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On May 2, celebrate World Password Day by leveling up the strength and complexity of these most critical of security measures — your passwords.
New Avast research* shows that 25% of connected users worldwide have never changed their passwords. Are you one of them? Our research also reveals that 83% of Americans use weak passwords that are easy to crack.
World Password Day is May 2nd, which makes it a perfect time to address this crucial cybersecurity issue. Using weak passwords, or reusing the same ones for different accounts, makes you an easy target for hackers. Once they figure out your password, they can access your personal data, bank accounts, emails, social media accounts, and more.
Why is using a strong password important?
Further results from our research show that 50% of the connected global population uses the same password for multiple accounts. Up to a third of the users in France, for example, have never changed their passwords, citing laziness as one of the main reasons why. By comparison, only 18% of US users have never done so. This type of behavior puts accounts at risk of being hacked. When a data breach happens, the compromised login credentials are often sold to cybercriminals on the darknet. Those criminals in turn try to use those credentials to access as many accounts as possible, knowing people often use the same password for multiple accounts.
Unfortunately, many people around the world — including 83% of Americans — use weak passwords that are easy to crack. Cybercriminals take advantage of this by trying to brute force their way into accounts. In a brute force attack, automated software is used to try different combinations of usernames and passwords until it finds one that works. Often, cybercriminals also perform dictionary attacks, which is a method of gaining account access by entering dictionary words commonly used for passwords.
Strong passwords are much more difficult to crack, and they help to better protect your personal data. With so many data breaches in recent years, there is a high chance that your own info has been compromised. If you haven’t changed your passwords in a while, we recommend that you do so now, making each one strong and unique.
Why you should not use the same password on multiple accounts
Half of connected users worldwide use the same password to protect more than one of their online accounts. This is very risky. If hackers crack your password or gain access to it after a data breach, they will then use it to try to log in to your other accounts, knowing that so many people recycle their passwords. After a data breach, passwords should be changed immediately to keep your data safe, especially if any one password was used to protect multiple accounts.
Knowing this, it's alarming that almost two out of three people worldwide have never checked to see if their email address had been involved in a data breach — in Japan, 78% have never checked, and in the US, 58% have never checked.
As a reminder of password best practices, follow these tips the next time you change your password… which is hopefully soon!
Including personal information in your password is not a very clever idea. Cybercriminals can find publicly posted personal info on your social media accounts, which they can then use to try and guess your passwords. To create a strong password, use common sense and stay away from the very obvious like “123456,” “qwerty,” and “password.” We also recommended that you avoid using the following information, which too often can be found on social media profiles:
“Cybercriminals collect personal data, like login credentials, from various sources including data breaches, and sell it on the darknet for other cybercriminals to abuse,” says Luis Corrons, security evangelist at Avast. “Creating strong and unique passwords for each online account is nearly impossible, which is why people create weak passwords that are easy to remember or re-use passwords for multiple accounts. Cybercriminals take advantage of this behavior by trying to infiltrate accounts through brute force, attempting to use personal information to guess other passwords, or purchasing leaked credentials on the darknet to log into further accounts.”
How to create strong passwords
According to Luis Corrons, using a password manager is the best option to create a strong password. Unfortunately, on average only 2% of users around the world use one. If you want to use a password manager, you can download Avast Passwords here (it’s free!).
If you decide not to use a password manager, at least remember these tips:
Additionally, it is important to use two-factor authentication wherever possible. That way, if your password is compromised, you will be alerted if someone attempts to log into your account, allowing you to change your passwords. Remember to also use a VPN, especially on public Wi-Fi, to prevent anyone else on the network from spying on your internet activity and getting their hands on your passwords.
And last but definitely not least, install an antivirus on all of your devices if you haven’t done so already. Antivirus software detects, prevents, and removes malware, like viruses and trojans. It also blocks keyloggers, which are capable of stealing passwords.
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)-- Credit card remained the leading online payment method on a global scale in 2015, according to the research findings cited in a new report by yStats.com. This method was used by a vast majority of online shoppers in major B2C E-Commerce markets such as the USA, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France and others. However, alternative online payment methods are popular in many emerging markets and as these markets’ share of global B2C E-Commerce is rising, the share of alternative online payments will rise.
In Asia-Pacific, where credit cards rank behind third-party online payment services in the region’s largest online retail market, China, alternative payment methods had more than 50% of the market in 2014 and were predicted to further increase their dominance in the near future. Also in Asia’s smaller developing B2C E-Commerce markets, such as India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, various alternative payment methods, such as cash on delivery and bank transfers, were more popular among online shoppers than bank cards. The new report by yStats.com further reveals that in many of the countries in the Middle East and Africa cash on delivery ranked first in use by online shoppers in 2015.
Europe is an example of varying degrees of popularity of alternative payment methods and credit cards both in advanced and emerging markets. In Germany, payment by invoice and PayPal were the two leading online payment methods in 2015, while in the Netherlands, local banking method iDEAL had the largest share of the online payment market. By contrast, in some emerging Eastern European markets, including Turkey and Greece, online shoppers used credit cards more than alternative payment methods such as cash on delivery and bank transfer.
Overall, the research findings of yStats.com indicate that the online payment landscape is expected to remain dynamic as global B2C E-Commerce continues to grow, with online shoppers’ preferences regarding the use of credit cards and alternative payment methods remaining diverse.
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Singapore Bitcoin startup, Coin Supermart, has switched its business model before it has even completed a three-month stint at Silicon Valley incubator Boost VC, which specialises in refining ideas aimed at the bitcoin industry.
Co-founder Yusho Liu said its new direction is a simpler model that should give the firm a greater chance of success.
Coin Supermart, which still has more than a month to go at the incubator, was initially set up as a bitcoin exchange where buyers buy the virtual currency in exchange for another currency. A bitcoin wallet, the firm’s new model, allows consumers to receive or make payments.
“In an exchange, buying bitcoins can be complicated; you’ve to learn how to place orders. As a bitcoin wallet, we’re creating a platform for people to make and receive payments, which is more straightforward,” noted Mr Liu.
Its new direction has already resonated with Singapore venture capital firm QuestVC. It invested $50,000 in the company last week.
The Singapore Bitcoin startup e is looking to raise another $150,000 to further develop the product to become the biggest bitcoin wallet in Asia.
“We’ve already invested about $20,000 of our own savings. What we raised will be used to hire two to four software engineers,” he added.
CoinHako is the first bitcoin startup in Asia to be accepted into their accelerator in summer 2014. The team graduated out of tribe #4 together with other Bitcoin teams such as, ZapChain, HashRabbit, Hedgy and BlockCypher.
Boost VC is a seed-stage accelerator focused on Future Technology Virtual Reality Blockchain. Twice a year they invest in 20+ companies to live & work with them for 3 months and join our Boost VC family in Silicon Valley.
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- German stock-trading app Trade Republic raised $900 million in a huge funding round that values the start-up at $5.3 billion.
- Like Robinhood, Trade Republic's app lets users trade in stocks and exchange-traded funds without paying a commission.
- The company has benefited from rising interest from retail investors in the stock market.
LONDON — German stock-trading app Trade Republic said Thursday it raised $900 million in a huge funding round that values the start-up at $5.3 billion.
The round, a Series C, was led by American venture capital firm Sequoia, with additional backing from new investors TCV and Thrive Capital. Existing shareholders include Accel, Founders Fund and Creandum increased their holdings.
Trade Republic is essentially Europe's answer to Robinhood. The app lets users trade in stocks and exchange-traded funds without paying a commission. Trade Republic makes money from a flat 1 euro ($1.22) fee it charges per trade.
Earlier this year, Trade Republic added a cryptocurrency service, launching the feature just as the prices of bitcoin and other digital coins were rallying wildly. More recently, crypto markets have suffered a sharp downturn.
Like Robinhood, Trade Republic has benefited from rising interest from retail investors in the stock market. Earlier this year, usage of online trading platforms spiked amid volatile trading in GameStop and other stocks promoted on the Reddit board WallStreetBets.
However, unlike Robinhood, Trade Republic is a fully licensed bank. The firm secured its banking license from German regulators in late 2018. Co-founder Christian Hecker says the company went down this path as it gives people the confidence to trade with an upstart broker.
"If you want to be the home screen app for wealth, it feels like you should not put your money into somebody who is not a bank," Hecker told CNBC in an interview. "Being a regulated bank, there's a lot of trust. We're regulated in the same way as any other bank in Europe. On top of that, we're independent."
Trade Republic isn't too well known beyond its core markets of Germany, France and Austria. Founded in 2015, the company opted to grow its business stealthily in the early years, with Hecker and his other co-founders living together in Airbnb apartments as they built up the company.
Now, Trade Republic has grown to more than 1 million users, 400 employees and 6 billion euros in assets under management. The company now plans to roll out its service across all euro zone countries in the next 12 months.
Hecker said he's "very worried" about the threat of negative interest rates and rising inflation in Europe, adding more Europeans are flocking to financial markets as they struggle to make a decent return on their savings.
The latest cash injection makes Trade Republic one of the most valuable fintech start-ups in Europe. The continent's tech sector has grown dramatically over the past decade, and 2020 marked a record year in investments in European start-ups.


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We7’s revelation that it is exploring the use of games and quizzes was an important step in streaming brands proving they are useful services in their own right rather than just facilitators for free music.
The UK service, which trails Spotify by just 1.5 million users, despite the lack of Facebook endorsement, is exploring new developments that will ensure users’ eyeballs stay on the music player, rather than drifting off to another site or the washing up.
The opportunity for brands here is obvious: an audience that is willing to interact with your content, for perhaps longer than the usual digital display offer because it is soundtracked by their own playlists rather than music at the creative director’s choice.
One of the biggest bug bears of big music fans (read: snobs) is that current streaming services don’t offer much of an opportunity to explore. They can listen to music, have a look at a very basic chart that details their listening habits and…well…not a whole lot else.
No wonder people are using music services in the background and exploring other sites in different tabs that offer them more.
Music streaming sites need to offer more than just libraries of tracks if they are going to prove to brands they are a worthwhile platform for them to stick their advertising spend.
Audio interruptions from trained voiceover specialists between songs certainly make listeners sit up and take notice – although more often than not in irritation – but if users aren’t even looking at the screen at the same time they surface, it’s difficult to drive click through and, most importantly, purchase.
Dominic Barker, We7’s senior vice president of ad sales, told me at the IAB Audio conference about one idea proposed by the team for a motors brand to ensure users interact with their content. The idea was an interactive map, in which users could “visit” various music-related cities by controlling a virtual car. They could then play a “beat the intro” game and share their scores with friends.
This isn’t necessarily ground breaking but I’d be surprised if it isn’t effective. It’s relevant to the brand (well, in as much as there’s a car involved), the context is right and the sharing and competitive element means users are likely to interact with it more than once.
Users of music streaming services are currently users in the most offensive definition of the word. They’re not particularly brand loyal; they’ve signed up to the most convenient service that means they don’t have to dig out their credit card to legally download or visit a record shop.
Brands can help change users of online music services into customers and even brand ambassadors. By applying simple sponsored content, such as games, quizzes or celebrity radio stations, they can change the perception of music streaming from being the freebie to becoming a platform consumers will visit again and again for entertainment and interaction – with a little of their favourite albums on the side.
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- Amul, Nandini's bid to operate DMS lower than reserve price; Govt to explore other options
The bids submitted by dairy cooperatives Amul and Nandini to operate state-owned Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) on long-term lease are lower than the reserve price and the government is now exploring other options to revive the loss-making firm, a senior agriculture ministry official said. The bids were invited for leasing out the DMS, which has milk production and packaging capacity of 5 lakh litres per day, besides a network of 1,298 outlets in the NCR.
- Milk adulteration: 9 arrested, 3 KMF officials suspended in Karnataka
The main accused Srinivas and his other associates used to buy milk powder, add urea and other chemicals to it. The milk was then distributed to the freezing units and about 4,000 litres of this adulterated milk was distributed in the district.
- Indian Air Force launches new game with Abhinandan: Here's how it is different from the older version
The IAF has launched a game called “Indian Air Force: A Cut Above”. IAF had launched its last game with similar concept in 2014. Both the games are flight simulators & allow players to put themselves in shoes of IAF and fight enemies. Other similarities include gameplay, graphics & controls. As for differences, there are changes in game modes, jets and missions.
- Fake cop in 2012, he returns as fake PMO official
A 27-year-old Ghaziabad resident was arrested in Gautam Budh Nagar for calling government officials posing as an IPS officer, a PMO official, the husband of an IAS officer and even a friend of a senior BJP functionary. He was using these fake identities to put pressure on these government officials to carry out transfers and postings for his anonymous clients.


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Say what you will about its service, but AirAsia and klia2 will always be a godsend for us here in Malaysia, considering the state of our current national, and personal, financial situations. The beauty of this low-cost airline is that flights can get super affordable, so much so that Malaysia recently topped the list for having the cheapest flights in the world.
That said, things will change for the worse beginning January 2018. Although the Airport Tax (now called PSC) for international flights for klia2 are now cheaper, the Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) will be jacking up the said PSC from RM50 to RM73 to standardise prices and ensure that other Malaysian airports won’t have to subsidise for klia2.
MAVCOM also argued that the facilities and services offered at klia2 are comparable to that of KLIA, hence there should be no reason for the PSC to differ either. Of course, AirAsia is currently trying to get MAVCOM to review the decision for the better of its customers and travellers of klia2, so.. let’s keep our fingers crossed!


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The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports: Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order June 11 that relaxes more restrictions put in place since April to stem the spread of Covid-19, including no limits on the number of dine-in customers at restaurants, allowing for conventions to resume and reopening live performance venues.
WSB-TV reports: Governor Brian Kemp issued a new executive order on Tuesday that changes the rules for some businesses already closed because of COVID-19, allows some businesses to add new customers and keeps other businesses closed for several more weeks.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Gov. Brian Kemp will lift a statewide shelter-in-place order for most of Georgia’s 10.6 million residents starting Friday as he continues to roll back coronavirus restrictions, though he urged Georgians to stay at home when possible to contain the pandemic.
In its latest newsletter, the City of Alpharetta offered useful information for businesses facing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, including:
Read below for Gov. Kemp’s executive order explaining which businesses can reopen, measures for mitigating the spread of COVID-19, and best practices for religious services.


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Updated — Midwest Molding Inc. is opening an injection molding facility in Ooltewah, Tenn., about 20 miles east of Chattanooga. The site will operate as Southeast Molding Inc. starting in May.
The injection molder, based in Plain City, Ohio, said the additional facility will allow the company to grow and gain new customers, including automotive suppliers, in the southeastern United States.
“We felt like it kind of killed two birds with one stone, where we could open up some space — more space for our existing Ohio customers — and at the same time it would also introduce us to a new area of the country,” Bill Razor, president of Midwest Molding, said in a Feb. 19 phone interview.
The company's Plain City headquarters in Ohio cover an estimated 110,000 square feet: a 60,000-square-foot main facility, plus 50,000 square feet at an off-site warehouse. The leased building in Ooltewah is 10,000 square feet, with room to expand to roughly 17,000 square feet.
Midwest Molding is investing more than $750,000 in the Ooltewah facility, Razor said. Part of the investment includes transferring some injection molding machines from Ohio to Tennessee as well as purchasing new ones. The site will initially house four to five presses in the 55- to 200-ton range. A 390-ton press will be added later on, he said.
“As needed, we'll purchase machines,” Razor said. “We have the space currently to add up to 14 machines, but that will come as the business grows.”
The Ooltewah facility will employ 10 workers, including 30-year plastics veteran Rich Lester, who will serve as operations manager for the site. Razor said within the next five years, the site could employ up to 40.
Midwest Molding manufactures and assembles a variety of components for the automotive, consumer and industrial markets such as clips, fasteners and large housings up to 6 pounds. At its main facility in Ohio, the company has 36 injection molding machines ranging from 45-950 tons. Companywide, Midwest Molding has 100 employees.
“We don't plan to go after the OEM business, but we've definitely been a solid Tier 2 automotive supplier and that's what we've built our Ohio business on,” Razor said.
For the auto industry, specifically, Razor said the company “molds a little bit of everything,” including various under-the-hood components, metal replacement parts and cosmetic parts.
“We've been able to grow pretty rapidly in Ohio. … We also feel there's a need down [in Tennessee] for a Tier 2 automotive molder,” he said. “That's what we really think is going to help us.”


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Tesla Model 3 Owners Will Have To Pay To Use Free Charging Stations
Tesla Motors announced Tuesday it will likely charge Model 3 owners to use its vast array of charging stations, most of which are free for other customers.
“Free Supercharging fundamentally has a cost,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday during the company’s annual shareholders meeting. “The obvious thing to do is decouple that from the cost of the Model 3. So it will still be very cheap, and far cheaper than gasoline, to drive long-distance with the Model 3, but it will not be free long distance for life unless you purchase that package.”
The techno-guru did not flesh out details about what Model 3 owners should expect to pay.
Meanwhile, customers who own the company’s Model S and Model X are allowed free access to Tesla’s 632 Supercharging stations across the world. The charging stations give customers about 170 miles of range in 30 minutes, according to the company’s website.
Musk went on to implore owners to charge their vehicles at home and at work, where charging is largely free. Tesla is concerned owners are taking advantage of the charging stations and using them out of habit.
There have been 373,000 pre-orders for the Model 3, which will be priced at $35,000, many of them made by people who plopped down $1,000 deposits for the promise of a fully electric car. Model 3 has not started production since Tesla unveiled in April the reasonably priced sedan.
Many critics suggest the Model 3 could prove to be Tesla’s death knell.
The company is bleeding cash over the last year trying to ramp up Model X production and develop the Model 3. In fact, as of the end of last year, Tesla was scraping by on the last of its $1 billion in cash. The burn rate, critics argue, is way too high to survive until 2018, when the company claims it will be able to produce all 373,000 model 3s.
Tesla delved into highly complex, exotic financial instruments to raise the capital necessary to build the Model 3. These techniques have turned the massive electric vehicle maker into a type of “pyramid scheme,” according to Devonshire Research Group, an investment firm that values and devalues technology companies.
“Tesla’s financing model is fragile; it is attempting to manage multiple financial instrument models under the same accounting umbrella — to our knowledge, one of the last companies to attempt this level of financial innovation was Enron,” a Devonshire Research Group report states. One minor “misstep in the next two years,” the group adds, “risks entering a death spiral.”
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Dampier Village shopping centre reopens after stage one of $3.5 million facelift complete
Stage one of the new and improved Dampier Village Centre Piazza has officially opened, with City of Karratha Mayor Peter Long touting the facelift as a game-changing step for the small community.
Featuring a modern outdoor dining space with four retail spaces, shade structures and landscaped gardens, the recently unveiled works are just the first stage in the $3.5 million redevelopment, undertaken by Scope Property Group.
Further development planned for later in the year will create 11 retail and office spaces adjacent to Dampier Food and Liquor inside the shopping centre.
Score Property Group director Shaun Quinlan said the revitalised centre would become a hub of life for the community.
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The project came off the back of the City of Karratha approving a new Dampier Masterplan in early 2022, which aimed to optimise the appeal of Dampier as a great place to stay and visit, focusing on public life, a new improved public realm and good connections to the waterfront.
Under the master plan, the City aims to support and encourage the upgrade, enhancement and reconfiguration of the existing shopping centre.
Key projects in the document include the creation of a sporting hub at Windy Ridge Oval and a new caravan park.
Scope Property Group director Robert Engelhard said the developer’s priority was to support the community by creating a welcoming place for residents and visitors to enjoy now and well into the future.
“Dampier is a unique coastal oasis in the Pilbara, and the Dampier community and the City of Karratha are rightly very passionate about the types of enhancements they want to see in the future,” he said.
“It’s wonderful to see local people embracing the work that’s been done so far, and we’re really excited about what lies ahead for Dampier, for the people who live here, and for people who visit this very special part of Western Australia.”
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Cosylab is a company that is quietly changing the world. By building and integrating state-of-the-art software and electronics for the world's most complex systems, the company helps drive innovation across sectors including science, medicine and industry.
Why cybersecurity is about culture as much as technology In the post pandemic world of work, robust cybersecurity defences are more crucial than ever.
Corporate tax rates worldwide hit new low of just 25.1% – but new trend of rising rates has already begun
- UK businesses facing 6% increase in 2023 – other governments may follow suit
- As countries seek to make up for covid shortfall, declining rates likely to be a thing of the past


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Semiconductors have become the national poster child for commercial vehicle equipment shortages. However, there are many other material shortages playing a role as well—anything petroleum- or resin-based, aluminum, copper, and rubber, for example.
When it comes to procuring equipment to move a record amount of freight, the commercial vehicle industry is coming down from pandemic-induced capacity and labor delays in late 2020 and being met with persistent supply chain challenges that ramped up in 2021.
Kyle Treadway, dealer principal for Kenworth Sales, explained that it’s been a moving, shifting situation.
“I can tell you that for the last year, it has felt like whack-a-mole,” Treadway told FleetOwner. “Every time we seem to narrow down and improve a situation, another problem crops up, and that is still the case today."
Treadway noted that there are a number of measures Kenworth dealers have taken themselves, as well as in cooperation with suppliers, to keep vehicles up and running. That has meant beefing up inventories and ramping up communication with fleet customers and suppliers to let them know the status of replacement parts and components.
“We had all worked ourselves into a just-in-time mode a couple of years ago, and that has just positioned us to be vulnerable,” Treadway said. “We’re improving the stocking quantities that we have by using dealer management software to help us try and manage the different seasonality and cycles so we can accommodate longer lead times in ordering supplies.”
In October 2021, everything turned on a dime, Treadway pointed out.
“Our entire order board was canceled, and we had to go to our customers and say, ‘Force majeure—that contract that we had with you is no longer any good; we have to resubmit. You may not get the model you want, the spec you want, the engine you want. You may not get it when you want it, and you certainly aren’t going to get it for the price we previously agreed to,’” he said.
For Treadway, that’s when relationships with the OEM, supplier, and fleets became more important than ever.
“You have to have built a history with all of those stakeholders so that they understand the message you’re delivering and the context in which it’s made,” Treadway advised. “You also have to keep in mind that you want to do business with your customer five years from now, so you want to do whatever it takes to maintain that relationship.”
Jetco Delivery, which provides intermodal, open deck, heavy haul, dry van, asset-backed freight brokerage, and warehousing services, hasn’t necessarily had trouble procuring equipment; the difficulty has been long lead times. Companywide, Jetco and its parent company, GTI Group, run about 140 trucks—mostly Freightliners in the Houston market and Peterbilts in Canada.


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The trade war between the US and China has deepened following Beijing’s announcement that it will impose 25 per cent import duties targeting about 16 billion worth of US goods.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry yesterday said, the latest move is part of its response against the Trump administration’s decision to impose the same percentage of duties on Chinese imports.
The move will take effect immediately after the US imposes tariffs on Chinese goods on the 23rd of this month. The list of US imports affected by the taxes includes coal, oil, chemicals and some medical equipment.
Last month, the US had imposed duties of 25 percent on Chinese imports worth 34 billion.
The Trump administration is also considering further tariffs on another 200 billion worth of Chinese goods which could come into effect in September.
For its part, China has threatened to ratchet up the tit-for-tat trade war by slapping tariffs on another 60 billion of American imports.
US President Donald Trump started announcing new tariffs on imports in January as part of an attempt to negotiate what he called fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.
The first tariffs were imposed in March and China responded in April.


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Source chats to md Richard Pink about how it became one of the key UK food and beverage licensing agencies.
Richard Pink is a well-known and liked face in the licensing industry. Since setting up Pink Key Consulting (as it was originally called), he’s worked with internationally recognised brands and licensees. But things really took off three years ago when Slush Puppie approached the company to manage its European licensing programme.
Richard explains: “We then also took on Pan Am. And we’ve expanded again quite a bit this year when we started talking to the Bel Group, which is The Laughing Cow, Babybel and Boursin.
“Then we had a conversation with Unilever last year, who were looking for somebody to manage some vintage brands, and took on Brooke Bond, PG and Colman’s Mustard. So we’ve built up quite a portfolio over the past three years.”
Having previously spent 15 years at Kellogg’s – including setting up its licensing business – Richard decided his heart was in licensing and left for a stint at Entertainment Rights, before setting up Pink Key. His intention was to bridge the gap between licensing and promotions and back then, he had one client – Jane Asher – with the rest consultancy.
But over the past nine years, that model turned on its head, and now around 95% of the business is agency.
Richard explains: “The real tipping point came when I took over Kellogg’s licensing and that was because I went to them and suggested there was an opportunity to do the adult licensing using the vintage archives.”
He continues: “We made a conscious decision two years ago, that a) we’re now a licensing agency, which is why we changed the name from Pink Key Consulting to Licensing, and b) because of the portfolio we had, we were probably going to be an agency that managed food brands into non-food programmes.”
But Richard didn’t intend to work solely in that arena. He explains: “The brands where we’ve got the biggest exposure and had the most success, have been food-based brands, so they’ve had the biggest profile. I think the reason for the acquisition of so many food brands has been the fact people know that’s what we do and we do it well. It’s been a strategy that’s developed itself.”
Pink Key’s licensing business really took hold as the trend for food and beverage brands into licensed products began. Richard believes that was born out of the fashion for Levi’s t-shirts where people wanted global logos on shirts.
He says: “The idea of red on white has been a springboard for us to do Kellogg’s t-shirts. There’s also been a retail trend for food brands which have global recognition, and if that’s got an element of heritage to it, so much the better.”
And that trend for heritage has also been key. Richard explains: “You go back to the 50s, 60s and 70s and the care and attention that went into the design of advertising was huge. That old-school care, patience and attention to detail that went into design is what’s given brands a universal quality that still works now.”
Vintage and design aspects will be the approach for new clients. Richard explains the Unilever plans: “PG is centred around tea towels, housewares and anything around tea. So expect to see things like teacups, mugs, teapots, tea sets. At the same time, because it’s a food logo, it will work on apparel and accessories.”
Meanwhile, the plan for Colman’s is to extend the mustard theme, incorporating products like mustard pots, housewares, tea towels, etc. Richard furthers: “We’ve got conversations going on with a number of potential licensees.”
For Bel Group, Pink Key is planning a distinct licensing programme together for each brand. Boursin has a strong UK heritage, centred around the core marketing about picnicking and being a summer brand, while Babybel has the fun factor and a certain aspect centred around kids.
Richard continues: “Laughing Cow was the one we took on as the primary driver, even though the core product possibly isn’t the strongest in the market, as a licensing product, it works more as an art licence, because of the design of the cow. There is almost a Warhol-like connotation around what you could do with the brand and the style guide we’ve got is incredibly adaptive.”
With so many new brands, it’ll be a busy year for Pink Key Licensing, but when asked about his plans, Richard offers: “We never want to get so big that the reasons we exist disappears, which is to only take on brands where we feel we can do something. We’ve had a steady growth over the last five or six years or so, and I can see that continuing.
“I’d say we’re relatively ambitious about the company and we’re on the lookout for other brands of that ilk we can look at and see what programmes we can create.”
Richard concludes: “We see the year starting with BLE. It’s the springboard for everything we do. And I normally find myself at some point in a quiet moment, taking a step back, looking at the stand and thinking what are we about this year.” We can’t wait to find out.
From Primark to Hindmarch
One of Richard’s favourite stories from his work at Pink Key is that on the same day that Anya Hindmarch unveiled its £1,500 Tony the Tiger tote, Primark was launching a £19.99 Tony onesie.
Richard says: “It was just extraordinary. It’s because it’s got that universal recognition. The iconic element you’ve got with Tony the Tiger and the Kellogg’s logo works at a design-led level – it’s almost a design/art licence. Whereas although you can put him on a £1,500 bag, Tony the Tiger will still work as a onesie, because he’s got that novelty factor.”


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New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja Thursday said around 75,000 foreign visitors were in India during the Commonwealth Games that ended Oct 14.
‘Initial estimates said 100,000 visitors – both domestic and foreign – were expected in Delhi during the Games,’ Selja said on the sidelines of the International Hospitality Fair 2010 at Pragati Maidan here.
‘But the figures I received from the government cited 75,000 foreign arrivals, excluding the domestic tourists. One should not feel disappointed. The negative publicity had initially affected tourism prospects,’ Selja said.
The minister gave a thumbs up to the ITDC, saying the ‘Indian Tourism Development Corporation had been able to discharge its duties despite racing against time.’
‘They managed very well in the end though I think the arrangements should have been made a few months earlier,’ she said.
The ITDC was only in charge of furnishings at the Games Village’, she said.
The Commonwealth Games prompted the construction of new airport terminals, highways and new infrastructure both in Delhi and the national capital region. The ‘fast-growing tourism sector, which is growing along with the economy, needs to utilise the infrastructure’.
‘The vast tourism potential in the country is still not tapped,’ she said.
‘The Commonwealth Games was an opportunity to develop the tourism and hospitality infrastructure of the country. We should not question whether the visitors got the best in 14 days,’ she said.
‘The impact of newly-built infrastructure for an event is always felt post-event. Occupancy rates in hotels are high to prove that more people are attracted to India,’ Selja said.
She also said the tourism ministry wanted to develop the mid-segment of the hospitality sector.
‘The country has adequate five-star properties and dhabas. We will assist the budget hotels, three- and four-star hotels and the business hotels and related hospitality industry to build the segment,’ Selja said.
Tourism promotion is a sustained campaign, she said.
‘We are trying to promote India as a 365-day destination. We have so much to offer – lot more variety compared many destinations. The travellers’ profile is also changing. The country is drawing not just leisure travellers, but business travellers as well as the economy grows,’ she said.
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DETROIT (AP) -- More than four months after General Motors began recalling 2.6 million small cars to fix ignition switches, the company has repaired only 7 percent of the vehicles.
Through Thursday, GM had repaired almost 177,000 of the cars and shipped about 423,000 parts kits to dealers worldwide.
GM says the repairs have been delayed as Delphi Corp., the switch maker, ramps up production of a part for cars that the company is no longer making.
Initially Delphi had only one assembly line building replacement switches, which slowed parts distribution. Now the company has two lines running, and GM expects a third to be operational in late July or early August, spokesman Kevin Kelly said Monday.
"This part wasn't in production anymore. It's taken time to get production back up," said Kelly. GM's stated goal is to have all 2.6 million replacement parts produced by late October.
Also complicating the ignition switch recall was a separate ignition lock cylinder recall affecting the same vehicles. GM suppliers have had to make both parts, then the company ships them to dealers in a single repair kit.
GM has offered free loaner cars to those afraid to drive their own vehicles. So far it has paid for almost 67,000.
GM began recalling the cars, mainly Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions from the 2004 through 2010 model years, in February. The ignition switches can unexpectedly slip from the "run" to "accessory" position, shutting off the engine. That shuts off the power steering and power brakes, making cars harder to control. It also disables the air bags, which won't inflate in a crash.
GM says the problem has caused at least 54 crashes and 13 deaths, but trial lawyers suing GM say the death toll is more than 60. GM has acknowledged knowing about the problem for more than a decade, yet the cars weren't recalled until this year.
GM CEO Mary Barra will testify in front of a House subcommittee about the matter for a second time on Wednesday.
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DarmokTech secures CalSEED-2022 award to develop solid state battery cell and packaging designed for direct recycling and manufacturing resiliency
— Dr. Deepak Upadhyaya, Founder of DarmokTech
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA, USA, December 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — DarmokTech, a sustainable battery innovation company, today announced it won an award from the California Energy Commission through the California Clean Energy Fund’s CalSEED grant program supporting entrepreneurs working to bring early-stage clean energy concepts to market.
DarmokTech has developed a novel cell and package design to make Solid-State batteries a viable replacement for conventional Li-ion technology for EVs and short-duration storage by improving cycle-life and reducing manufacturing steps and costs. Another unique component of this innovation is to enable profitable Direct Recycling by incorporating features into cell-design that allows automated disassembly of cells and recovery of electrode material in functional form, a task not feasible with current packaging methods.
DarmokTech was one of 23 companies (out of 166) that CalSEED selected to receive $150,000 of a total of $3.45M. “We’re thrilled to work with the California Energy Commission and New Energy Nexus team to develop technologies that address difficult problems like battery recycling and making EVs affordable to everyone” said Dr. Deepak Upadhyaya, founder of DarmokTech.
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Designers are taking back the JTAG test bus!
Blog 10/30/2003 Post a comment
It's not just for test anymore: Recent extensions to JTAG not only enhance its test coverage, but also make it useful for design as well, says this National Semiconductor technologist. Suppliers of CPLD's and FPGA's were quick to support IEEE 1532 standard for Boundary-Scan-based In-System-Configuration of programmable devices. Now designers have a way to develop flexible systems where functionality can be adapted to a specific customer or application, he says.
Let's reverse the trend of reverse auctions
Blog 10/28/2003 Post a comment
The Internet is delivering most of its promises, but the use of online reverse auctions could drive products into a commodity status with the potential for all but eliminating product R&D, devaluing and destroying service, and likely bringing the electronics industry to its knees.
Future Opportunities in the Mobile Power IC Business
Blog 10/21/2003 Post a comment
Communications Industry Researchers, Inc. says that most manufacturers of Power ICs for mobile electronic device ??devices such as notebook computers, cell phones, PDAs and portable DVD players believe opportunities abound over the next decade, as the mobile sector grows and its power management requirements become more complex and more demanding.
Steamed up over temperature
Blog 10/15/2003 Post a comment
Temperature ratings are illusive, reminds Bill Klein in the latest installment of his popular "Call I Took Last Week" last week series. You need to pay attention, not just to "mins" and "maxes," but also to ambient temperatures, junction temperatures and even storage conditions, Bill says. He certainly knows how to get your attention: You don't want your system crapping out prematurely, do you?
China's low labor costs are no substitute for diligent supply chain management
Blog 10/13/2003 Post a comment
For hundreds of OEMs and EMS providers in the United States, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and elsewhere in Asia, the allure of China's vast low-cost labor pool has proven irresistible. However, the savings realized by paying Chinese factory workers $1 a day may be so intoxicating that they are masking new costs and supply chain management issues that manufacturers are finding convenient to overlook.
Embedded Processors of Tomorrow
Blog 10/10/2003 Post a comment
Future embedded processors will be a combination of the unrecognizable and
the all-too-familiar. Unrecognizable because they'll be festooned with
coprocessors and accelerators, intrachip networks, elaborate value speculation,
unfathomable branch prediction, enormous multilevel caches, and inscrutable
instruction sets. All-too-familiar because old embedded processors never die.
Expect to see 8051s, Z80s, and more descendants of the x86 line soldier on in
Fixed-point math in C
Blog 10/7/2003 4 comments
Floating-point arithmetic can be expensive if you're using an integer-only processor. But floating-point values can be manipulated as integers, asa less expensive alternative.
No easy answers for Motorola's semiconductor business
Blog 10/6/2003 Post a comment
Will new leadership at Motorola Inc. change the fortunes of the company's troubled Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS)?
Although most of Motorola has fallen on tough times during the past few years, SPS has fallen harder and faster. With SPS facing problems, including excessive costs, a loss of technological leadership, and a major downsizing of its manufacturing operations, a new vision and strong leadership will be needed to rescue this division, iSuppli believes.
eCos porting guide
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The first task when using any new operating system is to get it up and running on your hardware. The open-source eCos RTOS makes that part pretty easy.
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San Antonio's retail real-estate sector hits a speed bump at outset of 2013
The state of the local retail real-estate sector at the end of the first quarter of 2013 can be summed up in one simple phrase: It’s in the doldrums.
The retail market ended the quarter in the red — posting negative space absorption (net space returned to the market) of 4,818 square feet, according to the latest analysis by NAI REOC San Antonio. That’s quite a change from the more than 86,000 square feet of space this sector absorbed as of first-quarter 2012.
“Leasing activity is off to a slow start this year,” observes Kim Gatley, vice president and director of research for NAI REOC.
Gatley adds, however, that the retail market is typically slow at the start of the year. The market may have been in the black at the end of the first quarter of 2012, but 86,000 square feet does not equate to a lot of retail activity.
The big push for retailers to open their doors and for consumers to spend money takes place during the holiday season at the end of the year. Come the new year, the retail market slows down.
“First-quarter 2013 is following the same trend,” Gatley says.
Now add to that typical first-quarter slow down the lack of confidence among consumers.
“We have yet to feel the effects of a significantly improved economy,” Gatley says. “Consumer spending has not been enough to spark dramatic changes. We’ve hit the doldrums.”
Here and there
The retail real-estate market was “relatively flat” at the end of the first quarter, says Gatley, “There were small gains here, small losses there.”
The gains, for example, included Bar Louie, which signed a lease for 9,000 square feet at the Village at Stone Oak on the far North Side. Meanwhile, on the city’s West Side, Club Grand inked a lease for 27,356 square feet at Westlakes Village.
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The world’s largest planemaker, Boeing, said Thursday it would lower production of 747-8 aircraft and would recognize an 84 cents per share charge in its fourth-quarter earnings, after taxes. Shares dived in extended-hours trading.
“Global air passenger traffic growth and airplane demand remain strong, but the air cargo market recovery that began in late 2013 has stalled in recent months and slowed demand for the 747-8 Freighter,” said Ray Conner, Boeing vice chairman and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in a statement.
Starbucks’ stock also slumped after hours when the quick service coffee chain reported disappointing sales, particularly in China and Europe. The company reported first-quarter earnings of 46 cents per share on $5.37 billion in sales, down 29 percent and up 12 percent from the previous year, respectively.
Earnings beat Wall Street’s estimate of 45 cents per share, but revenue fell short of the $5.39 billion predicted by Thomson Reuters. To top it off, comparable-stores-sales growth came in at 5 percent in the China and Asia Pacific region and 6 percent in Europe — missing estimates in both areas.
Shares of credit-card company American Express whipsawed after the closing bell, settling down despite beating analysts’ earnings estimates. Earnings per share, excluding certain items, came in at $1.23 on $8.39 billion in revenue — above the $1.12 a share on $8.34 billion in revenue expected by Thomson Reuters. But both figures came in well below the year-ago figures of $1.39 per share on $9.1 billion in sales, due in part to strong appreciation of the U.S. dollar, the company said.
Schlumberger ticked up in extended hours after the oilfield services company announced a $10 billion share buyback program. The company’s earnings came in 2 cents above estimates at an adjusted 65 cents per share, while revenue was in line at $7.7 billion. Still, Schlumberger saw significant headwinds in its North American business and will be slashing headcounts this year as energy prices languish.
Fellow energy company Valero was also bolstered after the bell when it said it would increase its regular cash dividend by 20 percent. The increase raises the annualized cash dividend rate on Valero’s common stock to $2.40 per share, the company said.
And Intuitive Surgical poked into the green after the regular session. The corporation, which manufactures robotic surgical systems, reported fourth quarter 2015 revenue of $677 million, an increase of about 13 percent, adjusted, compared with this time last year. Procedures using its flagship product, da Vinci Surgical Systems, grew about 15 percent year-over-year.


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ACCORDING to recent study carried out by the Business Federation of Hotels of Valencia (FEHV) it is the first time in eight years that there has been a positive development in terms of turnover in the hospitality sector, recording an increase of 5.2 per cent.
The figures for 2015 put an end to seven consecutive years of decline in the Valencia region, with companies accumulating significant losses of over 30 per cent during that period.
The positive results are said to be mainly thanks to the excellent month of August, which recorded an average increase in turnover of over 10 per cent from the previous year, although the month of July had recorded a 5 per cent decline, something that was not predicted and did not correspond with the positive expectations in the sector due to the good weather and early arrival of tourists in June.
However, these figures are not representative of the entire province. An uneven performance has been recorded, while many of the coastal tourist establishments were recording positive figures and increases, many including in the city centres chose to close during the month of August.
Another significant fact emerging from the study is the continued drop in average spending per customer, with an average of €21 this year compared to €22.8 per customer in 2013 and €23.9 per customer in 2012. However, many establishments had taken on extra staff during the summer months, with up to 50 per cent of employers surveyed stating that they had employed more staff during the month of August.


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Moving company HMD Global to send updates to the Android continuously to the largest number of Nokia phones various, last month the company started sending the update to the Nokia phone 3 and now started phone cheap Nokia 1 in the received version of Joe Light of the update of the Android Pie .
Nokia phone 1 gets the update to Android Pie Go
The launch of the Nokia 1 last year in February with the Android operating system Oreo – release atmosphere (Go Edition) a version of the lightweight Android operating system was developed specifically for high-potential low-memory radio Co., Ltd.
The system comes light this with the application of light is the other name of joe like Google Go, and Maps Go and YouTube Go and Gmail Go.
The company announced officially on Twitter about the start sending update Android Pie Go already to the phone and to all units of Nokia 1 within a week or two from now.
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Hundreds of new jobs are set to be created in Grimsby as planning permission has been granted for a fish processing plant.
Two of the region's supermarkets have been criticised for promoting unhealthy food to children.
Supermarket chain Morrisons is to create around 200 jobs in Grimsby by starting its own seafood processing plant.
Tickets go on sale today for Leeds' latest festival, hosted by Bradford-based supermarket chain Morrisons. Set for July the event, combines entertainment from bands and singers, such as The Human League and Matt Cardle, as well as celebrity chefs.
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BTS releases freight transportation services index (TSI)
Freight shipments fell 0.1% in June from May
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry fell 0.1 percent in June from May, following no change in the index from April to May, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) released today. The June 2012 index level (109.5) was 16.1 percent above the April 2009 low during the recession. BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that the level of freight shipments in June measured by the Freight TSI, 109.5, was 3.9 percent below the all-time high level of 114.0 in December 2011. BTS’ TSI records began in 1990. The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in freight shipments by mode of transportation in ton-miles, which are then combined into one index. The index measures the output of the for-hire freight transportation industry and consists of data from for-hire
trucking, rail, inland waterways, pipelines and air freight. Analysis: The Freight TSI remained stable in the second quarter of 2012, continuing a pattern of little change since January. This appears to reflect the rate of growth in the general economy. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 1.5 percent in the second quarter and a revised 2.0 percent in first quarter of 2012, from 3.0 percent in fourth quarter of 2011, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Rail and truck freight grew in June, but were offset by decline in shipments using other modes, notably waterborne freight, which may be due to the impact of low water conditions on the Mississippi River system. Trend: Freight shipments in June 2012 (109.5) were at the seventh highest monthly level since the early recession month of July 2008 despite the 3.9 percent decline from its peak in December 2011 (114.0), which was the highest level in the 22-year history of the Freight TSI series. After dipping to a recent low in April 2009 (94.3) during the recession, freight shipments increased in 24 of the last 38 months, rising 16.1 percent during that period. For additional historical data, go to http://www.bts.gov/xml/tsi/src/index.xml. Index highs and lows: Freight shipments in June 2012 (109.5) were 16.1 percent higher than the recent low in April 2009 during the recession (94.3). In April 2009, freight shipments were at their lowest level since June 1997 (92.3). The June 2012 level is down 3.9 percent from the historic freight shipment peak reached in December 2011 (114.0). See Freight TSI Press Release for summary tables and additional data. See Transportation Services Index for historic data and methodology.


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AMD Ryzen – MSI Is Rereleasing the GT 730 to Fight the GPU Shortage
There’s no doubt that the GPU shortage is really bad, but we never knew it was this desperate. In response to the overwhelming shortage of graphics cards, MSI is releasing a new GT 730 graphics card, which is seven years old.
Nvidia’s GT 730 launched in 2014, back when entry-level graphics cards would use DDR3 memory. This new card also comes with 2GB of DDR3 memory on a 64-bit bus, along with 384 CUDA cores and a 902MHz boost clock.
This isn’t a gaming card, and it was never meant to be. Passively cooled and powered through the PCIe slot, the GT 730 is a discrete graphics card and nothing else. MSI is releasing it specifically for builders who are using a processor without integrated graphics, such as AMD’s Ryzen series and Intel’s F-series processors. You soon won’t be able to use it for gaming at all, in fact. Nvidia will end support for the Kepler architecture — which is behind this version of the GT 730 — in an upcoming GeForce driver.
Still, the GT 730 is the second-most popular card from Nvidia’s 700-series, according to the most recent Steam hardware survey. For some context, the GT 730 earned a graphics score of 297 in 3DMark Time Spy. AMD’s RX 550, which launched in 2017 for an MSRP of only $79, scored a 1,189 in the same test. Bring in a modern budget GPU like the RTX 3060, and you’ll see scores over 10,000.
That’s what we’d expect from a half-height card that only consumes 23 watts of power (the RTX 3060, the least powerful card from Nvidia’s latest range, can consume as much as 170W). The card supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 with up to a 4,096 x 2,160 output at 30 frames per second. That’s because of the antiquated port selection, which includes a dual-link DVI-C port, an HDMI 1.4 port, and a D-sub port. You can, however, use up to three displays at once by utilizing every port.
Although you can’t game on it, the GT 730 is a great alternative to integrated graphics. Many builders have turned to AMD’s budget APUs in response to the GPU shortage, but even some of those chips have gone up in price. This card — assuming you can get one in the U.S. — could help budget builders finally finish a rig.
According to Tom’s Hardware, the GT 730 N730K-2GD3H/LPV1 will sell for 4,565 yen in Japan, or about $42. Right now in the U.S., you can expect to pay at least twice that price for a GT 730. At least most GT 730 cards available in the U.S. come with a fan.


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"Shark Tank" has never endorsed CBD gummies, despite what some online advertisements claimed in the early months of 2022. Further, we found a number of strange "reviews" for these products in Google search results. A quick glance at these "reviews" showed that they were sponsored content articles featured on news websites. The likely reason the sponsored content space was purchased on news websites was so those "reviews" would land at the top of Google search results, lowering the visibility of any articles that might attempt to warn users that it's a scam.
"Shark Tank" CBD gummies "reviews" dominate the Google search results space for relevant keywords, despite the fact that the cast of the ABC TV show never endorsed Eagle Hemp CBD Gummies, Natures Only, Smilz, or any other similar brands. In reality, a quick glance at these "reviews" showed that they were nothing more than sponsored content articles that were purchased like ads.
The reason why the sponsored content space was purchased on news websites was perhaps so that those CBD gummies "reviews" exploiting the "Shark Tank" name would land at the top of Google search results. This would, in theory, give the reviews a chance to land above any credible articles that might attempt to warn users that it's all a scam.
Why would users be looking up "Shark Tank" CBD gummies reviews on Google in the first place? For quite a long time, scammy pages have advertised fake endorsements involving the TV show and various products. The ads often display pictures of the show's cast holding champagne glasses and posing in front of a cake, as if they were celebrating their endorsement of CBD gummies. In reality, those photographs came from the show's 100th episode celebration and had nothing to do with CBD gummies.
We looked into this matter in April 2022 after readers inquired by email with questions specifically about seeing "reviews" and ads that referenced the "Shark Tank" TV show and Eagle Hemp CBD Gummies.
In our research on Google News, we also found traces of other brands being paired with the "Shark Tank" TV show name in sponsored content "reviews," including the following: Botanical Farms, Cannaleafz, Clinical, COPD, Coral, Gemini Keto, Green Dolphin, GrownMD, Hawkeye Hemp, Keoni, Medigreens, Natures Only, Next Plant, Organixx, Oros, Pure, PureKana, Smilz, Tylenol, Uly, and Veromin.
For example, the website of the San Jose, California, newspaper The Mercury News published a sponsored content article that mentioned "Shark Tank" and Eagle Hemp CBD Gummies. It also mentioned the words "fact check" in the headline:
We found dozens of examples of sponsored content "reviews" just like these. The articles contained no information on who had conducted the supposed "reviews." They also didn't appear to be written by anyone who speaks English as their first language, consisting of sentences such as, "Smilz CBD Gummies is a scam or not? This will be concluded after a few points."
In sum, no, the TV show's cast did not endorse Eagle Hemp CBD Gummies or any other CBD gummy products. Further, the CBD gummies "reviews" that showed up in Google search results with the "Shark Tank" name were sponsored content articles that were purchased.
For further reading, we previously reported on other CBD gummies scams involving celebrities, including Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz, Mayim Bialik, Keanu Reeves, and Tom Selleck, to name a few.


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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.
UPDATE: After this story was published, the Medical Board of California concluded it's review of the complaint against Dr. Gail Altschuler and "found no violation of the law." The case was closed on Nov. 30, 2012.
In a complaint filed with the Medical Board of California, a consumer advocacy group is claiming that a physician's use of a massage machine for weight loss is endangering patients.
Public Citizen has alleged that Dr. Gail Altschuler, a California physician who runs a Novato weight loss center, and other doctors who use and promote a medical device called the LipoTron for fat reduction are demonstrating a "reckless disregard for the health and welfare of patients."
The device manufacturer, Fullerton-based RevecoMED, is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the low-risk therapeutic massager known as the LipoTron. But it has not been approved or cleared by the FDA for weight loss-related uses, according to a search for RevecoMED and the device on FDA databases. The FDA declined to respond to questions about the LipoTron, including whether the device is undergoing a pre-market review or whether RevecoMED is seeking clearance from the agency.
Public Citizen's complaint letter [PDF] to the state medical board, filed Aug. 3, is part of an effort by consumer advocates to prevent the use of the LipoTron for weight loss until it undergoes additional regulatory scrutiny.
"It is concerning to us when a device not approved or cleared by the FDA is being used for a multitude of uses for which the safety and efficacy is not established," said Dr. Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group.
But Altschuler said it is common for physicians to go "off-label," or use medical devices or pharmaceuticals for purposes not explicitly sanctioned by the FDA.
"There are so many procedures that are off-label," said Altschuler, who said she had not known about the medical board complaint against her until California Watch notified her. "As long as the patient is informed that the process is not FDA-approved and they consent to it, there is no limit to using it."
One example, she said, is the use of Botox for wrinkle reduction on body parts other than between the eyebrows.
"The complaint is untrue in that we are not using the LipoTron in a reckless or irresponsible way," she added in an email. "By my own experience I have seen the results of our procedures and they are effective as we use it. Furthermore, in comparison to the costs and risks of alternative procedures such as liposuction, we are inexpensive and considerably safer."
The medical board does not comment on complaints against physicians, said Jennifer Simoes, the board's chief of legislation. In an Aug. 8 letter [PDF], the medical board told Public Citizen that it would assign an analyst to review the complaint. A second letter [PDF] from the board's executive director, dated Aug. 13, noted that Public Citizen had referenced other doctors in its complaint and asked for additional names. The medical board said it would also research the LipoTron itself.
Legal concerns about the LipoTron were first reported by the nonprofit health and safety journalism organization FairWarning, which noted that the device "has never been cleared or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which would make it illegal under federal law to sell or promote it for weight loss."
RevecoMED is registered with the FDA to make a low-risk "class I" device for therapeutic massage, a device that falls in the same category as tongue depressors and arm slings. Class I devices must meet certain labeling and manufacturing requirements, but they mostly are exempt from pre-market review, according to the FDA.
The company Web address www.revecomed.com no longer works, and an online search didn't find it advertising the product as a weight-loss system aimed at American consumers. The website for RevecoMED Asia, a subsidiary of RevecoMED, bills the LipoTron as "the future of fat reduction."
RevecoMED President James Rosen declined to comment.
U.S. law overseeing food and drugs [PDF] makes it illegal for medical device manufacturers or distributors to misbrand a product by marketing it for uses not approved or cleared by the FDA. However, physicians are generally free to use the device in an off-label manner as long as its use is based on the doctor's professional judgment, according to David L. Rosen, an attorney with the law firm Foley & Lardner who worked for the FDA for 14 years, and who is not related to James Rosen.
In its regulatory guidance document, the FDA states that if "physicians use a product for an indication not in the approved labeling, they have the responsibility to be well informed about the product, to base its use on firm scientific rationale and on sound medical evidence, and to maintain records of the product's use and effects."
Altschuler said she is following ethical medical practices in her use of the LipoTron, and she tells patients that she is using the device in an off-label way.
Altschuler said she has been using the LipoTron as part of her practice for about a year and a half. She charges $2,000 for a package of 10 one-hour sessions, and she said the procedure has been effective 80 percent of the time.
She added that the product's efficacy has been demonstrated to her through personal experience, testimonials from patients, conversations with other physicians and European studies.
"Like all providers, we follow specific protocols and monitor our results, and we train technicians to use the equipment correctly," she said. "It's not random."
Like a number of "body contouring" devices such as the VelaSmooth, which has received FDA clearance as a device that can improve the appearance of cellulite, the LipoTron uses radiofrequency waves to dissolve fat cells, according to the description of the procedure on Altschuler's website. The device also reduces wrinkles and improves the appearance of cellulite, Altschuler said.
Dr. Randall Stafford, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, said there have been clinical studies on the effects of using radiofrequency to reduce fat, but there is not yet conclusive evidence about whether it has health benefits.
Stafford said in an email that while destruction of fat cells just under the skin "may have aesthetic benefits," it is "usually not associated with the reversal of obesity related health problems."
Dr. Christopher B. Zachary, a professor and chairman of the dermatology department at UC Irvine, said that while he is not familiar with the LipoTron, he has successfully used body-contouring devices for cosmetic procedures. Those devices primarily are cleared by the FDA for use in temporarily reducing the appearance of cellulite.
"Not all radiofrequency devices are made equal," Zachary said.
He said he has found that the procedure is best for someone who is active and of normal weight but who "can't get rid of localized fat and they don't want to have a liposuction procedure; they want their clothes to fit a little better and they don't want to take time off of work," he said. "This is not for people who are particularly skinny, and it's not for the overweight or obese."
Altschuler is not the only California physician or medical center using the LipoTron for purposes not approved or cleared by the FDA.
The Porter Ranch Medical Center, northwest of Los Angeles, posted a series of ads on Craigslist last month claiming that the LipoTron can "reduce cellulite and tighten, firm and contour the skin" around jawlines, chins, eyes, breasts, underarms, buttocks and thighs.
Cesar Ascencio, a supervisor at Porter Ranch, referred questions about the device to Kathy Dunklin, a consultant to the center and medical aesthetician who owns the machine and who lists LipoTron procedures as one of her specialties on the medical center website. She did not return repeated requests for comment.
In addition to the California complaint, Public Citizen has submitted two letters to the FDA about its concerns over the LipoTron and filed grievances with public health departments or medical boards in eight states.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based distributor of the LipoTron, Advanced Aesthetic Concepts, also has been the subject of a 2011 investigation by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The investigation noted that the distributor's advertising and website suggest that the LipoTron is "being promoted for uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration."
Recent complaints against the Texas company, which is now operating under the name Profit Solutions MD, have triggered another investigation, which is ongoing, said Christine Mann, spokeswoman for the Department of State Health Services.
Representatives of Profit Solutions MD did not respond to requests for comment.
Bernice Yeung is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.


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August 14, 2015 (San Diego)—Fruits, nuts, and other crops including some sold as organic have been grown using irrigation from oil fracking wastewater laced with toxins in drought-stricken California.
Now some consumer advocacy groups including Food & Water Watch are calling for a halt to the practice. Courage Campaign has launched a petition for consumers to pledge that they won’t buy food products grown with oil wastewater, or what Courage Campaign calls “toxic sludge.”
A shocking investigation by Mother Jones magazine reveals that oil wastewater has reportedly been sold to 90 landowners in Southern California, including Bee Sweet Citrus and Halos, a citrus company which has the slogan “pure goodness” and Sunview, which sells grapes and raisins including some certified as organic. Another company reportedly irrigating with oil wastewater is Trinchero Family Estates, which supplies grapes for winemakers including Sutter Home.


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The organizers of hardmetals trade fair ceramitec have decided to postpone the 2021 show until 21–24 June 2022 for ‘trade fair policy reasons’.
The decision to postpone the event was taken by Messe München in cooperation with the exhibitors’ advisory board of ceramitec, which includes many companies and associations of the ceramics industry, the company said.
‘The majority of partners and exhibitors would like to see ceramitec 2021 postponed, as they see the success of their trade fair participation endangered,’ said chairman of the exhibitors’ advisory board, Dr Jürgen Blumm, MD of Netzsch Gerätebau GmbH. ‘At the same time, ceramitec's international importance for the entire industry is so great that we do not want to take this risk.’
This story uses material from ceramitec, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.


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SAN JOSE, Calif.-An in-state move for semiconductor testing manufacturer inTEST TestDesign (www.intest.com) has resulted in more space for manufacturing and stockroom, plus a Class 10,000 cleanroom environment the company hopes will surpass what is currently offered by its competitors.
The move from Sunnyvale to San Jose has also meant a new name for InTEST’s TestDesign division: InTEST Silicon Valley Corp. Corporate headquarters are in Cherry Hill, N.J.
InTEST Silicone Valley a semiconductor test equipment manufacturer, has moved into larger facilities in San Jose, Calif. that include a Class 10,000 cleanroom.
The company believes that its Class 10,000 cleanroom will result in a manufacturing environment comparable to that of most semiconductor test floors. The cleanroom uses a HEPA air filtering system, filtering out particles down to 0.3 micron at a 99.97 percent efficiency rating.
InTEST designs and manufacturers products designed to improve the speed and efficiency of semiconductor and electronics testing. Its products include manipulators and docking hardware, temperature management systems, and customized interface solutions.
Dale Christman, general manager of inTEST Silicon Valley, says the company”s customers are increasingly requiring “interfaces with more pogo pins per square inch. Cleanliness is an increasingly important issue.”
Christman adds that “dust and contaminants reduce signal quality and fidelity, or they generate noise. This slows down testing, reduces throughput, or negatively impacts wafer sort/probe yields.” With its advanced cleanroom facility in San Jose, Christman believes that inTEST Silicon Valley will produce “a cleaner interface product” that “will provide truer signal delivery to the device under test.” III


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Conventa Best Event Award 2022, the annual competition that awards the best events in the region of New Europe, came to a successful close. The competition’s grand finale took place on 26 August 2022 at the Conventa Crossover conference in Grand Hotel Union Eurostars, where the winners were announced. Four winners were selected; the best B2B, B2C, B21, and CROSSOVER events. Furthermore, five special awards were presented at the award ceremony.
BEST IN CREATIVITY 2022
CUPRA Hero – Interactive product launch
The launching of the new car CUPRA Formentor was primarily supposed to take place live during 2021. Due to the numerous challenges brought by the previous year, they had to come up with a different way.
EVENT CATEGORY: CATEGORY CROSSOVER
EVENT FORMAT: DIGITAL
About the event
The launching of the new car CUPRA Formentor was primarily supposed to take place live during 2021. Due to the numerous challenges brought by the previous year, the organisers had to come up with a different way to present the new model to the Serbian market. THEY proposed to the client something that had not been seen before in the region, believing that a brand like this one deserves a completely new way of promotion.
The success of the campaign is reflected in the results of raising awareness and drawing attention to the new model in the Serbian market, especially at the Belgrade CAR Show, in May. The CUPRA stand was one of the most visited at the fair. During the three weeks of the competition part of the campaign, over 40,000 unique visits to the micro-site cuprahero.rs were recorded, 7 million impressions, 90% of the target group was reached and there were 20 awarded competitors. The campaign was supported by well-known influencers from the automotive industry who counted hundreds of thousands of likes and shares on social networks.


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General Mills is focusing on ‘restructuring actions’ in its yogurt business and closing a facility in Carson, Calif. The company also reaffirmed its end-of-year financial targets at an investor conference in New York.
National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) president and CEO Jim Mulhern wrote a letter this week to Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani. It expressed support of Chobani’s position in the ongoing debate of plant-based foods using dairy terms in labeling.
The EU uses environmentally friendly fuels like ethanol and biodiesel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). But the vegetable oils that make up EU biodiesel are facing high demand and a higher carbon tax, resulting in price increases for butter.
A multi-million dollar investment into its plant-based business was realized recently when Danone North America opened a new building at its DuBois, Penn., facilities. It will add more than 60 new jobs.
OAL has partnered with Filmatic, a supplier of liquid and food packaging equipment in South Africa to distribute its Steam Infusion Vaction Pump for dairy and maize-based drinks across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Following the example of many other high-profile companies, Ben & Jerry’s has announced plans to combat the environmental effects of single-use plastic. It will be removed from its Scoop Shop locations worldwide by the end of 2020.


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Giant wants to compete with Apple.
Known insider Evan Blass on his Twitter released new data on the future smartphone family Pixel 3 and Pixel headphones Buds of the second generation from Google. But that’s not all.
Blass reported that according to his source, knowledgeable about the internal “kitchen” of Google, the search giant is working on a wearable device-Pixel Watch.
This writes with reference to .
Of course, there is no information about specifications, terms, design and price. However, for their part, assume that the company will build a new product based on the latest Qualcomm chipset. The reason for this can be an agreement between Google and Qualcomm on the fastest possible deployment P Android on devices with Snapdragon processors 845, 660, and 636.
Probably, thus the company intends to create a “counterweight” to the Apple Watch and other manufacturers. And, it seems, the novelty will be released this year or even this fall.While not reported, who will produce the new product. Maybe it will be HTC, and maybe some of the other OEM vendors. As a variant, LG, which has experience in such matters. Anyway, we are expecting an interesting summer.


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Attention Northern Michigan brides-to-be! The Women’s Expo and Bridal Show will take place this weekend on Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 at the Grand Traverse Civic Center in Traverse City. The expo will feature booths with a wealth of information for your wedding. Booths will cover health and wellness, recreation and fitness, fashion and beauty, jewelry and accessories, bridal and wedding, home decor and community, finance and more.
While you’re there, pick up a free copy of the 2015 issue of MyNorth Wedding, which features ten Northern Michigan weddings, two celebrity weddings and tips to plan a perfect Northern Michigan wedding!


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October 21, 2012, 7:24 AM — How much would you pay for a cloud-centric computer? With its new $249 Samsung Chromebook -- a system based on the idea of doing almost everything online -- Google is hoping it's finally gotten the price right.
The new Samsung Chromebook runs Google's Chrome OS operating system. Chrome OS is all about the cloud: Instead of using locally stored programs, it relies on Web-based apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive. You can do quite a bit offline -- an important option that was missing in early versions of the software -- but the Web is definitely the platform's main focus.
Value seems to be the distinguishing feature of the new Samsung Chromebook, which is available for pre-order now and will ship next week from Amazon, Best Buy and Google's own Play Store. At $249, the new Chromebook is a full $200 cheaper than the higher-end Samsung Chromebook 550 introduced earlier this year. It's also a $100 cheaper than the first-generation Series 5 model that was released in mid-2011. (That device was removed from Google's official Chromebook site today, leading me to believe that this new model will effectively replace it as the lower-end option.)
So what's the new Samsung Chromebook actually like to use? I've spent some time getting to know the device. Here are my impressions.
Thin, light and sleek
Make no mistake about it: This is an attractive computer. It's 0.8-in. thick and weighs 2.5 lb., making it quite practical to carry around. The Chromebook has a silver-colored plastic design with "Samsung" and a Google Chrome logo printed on its front; the general appearance is in line with the higher-end 550 Chromebook device, not the lower-end Series 5 model from last year.


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The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo is using the occasion of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to announce a major 5-year sponsorship agreement with Pendleton® Whisky. They will be the presenting sponsor of Cowboy Corner, a popular venue located on the plaza of the AT&T Center where the general public can mingle with many of the Rodeo contestants and enjoy Pendleton® Whisky’s fine product.
Pendleton® Whisky was specifically created to celebrate the bold spirit of independence and hard-work ethic of the American cowboy and cowgirl. Each Pendleton® Whisky bottle prominently features the rodeo’s famous bucking horse symbol and “Let’er Buck®” slogan—making them an ideal fit for Cowboy Corner. Pendleton Whisky is also the Official Spirit of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
While Pendleton Whisky has been available in Texas for several years, their 5-year commitment to the San Antonio Rodeo sponsorship represents an aggressive step to build brand awareness in Central and South Texas. They are currently one of the fastest growing whisky brands in the nation.
Keith Martin, Executive Director and CEO of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo said, “We are so proud to have Pendleton Whisky as a sponsor of our event and we are excited about the great Texas welcome they and their quality product will receive here.”
“Ever since our first visit to the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, my hope was that we would one day be able to be a sponsor. I am very excited that that day has come. We look forward to attending the 2017 event as a major sponsor,” said Ronald R. Dodge, president and CEO of Hood River Distillers, Inc. “We have a high degree of admiration for this award winning rodeo and look forward to a long-term partnership.”
The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo takes place February 9-26, 2017. The 11X PRCA Large Indoor Rodeo of the Year, established in 1949, has grown to be one of the largest and most prestigious single events in the city with over 2 million visitors entering the grounds in 2016. The success of the organization is attributed to over 6,000 volunteers who give countless hours to the organization. With community, donor and volunteer support, the organization has donated over $171.4 million to the youth of Texas through scholarships, grants, endowments, auctions, a calf scramble program and show premiums. For more information, visit www.sarodeo.com


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Fresh Del Monte Produce, through its North American subsidiary Del Monte Fresh Produce, has acquired US vegetable producer Mann Packing for $361 million as it aims to expand in North America.
Mann Packing’s annual sales were approximately $535 million in 2017 and Del Monte expects the transaction to be completed in the first quarter of 2018.
Established in 1939 and based in Salinas, California, Mann grows, processes and supplies fresh vegetables, including washed and ready-to-eat vegetables, snack packs and party trays, as well as washed and trimmed lettuce products for the food service and retail markets.
Fresh Del Monte CEO Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh said: “We are extremely pleased about our acquisition of Mann Packing, a leader in the fresh and value-added vegetable category.
“Mann Packing’s strength in the vegetable category, one of the fastest growing fresh food segments, will allow us to diversify our business, leverage our distribution network and infrastructure and increase our market reach.
“In addition, this transaction will provide us with synergies, enhancing our ability to better serve our combined customers and address consumers’ needs for healthier products. This acquisition is a significant step toward our goal to be the world’s leading supplier of healthful, wholesome and nutritious fresh and prepared food and beverages for consumers.”
Health and nutrition giant DSM is showcasing a new integrated F&B operating structure that unifies food specialties, hydrocolloids and nutritional products. Positioned as a business group, it will harness the gamut of taste, texture and health solutions to manufacturers in the F&B sector.
FoodIngredientsFirst speaks to key suppliers Corbion, Agrana Fruit and Kerry to discuss what core strategies are helping keep food businesses up-to-speed with their environmental reporting while remaining bias-free.
France banned the use of the additive in 2020, leading companies such as Lonza to launch Vcaps Plus White Opal, its first commercially-available titanium dioxide-free semi-opaque capsule for food supplements. The move followed several lobby groups urging the European Commission to prohibit TiO2.


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We can whinge about it. We can demand that our government do something about it. But it seems the only thing we as individuals can do about the high price of fuel is to stop driving. For most people this impractical, for many impossible. But already it seems there is evidence that people are prepared to dramatically change their lifestyles to accommodate the higher price. According to demographer Bernard Salt, people have already increased their use of public transport, leaving the car at home. It is anticipated that people may even consider changing jobs or moving house to cut down on their commuting time, and some are expected to downsize the two car family to just one vehicle.
Of course, measures such as those are workable in the city, but where does that leave the rural community? For many Australians, public transport just isn’t available, and the distances between towns mean that people will simply become even more isolated.
Adding to the pressure on the family budget is the fact that increased fuel prices will also lead to increases in the price of almost everything else. It will cost more to deliver the eggs, milk and bread to local stores as the cost of transport is driven up by the price of fuel. This is where the inflation problem is coming from, not from profligate consumers spending recklessly. The high prices are driven by a combination of insatiable demand and arrogant oil producers. Both the oil producing nations and the multinational oil companies are harvesting money from a market which is captive to them. And while our government continues to collect tax on fuel, countries like Indonesia and Malaysia are actually subsidizing it.
It’s time for a radical rethink. Either our government reduces the tax on fuel, and perhaps even uses the bonanza from minerals profits to fund a subsidy, or it looks like a permanent change to the Australian way of life.
Then again, with the environment barrow now being pushed so firmly, maybe that’s the whole idea anyway.