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BlackBerry weaponizes instant messaging patents, sues Facebook
“BlackBerry weaponizes instant messaging patents, sues Facebook”: BlackBerry, the major smartphone maker that stepped out of the hardware business in 2016, is suing Facebook for patent infringement. BlackBerry has a portfolio of comprehensive software patents that cover some of the most basic features of modern smartphone messaging services – and the company says it wants Facebook to pay.
Facebook “has made versatile informing applications that assistance BlackBerry developments by utilizing a large group of creative security highlights, UI and highlights that have made BlackBerry items a basic and business accomplishment in any case, BlackBerry. The suit contends that Facebook’s auxiliaries Instagram and WhatsApp encroach on BlackBerry licenses, and in addition Facebook’s own informing applications.
It is not uncommon for technology companies to lose market leadership to patent licensing as an alternative way to make money. Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringement in 2012, for example, while Nokia sued Apple for patent infringement in 2016.
“BlackBerry”: BlackBerry started its own patent litigation campaign in 2016, suing little-known Android phone maker BLU and Internet phone company Avaya. The BLU agreed to pay last year, and the BlackBerry is now moving to Facebook – potentially a much more lucrative target.
The BlackBerry is claiming seven software patents against Facebook, and they are remarkably broad:
Patent No. 7,372,961 encompasses the concept of generating a cryptographic key by choosing a number of pseudorandom and then verifying that it is “less than the q order before mod q”. If it is, the key is used. Otherwise, another key is chosen randomly and the process repeats.
The patent 8,209,634 covers the concept of using icons with numeric badges to signal the arrival of new messages.
The patent 8,279,173 covers the concept of tagging people in photos using an auto complete search box.
Patent 8,301,713 covers the concept of marking a significant lull in a text message conversation by inserting a timestamp reflecting the time of the next message.
Patent 8,429,236 spreads the idea of changing the way a cell phone sends messages, contingent upon whether they are being perused effectively by the beneficiary’s gadget. For instance, if the updates are not being perused progressively, the sending gadget can spare vitality by sending group messages rather than each one in turn.
The 8,677,250 patent covers the idea of tying an informing administration and a diversion application together so a client playing an amusement can send messages to contacts in the informing application that incorporates reports on the advance of the in-amusement player.
The patent 9,349,120 spreads the idea of hushing a message wire.
“BlackBerry sues Facebook”: To put it plainly, the BlackBerry cases to have the absolute most regular highlights of current portable informing applications, regardless of whether made by Facebook, Apple, Google or any other individual. BlackBerry requested that the court challenge Facebook to encroach those licenses, which could require Facebook to radically audit those applications or even close down totally.
But it is unlikely that things go so far. In recent years, courts have been relatively reluctant to issue injunctions in such cases, preferring instead to grant damages in cash that usually end up being less profitable for the plaintiff. Facebook may also try to get some of these patents discarded as invalid – courts have shown skepticism about the legality of some software patents in recent years.
We can also expect Facebook to look for patents it can use to hire the BlackBerry, which has a smaller business than it did a few years ago, but still sells a significant amount of software and services that may be infringing on Facebook patents.
“BlackBerry weaponizes instant messaging patents, sues Facebook”: Lastly, there’s a decent possibility that Facebook will consent to a patent authorizing arrangement with the BlackBerry – that is the means by which Facebook’s debate with Yahoo is finished, all things considered.
A BlackBerry spokesman sent us an e-mail comment:
As a leader in embedded and cyber security software, BlackBerry’s belief is that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp could make great partners in our drive toward a securely connected future, and we continue to keep that door open for them. However, we have a strong claim that Facebook has violated our intellectual property and, after several years of dialogue, we also have an obligation on our shareholders to seek appropriate legal remedies.
But Facebook has signaled that it does not feel like committing itself.
“The fact that Blackberry sadly reflects the current state of its messaging business,” Facebook’s deputy general counsel Paul Grewal said in an e-mailed statement. “Having surrendered its endeavors to improve, the Blackberry now looks to force the development of others. We need to battle.”


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GLEN CARBON — No one has yet claimed the cash accidentally left at Goodwill, though at least 15 people have tried.
Goodwill spokesman Stephanie Flynn said would-be donors have called to claim the money left in an article of clothing donated to the Glen Carbon Goodwill. But no one has matched the description of the donation thus far, she said.
On Monday, someone donated items to the Glen Carbon Goodwill between 3:45 and 4 p.m. It came from either a black SUV or a white SUV, as captured on security camera footage, which has not been released to the public.
When employee Maureen Lane was sorting the clothes, she found $2,500 in cash.
Store manager Mildred Altevogt said that some people have called in to claim the money, and she has referred them to the non-profit organization's St. Louis office, which is handling the matter.
It's not the first time this has happened: At the Glen Carbon store alone, $2,540 was found in August 2011 and $7,500 was found in 2008. Including all locations, approximately $37,000 has been "accidentally donated" to MERS Goodwill since 2008, Flynn said.
The donor has 30 days from Monday to claim the money by calling the corporate office at 314-982-8802.
After 30 days, the money will be put toward Goodwill programs.
Contact reporter Elizabeth Donald at email@example.com or 618-239-2507.

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Shoplifting at its peak before Christmas
Retailers are being advised to step up security as the peak season for shoplifting approaches.
According to the Centre for Retail Research, thieves
stole £447 million of goods from stores in the six weeks from mid-November last year, with drinks
their wish lists.
Opinion is divided about whether the worsening economy will
lead to a surge in shoplifting, but police in some areas have warned retailers to be on their guard.
A report by Professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the CCR, said that shoplifters favoured "Scotch whisky, Jack Daniel's, vodka and brandy, along with party drinks such as alcopops, Bacardi and gin".
It adds that almost 59% of shoplifters are male.
The Association of Convenience Stores urged shops to keep records of stock and do regular stock checks ,
try to keep stock away from doors
and, where practical, put goods where it would need a "noticeable action" to take them.
It also recommends keeping high-value items in display cases or behind the tills, installing good quality CCTV and forming a relationship with neighbourhood policing teams.


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LONG BEACH – A much-hyped movie studio is in, a studio executive said Friday, and a Tesla Motors assembly plant may be out at the former Boeing 717 manufacturing site.
Long Beach Studios Chairman Jack O’Halloran said he expects to sign a deal with Boeing on Monday to develop a $375 million movie studio at the 77-acre site, which ceased production in 2006.
“The film studio’s definitely happening, it’s going to happen,” O’Halloran said by phone.
The project, announced a year ago, encountered financial problems and fell out of escrow in March.
Further casting doubt on the project’s future was an announcement by electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors in August that the Boeing site and the Downey Studios property were finalists for a new assembly plant.
O’Halloran said the Long Beach project will be the hub of a chain of five movie studios that will be built around the country.
“Which means all the people, the jobs, the training, everything will come out of Long Beach,” said O’Halloran, a former boxer and actor who is best known for playing Non, a villain in the movie “Superman2.” “It’s an amazing deal, it’s better than we thought it was going to be and it’s phenomenal for Long Beach.”
O’Halloran wouldn’t give further details, noting that the deal isn’t signed yet. City officials have said the movie studio is expected to create 2,500 to 3,000 jobs.
Given that fact, Mayor Bob Foster was guarded in his response Friday.
“I want to see a deal that’s inked,” Foster said.
John Morris, owner of Smooth’s Sports Grille, said Friday that when O’Halloran was eating at the restaurant Thursday the movie studio executive showed Morris a letter of commitment from O’Halloran’s investors.
If all goes as O’Halloran plans, when the movie studio is completed it would contain “40 soundstages ranging in size from 12,000 to 200,000 square feet, and over 300,000 square feet of full-service rental office space,” according to the Long Beach Studios Web site, www.longbeachstudiosllc.com. The site also says the studio site would have a 5-star hotel spa.
What this all means for Tesla – and Downey, which has been aggressively courting the company – isn’t clear.
Foster said that Tesla and Boeing met about a week ago, so some negotiations for the 717 site may still be in the works. The mayor said the movie studio or Tesla could be a boon for Long Beach.
“I just want to make sure that we get a business in there that is very productive and beneficial to the city,” Foster said.
Representatives from Boeing and Tesla didn’t return phone calls seeking comment Friday evening.
Reached by phone Friday night, Downey Mayor Mario Guerra said his city is in negotiations with Tesla but wouldn’t say how close they are to a deal.
Tesla is looking for a production site for its new Model S, a four-door all-electric family sedan. CEO Elon Musk has said the car plant could create 1,000 to 1,200 jobs.
The Bay Area company based in San Carlos is known for its Tesla Roadster, a two-door all-electric sports car. Musk said that when Tesla begins production on the next-generation sports car in 2013, the work likely will take place at the new plant as well.


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Sales of the fantasy function-taking part in video game Warhammer surged in the six months to November as folks continued to invest more on their hobbies in lockdown.
Games Workshop, which helps make the tabletop miniature video game, observed product sales strike a report £186.8m in the interval, up 26%.
This was in spite of most of the Nottingham firm’s 529 shops becoming restricted or shut due to Covid procedures.
It follows strong performances from other video games and hobby companies in lockdown these as product train maker Hornby.
Created in 1983, Warhammer is a fantasy topic sport in which gamers simulate battles amongst armies working with plastic miniatures.
Video games Workshop, which sells Warhammer and other miniature wargames around the planet, said its on the web profits ended up up 90% in May well to November even though earnings elevated by a third.
Some 4.7 million persons now use the Warhammer group web-site, it stated, an maximize of 200,000 on the very same interval last year.
Manager Kevin Rountree stated the business enterprise continued to construct on the “good progress and worthwhile advancement we have been constantly providing about the very last 5 many years”.
The FTSE-listed agency has claimed no fiscal aid or subsidies from the governing administration in the course of the pandemic, even with the extended closures of its retailers.
“I might like to thank our enthusiastic and faithful supporter base who share our love for the Warhammer interest and the fantastical options, characters and narratives that make up our intellectual house,” Mr Rountree extra.
In October, Geek Retreat, which specialises in comics, memorabilia and tabletop online games, stated it would open up a different 100 suppliers in the Uk just after profits surged in the pandemic.
And Hornby, which also would make Corgi cars and Scalextric racing kits, described a 33% increase in earnings for the six months to the stop of September partly pushed by lockdown.
At the time Boss Lyndon Davies informed the BBC consumers had been trying to get convenience from uncertainty in products and solutions “they know and appreciate”, as perfectly an escape from boredom.
“People want to do items, they will not want to sit there watching the Television for the working day,” he claimed.


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TP-LINK today announced the AC1900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit router, a new addition to its growing line of advanced 802.11ac wireless products. The MSRP is $179.99
TP-LINK will debut at CES 2014 its 300Mbps Wireless Range Extender AV500 Powerline Edition, which instantly expands wired and wireless network connection to hard-to-reach areas of your home and office. MSRP is $59.99.
A painstakingly designed driver and powerful but intelligent new 500 watt (1100 watts peak power) Sledge DSP amplifier in the SB-2000 and PB-2000 re-set the bar for subwoofer performance under $800.
Company to Showcase Highly Anticipated Models with Upgraded Picture and Sound
New webOS Smart TV Platform Perfect Match for 4K Streaming
E.ON SE Extends Partnership with GreenWave Reality for Smart Home Services Strategy Rollout Across Europe
GreenWave preferred platform partner for development of E.ON SE energy management services to potential 32 million households
New Platform Represents New Paradigm in Smart TVs
iSmartAlarm Doorfront™ alerts users when someone is at the door and allows remote monitoring and communication capabilities.
HomeSeer adds automatic camera support and voice programming to its entire line of home automation systems, including the new $199.95 HomeTroller Zee. The new features will be unveiled at CES 2014 next week in Las Vegas.
The world's first and only wifi sound system that runs on the Android platform is scheduled to launch at the CES ® 2014 in Las Vegas.
aioTV will be demonstrating Passbox during CES 2014 at its suite in the Wynn Hotel.
zBoost SOHO Line of Cell Phone Signal Booster Kits Aimed at Signal-Challenged Consumers Premiers at CES 2014
zBoost, a leading provider of consumer cell phone signal booster kits, announced today the launch of its new zBoost SOHO line of cell phone signal booster kits to be showcased from January 7-10 at the International CES 2014. Showcased in booth 80032, LVCC Gold Lot, the new zBoost SOHO line leverages zBoost's award-winning technology to provide consumers with a line of easy-to-use cell phone signal booster kits that put an end to dead zones, dropped calls and choppy voice.
At 2014 International CES, Wireless Wi-Q® 12 Subwoofer Puts Velodyne Bass Technology Right Where You Want It
Velodyne's Three Decades of Bass Technology Innovation Culminate in Powerful, Feature-Rich Subwoofer That Goes Anywhere - Without Clumsy Wires
FLEXCurve's screen can be adjusted from -10 to 10 degree curve, allowing both convex and concave curves.
Digital Signage Expo 2014 to Feature Platt Retail Institute's Retail Forum - Omni-Channel & The Future of Retail
PRI's Retail Forum, to run from 9:00am - 5:00pm, is one of nine pre-show educational programs to be presented on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
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Officially, "Jurassic Park" became avaliable in stores on Tuesday, the tape's "street date," as it is called in the trade. But many video dealers informally decided to get a head start, and in many parts of the country, including the New York metropolitan area, this movie has already been on the street for at least 10 days.
"It's the largest, most flagrant example of nationwide street-date jumping that we've ever had," said Jeffrey Eves, the president of the Video Software Dealers Association.
Mr. Eves said major violations began to appear around Cincinnati on Sept. 27, a week before the Oct. 4 release date set by MCA/Universal, the film's distributor. Seeing that some dealers were selling the title early and fearing a loss of business, other retailers jumped, too.
"By Friday, all hell had broken loose," Mr. Eves said. More than 20 million copies of the tape are in the distribution pipeline. It is uncertain how many have been sold or rented prematurely, but Mr. Eves said the number was high.
What's more, he added, the same thing could happen later this fall when three other big titles are to be released: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "The Flintstones" and "Speed."Continue reading the main story
Maria LaMagra, an MCA/Universal vice president, said the association was exaggerating the "Jurassic Park" problem, although, she added, the studio had received reports of date jumping from as far away as Fairbanks, Alaska.
Essentially a gentlemen's agreement, street dates are set by studios to give all stores, large and small, an even start. While there is no legal penalty for breaking the dates, many dealers say the studios could maintain discipline by refusing to supply violators with other forthcoming titles. Studio executives say that would be unmanageable.
Street-date jumping is common with the biggest titles. Mr. Eves said mass-merchandising chains hadbeen the most habitual date jumpers, but in this case video stores jumped, too, including many in the Blockbuster chain, the country's largest video-store chain.
Blockbuster normally honors street dates and has dismissed store managers who have violated them. Lately, though, the company has become disenchanted with the system. "For the past five years we have been impacted by other businesses breaking street dates on us," said Gerry Geddis, the president of Blockbuster Home Video. "We won't break street dates first, but if others in our market do, we will, too."
As of last Friday, he said, about 100 of Blockbuster's 2,000 stores had been given the company's permission to break the date. Over the weekend, however, other Blockbuster outlets joined in as violations soared around the country.
Mr. Geddis said the studios could control the problem, although he did not say exactly how. "It's up to them to protect the dates if it's important to them," he said. "If it's not, let's forget about them."
On Oct. 14, Mr. Eves plans to convene a meeting of studios and distributors in Los Angeles to discuss the matter. NEW VIDEO RELEASES The Paper 1994. MCA/Universal. $95.92. Laser disk, $34.98. 112 minutes. Closed captioned. R. Release date: Wednesday.
With muck to rake and sensationalism to spread, one might expect more color around the artfully messy offices of The New York Sun. Instead the tabloid newspaper in Ron Howard's film takes only a wan run at the gritty panache and sassy smartness of newspaper folk as imagined in most films of the genre since "His Girl Friday." Despite gamey stories to cover, a gruff editor (Robert Duvall) and an appealing schemer for a managing editor (Glenn Close), The Sun stays sanitized. Michael Keaton is fine as Henry Hackett, the metropolitan editor being wooed by the stuffy uptown paper, but for Mr. Howard, Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times, "it's not possible to be a yuppie Damon Runyon." Backbeat 1994. Polygram. $94.99. Laser disk, $34.95. 100 minutes. Closed captioned. R.
Stu Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) was one Beatle who preferred to stay in Hamburg with his girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee), and become an abstract painter. Iain Softley's film relates the defection in lofty terms befitting a man who stuck to his own individuality. With Ms. Kirchherr as a guiding force, the group comes off as pre-punk nihilists using their Hamburg days to develop a hard-driving style, and newly recorded songs lend a raw freshness to a film that is "lively, galvanizing and surprisingly well made" (Maslin). Above the Rim 1994. New Line $97.83. Laser disk, $39.99. 97 minutes. Closed captioned. R.
Jeff Pollack's film gives a vigorous stir to the formulaic playground basketball scene of rising star torn between good intentions and evil influences. Pressured by a gangster (Tupac Shakur), Kyle-Lee Watson (Duane Martin) has to choose between being exploited and standing up for himself. Around him is an assortment of attractive characters, from Shep (Leon), the father figure and former ballplayer, to Mailika (Tonya Pinkins), Kyle's vivacious mother. With such a gentle story, all the "tough-guy posturing in 'Above the Rim' (with heavy emphasis on racial and mother-insulting expletives) seems especially gratuitous" (Maslin). The Accompanist 1992. Columbia Tri-Star. $96.20. 111 minutes. French with English subtitles. No rating.
Romane Bohringer is Sophie Vasseur, the pianist for the singer Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), who is a favorite of the Vichy set during the German occupation of France. A cautious, glum young woman, Sophie nevertheless possesses a curious magnetism that earns her a position in the singer's household and hints at her own career ambitions. Later the accompanist's fascination with the star recedes as her own dream fades, but throughout a film notable primarily for its atmospherics and stunning music, "it is Sophie who quietly burns a hole in the screen" (Maslin). FROM YEARS PAST Hello, Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite
While it's no "Citizen Kane" or "His Girl Friday," "The Paper" joins scores of other newspaper or newspaper-related films. Here are some on tape.
LIBELED LADY. A beleaguered editor (Spencer Tracy) uses his girlfriend (Jean Harlow) and a former employee (Dick Powell) to defuse an angry heiress (Myrna Loy) who is suing him for libel. 1936. MGM/ UA. $19.98. 98 minutes.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. In Alfred Hitchcock's swiftly paced film, still considered one of the more entertaining thrillers ever, a novice reporter (Joel McCrea) is snared in a Nazi spy ring as he tracks a missing diplomat through Europe. 1940. Warner. $19.98. 120 minutes. No rating.
TEACHER'S PET. A city editor (Clark Gable) who is at odds with, and later soft on, a journalism teacher (Doris Day) has to compete with her boyfriend, an analyst (Gig Young). 1958. Paramount. $14.99. 120 minutes. No rating.Continue reading the main story


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What’s next for China-US after phase-one trade deal?
Nearly two years ago in January 2020, China signed what is termed “phase-one” agreement with the US in the hope of ending the 22-month-old US-initiated trade deadlock, defusing a costly trade war, giving relief to businesses and reassuring the global economy.
Over the past two years, while China has been facing all kinds of headwinds to fulfill the promises it made in the hard-won deal and striving to bring some certainty to a battered global economy, the US has never stopped setting up roadblocks on a path that could have steered the two countries’ relations back on track.
With the two-year period coming to a close, some US media outlets and think tanks have again started picking faults with the deal, and in particular putting blame on China’s purchase of US products, dismissing the US’ treachery and its failure in maintaining its manufacturing ability under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“There is no doubt that China has been overcoming all kinds of difficulties amid the coronavirus woes and has done its best to implement the agreement. If there’s anyone to blame, that would be the US,” Gao Lingyun, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, told the Global Times on Thursday.
Gao cautioned that a review of the deal has to go both ways. Before the US side tries to carry out the so-called review of China’s performance in the deal, it also needs to ask itself how many roadblocks it has set up along the way while China was trying to fulfill its commitments, and some major circumstances, such as the pandemic, must also be kept in mind.
Taking soybeans as an example, Zhang Xiaoping, country director for China at the US Soybean Export Council (USSEC), told the Global Times that China’s purchase volume of soybeans was lower than the industry’s expectations in 2021, but the reasons he listed – including the US’ low inventories last season, the disruption to the US South Bay export terminal due to the hurricane at the end of August, and a congested Panama Canal – were not the fault of China.
According to Zhang, in the 2021 calendar year, the amount of soybeans that China purchased and shipped from the US was estimated to be about 27 million tons, about 8 million tons less than the figure in 2020. But from the perspective of the value of soybean exports, due to higher prices in 2021, both years saw a revenue of more than $14 billion.
Moreover, US’ tariffs on Chinese products, a series of strengthened sanctions on more Chinese firms ranging from tech giant Huawei to the emerging AI firm SenseTime, and its smear campaign against China during the pandemic – all of which hindered the smooth implementation of the deal.
Key takeaways of the phase-one deal include China’s pledge to buy at least $200 billion more in US goods and services over 2020 and 2021. In addition to goods and services purchases, the phase-one deal also included broad provisions for China to strengthen intellectual property (IP) protection and open its markets to financial services firms.
On China’s side, even with disruptive factors such as a raging COVID-19 pandemic, which has blocked transportation and disrupted the global supply chain, China still managed to meet about 62 percent of that target as of October 2021, according to calculations by the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics.
It’s also worth noting that no official data, from either China or the US side, has been released to measure China’s purchases so far.
With the phase-one trade deal expiring, what’s next for the world’s two largest economies’ already intense relationship has now become the focus of discussion.
Gao expected a high-level meeting to be held later to review the two-year trade agreement, with China’s core claims being the reduction of tariffs and asking the US to stop imposing unreasonable sanctions against Chinese firms.
“Washington has to show some sincerity during the upcoming talks before it expects any more progress,” Gao said.
With the new Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, officially going into effect from January 1, 2022, a more diverse range of trade partners and integrated Asia-Pacific industrial chain will offer China more leverage in its future trade talks with the US, analysts said.
The path ahead still remains unclear, but it’s now becoming a common consensus that competition between the world’s two largest economies has just started, and will become more intense in the next decade and beyond.
The competition between the US and China is not a “modern boxing match” but is more like a “race,” and the rivalry should not be perceived as one side beating the other to the ground, said Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang during a joint interview with chief editors and senior correspondents of major American media outlets, read a statement on Chinese Embassy in US on December 24.
Meanwhile, both sides can also seek opportunities for cooperation during competition, so that they can make themselves stronger while allowing the other side to grow and develop, Qin said, noting that the competition should be held in a fair and healthy manner.
“A complete trade decoupling is impossible, but we should try to prevent and prepare for a decoupling in certain areas, most likely in high-tech sectors, since there are signs that the US is building a higher and higher ‘wall’ between the two sides’ technology sectors,” Gao said.
The US crackdown on China’s technology sector has been expanded from 5G to AI and biotechnology, in a desperate effort to maintain its shaky tech dominance. In mid-December, the US Department of Treasury added SenseTime, one of China’s most valuable AI solution providers, to a list of “Chinese military-industrial complex companies,” barring US investors from purchasing or selling publicly traded securities of the firm.
The US Commerce Department also announced recently that it will place export restrictions, for national security reasons, on several Chinese companies that use biotechnology and other technologies, and also for reasons including what it claimed were their roles in “helping the Chinese military” and alleged “human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minority groups.”
Twists and turns might continue in the future, but the trade volume between the two countries will continue to rise in 2022, and even surpass the already high level in 2021, He Weiwen, a former senior trade official and a senior fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times on Thursday.
The total trade value between China and the US hit $682.32 billion from January to November in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 30.2 percent, Chinese customs data showed. China also maintains its position as the second-largest trading partner of the US after the European Union, even with tariffs aimed at weakening China’s export advantages still in place.
In terms of direct investment, according to statistics released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), in the first half of 2021, the net outflow of US direct investment in China was $390 million, a year-on-year increase of 69.5 percent. The net outflow of Chinese direct investment in the US was $3.558 billion, down by 38.7 percent due to the US’ repeated abuse of the national security concept to suppress Chinese firms.
Trade can still be a buffer in the China-US relations, which is the common wish of both China and the US business communities and their people, He Weiwen said, noting that China will firmly safeguard its interests, oppose the unilateral approach, and resolutely promote cooperation between local people and enterprises in the two countries.
Author: Shen Weiduo, Global Times


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Bicycle riders headed out from Hope Cyclery's new location on Railroad Street on Saturday to peddle through the streets of Johnstown – and to visit a few supermarkets along the way – as part of the Cranksgiving food drive.
Participants were to visit designated stores to purchase items, such as stuffing mix, chicken broth, instant coffee, canned soup, peanut butter, diapers, baby formula and hand soap. And, for those feeling particularly ambitious, maybe even a frozen turkey.
They were then to ride back to the shop and turn in the donations.
Hope Cyclery plans to soon give the items to local nonprofits that will disperse them to those in need.
“I think it's important for any community to have this kind of mindset,” David Lane, a new co-owner of Hope Cyclery, said. “It's definitely something that people do around Thanksgiving, around Christmas. They volunteer more at soup kitchens and donate more food and whatnot.
"For a bike shop to throw an event like this – where people have to be on their bikes and going around to grocery stories and buying stuff – it just makes it even a little more (meaningful) for people from the community to do that sort of thing together.”
The event gave participants the opportunity to both have fun and contribute to their community at the same time.
“Being thankful is important because it puts into perspective what you have and a lot of people don't,” said Ethan Stewart, one of the riders. “This is a chance to be able to help out in a small way, but help out nonetheless.”
Hope Cyclery held the inaugural Cranksgiving last year.
The bike shop has also made other contributions to the city, including providing refurbished bikes to those who could not otherwise afford them, and cleaning trails.
“Those are all the things that we really strive to do here,” Hope Cyclery founder Jarrod Bunk said. “We believe that you should not just be a bike shop to be a bike shop. We think you should be a bike shop to create change in your community because bikes are magic. That's where we're at.”


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The City of Ottawa says it has ticketed another nine Uber drivers in the past week, bringing the total number charged to 23 since the Internet taxi service arrived in Ottawa last fall.
According to a statement from bylaw enforcement chief Susan Jones, more charges could come this week under the city’s taxi bylaw.
To gather evidence, undercover bylaw officers have been booking rides with Uber drivers, who use their own vehicles to transport passengers at rates often well below those charged by licensed cab companies. Uber, based in San Francisco, argues that it is a technology firm, not a taxi company, because its smartphone application connects customers with freelance drivers and eliminates the dispatch role filled by traditional cab firms. It describes its service as “ridesharing.”
The city said the 23 people charged face a total of 44 charges of being unlicensed taxi drivers (a $615 fine) and operating unlicensed cabs ($260).
At least some of those ticketed are fighting the charges in court, with support from Uber.
On Monday, the company’s Canadian spokesman suggested that Ottawa’s “costly enforcement operations” are only hurting consumers who want more transportation choices.
“We believe that a collaborative process to truly understand the nature and benefits of ridesharing would better serve the interests of Ottawans,” Xavier Van Chau said.
Ottawa isn’t the only city coming down hard on the service as it expands across Canada. In Montreal, two Uber drivers were fined and had their vehicles impounded in January.


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Opportunities for incorporating new technology into products and services abound in the transportation industry. Consumers are ready to see the same user experience they have with desktop and mobile devices transition to their commute, and developers are doing their best to deliver. From self-driving cars to electric car-sharing services, transportation is undergoing a facelift. This week, we bring you the latest innovations and initiatives in the transportation industry, including cars, moon rovers, and hoverboards.
Rebooting the Automobile – MIT Technology Review
Cars are more computerized than the average consumer might realize. As Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto begin to appear in cars, the next frontier for tech companies may be developing entire car operating systems, which would connect all of the computer technology already built into automobiles. Automotive companies, such as Ford and Tesla, have their own development plans in mind to further digitize the way we interact with, and use, cars.
Two Self-Driving Cars Avoid Each Other on Californian Roads – The Guardian
Recently, two self-driving cars from Google and Delphi Automotive narrowly avoided colliding with each other on a California road. Though Reuters reported the near collision as a “close call,” Delphi points to the incident as an example of safety maneuvering capability within self-driving vehicles and cites it as a demonstration of how these cars are able to interact with one another.
French car-sharing service, Autolib, has introduced a small fleet of electric cars to London. The service has already seen great success in Paris, where there are 150,000 users. Since 2013, France has seen a 50%+ increase in registered electric cars. The UK is following suit, with a 300% increase in plug-in electric car registrations over the past year. Autolib plans to have 3,000 cars on London roads in the next five years.
Surprisingly, hoverboard technology has been around for a while. Learn the science behind the hoverboard featured in Lexus’ recent ad, which went viral overnight. The necessary infrastructure to make commercializing hoverboards is not a possibility…yet. But, in the meantime, we can marvel at what technology could bring to the automotive and transportation industries in the years ahead.
Google is hosting a competition, Lunar XPrize, with $20 million going to the first privately funded competitor to land on the moon, travel 500 meters, and stream HD video back to Earth. Companies from around the world are joining in, spending millions to get their technology to the moon, where they see future commercialization opportunities. NASA has already pledged to pay up to $30 million for any images and data these rovers collect.


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Deflation isn't always so bad -- just ask Japan
News On Japan via Bloomberg -- Apr 14
Milton Friedman would be aghast at economist Nicholas Smith's take on Japan's deflation.
The Nobel laureate is probably best known for his argument that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. When too much money chases too few goods, prices surge. Japan, of course, is beset with the flipside of this dynamic. Too little cash chasing too many goods is thought to be at the root of an economic funk that's now entering a third decade.
Japan is currently shrinking at a 0.6 percent pace year-over-year.
What if falling prices aren't such a bad thing? That's the gist of a new report by Smith, a Japan strategist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets Ltd. in Tokyo, titled, "Does Deflation Even Matter?"
Absolutely, say Japan's political and corporate establishments. To this crowd, if only Japan could gin up a little inflation, all would be sunny. What Japan Inc. ignores, though, is that deflation isn't the cause of its woes but a symptom. Consumers and businesses have no confidence in the future, and so prices grind lower.
Yet, to Smith, that's not the crisis investors believe it to be. Hasn't Japan proven that it can be a manageable occurrence, as others have in past? England, Smith says, had deflation of 0.4 percent a year for its entire Victorian Golden Age of the 1800s and flourished. The U.S. has experienced it for a third of its history. The technology sector has had it for its entire history.
Yes, deflation can be devastating; look no further than the Great Depression of the 1930s. It can slam financial assets, boost debt-servicing costs and undermine top-line corporate profits. It affects confidence and lowers government tax revenue. Many investors consider deflation a third-rail trend, and avoid any economy grappling with it.
In high-cost Japan, it can act like a stealth tax cut that's leaving households with greater spending power. It has shaken up corporate Japan is unpredictable ways, encouraging mergers, downsizing, the abandonment of some uncompetitive industries and even creating investment opportunities.
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| || Police in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Wednesday night arrested a 24-year-old unemployed man over four knife attacks within 10 minutes that left one man dead and three others injured on a street. (Japan Today ) |
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Mum tells of 'holiday from hell'
Tour operator sued after 659 tourists became violently ill
A YOUNG mother has told how she lost more than one-and-a-half stone in weight after contracting salmonella while on a family 'holiday from hell' in Turkey.
Elizabeth Herity (32), from Meentaugh in Glenvar, Co Donegal, is one of more than 650 holidaymakers -- almost all of them from the UK -- who are suing a holiday firm for a total of more than €5.5m after they became violently ill at the Turkish resort of Sarigerme.
"This is one holiday I'll never forget," said Elizabeth. "It was a nightmare."
She developed severe vomiting and diarrhoea after she, her husband John and their two young daughters travelled from Belfast after spending €3,400 on their one-week, all-inclusive stay at the sun resort in August 2008.
Her youngest daughter, Aoibhinn, who was just nine months old at the time of the trip, also developed diarrhoea.
A firm of Manchester solicitors, Pannone, has now started legal proceedings against First Choice Holidays UK on behalf of 659 tourists who stayed at the four-star Holiday Village Hotel in Sarigerme between April and August 2008.
Their writ, which has been issued at London's High Court, alleges that many of them developed gastro-enteritis, including salmonella, C difficile, and other infections and says this was the result of them being given uncooked chicken and undercooked turkey, and being allowed to swim in pools contaminated with human faeces.
"Legal proceedings have been issued and served against First Choice," Paul McClorry, a partner at the law firm confirmed yesterday.
"These people had their holidays ruined through no fault of their own and we hope to reach an amicable settlement with First Choice but to date this has not been possible."
In a statement last night, First Choice Holidays UK insisted that it had not admitted liability over sickness claims at the holiday village.
"Whilst we accept that any level of sickness is unacceptable, the numbers of holidaymakers falling sick remains very low when the larger population is taken into consideration," the company's statement read.
"If someone does fall ill, we would ask that they contact us direct as quickly as possible. That way we can treat them as an individual, rather than a statistic in a legal firm's publicity machine."
The company also pointed out that in light of the reported issues at the resort, it had "significantly increased" its checks and had commissioned independent consultants who undertook additional rigorous audits during the summer.
Mrs Herity -- who is expecting her third child within days -- fell ill just three days before the family were due to fly home from Turkey.
"The diarrhoea started on the Saturday and I was eating Imodium like there was no tomorrow. It could have been very serious for Aoibhinn but luckily she didn't get the vomiting, only diarrhoea."
She said there were flies everywhere and one of the pools was closed to the public for three or four days because faeces were found in the water.
"This is a lesson well learned. It's no more package or all-inclusive holidays for us ever again," said Elizabeth. "It was a nightmare and it really ruined it for us."
Among a list of 30 separate particulars of claim in the writ against the holiday firm it is alleged that staff at the hotel left the buffet salad bar uncovered, allowing flies to land on it, re-used disposable cups, mixed fresh food with food which had been standing some time, and handled raw and cooked meats without washing their hands.
Staff are accused of serving food lukewarm, failing to refrigerate or freeze food, failing to keep the water supply reasonably safe, failing to store food at the correct temperature, and refilling water dispenser bottles from half-empty bottles left by guests.
Excrement is said to have been removed from the swimming pool with a net, without closing and cleaning the pool, and a children's pool is also said to have contained excrement and other human waste.


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Plastic Pollution Is A Huge Problem, But Awake Organics Shows A Small Brand Can Do Something About It
Global environmental destruction is too big a problem for indie beauty brands to tackle on their own, but Awake Organics founder Melissa Kimbell doesn’t believe that’s an excuse for inaction.
The British natural beauty brand has launched a zero-waste program called Zero Waste 500 Club to enable customers to lessen their environmental impacts by sending glass jars back to it for refill purposes after they’ve used up the products within them. Simultaneously, Awake Organics is reaching out to fellow companies to take part in zero-waste initiatives to move toward a greener future.
“The public is really open to the idea. The problem is that they don’t know the options out there. Brands like mine are so small in terms of the whole world. Nobody has heard of us, so how would they know we have this awesome refill program?” says Kimbell. “That’s why I’m encouraging other businesses to do it as well. The program works better if more people talk about it.”
Inspired by broadcaster Sir David Attenborough’s plea for plastic-waste reduction, Kimbell reports e-mails were pouring into Awake Organics earlier this year asking the brand about packaging refills. She figured the Italian-made recyclable glass jars that it uses for products were sturdy enough for refills and decided to pilot the zero-waste program. The program’s aim is to reuse 500 jars to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 4.3 metric tons in 12 months.
“I have a huge amount of positive feedback from my customers who say they love it.”
Customers purchasing Awake Organics products are alerted to the Zero Waste 500 Club when they receive products. Orders arrive in a box containing a business reply postage label with postage paid by the brand. Customers send back empties with the postage label and box they got with their orders. They are allotted 50 points toward their loyalty reward stash for jar returns. Customers accumulating 1,000 points garner a 10% discount. Awake Organics sanitizes the containers in-house for refills.
Kimbell believes the program will be boon for customer retention. “I have a huge amount of positive feedback from my customers who say they love it,” she reports. Elaborating about Awake Organics’ core customers, she continues, “They are really ethically-minded. They are motivated by sustainable values. They are looking for really good quality, and they want products that work.”
Retailers are increasingly concentrating on sustainability. Kimbell says the ones Awake Organics has been in contact with often drill down on its packaging. The brand recently rolled out to five Anthropologie and 10 Urban Outfitters locations in the U.K. On top of Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters, Awake Organics is sold at Juvenilis, The Kind Store, Beauty And The Boutique, Le Fix Natural Beauty Bar, Love Lula, Vida Eco Shop and Amazon Europe. This year, it’s on track to match or surpass its sales from 2018, which rang in at 60,000 pounds or roughly $73,000 at the current exchange rate.
“It’s hard to get somebody’s attention because we are small, and we don’t launch a product a month that gets everyone excited. It’s really about keeping my customers.”
Kimbell envisions retailers picking up on Awake Organics’ zero-waste program once the concept is proven. “What I would like to do is to be able to show that, yes, it brought customers back to our website, and they bought more frequently and engaged with us more on social media,” she says. “It could bring customers to retail doors more frequently. It could get them buzzing on social. Retail is looking to make richer experiences for their customers, so they should be thinking about these things.”
Awake Organics has been considering the earth for a while. In its two and a half years on the market, it’s built an extensive track record of sustainability efforts. Following three surveys showing its consumers value transparency, the cruelty-free brand reevaluated its supply chain to determine suppliers it could rely upon locally to diminish its planetary footprint and spotlight to let its audience in on how its products are made. Awake Organics curtailed its waste by 30% by changing its packaging design and materials during a rebrand in 2017 and, today, 89% of its ingredients and packaging come from the U.K. The brand depends primarily upon certified organic and fair-trade ingredients.
Kimbell isn’t finished greening her brand and the broader beauty industry. She’s focusing on releasing products that are applied regularly in plastic-free packaging to stem the tide of plastic to landfills and oceans. For example, Awake Organics will soon launch a probiotic deodorant that it touts is the first plastic-free natural deodorant for sensitive skin in the U.K. The deodorant in aluminum casing will be the brand’s sixth product.
Awake Organics’ environmentalism is good for business and the planet. “There are so many great new brands every day. It’s competitive. It’s hard to get somebody’s attention because we are small, and we don’t launch a product a month that gets everyone excited. It’s really about keeping my customers. For me, it’s a great way to do that because I’m giving them something they want,” says Kimbell. “Listening to what my customers want and delivering on that has worked for us since the beginning.”


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Dealmaker Martin Franklin picked an odd place to hammer out his latest acquisition: between mile 11 and mile 15 while running a marathon in Miami on Monday.
And oh yeah, it was his seventh marathon in seven days on seven continents.
Franklin, an accomplished runner who has bought and sold a wide range of companies, including Burger King and Jarden, was just checking in with The Post on Tuesday during what was already an impressive feat — completing the World Marathon Challenge.
The marathon of marathons takes runners on 26.2-mile races in Antarctica; South Africa; Perth, Australia; Dubai; Lisbon; Cartagena, Colombia; and Miami.
Franklin, 52, was checking in 24 hours after completing the last race.
“The conference call was set up while I was traveling, so I agreed to join as others could not make it,” Franklin told The Post in an interview on Tuesday.
“I got my phone from an aid station [around mile 11] at the turning point and they looped me in when they were ready,” he said, declining to provide details on the merger itself.
The people on the other end of the deal were aware he was speaking while running a marathon, and the conference call ended around mile 15.
“They laughed and probably thought I was a little crazy. It’s an efficient use of time,” said Franklin, who paid $44,000 for the privilege of putting his body through the torturous event.
“When you’re in pain as I was, [working while running] actually helps,” he noted. “As you get animated, the adrenaline kicks in and pace picks up.”
What did he take away from his endeavor?
“I learned the body is not designed to run 183.4 miles in a week,” Franklin said, adding that he is not planning to run in the World Marathon Challenge again. “Marathon is a game of patience and perseverance, much like business.”
In 2000, Franklin took a shareholder activist position in Alltrista Corp., a maker of canning jars, and within a year became chief executive. He sold off a slumping division and then transformed the business into a consumer goods conglomerate.
Alltrista was renamed Jarden, and Franklin brought Bicycle playing cards, Bionaire, Coleman, Crock-Pot, First Alert, Jostens, Mr. Coffee and Rawlings to the conglomerate.
Franklin sold it to Newell Rubbermaid in April 2016 for $15 billion.
The dealmaker, who runs Mariposa Capital, is currently chairman of Platform Specialty Products, a pesticides maker.
Franklin said Tuesday he was working but would not make it a long day.


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June 24, 2011
By ASHLEY JACKSON - Bulletin Staff Writer
Two young professionals from Wilmington, Ohio, brought ideas about grassroots, green economic revitalization efforts to Martinsville on Thursday.
Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert both grew up in Wilmington, a small town consisting of about 12,000 people in Clinton County.
The area is similar to Henry County and Martinsville.
Wilmington was “very prosperous when I was growing up,” Rembert told about 15 people at a luncheon meeting at the New College Institute. He added that Wilmington became home to the headquarters of Airborne Express, an overnight shipping industry, in the 1980s.
The company employed about 7,000 people until 2003, when it merged with DHL, an international shipping company. The merger expanded the company, and the payroll grew to about 10,000 people, Rembert said.
The company “was the largest single-site employer in the state of Ohio,” he said.
However, in 2008, DHL lost its entire market share, which led it to close in Wilmington and left 10,000 employees without jobs.
“Everyone was caught off guard,” Rembert said.
During this time, Rembert and Stuckert were not living in Wilmington. Rembert was living in West Philadelphia working for a start-up public relations firm, and Stuckert was a volunteer in the Peace Corps, serving in Bolivia.
After the economic downturn struck in Wilmington, Rembert said he decided to come back “to mourn the loss of my hometown.” Stuckert returned after the Peace Corps program was evacuated from Bolivia because of political tension.
Back in their hometown, both men saw how devastated it was because of the significant unemployment. They decided to take action.
“The place that needed us more than anywhere in the world was our hometown,” Rembert said, adding that Wilmington needed fresh ideas and plans for economic development.
The two co-founded Energize Clinton County to revitalize Wilmington’s economy.
The organization blossomed after 150 people showed up at a community meeting to discuss steps to boost the local economy, Rembert said.
“We tapped into the community’s readiness for something new,” he said.
Rembert said that one of the organization’s first attempts for economic development was getting involved in green, or energy-efficient, initiatives.
“We either had to go with it (green initiatives) or be left behind,” he said, adding that it was important to get people thinking about new trends instead of trying to revitalize industry that was not coming back.
The project is known as the Wilmington Green Enterprise Zone, which provides free energy assessments to all businesses in Clinton County. The goal of the project is to ensure efficiency in commercial and residential energy use, Stuckert said.
The organization wanted businesses especially to “preserve wealth,” and in turn, strengthen the local economy by saving, Stuckert said. “You’d be surprised how many savings a community can generate” by being conscious of its energy use, he said.
The organization also began the Clinton Community Fellows Program, which is similar to the New College Institute’s summer internship program. The Fellows Program was designed to show young people that there are job opportunities in their hometowns, which could persuade them to stay in the area, Stuckert said.
He said that the youth in the program spend 30 hours with local businesses and 10 hours with nonprofit organizations. The project is also designed to “support young people to maybe open a business (of their own),” Stuckert said.
“We want to create an environment for entrepreneurs,” he said.
Buy Local First Clinton County, another program started by Energize Clinton County, is designed to attract small businesses to Wilmington and support existing businesses. The campaign began with 15 businesses and now has nearly 300 companies and a network of about 3,000 local consumers, Stuckert said.
The buy local campaign grew after an email list was compiled. It contains about 4,000 email addresses of area residents, Rembert said.
Each week, the organization emails each person a newsletter. The first week of the month, a community event calendar is sent; the second and fourth weeks of the month, a profile of a local business is sent; and on the third week of the month, a coupon book is sent out for discounts at local businesses.
“It’s the most effective thing we’ve done,” Rembert said.
The organization also launched a buy local e-commerce website, which is an online directory of the local businesses and allows consumers all over the country to buy products from Wilmington. Stuckert said that in just a few days after the website was launched, it had brought in $50,000 in sales.
Rembert said that since the project, there now are only two vacant business spots in downtown Wilmington. “It’s the lowest vacancy rate that it’s (Wilmington) had in our lifetime,” he said.
Both Rembert and Stuckert agree that the key to their organization’s success was the community’s involvement and people’s shift to more positive attitudes.
“It’s not about the job; it’s the place,” Stuckert said. He added that attracting businesses to the area creates options for people, which attracts residents.
Jennifer Doss, director of tourism with the Martinsville and Henry County Economic Development Corp. (EDC), was impressed with the ideas that Rembert and Stuckert presented, especially their buy local campaign.
“I’d like to see some of those ideas developed in Martinsville and Henry County. ... Encouraging residents to choose to spend their money at local stores and businesses can have a positive impact on our community as a whole,” she said.
“It brings a sense of connectivity and being in our community, that we’re all in this together, and we’re supporting each other,” she added.
Doss said she also was excited to hear that the campaign sends out newsletters and features local businesses because the local EDC already has adopted that approach.
“(Their campaign approach) told me that we are on the right track,” Doss said.
Thursday’s presentation was sponsored by the New College and the Danville Regional Foundation. Rembert and Stuckert also spoke at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville on Thursday night.
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The lawyers have churned out a 217-page merger document, the shareholders have voted and executives have put their signatures on the necessary paperwork that will give Coca-Cola Co. direct control over most of its North American bottling business.
Now comes the hard part.
After taking over the U.S. and Canadian factories and employees of bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises in a $12.3 billion deal that closed this weekend, Coca-Cola intends to redesign the ways it gets drinks into American hands. It's a big job, and Coke executives don't have time to celebrate after completing the company's biggest buyout ever.
"Now we can get to work and do what we're so excited about doing," chief executive Muhtar Kent said in a Sunday interview. "This is not a victory lap. We're far away from any victory lap."
In taking responsibility for a blue-collar business it generally was content to avoid for decades, Coca-Cola will have to manage morale in a time of uncertainty, shuffle and trim a North American workforce of about 70,000, and straighten out a tangled distribution system.
"Coke is about to assume the heavy lifting," said Tom Pirko, president of California consulting firm Bevmark. "The consumer has forced and compelled Coke to move away from the model that has guided it for decades."
Over the coming months, large shifts will happen inside Coca-Cola, which has formed sales and bottling groups called Coca-Cola Refreshments USA and Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada to work with a marketing organization called Coca-Cola North America. The company's North American workforce is suddenly larger, counting almost 59,000 former CCE employees in North America.
With months of integration meetings in hand, Coca-Cola laid a lot of the foundation for the new organization, said Gerry Khermouch, editor of Beverage Business Insights. "[But] this is something that's happening on a massive scale. There's always execution risk."
Coca-Cola said most people who make up the current North America teams at Coca-Cola and CCE will see minimal change in their roles and responsibilities. However, some employees will report to new bosses, be responsible for new jobs or see their jobs eliminated.
"There's going to be some shifting in jobs; there will be some changes," Kent said. Yet from the company's experience in owning a bottler in Philadelphia, he added, "We know there's also a tremendous amount of need for people that we need to deploy at the point of impact. We're going to figure this out."
Among the first things to change will be the company's supply chain, said Michael Bellas, CEO of New York-based Beverage Marketing Corp. Coca-Cola will close redundant plants and combine some plants making soft drinks and juice, he predicted.
Coca-Cola also will have to manage its relationships with a network of about 70 smaller U.S. bottlers. Coke's independent bottlers account for about 23 percent of its bottle and can soft drink volume in the U.S., according to Beverage Digest.
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo together spent about $20 billion this year to buy their biggest North American bottlers. John Sicher, Beverage Digest editor, said there will need to be some changes in the big companies' relationships with the other bottlers. Some areas that might need to be adjusted include supply chain, production, handling national accounts and coordination in general. "This will be one challenge for both Coke and Pepsi," Sicher said.
Since the earliest days of Coca-Cola, the company has run its own soda fountain business. Since Asa Candler signed over bottling rights to two young Chattanooga lawyers in 1899, bottles (and later cans) of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite and other soft drinks generally have been produced by a network of independent bottlers -- more than 1,000 of them at one point, and about 300 today.
The blue-collar world that the bottlers inhabit is not completely foreign to Coca-Cola. It owns a bottler in Philadelphia, and others in Germany, India and the Philippines. From the beginning, it has run its soda fountain business in the U.S.
Coca-Cola's business model largely is based on churning out concentrate at a handful of plants at secret locations around the world and selling it to bottlers, who turn it into soft drinks in bottles and cans. For years, it was a formula for massive profits for Coca-Cola, which focused heavily on marketing and had envy-inducing stock price multiples to show for it. The system was built for high-volume brands such as Coca-Cola and Diet Coke, and it worked well for a long time.
Yet as consumers' tastes changed and started encompassing a wide variety of beverages -- from sports drinks to juices to coconut water -- Coca-Cola's beverage distribution network got more complicated in North America. Coca-Cola had separate operations for its soda fountain business and its Minute Maid and Odwalla juices, running alongside CCE's bottling operations.
In some stores, a squadron of a half-dozen or more people from CCE and various divisions of Coca-Cola might come in to sell and stock their designated beverages. Nowhere else in the world is the system set up like that, Kent said.
"There were complications, there were duplications, there was time lost, there was red tape," he said Sunday.
Now, if all goes according to plan, U.S. consumers will see more niche beverages and selections tailored to individual stores as Coca-Cola pursues tighter relationships with national retail chains. Kent said he wants fewer out-of-stock beverages and a fuller portfolio of drinks.
"[Retailers] will notice the responsiveness, the speed, better execution," Kent said. "Consumers will see it in terms of the execution in the aisle."
Now that Coca-Cola owns most of its U.S. bottling system, it can decide for itself on investing in new packaging, Sicher said. Consumers might see a greater variety of packaging than they have in the past. Previously, adding new brands and packages or changing a distribution route could set off rounds of negotiations with CCE, a process that slowed Coca-Cola.
With Coca-Cola in the driver's seat, "They don't have to get into a pitched battle when they decide whether to take a new brand into one channel or another," Khermouch said.
Morningstar analyst Phil Gorham said the migration of consumers from soft drinks to non-carbonated drinks is still happening. "We don't know which of these will fail or become mainstream," he said of the emergence of new brands. Coke has to keep all of its options open and use its new control over bottling to experiment. "It's all about being nimble," he said.
Pirko said it will be difficult for Coca-Cola to remake its bottling operations while managing both niche beverages and billion-dollar brands. "They are now responsible for all this other stuff, and that's never been their province," said Pirko. "They have to become a new kind of company."
MEET THE REPORTER: Jeremiah McWilliams came to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in December 2009 to cover the beverage and restaurant industries. A native of Virginia, he previously covered manufacturing and the auto industry at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., where he reported on the closure of Ford Motor Co.'s local factory. He also covered the beer industry for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and led the paper's coverage when Belgian brewer InBev bought Anheuser-Busch two years ago. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. with degrees in journalism and management.
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Crypto asset exchange platform PT Pintu Kemana Saja or PINTU also enlivened the music, arts, fashion, and food festival We The Fest (WTF 2022) which took place at GBK Sport Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, on September 23-25.
On this occasion, PINTU provided a booth for WTF 2022 visitors to introduce more about crypto assets. In this case, visitors get education about buying and selling crypto assets.
PINTU Brand Marketing and Public Relations Manager Kyrie Canille revealed that there was high interest from the WTF 2022 audience who visited booth DOOR. The visitors came because they claimed to want to find out about crypto assets.
“The average visitor who comes wants to ask about crypto because PINTU does provide buying and selling of crypto assets for beginners,” he said at WTF 2022, Friday (23/9/2022).
In addition to education, on this occasion, PINTU also provides photo booth and games for visitors.
“The visitors who enlivened the DOOR booth and took part in the game and enlivened the photo booth You can get merchandise up to a Bitcoin airdrop worth IDR 1 million,” explained Kyrie.
As is known, crypto assets are currently on the rise, especially among young people. The Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency (CoFTRA) also noted that the value of crypto asset transactions in Indonesia reached IDR 249.3 trillion as of August 2022.
The majority of crypto asset customers or as much as 84% of the 16.1 million people are people aged 18 to 30 years.
Meanwhile, CoFTRA has also issued a list of the latest legal cryptocurrencies in Indonesia. The list is contained in CoFTRA Regulation (PerBa) Number 11 of 2022 concerning the Establishment of a List of Crypto Assets Traded in the Physical Crypto Asset Market.
The top ten crypto assets that are legal in Indonesia, namely Ethereum, Klaytn, Solana, Tezos, and Iota. Then Luna coin, Usd coin, Polkadot, The Sandbox, and Bitcoin.
For information, PINTU, which was founded in April 2020, is a crypto asset exchange in Indonesia that is committed to solving the problems of millennials and retail investors who want to invest in various crypto assets, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets.
Designed for both novice and professional crypto investors, PINTU helps investors trade, analyze, manage assets, and learn about crypto currency through a platform with a simple UI/UX interface, comprehensive trading tools, security features, and educational content.


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29 March 2021
A cheesemonger has seen website orders increase ten-fold as Brits look to get their dairy fix online.
When the pandemic shut the economy down, The Liverpool Cheese Company lost a large revenue stream as wedding cake orders stopped overnight and they were forced to close their cheese ‘school’ immediately.
But cheese-loving boss Vickie Anderson and partner Ian Tomlinson adapted by rebuilding the website to stock more than 200 different products – selling them to all corners of the United Kingdom.
They are now doing around 250 orders per week online, with year-on-year e-commerce takings up tenfold.
She finds many customers are buying cheese as gifts for loved ones, and without being able to speak to an expert face-to-face, they’re ordering special selection packages depending on the season and events.
We started selling online in 2009 but it was only very small, we'd do a few orders per week.
We revamped the website three years ago and when the pandemic hit, we knew we needed to adapt again. We spent the first lockdown getting everything online, using a Funding Circle CBILS loan.
We wanted to get the site ready for October ahead of Christmas so people could access the full range. It means we've been able to close the shop during the lockdown.
Financially the results have been great, but we miss the customers. We can't wait for things to return to normal when we can get back to doing some proper cheesemongering.
The Liverpool Cheese Company
Alongside revamping the e-commerce side of the business, Vickie also bought a new van, and her team is doing between 20 and 50 deliveries per day in the local Liverpool area. She financed the web development and the van through a government-guaranteed CBILS loan, which was facilitated by Funding Circle.
Her experience is shared by Funding Circle as the online SME loan platform publishes a new report which highlights show small and medium sized businesses have adapted in the face of an unprecedent economic situation brought on by the pandemic.
It paints a picture of innovation amongst Britain’s company bosses and how they have looked to diversify their offerings.
The report, produced by Oxford Economics as CBILS draws to a close at the end of the month, reveals how Funding Circle has approved almost 17,000 CBILS loans totalling £2.6 billion as of Feb 2021 and is now the third largest lender under the scheme.
In a survey of SME bosses, more than half (56 per cent) said without finance they would have faced an impact on investment.
Vickie, who employs four full-time staff and six part-time, said: “The CBILS loan helped us to adapt, enabling us to invest in the business and help grow it.
“The new van is great for marketing when the delivery team is out on the road and the revamped website has revolutionised our online offering while also providing us with valuable trends and insights.
“Online shopping is not going to go away. People want to be able to order something in bed at midnight so it's important to provide them with a good service.
“We find that customers like us to use our experience to choose for them, so we create special selection packages depending on the season and events.
“We’re now selling cheese to people all over the UK and we’ve got regular customers from London to Aberdeen and everywhere in between.
“All our staff have worked through the whole period and we’ve not needed to furlough anyone or put them on shorter hours.”
Oxford Economics estimates lending through Funding Circle in 2020 has contributed £7.5 billion to UK GDP and supported 100,000 jobs – lending to businesses in 378 of the 379 UK local authority districts.
A greater share of Funding Circle’s lending went to businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Midlands, and the North West, compared to the overall CBILS scheme.
Without government-guaranteed loans, 16 per cent of SMEs surveyed by Funding Circle feared they would have gone out of business, while 14 per cent would have made job cuts.
Lisa Jacobs, Europe Managing Director at Funding Circle, added: “2020 was a uniquely challenging year, but the way business owners like Vickie and Ian have adapted and grown is humbling. This innovation and resourcefulness has placed the UK’s SMEs in a strong position to power the economic recovery as restrictions start to ease.
“It’s vital they do – SMEs make up 99.7% of all businesses and are responsible for 70 per cent of job creation over the past decade"
For more information:
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About Funding Circle
Funding Circle is the UK’s largest loan platform for SMEs. Founded in 2010 in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, when small businesses struggled to access finance through traditional channels, a wide range of investors have directly lent more than £11.5 billion to approximately 100,000 businesses globally. By combining a decade of investment in machine learning technology with dedicated SME expertise, borrowers can access fast and simple finance, with a seamless customer experience.


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"It smells like hippies wearing patchouli," said a MediaWorks colleague who got to sniff the ad. Close enough.
'The buzz factor'
"There was a lot of back and forth about the scent," said George DeBolt, VP-media, Showtime. "We wanted to have the scent be as close as possible to marijuana. It's the buzz factor, if you will."
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So the final scent selected may smell like pot getting smoked, or marijuana in a bag or even, yes, hippies, Showtime acknowledged. "It's not that the scent is precise," Mr. DeBolt said. "It's that it communicates the show and gets people to look up from the magazine."
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You have undoubtedly heard something about the liquidity problems at Voyager Digital and Celsius in recent weeks. The two American crypto lending platforms are on the verge of financial ruin. That, in itself, is bad enough for users, but today there is even more misery for both parties.
False and misleading promises
According to the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the lending platform Voyager Digital has made false and misleading promises on its website. The legal representatives of both parties wrote a letter to Voyager Digital about the misleading practices. They accuse the lending platform of having lied to their customers about possible protection from the US government in the event of bankruptcy.
Normally, private individuals are insured up to a certain amount for the collapse of banks, for example. In the Voyager Digital’s case, there is no such insurance or protection, while the organisation claims on its website that there is. According to the legal representation of the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, Voyager misled its users.
They now demand that Voyager Digital come up with a complete list of claims it makes on its website and in contracts about this “protection.” Furthermore, they indicate that it is possible that in the future, even if Voyager Digital complies with this request, a lawsuit will be filed against the lending platform. So, extra problems for the company that has been having a hard time over the past few weeks.
Email addresses of customers on the street
Voyager Digital is not the only one with piling up problems. Celsius, which is currently in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, has also encountered new problems. On 26 July, the company sent out an e-mail to its customers, in which, it confessed that their e-mail addresses had been leaked. According to Celsius, the email addresses were leaked by an engineer from Customer.io, a third-party company that Celsius uses.
Announcement from Celsius: “We are writing to let you know that we
were recently informed by our vendorhttps://t.co/452EROQtbc that one of their employees
accessed a list of Celsius client email
addresses held on their platform and
transferred those to a third-party.”
— Celsians (@CelsiansNetwork) July 28, 2022
“We have just been informed that one of the employees of customer.io has obtained a list of Celsius email addresses,” reads Celcius’ tweet. Interestingly, this is part of the same data breach as the attack on OpenSea that took place in June this year. An e-mail file of OpenSea’s users was stolen then.
Little risk for customers Celsius
Although the leak of Celsius’ customer database is not nice for the customers, according to Celsius, there is no “high risk for our customers.” By sending out the email, it mainly wanted to inform its customers of the fact.
In principle, Celsius is right about that. However, it is still possible for malicious persons to launch a “phishing attack” in which they try to collect additional personal data. For example, the leak of Celsius’ customer database is less serious than the earlier leak at Ledger.
Ledger is a hardware manufacturer of wallets, and devices with which people store assets. The data leak at Ledger meant that these people’s full address details were made public. Naturally, this does constitute a risk that makes you, as a user, a little less happy. After all, it is possible that criminals will suddenly turn up on your doorstep with this information.


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Executive Insights on the Uber Hack
Executive Insights on the Uber Hack
Lack of security best practices in large companies continues to lead to huge breaches of personally identifiable information.
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Several security executives weigh in on the recent news that Uber concealed a hack of 57 million accounts for more than a year.
James Maude, Senior Security Engineer, Avecto:
“A serious error on Uber’s part was storing the keys to its data store on a GitHub code repository which the attackers could access. This is the digital equivalent of writing the password down on a bit of paper. Once the attackers had this key, they could access data easily.
“There is a growing issue around organizations outsourcing data storage to the cloud with limited or no security – yet companies feel like they’ve outsourced security too. The cloud presents both a great opportunity and a great danger at the same time.”
“The cover-up of this data breach is almost as interesting as the breach itself, and is just as damaging. To avoid the reputational fallout, a lot of organizations will try and cover up ransomware and other breaches, but this is only getting harder. Legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) coming into effect in May in the EU and that will have global impact, makes it compulsory to notify the authorities of these events. This still applies in the case of ransomware, where data is encrypted but doesn’t leave the organization, or in the case of Uber where they paid up to make sure it didn’t go public.”
Zohar Alon, Co-founder and CEO, Dome9:
“This is yet another case of user error trumping the best security measures readily available today. For an organization as large as Uber, this is inexplicable. There are tools available right now within GitHub that automatically check code for embedded access credentials such as AWS API keys. This is something that Uber, and any organization that is developing code, can and should implement whenever a software engineer checks in code to GitHub. Relying on a developer or administrator to follow best practices is foolhardy at scale and the errors seem to be more egregious each and every time a breach makes the headlines.”
Stephan Chenette, CEO and Co-founder, AttackIQ:
“We continue to see security control misconfigurations that result in costly breaches. Organizations that do not actively search for protection failures will more than likely find themselves victims of cybercrime such as Uber. What makes this breach particularly damning is the failure of Uber to ethically disclose the breach to its customers. This is another epic failure.”
Manoj Asnani, VP of Product and Design, Balbix:
"Stolen passwords are one of the most common ways adversaries propagate through the enterprise to steal critical data. Most security solutions do not provide visibility into breach risk from password reuse. Predictive security solutions can look at the password behavior of users – including sharing of passwords across personal and corporate use – and flag that risk. With this kind of a solution, Uber would have been able to see developers sharing the same passwords for GitHub and AWS accounts and take action to prevent this breach."
After the Equifax and Uber hacks, I guess hackers know almost as much about me as the 52,000 things Facebook does.
Has the continuous news of data breaches caused you, or your organization, to take security more seriously?
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CHIPMAKER Intel is selling its stake in two NAND wafer fabs for $600m as it signs a new supply agreement with Micron.
Intel and Micron have been working together to churn out NAND memory chips for some time with considerable success but it seems Intel wants to take a step back from the partnership, as Micron revealed that its partner will sell its stake in two fabs for $600m. The deal will see $300m taken by Intel in cash while the remaining $300m will be deposited with Micron.
Micron also announced it has signed an extended NAND chip supply deal with Intel, which Intel explained will help it meet demand. Robert Crooke, corporate VP and GM of Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group said, "The new NAND Flash supply agreement with Micron gives Intel better flexibility to meet growing demand for SSDs and other products."
Intel's decision to ease off on its NAND production deal with Micron is an interesting one as the firm's traditional business is making chips, not flogging consumer-facing solid state drives. However it could be that NAND production will go the way of DRAM and see its margins evaporate, and Intel is known for its desire to keep profit margins north of 40 per cent.
Micron on the other hand should be happy that it is getting a larger stake of what is a lucrative and growing business. Not only has it got $300m in the bank from Intel, it has the promise of orders ensuring that its bottom line won't fall away in the near term.
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Microsoft has surprised its fans with a new operating system, one which they never expected.
The company still has around 75 per cent of the worldwide operating system market share, so the changes could be seen by millions.
But how do you find out what is happening and when?
Heres everything you need to know.
What is Windows 11?
Windows 11 is going to be the latest version of the classic Windows operating system.
It was launched at the Microsoft Build conference last month, and came as a surprise for the tech world.
Windows 10 was expected to be the last version of this operating system, but with so many working from home during the pandemic they decided to update it one more time.
However, the company is still working towards a bigger overhaul, and chief executive Satya Nadella said: “Soon we will share one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade to unlock greater economic opportunity for developers and creators.
“I’ve been self-hosting it over the past several months, and I’m incredibly excited about the next generation of Windows.
“Our promise to you is this: We will create more opportunities for every Windows developer today and welcome every creator who is looking for the most innovative, new, open platform to build and distribute and monetise applications.”
What will change with Windows 11?
There have been extensive leaks in the past few weeks and the update seems to be mostly aesthetic.
The star menu and task bar have been relocated to the centre and the bottom of the screen.
The Cortana icon, Microsofts personal assistant, has also been moved.
It comes with a new startup sound, new wallpapers, and the start menu now has plain icons rather than live tiles.
The Microsoft Store is also expected to get a rework, there will be closer integration with Xbox and Office 365 updates are expected.
How and when can I watch?
The event starts on Thursday, June 24, at 11 am ET, which is 4pm UK time, at the Microsoft Events page.


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