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Thomas Baltimore Jr., the chairman and CEO of Park Hotels and Resorts, announced earlier this month that his company would stop paying a $725 million loan on two of San Francisco’s largest hotels, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55.
Baltimore cited low demand and “concerns over street conditions” as reasons to stop payments on the hotels, which will be returned to the lender.
The decision is another blow to downtown San Francisco and California, which has experienced a massive outflow of people and businesses. In fact, the list of companies that have left the Golden State is far too long to enumerate in a single article and includes established Fortune 500s such as Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, and Pabst Brewing, as well as rapidly growing ones such as Snowflake, Palantir, and Tesla.
There’s no single reason companies are abandoning California in droves. Aggressive lockdown policies likely didn’t help, and California’s tax and regulatory climate also played a role. And then there is the problem of crime, which Park Hotels discreetly sidestepped .
Few would deny crime is a growing concern in the Golden State, especially in major cities. In 2021, New York Times journalist Thomas Fuller went to a San Francisco Walgreens to buy a toothbrush and saw a man walk into the store, grab a bunch of beef jerky, and walk out.
“I’m new to San Francisco,” Fuller said to the clerk. “Is it optional to pay for things here?”
Fuller was referring to what he called an “ epidemic of shoplifting ,” which he traced to changes in California law that reclassified thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods totaled less than $950. Videos on social media show people walking into stores, loading up on goods, and walking out.
The culture has caused companies such as Walgreens, which shuttered 22 stores in San Francisco alone over a period of five years, to cease doing business in many of these locations. Many accused Walgreens of “crying wolf” on the matter of retail theft, and California lawmakers recently made it clear they don’t take the matter seriously.
Earlier this month, the California Senate passed Bill 553 , legislation that would discourage retail store employees from confronting shoplifters. The legislation — passed weeks after a Home Depot security guard was shot and killed during a Pleasanton, California, robbery — is designed to protect employees, supporters say, by forbidding employers from instructing employees to confront shoplifters.
“What we're saying in the bill is it's not OK for employers to take a rank-and-file worker, somebody whose job is really something else ... and say, 'Hey, you know, if there's an intruder, we're going to deputize you to intervene,'” California state Sen. Dave Cortese told a local news station.
Even accepting Cortese’s argument that the legislation doesn’t prevent employees from intervening in cases of theft and only makes it unlawful for employers to ask employees to stop thieves from stealing, the legislation would be disastrous.
A law that would prohibit employers from telling their employees that customers are not allowed to take whatever they want without paying would clearly incentivize shoplifting. It would further promote the culture Fuller described, one in which it is viewed as “optional” to pay for things.
This is the culture that is driving companies out of California. It’s not just crime or high taxes or pandemic mandates. It’s a culture that shows disdain for property rights, which are the wellspring of all human rights and a pillar of civilization.
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence,” John Adams famously wrote in 1787. “If ‘Thou shalt not covet,’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.”
California lawmakers have shown utter contempt for property rights for years. Making it illegal for employers to instruct employees to stop customers from stealing is just the latest example.
Until California changes this culture and demonstrates it respects the property rights of people and businesses, it will continue to decline — and lose beautiful hotels such as Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55.


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In just two months, pharmaceuticals entering the US pharma supply chain through drug manufacturers will be serialized according to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). It’s already been a long journey, but this is only the beginning. Companies can’t even take a break. In just one year the wholesale distributor saleable returns requirement will force manufacturers to either capture aggregation data or connect to a Verification Router Service (VRS)—or both! The year after that, dispenser requirements will lead to even more verification requests coming through. And then just three years later, the biggest deadline of them all—the Enhanced Drug Distribution Security (EDDS) phase—will arrive.
So many decisions need to be made between now and then, both within each company, and by the industry as a whole. To make the right choices—and to participate effectively in helping the industry make the right choices—each company needs experts. They need their employees to understand the DSCSA and the overall operation of the supply chain, beyond just their individual segment. The changes that are coming will affect the operation of the entire organization. Operational efficiencies will come through different means than they have in the past, and that means profitability will shift too. You won’t get there with just one expert in IT or Quality and Regulatory. It will take experts in every department across the organization.
Just in time, IQPC has published a new free online tool for understanding what it will take to develop the experts every company in the supply chain will rely on in the coming years. It’s called “From Serialization To Full Traceability: 2018 Outlook to Compliance”, and it is a model of top-down design. Users can browse the coming deadlines and zoom in to see the issues and decisions needed to comply with it. The end result is a breakdown of their next Pharmaceutical Traceability Forum sessions that will provide the expertise necessary to understand the issues and develop the expertise necessary to meet them.
Don’t try to enter the future of DSCSA without people who know what they are talking about. The IQPC Pharmaceutical Traceability Forum features speakers from all segments, and vendors, with deep industry and DSCSA expertise. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in sessions presented by industry DSCSA veterans, and then the opportunity to meet with these experts and vendors to get answers to your own specific questions during the breaks.
The IQPC Pharmaceutical Traceability Forum will be held in Philadelphia, PA on November 28-30, 2018, and it is an excellent opportunity for companies to educate their leaders, department heads and/or future expert workers. Sponsorship opportunities are going fast so don’t delay. Request a sponsorship prospectus here. To see a past attendee list, click here.

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Several retail stores were looted across different parts of Philadelphia last night. The looters filmed their mayhem laughing the whole time.
It was a disgraceful display of Dem policies brought to life but there was a silver lining. One of the looters who livestreamed the action who goes by the name ‘Meatball’ was arrested and her tearful mugshot was released.
Interim Commissioner John Stanford told reporters the looting began around 8 p.m. “This had nothing to do with the protests,” Stanford said.
“What we had tonight was a bunch of criminal opportunists take advantage of a situation to make an attempt to destroy our city.”
Retail stores in Center City like Lululemon, the Apple Store, and Footlocker were looted by what police called a “coordinated attack.”
In North Philadelphia, thieves looted retail stores like GameStop and Walmart. A Family Dollar store in West Philadelphia was also looted.
The owner of Bruce Goldberg Northeast Pharmacy says 40 bags of filled prescriptions, including blood pressure and AIDS medication, were stolen during the looting.
— Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 27, 2023
NEW: Philadelphia looter ‘meatball’ arrested on camera hours after laughing as mob looted Apple, Lululemon and other stores. Here’s her tearful mugshot: pic.twitter.com/TmkFFiH2PM
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Japan, a hotbed of craftsmanship and innovation, is well equipped for the fourth industrial revolution as Japanese manufacturing companies leverage high technology to accelerate the delivery of industrial automation solutions.
Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America (PSSNA), a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, launched in April last year to kick-start factory automation via computer-integrated manufacturing software. Masakatsu Kaji, director of PSSNA, said recent years saw a shift in customer interest from technology to productivity.
“In 2006 and 2007, customers were looking for the technology – how components could become smaller and smaller,” said Kaji at the Connect & Create conference in Chicago on Tuesday. “In 2015 and 2016, customers began asking how to optimize the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), how to optimize their assets and machines in the factory.”
The conference emphasized more partnerships and investment opportunities between Japanese and Illinois companies.
The first industrial revolution involved the widespread application of energy-powered machinery. The second focused on assembly lines. The third involved technological innovation and computer-driven applications. Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, refers to the era of automation in manufacturing technologies by using the Internet of Things, cloud computing, robotics and other strategies.
Because the maximization of OEE requires inputs from both hardware and software, or better equipment capacity and optimal algorithm stability, Kaji said PSSNA aims to intelligently integrate the physical and digital world.
“In order to refine the quality control, the changeover process and the supply chain management, my division makes not only hardware but also software,” Kaji said. “This is the key to achieve a smarter OEE.”
While PSSNA aims to boost OEE to maximize customers’ productivity, Mitsubishi Electric Automation – a U.S. affiliate company of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation – employs edge computing to build connectivity and deliver the “e‑F@ctory.”
“To support manufacturing, the e‑F@ctory concept is to connect device and equipment via IoT, while also utilizing data, AI and machine learning,” said Toshio Kawai, chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Electric Automation.
The creation of an “e‑F@ctory” demands real-time utilization of shop floor data and connectivity with the information technology system. Edge computing is an important architecture to bridge the two.
“Essentially, edge computing allows the seamless coordination between factory automation and information technology systems in order to facilitate real-time data processing to improve manufacturing,” Kawai said.
Robert Miller, senior product marketing manager of Mitsubishi Electric Automation, said the company also taps into the time sensitive networking (TSN) technology, which allows manufacturers to “put a timestamp on things and give higher priority to some packets versus other packets.”
“So you can run multiple protocols over the internet but still maintain determinism,” Miller said. “When you hit the stop on a machine, you don’t have 30 seconds or a minute. It needs to stop right away. That’s why determinism is definitely required when it comes to manufacturing.”
Japan’s incentive for boosting industrial automation results from the smart city concept, which celebrates the “diffusion of connectivity,” said Fumio Oda, general manager of Macnica Americas, a subsidiary of Macnica Fuji Electronics Holdings that specializes in semiconductor, software and hardware design.
“Let’s say we talk about sensors in robots. Once you put in sensors to robots, the data information goes to the gateway, the processing system and the AI algorithm,” Oda said. “Japan is not looking at sensors or AI algorithm only. They are looking at the solution for everything.”
Oda said this concept of connectivity and synchronous communications within the entire manufacturing network drive the future of industrial automation.
“I’m not expecting to see major breakthroughs in industrial automation in the next one or two years,” Oda said. “Those machines need to be connected to data first. That’s data acquisition and visualization. What’s going to happen first is connecting machinery to machinery. After that, smart cities and smart factories are going to happen.”


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Swift Conqueror and Sterling Elite get facelift for 2013
Aug 20 2012 Indsendt af Laura Canning
Swift Group, the biggest caravan manufacturer in the UK, has relaunched and upgraded its Swift Conqueror and Sterling Elite ranges for this year to add several luxury features.
The new 2013 caravans will feature a Tracker Retrieve stolen vehicle recovery system with free three-month subscription and a 20W roof-mounted solar panel.
There’ll also be LED lighting behind the bathroom mirrors and an LED awning light, as well as a more powerful Alde wet heating system and smaller touches including an extra cutlery drawer, wider curtains and bathroom speakers. Optional extras include a roof-mounted air conditioning system available for twin-axle models.
The upgraded caravans, starting from £19,795, will be unveiled for the first time at the Lawns Caravan Show in Hull on 1 September.


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Among the many shopping and deals apps available on iOS and Android, Checkout 51 looks to stand out from the crowd by offering a weekly list of offers and the ability to receive checks related to the money users have saved. The app moves away from traditional paper coupons, and instead lists virtual deals which can be claimed in any store across the country, or even online.
New users set their location within the app to receive offers closest to them. Every Thursday, the app updates with 15-20 new offers on popular products, including food items like cereal and yogurt, or household items like air fresheners and cleansers.
When users buy one of those matching items, they are asked to take a picture of their receipt and upload it to the app. The system then confirms the purchase and credits the user’s account with their savings. For signing up and sharing their first receipt, users are rewarded a bonus $2 to get them started. The system aims to process rewards and receipts within 48 hours of uploading to the system.
When users reach $20, they can receive a check in the mail, or choose to continue saving up credit. Since launching earlier this year, Checkout 51 has paid back more than $2 million to members. The app itself was downloaded by over 500,000 users in the first month after launch.


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Telstra takes ‘adult content’ off BigPondPUBLISHED: 27 Apr 2012 17:43:33 | UPDATED: 27 Apr 2012 17:43:48PRINT EDITION: 27 Apr 2012
Telstra CEO David Thodey said he had been contacted by customers arguing that the company “shouldn’t promote adult-orientated movies or videos that objectify women”. Photo: Paul Harris
Telstra CEO David Thodey has told staff the company will no longer host “adult-orientated content” on its BigPond website in response to customer complaints.
In a newsletter emailed to employees on April 11, Mr Thodey wrote that he had been contacted by customers arguing that the company “shouldn’t promote adult-orientated movies or videos that objectify women.
“I have to agree. We have therefore decided we will no longer promote access to adult-orientated content through our websites,” Mr Thodey wrote.
“We cannot support anything that is sexist or that is inconsistent with our values ... we are, in many ways, Australia’s largest family company. We are owned by more than a million Australian families.”
Mr Thodey pointed out that the content available on BigPond “is mild compared to what’s available on the internet” and that none of it had an “R” rating.
But the salacious content, which could be found via a web page which also linked to children’s content and pages dedicated to women’s equality in the workplace, had raised public concerns.
Following a report in The Australian in February, Ruth Limkin, an occasional Courier-Mail columnist, wrote to Mr Thodey about the issue.
In March, Collective Shout, an organisation campaigning against the objectification of women, turned its attention to what it described as Telstra’s “porn-for-profit venture”, urging shareholders to complain to the company.
Following Telstra’s decision to remove adult content from BigPond, Collective Shout is calling on 3Mobile and Vodafone to do the same.
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Executives from the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) were grilled Tuesday by investors over the company's recent dismal performance. RIM has announced massive layoffs and its shares are trading at a nine year low. With the launch of the BlackBerry 10 delayed until next year, RIM's survival is considered to be at stake.
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Improving Your Daily Outlook
Since we launched the Uber app for Windows Phone, we have collaborated with the Microsoft team to make it even easier for users of both our products to move around their cities. We kicked things off at Build 2015, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, with a sneak peek of two exciting collaborations with Outlook and Microsoft’s personal assistant, Cortana — two products that impact hundreds of millions of users everyday. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella previewed the new add-in for Outlook yesterday with a demo during his keynote.
When it comes to staying organized and connected across devices, Outlook is your best friend. With the Uber add-in for Outlook, you can set an Uber ride reminder for any calendar event with a single tap. When it’s time to leave for your next event, Uber will send you a notification. Swipe on the notification to jump to the Uber app with the destination already set, and simply confirm your request. Whether you have an upcoming dinner reservation, doctor’s appointment, or flight, Uber and Outlook will help get you there on time.
“Hey Cortana, can you get me an uberX?”
Cortana doesn’t just keep you in the loop with what’s going on in the world – it also helps you manage your everyday life. That’s why we are excited for the new Uber add-in for Cortana coming this summer.
We look forward to rolling these two new products out later this summer and continuing to collaborate with the Microsoft team to build even more seamless experiences for Uber and Microsoft users.
For more information stop by the Uber booth on the first floor of Moscone West – Office 365 Exhibitors.
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We’re excited to expand the Uber for Business platform beyond business travel, to include a world-class customer transportation solution, Uber Central. With Uber Central, organizations of all shapes and sizes can now easily provide on-demand, door-to-door transportation for their customers, clients, and guests.
A little over a year ago, we set out to put a new spin on an old classic–make reliable food delivery available at the tap of a button. Back then, we started by offering food in the UberEATS app from 1,000 pioneering restaurant partners in four cities. And today, more than 40,000 restaurants globally–from poke shops to pasta spots–are sharing food with customers through UberEATS. With a growing restaurant community comes more choices and more complexity. So we’re cooking up features to continue to make UberEATS easy and reliable. Here is a taste–
This flu season, we’re delivering free flu-fighting care packages across the country. When you receive a pack, you’ll have the option to request a free flu shot from a registered nurse–for up to 5 people.


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[King of Prussia, Pennsylvania] – January 26 – In conjunction with the announcement of a new Customer Success department, DataBank has named Mark Pinter as the Director of Customer Success for the process improvement and technology solution provider’s portfolio. Pinter will lead a new team of Customer Success Managers to offer expanded support for customers who partner with the company to solve complex data and operational challenges, many of which have been exacerbated by COVID-19.
The change is aligned with the company’s expanding capabilities and the growing complexity in business challenges faced by the customer base. “We see this team as a foundational bridge between relationship management, solution delivery, and support,” CEO Matt Charlson said. “Our solutions can be complex, so we invested in a team that will ensure our customers’ goals are met and their visions are realized. Our customers are working to improve patient care, better serve constituents, innovate supply chains, and the list goes on. We’ll continue to evolve our organization to support those efforts because we believe in them.”
As organizations accelerate their digital transformation strategies, the new department will help empower the aggressive innovation customers require to push forward successfully.
“In today’s world of ‘get it done’, service businesses often lose sight of nurturing customers beyond the project. That is where we see true innovation and customer objectives reached into a trusted relationship.” Pinter said. “Our focus is to build long term relationships aligning our customers’ business goals with DataBank’s offerings. We do this to earn our role as the go-to trusted partner allowing DataBank to do what we do best so that the customer can do better with what they do best.”
The Customer Success team will work directly with customers and the account team to produce more efficient and meaningful work, helping customers achieve more. The department’s additional positions will be filled in the coming weeks.


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Keep Dawson County Beautiful set a new record during its recent electronic recycling effort.
On April 19, the group collected 6,450 pounds of used electronics, ranging from phones and TVs to computers and monitors, that will be stripped down and recycled.
"This is our best total ever," said organizer Karen Armstrong.
Among the items collected by volunteers including several local Boy Scouts were 19 TVs, 90 PCs and laptops and 27 monitors.
The material was processed and sent on to an appropriate recycling end-market by Atlanta Recycling Solutions to be manufactured into recycled content products.
Keep Dawson County Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and Keep Georgia Beautiful, has recycled more than 40,000 pounds of electronics in recent years.
The organization's mission is to "encourage citizens to take greater responsibility in the beautification of Dawson County."
In an effort to decrease the number of scrap tires in the area, the group's next community recycling event is from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. May 10 when Dawson County residents will be able to drop off used tires at the Dawson County Transfer Station, located at 946 Burt Creek Road.
The service is free and allows each household to dispose of up to 10 clean passenger car or light truck size tires. No tires with mud, dirt, debris or rims attached will be accepted.
The service is not available for tire retailers or wholesalers.
For more information on Tire Amnesty Day, call KDCB Executive Director Kristi Hudson at (706) 344-3501.


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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. (CBRL) is scheduled to report its earnings results for the third quarter of 2019 on Tuesday before the market opens. The results will be driven by comparable store retail sales and comparable store restaurant sales with most regions likely to experience positive same-store sales growth.
The company’s results will be benefited by its efforts to increase off-premise sales. The seasonal promotions and limited-time offers could be the driving force in attracting traffic to Cracker Barrel stores both regular users and less-frequent guests.
Cracker Barrel believed its efforts and continuous renewal of its menu could be the backbone of compelling growth potential. The company has taken steps in achieving compelling growth potential through cost-saving initiatives, units expansion, seasonal promotions, extensive marketing efforts, and enhanced focus on retail business.
The margins are likely to impacted by increased wages despite cost-saving initiatives. In addition, the initial contribution by the company in supporting the training and launch of several initiatives as well as its value testing could be weighing on the margins in the third quarter.
Analysts expect the company’s earnings to rise by 2% to $2.07 per share and revenue will inch up by 1.90% to $734.99 million for the third quarter. In comparison, during the previous year quarter, Cracker Barrel posted a profit of $2.03 per share on revenue of $721.41 million.
The company has surprised investors by beating analysts’ expectations thrice in the past four quarters. It is expected that Cracker Barrel will report upbeat results for the third quarter. Majority of the analysts recommended a “hold” rating while expecting the stock to reach $171 per share in the next 52 weeks.
Also read: Beyond Meat advances to Europe
For the second quarter, the company posted a 33% drop in earnings due to a one-time tax benefit reported last year. Margins were hurt by an increase in labor and other expenses offset by the reduction on the general and administrative expenses. Revenues rose 3% year-over-year.
Same-store restaurant sales grew by 3.8% while restaurant traffic growth saw a paltry increase of 0.1%. Increase in food prices helped to improve the average check by 3.7%. However, comparable store retail sales decreased by 1.4% over the last year.
For the full year 2019, Cracker Barrel expects total revenues of about $3.05 billion and earnings in the range of $8.95 to $9.10 per share. The company projects increases in comparable store restaurant sales growth in the range of 1% to 2% and comparable store retail sales growth of about 1% for the full year. Food commodity inflation was predicted to be about 2% for the year.
Shares of Cracker Barrel opened higher on Friday but changed course to the red territory on the Nasdaq. The stock has fallen over 2% in the past three months and over 6% in the past month.
Last month, the IPO market was in a full swing. IPOs of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and JFROG (NASDAQ: FROG) had an impressive opening day in September, the former creating a
PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) beat market expectations on both revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2020. The company saw the momentum continue in its snacks business while the
With more and more people turning to virtual entertainment sources, amid the virus-related movement restrictions, video game publishers like Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) are witnessing unusually high demand. Not surprisingly,


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Apple's Tumultuous Relationship With Bitcoin Apps
Over the past several years, Apple has removed, denied, or otherwise prevented a number of Bitcoin-related apps from being available to users on the App Store. Most recently, the company required the developers behind Gliph -- a secure messaging app that also allowed users to transfer bitcoin from one Gliph user to another -- to remove the bitcoin sending feature from its app.
The company has told a number of developers behind Bitcoin-related apps that their apps contain content -- or facilitate, enable, or encourage an activity -- "that is not legal in all the locations in which the app is available, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines."
Bitcoin is a virtual currency, not issued by any government, that can be transferred electronically from one wallet -- basically a special computer file -- to another. The value of the currency is incredibly volatile, with its USD exchange rate going from under $400 to more than $1200 in the past month. At one point, the price of a single bitcoin moved from $1155 to $576 in a few hours. Bitcoins are currently available for around $900 on the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange.
The concept of a private, virtual currency is a foreign one for governments that can have difficulty staying in the same decade as quickly emerging technologies. Both domestic and international governments are struggling with the currency and how to regulate it. China has banned financial institutions from handling bitcoin transactions, though person-to-person transactions are still allowed.
The U.S. Government has taken a slightly more positive view of bitcoin, however. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a Senate hearing that bitcoins can be "legal means of exchange" and that bitcoin is not "in and of [itself], illegal".
Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said in a research report that bitcoin could eventually become a "major means of payment for commerce" and a "serious competitor to traditional money transfer providers". However, federal anti-money laundering and terrorism financing statutes would appear to conflict with the fast-paced development that has pushed bitcoin growth thus far.
While bitcoin use and ownership is not de jure illegal, it nonetheless exists in a legal gray area that could potentially affect users at some point. Gliph, the app mentioned earlier, did not even transfer bitcoin directly. Instead, it used API calls to attach a bitcoin wallet from a third-party company to the app. This allowed Gliph users to transfer bitcoin to one another, similar to how an app developer might use PayPal's API to facilitate checkout and credit card payments in their apps. However, this is the functionality that Apple had the developers remove before it would allow Gliph back on the App Store.
For the most part, Apple has declined to explain how a bitcoin-transferring or -trading app could be approved, nor in what countries the bitcoin functionality might not be allowed. It merely refers to section 22.1 of the App Store review guidelines which states that it is the "developer's obligation to understand and conform to all local laws". The company appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach, both protecting itself and -- perhaps more importantly to the company -- protecting its users. An Apple spokesperson did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
The Gliph blog has one possible theory for Apple's apparent disinclination towards Bitcoin apps:
Among other possible reasons, we wonder if Apple simply doesn’t want to police useful Bitcoin apps in the App Store because they perceive the legal ambiguity of the currency as more trouble than it is worth. Bitcoin is still in an early-adopter phase and probably the majority of Apple’s customers are unaware the currency exists and not looking for these types of apps anyway. Better to avoid this type of software for now, and take the option to change their mind in the future.
Earlier this year, Apple removed the app for the bitcoin buying and trading platform Coinbase from its store. The story is similar for Blockchain.info, Bitpak, and Bitcoin Express -- all Bitcoin-related apps that were either removed or rejected from the App Store. The Gliph blog has more details on the various apps. Most of them received rejection language similar to section 22.1.
There are still Bitcoin-related apps on the App Store, however most do not provide the ability to purchase, sell or transfer bitcoins. As a result, some exchanges -- including Mt. Gox, one of the largest -- have instead chosen to develop mobile websites for wallet-holders rather than dedicated apps. Google has taken a more hands-off approach, largely allowing Bitcoin apps to remain on its Google Play store.
As bitcoin becomes more widely accepted -- and regulated -- by Governments and large financial institutions alike Apple may become more accepting, but in the meantime, the company seems to have made its position clear.
Gliph is a free download on the App Store, however its bitcoin functionality is limited to viewing bitcoin wallets, with no transfer capabilities. Its secure messaging and cloaked email capabilities remain intact. [Direct Link]


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Here at Vogue.com.au, we get extremely excited when our fashion favourites decide to embrace the online world, so we can’t wait to follow Sass & Bide’s new five-day digital campaign The Take Over.
To celebrate the launch of its latest collection, Loveshady, Sass & Bide will be handing over its social media to a yet-to-be-named international model, who will slowly reveal her identity through a series of teaser images shot in London by Angelo Pennetta and styled by Victoria Young.
Follow Sass & Bide’s social media channels for a glimpse into the life of the model turned social media mogul, and check back on Vogue.com.au daily as we reveal her identity!
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LOS ANGELES – The filmmakers and studio behind “Joker” have reason to put on a happy face. Despite concerns over its violent themes and ramped up theater security, audiences flocked to the multiplex to check out the R-rated film this weekend resulting in a record October opening.
Warner Bros. said Sunday that “Joker” grossed an estimated $93.5 million in ticket sales from 4,374 screens in North America. The previous October record-holder was the Spider-Man spinoff “Venom” which opened to $80 million last year. Internationally, “Joker” earned $140.5 million from 73 markets, resulting in a stunning $234 million global debut.
“This was a much larger result at the box office than we had ever anticipated globally,” said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros.’ president of domestic distribution. “Putting records aside, we’re just thrilled that audiences are embracing the movie as strong as they are.”
Since debuting at the Venice Film Festival where it won the prestigious Golden Lion last month, “Joker” has been both praised and criticized for its dark spin on the classic Batman villain played by Joaquin Phoenix. The film from director and co-writer Todd Phillips was always seen as a bit of a gamble with one of the studios’ most valuable pieces of intellectual property, hence its modest-for-a-comic-book-film $55 million budget.
But in the weeks leading up to its release, hype and uneasiness intensified beyond how audiences would react to placing this character in a realistic and unambiguously adult setting with “Taxi Driver” undertones. Responding to anxiety that the film might have the potential to inspire violence, multiple theater chains banned costumes or reaffirmed earlier policies regarding masks and authorities in numerous cities said they were stepping police patrols around theaters. Some relatives of the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting even asked Warner Bros . to commit to gun control causes – the studio said it always has.
While some worried this would impact the box office, it did not ultimately detract audiences from turning out opening weekend; the box office surpassed industry expectations and may rise even higher when weekend actuals are reported Monday. Although the film got a B+ CinemaScore from opening night audiences, the studio is optimistic about its long-term playability.
“Sixty-six percent of the audience was under the age of 35,” Goldstein said. “That tells you that the audience will expand out with that younger group as time goes on.” The younger audience also gave the film a more favorable A- CinemaScore.
Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for box office tracker Comscore, said that the convergence of critical acclaim and controversy actually helped the film become bigger than expected at the box office.
“It’s the ultimate water-cooler movie right now,” Dergarabedian said.
He added that it was important that “Joker” was always marketed as a “very dark, R-rated film.”
“It always had an element of mystery and danger surrounding it,” Dergarabedian said. “If it were a G-rated film, controversy like this would not be a good thing.”
In the landscape of R-rated comic book films, “Joker” is nestled between “Deadpool” and its sequel, both of which opened over $125 million, and “Logan,” which launched with $88.4 million.
“Joker” was the only new wide release this weekend, which is down from last year when both “Venom” and “A Star is Born” opened. Holdovers populated the top 10: The more family friendly “Abominable” landed in second place with $12 million in its second weekend and “Downton Abbey” took third in its third weekend with $8 million.
With awards buzz behind it, the Judy Garland biopic “Judy,” starring Renee Zellweger, added nearly 1,000 screens this weekend and placed seventh with $4.5 million from 1,458 locations.
And in limited release, Pedro Almodovar’s critically acclaimed “Pain and Glory” launched on four screens to a solid $160,087. Less fortunate was the Natalie Portman-led astronaut drama “Lucy in the Sky” which earned only $55,000 from 37 theaters resulting in a dismal $1,500 per screen average.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Country music superstar Garth Brooks has more than just friends in low places. The Library of Congress said Wednesday that the Grammy winner will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song next March for his hit “Friends in Low Places.”
Previous recipients include Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Carole King and Willie Nelson. Brooks is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. His many top hits alongside “Friends in Low Places” include “The Thunder Rolls,” “The Dance,” “Shameless” and “What She’s Doing Now.”
At 57, he’ll be the youngest recipient of the Gershwin Prize. He will be honored with an all-star tribute concert in Washington, D.C., that will air on PBS stations in spring 2020.
“An award is only as good as the names on it,” Brooks said in a statement. “First off, for any musician, the name Gershwin says it all. Add to Ira’s and George’s names the names of the past recipients, and you have an award of the highest honor. I am truly humbled.“
Since his debut in 1989, Brooks has become a top-selling and touring musical force, bringing his brand of high energy and emotional country music to stadiums and arenas.
He is the bestselling solo artist in the United States with more than 148 million in album sales, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, and is second only in total U.S. sales to the Beatles.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Brooks combined his love of classic country music and cowboy songs with production typically seen in rock and pop acts. Seven of his albums have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone, according to the RIAA.
In the early 2000s, he took a break from recording and touring to spend more time with his family in Oklahoma. Brooks returned to major touring and recording in 2014, had a hit headliner residency at Wynn Las Vegas and remains one of country’s most popular touring acts. He is married to fellow country star Trisha Yearwood.
Ethics complaint targets Spokane Councilwoman Karen Stratton’s endorsement of Pasco marijuana businessCache
Spokane City Councilwoman Karen Stratton’s endorsement last summer of a marijuana business seeking a license in Pasco has prompted formal allegations of unethical conduct.
The complaint, made to the city’s volunteer Ethics Commission, was made in the midst of a re-election campaign for Stratton, and as she and her husband navigate a bankrupcty case complicated by her own ties to the marijuana industry. The complaint was made by Spokane resident Neil Muller, who has made political contributions to Republican lawmakers and former political foes of Stratton. He alleges a letter the councilwoman sent, on official city letterhead, violates “both in spirit and specifically” several provisions of the city’s ethical code, including prohibitions on conflicts of interest and using an official position for personal financial gain.
Stratton said her relationship with Lucky Leaf, a marijuana retailer that opened in downtown Spokane in 2015, was borne out of her official role on the council assisting a business with complaints from the public. The pot shop opened amidst many protests from a nearby church four years ago. Stratton also said the marijuana production business she operates with her husband and other family partners does not have a processing license from the state, which would be necessary to sell their product directly to a retail store.
“I wrote it as a city councilperson, to me it was a city council to city council thing,” Stratton said, adding that she did not believe her actions were violations of the city’s ethical code.
The letter urges members of the Pasco City Council to consider the economic opportunities afforded by retailers such as Lucky Leaf, drawing on the transformations along First Avenue in downtown Spokane where the shop is located.
“The area has seen a resurgence of investment in recent years, and Lucky Leaf has been an important part of that resurgence,” Stratton wrote in her letter.
The owners of Lucky Leaf opened the store in Spokane after city officials forced closure of their Pasco storefront in 2015, and were hoping lawmakers there would reconsider their ban on stores during the summer of 2018. A ban on marijuana businesses in the central Washington city remains in place.
Stratton said she was approached by David and Shilo Morgan, owners of Lucky Leaf, to write a letter on their behalf, and she conferred with the City Council’s policy advisor, Brian McClatchey, before sending her own letter.
“I know Brian and I talked about it,” Stratton said. But Stratton said the conversation did not include whether writing the letter on city letterhead was appropriate.
When Washington regulators established the legal marijuana industry in the state, they split licenses to operate in the business into three categories: producers, processors and retailers. Producers are allowed by law only to sell to other producers or to processors. Processors are allowed to sell to retail stores. Some businesses own both producer and processor licenses, but Stratton’s business does not, which means her farm cannot sell directly to Lucky Leaf.
“Had that been a processor, I probably wouldn’t have done it,” Stratton said. “We don’t sell to retailers.”
David Morgan said Monday his business has never purchased directly from Stratton.
“There’s really no business connection,” he said.
But nothing in the law would prevent product her business had sold to a processor from ultimately winding up on Lucky Leaf’s shelves.
The letter, in the upper right corner, includes the logo of the City of Spokane and Stratton’s official office. Muller, in his complaint, urges the Ethics Commission to examine whether that official statement should be considered a conflict of interest.
“Stratton could have easily chosen to write a personal and/or business letter supporting her cannabis business colleagues and forwarding her personal political beliefs,” Muller wrote. “Instead, she invoked her office and the City of Spokane in a most improper manner.”
Stratton said the letter has been shared in Republican circles online, and the councilwoman canceled her scheduled appearance at an unrelated candidate event with the local GOP because they hadn’t called her to question her motives before posting the letter on their Facebook page in August.
“If I’ve done something wrong, I’ve been very transparent about it,” Stratton said. “I just can’t believe that this would be an ethics complaint. David Condon, Andy Rathbun and Jim Hedemark will do whatever they can to make this hard for me. Period.”
Rathbun is running against Stratton for her seat in northwest Spokane, and Hedemark is a political consultant for Rathbun’s campaign. Condon, Spokane’s mayor, reposted on his personal Facebook page a link to a blog shared to a local politics group mentioning the Strattons’ bankruptcy and her letter to the Pasco City Council.
The complaint also alleges a violation of the ethics code that prohibits the acceptance of gifts or gratuity for public services if it was “intended to serve as a reward for any official action on their part.” Lucky Leaf made a $1,000 contribution to Stratton’s re-election campaign Aug. 8, according to Public Disclosure Commission filings, but Morgan said the letter was not discussed before his firm made the donation.
Rathbun said he knew Muller professionally, but was unaware the ethics complaint had been filed. He declined to say whether the letter was an appropriate use of city resources.
“She wrote the letter, so she’ll have to answer as to her motivations,” Rathbun said.
Condon said in an email over the weekend that he had not coordinated with anyone in posting the link on his personal Facebook page. The mayor and Stratton have quarreled publicly several times in the past few years over issues including pay for department heads, Condon’s push for a restructured 911 response system in the city and the handling of the ouster of former Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub.
Muller has not contributed to Rathbun’s campaign, according to records filed with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission. But he contributed to Condon’s 2011 and 2015 mayoral campaigns, as well as a $50 donation in 2015 to Evan Verduin, who was running against Stratton. Verduin earned the mayor’s endorsement in that contest.
Stratton has recused herself from some votes involving the marijuana industry in the past, including when an arcade with dubious origins attempted to block the opening of a retailer on East Sprague Avenue.
As of Monday, the city’s Ethics Commission had not scheduled a meeting to discuss the complaint.
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Volvo definitely took it easy last year. They decided to keep the Volvo XC60 unchanged for another year but the time to relax is over now as Volvo work to give the XC60 a proper upgrade this year.
The new 2018 Volvo XC60 will be getting a new exterior design that is based on the Volvo XC90 model. Some of the XC90 design features like the Thor headlights as well as the bordered grille will most likely be making its way to the Volvo XC60.
Under the hood should be a 2.0 liter four cylinder engine that will be delivering about 187hp. The Volvo XC60 biggest rival right now will have to be the Audi Q5. Like the Volvo XC60, the Audi Q5 will also be upgraded this year.
It will be interesting to see which of these models ends up on the top.


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LAS VEGAS, March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Interop 2014 -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced the expansion of its XLP®II multi-core communications processors family with the XLP500 Series. Featuring 32 NXCPUs and 80 Gbps performance, the XLP500 Series delivers up to 4X the per-core performance of competing processors. Broadcom will demonstrate the new series at Interop, Las Vegas, April 1 – 3, 2014, booth #1239. For more news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.
The XLP500 Series delivers the superior processing performance and agility needed to simplify Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) deployment. Performance is achieved with an innovative quad-issue, quad-threaded superscalar architecture with out-of-order execution. Support for Broadcom's Open NFV platform and seamless interoperability with Broadcom's StrataXGS® Switch Series streamlines the development process, optimizes power requirements, reduces hardware costs and improves time-to-market.
"Rapid growth in network traffic has expedited the adoption of SDN and NFV by carriers in order to cost-effectively overlay control and compute power onto their existing infrastructure," said Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst at The Linley Group and Editor-in-Chief of the Microprocessor Report. "The combination of four-issue superscalar execution and four-way multithreading is unique among embedded processors and the XLP500 Series raises the bar for embedded processors that are optimized for communications."
"For service providers and data center operators looking to manage dynamically changing workloads and massive data requirements, the XLP500 Series provides the processing performance and flexibility required to deploy new services and cost-effectively scale the network," said Chris O'Reilly, Broadcom, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Processors & Wireless Infrastructure. "With the addition of the XLP500 Series, Broadcom now offers the industry's broadest end-to-end portfolio of 28 nanometer multi-core communications processors, spanning 4 NXCPUs to 640 NXCPUs."
"In order to facilitate a successful industry-wide NFV rollout, HP's OpenNFV program requires an open platform to easily migrate virtual functions across systems and a new class of processors that can improve packet processing, help reduce hardware costs, simplify applications and improve time-to-market," said Vinay Saxena, Chief Architect, Network Functions Virtualization, Hewlett Packard. "We believe our collaboration with Broadcom on its Open NFV platform, and communications processors such as the XLP500 Series, are ideally suited to deliver the right balance of power, performance and workload flexibility needed to meet the requirements of NFV solutions."
Complementing Broadcom's XLP200 and XLP900 Series, the XLP500 Series provides customers with more choices within the XLPII family of products, enabling the deployment of a wide range of products, including high-end SDN control plane applications, leveraging a single common software platform.
XLP500 Series Key Features:
- Optimized driver and tight integration with Broadcom's FASTPATH® software enables seamless interoperability with Broadcom's StrataXGS® Switch Series
- Support for Broadcom's Open NFV platform enables seamless migration of virtual functions independent of Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs)
- Full end-to-end virtualization of CPUs memory, I/Os and acceleration engines
- Integrated autonomous acceleration engines support a broad range of applications such as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), encryption, network acceleration and storage
- Configurable pool of high performance multi-core processors along with application-specific engines accelerates advanced networking and security functions in a virtualized environment
- Supports open-source virtualization platforms such as KVM, QEMU and OVS
- Integrated high speed I/Os including 40GEs, 10GEs, GE, HiGig2 and Interlaken
- Dedicated lanes for PCIE Gen3.0 and SATA3.0
The XLP500 Series is now sampling. See Broadcom's innovations optimized to improve performance, efficiency and security in the next-generation data center, enterprise and cloud-scale networks on the Interop show floor at booth #1239 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors.
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at the same time reduce Time to Market (TTM) by using plug and play capabilities offered by a robust I...
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After making a doctor’s appointment via your mobile device, you receive a calendar invite. The day of your appointment, you get a reminder with the doctor’s location and contact information. As you enter the doctor’s exam room, the medical team is equipped with the latest tablet containing your medical history – he or she makes real time updates to your medical file. At the end of your visit, you receive an electronic prescription to your preferred pharmacy and can schedule your next appointment.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to “Bridge the Gap” between Personal and Professional Social, Mobile and Cloud user experiences, our solutions help large and medium-sized organizations dr...
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While not quite mainstream yet, WebRTC is starting to gain ground with Carriers, Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) alike. WebRTC makes it easy for developers to add audio and video communications into their applications by using Web browsers as their platform. But like any market, every customer engagement has unique requirements, as well as constraints. And of course, one size does not fit all. In her session at WebRTC Summit, Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, Vice President, Head of Cloud and Mobile Strategy at GENBAND, will explore what is needed to take a real time communications ...
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The world's leading Cloud event, Cloud Expo has launched Microservices Journal on the SYS-CON.com portal, featuring over 19,000 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. Microservices Journal offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. Follow new article posts on Twitter at @MicroservicesE
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Litmus Automation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Litmus Automation’s vision is to provide a solution for companies that are in a rush to embrace the disruptive Internet of Things technology and leverage it for real business challenges. Litmus Automation simplifies the complexity of connected devices applications with Loop, a secure and scalable cloud platform.
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The WebRTC Summit 2015 New York, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 16th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit.
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SOA Software has changed its name to Akana. With roots in Web Services and SOA Governance, Akana has established itself as a leader in API Management and is expanding into cloud integration as an alternative to the traditional heavyweight enterprise service bus (ESB). The company recently announced that it achieved more than 90% year-over-year growth. As Akana, the company now addresses the evolution and diversification of SOA, unifying security, management, and DevOps across SOA, APIs, microservices, and more.
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company’s previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the...
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Temasys has announced senior management additions to its team. Joining are David Holloway as Vice President of Commercial and Nadine Yap as Vice President of Product. Over the past 12 months Temasys has doubled in size as it adds new customers and expands the development of its Skylink platform. Skylink leads the charge to move WebRTC, traditionally seen as a desktop, browser based technology, to become a ubiquitous web communications technology on web and mobile, as well as Internet of Things compatible devices.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Vitria Technology, Inc. will exhibit at SYS-CON’s @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Vitria will showcase the company’s new IoT Analytics Platform through live demonstrations at booth #330. Vitria’s IoT Analytics Platform, fully integrated and powered by an operational intelligence engine, enables customers to rapidly build and operationalize advanced analytics to deliver timely business outcomes for use cases across the industrial, enterprise, and consumer segments.
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Over one and a half years, Pokemon Go lovers ‘ve seen a wide range of new features that developers add to the gym, which is where one of the best features of today is raid battles.
As a game developer, Niantic Labs, several times promising more new features will be introduced for the most popular mobile games in the future.
Unfortunately, when this feature will be introduced into the game until now is still unclearly reported. Moreover, features player versus player (PvP) and trading is long awaited presence in the Pokemon Go game.
However, it will be revealed in the near future. Apparently, Niantic Labs invited some famous YouTuber Pokémon Go specialists and other famous figures to a special event in Japan. So that was launched Gamerant , Sunday (19/11/2017).
No information on why they were invited to Japan, but some loyal Pokemon Go gamers suspect will have an opportunity to test the new features of this game.
What new features will Niantic show the event invitees in Japan next week? With so many features still missing in the game, there are many possible features to test.
PvP and Trading Features
Seeing the secrecy of the event, many pocket game lovers suspect the company is preparing to launch the long-awaited feature of trading and PvP battles .
The predicted feature being piloted is based because it takes some people to test it. This is why developers invite members of the Pokemon Go community to ask their opinion before finally releasing the two features globally.
However, it is possible that these people test other features in the game. One of them is a new type of Pokemon from the third generation, which Niantic announced will launch in December 2017.
It’s possible, Niantic Labs is testing an entirely different feature. Perhaps the developer is trying out new social features in Pokemon Go, or maybe a feature that is completely unexpected by his loyal fans.
Whatever features are being tested, you as a loyal lover of Pokemon Go games need not take long to figure out what new features will appear in the game in the near future.
Niantic Labs Busy with a New Game?
Recently, the San Francisco-based company confirmed that it is working with WB Games to develop a game called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Not only that, the company also confirmed the Harry Potter game will be present exclusively for mobile devices. Like Pokemon Go, this game will rely on AR technology.
For many of Pokemon Go’s loyal players, the announcement of this game is feared will make the company not focus in the development of new features in the pocket game game, and more focused in the development of the Harry Potter game.
In response, Niantic ensures the company remains committed 100 percent for Pokémon Go development over the coming years.
In the Harry Potter: Wizards Unites game, gamers will have the chance to experience being a Wizards (wizard) in the real world as in the Harry Potter novels.
From the official description, gamers will learn how to cast spells, explore the environment and the city in the real world to find and fight various kinds of legendary animals along with other players.
Similar to Pokemon Go, is not it? Although the gameplay informaasi Harry Potter game: Wizards Unites is still limited. Many gamers who suspect Ingress also have a big influence on this game.
Not only that, Niantic is predicted to feature some new and iconic features in the game which of course can not gamers find in previous Niantic Labs games.


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The advertising industry is about to become a lot more interesting.
Google is going to be the dominant ad-supported platform on the Internet.
In the past, the biggest competitors to Google ads were Facebook and Twitter, both of which are now gone.
Now, it’s going to take the best advertising technology, like the one from Google, to dominate the ad market.
According to the New York Times, the change is coming because of “a new and increasingly complex digital advertising landscape.”
Google is going from being the dominant advertising platform on Earth to being the only platform that’s truly “digital,” which is why it has a huge market cap and the resources to make this change happen.
“Advertising has been the glue that holds many websites together, so to have it go is a real shock,” says Brian Bock, who oversees Google’s digital strategy.
The New York Post reported that Google has been trying to work with companies like Apple and Facebook to integrate Google’s ad technology with its own, but they’ve been “bickering over who owns what technology.”
The tech companies, however, are not the only ones who are taking a hard look at their own advertising technology.
Advertisers have been asking for years for Google to make their ads more relevant.
In December, Google said it would be using more natural language processing to make ads more useful to users.
This month, the tech giant also announced a new advertising network called AdSense that allows advertisers to pay for content based on the time spent on a particular ad.
With this new technology, advertisers will be able to pay advertisers based on how much time people spent on an ad, and advertisers will also be able buy ad space that is more relevant to the user’s needs.
If all this sounds like a lot of new technology for advertisers, you’re not alone.
The advertising sector is expected to spend an estimated $7.6 billion in the next year to $8.3 billion by 2021, according to a recent report from research firm Kantar Worldpanel.
That’s a lot, but it’s not the most significant change that Google will make.
Last year, the ad industry spent $8 billion on digital marketing, and that was only a portion of Google’s total revenue.
Google has said that Google AdSense will be used to deliver “more relevant ads,” which would make sense, given that the company also sells ads through Google’s AdSense service.
So, how is Google doing it?
According a report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will have its own advertising system, called Google AdWords, which is expected give advertisers more control over their ad campaigns.
These ads will be created by Google’s search engines, so Google will be the one with the power to control how and when people see their ads.
While the Google Adwords service will only be used by Google users, the company says it will also offer its own ad-related platforms for other ad companies, including Facebook and Yahoo, which will have similar capabilities.
There will be some other changes too.
New advertisers will have to pay a premium to advertise on Google.
Google will start charging for certain types of ads, including sponsored posts and in-app purchases, which Google is currently using to promote its own apps.
For example, advertisers can now only pay for in-apps purchases with ad dollars.
Google also plans to make advertisers pay for a portion or all of the cost of their ad to run on Google, even if it is not directly being used to promote a product.
Another big change is that Google is also going to allow advertisers to run ads that they create themselves.
Instead of relying on third parties to create ads, advertisers are going to have to build their own ad platforms.
An example of this would be when an advertiser makes a purchase with an in-game currency, like a virtual gold coin.
As a result, the advertising industry will be left with a lot less control over how its ads are displayed.
Companies like Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have already made this change, so they’ll have more control.
However, it still sounds like Google will need to be very careful about how it does this.
Earlier this year, Google was criticized for being too restrictive in how it can monetize its advertising platform.
But Google’s new ad platform will be a lot easier for the company to manage.
It’s already been proven that the ads it is using are more relevant, which means advertisers will want to pay more for these ads.
The biggest issue with this new system will be whether it will be as successful as Google hoped.
What do you think of Google AdEx?
Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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(WTNH) — The unofficial start to summer means more of an “official” change to shelves in the retail world, meaning new opportunities to save. We are stretching your dollar with what to buy and what to avoid in June.
Deal News is sharing the best buys to consider this month to save money year-round.
It’s time to move spring apparel out, which is a good buy, as it can be worn throughout the summer.
Fitness gear goes on sale this month as people try to revive those resolutions as we approach beach days.
And dinner and cookware go on sale. It may seem unusual, but you can thank peak wedding season for the break on those items.
It’s the month of dad. As we approach Father’s Day, typical items to be marked down. Think clothing, tools, grills and golf accessories.
What not to buy: grills or patio furniture; it’s just not the time. Deals will come mid-to later summer.
You’ll find some mattress deals around the 4th of July.
And a couple of dates this month to keep in mind:
- June 5 kicks off National Fishing and Boating Week
- June 18 is National Splurge Day, so there’s a designated day to buy whatever you want


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In a signal the saying that Ferrari doesn’t sell cars, but dreams, could be true, the Italian luxury automaker could harness a valuation of up to $9.8 billion once the initial public offering in the US kicks off at a price range of between $48 and $52 per share.
Parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, the third biggest US automaker and the seventh largest in the world, is getting ready to launch Ferrari’s New York Stock Exchange IPO where up to 10 percent of the company would be sold. The gathered proceedings would be used to finance the ambitious masterplan laid out last year that seeks to reach deliveries of 7 million cars worldwide by 2018, and with enough profit and financial power to fend off competitors such as Daimler or Volkswagen Ag. The price range has been made official on Friday and might fall in line with FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne’s own belief that Ferrari was worth north of ten billion dollars while analysts only acknowledged around half.
A successful IPO would also be crucial to Marchionne’s drive to find a prospective partner – such as larger US competitor General Motors – to prop the development costs and the auto industry’s expansion towards cleaner and “smarter” autos. In a prospectus filed with the US market regulator, Ferrari announced it would offer 17.2 million shares through the initial public offering – which is around nine percent of the total holding. Another 1.7 million shares could be sold through the greenshoe option, lifting the total to a 10 percent holding. With a Wall Street debut expected for the latter part of October, the “prancing horse” brand that is most famous for its Formula One implication might hit the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “RACE”.


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THORNTON, Colo. -- Customers inside the Thornton Walmart were forced to either hide or flee as shots rang out inside the busy shopping center Wednesday. Two men and a woman were killed in the shooting.
Police are currently looking for suspect described as a white male last seen wearing a black jacket, maroon shirt and blue jeans.
Aaron Stephens was at self-checkout when he heard what he thought sounded like a firecracker.
“It was when the employees started screaming and running that I realized I need to get the heck out of here, like this is really happening,” said Stephens, who shot a Facebook live video outside the store of police taking an unidentified man to the ground.
Meanwhile, Harold Solomon was in the back of the store with his 13-year-old son when he heard the first shot.
“I heard a shot, ‘Boom!’ And I’m thinking, ‘what the crap was that?’ And then another shot — 'Boom!' What the crap is going on? And then a third shot and I”m like, 'they're shooting! Duck! Duck!" said Solomon, who said he grabbed his son and ran out the back door of the store.
Meanwhile, family members of Walmart employees and shoppers waited outside the store for word about their loved ones’ safety.
“I got a call from my sister. She was really distraught. I didn’t understand a word she was saying,” said Jennifer Biglands. “It sucks when it’s this close to home. It’s hard.”
Joleen Sarno was waiting to hear from her daughter, who works in the store, and she said she wasn’t really thinking about the recent shootings in New York or Las Vegas.
“I just think about everyday life, because you never know when you’re going to have your last breath or tell your kids that you love them,” said Sarno.


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Phil Spencer addresses fan concern over PS4 competition, says gaming is 'not [a] race between two consoles'
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Iconix on Aug. 4 posted second-quarter results that reflect its new focus as a brand management company. For the three months ended June 30, net income was $2.5 million, or 8 cents a diluted share, versus $518,000, or 2 cents, in the same year-ago quarter. Revenues from licensing and commissions jumped 62.4 percent to $4.3 million from $2.6 million. In the year-ago period, the company reported sales of $26 million, a figure that reflects the firm's operations before its transition to a new business model.
The New York-based Iconix is set to hold its annual meeting on Thursday at its offices, 215 West 40th Street.


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Developed over three years at a cost of more than $1 million, the Smart Select technology uses hundreds of proprietary attributes to scan and rank Cox sites allowing advertisers to customize ads according to campaign objectives. The Cox network spans 6000 specialty content sites and 2,000 local sites.
The social component of the system helps advertisers target the most socially influential sites in the network. The audience selection piece determines the demographic makeup of users, and the third element evaluates the relevance of a site in a given category.
Cox Digital Solutions was formed earlier this year through the merger of Cox Cross Media and Adify, the vertical ad network Cox Enterprises acquired in 2008. That move was aimed at reducing redundancy and offering more integrated online ad services. The Adify name has since been phased out.
Ani Vemprala, director of audience development at Cox Digital, said Smart Select would give advertisers more options to refine and expand their media selection and boost the effectiveness of campaigns on the Cox network boasting 130 million monthly visitors. The company did not name any initial advertisers using the new targeting technology. Parent Cox Enterprises operates newspapers, 15 TV stations, nearly 90 radio stations, AutoTrader.com. and Valpak.


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By processed food, I do not mean only the packaged, industrially produced food. Traditional mithais are also processed foods. Mithais are often worse than the packaged foods, as they have an extraordinarily high amount of sugar.
Here is an article in the Times of India, appearing under “News” and shamelessly promoting a brand. And the article is NOT classified as an advertorial but as “News”.
NDTV has published an unscientific article on “healthy” sugar substitutes. Excessive sugar consumption is causing a serious and growing health crisis, and is equally harmful whether from added refined sugar, or from natural sources.
Sugar kills more people than gunpowder every year. Sugar (Sucrose and Fructose) are the biggest killers of our times, and it kills painfully and slowly through metabolic disease. The problem is it’s addictive nature. Sugar may be more addictive than cocaine. In my opinion, there is no way to solve
Sweeteners are a staple for millions of people suffering from or fearful of type 2 diabetes across the globe. Sweeteners may be helpful in structured and well supervised diets but their long term use and effect on the human body is what is worrying scientists and researchers.


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New Moto phone(s) will be announced at MWC 2017
While Lenovo and Motorola won't say what they're preparing for MWC 2017, they could announce the Moto G5 Plus - a handset first spotted earlier this month.
As its name suggests, the Moto G5 Plus should succeed last year's Moto G4 Plus. Its highlight features seemingly include Android 7 Nougat, a 5.5-inch 1080p display, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, and a 3080 mAh battery.
Lenovo may also unveil a high-end Moto smartphone at MWC 2017, though we're thinking that the probability of this to happen is low. Usually, high-end and flagship Moto phones are not announced during this time of the year.
Whatever Lenovo and Motorola have to showcase at MWC 2017, we'll be there to report about it.


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If you've been anywhere near the internet recently it probably won't surprise you to learn that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have a pretty big stranglehold on the space.
That fact hasn't escaped John Oliver, either, who in his latest Last Week Tonight episode broke down the ways those tech companies dominate their competition – from Apple taking a 30 percent cut of app store sales to Google doing everything it can to get people to stay on its own site – before highlighting the two US bills (the American Choice and Innovation Online Act and the Open App Markets Act) that could help loosen the grip of the tech giants.
"The problem with letting a few companies control whole sections of the economy is that it limits what is possible for startups," says Oliver. "An innovative app or product or website might never get off the ground because it could be surcharged to death, buried in search results, or ripped off completely.
"These bills would crack the door open for innovation and nudge the internet back towards what it was supposed to be from the start."
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Not a day goes by without a new startup being born. They spring like mushrooms everywhere, so it's very difficult to keep track of them. But what if there was a one-stop shop on the Web, where you could (ideally) find all the startups in the world, nicely catalogued and put on a map? That's exactly the idea behind StartupBlink, a Swiss-based startup launched by two entrepreneurs: Israel-born Eli David, who previously co-founded Lingolearn.com, an online language school and worked for big firms like BDO and KPMG, and Roderick Warren who, before entering the tech industry, joined the U.S. Air Force, working on assignments in conflict zones such as Iraq and Kosovo.
StartupBlink which is online - in a full-fledged version - since early December, does not map only startups, but everything related to the startup ecosystem: from accelerators to coworking spaces and jobs. It also highlights influencers on a global or regional level, freelancers (they can be filtered by category, skill and hourly rate) and ambassadors, who are basically people actively engaged in promoting the platform in their own area. They are also able to decide on startups ranking in their city and post updates and reviews on startups. The team implemented some networking features as well: after adding their startup to the map, participants can broadcast their news to the world by posting updates, called "blinks".
These blinks can be just about anything: from the launch of a new product, to market expansion, to the search for funding to a major milestone for the company being announced. So, unlike similar platforms - CrunchBase and AngelList are the first ones which sping to mind - is not so much focused on big rounds of investments. Rather, David and Warren think of their platform as a central hub for small and mid-sized startup, not looking so much for money and VCs, but seeking to establish useful connections with like-minded entrepreneurs, customers and colleagues.
So far, the platform is indexing tens of thousands of startups, part of them manually registered by the founders, and partly gathered sifting the Web and pulling data by online directories and websites.
As for the business model, it's not well-defined yet, but a number of strategies are being explored. One of them could be offering premium services, like sponsored posts or profiles to startups and freelancers that are eager to gain more visibility on the platform. To date, David and Warren bootstrapped the business with their own money and the help of some friends, but they are proactively looking for investors to sustain the platform's growth.
The hardest challenge for the founders will probably be being able to keep all the content on StartupBlink easily searchable and accessible. For the time being it's not a big fuss, but if the website does make a splash, it could suffer from the same problem of information overload (or filter failure, as Clay Shirky prefers to call it) that's so common in other contexts.