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Over Three Million US Drivers Exposed in Data Breach
US car company DriveSure has suffered from a data breach in which three million of its customers were exposed. A cybercriminal has posted the data to a dark web forum, according to Risk Based Security. On January 4, Risk-Based Security found that multiple databases were uploaded to a hacking forum. It then traced the information back to DriveSure, which is based in Illinois and owned by dealership service provider Krex. According to their site, the company helps clients to build strong customer relationships and encourages vehicle owners to bring the automobile back to the dealership for service.
The information exposed in the breach includes names, home and email addresses, phone numbers, car and damage details, texts and emails with dealerships, and roughly 93,000 bcrypt hashed passwords. The range of data appeared to be extensive, as one leaked folder contained 22GB of data that included revenue data, reports, claims, and more client data. The multiple troves of information all trace back to DriveSure, however, it is unclear how the cybercriminals first accessed the data.


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The singer-songwriter wore a floor-length, navy jacket with red detailing on the collar and chunky, open-toed platform heels — accessorised with black gloves and a statement sapphire necklace. Rita's hair and makeup was equally eye-catching. She wore striking winged eyeliner — designed by makeup artist Pat McGrath, who used her brand's liquid liner to create the look — which encircled both her top and bottom lids and stretched right out toward her temples. Her hairstyle — which all the models wore for the show — was styled in a centre part with two overexaggerated finger waves that were gelled in place. "The hair at Miu Miu this season was based on the '40s, but with a twist on the '70s, too," hairstylist and Redken Global Creative Director Guido Palau said of the look via a press release sent after the show.
Rita was in good company on the runway, too. Known for recruiting celebrities to walk to show, Miu Miu also invited 16-year-old actor Storm Reid to walk, in addition to the season's catwalk superstars Gigi and Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerber, and Pixie Geldof.

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Shitanshu Jhunjhunwalla, managing director, Turtle, said, “We are excited to get Shreyansh Innovations on board as our creative and digital agency in the next phase of our brand journey. We feel with Shreyansh’s deep understanding of the apparel and retail sector, their diverse talent pool, and their personal touch we would see some fresh and innovative work ahead keeping us relevant and emotionally connected with our consumers.”
Shreyansh Baid, founder director, Shreyansh Innovations, added, "Turtle is perhaps one of the biggest success stories to emerge out of Eastern India in the formal/semi-formal category. It has constantly redefined trends at a national level, and to partner with such an exciting brand is an honour for us. For the last many years, we have constantly set benchmarks in the traditional wear category with Manyavar, and this time we will strive to act as a great bridge between Turtle and its target audience too."


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“Certification work” with Apple was all that was needed to add 200,000 vending and other self-service machines supplied over the last five years to the list of Apple Pay acceptance points, USA Technologies (USAT) has told NFC World+.
No new hardware has been needed to add the machines to the list of Apple Pay acceptance points — almost doubling the number of places the NFC mobile payments service can be used — Maeve Duska, VP of marketing at supplier USAT, explained.
“Particularly over the last five years, most of the hardware that we’ve been selling has been NFC-ready so the good news for our customers and for us is that, at this point, we have nearly 200,000 NFC-ready acceptance points that are already out there,” she says.
“You have to have our ePort hardware in place and be on our service, but if you already have an NFC-ready ePort then there is nothing special that you need to do [to accept Apple Pay], you are already ready.
“We did some certification work with Apple to ensure this was true,” Duska added. “We worked with Apple and, as far as I know, we are the only company in this particular unattended space that has specific approval from Apple to use the Apple Pay brand on their machines.
“We did work with them to get some decals created that we are actively sending to our customers who already have machines out in the market, so consumers can look for that Apple Pay logo and know that they can use Apple Pay.
“The good news is it’s immediately available in all of these locations. Because they already have the NFC capability built-in, and because Apple chose to go the route of NFC and to capitalise on some of the infrastructure that was already in place, those 200,000 locations can immediately accept the Apple Pay wallet.
“From a consumer perspective, if you have the Apple Pay wallet on your phone right now and you’ve downloaded a card to it, it’s very likely that you’ll come across our technology in your everyday travels and you’ll be able to use that wallet for some of those everyday purchases that you make.
“As we continue to sell hardware, obviously we’re still aggressively and actively selling our services to the market, that number will continue to increase over time.
“What USA Technologies wants to make sure is that we enable consumers to be able to use whatever their favourite payment mechanism is.
“So, if we have a consumer that prefers Softcard then they can use their Softcard wallet. If we have a consumer that prefers Apple Pay they can use that and, similarly, if folks want to stick with credit, debit cards, traditional magnetic stripe cards, we can accept those as well. For us, it’s really about making sure that any customers who walks by one of our machines can make a purchase.”
“Softcard continues to be accepted at the terminals as well and now, with Apple Pay in the mix, Apple Pay is added to the list of mobile wallets that can be accepted,” Duska confirmed.


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Friday, February 22, 2013
Mila Kunis lands new role with Gemfields
London based Gemfields, one of the world's foremost colored gemstone producers, reveled it's first brand Ambassador. Black Swan actress, Mila Kunis.
"I truly believe in Gemfields' mission of ethical mining, and I absolutely have fallen in love with the rarity, beauty and history of emeralds," says Kunis.
In the newest released advertisement, Kunis is dripping in a one of a kind emerald and ruby necklace that is a perfect collaboration of the Gemfields design partners, to include Faberge, whom they recently acquired.
I look forward to seeing Gemfields new collection that is scheduled to debut later this month, we can only image the decadence to come.
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Africa focused Gem Diamonds must be getting used to recovering huge precious rocks from its flagship Letšeng mine in Lesotho, as it has just dug up another massive one.
The 138 carat, top white colour Type IIa diamond is 12th diamond over 100 carats the company finds this year, beating the 11 it dug up in 2015.
The largest diamond found this year is a 910 carat D colour type IIa diamond, about the size of two golf balls, which was named the “Lesotho Legend.” It became the second largest recovered in the past century and sold for $40 million at an auction in March.
Since acquiring Letšeng in 2006, Gem Diamonds has found now five of the 20 largest white gem quality diamonds ever recovered, which makes the mine the world’s highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond operation.
At an average elevation of 3,100 metres above sea level, Letšeng is also one of the world’s highest diamond mines.
The biggest diamond ever found was the 3,106 carat Cullinan, dug near Pretoria, South Africa, in 1905. It was later cut into several stones, including the First Star of Africa and the Second Star of Africa, which are part of Britain’s Crown Jewels held in the Tower of London.
Lucara’s 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona was the second biggest in record, while the 995 carat Excelsior and 969 carat Star of Sierra Leone were the third and fourth largest.


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The biggest business idea of the past three decades is in deep trouble
IT WAS as though the world had a new appetite. A Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet opened near Tiananmen Square in 1987. In 1990 a McDonald’s sprang up in Pushkin Square, flipping burgers for 30,000 Muscovites on its first day. Later that year Ronald McDonald rolled into Shenzhen, China, too. Between 1990 and 2005 the two companies’ combined foreign sales soared by 400%.
McDonald’s and KFC embodied an idea that would become incredibly powerful: global firms, run by global managers and owned by global shareholders, should sell global products to global customers. For a long time their planet-straddling model was as hot, crisp and moreish as their fries.
Today both companies have gone soggy. Their shares have lagged behind America’s stockmarket over the past half-decade. Yum, which owns KFC, saw its foreign profits peak in 2012; they have fallen by 20% since. Those of McDonald’s are down by 29% since 2013 (see article). Last year Yum threw in the towel in China and spun off its business there. On January 8th McDonald’s sold a majority stake in its Chinese operation to a state-owned firm. There are specific reasons for some of this; but there is also a broader trend. The world is losing its taste for global businesses.
Their detractors and their champions both think of multinational firms—for the purposes of this article, firms that make over 30% of their sales outside their home region (unless otherwise specified)—as the apex predators of the global economy. They shape the ecosystems in which others seek their living. They direct the flows of goods, services and capital that brought globalisation to life. Though multinationals account for only 2% of the world’s jobs, they own or orchestrate the supply chains that account for over 50% of world trade; they make up 40% of the value of the West’s stockmarkets; and they own most of the world’s intellectual property.
Although the idea of being at the top of the food chain makes these companies sound ruthless and all-conquering, rickety and overextended are often more fitting adjectives. And like jackals circling an elderly pride, politicians want to grab more of the spoils that multinational firms have come to control, including 80m jobs on their payrolls and their profits of about $1trn. As multinational firms come to make ever more of their money from technology services they become yet more vulnerable to a backlash. The predators are increasingly coming to look like prey.
It all looked very different 25 years ago. With the Soviet Union collapsing and China opening up, a sense of destiny gripped Western firms; the “end of history” announced by Francis Fukuyama, a scholar, in which all countries would converge towards democracy and capitalism seemed both a historical turning-point and a huge opportunity. There were already many multinationals, some long established. Shell, Coca-Cola and Unilever had histories spanning the 20th century. But they had been run, for the most part, as loose federations of national businesses. The new multinationals sought to be truly global.
Companies became obsessed with internationalising their customers, production, capital and management. Academics draw distinctions between going global “vertically”—relocating production and the sourcing of raw materials—and “horizontally”—selling into new markets. But in practice many firms went global every which way at once, enthusiastically buying rivals, courting customers and opening factories wherever the opportunity arose. Though the trend started in the rich world, it soon caught on among large companies in developing economies, too. And it was huge: 85% of the global stock of multinational investment was created after 1990, after adjusting for inflation (see chart 1).
By 2006 Sam Palmisano, the boss of IBM, was arguing that the “globally integrated enterprise” run as a unitary organisation, rather than as a federation, would transcend all borders as it sought “the integration of production and value delivery worldwide”. From the Seattle demonstrations of 1999 onwards, anti-globalisation activists had been saying much the same, while drawing less solace from the prospect. The only business star to resist the orthodoxy was Warren Buffett; he sought out monopolies at home instead.
Such a spree could not last forever; an increasing body of evidence suggests that it has now ended. In 2016 multinationals’ cross-border investment probably fell by 10-15%. Impressive as the share of trade accounted for by cross-border supply chains is, it has stagnated since 2007 (see chart 2). The proportion of sales that Western firms make outside their home region has shrunk. Multinationals’ profits are falling and the flow of new multinational investment has been declining relative to GDP. The global firm is in retreat.
The other end of the end of history
To understand why this is, consider the three parties that made the boom possible: investors; the “headquarters countries” in which global firms are domiciled; and the “host countries” that received multinational investment. For their different reasons each thought that multinational firms would provide superior financial or economic performance.
Investors saw a huge potential for economies of scale. As China, India and the Soviet Union opened up, and as Europe liberalised itself into a single market, firms could sell the same product to more people. And as the federation model was replaced by global integration, firms would be able to fine-tune the mix of inputs they got from around the world—a geographic arbitrage that would improve efficiency, as Martin Reeves of BCG, a consultancy, puts it. From the rich world they could get management, capital, brands and technology. From the emerging world they could get cheap workers and raw materials as well as lighter rules on pollution.
These advantages led investors to think global firms would grow faster and make higher profits. That was true for a while. It is not true today. The profits of the top 700-odd multinational firms based in the rich world have dropped by 25% over the past five years, according to FTSE, an index firm. The weakness of many currencies against the dollar is part of the story, but explains only a third of the fall. The profits of domestic firms rose by 2%.
A complementary measure comes from the foreign profits of all firms as recorded in balance-of-payments statistics. Though the data refer to firms of all sizes, big ones dominate the mix. For companies with headquarters in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, foreign profits are down by 17% over five years. American firms suffered less, with a 12% drop, partly because of their skew towards the fast-growing technology sector. For non-American firms the drop was 20%.
Profits should be compared with the capital sunk. The return on equity (ROE) of the top 700 multinationals has dropped from a peak of 18% a decade ago to 11%. The returns on the foreign operations of all firms have fallen, too, based on balance-of-payments statistics. For the three countries which have, historically, hosted the most and biggest multinationals, America, Britain and the Netherlands, ROE on foreign investment has shrunk to 4-8%. The trend is similar across the OECD (see chart 3).
Multinationals based in emerging economies, which account for about a seventh of global firms’ overall activity, have fared no better: their worldwide ROE is 8%. Several supposed champions—such as Lenovo, the Chinese company which bought IBM’s PC business and parts of Motorola—have been financial flops. China’s biggest completed cross-border acquisition was of Nexen, a Canadian oil firm, in 2012. Last year the buyer, CNOOC, a state-owned energy firm, wrote a chunk of it off.
About half of the deterioration in multinationals’ ROE over the past 5-10 years is explained by the slump in commodity prices, and thus the profits of oil firms, mining firms and the like. Another 10% of the deterioration is due to banks. Firms that provide the specialist services behind globalisation have also been hammered. Profits have dropped by over 50% from their peak at Maersk, a Danish shipping line, Mitsui, a Japanese trading house, and Li & Fung, a supply-chain agent for retailers.
The pain extends beyond these core industries, however. Half of all big multinationals have seen their ROE fall in the past three years; 40% fail to make an ROE of over 10%, widely seen as a benchmark of whether a firm is creating any value worth speaking of. Even at powerhouses such as Unilever, General Electric (GE), PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, foreign profits are down by a quarter or more from their peak. The only bright spot is the technology giants. Their foreign profits comprise 46% of the total foreign earnings of the top 50 American multinationals, up from 17% a decade ago. Apple made $46bn abroad last year, more than any other firm and five times more than GE, often seen as America’s bellwether.
These figures mean multinationals are no longer achieving superior performance. The Economist has examined the record of the 500 largest firms worldwide. In eight out of ten sectors, multinational firms have expanded their aggregate sales more slowly than their domestic peers. In six out of the ten sectors they have lower ROEs (see chart 4). For American firms, returns are now 30% higher in their home market, where cosy oligopoly has become more enticing than the hurly-burly of an unruly world.
Individual bosses will often blame one-off factors: currency moves, the collapse of Venezuela, a depression in Europe, a crackdown on graft in China, and so on. But the deeper explanation is that both the advantages of scale and those of arbitrage have worn away. Global firms have big overheads; complex supply chains tie up inventory; sprawling organisations are hard to run. Some arbitrage opportunities have been exhausted; wages have risen in China; and most firms have massaged their tax bills as low as they can go. The free flow of information means that competitors can catch up with leads in technology and know-how more easily than they used to.
As a result firms with a domestic focus are winning market share. In Brazil two local banks, Itaú and Bradesco, have trounced global lenders. In India Vodafone, a Western mobile-phone operator and Bharti Airtel, an Indian multinational active in 20 countries, are losing customers to Reliance, a domestic firm. In America shale firms stole a march on the global oil majors. In China local dumpling brands are eating into KFC’s sales. A blend of measures for listed firms shows that multinationals’ share of global profits, 35% a decade ago, is now only 30%.
So much for the investors. What about the second constituency for multinationals, the “headquarters countries”? In the 1990s and 2000s they wanted their national champions to go global in order to become bigger and brainier. A study by McKinsey, a consultancy, based on 2007 data, outlined the sort of benefits they were after. Multinationals operating in America, which accounted for 19% of private-sector jobs, were responsible for 25% of private wages, 25% of profits, 48% of exports and 74% of research and development. Go them.
Citizens of nowhere
The mood changed after the financial crisis. Multinational firms started to be seen as agents of inequality. They created jobs abroad, but not at home. Between 2009 and 2013, only 5%, or 400,000, of the net jobs created in America were created by multinational firms domiciled there (although preliminary figures suggest that job creation picked up sharply in 2014). The profits from their hoards of intellectual property were pocketed by a wealthy shareholder elite. Political willingness to help multinationals duly lapsed.
As a result, the tapestry of rules designed to help businesses globally is fraying. Global accounting, antitrust, money-laundering and bank-capital rules have splintered into American and European camps. Takeovers of Western firms now often come with strings attached by governments to safeguard local jobs and plants. Two American-led trade deals, known as TPP and TTIP, that gave protection to intellectual property, have flopped. The global tribunals that multinationals use to bypass national courts have come under attack.
The deep roots of globalisation mean that trying to favour domestic companies by erecting tariffs no longer works as once it did. Over half of all exports, measured by value, cross a border at least twice before reaching the end-customer, so such tariffs hurt all alike. This does not mean that the inept or ignorant will not try them. But it does encourage the use of other avenues to try and right perceived wrongs, such as the tax system and good old political muscle.
A typical multinational has over 500 legal entities, some based in tax havens. Using American figures, it pays a tax rate of about 10% on its foreign profits. The European Union (EU) is trying to raise that figure. It has cracked down on Luxembourg, which offered generous deals to multinationals that parked profits there; it also hit Apple with a $15bn penalty for breaching state-aid rules by booking profits in Ireland, with which it had a bespoke tax deal. America, for its part, has barred big firms from using legal “inversions” to shift their tax base abroad, most notably in the case of Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company that is America’s third-largest foreign earner.
Republicans in Congress are debating changes to the tax code which would see exporters and firms bringing profits home pay less than before, while firms shifting production abroad would face levies. Meanwhile, some firms have apparently been browbeaten into outsourcing decisions about where to base factories by Donald Trump, the new American president. On January 3rd Ford, a carmaker, agreed to cancel a new plant in Mexico and invest more at home. Mr Trump also wants Apple to shift more of its supply chain home.
If these trends continue global firms’ tax and wage bills will rise, squeezing profits further. If American multinationals shifted a quarter of their foreign jobs home, at American wage rates, and paid the same tax rate abroad as they did at home, their profits would fall by another 12%. This excludes the cost of building the new plants in America.
Of all those involved in the spread of global businesses, the “host countries” that receive investment by multinationals remain the most enthusiastic. The example of China, where by 2010 30% of industrial output and 50% of exports were produced by the subsidiaries or joint-ventures of multinational firms, is still attractive.
Argentina’s government wants to draw in foreign firms. Mexico has just sold stakes in its oilfields to foreign firms, including ExxonMobil and Total. India has a campaign called “make in India” to attract multinational supply chains. An index through which the OECD seeks to gauge the openness of host countries shows no overall deterioration since the financial crisis.
But there are gathering clouds. China has been turning the screws on foreign firms in a push for “indigenous innovation”. Bosses say that more products have to be sourced locally and intellectual property often ends up handed over to local partners. Strategic industries, including the internet, are out of bounds to foreign investment. Many fear that China’s approach will be mimicked around the developing world, forcing multinational firms to invest more locally and create more jobs—a mirror image of the pressures placed on them at home.
The price of hospitality
Host countries may also become less welcoming as activity shifts towards intangible services. For the top 50 American multinationals, 65% of foreign profits now come from industries reliant on intellectual property, such as technology, drug patents and finance. A decade ago it was 35%, and the share is still rising. (It is much lower in Europe and Japan, which do not have big technology firms.) There is no serious appetite among multinationals to recreate in Africa or India the manufacturing centres they spurred on in China, which removes a reason for those host countries to welcome them. The jobs and exports that can be attributed to multinationals are already a diminishing part of the story. In 2000 every billion dollars of the stock of worldwide foreign investment represented 7,000 jobs and $600m of annual exports. Today $1bn supports 3,000 jobs and $300m of exports.
Silicon Valley’s latest stars are already controversial abroad. In 2016 Uber sold its Chinese operations to a local rival after a brutal battle. In December India’s two digital champions, Ola, a ride-hailing firm, and Flipkart, an e-commerce site, said the government should protect them against Uber and Amazon. They argued that their rivals would build monopolies, create few good jobs and ship the profits to America.
The last time the multinational company was in trouble was in the aftermath of the Depression. Between 1930 and 1970 their stock of investment abroad fell by about a third relative to global GDP; it did not recover until 1991. Some firms “hopped” across tariffs by building new factories within protectionist countries. Many restructured, ceding autonomy to their foreign subsidiaries to try to give them a local character. Others decided to break themselves up.
Today multinationals need to rethink their competitive advantage again. Some of the old arguments for going global are obsolete—in part because of the more general successes of globalisation. Most multinationals do not act as internal markets for trade. Only a third of their output is now bought by affiliates in the same group. External supply chains do the rest. Multinational firms no longer have a lock on the most promising ideas about management or innovation. Where they have enforceable patents over valuable brands they are still at an advantage, as they are in products, such as jet engines, where economies of scale are best created by spreading costs over the entire world. But those benefits are less than they were.
The lack of advantage is revealed in the amount of activity that yields little value. Roughly 50% of the stock of foreign direct investment makes an ROE of less than 10% (40% of the stock if you exclude natural-resources firms). Ford and General Motors make 80% or more of their profits in North America, suggesting their foreign returns are abysmal.
Many industries that tried to globalise seem to work best when national or regional. For some, the penny has dropped. Retailers such as Britain’s Tesco and France’s Casino have abandoned many of their foreign adventures. America’s telecoms giants, AT&T and Verizon, have put away their passports. Financial firms are focusing on their “core” markets. LafargeHolcim, a cement maker, plans to sell, or has sold, businesses in India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam. Even successful global firms have gone on diets. P&G’s foreign sales have dropped by almost a third since 2012 as it has closed or sold weak businesses.
It looks as if, in the future, the global business scene will have three elements. A smaller top tier of multinational firms will burrow deeper into the economies of their hosts, helping to assuage nationalistic concerns. General Electric is localising its production, supply chains and management. Emerson, a conglomerate that has over 100 factories outside America, sources about 80% of its production in the region where it is sold. Some foreign firms will invest more deeply in American-based production in order to avoid tariffs, if Mr Trump imposes them, much as Japanese car firms did in the 1980s. This is doable if you are large. Siemens, a German industrial giant, employs 50,000 in America and has 60 factories there. But midsized industrial firms will struggle to muster the resources to invest more deeply in all their markets.
Politicians will increasingly insist that companies buying foreign firms promise to preserve their national character, including jobs, R&D activity and tax payments. SoftBank, a Japanese firm that bought ARM, a British chip company, in 2016, agreed to such commitments. So has Sinochem, a Chinese chemicals firm that is buying Syngenta, a Swiss rival. The boom in foreign takeovers by Chinese firms, meanwhile, may fizzle out or explode. Many such deals, reliant on subsidised loans from state banks, probably make little financial sense.
The second element will be a brittle layer of global digital and intellectual-property multinationals: technology firms, such as Google and Netflix; drugs companies; and companies that use franchising deals with local firms as a cheap way to maintain a global footprint and the market advantage that brings. The hotel industry, with its large branding firms such as Hilton and Intercontinental, is a prime example of the tactic. McDonald’s is shifting to a franchising model in Asia. These intangible multinationals will grow fast. But because they create few direct jobs, often involve oligopolies and do not benefit from the protection of global trade rules, which for the most part only look after physical goods, they will be vulnerable to nationalist backlashes.
The seeds of something more
The final element will be perhaps the most interesting: a rising cohort of small firms using e-commerce to buy and sell on a global scale. Up to 10% of America’s 30m or so small firms already do this to some extent. PayPal, a digital payments firm, says its cross border transactions, which include activity from such multinationalettes, are running at $80bn a year, and growing fast. Jack Ma, the boss of Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce firm, predicts that a wave of small Western firms exporting goods to Chinese consumers will go some way to reversing the past two decades of massive American firms importing goods from China.
The new, prudent age of the multinational will have costs. Countries that have grown used to global firms throwing cash around may find that competition abates and prices rise. Investors, who all told have a third or more of their equity portfolios tied up in multinational firms, could face some unpleasant turbulence. Economies that rely on income from foreign investments, or capital inflows from new ones, will suffer. The collapse in profits from British multinationals is the reason why Britain’s balance of payments looks bad. Of the 15 countries with current-account deficits of over 2.5% of GDP in 2015, 11 relied on fresh multinational investment to finance at least a third of the gap.
The result will be a more fragmented and parochial kind of capitalism, and quite possibly a less efficient one—but also, perhaps, one with wider public support. And the infatuation with global companies will come to be seen as a passing episode in business history, rather than its end.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline "The retreat of the global company"
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Nokia Lumia 930 owners will be happy to know that Microsoft has finally identified the root cause of an annoying issue with their smartphones that would make this particular model exhibit purple discoloration.
The issue has been affecting Lumia 930 units since launch, but Microsoft has started to work on a fix recently. The information has been confirmed by Microsoft through Nokia Care, so those being affected by this color calibration problem need not worry, as someone is looking into the problem right now.
Unfortunately, there’s no telling when this display issue will be addressed by Microsoft, though we expect it to be fixed via firmware update.
According to Microsoft, only a limited number of Lumia 930 units are exhibiting purple discolorations, which is due to the performance of the display in certain brightness conditions. This means that the issue may only manifest in certain conditions, not necessarily all the time.
Nevertheless, Microsoft has announced that “we've identified the root cause & are currently working on a software update that will deliver improvements.” Hopefully, this will happen sooner rather than later.
We will keep an eye out for any additional details on the matter, so stay tuned for more info on Nokia Lumia 930 purple discoloration issue.
@ikbenpatrick 3/3 we've identified the root cause & are currently working on a software update that will deliver improvements. ^HS— Nokia Care (@NokiaHelps) August 12, 2014


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Despite sluggish PC shipment growth worldwide, China’s top PC vendor, Lenovo Group Ltd (聯想), continued to pick up steam in the third quarter, overtaking US giant Dell Inc to become the world’s No. 2 PC vendor, market researchers IDC and Gartner Inc said yesterday.
“Lenovo has now outpaced the market by more than 10 percent for the past nine quarters, and by 20 percent or more in six of these periods. The results moved Lenovo ahead of Dell in the third quarter after trailing by a small margin in the second quarter,” IDC said in a statement.
Lenovo experienced strong gains across all regions as it continued its channel expansion and capitalized on disarray among the other top players, it said.
The No. 1 player, Hewlett-Packard Co, is considering a spinoff of its PC division, while Acer Inc (宏碁), the No. 4 vendor, is undergoing a restructuring.
Lenovo’s partnership with NEC Corp and the acquisition of Medion AG added incremental volumes and provided new access to the Japanese and west European markets, IDC said.
Lenovo this year formed a joint venture with NEC, a deal in which the Japanese PC maker received US$175 million in Lenovo shares.
In July, Lenovo acquired German PC maker Medion, for which it said it would pay up to 465 million euros (US$637.5 million) in cash and stock, partly via a public offer.
“Lenovo has surpassed two competitors to capture the No. 2 spot in worldwide PCs in just two quarters,” Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing (楊元慶) said yesterday in a statement.
“This is the highest ranking Lenovo has achieved in worldwide PC sales and, given the current competitive environment, positions the company as a strong challenger to ultimately become the global market leader,” he said.
Acer continued to struggle with inventory clearing and adjusting its strategies following declines in netbook sales and its management shake-up.
Acer’s total shipments were down 20.6 percent from a year ago — its fourth consecutive quarterly decline, according to IDC.
In contrast, its Taiwanese rival, Asustek Computer Inc (華碩), had a strong quarter, posting growth of more than 30 percent.
“Strong gains in the Asia-Pacific, along with improvements in EMEA [Europe, the Middle East and Africa], helped Asustek overtake Toshiba Corp for No. 5 spot in worldwide shipments,” IDC said.
Asustek encountered difficulties adjusting to the decline in netbook PC shipments, but shipments of mainstream notebooks fared well, especially in emerging markets, it said.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 91.8 million units in the third quarter, up 3.2 percent from the third quarter of last year, Gartner said.
IDC estimated that shipment grew by a slightly higher 3.6 percent to 91.88 million units.


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The government’s plan to reopen the resort island of Phuket as a model to welcome back foreign visitors has hit a snag after the country last week saw the first case of local Covid-19 infection in more than three months.
Yuthasak Supasorn, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said the launch of the so-called “Phuket model” scheduled for next month as part of efforts to revive the local economy, is likely to be pushed back.
He said TAT officials are visiting Phuket this long weekend to discuss disease control measures with business operators, adding the proposed model to bring back foreign tourists may have to be adjusted if the country faces a second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Under the Phuket model, floated by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, about 200 visitors from Australia and New Zealand will be allowed in. However, they must first test negative for the virus in their country of origin and stay in quarantine for 14 days at designated places in Phuket.
The visitors can travel throughout the province if they test negative for Covid-19. But if they want to visit other provinces, they will have to stay in quarantine in their respective provinces for another seven days.
Mr Yuthasak also said domestic travel during the four-day weekend was less than robust with hotel occupancy recorded at 30% and estimated spending at around 8.8 billion baht. However, he said tourism activities have picked up since July.
As a result, the TAT plans to increase offers under the government’s Rao Tiew Duay Kan (We Travel Together) campaign to spur long-distance travel and generate income for local businesses, he said.
Under the campaign, the government subsidises five million nights of hotel accommodation at 40% of normal room rates, with the subsidy limited to 3,000 baht per night for up to five nights per person. Tourists will be responsible for the other 60% of lodging cost.
Read the full article at Bangkok Post: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1980435/phuket-reopening-delayed


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CAIRO – January 10, 2022: The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) revealed on Monday that the monthly inflation rate fell by 0.2% in December 2021 compared to the previous month, while the annual inflation rate increased by 0.5%.
In a report, CAPMAS said Egypt’s monthly inflation rate stood at 117.8 points in December, down 0.2% from the previous month of November.
CAPMAS attributed the decline in inflation to a drop in vegetable prices of 8.2 percent, while fish and seafood fell 1.4 percent and meat fell sharply by 1.2 percent.
The prices of electricity, gas and other fuels fell 1.4%, while the prices of cereals and bread rose 0.9% and fruits by 0.9%.
The report also saw an increase in the annual inflation rate to 6.5% in December 2021 compared to the same month a year earlier. He attributed the rise to price increases for food and beverages of 9.7%, shelter, electricity, gas and fuel of 4.8%.


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Can GM Beat Google to a Driverless Future?
GM is in some ways, fighting for its life. The largest car company in the US recognizes that driverless cars are an existential threat to the industry as we know it. It is a very real possibility that cars cease being a consumer purchase, or that they are bought in far fewer numbers and instead become an on-demand service in the future. Google has already built their own cars and is testing them on pubic roads. But GM is about to roll out a self-driving Cadillac. Can GM beat Google to market with the first self-driving car? (video by Adam Wolffbrandt, Ryo Ikegami) (Source: Bloomberg)
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Stayed up way too late last night reading all 148 pages of Blockbuster's latest annual report, which was submitted yesterday to the Securities and Exchange Commission and is full of dire warnings that, look, bankruptcy may be inevitable no matter what CEO Jim Keyes says. It's a pretty gritty read -- perhaps the most honest accounting yet of what's really going on at 1201 Elm Street as Keyes and the board try to keep the company afloat and 48,000 people employed despite quarter after quarter of plunging revenues, shuttered stores and stock prices inching toward oblivion.
Matter of fact, that's one significant item of interest contained within the report: On Page 33, Blockbuster warns that "we may not be able to remain in compliance with the New York Stock Exchange's continued listing criteria." The reason: The stock has been trading well below the one-dollar mark for months, and in November, says the report, the NYSE sent Blockbuster a warning that its Class A common stock didn't satisfy its listing standard. And if it doesn't get the price up by the time of the shareholders' meeting in Dallas on May 26, that could be that: "If we fail to cure this deficiency, the Exchange could begin the delisting process."
But the report provides little evidence that a turnaround is in sight.
Movie rental inventory shrunk 17 percent in 2009 ("to preserve liquidity during our refinancing"); advertising, likewise "limited by the ongoing focus on our cash conservation strategy," has been limited to in-store marketing for tent-pole releases; and more cuts are on the way. The company plans to eliminate 500 to 545 more stores in 2010 (273 were shuttered in the first two month of 2010 alone), and, says the report, "We are currently reviewing many of our store leases and evaluating certain sites to close or downsize based on store profitability."
Yet even if Blockbuster can get the stores under control and rebrand itself as a digital delivery service or kiosk-content provider, it may be too late: "In these areas we face substantial competition from companies that have significant technical, marketing, distribution and other resources, as well as established hardware, software, and digital suppliers." And NCR, which hopes to have 10,000 Blockbuster Express kiosks up and running by the middle of the year, isn't obligated to do so: It "may elect to discontinue doing so at any time." (Update: NCR clarifies: "The goal has always been 10,000 by the end of the year," not the middle, as the report says.)
The document offers myriad reasons for the downturn in business -- everything from Amazon to Walmart to Netflix to Redbox to piracy to the unpredictability of weather to the fact people just like to buy movies these days because, well, DVDs are just so damned cheap now. "We believe that the increased consumer purchases of movies have been due in part to consumer interest in building DVD libraries of classic movies and personal favorites," says the report.
There are but four paragraphs, on Pages 43 and 44, that attempt to put a brave face on the future. And, even then, the optimism is tempered with the stark reality that all is most definitely not well:
"In 2010, our goal is to preserve liquidity and optimize our capital structure while we continue the transformation to a multi-channel platform. Over the next 12 to 18 months, we expect to continue facing the challenges of the macroeconomic environment, increased industry competition and fragmentation, and balancing the decline of a single channel with the ascension of emerging channels, such as vending and digital. As we look at our plans for 2010, stores remain a key component of our multi-channel offering. Our current 2010 plan contemplates a domestic same-store sales decline in the range of mid-single digits to high single digits. Factors contemplated in our current 2010 plan that we expect to mitigate these challenges are modification of our domestic stores movie rental terms and pricing, implementation of studio windows, industry factors such as Hollywood/Movie Gallery store closures, better execution of our rental games offering, a balanced slate of movie releases and merchandising improvements including Blockbuster Premieres. However, there can be no assurance regarding these matters given the current state of the global economy and aggressive new competition, both of which have negatively impacted our ability to accurately forecast our results of operations and cash position, and which may result in deterioration of our revenues beyond what we anticipate. Further deterioration would negatively impact our anticipated revenues, profitability and cash flows from operations. The expectation to achieve planned financial results is subject to a number of assumptions, many of which are outside our control, such as the state of the global economy, competitive pressures, and no significant contraction in our trade terms."


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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (WDVM) — The Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration has relocated its Silver Spring branch office to help give customers in Montgomery County a better experience.
They have officially moved from the Glenmont office to the Kemp Mill office, on Lamberton Drive in Silver Spring. The new facility offers more space for social distancing and it now offers opportunities for customers to take their learner’s permit, which is something that was not offered before the move.
The space also features plexiglass dividers at every workstation, floor markers, and other COVID-19 safety precautions.
“We are very excited for all of our Montgomery County customers to take advantage of these new services, and enjoy the spacious facility,” said MDOT MVA Administrator Chrissy Nizer.
Marylanders are encouraged to use the First Stop Tool on the MDOT MVA website to find out if they are eligible to renew their driver’s license online and take advantage of a number of other services available from the comfort and safety of home.


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Elonroad (electricity on road) is a Swedish company that builds electric roads, where vehicles are charged directly from the road, resulting in lower requirements for battery size and charging frequency. Warp News met CEO Karin Ebbinghaus at the Expo 2020 world fair in Dubai.
The energy is transferred to the vehicle from a charging rail in the road via an extending receiver under the vehicle. Only short segments of the rail are energized, so the energized part is always covered by the vehicle itself. In front of and behind the vehicle, the power is off, which makes it safe even in an urban environment with many road users. The concept works both when the vehicle is driving and when it is stationary.
Elonroad has received SEK 83 million ($9.5 million) in support from the Swedish Transport Agency for the Evolution Road project in Scania.
What's the smart part of the solution, compared to just batteries?
"On the one hand, you will have to carry quite large heavy batteries. Today, 50 percent of the cost of an electric vehicle comes from the battery, if you can reduce it the vehicles will be cheaper. Plus you can use the same amount of raw material for more vehicles. The costs to build Fast chargers and batteries are significantly higher than expanding a charging infrastructure that is in the road where you charge while driving," says Karin Ebbinghaus.
Only major roads will be rebuilt, where batteries will be charged, leaving them fully charged for use on minor roads.
"It will take time to build roads, but closed systems such as ports or terminals face the problem that they need to electrify now. But today's infrastructure will cause problems, charging the vehicles will take too long. In that case, they will need to swap batteries and have more vehicles. It's a faff, in those cases our solution may be better. "
What is your vision?
"We see that we could be an enabler just as fiber and broadband have been for digitization. You can't have good content if you do not have a good connection. You can not electrify if you do not have a good charge," says Karin Ebbinghaus.


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New entrants in UK banking
The first new high street bank in the UK in over a century opened its doors today. Metro Bank is targeting highly populated areas that already have a number of rival bank branches. Its branches will be larger than traditional bank branches. Metro is hoping to capture around 3 per cent of retail deposits made in London. It believes the added convenience it plans to offer will attract city workers. Richard Stovin-Bradford analyses the new entrant.


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Spotlight Sports Group, a leader in sports tech, media and content, has announced a new deal with UK-based operator Sky Betting and Gaming. The agreement stipulates that the supplier will manage and develop a Cheltenham Festival racing content center for the gambling company.
The two companies have been working together for many years. This agreement is a follow-up to the successful Cheltenham Festival content hub, which was produced by the provider for Sky Betting and Gaming in 2022.
The hub’s popularity has led to many improvements and an expansion of content sections. The 2023 content hub will include a live odds mechanic, add-to-betslip, social sharing features, and access to customer CMS.
This deal will enable Sky Betting and Gaming stand out from the rest of its competitors ahead of the Cheltenham Festival. This hub will channel horse racing enthusiasts to the operator’s platform, maximising profits at one of the most important annual racing events.
SSG Said Sky Racing And Gaming Are “Brilliant To Work With”
Andrew Mook is Sky Betting and Gaming’s Head of Marketing Strategy & Planning. He commented on the SSG agreement. His company is well-versed in the effectiveness of such content hubs. Sky Betting and Gaming are delighted to welcome Spotlight Sports Group and to benefit from its technical knowledge to maximize the opportunity at the Cheltenham Festival.
Mook stated that this agreement will also allow Sky Betting and Gaming stand out from their competition.
Daniel Smith is the head of UK and Ireland B2B Sales at SSG. He also echoed Mook’s words, saying that his staff is happy to continue working alongside the operator. Smith expressed appreciation for Sky Betting’s “brilliant” team and stated that he can’t wait to see their content strategy come to life.
As we launch the Cheltenham Festival hub, we are thrilled to work with one of the most respected brands in the sector. After learning from last year, we are excited to show this year’s modified and amended hub.
SSG, Daniel Smith, Head of UK and Ireland B2B Sales, SSG
Smith said that the new Cheltenham Festival Hub will be the best yet.
SSG is well-known for its content hubs. The content hubs were created by, a sports specialist, to engage sports enthusiasts in multiple markets.
The company is improving its products and moving forward. SSG launched upgrades to its Superfeed engine, and SaaS line in January.


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Technically Incorrect: A Russian woman is taking a selfie while holding a 9mm gun, according to a news story. It doesn't quite go to plan, but she survives.
August's new Connect Bluetooth-to-Wi-Fi bridge gives the August Smart Lock remote access capabilities and easier interaction with other connected household devices.
We haven't seen a flawless smart lock yet, but the August Smart Lock comes closer than any of its competitors thanks to its ease of use and overall polish.
Video shows Catalin Alexandru Duru setting a Guinness World Record for longest hoverboard flight by traveling almost a thousand feet.
The software maker is struggling to make sure its online stores are clean, well-lighted places for apps, even as it readies the update to its Windows operating system.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims PayPal signed up consumers to its credit service, PayPal Credit, without their permission.
We've laid out every Marvel movie and tv show in chronological order for you to watch -- or just to impress people.
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Prices of materials used in the door and window industry went in several directions in May
According to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), prices of materials used in the door and window industry went in several directions in May.
Prices of materials used in the door and window industry went in several directions in May, according to Producer Price Index (PPI) data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The monthly PPI for flat glass in the commodity category edged down 0.2% to 132.9 in May after going unchanged in April. Those prices were up 0.6% from a year ago, signaling that prices continue to level out over the 12-month span.
The index for flat glass manufacturing in the industry classification stands at 103.9, indicating a 0.1% price increase for the month and a 1.4% increase from May 2016. This also shows a flattening of prices compared to previous year-over-year changes earlier in 2017 and in 2016.
The cost of thermoplastic resins and plastic materials rose 3.1% since April, and are up 11.3% from last year. Prices for thermosetting resins and plastic materials fell 0.4% since April, but are up 4.1% since 2016. Fiberglass plastic product prices fell 0.5% since last month.
Prices for wood window units were unchanged from April and are up 2% since May 2016. Prices for wood doors for interior and exterior applications rose 0.3% during the past month. They’re up 4.5% since last years. Metal windows rose 0.1% from April’s reading, and metal doors and frames were up 0.2%.
The cost of builders’ hardware, which includes hardware used in doors and windows, increased 1.4% from April, and up 2.7% for the year.
The prices of softwood lumber and OSB increased by 2.2% and 3.3%, respectively, in May.


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Furniture wholesaler Elements International expands footprint in Mesquite
Furniture wholesaler Elements International is expanding its office and warehouse to add a mattress manufacturing facility and upholstery line.
Once the facility is fully operational, the Mesquite-based company plans to add an additional 100 to 120 new jobs, according to the city. The expansion is scheduled for completion later this year.
Elements will add 175,000 square feet of space, including 6,000 square feet of office space and a private showroom for customers.
The company moved to Mesquite in 2018 and brought about 125 jobs to its original 480,000-square-foot facility at the IDI Logistics Skyline Trade Center.
“Creating jobs in the community brings people who will spend their money in Mesquite,” City Manager Cliff Keheley said in a written statement. “They will shop, eat and live here. This is difficult to measure but we do know that one job created for a business will create additional jobs throughout the city in order to support that person.”
Products from the company’s Mesquite headquarters are distributed to retailers nationwide, including At Home, Walmart, Target, Canales, Rooms To Go and Wayfair, according to the city’s website.


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Teaser of the model that FF will present at CES 2017.
Much and bad they are talking about Faraday’s Future these past few months. Even now, it finally seems that they are going to present their first model (exactly the same as a year ago) the amount of negative information that we receive from the company far exceeds the exaggerated advocacy that are making the model, with practically one or two teasers per week since about a month ago it.
recent reports seem to indicate that the situation of the company is deteriorating instead of improving, and just this morning we despertábamos with the news that your debts are beginning to see the light, and has already accumulated two claims of providers in the u.s. courts.
on the one hand, the manufacturer of components and seats Futuris has claimed in court debts by a value that exceeds $ 10 million, while a company called Beim Maple Properties claims little more than $ 100,000 in respect of the rental of a warehouse.
One of the teasers which seems to show that we will not see the final model at CES.
According to these companies, the response of Faraday to the Future at all times has been the to be waiting for the money to arrive from China. Money that what we see is not finished there yet, like the deposits that should make the construction company responsible for the construction of its factory, work stopped for weeks.
The symptoms on the ailing financial status of the company are already too many to be able to expect something positive in the next presentation in the CES 2017 Las Vegas. Where unfortunately we hope to meet again a concept, in place of the vehicle production definite that the company has promised twice already.
Every day that passes, a new news from Faraday’s Future seems to surprise us more than the previous. News that come from the environment of the company, or from anonymous sources of the same, while the firm is limited to throw more and more teasers of their “splendid model,” which ultimately is able to beat a Tesla or a Ferrari in a drag race -according to one of their recent teasers, which we have not yet published because not have revealed the video to the full – without that there is a single answer or explanation to such controversy board.
Since October we only have teasers of the model, but zero statements.
One of the last explosive statements of former employees of the firm has to do with the project twin of Faraday in China, LeEco. Employees that because of what we have been able to know, have left the company in herd, since they are multiple casualties suffered these past few months.
These have been revealed to american media Faraday operates basically as a mere branch of LeEco, although this is not proof that it is developing nothing, since we now know that the prototype presented last spring, was the work actually of Faraday, and what is worse, the range of functionalities of driving autonomous, showed in his presentation were false.
According to BuzzFeed News, sources close to Faraday Future revealed that the model was an “urgent work” that arrived from China in December of 2015, applying a prototype that you can show in your presentation in the spring. So in a few months, the employees of Faraday, who already have an arduous task ahead to be able to launch its electric model, had charge of the creation of that prototype, that in the spring of 2016 was announced as the first functional prototype of the new chinese company LeEco. The LeSee, an electrical model and autonomous, but in reality was operated in secret from racks with a remote control.
Jia Yueting proud next to the course autonomous vehicle developed in China.
be certain these statements, the scenario we would draw is very disheartening, and unfortunately they have all the paints to be so, since no one until now had been understood as able to invest in two similar projects in two different continents under two new different brands to make two different products but share a common technology that is not available and therefore needs to be developed for both models. It was just spent twice the money on the same thing.
in Addition, the same sources claim that Faraday has not received any type of payment for those services. LeEco commissioned the manufacturing of the fake autonomous car, the LeSee, in record time and, therefore, delaying even more the own projects of Faraday, but this has not seen any type of remuneration. Quite the contrary, it seems that from China has not reached the capital expected at all times.
The responsible of the Treasury of the state of Nevada, the main detractors of the project from its inception, have already qualified to the company of simple thymus. Faraday’s Future has been the beneficiary of tax credits by an amount of 335 million dollars, which were granted without knowing the state of the finances of the company and what is worse, against the opinion of the Department of the Treasury of the state, which has been requested, no response yet, the usual business plan of the brand.


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Seoul, South Korea, 15th March, 2023, Chainwire
Wemade Co., Ltd (KOSDAQ:112040), one of the largest publicly-listed gaming companies in South Korea with a market capitalization of US$1.4 billion, has introduced a strategic partnership with Space and Time (SxT), a frontrunner in decentralized information warehousing. The partnership will permit Wemade to power its blockchain and gaming providers with Space and Time’s decentralized suite of developer tools.
Today, Wemade services more than 20 different play-to-earn (P2E) games across all genres, together with MIR M and the world’s no. 1 blockchain recreation MIR4, on its world open blockchain gaming platform WEMIX PLAY. This is a half of the mega-ecosystem that its blockchain developer subsidiary, WEMIX is constructing which encompasses its personal mainnet, WEMIX 3.zero; an in depth range of companies like NFTs and DeFi; and WEMIX coin – the bridge that connects all the components of the mega-ecosystem. WEMIX has also announced plans to launch an Ethereum layer-2 utilizing zero information proof (ZKP) protocols that may enhance scalability whereas still ensuring users’ privateness and security. Space and Time and Wemade are planning to intently collaborate in the future with next-generation decentralized infrastructure for extra sturdy and scalable GameFi improvement.
“We consider that blockchain is the future of gaming, providing players larger ownership and management over their digital assets,” stated WEMIX CEO Shane Kim. “As the blockchain transformation of conventional video games continues to grow, the partnership with Space and Time will help strengthen our blockchain infrastructure capabilities and contribute to our dedication to building an inter-game economic system.”
Space and Time packages a full suite of developer tools in a single decentralized deployment. The platform offers builders with real-time, tamperproof indexed blockchain information, a hybrid transactional and analytic (HTAP) knowledge warehouse, and a serverless API gateway for simplified constructing of absolutely decentralized functions and sooner dApp time-to-market.
Queries run within the Space and Time data warehouse are verifiably tamperproof. Space and Time’s novel cryptography, Proof of SQL, permits sensible contracts to run tamperproof queries directly, opening up a wealth of powerful use circumstances constructed on blockchain technology and a completely decentralized stack.
Game developers building on Space and Time can be a part of real-time blockchain knowledge with off-chain game-generated data in a single query and join the outcomes back to good contracts on-chain. Space and Time will enable Wemade to facilitate more complicated earning schemes for its P2E video games, run tamperproof analytics in opposition to game activity, and cut back on-chain storage prices by connecting a scalable decentralized knowledge warehouse to the blockchain-based platform.
“We’re thrilled to companion with one of many largest and most respected gaming companies in the world,” mentioned Nate Holiday, CEO and Co-Founder of Space and Time. “Space and Time is committed to advancing the blockchain gaming business with essential next-generation infrastructure and developer instruments. This partnership is a huge step forward for the Web3 gaming trade. Together, Wemade and Space and Time are constructing a new blockchain gaming ecosystem to onboard the following wave of recreation developers.”
Wemade is understood for its blockbuster title The Legend of Mir 2, which is among the most successful RPG titles in the historical past of Chinese gaming. Within years of its 2002 launch in China, The Legend of Mir 2 dominated the Chinese gaming market with a 64% market share.
In addition to its Web3 GameFi initiatives, the Wemade platform also helps DEXs, NFT marketplaces, and extra on its L1 mainnet. Wemade remains committed to actively expanding its blockchain ecosystem past GameFi. By partnering with Space and Time, Wemade will provide safer and decentralized services to developers building GameFi, DeFi, and other Web3 purposes.
Wemade is a pioneering game developer from Korea, with a spotlight that shifts in direction of metaverse and blockchain (NFT, DeFi) know-how, emphasizing customized gaming experiences. Wemade strives to remodel on an everyday basis video games with blockchain know-how and set up its WEMIX coin as a key forex in the gaming trade. Wemade aims to turn into a mega-ecosystem by launching its own mainnet, WEMIX 3.zero, introducing its personal forex, $WEMIX, and offering a variety of companies and platforms that embrace DeFi and NFT, etc.
For more information, go to: https://www.wemade.com/
For media inquiries, please contact: Kevin Foo, Head of PR, [email protected]
WEMIX Pte. Ltd aims to accelerate the mass adoption of blockchain know-how by building an experience-based, platform-driven, and service-oriented mega-ecosystem to supply a wide spectrum of intuitive, handy, and easy-to-use Web3 companies. Headquartered in Singapore, WEMIX is a subsidiary of Wemade, the developer and proprietor of “The Legend of Mir” IP, a extremely profitable sport sequence with over 500 million customers.
About Space and Time
Space and Time is the first Web3-native decentralized information warehouse that joins tamperproof on-chain and off-chain data to deliver enterprise use cases to sensible contracts. Space and Time has developed a novel cryptography called Proof of SQL™ that allows builders to connect analytics directly to good contracts, opening up a wealth of highly effective new use circumstances and enterprise logic on blockchain know-how. Space and Time is built from the bottom up as a multichain data platform for Web3 developers in financial providers, gaming, DeFi, or any project requiring next-gen analytics.
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The average hourly rate for female workers at Majestic is 5.5% higher than their males
Women at Majestic Wines are paid more than their male colleagues, according to gender pay data.
The average hourly rate for female workers at Majestic is 5.5 per cent higher than their male counterparts, with female retail workers paid 2.3 per cent more on average.
According to data from the Office for National Statistics, on average women are paid 18.4 per cent less than men across the UK.
Women make up 31 per cent of Majestic’s 1,438 workforce.
Tthe company said its ‘data is the opposite of the UK average primarily because we employ a larger number of men in our warehouse and delivery roles, reflecting the more manual job types’.


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Hyundai Grand I10
05 Sep 2020
In an attempt to increase their sales, certain Hyundai dealerships are offering eye-catching offers on select models like the Grand i10, AURA, Santro, and Elite i20.
19 Aug 2020
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24 Jul 2020
Maruti Suzuki has upgraded the Zeta variant of its Ignis hatchback in India. It now comes with a SmartPlay Studio infotainment console, which was earlier exclusive to the top-tier Alpha model.
11 Apr 2020
Hyundai Motor India is expected to launch the BS6-ready diesel version of the GRAND i10 NIOS in the country, once the COVID-19 pandemic situation comes under control.
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Hyundai Grand i10 NIOS Turbo, the performance-oriented hatchback which debuted at the recently-concluded Auto Expo, is all set to be launched in India.
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Expanding its four-wheelers line-up, Hyundai has launched the Grand i10 NIOS in India.
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South Korean automaker Hyundai is all set to launch the second-generation Grand i10 in India on August 20.


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Bitcoin consilates and altcoins falls slowly
After last week’s report, we saw Bitcoin sharpen up from $ 6200 and up to $ 8200! Bitcoin has since consolidated downwards and is currently priced at $ 7090. The Altcoin market, on the other hand, has been hit harder. Even with Bitcoin’s upturn, altcoins were not ready to follow. This has led to the fact that most did not join Bitcoin on the bullrun, but also fell with Bitcoin on the downturn from $ 8200 to $ 7090. The big-mentioned ETF launch is something many believe may be the reason.
Here is an overview of the most important news the last week, with interesting reading material!
Winklevoss twins Bitcoin ETF rejected by SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected a new attempt by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, to list the first cryptographic ETF on a regulated exchange. Read more about it here.
Owner of NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) partner with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based cryptoplatform
Consumers, sellers and institutional customers will be able to “seamlessly” use the platform. Find out more about it and what it’s called here.
Starbucks partner with Microsoft on payment platform with crypto currency
Soon you can trade frappuccino on all Starbucks, with bitcoin! Read more here.
Sony patent on crypto mining
Japan’s technology giant Sony wishes to patent two hardware devices with the approach for hosting and maintenance of blockchains. Read more about it here.
New cryptoexchange set goals for European regulatory approval
A new crypto exchange has launched targets to comply with local legal requirements in Europe. If approved by the Financial Markets Authority, the stock exchange, named Blocktrade.com, will comply with Europe’s recently implemented MiFID II framework. Read more about it and what benefits it provides here.
Forbes: How blockchain surrounds our economy
Forbes has published an article written by Sherman Lee who deals with the internet, economy, centralization and decentralization, and privacy. Read the article here.
The most common crypto frauds, and how to avoid them
The growth of blockchains and cryptos has been undeniably exciting. Technical innovation and the fast trading paradigm continue to attract large volumes, but this also includes a number of bad actors. Learn how to protect yourself here.
India shows signs that they will legalize cryptocurrency as a means of payment
According to a legal report released in July 2018, the country estimates legislators to legalize multi-million industry sports betting in India – with crypto currency as legally acceptable means of payment. Something that may indicate that India is going to accede to cryptocurrencies in the future. Read more about it here.
Funny news related to cryptocurrency;
Kim Kardashian raised her bet in Charity Poker Night with bitcoin.
Bitcoin has already died about 100 times.
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Dennis Publishing, Shortlist Media and IBTMedia are now on the programme that takes place on the 23-25 May. They along with Centaur Media, Hearst, The Economist, Immediate Media and Time Inc. UK will welcome delegates into their companies and allow them to deep-dive into their most exciting projects that they are currently working on.
If you would like to know the details of how a £10m business growing at circa 15 per cent per annum, then come along with us to Centaur Media and see how this is being achieved with their Homebuilding and Renovating brand.
Hearst’s Digital Spy is a hugely popular and definitive entertainment news website. Their Editor-in-Chief will show and tell how a re-boot is ensuring that the brand continues to thrive in an increasingly social media eco-system.
In addition to Digital Spy, Hearst is opening up the doors of the Good Housekeeping Institute and they will explain how the “Tried and Tested” philosophy of Good Housekeeping has become a bricks and mortar publishing sensation and a multifaceted business model.
The Economist is using dynamically-created and contextually-served video to take subscriptions marketing to the next level. Hear how they are doing it…
FIPP will also be introducing delegates to start-up companies in London who have technologies that can help media companies monetise their content, such as Openr. Openr is a new social-sharing tool that lets you add relevant promotional messages onto all the content that you share – making that content sharing get the action that you and your advertisers want – whether it’s traffic, email subscriptions or purchases.
Details about the other companies will be released in the coming weeks.
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NTT DoCoMo’s Galaxy S4 (SC-04E) to receive Android 4.3 from mid-December
Android 4.3 will be heading out to NTT DoCoMo’s Galaxy S4 (SC-04E) in Japan from mid-December. The carrier hasn’t officially confirmed the schedule, but an announcement about the Galaxy Gear mentions that the smartwatch will be compatible with the Galaxy S4 when it launches in five new colors in the country in mid-December, which is a good indication of when we can expect the update to start rolling out.
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Soybean, wheat export sales hit marketing year lows
U.S. soybean export sales have hit a marketing year low for two consecutive weeks. The USDA says soybean sales during the week ending November 12th fell 6% from the previous week at 1.4 million tons and while China did buy most of the total, overall demand has slowed as prices have shot higher and South American planting has moved forward. Wheat was also a marketing year low, dropping 36% on the week, with the USDA continuing to project record global ending stocks. Beef notched a marketing year high thanks to solid purchases by South Korea, Mexico, and Japan, but pork fell 32% from the week before, not seeing sustained week to week demand from China. Corn exports were higher than the prior week, but sharply lower than the four-week average also following a recent rally and with a cancellation by unknown destinations. The USDA’s next set of supply and demand estimates is out December 10th.
Physical shipments of sorghum and soybeans were more than what’s needed to meet USDA projections for the current marketing year. The 2020/21 marketing year started June 1st for wheat, August 1st for cotton and rice, September 1st for beans, corn, and sorghum, and October 1st for soybean products.
Wheat came out at 192,400 tons (7.1 million bushels), down 36% from the week ending November 5th and 62% lower than the four-week average. China purchased 125,000 tons and Mexico bought 28,700 tons. Closing in on the halfway point of the 2020/21 marketing year, wheat sales are 633.8 million bushels, compared to 573.7 million in 2019/20.
Corn was reported at 1,088,600 tons (42.9 million bushels, 11% more than the previous week, but 43% less than the four-week average. Mexico picked up 244,300 tons and Japan purchased 203,400 tons, while unknown destinations canceled on 162,000 tons. Almost a quarter into the marketing year, corn sales are 1.388 billion bushels, compared to 522.1 million this time last year.
Sorghum exports were 117,900 tons. China bought 131,200 tons and Eritrea picked up 30,600 tons, but unknown destinations canceled on 30,000 tons and Japan canceled on 13,900 tons. For the marketing year to date, sorghum sales are 155.0 million bushels, compared to 32.2 million a year ago.
Rice exports were 56,300 tons, a jump of 77% from the week before, but a decline of 7% from the four-week average. Mexico purchased 40,400 tons and Haiti bought 6,200 tons. Rice sales are 1,318,500 tons, compared to 1,766,200 last year.
Soybeans were pegged at 1,387,700 tons (51.0 million bushels), 6% under the prior week and 18% below the four-week average. China picked up 1,060,800 tons and Mexico purchased 155,900 tons, but unknown destinations canceled on 436,600 tons. So far, this marketing year, soybean sales are 1.885 billion bushels, compared to 867.0 million a year ago.
Soybean meal came out at 182,100 tons. Mexico bought 63,100 tons and Venezuela picked up 33,700 tons, while unknown destinations canceled on 55,000 tons. Roughly a month and a half into the marketing year, soybean meal sales are 4,799,200 tons, compared to 4,709,700 last year.
Soybean oil was reported at 45,100 tons. South Korea purchased 25,500 tons and the Dominican Republic bought 19,400 tons. Cumulative soybean oil sales are 361,100 tons, compared to 306,700 a year ago.
Upland cotton was pegged at 131,400 bales, a decrease of 45% on the week and 40% from the four-week average. Vietnam picked up 64,000 bales and Pakistan purchased 33,100 bales, while China canceled on 24,200 bales. 2020/21 upland cotton exports are 9,233,400 bales, compared to 10,121,400 in 2019/20.
Net beef sales totaled 46,400 tons, big increases from both the previous week and the four-week average. The reported buyers were South Korea (17,300 tons), Mexico (10,600 tons), Japan (7,000 tons), South Korea (3,200 tons), and Taiwan (2,500 tons). Shipments of 22,300 tons were also a marketing year high, gaining 58% from the week before and 27% from the four-week average, mainly to South Korea (6,200 tons), Japan (5,900 tons), Mexico (2,600 tons), China (2,200 tons), and Hong Kong (1,700 tons). Sales of 14,100 tons for 2021 delivery were primarily to South Korea (8,500 tons), Japan (2,900 tons), and Hong Kong (900 tons).
Net pork sales totaled 28,900 tons, a drop of 32% from the prior week and 18% from the four-week average. The listed purchasers were Mexico (8,700 tons), Canada (5,100 tons), South Korea (5,000 tons), Japan (3,900 tons), and China (2,100 tons), with a cancellation by Vietnam (100 tons). Shipments of 38,800 tons were 2% higher on the week and 4% above the four-week average, mostly to China (13,100 tons), Mexico (12,000 tons), Japan (4,900 tons), South Korea (2,200 tons), and Canada (1,800 tons). Sales of 2,300 tons for 2021 delivery were mainly to China (900 tons), South Korea (700 tons), and the Philippines (200 tons).


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Steve Jobs likes to poke bears. The Apple (AAPL) chief executive officer has ribbed the likes of IBM (IBM), Google (GOOG), Adobe (ADBE), and Microsoft (MSFT). In many cases, he rips into these companies even while Apple depends on them as partners. Adobe and Microsoft, in particular, have long provided valuable software for Apple’s operating system. No matter. They’re still subject to abuse from the man in the black turtleneck.
His latest whipping boy: Samsung, a rival to Apple in the consumer electronics business. During the iPad 2 unveiling on Mar. 2, Jobs roasted Samsung, making fun of one of its executives who tried to defend sales of the Galaxy Tab, the company’s answer to Apple’s first tablet computer. He also gave Samsung top billing in a chart proclaiming 2011 the “Year of the Copycats.”
Chest-thumping and rhetoric are standard fare in the tech industry. Still, the digs stand out because Samsung is not Apple’s typical frenemy. The South Korean giant makes some of the most important components Apple buys, including memory chips and displays. Crucially, Samsung makes the brains inside Apple’s smartphones and tablets: To date, it has been the lone supplier of Apple’s A4 chip, and semiconductor experts say it is most likely the supplier of the as-yet-unreleased A5 as well.
The product gurus responsible for coming up with Samsung’s hit gadgets have so far been unable to make better use of their own high-end parts than the conglomerate’s famous customer in Cupertino. That leaves Samsung executives little choice but to envy Apple’s profits, accept its cash, and endure Jobs’s withering abuse. “It’s definitely a tough situation for Samsung to be in,” says Wayne Lam, a senior analyst at iSuppli, a technology research firm.
Shoppers know Samsung for consumer products ranging from cell phones and TVs to dishwashers and microwaves. The company is also one of the world’s largest makers of technology components. Its chip group rivals Intel (INTC) in size. Samsung accounts for about 40 percent of the type of flash memory that goes into smartphones and tablets, making it the largest supplier. The same division manufactures the highly complex microprocessors at the heart of computer devices sold by Samsung and others.
Apple and Samsung refuse to discuss their relationship, let alone reveal exactly which iPad and iPhone components come from Samsung factories. In his speeches, Jobs enthuses that Apple’s engineers invented the efficient, speedy processor powering the current versions of the iPad and iPhone, known as the A4 chip, as well as its successor, the A5 chip that runs in the iPad 2.
While Apple oversaw how the chip was put together, it relied on Samsung to design most of the circuitry, according to experts who have analyzed detailed photos of the A4’s structure. Samsung appears to have crafted the main brain of the chip—its core—and many of the surrounding parts that shuttle information around and handle low-level software tasks. The end product is one that resembles Samsung’s own chips. “The bottom line is that there weren’t many marked differences we could see,” says Don Scansen, a partner at IP Research Group and one of the chip experts who analyzed the A4. The new iPad containing the A5 is scheduled for release on Mar. 11, and analysts expect Apple to continue relying on Samsung’s smarts for it.
Apple has done far more with these chip smarts than Samsung’s own product teams. In January 2010, Apple unveiled its A4-equipped iPad; Samsung waited two months before debuting a smartphone—the Galaxy S—based on the same underlying chip technology. With the new iPad 2, which features a faster dual-core processor, Apple is expected to once again rely heavily on Samsung’s chip technology. But the South Korean company isn’t using those designs in its own tablets yet. In fact, Samsung’s answer to the iPad 2—the Galaxy Tab 10.1—will use a chip from Nvidia. “It does seem like Apple is getting the good stuff first,” says Linley Gwennap, a chip analyst and founder of the Linley Group. “But it’s probably as much to do with Apple executing better in developing and delivering their products to market.”
Willy Shih, a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert in chip design and manufacturing, points out that Samsung is a massive conglomerate that has to balance the needs of various parts of its businesses. The division that produces chips for Apple and other customers must keep these companies’ product plans secret from the parts of Samsung that build consumer products. “If you want to supply memory or chips, there is a sort of separation that happens in the industry,” Shih says. “Those games are played in a particular way, and Samsung will treat those manufacturing operations as distinct from its own operations.” In other words, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 engineers might have had no better an idea of what was in the iPad 2 than the oohing, aahing crowds at Jobs’ keynote on Mar. 2.
Jobs has touted the benefits of tightly integrating chips and software, which helps Apple build devices that use power and memory more efficiently. Close watchers of the semiconductor industry expect that Apple’s designs will diverge more from Samsung’s in years to come. Apple recently has purchased two chip companies, including last year’s acquisition of Intrinsity, effectively creating a large, in-house group of chip whizzes. “With each generation, Apple is putting more and more of their own resources into” chip design, says Gwennap.
Samsung has come to depend on Apple’s orders to keep its factories full, says Lam of iSuppli. Company executives could be concerned that Apple might find a second supplier, perhaps Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), to make its chips. “There are a lot of rumors around that,” says Harvard’s Shih. Yet Apple has come to rely on Samsung for on-time arrival of the most crucial components in its phones and tablets.
Unless Apple decides to diversify its chip supply soon, Samsung’s best option may be to keep on grinning, bearing the abuse, and cashing the checks from Cupertino. “It’s just going to be one of those complex relationships,” Gwennap says. “It’s a very 21st century kind of thing.”


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TripAdvisor will fully realign its business-to-business division to encapsulate both the hospitality and tourism sectors, it was announced on Friday.
According to The Caterer, TripAdvisor claims that since the introduction of their ‘business to owner’ service back in 2010, their focus has been predominantly on working with hospitality business owners to leverage its success.
Five years on, they believe their goals and objectives have been fulfilled and are looking to refocus on including all hospitality and tourism partners.
They suggest that in doing so they will be able to offer further products and tools to support the entire hospitality and tourism industry.
TripAdvisor has pledged to continue offering its full online services to hospitality businesses through its Management Centre which is available to all organisations registered on TripAdvisor.
Alongside this, it will also remain dedicated to revenue support as well as Express Review and Content Syndication solutions.
Despite TripAdvisor’s justification for the move, there is a growing demand from hoteliers and Revenue Managers to gain more direct bookings from their own websites.
An abundance of tech start-ups have been quick to jump on this opportunity and have developed tools to support hoteliers in achieving their goals.
One example of this is Triptease. Established in 2013, Triptease has developed a number of digital tools to back hotels in reducing the power of OTAs, essentially strengthening the relationship between the hotel and the guest.
In addition to this, with content marketing becoming ever more critical, many hoteliers have turned to bloggers with large online audiences for reviews, driving traffic to their websites and creating the reviews they need.
Parallel to this, hotels have been using their own efforts and online agencies to craft content to bolster their search engine results, redirecting traffic to their own sites.
With alternatives on the up, there are only two questions left to answer; what new products and services are in the pipeline for TripAdvisor as they try to move forwards in the hospitality and tourism sector?
And how will these changes impact industry practitioners?
As the news unravels in the coming months, you can be sure we’ll keep you up to speed with the latest changes.


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The L&G UK Alpha Trust has won Money Observer's Best UK Growth Fund award two years running, and returned 27.7 per cent in the past year.
Fund manager Richard Penny reveals which shares he is buying, holding and selling.
Buy: Trinity Exploration (TRIN)
When mining exploration company Bayfield Resources got into trouble and needed refinancing, venture capitalist Bruce Dingwall stepped in and Trinity Exploration was born. Dingwall has had previous success in the field, having run Venture Production, a North Sea-based oil company he went on to sell to Centrica for around £1.3 billion.
Bayfield, says Penny, had good assets but poor management, and was short of cash; its share price plummeted. In a reverse takeover, institutional investors gave the business $90 million (£58 million) and new shares were issued to Dingwall.
Penny has been buying into the Trinidad-based oil company since the second quarter of the year. He likes the fact that it does ‘low-risk drilling’, which should see current production increase from 4,000 to 5,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of the year. Moreover, Trinity Exploration now has around $102 million in cash and just $21 million of debt, so is looking much more healthy. And Trinidad remains the biggest oil and gas producing country in the Caribbean.
Currently trading at around 110p, the share price could easily reach 170p to 180p says Penny, and if riskier projects are taken into account it could reach 240p.
Hold: eServe Global (ESG)
Listed on the Alternative Investment Market (Aim), eServe makes software for so-called mobile wallets. These, explains Penny, are virtual wallets that allow people to access their funds via their mobiles, to make secure payments on a number of websites. The idea is being introduced as an alternative to using credit or debit cards online, and Penny says it’s being increasingly embraced as smartphones become more prevalent.
While that part of the business is growing, it is the other arm of the business that excites Penny even more. eServe owns 50 per cent of a company called Home Sent. This is another mobile payment service, but it focuses on those looking to send international payments. Four major mobile providers, including Vodafone, have signed up already and Penny is confident that revenues should soon start to build.
The reason eServe came to be involved in the business is because it owned the patent for a roaming mobile payment system, which is needed to operate the transactions.
‘It is a bit more speculative than some companies, but that is where the returns are,’ says Penny. He adds that eServe has been ‘quite good’ in the couple of years he has owned it: the share price has increased from around 16p to almost 27p and he expects Home Sent to continue to drive that growth.
Sell: Iomart (IOM)
Penny is not completely selling out of his position in cloud computing company Iomart, but he is taking profits from his holding. ‘It’s a good business and I do think it will grow further from here, but I’m not sure when,’ he explains, pointing out that the shares he initially bought at 45p in 2007 have grown more than sixfold to 290p.
Iomart operates data centres, so it’s another tech play, a sector Penny says he has done well with historically. A data centre is basically a large array of networked computers that store data, known as servers. For some businesses that use a lot of data, it is easier for them to pay a company such as Iomart to host and maintain these services, rather than take on the expense of building and looking after their own system.
‘With more and more devices connecting to the internet and more web pages being created, we need more storage all the time. Everything that is being sent and loaded and used is getting bigger, and there needs to be somewhere to store that data,’ explains Penny. He still rates Iomart as a good business but says the upside in the share price is now limited.


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Gaming Company Releases Limited Edition Colorways for Lightweight Gaming Mouse
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., Oct. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cooler Master, a global leader in designing and manufacturing innovative gaming peripherals and computer components, has announced a series of new, limited edition colorways for the MM711 RGB ultra-lightweight gaming mouse.
These new colors include:
Blue Steel – a stunning metallic blue color scheme, available now at MicroCenter.
Wilderness – an eye-catching metallic forest green colorway, available on October 15, 2020 on Amazon.
One of Cooler Master’s most innovative gaming mice to date, the MM711 weighs approximately 53g thanks to a durable, perforated honeycomb shell. It is among the lightest pro-grade gaming mice on the market today. In conjunction with a lightweight ultra-weave cable for virtually no drag, PTFE feet for effortless glide, and top-of-the-line pro-grade internals, the MM711 allows for longer gaming sessions and quicker response time with minimal fatigue and reduced wrist strain. These newest color variants add vibrant personality to an already unique gaming mouse – providing aesthetic options that appeals to all users.
“We introduced the idea of different MM711 colors back in CES 2020,” says Bryant Nguyen, Peripheral General Manager. “Both Blue Steel and Wilderness were by far the most popular options.”
Cooler Master expects to release more colorways in the future.
“We always look to our fans for guidance and feedback,” says Nguyen. “If the community wants the MM711 in another striking color, we are all ears.”
The Blue Steel edition of the MM711 is available now at MicroCenter for $59.99, and the Wilderness edition will be available on October 15, 2020 on Amazon for $69.99. For more information, contact Jamy Reyes at firstname.lastname@example.org or visit https://www.coolermaster.com/.
About Cooler Master:
Cooler Master is a global leader in designing and manufacturing innovative gaming peripherals and computer components. With a 25-year track record, Cooler Master is driven by passion for the things that make building a PC a rewarding experience and sustained by a vision that can reinvent the way machines are designed, made, and used to make the ultimate gaming experience. From its landmark release of the first ever aluminum PC case to the groundbreaking switch of the modular format, Cooler Master is committed to bringing customers and fans the utmost in choice and control. For more information on Cooler Master, please visit www.coolermaster.com or follow us http://www.facebook.com/coolermaster.
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6 Tanium Features And Partnerships Unveiled At Converge 2020
From quantifying endpoint risk to debuting a cloud-hosted platform to forging partnerships with some of the most prestigious IT vendors in the world, here’s a look at six interesting things coming out of Tanium Converge 2020.
6. Friendlier User Interface
Feedback from Tanium customers and partners indicated that many struggled with the company’s user interface and had to routinely lean on their technical account managers, Hallenbeck said. Tanium has therefore sought to simplify the user experience by making relevant information more accessible, according to Hallenbeck.
As a result, Hallenbeck said Tanium has simplified deployments and put more information upfront about how the Tanium platform is operating, the current health of the organization’s IT ecosystem, and what action a user should take next to ensuring their systems are working as expected. That’s a dramatic change from the old user interface, which he said needed lots of steps and clicking to make things work.
From initial deployment and updates to general feeding, care and administration, Hallenbeck said the new user interface requires many fewer clicks to get to a variety of different key functions.


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Shigeru Miyamoto confirms that Pikmin 4 is in development
Nintendo Download: Smash Bros Wii U, Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Watch Dogs, more
GTA5, Far Cry 4, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and many many more added to PS Store
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Rumor: Evolution Studios working on PS4 racing game
What is Evolution Studios up to? The MotorStorm developer’s last game was the PSN-friendly MotorStorm RC, and it was released almost a year ago. According to a report on STFU and Play, the answer is that Evolution is working on an unannounced racing game for the PlayStation 4/Orbis.
According to their tipster, Evolution has been busy ramping up production on the next-generation game thanks to an influx of talent from two recently shuttered studios: Bizarre Creations and Sony Liverpool. This includes Ged Talbot, the Lead Designer on Bizarre’s final game, Blur.
Evolution’s PS4 game is supposed to be similar in style to Project Gotham Racing and was said to be originally linked to the Gran Turismo series (similar to last year’s Forza Horizon). However, Sony Japan put the kibosh on that and now the title will stand on its own.
STFU and Play closed by saying the game would be formally announced during Sony’s “See the Future” event on February 20, so it’ll likely be a launch game for the PS4.
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