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The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - The Complete First Season News
Video How Telltale Nailed The Walking Dead's Opening Scene
A quiet start to the apocalypse
Telltale’s The Walking Dead is 10 years old this week (welp!) and we’ve been reminiscing on its fantastic post-apocalyptic story. Within a span of just five episodes, players around the world came to love the wholesome father/daughter relationship between survivors Lee and Clementine. There are a lot of memorable...
News The Walking Dead Won't Be Stumbling onto PS4 for Another Week in Europe
The walking delay
You may recall that a few weeks ago Telltale Games' popular The Walking Dead series was finally confirmed to be releasing on the PlayStation 4 after a seemingly endless string of rumours. Well, erm, if you live in Europe, and were planning on spending your weekend playing your way through the title, we've got some bad news. The...
News Telltale's The Walking Dead, Er, Walks onto PS4 on 24th October
It's about Clemen-time
The Walking Dead has seemingly been shambling onto the PlayStation 4 for months now. However, after an almost endless run of rumours, developer Telltale Games has confirmed that the title will be launching for the super system on 24th October. To be clear, both seasons will be released separately, in digital and
Rumour Are The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us Coming to PS4 Before Christmas?
It's about Clemen-time
You could never accuse Telltale Games of not working hard enough. The supremely talented developer, which recently announced Borderlands and Game of Thrones projects, is also bringing its two most popular zombie and werewolf themed franchises to the PlayStation 4. We were already aware of the ports, but new
News Yes, You'll Be Able to Play The Walking Dead on the PS4 Soon
The Wolf Among Us also bringing next-gen problem solving
In an announcement that certainly won’t shock you like a shuffling corpse, Telltale Games has confirmed that The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us are coming to the PlayStation 4. You’ll be able to buy both seasons of the aforementioned undead adventure at retail later this year, while...
News Here's More Proof That The Walking Dead Is Coming to PS4
Like the stench of a rotting corpse, rumours regarding a PlayStation 4 port of Telltale Games’ award winning The Walking Dead series refuse to die down. Hot on the heels of a GameStop listing in North America, British retailer Amazon.co.uk has now added a product page for the next-gen re-release, which includes a 25


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Statement from Natural Products Association (NPA) Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Cara Welch, Ph.D., about the pending release of new dietary ingredients (NDI) guidance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
“The Natural Products Association thanks Senators Orrin Hatch and Tom Harkin for their letter to the FDA commissioner expressing their support for the upcoming NDI guidance and reminding the FDA that Congress will be closely watching how this affects industry and consumers. We too welcome this guidance.
NPA expects the guidance, scheduled to be released by July 5, to offer clarity to dietary supplement manufacturers and consumers on the FDA’s expectations regarding the marketing of new dietary ingredients. It’s important for the industry to know FDA’s thinking in this area to ensure that our members can continue to provide products made from ingredients on the market prior to the passage of DSHEA. This was and remains Congress’s clear intent.
We are doing our part to educate the industry. On July 8, NPA will host a webinar conference call, “NDI Guidance: What You Need to Know,” for our members and the industry. Speakers will be the director of the FDA’s Division of Dietary Supplement Programs; the head of the Global Life Sciences Team at Sidley Austin LLP, who was also a major contributor to the drafting of DSHEA; and an NPA expert who specializes in regulatory, safety, nutrition and health issues.
The speakers plan to discuss the guidance and the potential impact on the industry. NPA will continue to provide educational resources about the NDI guidance for the industry and our members.”
For more information about the webinar, visit www.npainfo.org/events.
Natural Products Association
The Natural Products Association (NPA), founded in 1936, is the largest and oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to the natural products industry. NPA represents over 1,900 members accounting for more than 10,000 locations of retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors of natural products, including foods, dietary supplements, and health/beauty aids. As the leading voice of the natural products industry, the NPA’s mission is to advocate for the rights of consumers to have access to products that will maintain and improve their health, and for the rights of retailers and suppliers to sell these products. Visit www.NPAInfo.org.

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Sirius XM Radio Inc. reported record revenue for the second quarter as it signed up more subscribers for its satellite radio service. Earnings dropped compared to a year ago when the company recorded a big tax benefit.
The New York-based company said Thursday that revenue jumped 12%, to $940.1 million, from the same quarter last year.
Sirius XM earned $125.5 million, or 2 cents per share, in the three months that ended June 30. In the same quarter a year ago, it made $3.1 billion, or 48 cents per share, thanks to a nearly $3 billion tax benefit.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 2 cents per share and revenue of $935.3 million, according to FactSet.
Sirius XM picked up 715,762 subscribers in the second quarter, up from the 622,042 subscribers added in the same quarter a year ago. It was the largest gain in subscribers since the end of 2007. It now has a record 25.1 million subscribers, up 9% from a year ago. The company expects to add a total of 1.5 million subscribers this year.
Sirius XM expects revenue of over $3.7 billion this year. Analysts estimate revenue of $3.78 billion for the year, according to FactSet.
With its strong cash position, the company has flexibility to pursue "capital returns, debt repurchases, and acquisitions," said David Frear, SiriusXM's chief financial officer, in a statement.
Sirius XM shares added about 1.5% to trade at $3.74 in afternoon trading.


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Exclusive outtakes from industry leaders
Ustian said the current slowdown has been worse and deeper than expected — even though the trucking industry had a sense that things were starting to go south as far back as 2007.
Ustian, one of our featured guests on the first day of the summit, told Reuters that the trucking industry is a great place for people to start if they want to get a good read on the economy. Most things that are made in the U.S. get where they’re going with the help of a truck somewhere along the way.
The breadth of the company’s businesses supports his view.
Navistar is a manufacturer of commercial trucks, IC Bus, LLC (IC) brand buses, MaxxForce brand diesel engines, Workhorse Custom Chassis, LLC (WCC) brand chassis for motor homes and step vans, Navistar Defense, LLC military vehicles, and is a provider of service parts for all makes of trucks and trailers. Additionally, it also designs and manufactures diesel engines for pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs.
The Reuters Middle East Investment Summit in Dubai was hit by the whirlwind visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown across the Gulf as he looked to drum up support for ailing British firms and convince Gulf investors the IMF’s bailout fund was a safe place to put their cash. After courting Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, it was a fleeting visit to the region’s commercial hub Dubai. As his motorcade flew passed the world’s tallest tower But hark…we have seen this before. President George Bush headed to the United Arab Emirates more than a year ago. But that’s where the similarities stop. For Mr Bush, Dubai ground to a halt. Chaos ensued. Streets were closed. Workers sent home. The President was in town, so that was that. Fast forward November 4, 2008. Mr Brown is here. Dubai is business as usual, although The Prime Minister’s motorcade did delay a speaker for the Reuters summit. Perhaps the credit crunch has meant random days off are no longer on the Dubai agenda……. unless you’re the President of course.
Super-wealthy individuals in commodity-rich areas such as Russia and the Middle East are reaping the benefits of a five-year boom in oil and other commodity prices.


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Consumer confidence has risen this month, the second monthly increase in a row, the national statistics office CBS said on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, there are still more pessimists than optimists, the CBS said. In particular, consumers are less negative about the economic prospects for the next 12 months.
In March the consumer confidence index reached a record low of minus 34. The number of optimists has not outweighed pessimists since August 2007, the CBS said.
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Odaseva is a cloud data management platform that provides technology for managing mission-critical business applications, including data protection, compliance, and operations management for more than 10 million Salesforce users around the world and has plans to expand into new markets.
Founded in Paris in 2012 the company bootstrapped itself for seven years on $2 million in seed funding and a steady flow of large Salesforce customers seeking data governance and protection solutions.
In anticipation of expanding beyond its currently exclusive Salesforce base, the company raised a Series A funding round of $11.7 million in February, led by Partech with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and existing investor Serena. The round brought total funding in San Francisco-based Odaseva to about $14 million.
I recently spoke with the company's CEO and founder, Sovan Bin and asked him how the company got started and its plans for the future:
I was lead technical architect for Salesforce in Paris between 2006 and 2012 working with Fortune 500 companies to help them secure their projects from a technical perspective. Several of my customers at the same time came up with the same analysis,which is that they wanted to bring the maturity of the data management processes related to data governance they had on-premises to the cloud. They wanted to protect their data and accelerate compliance.
We didn't find a solution while I was at Salesforce. But, our first customer at Odaseva was Schneider Electric, the giant French multinational, which has a large and complex Salesforce implementation. We worked closely with the company to develop apps that would address two major aspects of data security - the integrity and the availability of it.
The first two of Odaseva's Data Governance solutions were aimed at addressing those concerns by automating the processes of protecting data. Backup & Restore for Salesforce automates the optimal strategies to protect data at a fraction of the cost while Archiving for Salesforce automate the Salesforce data lifecycle for compliance and performance. Said Bin:
Our data backup and restore solution helps prevent data loss worth $158m for one million records for companies like Schneider Electric, Toyota, Heineken, and General Electric while assuring compliance with regulations and company security policies. Our Comply with Regulation and Company security policy. Our archiving solution helps large organizations comply with regulations while reducing performance issues because of large data volumes and lowering Salesforce storage costs.
Backup is different in the cloud where cloud vendors are responsible for the data centers where if there is an incident at their center, the vendors are going to recover it. But customers remain responsible for the data on their application and this is what we provide, backup for their data on their site.
As GDPR and many other data regulations began gathering force, Schneider Electric again turned to Odaseva for a Data Compliance solution that would automate such thorny issues as users' access to the data and data life cycle; portability and the right to be forgotten; and security issues like pseudonymization and anonymization, data resilience & breach detection.
The result was Odaseva's Data Compliance for Salesforce applications which accelerates and reduces the TCO of GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA compliance on the Salesforce platform. Said Bin:
Data privacy has become really important for consumers and for customers in general and while GDPR started the trend, there are many more initiatives regarding data privacy everywhere in the world. We've already developed an app to address the California Consumer Protection Act that goes into effect next January 1. So it's just the beginning. All of our customers are now responsible for the data privacy of their own customers and this is why we work on this to help do that.
For example, our all-in-one cloud data management platform has the flexibility to integrate with any other system or application that touches a customer's data by exposing an API. If a customer requests access to personal data, the fact that it's stored in the cloud, on-premises - even in a legacy database - is no obstacle.
Bin is a strong advocate of the principles of Privacy by Design, which is a framework based on proactively embedding privacy into the design and operation of IT systems, networked infrastructure, and business practices. Research has shown that enterprises that take a comprehensive approach in which globally defined risks to both security and privacy are anticipated in advance and countermeasures are built into systems and operations by design are most likely to meet the regulatory requirements in most jurisdictions. Its basic principles are the same as Security by Design. Said Bin:
Security by Design is something that has emerged as a best practice over the years as something that should always apply because security is about everyone. It's not just the IT department. It's a mindset where it's always about protecting the business around the three layers of confidentiality, availability, and integrity. Privacy by Design is exactly the same. You should apply this concept at every layer of your processes. It's not something that should only concern IT and lawyers. Everyone in the company should be aware of it.
To reach its market objectives, Odaseva will direct a portion of the new funding to build on existing sales and technology partnerships with Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, and Deloitte. The company also plans to double employee headcount in 2019.
Odaseva's solution can extend to any enterprise - whether in a regulated industry requiring GDPR or California Consumer Privacy Act compliance or in any market where data privacy directives are core to an organization's mission.
Bin is reluctant to reveal specific plans for expanding the company's footprint beyond Salesforce but notes that there is a need to protect and accelerate compliance across every industry and that Odaseva has initiatives in development. Look for announcements in the next few months.
In a category that is growing at double digits, Odaseva's prospects look exceptionally bright. Thanks to its adoption into the Salesforce ecosystem seven years ago, the company has grown steadily without a lot of investor capital. Its compliance automation tools are solid and have been well-tested by many large companies.
In addition to experience, maturity and a huge headstart on rivals, Odaseva has a couple of other key advantages. The first is in the fact that it addresses data management, including backing data up, ensuring it is compliant, and managing from an operations viewpoint, as part of a single platform.
The second is that Odaseva is plug-and-play SaaS, with no need for developers. That's a lot to like.


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‘MotoGP17’ videogame players can battle each other online for the ultimate prize; four wheels (?!)
eSports have been picking up the pace within the public consciousness for years, and now – finally – motorcycle videogame racers are going to have the chance to race each other online in a global championship. It’s a global search to find the MotoGP online champion.
And then they’ll win a BMW M240i (?!)
The structure of the championship is a simple one. There will be seven online time trials on PlayStation4 throughout the season, and the top sixteen fastest players will then qualify for a live final to be broadcast across Dorna’s TV partners (so probably BTSport if you’re here in the UK).
And then the MotoGP online champion will get the keys to a brand new BMW M240i (?!)
Online racing competitions aren’t new of course. WRC, Project Cars and Gran Turismo all have successful championships. But the people behind MotoGP are hoping to be up there competing and potentially overtaking them in popularity soon,
“We know what the final goal is – we want to, in a few years, become the most important eSports racing championship”, says Andrea Loiudice, marketing manager for the MotoGP’17 videogame, “we think Dorna’s involvement is the key. In the first year, we’re making small steps to reach the goal, and we’re not expecting to have huge results straight away, but we think Dorna’s involvement and their idea of what they want to achieve is cool.”
So how will they make the difference? Milestone – the game developer – think they’ve found the secret,
“One of the problems with racing eSports – and we have watched a lot – is that the show is poor. When you see a race on TV, you see a lot of different things – replays, lots of different cameras. But when you see racing eSports, it’s a poor show, and this is an area that we are working on very hard with the directors of Dorna who put the show on TV.
We’re working on the kind of show that we want to put together for the final races, and that will be a big improvement for racing games.”
For the first year, there won’t be a whole championship however, instead racers will compete in the Red Bull Rookies Cup before progressing to Moto3 and through to Moto2. Only then will the best of the best make it through to racing in the MotoGP class for the final.
MotoGP’17 itself is released on June 15th, so if this sounds like the kind of thing you’ll be interested in, you’ve got a few weeks of practice time in before the competition begins in earnest.
One thing is bothering us though. Why, WHY is a car the ultimate prize in what has the potential to attract and bring in a whole new generation of motorcycle riders? Surely a manufacturer – even BMW – could have put up a vehicle with two wheels as the ultimate, lust-worthy goal?
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Luxury environment, the overall turmoil also caused no small impact on Hermes. At present, Hermes is the only one to provide sales growth forecast specific data of the European luxury brands. Hermes CEO Axel Dumas said in a press conference on Wednesday, the current economic environment and the exchange rate are unstable, the Group will no longer be issued annual forecast data, but he stressed that the Group’s goal will remain locked out as the broader market.
Axel Dumas, the brand in Nice, Ghana and Paris, the three places in the sale of July 14 after the terrorist attacks hit, a large number of tourists turned to Milan and London to buy luxury goods, the group’s sales caused no small impact .
Although declined to disclose in July and August Hermes sales, Axel Dumas said that the trend will continue in the second quarter to the third quarter.
In July’s second-quarter earnings report, Hermes expects comparable-year sales to be lower than the previously established medium-term growth target (+ 8%), compared to + 10% two years ago.
The market that, Hermes lower annual sales growth is expected, which means that the luxury industry leader in the future return to normal from high growth.
In the first half of the end of June, Hermes sales revenue of 24.4 billion euros, according to the same exchange rate increased by 7%, net profit of 545 million euros, an increase of 13%, sales in mainland China continued to rise, Hong Kong and Macau And no impact on the market. Leather goods and horses with an increase of 16%, the most prominent performance, due to the new producers and production facilities, leather goods and harness production capacity increased by 8%.


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COLUMBUS, Wis. — When you hear “America’s Dairyland” or “cheeseheads” — these words are synonymous with Wisconsin and illustrate how the state’s dairy products enrich our lives.
During June Dairy Month, get a behind-the-scenes look into Sassy Cow Creamery, just north of Sun Prairie, Wis., to experience the cow-to-creamery story of one area dairy farm.
Attendees will take in “a day in the life on the dairy” at the Baerwolf family farm by seeing firsthand how cows produce milk that is made into award-winning ice cream and bottled into organic and traditional milk fresh from the dairy.
Every day, it’s all about the cows at Sassy Cow Creamery, and during June Dairy Month, you can salute the 500 dairy cows speckling the rural landscape at the Baerwolf family farm. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 23, this farmstead creamery welcomes the entire family to the farm. See the dairy cows producing milk, meet a baby calf, tour the farmstead creamery and enjoy delicious local, award-winning Sassy Cow Creamery favorites from premium ice cream to cheese curds.
Indulge in homegrown favorites from premium ice cream to sipping all-new, low-fat chocolate milk while experiencing firsthand a dairy farm.
“Enjoy a day of summer on the farm while savoring the tastes of Sassy Cow Creamery and local foods,” said James Baerwolf, along with his brother, Robert Baerwolf. “It’s a family fun day at our dairy and farmstead creamery celebrating how Wisconsin’s $26.5 billion dairy industry enriches the lives of all consumers and brings a full-circle connection to the source of their dairy products — the cows.”
The whole family can take in hands-on learning activities and local dairy tastes, including:
• Farm tour and hay ride — Take in the scenic rural landscape amid the farm with a family hay ride.
• Creamery tours — Dairy-lovers can see how milk is produced by the Baerwolf family two dairy herds and then bottled into organic and traditional milk or made into award-winning premium ice cream.
• Meet the family farm’s newest baby calf.
• Sample new Sassy Cow Creamery Low Fat Chocolate Milk and dairy tastes.
• Taste award-winning Wisconsin cheeses, including Cesar’s Cheese, hand-stretched mozzarella cheese crafted in Wisconsin the authentic Mexican Way; Crave Brother Farmstead Cheeses — a few of the 600 varieties, types and styles of Wisconsin cheese.
• Nordic Creamery artisan hand-crafted flavored butters including Cinnamon-Sugar, Maple Syrup and Garlic and Basil — all made in the Coulee region of western Wisconsin.
• Sample local dairy products from Sugar Brook, Sugar River Dairy and Noble View Dairy.
• Kids’ contests including a coloring contest and pedal tractors.
• Country Kettle Corn — offers fresh, irresistible kettle corn and deep-fried cheese curds.
Sassy Cow Creamery is owned and operated by third-generation dairy producers brothers James and Robert Baerwolf and their families. Visitors at the farmstead facility can follow the milk from cow to creamery as they watch traditional and organic milk bottling and premium ice cream making through a viewing window.
Sassy Cow Creamery will host a Summer Farm Celebration July 21 and Ice Cream Social Aug. 25.
Sassy Cow Creamery’s on-farm retail store is at W4192 Bristol Road, Columbus, Wis., 15 minutes north of Madison, Wis. Just north of Sun Prairie off Highway N., take Highway 151 north from Madison, Wis., to Bristol Road/Hwy. N. (exit 103), at stop sign turn left and Sassy Cow is 6 miles on the left side.
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The 10 million figure from the likes of Xiaomi isn’t very surprising, but the company has set a new record for itself. Xiaomi has made history once again, selling more than 10 million units of smartphones, all in a single month. Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun has previously revealed that the company has shipped a total of 23.16 million smartphones in Q2 2017, which makes this current record even more impressive.
Just last week, the Chinese manufacturer has boasted more than 1 million handsets sold in India via a huge sale held by local online retailers. This shows Xiaomi’s significant presence in Asian markets. Along with Xiaomi’s announcement on MIUI forums, it has also opened the 7th Mi Home store in India, to cater to the huge smartphone consumer market.
Xiaomi is also currently in discussion to dive in deeper into another potential market – our neighbors Indonesia. The company has recently unveiled the Mi Note 3 and the Mi MIX 2. It has also rebranded the Mi 5X for an Android One counterpart known as the Mi A1. Let’s hope that Xiaomi will continue to succeed.


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Google to Get Into Music?
After iTunes acquired and promptly shut down Lala, many expected an announcement that iTunes would migrate to the cloud with Apple’s latest music event. Since that failed to happen the attention has now shifted to Google, who is rumored to be quietly building a service to compete with the current King of Mp3. The product is expected to utilize the cloud, and like Lala will allow everyone to stream each song once for free. Purportedly the killer service is sharing of playlists, which combined with the one free stream could be a killer feature. But can Google put together a package attractive enough for labels to switch teams from iTunes to Google? We’ll believe it when we see it.
Has the iPad Killed Notebooks?
Last week Fortune published an article on decline of the the notebook market and with the announcement of the iPad. The article points out that since January, retail sales of notebook computers have gone from 35% growth to -4% growth. Big retailers are even noticing a trend– Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn even stated in the Wall Street Journal that ” internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.” Since publication Dunn redacted his comment and Best Buy released a statement, but the aftershock of the iPad on the current computer market (and the rapidly developing tablet one) is too large to be ignored.
App Store Sales to Overtake iTunes sales?
Since its release in September of 2008, the Apple app store has enjoyed wild success. But a recent report by Aysmco shows that in terms of total downloads, the App store has totaled the same sales in 2.2 years that took iTunes 5 years to accomplish. By this estimate, app downloads will overtake song downloads by the end of the year.


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The Federal Reserve (Fed) again raised policy rates by 75 basis points (bps), now to a range of 2.25%–2.50%. We think its hiking path will be slower from here, although we disagree with market pricing that suggests rate cuts as soon as next year.
We believe investors should avoid getting ahead of themselves and expect continued volatility, adding exposure selectively on a sector and security basis.
From zero to “neutral” in just four months
Rates are now at the Fed’s median projection of the long-term "neutral" rate at 2.5%. This is a remarkable turnaround — “expeditious” in Chair Powell’s own words — considering they were at the zero-bound just four months ago.
As such, we believe further hikes this year will likely be of lower magnitude. While we almost assuredly have not seen the peak in rates, we have potentially seen peak hawkishness. Markets currently expect a 50bps hike at the next meeting in September. From there, we currently expect only 25bps hikes at most at subsequent meetings this year. We expect policy rates to peak at ~3.75%.
Figure 1: The Fed is rapidly catching up to policy rates implied by the Taylor Rule
Source: Bloomberg, Insight calculations, July 2022
Peak hawkishness does not mean imminent dovishness
Markets are currently projecting rate cuts next year. We disagree with the markets here and see rate cuts as a long way off as we expect inflation to remain high (above 5%) until at least the second quarter 2023. Chairman Powell made clear in his press conference on July 27, 2022, that bringing down inflation is the Fed’s clear, overriding priority.
The market appears to consider recession risks as a reason for future rate cuts. However, the Fed’s aim is to slow growth and normalize frothy financial conditions, so achieving those goals (in and of themselves) is, in our view, unlikely to be enough to spark rate cuts.
Further, although recession is a risk, we do not see it as a done deal. Economic conditions are starting from a strong position.
Indeed, Powell emphasized the need to slow growth from its too-hot pace. For example, although rate hikes have helped slow the housing market, home sales are still consistent with pre-pandemic levels (Figure 2).
Figure 2: Existing home sales have fallen, but are still at pre-pandemic levels
Source: Bloomberg, July 2022
Similar can be said for consumer balance sheets. Although much as been made of recent reported upticks in credit card delinquencies over the last year, these comparisons are being made against this time last year, when many U.S. consumers received $1,400 stimulus checks. Delinquencies are still solidly lower today than they were pre-pandemic (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Credit card delinquencies are still lower than the pre-pandemic period
Source: Bloomberg, Insight, July 2022
Inflation expectations add to the case for gentler rate hikes
Although inflation has yet to moderate, the good news for the Fed is that inflation expectations are moderating, indicating rising confidence in the job the central bank is doing. Markets are now projecting close to target inflation levels, and consumer expectations have moved sharply in the right direction (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Inflation expectations make an “inflation trap” less of a danger
Source: Bloomberg, July 2022
This will likely make policymakers more comfortable about avoiding a 1970s-like inflation expectations trap (a continuous feedback loop whereby people pull forward consumption thinking inflation will keep rising).
Further, recent declines in gas prices, improving semiconductor supply, and base effects will likely provide the Fed additional comfort.
In our view, this makes it less likely that the Fed will need to raise rates so aggressively that rate cuts will be needed by next year.
Investors should avoid getting ahead of themselves
In 2018 and 2019, the Fed pivoted abruptly, moving from hiking to cutting cycles over just seven months. The economic cycle has been playing even faster since the pandemic hit in 2020, with a sharp recession followed by equally sharp recovery.
However, as monetary policy finally returns to a semblance of historical “normalcy,” the speed of the cycle might finally be returning to something closer to normal too.
We believe one important thing for investors is to do is avoid getting ahead of themselves. Rates are still rising for now and quantitative tightening continues in the background. We believe volatility is still inevitable, particularly given geopolitical considerations.
However, given the significant repricing in credit markets, we believe corporate credit market pricing is delivering opportunities to selectively add credit exposure.


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A plant-based supermarket has shown off what it describes as the ‘world’s biggest plant-based fridge’ after a boom in sales forced the company to move to much bigger premises.
TheVeganKind.com is an e-commerce company founded in 2013 by husband and wife team Karris and Scott McCulloch in 2013.
The business – which initially launched a subscription box service, then expanded to include an online supermarket – has seen sales explode since lockdown, forcing it to move to a warehouse with triple the floor space of its former premises.
Biggest vegan fridge’
As part of the new premises, it has a 2,145 square foot refrigerator, which it says can hold stock of up to 100,000 chilled vegan products at any one time.
The Vegan Kind believes it is ‘possibly the biggest fridge in the world dedicated solely to retailing vegan goods’.
Speaking about the company’s expansion in a statement sent to Plant Based News, Scott McCulloch said there was ‘no way we could have predicted the impact that Covid-19 was going to have on our business’.
The sales spike caused by the pandemic allowed the company to expand more quickly than anticipated. McCulloch added that while The Vegan Kind had not planned to move warehouse, the team realized that ‘the business couldn’t have coped with any more increased demand in its current premises’.
He added: “The new warehouse is huge and will allow us to process so many more orders. We don’t plan on moving now for the next five years at least – but never say never.”


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Doha Bank to inaugurate India branch in Kochi on August 27
Doha – Doha Bank will open the state-of-the-art India branch in Kerala’s Kochi on August 27. The branch will be located at the Lulu shopping mall at Edapally.
The branch will be inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the presence of senior government functionaries from Kerala, businessmen from Qatar, the chairman, managing director, board members of Doha Bank, executive management and prominent local corporates who have business interest in GCC and across the globe, the bank said in a release on Wednesday.
Doha Bank commenced its operations in Mumbai, India’s financial hub on April 29, 2015 at Sakhar Bhavan and has been providing full-fledged banking services which includes corporate banking, retail banking, treasury, trade finance and foreign exchange services to its customers.
The bank provides technology driven customer centric solutions like Internet banking, mobile banking, app-based solutions, instant e-remittances solutions 24/7 ~from GCC countries to its India branches through the RTGS and NEFT platform to any of the 85,000 bank branches in India and offers ATM connectively through an extended network in India.
The bank said in a statement that it is focused on the GCC trade flows and poised to be the bank of choice for the”GCC based Non-resident Indians” mainly from Kerala and the business community who are based in the GCC countries and India.
The bank has its operations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and India besides its representative offices in Singapore, London, Turkey, Korea, Tokyo, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Bangladesh, China, Frankfurt, Sharjah and Hong Kong.


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New 2014 Toyota Harrier returned. After skipping a generation Japanese manufacturer today with several official pictures and short press statement announced the new Harrier. This new SUV should appear on the market later this year.
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A former Google executive, Sandberg may be questioned as part of an antitrust case against Google, Apple, and other tech players.
Apple's top executive will be deposed by the Department of Justice in its e-books antitrust case against the company.
Cook may have to testify in the case accusing Apple of conspiring with other publishers to hike e-book prices, Bloomberg reports.
Hyong Shin Park has said that Samsung phones were inspired by a "bowl of water" and not the iPhone. Apple argues that Park's testimony isn't relevant.
Susan Kare, the graphic designer who created some of the interface designs and best known graphics for the original Mac OS, is scheduled to appear in the patent case.
Shin Nishibori, a key witness in the Apple vs Samsung trial, has turned down a subpoena to appear in court on the advice on counsel.
Google petitions the highest court in the country to overturn a previous appeals court ruling favoring Oracle, which in itself overturned a mixed bag of earlier district court rulings.
The Google-Oracle legal battle continues today as Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt arrives to defend the Android development team and their use of Java.
A Florida man stands accused of killing a friend. Early reports inaccurately suggested that he might have performed a Siri search about how to hide a body, but other evidence from the defendant's phone is being used in court.
Messages sent by hundreds of accounts testify to dramatic weight loss and link to same suspicious site pedaling diet pills.


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Many analysts think the Fed will keep paring its support at each of its meetings this year until it eliminates new bond purchases entirely in December. In making the announcement Wednesday of another $10 billion reduction in bond purchases, the Fed cited an improving economy, including more strength in consumer and business spending.
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For December, prices measured by an inflation gauge tied to consumer spending rose a modest 0.2 percent, compared with November, and were up just 1.1 percent for the entire year, well below the Fed's 2 percent inflation target.
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Of the three models displayed, the G1F8F is probably destined for the U.S. market as it supports the most LTE and sub-6GHz 5G bands according to Android Police. According to the FCC, another difference is that only the G1F8F supports CDMA bands — the other two models have CDMA disabled in software/firmware. According to the most recent rumors concerning the Pixel 5a, it might not represent as significant a leap over the Pixel 4a as its name would suggest. According to references in earlier Android 12 Developer Previews, the Pixel 5a will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC, the same one used on the Pixel 4a 5G.
Google vowed to release a new mid-range smartphone for consumers, even though the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are the most anticipated handsets the firm will release this year. Google unexpectedly decided to affirm months in advance that it was preparing to launch the smartphone later this year for the United States and Japan after a rumour suggested that the Pixel 5a was scrapped for this year. We now know that the Pixel 5a stopped at the Federal Communications Commission on its way to the American market (FCC). In total, three models with sub-6GHz 5G bands—G1F8F, GR0M2, and G4S1M—appeared before the FCC. Google, however, does not support this mid-range tablet.
We hoped that Google would use the newly announced Snapdragon 778G SoC, Qualcomm’s latest mid-range 5G SoC. This 8-core SoC is more performant than the 765G, is built on the 6nm process node, and uses a Snapdragon X53 5G modem. However, if it’s true that performance won’t improve year-over-year, we wonder what Google will do to differentiate the Pixel 5a from its Pixel 4a 5G successor. With that said, if you need more power, the aforementioned Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are expected to bring flagship performance with the Snapdragon 888 SoC along with flagship-worthy features (120Hz QHD+ display, wireless charging, in-display fingerprint reader). If the Snapdragon 888 is a no-go, another rumor claims that Google will use its homegrown Whitechapel SoC. The Pixel 5a and Pixel 6/6 Pro are expected to launch at a Google hardware event this fall.


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Apple, Amazon and Google Look to Conquer the Internet With New Domain Names
It is supposed to be the largest expansion of the internet since ".com" was introduced. Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) shared an extensive list of organizations that submitted proposed new domain names. At a cost of $185,000 per proposal, ICANN is expected to collect well over $357 million from this new expansion.
Competition between organizations will likely heat up as we can expect to see companies continue to expand into new online frontiers. ICANN received 1,930 applications from around the world, including domain names in Arabic, Chinese, and Cryllic. Some of the world’s wealthiest and most established companies have submitted applications, including Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Google submitted over 100 applications alone for domain names including .book, .docs, .phd, and .blog. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, explained Google’s applications focus on trademarks and current business lines.
The plans for expansion will undoubtedly bring in significant revenue for ICANN. The body’s president and CEO considers the expansion an opportunity to unleash innovation among corporations and help take the internet to a new level of accessibility and opportunity. Many companies – particularly the ones in strong financial condition that have the money to spend – agree with the opportunities this could present. However, the expansion brings with it one major issue: companies and organizations essentially need to spend their money just to protect their own brands and trademarks.
For the average Joe and Jill, this expansion does not look like it will improve navigation, surfing, innovation or the internet experience. It will, however, increase confusion when consumers try to do what they know the internet for best: search.
The expansion also runs the risk of increasing the amount of spam and cybercrime. There are numerous issues across the Web, including phishing and malware, which would only be further exacerbated if a limitless expansion of the Internet occurs without proper management. Before ICANN embarks on what could be a 1,000% increase in domain names, it needs to seriously evaluate the impact that expansion could have on cyber security and the overall Internet experience. At the end of this all, one thing remains sure – we will have a lot more than the current 22 domain names (.com, .org, .edu, .gov, etc.).
Is this the next big .lol or are you ready to see .coke and .cloud? (Those were actually applications)


text: A few days back, we reported about the HTC One. It is now rumored that the HTC One will be launched on March 22nd. According to website HTC Source, the phone will be launched on Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Information about a possible contract with Verizon has not been given. The phone will have a 32GB version priced at $199 on a standard contract. For all those users who want that extra bit of memory, a 64 GB version will also be made available at a price of $299. It will come out in two colors. Black and White and the second option is rumored to be silver. The phone will have a metallic casing with stereo speakers in the front. The specs are: a 4.7 inch 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core CPU, a 13 megapixel camera, 2 GB of RAM with Jelly Beans and Sense 5. We should have more concrete details on February 19th, when HTC is expected to hold a press conference.


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Avnet, which is a Phoenix, Arizona headquartered technology solutions company, announced on Tuesday that right now, it works with Bitpay, to accept crypto payments for its products, as well as services which include Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
Avnet adds support for cryptocurrency payments
One of the largest global tech solution providers on the Fortune 500, which was founded in 1921, Avnet is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, as well as embedded solutions in the world.
It actually ranks at number 128 on the Fortune 500 list, and at number 414 on the Fortune Global 500, with the revenues of almost $20 billion a year. The electronics giant has explained that it is adding support for the crypto payments in order to provide its customers with some more convenient ways of completing their financial transactions, so they can then focus on the development of their products – not on how they can pay for them.
Will Avnet attract new blockchain-focused customers?
The Bitpay chief commercial officer, Sonny Singh stated that as one of the largest global tech solution providers on the Fortune 500 list, the company is really an innovative company which listens to the needs of their customers, as it was demonstrated by their decision of accepting Bitcoin payments.
He added that not just is paying with Bitcoin faster, as well as more comfortable than with bank wires or credit cards, it is less expensive, and its acceptance grows. He predicts that Avnet is going to attract a lot of new blockchain-focused customers from all over the world that want to take advantage of the paying in Bitcoin.
The announcement of closing several multi-million-dollar crypto transactions
On Tuesday, Avnet also revealed that it already closed a few multi-million-dollar crypto transactions within the first month of accepting crypto payments. This actually includes working with Bitcoin.com, in order to develop an entirely new hardware wallet which is going to enable crypto storage, as well as provide the highest level of security for transactions.
The way in which the crypto payments service actually works is that when Avnet customer elects to purchase something with Bitcoin Core or BTC, or also with Bitcoin Cash or BCH, the company is going to work with Bitpay, to verify the funds, process the order, as well as complete the transaction.
The two American companies are also going to be able to manage, as well as process crypto requests outside of the United States on a country by country basis.


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The New South Wales wine sector will benefit from a $2 million marketing campaign aimed at boosting international visits to the state’s wine regions, thanks to support from the Australian Government’s $50 million Export and Regional Wine Support Package (the $50m Package) and the New South Wales Government.
The NSW Wine Industry Association (NSWWIA) has secured $1 million in funding through the International Wine Tourism State Grants program and $1 million in matching state funds through the NSW Government to partner with Destination NSW on a targeted international marketing campaign.
The NSWWIA and Destination NSW marketing campaign aims to increase international tourists’ overnight stays in NSW wine regions by 12,000 nights in both 2019 and 2020.
Wine Australia Chief Executive Officer Andreas Clark said the NSW application was approved by the Australian Government following assessment by an independent Expert Assessment Panel.
‘The $5 million state grants program is designed to enhance wine tourism experiences and drive collaboration between key sector partners.
‘Wine is a key driver of international visitors to Australia but there’s a relatively untapped opportunity for the wine sector to focus on wine tourism product development. To grow the visitor economy, we need compelling experiences that go beyond the cellar door.
‘By partnering with Destination NSW on a targeted marketing campaign, the NSWWIA is ensuring the ongoing resilience and competitiveness of the NSW wine tourism sector’, he said.
NSWWIA Executive Officer Angus Barnes said, ‘The strategy targets the four largest markets for international visitor to NSW: China (16 per cent), South Korea (15 per cent), the United Kingdom (14 per cent) and the USA (12 per cent) and it is tailored to individual regional preferences within these markets.
‘We’ll be using critical data to understand current drivers and visit trends, so we can reposition NSW wines and regional experiences with a sophisticated and targeted marketing campaign.
‘Our campaign has two primary goals – to attract more international visitors to our wine regions and to grow the visitor economy by driving overnight stays and increased spending’, he said.
The $5 million International Wine Tourism State Grants program requires applicants to provide matching funding on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Applications under the program are assessed by an independent Expert Assessment Panel, in accordance with the grant guidelines. Grants are approved by the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Hon David Littleproud MP.
More information about the $50m Package is available at erwsp.wineaustralia.com


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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced a partnership with leading online film library MUBI, to bring to PlayStation 3 a new service that will break open the world of independent, international and classic cinema, and introduce PS3 owners to movies outside the mainstream.
MUBI will be a free, downloadable application that gives PS3 owners the key to the ever-expanding film library of MUBI – an incredible online “cinemateque” for movie lovers, packed to the rafters with acclaimed independent, foreign and classic films to stream on demand.
The application will be available to download this Autumn and will offer more than 300 films at launch from directors from Audiard to Zeferelli; and they’re all going to be available to stream directly to your PS3.
Hope the prices aren’t bloated as PS Video Store!
[…] Back in May, Sony announced MUBI, an online film library to break open the world of independent, international and classic cinema, and introduce PS3 owners to movies outside the mainstream. The service will be launching tomorrow in UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. […]


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The recent launch in Zanzibar of Smarta, arguably the most affordable smartphone mobile device in the local market by Zantel, Tanzania’s leading B2B services provider, provides a rare opportunity for its customers.
To most low income bracket customers, Smarta is their first time smartphone possession with advanced and feature-rich digital device at the most affordable price ever in Tanzania’s telecom industry.
Coming at a time when local consumers are price sensitive, the handset allows customers to afford their daily basic needs while at the same time sparing some discretionary income to afford an up-to-the-minute digital device that not only enables them to ‘go digital’ but also raises their reputation and self-esteem-attributes that are socially linked to owning a smartphone.
“We have introduced Smarta in the market to propel affordable access to smartphones while giving people a unique opportunity to enjoy rich experiences presented by the digital lifestyle offered by Zantel through our 4G+ network,” Zantel’s Head of Mobile Business, Aneth Muga said during the launch.
Muga said with the Isles based telco’s 4G network technology, which provides one of the fastest Internet speed in the East African region, Smarta owners will have full access to digital online services like any other smartphone holder.
Granted, the introduction of the cheap smartphone is expected to break the affordability barrier, the major drawback that is associated with limited access to such gadgets in the local market and also serve as the most cost-effective option for underserved areas and low income bracket people, mainly women who are digitally marginalized due to various socio-cultural and economic factors.
Smarta comes with huge benefits to the people, more so in boosting digital literacy and development of digital technology in Tanzania which includes Zanzibar. As Head of Zantel in Zanzibar, Mohammed Mussa said, the telco seeks to, “Foster digital development by facilitating availability of affordable technology across the country.”
Mussa said the new cheap handset is also set to increase ownership of smartphones among Zantel customers who use Ezypesa, Zantel’s mobile financial service, thus further driving the government’s financial inclusion agenda.
“Additionally, it suffices to say that Zantel’s affordable smartphone will boost mobile handset sales in the market by accelerating business investment in the handset’s sales hence allowing customers to have an ideal choice in identifying affordable and trendy gadgets,” Mussa noted.
The launch further broadly speaks to digital inclusion in the country because by serving the previously underserved population, Zantel effectively contributes in accelerating digital access hence spurring the rapid development of the local telecom industry’s entire digital ecosystem.
Retailing at the recommended price of 39,999/-, Smarta, the smart feature phone, is an entirely new device in its category which serves to fortify Zantel’s affordability attribute while at the same time strengthening its role in pioneering digital products and services in the country.
The telecom boasts of other ‘firsts’ in its segment, including being the first to introduce mobile financial services, first to reduce rates on international calls by 60 percent; first to introduce wireless Internet in Tanzania and the first telecom to introduce per second billing in the market.
According to Pew Research Center (2018), Tanzania is one of the fastest smartphone penetrating markets in the Sub-Saharan Africa, a standing that is likely to be buoyed by Zantel’s introduction of Smarta.
SSA’s smartphone adoption, the Pew Centre said, stood at 33 percent last year, as opposed to 15 percent in 2014, which is more than double growth and it’s predicted to equally double by 2025.
“The number of people connected to Internet is likely to continue rising, industry projections suggest that smartphone adoption rate in Sub-Saharan Africa will double by 2025,” the ‘non-partisan American think tank that provides information on demographics,’ noted in its report.


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The event lasted from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. after school on Wednesday. The Food trucks stationed were in the student parking lot located near the large gym. A group of people attended the fundraising, composed of students, family, teachers, and High School Principal, Dr. D'Agostino, who was browsing at the menu of one of the food trucks while conversing with other people.
The three food trucks that made their appearance on Thursday were Short Stop Burger, the Flip Truck, and the Lime Truck. Short Stop Burger sold barbecued food and the Flip Truck sold primarily burgers. The Lime Truck offered various kinds of Mexican food, ranging from carnitas fries to aSweetn' Spicy Steak Taco.
"I got a pulled pork barbecue sandwich. The most amazing barbecue I ever had,"said senior Joe Williams, who had bought a burger at Short Stop Burger.
Ten percent of the funds raised during the event will go to the activities scheduled during the appointed times. The sports that were fundraising on the first day were skating, football, and cheer. Other sports would be fundraised for on different days. Cheer had also set up a table for people who were looking to buy a dessert for two dollars.
According to Ms. Carey Scott, Costa Mesa's Activities Director, the first day of fundraising met up to their expectations.
"I think that it was successful in that it created a nice buzz."
The food trucks also have a history in Costa Mesa, arriving at the OC Fairgrounds every Thursday from 11 p.m. to 2 p.m. to sell their products to people looking to eat a gourmet lunch. The Lime Truck also made an appearance on television on the Food Network. The Lime Truck became victorious over eight other food truck competitors in a show called, "The Great Food Truck Race" and won $100,000.
ASB is hoping that more people would help support Costa Mesa's sports and activities by coming to the next food truck night this December 6.


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Tesla (TSLA) has secured a massive order of 130 Tesla Semi electric trucks from Walmart Canada.
Back in 2017, shortly after the unveiling of the Tesla Semi, Walmart Canada ordered 15 electric trucks from the automaker.
They have been adding to that original order and now almost 3 years later and after the Tesla Semi program was delayed, Walmart has announced that it is expanding its Tesla Semi orders to 130 trucks:
“Walmart Canada is now reserving a total of 130 Tesla Semi trucks, making it one of the largest reservations of electrified trucks in the country. The move comes on the heels of Walmart Canada announcing a major $3.5 billion investment over the next five years aimed to generate significant growth in the business and is aligned with Walmarts global goal to target zero emissions by 2040 announced at Climate Week earlier this month.”
Tesla first started taking reservations with a $5,000 deposit per truck, but it later changed the listed deposit price to $20,000 for a “base reservation” of the production version and the full $200,000 for the “Founders Series” truck.
It means that Walmart would have placed over $2 million in deposits alone for the electric trucks and the total order could be worth over $20 million.
It makes this new order one of the biggest orders to date for the Tesla Semi….


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Serie A giants Juventus have been keen on Atalanta’s Teun Koopmeiners and La Dea have now set their asking price for the Netherlands international.
It has been reported recently that Juve will move for Koopmeiners in the summer, having already identified their targets for the transfer window. Marco Conterio has reported about the future of Koopmeiners, confirming that the Bianconeri remain highly interested in the midfielder.
The Juve sporting director Cristiano Guintoli tried to sign Koopmeiners even during his time at Napoli, but a move didn’t materialise. He will try again in the summer, with the report saying that La Dea have made it clear that they only want a cash deal to sell the player and they want over €50 million to sell him.
While Atalanta had made it clear in January that they would not sell him but there is a possibility that a sale in the summer is likely. Juve though, are considering adding Matias Soule in the deal, with the player liked by Gian Piero Gasperini as well.
Kaustubh Pandey | GIFN


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Macy's to lay off 2,500 workers nationally, close local store
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NEW YORK (AP) - Macy's to lay off 2,500 workers nationally as it restructures business.
As part of the cost-cutting move, the Metcalf South store will close this spring, affecting 88 associates. The store's final clearance sales will begin on Monday, January 13 and run between 10 and 11 weeks.
Associates displaced by closings may be placed in nearby stores; eligible associates will be offered severance benefits.


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Time Out Guides is to recommence operations under the management of Bath-based independent press Crimson Publishing.
Earlier this year, The Bookseller reported that the Time Out travel guides were to cease publication “as part of the continued evolution" of the Time Out business, which saw the company make 40 redundacies - 10% of its global workforce of 400- in order to refocus as a "global multimedia business". The announcement also coincided with a steady decline of sales of the guides.
However, under the terms of a recently signed agreement with Time Out Group, the guides will now continue after Crimson Publishing acquired the publishing license for the books.
It will begin publishing new titles from Spring 2017. In the meantime, the publication and distribution of the previously produced range of Time Out Guides will be handled by Crimson, commencing 1st September 2016 via Grantham Book Services.
Noel Penzer, c.e.o. of Time Out Digital, said: “We are delighted to partner with Crimson for our book publishing programme. This partnership ensures our brand’s visibility and presence in travellers’ bookshelves while at the same time it allows us to focus on Time Out’s continued transformation from a traditional media company to a global multi-media business. As soon as we started discussing the way forward with Crimson, it became clear that there was an exciting future for our Time Out Guides."
Managing director of Crimson, Andy Riddle, said: “...We will offer a great collection of city guides, covering an exciting range of destinations that will sit neatly alongside Time Out’s websites, apps and magazines. We will start sharing more detailed plans with retail customers over the coming weeks.”
In 2015, Time Out travel guides sold just under £696,000 through the tills, according to Nielsen BookScan. Its sales have been declining since 2006, when it had its best-ever BookScan year of £3.2m. Its various guides to London (London for Londoners, Time Out Guide to London, London Eating & Drinking Guide, Things to do in London, London Guide for Children) have been its bestsellers, combining to sell 79,000 units since records began. The last time the Timeout travel guides sold more than £100,000 through the Total Consumer Market was in 2011, when it sold £133,872 in value.


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Because of a multistate E.coli outbreak believed to have originated in Arizona, the CDC has issued a warning that recommends against eating any romaine lettuce that can’t be confirmed as having not originated in “the Yuma, Arizona growing region.” From the public advisory:
Unless the source of the product is known, consumers anywhere in the United States who have any store-bought romaine lettuce at home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick. Product labels often do not identify growing regions; so, throw out any romaine lettuce if you’re uncertain about where it was grown. This includes whole heads and hearts of romaine, chopped romaine, and salads and salad mixes containing romaine lettuce. If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.
Per the Washington Post, at least 60 people have been sickened by the outbreak and 31 hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.


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Yahoo: "Apple Inc. said Friday that it was "stunned" to find that its iPhones have for years been using a "totally wrong" formula to determine how many bars of signal strength they are getting.
Apple said that's the reason behind widespread complaints from users that the latest model, iPhone 4, can show a sudden plunge in signal strength when they hold it in a way that covers a small black strip on one edge of the phone. Users online have jokingly called this the "death grip" for the phone.
That drop seems exaggerated because the phone can wrongly display four or five bars of signal strength when it shouldn't, Apple said.
"Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place," the company said in a letter to users."


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Apple’s 390 stores remain the gold standard of retail — but they are showing some age spots.
Sales per square foot throughout the chain fell 2.5 percent in the year ended Sept. 30 from the previous year, according to regulatory filings — after growing more than 20 percent in 2011.
And while the Cupertino, Calif., company’s $4,592.20 in sales per square foot is the envy of every shop owner in the country — Tiffany’s $3,017 per square foot is the second best, according to a report yesterday — the growth in revenue per store is noticeably lower, the filings show.
The average Apple store posted a revenue gain of 30.2 percent in 2010 over the previous year — but that gain fell to 27 percent last year and just 19 percent in the most recent fiscal year, the company reported.
The troubling signs come as Apple’s shares recently fell 20 percent from their 2012 high.
The decline has focused a spotlight on the entire company’s operations — including its once unstoppable retail juggernaut.
“The fact is there’s not much room left to grow,” said Colin Gillis an analyst with BGC Partners.
Most industry watchers see the slowing growth as inevitable for a company that has had such massive success. Eventually, it becomes harder to find untapped customers, and the company already has conquered the choicest retail locations.
Trip Chowdhry, of Global Equities Research, said Steve Jobs was a frequent presence at Apple stores in Silicon Valley. Since his death and under Tim Cook’s leadership as CEO, the company is not focusing on its customers as it once had, Chowdhry said.
“The problem Apple faces today is it’s not a user-centric company,” he said.
One example he pointed to was Apple’s new flagship in Palo Alto, Calif., the store closest to its corporate headquarters.
Featuring glass walls and ceiling and a marble floor, the store — which has been considered a tribute to the legacy of Jobs — does not even have a customer bathroom, said Chowdhry, a frequent visitor to the location.
A store worker yesterday said that if customers ask to use a restroom, one will be made available — but that a store employee has to escort them.
“That is not an experience people want especially when paying premium price,” he said.
The new flagship also came under criticism after its recent opening for having an unbearable noise level.
One media report found the noise inside the store on a quiet day to reach 75 decibels, nearly as loud as a train whistle at 500 feet.
There is little doubt that Apple is in the midst of retail turmoil, and Cook fired the head of its stores, John Browett, who was on the job less than a year. The departure was likely more to do with differing visions than performance.
The report on retail sales, by a group called Retail Sails, held that Apple store revenu reached $6.050 per square foot — but that was much higher than regulatory filings showed.


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A forecast from Yankee Group predicts the worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will total $984 billion by 2014, up from $162 billion last year. That includes transactions from mobile banking, international and domestic remittances, contactless cards, mobile coupons and near-field communications.
According to an Accenture survey of “tech forwards”—web users who use several networked devices and internet services—there is widespread concern around the world with the safety of mobile payments. Even among this internet-savvy group, privacy and identity theft were serious worries. But while more respondents were concerned in Asia than in the US and Europe, tech forwards in Asia were also more likely to say the mobile phone was more convenient than other ways of paying. Just 29% of US and European respondents said they looked forward to using their phone to make all their payments, vs. 64% of Asian respondents who agreed.
Tech forwards in Asia were already conducting a wide variety of mobile transactions at significantly higher rates than their counterparts in the US and Europe, including checking bank account balances, making purchases, scanning barcodes and transferring money to or from another person.
Respondents to the Accenture survey expected credit card companies to play a big role in facilitating mobile payments, at 59%. Nearly as many, 54%, thought mobile network operators would help enable mobile payments, and 52% thought software companies like Apple and Google would play a role.
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The Delhi-based cargo carrier was founded by Nipun Anand, the head of airline general sales at Zeal Global Corporation.
- Pradhaan Air Express had gotten the No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the civil aviation ministry.
- It has planned to start operating commercially later this year.
- It expects to launch its operations with an A320 freighter that will be retrofitted, and that is scheduled to arrive in Delhi later this month.
India’s brand-new all-cargo airline Pradhaan Air Express will begin commercial operations this year. It is said that the new all-cargo airline will start flight operations with the world’s first A320 converted freighter. The first converted freighter, expected to arrive in Delhi this month, will offer the charter capacity to Indian shippers and freight forwarders on domestic and international routes.
The launch of Pradhaan Air Express endorses the Government’s vision to achieve 10 million tonnes of annual cargo throughput by 2030 and pushes the Indian air cargo market in the global ranking. The conversion was done by Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a joint venture of ST Engineering and Airbus, at its facility in Singapore.
The aircraft has been leased from Vaayu Group / Astral Aviation. Interestingly, Pradhaan Air Express will be India’s first airline to operate an Airbus narrow-body freighter. The Aircraft offers a payload of 21 tons with a fully palletized main deck.
“We thank our lessor for having confidence in us to offer the world’s first A320 converted freighter for the Indian market. This will secure dedicated cargo capacity boosting the trade’s self-reliance. Getting the World`s first A320 converted freighter to India is like a dream come true. A second aircraft will be inducted by the year-end with plans for further fleet expansion,” said Nipun Anand, CEO & Founder, Pradhaan Air Express.
“The air cargo market in India has untapped domestic and international potential fuelled by various initiatives to become a global hub for cargo services. We aim to make our small contribution to the big dreams of the Indian cargo industry by offering tailor-made solutions with on-demand charters,” added Vipul Bhalla.


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While wedding planning comes with a vast (and diverse) checklist of items to accomplish, selecting a gown is, arguably, one of the most important to-dos. And with so much attention and focus on the frock, it makes sense that indecisive brides may have an extremely difficult time finding their dream wedding dresses. If you’re unsure how to narrow down your choices—or you’re starting to second guess the ensemble you already committed to—Tina Wong, the founder and CEO of Grace + Ivory, says you’re not alone.
A major catalyst for the indecision stems from the fact that many brides grew up with a vision of what wedding dress shopping “should” look like. “Media and shows like Say Yes to the Dress have made many brides feel like if they aren’t moved to tears, it’s not the dress,” says Madison Blackburn, the owner of Bridals by Madison. “In reality, not all brides are criers!”
Considering how big of an investment a wedding dress is (and that most of them are final sale), the pressure is definitely on as brides head to the boutiques. “You start off knowing that—if all goes as intended—you’ll only ever be able to wear one dress, one time, for one night,” Blackburn says. Talk about stressful! The good news, though, is that choosing your wedding gown doesn’t have to be such an anxiety-filled ordeal.
Whether you’re having a hard time narrowing down your choices or can’t seem to commit to a gown, you’ve come to the right place. Below, experts weigh in on everything indecisive brides need to know about finding—and sticking by—their chosen dress for the big day and beyond.
“It isn’t a huge surprise that many brides feel [indecisive] when you think about the fact that the dress is a big emotional purchase, there can be many opinions involved, and it will be in most of your wedding photos,” she explains. “Your dress really is front and center for your big day, and so the struggle to commit to a dress (usually nine to 12+ months in advance!) can be hard for some brides.”


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Today sees the start of European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), the eighth of its kind, coordinated by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Commission, and supported by member states and more than 300 partners from across European industry.
The theme of this year’s campaign is Think Before U Click, emphasising questions of security in the ever-increasingly digitised world. The first half of the month is devoted to ‘Cyber Scams’ – the widespread fraud by various means which only seems to increase the more warnings are issued.
The latest: scammers who deliberately target people who have already been scammed once, presumably on the principle ‘Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me’.
The best way to battle fraudsters, the campaign suggests, is to recognise one when they show themselves.
The second half of the month is devoted to ‘Digital Skills’ – educational activities designed to improve information security. Those include information security and protection against cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking.
“As our daily lives and economies become increasingly dependent on digital solutions, we need to realise that cybersecurity concerns us all,” said Margrethe Vestager, vice president of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age.
“It is important to foster a culture of state-of-the-art security across vital sectors of our economy and society.”
Commission vice-president for Promoting our European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, said: “European Cybersecurity Month aims at raising our cybersecurity awareness and getting us up to speed with the cyber threats; it reminds us that we can easily step up our own cybersecurity by getting into some good digital habits. Cybersecurity is essential for our European way of life.”
But, as revealed by a study by the Belgian Centre for Cybersecurity (CCB), we have a long way to go. According to the Centre, people’s passwords in general are too weak. In addition, far too many people use the same easy-to-remember password for several or all of their online accounts: mail, social media, subscriptions and so on.
Concretely, 15% of all users have the same password for all of their accounts. If that is somehow broken, the user’s entire online access is compromised, from Instagram to bank accounts.
And breaking them is often child’s play: among the most common passwords are things like qwerty (azerty on a Belgian keyboard), 123456 and, believe it or not, ‘password’. Easy to remember, and just as easy to break.
“Passwords are the keys to your virtual home,” said Olivier Bogaert of the Federal Computer Crime Unit. “Those are the keys that open your online safe.”
The experts recommend the use of two protections: two-step verification where available. That adds a layer of security to your accounts, by requiring not only a password, but a verification you are who you say you are by, for instance, sending a single-use code to your phone.
The second protective measure is a password manager – a secure cyber-vault which generates random and unbreakable passwords for each of your accounts. These come in the form of browser apps or stand-alone software.
“I only know one password: the password for my password vault,” said Miguel De Bruycker, director of the CCB .
“All my passwords are stored in that safe. The password vault also creates strong passwords of more than 20 characters for all my accounts, which I never have to know, let alone remember.”
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Good news for cows, bad news for cattlemen: The average American ate 1.7 pounds less beef in 2009 than the year before. (That’s still 61 pounds per person, roughly the weight of a newborn calf.) Rising feed costs (hello, ethanol!), higher export demand, and smaller supply have beefed up prices and trampled dining-table demand. Beef producers at this annual convention in Denver will talk ways to keep beefeaters from quitting cow. One solution for keeping carnivores craving steak? Push smaller (more affordable) portions, says association marketing manager Trevor Amen. “You can include beef in your diet at any budget.” Well done, beef man. — Rachel Arndt
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Amazon has become the latest tech firm to show that it remains committed to the UK, as it announced plans for more staff and a programme for apprentices.
The e-retail giant will take on around 5,000 further employees, with the jobs being based at locations around the UK. Among the skilled technology jobs that will be on offer are technician, engineer and software developer positions, with Amazon’s new East London studio for fashion photography, its Edinburgh customer service headquarters and its head office being the main locations.
In its statement confirming the news, Amazon indicated that over 1,500 of these new job vacancies will be created within its London, Edinburgh and Cambridge development hubs. These centres are where work on tech projects such as Prime Video, the Prime Air drone delivery service and the Alexa voice recognition solution is undertaken.
The company’s UK country manager, Doug Gurr, described the new roles as representing the sort of job opportunities normally found at the US tech hotspot Silicon Valley. Indeed, Amazon has also announced that it will be launching a brand new main office later in the year, with the chosen location for this being Shoreditch, which is very close to the UK’s main technology base – Silicon Roundabout.
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British Gas has been forced to pay £1.73m to customers affected by changes the energy supplier made to its prepayment plan, the watchdog said on Thursday.
The Centrica-owned supplier failed to inform some prepayment customers, many of whom are vulnerable, about a change of top-up provider and minimum top-up spend.
Some may have had their supply of gas and electricity cut off as a result, Ofgem said, or suffered "wasted journeys to shops where they could no longer top-up".
In addition, customers were unable to contact the British Gas enquiry line on the day of the change.
To compensate affected customers, Ofgem has ordered British Gas to pay £1.48m for its failings and an additional £250,000 into the energy redress fund.
When the new top-up provider took over on January 1, British Gas failed to notify some 270,000 prepayment customers about the change from Paypoint to Payzone.
"This meant that some customers, many of whom are in a vulnerable situation, may have suffered detriment through wasted journeys to try and top-up at shops which no longer offered the service, or in some cases may have gone off supply," Ofgem said.
British Gas only informed these customers about the changes in late January and failed to include contact details should customers have further questions.
Additionally, British Gas chose not to operate its general enquiries line on January 1, Ofgem said.
Due to the steps British Gas has taken, the regulator has decided not to take formal enforcement action.
The company said: "We recognise that this transition was not as smooth as it should have been and we would like to apologise again to any customer impacted."
Citizens Advice boss Dame Gillian Guy said: "It is unacceptable that poor communications put people at risk of being cut off from their energy supply in the middle of winter.
"Households with pre-payment meters are disproportionately likely to be on lower incomes, have children or include people with health conditions. So it's critical that suppliers take extra care and make sure changes like this don't put people at risk."


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The cannabis industry’s hopes and dreams are predicated on a simple goal: legitimacy.
Before Ottawa legalized marijuana and after, pot-sector pioneers took pains to talk about their products as if they were describing natural foods and vitamins. Their message: Canada is becoming a global leader, offering the very finest cannabis to a welcoming public under the highest corporate and regulatory standards.
CannTrust Holdings Inc. has been front and centre among the best-known players, promising consumers and investors legitimacy on par with pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Now, its alleged misdeeds risk pushing the cannabis sector a few steps backward toward an era best associated with Cheech and Chong.
The very idea that – as a former employee charged in a bombshell interview with The Globe and Mail this week – the company would hide thousands of pot plants behind phony walls in an attempt to fool Health Canada raises thorny questions about whether the industry is indeed ready to take its place in polite society.
CannTrust has stopped all sales of its cannabis products as Health Canada investigates the alleged illegal growing in unlicensed rooms, which were hidden from cameras, presumably to get a jump on building up inventory to meet contractual obligations. It took the step after provincial wholesalers in Ontario and Alberta stopped selling CannTrust products. There is even speculation the regulator could pull the company’s licence for a move that was not only bad, it was bush-league.
It’s a rapid fall from grace for a company that had exemplified the industry’s growing acceptability, led by a former retail banker.
Since the scandal erupted on Monday, CannTrust shares have lost almost half their value. Recall that the Vaughan, Ont.-based producer was an early test case for Wall Street, which has approached the sector gingerly because selling cannabis remains a federal crime in the United States, even as it has been legalized in several states.
U.S. financial-services giants Bank of America, Citigroup and Jefferies LLC were among the underwriters of a US$170-million CannTrust share offering in May, with the stock priced at US$5.50 a share. The shares sank another 17 per cent on Friday to sell for US$2.58 on the New York Stock Exchange (the company’s TSX-listed shares also closed 17 per cent lower).
The banks sold both institutional and retail investors on the shares and are now surely fielding angry calls from clients asking about legitimacy. At least five U.S. law firms have said they are recruiting plaintiffs for class-action lawsuits related to the mess.
It’s tempting to say that this is a one-off misadventure and investors should keep their eyes firmly focused on the industry’s long-term potential to supply recreational and medical markets at home and abroad. That may be true, and indeed no other licensed producers are currently suspected of a similar sleight of hand.
But numerous examples abound in which investors fled a sector en masse when scandal enveloped a key company. Not that hiding pot plants is even close to being in the same league as salting Indonesian gold samples, but it’s important to note the Bre-X Minerals fraud created a chill that hit all junior miners in the 1990s after a massive bull run.
In this case, the rest of the sector is getting swept up. The Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF has shed 8.6 per cent this week.
At the very least, CannTrust’s woes will focus renewed attention on producers’ executives and boards of directors as investors and regulators seek to get a handle on just who is minding the greenhouses. It is a young industry, built by entrepreneurs, many of whom saw the potential for lucrative expansion but may not have had the management and corporate-governance experience expected in large, widely held public companies.
Certainly, Constellation Brands Inc., which spent $5-billion for a major stake in Canopy Growth Corp., showed last week it wants more traditional corporate discipline at the country’s biggest cannabis player by terminating its colourful and outspoken founder, Bruce Linton, as chairman and co-chief executive.
Now that CannTrust has erected a makeshift wall of worry, the rest of the major cannabis companies have a tougher task ahead convincing consumers, regulators and the global financial world that they are indeed ready for the mainstream.


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Beta tests of the Virtual Piggy mobile payments platform for children, which “offers the ability for children to learn how to use the payment tools of the digital economy” with parental controls built in, will begin in April. “Our technology will prepare a new generation for responsible financial management that will last into adulthood,” says CEO John Coyne.
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