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Sadia, Brazil’s most famous food brand and a leader in the sectors it is present, continues having the Middle East as one of its main export markets.
Around 20% of the US$ 705 million company revenues with sales to the foreign market in the first half of 2006 came from the region, which was only behind the European Union.
Last year, when the company shipped the equivalent to US$ 1.9 billion, the Middle East received 26% and was the main destination for company produce.
The market is so important to the company that it even has exclusive advertising campaigns for the region. As is the case with Brazil, the advertising campaign is starred by a cartoon character.
In Brazil Sadia uses chick Lequetreque, who wears a helmet and is always in a hurry. In the Middle East the character is chicken Henrietta.
On the foreign market, apart from the Middle East, the company only has exclusive advertising campaigns in Russia. The company business in the region is run through an office in Dubai, one of the 11 the organization has abroad. Sadia has been exporting to the Arab countries since the 1960s.
Although the Brazilian chicken industry has suffered with the retraction of international consumption, caused by chicken flu, the company is still among the greatest export companies in Brazil.
In the period between January and July this year, the company was in the 15th place, according to the Federal government Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex).
Company revenues with foreign sales dropped 14% and reached US$ 627 million in the first seven months of the year. On the Arab market, however, the company still expects growth of 5% to 10% in sales, according to information recently disclosed by the organization’s director for the foreign market, José Augusto Lima de Sá.
Investment in the Brazilian Savannah
On the domestic market the company has been expanding its business in the cerrado, the Brazilian savannah. The company forecasts investment of US$ 705 million in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso up to 2009, being US$ 376 million invested by the company itself and another US$ 329 million by integrated producers. This is, according to the company, the greatest investment announced by the organization in recent years.
The money will be invested in the construction of two new poultry slaughterhouses and in a slaughterhouse for pork. Each of the poultry installations will have a capacity for processing 500,000 chickens a day. They will be installed in the cities of Lucas do Rio Verde and Campo Verde. The creation of 8,000 direct jobs and 24,000 indirect jobs is expected, according to the company.
When the enterprises are completed, in 2009, Sadia hopes to have additional revenues of US$ 564 million a year. Starting at the end of next year, however, the units should be producing at one third of their capacity.
Sadia is another company in the agro industrial sector that is investing heavily in the cerrado. The organization is following the strategy of other companies, like Perdigão, also in the food sector, Maggi Group, which trades agricultural commodities, as well as multinationals Bunge, and Cargill and the French Louis Dreyfus group.
According to Sadia, among the factors that influence the decision of investing in Mato Grosso are the availability of grains – as animal feed is made of maize and soy, and the state is the main producer of soy and the fourth main producer of maize in Brazil -, the climate, the availability of land for plantations and the diversification of risk, in case some sanitary problem occurs in one of the other states where the organization has units.
Since the 1970s
Sadia started operating in the cerrado in 1976, when the group inaugurated a cattle beef meat packing plant in the city of Várzea Grande, in Mato Grosso. Later, during the 1980s, the group built a soy crusher and purchased another meat packing plant in the state. All these operations were sold or leased during the 1990s and, in Mato Grosso, the company only kept its poultry slaughterhouse, also in Várzea Grande, which was inaugurated in 1992.
Still in the cerrado, in 2004, the company purchased company Só Frango Produtos Alimentícios, installed in the Federal District, where Brazilian capital Brasília is located, and at the end of last year the organization returned to slaughtering cattle at the unit in Várzea Grande, which was leased out.
Apart from the Federal District and Mato Grosso, Sadia also has units in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná, in the south of Brazil, and in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast of the country.
The group has a total of 13 industrial units. It employs 46,000 people and operates with 10,000 integrated rural producers. Last year the company had revenues of US$ 3.9 billion, and profit of US$ 309 million. A total of 626 million chickens, 24 million turkeys and 3.8 million pigs were slaughtered.


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By Dan Adams Globe Staff March 17, 2017 Massachusetts officials are warning that the online marijuana directory Leafly may be violating state law by publishing ads for pot-delivery services they say are operating without state oversight. The website is one of the most popular in the cannabis industry, widely used by consumers to find nearby dispensaries and other licensed suppliers in states such as Massachusetts that have legalized the drug. But two weeks ago, the website re-listed several delivery outfits, saying it had verified their owners were state-licensed personal caregivers authorized to supply patients with pot. Health officials reiterated this week Medical marijuana stocks that the delivery operations appear to be violating provisions of the medical marijuana law that limit most caregivers to one patient at a time, and prohibit them from profiting from the transaction. Only the states licensed nine dispensaries are permitted to sell marijuana to multiple patients, the officials said, adding that they had told Leafly as much a year ago. Get Talking Points in your inbox: An afternoon recap of the days most important business news, delivered weekdays. Sign Up Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here In April 2016, DPH made clear to Leafly what the law allows with respect to dispensaries, personal caregivers, and delivery of marijuana for medical use, a department spokesman said in a statement. Leaflys decision to again accept these ads appears to be in direct conflict with the principle of safe patient access and the law. The state, along with patient advocates, are worried that the delivery services are conducting an end-run around the background checks, lab testing, and other extensive requirements imposed on licensed brick-and-mortar dispensaries. But the regulations also allow medical professionals, as well as home health aides and personal care attendants already caring for a patient, to serve more than more than one at a time. Leafly said employees of the delivery companies, acting as personal care attendants, are legally allowed to serve multiple patients, pointing to guidance it received from DPH.
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When I went to Las Vegas last year, I noticed on the return trip that Samsung had put one of its charge stations in the airport in Dallas. The things are pretty cool and are a free way for users to get power for their mobile electronics.
Samsung Mobile has announced that it is now rolling the service out to colleges and universities around the country to let students and teachers stay charged up on the go. Samsung plans to install charge stations at 15 colleges including San Diego State University, The University of Colorado – Boulder, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Northern Iowa University, The University of New Mexico, The University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, The University of Miami and Louisiana Tech.
Samsung plans to have more than 90 of the stations at 50 colleges around the country soon. The stations will have eight outlets each allowing the recharging of mobile devices at no charge.


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Rapper, singer, and songwriter Kanye West, who goes as Ye currently, has decided to end his brand Yeezy’s association with the popular clothing and accessories retailer Gap after only two years. The 2020 agreement was hailed as revolutionary.
West has recently been vocal about his dissatisfaction with Gap on his social media handles. He has accused the company of copying his designs, not getting him a place on the board, excluding him from the meetings, and so on. He also accused Gap of not honouring the terms of the deal, and not opening the stores of his fashion label Yeezy.
Earlier there were reports suggesting that Gap execs were frustrated by Kanye’s laxity. The first product that was produced under the deal was a puffa jacket costing $200. But it did not go on sale for a year.
Gap, the largest American specialty apparel company, itself has been under hot water recently. Its Indian-Canadian chief executive Sonia Syngal had to step down after a considerable decline in sales.
In an internal email at the company, quoted by the BBC, the current president, and chief executive Mark Breitbard said that despite the shared values of the brands, “how we work together to deliver this vision is not aligned”.
Recently, Gap was one of the things Kanye had ranted about in a series of social media posts, most of which are now deleted. He spoke about things as varied as his former mother-in-law Kris Jenner and his porn addiction that has proven damaging to his career. The posts left the internet nonplussed.
“Don’t let Kris make you do Playboy like she made Kyle and Kim do. Hollywood is a giant brothel. Pornography destroyed my family. I deal with the addiction, Instagram promotes it. Not gonna let it happen to Northy and Chicago,” he wrote in the caption of a photo of an unknown woman.


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Holidaymakers heading to Dubai next month can choose to stay at a new four-star hotel.
Visitors arriving on flights to Dubai who are looking for a balance between luxury and value will have a new accommodation option from next month onwards.
The four-star Ramada Jumeirah is due to open all 252 of its rooms to the public in July, according to the developers Abjar Hotels International.
Centrally located on Al Mina Road, the hotel offers convenient access to Jumeirah Beach, and the maritime city and dry docks at Port Rashid, Gulf News reports.
Furthermore, with Dubai International Airport just a 20-minute drive away, you can enjoy quick transfers after your flight lands.
Each room contains high-speed wireless internet, while the hotel’s facilities include a rooftop pool and a health club with a spa and fitness centre.
When it comes to dining, guests are well catered for, with five restaurants and bars serving a range of menus, including Mediterranean and south-east Asian inspired dishes.
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There used to be an app for that, but most brands now seem more concerned with their mobile websites. This constitutes a natural maturing of the market as brands figure out how to cater to their most loyal customers (apps), while opening wide the doors to new customers (web). It is this thirst for new customers that increasingly drives a focus on superior mobile web experiences.
Ironically, however, the key to this superior mobile web experience is…an app.
Or, rather, a Progressive Web App (PWA). Though PWAs have been on the radar for savvy brands for some time, they may now be ready for mainstream adoption. One leading indicator? Gartner is now talking them up. As Gartner analyst Jason Wong wrote recently: “Application leaders responsible for mobile app strategies must determine when–not if–they need to factor in PWAs as part of their overall mobile development strategy.”
Attention CIOs and CMOs, it’s time to get serious about PWAs.
Getting serious about mobile web
We’ve come a long way since 2014 when “an abysmal and surprisingly low number,” of websites were responsive, as one commentator put it. That doesn’t necessarily mean that enterprises have flocked to responsive either: One 2015 analysis pegged total responsive sites at 11.8%.
SEE: Does there need to be an app for that? (TechRepublic)
Part of this has stemmed from an investment in mobile apps. But a larger part has been the belated realization that the web still matters…a lot. Apps are fantastic ways to engage already committed customers. Some services like push messaging only come to life in an app. They are, however, weak when it comes to discovery and for most enterprises, figuring out how to get more customers is a top priority, if not the top priority.
As mentioned, this realization has been relatively recent. In my conversations with CMOs and other executives leading digital initiatives, the interest in improving web experiences is profound. Not surprisingly, this is starting to show up in budgets, as data from a recent Adobe Mobile Maturity survey shows:
Both mobile apps and mobile web are seeing increased investment, but the web is seeing more. This stems from a renewed prioritization of the web:
For those companies that have more aspiration to take the web seriously than invested capital (and if that 11.8% number is to be believed, that’s pretty much everyone), take heart. If you haven’t started investing in responsive, your money may be better spent on PWAs, anyway.
Taking responsive to a new level
After all, if mobile web is going to serve as a top-of-funnel customer experience, it needs to be fantastic. Apps have been the province of such experiences and, as Gartner’s Wong continued, PWAs use “the latest browser technologies to meld the accessibility of the web with the presence of the mobile app.” In other words, they make the web more app-like. Things like offline and push notifications that had been possible only in the app lose their fetters and can be delivered through the web (enabled by service worker magic).
SEE: Apple could lose billions on Progressive Web Apps, but it has no choice (TechRepublic)
When should a company invest? As one analyst friend at Forrester told me, “Now.” A year from now, he speculated, PWAs would start to go mainstream, and companies that invest now would win. Or as Wong wrote, “It’s only a matter of time before PWAs become the new standard for web interactions, just as responsive design has become the norm rather than the exception.”
We can quibble on how broadly responsive has gone, but we’re in agreement on PWAs: They’re the future of the mobile web which, in turn, is largely the future of the web and the bulk of customer interaction.


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MEAGUI, Ivory Coast, July 27 (Reuters) - Local purchases of cocoa beans in Ivory Coast fell this month as their quality deteriorated, traders in the west and southwest of the world’s top grower said.
Ivory Coast’s Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) sets a maximum bean count of 120 for 100 grams of cocoa for the mid-crop in order to ensure a minimum size of beans. Lower bean counts denote larger bean size.
Local buyers in the western towns of Daloa, Sinfra, Vavoua and Issia told Reuters their purchases regularly exceed this limit. This means they receive smaller beans that contain less cocoa butter, the ingredient that gives chocolate its texture.
“We are increasingly receiving bean counts of 125, 130 and 135 beans. We cannot do anything with this because exporters at the ports refuse them,” said Alidou Konate, a cocoa trader in Daloa.
Some traders told Reuters they had reduced their cocoa purchases by a third, while others said they would stop buying until the start of the upcoming 2018/19 season.
The cutbacks have been reflected in cocoa arrival figures at the Abidjan and San Pedro ports, which slipped to 15,000 tonnes last week from 24,000 tonnes during the same week last year and are expected to fall by a similar amount this week.
When Reuters visited warehouses in the southwest last week, dozens of bags filled with small beans from the mid-crop harvest were waiting to be mixed with the main crop harvests. Many were laid out on tarpaulins to dry.
Hussein Rkein, a cocoa trader in Soubre, said he had reduced his purchases and planned to stop buying by mid-August. He blamed bean size and poor quality of the fermentation process.
“I am spending more money. I need to dry and lower humidity levels myself for every delivery, which is not cost-effective,” he said.
Traders in southwestern cities of Meagui and San Pedro also complained about the fermentation process, saying they would hold onto their beans until October.
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Microsoft's said today Halo: Reach is "Halo 4 in all but name." In other news, the sky is blue, grass is green, roses are red and the earth's still spinning.
The line came in a press release from the firm's UK PR arm, announcing details of the main flagship launch for the Bungie shooter on Monday night.
"Halo: Reach, developed exclusively for Xbox 360, is the blockbuster prequel to the franchise - truly Halo 4 in all but name," said director of Xbox in the UK, Stephen McGill.
"Halo is the biggest video game series in history and as a pop culture icon it’s been called the Star Wars for the joypad generation."
The main launch will take place at Game at Westfield Shopping Centre in London, while the premiere of the game takes place in London tonight.
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Subway continues to expand at a blistering pace. Since January, the restaurant chain has opened more than 1,000 new locations around the world, and crossed the milestone of 33,000 locations. New stores accounted for approximately 1.4 million sq. ft. of filled commercial retail space, while the total international store count shot up to more than 9,700 restaurants.
Domestically, the United States saw the addition of 490 new franchises, boosting total counts to beyond 23,000. States with high development activity include California with 66 new openings; New York and Texas with 42 each; Pennsylvania 26; Illinois 23 and Florida 20.
Outside the United States, Subway added 60 units in Canada, and 25 new franchises in Australia. Brazil saw 77 openings, while 27 additional locations opened in France. Other milestones were achieved in Taiwan and Russia with 100 locations each.
Activity was also high in Mexico and the United Kingdom, each with 37 new stores; China had an increase of 21; India with 19; and Japan and the United Arab Emirates, each with 15 new store openings this year so far.
In the non-traditional development category, the chain now has more than 7,500 locations in places such as airports, department stores, hospitals and park & recreational facilities.
But the most non-traditional of Subway’s non-traditional location is multi-unit franchisee Richard Schragger’s temporary store in Manhattan. For the next two years, it will be located on top of a crane, rising along side the construction of One World Trade Center -- also known as the Freedom Tower -- providing meals for construction workers as the structure rises 108 stories. At 1,776 ft., the tower will be the tallest building in the United States and one of the tallest buildings in the world.


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We've seen plenty of interesting camera phone patents recently, but that doesn't mean that this six-camera beast from Samsung isn't any less exciting. We've recently seen news that Samsung Electronics has been granted a patent for a Galaxy camera phone with six cameras comprised of five wide-angle cameras and one telephoto camera.
However, the number of cameras isn't actually the most interesting part of this patent. Apparently, Samsung is also experimenting with tilting image sensors in order to improve the image quality. This patent was filed in December 2019 with WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office) and the documentation was then subsequently published on 11 June, 2020.
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The moving image sensors are designed to tilt so that the camera phone can capture a greater focal length. According to Let's Go Digital, this means that four wide-angle lenses and a moving sensor would be able to capture a panoramic image with a 'pano-bokeh effect' – i.e. a panorama with a blurred background.
Another advantage of an array camera with a tilting image sensor is that multiple cameras can work together to create better results when working in challenging conditions, such as a poorly lit environment. According to the Samsung patent, this camera array will also features better focus, higher dynamic range (HDR) and multiple bokeh effects.
While this potential Samsung camera phone sounds very exciting, it's worth noting that not all patents make it into fully realized products. However, even if this concept doesn't come to market in its full six-camera glory, it's more than possible that we will see some version of the technology in the future.
If you want to learn more about this interesting camera phone patent, check out Let's Go Digital's highly informative article (source in Dutch).
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Bethenny Frankel is as surprised that she became an overnight TikTok beauty influencer as you are. And she swears that social media is not her forté. “I’m historically terrible at it,” she said.
And yet, since April, when Frankel started posting about makeup, she has amassed nearly 1 million followers on the app, mostly by talking about makeup. Frankel’s first post on TikTok dates back to 2020, and features her dancing with her daughter — true to the app’s origins. In April, however, she started posting a series called “Glam or Sham,” in which she compares high- and low-end makeup products, doles out her unfiltered honest opinion on what’s worth the splurge, and names her favorite drugstore finds.
Frankel was drawn to #BeautyTok because of “the glow,” she said on a recent Zoom. ” It was me watching TikTok and seeing … the glow. [TikTokers would say,] ‘Can you look at that? Do you see that?’ And I’d be like, ‘Yes,’ and I’d think, ‘I want to buy that.'”
It’s a relatable story. The difference is that Frankel, in addition to the platform she already had from her existing “Real Housewives” fame, had the ability to go to her local CVS and spend $250 a week as she took her growing fanbase through the products she deemed worthy or not. Frankel is the CEO and founder of the Skinnygirl brand and also has a podcast, Just B with Bethenny.
“My only New Year’s resolution was [that] I’d like to learn how to do my own makeup,” Frankel said, noting that her goal has been realized. But she had a lot of questions in the process, and TikTok proved a valuable resource. Thanks to the platform, she now knows the difference between bronzer and contour, she said. Still, a few months ago, as she started to compare the Chanel and Giorgio Armani formulas in her drawer with the CoverGirl and Maybelline purchases she was making at the drugstore, she wondered, “Is there really a difference in these two products, like in the functionality for a regular woman?” she said.
“You know, I’m not a supermodel spending 19 hours in Alaska on a shoot wearing a fur coat,” she said. “Like, we’re just going to drop-off and pick-up, and we don’t want to look like a wreck,” she said.
The videos became popular, nearly immediately. “It became this format, this vehicle for me,” she said. “And I found it to be therapeutic and educational.”
If success on TikTok is based on how much someone actually gets their followers to purchase the products they talk about, then Frankel’s doing something right, she said.
“Makeup artists are all watching my stuff,” she said, noting that if they’re getting sent products from Hermès and Chanel, they’re out of the loop on drugstore finds. “The wedding makeup artists around the country, the people at the counters and the people at the stores are [watching, too]. They don’t have all the money in the world, and they’re not getting sent everything. So they’re like, ‘Bethenny says it’s fine [to get this] at the drugstore; I don’t have to feel bad when I put Milani or the Wet N Wild on my client. They need someone to weed through the garbage and spend the money to weed through both the garbage and the good [products]”
She added, “People are saying, ‘Not me going to the drugstore again.’ And I go into Ulta or wherever, the [workers] say that people come in with lists [of what I’ve recommended]. So now the stores know [what I’m doing], and the brands are watching.”
When asked why she thinks her content resonates, Frankel said she believes it’s because her followers — all 977,000 of them — trust her. “I have such a great relationship with my followers, and I have such a great relationship with this content. I’m having so much fun,” she said.
And, of course, with TikTok success comes brands’ influencer opportunities. Frankel isn’t exactly in the TikTok game to make ends meet, though, she said, she is comfortable doing brand partnerships when she has already spoken about a brand. “I know my shit. So people trust me on all sides, from the makeup artists to the moms to the brand.s”
Skeptics on TikTok assumed Frankel was planning to launch a brand — she had previously released some beauty products under the brand Skinnygirl Beauty, at Walmart, in 2012. But, she said, she is not interested in re-joining the small army of celebrity-founded brands. “I am not launching a beauty line. That’s because I don’t think there’s room for me, and I don’t think it’s necessary,” she said emphatically. Of the oversaturated beauty market, she said, “Everybody’s doing everything.”
TikTok is obsessed with skin cycling — so here’s the scoop from its creator, Dr. Whitney Bowe
The hashtag #skincycling has nearly 85 million views on TikTok. ICYMI: Skin cycling, created by Dr. Whitney Bowe, is a skin-care philosophy that provides a framework for what ingredients to use and when. Devotees cycle through active ingredients like exfoliating acids and retinol, while also giving the skin nights off to recover. To get the full story, Glossy Pop spoke to Dr. Bowe herself.
What is skin cycling?
“Skin cycling is a streamlined evening skin-care routine, with skin barrier optimization in mind. It resonates with so many people because it works, it’s intuitive, and it makes sense. It takes a ‘less is more’ approach, [centered on] being thoughtful and deliberate about your skin-care routine. Skin cycling encourages people to use fewer products in a strategic way to complement one another, rather than add more products on top of one another.
Your muscles need recovery days and your mind needs recovery days, so it makes sense that your skin also benefits from recovery days. Think about it: If you’re trying to build strength in a particular muscle group, say your leg muscles, you don’t just load those muscles every single day with heavy weights. That leads to injury, not strength. You may focus on your upper body one day and your lower body the next, deliberately building in time for those muscle fibers to repair and grow stronger between sessions. Or think about your work week and how valuable it is to take a little downtime to decompress over the weekend so you can hit the ground running again on Monday. The same holds true for your skin.”
When did the concept start to take off on TikTok?
“I started sharing skin cycling with my patients in my office years ago and then started sharing videos on social media over a year ago, in April 2021. It began with a cult following of people who were experiencing game-changing results in their skin. Over the past year, I shared videos about exfoliation night, retinoid night and recovery night, showing the different products I was using for each night of the cycle. Then, at the end of August, one video [in which a creator describes being told her skin looks like an Instagram filter] garnered over 10 million views.
I started seeing incredible traction on all of my skin-cycling videos. More creators started sharing their skin-cycling journeys, not only in English, but also people from all around the world [speaking] in so many different languages!”
Have there been any response posts you were most excited to see?
“The response to skin cycling from my colleagues has been so positive and supportive. For example, I love this video by Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky, aka @dermguru. And members of my team at Dr. Whitney Bowe Beauty were over the moon to see stories about skin cycling by one of their favorite influencers, Myriam Sandler of @mothercould (1.2 million Instagram followers). Our text threads and emails were blowing up.”
Below, shop some of Dr. Bowe’s favorites for each step of the cycle:
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The critically acclaimed puzzle game Monument Valley is available for free via Amazon's Free App of the Day promotion. Usually retailing for $3.99, today's promotion is a great way of getting one of the best games available on Android for free.
After announcing the 64-bit Nokia N1 tablet yesterday, the Finnish manufacturer is now showcasing the features of the device. One of the standout inclusions is the Z Launcher (now publicly available), which "allows you to have the right content at the right time," according to product manager Tuukka Järvenpää.
Have you ever felt like searching through tweets you published years ago? Now you can using Twitter's search engine. Searches on the social network were previously limited to just a week before tweets were removed from the index (but still viewable by other means – direct links, profile timelines, etc). Twitter has worked on rolling out a new search engine that not only keeps up with the plethora of tweets being beamed to the service on a daily basis, but also enable users to search through those vintage messages.
First there was just Facebook, and then there was Messenger, and now there is Groups. Yep, Facebook has launched a dedicated app purely for their Groups feature, and, well, it's pretty much a different user interface for the current groups that already exist in the primary Facebook app.
Microsoft has updated its Office Mobile app for Android, bringing with it Dropbox integration. The feature was announced a few weeks ago and the update now makes Dropbox support live, allowing users to open, edit, and save documents within their Dropbox cloud using the Office Mobile app.
AT&T has joined the growing legal conversation around the privacy of location data, stating that federal investigators might be required to obtain a warrant before gathering such data in the future, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
A bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and supported by a coalition of technology companies designed to curb NSA data collection had undergone a Senate vote and failed by two votes. The USA Freedom Act fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass, garnering 58 votes in favor and 42 against.
We're seeing Lollipop get pushed out in force the past few days, and we're curious about how many people actually got an over-the-air update versus those who took matters into their own hands.
With Nexus devices, Moto devices, Shield tablets and even some LG G3 phones seeing some Lollipop loving we know plenty of people have something installed. There are plenty of things you can do if you don't feel like waiting, and most of them are fairly easy. Factor in custom ROM builds, and it's out there for plenty of us — if we want to grab it.
If you didn't get the OTA Google started pushing last night for the Nexus 9, and have decided to take matters into your own hands, Google has posted the newest factory restore image for the Nexus 9 online.
With this file, you can manually update your new tablet to the latest version of Lollipop, and hopefully be rid of some of the bugs this update fixes. If you need a bit of guidance doing this, we've got you covered.
Music manager Irving Azoff, who counts iconic artists like John lennon, the Eagles, Pharrell Williams, Ira Gershwhin, and others among his clients, wants to pull the music of artists he represents from YouTube. If successful, the move could be a big setback for Google, which had recently announced unlimited streaming through the launch of YouTube Music Key. The contentious issue between Azoff and YouTube is money, with Azoff demanding more royalty payments for his clients.
Google is on a quest to find the best fitness app and it is asking developers to help in the Google Fit Developer Challenge. The contest, which starts today, November 18, will run through February 17, 2015. As part of the competition, developers must build or update their apps using Google Fit APIs and the contest winners will be announced in March. The winner will have their app featured on the Play store with prime placement to attract new users.
After being listed earlier this month on the Play store, Google is now starting to ship the clear Naked Tough Case for the Nexus 6. Priced at $35, the case is now listed as in stock and will leave Google's warehouse in one to two business days. The slim case is clear and offers protection to the sides and rear of the device. Additionally, a built-in kickstand will allow you to prop up the Nexus 6 to enjoy music or movies from that gorgeous 6-inch QHD display and stereo front-facing speakers.
T-Mobile will be rewarding its current customers with early access to Black Friday savings. The un-carrier has announced that on November 21, existing subscribers will be able to take $100 off of the Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone or the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
Cyanogen, the company behind the popular CyanogenMod ROMs for Android devices, is eyeing the market in India. Through a partnership announced today with Indian device-maker Micromax, Cyanogen will see its ROM in some of Micromax's latest devices. In addition to the Cyanogen partnership in India, Micromax is also a partner with Google on the Android One project to make affordable Android phones that do not compromise on performance.
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The Board of Directors of Natuzzi S.p.A. (NYSE:NTZ) (“Natuzzi” or “the Company”), a leading company in the furnishings industry, today approved its consolidated financial results for the second quarter and first semester of 2013.
FIRST SEMESTER 2013 HIGHLIGHTS
- Upholstery Net Sales equal to €201.7 million, almost flat (+0.2%) compared to the first six months of 2012; (+2.3% in terms of seats sold);
- Total Net Sales at €224.8 million, down 2.5% over 2012 first half, due to the reduction in the “Other sales”;
- Negative EBIT of €14.3 million, from an operating loss of €8.0 million reported for the semester ended June 30, 2012;
- Group’s net loss at €20.2 million (from a net loss of €8.8 million in 2012 first semester).
SECOND QUARTER 2013 HIGHLIGHTS
- Total Upholstery Net Sales equal to €102.7 million, down 2.7% over 2012 second quarter (almost flat in terms of seats sold);
- Total Net Sales at €114.1 million, 5.2% down from 120.3 million reported in 2012 second quarter;
- Industrial Margin at 29.4% on total net sales, down from 33.5% reported in the same period of last year;
- Negative EBIT of €7.4 million, from an operating loss of €0.6 million reported in 2012 second quarter;
- Extraordinary items, included a Non-recurring accrual of €7.0 million related to the restructuring plan;
- Group’s net loss at €14.2 million (from a net loss of €0.4 million in 2012 second quarter).
- Positive Net Financial Position at €26.6 million as of June 30, 2013.
FIRST SEMESTER 2013 FINANCIAL RESULTSTotal upholstery net sales amounted to €201.7 million, +0.2% compared to 2012 first semester but 2.3% up in terms of units sold. Net sales from the Natuzzi Italia branded products were down by 10.8% over last year comparable period (particularly in Europe -15.2%, included Italy). On the other hand, sales from the “Other Brands” (namely, “Editions” and “Private Label”) reported a 6.5% increase over 2012 comparable period, thanks to the positive results from the Americas region (+4,9%), Europe (+6.9%), and the “Rest of the World” region (+13.0%).
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One year on Gaddafi's bloody legacy lingers
Middle East expert Ahmed Shboul discusses the patchy liberation of Libya one year after Moamar Gaddafi's violent death.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 7min 18sec
Trailers, sneak peeks, new releases and star-studded panels were the stuff geek dreams were made of at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego, California in the US.
A small group of Indonesian tour guides are buying up forest lands in a bid to protect wildlife in the world's top palm oil-producing country.
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Display manufacturer BOE has unveiled a rollable screen that could introduce an entirely new form factor for smartphones, as an alternative to the foldable screen models we8217;ve seen lately in the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X.
News of this innovation comes after months of disappointments regarding foldable phones. Shortly after the Samsung Galaxy Fold was handed over to reviewers, handsets started malfunctioning badly. Supposedly some problems came about as a result of the removal of a thin protective film of plastic on the screen.
Since then, Samsung has delayed the release of the handset indefinitely, and pre-orders (costing £1800) have been cancelled. With all these delays, it8217;s possible that we8217;ll see the release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 before the Galaxy Fold.
It8217;s unclear whether Huawei has run into the same quality control issues as Samsung, but the news isn8217;t encouraging for those of us who would like to have the smartphone and tablet experience in one handy device.
For that reason, it8217;s encouraging to see that manufacturers have not given up on ideas such as this and are still pursuing innovative new formats. We will follow this story closely to observe the development of rollable smartphones — we can8217;t wait to see how they turn out!


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BT avoids probe on broadband prices after TalkTalk complained firm charges too much for use of internet network
The war over broadband prices took a fresh turn yesterday as BT avoided being subjected to a full-blown competition probe over its charges.
TalkTalk previously complained to telecoms regulator Ofcom about the prices BT charges rivals to use its superfast internet network.
TalkTalk claimed that BT was charging competitors too much and using the money to cross subsidise its sports channels, which it offers free to broadband customers.
Gavin Patterson, Chief executive of BT: The firm dodged a full-blown competition probe over its charges
While Ofcom yesterday rejected this assertion – a move that sent BT shares surging – it added that the group must allow ‘rival operators to compete and make a profit’.
An Ofcom spokesman said yesterday that ‘competition could be dampened’ if BT was able to skew the price so that competitors couldn’t make a return.
It warned that BT could ‘acquire a significant share of superfast broadband subscribers’ by abusing its prices, and that this would ‘weaken retail competition, to the detriment of consumers’.
BT spent £2billion buying sports rights for its new channels, and will fork out a further £897million to show Champions League football from next year.
Ofcom yesterday said it would not probe BT – but said it would look at the margin BT made on its wholesaling every six months.
Ofcom will consult on the proposals, and will make a final decision later this year.
Both TalkTalk (down 1.9p to 321p) and BT (up 13p to 613p) claimed the ruling as a victory for them.
TalkTalk said in an official statement: ‘We have long maintained that the time has come for fibre to be more robustly regulated.’
A spokesman added: ‘We are really pleased that Ofcom is today announcing that it now proposes to start properly regulating fibre more effectively.
‘Once implemented, these new rules will make British consumers and businesses better off.’
A BT spokesman said: ‘TalkTalk are saying this is some kind of victory for them. It’s a bit like Spain’s manager claiming they’ve had a decent World Cup.’
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There is latest technology news for you, this technology news is about the market of tablet.
We came to know that the market of tablet is very fast moving nowadays. There is technology news that the research firm IDC said that international tablet consignments is rising 75 per cent in the 4th sector. In this sector the tablet sale is made a record of 52.5 million. They also tell that the deliveries were positive almost as a large amount from the previous sector as from a year ago, at this year 74%.
A fine analyst and research director, Tablets, at IDC Tom Mainelli said in an interview that â€œWe expected a very strong fourth quarter, and the market didn’t disappoint. New product launches from the category’s top vendors, as well as new entrant Microsoft, led to a surge in consumer interest and very robust shipments totals during the holiday season.â€
The demand of the apple devices like iPad Mini and the crush of the fourth generation iPad are rising now. Because of high demand of these devices apple show the way by means of 23 million units transported, up 48 per cent since a year before.
IDC said that however apple does not make a high increase but the other companies like Samsung and others done a great job and make a good market in that sector.
Samsung is done a splendid work in the quarter and the analyst said that the Samsung Company doubled his market from 15 per cent to 7.3 per cent a year before.
Also there is a shipment of 8 million of both android and the window 8 tablet.
Amazon is also done a great job and made his share 11.5 per cent. The Amazon makes 6 million shipments at this quarter.
A program manager at Mobile Device Trackers at IDC named Ryan Reith said that â€œThere is no question that Microsoft is in this tablet race to compete for the long haul. However, devices based upon its new Windows 8 and Windows RT operating systems failed to gain much ground during their launch quarter, and reaction to the company’s Surface with Windows RT tablet was muted at best.â€
Asus is also getting the attentions of the people these days with his tablets, Barnes, Noble and Google branded Nexus 7 tablet, and these devices are sell within low rates and people like this. However Asus needs a lot of work to do because it is a tiny player if we compare it with apple or Samsung.
If we go to the Microsoft we can see that the Microsoftâ€™s Surface with Windows RT tablet launched had great fan during October. Microsoft is transport 900,000 units in the quarter and he is departure it out of the peak 5. If you want more information about tablets, iPhone and any kind of technology device then keep visiting our site because we have many of technology news about tablet for you.


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Several years ago, Dick and Cindy Rudisill cleverly converted the basement of their home in Syracuse, N.Y., to look much like an old-fashioned country store.
Using antique advertising pieces they had purchased at auctions, flea markets and estate sales all across the country, the Rudisills were able to capture the essence of a vintage store.
Visitors to their house were astonished and immediately fell in love with the room, saying it brought back wonderful childhood memories.
When the couple moved to Aiken, S.C., about four years ago, they decided to use their memorabilia from yesteryear to develop a truly unique candy store called Cyndi’s Sweet Shoppe in a 100-year-old building on Laurens Street.
“We have been open for a year and a half and we are the only candy store in the CSRA,” said Dick Rudisill, standing behind the store’s counter surrounded by everything from old-fashioned penny candy to gourmet chocolates. “We get our candy from all over and if you don’t see your favorite candy here, we’ll make every effort to find it.”
The charm and beauty of downtown Aiken helped make the Rudisills’ dream of a candy store a reality, Dick Rudisill said.
“All the business owners work together and the downtown is so friendly and safe. It’s the perfect place for us,” Dick Rudisill said, adding that he and his wife first visited Aiken about eight years ago when they were searching for a place to retire. “I think one of the things I like best is there are no chains downtown. Everything is local and you just can’t find that in many downtowns.”
In fact, as soon as some cities begin to attract tourists, they often find themselves being overturn with chain stores, Dick Rudisill said.
“That has been a growing complaint about places like Asheville, N.C.,” he said. “But Aiken is very unique that way. These are local businesses and everyone knows one another.”
While many visitors will flock to the city this week for the 38th annual Aiken’s Makin’ Arts and Crafts Show held this Friday and Saturday, there is a whole lot more to this “horse town” than just the ceramics, glass work and wood carvings offered at the two-day festival.
Over the past few years, downtown Aiken has exploded with new chef-owned restaurants and locally owned retail stores that seem to have combined perfectly with some of long-time businesses in the downtown area.
“It’s a great mix,” said Lida Bard of the Aiken Downtown Development Association. “We have awesome restaurants and great retail. I think people are attracted to downtown Aiken because we have smaller, boutiquey kinds of stores where you can find handmade items to give as gifts. It is not the mass-produced items that you can find other places.”
For example, just down from the popular, award-winning Aiken Brewery Company on Laurens Street is Equine Divine, an equine-inspired gallery and boutique that specializes in sporting art, home decor, equestrian jewelry and riding and fashion apparel.
“So, you walk in and see home items and everyday street clothes, but they also sell riding pants and show coats,” Bard said. “That is uniquely Aiken.”
In April 2011, Threads, a women’s contemporary clothing boutique, also opened on Laurens Street.
The store offers affordable clothing that is American designed and manufactured, as well as handmade jewelries and accessories, said store clerk Rachel Ethridge.
“We’ve done really well here,” said Ethridge, who is originally from Columbia, S.C. “Aiken has a good boutique scene and downtown has a great community feel. Everybody is really nice to everybody else and all the store people know each other.”
Ethridge believes business owners realize that Aiken is growing, due to, in part, the “sport of kings” — polo.
Aiken’s reputation as a horse community has attracted a surge of wealthy residents over the last few decades, many of whom live in golf-like communities that situate stately homes around polo fields instead of an 18-hole course.
The winter colonists would bring their horses to Aiken to extend their equestrian activities such as riding, racing and fox hunting throughout the year.
In fact, polo has been played on Aiken’s Whitney Field continuously since 1882, according to the Aiken Visitors Center.
There is also Aiken’s ever-growing national reputation as a hidden gem.
The city with a population of roughly 30,000 has shown up on Money magazine’s list of best places to live and has also been ranked in various publications as one of the nation’s best places to retire.
“Aiken is definitely growing,” Ethridge said. “Whenever there is an opening downtown, the space fills up in about a month. We don’t have many vacant storefronts here.”
Right next door to Threads is Aiken Dry Goods, which features everything from incredibly unique cowboy boots to leather hats and belts selected by owner Jami Chandler, who moved to Aiken from Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
“We have some great little clothing stores with fun fashions that you are not going to find at the mall,” Bard said. “It is such a community here. Everybody works together to better the look and feel of downtown.”
For more than 30 years, Plum Pudding on Laurens Street has thrived as a gourmet kitchen store in the heart of downtown Aiken.
One of the reasons they have been so successful is they think locally, Bard said.
“Plum Pudding has some really cool kitchen items and dishware. They even have a plate pattern called Aiken,” Bard said, laughing. “It was designed with the feel of Aiken, which I think is really original. We have a little bit of everything in downtown Aiken, from new businesses like the old-fashioned candy store to bridal and antique stores. All the business owners come together to really make it something wonderful.”
And the business owners encourage a variety of downtown events that bring more people to the area, Bard said.
Over the summer, the ADDA, in partnership with the City of Aiken and the Aiken County Farmers Market, hosted the Farmers Market in The Alley every Thursday evening.
“People loved it,” Bard said, adding the ADDA is hoping to expand the community event to include more artists and musicians.
The Aiken Center for the Arts on Laurens Street also features regular gallery exhibits by local, state and regional artists with a variety of artists displaying their works for sale in the gallery store.
Along with art exhibits, the Aiken Center for the Arts also offers education classes and events throughout the year, such as A Taste of Wine and Art in October.
“That is our big annual event that celebrates culinary art and visual art next month,” said
Tandji Simmons, administration and rental coordinator for the Aiken Center for the Arts. “And we are going to be celebrating all of October with wine tasting classes and painting classes for wine and art. So it should be a lot of fun.”
Alongside downtown Aiken’s thriving retail stores and art galleries is a variety of restaurants that have transformed this town into a fine dining mecca.


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The state scored a big win in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, even though residents couldn't say the same.
State residents missed out on a share of Wednesday's record jackpot, which hit $588 million by the time the drawing was over. Winners in Arizona and Missouri, who have yet to come forward, will get to split that pot.
All told, 8,924,125 winning tickets were sold across 42 states, Washington, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Total non-jackpot winnings came in at $131,519,015, according to the Powerball website.
West Virginia didn't prove to be especially lucky in this drawing.
There were 62,511 winning tickets sold across the state, though total prizes won on those tickets amounted to only $376,441.
West Virginia Lottery spokesman Randy Burnside said the four biggest winners matched four numbers and the Powerball in Wednesday's drawing. But their winnings were nowhere close to $588 million.
"We did have four tickets that were sold in West Virginia that won $10,000," Burnside said. "None of the four paid the extra $1 for the Powerplay option that would have increased their win to $40,000."
Only 3,541 winners across the state won using the Powerplay option, which multiplies prize amounts.
The largest class of winners was people with tickets matching only the Powerball number, which wins a $4 prize. There were 33,018 Powerball-matching tickets sold in the state, totaling $132,072 in wins for that $4 prize category.
The $376,661 in prizes pales in comparison to the amount state retailers brought in selling tickets.
Burnside said state retailers sold $4,077,308 worth of tickets for the Wednesday drawing period, which ran from 10 p.m. Saturday to 9:59 p.m. Wednesday.


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COB, President & CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company Bob A. McDonald Sold 131,521 Shares
COB, President and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company (PG) Bob A. McDonald sold 131,521 shares on Aug. 14, 2012, at an average price of $66.61. The total transaction amount is $8,760,614.
Bob McDonald became the CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company on July 2009. Currently, he is the chairman of the board, CEO, and president of the company.
On April 30, 2012, Bob A. McDonald bought 1,205 shares of PG stock at the average price of $63.55. Other directors and officers of the company have also sold shares of PG stock.
Two GuruFocus Gurus, Bill Ackman and Brian Rogers, initiated their position in the company. Bill Ackman bought 21,916,208 shares and Brian Rogers bought 1,000,000 shares in the quarter ended June 30,2012. Ken Fisher, PRIMECAP Management, Donald Yacktman, and John Hussman increased their position in the Procter & Gamble Company during the same quarter. Eight GuruFocus Gurus left their position in the Company unchanged. In the quarter ended June 30, 2012, John Burbank sold out his holdings.
Net sales were $20.2 billion and net income was $3.7 billion for the Procter & Gamble Company fourth quarter 2012 results.


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Gold’s roller-coaster journey seems to be swerving into an upward spiral following the surge in infections and onset of lockdown and other restrictions. On Wednesday, the price of 24-carat gold went up to Rs 50,810, a jump of nearly 300 rupees compared to the previous day.
Gold hit its lowest in recent months on March 31st at just over Rs 45,000 and then has been almost steadily rising so far in April, in line with the spurting COVID incidents from across the country.
A simple thumb-of-rule for gold prices is this—when there is economic uncertainty, gold prices go up, as investors and even common people turn to it as a trusted investment mode. Economists call it “an informal insurance mechanism” particularly referring to Indian households trend of keeping gold and jewellery in lockers or the puja room in anticipation of a rainy day.
And that seems to be playing out again. Since 2018, gold has been going up as economic slowdown gripped India, while worries over a US-China trade war was the global factor.
For example, in November 2018, gold was around 30,000 rupees in India. Then the slowdown pushed it up on a steady trajectory, peaking at 57,000 in August last year. The pandemic and the lockdown months last April-May-June saw the price jumping up by 45 per cent.
“The global COVID-19 pandemic (has) fuelled safe-haven investment demand for gold, offsetting marked weakness in consumer-focused sectors of the market,” said a report by World Bank last year.,
After dropping in recent months in the wake of renewed business confidence, it seems time has come for investors to turn towards the yellow metal yet again. While globally, a weaker dollar and lower treasury yields of the US government is touted as the reason, for India, the catastrophic health situation could be the sad catalyst.
As far as global traders go, the auction of 20-year US Treasuries later today could be significant, as it will be an important indicator of global demand, and in which way the global price of gold could fluctuate. But domestically, gold seems to be on a steadier wicket, with uncertainty mounting.


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Welcome to this week's episode of The Radcast! In this week's news episode, Host Ryan Alford and Co-Host Joe Hamric of JoeyJoe&Sean recaps guest, International Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Life Coach, and Founder of Cody Byrns' Foundation, Cody Byrns. Upcoming guest, Cristina Ferrare, Former Fashion Model, NY Times Bestselling Author, TV Host & Entrepreneur. Talks Social Holidays, National Maple Syrup Day, Ugly Sweater Day, Underdog Day, National Hard Candy Day, National Oatmeal Muffin Day, #CrosswordPuzzleDay, National Flashlight Day, Short Girl Appreciation Day, Festivus Day, and more...
Take a look at this week’s biggest marketing headlines:
1. Pepsi boosts hip-hop artists with music academy, virtual summit - Pepsi Music Lab Academy
2. Nike acquires studio known for digital sneaker drops in latest metaverse bet -RTFKT — pronounced "artifact"
3. Walmart teams with TalkShopLive as social commerce ramp up continues
4. Cream cheese crisis becomes an opportunity for Kraft’s Philadelphia brand
5. YouTube TV warns customers they may lose access to 18 Disney-owned channels by week’s end
6. Grindr’s $7M GDPR fine is a stark warning to adtech not to track
7. Alexa’s latest celebrity voice is Santa Claus himself
8. Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion active users but probably won’t admit it
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Archive for the ‘Nokia lumia 520’ tag
HTC was bought to the court of law by the Finnish Manufacturer, Nokia which said that HTC has infringed it’s “modular structure for a transmitter and a mobile station” patent.
Nokia had achieved a sales ban against the One smartphone line in the UK before, forcing HTC to change the radios and microphones inside the One as quoted by reliable sources.
With the official product page which mentions the specs: four-inch WVGA display, the same dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1GHz and found on many other models, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD), five-megapixel main camera (sans flash), and a 1,430mAh battery.
The phone will initially be available in Singapore on December 14th for $200, before it spreads through the rest of the world.
Once again the famous tipster @evleaks is back leaving us with a cryptic note “A real Asha. Or Lumia?” . The posting immediately follows a separate Asha leak from the tipster, and the presence of that back button there is clearly Asha.
Following latest rumours we were really expecting a WP8/Windows 8 RT Cross-breed but seems that this is not the case. We could be wrong here but with a thin chance . If this is the Asha we expect then there is very less to be excited about.
The illustrious Nokia tablet is finally upon us, after a whole three years of rumours, the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet has leaked, and it is nothing at all what Nokia stands for, literally. The Nokia tablet seems to lack any imagination, creative flair and the Nokia logo for one.
Thanks to the amazing EVLeaks, we have finally caught an official looking glimpse of Nokia’s try at an ‘iPad killer,’ funnily enough, it seems to lack any official Nokia branding, at least on the front. The Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet is shown above in Cyan, and sadly it doesn’t look as sexy as most of us had imagined, it is actually quite an eyesore. The Lumia 2520 is set to launch on October 22 at Nokia World 2013 in Abu Dhabi and is said to pack a 10.1-inch FHD display, a 2.3GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable memory, an 8MP PureView camera as well as LTE and of course it will run on the ill-fated Windows RT operating system.
It seems that the Nokia Lumia 2520 is going the way of the orignal Surface RT, especially since it seems to be everything the Surface 2 is not, meaning Microsoft will compete directly with themselves if the Nokia acquisition goes through that is…
A month ago Microsoft and Nokia announced that Redmond would be acquiring the Finns’ once market leading mobile phone division, in addition to licensing the company’s vast amount of patents and getting to use the company’s ‘Nokia’ trademark on feature phones for the next decade. An era is over, but a new era is also dawning…
In 1987 the Mobira Cityman is launched as the company’s first mobile phone, followed by the first Nokia-branded, GSM-enabled mobile phone launching five years later in 1992 as the Nokia 1011. By 1998 the company is the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer. In 2001 they launch the world’s first camera phone, the Nokia 7650, and by 2005 the billionth Nokia device is sold. By 2013, when the iconic mobile hardware division is sold off, their Lumia 520 becomes the best selling Windows-powered device in history.
When you ask what most people’s first ever mobile phone was, they are likely to say that it was a Nokia. My first Nokia device was the iconic Nokia 3210, and I have owned plenty after that, as many people have. Games such as Snake, Bounce and Space Impact are some of the most popular, and enjoyable, games ever and played by millions of people. Then there is the iconic Nokia tune, based off of Francisco Tarrega’s Gran Vals, which is heard an estimated 1.8 billion times a day!
Nokia was clearly once a global market leader, sadly despite adapting to the mobile device era quite fast, they failed to adapt to the smartphone era fast enough. Their Symbian offerings were stale, their MeeGo offering dropped too quickly and their focus solely on Windows Phone a grave mistake, despite being the most significant Windows Phone manufacturer, and the key to the platform’s growth to the third largest smartphone platform.
Rumours have it that Nokia had gotten impatient with Windows Phone’s slow growth and had started exploring the possibility of joining in on the Android bandwagon, having quite possibly ordered 10,000 Android-powered prototypes. Of course, rumours are rumours, at least until we see some concrete proof that they aren’t just rumours. Could whispers of an Android adoption be what prompted Microsoft to place their bid?
Nokia’s feelings towards Android in 2011, when they opted to go the way of the Windows Phone, was that it was overcrowded and that they would not be able to provide a differentiated experience, that they would not be able to create a viable alternative to the loads of other Android-powered devices. Well, I feel that they could have, but management was stubborn and that is what lead them to their current situation.
Had they opted for Android, they could have easily created a differentiated experience. Introduce their Swipe UI from MeeGo onto their Android-powered devices, introduced their world class Mapping solution, powered by their NAVTEQ subsidiary, onto their devices, embed their even better camera solutions into the devices and make use of their unique, differentiated designs to make some badass Nokia Android devices. Think about it, no need to bully developers such as Instagram into creating applications for their ill-fated platforms.
Samsung’s rise in the Android market only took off at about the same time as Nokia could have introduced Android-powered devices of their own, and with their superior designs, cameras, software and mapping software, they could easily have overtaken Samsung and run the Android monopoly that they currently rule. They already had world class manufacturing plants that could mass produce said devices very fast and in the large quantities necessary to rule the market once again.
Sadly, the company chose Windows Phone, which wasn’t necessarily a bad choice, but going in exclusively on the platform is cause for major concern. Yes, the company could have ended up like HTC, also once a leader in the market, but their expertise in the market as well as their major differentiating factors, which HTC lacks, would have prevailed in the end. The market could very well have been very different today, though it can still change.
Nokia’s shareholders still have a say. Next month, shareholders in the US as well as Finland, will have a say in the Microsoft acquisition, which many believe is extremely undervalued. If they vote against it, Nokia will have to pay a €38 million penalty, but the company will be free to do as they wish. They will have access to €1.5 billion in loans from Microsoft to keep themselves alive, although I am more than sure banks should be more than willing to loan them more than enough thanks to their vast amount of key assets.
Then, the company can start work on Android-powered devices, I mean make a Lumia 1020 powered by Android, stock for now, and announce it as soon as January 2014, maybe even at CES 2014. Mass produce several other devices, and by the end of 2014, when their agreement with Microsoft runs out, can their Windows Phone line in favour of the much more popular Android, which by then should be outselling their Windows Phone powered offerings.
Of course there is another scenario. The Microsoft acquisition is approved. In early 2014, Nokia smart devices are no longer being produced, the Lumia line remains as Microsoft’s mobile offerings, the Asha 5-series is killed off as to not compete with the popular Lumia 525, Nokia feature phones continue to be produced for the next three or so years, in two years Windows Phone is dropped as yet another miserable failure by Redmond. Nokia’s assets remain and are implemented into future Microsoft devices.
Nokia remains as a mapping and network services provider, stronger than ever, but with a piece of them missing, a hole in their heart…
As the Nokia-Microsoft acquisition still floats around in the news, Nokia seems to just continue making waves on the web. EVLeaks today showed off the company’s second, and upcoming, Asha OS powered device in the form of the Nokia Asha 500.
The Nokia Asha 500 could be quite a thorn in the back of the company’s best selling Windows Phone powered device, the Nokia Lumia 520, when it launches later this year, which is likely why Microsoft might phase the device out as soon as the deal is approved, IF it gets approved that is. The Asha 500 seems to be the successor to the Nokia Asha 501, though the naming scheme does make it quite a bit confusing. The Asha 500 will seemingly feature dual SIM capabilities, a capasitive touch button on the front, unlike the physical button found on the Asha 501, and of course support for the popular WhatsApp instant messaging application.
The Nokia Asha 500 is likely to make its appearance on October 22 when the company is set to unveil their tablet and phablet offerings to the world. Hmm, could Nokia become a big player just before Microsoft gobbles them up?
Some people out there want the premium design and build quality that comes with most smartphones nowadays (No not you Samsung), but without all those extras, like the battery life of an egg. Nokia today introduced the Nokia 515, a $149 feature phone with their new Asha OS and a design so premium, it puts the iPhone to shame.
The new Nokia 515 is one hell of a looker, despite featuring an outdated T9 keyboard and navigation keys. The Nokia 515 mixes premium design with basic functionality and an affordable price tag. The 515 is crafted from a single piece of aluminum that has been anodized and sandblasted to perfection, finished off with some polycarbonate resin and Gorilla Glass 2 to top it all off. It features the new Asha OS, technically making it an Asha device, along with a 5MP rear snapper with a flash and voice activated selfies. It will come in both single and dual SIM variants and a crazy 38 days of standby time.
Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Poland will get first dibs of course, but let’s hope it makes its way to the US, and soon!
Promising Chinese up-and-comer Xiaomi today unveiled a smartphone that is likely going to be quite a game changer for the young company. Although currently exclusive to China, Xiaomi has shown exponential growth and is highly likely to become a global leader within a few years if its current growth rate is kept strong.
Xiaomi today unveiled the new Xiaomi Red Rice smartphone. At just $130 it sounds either too good to be true or like a cheap Chinese knock off, but it is not. The Xiaomi Red Rice packs quite a bit of higher specced features for its price including a 4.7-inch 720p touch display, a quad core MediaTek processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, TD-SCDMA 3G, a 8MP rear camera as well as dual SIM support. Like all Xiaomi phones, the Red Rice will feature their popular MIUI user interface on Android. The Xiaomi Red Rice will be available exclusive to China Mobile, which has a 70% market share in China and that’s sure to give them a head start.
Xiaomi has made quite a few heads turn after selling their devices in small batches over record periods of times, with each batch being sold out in less than five minutes most of the time. The company is expected to sell 15 million smartphones this year, and with a constant growth path, it may join the top ten smartphone makers in no time.


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“Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it’s gone. If you send it to a merchant and don’t receive the goods, you have no recourse. This is cash. Treat it as such.” — Gil Penchina
Cryptocurrencies get a lot of bad press though the reasons vary from time to time. Government regulators and big banks don’t like them to begin with.
Governments cannot control the money supply for cryptocurrencies or effectively tax the system. Big bankers hate them because the crypto markets pose a direct threat to their hegemonic control of the financial markets.
But these reasons aren’t really negative if you look at things from the perspective of crypto enthusiasts. For years now, ordinary people have been calling out to break the hold of big banks and government on the financial system.
It all goes back to the financial crisis of 2008 when the big investment banks gambled away the life savings of ordinary people for their own profits and bonuses. It led to the collapse of the markets. Millions of workers around the U.S. were laid off, through no fault of their own.
Many people still remember the time bitterly. Cryptocurrencies were our way out; a way to end the control of banks and make people the masters of their own money.
In many ways, cryptocurrencies are an improvement over the traditional financial markets. Crypto markets are decentralized with P2P authentication ensuring that no single operator can take control of the markets.
The number of tokens for different currencies is usually high as well. This is a built-in mechanism that ensures no single investor can take control of the markets.
However, this does not mean that cryptocurrency manipulation isn’t a major issue. Traders have been manipulating the various cryptocurrencies from day one. Most of this cryptourrency manipulation involves quick “pump and dump” to drive the market prices and make short term gains.
The issue first came to prominence in 2014 when a trader named Fontas made profit through “pump and dump” trades.
Pump and Dump
“Pump and dump” operations are relatively straightforward to explain. These scams usually involve artificially inflating the price of a less popular token by spreading false news in an attempt to hype, or “pump” it.
The scam usually involves two parties. The first party, usually a crypto-whale with big wallets, pumps a token which isn’t popular and/or isn’t doing well in the market. The scammers buy up a significant amount of tokens, then begin spreading news around crypto media about how well the cryptocurrency is doing.
The coin keeps getting pumped until the second party, the external investors, take notice and begin to invest their own money into it. Most external investors are small and buy a relatively low amount in hopes of making a profit.
The aggregated effect is that the coin price rises even further.
Once the price has soared significantly higher, the original pumpers throw their holdings in a coordinated move. The dumping of large amounts of token catches other, smaller investors off guard.
Before they can react, the massive dump of token causes the price to plummet. The original pumpers walk away with huge gains they’ve made for buying low and selling high. Yet another example of cryptocurrency manipulation.
This is another tactic used by a trader, or a pool of traders, with lots of money to manipulate the markets. The crypto whales set a very large sell order at a specific price to prevent higher sell orders from executing.
Let’s use a simplified example. Suppose that there is a particular token that is currently selling in the market at $3 per token. A group of traders want to buy 1 million of these token at $2.2.
However, since the price is higher than $2.2, they cannot buy it at their desired prices.
These investors slowly start buying tokens at different prices as the coin fluctuates to accumulate a total of 200,000 tokens between them. Once they have enough tokens, they set a very large sell order in the market, 1 million tokens at $2.3 for instance.
Since the order is so large, it becomes impossible for anyone to successfully sell their tokens at a price higher than $2.3. Other crypto traders would be forced to sell their tokens at $2.2.
It would take another big whale to bring a big buying pressure in the market to undo the sell order. Yet another example of cryptocurrency manipulation.
Dark pools are not scams, per se, but they are aimed at manipulating the markets. A dark pool is a private trading forum where major institutional investors and traders come together to purchase digital assets.
The trades are conducted at specific prices while keeping the identity of the investors secret. The exchanges do not affect the value of cryptocurrencies significantly.
However it allows the whales to accumulate a significant amount of coins without making the knowledge public. The investor can then set up predatory trading activities and gain control of the market.
So, price manipulation has always been a part of financial markets. The traditional stock markets are full of examples where major investors band together to move the markets in one direction or another.
We cannot fully eliminate these tactics. Cryptocurrency manipulation will always exist.
What we can do is be aware of them and take precautionary steps to guard our financial interests.


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Energywatch ready to fight your corner
The new independent watchdog for gas and electricity consumers, Energywatch, is set to help people with any disputes they may have with energy firms and suppliers.
Energywatch claims an alarming number of people don't realise that there are organisations here to help when things go wrong, and nor do many know that basic rights such as free annual gas appliance safety checks are available.
For example, pensioners and people with disabilities should call their gas companies and request to be put on the priority service list and ask for a gas safety check.
Energywatch is keen to let consumers know it is here and here to help. It also hopes to encourage people to be more vigilant in keeping a check on their utilities suppliers - for example looking at bill statements, getting safety checks and meter readings, and if necessary moving to a different company if they are not happy with the service they receive.
The new watchdog has this advice for customers: If you have a complaint try to resolve it with the company concerned first. If you're still not satisfied contact Energywatch, which can advise and if necessary take matters up on your behalf.
Energywatch has no legal power over companies, but it will refer issues to Ofgem - the regulatory body for gas and electricity markets.
Call Energywatch on 0845 906 0708 or email on firstname.lastname@example.org
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In the past few years, Apple has expanded its own chip business research and development, and even began to develop baseband processor chips for smartphones. Apple is also recruiting talents for its own chip business. According to the latest news from foreign media,
Apple has hired a top chip engineer from ARM Holdings, a leading British chip design company. The iPhone maker wants to extend its chip development to more powerful devices, including laptops and new products such as Bluetooth headsets.
According to foreign media reports, Apple recruited the ARM company named Mike · Mike Filippo, according to Fei Libo's personal information on white-collar social network LinkedIn, Apple hired him as a chip designer in May this year.
During the ARM period, Fei Libo was the chief engineer of chip design. ARM's chip design solutions are available to external chip designers and manufacturers to bring their own branded mobile processors for smartphones, tablets and more.
It is reported that ARM, which is affiliated with Japan Softbank Group, currently provides technical licenses for chip development work of Apple, Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Prior to joining ARM, Fei Libo was a key chip designer for personal computer processor manufacturers AMD and Intel.
At present, ARM confirmed the news of Fei Libo's departure, but Apple has not yet commented.
A spokesperson for the ARM company in the UK said: “Mike is a long-time important member of the ARM community. We thank him for all his efforts and wish him all the best in his next effort. ”
According to foreign media reports, for Apple, this technical talent may help fill the vacancies left after Gerard Williams III's departure earlier this year. Williams is the lead designer for Apple's iPhone and iPad chips.
According to reports, Apple's series of chips use ARM technology to power their mobile devices. However, Apple's laptops have purchased Intel's processors, which has been around for 20 years.
Apple launched a plan a few years ago to replace Intel chips in notebooks with ASIC-based processors in 2020. Ferribo's experience with more advanced chips such as servers will help achieve this goal.
According to foreign media reports, the company also plans to expand its internal chip manufacturing business to a new device category, such as a helmet product that can be combined with augmented reality and virtual reality.
In the past, Apple's A-series application processors for smartphones and tablets have been a huge success, and the powerful processor has become a selling point for Apple's consumer electronics. Later, Apple invested more research and development funds, expanded its own chip business, and began to design more chips, such as some chips used in wireless headphones.
Previously, Apple developed a more ambitious plan to develop a baseband processor (modem) for smartphones, completely ridding Qualcomm's reliance on the two major processors (application processors and baseband processors) in the smartphone. Self-sufficient.
Previously, after Apple and Qualcomm reached a settlement, Intel, which has long provided Apple with a baseband processor, announced its withdrawal from the market. It is reported that Apple once negotiated the acquisition of Intel's baseband processor business, but did not succeed. Recently, Intel Corporation has begun to transfer intellectual property rights such as technology patents related to baseband processors.
According to reports, for Apple, the expansion of its own chip research and development, not only can significantly reduce the cost of parts procurement, but also can grasp the pace of development, so that each year the newly upgraded consumer electronics equipment is equipped with the latest technology chips and processors. (Tencent Technology Review / Cheng Hao)
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The Nintendo Switch already has a couple of Pokémon remakes for its roster of games, including the first-gen remakes Let's Go! Pikachu and Let's Go! Eevee and the fourth-gen Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Developer Game Freak is no stranger to remaking some of the hit originals that enraptured fans on Nintendo's older consoles, especially as the Switch continues to outsell many of its predecessors.
The next games rumored to be getting a remake are the Gen. II Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver — but are we really getting remakes of these games for the Switch? Not every rumor you hear is true.
Is there a Gen. II remake of 'Gold' and 'Silver' coming to the Nintendo Switch?
For months now rumors have been swirling that another remake will hit the Nintendo Switch before the next model launches in either late 2024 or early 2025, with the 1999 Game Boy games Gold and Silver being the supposed contenders.
For those who have been fans of the Pokémon games for years, you'll remember that the second generation games, taking place in the fictional region dubbed Johto, already got a remake for the Nintendo DS console. Heart Gold and Soul Silver came out a decade after the originals, offering advanced graphics and more content for players to work through on the popular portable console.
But despite already getting a remake, a rumor that reportedly started on 4Chan suggested that the Johto region would again be remade, this time in the same style as the Lets Go! games. The more casual play style was created to help those who got into Pokémon through Pokémon GO transition over to the console games, focusing on catching Pokémon over battling and putting Pokémon in the overworld for players to choose their encounters.
The original rumor was then backed up by leaks of supposed logos created for the games, titled Let's Go! Wooper and Let's Go! Togepi. Unfortunately, like most leaks you find on the internet, there isn't much else to back up these claims, and many say that the remake is unlikely to hit the Nintendo Switch.
However, some other leaks claim that The Pokémon Company and Game Freak are already in the process of developing Gen. X. It's possible both games are in progress, as Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were released only months apart from Scarlet and Violet.
Most Pokémon fans don't feel like a 'Gold' and 'Silver' remake is needed.
In a thread on the Pokémon Community website, one user asked others if they would be interested in such a remake — and it seems the consensus is a resounding "no."
"I'm not very interested in second Gold/Silver remakes myself, especially not if they're going to be Let's Go style, though I get that people might want one since [Heart Gold]/[Soul Silver] is somewhat dated at this point," one user said.
"We already have [Gold]/[Silver] remakes. Yes, they're dated now, but that's just the way it goes when time passes," another wrote. "A second remake of [Gold]/[Silver] would need to be a modern, reimagining and not just the standard ol' boring, cheap 2.5D treatment that it would most likely get. Otherwise it's a big pass for me."
Seems like even if this rumor were true, it wouldn't go over well with a lot of the Pokémon fanbase.


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Pietro Dova is known for being Google’s Finance Director and Corporate Controller from 2001 to 2007 and being a big part of the company’s IPO in 2004. In 2008. Dova left Google to partner with Andrea Zurek, another former Google executive, to found early-stage VC firm XG Ventures and invest in the IT, and e-commerce fields.
About Pietro Dova
Pietro Dova first attended college at Imperial College London, before receiving his master’s degree in Management from MIT in 1987. He is now an angel investor, and a founding partner at XG Ventures, which stands for X-Google Ventures, located in Silicon Valley.
While Pietro Dova has several personal investments, his major market contributions have come through his work at XG Ventures. Through 14 years in business, the firm has over 115 investments, and almost 30 exits.
- Carta – Over $1 billion raised, recently acquired investment platform Vauban.
- Aardvark – Social search engine, raised $6 million over four years before being acquired by Google.
- Code Signal – Technical interview solution with $87.5 million raised over three rounds.
- Wish – E-commerce shopping app with $1.1 billion raised before opening. The company’s 2020 valuation at IPO was $14.1 billion.
Pietro Dova in the News
In July of 2022, XG Ventures portfolio company Carta, a fintech startup from San Francisco, acquired Vauban, a British investment platform. Over 10 rounds, Carta has now raised more than $1 billion and with the addition of Vauban, the company plans to provide even more angels and VC firms with investment tools across an integrated platform.
A Fortune.com article in mid-2014 referenced Pietro Dova and XG Ventures co-founder Andrea Zurek while discussing the then-current whereabouts of the Google IPO team. A WSJ article published in the same year addressed how Dova and Zurek use lessons learned at Google to assist XG Ventures. In 2013, XG Ventures was found to be one of the top feeder firms for Forbes Midas List investors’ firms.


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West Marine will begin accepting online applications on Thursday for its next round of 2016 BlueFuture Fund grants.
West Marine is the largest specialty retailer of boating supplies and accessories, with nearly 300 company-operated stores in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Canada and five franchised stores in Turkey.
West Marine said it will celebrate the grand opening of its new, larger water life store in Santa Cruz, Calif., during the weekend of Aug. 26-28.
West Marine will begin accepting online applications for its next round of 2016 BlueFuture Fund grants on Sept. 1.
West Marine Inc. reported second-quarter net revenue of $251.6 million, which was $1.6 million, or 0.6 percent less than in the same quarter last year.
West Marine said its first World Oceans Day Bag Design Contest raised more than $3,800 for the non-profit BlueFuture Fund.
Steve Cleary, founder of the marine representative company Marine Markets West, died at his home June 22 at the age of 73 after a brief battle with cancer.
West Marine said it will sponsor the fifth annual Standup for the Cure on July 9 at Harbor Towne Beach in Muskegon, Mich.
West Marine said it raised $30,000 to support its non-profit BlueFuture Fund during National Safe Boating Week.
West Marine said it is giving America’s love of selfies a patriotic twist with its first “Red, White, Blue & a Selfie Too” social media contest, which offers participants the chance to win a $2,016 West Marine gift card.
West Marine said it will host the America’s Cup trophy on June 9 at its Chicago flagship store.


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Image: Fossil Fuel Fashion campaign
An impressive panel of activists, climate and human rights leaders launched a campaign at Climate Week NYC calling for prompt, radical, legislative action to break the fashion industry’s intrinsic links to fossil fuels.
On Tuesday, the Fossil Fuel Fashion
campaign launched at Climate Week
NYC with an expert-led panel discussion on the urgent need to extricate fashion from its dependence on fossil fuels.
Even though fashion tops several lists in terms of negative impacts — it is estimated to be the third-most-polluting industry, after food and construction; and it's responsible for 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions per year, more than shipping and aviation combined — fashion’s climate impacts are traditionally under-represented during key climate
negotiations. The Fossil Fuel Fashion campaign seeks to ensure the industry does not continue to fly under
the radar in the wider call for an equitable and just phase-out of fossil fuels.
The event, hosted by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund at New York City's iconic
Morgan Library, featured a discussion by Ugandan climate-justice activist,
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vanessa
Eco-Age founder Livia Firth
MBE and Policy Director
Harjeet Singh, Global Engagement
Director to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Initiative; Rachel Kitchin, Corporate
Climate Campaigner at Stand.earth; and Cameren
Bullins, Program Associate for
and Sustainable Development at The Rockefeller Brothers Fund — in front of a
full audience comprising business leaders, civil society, philanthropists, UN
delegates, climate activists and key fashion industry figures — on fashion’s
over-reliance on fossil fuels.
Built on more than three years of investigations and research by the campaign’s
partners — including Stand.earth, Plastic Soup
Foundation and the Geneva Centre
for Business and Human Rights — the Fossil Fuel Fashion
campaign highlights the intrinsic link between Big Oil and the fashion industry;
and the direct correlation between the growth of fast fashion and its reliance
on synthetic, fossil-fuel-derived fibers.
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“More than any other industry, fashion drives and thrives off the inequality
between the Global North and the Global South,” Nakate asserted. “While fashion
companies grow rich on a fast-fashion business model fed by fossil fuels, they
dump their waste and pollution on countries in the Global South least equipped
to deal with it. A fast, fair phase-out of fossil fuels from fashion is critical
for climate justice.”
The Fossil Fuel Fashion campaign panel at Climate Week is the first in a planned
series of activations by the campaign coalition — which will include activities
in Brussels, COP28 and the World Economic Forum in Davos. The
goal is to leverage the combined power of policy interventions, innovations and
business solutions, and grassroots campaigning to drive a phase-out of fossil
fuels from fashion.
L-R: Rachel Kitchin, Harjeet Singh, Livia Firth, Cameren Bullins, George Harding-Rolls and Vanessa Nakate | Image courtesy of Getty Images
The campaign calls for prompt, radical legislative action to stem overproduction
in the fashion industry and decouple it from fossil fuels with three calls to
an equitable phase-out of fossil-fuel-based materials
a commitment to science-based climate targets
open support of systemic legislative action.
Synthetic fibers such as polyester and nylon, derived from oil and gas, will
account for 73 percent of fiber production by 2030. While fashion innovators are
consistently developing new,
alternatives to these ubiquitous textiles, along with other plastics, they still
represent a significant revenue stream for the fossil fuel industry — giving it
ongoing license to operate in a world needing to rapidly
Commenting on the campaign, Dr Johan
Rockström — eminent
environmental scientist and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research — said: “The fashion industry,
with its global reach, is intrinsically connected to numerous environmental and
socioeconomic issues — encompassing resource
international trade, human
consumer behavior, geopolitics and environmental
Our research shows six of the nine planetary
have now been crossed; and anthropogenic activities are a key driver of this. As
a sector, fashion is closely linked to exceeding planetary boundaries in several
ways — an influence which can no longer be overlooked or underestimated.”
Published Sep 20, 2023 8am EDT / 5am PDT / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST