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OWNZONES allows content projects to continue remotely during the Covid-19 crisis
OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies, a cloud-based video supply chain company, is helping studios and post houses around the world respond to the growing global consumption of content through its remotely compatible cloud-based platform, OWNZONES Connect™.
OWNZONES Connect is the “next-gen content servicing and supply chain platform”, according to the press release. Connect was designed natively in the cloud to join the fragmented pieces of many post-production workflows by replacing multiple vendors, non-compatible formats and expensive data servers. Through Connect, users can transcode video content “up to 35 times faster while reducing costs up to 90 percent”.
The demand for content has increased significantly due to the COVID-19 virus. However, production has slowed dramatically, and even stopped for studios and content companies. They are looking at their vast libraries to try and fill the demand and OWNZONES is helping them conform their content and deliver it to global platforms through its cloud-based infrastructure.
OWNZONES is helping studios and content owners respond by encoding, packaging, and delivering content remotely. With OWNZONES Connect, professionals can securely log into the cloud-based platform via a browser window and continue to process content and fulfill orders. Remote Connect users can get the full processing power of a data centre from a browser in their living room. Connect can scale up to 1000 nodes in the cloud with 7000 processors.
“With billions of dollars at stake and an audience with a voracious appetite, business continuity is critical for the content industry as it grapples with the impact of shutting down operations because of the global pandemic,” says Rick Phelps, CCO, OWNZONES. “While the movement to the cloud is likely not going to enable the industry to kick start filming at any time soon, for productions already in the cloud, it can enable remote working in many parts of the chain, and lead to their completion in order to continue delivering content to consumers who are in need of entertainment and solace throughout the coronavirus crisis.”


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Would you spend $100,000 on a stove? Celebrity chefs' favourite cooker comes with gold-plating, USB ports and security system
A $100,000 stove, which boasts an inbuilt vacuum packer, deep fat fryer and food mixer, has been unveiled by the home appliance manufacturer Electrolux.
And despite each cast-iron appliance weighing almost half a ton, an inbuilt security system has also been installed to fend off potential thieves.
The state-of-the-art ranges, which are custom-made in Saintu-Uze, France by Molteni, are already popular with Michelin-starred chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Alain Ducasse, but now they being marketed to a broader audience.
Top chef: Electrolux has unveiled a $100,000 stove produced by French manufacturer Molteni, which boasts an inbuilt vacuum packer, deep fat fryer and food mixer
It takes around twenty workers, five hundred hours to build each cooker, which can measure up to 5ft long and 2ft wide.
And the French craftspeople are happy to accommodate special requests such as gold-plating and USB ports which can be used to download recipes.
Electrolux, the world's second-largest maker of kitchen appliances, hopes that adding the luxury brand Molteni to its portfolio will entice wealthy food enthusiasts who want professional catering equipment installed in their homes.
Professional edge: Gordon Ramsay and Alain Ducasse are known to be fans of the Molteni stove
CEO Keith McLoughlin, told Bloomberg that he expected the target customer to be 'very high net worth people with two or three homes', with prime markets being Venice, Stockholm and London.
While design director Henrik Otto added: 'We wanted to create something that could be put into a private home and fit in perfectly.'
According to reports around 150 Molteni stoves are sold annually, but the collaboration with Electrolux is expected to boost sales.
Custom-made: Special requests such as gold-plating and USB ports can be accommodated
The French company has been operating since 1923, and it claims that each of its products are 'built to stand the test of time and will work nonstop at the highest levels of performance for years and years'.
La Cornue’s Grand Palais 180 was
previously deemed one of the world's most expensive kitchen ranges,with
prices starting from $48,000.
Available in sixteen different colours of porcelain enamel, clients can request extras such as a lava rock and a teppanyaki grill.
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Loyal customers and careful training have helped Macayo's in Ahwatukee Foothills make it through the rough times and it's all paid off for the past 15 years.
"I kind of came in at the height of the end of the housing boom," said Bryan Williams, general store manager of the Ahwatukee location. "I think I had two months when we were up in sales from years before, and from that point on I just noticed a drop off. But Ahwatukee is different from a lot of the other stores because of the uniqueness of the community. People that live in Ahwatukee kind of stay in Ahwatukee, and they keep it going and growing."
Williams says they've been lucky to see so many of the same faces night after night. When he was transferred from the store in Tempe he said it was a nice change.
"I spent my first 13-and-a-half years with the company in Tempe," Williams said. "Tempe is completely different than this store. Each store is unique, but Tempe was mostly college kids, and every four years you'd have a different group of kids come in. This was kind of a nice shock for me to come in and see more of a family atmosphere."
Williams says some of his servers have been in Ahwatukee since the location opened. They've seen families grow up and keep coming back.
It's been busy enough that Williams says he's never had to lay someone off, and that they find different ways to save money.
"What happens is we may not hire someone new when someone leaves," Williams said. "Sometimes it's hard on staff because maybe we can't pay them enough, so when you have someone really good they may go somewhere that's busier. As new places open they sort of take our businesses away for a week or two, but then people come back. We just have to weather that storm and then we gain it back again. We can always tell when someone new opens up. It's not really slow, but it's noticeable."
Training has also helped Macayo's stay in business. For the past four years they've practiced "open book finance," where they teach each employee a little bit about finance.
"We have 60 employees at this restaurant and about 40 of them are front of the house," Williams said. "Our goal is to make sure they all kind of know what it's like to be a manager. We're grooming them to be managers. Even the busers come in and learn a little bit about finance. We have some plates that we serve dinners on that are $45, and they don't see it that way. You don't think of it that way, but when we teach them they're a little more careful. They don't throw silverware away or glasses. That helps us keep the costs down."
In September Macayo's celebrated 65 years in the Valley while Macayo's in Ahwatukee celebrated 15 years. There are 13 locations across the Valley.
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Report: Walgreens to offer genetic test kits
DEERFIELD, Ill. Walgreens soon will begin selling genetic test kits that may help customers learn more about their risk levels for various diseases, according to a report Monday in The New York Times.
The tests, which measure genetic markers for such potential conditions as diabetes and cancer, are marketed by Pathway Genomics. The company said its test kits likely will be sold in many of Walgreens’ more than 7,500 drug stores, the Times reported.
The DNA tests are based on patients’ saliva samples, according to the report, and will be conducted by outside laboratories. Users will pay as much as $250 or more for the Pathway sample kit sold in the stores and a full set of lab analyses, according to the report.
Winn-Dixie enables customers to help fishermen affected by oil spill
NEW ORLEANS People wanting to help the Louisiana fishermen affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf Coast can do so when they buy groceries at any of the 36 neighborhood Winn-Dixie Stores in the New Orleans area, the grocer announced Friday.
Winn-Dixie has implemented its “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” program, a convenient way customers can donate any amount between $0.50 and $500 directly to the United Way of Greater New Orleans as they pay for their groceries. The cashier will scan a special Neighbors Helping Neighbors bar code, which automatically adds the amount designated by the customer to the total bill.
The United Way of Greater New Orleans is assisting the fishermen of St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes by providing food, counseling and other assistance to the fishing communities in Louisiana’s Mississippi River Delta affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Winn-Dixie announced the program on Friday when the grocer and several of its vendor partners delivered three semi-trailers loaded with 42,000 lbs. of food and 28,800 gallons of bottled water to the Second Harvest Food Bank for distribution to food banks serving the two Mississippi River delta parishes.
Actavis, Sagent partner to develop and market injectable drugs
MORRISTOWN, N.J. Actavis and Sagent Pharmaceuticals have agreed to develop and market a group of injectable drugs in the United States, Actavis announced.
Under the agreement, Actavis will develop the drugs, seek Food and Drug Administration approval for them and supply them, while Sagent will market them. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Actavis’ impressive injectable pipeline, substantial development and supply capabilities and excellent record of execution make Actavis an outstanding partner Sagent,” Sagent CEO and board chairman Jeffrey Yordon said in a statement. “This collaboration complements Sagent’s strategy by quickly adding products to our marketed portfolio, and we look forward to working with Actavis to expand our collective portfolio.”


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GLASWEGIANS are being urged to put their hands in their pockets to help starving city residents who can’t afford food over the festive period.
Charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) have launched their Christmas appeal to fund emergency food shopping for the six in 10 of their clients who have been forced to skip meals due to a lack of cash .
The group, who have three centres in Glasgow, conducted research into the relationship between personal debt and hunger in the run-up to the release of the all-party parliamentary inquiry into food poverty, due out on Monday.
They found that their Scottish service users often prioritised paying bills, leaving themselves without money to feed themselves, and that a fifth of them were forced to rely on food banks to eat.
One Glasgow woman found herself in difficulty after a benefits overpayment.
She said: “We were using payday loans for essential things like food and heating. We were selling any goods we had to buy food each week.
“We were in debt with council tax, phone bill - everything. I was arguing with my partner. We tried every avenue to make life better – looked for a better job; cheaper housing; got rid of my car but the cost of just keeping our heads above water was a losing battle.”
She received food from her local foodbank and heard that CAP could provide free debt counselling and she has been working with the charity now for several months.
She added: “I find it easy to stick to the budget and not want credit ever again. Although money is still sparse, I can sleep at night without the anxiety of going over financial problems in my head.”
CAP’s aim is for no client to remain hungry from the first visit. Every client with empty cupboards is bought enough food until the second home visit where a budget will be set which allows for a weekly shop.
To find out more about the Christmas appeal visit capuk.org/christmas
If you want to get in touch with CAP for help, call 0141 333 0055 for the St George’s Cross centre.
Nicola Mathew, the manager of Whiteinch CAP centre, is contactable on 07764491413 while Jacqui McKinnon, the manager of south side CAP centre, is contactable on 07913691694.
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By Dipo Olowookere
A strategic partnership has been entered into between Heritage Bank Plc and the Choice International Group (CIG) Motors Limited to introduce a new vehicle finance scheme aimed at assisting interested and pre-qualified customers to buy brand new GAC Vehicles with ease and at affordable prices.
The initiative is tagged ‘Go CAR-razy’ and was facilitated by the sole representative of GAC Motors in Nigeria known as CIG, which enables individuals who meet the prescribed conditions to pay an equity contribution of 10 percent with 48 months tenor repayment.
The scheme is largely for three models of cars and sport utility vehicles in the stable of GAC Motors: GS3, GS4 and GS8.
Speaking on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MD/CEO of Heritage Bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo, said the auto finance scheme was tailored to suit customers’ needs with manageable monthly repayments and is best suited for individuals, organizations, corporate bodies and institutions to avail a convenient and easy access to finance options making it easier to buy and drive away a brand new GAC Motors.
According to him, the partnership was planned to encourage customers to buy environmentally-friendly GAC vehicles instead of used cars otherwise known as “tokunbo.”
Mr Sekibo specifically explained that the reason for the alliance was to afford deserving customers with the ease of convenient and discounted opportunities with just 10 percent equity contribution, as against the 30 percent standard equity contribution required to own brand new GAC vehicles.
He listed other benefits of the vehicle finance scheme, which involve competitive interest rate, discounted vehicle pricing, subsidized insurance premium, free vehicle registration.
Chairman of CIG, Ms Diana Chan, stressed that the automobile firm entered into partnership with the Heritage Bank because of its track record in quality service.
According to her, “We are proud to partner with Heritage Bank on this Finance Scheme as we believe it gives Nigerians who are yarning for quality the opportunity to own the latest GAC vehicles with a soft payment plan.”
She said through independent innovation and excellent quality, GAC Motor has been widely recognized by many as a brand that offers great value at affordable prices to Nigerians.
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Google Meet, the video conferencing application is set to get new features like allowing users to set custom backgrounds and blur effects in the background during video calls. This is Google Meet’s bid to get closer to its rival video conferencing applications Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and more. The user can choose the background images from the few default options available or upload a new one.
According to The Verge, the wide range of features which will be available to users on Google Meet include real-time captioning, low light mode, hand-raising, and a tile view which can include up to 49 participants at once. Users can also join or end meetings with a voice command.
Google Meet has been playing catch-up with the popular video conferencing application Zoom since it was made free for anyone with a Google account and linking it to Gmail. Zoom became popular as office-goers were forced to work from home, students attended online classes instead of going to school, college, etc due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As per Google’s data, the number of users has improved significantly as it surpassed 100 million daily Meet meeting participants.
Google’s move to lift the time limit off free calls until September 30 has also attracted more users. G Suite essentials also bring advanced features to Google Meet like dial-in phone numbers, larger meetings, and meeting recordings along with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides for content creation and real-time collaboration.
In comparison to the video-conferencing giant Zoom, Google Meet also provides end-to-end encryption to its free users (available till September 30). On the other hand, Zoom doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption to users who use the free version of the app.
However, Zoom has an edge over Google Meet with it’s waiting room feature where you can add/remove participants giving the host more control over the meeting.


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Cautious buyers take toll on Bovis
PROFITS at housebuilder Bovis Homes plunged by almost a third in the first half of the year as sales of new homes fell dramatically.
Bovis sold 1089 homes compared with 1302 last year and many of them were smaller, cheaper properties.
Earlier this year, chief executive Malcolm Harris warned reservations in the first half were down 3% and that, unless they picked up, Bovis would not hit growth forecasts.
Today, he said that while volume targets were still achievable, it would be at the expense of profits and margins.
Bovis's traditional focus on executive homes means it is more vulnerable than rivals to the overall slowdown in the second-hand housing market. In the second half, Bovis will be pushing smaller homes, which are 'more readily saleable in a quieter housing market'.
Bovis has already sold twice as many homes in the social housing bracket at an average price of £80,000, cutting the overall average price of a Bovis home to £179,800 from £201,000.
Harris said confidence was key. 'Consumers are displaying more caution, with many delaying the decision to move house,' he added. Pre-tax profits for the six months to 30 June were £45.1m, compared with £66.8m last time.
Operating margins slipped to 23% from 25.9%. The dividend is lifted 30% to 8.3p.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Andina Brewing has announced the release of its latest sour fruited ale.
Penacho Pineapple Sour (4.5% abv) is described as follows:
Loaded with pineapple goodness, a medium sour level and a refreshing taste, this beer goes down easy on a hot summer day. For this kettle sour, we have used a traditional Berliner Weisse grain bill and fermented with a clean yeast strain letting the fruit take centre stage.
Penacho Pineapple Sour is available now at the Andina taproom and retail store while supplies last.
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Visitors to Ashland can often be spotted on the water during the summer months, but this summer has been anything but normal for business owner Katie Gellatly.
“We’re at least 90 percent down with our kayak and paddle board rentals and tours,” she said. “It’s almost not like summer for us when less people are out on the water and playing.”
In a typical week, the owner of Solstice Outdoors said their fleet of eight kayaks and eight paddleboards would be rented out two to three times daily. However, Gellatly said flooding washed clay sediments into the bay, turning it red. She said that, combined with elevated levels of e. Coli bacteria on a nearby public beach, has made it difficult to draw in business.
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“Our policy is if the beach is closed we do shut down our rentals of kayaks and paddleboards just from a safety and liability standpoint,” she said.
The city has listed advisories or closed beaches to swimmers and visitors several times this summer due to elevated levels of bacteria, but its artesian well and drinking water have been found safe to drink.
Gellatly is not the only business owner to contend with the impacts of recent flooding. Ashland resident Dave Sorenson runs Dave’s Fishing Charters out of Bayfield. He said he’s doing about half as much business as a normal summer.
“It was a severe impact. What happened is that the highways being destroyed turned people off from coming up here and the weather was less than conducive to promoting tourism … The floods literally muddied all the waters,” he said. “All the years that I’ve been fishing up here, I have never seen the mud not only as thick but last as long as it did this year.”
Angler’s All is a bait shop in Ashland that also provides guided fishing trips in the Chequamegon Bay and Apostle Islands region of Lake Superior. Owner Carolyn Swartz said road washouts and misinformation impacted her business immediately after the flooding.
“From a standpoint of people wanting to come here, they got cut off from the west and they got cut off from the south for a little while. There were detours, but all of that has been taken care of other than the Highway 2 detour,” she said. “People were hesitant to come, but a lot of people didn’t come because they read things on the internet that the bay would be unfishable because it was too dirty.”
However, Swartz said things have returned to normal, and people have hauled in trout and salmon on Lake Superior.
“Not that we like to see a lot of mud and silt coming into the bay or the big lake, but sometimes when you get mud lines where you can actually see the difference in the water quality, fish like to hide in that,” she said. “That can be very productive fishing moving along the mud line.”
Further west, Superior-Douglas County Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Taylor Pedersen said the flooding hasn’t had a major impact on visitors to Douglas County.
“The one thing it definitely has affected is the ATV/UTV trails throughout the county, and some of that tourism has been affected because even to this day some of our ATV/UTV trails are shut down.”
Still, Pedersen said hotel bookings are similar to normal summers.
“I probably should say that we’re very lucky that we fared the way we did,” he said. “There’s other counties near us that definitely were impacted.”
Regional tourism officials agree, noting some businesses were affected more than others.
In flood-affected areas, revenues generated through retail sales reveal mixed results about spending in the region. In Ashland County, sales tax revenues dipped about six percent in June and nine percent in July compared to the same time last year. In Bayfield County, sales tax revenues increased about seven percent year-over-year in June but fell about eight percent in July from the same time last year. In Douglas County, sales tax revenues climbed both months at five percent in June and 11 percent in July.
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So now it’s official, Instagram is now part of Facebook and it looks like Facebook will now start integrating the 12 man team of instagram into it’s fold. The announcement was made by Mike Schroepfer — FB VP for Engineering.
The complete Facebook welcome announcement after the break.
Welcoming Instagram to Facebook
September 06, 2012
By Mike Schroepfer
So many of us at Facebook love using Instagram to share moments with our friends. And for so many people, sharing photos with friends is an important part of the Facebook experience. That’s why we’re so excited to bring Instagram to Facebook and see what we can create together.
As we said from the beginning, we are committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Instagram will continue to serve its community, and we will help Instagram continue to grow by using Facebook’s strong engineering team and infrastructure. We also can’t wait to work with the talented Instagram team to improve the mobile experience.
We’re looking forward to an exciting future with the Instagram team and to all of the great new experiences we’re going to be able to build together.
The actual financial value of Instagram acquisition is now only $735 Million that’s more than $250 million less than the of the original $1 Billion that Mark Zuckerberg announced back in April. If you can remember last August 2012, FTC cleared Facebook acquire Instagram for $1 Billion in stocks and cash but since FB and Instagram agreed that a large portion of that 1% equity in the form of stock, the total acquisition value will now be $735 Million, this was due to the disappointing performance and steady decline stock price of FB shares.
PetalPixel reported that Instagram upload went up to more than 5 billion uploaded photos per month, that’s up from 4 billion just two months ago. Which means Instagram users are uploading more than 17 million photos daily and have been adding 10 million new users per month, not bad for a service that currently have 12 employees and currently does have any revenue model but that may change soon, since Facebook can provide Instagram their much needed sales team.


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Varied prices of COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits have been an issue of concern in Vietnam in recent days. Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan talked to VIR’s Hoang Binh about the use of test kits in Vietnam, and future management.
What are the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) directions about the price of antigen rapid tests?
|Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan |
The ministry has issued documents guiding units, cities, and provinces on purchase of biological testing products in line with the prevailing rules and strict punishments for wrongdoing related to tenders and purchases for profit or bribery.
For management of pricing of biological testing products, the MoH asks units to make public the price on the ministry’s e-portal. Up till now, the MoH has licensed 97 types of SARS-CoV-2 test kits, including 35 real-time PCR test kits, 39 antigen test kits, and 23 antibody test kits.
What is the foundation for calculating the price of testing?
For COVID-19 testing in public-run health facilities, the ministry has the documents asking them to calculate the price of antigen rapid tests based on practical spending and payment, specifically on the price of test kits, and related cost of consumable supplies.
The payment based on bidding results is approved by authorised agencies in line with the Law on Public Procurement. Also, the MoH has documents guiding the price of merged samples to reduce testing fees, especially for businesses.
Has the MoH made any decision on purchasing of antigen rapid tests and how has it been used over past months?
The MoH has yet to make any purchase of antigen rapid tests.
In line with current principles, units and cities and provinces did purchase and tender as regulated. However, as I know, they mostly used sponsored test kits. For example, in Ho Chi Minh City, it got 10 million test kits in sponsorship. The MoH also got donations of over 10 million test kits from international organisations and units and then distributed to cities and provinces.
With recent concerns, how will the ministry focus on the management of the price of antigen rapid tests?
The MoH has submitted to the government a draft decree on management of medical devices, including test kits, in which units are asked to make prices public to ensure transparency in purchase and bidding activities.
The ministry is also gathering ideas and comments to include COVID-19 test kits in the list of goods under price stablisation because this item is yet to be included in the current rules.
In addition, the MoH is asking suppliers of biological testing products to make weekly updates about the price and make it public on the healthcare service price declaration portal to ensure the transparency and to have competitive prices.
Besides that, the ministry requests units and localities to increase supervision and carry out strict inspection of tenders of biological testing products, as well as check and inspect health facilities providing testing services, and strictly punish any kind of wrong doing.
In line with the government’s directions, the MoH has taken a number of important measures and solutions to reduce prices of test kits.
Firstly, the MoH has asked public-run health facilities to adjust prices of test kits in stages. In 2020, the price of test kits was high as the global health crisis developed seriously worldwide, leading to the limited supply and categories of COVID-19 test kits amid huge demands in countries.
Since the summer, due to an abundant supply of rapid test kits from imports and local production, the price of test kits has varied. The MoH has asked units to calculate the price based on practical spending and payment. It also has guidance on the testing price of emerging samples to save costs.
Currently, the MoH is drafting a circular on the price levels of test kits and is seeking ideas from ministries and units for issuance. It is also proposing adding COVID-19 test kits to the list of items under price stabilisation.
Secondly, the MoH has been taking measures to increase the supply of test kits via diplomacy channels and negotiations with prestigious global producers of test kits to buy a huge number at the lowest possible price.
The MoH also encourages powerful domestic groups to buy test kits from powerful global groups and then resell to localities at no profit, and to negotiate with international partners in the EU and the US on the production of test kits.
The third factor is ensuring transparency and creating favourable conditions for units to join the market to have a competitive price. The ministry is also intensifying investigation and inspection to detect wrongdoings.


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If you’ve watched any industry in the last 20 years where technology has begun to transform how the industry works the results are always predictable driven by what Clay Christensen appropriately called “The Innovator’s Dilemma” (one of the most influential books that changed my thinking about markets). Young startups claim they are going to change […]
By Chirag Mehta on April 1, 2014
Recently Google slashed price for their cloud offering. Amazon, as expected, also announced their 42nd price reduction on their cloud offerings since its inception. Today, Microsoft also announced price reduction for their Azure offerings. Unlike many other people I don’t necessarily see the price reduction by Amazon as waging a price war against the competition. […]


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Sustainable fashion fair Neonyt focused on the end consumer for the first time during its last edition. Many new and a few familiar brands visited Frankfurt's Ostend district when FashionUnited paid a visit. The fair counted more than 1,000 visitors spanning from Germany to France, the UK and Peru.
At first glance, Neonyt is almost the same as it always was - the mood is upbeat, the atmosphere dynamic, and there are open conversations. On the upper floor of the Union Halle, on a former industrial site, a "Prepeek lounge" is set up where influencers take photos with garments from the collections of sustainable fashion labels, while experts talk about sustainable development goals and greenwashing in the basement.
Familiar yet different
And yet something is different. The green fashion fair is now officially called Neonyt Lab. Anyone interested can enter with a registration through the website or at the door. The thirty brands that exhibit here also sell their garments directly to the visitors of the event. The brands were selected by Mirjam Smend, the organizer of the Munich-based sustainable fashion event Greenstyle.
The focus on end consumers is not only new for Neonyt, but a first for the textile fairs of Messe Frankfurt. Schmidt has left it open as to whether the format will stay that way. A decision may follow at the end of July.
One thing is certain: a lot has happened in the meantime. Initially, the plans were big: the fashion fairs Premium and Neonyt moved to Frankfurt, and Frankfurt Fashion Week was launched, where in addition to the latest collections for the coming season, the spotlight would also be on other parts of the garment production chain. In addition, fashion shows and other events would be held in the city.
Sustainable brands are missing fashion buyers
The fairs did not take place during the first two years of the pandemic, and the fashion fair Premium moved back to Berlin. Neonyt is testing out if it could be an event for end consumers. How it will proceed is unclear. For some sustainable fashion labels, specifically those that trade business-to-business, it is problematic that there is no longer an event for trade audiences.
“The trade show Neonyt is not going to happen, which is obviously a big problem for us as eco fashion brands. So where should we go this season?” says Hermann Kohnen, director of the sustainable label Lana. He is heading for the Premium trade fair in Berlin in two weeks' time, where a large number of sustainable brands will be exhibiting. Lana is a brand founded in 1987 from the German city of Aachen. Kohnen plans to exhibit later in the "Green Room" of the fashion fair Gallery in Düsseldorf.
“We are making a sweeping blow and hope that we will find new customers in the first fair season, which is now happening again,” says Kohnen. Although most orders are placed at the eco textiles fair Innatex, the brand gained most of its new customers through Neonyt.
At Lana's booth, pieces from the SS22 collection can be found at a small discount. “Selling stuff also allows us to recoup some of the costs we incur,” he says.
Cologne-based label Lanius takes a similar approach. Samples from its SS22 collection are slightly discounted, the label already sold a few pieces on Friday afternoon and also spoke to two buyers, says Annabelle Homann, the brand’s chief operating officer.
“I think it's a pity that Neonyt didn't decide to organize a big B2B event in Berlin, because it had developed incredibly well,” says Homann. The brand has exhibited at both Neonyt and Premium in the past, and recently only at Neonyt, precisely because the fair had “developed so well”.
The last time Neonyt was organized for a trade audience was during Berlin Fashion Week, on the grounds of the former Tempelhof airport, next to the now bankrupt Panorama clothing fair. More than 210 sustainable fashion labels from 22 countries presented their collections and attracted conventional fashion retailers such as Breuninger, CJ Schmidt and Amazon. “That was just the right combination,” says Kohnen. For the future, he thinks “there has to be a connection with other fairs, otherwise no one will come”. Moreover, he says it is hard to imagine that buyers would go to Frankfurt after the fairs in Berlin.
On Friday afternoon, in addition to end consumers and trade audiences, there were also some buyers in the Union Halle. One of them was Christiane Sami, owner of the store Emma 2.0 in Bad Hölz. Sami set up her store last year and is looking for brands that take sustainability seriously. “I was passing through, but I came here because I am confident that it is a real sustainability event in the industry,” says Sami. She found two interesting labels, but thinks the event is a bit small overall.
“It is a little small,” agrees Christine Richter. She is one of three sisters who started the label 'Make Somebody Happy' last fall, and is at Neonyt for the first time. As of Friday afternoon, she had sold five and spoke with two buyers. It is important for the young brand to showcase itself here and make contacts, says the founder.
For Helena Harfst, owner of the eponymous brand, the main reason for coming was the opening of Neonyt to end consumers. “I am not looking for a middleman, I do everything myself,” she says. Harfst sells her collections, which are made by a seamstress in the German village of Hüttenberg, so far only online. She still struggles a bit with the idea of collaborating with fashion retailers: she would have to raise her prices to make sure the margins are in line.
Harfst is at the Union Halle in Frankfurt because she has received inquiries from customers who would like to see her folklore-inspired designs in real life. “It's good to start the conversation and get feedback.”


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Austria-based Grafitbergbau Kaisersberg is expected to purchase up to 2,500 tonnes per annum of expandable graphite worth around US$7.5 million per annum from a planned facility that BlackEarth is looking to build with India's Metachem Manufacturing Company.
BlackEarth announced a memorandum of understanding with Metachem earlier this month for the development of at least one expandable graphite plant, costing $3.5 million, with the first to be built in the Indian Special Economic Zone.
BlackEarth will source and supply the large and jumbo flake graphite to the plant, which will target an initial 2000tpa capacity, before doubling to 4000tpa.
Managing director Tom Revy said the agreement was an endorsement of its expandable graphite strategy, and in its separate plans for a proposed large scale plant development in Madagascar, near its proposed Maniry operations.
He said Grafitbergbau was one of the largest buyers and developers of expandable graphite products in Europe.
Revy said the agreement with the 50-year-old Grafitbergbau had been facilitated by its German-based marketing partner LuxCarbon, and is intended to be the first of a number of planned offtake and supply agreements.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence expands the expandable graphite market, dominated by demand for fire retardant and batteries, is expected to grow from around $203 million last year to $352 million in 2027.
The company has cash of about A$6.7 million following a recent $4.9 million placement at 15.5c per share. The heavily oversubscribed raising was managed by Argonaut Securities.
The cash is being used to fund a 1000m diamond drilling program at the shallow, high-grade Razafty Northwest zone at Mainry with the aim of accelerating resource growth from 20.2Mt at 6.51% total graphitic carbon in the coming months.
A definitive feasibility study is also being finalised.
The company's stock has traded between 2-28c over the past year, peaking with the LuxCarbon announcement in February.
This morning BlackEarth's shares were trading up 15% at 11.2c, capitalising the company at $21.5 million.


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PNC continues to build out its leadership team in the South, announcing that Enrico Della Corna was promoted to commercial banking southeast regional executive, my colleague Bryant Ruiz Switzky, senior staff reporter at the Washington Business Journal, reported.
Della Corna will focus on companies with revenue ranging from $10 million to $50 million from Maryland to Florida.
He is PNC’s market executive for Virginia, a post he will retain, and the veteran banker was instrumental when PNC entered Washington in 2005 with its purchase of Riggs Bank.
That marked the start of PNC's southern push. Less than two years later, it bought Baltimore-based Mercantile Bankshares. But the purchase of RBC Bank USA in March 2012 took PNC deep into the South. The small and midsize business market is a crucial and competitive segment, analysts say.
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Vanjoki, a member of Nokia's executive board, will remain with the company for six months.
"I felt the time has come to seek new opportunities in my life," Vanjoki said, in a statement. "At the same time, I am 100% committed to doing my best for Nokia until my very last working day."
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It was announced early last year that Disney would be rebooting “DuckTales” for a new generations of viewers. The animated-comedy series will be based on the Emmy Award-winning show launched back in 1987, and is now set to debut in the summer of 2017.
Disney will release “DuckTales” on Disney XD channels around the world, and the show will be produced by Disney Television Animation. The new series will again star Disney’s enduringly popular characters: Scrooge McDuck, his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Donald Duck.
The series was officially announced back in February of 2015 by Marc Buhaj, Senior Vice President, Programming and General Manager, Disney XD. At the time of the announcement Buhaj said, “DuckTales’ has a special place in Disney’s TV animation history, it drew its inspiration from Disney Legend Carl Barks’ comic books and through its storytelling and artistic showmanship, set an enduring standard for animated entertainment that connects with both kids and adults. Our new series will bring that same energy and adventurous spirit to a new generation.”
The new series’ adventures will once again take viewers along as Scrooge McDuck, his curious and mischief-making grandnephews — Huey, Dewey and Louie — and the optimistic yet temperamental Donald Duck embark on high-flying adventures worldwide.
Other beloved characters slated to be in the new stories are: Duckworth, Gyro Gearloose, Launchpad McQuack, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica DeSpell & Poe, Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys (Burger Beagle, Bouncer Beagle), Mrs. Beakley and Webbigail Vanderquack.
A generation’s seminal cartoon, the Emmy Award-winning “DuckTales” led the daily syndicated cartoon block “The Disney Afternoon” with 100 episodes produced by Disney Television Animation from 1987-90. An animated theatrical film, “DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp,” premiered in 1990.
The original “DuckTales” is currently available on WATCH Disney Channel, an app that allows consumers to watch on tablet, phones, computer and set top boxes.


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Yesterday Apple confirmed its long anticipated deal to buy headphone-maker Beats Electronics for $3bn, marking the largest deal in it's history. The two Beats co-founders – Dr Dre and Jimmy Lovine will be joining Apple as part of the agreement.
The size and scale of the deal may reflect Apple's determination to make a significant move, having failed to prove the company's ability to innovate without Steve Jobs, with no significant new products announced since the iPad several years ago.
To some extent the Beats deal addresses Apple's issue of innovation, while buying the company they also aquired two executives who know the music industry, in Dre and Lovine. RBC's Daryanani wrote: "another potential from a deal could be that Jimmy Lovine could help run the iTunes music strategy, which has been challenged in the recent quarters. He was one of the first industry executives to anticipate the download business’s decline and advocate for subscription and streaming services as music’s future".
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On the heels of shipping its everRun MX software for fault tolerance and high availability for symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) and multi-core CPU servers, Marathon Technologies today announced everRun MX Extend, which integrates CA’s ARCserve replication technology with everRun MX for disaster recovery.
The everRun MX software, announced last month, was designed to run on commodity server hardware and eliminate application and I/O downtime in Windows environments. With the addition of the continuous data replication found in CA (NASDAQ: CA) ARCserve, everRun MX Extend prevents localized failures and offers remote failover so customers can restore business operations from a geographically distant “hot site” in the event of an outage, according to Jim Welch, CEO and COO, Marathon Technologies.
“Traditional systems are proprietary, hardware based and speak to specific application sets. Our software uses standard, off-the-shelf servers and eliminates hardware dependencies,” said Welch. “Customers can now get a combined DR/fault tolerance solution for one price tag.”
Welch said many businesses focus their business continuity efforts on only disaster recovery, leaving them susceptible to more frequent localized failures. Coupling ARCserve with everRun MX Extend, he said, changes that focus from disaster recovery to disaster prevention.
“Why settle for downtime or a restart technology when you can have zero downtime?,” he said.
Based on Marathon’s ComputeThru technology, everRun MX was built to reduce the need for system/virtual machines (VM) restarts and data recovery/restores. The software can be implemented with direct-attached storage (DAS), eliminating the need to deploy a SAN for high availability purposes.
EverRun MX is available in two flavors and starts at a price of about $15,000 for a pair of servers. EverRun MX Extend brings the price to about $20,000.
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Regenerative agriculture: The brand opportunityRegenerative agriculture: The brand opportunity
New Hope Network is a proud sponsor of both new survey research on the topic of building demand for regenerative agriculture and The Regenerative Earth Summit. Please consider joining us Nov. 6 and 7 at the summit in Boulder, Colorado, for an interactive, two-day gathering designed to explore the opportunity for regenerative agriculture.
October 16, 2017
It’s time to change agriculture.
Despite our best intentions, our agriculture and food system doesn’t seem to work as well as some had hoped. Norman Borlaug’s green revolution sought to increase food security around the world. The green revolution’s mix of high-yield, disease-resistant crops and modern, chemical-intensive agricultural techniques were well-intentioned and designed to solve the very real problem of feeding the world’s growing population and the food insecure.
More than 70 years later, even with noblest of intentions, we are beginning to recognize the unintended consequences of our modern agricultural system, including polluted waterways, water shortages, nutrient-depleted soils and topsoil loss. Like 70 years ago, we face the challenge of feeding a burgeoning population. However, today we do so while grappling with the uncertainty of a changing and warming climate and the unintended consequences of chemically laden agriculture.
Villain, victim, solution
There exists both urgency to act and opportunity to be had.
Jonathan Foley from the University of Minnesota sums ag’s challenges up well: “Skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction.”
While many don’t realize it, agriculture is a major contributor to climate change.
There is no doubt that our farmers want to be good stewards of their lands. Their livelihoods and their futures depend upon it. Yet, to many farmers and observers, it’s clear that our systems aren’t working as well as they could. However, swimming against the current created by the downward spiral of our chemical-intensive agricultural system can be difficult. The system does not do a good job of offering solutions to the problems that it has (unintentionally) created, and the prospect of walking away from the system that has been built and so widely supported over the last 70 years feels risky and uncertain.
At the same time, we appear to be building momentum that will enable farmers to pursue more vibrant and regenerative approaches to production. Science, business appetite and consumer demand are growing behind the idea of changing our food system. There is excitement about driving a fundamental shift in how we produce food to solve major problems like climate change, nutrient depletion, water pollution and loss of top soils. Regenerative agriculture’s opportunities are emerging.
The solutions we need
Regenerative agriculture offers powerful solutions to the problems we face. If we look to our soils, we find a powerful ally in fighting climate change. And thus, regenerative agriculture is the win-win-win for climate, farmers and consumers. But first we must engage parties across our food system to build the market.
David Johnson, PhD, of New Mexico State University, estimates that if we would convert 22 percent of arable land to regenerative agriculture, we could capture all human-caused carbon emissions and return atmospheric carbon levels to preindustrial levels in about a decade.
Regenerative agriculture represents an exciting opportunity to:
Restore balance to our climate.
Regenerate our farmland.
Regenerate our businesses.
Regenerate our health.
However, much work needs to be done to make it happen. We need to:
Create a workable definition.
Adopt metrics to assess agriculture methods and individual farm progress.
And maybe most importantly, create demand to build the momentum needed to convert our agricultural systems from one aimed single-mindedly at feeding the world’s population to one aimed at doing so while also regenerating our climate, farmland, businesses and health.
If we are going to change the system, we need to give those farming our food ample reason to adopt new production methods. So the question we need to answer is: How do we build demand and a marketplace for regenerative agriculture products?
Start with brands
To shift the system, many will expect farmers to change their ways. This of course will be necessary, but the whole food system—including consumers—for change. If a farmer is to risk transitioning his production methods, a robust reward must await. Healthier soils, lower input costs and decreased chemical exposure might be reward enough for many, but if a marketplace to sell higher-quality goods doesn’t exist, the economic incentive might not feel compelling enough to shift.
Today we have an exciting opportunity to build demand for regenerative agriculture through the brands consumers buy every day at the grocery store. Consumer culture is shifting as shopper awareness and consciousness grows, driving increased engagement in how they become aware of, consider and choose which brands they purchase and make a part of their lives.
Consumers are realizing their economic power. Empowered by their new awareness—and increased marketplace transparency and access to information—consumers now vote with nearly every dollar they spend. Simultaneously, worry about climate change grows among consumers.
As an industry, we can connect climate concern to consumerism and the food we grow, manufacture and sell. It’s exciting to consider how we can to link consumerism to climate action through our brands.
Historically, industry and activists have led the way on climate action. Citizens were given simple conservation efforts to fight climate change, suggestions such as: turn off lights when not in the room or shut off the water while brushing teeth. Or they’ve faced the unrealistic challenge of doing extraordinary things like rebuilding their lifestyle around public transportation or investing in expensive electric or hybrid cars. The climate movement has failed to give tangible actions the public can take to make a big impact.
Industry needs to continue to lead. But if we are to solve or mitigate climate challenges, we will need to engage consumers through the brands they buy at the grocery store. And we will need to amplify industry impact through consumer spending.
The Regenerative Earth Summit
I look forward to participating as a panelist at the Regenerative Earth Summit, where we will likely discuss:
How changing consumer culture creates a unique opportunity for brands to differentiate on climate leadership and regenerative agriculture.
How consumers engage in climate issues and spend on responsible products and brands.
What education farmers, manufacturers and consumers need regarding the link between agriculture and climate change.
The call for research and mentors to demonstrate regenerative agriculture’s benefit to farmers.
The need for metrics to help farmers monitor regenerative ag progress, and investment in research and test farms to demonstrate improved profitability, yields and reduced costs.
The promise of demonstrated market demand and multiyear contracts to support farmer transition.
Join us at the two-day Regenerative Earth Summit in Boulder, Colorado. Fellow influencers, innovators and leaders in the natural and organic food space, regenerative agriculture movement, soil carbon sequestration community, farmers, investors, local food and civic leaders will work across sectors to build strategies and storytelling that drive adoption of practical, regenerative agriculture methods in our food system.
This interactive gathering is designed to explore the opportunity for regenerative agriculture while co-creating an ecosystem of peers across multiple disciplines to work together to discover and devise how we can collaborate in service of our shared vision for a vibrant, regenerative and health-affirming food system. Register here to join us in our collective effort to recreate our food system with the goal of nourishing our communities, protecting our natural resources and mitigating the effects of climate change.
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Fiat Chrysler is going to have a powerful New York Auto Show this April. Citing “reliable sources” Motor Authority says the Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk will debut along with the Dodge SRT Demon. So much HEMI power for one show, but the Trackhawk has been a long time coming.
The Trackhawk’s existence was confirmed some time ago and spy shots have popped up periodically ever since. Basically the formula here is one we’ve already come to expect from FCA: an SRT model powered by the 707 horsepower Hellcat engine that is already found in the Dodge Challenger and Charger.
Since originally launched, enthusiasts have begged FCA to put the Hellcat engine in more products. It’s been rumored for everything and FCA has even teased it in concepts, such as the Ram.
The Grand Cherokee Trackhawk will join the recently-announced Dodge Durango SRT in fluffing the FCA performance SUV family. No word yet on when the Trackhawk will blast its way to dealerships, but we can expect all the details at the New York show in April.


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Today’s speech by the Swiss National Banks Chairman, Jordan, will be closely watched by markets as the CHF continues to be pressured higher by safe haven buying which has led to the Bank adopting a negative rate policy while warning of a possible fx intervention if the strength gets out of hand. If the speech reiterates the Banks concerns about an over inflated CHF, we will see the currency sold off as traders prepare for a potential intervention in the markets or a further decrease in the interest rates. On the other hand, should the speech be more accommodative of the current conditions, the CHF might strengthen further as the language of intervention is taken off the table.
The UK economy continues to evolve in the wake of the Brexit vote and today’s release of the Prelim GDP q/q figure out of the UK will indicate the change in the inflation adjusted value of goods and services produced in the UK. The figure is regarded as the broadest measure of economic growth and a key represented of how the UK economy is performing. A higher than expected release will see the GBP strengthen as traders’ price in the improved conditions and economic growth occurring. However, if the figure comes in worse than expected, the GBP will be sold off as traders’ price in the dampening of economic growth in the UK.
The USA is also due for the release of its GDP q/q, however, this is in the form of the Advanced release which is likely to have a larger impact than the other two GDP reports released during the month. The figure is expected to come in at 1.3%, a stark difference form last quarter’s 2.1%. The decline is already priced in to the value of the USD and market will react to surprises accordingly. Should the figure come in better than expected, the USD will be bought and should the figure come in less than expected, the USD will be sold.


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- Over 1,300 startups added in 2019, over 8,900 tech-startups in India now: Nasscom
The total number of tech startups in the country has grown to 8,900-9,300 with 1,300 startups being added this year so far. India also witnessed the addition of seven Unicorns this year till August taking the total tally to 24 - the third highest number of Unicorns (companies with valuation of over $1 billion) in a single country in the world.
- All set for Goa International Travel Mart 2019
The third edition of Goa International Travel Mart (GITM) will be held from October 23 to 25 2019. The B2B event is bringing together travel companies, hoteliers, eco-tourism, adventure, wildlife, nightlife, event managers, wedding planners, wellness and other leisure enterprises under one roof to showcase the tourism investment potential in the state.
- Udaan gets $585 million, valued at $2.7 billion
In the largest capital infusion in an online business-to-business (B2B) commerce platform in India, China’s internet giant Tencent and venture capital arm of US bank Citi are among half a dozen investors who have put $585 million (Rs 4,162 crore) in Udaan. The deal would value the little over three-year-old startup, co-founded by three former senior Flipkart executives, at about $2.7 billion, giving it a war chest to expand its marketplace, logistics and lending operations.
- B2B unicorns need 50% less funds than B2C
Startups that create software and other products for the global market need 50% less capital compared with consumer-focused startups building services in India to become a unicorn (privately held companies valued at over $1 billion), according to an Iron Pillar report.


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The cloud is supposed to be an elastic environment that scales to meet whatever demands are placed on it. For Amazon’s EC2 cloud service this week, elasticity wasn’t enough to prevent a network outage that lasted several hours.
Among the sites affected by the Amazon outage was the popular reddit social new sharing and networking site.
As to what triggered the outage, a post to the AWS dashboard by Amazon blamed the problem on a network error that caused a lot of unexpected storage mirroring.
“A networking event early this morning triggered a large amount of re-mirroring of EBS [Extended Block Store] volumes … This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity … which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes,” the report said.


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According to media reports, Udaan did revenue of ₹65 crore and incurred a loss of ₹60 crore in FY18
India-MART InterMESH has doubled from its IPO price, but higher valuations for a rival web platform could see the shares of the NCR-based company soar.
Udaan, another ecommerce platform for businesses, successfully raised capital at a much higher valuation recently, and that could become a benchmark for entities with similar revenue streams.
A three-year-old startup, Udaan raised $585 million, valuing itself at about $2.8 billion. IndiaMART, which is more established, has revenue almost 7 times of Udaan and is profitable. It is valued at about $800 million at its current price. Further, IndiaMART is the country’s largest online B2B marketplace, with a share of nearly 60 per cent in online B2B classifieds.
According to media reports, Udaan did revenue of ₹65 crore and incurred a loss of ₹60 crore in FY18. In the same fiscal,
IndiaMART did net profit of ₹63 crore and revenue of ₹411 crore. In FY19, India-MART’s revenues grew 24 per cent to ₹507 crore and net profit to ₹85.3 crore, 36 per cent higher. For the current fiscal, analysts expect ₹640 crore of revenue and ₹140 crore in net profit.
At the current price of ₹1,920.6, IndiaMART’s stock is trading at 39 times FY20 estimated earnings, which is fair given the growth opportunity and scalability of the business model. In terms of EV/Ebitda, it is trading at 29 times.
“IndiaMART is all set to sustain its strong growth momentum as businesses are increasingly leveraging online channels for efficient procurement. A large and growing number of buyers and suppliers on the platform are driving up business enquiries, further increasing its attractiveness,” said Pranav Kshatriya, an analyst with Edelweiss Securities.
Valuations also appear attractive. For instance, the stock of Info Edge, which owns the jobsite naukri-.com and is investee in many other companies including Zomato, is trading at over 60 times its FY20 estimated earnings and FY20 estimated EV/Ebitda.
What is further commendable is that unlike most other startup ecommerce companies whose survival depends on their ability to raise funds, leading to multiple equity dilutions, IndiaMART has a cash-surplus balance sheet and a very high promoter holding.
At the end of FY19, cash and cash equivalent was almost ₹700 crore. The promoter holding was also 53 per cent, which is a major comforting factor for the investors.


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Speaking with GamesIndustry International, Dontnod Entertainment CEO Oskar Guilbert has dismissed reports claiming that the Remember Me developer is facing bankruptcy.
“There is no bankruptcy, Dontnod is not in bankruptcy,” he said, in part. “We are in something called in France ‘judicial reorganisation’ which allows us to re-adapt our production pipeline to the new situation. Because as you know we finished a game called Remember Me for Capcom which was out in June 2013, last year. This game, I think it’s important to mention, is number two in terms of downloads on PlayStation Plus in Europe, so it’s a big success on the digital side at least.”
Judicial reorganisation involves a court-appointed Judicial Administrator that oversees the financial restructuring of companies struggling with debt, including settling liabilities and the managing of labor costs.
“We started new projects and those new projects need some investment and we decided to resize the company in order to match these new needs. That’s why we needed judicial reorganisation.”


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Message from the President of Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan
Business as usual will not result in creating new value. It takes a persistently adventurous spirit to reach a better future.
Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan would like to extend its deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by COVID-19. The company also thanks all those who are continuing to work tirelessly to prevent the further spread of infection.
Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc.(CCBJI) produces and supplies approximately 90% of the Coca-Cola system's products in Japan to serve the needs of our customers and consumers spread widely across. CCBJI is not only the largest Coca-Cola bottling company in Asia, but also a leading player among over 250 Coca-Cola bottlers operating around the world.
Over the past few years, the beverage industry has been impacted by various shifts, such as the diversification of consumer needs and intensifying competition. In this environment, we have continued to integrate and restructure our business and have created new economic and social value.
It is clear that we cannot continue to rely on how we have done things in the past if we want to achieve greater growth in the future. Building off our midterm strategic business plan, we have put that resolution into action by renewing our company Mission, Vision, and Values with a new corporate philosophy that is summed up by "Paint it RED! Let's Repaint our Future." Red—both our corporate color and symbolic of passion—represents our strong determination to create value.
We will achieve our Mission of "Delivering happy moments to everyone while creating value" by continually learning and growing, and we will strive to be the preferred partner of our many stakeholders, especially our customers and shareholders. The new Mission, Vision, and Values communicate our strong determination and act as a guide to achieving sustainable growth and continuing to create value.
Creating shared value with society is the right way to grow.
The year 2020 was a tumultuous one with the unprecedented threat of COVID-19. The resulting situation includes the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and not only have other sporting and entertainment events been affected, but the global economy and the very structure of society have also been disrupted. Whatever we face, we must keep moving forward and continue growing. While monitoring the situation and responding appropriately, we will fulfill our mission to deliver beverages to our consumers. More broadly, we are determined to address social issues through our business activities and fulfill our responsibility to work together to create a better future.
Building upon our renewed Mission, Vision, and Values and the individual integrity of our employees, we will continue to create new, shared value and further earn the trust and support of our stakeholders.
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Multi-sector Investment Group (MIG) owner of the newly established tea factory in Nyamagabe District has said Mushubi Tea Factory will start activities on 15th April, 2013.
MIG invested in tea processing following complaints from tea farmers that needed a tea factory in the area to cut on the loses incurred in transportation.
Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi promised the factory that government through its institutions EWSA and RTDA (Rwanda Transport Development Agency) will provide infrastructure facilities like roads and electricity heading to the factory.
The factory has a production capacity of between 86 to 100 tons per day but will start at 20 tons per day.
Around 300 people are expected to benefit from employment at Mushubi Tea Factory.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Fisker Automotive Systems' Supplier Seeks Buyer
A major supplier to Irvine-based electric auto firm Fisker Automotive is looking for a buyer, after woes triggered by a recall of Fisker's automobiles in March. A123, the supplier of batteries used in Fisker's automobiles, said Tuesday that it has hired an outside financial advisor to provide it with "evaluation of strategic alternatives" for the firm. Fisker, and A123, saw a huge black eye in March after batteries used in Fisker's automobiles shut down in a Consumer Reports test. Fisker later upgraded its warranty on its cars and promised to replace all of the batteries in the Fisker Karma due to the A123 issues.


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Pioneer DJ has just released the brand new two-channel scratch/battle DJ Mixer that works in perfect harmony with Serato DJ and has all of the Pioneer FX that DJ's have come to love. The new Pioneer DJM-S9 Serato DJ Mixer sports eight RGB backlit pads for each channel, dual USB ports for easy DJ switch-overs, and a new Magvel Pro scratch crossfader that has many unique adjustments and features for todays scratch DJ's. The Pioneer DJ team has released a quick performance video which shows Mr. Switch (DMC World Champ) getting busy on the DJM-S9 and a set of PLX-1000 Turntables.
DJM-S9 Mr Switch Performance
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Nike has produced a book to promote its community-based projects across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The Community Report is designed by Manchester consultancy Love, which won the project following a credentials pitch in September 2004. The design was produced on a ‘small budget’ and uses photographs supplied by Nike field workers, alongside sports-related illustrations from inner-city children in Berlin, says Love creative director Dave Palmer. The book is targeted at non-governmental organisations, corporations, political bodies and the public. ‘Nike wants to talk about its community sports projects to fight back against a “no logo” image,’ says Palmer.
7-Inches for Planned Parenthood has released a compilation vinyl boxset featuring original work from the likes of designer Shepard Fairey and musician Björk to raise money for the charity.
Integrated packaging design specialist Equator shares advice on what it takes to stand out as a successful design consultancy in a competitive landscape.
The cans feature the artist’s famous toucan and lobster illustrations, created during his four-decade-long association with the brand.
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MULTAN: With the growing needs of transportation among masses, the business of rent-a-motorcycle has been increased leaving rent-a-car business due to high prices of petrol across South Punjab especially in rural areas.
A large number of persons have established motorcycle rental shops in their local areas including towns, villages and streets of the region.
Most of people have also left the business of rent-a-car and converted it to rent-a-motorcycle due to low risk of default while some people are carrying out this business as a part time to earn reasonable income on daily basis.
A rent-a-motorcycle business owner, Ghulam Mustafa told APP that he was running business for last few years and earning handsome income on daily basis. He said that inflation was rising day by day and the demand of motorcycles was also increasing on daily basis. He said that a total of eight motorcycle available at his shop on rent but the customers were more the double of these motorcycles.
He added that he was charging Rs 100/hour from his customers and his daily income was more than Rs 2500 to 3000 which is sufficient to fulfill basic needs of his family.
Another rent-a-motorcycle owner, Aftab Hussain said that he was running rent-a-car business from last five years but now he converted the business into rent-a-motorcycle and he was also offering motorcycles on easy installments to people.
He said that expenses for running rent-a-car business were unaffordable now as he has to pay rent of the shop, maintenance of cars, salary of staff members, electricity bills and other expenses adding that not even of single thing was required for running rent-a-motorcycle business. He said that he was using guest room of his house as his office and most of his customers were also local that is why the loss risk was almost zero percent.
On the other hand, different students and farmers have also been noticed offering their motorcycles on rent.
Majid Ali informed APP that he used his motorcycle to reach college and now his was offering motorcycle on rent during summer holidays and earning his pocket money on daily basis. He said that he was planning to purchase another motorcycle which would help pay his college fee from his own resources and reduce burden on his parents.
In many rural areas of South Punjab the motorcycles were also being used for transportation as motorcyclists picking up passengers on their motorcycles and charging 30 to 50 rupee fare each passenger from them. Muhammad Anwar, a motorcyclist told the news agency that transporting passengers from bus stands to their homes which help him earning Rs 400 to 500 per day. He said that there was no proper transportation in various rural areas and people preferred motorcycles due to cheap fare and reached the destination in short time.
Muhammad Afzal, a citizen said that he had eight members of the family and have single motorcycle for domestic requirments. “We have to hire motorcycle to meet emergency need”, he said and added that rent-a-motorcycle business was a good facility for the poor.


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Evans teen dies in Saturday wreck
A two-car wreck near Clarks Hill Lake on Saturday left an Evans teen dead and sent five others to the Medical College of Georgia Hospital.
The collision occurred about 3 p.m. on Washington Road near Old Lincolnton Highway.
Rachel Callie Meadows, an Evans resident and 2007 Greenbrier High School graduate, died in the wreck, said Columbia County Deputy Coroner Harriett Garrison.
Emergency crews, including a helicopter, responded to the scene.
Meadows was driving a Honda Accord westbound on Washington Road and swerved into the path of an oncoming Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by Priscilla Gillchrest, 37, said Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.
Passengers in the Tahoe were Ruby Williams, 64; Davonna Williams, 30; Jimeria Gillchrest, 14; and Davondria Smith, 7. All five are from Ninety Six, S.C., and were taken to MCG with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, Morris said.
Owner of stores turns himself in
The owner of four Columbia County cell phone stores raided by police Friday surrendered to authorities Monday.
Christopher Michael Bettis, 28, of Evans, turned himself in to the Columbia County Detention Center, Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris said.
Bettis was wanted after Friday raids at his T-Mobile stores turned up handbags, wallets, sunglasses and other merchandise suspected of being designer counterfeits. He was charged with insurance fraud and two counts of counterfeit trademark violations and is being held without bond, Morris said.
The following accounts were taken from reports provided by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office:
Juveniles escape shoplifting charges
Three juveniles avoided shoplifting charges Saturday after they were caught stealing clothing from an Evans department store.
The loss prevention associate for Kohl's called police Saturday after receiving a tip that the three were on their way to the store at 4227 Washington Road. The associate said she saw them take clothing into the dressing room and exit without the items.
Police located the three teens in the parking lot and escorted them back to Kohl's. The three had stolen the clothing by putting it on under other clothes. The associates and the store did not prosecute, but the juveniles were banned.
Vending machines emptied of cash
A Georgia Iron & Steel employee called police Saturday after finding four vending machines burglarized.
The employee said between 5:30 p.m. Friday and 5:30 a.m. Saturday, someone used a torch to cut the locks from four machines owned by A&A Vending Services.
All the money was stolen from the machines.
Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue Activity Report for the week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2:
Structure fires, three; wood/brush/grass fires, three; vehicle fire, one; dumpster fire, one; controlled/unauthorized burns, six; activated fire alarms, nine; medical incidents, 25; vehicle accidents, five; gas line ruptures, three; investigate various incidents, six; assist citizens, three; and other, one.:
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POWE Architects work on the Coles redevelopment of the retail heart of Alderley has featured recently in the North-West News. The project was not long ago approved by Brisbane City Council and has the support of many businesses and residents in the local area.
Cr Andrew Wines (Enoggera) welcomes the revamp. “I think that we really need a rejuvenation. I think that the Coles development, while modest, will go a long way to make the centre more attractive.”
Read the full article as it appeared in the North-West News.


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101 Best Restaurants in Latin America Announced by The Daily Meal
Hungry travelers in Latin America take note: The food and drink website The Daily Meal has released its list of the 101 Best Restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This carefully selected collection aims to present some of the finest epicurean endeavors in the region, and is one of the most comprehensive reports of its kind, according to the editors. They went through an extensive research process to scout out restaurants around the region, and then worked with a group of panelists to narrow the list down to the final 101. Restaurants of various sizes and styles are included, from sleek Michelin-starred establishments to seafood shacks on the beach. In the interests of accuracy and fairness, panelists — a group that included restaurant critics, food and lifestyle writers, and assorted bloggers — were asked only to vote for restaurants where they had eaten within the past 12 months.
The voting — based on region, cuisine, and the style of the restaurant; budget, casual/neighborhood, and serious dining/special occasion — narrowed the list to a group of 101. The final list included a mix of restaurants from 25 different countries. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the largest number of winners are in the two largest countries in Latin America. The largest number of places, 25 in all, turned out to be in Mexico, a country that has, in recent years, embraced concepts of contemporary cuisine without diminishing its own rich culinary heritage. Brazil — where Alex Atala of D.O.M. in São Paulo has galvanized the food scene over the past decade — had the second largest number of winners, 17 restaurants, followed by Argentina, with 11 restaurants, ten of them in Buenos Aires. Peru also did well, with two restaurants in the top ten list.
To get your taste buds going, here is a list of the top ten; to see the entire list, visit http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-latin-america-and-caribbean/112013
101 Best Restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean: A sample from the top 10
1. D.O.M. Restaurante (São Paulo, Brazil)
2. Astrid & Gaston (Lima, Peru)
3. Blue by Eric Ripert (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands)
4. Central Restaurante (Lima, Peru)
5. Kinoshita (São Paulo, Brazil)
6. Unik (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
7. Biko (Mexico City, Mexico)
8. Mani (São Paulo, Brazil)
9. Marmelade (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
10. Pujol (Mexico City, Mexico)
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The sisters of One Direction star Louis Tomlinson are following in the footsteps of their famous brother by supporting their local children’s hospice, Bluebell Wood.
Louis’ sisters Lottie aged 15, Felicity 13, Daisy 10, and Phoebe Tomlinson, 10, have signed up to the Bluebell Wood Colour Dash, a 5K run with vibrant fun at Rother Valley Country Park, Sheffield on Saturday 3 May 2014.
The girls visited the North Anston based hospice to model the events merchandise and accessories which are now on sale in regional branches of New Look, and via the charity’s own online shop.
The colour dash concept has been a huge success in the United States and Bluebell Wood is the first charity in the Yorkshire region to host this type of event.
The run was launched in early February and all of the 2,000 places have now been taken.
The Tomlinson sisters are getting behind the run by modelling fun accessories that can be bought by walkers, joggers and runners to make the day even more fun and vibrant. They are also urging participants to support the cause by raising as much sponsorship as possible for the event.
Lottie said: “I’m really excited to be able to get involved with the Colour Dash and support Bluebell Wood.”
“I first heard about the hospice when Louis became a patron of the charity.”
“It’s a fantastic organisation and I’d encourage everyone taking part to raise as much sponsorship as they can to help the children and families who use Bluebell Wood.”
If every colour dasher raised £10 sponsorship this could ensure all the children who the charity provide care for enjoy lots of fun and laughter in the messy play room at the hospice.
Merchandise including visors, tutus, wristbands and sunglasses is available to buy online from £10.50.
It is also available to buy from New Look stores around the region including Worksop, Doncaster and Sheffield Fargate.
Alternatively you can buy your Colour Dash accessories on the day of the event.
Helen Mower, head of fund-raising at Bluebell Wood added: “The response we have had to sign ups has been incredible and we have unfortunately had to close entries.”
“But if anyone would still like to get involved with the Colour Dash we are still recruiting volunteers to help with all different activities throughout the day”.”
To purchase your very own Colour Dash merchandise visit www.bluebellwood.org/colour-dash-merchandise


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Food science company Manuka Health reckons it's on track to double sales in China thanks to a strategic agreement in Shanghai with Chinese company Sunjoy Marketing and Trading.
Manuka Health is predicting that total China sales of around $5 million this financial year are expected to double to $10 million in 2015 under the new agreement. Current market share is projected to increase from 10 to 30 percent.
“The agreement with Sunjoy gives us access to a full range of sales channels with national distribution, not just in traditional consumer channels but the health sector as well,” chief executive Kerry Paul said.
“As well as looking after distribution, Sunjoy will handle the logistics of things like importing and marketing.”
Through Sunjoy’s partnership with Cardinal Health China, a foreign-owned distributor in China, Manuka Health will also gain access to pharmacies and hospitals for some of its functional food and medical care range, such as wound care dressings.
“There is huge business potential for us in China for a range of Manuka Health products, but we will be introducing them step by step, initially concentrating on east and south China.”
Along with local manuka honey (of which it is one of the three major suppliers in China), the company exports diet supplements, gourmet foods and beverages to China.


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Havana, May 12 (RHC/Incentive Travel)-- Spain’s Meliá Hotels International has announced that it will extend its presence in Cuba in the center of the island, with the addition of eight new hotels, while promoting multi-destination holidays.
The company said it was committed to enhancing quality and service through renovation and adaptation to its brand standards.
The agreement between Meliá Hotels International and the Cuban hotel groups, Gran Caribe, Cubanacan and Islazul, aims to promote organized multi-destination holidays that already include several towns and cities on the island, simultaneously adding new destinations.
In 2015, Meliá Hotels International celebrated the 25th anniversary of its operations in Cuba.
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The start of this year has some exciting WhatsApp features coming our way. WhatsApp recently received its first major update of the year on the iOS platform. The update lets users reply privately in groups, add stickers to photos and videos and preview statuses using 3D touch. The new updates were previously tested on the beta version of the app.
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iPhone 7 news, release date and rumors
iPhone 7 news, release date and rumors – Looking for the iPhone SE? After that you’ll want our every little thing you should recognize post. With the iPhone 6S Apple delivered its finest handset yet, however besides showing off some expensive new 3D Touch innovation, it was additionally very just like the iPhone 6.
iPhone 7 various other attributes
A lot of feasible attributes are obviously in testing for the iPhone 7, with 5 different models being utilized to examine multi-Force Touch technology, a double camera, wireless charging, a finger print scanner in the screen and a USB Type-C connector that’s compatible with headsets.
That all comes from a post on Chinese social networking site Weibo, but even if it’s true given that there are evidently 5 different prototypes a lot of this could deficient right into the last phone. In various other rumors the iPhone 7 can have a smaller headset jack than the iPhone 6S. We’re hesitant to call this a function, as it’s more a likely inconvenience which could be needed in order to additional slim the phone down.
There’s an Apple license which indicates a 2mm adapter, below the standard 3.5 mm headset jack found on most phones. That would absolutely aid Apple slim the tool down, but would certainly additionally mean you ‘d either require unique earphones or an adapter. That was to be anticipated– besides, Apple commonly only upgrades its handsets as soon as every 2 years, however that overhaul is due with the iPhone 7, so we’re expecting and also wishing for big modifications: believe a whole new style, stacks of power and a bunch of new features.
The leaks, reports as well as credit reports are already ramping up, although the iPhone 7 possibly will not get there till late 2016. We’ve collected all the most up to date from around the internet and also beyond for you below, to give you the clearest image feasible of exactly what you could anticipate from the brand-new iPhone.
iPhone 7 release date
If we were wagering people we ‘d say the iPhone 7 will most likely show up in September 2016. Apple has the tendency to stay with a routine, and also the last few apples iphone have all been launched in the month of September. Yet baseding on a ‘reliable source’ Apple could actually bring it to market previously. Regretfully, how much earlier is vague, but it will take a while to even finish development and also manufacture of the phone, so we would not expect to see it prior to the summertime.
iPhone 7 rumors
The iPhone SIX looked a great deal like the iPhone 6, yet it’s most likely to be all-change with the iPhone 7. Specifically exactly what form that modification will certainly take remains to be seen, however there are some reports. For one point, it could be also slimmer than the 7.1mm-thick iPhone 6S; Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities reckons it’ll be going down to in between 6mm and 6.5 mm thick. That sounds needlessly slim to us, particularly as it could possibly cause the battery life to take a favorite, however the Samsung Galaxy S6 is just marginally thicker at 6.8 mm, so it’s possible.
If TSMC makes the chips, as has been rumored, after that some room could be conserved, which could assist Apple slim it down without making sacrifices in other locations. Another rumor recommends the iPhone 7 will certainly have an all-metal layout with a bezeless screen. It would certainly be a huge change for the iPhone layout, yet generating a brand-new type of display innovation would certainly be a practical move for Apple.
The iPhone 7 could be created to last too, as according to Mac Otakara there are a number of iPhone prototypes with “ruggedized” features, which could imply a water and dust-resistant phone is on the way. An additional idea of a waterproof iPhone 7 comes from the Apple distributor Japan Present. The distributor has actually thought of a brand-new technology called “Pixel Eyes”, that is now in its second generation, yet it makes it simpler to use the screen while you have wet fingers.
That’s consistently a concern with water-proof phones such as the Sony Xperia Z line, so the reality Apple’s main distributor is looking to stop the problem may be a large hint at what the iPhone 7 will certainly do. An additional file has actually recommended Apple will go with a slimmer phone rather than a waterproof iPhone 7. Apple will likely get a new LCD display innovation as well, which will certainly permit the iPhone 7 to be 1mm thinner compared to in the past.
We can likewise remain in store for the thinnest iPhone ever before, as reports recommending Apple will ditch the large 3.5 mm headset jack grow. That would see a great reliance on Bluetooth headphones, but a brand-new leakage likewise heavily suggests there will certainly likewise be a pair of unique Apple earbuds consisted of in the iPhone 7 box.
A brand-new style fine-tune rumor which will likely please lots of suggests Apple will certainly ditch the camera bump which has existed considering that the iPhone 6/6Plus – with the firm opting for a sleeker coating on the iPhone 7. Along with a totally standard rear, it could likewise be continuous as the exact same report factors towards the elimination of the antenna bands.
If the iPhone SE is anything to pass we could have the ability to wave bye-bye to the back camera lump we have actually had to manage for the past two versions of Apple’s front runner phones. The SE has actually handled to squeeze in the same 12MP iSight camera as the iPhone 6S and also 6S And also right into its even more portable covering, while maintaining the lens flush with the metal body. If Apple can do this in such small measurements, the iPhone 7 must be a walk in the park.
iPhone 7 display
The iPhone 7 could be in for a large resolution jump if a DigiTimes resource is to be thought, as Apple is obviously likely to move to glass-on-glass screens, which then opens the possibility of a QHD or even a 4K display. A bunch of Android phones currently have actually QHD displays, as well as the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium is 4K, so it’s feasible that Apple will pump up the resolution of its following crown jewel, however given that the iPhone 6S isn’t also 1080p we’re skeptical that it’ll get anywhere near 4K.
If the iPhone 7 does obtain greater resolution it may get bigger too, specifically as competing phones are expanding in size constantly. We’re not convinced though– we ‘d still bet on seeing 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models. Then there’s the first picture of the LCD backlight on the iPhone 7. It originates from relied on French blog NoWhereElse and also reveals the panel from the iPhone 7 up against the iPhone 6S.
All the connectors remain in various locations around the phone suggesting there will certainly be a couple of layout changes on the following iPhone. A jump in resolution might not be the only method the iPhone 7 copies Android though, as there’s also chat that it could possibly change from an LCD show to an OLED one, similar to Samsung makes use of on the majority of its phones.
One brand-new report recommends the iPhone 7S will be the very first Apple phone to feature an OLED screen. The rumour comes from Apple informing supply chain resources that it will certainly be switching from LCD panels to OLED panels in the next couple of years. Regretfully it does not seem like the technology will certainly be below in time for next year’s iPhone 7 as well as we’ll have to await the iPhone 7S. That said, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has dismissed the report, suggesting that Apple won’t likely switch to AMOLED before 2019.
The iPhone 7 display could be tough to smash, as an Apple patent has been uncovered showing bumpers which break out from the sides of the screen to guarantee it doesn’t touch the flooring when gone down. Patents usually do not develop into items, but you never know– as well as it would absolutely behave to see a more powerful screen. 3D Touch is bound to make a return, though it’s likely to be improved in some way, possibly by allowing you to scroll with the sneak peeks of content you ‘peek’ into, instead of merely having static sneak peeks.
iPhone 7 rivals
The iPhone 7 is likely a way off yet, so several of the primary competitors haven’t introduced yet either. The huge one has in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S7 as well as Galaxy S7 Side. Both of these phones have actually gotten 5 star evaluations on techradar – which we haven’t offered to a phone for 2 years – so Apple has some severe job to do.
The HTC One M10 is most likely to be a worthy alternative to Apple’s mobile phone as well. Originating from HTC it’s sure to look excellent, but little is known about it until now. There’s additionally the 4-inch iPhone SE which has gotten there with a palm pleasant size, SIX specs as well as an inexpensive price. For those looking for a phone which is managable in one hand, this is the one you desire.
iPhone 7 camera as well as battery rumors
Apple upgraded its camera tech for the iPhone 6S, changing its old 8MP snapper with a shiny brand-new 12MP one and also increasing the front-facing camera around 5MP.
Dued to the fact that Apple tends to stick with camera elements for a very long time we wouldn’t anticipate to see a modification in megapixels for the iPhone 7, however there’s a likelihood it will certainly have performance tweaks and also extra functions to aid set it apart. Optical photo stablizing perhaps? A new shot of the back of the iPhone 7 has actually shown up and it suggests the camera lens will certainly be a little bigger as well as an upgraded antenna line on the back. It doesn’t appear to be a dual-camera lens, but it looks a lot bigger so might imply some huge improvements on the camera tech.