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Ivanka Trump: Donald Trump's daughter posed in front of the Mona Lisa with her husband Jared Kushner
Ivanka Trump, 38, shared an image of herself with her husband Jared Kushner, 38, enjoying a visit to the Louvre Museum today. And, like thousands before her, Ivanka made sure to stop and see the Mona Lisa - posing in front of the world's most famous painting just like Beyoncé did with her husband Jay-Z back in 2014.
The First Daughter and her husband managed to see the iconic art without the crowds most people have to contend with, enjoying the same privilaged access as popstar Beyoncé and her husband got.
While her photograph was inspired by the music royalty's 2014 image, her outfit was pure French girl chic.
Ivanka took inspiration from the cool French women of Paris for her look, posing in simple black jeans and black leather ankle boots.
She teamed these with a wide-brimmed black hat and a thick knit plum jumper.
The mum-of-three kept her makeup simple, opting for doe-eyed heavy mascara and a sweep of peachy blusher.
Ivanka is usually a fan of bright colours and more directional, fashion-forward cuts when dressed for her downtime, so this outfit was a fresh new look for her.
While Ivanka has been enjoying a romatic trip in Paris, Melania is in the USA with Ivanka's father, Donald Trump.
Both women have been married for some time - but who has the more expensive engagement ring?
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Melania first met her future husband when she was a model in New York in 1998.
They dated for six years before Donald popped the question and they married on 22 January 2005.
The couple married in Florida and had the reception at Donald’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
On the big day, Melania stepped out in a stunning Christian Dior dress which cost $200,000, or £153,000.
When Donald proposed, the first lady was given a stunning diamond engagement ring with a whopping price tag, Tobias Kormind, managing director of 77Diamonds.com, explained.
He told Express.co.uk: “When Melania Trump got engaged in 2005, Donald Trump bought her a 15 carat, D Flawless, emerald cut diamond ring from Graff which would today retail for $3m which is around £2.3m.
“At the time, Trump hit the headlines for claiming he had enjoyed a 50 precent discount. Graff was later quoted saying 'We don't sell items for publicity value’.”
If the pricey ring wasn’t enough, Donald later upgraded the jewel as a present for his wife. Tobias said: “A decade later on their 10th anniversary, Donald Trump upgraded the size of Melania's ring to a 25 carat diamond, also from Graff - this is the ring Melania decided to wear in her official White House portrait.
“That 10th anniversary ring would today retail for $3.5m or £2.7m - it is significantly larger than Melania's original engagement ring but it is not D Flawless, which is the top and most coveted diamond quality in existence.” This means the engagement ring could now be worth an eye-watering £3million.
Ivanka is a senior political advisor to the president with her husband, Jared Kushner.
The couple met through friends and married four years later and Ivanka was also given a stunning diamond engagement ring.
“When she got engaged to Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump received a 5.22 carat, D Flawless, cushion cut diamond on a diamond encrusted band which I estimate to be worth £400,000,” Tobias added.
“The couple married in 2009. It is thought to be designed by Ivanka but Jared chose the central diamond. She rarely wears it.”


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Check out this good article over at Nation’s Restaurant News by Bret Thorn on Szechuan Peppercorns:
Americans might not be drawn immediately to something that makes their mouth go numb, but Szechuan peppercorns, an Asian spice that does just that, is gaining popularity among some chefs.
Szechuan peppercorns are a key ingredient in Chinese five spice — which usually contains star anise, cloves, cinnamon and fennel as well — and the source of the numbness you might experience when eating a really good kung pao chicken.
“It’s a different spice than most people are used to,” said Steven Devereaux Green, the new executive chef of An New World Cuisine — “An” is Mandarin for “tranquility — in Cary, N.C. “It’s a lighter, more floral peppercorn, and it gives a distinct flavor,” he said.
Technically, Szechuan peppercorns aren’t peppercorns at all, but the fruit of the Zanthoxylum piperitum plant, a member of the citrus family — think of the numbing effect a twist from a lemon or orange peel can have. The Chinese call that sensation ma, and if you combine that with la — or the spicy burn of chile peppers — you have the ma la experience that is very much appreciated in Szechuan and other provinces in China’s chile belt, stretching from Yunnan to Hunan.
[Photo Credit: Steamy Kitchen]

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TBILISI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Would you like to get paid for scrolling on your phone while sitting on the sofa?
That’s the promise held by apps hoping to make a dent in the global data market by paying people for their personal information as household incomes continue to tumble due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A handful of start-ups are providing users with different options to make money by offering data to firms for marketing campaigns or research.
“We give you a platform from which you can expose that data,” said Neil Sweeney, the head of Killi, a US and Canada-based data start-up.
“Then if somebody (a company) wants to purchase it, they ask you for your consent, and if you say yes, they pay you a dividend based on their usage.”
The company hopes to entice users whose income has plummeted as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, with the UN labour agency warning last month that about half of the global workforce was in danger of losing their income.
“In the US where you have 15% unemployment … never before have consumers been in need more need for additional money,” Sweeney said.
Killi and its competitors say they offer users more control and transparency over their data at a time where tech giants have come under increased scrutiny over their handling and use of personal information.
Yet the apps’ emergence has also raised concerns from data rights groups worried that putting a price on data risks turning privacy into something only the wealthy can afford.
“These apps are designed to operate within a business model that turns people’s personal information and private behaviour into a commodity,” said Carolyn Tackett of digital rights group Access Now.
“Low-income communities, who already tend to be marginalised, exploited, and subjected to heightened levels of surveillance, are also the most likely to feel pressured to give up their privacy under the kind of system these apps put forward.”
Data people part with could end up being used against them, for example by informing algorithms that calculate health insurance premiums and shortlist the best candidates for a job, privacy advocates warn.
And those with less income might be more inclined to sell data in exchange for a short-term monetary reward, according to Valentina Pavel, a legal researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, a UK-based think tank.
“There is definitely a risk that we become a society in which privacy is a luxury, not a right that everyone has,” she said.
Yet, giving people agency over their data could also foster a better understanding of privacy and its value, said Sweeney.
“Personal data is being sold every day whether we like it or not, and without any optionality or buy-in from the consumers themselves,” he said.
Killi currently does not allow client companies to sell on the data they acquire, he added.
The Killi app gives users two options to monetise their data. They can reply to market surveys and watch video ads through the app – the more they engage, the more money they earn – something the firm calls “active revenue”.
Once they set up a profile, users can also decide to share their information – from date of birth to political affiliation – with Killi’s clients, mainly ad agencies, and research firms.
Users can see who buys that data and get a 50% cut of the profits, said Sweeney.
Others have proposed similar schemes. San Francisco-based Wibson allows users to pool their data from other apps like Facebook or LinkedIn and receive offers from research companies and other buyers.
Transactions are rewarded with Wibson Tokens, a cryptocurrency that can be converted into rewards, such as discount vouchers, or cash.
UBDI, a US- based startup whose name stands for Universal Basic Data Income, also lets users aggregate their own data from other apps, like Fitbit or Instagram, into a single encrypted pool on their phone.
Based on that information, users are divided in different profile groups and matched with related surveys and ads.
Responding to surveys or watching ads is rewarded with cash, said UBDI founder Dana Budzyn, adding that data leaves the phone only in anonymised and aggregated form.
How much money one can make depends on the app, the level of engagement and the amount of data shared.
Killi users can currently hope to make up to $10 a month. “Now that might seem kind of insignificant, but again, today the consumer is getting zero,” said Sweeney.
Budzyn said the most active UBDI users managed to pocket about $40 monthly, adding she expected rewards to increase as the number of users and buyers grows.
“I think we can get people $1,000 a year for contributing data,” she said, adding that it would however take a few years before that was possible.
The idea of paying people for their data has been aired by others, including economists who argue that giving data away is a form of labour and people should join forces in “data unions” to demand remuneration for it.
Most data reward apps have been slow to take off, however. UBDI is currently revamping its platform to provide its roughly 36,000 members with a better service, said Budzyn.
Launched in 2017, Wibson has about 3,000 users and its app is still only available in its test version, said its CEO Rodrigo Irarrazaval.
Datacoup, a similar app founded in 2012, no longer processes sign-ups on its website and its social media accounts have been inactive for more than a year.
Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at Britain’s University of Surrey, said that as new firms with little brand recognition, start-ups face an uphill battle to convince people to trust them with their data.
“The only thing to attract them in is if they are going to think it is worth a substantial amount of money, and I think to honestly convince people of that is going to be difficult,” he said.
About half of respondents to a 2019 survey by rights group Amnesty International said they had grown more cautious about sharing personal information online in the wake of recent data handling scandals.
“The introduction of this layer of ‘data brokers’ does not prevent platforms already collecting and monetizing personal data from continuing to do so,” said Tackett of Access Now.
“It provides additional opportunities for failures in anonymization, data breaches, and other privacy risks.”
In some jurisdictions like Europe, where personal data is not seen as a type of property that can be sold, the apps could also face some legal hurdles, said Woodward.
Yet, Sweeney of Killi said he was confident more people would eventually join the app – which currently has about one million users – as it gives them a share of the profits of a global market that currently excludes them.
“Consumers care about privacy, but they care more about money,” he said.
(Reporting by Umberto Bacchi @UmbertoBacchi, Editing by Zoe Tabary. Credit to the Thomson Reuters Foundation)


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With macOS Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and tvOS 17 unveiled at WWDC23 on Monday, Apple made the initial betas available to developers. These are major updates for the various operating systems that run all Apple computers.
Beta testing will stretch through summer, with the full release of these OSs not coming until autumn.
Testing begins on all Apple OSs
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is the traditional venue to announce significant software upgrades for iPhone, Mac, etc., and WWDC23 carried on the tradition.
These new versions usher in many changes. As just a few examples, Macs are getting desktop widgets, Autocorrect is getting a lot smarter on iPhone and iPad, iPads are Lock Screen improvements, widgets are coming to Apple Watch, and much more.
iOS 17, macOS Sonoma, etc. are for developers only
Currently, the betas are only for devs who pay to be in Apple’s developer program. Apple says those in its free public beta program will have to wait until July for access.
That said, these early versions are notoriously bug laden. They are not for casual users.


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Following the inaugural awards in 2016, entries to the UK Export Excellence Awards 2017 are now open.
Organised by The Manufacturer and the Global Trade Review, the UK Export Excellence Awards are open to all UK-based exporters of any size.
Judged by an independent panel of experts from the UK’s leading export-focused institutions, the awards recognise export excellence across a range of sectors and regions. Winners are due to be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony on the evening of June 15 in London.
UK Export Excellence Awards 2017 categories:
- Export Excellence in Africa
- Export Excellence in the Americas
- Export Excellence in Asia
- Export Excellence in MENA
- Best Use of UK Export Finance
- Best Supply Chain
- Innovation in Exporting
- Best First Time Export
- Exporter of the Year (specific entries not required – overall winner selected from entries to the nine awards listed above)
To enter, or for more information, visit exportexcellenceawards.co.uk
Prior to the awards ceremony, the UK Trade & Export Finance Conference 2017 will take place, also in London. This annual event is a crucial forum for the UK’s business, government and financial sectors to meet and discuss ongoing trade priorities.
With discussions centred around the crucial role of trade and exports in growing the UK economy, senior figures from business and government will take to the stage in a series of addresses and debates, with audience participation and networking at the forefront of proceedings.
All entrants to the UK Export Excellence Awards 2017 will receive two complimentary passes to the conference.
The UK Export Awards 2016 witnessed a closely fought contest between exporting companies from across the nation, with the overall Exporter of the Year scooped up by transmission technology manufacturer, Xtrac – which also took home the Export Excellence in Europe Award.
Other winners included MNB Precision Ltd in the Supply Chain Excellence category, andNMS Infrastructure Ltd for Best Use of UK Export Finance.
You can view photos from the UK Export Excellence Awards 2016 ceremony and gala dinner here.


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United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電), the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, yesterday posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on the back of recovering demand, especially for its chips made on advanced technologies.
The recovery may be more evident this quarter, with orders expected to increase as most customer inventories fall, UMC said.
In the first quarter, net income declined 86 percent to NT$206 million (US$6.77 million), from NT$1.46 billion a year ago, the Hsinchu-based chipmaker said. Last year, the company booked NT$1.72 billion in non-operating gains, but a repeat was not expected this year.
“The results are better than we thought, since we expected slight losses in the first quarter because of customer inventory adjustments and the appreciation of the NT dollar [against the greenback],” UMC chairman Jackson Hu (胡國強) told an investor’s conference.
Operating profits, or sales minus the cost of goods sold and administrative expenses, grew about tenfold to NT$190 million last quarter from a year earlier.
Warren Lau, a semiconductor analyst with Macquarie, said before the release of UMC’s first-quarter results that an operating loss would not come as a surprise. Macquarie has an “underperform” rating on UMC.
In a note to clients on Monday, Lau said he expected UMC to post a negative operating margin of 4 percent to 6 percent, factoring in the impact of employee bonus dilution. But UMC yesterday reported 0.8 percent in gross margin.
The appreciation of the NT dollar shaved 3 percent off UMC’s first-quarter revenues and may cost the company between 3 percent and 5 percent of its revenues this quarter, it said.
Looking ahead, “we are seeing customer orders starting to recover,” Hu said, adding that telecommunications demand for chips would be a major driving force.
UMC is likely to see a boost in orders from major customers such as US handset maker Broadcom Corp, Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc (聯發科), Lau said in the note.
As demand from the telecommunications segment improves, wafer shipments may increase 10 percent in the second quarter from 807 million 8-inch wafers last quarter, Hu said.
Chips used in products such as mobile phones accounted for 56 percent of UMC’s NT$24 billion in first-quarter revenues.
The company’s factory utilization rate may increase to 80 percent in the second quarter from 73 percent in the first quarter, Hu said.
Gross margin may expand to 20 percent this quarter from 14.9 percent last quarter, with potential erosion as a result of the NT dollar’s appreciation factored in, he said.
Average selling prices could slide 2 percent because of quickly increasing shipments of cheaper 8-inch wafers, he said.
However, concerns about the US subprime credit crunch and mounting oil prices overshadowed the nascent recovery, the company said.
UMC said it had allocated NT$80 million in first-quarter earnings for employee bonuses. It booked NT$599 million in losses through its approximately 7 percent stake in local computer chipmaker ProMOS Technologies Inc (茂德科技). It kept capital spending at between US$500 million and US$700 million. UMC shares dropped 0.27 percent to NT$18.6 yesterday, underperforming the benchmark TAIEX, which gained 0.32 percent.


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CarMD study – Toyota has fewest check engine light-related problems
CarMD.com recently released its first annual CarMD Vehicle Health Index which provided a ranking of vehicles and top manufacturers. According to the study, Toyota is the top-rated manufacturer based on the average repair costs and the percentage of problems related to a “check engine” light.
Toyota, including both Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles, has the lowest rating for 2011 with 0.67. In this report lower ratings were more desirable. The number two spot went to Hyundai, followed by Honda, Ford and General Motors.
This study from CarMD.com is actually the first to index vehicles using statistics based on repair costs and engine failures of vehicles, as opposed to manufacturer cost and safety ratings. The index rating for the study is based on the lowest combined average repair costs and issues for vehicles with a model year of 2001 through 2011. It looked at data in the United States between the dates of October 1, 2010 and October 1, 2011.
The annual report also included rankings for the best-selling 100 vehicles, along with the top 3 vehicles in each category and the most common issues by manufacturer. According to Art Jacobson, vice president of CarMD, the report was released using unbiased information to give a transparency to purchasing a new vehicle.
While looking at the top 10 ranked vehicles, Honda and Toyota together account for 4 of the top 10. The 2009 Toyota Corolla ranked number 1 with the lowest repair costs on average and the lowest check engine-light related issues. The 2009 Toyota RAV4, the 2009 Toyota Camry and 2008 Toyota Highlander were the top-rated Toyota vehicles in the study.
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Twitter has simply launched an replace for iPhone enabling customers to seize and create .GIF pictures.
Beginning this week, iPhone and iOS customers will be capable to create GIF pictures by means of opening up the in-app digital camera on Twitter and navigating to the GIF seize icon.
“Taking pictures a GIF is a brand new method for folks to precise themselves on Twitter,” Twitter mentioned in a remark.
Twitter says now customers are in a position to create one thing extra instantaneously.
“For our creators, GIF seize will even function a brand new software to provide entertaining content material for his or her target audience on Twitter.” they mentioned.
Android customers but are not in a position to get admission to the function, with Twitter confirming they are merely checking out the function on iPhone first.
Twitter customers too can create GIFs out of “Are living” pictures stored to their iPhone’s digital camera roll.
GIFs, quick for “graphics interchange structure”, are in no way a brand new form of multi-media.
Imagine it or no longer, the primary GIF used to be created again in 1987, and obviously, we now have come a ways since then.


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After seeing early weakness, treasuries staged a notable recovery over the course of the trading day on Wednesday, ending the session nearly flat.
Bond prices moved notably lower in early trading but managed to climb well off their worst levels. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, ended the day unchanged at 1.589 percent after reaching an early high of 1.63 percent.
The early weakness among treasuries came as traders cashed in on some of the recent strength in the bond markets, which pushed the ten-year yield down to a two-month closing low on Tuesday.
However, selling pressure waned following the release of a report from the Commerce Department showing that U.S. retail sales fell by more than expected in October.
The report said retail sales fell by 0.3 percent in October following an upwardly revised 1.3 percent increase in September. Economists had expected sales to edge down by 0.1 percent compared to the 1.1 percent growth originally reported for the previous month.
Excluding a drop in auto sales, retail sales came in unchanged in October compared to a 1.2 percent jump in September. However, ex-auto sales had been expected to rise by 0.2 percent.
Lingering concerns about the looming fiscal cliff contributed to the subsequent recovery by treasuries, with a familiar battle over higher taxes on wealthier Americans seen as increasingly likely to lead to continued gridlock on Capitol Hill.
Without action by Congress, approximately $600 billion in automatic tax increases and government spending cuts are due to go into effect at the end of the year.
In remarks during his first post-election press conference, President Barack Obama initially said he would not extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent of earners, although he later said that he was open to new ideas to raise revenues.
Meanwhile, the minutes of the Federal Reserve's most recent monetary policy meeting showed that the central bank debated changing the way it communicates its outlook on interest rates.
During the meeting, the Fed decided to continue purchasing $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities per month but gave no indication it would expand the quantitative easing program before the end of the year.
The central bank also reiterated that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low interest rates at least through mid-2015.
The minutes of the meeting also showed that part of the Fed's discussion centered on whether to set specific numbers for inflation and unemployment that would trigger the start of tightening measures.
Trading on Thursday could be impacted by a batch of U.S. economic data, with traders likely to keep an eye on reports on weekly jobless claims, consumer price inflation, and manufacturing activity in the New York and Philadelphia areas.
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iPad to iPay: Apple to Start Paying Dividend, Buy Back Shares
Thanks to the success of the iPod, iPad and their other devices, Apple will begin a new program: iPay – giving money back to their shareholders through a dividend and buy-back program.
FOX News Radio’s Jared Halpern has details:
Apple is sitting on nearly $100 billion in cash and securities. Now, shareholders will see some of that profit.
(Cook) “We also believe it will broaden Apple’s investor base by attracting new investors who don’t currently own Apple stock.”
CEO Tim Cook says the quarterly dividend program will start at $2.65 a share. Apple, also launching a $10 billion share buy-back program next fiscal year.
Apple stock is trading around $600 a share.
Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.


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Disseny Hub Barcelona explores 3D digital manufacturing technologies
The European leading centre for design research and promotion presents a new series of events to overview 21st century changes in production processes. 3D technologies are said to become an essential tool for design professionals.
Barcelona (CNA).- A Barcelona based world-leading centre for the promotion of design, Disseny Hub Barcelona, is preparing a new series of activities to look at 3D digital manufacturing technologies. The event has been organised to highlight the fundamental transformation of design and the new opportunities that modern technologies offer to design professionals. The exhibition, entitled 'Fabrication Laboratory', is an ongoing project that allows the public to produce their own robots and prototypes.
The exhibition includes different spaces in which the visitor can discover the secrets of 21st century technologies. Robots and objects developed using new design and production tools are the centre-pieces of the event. Disseny Hub Barcelona aims to demonstrate the ability of new technologies to adapt to different situations and needs.
'Fabrication Laboratory' is not only an exhibition, but it also includes real-time fabrication laboratories, workshops and lectures. The event, which has been open to the public since the 16th of June, consolidates Disseny Hub Barcelona as a leading institution in Europe in analysing and promoting the design world.


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32369639 – businessman walking with trolley through the crowd on a business trip
According to a recent survey, a growing number of business travelers prefer to avoid interaction with people when on the road, at least until something goes wrong. The research by Egencia, Expedia’s business-travel arm, questioned nearly 5,000 business travelers in Europe, America and Australia. Half of them said they prefer to avoid human contact while traveling.
The study found this was not because business travelers are grumpy and antisocial (the survey noted that 70% of business travelers prefer work trips to their regular time in the office) – it’s just that technology is becoming increasingly important to them for every element of their trips.
Two-thirds want to be able to book and manage travel across all of their devices. Half want travel updates to arrive by text – a figure that rises to 63% among Americans, who consistently seek a larger role for technology than the other nationalities surveyed. And 43% (55% among Americans) are counting on artificial intelligence to improve their travel experience.
The study noted that in America, most people expect to be in charge of their own travel arrangements, which is often not the case elsewhere. Technology makes that much more convenient.
One way that travelers stay on top of their trips is through in-flight wi-fi. Forty-nine percent of the travelers surveyed said that wi-fi increases their productivity, even though only 29% are reimbursed for it.
Source: The Economist


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Brunch at the National
Indulge, recover & ease into the upcoming week at the National's new Sunday brunch
Sundays are for indulging, recovering and slipping into the end of the weekend. Do all three at the National as the Miami Beach hotel rolls out its new Sunday brunch beginning April 10. The weekly brunch features the choice of unlimited mimosas or Bloody Mary’s, access to the hotel’s pool & beach service and an international buffet of dining delights. Menu highlights include homemade granola, a smoked salmon station, sage roasted turkey, French toast, rosemary leg of lamb and a chocolate fountain with dipping fruits & marshmallows. Brunch will be held Sunday from 11:30am-2:30pm at $39 per person, $10 additional for unlimited mimosas or Bloody Mary’s.
The Restaurant at National Hotel
1677 Collins Ave, Miami Beach
Sundays 11:30am-2:30pm, beginning April 10
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Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing has announced it will begin distributing this month from its newly established brewery in Denver.
The brewery opens to the public on Sept. 28.
Epic also will release three new beers brewed by its Denver brewery: "Escape to Colorado IPA an American-style India pale ale; "RiNo Pale Ale" highlighting Pacific Northwest hops varieties; and "Blue Ski Lager" a crisp Rocky Mountain lager with a clean hop profile.
Epic will be distributed throughout Colorado by Elite Beverage and American Eagle Distributing.
Epic Brewing Co. which opened in 2010, distributes in 14 states and Washington, D.C.


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Market guru Mitessh Thakkar of mitesshthakkar.com gave his pick of the stocks for Tuesday trading in an interview with CNBC-TV18.
“I have three buys to a sell. BEL [Bharat Electronics Limited] has manged to get pass that important level of Rs 115 so pullback to those levels should be a buying opportunity. Keep a stop at Rs 112 and look for Rs 122 as the first target.
"Some good intraday buy signal on Muthoot Finance, on any mild decline of 4-5 points buy with a stop at Rs 659 look for a first target of Rs 700.
"Also a buy on Petronet LNG, keep a stop at Rs 263 look for targets of Rs 285.
"One sell call that is on Aurobindo Pharma, sell with a stop at Rs 484 for targets of Rs 460.”
Follow stock recommendations by Mitessh Thakkar here.Disclaimer: The views and investment tips expressed by investment experts on CNBCTV18.com are their own and not that of the website or its management. CNBCTV18.com advises users to check with certified experts before taking any investment decisions.


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Google announced a new “spring cleaning” initiative yesterday through which some of the company’s not-as-popular apps and services will be terminated to allow attention and resources to be focused on the heavily used ones. The notice that sparked the most hoopla was the death notice for Google Reader, but another photography-related one was also included in the notice: Snapseed.
In what may be a sign of sad times to come for Nik Software fans, Google is saying that it will be abandoning Nik’s Snapseed for Desktop photo editing app.
Back in July, after witnessing what essentially amounted to a high-speed car chase down the 101 between paparazzi and Justin Bieber, city councilman Dennis Zine predicted that these practices were “a tragedy waiting to happen.” In an attempt to prevent similar incidents in the future, one of the photogs involved was even taken to court, charged under a new anti-paparazzi law.
But unfortunately, the message doesn’t seem to have gotten across. Yesterday, while trying to get a closer look at what he believed to be Justin Bieber pulled over by a highway patrolman, a paparazzo was struck by an oncoming vehicle, passing away from his injuries shortly after. Read more…
Less than a week removed from the train photographer tragedy in Sacramento, California, another sad story has made its way across our desks. A 23-year-old man named Nicholas Wieme died in the pursuit of a “rooftopping” photograph yesterday after he fell into a building’s smokestack in Chicago.
This past Friday wasn’t a good day for photographers. On the same day that one wedding photographer saw his client drown in a freak accident during a trash the dress shoot, a man hiking in Alaska was mauled to death by a grizzly bear after getting too close to it with his camera.
Photographers are supposed to document news rather than make it, but a clumsy German photographer had the ill fortune of doing the latter in the most horrible way this past Wednesday. The photographer was shooting at a media event at the Limbach-Oderfrohna zoo in Eastern Germany when he stepped backward and onto a three-week-old earless bunny named Til, instantly killing the little guy. Zoo officials had expected Til to join Germany’s growing list of international animal celebrities — a list that includes Knut the polar bear and Paul the octopus. The story offers a reminder for photographers everywhere: be aware of your surroundings when shooting.
Image credits: Photograph by Uwe Dempewolf/Limbach-Oberfrohna Zoo
Kodak announced today that it has decided to discontinue its color reversal (AKA slide) films due to a steady decrease in sales and usage. The films discontinued are Ektachrome E100G/E100VS and Elite Chrome Extra Color 100. The company estimates that based on current sales pace, you’ll still be able to purchase the discontinued films for about six to nine months. If you were a loyal Kodak slide film shooter, it’ll soon be time to switch over to negative film or to Fujifilm color reversal films.
(via Kodak via PhotographyBLOG)
Image credit: Kodak Slide Film – 1967 by Nesster
Shocking news: Kodak, the company that invented the first digital camera back in 1975, announced today that it is pulling out of the camera market entirely. The phasing out of digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames will likely happen by the end of June. Instead, the company will be focusing on licensing out its patents and brand name (much like Polaroid does), and on inkjet photo printing. Although Kodak wasn’t a big player in the digital camera space, it was once a dominant camera maker in the days of film. The original Kodak Brownie helped popularize consumer photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot.
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It’s not just big tech companies engaged in patent wars: Luma Labs has discontinued their Luma Loop and Luma LoopIt camera straps after Black Rapid was awarded a patent for camera slings with sliding connections on November 1st. In an open letter to customers, the company writes,
We did our research, consulted our lawyers, and found more than enough prior art related to this concept.
[…] the idea of a sliding camera sling isn’t an amazing new invention. It’s just a really good idea that’s been around for a while and which has been iteratively developed. Neither we nor our lawyers believed that the USPTO would grant a patent for the claims related to this concept. It was a surprise, then, when our competitor was granted a patent covering the concept on November 1st, 2011. To say that we’re disappointed that the USPTO couldn’t find the prior art around the idea is an understatement.
Not wanting to engage in a costly legal battle, Luma Labs has decided to killed off their main products. Despite this setback, the company is planning on sticking around: it’s working on a new strap concept that will be released in December.
An open letter to our customers, past and future [Luma Labs]
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Well, that was fast. Just a week after opening up its Photovine photo sharing app to the public, Google is now planning to kill it off, along with its second — and not-yet-launched — app Pool Party. Google is planning to focus its photo-sharing efforts on Google+, and will be shutting down Slide, the company behind the apps, which Google acquired last August for $200 million. The Slide employees were developing the apps independently, which explains why they were being made for iOS initially and not Google’s Android. If you’ve already begun using Photovine, you’ll have a few months to preserve your data from the service before it’s shuttered.
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Goodbye Flip Video camera. Cisco announced today that they’re killing off the camera line in an attempt to refocus their consumer electronics business. They purchased the company behind the camera, Pure Digital Technologies, back in 2009. Flip Video cameras have long held the bestselling spots for camcorders on websites like Amazon by offering both HD video recording and convenient transferring with a built-in USB connection, but competition from rival camcorders and the introduction of HD video in smartphones (e.g the iPhone) has eaten into Cisco’s market share.
With the rate camera technologies are progressing on phones, makers of compact cameras are being forced to innovate lest their cameras go the way of the Flip. Perhaps that’s why manufacturers are moving into large sensor cameras as phones invade the compact camera market.
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Herbalist Liam Watson had the idea to start the business around two years ago when he worked making natural supplements for retailers such as Tesco and Amazon, as well as independent companies across the UK. He approached his co-founder, Simon, who immediately saw potential and was eager to jump on board.
Liam said: “I drank milk and realised there wasn’t anything totally natural that matched what I was doing in the health space. I wondered if we could use plants, fruit and vegetables to make a great tasting drink that also had personality.
“Simon has been in the food business for his whole working career heading up NPD and factory teams, so he could use this experience to help build on the concept of a fully natural milkshake and launch this to market.”
After experimenting with different ways of making the milk, Canny was backed by the Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures, and launched eight months ago. Liam said: “We were VC backed from the start; Northstar Ventures saw what we were doing and believed in not only us, but the product. They really believed in our team which is what delivers growth for our brand.”
Since the investment, Canny is now available in around 300 stores, and has secured a deal with Virgin Trains which is due to launch soon.
Although Canny has its roots firmly in the North East, and even donates 5% of its profits to Newcastle’s Life Centre, the milk has also headed north of the border. Liam said: “Expanding in to Scotland was a natural progression for us, but the only problem is that ‘Canny’ means good, genuine here, and in Scotland it means can’t.”
Liam has plans to take Canny even further afield, and to have it known internationally. He said: “In the next five years I want the brand to be the brand of choice across the dairy milk sector, with loads more innovation to help us along the way. And we hope to have our first venture into international markets.”
With Canny set for even further expansion, Liam had some advice for other budding entrepreneurs who are looking to get started in business, he said: “Have fun, be honest, treat people with respect, take risks, ask lots of questions and challenge the norm!”
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Academic venue marketing consortium Venuemasters has revealed a range of offers that will be available exclusively at The Academic Venues Show (AVS) which takes place on 20 May at the ILEC Centre in Earls Court, London.
Discounts and promotions at the show vary from a £50 gift voucher to a 10% discount on residential conference bookings and a £3,000 credit on venue hire.
“Academic venues offer great value and some of the best event facilities in the UK, and organisers will find some fantastic deals at the 2015 Show,” said Terry Billingham, chief executive officer at Venuemasters.
“There are plenty of offers and prize draws for the organisers. Discounts are exclusive to attendees and show registration is free, so AVS 2015 is a must-visit for event organisers from all over the UK,” Billingham added.
Organisers expect 40 quality venues from across the country to exhibit.
The show will also feature seminars by restaurant critic Jay Rayner and events industry expert Jackie Mulligan.
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China’s Second-Largest Courier Services Provider to Employ Blockchain to Track Movement of Medicines!
SF Express, China’s second-largest courier services provider, is examining the utilization of blockchain technology for the movement of crucial supplies during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Blockchain to Keep Track of Crucial Medical Supplies
In an attempt to make the supply chain of essential medical supplies more transparent amidst the coronavirus pandemic, one of China’s largest courier service providers, SF Express, is ready to use DLT (distributed ledger technology) and big data-based solutions. As per the Shenzhen-based courier service firm, blockchain technology’s transparent and immutability characteristics can assist in bringing a degree of transparency in the supply chain mechanism of crucial medical products.
The courier service stated that it is examining the utilization of blockchain technology for tracking the origin and assuring the quality of medical goods being supplied to the needy hospitals and healthcare facilities. The service will be capable of tracking, verifying, and recording each transaction in the logistics process, and recognizing the preference level of each order, as per sources close to the matter.
The declaration adds that SF Express has already commenced the application of distributed ledger technology for several purposes, including the transportation of products and increasingly high standards, which involve food and medicines.
The report reads in part: “In addition to blockchain, SF Express is also reportedly using big data to build a trackable logistics network, which will be able to effectively identify supply priority levels and minimize the risk of fake and unqualified products entering the market. New technologies such as blockchain, data tracking, and artificial intelligence (AI) are ensuring supplies of emergency products and helping the frontline medical workers control the disease.”
In a similar style, Chinese e-commerce behemoth, Alibaba Group has also boosted its attempts to regulate the destructive influence of the deadly COVID-19 virus. The firm has used various diagnostic systems supported by AI (artificial intelligence) to enhance diagnostic efficiency on the frontline.


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COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - "People are looking locally, versus just the big name institutions whether it be in banking or any other retail business," says Mark Littleton of TIC Federal Credit Union.
That's the exact premise of the new, grassroots campaign, called Move Your Money.
What started out as a simple, conversation and later gained traction at the website the Huffington Post has now grown into a national movement.
"How can they encourage those consumers that may have business with a bigger bank to consider community banks or credit union," Littleton says is the question the campaign focuses on.
A quick click onto the website, and consumers can get more information about small banks and credit unions in their community.
For example, we entered the zip code 31906 and the site pulled up Citizen's Trust Bank on Macon Road.
There's also the option to search for credit unions. Littleton says now, more than ever, consumers are searching for a financial institution they can trust.
They hope in this case, smaller is better.
"So when you come into a credit union, our focus is gonna be on what is the best interest of that individual. That's a huge advantage for anyone that's looking for where should I have a checking account, where should I consider getting a new loan."
Besides the zip code function, which pulls small banks up based on just one set of ratings, there are additional options to search for information.
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LONDON — The pound has jumped on Thursday morning soon after
the UK’s most current retail income facts conquer anticipations by a
At nine.30 a.m. GMT (5.30 a.m. ET) the ONS discovered that on a
month-to-month basis, income grew by 1.4% in February, while
on an yearly basis, income grew by 3.7%. Both of those figures ended up
drastically worse than had been predicted by economists polled
in the run up to the facts.
Prior to the launch, economists had forecast month-on-month
income progress of .4%, with the yearly determine predicted at 2.6%.
This was more than enough to mail the pound drastically greater. Prior to
the launch it had traded at all around 1.2477 in opposition to the greenback,
but climbed as substantial as $1.2527 in the minutes soon after the launch.
It has since moderated all those gains a very little, and as of nine.fifty a.m.
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Plans for a new Primark store at Teesside Park have been approved.
The fashion chain ended years of speculation in March by announcing it was planning to open a branch at the retail park - and these plans have finally been confirmed. The store is located in the former Mothercare unit and will include 37,000 sq ft of retail space, as well as creating 140 jobs for the area.
The unit has been vacant since September 2018, and fences were put up around the entrance a number of months ago. Designs put to Stockton Council showed how the existing floorspace would grow significantly, with a big rear extension and mezzanine level in the "clean and contemporary" new store.
At 37,000 sq ft, the Teesside Park branch will be slightly smaller than Primark's Middlesbrough store. Alternative sites for the Primark were considered, according to park owner British Land, and these included the former Debenhams stores in Stockton and Middlesbrough and Stockton's former M&S store.
At the time, British Land said: "It is important to stress that the proposed Primark store at Teesside Park would operate in addition to the existing Primark store in Middlesbrough."
A planning agreement between British Land and Stockton Council, further to discussions with Middlesbrough Council, means the Middlesbrough Primark store will continue to trade for at least five years. This agreement comes into play if a new Teesside Park unit is let to a retailer that is already trading in Stockton or Middlesbrough town centres.
Teesside Live reported in August that it could be ready to begin trading by late 2023, although an opening date is still yet to be confirmed.
The Primark plans outlined how the retail park store's "dated" canopies will be removed and a new "high quality" shop front would be added, featuring double-height structural glazing. An extra eight 'accessible' spaces and 20 electric vehicle charge points are included.
Plans for a large public area called The Spark were approved in 2018, which will now be altered to "reflect the change in circumstances" of the new Primark store. This area was previously said to be forming the "heart" of Teesside Park as a key destination point, with a green edge, street furniture, and pop-up units making way for extra seating and organised events.
Earlier this year, masterplanner The Harris Partnership said in a statement: "The applicant is committed to delivering a clean and contemporary extension and facade treatment to [the proposed unit].
"They are also committed to providing high quality and usable urban realm that will offer the users of the park a space to meet and dwell, rather that just pass through. We believe that the proposal has been produced with the urban realm at the heart of the design."
This week, Kari Rodgers, Primark UK retail director, said: "We’re delighted to have received planning permission for a new Primark store in Teesside Park in Stockton, cementing our plans for the area.
"The new store is part of our plans to invest £140 million into UK retail over the next two years and will create 140 new jobs. Spanning 37,000 sq ft of retail space, we’re delighted to offer Teesside Park customers our great value clothing, beauty, homewares and much more.”
Catherine Furlong, centre director at Teesside Park, said: “We are delighted that planning permission has been granted for the required changes to be made to one of our units, and we can officially confirm that Primark will be opening at Teesside Park. We’ve already heard from our visitors about just how excited they are for its arrival, and I have no doubt it will be incredibly popular.”
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Judge closes door on legal quirk in patent law
A federal judge has turned away a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed by an attorney seeking to exploit a quirk in federal patent law that had been dormant for more than a century.
Washington patent attorney Matthew Pequignot (PECK-eh-naw) sued the Solo Cup Company claiming that it was misleading consumers by marking its products with expired patent numbers. Solo is a leading manufacturer of disposable cups.
Pequignot sued under a unique provision in federal law that allows anyone to file suit on behalf of the United States and split any monetary damages with the government.
Last week U.S. District Judge Leonie (LAY-eh-nee) Brinkema granted summary judgment to Solo Cup. She ruled the company did not intend to deceive the public.


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Thanks to those test-at-home ancestry kits, Lonely Planet reveals that the latest vacation rage for 2019 will be DNA travel, with voyagers looking trace their past. The travel guide publisher says that while getting in touch with one’s roots is nothing new, now that DNA testing is pretty simple, people have been jetting off to their family’s former homelands.
The travel industry has taken note, as some companies are partnering with professional genealogists to craft custom tours based on findings.
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MOTOROLA'S LATEST Roi Android handset gets captured on film by the INQUIRER in an exclusive walk through. The Roi is the world's first 8-megapixel Google OS powered mobile, which is capable of HD video capture that can also be displayed directly on an HD TV via its built in HDMI port.
Only recently launched in Korea and yet to ship to the rest of the world, the Motorola Roi is the full touch screen counterpart to the firm's Milestone mobile - only minus the physical Qwerty keyboard that accompanied the original phone. The 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive touch screen has a sizeable display, with an on-screen virtual keyboard that is comfortable enough to use and operate.
Running with the latest public release of the Android platform, the Roi is set to arrive later on in the year, but no plans have been released as to what network the mobile will feature on or the price. µ
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Purchasing cloud compute services just got a lot more affordable, if you decide to go with Google that is. Google has decided that the best way to compete with the major players in the cloud market is to underbid them. Google has recently announced that they have reduced cloud compute costs by 32% across all platforms, sizes, regions and classes. Google has also introduced a new concept called Sustained-Use discounts. These discounts reward customers for steadily using the virtual machines you have created for an entire month.
This discount is designed to foster an environment of efficiency. Many organizations will spin up virtual servers in the cloud and never power them off. When virtual machines are running yet have no workload, not only can they become costly to the end user, the machines contribute to Google having to build out additional datacenter infrastructure when it is not needed. Google’s new pricing plan encourages cloud administrators to be smart and resourceful. The price reduction also allowed Google to introduce additional functionality. Google’s cloud blog says that the search engine giant now supports Windows Server 2008 R2 on its platform. For Linux developers, Google cloud compute now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Google looks to reinvent the way we look at the cloud by blending IaaS and PaaS into one offering. Urs Hölze heads up the Google Cloud Services division and he recently said, “We don’t think you should have to choose between those two apparent opposites.” This price slash on compute services goes hand-in-hand with the price reduction on Google’s cloud storage space. CloudWedge recently reported that Google’s cloud storage service would give users 1TB of storage for $9.99 per month. This pricing structure is scales out to provide users with 10TBs for $99.99 per month and so on. Google seems to be serious about competing with other public cloud services on price. The real question remains, “Will Google’s cloud catch on?” Only time can tell.


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Samsung Galaxy J2 2018: Price & Specifications in Pakistan
23 December, 2017, 02:10 | Author: Elena Summers
Samsunglaunched its mid-range smartphones Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8 Plus (2018) earlier this week. It will be hard to name the model by just looking at it! For the rear, there is a 16-megapixel sensor with aperture f/1.7 and LED flash. From what the reports suggest, the Galaxy S9-clone is expected to launch next spring, and be priced at $300. The device has been packed with a 5-inch display with Super AMOLED touchscreen providing a resolution of 540×960 pixels.
On the inside, the phone comes packed with a 1.6 GHz octa-core processor and a 3,000 mAh battery.
The back features a single-lens camera, with the fingerprint sensor right below it.
The device will come with a higher storage capacity of 32GB with higher, 3GB of RAM than its predecessor. Samsung has also added Samsung Pay Mini support, which will now allow users to pay with their phone directly via codes, UPI and mobile wallets. The devices offer 16MP primary front camera with f/1.9 aperture and a secondary 8MP camera with f/1.9 aperture. The phone would also allow you to expand its memory by using a microSD card on it. The device runs Android Nougat out of the box with Samsung's new UI on top, the same one seen on its flagships S8 and S8 Plus. The device has connectivity options like N-WLAN, LTE Cat 4, and Micro-USB, Bluetooth 4.2 etc.
Currently, there is no any information about the phone's availability in other markets or the actual pricing of it in the worldwide market, however the phone would be priced at a cheaper price tag which can be easily affordable by anyone. Product images only show a Black colour variant now.
The 3GB RAM model has been listed on the company's website and is also available for purchase through offline stores across the country.
Recently, pictures claiming to reveal the Galaxy S9 have been leaked online.
Stemmons Fwy and the children's vaccine is available at all Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinics. Health officials say during the past two flu seasons, Arizona did not reach widespread activity until February.
Beginning with the former, the "dual headlight" design is no more as Jeep gave the 2019 Cherokee a more contemporary look. The SUV also comes with electrically operable ORVMs, side cladding, and some bold character lines.
So, if someone posts your photo to a private group you're not a part of, you won't get a notification about it. If you set this feature to "off", Facebook won't be able to recognize you in photos and videos.
NIO is a Chinese start-up founded in 2014 that designs and develops smart, high-performance electric vehicles under the NIO brand. Despite being much cheaper than its USA -based rival, the Nio ES8 sounds like it can hold its own against the Model X.
Niklas Östberg, CEO and co-founder of Delivery Hero AG , said the partnership will allow it to further consolidate markets. Foodpanda India was set up as the local unit of Berlin-based FoodPanda GmbH, a Rocket Internet portfolio firm, in 2012.
Under Ofcom's new rules, mobile providers will also be banned from charging for notice periods running after the switch date. The sweeping reforms introduced by Ofcom will enable customers to text their mobile providers to receive a code to change.
It started with Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and is growing with the latest The Nutcracker and the Four Realms . On Tuesday, the House of Mouse dropped the first teaser trailer for their take on The Nutcracker .
Moorhead states that enabling in-display fingerprint sensors on smartphones so far has been a manufacturability issue. As for Vivo , the brand isn't too popular in the west, but it's one of the biggest smartphone brands in the world.
Exhorting party workers to nurture young talent, he praised party president Amit Shah, recalling his association with Mr. In the results declared yesterday, the BJP won 99 seats and the Congress party won 77 seats, out of the total 182.
Source close to Saif Ali Khan reveals, "Taimur's birthday will be a very small, very intimate family affair". The cutest child is receiving a lot of love from his family and from the number of fans on social media.
The vaccine has been offered to eligible children in reception class and school Years 1 to 4 in primary school. Most live influenza vaccines contain trace amounts of egg protein , because of the way they're manufactured.
Antonio Brown ruled out of Texans clash
I think Justin (Hunter) is going to be one, Martavis (Bryant ) will do some stuff, and JuJu (Smith-Schuster). The Steelers will need to find other ways to keep their top-10 offense humming over the next two-plus weeks.
Google rolls out 'Hey Google' hotword to more phones
Aside from a few reports of screen issues, there are really no reasons to not pick up this year's Google devices. Google team members have since been compiling bug reports and has acknowledged the issue on its support side.


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The Rajasthan government on Wednesday announced a ban on pan masala and tobacco in the state on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. According to an official statement, Rajasthan has become the third state in the country after Maharashtra, Bihar where there is a complete ban on these products.
The state government has announced a ban on the production, storage, distribution and sale of pan masala and flavored betel nut containing magnesium carbonate, nicotine, tobacco or mineral oil. Medical and Health Minister Dr. Raghu Sharma said that this important step has been taken to prevent addiction among youth. These substances will be confirmed by the State Central Public Health Laboratory Rajasthan.
Sharma said that there would be a complete ban on all such products under the Food Safety Act. He said that by controlling the sale of such inferior materials, strict action on the sale of stolen goods is being chalked out to prevent them completely. Earlier, the government had also banned e-cigarettes and hookah bars.


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Earlier this month, the two exchanges cleared a regulatory hurdle with the CFTC after extensive discussions, which included making significant changes to their proposals on how to reduce potential market manipulation. While this could be a game-changing technology, it s also going to take time to be integrated into the financial-services and technology industries bitcoin investor relations. Virtual currencies are unlike any commodity that the CFTC has dealt with in the past, and I know they pose challenges for the SEC, Giancarlo said. Do they have a clear written business plan that I understand. Bitcoin Investors Are Irrational, and This Figure Proves It Sean Williams, The Motley Fool Share Though we re just about to turn the page on 2017, we can safely say that this year belonged to cryptocurrencies. If any person today tells you otherwise, be especially wary, said Clayton. will introduce its own Bitcoin futures next week. LendEDU asked 565 American adults from across the country the following question: In 2018, do you think Bitcoin s investment returns will exceed the returns of 2017. Yet blockchain has been around for years, and only now is getting tested in small-scale and pilot projects.
But to avoid getting duped he reminded investors that not a single initial coin offering had been registered with the SEC bitcoin investor relations. Aside from providing a means to boost revenue for CBOE, CME, and Nasdaq, futures trading offers the first real opportunity for institutional investors to bet against bitcoin. Furthermore, both the New York Stock Exchange and CBOE Global Markets have filed to list bitcoin ETFs, or exchange-traded funds. Who is issuing and sponsoring the product, what are their backgrounds, and have they provided a full and complete description of the product. Randal Quarles, the Federal Reserve s regulatory czar, stepped up his concerns last month over the virtual currency s price run-up. And while the SEC doesn t regulate Bitcoin per se, it has flexed its muscles on initial coin offerings. Prior to this, buying and selling was the only viable option, with no real way to bet against a cryptocurrency and make money if it fell. There s also the potential that government regulation could be an impediment to bitcoin in 2018. This would be a blow to bitcoin, which already saw domestic cryptocurrency exchanges shut down in China.
Having a futures contract provides retail investors with an easier way to trade Bitcoin. Startups sometimes raise money by selling virtual currency in exchange for a stake in the company. The price of Bitcoin soared to $17,478 in futures trading on the Cboe market on Tuesday.Steem.. However, the survey was actually conducted between Nov. 10, CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) following a week later on Dec. regulators to reiterate warnings about the potential risks of investing in digital currencies. the agencies have raised red flags over cryptocurrencies. The responses (and I hope you re sitting down for this): Yes (76. .


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Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s inflation slowed in November on reduced gains in pork prices and the city’s moderating economic growth.
Consumer prices rose 5.7 percent from a year earlier, the government said on its website today. That compares with the 5.8 percent gain in October and the median 5.6 percent estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 11 economists.
Inflation will “gradually recede” because of a decline in global food prices and moderating growth, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the de-facto central bank, said in a report last week. An increase in consumer costs may remain “notable in the near term” from an earlier surge in private rentals, the government said last month.
“With food and commodity prices continuing to moderate, and the volatility in global trade starting to spill over into the economy, price pressures in Hong Kong are finally starting to ease,” Donna Kwok, an economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Hong Kong, said before the data.
Global food costs fell for a fifth month in November, according to the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Hong Kong’s government said today that pork prices rose at at a slower pace in November.
Average private housing rentals slid 2 percent in the three months ended November from the previous period to HK$20.1 ($2.58) per square foot, down from a record high of HK$20.6 in the period ended September, Centaline Property Agency, the city’s biggest closely held real estate broker, said today, citing a survey of 85 major residential estates.
Excluding distortions from temporary government subsidies, the underlying inflation rate was 6.4 percent last month, unchanged from the October’s record level, the government said.
Hong Kong’s economic growth is expected to slow to 4 percent in 2012 from an estimate of 5.7 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.
“The slowing economy and waning food prices on the mainland should take some of the impetus out of inflation,” the IMF said Dec. 8 in a report on Hong Kong.
--With assistance from Ailing Tan in Singapore, Sandi Liu and Marco Lui in Hong Kong. Editors: Iain Wilson, Paul Panckhurst
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Yamaha USA has announced that they will be recalling a combined 24,000 units of the 2012-2013 Yamaha Super Ténéré and 2009-2013 Yamaha YZF-R1 models, due to heat expansion in the headlight. The heat expansion could cause potential failure of the headlight, which would reduce visibility of the motorcycle to oncoming traffic and increasing the risk of a crash. According to the NHTSA, use of the headlight in the affected motorcycles may generate enough heat to cause arcing in the headlight bulb socket and the resulting heat could cause the headlight to melt and malfunction.
Yamaha has quietly released information on the 2011 Yamaha YZF-R1 on its website, and as expected there are few changes for the new year. With plenty of R1’s sitting in the factory, Yamaha took a slugging during the recession, and is still unloading leftover inventory onto dealers. To help sell those 2011 Yamaha R1’s though, the tuning fork brand has thrown some new paint on the faster red ones…and by new paint we mean skulls with wisps of fire and brimstone.


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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 2 – Safaricom has launched a one-month MPESA promotion which will reward customers who top up their airtime through the money transfer service.
For every M-PESA top up made up to a cumulative maximum of Sh1,000 daily, customers will get a 10 percent bonus airtime. The promotion runs through the month of May.
“Despite the changing operating environment, our customers have remained consistently loyal to Safaricom and this loyalty has secured us a place at the helm of the communications industry in the region. This top-up bonus scheme therefore, is our way of showing our appreciation to our customers, whose support has positioned MPESA as the toast of the Kenyan and international business communities,” said Betty Mwangi, General Manager Financial Services.
Mwangi stated that the scheme is aimed at encouraging more customers to view MPESA as a more convenient alternative top up solution.
Last month, Safaricom announced an 80 percent reduction in the MPESA transactional value limit from Sh50 to Sh10. The company also reduced to Sh25 the popular band of transactions between Sh100 and Sh500 which accounts for more than 25 percent of all M-PESA deals. The move was aimed at increasing the number of Kenyans with access to affordable financial services; particularly those in the low income brackets.
“When MPESA was launched into the market five years ago, it was limited to mobile to mobile cash transfers. Today, M-PESA is an integrated financial service with a subscriber base of more than 15 million which offers customers affordable, secure and convenient financial services,” said Mwangi.
Early this year, Safaricom launched the fifth anniversary celebrations of the MPESA service; the company’s flagship brand. Since it was launched in 2007, MPESA has become the toast of business communities all over the world due to its phenomenal growth, innovativeness and its enabling capabilities.
It enjoys a pride of place as a case study for mobile money transfer and it has been replicated in many other markets including Tanzania and Afghanistan.
“As a Kenyan company, we are proud of the accolades that MPESA continues to bring to our country. Its success has served to position Kenya as a global trailblazer in mobile money transfer,” said Mwangi.
“MPESA enjoys great success largely due to its enabling capabilities which have resonated well with a majority of the populace. As a company therefore, we are continuously looking at introducing innovative new MPESA products which will further improve the lives of our customers,” she added.


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Dobson Telephone has been serving customers in the rural communities in Oklahoma for over 70 years. They are now expanding the utilization of their large telecommunications infrastructure by entering the data backup and recovery market. They have now launched a new company called, CoreVault™, which will provide online data backup and recovery solutions to businesses. “We have been researching and putting together this new business venture over the last two years. There is a lot of growth and potential in this market as businesses are looking for better ways of backing up and restoring their data,” said Jim Rutherford, President.
CoreVault will be targeting primarily small to medium businesses in the immediate five state region of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. “Companies have been utilizing the tape backup method for many years that has proven to be unreliable, costly and not very secure. This has been realized this year with companies like Bank of America and Citigroup losing their 1.2 and 3.9 million customers’ data that contained their private data including social security numbers. “Our online service allows companies to have a more reliable, secure and automated process of backing up their data,” says Jim Rutherford. In fact, according to The Gartner Group, “34% of companies fail to test their backups and of those that do, 77% have found tape back up failures.”
One other key product differentiator for CoreVault is that it has its own fiber optic network that runs from Oklahoma City to Amarillo back to Western Oklahoma and then to Oklahoma City. “We feel like this is an important differentiator between us and the competition. We control the data once it hits our network since we own it. Our primary and secondary vault sites are also connected via our own GigE network, which gives us plenty of bandwidth to replicate our data between sites. We are excited about the opportunity and our ability to offer a service that every business needs more of every day” says Jim Rutherford.
CoreVault is a leader of secure online backup and recovery solutions with its software, privately owned fiber optic network and best of class customer support and service. The company’s primary focus is providing and implementing reliable and easy-to-use solutions to meet businesses’ growing data management needs. CoreVault addresses the entire data protection lifecycle with the flexibility of centralized, online data backup with high availability of rapid recovery assisting with regulatory compliance. For additional information on the company and its services, please visit its website at www.corevault.net.


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Fourth-quarter earnings take a nosedive due to higher costs
Over the course of less than 12 months, Sotheby’s (BID) had to deal with higher expenses, turmoil in the boardroom, and a second attack from an activist investor. As a result, the company’s earnings took a nosedive in 4Q14.
Following the fourth-quarter earnings announcement, shares of Sotheby’s fell by 6.5% during early trading on March 2, 2015. Pre-tax charges related to the transition of the company’s CEO totaled $7.5 million.
Revenues rose to $351.2 million, showing a 3.5% increase that beat analyst estimates. However, net income fell to $73.9 million. This was a 18.5% drop from $90.8 million during the prior-year period. Total expenses increased by 14.4% to $222.2 million.
In 2013 and 2014, Sotheby’s recognized special charges of $1.4 million and $20 million, respectively, in relation to legal and advisory services for shareholder activism and the proxy battle with Daniel Loeb’s Third Point.
In February, Sotheby’s declared a quarterly dividend of $0.10 per share. The dividend has an annual yield of 0.9%. Last year, the company declared a $300-million special dividend.
No other publicly traded auction houses have characteristics that are similar to those of Sotheby’s, so we compared Sotheby’s to other companies that have cyclical stocks. Specialty jeweler Tiffany & Co. (TIF) and fashion retailer Nordstrom (JWN) have dividend yields of 1.7% and 1.8%, respectively.
Sotheby’s teams up with RM Auctions to expand in luxury car market
RM Auctions, the leading auctioneer for collector cars, and Sotheby’s recently announced the establishment of a strategic alliance. In this deal, Sotheby’s acquired a 25% ownership interest in RM Auctions, which adopted the name RM Sotheby’s.
According to estimates, the market for the world’s finest automobiles exceeds $2 billion. The partnership is offering both companies a wide range of opportunities for tapping into this growing market.
Sotheby’s unveils new structure for buyer premium rates
In order to enhance revenues and bolster commission margins for auctions, Sotheby’s has introduced a new structure for buyer premium rates. In this new structure, buyers need to pay a premium of 25% for the first $200,000 of the sale price, 20% for the amount of sale price between $200,000 and $3 million, and 12% on amounts exceeding $3 million. The previous rate structure had buyers paying premiums of 25% for the first $100,000 of the sale price, 20% for the amount of sale price between $100,000 and $2 million, and 12% on amounts exceeding $2 million.
The next part of this series will outline the various reasons why Marcato Capital has adopted an activist stance against Sotheby’s.


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Realme has confirmed that it will launch the two smartphones in the Realme 8 series in India on March 24. The brand will be launching Realme 8 and 8 Pro at the launch event on March 24 at 7:30 P.M. IST.
Realme has announced Infinity sale form March 15 till March 22 to let you pre-order the phone before launch. The phones will be exclusively available on Flipkart after launch in India.
Realme has also confirmed the launch date via a teaser video on its official Twitter handle. Earlier Realme CEO Madhav Sheth teased the rear panel of the Realme 8 series. He had teased the rear panel’s illuminating colour option for the upcoming series. The camera-module and ‘Dare to Leap’ logo are seen at the back panel.
As per an earlier leak, Realme 8 will come in two variants – 4 GB RAM + 128 GB storage and 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage. It will be coming in Cyber Silver and Cyber Black colours.
Realme 8 Pro is said to come in 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage and 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage variants. It will be available in Infinite Black, Infinite Blue, and Illuminating Yellow colour variants.
Realme 8 will sport a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED screen. The device will run on Android 11 with Realme UI 2.0 on top. Realme 8 will come with a 64MP quad-camera setup in a square camera array below which sits the dual-LED flash. It will be backed by a 5,000mAh battery which will charge at 30W speeds.
The smartphone will be powered by the MediaTek Helio G95 gaming processor. Realme 8 is said to come in 4GB/6GB RAM options along with 64GB/128GB internal storage.
The Realme 8 Pro will also have an AMOLED display with an in-display fingerprint scanner. It will be equipped with a 108MP primary camera. The phone is said to come with a 4500mAh battery with 65W fast charging. The Realme 8 Pro might be powered by Snapdragon 720G SoC. The phone is expected to come in 6GB/8GB RAM option which might be coupled with 128GB of storage.


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Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (STL) [BOM: 532374, NSE: STLTECH], one of the leading integrator of digital networks and manufacturer of optical fiber cables in India announced financial results for the second quarter FY- 22.
The revenue from operations of STL increased by 41% to ₹ 1,268.48 crore during the reported quarter, from ₹ 899.38 crore of the corresponding period of last year.
Net Profit of Sterlite Technologies in Q2 FY22 has increased by a whopping 85.13 % to Rs. 90.64 Cr. as compared to Rs. 48.96 Cr. of Q2 FY21 largely due to impact that first wave of Covid lockdowns in India during 2nd quarter of last year as compared to the V-shaped demand recovery curve seen in India after the 2nd Wave of Covid during the 1st quarter of FY22.


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Apple issued a pretty headline-worthy warning over the weekend that we wanted to pass along: Keep your iPhone a good distance from your pacemaker.
Apparently, iPhones contain magnets and radios that emit electromagnetic fields, both of which "may interfere" with medical devices such as implanted pacemakers and defibrillators, Apple said.
The company recommends keeping iPhones and MagSafe chargers a "safe distance" away from medical devices — that is, more than 15cm away, or 40cm when wirelessly charging. The notice from Apple warns users specifically about iPhone 12 models, which contain more magnets than earlier models.
GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS IN AUGMENTED REALITY 3D!? – Yes, you heard it here! Google are trialing returning augmented reality 3D models of cars. It’s being tested at the moment with Porsche and Volvo and the returned model is scarily detailed!
ONLINE MEDIA SPEND – returning to pre-pandemic levels. All social platforms are up, with Instagram stories being a standout for that platform – now 33% of their revenue.
HAS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COOKIES BEEN FOUND? Google says it may have found a privacy-friendly substitute to cookies. Google said new test results show promising signs that the technology it's hoping will replace cookie-based ad targeting is working.
Why it matters: Google and web browser rivals Apple and Mozilla have all introduced sweeping privacy changes recently that will collectively phase out cookies, an internet tracking tool that tracks users' web browsing history. Read more.
DO YOU USE POP-UPS ON YOUR WEBSITE TO GATHER DETAILS? You know, where the user must click the X to get rid of it. If you are using it on mobile then get rid of it - unless it really does provide good results - like generating new leads…. Google will start penalising you for it. That does not mean you will drop off the front page of search results, you just might not be as high as you could be.
TWITTER NEWS - Twitter launched a new tool to combat misinformation called Birdwatch.
The tool, is a “community-driven pilot project”, which allows participating users in the United States to create "notes" for a given tweet that will exist for now on a separate part of Twitter's website. Notes that contribute to a consensus on whether a post is misleading may "eventually" be shown directly on tweets, the company said in a blog post.
DID YOU KNOW - Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot? Yep, 533 million of them at $20 each, unless you’re buying in bulk. It has all been done via a Facebook vulnerability that was patched in 2019.
NEED HELP WITH CREATING THOSE TIKTOK VIDEOS? (that platform due to reach 1.2 billion users this year!) Head to the new ‘ Tiktok Creator Portal ’ which includes a bunch of helpful tutorials and best practice guides.


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The upcoming PS5 remaster of cult standard Demon’s Souls will certainly include greater than 180 video clips to assist gamers.
That’s according to the video game’s imaginative supervisor Gavin Moore, that informed The Washington Post, which claims that the video game will certainly utilize the PlayStation 5’s brand-new tasks interface to assist gamers make their method via the infamously tough title.
Earlier in the year, a license declaring exposed that Sony was intending on revealing customers gameplay video footage from various other gamers in order to assist them survive an area of the experience with the PS5. The console’s interface was displayed in October and also is meant to be a full rework of the experience of utilizing the PlayStation 4.
This brand-new, glossy variation of Demon’s Souls was introduced at the PlayStation 5 video games display, with programmer Bluepoint of Shadow of the Colossus reprise popularity at the helm. Gameplay for the remaster was displayed at a later day in September.
The Demon’s Souls remake will certainly allow customers pick in between High Frame Rate and also 4K settings, which – as their names recommend – places the PS5’s boosted horse power behind either structure price or resolution. Fancy brand-new graphics and also aiding video clips aren’t the only modifications that are being made to FromSoftware’s famous Demon’s Souls; the title includes a variety of upgraded technicians, consisting of the World Tendency system and also recovery technicians.
The initial Demon’s Souls released back in 2009 for the PlayStation 3. Since after that, it has actually drawn in a cult adhering to and also has actually generated the Dark Souls franchise business, along with FromSoftware’s various other titles, consisting of Bloodborne and also Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Demon’s Souls is a PS5 unique, in spite of being unintentionally introduced for COMPUTER also.
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City officials in many New York communities are spreading thick the corporate welfare for large scale retailers. In New Rochelle, New York, local residents are fighting City Hall’s attempts to wipe out 14 acres of homes and small businesses located near Route 95, asphalting the way for a 270,000 s.f. IKEA furniture store. City officials have declared the area “blighted”, allowing them to consider the land part of an urban renewal project. IKEA already has a store in Elizabeth, NJ and Hicksville, LI, and this third store in New Rochelle would triangulate the metro New York City area. The city has conducted a $35,000 study which concluded that the area was blighted. IKEA paid for the study. The Swedish company claims it will bring 350 to 500 jobs to the community, and $1.7 million in sales taxes. Untallied is the loss of sales and property taxes caused by the destruction of the City Park neighborhood and businesses. Residents point out that there are already 50 small businesses and industries in the area that employ as many as 450 stonecutters, electricians, car mechanics and workers who earn far more than a clerk at IKEA. This project entails possible land-taking of 79 properties, including 34 homes and 2 churches. The City Park Association has called IKEA a “Swedish bully” for pursuing the project, and local residents have promised to chain themselves to the bulldozers if IKEA keeps pushing their bad idea on the city. Mayor Tim Idoni says he “sympathizes” with residents, “but we have to do what’s best for all of the city’s residents.” The City has no cost/benefit analysis that shows the Mayor has numbers on his side. But the Reverend Ben McKnight of St. Paul’s church says “we’re moving from a God-fearing community into a community that just loves money.” And the city of New Rochelle is apparently willing to give IKEA lots of financial incentives underwritten by local taxpayers. New Rochelle has already used its property tax exemption incentives to let companies like Home Depot and Costco get a 50% break on their property taxes. This has cost New Rochelle nearly half a million dollars in revenue a year, according to The Journal News. This tax abatement plan has been going on for 20 years in New Rochelle, but the Mayor now says he might end the corporate giveaways. The exemption has allowed Home Depot to get a 50% cut in school, city and county taxes for the first year, and then the taxes increase by 5% of the property’s value for the next nine years. IKEA would qualify for the same abatement unless the use of the state law is ended. Columnist Phil Reisman called this deal an “unholy partnership of big business and government, forged through a warped interpretation of eminent domain.” “It generates a lot of money for everybody but the people who are targeted for displacement,” Reisman says.
This “unholy partnership” is at work in Port Chester, NY, where city government wants to wipe out 42 existing businesses to make way for a Costco warehouse, a cinema, and other suburban oddities. Mt. Vernon, NY is planning to use eminent domain to clear out a soft drink distribution center to make way for a Target. White Plains and Spring Valley, NY have similar plans underway. This kind of tax giveaway, that helps write down the cost of the land, frustrates many people in these communities. “The fact that we have to give up our homes and our businesses for another business, it doesn’t make sense” said one 77 year old residents of the City Park “blighted” area. “I don’t think it’s morally right.” Another resident added: “I think it’s disgusting to have a church move to help some people sell some furniture.” Ironically, New Rochelle is spending tax dollars to uproot local taxpayers, and leave them without without a chair to sit on. The project has not yet gone through its state environmental quality review process, but city officials are pushing hard for approval. In other states, residents have challenged the use of urban renewal tax breaks for retail projects, insisting that such incentives only be used for industrial purposes. For more details of IKEA’s bad idea, contact Paula DeCaro, at the New Rochelle League of Women Voters: 914-633-7097.


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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched production of new Lada-Largus during his last working visit to one of the factories of AvtoVAZ.
The Prime Minister got acquainted with production process, held a talk with workers and congratulated all with new model's launch. Unfortunately, Vladimir Putin didn't take a new model to a test drive.
The new Lada Largus is analogue of Dacia Logan MCV. 1,6-liter engine is developed by Renault and produces 84 horsepowers (8 valves) and 102 horsepowers (for 16 valve model). The selling price for the novelty is $11,500.


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OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced TerrAscend Corp. (CSE: TER; OTCQX: TRSSF), a biopharmaceutical and wellness company that is committed to quality products, brands and services for the global cannabinoid market, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market.
TerrAscend Corp. begins trading today on OTCQX under the symbol “TRSSF.” U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the company on www.otcmarkets.com.
“Trading on the OTCQX Best Market will provide TerrAscend more efficient and transparent trading for its investors,” said Jason Paltrowitz, Executive Vice President of Corporate Services at OTC Markets Group. “Upgrading to trade on OTCQX marks an important milestone in the U.S. for those international companies looking to increase visibility and shareholder value. We are pleased to welcome TerrAscend to the OTCQX Market.”
Michael Nashat, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are excited to now trade on the OTCQX as we look to build a presence in the U.S. market, broaden investor access to our shares and further create shareholder value. We view being on the OTCQX as a natural step to the expansion of our business model, as we have recently announced our intention to explore and pursue growth opportunities in the U.S., including potential acquisitions of operators in states that have legalized cannabis for therapeutic or adult-use.”
TerrAscend Corp. was sponsored for OTCQX by J.P. Galda & Co., a qualified third-party firm responsible for providing guidance on OTCQX requirements and recommending membership.
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Chris Martin rings Wedding Bells
Chris Martin debuted new song 'Wedding Bells' during a surprise performance yesterday (01.09.10).
The Coldplay frontman made the appearance at the end of a press conference for technology company Apple's new products in San Francisco, where he played the new track as well as two of his group's biggest hits, 'Yellow' and 'Viva La Vida'.
As he introduced 'Wedding Bells', Chris joked: "This is a new song called 'Coldplay 2.6' and it has a lot of new features, it features seven different kinds of chords and even a new one that our closest rivals have no idea about.
"This could be the only time you ever hear it. It could go terribly wrong but we'll see what happens."
It is not known if the song will be included on the forthcoming Coldplay album, which is said to be near completion.
Speaking before the group's only UK and US number one 'Viva La Vida' - which was used by Apple in an advertising campaign - Chris told the audience: "Our record company said this is not a hit single. But with the weight of Apple, they managed to turn it into a very successful single. So thank you."
The event was held to launch a new range of products and a new social music network entitled Ping, which allows users to build networks of friends and follow musicians, in a similar way to Twitter and Facebook.Posted on 2 Sep 2010 10:00 to category : Band / Celebrity News
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BEIJING, March 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently Huiyuan Juice officially announced buying shares of Jiangsu Richland Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Richland Group"). Huiyuan Juice will take the blueberry industry as an opportunity and buying shares as its initial cooperation gesture, seek the synergies with Richland Group, and further improve its related layouts of fruit sources and industry boards so as to create greater market value.
From the comprehensive aspects in market prospect, industrial value, investment return and so on, Huiyuan Juice is expected to create high rewards for being the shareholder of Richland Group. The investment is just the beginning of these two companies' cooperation. Huiyuan Juice states that in the future, Huiyuan Juice and Richland Group will seek cooperation synergies in the areas of blueberry fresh fruit gathering and purchasing, blueberry juice products, blueberry cultivation technology exchanges, marketing channels promotion and so on. And by leveraging Richland Group's advantages in blueberry industry and its strategic location, Huiyuan will also further realize its perfection in source categories and perspective layout in the overseas market.
In the recent couple of years, Huiyuan Juice has continued to accelerate its overseas business development and market expansion and has successfully entered into Singapore, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries and regions. By investing in Richland Group this time, Huiyuan is taking an important step for its prospective layout and overseas strategy in the key city of Lianyungang, Jiangsu. The forward-looking layout positioning will effectively boost Huiyuan Juice's pace in opening up overseas market.
It is believed by some insiders that Huiyuan Juice's shareholding of Richland Group this time is a good move for Huiyuan Juice. The supply side structural reform of agriculture and the bonus release of consumer upgrading will bring wide range of preferential policies for agricultural industry and juice industry. And the investment this time will promote the diverse exploration and implementation between Huiyuan Juice and Richland Group in the strategic cooperation of agriculture and create greater win-win value for both sides in the future.
SOURCE Huiyuan Juice