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PETRONAS Sepang Racing Team’s first NFT Drop registration goes live!2021-10-04 04:54
Following the announcement at this season’s British GP, PSRT’s collaboration with GPNFTS – a newly launched NFT marketplace for the motorsports world powered through technology built by MLSE Digital Labs, the digital and innovation arm of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment – is now live at GPNFTS.io.
PSRT’s unique NFTs will showcase digital animated art collectibles from the team’s history into three introductory packs – Rookie Pack, Champion Pack and Legend Pack. As the team concludes at the end of this season, the NFTs which include legendary riders will become rare and vintage memorabilia to keep.
The packs contain three digital art collections with an exclusive PSRT MotoGP Riders Valentino Rossi or Andrea Dovizioso animated Card or Figurine, an animated Digital M1 with the team’s livery, digital art form of motorcycle parts and going beyond digital collectibles, a lucky few will also get a bonus Virtual Meet with the MotoGP Riders.
In time for the race in Austin this weekend, the team’s NFTs are now open for registration with a total of 4,000 packs for the first drop with a limit of 200 packs drop a day based on first come first serve basis. You can register now on GPNFTS.io to qualify to own a limited edition PSRT Pack.
Razlan Razali, PSRT Team Principal
We are proud and excited to be the first MotoGP Team to launch our very own NFTs. Everyone has been raving about NFTs, with sports teams and athletes launching their own digital collectibles in the market, and we are not one to miss this. Our first collection of digital art will showcase relevant and attractive team assets, you’ve seen them on the track, now you can own them digitally.
GPNFTs founder Ali Rafi
We are super excited to be launching the PETRONAS Sepang Racing Team first NFT collection on the world’s first dedicated Motorsports NFT marketplace. GPNFTS is a unique platform which focuses towards motorsports and aims to gather teams and athletes starting with MotoGP and F1 in one marketplace. We look forward to announcing further teams and becoming the leading digital platform for all motorsports fans from around the world to purchase NFTs from their favourite teams.
Humza Teherany, Chief Technology and Digital Officer at MLSE
We are proud to launch GPNFTS NFT Platform with PETRONAS Sepang Racing Teams official NFT site, a part of our growing platform, DropShop. This will allow them to bring NFTs to their fans during a time where a digital experience is as prevalent as the in-person experience. We continue to innovate and develop the platform with exciting features, which allows different sports and entertainment organizations around the world to customize the offerings for their fans beyond the race, game and event.
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L’Oréal has revealed plans to disclose certain fragrance ingredients for its products, according to a report published by Chemical Watch. A spokesperson for the French beauty giant declined to confirm a specific launch date for the initiative to the publication, claiming it was ‘confidential’.
“We would like to take this opportunity to state our future goal of communicating to a larger extent the composition of our perfumes in all our products, in a way that meets the expectations of our customers and ensures their safety while at the same time respecting the know-how of our perfume creators and protecting us from the major risks of fine fragrance counterfeiting,” the company representative told Chemical Watch.
The move comes as pressure mounts for personal care manufacturers to be transparent about the contents of their products; NGO US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has been calling for L’Oréal to be more open with consumers.
“Certain fragrance chemicals have been linked to cancer and hormone disruption, and consumers have a right to know which chemicals are in the products they use. L’Oréal should step up and disclose fragrance ingredients, because we’re worth it,” Dev Gowda, Director of Make It Toxic Free for US PIRG told Chemical Watch.

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NSW trade performance improves
- From: AAP
- February 28, 2013
CHINA remains NSW's largest bilateral trading partner and coal continues to be the largest export, new figures show.
Releasing the NSW Trade and Investment Report on Thursday, Mr Stoner said NSW exports are up again after a drop in 2009-10 due caused by the global financial crisis and slowdown in world growth.
In 2011-12, total exports rose by 7.8 per cent, with goods exports rising by 11 per cent.
Services exports increased by 1.2 per cent, which Mr Stoner said was driven largely by growth in financial and professional services exports.
"Coal continues to be the state's largest export," he said, adding it was worth $14 billion or 24 per cent of total exports in 2012.
Education-related travel and tourism were NSW's largest services exports.
"Japan remains our largest goods export market and China is our largest bilateral trading partner," Mr Stoner said.
The value of goods exports dropped by 2.5 per cent in the second half of the 2012 calendar year.
Mr Stoner said the diversity of the NSW economy should allow it to cope with moderating mineral export prices.
He said NSW's trade performance has improved despite continuing global financial uncertainty.
"We have engaged with business and industry to understand their issues, we are addressing strategic infrastructure needs and we are raising the global profile of Sydney and NSW," he said in a statement.
THE father of a teenager who died while working on Labor's home insulation scheme wants to save other young men from being butchered, a lawyer says.
NEW Zealand police have confirmed the body found in the Waikato River in Hamilton is that of Melbourne tennis coach Paul Arber.
A MAN who tried to bring 2kg of frozen rooster testicles into New Zealand from Vietnam has had to hand them over for destruction.
QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman says he's still got too much economic repair work to do to consider an early election.
ANOTHER person has died in hospital from injuries sustained when a police helicopter crashed into a Glasgow pub last month.


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Toxic metal found in baby bottles: 24,000 sippy cups sold nationwide are recalled because they pose a lead-poisoning risk to toddlers
- Bottom of bottles can break off, exposing a lead dot that’s toxic to youngsters
- Some 24,000 products are being recalled owing to concerns over the dot
- They were sold in major stores including Whole Foods, Target and Amazon
Tens of thousands of sippy cups and baby stainless steel baby bottles are being recalled due to fears they could poison children.
The base of these bottles and cups, made by Green Sprouts, can come off and expose a solder dot that contains lead, posing a potential hazard to children.
There have been no reports of injuries yet, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, but there have been seven cases in which the base broke.
Customers are being urged to apply for a full refund on the $14 to $19 bottles which are sold in Target, Wholefoods and Amazon.
High levels of lead exposure in children can cause irreversible brain damage, comas, convulsions and even death, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
‘Children who survive severe lead poisoning may be left with intellectual disability and behavioral disorders,’ the agency says.
HEALTH EFFECTS OF LEAD EXPOSURE
Lead exposure in children is often difficult to observe, with no immediate symptoms.
But if there is suspicion a child has been exposed, then parents should talk to their child’s healthcare provider about getting a blood test.
Lead is more harmful to children under six years old because their body is still developing.
– Damage to the brain and nervous system;
– Slowed growth and development;
– Learning and behavior problems;
– Hearing and speech problems.
This can lead to:
– Lowered IQ;
– Decreased ability to pay attention;
– Underperformance in school.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Around 24,000 products sold nationwide are affected, the North Carolina-based company Green Sprouts said in a release.
Affected products include a stainless steel sippy cup, a stainless steel sippy cup with a straw, and a stainless steel straw bottle.
Bottles were colored aqua, green, pink or navy, and with a capacity of either six- or eight-ounces for about $14 to $19.
The lead-containing solder dots sparking the recall are used in the bottles to create a vacuum between the internal and external layers.
Green Sprouts said they were not picked up by testing because they are ‘inaccessible under normal use’.
The products were also sold at Buy Buy Baby, Bed Bath and Beyond, Drugstore and babyhaven.com between January 2020 to September this year.
Customers are being urged to throw away the bottom of the bottles, but continue to use the plastic parts. They can apply to the company for a full refund.
The recall involves bottles with the following tracking numbers on their base: 29218V06985, 35719V06985, and 33020V06985.
Green Sprouts said in a statement: ‘Had we been aware that a component containing lead in these products could become accessible, we wouldn’t have put them on the market.
‘Now that we know, we are voluntarily recalling these products.’
They added: ‘As we approach the redesign of these products… we will ensure that lead is not used as a soldering material, no matter whether it would be accessible.’
Green Sprouts has been contacted by DailyMail.com for comment.
All bottles for babies are tested in labs approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) before sale.


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Baby boomers will keep on working, small businesses will expect more global reach from their local credit union or bank, and cloud computing and smartphone adoption will hasten an end to brick-and-mortar banking. A new “She-conomy” also will emerge.
Intuit Financial Services makes those predictions in its “A Look Into the Intuit 2020 Report: The Future of Financial Services” it released today. The provider of the Quicken accounting tools and online banking to hundreds of credit unions through Intuit Financial Services sponsored the report compiled by Emergent Research and based on Intuit’s original 2020 report released in October.
The new, 27-page analysis covers a variety of topics and makes some predictions, including the demise of branches.
“Cloud computing will reshape how value-added products and services are designed and delivered to customers,” the report predicts. “Virtual interaction with customers will become the primary interaction for financial institutions, with data analytics creating ‘high touch, high-tech’ personalized relationships. Also driving the need for digital banking will be Baby Boomers starting new careers to pay for their own aging and the demands of Gen Yers now in their prime earning years.”
Globally, more than a billion new middle-class consumers will enter the market, primarily from Asia, the report said, and women will take on increasingly prominent roles in what the report calls a new “She-conomy.”
The report is available at Intuit’s Banking.com portal.


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Madison Media Sigma, part of Madison Media Group, has announced the win of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL). The agency won following a multi-agency pitch. The account size is estimated to be Rs 50 crore and the account will be handled out of the agency’s Mumbai office.
The other participating agencies were -- Maxus, Lodestar and ZenithOptimedia.
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited is India’s second largest housing finance company in the private sector, offering an array of home loan products. The company also offers a range of fixed deposit products that ensure high yield, safety and liquidity. Further, DHFL offers customised insurance solutions that are designed in association with leading insurance providers.
DHFL has recently signed Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador and has launched an integrated marketing campaign ‘Ghar Jaisa Loan’ featuring the superstar. This is DHFL’s largest ad campaign, since its inception in 1984.
The ‘Ghar Jaisa Loan’ campaign centres around how DHFL has been encouraging the lower and middle income segment in India to dream of owning a home. It further describes how the company has been helping customers realise their dream of home ownership through product innovation and deferential service.
Vijay Sinha, President Housing Finance, DHFL said, “We, at DHFL, have remained committed to our founder’s vision -- A home for every Indian. Our mission of enabling this vision is truly reflected in our new ad campaign 'Ghar Jaisa Loan', in association with Shah Rukh Khan. The campaign will provide further impetus to our mission of reaching out to a wider audience and support their dreams of having a home of their own, specially among the low and middle income segment across the country.”
Vanita Keswani, COO of Madison Media Sigma, said, “We are delighted with this new win and are confident that we can add strategic value in making DHFL brand a household name across the country.”


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Super Mario Run Reaches 50 Million Downloads
Run, Mario, Run.
Super Mario Run has reached 50 million downloads. Nintendo announced the milestone on the game's Japanese Twitter account, where it also said it's giving all players 10 free Toad Rally tickets as a celebration.
"To show our gratitude to everyone who's downloaded [Super Mario Run], we are giving you all 10 Rally Tickets for free," reads a message delivered to players through Super Mario Run's in-game notification system. "Use them to enjoy all the fun of the Toad Rally. "
Super Mario Run was released on December 15, which means it has reached to 50 million downloads mark in just over a week. As previously detailed, it accumulated 40 million downloads in the first four days it was available.
The game is free to download, but only a limited selection of levels are playable until you purchase it for $10/£8. Nintendo has not released information on how many players have spent money on Super Mario Run.
According to a research firm, Super Mario Run was downloaded over 10 million times worldwide on the day of its release. This is 10 times the amount Pokemon Go managed in its first day.
Despite strong download performance, Nintendo's share price fell immediately after Super Mario Run's release and has continued to fall. The game is only available for iOS devices right now; it's scheduled to come to Android in 2017.
For more on Super Mario Run, check out GameSpot's written review here and video review above.


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Every year, Apple rolled out their event to present something new in front of Apple freaks. The same thing happened on the 9th of September, 2015 too. The event is basically focused to introduce new products that majorly includes iPad, the iPhone, the Apple Music and many more. But this time, the event was fully packed with news. In the event the major point of attraction was rumored iPhone 6s, the refurbished Apple TV and a new member in iPad family.
The point of attraction amongst all these products were the showcase of iPhone 6s and 6s plus. In terms of outlooks, there is not much tweaks have been allotted. But it has been renovated internally in order to increase its performance and addition of few advance technologies. These new terminologies will be common in coming months but till then, lets take a roundup of Apple iPhone 6s Event.
Moving with the trend, Apple too introduced its new iPad with a bigger display. This time, the company has given a 12.9 inch screen which is biggest in its family of iPads. In addition to a wider display, it is the first in its family to be provided with full virtual keyboard as well as a stylus.
The device is installed with A9X memory chip, making it 1.8x faster from the A8X. The company also claimed that this device is 80% faster than other PC's sold in last 6 months. There is a 4-speaker audio system also which is added to provide a better audio experience as compared to its earlier products. It is capable to provide a 10hour battery backup.
In terms of pricing, its 32GB variant will cost you $799, while the 128Gb will be available for $949. And if you opt to buy the 12Gb variant wil LTE support then you need to pay $1079. The iPad will be made available in gold, and space grey color variants in coming November.
iPad mini was launched earlier. But in the event, it was given a refreshed launch. The new 7.9-inch tablet will be made available with a price tag of $399whereas the iPad mini 2 price will be slashed to $269.
The trend of using stylus has not end till now. Putting confirmation on this, Apple too introduced heir own Stylus. This Apple Pencil has been totally dedicated to iPad Pro. Till now, customers need to purchase third-party stylus to fulfill their requirements, but with this pencil, there will not be any dependency on any third party device. It will also be made available with iPad Pro in coming November.
The much awaited Apple TV too made its presence in the event. This time, it is made to run on a different OS named as tvOS. The avaialbility of Ubiversal search feature will alllow you to search across applications including like iTunes, Netflix, and Hulu. You can easily fast-forward or rewind back in this Apple tv.
Digging out more, this Apple TV is installed with a 64-bit A8 processor along with the availability of Bluetooth 4.0. it will be made available in coming October, this year with a cost price of $149 for the 32GB version, and $199 for 64GB.
The traditional Apple remote too have experienced a complete makeover. This time, along with years old features, it has been supplemented with glass trackpad, motion controller, and SIRI invocation tool. This means that along with watching television, you can now get weather updates, movies recommendations live sports scores and many more. For better usability, the remote has been given a basic gaming pad too.
The fourth-generation Apple TV has been benefited with an in-build Music application which was absent since it was launch, early this year. With this pre-loaded app, you will be enabled to make your own playlists, create music libraries, and listen to Beats 1 radio. Apart from this, the Apple TV has been blessed with app Store, which is specially coded for the TV.
The much awaited iPhone 6s and 6s plus become real in Apple Event. The phones will be available in silver, gold, space grey, and rose gold. The 6s will be having 4.7-inch screen whereas iPhone 6s plus will be having 5.5-inch screen. Its screen is build of Ion-X, display used in Apple watch sport. The mobile is having A9 clip which makes the device 70% faster than its earlier A8 processor chip. For camera, the device is embedded with 12-megapixel rear camera with iSight feature, enabling it to capture 4K videos.
Moving onto its availability in the market, the company has not made any changes in terms of its price. The pricing of iPhone 6s and 6s plus has been kept unchanged as $199 to $399 for the 6S, and $299 to $499 for the 6S Plus depending on storage.
Apple earlier launched Force Touch in its smartwatch series. But as an advancement to it, the company has introduced 3D Tocuh in place of Force Touch allowing two new gestures to the iPhone users: "peek" and "pop,".
Apple reintroduced its apple watch with some makeover. This time, the company take help of luxury brand Hermès to grant a new outlook to the smartwatch. It was showcased with many new apps and impressive designing tweaks. Heeding on some of the defalut apps, Facebook Messenger and GoPro, along with one medical app called Airstrip.


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How the RPAA will support payment innovation for the benefit of Canadians
In February 2023, the Department of Finance released the highly anticipated Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA) regulations. Ron Morrow, Executive Director – Supervision at the Bank of Canada shares how the RPAA will support payment innovation for the benefit of Canadians and the importance of industry input on the draft regulations, which can be provided before March 28, 2023.
Why is the Bank of Canada introducing the Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA) Framework, and how will the Department of Finance’s RPAA regulations support it?
The Retail Payment Activities Act was approved by Parliament in June 2021. Under the Act, the Bank will be responsible for supervising payment service providers (PSPs) with the aim of building confidence in the safety and reliability of their services while protecting end users from specific risks.
Every day, millions of Canadians place their trust in PSPs when they make a payment or transfer funds. We’ve been given the mandate to make sure that the trust Canadians place in PSPs is warranted – that they know which PSPs are registered, that their funds will be protected, and that operational risk will be well managed.
We’re in the process of setting up our program to deliver on our new mandate. Under our framework, we will supervise PSPs, promote their compliance with the RPAA, and monitor and evaluate trends and issues in the payment ecosystem. A key part of this will mean clearly communicating our expectations to the industry to ensure they understand and meet their obligations.
As you point out, the Ministry of Finance is responsible for developing regulations that will help clarify the details of the RPAA. In February, the government published a draft of these regulations in Part 1 of the Canada Gazette. These regulations are important – they will carry the force of law.
What other organizations or groups fed into the development of the regulations, and how can the industry provide input on retail payment regulation in Canada going forward?
Feedback from the payments industry has been very important throughout the process and will continue to be going forward. Certainly, the feedback we received to date from RPAC – the Retail Payments Advisory Committee – was very important in shaping our advice to Finance on their proposed regulations. We established RPAC in 2020 to get industry expertise as we worked toward putting our new mandate into action.
Currently, the Ministry of Finance has made the draft regulations available for public comment until March 28. I’d encourage everyone to go look at the regulations and contribute to their development by visiting this website: Comment on proposed regulations – Canada.ca (canadagazette.gc.ca). This is your opportunity to help shape what’s coming, so it’s important that you give your input.
I’d also note that beyond the regulation period, we will be looking for further industry input on some of the details regarding our supervisory expectations. Our focus will be on our overarching goal of ensuring payment service providers register and are that they are appropriately managing operational risks appropriately and safeguarding their end-users’ funds.
What are the required next steps toward the implementation of the RPAA?
This is a complex mandate, and it will become operational in stages. We will continue to seek feedback from the payments community to make sure we get it right.
While the government continues to develop regulations, the Bank is continuing to engage with the payments industry and lay the groundwork for when the RPAA comes into force. We’re engaging with industry groups, individual PSPs and associations that represent them, and raising awareness of the framework more broadly.
Our current planning assumes that the final regulations will be published late this year. After the regulations are finalized, we will start to publish guidance for the industry on how we will carry out the activities of registration, risk-monitoring, and enforcement. We also continue to prepare the infrastructure for this mandate, building the technological and human resources capacity to carry out the needed work.
What should PSPs do to prepare for implementation of the RPAA?
PSPs can look at the legislation and the draft regulations and start to think about what they will need to do to comply with the Act. They can also look forward to reviewing our guidance materials as we roll them out, starting later this year. If, as we assume, regulations are finalized late this year, we expect to require PSPs to register with the Bank starting in 2024. The subsequent launch of our risk monitoring and compliance work is currently scheduled for 2025.
In the meanwhile, I hope that everyone in the payment community takes the time to become aware of the RPAA and the Bank’s supervisory mandate and begins to get educated about what’s to come. One way to help do that is to subscribe to our retail payments supervision newsletter, which will keep you up to date on the project and major milestones, like the release of our guidance.
You can also check out information on the Bank’s website, including reports of RPAC – our advisory committee.
PSPs can also spread the word about the Act among their partners, to make sure they are aware of the ACT.
What will the RPAA mean for people and businesses in Canada?
For Canadians, the RPAA will mean that they can continue to have confidence in the PSPs services that they use every day, whether or not they realize they’re using at least one, and often many PSPs, whenever they make payments. They can be sure that companies supervised by the Bank will safeguard their funds and manage their operational risk appropriately. That’s important.
For PSPs, regulation means they will need to register with the Bank of Canada, comply with expectations about managing their operational risk as well as safeguarding their end-users’ funds, make regular reports to the Bank, and pay an annual fee.
But I want to stress that we will take a risk-based approach that will focus on end-user impacts and the efficiency of payment services. We won’t take a “one size fits all” approach to this mandate. Essentially, this means that both the level of supervisory attention and the supervisory actions we take will be guided by the level of risk each PSP brings to consumers and the payments community.
Further, PSPs can meet our expectations about risk management and fund safeguarding using many approaches. Our job is to make the objective very clear. And then PSPs can focus on reaching the destination, not necessarily following a precise roadmap on how to get there.
We don’t want our supervision to stifle innovation. Quite the opposite. We want to carry out our supervision mandate in a way that builds confidence and fosters innovation. We want to help create incentives for competition. This regime opens up the possibility of access to other core payments systems, such as the real-time rail, which is under development.
Ultimately, we see the RPAA and our mandate as a clear win for Canadians and businesses – a way for companies to keep moving forward in a rapidly changing environment while keeping Canadians’ trust.
Hear more from Ron Morrow at The Payments Canada SUMMIT, happening May 3-5, 2023 at the Beanfield Centre in Toronto.


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(Bloomberg)—Facebook Inc.'s software knows your face almost as well as your mother does. And like mom, it isn't asking your permission to do what it wants with old photos.
While millions of internet users embrace the tagging of family and friends in photos, others worried there's something devious afoot are trying to block Facebook as well as Google from amassing such data.
As advances in facial recognition technology give companies the potential to profit from biometric data, privacy advocates see a pattern in how the world's largest social network and search engine have sold users' viewing histories for advertising. The companies insist that gathering data on what you look like isn't against the law, even without your permission.
If judges agree with Facebook and Google, they may be able to kill off lawsuits filed under a unique Illinois law that carries fines of $1,000 to $5,000 each time a person's image is used without permission -- big enough for a liability headache if claims on behalf of millions of consumers proceed as class actions. A loss by the companies could lead to new restrictions on using biometrics in the U.S., similar to those in Europe and Canada.
Facebook declined to comment on its court fight. Google hasn't responded to requests for comment (Scroll down for a closer look at the court cases).


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Google's own Voice app finally reaching iPhone
Google may finally join others in bringing Google Voice back to the App Store based on tips early this morning. A contact near Google has reportedly indicated that the official Google Voice app for the iPhone has already been approved and that Google is simply holding off to finish iOS4 and iPhone 4 support. The source for TechCrunch claims it could be in the App Store within the "next few weeks."
A Google spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny plans and said only that the company has "nothing further to announce at this time."
While third-party Google Voice apps have been flooding back into the store following roughly a year of their being banned, the official app has never been present and has been symbolic of the state of affairs both between Apple and Google as well as for the App Store. Apple has insisted that it never formally rejected the app but left it in limbo. Google claimed that it had been rejected due to "duplicate functionality" despite a few third-party apps briefly making it to the store, suggesting that Apple had singled out Google specifically.
While the motives have never been revealed, speculation has persisted that Apple was both anxious about the rising influence of Android and hoping to avoid giving Google too much influence over the iPhone. Whether or not it had a change of heart is uncertain, but EU legal pressure may have played large part in the new policy.
Google Voice is now considered an important part of Android and has official widgets that will likely be included with most Android 2.2 or later phones from the T-Mobile G2 onwards. Until the App Store policy changes, it had been limited to an HTML5 web app that could provide only some of the functionality.


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The Wi-Fi chipset market reached a valuation of USD 16.37 billion in 2016. Thanks to rising demand for Wi-Fi technology in a wide range of applications including smartphones, home automation devices, smart TVs, and upcoming IoT devices, the market will likely surpass $20 billion in valuation by 2022. The Wi-Fi chips have become an irreplaceable technology in consumer electronics. Today, every residential, and commercial premise requires an access to the Wi-Fi technology, thanks to growing demand for high-speeds offered by the broadband technology. Moreover, the growing use of more than one connected device person including wearable gadgets, smartphones, laptops, and desktops will promise more growth for the Wi-Fi Chipsets Market in the near future.
Covid-19 Impact on Growth in the Wi-Fi Chipset Market
The Wi-Fi chipset market like all others has witnessed some negative impact of Covid-19 but it has also emerged as a clear winner, thanks to rising digitalization across the world. The negative impact in the market has occurred from the fallen size of large investments due to tight economic conditions around the world. However, the expansion of new Wi-Fi enabled products like robotic vacuums, IoT devices, and AI-driven smart speakers, and entry of large players like Amazon, and Google in the sphere promise lucrative prospects for players in the global Wi-Fi chipset market. Furthermore, increased automation in home air conditioning systems, and rise in HVAC systems with enabled Wi-Fi access remains a promising new prospect for growth in the Wi-Fi chipset market. According to Google trends, the air conditioner technology in relation to Wi-Fi technology remained a key trends in the beginning of 2021.
The Rising Penetration of Enterprise Wireless Technology Remains Key
According to the GSM association, the number of IoT connections grew to 12 billion in 2019. The number is expected to rise to 24.6 billion by 2025 end. The rising demand for IoT technology for monitoring, surveillance, automation, express deliveries in a wide range of industries is expected to drive growth for the Wi-Fi chipset technology in the near future. The rising demand for the technology in public sector also remains a promising sight for players in the Wi-Fi chipset market. The growing demand for easy, and convenient access to essential government services, growing demand for transparency in government handling, and availability of large data storage facilities will be a major boon for growth for the Wi-Fi chipset market.
The market continues to undergo major change as supply chain experience immense pressure due to disruption in supplies for raw materials, and key components across the globe. Moreover, there will be some good news for players in the Wi-Fi chipset market as well. Advancements in materials like graphene will likely present new opportunities, thanks to the ideal energy efficiency, and rise in energy capacities in the near future. The decline in demand for consumer electronics remains a cause of concern in the Wi-Fi chipset market. However, growing demand in Asia Pacific, and rising demand for telecom infrastructure, and IoT devices will present new opportunities for growth for players in the Wi-Fi chipset market.
the major players included in the report:
ON Semiconductor (Quantenna)
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Segment by Application:
Computer (Notbook and Desktop PC)
Smart Home Devices
1 Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Introduction and Market Overview2 Executive Summary3 Industry Chain Analysis
4 Global Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market, by Type
5 Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market, by Application
6 Global Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Regions
7 North America Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Countries
8 Europe Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Countries
9 Asia Pacific Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Countries
10 Middle East and Africa Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Countries
11 South America Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Analysis by Countries
12 Competitive Landscape
13 Industry Outlook
14 Global Wi-Fi Chipsets (WIFI Chipsets) Market Forecast
15 New Project Feasibility Analysis
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has acquired Admovate, a mobile ad technology company that helps marketing companies target audiences based on demographics, place, and time. This acquisition is part of Yahoo!’s efforts to invest further in their ad tech platforms like Apt, Right Media, and Genome. Yahoo! also wants to make buying easier for agencies and advertisers.
Admovate has personalization technology that will accelerate Yahoo!’s capabilities in mobile advertising. Yahoo! will also gain talented technical team through the acquisition. Admovate engineers will be joining Yahoo!’s display ad team in Sunnyvale, California.
“We are thrilled to have them on board and can?t wait to bring new ad products to our global advertisers and partners in the coming months,” said Yahoo! in the company blog.


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Kicking off 2016 strong, Microsoft has recruited two new entrepreneurs to lead their startup initiatives in France, which is coordinated through their Paris-based 300m² accelerator space. Pascal Fite joins Microsoft as their acceleration program’s Entrepreneur in Residence, having spent time as an investor at Sigma Gestion, leading investments in LeKiosk, Qobuz & others, after working in the TelCo industry. In addition, leading Microsoft’s startup initiatives will be Diana Filippova, a rising figure in Paris’ startup scene, having led the collaborative consumption association OuiShare co-organizing their annual OuiShare Fest, which brings together the leading sharing economy companies.
Speaking with Filippova for the past month, it’s clear that she has big plans for Microsoft Ventures here in Paris, both building off of what has been built over the past few years since MV opened its Paris space, as well as carving out a new place for Microsoft in Paris. While Filippova has spent the past few years in the sharing economy, don’t expect Microsoft to shift focus – Filippova sees the company as having a great opportunity to support the increasing number of startups coming out of France, notably through their zero-equity acceleration program, which provides three months of support and organizes a demo day, the last of which saw several startups raising funds before & following the demo day.
Microsoft has historically been very active in France’s startup scene – the worldwide BizSpark program, with which Microsoft supports startups through software & hosting offerings, was originally started out of France, though the era of tech companies winning favor with free services seems to have seen its best days. Nonetheless, with 7 hubs around the world, including London, Seattle & Tel Aviv, Microsoft has an opportunity to usher in a new era of startup support in France, support that is global, without expectation, and that measures its own success with the same metrics that startups use to measure their own.
I’m looking forward to speaking more with Diana Filippova about her plans later this month at the #ParisFounders Winter Meetup, where we’ll be kicking off 2016 by showing off 5 new products & interviewing CEOs, Investors & Founders on stage.


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Bank backs down on credit card perk
NATWEST has been forced into a humiliating climbdown after complaints from customers demanding to be reinstated to its Air Miles loyalty scheme.
Financial Mail revealed last week that the banking giant had written to thousands of customers, telling them that from next month they would no longer earn Air Miles for using the NatWest Access credit card.
It said the decision had been taken because some customers 'rarely' redeemed their Air Miles. Instead, it offered them travel insurance. But Financial Mail has found that it has since backed down and agreed to allow many cardholders to continue earning Air Miles, at the rate of one for every £20 spent.
Among those to benefit from NatWest's climbdown are John Martin, 62, a retired public relations consultant, and wife Pam, who have been with NatWest for more than 30 years.
The couple, from the Isle of Wight, received NatWest's letter telling them they would no longer be eligible a day after using Air Miles to book tickets to Germany. When they contacted NatWest and threatened to shut their accounts, the bank reinstated the Air Miles perk.
Karin Moelter and partner Peter Kessler, from Putney, south-west London, who alerted Financial Mail to NatWest's decision on the Air Miles scheme, were also reinstated last week, days after their initial complaint had been rejected.
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- Singapore’s live bird trade is thriving on Facebook, where it is largely unlicensed, according to a new report from wildlife watchdog group TRAFFIC, which tracked 44 Singapore-based Facebook groups over five months.
- Researchers found hundreds of online sellers, most of them unlicensed and therefore acting illegally, and thousands of birds offered for sale, some of them smuggled from abroad or poached locally.
- Singapore’s efforts to target the illicit wildlife pet trade have so far focused on monitoring and enforcement actions at the trader level instead of imposing licensing requirements at the consumer level, the researchers said.
- They recommend implementing a compulsory wildlife-pet registration system, under which owners must prove they obtained their wildlife pets from licensed sources.
Singapore’s live bird trade is thriving on Facebook largely unlicensed, according to a new report from watchdog group TRAFFIC, which notes the persistence of the illicit pet trade despite clampdowns by local authorities and calls for a compulsory wildlife-pet registration system.
Researchers tracked 44 Singapore-based Facebook groups selling wildlife between December 2018 and April 2019, and counted 662 unique traders, most of them unlicensed and therefore acting illegally. They recorded 3,354 live animals for sale, 99% of them birds. Some of these birds had been smuggled from abroad or poached locally, they found.
Although 13 of these groups were shut down by Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) and Facebook, five have resurfaced as of April 2021, the report said.
“These observations point towards the persistent behaviour of online traders and buyers to circumvent regulatory actions, and the continued usage and relevance of online platforms in the trade of live birds in Singapore,” the researchers wrote.
Singapore’s efforts to target the illicit wildlife pet trade have so far focused on monitoring and enforcement actions at the trader level instead of imposing licensing requirements at the consumer level, the report said.
Pet shops, breeders and importers must be licensed to sell wildlife, which must come from legal sources, and which is mostly limited to birds and a small number of reptile and mammal species.
In contrast, owners of wildlife pets do not require any registration to buy and keep them, so “there is no means to prove that owners obtained their wildlife pets from licensed pet shops,” the researchers wrote, a factor in the thriving online illegal trade.
“Implementing a system that requires owners to register wildlife pets will increase owner accountability and allow tracking of the bird trade from both the seller and consumer end of the trade chain,” report co-author and TRAFFIC program officer Serene Chng said in a statement.
Most of the birds offered online were not native species, the report noted. More than half of the 91 bird species recorded for sale are listed in global wildlife trade authority CITES’ appendices, which means they would have required documentation to be legally imported and traded, it said.
In some instances, such documentation appeared to be lacking. Traders have hinted at their ability to smuggle birds from neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand, from where avian wildlife imports are prohibited to minimize influenza transmission, the report said. Sellers would post about their travels to these countries, taking pictures of birds sold there and asking fellow group members in Singapore to indicate interest.
Screenshots also show people poaching wild birds locally for sale. One post described setting up a trap for the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis), a native songbird that is threatened in Singapore.
“The unregulated bird trade not only depletes wild populations but also poses risks of establishing invasive species and avian disease transmission,” TRAFFIC said in its statement.
Adrian Loo, group director of wildlife management at NParks, said in response to the report that the government works with partner agencies to conduct checks at border checkpoints, regulate and monitor physical and online marketplaces, and carry out surveillance for poaching activities.
“We will continue to explore various options to detect and deal with illegal activities involving birds,” he said.
Banner image: A collection of screenshots from Facebook posts about illegal bird trade. Image courtesy of TRAFFIC.
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Sports bras and crop tops have been added to the basket of goods used to calculate inflation - but men's suits are out as part of the annual review, Sky News reports. The Office for National Statistics makes changes to the list of more than 700 items every 12 months in order to reflect consumer spending habits.
The removal of men's suits reflects the increasing number of people working from home since the coronavirus pandemic, while the ONS said sports bras had been added to reflect an exercise boom. The inflation basket is designed to be "representative of the goods and services that consumers typically spend their money on" and reflect "changing tastes and habits".
ONS head of economic statistics Sam Beckett said the latest changes show "the impact of the pandemic still evident in our shopping habits". She said: "With many people still working from home, demand for more formal clothing has continued to decrease.
"So, men's suits disappear from the basket and are replaced with a formal jacket or blazer. Last year's lockdown living saw an increase in the number of us working out and exercising. That has continued into 2022 with the addition of the sports bra into the basket reflecting greater spending on sports clothing."
Other changes include a single doughnut being removed from the basket as individual cake sales decline in favour of multipacks - another change attributed to home working. Surface wipes have been added amid the ongoing high demand for antibacterial products, while dog and cat collars come in following an increase in pet ownership. Canned beans, chickpeas, lentils and meat free sausages enter the list as the number of people adopting vegan or vegetarian diets continues to grow, with 19 items in total added this year, 15 removed and 715 unchanged.
The ONS has also announced changes to the way it presents inflation figures in order to reflect the ongoing cost of living increase. There have been claims that the statistics fail to reflect the extent of inflation for those on the lowest incomes, so February's inflation figures – which are due next week – will be published alongside a personal inflation calculator to enable individuals to work out their own costs.
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According to German publication Bild, Piëch thinks his two relatives lack the necessary automotive experience to serve on the board. Therefore, he suggests one-time Ford Premier Automotive Group boss Wolfgang Reitzle and former Siemens manager Brigitte Ederer to take the seats. However, a VW spokesperson told Automotive News Europe that there were no objections to the women's appointment, except for this story from Germany.
Piëch's nieces are already officially appointed to the VW supervisory board, and it's approved by the Braunschweig Local Court in Germany. His only real option to challenge them would be to file a lawsuit, according to Automotive News Europe.
While the new appointees don't have their uncle's decades of history in the auto industry, they do have business experience. Dr. Kiesling has a degree in vehicle design from the Royal College of Art in London and is the managing director of an Austrian textile maker. Kuhn-Piëch works in real estate sits on the supervisory board of German truck maker Man.


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In Antitrust Trial, Tim Cook Argues Apple Doesn’t Hurt App Makers
At one other level, the Apple lawyer questioned Mr. Cook on Apple’s competitors within the app market. Mr. Cook mentioned he believed digital marketplaces that distributed video games, together with Epic’s and people of the gaming-console makers like Sony and Microsoft, have been direct opponents to the App Retailer. Although, he admitted, “I’m not a gamer.”
All through the trial, Choose Gonzalez Rogers regularly sought clarification on technical jargon and pressed witnesses additional on their solutions. She requested in regards to the distinction in enterprise fashions for Fortnite, Epic’s hottest recreation, and video games like Roblox and Minecraft from different firms, and requested how Apple’s safety in contrast with that of third-party firms.
Earlier this week, she mentioned she had not seen a lot proof for one among Epic’s 9 claims that accuses Apple of violating the important services doctrine, which bans enterprise from denying different companies entry to sure markets. Apple rapidly filed a movement to have the important services declare dismissed.
The most important problem in deciding the case could also be defining the market that Epic and Apple are combating over. Apple argued that Epic has many choices for recreation distribution together with net browsers, gaming consoles and private computer systems. Lots of these platforms cost a fee just like that of the App Retailer. If gaming is the market, Apple argued, then there are a lot of opponents — like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo — and Apple can’t have a monopoly.
Epic responded that Fortnite is greater than a recreation. It’s one thing the corporate calls the metaverse — an infinite digital universe with actions, social media and even live shows. The argument led to a prolonged and detailed debate over what a recreation truly is. The purpose? This case, Epic’s attorneys argued, is about all cellular apps, which may solely attain the iPhone’s one billion customers by Apple’s App Retailer.
Choose Gonzalez Rogers expressed frustration over the market semantics. “One facet will say it’s black, the opposite says it’s white — usually it’s someplace within the grey,” she mentioned final week.
Apple argued that its charges have been needed to take care of safety for its clients. The corporate’s attorneys mentioned the App Retailer’s restrictions protected towards malware and knowledge breaches for iPhone customers.
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In an Aug. 30, 2005 memo, the team reported overheating graphics chip, cracking heat sinks, cosmetic issues with the hard disk drive and the front of the box, under-performing graphics memory chips from Infineon (now Qimonda), a problem with the DVD drive, and other things.
The test machines were not properly debugged, due to an ill-advised cost-cutting initiative that shaved $2 million from $25 million paid to Cimtek, a test machine maker in Canada. The Microsoft team decided not to pay the consulting fee to Cimtek to build, manage and debug the test machines. Sources familiar with the matter said there were only about 500 test machines at the time of launch, a third of the 1,500 needed. "There were so many problems, you didn't know what was wrong," said one source of the machines. "The [test engineers] didn't have enough time to get up and running."
Microsoft had more than 500,000 defective consoles that sat in warehouses. They were either duds coming out of the factory or they were returned boxes, according to inside sources. The yield was climbing, but far too slowly. The company stood by its statement that returns were within "normal rates for consumer electronics products."


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The Continental/United merger may not be officially consummated for several months, if ever. In the meantime, what should you do to make sure your frequent flyer points with the two airlines don’t fly the coop? Consumer Reports has some tips to protect your miles, including cashing some of them in right now, before any changes are made to the reward structure. [More]
The NYT says that Continental and United Airlines have agreed to a $3 billion merger that will create the world’s largest airline, eclipsing current front-runner, Delta. [More]
It’s being widely reported that Continental Airlines and United Airlines, who have flirted with the idea in the past, could announce merger plans as early as Monday. If so, the deal would make the combined entity the largest airline in the world. But is that a good thing for travelers? [More]
Fast food’s cutest redhead is wooing the burger business’s West Coast bad boy, as a new report says the parent company of Wendy’s is cooking up a last-minute bid to buy Carl’s Jr. owners CKE. [More]
The Comcast/NBC merger probably sucks for consumers, but it sure as hell sucks for other cable companies. Like, for example, WOW!. They are a smallish cable company that competes with Comcast in Chicagoland and in Detroit. [More]
Yesterday a bunch of consumer advocates and anti-trust people held a press conference on Capitol Hill and asked the Department of Justice to block the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger. If you, too, feel that this spells nothing but trouble for consumers–that a Ticketmaster-Live Nation monopoly would ruin competition and increase ticket prices–then check out the website TicketDisaster.org. From there, you can contact the DOJ to voice your opinion about the proposed merger, read up on reasons why the merger sucks for consumers and for the concert industry, and sign up for updates. (Thanks to JammingEcono!)
As the Comcast/NBC mergepocalypse draws near, we wanted to remind readers of the ways that this is going to harm consumers (beyond the obvious things like 30 Rock being promised to come on between 6 and 10 pm and actually airing at 11:30). Join us for a sad look into the future. [More]
While U.S. authorities are still trying to figure out whether letting the Godzilla and Megalon of ticket-selling join forces is a good thing, the U.K. has come to the rescue of concertgoers worldwide. The Competition Commission declared that the merger would “will limit the development of competition in the market for live music ticket retailing.”
Julia and her husband are former unhappy Verizon customers who thought they had escaped by signing on with Alltel, only to be sucked back in when Verizon’s took over the company.
CNBC’s Guy Adami said on CNBC’s Fast Money TV show that there’s talk that Apple may try to take over video game goliath Electronic Arts.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office is at it again. They’ve been investigating the circumstances that led to the merger of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch and the subsequent bonus payments to executives. In a letter to Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Cuomo quotes Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis as saying that former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson threatened him with removal from his position and mass firing of the board and senior management if he didn’t allow the merger to go through.
That booming evil laughter you heard echoing across the sky earlier today came from the board room where Live Nation and Ticketmaster agreed to an all-stock merger between their two blighted companies. Ticketmaster Chairman Barry Diller says the merger will benefit customers, who are frequently “frustrated by their ticket buying experiences.” Oh! So by merging the two companies most responsible for those frustrations, we’ll cancel them out! This is doubleplus good, right?
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D) of New Jersey has asked the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate the relationship between Ticketmaster and its reseller website, TicketsNow, after consumers who tried to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets encountered technical problems that prevented purchase, and were then redirected to TicketsNow where prices were “hundreds of dollars above face value” (actually, more like “thousands of dollars,” based on our check just a few minutes ago).


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View photos The Connecticut Auto Retailers Association’s 2015 anti-Tesla website.
Connecticut has considered letting Tesla enter the state every legislative session since 2014; each time, Fleming has successfully shut the effort down. But he disputes that the goal is to protect the dealers’ service-center profits.
“There are all sorts of profit centers in a dealership, and parts and service are just one of them,” he says. Instead, he says, he’s opposing Tesla dealerships to protect you, in case you buy a lemon.
“Most states have [a
Lemon Law],” he says. If your car has a big problem that persists after several attempts to fix it, “the dealer and the customer are on one side of the table, and the manufacturer on the other side of the table. It’s anti-consumer to set up a system that allows a manufacturer to be your only option when you’re trying to get a vehicle under the Lemon Law. And that’s what the direct-sales system does, whether it’s Tesla or anybody else.”
[Update: “I am a lemon-law lawyer. The argument that these anti-Tesla laws are pro-consumer because of the lemon law is NONSENSE,” writes Michigan attorney Steve Lehto. “The lemon laws (of 50 states) require the manufacturer to buy back a qualifying car. The dealer is not involved in the transaction, other than they are (usually) where the car is returned. I challenge anyone to show me a single word in any state’s lemon law that defines a role for a dealer in the buyback process that would put them in an adversarial position to the manufacturer.”]
The lobbying effort
No matter what their real motives, the dealers are fighting back hard.
“The dealers have embarked on a sophisticated public relations/advertising campaign each session when a Tesla direct-sale bill is being considered,” says Connecticut State Representative Jonathan Steinberg. “They argue that thousands of jobs would be lost if it was allowed, although they provide no evidence of that happening elsewhere.”
“They’re the legislators’ best friends,” says Becker of the EV Club. “What some dealers do is, they’ll actually man the campaigns. They’ll have a campaign headquarters in their dealerships. There’s one dealer who’s actually running the campaign for someone who’s running for governor.”
Becker says that CARA has even threatened to run candidates against anyone in office who doesn’t favor their interests. (“That is bizarre. That would never happen,” says Fleming. “That’s insane.”)
Similar efforts are at work in other states. In Arizona, for example, one of the state’s most lavish political contributors is a car dealer. According to
AZCentral.com, he contributed $150,000 to get Governor Doug Ducey elected—and was one of five people to serve on Ducey’s inaugural committee.
And in Michigan—home of America’s biggest gas-car manufacturers—it’s even worse.
Michigan’s existing law originally said, “A manufacturer shall not…sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail customer
other than through its franchised dealers.”
The magic word there is “its,” meaning “the manufacturer’s franchised dealers.” So according to this law, Tesla should be OK—it has no dealers.
But then, according to a
Cato Institute account, “In October of 2014, bowing to the pressure of auto manufacturers and car dealers, Michigan state senator Joe Hune, whose wife, Marcia Hune, is a registered lobbyist for the firm that represents Michigan auto dealers, inserted a late amendment to Michigan H.B. 5606.”
The change was eliminating a single word: “its.”
The resulting sentence now says, “A manufacturer shall not…sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail customer
other than through franchised dealers.” Deleting a single word keeps Tesla’s stores and service centers out of Michigan.
“This amendment was introduced on the eve of the adjournment of the legislature, and it was passed with no debate, no legislator input, and no committee process,” the Cato report goes on. “Many of the legislators who voted for the Hune amendment claimed to not even know the purpose of the amendment or that it was aimed at taking Tesla out of the Michigan market.”
In June 2016, Tesla’s general counsel, Todd Maron, met with Michigan’s dealer association, car manufacturers, and state Michigan legislators, to discuss a compromise that might let Tesla sell and service its cars in Michigan. At that meeting, Tesla learned just how much sway the car industry has over the lawmakers.
One Michigan legislator, Jason Sheppard,
put it to Maron this way: “The Michigan dealers do not want you here. The local manufacturers do not want you here. So you’re not going to be here.”
Tesla has now filed
suit against the state, demanding a jury trial. Do gas-car dealers want to sell electrics?
CARA’s James Fleming has an idea for Tesla. “We’ve told Mr. Musk and his representatives for five years now that we would like him to try the franchise system here in Connecticut,” he says. “See if it works.”
Tesla says that will never happen—because gas-car franchise owners just aren’t good at selling electric vehicles. Some are uninformed, some actively try to talk you out of them, and all have financial incentives to steer you into a gas car.
Consumer Reports, for example, sent 19 secret shoppers, posing as potential EV buyers, to 85 dealerships in four states in 2014. Few salespeople could answer questions about battery life and warranties; many didn’t know about the tax incentives available in their states. One Toyota salesperson said, hilariously, that the Prius Plug-in requires a battery replacement “every couple of years.” A Ford sales manager told one shopper that there’s no such thing as an electric Focus.
And 41% of dealerships tried to talk the shoppers out of buying an electric car.
The Sierra Club performed a
similar experiment in 2016, involving 174 secret shoppers visiting or calling 308 dealerships in 10 states. The results were similar. Fourteen percent of the dealerships had electric cars in stock—with dead batteries. One-third of the time, the salesperson didn’t mention the federal and state EV rebates, which can total $10,000 or more. On 42% of the lots, the electric cars weren’t even visible without some hunting.
own experience at a Honda dealership in Milford, Connecticut, was similar. The salesperson had one Clarity in stock, but its battery was dead, and “the technician who knows how to plug it in is gone for the night.”)
“There have been many, many studies where secret shoppers have gone into franchised dealers and asked to test-drive the EV,” Tesla’s Todd Maron says, “and the dealer has literally been hiding them behind curtains, doing everything they possibly can to not show them to the customer. It’ll take too long for them to do the sale, there are too many questions, it’s too unfamiliar.”
Car-dealership lobbyist Fleming takes issue with the assertion that dealerships don’t want to sell electric cars.
“They say dealers don’t want to sell these,” he says. “That’s just a ridiculous argument when you consider that when a dealer puts a vehicle on their lot, they’ve bought the car. They own it. They have carrying costs associated with that. They need to move the vehicle! Whether it’s an EV or an internal combustion or a fuel cell vehicle, they gotta move those vehicles off the lot.”
Furthermore, he says, 44 other companies make electric cars, and their franchisees are selling them just fine. “They’re selling Bolts, and Volts, and Volvo’s talking about going 100 percent EV within the next five to ten years. So I don’t think there is much legitimacy to that argument.”
View photos Chevrolet sells the Bolt is alongside gas-powered cars in its franchise dealerships. Where it leaves us
Each side swears that it will win.
“If Tesla doesn’t straighten their act out, Tesla may just go away,” Fleming says. “Or somebody is gonna buy them and they’re going to acquiesce to the franchise system.”
In Connecticut, the battle continues. “You’ve got these entrenched special interests that have really pushed hard, and they seem to be more entrenched every year, because they see the risks to them personally,” Senator Boucher says.
But, as EV Club president Bruce Becker points out, banning Tesla from a state “is not a good long-term strategy. It’s not stopping people from buying Teslas—it’s just sending them out of state to do it.”
“The reality is, we’ve put no dealers out of business,” says Tesla’s Maron. “In all the other states in the country, in all the other countries where we operate, we’ve always been able to operate alongside dealers selling other cars. It’s just competition, and it’s completely normal.”
That, he says, is why Tesla has been successful getting the dealer-franchise laws changed in several states, so that Tesla can open at least some stores.
“It’s only a matter of time, either through the courts or through the legislature, that we’ll get those laws changed,” he says. “We’re not going to give up on this issue, ever. It’s so fundamental to who we are.”
Correction: As originally posted, this story noted that Tesla-banning states miss out on the sales tax they might earn. In fact, where you pay sales tax for out-of-state cars varies by state. Connecticut, for example, only gets the difference between the out-of-state rate and its own.
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Toys for Tots of West Central Illinois seeing increase in demand
QUINCY (WGEM) - Everyone wants their kids to have something to open on Christmas morning but not everyone can afford to make that happen.
Those at Toys for Tots of West Central Illinois said more families are needing help getting gifts for their kids under the tree. Coordinator Jessica Humke said that’s due to inflation and them expanding the number of counties they serve to include Brown, Hancock, and Pike Counties.
She said they are seeing addresses that they’ve never seen on their register before, with 200 more families than usual at this point.
“Just watching those registrations coming in, they are coming in faster and they are coming in from parts of the area that we serve that we’ve not reached before which is a good thing, we are reaching more of the rural areas,” she said. “In the past we’ve served probably 90-95 percent was Quincy and that is not the case this year.”
Humke said roughly 1,000 families have signed up to get toys so far.
Marine Corps League commandant and American Legion Post 37 commander Jesus Delgado said they’re trying to help provide some relief for families struggling to afford toys. He said he started volunteering while in the service and the effort is very rewarding.
“When you have the chance give something to a child and see that smile, it’s all it is,” he said. “Christmas is about just family and I think the spirit of Christmas is what it is and to be able to provide that to families that don’t have it, it’s, it’s unexplainable.”
The last day to register for a toy is Dec. 2. You can do that in-person at Quincy Catholic Charities, located at 620 Maine Street from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. You can also register online.
If you are looking to donate a toy, you can find local businesses with Toys for Tots drop off boxes on their Facebook.
WGEM will also be holding a Toy Blitz at the Quincy Walmart Thursday. You can bring new, unwrapped toys or gift cards between noon at 6:30 p.m.
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Over a third of the value of retailer GAME has been wiped this morning after it revealed the extent of its trading struggles.
Retailer GAME needs a big couple of days before Christmas to help reverse what has been a poor pre-Christmas spell for the company.
Leading UK games publishers says the ‘obsession’ around PS4 and Xbox One bundles over Black Friday will harm game sales.
Bethesda's Fallout 4 was UK games retail's favourite release this year.
Virtual reality is finally being released, but over half of UK games stores think that it is not going to take off in 2016.
Nearly three quarters of UK games stores believe that PlayStation 4 will be the dominant platform in 2016.
It's time for MCV's Annual Retail Survey – what was the biggest challenge facing UK games retail? Who was their favourite publisher? What game sold the best for them?
Straight-laced, stiff upper-lipped, very-sensible middle class British High Street retailer John Lewis has got all modern, like, by adding a virtual reality headset to its shelves.
Retailers GAME and Overclockers have partnered up to offer gaming PCs and components in GAME stores and on its website.
Peter Moore has questioned the uncertainties posed by GameStop about the performance of Star wars Battlefront.
Lara Croft’s latest hasn’t been a disappointment for its publishers, developer Crystal Dynamics has insisted.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are going all-out in their approach to this year’s Black Friday.
Critically-acclaimed indie hit Fez is coming to physical retail for the first time – three years after its launch.
This Friday could be the biggest sales day for games outside of a console launch.
GameStop’s assessment of both physical sales of Star Wars Battlefront and digital sales of Halo 5 are incorrect, analysts have argued.
Import specialist Play Asia has chosen to use a pro-GamerGate anti-equality hashtag in its response to this morning’s Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 news.
Codemaster’s Early Access racing title Dirt Rally may be set for a physical release early next month.
The ignominious fall of the PlayStation TV has seen Sony’s streaming microconsole slashed to an all-time low in the US.
Retailer GameStop has said that a trio of this quarter’s big releases sold fewer units than it had anticipated.
Retailer GameStop has reported an annual fall in sales and profit.
Gamers looking for a cheaper Wii U or 3DS now have an official route to score a cheaper console.
A quarter of a century after its release in the UK, the Mega Drive could be a star performer this Christmas.
The Advertising Standards Authority has said that it won’t be pursuing further measures against Activision concerning a mistake made in the marketing for Call of Duty III pre-order content.
GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs takes MCV on a tour of the company’s flagship Westfield Stratford outlet, and reveals the latest innovations taking place in games retail
The North-East is the latest UK region to gain Amazon’s Prime Now delivery service.


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Fueled by oil, agriculture sector welcomes low diesel prices
WICHITA, Kan. - The recent plunge in fuel prices has been a welcome relief across the agricultural sector, helping ease the pain of low grain prices for growers and boosting profits for cattle ranchers.
"Every movement we make in farming takes fuel," Kansas cattle rancher and hay grower Randy Cree said.
Livestock producers in the Midwest and vegetable growers in the Sun Belt alike are reaping the immediate benefits. And with average retail gas prices for 2015 forecast to be about $1 lower than last year, farmers this spring may end up planting more energy-intensive crops, such as corn or rice, as the cost to irrigate and cultivate drops.
Consumers, however, shouldn't expect to see lower prices at the supermarket. Transportation costs constitute only a small slice of those prices, and it takes months, if ever, for cost savings at the farm level to trickle to the shelf sticker.
For years, Cree hasn't been able to afford to fill the fuel tanks at his farm west of Lawrence. But with the local price of untaxed diesel and regular gasoline both below $2 a gallon, Cree plans to completely fill the two 300-gallon and one 200-gallon tanks.
It takes fuel to feed his 100 cows all winter long, fuel to drive to the feed store. The lower prices will also make "a big difference" this summer. Each time he harvests his hay, his tractor must make three trips over every field - one to mow it, one to rake it, and another to bale it.
"We are hoping that for the first time in a long, long time to have the burden of high fuel prices off our backs - so we can maybe make a little bit of money this year," Cree said.
Farmers use mostly off-road diesel, for which they don't pay federal and state taxes, in their tractors and other farm equipment. While diesel averages about 20 cents per gallon more than regular gasoline, road taxes alone can add 14 percent more at the pump. On-road diesel prices nationwide are forecast to average $1.86 a gallon this year - well below the $2.81 per gallon in 2014. And looking into 2016, prices are forecast to average $2.30 a gallon for on-road
diesel, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
That's good news for farmers who depend on row crops, and who've seen farm income drop by as much as 50 percent because of low grain prices.
Lower energy prices increase planted acres for most major row crops and drop the price of the commodity, according to an April 2014 federal study on the impact crude oil prices have on agriculture. Nearly 20 percent of operating costs for major U.S. row crops are tied to direct energy expenses, the Economic Research Service's study showed.
Vance Ehmke, who grows wheat near Healy in western Kansas, said low diesel fuel prices will "definitely help," but might not be enough.
"On one level, fuel going down is really going to save us $20,000 to $25,000 - which is a nice chunk of change," Ehmke said. "However, the other side of the coin is that while we have had a collapse in the oil market, we also have had a collapse in the grain market."
Consumers can expect to use some of their savings at the pump toward grocery bills. The price of food at both restaurants and grocery stores is predicted to go up 2 to 3 percent in 2015, according to agricultural economist Annemarie Kuhns with the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service.
Only 4.7 cents of every dollar spent at the supermarket goes toward food transportation costs, Kuhns said. Mostly, retail food prices are driven by other factors, such as supply and demand. That's evident in beef prices, which soared when ranchers had to liquidate cattle herds during recent droughts.
Among those currently enjoying the lowest-in-years diesel prices is Florida vegetable grower Rick Roth, who also operates a packing house where crops such as celery, leafy greens and radishes are sorted and cleaned before shipped.
Roth figures he buys about 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel a week, which he mainly uses in his tractors for land preparation, planting, cultivation, spraying and harvest at his farm in Palm Beach County. Any fuel savings will go toward the bottom line, he said, and will help keep his farm fully staffed with 25 full-time employees and 150 seasonal workers.
"One of the things that is really interesting about vegetable production is that you have years that you make money, and you have years that you lose money," he said. "Probably 25 percent of overall cost is related to fuel. I think what it will mean is you will just have people staying in production."


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Worldwide, ecommerce will account for only about 5.9% of the total retail market in 2014 — or $1.316 trillion — according to new estimates from eMarketer.
U.S. consumers appear to be particularly attached to brick-and-mortar shopping. By 2018, while 70% of the U.S. population will make purchases online, only 8.9% of U.S. retail sales will come from digital transactions, eMarketer predicts.
“Despite a majority of U.S. consumers making purchases online, more than $10 out of every $11 spent on retail items will occur in stores,” a new report from eMarketer explains.
The other two largest ecommerce markets — China and the UK — both have much higher proportions of online-to-total retail sales, according to eMarketer.
For example, digital buyers — consumers who have purchased online at least once in the past year — will comprise 43% of China's population in 2018, while one-sixth of all retail dollars will transact via the Web. This points to the fact that consumers in China who buy online do so often, eMarketer notes.
The United States and China are by far the world’s leading ecommerce markets, combining for more than 55% of overall ecommerce this year.
However, China's growth over the next five years will widen the gap between the two countries, and the world power will exceed $1 trillion in ecommerce sales by 2018 — for more than 40% share of global ecommerce.
The United States is expected to maintain its position as the second-largest ecommerce market in 2018, totaling nearly $500 billion that year, while the UK will come in at a distant third with about one-quarter of that figure.


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It can be hard to know what to prioritize in dietary health and how to go about it once you’ve worked that out. Diets that emphasize weight loss and deal in the counting of calories may do what they say but end up depriving you of many things you need.
A wiser course, one that makes health its ultimate goal and weight merely a means to an end, would be to choose a diet that focuses on the needs of your more precious parts, the heart and brain. As they go, so go you, and both are hard to replace.
There just so happens to be a diet tailor made to meet those needs, and a new study finds that those who adhere to it suffer lower rates of dementia. You can’t complain about that. And this is no diet of privation and ordeal, but the delicious food-heavy Mediterranean diet!
The good news about the Mediterranean diet comes courtesy of researchers at Bonn, Germany’s German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Led by Tommaso Ballarini, a postdoctoral researcher, they collected data on over 500 people, of whom more than 300 were unusually disposed towards Alzheimer's disease genetically. It was the hope of researchers that in this way a clear sign would point towards some particular eating habits as being more conducive to brain health.
As hoped for, the study found that those who did not follow a Mediterranean diet had higher levels of amyloid and tau, proteins associated with Alzheimer’s (although they are also found in the brains of elderly people who do not have Alzheimer’s. Your choice is clear: adopt the Mediterranean diet and take a big step towards saving your brain for the long haul!
The even better news is what your daily meals can look like while on the Mediterranean diet. If you like fish, you’re going to be very happy. And you can rest assured that blandness will be as much kept at bay as neurological disorder with the inclusion of olive oil. And similarly to many sensible diets, there is a sizable proportion in the Mediterranean diet of fruits and vegetables.
Imagine a day in the Mediterranean life: your breakfast is Italian caprese salad on toasted bread, with a balsamic glaze drizzled over it and plenty of garlic. At lunch, it’s a tuna spinach salad with olives, feta cheese and a tahini dressing. And for dinner, you’re feasting on a walnut and rosemary crusted salmon with a salad and roasted potatoes on the side. Sound pretty good?
Of course, the usual caveats apply: per lead researcher Ballarini, the study was unable to prove a cause and effect relationship, and he cautioned that further research would be required in order to confirm the findings of the initial study as far as the effects of the Mediterranean diet on Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.
However, it is far more certain that the diet is generally healthy, not just for the brain, but for the heart as well. And with the rich array of options that come from one corner of the Mediterranean sea or another, you can take care of your body without boring your taste buds with the same meal twice for so long that even a brain of your unparalleled health won’t be able to recall the last repeat. So dig in!


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Dixons Carphone donates tablets to isolated elderly
Written by Peter Walker
Dixons Carphone has partnered with Age UK to help vulnerable older people tackle loneliness during the Coronavirus crisis.
The technology retailer has provided 500 free tablets with internet connectivity and a dedicated technology support phone line to help older people connect with friends and family, access guidance on staying safe and keep up to date with current news.
Dixons Carphone chief executive Alex Baldock explained: “Many are anxious about being isolated, and we can help - technology connects friends and family, as well as keeping older people entertained, productive and healthy.”
Those who do not currently have access to the internet will now get connected using the ready-to-use tablets with mobile network connectivity, pre-loaded with news and NHS apps.
The tablets, which are lightweight and allow enlargement of text for those who are visually impaired, will be delivered direct to the older person’s home while observing social distancing guidelines.


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According to the latest report by IAMAI and IMRB, the number of Mobile internet users is going to reach 155 Mn in India by the end of March 2014, and 185 Mn by June 2014, maintaining a Q-o-Q growth of 20%.
Also, as per a separate report by IAMAI, there were 205 Mn Internet users in India, among which there were also 110 Mn Mobile internet users with 85 Mn users from Urban India and the rest 25 Mn from Rural India.
A majority of the Mobile internet users are urban dwellers, however till June 2014, the number of users of Mobile internet users in Rural India, will witness a 50% Y-o-Y growth to reach 32 Mn.
Nationally over 50% of the active Internet users are accessing the Internet on their mobile, apart from other sources, indicating that there has been a huge uptake in consumption of this Mobile Internet as a medium.
The percentage amount spent on Mobile Internet has gone up to 45% from 43% in 2012. The reason behind the penetration is the affordability of Internet enabled mobile devices. “The median price of a handset has fallen from Rs. 8,250 in 2012 to Rs 7,000 in 2013. More and more manufacturers are trying to target the ‘Value for Money’ segment by offering more features at lower prices.”
Aircel just recently partnered with ZTE to deploy its 4G LTE network. On occasion of this announcement, Anupam Vasudev, CMO, Aircel said “The huge demand for internet enabled devices, such as smartphones and tablets among the largely young population, along with increase in consumption of data on internet and rising demand for content are some of the factors fuelling the exponential growth in data.”
The rise in the numbers of Mobile internet users will open up new opportunities for those involved in online business and mobile app development. Considering that more than 50% of Internet users in India, use Mobile as a primary or a secondary access device, mCommerce or mobile commerce has a great potential in the country.
So how will this growth of mobile Internet users affect the state of eCommerce in India? Hear what the experts have to say about this @IRE2014
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Automotive News Europe — 2022-10-23
The sharing of technology has emerged as a sticking point between Renault and Nissan as the companies negotiate an overhaul of their decades-old partnership, two people familiar with discussions told Reuters.
The French and Japanese automakers said this month they were in talks about the future of their alliance, including Nissan potentially investing in an electric vehicle business being spun out of Renault.
Those discussions have included consideration of Renault selling some of its 43% stake in Nissan, a move that would put the pair on a more equal footing and mark a seismic shift in an alliance founded in 1999 and long driven by executive-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn.
The sharing of intellectual property has become a focus of those talks, the two people said, declining to be identified as the information was not public.
For the French automaker, a "reboot" means the relationship needs to be more than financial, one of the people said. "What matters is what Nissan brings in intellectual property, engineers and common projects," the person said.
With Nissan holding only 15% of Renault -- without voting rights -- French dominance of the alliance has long been a point of contention. Many executives at the Japanese automaker see the relationship as unbalanced, especially regarding development.
Nissan's concern centers on the sharing of future technology, including the all-solid-state batteries for electric vehicles that it is currently developing, the second person said. The sharing of old technology is less of a concern, the person said.
Renault is splitting off its electric vehicle business, code named "Ampere," from its legacy internal combustion engine unit, code named "Horse," as it plays catch-up in an industry shift to electrification led by Tesla.
Nissan and Renault declined to comment.
France's government, which owns about 15% of Renault, is keen for the automaker to hold on to its industrial and technological advantages, finance minister Bruno Le Maire has said.
Following his comments, Japan's trade ministry asked Nissan about its stance, one of the people said.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry did not respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
Renault wants Nissan to invest in its electric vehicle unit, while Nissan wants Renault to cut its stake to 15%, Reuters previously reported.
The pair are yet to reach an agreement on investment because it is difficult to determine figures without a clear valuation of the unit, said three people familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg News cited a source as saying Nissan would invest $500m to $750m in return for about 15% of the unit.
Given its investment needs, Renault is the more eager of the two to reach a deal, said a person familiar with negotiations. "There is no reason why Nissan has to absolutely participate" in the unit, said the person, citing Nissan's need to explain cost-effectiveness of investments to shareholders.
The automakers aim to make an announcement on 15 November, though details have yet to be finalized and could still take weeks, one of the people said.
Alliance junior partner Mitsubishi Motors will likely invest a few percent in the new Renault unit to retain its alliance relationship, said another person familiar with the matter.
Mitsubishi has said it had not yet entered detailed consideration about investment.


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Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, the firms said in a statement on Monday, marking the USA company's second retreat from an Asian market.
Grab has acquired Uber's operations in South-East Asia, ending speculation over the weekend that a deal had been reached between the two ride-hailing giants.
"Didi fully supports Grab's acquisition of Uber's Southeast Asian operations, and looks forward to continuing a long-term relationship with Grab as a strategic investor", a Didi representative told Caixin. He did not want to be identified as the deal is not public yet.
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Khosrowshahi said Uber has invested $700 million in Southeast Asia since it began operating in Singapore about five years ago. The San Francisco-based company sold its Chinese arm to local etaxi giant Didi Chuxing in a $35 billion deal back in 2016, which was followed by a merger with Yandex.taxi in Eastern Europe a year ago.
As part of the deal, Uber will take a 27.5 per cent stake in Grab, while Uber's chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi will join Grab's board. There is yet to be news on how Uber users in the Philippines will be shuffled to Grab.
The deal represents another major retreat from worldwide markets for Uber, following its withdrawal from China in 2016 and Russian Federation in 2017.
Women Suing MSU 'Are Encouraged by' Arrest of Larry Nassar's Former Boss
The university took initial steps in February to have him fired, a process that can take several months or longer. William Strampel was in jail pending an arraignment Tuesday, Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth said .
Grab said it plans to expand its food delivery business to Singapore and Malaysia after integrating it with Uber Eats. The value of the deal has not been disclosed yet.
The company's full-year net loss widened to $4.5 billion in 2017 as it endured multiple scandals and the departure of its co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick. Khosrowshahi said that it will assist us in dueling down on our suggestions for expansion as we expend deliberately in the products and technology to generate the supreme customer experience on the planet. Grab, which has more than 86 million mobile app downloads, now offers services in more than 190 cities across Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.
Grab's chief executive Anthony Tan said the acquisition marks the beginning of a new era. In Russia, it agreed to merge its ride-hailing business in the country with Yandex, a local search-engine leader that also runs a popular taxi-booking app. Last year, Uber merged in Russian Federation with the taxi-hailing app of internet giant Yandex.
Meghan Markle's Nephew Has Not Received an Invitation to the Royal Wedding
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India's September exports, imports rise over 22% YoY
New Delhi, October 15, 2021
India's merchandise exports rose by 22.63 per cent, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, in September 2021.
Exports rose to $33.79 billion from $27.56 billion reported for September 2020.
The data furnished by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed that in comparison to September 2019, last month's exports rose by 29.86 per cent.
On a sequential basis, exports for last month, inched up from $33.28 billion worth of merchandise exports reported for August 2021.
"Non-petroleum and non-gems and jewellery exports in September 2021 were $25.34 billion, as compared to $21.33 billion in September 2020, registering a positive growth of 18.82 per cent," the ministry said.
"As compared to September 2019, non-petroleum and non-gems and jewellery exports in September 2021 registered a positive growth of 33.39 per cent."
Similarly, India's merchandise imports in September 2021 increased, rising by 84.77 per cent, on a year-on-year basis, to $56.39 billion from $30.52 billion.
The data showed that in comparison to September 2019, last month's imports rose by 49.59 per cent.
Sequentially, September's imports were higher than $47.09 billion worth of merchandise imports reported for August 2021.
"Non-oil and non-gold imports were $33.84 billion in September 2021, recording a positive growth of 40.45 per cent, as compared to non-oil and non-gold imports of $24.09 billion in September 2020."
"Non-oil and non-gold imports in September 2021 recorded a positive growth of 23.79 per cent over September 2019."
Consequently, trade deficit widened by 663.48 per cent on a year-on-year basis to $22.59 billion in September 2021 from $2.96 billion in the like period of 2020.
It had widened to $13.81 billion in August 2021.
"Crossing $197 billion in merchandise exports during the first half of the financial year in itself is a spectacular performance during these challenging times," FIEO President A. Sakthivel said.
EEPC India Chairman Mahesh Desai said that strong economic recovery in key markets, pent-up demand and policy support have been amongst the key factors that continue to push engineering exports from the country.
"This has again reflected in September trade data with engineering goods exports recording nearly 37 per cent growth. Given the uptrend so far in the first six months of the fiscal, we would certainly meet our annual shipment target."
ICRA Chief Economist Aditi Nayar said: "The sharp rise in the merchandise trade deficit in September 2021 reflects an element of inventory stocking ahead of the festive season as well as advancement of crude oil purchases in light of the looming hardening of prices."
"While we do expect the trade deficit to moderate in the subsequent months, it is expected to range between $13-16 billion per month in H2 FY2022."