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by Stephen Schenck | March 17, 2015 3:44 PM
Today there are more ways than ever before to authenticate your identity when trying to access a device. We've got more phones with fingerprint scanners than at any other time in history, and companies are always coming up with new login techniques, like NFC-enabled body stickers. As all those fingerprint scanners can attest to, biometric ID systems are hot, and improving technology only promises to make them better. Today we learn of a new effort from Microsoft to embrace all these disparate security measures, as it announces Windows Hello for Windows 10. Windows Hello delivers ...
by Adam Doud | October 8, 2013 7:00 AM
Apple did one thing right when it comes to Touch ID biometrics. They made it cheap. Or at least, they made it cheap enough to fit into a smartphone while keeping the cost down – for Apple, that is. Of course, I've already talked at length about Apple's Touch ID and whether or not it's a good idea or not (Spolier alert, it's not). But it occurs to me, maybe we're all just not used to this new fangled technology, and perhaps what we need to make this technology a part of our lives is ubiquity. Now that Apple has brought the price of biometric technology to the smartphone level, maybe it's ...
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Trading partners of the US condemn trump over duties on imported metals
March 9 , 2018
Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has been condemned by the main trading partners of the country for signing off new tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminum. While China has described it as a serious assault on the international trade system, Bruno Le Maire, the Economy Minister of France, stated that in a trade war, there were only losers. However, President Trump has stated that his country has been affected by unfair trade. He maintained that tariffs would give a push to the US industry.


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The Habit Burger Grill has officially opened its first North Carolina location in Midtown Charlotte. If you’re looking for a great burger, look no further.
The restaurant is known for its chargrilled burgers, handcrafted sandwiches, and salads. According to their website, The Habit has been serving the “best tasting burger in America exactly this way since 1969.”
The first 50 people in line who were members of their CharClub received free Charburgers with cheese for a year. The new restaurant is open at 209 S. Kings Drive right across from Target.


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Panera Bread “mac n cheese” is prepared using a packet of frozen ingredients that is heated up in boiling water, according to a now-viral TikTok video by a woman who says she was fired by the restaurant chain after the video spread across social media. Brianna Ramirez said in the video she was “exposing Panera,” but has since said it was meant to be a joke and apologized.
The Arizona teen’s video has been viewed millions of times across TikTok, Twitter and Facebook, after it was posted by Ramirez on her TikTok in early October. The viral content Twitter account @UberFacts re-posted the video on its feed on October 11, leading to more than 10 million views. Ramirez responded to the tweet saying, “lol i lost my job for this video.”
In another video, Ramirez said, “Yes, Panera’s soups are frozen. Our broccoli cheddar is frozen. Our chicken noodle is frozen. Our mac and cheese is frozen. That does not mean that it is not good. I will eat our mac and cheese to this day. I will eat our soup to this day. I love it. I eat it all the time. There is not a reason not to eat it. It is perfectly fine, most stores have frozen food, frozen pastas, frozen meats, other stores have frozen things and you still eat it. … They’re frozen, but then they get warmed up. They still taste good, they taste the same. Don’t stop eating at Panera.”
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The Video Shows Ramirez Taking a Packet of ‘Mac n Cheese’ Out of a Freezer & Putting It Into Boiling Water
The 18-second video shows Brianna Ramirez, who was then a Panera Bread employee, walking to a box of frozen packets of macaroni and cheese. She grabs one of the mac and cheese packets and drops it into a vat of boiling water and then pulls out a packet that had already been in the water. The caption over the video reads, “how Panera prepares mac & cheese.”
Ramirez then takes the packet of mac and cheese that has been heated up and cuts it open above a bowl, pouring the steaming contents into it. She then shakes it and puts the bowl on a plate next to a French baguette ready to be served to a waiting customer. The video ends with Ramirez smiling and giving a thumbs up to the camera while next to her co-workers.
The TikTok social media app allows users to put a soundtrack under a video they have created, and Ramirez used the audio from a viral video called, “bruh look at this dude.” The soundtrack provides a man laughing and saying “no, no, no” as Ramirez prepares the mac and cheese.
In another video, Ramirez made a tearful apology. “I like my job, I’m really not trying to get fired,” she says in the second video. “I’m sorry.”
She followed that up with another video saying, “I got fired from my job today and my TikTok is on the news.”
Ramirez Says She Was Told She Had to ‘Part Ways’ With the Company Because the Video Went Viral, but She Says There Was ‘No Wrongful Termination’
After the video went viral on Twitter, Ramirez said she was fired from her job. In another TikTok video, Ramirez said she was told she had to “part ways” with the restaurant chain company because of how popular her video became. But on Twitter she said there were other reasons.
“There was no wrongful termination. Having such long nails and my phone out is a risk to food safety and health regulations. Everything was completely justified. I made a mistake and I’ve learned from it. I will always love Panera and their food,” Ramirez wrote.”
The now-Internet famous Ramirez, a college student in Arizona, also defended Panera, “I dunno what Panera y’all worked at, but the one I did was very clean and there really wasn’t anything unsanitary about it lmao.”
She posted another TikTok video and said, “The video that went viral kind of just went everywhere and now it’s on the news and it got to my corporate and now I don’t have that job. But it’s OK.”
Ramirez, who graduated from high school in May, wrote on Twitter, “I may not be crazy successful right now, but I promise you one day this grind is going to pay off and i’m going to be so proud of myself. Count on it. I’m speaking it into existence. … I go to college full time and I work two jobs. I am exhausted. So if I make time to see you even if it’s only for an hour or so just know i really love you. Please don’t take me for granted.”
Panera Says It Does Freeze Its Mac & Cheese & Soups to ‘Avoid Using Certain Preservatives That Do Not Meet Our Clean Standards’
A spokesperson for Panera Bread told USA Today that the company does, in fact, use frozen mac and cheese and soups, but says that it is to create the best experience for its customers. Jessica Hesselschwerdt told the newspaper that Panera Bread does freeze its mac and cheese and its soups because it wants, “to avoid using certain preservatives that do not meet our clean standards.”
Hesselschwerdt added, “We want to make sure that if you’re in Massachusetts or California or in any one of our 2,100 locations that you get that same awesome experience. This is how we are efficient and how we make it consistent. We want that experience to be great, and that’s the best way to do it.”
She said the company sells more than 3 million orders of mac and cheese each year.
Hesselschwerdt declined to confirm whether Ramirez was fired over the video, according to The Washington Post. She said she could not discuss personnel matters.
In a statement to The Post, Panera said its mac and cheese is a product, “made offsite with our proprietary recipe developed by our chefs.” The company added, “It is shipped frozen to our bakery cafes — this allows us to avoid using preservatives which do not meet our clean standards.”


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Jerry Shuler honed his sales skills 15 years ago as a FedEx driver eating bologna sandwiches and selling screen-printed bandannas on his lunch hour.
The gig – which earned Shuler a 30-cent commission for each bandanna sold – was just a way to bring in extra cash.
Now, his Rock Hill-based sales business has blossomed into a way for local charities to raise money.
The 65-year-old, who is retiring after 20 years with FedEx, owns Palmetto Bay Designs – an online-only store giving at least 50 percent of its profits to partner charities.
Two of Shuler’s beneficiaries are Rock Hill’s Children’s Attention Home and the Palmetto School at the home.
He hopes the sale of bags, hats and pillows adorned with South Carolina’s symbolic Palmetto tree and crescent moon will rake in about $5,000 for each group to put toward helping children.
The website sales are crucial during a time when federal funding is being slashed for organizations such as the Palmetto School, said Principal and Executive Director Hugh Wilson.
The charter school, started in 2004, is one of only two of its kind in South Carolina.
The Palmetto School serves special needs students and children who live at the Children’s Attention Home, Safe Passage or Pilgrims’ Inn.
School leaders want to branch out and serve other at-risk children and teens in the community, Wilson said.
With two full-time teachers and three part-time teachers at the Palmetto School, he said, children receive more one-on-one instruction and the attention they need to catch up with others their age.
Recently, Wilson said, the school has seen its federal funding cut in half.
Fewer students last year and federal budget cuts this year have left the Palmetto School with only 40 percent of its operations money coming from state and federal grants, he said.
The school’s leadership needs to raise the other 60 percent to pay its staff and ensure quality education – which is why Shuler’s website is so important, Wilson said.
The Children’s Attention Home has benefited from Shuler’s sales in the past before he built his own website.
Shuler hopes the new site will boost sales and bring in more money for nonprofit groups.
Depending on the item sold, he gives at least 50 percent of the profit to partner charities.
Shuler is looking to bring more nonprofit groups, churches and companies on board, he said.
Nonprofit organizations aren’t required to provide any money or products up-front to join in.
If a company wants to partner with Palmetto Bay Designs for a charitable cause, Shuler said he will donate a check to a nonprofit group in the company’s name for items sold through his site.
Groups supporting children are especially welcome, he said.
“I love kids – that is the future,” Shuler said.
He has visited the Palmetto School and the Children’s Attention Home – a temporary shelter for children in cases of abuse or neglect.
Shuler was inspired, he said, by the work and service at the two local organizations.
Any money from the sales on his website will help because the economy hasn’t “bounced back” for the children’s home, said Janet Knight, community partnership director.
The school and the home serve many of the same children but operate as separate nonprofit groups.
The shelter can house 42 children at one time and the school can serve 36 children.
Without organizations such as the school and the children’s home, the kids would be neglected, Shuler said.
While Palmetto Bay Designs does earn a profit, Shuler considers the charitable part of his business as important as making money for himself, he said.
He runs his site by the philosophy of “the power of one,” he said, meaning every customer can make a difference just by buying “things they would normally buy anyhow.”
His business offers a chance for young entrepreneurs ages 15 to 17 to start their own sales company, hosted on his site for $65 a month.
The entrepreneur program is another way to help children, Shuler said.
“These kids have got ideas, they just don’t know what to do with it.”
Both Knight and Wilson said any donations from Shuler’s sales will go into operating costs for their organizations.
Shuler buys the clothes and accessories on his site from large companies and uses local businesses to screen print and embroider the items.
From selling bandannas during his FedEx days to selling Palmetto State swag to help local charities – Shuler’s expertise lies in the marketing and business, he said, not the creative side of making products.
“I know how to put ideas together,” he said. “And, that’s all I do.”
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Cheaper Energy Drives Consumer Prices Below Expectations
The economy finally got some good news today as the Consumer Price Index (-CPI) fell by 0.2% in June, undercutting expectations of a 0.2% rise in prices for the month. Over the past 12 months the total index has still increased 3.6% before seasonal adjustment. The drop in overall prices in June was driven largely by falling gasoline prices (NYSE:UGA), which declined by 6.8 percent in the month. Lower overall household energy (NYSE:XLE) costs also contributed to lower prices, dropping 1.2% in June. Among goods with the largest cost increases in June were in apparel (NYSE:XRT) (up 1.6%), medical care (NYSE:XLV) commodities (up 1.4%), and new vehicles (up .6%).
The food index (NYSE:RJA) rose .2% in June after rising .4% in each of the prior two months. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs turned down in June, falling .4% after increasing more than one percent in each of the previous four months. The fruits and vegetables index declined for the third month in a row in June, falling .4% as the fresh vegetables index continued to decline. In contrast, other major grocery store food groups increased. The index for cereals and bakery products rose .6% in June, and the dairy and related products advanced .5%, as did the index for other food at home. The index for nonalcoholic beverages increased .3% as the coffee index continued to rise. The index for food at home has risen 4.7% over the last 12 months, with all the major groups increasing 3.2% or more. The index for food away from home rose .3% in June after rising .2% in May.
The energy index (NYSE:XLE), which fell 1.0 percent in May, declined 4.4 percent in June, the largest decline since December 2008. The gasoline index, which fell 2.0 percent in May, declined 6.8 percent in June. (Before seasonal adjustment, gasoline prices fell 5.8 percent in June.) Despite the recent declines, the gasoline index has increased 35.6 percent over the past 12 months. The index for household energy also decreased in June, falling 1.2 percent after rising 0.5 percent in May. The index for natural gas (NYSE:UNG) rose 0.4 percent, but the electricity index declined 1.6 percent and the index for fuel oil fell 2.2 percent. The household energy index has risen 2.8 percent over the last 12 months, with the fuel oil index up 37.3 percent and the electricity index up 1.5 percent but the index for natural gas down 0.8 percent.


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Loop’s launch brings reusable packaging to the world’s biggest brands
Loop brings back the old 'milkman model,' where products are delivered to your door at the same time empties are picked up, washed, refilled and readied for delivery to another customer.
Cleaning and hygiene, personal care and cosmetics, health and biomedical
Food packaging, disposable tablewear
A new initiative by a small company has compelled more than two dozen of the world’s biggest brands to begin testing reusable packaging.
Loop, launched today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has amassed a blue-chip roster of companies, all of which are piloting a new system of high-quality packaging that can be returned and refilled again and again. In essence, it changes the ownership model of packaging from consumer to producer.
The big question is, will consumers buy into it?
Today’s launch is the product of more than a year’s work by TerraCycle, the Trenton, New Jersey-based company that made a name for itself by turning hard-to-recycle waste (think juice boxes, coffee capsules, plastic gloves and cigarette filters) into new products. Along the way, the company, founded in 2001, has partnered with major consumer brands, retailers, manufacturers, municipalities and small businesses in more than 20 countries.
Loop is the natural progression of that model, as well as the corporate relationships TerraCycle developed over the years. Its Loop partners include Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Mars, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Mondelēz, Danone and a dozen or so smaller brands. European retailer Carrefour, logistics company UPS and resource management company Suez are also engaged in the system.
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Wheat Falls as World Weather Improves
Wheat for July delivery fell 1.4% to $5.08 3/4 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday, as traders closed long positions amid indications of improving weather in wheat-growing areas. Soybeans for July delivery fell 0.2% to $8.33 1/4 a bushel. Corn for July delivery rose 0.1% to $3.18 a bushel.
A rally in wheat futures overnight lost momentum as visions of tighter supply conditions around the world crumbled. "Rising temperatures and rains in the Corn Belt limit the bullish potential for wheat and corn," said AgriTel. An uptick in French wheat in good and excellent condition is also playing into trader sentiment, as is a virtual crop tour held in Kansas this week examining winter wheat crops - which showed some freeze damage but generally healthier crops than expected.
Brazilian Soybean Exports Causing 'Indigestion' For US Traders -- Market Talk
13:35 ET - US grain traders are nervous about US-China trade tensions possibly heating up over the weekend and throwing the Phase One trade deal into jeopardy. Also stoking trader nerves are indications that while China hasn't made any big purchases of US soybeans in the past week, they have been buying from Brazil. "No one seems to know if the slow purchase pace is related to US/China political wrangling or that China is being overwhelmed by the massive arrivals of Brazilian soybeans," says AgResource. "A record tonnage of Brazilian soybeans are afloat to China that is likely causing 'indigestion'." CBOT soybean futures are down 0.2% Friday. (email@example.com; @kirkmaltais)
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Fresh Del Monte Produce Opens New Plant in Japan
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. Friday said its subsidiary, Fresh Del Monte Japan Co. Ltd, officially began operations at a newly completed facility in Yokohama, Japan.
Construction on the $19 million facility began last year. The company said the fresh cut plant, which will focus on serving the Tokyo metropolitan area, has an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons of fruits and vegetables.
Bunge Loses Shareholder Vote on Exec Pay -- Market Talk
09:29 ET - Bunge Ltd.'s board of directors and management lost an advisory vote on executive compensation, the company says, after replacing in 2019 much of its senior management. Bunge's new CEO Greg Heckman, who took over in early 2019, received total compensation of $16.7M, including a $1M signing bonus and about $11.5M in stock and option awards. That topped the annual pay of his predecessor Soren Schroder, who exited after investor pressure brought new directors to Bunge's board. Bunge lost $1.3B in 2019, partly due to upheaval from the US-China trade war, versus a $267M profit in 2018. (firstname.lastname@example.org; @jacobbunge)
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican consumer prices increased more than expected in the first half of May, with food costs up sharply as the country entered its second full month of social-distancing measures and shutdowns to confront the spread of the new coronavirus.
The consumer price index rose 0.30% from the end of April and was up 2.83% from a year earlier, the National Statistics Institute said Friday. Core CPI, which excludes energy and agricultural produce, increased 0.24% in the first half of this month for an annual rise of 3.76%.
Livestock Falls as Cattle on Feed Report Shows Big Drops -- Market Talk
15:25 ET - Livestock futures finished trading lower, with August live-cattle futures down 0.9% at 97.325 cents a pound, while July lean-hog futures finished down 2.2% at 55.9c. The USDA issued its monthly Cattle on Feed report following the market's close, which showed a 22% decline in feedlot placements for the month of April versus last year, as well as a 24% decline in cattle marketed. This report comes as meatpackers restarted some operations in May, which has placed pressure on cutout prices for both beef and pork. (email@example.com; @kirkmaltais)


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BELGRADE (Serbia), August 7 (SeeNews) - Serbian company Rudex plans to launch a factory for industrial explosives in partnership with a Chinese investor, the mayor of Boljevac, Nebojsa Marjanovic, said.
"The name of the Chinese company building the state-of-the-art industrial explosives plant is a trade secret, just like the value of the investment. However, this Chinese company has factories around the world that employ hundreds of thousands of workers," Serbian daily Vecernje Novosti quoted Marjanovic as saying on Tuesday.
The factory will be constructed at the site of a former ammunition storage facility near Boljevac, in southern Serbia, Marjanovic said.
Copper mining and smelting company RTB Bor is the largest user of industrial explosives in Serbia. Vecenje Novosti noted that the company uses about 250 tonnes of explosives per year and its mines are located near Boljevac.
The director of Zijin Serbia said on Tuesday that the company will begin the reconstruction, expansion and capacity construction in Majdanpek and the smelting factory, as well as investments in the mines of Veliki Krivelj, Jama and Novo Cerovo.
Last year, Serbia picked China's Zijin Mining Group as a strategic partner in RTB Bor. Zijin agreed to keep all of the current 5,000 jobs at the company.


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Enterprise Software Platform Madhive Appoints Jeff Fagel as Chief Marketing Officer
New York, NY — December 8, 2021 —Madhive, the industry-leading enterprise software company that powers modern media, today announced the addition of veteran digital marketing executive, Jeff Fagel, to the management team as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Fagel will lead Madhive’s marketing strategy with a focus on growing the marketing team, deepening customer relationships and continuing to strengthen its leadership position in the digital TV advertising space.
“We’re excited to add a leader like Jeff who has deep marketing technology and client-side experience to extend the leadership position of Madhive’s end-to-end digital TV platform for broadcasters and brands,” said Adam Helfgott, CEO at Madhive. “The status quo of TV infrastructure — including how media is bought, planned and measured — is broken,” “Madhive’s purpose-built solutions for industry problems like brand safety, fraud, frequency control, deduplication and cross-screen attribution has established us as a leader in digital TV.”
Madhive’s success has been driven through helping the nation’s largest broadcasters transition to streaming. The company’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering is powered by a proprietary local OTT device graph driving reach extension for major broadcasters including Fox and TEGNA’s Premion. To fuel increased demand, Madhive has expanded its offering to agencies and brands including McAfee. Madhive has tripled its revenue since 2019, while growing its employee base by 75 percent.
Fagel is a seasoned marketing technology CMO who has worked directly with brands to navigate the competitive landscape and scale their businesses. He spent the majority of his career on the client side, where he held multiple retail and CPG marketing leadership positions at PepsiCo, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, ConAgra and Sears Holdings.
“I’m joining Madhive at a key inflection point in the marketing industry, where the traditional way of thinking is evolving to give CMOs new ways to orchestrate and prove the impact of ad spend across a growing list of complex channels,” said Fagel. “Madhive has proven that its end-to-end digital TV platform can help advertisers achieve national scale with local precision, powering efforts for both broadcasters and brands with an unparalleled modern digital TV operating system. This new role presents an opportunity to shift the marketplace conversation, re-imagining what’s possible and driving the industry towards more targeted and accountable solutions."
Fagel has broad B2B, B2C, AdTech, and MarTech experience across digital media, data and SaaS technology. He is highly skilled at building marketing teams and market entry strategies and was most recently the CMO at Epsilon, where he consolidated two brands (Epsilon and Conversant), defined one brand and culture, and built the strategic positioning that led to Publicis Groupe acquiring the Epsilon and Conversant businesses for $4.4 Billion.
Prior to Epsilon, Fagel was CMO of Eyeview, where he helped position the company as the leader in outcome-based personalized video marketing. Prior to Eyeview, Fagel was CMO for multiple advertising technology brands acquired by Gannett Digital Ventures Group and Tegna (formerly Gannett: Cars.com, Careerbuilder, etc).
Fagel is a frequent industry speaker and published contributor across influential marketing, digital and technology press including Adweek, Fast Company, Ad Age, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur.
Madhive is an enterprise software company that powers modern media. Madhive's advertising suite provides tools for audience forecasting, precision targeting and activation, and cross-screen attribution against its proprietary OTT-first device graph. Customers include advertisers that leverage Madhive's next-generation cryptography to prevent fraud and increase margins, and broadcast giants that leverage the platform to power their digital TV offerings.


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Public, on Surrey Street, only opened its doors again on Thursday, August 13, after five months closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Like many bars, Public is taking bookings as well as walk-in customers as they come to grips with the new Covid safety guidelines and track and trace measures.
However, the owners of the bar were left outraged on Sunday after recording 13 no-shows, labeling the individuals as ‘selfish p****s’
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Posting on Twitter, the bar said: “13 no shows so far today. An absolute kick in the teeth for a tiny bar like ours.
“Why would you do that?! Why are some people such selfish p****s?”
The bar revealed that they take credit card details of customers wishing to book and charge anyone who does not show up £20.
Kelham Island restaurant and bar Pina also hit out at the ‘no-show’ culture in early July just days after reopening their doors.
Owner Joe Cribley said that people booking a table and not showing up was the ‘biggest threat’ to restaurants as they tried to adapt to post-lockdown rules around drinking and dining out.
He also highlighted the poor treatment of staff by some customers as evidence of ‘disdain’ for hospitality workers, as people lost their tempers over the social distancing restrictions, even stealing drinks.
"On our reopening weekend we had 30 no shows,” Joe said. “People cannot imagine how damaging this culture is, especially at this time.
"Not only is it selfish as it stops other people from being able to book, but in the current climate it leaves us with empty tables that we cannot fill, and that is not for want of people with a desire to come here."
Public is run by James O'Hara, who also operates Picture House Social on Abbeydale Road which reopened at the beginning of August.
This week, Mr O’Hara announced that his other bar, The Great Gatsby on Division Street, would be unlikely to reopen 'any time soon’ following the coronavirus pandemic.
In a social media post, the historic bar revealed that they had taken the ‘horrible decision’ to lay off their staff.


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Xolo Smartphones has announced a new smartphone in the Indian market, the Xolo Q900s Plus for a price of Rs. 8,299. The phone packs a 4.7 inch 720p HD display, 1.2GHz quad core Snapdragon 200 processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, microSD card
Owning a Google Play Edition Moto G ? Well, we finally have some good news for you guys. The much awaited Android Lollipop update which you guys have been craving for quite some time is finally rolling out today.
Intex mobiles has launched the Aqua Xtreme in India for Rs. 11,490. The phone packs a 5 inch HD (1280×720 pixels) IPS display. The display has DragonTrail glass protection for resistance from scratch. Powered by a 1.7GHz octa core processor, the phone runs on Android
Huawei has officially launched the Ascend P7 phone in the country. It has been priced at Rs. 24,799 and is now available at major retail stores across the country. Allen Wang, Head, Consumer Business Group, Huawei Telecommunications (India), said, With the launch of Ascend P7
Samsung has quitely launched the Galaxy Core Prime in India by listing it on its official website for Rs. 9,700. The phone packs a 4.5 inch WVGA display, 1.2GHz quad core processor coupled with 1 GB RAM. Having 8 GB internal memory, it supports expandable
Today, Acer took the wrap off its first 64-bit processor powered smartphone, the Jade S, which is the successor of the Liquid Jade.
Google and Motorola have officially launched the Nexus 6 in India at the ongoing GOSF festival. The phone went up for pre-orders in India last month on Flipkart for Rs. 43,999.


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ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Time spent in transit is the most challenging aspect of business travel, according to a new report released today by the GBTA Foundation – the education and research arm of the Global Business Travel Association. Layovers, changing a flight or train reservation mid-trip, the work environment while traveling and preparing expense reports also topped the list of most challenging aspects for North American business travelers. The study, Creating a Frictionless Travel Experience – North America, conducted in partnership with Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ:SABR - News), identifies the main challenges business travelers face during their travel experience while also looking to understand what organizations are doing to make this experience a better one for their travelers.


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Logitech has announced a wireless version of its 2019 Pro X gaming headset called the Pro X Lightspeed. It’s almost identical to the wired version, complete with the same aluminum and steel design, but there are a few key differences. Going wireless isn’t even the biggest perk; it’s actually the USB-C charging. No other wireless gaming headsets that charge via USB-C come to mind, so in this regard, the Pro X Lightspeed in a league of its own.
The other perk, of course, is being wireless. The audio and chat are delivered through its included 2.4GHz USB Type-A wireless receiver, and Logitech claims the headset can remain connected up to 13 meters away — if, for some reason, you find yourself 42 feet away from your PC or gaming console.
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Lego and Batman are teaming up to take on Apple.
Actually, DC Entertainment, the home of comic legends like Batman, Superman and The Flash, has partnered with Lego to launch a co-branded app available on the iPad and iPhone.
The free app, Lego Hero Factory, features a mix of original Lego-branded comics as well as a handful of kid-friendly DC digital comics, including the Batman Adventures, Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Young Justice, Tiny Titans, Teen Titans and Superman Adventures. Hero Factory makes its debut in the App store on Wednesday (Jan. 18).
Lego and DC have been partners for 13 years, according to Hank Kanalz, DC’s svp of digital. The companies have previously produced a line of print comics under the brand Bionicle and have also collaborated on a popular game for the Nintendo Wii Lego Batman.
But with DC’s launch last year of digital comic editions, which go on sale the same day as their print counterparts, the timing was right to introduce a new digital co-branded product. Both Lego and DC will begin to promote the new Hero Factory app, which is aimed at kids 6-12.
That age-range may seem young for an iPad app for comics, but it appears that parents are open to it. “Anecdotally, as far as patterns go, for a lot of our older readers they say this is something they can share with thier kids,” said Kanalz. “So we think a lot of the usage will come from parents purchasing for their kids.”
The Hero Factory app is free to download, as are the various Lego branded and DC original comics featured it features. But kids can elect to purchase more issues of their favorite DC titles via the app.
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Repurposes Office domain for online productivity suite
One day after renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage to OneDrive, Microsoft has performed a second rebranding effort, this time on its online productivity suite. Office Web Apps is being renamed as "Office Online," and in an effort to make the service easier for users to discover and move away from Google Docs, Microsoft is now using the Office.com domain name for the web apps.
The Microsoft Office blog claims the use of the word "Apps" in the Office Web Apps name confused users, with some thinking they were items found in an app store or were installable items. It also states that not many people knew the online versions of the tools existed, aside from users of OneDrive and SharePoint, prompting the domain name change.
Users can log into the free Office Online using their Microsoft Account credentials, with files automatically saved to OneDrive. As part of the same update, hundreds of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel templates have been added to the service, while the online versions of the Office apps have been added to the app switcher at the top of the page, covering all Microsoft services.


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The highly anticipated new DLC pack for Dragon Ball Xenoverse, the fighting game based on the series released earlier this year on consoles and PC in all regions, has finally received a release date for North America and Europe as well as a few screenshots showcasing the new characters yesterday. Now, more promotional material on the new release has been made available.
Some additional Dragon Ball Xenoverse third DLC pack screenshots have surfaced online a few hours ago, showcasing not only the new characters included in the game but also some of the new special moves that can be used by the custom created characters and more. You can find the screenshots by going here.
The third Dragon Ball Xenoverse DLC pack will be released next week, on June 9th, in all regions and all formats. It will include four new playable characters – Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta, Golden Frieza and Jaco the Galactic Patroller -, 5 new Parallel Quests, 2 new Masters, 8 new Masters Quests, 14 new special moves, 2 new Accessories and 7 Z-Souls which can be used to customize your avatar in the game. The pack was also going to include some extra costumes inspired by the Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection “F” but they have already been made available for everyone last month.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse is one of the more unique games based on the popular manga and anime series. Instead of following the original storyline closely, the game features a brand new story where players have to take part in several important events of the Dragon Ball universe and make sure that they do not get altered by the enemy. These alternative scenarios make the game’s story quite interesting even for those who have been following the series for years and know everything about it.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse is now available in all regions on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. The new DLC pack will be released on June 9th on Xbox Live, Steam and North American PlayStation Network, with the European PlayStation Network release coming the following day.
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Last week Target revealed that it had suffered a massive security breach in which 40 million credit and debit card numbers had been compromised. The retailer said that the “sophisticated” hack lasted 19 days but didn’t say exactly how it went down. Numerous reports started circulating a few days back about the possibility of encrypted bank PINs having been compromised as well, Target initially denied it, but now it has confirmed that hackers were able to steal encrypted credit and debit card PINs.
A spokeswoman for the retailer made this confirmation, while saying that the PIN numbers should be “safe and secure” because hackers can not decrypt them without having the required keys. Since Target doesn’t store encrypted keys, they couldn’t have been stolen in the hack, which is why the retailer is certain that despite encrypted bank PINs being stolen there’s not much that the hackers will be able to do with them. Target’s independent payments processor has the necessary keys, and so far there haven’t been any reports of that payments processor being hit with a similar breach. Nevertheless, a major U.S. bank which spoke to Reuters is concerned that hackers will ultimately be able to crack the encryption, which would allow them to wreak havoc on associated bank accounts. Those who shopped at Target and paid through plastic should considering changing their PINs and keeping a close eye on their account activity.
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RadioShack Corp. said Thursday it is in talks to shore up its finances and hopes to announce a deal in the near term but warned it could quickly run out of cash and be forced to turn to bankruptcy court if the talks fail.
The comments, the most dire yet from a retailer that has thousands of stores but has long been fading in relevance, came after the company reported a 20 percent drop in same-store sales during the early summer.
The company said it was down to $30.5 million cash Aug. 2 — about $6,800 for each of its 4,485 stores — although it said it also has $152 million available under a line of credit.
Shoppers are bypassing the chain, and its mobile-phone business is suffering, challenges RadioShack said may not let up this year. The results leave the company with dwindling resources as it heads toward a pivotal holiday shopping season.
Chief executive Joe Magnacca, who didn’t take questions in a conference call Thursday with analysts to discuss the company’s earnings, said RadioShack was in advanced discussions with a number of parties on plans to shore up the chain’s balance sheet.
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“Free”—as in “download at no charge.” Joel Neidig, a systems engineer at ITAMCO has developed an application (“app”) so that he and his coworkers can take advantage of MTConnect as a communications protocol that enables their iPhones to monitor machine tools at their plant in
Joel will be making this app available as a free download from the Apple’s iTunes App Store. The app is open-source, which means that users are free to modify, customize and enhance it as they see fit — and will share the results freely with others, Joel hopes. The app is currently in review. Joel expects it to be approved by IMTS, September 13-18, 2010 in
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The barrier-breaking designer Virgil Abloh, whose ascent to the heights of the traditional luxury industry changed what was possible in fashion, died on Sunday in Chicago after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer. He was 41. His death was confirmed by his family.
Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur and the artistic director of Louis Vuitton‘s menswear collection since 2018. Abloh was also the chief executive officer of the Milan-based label Off-White, a fashion house he founded in 2012.
The entrepreneur was born on September 30, 1980, in Rockford, Illinois, to Ghanaian immigrant parents. His mother was a tailor from whom he learned to sew, and his father managed a paint company. Abloh was raised in Rockford, where he attended Boylan Catholic High School, graduating in 1998, then graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.
Whilst Abloh was the attending the Illinois Institute of Technology where in 2006 he received his Master of Architecture, a building on the campus under construction designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas (Who had also worked on runway collections for Prada), helped spark his interests for fashion. During his time at IIT, Virgil designed T-shirts and wrote about fashion and design for a well-known blog, The Brilliance. Abloh first met popular musician Kanye West while working on his designs at a Chicago print shop.
Abloh, who also worked in Chicago Street fashion, entered the world of international fashion with an internship at Fendi in 2009, alongside American rapper Kanye West. The two then began an artistic collaboration that would launch Abloh’s career into founding Off-White.
In 2010 he became creative director of Donda, Mr. West’s creative incubator, helping turn Mr. West’s ideas into actuality (his laptop was described by the rapper Pusha T as “a library of everything that was aesthetically beautiful and relevant”).
He was the first African American to be artistic director at a French luxury fashion house, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. The New York Times described Abloh’s bridging of streetwear and luxury clothing together as transformative.
Virgil Abloh raised $1 million dollars to benefit scholarships for Black students through the Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund, which will be managed in partnership with the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF), the foremost fashion-oriented education and workforce development nonprofit in the U.S. The Abloh Fund’s mission is to foster equity and inclusion within the fashion …
He is survived by his wife Shannon Abloh, his children Lowe Abloh and Grey Abloh, his sister Edwina Abloh, his parents — and a legacy he identified during his first Louis Vuitton show, held in the gardens of the Palais Royale in front of an audience that included Mr. West, Rihanna, and ASAP Rocky, as well as 1,500 students.
“There are people around this room who look like me,” he said to The New York Times. “You never saw that before in fashion. The people have changed, and so fashion had to.” He made it so.


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Changes in tracking. Its coming.
Despite Google’s third-party cookies receiving, yet another, extended grace period before being phased out towards the end of 2024, there’s no doubting the marketing world is currently undergoing a wholesale shift in terms of how digital marketers track prospects and measure success.
Proactivity and preparedness will put brands in a more competitive position when third-party cookies eventually reach their demise. Many other regulatory changes and market trends are prompting brands to alter their approach to tracking and measurement right now.
Digital marketers must educate themselves on the latest changes hitting various devices and platforms as we slowly move towards a perceived ‘cookie-free’ world.
In this blog, we explore:
- Some of the key changes in tracking
- How it will affect what brands can and can no longer track
- Where digital marketers can shift their priorities to thrive in the new world of measurement and tracking
Changes in tracking: Apple and Google roll out smartphone updates, Google Analytics 4 to make 2023 debut
Many new privacy updates hit iOS and Android devices in early September. This includes Google giving users more control over how their data is used, and Apple introducing virtual IDs to verify age across various apps. These, among all the other regulatory and market-driven privacy changes, will invariably impact how digital marketers track online behaviours.
In an attempt to standardise consent across all platforms and devices, Google is also trialling and testing various privacy solutions that will extend across the web. One such solution will be given its debut at the beginning of July 2023, as Universal Analytics (UA) gracefully retires to be replaced by Google Analytics 4 (GA4). After 1st July 2023, UA will stop collecting hits, although users will retain access to previously processed data for at least six months.
The new solution will apply a number of changes to how marketers collect and use data. Designed, as Google puts it, “for the future of measurement”. Reading between the lines, the biggest draw of GA4 is its focus on collecting more data throughout the entire customer lifecycle, chiefly after an acquisition.
This undoubtedly mirrors the shift away from third-party cookies towards other methods (including first-party data) for building an overall digital identity, while still honouring data privacy and expectations.
The rise of digital identity, and ‘other’-party cookies
The global digital identity solutions market is currently undergoing a huge growth spurt, expected to reach over $5.2 million by 2027. As digital marketers, every single data point we collect is with the ultimate goal of creating an accurate digital identity of each individual prospect. An identity we can then leverage to target people with relevant content and experiences that ultimately drive them towards a purchase.
However, the looming cookieless future will make it significantly harder for marketers to target and reach their digital audience. Of course, branding the digital marketing future as ‘cookieless’ is doing first, second, and even zero-party cookies an injustice.
First-party cookies, in particular, represent a viable alternative to their third-party counterparts. Email marketing and push notifications represent two rich sources of first-party data, with customers physically opting into personalised content and experiences, automatically pointing towards increased consumer trust.
Data privacy: Customer expectations are straightforward and achievable
Aside from what we can and can’t track as the measurement world shifts, the biggest message for digital marketing leaders is to listen to your customers. Because, and this may come as a surprise, but their expectations and requirements around data privacy aren’t as outlandish as you may imagine.
Their biggest asks are relatively straightforward and achievable for brands. According to Adobe research, their two primary requests are keeping their data safe, and giving them more transparency and control on how their data is used.
But still, too many brands are getting this wrong. The same research shows 70% of customers are concerned with how companies use their data, while 65% are adamant information collected from digital interactions only benefits the company, not themselves.
Embrace the opportunity to create better CX
As we shuffle inexorably towards a future without third-party cookies, digital marketers must view the coming months and years as an opportunity, rather than an adversity.
True, it will be a challenging period. But, if brands remain educated on the latest updates, and approach any change with a positive mindset, then they’ll be free to focus on doing what they’ve always done best. Creating standout experiences for customers, with data they’ve willingly provided.
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BI Vendor QlikTech Celebrates Success
February 24, 2009 Alex Woodie
Times are tough for companies across the world. But one business that’s having the time of its life is business intelligence software vendor QlikTech. The Swedish-born American company and its products were recently given the top ranking by Aberdeen, which went like champagne with its caviar announcement that business in the United States increased by about 50 percent in 2008.
When Aberdeen recently published its findings about how the major business intelligence and performance management vendors stacked up across various customer-driven metrics, there was one company all alone at the top of the heap: QlikTech.
QlikTech was the only “champion” in Aberdeen’s “Axis” for BI and performance management, beating out much bigger vendors and better known names, including Business Objects (now owned by SAP), Cognos (now owned by IBM), Hyperion (now owned by Oracle), Microstrategy, and Microsoft. It was the second good showing in influential analyst ratings for QlikTech’s QlikView, which was also recognized as “the most performant BI platform” in a recent Gartner Magic Quadrant.
“We know that QlikView has generated a passionate user base, and Aberdeen’s customer-centric perspective vividly demonstrates how quickly customers gain value from QlikView and how end users love using it,” says Anthony Deighton, senior vice president of products for QlikTech.
A couple of weeks after the Aberdeen Axis news broke, QlikTech announced financial results for 2008. The company says revenue increased by 50 percent to $120 million and that it grew its customer base by 45 percent to 10,585. (As a privately held company, these numbers must be taken with a grain of salt, as they do not carry the full weight of an audited financial statement from a publicly traded company.)
That gave David another chance to take a swipe at Goliath. “While the BI incumbents operate with implementations that take months and time-to-value measured in years,” the company said in a press release, “QlikTech customers have QlikView up and running in weeks and realize their ROI [return on investment] in less than a month. It’s the reason QlikTech is the only vendor that can offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.”
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The Senate overturned a rule on Tuesday that would allow consumers to bring class action suits against banks and credit card companies, ending a long-brewing battle over the use of arbitration clauses by financial institutions. William Brangham talks to Elizabeth Dexheimer of Bloomberg to break down what this means for consumers.
Now: a big win overnight for U.S. banks and credit card companies. It goes back to a long-brewing battle over whether consumers have the right to bring class-action lawsuits against those companies.
William Brangham has the details.
Until recently, consumers who signed up for checking accounts or credit cards gave up their right to be part of any class-action lawsuit brought against that company.
Most people had no idea they'd given up this right, because banks and other institutions tuck what are known as arbitration clauses into those long fine-print agreements we all sign without ever really reading.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, had passed a rule saying that arbitration was unfair and groups deserved their day in court. But then, last night, the Senate overturned that rule 51-50, with Vice President Pence casting the tie-breaking vote.
So what does this actually mean for consumers?
To help us understand that, we turn to Bloomberg's Elizabeth Dexheimer.
So, what does this mean for consumers?
So, the status quo that you just described will continue. You mentioned it's arbitration agreements. These are very common.
And when you open a checking account or a credit card, you typically sign a contract with this clause that says you will not join together with other consumers in a class-action lawsuit, and that if you have got a problem with your bank, you think that they're overcharging you or some — a grievance that you have, you're going to resolve that through a closed-door arbitration process, instead of arguing it in open court.
This is an issue that, as part of the Dodd-Frank law, following the financial crisis, the consumer Financial Protection Bureau was told to study this issue. They did. They published a report. And based on those findings, they crafted this rule.
Since the beginning, for years, Republicans and the financial services industry has been against it and been pushing back.
So, the industry has been fighting this and putting a lot of money into lobbying this for a long time, right? I mean, this — are they really looking out for the consumers' interest, or are they looking out for their own financial interests here?
They certainly argue that this is in the interest of the consumer. They point to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's own study and some of its findings about how rewards — awards for consumers who have grievances and resolve them through arbitration are often better than if they go to court.
However, another part of this is certainly that banks want to avoid what they see as frivolous lawsuits.
And the consumers groups around the country decried this. They said that this move last night was a huge giveaway to Wall Street, in essence. What is their argument?
So, they say that the best way to hold companies accountable is through lawsuits, and, particularly, they have looked at recent scandals at Wells Fargo and at Equifax to give a reason when companies — when consumers are harmed by companies, the best way to hold them accountable is by setting some sort of a precedent.
And the — the best way to do that is through — is by suing them.
And the way that the Senate did this last night, right, means that there's no doing over, right? Am I correctly reading this, that they have now made it so that no future administration can undo what they have done?
Congress used the Congressional Review Act to reverse the rule. That is a law that Congress can use to overturn any regulation within 60 days after it's enacted. And it means that the CFPB, effectively, can't take this up.
So, yes, it was a very effective way to squash this issue that Republicans have been fighting for years.
Elizabeth Dexheimer from Bloomberg, thank you very much.
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“The combined company will operate as eToro Group Ltd. and be listed on the Nasdaq.
The eagerly awaited public listing of Coinbase, which may reach a valuation of $100 billion, has been expected to ignite a wave of crypto firms to go public, many of them using SPACs.
Bakkt, the cryptocurrency exchange launched by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2018, is also expected to carry out a SPAC merger later this year, valuing the combined entity at $2.1 billion.”
“In a sign of just how dramatically the coronavirus vaccine has altered the market calculus on Wall Street, the fear of soaring inflation has displaced the pandemic as fund managers’ biggest worry. According to the survey, higher-than-expected inflation is now seen as the biggest “tail risk” – an event that’s seen as statistically unlikely but with potentially dramatic consequences.
This implies that global fund managers think vaccination will finally lead us to re-opening and that the extremely loose monetary policy in times of economic recovery is not without risk.
Concerns about rising inflation could boost hedging demand for the store of value assets such as bitcoin and gold, although recently investors have started to wonder whether the Federal Reserve might unwind stimulus as the economy reheats.
The survey shows “long bitcoin,” or a bullish bet on the cryptocurrency, is the second-most crowded trade in the financial market. A crowded trade is one that is extremely popular.”
“Sotheby’s, has announced a partnership that will see the top auction house hold a sale of NFT-based digital art from anonymous artist Pak. The firm will accept cryptocurrencies for the artworks.
There’s a lot here that’s really exciting and, we think, has staying power.”
“Today, Aztec is proud to launch our rollup service — it’s live on mainnet today. We will gradually introduce new assets such as WBTC, BAT, AAVE, DAI into the rollup over the coming weeks.
Aztec shelters your blockchain transactions from the world’s gaze — giving you bank-grade privacy on open, permissionless financial networks. Our goal at Aztec is to normalised Web3 privacy — just as most Web2 communications are protected by SSL.”
“Before Wall Street goes all-in on bitcoin, Kevin O’Leary said, it needs to know how BTC is being mined. The “Shark Tank” star and chairman of O’Shares ETFs said institutions want to invest in BTC but they have environmental issues. They’re leery, as it were, of operations driven by coal or other climate-unfriendly technology. And they want transparency around origin.
Large companies are bound by sustainability and ESG committees. They have stakeholders and rules and processes to follow. And, these days, environmental impact is a material liability. They need to prove they’re clean.
Bitcoiners may not like it. But “greener” bitcoin may be the price of admission to mainstream markets.“
“The 1inch team has released the third iteration of its Aggregation Protocol, a tool that routes trade orders across all decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and, as of recently, Binance Smart Chain.
The V3 release introduces gas optimizations that the team claims make the protocol cheaper than using either Uniswap or 0x directly. In tests conducted by the team, the 1inch V3 aggregator was about 10% cheaper in terms of gas than the same trades done via Uniswap, and about 5% cheaper than on 0x. Compared with 1inch V2, gas costs decreased by up to 30%.
Previously, the tool was mostly useful for wealthy traders for whom slippage was an important factor when trading in decentralized finance.”


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R-CALF USA, along with four ranchers from Iowa, Nebraska Kansas and Wyoming, have filed a class action lawsuit. The suit claims the nation’s four largest beef packers violated antitrust laws, depressing the price of purchased fed cattle by an average of 7.9 percent since January 2015. The complaint was filed against Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef Packing Company, who collectively purchase and process 80 percent of U.S. fed cattle.
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Three American flagship brands combine marketing efforts, including in-store displays throughout the country and a vacation giveaway, for summer promotion.
Three well-known brands – Visit Myrtle Beach, Sara Lee and Skippy – are teaming up to spark some fun this summer. Bimbo Bakeries USA, owner of Sara Lee North American Fresh Bakery, and Hormel Foods, LLC have established a merchandising effort together to showcase the all-new Classic White Bread from Sara Lee that hit shelves in April 2019, Skippy’s Royal Family of Peanut Butter, and one of America’s favorite beach destinations, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The “Summer of Fun” campaign kicks off this week and includes online platforms in the form of an exclusive partner website and digital catalog, social media, and in-store displays heralding the campaign in retailers throughout the country. One sweepstakes winner and up to three guests can enter for a chance to win a trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Customers will have access to their own Summer of Fun digital catalog with summer-inspired recipe ideas that include Sara Lee bread and Skippy peanut butter along with summer hacks on beach activities and more ideas to help get customers excited about summer.
The sweepstakes starts May 15, 2019 and runs through July 31st, 2019. You can learn more about the “Summer of Fun” promotion and the brands at OurSummerofFun.com.


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YouTube is adding new features to provide more creative options to Shorts creators. The Google-owned video platform is expanding YouTube Shorts to the Web (desktop and mobile browsers) and tablets. With the latest update, a new Shorts tab will appear across devices over the next few weeks allowing users to scroll through Shorts vertically. Additionally, YouTube is allowing creators of YouTube Shorts to remix video clips from eligible YouTube videos in new Shorts. Earlier, YouTube only allowed creators to sample audio from other videos on the platform. This new development comes just after Meta added Sharing to Reels on Facebook to allow users to share videos directly from third-party apps to their Facebook accounts.
Google announced the addition of new features to YouTube Shorts via a blog post. In the latest update, the Shorts player will be available to users on more devices, including desktops and tablets, as well as mobile browsers. Like in the YouTube app, users will see a Shorts shelf on the Home page and a Shorts tab. They will be able to swipe vertically from one video to the next to discover more content, similar to TikTok’s feed. All views coming from these new surfaces count toward the creator’s eligibility for the Shorts Fund, said the company.
YouTube will now let users remix 1-5 second video segments from eligible long-form videos and Shorts in the creation of new original Shorts content. This works similar to TikTok’s Stitch functionality. To use the new remix feature, you can tap the Create button, then select Cut from the remix options. From there, users will be able to sample a video segment from any video. From a Short, you can click the three-dot menu and select Cut to choose the desired segment.
When a Short is created from the user’s own channel’s content, it will be linked to the original video in the Shorts player. YouTube notes that linking back to the original video provides an opportunity for new audiences to discover and engage with older content in a new way. The YouTube video remixing feature will start rolling out to iOS users in the coming weeks. It is expected to arrive on Android later this year.
Google launched YouTube Shorts in September 2020 to allow creators to make video clips up to 60 seconds long and share them on the platform. Since then, the search giant has been adding many new features to rival TikTok and Meta’s rival social media platforms. The latest update comes just days after Facebook allowed users of third-party apps to post short-form videos directly to Facebook Reels with a new Reels button in such apps. Recently, the social media platform launched its short video feature Reels in more than 150 countries with a new Reels display at the top of user feeds.


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Normative, the carbon accounting engine, has raised €31m in a series B round led by Blume Equity. New investor Horizons Ventures also participated alongside returning investors Future Five and ETF Partners and 2150, who led Normative’s €10m series A round in October 2021.
With the announcement of Australia’s state of the environment report telling a story of crisis and decline in Australia’s environment, considered to be in a poor and deteriorating state, it’s now up to our kids to save the planet. How? A plucky young start up called GenUs have created a platform to engage kids in climate change - via a gamified app, at school and in the home. This is the gamification of sustainability and the democratisation of saving the planet.
In the lead-up to Plastic-Free July, the team at fintech startup Shouta are encouraging businesses to reconsider their gift-giving practices and adopt a sustainable approach to corporate gifting. CEO and co-founder, Carly Shamgar, has seen a rise in businesses opting for sustainable corporate gifting approaches, like Shouta’s business platform, Shouta Biz.
EcoVadis, the provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, has raised $500 million with plans to accelerate its vision of influencing every business decision within the organisation with sustainability intelligence, becoming a sustainability impact unicorn.
Emission monitoring service and technology company Aeromon announced that it has raised €4.8 million in financing for the development and scaling of its operations. A capital loan from The Finnish Climate Fund is part of the financing package, of which €2.4 million was raised from industrial investor, Vopak Ventures, and the company’s current shareholders.
Alipay Ant Forest, an Alipay app initiative encourageing users to make low-carbon lifestyle choices, launched an option for users to contribute to the restoration of coastal ecosystems.
Over the weekend on World Environment Day, Aussies noted a shift in the mood around the climate agenda. As we settle into a newly elected gov't with commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions more aggressively, it’s worth remembering that policies are going to take time. More importantly, they are not where our collective role in climate begins and ends.
Reask co-founder Nick Hassam is speaking at InsurTech Connect Asia in Singapore as part of an AusTrade delegation to explain how the firm uses data, tech and computing for climate catastrophe risk modelling. His return to Asia is poignant, since the last time he visited was five years ago for the 15th Conference on Catastrophe Insurance in Asia in Taipei where he met climate scientist Thomas Loridan and the idea for their climatetech startup was hatched.
PUMA is the most sustainable brand in the industry according to the latest ranking by publication Business of Fashion, which ranked the 30 largest companies in fashion. Business of Fashion noted that PUMA had leading scores for water & chemicals, worker’s rights and transparency, while also sharply improving its emissions score compared to last year. Overall, PUMA scored 49 out of 100 points, well above the industry average of 28.
Avanade, a Microsoft solutions provider, is bringing its unique insights to help organisations solve their toughest sustainability challenges with new solutions focused on enabling clients to harness the full potential of Microsoft’s newly announced Cloud for Sustainability. With ESG hot on the business leadership agenda, finding sustainable business models that combat climate change without compromising business growth is high priority in many boardrooms.


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South Africa’s richest man Johann Rupert has made a $230 million offer to acquire ElementOne, a single asset investment company that owns a 40% stake in Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers, Independent Online has reported.
Caxton, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed publishing company, is the largest publisher of books, newspapers and magazines in South Africa. The company publishes 88 newspapers, mostly free community newspapers and 15 magazines.
Rupert made the offer to acquire the shares through Remgro, a JSE-listed investment company he controls. is partnering with Rand Merchant Bank for the offer. If the deal goes through, Remgro will pay $47.5 million in cash, while the rest of the acquisition price will be paid in Remgro stock.
Johann Rupert, the eldest son of the late legendary South African luxury goods tycoon Anton Rupert, is currently the chairman of Swiss luxury goods outfit as well as Remgro. He is also the second richest man in Africa with a fortune currently estimated at $7.8 billion.
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