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Cities: Skylines Passes New Sales Milestone, Free DLC Coming
2 million and counting.
The SimCity-inspired Cities: Skylines has now sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, publisher Paradox Interactive announced this week. The celebrated PC city-building game, developed by Colossal Order, was released a year ago this week. The 2 million figure counts copies sold across PC, Mac, and Linux.
Skylines sold 250,000 copies in its first 24 hours after release last year, becoming Paradox's fastest-selling game in its history. In an effort to celebrate the game's first birthday and its big success, Paradox has announced it will release a free content update later this month with new features.
The update, coming March 22, will introduce landscaping-themed content and features, including the ability to perform "mild terraforming" for existing cities. Additionally, the update will make canals and quays available for construction.
Additionally, Paradox has put out a video that speaks to the game's first-year accomplishments. One notable piece of information is that Skylines development started with just nine people and today, the team's headcount is only 16 people.
Developers also teased that they plan to support Skylines for "years" into the future with "meaningful" new content and challenges.
"Our team is floored by the response players have had to Cities: Skylines and by the level of success the game has achieved in such a short time," Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen said in a statement. "We knew that trying to create a city-building game with such a small team was an ambitious project, but we'd been working towards that goal ever since the first Cities in Motion title, and we knew, if given the chance, that we could make it happen. A year ago, we achieved that goal, and the results have been nothing short of incredible. We've got so much more in store for all two million of our players, and I want to thank each and every one of them."
Colossal Order has also announced a sweepstakes where one player will win a trip to visit the studio in Tampere, Finland. This person will get a tour of the studio and access to the game's anniversary party. You can enter by submitting anything Chirper-themed--it could be art, poetry, a song, a game mod, or anything else. A full set of contest rules are available here.
In GameSpot's 8/10 Cities: Skylines review, real-life mayor Brett Todd wrote: "Right now, there is no better way to take a peek at life as a mayor without filing your papers to run for office in the real world."
An expansion titled Snowfall was released in February.
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Do well, do good.
This is a motto that Santa Catalina School has lived by since its foundation in 1950 by Dominican Sisters. The Catholic school’s educational mission seeks to “develop students’ intellectual curiosity along with their spiritual moral, creative and physical talents.”
Those haven’t been the only areas of focus for Santa Catalina’s administrators — the school has also been looking to improve convenient access for their students to their course materials.
Now, students and their families have a one-stop-shop. The accredited Monterey, Calif. School has officially partnered with MBS Direct as its course material fulfillment solution.
The school previously offered online purchasing through a different vendor, but had to choose a new fulfillment partner when that company went out of business. Their previous vendor often encouraged students to self-source their books, and school administrators realized their families needed more convenience.
“In our research to find an excellent solution, we discovered from a number of similar schools that they use MBS Direct,” said John B. Aimé, Assistant Head of School. “We felt that MBS offered a one-stop shopping experience for our parents, we feel that MBS will offer support and services that a smaller company wouldn’t be able to provide, and we liked the flexibility and responsiveness of the MBS Direct representatives.”
Santa Catalina School serves as a day school for 100 middle schoolers and a boarding school for 245 high school girls. Because of this, their educational needs vary widely, and students’ parents may not always be in the immediate area. Through their official online bookstore, families will now only need an internet connection to log in to one place to order everything their students’ classes require.
With an eye on the future, incoming freshmen at Santa Catalina also utilize iPads® in the classroom. In addition to physical textbooks, students and their families will be able to purchase E-books and access codes, and take advantage of around-the-clock customer service and convenient online buyback options.
And Santa Catalina’s faculty is enjoying some of the perks of MBS Direct, as well.
“So far, the faculty has been very happy using Course Director to set up next year’s book orders,” Aimé said. “The easy shopping experience will be beneficial to our families, and we like the customer support MBS Direct offers.”

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Virtual cooking classes bring professional chef into your kitchen
EDMONTON -- You can't go out to eat right now, but you can still have restaurant-quality food at home.
Edmonton restaurant MilkCrate is delivering a professional chef into your kitchen – from a safe distance.
"It's been stressful but times like this call for creative solutions," Brochu said.
Chef Steven Brochu is hosting virtual cooking classes.
"I will go and pick up all of the ingredients, drop off the ingredients at their house, I'll run home to my place and we will set up a video call," Brochu explained on CTV Morning Live Edmonton. "We'll work through the recipe together."
Requests so far include vegetarian pesto pasta, Beef Wellington and sourdough bread.
Brochu has done one-on-one classes and groups. The cost ranges between $40 to $80 dollars an hour per kitchen.
MilkCrate is also offering takeout and delivery, one of many restaurants having to pivot hard to stay in business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We're just trying to do what we can to keep our small staff on. It's different and we're looking forward to what the world looks like after this as well," Brochu said. "Support us if you can, but also stay safe."


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It was an unexpected win for Cartwright Group , a major trailer and commercial vehicle body manufacturer.
The Altrincham headquartered firm, which is entering its most exciting period in its 67-year-history was recognised in the Barclays Judges Choice Award.
The award recognises a business that has made a wider contribution to the region, as well as having a strong 12 months.
Since winning the award, Cartwright recently beat off stiff compaction to win a contract with Hermes to supply the company with 244 specialist home delivery box vans and 70 tractors on contract hire.
It has also secured a deal with Trafford Park-based TAG Forklift Truck Services which was seeking a special bespoke trailer for its future distribution requirements.
Cartwright, which was founded by Stanley Cartwright with a simple workshop specialising in timber framed vehicle coach and bodywork, has expanded operations beyond its manufacturing roots.
It now offers rental, fleet services, and finance to become a true ‘one-stop shop’ for trailer needs, as well as launching an export drive and diversifying into conversions and airport ground support equipment.
Today, the £140m plus turnover business employs around 900 staff, and is the second largest trailer manufacturer in the UK.
Mark Cartwright, Cartwright’s group managing director told the M.E.N: “We were delighted to have been named as the Barclays Judges Choice in the recent MEN Awards.
“It’s a tremendous achievement and testimony to all the hard work from the shop floor through to senior management which has taken place in recent years.
“Cartwright is entering one of its most exciting periods in its 67 year history.
“In the past five years we have enjoyed exponential growth as we have continued to diversify and expand the business both in the UK and now on a global basis.
“Turnover has grown from £79m to £149m and we have almost doubled the size of our workforce from 500 to nearly 1000 employees. We have further strengthened our management team and are continuing to invest in new manufacturing processes and technology.
“To be recognised in this way on our home patch is absolutely brilliant not just for the business, but also most importantly for our employees and our apprentices embarking on a career in manufacturing.”
Greg Doran, Barclays Northern head of TMT, said: “Barclays is proud of our history supporting businesses across the North and we are delighted to be one of the headline sponsors at the MEN Business Awards 2019.
"The standard of entrants this year was exceptionally high and the judges had a tough job selecting the eventual winners. Cartwright Group is fantastic example of a modern British manufacturing company and is a worthy winner of the Barclays Judges Choice Award.
"A third generation family business that has continued to be successful through a commitment to innovation and expansion into new markets.
"The growth of the business speaks volumes about the current management team and I look forward to seeing where they will take the business in the months and years ahead.”
Last year, CarFinance 247 , an online car finance specialist which was founded in 2006 by siblings Reg and Louis Rix, picked up the LDC Mitchell Henry Prize Award.
The award celebrates the most ambitious and growing business in Greater Manchester.
Judges were impressed by the Ardwick-headquartered company’s impressive business model that has seen this fast=growing tech business grow from 20 staff to nearly 500 in the past six years.
The business is growing at a faster rate than the used car finance industry and has become a key employer in the North West. Last year turnover grew by 60 per cent and profit was up by 129 per cent.
The business also relocated its 450 strong workforce to Manchester’s Universal Square, with an investment figure of £2.5m for the fit out and features.
The company has recently bolstered its executive team with the appointment of Ryan Bryers as CTO/CIO.
Bryers, a digital transformation expert, and ranked as one of the UK’s top 100 CIOs , joins CarFinance 247 from Worldline, a business that connects and secures transactions covering the entire payment chain and has a leading UK presence in the rail industry.
The CTO/CIO role is new for CarFinance 247 and is the latest move from the business, which has been shoring up its IT capabilities over the last 12 months to capitalise on a market that is rapidly moving online.
Louis said: “We’ve had some outstanding results this financial year, including winning the MEN Business Awards’ Mitchell Henry Prize, which recognises businesses that have made a lasting contribution to the region.
“It was a very proud moment for us as a business born and bred in Manchester. As we look to grow and expand over the next year, recruiting more people across our tech, sales and business services teams, the award acts as an endorsement of continued success.”
Jonathan Bell, head of LDC in the North West, said: “Reg and Louis Rix are true disruptors and in CarFinance 247 they have built a business that has not only achieved exceptional growth, but firmly established itself as one of Manchester’s top employers.
"The team’s unwavering ambition, commitment, and impact on the local market made them worthy winners of the LDC Mitchell Henry prize, and we’re excited to see where their journey takes them next.”
There is still time to enter the awards. Deadline for entry is 8 March. The awards can be entered by visiting www.menbusinessoftheyearawards.co.uk .
The full list of categories are:
Head office outside Greater Manchester (turnover £50m+) sponsored by Manchester Airport
Turnover £100m + sponsored by PwC
Turnover £50m - £100m sponsored by Robert Walters
Turnover £25m - £50m sponsored by Hill Dickinson
Turnover £10m - £25m sponsored by Brewin Dolphin
Turnover £5m - £10m sponsored by Manchester Evening News
Turnover £1m - £5m sponsored by Salford Business School
One to watch (turnover £0-£1m) sponsored by Bolton School


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Dov Charney is easy to get ahold of. He spends most of his waking hours in his manufacturing facility in South Central Los Angeles, where he keeps a humble room furnished with a twin-sized bed that adjoins the factory floor. And, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, given his divisive reputation, his phone number is readily available. He even keeps on his read receipts; when I texted him last week, he responded almost instantaneously.
Not easy to get ahold of, he says, is the government.“The government is disorganized,” Charney said last week while pacing the Los Angeles Apparel factory floor. “The problem with the government is they can’t spend the money without the FDA approval, whatever. There’s so much stuff.”Los Angeles Apparel, a facsimile of his firstborn American Apparel, opened in 2014, originally as a wholesale distributor before launching an online shop that sells au courant edits of all the old classics: The tees are made of a heavier cotton and hang looser, the colorways are more muted. Amongst the first to model the new line was the U.S. Army, which purchases tees in bulk from LA Apparel under a subcontract. During our conversation-slash-FaceTime factory tour, Charney pointed out several flats of “mushroom” colored tees, plastic wrapped and ready to be shipped out.Charney thusly has at his disposal one of the larger sewn-products facilities in the G20, a skilled workforce of 400 to 450, and experience churning out big orders. He also has a mother, and is concerned about her catching COVID-19. “If my parents are in a room with their friends, I want those masks on their friends and on my mother,” he said. With surgical masks in short supply, he made her one, or at least a crude approximation.On March 13, Los Angeles Apparel began offering three-packs of cotton facemasks for $30 via its website. Beginning with a pattern Charney found on a DIY blog, they tested multiple prototypes before landing on the final product: a plain-looking but arguably fashionable mask made from heavy french terry and wire that can contour easily to any face. There is ruching around the nose and chin; Charney claims each mask costs more to produce than a sweatshirt. They only come in one colorway—black—but they intend to grow the palette.
Charney is very clearly proud of what he’s made. Over FaceTime, he gets almost uncomfortably close so that I can take in the neat, tight fit. He then exhales deeply so that the mask balloons outwards, demonstrating their breathability—and perhaps most importantly, for an “animated” talker like Charney, their absorbency.“Listen, if you are with someone who is sick and they are wearing masks and you are wearing a mask, that’s a way of social separation,” he explains. “Saliva is a carrier. Aerosol from the mouth is a carrier, and aerosol into the nose and the mouth is a receiver.”Other pros to the Los Angeles Apparel mask:“[They are a] little bit more in tune with the values of many adults in the developed world,” he says, alluding to the fashion world’s shift towards sustainability. “We don’t want to be littering.” Plus, they are washer-dryer friendly. “They dry out. If you get sweaty in it, you could put it in the sun. I keep two on me.”But are they medical-grade?Definitely not.Does he care?Nope. “I don’t give a fuck what they say,” he says.Randomized control studies have shown that there is no evidence cloth masks are as good as disposable surgical masks, and that extended use—much less reuse—may be an issue.Charney is a workaholic, a provocateur, and a hard-driving businessman who turned a t-shirt into a brand that was at one point estimated to be worth $1 billion, only to be dumped by the company’s board. Officially, he was fired for alleged misuse of company funds and failure to prevent defamatory blog posts by an employee. (This is a clarification he is insistent on. “I am an atheist, but I’m a Yiddish person, false accusations are very important,” he says.) Earlier allegations of sexual misconduct and the resultant reputation he’d earned for being a creep probably didn’t do him any favors in the boardroom that day.
But Charney’s modus operandi seems to be that dire times call for dire measures. And we are very much living in dire times. “There are people making masks in the hospitals by hand using scraps that they are picking up at Home Depot,” he counters. “Every doctor I’ve talked to has said, of course, [any mask] is going to be better [than nothing].” Perhaps less scientifically soundly, he adds, “The government says the surgical mask is good for the doctors; well, this is thicker than a surgical mask.”When I ask if he would recommend I wear one of his masks to the Passover seder my octogenarian great-aunt is planning, he gives me a firm no. “We are not purporting to be a scientist. We are making no guarantees. It’s like abstinence.” Wink, wink.Yet Charney’s factory continues to buzz, with three-quarters of his 400-plus employees working exclusively on churning out “thousands” of these masks a day. “If we really work at it,” he suggests, that number could grow to “maybe 30,000 a day.” And, he says, if he had the proper specs and material to design a medical-grade, or, better yet, an N95 mask, he would. “I’ll give them to the hospital for free. I’ll work with the government. I’ll do anything we can.”So with sales already coming in, last week Charney put out an all-caps “urgent” call to “government agencies” on Instagram offering textile or sewing services to municipal, state or federal agencies. So far, he claims to have sold thousands of the three-packs, including bulk shipments to China and a medical supply company that will put the product through more rigorous testing and “bullshit.” (VICE has reached out to the U.S.-based medical supply company for comment but had not gotten a response at the time of publication.) Over the weekend, he says, he entered into conversation with FEMA. If contracted, Charney says he will work with government agencies to design a mask that is HHS approved. (When reached for comment, a spokeswoman for Health and Human Services told VICE, “FEMA nor HHS-ASPR has received any information on this as of today. It may be in the pipeline with other agencies.")
Charney alleges he’s spent $100,000 on new infrastructure, including lower-voltage machinery that his workers could, should the need arise, bring home, allowing them to continue working remotely—and ensure a steady paycheck. The company has begun taking workers’ temperature twice daily and mandating social distancing in the lunchroom. If caught working sans mask, you’re in for an earful from Charney. “Someone has to be the bad guy,” he laughs. He addresses many of his employees by their first name. Only one worker has called out sick so far—”It’s like this is the healthiest we’ve ever been,” he laughs. Also, he’s hiring.The number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, and it has become apparent that the federal government can’t be counted on, leaving states, cities, companies, individuals, and real housewives to bear the load of this pandemic. On March 7, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency, allowing him (nearly) full reign over the state’s response, and when he put out a call on Twitter last week for all apparel companies to pivot to producing PPE items like masks, volunteers flooded his comments. “NY will pay a premium and offer funding,” he announced. First up was designer Christian Siriano, who immediately replied, “If @NYGovCuomo says we need masks my team will help make some. I have a full sewing team still on staff working from home that can help.” A few hours later he posted a photo of a prototype to his Instagram. "We want to be safe and make sure all the legal requirements are met," he wrote.
Governor Cuomo, much like Charney, is known to be bullish, but in recent weeks that has been seen as an asset, not a detriment; he has garnered praise for calling the shots while so many government agencies continue to wait on federal guidance. Worldwide, though, high fashion houses like Prada in Italy and luxury giant LVHM in France have already converted certain of their factories to help produce PPE and hand sanitizer. H&M Group, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, and many others have similarly begun to provide aid. In the US, companies ranging from Gap, Inc. to Fruit of the Loom have raised a hand; meanwhile, some of the largest American retailers have also begun reaching out to the government seeking federal support.Still, stateside, enlisted manufacturers, as LA Apparel seeks to be, will need to work with the Department of Health and Human Services—home to agencies such as the FDA, CDC, and NIH—which has struggled to find footing under the Trump administration’s equivocating, before they can call their masks medical-grade. But medical-grade is seemingly not the standard being demanded any longer: The CDC has released a loosened criterium for what gear should be worn when, providing more detailed guidance for hospitals and healthcare providers facing urgent shortages of PPE. Worse-case scenario, healthcare providers “might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort.”Alongside its peers, Los Angeles Apparel’s “urgent” call to “government officials” no longer seems quite so absurd. They too have a full sewing team ready to work at home if necessary. At large, the company claims to be prepared to (or at least acknowledges that they are likely to) take a financial hit. Asked if there was any piece of him that hopes to gain redemption with this effort, Chaney balks. “I think I built a fantastic business. I’m paying the highest wages in my industry. I’m in Los Angeles the city, not in Vernon or outside [the city]. I’m doing the right thing. I’m taking care of people. And now I’m producing these masks. All that can be said is I’m doing it, I work like 20 hours a day doing it, I would have done it no matter what.” Now it’s just a matter of whether we are ready to welcome Dov Charney back into the fold, no longer a slimy t-shirt slinger, but this time as a modern-day sort of Rosie the Riveter. Assuming FEMA—or someone—can get it together enough to describe what he should be making. Ideally it would be something that would work.Follow Zara Golden on Twitter.


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Unifonic, the Middle East’s leading customer engagement platform, is proud to present its AI-powered Chatbot, at the Seamless Saudi Arabia 2023 event.
As a key player in the region’s communications landscape, Unifonic takes center stage at Seamless Saudi Arabia 2023, one of the largest events focusing on payments, fintech, retail, and eCommerce innovations, to showcase their game-changing platform and their latest innovations in Artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.
Unifonic is committed to pioneering innovative solutions that enhance customer relationships and elevate brand experiences, and Seamless is a great opportunity for industry professionals and tech enthusiasts to experience Unifonic’s new AI-powered chatbot, which is set to transform the landscape of customer experiences.
The Unifonic Chatbot leverages AI to collect and analyze behavioral patterns and human language, enabling precise interactions and engagement with customers. It boasts multilingual capabilities, catering to users in English, Arabic, and Urdu, fostering inclusivity and accessibility. With its advanced decision-making abilities, the chatbot enables seamless connections between brands and customers, resulting in significant benefits for organizations such as being able to qualify leads, 24/7 support, increased cost optimization and more. Furthermore, it adheres to global best practices and industry standards, prioritizing data privacy and security to instill user confidence and trust. The AI Chatbot is integrated with 100+ SaaS applications like HubSpot, Zid, Salla, Salesforce and more to help organizations automate business processes and offer a more connected experience.
To enhance its capabilities even further, Unifonic has incorporated the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module into the chatbot, allowing it to discern intent with greater precision and learn from user interactions with machine learning algorithms. This creates smart experiences that will improve all customer journeys.
“We are thrilled to participate in Seamless Saudi Arabia 2023, reaffirming our commitment to excellence as a platinum sponsor for the second year running,” stated Mohammed Sleeq, COO at Unifonic. “At Unifonic, we believe in the transformative potential of AI to enhance customer engagement and deliver exceptional experiences. Our goal is to seamlessly integrate AI across our platform and solutions, facilitating effortless communication and creating personalized and effective interactions. By constantly innovating and refining our platform, we aim to exceed client expectations and deliver unrivaled value.” he added
Unifonic’s AI Chatbot is not replacing human contact, it is designed to augment and empower it. By handling common inquiries and tasks, the chatbot allows human agents to focus on complex and value-added customer encounters. When the chatbot encounters an inquiry beyond its capabilities, it promptly transfers the interaction to a human agent, ensuring a seamless customer experience.
The acquisition of Sestek in 2022 further enabled Unifonic to enhance their AI offerings by adding market-leading voice recognition technology.
In addition to their AI Chatbot, Unifonic is showcasing a range of cutting-edge products and services at the event that elevate reliable customer engagement while upholding the highest standards of technological advancements. This commitment aligns with Unifonic’s objective of supporting the Kingdom’s vision, including Saudi Vision 2030 and the Smart Government Strategy, driving digital transformation across public and private sectors.
Established in 2006, Unifonic has solidified its position as a leading enterprise-grade, multilingual, and seamless omnichannel communications platform provider in the Middle East. Its no-code, automation, and orchestration platform has transformed customer experiences across various sectors, enabling businesses to exceed customer expectations for seamless digital interactions.


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Calgary – IBM announced they are working with Goldcorp Inc. to bring IBM Watson technology to the Canadian mining industry for the first time. The Vancouver-based gold producer – one of the largest gold mining companies in the world – will initially use IBM's cognitive technology for its exploration targeting efforts in its Red Lake, Ont. mine.
Vancouver and Seattle – BGC Engineering Inc. and LOOOK, Inc., have partnered to transform communication in the mining and geoengineering sectors using Microsoft's HoloLens technology. The two firms have developed a proof of concept application that turns traditional flat engineering drawings and data into interactive 3D maps and immersive landscapes.
Acklands-Grainger Inc., Canada’s largest distributor of industrial, safety and fastener products, today hosted a grand opening to celebrate its new Toronto distribution centre located in the town of Caledon, Ont. This state-of-the-art 535,000 square-foot facility has the capacity to stock 170,000 products and serves customers throughout Canada. Customers in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will benefit from next-day delivery through this distribution centre.


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Twitter’s crypto price index feature expands to 30 tokens and counting
in the early 2000s
The crypto sphere of the early 2000s was a far cry from the modern day. Back then, digital currencies were largely unheard of, and those that did exist were viewed with skepticism. Fast forward to 2021, and the landscape has changed drastically. Cryptocurrency is now a mainstream phenomenon, and Twitter has recently taken note.
The social media giant recently unveiled a new crypto price search feature, allowing users to search for the latest prices of 30 different cryptocurrencies. This is a major step forward for the crypto industry, as it increases the visibility of digital currencies and makes them more accessible to the general public.
Twitter’s new feature is powered by a third-party provider, and it allows users to search for the latest prices of the top 30 cryptocurrencies. The search results are displayed in a simple and intuitive format, making it easy for users to quickly find the information they need.
This is a significant development for the crypto industry, as it further legitimizes digital currencies and makes them more accessible to the general public. It also demonstrates the growing acceptance of cryptocurrency by mainstream institutions, as Twitter is one of the largest and most influential social media platforms in the world.
The new feature also has potential implications for the cryptocurrency market. By making digital currencies more visible, it could lead to increased interest in the space and potentially higher prices in the long run.
Overall, Twitter’s new crypto price search feature is a welcome addition to the crypto space. It increases the visibility of digital currencies and makes them more accessible to the general public, while also potentially having a positive impact on the cryptocurrency market in the long run. As the crypto industry continues to grow, it will be interesting to see how Twitter’s new feature evolves and what other developments it brings to the table.


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We have already seen a number of leaked parts for Apple’s new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus smartphones and now we have some photos of the display panel for the iPhone 6S.
The photos of the iPhone 6S display assembly were posted online by MacRumors and there appear to be a number of differences to the display assembly on the current device.
There is a new rectangular chip on the rear of the display, this is not present on the iPhone 6 and as yet there are no details on what this chip is for, it could be something to do with Force Touch which will be introduced in this new iPhone.
The display on the new iPhone 6S is said to be slightly thicker and heavier than the current iPhone, this could also be because of the addition of Force Touch to the handset.
Apple will announce their new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus at a press event on the 9th of September, the handsets will apparently go up for pre-order on the 11th of September and will launch on the 18th.
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While Singapore recently adopted specific cryptocurrency legislation — the Payment Services Act (PSA) — in January 2020, it turns out that some crypto firms like Ripple, Coinbase and Binance have been exempt from the law since the beginning of the year.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank and major financial regulatory authority, exempted a number of major payment services from holding a financial license under the PSA.
According to a statement released on March 24, the listed companies are allowed to continue to provide specific payment services without holding a PSA license for a limited period of time.
Ripple, Coinbase and Binance were granted six months of exemption
As such, local subsidiaries of major crypto companies like Ripple, Coinbase and Binance are officially authorized to provide digital payment token service in Singapore starting from January 2020. According to the MAS, Ripple Labs Singapore, Coinbase Singapore and Binance Asia Services can provide services without a PSA license until July 28, 2020.
The MAS noted that the exemption will cease after the specified period or if the entity submits a licence application under the PSA.
BitGo and Gemini are also on the list
Some crypto companies were granted a longer exemption period. BitGo Singapore, a local subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin (BTC) payment processors, and Gemini Trust Company, a crypto exchange and custody service led by the Winklevoss twins, were given a 12-month exemption.
According to the MAS notice, the companies are allowed to provide account issuance services, domestic money transfer services, and inward cross-border money transfer services until Jan. 28, 2021.
As reported by Cointelegraph, a number of local crypto businesses in Singapore have praised the PSA as a legal instrument that will attract crypto and blockchain-related business, not chase them away.


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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 04/14/14 -- Greene Concepts, Inc. (OTC Pink: LKEN) (PINKSHEETS: LKEN) announced today Traci Snowe as the lead spokesperson for its consumer direct marketing division, InkWay USA. Ms. Snowe is the lead spokesperson in the company's online video marketing using Interactive Video Overlay (iVo) Technology. Ms. Snowe's warm, pleasant, and energetic image guides users through a series of video links to present the InkWay USA opportunity.
Ms. Snowe appears in 10 different videos, most notably the Product Presentation Video and the Synergy Compensation Program Video. She informs the viewer about the product's ease of use, value, and ink quality. Ms. Snowe also presents the elements of the Synergy Compensation Plan which lets the distributor pick a Synergy One through Synergy Ten and allows one to customize the right plan for their needs. She explains to users that by becoming distributors, they get to select their own synergy plan and participate in a program that offers five unique and concurrent ways to get paid.
InkWay USA Product Presentation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7xnrYXo5A
InkWay USA Synergy Compensation Program - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlilEI5wGI
InkWay USA Distributor Basic or Elite Signup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GEbrqBztZ8
Lenny Greene, LKEN's CEO states, "We are extremely thrilled to have Traci Snowe as the lead spokesperson and new face of InkWay USA. She brings with her incredible credentials and a kind and soothing demeanor while clearly explaining the benefits of the InkWay USA program. Through the relationship with Straight Edge Marketing and Traci Snowe, we have a platform that captures all demographics and businesses and a face to clearly present this message. "Mr. Greene continues, "We plan on maximizing our involvement with Straight Edge Marketing and use them in many of our other upcoming advertising campaigns across the globe. You will see Straight Edge Marketing's many different mediums as they help us to bring awareness of InkWay USA's product and opportunity to the masses."
Mr. Greene states, "Enrolling our first 250,000 distributors is our first milestone. Straight Edge Marketing is one of the companies that was brought on board Team INKWAY USA to help us accomplish this milestone. Our "Rocket Fuel Marketing" plans are powered by Straight Edge Marketing. We look forward to our upcoming grand opening and launch of the shopping websites for INKWAY USA distributors. We are now positioned to help our distributors achieve personal success while penetrating the $127 billion inkjet and toner market. Stay tuned for more exciting information regarding the InkWay USA grand opening and launch."
Straight Edge Marketing (http://www.straightedgemarketing.com/) brings the coveted iVo (Interactive Video Overlay) Technology to the INKWAY USA brand. iVo Technology develops online video marketing commercials using a virtual Video Spokesperson. iVo is an interactive video spokesperson overlay technology designed to bring life and human personality to your website. iVo is a Plug-n-Play application for your site delivering floating transparent video advertising. iVo Technology is online video advertising using a live video spokesperson to engage a website visitor the moment they arrive on your site. iVo is designed for any business looking to achieve better results with their website, email campaigns, or overall online video marketing efforts. Once iVo Technology is implemented, site conversions will increase. According to Straight Edge Marketing's website: "iVo Technology has revolutionized the way communication has evolved online. iVo is a website video spokesperson technology that overlays your website and creates a powerful first impression. iVo will captivate visitors, allow you to deliver a powerful message, and ultimately increase your website's conversions. iVo Technology is a very powerful video advertising-marketing tool. Straight Edge Marketing's success with this technology has been demonstrated as the kind of innovation in marketing that we are looking for," said Greene Concepts CEO Lenny Greene. "The iVo Technology has generated incredible results, upwards of a 400% increase in conversions with their other clients. Adding our innovative product to an advanced marketing strategy influenced with the most modern technology available will surely have explosive results," he continued.
Traci Snowe Biography:
Tracie Snowe began her career singing, dancing, and acting on stage at the age of five in Indiana having developed her career in the NY/CT leading to performances in Boston, Southern California, Atlanta, Miami, and Nashville. Her talents include: music, acting, writing, modeling, TV Host (E-News), radio and voice-overs. Acting experience includes NBC Nashville's, The Hot Spot (http://tracisnowe.com/the-talent/the-hotspot/), as well as the Acting Reel where she shared the screen with Gwyneth Paltrow. As a musician, Ms. Snowe mixes R&B and jazz with a hint of salsa and hip-hop, creating her own soulful fusion of soaring and powerful vocals and has opened for such artists as Anthony David and Sean Kingston. An American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award-Winning singer/songwriter, Snowe has written hundreds of songs and has been contracted to write everything from 90's R&B ballads to iPhone app jingles along with performances for up to 40,000 people in Southeast Asia. She is noted for her ability to emote experiences and stories with a conversational wit and soulful charm. Ms. Snowe has also worked with Grammy-Award winning producers who have produced for artists such as Lil Wayne and Common. In 2012, she released the album "Snowe Sounds Mixtape Vol. 1" available at Amazon.com, CD Baby, and other key outlets.
Ms. Snowe has also received high praise from powerful members of the music community at: http://tracisnowe.com/media/.
About Greene Concepts, Inc.
Greene Concepts, Inc. (http://www.greeneconcepts.com/) is an ink technology Manufacturing and Distribution Company headquartered in Fresno, CA. Chairman and Founder Lenny Greene has spent the past 30 years serving the printing needs of businesses and consumers. Greene Concepts intends to be the catalyst for the introduction of a number of innovative products and marketing strategies, including its announced hemp-centric website, and to bring the world the best products at the lowest prices so consumers and business can save time, save money, print more and print better.
AccuBrite, Inc. (http://accubrite.com/) creator of FreeInk4LifeT, Refills4YouT, INKWAY USAT and INK-Telligence has developed a family of 25 "Do It Yourself Ink Cartridge Refilling Systems." All refilling tools, accessories, filling stations, interactive CD-Rom instruction manual including bonus software, 24/7 customer service / tech support and unlimited ink refills are available. Consumers can now save thousands of dollars annually without replacing their inkjet cartridges using ABI's top of the line refill kits. AccuBrite, Inc. is the manufacturing arm of Greene concepts, Inc.
INKWAY USA, Inc. (http://www.inkwayusa.com/) is a consumer direct marketing ink and toner technology Distribution Company. We market and sell over 1000 advanced and exceptional proprietary ink and toner "Do It Yourself" Refilling Systems and other products for all inkjet and toner cartridges. Marketing, sales, and fulfillment for retail products are coordinated at its offices in Fresno, CA. Consumers and businesses save thousands of dollars annually buying our products. INKWAY USA will also compete in the global market place by marketing and signing distributors in Europe, The Pacific Rim, and Asia. InkWay USA is now ready to grow exponentially with their soon-to-be released proprietary Synergy Distributor Program (SDP) and take a large stake in the over $70 billion per year ink and toner industry through an unparalleled, innovative marketing strategy that utilizes virtually no competition -- all while offering unmatched cost savings and product quality for individual ink and toner consumers and large businesses alike.
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The buzz continues for cloud, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their collective impact across all industries. But a new conversation is emerging - how do companies use industry disruption and technology enablers to lead in markets undergoing change, uncertainty and ambiguity? Organizations of all sizes need to evolve and transform, often under massive pressure, as industry lines blur and merge and traditional business models are assaulted and turned upside down. In this new da...
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In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settle...
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The best way to leverage your Cloud Expo presence as a sponsor and exhibitor is to plan your news announcements around our events. The press covering Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo will have access to these releases and will amplify your news announcements. More than two dozen Cloud companies either set deals at our shows or have announced their mergers and acquisitions at Cloud Expo. Product announcements during our show provide your company with the most reach through our targeted audiences.
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DevOps is being widely accepted (if not fully adopted) as essential in enterprise IT. But as Enterprise DevOps gains maturity, expands scope, and increases velocity, the need for data-driven decisions across teams becomes more acute. DevOps teams in any modern business must wrangle the ‘digital exhaust’ from the delivery toolchain, "pervasive" and "cognitive" computing, APIs and services, mobile devices and applications, the Internet of Things, and now even blockchain.
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WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC.
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Remothered: Broken Porcelain delayed to October
Remothered: Broken Porcelain won’t be making its August 25 release date. Today, publisher Modus Games and developer Stormind Games announced that the game has been pushed back to October 20.
A statement from Modus reads:
After much consideration, we’ve reached a decision with the team at Stormind Games to delay Remothered: Broken Porcelain’s release until Oct. 27 of this year. We are incredibly excited to invite players into this wonderfully realized chapter of the Remothered story, but it’s important that we deliver the experience fans deserve. Having additional time for polish and to accommodate unanticipated longer timeframes due to the current global situation will help us do exactly that.
We cannot thank the fans of Remothered enough for their patience and the passionate enthusiasm they’ve shared for Remothered: Broken Porcelain, and we look forward to seeing their reactions when they play the game later this year.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain will be sold both physically and digitally on Switch upon release.
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British Touring Car team boss Steve Neal says the works Honda squad is still fighting problems ahead of the new Civic's first qualifying at Brands Hatch this afternoon
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MILTON, Ga. — Police are looking for two suspects suspected of attempting to fraudulently open a line of credit Feb. 20 at the Fry’s Electronics on Webb Road.
The two suspects came into the store that afternoon, grabbed several items and said they wanted to open a credit line at the front registers.
One of the suspects presented a Nevada driver’s license but said they live in Georgia.
A store employee said they became suspicious when they noticed discrepancies on the license. While store staff were checking the license against a license reference book, the suspects abruptly left.
Employees provided the fake license and a video of the suspects’ car to police.


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We are currently in the middle of the largest revolution in motoring since Henry Ford’s first production line started in 1913. Electric vehicles (EV) are likely to take over quicker than we originally thought. Due to many governments around the world setting targets to ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles, its given momentum and force to the process.
Pass the tipping point already?
Numerous industry observers believe we have already passed the tipping point where sales of electric vehicles will very rapidly overcome petrol and diesel cars. Elon Musk stated that there has been a huge shift in the way people perceiving EV and the demand is the best it has been yet!
Jaguar plans to sell only electric cars from 2025, Volvo from 2030 and last week the British sportscar company Lotus said it would follow suit, selling only electric models from 2028. However, it is not just the premium brands that think this. General Motors says it will make only electric vehicles by 2035, Ford says all vehicles sold in Europe will be electric by 2030 and VW says 70% of its sales will be electric by 2030.
Change in EV
We have seen huge improvements in EV motors, from the computers that control them to the charging systems and car design. Yet, the change in the performance of EV is down to the improvements on the vehicle’s batteries.
The most noticeable change is in the prices. Just over a decade ago it cost £709.95 per kilowatt hour of battery power, but now it is around £71. Not only is the price becoming more cost-effective, but they are also now lasting longer too.
There is still work to be done before electric vehicles take over! Most importantly, everyone needs to be able charge their cars easily and cheaply even those that do not have a driveway at home. That will take work and investment, but with all the sales happening now, it needs to materialise soon.
80% of EV owners charge at home.
One of the problems facing one third of UK homeowners, it that they do not have a driveway or garage to charge their EV or PHEV. For example, only 1 in 6 rural homes have off road parking, that figure rises to 60% in some major towns and cities.
So how can we overcome the issues that are faced with the future charging of EV vehicles for the masses? Let’s face it there are already ques at petrol stations, and we only take 10 mins max to refuel!
There are not enough EV charging points on the roads for the increasing number of EV vehicles that are being sold. Especially if you are travelling long distance. For example, you may be able to drive somewhere that is only 3 hours away, but consider if you get stuck in traffic or if you drive in the dark, turning your lights on reduces the mileage along with wipers, heating, etc. So, where is the nearest charger?
There needs to be an expansion…could your business provide a solution?
Businesses can play their part in providing EV charge points on their premises.
- The pressure from the Government on businesses is becoming more intense over the next decade to make more environmentally sound choices about the vehicles they provide for staff. Currently an electric company car is 1% tax for Benefit in Kind, which will have your staff begging to switch on their next car option.
- Even for those enterprises where transport is the employee’s personal choice, there could be tax and financial advantages to influencing a greener vehicle choice.
- There is an increasing responsibility to provide EV charging points for use by clients and visitors. They could be enjoying your hospitality for longer, spending more. Or if you have a business that has easy access, you could attract EV owners looking to charge out of hours. Those looking for more convenient locations to charge their cars, could even turn into customers!
There are a few government incentives that are in place for both businesses and homeowners to help increase the amount of EV vehicles bought.
There is The Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme, which provides grant funding of £350 towards the cost of installing electric vehicle charging points at domestic properties across the UK.
The pressure from the Government on businesses is becoming more intense over the next decade to make more environmentally sound choices about the vehicles they provide for staff. Currently an electric company car is 1% tax for Benefit in Kind, which will have your staff begging to switch on their next car option.
The incentive for businesses is the Workplace Charging Scheme. This is a voucher-based scheme that provides support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle charging points, for eligible businesses, charities, and public sector organisations.
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Kinesis, Kocela and Internet Solutions (IS) have timely joined other collaborators partnering with CIO East Africa to host the 2019 Fintech Summit, slated on the 22nd and 23rd May at the Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel in Nairobi.
This partnership is purposed to foster growth, innovation and collaboration in the financial technology (Fintech) industry and is themed to Collaborate and Innovate the Financial Services Industry.
“CIO East Africa expresses gratitude to partners making this invaluable engagement happen at a time when the fastest and most attractive services are inclined towards innovation solutions and applications that will spur the economic growth,” said Laura Chite, the CEO CIO East Africa.
Separately, while securing the sponsorship opportunity for the forthcoming summit, the three companies noted that the summit will enhance knowledge for the new applications for financial services customers, reflecting how financial technology continues to transcend borders, shake-up business models and drive the pace of innovation.
Internet Solutions (IS) Kenya is a division of Dimension Data- a Pan-African Internet service provider for public and private sector organizations.
It stays ahead of the game by offering connectivity services, data centre services, offsite backup, Project Management, Consulting, Security, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) among others solutions and is at the forefront of Internet Protocol-based technologies to build solutions and services tailored to meet increasingly complex demands of organizations across enterprises, public sector, global carrier and growing small-to-medium business sectors.
Kinesis provides marketing services in strategic planning and implementation, such as online branding and market positioning, measurable leads and inquiries generation.
It also offers marketing and technology enterprise planning, program management, online creative services, and Web applications development services and provides integrated online creative media and search engine marketing services that include planning, negotiating, buying, optimizing, and reporting.
Kocela, the award-winning mobile solutions experts, majors in design, development, deployment and delivery of mobile products ranging from Mobile VAS to Mobile Commerce and landscape in East Africa. It is one of the first companies in the region to start building apps for smartphone users and have consistently set the pace in the mobile application space.
In 2017, Kocela a newcomer to the African Fintech industry then, triumphed over veterans and powerhouses of that space to win The African Fintech Awards that is an integrated part of Finance Indaba Africa.
CIO East Africa has organized this two-day summit to gather disruptors, technolgy and finance professionals together with regulators and investors from across East Africa to discuss the technologies that are revolutionizing the finance industry.
To be part of the fintech sunnit, click here. https://events.cio.co.ke/event/east-africa-fintech-summit/
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APPLE WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE (WWDC) 2014 — DocuSign, Inc. (DocuSign®) announced the availability of the industry’s first Mobile SDK for iOS that enables mobile developers to build Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and electronic signing capabilities natively into mobile apps. Built on DocuSign’s industry leading DTM platform, the DocuSign Mobile SDK is optimized for rapid development so developers can build transaction and electronic signature functionality into apps in as little as an hour, with extensive options to customize the appearance and style of the user experience.
“TouchBase's customers will love the ability to manage digital transactions and get documents electronically signed with our mobile app built using the DocuSign Mobile SDK,” said Santosh Khare, CEO of TouchBase Inc. “DocuSign's trusted Digital Transaction Management platform and worldwide user base ensures TouchBase’s apps are trusted and secure. Integrating TouchBase and DocuSign enables mobile workforces to send, receive and manage signed NDAs, contracts and order forms on-the-go – rich functionality that our customers are already committing to purchase.”
Select participants in DocuSign’s Mobile SDK Beta Program are eligible for the company’s ‘Beta Heroes’ Program, which extends developer support from DocuSign and offers future opportunities for global co-promotion.
“Point.io is all about API’s. The quality of the tools and the developer support for the Mobile SDK from DocuSign blew us away,” says Tim Panagos, CTO of Point.io, an API-as-a-Service provider. “We had robust eSignature integrated into our iOS app in a matter of days. Now our users can grab documents from twenty-two file sources in the cloud and behind the firewall with our API to conduct in-person signing through the DocuSign Mobile SDK. Killer combo.”
With an API cited by ProgrammableWeb as “the strongest of all the providers”, DocuSign is further simplifying the process of building secure, authenticated DTM capabilities into native mobile apps.
Developers interested in downloading the DocuSign Mobile SDK and joining the Beta Heroes Program may visit www.docusign.com/mobilesdk for more details.
About DocuSign, Inc.
DocuSign® is The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management™. Global enterprises, business departments, individual professionals, and consumers have standardized on DocuSign, with more than 40,000 new users joining the DocuSign Global Network every day. Today, that network includes millions of users in 188 countries. DocuSign's DTM platform supports legally compliant electronic and digital signature processes tailored to meet requirements globally with localization in 43 languages. Companies and individuals DocuSign to accelerate transaction times to increase speed to results, reduce costs, increase security and compliance, and delight customers across nearly every industry – from financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, real estate, retail, and consumer goods to higher education, non-profit and others – as well as every business department, including sales, finance, operations, procurement, HR/staffing, legal, and customer support. For more information, visit www.docusign.com or call 877.720.2040. Visit the DocuSign blog at www.docusign.com/blog and follow DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
TouchBase is a sales enablement mobile platform that offers sales and marketing organizations the ability to generate productive interactions with their customers and prospects. TouchBase allows sales organizations to engage their customers with the right content via a mobile app and it provides marketers the insights into what content impacts the sales engagement. Because TouchBase app works even when there is no internet connectivity, it saves a significant amount of preparation time for busy sales executives. TouchBase Inc is head quartered in Seattle WA with offices in San Jose CA and Delhi India. For more information visit touchbaseinc.com.
Point.io is an API-as-a-Service Platform that enables developers to add enterprise-class functionality to their apps. Point.io's technology meets the growing demands of mobile users. APIaaS products include: APIdoc to access file-based assets in over 22 storage technologies in a single API, APIflow to engage customers and partners in core business processes, and APIshare to enable secure collaboration in web, mobile, and social applications. Developers build free at www.point.io.
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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In his keynote at 18th Cloud Expo, Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise, provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination – the Blockchain. Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life sett...
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The WebRTC Summit New York, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 20th International Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo. WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web ...
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20th Cloud Expo, taking place June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy.
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Internet-of-Things discussions can end up either going down the consumer gadget rabbit hole or focused on the sort of data logging that industrial manufacturers have been doing forever. However, in fact, companies today are already using IoT data both to optimize their operational technology and to improve the experience of customer interactions in novel ways. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Gordon Haff, Red Hat Technology Evangelist, will share examples from a wide range of industries – includin...
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WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web communications world. The 6th WebRTC Summit continues our tradition of delivering the latest and greatest presentations within the world of WebRTC. Topics include voice calling, video chat, P2P file sharing, and use cases that have already leveraged the power and convenience of WebRTC.
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"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, director/senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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"Once customers get a year into their IoT deployments, they start to realize that they may have been shortsighted in the ways they built out their deployment and the key thing I see a lot of people looking at is - how can I take equipment data, pull it back in an IoT solution and show it in a dashboard," stated Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effici...
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Fact is, enterprises have significant legacy voice infrastructure that’s costly to replace with pure IP solutions. How can we bring this analog infrastructure into our shiny new cloud applications? There are proven methods to bind both legacy voice applications and traditional PSTN audio into cloud-based applications and services at a carrier scale. Some of the most successful implementations leverage WebRTC, WebSockets, SIP and other open source technologies. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Da...
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"IoT is going to be a huge industry with a lot of value for end users, for industries, for consumers, for manufacturers. How can we use cloud to effectively manage IoT applications," stated Ian Khan, Innovation & Marketing Manager at Solgeniakhela, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter...
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it’s challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging “as-a-service” options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals...
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@GonzalezCarmen has been ranked the Number One Influencer and @ThingsExpo has been named the Number One Brand in the “M2M 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands” by Onalytica. Onalytica analyzed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords M2M OR “Machine to Machine.” They then identified the top 100 most influential brands and individuals leading the discussion on Twitter.
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Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like “How is my application doing” but no id...
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What happens when the different parts of a vehicle become smarter than the vehicle itself? As we move toward the era of smart everything, hundreds of entities in a vehicle that communicate with each other, the vehicle and external systems create a need for identity orchestration so that all entities work as a conglomerate. Much like an orchestra without a conductor, without the ability to secure, control, and connect the link between a vehicle’s head unit, devices, and systems and to manage the ...
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More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables – activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no idea what “IoT” means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users should be. We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it swung toward "smart for smar...
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In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience. In their Day 2 Keynote at 19th Cloud Expo, Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and G...
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SAN FRANCISCO – CliniCloud is making at-home medical check ups possible with a device kit and a partnership with Doctor on Demand. CliniCloud’s digital stethoscope and non-contact thermometer kit works with a mobile app to record, store and send data such as temperature and heart or lung sounds direct to a patient’s family doctor. The app guides users through either a quick or full checkup, with intuitive prompts for exactly where to place the stethoscope and thermometer. The company recently partnered with Doctor on Demand to allow patients to also video chat with a physician, get their heart and lung sounds examined, and pay for appointments.
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The news: Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading cloud services provider, moves into the private 5G network market by offering new managed services aimed at simplifying installations for businesses, per Insider.
Why it's worth watching: AWS is leveraging its leadership position in cloud services as well as its large install base of millions of global corporate customers to expand into private 5G services. This is the latest example of Big Tech expanding into networks and becoming carriers as well as cloud providers.
- Called AWS Private 5G, the new service allows customers to specify their coverage needs and capacity requirements, similar to how AWS customers can quickly expand storage capacity and services.
- Amazon sends customers a van-load of small-cell radios, a server hosting the 5G core, and as many SIM cards as needed to cover the customers’ needs.
- The preconfigured system is a plug-and-play solution that automatically configures and connects all the devices.
- AWS Private 5G has no upfront fees or per-device costs. Clients do pay for capacity and throughput, which they can scale up if they need to support additional devices.
- Dish Network, Koch, and Amazon's own fulfillment centers have already signed up.
The takeaway: Cloud providers are racing for ownership of 5G infrastructure. While it is still early days for 5G, we’re already seeing major moves to secure the infrastructure and control the 5G cloud as networks expand into enterprise and private 5G.
- Verizon and AWS teamed up last year to bring public mobile edge networks to eight US cities.
- Dish made a deal in April to have Amazon run its core 5G network.
- Google announced a partnership in July with Ericsson to provide last-mile 5G, albeit on a much smaller scale, in conjunction with Telecom Italia.
Key stats: According to GSMA forecasts, operators are expected to spend $900 billion worldwide between 2021 and 2025 on mobile capital expenditures, nearly 80% of which will be in 5G, and much of this expenditure could run on cloud infrastructure. ABI Research predicts private network revenues will reach $64 billion by 2030.
- By employing its AWS cloud model on private 5G, Amazon lowers the barrier to adoption for companies lacking in-house expertise or those that would rather deal with one entity instead of an operator, a vendor, and a systems integrator.
- Moreover, Analysys Mason predicts that 75% of private networks deployed in 2022 will be 5G, making AWS and its hyperscale model a direct competitor to mobile operators.


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What you need to know
- The Google-owned ISP is having major outages in several locations across Texas.
- Users from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin are all reporting technical issues.
- The company has acknowledged the problems and says it's working to fix them.
Google Fiber customers in various cities across Texas are reporting issues with their internet access. DownDetector's map of Google Fiber complaints shows Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio as some of the areas most severely affected by the outages.
Google, for its part, has acknowledged the disruptions, and the Google Fiber Help account on Twitter reassured users that its technicians were working to fix the issues:
Hi Tracey, we have a field team out running new lines as we speak and will continue to work to get everyone back online ASAP. -Tom— Google Fiber Help (@googlefiberhelp) September 11, 2020
A previous tweet had an estimated ETA of one hour for the repairs — though that was about four hours ago, and reports of disruptions from Google Fiber users are seemingly continuing to come in.
Thankfully, Google does seem to be getting a handle on things, as shown by the downward trend for complaints on DownDetector's website in the past couple of hours.
If you live in one of the affected areas, you can see the repair status for your location here.
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TPE launches wheely good event for bike owners
Bicycle owners are being encouraged to get their bikes marked for free at Huddersfield station on 6 July.
Rail operator TransPennine Express (TPE) are inviting local residents to have their bikes security marked using BikeRegister, the UK’s national, police preferred, bicycle marking & registration scheme at Huddersfield Station between 8am and 10.30am.
Sergeant Steve O’Callaghan, BTP liaison officer at TPE, said: “I’ll be joining colleagues from TPE to offer a free five-minute service that helps cyclists protect their bikes against thieves.
“The bike marking includes adhering two tamper proof stickers with unique QR codes to the bike fame – one which is obvious and another that’s hidden - and registering the details of the owner in a form so that they can be contacted in the event of a theft.”
TPE is offering this service to all bikes – including electric bikes – in collaboration with the British Transport Police.
The asset number linked to these unique stickers can then be registered with BikeRegister, a free online service that logs bikes. This database can be accessed by the police and ownership can be transferred when the bicycle is legitimately sold to a new owner.
Sgt O’Callaghan added: “The bike marking process can act as a visual deterrent for potential cycle thieves and registering your bike on BikeRegister means you could be reunited with your bike in the event of it being stolen.”
TPE customers can now book a cycle space up to 15 minutes before they travel and find free-to-use bike sheds at most TransPennine Express managed stations.


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2020-02-15 04:54:20| The Economic Times
The total of confirmed infections across mainland China was now 66,492 after 2,641 new cases were confirmed, as of Friday, the commission said. The death toll rose by 143 to 1,523, it said, with most of the new deaths in central Hubei province and in particular the provincial capital of Wuhan, the city of 11 million people where the outbreak began in December.
2020-02-13 11:11:59| The Economic Times
VIP Ind chief sees opportunity in corona crisisDilip Piramal, chairman, VIP Industries, says reduced dependence on China and an increase in domestic manufacturing will benefit the company at the time when China is plagued by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Executives said this week they have more work to do to turn the struggling beer business around.
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The Impossible Whopper has been a big success for the Restaurant Brands International chain.
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The award-winning Wood Brewery, famous for its Shropshire Lad bitter, has ceased production, apparently a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.
The brewery, which was founded in 1980, held a belated celebration of its 40th anniversary at the Shrewsbury Oktoberfest in October last year.
To mark the occasion, it relaunched Wood's Special Bitter, the first beer to be produced by the brewery when it was founded by brothers Edward and Anthony Wood, and their father Basil.
It appears that the brewery's dependence on the pub trade rather than the bottled-beer market made it particularly susceptible to lockdown restrictions. The company had planned to expand into the growing "craft ale" market, which unlike "real ale" allows beer to be dispensed from pressurised kegs, giving them a longer shelf life.
Basil Wood was owner of The Plough Inn at Wistanstow, near Craven Arms, when he and his sons started brewing from a stable behind the pub in April 1980. Wood's Special Bitter, which used hops from Kent and Germany to give a classic English bitter style proved to be a big hit. It was timed perfectly to benefit from the renewed interest in traditionally produced beers which followed the formation of the Campaign for Real Ale in 1971. The brewery was a founder member of the Small Independent Brewers Association – now the Society for Independent Brewers – which was also formed in 1980.
It was Shropshire Lad, launched in 1996, which truly established Wood's as one of the county's leading brewers, becoming a staple in pubs across the West Midlands. The premium bitter, brewed to mark the centenary of A E Housman's celebrated book of poems, became an instant hit, making use of hops from the fields of neighbouring Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Shropshire Lass, a blonde ale, followed in 2007.
Anthony returned to his previous job as an estate agent shortly after the brewery was established, but Edward remained as managing director until the business was sold to Stephen O'Neill and Patrick McGuckian in 2018.
Edward Wood said at the time of the takeover: “Obviously I have mixed feelings about leaving the company, but I believe the new owners can take the business to a new level and are well placed to ensure substantial growth from a robust base.”
Mr O'Neill, who had previously served as senior vice-president of Pernod Ricard USA, launched a new range of "craft ales" under the Ironbridge brand towards the end of 2019, but the plan was frustrated by the lockdown.
Mr O'Neill told the Shropshire Star in September last year how the business had been hit particularly hard by the lockdown.
"We had planned to expand the craft-ale range in 2020, and find a brewing location in Ironbridge, potentially in partnership with a local pub," he said.
"One of our craft beers, Ironbridge Coracle IPA – won gold at the National Society of Independent Brewer's awards in Liverpool, and we had hoped to use this accolade to promote the beer.
"We won the award on March 12, and pubs were forced to close on March 20."
Mr O'Neill said 85 per cent of Wood's sales were in pubs, meaning that most of the brewery's trade was wiped out during the lockdown.
"We did improve our bottle sales, but nowhere near enough to compensate and we were forced to make cutbacks in a number of areas to survive."
The company, working with Ellesmere-based Shropshire Distillery, also launched a citrus-flavoured gin last year, making use of the Cascade hops used in Shropshire Lass and Take 5 IPA.
The closure of one of Shropshire's oldest established independent breweries will send shockwaves throughout the real-ale fraternity. The Plough Inn is unaffected and remains open for business.
The big question now is whether the popular beers will die with the company. Shropshire Lad and Shropshire Lass have long been a favourite among real-ale drinkers in the West Midlands, and it is reasonable to assume that the brands will have significant value.
But will there be a small, independent brewery ready to continue the Wood's tradition, or will the brand be bought by one of the big players? Beer buffs in the region will be watching with great interest.


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Cnova NV (NASDAQ:CNV) Receives Average Recommendation of “Hold” from Brokerages
Cnova NV (NASDAQ:CNV) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the nine brokerages that are presently covering the stock. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating on the company. The average 12 month price target among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $4.24.
Shares of Cnova NV (NASDAQ:CNV) traded up 0.19% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $5.30. The stock had a trading volume of 48,587 shares. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $5.11 and its 200-day moving average is $4.16. The firm’s market capitalization is $2.34 billion. Cnova NV has a 1-year low of $2.02 and a 1-year high of $5.34.
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Cnova NV (NASDAQ:CNV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 26th. The company reported ($0.19) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of ($0.05) by $0.14. Equities analysts expect that Cnova NV will post ($0.25) earnings per share for the current year.
A number of analysts have recently commented on the company. Deutsche Bank AG lifted their price target on Cnova NV from $2.50 to $5.50 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, May 13th. Goldman Sachs Group raised Cnova NV from a “sell” rating to a “neutral” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $1.40 to $3.70 in a research note on Thursday, May 19th. Credit Suisse Group AG reissued a “sell” rating on shares of Cnova NV in a research note on Saturday, May 14th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered Cnova NV from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 24th.
Cnova N.V. is an e-commerce company with operations in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. The Company operates in two segments: Cdiscount and Cnova Brazil. Cdiscount segment consists of amounts earned from retail sales of consumer products through Cdiscount.com and monshowroom.com Websites in France and other Websites created by Cdiscount outside of France.
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Supacat has selected Siemens software to boost their engagement with Rheinmetall on the Land 400 program.
The use of design lifecycle management and supply chain integration capabilities of Siemens’ Teamcenter software and NX software for computer-aided design (CAD) will reportedly help Supacat align their engineering processes with Rheinmetall, strengthen data governance and improve overall efficiency.
The implementation has been funded by the Federal Government’s Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority Grant given to Supacat last year.
The same software suite that is part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio was also recently chosen by the US Air Force to standardise their digital journey and product lifecycle management.
“Implementation of this system allows us to integrate more closely with the Rheinmetall Land 400 team and that lowers the barriers to the Australian supply chain entering the program,” Michael Halloran, Managing Director Asia Pacific for Supacat, said.
Supacat will use NX to model and analyse products in 3D in a process that is integrated into the Teamcenter PLM system. Teamcenter will allow Supacat to manage all engineering design workflow and approval processes, data and supporting documentation in an integrated single source.
Samantha Murray, Managing Director of Siemens Digital Industries Software in the region, said that the implementation was a key step for the Australian defence industry.
“It’s great to collaborate with local Australian companies like Supacat doing innovative work that helps them connect to global supply chains,” Murray said. “We’re also excited about helping upskill their staff on world-leading technology.”


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Three-year-old Brianna Kriefall and her family ate at a Sizzler restaurant in South Milwaukee in July 2000. Brianna died a week later after battling E. coli-related hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Brianna, along with most of the other 140 people who were sickened in the outbreak, consumed watermelon that had been cross-contaminated with raw meat.
Genetic testing showed the microbes that made the restaurant patrons sick matched microbes contained in an unopened package of meat.
The national Sizzler chain, its local franchise and an insurance company are suing Excel Corp., the subsidiary of Cargill Inc. that produced the meat.
On Friday Brianna’s family reached a $13.5 million settlement with the company’s meat supplier and others.
The Kriefalls’ case had been dismissed in 2004 by a different Milwaukee County Circuit judge after Excel lawyers argued the company was exempt from state lawsuits because it had followed federal regulations in handling the beef sold to Sizzler.
An appeals court reversed the dismissal, saying the legal action fit within the federal goal of making food safer for consumers. The U.S. Supreme Court declined Excel’s appeal.


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We reached out to a number of leaders and executives from the supply chain to jobber stores and asked them to highlight how business will change in the year ahead, what the biggest challenge for the industry is moving forward and what they see as the top opportunity in 2022. We will present their answers in alphabetical order over the coming weeks…
You can view the full feature in our January 2022 issue.
J.F. Champagne, President | Automotive Industries Association of Canada
We expect to continue to have turbulence caused by the ongoing pandemic, which is amplifying the challenges on the supply chain and labour front.
We remain an essential service to Canadians and AIA Canada continues to advocate to governments to ensure support to help alleviate the strains on the supply chain and ensure investments in the industry for the retention of labour and upskilling.
Sourcing of parts will remain the primary challenge for wholesalers and warehouse distributors. However, attracting and retaining employees is also an ongoing challenge.
But right-to-repair has a more long term and profound impact for our industry. Will we have the right legislation to ensure consumers and shops still have access to aftermarket parts to fix their cars? Or is the future maintenance and repair of vehicles to be only OEM parts?
We have proven to be a resilient industry that is providing essential services to Canadians by keeping 30 million cars safe and working on Canadian roads. We have the opportunity to engage with our local politicians to tell our story and get them to understand that the aftermarket is important to local economies.
We need right-to-repair legislation that will ensure the aftermarket can continue to be effective and resilient.
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Veterans Day Apple Watch Activity Challenge Taking Place November 11
Apple is known for its commitment to honoring and supporting veterans, and this year is no exception. On November 11th, Apple is hosting a special Apple Watch Activity Challenge in recognition of Veterans Day. This challenge encourages Apple Watch users to participate in physical activities and pay tribute to veterans.
What is the Apple Watch Activity Challenge?
The Apple Watch Activity Challenge is a virtual fitness challenge that Apple organizes on special occasions. Participants are required to complete a specific fitness goal within a set timeframe. Once the challenge is completed, participants receive a virtual medal and special iMessage stickers as a reward.
This Veterans Day Activity Challenge is no different. Apple Watch users are encouraged to complete a dedicated workout of 11 minutes or more on November 11th. This can be any type of physical activity, such as walking, running, cycling, or even yoga.
How to Participate
Participating in the Veterans Day Apple Watch Activity Challenge is easy. Follow these steps to get involved:
- Make sure you have an Apple Watch and the latest version of watchOS.
- On November 11th, launch the Workout app on your Apple Watch.
- Select your preferred workout type and begin your workout.
- Complete at least 11 minutes of physical activity.
- After completing your workout, you will receive a notification congratulating you on completing the challenge.
- Open the Activity app on your iPhone to view and share your virtual medal and iMessage stickers.
The Veterans Day Apple Watch Activity Challenge is a way for Apple to show its appreciation for veterans and their service. By encouraging users to engage in physical activity, Apple aims to promote health and well-being while commemorating the sacrifice and bravery of those who have served in the military.
Apple has a long-standing commitment to supporting veterans. They have partnered with various organizations, such as Team Rubicon, to provide technology and support to assist veterans in their transition to civilian life. The Apple Watch Activity Challenge is just one example of Apple’s ongoing dedication to honoring veterans.
The Veterans Day Apple Watch Activity Challenge on November 11th is a unique opportunity for Apple Watch users to engage in physical activity while honoring veterans. By completing at least 11 minutes of exercise, participants can earn a virtual medal and special iMessage stickers. This challenge reflects Apple’s commitment to supporting veterans and promoting health and well-being.


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East Seventh Avenue's restaurant row could get some Cold Comfort
Four business partners have applied for a liquor license for a former carpet warehouse located behind Colorado Lace at 200 East Seventh Avenue. Aside from the cleaners, the large building is currently gutted inside.
And it's just up the street from Racines, which built a new home on Sherman Street -- complete with a parking garage, since parking is at a premium in this neighborhood -- six years ago.
"We intend to open a craft beer and food tavern at that location," says Robert Giaquinta, one of the partners, via e-mail. "We are currently looking for local residents/businesses to support us at our Liquor Board hearing on December 22nd."
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Now in their 21st year, the MCA awards are the benchmark for quality in the consulting industry.
With London’s ultra-low emissions zone set for launch in April 2019, businesses can begin to take steps to minimise disruption to operations and supply chains.
The proposed merger of the UK’s 2nd and 3rd largest retailers has taken the retail sector by surprise, and could lead to significant supply chain disruption.
The McLaren M838T engine, used in the majority of their supercars, is a unique piece of precision technology.
The Rickshaw Run – a 3000-kilometer rally in a 7-horsepower cake tin on wheels!