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He may have long since departed his beloved WPP, however, Sir Martin Sorrell still has many a sage word about the company he founded and the advertising world in general.
Since leaving WPP in April under a cloud, the 73-year-old has taken a number of potshots at WPP’s direction, in particular, a lot of the creative agencies he believes aren’t keeping up with the times.
In an interview with the BBC over the weekend, Sorrell – who it’s often said took the creative out of creative agencies – lambasted those who still pined for the good old days.
“There are new forms of creativity in things like data analysis, in digital transformation. People look back at the Don Draper/madmen-era with rose-tinted glasses,” he said.
Far from retiring, Sorrell has begun his latest venture into the advertising world, S4 Capital, which recently purchased digital production company MediaMonks for $A472 million.
When asked if the new venture was a form of revenge on WPP, Sorrell said: “There may be a bit of that – but what I’m most interested in is building a business to scale. Some people found things and move on, others build businesses, very few can do both.”
In the far-reaching interview, Sorrell also denied that he’d misused company funds while at the helm of WPP and described allegations that he’d slept with prostitutes on the company credit card as “Not true. There was an investigation and it turned up nothing.”
However, he did admit that he’d often micromanaged WPP, a company with some 200,000 employees globally. “Founding a company is the nearest a man can come to giving birth. Emotionally rather than physically obviously – but it’s your baby.
“I asked myself this question – who is really looking out for this company? And the answer is, no one apart from me. And by the way, micro-management is not a fault,” he said.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the UK’s The Sunday Times yesterday, Sorrell branded WPP’s decision to sell its stake in the digital marketing company Globant as “bordering on negligent” and claimed there was no one left to “look out for” WPP now he’d left.
“The one thing I’d criticise them for so far, and I would be very aggressive about it, is the sale of the Globant stake. I think it is bordering on negligent,” he said.
“There really is nobody looking out for WPP. Founders have different attitudes to managers . . . founders have a personal commitment to the company they founded, which it is very difficult to replicate,” he said.
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Tuesday July 17, 2018
Popping-up on drinks menus around the world, colourful superfood lattes offer appealing health benefits and are gaining popularity with consumers who desire a healthy energy-boost without the caffeine.
Available in a myriad of bright and beautiful colours: green, blue, yellow, pink and even black, the bright hues might look like artificial colouring, but superfood lattes actually get their colouring from all-natural ingredients like turmeric and beetroot.
The superfood latte we tip to ascend in popularity in 2018 is the mushroom latte. It may sound like an odd concoction but it’s already taking UK coffee shops by storm. Data collected by consumer insights website Hitwise reveals that there has been a 471 per cent year-on-year spike in searches for “mushroom coffee”, with a majority of these coming from people aged between 16 and 25 years old.
Like all superfood lattes, mushroom lattes are said to have many health benefits. Mushrooms have been used in Asian countries for centuries to treat cancer, and modern day science suggests that eating (or drinking) mushrooms can make improvements to blood sugar levels, blood pressure, immunity and liver health.
According to nutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed, “Ground mushrooms have a range of benefits, from anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting to memory-enhancing. They can be taken in a variety of ways, from tea to tonics, but are especially amazing in your morning coffee as they’re able to help counter effects like the awful caffeine crash or an upset stomach.”
In London, you can try a mushroom latte at the Wild Food Café, based in Covent Garden. The Wild Food Café was set up by raw-food pioneer and executive chef Joel Gazdar to serve London with quality vegan and gluten free food. Alongside the mushroom latte, they also serve other superfood lattes such as beetroot and turmeric.
If you think a superfood latte would make a great addition to your hot drinks to-go menu, Bunzl Catering Supplies have a variety of disposable cup options to suit your needs. This includes the reCUP – a new paper cup with 48 per cent less plastic content.
For operators looking to offer their customers a reusable cup option – we recently introduced rCUP, the world’s first reusable cup made entirely from used paper cups, designed and developed in the UK by recycling industry experts.
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•The number to beat? 6 million. That’s how many vehicles have been produced at the FCA US Jefferson North Assembly Plant. It was a ’16 Grand Cherokee 75th Anniversary Edition. It’s a nearly 3-million-square-foot facility with around 4,500 employees
•$12.2 million has been invested in the upcoming more-than-400,000-square-foot Mopar Parts Distribution Center, which will open in Winchester, Virginia, later in 2016.
•Toyota is the official partner of the Special Olympics Texas, and the duo has launched a drawing called Let’s Go Places Together, with the win being a ’17 Tundra 1794 Edition. You can buy a raffle ticket until December 2—or until $250,000 in tickets are sold—at sotx.org/toyota.
•Major League Baseball and Chevy are back at it again. The Bow Tie’s sponsorship will continue as the official vehicle of MLB and the official automotive sponsor of MLB and USA Baseball’s Play Ball initiative. The MLB/GM relationship began in 2005.
•So, this happened: Jeep was the first auto manufacturer to drive up and down an Olympic-standard whitewater rafting course, using a Renegade Trailhawk and Olympic snowboarder Aimee Fuller. If you want to see more, then: youtube.com/watch?v=b8B91s4BVFs. Spoiler alert: The comments section.
•Ford is buying two blocks of property near its HQ in Michigan. What to develop with the space? Well, you might be surprised to learn there’s an arm called Ford Motor Land Development Corporation, so that org is figuring it out.
•Automakers are getting into this whole ride-sharing thing, including Toyota, which has invested in Uber and will likely include some leasing deals.
•By the time you are reading this, we’ll have a new slew of high school graduates amongst us. And if they are grumpy, here might be why: according to a survey by Junior Achievement USA and American Honda Finance Corporation, 34 percent of teens expected a car or truck, or help buying one, as their grad present. So, no new vehicle gifted? You bought yourself some teen angst.
•Expedia is now 20 years old, and it went all #tbeveryday and dug through its data to learn that in those two decades, Las Vegas was the most popular destination, determined by searches that included car rentals.
•The INRIX 2015 Traffic Scorecard compared traffic congestion in countries and major metro areas. The U.S. topped for worst, and in the 12 months of the year, average commuters spent about 50 hours in traffic. Belgium took Second Place, while the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the UK, and France rounded out that worst group. London snagged worst traffic in metro areas, with drivers spending an average of 101 hours stuck in it.
•If you see a bright-yellow Ram, chances are it’s the Yellow Rose of Texas Edition or the new Stinger Yellow Sport, which, unlike the Rose, is not limited to Texas. It starts at $44,340 and will have a limited run of 2,250 trucks. Both 4x2 and 4x4 versions are available.
•Most Innovative Premium Brand for 2016? Audi, via the Automotive Innovation Awards. The hat trick wins were for Most Innovative, Connected Car, and Vehicle Concepts/Body.
Is It True?
•You may want to rethink your skills as a car hacker because Michigan is working on building a law that could mean life in prison for this cybersecurity crime?
•Ford is using captured carbon dioxide to make foams and plastics for use in seats and underhood?
•The Honda Ridgeline pickup is still in production? And the ’17 model will start “mass production” in Alabama?
•Google is patenting a sticky tape type of thing to coat the exterior of a robotic car that would “glue” a pedestrian to it if the car strikes the person? Preventing the common practice of a pedestrian being hit and thrown or dragged?
•The redo of the Jeep Wrangler will mean no manual transmission?
•What will happen with the old Jeep Parkway Plant in Toledo, Ohio? Dana will build an axle-manufacturing plant on the property?
•Land Rover is going to create a Bluetooth-based tracking system that will alert you once you get into the vehicle if you’ve forgotten your wallet, phone, and other things you’d normally have on your person or in your to-go bag?
•Nissan is buying a controlling stake in Mitsubishi?
•The University of North Texas and Dr. Guido Verbeck developed a Ford Fusion that can “sniff” air quality, but might also be used by law enforcement for sniffing out drugs while on the go?
Your Government at Work
•The U.S. Census Bureau figured out when the first auto accident happened. It was May 28, 1896, in New York City and Henry Wells was behind the wheel of a Duryea Motor Wagon and hit Evelyn Thomas on her bike. She broke her leg, and he went to jail for a night.
•Your National Parks Service has reached its centennial, so Chimani and Subaru have kicked off 59 mobile app travel guides for each major national park. No more paper maps. You can download for free at the iTunes App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore via Chimani. While you’re there, check out the Chimani National Parks app for a look at all 411 national parks.
What’s Happening in the Industry
•Goodyear and Lucky Brand have collaborated on a line of vintage-looking Ts with the Goodyear graphic. You can get it at the Lucky store or go to luckybrand.com.
•Welcome to Macon, Georgia, Kumho Tire. The new production joint is the company’s first manufacturing place in the U.S.
•Brembo did a first pour at its new cast-iron foundry in Homer, Michigan. That pour was the step before real production. This is the first Bremo cast-iron foundry in North America.
•Flex-N-Gate is going to buy 30 acres of land and build a new plant in Detroit. Ford parts will be made here, among other work. The company began making aftermarket parts in 1956, and its arsenal includes metals and lighting.
Four Wheeler App
Check out this glowing review from Captainjarhead over at the App Store about the Four Wheeler app: “Does what it is supposed to do.” Woohoo! We deliver as promised! So, what’s the app supposed to do? Give you 24/7 access to tech, product info, feature trucks, road tests, trail rides, and travel. Go get it.
Chevy Silverado High Desert Package
Coming in the fall 2016 is the High Desert package for the Chevy Silverado LT, LTZ, and High Country. The package includes a new lockable storage setup in the bed with a three-piece hard tonneau and Magnetic Ride Control suspension, a first for the Silverado. The system constantly reads the road and tweaks the damping in the electronically controlled shocks. If you recognize this as a concept vehicle from a couple years ago, you win. But win nothing.
“As the remarkable event came to a close, The Queen was transported in the hybrid engine State Review Range Rover.”—Jaguar Land Rover’s statement about how it partied like it was 1926 for The Queen’s 90th birthday celebration at Windsor Castle.
“I am predicting that, once computers are doing the driving, there will be a lot more sex in cars. That's one of several things people will do, which will inhibit their ability to respond quickly when the computer says to the human, ‘Take over.'”—Barrie Kirk, Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence, to the Toronto Sun.


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By Connor Sheets*
LAGOS, Nigeria – In Nigeria, it’s not uncommon for a person to carry three or more cell phones, each optimized for a different one of the country’s wireless carriers.
Even deep in the impoverished Oto-Ilogbo Extension slum, built atop a massive landfill in mainland Lagos, there is a makeshift school where youths learn how to use the Internet on an old computer miraculously connected to the web.
A technological revolution is sweeping across Africa, bringing with it deep Internet penetration and exploding rates of smartphone usage. The phenomenon is ushering in a new era of savvy entrepreneurship, resulting in new investment opportunities that have attracted a number of major international players to what was until recently a mostly localized market.
One of the leading players in this tech transformation of the African continent is Jumia, perhaps best described as “Africa’s Amazon.”
Like Amazon, Jumia is an all-online shopping platform that promises expedient delivery of tens of thousands of products to consumers within its rapidly expanding network.
Jumia is the brainchild of two young Lagosian men who met at Harvard Business School, where they earned MBAs before returning to their chaotic home city. It has become one of Africa’s best-known success stories since its founding in June 2012 under the name Kasuwa.
It has already gone from five employees to more than 500, attracted tens of millions of dollars of investment from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Summit Partners and other Western firms, and expanded its delivery area from Lagos to the entirety of six African countries from Kenya to Côte d’Ivoire.
Jumia’s story would have seemed impossible 10 years ago in a conflicted nation like Nigeria, but experts say that the firm is just one of the more visible outgrowths of a trend toward modernization of African business and society that offers massive potential for investors and entrepreneurs around the world.
Jeremy Hodara, co-CEO of early Jumia investor Africa Internet Holding, says that Africa’s metastasizing Internet connectivity and rising “appetite for consumption” have combined to create a conducive environment for tech start-ups across the continent.
“In Africa not only do you have a stronger demand than what people think – because when people think of Africa they think there is no money, but that is not true – but what’s interesting is there is no supply at all,” he said.
As such, Hodara believes the time is ripe for tech-minded business people to enter the market with bold, proven ideas for Internet start-ups, which are all but guaranteed to succeed as African infrastructure improves.
Jumia co-founder Tunde Kehinde painted a picture of the booming tech scene in Nigeria – which mirrors that of other advanced African economies – while seated on a leather couch in Jumia headquarters.
“My sense is that in the last two years you’ve really seen a sizeable jump in big start-ups coming up in the tech space, and now there’s so much more activity around so many different verticals,” he said. “In Nigeria you can buy groceries online, buy plane tickets online, and send money to your loved ones online.”
Already that theory is proving accurate, as numerous entrepreneurs are finding great success by creating blatant, Africanized copies of dominant Western companies.
Various African markets are now served by their own versions of established Western web firms and apps like Seamless (Hello Food), Uber (TaxiPark), Trulia (N-Soko), Hotels.com (Jovago) and eBay (BidorBuy), and the race is on to bring such offerings to the remaining underserved markets.
Companies like Rocket Internet, a German firm that was Jumia’s first key backer, are swiftly moving into the African sector, garnering millions of dollars in international investment and, in Hodara’s parlance, “leapfrogging” the traditional offline retailers most African countries never really had in the first place.
“I think for me it’s less about the online model that you translate from America to Africa; to me it’s more about industries that are going online directly,” he explained. “For instance in America you have Hotels.com. Before you had Hotels.com you had to go to travel agencies, and then they had Hotels.com. In Africa you will never have a travel agency on every corner. It will skip straight to online.”
But the African market is not as open and accessible as the success stories may suggest. Doing business there comes with a set of challenges not seen in many other markets around the world, as Hodara has found.
“The challenge is to execute it, because it sounds beautiful when I explain it like that, but it’s very difficult to execute,” he explained. “There is a lot of demand but little supply, so it looks very good on paper, but the complexity to execute is so high.”
As the continent continues its inexorable march toward modernity, more visionary investors and entrepreneurs will take the chance on Africa’s markets, as the reward proves ever more likely to be worth the declining risk.


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Marvel Go has arrived.
The creator of Pokémon Go, Niantic, is creating a smartphone augmented reality game based on the Marvel world.
The AR gameplay of Pokémon Go will be combined with superhero tights in Marvel World of Heroes. It will let you to create your own crime-fighting persona to foil crooks in your local (AR) area, as revealed in a brief teaser film.
The game’s description states that you may “create your own hero, police your neighbourhood to thwart crimes, band up with your friends as well as renowned Marvel characters like Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine to preserve the Multiverse.”
The game is expected to be available for Android and iOS in 2023. the trailer is below.
Marvel World of Heroes looks to pull from Niantic’s expertise in AR mobile games, but isn’t replicating the pocket monster-catching mega-hit wholesale. lead game designer Neil Melville says the game “gives a lot of flexibility for players to express different body types, gender expressions, and outfit customization”.
Senior producer Lyza Faylona says the dev team was inspired by MMORPGs and wants to replicate that genre’s expansive feeling. The developers are placing a lot of emphasis on exploration, as well as interacting with the ordinary world with the preternatural powers of a Marvel superhero.
In a change from Pokémon Go, you won’t just be walking around catching critters to launch into battles, but it seems like you’ll do the fighting yourself. The short trailer shows players wielding Thor’s hammer Mjölnir, Cyclops’ laser-shooting eyes, and Doctor Strange’s circular orange energy shields. You’ll also be able to team up with other players, although exactly how co-op battles work hasn’t been detailed.
This is not the first time Niantic has adapted the popular augmented reality gameplay from Pokémon Go to another game. We’ll have to wait and see if World of Heroes gets it to the list of top Android mobile games available; it published pet simulator Peridot earlier this year.


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Tesla will announce deliveries for the third quarter next week and the Wall Street consensus estimate is for 98,000 cars. Historically Tesla would try to make an extra push to reach 100,000 cars if they were that close to a milestone number. The reports are that Tesla sales growth in Europe are strong and China sales are strong.
UPDATE: There are reports of an email from Elon Musk that 100,000 deliveries in the third quarter is possible. Elon is of course pushing for 100,000 deliveries from his employees.
There are reports that Tesla could start China manufacturing on October 14, 2019. This would mean the initial mass production ramp would be in the fourth quarter. Tesla could hit the 360,000-400,000 cars delivery estimate for 2019. This would take 2000 cars were built in the fourth quarter in China and hitting or exceeding Wall Streets estimate of 358,000 cars in 2019 from Fremont.
Tesla is building a fifth production line in Fremont. Fully ramping production from that line would mean an addition 25% production in 2020 from Fremont. This would be 100,000 cars in addition to about 400,000 cars from the other lines in 2020 from Fremont.
Tesla has given the Version 10 software update. This will allow Tesla to recognize $100+ million of prepayments for software features.
Expansion of the Tesla Shanghai Factory also appears to have already started.
Fast ramping of Tesla production in new Fremont and Shanghai facilities could see 800,000 Tesla made and delivered in 2020. This would be 500,000 in Fremont and 300,000 in Shanghai.
The following videos are not as optimistic and do not consider an October start for the production ramp in Shanghai. This would move up ramping estimates by one quarter. There is also no boost from a fifth Fremont production line.
SOURCES : Tesla, Youtube
Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.


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During the 2019 iteration of its annual developer conference, Google has announced that it is going to upgrade its in-car platform Android Auto. The update is set to roll-out later this summer and is going to be made available in all compatible cars. According to Google, the Android Auto support has been expanded to 500 car models across 50 car companies since it was introduced 5 years back. "The new interface is built to help you get on the road faster, show more useful information at a glance and simplify common tasks while driving," said Rod Lopez, Product Manager, Android Auto.
After this update, as soon as one starts their car, the Android Auto application, if synced, will continue playing your media. In addition to this, the system will also show the owner's choice of the navigation app. One can simply tap on the location that he/she wants to go or say "Hey Google" and select the same with the help of voice commands. The update also introduces a new notification bar with the help of which you can see turn-by-turn directions and also controls apps and phone through the same screen. Furthermore, with this help of this new notification bar, one can perform multiple tasks such as take incoming calls and rewind podcasts.
With the help of the new notification centre, you can see your recent calls, messages and alerts on one screen. In order to improve visibility, Google has also updated the colour pallet. The Android Auto will now offer a dark theme in order to match with the interiors car's interiors of today. Also, included are easy to read fonts along with colourful accents which promise to improve visibility. In addition to this, the system has now been upgraded to fit a screen of any size. For instance, if the vehicle comes with a larger screen, the system will provide additional information like ongoing calls, playback controls and next-turn directions.


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PlayCrafter, the online portal that aims to facilitate the easy creation of casual games, has announced that it is entering an open alpha stage of development.
The site, owned by start-up company ZipZapPlay, based in Burlingame, California, will evolve to offer a share of any revenue generated by games created using PlayCrafter, and plans initially to target those people currently playing casual games, but eventually to appeal to Wii or iPhone gamers as well.
"User-generated content in games isn't a new idea," ZipZapPlay CEO Curt Bererton told GamesIndustry.biz. "It's been around since the earliest level editors or (closer to our site) pinball construction set on the Apple II.
"However, there was no easy way to share that content, short of calling a friend over to your house, and more often than not, the editors where clunky and hard to use.
"We believe that user-generated content for gaming is becoming popular now because the Internet has made it so easy to share that content, and editors are slowly becoming easier to use.
"These days, kids having grown up with MySpace and YouTube, they don't even think of it as generating content. To them, it's simply another thing they do, another way to use their creativity. Creating content and sharing it is fairly easy with videos and blogs, but we feel that this trend has only recently caught on for gaming."
PlayCrafter is attempting to address the problem of offering users a comprehensive set of tools, while at the same time keeping the editor accessible, and Bererton believes that the company has found "a good balance".
The company will initially rely on pre-load ad revenue, with functionality to be added later to allow game creators to charge for their products.
"All revenue earned from a game will be shared with its creators," said Bererton. "This opens up the possibility of having an open marketplace where creators can charge each other for quality game pieces and we would take a small cut of every transaction," he added, comparing it to an eBay business model.
The power of user-generated content is a hot topic in the games industry at the moment, with the October launch of LittleBigPlanet - another title which hopes to get gamers creating, and possibly offer revenue-sharing as well.


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Mantrac Ghana Limited, the sole authorized dealer for Caterpillar products in Ghana, has held its maiden Infrastructure Day celebration under the theme “Building Tomorrow’s World Today”.
The event, organized in partnership with the Association of Ghana Industries, Association of Road Contractors, Ghana Real Estate Development Association and the One District One Factory Secretariat, brought together stakeholders, industry experts from Caterpillar and Mantrac Ghana to share ideas on the latest technology advancements at the job-site and business as well as discuss innovations that can help address challenges in the design and delivery of major projects.
Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of Mantrac Ghana Limited, Mr. Steven Scott indicated that, “Recent publications attest to the fact that infrastructure investment is a key enabler for sustainable development, economic growth, competitiveness and long-term job creation”. He went on further to commend government on its vision to expand the country’s infrastructure and reiterated Mantrac Ghana’s commitment to supporting such projects with expertise, equipment and product support to ensure that these projects are competed successfully.
Mr. Scott went further to explain that, to promote growth, competitiveness and general well-being of citizens, governments have a responsibility to maintain appropriate levels of productive investment in infrastructure. He mentioned that for the past 81years, Caterpillar equipment had have provided support for major infrastructure projects in Ghana.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Hon. Kwasi Amoako Atta congratulated Mantrac Ghana for creating an appropriate environment for the sharing of ideas pertaining to infrastructure development in Ghana. Hon. Eugene Fred-Ofori, who represented the Minister, used the opportunity to pledge government’s support to provide good motorable road infrastructure resources to aid in the economic development of the country.
Participants at the infrastructure day were also introduced to CAT® Finance Services which is a collaboration between Mantrac Ghana and Stanbic Bank Ghana to provide customized financial solutions for customers who buy caterpillar products.
Mantrac Ghana’s product range includes Hydraulic Excavators, Motor Graders, Off Highway Trucks, Backhoe Loaders, Soil Compactors, Skid Steer Loaders, Articulated Dump Trucks, Track-Type Tractors, Pipe Layers, Scrappers, Wheel Loaders, Track Loaders, Asphalt Pavers, Asphalt Compactors and power generation equipment.
Mantrac Ghana Limited is the sole authorized Caterpillar Dealer in Ghana. Since the establishment of the company in 1937, Mantrac has supplied and supported Caterpillar products in many sectors of the Ghanaian economy such as construction, mining, forestry, material handling and power generation.


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California [United States] (ANI): Apple announced its quarterly earnings this week and contrary to analyst predictions, its most-expensive iPhone X came out to be its best-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2018.
The iPhone X was believed to impact Apple‘s sales revenue owing to its sheer USD 1,000 price tag. However, Apple shipped 16 million units of the ‘most expensive iPhone ever’ in the given quarter, Cnet reports.
In comparison, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, which were launched alongside the iPhone X, sold 12.5 million units and 8.3 million units respectively.
In terms of revenue, Apple earned USD 150 billion and USD 34 billion in earnings for the first half of its fiscal year. (ANI)
Courtesy : ANI News
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Europe overtook China for government and industry investment in electric cars and batteries last year, analysis suggests
Europe secured a record €60bn-worth of investment from governments and industry to produce electric vehicles and batteries last year, with stricter CO2 targets helping attract higher sums for zero emission vehicles than even the world's largest car market China, according to fresh analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E).
The green NGO's EV investment report today indicates interest in Europe's rapidly growing battery car market continues to surge, with investment in the sector 19 times higher than in 2018, and 3.5 times higher than that committed in China.
Germany secured by far the largest chunk of the overall investment last year, with the country's €40bn coming mainly from Volkswagen Group, as well as US EV giant Tesla, which last year announced plans to build a 'gigafactory' in Berlin, according to T&E.
Volkswagen, which has plans to produce 75 all-electric vehicle models worldwide by 2029, also had a major hand in the €6.6bn investment in EVs and batteries in the Czech Republic last year, the analysis found.
Italy, meanwhile, secured €1.7bn in EV investments last year from Fiat, while France, Sweden and the UK each got around €1bn from car manufacturers, T&E found. Spain also received €300m from Opel, and manufacturers Hyundai and Kia committed €80m overall to Croatia.
It follows the introduction of tougher vehicle CO2 targets across the EU at the start of the year which require automakers to emit a maximum of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre on average from cars they sell by 2021, or potentially face multi-billion euro fines.
Saul Lopez, e-mobility manager at T&E, said the stricter targets had "concentrated carmarkers and governments' minds" to "finally close the gap with China" in EV investment terms.
"A few years ago Europe was nowhere in the race for EV supremacy," he said. "Success in this market is now Europe's industrial policy, and lawmakers should double-down with stimulus measures that will also drive a green recovery."
The car sector is expected to suffer significantly due to the impending recession wrought by the coronavirus crisis, however, although EV sales are expected to fare better than petrol and deisel sales worldwide. Recent analysis BloombergNEF suggests global petrol and deisel car sales have in fact already peaked, and that while EV sales are likely to drop 18 per cent in 2020, they are on course to recover again next year.
Auto trade bodies have been seeking "some adjustment to the timing" of the new CO2 standards - which are set to become more stringent over time - in the wake of the coronavirus crisis which has upended the car industry, with lockdown measures placing restrictions on car production.
But with the EU Commission expected to unveil its highly-anticipated stimulus package tomorrow aimed at driving Europe's economy towards recovery after Covid-19, T&E urged EU policymakers to ensure any aid the car industry receives is contingent on firms prioritising EV production.
It also said the EU should establish purchase incentives to boost zero emission car sales - particularly in corporate, taxi and car sharing fleets - and called for the phase out of fossil fuel car sales across Europe from 2035 at the latest.
"Covid has wrought human tragedy and economic turmoil," said Lopez. "But the EU and governments can use the recovery to emerge with a healthier, greener economy that reinforces its EV industrial strategy and creates thousands of jobs."
It came a survey of 20,000 British motorists polled by the AA found more than 40 per cent are planning to drive less in future after the current lockdown lifts, with around four in five also indicating they will take some action to reduce their impact on air pollution, according to the BBC.
The poll findings come amidst dramatic reductions in air pollution across the UK since lockdown measures began due to fewer cars on the roads, and suggest Britain's motorists are keen to capitalise on these improvements going forward in their personal travel behaviours.
A quarter of respondents said they planned to work from home more, another quarter said they would be flying less, while one in five plan to cycle more, the poll found.
"We have all enjoyed the benefits of cleaner air during lockdown and it is gratifying that the vast majority of drivers want to do their bit to maintain the cleaner air," said AA president Edmund King. "Walking and cycling more, coupled with less driving and more working from home, could have a significant effect on both reducing congestion and maintaining cleaner air."
IEA expects global energy investment to plummet by $400bn this year with major implications for renewables, energy efficiency and net zero
Government-backed project aims to demonstrate how power, transport and heating technologies can be combined to shrink CO2 emissions and electricity bills
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The BPM Festival Costa Rica will not move forward this year after the government enacted new COVID-19 restrictions that banned mass events.
The new year has brought forth a flurry of festival announcements, but the pandemic continues to be a foe of festival organizers around the globe. This past week saw the cancelation of Departure Festival in Mexico, and today has brought more bad news for house and techno lovers looking to bask in warmer temperatures as The BPM Festival Costa Rica has also been forced to postpone its edition this year.
Originally set to take place on January 12-18 in Tamarindo, The BPM Festival Costa Rica boasted of a lineup featuring some of the best names in the house and techno scene today. Unfortunately, rising concerns surrounding COVID-19 in the region were addressed by the Costa Rican President, who enacted new restrictions on the country that included a ban on mass gatherings from January 11-23. With dates that landed right in the middle of that time period, the festival’s organizers had no other options but to look towards 2023 for their return.
Those who had purchased passes for The BPM Festival Costa Rica have a few options that they can exercise in the coming days. There is an option to transfer your pass to the upcoming edition in 2023, receive the allocated refund (85% of the ticket’s face value), or exchange the value of your pass for official BPM merchandise that can be picked up this week at the Diria Convention Center. The full terms can be found via their website while those with hotel reservations should contact Tulu Travel at [email protected].
Stay tuned for further details on festival postponements and cancelations as concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic continue.


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Storage vendors must partner with vendor-independent integrators and service providers to maximise their product sales, according to the latest research from IDC.
In the recent study, titled Bringing Storage Solutions to Market, IDC profiled several systems integrators in the storage solutions market in Australia and New Zealand.
The study found that storage hardware and software vendors operating in the A/NZ markets should be developing strong channel alliances in order to take to market a total product and services solution.
Vendors would become increasingly dependent on system integrator partners as more and more Australian companies look at storage and server consolidation, IDC analyst, Megan Dahlgren, said.
"Third-party storage solution providers are an increasingly important part of any go-to-market strategy because they can provide vendor-independent assessment services that allow customers to better understand their data, where it is used and stored and how it should be managed." Dahlgren said. "This type of assessment service is becoming a necessary first step prior to storage hardware or software procurement."
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Star India’s Uday Shankar Hopes Telecom Tariff Hikes Won’t Hurt Data Consumption In India
Close on the heels of steep telecom tariff hikes, Star India Pvt. Ltd.’s Chairman Uday Shankar on Tuesday expressed hope that data prices will not become "unaffordable" and that content consumption will keep growing.
India’s three largest private telecom operators, Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. and Vodafone Idea Ltd., raised tariffs by 40 percent for their prepaid customers, after holding the rates at rock-bottom levels for almost four years.
The move can help the bleeding operators to some extent in shoring up revenue.
"Data prices have come down from historical levels—from a couple of dollars per GB to barely 2-3 cents a GB now. It is not going to go back to an unaffordable level," Shankar said on the sidelines of an event where he announced the consumption trends for Hotstar—the digital platform of Star India.
He also expressed disappointment with the new TV audience metrics under Broadcast Audience Research Council, or BARC. "One big limitation in the present measurement system is that it is still not doing justice to what is happening now—how people are consuming," Shankar said, adding the issue is also about "data credibility".
Stating that the present data can be "extrapolated, interpolated and mutilated", he said there is a need for a better system that is scientific, robust and transparent.
The Star India chairman also hit out against branded content and in-film advertising, terming it as "crass commercialisation" which "taints" and "sullies" the experience. "There are better ways of making money. We have to be very active and dynamic in asset monetisation. But you don't have to sully the experience," he said.
Meanwhile, Star India claimed that Hotstar has an average daily viewership of more than 200 million, which spikes to 300 million during cricket matches. The Hotstar app has been downloaded as much as 400 million times. About 63 percent of the users are in non-metro cities and 45 percent are women.
Shankar defended Hotstar’s pricing model of offering some content free and others for a fee saying it has worked well, while conceding that Star India had not planned for such a high consumption of data. He believes three-fourths of data consumption in India will be through mobiles soon.


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Microsoft announced Xbox Play Anywhere during its press conference at the E3 2016 gaming convention last month. The feature will arrive later this year and it will allow people to purchase a game once on either Xbox One or Windows 10 and get it on the other platform as well for free. The company had promised that every new title published by Microsoft Studios is going to support Xbox Play Anywhere but it appears to have quietly edited that promise.
The company had made this announcement through a blog post which promised that “Every new title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere.” That’s pretty self-explanatory and doesn’t require you to go in detail because it’s straightforward.
However, Microsoft has updated this blog post quietly to add “that we showed onstage at E3 this year” to the sentence. This opens the door for some titles that Microsoft Studios doesn’t want to make compatible with Xbox Play Anywhere.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says that this doesn’t mean Microsoft is going back on the promise of allowing players to buy a game once and enjoy it across both Windows 10 and Xbox One. He says that most of the games published by Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere, and that this stipulation has been added just in case a unique game is published which is not right for all devices.
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The retail giant nudges down the price for Apple's two new tablets -- the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 -- while also cutting the cost of the iPad Mini original.
For the first time, researchers have used a video camera mounted on a hexacopter to monitor the behaviour of killer whales in the wild.
These two new gadgets are designed specifically for the 65-and-older set.
Running Android 4.3, the Emporia Smart is a simplified smartphone for the elderly.
An Indiegogo social-enterprise project out of Singapore aims to equip the elderly with an iPhone 3GS preloaded with essential apps.
It's the first auction of new wireless spectrum in six years. CNET gets you up to speed on how this will affect your wireless service in the future.
Dish's 14 million customers lose access to CNN, Turner Classic Movies and a handful of others as companies fail to negotiate new distribution deal.
The California senator pushes for city legislators to reject a law that would legalize short-term rentals and pave the way for apartment-sharing sites.
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The products will serve as the showcase devices for the latest version of Android, Lollipop, until now nicknamed Android "L."


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The WWD Global Stock Tracker landed in positive territory for the seventh straight trading day, adding 1 percent to reach a new high of 105.45.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rose 4.7 percent to $82.94 after reporting its first gain in U.S. comps in seven quarters despite a dip in third-quarter earnings that still left it above the consensus estimates of analysts. Wal-Mart’s gain helped lift the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.2 percent to 17,652.79, its 25th record close of the year.
Dillard’s Inc. reported higher earnings and margins despite lower sales and was rewarded with a 3.1 percent uptick to $112.76.
The strongest gain among tracker stocks came out of Tokyo, where shares of Shiseido Co. rose 5.3 percent to 1,781 yen, or $15.42 at current exchange. Takashimaya Co. was up 4.2 percent to 1,052 yen, or $9.11. The Nikkei 225 rose 1.1 percent to 17,392.79 as Japanese markets continued to respond to a possible delay in a higher sales tax.
Shares of Adidas rose 2.9 percent to 61.60 euros, or $76.62, to claim the fifth highest gain among the 100 fashion, retail and beauty stocks monitored by WWD’s tracker.
In its first trading day after reporting third-quarter results that included flat comparable sales, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. shares pulled back 8.5 percent to $7.10, followed by American Apparel Inc.’s 7.2 percent descent to 64 cents. American Apparel reported a wider third-quarter loss due in part to its internal investigation of founder Dov Charney. Elizabeth Arden Inc. was of 4.4 percent to close at $17.69.
Macy’s Inc., which reported quarterly results Wednesday morning, finished the day precisely where it started it, flat at $61.57.
Shanghai Metersbonwe was off 3.5 percent to 11.04 yuan, or $1.80, and Luen Thai Holdings Ltd. shed 3.4 percent to close at 1.70 Hong Kong dollars, or 22 cents.
Kohl’s Corp. shares were down 3.2 percent to $56.07 after it reported lower third-quarter sales and profits and missed analysts’ consensus estimates for its bottom line.
The tracker’s 1 percent gain marked only the fifth time that it had gained at least a point since its inception on July 8. Its largest advance was a 1.3 percent leap on Oct. 21.


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A new Volvo S90 car model is seen during a media event by the company in Gothenburg, Sweden last week. REUTERS
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, (Reuters): Chinese-owned Volvo Car Group has launched a new model in the hope of gaining ground in a premium auto market dominated by German luxury rivals, and said it expected sales of the new car to hit roughly 50,000 in 2017.
Volvo is in the midst of a sweeping overhaul of its model range to propel long-suffering sales volumes in the United States back above 100,000 cars per year, to reach total sales of around 800,000 cars in 2020 and make inroads against larger rivals such as Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz, BMW and VW’s Audi.
The Swedish car maker gave a preview on Wednesday of the S90 sedan, facing high expectations after Volvo’s new flagship SUV, the XC90, helped boost sales in recent months despite a slowdown in demand in China, the world’s biggest auto market.
It will be delivered as a petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid car.
“You need the sedan to be serious in the premium market,” Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson told reporters, adding 2016 would be a ramp-up year with about 15,000 S90 sedans produced.
“We will have around 50,000 when we have full production of the car.”
Samuelsson said he still expected a substantial improvement in earnings this year from the 2014 operating profit of 2.25 billion Swedish crowns ($ 259 million), adding sales had so far been unaffected by VW’s emission scandal.
Diesel engines have been in the spotlight since Volkswagen admitted in September it had installed software in up to 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that understated their emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides.
“So far we haven’t seen anything in our numbers, but this will be a huge discussion in the business in the future,” Samuelsson said.
Total sales at Volvo, bought by China’s Geely from Ford in 2010, are up 5% so far this year at 441,002 cars, driven by strong demand for the XC60 and XC90.


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Victorian vegetable growers are in despair about the move to new central markets at Epping from its current site at Footscray.
The State Government has been working on moving the wholesalers and grower traders for four years with a promise that the building would have room for all of them, and be an improvement.
But the cost of the building has doubled, to $600 million, and the trading room for growers to sell their produce is half the size.
As a result, the growers will be forced to go into a ballot, and Victorian growers representative David Wallace says there will be those who miss out on getting a space to trade, and they'll be forced to close.
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Taco Bell going on a health kick?
Taco Bell isn't putting down the chalupa just yet, but it's embarking on a push to shake its reputation as a purveyor of junk food.
The fast-food chain announced Wednesday that it's exploring ways to offer more balanced choices and transparency. That could mean new products and reformulations of existing offerings.
The move is likely to be met with skepticism in some corners, considering that Taco Bell is known for urging people to eat nachos as a "fourth meal" late at night.
But it shows just how much pressure the industry is under to recast its greasy-food image as people increasingly seek out options they feel are healthier.
Taco Bell is a unit of Yum Brands Inc., which also owns KFC and Pizza Hut.
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BlackBerry 10 gets "Restricted" NATO clearance
BES 10 (BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10) offers end to end secure conversations. Thanks to the AES 256-bit encryption, data is secure. Since the launch of BES 10 in the beginning of the year, more than 25,000 test and commercial servers have been installed. BES is one of the hidden gems inside BlackBerry which the private equity firms looking to buy the company might be able to unlock.
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Higher fuel prices, jams slow mainland car sales
Mainland car sales dropped 3.4 per cent from a year earlier to 4.8 million units in the first quarter as buyers were deterred by higher fuel prices and traffic jams in some big cities.
Car sales rose 1 per cent last month to 1.84 million units, of which 1.4 million were passenger cars including sedans, SUVs, MPVs and mini vans, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said.
'Both the manufacturing and sales of cars in the first quarter were not ideal,' said He Ruide, a director of car research at Beijing's Bayes Consulting.
An array of stimulus measures to boost car purchases ended in December 2010, including tax breaks and government subsidies on fuel-efficient vehicles.
The rush to qualify for the incentives led to increased purchases in the first quarter of last year, said an analyst who asked not to be named.
'Many people rushed to buy at the end of the year but the deals could only be sealed in the first quarter of 2011, resulting in a high base for this year,' he said.
The Beijing Auto Show will be held next week, followed by more events in other cities including Guangzhou. 'The launch of new models will fuel demand and lift market sentiment,' the analyst said.
He expects sales in the second quarter to improve from the first, but 'not by a big margin'.
The government raised fuel prices last month, increasing the benchmark retail price for petrol by 44 fen (54 HK cents) per litre and that for diesel by 51 fen. A litre of petrol now costs more than 8 yuan, the high cost dampening the hopes of many in owning a car.
The analyst expects this year's passenger car sales to grow about 7 per cent, provided there are no new government policies to stimulate or suppress the market.
China is the biggest car market in the world, with 14.5 million passenger vehicles sold last year, an increase of 5.5 per cent from 2010. It was the slowest growth in at least five years. Sales soared 55 per cent in 2009 and 33 per cent in 2010 when the stimulus measures were in force.


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Huawei today announced the launch of a 90-day pre-order subscription for the Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone in China. The entire concept of this 90-day pre-order subscription will enable random delivery to the buyer. In simple words, the customer can receive their Huawei Mate 60 Pro unit anytime or any day within the 90-day pre-order subscription period.
Huawei’s official online store, Vmall mentioned that the company has been seeing huge demand since the launch of its “Pioneer Program” in August this year. Therefore, the company is exploring more ways to deliver more Mate 60 Pro’. After placing the 90-day pre-order subscription, users can cancel the order anytime while waiting for the shipment.
Seeing the massive demand, the Huawei Mate 60 Pro is running hot and at the same time, it’s also short in supply due to slow manufacturing. The whole series is currently out of stock online as well as on third-party stores such as JD.com. People are facing issues in fetching a unit booked for themselves.
Nonetheless, Huawei’s offline stores are also running dry of supplies, which is also promising to ship the unit within two to three months of delivery wait. Via unofficial sales channels, retailers are selling Huawei Mate 60 Pro at a higher price than regular or official stores.
A past report suggests that the latest impact on sales and availability is the result of a slow supply chain. The sales of this new flagship have surprised Huawei and its supply chain partners. Thereafter, Huawei continuously placed new orders of required components, and its employees are working overtime to meet the market demand.
Huawei Mate 60 Pro comes with a 6.82-inch quad-curve OLED screen with 2720x 1260 pixels resolution. The screen supports a 1-120Hz LTPO adaptive refresh rate.
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Tech Logic, an industry leader in Library workflow and automation technology, issued today the following statement in response to recent developments concerning COVID-19 and its impact on the global manufacturing and supply chain.
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Like many people domestically and internationally, Tech Logic is actively following the evolving world-wide response to the COVID-19 health emergency. The Tech Logic Executive Leadership Team is closely monitoring the status of the virus and its potential impact on the supply chain of Tech Logic Solutions.
As the number of cases continue to escalate globally, many manufacturing businesses in Asia are temporarily closing to help contain the virus. Tech Logic is alerting libraries to the possibility of delays in the delivery of our rfidTAG Solutions.
Though Tech Logic has no significant supply-chain delays to report at the moment, we are encouraging our Partner Libraries to submit any 2020 rfidTAG orders well in advanced as a precautionary measure. As government agencies and individual companies world-wide implement policies to keep their citizens and employees safe, Tech Logic hopes to minimize the impact of these policies on our Partner Libraries as much as possible. Orders placed as precautionary measures can be held by Tech Logic and released to the library at any time during the course of 2020.
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Can Paper Bills be More Cost-effective than E-bills?
Case Study: The Cost of Direct Mail versus E-mail Invoices
Every now and then I come across a study that flies in the face of conventional beliefs. This one in particular interested me because of our ongoing campaign to remove “anti-paper” green claims used to promote “lower cost” electronic billing. It seems that the “lower cost” feature is now also being questioned by some. Let’s take a look.
In 2009, a young Danish company called Natur-Energi A/S took on a challenge to create a better communication tool that would increase the number of invoices paid on time. Natur-Energi is dedicated to locating, generating and delivering simple and effective energy supplies and solutions that result in lower CO2 generation. Their customers are, for the most part, private small- and medium-sized companies who are committed to CO2 reduction and slowing climate change.
According to an article in the August 2013 issue of Fresh Data (an online resource from Data Services), a case study details how Natur-Energi decided to test whether switching to paper invoices with a new population of customers would improve the speed of payment. The study’s objective was to establish what effect digital invoicing has on customers and whether switching to invoices sent via physical mail could improve the on-time delivery of payments with those customers. Secondly, the campaign would investigate whether digital invoices were cheaper than physical mail in regard to overall operational costs.
A test population group of 2,879 new customers was selected and their behavior through a two-month billing and payment cycle was carefully monitored. Records were kept of the type of invoice sent, date and medium of the first and second reminders, traffic to Customer Service and date of write-off.
What they uncovered is good news for the paper industry. According to the case study, evidence shows that new customers pay the required amount significantly later if they receive their invoices by e-mail, compared to physical mail. Natur-Energi discovered that sending invoices via e-mail actually increased their overall costs.
Phil has over 28 years of international experience related to sustainability and the forest products industry. He currently leads Two Sides North America, a non-profit that promotes the unique sustainable features of print and paper, as well as their responsible production and use. Two Sides operates globally in five continents with members that span the entire graphic communication value chain. Phil has written extensively on sustainability and environmental topics related to the forest products sector. He received his Bachelor and Master's of Science degrees from McGill University in Montreal. He is a private forest owner and sustainably manages over 200 acres of forestland for both recreational and economic benefits.


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Brent J. McClendon, Executive vice president, International Wood Products Association, Fairfax, Va.
"Gibson Guitar's import of Indian guitar blanks can resume; U.S. government admits mistake" could have been an alternative headline on your Aug. 7 article about Gibson's settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Nearly a year after federal agents raided Gibson's headquarters and hauled away Indian rosewood and ebony, the Justice Department admits "that certain questions and inconsistencies now exist regarding the tariff classification" of the wood they confiscated — and is letting Gibson get these goods back, and even says it can resume business with India.
If a small company experienced a raid similar to what Gibson went through last year, it would not be in business long enough to withstand that kind of heavily armed bureaucratic "mistake." The Lacey Act needs to be improved to focus on illegal logging, not international tariff disputes between countries. It also needs to work for small- to medium-sized enterprises. Both can be done simply.
To not address Lacey Act weaknesses is a crime against the forests it is designed to protect and targets these forests' best hope, an American business community committed to their sustainable use.
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China preparing for trade talks during Duterte visit - commerce ministry spokesman
China is preparing for trade talks with the Philippines during President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to China this week, a spokesman for China's ministry of commerce said on Tuesday.
Duterte was due to arrive in China later in the day with members of the Philippine business community to pave the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance.
China will look at expanding fruit imports from the Philippines in talks during Duterte's visit, commerce ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said at a news conference in Beijing.
(Reporting by Yawen Chen; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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The governor estimated raising the tax for electronic cigarettes to $2.70 like a that on a pack of conventional cigarettes could mean an additional $35 million in annual state revenue.
According to officials, the 95-cent tax would generate an additional $50 million in tax revenue for the state. The cigarette tax is currently $3.40 per pack in the state/
The Association’s ninth annual State of Tobacco Control report evaluates whether states are doing what the group considers enough to protect people against the health problems associated with tobacco use.
Mayor Bloomberg’s administration is suing a tobacco company in Washington state,accusing it of illegally selling and distributing untaxed cigarettes in New York.
The state’s latest attempt to tax lucrative Native American smokeshop sales to non-Indian customers has generated mountains of legal briefs and hours of argument.
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According to the latest information that can be found on Apple's online store, shipping estimates for the 16GB and 64GB iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on all carriers have recently improved to one day. This means that the customers in the USA currently have an opportunity to get their new smartphone shipped to them within one day after the purchase. Looks like the suppliers have finally caught up with the demand for the handset.
As you probably know, this year, Apple took part in the World AIDS Day campaign aimed at raising money to fight one of the most dangerous and quickly spreading diseases of the 21st century. The guys from Cupertino arranged several (Product) RED promotions, created a special (RED) App Store section and sent a part of money from all retail and online sales from Friday, November 28th and Monday, December 1st to the Global Fund to fight AIDS. In general, Apple managed to raise about $20 million. Well, this is what Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a letter to employees.
According to the latest reports from people familiar with the matter, the guys from Cupertino have recently begun testing iOS 8.1.3 actively, which indicates that ahead of the public release of iOS 8.2 with the support of the long-awaited Apple Watch early next year, we may actually see one more iOS version containing stability improvements and bug fixes.
A well-known Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has recently once again speculated on the release date of Apple’s widely-rumored TV-set. This time he claimed the guys from Cupertino will release their smart television in about two years. And that is rather strange, I must admit.
According to the latest reports from reliable sources, Samsung is currently in talks with LoopPay, a company, which has recently developed a new payments method to launch Apple Pay competitor in 2015. This method uses a technology different from NFC utilized in Google Wallet or Apple Pay and that is an advantage, I guess, as not all the smartphones on the market can boast of the support of NFC.
It is Sunday again, which means that I’m ready to tell you about the most interesting articles of the past seven days. Let’s not waste time and take a look at them right now.
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You have probably seen the drone video showing the construction site of Apple’s Campus 2, which appeared online a couple of weeks ago. Well, a new clip has been recently uploaded to YouTube. The short two-minute aerial video has been released after the guys from Cupertino revealed their plans to build a massive auditorium and a fitness facility for the employees working at the “spaceship” campus.
This clip indicates that thanks to the incredibly hard-working and persistent construction workers the new headquarters continues to grow rapidly. You may take a look at the video below.
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Apple on Friday released an update to its Maps app for both OS X and iOS. This update brought the Flyover feature to nine new cities and monuments in the USA and Europe. Moreover, the guys from Cupertino added one noticeable new feature to their virtual assistant called Siri, which now supports international movie times.
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Spain posted some of the strongest economic growth figures in the entire euro zone in the last quarter of 2014, growing 0.7% from the previous three months.
This rate was only matched by Germany among Europe’s major economies.
The growth was almost entirely due to increased household consumption, according to new data released on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
The figures show that GDP advanced an average 1.4% in 2014, allowing Spain to leave behind six years of near-continuous recession.
The surge caught analysts by surprise after, on average, they had forecast annual growth of 0.7%. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) delivered the most inaccurate estimate of all, announcing that the Spanish economy would not grow at all in 2014.
The recovery really gained traction in the last quarter of the year, which reflected greater growth than any other three-month period since late 2007.
Meanwhile, families spent 0.9% more, keeping up the upward trend that began several months earlier.
With exports performing worse than other years and construction only now beginning to recover from the real estate debacle, consumer spending has become the main force driving the economic upsurge.
Several indicators had been pointing at this for some time: retail sales experienced positive growth again last year for the first time since the beginning of the crisis, and December sales advanced 6.5% compared with the same month the year before, the greatest increase in a decade.
Now, experts are warning that this increased spending does not reflect a clear recovery in household income: the first rise in income in seven years has done little to compensate for general wage devaluation and the fall in public subsidies.
But incipient job creation has been positively affecting consumer confidence, as has the lower consumer price index, which has brought down the cost of basic goods. This is particularly true for gasoline prices. Bank loans to consumers have also been reactivated after a long dry spell.
Now, analysts say that consumption will continue to grow in 2015, partly thanks to an income tax cut that will be applied to 2014 revenues. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who faces a tough re-election campaign this year, is forecasting growth of nearly 2.5% for this year.


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SHILLONG: 18 May 2023 (PTI Source)
Farmers and entrepreneurs from eight northeastern states in India have received authorization to use the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for 13 agricultural products.
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The North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC) will forward the user authorization applications to the Geographical Indication Registry, Chennai. According to Commodore Rajiv Ashok, Managing Director of NERAMAC, this initiative is a significant step towards promoting and protecting the traditional agricultural practices and products of the northeast region. The authorisation process is expected to enhance the competitiveness of farmers in domestic and international markets and create opportunities for increased income and livelihood.


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Shailesh Rao exits Twitter as VP Asia Pacific, Latin America & Emerging Markets
Shailesh Rao has stepped down as the Vice President for Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets at Twitter, Inc.
“We thank Shailesh for his contributions and leadership over the past four years. He built up our international business across Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets into our fastest-growing user and revenue region today. He has hired and developed strong local teams across these markets, as well as opened dozens of offices worldwide, to serve our users, partners and advertisers. We wish him all the best and we will continue to hire and invest in the high-growth Asia Pacific region.” Said a Twitter spokesperson confirming the news to exchange4media.
Rao served as Vice President of International Revenue at Twitter, Inc. since joining in April 2012.
Prior to joining Twitter, Rao was associated with Alphabet Inc. as the Director of local search. He served as Managing Director of Media & Platforms at Google India Private Limited from March 2007 to February 2012. He also served as Managing Director of Sales and Operations at Google India Private Limited and managed Google's domestic business and strategic partnerships in India.
Rao earned the prestigious Google Founder's Award for his role in the development of Google Maps and Google Earth. He also played a leadership role in the growth of Google's YouTube business globally as Vice President for the YouTube and Display businesses across Asia Pacific. In January 2012, he was named the Internet Professional of the Year 2011 at IAMAI's 2nd India Digital Awards. Rao has dual undergraduate degrees in Economics and History from the University of Pennsylvania with Honors and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management.
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Generally analysts predict Budget 2016 to be more neutral as compared to last year’s Jubilee budget, however remaining accommodative in order to help ease the strain of the economic slowdown. Some business federations and organizations such as the Singapore International Chambers of Commerce (SICC) and the Singapore Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) have made their recommendations.
Do not fret if you have not managed to view or read some of the recommendations, as we will give you a sneak into Budget 2016 based on recommendations we’ve seen.
Many tax experts have proposed a tweak to the GST threshold to help offset the projected increase in social spending. Currently, only companies with an annual turnover of $1million and above are required to register for GST. By making more companies pay the GST, it’ll be able to boost revenue collection, thus providing an additional source of income for the government. This can be done if the government considers lowering the GST threshold per annum.
Ernst & Young (EY) in its recommendations published on the Singapore Business Review, have also urged the government to consider imposing the GST rules to overseas service provider, particularly for those who do their businesses through digital means citing that such transactions create a GST leakage and also a price disadvantage to domestic suppliers, as a result creating an uneven playing field.
Broaden Avenues to Assist Firms Restructure
The key challenge almost all business owners face; seems to be the inevitable restructuring of their companies because of rising competition and technological advances. Although the government continues to encourage them to find global growth opportunities, its current incentives could be broaden and focused on rewarding growth.
As many SMEs have just embarked on their productivity journey, enhancements to the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme such that it is granted based on productivity gains will encourage even more SMEs to strive greater productivity. SMEs will immensely benefit if the government is able to enhance such schemes, especially so to help these firms through the headwinds.
Enhance Access to Foreign Capital and Finance
The safe harbour rule exempts gains’ made from disposal of investments in equities from tax, and this exemption is due to expire in 2017. Making the safe harbour rule permanent will benefit SMEs who seek the support of foreign equity while at the same time provide investors with certainty that the capital gains will not be taxed, ultimately helping these firms plan for the long-term.
Other recommendations look into tweaking tax rates, extension of the foreign worker levy and a review of the Entrepass Scheme.
As this is the first year for the new term of government since last September’s General Elections, the government is likely to be ‘particularly prudent’ with the Budget. But we are optimistic that the Budget 2016 will have the quintessential key drivers to transform Singapore’s value added economy to a value creating economy, and eventually bolster this island nation’s position as the undisputed business hub in the region.