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The 3D printing technology trend may be in the early stages of industrial application despite its earlier boom-and-busted hype cycle. Leading polymer 3D printing solutions provider Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) has rejected three offers from Nano Dimension Ltd. (NASDAQ: NMDN). Stratasys felt the unsolicited offer prices needed to be higher and doubted the validity of the offers. This is a case of David trying to acquire Goliath, as Stratasys does 10 times more revenues than Nano Dimension. The rejection of the unsolicited offers has depressed shares of Stratasys and competitor 3D Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: DDD). However, Nano Dimension remains committed to a takeover of Stratasys, hostile or not.
Nano Dimension specializes in developing and producing additive manufacturing systems — 3D printing systems using deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) to drive improvements. Its essential product is its DragonFly Lights-Out Digital Manufacturing system (LDM), a 3D printer focused on creating multilayered printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electronic components. The company has over 2,000 clients and expected quarter one 2023 revenues of $14.6 million. Stratasys had a Q4 2022 GAAP loss of $2.4 million on $159.3 million in revenues, down 4.6% year-over-year (YoY). Unfavorable FX headwinds and economic conditions caused printer sales to fall (5.6%) YoY causing gross margins to tumble to 55.3%. Stratasys divested its desktop 3D printer subsidiary MakerBot in a merger with Ultimaker. Stratasys will own a 46.5% stake in the combined companies.
On March 10, 2023, Nano Dimension approached Stratasys with an $18 per share ($1.1 billion) all-cash offer. The offer was rejected by Stratasys, citing that the price severely undervalues the company. Nano Dimension raised its takeover offer to $19.55 on March 29, 2023, acquiring the remaining shares it doesn't own for $1.2 billion. Stratasys again rejected the offer. Nano Dimension returned with a "best and final offer" of $20.05 per share on April 5, 2023, which was rejected two weeks later.
Tender Offer Coming
Nano Dimension announced it was committed to acquiring Stratasys and preparing a special $18 per share tender offer to acquire at least 51% of Stratasys' outstanding shares, inclusive of the 14.5% of shares it already owns. the company was still willing to negotiate in good faith for a $20.05 per share transaction, but rejection will force Nano Dimension's hand to move forward with the $18 per share tender offer to shareholders. On April 13, 2023, the board of Stratasys rejected the final offer as it “substantially undervalues” the company.
Nano Dimension vs. Murchinson Ltd.
Stratasys also doubts Nano Dimension has the authority to follow through with the takeover proposal, as it is embroiled in a fight with its largest shareholder institutional asset management firm, Murchinson Ltd. Murchinson seeks to replace four board of director seats and oust the current CEO Yoav Stern. The CEO is at the center of the value destruction of its shares, and "that risk is worth accepting due to the urgency of the situation and the possibility of more value destruction under his continued guidance." They argue that the company trades at a 40% discount on its cash per share.
Analysts Chime in
Stifel analyst Noelle Dilts believes the $20.05 still undervalues shares of Stratasys. She points out that the $20.05 per share offer reflects 1.69 times of revenue compared to peer 3D Systems, already trading at 2.3 times consensus 2023 EV/revenue. Stifel has a "buy" rating on SSYS with an $18.50 price target. Find Stratasys analyst ratings and price targets on MarketBeat.
Weekly Ascending Triangle
The weekly candlestick chart on SSYS illustrates an ascending triangle formed after making a bottom at $11.04 in December 2022. The stock triggered the weekly market structure low (MSL) buy trigger on the breakout through $13.54. Shares made consecutive higher lows to break the flat top resistance trendline at $16.55. The rejection of the $20.05 offer from Nano Dimensions has caused shares to soften but remain in the ascending triangle if it can stay above the rising lower trendline of higher lows. The weekly 50-period moving average (MA) coincides with the rising trendline at $15.70. The weekly stochastic has peaked at the 80-band. Pullback support levels are $14.53, $13.54 weekly MSL trigger, $12.88 and $12.45.


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H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE:HNZ) is best known for their ketchup – a market dominated by the company. In an attempt to further expand into the condiments market, the company will be rolling out advertisements starting today to effectively “break up” with French’s, the leader in mustard.
Heinz is aiming to better serve their customers by pairing ketchup and mustard together under the company name.
While Heinz already sells mustard, it is often only available in bulk packages sold at large venues for baseball games or restaurants. The company wants to have Heinz mustard on grocery store shelves all throughout the United States.
Currently, French’s dominates the mustard market, accounting for 60 percent of the U.S. market. Heinz, on the other hand, has accounted for just 1 percent of the market during the last 52-week period.
The company has incorporated a new mustard formula and will be introducing squeeze bottles for the brand’s new mustard push.
Interestingly, Heinz and Kraft will be merging in a deal involving 3G and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A), owned by Warren Buffet. Kraft owns Grey Poupon, the second-biggest seller of mustard. When the brands are combined, Heinz and Kraft may have enough market presence to push French’s mustard down in terms of market share.

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Danny Bamping, the entrepreneur behind the Bedlam Cube puzzle has won the first British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) Entrepreneur of the Industry Award.
Bamping was chosen by a panel of senior UK promotional marketing industry leaders and was chosen on the strength of his innovative business concept, natural entrepreneurial flair and his vision for developing this and other products to drive the business forward.
The Bedlam Cube has been called “the next Rubik’s Cube” and in two years has achieved sales of £1m. It launched at Hamleys in 2004 and is now sold through Argos, Debenhams, John Lewis, WH Smith and Tesco. Bamping has made The Bedlam Cube a success in the retail toy, corporate gift and promotional merchandise markets.
The Entrepreneur of the Industry Award has been created and launched by (BPMA) and is a nationwide search for an entrepreneur demonstrating initiative, innovative concepts and a proactive business approach which has proven successful in the promotions and incentives industry.


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The last three years have been a busy time for the owners of the Bootleggin’ Tavern, a new restaurant in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. 2019 had brought the best year of sales at their downtown restaurant, Bootleggin’ BBQ. The restaurant was on pace to outperform its record year in 2020 when the pandemic hit, halting the flow of out-of-town visitors to the convention center and also cutting them off from many of the regular lunch and happy hour crowds many of the surrounding offices had provided. “There were a lot of, ‘Ok, what do we do now?’ moments,” Brenton Brown, founder of the Bootleggin’ restaurant group, recalls. “Luckily we were small enough that we could just pivot and go to the next thing.”
At first, the team began making frozen pizzas with leftover barbecue as a waste-reduction strategy, which led to pizza pop-ups at Second Shift Brewery, where they eventually took over the kitchen as Bootleggin’ Third Gear. Simultaneously, rehab work commenced on what is now Bootleggin’ Bob’s Dive Bar on Morgan Ford Road. Less than a year later, they began construction on the Bootleggin’ Tavern at the corner of Taylor and Chouteau Avenue in The Grove. With this new space, the Bootleggin’ brand is returning to its roots as a barbecue-centric neighborhood hang-out.
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Brown’s passion for barbecue goes all the way back to his Kansas City upbringing. His first career, what Brown refers to as his “corporate job,” led him to Chicago where he missed the style of barbecue he had grown up with. He began cooking for friends and family, and soon began catering as a side hustle. The corporate job eventually led him to St. Louis, and his side hustle slowly turned into a main gig in 2014, when he took over the kitchen at The Pour House with business partner Eddie Belter. The next year, they took over the entire downtown space as Bootleggin’ BBQ. “We started as more barbecue-centric and evolved over time to be more tavern-centric, like adding the smashburgers and nachos and disco fries,” Brown says.
The new Tavern menu will contain all of the favorites from the downtown menu alongside a selection of salads that can double as wraps – ideal for a quick meal on the go. Every salad and wrap is crafted using housemade dressings, and guests have the option to add smoked chicken or portabella mushrooms. But the standout menu item, of course, is the barbecue – Kansas City-style and a centerpiece of the concept – done with a finesse that’s steps beyond average but approachable and unfussy.
For example, the smoked chicken wings, winner of the “Lord of the Wings” virtual cookoff, are the product of a multi-step cooking process that yields a flawless chicken wing – flavorful and juicy, with a crispy skin. To accomplish this, chefs rub and smoke the wings ahead of time and deep-fry to order, then finish the dish with a toss in your choice of dry rub or sauce. I tried the Bang sauce, a cross between the BBQ and traditional “Wang” sauces, which hit the perfect balance of sweet, tangy, spicy and savory, made only better with a plunge into a creamy buttermilk ranch.
The food, however, is only half the draw at the Tavern. The beverage program, under the direction of Chelsea Vanhouton, is anchored by a concise, crowd-pleasing cocktail menu and a diverse tap selection. Alongside Yeungling and Brick River Cider, you’ll find Hotel Lobby, the result of Bootleggin’s long-running collaboration with Alpha Brewing Company. It’s a subtle and refreshing hard seltzer, with a wink to the party after the after-party.
Open seven days a week, Bootleggin’ Tavern aims to be a welcoming hangout for both locals and visitors with its close proximity to many St. Louis attractions and businesses. However, Brown’s goal extends beyond just good food and drinks. “We want everybody to feel welcome and feel seen.” At its core, Bootleggin’ Tavern shows that in St. Louis, an otherwise unassuming sports bar can have excellent food, thoughtful drinks and community-focused values.
Bootleggin’ Tavern is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Bootleggin’ Tavern, 4501 Chouteau Ave., Forest Park Southeast, St. Louis, Missouri, 314-405-2020, bootlegginbbq.com


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Leawood, Hy-Vee meet to discuss store's future
Grocery store at 122nd Street, State Line Road set to shut down June 1
Leawood's city leaders discussed the future of a popular Hy-Vee store during a meeting on Monday.
The store, which has been open at 122nd Street and State Line Road for the past 25 years, is set to close on June 1. Hy-Vee had sought tax incentives to do renovations to the store, but couldn't reach a deal with Leawood leaders.
Hy-Vee also flirted with the idea of opening a new store on 135th Street, but Leawood said it wasn't approving additional zoning permits there at the moment.
"We expected all along for them to come back (with a new proposal), said Leawood Mayor Peggy Dunn. "And the fact that they did not, and until now, said they really want to focus on 135th and Roe makes me wonder if maybe they knew pretty quickly that they had an issue with that 122nd and State Line site."
Many of the store's loyal customers have been vocal about finding a way to keep it open.
"That's why we pushed so hard to try to ask them to reconsider and be creative," Dunn said.
Hy-Vee said part of the problem is with the layout of the site, including a parking lot that the store said is too small for its needs.
A big crowd interested in the store's future attended Monday's meeting.
Some Leawood residents said they don't want the chain to get any special tax considerations, but Leawood resident Julie Fountain said she doesn't want the city to lose ground to its neighbors.
"We just really want to encourage Leawood to get our stance right on these (Community Improvement Districts), however they figure it out and then decide who gets one and who doesn't," said Fountain. "None of us want to pay extra sales tax, but if that's how the business is going forward and that's how Overland Park is growing by leaps and bounds, then we have to be competitive."


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‘Legal innovation’ is no longer an oxymoron. The staid, precedent bound, legal guild is slowly morphing into something different. The contours of the new legal order are still being shaped and the dominant players have yet to emerge. Even confirmed industry Luddites concede the legal profession/industry is changing. Many lawyers, to borrow from T.S. Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, are “no longer at ease in the old dispensation.” That’s the good news for those in need of legal services and existing legal buyers.
But “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” With all the buzz about innovation—articles, conferences, awards, legal tech, new providers—law has yet to overcome its biggest challenges: (1) the access to justice crisis; and (2) widespread dissatisfaction among legal buyers. These ‘wicked problems’ are not unique to the U.S., the world’s largest legal market by spend. Nor are they new. Derek Bok, a lawyer and former Harvard University President famously quipped in the early ‘80’s that ''There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.”
Fast forward thirty-five years and Bok’s commentary is still spot on. Why? One reason is that what passes for ‘legal innovation’—alternative fee arrangements (AFA’s), budgets, and various forms of labor arbitrage—is neither innovative or designed to solve law’s biggest challenges. These measures are palliatives intended to mollify disgruntled clients, not solutions to law’s big challenges. Instead of the legal industry’s fixation with ‘innovation,’ why not focus on ‘improving access to and client/customer satisfaction with legal delivery?’ That lacks the sizzle of ‘innovation’ but frames the challenges that must be met.
The self-regulated U.S. legal industry has failed to distinguish between legal practice and legal delivery. This has resulted in the repeated frustration of efforts—especially in the retail segment-- to utilize technology and process to leverage legal expertise to expand and democratize access to legal services. How can ‘protecting the public’ be rationalized when approximately 80 percent of the population—including most businesses—cannot afford legal services? The profession is enamored of ‘innovation’ but resistant to change-- regulatory, technological, ownership structure--that would accelerate it.
‘Legal innovation’—from the lawyer perspective—has become a buzzword for adaptation to a changing marketplace. Law is rife with ‘innovation departments,’ ‘legal pioneers,’ and ‘visionaries.’ Why, then, do corporate law firms have such low net promoter scores? Clients, not providers, are the arbiters of what’s innovative-- they vote with their pocketbooks. Lawyer proclamations of innovation—absent consumer acknowledgment—are meaningless.
What is Innovation? It’s More Than a Catch-Phrase
'Innovation' has several meanings dependent upon context. “The introduction of something new” is the Merriam-Webster definition. In business, 'innovation' is applying ideas to satisfy the needs and expectations of customers. Innovation is the causal connection between/among idea, application, adoption, and result—satisfied customers. Innovation produces results that benefit clients.
Uber, Amazon, and Apple are three among several innovative companies that have disrupted industries during the past decade. Each has displaced dominant providers by expanding access, making purchasing easier and more transparent, providing customers more choice, reducing cost, and offering a platform for buyers and sellers to evaluate each other. These companies all have a customer-centric approach. They set out to design and implement a better experience for customers—introducing new delivery paradigms propelled by access to capital, utilization of technology and process, removal of the middle-man, reconfiguration of existing economic models, and challenging existing regulatory barriers to competition. Buying goods and services became easier, faster, and cheaper. Markets expanded, consumers were generally satisfied, and the companies prospered. How does legal ‘innovation’ stack up?
Legal Innovation is In Its Early Stages—It Should Focus on Solving Wicked Problems
There is mounting evidence of early-stage innovation in different segments of the legal ecosystem. LegalZoom (LZ) boasts nearly five million customers—including well over one million small businesses. Its net promoter score (NPS), a key business metric of customer satisfaction, is sky-high—far better than top-tier corporate firms. LZ’s efforts to improve access to legal services on a scalable technology platform and different levels of lawyer involvement have encountered resistance from the start. The company has successfully defended a legion of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) claims brought by various state Bars. The defense costs would have bankrupted most providers, but LegalZoom had institutional investment backing to withstand the regulatory assault. Like Uber, LZ has become too popular to fail at the hands of regulators.
Joshua Browder, a Stanford computer science undergraduate, has positively impacted hundreds of thousands previously denied legal access with his DoNotPay chatbot. His initial application enabled consumers to contest parking tickets. Browder next rolled out a bot that provided self-serve guidance with UK government-provided housing. The young innovator has secured funding to expand his self-help platform to immigration and other critical ‘retail’ legal service areas. Browder’s bots underscore the enormous opportunity for legal entrepreneurs to ‘do good and do well’ by providing affordable ‘just right’ legal services to millions in need of it around the globe. Resources exist—human and technological-- to reengineer legal delivery so that it’s within financial reach of tens of millions presently priced out of the market. This can be an ‘everyone wins’ for consumers, legal service professionals, and society. Corporate legal buyers, likewise, have access to new delivery models, tools, metrics, providers, and collaborative opportunities--not exclusively with lawyers—that provide ‘better, faster, cheaper, and risk mitigated’ solutions to business challenges involving legal issues.
There are signs of innovation in legal education and training, too—not all of it coming from law schools. Programs like LawWithoutWalls and UnitedLex’s Legal Residency Program align young legal professionals with the marketplace, providing marketable skills that augment ‘knowledge of the law.’ Hotshot, a legal education company, offers just-in-time high-quality videos that provide customers the 'how to' of key practice skills. Innovative law schools like Bucerius in Germany (a for-profit University), IE in Spain, and Ryerson in Canada are reengineering legal education by melding legal, business, and technological training as well as exposing students to marketplace developments. Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Suffolk, and Michigan State are among a growing number of U.S. law schools spanning bridging the gap between traditional legal education and marketplace demand for ‘T-shaped’ legal professionals.
The UK is leading the way in legal regulatory innovation. The Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA), borrowing from Australia’s earlier adoption of permitting ‘non-lawyers’ to invest in, manage, and share profits with legal entities, has recast legal education and regulation from the consumer perspective. The SRA no longer requires attendance at law school to qualify as a solicitor; competency-based and experiential training can substitute for the traditional law school path. The SRA has also welcomed entrepreneurs and other professionals to enter the legal space and deliver legal services. The SRA regulates the business of law while The Law Society oversees the professional conduct of lawyers. The practice/delivery regulatory counterpoise ensures adherence to professional standards while providing the structural freedom to deliver legal services in a customer-centric, competitive environment. This has accelerated legal cultural transformation in the UK legal market and beyond.
A handful of corporate legal departments have fomented innovation—principally because law firms have been tone-deaf and structurally challenged to satisfy elevated buyer expectations. Most large in-house departments have legal operations departments; work with procurement departments to assist in managing the buy/sell dynamic; operate more closely with the enterprise that engages them, serving as business partners as well as enterprise defenders; embrace diversity; operate from a corporate structure; are measured/rewarded by metrics that measure output—results—not input—hours billed/origination. This is how all legal professionals will operate soon.
The emergence of law companies like UnitedLex, Elevate, and Axiom is also emblematic of legal innovation and the reengineering of legal delivery. These companies leverage legal expertise with technology and process to provide cost-predictable, effective solutions for ‘non-regulated’ legal activities. Their market share, like in-house departments, is rising at the expense of law firms. More importantly, their expertise in ‘the business of law’ and its melding with practice acumen has laid the groundwork for scalable alternatives to law firms and ever-expanding in-house departments. UnitedLex’s ‘rebadging’ of hundreds of DXC and GE legal department professionals and the hundreds of millions that DXC and GE will save is an example of how legal delivery is being reengineered.
'Who has the reputation?’ was formerly a key buying criterion. That is being replaced by ‘Who Has the Expertise and Scalability?’ Innovation means many things for legal buyers: required expertise, reduced cost, compressed delivery time, price predictability, risk mitigation, data accumulation --for a myriad of reasons including prophylactic-- and having the ‘right’ resources assigned. Reputation of legal providers is no longer derived from pedigree and brand--experience, expertise, and measurable results are the new retention criteria for a growing number of legal buyers.
Innovation will occur when legal services are accessible to the many, not the few; the legal profession aligns with the broader industry and jettisons its “lawyers and ‘non-lawyers’” mindset; law’s provincialism yields to a global community intent upon solving common challenges; legal professionals are trained holistically and engage in ‘lifelong learning;’ and law’s focus is on the legal client/customer and society, not profit-per-partner. The focus of innovation should be on the prize--solving law's big problems-- not the awards.
Mark A. Cohen is the Chairman, Board of Advisors & Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate and a Distinguished Fellow at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
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Communities Point Way to Traffic Growth for Brands in '09
Social network software can boost online presence says Reality Digital.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2009 -- Offering social network software for businesses, US based digital
technology company, Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social media solutions, is urging
businesses to build, configure and manage their own, brand-safe online communities, as the most engaging and
cost-effective means of developing their traffic growth for 2009.
Robert Proctor, head of EMEA for Reality Digital, commented: "As the recession continues, companies are
increasingly looking for ways to boost website traffic in the most cost-effective way possible and creating social
media communities to enable brands to generate buzz around their brand and allow customers to interact is the
The Reality Digital Harmony platform enables SMBs to build and manage their own online communities without
the need to engage costly professional services and create social media platforms to meet increasing consumer
demand. A rapid rise in online video content means that a video platform is also top of the list for many brands.
Consumer demand for social media has grown in line with the supply of technological innovation over recent
years and businesses are beginning to realise the benefits that creating social media communities can have
financially as well as for brand extension.
Reality Digital provides a wide range of online community software including Reality Digital Opus, a
full-service social media platform for enterprises, and Reality Digital Harmony, a self-service, entry level social
media platform for small businesses and projects.
The Opus platform has all the components necessary to create a social media platform for a big brand,
incorporating features such as editing suites for user generated content and high definition video. The Harmony
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Basically, It’s a new law that protects residents of the EU, people living there, including Americans. Europeans who live in the U.S. are not protected. all companies that have an Internet presence , including large American companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook , have to comply. Personal data and the rights over that data are the subject. What is posted on social media, electronic medical records and mailing address, the IP address (a string of numbers that’s unique to the smartphone or laptop), as well as GPS location, all are personal data.
People have to give permission for a company to collect their data and not any company can just sign someone up without explicitly asking. Europeans have a right to have their data deleted if they don’t want a company to keep it. Companies have to delete the data without undue delay, or face a penalty. How the new law hurst businesses that rely on data collection is discussed right now. One opinion sustains small companies won’t be able to afford the millions of dollars in expenses that come with managing and protecting data. Generally accepted however is that GDPR may improve the quality of the Internet.


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All of this could be just a drone away – photo – Karen Anderson
I recently wrote about Corner Grocers and some other grocery shopping trends for CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon. I talked about the money Amazon is spending on research to make home delivery – by small aircraft drones – of groceries (and many other items under five pounds – which is 86% of their business) a reality. Some of you might have thought that was a little far-fetched but it turns out that strides they are making towards turning this into a reality are happening very close to home.
As this article from The Guardian describes, Amazon is testing its delivery drones in our own backyard in beautiful British Columbia. Alberta has set aside 700 nautical square miles for testing drones beyond visual capacity. According to The Guardian, Amazon believes that ultimately drones will be faster, safer and more environmentally and economically friendly.
I usually tune out when someone “drones on” but this trend has me riveted. I’ll always want to visit farmers’ markets for my fresh groceries for the love of the community that comes with that type of shopping but I’d be quite happy for my toilet paper to fly the friendly Canadian skies and be delivered to my front door. My bottom and my bottom line will both be happier with less time in the car and the big box stores.
Corner Grocer Goodies – photo – Karen Anderson
Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocer, announced this week that they will add 50 stores and spend $1.2 billion on expanding their network and distribution. Walmart echoed this push announcing $300 million in expansion. Big chains are getting bigger. That is not a story.
The stories in the grocery world right now, for me, are two trends I’ve been watching.
One is happening in a big way south of the border with Amazon dot com. They’ve been a distributor of all things since the 90s and 15,000 dry good groceries for a good part of that. Now, in their home base of Seattle and Los Angeles, if you join Amazon Fresh and pay a fee of about 200 dollars a year, you can order online from a wide variety of grocers and specialty stores for home delivery. As you long as you order by 11 p.m. – for most items – that which you desire will arrive on your doorstep by 6 a.m. the next morning. No wonder Loblaws are looking into e-commerce to broaden their distribution. They might be looking at some very empty big boxes of stores if this catches on in Canada. They’ll have to go some to catch Amazon who’ve been doing e-everything since the 90s and who just spent $750 million on their inventory robotics systems. Now that is a big story but it’s not the one I’m going to focus on.
The trend I’m going to focus on is the opposite of big. It’s small in every way. It’s the revival of the corner grocer.


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Tricked out: Pickup trucks get more luxurious
October 12, 2017
Updated: October 12, 2017 12:59pm
Photo: LM Otero, AP
In this Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, photo, fairgoers look at pickup trucks on display at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. America's favorite luxury vehicle is a pickup truck. Buyers are increasingly outfitting their pickups with all the comforts of luxury cars, from heated and cooled seats to backup cameras to panoramic glass roofs.
DETROIT (AP) — Heated and cooled seats. Backup cameras. Panoramic glass roofs.
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Ingram Micro has announced the new Ingram Micro Cover Plus – Essential, an insurance plan for smartphones underwritten by Zurich Insurance Malaysia. From as low as 49 sen a day, this plan protects your mobile device against accidental damage that standard smartphone warranties do not cover.
Intel’s RealSense camera is like installing an Xbox Kinect into a tablet; without making it too thick. We had the chance to experience what it can do at Intel’s Future Showcase in Singapore, where two versions were on display; one on a reference design tablet, and the other installed into a laptop.
Intel expects wireless charging to grow exponentially within the next few years and is currently investing heavily in the technology. A presentation made at the Intel Future Showcase held in Singapore outlined the company’s strategy for wireless charging in the near future; which includes a separate standard from the current popular Qi wireless charging technology.
— Nokia (@nokia) November 17, 2014
Nokia may have sold its devices division to Microsoft, but it is still apparently very capable of putting out new products. At least it is capable of getting some extra attention ahead of the Slush conference in Finland where the head of product business, Sebastian Nystrom, will be talking about the future of the company.
Xiaomi has officially opened its first Mi Exclusive Service Centre in Malaysia. Aptly situated in Plaza Low Yat in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the Mi Exclusive Service Centre promises to offer world-class service and support for owners of Mi smartphones and accessories. This includes a two-hour turnaround time for smartphone services and repairs, a hallmark aimed in all Xiaomi Exclusive Service Centres.
This is not a selfie phone, a senior member from HTC’s design team tells me. Yet even this exec concedes that the selfie has become a culture that has prevailed across the world – and the Desire EYE is designed primarily to capitalise on that. With a 13MP front-facing camera, what else would this be?
Heroes of the Storm is adding three (or five) new heroes to its roster. Two of which were noticeably missing from the Technical Alpha, while the other one (or three) are a reference to a classic Blizzard title that is rarely remembered. Two new Egyptian themed maps also join the game as it prepares to enter the closed beta stage.
OnePlus held its first fan gathering in the South East Asian region in Kuala Lumpur last weekend as part of the company’s efforts in setting up its presence in the Malaysian market, and shared a few interesting snippets of information to those present. Chief among them were more details on when its flagship One smartphone will be coming to the country.
Blizzard has finally revealed information about the final installment of the Starcraft II trilogy. Legacy of the Void will be available as both an expansion pack to the original game, and as a standalone game that doesn’t require an previous purchases. This allows players who don’t own the first two Starcraft II titles to jump into everything. Although it also means that they will miss the previous installments of the story.
The much awaited expansion for Hearthstone was revealed at Blizzcon over the weekend. Called Goblins Vs Gnomes, it centres on the two most mechanically adept races in Warcraft. Over 120 new cards will be released into the game, and players will be able to chose which pack they want to open with either in-game gold or real world money.
Blizzard may not have had a new IP in more than a decade, but that is all set to change with Overwatch; the developer’s first team based first person shooter. There are shades of Team Fortress 2 in the game, but this appears to be a unique enough approach to the genre that nobody is going to draw too many comparisons.
The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are now officially in Malaysia. As is the norm every year, Malaysian iPhone fans thronged in the hundreds to the various midnight launches organised by the major local telcos. This year, excited fans braved the rainy weather and long queues to be among the first official owners of the new iPhones.


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The Open Banking Expo brought together the key participants in the open banking ecosystem with financial institutions, fintechs, and regulatory bodies all under one roof at the Business Design Centre in London. The prevailing feeling was one of optimism about the potential for more frictionless data sharing to deliver fairer customer outcomes, more competition and innovation, and exciting use cases over the next few years.
Here are some of our key takeaways from the two days:
Open Banking Payments Have Taken OFf; Consumers and Merchants Love them
Open banking payments adoption keeps climbing in the UK: Just under 10 million (9.7 million) open banking payments were clocked in the UK in June 2023 – a staggering year-over-year increase of 88%.
Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) were a hot topic of discussion. VRPs have the potential to drive cost savings for customers in a convenient, flexible, and secure manner.
Consumers give permission to authorised third party providers (TPPs) to connect to their bank accounts and make payments on their behalf. VRPs are similar in principle to direct debit, but their extra value is that the amount and date of the payments can differ depending on pre-agreed parameters:
UK consumers are using open banking payments to pay their bills and top up their accounts. We heard about exciting use cases with several major banks enabling ‘pay-by-bank’, such as HSBC.
And open banking payments are increasingly spreading to merchants. Through ‘Pay-by-bank’ or ‘account-to-account’ payments, merchants can drive significant cost savings while also providing a convenient customer experience. Unlike traditional payments, open banking payments can settle directly using faster payment rails and, crucially, without intermediaries. Without card fees, this is a far less costly way for merchants to accept payments, whilst also providing their customers with an additional payments option that is easy and secure.
Open Banking Is Evolving and SPreading Across Financial Services and Beyond
The consensus among speakers was that open banking is just the tip of the iceberg – and the technology now in place that enables data sharing will unleash significant disruption across financial services. Open finance is rapidly developing as innovative firms get ahead of the regulation and take advantage of data sharing opportunities.
Open finance is the next step in the data sharing evolution. It encompasses not only transaction data from banks and payments services but across a consumer’s full financial footprint, including pensions, mortgages, investments etc. We heard about how open finance will create fairer consumer outcomes. One example of this is more accurate credit decisioning powered by more information being considered – such as transaction data - when lenders assess credit risk worthiness. This could enable greater financial inclusion by giving more individuals and small businesses that don’t meet conventional credit scoring criteria to borrow, while lenders can grow their books without taking on any more risk.
Additionally, financial institutions can take advantage of embedded finance opportunities in which they provide their licenses and infrastructure to non-licensed firms who then in turn can offer financial services products. Tom Bentley, Head of Growth at NatWest Boxed, outlined the opportunity for banks to widen their distribution through embedded finance and Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) opportunities.
We also heard about the possibilities beyond the financial services ecosystem with the future of open data. More data sharing could lead to better deals for customers on bills as we heard from leading energy and telco providers on their role in the future open data ecosystem.
There was a strong belief that the next phase of open banking and open finance is being driven by the market rather than solely relying on regulatory mandates and will take on a hybrid flavour.
UK Regulators Aren't Resting on THeir Laurels - but More COncrete Action Is Needed
The UK led the way with Open Banking regulation – and it inspired jurisdictions across the globe to follow suit with their own local-flavoured versions. The unprecedented data sharing mandate and successful Open Banking adoption is a jewel in the crown of the UK.
Yet it was debated on-stage whether the UK was losing its crown in the absence of further data sharing regulation and other countries pressing on with expanding its scope. Lord Chris Holmes dubbed Open Banking the “Great British creation…. now taken on by other jurisdictions” in his keynote address. Fast followers in Latin America have launched Open Finance initiatives, such as in Brazil and Mexico. And it appears the US and EU are closing the gap on the UK’s progress towards Open Finance regulation: the US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just proposed a rule last week that could enable open finance data sharing, breaking with its market-led approach to Open Banking for the next iteration of its open data journey, while the European Commission has proposed its draft Open Finance Act.
UK regulators are by no means inactive on the matter, with the recently formed Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC) squarely focused on developing the next phase of Open Banking, setting out its recommendations in April. And the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) - which has an objective to strengthen the UK’s position as a leading fintech hub - considers open finance as integral to future innovation. While the UK’s new data sharing laws (Smart Data), part of the wider Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, were laid before parliament in March and will aim to increase private sector data sharing.
Yet there was widespread agreement that more needs to be done to capitalise on the UK’s first-mover advantage. Financial services industry figures called for concrete regulatory timelines to work towards to spur innovation alongside market efforts.
Industry and regulatory figures were still bullish that the UK could continue to lead the way in newly forming open data ecosystems. Collaboration across the industry between banks, fintechs, and regulators was highlighted as the means to future success. In addition, building consumer and business trust were flagged as key elements of scaling future adoption.
More so, recent innovations in the UK reaffirm its position at the epicentre of innovation, including the HMRC becoming the first global government department to roll out an Open Banking-enabled solution for public good in February. And, more recently, Apple launching its digital wallet account balance feature in the UK before anywhere else, paying testament to the UK’s Open Banking prowess.
Incumbent-fintech Partnerships Key To Innovation and Becoming Less Cumbersome
One of the steel threads running through the two days was the fruitful partnerships between incumbent financial services firms and fintechs. We heard about several Open Banking use case success stories enabled by incumbent-fintech collaboration, including:
Beyond the comprehensive list of use cases, it was equally encouraging to hear both sides so effusive about collaboration with their incumbent/fintech counterparts. Prominent banks discussed how well-documented early teething issues with contrasting working styles and cultures are becoming less of a roadblock.
More seamless incumbent-fintech collaboration alongside dynamic open data ecosystems augurs future innovation for the UK’s financial services industry and better products and services for their customers.
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Source: Dissent Magazine
“The movement was the catalyst that we needed,” Juan Luis Gaytán said, standing outside the Arca Continental plant in Matamoros, a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Gaytán works at Arca Continental, the Coca Cola production and distribution plant for the region. That morning, the workers at the plant were on strike, among the thousands of workers who have gone on strike in Matamoros since the start of 2019.
The workers at Arca Continental are also among the last who remain on strike in Matamoros, where a wave of labor militancy was kicked off by the newly elected president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s December announcement that the minimum wage at the factories along the U.S.-Mexico border—known as maquiladoras, or maquilas for short—would rise from 88 pesos to 176 pesos, or $9 a day. Since maquila wages are pegged to the minimum, workers saw the president’s announcement—one of his first acts in office—as an opening to push for higher pay. Between January 9 and 24, workers in dozens of factories in Matamoros organized work stoppages. The wave of strikes became known as the 20/32 movement, after the workers’ demands: a twenty percent salary increase and a one-time bonus of 32,000 pesos, roughly $1,700.
Approximately 50,000 people in Matamoros, a city of more than 500,000 bordering Brownsville, Texas, work in maquilas, which have dominated the local economy for decades. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, their significance has only grown, supplying US-based manufacturers, especially in the automotive sector. With wages under $15 a day, Mexico-based maquilas have been a boon to US manufacturers and a bane to US workers. Of the 36 countries in the OECD, Mexican workers have the lowest average earnings. And while most maquila workers already earn more than the minimum wage, it is still a fraction of what their counterparts in U.S. factories are paid.


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Motorola’s latest offerings are the Moto G10 and Moto G30. The smartphones which were launched internationally a few weeks ago have finally come to India. The launch is set to happen on March 9. A launch page for the devices has been set up on the e-commerce website, Flipkart. Motorola also tweeted about the launch of the phones, calling them ‘AsliAllRounders’.
The complete specifications of the Moto G10 and Moto G30 have not been revealed so far. From Motorola’s teaser and the landing page on Flipkart, a few things can be inferred. Both phones have identical features with a few differences.
In terms of the aesthetic appearance of the phones, they have a water-drop style notch and a patterned back panel. In terms of display, the Moto G30 will have a 90Hz 6.5-inch Max Vision Display. The display specifications for the Moto G10 have not been revealed.
The devices run on Near Stock Android 11 out of the box. The updated and ad-free UI is expected to provide the users with a great user experience. A unique feature that these devices have is the ‘Thinkshield’ for advanced security that keeps user data safe with end-to-end protection.
For the Moto G10, the feature that is being promoted the most is its massive 6000 mAh battery. The company claims that the battery lasts for an insanely long time. For example, users can stream music for up to 190 hours, watch videos for 23 hours, browse the web for 24 hours with just a single charge. The phone can last for up to 67 hours if used normally according to the teasers posted by the company on Twitter. Nothing about the Moto G30’s battery has been revealed by the company.
The 48MP quad-camera setup of the Moto G10 has an ultra-wide-angle sensor, macro vision, and depth sensor. The Moto G30, on the other hand, has a stunning 64MP quad-camera setup.
Motorola has not disclosed the price of the devices. We will have to wait for the launch event for more details.
The phone will be sold on Flipkart. It might be a Flipkart exclusive product.
The specifications of the phones that have been unveiled so far seem pretty decent. For the complete specifications, we can only wait and watch until the launch event.
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More alleged details have emerged about the The iPhone 15 series and the next version of Apple’s smartphone operating system, iOS 17.
iOS 16 has been a buggy release, and users are still reporting a large number of problems. However, it is a big update and introduced many new features and visual changes. Earlier this month, seasoned journalist Mark Gurman said that iOS 17, codenamed Dawn, may not have many new features.
Forecaster LeaksApplePro, which has a mixed track record, says that iOS 17 will focus on stability and efficiency. Apple may also make changes to the Mail, Fitness, Wallet, Home, and Find My apps. The operating system could also include a new app for the rumored AR/VR headset.
iOS 17 code offers details about iPhone 15
Code snippets often accurately reveal information about unreleased devices and LeaksApplePro says iOS 17 code has disclosed information about line 15. According to their sources, iOS 17 will support six iPhone models with the dynamic island. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are currently the only Apple smartphone models with this cutout and today’s leak gels with rumors that all iPhone 15 models will have Dynamic Island.
The iOS 17 code also seems to confirm that the 2023 lineup will ditch the proprietary Lightning technology for a USB-C port and corroborates earlier rumors that claimed the standard models, the 6.1-inch iPhone 15 and 6.7-inch iPhone 15 Plus. inches. will support speeds comparable to the Lightning connector, and the premium models, the 6.1-inch iPhone 15 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 15 Ultra, will enjoy faster wired transfer speeds.
LeaksApplePro also says that the iPhone 15 Ultra could come with advanced image processing software. This seems to suggest that the Ultra will have better cameras than the Pro.
Although both the iPhone 15 Pro and Ultra will be powered by the 3nm A17 Bionic chip, it looks like the Ultra will have a more capable version as the leaker says “this iPhone chip will have more freedom than the iPhone 15 Pro” and the higher-end model may have a better system cooling to keep up with the chip.
This is in line with reports that Apple will create more differentiation between high-end models, and the iPhone 15 Ultra could feature a periscope camera and titanium build, plus a bigger screen and battery than the Pro. This could make it the best premium phone of 2023.
The company is expected to preview iOS 17 in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference and the stable version is likely to launch alongside the iPhone 15 in September.


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Scunthorpe, UK (PRWEB UK) 20 October 2012
Scunthorpe experienced a dramatic rise in net company growth during the first three months of the year, according to data released in the latest Duport Business Confidence Report. The company register for the area increased by 70 in the first quarter of 2012, compared to just 9 during the same period in 2011. More details on company growth can be found in the full report at http://www.duport.co.uk/scunthorpe.
In recent years, Scunthorpe has undergone a number of regeneration projects, aimed at attracting shoppers into the town centre. However, the latest development (an out-of-town shopping centre that would include Marks and Spencer and Debenhams) has been delayed due to a legal challenge by the owners of the town's The Foundry Shopping Centre, on the grounds that the development would harm town-centre trading.
Managing Director of Duport.co.uk, Peter Valaitis said:
“It seems that recent initiatives designed to stimulate the Scunthorpe economy are starting to have a positive effect. The rise in net company growth during the first half of the year is remarkable and bodes well for the second half of the year, and beyond.”
Duport Business Confidence Reports are published quarterly for every area of the UK. The report for Scunthorpe provides data on a range of economic indicators, including company formations, company closures and company naming data.
Duport Business Confidence Reports are generated and released by Duport Associates Ltd. The data contained in these reports is assimilated and analysed by Duport using public record data from sources including Companies House, Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey. Duport Associates Ltd is a leading UK company formation agent, established in 1997 and registering around 10,000 new companies each year through its Companies House approved software.


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Deyan Is World’s First To Offer Two-Star BAP Crayfish
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) is pleased to announce that China’s Deyan Aquatic Products & Food Co. Ltd. is the world’s first company eligible to offer two-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) crayfish.
Deyan earned the distinction when two of its processing plants, and two of its farms attained BAP certification in the spring, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Deyan is located in central China’s Hubei province, an area hard hit by COVID-19. Once local travel restrictions were lifted and risks were assessed, audits were conducted, and the facilities passed the audits with 100 percent compliance, as required by the BAP third-party certification program.
Founded in 1994, Deyan is one of China’s leading crayfish, also known as crawfish, and catfish producers, with about 2,000 hectares of company-owned farms, and about 200,000 metric tons of annual processing capacity. The company is also eligible to offer three-star BAP catfish. One notable development is that Deyan’s online sales in domestic market enjoyed a 415 percent increase through the e-commerce platform JD.com from January to May this year.
UK-based The Big Prawn Company is among the global companies that sources crayfish from Deyan. “Big Prawn have been supporting a number of crayfish improvement projects in China for the last five years and has more recently worked with GAA on this initiative over the last two years. We have accompanied GAA in China, carried out pre-assessments with GAA and worked with our suppliers to support certification,” said Will Rash, managing director of Big Prawn. “We are delighted that our support has helped to achieve the first certified crayfish in China with two-star BAP, and we will continue to support further certification of crayfish in China. Crayfish is an iconic ingredient, and we look forward to developing this recognition in the UK for the retail and sandwich sectors.”
BAP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive third-party aquaculture certification program, with standards encompassing environmental responsibility, social accountability, food safety, and animal health and welfare.
A division of the Global Aquaculture Alliance, Best Aquaculture Practices is an international certification program based on achievable, science-based and continuously improved performance standards for the entire aquaculture production chain – including processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills. BAP standards cover environmental responsibility, social accountability, food safety and animal welfare. The BAP program is based on independent audits that evaluate compliance with the BAP standards developed by GAA.


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EA's CEO calls pushing a subscription model in a largely free-to-play market "challenging."
Talking to CNBC at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, CEO John Riccitiello confirmed that EA is looking into "different models to bring more users into [The Old Republic]," but he stopped short of substantiating rumors that the game may be going entirely free-to-play.
"Our conclusion was we had a great product in Star Wars, but that the subscription model in the world of free-to-play was challenging," he said.
The Old Republic has already partially embraced the free-to-play model. The game recently started offering extended free trials which let aspiring Sith lords play up to level 15, a move many critics have been quick to label a grim portent of the game's impending implosion.
News that the The Old Republic has been shedding subscribers by the thousands, developer, BioWare, has been laying off staff and numerous key figures have walked away from the studio have done little to allay rumors that the game may have to go free-to-play.
Riccitiello also claimed that investors are relying too heavily on monthly NPD reports to gauge EA's performance. He pointed out that NPD's reports only track retail sales in the US and don't take into account EA's blossoming digital business.


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California officials are scaling back the state’s estimated cannabis tax revenues by $223 million through June 2020 amid slower-than-expected sales, the Long Beach Post reports. The state taxes both medical and recreational cannabis products at 15 percent but total taxes can be as high as 50 percent in some communities.
In Long Beach, city leaders cited slow cannabis sales as the reason for a projected $9 million budget gap. In the city, the overall tax on cannabis products is 33.25 percent, which includes the 15 percent state tax, an 8 percent city excise tax, and a 10.25 percent sales tax. Long Beach officials have discussed giving medical cannabis businesses a tax break and provide incentives for other businesses to reduce prices and bring in more operators.
In 2018, California raised just $345.2 million in cannabis tax revenues, which represented about half of what lawmakers originally expected. The lower-than-expected revenues are likely the result of the high taxes and the persistence of the illicit market.
California lawmakers are considering a measure that would reduce the cannabis tax rate from 15 percent to 11 percent – that bill was referred to the Appropriations Committee on May 1. A previous version of the bill passed that committee 16-1 on Aprrl 24.
In their report on the legislation, the committee said state taxes are not the only reason why legal cannabis businesses are at a disadvantage, citing local tax policies, licensing requirements, banking restrictions, and laboratory requirements.
“Absent cannabis taxes, legal businesses still would be at a significant disadvantage relative to illicit market operators,” the report says.
The committee also noted that if the tax-reduction law passes it would likely face a court challenge because, since it was a voter-approved initiative, it’s unclear whether the legislature can amend the law’s tax structure.
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Twitch for Dating
Twitch for Dating … it’s not as crazy as you think. Live streaming is so much larger than video games. As a media form, I believe it is destined to rival traditional television media. In the United States, Twitch is today the largest of these nascent live streaming networks, but in the near future, I believe the live streaming space will support different Twitch-sized opportunities for different verticals such as game shows, talent competitions, the news, and, yes, even dating.
Twitch, undoubtedly, would like to be the Twitch for Dating and the Twitch for Everything Else, just like Amazon, its owner, started in books and then added everything else. But the history of social media suggests that the Twitch for Dating will almost certainly not be Twitch itself.
The Allure of Twitch
Founded in 2011, Twitch is a live streaming video platform, which was acquired for approximately $1 billion by Amazon in 2016. With 15 million daily active users, the platform is known for attracting some of the top video game streamers in the world.
In recent years Twitch has been working to diversify its content, developing IRL or ‘in real life’ talent. However, the vast majority of viewers and broadcasters still use the platform primarily for gaming and esports.
But unlike watching a streaming show on Netflix, people don’t use Twitch solely to view or stream content. Twitch reduces loneliness. It is as much about consuming media as about human connection.
The Loneliest Generation
It is clear that, despite our hyper-connectedness, or maybe because of it, loneliness is an epidemic. In a study published earlier this year, global health service company Cigna and the market research firm Ipsos found that Generation Z is the loneliest generation–with 46% of respondents reporting sometimes or always feeling lonely.
Loneliness has been shown to contribute to various ailments from diabetes and heart disease to depression and substance abuse. “People hunger to be known authentically,” according to Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, “and far too many people feel invisible right now, and that is that the crux of our loneliness epidemic.”
While we often hear about famous Twitch streamers earning millions of dollars, most streamers on Twitch and other live streaming platforms will never earn any real money. They don’t use it to earn money. They use it to satisfy a deep human need: connection.
A Verge article from earlier this year featured an interview with Richárd Szélesy, a Twitch streamer who has spent the last few years broadcasting games to almost zero viewers. “The reason I started streaming was that I was kind of looking for human connections,” Szélesy said, “[I streamed to] escape loneliness and depression.”
While he mostly streams without an audience, occasionally someone stops by, and that makes all the difference in the world. The feeling that there are other people out there, that we are all in this together, is the very definition of the opposite of loneliness.
Twitch has hit on something universal. Live streaming is much bigger than video games.
Live Streaming and Dating
Chat-based platforms like Tinder aren’t enough to combat loneliness. These apps are utilities, promising users the perfect match in a short amount of time. When there are not enough inbound chats, which there can never be when most chats go to the most attractive users, the result is even more profound loneliness.
And that’s why dating combined with live streaming has such incredible potential. Live streaming reduces loneliness when users don’t have enough chats. I believe chats and live streaming are complementary, providing 24/7 opportunities for entertainment and connection.
Earlier this year, we ran a survey asking 6,000+ users of our social dating platform MeetMe if MeetMe helps them feel less lonely. It turns out, the response depended crucially on how much those users used live streaming. The more users reported using the live streaming feature, the less lonely they felt. Live streaming is authentic and raw. Viewers watch streamers think in real time, they see their visceral reactions. What you see is what you get.
Source: MeetMe Internal Survey. September 2018. 6,800 responses.
The Twitch for Dating
It is natural for Twitch to want to be not only the Twitch for gaming but also the Twitch for dating and the Twitch for everything else too. That’s, after all, the Amazon way. But social is not like selling books and adding kitchen appliances. People use brands to manage different facets of their identities, and they always have. That’s why there is a LinkedIn for your business persona; why there is a Facebook for your family persona; why there is a Tinder, for your dating persona. These personas don’t mix; they never have; and the history of social suggests they never will.
Let’s look at what qualities the Twitch for Dating must have. It must be welcoming to women. But often Twitch is called out for being the opposite. Twitch’s biggest streamer, “Ninja,”, is quite public about the fact that he doesn’t stream with women, explaining that “it’s just not worth it.” By going full-Pence, Ninja is sending a message to the Twitch community that engaging with women leads to problems, thereby further isolating the women on the platform.
Well, what about Tinder? Let’s look at what other qualities the Twitch for Dating must have. It must be open; where users feel comfortable dropping in on streams. And of course it must emphasize video. I don’t believe Tinder can do either of these naturally.
Tinder users expect to only chat with people who mutually swipe right. It is the opposite of an open platform, and they are going in the direction of making it less open by copying Bumble privacy features. Additionally, Tinder’s owner, Match Group, isn’t likely going to do anything to disrupt the golden goose. It’s even been suggested by some Wall Street analysts that Tinder is the lion’s share of Match’s growth. Tinder is too valuable for Match as the utility it is to try to make it something it is not.
But there will be powerful live streaming dating platforms.
Chinese dating behemoth, MOMO, was among the first, creating a multi-billion dollar live streaming dating business in China. The Meet Group entered the fray in 2016 by launching live streaming first on our US-based app MeetMe, and we grew to a $48 million business (annualized) from scratch in less than a year. Dating juggernaut Badoo followed. I believe live streaming and dating are poised to take off in the West, as it already has in the East, and for the same reason: it is an antidote for loneliness, it makes us feel … we are all in this together.


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WASHINGTON – The House passed Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales and Brokerage Simplification Act, which helps small business owners access the services of small business merger and acquisition (M&A) brokers.
M&A brokers help small business owners who want to sell their businesses or merge with other companies so that their companies can continue to expand and support job growth.
“This bill will give small businesses more flexibility to create and keep jobs. The Senate now has the opportunity to pass this bill immediately so that job creators can continue to build stronger businesses. serving their employees and community. said Kennedy.
The bill would allow small business M&A brokers to organize sales and purchases of ownership as well as control private companies that are not registered as “broker-dealers” with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Removing the requirement to register with the SEC and FINRA would remove a bureaucratic hurdle in the path faced by M&A brokers in trying to help small businesses. Kennedy’s bill would make M&A services cheaper and accessible to small business owners who need help buying or selling companies.
Kennedy’s bill is now awaiting passage in the Senate.
The text of the Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales and Brokerage Simplification Act is here.


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- Red roses look lovely against a snowy landscape - unless you're a florist struggling to deliver thousands of them on the flower industry's busiest day of the year.
Denver area florists awoke Valentine's Day to a nightmare: Several inches of snow on the ground, more swirling down on a blossom-bludgeoning wind, and roads as white and slick as a gardenia petal.
Add one more point of agitation to the floral frenzy - calls from fretful customers, all worrying whether those dozen roses would make it to their sweethearts on time.
"It's real bad," Mary Gobert, owner of Bonnie Brae Flowers, said Wednesday. "Somehow we'll make all the deliveries that were ordered in advance, but if you're calling today, we're telling people you have to come in and pick them up or wait until tomorrow for delivery."
Gobert, who had 1,000 floral orders scheduled for Wednesday, said Valentine's Day storms are an annual bugbear for Colorado florists.
"It's something we sweat every year," she said. "Often the weather's nice, but sometimes it's really bad."
Valencia Vasquez spent the day working the phones at LeGrue's Flowers and Gifts at 476 S. Broadway. Her shop hired three extra people to handle its 370 Valentine's orders.
Vasquez's reaction when she looked out her window Wednesday morning: "My stomach turned."
"It's not very good," she said of the weather-heightened rush. "We'll get the deliveries made, but we're not taking any more orders."
So what happens when foul weather keeps a vaseful of amour from arriving? Like the Postal Service, florists give it their best shot through rain and snow, but most make no guarantees.
"This sort of falls into the category of "act of God,' " said Gobert, whose shop is 50 years old. "There are no discounts."
Florists were concerned with more than just timely deliveries. Frigid weather is tough on rose blossoms and can shorten the life span of unprotected flowers. A rose by any other name is just as sweet, but if it droops in the vase after three days, customers get miffed.
Protective wrappers go on flowers before they head out into the cold, but that takes time, something that's at a premium on Cupid's crunch day.
"We're very stressed," said Steve Craig, manager of a Veldkamp's shop in downtown Denver. "I saw the snow and knew we were in for it. It really slows us down."
Craig was a dervish with a floral knife, shucking baby's breath for a vase of roses while calculating how late his delivery people would have to work.
"I expect our drivers will be out until 10 p.m.," he said. "The foot delivery people have to be done by 6 p.m. because that's when businesses close."
Gary and Jeanne Kronkow were a picture of Valentine's Day togetherness - the two deliver arrangements for Lehrer's Flowers. While his wife ran roses into an office tower at 17th and Stout streets, Gary tracked the inventory packed into their SUV.
"It's taking half again as long as normal," he said. "But we'll work as long as we have flowers to get out."


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Builder falls through roof during London Fashion Week show Sep 17, 3:30 pm
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Wearing 'miracle' vest for just 8 hrs a day helps you lose inches without moving a muscle May 28, 1:07 pm
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Businesses now eligible for Bedford Borough Council’s business support grant scheme have described the amount offered as ‘pitiful’ and ‘disappointingly low’.
After pressure from home-based businesses who have so far missed out on any government financial support, Bedford Borough Council has adapted the criteria for Additional Restrictions Grants (ARG) with the aim to support more local businesses.
The new criteria will enable support to businesses which do not operate from a business premises but which have fixed business costs and have experienced a significant reduction in income due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) restrictions.
To provide support as quickly as possible to as many businesses as possible, a one-off grant payment of £500 or £1,000 (depending on the size of the business) will be made.
Fiona Quinn, a beauty therapist who runs her business from a log cabin in her Bromham garden, spoke to the Bedford Independent previously about the lack of support for home-based businesses in the hair and beauty industry.
She is among hundreds of local businesses who are members of the Support for Hair and Beauty – Bedfordshire group which is lobbying the government and councils to provide adequate financial support for those without business premises.
Speaking about the announcement from the Council, she said: “This is indeed good news and a step in the right direction but it is a disappointingly low amount that is being offered.
“I am totally aware that these grants are not to replace loss of income and to help towards fixed costs, and I will gladly receive it but I’m not sure £500 is going to do much.
“On average my fixed costs are £270 per month, for insurances, utilities etc. I have also just recently completed a stock take and due to sell-by dates on my professional stock I have had to bin £714 worth. That will need to be replaced for me to be able to open.”
Fiona has qualified for payments from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), which she believes may disqualify her from receiving any further grant payments.
“In a nutshell I will believe it when I see it,” she told us.
These grants will be made as part of the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG), which is a fixed amount of funding from the Government and is intended to provide support to businesses right up until April 2022.
Each local authority was responsible for setting the criteria for eligible businesses, with many council’s – including Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council – facing criticism for excluding those who work from home.
Events Industry Alliance investigation finds 82.5% of ARG funding not allocated
Including payments scheduled to be made later this week, Bedford Borough Council has awarded 26% of its allocated ARG funding of £5.005million.
At the beginning of this month, Conference News, a trade publication for the events and hospitality industry, reported an investigation by the Events Industry Alliance (EIA) which found that 82.5% of the total ARG funds given by the UK Government to councils had not yet been paid out, despite the funds being issued on 30 October 2020.
The EIA issued an FOI to all local authorities regarding the percentage of ARG funding they had allocated by 24 February 2021.
Only 128 councils out of a total of 314 responded. Bedford Borough Council was among the 186 local authorities that did not provide their figures.
The majority of those that responded had allocated 10% or less of their ARG funding. Neighbouring Central Bedfordshire Council reported they had allocated just 9.8%.
The Pad Presents’ owner, Gareth Barber, described the £500 he could claim as, “pitiful.”
The events business had turned over £300,000 in 2019, but had so far been able to claim no financial support despite being unable to operate at all during the pandemic.
“The ARG were meant to help businesses adversely affected by Covid that have not been able to reopen.
“Whatever this new grant is, it just seems insulting.”
Gemma Lander, who also spoke to the Bedford Independent in February to highlight the lack of financial support she and her colleagues in the wedding industry had received, reacted to the news, saying: “To hear that Bedford Borough Council is finally opening up financial support to home-based businesses offers the tiniest glimmer of hope that the tide is starting to change.
“The amount still doesn’t bring the Borough’s support in line with neighbouring counties but hopefully if I’m successful I can help ready my business for a fully booked wedding season when restrictions lift.”
MP for Bedford and Kempston, Mohammad Yasin, had raised the issue in a letter to Bedford Borough Council and in a debate in Parliament, particularly in relation to the plight of the beauty and taxi industries.
He said: “I welcome this long overdue grant as a step forward in supporting local businesses during this challenging time. Whilst not on its own enough to provide long term support, it will be a vital lifeline for many.
“I am therefore pleased that the Council have listened to calls from myself, Labour Councillors, and many affected businesses across our Borough.
“Now the Government must do its part and provide the targeted financial support packages needed to support industries most impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic.”
Bedford Borough Council pointed out that these grants are not intended to replace income that has been lost due to restrictions or provide income to the business owner.
The Government has put in place other forms of support to assist business owners whose personal income has been affected by restrictions. Rather, the payment is to assist with fixed business costs.
An online form will be available in the coming days to enable businesses that are eligible for this grant funding to contact the Council at bedford.gov.uk/bsg
Cllr Michael Headley, Portfolio Holder for Finance said: “We are pleased that we can now extend this support to a wider range of small businesses such as mobile hairdressers, self-employed trades people, driving instructors and taxi drivers.
“Having a clearer idea about the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown has enabled us to extend the support we can give from our limited government funding to help more businesses to meet unavoidable fixed costs.
“Throughout COVID-19 restrictions we have worked hard to provide as many local businesses with support as quickly and fairly as we can, and we will continue to do so. The online form to access this funding will be available very soon at bedford.gov.uk/bsg.”
This decision is subject to call-in from the Overview and Scrutiny Committees.


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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria in Kano State says the association has no plan to sell petrol above the government approved price of N145 per litre.
The association also called on Nigerians to ignore the threat made by IPMAN chairman for Ore Depot, Shina Amoo.
The Kano State IPMAN chairman, Bashir Dan-Malam, disclosed this while addressing a news conference in Kano on Tuesday.
Dan-Malam was reacting to a story credited to the IPMAN chairman for Ore Depot, Mr Shina Amoo, where he was quoted to have said that the association might start selling petrol above N145 per litre if depot owners continued to sell the product to them for between N136.50 and N137 per litre.
He said the association had no moral justification to sell petrol above the N145 per litre as there was adequate petrol supply in all the 21 depots across the country.
“IPMAN will not sell the fuel above the government’s approved price because there are availability of the product at all the 21 government depots in the country.
“So, I am calling on all marketers to go to these depots and buy the commodity but any marketer who goes to private depots is doing so on his own volition.
“All the 21 depots are selling the product to marketers at the approved price of N133.28 but private depot owners are selling theirs at between N136.05 and N137 per litre.
“So, marketers have the right to either buy from government depots or from the private depot owners at a higher rate, “ he said.
Dan-Malam, who called on the chairman of Ore depot to withdraw the threat, urged the Department of Petroleum Resources to sanction any depot owner who increases the price of petrol.
He called on fellow members and Nigerians at large to ignore the threat made by the chairman, IPMAN Ore depot, saying that such a threat would not make any impact.
“As I am talking to you now, the Managing Director of PPMC, Umar I. Ajiya, has dispatched a committee to the depot to find out reasons behind the purported increase,” he said.


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JOPLIN, Mo. —
There is one costume so in demand at Spirit Halloween, in Joplin, that the store has had to trade with local affiliates in order to meet the demand. Because it’s a tie-in with Marvel’s “Avengers,” which were featured in a larger-than-life summer blockbuster, it should be no surprise that the high-demand costume is a superhero.
Here’s the surprise: It’s Hawkeye.
“We’ve had requests for that more than anything else,” said Eric Myers, manager of the seasonal store. “We had to trade with Springfield and Branson stores just to get enough in.”
If kids haven’t chosen a costume for Halloween yet, the clock is ticking. With about two weeks remaining, parents have plenty of options to help meet kids’ demands.
The costumes trending locally somewhat match what’s getting bought around the rest of the country:
Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Thor and, yes, Hawkeye have been big movers during this Halloween costume-buying season. Propelled by “The Avengers,” residents can expect to see plenty of superheroes at their front doors.
Thanks to the movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” there are also plenty of Batman costumes being bought. Myers also mentioned heroes from a past era who are getting a revival.
“(The Mighty Morphin’) Power Rangers are making a comeback for kids,” Myers said.
While girls have only one Avengers option (Black Widow), they can be Draculaura, Cleo de Nile, Clawdeen Wolf or Frankie Stein from “Monster High,” a Mattel toy franchise that looks like a Barbie makeover of legendary monsters.
“Every girl knows something about ‘Monster High,’ and they all have their favorite characters,” Myers said.
“Monster High” costumes are in big demand around Joplin. The toys are featured in an animated series and a young-adult book series.
Also picking up steam are characters from another cartoon: “Adventure Time.” Finn the Human and Jake the Dog should be easy to spot this year.


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A Samsung ad titled “Why Wait? The Next Big Thing Is Already Here” has gone viral on t’interweb, with hundreds of thousands of views on Google’s popular video streaming thingy, YouTube.
The ad essentially pokes fun at Apple fanboys queuing for the latest device, and rips on the iPhone 4S’ specs. Regardless of how you feel about Apple, it’s pretty funny.
The queuing fanboys spot various people with Galaxy S IIs, but dismiss the super-smartphone when they realise it’s manufactured by Samsung, one of Apple’s biggest rivals.
“I could never get a Samsung. I’m creative,” muses one pretentious douche bag, apparently using a MacBook Pro while in line.
“Dude, you’re a barista,” points out his chum.
Samsung's chief marketing guy, Todd Pendleton, tells Business Insider: "Just from initial reactions, even Apple owners and lovers are talking about this in a positive way. We're seeing positive quotes from people out there who may not be willing to buy our product."
Brian Wallace, Samsung's VP of strategic marketing, adds: "We're not targeting fanboys. We're not going to convert them. We're using them as a foil to target current Android users upgrading to a new phone and people entering the smartphone market for the first time."
The ad is due to start airing in the US on Thanksgiving. Hey, that’s today!


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From cooked scallops to finely-polished kitchenware, thousands of items and foods were on display inside the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center during the annual Delaware North Cos. “Food and Beverage Summit.”
More than 150 vendors — a new benchmark for the three-day gathering — put their best and most unique items out for Delaware North managers to taste, touch and use. Delaware North brings in all of its top chefs, managers and purchasing agents from its diverse range of holdings to meet with the vendors, place orders and a get a jump on the upcoming seasons.
“Instead of us making a lot of trips to a lot of different places, we have all the right people coming here to meet us,” said Joseph Rovelli, J.M. Smucker Co. national sales manager.
Smucker was displaying its jellies and such items as “Uncrustables” peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that are routinely sold in airports and other Delaware North-operated venues.
“My goal is to have people consider our sandwiches and products as an option,” Rovelli said.
That’s why Sysco Foods, which does considerable business with various Delaware North entities, was showcasing scallops and rock shrimp along with fresh Mahi Mahi Tuna sandwiches and while in another aisle found Land O’
Lakes pitching Alfredo sauces, Hebrew National was showing off its hot dog products while Campbell’s was highlighting specialty soups and John Morrell Food Service was pitching Polish sausage sandwiches. It was a veritable culinary melting pot.
Tony Murphy, Rich Products Corp. national account manager, used the event to show off the Buffalo-based company’s new line of cinnamon rolls, flatbread pizzas and specialty doughnuts.
“We do a lot of business with Delaware North at its airports and parks,” Murphy said. “We do this because it is important for these people to see what we have to offer.”
The gathering is part of a four-day long summit Delaware North brings to its Buffalo hometown. The local economic impact is well into the millions, officials said.
While the Delaware North summit is loaded with national vendors, there were several prominent companies featured as well.
Besides Rich Products, Charlie the Butcher was there with his famous beef on weck sandwiches while Newstead’s Niagara Label Inc. was displaying its handiwork and Tarantino Foods has a prime location to show off its vast supply of fresh vegetables and fruits.
And, for good measure, Delaware North was also there unveiling a sleek, mobile catering display that it hopes to incorporate into the lobbies and concourses of the baseball ballparks and hockey arenas it serves.
“Why not?” said Vito Buscemi, Delaware North director of concepts. “This is the perfect venue to showcase what’s new and putting in a plug to a lot of different sides.”


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This year Glen Grant is releasing an exceptionally rare edition, the Glen Grant 50 Year Old – a fitting tribute to the innovation and whisky craftsmanship woven into the legend of Glen Grant.
On 28 October 1963 a rather special cask was hand filled by a young man who, at the time, was unaware that this liquid gold would ultimately shape his destiny. It would slowly mature for 50 years until 25 November 2013, when it reached its zenith – a robust, full-bodied and perfectly balanced single malt of distinction.
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Intelligent Demand, a leading B2B revenue agency unveiled a new brand campaign, including a new identity, reflecting the company’s 11th year in business and dedication to growing client revenue. Intelligent Demand’s new look represents a commitment to integration and the company’s role and purpose of transforming marketers into revenue growth leaders for their organization.
Following last year’s record growth, Intelligent Demand continues to be focused on delivering integrated revenue growth programs for its clients based on a deep understanding of each client’s goals and objectives, their key audiences, and their market. And, they are kicking off 2022 with a new brand that’s destined to propel last year’s growth and client recognition even further. With an unmatched foundation of integrated growth strategy at its core, Intelligent Demand offers a full suite of creative, media, technology, data, analytics, and sales acceleration services to help marketers achieve their revenue goals.
“I want the world, our market, our customers and prospects to know, and I want our employees to know, who we really are,” said John Common, Chief Executive Officer of Intelligent Demand. “Our service offerings have expanded, our value proposition has evolved. We’ve grown tremendously as a company. And thinking about that, the time was now to redefine our story in the market.”
The new brand identity will be unveiled throughout February and March. Promotional items showcasing the elements of the rebranding will be sent first to clients and partners of the agency, followed by a marketing campaign featuring a new website. Advertising, email and direct mail will be launched to drive awareness on February 23.
“Our product-market fit has never been better. Our client roster and our people, never stronger. And now, our new brand reflects this,” Common said. “We’re here to uplevel you and your team, and supercharge your growth. We couldn’t be more excited about our future.”
Initial elements of Intelligent Demand’s brand evolution include:
As the prominent representation of the company, people, and brand, Intelligent Demand is an analytically-driven agency who believes measurement should be at the forefront of its clients’ revenue growth programs. “Everything we do is precise, measured, and calculated,” said Jamie Capozzi, Executive Creative Director at Intelligent Demand. “The ID curve literally gives us an edge.”
The new logo exudes modern sophistication, expertise, and knowledge for B2B marketers with a growth imperative.
New Brand Colors:
Intelligent Demand’s base orange color has been refreshed and enlivened with a brighter, more modern tone. This color represents an optimistic and energetic outlook on the world, the community, and the business. The supporting colors reflect Intelligent Demand’s key values—Passion, Authenticity, Kindness, and Tenacity (Intelligent Demand’s PAKT with the world.) “B2B revenue growth is as much about positivity and tenacity as anything and Intelligent Demand’s new color palette speaks to that,” said Mike Swainey, Vice President of Growth Consulting at Intelligent Demand.
- Passionate Black
- Authentic White
- Kind Gray
- Tenacious Orange
New tagline: The Art of Integration.
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Intelligent Demand (intelligentdemand.com) is one of the U.S.’s leading revenue growth agencies. Chosen by clients who need a true growth partner, Intelligent Demand has been named a “Rising Star” and the #1 Account Based Agency in the U.S. by B2B Marketing. The agency’s clients include Cheetah Digital, Conifer Health, Franklin Templeton, HCA, and Kaiser Permanente, among others. Founded in 2011, Intelligent Demand is headquartered in Denver, Colo.