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In releasing its 2020 results today, Pilatus Aircraft chairman Oscar Schwenk also announced that he would be stepping down this summer but would remain with the company in a non-operational capacity. “In Hansueli Loosli, a current member of the board of directors, we have found a capable personality who is available and qualified for this office,” he said. Loosli joined Pilatus's board in mid-2020 and has chaired numerous other boards, including Coop, Swisscom, Bell Food Group, Transgourmet, and Coop Mineraloel.
Despite the difficulties associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, Pilatus brought in CHF 1.1 billion ($1.2 billion U.S.) in 2020, nearly matching its 2019 results, and delivered 129 aircraft, five shy of the 134 delivered a year earlier, the Swiss manufacturer reported.
Operating income of CHF 155 million, meanwhile, edged out 2019 results of CHF 153 million. However, the order book fell from slightly more than CHF 2 billion at the end of 2019 to CHF 1.7 billion with new orders amounting to CHF 836 million in 2020. Deliveries in 2020 included 41 PC-24s, 82 PC-12 NGXs, and six PC-21s. Meanwhile, Pilatus reported that 2021 production is sold out and the PC-24 is sold well into 2022.
As for the pandemic, Pilatus said customers were cautious for the first four to six weeks but then returned, “contrary to expectations, and demand was all the stronger.” The biggest challenge was dealing with disrupted supply chains and production delays.
“We have come through a challenging year with flying colors. Surviving the corona year with such a good result is proof that Pilatus is a very healthy company with a sustainable strategy which is fully supported by all,” Schwenk said, and as a result “now is the right time” to step down.


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TPP Leaders at the APEC Summit in Japan, 2010, photo credit to Gobierno de Chile
On November 12, 2011, the Leaders of nine Trans-Pacific Partnership countries – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States – announced the achievement of the broad outlines of an ambitious, 21st-century Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that will enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, promote innovation, economic growth and development, and support the creation and retention of jobs.
INCREASING AMERICAN EXPORTS, SUPPORTING AMERICAN JOBS
President Obama announced in November 2009 the United States’ intention to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to conclude an ambitious, next-generation, Asia-Pacific trade agreement that reflects U.S. economic priorities and values. Through this agreement, the Obama Administration is seeking to boost U.S. economic growth and support the creation and retention of high-quality American jobs by increasing exports in a region that includes some of the world’s most robust economies and that represents more than 40 percent of global trade. The Obama Administration, working in close partnership with Congress and with a wide range of stakeholders, is seeking to conclude a strong agreement that addresses the issues that U.S. businesses and workers are facing in the 21st century.
LEADING ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL INTEGRATION INITIATIVE
The United States is currently negotiating the TPP with eleven other like-minded countries (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam) that share a commitment to concluding a high-standard, ambitious agreement and to expanding the initial group to include additional countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. On April 24, 2013, the United States Trade Representative notified Congress of its intent to include Japan, the world’s third largest economy, in the TPP negotiations, pending the successful conclusion of the domestic procedures of each of the current members. Japan’s entry further distinguishes TPP as the most credible pathway to broader Asia-Pacific regional economic integration.
AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
The TPP is the cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s economic policy in the Asia Pacific. The large and growing markets of the Asia-Pacific already are key destinations for U.S. manufactured goods, agricultural products, and services suppliers, and the TPP will further deepen this trade and investment. As a group, the TPP countries are the largest goods and services export market of the United States. U.S. goods exports to the broader Asia-Pacific totaled $942 billion in 2012, representing 61 percent of total U.S. goods exports. U.S. exports of agricultural products to the region totaled $106 billion in 2012, 75 percent of total U.S. agricultural exports. U.S. private services exports totaled $226 billion in 2011 (latest data available), 38 percent of total U.S. private services exports to the world. America’s small- and medium-sized enterprises alone exported $247 billion to the Asia-Pacific in 2011 (latest data available).
STATUS OF THE TPP NEGOTIATIONS
After 19 rounds, the 12 countries have made significant progress and the negotiations are on an accelerated track toward conclusion of an ambitious, comprehensive agreement envisioned by President Obama and the Leaders of the eleven other TPP countries.

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Spirit Halloween comes to former Fort Gratiot Dick’s Sporting Goods
A spookier type of retail has come to the former Dick’s Sporting Goods in Fort Gratiot.
Spirit Halloween, a Halloween retailer with over 1,400 locations in the United States and Canada, has a new location at 4715 24th Ave. scheduled to open Saturday, according to its website.
“At a store near Port Huron, MI, you will find the best Halloween costumes and Halloween decorations that will have you ready for any spooky celebration,” the website states.
Spirit Halloween has a wide variety of Halloween décor, animatronics, costumes, and accessories for trick-or-treating or throwing a Halloween party. Spirit Halloween is open from early August through Nov. 2, according to its website.
Dick’s Sporting Goods closed at the location this past winter after operating in the township for a decade. The 45,000-square-foot facility opened as a sporting goods store in 2010 after being vacant for more than a decade. The Builder's Square was there previously and closed in 1999.
Fort Gratiot Community Development Coordinator Sharon Wilton said Spirit Halloween applied for a business license and sign permit and the township has known about the retailer’s plans to open for a couple weeks.
“I think it’ll be great for retail business,” she said.
She thinks the store could bring people into the township and there have been other stores in the county previously.
- The iconic downtown bar the Brass Rail is for sale in Port Huron
- Another SC4 property purchase is pending north of campus
- ZF workers on strike Thursday
It’s also good to have something in the former Dick’s Sporting Goods space, but it is a temporary lease and she doesn’t know how long the company will lease the space.
“The goal is to get a long-term retail business in there,” Wilton said.
According to Spirit Halloween’s online store locator, the closest Spirit Halloween is 3.7 miles away in Sarnia followed by Chesterfield Township around 29 miles away.
Two emails to Spirit Halloween public relations representatives were not returned.
Contact Bryce Airgood at (810) 989-6202 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on Twitter @bairgood123.


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It's Official: Julie Larson-Green is the new head of Xbox
Microsoft has announced a large reorganizing today, including a new head of the division that includes the Xbox. Julie Larson-Green, the former head of the Windows division at the company, will be replacing Don Mattrick, who left the company earlier this month. She will now head up the "Devices and Studios Engineering Group," which includes Xbox gaming and music, along with other Microsoft products like Surface.
Hers isnt the only name attached to Xbox, though. The restructuring notes on VentureBeat also note as Terry Myerson as the head of the "Operating Systems Engineering Group," which handles back-end operating systems and attached cloud services across PC, Xbox, and Windows Phone.
According to a memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, this effort is an attempt to simplify the processes between the various devices as consumers grow more demanding of easy interoperability. "Going forward, our strategy will focus on creating a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most," the memo read.
With this move, Microsofts five business units, which each had their own president and CFO, have been pared down to only four main groups.


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In the summer of 2018, readers expressed surprise and skepticism at widely-shared social media posts which suggested that Domino's — a company that makes pizza — had begun a project to pave over cracks and potholes on roads in the United States.
On 12 June, Twitter user @GothicKingCobra posted a photo of what appeared to be fresh asphalt covering cracks in a pavement, with the Domino's logo and the words "Oh yes we did" stenciled on top of it. The post read:
Dominos is paying their own money to pave over potholes in cities because cities aren’t taking responsibility and this is the greatest PR ever and honesty so sad that a pizza chain is doing the governments job pic.twitter.com/seXY0Ovoq5
— trey (@GothicKingCobra) June 12, 2018
The image is authentic and was taken in Milford, Delaware. The Domino's paving project is real. In a press release on 11 June, the company wrote:
Domino's is saving pizza, one pothole at a time. Cracks, bumps, potholes and other road conditions can put good pizzas at risk after they leave the store. Now Domino's is hoping to help smooth the ride home by asking customers to nominate their town for pothole repairs at pavingforpizza.com.
Four cities and towns have already reached agreements with Domino's to receive funding for the roadworks: Burbank, California; Bartonville, Texas; Athens, Georgia; and Milford, Delaware. According to the company, the project has already filled forty potholes in Milford:


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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity services, today announced results of a survey revealing businesses are not meeting consumer expectations around protecting personal information.
According to the commissioned Ponemon study conducted across the U.S., U.K., Germany and Australia, 62 percent of consumers have been notified by a company or government agency that their personal information was lost or stolen as a result of one or more data breaches. Of these, 36 percent experienced two or more separate incidents, causing a third of them to sever their relationship with the organization experiencing the data breach.
Sixty-nine percent of consumers say a company’s privacy and security practices are very important to preserving their trust. Yet in 2016, reported data breaches increased by 40 percent, which indicates that today’s security is not secure or providing consumers with much confidence. But what may be most alarming for consumers to learn is that while eighty percent of them believe companies have an obligation to take reasonable steps to secure their personal information, only 65 percent of CMOs and 64 percent IT professionals agree.
“This survey is a wake-up call for the C-suite because data breaches will cost them customers and affect the bottom line, but it doesn’t have to. According to Forrester, 80 percent of breaches involve privileged credentials misuse, which is a vulnerability that has a clear solution,” said Bill Mann, chief product officer at Centrify. “Companies can expediently stop breaches through a trifecta of Identity Services for applications, endpoints and infrastructure. Taking these steps not only goes a long way to ensure company security, but ultimately can help garner customer loyalty.”
When it comes to personal information security, the gap between consumer expectations and corporate reality is significant, and can have a detrimental effect as organizations work to establish deeper and more experiential connections with customers. This is especially true with the increased adoption of Internet of Things devices, such as fitness trackers, smart watches and connected cars. Organizations need to recognize and respect consumers’ desire for better security and can do that by adopting a high security profile that will instill confidence both internally and externally.
According to Forrester, organizations that reach the highest levels on the security maturity scale are 50 percent less likely to have a breach. In addition, these organizations save 40 percent in security costs over their less mature counterparts, and spend $5 million less in breach costs. Forrester found the most mature groups employ more Identity Access Management (IAM) approaches as well as use integrated IAM technology platforms to reduce security risk, which may avoid millions in data breach costs over their less mature counterparts.
Centrify is the only vendor to provide an integrated platform that can secure access for a company’s entire identityscape, including end users, partners, customers and privileged users—who are the most critical access management use case today. Centrify delivers stronger security, compliance and end user productivity through its common platform of Identity Services such as single sign-on, adaptive multi-factor authentication, risk-based access control, deep mobile and Mac management, comprehensive privileged access security, privileged session monitoring and risk analytics.
Led by a team with decades of experience redefining security, Centrify is trusted by over 5,000 global customers, including more than half of the Fortune 50, to defend their organizations.
Centrify redefines security from a legacy static perimeter-based
approach to protecting millions of scattered connections in a
boundaryless hybrid enterprise. As the only industry recognized leader
in both Privileged Identity Management and Identity-as-a-Service,
Centrify provides a single platform to secure each user’s access to apps
and infrastructure through the power of identity services. This is Next
Dimension Security in the Age of Access. Centrify is enabling over 5,000
customers, including over half the Fortune 50, to defend their
organizations. To learn more visit www.centrify.com.
The Breach Stops Here.
Centrify is a registered trademark and Centrify Server Suite, Centrify Privilege Service and Centrify Identity Services are trademarks of Centrify Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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Mobile World Congress, biggest tech show is just about to kick off and all big tech companies are gearing up for the launch of their gadgets which they will show during the event. Recently Samsung has already launched its next generation smartwatch’s just before MWC.
If you too looking forward for MWC 2014 then here is the list of few Smartphone’s which could be shown during the event.
Samsung Galaxy S5
By announcing Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, Samsung has hinted that its bag is full of launches. Samsung has already sent invites for its unpacked event in which they are supposed to announce next generation Galaxy S5.
As per the rumors, Samsung Galaxy S5 could have :-
- 5.2 Inch Super AMOLED display screen with screen resolution of 1440×2560 pixels,
- It could be powered by 2.5GHz Snapdragon processor
- It will run on Android v4.4.2 KitKat wrapped with all new TouchWiz UI
- At back it will have a 16 MP rear shooter, and at front will sport 3.2 MP camera
- 3 GB of RAM
Nokia X aka Normandy
This could the phone on which everyone would be eying on, Nokia X which was codenamed Normandy is the first phone from company which runs on Android platform, however Nokia has forked it deeply and its UI will be very much similar to of Windows Phone.
Nokia X could have :-
- 4 inch WVGA screen
- Snapdragon processor with dual-core and clocked at of 1GHz
- 512 MB RAM
- 4 GB internal memory with microSD card option
- 5 MP rear camera
- 1,500 mAh battery
- Will be available in 6 vibrant colors
HTC One 2 aka M8
HTC could announce next generation version of its flagship phone HTC One, the HTC One 2 or M8. This phone will have a secondary back camera too, one for Low light conditions and another for good light conditions.
HTC One 2 could have :-
- 5.0 Inch Super LCD touch screen with screen resolution of 1080×2048 pixels
- Will run on Android 4.4 KitKat
- Will be powered by Quad core 2300 MHz processor paired with 2 Gb of RAM
- At back it could have a 5 MP UltraPixel Camera and at front will sport 2.1 MP Secondary
At MWC, Sony is also expected to announce next generation version of its flagship phone Xperia Z1, the Sony Xperia Z2, as per rumors it could have :-
- 5.2 Inch IPS screen with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels display,
- It will be powered by Quad Core processor paired with 3 GB of RAM
- As per software it will run on Android v4.4 KitKat
- At back it will have same 20.7 MP Camera with improved technology and at front it will sport 3.5 MP camera
Nokia Lumia 1820
Apart from launching Nokia X, Nokia is expected to launch a new Lumia phone which could be powered by all new Windows Phone 8.1.
Nokia Lumia 1820 could have :-
- It might have a 6.0 Inch IPS LCD display screen with screen resolution of 1080×1920 pixels
- Run on Windows Phone 8.1
- At back will sport 20 MP Camera and at front will have 5 MP front at facing camera
Nokia Lumia 2020
Apart from Android and WPv8.1 smarthone, Nokia is going to unveil an 8 inch tablet Windows powered tablet, specs and details of this tablet is not known at this time.
Some other smartphone which could be announced at MWC :-
- LG G Pro 2
- LG G3
- Sony Xperia G
- Nokia Lumia 1525
- Blackberry Jakarta
We are reporting live from MWC Barcelona, stay tuned to us for latest happening on Mobile World Congress.


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Gloria Jean’s coffee shop is set to re-appear in Orange after the Summer Street store closed.
And the brand’s parent company, the Retail Food Group [RFG] has announced other Orange shops which are part of its company would not be closing.
RFG announced in its half-yearly report last week that it would be closing 160-200 of its retail shops by 2019.
The Gloria Jean’s shop at the Orange Post Office has closed after the lease expired.
The shop has been gutted in preparation for a new business taking over the space.
A spokesman for the RFG said it was not the end of Gloria Jean’s in Orange.
“We are looking for a different site for the Gloria Jeans store that closed,” he said.
And he confirmed that the Michel’s Patisserie, Pizza Capers and Donut King franchises would not be part of the widespread closures.
“No closures in Orange,” he said.
RFG has announced Gloria Jean’s outlets will change to ‘fast, casual dining including an all-day menu’.


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If it seems like the deluge of online holiday advertising is starting earlier every year, you're not just imagining things: According to new data from ad tech company Index Exchange, the beginning of the 2016 holiday advertising season started several weeks earlier than usual. This year's other big holiday ad trend? Programmatic, of course, which saw a steep rise around the globe.
The trends, they are a-changin'. No longer will advertisers, brands or social influencers have to struggle for the greater good of sponsored content.
Chatbots are treated like the simpletons of the artificial intelligence world, overshadowed by movie-trailer-creating Watson and its ilk, or the suggestion engines of huge etailers.
CANNES, France—Location data company Blis today is announcing a private marketplace designed—among other things—to help media buyers understand whether their ads are served in a geographically accurate fashion.
Advertisers target consumers all the time online, but they don't always survey a sample of the actual target segment to figure out their mindsets in real-time. Krux and Survata aim to make that tactic easier to execute.
Synopsizing the diverse talents of Adweek's Media All-Stars—an annual celebration of the best minds in the media agency world—gets a little harder every year. And not because it's hard to […]
A few months ago, BBDO San Francisco's CEO Jim Lesser was chatting with executive creative director Matt Miller about the agency's upcoming summer internship program and discussing how quickly technology is changing advertising when a crazy idea dawned on them: They should be the ones doing an internship.
Digital advertising revenues reached $59.6 billion in the United States during 2015, marking a 20 percent jump compared to the year before, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual study today re
After two years of selling its digital video and display inventory programmatically, NBCUniversal is finally allowing programmatic buys on its linear networks as well.


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YouTubers JJ “KSI” and Logan Paul were pelted with bottles of Prime, which is their own drink brand, during their meet-and-greet event in Copenhagen.
A video of the incident has gone viral on Twitter. Both social media stars can be seen being rescued by their bodyguards as fans threw bottles of Prime in their direction. Some of the bottles seemed to hit Paul, who burst into laughter as he and KSI scurried away from in front of a bus where they were standing.
Here is the video:
The intent behind pelting the two with Prime bottles did not seem to be malicious as the fans seemed to be laughing about it. Paul is known to be a prankster on YouTube. So the stunt could have been the fans’ way of mimicking their idol.
However, the stunt sparked a heated debate on the internet where many fans discussed how the seemingly harmless act could go seriously wrong. “Na this is not even funny if ur a fan and doing that ur just being disrespectful,” one fan wrote.
Here are some more reactions from fans:
The stock values of KSI and Logan Paul skyrocketed after they launched their hydration drinks brand. Prime was originally limited to the US and Canada. However, the drink has now expanded to major cities in Europe.
According to Paul and KSI’s joint statement about why they created Prime on the brand’s website: “We created PRIME to showcase what happens when rivals come together as brothers and business partners to fill the void where great taste meets function. We dropped our first product, PRIME Hydration in 2022 and since then, we’ve continued to work countless hours to expand in retailers, reach new markets and formulate new products we know you’ll love. We’ve been humbled by the process of creating a real brand & surpassing some of the biggest beverage companies in the world. As underdogs, we always cherish the opportunity to show the world what’s possible. Now that we’re both fighting for the same team, we truly believe the sky is the limit.”
The duo has announced that they will be touring major European cities, including Munich (June 24), Barcelona (June 25), Copenhagen (June 27), and Oslo (June 27).


text: Yet the global share of e-commerce is still only at 10% of total retail sales. The march of technological progress is thus pretty much all one-way, and it is going to knock away many of the remaining props holding up the traditional retail industry, one by one. According Deloitte , over a third of major brand leaders are using AI to improve business. Retail organizations have never had an issue collecting lots of data, but analyzing it and using the data to solve problems or create new solutions has been a struggle. From... Predictive Analytics (Big Data). Technology is enhancing many industries from financial institutions to retail outlets. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. What are the potential of AI and Blockchain when it comes to retail space? Artificial Intelligence. The use of technology has become very intuitive as far as shopping through modern retail is concerned. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. But retail still has the human factor, the physical product experience and the immediacy of delivery. Retail shopping will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 1000 years. AR shopping apps can push out in-store sales and coupons. The big will get bigger as mom-and-pops perish and shopping goes virtual. Consumers will be able to shop with friends who are in different physical locations, or visit locations that are states or countries away. Technology in Retail: From centre stage to supporting player, is an insightful perspective on how technology's ongoing evolution has helped shape and progress the retail industry - and its customer shopping experience.. Others, such as Macy’s are using natural language processing techniques to fuel customer service chatbots. The question is, how far can and will it go? So far, a slight advantage to e-commerce…. 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What will be the next innovation in retail markets? Transformative Retail Technology on the Horizon. From browsing products to virtually “trying them on,” extended reality is already in use by many retailers today. With the help of AI technology, apparel retail brands can create virtual racks and trial rooms with gesture walls and touch-free monitors to find … Predictive analytics changes that. - https://amzn.to/2GOEqw1Retail shopping will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 1000 years. Why turn a cold shoulder to the in-store retail experience? The technology to create this sort of shopping experience already exists - it has for years. He helps organisations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchains, and the Internet of Things. 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Georgia’s Black Consumer Market Booms! Black Buying Power in Georgia has grown to nearly $58 Billion now, according to the following article by The Atlanta Journal Constitution! Black America has more resources than we think. When will African Americans develop a collective mindset?
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Today, BloombergNEF has published an updated ‘dashboard’ tracking the latest progress on zero-emission vehicles adoption, covering key statistics such as vehicle sales, charging infrastructure deployment and oil demand impacts.
The dashboard has been produced for the Zero-Emission Vehicles Transition Council (ZEVTC), in consultation with the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This edition includes data up to and including the first half of 2022.
Key findings include:
- Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales grew by 63% (year-on-year) in the first half of 2022, to nearly 4.3m units. China and Europe have led the global passenger EV market since 2015 and accounted for 84% of global EV sales in the first half of 2022. Sales growth in Europe has slowed to 12% year-on-year, while China now plays a much more prominent role, growing at 115% year-on-year.
- ZEV Transition Council member countries combined were responsible for 42% of global passenger EV sales in 1H 2022.
- EVs accounted for 13% of global passenger vehicle sales in 1H 2022, or 9% when excluding plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). This is the same as in the last quarter of 2021, but higher than the full-year average for 2021.
- The adoption of electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles are expected to avoid almost 1.7 million barrels of oil per day in 2022, up from 1.5 million barrels per day in 2021. This is about 3.8% of total demand.
- The US, Netherlands and France have the largest networks of public EV charging connectors within the ZEVTC, exceeding 122,000, 98,000 and 82,00 respectively. When normalizing for the size of the overall vehicle fleet, the top three countries for charging deployment are the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. India grew its network the fastest of all in the first half of 2022.
Note: the dashboard presents data on electric vehicles (EVs) including both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), as well as fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) – even though PHEVs are not truly zero-emission.


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Jewelry chain Zales has debuted a new program to feature the collections of talented emerging designers. The retailer’s Designer Spotlight program, which launched this month, is designed to quickly onboard upstart collections to a new online retail marketplace on Zales.com.
The company is currently searching for “maverick designers and brands, with the hopes of helping small businesses affected by COVID-19, as well as giving a platform to [BIPOC] designers,” according to prepared statement on the initiative. Interested brands and designers can fill out a form and upload their portfolio of work on this landing page.
The collections chosen will be featured on Zales.com during the fall and holiday 2020 seasons—a meaningful prize (and potential business launcher) for any emerging jewelry brand. Zales is owned and operated by Signet Jewelers Limited, the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry.
Zales will be taking nominations through July 28, with the new brands appearing on Zales.com come September. To attract more BIPOC candidates, the retailer has also reached out to GLAAD, NAACP, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Accessories Council to help identify talented artists.
A representative for Zales tells JCK that the retailer hopes to make Designer Spotlight an ongoing program “to feature a rotation of great, unique, and diverse talents.”
Jamie Singleton, president of Zales, Kay Jewelers, and Peoples, said in a statement, “The pandemic is challenging all businesses—especially emerging fine jewelry designers…. We want to give them an opportunity to grow their business using our successful Zales.com digital platform as their launching pad.”
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, Senior Associate of DIFC-headquartered BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates weighs up incubator programmes and legislative pressures chasing fintech development. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) continues to position itself as a base for businesses involved in cutting-edge technology, ranging from artificial intelligence and robotics, to blockchain integration and driver-less vehicles. The UAE does this by being pioneers in using these technologies in the public sector and by creating accommodating structures and regulations for new up-and coming industries. The fintech sector continues to draw a lot of attention from various regional and institutional investors as well as traditional financial players.
The article will provide insight into the current state of fintech sector in the UAE and what legal issues may arise in the future as the popularity of fintech continues to grow. Read full article here.


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SAN MATEO (04/07/2000) - The popularity of the Internet has caused a proliferation of data. Databases are bursting with information from purchase orders, corporate logs, e-mail messages, and streaming media -- so much so that finding ways to simplify complicated storage architectures and deploy them on demand has become a huge struggle.
Storage vendors such as EMC Corp., Legato Systems Inc., and Veritas Software Corp. are scrambling for group certifications to offer off-the-rack storage systems. But a storage network still requires manpower and physical space to scale as business grows.
Enter Internet storage, or online storage services. By outsourcing storage to a vendor, companies can avoid buying, housing, and managing a high-priced, complex storage architecture. The rising number of online storage companies and their growing client lists hint that online storage is filling a need.
Kneko Burney, director of markets and computing services manager at Cahners In-Stat Group, a research company in Scottsdale, Arizona, feels Internet storage opportunities will be significant for the next several years.
"In the heat of battle, when you're conducting thousands of transactions per day, you need to add storage quickly," Burney said. "And Internet storage offers that right now."
Greg Strakosch, CEO of Dedham, Massachusetts-based TechTarget.com, a company that builds IT portal portfolios and outsources its storage management to StorageNetworks, agrees.
"We're growing so fast, we need something really scalable, and Internet storage is storage on demand," Strakosch said.
Internet storage answers not just the need for expanded storage that can scale quickly, but also the need to provide users with remote access to their data when it would be otherwise impossible.
"We provide a virtual storage portal, giving the customer information about their service from a global information center," explained John Clavin, senior vice president of marketing at StorageNetworks, an Internet storage vendor in Waltham, Massachusetts. "The customer can log in over the Web anywhere in the world and get a snapshot of their storage."
Online storage can give corporate road warriors the freedom to store and access large files without having to store them on their portable computing system.
"We can give salespeople international points of presence, allowing these customers to plug in anywhere, access data over the Internet, and download only what they need," Clavin said.
Other Internet storage vendors, such as StoragePoint, in San Diego, are following this remote application to the fullest.
"There's one product we're working on right now where you'll be able to dial in to our system from your cell phone and have a certain file e-mailed to whomever you wish," said Scott Zimmerman, CEO of StoragePoint. "This is an example of what makes virtual storage the next thing. You'll have browsers everywhere, and at any access point to the Internet, you'll be seconds away from a file you need."
Internet storage is a young market, and pricing structures vary. In some cases, it may not cost less than implementing an internal system, although it can boost productivity.
"We charge about the same as if you did it yourself, but we'll do it better and a lot more dependably," Clavin said. "Skilled technicians are getting harder and harder to find. You want your talent focused on your core direction, and not on your storage problems."
OTG Software, an Internet storage vendor based in Bethesda, Md., offers more standardized pricing.
"We bill per gigabyte," said Richard Kay, CEO of OTG Software. "We have a standard program based on the amount of storage, which costs anywhere from $1,500 to $65,000. We analyze what a customer's needs are and work with them."
OTG Software's average customers, including MSNBC, are businesses that are worth "anywhere from $10 million to a billion dollars," according to Kay.
"But big companies generally don't outsource things for a long time," Cahners' Burney said. "They will wait until they understand it, and then they'll make the investment themselves and bring it in-house, as it doesn't make sense to shell out cash over and over when they can ultimately do it themselves."
At the forefront of the battle for online storage acceptance is the question of security.
"The first question I'd ask is, 'How can they guarantee stability and future access to my data?' " said James Porter, an analyst at Disk Trend, an industry watch group based in Mountain View, California. "Because, this is like taking your money to the bank. If someone opens up a five-foot-wide cubby hole and puts a sign outside that reads 'bank,' would you put money in it?" Porter asked.
But StorageNetworks' Clavin feels the current target market for Internet storage is a bit more savvy.
"The reality is, we don't run in to a lot of these folks," Clavin said. "Most of the customers we talk to have already bought in to the idea [of online storage] and have made a tremendous leap of faith already."
"The one absolute piece of religion we follow is we don't compromise security at all," Clavin said, assuring that, through a blend of encryption and independent storage architectures, security concerns are kept to a minimum.
"All our fibre is private fibre; there's no sharing on the network or on the disk array. Each customer has dedicated architecture for their data."
Still, Disk Trend's Porter warns there are no guarantees.
"What about data still residing with an Internet storage vendor after you leave?" Porter asked. "Because, think about it, when you send down an erase command, it merely deletes the data off the index, it doesn't delete it from the actual tracks of the disk."
None of the Internet storage vendors interviewed offered absolute security or cash guarantees for data loss. But all offer contracts to assure the highest level of data protection and access.
Even skeptics see a place for Internet storage in the e-business market.
"There are a lot of companies out there smaller than the Fortune 1000 guys," Porter said. "And those medium-size companies are certainly the market for Internet storage."
"For now, Internet storage allows you to bring your strategy online fast," Cahners' Burney said. "And that's what e-business is about these days."


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State Trading Organization has announced that they will be reducing its diesel and petrol prices.
The company stated that from 21st March onwards they will reduce MVR 1.68 from diesel price and MVR 1.53 from petrol price. Thus, diesel will be sold for MVR 8.71 per liter and petrol will be sold for MVR 8.07 per liter.
STO has also revealed that this decision was taken as the prices of oil in the world market have fallen.
The company expects this reduction in price will help the public in this economic fall caused by the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.


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Pure Extracts Technologies (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF) (XFRA: A2QJAJ), a plant-based extraction company specializing in cannabis, hemp, functional mushrooms and the rapidly emerging psychedelic sector, has signed an agreement with Canada House Wellness Group (CSE: CHV) to distribute concentrate products through existing provincial distribution channels. Canada House Wellness is a fully integrated medical cannabis company. The two companies have entered into a Cannabis 2.0 distribution agreement. The agreement notes that Canada House’s wholly owned subsidiary Abba Medix Corp. will carry and distribute Pure Extracts’ line of concentrate products. Canada House’s leadership team noted that it was impressed with the Pure Extracts team and the brand presence that Pure Extracts has established, specifically in the country’s Western provinces. “This agreement allows us to quickly and efficiently get our outstanding line of full-spectrum oil vape and edible products to retail buyers across Canada while our Sales Amendment application is being processed by Health Canada,” said Pure Extracts CEO Ben Nikolaevsky in the press release.
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About Pure Extracts Technologies Corp.
Pure Extracts features an all-new, state-of-the-art processing facility located just 20 minutes north of world-famous Whistler, British Columbia. The bespoke facility has been constructed to European Union GMP standards aiming towards export sales of products and formulations, including those currently restricted in Canada, into European jurisdictions where they are legally available. On Sept. 25, 2020, Pure Extracts was granted its Standard Processing License by Health Canada under the Cannabis Act. In addition, the company’s stock began trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”) on Nov. 5, 2020. For more information about the company, please visit www.PureExtractsCorp.com.
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Another Round Of Toilet Paper Shortages Looms Amid Global Shipping-Container Crunch
Even before the Ever Given became lodged in the Suez Canal, manufacturers around the world were struggling with the ramifications of a global shipping-container crunch creating bottlenecks in global supply chains. The problem started in the chaos of last spring. A surge in demand for PPE and other products resulted in more demand for shipping containers used to help ferry them to China, as well as African and South American Nations,
To be sure, China is seen as one of the biggest contributors to the container crisis, as snarls and delays at Chinese ports have impacted the availability of containers.
Setting the situation in the Suez aside, one of the world’s biggest producers of raw wood pulp, located in South America (far from the Suez), is warning that the container shortage could lead to another shortage of toilet paper on American shelves.
Most Americans probably remember the startling surge in stockpiling of toilet paper and other household essentials. Many were blindsided by it, or forced to be a premium for the stuff. Families around the country stressed out about the possibility that they might be left high and dry.
According to Bloomberg, the company, the Brazil-based company, Suzano SA, primarily ships its pulp in cargo vessels known as break bulk. But as demand for ships that can carry ribbed steel containers surges, break bulk rates and capacity are being squeezed.
For readers who aren’t familiar with the term, here’s a quick explanation of what constitutes “break bulk” (courtesy of LogisticsPlus):
What is Break Bulk Shipping? The term break bulk comes from the older phrase “breaking bulk” which is the extraction of a portion of the cargo on a ship, or the beginning of the unloading process from the ship’s holds. In modern context, break bulk is meant to encompass cargo that is transported in bags, boxes, crates, drums, or barrels – or items of extreme length or size. To be considered break bulk, these goods must be loaded individually, not in intermodal containers nor in bulk as with liquids or grains.
Break bulk was the most common form of cargo for most of history. Since the late 1960s, break bulk cargo has declined while containerized cargo has grown significantly. Moving containers on and off a ship is much more efficient than having to move individual goods. This efficiency allows ships to minimize time in ports and spend more time on the sea. Break bulk cargo is also more susceptible to loss, theft and damage.
Examples of commonly shipped break bulk cargo commodities include:
- Bagged or sacked cargo
- Bailed goods
- Barrels, drums, and casks
- Corrugated and wooden boxes or containers
- Reels and rolls
- Equipment, vehicles and components
- Steel girders and structural steel
- Any long, heavy or over-sized goods
Given consumers’ penchant for stockpiling and panic buying, a habit that emerged shortly after the pandemic emerged last spring, CEO Walter Schalka said in an interview that he’s worried all of this could snowball into another toilet paper shortage.
Sao Paulo-based Suzano is already concerned about the risk of exporting less in March than the company had expected, and being forced to roll over some shipments into April, Schalka said. With competition increasing for cargo vessels, break-bulk ships are berthing at the company’s terminals less often than usual.
“All the South American players which export through break bulk have faced this risk,” he said.
Brazil is the world’s top supplier of pulp, and Suzano accounts for about one-third of global supplies of hardwood pulp, the type used to produce toilet papers. Cargo-market disruption are wreaking havoc on global trade, especially for food and agricultural products, and the crisis in the Suez is already causing tanker rates to spike.
Unsurprisingly, the Bloomberg headline warning about another toilet paper shortage soon became a hot topic on twitter.
Honestly, I’ve peed in enough bushes used enough bidet nozzles to know that there are more important things in life than toilet paper. We’ll be fine. https://t.co/ELnUXZlfy6
— Shani Kotecha (@ShaniKotecha) March 25, 2021
(my) alternate headlines: “Clog In Supply Chain Leads To Toilet Paper Shortage” “Crappy Situation In Suez”. Also, Samuel L. Jackson: pic.twitter.com/FQscbEHjBF
— AI6YR (@ai6yrham) March 25, 2021
On the bridge: “oh shit!”
Narrator: “little did they know that this snafu could take down the entire toilet paper supply chain and 10% of global shipping trade”
Ship owner: *inconsolable, begins having PTSD symptoms whenever the wind gusts*
— Jessy Irwin ✨ (@jessysaurusrex) March 25, 2021
let the annual toilet paper hunger games begin https://t.co/wmfx98JxbI
— jsadinolfi (@jsadinolfi) March 24, 2021
Suzano’s warning is among the first major signs of strain in these shipping markets. If the squeeze drives up freight costs, it could also drive up prices of imported goods, stoking inflation, and creating new headaches for the Federal Reserve…and the market.
If you haven’t bought a bidet yet, now might be a good time.
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It's unclear if BBM users will be able to port their accounts or data over to the enterprise version.
But the service is no end altogether users can download BBMe from the Google Play store, as the enterprise version is still offered however there is no version for iOS. Initially debuting in 2008, BBM was only available on BlackBerry devices. Then the smartphones made the appearance and the sales of the Blackberry phones dropped steeply and the company kept changing its strategy before opting for Android as the OS.
The move follows Emtek's announcement Thursday that it will shut down the once popular BlackBerry Messenger service on May 31. This is what the company has now explained in its blogpost, mentioning that it stays committed to the messenger service but its efforts at keeping the service alive have not been successful. The technology industry however, is very fluid, and in spite of our substantial efforts, users have moved on to other platforms, while new users proved hard to sign on.Читайте также: Benitez: I want to win the Champions League again
It's not clear how many consumer users of the BBM service are out there waiting for a lifeline.
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The security software company announced Thursday that it is opening up the enterprise version of BBM - dubbed BBM Enterprise, or BBMe, and intended for corporations - to individual users. Once upon a time, BBM used to be the largest messaging app, even on non-BlackBerry devices. The catch here is that the app is free for the first year and will set users back $2.49 for a six-month subscription afterward.При любом использовании материалов сайта и дочерних проектов, гиперссылка на обязательна.
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Gauteng: An intelligence driven operation comprising of Crime Intelligence, Tactical Response Team and Detectives from Ekurhuleni East Cluster has led to the arrest of nine suspects alleged to be part of an Identity fraud syndicate.
Police arrested two suspects in June 2016 after they were found with fraudulent documents that include identity documents, bank statements, municipality statements.
Further investigation commenced subsequent to the arrest of this two suspects as it was suspected that more suspects could be part of the syndicate or involved.
Thorough investigation led the police to premises around Yeoville in Johannesburg in the early hours of Friday, 02 July 2017, where police effected arrests.
It is alleged that suspects were stealing and developing IDs, municipal bills and bank statements.
It is further alleged that perpetrators targeted banks, furniture shops and retail stores where they would produce these fraudulent documents to open accounts.
Computers, software, hardware and several documents were recovered during the operation.
Two females and seven males were arrested today and will appear in court soon, facing charges of fraud and theft. More arrests are expected.
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Logistics giant FedEx joined the Blockchain Alliance
FedEx, a global provider of logistics services, joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). According to a company representative, the blockchain solutions will ensure transparency and data security of logistical processes.
The security of storing data on the blockchain is very important to the company. In 2017, a powerful hacker attack was committed on one of the company branches. FedEx specialists are also interested in cargo tracking services, which blockchain can make convenient and cheap for both employees of the company and its customers. And smart contracts offer additional opportunities in resolving customer disputes.
The company is already testing blockchain-based solutions and is developing a pilot project with smart contracts. In particular, a register is being drawn up, on the basis of which data disputes will be resolved. As explained by the vice-president of strategic planning and analysis of FedEx, Dale Chrystie, millions of records are created in electronic journals of the company every day. Storing and processing such amounts of data centrally is expensive and unsafe.
FedEx is a recognized innovator in the field of logistics. It was one of the first to start using Internet services to track packages, and now it is mastering blockchain. Other companies also see the potential of this technology in supply chain control: for example, Provenance, a software integrator from England, uses blockchain to monitor shipments of imported tuna. And a major retailer Walmart (USA), together with IBM, plans to use blockchain to monitor the supply of pork from China.


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I'm sure there's somebody over at Anheuser-Busch corporate headquarters right now giggling and clapping, proclaiming what a PR coup their college fan can promotion has generated. But as far as I can tell, this one had Bad Idea Jeans written all over it from the beginning.
The campaign involves color-coordinated cans of Bud Light that match the colors of the local college football team in 25 markets. So LSU fans could pick up a cold purple & yellow can of Bud Light while Michigan fans could sip from a blue & yellow one. As you can imagine, college-targeted beer isn't high on many university's lists of things that gets them excited and many universities have complained. Michigan even threatened to sue.
Anheuser-Busch responds that the campaign is aimed only at fans who can drink legally and that it has long supported efforts to fight alcohol abuse. It notes that the cans don't bear any school's name or logo. And it says it will drop the campaign near any college that makes a formal complaint.
Ah, the old "we support the fight against the epidemic caused by our product so it's fine if we want to make it easier for people to abuse our product" excuse. A favorite of mine. And of course technically they're not targeted underage college students...but I think we're all adults here (except for the underage college students). They are targeting underage college students.
To be fair, colleges and the NCAA aren't exactly saints in the grand scheme of things. You can't possibly keep track of all the beer commercials that play during college sports telecasts and they're certainly not going to stop selling beer at the Dome anytime soon.
Syracuse was apparently one of the universities that voices it's concerns to Anhueser-Busch. Concerns that are being honored.
Dave Mavoli, general sales manager of T.J. Sheehan Distributing] said 196 cases of orange and white cans were delivered to Syracuse stores, mostly in the university area. However, he said he received an email from the brewer Friday afternoon that the promotion was over.
Orange and WHITE? Jesus, Anheuser, if you're gonna try and get Syracuse students to binge drink more than they already do by drawing their gaze to your product through not-so-subliminal advertising, at least get the colors right.
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According to a new survey released today by the National Retail Federation, the majority of U.S. consumers — 62 percent — believe new credit cards being issued by banks don’t go far enough to protect card data or prevent fraud.
“Consumers are worried that chip-and-signature cards really amount to chip-and-chance,” NRF Senior Vice President for Government Relations Mallory Duncan said. “The chip cards are a step forward but shoppers are concerned that they don’t go nearly far enough. Unless the new cards require the use of a PIN, they will only provide half the safeguards needed to stop increasingly sophisticated criminals. The card industry’s refusal to give consumers the full protection they want continues to be a huge disappointment.”
Among those surveyed, 62 percent said they prefer chip-and-PIN cards over cards that just use chip and signature, and 63 percent said chip-and-PIN cards provide more data security than those that don’t. Among Millennials, the preference for PIN was even stronger, at 71 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 24 and 66 percent for those ages 25-34
Contrary to some banks’ claim that consumers don’t want to have to remember a PIN, the survey found 83 percent of consumers who say a PIN is more secure would consider it worthwhile even if they had to remember a different number for each card.
The survey also found 71 percent of consumers with a credit card have at least one chip card in their wallets, but that only 43 percent of credit cards are chip cards since most consumers have more than one card. Only 47 percent of consumers with a chip card have used it in a chip reader. The online survey of 2,035 U.S. adults ages 18 and older was conducted for NRF August 27 to September 2 by ORC International.
Starting October 1, there will be a major overhaul in how credit card transactions are processed and who is responsible for fraud costs. Under current credit card industry rules, banks are responsible for fraud losses when a counterfeit card is used and retailers are responsible when the person using the card is not the legitimate cardholder. Beginning October 1, banks will no longer honor their share of fraud costs if the card used is a chip card and the retailer does not have a chip card reader. Many retailers believe the liability shift is unfair because the chip reduces banks’ exposure to fraud while the lack of a PIN leaves retailers exposed to fraud.
The new cards, which banks have been rolling out over the past year, use EMV technology — short for Europay MasterCard Visa — to store data on an encrypted computer microchip. But unlike EMV cards used around the world for more than 20 years, which include a PIN, most cards being issued in the United States continue to use a signature to approve the transaction
Over the same period, retailers have had to pay for new card readers, which average about $2,000 each when related software, equipment, installation and other costs are included, or an estimated $35 billion nationwide. Most major retailers and many smaller merchants have installed the equipment, but many have reported that activation has been held up by bottlenecks such as delays in having the systems certified by card companies. That puts many retailers at risk for liabilities through no fault of their own.
“The chips partially address the issue of counterfeit cards, but do nothing about lost or stolen cards because thieves will still be able to sign any illegible scrawl to ‘prove’ that they are the cardholder,” Duncan said. “More importantly, sophisticated criminals can circumvent the chips, so a chip alone is not foolproof. A PIN is a secret password that makes the card useless to a criminal whether the card has a chip or not.”
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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Geoscape, the leading market intelligence company focused on new mainstream consumers and businesses, today announced that Cesar Melgoza will host a breakout presentation on embracing America’s diversity for marketing at SXSW Interactive 2015, the leading incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity.
Melgoza’s presentation, “It Is Not Racist to Consider Race in Marketing,” is designed to outline the need for businesses to understand that ethnic and cultural nuances should be highlighted in sales and marketing efforts.
Over the past century, the conversation about race in the USA has changed drastically. So much so, that it’s considered “polite” to proclaim that “one does not see race.” While this statement comes from well-meaning people intending to say they do not prefer or hold in higher esteem one skin color over another, it has an unintended opposite meaning in a business context.
Of course we see race – and the reality is that with each country of origin, primary language, acculturation level and skin tone, comes a slew of behaviors, traditions and preferences. Marketers must recognize that the monolithic races of yesterday no longer describe the diversity that is today’s New Mainstream.
Cesar M. Melgoza, CEO of Geoscape, created the most sophisticated way to discover America’s multicultural characteristics. In this presentation, he will discuss key strategies brands must understand and use in order to successfully propel their marketing efforts.
If you wish to attend the session, being held on Saturday, March 14 at 11:00 a.m. in Ballroom F at the Austin Convention Center, please visit the session homepage here. If you’re interested in talking with Cesar at the show, visit his profile on the SXSocial community, follow @Cesarmmelgoza or email email@example.com.
For those unable to attend the show, be sure to follow the session and conversation at the session hashtag #NotRacist.
Geoscape provides automated intelligence systems, unique data products, research and analytic services for companies seeking to tap into the growth of new mainstream consumers in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The online Geoscape Intelligence System (GIS), the DirecTarget® database enrichment system and a variety of geo-demographic, consumer, business and media databases enable actionable insights that lead our clients to gain significant business advantages. Geoscape is a privately held company owned by NMS Capital and Cesar M Melgoza, Founder & CEO, and is headquartered in Miami.
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César M. Melgoza is founder and chief executive officer of Geoscape, a business intelligence company that creates automated systems, data, analytics and research focused on high-growth consumer segments in North America and Europe. Melgoza is a leading innovator and thought-leader on business strategy, consumer insights and public policy.
Melgoza is a member of the board of directors for the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where he also serves on its Executive Committee. He is also a board member of Florida State University’s Center for Hispanic Marketing Communications and founder of the New Mainstream Business Summit, an annual gathering of multicultural business leaders.
Prior to founding Geoscape, Melgoza fulfilled key roles at two Silicon Valley firms — Apple and Strategic Mapping. He holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of California and a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Microgaming’s software platform enlarges its customer list
In addition to some of the biggest names in the industry, such as Nordicbet, Tellpoker, DiamondBet and OffsideGaming, Microgaming’s flash technology Quickfire software platform this week closed a deal with another online gambling giant - Victor Chandler.
According to Microgaming spokesman, Quickfire, which has been approved by the Alderney, Malta, Gibraltar and Kahnawake licensing jurisdictions, will enlarge Victor Chandler’s offering with over 150 of Microgaming’s premium titles, including its progressive jackpot games, fully integrated with the online gambling operator's extensive back-office system.
“We are delighted to be working with a prestigious brand like Victor Chandler and we are confident that our unique product will enhance their existing offering,” stated Ashley Sandyford-Sykes of QuickFire. “Victor Chandler will now have access to premier titles and a steady stream of new content from Microgaming.”
A comment also came from Victor Chandler head of casino and games, Andrew Dymock, who said: “Microgaming is the market leading supplier of online and mobile casino content and Victor Chandler is thrilled to be offering its games through QuickFire. We continually strive to offer players a truly best of breed, unique range of quality gaming content, and now with the addition of Microgaming titles, our product has grown significantly in stature. QuickFire’s integration process has been seamless and we’re sure this new offering will prove a hit with our players.”


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Flat-screen marvels to show at CES / Wide-angle digital camera also promised
From big-screen flat-panel televisions that can simultaneously display four high-definition videos to a small dual-lens digital camera for wide-angle photography, this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will not be short on new gadgets.
However, the promise of the digital living room, with easy-to-use electronic gizmos for the mass audience, still remains elusive, analysts say.
That's despite the progress in products and services that will be unveiled this week by high-tech companies from all over the world, they say.
In fact, rather than painting grandiose visions of what the future may hold, high-tech companies at the four-day event will probably showcase individual products that are here now, said Ross Rubin, an analyst at the market research company the NPD Group.
"I think this year, it's a bit of a retreat in some way," he said. "Now, the attention is focusing back a little bit on individual (devices) and building up the flexibility of those products as well as the entertainment value or quality of those products."
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Analyst Tim Bajarin says that shift in focus to individual devices is also part of a broader change in how tech companies view consumers.
Instead of creating new interconnected gadgets just for the digital home, tech companies now see the opportunities to sell technology that moves with customers anywhere they go, through cell phones, handheld computers, laptops, PCs and TVs.
"They not only want to own the living room, but to actually own the connected consumer," said Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Inc. of Campbell.
This year's show, which opens Thursday and is expected to draw more than 130,000 people from about 110 countries, is now the single most important trade show for the $108 billion global consumer electronics industry. About 44,000 buyers are expected to walk the 1.6 million square feet of showroom floor, which will include 2,500 exhibitors.
But the show has become more than just a place to strike business deals. With about 4,000 journalists and 1,500 financial analysts also scrutinizing their wares, CES also has become an important marketing tool for many companies.
With digitalization of home entertainment content such as music, movies and TV shows, the reach of CES has definitely gone beyond traditional consumer electronics giants such as Sony, Samsung and Panasonic.
Now, the titans of the PC industry such as Microsoft, Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard are also trying to tap into the consumer electronics market.
This year's lineup of keynote speakers includes Microsoft's Bill Gates, Sony's new chief executive officer, Howard Stringer, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini.
The Internet is also likely to play a prominent role in this year's show, with Terry Semel and Larry Page, chief executives of Yahoo and Google, scheduled to take center stage on Friday as keynote speakers.
"In the 28 years that I've been attending CES, this is the first one that's had such diversity of consumer electronics, PC and content industries," said Richard Doherty, an analyst at the technology analyst company Envisioneering Group.
One of the key themes at this year's CES will be downloading videos from the Internet and being able to watch them on a number of different devices, including portable media players like Apple Computer's video iPod, Doherty said.
The idea is not new, but the concept has gained momentum in the past couple of months, with Hollywood making a number of deals to make popular TV shows available online.
The list includes Apple's deals with Disney and NBC Universal to make some of their shows available through the Cupertino company's iTunes Music Store. Time Warner has decided to make some older shows available through America Online, and CBS and Comcast have also struck a deal to make certain shows available as video on demand.
This week, Sling Media, a San Mateo startup whose Slingbox allows users to watch their television on a PC from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection, will take another step in that direction.
TV on cell phones, handhelds
The company will announce this week that it will start selling a software application that will allow Slingbox users to access their television using a cell phone or a handheld computer.
"It takes us closer to our overall goal, which is to turn every display that a consumer interfaces with into not only TV or some video source but turn it into the TV that you love the most, which is your living-room TV," said Blake Krikorian, CEO of Sling Media.
The new mobile software application will be available in the first quarter, but the price hasn't been set yet, he said.
The new software will be compatible with devices such as Dell's Axiom and HP's iPaq handhelds, which use the Windows Mobile operating system and have the ability to connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi wireless network.
Retrofitting older device
Meanwhile, Bajarin predicts that "one of the hottest products" that will be introduced at the show is a device that retrofits an older iPod Mini or regular iPod with black-and-white screens with a larger full-color screen capable of displaying videos and photos.
Citing confidentiality agreements, Bajarin said he could not disclose the name of the product or its maker.
Other electronic gizmos that will be shown off this week include Kodak's Easyshare V570 digital camera, which has two lenses that work together to mimic a wide-angle lens camera. The new compact 5-megapixel camera allows the photographer to capture a bigger chunk of the subject without having to stand farther back. It will be priced at $399 when it hits store shelves later this month, the company said.
Last year, Samsung's prototype 102-inch flat-panel plasma display grabbed much attention from the attendees. This year, Samsung is already touting that it will be exhibiting the world's largest flat-panel liquid crystal display, with an 82-inch screen.
One company will claim its flat-panel television will have one of the highest resolutions. Westinghouse is expected to unveil a 56-inch LCD that contains 8 million pixels. That's enough resolution to display four high-definition videos at the same time, said Rey Roque, vice president of marketing.
"This will have 23 times higher picture quality than images from standard DVDs," he said.
Also, at 56 inches, it will be among the largest LCD displays to be available this year, Roque said.
The price is not set yet, but it will be ready for sale in the second half of the year, he said.
In fact, Bajarin said, the show should herald the start of another trend that will carry through 2006. The prices of 42- and 46-inch LCD-TV monitors should drop to the $3,000 mark, which for the first time would make big-screen LCD monitors a cost-competitive alternative to plasma screen TVs.
While individual devices will probably be impressive, the bigger hurdle is making them easy to use and compatible with each other, said Doherty.
"Digital living room is here, but you have to have a master's degree in engineering to make it work, or be a professional home theater system installer," he said. "And this year, the industry will be looking to some of the top executives to say it's getting better."


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OnePlus will show its first smartwatch on March 23. The company is harassing it on their Twitter account. It will be presented during the upcoming OnePlus 9 smartphones presentation. OnePlus previously mentioned that it will release a smartwatch in early 2021.
OnePlus is publishing a teaser for its smartwatch On Twitter, Which appears to show parts of the case and the rubber strap, among other things. Judging by the teaser, the watch appears to have a circular display. Tweet itself redirecting to “watch this space”Forum pageWhere users can guess what the product is. Participants are encouraged to submit “wrong answers only”.
There has been noise around the OnePlus watch for quite some time. End of August Entry appeared From OnePlus Watch at a Singapore government agency. CEO Pete Lau Confirmed in December The company is working on its own smartwatch, which may be based on Google Wear OS, although this has not been confirmed after the CEO said. after a week That watch will be released in early 2021. The company said it was already working on a smartwatch in 2015, but eventually canceled those original plans.
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Not only politicians, but also some Chinese businesses are looking to profit from all the Mao-themed celebrations. One company that makes maotai, a popular Chinese spirit, is seizing the opportunity to promote a special Mao Zedong 120th Anniversary version with a limited circulation of 12,000 bottles.
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If Brokers Drop Commission-Paying Annuities, This May Be Big Issue
August 31, 2021 by Warren S. Hersch
Wink CEO Sheryl Moore identified a big lack of product choices. There are, she noted, just 98 fee-based deferred annuities from 34 companies.
She added that, as of the first quarter of this year, only 2.28% of the $58.1 billion in deferred annuity sales was attributable to fee-based products.
“Insurance companies are not going to exert any effort on product development of fee-based annuities, if they are not able to realize sales from them,” she said in an email.
But she’s also skeptical that banks and broker-dealers would readily switch to fee-based annuities in the first place.
“I would speculate that the potential compensation that they would receive from fee-based sales of annuities would be significantly less than what they earn today,” she said. “For that reason, I think this is a huge improbability.”


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We've heard plenty of stories about children who've managed to spend large sums of money on virtual items in mobile games without their parents' consent or knowledge, but one young boy's shopping spree made us raise our eyebrows nonetheless. The five-year-old racked up £1,700 (about $2,500) in iTunes charges in a mere 15 minutes.
"Please, dad! It's a free app," Danny Kitchen pleaded with his father, Greg Kitchen, after the man refused to enter his iTunes password on an iPad to allow the boy to download a game, the BBC's Madeleine Ware reports. The cajoling eventually worked and the five-year-old was able to start playing his new game ... and purchase in-game items which would result in a real-world bill.
The Kitchen family got lucky. Apple will be refunding it for the in-game purchases (NBC News was able to confirm this), but that isn't the case for all parents. And the way some apps incorporate Apple's in-app purchase system doesn't exactly help prevent bills from piling up.
Apple has recently agreed to "settle a class action lawsuit that said customers were charged when their children inadvertently downloaded certain applications from the company's online store," a court filing provided to Reuters showed. Thanks to this proposed settlement, the Cupertino-based company may wind up paying out around $100 million in $5 iTunes store credits.
While most apps make it very clear that in-app purchases of points or in-app items — such as crops or building material in a farm-themed game, weapons in an RPG, or currency in a virtual world — do in fact cost real-world money, not all do. And occasionally, kids just plain might not comprehend that a few taps on a screen have the power to drain Mom and Dad's bank account.
Apple does offer "industry leading parental controls" in order to prevent accidental — or simply unapproved — in-app purchases, an Apple spokesperson said to NBC News. The settings in iOS allow parents to add password protection or to shut off in-app purchases entirely.
Shutting off in-app purchases entirely can be inconvenient to parents themselves, so odds are that most opt for the password protection option. Unfortunately that particular feature has a little flaw: Unless a parent changes the default setting, there is a 15-minute window after a password is entered during which someone can continue making purchases.
This small time window is what allowed Danny Kitchen to rack up $2,500 in charges.
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