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To settle litigation, General Mills has agreed to ditch the phrase “100% Natural” for granola bars. Meanwhile, the maker of Tito’s Handmade Vodka is defending itself against allegations from class-action plaintiffs that its vodka is not actually “handmade.” Now the food and beverage wars have reached the condiment aisle.
Unilever sells mayonnaise under its Hellmann’s and Best Foods brands. San Francisco-based Hampton Creek makes a vegan sandwich spread called Just Mayo. Unilever’s products contains eggs. Since it is a vegan product, Just Mayo does not contain eggs.
On October 31, Unilever filed a false advertising lawsuit against Hampton Creek in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. In its complaint, Unilever alleges that “Hampton Creek falsely communicates to consumers that Just Mayo is mayonnaise, when it in fact, is not.” The reason: “Under federal regulations, common dictionary definitions and as consumers understand it, ‘mayonnaise’ or ‘mayo’ is a product that contains eggs. That ingredient does not exist in Just Mayo.” By advertising its vegan product as “mayo,” Unilever claims that Hampton Creek “is stealing market share from Hellman’s” in violation of section 43(a) of the Lanham Act and state unfair competition law.
Unilever asked the district court to enter a preliminary injunction that would forbid Hampton Creek from selling and marketing Just Mayo. In its motion, Unilever asserts it is likely to prevail on the merits for two separate reasons: (1) the Just Mayo label is literally false and (2) survey evidence shows the Just Mayo brand actually deceives consumers.
Unilever’s argument that Just Mayo is literally false runs as follows. The term “mayo” is synonymous with “mayonnaise.” By definition, “mayo” or “mayonnaise” contains eggs. Just Mayo does not contain eggs. Therefore, according to Unilever, Hampton Creek engages in false advertising when it markets its vegan sandwich spread as Just Mayo.
Unilever also offers evidence from a consumer survey as a second basis for a preliminary injunction. Unilever’s survey found 53.7% of consumers shown Just Mayo concluded it was mayonnaise. Unilever concludes “[t]his level of confusion is well above the minimum confusion levels required to support findings of implied falsity under the Lanham Act.”
So far, Hampton Creek is standing its ground. “We think we’re on the right side of how we build a food system that makes it easy for regular people to eat,” Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick told Bloomberg Television. “We never started this damn thing to be an alternative or a substitute; we started it to be right there in the condiment aisle . . . when we do that with everyone else.”
Tetrick suggested Unilever will withdraw the lawsuit “because of the incredible amount of support from the public we have received [and] from retailers.” If Unilever refuses to back down, Tetrick said Hampton Creek will file a countersuit attacking Unilever’s advertising related to its sustainability practices.
Hampton Creek’s response to Unilever’s motion for a preliminary injunction is not due until January. Until then, the lawsuit has become grist for the late-night comedy mill. CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman lampooned the litigation with a mock advertisement for a fictitious mayonnaise plaintiff’s law firm called Cellino & Barnes. Stay tuned for who gets the last laugh in this case.


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Panasonic has launched a super-slim compact camera, which it’s claimed features the world’s thinnest aspherical lens. panasonic_lumix_ZR1_02 Panasonic's Lumix ZR1 owes its dimensions to the super-slim lens inside And because the Lumix DMC-ZR1’s lens is just 0.3mm thick, Panasonic’s been able to get the camera’s body …
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Just as it promised a month back, Sony has started to roll out an official Android 4.0 ICS update for its high-end Xperia S smartphone. The upgrade should have already hit your Xperia S OTA (over-the-air), but, depending on your phone’s model and carrier, you might have to wait an additional few days until getting the much-awaited tasty scoop of Ice Cream Sandwich.
That being said, let’s get back to our post’s topic and talk really quick about the improvements, tweaks and modifications brought by the Android 4.0 update to the Xperia S. These include a lock screen with improved functionality, resizable widgets with better personalization, better control of mobile data consumption, but also three new exclusive apps, called “Walkman”, “Album” and “Movies”.
The Xperia S’ new apps will provide you with “a completely new way to experience your media” and, if you’re curious as to what exactly that entails, you should check out this link here for all the details that might be of interest, or the video clip at the end of the post.
Improved performance in browsing, gaming and multimedia are already standard ICS features, so I probably don’t have to tell you about that, while the new UI will be significantly more user-friendly, interactive and functional.
The OTA update weighs in at a pretty standard 200 MB and you should have already received a prompt message alerting you to install the new software package. If you didn’t get any kind of notification, you should check out your network connection or reboot your phone one or two times. If that doesn’t work either, you’re probably still on the “waiting list”, but, hey, you’ve been patient so far, you can give it a couple extra days, can’t you?
If you’re one of the lucky users already prancing around with an ICS-running Xperia S, please get back to us with a short comment letting us know a few things about the update. Is it everything you’ve expected it to be? Are there any bugs or glitches to report? And is the Sony Xperia S a whole new phone right now?
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The 38th IGLTA Annual Global Convention, the main worldwide training and networking event for LGBTQ + tourism professionals, will take place in Milan from 26 to 29 October.
Organised by the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA) and presented in collaboration with ENIT (Italian National Tourist Board), Comune di Milano, Yes Milano and AITGL (Italian National LGBTQ+ Tourism Association) at the UNAHOTEL Expo Fiera Milano, this will be the first time that the event has been held in Italy.
Bringing IGLTA’s premier global business event to the country supports progress toward greater acceptance and understanding of LGBTQ+ people in Italy. Originally set for 2020, the Convention had to be rescheduled due to the pandemic.
The timing is fortuitous coming only weeks after an Italian general election that is poised to give Italy its first far right led government since the Second World War, led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, with its roots in a neofascist movement, and supported by Matteo Salvini’s rightwing League.
Last year, Brothers of Italy and the League blocked ratification of the so-called Zan bill (named after Alessandro Zan, the politician and gay rights activist who proposed it). The bill would have made violence against the LGBTIQ+ community a hate crime.
“We have never wavered in our commitment to bring IGLTA to Milan,” said Maria Elena Rossi , ENIT Marketing and Promotion Director.
Alessio Virgili , President of AITGL explains the importance of LGBTQ+ tourism in Italy. “Promoting LGBTQ + travel and hosting this event is a unique business and training opportunity for Italy and our travel industry. The country receives 2.7 billion euros from LGBTQ + travel".
Puglia, voted the nation’s top LGBTQ+ friendly region to visit on summer vacation in a 2021 poll of the nation’s LGBTQ+ community and acknowledged as Italy’s top gay summer destination for LGBTQ+ travelers, is one of the beneficiaries of incoming and domestic LGBTQ+ tourism.
According to ENIT, “Puglia, the ‘heel of Italy’, is rightly considered one of the most gay-friendly Italian regions. The natural beauty of the beaches of Salento and the city of Gallipoli, surrounded by the sea, creates the perfect atmosphere for a vibrant LGBTQ+ community”.
"We are thrilled to finally be able to celebrate our long and fruitful collaboration with Italy and show Milan, the most cosmopolitan and gay-friendly city in the country," said IGLTA President and CEO John Tanzella.
“We know that the 2022 conference will be even more significant for the destination. The event will focus on inclusive business strategies and networking opportunities to support the future success of our industry ”.
The International LGBTQ+ Travel Association is the global leader in advancing LGBTQ+ travel and a proud Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. IGLTA’s mission is to provide information and resources for LGBTQ+ travelers and expand LGBTQ+ tourism globally by demonstrating its significant social and economic impact. The association’s professional network includes 11,000+ LGBTQ+ welcoming accommodations, destinations, service providers, travel agents, tour operators, events and travel media, and its members can be found in nearly 80 countries.
The Big Gay Podcast from Puglia are associate members of the IGLTA and will be visiting the Convention.


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Discount clothing retailer T.J. Maxx is moving into space vacated by defunct bookseller Border's at the Cambridgeside Galleria.
The Boston Herald reports Framingham-based The TJX Cos. Inc. (NYSE: TJX) will open a store this fall in the anchor space formerly occupied by Borders in the East Cambridge mall. The new store is set to open in September.
The new lease puts the Galleria's occupancy rate at 98 percent, Marketing Manager Jennifer Rotigliano told the Herald.
TJX on Thursday reported same-store sales rose in July. The firm also operates the Marshall's and HomeGoods discount chains.
The Galleria mall is owned and operated by New England Development.
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Garuda Aerospace, the Indian drone manufacturing company, has launched its first digital brand film #KhetonKeKaptan. The film is aimed at encouraging youth and farmers to be captains of their respective farms.
Conceptualised by Garuda Aerospace’s brand team and jointly produced with Dhoni Entertainment, the film #KhetonKeKaptan illustrates the need of farmers in their daily lives and how Garuda drones can help farmers with pesticide spraying, surveillance, and mapping while saving water and time.
Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO, Garuda Aerospace, said, “Farmers are the heroes of our nation and we at Garuda Aerospace have been committed to designing drones that help farmers spray pesticides altogether and make their lives easy. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the brand ambassador of Garuda Aerospace and former Captain of the Indian Cricket team salutes the farmers as they are the future. The brand film #KhetonKeKaptan highlights how farmers can enhance their quality of living and farming by using Garuda Kisan Drones. He urges that every farmer is the captain of their farm.”
The brand film is live across Garuda Aerospace’s social media handles and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Facebook handle.
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Aston Martin celebrates 100 years
It’s as British as a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit, will forever be associated with James Bond and next week Aston Martin will be 100 year.
To celebrate the official incorporation of the company 100 years ago and to commemorate the historic occasion, the oldest surviving Aston Martin – the 1921 A3 – and a new Vanquish, the brand’s ultimate Grand Tourer, will take their places on 15 January at Henniker Mews in Chelsea – the original home of Aston Martin – where a commemorative plaque will be unveiled.
This year has seen the company in the spotlight, first with its Aston Martin DB5 seeing a return to fame with Daniel Craig in Skyfall and then with the announcement that the Midlands firm had agreed a £150m investment from Investindustrial, hopefully making the long-term future of the firm more secure. Here’s hoping that there’s enough fuel for at least another 100 years of Aston Martin in the tank.
Aston Martin through the ages
The first Aston – originally names the Coal Scuttle – was built in 1915. After the First Wold War, three more prototypes were built and this – A3 – is the oldest ever Aston still in existence.
Aston Martin DB5 (1964)
To many this is the original Aston Martin, but the firm had been making cars for 50 years before it came along. We have Goldfinger to thank for it becoming a 20 century design icon.
Aston Martin DBS (1967)
The original DBS was driven by George Lazenby in Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but unlike Sean Connery’s DB5 it hardly got any gadgets at all. Poor George.
V12 Vantage (2005 onwards)
This is the perfect example of what happens when you stick a massive engine in a tiny sports car. Great fun, if you can keep it on the road. Just what an Aston should be.
Only 77 of these babies were made (and they were mainly sold to oil-rich sheikhs), but the One-77 is the most-powerful and luxurious Aston Martin ever made, which shouldn’t be a shock considering its price tag of £1.2m.
OK, it’s controversial and technically a Toyota IQ that Aston has wrapped in luxury leather, but the Cygnet marked a new direction for the company in city motoring when it launched in 2011. It’s bonkers really but great fun. Hasn’t sold as well as hoped.
Aston Martin DB9 (2013)
The latest DB9, launched this month, is seen by many as the best Aston Martin ever. Indy Motoring hasn’t got behind the wheel yet, but expect our verdict soon. It certainly looks pretty.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Feb. 4, 2011) — Automotive service and tire retailer Monro Muffler Brake Inc. reported record sales and earnings for the three- and nine-month periods ended Dec. 25, and management anticipates continued improvements this year because the “macroeconomic drivers” of the firm's recent success are still in place.
Sales for the quarter rose 8.4 percent to a record $165.5 million, driven both by strong comparable sales growth and the addition of business from recent acquisitions, Rochester-based Monro said. Operating income increased 31 percent to $18.7 million, and net earnings jumped 39.9 percent to $11.1 million.
Tires led the way in comparable store sales, growing 8 percent during the period, followed by shocks (7 percent) and maintenance services (6 percent).
Tires accounted for 45 percent of Monro's business in the quarter, according to figures presented to financial analysts in late January, up from 32 percent in fiscal 2010.
The company opened four locations and closed four other locations during the quarter, leaving the store count at 783—including more than 235 tire-centered stores operating as Mr. Tire, Tire Warehouse, Tread Quarters and Auto Tire.
For the nine-month period, sales rose 16.4 percent to $485.9 million, while net income jumped 37.6 percent to $37.6 million. Comparable store sales for the nine months were up 5.7 percent.
Based on these results, Monro said it expects sales for the year ending March 26 to be in the range of $635 million to $645 million, up roughly 2 percent from previous forecasts. Diluted earnings per share should range from $1.41 to $1.45, up 6 percent from previous estimates and nearly a third better than fiscal 2010.
“Our recent acquisitions are outperforming expectations and we anticipate further expansion of our market share through additional fairly priced, opportunistic acquisitions in our existing markets,” said Chairman and CEO Robert Gross. “With our sales and earnings outlook for fiscal 2011, we are on track to achieve our tenth consecutive year of comparable store sales increases and to generate compound annual earnings growth of approximately 30 percent over the last three years.”


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NEW YORK(GenomeWeb News) – Agilent Technologies said after the close of the market on Thursday that revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter were $1.81 billion, up 5 percent from $1.72 billion in Q4 2013 and matching the consensus Wall Street estimate.
The company had $1.91 billion in orders for the quarter and year ended Oct. 31, up 4 percent from $1.83 billion a year ago.
The results included Keysight Technologies, formerly Agilent's electronic measurement business, which it spun off Nov. 1.
Its Life Sciences and Diagnostics segment recorded $612 million in revenues in the quarter, up 2 percent from $601 million a year ago. Orders were up 4 percent to $665 million from $642 million a year ago.
Chemical Analysis revenues increased 5 percent to $431 million, compared to $412 million a year ago, while orders were up 8 percent to $480 million from $445 million. Its Electronic Measurement revenues were up 8 percent to $762 million from $705 million, and orders rose 2 percent to $760 million from $742 million.
Agilent's profit for Q4 FY 2014 dropped to $16 million, or $.05 per share, from $211 million, or $.63 per share, a year ago.
Agilent had pre-separation costs of $70 million, intangible amortization of $47 million, a net loss on extinguishment of debt of $68 million, mostly non-cash charges of $68 million related to exiting the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance business, and a tax expense of $13 million during the quarter. Excluding these items and $15 million of other net charges, adjusted EPS was $.88, narrowly missing the consensus Wall Street estimate of $.89.
The company had R&D costs of $189 million in the quarter, up 9 percent from $173 million a year ago. Its SG&A spending rose 19 percent to $534 million from $450 million.
"Our LDA business finished the year strong, with record revenues and orders," Agilent CEO Bill Sullivan said in a statement. "We are excited about Agilent’s future as a company focused one hundred percent on the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied markets, with innovative new product rollouts planned for this year and market trends looking positive."
For full-year Fiscal 2014, Agilent said that revenues were up 3 percent to $6.98 billion from $6.78 billion, just below the average analyst estimate of $6.99 billion.
Orders for the year were up 4 percent to $7.13 billion from $6.83 billion.
The firm's net income for the year dropped to $497 million, or $1.47 per share, compared to $724 million, or $2.10 per share, in FY 2013. Adjusted EPS was $3.04, missing the consensus Wall Street estimate of $3.06.
Agilent upped its R&D spending 2 percent during the year to $719 million from $704 million in FY 2013. Its SG&A spending was up 9 percent to $2.04 billion from $1.88 billion a year ago.


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The weather is gradually growing cooler and the sun’s intensity is diminishing as this summer is coming to a close. Now that more and more people are aware of the importance of Vitamin D, hopefully more people will head to the salon to get their much-needed dosage of Vitamin D. It will be interesting to see how the tanning industry does this winter in the wake of the Tan Tax.
Tanning Salons everywhere have been hurting from the tan tax. Grassroots efforts around the country have pitted local business owners against the unfair legislation passed this June by Congress. Small business owners are complaining that the tax is unfair to the predominantly middle class salon owners, hurting their business and jeopardizing possibly 1000’s of jobs.
Due to the increased concern of getting adequate Vitamin D, and faced with the fact that it is harder to get adequate levels of Vitamin D during the fall and winter seasons, hopefully more and more consumers will frequent tanning salons in the face of the added 10 percent tax. Vitamin D supplements aren’t that expensive either, but it remains to be seen if they are as effective as UV light. We will see if the emerging Vitamin D studies will encourage consumers to opt for indoor tanning to get their dosage of the vitamin.
After all, studies have shown that northern populations that don’t get enough sunlight have Vitamin D deficiencies and increased occurrence of certain cancers. Many people report depression and general sluggishness in the fall and winter seasons as well, suggesting that sunshine could be beneficial in many ways.
Indoor tanning salons are a great way to compensate that lack of sunshine in the fall and winter seasons. Again, it will be interesting to see what people have made of the Vitamin D reports when the fall and winter seasons come around this year, not to mention what the politicians think of their demonization of the tanning industry!


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Subway app more trouble than it’s worth
A tale of wasted lunch hours.
A tale of wasted lunch hours.
It started out so well.
NBR was sent the press release detailing the new Subway application for mobiles, now available on all platforms (a nice touch at a time when many developers only have eyes on the trendy iPhone).
The application was touted as the end to wallets, involving as it did a smart phone application with a QR barcode that linked to a Subway card, meaning users could order online via the app, and then simply scan the barcode over the reader at the store to pay for the meal.
The online ordering system has been available on iPhone since August last year, and the onscreen QR barcode ID feature was launched at the end of March, with Java, Windows 7 and Android platforms launched Monday.
Subway offered NBR $10 gratis to try out the QR code. A QR reader was downloaded with ease, and this proved to be about the end of things running smoothly for test driving the Subway app.
Things did not begin well. First, a host of website issues with registering a Subcard proved troublesome, but not debilitating and as the developers at Altaine pointed out, had nothing to do with the application.
Hungry for results
With the app finally installed on an Android phone, NBR attempted to order online.
But lunch was not to be. The mobile phone, or password (sent by Subway), the app said, were invalid and the user was advised to visit the website to retrieve the password sitting in the phone’s inbox. Hmm.
Having ordered the sandwich by the tried and tested method of talking to people, the QR barcode displayed on the phone was swiped over the scanner, NBR apparently being the first customer to do so, and with a nod from the salesperson things seemed to be looking up.
But alas, this was not so – NBR was called back because the SUBCARD had not been registered online – something neither the app, nor the website, had allowed and which the Subway spokesperson had said was not necessary.
Returning to the office somewhat disgruntled, NBR spent the rest of that afternoon and the next morning on calls with genuinely helpful PR people, managers and developers, who eventually said that:
a) the updated version of the application needed to be downloaded from the Android market place, released about Wednesday in response to reports of a glitch when trying to register the SUBCARD, which director of Altaine Jo Gelb said was a combination of “very strange things” affecting a small amount of people.
b) online ordering had not been allowed due to an encryption error relating to the particular password given to NBR. This was an Android glitch and a fix had been uploaded Friday morning, requiring another install of the application
c) to access gift dollars (what NBR should have been given, but was not), it is not necessary to register the Subway. To access reward dollars (which NBR was given) it is, requiring the user to enter their full name, email address, gender and date of birth. This was also nothing to do with the application, Ms Gelb said, but was a business rule relating to points with Subway.
d) to register the Subcard, the password on the back of the card is required. To register for Subway Express, the password sent to the user on registering for the express service was to be used – unless the user was one of the passwords affected by the glitch mentioned above.
e) another glitch was discovered last week that occurred when trying to order online when entering cell numbers other than 021. This was fixed immediately on Android and Java but the Apple update is still pending.
e) NBR was the only customer who had had such a host of issues with the application (yeah, right - editor).
Let's try that again
Subway topped up NBR’s card with $20 to make up for the lunch purchased in the reading error, the errors were investigated as quickly as possible and profuse apologises were made.
But the whole point about this app was the convenience and setting it up proved anything but convenient. Sorting out its issues was the same situation and took all afternoon and into the next morning.
Layer upon layer upon layer
What also caused a headache, apart from application glitches, was the lack of convergence of the different sections of the Subway strata – the rules regarding the card, the workings of the application, the technology of the card and the app, and more. Reward dollars needed registering and gift dollars didn’t; the password needed for one section of the app was different to that of another; some of the glitches involved card technology as well as app technology.
Jo Reynolds, Subcard manager, said the open nature of the Android platform had taken the company by surprise with how difficult it was to build on. She said extensive testing over the past three months had still not found all the bugs in the application.
Once running smoothly, NBR took the application out for a second spin today. The application worked like a charm – the online order went through and the QR barcode beeped once and subsided – NBR was free to leave.
Another NBR staffer who tried the new app payment system said while it worked fine on the updated Android version (she did not order online), she was required to go into the store to put money on her Subcard, and then swipe her phone over the scanner.
Subway’s website reported that online payment would be coming in 2010, and the application said it would be coming in 2011. Ms Reynolds said the website had not been updated and online payment was expected by the end of this year. The delay was due to Subway waiting for new systems to be installed, which would have a live database of each store and its individual pricing, she said.
Final verdict? Don’t bother. It was faster by about half a day for NBR, in the end, to line up the old fashioned way. Even running an iPhone on 021, users will still encounter different passwords in different areas and having to register the card with personal information. Granted, once up and running the app worked fine, but getting it going proved more trouble, and wasted lunch hours, than it was worth.


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Ticketfly says that a cyberattack has exposed information belonging to roughly 27 million accounts.
Information including names, email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers connected to the accounts has been compromised.
However, as some customers purchase tickets using multiple accounts, it is possible that the number of impacted customers is lower than 27 million.
One week ago, the Eventbrite-owned ticket sales platform took its website offline. The company said it believed it was the "target of a cyber incident," and this has turned out to be true.
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Last Thursday, Ticketfly customers attempting to purchase tickets through the platform were instead met with the main "V for Vendetta" character, which has become something of an icon for the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
The threat actors behind the attack also defaced the Ticketfly landing page.
According to sister site CNET, hacker IShAkDz took responsibility for the cyberattack and demanded 1 Bitcoin to resolve the attack at the time, which was worth $7500 at previous market rates.
A Ticketfly spokesperson told ZDNet that credit card and debit card information was not accessed.
Account passwords are also believed to be safe, but Ticketfly launched a forced reset over the weekend out of caution. The company says that it is "possible" the hashed values of password credentials may have been accessed.
Users of Ticketfly which have not logged into their accounts recently are asked to do so in order to follow through on password resets.
"Upon first learning about this incident we took swift action to secure the data of our clients and fans," the spokesperson said. "We take privacy and security very seriously and regret any disruption this has caused. We're extremely grateful for the patience and support of the Ticketfly community."
The main Ticketfly platform, Ticketfly Backdoor, and the "vast majority" of venue and promoter websites are back online.
ZDNet has reached out to Ticketfly with additional queries and will update if we hear back.


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Tokyo – Bridgestone Corp. has reported a 20.6% year-on-year decline in first half operating income at Yen158 billion (€1.3 billion), on 1.7% lower sales of Yen1.7 trillion.
Sales within the tire division fell 1% to Yen1.45 trillion over the first six months of the year, down from Yen1.47 trillion registered the year before, Bridgestone announced 9 Aug.
Diversified products unit, which is currently undergoing a major restructuring scheme, reported 5% year-on-year drop in revenue at Yen311 billion.
The non-tire unit manufactures conveyor belts, hydraulic hoses, rubber tracks, seismic shock-absorbers, automotive parts, construction materials and sports equipment.
Operating income for the tire division fell 17% to Yen158 billion, while the diversified product unit reported a Yen100-million loss.
In terms of regions, sales in China and Asia-Pacific were down 5% to Yen 304 billion, while Japan registered 1% growth at Yen553 billion.
The Americas saw sales drop by 1% at Yen855 billion, while Europe, Middle East and Africa remained flat at Yen295 billion.
All regions except EMEA reported double-digit operating income declines, according to the Bridgestone half year results presentation.


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PUBG Mobile rolled out the game’s biggest update i.e. the 1.5 update on July 8th,2021. This update brought a new mode that everyone anticipated for, Mission Ignition Mode. However, according to the officials of PUBG Mobile, the new mode will be taken down temporarily.
PUBG Mobile often comes in the spotlight due to its never-seen before in-game features. One of the main reason of its popularity is the unique content it provides for the players as well as exclusive permanent outfits absolutely free! PUBG Mobile achieved a milestone when 150 million users pre-registered for the Mission Ignition Update. After the mode was available for the players, player’s joys knew no bounds. With a revamped Erangel map, features which takes you to the world of future, PUBG’s Mission Ignition Mode was surely a boost towards the game’s popularity.
However, this mode is going to be offline for a few days. Check out the article to know the reason
PUBG Mobile Mission Ignition Mode to go offline
The Mission Ignition Mode was introduced in the new 1.5 update of PUBG Mobile and was set to continue till the month of September. However, PUBG Mobile shared the news in its twitter handle that the Mission Ignition Mode will be going offline and will be back for the players on 5th August.
We're at the controls in the new Tech Center working out some circuitry, and we're really sorry for going offline! The Mission Ignition Event will be back online August 5th. We'll bring some extra goodies for you, so keep your eyes peeled for announcements!
As stated in the tweet, the mode will be taken down for further improvements. PUBG Mobile verifies everytime that players are able to play the game hassle-free. When a new update is rolled out, lags and issues are pretty common in the game. However, the officials of PUBG Mobile are ensuring that the issues can be fixed within time. It also claims that various surprises are waiting for the players once the mode makes a comeback.
PUBG Mobile had collaborated with American electric vehicle Tesla which gave the players an oppurtunity to drive the car in Giga factory sites of Mission Ignition Mode.It had also released the patch notes for 1.5 update which have been mentioned below:
- Mission Ignition Mode
- Air Conveyor
- New weapons: MG3, ASM Abakan AR
- Adjustments in M249
- Throwing healing consumables
- Patrol & Protection Dog
- New attachments like Tactical Marking Device
- Anti Gravity Motorcycle
- Glass Windows
Meanwhile, PUBG Mobile’s biggest charity tournament – PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2021 has been running successfully with players from Eastern & Western Countries. Players can watch the tournament on the youtube as well as Facebook channel of PUBG Mobile eSports.


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Resident Evil 5 set for PC
Capcom have unleashed something of a bank holiday bombshell today, confirming that not only will Resident Evil 5 be coming to the PC platform - but that it will be released "later" in the year.
Laying to rest months of conjecture, Capcom also confirmed that Bionic Commando is also on the way to the PC, and that this new action title should arrive come July.
Street Fighter IV is also set to hit the old beige box, and this smash will also land in July we're told.
"All three games will be optimized for the PC platform and will have new PC-specific features added to the already great games. All three games will be available both at retail and via various digital distribution methods," reads word from the publisher. Steam, anyone?
- Harmonix confirms Rock Band 4 coming to next-gen consoles this year
- Wasteland 2 also coming to the PS4
- Block 'N' Load gets a final launch date
- Elite: Dangerous is a timed exclusive on the Xbox One, PS4 version is coming too
- Phil Harrison rumoured to be leaving Microsoft
- EA closes Maxis Emeryville
- Pillars Of Eternity is going to be massive
- Frontier is bringing Elite: Dangerous to the Xbox One this year
- Xbox One snags Wasteland 2


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Zenga TV has announced a web version of Live TV for computers which will host a variety of Live and Video on Demand (Vod) content. VoD allows users to watch movies, serials, news via streaming over the Internet and Zenga has got a few live channels for streaming as well.
The web version will allow users to get access to various channels pertaining to entertainment, news, regional languages and movies. All of this will be available for free. Zengatv.com will be available for low bandwidth users as well and the company has assured that it will run at a speed designed for India. To experience the WEB TV service, users need to click here.
Also, here’s our initial impression of the VoD and Live TV service. Two channels are currently available in the live section, Sahara One and UTV Bindaas. But, surely they’re planning to get more channels on to the web version. A range of movies have been added in the VoD section. We clicked on one of the movies and after an initial buffering, the player came up with a ‘Video not found or access denied’ error. Hopefully, that’s just a glitch. Another, important thing for streaming is bandwidth issues and the low bandwidth one worked pretty well without lagging. However, we’re running a pretty quick Internet connection and if any of you’ll have tried the web TV or VoD service, let us know your feedback in the comments section below.


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Slumberhouse launch Pear+Olive and discontinue Flou.
Portland, Oregan-based nicher perfumery Slumberhouse
have announced that their fragrance Flou
is to be discontinued. The reason they give
on their Twitter page is that "Givaudan has ceased production on quite a few of the raw materials it used". However, the company has recently launched Pear+Olive, which is a limited edition fragrance in a hand etched bottle.
Pear+Olive's notes include pear, cognac, chamomile, aglaia, olive, zdravets (Geranium oil from Bulgaria), massoia bark and calamus.
The perfumer said on the Slumberhouse blog
that "This was my first experience truly immersing myself into a perfume project, keeping fragments of pear meat and shaved pear skin along with glass tinctures of olive. I spent these days almost exclusively outside (many nights too), forgetting the familiar and absorbing the simplicity of what life really is - with good friends, ukeleles and a garden with multiple fountains."
The last remaining bottles of Flou are currently at Parfum1
(nine bottles left when we published this), and you can also pick up Pear+Olive from there too, as well as on the Slumberhouse shop


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By Nathan Ham
Sugar Mountain Resort is hanging in there and will stay open as long as weather allows them to, according to Kim Jochl, the director of marketing for Sugar Mountain.
“We’re going to stay open until people stop coming and it stops snowing,” she added. “Business has been good and conditions have been holding good.”
Sugar Mountain still has a 30 to 60-inch base with 10 slopes open, including Gunther’s Way at the top as well as Northridge, Switchback, Upper Flying Mile and Big Birch.
This weekend, more cold and snowy conditions will arrive in the High Country on Saturday morning and likely hang around through Sunday evening.
With the Easter holiday approaching there might even be a chance the resort will be open through the beginning of April. In the end, it will be up to Mother Nature.
“This late in the season, it just really all depends on weather and the forecast. As we’ve always said, we’re in the ski business, when the conditions are right and the weather cooperates, we’re open for business,” Jochl said.
March Madness discounts are still going on through the end of the month. Skiers and snowboarders receive up to 25 percent discount on lift tickets, rental equipment and lessons.
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Trucks continue to carry the majority of cross-border imports and exports during the month of October, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Cross-border truck freight between the U.S., Canada and Mexico totaled $68.2 billion, or 64% of all cross-border freight during October, down 3.3% compared to October 2018.
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, trucks carried 72% of all freight, moving loads valued at $38.2 billion in October 2019, compared to $39.4 billion during the same period in 2018, a decline of almost 3%.
It represented only the second time in 12 months that freight volumes between the U.S. and Mexico decreased.
In June 2019, cross-border freight declined 1% compared to the same period in 2018. Some of the decline in freight volumes can be attributed to border wait times rising in April and May when President Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico on immigration issues.
Truck freight between the U.S. and Canada totaled $30 billion in October, down 2.5% compared to the same period in 2018.
In October 2019, the three busiest truck ports for cross-border freight continued to be Laredo ($15.6 billion), Detroit ($9.4 billion) and El Paso ($6.1 billion), accounting for 45.6% of total cross-border truck freight.
Mexico was the U.S.’s top trading partner from the beginning of the year through the month of October, accounting for $517.7 billion, according to WorldCity’s analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.
The top three truck commodities during October were computers and parts ($13.3 billion); electrical machinery ($11.6 billion) and motor vehicles and parts ($10.1 billion).
Port Laredo trade totaled $19.79 billion for the month of October, and $195.6 billion through October 2019, according to WorldCity. Laredo’s trade with the world fell 1.17% for the first 10 months of the year, compared to 2018.
The El Paso border crossing’s trade totaled $7.23 billion for the month of October, and $66.64 billion through October 2019. El Paso’s trade with the world declined 3.95% for the first 10 months of the year, compared to 2018.
Port Laredo ranked number two in the country in total trade, with El Paso ranking fifth. The Port of Los Angeles remains the top port for total trade among the nation’s roughly 450 airports, seaports and border crossings through October 2019.
Rail freight accounted for $14.5 billion in value, with $7.9 billion on the Canadian border and $6.6 billion on the Mexican border. The three busiest rail border ports were Laredo ($3.7 billion); Detroit ($2.1 billion); and Port Huron, Michigan ($2 billion).
Maritime freight between the U.S. and Mexico was $5.1 billion for October, compared to $6.3 billion in October 2018.
With Mexico as a gateway to the U.S. for businesses from other countries, many countries rushed to ship freight ahead of a March 1, 2019 tariff deadline imposed by President Trump on more than $200 billion in Chinese imports.
Mexico captured around $27 billion of new business with the U.S., which represents about 6% of the country’s total exports, according to a report from Michael Angell, FreightWaves bulk and intermodal editor.


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Disney’s Aulani Donates Food to Aloha Harvest
Monday, April 6, 2020
Even though Disney’s Aulani Resort in Ko’Olina, Hawaii has temporarily closed its doors in response to COVID-19, the resort’s Cast Members are still working hard to give back to their local community. Similar to Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris, Aulani’s management team has chosen to donate perishable food to a local organization—Aloha Harvest.
Aloha Harvest was founded by the Hau’oli Mau Loa Foundation in 1999 in an effort to provide sustenance for Hawaii’s homeless population and families facing poverty. The foundation’s motto is “Rescuing Food to Feed Hawaii’s Hungry.” Aloha Harvest’s Executive Director, “Phil” Augustus Acosta, commented:
“Donations like this are so important during times of uncertainty. This food helps ensure that people who are already faced with hunger continue to receive resources.”
Aulani donated over 7,000 pounds of perishable food items last week. These food donations have included fresh fruits and vegetables, bread and milk products, and even some dessert treats.
Disney’s Aulani General Manager, Kimberly Agas, said,
“Over the past nine years, Aulani Resort has contributed to the community in a number of ways. That’s why during these unprecedented times, this donation was the kindest and most heartwarming decision to make.”
Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, closed on March 24. The Hawaiian Disney property’s original plan was to reopen on March 31, but like the other DVC properties and Disney parks, it has now been closed until further notice.
For more information on Disney’s Aulani resort, visit their official site.


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Frieda Caplan, founder and chairman of the board of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, will be honored this week with a Compass Award at the Women’s Leadership Exchange West Coast Business Summit. WLE’s Compass Awards honor women who have made significant contributions in their professional fields.
As one of four successful businesswomen being honored Tuesday, Caplan, who founded her namesake business in 1962, was the first woman to own and operate a wholesale produce business in the United States. She gained international recognition for her pioneering role in the male-dominated produce industry, which included her efforts in naming, introducing and promoting Kiwifruit in the U.S., thus earning her the title “Queen of Kiwifruit.”
Caplan is also credited with introducing many other new and unusual fruits and vegetables to produce departments and consumers nationwide.
Celebrating its 46th anniversary this year, Los Alamitos-based Frieda’s remains a family-run business today, with Caplan’s daughters Karen Caplan, president and c.e.o. and Jackie Caplan Wiggins, v.p./business development manager presiding at its helm.


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Beyond the Festive Season: Unmasking the Enduring Impact of Ongoing Fraud Trends
The holidays may be behind us, but fraudsters and cybercriminals are continuously finding new opportunities to exploit online activity, transactions, and the generosity of individuals.
Stay one step ahead of fraud with our new Insights Article. Gain valuable knowledge about the latest fraud trends, effective preparations, and preventive measures to ensure fraudsters are left empty-handed.
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Samsung is the undisputed leader in the foldable smartphone business, in part because the Korean giant was the first to manufacture phones with foldable screens. Samsung kept showing off the technology at trade shows like CES before putting together a commercial foldable product. The first Galaxy Fold arrived in early 2019, but the launch wasn’t flawless. Samsung missed two key design issues during testing and had to postpone the release date by almost half a year to fix them. The Galaxy Z rebrand followed in 2020 when Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Flip clamshell and the Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable. The handsets delivered a few massive upgrades, including a foldable screen made of glass and a hinge mechanism that kept dust away better than the previous models.
This year, Samsung is widely expected to launch two foldable devices, the obvious successors of last year’s Flip and Fold. The Flip 3 and Fold 3 might be unveiled as soon as July, with Samsung looking to replace the Note series with this form factor, at least in 2021. These are supposedly the only foldable phones coming out of Samsung this year, according to some reports. Others say that an even more exciting foldable product might be at least teased this year if not launched. And Samsung might have just confirmed those rumors.
A series of leaks detailed a Samsung foldable featuring two hinges and three display parts. The dual-foldable gadget was described both as a smartphone and as a tablet. Both make sense. Unfolded, the gadget would look more like a tablet than the Fold ever did. Fold it up, and a part of the screen can be used in a phone mode, albeit the contraption would be at least as bulky as the Fold. There’s even an unofficial name for this device: Galaxy Z Fold Tab.
There’s no telling when and if Samsung will go ahead with such a device, but this type of foldable handset/tablet will certainly give Samsung an advantage over competitors. Several Android smartphone makers from China have released their own Fold-like devices or plan to launch such handsets soon. On top of that, some companies have shown off daring contraptions with foldable displays that can be rolled.
Nevertheless, Samsung filed for a Samsung “S-Foldable” trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Dutch blog LetsGoDigital has discovered. Unlike patented technology that’s not guaranteed to make it into commercial devices, trademarks indicate that a company plans to use that particular name for marketing a new device.
According to the description, the “S-Foldable” trademark would be used for “display panels; display for smartphones; LCD large-screen displays; flexible flat panel displays for computers.”
The name makes it clear that S-Foldable would refer to a foldable device component, and the description tells us it’s a display. How do we know S-Foldable isn’t for one of the existing or future Flips and Folds? Well, Samsung already has a marketing term for the foldable displays used in the Flip and Fold models. The Infinity Flex was announced back in November 2018, when Samsung teased the first-gen Fold handset. This was nearly four months before the Fold was officially introduced. The Flip and Fold 2 also used Infinity Flex displays. S-Foldable must be for something else.
A dual-hinge foldable device would look like the letter “S” when folded, as seen in the concept image above that LetsGoDigital created.
With this in mind, it seems like just a matter of time until Samsung unveils the dual foldable Galaxy Z Fold Tab handset/tablet. We’ll just have to wait and see whether Samsung will tease the S-Foldable tech this year.


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The agency saw its transactions also rise one per cent to 32.2m in the first six months of 2012.
Commenting on the results, CWT President and CEO, Douglas Anderson, said: “Our first half performance for 2012 is solid given current economic uncertainty. Our customers are continuing to travel and are looking to manage their travel in a more cost-effective way by getting even greater value for what they spend.”
In the UK, sales volume totaled £627.8m for the first six months of 2012, a 1.6 per cent increase compared to the previous year. UK new sales won have totaled more than £60m year to date, and corporate client retention has been over 97 per cent, the company announced.
Sales volume for CWT Meetings and Events UK, a division of CWT, was up 54 per cent year over year in the first half of 2012.
Anderson said since the beginning of 2012, CWT has continued to introduce innovative products, services and research to help companies better manage their travel programmes while achieving savings and driving compliance.
WORLD - Gary Grimmer, CEO of consulting and sales representation firm GainingEdge, has been honoured by Destination Marketing Association International as one of the first six inductees into its newly established Hall of Fame.
To mark the three-month countdown to the IMEX Challenge CSR programme, and as a call to action for industry professionals to get involved, staff from IMEX America gathered at The Shade Tree Shelter in Vegas last week.


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It’s unlikely that Apple will delay 5G iPhone launch, longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster explains for Loup Ventures.
The Nikkei Asian Review this week reported that Apple “is preparing the ground to possibly delay the launch of the first 5G iPhones… with a worst-case of delaying the launch until 2021,” due to engineering and supply constraints from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster has a different view. Munster believes it’s likely Apple will have their fall iPhone launch as usual.
We estimate that it typically takes 3-4 years to take an iPhone from concept to launch. That implies that by the end of March in a given year, the vast majority of work on an iPhone design and planning with the supply chain is already done.
China manufacturing and assembly, including some of Apple’s most important partners like Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), are beginning to ramp production. Taking the view that China production will remain stable (which can quickly change), the supply chain should be positioned to supply several million iPhones by the end of September, in line with supply for previous launches.
MacDailyNews Take: In addition to explaining that it’s unlikely that Apple will delay their 5G iPhone launch, Munster reminds readers (and current and potential investors) that Apple holds major competitive advantages including “the company’s balance sheet, which allows it to survive the unexpected; everything from COVID-19, to a financial crisis, or weak initial demand for a new iPhone.”
Cash is king and the king of cash is Apple… As difficult as it may be to believe sometimes, this too shall pass. — MacDailyNews, March 21, 2020


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By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
ZAMBIA’S copper has huge potential to drive the global shift to electric cars, according to the Zanaco Chief Risk officer, Mutisunge Zulu.
Mr Zulu has however mentioned that Zambia would first need to scale up copper-wire production as global adoption of electric cars accelerated.
He told the Africa Report that there was an opportunity which had not yet been tapped.
The global shift to electric vehicles is opening up new possibilities for Zambia with mining players such as ZCCM-IH indicating intentions to participate in the industry of supplying raw material to this venture.
“Trade has historically been hampered by weak manufacturing capability and over dependence on very few traditional products such as copper and maize. Zambia continues to export raw copper, depriving itself of real value,” Mr Zulu said.
He cited Neelkanth Cables and Zambia Metal Fabricators as examples of companies which were leading the way in copper-wire manufacturing
Mr Zulu however stressed that production at these manufacturing companies remained too small-scale.
On the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, Mr Zulu said it was likely that the country would commit to the partnership, but only after it addressed ways in which it could fully benefit.
“Which comes first, production from improved manufacturing capability for trade, or trade agreements which then improve manufacturing potential? Zambia seems to fall in the latter group.


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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you already think that Facebook is taking up too much of your time, brace yourself for what’s coming.
The social media giant announced Monday that it will be adding a shopping section in the next few weeks to its mobile app, that will act as a “single place for people to more easily discover, share, and purchase products.”READ MORE: LAUSD To Require Surgical-Grade Masks For Students Beginning Monday
Facebook says it’s going to be testing out this new feature because “people are coming to our platform not only to connect with friends and family but also with products and brands. In fact, a survey suggested that nearly half of people come to Facebook to actively look for products, with a majority of them discovering new products in News Feed, Pages, and Groups.”READ MORE: 65% Of Skilled Nursing Facility Staff Boosted Against COVID-19
The shopping section is going to let people purchase products they read about without having to leave the Facebook site, the company said. It’s also going to include a seamless look in keeping with Facebook’s aesthetic.
Facebook also says users will notice product pages will download considerably faster than they have in the past, when users were sent off-site.MORE NEWS: Police Seize Marijuana, Firearm From Illegal Dispensary In Pomona
No doubt, there are thousands upon thousands of businesses in Southern California that seek to benefit from this feature.


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Venture capitalists in China are betting big on e-commerce. The sales at the virtual stores have been rising at the rate of 60% for the past several years. The potential is still enormous as it has a long way to go before it catches up with the level of penetration in the US. And that’s why a large amount of investment is being pumped into online purveyors of high-end merchandise, cosmetics and lingerie whose demand keeps growing with the increasing disposable income of the Chinese households.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers China has decided to invest $20 million in the high end online store Xiu.com which is operated from Shenzhen. Sequoia Capital reportedly invested $10 million in the group-buying cosmetics seller, Jumei.com. Moonbasa, another online retailer of clothing and lingerie is also reported to have raised $25 million from investors including GSR Ventures and DT Capital. If you go through the data McKinsey & Co.’s Shanghai-based partner, Yuval Atsmon has collected you will realize why the investors are so confident about the future of the online channels in China.
It is the tier II and tier III cities that are leading the growth of the online sales in China. They generally don’t have access to the kind of range and selection in their physical stores as is available online. And more importantly people are getting more confident shopping online. As per the study conducted by Yuval Atsmon the households earning between $15,000 to $30,000 annually has grown to 10 million. The way the economy is growing in China, this figure is expected to reach 76 million by 2015. This is the upper middle class of the Chinese society who would form about 25% of the entire population. It is this segment of the population the online retailers are targeting to keep their cash registers ringing.


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RTE: Salesforce Marketing effort: Marketing campaigns for Salesforce’s new products.
RTEs CEO and co-founder Dave Burke discusses how Salesforce is taking a strategic approach to its marketing efforts.
Salesforce recently unveiled a new initiative called Salesforce Brand Marketing.
SalesForce has created an online store, Salesforce, which sells a range of new products, including new software and services, a range to support the launch of its new products in 2019, and new hardware, accessories and a range that will help customers connect with their local communities.
The new product launches will be rolled out over the next 12 months.
The company has also launched a new service called SalesForce Community to connect with its local communities to help with local marketing initiatives.
This service will be a way for people to get the best local insights from Salesforce and other brands.
SalesFirm has also announced a range in the new product category called Sales Force Mobile, which includes new features to help developers, designers and others quickly create, manage and monetise mobile applications.
In an interview with RTE, SalesForce marketing VP Dave Burke spoke about how SalesForce is taking an strategic approach and how it is going to help drive the growth of the Salesforce brand.
SalesFoundation.com: Why is the new marketing effort called SalesFoundary?
Dave Burke: There are a couple of things.
The first is that we’ve got this new initiative.
That’s the whole concept behind it.
The second thing is that this is not just a marketing initiative.
Sales Foundary is about helping us grow our global presence in terms of getting people to buy our products and to learn more about our business.
So this is an effort to drive awareness about what SalesFoundar is and what we are doing, and how we’re going to grow our brand and our business, and make it a lot easier for people who are looking to buy from us to do so.RTE: What is it about SalesFoundery that is so different from previous initiatives?
Dave Burke: We’ve done it on the web and on mobile, we’ve done this in India.
We’ve used it in the UK.
We have some of the biggest retail players in the world in India, so we know the challenges of selling to them.
We know the challenge of selling in India and the challenges we face in terms in terms a sales funnel, sales flow and so on.
So we have a different strategy here.
So that’s a different focus, but it’s also a different approach, so it’s a strategy that we’re using.
RTe: Are there any other things that you are announcing today that you believe will help drive greater demand for your products?
DaveBurke: There’s a lot of new stuff that we are announcing, including the launch on October 12th, 2018, of the first batch of our next generation devices, the SalesForce Smartphone, which is the biggest ever launch for a smart device.
It’s the first device in SalesForce’s portfolio, and it will be available in India on October 15th.
We are launching it in two flavours: a smaller, smaller smartphone that is the first of two devices to be launched in India in 2019 and the bigger, bigger, big, big smartphone that will launch in India starting on November 1st.
There will be more smartphones to come in 2019.
RT1: SalesFoundator, where are you going to make money off this?
DaveB: So it’s going to be a sales platform.
There are no plans to make sales from that platform, but we will offer a range and the best in terms to help customers sell their products, so the best we can offer to people who want to do that.
We will make money on those sales and that’s the focus here.
Rt1: What are you working on now?
DaveD: There is a new marketing platform called SalesFaulty, that we think will really help us with getting the word out.
We also have some really exciting new products coming, so I think it’s really important for us to have that platform as a way to drive that conversation and help our brand grow.
Rte: What’s your vision for the next 10 years?
DaveT: We have an ambitious vision for 2019, but that’s all going to depend on what we do with our brand.
We want to grow to be the largest and most trusted brand in the market.
We don’t want to be one of the smaller brands.
We really want to take the lead and grow.
We’re also trying to get our brand to grow globally.
So it is a challenge for us but we have to get on with it, so that we can help our business grow.
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SEC freezes assets of investment adviser BKCoin, alleges $100 million crypto fraud scheme
Bitcoin users predict 94% of all bitcoins will have been released by 2024. As the total number creeps toward the 21 million mark, many suspect the profits miners once made creating new blocks will become so low they’ll become negligible. But with more bitcoins in circulation, people also expect transaction fees to rise, possibly making up the difference. Unlike US dollars, whose buying power the Fed can dilute by printing more greenbacks, there simply won’t be more bitcoin available in the future. That has worried some skeptics, as it means a hack could be catastrophic in wiping out people’s bitcoin wallets, with less hope for reimbursement. The Bitcoin price page is just one in Crypto.com Price Index that features price history, price ticker, market cap, and live charts for the top cryptocurrencies.
“Y Combinator-backed Coinbase now selling over $1M Bitcoin per month”. Interpol also sent out an alert in 2015 saying that “the design of the blockchain means there is the possibility of malware being injected and permanently hosted with no methods currently available to wipe this data”. In August 2013, the German Finance Ministry characterized bitcoin as a unit of account, usable in multilateral clearing circles and subject to capital gains tax if held less than one year. The Slovenian exchange Bitstamp lost bitcoin worth $5.1 million to a hack in January 2015. In late August 2012, an operation titled Bitcoin Savings and Trust was shut down by the owner, leaving around US$5.6 million in bitcoin-based debts; this led to allegations that the operation was a Ponzi scheme. Securities and Exchange Commission had reportedly started an investigation on the case.
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University Learn everything from 1 bitcoin to dollars fundamentals to crypto trading. BTC to USD rate today is 22,147.30 USD, up 0.00% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin is trending downwards, decreasing — in the last 30 days. It is up 0.00% in the last 24 hours, and up 0.00% in the last seven days.
Bitcoin cash came out of left field, according to Charles Morris, a chief investment officer of NextBlock Global, an investment firm with digital assets. Historically, the currency has been extremely volatile. But go by its recent boom — and a forecast by Snapchat’s first investor, Jeremy Liew, that it will hit a bitcoin price of $500,000 by 2030 — and nabbing even a fraction of a bitcoin starts to look a lot more enticing. A 2015 survey showed bitcoin users tend to be overwhelmingly white and male, but of varying incomes. The people with the most bitcoins are more likely to be using it for illegal purposes, the survey suggested. True to its origins as an open, decentralized currency, bitcoin is meant to be a quicker, cheaper, and more reliable form of payment than money tied to individual countries.
BTC Currency Snapshot
The all- low price of Bitcoin was $67.81, which was recorded on Jul 06, 2013. The percent change in trading volume for this asset compared to 1 hour ago. They are in favor of smaller bitcoin blocks, which they say are less vulnerable to hacking. On the other side are the miners, who want to increase the size of blocks to make the network faster and more scalable. Every four years, the number of bitcoins released relative to the previous cycle gets cut in half, as does the reward to miners for discovering new blocks.
When was Bitcoin equal to $1?
In February of 2011, BTC reached $1.00 for the first time, achieving parity with the U.S. dollar. Months later, the price of BTC reached $10 and then quickly soared to $30 on the Mt.
Bitcoin gained greater recognition when services such as OkCupid and Foodler began accepting it for payment. In April 2013, Eric Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago, stated that “a real Ponzi scheme takes fraud; bitcoin, by contrast, seems more like a collective delusion.” In January 2015, Coinbase raised US$75 million as part of a Series C funding round, smashing the previous record for a bitcoin company. The exchange remained offline for several days amid speculation that customers had lost their funds.
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When the network was just launched, the rate of 1 BTC to USD was less than a cent. In ten years this value increased by million times and LTC the last highest point the BTC has reached was nearly $62,000. The price of Bitcoin is determined by the market forces of supply and demand on cryptocurrency exchanges. Changes in demand are influenced by various factors such as news, adoption, regulations, and investor sentiment. These factors can cause the price to fluctuate up or down.
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Sales Tax Revenues Up 5 Percent
County Totals Jump During First Quarter of FY11
Henrico County's sales tax revenue grew by 5.1 percent during the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, compared to the same quarter during the 2010 fiscal year – an encouraging sign for county officials.
During the same quarter, the sales tax revenue in Richmond fell by 23.7 percent, while Chesterfield witnessed a 0.6 percent decline and Hanover saw a 1.9 per increase.
Some of the increased revenue to Henrico likely is the result of the implementation of a "Henrico" mailing address in 2008, which continues to help the county capture revenue that was previously sent to Richmond in error, Henrico Finance Director John Vithoulkas said. Henrico's diverse retail base also factors into the rise in sales in the county, he said.
The figures were compiled from the Virginia Department of Taxation.
"I don't think there's any trend we can draw out of it," Vithoulkas said, "but it's a good result leading into the holiday retail season. I think the local resident is tired of hearing all of the negative economic mumbo-jumbo on the nightly news and they're getting back to living the rest of their lives."
Henrico received $13.86 million in sales tax revenue between July 1 and Sept. 30 of this year, compared with $13.19 million during the same time period in 2009. During the same quarter, Richmond's revenue dropped from $8.31 million last year to $6.34 million this year, while Chesterfield's fell from $9.4 million last year to $9.35 million this year.
Hanover County also experienced slight growth, from $4 million during the same time period last year to $4.08 million this year.
The figures reflect sales in June, July and August, which were paid in July, August and September and distributed to jurisdictions in August, September and October.
The most significant jump in sales came in June, when Henrico's sales were up by 7.3 percent over the same month in 2009, while Richmond's receipts fell 42 percent from last June. (Richmond's steep decline was due in part to an adjustment of funds that it shouldn't have received initially.)
Several Henrico business owners who spoke with the Citizen last week painted pictures that reflected the upward trend, while others said they've experienced ups and downs.
One – Neil Chiappa, owner of N&W Salvage in Sandston – said that his business has been steady through the summer and fall, with a small spike upward at times as shoppers look to save money. His store offers a variety of discounted goods and food items that become more attractive in a down economy, he said.
“We saw a customer increase when the economy got worse, and saw people we hadn’t seen before," Chiappa said. The company does little advertising and primarily benefits from word-of-mouth promotion.
Other Henrico businesses rely in part on the goodwill they've built through their involvement in the community. Saxon Shoes President Gary Weiner noted that his company helps between 300 and 500 children each years with its "Shoes for the Needy" project and routinely works with Bright Beginnings and United Way to give away 450 new pairs of shoes to underprivileged children.
“We try and do as much as we can, as often as we can, with the resources that we have,” Weiner said. “If everybody gave a little, nobody would have to give a lot.”
Saxon's strong reputation in the region helps too, and Weiner said that business is up from the same time last year at the Short Pump Town Center location. Now isn't the time for businesses that are succeeding to become complacent, Weiner insinuated.
"People are particular about how and where they spend their money,” he said.
Midas of Richmond's four area locations (including two in Henrico) saw a 7.5 percent increase in revenue during the summer months and an 11 percent increase from last year, according to owner Mark Smith.
“We’ve seen a significant increase in traffic," he said, attributing his success to steady advertising plans and charitable efforts for Virginia Blood Services, Meals on Wheels and the Central Virginia Foodbank, which Smith is often heard promoting in his advertisements.
“What we’re doing seems to be working," he said, "so we just try and stick with what works."
At the eight local Mexico Restaurant locations (including three in Henrico), sales were slower in recent months, according to co-owner Maria Garcia, but the restaurant has tried different strategies to boost business.
“We’re trying to get more customers in to have a good business," Garcia said. "Profits aren’t the same as they used to be a few years ago, but we’re doing all we can and hopefully customers come back after they see the things that we have to offer.”
"Overall we’re hanging in there."
– Amy David contributed to this article.
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
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“It definitely improves the look of Willow Lawn,” said my friend, who ventured to the new spot with me on a Monday night for dinner one week after the restaurant opened. > Read more.
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We had been in reports before that Samsung has rolled out Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update for its Samsung Galxy S4 LTE variant the previous week & now the leaked reports make it all around that the South Korean techno giant is planning to push the update to the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) variant, together with the users in India.
The report got revealed by @TaazaTech, a techno fan who took the help of his Twitter page to bring the notification into limelight. He posted a screenshot of the notification in his page that clearly asserts the Android 4.3 update for Galaxy S4. However, the first report regarding this update was revealed by Android OS.
What specifies the screenshot; the update can be obtained through both the company’s Kies software and OTA (Over The Air). It’s of 658MB in size and carries Galaxy Gear Support, the first wearable tech device of Samsung and Galaxy S4 is the next device to adhere the functionality, as Samsung announced before.
Taking an intense look on the screenshot brings some more update details that include KNOX for consumers, enhanced graphics & multimedia performance, improvised User Interface that includes change of icons on display, Flashlight widget & dialog box apps etc. Conversely, the other features including Samsung’s updated wallet app, OpenGL 3.0 support, Samsung’s new default browser, new keyboard and new camera firmware are supposed to remain the same as Samsung’s S4 LTE variant update.
Just a few days ago, Samsung was in reports for planning to bring the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update for its top level Smartphones. While update for the Galaxy S4 & the 2013 flagship models were expected to occur by the end of October, the 2012 flagship model Samsung Galaxy S III was expected to get the update in October or by the end of November. Also the Galaxy Note II was in reports to get the update, but that’s only by the end of November or the end of December.


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15 February 2013 09:41 [Source: ICB]
Belgian group Solvay has ruled out a quick sale of its assets as its plans to deal with overcapacity and poor market conditions in Europe's polyvinyl chloride (PVC) market.
With Europe's economic crisis hitting demand amid an oversupplied and fragmented PVC market, Solvay is making plans to help alleviate unsatisfactory conditions that have hit the profitability of its PVC operations, said CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu.
CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu rules out "quick and dirty" PVC exit
"But it is a very difficult market with overcapacity and a lot of players. The challenge there is, how can we directly or indirectly contribute to some kind of restructuring in this market?"
Solvay is working on various scenarios, but, said Clamadieu, it is difficult to forecast when the plan will come to a conclusion. "We have very good plants in a lousy market with too many players and overcapacity. The picture is not that pretty."
Over the cycle, PVC has been a cash contributor for Solvay and even today it is not losing money, he said, adding: "It's clear from the [financial] results that we're far from earning our cost of capital for this business. Profitability has been affected by the European situation - it's a challenge. As long as a business is not bleeding cash you have some time to find a solution."
Clamadieu said that because of the quality of the assets, "I can say that a 'quick and dirty exit' is not what we want to do." He said French group Arkema had a weak competitive position so it made "plenty of sense" for it to sell its PVC business. Arkema sold its PVC business to KEM ONE in July 2012.
"PVC over the cycle is a significant cash contributor to Solvay and it has value. So the action plan can't be 'quick and dirty' - it's probably more complex than that to put a plan in place."
Meanwhile, the group is also taking action to tackle problems in the global polyamide market. Clamadieu said the market is oversupplied but differs to PVC because it is already consolidated with only three nylon 6,6 players globally and five plants producing adiponitrile (ADN).
"Over the last years there has always been a plant having some technical issues so we had the feeling we were in a well-balanced market. Now they are all working well, the markets are not very dynamic and there is overcapacity."
He said Solvay is also at a disadvantage in Europe because natural gas, a key feedstock for the polyamide chain, is so much cheaper in the US. On top of that one of Solvay's competitors in the US is using C3 technology whereas Solvay relies on the C4 route which has become more expensive in recent years.
"We work very hard to improve our competitive position by improving plant efficiency and our cost base. It's tough because we are fighting headwinds in terms of raw materials and energy but we're working on that."
He said the company is looking at different technologies such as catalysts. "But it is co-owned with INVISTA which adds a degree of complexity because we have to agree what we want to do," he added.
Asked about PVC and polyamides' position in the corporate structure he added:
"We need in a group cash generating businesses, to have a strong position in all our businesses, and that means that in PVC and polyamide we need to achieve a step change."
STICKING TO PROFIT TARGETS
Solvay is sticking to ambitious medium-term growth targets even though market conditions in its home territory of Europe remain difficult.
The current challenging European market conditions are being offset by recovery in the US and stronger performance in Asia and, together with operational improvement and organic growth, mean that the company can still attain growth targets set in 2011, according to Clamadieu. In 2011, Solvay set the target to increase earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) from €2bn/year ($2.7bn/year) to €3bn/year through 2016.
"There is no reason to change the target today. The economic conditions of 2015/16 are probably more important to achieve these targets than those of today."
He said the target will be achieved through innovation, capacity increases and operational improvement.
"Even in tough economic conditions, we can work on all these levels, and in these conditions, we're placing even more emphasis on operational improvement."
SODA ASH PLAN
In December 2012 Solvay unveiled plans to rationalise soda ash capacity in southern Europe. Solvay has three soda ash plants in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Clamadieu declined to give more details about the plan ahead of an announcement later in 2013.
Commenting on economic performance outside Europe, he said: "Asia seems to be going back into quite a dynamic economic situation. North America is quite good also, though Latin America is a little bit soft. I was at the Detroit Motor Show yesterday, and they are talking about 5-6-7% or maybe 10% growth expected in US auto industry this year."
Clamadieu said that if conditions worsen in Europe, he would put more emphasis on operational improvements. "We have always had a strong emphasis on cash and that will continue. We will continue to announce specific adjustments in specific businesses because of the economic situation."
NEW CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In January Solvay unveiled a new corporate logo and unveiled plans to complete the integration of France's Rhodia by phasing out the use of its brand altogether, except in Brazil where Rhodia has a strong identity.
The merged group will be divided into five operating divisions: consumer chemicals, advanced materials, performance chemicals, functional polymers and corporate businesses and services.
In terms of growth and M&A focus, the company will be focused on two divisions. According to Clamadieu: "We want to grow very significantly in Consumer Chemicals and Advanced Materials. That's where we're putting our resources to grow. In terms of geography we are going east - we enjoy a good base in China (Rhodia legacy) plus Thailand (Solvay legacy) and Korea (we are both here). We are also moving step by step to increase our exposure to India."
Consumer chemicals contains three divisions. US-headquartered Solvay Novecare is based around specialty surfactants, polymers, amines, solvents, guar and phosphorus derivatives for the agrochemicals, coatings, home & personal care, industrial manufacturing, and oil & gas industries.
It has already been on a spending spree, snapping up US surfactants for personal care manufacturer McIntyre Group, Chinese amines and surfactants producer Feixiang Chemicals, and Sunshield Chemicals, an Indian surfactants producer.
Novecare claims to be the number one globally in specialty surfactants and polymers, phosphorus chemistry, guar and derivatives and a leader in amines.
Aroma Performance, its second division, claims to be the world's largest producer of diphenols and derivatives, and also produces flavours and building blocks for the pharmaceutical, agro and electronics markets, plus monomer stabilisers for petrochemicals.
The third, Coatis, is a Latin American producer of phenol and solvents.
The Advanced Materials business offers Specialty Polymers, Silica, Rare Earths Systems (where it claims a 20% global market share), and Special Chemicals which is strong in fluorine.
According to Clamadieu: "Innovation is very important. In these businesses we are very focused on this and with very good results. Look at the growth characteristics of Novacare and specialty polymers - innovation was a very important driver for both."
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Having grown up in Oklahoma, I can confirm the classic one-liner: The reason Texas doesn’t fall off into the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma sucks. It’s home to some of America’s lowest-paid teachers and coincidentally has the highest prison incarceration rate in the union. It’s the breeding ground of politicians like climate change denier Scott Pruitt, whose platform against same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act is a road map to winning elections in the state. Its origins are completely depressing, and unless there’s a football game, there aren’t a lot of options on Saturday nights.
Throughout my 20-year Dallas residency that began by going to the first out-of-state school that accepted me, my family has tried to convince me that Oklahoma City is really coming up, that Bricktown’s Riverwalk is just as nice as any place in Dallas. But I judge a city by its food and, after once going to what was ranked as the city’s best sushi restaurant, which offered far too much imitation crab mix, it’s hard not to feel sorry for the place after being immersed in the glitz of Dallas restaurants. A culinary visit to OKC is best arranged around Del Rancho’s chicken-fried steak sandwiches or Tucker’s Oklahoma onion burgers with a history going back to the Depression. But never has Oklahoma City been considered a fine dining destination — until now.
A small, 22-seat restaurant primarily run by two Okie chefs in their 20s revolutionized the city’s food scene when Bon Appetit’s September edition named Nonesuch as the best new restaurant of 2018. Considered the authority publication on the nation’s best kitchens, BA editors typically choose eateries from cities like Portland or San Francisco for their annual Hot Ten list. But Andrew Knowlton, a guy whose job is to travel around the U.S. scoping out the most creative new restaurants, decided to book a flight to OKC after seeing some “beautiful and artistic and progressive” food pics on Instagram. The food looked like “the kind of dishes you might find in Copenhagen or Tokyo or New York — but not necessarily the Great Plains,” he writes.
When Knowlton initially visited, he reported most of the seats at Nonesuch’s U-shaped chef’s counter as empty. When his Hot Ten article went to press, their Instagram account had 5,000 followers. He openly worries about the future of the restaurant at the end of the article. But today, Nonesuch’s Instagram account has jumped to more than 15,000 followers. Prepaid reservations that open once every few months sell out in about 24 hours. People from New York and Chicago are booking flights to Will Rogers World Airport to experience Oklahoma terroir as chefs Colin Stringer and Jeremy Wolfe interpret it.
Stringer, who manages the kitchen, began his culinary training as a grill cook and dishwasher at Waffle House. Somewhere between scattering, smothering and covering hash browns, and running a successful but short-lived pop-up called Nani, he became an expert on aging meats and working with vinegar. Wolfe, the bread and pastry chef who created a cow’s colostrum custard that Knowlton deemed as “the silkiest, most perfect” he’d ever eaten, also began his career as a dishwasher before joining Stringer at Nani.
After Nani closed because of pressure from the health department, local restaurateur Todd Woodruff said he wanted to give the team a “new stage to keep doing what they love but also make a living doing it.” With Woodruff’s investment and the temporary help of chef Paul Wang, who had previously interned at Copenhagen’s prestigious Noma — named four times as the world’s No. 1 restaurant by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants — Nonesuch opened on Oct. 4, 2017.
The 10-course tasting menu that’s inspired by “modern Nordic cooking” similar to Noma is ambitious cooking for any city, Knowlton asserts. Diners can expect minimally plated, hyper-local and foraged ingredients that are heavy on vinegar and pickling. Because “farm-to-table” is an overwrought term that’s seldom actually executed, I asked Wolfe about sourcing after my dinner. He said they do order paper towels and kitchen basics from a restaurant warehouse, but every protein, vegetable, fruit and dairy product comes from the country surrounding OKC. This feat is not something they tout; to them, local ingredients should be the norm today, and it’s also what keeps them creative.
Local ingredients also mean the menu constantly changes. Highlights for Knowlton were a thickly cut, dry aged steak tartare and that custard made from a cow’s first milk after giving birth, covered in double-shucked English peas, strawberry vinegar and coriander flowers. I enjoyed my first Oklahoman amuse-bouche: warm mushroom broth with beet, persimmon and herb oil. It tasted like delicious medicine. Later came a potato cooked in pork fat, topped with a slow-cooked egg yolk sauce and hackleback caviar. Who knew Oklahoma was a source of caviar?
I was floored by wines like Thirst from South Africa, an unfiltered natural wine made only from the cinsault grape — not a rose and not a red, but cloudy and intense like Oklahoma tornado season. That was paired with a butternut squash, ginger and Thai chili sherbet with yogurt. The main course featured a grilled bison rib-eye with watercress sauce and a pour of Bell Syrah, the only wine I’ve ever bought online after tasting it out. And I really couldn’t decide my favorite between Wolfe’s two dessert courses: nasturtium ice cream with squash caramel and biscotti or the jasmine ice cream topped with milk powder crumble and apple curd, poured with two Zaragozan vermouths.
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The next day, when I showed my family pictures of the plates and told them how much it cost, they laughed at me, especially after we confessed that my husband ate an onion burger after dinner. Not all Oklahomans may yet be ready for a place like Nonesuch; many will not have the budget for it or see the sense of it when you can get a chicken-fried steak with two sides and toast at Del Rancho for $11. But what Stringer and Wolfe are doing is different — they are creating art, combining honest ingredients to produce a dinner worthy of foodie elites. Nonesuch has rekindled my state pride because they’ve shown us that if you keep your head down and keep following your passion, someone might just notice it and call it genius.
And former Oklahomans like myself aren't the only Dallasites falling in love with Nonesuch: Dallas chefs like Josh Sutcliff and Junior Borges have posted glowing social media reviews and gorgeous photos from Nonesuch meals in the last few months. In October, Bullion chef Oliver Sitrin posted excitedly on Facebook about his December reservation at the restaurant.
Nonesuch’s next reservation window for January through March will go on sale at 8 a.m. Dec. 1. The tasting menu plus recommended standard wine pairings is $150 per person, including tax and service.
Nonesuch, 803 N Hudson Ave., Oklahoma City, Okla.