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Just a month after it purged more than 1 million fake accounts from its platform, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) appears to be making another round of lockouts in an effort to clean up its service and remove so-called “bot” accounts. On Wednesday morning, #TwitterLockOut was a top trend on Twitter’s platform, and some users are claiming Twitter is specifically targeting conservative users.
In its most recent earnings report, Twitter says its monthly active user count was negatively impacted in part due to “increased information quality efforts, which are our overall efforts to reduce malicious activity on the service, inclusive of spam, malicious automation and fake accounts.”
Twitter has not commented on the latest round of lockouts, but they come less than a week after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and accused them of using a “troll farm” to spread election propaganda on social media via fake accounts.
Twitter isn’t the only social media company working to improve its platform, and the short-term uncertainty for advertisers may have created an opportunity for Twitter. In fact, major changes by social media competitors Facebook (FB) and Snap (SNAP) could be driving business in Twitter’s direction.
Facebook has launched several new initiatives in 2018 designed to improve user experience and prevent abuse of its platform. Analysts anticipate the changes could disrupt Facebook’s advertising business, at least in the short term. Morgan Stanley predicts Facebook’s core ad load will decline by 4 percent in 2018.
At the same time, Snap is facing user backlash following its recent update to its Snapchat app. Citigroup downgraded Snap stock this week and said fallout from the app overhaul “could result in a decline in users and user engagement and could negatively impact financial results.”
According to GBH Insights head of technology research Daniel Ives, Facebook’s loss could be Twitter’s gain.
“A tailwind for Twitter in the near-term in our opinion is the Facebook News Feed overhaul, which is forcing publishers and online advertisers to dip their toe in the water on the Twitter platform and start to ramp up ad investments on this platform,” Ives says.
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Almo Pro Adds Toshiba Display Products
Almo Professional A/V said last week that it has added Toshiba America Consumer Products' high-end display and other video products for commercial applications.
The deal includes Toshiba's LED and LCD TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, DVD players, digital video recorders and more.
"The Toshiba line is a fantastic addition to our offering as the products are loaded with special features, like Blu-ray Disc players with streaming services for Netflix, Blockbuster, VUDU, Pandora Radio and RS-232 control," Sam Taylor, executive vice president and COO for Almo Professional A/V, said as part of the announcement.
"The displays are beautiful and functional making them just right for waiting rooms, reception areas, hotel rooms and other commercial environments."

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Friday, October 25, 2019 at 10:46:39 AM GMT+10:00
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Watch: Adrian Lawrence, Andrew Stewart, Lynsey Edgar and Allison Manvell, of Baker McKenzie, talk about what The Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report means for Australian businesses and consumers.
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Well look technology is kind of at the centre of everything. There's not really an industry that isn't worried about digitisation, how it deals with data, how it employs technology. What it means for their workforce. So it's nice to be in that space. Kind of at the centre of business. Every industry is talking to us about what's going on. What they need to do, what their industry is doing.
So the platform inquiry is a really nice example of that where you've had a regulator take a really close look at what's happening in a particular part of the industry, digital platforms. Central importance to anyone who plays in the technology space but to people generally.
Everybody is on social media. Everybody uses Google. Everybody has a phone.
So that's really kind of an examination from the ACCC's perspective of what it means to be a consumer in the digital age and what it means in terms of the relationships between businesses and digital platforms and how that plays out.
And it's become much more complex since then with the arrivals of well the internet changed absolutely everything, the digital platforms that we're talking about today, they've again come and just completely shifted the landscape. So more competitors, more content producers, more pathways to consumers and so all of that creates a very tangled complex mess and we're trying to operate in this regulatory structure that was created before most of it was invented.
So we're still working on a regulatory structure that just conceived radio, TV and TV really in its early forms of terrestrial TV and the beginnings of pay TV. Well those things still exist but there's a much more complex ecosystem around it now.
Over the last 10/15 years in terms of both consumer engagement and how people engage with media businesses, both online and traditionally but also in just who the big players are in these markets. You know that has shifted and our regulation hasn't necessarily shifted at the same pace.
And the other thing which came out of the report relates to proposed changes to the Australian Consumer Law and what the ACCC said and what they've been saying in various different forums many other times is that they would like there to be a prohibition against unfair contract terms.
So at the moment what there is is a law which says that terms which are unfair in standard form consumer contracts or small business contracts will be or could be void and unenforceable. But I think the ACCC thinks that this doesn't give companies enough incentive to ensure that their terms are fair. So they said they want them to be illegal and that would of course introduce civil penalties. If the companies who have standard form contracts, they wouldn't be able to sort of make that decision anymore about is it fair, is it okay to leave in, can we take the risk.
It will be a much more rigorous assessment as to whether or not a term is fair and then it will be included. Otherwise they could be subject to civil penalties.
The work I've been doing the last few years has been focussed very much on content production, doing site blocking cases for the US movie studios. That's been an interesting development.
A new approach to copyright enforcement where sort of essentially a no fault regime where copyright owners can get orders enforcing ISPs to block access to pirate sites. That's been working really well. This report starts to dig a bit deeper into some of these areas. We don't know where it's going to go yet. The government's got to do its consultation, but there could be enormous change coming.
I think the difficulty is that regulation has been behind now for nearly 20 years, almost as soon as the Broadcasting Services Act was passed it was out of date, or shortly would be, and we've had a series of reports, not unlike this one, saying we need to change the regulatory structure to catch up but we're playing catch up from a base which is just so far behind that means there's so much to do. In the broadcasting space, in the telecommunications space, the internet which is a mix of all of those things and then you have these different regulatory structures affecting different players but not only that it's the regulatory side but the economic side has shifted massively. So the funds that traditional activities can generate from advertising, the advertising dollars have shrunk and even when they manage to migrate to this new world, well then the digital dollars are less than the sort of analogue cents so it's a really complex situation but are we catching up? Nowhere near it yet. If every single reform that could be conceived of in this report was implemented, we'd be getting close. The technology will sure zoom ahead.
The key thing is that what we're going to see right now and in the next two years is change to the law. Change to how the law applies, change to how regulators and legislators want to apply the law and it's very interesting that Australia is actually at the forefront of that Australia is pushing, particularly the ACCC, is pushing for a real change to the bargain between consumers and businesses.
Thinking about how individuals data is collected and used and what rights individuals have in that data and how that might play out for these businesses that are generating a huge amount of value out of individuals data and so what we're seeing through the report is recommendations that that bargain starts to change and that individuals are more at the centre of in effect ownership, control of their own data and how that's used by, not just digital platforms but by every business. Every business is interested in this question. How do they access data and use data and so that's what we're going to see right now and over the next couple of years.
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Constellation Brands increases stake in cannabis company
Constellation Brands has increased its stake in cannabis company Canopy Growth, meaning it now owns 38.6% of the business.
In a statement issued on 1 May, Constellation said it had made the investment through its subsidiary company Greenstar Canada Investment.
The drinks giant said it had exercised warrants for shares worth around C$245 million, originally issued in November 2017. With this investment, it has increased its stake in the cannabis company to total 38.6%.
In addition to these shares, Constellation also has warrants and senior notes, which if exercised and converted, would bring its ownership stake in Canopy Growth to 55.8%.
According to Market Watch, the warrants that were exercised were due to expire on 1 May if no investment was made. Constellation also has further warrants which expire in November 2023.
Constellation’s statement noted that the company now holds over 142m shares in Canopy Growth, as well as almost 140m warrants to purchase shares and senior notes worth C$200m.
In February this year, the drinks company said it doesn’t intend to make any additional cash contributions to Canopy Growth in addition to exercising warrants.
President and CEO of Constellation Brands, Bill Newlands, said: “While global legalisation of cannabis is still in its infancy, we continue to believe the long-term opportunity in this evolving market is substantial. Canopy is best positioned to win in the emerging cannabis space and we are confident in the strategic direction of the company under David Klein and his team.”
CEO of Canopy Growth, David Klein, added: “This additional investment validates the work our team has done since attracting the initial investment in 2017. It also strengthens our ability to pursue the immense market and product opportunities available to Canopy in Canada, the US and other key global markets.
Constellation first invested in Canopy Growth in October 2017, purchasing a 9.9% stake for £141m. In August the following year, it increased its stake in the company, investing around US$4 billion in the company. In January 2019, it announced that it would be building a hemp extraction and product manufacturing facility in New York.
However, as share prices in Canopy Growth have fallen, Constellation has faced criticism for its decision to invest substantial sums in cannabis.
In January this year, the company postponed the launch of a line of cannabis drinks due to being unable increase production to a viable commercial level. In the same month, Constellation wrote down its stake in Canopy Growth by US$534 million. It had already marked down its investment by $839 million in October of the previous year.
Spiros Malandrakis, drinks analyst at Euromonitor, previously told the drinks business that Constellation’s experience should not discourage others from investing in cannabis, however the way they do so is important.
He said: “There is a cautionary tale here but it’s not about entering the cannabis segment, it’s about having a more strategic or nuanced approach than ‘big is best’.”


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Females comprise 0.7 percent of all the chief executive officers in South Korea, Yonhap reported.
South Korea's female CEOs run, on average, relatively small companies.
The study said the capitalization of companies run by women was valued at $4.72 billion or about 0.4 percent of the total value of the country's corporations.
A Fortune magazine study showed 4.2 percent of world's 1,000 largest companies were run by women, Yonhap said.
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As mobile apps begin to play a role in car insurance sales, research giant J.D. Power is moving to track the trend.
“We just introduced a question this year” about apps, said Jeremy Bowler, senior director of the global insurance practice at J.D. Power. Bowler heads up the company’s Insurance Shopping Study that since 2007 has tracked how consumers shop for new – and renew old – auto policies. Bowler said that it’s tricky for J.D. Power to release data points without gathering “meaningful” information and can’t report on trends with results from only one survey year but expects to see upticks in app usage in the years ahead.
“There are some pretty provocative things happening in the U.K.,” he said. Geico is experimenting with a system where a consumer can take a mobile device picture of his or her licenses and send it in. “The image will trigger a quote,” he said.
The shopping study trends show that the consumer is increasingly reliant on virtual processes. In the 2013, more than two-thirds of consumers reported getting at least one quote online and more than one in five new policy buyers complete the entire transaction over the Internet. For carriers and agents in this large and highly competitive space — more than $5 billion is spent annually on auto insurance advertising — every increment of market share counts.
The companies that are best set up to succeed are those that “embrace the new customer preferences,” said Bowler, and “perhaps, hand the car keys over to the consumer in terms of how the relationship gets managed.” Bowler suggests that carriers and producers ask consumers what their preferred method of communication is and follow up in those avenues.
“We started asking questions about emerging channels,” said Bowler pointing to click-to-chat, texting and social media as well as mobile apps. Carriers and agents routinely reach out to consumers at renewal time or at “life trigger” events (junctures such as graduations or weddings that might prompt a person to need certain kinds of insurance) but the more sophisticated companies “tailor the way they reach out to the customer” by using that person’s preferred method of communication.
Companies “can’t rely on what worked before,” said Bowler. The more nimble — and better poised for success — companies “embrace the new customer preferences … and foster loyalty with the customer of tomorrow and not the customer of today.”
Bowler said he urges companies to take note of how a customer communicates — did they click online, ping in on an app or call the 800 number — and also make sure to ask them what their preferred channels are. And don’t make demographic assumptions about who is using what path. “The interesting thing about (some new communication technology) is that it seems to leapfrog a generation. Sure, the Millennials are using it but — at least anecdotally — it’s how grandparents keep in touch with their grandchildren.”
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The retail environment is constantly changing with every new style, product and season. While change is often retailer and consumer-driven, technology is shaping eight of the top 10 trends expected to have the greatest impact on retail sales in 2016 according to a report by Synchrony Financial.
In analyzing the retail market, they identified 26 trends, impacting retailers. The list was developed from ongoing retail and shopper research, and by tracking emerging and well established trends that continue to be important in the marketplace, as well as those impacting the payments space. Trends spanning multiple industries and categories relevant to its retail partners and cardholders were also reviewed.
Emerging from the research are 10 trends and retailer considerations compiled in Synchrony Financial’s latest brief, 10 Things to Know – the Top 10 Retail Trends for 2016. The increasing importance of technology in retail is reflected in most of the trends topping the list:
Wearable Technology: From headsets and smartwatches to fitness and health devices, wearable technology is being embraced by shoppers for ease of accessing product and store information, offers, and speed of payment.
New Retail Holidays: Looking beyond the standard calendar, retailers are linking sales to special observances and creating their own shopping holidays to attract new buyers and engage with existing customers to boost loyalty and repeat spending.
Voice Technology: Up to four times faster than type-and-click, voice-enabled search signals a shift in how consumers find product and service information. At the same time, innovations in language recognition will give voice a bigger role in online commerce, retail search strategies, and shopper engagement.
Virtual Reality in the Shopping Experience: Virtual reality immerses consumers in sensory and personalized experiences, empowering them to interact with products and services. With mobile devices capable of delivering rich VR experiences, shoppers can tour a store or try on a new fashion anywhere, at any time.
Video Streaming: Growing video-on-demand traffic and the higher likelihood of shoppers to purchase a product after watching a video, provides opportunities for retailers to consider online streaming video for product demos, display or customer service.
Internet of Things: Point-of-sale information is no longer the main source of data for merchants, as millions of devices are being deployed and connected in the retail environment to collect and send data that provides valuable, real-time insights.
Mobile and Alternative Payments: Expected to increase three-fold this year, mobile payments are transforming commerce. As retailers transition terminals and develop eCommerce platforms to engage with shoppers and accept new payment methods, consumers are adopting mobile wallet apps, branded wallets, and smartwatches and devices with payment capabilities.
Social Network Buy Buttons: Shopping and social media have been a natural fit, but are quickly becoming more commercial. Largely driven by growing mobile usage, retailers are providing shoppers with easier functionality to purchase within a social app by adding Buy buttons that allow users to shop directly on their sites.
Increased Spending on Pets: Pet expenditures continue to rise as consumer demographics and mindsets toward pets change. Recognizing pets are considered a member of the family more than ever, many retailers and veterinarians are focusing on the increasing demand for products and services that meet the needs of pet owners.
Personalization: All these trends intersect in the ability to deliver unique, personalized customer experiences. Data, tools and technology are making it possible to understand customer preferences and deliver personalized offerings, in addition to product selection and prices.
“As an innovation and technology driven company, Synchrony Financial continuously tracks consumer insights and trends as a way to help retailers monitor areas impacting their business this year and in the next three-to-five years,” said John P. Williams, Marketing Innovation leader, Synchrony Financial. “The pace of change is accelerating and we are working with our retail partners to create easier, faster, and more relevant and rewarding experiences for consumers.”
The Top 10 Retail Trends for 2016 brief can be downloaded and viewed, along with other retail and shopper insights at http://synchronyfinancial.com


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ALL HAIL THE QUEEN: Breguet will pay homage to the Queen of Naples through an exhibition held in Geneva’s Cité du Temps from Jan. 16 to Feb. 12. The exhibit, which celebrates the 200th anniversary of the creation of the first wristwatch, will coincide with the 22nd session of Geneva’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie, held from Jan. 16 to 20.
Ordered in 1810 by Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon and the Queen of Naples, the watch was completed and delivered in 1812. While that particular watch has yet to be found, Breguet’s archives have made it possible to retrace the creation of the timepiece.
Nodding to the 200-year-old watch, Breguet will showcase its own Queen of Naples collection, which it launched 10 years ago, at the retrospective exhibit.


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An empowering Emirates video is released to celebrate the company's employee diversity. Launched to honor female workers on March 8th — which is International Women's Day, the marketing piece highlights a "team of exemplary women."
The Emirates boasts a strong workforce, 40% of which is women who are in job roles that satisfy "all major operational, commercial and business support roles" within the company. The Emirates video also sets the focus on the incredible diversity of these workers which spans roughly 160 nationalities.
Videos like this do not only recognize work ethic, professionalism, and technical expertise. The campaign is also front-facing, winning the hearts of its consumer base through supporting the movement of equality within the parameters of the workplace.


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Images of iPhone 12 Chassis And Case Suggesting AirPower May
Ioshackz.com Images of iPhone 12 Chassis And Case Suggesting AirPower May Launch This Fall After a controversial cancelation of the AirPower project, it is widely speculated that Apple will revive the wireless charger project this year. Well, there is the Weibo-originating image shared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo indicating that the iPhone 12’s chassis includes a circular array of magnets, likely for charging (AirPower?) or mounting.
Additionally, the wireless charging case that matches the iPhone 12 has also been leaked, with the wireless charging module also seems to adopt the same design for perfect alignment with Apple’s wireless charger, according to EverythingApplePro, who shared the image of the case on Twitter.
If real, this would mean that Apple will launch AirPower alongside its iPhone 12 lineup.
When Apple announced the AirPower wireless charging pad a few years ago, one of its main features was to support charging anywhere on the mat without the need for the device to be aligned with the coils. In fact, Apple Watch uses a magnetic charging design, as soon as the back of Apple Watch is placed on a magnetic charging base, the charger’s magnet will align the Apple Watch and start charging.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously hinted the possibility of Apple to release a small wireless charging mat in the first half of the year, however, we know it didn’t happen, because no such product has been announced.
The iPhone 12 lineup, which will be released in this fall, will include 4 models, with all of them are expected to support 5G and new AR capabilities, we have also heard that those smartphones will be using a new metal middle frame design, similar to the layout of iPhone 4s.


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St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - A federal grand jury indicted a 49-year-old St. Louis County woman on charges of selling counterfeit goods, U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said Friday.
According to court documents, Soukeye Fox owned and operated businesses on West Florissant, Cherokee Street and the Frison Flea Market, and allegedly sold counterfeit goods, some of them originating in China.
Fox is accused of maintaining an inventory of components for making counterfeit purses, including almost 6,000 purse labels.
Prosecutors say Fox sold counterfeit clothing, purses and shoes, including items bearing marks owned by Guru, Prada, Coach and numerous others, between 2008 and June 2012.
Soukeye Fox, also known as Soukeye Samb and Sue Fox, faces up ten years in prison and/or $2 million in fines if convicted.
The indictment was announced on the same day federal authorities raided the Frison Flea Market in Pagedale.


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Broking firm Motilal Oswal Financial Services expects complete normalization in vehicle finance sector by the first half of calendar year 2021.
According to a report by by the firm, the credit costs across vehicle finance (VF) players is expected to be 1.7-4.4% in FY21 and gradually revert to run-rate levels over FY22-23.
"By Aug-Sep'20, sales in most product categories picked up to prior year levels. PV sales for the industry improved significantly to nearly 100% of prior year levels in 2Q from sub-30% levels in 1QFY21.
Similarly, two-wheeler and tractor sales surpassed prior year levels in Aug'20 and Sep'20. Two-wheelers and passenger vehicle segments have benefitted from the preference towards personal mobility solutions. Tractors have benefited from a healthy monsoon in 2019, coupled with a strong Rabi crop," the broking firm has stated.
According to its report M&HCV segment continued to be a laggard.
"This segment was under pressure even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The channel checks suggest that used CVs are witnessing strong demand given the price hikes in new CVs.
The checks also suggest that retail festive sales were in-line with prior trends in 2Ws and tractors and improved sequentially in the case of passenger vehicles," Motilal Oswal has stated in its report.


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Consistency in the Demand-Supply Gap is leading Polypropylene Prices to Sustain Stability
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- Journalist: Gabreilla Figueroa
After a sluggish prior holiday-shortened week, Polypropylene activity picked up again, and the prices of both Homopolymer (HoPP) and Copolymer (CoPP) concluded this week unchanged. Prime Polypropylene railcars were once again available at deeply discounted prices, some for export and others for domestic shipping, but the majority of the proposals had been accepted by the end of the week. We will see if the buying sentiments hold up after some suppliers asserted that most of their December spot prime offers for Polypropylene were completed. Demand increased a little bit, processors replenished some inventory, and some resellers were seen buying some products like Polypropylene at these advantageous prices. Throughout the week, there was a steady demand; around half of the volume was split between Prime HoPP & CoPP truckloads and Prime railcars. There has been a conspicuous paucity of positive downgrades due to the upcoming festive season. High-flow off-grade CoPP railcars have been noticeably scarce, and we have underlying demand if more material becomes available.
While packaged CoPP remained difficult to find and came with a hefty premium, ready-to-ship HoPP truckloads, both prime and off-grade, were readily available. Polypropylene contracts have decreased during December 2022, whereas upstream Polymer Grade Propylene (PGP) contracts have increased by a penny at the end of the year. The increase in upstream PGP prices was the first price hike of the commodity in the US market since August. The Energy costs in the US market reduced during December as natural gas prices eased due to warmer winter conditions compared to previous years and abetted the stable conditions of Polypropylene.
According to ChemAnalyst, the prices of Polypropylene remained stable in the US market during the start of December 2022. The downstream petrochemical industries were likely to remain weak till the end of the month owing to the holiday season weakening buying sentiments. Despite the poor run of the downstream industries, the rising cost of upstream PGP is stabilizing the price trend of Polypropylene in the US.


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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called for a major increase in U.S. production capacity for computer chips whose current shortages are causing global manufacturing bottlenecks, saying the push could create jobs and wean the nation off over-dependence on China and Taiwan.
“Right now we make 0% of leading-edge chips in the United States. That’s a problem,” Raimondo said Tuesday in a virtual conference of the Council of the Americas, a business group. “We ought to be making 30%, because that matches our demand. So, we will promise to work hard every day, and in the short term also see if we can have more chips available so the automakers can reopen their factories.”


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Road safety charity Brake is appealing for women not to get behind the wheel in steep wedges, platform shoes or stilettos.
Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive, said: “It is deeply worrying that many drivers have such little regard for their own and others’ safety that they wear unsuitable footwear.”
Her comments coincide with a survey which reveals 40 per cent of women drive in high heels.
It is deeply worrying that many drivers have such little regard for their own and others’ safety that they wear unsuitable footwear
Price comparison website Confused.com found 39 per cent wear flip-flops, 16 per cent wear slippers and 24 per cent drive in bare feet. It also found that one in 10 women apply make-up while at the wheel and 15 per cent of men admit to shaving while driving.
The site’s spokesman said: “We need to bear in mind that a lapse of concentration at the wheel can lead to needless tragedy.”


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At one time, cold water fish was the predominant source for omega-3 fatty acids, but “fish burp” pushbacks, and calls for more sustainable and vegetarian alternatives have given rise to a marketplace flourishing with choice—which can be simultaneously as wonderful as it is confusing to consumers. For omega-3 brands, playing up a product’s unique ingredient origin can help unlock elusive on-shelf differentiation, regardless of whether the product hails from fish, krill, algae, ahiflower, calamari or flax.
To be clear, consumers have a healthy interest in fish-origin docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).Chris Gearheart, director, member communications and engagement, the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED), said the market for those ingredients has grown at least 2% in volume and value for each of the last three years, according to the 2016-17 edition of GOED’s EPA and DHA Omega-3 Ingredient Market Report. However, the overall market is being shaped by two forces: mass market activity and interest from new users.
Eric Meppem, co-founder, Pharmako Biotechnologies Pty Ltd., said the mass market has been commoditized. “Pundits state the market is flat or shrinking, but due to lower retail prices and larger pack size, actual omega-3 use is rising,” he said, adding that the factors are causing margin pressure throughout the supply chain.
New, emergent users typically embrace new omega-3 sources or delivery systems. “In most markets, these are more specialized, but mass-market brands are now considering these, wanting to broaden their offerings and combat margin squeeze,” he explained.
Top drivers behind interest in newer omega-3 sources include bioavailability and absorption, as well as ecological concerns like sustainability from sea-origin ingredients.
Organic Technologies, producer of AlaskOmega omega-rich fish oil products, begins with wild-caught Alaska pollock oil from Alaska’s Bering Sea. Steve Dillingham, vice president of sales and marketing, said the expansive U.S. Alaska pollock fishery is responsibly managed, with less than 1% bycatch and certified 100% sustainable and traceable by the Marine Stewardship Council. AlaskOmega oils are also certified sustainable through the Marine Stewardship Council chain-of-custody program, considered the gold standard by the industry.
Kate Pastor, senior vice president, Superba North America, Aker BioMarine Antarctic US LLC, said she believes ongoing investments in science and innovation are contributing to the vibrancy of the krill oil market. Aker BioMarine recently announced that it would be exploring krill oil’s potential benefit in new areas of study, including sports nutrition, skin health and Lupus.
“More novel sources of EPA and DHA omega-3s like greenshell mussel, hoki and calanus have seen double-digit growth in volume and value recently, but they are starting from a much smaller base,” explained GOED’s Gearheart, based on the 2016-17 edition of GOED’s EPA and DHA Omega-3 Ingredient Market Report. “Some of these unique ingredients appeal to Chinese consumers, for example, because they are especially interested in products from certain geographic regions—mussel oils come largely from New Zealand, [and] calanus saw most of its growth in the U.S. and Europe, where consumers may be drawn to the chance to revisit omega-3 consumption in a novel way.
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Despite the wealth of talents in the Philippines, Filipinos are not maximizing video as a platform to express themselves. There is a big opportunity to grow the nascent ecosystem of local content creators by removing the barriers that prevent Filipinos from becoming the next Ryan Higa or PewDiePie. One is access. Not having a stable connection to upload videos can be a problem. So is the lack of knowledge and expertise. Aside from basic know-how in video production, many aspiring online creators don’t know the variety of content they can upload on YouTube.
Smart, recognizing the creative potential of Filipino youth as an untapped resource for new ideas and raw talent, encourages the use of YouTube and aims to break the aforementioned barriers experienced by the country’s digital generation. Smart continues to inspire change in the way the Filipino youth productively use technology and the Internet by empowering them with the tools to discover their passions, channel their creativity, and broadcast their talents to the world.
“We understand that it may not always be easy for the young Filipino to express themselves on a digital platform – there’s always the challenge of having the right equipment and of course, not having access to internet connection strong enough for video uploading.” says Katrina Luna-Abelarde, Head of Wireless Consumer Operations for Smart.
“We want to address these barriers because we have seen many of the world’s digital generation get their start in content creation on the platform, showcasing their talent on video, and sharing their talent with the widest audience available on the web. We want to encourage the Filipino youth to explore this alternative medium not only for self-expression, but also as a way to secure a career for their future,” she added.
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Smart recently unboxed its slew of digital innovations, including “Own It” campaign, a platform that encourages everyone, especially the youth, to share their passions to the world, giving them a voice larger than themselves.
Under this campaign, Smart unveiled Launchpad, a program to help budding content creators upload their own work on YouTube and broadcast it to the world via Upload Stations all over the country.
Selected malls in key areas nationwide will be chosen as the homes of Launchpad Upload Stations. During weekends, Smart subscribers can hang out, collaborate and create their own videos, and upload in real time using Smart’s fast Internet connection and Samsung devices. Upload Stations will also be deployed in different campuses and hotspots to bring the experience to where the Filipino youth is.
Aspiring content creators will get the chance to participate in Launchpad Workshops where they will learn from industry professionals and top YouTubers. Smart subscribers can join the workshops by creating an account on YouTube, uploading original videos on their account, and registering online. Registration is open until September 15, 2016. In these learning sessions, they will know how they can make content creation into a profession with modules on building their own brand, monetizing their YouTube channel, and creating engaging content plans. By the end of the workshops, Smart will choose content creators to fly to Los Angeles, USA to collaborate with international YouTube stars.
Smart introduces possibilities of using digital video as an avenue for self-expression through YouTube. Meanwhile, Samsung joins the campaign as the official device partner. To join and to read the full mechanics, visit www.smart.com.ph/launchpad.


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The Sears Hometown Store of Great Bend, has been named a 2011 Sears Hometown Store Premier Dealer. This annual award recognizes Sears hometown stores across the country that consistently offer the greatest customer service, outstanding store performance and standards, as well as exceptional demonstrations of local community involvement. The Great Bend store was one of only 190 locations throughout the U.S. to receive this national recogniition at the annual Hometown Celebration held in Orlando, Fla.
Tom White, owner of Great Bend Refrigeration, 2112 Main, announced that Mike Johnson has joined the company as manager of the residential heating and cooling services. Johnson is a longtime Barton County resident with 39 years of experience in refrigeration, heating and air conditioning.
Some customers have an idea of what they want, while others don't quite know which direction to go. In either situation, Dana Peterson can help.
C&V Home Improvement of Great Bend has hired Sarah Flipse's for customer relations and sales.
The certified public accounting firm of Adams, Brown, Beran & Ball, Chartered announces the addition of Ruth A. Bealer to its professional staff. Bealer works in the firm's Great Bend office.
Constance Winkler is available on call for members and non-members appointments at Club 1 Fitness during their regular operating hours. Services available are the Raindrop Therapy, Synergie Treatment and Bio-mat sessions.
Patricia Ledesma is now the Reserve World NSBA Champion in the category of trail pattern for Riders with Disabilities. The Rosewood Services Inc. client earned her new title at the National Snaffle Bit Association World Horse Show, held in Tulsa Aug. 17-21 at the Built Ford Tough Expo Complex in Tulsa.
As of the first of July, anyone with access to cellular, Wi-Fi or Internet service could download free smartphone applications -- called "apps" -- that allow them to engage with Fort Hays State University, Nex-Tech and Nex-Tech Wireless from anywhere in the world.
Rejuvenation, Inc., a full service Day Spa, Salon and Boutique, for men, women and children, announces the hiring of Elisabeth Wiethoff. Elisabeth is a Licensed Massage Therapist who graduated from Professional Fitness Institute in 2005. Her formal training includes Anatomy and Physiology I and II, Pathology, Kinesiology and Business Management. Her practicum experience includes Bodyworks, Body Mechanics, Sports Massage and Eastern Influence. Elisabeth is specialized in Swedish, Deep Tissue and Acupressure massage.
While a Great Bend couple vacationed in Michigan this summer, Great Bend artist Sally Rychlec was busy painting a mural on the privacy fence in front of their home.
Regular customers at Office Products Inc. in downtown Great Bend may have done a double-take recently in the service department. The familiar face is that of Chris Frye, who has returned to OPI as a copier technician.
Cathy Estes and her staff at Sunflower Early Education Center accepts a grant check from Golden Belt Community Foundation for a specialized printer that works with their hearing screening equipment for more accurate and long-term record keeping. Golden Belt Community Foundation's next competitive grant cycle deadline is Nov. 1. Visit www.goldenbeltcf.org or call at 620-792-3000, for more information.
R.B. Tellers, one of the seven MyTown LP stores in downtown Great Bend, has a new service that makes shipping packages more convenient for customers. Package Express recently opened inside of the business, which sells products manufactured by JanSport, Fuller Brush and Coleman. Package Express offers packaging, wrapping and UPS shipping services Tuesdays through Saturday at its convenient downtown location.
Walk into the Kansas Raptor Center at Brit Spaugh Zoo and you'll instantly enter the world of Ornithology. Instead of feeling like you are studying birds, however, you will feel like you just encountered them in their natural habitat. Three permanent exhibits with life-like birds, trees, grasses and plants were installed in early July, and three traveling exhibits were also added. The exhibits provide a fun way to learn for kids of all ages, said Brit Spaugh Zoo Director Scott Gregory.
A recently published BankRate.com survey discovered roughly half of all working Americans and 75 percent of millennials do not own any stock or 401(k) plans.
Americans might not hate taxes as much as everyone thinks.
Retailers might have overvalued the way millennials shop online.
Anyone wondering about gifts for the graduate or mom on Mother's Day may want to take advantage of the upcoming B&N Jewelry Fair. St. Rose Health Center volunteers are sponsoring the event, which is open to the public.
More than half of all welfare recipients (56 percent) rely on government assistance because their job doesn’t pay enough, not because they're unemployed, according to a new study released by the University of California, Berkeley.
Anyone with asthma, emphysema or other lung disease now has a new option for pulmonology treatment in Great Bend.
Not everything about tax day has to be horrible. There are plenty of interesting facts to keep your mind busy during the lead up to the IRS' deadline for tax filing.
April 15 is understandably unnerving for many taxpayers.
For many high school and college students, the main reason they prepare for and go to college is to have a stable, high-paying job after graduation. The trick is to find the major that will maximize job opportunities as well as earning power.
Kansas Wesleyan University has received a $1M gift from Sunflower Bank for a comprehensive campus-wide technology infrastructure upgrade. The university has awarded the project to Nex-Tech, a Lenora, Kansas-based technology company.
Coldwell Banker Sell Real Estate has been named a Coldwell Banker® Premier Office for year-end 2014, the highest honor given to Coldwell Banker offices worldwide. This award is given to Coldwell Banker offices that have exceeded annual sales goals and customer service levels.
Tara Cornwell of CUNA Mutual Retirement Solutions has recently passed all of the required exams to attain her QKA (Qualified 401(k) Administrator) designation through ASPPA (American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries). These exams include the Retirement Plan Fundamentals (RPF-1 & RPF-2) exams, the Administrative and Qualification Issues of Retirement Plans (DC-1) exam and, the Administrative Issues of Defined Contribution Plans (DC-2) exam.
Nex-Tech Wireless recently furthered its partnership with Fort Hays State University by establishing two annual scholarship funds.
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$1 Million Settlement in Food Poisoning Suit
A Northern California man who contracted a severe case of food poisoning after being served contaminated raw oysters received a $1 million out-of-court settlement from five companies involved in the transport and sale of the Louisiana shellfish.
The case has long-range, troubling implications for the food industry, especially in light of the recent outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 linked to ground beef that caused 500 illnesses and two deaths on the West Coast.
According to his lawyer, Genese Dopson Smith, the settlement received by William Kilpatrick, of Redding, Calif., is the largest award ever in a food product liability case.
On June 28, 1988, Kilpatrick ordered raw oysters from room service at the Holiday Inn at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. Within 48 hours, he exhibited the classic symptoms of food poisoning: nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. However, his case became more severe as an infection appeared on his legs that eventually destroyed skin, muscle tissue and tendon. Sixty days of hospitalization were required and Kilpatrick was diagnosed with a Vibrio cholera infection.
While hospitalized, Kilpatrick also developed a bone marrow infection and numerous fractures. During the course of his recovery, Kilpatrick became severely depressed over his disfigurement and twice attempted suicide, according to the settlement report released by Dopson Smith. Today, after about $80,000 in medical costs, he walks only with the aid of a cane.
“We proved that V. cholera was a foreign bacteria to oysters and, therefore, we could proceed against the defendants on product liability and breach of warranty,” said Dopson Smith. “This is significant. One of the major things we want, in addition to compensation for Mr. Kilpatrick’s injuries, is some kind of change in the seafood industry.”
The defendants are Holiday Inns Inc., United Shell Fish Co., Fisherman’s Wharf Seafoods Inc., Pearson Seafood and Pride Transport Inc. A sixth company, Florida-based Severt Trucking, did not contest the lawsuit and was assessed a judgment of $378,000. Dopson Smith plans to pursue collection of the additional sum in Florida courts.
Charles D. Jenkins, a San Francisco attorney who represented Holiday Inns Inc., disagreed with Dopson Smith’s interpretation of the settlement. He said that the Kilpatrick case is unique because of a state Court of Appeals ruling that all bacteria--whether naturally occurring or introduced into the oysters by handlers--is to be considered “foreign” in this particular incident. Whether such a standard will be applied to future food poisoning outbreaks is unknown.
“The oysters in the Kilpatrick case were perfectly good oysters,” Jenkins said. “The bacteria that caused the illness was a common, natural bacteria that literally belonged in the oysters. It was his own system, his liver, that failed to protect him from garden variety bacteria.”
Jenkins said the Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf served thousands of oysters from the same source during the summer of 1988 but Kilpatrick was the only one to report illness.
The case was one of several that prompted the California Department of Health Services to require that all retail outlets selling Gulf of Mexico oysters post warning signs alerting high-risk individuals of the potential presence of Vibrio vulnificus , a strain related to V. cholera , in the shellfish . Vibrio is believed to thrive in warmer waters such as the Gulf of Mexico.
Among those believed to be especially susceptible to the Vibrio bacteria are people with compromised immune systems such as those suffering from liver damage, AIDS or cancer. Kilpatrick, however, had never been diagnosed with any of these illnesses. At the time of the infection, he was drinking heavily and is now a recovering alcoholic. Yet the state’s current warning sign does not alert alcoholics, nor heavy drinkers, to the potential danger of consuming raw or undercooked oysters. Further, there is no universal definition of what constitutes heavy drinking, which some say is anything more than two glasses of wine or beer per day.
The size of the Kilpatrick settlement will create insurance difficulties for companies that sell and transport highly perishable food commodities such as raw oysters, Dopson Smith believes. Some insurers are unlikely to provide liability coverage unless substantial improvements are made in the seafood distribution system’s sanitation practices, she said.
The problems that exist in the industry came to light during the course of the Kilpatrick litigation. For instance, David Clem, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official and one-time member of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Commission, testified that “it was common and well known in the (seafood) industry that independent trucking outfits (transporting shellfish) turned off the refrigeration during interstate commerce to save on gas.” V. cholera and other bacteria multiply rapidly when raw foods are not kept properly refrigerated.
The settlement is unusual because the facts and figures in the case are not sealed to the public. Dopson Smith said that Kilpatrick insisted on having the case details open because he wants to speak out on the issue of seafood safety in the future based on his experience with oysters and V. cholera.


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NEW YORK — Just in time for Mother’s Day, the ladies at Lafayette 148 — and a few men, too — met to honor some unordinary women.
Thursday night’s celebration at Lafayette 148 — which is both a 23-year-old women’s apparel brand and the address of the brand’s first store in New York City’s SoHo — honored remarkable women with a panel discussion, Champagne, hors d’oeuvres, tunes by DJ Nicole Rosé and a look at the retailer’s spring 2019 collection.
Set against all-white walls, the mostly black-and-white collection, with some pastels and rust-colored pieces thrown in, stood out. So did the guest list. The names included prima ballerina Stella Abrera, fashion photographer Sophie Elgort, chef and restaurateur Marie-Aude Rose and model Veronica Webb.
“Almost every woman is an unordinary woman,” Fern Mallis, founder of New York Fashion Week and moderator of the evening’s panel, “Unordinary Women, Extraordinary Conversations,” told WWD. “I don’t think any of us want to be around ordinary women. There’s no point. That’s a waste of time.”
The Unordinary Women campaign, which began March 8 in recognition of International Women’s Day and runs through May 31, is raising money for She’s the First, a New York-based nonprofit that helps girls around the world become the first in their family to graduate high school.
As part of the campaign, Lafayette has agreed to donate $10 to She’s the First every time someone posts on Instagram using the hashtag #UnordinaryWomen. The retailer also agreed to donate 10 percent of sales during Thursday night’s event to the charity.
“I won’t be offended, neither will anyone else here, if you take out your phone right now and take a picture of this panel,” Mallis told the audience of about 200 people, many of whom were in the fashion and media industries. “Take a picture of something and say you’re at [the] Unordinary Women panel. If you feel compelled, do it again in the night. Do it 10 times.”
Thursday morning Lafayette 148 had raised about $10,000. By Friday that number had doubled.
Mallis herself was dressed in Lafayette 148’s spring collection. “Head to toe,” she said, referring to her flower-printed white tunic, paired khaki pant ensemble. So were all the ladies on the 14-person panel, which included other notable women, such as attorney Anjali Kumar, the Whitney Museum’s Lauri Freedman, writers Rachel Cargle and Cyndie Spiegel, White House correspondent April Ryan and entrepreneur Nike Russ. The occasion served as a way to inspire other women on their own paths to success, while acknowledging some of the unique roadblocks women face.
Mallis said finding supportive women who acted as advisers throughout her career helped her prosper.
“When I was at IMG in fashion week, doing that, it was a boy’s club,” she said. “You have to find the mentors and the people who have similar minds and can help you. When you find a woman who is in your court, there is nothing better.”
Also important is learning to accept rejection.
“When you get into business, everyone is going to say no to you,” said Veronica Webb, the first African-American woman to score a contract with Revlon and one of the original Victoria’s Secret Angels.
“The biggest thing is, one, get out of your own way,” Webb said. “Because if you’re really hard on yourself and you don’t take care of yourself, you’re going to believe all the other b.s. that people put on top of you. Because you’re already brain-washing yourself with your own b.s.”
Catherine Levene, president of digital and chief digital officer at media company Meredith Corp. and panelist at the event, said that as a female entrepreneur it was often difficult for her to raise money for new projects.
“Most of the venture capitalists are men,” Levene said. “You may be presenting a product that they don’t know a lot about firsthand. Or, they ask you very inappropriate questions. Like, ‘Do you want to have kids? How are you going to manage running a company if you have kids?’ It’s much more difficult to be a woman in that kind of world.”
Even so, she said hard work and self-confidence do pay off if employed over time.
“When there’s opportunity or you see holes in an organization where nobody’s doing something, do it. Take it on,” Levene said. “Jump into a role or raise your hand for a role that you might fear you’re not quite ready for. Go in and do your best to learn on the job. Because, [as women] we’re smart, we believe in ourselves and we have to know we can do it.”


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London, 07 April 2022 - Stylus, the global trends and insights business, has announced today that Victoria Rennie will be appointed as CEO, succeeding founder Marc Worth who will step into the role of Executive Chairman.
Rennie has been working as Chief Operating Officer for the business for the last four years, having previously held operational leadership and consultative roles within the events industry. The decision announced today signals the start of a new phase for the business that was established by Worth in 2010.
Victoria Rennie, CEO of Stylus said: “I’m delighted to be stepping into the role of CEO for Stylus. Marc Worth is a trends innovator and true inspiration for our industry, and it’s an honour to be taking the reins of the business he founded whilst continuing to benefit from his experience.”
Rennie added: “Over the last four years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the importance placed by our clients upon understanding the future of their industries. I’m passionately committed to ensuring that we continue to support our clients, building even deeper relationships with them as we navigate the rapidly evolving consumer landscape together.”
Marc Worth, founder and Executive Chairman of Stylus said: “Victoria knows the business inside out, and I believe now is the right time for her to take the helm. Victoria will report to the board of directors and I’m confident that under her leadership Stylus will continue to go from strength to strength.”
Worth added: “I founded Stylus with a view to provide trends insights for businesses in all consumer-facing industries. I can confidently say we have done that. Of course, we wouldn’t be here today without the support of our long-standing members including Volkswagen, Marriott, Starbucks and PepsiCo, who have been with us for more than a decade, and our investor and strategic partner Hearst Corporation, which has played an influential role in our international expansion.”
For more information visit Stylus.com.
At Stylus, we uncover trends, predict change, and provide the intelligence that helps businesses prosper. With a relentless curiosity for what’s new, what’s now and what’s next, our experts are the authority in over 20 sectors, and have a deep understanding of the most influential emerging trends affecting consumers around the globe. It’s the reason we’re trusted by the world’s leading brands, agencies and businesses, helping them to reveal what’s possible, not just predict what’s probable.
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Ars Technica ---------- Google says it is embarking on new plans to make its hardware greener. Anna Meegan, head of sustainability for consumer hardware at Google, wrote a blog post outlining the company’s goals for improving the environmental impact made by its devices. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.
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Triumph Group announced today that its Triumph Product Support facility in Grand Prairie, Texas has renewed its partnership with MTU Maintenance to provide repair services for engine accessories and line replacement units (LRUs) for the V2500, CFM56, CF6 and CF34 engine platforms.
“We are excited to continue to support MTU Maintenance as a key supplier, helping them to provide timely and reliable services to their global customer base” President of Triumph Product Support, Jim Berberet, stated. “We will continue to provide exceptional service to MTU Maintenance in the year(s) to come and we look forward to future opportunities to grow our relationship.”
In accordance with this agreement, Triumph Product Support – Grand Prairie will continue to repair engine accessory components such as bearings, engine monitoring sensors, engine mounts, actuators, main engine fuel pumps, fuel flow transmitters, pneumatic valves/starters, oil coolers, lube units, and oil scavenge pressure pumps.
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Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) reported revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter of 2019 that topped market expectations. Shares rose 2.4% in premarket hours on Thursday.
Worldwide revenue amounted to $8.1 billion, which was flat on a reported basis and up 3.6% on an organic basis, compared to the prior-year period.
On a reported basis, net income attributable to Medtronic was $1.17 billion, or $0.87 per share, compared to $1.46 billion, or $1.07 per share. Adjusted net income was $2.07 billion, or $1.54 per share.
Revenue in the US grew 2.3% year-over-year to $4.2 billion. Non-US developed market revenue totaled $2.5 billion, down 5.3% on a reported basis and up 1.7% on a constant currency basis. Revenue from emerging markets amounted to $1.28 billion, reflecting a growth of 3.9% on a reported basis and 12% on a constant currency basis.
In the Cardiac and Vascular Group division, revenues fell 2.7% on a reported basis and rose 1.1% in constant currency. In the Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, revenue increased 0.8% on a reported basis and 5.1% on a constant currency basis.
In the Restorative Therapies Group, revenues increased 4.1% as reported and 6.5% in constant currency. In the Diabetes Group, revenue fell 2.9% as reported but grew 0.6% in constant currency.
For fiscal year 2020, organic revenue is expected to grow 4%. Adjusted EPS is expected to be $5.44 to $5.50.
Shares of Dollar Tree Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) were down over 1% on Wednesday, a day after the company reported earnings results for the third quarter of 2022. Revenue and earnings
Target Corporation (TGT): A look at how the retail giant is shaping up against an inflationary backdrop
Shares of Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) were up over 1% on Wednesday. The stock has dropped 30% year-to-date and 35% over the past 12 months. Last week the company reported
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Huawei unveiled on Monday its two newest high-end phones – the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, in a bid to challenge Apple and Samsung on innovation and pricing strategy.
Sizes and Shapes
With the launch of the new Huawei handsets, the Chinese giant officially joined the skinny-bezel bandwagon of 2017. Known for its stellar silicon design, it leverages this capability to improve its AI-related performance.
Mate 10 is the smaller phone at 5.9 inch 2560 x 1440 LCD while the Mate 10 Pro has a display size of 6 inches 2160 x 1080 OLED. The two phones have thin, symmetrical bezels at the top and bottom.
Mate 10 Pro has a narrower 18:9 aspect ratio, making it seems like the smaller phone and one among other phones with bezel-less design.
While probably feels very wide in the hand, the regular Mate 10 will still be suitable for Youtube watching albeit an unusually proportioned handset. Users will feel a distinctive heft while holding the phone, thanks to the combination of huge standard aspect ratio screen (16:9) and slim bezel. The screen also looks sharper in this one too.
Huawei Mate 10 is only 8.2mm thick and has a fingerprint sensor below its screen. It also has a headphone jack and microSD card slot.
The Mate 10 Pro, meanwhile, measures 7.9mm and has a fingerprint sensor which is placed around the back. It will have IP67 waterproofing and an IR blaster.
Huawei also released a Porsche Design special edition Huawei Mate 10 Pro that sports a ‘diamond black’ finish.
Other Key Specs of Mate and Pro Plus
- Processor: Kirin 970 CPU
- RAM: 4GB
- Battery: 4,000mAh
- Storage: 64GB
- Storage: 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (Pro)
- 6GB of RAM and ups the storage to 256GB (Porsche Design series)
- Cameras: High-grade Leica dual cameras with f/1.6 aperture lenses. The camera setup includes 20-megapixel color sensor and a secondary 12-megapixel monochrome sensor designed to gather additional luminance information and detail. Both recent handsets’ camera setup share similarity with its predecessors P10 and other flagship phones made by Huawei.
- Operating System: Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.0
To set it apart from other flagships in the smartphone landscape, Huawei will be using the Kirin 970 chip, its very own processor made in its HiSilicon semiconductor arm. Kirin 970 includes an NPU, or neural processing unit designed to handle AI-related functions and deep learning.
The Kirin 970’s NPU is touted as Huawei’s core feature, its own bid to rival Apple iPhone 8’s and X’s A11 Bionic chip that also include a ‘neural engine’.
To resolve common complaints that Android phones’s performance dwindle over time, Huawei claims that its AI processing is the answer. Mate 10 will use on-device processing to build a model of how you use the phone and allocates resources accordingly with machine learning capability that can predict user behaviour while using the phones.
In what may be Huawei’s direct attack to the still unrivaled Apple’s raw CPU processing speed prowess, the Chinese brand designed the phone with on-device deep learning capability or artificial intelligence feature, bringing to the table its most distinctive capability yet – the image recognition feature.
On paper all these sound curiously interesting and amazing. In fact, it is hard to judge everything without having the phone in hand.
The Mate 10 and Pro will come in “mocha brown” or “pink gold” with additional black and gold finishes for the Mate 10 and blue and gray colorways for the Pro. Both phones feature glossy glass construction.
Pricing and Availability
The Mate 10 will be sold for $825 and go on sale in 15 countries this October, from Spain to the Gulf states, Australia and southeast Asia.
The bigger Mate 10 Pro will be priced at $943 and will ship in mid-November to more than 20 countries, including Germany, France, Italy and some Asian and Middle Eastern nations.
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The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) has criticised “UK government plc” for what it describes as a damaging and misleading response to the deadly European E.coli crisis that has left this country's fresh produce industry in turmoil.
The European Commission (EC) has banned imports of certain types of seeds and beans from Egypt, after the European Food Safety Authority announced yesterday that fenugreek seeds from the country are the most likely cause of deadly E.coli outbreaks in...
If you listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2, you'll be familiar with the classic 1951 song "How d'ya like your eggs in the morning?" To Helen O'Connell's question, Dean Martin croons: "I like mine with a kiss!"
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising consumers not to eat raw sprouted seeds such as beansprouts, alfalfa and fenugreek, after an E.coli outbreak led to the hospitalisation of eight people in Bordeaux, France.
A European taskforce has been assembled to pinpoint the source of any contaminated beansprouts after the same potentially deadly strain of German E.coli that killed scores has surfaced in an outbreak in France.


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DistroKid releases new iPhone app, says Android launch coming soonReading Time: 2 minutes
DistroKid, an independent music distribution service that musicians use to put music into online stores and streaming services, has released a new iPhone app that allows its users to upload new music, edit previous releases, check streaming stats and more all from their phones.
The new app allows artists, bands, DJs and producers to add lyrics or credits to releases, check earnings and manage which releases appear on their artist page in streaming services. In addition, the app includes a ‘You’ve got money’ push notification that chimes every time new money hits your account.
‘Musicians have been requesting a DistroKid app for a long time,’ the company wrote. ‘But the majority of musicians still needed a laptop computer to access their music; so building a mobile app (in lieu of focusing solely on the desktop website) hadn’t hit super high priority. But more recently, (a) the proliferation of app-based DAWs, and (b) improvements in mobile filesystems like the iPhone ‘Files’ app, meant the mobile experience can be awesome. So the time for a native DistroKid mobile app was nigh.’
DistroKid plans to continually improve the app and add new features. The company is also working on an Android app as well, but didn’t provide a potential release window for the launch.
The launch of the new app comes as the company unveiled a ‘intelligent mastering tool’ called Mixea last month. The tool, which costs $99 a year for unlimited access, optimizes bass, compression, stereo enhancement and more to make music ‘radio ready’ instantly. Last year, DistroKid launched a new music video distribution service called DistroVid to allow any artist to upload an unlimited number of music videos to Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal and Vevo. The membership costs $99 annually.
Founded in 2013, DistroKid’s most recent investment from 2021 put the company’s valuation at $1.3 billion. At the time, DistroKid said more than two million artists use its service.
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Apple needs to make rounds to the court.
Oppo F7 is available for less than Rs 1,000 but there’s a catch
The lawsuit. reported on by The Outline, further states that Apple "promoted and sold laptops it knew were defective in that they contain a keyboard that is substantially certain to fail prematurely", and this is the basis of its claim that Apple has continued to sell products it knew to be defective.
The complaint included multiple claims of an issue with the design of Apple's butterfly keyboard mechanism included in MacBook variants manufactured since 2015 and on MacBook Pro models since 2016. The keyboard was advertised as being more responsive and comfortable than its previous iteration.
At least 4 Afghan nationals killed, 20 injured amid gunbattle, blasts
Taliban militants and fighters of Islamic State outfit have presence in the province, some 120 km east of Afghan capital of Kabul. In January, gunmen attacked an office of aid group Save the Children in Jalalabad, killing at least five people and wounding 25.
AppleInsider says it collected its data from "assorted Apple Genius Bars in the U.S." that it has worked with for several years, as well as Apple-authorized third-party fix shops. The suit claims that the keyboard is designed in such a way that it resists very little amount of debris or dust. However, the fix could take a week or more, which would leave the user without a laptop for that time. Out of warranty, it costs about $700 to replace this part on a MacBook Pro.
But for some users, the keyboard isn't flawless. Releasing their newest technology during the function, Phil Schiller, SVP of Worldwide Marketing said that the new keyboards are "much more precise, accurate and are 4 times more stable than the older scissor mechanism". Whether the keyboards are eventually fixed in a newer model remains to be seen, but for now, exercise some caution when buying a new Apple laptop, particularly if you type a lot.
Hamilton won the pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix
Nico Hulkenberg was a surprise victim in Q1 as a fuel pressure problem left the German scrambling to set a time . He clipped the grass on the entry of a turn and spun into the tire barrier, significantly damaging the auto .
Under Apple's warranty, Geniuses might offer to replace the entire top case of the computer, a process that takes about a week. A petition was even launched asking that Apple recall its 2016 MacBook Pro laptops over the keyboard. But of course, they weren't open about it.
The suit goes on to cite numerous complaints from users who posted about issues with the butterfly switches online, including those on Apple's own Community Support forums. This technique doesn't really have a great success rate as per those who have faced the problem.
Bangladesh blasts off with their first ever satellite launch into space
Friday's second effort from SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration technology, did actually have gone off with out a hitch. Bangabandhu-1 is now on its way to orbit after its successful launching, making Bangladesh's debut in the global space society.
The lawsuit asks Apple be compelled to "provide adequate disclosure of the defective nature of the MacBooks" and "return to Plaintiffs and Class members all costs attributable to remedying or replacing defective MacBook laptops, including but not limited to economic losses from the purchase of replacement laptops".


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YouTube's New $35 Streaming TV Service Will Bring 40 Channels to Cord-Cutters
YouTube just took a bold step in the increasingly complex cord-cutting war. Countless companies have been trying to give customers premium television channels at a fraction of the price that cable companies are charging, and the popular video platform is set to debut one of the most interesting services yet.
According to Fast Company, YouTube will soon offer a monthly TV streaming service equipped with 40 channels—including ESPN, MSNBC, USA, and FX—for $35. While most of the major broadcast channels will also be available (like Fox and NBC), none of the Time Warner and Viacom-owned channels will appear on the platform. This might be an issue if you're a fan of CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, etc.
That $35 cost includes access for six accounts, an enhanced search function to find specific shows, and the ability to record shows through a Cloud-based DVR. The company will also offer up original programming, including what's already on the YouTube Red program.
There's no firm release date for this new service as of yet (called YouTube TV), but the company says to expect it within "the coming months." In the meantime, here are a dozen other cord-cutting alternatives.
[h/t Fast Company]


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MOBILE phone users in Britain will be able to receive real-time share prices on their phones when iTouch launches its new WAP portal today.
The portal is backed by United News & Media, which has a 70pc stake in iTouch. As well as share prices, the portal will offer classified advertising, weather reports, and news and sport services. It will be available across all four networks.
Hugh Griffiths, UK managing director of iTouch, said: "This will be the first time that WAP phone users can access real-time shares. Up to now prices have always been delayed by 15 minutes. What's the point in that when share prices change so quickly?"
He added that the classified advertising site would feature flats to rent in Central London "where flats go so fast that it's vital to have up-to-date information". Mr Griffiths hopes the portal will help to challenge criticisms that there are insufficient sites available to web-enabled mobile phone users.


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On a Mission to End Oil
Better Place: Green Transportation & Mobility
I’ve heard Shai Agassi’s story for the first time in January 2007. It was at DLD Conference in Munich. Since then I am wondering about all the people he has already hooked up with: mayors, CEOs, investors, statesmen, car dealers … incredible carbon footprint … At one point, everybody marveled about Shai’s ability to convince you that the answers to the most challenging problems are easy and obvious. He tells you the story, and it sounds so simple.
Why don’t we have it today? Why isn’t it here already?
Three years later, in the beginning of 2010, Agassi’s vision can show first results. But let’s start with Shai Agassi, formerly known as the next SAP CEO. The topic: green transportation. Agassi is the founder and CEO of Better Place PLC, a new infrastructure creator and operator for the management of country-wide electric vehicle fleets. Better Place PLC works with governments, car makers, and financial institutes creating a large scale framework for rapid transformation of transport system away from fossil based energy into non-polluting oil free solutions. Green transportation for a Better Place called earth! Better Place is not in fact that another VIP is going green. No, it is the astonishing business model behind the idea and the simple fact that batteries are not included!
Batteries are not included!
Electric cars have long been a fetish object for environmentalists: electricity can be produced from wind, solar or nuclear sources with little or no CO2. Yet all these alternatives suffer from a common problem: refueling. The most advanced electric car currently for sale, the Tesla Roadster, runs for no more than 250 miles on a charge, and others can do only 50 miles or so; then they require two or more hours of plug-in time to recharge. The problem of refueling is so significant that fans of electric cars have a phrase for it: range anxiety, the nagging fear that you’ll run out of juice before you can find a charge spot and be stranded at the side of the road. It is the major reason that most people, even as they cheer on the development of low- or no-emissions vehicles, are leery of actually buying one. And if people won’t buy them, carmakers won’t make them.
Agassi’s solution is a dual system: Better Place aims to construct a worldwide network of millions of small-scale “charging spots,” parking-meter-like posts scattered around downtown areas and along highways. But crucially, Better Place is also building roadside robotized battery-swap stations that provide fresh, fully charged batteries without having to wait hours for a charge. You drive by and a robot will change your battery quickly. Agassi says: “If we can’t do this in less time than it takes to fill your gasoline tank, we don’t have a company.” The robot is designed to reach under the chassis of an electric car, pluck its battery out and replace it with a new one, much the same way you’d put new batteries in a child’s toy. At a presentation in front of a group of investors and employees the robot – a squat platform that moves on four dinner-plate-size white wheels – scuttled back and forth along a 20-foot-long set of metal rails. At one end of the rails, a huge blue battery, the size of a large suitcase, sat suspended in a frame. As we watched, the robot zipped up to the battery, made a nearly in-audible click, and pulled the battery downward. It ferried the battery over to the other end of the rails, dropped it off, picked up a new battery, hissed back over to the frame and, in one deft movement, snapped the new battery in the place of the old one. The total time: 45 seconds.
The Business Model
“If I can give you miles in a more convenient, cheaper way than gasoline, you will take them,” Agassi says. “If your neighbor is driving an electric car and paying me only $30 a week for the electricity, you’re going to buy an electric car, too. If I do it without killing your kids and the planet, then it won’t even matter if it’s cheaper or not; you will just do it.” Better Place came up with an astonishing business model, a model which is actually borrowed from the mobile phone industry. In the same way that wireless operators deploy a network of cell towers to provide an area of mobile phone coverage, Better Place will establish a network of charging spots and battery exchange stations to provide ubiquitous access to electricity to power electric vehicles. The company will partner with car makers and source batteries so that consumers who subscribe to the network can get subsidized vehicles which are cheaper to buy and operate than today’s fuel-based cars. Consumers will still own their cars and will have multiple car models to choose from.
What does this mean in numbers? Can a company become profitable based on this model? No doubt about that. Powering a car by electricity — even relatively expensive “clean” energy like wind or solar — costs far less than powering it by gasoline. And with the United States market for automobile gas at roughly $275 billion, Agassi figured that a company controlling a world network of charging stations would become so profitable so quickly that it could subsidize its customers’ electric cars, much the way mobile companies give out free phones to people who sign two-year contracts … e.g. 10 USD for 1000 miles, 20 USD for 3000 miles … car model A: 1000 USD, car model B 2000 USD, model C 0 USD.
Dream on or translate into action?
You can call it extraordinarily bold, requiring carmakers to fundamentally rethink the way they build cars. But the time might be just right! They are collapsing anyway … so Agassi’s solution might be a huge opportunity in crises for them.
In barely two years, Agassi has persuaded investors to contribute $400 million, and several cities, countries and states – including Israel, Denmark, Australia, Tokyo. The French automaker Renault is spending $600 million over three years to develop a car with swappable batteries, to be released in 2011. In Israel, where Better Place has already installed hundreds of its signature blue car-charging stations, Agassi is credited with convincing the nation’s jaded political class that they have an opportunity to actually wean their country off oil. And now Agassi is targeting China – the largest car country in the world – for a very good reason, he says: “If China goes electric, the world will go electric! It is as simple as this. The Chinese government is great in executing such ideas, they are very fast in deploying mass infrastructure. And they have the money to do so. They put a 9000 USD-incentive on every electric car in particular focussed on government vehicles and taxis, they are creating a new city for electric cars between Beijing and Tiangjing – the new Detroit if you want, they’ve put down the budgets for all of the 13 mayor cities to put the right infrastructure in place, they ban gasoline cars from the cities. They are definitely taking these ideas serious. All of that is driven top-down. But they are also creating a car industry bottom-up. And when the Chinese have a consumer product … nobody can beat them in price! So once the Chinese Market goes electric, the US has to go electric, Europe has to go electric … The Chinese today have the ability to be the risk takers and leaders and then the rest of the world will follow them!”
Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of Better Place. He is focused on one of this century’s biggest challenges, moving the world from oil-based to sustainable transportation. Agassi works with government leaders, auto manufacturers, energy companies and others to make his vision – zero-emission vehicles powered by electricity from renewable sources – a reality in countries around the globe.
Tags: CLIMATE CHANGE, END OF OIL, ENVIRONMENT, globalization, NEW BUSINESS MODEL, WE-MAGAZINE


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Epic Games was in attendance at Sony's unveiling of the NGP last month with a tech demo on the device, and now they have officially confirmed that the Unreal Engine 3 will fully support Sony's NGP. With this confirmation, developers are now able to license out the engine and start creating for the upcoming portable device.The tech demo shown at the NGP reveal, which was presented by founder of Epic Games Tim Sweeney, was an outdoor experience that echoed the outdoor setting in their iOS title Infinity Blade and iOS demo Epic Citadel.
The Gears of War studio is excited for the potential of the NGP and how it will affect gaming in the near future. Mark Rein, vice president for Epic Games, shared his thoughts on how the NGP will be a huge deal with the evolution of gaming.
We were very proud to be onstage with SCE to give the world just a taste of what Unreal Engine 3 can do on NGP. NGP raises the bar for the performance of handheld platforms with its multi-core GPU and shader-based, multi-core CPU. This makes Unreal Engine 3 a particularly advantageous fit for NGP. Furthermore, multiple UE3 licensees are already working with NGP, some of which have indicated they intend to release their games for the platform's launch.
Sweeney also shares the same positivity with Sony's next piece of hardware.
We see NGP as a true game-changer with a perfect combination of performance, innovative controls and gamer appeal that make it truly a high-end console in your pocket.
The impressive quality of the Unreal Engine is evident and will surely benefit from being on the NGP platform for gamers and developers alike. With the recent release of Bulletstorm, and what we've seen with the anticipated release of Gears of Wars 3, it will be interesting to see what titles make their way to the NGP using the Unreal Engine.
The NGP is expected to hit shelves sometime this year, though no date has been confirmed.
Source: Industry Gamers


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What would you pay for a palm-sized laminated color portrait of the Vince Lombardi trophy set against a tropical sunrise on an empty beach?
If it's the picture on the face of a ticket to Sunday's Super Bowl at Joe Robbie Stadium, it could be worth $5,000.
The Vince Lombardi trophy is awarded to the team that wins the game, but an estimated $13.8 million will go to the people who sell or re-sell tickets.
This week, those are probably the hottest tickets in the world, bringing huge profits to sellers and tempting thieves, con artists and counterfeiters.
Seats on the 50-yard line were fetching $1,800 apiece during the weekend, Metro-Dade police said. Skybox seats are being advertised as part of a package for more than $5,200 each.
The Super Bowl "is the place to be, the place to be seen," said Jim Steeg, the National Football League's director of special events. "It's an American happening. There is a lot of demand from people who want to be a part of that, and will pay for the privilege."
The NFL is worried this year that even counterfeiters may get into the game. Only twice before have tickets been successfully faked: At Super Bowl XIX in 1985 in Palo Alto, Calif., when the Miami Dolphins played the San Francisco 49ers; and at Super Bowl X in 1976 -- in Miami.
The league has added complex features to discourage forgers.
"It's a complicated thing to reproduce," said Steeg.
Tickets to the game "are a hot commodity," said Metro-Dade Maj. Don Matthews, who is in charge of Super Bowl security. "The only thing hotter is an invitation to the commissioner's party on Friday, and you can't scalp that. There's a guest list."
With stakes so high, the NFL says fans and players may be part of the nationwide black market peddling tickets at a premium. The players' association says team owners may be re-selling seats.
Each of the 1,200 players in the league gets two tickets. The NFL has unsuccessfully tried to add a clause to the players' contract forbidding scalping.
"Surely a lot of the players are going to the game themselves," said Frank Woschitz, spokesman for the players' association. "Even if they don't, that would hardly make a dent. There are other people that get a lot more tickets."
Those other people are the owners. Every NFL team gets 898 tickets; the competing teams get 14,962 each and the host team 7,481. Some are distributed to season ticket holders, but few teams will reveal how many tickets they keep.
In 1986, Dominic Frontiere, former husband of the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, was indicted for making hundreds of thousands of dollars by scalping the team's tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl.
Frontiere ultimately was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $15,000 for failing to report income from the tickets to the Internal Revenue Service.
"Anybody in the league caught scalping tickets or selling them for more than maximum value would be subject to the maximum discipline," Steeg said.
But the NFL itself is cashing in by offering skyboxes at a 381 percent markup. The league also has taken advantage of the huge demand by raising the face value of Super Bowl tickets 66 percent for regular seats and 150 percent for premium seats in the last five years.
The NFL will make $8 million from ticket sales. Last year, scalpers added an average 72 percent to the price; if that trend holds steady, they will earn an estimated $5.8 million this year, according to a study for the NFL.
Despite the high costs, Steeg is constantly interrupted by calls from people who are trying to get tickets and have tracked him down in the heavily guarded Miami hotel room that has been transformed into his temporary office.
Those who can't get tickets from the league resort to other sources.
"They threaten you over the phone, they call you up in the middle of the night, they want to meet you in a certain spot for a transaction," said Joe Parnell of Fort Lauderdale, who advertised that he had tickets for sale. "It's vicious."
The NFL estimates that 37 percent of the people who attend the Super Bowl decide to go just two weeks before the game, which helps account for the hysterical scramble for seats.
But selling tickets at a premium is illegal.
"By statute, it's considered scalping if you offer for sale a ticket for more than $1 more than the face value of the ticket," said Larry LaVecchio, head of the organized crime division of the Dade State Attorney's Office.
Scalpers could face 60 days in jail or a $500 fine, he said.
Police detectives from Metro-Dade's Special Investigations Division are using the telephone as their weapon against scalpers, calling numbers where high- priced tickets have been advertised and trying to make deals -- and arrests, said Matthews.
"From what we've seen in the papers, there's a lot of scalping going on," he said.
"As you get closer to game day, the price of the tickets will go down and that's when many of the sales should occur, at the end of this week" Matthews said.
To prevent counterfeiting, this years' tickets have a glossy laminated finish, which is difficult to duplicate; the color is applied in layers, which can be seen once the ticket has been ripped; the picture uses a complex color scheme; and the reverse has faint watermarks bearing the initials of the Fort Smith, Ark., printing firm of Weldon, Williams and Lick.
But even the best of security has failed to prevent Super Bowl tickets from being faked in the past and sold to unsuspecting fans.
About 1,200 tickets were counterfeited at Palo Alto in 1985.
The counterfeiter "did a damn good job of it," said Steeg. "We were having multiple people showing up for the same seat. But the poor guy who spends $750 on a ticket and finds out it was a fake, he's going to be without a seat."
In Miami in 1976, about three dozen tickets were forged and buyers arrived to find they were assigned to levels 27, 28 and 29 in sections of the Orange Bowl that had only 26 rows.
Most tickets are legitimate -- and resold at a profit.
A San Diego research company found that 25 percent of the people at last year's Super Bowl paid at least double the face value of the ticket.
Many Dolphins season-ticket holders who won a lottery for tickets are opting to sell their seats at a huge profit and watch the game on television.
"What you find is, it usually comes back to the fan," said Steeg.
Some sell out to agencies or brokers. Others throw in show tickets or hotel rooms and market their Super Bowl seats as a package to avoid being prosecuted for illegal scalping.
"Obviously it's illegal in this state to resell tickets at a profit, but there's nothing we can do about it," said Tim Robbie, spokesman for the Dolphins.
NFL TO CHECK FOR FAKE TICKETS
The National Football League will open a ticket verification office today to check that Super Bowl tickets are authentic.
Metro-Dade police said on Monday there is no evidence that forged tickets are circulating this year, but tickets will be checked at the stadium on game day.
Tickets have been successfully counterfeited twice before: At Super Bowl XIX in 1985 in Stanford, Calif., and at Super Bowl X in 1976 in Miami.
Worried ticketholders should bring their Super Bowl tickets to the University of Miami Hurricanes ticket office, 1 Hurricane Drive in Coral Gables, from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. today through Friday and 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday.
More information is available by calling 1-800-GO-CANES or 284-2655 in Dade.


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Vehicle Scrapage Policy: Scrap Policy: Government will get GST of Rs 40,000 crore for scrapping old vehicles and purchasing new ones.
Vehicle Scrapage Policy News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a vehicle scrapage policy. All stakeholders are being told that this will benefit them. The vehicle scrapage policy is expected to boost the automobile manufacturing industry. PM Modi said that the vehicle scrapage policy will also create employment opportunities.
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What is the benefit to the customers?
Under the new scrap policy, there will be a 5 per cent discount on showing a scraping certificate when purchasing a new vehicle. 4-6 per cent of the price will be paid to the owner after scrapping the car. In addition, the registration fee will be waived at the time of registration of the new vehicle.
Road tax rebates will also be available
Under the new scrap policy, a 25 per cent rebate on road tax for 3 years is available when purchasing a new vehicle. State governments can offer 25 per cent discount on private vehicles and 15 per cent on commercial vehicles.
India’s steel imports will decline
Prime Minister Modi said that India had to import scrap steel worth about Rs 23,000 crore last year. What is being scrapped in India so far is not productive.
Government revenue will increase
When people scrap old vehicles and buy new ones, it will bring GST of Rs 40,000 crore annually to the government. It will also increase government revenue. About 51 lakh light motor vehicles (LMVs) older than 20 years and 34 lakh other LMVs older than 15 years will come under the scope of the scrap policy. It will also cover 1.5 million medium and heavy motor vehicles that are more than 15 years old and do not currently have a fitness certificate.
Electric vehicle advertising
The vehicle scrap policy is expected to adopt a large number of electric vehicles to be parked on the road. The scrap policy will reduce pollution by removing old vehicles from the road. The scrap policy will reduce the fuel consumption of the customer by removing the old vehicle from the road. It will also reduce India’s crude imports.
Failed fitness test?
The government has dubbed the vehicle scrap policy the Voluntary Vehicle Modernization Program (VVMP). If a person’s vehicle fails the fitness test, he will have to deposit his vehicle in 60-70 registered scrap facilities across the country.
What about giving an old car?
In exchange for giving an old car, the customer will get a certificate of deposit which will give many benefits when buying a new vehicle. The scrap value of the used vehicle will be 5 per cent of the ex-showroom price of the new vehicle. Auto companies will give you a discount of up to 5% of the ex-showroom price when you buy a new vehicle in exchange for the deposit certificate you get to dispose of the old vehicle.
How much discount on new car?
According to the scrap policy, if you buy a new car after paying in the old car scrap and the price of the new car is 000 500000, you will get a discount of 000 25000 on showing the deposit certificate. After this you will get a discount when registering a new vehicle.
How much benefit to the customer?
According to the scrap policy, the registration fee for your new vehicle will be zero. The state government can give road tax exemption of up to 25% to consumers for private vehicles and up to 15% for professionals.
The benefit of government and industry
Nitin Gadkari said that by scissoring old vehicles, the raw material used in the vehicles will be returned and it will be much cheaper. This will reduce the cost to auto companies and reduce the cost of new vehicles by 40%, which will ultimately benefit consumers. With the help of scrap policy, environmental conditions will be improved by reducing pollution, problems caused by old vehicles on the roads will be solved and people will be encouraged to dispose of old vehicles.
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