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Public distribution in the state has fallen into crisis due to a server failure in the online system that facilitates the operation of e-PoS (electronic sales outlets) machines in grocery stores.
After the hook had persisted for four days, some of the rationing dealers closed their shutters on Tuesday and stopped supplying rationing.
In most parts of the state, grocery card holders have had to wait up to half an hour for their allocation since Friday. Several beneficiaries also returned empty-handed after waiting for hours in front of grocery stores in certain areas. The inflow of beneficiaries has increased considerably, presumably to receive the additional allocation of half a liter of kerosene this month.
Ration dealers claimed the e-PoS machines went offline frequently, especially in the early sales hours. They also alleged that despite repeated requests, the authorities had not responded.
T. Muhammedali, general secretary of the Association of All Retail Ration Traders in Kerala, said there have been cases where the public has been excited about the ration traders through no fault of their own. In some places, the e-PoS machines captured the beneficiaries’ biometric data but went offline before the receipts could be printed.
“Given the circumstances, it has become difficult to operate the rationing stations before a permanent solution to the problem is found,” he said.
The Minister of Food and Civil Utilities, GR Anil, attributed the problem to a bug in the central server of the state data center. The hook has affected the functioning of various departments. “The topic was taken up with the IT Mission Director. Efforts are being made to correct the bug, ”he said.
However, the minister was outraged by the decision to close food spending. He claimed there had been constant attempts to slander the department and impede its activities to modernize the public distribution system for the public good.


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Store Front news jump: You get it first, before others read it in The P-S and Syracuse.com. ... Onondaga County's OTHER three Target stores are getting the remodel that the Towne Center at Fayetteville store is experiencing. As I told you, Target is bringing in its PFresh format, adding tons o' more food products. Store Front hinted at this quite a while ago, but it's a "go" for all three stores in Onondaga County. Though all four Target stores are in various stages of the remodels, all are saying the "grand re-opening" under the new food format will be March 25. ... Add another Dinosaur Bar-B-Que to the growing list of holdings for the restaurant group that is one of the Prides of Syracuse. The company led by co-founder John Stage is now planning a Dino in Brooklyn, joining its Harlem restaurant in taking on The City. Once more, this new Dino will be built in a reclaimed landmark warehouse-factory. That's even more on Dino's plate. Besides Harlem and the coming Brooklyn Dino and, of course, the original here in Syracuse, other Dinos include Rochester and Troy. One in downtown Newark, N.J., is scheduled to open soon. Another, in Stamford, Conn., may also open in 2012, late in the year. ... Hey, I have another one here for you that's coming to Destiny USA: The Philadelphia-based Villa athletic footwear and clothing chain says it will be opening what will be its third store in the Syracuse market. Patrick Walsh of Villa said the Destiny store joins one that is opening downtown and another in the Utica area. Walsh says Destiny's Villa opens in the spring, the targeted grand opening season for Destiny. ... While we're in that area, a question rose this week about the future of Carousel Center's Skydeck space. Remember when folks used to have weddings, banquets, parties and other events atop Carousel? It might come back to that, but it might take a two or three years. Rob Schoeneck, general manager of Carousel Center, said the idea of returning the Skydeck to public use is on the back burner, but not out of the question. Currently. it's space that's used to oversee the finishing of Destiny USA. ...
For friends of Store Front only: From the Toronto Globe & Mail:
America’s Lord & Taylor gets some Canadian help
TORONTO -- Bonnie Brooks, who is credited with having started to revive the ailing Bay after she got the top job in 2008, was appointed president of Hudson’s Bay Co. on Monday. In that role, she also takes the reins at Lord & Taylor, the sister chain of parent HBC. She plans to extend her focus on heritage lines – including the Bay’s signature multi- striped blankets – and the budding popularity in luxury wear, European brands and men’s fashions.
“We’ve had a culture change in the Bay,” she said in an interview. “We have a can-do Canadian attitude that will be fun to take to the United States.”
Ms. Brooks’ promotion comes as Canadian retailers are being bulldozed by U.S. giants, including discounters Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the soon-to-arrive Target Corp., which is scooping up HBC’s Zellers stores. Yet U.S. chains have had their share of pressures in an extremely crowded market, which in turn has prompted a growing number of them to look to Canada for growth opportunities.
And while HBC is controlled by an American – U.S. mall tycoon Richard Baker, who bought the Bay in 2008 after snapping up Lord & Taylor a couple of years earlier – this country’s oldest retailer now is turning to its Canadian executive knowhow to bolster business at the 186-year-old American chain.
“Bonnie has proved that she can do it,” said John Williams of consultancy J.C. Williams Group. “Lord & Taylor’s reputation is a bit musty. Someone fresh to the market who’s proven she can implement a revitalization program is called for.”
Even so, Lord & Taylor has enjoyed its own signs of a turnaround, although its sales softened last year. In 2011, same-store sales at its 46 stores rose 8 per cent from the previous year, compared with a 12-per-cent increase in 2010, a company spokeswoman said.
At the Bay, Ms. Brooks had a big catch-up job on her hands, with sales at its 91 stores gaining 6.5 per cent in 2011 after posting their first increase in a decade in 2010.
To ease HBC’s debt problem, Mr. Baker sold the rights to most Zellers leases to Target for $1.8-billion last year and, as part of HBC’s restructuring on Monday, poured $427-million into Lord & Taylor, with the funds used to reduce corporate debt. He put on hold his plan to raise more money by taking HBC public last fall amid rocky stock markets.
Ms. Brooks said her key strategy of introducing high-profile fashion brands at the Bay to draw younger customers has already been implemented at Lord & Taylor – but she will take it a step further. She wants to introduce some European brands to Lord & Taylor – which is known for its American lines – such as the ones that are carried at the Bay, including London’s Erdem and Paris’ Balmain.
She is also considering a reinvented way to add luxury goods to Lord & Taylor, emulating the Bay’s upscale The Room at its Toronto and Vancouver flagship stores. And she envisions expanding Lord & Taylor’s move last year to introduce HBC heritage items, including its blankets and even canoes.
“There is an astonishing heritage at Lord & Taylor, just like there is at Hudson’s Bay Co.,” she said. ”There’s magic in the heritage. I love the idea of being able to unlock some of the magic.”
Ms. Brooks has experience in re-imagining retailers, having helped breathe new life into Holt Renfrew before joining the Asian-based Lane Crawford department-store retailer, leading its turnaround initiatives.
My comments: On the Store Front blog over the last year or so, I've tried to keep you updated on the doings of the Bay, especially how it relates to it's companion retailer, Lord & Taylor, which is important to us because, hey, a key anchor at Carousel is Lord & Taylor.
I hope you read this story through. It sounds like fabulous news for L&T. If you've been in that stunning flagship store in Toronto, you can imagine how some of those collections and stores-within-the-store could be folded into Carousel's L&T. Plus? The "upscale" part plays into the destiny of Carousel, which WILL become Destiny USA at some point (the whole mall, not just the addition fully opening in the spring) and focusing more on luxury as one of its components.
How much of what Brooks plans to do with L&T's in the States will carry into Carousel is to be determined. Brooks' plans may better fit into larger Lord & Taylor stores in major markets -- even Rochester's Lord & Taylor carries more than Carousel's, I'm told.
Still, bringing in heritage Bay items -- the blankets, items with logos, etc. -- would be a can't miss here, with all of our Canadian shoppers. They could buy their Bay favorites at Carousel for far less -- they tell me -- then they could in Canada. They might also indulge in the luxury and European designer items, too.
Plus, adding a Canadian accent to Carousel's Lord & Taylor will make our North American Cousins feel more at home when they are doing all of the shopping and dining they've been doing in this market of late.
An aside: I recently wrote a story about this rise in Canadian retail traffic here. Several of you noted in emails and comments that this isn't something new; the Syracuse area has often had tons of Canadian shoppers venturing here. I know. My recent story wasn't the first I've written over the years about this. But that Canadian surge does come in waves and right now, there's a big wave -- again.

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KIEV, August 22 (Itar-Tass) - The Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is ready to help clear customs complications between Ukraine and Russia, says an official letter of the CIS Executive Committee published on Thursday.
“The CIS Executive Committee is aware of Ukraine’s concern with facts of the tightening of customs control over traditional exports. Unilateral introduction of customs restrictions contradicts the agreement on the establishment of a free trade zone by the CIS countries,” the Ukrainian government’s press service quotes the document.
“The CIS Executive Committee pointed out that Ukraine has a right to address the Economic Court of the CIS and raise the matter with the expert commission of the member countries,” the press service notes.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov on Wednesday called on the partners in the Customs Union for a fair use of trade rules on the basis of the provisions of the World Trade Organization and the operating agreement on a free trade zone among the CIS countries. “We must be ready to comply with these rules, too,” Azarov said.
Customs complications with Ukrainian goods arose because of Ukrainian exporters and customs bodies shortcomings, Azarov added.


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According to market researcher NPD, sales of so-called prestige fragrances — typically the high-end, designer scents sold by department stores — fell 10 percent in 2009 from the prior year. This was a sharp acceleration of the 6 percent decline from 2007 to 2008, and a 1 percent decline from 2006 to 2007.
With a bad situation turning worse, the fragrance manufacturers — who are often secretive, and most certainly fiercely competitive — are banding together to do a national campaign to encourage men and women who use perfumes and other scented products, to do so more often.
— From Can One Ad Change Everything for the Fragrance Industry? at CNBC. The article discusses the Fragrance Foundation's new One Drop campaign; if you haven't yet seen the website, check out One Mighty Drop.


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Malware Targets Apple Users in China
Cyber security researchers have identified ad-focused malware that targets users of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system in China and Taiwan, just two weeks after a different breach was discovered. Photo: Getty Images
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BMW and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic collaboration on joint development of innovative cloud technology to harness data of future vehicles. Both companies will look into creating off-the-shelf cloud solutions that could securely manage all vehicle data, the solution could potentially be offered to other manufacturers as well.
BMW and AWS has been working on connected cars since 2015, just as it was the case on previous projects, BMW Group has a full and exclusive control of all the data and applies all data protection regulations in all of the respective markets.
To get an idea of the size of the task at hand - BMW’s connected fleet already has over 20 million vehicles, spread over 50 jurisdictions. Every day this fleet sends ten billion enquiries to the cloud. All that data is related and it forms the basis of BMW services.
Security is a priority for BMW and the growing number of connected cars presents a growing potential risk. Customer data can be accessed only from a central access point, which BMW setup all the way back in 2017. The company puts a lot of stress on the fact that it is the only one with access to the data at all times.
The collaboration with AWS is essential for BMW’s Neue Klasse - the upcoming family of all-electric cars. The company expects that the new generation of electric cars will triple the volume of data in comparison to current vehicles. Fast, reliable and secure data connections and processing will be essential to provide a high quality experience.
The official press release mentions for the first time that with customer consent, the data can be made available to third party developers which opens the door for outside application developers. BMW hopes the use of AWS infrastructure and services will ensure efficient access for the engineers and data experts who will be able to focus only on the data quality and not to worry about the infrastructure.
Today’s world is already connected in so many ways and it is already so intertwined with our lives, that it’s impossible to imagine it any other way. The future takes this connectivity to the next level. Will it be a smooth progress? Absolutely not, there will be funny and dangerous hiccups along the way, but there's no going back.


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UAW Concedes to GM
For General Motors (GM), a new labor contract represents a step forward. For the United Auto Workers, a big step back.
The two sides came to a tentative agreement on a new, four-year labor pact at 3:05 a.m. EDT Sept. 26, ending a two-day strike. If UAW President Ronald Gettelfinger can get the deal ratified by his 74,000 GM workers in the coming days, the contract will pull the automaker much closer to Toyota's (TM) cost structure. But for the UAW, it will roll back contract benefits and wages won over years of collective bargaining.
In many ways, the union had no choice. Detroit's carmakers have been under siege from foreign competition, which have lower costs in their factories, both in Japan and the U.S. Health-care costs have sapped $1,400 from the profit of any vehicle. GM lost a total of $12.4 billion in 2005 and 2006, and its North American business is running at breakeven this year. GM Chairman and CEO G. Richard Wagoner Jr. cut 34,000 jobs and got health-care concessions in the past two years. But GM still isn't making real money at home. The struggling chairman simply couldn't take anything but a concessionary labor contract to his board of directors.
Early Morning Press Conference
It may be a tough contract for the union, but one that could preserve jobs in the U.S. and give current active workers and retirees minimal, if any, cuts to their pay and benefits package.
The biggest piece of the deal is the creation of a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, or VEBA trust, which the union will oversee and use to cover retiree medical benefits. Gettelfinger didn't provide details of the contract at a 4 a.m. press conference, but said the two sides agreed on a VEBA. In addition to a union-run health-care plan, GM also got the union to agree to a lower starting wage for new hires at GM plants and cuts to the so-called Jobs Bank, a paid-layoff arrangement that gave furloughed workers most of their pay, say sources close to the negotiations.
In exchange, the UAW got guarantees that GM will invest in its U.S. factories, although the sources say GM did not offer specific guarantees on investment dollars, or which factories and vehicles the company will allocate in the U.S. Gettelfinger will also be able to sell the contract to members with the pitch that no active worker's current pay or benefits will be cut significantly. And with the VEBA, his retirees will be protected in case GM falls into bankruptcy. Gettelfinger said early in the week that he believes a VEBA protects union retiree benefits better than a company-held plan.
"It's an agreement we're proud to recommend to our membership," Gettelfinger said at the press conference.
Closing the Gap With Toyota
GM is also handing out up-front signing bonuses and more cash later if the members ratify the deal. JPMorgan (JPM) analyst Himashu Patel estimates that the agreement will give workers $9,000 each over four years.
While the UAW didn't relent on every GM request, the tentative agreement can only be viewed as concessionary. GM executives estimate that the deal will cut its labor cost gap with Toyota by 70% to 75%, says one GM executive who asked not to be named. Currently, UAW workers get $70 an hour in wages and benefits, about $25 to $30 an hour more than Toyota and Honda workers.
Here's how the VEBA works: GM will give the UAW a lump sum of cash and other assets—though mostly cash—that equals about 70% of the company's $51 billion in UAW health-care liabilities. The UAW will take the estimated $35 billion and invest the money. So long as the investment return rate exceeds the annual rate of health-care inflation—which ranges from 8% to 12%—the fund will stay healthy and cuts to individual benefits wouldn't be necessary.
No Details of Jobs Bank Cuts
The two-tiered wage deal is a big concession for the UAW. One of the union's principles has long been that everyone on the shop floor makes the same wage. But now, new hires will be brought in at "a very competitive rate," according to one person close to the deal.
Neither side will say what that rate is. But Japanese plants in the U.S. hire new workers at around $16 an hour and work up to about $26 an hour. UAW workers earn about $28 an hour. That part of the contract could be huge for GM. About two-thirds of its 74,000 UAW workers can retire within five years. That means GM can rehire workers at a much lower cost. Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Jonathan Steinmetz says that replacing 10,000 tenured workers with new employees at the lower wage could save $300 million a year.
GM also has cut the Jobs Bank. But details were not provided. Traditionally, the bank gave laid off workers most of their pay while GM tried to find work for them. But there was never a limit on the benefit. Some workers have been in the Jobs Bank for more than 10 years without building a car. Under the new contract, there will be limits on how long a worker can stay in the bank. GM may also be able to buy workers out during the life of the new deal without having to negotiate more job cuts.
Until details are made clear, it's tough to say that GM will match Toyota's costs. One GM insider says that the company already has narrowed that gap quite a bit. Now it will be time to see if GM can start boosting revenue with better cars.


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Google and Apple are in a never-ending war when it comes to mobile operating systems. Android and iOS are always pinned against each other because people want to find out which one is the best. However, that is an impossible question to answer because both operating systems excel in different aspects. Take for example how Google gives its Android fans access lots of customization options while iOS doesn’t feature any of them.
Nonetheless, there is something else that Google is doing better than Apple and that is constantly releasing APK updates that improve the performances of its staple Android features and services. In fact, the Android parent has recently released a new update for the Google Play Store which introduces a handful of software improvements.
Google Play Store Update
Hands down, the best thing about using an Android powered smartphone is getting access to Google’s latest APK updates. APK is an acronym for “Android Package Kit” and it’s the format that Google uses for all its updates before it rolls them out OTA (over the air). Therefore, all Android users who want to get their hands on all the new APK updates need to get them manually from Google’s official website.
As it is the case with all new updates, Google has made sure to introduce a bunch of bug fixes in the latest Google Play Store APK update which features the 13.3.16 build number. While bug fixes might not seem like such a high priority download for most Android fans, they actually are.
Just imagine how annoying it would be to try and download an app or a game via the Google Play Store only to have the service randomly crash in the middle of the downloading process. Luckily, this is never going to happen as long as Google keeps pushing out bug fixes.
Juana loves to cover the tech and gaming industry, she always stays on the first row of CES conference and reports live from there.


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India's edible oil consumption to shrink for second year as prices rally
By Rajendra Jadhav
MUMBAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - India's edible oil consumption is expected to contract for the second straight year in 2020/21 as a rally in vegetable oil prices to multi-year highs curbs retail buying, industry officials told Reuters.
Lower demand in India, the world's biggest importer of vegetable oils, could limit a rally in benchmark Malaysian palm oil prices FCPOc3 which are trading near their highest level in a decade.
Lower demand could also weigh on U.S. soyoil BOc1 and sunflower oil.
"A large section of the Indian population is price cautious. As their income is not rising because of COVID-19, per capita consumption would go down," said Angshu Mallick, deputy chief executive of Adani (NS: APSE ) Wilmar, a leading edible oil refiner.
Edible oil consumption could fall to 21 million tonnes in 2019/20 marketing year ending on Oct. 31 from 22 million a year earlier, he said. In 2018/19 demand was around 23 million tonnes.
India's edible oil consumption usually rises by 2-3% per annum because of rising population and prosperity, but this year it will likely fall by around 5%, he said.
Lower consumption would reduce imports as India fulfils more than 70% of its demand through imports.
"Imports fell last year due to lockdown. This year a combination of very high prices and increased availability of oilseeds would bring down imports," said Atul Chaturvedi, president of the Solvent Extractors Association of India.
India's edible oil imports could fall to 12.5 million tonnes in 2020/21 from last year's 13.2 million, the lowest in six years, Chaturvedi said.
The country imports palm oil mainly from Indonesia and Malaysia, and other oils such as soy and sunflower oil from Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine and Russia.
India's palm oil imports would remain largely steady near last year's 7.2 million tonnes, the lowest in nine years, Chaturvedi said.
But soyoil imports could drop marginally from last year's 3.4 million tonnes, while sunflower oil imports could drop to 1.75 million tonnes from last year's 2.51 million, he said.
India's rapeseed output could rise to 8 million tonnes this year from last year's 7 million as farmers have expanded planting, said Govindbhai Patel, managing director of trading firm G.G. Patel & Nikhil Research Company.
"Local edible oil supplies are expected to go up this year with higher production of rapeseed and groundnut," Patel said.
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Almost one month after U.S. food delivery service, DoorDash came under fire for pocketing the tips that their dashers are making for each delivery, the company is still using the same payment scheme, amidst the promise made by the CEO to change the tipping policy.
Last month, DoorDash received backlash after one of their riders, which they call dashers, exposed that the company is stealing tips by paying them a fixed rate instead of topping the tips the customers paid for on their minimum delivery salary.
In essence, whether the customer added extra money on top of his order or not, DoorDash will still pay the rider the same amount and use the tip paid by the customer to cover some of the rider’s salary. Many has called what DoorDash is doing as an app version of “tipped wage” where employers use the tips given by customers to pay for the salary of their employees instead of topping them on their basic wage.
The first-hand account of a journalist detailing how the delivery app is “stealing” their dashers’ tips to pay for their salaries has made rounds over the internet, prompting the company to issue a promise to change their old ways. In an article penned by Andy Newman, the company was faced with a backlash.
“If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me,” Newman wrote.
Following the strong condemnation from their customers after knowing DoorDash’s tipping policy, Tony Xu, DoorDash’s Chief Executive Officer, immediately announce that they are changing their policy. In a post on his official Twitter account, Xu said that the new policy would be “announced in the coming days.”
“Going forward, we’re changing our model – the new model will ensure that Dashers’ earnings will increase by the exact amount a customer tips on every order. We’ll have specific details in the coming days,” he wrote in his Twitter account.
Xu defended their policy as a form of misunderstanding. He said that they designed their wage policy in a way to protect their dashers and so that their riders can receive the same amount even if people did not send them tips. The CEO said that while this was their intention, he realized that “what we missed was that some customers who did tip would feel like their tip did not matter.”
“We built a pay model to prioritize transparency, consistency of earnings, and to ensure all customers get their food as fast as possible,” he insists.
Dashers ask customers to tip them in cash instead
The problem with Xu’s promises and pronouncement, however, is that it seems like it was written in thin air. In his tweet, the company’s patriarch only mentioned changing the policy without an explanation of how the change would become, nor did he give any details about the new policy. He also did not provide a timeline on when can their riders expect the change to be implemented.
As a result, riders have been waiting for it with hopes that the change will come soon; but to their disappointment, no change has come for them – one month after the CEO promised them that change would soon come.
“They’re still stealing tips,” Dawnielle Turner, a DoorDash worker in Cleveland, said in an interview. “Why would you send the email out and have everyone anticipating such a major change?”
Turner, who is a mother that works a full-time job to support her kids and does side jobs of delivering for apps like Postmates, Instacart, and Grubhub, said that while other delivery companies have had their fair share of pay problems, none of them, except DoorDash, “are going so far as stealing tips.”
Another DoorDash employee, who refused to be named, shares his frustration and disappointment that DoorDash is yet to fulfill the promises for its employees.
“The company really tries not to pay us as much as possible,” he said. He said many of them who deliver through DoorDash ask their customers to pay them in cash instead as a workaround to the company’s oppressive tipping policy. In order to raise awareness about their situations as workers, he also started handling customers with flyers explaining the issue to them and why they prefer to pay with cash instead of through the app.
DoorDash has not responded to our request for a statement as of writing. We will update this article once a statement has been made.


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Municipality of Sioux Lookout announces improvements to pet identification
Tim Brody - Editor
The Municipality of Sioux Lookout shared in a March 3 media release that it is implementing a new tracking system for pets to help reunite missing or found animals with their owners faster.
“With owner consent, the information provided on this year’s pet Registration/Renewal Form will be entered in the new pet tracking system and uploaded to the Municipal website. From there, anyone can type in the Tag Number of any missing/found animal and find the owner’s contact information. Only the name of the owner and contact number would be available to the public – no addresses will be available in this system,” the Municipality explained.
According to the Municipality, every pet owner will be issued a new Pet Tag with a new Pet Identification Number this year when renewing their license, which will ensure accurate and consistent pet identification tracking in the new system.
Pet license renewals will remain at $10.
The new system will also make it possible for pet owners to complete renewals online next year.
Pet owners are asked to complete their pet license registration or renewal by March 31.
“Unfortunately, due to lack of local resources, the Municipality will no longer be able to offer microchipping services. This service is available from various veterinary clinics in the region,” the Municipality shared.
Anyone with questions or concerns is asked to contact the By-law Enforcement Officer, who can be reached at 807-738-0462 or [email protected].


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EBITDAC â€“ Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Lower Middle Market Valuations
Since 2017, our firm has issued an annual report on the independent sponsor sector. This year, we decided to devote our entire report on the impact of the pandemic not just on independent sponsors, but also on their portfolio companies, investment strategies, deal structures and valuation. The survey was conducted in May 2020 and reflected the views of 112 independent sponsors. The independent sponsor perspective is particularly relevant to understanding what is happening in the lower middle market right now, during these unprecedented times. Why? Because independent sponsors tend to acquire, own, operate, grow and eventually divest small and mid-size businesses – and those are the businesses that make up the vast majority of the U.S. economy.
We have already issued a series of key findings from our 2020 survey, most of which were discussed during our COVID-19 Independent Sponsor Survey Results – Key Findings webinar. With a focus on valuation, and how to value a business in today’s environment. This presentation includes a discussion about the disparity between value and price; the impact of COVID-19 on lower middle market valuations and which deals are getting done; approaches to valuing a business now and post-COVID; and, on performance, both positive and negative, of various types of businesses and sectors.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California – Credit and debit cardholders are increasingly completing their holiday shopping online and spending more money on experiences, according to analysis of Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday card transaction data by CO-OP Financial Services.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California – Bruce Dragt and Cheryl Middleton Jones have been named Chief Product Officer and Chief People Officer, respectively, for CO-OP Financial Services, joining the company’s Executive Management Team to help lead its transformation as a digital enterprise.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California – In honor of Giving Tuesday, CO-OP Financial Services will provide CUAid a $100 donation for every credit union employee to register for THINK 19 through November 27, 2018.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial Services today announced that United Federal Credit Union, a $2.6 billion Michigan-based financial cooperative, is joining CO-OP Shared Branching, adding nine of its branches to the growing network.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – To offer credit unions a clearer picture of the member financial journey, CO-OP Financial Services is offering a free white paper and in-depth report that provides analysis of 2,000 individual journeys experienced by credit union members nationwide.


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Welcome to A Gamer’s Week, our regular 7-day recap of the most important news in the gaming industry.
Gamescom 2012 took place this week and it’s been a veritable cornucopia in terms of news, as many big companies made important announcements during the expo held in Cologne, Germany. You can follow our complete coverage at this link
We also posted two reviews this week, for Prototype 2
and for Hybrid
, and we also had a quick look at The Political Machine 2012
In case you want some more extra reading, you can check out our ongoing Crusader Kings II diary
and a special Weekend Reading piece about Valve
and how it doesn't need to release a Half-Life 3 to please fans.
Let’s start our weekly recap with Monday, when we heard Blizzard detail some of the changes it’s going to make to the classes of Diablo 3 with the release of patch 1.0.4
. Sony also took the chance to defend its PlayStation Vita handheld console and revealed that its sales figures are quite acceptable
Tuesday saw the pre-Gamescom 2012 press conferences of both Electronic Arts and Sony. The highlight from EA was the full-length multiplayer trailer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted
, while Sony opted to show off the new Cross Buy system
for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.
On Wednesday we heard Valve publicly dismiss a rumor
that said it was going to present the long awaited Half-Life 3, or at least Half-Life 2: Episode 3, at Gamescom 2012. EA also took the chance to show off the Match Day feature
that will be included in the upcoming FIFA 13.
Tuesday saw the long awaited release of the Team Fortress 2 Mann vs. Machine update
, which finally adds a cooperative mode to the multiplayer-only shooter. Blizzard also released the opening cinematic
of its upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion.
Friday was when we heard about the special Contracts multiplayer mode
from Hitman: Absolution and that EA will release an impressive Battlefield 3 Premium Edition
, which includes the shooter, the Battlefield Premium DLC bundle, and another add-on.
On Saturday, we heard about OnLive's tough situation
, as the cloud gaming company might be taken over by another corporation. We also got to see the stunning cinematic trailer
Valve released for its upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
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One of the Valley’s hidden gems, Buffalo Bruce’s Mercantile, was vandalized on July 11, 2015. The bohemian BBQ coffee shop has been a Sylmar mainstay since 1997, when owner Vivian Hartman opened the cafe in honor of her daughter who passed away from leukemia.
Vivian has already raised $2,050 on gofundme to help cover the costs of painting over the derogatory words, and the community has shown an outpouring of support. Even local superstar Danny Trejo has spoken up (see video) and will be signing autographs at the neighborhood paint day on Sunday, July 19, at 10 a.m.
To show support, you can join the join the paint day party at 13661 Hubbard Street, Sylmar, 91342. But the ultimate show of love would be your continued support at local small businesses like this that deserve your love and attention. Starbucks and Buffalo Wild Wings are doing fine on their own.


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Sears Canada is giving a fresh look to its private label brands through two new design partnerships.
The retailer is teaming up with the Aldo Group to design and manufacture footwear lines for their Nevada, Attitude and Jessica brands.
Meanwhile, Buffalo International Inc., will design and produce Sears Canada’s entire line of Nevada denim-based apparel for both women and men.
The revamped footwear and apparel lines are slated to arrive in stores this fall.
The newly announced changes are the latest effort by Sears Canada to update their private label brands.
In 2011, the retailer announced the signing of a multi-year deal with Toronto-born personality Jay Manuel of America’s Next Top Model fame.
He took over as creative director of Sears Canada’s rebranded private label collection, Attitude Jay Manuel, and has featured presentations of the line at Fashion Week in Toronto.
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The fight for consumer dollars in the Northern San Joaquin Valley is heating up.
Amazon is bringing its Prime Now delivery service to the region.
The world’s largest web-based retailer announced Friday they will open a 91,134-square-foot distribution/delivery center in Manteca’s Pacific Business Park at 2403 W. Louise Ave. just west of the Manteca Unified School District office complex.
“The City of Manteca is very pleased that Amazon has chosen our community to locate one of their newest state-of-the-art delivery centers,” said Manteca Mayor Steve DeBrum. “We appreciate Amazon’s business investment in our community, and look forward to the many jobs that will be created for the region.”
It is expected to bring Prime Now delivery service to Manteca, Lathrop, Ripon, and other points in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties such as Stockton, Modesto, and Tracy that are within an hour’s drive of the Louise Avenue site.
Amazon Prime customers can access Amazon Prime Now services. The Amazon prime membership is $99 a year. In select locations that have the distribution/delivery center such as the one that is opening in Manteca, Amazon Prime members can get free two hour delivery on most orders. A one-hour delivery service is available in select cities for a $7.99 charge. Customers schedule their delivery window during checkout using smartphone apps.
No delivery details have been provided for the Manteca location but in the Bay Area it is available from 8 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week. Prime Now customers in the Bay Area can also get delivery from local stores partnered with Amazon as well as delivery within an hour from 591 restaurants partnering with the Internet giant.
Typically where Amazon rolls out Prime Now its major brick and mortar competitors — Walmart and Target — respond with stepped up delivery offerings.
Prime Now has a somewhat limited offerings compared to the larger fulfillment centers. It offers 25,000 items across 25 categories for such things as groceries, household items, electronics, gifts, seasonal items, and more.
Amazon plans to hire more than 100 full-time and part-time employees for the Manteca location as they gear up for opening within the next several months. The firm is already posting jobs online at www.amazon.com for part-time shift assistants for the Manteca location. Typically such centers employ couriers as well as partner with Uber and Lyft drivers.
The announcement comes three days after Amazon revealed it will open a 600,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Stockton near the Stockton Metro Airport. That center will ultimately employ workers and push Amazon’s employment in San Joaquin County near the 3,000 worker mark. The firm operates two million-square-foot plus fulfillment centers in Tracy as well as at Stockton Metro Airport where they have six daily cargo flights moving merchandise in and out of the region. There are also fulfillment centers in Patterson and Sacramento. The San Joaquin County locations along with Patterson are the primary locales serving the lucrative Bay Area market along with centers west of the Altamont pass that are similar to the one opening in Manteca.
Crews are working day and night to remodel the Louise Avenue location to allow it to open within several months.
“City staff worked closely with the property owner Exeter Property Group and the Amazon team to meet the project scheduling requirements, and renovation of the building is now underway” stated City Economic Development Manager Don Smail. “We expect to announce other important business projects coming to Manteca before the end of the year.”
Smail noted the fact the space was available worked in Manteca’s favor as well as its strategic location within the region.
There are nearly 1.2 million consumers within an hour’s drive of Manteca that is equidistant from Modesto, Stockton, and Tracy. It was a driving factor that has brought a number of concerns over the years to Manteca including Frito-Lay and J&M Equipment that wanted a central location to consolidate operations that were in Modesto as well as Stockton under one roof.
It also has a growing demographic that fits the Prime Now target audience — time pressed families that have Bay Area checks that are on waiting lists to buy homes in Manteca and River Islands at Lathrop.
Smail expects Manteca to continue to capitalize on its strategic location of not just being at the center of the Northern San Joaquin Valley but also the advantage it shares with Tracy, Lathrop, and Stockton of being essentially equidistance from San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento with upwards of 8 million consumers. Manteca has the advantage of also being at a transportation hub with Interstate 5, Highway 99, Interstate 205, two intermodal train-to-truck yards with Union Pacific’s bordering the city and Santa Fe’s 20 minutes to the northeast, Stockton Metro Airport 15 minutes away, and the Port of Stockton 20 minutes away.
Smail said the need for Manteca’s municipal staff to be nimble was demonstrated in being able to land not just Amazon that wanted to move quickly on an available building but also to secure 5.11 Tactical that will be opening a Manteca distribution center before year’s end.


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26 July 2017 — Most brands develop as a way to market a product or service. But many of today’s hottest brands are flipping that model on end. Thomas Ordahl explains how brands in the future will develop like memes.
14 July 2017 — To celebrate our founder’s birthday this July, we’re going Inside the Studio with Walter Landor. In this commencement speech at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, Walter lays out his top advice for aspiring designers.
12 July 2017 — How can we create the strongest possible brands for our clients? Fabio Pisano explains how archetype-based brand strategy helps bring brands to life.
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5 June 2017 — What’s in a name? Peter Knapp, Landor’s chief creative officer, explains why naming is so important when developing new buildings and skyscrapers.
25 May 2017 — Branding isn't just about being global—it's about weaving into the fabric of our communities. Our CEO, Lois Jacobs, discusses three of her favorite local brands.


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The 18 years since the termination of this vehicle brand has made it more difficult to find replacement I4 motors on the secondary market.
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The UsedEngines.co website is now selling Dodge Daytona engines to car owners online. The recent acquisition of these motors is now making it possible for vehicle owners to find a quality replacement for these classic vehicles at an affordable price. This new inventory addition to the company lineup is expected to provide a trusted resource for those that buy preowned Dodge motors online. More information can be found at http://www.usedengines.co/dodge/dodge-daytona-engines-sale.
Chrysler created its Dodge Daytona in 1984 and this vehicle remained in production for nearly a decade. Although this was known as a hatchback design, this vehicle was marketed to enthusiasts as well as average drivers. The 18 years since the termination of this vehicle brand has made it more difficult to find replacement I4 motors on the secondary market. These engines including the K series are now offered online.
One of the issues with buying a preowned motor is the amount of mileage that might contribute to the wear and tear of the engine. Many vehicles have reached the 100,000-mile mark and finding a low mileage replacement can be challenging. The warranty coverage that is generally absent from a used motor purchase can lower the assurance level of buyers that purchase online. The UsedEngines.co company now offers a parts warranty with the sale of all in stock units.
This new warranty coverage period was first announced in the fall of this year. The inventory that is acquired before sale to the public goes through evaluation measures to ensure that the internal and external components function to industry standards for a used condition motor. These quality control efforts are in combination to the new warranty that is applied to all in stock purchases. The news annoucement for the warranty upgrade can be found at http://www.prweb.com/releases/used-car-engines-sale/chevy-ford-dodge-toyota/prweb9850113.htm.
To make price information easier to obtain, an online quote system is now installed for buyers online. A two-click quote process is now the only requirement to receive in stock price information for all brands of motors. This new addition is helping more people to locate sale pricing after business hours end each day.
About Used Engines Company
The Used Engines Company sells its line of Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Honda and other imported engines online and offline. This company has built its online inventory to be one of the largest that can be found on the secondary market. By staffing the company with auto experts, the customer service levels and customer shipments have increased over the past five years. The Used Engines Company launched its website online in 2009 and daily updates are now made to the content available. Through low pricing and other incentives, this company has built its reputation as a leader providing used engines for sale.


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The FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into a terrorist’s iPhone has done the seemingly impossible by getting Microsoft, Google and Apple all on the same team.
Many of the country’s top tech firms have revealed that they will file friend-of-the court briefs in defense of Apple’s position that no company should be compelled by the government to break its own security and thus put the public safety of millions of users at risk.
Microsoft has been one of Apple’s biggest rivals for decades, but Brad Smith, the company’s chief legal officer, said it will file an amicus brief in support of Apple at next week’s congressional hearing on the balance between citizens’ right to privacy on personal devices and the war on terrorism.
Google will also defend Apple’s position, according to a BuzzFeed report. Amazon is working on amicus brief options, too, and social networking giants Twitter and Facebook are getting in on the action as well.
In an interview last night, Apple CEO Tim Cook told ABC that the FBI’s demands to create a backdoor into the recovered iPhone of San Bernardino mass killer Syed Rizwan Farook would be like creating the software version of cancer. The FBI has insisted that it’s only trying to get Apple to unlock this one iPhone, but several other courts are waiting to see how Apple’s battle with the FBI plays out in hopes of being able to request more iPhones be unlocked.
The companies supporting Apple have until March 3 to file their amicus briefs. Cupertino is set to make its first congressional appearance on the matter March 1, when Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell faces off against FBI Director James Comey during a hearing on encryption.


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A new commercial from Toyota seems to imply we'll be seeing something new. From the looks of it — and viewers only get brief glimpses — there might be a new look or trim package headed our way. The commercial ran during a recent Supercross event and has us thinking there must be some kind of tie-in, given the entire ad emphasized dust and dirt. We're guessing it could be an off-road package for possibly three different vehicles.
PickupTrucks.com contacted Toyota, and spokesmen flatly stated they cannot confirm or deny any knowledge of a new option package or new vehicle from Toyota. The ad showed a blacked-out front grille with writing on it, similar to what we saw on the FJ Cruiser Final Edition. Maybe it means Toyota is changing how it wants to identify vehicles; clearly one vehicle is a new Tundra.
Since the vehicles in the commercial are running through the desert like wild horses, we're hoping the package offers more than just a face-lift and new stickers. Fingers crossed for a new Toyota Racing Development package or Baja Edition.


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With globally interconnected supply chains historically being hard to track and trace, Ordnance Survey (OS) is working in collaboration with Esri UK, Deloitte and Planet Labs PBC, with support from Trase, to establish the Supply Chain Data Partnership (SCDP).
The SCDP will seek to provide a location dataset for global supply chains such as palm oil, soy, cotton, rubber, mills, factories and wood-based packaging applications to increase resilience to climate change. OS is already using location data and know-how to tackle sustainability challenges and build more resilient societies through trusted data to help protect and preserve the environment against climate change.
The aim is to be able to provide enough confidence to certify the location of the asset, such as farms, sites, and facilities, so that buyers and investors can see that the asset owner is willing to be transparent and be monitored. The data and certificates will then sit on a new international registry that meets global registry standards.
The SCDP will help tackle greenwashing by working to ensure efficient and trustworthy sustainability reporting, ensure public and private investors avoid high-risk investments and potential risks, while identifying plausible opportunities for green and sustainable investment.
Take for example, the food industry. From farm to fork, there are many complexities in the food production supply chain but there have been growing pressures on manufacturers and companies to transform the industry and stop deforestation, improve transparency and traceability, and support farmers – especially smallholders – to adopt more sustainable practices.
In the UK alone, mayonnaise is consumed by millions of people a year, with soy oil a crucial ingredient that is also used in dressings and condiments enjoyed by consumers all over the world. Soybean is also a major ingredient in livestock feed, especially for beef, chicken, egg and dairy production.
The cultivation of soybeans has grown tenfold in the last 50 years and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) predicts it will double by 2050. With this rapid expansion have come difficulties, which have negatively impacted on natural habitats and biodiversity.
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Paying for an app in Google's online store, Google Play, will banish nagging in-app ads, but it won't dam the flow of personal information from your phone to marketers.
An IDC study has found sweeping changes in how mobile display advertisements are sold, with Facebook, Pandora and Twitter successfully wresting away control from advertising networks over the last year.
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government...
An advertising analytics company said it has discovered a botnet that generates upwards of US$6 million per month by generating bogus clicks on display advertisements.
Twitter is beefing up its self-service ad platform to give smaller businesses more targeting and analytics tools to reach potential customers on the site.
Google has removed some programs from its Play store that block web advertisements, contending the applications violate its rules by interfering with other services.
South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said.
Facebook is buying Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad analysis platform, in a move that should increase its advertising revenue and give marketers better information about their campaigns across the social network, on both desktop and mobile.
Google is rolling out a new version of AdWords that will allow advertisers to manage and bid for ads across computers, smartphones and other devices within the same campaign, in a bid to simplify mobile advertising.
Yahoo has signed a global advertising deal with Google that will result in Google ads appearing on some of Yahoo's websites, the companies announced Wednesday.
A recent push in the IT industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regulation from some governments, according to tech analyst firm Ovum.
The High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade law by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator.
The European Commission has received Google's proposal to settle an antitrust investigation into the search engine's practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. But one industry organization said it has filed another antitrust complaint against...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has identified new products and mobile investments as among several strategies aimed at keeping the company relevant as it tries to compete against the likes of Google and Facebook.
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Grand Jury indicts spammer
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May 30, 2007 ~ SEATTLE — "A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day." A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering... Prosecutors are seeking to have him forfeit $773,000 they say he made from his business, Newport Internet Marketing Corp... Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have been infected. He continued his activities even after Microsoft won a $7 million civil judgment against him in 2005 and the operator of a small Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment, prosecutors said..."
.The machine has no brain.
......... Use your own.
Browser check for updates here.
YOU need to defend against -all- vulnerabilities.
Hacks only need to find -1- to get in...
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as background, they mentioned that as much as 80% of e-mail bandwidth is consumed by spamming activities... I didn't know that
its good he's detained though (yay)


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LOS ANGELES -- It has supercar power and supercar looks, and now Acura’s all-new NSX has a supercar price tag to match.
The 2017 NSX will start at $157,800 and will top out at $207,500 for a fully loaded model (both prices include destination). Options include carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber interior trim and a carbon fiber roof.
Well-heeled buyers can place their orders starting Feb. 25 at Acura dealerships that are authorized to sell the NSX. Acura hasn’t announced when the cars will be delivered, other than saying it will be this spring.
Once production of the 573-horsepower, all-wheel-drive hybrid is running at full tilt, Acura plans to sell about 800 NSXs a year in the U.S., its largest market globally. The cars will all be built to order in Ohio.
Buyers who don’t want to wait have the option of buying the very first NSX -- VIN 001 -- at the annual Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the end of January. The auction company has previously sold other first-edition new cars -- such as the Corvette Z06 and Cadillac CTS-V -- at the Scottsdale sale to raise money for charitable causes.
Acura says it plans to donate proceeds from the NSX sale to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and Camp Southern Ground, a camp founded by singer Zac Brown for at-risk kids and those from military families.


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Apple on Tuesday took the next step toward protecting Mac users from recently disclosed security vulnerabilities that have been shown to affect many kinds of devices.
The move brings Apple closer to being on par with Microsoft in terms of deploying protections for older versions of its desktop operating systems.
On Tuesday Apple said it has come out with patches to the Meltdown security vulnerability — which impacts several generations of Intelchips — for macOS Sierra and OS X El Capitan, which were released in 2016 and 2015, respectively. Apple patched its latest Mac operating system, macOS High Sierra, earlier in January.
The Meltdown issue was first disclosed at the beginning of the month alongside another issue called Spectre that many companies have said is harder to exploit.
When it announced the first Meltdown patch, Apple said that it was working on mitigations against Spectre for Macs, as well as devices running the iOS mobile operating system.
Updating software to protect against the two vulnerabilities hasn’t been without incident. On Monday Intel said some people using its Broadwell and Haswell chips have been dealing with “higher system reboots” after applying updates.


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Supermercados Morelos, a growing local chain of Hispanic grocery stores, is the type of small business worth emulating, according to Marie Johns, deputy administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Johns toured the store at 4704 NW 23 on Wednesday as part of a two-day visit to Oklahoma. The owners of Supermercados Morelos used counseling services offered by the local office of the Small Business Administration when starting and growing their business, which has expanded from one store in 2003 with annual sales of $1.5 million to five stores in Oklahoma and Texas and total sales around $16.5 million.
Co-owner Manuel Gomez said the Small Business Administration helped make possible the “American dream” of owning a business for his family, which emigrated from Mexico. They had never owned a business before, but had experience working in grocery stores.
“They credit much of their opportunity to grow the company to the resources they were able to use from the SBA,” Johns said after her tour. At the store, she was treated to a “fantastic” lunch and shopped for spices and coffee to take home to Washington, D.C.
Johns arrived in Tulsa on Tuesday and visited the Tulsa Metro Chamber and the Cherokee Arts Center in Tahlequah. On Wednesday, she toured the Oklahoma City National Memorial before her stop at Supermercados Morelos.
“Since being in Oklahoma, I've been very happy to see a true spirit of cooperation and collaboration among the different sectors.” As other states struggle with rebuilding their economy, Oklahoma, she said, is on track.
“I've just been very excited about what I'm seeing in Oklahoma.”
She also has visited businesses in San Diego and Charlotte, N.C., and was headed to Wisconsin as part of the tour, which is intended to determine how to provide better support to entrepreneurs through SBA programs.


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Viakoo Service Assurance Manager Ensures Optimal IoT Security System Performance While Dramatically Reducing Downtime
Viakoo highlights the effectiveness of its Service Assurance Manager(SAM)solution for reducing downtime of IoT security systems, such as video and access control, and providing organizations the highest level of security possible. SAM effectively ensures every device on the network is visible and performing as expected to reduce system interruptions and maintain continuous security operations.
Intrinsic ID Launches Software to Protect Billions of Smart, Connected Devices Addressing Worldwide Cybersecurity Challenges
Intrinsic ID announced a new software-only solution that enables every connected device to have a unique identity and hardware-based security anchor, improving the reliability and trustworthiness of these devices, their networks and communications. The IoT security lately has been the subject of international legislation, underscoring the importance of the challenge for worldwide cybersecurity.
Blackline Safety Launches First EU Service Centre
Blackline Safety Corp. announced the launch of its first European Union (EU)-based service centre. As Blackline has achieved 118% revenue growth over the last two years in Europe, the service centre is designed to meet heightened customer demand across the region. The facility occupies a dedicated area within Blackline’s French site, strategically located in the industrial heart of north-eastern France near Lille, and is staffed by an established in-house team of technical and product specialists. Blackline will provide local customer service and offer rentals for Europe out of the centre.
CES 2023 – Unikie Expands It’s IoT Solutions with Low-Energy Bluetooth Technology
Unikie is showcasing a new form of high technology for enabling smart spaces during CES 2023. Every year, millions in value are lost in business environments, retail outlets and warehouses. In addition, sales and retail data is reliant on sales, inventory and manual reporting, making it a hindsight view on business. Unikie is solving this issue and enabling real time awareness by introducing a technology that uses low-energy Bluetooth. It is a new way to create an environment where Bluetooth tags and connectivity bring intelligence to spaces, such as retail stores, warehouses and manufacturing floors.
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Do you need to monitor and manage your indoor air quality, water leakage, and security? Are you looking for a solution that helps drive an unparalleled mix of device-collaborated flexibility, offering a real-time overview of your workplace? Or are you spending up to 90% of your time inside a working space, and looking to monitor […]
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Portnox announced the general availability of the first cloud-native IoT security solution to help mid-market and enterprise businesses address rising Internet of Things (IoT) security threats. Now available via the Portnox Cloud, Portnox’s new IoT fingerprinting and profiling capabilities empower organizations to easily and accurately identify, authenticate, authorize, and segment IoT devices across their network to ensure an effective zero trust security posture.
EMQ Officially Announces ‘EMQX 5.0’ With Support For 100M+ IoT Connections [RealWire]
EMQ officially announced the latest release of its IoT platform and MQTT broker, EMQX 5.0. (View and download EMQX 5.0 at emqx.com and Github.) The latest version has been verified in test scenarios to scale to 100 million concurrent device connections, which is a critically important milestone for IoT designers. It also comes with plenty of exciting new features and huge performance improvements, including a more powerful rule engine, enhanced security management, Mria database extension, and much more to enhance the scalability of IoT applications.


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Sridhar Ramaswamy and Matt Brittin, president of Google for the EMEA region, acknowledged that the year has been tough and that the issues of security, transparency and confidentiality have reached a new level of urgency. They highlighted the ways in which the company has listened and responded to issues raised by users, advertisers and publishers.
“We are facing fairly fundamental problems in the way we think about users, content and advertising,” Ramaswamy said in an address to Advertising Week Europe in London Wednesday morning, pledging to “s & # Actively engage with all stakeholders. aggressively to solve problems and improve things. “
For advertisers, Brittin and Ramaswamy pointed out three areas of interest:
- Insurance and security checks of the mark.
- Verifying that the traffic on the ads is real.
- That advertisers get the fair value for their advertising.
Advertisers have loudly called for third-party verification and verification and improved brand security controls over the past year. The leaders said that they listened and took action. Today, they announced new measurement and brand safety efforts and discussed how current features will apply to the GDPR.
Updates of third-party measures
“It is clear that there is a strong need for commonly accepted standards for measuring advertising,” Ramaswamy told the audience. “It is also clear to all of us that these measures must be verified by third parties and measured by third parties.”
He stated that Google already supports Media Ratings Council (MRC) 30 standards for clicks, impressions, visibility, and more on all devices. Ramaswamy announced that the company was currently working on obtaining certification for  40 additional MRC metrics some in collaboration with third parties such as Integral Ad Science, Moat and DoubleVerify. Google first announced its opening for the MRC audit in March 2017.
Google is also expanding YouTube’s reach of Nielsen and comScore. The mobile measurement Nielsen on YouTube extends to three new countries: the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
Finally, it extends the extent of comScore for YouTube to nearly 13 countries.
To help advertisers compare YouTube advertising to TV campaign performance Ramasamy announced a new partnership with the German group AGF. This effort will be launched later this year with other plans for groups in other developing markets. AGF has included YouTube’s reach data in its numbers since 2015.
Transparency and brand security for advertisers
“It was clear to us that we had platform-level issues on YouTube with content that should not have existed,” Ramaswamy said of advertisers’ reactions to commercials reprehensible and extremist.
He reiterated the initiatives previously announced and stated that the company is on track to hire the more than 10,000 manual content reviewers that he’s committed to adding.
Ramaswamy announced that the best 5% of channels on YouTube was now available in the UK.
“As part of the brand’s security on YouTube, you’ve all said, we need independent standards and an independent audit of these standards,” said Ramaswamy. “We are therefore very happy that we now conform to the standard [brand safety] proposed by JICWEBS [the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards in the UK and Ireland].”
Ramaswamy adds that advertisers have indicated that brand security controls in YouTube are too complicated and that the company is simplifying controls that allow advertisers to choose the type of content against which their ads should appear. .
Transparency and privacy are even more prominent in Europe as the May 25 deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approaches.
“We are working hard on [GDPR],” Ramaswamy said, noting that features such as allowing users to extract data and take them to a competing service and view and adjust the data that Google uses to Targeting the ads them in My Account “are all things that help us approach the GDPR.”
The GDPR strengthens the existing data regulations in the EU. The regulation also applies to all companies that process personal data of EU citizens, regardless of the place of residence of the European citizen. (For more information, see our guide on the GDPR site at MarTech Today.)
Ramaswamy said that Google would have more to say about what it does to be ready for GDPR in the coming days and weeks.


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CBSA starts dumping investigation on nitisinone capsules from Sweden
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) launched an investigation into whether or not certain nitisinone capsules from Sweden are being sold at unfair prices in Canada. The investigation follows a complaint filed by two Canadian manufacturers.
In the next step of the investigation the Canadian International Trade Tribunal will first determine whether the imports are harming Canadian producers.
Concurrently, the CBSA will investigate whether the imports are being sold in Canada at unfair and/or subsidized prices.
Anti-dumping duties could eventually be applied to the goods under investigation.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has leaked online via torrent sites across the globe a week before the game’s official release date, with several fans confirming that the leaked version is not a fake.
Various Black Ops 2 gameplay videos have been appearing online over the last week with rumors circulating of broken street dates across Europe. Now the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game have appeared online to download and several users who have tried them out claim that they are real.
Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar had a little something to say to users who are planning on playing the game early, “I’m really glad people are excited for the game,” he said on Twitter. “Legit streams coming up later this week and early next. Watch this space.”
“If you are going to live-stream the game early, which I don’t remotely recommend, you could at least be good at it. :P”
So it appears, for the moment at least, that nobody is going to get banned for playing the game early.


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CREDITS: This article was first published in by ORDRE, and AgencyChina gratefully acknowledges permission to post it here.
Over the past decade, the growing importance of affluent Chinese consumers has transitioned from notable footnote in the retail sector to a major driving force shaping the luxury fashion industry. Before the next decade is over, Chinese consumers are expected to account for 44% of the total global spend on luxury; in real figures this equates to $150 billion annually out of the projected overall $400 billion (according to McKinsey & Company in Chinese Luxury Consumers: The 1 trillion renminbi opportunity, 2017).
The top luxury industry players are now in no doubt about where consumer power lies – the question is whether they are able to fully understand it. Recent events would suggest not: Dolce & Gabbana, Balenciaga and Burberry have all radically misjudged how to navigate cultural nuance on the mainland. “Over the past few years, the pressure to be original in China has been building,” explains Claudia Verbost, managing director of AgencyChina, a sales and marketing company based in Europe and China. “While some brands have thrived under that pressure, others have unfortunately not. This results in very different Chinese New Year campaigns across the board.”
As companies across the world celebrate the year of the pig (from February 5th) AgencyChina’s Verbost goes through the CNY fashion campaigns explaining some winning Chinese New Year campaigns & a one loser.
Winner – Gucci
With growth continuing at Gucci, the introduction of a Chinese New Year collection via a WeChat article, “The Gucci Pig Family,” is a genuine CNY success. This innovative promotion linked customers to a mini-program for purchasing associated paraphernalia which, according to Verbost, was particularly effective in establishing a relationship with a younger Chinese audience.
Verbost comments that, “This played up the cute idea of a pig used in collaboration with Disney. Also what makes this campaign stand out on social media is funny, downloadable stickers and on Weibo edited videos with KOLs. Interestingly though, the angle of the pig’s pose was referred to as “sexy” by some netizens. This is probably not something you’d expect to hear in Europe or the US, illustrating a difference in Chinese audience’s interpretations and campaigns should be made with that in mind.”
Loser – Bulgari
The only positive from Bulgari’s misjudged WeChat promotion was that it was short-lived. “This one attempted humour, but snowballed into a minefield by using a wordplay involving the Mandarin word for pig which is similar to the pronunciation of Jew in English,” Verbost observes. “It caused a stir among a good share of the Chinese Netizens. In today’s world, it is incredibly ill-advised to use cultural or religious references unless used authentically and in excellent and appropriate good taste. This was definitely a miss.”
Bulgari, Courtesy WeChat
Winner – Dior
Dior’s campaign – another hit – was introduced across three WeChat posts which told the story of how the brand designed a new “Toile de Jouy” print in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Verbost praises them for culturally sensitive attention to detail: “Across their posts, the brand explains that it’s inspired by the elegant French fabrics used for the interior of the very first Christian Dior Boutique. Here, they cleverly connected the design of red flowers and patterns to the happiness and wealth of Chinese Culture. A big win across a dedicated collection of bags, wallets, jewellery and sneakers.”
Dior, Coutesy WeChat
Winner – Swarovski
As most brands stuck to the more traditional Chinese custom of gift-giving to generate sales during the festival, Swarovski went for a more progressive, empowering route within this framework.
Verbost is impressed: “I would say Swarovski’s tactic this season was quite unique. This year, rather than encouraging passive consumption, it went another way, encouraging women to buy themselves a gift. In line with a rising movement of female empowerment, this is definitely a thought-provoking campaign.”
Swarovski, Courtesy WeChat
Given the challenges, it’s understandable that many brands have shied away from embracing the lucrative opportunity this festival represents. Verbost acknowledges that some brands remained tellingly quiet during this Chinese New Year’s Celebration by choosing not to promote any specific collection or run a dedicated CNY campaign. But, by failing to engage, it’s not just one annual festival which they are missing out, as she remarks: “I think in these cases, brands like Tiffany or even Lacoste, are sticking to what they know and are good at – namely Valentines Day. But the great thing about this is they have ample opportunity for that with China’s four Valentine’s days!”


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IHA Announces Earlier Saturday Start Time to 2013 Housewares Show
June 20, 2012,
ROSEMONT, Ill.-The 2013 International Home + Housewares Show will open at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 2 and close at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, the International Housewares Association (IHA) announced today. The switch to an earlier start time follows a successful Saturday opening at noon last year.
"The decision to adjust the hours slightly was made after a full review of all the buyer scan data and listening to all of our customer segments through surveys, exhibitor and retailer advisory groups and one-to-one conversations," said Phil Brandl, president of IHA. "Lengthening the 2012 Show to a four-day pattern was extremely well received by our retail customers. Survey data shows the average length of stay for a buyer increased by almost one-half day."
Janis Johnson, president and founder of Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group, said she supports the change. "At Gourmet Catalog we are thrilled with the announcement of earlier opening hours for the 2013 Show," she said. "We will plan a robust offering for our store and vendor members in order to take full advantage of the extended show dates and hours."
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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is plugged into the future
Read the articles in full - you might get the proper story.
Right now it seems many are only accepting half the facts on what's happening regarding acceptance of electric vehicles into the world's new car markets.
Fed a diet of such headlines as "Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars by 2040" and "Volvo to go all-electric with new models from 2019" and "Oil barons face a slow death by electrification", many are convinced that the new vehicle markets of the near future will be exclusively full electric cars.
But the truth is that the scenario isn't quite that.
What car companies such as Sweden's Volvo are actually saying is that in future none of their vehicles will be without an electric motor. That means that while some of them will be pure electric vehicles, others will be plug-in hybrids and even ordinary petrol-electric hybrids.
And that's what the British government is saying too. It won't be banning hybrid cars either - it's just that like many other European countries it doesn't want any new vehicles on its roads that are powered solely by petrol or diesel engines.
Of course the takeup of fully electric cars may accelerate faster than experts are forecasting - it's all to do with what's known as critical mass. So what is happening now is that the car companies are preparing for this eventuality.
BMW is a classic example. Just a few days ago it announced that all its brands and model series can be electrified, with full-electric or plug-in hybrid drivetrains offered in addition to combustion engine options. The company added that its vehicle production system is also fully adaptable so that if required, it can quickly increase production of electric models to meet market developments.
BMW forecasts that by 2025 electrified vehicles will account for up to 25 per cent of sales - but it adds that factors such as regulation, incentives and charging infrastructure will play a major role in determining the scale of this electrification from market to market.
It will be interesting to see what the EV scene will be like by the middle of the next decade. Given the rapid expansion of the charging station network, there will be fast-charge facilities all over the place. Not only that, but battery technology will have improved so that the so-called range anxiety will be less of an issue - for example, a few weeks ago Hyundai claimed it will launch a fully EV version of a new SUV called Kona that will have a range on an overnight charge of around 400km.
Not only that, but it may well be that vehicle design will have progressed so that instead of popping in your local service station to gas up as you do now, you'll call in to replace your vehicle's battery pack with a fully charged one.
All this future-forecasting came to mind this week as we spent a few days behind the wheel of New Zealand's biggest-selling plug-in electric vehicle, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV.
This is an impressive medium-sized SUV that offers the best of both worlds - under normal circumstances (as in the daily commute) it has sufficient battery charge to run as a pure EV all of the time via two 60kW electric motors, one for each axle; but for a longer trip a 2-litre petrol engine starts up that operates as a sort of power station on wheels, charging the 12kWh lithium-ion battery that feeds the electric motors.
And if going gets tougher - as in needing more grunt to get up hills or to pass slower vehicles - then the Mitsi turns into a conventional hybrid by combining both the electric motors and the petrol engine.
Lots of motorists now own an Outlander PHEV and they know that the process of keeping the battery charged is easy and economical. Each night they simply plug the vehicle in to an ordinary household power point, and it will take about 6.5 hours to fully charge. We're told that off-peak power supply rates run at an average of 17 cents per kilowatt hour, so that means the daily cost of charging the Mitsubishi is not much more than $1.
If the owner is running short of charge - and once the battery gets to less than 30 per cent of full charge the petrol motor will kick into life to generate more power - then he or she can always call into a fast-charge station to get the battery back to 80 per cent charge in about 20 minutes. Various other actions, such as a controllable level of regenerative braking, can also help maintain charge.
But during ordinary day-to-day use none of this needs to happen. The Outlander PHEV's range has recently been improved so it can run for up to 50km on a full charge, which is easily enough for most peoples' daily commute. That explains why Mitsubishi can claim an average petrol consumption of as low as 1.7 litres per 100km - the petrol engine simply doesn't need to be used much of the time.
Right now there are several other vehicles with electrified powertrains that are grabbing the publicity limelight, but it could be said that it is this Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV that is the real pointer to our electric motoring future. That's because more people are driving it than any other plug-in vehicle.
In doing so, they are happily preparing themselves and others for an electric future - and a time when maybe the headlines will ring entirely true.


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Israeli Finance Minister to Meet in Davos With Amazon, Google
Moshe Kahlon, who is in Davos, Switzerland to participate in the annual World Economic Forum, announced the meetings in an interview with Israeli Military Radio
Omri Milman | 12:35 22.01.2019
Israeli Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon, who is in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday to participate in the annual World Economic Forum, is set to meet with representatives of multinational tech giants Amazon and Google. Kahlon announced the meetings in an interview Tuesday morning with Galei Zahal, a national radio station operated by the Israeli military. Kahlon said the purpose of his meeting with Amazon is the company’s interest in entering the Israeli market.
Amazon had had an on-the-ground presence in Israel since 2015 when it acquired Israel-based chip-designer Annapurna Labs. In October 2018, the company opened new 25,000-square-meter-offices in Tel Aviv, which now house the Alexa Voice Shopping team, the local Amazon Web Services operations, and Annapurna Labs team, among others.
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