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In the spirit of QSR’s Year of Women in Foodservice initiative, we’re dedicating a monthly section to recognizing the issues that affect women in foodservice and the contributions they make in our industry. If you know a woman with an inspiring story to share or an issue you think needs to be addressed, send your ideas to YearofWomen@qsrmagazine.com.
The number of U.S. households with kids under 18 is about 39 million—33 percent of the country—and moms run more than twice as many single-parent households as dads.
“That’s a pretty big customer segment,” says Renée Israel, cofounder and chief marketing officer of snack chain Doc Popcorn in Boulder, Colorado.
Even as moms look for ways to provide nutritious, increasingly quick meals for their kids, they’re also working to balance mealtime with the impacts of a still-sluggish economy. Wooing this customer segment is becoming more important—and perhaps more difficult—every day.
A recent study conducted by Creative Consumer Concepts (c3) and Technomic shows that about a third of moms say they’re the sole decision maker in choosing a restaurant. Even when children employ strategies to influence where to eat, “these strategies are limited by boundaries set by parents,” the study reports.
As moms negotiate where to eat the next meal, they’re steering that selection based on a variety of factors, ranging from how comfortable a restaurant is for families to ensuring the menu appeals to kids of all ages.
“It’s important to mom that all of her kids can find something that they want to eat, so having a menu that scales is really important,” says Ian Davidson, senior manager of brand insights at C3 in Overland Park, Kansas.
Marketing aimed at kids is nothing new, but brands are finding that while toys may be a hit with the kiddos, the strategy can backfire with mom.
“One of the things that we’ve heard from moms is that they don’t love the toy,” says Lauren Barash, director of marketing at Moe’s Southwest Grill in Atlanta. The reason often has nothing to do with the type or quality of the toy. Many moms see toys as “one more piece of junk they have to bring home and throw away later,” Barash says.
Moe’s responded by revamping such classic toys as the fortune teller, where a simple sheet of paper is folded up origami-style and labeled with numbers and letters. “Our franchisees can print it out in their restaurants and hand them to the kids with their meals,” she says.
Because it takes more than one person to play the game, it’s a fun and interactive way to engage the whole family. Plus, Barash says, mom gets an extra bonus. “It’s just a piece of paper, so there’s no burden on the parent to add it to the toy collection when they get home.”
Of the other factors moms value, a good service experience ranks high on the list. Given everything a mom may be juggling, waiting in long lines isn’t something that entices them. If they do get stuck with a wait, Israel says, “You better be catering to them.”
Doc Popcorn locations hand out popcorn-filled paper cups so kids have something to keep them occupied, rather than leaving mom with the task of entertaining them.
Israel says that as a mom, she appreciates going somewhere that focuses on her children. “What can my kid do while I’m here, and what makes it work for them?” she says.
Davidson also believes service is paramount in a mother’s decision, with the need for fast-moving lines and food that’s prepped and ready as soon as payment has been made. A good in-store experience also revolves around an environment that’s clean, not only for the child—who often spends some time playing on the floor—but also for the mom.
“What we found is that moms actually judge all restaurant concepts pretty harshly on the cleanliness of their bathrooms,” Davidson says.
“When you think about that in terms of a mom with two kids under the age of five trying to navigate either a bathroom experience or a diaper change, it becomes really important for those bathrooms to be stocked, clean, and ready to go.”
In fact, cleanliness ranked higher in C3’s study than any other factor, including food quality, nutrition, speed of service, and even value. While almost three-quarters of mothers surveyed said nutritious offerings were essential, Davidson says, operators often don’t experience higher sales when offering those items.
The reason may relate to the fact that moms frequently view dining out as a bit of a splurge. Davidson says moms are willing to bend the rules when going out to eat, and they “typically don’t mandate that their children order that healthy option.”
Many experts say brands that haven’t already launched an initiative aimed squarely at the mom crowd could be missing out in a big way. Barash says Moe’s has tapped into the power of mom bloggers, a group that can wield significant influence in today’s Web-obsessed society.
In just one recent example, Moe’s sent information about a promotion to its 10-person, all-female Moe’s Blogger Advisory council. The effect was quick and measurable.
“One of our bloggers posted something quickly on her blog and then tweeted it out, and within about two hours, we had 100,000 impressions,” Barash says.
Those numbers may not compare to what many brands expect to see over the course of an entire promotion, but Barash says they still show the power these women have with their networks.


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Microsoft unveils Project xCloud system to stream games to everything from a phone to a desktop PC - without having to buy a console
- Instead of requiring a console, it will run games on Microsoft's servers
- Games will be streamed to devices including phones and tablets
Microsoft is testing a new game streaming service called Project xCloud that is designed to work across PCs, consoles and mobile devices, the company has revealed.
Instead of requiring users to buy a console, it will run games on Microsoft's servers, streaming them to devices.
Public trials for Project xCloud would begin in 2019, Microsoft said.
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Instead of requiring a console, the new service will run games on Microsoft's servers, allowing users to play on everything from a phone to a desktop PC
'Ultimately, Project xCloud is about providing gamers — whether they prefer console or PC — new choices in when and where they play, while giving mobile-only players access to worlds, characters and immersive stories they haven't been able to experience before,' Microsoft said.
The service will compete with Google's 'Project Stream', a game streaming service that is being tested by the Alphabet Inc unit in partnership with game publisher Ubisoft .
Microsoft's xCloud will also face competition from other popular streaming services including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Sony's PlayStation Now among others.
'Today, the games you play are very much dictated by the device you are using,' said Microsoft.
'Project xCloud’s state-of-the-art global game-streaming technology will offer you the freedom to play on the device you want without being locked to a particular device, empowering YOU, the gamers, to be at the center of your gaming experience.'
The firm plans to begin public tests next year, and is already testing the system internally.
'We are testing Project xCloud today. The test runs on devices (mobile phones, tablets) paired with an Xbox Wireless Controller through Bluetooth, and it is also playable using touch input,' Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president, gaming cloud, said.
Project xCloud will have the capability to make game streaming possible on 4G networks, Microsoft says.
'Currently, the test experience is running at 10 megabits per second.
'Our goal is to deliver high-quality experiences at the lowest possible bitrate that work across the widest possible networks, taking into consideration the uniqueness of every device and network.'
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ADAMA, a leading global crop protection company, has announced opening of a new multi-purpose plant (MPP) in Taquari, Brazil. The MPP will produce vital active ingredients (AIs) for the crop protection industry, including Prothioconazole, a necessary fungicide for soybean crops. In addition, this new plant is expected to improve ADAMA’s ability to supply Prothioconazole-based products using in-house capabilities and support the launch of several new products to the Brazilian market within the next five years.
The investment of over $50 million in this new plant is a strategic move for ADAMA, positioning the company as one of the top global producers and leading suppliers of Prothioconazole. In addition, the in-house production of this critical AI provides ADAMA a competitive advantage in Brazil, one of its most important markets. It reduces the company’s dependence on external suppliers.
One of the most significant features of the new ADAMA plant is its commitment to sustainability. With 30% of the investment spent on implementing sustainable practices in its production facilities, the company demonstrates its commitment to environmental responsibility. This approach aligns with ADAMA’s overall vision of producing high-quality crop protection products while minimizing the environmental impact of its operations.
ADAMA Brazil has launched several leading products recently, including Armero™, Araddo®, and Arremate®, which have been well-received in the market. The new multi-purpose plant is expected to bolster further ADAMA’s reputation as a reliable and innovative partner for farmers while also increasing its ability to meet the growing demand for high-quality crop protection products.


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When 25 experimental solar cars line up for a 2,000-mile race across the Australian desert Nov. 1, they'll be showing off leading-edge technology that experts say is only a sunny flash of the future.
Scientists say expected breakthroughs in solar collecting devices, lightweight materials and even superconductivity soon could make feasible luxury sun-powered vehicles that will be economical to buy and operate.
"It's definitely the beginning of a new era," says Mark Goldes, director of the non-profit Aesops Institute in Petaluma, Calif., an organization that has researched alternative energy since 1977.
Goldes recently established a commercial affiliate, Magnetic Power Inc., to blend new technologies for the purpose of building two- and four-seater solar cars that can run several days without recharging.
For the Australian marathon, several large auto companies are joining the hobbyists in the first "World Solar Challenge." General Motors is entering its specially designed "Sunraycer," which it claims can go highway speeds. Japanese firms are sponsoring four state-of-the-art entries, and the British Institute for Automotive design and Ford Motor Co. of Australia are expected to compete.
John Tennyson, who lives on a large "solar farm" at Mahukona, Hawaii, said his entry, "Mana La," equipped with an array of photo-electric cells, wind foils and a computer dashboard, recently whizzed along at 73 mph, nearly double the 37-mph speed record for solar-electric vehicles.
"We've done extensive testing on the car and you can bet we're going to win," said Tennyson, who has been building solar-electric vehicles for 10 years and runs the farm's four-wheel-drive car, a tractor and even the lawn mower on solar energy. First prize, he said, is a Solar Cup trophy.
"The distinguishing factor between our car and most others, including the General Motors entry, is that they're avoiding the wind," said Tennyson. "We've studied weather conditions in Australia for November over a 30-year period and came up with a design that can reach up and catch the wind."
Tennyson said the Mana La design, which incorporates an arch-like wing, required some additional weight, but also would lift some of the 525-pound vehicle off the ground like an airplane. The arch also provides additional surface for the photoelectric cells powering the 19-foot long, bullet-shaped car.
"This race gives us an opportunity of a lifetime to show the world that everybody can drive down the road on sunshine. We believe the technology is right here, right now.
"It's the climax of 15 years of playing and working with solar energy."
Tennyson said the sun and not fossil fuels should be considered the world's main source of energy. Oil, he said, should have been labeled alternative energy.
"We need to call the sun the source and design our cars, agriculture, homes and everything else to directly use this solar energy," said Tennyson. "That way we'd have a more stable culture, economy and transportation system."
The Mana La, which means "sun power" in Hawaiian, was developed with the help of James Amick, an aeronautical engineer in Ann Arbor, Mich., and inventor of the "Windmobile," in the mid-1970s. Amick and his son Doug put a one-sixth-scale model through wind tunnels, tested two different designs and provided reams of data on operating procedures.
Developing and building the Mana La cost $250,000, about one-tenth of the $2 million spent by GM for its Sunraycer entry. The Sunraycer, which weighs 500 pounds and looks like a squashed tadpole, is built on an aluminum-tubing frame covered with an integral body, canopy and solar panel.
Goldes, who got Tennyson and the Amicks together to build the Mana La, said the way has been paved for practical construction of similar cars in the near future.
Goldes said solar self-charging windmobiles could be produced in luxury models by the end of 1988 with mass production of high-performance electric cars not far behind. Polymer batteries and advanced permanent magnet motors, are ready to be produced by Magnetic Power Inc., he said, possibly by the early part of next year, depending on capitalization.
"Recent progress in ambient temperature superconductivity opens the way to storing energy in well-proven superconductivity rings, devices that precede batteries, the Achilles heel of electric cars," said Goldes. "Recently demonstrated superinsulator technology, analogous to superconductivity, opens a path to even more exciting electric propulsion technology."
However, Norm Phillips, an expert on superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, said scientists are still a long way from developing a resistance-free wire necessary for automotive use. He noted superconductivity's practical applications are limited with current knowledge, an example being nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in medicine.
Phillips said he wouldn't rule superconductivity out for automobile propulsion, "but it won't be done for a long time and only a few people even believe it is possible."
Goldes counters that most of the research with superconductivity is based on ceramics. He's uncovered a patent that uses a common metal to achieve the zero-resistance properties at practical temperatures.
Solar cells not yet on the market, he adds, are achieving extremely high efficiencies using a microminiature antenna design, rather than silicon, meaning they could sufficiently power an electric car at highway speeds.
"It looks like the major automobile manufacturers will have to start paying careful attention to this technology in the near future because it opens the way for cars without fuel," said Goldes.


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Micron Technology Inc (NASDAQ:MU) said on Wednesday it is considering building a new memory factory in the United States but that state and federal subsidies will be needed to offset costs that are higher than its factories in Asia.
The Boise, Idaho-based company is the only American firm that makes both key types of memory chips, competing against South Korea’s Samsung Electronics (OTC:SSNLF) Co Ltd and SK Hynix and Japan’s Kioxia, Toshiba (OTC:TOSYY)’s former memory chip unit.
Micron has pilot manufacturing lines for developing new technologies at its Idaho headquarters and a factory in Virginia that turns out special high-reliability chips for automobiles. But its most advanced memory chips, which go into devices including PCs, phones and data centers, are made in Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.
Sumit Sadana, Micron’s chief business officer, told Reuters memory chips are about 30% of the global semiconductor market but only 2% are made in the United States.
“We certainly want to very seriously assess manufacturing in the U.S., because the U.S. ought to have more than 2% of memory manufacturing for the sake of national security and for the sake of supply chain resiliency,” Sadana said in an interview.
Sadana said the company has not settled on a country for its next factory for advanced chips. The factories will require tools such as ASML Holdings’ extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, which can cost more than $100 million each.
Micron plans to spend up to $12 billion in capital expenditure and $3 billion on research and development next year, Sadana said, and up to $150 billion over the next decade.
Micron estimates costs for memory manufacturing are 45% higher in the United States than in Asia, Sadana said.
He said Micron’s decision will depend on whether U.S. subsidies for buildings factories and investment tax credits for expensive tools – both of which are being debated in the U.S. Congress – are put in place.
“We need these policies to be stable and bipartisan in nature,” he said.


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A new global report published at the Global Remittances Conference in New York shows sending remittances to Africa is more expensive than anywhere else in the world.
The reports state that more than 1 million migrants in the U.K. are paying on average £80 a year more than they should send remittances to friends and families in Africa.
“The absence or weakness of a digital payments infrastructure and acceptance network, a financially included population, and/or an identification system means that many of the traditional acceptance services, such as terminating into a bank account or mobile wallet, are not always available,” the report says.
The average cost of sending money to Africa is almost 10 percent, compared to the global average of just over 7 percent, the report reveals.
The report, prepared by Developing Markets Associates (DMA), indicates that nine out of 10 money transfer dealings from the U.K. to Africa are in cash and only one in 20 transactions is initiated online.
According to the CEO of DMA Leon Isaac “sending money to Africa is very expensive compared to the relatively low incomes of migrant workers and the small amounts they typically send.
Isaac also explains that there is the need to develop a holistic approach to lowering the cost instead of concentrating on just new technology.
He is further asking for new regulations for the new technology and a change in consumer behaviour through the digitisation of the entire process of sending money to Africa.
Although Africa is known for high remittance cost, the World Bank reports that African migrants are now sending remittances back to their families at levels above $441 billion, a figure that is three times the volume of official aid that flows to developing countries.
The Breton Wood institution states that these inflows of cash constitute more than 10 percent of the GDP in some 25 developing countries, enabling governments to provide important services, such as health and education.


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What's in store for Relish Food and Wine Festival 2017
IF you've never had a lychee-inspired liqueur or sparkling wine, this weekend you can remedy that.
Lychee Divine, located just south of Maryborough, is bringing its tasty flavours to the annual Relish Food and Wine Festival.
The event will be held on June 3, with many of the delicious delights of the Fraser Coast set to be sampled.
Hervey Bay's My Kitchen Rules winners and master chefs Dan and Steph Mulheron will also be at the event, where they will be bringing a display with a bit more a smoky flavour.
They will also be creating a special entree for the Relish Festival's long lunch.
Dan said he and Steph looked forward to the event every year and it was one they really enjoyed.
Kerrie Poole from Lychee Divine said the festival always gave her business a significant boost, with people who served their products on the day becoming regular customers.
The business had run out of its signature sparkling wine ahead of the event, but fortunately a fresh batch arrived on Tuesday, just in time for the festival.
"It's a great festival," Kerrie said.
"We will have our full range of liqueurs and red and white wine."
The business will also bring along its delicious lychee ice cream, which will be available for purchase.
There will be plenty of other stalls on the day as well, along with live entertainment, the long lunch and the food lovers marquee.
Fraser Coast councillor Daniel Sanderson said Relish was a fantastic regional event. growing in stature and also in recognition across the state.
"It is such a beautiful event for our city and region," he said.
"It really is becoming a signature event for the Fraser Coast.
"The weather at this time of year is absolutely stunning.
"It's great to see visitors and locals coming together to celebrate our region's amazing produce on offer, both food and wine."
The main entrance to the festival will be at the corner of Wharf and Richmond streets,
It will be held from 10am to 5pm.
Tickets will cost $10 online or $15 at the event.


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Ute gets tougher for 2022
Ford has pulled the covers off its Next-Generation Ranger and is hoping to bolster its stronghold on the market with the introduction of a V6 powertrain and more off-road capability.
A new 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine tops the revised range, offering an improved 210bhp, and an electric powertrain is set to join the line-up at a later date.
The outgoing Ranger’s 2.0-litre turbodiesel engines will stay in the line-up, having undergone some minor changes, and will sit alongside a four-cylinder 2.3-litre petrol EcoBoost model.
Transmission choices include an updated 10-speed automatic gearbox complementing the current six-speed automatic, and there is also a permanent four-wheel-drive system.
Inside the cabin will be the latest SYNC4 infotainment system that is displayed through either a 10 or 12-inch portrait touchscreen.
The Next-Generation Ranger project was led by Ford’s Product Development Centre in Australia and its 2,000-strong team of designers and engineers worked with teams around the globe to incorporate the latest in Ford technology, capability and safety.
Graham Pearson, Ranger vehicle program director, says: “Our team was focused on one goal – to make this Ranger the toughest and most capable we’ve ever created. They put it through one of the most exhaustive global testing schedules we’ve ever developed.”
Ford also interviewed 5,000 consumers and held dozens of customer workshops to understand what motorists wanted from the latest iteration of the popular ute.
The Ranger will be available in XL, XLS, XLT, Sport and Wildtrak variants and common design features include a new grille, LED headlights, and bolder wheel arches.
Beneath the bodywork is an upgraded chassis riding on a wheelbase 50mm longer and a track 50mm wider than the prior Ranger.
Anthony Hall, Ranger vehicle engineering manager, says: “Widening the truck by 50mm may not seem like a lot, but it makes a huge difference, especially in the cargo box. It means that customers will be able to load flat some pretty fundamental items, such as a sheet of building plywood or a full-size pallet.”
Customer-focused improvements include a new, plastic-moulded bedliner, which helps protect the truck bed from scratches and owner’s knees from kneeling on a steel truck bed, along with extra cargo tie-down points.
The tailgate can also double as a mobile workbench with clamp pockets to measure, grip and cut building materials.
Meanwhile, zone lighting – controlled via the in-cabin SYNC screen or through the FordPass app – provides 360-degree lighting around the truck to provide customers better visibility around the vehicle.
The Next-Generation Ranger will be built at Ford’s manufacturing plants in Thailand and South Africa from 2022, with local specifications and pricing to be announced closer to arrival.


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Apple is expected to launch new MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) and MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021) models, which both feature 120Hz mini-LED screens, according to a fresh rumour, with these reportedly upcoming laptops There is more speculation about .
The theory is that these revised models will arrive early next week at Apple’s big event on October 18th, with analyst Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants, via Twitter with the latest details about those nifty displays. Will give
Yes, the new 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pros will have Mini LEDs and we believe they will be 120Hz refresh as well.12 October 2021
So, as you can see, the Mini-LED screen can have a refresh rate of 120Hz, and somewhere in the Young Tweets He: “Panel suppliers are the same between the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro – LG Display and Sharp. Expect similar technology – oxide backplane, MiniLED backlights and 120Hz refresh rate.
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Analysts say the presence of the Mini-LED on the new MacBook is “100% confirmed”—obviously take that with a pinch of salt, though it’s a useful measure given how confident Young is in this claim. Both the rumored 14-inch and 16-inch models should have similar screens (albeit different sizes, obviously).
Young further notes that the possibility is that mini-LED screens will have variable refresh rates, like the iPad Pro, so that when 120Hz is not needed, the refresh rate will be lowered to help reduce the display’s battery demands. Can go , and therefore extend longevity. It certainly makes sense, and it’s the same promotion technology used in the iPad.
Nerdshala saw the above tweet, and also flagged a separate rumor from the leaker (and iOS developer) Delandkat Arguing that both the MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch laptops for the entry-level model can run with 16GB of system RAM and 512GB of storage as a baseline. It’s stepping things up from the current 13-inch Pro, which starts at 8GB plus 256GB of storage.
The leaker rebutted another rumor of an upgraded 1080p webcam, and of course these machines are expected to use a new M1X chip, a step ahead of the current M1. The M1X will be a 10-core CPU and will be the same configuration for both the new MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch, apparently.
Dylandkt also predicts that mini-LED screens will be coming, as well as smaller bezels, and regarding the 120Hz rumor above, that notes That “120Hz was being tested on a Mac prototype earlier this year, but I have no clue when it’s coming out or what model it’s being tested on”.
The leaker also believes there will be a new charging brick (possibly needed for the rumored Switch for MagSafe charging), and re-emphasizes that the Touch Bar is being discontinued.
Analysis: The beefy MacBook model with all the bells and whistles – but what about the price?
Rumors of gorgeous mini-LED screens have been swirling for some time now, but there’s going to be a cost for a seriously fancy (presumably 120Hz Promotion) display, right?
Naturally, and Dylandkt took note of that theme, the price difference between the upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros will be “much narrower than the 13 and 16 available today.”
Which largely appears as a warning that the new 14-inch form-factor will be expensive.
In fact, the leaker has already said so much, and the likely reality is that such a MacBook Pro 14-inch could be offered at a starting price of $2,000 for an entry-level machine. Remember, there’s a lot of new technology here in theory, a powerful new CPU (supposedly matching the performance of the M1X 16-inch model), nifty screens, and tons of other changes, so Apple has to ask for a premium. It is very easy to imagine.
Then, brace yourself on that front—though there’s always the possibility that Apple may retain the current MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1) as the more affordable end of the Pro laptop range.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – JEA customers having trouble with higher bills during the summer months won’t have to worry about their services being disconnected because of late payments, the utility announced Tuesday.
Starting Aug. 1, JEA will suspend customer disconnections of electric and water service due to delinquent payments and waive newly accrued late fees.
JEA said it’s offering the relief because of higher utility bills stemming from increased fuel costs and higher consumption during the extreme summer heat we’ve been experiencing.
“Last month’s bills for our average customer, it was 25% higher than what our average bill is for the whole year. So the heat drove up the bills. The fuel cost drove up the bill,” JEA Managing Director and CEO Jay Stowe said. “And all of that, combined with the need to try and be flexible for our customers, really pointed us in this direction that we thought we could do to help customers the best we can.”
The city-owned utility said the extended grace period will continue through Sept. 18, 2022.
JEA encourages customers to do their best to stay current with their bills, as payments will be deferred, not waived.
The six-week grace period will apply to any customer — residential or business — who needs more time to pay their bill.
”As a community-owned utility, we provide services that are among the top two or three bills our customers pay each month. And summer utility bills can be particularly tough for some,” Stowe said. “We work every day to find ways to help our customers.”
Costs are rising in many areas — rent, gas, groceries — for consumers throughout the United States. And utility bills typically peak in the months of July and August in Northeast Florida, JEA acknowledged.
“The bills were higher than what customers anticipated, and we realized that they are going to need some relief and more time to pay the bills while they are buying school clothes and school supplies, as well as other things they are trying to manage,” said JEA Chief Customer Officer Shelia Pressley.
JEA also made another change to offer longer-term relief, adjusting the deposit return timeframe from 24 months to 12 months for residential customers with good payment history.
Effective Oct. 1, JEA will eliminate the fees customers pay when using a credit or debit card. The utility will absorb these costs imposed by its payment processing vendor.
On average, JEA disconnects about 16,000 people’s services each month.
JEA will continue to focus on educating customers about conservation tips and ways to save. Customers may visit JEA.com/assistance for information on bill-pay solutions and utility payment assistance for families and individuals struggling financially.


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Samsung Galaxy A20e unveiled: Gets smaller 5.8-inch display, 15W fast charging and dual-cameras
Samsung has revealed its most recent mobile phone – the Galaxy A20e – a new move of discharging less expensive variants of their cell phones.
Given that the A20e is a less expensive variation, the “e” rendition does not get the 6.4-inch Super AMOLED show and rather uses the 5.8-inch LCD. The showcase gets a goal of 720 x 1,560 which is strangely equivalent to the Galaxy A20.
- The Samsung Galaxy A20e gets a double camera module on the backboard and a solitary selfie camera module at the front, housed by the Infinity-V indent.
- The back-camera module receives a 13-megapixel essential shooter with an opening estimate off / 1.9 near a 5-megapixel ultra-wide sensor, same as the Galaxy A20e.
- The Galaxy A20e likewise sports a backboard mounted unique finger impression peruser too.
- The Samsung Galaxy A20e is controlled by the Exynos 7884 chipset which is an octa-center SoC with 2x centers for substantial obligations like gaming and 6x centers for standard obligations such as informing, calls and web perusing.
- The Samsung Galaxy A20e does not get Android but rather keeps running on Android with Samsung’s One UI on top.
- Since the Samsung Galaxy A20e is the little variation, the battery limit hs likewise went down to 3000mAh limit and furthermore underpinned 15W quick charging highlight.
- The Samsung Galaxy A20e will be available in Black and White hues. The Samsung Galaxy A20e has appeared on Samsung’s Polish site.
- The site states, “Samsung Electronics authoritatively introduced in Milan another group of Galaxy A cell phones, along with three new cell phones – A20e, A40, and A80 – that joined the effectively reported A10, A50 and A70 models.
- The history of Samsung cell phones in this part, offering clients developments and highlights are so far away from the lead arrangement. “
Additionally, Samsung has launched a mess of cell phones today under the recently refreshed An arrangement lineup. The South Korean producer has driven three new increases to the now-powered Galaxy A10, Galaxy A20, Galaxy A30, and the Galaxy A50. The all-new Galaxy cell phones are the Galaxy A80, the Galaxy A70, and the Galaxy A40. Samsung drove these three cell phones at the “A Galaxy Event” held in Bangkok, Milan, and Sao Paulo.
In the three mobile phones that were powered, Samsung had just propelled the Galaxy A70 with no official declaration on its site. Be that as it may, Samsung at the dispatch season did not disclose the cost and accessibility of the cell phone. Samsung has propelled the Galaxy A80, the Galaxy A70, and the Galaxy A40.


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Red Hat, Intel, Aptana, and JetBrains are unveiling various software development efforts this week, ranging from support for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to a PHP IDE and a Language-Oriented Programming environment.
Red Hat has signed on as a Google Contributor, meaning the company can offer developer and production support for GWT, Red Hat announced on Thursday.
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Red Hat will leverage the JBoss Seam architecture enabling developers to combine enterprise Java with view-layer technologies such as GWT, RichFaces, and Spring to build rich Internet applications. The Google technology improves Web experiences by enabling developers to use existing Java tools to build AJAX systems, Red Hat said.
Support for GWT will be provided in coming months as part of a JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. Red Hat said it has completed some preliminary integration with GWT and Seam.
"We believe developers should be able to select technology such as GWT, Spring Framework and Adobe Flex while using JBoss to provide the best operational and most flexible platform for running their applications," said Craig Muzilla, vice president of Red Hat's JBoss middleware business, in a statement released by Red Hat.
Red Hat has partnered with Google before on efforts such as JBoss Portal integration, Red Hat said.
Aptana on Thursday is releasing the 1.0 version of Aptana PHP, a free, open-source IDE for PHP application development. The IDE extends the Aptana Studio Eclipse-based IDE for AJAX and Web development, the company said.
Aptana also offers Aptana Cloud, a cloud-based application hosting and lifecycle management service for deploying PHP applications to production servers and managing projects via hosted source control and application monitoring. This can be done from within Aptana Studio.
JetBrains this week is offering a beta version of Meta Programming System (MPS), an environment that implements the Language-Oriented Programming paradigm for building specialized languages for software development. Domain-specific languages and applications can be built and existing languages extended.
The company has been using MPS for developing some of its own products since 2006.
"When we started working on MPS back in 2003, it was a research project that could do very little but was a lot of fun to play with," said Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains CEO and author of the MPS concept, in a statement released by the company. "However, we have always been very serious about extensively using our own products, and right now we are already using MPS to develop new products.
The 1.0 release of MPS is planned for early 2009. MPS will be free, with a major part of its code being open source. It will be offered under an Apache license.
Boosting development of applications for multi-core processors, Intel this week launched a public beta version of Intel Parallel Composer, which is to be part of the Intel Parallel Studio suite.
[ Formore on multicore chips, see "Multicore: New chips mean new challenges for developers" ]
Parallel Composer features compilers and libraries for Microsoft Visual Studio C++ developers, offering support for parallel expression within Visual Studio.
The Parallel Studio suite is to be a parallelism toolkit for multi-core software development. Products in it work together. Other components of the suite will be offered in beta releases next year. The full product suite is to be ready some time after the beta releases.


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After launching the boAt Storm smartwatch in October this year, the company is now gearing up to roll out its next smartwatch ‘boAt Watch Enigma’ in the Indian market on December 9. The company says that the watch will be thin yet mighty. Just like the boAt Storm, the Engima will also feature a heart rate sensor and will come with Blood Oxygen / SpO2 monitoring. The boAt Watch Enigma will carry a price tag of Rs. 2,999 and will be sold via e-commerce website Amazon.in.
The smartwatch will sport a 1.54-inch full touch screen color display with an always-on feature that lets the watch stay awake all the time, but it will drain the battery quickly. It shows notifications for text messages, calls, social media apps, alarms, and more.
The watch features smart gesture control that lets you use gestures to control the watch including raising your hand to wake the watch, shaking the wrist to change watch faces, and shaking your wrist to click pictures.. You can long-press the home screen to enhance the brightness.
The device shows a 15-day weather forecast once you connect it to a smartphone over Bluetooth. Other features include guided meditative breathing, the option to track multiple activities such as running, walking, climbing, riding, Basketball, Football, Badminton, and Table-Tennis, and Music control. The smartwatch features 3 ATM (30-meter) water resistance and Eco mode to increase battery efficiency.


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The landscape of electric vehicle pricing in the US is undergoing a significant transformation in 2024 as regulatory changes take center stage, impacting the affordability of popular models.
The recent update from the US Treasury unveils a wave of price increases for EVs such as the Cybertruck, Nissan Leaf, select Tesla Model 3 variants, and the Chevrolet Blazer EV, as they lose access to crucial tax credits. The guidelines introduced in December are part of an overarching strategy to fortify the domestic electric vehicle supply chain.
In anticipating these changes, Tesla has already released a comprehensive list of vehicles eligible for federal tax credit. All variants of the Model Y are set to maintain access to the total credit. However, adherence to the new eligibility criteria, requiring assembly in North America, has resulted in excluding a significant portion of previously eligible models following an IRS law introduced in 2022. The regulations have been intensified since January 2023, introducing new price caps and income limits for prospective buyers.
Additional regulations, unveiled by the Treasury in April 2023, focus on battery components and critical mineral sourcing, now demanding final assembly to occur in North America. To qualify for the $7,500 credit, a minimum of 50% of the essential minerals of the battery must originate from the US or a country with a US free trade agreement. Furthermore, 60% of the EV’s battery components must be manufactured or assembled in the US or a country with a US free trade agreement.
US citizens, with the option to transfer tax credits directly to car dealers from January 1, may witness a potential boost in EV sales. However, the stringent regulations on battery components and minerals have significantly reduced the count of qualifying EV models from 43 to 19, affecting multiple manufacturers. Tesla, Volkswagen, and BMW are actively working to verify the eligibility of their respective models, while Nissan collaborates with suppliers to regain tax credit eligibility for the Nissan Leaf.
Ford faces the loss of tax credits for specific models, and General Motors experiences temporary ineligibility for most oVs. These challenges underscore the industry-wide impact of evolving regulations on affordability and adoption, leaving the Treasury Department open to further modifications as additional manufacturer details become available. The conversation surrounding the accessibility of electric vehicles in the US remains at the forefront of industry discussions.


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Apple says, Apple iPhone 6S and 6S Plus will be “un-bendable” ?!
According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, the next generation of Apple iPhone could utilize the 7000 series aluminum alloy used in the entry-level of Apple Watch Sport for their body design.
Next Apple Iphone 6S and 6S Plus Un-Bendable?
Apple is hinting at their previous “Bendgate” and stating quite boldly that their new custom aluminum alloy is reported to be 60% harder than all other current smartphone aluminum. On the website of Apple, the company describes: ” For Apple Watch, we created a new alloy of 7000 Series aluminum that’s 60 percent stronger than standard alloys. Yet it’s very light. Together with the Ion-X glass covering the display, it makes the Sport collection watches up to 30 percent lighter than our stainless steel models. It’s also exceptionally pure, with a beautifully consistent appearance that’s difficult to achieve with traditional aluminum alloys.”
Stronger aluminum frame protects your device against bending. This aluminum alloy offers one third of stainless steel density so it is lighter. For each case, Apple device is machined, polished and blasted with microscopic zirconia beads for polishing finish.
So far this new aluminum alloy is not the only update on the so-call iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Some reports said the next iPhone generation would be the first to feature Force Touch Sensor. The new sensor allows to open different functions depending on you light tap or deep press the screen. Talking about the iPhone 6S specs, certainly it will feature new tech from Apple but the iPhone 6S Plus may have more priority.
We yet have to see if the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus can really be un-bendable. For sure though it looks like Apple is taking customer complaints seriously and trying to improve their Customer Apple Iphone 6 Reviews about bending phones. Traditionally, the successors of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, most likely the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, are going to be introduced in this September. The iPhone 6S price and release date is not confirmed yet, either worldwide or in Malaysia. Until then, we will keep updating for you with the latest info.


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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of market capitalization, is listing another token to support the growth
Binance Card, a newly launched cryptocurrency debit card powered by Binance and the Binance-owned crypto commerce company Swipe
Blockfolio is off the table, and with it goes the second — and arguably final — opportunity for a crypto exchange to add millions of existing
Binance.US, the United States branch of major crypto exchange Binance, just announced it would be making its services available to Florida
Major Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck has launched an initial exchange offering platform for raising funds through utility tokens.
As part of its Russian expansion plans, Seychelles-based exchange Huobi Global appointed Vladimir Demin as the company’s
Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk has become the main sponsor of both the women’s and men’s Turkish national soccer teams
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is collaborating with law enforcement authorities in Ukraine to take down some
The newest release of the Bancor decentralized exchange appears to be vulnerable to a very serious bug that can result in a significant loss of user funds.
Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX launched a learning platform dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
The derivatives platform for Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange is launching a new perpetual swaps product today, May 6, that enables traders to speculate
Italian-Cuban entrepreneur Mario Mazzola developed and deployed Cuba’s first peer-to-peer Bitcoin (BTC) exchange.


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Layoffs, budget constraints and return to office shift complicate theory of permanent gain
The downturn in PC sales comes after a pandemic-induced boom. Photo: PETER DASILVA/REUTERS
By guest author Dan Gallagher from the Wall Street Journal.
It has turned out to be a bad time for hybrid workers who want that extra computer. Especially for the companies making those computers.
Global PC sales saw another period of sharp double-digit declines during the first quarter, according to reports Monday by International Data Corp. and Canalys. Canalys reported that sales slid nearly 33 % year over year to about 54 million units, while IDC reported a 29 % drop, to about 57 million units. The first quarter is typically a weak one historically. But per IDC’s data, this year’s first-quarter sales of PCs fell below those from the same period in the years 2014 to 2019 leading up to the pandemic. It was also the industry’s fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit declines—a streak IDC hasn’t tracked since early 2016.
Some snapback was inevitable. The pandemic sparked a big jump in PC sales as companies and workers rushed to better equip themselves for remote work. But normal life proved slow to return, as a tight labor force gave workers the leverage to resist calls to return to the office full time. And expansion efforts—especially by deep-pocketed tech giants who believed their pandemic gains to be permanent—meant extra pay and perks for the same workers who wanted top-of-the-line gear to Zoom in from home. Apple’s Mac computers, which command much higher prices than the average PC, accounted for 10 % of global PC unit sales in 2022 after averaging 7 % annual share over the previous five years, according to IDC’s data.
But the PC industry’s normalization has come at an especially bad time. The same tech giants hiring wildly in 2021 have hit the brakes hard; tech companies have announced cuts affecting nearly 336000 workers over the last two quarters, according to tech-job tracker site TrueUp.
And the workers staying are finding budgets much less generous. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Google-parent Alphabet Inc., singled out equipment spending in a companywide email on March 31, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Today’s devices have a much longer lifespan and greater performance and reliability, so we have made changes to what’s available and how often it’s replaced,” she wrote. And this from a company with a net cash balance just under USD 130 billion—the highest in tech.
Wall Street has already been projecting sharp declines in the PC-related segments of HP, Dell and Lenovo this year. But the depth of the current slump raises the question of just what recovery will look like. PC’s have long been a mature market—one that averaged annual sales of about 265 million units in the five years before the pandemic. IDC, for its part, projects that annual unit sales will creep up close to the 300 million mark by 2027, which would represent average growth of about 3 % annually. Even that may require Google and its rivals to open up their pocketbooks again.
Appeared in the April 12, 2023, print edition as ‘The New Normal for PCs Looks Even Worse’.


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Amazon compromised on several hardware features of its Kindle Fire to deliver the most affordable mainstream 7-inch media tablet. Arriving on November 15 for $199, the Kindle Fire will enter a crowded market dominated by Apple's iPad.
After months of hype, Amazon today announced the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet with a $199 price tag. Amazon also refreshed its line of e-readers with a $149 Kindle Touch 3G, a $99 Kindle Touch without 3G, and a non-Touch $79 Kindle.
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It sports a color touch screen, looks much like a BlackBerry PlayBook and has no physical buttons on the surface of the device. And it comes at a bargain price.
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Apple reviewers are already sounding off about features and functionality in the fifth beta version of iOS 5 that was released to developers this weekend.
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Bitcoin To Tumble To $900; Silver To Climb 30% - Bloomberg Intelligence
(Kitco News) - Bitcoin is likely to mean-revert towards January 2017 levels of around $900, paving the way for precious metals like silver to prosper, according to research from Bloomberg Intelligence (BI).
In a recent webinar, Mike McGlone, senior analyst at BI said that he remains bullish on blockchain technology, but the digital currency market appears to be overvalued. He added that the speculator frenzy around bitcoin is not reflective of the coin’s original purpose as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, which has now become a “conduit to other cryptos.”
“The space is not what it’s designed to be, at least not right now,” McGlone said in the webinar. “A peer-to-peer (P2P) electronic cash system is exactly what it’s supposed to be, and it’s really transmogrified and a bit more of a speculative, frenzied way to get to other cryptocurrencies.”
McGlone noted that the entire crypto market is plagued by oversupply, with the 12-month rate of change of cryptocurrencies outstanding currently at over 8,000%, while on the demand front, the number of unique addresses for bitcoin has dropped at the greatest pace since inception in 2009.
“The only way to reduce [excess supply] is prices,” he said, citing the emergence of forks and “copycats” as a main reason for bitcoin’s increasing supply.
Bitcoin’s price is likely to “gravity pull” towards $900, which is the mean price since bitcoin sustained above $1 in 2011, the senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence said.
The largest digital currency last traded at $6,794, down 65% from all-time highs in December, 2017. $900 would represent a further 87% decline from current levels.
Silver and bitcoin have historically held an inverse relationship, as risk-seeking retail investors flocked to the largest cryptocurrency when it rallied and took money out of silver, which is often called leveraged gold.
“The most recent parabolic cryptocurrency stretch (2012-14) coincided with the opposite in silver as the metal plunged from a three-decade high in 2011,” McGlone said in a recent report by BI.
Silver has been trading range-bound, but is set to test the $18 an ounce resistance level, said McGlone.
“Silver's 52-week range is the most compressed in 15 years and appears unsustainable,” the report said. “Silver's extreme compression projects a revisit of 2016's high. Sustaining below the December low would indicate failure.”
The report added that silver is poised to break out higher, following traditional drivers such as the Bloomberg Industrial Metals Spot Subindex, which gained 20% since November, and gold, which is up 6% for the period.
“Similar velocity changes in these key drivers equate to about a 30% 12-month rate of change for silver,” the report said.


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PROVING that high mileage isn’t a problem for electric vehicles, trade plate delivery team from Shoreham Vehicle Auctions has seen its Nissan eNV200 seven-seat minibus hit the 150,000 mile mark this month.
And the auction house’s all-electric Nissan is still going strong, says the business, transporting plate drivers around the south of England to collect vehicles from vendors and deliver cars to dealers.
The team says it gets between 80-100 miles from a charge, which enables them to travel to London from Shoreham and back again in one journey.
SVA has installed 16 electric chargers at its Shoreham auction centre powered by a bank of 135 solar panels generating 50kW of energy. The Nissan charges overnight from the renewable energy generated from Shoreham’s 1,850 hours of sunshine each year. 80% of SVA’s company car and minibus fleet is now electric as it looks to accelerate its Road to Zero emissions.
Alex added that minibus was making a number of shorter trips, too, which were perfect for electric power and its running costs were low.
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WOOLWORTHS has reinstated purchase limits on a range of supermarket items at Victorian stores, after signs a second wave of panic buying was emerging over the past 24 hours.
A two item limit has been introduced on toilet paper, hand sanitiser, paper towel, flour, sugar, pasta, mince, UHT milk, eggs and rice in all Victorian stores.
The supermarket chain said the limits are a “preventative move in response to significantly elevated demand seen over the past 24 hours in certain parts of Melbourne”.
“While we have healthy stock levels to draw on, we’re taking this precautionary step to help prevent excessive buying,” Woolworths said in a statement.
“We have more than enough product for all of our customers if we all just buy what we need in our weekly shop.”


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A former McDonald's CEO had some harsh words for proponents of the #FightFor15: Robots are a heck of a lot cheaper and accurate than you are.
Speaking on Fox Business Network, former CEO Ed Rensi said that the fight for a $15/hour wage was "nonsense" and was going to come at the cost of jobs around the country. According to Rensi, robots exist that are able to do the same jobs as a human, for a much lower cost.
“I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry -- it’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 an hour bagging French fries -- it’s nonsense and it’s very destructive and it’s inflationary and it’s going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe,” said former McDonald’s (MCD) USA CEO Ed Rensi during an interview on the FOX Business Network’s Mornings with Maria.
Here's an example of a robot that can build a hamburger:
Rensi did, however, argue for a staggered minimum wage--one for high school-age students and one for other entry-level workers.
He's completely right. Kiosks are cheaper and more accurate than humans, and they're starting to creep their way into the food industry. Setting a wage at $15/hour (or any other arbitrarily high figure) will not help low-skilled workers--it will just shut them out of a job.


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The official board plan during the current year’s Star Wars Celebration has been reported. Therefore, we currently know the world debut of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order will be in Chicago on Saturday, April 13 at 11:30 AM PT/1:30 PM CDT/2:30 PM ET/6:30 PM GMT. Be that as it may, of the considerable number of occasions being spilled at Star Wars Celebration, the Jedi Fallen Order board doesn’t appear to be one of them.
In a blog entry, the portrayal for the board says Respawn Entertainment CEO Vince Zampella and Jedi Fallen Order diversion chief Stig Asmussen will talk about “how Respawn and Lucasfilm worked together on this unique Star Wars story,” one that pursues “a youthful Padawan’s adventure in the Dark Times following Order 66. There will be “a couple of amazements” also. Regardless of whether this is a trailer, an interactivity uncover, or something different totally stays to be seen. We have our very own expectations for what we need to see in Jedi Fallen Order, yet we’ll need to sit tight for the Star Wars Celebration to check whether any are affirmed.
The day preceding, Star Wars Celebration will have a board that offers a sneak top at Vader Immortal. The up and coming VR diversion is a “vivid drop into Darth Vader’s red hot Mustafar stronghold.” Vader Immortal is a dispatch title for the new Oculus Quest headset, recounting to a spic and span story in the Star Wars universe that happens in the middle of the occasions of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
The realistic side of Star Wars will be available at Star Wars Celebration too. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Episode IX executive J.J. Abrams will have a board for the new film. The Mandalorian official maker and author Jon Favreau and official maker and chief Dave Filoni will likewise be facilitating a board for the up and coming TV arrangement. The Mandalorian board will be spilled live, so you can watch it regardless of whether you’re not in Chicago. It starts April 14 at 9:00 AM PT/11:00 AM CDT/12:00 PM ET. Star Wars Celebration will likewise be airing sneak pinnacles of the second period of Star Wars Resistance and the forthcoming amazement period of Star Wars: The Clone Wars- – the last of which sees the arrival of fan-most loved Ahsoka Tano. Both sneak pinnacles will debut live too.


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Online and multichannel businesses among winners of the Queen's Award for Enterprise
Séraphine, favoured by the Duchess of Cambridge, is among today's winners of the Queen's Award for Enterprise.
The maternity wear retailer, founded by Cécile Reinaud (pictured)
, sells through three UK stores, with a fourth to open in Leeds in May, as well as online to 30 countries through seraphine.com. Internationally the company, which turns over more than £11m and saw 35% growth in the last year, works with distributors including Nordstrom and opened a flagship New York store in November. It made headlines when the Duchess of Cambridge wore a Séraphine dress in the first offical portrait of Prince George. During her second pregnancy, the Duchess also been pictured wearing its clothes
"It is a huge honour to receive this award and a tribute to how Britain nurtures and encourages entrepreneurship and international trade," said Reinaud. "I was born and raised in France but the United Kingdom is where I chose to build my business because it's the European country that has the most international outlook and a unique open-minded business culture."
The award also went to multichannel shoe manufacturer and retailer Hotter
, which makes a pair of shoes every 20 seconds in its Lancashire factory and sells them online at home and around the world, through more than 75 UK stores and one in South Africa. The company is celebrating today with an online event to mark its award.
"We're delighted to have won this recognition for our outstanding success in international trade which has seen our export earnings grow by over 123% in the last three years as we have developed the Hotter brand in markets such as the USA, the Middle East and South Africa," said managing director Peter Taylor.
He added: "From our headquarters in Lancashire we design, develop and manufacture shoes for our global markets, ship over two million pairs of shoes around the world each year and support our customers with a dedicated call centre and personal shopping service that works across multiple time zones."
Meanwhile, DPD won an award for its in-house developed Predict one-hour delivery service which, says the delivery company, has been directly responsible for new business wins worth £178m and has helped drive growth at the business that includes the creation of 2,000 jobs and the expansion of its delivery network.
"Our strategy all along has been based on investing in technology, people and service to create the best delivery experience possible for our customers," said DPD chief executive Dwain McDonald.
"That passion for innovation and our obsession with customer service really come together around Predict. I'm incredibly proud of what we have been able to do in the last five years in terms of UK jobs, wealth creation and growth. Creating over 1,000 new jobs a year off the back of a recession and a prolonged economic downturn is a hell of an achievement, and we aren't done yet! 2015 is set to be our biggest year so far, with the opening of our fourth sorting hub which will give us capacity to grow our business even further."


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APPARENTLY, there are more smartphones in the world than toothbrushes.
I don't really know what that tells us, apart from that people are happy to take selfies even though their teeth resemble Shane MacGowan's mouldy molars.
That fact isn't headline news. I have three children who spend too much time glued to their Apple devices and most parents have the same dilemma.
But it strikes me as ironic that this new generation have been blessed with the most incredible communication technology yet, somehow, communicate the least.
My 13-year-old son feels incapable of answering in more than one letter. I ask a question and he frequently texts back with the reply "K". Even just saying OK has to be abbreviated these days.
What is really startling is that car firm tech boffins are rapidly trying to rush through sci-fi in-car communication into the mainstream because they fear the next generation of potential drivers WON'T buy a car.
A Volvo autonomous car chief told me that driverless cars are now crucial because the next set of motorists will deem vehicles "a metal prison" if they have to actually drive and won't be able to browse Facebook.
So what we are saying is that if you can't watch You Tube, you won't want to drive. That truly would be Video Killed The Motor Car.
So the Frankfurt Motor Show was an event of connectivity. The ability to communicate is now sink or swim for car firms. It will also be fascinating to see who brings in this extensively connected technology.
Will it be car companies as we know them joining up with Apple or Google - or will those two giants bring their own vehicles to showrooms? Research also reveals that more car buyers are deciding to switch brands for better connected services.
The number that would do so rose from 20 per cent in 2014 to 37 per cent this year.
Researchers McKinsey say this shows connectivity is becoming a "must have" for car buyers.
More and more car makers support the Android Auto and Apple CarPlay interfaces that let people use their smartphone apps through their car's dashboard screen.
Seven manufacturers had cars with Android Auto on display in Frankfurt: Audi, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, SEAT, Skoda and Vauxhall. General Motors have been connecting cars for years through their very impressive OnStar remote roadside assistance service.
Google had no stand in Frankfurt but have shaken up potential auto rivals by testing a self-driving car prototype.
Traditional firms such as Mercedes, GM, Volvo and Toyota are also working to gradually automate functions in the car until vehicles become fully capable of driving themselves within the next decade.
General Motors boss Mary Barra admitted: "We will see more change in the industry in the next five to 10 years than we have in the last 50."
I asked my son whether he was excited by the rapidly evolving technology for when he drives by the end of the decade. He just grunted "K".


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Sheryl Swoopes is a basketball legend.
Not only is she one of the greatest players of her generation and a WNBA pioneer, but she was a trailblazer in the shoe game too.
In 1995, Swoopes became the first woman to get a signature Nike basketball shoe with the release of the Air Swoopes.
Two years later, Nike followed it up with the Air Swoopes II, which had a unique look with its lacing system and vertical Nike swoosh.
And now, two-plus decades after its original release, the Air Swoopes II are returning to the limelight and making a comeback. This is no joke, folks.
Nike has dropped the retro Air Swoopes II
Starting today, you can pick up a pair of the classic shoes with a white/black-royal colorway design. The Nike Air Swoopes II are available on Nike.com for $140. Nike will also release a white/black-red colorway version on September 7.
The Nike Air Swoopes II kick off a new series focusing on retro female shoes
The retail giant will pay homage to 1990s basketball and pop culture with by re-releasing old-school female shoes, according to Nike’s website.
While we don’t know much about the upcoming series, this is an exciting new venture that should produce some fresh kicks and honor legends like Swoopes.
We’ll keep you updated with more info as product release dates are announced. For now, enjoy the 90s feel on your feet.
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Mecum Auctions ended its collector-car calendar year on a high note with its inaugural Austin, Texas, auction achieving a near-70 percent sell-through rate for 660 vehicles for a total of $14,668,347.
Yet again, a late-model Ford GT sports coupe ruled as the top-selling car, reaching $310,000 on the block (results do not include auction fees) for a factory-fresh 2006 car with 267 miles and the protective plastic shipping covers still on the seats and interior panels.
A 2005 Ford GT also took third place, gaveled at $269,000, just behind a 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda coupe that went for $275,000. A 2006 Ford GT Heritage Edition, the most desirable model painted in blue-and-orange Le Mans racing colors, reached $400,000 but did not make the reserve price.
Late-model Ford GTs have been top sellers at a number of Mecum auctions this year, most recently as the highest sale at the Kansas City auction earlier this month, three of the four leading cars at the Anaheim event last month, and in October at the Chicago auction, Ford GTs occupied the top three spots.
In the Austin sale, a featured car that failed to make reserve was the 1967 Ford Mustang Eleanor used in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds, which was bid to $380,000. The rare 1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88 performance coupe also was a no sale even at a lofty bid of $850,000.
The Austin auction is one of three new events for Mecum, which also added auctions in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Seattle during 2014 for an unprecedented total of 21 auctions. Mecum plans the same number of sales in 2015.
Mecum’s sales during 2014 reached a record $330 million.
Mecum had set its target for Austin at 600 vehicles crossing the block, but the final count came in 10 percent higher.
“The volume of consigned cars greatly exceeded our expectations for the inaugural Mecum Austin Auction, which resulted in a fantastic finish to a record year for Mecum Auctions,” Dana Mecum, president and founder of the Wisconsin-based auction company, said in a news release. “With more than 2,100 registered bidders and 10,000 energetic spectators, these stats are a testament to the strength of the collector car market in Austin and the state of Texas as a whole.”
Mecum Auctions at Austin, Top 10 sales:
1. 2006 Ford GT at $310,000
2. 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda at $275,000
3. 2005 Ford GT at $269,000
4. 1969 Chevrolet COPO Camaro at $170,000
5. 1967 Mercury Comet 202 Sedan (a 2,004-mile original) at $169,000
6. 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split Window Coupe at $165,000
7. 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle LS6 at $145,000
8. 1955 Chevrolet 3100 Resto Mod at $142,500
9. 1968 Ford Shelby GT500KR Fastback at $127,500
10. 1955 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster at $125,000
(Prices reflect hammer sales before auction fees.)


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The Facebook group Lakewood, Dallas, constant fodder for news and gossip around the neighborhood, is currently on the trail of a rampant package thief.
A woman was photographed at multiple locations in the M Streets and Lakewood, approaching front doors and snatching boxes.
Neighbor Nicole McBee told Candy’s Dirt that she was hit four times in recent weeks by the same woman. In retaliation, McBee loaded up a box with her dog’s feces and left it on her front porch to lure the thief. The woman returned, taking the box of poop with her. “She stole my dogs’ food on Saturday. They left her a ‘thank you’ on Tuesday,” she said.
Neighbor Sheri Beach says the woman has been spotted at 6300 Mercedes, Vanderbilt and Monticello, the 5400 block of Ridgedale, the 5700 block of Richmond and Velasco and Pearson in Lakewood.
The woman, who is white and blonde, appears to be driving a grey Buick SUV without license plates.
UPS and FedEx have package tracking, which allows neighbors to know when something is left at the front door. Amazon offers lockers that can be used to avoid having the packages stolen. There is an Amazon locker location in the Lakewood Whole Foods.
Be vigilant, East Dallas.
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Demand on Armenian carpets increases in international market
In Armenian and international market this year is notices increase of demand towards Armenian carpets.
Armenpress was informed about this from executive director of "Tufenkian Trans Caucasus" company Arman Grigoryan and Direcotr on production and commercial director of "Megeryan Carpet" company Leonid Andreasyan. "Because of the crisis during the last four years the demand on our carpets increased but this year is obviously noticed rather great growth" said Arman Grigoryan.
The 90 percent of the production we export to Europe, Asia, USA and the rest realize in internal market. Basically we use traditional Armenian trims, do combination of different patterns. "If the supplier presents his demand than we act according to it" said the executive director of "Tufenkian Trans Caucasus" company.
Leonid Andreasyan also mentioned that in comparison with several last years growth of interest towards Armenian carpets is noticed in international market.
"Our carpets are similar to letters: each trim consists of an interesting idea and the carpet in total presents a unique idea. We try to keep our national as now many countries use Armenian trims and try to introduce them as their own. Our company has always implemented steps in order Armenian carpets find their place in international market" mentioned Andreasyan.
Each year these companies present Armenian carpets at the exhibition in American city Atlanta.
Five enterprises which are involved in carpet production in 2011 gave a production of 77.31 million AMD. The increase in comparison with 2010 is 23.7 percent.
The carpet culture which has its own place in Armenian cultural system has been known since 4-3 millenniums B.C. Armenian carpets are unique by their rich color combination and high level of sewing.


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The Anti-Trump Left is trying to drive business away from businesses who do business with the Trump family.
Since the stunning defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8th, the nation’s radical left has been up in arms (and in the streets) over the fact that American voters elected Donald Trump to become the next President of the United States.
In October, Clinton supporter Shannon Coulter, a tech and media marketing specialist, started a boycott against companies (primarily retailers) that do business with Donald Trump’s companies through the #GrabYourWallet hashtag.
Since then, however, the “movement” has been adopted by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump—which has a Facebook page of 158,000—and the list has grown and includes a download-able app now, as well as a script for boycotters to use to contact the targeted business.
Here’s the script:
Sample of what to say / write: “Hi. I’m a customer / fan of your brand. Unfortunately I’ll no longer be able to shop there because you do business with the Trump family. If you were to no longer do so I would consider returning as a customer. Please communicate my feedback to store management. // (Optional: I have shopped at your store/brand for X years. I will be shopping at (name your local store or closest shopping competitor) until these products are no longer available for sale.” // Here’s what I said to a rep who said “Well, we don’t carry Donald’s products”: Because Ivanka campaigned passionately for Donald, now has an official role on his presidential transition team, and has been meeting with heads of state inappropriately, I feel her brand has been permanently politicized.
- Here is ‘The List‘ of Trump-related businesses the Left is trying to boycott.
As the Independent Review Journal noted last week, of the (then) 30 businesses listed, 23 of them are Ivanka Trump’s businesses and completely separate from those her father owns.
The campaign was created as a response to Coulter’s belief that Donald Trump denigrates women. but it seems Ivanka is the one shouldering this criticism.
Given the Left’s hatred of Trump and desire to destroy his entire family’s businesses, for those opposed to the Left’s tactics, as opposed to heeding the Left’s #boycott call, perhaps Americans will instead use ‘The List‘ and engage in a #BUYcott.


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India’s Business Books Take Off
Whether it’s a large chain retailer or the smallest bookstall at an airport departure gate, Indian bookshops all have one thing in common — the predominance of business and management titles.
English-language biographies of leading business figures and self-help books about how to make a fortune pack the shelves, tapping an apparent thirst for success and self-improvement in the fast-growing South Asian nation.
“Business books are very important to us,” said Sonal Gandhi, head buyer at the leading chain Crossword, which has 86 stores across India.
“It’s the more populist ones that really sell. We don’t really do a lot of technical stuff. But we do business management, self-help books, a lot of biographies, which sell a lot,” she told AFP.
But Nielsen BookScan, which tracks retail sales, said the value of the business publishing sector grew at a rate of more than 25 percent from the second to third quarter of the current financial year.
The overall market increased at a rate of 18 percent value-wise in the same period.Nielsen BookScan estimates that it tracks more than a third of all English-language Indian trade book sales, using data from retailers including Landmark, Crossword and the online book, film and music store Flipkart.
“Business books are important because they command a higher retail price as compared to other genres like fiction or self-help and still generate good volumes because the target audience is upwardly mobile and affluent,” he said.
“Some business books in hardcover have print runs higher than best-selling fiction titles in the same format.”
Krishan Chopra, publisher and chief editor non-fiction at HarperCollins India and Collins Business, said the phenomenon mirrors India’s expanding economy, as well as a shift in attitudes towards success and money.
“It’s part of the growth story,” he said.


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Halfords is expected to update the market on its trading this week
City analysts predict the car parts and bicycles chain-store will clock like-for-like sales growth of 3.5 per cent at its retail arm in the third quarter, which includes the critical Christmas period, helped by softer sales in the same period the year before.
However, Halfords has been stung by the collapse in the value of the pound, which contributed to profits slumping 16 per cent in the first half of the year.
The retailer said in November sharp falls in sterling since the Brexit vote sent the cost of imported goods surging by £6million in its first half.
It posted pre-tax profits of £39.1million for the six months to September 30, down from £46.4million a year earlier as hefty discount promotions for its bicycles range also knocked interim profit margins.
The group warned over the impact of higher costs of importing goods, but said it had plans to help offset the blow.
Halfords teamed up with Sir Bradley Wiggins to launch a range of children’s bikes for all ages last summer.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will not follow in Nissan’s footsteps in seeking special assurances from the Government if the UK leaves the EU’s single market, the chief executive has said.
Torsten Muller-Otvos said that the luxury car manufacturer has not had any communication with the Government, despite high-level-communications between Downing Street and car maker Nissan.
“We don’t have any agreements with the Government so far, and there is currently no intention to structure any deals with the Government, and we are also not threatening the Government that we would withdraw here from the country,” he said.
Sir Bradley Wiggins teamed up with Halfords to launch a range of children's bikes last year
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His comments follow an announcement from Nissan in October confirming it would be making two new car models in its Sunderland plant, securing 7,000 regional jobs, despite speculation it might quit the UK following the vote to leave the EU.
Some of the country’s leading employers for university leavers are offering graduate starting salaries of up to £45,000, a report has found.
The likes of retailer Aldi and law firm Baker McKenzie are among those offering at least £40,000, while graduates taken on by Britain’s top 100 employers can expect an average salary closer to £30,000 during the next year.
Rolls-Royce CEO says wants UK to stay in single market
Some firms are offering graduates salaries of over £40,000
The figures were compiled for The Graduate Market in 2017 report, a study of the latest graduate vacancies and starting salaries at the country’s best-known and most successful employers.
Despite the uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote, Britain’s top employers are expecting to expand their graduate recruitment for the fifth year running in 2017.
The report reveals that employers are stepping up their graduate vacancies by 4.3 per cent this year, with extra jobs available in the public sector, and at high street and online retailers.


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Dragon Ball: Daima, a brand-new Dragon Ball anime series, has been confirmed to release in Fall 2024.
The big news was dropped at New York Comic Con‘s Dragon Ball panel. They even revealed a teaser. . Initially blocked on the livestream, Toei Animation promptly shared the teaser online. The footage features de-aged versions of Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, and other characters.
While there have been many analogies to GT, it is a unique narrative “never told in Dragon Ball,” according to the film. It is being illustrated by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. During the panel, it was hinted that Toriyama will be active with Daima “beyond his usual capacity.”
We don’t know much about it yet, including where it fits in the timeline, but in the teaser, Shenron is shown stating, “Now, state your wish.” We next witness Goku being de-aged before seeing several other characters, including Chi Chi, Pamput, Krillin, Piccolo, and Shin, all in much, much tiny versions. Take a look at the screenshots below.
Toriyama’s series most recently inspired the Dragon Ball Super anime, which was followed by a slew of anime films, including 2022’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
All Dragon Ball anime films are streaming on Crunchyroll and Hulu.


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TORONTO — Popular Toronto-based chef Ted Corrado has joined Summerhill Market as executive chef.
Best known for his work with The Drake properties and his secret cannabis dinners with byMinistry, Corrado will be based out of Summerhill Market’s commissary, overseeing the more than 700 items the company prepares daily in-house.
Having spent more than two decades cooking in renowned Toronto restaurants, including Rain, Luce and George, Corrado emerged as one of the most influential names in the Toronto food scene. He made a name for himself in the city as head chef at the ROM’s c5.
Corrado’s contemporary and innovative cooking style was responsible for firmly setting The Drake properties as one of the city’s finest culinary institutions and for opening The Drake Devonshire in Prince Edward County to critical acclaim.
As director of Culinary for byMinistry, he oversaw the launch of its first-of-its-kind cannabis cooking school, plant-forward menus at all byMinistry spaces and a range of edibles.
Summerhill Market currently has three locations across Toronto, with a fourth location opening in the Forest Hill neighbourhood in March 2021. Part grocery store, part culinary market, Summerhill Market is known for its homemade prepared foods, high-quality fresh ingredients and unique, hard-to-find items.


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Soon, residents will be able to buy medicines at subsidised rates, thanks to the civic body's novel initiative of setting up 40 stores across the city that will make available generic drugs to patients over the counter.
Nashik: Soon, residents will be able to buy medicines at subsidised rates, thanks to the civic body's novel initiative of setting up 40 stores across the city that will make available generic drugs to patients over the counter.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to give its vacant shops to qualified pharmacists for 5% of the actual deposit. Besides, only those pharmacists agreeing to take margin of 15% or less for sale of medicines will be preferred.
Apart from that, the civic body will also start its own store for generic drugs on a five-acre land in Dwarka.
Civic doctors say that in every family today, at least one member suffers from diabetes, blood pressure or heart disease. While the minimum expenditure for medicines for these ailments is Rs 2,000 per month, generic drugs would cost around Rs 800. This cost could be reduced to one-third through generic drugs, which are as good as branded medicines, the doctors said.
The civic administration will be facilitating opening of retail shops for generic medicines in all the six divisions of the city.
"We will give shops at nominal rates to those qualified in D-Pharmacy, B-Pharmacy and M-Pharmacy. Soon, we will put up advertisements to invite pharmacists. Generally, we auction the shops but in this case we will be giving shops to those who are capable of giving generic medicines for minimum margin," said additional municipal commissioner Anil Chavan, adding that the margin should be 15% or less.
He said that while social organisations could also be considered, they would have to employ qualified pharmacists.
"The NMC is also going to start its own generic medicine store. We have a five-acre plot in Dwarka, a centralised location. We will buy the generic medicines from central government-approved agencies," said Chavan.
The interiors of the generic stores will have to be approved by the medical department of the NMC to maintain transparency. The shop will have to display a board mentioning its collaboration with the NMC, and it must be approved by the civic body. All types of generic medicines and their prices will have to be displayed in the medical store and should be visible to the customers. Besides, the store must have two computer monitors - one of which will have to be placed in such a position that the customer can see the name of the medicines, quantity, price, discount and other information. The customer will also get an SMS on his cellphone about the details of the medicine purchased. His signature on the bill is mandatory. The packing of the medicines too should mention 'in collaboration with the NMC'.
"Common medicines will be available at a much cheaper rate than branded medicines. For example, if the cost of a branded medicine is Rs 10, the generic drug would cost Rs 2-3," said medical superintendent of the NMC B R Gaikwad.


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The Airbnb/New York spat is coming to a head
This morning the New York Post reported that the office of New York State's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is filing an affidavit claiming that two-thirds of Airbnb's New York listings are considered illegal under New York occupancy laws. This comes one day before both the state and the company give opening statements over a proposed subpoena from the Attorney General asking for documents of all New York Airbnb users.
This, of course, isn't new; It's just the latest in the drawn-out spats between the sharing economy's golden child and the state of New York. The latter continually maintains the company is acting illegally, which first subpoenaed these documents last year.
Since then the two entities have been in a war of PR hand-waving and flat out name-calling. When the Attorney General first demanded the nearly 15,000 records, Airbnb promptly responded with a report enumerating all of the ways the company was financially aiding the city. Schneiderman's office still didn't back down, with today's submission aiming to finally bring the conflict to a head. If the court decides in favor of the state, Airbnb will be forced to comply and fork over the records.
This latest data submitted by New York comes from the Investor Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General, which manually combed through thousands of Airbnb listings with the help of a New Jersey data analysis company, and then analyzed the type of listing to deem whether it was illegal or not.
It found that 63.6 percent of the listings collected purported to offer "entire apartments." As another recently-filed New York state affidavit explains, it's illegal for any "residents of Class A buildings to rent out their apartments for any prior of time less than 30 days, unless they are also present in the apartment." The data, therefore, deduces that any listing that is for less than 30 days and offers an entire apartment is illegal.
Of course, none of this should come as a surprise. It's well-known that there is a tenuous legal balancing-act currently underway between micro-entrepreneurs who operate within the sharing economy and legacy laws that were intended for larger corporate-like businesses. San Francisco is facing a similar problem, but has been working to create legislative workarounds to appease both the city and Airbnb. New York appears to be staunchly against drafting legislative reforms to let Airbnb persist the way it is now.
The company, which is said to be raising a new round that could value it at $10 billion, has not been completely circumventing these issues. When it first began, Airbnb refused to partake in hotel taxes, but has since shifted its stance and agreed to pay a 14 percent San Francisco hotel tax. As Pando's Carmel DeAmicis wrote regarding its decision to pony up to the tariff, "Airbnb can’t grow into that massive valuation by being a hospitality alternative. It has to become as mainstream as The Hilton." The next hurdle the startup needs to overcome in order to grow out of adolescence is to deal with New York's Attorney General.
The company fervently maintains that what Schneiderman is asking for is over the top. Airbnb is aware of the hazy legal grounding on which it stands, but thinks this means it's time for a much-needed reform. In a statement emailed to Pando, the company wrote:
The current short-term rental law was designed to target illegal hotel operators. The authors of the legislation admitted that Airbnb hosts were not the target of this law. The Attorney General’s attack on thousands of New Yorkers demonstrates why the law should be modified -- not repealed -- to ensure regular New Yorkers can share the home in which they live.
It also pointed to the fact that internally the company has been working to weed out the bad actors -- that is, those operating full scale hotelier schemes. The state was able to discover numerous accounts purporting have many always-available apartments in New York -- which doesn't really seem like the way the sharing economy is supposed to run. The Post reported that more than 200 of the listings came from just five "hosts." I profiled one such large-scale illegal undertaking last December.
In response to these accusations, Airbnb revealed today that it suspended the accounts of egregious offenders, many of whom the Attorney General had named in its affidavit.
As per its usual reaction, Airbnb also points to the economic benefits its platform is having on the city, while maintaining that the majority of users are honest New Yorkers looking to make extra cash on the side. The Attorney General counters this claim saying, in a statement to Pando, that Airbnb is "resorting to name calling and public relations to confuse the issue."
Whether the court will uphold the subpoena or not will help provide a sense as to the future of the platform in New York. Tomorrow is when we'll begin to see the end of this extended game of chicken.
[illustration by Brad Jonas for Pando]


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CBS has begun testing high-definition streaming video.
Buried in the lab's section of the network's Web site is a gallery of short HD clips from shows such as Jericho, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Dexter.
TechCrunchwas first to report the story and said the clips are available in H.264 format at 480p, with 720 p and 1080p coming later.
CBS has been overshadowed on the Internet in recent months by Hulu, the video portal operated by NBC Universal and News Corp. Huluand has attracted a score of content from other networks, studios, and sports leagues. Hulu has also begun testing high-definition streaming.