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Zing! While we were getting all distracted about CeBIT and watching Germany like a dog watches its owner eat a beef sandwich, but instead Geneva is where it’s at and the Motor Show has turned into a great big swirling pot of hot news. And here is that news comet: General Electric has decided to get out its wallet and redistribute the contents to electric car maker Think.
Think also came out with a new concept car at the Show, called the TH!NK Ox, and released the Th!nk City car to the market too.
And there’s even more. Moooooore! Here it is.
Think has signed a commercial supply agreement with lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123Systems […]GE announced its electric transportation investments at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. The commercial supply agreement with A123Systems provides Think with patented Nanophosphate™ lithium-ion batteries for the TH!NK City, now in production at the company’s factory in Norway. Think is delivering its first cars in Norway, with international sales to follow later in the year.
A123 is now drawing on the research and technology development expertise of GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. The joint research will support A123’s battery development, including batteries for Think’s vehicles.
GE Energy Financial Services announced it has invested in A123Systems to help the company roll out batteries for Think. GE is now A123’s largest cash investor, having put more than US $20 million into the company. In addition, GE disclosed it has invested US $4 million in Think Global, the Norwegian holding company that makes the electric cars. The investments were made by GE Energy Financial Services’ recently expanded seven-member venture capital group — with offices in Stamford, CT, San Francisco, and Munich, Germany. That group has invested nearly US $100 million in 12 companies during the last 18 months.


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This past year, digital advertising online and via mobile crossed the $40 billion mark for the first time ever, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau. Since 2004, the average growth rate has been 18 percent. And this year, digital ad revenues surpassed broadcast television for the first time.
Not shockingly, mobile is leading the charge.
Search remains the largest overall category, at $18.4 billion, and display hit $7.9 billion, according to the IAB’s numbers, but those categories are growing much slower than mobile and digital video ads. Search is “only” growing at 8.6 percent, while mobile ad revenue jumped 110 percent to $7.1 billion last year, and digital video ad revenue has tripled over the past few years to $2.8 billion.
It’s important to note that, while web and mobile advertising revenues beat out broadcast TV for the first time, broadcast + cable advertising revenues still dwarf the digital take. And, of course, networks are aggressively expanding to new digital means of distribution.
While the digital ad market is expanding, it’s also extraordinarily concentrated — perhaps more so than any advertising market since there were just three TV networks.

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With a Samsung now having a major advantage, we can only hope that this file format is added to the PS3's accepted format list.
"At IFA, Samsung didn't introduce new Blu-ray players, but it announced that player models BD-P1600, BD-P3600 and BD-P4600 will support YouTube and the MKV file format. Existing players will be able to access those features by upgrading the firmware. The company plans to launch BD recorders in 2010, and is holding a wait-and-see stance towards 3-D.
"We know our consumers want access to multi-platform content, and the addition of YouTube to our Blu-ray players aims to provide this to them - from the comfort of their living room," added Shaw. "Adding MKV file support and YouTube to our range of Blu-ray players is the latest step from Samsung Electronics in providing an unparalleled home-cinema experience for our customers."
Our friends at Bluray-disc.de were disappointed at the lack of Blu-ray announcements and pressed the Samsung representatives for more information. They were told that the absence of new Blu-ray product was deliberate, and that Samsung plans to hold a private showcase in late April or early May 2010. A BD recorder is also in the works.
Regarding 3-D, Samsung says that it is not a major concern for them at the moment. Of course, the company isn't against that technology, but the representatives had no information on the topic."


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The Government Accountability Office finds that SUVs have skewed the government's crash test rankings. The GAO warns that the system needs to change with the times or it'll become irrelevant.
The system uses five stars to show the safety level of a vehicle in a crash. The GAO report says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration needs to take into account rollovers, roof crushing, and how SUVs interact with smaller cars in crashes.
NHTSA spent $7.7 million last year smashing, crashing, and rolling over 121 vehicles. Most of the cars tested get four or five stars -- the highest rankings for safety.
The GAO warns that those high rankings for every car are sort of like "grade inflation." They give automakers little incentive for improving safety and don't give consumers enough information about differences in safety between different vehicles. (BaltSun)


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Wimpy kids, crawdads, hate and Minecraft are most popular reading in 2020
Public library lists of the most popular books of a particular year are snapshots in time, some new issues and some classics. The year 2020 saw an increase in e-books locally.
Every year, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library puts out a list of the most popular materials borrowed that year. Library Director Mary Jean Jakubowski said it is "materials," because of the booming borrowing of electronic books, whether on CD or downloaded to an MP3 player.
"We actually had several thousand people suddenly sign up for our e-library card so that they could have access, because they recognized that, oh my goodness, I don’t have to be spending my money on this directly, I can get it from the library," she said. "And so we have been rapidly growing those e-collections as a result."
Jakubowski said many books are sought equally electronically and on paper. In 2020 that included Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing, showing up as most popular title in Adult Fiction and most requested title in eBook Fiction.
Other books stay on the list.
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid. There’s many, many different editions to that book and every year, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is going to show up on this," she said. "It is something that appeals to young children. It appeals to a middle-aged child. And I think parents just really enjoy it, reading to their children, as well."
Others won’t be as recognizable because categories shift with the times, like Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, as the most popular title for Young Adult-Teen.
There was also a surprising entry in Children’s Non-Fiction: Stephanie Milton’s Minecraft Essential Handbook. Jakubowski said the computer game is very popular among kids and among teachers who see math lessons in what’s on the screen.


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Asheville startup is helping Etsy sellers get noticed
ASHEVILLE — When Annika Schauer created an online tool to help Etsy sellers build websites in minutes, she did not know whether she would even attract enough testers — much less find a great demand.
But within an hour of sharing her vision for BeesWax Websites in an online forum, three pages of email requests appeared in her inbox.
And the emails kept coming. And coming. And coming.
"It turned into this giant walking company in the span of an hour," Schauer said of the company she founded with Raina Lee Scott and Christopher Craig. "That's when I knew we had something special."
That was back in February.
Now, the Asheville-based startup is less than a month away from its official June 21 launch date and already has more than 45 beta testers using the software in nine countries.
BeesWax Websites, a software-as-a-service company with Asheville roots, offers Etsy entrepreneurs a highly customizable website for $12.99 a month that automatically pulls in data, text and photos from their Etsy shop while also beefing up online visibility with built-in keywords, meta tags and search engine optimization features.
Being successful on Etsy, where 32 million unique, handmade items are up for sale from some 1.4 million sellers, requires more than interesting products, explains BeesWax Websites co-founder Raina Lee Scott. It takes digital smarts and dollars.
And she should know. Scott opened a curated vintage clothing shop on Etsy called Posies for Lulu Vintage in 2009. Today, she makes her entire living running two shops on the e-commerce website.
When she isn't managing her business, she is a consultant for fellow Etsy shop owners and teaches artists how to open an Etsy store.
"The game with Etsy is to get your item to the top of each search," Scott said.
But you have to pay to play. Etsy sellers must pay 20 cents to list an item for sale on Etsy. To relist items at the top of a search costs another 20 cents. Etsy's revenue comes from those 20-cent listings, relistings and a 3.5 percent commission on sales.
Though a 20-cent listing may not sound like a lot of money compared with the overhead costs of running a traditional brick-and-mortar business, the two-dime investments add up quickly.
Scott said she spends $80 a month between her two shops just to relist items. She knows others who spend more.
"Let's say I put in very specific keywords like 1950s rockabilly circle skirt," Scott said. "There are going to be 27,000 items that pop up with 1950s rockabilly circle skirts, and unless I pay, mine is going to be down in the doldrums of Etsy. People are never going to go through that many pages to see mine."
This is why having an outside web presence can make a difference. Rather than depending solely on Etsy searches, Scott and Schauer said having an independent web presence can help these creative entrepreneurs to strengthen their brand and their visibility online.
"Etsy sellers spend hours a day thinking about tags," Schauer said. "But they still get lost pretty quickly. We want to help them be more visible."
The local startup also wants to help artists make more sales in the process.
Every BeesWax website includes an instant Etsy e-commerce platform, which updates in real time. This lets customers see an Etsy seller's entire shop on the BeesWax website and eliminates the need for an Etsy seller to juggle inventories between platforms.
And because it was designed with creatives in mind, BeesWax Websites gives its users 70 different font packages and color combinations to choose from, along with their choice of one of 300 icons called "page charms" that can be displayed predominantly on the page.
Other companies, like Squarespace, promise a quick and creative web build with maximum payoff, too. However, Schauer said Etsy sellers need a product tailor-made to address their unique needs.
"Squarespace has five pages of documentation on how to integrate an Etsy shop to your site," Schauer said. "When we built this, when we built BeesWax, we wanted it to be something so easy that granny could use it. We want it to be effortless."
Ease was what Sarah Becker was looking for to take her Etsy shop, Sarah Becker Deisgn, to the next level.
When Becker isn't repurposing old jewlery for her Etsy shop, the co-owner of Bari Salon can be found cutting hair in West Asheville. Becker was one of the 45 beta testers for BeesWax websites.
"I'm actually considering switching the salon over to this just because it's really clean and easy to work with," Becker said. "It has SEO written into it, which is huge because that can be an expensive game to get into and you have to be consistent with it."
In April, Becker had already seen more likes and followers on her Etsy shop since launching her BeesWax page.
"I have a number of friends who are already wanting to try it for themselves," she said.
Though Schauer said she would like to see BeesWax be successful, her real hope is that she will be able to help artists like Scott and Becker make a living doing what they love.
"We have a huge maker culture here in Asheville, and they are under-served and making too little money," Schauer said. "We have a technology that will change their lives in a meaningful way."
Launch your site
To coincide with its June 21 launch date, the startup will be offering its services for $6.50 a month for a limited time. To redeem this offer, use the code AVLBIZ to create a custom website on BeesWax Websites for free and enjoy $6.50 per month hosting until July 2016. For more information about BeesWax Websites, visit www.beeswaxwebsites.com.


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Miramar® Labs, an innovative global aesthetic company, announced its miraDry® System received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of unwanted underarm hair, and permanent reduction of underarm hair of all colors. This announcement establishes miraDry as the only technology FDA cleared for the treatment of underarm hair of all colors as well as the permanent reduction of underarm sweat.
“This approval further validates Miramar’s unique technology in creating and addressing aesthetic markets that could not be fully satisfied with other energy platforms,” commented Mr. Michael Kleine, CEO and President of Miramar Labs. According to Mr. Kleine, “We believe the potential for microwave energy in aesthetics is exceptional. Miramar was the first company to receive clearance for axillary sweat reduction and we are now the only company with FDA clearance for permanent reduction of axillary hair of all colors. These are both tremendous market making opportunities in aesthetics.”
Miramar Lab’s proprietary miraWave® technology –use of precisely controlled microwave energy – is the foundation of the miraDry System. The permanent reduction of hair of all colors using miraWave is a significant technological advancement in the hair removal industry. Unlike laser hair removal systems, microwave energy doesn’t require a chromophore to be effective and therefore can be used on hair of all colors, including light colored hair, and is also not limited by an individual’s skin color.
“Based on the results we’ve seen using miraWave it’s clear that microwave energy has a role to play in the long term hair reduction space,” said Dr. Jeremy Brauer, Laser & Skin Surgery Center of New York. “Using this technology we’ve seen stable axillary hair reduction of approximately 70% regardless of color, and these results were based on a non-optimized treatment protocol. It will be exciting to see the increase in results given the protocol improvements we’ve made since then.”
With this clearance, the company has announced the introduction of the miraSmooth treatment. The launch of miraSmooth is a perfect addition to plastic surgery and dermatology practices looking to offer their patients the latest in aesthetic procedures. miraSmooth™ will be made available in select markets beginning August of 2015.
“I’m extremely excited about this significant advancement in hair removal and am just as pleased to announce that our center will begin to offer miraSmooth to patients,” added Dr. Grant Stevens, Medical Director of Marina Plastic Surgery. “With miraSmooth I can offer hair removal to patients that could not be treated with lasers before or for those that desire elimination of sweat along with their axillary hair. A premium procedure such as miraSmooth fits into our practice offerings nicely.”
About Miramar Labs:
Founded in 2006, Miramar Labs is a privately owned global medical device company dedicated to bringing the next generation energy modality to the field of dermatology. Supported by rigorous clinical research, Miramar Labs is focused on addressing aesthetic medical conditions for which there are significant unmet clinical needs. The company’s first priority is advancing aesthetic treatments using its proprietary miraWave technology. Physicians and patients are encouraged to visit www.miramarlabs.com for additional information about Miramar Labs.
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‘Catty,’ captivating headdress already huge Halloween hit!
Not since the late, great John Candy played Barf in Mel Brook’s cult parody “Spaceballs,” has faux fur headdress captures so much media attention in Hollywood. In fact, it was the 1988 cult spoof that inspired a top celebrity stylists to further fuel the faux fur hoody fashion craze popularized by celebrities such as Vanessa Hudgens, Pink, Khloe Kardashian and others.
“I was flipping through the movie channels late one night when I happened upon Spaceballs, and I couldn’t believe it,” said Sarah Wallner, an Italian-born celebrity stylists and founder of Musotica.com – a popular sexy lingerie and fitness wear destination. “There was John Candy wearing, in essence, an absolutely awesome animal hoody. He played this hilarious character named Barf – a half-man, half-dog who quipped during the movie, ‘I’m my own best friend.” (more…)
Designed to take a drenching and without ever stretching, Musotica.com’s Crochet Bikinis make splash in Marie Claire Magazine
Social and fashion barometer Marie Claire Magazine is the latest indicator that crochet bikinis have made an improbable comeback since they were first introduced in the seventies. At the vanguard of the new crochet bikini movement is Musotica.com, a popular sexy fashion, lingerie and fitness wear destination.
Featured prominently in the April issue of Marie Claire, within the Flirt Catalog insert, crochet bikini sightings are becoming more and more numerous – from the white sand beaches of Santa Monica to Rodeo Drive.
“Finally, women can wear a crochet bikini at the beach or pool and actually swim in them without the fear of sudden exposure,” Wallner said. “Our lineup of crochet bikinis feature new fabrics and vibrant colors designed for the active Southern California lifestyle – from swimming… to Stand Up Paddle Boarding… to a night out on the town.”
Wallner says that women absolutely love the endless options and flirty possibilities that crochet fashions provide. (more…)


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China's Chaoyi today announced AirDots, a new low-cost wireless headset, and the new Chaoyi headphones feature a unique design without any wires, making it similar to Apple's wireless earphones AirPods, But it is available for only $ 28 USD compared to $ 159 for Apple headphones.
The new AirDots wireless headset has a simple white design and can be shipped through the supplied hood that acts as a charger, but does not support water resistance and does not support noise cancellation, which is likely because of its low cost.
The new AirDots headset supports Bluetooth 5.0 technology, which reduces battery consumption and provides a longer range for the use of speakers, and gives the user a better voice for calls. The new Chaoyi headphones are now available for pre-booking in Beijing, but the company has yet to announce its availability globally. .
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Hospitality hoists sales over sponsor deals at America’s Cup
It started with overblown expectations of top-level sponsorship sales in the tens of millions, deals that were not realized. It continued with strong independent sales agencies like Rob Prazmark’s 21 Marketing and Randy Bernstein’s Premier Partnerships finding it difficult to sell IP and global and domestic media when hospitality rights were the asset most in demand.
Big-event hospitality ace SportsMark has had the most success, having sold about half of its top-level packages on the shores of San Francisco Bay, where the 2013 event will be staged Sept. 7-21.
“I would characterize our sales as good and improving,” said SportsMark President Keith Bruce, “but this has always been an event driven by hospitality.”
|The competition will take place in San Francisco in September.
However, those hospitality sales were made at the expense of the mid-seven-figure IP packages, which agencies 21 and Premier found were about as easy to sell as is sailing across the North Atlantic in December. Prospective clients like JPMorgan Chase, for example, saw little need to purchase broad category rights for $3 million to $4 million when hospitality could be had for 90 percent less.
“Give [San Francisco-based] SportsMark credit: They know their home market and they knew what was valuable about the America’s Cup for sponsors,” said a veteran marketer, who’d looked at some of the packages. “But having those hospitality packages out there just gutted so many potential sales.”
This is not to say there has been no sales success. Lexus, Louis Vuitton, Kaiser Permanente, Charles Schwab and Puma have secured top-level official partner packages, and we hear that The New York Times is close to signing on as a global media partner. The fact that a property originally in the market at Olympic or FIFA World Cup prices doesn’t have a beer or wireless sponsor speaks volumes about what those marketing-heavy industries thought about the property.
But in an attempt to speak to the market with one voice, the packages have flipped from being primarily marketing to being primarily media. Now, it’s Front Row Marketing selling the NBC and NBC Sports Net media packages, and here’s where we expect the beers and telecoms will be buying in. Looking for irony? Comcast-owned Front Row Marketing is selling media-heavy packages originally bought by America’s Cup organizers and Comcast-owned NBC. Those new, media-heavy packages are priced from the mid-six to low seven figures for network, cable and augmented-reality for on-screen branding, along with digital media and foreign TV time.
As you’d expect, the America’s Cup is being sold more on the basis of top-flight demographics than ratings. However, it is arguably the biggest international sports competition of 2013, and for those still seeking them, IP rights and hospitality are available at the higher price levels.
“These have a lot of value for brands with global aspirations,” said Front Row President Chris Lencheski, “but they weren’t bought with nearly the lead time sponsors bought other big international sports properties.”
If the U.S. successfully defends the America’s Cup, the hope here is that a better sales course can be charted for the next series.
|MillerCoors will activate in the U.S. around Molson Canadian.
“We’re trying to marry ourselves to hockey, generate more display, and create a social conversation around the brand,” said Molson Canadian brand manager Tom Henehan.
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Ali Olmez, CEO – Jim’s Cleaning Group, explains one of the main issues Jim’s Car Detailing faced in 2016 was not keeping up with client demand.
A total of 2,218 leads went unserviced nationally (1,663 of them in Victoria) due to not having enough franchisees.
“We thought the solution was simple – more franchisees needed to meet the demand. In 2017 we had 30 new franchisees start. What we expected to see was the increased supply balancing the demand, but this did not happen. In fact, the opposite happened.
Despite our franchisees working to capacity, over 3,000 leads went unserviced.
Jim’s Car Detailing washed and detailed over 70,000 vehicles last year & our services are still in hot demand.
So we are still looking to add franchisees with a love of cars into the Jim’s Car Detailing team.’’


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Rockefeller Group Sells New Inland Empire Project for $58M
The site spans more than 300,000 square feet in Riverside County
One year after announcing two developments for more than 623,000 square feet in the Inland Empire, developer and operator Rockefeller Group sold the first of the new projects for $57.5 million.
The new building, called Harvill Logistics Center, totals more than 300,000 square feet in Riverside County. It was acquired by CH/BDG Harvill LLC, a joint venture partnership between CH Realty Partners and Blumenfeld Development Group.
Rockefeller Group acquired approximately 30 acres for the two projects in September 2020. The second development, a 289,556-square-foot speculative distribution building called Val Verde Logistics Center, was recently completed and is being marketed for lease or sale. Herdman Architecture + Design designed the projects. RM Dalton was the general contractor.
At the start of this year, Rockefeller sold two recently completed industrial buildings with approximately 500,000 square feet for $80.75 million. For those properties, Haralambos Leasing Company acquired the Fontana Santa Ana Industrial Center, a 297,161-square-foot distribution center, for $54 million. And Lone Oak – Moreno Valley LLC acquired Centerpointe Commerce Center, a 203,944-square-foot distribution center, for $26.75 million.
Southern California’s industrial market has maneuvered swimmingly through the pandemic with e-commerce sales growth, more online consumers, and global supply chain necessities. Earlier this week, CO reported CenterPoint Properties acquired a Class A industrial property with just 173,134 square feet in Pico Rivera, Calif., for $63 million. And, at the start of the month, CO reported Cambro Manufacturing signed a 433,865-square-foot lease at the Huntington Gateway Business Park.
Bill Heim and Alex Heim of Lee & Associates represented Rockefeller Group in the sale of Harvill Logistics Center. Tom Taylor and Steve Bellitti of Colliers represented the buyer.
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As Brexit negotiations inch closer to the spring 2019 deadline, many in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government are beginning to acknowledge that the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union will not yield the levels of sovereignty they had hoped for. Most recently, two staunch supporters of the Leave campaign — David Davis, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and Boris Johnson, former British Foreign Secretary — have resigned.
In this video, international trade law expert Thomas Cottier considers the impact that Brexit might have on trade and, more specifically, the World Trade Organization. Current Brexit plans include the establishment of bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements as a replacement for access to the common market. According to Cottier, those who voted for sovereignty with trade in mind will be frustrated and disappointed because Brexit’s approach to trade is unlikely to yield positive outcomes for the United Kingdom.
Cottier explores this idea further in his contribution to Complexity’s Embrace: The International Law Implications of Brexit, a book recently published by CIGI and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Complexity’s Embrace looks at the legal governance challenges presented by the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and illustrates the many connective elements across five topic areas: trade, financial services, intellectual property, the environment and human rights.
In the wake of the Brexit vote of June 2016, the UK government announced its new trade policy in October 2017.
The new policy is based on the rules of the World Trade Organization, plurilateral agreements and a wide and new network of self-standing bilateral preferential agreements.
The question is whether the new bilateralism is able to bring about the creation of new jobs and also to lower levels of migration commensurate with the promises made on the political level.
And, as we leave the European Union, the UK will continue to be a global advocate of free trade, pushing for progress on WTO discussions, seeking to bring new partners to the table and, of course, after we have left the EU, developing new bilateral deals with countries across the world.
It seems that the trade policy developed under Brexit — putting a lot of emphasis on bilateral agreements — is not sufficiently reflecting the nature of international trade today, as being a trade largely of components, of global value chains and of an increasing amalgamation of goods and services in very complex structures, and bilateral agreements are not able to address these very complex structures and lead to more trade facilitation. What happens in reality is that larger markets tend to impose their own regulatory schemes on smaller trading nations. So, in the relation between the EU, which is a large part of UK trade, we have to assume that the UK will continue to adjust to EU standards. In trade with the United States, they will adjust to US standards and in the future, in trade market access with China and Asia, they will have to adjust to Asian standards. So British producers will find themselves in the position that they have to respond and respect different standards for different export markets, which renders industry and industrial production, and also the provision of services, more expensive and less competitive. So, the question is whether the goal aspired can be achieved through these policies of bilateralism and my view is that tragically this will not be the case and people hoping that bilateral agreements will improve their lives will be frustrated and disappointed.
Trade Policy is just one of many topics covered within Complexity’s Embrace.
This book looks at the legal governance challenges presented by the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and illustrates the many connective elements across all five topic areas.


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Instead he has worked odd jobs like a poll-taker and substitute teacher.And that exclamation point appears to be a sign of things to come.Newsweek published a 4,500-word cover story claiming Nakamoto is.Researchers design the building blocks of synthetic muscle using computational method.
Newsweek ‘Stands Strongly’ Behind Its Bitcoin Piece
Writer Leah McGrath Goodman said she had discovered the elusive creator of.The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is gambling that mass-market drivers are going to pivot soon to electric cars, announcing plans Friday to produce 12 new electric models by 2022 and to make electric cars 30 percent.A reclusive engineer fingered by Newsweek as the mystery founder of online crypto-currency Bitcoin denied it Monday, saying he even cancelled his Internet service last year to save money.
India will roll out nearly 100,000 battery-powered buses and autorickshaws onto its sulphurous city streets in the coming weeks, setting it on the bumpy road to making new vehicle sales all-electric by 2030.The man Newsweek claimed is the creator of bitcoin has hired a.
Nakamoto, who studied physics in university and is a model-train hobbyist, added that he had not had steady work as an engineer or programmer for 10 years.Is it the right Satoshi Nakamoto. the elusive creator of the Bitcoin protocol.
Dorian Nakamoto denies Newsweek Bitcoin claims - ndtv.com
Newsweek magazine returned to print this month with a cover story identifying Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto of Temple City, Calif., as the founder of Bitcoin. Mr. Nakamoto.Newsweek seemed to crack the case of who founded Bitcoin at a fortuitous time this week -- just in time for a return to print.The recently relaunched magazine, Newsweek, named the wrong person in a scoop claiming to reveal the creator of Bitcoin.
Last week, Newsweek resurrected its print issue with a splash, featuring a story that claimed to reveal the founder of Bitcoin as a reclusive Californian named Dorian.New black mayors make a difference, one Georgia town at a time.A blurry line divides addicts and dealers in heroin underworld.
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'Victim' of Newsweek story launches bitcoin fund - cnbc.comNewsweek reported Thursday it had found the mysterious founder of Bitcoin living in Temple City, Calif.
Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and.A cover story revealing the founder of Bitcoin is getting pushback.
But there is one piece of the Newsweek story that does fit into one of the more popular conspiracy theories: That Bitcoin was actually created by the NSA, or some.


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This year, Facebook expects to spend more than $10 billion on AR, VR, and related hardware. Along with developing metaverse apps and services. In the company’s Q3 earnings call Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will ramp up investment in the area. However, he also warns that it won’t see a return on that investment anytime soon.
Zuckerberg acknowledged the enormity of the bet. “This isn’t going to be a profit-generating investment any time soon.”
In his argument, Zuckerberg said Facebook had to build out its core technology before it could gain any meaningful returns with AR and VR. In ten years, Zuckerberg hopes to reach that goal: “Our goal is to help the metaverse reach a billion people.” At that point, it may also become a “real business story,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg describes the metaverse as a successor to the mobile internet. “It will unleash a much greater creative economy than what we have today.”
In its Q3 earnings release, Facebook disclosed its huge investment in AR/VR hardware and related software and services: “We expect our investment in Facebook Reality Labs to reduce our overall operating profit by approximately $10 billion in 2021,” the company reported. “We intend to increase our investments in the near future in order to achieve this long-term vision.”
Facebook will start reporting Facebook Reality Labs separately in its quarterly earnings reports beginning in Q4.
A big part of our work to develop the next generation of online social experiences. We want to develop products and services that leverage augmented and virtual reality, the company announced on Monday.
Revenue speaks for itself
The total revenue generated by Facebook in Q3 was $29 billion, which is up from $21.5 billion a year ago. Earnings per share were $3.22 in Q3 of 2020 in compared to $2.40 in Q3 of 2019. According to analysts, earnings per share were forecast at $3.17.
Aside from focusing on the metaverse, Facebook executives also spoke about a renewed effort to woo younger users with features like Reels. Which has been heavily influenced by TikTok, one of the most effective competitors Facebook has faced.


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Australia is out of the car-making business – but this isn’t the end, says Holden’s boss here.
TODAY Holden closes shop in Adelaide and, with that, Australia is out of the car-making business.
We asked Holden New Zealand boss Kristian Aquilina, Australian-born and a Holden high-flier, to offer some comment. This is what he says:
“Holden is an iconic brand in both New Zealand and Australia and while October 20 is the end of manufacturing in Australia, it is not the end of Holden.
“Holden and GM’s is committed to both NZ and Australia. Our brand is undergoing a significant evolution and we’re building a bright future that honours the legacy of our past.
“The team in Australia has looked after Holden employees with dignity and respect – 85 percent of all workers have successfully transitioned into jobs, retirement or study.
“In Australia, Holden will retain approximately 1000 direct employees, including more than 300 designers and engineers. This is in addition to nearly 6000 employees across the national dealer network.”


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Cortana is getting a new boss at Microsoft. Axios reports that Microsoft's Javier Soltero has taken on the role of corporate vice president for Cortana. Previously, Soltero headed up Microsoft's Outlook Mobile efforts after Microsoft acquired Acompli, a company he co-founded.
Though Cortana is present on every Windows 10 PC, it's currently seen as trailing its digital assistant competitors from Google and Amazon. In speaking with Axios, Soltero recognizes the challenge of his new role, but says that he doesn't see the number of skills as the true competition between platforms: "The real contest is about which company users will choose and entrust with essentially all of they information or the majority of their information." Still, it appears Soltero believes there is a balance Microsoft must strike. "A very private but mediocre experience will not win," he said.
According to Axios, Soltero moved into his new role about three weeks ago. He will now report to Microsoft's AI and research chief, Harry Shum. It will be interesting to see what Soltero can bring to his new role, particularly as Alexa begins to encroach upon Cortana's Windows 10 turf, and Microsoft seeks to hit its stride with a small lineup of Cortana-enabled hardware that currently includes a smart speaker and a thermostat.
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Google is making web pages load faster with a new image format called WebP, which shrinks the size of graphic files by 35%. So far, Google has changed the Google Play store and Chrome Web store to the new format, while Facebook, Netflix, and eBay have begun supporting it. At its I/O developers conference last month, Google announced that it has converted most of YouTube’s thumbnail images to WebP, improving the site’s load time by 10%. Google says that alone has saved users a cumulative 140,000 hours each day.
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praises Apple’s Vision Pro as revolutionary and highlights its ability to blend digital media with the real world.
- Altman’s high praise for Vision Pro does not specify what he considers the most impressive technology of the last 17 years, but it is speculated to be artificial intelligence, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
- The convergence of cutting-edge hardware like Vision Pro with sophisticated AI technologies exemplifies how businesses and individuals alike can harness these tools to drive innovation and transformation across various domains.
Sam Altman, the renowned entrepreneur and investor, is making waves in the tech world once again with his latest venture, Vision Pro. Many industry experts are calling it the 2nd most impressive tech innovation since the iPhone.
Vision Pro is a groundbreaking technology that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with digital media and information. The platform utilizes advanced augmented reality and artificial intelligence to provide users with a seamless and intuitive browsing experience. With Vision Pro, users can overlay digital content onto the physical world, making it easier to access and interact with information in real time.
Altman, who is known for his visionary approach to technology, has been a driving force behind Vision Pro. In a recent interview, he expressed his excitement for the potential of the platform, stating that it has the power to fundamentally change the way we consume and interact with digital content.
Industry insiders and investors are buzzing about Vision Pro, with many predicting that it will have a major impact on the tech industry. Some have even gone as far as to say that Vision Pro has the potential to rival the iPhone in terms of its transformative impact on society.
With Altman at the helm, Vision Pro is poised to shake up the tech world in a big way. Keep an eye on this innovative new technology as it continues to develop and make waves in the industry.


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Interested buyers can pre-book the new Honda Civic by paying a token amount of Rs 31,000.
Honda Cars India has officially started taking pre-bookings for its much-awaited all-new Civic sedan. Interested buyers can pre-book this sedan at a token amount of Rs 31,000, while pan India deliveries will be commenced from 7th March, 2019. The 2019 Honda Civic is scheduled to be launched on March 7, 2019. This is the facelift version of the 10th generation Civic sedan and was debuted last year in India.
Talking about the Honda Civic, Mr. Rajesh Goel, Sr Vice President & Director, Marketing & Sales, Honda Cars India Ltd. said, “Civic is an iconic brand with a rich legacy of 10 generations and is currently our largest selling model globally. We are extremely excited to bring the latest 10th Generation All New Civic to the Indian market.”
Civic is Honda’s longest-running automotive nameplate with cumulative sales of 25 million units worldwide. The sedan is currently on sale in 170 countries worldwide. Honda had discontinued the 8th generation Civic sedan from India, owing to its low sales and lack of diesel option. The company didn’t launch the 9th gen Civic in India. Also See – Upcoming Honda Cars In India
The 2019 Honda Civic sedan will be available in petrol and diesel powertrains. The gasoline version will get the tried & tested 1.8-litre i-VTEC naturally aspirated unit that produces 139bhp of power and 173Nm of torque. For the first time in India, the Civic nameplate will be offered with a diesel powertrain. It will get the new 1.6-litre i-DTEC unit that produces 118bhp of power and 300Nm of torque. While the petrol engine is paired to a CVT automatic unit, the oil burner will be coupled to a 6-speed manual gearbox. Read – 2019 Honda Civic – All Details In A Single List
The new Honda Civic is claimed to be the most fuel efficient car in its category. With diesel mileage rated at 26.8kmpl, the new Civic is more fuel efficient than the lighter Honda City. The sedan will directly challenge the likes of Hyundai Elantra, Toyota Corolla Altis and Skoda Octavia.
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A list of Jews to be spared from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, immortalized in the 1993 film "Schindler's List," is not worth the $3 million being requested in an online auction, the director of a museum in Krakow told Polish media Tuesday.
- Report: Original Schindler's List to be sold on eBay for $3 million
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The 14-page list was compiled by industrialist Oskar Schindler and identifies 801 Jewish prisoners by name, birthdate and profession.
The document, one of four remaining copies of Schindler's list, was posted for auction by a California sellter on eBay with an initial asking price of $3 million.
The eBay auction boasts selling the "Original Schindler’s List."
People who were included in the document were sent to work at Schindler's factories in Poland and were spared the gas chambers. Many of those listed by Schindler survived the Holocaust.
But Michal Niezabitowski, director of the Historical Museum of Krakow, questioned the price tag.
"The document has great historic significance, but it's not worth $3 million," he said. "The problem is that the original list no longer exists. Someone is trying to sell the legend here."
The copy was made in 1945 during the evacuation of Schindler's enamel factory, which is now a museum about Krakow during World War II.
Of the three other existing copies, two are at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem while the third is at Washington's Holocaust Museum.


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It would have been one of the busiest days of the year for the region's hospitality industry but the decision to leave the North East in Tier 3 means that normally packed pubs and bars are behind locked doors.
'Black eye Friday' is one of the busiest nights out of the year for city centre bars and pubs.
The night falls on the last Friday before Christmas, which has traditionally been the most popular choice of festive night out.
It got its name thanks to the violence which sometimes flares after people consume too much alcohol.
But Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed on Thursday morning that Newcastle, Gateshead, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, County Durham, and all of Teesside would not be allowed to relax restrictions yet.
Fred Plater, owner of popular Ouseburn pub the Tyne Bar, said: "Every pub in the UK has 'black eye Friday'.
"It is a profitable day of the year, generally speaking people behave and it's always a nice atmosphere.
"Me, my manager and my staff didn't want to re-open this time of year It would have been too traumatic and I suspect we will be going into lockdown in January.
"We're all just looking forward to spring."
Stephen Patterson, director of communications at NE1 Ltd, which supports businesses in Newcastle said: "This year has been exceptionally difficult for all industry sectors, but hospitality has been particularly hard hit.
"In December alone, losses for this sector will be in the region of £85m. Hospitality typically takes 25% of its trade during December, from an annual value of £340m for the sector.
"The Government has provided various grants for the hospitality sector, primarily one that gave £3,000 per month for businesses with a rateable value in excess of £50,000 but this isn’t nearly enough to cover rent, insurance, utilities etc. It is going to be a very bleak Christmas for the sector."
A drop down to Tier 2 would have allowed restaurants to open again, as well as pubs and bars that could offer a ‘substantial meal’, and would have meant that people could socialise in private gardens in groups of up to six.
The continuation of Tier 3 also means that football fans will still not be allowed back into stadiums and that entertainment venues like theatres and cinemas must also stay shut.
However help is available for struggling businesses, with councils across the region tasked with administering Government support grants.
Here we look at what is available.
Government have announced further grants of £1,000 to "wet pubs" to help them through December.
A "wet pub" is one which predominantly serves alcohol rather than provide food.
Newcastle Council say this "builds upon the £61.5m worth of grants already distributed to around 5,300 businesses in the city this year".
However it says it is waiting for "further guidance from Government around how these grants should be administered".
That's not the only funding available for hospitality businesses in the city, with the council also administering grants to support businesses legally forced to close.
Eligible businesses include those the hospitality, leisure and accommodation sectors severely impacted by the local restrictions prior to November 5; and those in the supply chain.
There will be a single application form to apply for support, and the council will use your information to calculate what level of grant you may be eligible for.
The specific schemes are the local Restrictions Support Grant and Local Restrictions Support Grant Sector.
For more information visit the Newcastle Council website.
Meanwhile, in Gateshead, businesses in need can apply for the same funding by visiting the council's website.
Eligible North Tyneside businesses can also find an application form for business support grants on the council website.
The authority has also teamed up with North Tyneside Business Factory and set up a business support helpline which can be contacted on 0191 516 6699.
Businesses in South Tyneside can also visit the council's website to find more information about and an application for the local business restrictions grant.
The authority will also contact pubs that are eligible for the winter support payment for wet let pubs.
Finally, it has set up a dedicated Business Support Hub, which can be contacted on 0191 481 3456 or by email at email@example.com.
Businesses in Sunderland can also log onto the council's website to find out more about Government support packages and visit the coronavirus business support blog.
Durham Council and Northumberland County Council also have application forms for Government grants on their websites.


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The press invite comes with a tagline that says "Far out," accompanied by an astronomical theme.
Apple says the invitations will be allocated through a random selection process and are non-transferrable.
Apple will preview iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16 at WWDC 2022.
It will continue to be a digital-only event.
From the teaser, we can expect at least two new Galaxy S devices launching next month.
The event will be live-streamed on Apple's website, YouTube, and the TV app.
Finally, it's iPhone event.
Two hours after the WWDC keynote begins.
The Unpacked event will be held virtually.
New iPad Pro models expected.
The kit is designed for the first, second, and third generations of AirPods.
Humane's President, Imran Chaudhri made the announcement at Voices 2022 hosted by The Business of Fashion.
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“Apple stock has been hammered today, dropping almost 6 percent or $25/share as investors are taking cues from an important Apple component supplier, Cirrus Logic, which forecast lower-than-expected sales of its chips for iPhone and iPad in the coming quarter,” John Koetsier reports for VentureBeat.
“The new drop means that Apple is now more than $300/share down from its high point in September 2012, when the company was worth over $650 billion,” Koetsier reports. “And that it has now dropped an absolutely massive $250 billion in value since then — the equivalent of an entire Google or a Microsoft.”
Koetsier reports, “Apple’s quarterly results are coming next week Tuesday, and company better hope Tim Cook has a rabbit to pull out of his hat in order to impress investors.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: All Apple did last quarter was to post the most profitable quarter for a tech company in history.
Cook did pull a rabbit out of his hat and look what that got him.
By now, Cook has to be seeing that The iMac Launch That Wasn’t, the epic-yet-rarely-mentioned screwup that actually started AAPL on its plunge into the abyss, just might end up doing him in. That would be a most ironic nail in the coffin of Tim Cook, Operations Genius.
Apple is too big and too rich to screw up things like iMac availability for Christmas shopping season. This isn’t 1996. Steve Jobs would have gone on a spree with an axe. Tim Cook, operations genius, is ultimately responsible for Apple blowing some 800,000 iMac sales in fiscal Q113 (holiday quarter). (Hopefully, he blew them into this quarter.) If Apple had those iMacs ready like they should have, not two months late, then they would have handily beaten the street in all respects and we wouldn’t be having this conversation today. — MacDailyNews Take, March 5, 2013
Again, hopefully those Christmas iMac sales were pushed into this quarter and the “surprise” will be a boon for Apple, Cook, and AAPL shareholders.
Obviously, Apple’s autumn iMac launch was badly botched – March 19, 2013
The curious case of Tim Cook, operations genius, and the missing iMacs – February 4, 2013


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Mexico's Elementia to buy 55 % of Giant Cement
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Mexico's Elementia, a cement maker partly owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase 55% of Giant Cement Holdings Inc.
In a statement, Elementia announced that Giant has operations in the east coast of the United States, including three cement plants, three limestone quarries and six terminals.
"The Giant acquisition will grant Elementia access to the third biggest cement market in the world," the company said.
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Crypto companies are moving their cash away from banks and toward asset managers as long as the uncertainty in international banks continues. But, industry analysts do not believe that the bankruptcy of these banks would ultimately spell the end of banking for the cryptocurrency sector.
With the fall of the crypto-friendly banks Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and Signature Bank, the upheaval in the financial sector has resulted in three significant bank failures in the US.
According to Bloomberg, several businesses are now carefully considering where and how they store their money to prevent further harm to the cryptocurrency sector.
They claim that finding new banking partners has become difficult for some cryptocurrency companies due to the bank failures’ aftermath. As a result, asset management companies have gained popularity in the sector as viable alternatives to traditional banks.
According to the report, many cryptocurrency businesses have contacted Fidelity Investments and other asset managers for help and assistance. One executive in the crypto sector claimed to have recommended about 25 companies to Fidelity in the past three days alone. He added: “The businesses included crypto market makers and venture firms targeted at the crypto industry.”
Although Fidelity isn’t a traditional bank, it is unquestionably safer than banks in tiers two or higher.
Crypto is “incredibly resilient.”
Tey El-Rjula, co-founder and CEO of the crypto-ramping business FLUUS, claims that while the sector would notice the loss of some crypto-friendly banks, it is less likely to cause any further issues.
In a statement provided to Cryptonews.com, El-Rjula stressed that the cryptocurrency industry is extremely resilient and has demonstrated its ability to change with the times.
He continued by saying that other financial institutions are now developing novel approaches to the crypto sector’s problems and that new entry points will inevitably appear as the market expands.
El-Rjula also noticed that peer-to-peer platforms and decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are growing, which might be seen as a logical development given the difficulties that crypto firms have when it comes to banking. These platforms enable users to conduct cryptocurrency exchanges between themselves without the need for a centralized middleman like a bank.
Not a plan to “choke crypto”
The head of the strategy at the cryptocurrency exchange Dexalot, Berk Ozdogan, also made comments to Cryptonews.com. He disagreed with the claim made by some in the cryptocurrency community that the financial crisis was an intentional attempt to stunt the development of the crypto industry.
Although he agreed that it is a setback for the financial services business, Ozdogan said in a comment on Wednesday that he doesn’t believe the claim that the closure of SVB, Silvergate, and Signature was done on purpose to restrict the expansion of the cryptocurrency industry.
According to Ozdogan, SVB and Signature Bank served more than simply Web3 companies; thus, the claim that the bank closures were purposeful sabotage of the cryptocurrency business doesn’t make sense.


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Samsung announced plans to release its own virtual reality headset that will use its latest Note smartphone at a press conference Wednesday in New York. The Samsung Gear VR includes a set of headbands and a holster for the new Galaxy Note 4 to secure the phone to a wearer's face and will represent the first consumer product from virtual reality tech company Oculus.
The headset needs no wires and relies entirely on the Note 4's battery and the hardware in the mount, unlike Oculus's own Rift headset. The device tracks movement with an accelerometer and gyroscope, according to Engadget.
Samsung referred to the headset as a "virtual cinema" that would get content from studios including Marvel and Dreamworks. The headset will also be able to handle games and a slightly delayed video passthrough using the feed from the Note 4's 16-megapixel rear camera.
Samsung claimed that the inputs have a latency under 20 milliseconds, and the AMOLED display offers a 96-degree viewing angle. Notably, the Gear VR cannot track depth, so if the wearer moves his or her head back and forth in real life, the movement is not reflected in the image on the Note 4's screen.
Oculus Chief Technology Officer John Carmack appeared onstage to discuss some of the work that went into the Gear VR. "Completely mobile VR is a magical thing," Carmack said. "It's a hard problem to do well." Carmack noted that the high pixel density of the AMOLED display "helps kill motion blur" and that the software architecture helps keep a game's visuals smooth even if the device is overloaded.
"We have a custom kernel driver that our sensor talks to that cuts out hardware middlemen," Carmack said. The device has a "constant clock rate" that developers can optimize for, and it does not use power fluctuations to save energy or throttle.
Aside from the hardware and software development, Carmack told the audience that Oculus and Samsung plan to offer "Oculus VR Cinema" films, which will include previously released ones like Kung Fu Panda as well as "360 experience videos." The companies also plan to release VR-oriented games. "We're investing in the mobile VR ecosystem to make sure top-tier partners keep developing great content," Carmack said.
The device has no price or release date yet, though Samsung tells Engadget that the Gear VR will be out "this year." Oculus' own consumer version of the Rift still has yet to be assigned a release date, possibly as a result of the company's acquisition by Facebook.


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Ever since Microsoft purchased Skype last year, Windows Phone users have been asking the question; “When will we finally get it [Skype] on our Windows Phones.” How about, right now!
Microsoft has finally released Skype, version 1.0, which is currently available on the Windows Marketplace for immediate download. With Skype for Windows Phone, users can now video chat with over 200 million users from almost anywhere in the world. We say almost because you’ll still need an internet connection and thankfully Microsoft has said that Skype for Windows Phone will work on 4G, 3G, and of course, Wi-Fi.
Skype, Verison 1.0, supports over 18 languages, including; English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.
Despite all the excitement over Skype for Windows Phone, there are still some drawbacks to the app. Perhaps one of the biggest features Microsoft and Skype ignored is background calling. If the app is not open, users cannot receive calls. To many, this is a deal breaker, as the app is pointless if it’s not running in background, other users will see you as offline and ultimately, will not use the service. Even Tango, another Skype-like video calling app, has been allowing background calling since its release. This isn’t a case of, “it can’t be done,” it’s a case of “they are to lazy.”
In any event, the app is here, it’s live on the Marketplace and so far has been guaranteed to work on the following devices:
• Nokia Lumia 710
• Nokia Lumia 800
• Nokia Lumia 900
• HTC Titan
• HTC Radar
• Samsung Focus S
• Samsung Focus Flash
So if you’ve got one of the phones above, you’re all set to go. We’ll be trying out the new service later today and we’ll have a review up soon.


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The York County Industrial Development Authority announced that Yorktowne Hotel will reopen under Tapestry Collection by Hilton brand.
The hotel will be part of the Tapestry Collection by Hilton – a gathering of boutique hotels that blend the upscale, independent hotel with the benefits of a Hilton hotel.
Jack Kay, chair of the YCIDA said that there is a vital and impactful step in the new Yorktowne Hotel that allows the spirit to remain at the cornerstone of Hilton community. It is also providing benefit, prestige and support.
GF Management, a Philadelphia-based hospitality company, will be the operator of the Yorktowne. The YCIDA still owns the property. The Tapestry Collection by Hilton was launched by the company in 2017 and features an eclectic mix of hotels with experiences both similar and different from York.
The Cotton Sail in Savannah, Ga., is housed within a 1800s cotton warehouse in the city’s historic district. It features the original 200-year-old pine hardwood floors and one of the only rooftop bars in Savannah.
The Graham, based in Georgetown, is a 57-room hotel with modern décor in a building that predates Washington D.C. itself.
Tailwater Lodge Altmar in Altmar, N.Y. — about 40 minutes north of Syracuse, used to be the Altmar Elementary School and has been converted into an outdoor-themed hotel.


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New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Automobile major Tata Motors Tuesday reported a decline of 7 percent in its total sales including exports in April which stood at 60,086 units from 64,383 units sold in the corresponding period of last year.
The company's domestic sales including commercial and passenger vehicles for the period under review declined 5 percent at 57,305 units from 60,125 units sold in the corresponding period of last year.
Exports-wise, the company reported a decline of 35 percent in the month under review at 2,781 units as compared to 4,258 units shipped out in April, 2011.
According to the company, sales of its commercial vehicles segment last month declined by six percent at 34,647 units compared to 36,738 vehicles sold in April last year.
LCV (light commercial vehicle) sales stood at 24,818 units, a growth of 9 percent, as compared to 22,802 units sold in the corresponding period of last year.
"M&HCV (medium and heavy commercial vehicle) sales stood at 9,829 nos., lower by 29 percent, compared to 13,936 vehicles sold in April, last year," the company said in a statement.
In terms of passenger vehicles sales the auto major reported a total sale and distribution offtake of 23,658 units in April, down 7 percent from 25,436 units sold in corresponding month of last year.
"Sales of Tata passenger vehicles for April 2012 are at 22,658 nos., lower by 3 percent, compared to 23,387 nos., sold in April last year," the statement said.
Sales of the company's entry-level hatchback car Nano declined by 20 percent at 8,028 units compared to 10,012 units sold in April, last year.
The Indica range sales stood at 6,913 units, up by 63 percent from 4,250 units sold in April, last year.
"The Indigo range recorded sales of 3,669 nos., lower by 31 percent, over 5,282 nos., sold in April, last year."
Sales of Sumo, Safari, Aria and Venture range grew by 5 percent in the month under review at 4,048 units from 3,843 units sold in April, last year.
"Jaguar Land Rover sales in India continued their upward trend," the company said.
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In a way, it now seems obvious that the Venn diagram between the tech world and pot should have a generous cleavage. Both are forward-looking dreams led by wunderkind organizers, embracing a burgeoning brand of progressive libertarianism that seems ready to dominate the entirety of the millennial generation and beyond.
So the recent explosion in startups and fundraising rounds centered on weed should not come as any surprise. Peter Thiel raised eyebrows last autumn when his Founder’s Fund threw a rumored $60 million toward legal weed firm Privateer Holdings, a company whose aims include “professionalizing the cannabis business landscape through the power of private enterprise.” And with the PayPal founder’s massive angel investment, it very well could be the first golden pair between pot and tech.
While Thiel’s firm is the first industry-standard organization to invest in pot—now legal for recreational use in four states and the District of Columbia—it is far from the first toe Silicon Valley has dipped into that pool. Drugs, both legal and not, have forged a relationship with the tech sector that makes Wall Street’s adoration of cocaine seem like a brief school-days crush. For reasons both personal and business, Silicon Valley isn’t just empowering drugs—it could possibly be empowered by them.
Aside from Thiel’s massive investment, Privateer also runs Leafly, “the Yelp of weed,” where users can post reviews of dispensaries and specific strains or products of cannabis. In San Francisco, delivery-only dispensaries like Eaze and Meadow are fighting the intense rent and regulations by attempting to be “the Uber of pot.” As vaporizers change the tobacco market, companies across the U.S. are engineering the latest high-tech gadgets and engineering marvels—for tobacco use only (wink wink).
For reasons both personal and business, Silicon Valley isn’t just empowering drugs—it could possibly be empowered by them.
That winking, in fact, is a very serious concern. The major reason such firms are struggling to gain legitimacy is not the product they’ve centered their businesses on but the shaky regulatory ground on which they rest. Weed delivery services, for example, must pay hefty fees and go through a bureaucratic hellscape if they want a physical space to run their business.
Much like how Uber doesn’t need property in every city it operates in, weed delivery can subvert these regulations by running completely as a delivery system, sustaining themselves more as an app than as a store. Such “disembodied cannabis collectives” are not the most stable form of business, but regulation is the only thing holding them back.
While no major lobbying by tech firms has been done in the name of weakening drug regulations, it’s clear the demand to do so is there. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the vaporizer market, where firms must comply with the archaic and rather silly “headshop rule,” which dictates that any product sold must be for tobacco use only. Despite the liquid legal status marijuana is finding across the U.S., manufacturers like Ploom or Firefly are held back from validation by investors by laws that are barely enforceable and definitely pointless.
With a majority of Americans supporting legal marijuana use and nearly half having tried it, the only thing stopping a gold rush are the laws and business norms restricting technology—the industry best poised to flush weed companies with cash—from embracing and lifting up this new market so well-suited for innovation.
Geoff Lewis, the Founders Fund member who led the fundraising for Privateer, called the company’s stake a “first-mover” advantage, meaning those who get in on the early ground have more time and ability to learn from the market. As Privateer CEO Brendan Kennedy says, “They want to end prohibition and the harm caused by prohibition, and they want to do it by creating a smart, professional brand in a space where most of the brands are so amateurish.”
The only thing stopping a gold rush are the laws and business norms restricting technology.
In the same way not many politicians are willing to stand up and speak the plain, simple truth about pot due to the damage it could cause to their reputation, executives from other companies might not want to be associated with a brand like Privateer that distinctly sells marijuana. Despite Privateer making hires from Microsoft and Amazon, for example, Marley Natural is yet to fulfill even foundation-heavy roles like a COO.
So if you’re a progressive-leaning executive with “success in building, energizing, and motivating teams and ability to develop an infrastructure in a rapidly expanding business”—and at least a bachelor’s degree—the weed market is ready for you. The only thing likely stopping most candidates is the ghettoization of weed as a business.
One of the major roadblocks for most legal dispensaries, for instance, has been the complete refusal by most banking institutions to even handle money used to pay for weed. Because weed is still classified as a Schedule I drug by the federal government, banks could face money laundering charges if they process even debit card payments from pot shops. Weed, as always, is a cash-only business.
That makes faith in the industry as a whole hard to come by. Having to stock the massive wave of actual, physical cash in the back of your shop as an industry practice doesn’t do a lot to convince possible investors or executives you’re the industry for them. This social cost stems out to every pot-affiliated service, from delivery to vapor, dragging down a potential boom.
Young economies grow faster, but pointless regulation and outdated social stigmas are hampering pot’s ability to enjoy the rush of talent and innovation that is changing all other sectors of the world economy. By state referendums, the U.S. is now home to the most liberal weed laws in the Western world, but due to federal regulation, Silicon Valley might pass over an industry begging for its change.
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Stewart’s Beverages of Denver has introduced a new gourmet soft drink called “S,” which is sweetened with a blend of the low-calorie sweeteners ACE K and Splenda. According to Stewart’s marketing director, Ellen Gibson, “S” is a safe diet drink for people with diabetes, pregnant women and people on low-sodium diets.
“S” is lightly carbonated and comes in five flavors:
- Black Rasberry
- Orchard Peach
- Ruby Red
- Vanilla Cream
- Wild Cherry
Stewart’s Beverages says the fruit flavors in “S” contain “small quantities of fruit juice to enhance their flavor.” Stewart’s Beverages says there is one gram of sugar for each beverage and five calories in each drink.
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Looking Ahead, With Statistics and Tea Leaves
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: November 1, 1987
ON Wednesday, when car makers report their sales for the last 10 days of October, those seeking to divine the course of the economy will pore over the figures as never before. As the first solid piece of statistical evidence of consumer behavior since the stock market collapse, the numbers, depending on their strength or weakness, are sure to be seen as harbingers of continued moderate economic expansion or impending malaise.
Indeed, with the turmoil in the markets abating only slowly, growth forecasts being slashed and the possibility of a recession looming, every indicator of consumer and business attitudes and behavior over the next several months, whether statistical or anecdotal, will be placed under a microscope.
There are likely to be some conflicting signals about the economy's direction, and they will be interpreted from varying perspectives. Does the market plunge reflect underlying weakness in the economy? Or is the danger largely in the psychological effect the collapse has on consumers and businesses? It will almost certainly be 1988 before the experts get a firm grasp on what Wall Street's crazy days mean for the economy. Because the last five years of economic growth have been based largely on the strength of consumer spending - 60 to 65 percent of growth in the gross national product recently has derived from the consumer - economists are watching most closely for signs that people are putting away their wallets, credit cards and checkbooks.
''What I'm really looking for is evidence that consumers are pulling in their horns,'' said Murray L. Weidenbaum, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers who is now director of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
Some economists think it takes at least four months for the full impact of a stock market fall to hit consumer spending, so it is not surprising that the preliminary readings on the consumer mood are somewhat fuzzy. While news reports spotlighted incidents of car and home sales being canceled, surveys showed that most people outside major financial centers remain relatively unconcerned about the market turmoil.
Consumer confidence levels, which most economists study as an early indication of the economy's direction, have sagged as the stock market has tumbled, but not so dramatically as to give a clear picture of new behavior patterns.
The Conference Board, a business group, reported last week that its index of consumer confidence dropped to 110.4 from 116.9 during the week after Oct. 19's 508-point market plunge. That 5.6 percent decline in consumer confidence, a spokesman for the group said, was barely significant and much less than the 33 percent drop during the 1973 oil crisis.
Richard Curtin, who runs another survey of consumer confidence at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, said it would be some time before it is safe to draw any final conclusions about the impact on consumers. He said that when faced with an economic event of the magnitude of the Oct. 19 free-fall, people tend to go through a period of disbelief into one of uncertainty, often followed by a sense of relief that their worst fears - the specter of Depression-era bread lines, for example - have not come to pass. Only then do they settle into the new economic reality.
The Michigan survey, which was being completed late last week, is also expected to show a drop in the confidence index of 5 percent, although much of its polling was done before Oct. 19.
Right now, Mr. Curtin said, uncertainty reigns among consumers. ''They no longer think that their views about the economy are adequate and they don't know what to replace them with,'' he said. ''People are very unsure as to what it means to me, my job, my financial future.''
Many people feel that the stock market collapse has not injured them directly, researchers said. The same people, however, often have become more pessimistic about the economy in general. It is unclear how much of the general pessimism will spill over into feelings of personal financial security.
Uncertainty in itself, however, is a powerful influence on the economy. Consumers who are not sure what their stock holdings will be worth, or whether their jobs and incomes are secure, often decide to cancel, postpone or scale back spending plans. The new car can wait, their thinking goes, as can the bigger house, and maybe it would be a good idea to hold the line on Christmas presents this year, just in case.
The extent to which that phenomenon is kicking in will most likely show up in the 10-day auto sales figures to be released on Wednesday. If sales remain at around the 6 million annual rate they were running before the market plunge, it will be taken as a sign that consumers are shrugging off Wall Street's latest woes - or at least are taking a deep breath and betting that the economy is resilient enough to take the licking and keep on ticking. But if sales fall much below an annual rate of 5 million, it will almost certainly be taken as a warning that spending is slowing significantly.


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Commerce optimism helps the AUD collect energy on Monday. US Greenback Index continues to erase every day losses.
The AUD/USD pair began the week on a constructive word because the U.S. President Trump’s feedback on the commerce negotiations with China offered a lift to the trade-sensitive currencies such because the AUD. After climbing to zero.7070 deal with, nonetheless, the pair struggled to push greater as the skinny buying and selling circumstances stored value actions restricted on Monday. As of writing, the pair was buying and selling at zero.7043 and was flat on the day.
“Simply had a protracted and excellent name with President Xi of China. Deal is shifting alongside very properly. If made, will probably be very complete, overlaying all topics, areas and factors of dispute. Large progress being made!” President Trump tweeted out on Saturday.
Then again, following a drop to a recent multi-week low of 96.12 earlier within the day, the US Greenback Index staged a modest restoration within the second half of the day to power the pair to reverse its path and was final seen down solely zero.05% on the day at 96.34.
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Tom Dougherty, CEO – Stealing Share
17 April 2019
5,994 and counting, retail closings at record numbers
In 2018 alone, 5,864 retail locations closed. So far in 2019, retail closings stand at 5,994 and it is only April. If the pace stays the same throughout the year, a whopping 16,000 locations will close in 2019. I doubt that will happen. But with the sheer number of retailers struggling, I think the only safe bet is that there isn’t one.
I have written about retail’s failures and struggles ad nauseam. There is no easy fix where retail is concerned. It is a multifaceted issue partly driven by phenomena (online shopping) that is new and somewhat unpredictable. Whatever retailers think will happen in the next 2-5 years is likely only a small part of the story.
Oh sure it’s easy for anyone to say that by year 20-such and such, online shopping will account for blah blah percentage of retail sales. I see these numbers all the time and always take them with multiple grains of salt. Other than the prediction that online retail sales will increase over time, I simply do not have any confidence in the numbers being put forth by the prognosticators. We are seeing an unprecedented fusion of technology and selling. Therefore, it’s foolish to believe we have the ability to predict what will happen. Other than online sales won’t EVER be going away.
“The problem is retail stopped giving a shit about the consumer. And, since solving that problem is seen as too hard to solve, they blame online retailers, like Amazon.”
It’s easy to dismiss the retail closings this year as a Payless problem or Gymboree problem. There’s a whole host of industry-wide problems. Not acting quickly enough to the changing market is one. The failure to develop any kind of meaningful brand is another.
However, the main problem is you and me, the consumers. We are the ones causing these stores to close. We are the ones who stop shopping at Sears, Circuit City, The Limited, and Game Stop.
Retailers are trying to solve the wrong problem as they place blame in the wrong direction. (Usually, the culprit named is Amazon.)
The problem is retail stopped giving a shit about the consumer. And, since solving that problem is seen as too hard to solve, they blame online retailers, like Amazon. As long as retailers refuse to address the big fat eight-million pound gorilla in the room, they will continue to file for bankruptcy and retail closings will increase.
Until they actually start to care about and understand the consumers they pretend to know so deeply, nothing’s going to change.
Amazon didn’t kill the retailer, the retailer did.
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Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales business of Charter Communications, Inc., has teamed up with video startup Waymark to create an AI-powered platform that allows brands to produce video commercials with an AI-generated voiceover.
Spectrum Reach clients can type in their business name, location and desired tone, and Waymark’s AI capability will automatically create a personalized video commercial.
Users can choose from 11 AI voices with different vocal timbres, deliveries, energies and speeds, the companies say. A ready-to-air commercial will emerge within minutes, they claim.
The firms have worked together since 2017 to make video advertising available to small and medium-sized businesses.
“Producing any video, much less a quality TV commercial, can sometimes be consuming and expensive,” says Alex Persky-Stern, CEO of Waymark.
Persky-Stern adds that business owners can create “do-it-yourself commercials, using images from their social footprint and with or without AI voiceover.”


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A New Year but we are still congratulation Taylor Swift… and rightfully so. Taylor was named the first- ever Record Store Day Global Ambassador. It’s a day which celebrated independent record Stores. This is the 15th annual Record Store Day (RSD) and this year it is on April 23rd.
“I’m very proud to be this year’s Ambassador for Record Store Day. The places where we go to browse and explore and discover music new and old have always been sacred to me. Record stores are so important because they help to perpetuate and foster music-loving as a passion.” – Taylor
To celebrate Taylor will drop something special on the day of the event to celebrate. In the past she has celebrate the day with new versions of albums and special collaborations but now that she is the Ambassador of the day we are expecting big things.
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Việt Nam’s shrimp exports are expected to grow this year to a value of more than US$4 billion thanks to free trade agreements, said the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
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VASEP said the shrimp sector would make a breakthrough in exporting to 28 European Union countries – enjoying low import tariffs once the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement takes effect – for an estimated export value of $1 billion.
According to VASEP, 2018 ended with shrimp exports failing to meet the business targets. They reached $3.55 billion, down 7.8 per cent from the previous year.
The shrimp industry targeted to gain an export value of US$4.8 billion in 2018 due to the many advantages of exports promotion. These advantages from existing mechanism and policies include a programme on sustainable development of the fisheries economy during 2016-20.
However, shrimp demand of large markets such as the US and Canada decreased due to weather and high inventory volume in Japan, South Korea and the EU. Domestic prices in the second quarter fell by between 20 and 30 per cent, affecting the local market and export value.
At the end of last year, world shrimp prices fell. The supply from shrimp-producing countries such as India, Thailand and Indonesia increased, while inventory in the US was high, meaning Việt Nam could not boost exports to this market.
Inventories in India, Ecuador and Indonesia also increased after China tightened the export of shrimp via informal cross-border gates.
In 2018, Việt Nam’s shrimp exports to its four main markets declined from the previous year. The value of exports to China dropped by 28 per cent; Japan fell by 9.2 per cent. Exports to the EU and the US were down by 2.8 per cent and 3.3 per cent, respectively. The exports to South Korea and Canada saw slight increases of 1 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively.
The EU was still the largest market for exported Vietnamese shrimp, accounting for 23.6 per cent of exports with a value of $838.3 million.
Whiteleg shrimp continued to occupy a key position in the market, accounting for 68.7 per cent of shrimp exports, while tiger shrimp accounted for 23 per cent and other types of shrimp 8.3 per cent.


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Flutterwave recently partnered with US tech giants such as Paypal, Forter and WorldPay FIS to accelerate digital financial payments solutions across the world. Early this year, Flutterwave also completed a Series C fundraise, bringing a number of blue-chip US-based investors onto the share register, signalling further intent of the US growth of the business.
Flutterwave appoints silicon valley and venture capital veteran, Jimmy Ku, as Head of US Growth
Flutterwave has announced the appointment of Jimmy Ku as the Head of US Growth. His appointment cements Flutterwave’s ambition for the US market amid plans to offer payment services to US-based customers, local businesses and companies.
Jimmy Ku, formerly Chief Operations Officer at mobile media platform MixerBox.Inc., has over 17 years of experience in consulting, start-ups, investments, and founding or co-founding five start-ups during this time. Jimmy has also served as a Venture Scout for 10X Capital and Grishin Robotics and helped raise over $340 million in venture capital funding over the last three years.
Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, Founder and CEO of Flutterwave, said: “We are delighted to welcome Jimmy to our team at Flutterwave. Jimmy’s experience in the technology, start-up and innovation space greatly enhances our team’s credentials for expansion into the US market. His role will also be valuable in the development of new products and services under our platform with the aim of meeting the needs of our US customer and investor base.”
Jimmy Ku, Head of US Growth Flutterwave, said: “I’m very glad to have joined Flutterwave to drive business growth in the US. I look forward to growing with the Flutterwave team whilst building a stronger payments infrastructure for US companies with African technology.”
The US market promises to be a huge opportunity for both Flutterwave and local businesses that want to simplify payments while providing goods and services to their customers.


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The order was issued on Thursday and the properties are valued at Rs 20.96 crore, it said.
A probe has found that "Udai Shanker Awasthi and others in IFFCO generated proceeds of crime and layered it through various unrelated entities and part of this was then transferred to the entities controlled by Awasthi and others", the statement said.
The case relates to illegal commissions worth over Rs 685 crore allegedly paid to the NRI sons of IFFCO Managing Director and CEO Awasthi and Indian Potash Ltd (IPL) Managing Director P S Gahlaut, as well as others by overseas suppliers during 2007-14.
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative Limited (IFFCO) is a multi-state farmers' cooperative, while IPL is its company involved in supplying fertilisers, for which the government provides subsidies to keep rates affordable.
The agency had earlier attached fixed deposits valued at Rs 27.79 crore in the name of RJD Rajya Sabha MP Amarendra Dhari Singh, about Rs 36.55 crore deposits kept in Swiss bank accounts of Atrium Holdings Limited and Artistic Holdings Limited (both beneficially owned by an accused in the case, Pankaj Jain) apart from residential and commercial properties valued at Rs 54.11 lakh belonging to Jain.
The MP was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the case and he later obtained bail.
The agency had filed a chargesheet in this case in July last year.
The money laundering case stems from a CBI FIR filed on May 17, 2021.
The CBI alleged that during 2007-14, in order to claim higher subsidies, Awasthi and Gahlaut, as part of a "criminal conspiracy", imported fertilisers at highly inflated rates. This included their commissions from various overseas suppliers, it said.
The commission amounts were siphoned out of India through their sons based in the US and other accused persons, including the owners of Jyoti Trading Corporation and the Rare Earth Group, Pankaj Jain, who is linked to both companies, his brother Sanjay Jain as well as Dhari and Rajiv Saxena (an accused in the VVIP choppers deal case), the CBI said in its FIR.
It goes on to say that Saxena and his associates received USD 114.32 million, around Rs 685 crore at a transaction rate Rs 60 per dollar, of illegal commission in the bank accounts of his group companies and in the individual accounts of Jain, Gahlaut's son Vivek, Awasthi's son Amol and as well as the RJD MP.
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Currently, half of the transactions Adyen processes come from Europe, its CFO, Ingo Uytdehaage, told CNBC. An additional 10 percent of transactions come from Asia Pacific, he revealed, adding that he expects the region's contribution will increase.
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By Emmanuel Elebeke
The National Board for Technology Incubation, NBTI says over 20 entrepreneurs from different Technology Incubation Centres, TICs across Nigeria now sell their products outside the country.
The Director General of the agency, Engr. Mohammed Jibrin disclosed this on Tuesday during a linkages and collaboration meeting with stakeholders on Technology development held in Abuja.
Jibrin said the feat was made possible through the robust collaboration between the Board and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC).
He said time has come for all relevant stakeholders to support innovative programmes of government that would help make the country develop technologically.
‘‘The NBTI has a long history of fostering and promoting the work of collaborative arrangements, with the participation of all sectors of the society. The collaboration between the board and the NEPC has been yielding positive results.
‘‘Over 20 entrepreneurs from different TICs have been able to sell their products outside the country during the International Trade Fairs. Some of them are now selling their products outside the country without NEPC’s aid.’’
In addition, Jibrin said the Board is maintaining close contact with the National; Foods, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) with NBTI entrepreneurs now enjoying 50% discount on registration of their products.
This he said represents a wave of cross-cutting and innovative solutions from all stakeholders in the economy, adding that their successful delivery will not only advance Technology Incubation Programme implementation but many other Post Incubation activities as well.
The DG who emphasized the importance of multi-stakeholders partnerships in technology development, charged participants to share knowledge and expertise, technologies and financial resources to support the implementation of government projects and programmes.
Some speakers who spoke at the event called for the repositioning of the ministry of Science and Technology to as revenue generation rather than revenue collection ministry.
They also called on federal government to build technology incubation centres in universities for innovation and development of solutions, if we want to move ahead.