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Jul 01, 2017
Nevada fifth US state to legalise sale of recreational Marijuana, celebrations ensue in VegasPeople began buying marijuana after midnight, just months after voters approved legalisation, marking the fastest response from ballot boxs to sales.
Jul 04, 2016
What's it like to be a porcupine amid poaching menace, asks Maneka GandhiUnion Minister Maneka Gandhi explains how a porcupine is poached in large numbers for its quills and claws which have so-called indigenous medicinal use
Jun 17, 2016
Buy a Tata car, be an Uber driver: Both cos tieup for a new schemeThose Uber drivers who avail the scheme will also be able to buy insurance from Tata AIG
Jun 16, 2016
Tata, Uber join hands to create 20,000 micro-entrepreneursUnder this partnership, the two companies plan to enable 20,000 drivers across the country start their own businesses on the Uber platform over the next one year
Mar 16, 2015
Untold story: When Ratan Tata took a sweet revenge on Ford for his 'humiliation' in 1999Ford chairman Bill Ford thanked Tata, saying 'you are doing us a big favour by buying JLR
Jun 04, 2014
Is the driver who hit Gopinath Munde's car really to blame?Gurvinder Singh, the driver of the Indica which hit Gopinath Munde's SX-4 car and caused Munde's death, was released on bail by a Delhi court on Tuesday.
Jun 03, 2014
Court grants bail to driver in Munde's accident caseDuring the brief hearing, the police told the court that further investigation was going on to find out whether there was any conspiracy behind the incident.
Jun 03, 2014
Accused driver had jumped red light, was speeding: policeSingh, however, was given bail by Metropolitan Magistrate Puneet Pahwa after he was produced before him later in the afternoon.
Jan 20, 2014
Revotron: Tata Motors unveils indigenous petrol engineThe Revotron series has been developed with inputs from renowned global players in the area of combustion, boosting, friction and calibration to deliver class leading performance.

Jan 02, 2014
Tata Motors sales fall 42% in DecemberTotal passenger vehicle sales in the domestic market stood at 9,272 units in December, down 34.63 percent from 14,185 units in the same month previous year.


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Nobody walks into a Dave & Buster’s looking for a mellow meal out with friends.
Patrons of the restaurant and entertainment venue are of a particular ilk. They like to eat, drink and play. They like their food in nacho form or bacon-wrapped, their sports soaked up in raucous group settings, their games flashy and instantly gratifying and, if they happen to leave with a giant stuffed gorilla under their arm — well, it’s been a good day.
“She’s begrudgingly along for the ride,” said Helene Sobelman, a hint of malicious jest in her voice as she nodded toward her friend Saturday morning.
Maureen Hopper, of Fultonville, had never been to a Dave & Buster’s until Saturday, when a new, 33,000-square-foot location opened next door to Dick’s Sporting Goods in Crossgates Mall.
“It’s overwhelming,” Hopper said. “Lots of lights, lots of sounds, lots of games. I played one that was kind of cool, but, whew, this is something.”
Sobelman and Hopper were a familiar pairing at the Saturday grand opening. Sobelman grew up in New York City and remembered the thrill of an afternoon spent at Dave & Buster’s. When the company announced last month it was coming to the Capital Region, she joined the bandwagon of other D&B fans counting down the days until its arrival. Hopper, on the other hand, played the reluctant friend — the one who’d only ever heard of Dave & Buster’s and thought maybe it was the name of a men’s clothing store.
“When I go down and visit my family in the city. I will stop in at one,” said Sobelman, who moved to Albany for college 15 years ago. “I took it for granted all those years. It’s just something fun to do other than going out to bars and drinking or going out to clubs and dancing.”
In addition to its restaurant, Dave & Buster’s boasts an impressive lineup of arcade games. The new location has more than 170 games. The arcade area flashes in neon greens and blues and laser reds. It’s easy to get lost between old-school games like Skee Ball, Pac Man and Connect 4 and popular new games like Temple Run, Dark Escape and Dizzy Chicken.
“The closest thing to it, which actually isn’t really the same at all, but if you’ve ever been up to Saratoga at the Racino, it’s like that,” said Sobelman. “But here, you just hang out and play video games with no chance of winning money, yet somehow that’s more fun to me.”
It’s fun for children, as well, who can easily spend an hour or more glued to bright screens and consoles. The big thrill is, of course, the easy stream of prize tickets each game spits out.
“I like that you can win a lot of tickets on these games,” said Sara Williams, 12, who had just run over to her father with a bucket full of them. “You trade them in for prizes, and they’re actually good here. There are stuffed animals and big prizes, too. Like, other places you get like a Tootsie Roll for like five tickets.”
Williams’ parents, Ellen and David, took she and her siblings to Dave & Buster’s in New York City once when they were younger. They weren’t exactly counting down for the venue to open its doors in Albany, but they said it’s only right they take the kids on opening day, since it’s only five minutes from where they live.
“You’re at the mall, you can go and have dinner and the parents can relax while the kids play some games and give the parents a chance to talk,” said Ellen Williams, of Guilderland.
Gary Passardi, director of new store openings, said more than 200 people had already passed through in just the first hour. Many patrons were brand new to the Dave & Buster’s world, he said.
“There are some folks coming in who have familiarity with us, say, from other cities that they have visited,” Passardi said. “But in this market, it seems to be a lot of first-time guests coming in and seeing the facility and going, ‘Wow.’ ”

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Hong Kong ready to do business with Alabama
A trade official met Thursday with Alabama leaders to spread the word that there's money to be made in Hong Kong despite recent political upheaval and a global economic shift.
People unhappy with what they see as a too-slow move toward full democracy took to the streets of Hong Kong last year for months of protests. Those protests have since dwindled but could be reignited by another vote that's expected in July, said Steve Barclay, the director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York.
"I think only a fool would argue against it," Barclay said. "We have to work on the basis that there will be more protests. What shape and form they will take, we don't know."
He planned to outline the situation Thursday during meetings with Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, Commerce Department Trade Director Hilda Lockhart and others.
Barclay said the protests' impact on business and trade has been minimal. "There was no disruption to financial services," he said. "We were worried that retail would be down, but it was up. We were worried that the tourist numbers would drop. They increased 16 percent last year.
"The mom and pop shops and retailers in the vicinity of the occupations were hard-hit, but thus far we've come out of it pretty well."
Alabama's direct exports to Hong Kong more than doubled from 2009 to 2010 as the effects of the recession spurred more people to look overseas for business. But exports have dipped since, and now the domestic economy is improving while overseas growth slows.
Still, Barclay said Hong Kong's value remains as a key gateway between the two biggest economies in the world, America and China. As a market that functions in both English and Chinese with a business-friendly tax structure and legal system, he said it's a place where people who are taking the plunge into overseas trade are "far less likely to lose their shirts."
The end of the recession is no reason to back out, he said.
"There will be another recession here someday," Barclay said. "Better to be well-placed overseas to ride out some dips here, rather than let overseas business fade away and have to start again the next time you get a recession."
Barclay's predecessor, Donald Tong, met with state leaders here 2012. Two separate Alabama delegations then visited Asia to follow up on those discussions. They came away with what Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield described as "targeted industries" – like aerospace and auto manufacturing - that could get a boost from Chinese investment, via Hong Kong.
A lot has changed since then, but Barclay said the Hong Kong market's potential has not.
"The opportunities are there," Barclay said. "It's whether people feel compelled to (explore them)."


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The Mobile Network Company AT&T has been blocking the CloudFlare DNS service. When users complained about this issue the company released a statement saying the company has been blocking the service by accident and will fix the issue as soon as possible.
Cloudflare unveiled the DNS service on April 1st and from the day of launch AT&T users weren’t able to access it.
“I am now unable to reach 188.8.131.52 and 184.108.40.206, which is unfortunate because those are the DNS servers I use,” one user wrote.
While some users complained that they were able to use the DNS, but later received a firmware update that blocked the service. The name of the firmware update is AT&T’s Arris BGW210-700.
“I have a BGW210-700 from AT&T. I was using 220.127.116.11 and 18.104.22.168 without issues until this morning,” one user wrote on April 10. “From the logs, it seems AT&T pushed a new firmware down to the device and restarted it remotely. Now, I cannot reach 22.214.171.124 or 126.96.36.199.”
“188.8.131.52 was working for me on AT&T after Cloudflare released 184.108.40.206, then shortly after that it ceased working,” another AT&T customer wrote this week. “Maybe the firmware update has a bug, but it’s very suspiciously timed.” In reply to that comment, another user said that “it worked for a day or so and then stopped.”
There are a lot of discussions that popped up over Reddit which pointed to the complaints that described ongoing problems. The CEO of the Cloudflare thought the blocking was intentional and AT&T is working against the Cloudflare standard.
Once upon a time @ATTcares used to promise they’d enable the future, so disappointing they now appear to be actively locking down the past and breaking Internet standards in the process.
Although there’s speculation to think the blocking wasn’t intended, AT&T’s public positions on net neutrality and privacy helped make people suspicious about the company’s motives. AT&T sued the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 in order to repeal net neutrality rules that prevent ISPs from blocking or throttling websites and online services.
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Okay, so you’ve had a full day now to play with Apple’s new iOS 10 update and you’ve read our coverage to learn all of the best tips and tricks out there. Now it’s time to get back to filling your phone with nifty paid iPhone and iPad apps that are on sale for free for a limited time. More →
Ladies and gentlemen, iOS 10 is finally here! After a long beta period that began back in June, Apple released the finished version of iOS 10 to the public this week and so far, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. People love the refinements in Apple’s latest OS, and if your iMessages have been anything like ours lately, they also love all the new Messages effects and third-party iMessage apps that are now supported in iOS 10. Sure there were a few bumps in the road, but things are going reasonably smoothly following the release of Apple’s new iOS 10 software for the iPhone and iPad. Of course, that doesn’t mean that everyone is happy with all the changes Apple made this year.
We showed you the 10 best new features in iOS 10 and we’ve also shown you 25 hidden iOS 10 features you probably had no idea were there. Now, it’s time to show you how to fix all the most annoying changes Apple make in its latest mobile operating system. More →
There are plenty of advantages Apple’s iPhone lineup has over rival smartphones. They’re faster, smoother and far more refined by most measures, and they’re supported by a third-party app ecosystem with quality that is completely unmatched. Every smartphone supports apps, of course, but none are as consistent as iOS apps and none offer the same level of quality. Even big-name developers that develop apps for multiple platforms have said as much.
But nothing is perfect, of course, and iOS definitely has its shortcomings. One of the most common gripes among savvy smartphone users is that iOS isn’t customizable enough, and it’s certainly a valid complaint. In this post, we’re going to show you a crazy glitch in iOS that will let you customize the appearance of your iPhone so that it looks completely different from anyone else’s. And the best part is that you don’t even need to jailbreak your device. More →
Apple’s big press conference last week obvious focused on the companies latest and greatest smartphones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. We’ve yet to get our hands on the new models so our review is forthcoming, but early reviews suggest Apple’s new iPhones are far less boring than some tech blogs might have led you to believe ahead of the iPhone 7’s debut. They’re hardly perfect and there’s no question that there are some issues that will bother users, but they’re easily the best iPhones Apple has ever made and they’re the most powerful smartphones on the planet by a wide margin. You can check out an iPhone 7 review roundup right here.
On Wednesday, however, attention is turning to the third new product Apple unveiled on stage last week during its big event: the Apple Watch Series 2. The early reviews are in and, as is the case with every second-generation gadget that has ever existed, reviewers are saying they wish this new version was the device Apple released in the first place. Thankfully there were a few more meaningful things said about the new Apple Watch Series 2, and you’ll find our review roundup below. More →
Today is a happy day for Apple fans, what with the company having just released its brand new iOS 10 software. Well, okay, so it’s not a happy day for all Apple fans. If your iPhone or iPad is still working after being updated to iOS 10 though, definitely check out the nine paid iOS apps we’ve found for you today that are all on sale for free. More →
Safety implications aside, this has to be the greatest and most hilarious story of comeuppance we’ve seen in a long time in consumer tech.
Xiaomi, for those unaware, is a China-based smartphone startup that has found tremendous success in the cell phone market. In the company’s early days, it launched inexpensive, relatively high-quality Android phones that looked like iPhones. In fact, it shamelessly copied every move Apple made. It even once launched a phone by having an executive in jeans and a black mock turtleneck host a press conference. Seriously, we’re not joking.
Then, Xiaomi moved on and started to copy everything Samsung did, too. It launched nice big phones that mirrored Samsung’s nice big phones, and it even has a line of phablets with built-in styluses. But now, Xiaomi has taken things a step too far. More →
If you’ve been reading about iOS 10 all summer long with envy as other people chat about the iOS 10 beta that you didn’t quite have enough faith in to install, it’s time to put an end to the jealousy. And we can’t say we blame you, by the way — the iOS 10 beta run has been extremely stable, but Apple has released some truly shaky beta software in the past so it’s understandable if some people made sure to avoid it.
Today marks the end of the beta period though, and Apple’s new iOS 10 software has been released for all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. More →
As long as you’re not hoping for any truly innovative or revolutionary new features, Apple’s new iOS 10 software is a pretty terrific update. It’s packed full of great new features, many of which iPhone and iPad users have been clamoring for — here are the 10 best new features you’ll find in iOS 10. You’ll also find tons of refinements and enhancements across the board. Nearly every Apple app has been updated with nifty new functionality, and Siri is smarter than ever in iOS 10.
Of course, there are also some changes in iOS 10 that users aren’t going to be particularly happy about. In some cases users will come around over time and in others, they won’t. Regardless, get ready to see plenty of complaining once iOS 10 hits the general public on Tuesday. One of the biggest complaints you’re going to see is going to focus on big hits to battery life, but don’t start to panic just yet. More →
Apple has two brand new iPhones set to launch this Friday, and after reading all the early reviews, there’s precious little question that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are the best iPhones Apple has ever made. But you don’t need to shell out between $650 and $970 to experience “new,” because Apple is releasing a fresh new version of the iOS operating system on Tuesday.
That’s right, the final version of iOS 10 will finally make its way onto iPhones and iPads around the world beginning today, after a lengthy beta period that got users more and more excited with each new release. Not everyone was willing to jump on the beta train though, so in this post we’ll give you a heads up and show you the 10 biggest changes coming to your iPhone or iPad today with iOS 10. More →
Apple confirmed last week that it does not plan to release opening-weekend sales numbers for the iPhone 7, launching industry watchers and bloggers into a frenzy. Apple obviously knows that no one wants its boring new iPhone 7, right?! Well, the reality of the situation is likely a bit more involved than that. Several factors undoubtedly led to Apple’s decision, and decreased demand could certainly be one of them. If preorder interest is any indication though, all the tech bloggers and analysts who have been calling Apple’s latest iPhones “boring” are in for something of a rude awakening once earnings season comes back around. More →
Apple’s strict public relations policies are nowhere near as strict as they once were. Why should you care? Today, it means that what was once a small and select group of early reviewers is now a much larger pot for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. More reviewers means more varied opinions, which normally doesn’t matter since people generally know even before new iPhones are announced whether or not they plan to buy one. This year, however, people seem to be less sure because visually, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus don’t look like big upgrades.
Can you judge a book by its cover? It’s time to find out if this year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are worth your hard-earned cash. More →
The countdown has officially begun, Apple fans: you have less than five days left before the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are officially released. That means you’ve got just a few days left before you score a new iPhone with twice as much storage as the one you have now. Get ready to fill all that new space with these 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps that are all on sale for free. More →
Apple’s brand new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus finally became a reality last week and as is always the case, people were surprised even though every single major detail had already been revealed. Leaks just never seem to do an adequate job of painting a complete picture when it comes to Apple’s new iPhones. While some tech blogs saw the similar design and immediately assumed the new iPhones would be boring, we now know that’s simply not the case. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are two of the sleekest smartphones we’ve ever seen, and they also just so happen to be the fastest and most powerful handsets ever.
Needless to say, getting the model you want on launch day will be no easy task — but we do have some good news for you. More →


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The new collaboration between the Automotive Journalists of Canada and the Canadian Automobile Association includes launching an online publication to “inform consumers about new engine technologies.” . . . A similarly purposed quarterly magazine titled iCar will be launched in England in May. Specialty magazine publisher Future’s announcement said iCar will cater to “growing consumer interest in more efficient, intelligent and technologically advanced cars. With three revolutions in engine development predicted within the next 30-years, accompanied by a myriad of innovative driver aids and in-car tech systems, iCar has an exciting future ahead building consumer awareness and driving desire.”
TheOldMotor.com, developed to become the “Life Magazine of Vintage Automotive Photography” was launched February 10th by vintage automotive restorer, collector, and expert, David Greenlees. Rare, interesting, entertaining, mysterious, awe inspiring photographs are submitted by knowledgeable car enthusiasts, collected and categorized by TheOldMotor.com expert editorial panel, and displayed on the site. For more information: email@example.com . . . One Minute News, as its name implies, is a new the online- and mobile-based news service specializing in “bite-sized” content, which it is both producing and aggregating, according to Gavin O’Malley in Online Media Daily.


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Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in US in 2012, but in January 2013, the court approved financing for Kodak to emerge from bankruptcy by mid-2013.
In India, 32-inch screen size TVs are still the largest-selling, commanding 37 per cent of sales, followed by 40-42 inch sets, which account for 15% of sales.
Microtek will showcase the range to business professionals, architects, interior designers and urban planners.
Overall we expect a huge push to the sector as a result of the government’s initiative to boost power generation capacity in the country,” said R K Shah.
Electronic components industry in India was valued at USD 13.5 billion in 2015, growing from USD 10.8 billion in 2013.
The only son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee is widely considered as the next leader of the smartphones-to-construction conglomerate
The lifestyle audio division designs, manufactures and markets car audio systems in the mid-to high-end range, and accounted for over $2 billion in sales last year.
LeEco has been hosting this festival in China and in 2015, the Epic 919 festival had become the third largest B2C online shopping festival in China.
Vu, the largest selling TV brand across e-commerce platforms in the country, is also looking to close the fiscal at Rs 600 crore revenue.
LG through this platform will showcase its products with an aim to train 1,000 personnel and invite over 400 consumers every year at the academy.
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Dale Allen, Jordan Brand Director of Sports Marketing, and NBA star Gerald Wallace talk with students. Gerald also presented prizes on stage to the winners of our annual shoe design competition.
A student receives a prize for her entry in the annual shoe design competition at the 5th Annual Jordan Brand Experience...
Students eat lunch and listen to see if their raffle ticket number gets called to win one of many prizes given away at the 4th Annual Jordan Brand Experience...
SCC president Chris Lindauer, NBA star Gerald Wallace and Anthony Roberts, president of Uneek Projects back stage at the 4th Annual Jordan Brand Experience event in Beaverton, OR.
Students pack the auditorium in the Tiger Woods Center for our 4th Annual Jordan Brand Experience event.
Students await the 2012 Jordan Brand Experience event to begin in the auditorium at Nike's World Headquarters
Howard "H" White leads a panel discussion featuring Jordan Brand employees, offering career advice to students and encouraging attendees to follow their passion!
A group of students on campus at the University of Oregon at our "University of Oregon Sports Marketing Conference" on the field at Autzen Stadium as part of their behind-the-scenes tour of the Ducks' athletic facilities
A group of attendees from our 2010 High School Sports Marketing Conference stops to pose for a quick picture outside of the Thomas & Mack Center on campus at UNLV before our presentations and tour.
Chris Lindauer, President of Sports Career Consulting (SCC), addresses students attending the 5th Annual Jordan Brand Experience event at Nike's World Headquarters


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Samsung invested an additional 1.548 billion yuan to increase its FCBGA substrate capacity in South Korea and Vietnam
Samsung Electric (Semco) recently announced that it will increase investment in FCBGA packaging substrate production lines in South Korea and Vietnam. According to the press release, Samsung Electric will invest an additional 300 billion won (1.548 billion yuan) to expand the company's FCBGA substrate capacity in Vietnam and Busan and Sejong In South Korea.
Samsung Electric hopes to further consolidate its position as one of the world's top three IC substrate suppliers and plans to mass-produce high-end ABF substrates for server applications within this year, the company said. Chang Duckhyun, CEO of Samsung Electric, said, "In the future IT environment where ARTIFICIAL intelligence technologies such as robotics, metamaterials and autonomous driving are expanding, next-generation substrate technologies such as SoS (system on Substrate) will be a game changer."
In December 2021, Semco disclosed investments totaling $850 million to establish FCBGA production facilities and infrastructure for its production plant in Vietnam. The investment will be phased in until 2023.


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Maine to Issue Applications for First Marijuana Stores
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's path to legalized sales of marijuana has cleared a major hurdle with the state making applications for retail businesses available.
The state Office of Marijuana Policy said Thursday that license seekers can now start the application process to open businesses that sell marijuana for recreational adult use.
Maine is also taking applications from businesses that want to manufacture or cultivate marijuana for adult use.
Marijuana office director Erik Gundersen said the acceptance of applications meets a goal the department had to make them available by the end of the year.


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The most recent example was the American Society of Agricultural Consultants annual meeting held in Washington, D.C. Three main speakers spoke about educating the public either as their main focus or as portions of their presentation—Mace Thornton, executive director of communications for the American Farm Bureau Federation; Jay Vroom, executive director of CropLife America; and Damian Mason, agricultural and business comedian keynote speaker. Thornton’s presentation was centered around the findings of the U. S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) on how to speak to consumers with messages that don’t upset or turn consumers off to the truth about U.S. agriculture.
Thornton gets involved in some of the USFRA communications because his boss, Bob Stallman, president of the AFBF, is also chairman of USFRA.
The old messages are broken. They don’t work anymore,” Thornton explained. Consumers have become very cynical. Many consumers have thoughts different than expected when they hear food is safe (Is it actually proven healthy without long-term effects?), affordable (Is it low cost from destroying our environment?) and abundant supply (Is that code for corporations to have free rein to produce more for bigger profits?).
The term “language of food” has come into the discussion on how to talk to consumers, although no one really seems to have a solid answer on what that completely entails. But having real farmers and ranchers tell the story of their life, what they produce and how they do it is one of the main thrusts of the USFRA.
Being as transparent as possible about every aspect of U.S. agriculture is expected to win over consumers so they don’t fear their food and do not support legislative and regulatory overreach.
Vroom noted that those of us in agriculturerelated jobs don’t have the full understanding of every aspect of what goes on in the manufacture of agriculture crop and livestock inputs, retailing of fertilizers and feed supplements or the local use of all the various inputs in raising livestock or growing crops.
The few of us involved with businesses associated with agriculture are specialized, Vroom explained. We cannot answer every consumer’s question about agriculture. “The jobs that we do are so specialized that we have trouble understanding what the person in the cubicle next to us is doing, let alone understanding those in crop or livestock production,” he said.
What has to be conveyed to everyone, those in agriculture and outside, is that people involved in agriculture are ethical. The ethics of selling and ag consulting perfectly “wraps together a lot of the things we are trying to do at CropLife America in communicating about the benefits of modern agriculture and how much we are about overall outcomes, in addition to how much we know about the science of modern crop protection and biotechnology.”
Mason put his comedic angle to dealing with the groups who are “vehemently against” modern farming and ranching. Without suggesting a plan of action, he said agriculture has to “fight back” and not be so nice. He said PETA members have been known to throw red paint on women walking down the street wearing a fur coat. But, for good reason, they haven’t gone into a biker bar and thrown paint on a guy wearing a leather coat. He asked, “Are we bikers or rich women in fur coats?”


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Some of the momentum that Nokia gained following last week’s announcement of its new Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones was halted when it was revealed that an ad for its PureView camera technology was faked. The ad featured a “demonstration” of the PureView’s image stabilization technology. However, a reflection in a window gave away that the camera filming a …
This is what happens when good companies go public: the principles that made them good, even necessary, to the point of inspiring a romantic loyalty among their customers, are whittled away at until only those principles which are profitable remain. If it’s true that Google is reconsidering its view of Network Neutrality, let it be said that this is the reason why.
Google says it’s not true, by the way, but we’ll get to that later. This is an exploration of what could happen, a seemingly very likely ethical pickle the search company could find itself in down the road.


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Computer Music news
Image Line FL Studio 9.9
Image Line has released version 9.9 (public beta) of its FL Studio sequencer.
Apple GarageBand for iPad 2
Apple has announced the release of a Garageband app for the iPad (and iPad 2).
Oszillos-Mega Scope v1.2
Benjamin Schulz has announced that Oszillos-Mega-Scope, his free BPM-synced oscilloscope with support for multiple inputs, has been ported to Mac OS X.
SPL & Brainworx Plugins for UAD-2
Universal Audio has announced a partnership with SPL and Brainworx to develop a series of plugins for the UAD-2 platform.
Apple Unveils the iPad 2
Apple has introduced iPad 2, the next generation of its device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, viewing photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks and more.
SKnote has announced the GTS-39 VST effect plug-in modeled after an old limiting tube compressor.
Leisuresonic SynthTronica on the iPad
SynthTronica is available now for the introductory price of $4.99.
Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS) Updated
Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS) was recently updated to version 0.4.10 for both Windows and Linux.
CPU Productions Groove Detective MIDI
CPU Productions announced the release of Groove Detective MIDI, a low-cost version of the drum-loop search utility Groove Detective that will work on MIDI files exclusively.
Plektron Guitar Amp v1.2
Plektron has updated Guitar Amp to version 1.2.


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DESIGNER CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY LAUNCHING NEW HOME STORE IN PALM SPRINGS
Acclaimed Palm Springs interior designer Christopher Kennedy has announced the opening of a new 3,000-square-foot retail store and design center in south Palm Springs. Opening in fall 2014, the store will feature Christopher’s line of furniture, which is carried at to-the-trade design showrooms around the country, alongside hand-picked vintage finds and other contemporary furnishings. The store will also carry Christopher’s lighting for Lamps Plus, his popular Palm Springs Neighborhood candle line, his soon-to-be-released accessory line for a major television shopping channel, and his new collection of pet fashions. Christopher will design the store’s interior, which will feature his signature livable, modern style, with concrete floors and grasscloth walls to create a clean and bright backdrop for his sculptural furniture pieces.
Christopher’s design firm has been based in Palm Springs for the past ten years, with a residential design roster including homes in The Movie Colony in Palm Springs, Thunderbird Heights in Rancho Mirage and at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, and his designs have been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor and Dwell Magazine. Earlier this year, Christopher spearheaded Palm Springs’ first decorator Show House in over a decade, featuring designs by Christopher and Celerie Kemble, Woodson & Rummerfield, Lori Dennis, Patrick Dragonette, Thomas Lavin, Trina Turk, Jiun Ho, Sammy Castro and Tamara Kaye-Honey. Partnering with Modernism Week and Luxe Interiors + Design magazine, the Christopher Kennedy Compound show house attracted over 4,000 people in 10 days, with gross ticket sales of almost $100,000 – the proceeds of which went to Modernism Week.
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According to the traders at Agriculture Produces Market Committee (APMC), Vashi, the demand is steady but the supply of vegetables has gone down. ...http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-maharashtra-vegetable-prices-skyrocket-fueling-aam-aadmi-s-agony-2627495
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'The policy is to consolidate farming into the hands of a few and to take away the food security of the country.''Once food is in the hands of 15... ...http://www.rediff.com/news/interview/modi-wants-farmers-to-work-for-corporates/20180605.htm
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Sep. 26 - Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Financial investment Allies founder, describes how he obtained hooked on cryptocurrencies. While Bitcoin's innovation is mainly limited to the transfer of "coin" ownership for now, Ethereum's network permits "wise contracts" or digital contracts composed using an indigenous shows language, Solidity, to be posted to the blockchain. This permits points like timelocking money or presenting loan to a successor or heirs in the long run, aristocracy payment splits whenever a songs track is downloaded and install, etc.
Blackmoon Crypto's token, known as BMC, will certainly be dispersed during the crowdsale period beginning on September 12, 2017. Currently the holding company, owned by the Blackmoon Financial Group, will provide BMC to the buyers. All funds that will certainly operate the Blackmoon Crypto Platform will create a stream of charges towards the Platform, as well as these fees will be distributed among the owners of Palm Beach Confidential symbols that are signed up in constantprofitsclubz.com/palm-beach-confidential-review-teeka-tiwari-newsletter as Continuous Factors. Contributors will certainly be called for to pick among a wide range of feasible functions as well as perform specified activities to assist us to establish the System. Several of Blackmoon's future funds will also be developed in the Waves system, one of the most popular Ethereum rival. Waves is working to earn blockchain innovation accessible for a number businesses that are not already included or aware of the cryptoworld.
Cryptocurrency functions just like money yet on a digital tool. The expense entailed is less expensive and also there's included security. This is particularly terrific for on-line and also international deals yet lots of predict that cryptocurrencies will change cash in the real life also. Points are altering on the planet, but despite that there's no doubt that cryptocurrency will certainly affect making use of cash, but the notes are definitely not going anywhere.
Ultimately, however, the major cryptocurrency exchanges essentially shrugged in feedback to the cutting in half event. 1 Day trading quantity of Bitcoin, $100.2 million, and also of Ethereum, $10.6 million, are both definitely well within recent typical bounds as well as nothing phenomenal.
Bitcoin is an electronic currency that enables people to move worth to each other and spend for services as well as products by-passing banks and also the mainstream financial system. They'll also be introducing their Centra Market Location called quickly. This will certainly be an online system with public auction abilities like eBay yet will certainly allow trades to be completed making use of cryptocurrency.


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DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler Group LLC may report its smallest quarterly loss since emerging from bankruptcy protection, helped by the biggest sales gains among U.S. automakers.
The automaker may report a third-quarter net loss of $129 million on Monday, based on the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. That would be less than the company's $172 million second-quarter loss and a sign Chrysler is strengthening almost 18 months after emerging from bankruptcy.
Under its government-led overhaul, Italian automaker Fiat SpA was given management control of Chrysler. Fiat also owns a 20 percent stake in Chrysler and has the option of boosting that stake to 35 percent if certain milestones are met.
“Chrysler may prove to be one of 2011's most surprising success stories,” Stuart Pearson, an industry analyst with Morgan Stanley, said in a note to investors this week. He wrote that he expects a “solid if not spectacular quarter.”
The results for the three months through September will be better than for the first two quarters of the year, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in September, according to remarks posted on the company's website.
Chrysler's operating profit may have been $172 million, according to the average of four analysts' estimates. That would be a 6 percent decline from $183 million in the second quarter.
“We already know that we will make more money in the third quarter than we have made in any quarter so far,” according to the text of Marchionne's Sept. 14 speech to Chrysler dealers.
Chrysler, which had a $143 million operating profit in the first quarter, already has topped its forecast for as much as $200 million in operating profit for all of 2010.
“Chrysler might have continued to show a stronger cash flow generation than the business plan expectations,” Monica Bosio, an analyst with Banca IMI in Milan, wrote in a note Oct. 25.
During the third quarter, Chrysler sold 293,000 cars and trucks in the United States, a 20 percent increase from the same period last year, according to Autodata Corp., a Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based researcher.
General Motors Co.'s U.S. sales in the quarter declined 5 percent, while Ford Motor Co.'s rose 7.9 percent, according to Autodata.
Ford reported a $1.69 billion profit for the third quarter. GM, which also went through a U.S. government-backed bankruptcy last year, this week reported preliminary net income of $1.9 billion to $2.1 billion. GM will hold a conference call to discuss the results on Nov. 10.
Chrysler may be becoming too reliant on fleet sales, said Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends at TrueCar.com, an automotive pricing website based in Santa Monica, Calif. The company's sales to corporations, governments and rental car companies made up 37 percent of its U.S. volume during the third quarter, according to TrueCar.
Until the U.S. automaker's relationship with Fiat can result in new products, Chrysler will be “highly dependent” on fleet and rental sales, Toprak said. The industry average during that period was 17 percent.
“Anytime you go over 25 percent in total fleet and rental sales that typically starts to diminish overall residual values and has a negative impact on brand image,” Toprak said.
While Chrysler's reliance on fleet sales shrank from 41 percent in the second quarter, it is higher than the 20 percent level from a year ago, according to TrueCar.
Chrysler, which doesn't release its mix of retail and fleet sales, has defended deliveries to those customers.
“They pay cash for their vehicles just like anyone else,” Fred Diaz, Chrysler's lead sales executive, said during an interview on Oct. 22 in San Antonio.
Marchionne, who also is CEO of Fiat, said he objects to those who classify fleet sales as “dirty.”
Chrysler is relying on fleet customers and lower incentives until the company can introduce new vehicles, said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst with Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, Calif.
“It seems like they are bridging to a point when they have the product to be more aggressive,” Caldwell said.
Purchasing data from the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power shows how fleet sales can mean lower prices for automakers. The utility purchased 400 of the 2009 Dodge Avenger SXT sedans last year at an average price of $14,868.69, according to the city-owned power provider. The average transaction price of that model for retail customers was $19,684 a year ago, according to Edmunds.
Marchionne has reduced U.S. consumer discounts, with incentive spending falling 21 percent from a year earlier to $3,125 per vehicle during the quarter. Chrysler's retail business has improved with the introduction of the redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee, Caldwell said.
“It's good to have a vehicle that's out there selling in the market, over 10,000 units, and is not really dependent on incentives,” Caldwell said. Last month, U.S. dealers sold 12,721 Grand Cherokees.
The average transaction price of a Chrysler vehicle during the third quarter was $29,350, 6.4 percent more than last year, according to Edmunds.
The U.S. accounted for 73 percent of the company's global sales, which rose 17 percent from a year earlier to 401,067, according to the company.


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Anite was presented with an Innovation Award by a representative of China Mobile at an evening event hosted by Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) during the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona on the 26th of February. The award recognised Anite’s achievements as a leading vendor of wireless test solutions and in particular its interoperability test solution, SAS.
Anite’s SAS interoperability solution supports the largest number of tests for Tier-1 device acceptance programmes. It has enabled Anite to become the first device test vendor to achieve the 80 per cent validation target for GTI Priority-1 TD-LTE interoperability test cases for device functionality and performance in LTE Bands 38 and 40. This landmark target is important as it highlights Anite’s leading position in developing mobile operator device acceptance test cases.
Major mobile operators around the world are using lab-based device testing as it offers a cost-effective way to perform controllable, repeatable and automated device testing. These operators are now looking to ensure that the next generation of mobile devices deliver on the promise of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). In the run up to the Mobile World Congress, Anite announced that it had achieved peak data rates with commercial devices for LTE-A carrier aggregation – requirements driven by leading US operators. The availability of reliable high speed data rates is growing in importance as subscribers increasingly want to access data intensive mobile services ‘on the move’.
Mike Bonin, Managing Director at Anite, who accepted the award, said, “We are excited to have received this award from GTI for our contributions to the TD-LTE community. This recognition demonstrates that Anite, with its interoperability and performance test solutions, plays a key role in ensuring that new devices are developed and launched according to end-users expectations.”


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The ecommerce industry is always changing and this year has been no different. More than ever, merchants are creating and/or improving their ecommerce businesses to meet customers where they are. While it may seem like everything in ecommerce is evolving, we narrowed it down to the biggest trends that will affect businesses in the coming months and years
These are some of the current e-commerce trends that a changing retail marketing the digital era.
Augmented reality enhances the reality of online shopping.
Augmented reality (AR) has been a complete game changer for ecommerce. With this type of technology, shoppers can truly see the item they’re shopping for, which helps them make a buying decision. AR really changes the shopping experience in specific industries, such as fashion and home decor because the customer can get a better feel for the item without seeing it in-person.
There will be a growing volume of voice search.
Not only do more people own smart speakers, but they also rely on voice assistants to complete daily tasks. Loop Ventures forecasts that 75% of U.S. households will own a smart speaker by 2025.
As more homes adopt smart speakers, more consumers will utilize voice search to shop online, order food and organize their lives. The rise of voice search creates an opportunity for ecommerce businesses in terms of keywords and content.
AI helps shops learn about shoppers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning make it possible for the customer to have automated, personalized shopping experiences. AI is continuously collecting data on how a customer shops, when they buy purchases and what they’re looking for in a product or a service. It’s a piece of technology that really can’t be replicated in-store.
On-site personalization uses those insights to create individualized experiences.
Buyers of all sorts — including B2C and B2B — are looking for personalized, custom shopping experiences online. The data collected from AI is what makes it possible for a buyer to get personalized product recommendations and detailed customer service.
Implementing personalized experiences on-site or in marketing efforts has been shown to have a strong effect on revenue, with one study finding it had a 25% revenue lift for retailers scaling advanced personalization capabilities.
Big data plays a role in creating personalized experiences.
Today, many consumers are more aware that ecommerce sites are collecting personal data, which puts them at risk. Because of this, experts have mixed feelings about the benefits of big data and how it affects the personalized shopping experience.
Chatbots improve shopping experiences.
Chatbots interact with online shoppers much like an in-store sales associate would do. Today’s shopper wants to be able to find and buy a product in just a few clicks, and if they can’t, they get frustrated. This is where a chatbot can step in and save the sale.
Experts predict that 80% of businesses will be using chatbots in 2020.
Mobile shopping is still on the move.
Mobile shopping allows customers to make purchases from anywhere, which is vital in today’s world. However, if your ecommerce site isn’t responsive on mobile or through web apps, you’ll be missing out on big opportunities. Shoppers who are mobile users want the added convenience, plus the ability to pay digitally.
In 2019, Statista estimated that by the end of 2021, 73% of ecommerce sales will take place on a mobile device.
More ways to pay.
Customers have individual needs when it comes to payment methods, but they might cancel a potential sale if they can’t pay how they want on an ecommerce website. Offering a wide variety of ways to pay is a good way to increase conversion rates on mobile devices. Plus, if customers can save their payment information on your site, they’ll be able to checkout even faster the next time they make a purchase.


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Crytek's Crysis and Epic Games' Unreal Tournament 3 have both been treated to significant amounts of hype from the PC gaming scene since well before their launch. The two games finally came out last month, but according to a November sales report quoted by Shacknews, neither title really sold all that well.
The sales report, which was compiled by research firm NPD and posted by the simExchange, says Crysis and UT3 sold 86,633 units and 33,995 units, respectively, in the United States last month. Those numbers are considerably lower than those for, say, Assasin's Creed for the Xbox 360, which sold close to one million copies (980,000, to be exact) over a similar time frame. Call of Duty 4 was the clear best-seller last month, though, with a staggering 1.57 million units sold throughout November since its launch on November 6.
Overall, NPD and the simExchange forecast sales of 716,000 copies of Crysis and 540,000 copies for Unreal Tournament 3. Those numbers pale in comparison to the expected sales of 2.71 million for Assassin's Creed and 4.57 million for Call of Duty 4.
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Sydney, Australia (PressExposure) September 16, 2008 -- Australian based company HotelsCombined.com today announced that Paul Hayden, until recently Global SEO Manager at HotelClub.com (part of Orbitz Worldwide), has been appointed Director of Digital Marketing
Yury Shar, Managing Director and former Executive of HotelClub.com commented, âWe are delighted to have someone of Paulâs caliber joining our dynamic young team. Paulâs experience of running search and social marketing programs in the travel vertical will be invaluable to HotelsCombined.com as it embarks to take over the hotel industry.â
Regarding his latest appointment, Mr Hayden remarked, âI am excited to be joining HotelsCombined.com as meta search is fast becoming the ânowâ and will be the future of online accommodation. The HotelsCombined.com team has done an amazing job in building the worldâs most advanced hotel meta search engine. Whatâs more they are the only meta search engine that has achieved such high profitability at such an early stage. This allows them to take on their highly financed competitors and better them in the hotel space.â
Mr Hayden resigned from Orbitz Worldwide after several years of playing an instrumental role in growing their search engine optimization and social marketing channel, in addition to working as a consultant to sister companies Orbitz.com and EBookers.com and major affiliate partners of HotelClub.com.
HotelsCombined.com has partnered with more than 30 of the most visited travel websites including Intercontinental.com, Booking.com and Hotels.com to build the single largest database of hotels in the world featuring over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations. HotelsCombined.com searches the travel websites in real-time to show consumers availability and the optimal hotel deals. For more information visit http://www.HotelsCombined.com


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A small lift in the U.S. stock futures underpinned indications for a second day of gains in New York as global stocks rose overnight. A surprisingly strong growth reading for Japan's second quarter was expected to bolster sentiment for equities globally. The gains came on upbeat business spending, giving some hope to capital spending outlooks. Markets are expected to stay largely range bound ahead of a decision on interest rates from the U.S. Federal Reserve. Economists aren't expecting a change to U.S. rates, but are looking for guidance from the Fed on inflation risk. U.S. Treasury bond yields have been rising on concerns the Fed's easing cycle has ended.
European chip stocks Infineon Technologies (623100) and ASML (33436) were higher, and electronics retailer Dixons Group (DXNS) rose for the second day, indicating expectations for demand improvement in the tech sector. Tokyo stocks rose on the growth data.
Merrill Lynch raised earnings estimates for investment banks in the August quarter, lifting its projection on Goldman Sachs
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- The BTM/UBS retail chain-store index rose 0.1 pct in the last week, buoyed by an initial round of back-to-school spending which was stronger than the year-earlier period. For Aug, the BTM/UBS is expecting easier comparisons with Aug 2002, income tax rebate checks and reduced tax rates to help boost industry same-store sales to growth of 3-4 percent. In July, industry same-store sales rose 4.2 percent.
- Department store J.C. Penney
-2.30%said its loss narrowed in the second quarter to 2 cents a share, yet it issued a cautious-but-in-line forecast amid expectations operating profit in its Eckerd's division are likely to be below last year's level in the third quarter.
- drugmaker AstraZeneca
-0.05%was up close to one percent in London morning trading ahead of anticipated approval later Tuesday from the Food and Drug Administration on its cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor, a rival to Pfizer's PFE, -0.15%Lipitor.
- Shares of Dynegy
rallied 23 cents, or 7.7 percent, to $3.20 in Instinet trading after the electricity and natural gas company announced late Monday the closing of $1.625 billion in refinancing transactions, including the offering of $1.45 billion in senior secured notes and $175 million in convertible debt.
- Moody's Investors Service placed Sun Microsystems'
-2.36%"Baa1" senior unsecured debt on review for possible downgrade, citing the continued decline in operating performance and limited profitability. The stock was unchanged at $3.58 in pre-open trading.
- AOL Time Warner
slipped 0.8 percent to $15.41. AOL Time Warner is considering dropping AOL from its corporate name, a spokeswoman said Monday.
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There is a rapid growth in ‘Financial internet’ as game players make digital cash. These new business models are also getting popular and likely to cut into big-players’ revenues in the coming years. Thus, Blockchain is in use by more than 1000 web-based project.
Steemit is one of the websites where people get paid with cryptocurrency for posting content. It is just one example of the many sites of its kind trying different business models on the internet from those of Facebook and Twitter where users do not get paid for what they post. With many of these websites such as Steemit, people who earn the cryptocurrency can then trade it on crypto exchanges. The cryptocurrencies can also in use to appreciate in value, and the owners can withdraw them later.
Not only is Steemit changing content creation industry using the benefits of blockchain and crypto, but is also now on the list of 1,000 most prominent websites globally according to Alexa. It has more than 100,000 content creators.
Writers post their content on Steemit, and other users can upvote the post to determine earnings. Therefore, there is still the social aspects of enjoying what they create together. Right now, users accumulate a total of $3.5 million per year, but within two years, the amount could be as high as $50 million a year. This is according to Susan Eustis, CEO of WinterGreen Research who says that the market could reach $180 million within five years.
Steemit does not sell ads but owns a portion of the tokens.
Steemit is among the companies that are trying different models of paying users for what they create. This model is common in games that use tokens, but unfortunately, it is not possible to withdraw most of those in-game tokens. However, some offer options for a symbol that can be use for trading. Bancor network registered more than $37 million token volume per week in January from $3 million per week in November. With it, you can earn and trade in-game tokens.
Others trying similar business models for paying authors and creators include Golem. Users are already making money there for taking polls and designing stickers, and the tokens are tradable on exchanges. CryptoKitties is a place where people earn from selling virtual kittens.
Still, many other blockchain-based startups trying new models allow users to tip content providers in cryptocurrencies.


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Data reporting is often a requirement for large corporations, but traditionally it’s been related to finances. Many companies need to report accurate financial data to keep them accountable to their stakeholders and customers.
However, we’re seeing new data reporting requirements emerge from the European Union that are about to impact businesses worldwide: the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
What is CSRD?
The CSRD mandates that European companies report sustainability information just like they report financial information. Businesses will be required to disclose all known and potential risks they face from climate change and how their business operations might impact the climate and society.
To meet these extensive sustainability reporting requirements and avoid the consequences of not reporting, organizations will need to make crucial investment decisions.
The level of transparency required by the CSRD will put an end to greenwashing and aims to provide organizations with insights into how they can positively influence their sustainability impact on the environment and society.
Who will be impacted by the CSRD?
Many businesses operating in the European Union will be impacted by the CSRD, which is designed to mandate sustainability reporting on the same level as financial reporting. The CSRD replaces the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).
These sustainability reporting requirements apply to large organizations, whether or not they’re listed on stock markets. There are around 50,000 organizations that fall under the CSRD regulation, including some non-European companies. For instance, companies with EU-based subsidiaries or securities on EU-regulated markets with a net turnover of €150m will also need to report on CSRD data and follow the updated sustainability reporting guidelines.
Why was the CSRD implemented?
According to the European Commission, the reason for this legislation is to “ensure that investors and other stakeholders have access to the information they need to assess investment risks arising from climate change and other sustainability issues.”
The update to sustainability reporting in the EU is meant to provide more transparency for stakeholders and investors, who have a right to know what they’re supporting. Creating a culture of transparency around sustainability will prevent businesses from hiding the truth about unsustainable practices and openly reward organizations for being truthful about their environmental and societal impacts.
How to prepare for CSRD compliance
If this regulation affects your organization, here’s how you can prepare your next sustainability report to be CSRD complaint:
1. Note the rollout phases
The European Commission is rolling out compliance requirements in three phases. Take note of which phase applies to your organization.
For fiscal year 2024: organizations that are already under the scope of the NFDR.
For fiscal year 2025: all large companies with a net turnover of at least €40 million, assets of at least €20 million, and at least 250 employees.
2. Perform a double materiality assessment
The CSRD reporting requirements are a double materiality principle, which Workiva describes as reporting “both on how its business is affected by sustainability issues (‘outside in’) and how their activities impact society and the environment (‘inside out’).”
3. Incorporate sustainability risk management
Now that sustainability reporting is mandatory, it’s important for European organizations to manage risk associated with sustainability. Connect with your risk department as early as possible to start managing the potential risk factors in sustainability for future stakeholder reporting using the forthcoming sustainability taxonomy.
4. Start sustainability reporting compliance early
Don’t wait until the last minute to start complying with the CSRD. Start your compliance efforts as soon as possible, even if you don’t currently fall under the scope of this regulation. Although it’s not yet universal, it will likely eventually become a requirement for all businesses across the globe.
5. Make sure you create digital access to your sustainability reports
Under this new regulation, organizations will be required to make sustainability reports available in digital format, so be prepared to create or use a CSRD compliant system like Workiva’s that takes the forthcoming sustainability taxonomy into consideration.
Is creating a sustainable economy possible?
Organizations impacted by this legislation are going to need to do some serious adjusting especially those whose sustainability reporting is not naturally integrated into business operations. Many businesses may not even think about sustainability reporting unless they are a company that specifically works in the socio-environmental field.
This legislation is the first step in moving toward a sustainable economy. For decades, businesses have been able to operate without any accountability for the environmental impact they have on the planet. This is what everyone is used to, and the CSRD is shaking things up for the future of corporate social responsibility reporting.
It may be a long road to reach the point where we have a sustainable economy, but it all starts with accountability. Once sustainability reporting is fully integrated into business practices, and organizations are legally held accountable for being transparent about their environmental impact, the next step will be to encourage them to minimize negative impacts.
Get CSRD-compliant as soon as possible
If your company is subject to this EU regulation, get CSRD compliant as soon as possible, even if you aren’t required to report on your businesses’ sustainability efforts for some time. The faster you get in alignment with this CSRD regulation, the easier your transition will be when you are required to create sustainability reports in the future.


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CHICAGO– Ford Motor Co.'s previously-disclosed plans to cut one of the two shifts at its Chicago assembly plant will mean eliminating about 600 part-time jobs by early November, according to http://money.cnn.com. Ann Marie Gattari, a Ford spokeswoman, said the move is part of efforts announced earlier this year to bring the automaker's production in line with its sales.
The plant currently employs about 2,200 people full- or part-time and makes the Ford Taurus, Ford Taurus X crossover, the Mercury Sable, and the Lincoln MKS. The cuts represent about 27 percent of the plant's work force.
Ford's August U.S. vehicle sales fell 26.5 percent as demand for its trucks and SUVs dropped more than 32 percent. The automaker has taken other steps to curtail production: Its Dearborn Truck plant, which makes the F-150 pickup truck, is currently idled, and earlier this year, Ford idled its Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Mich., for nine weeks.
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There’s a new iPhone out in the wild, which means there’s a new teardown from iFixit contrast c embarrassing everything that’s going on inside Apple’s latest handset.
The in fashion repair site wrapped up its breakdown of the iPhone 8 on Friday, finding that the 8’s internals, unsurprisingly, look a solid deal like those of last year’s iPhone 7. There are some little changes—more adhesive strips surrounding the battery, a slightly redesigned Lightning connector, the use of defined Phillips screws in some spots instead of obtuse tri-point upon b ruins—but most of the more immediately apparent changes, like the new Qi wireless loading coil, were announced by Apple when it revealed the new phone earlier this month.
The teardown does endorse a few things that Apple hasn’t publicized, though. For one, iFixit says the iPhone 8’s battery checks in at 1,821mAh and can redeem up to 6.96Wh of power. Technically, that’s a step down from the iPhone 7’s 1,960mAh, 7.45Wh battery, notwithstanding iPhones are generally known for making the most of lesser capacity. There’s implausible to be any major drop-off in real-world use—we’ll know more once Ars completes its zaftig review—but the ceiling for battery life may be a bit lower than it could receive been. Beyond the battery, the iPhone 8’s insides include 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM, Toshiba NAND dart storage, and Apple’s new A11 Bionic chip.
iFixit says it tore down the “A1863” model of the iPhone 8, which it bring about to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X16 LTE modem. That suggests the device could fund the faster gigabit LTE speeds that mobile carriers are starting to rollout in the US and that distinct Android phones now support. But that doesn’t look to be the case here. The the score that Apple is selling two different models for each new iPhone—one with this Qualcomm modem that attest ti the CDMA network systems used by Sprint and Verizon and one with a modem that doesn’t—proposes that the company has split modem duties between Qualcomm and Intel, only like it did with the iPhone 7.
A Bloomberg report from June verbalized we’d see a situation similar to last year when Apple capped the modem make hastes of its Qualcomm model to keep a uniform experience with the slower Intel shape. (This didn’t go over well with Qualcomm.) Intel does be suffering with a gigabit LTE modem in the works, but Bloomberg said it wouldn’t be ready in period for the iPhone 8’s launch. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Either way, because gigabit LTE is silently a ways from widespread availability in the US, any lack of support is unlikely to be a monster burden for most iPhone buyers right now.
All in all, iFixit gives the iPhone 8 a six out of 10 in appellations of overall repairability. That’s not the worst score by any means, but it is down a mark from the iPhone 7, largely because of Apple’s decision to use a glassware back on this year’s device. iFixit says it wound up denting the the truth of the phone trying to remove the glue-covered material and cautions that make good oning a damaged back is “likely to be very difficult.”
Though that doesn’t carry that nobody will be able to remove the iPhone 8’s back cleanly, Apple appearance ofs to be banking on the hope that people won’t damage that glass in the beginning place. The company has advertised the new iPhones as having “the most durable sun-glasses ever in a smartphone,” but that isn’t the highest bar to clear.
You can take a look at iFixit’s thoroughly teardown here.


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"The challenge for the agency is to keep focused on achieving its priority objective of accelerating broadband deployment to unserved Americans despite the political pressures being applied by interests that are trying to use this proceeding to advance objectives that are irrelevant to speeding investment in 21st Century information infrastructure," McCormick wrote.
The high-cost portion of the Universal Service Fund was originally designed to subsidize the expansion of landline phone access in rural areas, but FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to refocus the fund to pay for expanding broadband Internet access.
Consumers pay for the fund through monthly charges on their phone bills.
The FCC is scheduled to vote on Genachowski's proposal at its meeting on Thursday.
McCormick slammed the wireless industry for lobbying the FCC to expand the portion of the fund devoted to deploying wireless broadband.
"[Wireless companies] argue that more money is needed for rural wireless, but offer no financial data, cost studies, or economic analysis to show how or where such enormous expenditures will result in accelerating broadband deployment to unserved Americans," he wrote.
CTIA, the wireless industry's trade group, shot back at McCormick, arguing that FCC data shows consumers want mobile Internet access.
"Perhaps most importantly, he fails to acknowledge the mobile broadband revolution that, right before our eyes, is driving innovation not only through consumer products, but also for other industries such as [mobile] health, smart grid, mobile education and intelligent transportation," Chris Guttman-McCabe, CTIA's vice president of regulatory affairs, said.
McCormick saved his strongest criticism for public interest groups such as Free Press, calling them "career protesters" who do more harm for consumers than good.
"These well-rehearsed reactionaries argue that regulators should never allow companies to have the market freedom to raise prices – even where consumers are protected by competition, and even where allowing such economic freedom is necessary to the successful restructuring of an antiquated subsidy program that will result in consumers benefiting from greater savings overall," McCormick wrote. "Free Press and its brethren offer no data, only histrionics."
Free Press bristled at McCormick's rhetoric.
“USTA is protecting the financial interests of the large telecom companies it represents, however the facts speak for themselves and we don’t feel the need to resort to name-calling,” Free Press political adviser Joel Kelsey said.


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Japan's biggest PC manufacturer, NEC, is carrying out checks on all its manufacturing facilities to see whether they have been affected by Friday's devastating earthquake. Meanwhile electronics giant Sony...
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Super Micro CEO Charles Liang urge Bloomberg to retract China spy-chip report
Intel claims that 10nm parts will be out in volume by mid-2019
Factory to be built closer to supply chain while company hires 300 more at R&D centre in UK


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Lenovo is scheduled to announce the Lenovo S5 in about 48hrs from today and leading up to said event tipped to hold in Beijing, the company via its VP has released a teaser to drive home some key highlights of the upcoming Lenovo S5. This isn’t the first official teaser from the company, the company VP a couple of days back in his reply to Xiaomi CEO on the newly announced Redmi Note 5 claimed that the new phone from the company(which is obviously the upcoming Lenovo S5) will offer better performance than the Note 5.
While that claim is yet to be proven, the same Lenovo Group VP Chang Cheng via his Weibo page has hinted us once again on what to expect from the upcoming Lenovo S5.
In the Weibo post, Group VP Chang Cheng says that the upcoming Smartphone from the company will come with Artificial Intelligence embedded in the operating system which he boasts will be as fluent as the iOS. VP Chang Cheng didn’t give further details on how the company aims to achieve that feat, so we are completely clueless on what modifications the company will be making to the OS ( the Lenovo S5 would run on ZUI 3.5 OS based on Android Oreo).
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We haven’t really seen much of the Lenovo S5 design, but there are speculations that the Lenovo K520 that surfaced on TENAA a while ago might be marketed by the company as the Lenovo S5. The device is expected to pack a 5.65-inch FHD+ display and powered by a 2GHz octa-core chipset coupled with 4GB/6GB RAM options and 32GB/64GB storage variants. The phone expected to run the ZUI 3.5 OS based on Android 8.0 and have a 3000mAh battery.


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Bay Area shoppers can now use Google Wallet to tap, pay and save at over 65 outlets including: Old Navy, Banana Republic, Banana Republic Factory Stores and Gap Outlet stores. As, Gap, Inc. joined today as the SingleTap merchant.
Also, note that “Google Checkout is transitioning to Google Wallet, to create a single wallet, whether you’re buying online or in-store. And, also started integrating Google Wallet as the payment method on Android Market, YouTube, Google+ Games and many other Google sites,” revealed Ben Lee, Product Manager, Google Wallet.
“When you shop with merchants that accept Google Wallet or Google Checkout, just use your Google Wallet username and password to complete your purchase — starting tomorrow, if you add a Citi MasterCard to the Google Wallet mobile app, it will also be available for use when you shop with Google Wallet online.”
Lee notes “If you’re a current user of Google Checkout you can automatically transition your account to Google Wallet the next time you sign in or make a purchase online. All users can now access online purchase history and payment information at wallet.google.com/manage.”
Adding, he says “For merchants “no changes” are required — shoppers using Google Wallet will be able to make purchases seamlessly on merchant sites that accept Google Checkout. Early next year, we will work closely with our merchant partners to switch to the Google Wallet logo and share details on new and upcoming features.”
Google also announced of expanding Google Wallet online service with a new and easy integration option for merchants.
“This solution is first available and optimized for the mobile web, where shoppers often abandon their carts when faced with lengthy checkout forms. With this solution, online merchants can retain control over their payment processing and provide a more streamlined experience for shoppers, without additional fees,” said Divya Agarwalla, Product Manager, Google Wallet.
“We’re rolling out this new service to select merchants in the U.S. Available today on the mobile websites of Fandango and MovieTickets.com. When consumers visit these sites from an Android phone, BlackBerry or iPhone, they’ll have the option to make a purchase using Google Wallet, without the need to fill out multiple forms or leave the merchant’s site.”


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Unable to shake off a long slide in sales, teen retailer Aéropostale is set to file for bankruptcy protection this week and close more than 100 of its stores, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday evening.
Unlike its higher end peers American Eagle Outfitters
and Abercrombie & Fitch
, Aéropostale has not been able to return to growth
in the last years as young consumers turn away from branded clothing.
The retailer has also been hurt by the growth of fast-fashion retailers
like Forever 21, Uniqlo, and H&M. Aéropostale’s comparable sales
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Barely two months have passed since the Fed rolled out QE3 and already the markets are abuzz with talks of QE4. Blame it all on the FOMC’s October 23-24 meeting minutes!
The minutes, which were released on Wednesday, showed that “a number of participants” believe the economy could use another boost next year. Apparently, more than a couple FOMC members would like to see the Fed increase its bond purchases after the expiration of Operation Twist next month. If you recall, under Operation Twist, the Fed swaps about $45 billion of short-term Treasuries for longer-term debt, effectively lowering longer-term interest rates without bloating its balance sheet.
What this renewed dovishness from the Fed tells us is that U.S. policymakers don’t really have much faith in the current strength of the economy’s recovery. They want to do everything they can to make sure the economy gets back on its feet, even if it means pumping more money into the economy just months after QE3.
It also tells us that the central bank is playing it safe and that policymakers weren’t carried away by the economic improvements we saw in September. After all, judging by recent reports, it seems like those gains were nothing but a fluke.
Just take a look at the horrendous retail sales data we saw earlier this week. October recorded a 0.3% drop in sales, marking the first negative figure in four months. Considering that consumer spending has been the main driving force behind the economy’s growth, this comes as a huge downer.
The FOMC meeting minutes also revealed that Vice Chairman Janet Yellen is gaining support in her call to link the country’s benchmark interest rates to economic performance. Rather than simply specifying a time period through which interest rates will remain low, Yellen wants interest rates to adjust only when certain economic targets are achieved.
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans added hard numbers to Yellen’s idea, saying that the central bank should aim for a 7% unemployment rate and a 3% core CPI before changing its zero-rate policy. You could say that Yellen’s proposal is kinda like rewarding children with cookies whenever they get good grades.
How does this all of this affect the outlook for the dollar?
Given the issue surrounding setting rates, weaker economic data, the recent dovishness of the Fed, and the U.S. Fiscal Cliff, it’s hard to justify further dollar strength. Also, any more signs that the Fed may pump more money into the economy may stoke another case of risk-taking and result in a dollar sell-off, as previous quantitative easing measures have done.


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Sales have inched up to two homes sold over the last 30 days in the Sleepy Hollow market. But sellers can expect more competition, due to a three-week upward trend in homes coming into the market, now up to nine for the same period. All indications show that the trend may be coming to an end, meaning less new listings over the next few weeks. The median sales price jumped to $204,950 over the latest reporting period for Sleepy Hollow, up from $149,900. Sleepy Hollow is still a strong buyer's market, in spite of the uptick in sales, thanks to the availability of 14 months of remaining inventory.
Still haven't found the right home in Sleepy Hollow? One of these new listings could end the search:


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CLERMONT, Fla., July 25, 2018 /CNW/ -- Xtraction Services ("XS"), the leader in equipment solutions for cannabis and hemp extraction, announces the highly anticipated launch of its equipment leasing program. Known for its best-in-class service and equipment amongst the top growing vape and consumable companies, XS is now providing in-house financing solutions to its customers. Top oil processors like Halo Labs can now expand into new markets and gain access to critical equipment without the concern of how to access the capital to make these purchases.
"We have been using the XS 50L extraction machine for some time now and have been thrilled with its performance. Our team has had extensive experience with hydrocarbon and multiple other CO2 machine companies, including Eden and Waters, so we are very excited to standardize on equipment like the XS 50L," said Kiran Sidhu, CEO of Halo Labs. Sidhu added, "The new leasing options allowed us to accelerate our expansion into multiple new markets including California and Nevada. Not having to come out-of-pocket for every new expansion location affords us a competitive advantage and allows us to pass those savings to our customers."
Halo Labs recently announced a binding merger with a public company and a concurrent financing led by Canaccord Genuity. Sidhu is tenured in the industry serving on the Board of Directors at Namaste Technologies and was an early investor in Golden Leaf Holdings.
Many other brands like Halo are now using XS equipment to provide consumers with clean and consistent oil while driving the cost of manufacturing down with higher yields. The new XS leasing program combines an easy to understand financing solution with a world class service offering. Clients have dedicated account mangers that deploy on-site support and testing to ensure efficiency and equipment uptime. Preventative maintenance and 24-7 monitoring support further safeguard up-time and product consistency.
"We understood that a lot of brands didn't have access to credit facilities that would provide them state-of-the-art equipment. Cannabis and Hemp extracted products are the fastest growing sectors in the space and it is becoming very competitive. Using inefficient equipment that is not designed for cannabis or hemp creates a lot of waste and can be the difference between failure and success," says John Konop, Underwriting Director at XS. "By providing financing options, it provides manufacturers the immediate opportunity to use our industry leading equipment. It's a win-win for manufacturers and consumers."
SOURCE Xtraction Services
For further information: Antony Radbod, Xtraction Services, Phone: 1(407) 900-4737, www.XtractNow.com


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SWIM, the San Jose based startup offering a distributed platform for applications on the edge, today announced that they are open sourcing their platform under Apache 2.0 license. SWIM platform enables developers to build distributed, real time stateful apps. There are many use cases that fits into this category with Edge and IoT being the dominant ones. For these real time applications at the edge or IoT devices, having a centralized cloud like the one offered by AWS, Microsoft or Google makes very little sense. In fact, using a cloud for such applications will be more expensive and the user experience will take a hit due to bandwidth limitations. A platform like SWIM can help these apps take advantage of real time streaming data (and stored data based on the storage capacity at the edge), saving costs and offering much better performance.
However, in today’s market trends, it is critical for any developer platform to be open source. With the announcement today, SWIM is taking the first step into making their platform more widely accessible to developers. SWIM simplifies application development at edge by taking the pain out of managing database, message brokers or application servers. A very lightweight platform that can be deployed to even low powered devices and apps can take advantage of streaming data that comes into the device to provide real time intelligence. SWIM is showcasing the power of their platform on the website. During the briefing, they let me check the applications in real time and I am pretty impressed with the lack of latency we come to expect from these edge devices running on public internet.
REST may be an overkill for edge applications. One of the most interesting aspect of their platform is WARP streaming protocol. This will allow developers to create a service mesh for their applications letting these applications easily share the intelligence. They showcased an example app connecting the street lights of Palo Alto to highlight the power of their platform. I could think of so many different applications in the Edge and IoT realm. Even though there are many other Edge platforms like Azure Stack, SWIM platform allows you to create distributed mesh applications without any need for centralized cloud.
You can get started with their platform at http://developer.swim.ai/. They are in the process of building out the community and it will be interesting to see various applications built on top of their platform.


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New Delhi: Shared mobility service will adopt the electric vehicles faster than private owners and by 2040, around 80 per cent of the global ride-sharing fleet will be attributed to EVs, claims a report by BloombergNEF.
The study also reveals that currently, electric vehicles account for 1.8 per cent of the global shared mobility fleet, that includes taxis, ride-hailing and car-sharing. It also says that the ratio of green vehicles will increase fast due to more attractive economics.
It also claims that demand for private vehicles ownership will gradually reduce and shared mobility will see a multi-fold hike. Currently, over a billion people use some form of the ride-hailing app across the world.
Presently, shared mobility across the world account for less than 5 per cent of total distance travelled annually by passenger vehicles. By 2040, this is expected to grow to 19 per cent, almost four times than now.
The report also claims that despite the current hype, autonomous vehicles will not have any meaningful impact on global transport and energy patterns until the 2030s.
The new Magnite SUV stands out on many counts. In a short span after its launch, it has garnered over 30,000 customer bookings. It is also the torchbearer of the beleaguered Nissan’s future in India. The average of 1000 units booked daily since the debut on December 2 manifests the brand’s strength and new vigour. It will, Nissan hopes, empower it to discard legacy issues and open a new chapter in India’s mobility landscape.


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3 chambers say aye to TPP, but ACCCIM wants China included
18 July 2013
Chambers of commerce in the country have lent their support to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, saying it promotes a secure and mutually beneficial trade environment and brings greater opportunities for participating countries.
The American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), the Malaysia Canada Business Council (MCBC) and the Malaysia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (MNZCC) said governmental commitment to promoting free trade, while ensuring the success of the TPP negotiations in the current economic climate, is more crucial than ever.
"A firm and increasing commitment to the Asia-Pacific region via the TPP negotiations will allow companies to eliminate duplicative and unnecessary barriers," they said in a joint statement yesterday.
"The companies will also be able to streamline their operations across the board, and disseminate regional and international best practices, thereby, fostering an efficient and mutually beneficial trade environment.
"Obtaining such an outcome is important to ensure that the TPP lays an effective foundation for future regional integration and international trade," they added.
The three business bodies said under the proposed TPP, local small and medium enterprises can better integrate into the supply chains of multinational corporations, while adopting international standards and creating new opportunities for industries.
Foreign companies investing in TPP-participating countries will also benefit from the eased process of foreign direct investments.
However, in a separate statement, the Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM) said the TPP agreement (TPPA) should include China in the negotiations in order to build a promising free trade environment in Asia-Pacific.
"TPPA could interfere with the efficient supply chain developed in Asia if China remained excluded."
The chamber also urged the government to hold consultative sessions with national-level chambers of commerce and affected stakeholders before concluding the TPPA.
ACCCIM said an advisory committee system like the US should be set up so that meaningful consultations could take place.
"ACCCIM is of the view that the government needs to ensure that the costs to Malaysia will not outweigh the benefits," it said. "The TPPA should also include the provision of special and differential treatment as provided in the World Trade Organisation to increase trading opportunities for developing countries."
ACCCIM added that the government must give priority to national interest over commercial interest in terms of non-trade-related issues.
The TPPA is a free trade initiative involving 12 countries and an agreement is currently being negotiated in Kota Kinabalu.


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TORRANCE, Calif. – Kubota Tractor Corporation announced that it will open a 450,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Parts Distribution Center in Edgerton, Kansas. The company has entered into a five-year lease agreement with ELHC XI, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company.
The Edgerton, Kansas, site for the new facility was a strategic decision by Kubota management, given its central location within the U.S.
Kubota’s current divisional parts operations located in Suwanee, Georgia; Fort Worth, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; and Lodi, California, will continue to provide regional support to local Kubota dealers. When initial operations begin, the new Parts Distribution Center will primarily service the Midwestern U.S. and will employ approximately 75 employees after the first year.


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Target Canada has moved aggressively to lower prices in an attempt to gain some ground against Walmart in this country, a new study finds.
An identical basket of consumer goods cost 3.9% less at Target than at Walmart in August, according to the latest pricing study from Kantar Retail.
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The cuts suggest Target is willing to drop prices further than it did when it first entered Canada, when Kantar’s first survey indicated basket prices between the two retailers were virtually identical in this market.
Despite that, consumers complained that many of the apparel and décor items they had seen at Target’s U.S. stores were priced higher than they had anticipated in Canada.
“Sharpening price is one of the key initiatives being implemented in [Target’s] turnaround strategy, alongside improving in-stocks and expanding the assortment,” said Robin Sherk, director of retail insights at Kantar.


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SJC Industries sale
ELKHART — It’s too early to tell if any jobs will disappear with the sale of SJC Industries, but early indications are that employees of the ambulance maker will have options.
Allied Specialty Vehicles, the new owners of the ambulance company, “will offer employment to a number of existing SJC employees at various ASV locations,” said Joel Rotroff of American Industrial Partners, speaking for ASV in a written message Tuesday, May 7. None of those Allied Specialty Vehicles locations are in Elkhart County, though some are in Indiana. It’s “too early to tell if there will be job losses in Elkhart County as a result of the transaction,” he wrote.
Allied Specialty Vehicles is buying SJC from Elkhart-based Thor Industries, Thor announced Monday, May 6.
Thor’s Jeff Tryka deferred questions about the impact on local employees to Allied Specialty Vehicles, and while Rotroff said the company can’t speak for Thor, they believe Thor will take on a number of existing SJC employees.
The companies are in the process of extricating SJC and Thor’s Goshen Coach. Thor bought the ambulance maker in 2010 and integrated it with Goshen Coach’s bus operations the following year, according to Thor.
When Thor bought SJC, the ambulance maker had about 175 employees. Now the Goshen Coach site lists the company facility on Leer Drive as home of “more than 150” employees.
According to Rotroff, the terms of the sale “require ASV to move the production out of the existing, Thor-owned, Goshen (Coach) facility.” The timing hasn’t been determined, he said, “but it will happen in 2013.”


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Major Hollywood studios and select cable companies have joined in a $30-million Movies on Demand® promotional campaign dubbed, “The Video Store Just Moved In.” Partnering with cable co’s Armstrong, Bend Broadband, Bright House Networks, iO TV, Comcast, Cox, Insight and Time Warner Cable are 20th Century Fox, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Rogue, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros Entertainment.
The ‘Video Store Just Moved In’ marketing campaign will feature a wide variety of recent releases over the next 12 weeks, some of which are being offered on Movies On Demand® the same day as the DVD is available in stores (Day-and-Date). The marketing campaign will feature integrated TV spots, print ads, interactive media and a dedicated website , as well as a Movies on Demand logo.
In addition to driving additional VOD sales, participating cable companies hope to use the campaign as a competitive advantage over telco and satellite competitors.
The number of on demand ‘Day-and-Date’ titles, meaning the on-demand version is available the same day (or earlier) as the DVD release, offered to digital cable customers has swelled seven-fold in just two years, according to movies-on-demand distributor iN DEMAND. According to Rentrak, eight of the top 10 performing on-demand titles were released ‘Day-and-Date’ with DVD.
“Consumers are accelerating their use of Movies on Demand because it’s the easiest and fastest way for them to find and enjoy top new releases,” commented Derek Harrar, SVP, GM Video and Entertainment Services for Comcast. “Improvements in technology, the instant availability of the most recent box office hits and thousands of library titles have fundamentally changed viewing patterns.”


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The aisles at your local grocery store are getting very patriotic.
Coca-Cola is now selling a red, white and blue can in select grocery and convenience stories.
"It's our way of celebrating our partnership with Coca-Cola and helping everyone show their support for our service members," says the USO's director of marketing.
As the U.S. war machine grew during World War II, so did the need to provide American GIs with a touch of home.Photo credit USO photo
In a nod to nostalgia and patriotic pride, Coca-Cola this past weekend kicked off a flurry of events that pay tribute to the nation's Armed Forces members and the USO's 75th anniversary (which also marks the 75th anniversary of the company's partnership with the USO).
The USO has launched a heartfelt campaign – "Campaign to Connect" – to show service members how much Americans support them (check out the campaign website).
Photo credit USO photo
I personally love it!!! What's more American than Coca Cola? And what's more American than honoring our service members, past and present? The specially-designed cans will be available in 16-ounce cans as well as 20, 24 and 35 packs of 12-ounce cans through the Fourth of July weekend.


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Japanese companies launched a business of reclaiming nickel (Ni) included in used nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) as a material for batteries.
Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Chemical Engineering Co Ltd, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd and Primearth EV Energy Co Ltd (PEVE) made this announcement Oct 27, 2010. They are the world's first companies that have begun such a business, they said.
Thus far, outlet stores have collected the NiMH batteries of HEVs, and scraps including Ni have been recycled as a material for stainless steel through reduction treatment. This time, the four companies developed a technology to select and extract Ni so that Ni can be directly thrown in the smelting process. As a result, they realized a battery-to-battery recycling, which extracts Ni from the NiMH batteries of HEVs and returns it to NiMH batteries.
Toyota Motor built recycling facilities that can mass-produce materials with a high degree of accuracy in collaboration with Toyota Chemical Engineering. And it refines Ni for batteries with help from Sumitomo Metal Mining. As for the production of NiMH batteries for HEVs, Toyota obtained cooperation from PEVE to ensure a high quality.
To promote the collection of the NiMH batteries of HEVs, Toyota Motor will set up the "Toyota HV Reception Center." As for the transportation, it plans to reduce CO2 emissions and environmental load by utilizing trucks returning from parts supply. Toyota Motor also intends to deploy the new resources recycling system outside Japan.


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As much as we like to give actresses all the credit (and blame) for their red carpet hits and misses, we do know that most of them get more than a little (paid) help from their friends. And while some stylists are certainly famous in their own right (Rachel Zoe and Brad Goreski come to mind), most tend to keep things a little more behind-the-scenes. Last year, the Hollywood Reporter dubbed Zoe Hollywood’s Most Powerful Stylist — and now she’s too big of a brand to even be considered. Which means there’s a big spot left at the top of that list.
This year, the top honor went to Kate Young, who most famously styled Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman onto many a best dressed list. Rounding out the top five were:
#2: Leslie Fremar, who styles Charlize Theron and Reese Witherspoon
#3: Petra Flannery (Emma Stone, Zoe Saldana)
#4: Elizabeth Stewart (Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Viola Davis)
#5: Kemal Harris and Karla Wench (Hailee Steinfeld, Stacey Kiebler).