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At the upcoming MWC 2023 convention, Honor will exhibit, it has already been confirmed. With the release of this information, rumors have begun to circulate that the OEM will unveil its most recent Magic5 line of Android flagship smartphones at the occasion. There is a new launch teaser for the reportedly high-end gadgets, and the language in it suggests that Samsung’s Galaxy S23 lineup will be the competition.
The GSM Association has gone ahead and spoiled Honor’s revelation by putting the erstwhile Huawei subsidiary as an exhibitor (at stand 3H10 of Hall 3, Fira Gran Via, Barcelona from February 25 to March 2, 2023) in advance. Honor may have wanted to announce its MWC 2023 attendance on its own.
Following the discovery of Honor’s inclusion in the program, there have been whispers that the Magic4 series’ successors will launch during this occasion. It is therefore anticipated that they will call out major participants in their Android market in their ambitious video for the aforementioned announcement.
Teme, also known as @RODENT950 on Twitter, claims to have discovered a brand-new Honor logo with the text, “Go beyond the Galaxy to behold the genuine Magic,” overlaid. This may be a delight for followers of the most recent black hole research.
As a result, it appears Honor is confident enough in its purportedly high-powered Magic5-series specs to label the Galaxy S23 range as prospective peers, if not inferiors, should this promotional material turn out to be true. The Samsung rival has yet to make a formal declaration to this effect, though.


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A pre-cast concrete business plans to spend $1.5 million to revamp its operations in Whitestown and create 39 jobs by 2021.
Sanders Pre-Cast Concrete Systems Inc. is in the midst of renovating and equipping two buildings totalling 175,000 square feet in Whitestown, allowing the company to produce large insulated warehouse walls, owner Mark Sanders told IBJ on Friday.
The company, which currently employs about 50 workers, began renovations in late 2016 and expects to begin operations this month. It hopes to begin shipping products and providing on-site installations in March and April.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has pledged up to $175,000 in tax credits and $29,000 in training grants based on the firm's job creation plans. The incentives are performance-based, meaning they cannot be claimed until workers have been hired.
The city of Whitestown has approved a tax abatement for Sanders, according to the firm.
Founded in 1997, Sanders is a designer, manufacturer and developer of pre-cast concrete, which can be used for three-sided arch bridge structures, box culverts, hollow core walls and sound barriers, for example. The firm currently is hiring for CAD designers, estimators, engineers and laborers.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a IEDC press release that Sanders "has been helping build the infrastructure our growing economy demands for nearly two decades."

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CHINA: Responsible for two-thirds of counterfeit goods
Two-thirds of counterfeit goods detected globally in recent years, which includes apparel, were shipped from China, a United Nations (UN) report says.
"This production is typically centralised. A large number of firms can produce virtually any product desired, and since many products are not branded until they are closer to their destination markets, the lines between licit and illicit production can become blurred," it notes.
In Europe, the goods are distributed through various channels, including via lawful discount retailers, but the bulk appears to be through informal networks and also flea markets.
The study by the Vienna-based UN Office on Drugs and Crime, entitled 'The Globalization of Crime,' highlights that the number of counterfeit products detected at European Union borders alone has gone up by a factor of ten over the past decade "for a yearly value of more than $10bn."
Attempts to import counterfeit goods detected at EU customs border posts between 1999 and 2008 increased from 4,694 in 1999 to 49,381 incidents in 2008.
Most of the counterfeit goods intercepted by EU customs, it says, originated in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
The expert report points out that most products are shipped out by the same means as other manufactured goods, "although they may be falsely declared to avoid inspections and evade taxes."
The bulk of counterfeit goods are hauled by sea and some are further processed "including mislabelling, in free trade zones in transit or once in Europe."
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Peter Vilim Quoted by Money Geek on Common Credit Card Myths
By: Francis Financial
November 5, 2021
Peter Vilim, a Certified Financial Planner™ and Associate Advisor at Francis Financial has recently been quoted by Money Geek on credit card myths people shouldn’t believe and other credit card basics.
A common misconception about credit cards is that simply getting one will hurt your credit score. But this is not the case – “A credit card is, in fact, the first step people take towards building their credit score. While getting a new card may momentarily bump down your credit score, a well-managed credit card helps your credit score in the long term, making it easier for you to get loans in the future,” Vilim wrote.
When asked about the benefits of paying your credit card balance more than once a month Vilim wrote, “Keeping your credit card balances as low as possible is crucial. One of the main components in determining your credit score is the amount that you owe, so it could be beneficial to pay down your balance more than once a month if you’ve had a handful of large purchases in a short period of time. However, in many instances, paying off your credit card once a month should be fine, as long as you don’t miss a payment.”


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As always, there is a lot happening in the world of social media. We are hitting the main points you need to know this week with Mysocial News. So what do you need to know? Facebook is stepping up to be more creator friendly, Instagram is unveiling a bunch of new features and expanding some others, and YouTube is simplifying livestreaming.
The Facebook for Creators website and the Creator app were launched towards the end of 2017. The app was only available for iOS but nearly 4 months later, it will now be available for Android users as well.
The really big news here is Facebook is directly challenging the pricing model being used by sites favored by creators like YouTube and Patreon. The platform has features that give creators the chance to make real money from their contributions to the website.
Fans will be able to sign up for $4.99 per month subscriptions. Facebook is not taking a cut of the profits for the first few months, meaning creators will get $3.50 of each subscription. That's $3.50 per fan every month. This is a fixed price right now, but in the near future, Facebook hints that creators will be able to customize the pricing.
Instagram rolled out a bunch of new features lately. The first big change is the expansion of Shopping for Instagram to eight new countries. The feature is now available to users in: Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.
Shopping for Instagram makes it easier for brands and creators to drive customers to their e-commerce stores and merchandise. It brings fans directly to the brand or creator's online store. It first launched in the United States and this is the first expansion before it is introduced worldwide.
That's not all the news coming out of Instagram though. New Instagram Stories features are being introduced such as screenshot alerts, much like the alerts currently available for Snapchat users. It is also possible for Instagram users to share posts within Stories. There is also a focus feature that blurs the background of selfies to create the perfect, Instagram-worthy shot. Finally, hashtags and profile links can now be added to bios. This means that other Instagram profiles and hashtags can be added to the bio section and are clickable.
YouTube is simplifying livestreaming for its users. Before livestreaming required downloading additional software. Now creators on the platform can livestream with just the click of a button. The feature will be available on desktop and mobile.
The website is also testing a picture-in-picture mode for users. The feature will allow people to continue watching a video in a minimized screen while browsing the website. Such a feature is sure to keep people browsing on the website for longer periods of time.


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When Shantae 5 was announced a few months ago, the hype surrounding the announcement was certainly noteworthy. With time inching closer to the end of 2019, WayForward has released an animation that is sure to get any Shantae fan (and anime fan) all the more excited.
A few days ago, WayForward announced via Twitter that they were collaborating with Studio Trigger, of Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill fame, for an animated opening for Shantae 5. Today, they have unveiled the fruits of Trigger’s labor with a thirty-second montage full of Trigger’s signature flair.
We're blown away by the brand-new opening animation for Shantae 5 by the incredible folks at @trigger_inc! We hope you are too! Take a look, or catch a glimpse at @AnimeExpo! https://t.co/Fk7EAP0qap pic.twitter.com/mrWJDZJbmK
— WayForward (@WayForward) July 5, 2019
To see the opening in a larger capacity, feel free to check out the video below:
Details surrounding Shantae 5 are still fairly vague, but WayForward will likely re-awaken the thought of the upcoming game in the minds of fans and otherwise all over with this key collaboration. The game is still set to release sometime in 2019 for PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Steam, and Apple Arcade.
This collaboration will mark the second time Studio Trigger has been involved with an outside video game franchise. They provided the opening animation for the upcoming Indivisible, also set to release in 2019. Trigger is also set to release a game based on their animated work Kill la Kill in Kill la Kill: IF on July 26th.


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E3 2016 is just around the corner and we’re expecting to hear, see, smell and lick just about every new announcement, old announcement dressed up as new and everything else.
It’s still a few weeks away, mind, but that hasn’t stopped the marketing people going all-out already. Over in Los Angeles there’s a massive Horizon: Zero Dawn poster adorning a city building that’ll probably turn a few heads, what with its massive mech-dino and all that.
Horizon: Zero Dawn will most likely be present during Sony’s E3 press conference and we’re hoping it’ll also be available as a playable demo on the show floor, too. There were a few rumours a while back that the game wouldn’t see a release this year and would release next year instead of 2016, though we’ve not heard anything official from Sony. Perhaps we’ll get some clarification at E3 2016? Perhaps we’ll also find out if the PS4 Neo is real? Perhaps we’ll see Crash Bandicoot make a return? We’ll just have to wait and see.


text: Bottle lovers were in the valley Sunday, sharing their collections. The Rockingham County Fairgrounds played host to this weekend's Antique Bottle and Collectibles show. Nearly 50 dealers from 7 states showed everything from old soda bottles to classic plates. Vendors offered items in just about every shape and color, even a few cows for the animal lover. Organizers say the event is about more than just browsing glass. "Bottle Collecting has become quite a big hobby," says show chairman Sonny Smiley. "A lot of people are into it now and people are looking for certain things like dairy bottles for instance that their relatives had." Smiley says the bottles are also a way to remember the past and take pride in the valley since many of the items were manufactured for our local dairies. The show wrapped up this afternoon.


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Automakers appear to be reaping the most social-media chatter among Super Bowl advertisers that have released their commercials early, according to YouGov BrandIndex, a daily consumer research service on brands.
Volkswagen, General Motors, Acura and Audi have seen the greatest increase in buzz among adults 18 years and over, according to the YouGov BrandIndex survey, which interviews 5,000 people each weekday from a representative U.S. population sample. Respondents are drawn from an online panel of more than 1.5 million individuals.
The findings illustrate some of the new dynamics taking place as marketers reverse a long-standing policy of not releasing any elements from Super Bowl ads before they appeared during the game itself. With social-media use ramping up among the general population, however, more advertisers are attempting to harness consumer chatter to draw attention to their specific efforts -- rather than hoping an audience tuning in for dozens of big-budget Super Bowl ads will find one or another more appealing than all the rest.
Car companies make up the bulk of the top 10 advertisers generating the most increased buzz. Doritos, which has made great strides in recent years by soliciting ads from amateurs; GoDaddy.com, which has made hay with ads showing scantily-clad women; and Samsung, set to run a 90-second ad, are the only non-auto companies enjoying markedly increased buzz, according to YouGov.
Whether these companies win on game day remains to be seen. Neither Chrysler nor MetLife have made their commercials available publicly, but speculation is high one or both could make an impression thanks to use of actor Clint Eastwood (Chrysler) or dozens of cartoon characters (MetLife).


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LONDON, United Kingdom — Mark Sebba, the former chief executive of Net-a-Porter, passed away at the age of 69 on Monday, according to a statement released by his family. The industry leader is survived by his wife, Anne Sebba, three children and five grandchildren.
As the head of luxury fashion e-tailer Net-a-Porter for more than a decade from 2003 to 2014, Sebba oversaw the company’s start-up and growth phase — including the launch of off-price site The Outnet, men’s site Mr Porter and the magazine Porter — with founder Natalie Massenet. In 2010, when Richemont acquired a 93 percent interest in the business, the company was valued at £350 million.
When he stepped down in 2014, Net-a-Porter’s staff honoured Sebba with an elaborate musical and choreographed send-off that became a viral video.
After Net-a-Porter, Sebba took on several board positions at companies inside and outside the fashion industry, including the plus-size women’s fast-fashion retailer Eloquii and the London-based wholesale flower delivery site Flowerbx. In addition, Sebba served as both a trustee of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and as chairman of its business arm. He was also a non-executive director at a private equity firm, LMS Capital.
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BANGKOK: As Thailand’s capital cautiously reopens many restaurants shuttered over coronavirus fears, the feline “employees” of the Caturday Cafe are back at work.
The few dozen friendly cats typically lounge around the cafe, breaking up naptime to saunter over to human customers for snuggles and belly rubs.
The friendly furballs give some much-needed outside contact for Thais who have mostly been confined to home during weeks of semi-lockdown with most non-essential businesses closed.
Like other businesses across Thailand, the cafe has new rules aimed at curbing the spread of the virus. Before entering, customers must have their temperature checked and wash their hands, and once inside must wear a mask at all times.
Arisa has a total of 50 cats, of several different breeds, and around 35 of them rotate between her home and the cafe every now and then. As an extra precaution, the cats have dry baths, their fur brushed and eyes cleaned every day. — Reuters


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A drone shot at the Government Botanical Garden in Udhagamandalam captures the sprawling expanse of greenery, where 2,500 flower pots have been arranged to read: “COVID-19 Vaccinate Yourself”.
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This visual treat, part of the 124th edition of the annual flower show, is available as a virtual tour on YouTube. The tour takes one through the timeless calla lillies, liliums, dahlias, salvias, and marigolds that grow in this 55-acre garden set up in 1848.
“We have arranged a gallery of 25,000 potted plants, belonging to 259 varieties, including exotic flowers like sapanarias, ranunculus, dianthus, petunias, statice and over 10 varieties of marigolds and others,” says Shiva Subramaniam Samraj, Joint Director, Department of Horticulture in the Nilgiris.
The Horticulture Department started preparing the garden for the annual show in October last year. “We purchased seeds from dealers who import them from Japan, Canada and other European countries. We had planted five lakh seedlings at the garden around January, nurtured them, and ensured that the plants were in full bloom.”
However, because of the pandemic the physical show had to be cancelled. “It was only the second time in the history of the botanical garden where we had to call off the flower show. The first time was about two decades ago due to a public strike regarding a crisis in the tea industry. A virtual platform would help people across the globe view the blooms,” says Samraj.
Exotic flowers are a big draw at the floral gallery, especially the trumpet-shaped flowers that resemble an upturned bell in a range of colours from deep burgundy to lemon yellow and bright oranges. “Those are the calla lilies,” says M Radhakrishnan, Assistant Director of Horticulture Department. “They stay fresh for 40 days. Some of the other specials include purple limoniums and orange and pink gerberas, both tissue culture plants sourced from Pune. The annual flower show attracts visitors with a line up of tulips, hyacinths, and liatris as well as the native blooms.”
As many as two lakh people witness the flower show annually; the event draws tourists from across the country as well as abroad. Says Samraj, “It drives the economy of the Nilgiris. A tour of the Nilgiris is incomplete without a stop at the historic botanical garden.”
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Google seems to have settled a competition investigation by European authorities, so avoiding a fine that could have been as much as 3.5 billion euros.
The probe followed complaints from rivals that the search engine was promoting its own services at their expense.
Google has now offered further concessions and the European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia was satisfied.
He told reporters: “After careful analysis and intense negotiations that managed to further improve what Google sent us in mid-January, I believe today that Google’s new proposals are able – are capable – of addressing the competition concerns I set out to them.”
Brussels will make a final decision after obtaining feedback from Google’s rivals.
Any agreement will only apply to Europe,where Google has a 75 percent share of the search market according to consultancy comScore.
Almunia, who has overseen EU competition issues since 2009, has tended to resolve cases via settlements rather than fines.
Euronews reporters in Brussels James Franey said: “As Almunia’s term nears its end, part of his legacy is to strike this tentative agreeement with the US search giant. The Commission is expected to finalise the deal within the next few months. But the saga does not end there – unhappy competitors may file a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg.”
Rivals not satisfied
Almunia said he would accept Google’s latest concessions without consulting the complainants, prompting a furious response from critics.
“Without a third-party review, Almunia risks having the wool pulled over his eyes by Google,” said David Wood at lobby group ICOMP that counts Microsoft and four other complainants among its members. Microsoft owns rival search engine Bing.
German online mapping services Euro-Cities said it would take its grievance to the courts.
“Today’s announcement still leaves many questions open. We will continue to take legal action about Google’s business practices in the German and, if necessary, EU courts,” its chief executive Hans Biermann said.
Polish online auction site Allegro was equally critical, saying the deal would not ensure a level playing field for Europe’s internet economy.
Under its latest proposals, Google will let three rivals display their logos and web links in a prominent box, and content providers will be able to decide what material Google can use for its own services.
Google will also scrap restrictions that prevent advertisers from moving their campaigns to rival platforms such as Yahoo!‘s search tool and Microsoft’s Bing.
Despite the imminent deal, Google may still face a second EU probe, this time into its Android operating system for smartphones, with potentially bigger risks for the company.
Google gives away Android for free. The software, which is available on three out of four smartphones sold worldwide, essentially helps the company extend its core search business and boost its usage in the mobile world.
Lobbying group FairSearch whose members include Microsoft and Finnish handset maker Nokia, which is being bought by Microsoft, has accused Google of using Android to divert traffic to its search engine.
The European Commission has yet to decide whether to open an investigation into those issues.


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United Natural Foods, Inc., has appointed Steven Spinner CEO. Spinner is the former CEO of Performance Food Group who left that company in May when it was acquired by a private investment group. He replaces Michael Funk, who will remain with the company as chairman.
In addition, United announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dayville, CT, to Providence, RI next May. It will continue to maintain a major distribution facility in Dayville but executive and administrative offices will be consolidated in Providence.


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MEMPHIS — States will bid frantically to lure Toyota Motor Corp.’s new car plant, a frenzy that could push incentive packages far over $1 billion for the proposed 4,000-employee factory.
Real estate experts said the site selection process for the country’s first new car plant in years will likely lead to the Southeast.
Site selection consultants say one of Tennessee’s leading industrial sites is the Memphis Regional Megasite, 4,100 acres of vacant farm land on Interstate 40 near Stanton.
State officials purchased the land a decade ago to attract a Toyota car plant and it remains unused today. Toyota decided to put its Corolla assembly line west of Tupelo at Blue Springs, Miss.
Toyota’s new plant also would make Corollas and would not displace the vehicle from Blue Springs.
Although the severe shortage of skilled workers throughout the United States has been part of the national conversation for years, experts say Toyota is not likely to come to the same conclusion that led Honda Motor Co. into the industrial north.
Looking for a site to build a new Civic car assembly plant, Honda located outside Indianapolis in 2006 even though Indiana had been a bastion for the United Auto Workers since the 1930s.
Economic development experts said the scarcity of skilled trade workers in the Southeast, home to 15 car assembly plants and Boeing’s massive South Carolina facility, steered Honda north. But the shortage may not influence Toyota.
Over the last decade, states have ramped up advanced manufacturing programs in vocational schools and community colleges, with Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee all getting high marks for worker training.
Those training programs as well as low operating costs, the automotive supply chain along I-40, Interstate 75 and Interstate 85, and a new emphasis by industrial executives on courting key politicians are likely to give the Southeast a new edge over the North, said John Boyd, head of Boyd Co. Inc., a location consultant in Princeton, N.J.
Friday, Toyota became the latest automaker to announce a new plant, following Tesla’s decision to make electric cars in Nevada. The Japanese automaker disclosed an alliance with smaller Japanese rival Mazda Motor Co. to jointly build a plant in the United States.
No site was identified by Toyota.
Governors, mayors and economic developers in every state will undoubtedly pursue the new plant.
“It’s amazing to see the transformation in economic development from incentives 15 years ago to what we see today,’’ said Scott Waller, interim chief executive of the Mississippi Economic Council, the statewide chamber of commerce in Jackson, Miss. “Today the incentives are workforce based. It’s all workforce driven. There’s absolutely no question Mississippi can be successful.”


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Bellisio Foods Inc. on Wednesday said that it has agreed to buy Vernon frozen foods supplier Overhill Farms Inc. for about $81 million in cash.
Overhill Farms makes branded and private-label products for retail and institutional food service customers, including Panda Restaurant Group Inc., Safeway Inc. and American Airlines Inc. Minneapolis-based Bellisio is considered the nation's third-largest producer of frozen entrees. The companies have partnered through an exclusive agreement over the past two years to produce and distribute frozen meals under the Boston Market restaurant brand.
"We believe that Overhill's brand portfolio and West Coast manufacturing presence enables us to unlock meaningful synergies and better serve existing and new customers through expanded capabilities and a broader offering," Bellisio Chief Executive Joel Conner said in a statement.
Shareholders will receive $5 a share in cash, 15 percent premium to Overhill Farms' Tuesday closing price.
Cordoba Asset LLC, a shareholder, wrote to the company's board in March, contending that management was not maximizing shareholder value and urged the company to sell itself. The company responded that it had been considering strategic alternatives for "a number of months."
In midday trading, Overhill shares were up 60 cents, or 14 percent, to $4.96 on the NYSE MKT exchange.
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Analysis: sales of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars to stop in 2035
TG's Paul Horrell on why the Government's plan to halt sales isn't so daft
From 2035, all new cars sold in the UK will have to be full-electric, either battery or fuel-cell. The Government had said it'd ban pure-petrol and diesel from 2040. The new rule is stronger in two ways. First, it brings the date closer by five years, and secondly it will also ban hybrids.
On the face of it, this is a huge stretch goal. We've had Zoes and Leafs and Model Ss on sale in the UK for much of the past decade but EVs are still a minority choice. In all of 2019 38,000 pure EVs were sold. That's one in 60 of the total new cars.
Mind you, this year will see a whole lot more, because of new emission and tax rules which give huge incentives for company-car drivers to choose electric. Actually many manufacturers were choking demand for EVs last year. They wanted supplies in hand for this year to claim them toward their average CO2 targets, which get much stricter in 2020. So there's supply-side push and demand-side pull.
The car industry body, the SMMT, says it's going to be hard. Chief Executive Mike Hawes said: "With current demand still just a fraction of sales, it’s clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment." Of course.
Hawes also mentions hybrids, and of course via Toyota the UK industry, which Hawes is the lobbyist for, makes loads of hybrids.
Some manufacturers clearly have the capability to get into EVs quickly. Tesla, Nissan and Renault have been there for years. The VW Group has recently raised its forecast, saying that in 2025 a fifth of all its group sales will be pure electric. Kia says it'll be 20 per cent of its sales by 2025.
That's just five years from now. It's easy to see how another decade of change to 2035 could get it to entirely electric in some countries – including ours if that's what the law says.
Volvo goes further. A few days before UK PM Boris Johnson made the announcement I interviewed Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson. He said: "By 2025 we will have a full electric version of all our cars. And actually half our sales will be electric." Yup, half of all Volvo sales worldwide will be EV just five years from now.
Beyond that, Volvo's proportion will rise rapidly. "We will be climate neutral by 2040." Samuelsson stresses this includes manufacture as well as driving.
Remember, Volvo at the moment has no full-EV. But the Polestar 2 is going into production ("The only competitor to the Tesla 3," says Samuelsson) and an electric XC40 has been announced. It'll be followed by electric versions of the next-gen 90 and 60-series Volvos. The first of those will be the Mk3 XC90 in 2022.
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So you can see how fast a company can pivot its production to electric. Of course it needs the batteries. Samuelsson says: "We've secured battery supply for our 2025 target. They are climate neutral minerals and cell factories – they must show us a road map for renewable energy." Volkswagen and BMW too have got massive investments in battery production, and strong policies on ensuring the minerals are responsibly sourced and the cell factories use renewable power.
But what about price? At the moment EVs are more expensive than combustion. But they're cheaper to run. It's getting easy to compare. Vauxhall, Peugeot and Mini are introducing cars you can have with electric or petrol. The electrics have higher monthly payments for a car of comparable power, but over a year that's offset by the saving in petrol.
But if manufacturers can't make money making the cars, there will be none to buy.
Tesla's inability to make profit out of even high-priced electric cars is a warning. But actually Nissan has made the relatively cheap Leaf profitably, and VW insists its huge €33bn (£30bn) investment in electric cars and factories will pay off. Samuelsson says Volvo will get more profitable than it is now, not less.
What about plugging in all these cars? Well, electricity is everywhere. People who have off-street parking – and they own 60 per cent of the cars in the UK – will be able to charge overnight at home. For those of us who don't, there are still answers. There are already 2000 sockets in lamp posts in London, as well as lots of bespoke 7kW units on pavements. Those numbers are rising fast.
The provision of DC rapid chargers, adding say 200 miles' range while you have a sandwich and a pee, is growing too. Look at the number of Tesla superchargers at any motorway service station. It's an example to the non-Tesla providers of how it can be done. The more cars there are, the more it will be worth installing those chargers.
But will the electricity generation be plentiful enough, and green enough, and will the grid be able to cope? Broadly, yes, yes and yes. I go into it in more detail here.
Of course most people can't afford a new car. This doesn't push them off the road. There's nothing in the announcement about banning the sale or use of secondhand combustion ones. If you buy a five-year-old petrol car in 2035, it'll probably still be going nicely in 2045. By which time there'll be plenty of cheap secondhand EVs.
Even for petrolheads, the ruling isn't catastrophic. A 15-year-old Mk5 Golf GTI or 997-series Porsche 911 is, right now, a very nice car. So an end-of-the-era 2034 petrol sports car will keep going nicely for years afterward.
Look, none of this is to deny there's going to have to be a big investment in electric car factories, electric car charge points and green electricity generation.
But compared with the cost of building defences against sea-level rise, it's a bargain.


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– The Toyota C-HR crossover will no longer be getting a diesel engine.The Japanese automaker has decided to kill off plans of offering a 1.5-liter three-cylinder diesel engine in its new crossover, at least in Europe.“The development of this engine is continuing for global applications but its calibration for Europe has been put on standby,” said Toyota chief competitive officer Didier Leroy at the 2016 Paris Motor Show.
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– The chugging sound of a diesel Toyota engine may become a distant memory as the manufacturer has decided to not include diesel options for its latest C-HR crossover model signalling that it could be taken off the road forever in the future.Dropping the diesel variant has arisen following a falling demand for the powertrain and after the dieselgate emissions scandal that hit rival manufacturer Volkswagen earlier in 2016.Toyota’s executive vice president, Didier Leroy, told Reuters that the decision to ditch diesel was made “within the last six to 12 months” and that they “would probably do the same thing” when it comes to making decisions on other cars in its fleet.
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RIM to launch updates of popular BlackBerry apps
REUTERS - Research In Motion said it will shortly release a slew of updates for its BlackBerry apps, making it easier for users to stay connected with their messenger community.
Apps such as Facebook, Twitter, BBM Music and BlackBerry App World will now include BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) connectivity, the Canadian company said in a statement on Wednesday.
Users will now be able to automatically share their Facebook status or Twitter update with their BBM friends from the apps, it added.
Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations at RIM, said about one in every five apps being downloaded on BlackBerry App World is BBM-connected.
Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM has more than 70,000 apps in its App World store for either BlackBerry phones or the PlayBook tablet, compared with 200,000 iPad apps, and half a million for the iPhone.
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Cabela’s has started hiring 450 people to staff its two new metro Denver stores and a recently opened digital innovation office in Westminster.
The two new retail stores — under construction at Interstate 25 and Sky Ridge in Lone Tree and at I-25 and 144th Avenue in Thornton — will open Aug. 15, as first reported by the Denver Business Journal in February.
The company will need 175 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees for the 90,000-square-foot Thornton store and 200 for the 110,000-square-foot Lone Tree store.
“We are looking for employees who will deliver legendary customer service to the thousands of loyal Cabela’s customers across the Colorado Front Range,” said Chuck Bera, Cabela’s senior director of human resources. “It’s a unique career opportunity for passionate outdoorsmen and women, as well as anyone else who wants to join a dynamic, growing company.”
The Westminster office needs approximately 90 information technology and digital marketing employees.
“The opening of Cabela’s Denver corporate extension is a sign of our tremendous strong recent growth and commitment to expanding our digital platform initiatives,” said Scott Williams, chief marketing officer. “The new location will help our recruiting efforts in the region and allow us to improve our marketing initiatives going forward.”
Cabela’s, headquartered in Sidney, Neb., operates 44 stores across North America with plans to open an additional 11 in the next two years.
Applications are being accepted online (www.cabelas.jobs) now through April 30, with interviews through May 4.
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You did your research on what your audience wants, you squashed the bugs and at last, your mobile app is ready. Congratulations…but it’s not time to relax.
Going live is just one piece of successful app development. The reality is that the average mobile app loses 89 percent of its users in the first week, according to retention data from an Appboy analysis.
To make sure your app isn’t quickly forgotten, you need to understand who is using it and how they are using it. Without hard data, you are relying on educated guesses about user engagement and retention, and that’s why mobile app analytics are important.
Analytics are critical for app builders, even non-professional developers, creators of non-monetized apps or those used solely within an organization and of course even more so for monetized apps. According to an August 2016 Forrester Research survey, 63 percent of digital business and marketing professionals use analytics to understand the performance of their apps and only 45 percent use analytics to improve products.
“All app developers should be interested in whether or not the apps they're creating work properly and engage users,” said Daniel Harris, a Market Research Associate at Software Advice (a Gartner company). “Mobile app analytics provide crucial information about performance issues, bugs and design flaws that can potentially lead users to uninstall the app for good. Additionally, mobile app analytics help to analyze how users behave in the app, which is crucial information in improving the app over time. The only app developers who can afford to ignore mobile app analytics are those developers who are ultimately uninterested in user preferences or app performance.”
John Kroetser, a mobile economist at marketing firm Tune, said that app builders need a high-level solution, which he likened to seeing the forest. (These would include Google Analytics for Mobile Apps, Flurry from Yahoo or Facebook Analytics for Apps, which are free. There are also many highly rated paid analytics solutions.) To see the trees, he recommends adding in-app tools and a crash or error-monitoring solution.
“You need to know what’s happening in your app so that you can serve your users or customers well,” said. “At a high level: Do people care about this functionality? That screen? This option? That will guide future product development by providing feedback on the value — or lack thereof — of various features.”
When you begin with analytics, you want to address some basic questions such as:
Once you get past the basics, Josh Twist, product manager for Facebook Analytics for Apps, advises app builders to unlock deeper insights such as demographic data on job title or education and segmentation information such as who shares your content the most or who buys the most.
At a recent conference, he said that people are prone to switching among platforms and devices, which can make user counts inaccurate without cross-platform analytics that provide a unified view. Other valuable intelligence includes drilling down into behavioral cohorts.
“Acquisition is only part of growth,” he said. “With this information, you can create more relevant content... It’s about retention, engagement and conversion.”
Mobile economist Benjamin Bewick suggests a starter dashboard of mobile app key indicators include such things as: monthly active users (MAUs), daily active users (DAUs), percentage of spending (or other conversion) by install channel, monthly in-app purchases (IAP), monthly ad revenue, effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPM) and retention by install channel.
Forrester analysts James McCormick and Julie Ask said in a report that there are three layers in the mobile analytics stack: data management, mobile analytics and engagement optimization. Within that, they cited seven categories of app analytics: app monetization, app store, in-app engagement, app performance management, advertising, browser and interaction.
Harris of Software Advice says analytics need to be considered during the development process. “Your overall app development strategy (for instance, using a mobile app development platform like Appsheet) is the primary factor determining how you'll implement analytics, so make sure to research offerings that are specifically tied to your development strategy,” he explained.


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NCSoft to tear loose from Lineage: CEO
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BUSAN -- NCSoft CEO Kim Taek-jin declared the company's strategic shift from its traditional roots in Lineage, its series of massively multiplayer online role-playing games -- or MMORPGs -- to diverse gaming genres, responding to a downturn in earnings and a shift in gamer preferences.
The CEO made this announcement during an unexpected appearance at the company's booth at G-Star 2023 gaming expo held last week in Busan.
"Our objective is to delve into a multitude of gaming genres that resonate with all kinds of trends in the global gaming industry. Expect to see NCSoft will broaden its horizons in the coming years,” Kim said.
NCSoft's recent financial report pointed to challenges, with a decline in third quarter 2023 earnings. The company reported a decrease in consolidated revenue and a significant drop in operating and net income, primarily due to the waning interest in its mobile Lineage series.
Marking its return after an eight-year absence from G-Star, NCSoft unveiled a slew of new titles, stepping away from its predominantly mobile gaming focus, which has historically generated over half of its revenue.
The new game lineup from NCSoft included a diverse array of genres for different tastes. "LLL" is a looter shooter, blending the excitement of action shooting with elements of role-playing. "Project G" is the company’s first real-time strategy game, where planning and tactics are crucial. "Puzzup Amitoi" caters to puzzle enthusiasts, while "Battle Crush" is an action-packed brawler game, emphasizing combat skills. "BSS" is a collectible role-playing game, inviting players to build and enhance a team of characters.
But there is not a complete exit from NCSoft's bread-and-butter format. A standout release is "Throne and Liberty," an MMORPG for PC and console, set for a Dec. 7 release. The game promises to differentiate with dynamic environments and large-scale guild wars.
Battle Crush and BSS are nearing their release early next year, with later releases for LLL and others.
The diversification reflects a growing trend in Korea, where console gaming is gaining ground. Four of NCSoft's new games are primarily developed for consoles, marking a departure from its mobile-centric recent past.
Kim also noted the changing demographics in gaming, indicating a shift toward genres and styles that were once considered niche.
"We're seeing a new generation of gamers shaping the market. Genres once considered niche are now hitting the mainstream. As player preferences evolve, so does our game development, and we aim to be at the forefront of this change,” he said.
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The star will never escape her Spice Girls name.
Victoria Beckham’s son has revealed his mother’s Spice Girls nickname even follows her to Starbucks.
Romeo Beckham, 14, posted a picture on Instagram showing his famous mother’s drink, with the word “Posh” penned on the side of the cup.
He captioned the hilarious shot: “When my mum goes to Starbucks!!”
Baristas at the coffee chain often label beverages with customer’s names but it is not clear whether Victoria asked to be called “Posh”.
The star was known as Posh Spice during her time in the girl group but shed the moniker when she swapped pop for fashion design.
Romeo launched his Instagram account earlier this month and has already racked up 294,000 followers.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Farmer Scott Hunter’s almond trees are exploding into a froth of pink and white blossoms that will eventually bear more than a ton of nuts intended for trail mix, cereals, pastries and ice cream – but only if each bloom is visited by a honey bee.
That’s why concern about recent threats to the health of honey bees, whose fertile touch is behind one-third of what we eat, is spreading beyond farms and into boardrooms of companies like Haagen-Dazs and Burt’s Bees.
Berries, fruits and nuts that lend flavor to about 28 of Haagen-Dazs’ ice cream flavors depend on the insects for pollination. The company, owned by Switzerland-based Nestle SA, uses 1 million pounds of almonds alone in its products.
But in the last year, beekeepers lost 30 percent of the approximately 2.5million managed colonies to diseases, according to the U.S Department of Agriculture.
A recent surge in diseases and pests, from parasitic mites to Colony Collapse Disorder, which leads bees to abandon their hives, has led to the hive losses. Scientists are still struggling to understand what’s behind these problems.
Concern for the state of honey bees and its potential effect on the food industry led the premium ice-cream maker to launch a campaign intended to raise $250,000 for research into what’s ailing the honey bees, said Katty Pien, brand director of Haagen-Dazs in the United States.
The campaign will disseminate information on ice cream cartons, as well as in television and print ads, about honey bees’ contribution to agriculture. Money raised through the sales of honey bee-dependent flavors will be donated to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and at Pennsylvania State University.
For now, Haagen-Dazs is not planning to pull back any flavors or increase prices, but will “re-examine” the issue if bees’ troubles continue, Pien said.
Natural personal care products maker Burt’s Bees launched its own campaign in November, timed with the release of “Bee Movie,” starring Jerry Seinfeld. Burt’s produced a public service announcement on Colony Collapse Disorder, the phenomenon leading bees to abandon their hives, and also donated money to researchers at The Honeybee Health Improvement Project.
Growers have known for years that bees were facing increasing threats, as the price of renting a beehive jumped each spring, from $40 a hive in 2000 to $140 this season.
Like most commercial fruit, nut and vegetable growers, Hunter rents bee hives every year to make sure his crops are pollinated. Price hikes have driven up his production costs considerably.
But shoppers haven’t noticed a significant price hike in foods dependent on bee pollination because the food market is global, and there are dozens of factors affecting the prices of commodities like almonds.
Still, groups such as the Almond Board of California have stepped up their efforts in the field. In 2005 the group, which represents the farmers producing 80 percent of the world’s supply of the nuts, created a Bee Task Force to facilitate cooperation with bee keepers. They’ve also invested about $200,000 a year, for a total of about $1.4 million, in bee research.
Campaigns such as Haagen-Dazs’ may help raise awareness among consumers of the important role bees play in agriculture, which hopefully will lead to more funds for research, said Richard Waycott, Almond Board president and CEO.


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While within the U.S., the battle for the top spot among smartphone makers is highly driven by the accompanying ecosystems -- making Apple and Google disproportionately the top contenders -- this is not the case on a global scale. Using this reality as a backdrop gives us a much richer context in which to consider the assertion recently posed by Steve Milunovich of UBS Securities that iOS "is the New Windows."
He is, of course, referring to the OS that most defines the personal computing space; implicit in this stance is the idea that smartphones and tablets have become more relevant than PCs. Ultimately, while fortunes may shift over the near term based on the dominance or lack thereof of a given platform, this battle will be won by consumers who will have diverse choices and no need to be limited.
The U.S. stage
Within the U.S., there is a veritable duopoly between the two top players. Recent sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that since the release of the iPhone 5, iOS has reclaimed the top market share sales position in terms of quarterly sales over Android by a margin of 48.1% relative to 46.7%. The data showed that 62% of iPhone 5 sales came from existing iPhone users, meaning that 38% are new to Apple, and helping it close the U.S. gap against Android.
The really telling portion of these figures, however, is that other smartphone sales accounted for only 5.2% of the domestic market. While this duopoly doesn't exist on a global basis, Travis McCourt of Raymond James points out that "[i]n the parts of the world where a smartphone ecosystem matters, it is a much more even match between Android and iOS."
Given the importance of the ecosystem and the availability of apps, Microsoft has made a big push to give developers more tools and easier access to portable core code. A recent piece in Wired highlights the issue: "There are more than 120,000 apps in the Windows Phone store and more than 16,000 in the new Windows 8 Store. Those are big numbers, but they look paltry compared to Apple's App Store and Google Play. Microsoft knows it needs more apps." In terms of the battle for mature markets, like the one in the U.S., a fully developed ecosystem remains critical.
To be fair, the Apple-versus-Google battle is so ingrained into most of our psyches at this point that it's easy to write off Microsoft's efforts. While one of the company's biggest challenges will be to get consumers to even consider a Windows phone, it can be done. When Google first entered the smartphone market, a general scoff went out from many who believed that Google could never catch Apple in the apps race. Clearly, new market entrants can be competitive over time.
The global stage
Unlike in the U.S., especially in markets where price is the critical driver, the inclusion of a comprehensive ecosystem is of far less importance. On a global basis, research firm IDC reports that Android commands a 68.1% market share relative to 16.9% for iOS. As McCourt tells us "There are parts of the world where a smartphone is simply a touchscreen with an effective Web browser, and in those parts of the world, Android is dominating." The magnitude of the global market is best seen by comparing U.S. and global market share figures; the huge disparity present in the global figures bespeaks the size of the non-U.S. market.
Adding to Apple's non-U.S. woes was the announcement last week that China Mobile , China's largest wireless carrier, has reached an agreement with Nokia to sell the Lumia 920t. The Nokia Windows phone will represent another critical non-iPhone in the enormous Chinese market. Still, by pure volume, low-cost smartphones made by "other" manufacturers are the largest growing market segment in China. When you consider than while smartphone sales are growing at 46% annually, but by 63% within emerging markets, it is easy to understand why Android is so far outpacing the higher priced iPhone.
While a careful analysis of all of this data reveals interesting patterns in spending habits that may translate into near-term stock performance, the underlying theme is that growth is strong across the board and none of these players is struggling. The growth in the tablet market may be even more explosive. A recent survey conducted by UBS revealed that nearly 75% of respondents reported that they have or will use a tablet in the near term.
Returning to the "New Windows" question, Milunovich argues: "Apple is gaining as the ratio of total notebooks to iPads plus MacBooks peaked at over 30x in 2006 and is now just 1.6x. Not only could iPad maintain half the tablet market, but MacBooks might steal a significant number of Windows PC users." While Apple certainly enjoys a significant first-mover advantage in tablets, Android has come a long way as well. Heading into the holidays, the significantly lower price of the Google Nexus 7 should give it a distinct advantage.
Microsoft should not be counted out of the tablet race, either. Even Milunovich can accept the potential of the Microsoft Surface: "Since they both are production devices, Windows tablets are more likely to hurt notebook than iPad sales, in our opinion. Offering the full suite of productivity software, Windows tablets are well positioned to grab a corporate niche." Leaving aside the absurdity of calling corporate computing a "niche," the Surface is likely to play an important role in the mix, particularly after the Surface Pro, which will run a full version of Windows, is released early next year.
Putting it in context
As compatibility and portability continue to increase, it's hard to imagine that a single dominant OS will emerge. The global market is simply too vast to allow a single player to command the entire landscape. As things stand, Apple seems to control the tablet market, Google the smartphone market, and Microsoft that little niche known as business. You may well end up as an iPhone user who carries a Microsoft Surface and runs Google Apps without ever thinking twice.
From an investment perspective, all three of these companies are in a solid position to perform moving forward. Down from its $705.07 high, Apple struggles of late are a new long-term buying opportunity. While many have lost faith in the company's ability to innovate, it still makes clean, high-end products that haven't lost their "cool factor" as the must-have device. I believe the stock has limited downside from its current price near $530, and that the risk-reward ratio has become favorable for the medium and longer terms.
For all these reasons and so many others, I believe Google is simply the single strongest name in technology. The company continues to find new ways to innovate, while dominating in almost every business in which it competes. Having risen from a cloud of incredulity that a search firm could compete with the mighty iPhone, Google now owns the global smartphone market.
Microsoft, still in the midst of its attempt to throw off its stodgy image, may be the most interesting play of the three. From the Windows Phone to the Surface tablet to Windows 8, the company is attacking on all fronts and clearly means to not go silently into the night.
Rather than choosing which of the three will win this battle, I would simply buy all three.
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A SUPERMARKET has been blasted for failing to deal with irresponsible lorry drivers who stand accused of putting pedestrians' lives at risk.
Articulated lorries delivering goods to Asda have been illegally parking on double yellow lines and pavements outside the superstore's loading bay entrance, in Forty Lane, Wembley for the past two years.
The Green Party complains that the practice means residents are being forced to run a dangerous gauntlet to cross the slip road.
Despite constant complaints from pedestrians and members of Brent Green Party, the supermarket giant has failed to take action and claims it is finding the health hazard difficult to overcome.
Shahrar Ali, leader of Brent Green Party, is disgusted with the response.
He said: "Asda has completely failed to act on our repeated warnings about the danger posed by its articulated lorries to pedestrians.
"I was astonished to receive a letter from the head office saying that they find the problem 'difficult to over-come' and 'hope for a resolution in the near future', while inviting us to meet their store manager to reach 'a satisfactory compromise'."
In the Asda response, Dr Ali was assured that Tony Cirillo, the Wembley store manager, was aware of the problem and was looking to remedy it.
But the campaigners want action on the issue now.
Khalid Akram, 39, of Dagmar Avenue, uses the road regularly with his wife and four young children.
He said: "There is a big ongoing issue here and it's an accident waiting to happen.
"Pedestrians have to accommodate the lorries parked in the slip road, whereas it should be the other way around."
Dr Ali claims that mothers with prams, young children and pensioners are being forced on to the busy main road because of inconsiderate drivers.
He said: "Since our latest formal representations, we have continued to witness road safety violations and there is no question that someone is going to get killed because of this.
"How can Asda be allowed to get away with this when common motorists would have been fined, penalised and possibly sentenced?
"Is this one law for the masses and another for big business, right under the nose of Brent Town Hall?"
Asda said the Wembley store is working with suppliers and depots on delivery timelines and is asking all lorries to use the car park if they cannot get into the delivery entrance.
A spokeswoman for the supermarket said: "Asda is committed to these changes and is working closely with the council, although we acknowledge that the changes may take some time to implement."


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A battery startup founded by a former Tesla engineer announced plans on Tuesday for mass production of next-generation materials in the US to cut costs, increase driving ranges of electric cars and reduce the industry's dependence on China.
Sila Nanotechnologies will invest in a new plant in Washington state due to open in 2024, Sila CEO Gene Berdichevsky told Reuters.
Berdichevsky said Sila would use the new plant to make silicon-based anode materials that can store 20% more energy than anodes that use graphite, 70% of which comes from China.
He pointed out that in recent years the price of electric car batteries had plateaued rather than coming down, so new materials could help lower the cost to consumers.
Auto giant Daimler AG has a minority equity stake in unlisted Sila and the company is also backed by BMW. Sila raised an additional $590 million last year and has a valuation of around $3.3 billion.
Unlike graphite, silicon is not on the U.S. critical minerals as the Biden administration is keen to reduce reliance on China in the battery supply chain.
He said its new facility aims to deliver annual silicon-based anode production sufficient to power 10 gigawatt hours of batteries in 100,000 electric vehicles, with a goal to increase the capacity to power 2 million electric vehicles a year, according to the Reuters report.
Sila runs a test production facility at Alameda in California that can produce battery materials for about 1,000 cars a year which it plans to scale up.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had also announced a plan to use silicon-based anode in its new batteries at its Battery Day event in 2020.


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A hugely popular American hamburger chain is set to open a new restaurant in Essex. Wendy's has announced plans to open their new venue at the Northern Gateway near junction 28 of the A12 near Colchester.
Wendy’s, the iconic American hamburger brand, is continuing its expansion across the UK with three new brick-and-mortar restaurants set to open in the coming months. The new Colchester venue will join the Wendy's already up and running in Romford in Essex.
Two other new restaurants in Lincoln and Wisbech will be opening in April while the Colchester restaurant will be opening in May. The Essex restaurant will mark the brand’s second drive-thru location in the UK – ideal for fans craving Wendy’s whilst on the go.
Read more:The latest breaking news from Colchester
Wendy’s landed back on UK shores in 2021, and there are now nearly 30 Wendy’s locations in the UK, including 13 brick-and-mortar restaurants, with the aim to have 45 sites operating in the UK by the end of this year. The new restaurants, which have commenced recruitment, will create over 120 jobs across the three new sites.
A spokesman for Wendy's said: "Wendy’s fans can find the same signature items they know and love from the United States including the Baconator, Dave’s Double, the Spicy Chicken Sandwich, and of course, the classic Frosty dessert.
"Alongside this, there is an exclusive range of items tailored to Brits, such as our Avocado Chicken Club, Curry Bean Burger, and chicken nuggets made from whole chicken breast fillet. For a limited time beginning April 3, try Wendy’s new Biggie Meal Deal: a spicy chicken sandwich, small fries, small drink and 4-piece classic chicken nuggets for only £7.99 at participating Wendy’s restaurants.
"If you’re a fan of heat, you'll love the Spicy Chicken Sandwich which features a juicy chicken breast marinated and breaded in a unique, fiery blend of peppers and spices to deliver more flavour inside and out, cooled down with crisp lettuce, tomato and mayo.
"Wendy’s focus has been on quality since day one and does not cut corners, a commitment illustrated by the brand’s iconic square hamburgers. All menu items are made to order and customisable, and ingredients are locally sourced wherever possible. Wendy’s delicious salads are prepared fresh daily and sandwiches are served hot off the grill."
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You can get 50% off at Applebee’s using expired gift cards and coupons from ANY business, not kidding
It’s true: Things really are better and bigger in Texas, including Applebee’s. This month, all 65 Applebee’s restaurants in Texas will accept any kind of gift card or coupon — whether they’re expired or not — from any business as payment. Umm, yassss please.
Foodbeast reports that the food chain will honor pretty much any coupon — paper or electronic — for up to 50% off food purchases for the entire month of March. It’s not exactly free (hey, they gotta make money somehow) but 50% can go a loooong way. Especially if you go with a group of friends and spread the gift card love.
The deal is pretty simple: If you have a gift card with a remaining dollar value, like $25, for example, that’s how much you’ll receive off your food check (up to 50% off your meal) at Applebee’s.
That means you can pay for your chicken wings and nachos with a coupon from a competitor! Or even use that old knitting store coupon you didn’t end up cashing in from Grandma.
This is some positive news from Applebee’s, which recently announced it will close a number of its locations this year.
Applebee’s provided the same deal last year in Texas, and not surprisingly, it got a great response.
“When we offered this promotion last year our guests were thrilled when we accepted their expired or just unwanted gift cards or coupons and they received up to 50% off their meal,” said Chris Dharod, president of SSCP Management, parent of Apple Texas. “It’s a fun promotion, it’s a great way to give back to the neighborhoods where we operate, and it’s an easy way to visit us and get 50% off your food bill.”
Thanks, Applebee’s! We know where we’re going this weekend.


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Akron Stories Project Brings Rubber Worker Histories to Life
Miriam Ray, the project’s founder, and Mac Love, the project’s lead, visited our studios to explain more about the Akron Rubber Worker Statue and Stories Project and how to contribute to the cause.
Akron Stories Project Brings Rubber Worker Histories to Life [Audio]
Today’s tire industry is home to legacy brands such as Goodyear, Firestone, BF Goodrich, General Tire, Mohawk Rubber. The list goes on. Though the ones listed here have one thing in common: They started in Akron, Ohio. In fact, as these tire manufacturers developed, so did the city of Akron. Now, the memories and stories
Nexen Tire Hosts Tech Center Grand Opening, Showcases R&D & Commitment to North America
Nexen Tire Corp. celebrated the grand opening of its Technology Center in Richfield, OH, this week, showcasing its technological muscle and commitment to the North American marketplace.
Gallery: Nexen Tire Tech Center Grand Opening
Nexen Tire America celebrated the grand opening of its Tech Center in Richfield, Ohio, on Wednesday, capping off a banner year for the South Korean tiremaker. Look through highlights from the opening ceremony and tour the high-tech center.
Bridgestone, Akron Public Schools Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of Automotive Training Center Partnership
Representatives from Bridgestone Americas, Akron (Ohio) Public Schools and United Way of Summit County gathered at the Bridgestone Americas Technical Center the afternoon of Oct. 16 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Bridgestone Academy of Applied Engineering and Technology in cooperation with Firestone Complete Auto Care at Akron’s East Community Learning Center.
Bridgestone To Build New Race Tire Manufacturing Facility in Akron
Bridgestone Americas is planning to build a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Akron, Ohio that will serve as the future home of Firestone race tire manufacturing.
Bridgestone Creates Auto Training Center for Akron Public Schools Students
Akron Public Schools and Bridgestone Americas, Inc. announced the new Bridgestone Academy of Applied Engineering and Technology, which will bring a Firestone Complete Auto Care (FCAC) center to East Community Learning Center (CLC) in the fall of the 2018-2019 school year.
Bridgestone Americas Recognizes Innovators
Bridgestone Americas recognized leaders in innovation during its 38th annual Inventors Awards Dinner on May 18 in Akron, Ohio.
Goodyear Christens Wingfoot Two
A little bit of cold and rain couldn’t stop the festivities at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s blimp hangar on Oct. 21, as the tiremaker christened the latest member of its blimp family – Wingfoot Two. Christening Wingfoot Two, and drenching herself with Champagne at the same time, was Akron-native and philanthropist Savannah James.
Goodyear Unveils Test Store
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is rethinking the customer experience of its Goodyear Auto Service stores with the opening of a new location at Summit Mall in Fairlawn, Ohio. The new store, located near the tiremaker’s headquarters, will be a fully operational store where Goodyear can test new ideas. During a June 16 store preview,
Goodyear Collecting Toys for Tots at Blimp Bases
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has partnered again with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve to benefit the Toys for Tots Foundation. The tiremaker will open its U.S. blimp bases in Ohio, California and Florida to collect toys for the foundation, while giving the public a close-up view of the airships. “We are pleased to
Kenda Brings New Tech Center to the Akron Area
Kenda USA is calling Green, Ohio, home to its new Kenda American Technology Center. The tiremaker hosted a ribbon cutting and pre-opening preview with Kenda executives and government officials on Nov. 9 at the new facility, just minutes from Akron and Kenda’s Martin Wheel Co. Back to the Rubber City “We feel that Akron is


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Gurnee, Illinois (PressExposure) December 10, 2008 -- Held from November 22 to 25, 2008, at the San Francisco Marriott, DirectBuyâs conference, appropriately titled Brilliance by the Bay, brought DirectBuy center owners, staff and vendors from across the U.S. and Canada. Besides awards banquets and keynote speakers, the conference provided a team-building opportunity.
âItâs great to attend DirectBuyâs international conference for a lot of reasons: new ideas, as well as meeting other center owners and staff. Perhaps the best benefit is it gives our staff a chance to bond outside the showroom,â said Karuna Talwar, owner of DirectBuy of Gurnee. âThat not only improves morale at work but gets our staff even more excited about what we do here at DirectBuy.â
DirectBuy of Gurnee staff attending the conference included: ● Lisa Miller â Member Service Manager, Winthrop Harbor, Illinois ● Brad Marchildon â Call Center Manager, Grayslake, Illinois ● McNemon Vincent â Warehouse Manager, Gurnee, Illinois ● Tim Cain â Cabinetry Designer, Waukegan, Illinois ● Ronald Milton â Director, Gurnee, Illinois ● Justin Carmody â Director, Beach Park, Illinois ● Trisha Avery â Member Associate, Kenosha, Wisconsin ● Erin McCormack â Senior Product Specialist, Grayslake, Illinois ● Vera Masionis â Product Specialist, Round Lake Beach, Illinois ● Kristina Anderson â Product Specialist, Round Lake, Illinois ● Jillian Wolf â Product Specialist, Richmond, Illinois ● Laura Murdie â Personal Assistant to Karuna Talwar, Salem, Wisconsin
As the leading members-only showroom and home design center, DirectBuy of Gurnee offers low insider pricing on products ranging from light fixtures to televisions to kitchen cabinets, all from more than 700 manufacturers and their authorized suppliers. DirectBuy also offers design services to its members, as well as a listing of local contractors who offer installation services to DirectBuy members, many times at a discounted rate.
Since 1971, DirectBuy franchises have offered members the opportunity to enjoy enormous savings on home furnishings, home improvement items, entertainment and outdoor products and accessories by buying wholesale, directly from the manufacturer. With five convenient locations in the greater Chicago area (Chicago, Gurnee, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, and Tinley Park), consumers can enjoy a comfortable, country-club setting, where they finally have the financial control of buying direct.
For more information on a DirectBuy membership, you can call 1-800-DIRECTBUY or visit http://www.directbuychicago.com/.
Consumers interested in becoming members may obtain a Visitorâs Pass to attend an Open House by visiting http://www.directbuychicago.com/.
Locations of the five DirectBuy showrooms serving the greater Chicago area are: DirectBuy of Gurnee, 4081 Ryan Rd. #107, Gurnee, IL; DirectBuy of Hoffman Estates, 2200 N. Stonington Ave Ste. 150 Hoffman Estates, IL; DirectBuy of Chicago North, 6325 Avondale, Chicago, IL; DirectBuy of DuPage County, 1864 Highgrove Ste. 136 Naperville, IL; and DirectBuy of Tinley Park, 18400 S. 76th Avenue Ste. B, Tinley Park, IL.
To learn more about the superior value and benefits of a DirectBuy membership, visit http://www.directbuycares.com


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Velas Network, the world’s fastest Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain, is expanding its variety of services by introducing a new fund and accelerator program. The Swiss-headquartered company will use its expertise in the crypto and blockchain industry to support talented developers and entrepreneurs.
Early in 2022, Velas became a premium partner of the Ferrari Scuderia team. The Velas team continues its path to maximize its presence in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industries by launching a new initiative.
The fund will be represented by Velas’ new subsidiary company, and it will be managed by a team of professional developers, marketing experts, designers, crypto experts and more. This team will work together to analyze and estimate the value of crypto projects, startups and original ideas.
Anyone interested in participating will be able to submit an application, which will be reviewed by the fund’s panel of judges. Once the projects with the highest potential are approved, participants will get a chance to join the Velas acceleration program. The Velas acceleration program will offer the following services:
- Development support: If one has an exciting idea but is missing a development team, Velas will assist them in building their project.
- Mentorship: One will be able to ask the platform’s mentors for professional assistance. These experts will help lead projects and overcome development, networking and marketing challenges.
- Acceleration: The fund can help with any issues related to fundraising, organization of private sales, the project’s initial coin offering launch and more.
- Marketing support: Velas will ensure the promotion of an applicant’s project gets maximum exposure. The Velas team will help with creating top-quality content, marketing and design. The fund also offers the chance to establish partnerships with the most popular crypto influencers and traders in key opinion leader-marketing services.
This initiative will also help to popularize the Velas (VLX) token by being utilized by the accelerator program’s projects as a payment method. The Velas blockchain can also be integrated into projects and startups to provide stability and the fastest transaction speed with the most reasonable transaction costs on the market.
This latest program aligns with Velas’ reputation as a proponent of new talent in the blockchain and crypto communities.
“Velas has always been supporting talented and innovative crypto enthusiasts ready to start working on forward-looking projects,” said Farkhad Shagulyamov, CEO of Velas.
Speaking on how he believes the program will benefit new developers and the crypto industry as a whole, Shagulyamov said, “I believe that our fund will open new possibilities for them as well as significantly contribute to the development of the whole Velas ecosystem and crypto industry.”
The accelerator program will last up to three months. The minimum investment possibly given will be $25,000 — receiving an investment depends on criteria such as project stage, team expertise and the development of the project. The program will provide all participants with professional remote assistance.
The Velas team has already started collecting the first applications through its existing grants program form.
The fund does not yet have specific requirements or policies. All participants with a great idea or a ready-to-launch crypto project can apply for support from Velas.
Many talented developers can start sharing their exciting ideas with the Velas fund. The organization will start operating this year, so it’s just the right time to submit applications.
Velas Network was founded in 2019 by two crypto entrepreneurs, Alex Alexandrov and Farkhad Shagulyamov. Nowadays, Velas is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland — known as Crypto Valley. The company has already built the fastest EVM-compatible blockchain. It offers up to 75,000 transactions per second and extremely low transaction fees. The Velas company actively establishes partnerships with different world-known companies and crypto startups. For example, it has started cooperating with the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari.
- Website: velas.com
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- Telegram: t.me/velascommunity
- Twitter: twitter.com/VelasBlockchain
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/velas-ag


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2017 has been a banner year for the Power Rangers brand. With a line of successful comics from Boom! Studios, a new web-based RPG series debuting this week, the television branch still trucking after all these years, and a whole slew of merchandise waiting to be scooped up by Ranger fans young and old, the franchise would appear to be firing on all cylinders. Unless, of course, you have a glance at Saban’s Power Rangers, the Lionsgate film that released in theaters earlier this year to mixed reactions. While many of us loved the Rangers’ latest cinematic offering, there may be some who see this particular branch of the franchise as one that can be cut off at the base.
Trademarkia lists the logo for Saban’s Power Rangers as abandoned by original owners SCG Power Rangers LLC. Which would lead many to believe that Saban Brands and its affiliates have lost interest in pursuing future installments in what was hoped to be a Power Rangers film series, spanning multiple sequels, serving as a platform for more games, comics, clothing, and other merchandise for years to come.
All that may be lost if some speculation about this situation proves correct. But there’s an alternative theory, posited with a bit more optimism, however farfetched some may think it. The theory being that the existing film logo will be left behind merely so that it can be replaced by a new redesign. A fresh take for whatever form the Lionsgate property takes next, whether that be a direct sequel to the 2017 movie or something else.
We’d like nothing more than for this to be the case. For it to join the likes of longshot second-timer Pacific Rim: Uprising and pull a sequel out of the fires of oblivion against stacked odds and return us to a wondrous universe of mystery, friendship, and excitement. It certainly proved to be the best, most dynamic live-action Power Rangers project this year, by a landslide. It will be a crying shame if the journey ended within the same footsteps that it began.
In the meantime, this logo can still currently be found on toys and a gamut of other related products, the phasing out of which won’t happen overnight, if at all. And the franchise has been pushing forward with so many other business opportunities that some fans may have almost forgotten that there even was a movie mere months ago. The TV series, the comic series, the mobile game, and the various toys that marry all three continue to proliferate. The Power is still on for the Rangers. Though it may burn too dimly where it counts most for some.


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The Office BOSS aquires American Mail Center in Truckee’s Gateway Center
The Office BOSS, Inc., formerly Bradbury’s Office Services andamp; Supplies, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the American Mail Center located in the Gateway Shopping Center (aka Safeway Shopping Center). This is a synergistic addition to The Office BOSS capabilities and incorporates shipping, packaging and mailbox services into the existing office products and printing services.andamp;#8220;The goal is to create a truly andamp;#8216;one-stop-shop’ for businesses that need to get supplies, get printing and copying services, and have mailing and shipping services at one location,andamp;#8221; explains Jeff Ridgel, President and CEO of The Office BOSS. andamp;#8220;This saves time for our customers, the most important aspect of doing business in the new post-recession world!andamp;#8221;The American Mail Center business model will be andamp;#8220;cross-pollinatedandamp;#8221; at both of The Office BOSS locations. At the airport facility, shipping services will be expanded to include FedEx, UPS and USPS while the American Mail Center location will now carry office products, art supplies, stationery and gifts. Future plans include keeping the airport facility focused mainly on commercial business-to-business operations including printing services and daily office products and furniture deliveries. While the new retail facility in the Safeway center will keep the American Mail Center mailbox rentals, shipping and packaging services and gain the retail side of the office products business.andamp;#8220;As for the economy,andamp;#8221; concludes Jeff. andamp;#8220;The Office BOSS is optimistically positioned to take advantage of the recovery, gambling on a slow but steady increase in 2010 focused mainly on retail office products and shipping services while having a longer two-year recovery for the construction industry and reprographics.andamp;#8221;
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Wine & Grape Appreciation Month
Governor Bev Perdue proclaimed September 2011 as North Carolina Wine and Grape Appreciation Month. Gov. Perdue recognizes the importance of the wine and grape industry to the state, and encourages the public to help support local wineries during appreciation month. Gov. Perdue also urges restaurants and retailers to support the industry. Wineries are encouraged to celebrate Wine and Grape Appreciation Month with their own celebrations in September.
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SHANGHAI, Jul 22 (SMM) – Poor demand lowered spot prices of certain rare-earth products last week.
SMM assessments showed that prices of praseodymium-neodymium oxide stood at 300,000-305,000 yuan/mt as of Friday July 19, down from 320,000-325,000 yuan/mt a week ago, as anemic demand prompted small producers and traders to reduce their quotes to offload cargoes.
Prices of neodymium oxide declined to 302,000-307,000 yuan/mt. Meanwhile, large producers lowered offers for praseodymium oxide, with SMM assessed prices dropping from 400,000-410,000 yuan/mt to 390,000-400,000 yuan/mt.
As of July 19, prices of erbium oxide eased to 185,000-190,000 yuan/mt, while those of holmium oxide weakened to 385,000-395,000 yuan/mt, after China Southern Rare Earth Group lowered its listed prices earlier in the week.
Demand for light rare earths is unlikely to pick up in the short run, as downstream consumers, magnet producers, stood on the sidelines in a low season. This is likely to keep prices weak.
China Southern Rare Earth Group did not lower its listed prices for dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide last week.
Prices of medium, heavy rare earths are expected to remain weak and stable in the short term, and will likely climb after demand recovers.