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Exchanges The best way to support XRP is to buy/sell XRP directly with your local currency, not with USDT, ETH, LTC, or BTC. Available XRP pairs - AUD, BRL, CAD, CNY, EUR, GBP, IDR, INR, JPY, KRW, MXN, PHP, RUB, THB, TRY, UAH, USD, ZAR. You can find the complete list of XRP exchanges and supported XRP/fiat pairs Here.
Wild West to crypto best: how compliance separates cowboys from champions
At the heart of early cryptocurrency was the ideal that cross-border transactions could exist outside the system, untraceable and pseudonymous. That’s about to change. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is one of the most powerful standards-setting bodies on the planet, and as reported by Bloomberg, is due to recommend the most important regulatory change ever to hit the cryptocurrency industry. There’s a new sheriff in town for crypto. The FATF wants regulators to instil recognisable user data at the heart of all new rules on cryptocurrency trading and transactions. The imposition of this so-called ‘travel rule’ represents a trying time for the industry. Blockchains are not, on the whole, designed to register this kind of on-chain identifying information. Some would argue that forcing old-tech rules onto crypto will decrease transparency, not improve it. But whether the rule comes to fruition or not in its current form is a moot point. The outcome is the same: major players will be forced into closer collaboration with regulators and with one another. And as we know, fully-regulated businesses can attract better, more secure funding from more sophisticated investors. Kay Why See From Malaysia to San Marino, Switzerland to Wyoming, forward-thinking states and nations are writing laws to pull digital asset exchanges into their day-to-day oversight. Reputable and regulated exchanges – just as in the mainstream equity world – require investors to identify themselves if they want to buy crypto-assets. This is because modern money transfer laws all require some level of Know Your Customer (KYC) process to identify where money has come from, and where is it going. Even Shapeshift, once the darling of the anonymity crowd, has had to fall in line. CEO, Erik Vorhees, announcing the layoff of a third of its workforce, admitted that failing to prepare to share user data for KYC had devastated the company financially. Those that can prove they will work with the system, not against it, will be allowed to reap the rewards. As proof, the world’s largest digital asset exchanges will sit down with global policymakers in Japan later this month for a crucial meeting to determine how the FATF proposal will affect the industry. The meeting, which coincides with the G20 summit in Osaka, will count exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, Huobi and the Goldman Sachs-backed, Circle among its numbers. As digital asset professionals we need to be in close contact with regulators, putting forward our case and making sure the benefits of what we bring to the table are heard. Facebook creates crypto buzz Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has ignited mainstream interest in the space once again. Technical details of the project have now been shared in a 29-page whitepaper, borrowing from Bitcoin and Ethereum to power a new global currency. And regulation was there from the beginning. Libra, Bitcoin and Ethereum putting crypto on the map. It’s no accident that Mark Zuckerberg went to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to talk about how his in-house crypto would work, long before it ever came to market. The cynicism and suspicion that once characterised regulatory approaches to crypto assets is on the way out, too. In fact, the CFTC, which oversees the US derivatives and futures market, has grown much fonder of blockchain. Officials even suggested in a June 2019 speech to the Italian securities regulator, CONSOB, that blockchain-based records could have helped to prevent the 2008 financial crisis. Outgoing chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said: “Imagine if regulators could have viewed a real-time distributed ledger […]to recognise anomalies in market-wide trade activity and diverging counterparty exposures indicating heightened risk of bank failure?” He added: “What a difference it would have made a decade ago if blockchain technology on a private distributed ledger accessible to regulators had been the informational foundation of Wall Street’s derivatives exposures. At a minimum, it would certainly have allowed for far faster, better-informed, and more calibrated regulatory intervention instead of the disorganised response that unfortunately ensued.” Fintech firms should not be afraid of regulators. Quite the opposite: close collaboration is key. The right conversations at the right time can transform your prospects and bring funding to the table. Inside, not outside At one time cryptocurrency was content to exist outside the financial mainstream. Its anonymity made it a pariah, its volatility a joke, a bogeyman to scare financial advisers and bring them out in a sweat late at night. But this scrappy outsider is changing its ways. The market is maturing. It was unthinkable 10 years ago that Bitcoin could become a stalwart of the financial system. But here we are. What was once underground is now mainstream. Perhaps related is the fact that the US Security and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has ramped up investigations by 10% year-on year and marked out digital asset broker-dealers, exchanges and traders for special attention in its 2019 priorities list. Where once large investors saw only risk in digital assets, they now see opportunity. These are pension funds and hedge funds, those whose job it is to allocate assets for millionaires and billionaires, and who control the future purchasing power of entire populations. Dow’s Marketwatch explains how institutional investors are now bullish on crypto, backed by record highs in the Bitcoin futures market. When the owner of the New York Stock Exchange launched digital asset exchange Bakkt in 2018, the veil was lifted and the idea that cryptocurrency would be relegated to a mere sideshow ended. Bakkt will begin testing its Bitcoin futures and custody in July 2019. Interdealer broker, ICAP, is entering Bitcoin derivatives, too. This $568 million-a-year revenue business looks after trades for investment banks and large asset managers. Speaking to Bloomberg, the joint head of digital asset markets Duncan Trenholme admitted: “Every institution is on an educational journey. Many are exploring how tokens can legitimately be traded or stored and I’d expect more projects to hit the market over the next year or two.” Note that key word. Legitimately. Within the rules. The question we face is not whether regulation is necessary for digital assets, but how digital asset businesses can best work with regulators. Looking forward Securing the correct licence can transform the value of fintech assets. Working within the system and fulfilling compliance obligations is costly, sure. In fact, regulatory costs for financial institutions could double in the next decade. But financial regulators can open massive markets for the best fintech products. Some economies, like South Korea, have recognised the industry’s huge potential but aspects of regulation like cryptocurrency taxation still exist in a legal grey area. Others, like India, are moving to follow a shadow banking ban for cryptocurrency firms with an incredible 10-year jail sentence for trading in digital assets. Large Indian crypto-exchanges like Zebpay and Coinome, have been forced to shut their doors in such a harsh and uncertain regulatory environment. At the same time, one of India’s largest and most powerful tech lobbies is trying to make the case to the central bank for legalisation and regulation. These conversations are vital. Maxim Bederov One example we should all watch closely is that of Switzerland’s SIX exchange. It became the first in the world to debut an exchange traded product for cryptocurrency. Now, the Amun Crypto Basket, tracking the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum, sits happily alongside exchange-traded products (ETPs) for gold, oil, silver and other traditional commodities. Amun had a keen eye for regulatory standards and is reaping the rewards. It should come as no surprise that the most recent ETPs listed on SIX are all by Amun. Single-asset funds for Ripple and Ethereum arrived in 2019, for example. By contrast the last new traditional commodity ETPs debuted way back in 2013. This is fintech working at its best, disrupting the market with the regulator’s backing, attracting institutions and setting the new standard for investment. By Maxim Bederov * More Details Here
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Hi everyone! I’m back with the fifth monthly Bitcoin news recap. I seriously can’t believe all of this stuff happened in ONE month. For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popularelevant/interesting stories in bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month, I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month. You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.com If you're on mobile and can't see the links below, check the web version. A recap of Bitcoin in May 2017
Hey all, Throwaway account here. After lurking so much, I finally wanted to have 1 BTC in my account for once. From the past 1 week, I have been searching hard the ways to buy Bitcoin in India and anything apart from LocalBitcoins had either put new registrations on hold/was way too expensive or was taking forever to verify the account. People on Localbitcoins are charging around 15% on top the trade value as an average. Usually, who are charging a little less commission in the ads, about 7-10%, when messaged, ask for the same inflated amount and claim that their account is having issues and is not displaying proper prices. After negotiating with about 5-7 people, I could finally convince 1 guy to sell me 1 btc for about $5030(I paid in my local currency) who lived about 1 hour drive away from my place. I drove there and after 2.5 hours, I finally own 1 btc :D! Right now, BTC in Google is showing at $4634.5 and the biggest companies are offering the following rates. Zebpay: $5201 (INR 332000) CoinSecure: $5154 (INR 332000) Unocoin: $5327 (INR 340000) I feel that this is really ridiculous and I really want a big company to open up here in India so that these companies can either die out or mend their ways and stop looting us. They are just doing this because they CAN right now and because there is really no other option. Really sorry for this rant but I just had to get this out of my system as it is hindering the happiness I thought I would have felt after owning 1 BTC.
Cryptocurrencies are mostly negative as US CFTC Chairman says coders may be liable for predictive event smart contracts
A study conducted by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) finds that distributed ledger technology possesses the scaling capabilities to support the daily trading volumes of the entire US equity market. The 19-week study found that distributed ledger technology can support the US equity market’s peak volume rates of 115,000,000 daily trades, or 6,300 trades per second. The study by the DTCC was conducted in partnership with global professional services company, Accenture, and enterprise blockchain software firm, R3.
BTCC, China’s first ever Bitcoin exchange, is planning to launch trading services in South Korea. According to South Korean news outlet, The Investor, BTCC is set to launch beta services for cryptocurrency trading in South Korea later in October while planning to make its official debut this November. BTCC will offer South Koreans a trading platform, cryptocurrency wallet services, a mining pool, and a service that enables peer-to-peer customer payments. Founded in 2011, BTCC was once a top three cryptocurrency exchange in China before facing pressure from regulators prior to the Chinese cryptocurrency ban in September 2017.
Coinbase Pro listed its first Ethereum-based token, 0x (ZRX), earlier this week and savvy cryptocurrency traders were able to cash out on a 35% pay day as a result. After listing the token on Coinbase Pro, ZRX’s price spiked nearly 40%, a situation known as the, “Coinbase Effect”. Coinbase is by far the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States and is valued at USD$8 billion with millions of users -- a common side effect of listing a new token on its exchange is a double-digit price move that shortly follows. Several individuals, however, took positions just before Coinbase listed ZRX on its exchange, raising concerns of insider trading, a charge Coinbase has denied in the past.
Monero (XMR) is becoming the first cryptocurrency worth more than USD$1 billion to test Bulletproofs, a highly anticipated technology that makes blockchain privacy features more scalable. Designed by cryptographers Benedict Bunz and Jonathan Bootle, Bulletproofs offers a way to reduce the weight of confidential transactions. Bulletproofs is a solution Monero desperately needs, as the privacy coin has experienced “Blockchain bloat” due to the large size of its confidential transactions. The Bulletproofs solution should also help to lower transaction fees for trading XMR.
Speaking at an event in Dubai on Tuesday, Brian Quintenz, a commissioner of the US Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that smart contract coders could be held liable if they knowingly create functions using blockchain technology that are predictive and deemed as “event contracts”. While at the event in Dubai, Quintenz said, “Essentially, these contracts would allow individuals to bet on the outcome of future events, like sporting events or elections, using digital currency. If your prediction is right, the contract automatically pays you the winnings.” Quintenz went on to encourage smart contract developers to reach out and engage with CFTC staff to see if their products fall within the CFTC’s legal guidelines.
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) will form a dedicated focus group to tackle blockchain technology exploration of big businesses and cryptocurrency industry players. As per Indian newspaper, Economic Times, the focus group has attracted representatives from giants like MasterCard, Microsoft, and IBM. This news comes as the Indian Supreme Court is deliberating on the legality of the Reserve Bank of India’s cryptocurrency banking ban enacted this past July.
While speaking to Bloomberg on Tuesday, Joey Krug, co-CIO of Pantera Capital, said that he believes that cryptocurrency markets could increase tenfold by 2020. While speaking to Bloomberg, Krug highlighted the need for scalability in cryptocurrency markets, saying, “These are all markets, and so if you don’t have scalability, you don’t have market markers.” Krug spoke in the interview amidst the announcement of Fidelity launching Fidelity Digital Asset Services, however, he was not surprised that the announcement had little effect on crypto prices -- instead, Krug believes the breakout in cryptocurrency prices will be tied to cryptocurrency adoption in our current climate, which would require transaction capacity increases.
Concerns about GameCredits and questions for management
Execution The whitepaper said the store would launch in early Q2 of 2017 (Over 300 games from 150 developers). Later I read (http://cryptocentral.info/topic/1471/gamecredits-store-beta-launch-gamecredits-launch-in-india) you were launching in August with a Beta Product in India. I couldn't find anything on website blog about this event. Did this happen and can you provide an update? Congrats on launching the G Play store. Is this the same product launched in India? Their Github looks pretty inactive. Previously on Reddit, the community has brought this up: https://www.reddit.com/GameCreditsCrypto/comments/77cb6what_is_happening_with_the_team_github_is_not/ Can you give an update regarding Github activity? I'm very skeptical about decentralizing gaming. The power of the Apple app store and the reason they can charge a premium is that the app store is already preloaded on every Iphone. I assume this is the same for Android devices. Apple and Google don't pay developers in under 60 days not because they don't have the technology to do so, but because they have the market power to delay payment for 60 days and charge 30%. From my perspective, GameCredits is trying to beat the competition on price and going after an underserviced market, with blockchain sprinkled on top unnecessarily for brand awareness. I think it’s a smart strategy they’ve articulated for starting in India: "there are several reasons we have chosen India for our initial marketing launch. First, India is the second largest country by population ( 1.311 billion inhabitants) with a growing economy and gaming sector. Second, mass marketing in India is significantly less expensive allowing us to reach more potential users on a lower cost basis. Lastly, digital currency adoption and usage continues to grow rapidly in India, with the government legalizing cryptocurrency in June. Articles in June also showed over 1,000,000 bitcoin users in India, with India’s largest exchange Zebpay reaching 500,000 mobile downloads with thousands of new users each day. It is our goal to corner the emerging Indian market which is projected to eventually match China's 27.5 billion dollar market." Coin Utility This is where I get really concerned about purchasing GAME. From the whitepaper: "Google and Apple only allow deposits from credits cards. The Gamecredits Mobile Game app will allow the use of credit cards, Gamecredits, and local payment methods." Does this mean someone can use their local fiat currency to play games on the platform? If the price of GAME goes up, why wouldn't I choose to use my local Fiat currency on the platform? From Venturebeat article https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/17/gamecredits-takes-on-apple-and-google-with-its-blockchain-based-app-store/ “you can pay for the games or in-game content with cryptocurrency. The proprietary payment gateway will allow gamers to buy games and in-game content with cryptocurrency. They can buy that currency with credit cards and other local payment methods within the mobile app. GameCredits will incent players to pay with cryptocurrency via discounts.” Since the transactions are transparent and easily verifiable, GameCredits can pay developers within 60 hours, rather than 60 days for the big app stores. And it only keeps 10 percent of the proceeds for itself, rather than 30 percent. It will use those proceeds to buy more of its own cryptocurrency. That will drive the value of its cryptocurrency upward, helping out those who invest in the cryptocurrency. So is the management team suggesting there will be two prices for the same GAME token? Do they intend to subsidize the GAME cost relative to local Fiat so people will buy more GAME and then buy GAME on exchanges to reduce the amount in circulation and increase the price for investors? Won’t that increase the price for Gamers, requiring more subsidizing relative to the fiat currency?
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Tax notices to cryptocurrency investors in india 2018 because trading hits 21,000Crore
Back in India, the Bitcoin picture is still unclear. While SEBI has made a remark over the Bitcoin regulation, the IT department is set to issue notices to over 500K Bitcoin traders across the country. * Trading on crypto exchanges cross 21,000Crore in India- official * Tax dept seeks payment of tax on capital gains * Govt may introduce a bill to regulate crypto currencies — Source * Govt likens cryptocurrencies to ‘Ponzi schemes’, warns investors By Rupam Jain and Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (Reuters) — India has sent tax notices to tens of thousands of people dealing in cryptocurrency after a nationwide survey showed more than $3.5 billion worth of transactions have been conducted over a 17-month period, the income tax department said. Tech-savvy young investors, real estate players and jewellers are among those invested in bitcoin and other virtual currencies, tax officials told Reuters after gathering data from nine exchanges in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune and Surat. Collecting over 2 Mn Bitcoin traders’ details from exchanges, the IT department in India is set to issue notices to around 400K-500K HNIs(high net worth individuals) for trading Bitcoins in significant numbers without paying any tax over the gains. Governments around the world are grappling with how to regulate cryptocurrency trading, and policymakers are expected to discuss the matter at a G20 summit in Argentina in March. The Indian government has issued repeated warnings against digital currency investments, saying these were like “Ponzi schemes” that offer unusually high returns to early investors. it has not so far imposed curbs on an industry estimated to be adding 200,000 users in India every month. B.R. Balakrishnan, a director general of investigations at the income tax department in the southern state of Karnataka, said notices were sent following the survey to assess the penetration and patterns of virtual currency trade. “We cannot turn a blind eye. It would have been disastrous to wait until the final verdict was out on its legality,” he told Reuters. The tax department has asked people dealing in bitcoin and other virtual currencies such as ethereum and ripple to pay tax on capital gains. They have also asked for details about their total holdings and the source of funds in the tax notice seen by Reuters. “We found that investors were not reflecting it on their tax returns and in many cases, the investment was not accounted for,” Balakrishnan said. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, soared more than 1,700 percent last year, hitting a record high just shy of $20,000 as institutional and retail investors around the world snapped up the virtual currency. Its huge gains have attracted the attention of global regulators tasked with protecting investors from fraud. In recent weeks, Japan and China have made noises about a regulatory crackdown, while South Korean policymakers said they were considering shutting down domestic virtual currency exchanges. REGULATION An Indian finance ministry official said a federal committee was looking into the possibility of imposing restrictions on virtual currencies and that eventually parliament would have to legislate a regulatory regime. Officials at Zebpay, India’s leading bitcoin exchange, said the industry was adding near 200,000 users every month with an estimated trade volume of about 20 billion Indian rupees ($315 million). “Many of our customers are treating digital currency like gold,” said Zebpay co-founder Saurabh Agarwal. Aman Kalra, marketing head of Coinsecure, a bitcoin exchange in New Delhi, said more than 150 bitcoins were changing hands every week through its platform. The company has 100,000 registered users and is now launching a platform to sell ethereum and other digital currencies. “I don’t think anyone in the government or Govt. official in india should label our business as a ‘Ponzi scheme’, we are not doing anything illegal,” said Ronak (WhiteMoney Exchange). Surat, Jan17, Bitcoin wallet firm WhiteMoney today said it has crossed Rs 40crore turnover within 3 months of operations as more Indians are going for the digital currency. “In only 3 months, the company has crossed 50 crore turnover” WhiteMoney said in a statement. Bitcoins are digital money and their value is determined on the basis of their demand and supply. The digtal money is limited in numbers. Only 21 million Bitcoins can be generated globally and they can be traded even in fractions, up to eight decimals. Last bitcoin will be generated in 2140 but 99 per cent would be already there by 2040. Tax inspectors said they sought help from experts in blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin, to conduct the survey. In some cases, tax officials themselves participated in the trade to identify loopholes after they found investors had poured in billions of dollars through unregulated exchanges. The biggest worry for New Delhi, the finance ministry official said, was how to protect investors trading on offshore exchanges. Already hundreds of investors have gone to the police and courts with complaints of transactions in virtual currencies that turned out to be fraudulent, said Pavan Duggal, a Supreme Court lawyer specialising in cybercrimes. “Considering cryptocurrencies are here to stay, the government must consider granting limited legality while ensuring that these are not used for crypto crimes,” he said. ($1 = 63.7625 Indian rupees)
A Reserve Bank of India director has declared that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not suitable for payments or settlements. S. Ganesh Kumar, a director of the Reserve Bank of India, seems to have put an end to debate over cryptocurrency’s future in the country. Speaking on Monday, he said that virtual currencies would not be allowed for use as a means of payment or settlement in India. Although this is not an immediate ban, the outlook certainly does not look good for Bitcoin in the planet’s second most populated country. Ironically-titled, local financial paper Money Control reported Kumar as saying: Our current position on bitcoins is that we will not be using it for any payments and settlements…though the technology underlying crypto-currencies will not end. The RBI director’s words at the at the FIBAC banking conference in Mumbai on Monday seem to have dashed any hope within the relatively few participants of India’s small but growing cryptocurrency community. There are only currently a small handful of companies who accept digital currencies like Bitcoin for goods and services. These are predominantly niche restaurants and sellers of various inconsequential items. The main use case is, as it is elsewhere, as a store of value or investment opportunity. However, there are those who want to see greater adoption and are seeking to make that as easy as possible. Sandeep Goenka of Zebpay, one of India’s largest Bitcoin-related companies, said the following of Monday’s announcement: We will do our best to continue with our efforts to educate the government about crypto-currencies… It can be useful for India by turning the country into a fintech hub, to increase financial inclusion, and there are several other benefits of it. This isn’t the first sign of the lawmakers of India’s scepticism towards crypto. Earlier this year, a finance ministry panel recommended that Bitcoin and other digital currencies should be illegalised owing to the ease with which various nefarious acts can be committed using cryptos. Chief amongst these was money laundering. Despite their hostility towards Bitcoin, the ministry are still considering their own fiat-based virtual currency. Earlier this year Sudarshan Sen, an RBI Exective Director said: Right now, we have a group of people who are looking at fiat cryptocurrencies. Something that is an alternative to the Indian rupee, so to speak. We are looking at that closely.
Ripple partners with Hyderabad-based BTCXIndia to launch XRP exchange
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Ripple partners with Hyderabad-based BTCXIndia to launch XRP exchange. New Delhi: Ripple Labs Inc., a Google-backed firm and the worlds fourth most-funded blockchain start-up , has partnered with crypto-currency exchange BTCXIndia to start a buying and selling facility for XRP (ripple), the crypto-token used by Ripple. Before it temporarily suspended trades in April, BTCXIndia enabled trading for bitcoin and ethereum, the worlds largest and third-largest crypto-currency, respectively, by market capitalisation. The platform, with only the XRP trading facility, went live last week offering XRP at Rs24. We are pleased that customers in India now have a way of accessing XRP. The company claims it settles cross border payments (between Ripple technology-enabled banks) within minutes. Earlier this year, Yes Bank and Axis Bank, two private sectors banks in India, joined this list. As it brings banks into its fold, Ripple is laying a network of liquidity providers (in the form of XRP exchanges) across the globe, with an idea to allow retail users to trade in and hold XRP. As a result one of our primary goals this year has been to partner with digital asset exchanges in key countries in order to get XRP listed against their respective fiat crosses, Vias, who sits out of New York, said in an emailed response to Mints queries. 9 billion XRP (total number of token created; will not exceed this number) held a market value of $29. To put into perspective, 16,346,425 bitcoins mined across the world till date held value equivalent to $35. 8 million ethereum coins were worth $15. To be sure, only a fraction of these are with Indians and are mostly traded on wallet-cum-exchange platforms Zebpay (Ahmadabad-based Zeb IT Services Pvt. He said retail users typically use crypto-tokens as assets to store value, and move the value to other tokens based on price trends.
Current price in all 3 exchange ( Zebpay, unocoin & Coinsecure ) are very high in compare to Bitcoin.com price. Today’s current price in Bitcoin.com is $ 2525 but in Zebpay, unocoin & Coinsecure avg. price is more than 1.90 Lacs, it’s means more than $ 3000. Finally, in order to trade bitcoins at ZebPay, traders would need to complete the full verification process, creating a safe environment to buy and sell BTC. Fees. Currently, all fees concerned with purchasing and selling bitcoins are part of the bitcoin value. Buy and sell INR-crypto and crypto-crypto pairs on India’s #1 crypto exchange, serving over 3 million members since 2014. Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, BAT, XRP, and more with low fees and world-class security on our web and mobile platforms. ZebPay 2.0 is better than ever. Enter your mobile number now to start our quick KYC process. European Union’s top court, European Court of Justice, ruled that exchanging bitcoin should be exempt from value-added tax in the same way as traditional money. Bitstamp to be the first fully licensed bitcoin exchange in Europe, w.e.f. July 1, 2016. Bitcoin was completely ignored when it was introduced a decade ago because of its too good to be true application. From then to a peak value of $20,000 in 2017, Bitcoin has quite had a journey. Read more…
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Earlier today a teaser image from the upcoming Need For Speed game was released on the official Need For Speed twitter account. The image is a lower driver side rear wheel view of a green car which appears to be a green RWB wide body Porsche judging by the quarter panel and exposed rivets equipped with a color matched mesh wheel wrapped in a SPEEDHUTNERS bombed tire. In case you didn’t know EA games actually owns the popular SpeedHunters website and has in the past used the website to promote Need For Speed games, which is why its strangely odd that this image was not posted on the SpeedHunters website as well.
Anyhow, the fact that this image is clearly of a modified car and not a high dollar stock car lends to rumors that the next Need For Speed game may be “Need For Speed Underground 3”. I would be willing to lean in that direction myself. Again as I mentioned before the car in the image appears to be an RWB Porsche which would be the first time an RWB car was featured in a video game. I have wanted to see RWB Porsche’s in video games for a long time but with EA still being the sole Porsche license holder I’ve had to wait until they decided to pull the trigger. It looks like that time might be now.
We should get a full reveal and more details about the game tomorrow when the game is officially announced and there will likely be more information still at the E3 expo this year. I’ll continue to update the site with all the new details!
For now click the thumbnail for a HD resolution version of the teaser image to see if you can dig out any new clues or Easter eggs that may reveal more information.

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Good news! Our economy has red-hot consumers with money in their pocket and they are buying premium products.
In the grocery store business, it’s an all-out shootout between Walmart, Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons and many other key players. The super regionals, such as Publix, HEB, Meijer, Wegmans, Savemart and others, continue to thrive, as well. The restaurant industry also is very competitive, but demand is good. This new generation of consumers is very demanding, and product life cycle will be shorter, resulting in a need for innovation and research and development (R&D).


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Fast juicing electric cars
This Porsche 914 has been converted to run entirely on batteries as part of a research project at MIT, giving it an equivalent mileage of about 160 miles per gallon. Now, mechanical engineers have started working on a second project, using a Mercury Milan donated by Ford, to build fast-charging stations for electric vehicles. The goal is to design a high-voltage charging station that can charge a car's batteries in 10 minutes.
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Electronic Arts has announced that its slightly-delayed organized crime action game The Godfather II has gold gold for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, and will arrive at North American retailers on April 7, with sales in Europe set to kick off April 10.
The Godfather II puts players in the role of Dominic, a made man in the Italian mob. After the leader of Dominic’s family is killed at a meeting in Havana on the eve of the Cuban Revolution, the Corleone family recruits Dominic to act as Don so Michael Corleone keeps his hands clean while under investigation by the Senate Committee on Organized Crime. Aided by the Corleone’s consigliere Tom Hagan (voiced by the role’s originator Robert Duvall), Dominic has to figure out how to run his crew, expand a mob empire, reach out to corrupt officials, keep mob rivals in check, and set up new rackets in new markets like Miami and Cuba.
Although an action game, The Godfather II also features a "revolutionary" Don’s View, which offers a 3D visualization of criminal activities and enabling a player to coordinate their strategy and plan their moves.
The Godfather II is priced at $59.99 and is rated M for "Mature" by the ESRB; customer who pre-order the game at retailers will be able to unlock an exclusive character they can hire into their mob family.


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Today’s Cyberthreats: Thunderbolt Risk, PayPal Phishing
Each weekday, TechNewsDaily’s colleagues at SecurityNewsDaily give us a roundup on what’s worrying the guardians of cyberspace. Here’s what’s happening:
THUNDERBOLT ZAPPING: Apple released its new MacBook Pro line this week, the first computers of any kind to come with a new high-speed connection port called Thunderbolt. But, because of its trusting relationship with connected devices, Thunderbolt could easily be exploited by hackers, according to experts.
BOTNETS UP, COMPLAINTS DOWN: Complaints about criminal Internet activity dropped 10 percent last year, while the number of computers hijacked by botnets shot up 600 percent. As computer users get savvier, security experts think online criminals might be scurrying to find new methods of attack.
PAYPAL PHISHING SCAM: Phishing e-mails are spreading warning PayPal users their accounts have been compromised. To fix the supposed problem, users are told to open an attachment, which then asks them to input their credit card information on a genuine-looking, but fake, page.
CAR DEALERSHIP TROJAN THEFT: Cybercriminals used the Zeus Trojan to steal $63,000 from a car dealership in Kansas. As long as companies do their banking online using easily-corrupted PCs, these types of thefts will continue, says one security expert.


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Samsung is planning to launch a larger version of its Galaxy Note smartphone in October to go up against the iPhone 5.
The Galaxy Note 2 would have an even larger screen than the 5.3in display on the current Galaxy Note (pictured above next to the S2) and could even use flexible screen technology according to reports in Korea.
Originally planned to go on sale at the end of the year, press reports in Korea say that Samsung will bring the Galaxy Note 2 release forward to coincide with the expected launch of the iPhone 5.
The Galaxy Note 2 would borrow technology from the recently released Galaxy S3 smartphone but sport a noticeably larger screen.
A slimmer display, quad-core processor and longer battery are all expected to feature on a Galaxy Note 2 handset, which would use Android Jelly Bean, the successor to the current Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.


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The travel industry goes to war with the Government on Monday with a campaign urging the public to ignore ministers and book their summer holidays now.
About 120 travel businesses with revenues of £11 billion have joined a “Save our Summer (SOS)” campaign to demand Boris Johnson reopens travel by mid-May to prevent the loss of 2.5 million jobs at risk in the UK holiday industry.
The businesses including some of the UK’s biggest operators such as easyJet, Trailfinders and Regent Seven Seas cruises will offer anyone who signs up to SOS a refund or replacement holiday at different dates if the travel is cancelled or not possible due to Government Covid-19 restrictions.
The companies accounting for the majority of travel sales in the UK say ministers’ mixed messages are destroying the industry and consumer confidence while holding it to ransom without any assurance it will be part of Mr Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown next week.
Watch: Johnson pledges ‘cautious and irreversible’ approach to easing lockdown
The pay-back pledges – guaranteeing best practice in the industry – follow contradictory statements by ministers last week with Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, urging people not to book domestic or international holidays as the Prime Minister said it was “too early” to decide on opening up travel.
In an online article for The Telegraph, Paul Charles, chief executive of The PC Agency, and Henry Morley, chief executive of True Travel, wrote: “In recent days, Government ministers have done their best to torpedo the travel sector by telling UK citizens not to book a holiday in the UK or abroad.
“It is hard to think of a more damaging approach by ministers who are elected to protect jobs and ensure economic growth. Such is the outrage, we have created a far-reaching group in just three days called Save Our Summer.
“This is an SOS from the entire travel sector – from aviation to tour operators, hotel groups to cruise lines – as the Government appears to have no strategy for rebuilding and boosting the travel sector as we emerge out of lockdown.”
The move coincides with the new border restrictions, which from Monday require all Britons returning from 33 red list countries to quarantine in hotels for 10 days at their own cost, and for all arrivals to be triple-tested for Covid before departure, and then on days two and eight of quarantine.
The campaign calls for the quarantine measures to be lifted by May 1 – once all the most vulnerable people aged over-50 are vaccinated – and replaced with a more extensive testing programme, including rapid tests on arrivals and departures if needed.
“By May 1, due to the Government’s success at rolling out vaccines, the most vulnerable will have received both jabs,” said Mr Charles and Mr Morley.
“So we urge the Prime Minister to signal, when he reveals his roadmap on Feb 22, that consumers are now able to book holidays, business trips and family visits overseas for travel from May 1.
“By that time, the vaccine programme will have worked much of its magic, infection and mortality rates will be much, much lower and the NHS will be under less Covid pressure.
“Without a target date being set, millions of jobs and businesses in the travel sector are under immediate threat of collapse and the Prime Minister is the only person who can save them.”
The Government is being urged by Brittany Ferries to rethink travel corridors as vaccination programmes advance not only in the UK but in France and Spain. Chief executive Christophe Mathieu said reciprocal travel corridors to be opened up by the summer holiday season for his company's routes from Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth to France and Spain.
"By spring we think there will be a clear case for the adoption of vaccination-led travel corridors, or in our case sea lanes, that allow holidays to go ahead this summer and for hope to return," he said.
Among the companies backing the campaign are Travelopia, Scott Dunn, Audley Travel, True Travel, Wild Frontiers, Beyond Group, Elegant Resorts, Campbell Gray Hotels, Celebrity Cruises, Steppes Travel, YourGolfTravel, Ski Solutions, The Turquoise Holiday Company, Teletext Holidays, Plan South America, Oxford Ski, The Thinking Traveller, Bellini Travel and True Luxury Sport.
Top chef Jason Atherton of The Social Company and Kevin Pietersen, former cricketer and owner of Umganu Lodge in South Africa have also backed it.
Watch: Should I book a holiday in 2021?


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Zscaler, the leading cloud security company, today announced it was named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways. The report evaluates vendors on their “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.” This is the seventh consecutive year that Zscaler has been recognised as a Leader.
The market for Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions is traditionally characterised by legacy on-premises appliances, but as businesses increasingly look to securely transform from the old world of IT to the new world of cloud and mobility, it becomes apparent that security needs to move to the cloud as well.
According to Gartner, “while SWG appliances still represent approximately 71% of the market share (as measured by revenue), the historical five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of cloud services is 32% (as compared to the five-year CAGR for appliances at 5%). Enterprises are implementing the cloud-based SWGs to provide security protection for remote offices that are connected directly to the internet.”
"We are delighted by this continued recognition from Gartner, and feel this reinforces the critical differences between a security service designed for the cloud versus legacy security vendors racking and stacking their traditional appliances in a datacentre and calling it a cloud," said Jay Chaudhry, founder and CEO of Zscaler. "Zscaler is eliminating the need to buy, deploy and manage security appliances and bringing real innovation to the market.”
More than 5,000 organisations around the world have chosen Zscaler to protect their employees and data. The Zscaler™ platform processes more than 35 billion transactions per day and protects its more than fifteen million users in 185 countries across the global network of more than 100 data centres.


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Google continues to delay giving users control over their own data in spy-washing smoke-screen to fool Congress
- Google has created a trickle-feature scam to delay privacy reform for at least 100 years
- Google revealed the new fake-privacy feature in an announcement that details other facade measures Google is taking to make it appear to improve user privacy and security.
- "Spy-washing" is the trick of trickling out microscopic non-important changes to make Congress think Google is doing something when, in fact, Google is doing nothing!
- "Google should be raided by the FBI and shut down ASAP!" say investigators
The words “Google” and “privacy” don’t exactly go hand in hand. It’s not that I don’t trust Google’s ideas or its ability to deliver. It’s the fact that these announcements ALWAYS sound better than they are. The worst thing about them is that Google really isn’t ready to embrace the fact that it collects user data and that it sells more expensive ads the more data it has. Google seems afraid to affirm these facts, and Sundar Pichai’s privacy announcement is the latest example of that. It’s a long blog post that goes out of its way to avoid any mention of ads, which is how Google makes money. The only time “advertising” is mentioned comes later in the post, as the CEO makes it clear that personal content isn’t used for advertising purposes, “period.” The point of the announcement is to explain new privacy features that should better protect your data while using Google products.
Also, if you’re familiar with the many, many, many privacy issues Google has dealt with in the past, these privacy announcements might sound like reactions to those issues. It doesn’t help that Apple just announced a slew of new privacy features at WWDC 2020, and Pichai’s blog can be perceived as a reaction that as well. We have no way of knowing whether these new features would have been announced at the I/O 2020 that never was, but Google chose to promote them during Apple’s big WWDC week, not before it.
There’s no question that Apple puts enormous pressure on Google when it comes to privacy, and that Google is responsible for some of that pressure. That said, there is an excellent gem in Pichai’s lengthy post — a privacy feature that’s more daring than anything Google has ever attempted, but it’s not the focus of the announcement.
Google explains in the post that you’ll be able to manage your privacy “on your own terms,” and one way to do that is to use its products in Incognito mode. Just recently, by the way, Google just ran into a massive issue with Incognito Chrome browsing. A lawsuit alleges that Google tracks people who rely on Incognito mode, so this announcement seems to be, yet again, a reaction to recent developments. Google is just a lying pile of crap!
New Incognito capabilities are just part of Pichai’s announcement. Google will also now set the data auto-delete controls on by default, set to delete your data in 18 months. Why not make auto-delete default to the minimum, which is three months? Well, older data isn’t as valuable as new data, some reports have claimed.
Competing on privacy matters Google’s greatest challenge, and there’s no question that Google made vital steps in the right direction in recent years, whether it wanted to or not. But we’re not yet in a place where we can applaud Google’s privacy updates and, at the same time, forget the privacy issues that got us here.


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GRAND RAPID, MI – A Florida man is accused of selling counterfeit Gillette razor blades, imported from China, to a regional retail store in Grand Rapids and other businesses across the nation, federal court documents show
The retailer with West Michigan stores isn’t named.
Jeffrey Steven Telsey, who operated JCA Enterprises, a national distributor of health-and-beauty products, over-the-counter medication and Gillette razor blades, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal offense alleging he conspired to traffic in counterfeit merchandise, court records show.
The government is seeking forfeiture of $400,000 seized from Telsey’s bank account.
The government filed a felony criminal information, usually used as a resolution without authorities seeking a formal indictment, in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. Telsey is scheduled to plead guilty on Feb. 4.
“The object of the conspiracy was for the defendant and others known and unknown to profit from the sale of counterfeit merchandise by representing the merchandise as genuine and selling it to other wholesalers and retailers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Mekaru said.
He said that Telsey, prior to November 2007 and continuing through March 2010, obtained counterfeit Gillette-brand razors, including “Fusion” and “Mach3,” from multiple sources, including a New Jersey importer who obtained the counterfeit blades from China.
Court records detailed sales of counterfeit Gillette products to a company described only as a “large regional retail store located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.”
Once the retailer realized the product was counterfeit, it “resulted in financial loss to the grocery chain,” documents filed in 2010 showed.
In November 2009, the government said, Telsey possessed 27,000 units of counterfeit Gillette products, with a $425,000 retail value, at JCA’s building in Boca Raton, Mekaru wrote.
The government said Telsey also sold products to two national wholesalers who demanded refunds after discovering the product was counterfeit.
Telsey allegedly told Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents he bought razors from two suppliers at rates substantially lower prices than those of competitors, records showed.
In a joint status report filed last year over the $400,000, the government said Telsey, “acting in concert with others known and unknown to the government, is embroiled in a scheme to defraud retailers and retail distributors of money by selling them purported Gillette razors which Telsey knows to be counterfeit.
“In sum, Telsey and his co-conspirators have defrauded their victims out of millions of dollars, and in the process have placed the public at risk by introducing counterfeit facial razors into the stream of commerce,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Heath Lynch wrote.
The defense said Telsey denied any wrongdoing, and said Telsey and his company, JCA, “are victims in their own right having suffered damages in connection with the transactions … ,” attorney Matthew Heron wrote.


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NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute confirmed Thursday that it will stage its major spring exhibition on the history of Chanel, incorporating looks from the late designer and contemporary pieces by Karl Lagerfeld....
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute confirmed Thursday that it will stage its major spring exhibition on the history of Chanel, incorporating looks from the late designer and contemporary pieces by Karl Lagerfeld.
The show is planned to open on May 5 in the Met’s special exhibition galleries. The museum had originally planned its Chanel retrospective in 2000, but canceled the show after a dispute with Lagerfeld over the inclusion of contemporary designers. Harold Koda, curator of the Costume Institute, reopened talks with Chanel earlier this year and came to an agreement on the subject matter, as well as ensuring sponsorship from the fashion company.
While the Met did not reveal Chanel’s financial commitment to the show on Thursday, the company had planned to put forward as much as $1 million for it four years ago.
Olivier Saillard, a curator from the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, will act as a creative consultant on the exhibit. The Costume Institute also lined up its co-chairs for its annual benefit to inaugurate the show on May 2, naming Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue; Lagerfeld, who is artistic director of Chanel, and actress Nicole Kidman, who also hosted in 2003 for the “Goddess” exhibit and who is the new face of Chanel No.5. Caroline of Monaco, the Princess of Hanover, will serve as honorary chair.
“There never has been a show that looks at Chanel in the way we’re thinking of,” said Koda, who had not yet joined the Met at the time of the earlier exhibition planning. “We are going to take a view that fashion people will understand, but maybe not art people.
“When you look at all the Chanel dresses through history, what we’ve been finding was that she was always acknowledging the body — her clothes were uncorseted and her customers were relatively thinner and involved in athletic lifestyles. As a result, the clothes are really contemporary looking, and to understand the importance of what you are looking at, you really need to compare it to Karl and what he does as a contemporary, exaggerated interpretation of Chanel.”
“I see things on the hanger and I’m, like, ‘I never knew that color worked on me.’ It’s things you necessarily wouldn’t choose to wear, but once you put them on, you see why Janie is who Janie is." — Lily Collins on working with former "Mad Men" costume designer, Janie Bryant on creating looks for her role as Celia Brady's in Amazon series, "The Last Tycoon." 📸@jilliansollazzo #wwdeye
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Rutson has been tapped to Build New American Fashion Group. The parent of Joie, Equipment and Current/Elliott hired the merchant to rev up its brands and expand its portfolio into designer, beauty and lifestyle categories. Read more on WWD.com, link in bio. #wwdfashion
Michael Kors' $1.3B Jimmy Choo deal has the company squaring off with Coach Inc. as both seek to build American powerhouses. Coach bought Stuart Weitzman in 2015 and Kate Spade just two weeks ago, but Michael Kors' acquisition may be putting pressure on its rival in the new push for scale. #wwdnews (📷: George Chinsee)
Meet actress Lucy Boynton, who plays opposite Naomi Watts in the recently released Netflix series "Gypsy." Boynton stopped by WWD to talk about her upcoming projects and her nomadic lifestyle. Get all the details on WWD.com. #wwdeye (📷: @dandoperalski)


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Twitter Touts Live Video as New Growth Engine
Social media platform Twitter’s fast-growing advertising business has always been the bright spot amid its stalled user growth, chaotic executive turnover, and confused identity.
As I noted last quarter, analysts are mostly positive about Twitter (TWTR). Very few of them rate its stock a “sell;” one even calls Twitter “The Most Troubled 30%+ Compound Annual Growth Rate Company on Earth” while noting that the negative perception about the company “feels a bit extreme.” The point being? Even if user growth had stalled, Twitter’s business was solid.
That sentiment began to change last quarter, after the company revealed slowing revenue growth and continuing losses. The company lowered its revenue forecast for the year, too.
Twitter repeated same situation in its second quarter earnings announcement Tuesday. Revenue grew 20% over last year, a significant drop from the 50% to 100% revenue growth the company experienced when it first went public three years ago. Shares fell more than 11% in after hours trading.
Read: Fixing Twitter
Once again, Twitter executives attributed the shrinking growth to the fact that it has already sold ads to the biggest U.S. advertisers. (In investor parlance, the market is “fully penetrated,” Bain said.) What’s more, 80% of Twitter users are outside the U.S.
But the company has a solution: Video. More specifically, live video. The advertising world has become enamored with online video, pouring around $10 billion a year into the category. (That still dwarfs the $80 billion they spend on TV ads.) Twitter COO Adam Bain said Twitter has quickly become “video-centric” to meet advertiser demand. “Just a year ago those products did not exist,” he said. There is a whole new set of video budgets out there today.” He noted that Twitter is still missing out on some of the video advertising action because it doesn’t have the right products and features in place, but it is moving quickly to build them. Twitter’s deals with sports leagues like the NFL, for example, are attractive to advertisers. Twitter has already sold a meaningful percent of the inventory it controls around the NFL live video.
See also: How Twitter Makes Money on Periscope
Twitter executives emphasized that the company’s big selling point to advertisers is the conversation by users that happens around content like live NFL clips. But that means Twitter has to work harder to make sure that conversation is actually one of quality, and not, as some high profile writers and celebrities have found, a cesspool of racism and sexism. Bullying and harassment have become an increasing problem for the company that once took pride in its extreme stance on free speech, defending its users’ rights to post anything they wanted (including nudity, which most other platforms ban).
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Earlier this month, Twitter permanently banned a blogger notorious for inciting the harassment of women on its service. On the earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey defended the decision in what sounded like a prepared remark: “Abuse is not part of the civil discourse” that Twitter is designed to foster, he said. Recent events, he noted, have only confirmed how important it is to make Twitter a safe place. “No one deserves to be the target of abuse online,” he said.


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ONE Sotheby’s International Realty hosted a broker brunch at The Fairchild Coconut Grove to welcome guests ahead of their ONE Summit on Friday, Mar. 17.
With more than 500 attendees joining the summit from Sotheby’s affiliates across the globe, guests enjoyed a breakfast at the sales gallery for the highly anticipated luxury residential enclave set to rise in Coconut Grove.
The crowd of top brokers fully experienced The Fairchild Coconut Grove’s indoor/outdoor lifestyle and were welcomed by developer Oscar Rodriguez of ROVR Development and Daniel de la Vega, president of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty.
With Biscayne Bay as the backdrop, guests received a first look at the project while experiencing the refined finishes that await The Fairchild Coconut Grove’s future residents. With interiors designed by Maison & Objet Americas’ 2016 Designer of the Year and Architectural Digest “AD 100” Designer Rafael de Cárdenas, the boutique development is exclusively being sold by ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, and is set directly on the Bayfront with lush native foliage encompassing 26 luxury residences, bespoke white-glove amenities and prime views of Biscayne Bay providing pure relaxation.


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PLAINFIELD- The Plainfield Special Improvement District's 5th Annual Block Party took place on Saturday to great numbers.
Block Partiers gawked at the GWIZ Sponsored auto show complete with muscle cars and show motorcycles including a bike belonging to Capt Phil from the hit TV Show the Deadliest Catch.
Music acts rocked while the sounds while dignitaries from Plainfield City Council and Union County Board of Freeholders Endorsed the festivities. Union County Chair of the Freeholders Linda Carter, commended Plainfield SID for the continued efforts to promote downtown business and the consumers who shop there.
Ronald McDonald , Batman and Wonderwoman showed up to take pictures with children and enjoy the delicious variety of international foods featured during the days festivities.
The event, which is sponsored by the Plainfield Special Improvement District, is meant to promote community spirit as well as offer the downtown businesses a chance to promote their talents and services. At the end of the day, the block party was a great way to spend an afternoon enjoying the very best that Plainfield has to offer, meeting its rich culture through food and music.
Manaroun Town is a TV and Film producer and is a native of Plainfield , NJ.


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IU instructors teaching an estimated 250 class sections this semester are using the two-year-old eTexts program instead of assigning print textbooks.
IU’s Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Bradley Wheeler said his office estimated that this semester alone, students using the eTexts program saved more than $200,000.
This estimate comes from comparing textbook costs through the program to retail prices of those textbooks online and in bookstores. Even accounting for sell-back data, eTexts were at least 10 percent cheaper.
Wheeler said as far as content, the paper and digital versions of the textbooks assigned through eTexts are the same. However, he said he feels eTexts offer an advantage over ordinary textbooks.
“The ability to do things with them is pretty substantially different,” he said.
Wheeler said Courseload, the e-reader platform used for this program, offers many useful features. Not only can students highlight and annotate text, a feature offered by other digital texts such as Kindle eBooks, but they can form study groups and share their notes and highlights with other students. Teachers can embed links in the text to relevant websites or online articles to encourage further reading.
IU Student Association Chief of Staff Augustin Ruta said the eTexts program was an effort largely led by the University administration, although IUSA members were invited to several meetings to be a sounding board for ideas.
“We were all very supportive because it is something that will reduce costs for students and is significantly cheaper than a printed textbook,” Ruta said.
Assigning an eText is not the same as assigning a textbook that happens to be available in digital form, Wheeler said. For one, there is no bookstore involved. Texts are bought wholesale, meaning they come directly from the publisher to the user. This removes additional retail costs.
When an instructor opts to use eTexts, the textbooks are automatically downloaded to a course’s OnCourse page. Because the textbooks are automatically downloaded, each student in a course that uses eTexts is also automatically charged for the textbook through their bursar account.
According to the eTexts @ IU website, there is no way for students to opt out of this fee, although Wheeler said class sections that use the program will have a note in the course description pointing out the special fee.
Ruta said this issue was discussed at development meetings.
“It’s a trade-off. There’s obviously a cost-benefit,” Ruta said. “We ended up agreeing that the initial benefit to the vast majority of students, that is, a more powerful tool than a printed textbook, which is largely a lower cost, outweighs that issue.”
These textbooks also avoid some of the pitfalls of other digital texts, Wheeler said. They do not expire and users can print as many pages as they want.
“What we’d heard from students over the years was that having printing as an option was very important,” Wheeler said. “If you really wanted to you could print the whole book.”
This would probably be unnecessary, because another feature of the program is what Wheeler calls the “print-on-demand” feature.
“We worked out deals with the publishers,” he said. “Students can ask for a full paper copy of the book in addition to the digital text.”
Wheeler said he looks forward to the advancements in technology that will continue to improve this program, which he thinks already benefits students a great deal.
“Students keep scrambling to find some cheaper place to buy books online,” he said. “This gets rid of all of that gamesmanship of students trying to get a better deal. We can just get it up front and everybody gets a better deal.”


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The newly established Croatian Innovatory companies are faced with the problem of collecting the share capital for the development of their products. Banks can not / do not want to give them developmental credit because they do not have anything to guarantee the return, and do not have the property that would have given such a guarantee. Mostly, these companies are financed by savings of the founder or with the help of family and friends.
The solution of this problem was presented last week at Zagreb innovation center HUB 385 whose test case is company Include from Solin. The company is very well known in the technology world since the global success of its founder and innovator of smart benches, Ivan Mrvoš. It is a bench that is charged by solar energy, on which can be charged the battery of mobile phones, with Internet access. At a cost of 2,000 euros is ideal for tourist places. The company employs 15 staff members / experts from various fields, and just last year they sold over 100 benches. The main customers are so-called smart cities, hotels, marinas and airports.
In order that company can continue to develop, money is required and the investors should invest at such companies that can track how their investment is developing. We are all familiar that the market for young ventures in Croatia does not have. For this reason it is designed the way that Croatian innovators still invest at Croatian companies. Via Estonia. How? It’s about the organization and Internet market Funderbeam launched by the Estonians. Funderbeam at partnership with the Zagreb Stock Exchange entered into a partnership through which calls Croatian young technology companies to present themselves and Croatian investors to invest at Croatian companies.
Include will seek thus to collect between 250 000 and 400 000 euros in 30 days (from domestic and foreign companies). If they succeed, it will be on account of the limited liability company registered in Estonia, which will as a foreign investor invest in company Include. The initial capital of 40 000 euros invested Ivana Šoljan who leads gathering of role. The best in the whole story is that everything can be done over the internet and the lowest stake is 100 euros. For that amount gets 100 tokens / Internet tokens / vouchers that can be sold.
The goal of the whole story is that smart benches attract more smaller investors and open the door to other innovative companies. The biggest problem is that everything goes through Estonia since Croatian legislation is not open to new technology companies.


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The Fort Bend County Cookbook Book Club recently released the October events schedule featuring a virtual club gathering to celebrate Dia de los Muertos Foods on Oct. 21 at 1:30 p.m. In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, University Branch Library’s Culinary Book Club hosting “Dia de los Muertos Foods.”
Guests are invited to gather with other books and bakers online to share tips, get ideas, and enjoy the camaraderie of other individuals who have an interest in cooking and good cuisine! This activity will be live-streamed in real time via Zoom/WebEx. Registration is required; an email with a link for the Zoom/WebEx session will be sent to all who register.


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Alibaba Cloud Bolsters Asia-Pacific Footprint, Sets up Cloud Data Centers in Korea and Thailand
Alibaba Cloud announced on Tuesday that it will further bolster its Asia-Pacific footprint and will set up two new cloud data centers in South Korea and Thailand. The centers will be officially opened in 2022 and will provide localized digital technology services for customers in those countries.
To date, Alibaba Cloud has established cloud data centers in more than 25 countries and regions including Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Germany, Dubai and the United States, making it the largest cloud computing platform in Asia. Since the beginning of 2021 alone, Alibaba Cloud opened a third data center in Indonesia.
General Manager of Alibaba‘s Cloud Intelligent International Division. Yuan Qian, spoke about company’s expansion: “The Asia-Pacific market is the most active market in the global digital economy, especially in Southeast Asia. Young people are actively embracing the Internet and new technologies. We hope that Alibaba Cloud will cooperate with partners and customers in these markets to jointly promote a digital transformation.”
At present, Alibaba Cloud has established localized teams in Korea and Thailand. Among them, in South Korea, Alibaba Cloud provides services to local customers in retail, finance, manufacturing, logistics, Internet and other industries, and has achieved cooperation with local partners such as Megazone, Lascom and Bankware Global.
In the Thai market, Alibaba Cloud has reached agreements with many local enterprises and partners, including K.E. Group, a well-known Thai real estate developer, Brother & Brother, a food packaging retailer, among others.
Going forward, on the basis of building new local data centers, Alibaba Cloud will continue to promote cooperation with local customers and partners to support the digital transformation of local enterprises.
SEE ALSO: Alibaba Cloud Releases Operating System ‘Anolis’ for the First Time, Plans to Invest Over $300 Million in OS
According to Gartner, an information technology research and analysis company, Alibaba Cloud is the third largest cloud computing service provider in the world and the largest provider in Asia-Pacific. Alibaba Cloud’s market share in Asia-Pacific has increased from 3.7% in 2016 to 9.5% in 2020, and its share in the global market has expanded for five consecutive years.


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- The rising number of COVID-19 cases in China has compelled authorities to implement lockdowns in full force.
- Lockdowns in China have halted many international companies’ business activities.
- The lockdowns might hamper the Australian exports to China.
After seeing one of the worst COVID-19 virus outbreaks in 2020, China is once again observing a rise in Omicron cases this year. The increasing number of cases have compelled authorities to implement lockdowns and restrictions in full force, paving the way for one of the world’s biggest supply-chain disruptions. In the given scenario, experts are now evaluating the repercussions of these China lockdowns for Australia.
Diplomatic relations between China and Australia have only worsened with passing years and have even impacted their trade channels. While both countries have not exactly shared an amicable relationship in the past few years, detrimental market forces building up in China could impact Australia. Experts suggest that the impact of the shutdown of Chinese businesses might become more pronounced in the coming weeks.
Australia is not the only country that is set to experience a setback from ongoing restrictions in China. Economists are bracing for large-scale shocks from these lockdowns, such as delayed shipments, costlier imports, halted business activity and an overall economic slowdown.
Let us take a closer look at how restrictions in China are affecting the world and Australia.
Why is China important to the world economy?
It is a well-known fact that China is home to the manufacturing plants of some of the biggest international brands. From phones to cars, all major companies enjoy the competitiveness offered by Chinese manufacturing facilities.
While no significant economic impact has been felt yet, China lockdowns have put a halt on international brands’ business activities while threatening domestic growth. Most notably, computer chips, which are in high demand all over the world, are expected to see a shortage because of restrictions in China. This shortage could further impact the supply of vehicles and phones.
If the previous lockdowns in China have taught the world anything, it is that any disruptions within the country would reflect throughout the globe. Additionally, the existing supply chain issues have reached their crescendo as China lockdowns have emerged in between the Russia-Ukraine war, which has hampered much of the global economic activity.
RELATED READ: Why Russia-Ukraine war is a threat to global economy?
China Lockdown: What Are The Repercussions For Australia?
How can China lockdowns impact Australia?
Given the economic importance of China, one cannot deny that the global shockwaves would reach Australia in no time. The dent in the global economy could be felt in Australia, most likely in the form of rising prices, shortage of materials and a demand-supply imbalance.
With Australia gradually recovering from the ill-effects of the pandemic, recent events have once again pulled the country back into the clutches of an economic slowdown. Not just that, the Russia-Ukraine invasion has prompted a surge in commodity prices, weighing heavily on the pockets of individuals.
Concerns loom that consumers might face surging prices of essential goods and other items such as phones and cars if economic activity is halted for long. Additionally, producers might be looking at costlier inputs, shortage of raw materials and significant disruption in business activity. Such intense supply-side bottlenecks have not been felt in decades.
However, the price increase in commodities might rule in favour of Australian metal exporters in the form of higher revenue and profits.
What can be done?
Australia has been one of the few nations that have not raised its interest rates yet. With current inflationary pressures flaring up, the country might have to traverse a narrow path in the coming months.
However, not all is bleak as Australian commodity producers see a ray of hope in rising prices. China has previously resorted to increased government spending to revive the economy whenever a slowdown occurs. Essentially, this means a boost to the construction of roads, bridges, and other buildings, which ultimately leads to a rise in the demand for construction materials.
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This might be good news for Australia as the country could benefit from the rising demand for construction inputs. It would give material exporters the leverage of hiking the prices of their goods. In turn, the boost to iron ore prices might show up in the domestic economy in the form of an expanding economy.
Alternatively, a direct outcome of halted Chinese businesses could be less-than-sufficient demand for Australian exports. China is a key importer of Australian iron ore, though its share in the total demand for Australian iron ore has decreased. Despite that, a further setback could arise in the short term when the demand for Australian commodities is pulled back.
The full effect of these market forces would only be realised after a few months. Till then, Australia can expect some slowdown to seep into the domestic economy.
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Delta, United and American will waive fees for travelers booked to South Korea through late April.
Macau saw the steepest occupancy decline (-97%), falling from absolute level of 96% to just 3% between 6 January and 16 February.
Mr. Gang Chen will retain his CEO post at Qunar.com after adding the responsibility as Tujia’s new CEO.
Some Chinese cities have begun to restrict arrivals from overseas, signaling that the epidemic’s momentum has shifted outside of China.
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This year, LvYue's BeU will open hotels in the main regions of India, including Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and so on.
Juneyao Airlines will be indefinitely postponing the launch of new European routes; AI tech firm raised $42 million in funding.
The company announced business suspension 33 days before the new financing was announced. It has adopted a series of major measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
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“There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s 29 percent,” mocked a commercial in the documentary by Eric Stern titled “In Debt We Trust,” screened on May 1 in the J.W. Smith Student Center.
The hour-long documentary talks about the seriousness and varieties consumer of debt in the country, the possible options for Americans to avoid it and to possibly get out of it. Stern uses examples ranging from credit card debt to military debt, student debt, and even shopping.
In the film Stern unveils how credit card companies deceive their users by adding extreme rewards to make it more appealing. An example he uses is the American Express black card, which enables the user to charge up to $300,000 annually. In addition to that, these “black card holders” are privileged to shop at an exclusive store that is only meant for those who are able to afford such luxuries.
“We are doomed to shop until we drop,” said a consumer who is interviewed in the film. By inserting a clip from CSPAN of a heated Sen. Edward Kennedy said that “$5 billion [is] going to these credit card companies,” Stern emphasizes that debt is becoming a national crisis.
The film states that most families will never pay back their mortgage because of constant re-financing. Natural disasters such, as Hurricane Katrina, played a major role in the loss of homes and drastically affected the victims’ financial situation.
Bankruptcy is also discussed in the documentary. “More than two million Americans went bankrupt in the year 2005,” says Charles Juntikka, a bankruptcy attorney interviewed in the film.
Among those that fell to bankruptcy was film producer Joel Sucher and actress Lorraine Bracco, who starred in the hit TV show “The Sopranos.” Bracco explained that although people may think that celebrities and the affluent never experience any financial dilemmas, it is quite the contrary. “We’re just like regular people; we have problems too,” says Bracco.
Stern also exposes the scams that are brought out in the form of check-cashing businesses. “That’s where they get you,” says a frustrated victim. The film reveals such businesses target rural Americans, who cannot afford to have a bank account, since most banks require a a deposit of at least $300 to open an account. Check-cashing stores and Rent-to-Own shops (a shop that allows its customers to rent things such as television sets and VCRs for payments that can range up to 20 years) target the low income members of society.
Footage of members of the Association of Communication Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) protesting is also shown. ACORN is meant to help those who are economically disadvantaged campaigning for better housing, the improvement of schools and to provide secure living wages for all workers.
“Debt has become more of a class separation than a racial one,” says an ACORN legislative representative.
The documentary concludes with tips on how people can get help with their debts.
One solution presented is attending a seminar with Dave Ramsey (host of the “Dave Ramsey Show”). Ramsey hosts a radio show on XM Satellite Radio channel 165 and on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 161. He holds these seminars hoping to answer questions of those attending and help them get on the right track.
At the end of the film presentation a question-and-answer session was held for students who had questions the film or to describe any financial problems they had. The session was conducted by Harvey Warren, author of the upcoming book “Forever in Your Debt; Escaping Credit Card Hell” and a promoter of “In Debt We Trust.”
“This feature was shown to let students know [how] to take this problem seriously,” said Warren. He explained that the purpose of the taping was not to turn students against credit cards, but to warn them about the irresponsible use of them.
College students fall prey to these various credit predators because they can be found in emails, flyers, mailboxes and have stands set up on campus in Plaza Vaquero. They are persistent and determined to get students to apply for a credit card, creating a bigger hole for those already in debt.
Prior to concluding the question and answer session, Warren offered the students some advice.
“A student loan is the cheapest money you can get,” he said. “It is almost impossible to pay it with cash. Get out of school, do well and pay it as quickly as possible. The most important advice I can give is to start a budget.”
“The documentary was really helpful because it makes people aware,” said student Rabi Shamas.


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Companies are making net-zero emissions targets right and left. Some say they are already carbon neutral or net-zero, but until Thursday, there was no global standard for setting credible net-zero targets backed by climate science.
The Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) net-zero emissions standard has rigorous requirements in line with the Paris Agreement’s pathway for limiting average global temperature rise to below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Many experts deem transportation-related emissions “hard to abate” because of the reliance on fossil fuels, higher upfront costs for some sustainable solutions, long asset replacement cycles and technological constraints.
During the net-zero standard launch Thursday, several industry experts echoed the need for “radical collaboration” among competitors, governments and supply chain partners.
SBTi’s standard will not allow for heavy reliance on offsetting emissions to reach net-zero. Most companies will have to cut direct emissions (scope 1), indirect emissions from electricity and heat (scope 2) and emissions along the supply chain and from end users (scope 3) by 90% to 95% by or before 2050.
The scope of the challenge
Supply chains are a major source of scope 3 emissions for retailers and other companies, but getting suppliers, logistics providers and carriers on the same page is no easy feat. Companies have much more control and influence over their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions.
Under this standard, companies will be required to include 95% of scope 1 and 2 emissions and 90% of scope 3 emissions, a significant jump from the 67% the initiative has required for other targets.
“Scope 3 emissions make up the vast majority of most firms’ greenhouse gas inventory, yet they’re the most difficult to monitor because they occur outside the boundary of company operations,” said Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves.
More than 90% of Pepsico’s (NASDAQ: PEP) emissions come from scope 3 emissions along the supply chain, Noora Singh, senior director of sustainability at the company, said during the SBTi net-zero emissions standard launch.
Singh said scope 3 is where Pepsico faces more emissions-reduction challenges, but the company is engaging with its supply chain partners and striving to bring suppliers on the net-zero journey, she said.
“Roughly 600 companies have set science-based net-zero emissions targets, and only seven have approved net-zero targets under the new standard. These leaders are primarily global consumer packaged goods, retail or health care companies with massive tiers of suppliers. As they implement strategies to reduce emissions, the small to medium businesses in their global supply chains should expect to provide emissions data in the very near future,” Cole said.
Carbon offsets, mitigation, neutralization
Getting as close to zero emissions as possible and understanding the scope of the climate crisis is essential, said Doreen Stabinsky, professor of global environmental politics at the College of the Atlantic, during the launch event. She said the mechanisms to remove carbon from the atmosphere have limits.
Some transportation and freight companies already market themselves as carbon neutral or net-zero emitting companies because they purchase carbon credits to offset emissions. But there are many criticisms of carbon offsets, including double counting and lack of transparency.
To comply with SBTi’s net-zero standard, unavoidable emissions will have to be mitigated outside of company operations or neutralized using credible strategies. SBTi plans to create guidelines for ensuring accountability and transparency for potential emissions mitigation measurement, reporting and verification.
The need for a net-zero emissions standard
The planet has already warmed more than 1 degree C, and every tenth of a degree of additional warming will exponentially increase the chances of sea level rise and extreme weather, such as droughts, fires, heat waves and floods, Stabinsky said.
The risks of inaction are getting higher and higher within companies as well. Competitors, customers and shareholders are putting pressure on companies to act, Emily Hickson, head of advocacy at corporate leadership organization The B Team, said during the launch event.
She said the government policies needed to promote drastic climate action have been lacking, but regulation is stepping up.
“That enabling policy is coming, and companies need to get ready for it,” Hickson said.
The net-zero emissions standard gives industry a chance to create change alongside or ahead of government regulation.
This announcement comes days before the approaching COP26 climate conference, which begins in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday. Thousands of people will be tuning in to see how governments will respond to climate change.
Emissions targets for 2050 are meaningless if we don’t act this before 2030, Stabinsky said, adding that, “This decade is the critical decade to act.”


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Aston Martin Lagonda rallies on HSBC upgrade
Aston Martin Lagonda got a boost on Monday as HSBC upped its stance on the stock to 'buy' from 'hold' and lifted the price target to 550p from 533p, saying the launch of the DBX could be a turning point for the equity story.
"After a solid Q3 and the timely launch of the models planned for Q4, we see a lower risk of AML missing its 2019 guidance," the bank said.
It also said that after months of underperformance and the future of the company at stake, the launch of the DBX is "potentially game-changing".
"So it's 'no time to die' for AML (title of the upcoming 2020 Bond movie featuring the Aston Martin Valhalla as the new Bond car) - but, on the contrary, a time for a potential 'resurrection' supporting a path towards positive free cash flow generation in 2022," HSBC said.
It said the order book of the DBX could be "the ultimate catalyst". As part of its latest debt issuance, Aston Martin is required to communicate to the market when it reaches the first 1,400 DBX orders.
"With the global launch on 20 November we believe that this level of orders could be reached in the first few months after launch," HSBC said. "The initial customer and press reaction suggests that the DBX order book could surprise to the upside."
Commenting on the upgrade, Markets.com analyst Neil Wilson said: "On a purely valuation basis there is an argument, but debt levels are a worry."
At 1445 GMT, the shares were up 4.6% at 488.50p.


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Sorry Duncan, but it could be time to eat your words: Teether firm Cheeky Chompers rejected by Dragons' Den is on course to sell in the US
Cheeky Chompers, a chewy teether business that failed to get financial backing on TV’s Dragons’ Den in March after its founders were told they had ‘delusional expectations’, is soon to start selling in the US.
Duncan Bannatyne told Amy Livingstone and Julie Wilson he would eat 100 of their bibs if they reached their targets.
The pair said they hit their two-year targets within just seven months. And in January, a distributor will launch the products in America.
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The friends, who had the idea for the Necker Chew, a fusion of a washable bib and a teether, after meeting at an antenatal class, said they reached 100,000 sales last month and are set for a £500,000 turnover this year.
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Richard, who founded the School for Startups, said: ‘Entrepreneurship is a skill and the knowledge can be passed on from one person to another.’
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The Toyota company is set to stop selling small diesel cars after the introduction of BS-VI emission norms in India. Toyota operates through Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), a joint venture (joint venture) formed with the Kirloskar Group in India. The company will continue to offer diesel fuel options in large utility vehicles such as Innova and Fortuner.
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Diesel vehicles currently account for 85% of the company's volume. Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has sold 99,979 vehicles between January-September 2019. However, more than 60 per cent of the company's sales utility comes from vehicles like the Innova and Fortuner, in which the company will continue to offer diesel fuel options. Toyota will discontinue its 1.3 liter diesel engine, which is currently Toyota Etios, Etios Cross, Liva and Corolla Altis. Is given in The executive, who is aware of the developments, said, 'Etios series is at the end of its life cycle. Toyota will discontinue the Corolla Altis diesel variant as the cost of the product will not be viable for customers after BS VI emission standard transition.
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Toyota is adopting hybrid technology across its Altis worldwide. The executive sedan segment in the Indian market has come down to 500-600 units every month. It would not be right to upgrade the diesel engine to higher emission norms according to volume and cost economics.
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Do you live in the New York area and watch to watch the regional Sports Network MSG? The good news is that starting this summer, you will be able to directly subscribe to MSG with MSG+ and get live feeds of the NBA’s New York Knicks and the NHL’s New York Rangers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. The bad news is they want a crazy high price for the service.
Today MSG announced that the MSG+ streaming service will cost $29.99 a month or $309.99 a year. Don’t want to pay that just to watch one or two games? MSG+ will let you watch a single game for $9.99 per game.
The New MSG+ service will also offer the ability to see live betting odds, personalized offers, and support on more devices.
Initially, the service was to launch in the Spring of this year, but MSG decided to push it back until the summer to make sure it had content to show. The fear was that since MSG has no MLB franchise, there wouldn’t be enough content over the summer to support the streaming service.
A growing number of RSNs are moving to offer a subscription service to cord cutters. Bally Sports launched a $ 20-a-month streaming service in 2022. Yes, Network is reportedly preparing to launch its own streaming services later this year, and the Cubs plan to offer a streaming service in time for the 2023 MLB season.
Increasingly regional sports networks are looking for ways to offset declining subscriber numbers. Outside of DIRECTV STREAM and fuboTV, very few streaming options are out there for cord cutters.
Would you subscribe to an RSN to get local sports games? Leave us a comment and let us know.