and providing ongoing support. In this way it is hoped to strengthen the regional economy as money recirculates in the area, creating local job and training opportunities.
The scale of the launch quite clearly demonstrated the Council’s dedication to the initiative, with Lead Councillor Mike Whitby making the opening speech. The need to revitalise the cities exports, redirect some of the councils £3.5billion public procurement budget and to expand the cities economy as a viable alternative to London formed key elements of Councillor Whitby’s speech. He concluded that Birmingham has the potential to become a world class supply chain possessing a rich variety of local jobs, skills and businesses.
Stuart Horton, project manager of finditinbirmingham.com, went on to mention the further benefits of relocalising the city’s business community, including potential CO2 and transport savings and the sustainability of forging face-to-face business relationships.
The last speech delivered by Tony Deep, owner of East End Foods, provided an inspirational account of the growth of a grassroots Birmingham business. Established in the 1960s and now a globally relevant company, East End Foods have recently started redeveloping the old HP sauce site in Aston. They are hoping to revitalise the area by building a new warehouse and cash and carry, with plans for a 14-storey hotel and a food technology centre also in the pipeline. The aim is to create local jobs and develop new skills, with Mr Deep cheerfully declaring ‘you can very much find me in Birmingham!’
The success and grandeur of the launch of finditinbirmingham.com left me feeling extremely optimistic about the projects potential. The site has already attracted 1500 members and hopes to increase this number to 5000 by next year. If successes are equal that of finditinsandwell.com, which now has 7000 members, and the City Council continue the same level of support and commitment then perhaps we are truly one step closer to a Localised West Midlands.


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Dec 21, 2006
I just saw that Luts is selling D.I.M. dolls.
I think Luts just hasn't got around to updating their website - Bambicrony recently stated they will now only sell dolls from their own website.
They used to sell Bambicrony, they have recently deleted them from the page and I guess haven't deleted the page itself yet.
Ah, wasn't sure if that was new or not. I'll take it off Thanks.
I saw on the q and a board they said they would be restocking bambicrony after the new year. ^^
Someone can make a new news when that happens then


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Pets are popular, sustainability is popular, so why not invest in environmentally friendly pet products?
Mistral Equity Partners is helping convert dogs and cats into inadvertent environmentalists with its purchase of Worldwise Inc., home to the SmartyKat, PoochPlanet and Petlinks brands. The seller was CapStreet Group LLC, which bought a majority stake in 2005.
Mistral was looking for a deal in the pet sector for two to three years, according to Managing Partner Andy Heyer, and finally settled on Worldwise after looking at more than 30 potential transactions.
Terms weren’t disclosed, but Heyer said the acquisition was roughly in the middle of the firm’s $25 million to $50 million equity investment range. Mistral typically does deals valued between $100 million and $300 million.
The SmartyKat and Petlinks brands cater to cat owners, offering hunting toys, treats and beds such as the CatnapConvertible two-way bed. PoochPlanet focuses on bedding products for dog devotees, including memory-foam cushions and the LazyLounge “cuddle bed,” complete with cushy sidewalls. Its products, made from natural, organic and recycled materials, are sold in major grocery stories and pet retailers.
“Consumer spending as it relates to pets has grown substantially and continues to grow substantially, without regard to the economy,” Heyer said. “It’s the humanization of animals. Pets have become members of the family. The amount of spending on them is quite significant.”
The main challenge Mistral encountered in its long search was size: Pet product companies tend to be either very large or very small, Heyer said. Worldwise fit the bill perfectly.
“We found Worldwise uniquely still small enough to be an appropriate investment for a fund of our size but, at the same time, it has already obtained sufficient scale and has sufficient management depth where we could feel comfortable [using] it as a platform, to aquire smaller companies and fold them in,” said Heyer.
“When I use the word ‘unique’ I’m not using it lightly,” he added.
The San Rafael, Calif., company is a top seller of pet beds and scratchers and is expecting organic growth through in-house product extension, Heyer said. It will beef up weaker categories with add-on deals.
The “green” business model was a bonus, said Heyer. “People want to buy more sustainable products when they can,” he said. “We think that is pretty significant from a future-growth point of view as well.”
The investment came out of the firm’s first fund, Mistral Equity Partners LP, which closed on $286.8 million, LBO Wire reported in June 2009.
In a world where 14-room-mansions with LEED stickers are sometimes passed off as “green,” we appreciate the specifics of Worldwise Inc.’s pro-sustainability comments. For instance, an October announcement about a partnership with Walmart detailed how Worldwise would sell dog beds, scratchers and litter accessories using recyclable materials provided by Walmart. The PoochPlanet bed uses plastic bottles and the SmartyKat LitterLoo litter box contains recycled plastic hangers. According to the announcement, “Worldwise estimates that through PoochPlanet pet bed sales at Walmart and Sam’s Club in the next year, Worldwise will keep the equivalent of over 100,000,000 16.9 oz. plastic bottles out of landfills.”
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Jaguar F Type Interior – British auto-maker, Jaguar, has soon finally confirmed that It‘ll build a spiritual successor towards the legendary E-Type. Revealed to UK car mag Auto Express, the corporate has offered the green light to production of the two-seat sports car to rival the Porsche Boxster.
The long-awaited development is really a results of substantial investment being ploughed straight into the marque by new owners Tata over subsequent five years. Tata chief executive, Carl-Peter Foster, has confirmed that the sports car is in the last stages of design.
Talking with Auto Express in regards to the company’s chief designer, he said :
Ian Callum is focusing on some ideas along these lines so we like what it is that we see. We‘re in the clay model stage, tweaking the thought every now and then.
The new model will sit below the XK inside the Jaguar range and become designed to become more driver-focussed compared to the current grand-tourer.
Smaller in size, it is predicted to bear an in depth family resemblance towards the XK incorporating an elongated oval mesh grill in the nose and latest Jaguar design hallmarks coming from the sculpted hood towards the sleek, new-style Jag headlights.
Early on there is expected to become one among Jaguar’s latest powerplants such like the 5. 0 litre V8 available over the company’s range including the power-boosted XF-R and XK-R models, leaving open the choice of the exciting, range-topping ‘R’ version.
Predicted to debut in around 18 months time, Jaguar sources claim that it is going to be priced to contend with premium sports class leaders such as the BMW Z4, Audi TT RS, Mercedes SLK AMG along with Porsche Boxster and Cayman.
The news comes like the UK-based company has also revealed plans to develop the achievements of their XF model by expanding the range to incorporate estate and coupe versions.
Buoyed by successfully competing for premium executive sales using the dominant German marques, an XF coupe would expand the fight towards the highly-regarded Audi A5 and BMW 3-series.
However, Jaguar remains tight-lipped upon the prospects for any rumoured new XJ220 style supercar to bring upon the Audi R8.
The company’s revival has thus far seen the all-new XK, XF and, in 2012, XJ models hit the roads. Fans from the classic British marque will little question be excited to discover the trend is placed to carry on.


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Despite a heat wave that struck much of the country for a week during the middle part of the month, the nation's dairy cows pumped out 1.1 percent more milk in July than they did during July of 2012.
In the downscaled monthly milk production report released on Monday of this week by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Wisconsin continued to run ahead of the national average with a 2.9-percent increase compared to July of 2012.
The state's reported milk production of 2.321 billion pounds for the month set an all-time record high for July.
Across the United States, there was a divergence in the July comparisons with most states in the Midwest and East recording increases while those in the West posted cutbacks in production.
For the top 23 milk production states, the July-July increase was 1.2 percent but the total production for the 31-day month of 15.674 billion pounds was down by .8 percent from the production on 30 days in June of this year.
California's milk production dropped by 3.5 percent in the July comparisons to a total of 3.375 billion pounds this year.
Arizona was down by 2 percent to 347 million pounds and Idaho was off by 1.1 percent to 1.174 billion pounds while Oregon slipped by .9 percent to 216 million pounds.
On the plus side, milk production in Kansas jumped by 10.8 percent to 246 million pounds this year in July.
Other significant percentage increases were 8.6 in Iowa, 7.6 in Indiana, 5.5 in both Colorado and Florida, and 5.3 (to 820 million pounds) in Texas.
Among the other top milk production states, there were increases of 3.8 percent to 546 million pounds in Washington, 3.1 percent to 766 million pounds in Michigan, and 3 percent to 442 million pounds in Ohio.
Minnesota matched Wisconsin's 2.9 percent increase with its milk production of 756 million pounds during July.
Spot Market Decline
In the daily spot market for dairy commodities on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, prices took another hit on Wednesday of this week with Cheddar block cheese losing 3.75 cents per pound and Cheddar barrels shedding 5 cents for respective closing prices of $1.67 and $1.65 per pound.
Those prices are down by 10 and 11.5 cents per pound respectively from a week earlier. The market activity on Wednesday included two carload sales of blocks and three carload sales of barrels along with uncovered offers to sell one carload of each.
There were also two carload sales of AA butter as its spot market price gained .25-cent per pound to close at $1.3625.
With no transactions, the spot market prices for non-fat dry milk remained at $1.80 per pound for Grade A and $1.75 for Grade Extra.
With the downturn in spot market prices for Cheddar cheese this week, the Class III milk futures followed suit.
As a result, there was no longer a futures price of $18 per hundred or higher on the trading board by Wednesday of this week.
Late in the futures trading session on Wednesday, prices stood at $17.98 per hundred for August, in the $17s for the following three months, and in the $16s for all months from December 2013 through January of 2015.
Futures prices for dry whey were also in red ink territory for the final four months of 2013 in trading on Wednesday.
Prices shown on the board were between 58 and 52 cents per pound for all months from August 2013 through June of 2014.
A Class I fluid milk national base price of $19.16 per hundred has been announced for September. This is an increase of 28 cents from the August price.
On Wednesday of this week, Cooperatives Working Together announced the acceptance of a package of 17 bids from Dairy Farmers of America, Foremost Farms USA, Land O'Lakes, Darigold Cooperative, and the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative.
The bids were for financial assistance on the export of 2.189 million pounds of Cheddar, Gouda, and Monterey Jack cheese and 1 million pounds of butter.
Deliveries are scheduled from August-January 2014 to countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.


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KICK OFF designer up for Woman in Sport Award
Posted: 3 August 2017 Time: 08:37
KICK OFF designer Monique Petersen is one of three finalists up for a 2017 G-Sport award, and needs your votes!
G-sport is an online initiative that was launched on 1 August, 2006, to raise the profile of South African women in sport, with various categories to honour the various roles in which women have excelled in South African sport.
KICK OFF’s senior designer Monique has made the three finalists in the “Women in Print” category, which is already an achievement in itself.
Her bio on the GSport website reads as follows:
“Monique Petersen has been a designer at KICK OFF Magazine since 2010. Today, as a Senior Designer, Petersen directs the artwork, and does the layout and design of the leading football magazine in the country.
"Her work is visible to see with every stunning cover that Kick Off has produced, especially in the period from the December 2016 edition of Kick Off to the July 2017 edition. She designed the cover and the layout of the first Kick Off Magazine edition to feature a stand-alone woman (Minnie Dlamini), which was the March 2017 issue. She deserves recognition for her stellar work and service in the sports industry.”
Monique is undoubtedly deserving of this prestigious award, and would appreciate your votes in order to achieve the recognition she deserves.
Voting for the award is quick and easy – just follow the link and cast your vote – and each person is allowed to vote once per category per day: https://gsport.co.za/voting/
Voting closes at noon on Monday, 7 August.


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Yahoo’s latest transparency report, published today, reflects a spike in government and law enforcement requests for user data following the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13.
Browsing Category: Government
Update: The FBI has filed a motion to vacate today’s scheduled court hearing and showdown over its demands that Apple help unlock a terrorist’s iPhone.
Investigators continue to focus on attack attribution, but Kaspersky researchers speaking at CanSecWest 2016 caution that attackers are manipulating data used to tie attacks to perpetrators.
Apple’s latest court filing in its ongoing legal tussle with the FBI challenges the constitutionality of the government’s demands that Apple help unlock Syed Farook’s phone.
A New York Times report posits that the popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp may be the next technology company to find itself in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice and its war on crypto.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including how Amazon is backtracking on encryption when it comes to their devices, a new set of alleged passcode bypasses for iOS, and the new OS X ransomware KeRanger.
The Justice Department took off the gloves in its latest volley against Apple and its refusal to comply with a court order to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone.
Amazon reversed course on a decision to remove device-level encryption from its Fire OS 5 tablets and said the feature will return this spring.
Apple’s head of software engineering cautions that the FBI wants to turn back the clock on iPhone security, while the San Bernardino DA says a cyber pathogen may be dormant on shooter Syed Farook’s phone.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA 2016, the pervasiveness of the FBI vs. Apple debate, OpenSSL two years after Heartbleed, and why hacking back is always a bad idea.


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While this year did see the launch of new generation consoles from both Sony and Microsoft, for many it was a frustrating experience. Consoles selling out at launch is nothing new, of course, it happens with almost any new major system launch, but this year was…different. Ask anyone who tried to pre-order and well, you’re bound to get a lot of tales of frustration, confusion and constant F5’ing. In part, of course, this was due to the pandemic, but there’s more at work here. For instance, scalpers are using far more advanced bots to grab up pre-orders to then sell at markup and sometimes pre-order times are just dropped without warning (such as Sony did this year with the PS5). Phil Spencer knows your woes and thinks it’ll lead to other purchase models being looked at.
Speaking with The Verge, Spencer talked about the frustrations felt during this pre-order period. He said both he and his PlayStation counterpart, Jim Ryan, expressed it as being a problem. He thinks ultimately these problems will lead to more buying models being looked at, giving a few examples, and that the current way of doing things on their end may be outdated.
“We want people to feel like there’s some consoles to go buy, and it’s not just the day where everybody gets to go pick up their console. I don’t know if that’s the right decision in today’s world. That’s very old world thinking, people are going to go line up outside of a store, kind of last decade thinking. I think we should challenge ourselves on that. Is that really the supply chain through the consumer that we’re talking about, that is a reality? We talked to our retail partners about this as well.
“I do think this business is going through, both for us and Sony — Jim Ryan [at Sony], I have a lot of respect for him, we both have lamented how these preorders have gone and what problem are we really solving when we seem to still have as many upset customers as we have, because they can’t get our product. I do think it’s going to push us to think about new models. It could be, reserve your slot. It could be doing things more direct with the customer. Still could have the retailer fulfill the order, but just so people can have more clarity on when they can get a console. It’s something we’re working on.”
The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S weren’t the only mass produced entertainment products released this year. Apple released new iPhones and Macbooks, for instance, and while they came later than usual, they had no significant delays or stock issues. So clearly, there is an alternative going forward. For now, though, all the new generation systems seem to be having stock issues that will hopefully be remedied by the beginnings of next year.
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The boss of Game titles Workshop has hailed “another cracking performance” by the Warhammer maker as it posted record initial-50 % earnings and profits.
Games Workshop explained to investors that fans of its desk-leading online games invested additional on its products and solutions as they remained caught at dwelling for large sections of the period of time.
It exposed that pre-tax gains jumped by 56.3% to £91.6 million for the six months to November 29, as opposed with the similar interval previous 12 months.
In the meantime, 50 percent-yr profits increased by 27% to £168.8 million.
Both key data arrived ahead of Game titles Workshop’s forecast previous month, when it predicted a 25% product sales maximize and 53% rise in gains.
The corporation, which is now valued at around £3.8 billion, reported keep gross sales slumped by 18.5% to £37.3 million as a outcome of retailer closures and other coronavirus limits.
Nevertheless, whole income have been lifted bigger by a surge in on the internet and wholesale trading.
Income as a result of its ecommerce platforms amplified by 87.7% to £46 million, although wholesale trade income improved by 33% to £104.9 million.
Kevin Rountree, chief govt officer of Game titles Workshop, claimed: “Another cracking general performance from a genuinely awesome, global workforce a sound 6 months constructing on the excellent development and lucrative progress we have been constantly delivering over the last five a long time.
“Finally, I’d like to thank our enthusiastic and loyal fan foundation who share our like for the Warhammer pastime and the fantastical options, characters and narratives that make up our IP.
“Their ongoing aid and responses have been invaluable, trying to keep us trustworthy when we have fallen quick and driving us onward to keep on to deliver a lot more and superior.”


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TFG (The Foschini Group) is backing local entrepreneurship by investing a substantial amount into a groundbreaking digital game.
Since its launch in July 2016, Kreeate, an education technology solutions company, has managed to become a leading example for the development and implementation of edutainment for high schools in South Africa.
TFG, with three of its 27 retail brands – namely The FIX, hi and Sportscene – will fund version two of the Kreeate game, as well as sponsor prizes for the top-performing students on the game’s leaderboard.
The Kreeate game has accomplished what few programmes can: to teach young school learners the skills required to build their own businesses, in a fun and interactive way.
In the game, the player is the ‘shop owner’ and needs to earn as many coins as they can through trading product and answering questions correctly during in-game quizzes. The ‘shop owner’ selects the brand that they want to own, stocked with products ‘sold’ in their store.
”At TFG, we aim to invest in local talent from an early age so that they build the skills required to reach their goals and positively impact South Africa’s future,” says Kathryn Sakalis, head of TFG Marketing & eCommerce.
One of the many examples of school learners benefitting from the game is Marchelon Atson, a Grade 12 learner from Goodwood College who was introduced to the Kreeate game last year.
He said: “I have achieved the highest marks for business studies that I have ever achieved since I started playing the Kreeate game”.
According to his teacher, he had previously received average results for business studies but was now competing as one of the top 10 best performing learners for the subject.
She says: “The game assists Marchelon with basic terminology and new concepts. He takes the quizzes repetitively to try and boost his score on the game’s leaderboard and this has encouraged him to study in advance for tests and informal assessments”.
Says Robin Peterson, South African Proteas cricket player, who endorses the game: “Since July last year, Kreeate has enrolled 248 active users from 46 different schools. This year, with TFG’s investment into Kreeate, the programme is on track to upskill more than 75 000 learners across 150 schools in South Africa.”
Through their partnership, Kreeate and TFG are committed to educating the next generation of South Africa’s leaders.
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Today you are getting information about auto expo 2023 date, here we are going to give you information about auto expo to be held at India Expo Mart Greater Noida this year. Significantly, the Auto Expo is organized at an interval of every 2 years. Last time it was organized in the year 2020.
AUTO Expo 2023 Date
After this, due to the circumstances of Kovid-19 in the year 2022, the auto expo 2023 date could not be fixed, but this year as per the information received, according to the auto expo 2023 date, it has been confirmed to be held in the year 2023. It has been considered to be organized this year at the Auto Expo Component Show at Pragati Maidan, Delhi. So friends come, let’s get information regarding auto expo 2023 date and time and ticket price only through this article.
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Only time will tell if Auto Expo 2023 is going to be the main attraction of this motor show. However, on January 13, 2023, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm, according to the auto expo 2023 date, in that order, for the general public from January 13 to January 18, 2023, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm.
This motor show will remain open till However, before this, according to the auto expo 2023 date, on 11 January 2023 and 12 January 2023, the auto expo will open for the media for the launch event. If you want to buy tickets for this motor show, then you can also buy tickets through bookmyshow. However, you will also get many types of facilities like food court, parking, business center, lounge and many other facilities here at this exhibition site.
Auto Expo Components 2023 Dates
In fact, according to the information we have received, Auto Expo Components 2023 will be organized from January 12 to January 15, 2023, inside Pragati Maidan, Delhi, according to Auto Expo Components 2023 Dates. If we talk about AutoExpo Vehicles 2023, then here you can get information that it is going to be organized from 13 January 2023 to 18 January 2023 at India Expo Mart Greater Noida UP.
Under Auto Expo Components 2023 Dates, on January 13, 2023, the ticket price is going to be ₹ 750 under Business Accommodation. In this order, on 14 to 15 January 2023, the ticket price for the general public will be ₹ 475. And from January 16 to January 18, 2023, a ticket of Rs 350 is going to be available for the general public.
Auto Expo 2023 Vehicles
If you too have the desire to awaken the thrill, now you can create your own thrill under Auto Expo Automobiles. In terms of Auto Expo 2023 Vehicles, the motor show will include two wheelers, three wheelers, concept vehicles, commercial vehicles, vintage cars, super cars, and bike tires and shows.
Along with this, we are clear to you in other information that under auto expo 2023 date, financial institutions, automobile companies, universities, engineering and IT, automotive design and technology, oil companies, media, insurance companies are all going to participate under this today. According to an official website, when it was organized last time in the year 2020, there was space available for about 8000 vehicles, but now as per the latest update, more than 8000 vehicles can be expected.
Auto Expo 2023 Exhibitor list
As per the possibilities, according to the Auto Expo 2023 Exhibitor list to be held next week, due to different companies, they will mark their presence. However, Toyota will have a much bigger platform under this Auto Expo 2023 exhibitor list.
Toyota will also make an appearance with the new Land Cruiser 300 and the Corolla hybrid sedan powered by flex fuel. However, according to this auto expo 2023 date, name car manufacturers will also participate in this auto expo exhibition like Maruti Suzuki Tata Motors Kia India Toyota Kirloskar Motor Renault India MG Motor India Used I Motor India today all the companies are coming to register their presence in it.
Auto Expo 2023: How To Reach
Visitors should be able to reach the Auto Expo 2023 using different modes of transport. Auto Expo 2023: If information is provided to you regarding How To Reach, then you will first have to go by metro and the place where this Auto Expo exhibition will start next week is Knowledge Park in Greater Noida, near Second Metro Station.
You will reach from India Expo Mart Metro Station in hardly less than 5 minutes. Apart from all these one can reach Pari Chowk Greater Noida by using state transport buses as per auto expo 2023 date.
FAQs regarding Auto Expo 2023 Date
What is Auto Expo 2023 Date?
Auto Expo 2023 Date has been mentioned to you in this article.
When is The Auto Expo held?
According to the Auto Expo date, it is held every year in the month of January or February.
When will the Auto Expo exhibition be opened for media events?
Auto Expo 2023 will be opened for media events on 11th January and 12th January 2023.
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◎財經新聞網站Barrons的報導顯示，如果Apple公司被迫分拆以遵守反托拉斯相關規定，Apple Music的價值可能超過Spotify的一半。到目前為止，關於Apple公司對自己的音樂串流媒體服務提供優於競爭對手的投訴，引發了更傾向於改革該公司的App Store政策，而不是強迫它分拆Apple Music。
◎Evercore ISI分析師Amit Daryanani的說明提供了一些值得思考的有趣數據。他指出：「Spotify的目前交易收入約為3.9倍，或是付費用戶的263倍，這些倍數應用到2018財年Apple Music，估計大約51億美元和5400萬用戶，價值在150億至200億美元。」但Spotify沒有公開推動Apple Music的分拆，相反地，它的抱怨集中在它對App Store上「公平競爭環境」的渴望。
"Apple Music could be worth more than half of Spotify if Apple is forced to divest it to comply with antitrust-related actions," claims a report on financial news site Barrons. Which, we have to say, is an extremely big 'if' right up front: thus far, complaints about Apple giving its own music-streaming service an advantage over rivals are geared more towards reform of the company's App Store policies, rather than forcing it to divest Apple Music.
Still, the note from Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani offers some interesting stats to think about. "Spotify currently trades at about 3.9 times revenue or 263 times paid subscribers," wrote Daryanani. "Applying those multiples to our fiscal 2018 Apple music estimates of about $5.1 billion and 54 million subscribers would value Apple Music at $15-$20 billion." But as we said, even Spotify isn't publicly pushing for an Apple Music spin-off at this point: instead, its complaint has focused on its desire for a "level playing field" on the App Store.


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Grants Available to Benefit Colorado's Speciality Crops
Colorado Department Agriculture Marketing Specialist Glenda Mostek shares more details about how these grants can be used.
Mostek: “Associations, researchers can use these grants for a variety of purposes: to study how to market their products, to simply promote the products, to research varieties, to work on branding. There are a lot of different opportunities out there.”
Mostek continues with how to apply for these grants.
Mostek: “Interested folks can go to Colorado Department of Ag’s website. Look under the Markets Division’s funding tab — there is information about the program there. Applications are available now and all the information they need to apply is on the website. The deadline for applications this year is April 15th and we will let successful applicants know that they will be included in our state package in about June.
In recent years, funds have been awarded to dozens of organizations to conduct research and implement consumer promotions.
CDA anticipates that approximately $550,000 will be available for this year’s grant program, with approved projects starting early in 2017.