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Uber has shared the top trends of 2017 – interesting data backed insights on how Uber and Uber Eats has touched millions of Indians this year.
Here are some interesting data points.
- Uber’s busiest day in India is Friday and the busiest hour of the week is 6 p.m. when riders are perhaps making a speedy get away from work. The most Ubers were taken on the August 11, which also happens to be pre-Independence Day Friday.
- Rider from Delhi, NCR has taken the highest number of Uber rides – 1,969 trips in 2017, that’s almost 5 trips a day!
- Bangalore and Hyderabad saw the highest number of uberPOOL trips taken by riders in 2017, followed by Kolkata and Delhi.
A female rider in Hyderabad took a record 1,162 uberPOOL trips this year
- Riders from India took Ubers in 566 cities across 80 countries. The most-popular travel destinations include U.S, Singapore, Malaysia, U.K and UAE.
- Uber hit the 500 millionth trip milestone on July 17 this year. Riders and driver-partners have travelled over 5.8 billion KMs together.
What about UberEats?
UberEATS expanded into 6 cities in 7 months in India and..
Highest number of orders was made on June 18 and the most ordered dishes on Uber Eats were Samosa Chole, Aloo Tikki Burger and Chicken Biryani.
While Indian cuisine continued to top the list of most ordered cuisines by Indians, it was closely followed by Middle Eastern and American. Cairns, Adelaide, Bangkok, Gold Coast and New Castle were five other cities that enjoyed Indian food.


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Now holds CEIV Pharma, Fresh, and Live Animals certifications concurrently
Turkish Cargo has become the first air cargo airline to concurrently achieve all three "CEIV Pharma, CEIV Fresh, and CEIV Live Animals" certifications, under the IATA CEIV (Center of Excellence for Independent Validators) program.
Turhan Ozen, the Chief Cargo Officer of Turkish Airlines said: "We are passing through the days pointing how vital the air cargo industry is for trade across the world as well as transportation.
"We really make much of the IATA CEIV certificates that prove that we meet the international standards at our special cargo operations, during such a vulnerable and critical period."
The certifications have a validity period of three years.
Maintaining its Dual Hub operations successfully, Turkish Cargo strictly implements the complete handling procedures at the special cargo warehouses and operational sites at the cargo facilities equipped with the state of the art technology available at the Istanbul and Ataturk airports.

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MILAN — The conference held on Wednesday at the headquarters of Italian trade agency ICE felt a bit like the end of school — with an uncertain future looming ahead.
General elections are scheduled on March 4 in Italy, and the outcome is a guessing game. “Whatever happens, the government must continue to support fashion,” said Ivan Scalfarotto, deputy minister of economic development. “What has been achieved over the past two years must not go lost. Fashion represents the excellence of our manufacturing industry, and, just as a member of the government attends the launch of a new car, he or she must attend a Gucci show, to name a brand. My hope is that the new government will recognize the value and importance of the fashion industry, paying the respect it deserves.”
Scalfarotto, flanked by Michele Scannavini, president of ICE; Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian Camera della Moda; Claudio Marenzi, president of the association Confindustria Moda, founded last year, and Licia Mattioli, vice president of Confindustria, said that “the car works, whoever comes next just needs the key to set it in motion.” Scalfarotto lamented the fact that past governments had a “snobbish” attitude toward fashion, “perceived as frivolous, but we should be proud that it is the second industry in Italy.” He said two projects unveiled last year during fashion week, Milano XL, which celebrated Italian creativity and was supported by all fashion associations, and the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, will be held again in September. Vogue Italia art director Luca Stoppini will succeed Davide Rampello as artistic director of Milano XL, he revealed.
Carlo Calenda, the minister of economic development spearheaded the “fashion table” in 2016, regrouping all fashion associations and trade shows. “It has worked really well in a world of individual geniuses, normally not inclined to team up, but they did. It’s been a great team and I am enthusiastic about it and grateful to everyone,” said Scalfarotto.
Scannavini said the fashion table contributed to attracting more public investments, which rose from 34 million to 48 million euros in three years. “Investments are driven by relevant strategic projects that have an impact and not by algorithms,” he observed. Investments, he clarified, are equally channeled into trade shows, which help gain international visibility; on retail activities, both brick-and-mortar and digital, and activities related to trade shows and promotions abroad. Scannavini said industry sales in the first 11 months of 2011 grew 5.8 percent, and China and Russia showed the most growth, up 16 and 14 percent, respectively. In accordance with Scalfarotto, he insisted: “The fashion table must continue to exist. We hope there will be continuity.”
Capasa emphasized the growth of the Italian fashion industry, which reported sales of 87 billion euros in 2017, compared with 80 billion euros in 2014. As a champion of improving the industry’s sustainability, Capasa said he was looking forward to a round table to be held in Milan on March 20, to be attended by Italian and international brands, and focused on this specific theme.
“The White Book,” conceived by the Education Committee of the Fashion and Accessories Panel, a resource set up in January 2016 in the Ministry of Economic Development, was presented during the conference. “The aim was to encourage new interpretations of fashion education in Italy, considering all the aspects, such as design, communications, culture and the business world,” said Scalfarotto. The book analyzes the status of fashion education, focusing on how to train the new professional figures that are required in an evolving industry.


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Local businesses in Poynton took the opportunity to celebrate their successes during the previous year, at Poynton Town Council’s Poynton Achievements in Customer Excellence (PACE) Awards, at Davenport Golf Club.
The awards were presented this year by local MP, David Rutley and Cllr Rebecca Horsman-Johnson, Mayor of Poynton. The Business of the Year award went to Serisabelle Holistic and Beauty Therapy, on Park Lane, which also won the Service Providers category, while the Employee of the Year award was given to Sue Watkins, from the brain injury charity, Headway.
The PACE Awards are now into their third year and are the only Poynton specific business awards, and the only awards where customers vote for their favourite businesses and members of staff. The award categories cover all Poynton businesses, from shops and restaurants, to professional and business services, meaning that they are relevant to both business users and shoppers.
The awards aim to promote the fantastic service available from Poynton’s businesses, as well as supporting the village’s economy. Local businesses have also benefitted from the creation of Poynton in Business, in 2013, which works hard to promote trade between local businesses, encourage local residents to “shop local”, promote the visitor economy, and advertise Poynton as a great place to do business.
Speaking after the awards presentation, David said, “It was a pleasure to be able to help present the awards this year, which demonstrate how much passion and innovation there is in Poynton’s business community. I would like to congratulate all who were nominated for awards this year and the winners. I look forward to continuing to work closely with Poynton in Business in the year ahead.”


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Apple’s Growing Globally, But Success in India is Still Far Away
India hasn’t figured in Apple’s list of top markets and the company’s new strategy may not really help its case.
Apple is on the verge of becoming a trillion dollar company, thanks to the sales of its iPhone X and Apple Watch that are priced exorbitantly. Every year, its growth beats the estimates, proving that Apple’s existing business model in most of its markets is a success.
Having said that, when it comes to India, Apple is far from success, repeatedly finding its sales staying fairly mediocre. The latest quarter results for Apple include all its top markets, but India is not part of that list.
Why is that? Simply because, the Cupertino-based giant has failed to match its competition - Samsung and OnePlus among others in India. How long is it going to be before Apple makes an exception of its pricing strategy for India and does things differently? By the looks of it, it’s going to take a while.
While everyone is talking about Apple’s phenomenal growth on the back of strong iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac sales, India’s report card for the company isn't something to write home about.
Apple in India has resorted to its tried-and-tested formula of pricing its iPhone more expensive than most of its markets. India, clearly hasn’t made it to its main discussion panel, and this time no reference of India was made with regards to iPhone sales.
India’s name was only mentioned for Mac laptops, as Apple recorded strong demand for its notebooks, owing to the "back-to-school" campaigns that are run around this time.
What also doesn’t help is the latest sales figures for Apple in India, which according to Counterpoint Research stands at less than a million devices, in the first half of 2018. This is in stark contrast to Apple’s iPhone figures from 2017, when it managed to sell over 3.2 million devices.
Apple had a weak Q1 2018, as demand for its iPhone 8 and X series declined. The Cupertino-based giant had to battle rising import tariffs due to the lack of “Make In India” domestic manufacturing capabilities for its portfolio.Counterpoint Research
It’s not going to get easier for Tim Cook and Co, but how Apple plans on figuring its way out in India, is anybody’s guess right now. The make in India project has been a smokescreen for a while, with reports suggesting that Apple has started assembling its iPhone 6 in India.
The company is making wholesale changes to its retail and sales team in the country, roping in people who can help Apple operate better in the market. It is also re-evaluating its retail strategy in India and wants dealers to sell devices at its original market price (that means no more discounts).
Not sure that’s the best way forward for Apple, but hopefully the company has thought out its next move, which may help it get better returns out of India.
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Instead of using New York Fashion week last December to showcase Yeezy Season 6, Kanye decided to promote his latest collection on his wife, Kim.
A series of paparazzi-style shots showed her out and about in various themed outfits, such as ‘FedEX run Yeezy’ and ‘Business meetings Yeezy’.
Now, as fashion week draws closer again, we’re seeing reminders from Kim’s debut shots last year.
But rather than using only Kim to promote his brand again, this time round Kanye’s decided to branch out and instead is using people dressed up like her, instead.
Including Kylie Jenner’s BFF Jordyn Woods, Abigail Ratchford, Shannon and Shannade Clermont, Sami Miro…and Paris Hilton.
A quick look at the shots could fool you into thinking they’re all of Kim.
With the same long, silver-blonde hair and contouring, all of the Yeezy Season 6 models have been made up to look like Kanye’s muse.
Many thought Paris was a strange yet iconic choice to represent the brand.
Kim’s fashion career arguably started by working as Paris’s wardrobe assistant, and how the tables have turned now that Paris is dressed up as Kim to model her husband’s line.
paris hilton modeling for Yeezy S6 is the most iconic thing i never knew i needed
— Bryan (@bbbgue) January 31, 2018
Kim Kardashian used to organize Paris Hilton’s closet. Now she has her modeling her husband’s $400 spandex bike shorts. Dream big, kiddos #YeezySeason6
— Sowmya Krishnamurthy (@SowmyaK) January 31, 2018
Paris was once credited for making Kim famous back in the day, and people were quick to point this out.
Kim uploaded a shot of Paris to Instagram, captioned: “#YeezySeason6#ParisHilton#ForeverTheOG.”
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Jan 30, 2018 at 11:29pm PST
One person said: “Paris Hilton made kim kardashian famous in 2006.”
“The one who truly BIRTHED YOU” another added.
All the shots featured in the Yeezy Season 6 campaign can be seen here.
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Niantic, Inc. recently received a total of $30 million from Google, Nintendo, and The Pokemon Company to speed up development of its upcoming mobile game, "Pokemon Go."
The mobile phone augmented reality game, "Pokemon Go," has been announced for a 2016 release after the three companies poured in $30 million in investments to assist in the development of the much-awaited mobile game.
The investment, with an initial $20 million put upfront and a succeeding $10 million outlay upon the game's reaching certain milestones in its development, is touted to push and cement the "Pokemon" brand across multiple platforms from toys and games, all the way to television and augmented reality.
"Pokemon Go," which was announced as under development in 2013 after it was co-conceived by Nintendo's late CEO Satoru Iwata, will be a collaboration between the Pokemon Company, the search engine giant, and the Japanese gaming company, an investment venture which insular Nintendo has not been known to take part in.
The augmented reality mobile game will be free to play and allow players to catch Pokemon as well as train and battle with them in the real world based on data provided in users' mobile devices.
"Pokemon Go" is also set to leverage an optional game device resembling a watch called the "Pokemon Go Plus."
The Pokemon Go Plus wearable will employ Bluetooth to notify users about nearby Pokemon using a LED light and a light rumbling vibration. While the mobile game will be free to play, it will support microtransactions in the form of in-app purchases.
With the investment influx from Google, Nintendo, and The Pokemon Company, Niantic will be using the capital to built a bigger real-world gaming platform than it has originally planned.
The company has also announced it will be releasing additional information about the progress of "Pokemon Go" by the middle of the month, with a scheduled release for sometime in 2016.


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A EUROPEAN ban on the "unacceptable" trade in cat and dog fur has been proposed following a campaign championed by Heather Mills-McCartney.
European Commission Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said he was acting for ethical reasons and in response to a public outcry over barbaric treatment of the animals to provide fur for everything from rugs and coats to figurines.
The Humane Society International helped expose the business, revealing evidence of a thriving cat and dog fur trade in many European countries including France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.
It estimated two million cats and dogs are being killed each year in China to fuel the trade, which is currently not illegal in the EU.
Pressure for a ban has been mounting for months, with campaigners including Mrs Mills-McCartney demanding an immediate end to the trade.
DNA tests showed that many rugs, coats and figurines on sale in shops in European countries are made from real cat and dog fur, but are usually marketed as being made with fake fur.
Mr Kyprianou's proposal for a ban, endorsed by his fellow EU commissioners in Brussels yesterday, involves ending the production, marketing and trade of cat and dog fur throughout the EU and establishing a system for policing the ban.
He said: "The message that we have received from EU consumers has been loud and clear.
"They do not find it acceptable to farm cats and dogs for their fur, nor do they want products containing such fur sold on the European market."
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AutoZone store inadvertently blessed by Crossroads Community Church.
OAKLEY - AutoZone employees reported last weekend the store was temporarily blessed during a Crossroads Sunday ceremony. Sitting in close proximity to the sprauling Crossroads campus, experts believe the Autozone store likely received what is believed to be a stray blessing. Crossroads officials explained they are still, "working out the logistical kinks" within their new more powerful $20 million stadium-like facility. Also, Crossroads officials said they plan to be more precise during ceremonies to ensure all blessings are contained within the Crossroads property limits. Other local businesses such as the BP Oil station across the street also report possibly detecting a blessing. Employees at all area Starbucks stores reported the stores felt slightly less evil than normal but definitely not blessed.
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6-months on from BHS’s closure in Lincoln, the High Street gains two more casualties.
Dorothy Perkins and Burton are both set to close in April.
Lincoln High Street is becoming a place of boarded up shops, with BHS’s old building still not housing a new store.
When BHS closed it caused over 8,000 redundancies, 100 of them from Lincoln alone.
Nick Morgan started working at BHS 19 years ago as a 4 hour Saturday lad, which saw him eventually grow into a department manager.
“It’s just such a real shame, particularly for a place like Lincoln. It occupies such a prime location and with it been empty for 6 months there seems to be no signs of anybody going in there. It’s such a blight on the High Street and I hope somebody soon does something with it,” he said.
Michael Armstrong from Lincoln Big said that shop closures are an “expected natural process”.
“They are part of a cyclical thing that happens at this time of year when businesses look to the future and move on,” he said.
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Swiss hearing aid maker Phonak has announced a drop in net profits of more than 35 per cent to SFr42.6 million ($27.1 million) over the past year.
But the company said it expects higher sales and a profit recovery of 20 per cent in the next year, due to new product launches and trimmed down costs.
Phonak, which reshuffled its management in April, has had a turbulent few months with profit warnings, falling stock prices and the abrupt resignation of CEO Peter Pfluger.
Despite increasing sales, profits fell off but were better than the SFr36 million that analysts had forecast.
Back in February, Phonak warned on profits, citing the late launch of high margin products and the problematic integration of Canadian Unitron, the hearing aid company it acquired for SFr200 million.
Phonak expects new product launches to boost sales by ten per cent in the next year, but said this was dependent on how quickly new products could be brought to market.
In a statement the company said: "The Group has made very encouraging progress enlarging its product offering under both Phonak and Unitron Hearing brands. More than ever, the product pipeline is broad and competitive."
The company is now being led by board chairman and former CEO Andy Rihs, as the company searches for a new CEO that can bring marketing and sales experience to the table. Phonak said the name of the new CEO should be announced by the end of 2002.
In April the company said it expected sales to increase by over 25 per cent to SFr576.1 million in the 2001/2002 business year.
The company's profit warning in February chopped 25 per cent of its market value - leading Pfluger to step down - which has kept analysts cautious on the stock.
Phonak is the third largest hearing aid manufacturer in the world.
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Year-on-year, cost of recreation and culture went up by 0.6 percent (from +0.1 percent in November) and prices of hotels and restaurants increased by 1.1 percent (from +0.9 percent in the previous month). Meanwhile, transport prices dropped 3.3 percent, accelerating from a 2.8 percent fall in November.
Additional upward pressure came from: food and non-alcoholic beverages (+1.2 percent); health (+0.4 percent); furnishings and household equipment (+0.4 percent); and clothing and footwear (+0.5 percent).
Annual core inflation rate (excluding energy and unprocessed food) was recorded at 0.6 percent.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices showed no growth after a 0.4 percent decline and matching first estimates. Cost of food and transportation dropped 0.3 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively; while prices of leisure activities and communication rose 1 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.
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Microsoft announced a significant surge in quarterly profits, bolstering its ongoing rivalry with tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Meta (formerly Facebook) in the race to lead the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. The software behemoth reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $20.1 billion, equating to $2.69 per share, surpassing analyst predictions of $2.55 per share. Revenues for the April-June period climbed 8% from the previous year to reach $56.2 billion, beating the expected $55.49 billion.
While Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, emphasized the company’s commitment to spearheading the “new AI platform shift,” the integration of AI capabilities into its existing products, such as cloud computing services, workplace software, and the Bing search engine, hasn’t yet yielded a discernible impact on financial outcomes.
Microsoft took early advantage of the excitement surrounding “generative AI” tools capable of aiding content creation, capitalizing on its substantial investments in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The company introduced a Bing chatbot and similar offerings tailored to business clients. Recently, it unveiled a new AI feature called “Copilot” that integrates with tools like Word, Excel, and email. This service, designed for business accounts, will be priced at $30 per user.
Nadella stated, “Organizations are asking not only how, but how fast they can apply this next generation of AI to address the biggest opportunities and challenges they face, safely and responsibly.”
Despite exceeding both profit and revenue projections, Microsoft’s stock experienced a slight decline in after-hours trading following the financial report’s release.
Investor focus has centred on Microsoft’s initial revenues from AI investments, the performance of its Azure cloud computing platform, and the anticipated completion of its acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard. The acquisition could potentially bolster gaming revenue and attract more users to the Xbox game system and other Microsoft platforms. However, the company is still in negotiations with British antitrust regulators over potential competition concerns related to the Activision Blizzard deal.
Microsoft’s cloud business segment, including its flagship Azure platform, saw a 15% growth in sales, totalling $24 billion for the quarter. Azure and other cloud services revenue within this segment grew by 26%. While Microsoft doesn’t disclose exact figures for Azure revenue, an inadvertently disclosed document from a court battle with the FTC revealed it to be $34 billion last year.
The productivity software segment, driven by Microsoft Office products, achieved a 10% growth, generating $18.3 billion in sales for the quarter. However, the personal computing business segment, reliant on Windows software licensing fees, experienced a 4% decline in revenue.
Despite market challenges, Microsoft’s focus on business clients has insulated it from the economic difficulties impacting consumer-focused sectors. Although the company has undergone layoffs, it remains steadfast in its commitment to AI innovation and cloud dominance.
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Indeed, investors have started to realize that the company is a device maker and needs to keep selling more and more tech gadgets to keep sales headed higher. New customers or new tech toys are the only way to do that. That said, the company’s top line continues to head higher at an impressive pace and has done so for more than a decade.
A new dividend and plans to buy back shares using debt have changed the company’s makeup. But with a yield of around 2.70%, it might actually be a good option for growth and income investors that believe Apple can continue to wow customers.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) might actually be a better customer target. The OS giant also missed out on the mobile shift and has been playing catch up. However, Intel and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) have a long history of working well together. Part of Microsoft’s growth plan is to make its various operating systems look and feel similar. Another part is to start making some of its own devices.
For example, Microsoft is making its own tablet, called the Surface. While it partners with others on phones, like Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), if Intel can get a foot in the door with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and its Windows Mobile OS, it could start to see more wins. The deals might not come from the industry leaders, but that doesn’t mean it won’t add up to a real business.
Microsoft, for its part, has seen its shares rise as it pushes harder in the mobile space. The company has a long history of dividend increases and an around 2.60% yield. Like Intel, shares are still in a decade long trading range. If its mobile OS starts to gain traction, its shares are likely to head higher.
For investors, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) and Microsoft might actually be a good pair for income and turnaround potential. While they may never see the success they experienced with PCs, there’s every reason to believe that each will be able to break into the mobile space and make plenty of money in the process. Growth and income investors should take a look at the duo.
The article A Big Win for This Chipmaker originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Reuben Brewer.
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The situation with Mexico's action to halt imports from 30 U.S. meat plants has already improved, with more than 20 of those plants already re-listed as eligible to export to Mexico, according to media reports.
According to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), 25 plants are eligible to export product to Mexico that was packed before Dec. 23 or on Dec. 26 or after. There are still six plants listed as being ineligible to export to Mexico at this time.
USDA's website updating the status of meat plants has not yet reflected the changes in media reports as of yet.
The situation had threatened to keep U.S. beef, pork and poultry out of what USDA data for 2008 shows to be the biggest market for U.S. beef and the third largest market for U.S. pork and poultry.


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02 Apr 2021Apple Macbook Pro
A California federal judge, Edward Davila, has allowed a new class-action lawsuit against Apple to pass. The suit claims that Apple has sold MacBook Pro laptops with defective display panels, where the bottom part of the screen suffers from alternate dark spots.
19 Jun 2020Reddit
The latest line of MacBooks - 2020 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air - is running into connectivity issues, creating problems for a number of users around the world.
14 Jan 2020Apple
Just a few weeks after launching a beautiful 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple appears to be working on adding another new notebook into its lineup.
14 Nov 2019Apple
As we all expected, Apple has finally unveiled its heavily rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro notebook.
26 Aug 2019India
In what may prove itself to be an inconvenience for Apple users, certain models of the MacBook Pro have been banned on flights, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Monday.
23 Nov 2018Microsoft
Just like Microsoft's Windows Store, the Mac App Store also offers a humongous collection of apps across categories.
30 Oct 2018Ram (Random Access Memory)
Apple has finally updated its long-forgotten MacBook Air with a Retina display, updated internals and all-new chassis made from 100% recycled aluminum.
14 Sep 2018Huawei
Apple's habit of sensationalizing its every product has come back to haunt it.
16 Jul 2018Apple
Apple has quietly updated its top-tier line up of laptops which includes the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Touch bars.
13 Jul 2018Apple
On Thursday, Apple's 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar MacBook Pros received a midsummer upgrade, and will now come with the latest Intel CPUs, new RAM and storage options, True Tone screens, a new T2 sub-processor for security and encryption, and hands-free Siri.
07 Jul 2018Apple
Apple has registered five new iPad and MacBook models each with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).
23 Aug 2017LG
Google is reportedly planning to launch two Pixel smartphones and a Pixel-branded Chromebook at a hardware event expected to be held in October.


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The GIANT Company is bolstering its leadership ring with a slew of promotions across its team. As the retailer eyes ongoing growth in popular services like online ordering and grocery delivery, GIANT is making moves to strengthen its omnichannel strategies.
Current Divisional Vice President of Greater Philadelphia Manuel Haro has been promoted to Vice President of Finance and Strategy. According to a release, Haro started with the company back in 2012 and has nearly two decades of retail and consumer packaged goods experience. In his new role, he will oversee finance, real estate, and strategy and will report directly to President Nicholas Bertram.
Joanna Crishock will also be taking on a new Vice President role. She has been promoted to the role of Vice President of Marketing and Commercial Planning. Most recently, she served as Director of Strategy and Chief of Staff to Bertram. Crishock joined the company in 2010 and has more than 18 years of experience in customer-centric roles.
In her new position, Crishock will lead elements of the brand experience such as brand strategy, circular, design, loyalty, and social media, in addition to the brand’s e-commerce strategy and commercial planning. She will report directly to Vice President of Commercial John Ruane.
With over 18 years of experience, former Director of E-Commerce Operations Daren Russ has been promoted to Vice President of Omnichannel Operations. In this new position, he will lead customer support, e-commerce operations, pharmacy operations, and store support. He has been with the company since 2016 and will report to Glennis Harris, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience.
Tim Santoro, a 25-year GIANT Company veteran, has also been promoted. He will be taking on the role of Divisional Vice President of Greater Philadelphia and succeeding Haro. Santaro most recently served as Regional Director for 19 GIANT stores in Lancaster and York counties in Pennsylvania, and in his new position, will oversee daily retail operations and store teams of more than 90 GIANT locations. He will report directly to Harris.
Rounding out the list of celebrated leaders is April Mock, Director of Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, who has added Chief of Staff to the President to her title. She joined the company in 2015 and oversees external and internal communications in addition to the retailer’s corporate social responsibility efforts. Mock will continue to report to Jennifer Heinzen Krueger, Vice President of Team Experience, as well as supporting Bertram.
As these leaders assume their new roles, Bertram commented on the promotions.
“Today’s appointments are the intended result of our ongoing investment in our greatest asset—our team members,” he said. “By growing through these new opportunities, each of these leaders will deepen their current abilities and hone new skill sets while propelling our omnichannel strategy forward, positioning The GIANT Company for long-term growth and success. I’m incredibly proud of all that Manuel, Joanna, John, Daren, Tim, and April have achieved so far and look forward to seeing how they will continue to positively impact our business, teams, customers, and communities for the better in their new roles.”
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Famous Dave's of America Inc. is taking a new corporate name — but not changing the name of its restaurants — and a new symbol on the stock exchange: BBQ.
"We've had it in reserve," Jeff Crivello, chief executive of Famous Dave's, said Tuesday.
The Minnetonka-based company notified investors late last week that it will change to a holding-company structure on Sept. 17. As part of the change, the firm's legal name will change to BBQ Holdings Inc. and it will give up the symbol DAVE that it has used since 1996 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The move reflects the company's ambition to purchase and run restaurants beyond its namesake chain. The company already owns a restaurant in Oklahoma City called Clark Crew BBQ.
Famous Dave's recently obtained financing to be able to purchase other restaurants as it continues to reshape its 134-unit chain. Over the past two years, the company has developed a new look and menu at its corporate-owned locations, chiefly in the Twin Cities, and encouraged franchisees in the rest of the country to follow along.
In Minneapolis, Famous Dave's is also experimenting with smaller-format restaurants and will soon unveil plans to replace a larger-sized unit that recently closed in the Uptown neighborhood.
"Famous Dave's is going through its evolution and while it does that, we also want other paths to be operating in tandem," Crivello said. "Clark Crew is the first one we've really put a lot of time and effort and resources behind."
Clark Crew was developed by Travis Clark, the veteran of the Kansas City barbecue scene whom Famous Dave's hired last year as its national pitmaster.
"We just felt BBQ Holdings Inc. was a more appropriate name as we entered into a growth stage and as we have an open mind for acquiring other concepts," Crivello said. "We're all set up and geared up to make acquisitions when appropriate."
The financial results of the Famous Dave's and Clark Crew results will be consolidated under the holding company structure. As Clark Crew grows, Crivello said the firm will find a way to disclose its performance to investors.
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Goodguys is celebrating 30 years of classic car shows at the with an All-American car show and 1980s bash March 24-25.
In honor of the big birthday, there will be a "Flashback Sunday," with a special 1980s playlist and a special parking area for cars built in 1983 — the year of the first Goodguys event.
Organizers want fans to bring out American-made or powered 1983 model vehicles and wear 80’s apparel and celebrate 80s music and pop culture.
Also as part of that, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members Eric Clapton and James Hetfield of Metallica will have cars on display at the show — they'll be trying to snag the Goodguys West Coast Custom of the Year award. Eric Clapton will have his recently finished 1932 Ford Victoria on display indoors as well.
Over the course of the weekend, there will be indoor and outdoor car shows with more than 3,000 hot rods — Lil’ deuce coupes, hot rod roadsters, chopped Merc customs, Hemi Cuda’s, Six Pack Challengers, Boss 429 Mustangs, Pontiac GTO’s and other specialty vehicles of all years, makes and models will be on display.
(Click from last year's Goodguys event.)
There will be a Goodguys Autocross, where cars and trucks will make runs through the electronically timed Goodguys AutoCross course. The course is about 1000 feet in length and features tight turns with rapid acceleration and deceleration. Speeds average 20-30mph while testing to extreme limits the vehicle’s performance capabilities.
On Saturday, Revell Monogram will be sponsoring the Model Car Make n’ Take at 1 pm. Free model car kits will be available for the kids (while supplies last) to build the kits and take them home. A full-scale model car show will also be featured.
SWAP MEET & CARS FOR SALE CORRAL:
Thousands of vendors will be on hand in the swap meet selling rare and hard to find automotive equipment. The swap meet is a great place to get used or “experienced” impossible to find automotive stuff at rock bottom prices.
The Cars for Sale Corral is an outdoor sales arena featuring hundreds and
hundreds of collector cars for sale. The cars for sale range from turn-key ready to drive beauties to “fixer uppers” and everything in between.
Hours are Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Available at the event or online at www.good-guys.com
General Admission: $17, Kids (7-12): $6.00, Under 6: FREE, Fairgrounds Parking: $8.00
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We May All Be Vegetarians in 40 Years
If all those photos of the polar ice caps melting haven't freaked you out about the state of the Earth, this report just might. Scientists from the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) have concluded that nearly the entire world's population may have to become (mostly) vegetarian to avoid food shortages.
According to the report, currently humans get 20 percent of protein from animal-based products; an extra 2 billion people are expected to enter the world by 2050, which means the protein-portion of our diet will have to drop to 5 percent.
The water scientists claim that in the future, there will not be enough water to produce food for the 9 billion people wandering the world by 2050 if everyone keeps eating meat. "There will be just enough water if the proportion of animal-based foods is limited to 5 percent of total calories," the report said. Considering this year's food-price-lifting drought, a shortage is expected since "a country's ability to produce food is limited by the amount of available water on its croplands." Researchers suggest water-rich countries produce more food for those who lack water.
Reducing the amount of animal-based products in our diet is one way to conserve water for growing more food, SIWI wrote. Animal-based foods use up five to 10 times more water than a vegetarian diet, the Gaurdian reported. Land and resources used to grow feed for animals can be redirected to growing plants for human consumption.
"Nine hundred million people already go hungry and 2 billion people are malnourished in spite of the fact that per capita food production continues to increase," researchers wrote. "With 70 percent of all available water being in agriculture, growing more food to feed an additional 2 billion people by 2050 will place greater pressure on available water and land."


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EA has said today that its EA Sports label is "still committed to basketball" despite failing to release a game in its NBA sim series since 2009's NBA Live 10.
Speaking during a financials call today, EA's Frank Gibeau contrasted this year's canned NBA Live 13 with the success of Fifa 13 and Madden NFL 13, which he said were examples of when "a spectacular core product sets us up for big opportunities with online services". But, he went on to admit, "this year's NBA Live did not meet that test. We take this situation seriously."
Gibeau added, "EA Sports is committed to basketball, and we will publish a basketball game when we can match the quality of franchises like Madden NFL, NHL Hockey, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Fifa Soccer."
EA binned NBA Live 13 last month - just weeks before its expected release - in yet another tragic turn of events for the publisher's basketball sim series.
EA Sports exec VP Andrew Wilson admitted at the time that this year's effort was just not up to scratch. "Making great games is not easy, and we're just not there yet on NBA LIVE 13," he said.
This year's entry was to be EA's triumphant return to the genre in two years, since NBA Elite 11's cancellation left the basketball sim space wide open for 2K Sport's NBA series to dominate unchallenged since 2010.


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Hyundai Settlement Offers Lump Sum Paybacks to Owners of Overstated Fuel Economy Models
February 27, 2013 6:04 PM
Drivers also have the option of accepting the debit card payments instead
After admitting that it
overstated fuel economy ratings
for some of its models last year, Hyundai has now agreed to settle its U.S. lawsuits.
A filing, which was revealed today, showed that Hyundai agreed to
general terms of a settlement
earlier this month. No financial terms have been disclosed, so it is unclear what Hyundai will have to pay under the settlement.
The proposed settlement gives owners of Hyundai models with misstated fuel economy ratings the choice to either continue accepting money through the debit card plan (which offers periodic payments to a credit card) or receive a lump sum settlement payout.
Payout amounts will depend on the difference in fuel economy from the actual figure to the overstated figure. Those with previously rated 40 MPG models -- like the Accent, Elantra, Veloster and Sonata Hybrid -- are expected to get a larger payout than those with under 40 MPG.
Hyundai said it had set aside about $225 million for its owner compensation plans.
Kia was also busted for overstating fuel economy ratings for some of its models, but the automaker was not a part of Hyundai's settlement. However, Kia was invited to join the settlement and is currently reviewing the terms.
Back in December 2011,
called on the EPA to investigate Hyundai over its fuel economy claims. Hyundai claimed that its Elantra achieved 29 MPG in the city and 40 MPG on highway. However, the organization received a higher-than-usual number of complaints that real-world mileage was in the mid-20 mpg range.
The EPA investigated Hyundai for misleading mileage claims and found that the fuel economy estimates of most of its 2012-2013 models were overstated. It made the same conclusion for Kia, and both automakers said they would lower the fuel economy estimates on the majority of their 2012 to 2013 models.
Hyundai and Kia admitted to overstating the estimated fuel economy on window stickers of about 900,000 vehicles sold in the U.S. since late 2010. Some of the MPG window stickers that will required include the Hyundai Accent and the Kia Soul ECO. The Accent had its 30/40/33 (city/highway/combined) rating drop to 28/37/31. The Kia Soul ECO saw the biggest drop of any affected model going from 27/35/30 to 24/29/26.
Kia said it has set aside about $187 million for its owner compensation plans.
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Official figures have yet to be published, but the world's second-biggest mobile phone producer, Chinese company Huawei, claims it has crossed the symbolic 200-million-unit mark in 2018, and is now aiming for 250 million units in 2019. If it achieves this goal, it may well steal the market's number one spot from Samsung. Huawei certainly has what it takes to succeed in its bid to overtake its South Korean rival. Along with a brand that is increasingly recognised around the world, the company has a demonstrated knack for cutting-edge innovation that is the envy of its competitors.
In 2018 alone, the Chinese producer launched not one but two revolutionary smartphones: the P20 Pro, the first smartphone equipped with a triple camera and a 3x optical zoom (the P20 Pro still tops the DxOMark rankings for smartphone image quality), and the Mate 20 Pro, an ultra-powerful handset that can wirelessly charge other compatible smartphones. Both devices are every bit as good as their high-end counterparts sold by Apple and Samsung.
Another of Huawei's strengths is its aggressive positioning in the mid-range market, via its subsidiary Honor. Honor products benefit from the same innovations as their high-end siblings just a few months later, and retail for less than €500, overshadowing competing models from Chinese brands OnePlus and Xiaomi. In the medium term, another Chinese phone-maker, Xiaomi, could take the No.1 spot in the market.
With its extensive range of cheap handsets for all kinds of consumers, and an increasingly international marketing strategy, Xiaomi has everything it needs to be a key player in the years to come. In imitation of Huawei's strategy of developing a lower-end subsidiary, Xiaomi has also decided to develop a second "more fashionable" brand, which it has christened Poco. In addition, it is currently the world's biggest producer of smart watches and bracelets.
Given the power and dynamism of the Asian market, which have made it the world's fastest-growing, it's no surprise that Chinese phone manufacturers are reporting soaring sales. It's also likely that they will become increasingly dominant in Europe and America; the threat of a US boycott won't be enough to put the brakes on Huawei's international expansion.


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Rising raw food prices—from milk to almonds—caused "high-profile blowups" among several big food stocks, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
Cramer singled out one company, Dean Foods, as a stock that investors should avoid. He called the stock "radioactive," and investors seemed to heed his advice—the shares dropped more than 10 percent in early trading Tuesday.
"Jeez, it's a milk company," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street." "People are going to think it's radioactive milk. No. What I mean is that the raw costs are going up here."
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The stock joins ConAgra Foods, Annie's and WhiteWave Foods as companies suffering from the same kind of pricing problems, Cramer said. Dean Foods, the largest dairy processor in the U.S., warned on Tuesday that it could post a loss in the first quarter because of rising milk costs.
Dean Foods said that milk prices rose sooner than expected in 2014 because of growing global demand.
"The whole food chain is rebelling against the stocks," Cramer said.
Rising almond prices hurt WhiteWave, a Dean Foods spinoff that specializes in plant-based dairy products, and increasing organic wheat prices hurt the snack business of natural food maker Annie's, Cramer said.
(Read more: Cramer: Can't shake faith in this fast food stock)
Cramer added that the ongoing drought in California is "playing havoc with a lot of the raw food costs," including almond and avocado prices.
—By CNBC's Jeff Morganteen. Follow him on Twitter at @jmorganteen and get the latest stories from "Squawk on the Street." Reuters contributed to this report.


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Commuters braced for 1.1% average rise in rail fares from January
- Regulated fares will rise by no more than 1%
- A 12-month pass from Oxford to London will go up by £52 to £5,620
- Season tickets between Liverpool and Manchester will rise by £28 to £2,960
Rail passengers will see all train fares rise by an average 1.1 per cent from January next year, the Rail Delivery Group announced today.
Regulated fares, which include season tickets on most commuter journeys, some ‘off-peak’ return tickets on long distance journeys and ‘anytime’ tickets around major cities, will rise by no more than 1 per cent as announced during the summer. This is linked to July’s rate of retail price index inflation.
But unregulated fares such as off-peak leisure tickets, can go up by as much as train companies choose, hence the average 1.1 per cent increase.
Train fares: Regulated fares, which include seasont tickets, will rise by up to 1 per cent, but unregulated fares can go up as much as the train companies like
The industry body RDG said the hike was the smallest since January 2010, after rises of 2.2 per cent this year and 2.8 per cent in January 2014.
But rail fares have risen nearly three times faster than wages over the past five years, with regulated tickets having increased by 25 per cent since 2010, compared to a 9 per cent increase in the average pay, according to a study by the Action for Rail published over the summer.
Commuters with annual season tickets will be able to find out how much the fare will be next year on the National Rail website.
A 12-month pass from Oxford to London will go up by £52 to £5,620, while commuters from Reading will pay an extra £48 a year to travel to the capital and those from Basingstoke will see their season ticket rise by £40 to £4,196 in 2016.
Next year's average increase in train fares is the lowest for six year
Here are the annual train fares rises since 2010 according to rail industry body the Rail Delivery Group:
- January 2010 1.1 per cent
- January 2011 6.2 per cent
- January 2012 5.9 per cent
- January 2013 3.9 per cent
- January 2014 2.8 per cent
- January 2015 2.2 per cent
- January 2016 1.1 per cent
Workers travelling from Gloucester to Birmingham will have to pay out £36 more than the 2015 price of £3,860 for a ticket.
Passengers making daily journeys between Liverpool and Manchester will see their season tickets rise by £28, up from £2,960 to £2,988.
One of the longest commutes is from Cheltenham Spa to London. Those on this route will see their annual tickets rising from £9,704 to £9,800 from 2 January - a 0.99 per cent hike.
Paul Plummer, chief executive of the RDG which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: ‘We know that nobody likes to pay more to travel by train, especially to get to work, and at 1.1 per cent this is the smallest average increase in fares for six years.
‘On average 97p in every pound from fares is spent on trains, staff and other running costs.’
Plummer said the railway’s day-to-day operating costs were almost covered by the fares as passenger numbers have doubled in the last 20 years.
Rail Minister: Claire Perry claimed the Government was ‘helping hard-working people with the cost of transport’
Rail Minister Claire Perry claimed the Government was ‘helping hard-working people with the cost of transport’ and said the decision to link regulated fare increases to no more than RPI will save the average season ticket holder £425 by 2020.
But Martin Abrams, of the Campaign for Better Transport, claimed more work was needed to achieve a ‘truly affordable railway’ and said it was ‘simply unfair’ that no flexible ticketing options had been introduced for the growing rank of part-time workers.
He said: ‘To avoid pricing people off the railways, the train operating companies and the Government need to work closely together to provide fairer, simpler and cheaper fares through flexible ticketing and making sure people are always sold the cheapest ticket available.’
Abrams said that many part-time workers have to ‘fork out for five-day season tickets which don't give them the same savings that full-time commuters get’.
David Sidebottom, passenger director at the independent watchdog Transport Focus, claimed passengers in England would be relieved that regulated fares are capped at inflation and there is no flexibility for individual ticket prices to go up by more than this.
But he added: ‘Fares are still going up overall, on the back of years of above-inflation increases.
‘Now that passengers are paying more than ever before, it is absolutely critical that industry delivers a more reliable day-to-day railway and starts to offer more flexible ticketing products.’
Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash said: ‘Today's rail fare hike is yet another kick in the teeth for the British passenger who is already paying some of the highest fares in Europe to travel on clapped out and overcrowded trains.
‘With inflation hovering around zero, today's fare increase is all about ring-fencing and increasing the profit margins of the rip-off private rail companies who, once again, will be laughing all the way to the bank.’
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City slams PHA for marketing ineffectiveness
By Shannon Quesnel
The Penticton Hospitality Association has been ordered by the city to give up its taxpayer-fueled marketing funds to Tourism Penticton. Mayor Garry Litke said association is in breach of contract by not spending enough on marketing.
(SHANNON QUESNEL / iNFOnews.ca)
November 05, 2013 - 11:19 AM
PENTICTON - The Penticton Hospitality Association has failed to effectively market the community according to city officials who ordered the association to give its funding to Tourism Penticton.
"In our view the contract was not being adhered to," Mayor Garry Litke said at Monday night's council meeting.
The association signed a five-year deal with the city in 2012 to use a two per cent additional hotel room tax to market the community and the 40-plus hotels and other services it represents.
Association director Tim Hodgkinson told council in May it has about $300,000 for marketing with $150,000 of it earmarked for projects. Coun. John Vassilaki and others have criticized the association of sitting on its hands and ineffectively marketing the city's 2013 summer season.
Corporate officer Dana Schmidt said the association "is in breach of its obligation" and the city "encourages" it to co-operate with Tourism Penticton.
"Council does not take this kind of decision lightly," Litke said. Discussions and mediation were used with the association to make sure the hotel room tax was being well spent. Audited financial statements obtained by the city however showed a large amount of money was unspent and this was "contrary to the destination marketing strategy."
Council re-assigned the administration of the two per cent accommodation tax to Tourism Penticton on Oct. 31.
Litke declined to give an opinion on the possibility of the association looking for an appeal or starting a lawsuit.
To contact a reporter for this story, to send photos or videos, email Shannon Quesnel at email@example.com, call 250-488-3065, send tweets to @shannonquesnel1 or @InfoNewsPentict. You can also check out Shannon Quesnel or Infotel News on Facebook.
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A team of researchers from Griffith University, Australian National University, University of Newcastle, University of Melbourne and University of Wollongong have come together to investigate multi-stakeholder views on the use of, and access to medicinal cannabis in Australia.
Focusing on three key areas, the study looked at public and industry preferences for medicinal cannabis, possibility of having medicinal cannabis products registered with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and clinical trials to determine the baseline effectiveness of different cannabinoids and cannabis medicines.
Many submissions from patients or family members stated they had experienced obstacles in accessing medicinal cannabis products, pointing to various supply, regulatory, legislative, financial, and dispensing challenges that hindered timely access to medicinal cannabis products.
According to lead researcher Dr Daniel Erku from Griffith University, “While the government has made a series of reforms to the way these products are accessed, the current model is still not fit for purpose because it puts a lot of pressure on both prescribers and patients.”
Interest in cannabis-based medicines (CBMs) has increased in Australia, but while recent policy and legislative changes have enabled health practitioners to prescribe CBMs, many patients still struggle to access them.
The question of how to regulate medicinal cannabis has been a major source of debate in many countries and continues to divide the public health community.


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After over 85 years of producing some of Manhattan’s finest bialys, the legendary bagel shop is finally establishing an uptown outpost.
Since 1936, the bakers at Kossar’s Bagels & Bialys have been hard at work feeding the fine people of the Lower East Side. The brand was established over 85 years ago when founders Isadore Mirsky and Morris Kossar established a popular bakery in the Lower East Side to help feed the thousands of Jewish immigrants who were fleeing the discrimination they faced in Poland and Eastern Europe. The immigrants from Bialystok, Poland in particular brought with them a traditional bread known as a “Bialystoker Kuchen”, and before too long the Bialy Boom was born.
In 1953, Morris Kossar bought out his partner and renamed the store “Kossar’s Bialys”, and then in 1960 he moved the bakery to 367 Grand Street, where it has been operating ever since. Made with love and a profound appreciation for the founder’s cultural traditions, Kossar’s has established itself as a staple of New York’s culinary scene and is now the oldest remaining bialy bakery in the United States. Recently though, the historic bakery has begun its first-ever expansion program, and has been steadily making plans to develop multiple locations across Manhattan. Their first-ever expansion recently opened up in the newly developed Hudson Yards neighborhood at 526 West 30th Street, and now the team has just confirmed their intention to open up a third location on the Upper East Side.
Kossar’s newest expansion will see the bakery opening up at 270 West 72nd Street, replacing the greatly beloved Pier 72 Diner. In operation for over 42 years, owner Jimmy Papalambros’s popular diner had become something of an icon among Upper West Side residents, and loyal fans were devastated to learn in 2020 that the diner would be shutting its doors for good. Despite protests from numerous customers, the space has sadly remained vacant since December 2020.
Thankfully though, the neighborhood has finally found a suitable replacement for the iconic Greek diner. While the team has not yet outlined their time table for opening, they have already put up the proper signage and have listed the bakery as “Coming Soon” on their website. For more information on their latest plans for expansion, you can follow Kossar’s on Instagram. Additionally, if you don’t live in the neighborhood but are eager to try out their signature bagels and bialys, you can order them wholesale or for catering through the Kossar’s website.


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It’s still a week to go before Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will officially hit the market, but China has already seen knockoff versions of the handsets being peddled in some cities.
In Shenzhen, some shopkeepers are selling a copycat iPhone 6s for about 600 yuan (US$94.3) and the Plus version for 1,100 yuan, Apple Daily reported.
The knockoff iPhone looks almost similar to the authentic handset except that it is slightly thicker. A reporter saw a gold-colored handset featuring a dual core processor and offering 8 gigabytes storage memory.
Shopkeepers in the Huaqiangbei electronic market were quoted as saying that they will later offer other colors such as silver, space gray and rose gold. The newer knockoff products will offer quad core processor, which will offer higher speed.
The fake iPhone 6s is also said to feature the fingerprint recognition function Touch ID. Users can unlock the phone by pressing their fingers on the sensor. But the Touch ID can unlock the phone by anybody’s fingerprint, meaning anyone — not just the owner — can access the handset.
As for software, the knockoff 6s and 6s Plus phones do not run Apple’s iOS operating system. Instead, they run the Android system. The operating system may sometimes go choppy, but users may find no difference in the interface when compared to the real thing.
Meanwhile, it is the first time that a knockoff version uses the same Lightning cables as the real handsets, according to the report.
“Details of the knockoff iPhone 6s Plus have been taken quite seriously. The interface has 90 percent similarities with the real one. I will not call it a knockoff but a quality imitation,” a worker at an electronics store in Hong Kong told Apple Daily after examining the phone.
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Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of J Sainsbury (OTCMKTS:JSAIY) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research note published on Thursday. Zacks Investment Research currently has $15.00 price objective on the stock.
According to Zacks, “J Sainsbury plc is a leading UK food retailer with interests in financial services. It consists of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets, Sainsbury’s Local, Bells Stores, Jacksons Stores and JB Beaumont, Sainsbury’s Online and Sainsbury’s Bank. It employs 148,000 people. “
Several other analysts also recently issued reports on JSAIY. Kepler Capital Markets assumed coverage on shares of J Sainsbury in a research note on Wednesday, December 20th. They issued a hold rating for the company. Berenberg Bank started coverage on shares of J Sainsbury in a research report on Tuesday, October 3rd. They set a buy rating on the stock. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. The company currently has a consensus rating of Buy and an average price target of $15.00.
The business also recently announced a None dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, January 9th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 20th will be given a dividend of $0.144 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 17th.
About J Sainsbury
J Sainsbury plc is engaged in grocery-related retailing and retail banking. The Company’s segments include Retailing; Financial services, and Property investments. The Retailing segment is engaged in the operation of supermarkets and convenience. The Financial services segment includes the operations of Sainsbury’s Bank plc (Sainsbury’s Bank).
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Four 16-ton cranes hoisted pallets of California oranges into the hold of the freighter Spring Breeze last week at the rate of 2,200 cases an hour until all 248,190 were loaded for the 12-day voyage from the Port of Long Beach to Japan.
Every week, a similar Stockholm-based Cool Carriers refrigerated ship, laden with California citrus, makes the transpacific crossing under charter to Sunkist Growers, evidence of the growing role of export sales. Exports last year accounted for $2.66 billion of California’s $13.5-billion in gross agricultural receipts, according to federal figures released Monday.
As a result, growers are faced with new opportunities--and an increasing dependency on foreign markets and vulnerability to international competition and trade practices.
For example, said Russell Hanlin, president of Sherman Oaks-based Sunkist, the strong dollar and restrictive trade practices have shrunk the Western European market for California citrus to a bare 1 million cases last year from about 6 million in 1980.
“Fortunately for the growers, we’ve had commensurate growth in the Far East, which now dominates our export picture,” Hanlin said.
Still, overall, the state’s agricultural exports have plunged from 1981’s record $4.2 billion and remain slightly below 1978’s total of $2.8 billion. “The down trend in agricultural exports has severely depressed California agriculture because of the industry’s increased dependency on exports,” Security Pacific National Bank reported in its 1985 review of California agriculture.
Current federal farm programs that support U.S. prices at levels above world prices have fed this down trend, particularly hurting California’s exports of cotton and rice, according to the California Farm Bureau Federation, the state’s largest organization of farmers and ranchers.
(Congress is considering legislation to replace current farm policy, which expires Sept. 30. The House began drafting its bill last week, and the Senate is expected to begin this week, but a consensus is not expected to come easily.)
The California federation, generally among the most ardent champions of a market-oriented farm program geared to improve the ability of farmers to compete internationally, has co-sponsored with the state a series of trade seminars--including one at Monterey last week--to encourage growers and shippers to get involved in exporting. California’s stake is not small: It already ranks third, behind the major grain-growing states of Iowa and Illinois, in volume of exports, accounts for $1 in every $12 of the nation’s export sales and provides more than 95% of 14 major export commodities. Cotton, almonds, citrus, grapes and rice account for 56% of its agricultural exports. And 60% of the state’s cotton crop is earmarked for export.
Nationally, agricultural trade generated a $19.1-billion surplus last year, while the nation’s total trade ran a $120-billion trade deficit, Mike Dwyer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service told the Monterey gathering.
“If you’re waiting for the dollar to weaken,” Dwyer said, “I think you’re making a mistake. Quality is what is selling American products, not price.”
The potential for growth in agricultural exports is large, he said, especially in so-called high-valued and value-added products, which include fresh produce, meat and processed foods, in contrast to such bulk commodities as grains.
Richard Nutter, agricultural commissioner of Monterey County, the nation’s largest producer of vegetables and the state’s second-biggest agricultural county after Fresno, said that only $60 million of Monterey’s $1 billion in agricultural revenue last year came from exports.
“There’s plenty of product looking for new markets to go into,” Nutter said.
The California government is only beginning to develop overseas markets. By contrast, New York has maintained a foreign-trade office abroad for more than a decade. But the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the 2-year-old California World Trade Commission, which shared seminar sponsorship with the farm group and the University of California Cooperative Extension, intend to make the state’s agriculture much more visible abroad.
In March, for example, they sponsored a trade visit to Japan and Korea in an effort to improve awareness of California products and reduce restrictions on their importation, said Jean-Mari Peltier, the commission’s agricultural-trade specialist. International food shows offer growers an opportunity to link up with foreign buyers, but, so far, the U.S. presence at these has been “austere” at best, she said, compared to such competitors as the United Kingdom and France.
“One advantage we have in Japan,” Peltier said, “is that California holds a great deal of mystique.”
Rod Ballard, president of the family-run San Benito Orchards & Winery in Hollister, said he found that to be true in introducing dried fruits and wine among Pacific Rim nations generally. “California does have a super image,” Ballard said. “It’s something we should take advantage of.”
California plans to make its flag better known abroad by buying blocks of space at international trade shows and subletting shares of exhibit space on favorable terms to individual firms that otherwise could not afford to participate, according to Janece Long. She is leaving the California World Trade Commission in June to run her own export consulting firm.
“California is a nation-state,” said Sam Farr, a Democrat who represents Monterey County in the Assembly, “and it should be acting like a nation-state.”
Farr said legislators have grown increasingly aware of the importance of international trade. Studies are under way, he said, to explore the practicality of opening overseas trade offices and to find a way to modify the state’s so-called unitary system of taxing multinational firms on the basis of their worldwide operations--a practice that few other states follow and many foreign businesses find onerous.
Farr has sponsored legislation that would offer an alternative taxation scheme in exchange for a one-time fee that would finance state trade-expansion programs.
State and federal officials have a lot of negotiating to do to remove current import restrictions abroad. For example, said Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner Nutter, while fear of importing exotic agricultural pests can be real, it often is more politically motivated than biological. For example, he asserted, political considerations underlie Japan’s refusal to admit cabbage and Australia’s ban on celery imports.
“They all have rationales,” said shipper Derrell Fulmer of trade barriers. “They all make sense to one side and don’t make sense to the other.”
However, Americans have a lot to learn about international trade from their foreign competitors, added Fulmer, who represents Pandol Bros., a Delano shipper. “We Americans have a tendency to believe that we do everything better than anyone else,” he said. “Well, that’s not quite true.”
For example, he explained, quality is a prime consideration in selling abroad, and packing techniques that work domestically may not protect exported goods until they reach distant retail outlets abroad. Importers who receive damaged produce or immature fruit from one California shipper will hesitate before placing another order with any California shippers, Fulmer warned.
“Many California shippers are continuously shipping the wrong quality, and it hurts the whole industry,” he said.
CALIFORNIA FARM EXPORTS
Exports Percent of (billions of dollars) Total Harvest 1979 2.80 1979 21.7% 1980 4.01 1980 28.6 1981 4.20 1981 29.6 1982 3.31 1982 23.0 1983 3.05 1983 22.6
CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS for 1983
Indonesia 5% Taiwan 3% China 2% Other 5% Japan 30% Hong Kong 5% Canada 16% South Korea 16% Common Market countries 18%
Source: California Department of Food and Agriculture


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Apr 17, 2019
Conductive ink: automotive industry a significant growth opportunity
The automotive industry has emerged as a significant market opportunity for suppliers of conductive pastes and similar materials. It has the potential to one day rival in significance the irreplaceable photovoltaic market. Almost every major paste supplier with a global profile is re-organising its team and its product portfolio to capture this rising trend.


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Nintendo's Korean arm announced this past week that they are taking action against websites and people that have uploaded dodgy copies of Nintendo software. Though piracy has been on the rise since the introdution of the DS Lite in January, this is the first time Nintendo has initiated legal action in Korean courts. Nintendo Korea "filed a suit with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seoul against an unidentified number of users" and has encouraged prosecutors to probe further into individuals and sites suspected of piracy, but this is probably just the beginning:
"They infringed on our copyright by posting Nintendo's game titles through the Internet without our permission," a Nintendo spokesperson said. "The legal action was taken against only some sites and users this time but we will take further measures if such a violation continues to take place."
She declined to comment on how many sites and people are involved in the piracy suit. The legal action came after Mineo Koda, the Japanese chief executive of Nintendo Korea, had expressed concern about the lingering problem of piracy in South Korea that he said would pose a challenge to his company's business here.
Even if (and it's a big if) companies manage to get a handle on piracy in places like Korea or Taiwan, I have to wonder just what they're planning to do when it comes to the mecca for pirated goods - Mainland China. Legal action against piracy is getting to be serious business in a lot of Asia, and is raising some interesting questions about personal rights vs. the intellectual property rights of corporations.


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Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, probaby wouldn't have been proud, if he were still alive.
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, 75 chorus students from a Miramar elementary school showed up at a local Walmart, while wearing red, white and blue attire, to sing "God Bless America" as part of a prearranged tribute...until a Walmart representative refused to honor an agreement to allow the kids to sing inside the store, according to their school's principal, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The performance was a part of a school-related "I Will" campaign, which encourages folks to help a stranger and do a public service on 9/11, according to the principal.
School staff and parents then led the singers outside the store, where they gathered under a nearby flag that was at half-staff and sang "God Bless America."
That's when cops then showed up in response to a report of a "flash mob situation."
Wednesday evening a Walmart spokeswoman apologized and said the store is "inviting the kids back to the store to help honor the victims and fallen heroes."
Get the DUHtails at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.


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Shopify Inc. reported an unexpected loss in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 as the Canadian ecommerce platform provider increased spending to expand its customer network and build fulfillment centers across the U.S.
Shopify said in June that it planned to spend $1 billion to set up a network of fulfillment centers in the U.S. to help merchants using its platform deliver products more quickly and cheaply, much the way Amazon.com Inc. does. The Ottawa-based company, which processes millions of individual sales by hundreds of thousands of merchants every year, could potentially pool shipments from different online stores together, making shipping cheaper and more efficient. Storing products from different merchants in centralized warehouses would also decrease costs for sellers and buyers alike, and net Shopify another revenue stream.
That could help the company mount a defense against Amazon, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer 2019 Top 1000, which lowers prices and encourages merchants to use its own warehouses and shipping tools. The improvements have also helped attract new users to the platform and Shopify said it now has more than 1 million merchants around the world.
“Our strong results in the quarter were driven in part by the success of our international expansion, which is just one of the many ways we are investing in the platform,” said chief financial officer Amy Shapero.
Shopify doubled its losses to $78.8 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $23.8 million the previous year. Revenue in the three months ending Sept. 30 grew 44.6% to $390.6 million from $270.1 million. For the year so far, revenue rose 38.5% to $459.1 million from $331.4 million, while losses grew 99.4% to $125.6 million from $63.0 million.
Even as the company reports high growth rates in sales, the 44.6% increase in the third quarter was the slowest growth rate in Shopify’s four years as a public company. To combat that slowdown, it announced the purchase of warehouse robotics maker 6 River Systems Inc. last month to ramp up its plan to set up a network of fulfillment centers in the U.S.
Shopify is the ecommerce platform provider for 37 retailers in the Top 1000, according to the 2020 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000 E-Retailers report coming out this month.
In other earnings news:
- Consumer electronics behemoth Apple Inc. (No. 2) may use its new credit card, the Apple Card, to keep iPhone sales strong as consumers wait longer to upgrade devices. During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook and chief financial officer Luca Maestri described a potential solution to this upgrade problem: A new feature for the Apple Card will let consumers pay for their iPhones over 24 months with no interest and manage the payoff program from their iPhone. The program’s details aren’t clear, but Cook said making it simple to finance new devices gives consumers more confidence in upgrading. Apple doesn’t break out ecommerce sales, but total sales increased 1.8% for the fourth fiscal quarter ended Sept. 28 to $64.04 billion from $62.90 billion. For the fiscal year ended Sept. 28, sales fell 2.0% to $260.17 billion from $265.60 billion.
- Online home goods retailer Wayfair Inc. (No. 12) increased revenue 35.1% for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 to $2.31 billion from $1.71 billion a year before. However, losses grew 79.3% to $272.0 million from $151.7 million as tariffs took a toll, leading to higher retail prices and lower repeat customer orders. Wayfair compensated with higher ad spending to keep new shoppers coming in, leading to overall revenue growth. Year to date, Wayfair’s revenue is up 38.2% to $6.59 billion from $4.77 billion, while its losses grew 81.7% to $654.4 million from $360.2 million.
- Meal-kit seller Blue Apron Inc. (No. 98) increased its average order value 1.4% and the number of orders per customer 9.8% for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. However, overall revenue shrank 33.9% to $99.5 million from $150.6 million during the same period last year and the customer base contracted 34.8%. The decrease in sales comes as Blue Apron cuts back on marketing. It’s losses decreased 22.7% this quarter to $26.2 million from $33.9 million in the same quarter last year. Revenue for the year so far fell 31.6% to $360.5 million from $526.9 million and losses fell 60.2% to $39.2 million from $98.4 million.
- Online marketplace for handcrafted goods Etsy Inc. grew gross merchandise sales, or the total value of goods sold on its marketplaces, grew 30.1% to $1.20 billion in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $922.5 million in Q3 2018. For the first nine months of the year, gross merchandise sales grew 23.9% to $3.32 billion from $2.68 billion in the same period a year ago. Etsy is No. 16 in the ranking of Internet Retailer Online Marketplaces. 2019 figures include gross merchandise sales from Reverb Inc. (No. 35), an online marketplace for music gear, which Etsy acquired in August. Not including Reverb’s $76.9 million in sales, Etsy grew 21.7% to $1.12 billion in gross sales in Q3 year over year and 20.7% to $3.24 billion in the first three quarters of the year. Revenue, which Etsy receives from the commissions and seller services fees it charges its sellers, grew 31.6% to $197.9 million in Q3 2019 and 35.9% to $548.4 million in the first three quarters of 2019.
- Facebook Inc. delivered steady user growth and a 28.6% sales increase to $17.65 billion from $13.73 billion for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Facebook’s sales are mostly from its ads, as well as payments and “other fees.” The social media giant’s monthly global user base grew by 35 million, including 3 million new users in the lucrative North American market, which appeared to reach a plateau in recent years. Facebook added as many new users in the U.S. and Canada last quarter as it did the previous five quarters combined. On an earnings call with analysts, Facebook executives pointed to ads in Stories, where posts disappear after 24 hours, as a key revenue growth area. Facebook also mentioned growth of ads in the Explore section of its Instagram photo-sharing app, where users go to discover posts from people they don’t follow.
- Photo-centric social network Pinterest Inc. grew revenue for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 by 47.1% to $279.7 million from $190.2 million. The social network added 22 million users during the quarter, with 322 million users overall at the end of the quarter. The company said in its earnings release the user gains were driven by “double-digit growth in nearly all international countries.” Although, Pinterest’s overseas users generate less revenue than those in the U.S.—on average, domestic users brought in $2.93 each in the recent period, while each international user accounted for just 13 cents. Just 2 million of Pinterest’s 22 million new users in the quarter were in the U.S.


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A large number of small businesses have many concerns to keep track of, and owners may run into difficulties just trying to keep up with all of them. And while this problem is in no way unique to any particular company, it is nonetheless a major issue. Fortunately, it may be possible to find some relief through small business financing of different types.
Small business lending has been in the news a lot lately because of the restrictive ways in which banks have approached it in the last year or more, meaning that many companies may not be able to tap the kind of financing they need to grow and succeed. However, that shouldn’t be a reason for owners to get discouraged, and indeed, it should instead lead to continued efforts to obtain such a loan, according to a report from the Raleigh News and Observer. The trick is often in finding the right kind of financing from the right kind of lender.
One of the most important things that small business owners can do when they apply for a loan is to keep their expectations reasonable, and to know exactly how much they need to accomplish the goals they’re presenting to the lenders, the report said. For instance, if a company thinks it will need $300,000 to undergo expansion efforts, asking for $500,000 is likely to be a major turn-off for lenders. The more evidence companies can provide to show that they need the exact amount of money they’re asking for, the greater their chances of being approved will be. Banks like to see specificity, especially when they’re giving out large sums of money, and the more a small business can provide, the better the lenders will feel about extending that credit to them.
Of course, not every small business loan is created equal, and one type of financing that would work for one type of business venture may not be right for another, the report said. For this reason, companies will also need to do more to make sure that the kind of financing they’re applying for will work for them and their current needs in particular.
Other routes might work too
Meanwhile, companies hoping to shore up their finances even when they can’t obtain a small business loan may have a number of options to do so, the report said. That could include revamping the way they charge money for their services, or other options, as a means of potentially increasing their cash flow and reducing their need to rely on this kind of financing
“Quite often, there are lots of negotiable terms that people can look at to help ease them through time,” David Grant, president of the Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, chapter of the small business assistance nonprofit SCORE, told the newspaper. “You can work both ends of the spectrum, as far as trying to have your customers pay you in a shorter space of time or elongating the time it takes to pay your suppliers.”
Owners may also be able to find some amount of success by reducing the various costs they face in the course of running their companies. That can often include the rather expensive kinds of small business insurance coverage that costs companies thousands of dollars or more every year. By finding more affordable coverage for things like general liability insurance, among others, entrepreneurs may be able to boost their financial flexibility going forward so that their companies have a better chance to survive and thrive as they attempt to grow.


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(Des Moines, IA) —DenScore, a healthcare analytics company founded by local resident Dr. Kyle Gernhofer, announced today it was selected to join the second cohort of the Google for Startups Founders Academy, which is a nationwide 6 month, equity free program designed to help promising founders and their startups grow revenues and obtain access to capital.
The Founders Academy began on March 3 and consists of hands-on workshops across a range of topics including customer acquisition, hiring, and fundraising. DenScore is one of only 50 high potential startups that the Google for Startups team has selected for the first nationwide cohort. The founders Academy model was piloted in Atlanta last year with 45 Georgia based companies.
“We first heard about this program while participating in Patriot Boot Camp which was sponsored by Google for Startups. Our team knew the selection process would be highly competitive and we were elated to find out we made the cut,” says Kyle Gernhofer, CEO of DenScore. “This invaluable support from Google for Startups comes at a critical time when we’re beginning to utilize natural language processing and machine learning to gain a deeper understanding about dental performance and its impact on overall health. Having Google as a partner to fine-tune our technology while testing our value proposition is a dream come true for us!”
“85 percent of participants from Google for Startups Founders Academy that we ran in Georgia reported that the program helped grow their startup, whether that be through job creation, fresh pathways to capital, new strategic partnerships, or increased brand and marketing exposure,” says Jewel Burks Solomon, Head of Google for Startups US. “By expanding the program nationally, we’re hopeful that we can continue to level the playing field for underrepresented founders and their startups, like DenScore by connecting them to the best Google has to offer.”
DenScore is a B2B software solution which helps people receive higher quality, personalized and more affordable dental care. DenScore’s proprietary technology uses natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to measure dental performance from the lens of a patient so dental insurers, large employers and dental support organizations are better aligned with consumer needs. DenScore has been designed by a team of clinicians, data scientists and researchers to support value-based care initiatives which benefit multiple healthcare stakeholders.
Google for Startups works to level the playing field for startup founders and communities to succeed by bringing the best of Google’s products, connections, and best practices to startups. Paired with a deep commitment to create diverse startup communities, many of our offerings are designed specifically to provide underrepresented founders with access to resources and opportunities. We support startups everywhere to build something better. Because when startups succeed, we all succeed.


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HOUSTON - For most shoppers, what's on the price tag is what they pay. But for some, it's simply a starting point in a negotiation.
According to Consumer Reports, 89 percent of people who take the time to try and get a better price are rewarded with savings. While many customers are too embarrassed to try and get a better deal, the savings are often worth it.
Consumer Reports recommends starting with a salesperson. Hagglers may have to ask for a manager, but 55 percent of shoppers polled said that just saying they planned to check competitors' prices worked. Just under half of those surveyed said they used circulars or coupons from other competitors as leverage to get a better price.
Consumer Reports said customers should try to explain why they deserve a break, and argue that they're a loyal customer. Shoppers can also chat up the salesperson, and ask questions that make them answer with more than a simple yes or no. If neither of those tactics work, try being quiet. Silence can be awkward, and the store employee will likely say something to break the tension, possibly making a better offer.
Also, shoppers can resort to paying in cash. Businesses have to pay fees to credit card companies, so let the salesperson fork over that money in a discount.
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100m passed :)
- PlayStation 4 software sold 42.9 million units in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, which is up 2.3 million from the same period the previous fiscal year. 53 percent of those sales were full game software digital downloads, compared to 43 percent the previous year.
Software sales seem pretty great, crazy its higher this year than last, dispite God of War + Monster Hunter.
"Sony also altered its previous forecast that it will sell 16 million PlayStation 4s in fiscal year 2019, which runs from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020, to 15 million PlayStation 4s."
Dammit sony just do a perm price cut already!
Necro-bump this 2020: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=229249
Bumb in 2021: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9047071


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According to recent tests conducted by the Vermont-based nonprofit Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse, bright solid-colored plastic bags may contain high concentrations of lead. This industry/public interest advisory group – formed in an effort to reduce the amount of heavy metals in packaging and packaging components that are sold or distributed throughout the U.S. - screened 125 single-use shopping and mailing bags for the presence of the four regulated metals: lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in the inks used to print or color the bags.
Cadmium and lead are sometimes added as pigments to colorants in order to make single-use shopping bags more colorful or added to flexible polyvinyl chloride packaging as an inexpensive plasticizer and UV stabilizer. Though these likely pose little risk to consumers when handling the bags, when the end up in landfills, these toxic metals pose health and safety risks to the environment.
“For every 100 pounds of these shopping bags, we’re introducing about one pound of lead into commerce,” said Dr. Alex Stone, a safer chemical alternatives chemist with the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology.
“These bags ultimately end up in our incinerators, landfills, or recycling streams,” said Dr. Stone. “Lead is considered a persistent, bioaccumulative toxin. It’s a metal and isn’t destroyed, but only accumulates.”
These findings only add fuel to the growing trend by cities, regions and countries that are jumping on the “ban the plastic bag” bandwagon. It’s becoming clearer that making the switch to using reusable shopping bags like those offered by companies like Factory Direct Promos is more than a good idea. It’s a healthier and safer choice – for people and for the planet.
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