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Data regulations are being strengthened across the APAC region, driven by privacy concerns held by more than two-thirds of consumers.
From Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), to Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act and India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, new data laws are coming into force and existing regulations are being updated.
These changes, alongside regulatory shifts in the rest of the world, inevitably promote speculation around how the data privacy landscape will evolve and what’s likely to happen next.
But in truth, the shape of future privacy regulation is immaterial.
New regulations will continue to emerge, but rather than scrambling to maintain compliance with each one individually, businesses need to establish a robust data supply chain on which to build governance so that they comply with local regulations.
They must re-prioritize their data practices around transparency, communication and trust to satisfy consumer demand for increased control over personal data – whether they are compelled to by law, or not.
Transparency is the letter of the law in all data regulations, so the first step for any business is to understand its own data practices and ensure they are fully disclosed.
As a result of poorly integrated systems and disparate data silos, many businesses struggle with fragmentation and a lack of visibility into the data they collect as well as what happens to it.
They are also battling with the vast volumes of data continually being produced across multiple channels, with over a third of marketers in APAC citing difficulties in unifying different sources of data, a situation that will only be exacerbated by the roll-out of 5G connectivity across the region.
Businesses need to create a data map that clearly shows all data sources, the information that is collected, where it is stored, what it is used for, and where it goes.
At this point most companies will want to rationalize their data practices, maintaining only those that are deemed essential.
Once businesses understand how data flows through the organisation and who it is shared with, this will need to be explained to consumers using clear, concise privacy policies.
Businesses that manage to communicate their data practices simply, without legal jargon, will gain consumer trust and a reputation for transparency that can be used as a competitive differentiator.
In addition to effectively communicating data practices, businesses must also give consumers more control over what happens to their personal data.
This means putting mechanisms in place that allow consumers to access the data stored about them, to have it amended when it is inaccurate or incomplete, to request that it is deleted entirely, or to take it to another provider.
It also means giving consumers more of a say in whether their data is collected in the first place.
Some regulations require consumers to positively opt in to the collection of data for activities such as marketing, while others only compel businesses to provide a means of opting out, but gaining explicit consent is arguably the most effective way to engage consumers and gain their trust, and is likely to become a required practice in more data regulations.
The consent process can be a vital first touch-point in the user journey and an opportunity to explain the role the consumer’s data plays in improving their own experience.
Once a user has set their consent preferences via this initial interaction these must be stored centrally, applied uniformly across the entire business and managed throughout the lifetime of that individual’s data supply chain.
To assist with both understanding data flows and giving consumers more control, businesses are exploring a range of data platforms.
However, there is a great deal of confusion around the different tools available and the role they play in data management, not least because they are all known by similar three-letter acronyms.
First, there are Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, which are very effective solutions for storing transactional data but don’t necessarily offer insight into anonymous user behavior prior to a transaction taking place.
Next, there are Data Management Platforms (DMPs), which are largely used to collate and analyse anonymous website interactions and create audience segments to feed digital advertising technologies.
While these are both valuable tools in their own right, they don’t always integrate effectively with other systems used throughout the rest of the user experience.
The latest entrant to the data management market is the Customer Data Platform (CDP). They can be used effectively alongside both CRM systems and DMPs, meaning businesses don’t need to completely replace their tech stack.
CDPs bridge multiple sources of first-party data such as online and offline transactions, interactions on connected devices and conversations with call centers. They create a clean, centralized data foundation that delivers a single view of the customer which is accessible across the entire business.
Because data sources are unified to form a single view of the customer across all devices and channels, and because business rules can be set centrally to be applied across the organisation, CDPs help businesses establish a robust and transparent data supply chain to underpin governance and comply with local data regulations.
The data privacy landscape will continue to evolve, and people will always try to predict what future regulations will look like, but that’s not where businesses should focus their attention.
By taking a fully transparent, privacy-first approach to data management, businesses will be empowered to build valuable, long-lasting consumer relationships whatever shape future data regulations may take.
Catherine is Regional Vice President APJ Solutions for Tealium. She has spent 25 years in IT, marketing and digital development, specifically working with the data that drives these tools. Previously, Catherine held a number of regional roles with multinational organizations such as Oracle, IBM, Acxiom, Marketo, and as an independent digital consultant.
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While the country focuses on how to stop the spread of COVID-19 and stem the economic downfall caused by its disruption, marketers must also determine how to react in the short term to minimize long-term damage as they adapt to the new normal.
If they are to prevail, companies must be prepared to serve their customers both now and when the pandemic subsides. It’s a formidable challenge, to be sure, since the current crisis is unlike anything we have had to navigate before, but there is some precedent in past events—from major recessions to the terrorist attacks of 9/11—that can help inform our actions moving forward.
Drawing lessons from previous crises and examining what we have already learned from the COVID-19 threat, answers emerge for three critical areas of concern:
History shows us that it is in a brand’s best interest to continue to advertise through an economic downturn. In particular:
New research specific to the coronavirus crisis also supports the importance of continuing to advertise. The 4A’s polled 1,000 consumers this March, 43% of whom said, “It is reassuring to hear from the brands I know and trust.”
Another March study, this one by GlobalWebIndex (GWI), revealed that 38% of Americans believe that advertisers should carry on as normal during the pandemic, compared to 28% who do not.
While there are no studies of what it costs businesses that “go dark” in a downturn to rebound once the recession is over, recency theory suggests that the spend required to rebuild awareness could negate any savings gained by pulling back.
Also, brands that continue to invest in advertising while others cut back have the opportunity to capture a higher share of voice at lower media cost.
A consumer-centric approach to marketing strategy is nothing new, but amid a crisis, understanding your customers’ mindsets becomes even more important than understanding their wants and needs.
Your messaging during COVID-19 needs to take into account changes in consumer behavior that will likely continue as long as the threat of the pandemic exists.
It needs to set the right tone and communicate something meaningful and relevant to what people are experiencing now. And there’s more to messaging than what your brand is saying. Now more than ever, it’s just as important is you’re doing.
Today’s consumers—driven by the priorities of millennials and Generation Z—increasingly consider a brand’s stance on societal issues when making their purchasing decisions.
They are paying close attention to brands’ actions during the pandemic and quickly reacting, through social media shaming, boycotts and other means, to those they perceive to be taking advantage of the crisis.
The good news is that consumers are open to hearing a variety of messages from brands during a crisis.
The post-9/11 research by Hofstra and Pace universities identified four key messaging formats that emerged in the wake of the attack and measured consumers’ responses to examples of each:
Of these, only the commercial ads received a more negative than positive response (45%) while two-thirds of respondents reacted positively to the image-related, participatory and patriotic messages.
The Hofstra and Pace researchers drew from the work of social psychologists Sherif and Sherif to explain why these themes triggered positive responses.
The answer lies in four behavioral changes the psychologists identified that take place when a group encounters an outside threat: increased group cohesiveness, rise in autocratic leadership, focus on activities, and emphasis on loyalty.
Of these, image and patriotic ads convey a “we’re in this together” message that resonates in the context of increased group cohesiveness while messages that encourage participation speak to a focus on activities.
Everyday routines have been drastically altered as Americans largely ride out the COVID-19 crisis at home. Two recent studies look at the impact of stay-at-home orders on media consumption habits, providing valuable intel to marketers considering where to direct their advertising dollars.
The first, by Nielsen, predicts Americans will consume 60% more content during the pandemic. This is based on consumers’ media habits during two disruptive natural events: the 2016 New York blizzard dubbed “Snowpocalypse” and the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey that made landfall in Texas a year later).
GWI’s COVID-19 research, meanwhile, shows that 95% of Americans are spending more time using in-home media. Video, combining both digital and linear, is seeing the highest increases.
Social channels have also significantly increase, serving as a news source and a way to easily connect with family and friends, while cinema and outdoor advertising have substantially declined.
Radio consumption has predictably dropped in in-car listenership, but surprisingly, in-home usage is up 26% with people listening in on their smartphones (19%), laptops (12%) and smart speakers (10%).
There’s no question that COVID-19 has dramatically disrupted business as usual and its effects will reverberate for the foreseeable future.
For certain industries—hygiene and cleaning products, for instance, as well as groceries, food delivery, ecommerce, online learning, and work-from-home tools—the pandemic has created growth opportunities that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, leaving them struggling to keep up with demand.
For too many others—like travel, live sports and entertainment venues, fashion and retail, transportation—safety concerns and stay-at-home orders have caused precipitous drops. As the crisis continues, existing models support a minimum GDP decline of 5%.
The lessons of history point to three critical steps for marketers today. Whether COVID-19 has brought growth or decline to their industry, they must continue to invest in marketing at some level to ensure their brand’s long-term health.
They need to understand what their customers are experiencing and find a message that will resonate with them now. And to reach their audiences with that message, they must allocate more of their marketing budget to the social media and video channels consumers are tuning into while they spend more time at home.
The challenges of marketing in a pandemic environment will be with us for some time. But with a clear path forward, informed by past crises and early intelligence from COVID-19, they are not insurmountable.
For a deeper dive into the studies and insights presented in this article, read the white paper by Egan and Mower Insight Group, Lessons From History: How Brands Should Respond During the COVID-19 Crisis.
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The world is moving fast and things are changing every day. With many companies cutting budgets and adjusting their business models to function in the current pandemic, it’s more important than ever to make customers feel supported while being smart with time and resources. The best way to do that is to ensure you have the best tools and vendors to back your unique needs and keep business growth in focus during these unpredictable times. Right now, companies have a critical opportunity to re-evaluate if their marketing automation stacks can keep up with their unique needs while keeping business growth in focus.
It’s also an important time to maintain a clear company road-map for the future, not just the next few months, and determine if your current marketing tools will grow your business today as well as five years down the road.
Here’s how you can take an effective look now at what platforms will help your company weather a crisis and protect your growth.
Many companies miss the warning signs that it is time to re-evaluate their stack, and they find themselves locked into vendor contracts for longer than they should.
Here’s one of the biggest red flags: If your current marketing automation platform doesn’t seamlessly integrate with your other business technologies, it’s time to look for a platform that does.
In today’s world, technology is open. Businesses are more quickly adopting the newest and best automation tools to maximize all aspects of their operations. However, in order to unlock the full potential of these new and advanced technologies, they must interact efficiently.
Marketing automation platforms can help you learn as much about your current customers as they do about prospective customers.
Platforms that help increase growth, but don’t integrate well with your existing CRMs, social media marketing solutions or account-based marketing solutions, make it harder to move the needle towards your goals.
Companies must look for flexible tools that incorporate contact management and also go beyond lead generation to impact the complete customer lifecycle.
Effective growth happens when integrated stacks simultaneously attract new customers and enhance existing relationships, delivering great experiences at every customer touchpoint.
This means that the full marketing team should be able to benefit from the best automated marketing platforms, from demand gen to customer marketing.
If a piece of your stack sits in a silo and only a few team members benefit from it, it is time to consider another option that can better holistically support your business.
When it’s time to look for a new marketing automation platform, there are many points to consider.
First, think of the key marketing road-map milestones you have over the next several years. Take into consideration that you’ll likely be using this platform for many years to come, and visualize the company’s unique needs not just in the coming months, but farther down the road.
You want a core platform that is not only focused on one point of the buyers’ journey, but also one that is more expansive and will help maximize your sales funnel, run with your key systems and make sure leads are being nurtured.
The platform must support your goal of creating a great customer experience that helps your brand stand out.
Beyond ensuring you have a platform that fits your company goals, get into the nitty-gritty details of a platform’s pricing model while you research.
You need to understand how your investment in a platform will help you grow and deliver ROI. Be sure that you’re clear on pricing structure, contract terms and SLAs, or Service Level Agreements.
Many expensive pricing structures are based on database size, and because much of your database is often unreachable, you’re stuck shelling out for information that’s not benefiting your bottom line.
Instead, look for models that are more tied to value, like active contacts. Also, marketing automation is a long term process — so be skeptical of a contract that runs month to month.
The right marketing automation platform can help you take your marketing and business efforts to the next level and stay on top of shifting climates.
From controlling the shape and velocity of your funnel and pipeline, to gathering behavioral data of prospects and customers to increase engagement, it’s important for companies to look at platforms not just as marketing software but also as strong communication tools.
In a world where business moves quickly, budgets are tight and customer experience is more important than ever, be critical of your marketing automation platform – and don’t be afraid to make a change to better support your long-term growth strategy.
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Tech: Elon Musk made plenty of progress — and headlines — on multiple fronts
Elon Musk had a series of weighty accomplishments in 2019, especially with SpaceX.
Gaming: Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent took steps to put the game publisher back on track
For Nicolo Laurent, chief executive at West L.A.-based Riot Games Inc., 2019 brought some significant gains.
Idealab company staffs up and moves downtown
Pasadena-based software developer X1 Discovery Inc. is closing out 2019 with a series of big changes.
SMS marketing firm plans to expand its team in 2020
Text message marketing firm Postscript raised a $4.4 million seed round to expand its workforce and onboard new ecommerce clients.
Cannabis: MedMen made big strides in 2019 before switching gears and cutting costs
It was a year of highs and lows for MedMen Enterprises Inc.
MedMen has received $37 million in gross cash proceeds for the sale of various businesses since Nov. 26.
Glendale-based ProducePay Inc. raised a $205 million debt financing round Dec. 10.
Struck Capital’s Adam Struck believes the city’s startup community can rival Silicon Valley
Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Struck Capital is all-in on L.A. The firm invests in an array of industries, from lifestyle products and gaming to financial and educational technology.
Tech: Deal with SM firm creates Draper Goren Holm
Timothy Draper has a history of funding some of the technology sector’s most prolific startups and now the venture capitalist is bringing his money to Los Angeles.
Riot Games announced the launch of Riot Forge, a third-party developer publishing label.

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Famous Data Breaches
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. This data protection law has been effective for five years now. Many data breaches have been reported since then. Five missteps can be generally recognized.
On May 25, 2018, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most comprehensive data protection law in the world to date, came into force. The GDPR has left its mark across Europe. Many of the data violations tend to be on a small scale, but there have definitely been some notable missteps by companies with high fines resulting from data breaches.
The Micro Focus has compiled five most interesting cases of data breaches:
1. Google data breach: €50 million euros in fines
The French data protection authority CNIL imposed its first GDPR fine of €50 million euros on Google in January 2019, making it the largest data breach fine in the history of European data protection. The authority accuses Google of two violations of the European GDPR. The essential data protection information was spread over several documents and could not be found at all or only with difficulty by laypersons. This violates the principle of data transparency. Furthermore, the information provided by Google, even if it was found entirely, is too inaccurate to provide the user with real information about the purposes of the data collection. In addition, the setting functions for personalized advertising are illegal.
The data violation complaint was filed by the Noyb organization and by the French company La Quadrature du Net. In addition to the current action against Google, Noyb has also recently filed similar complaints against major streaming services such as Netflix, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and Spotify.
The penalties here could theoretically be even more than €50 million euros, as up to two percent of the annual revenue generated worldwide is possible as a data breach penalty.
2. Not a good deal
In April 2019, the Polish data protection authority UODO imposed a data breach fine of 943,000 zloty, the equivalent of around €221,000 euros, on the public company Bisnode AB.
The company is a digital business information provider that had collected personal data in order to collect it in its own database and use the data for commercial purposes. The sanctioned company obtains its data sets from publicly available sources.
The data breach penalty was imposed on the company because it had not fulfilled its information obligations. In total, almost six million data records are affected. According to Article 14 of the GDPR, the company should have informed the data subjects about the use of their data – and it should have done so in all six million cases involving personal data.
As it turned out in the proceedings, the responsible parties acted deliberately knowingly failing to inform data subjects about the use of their personal data. This and the lack of insight on the part of the company had a direct influence on the amount of the imposed personal data violation fine.
3. Sensitive patient data in the hands of fake doctors
In 2018, the Portuguese data protection authority CNPD imposed the first significant fine in Europe for a breach of the GDPR. Accordingly, the Barreiro Montijo hospital near Lisbon had to pay a total of €400,000 euros after the data breach.
Among the reasons cited by the data protection authorities was that too many people had unauthorized access to confidential patient data. The hospital operator knowingly and with full intent granted internal IT technicians access to the data that should only be accessible to physicians. In addition, a total of 985 active users were registered as "physicians" in the system, although only 296 physicians worked at the hospital in 2018. The hospital justified this by stating that temporary profiles were created as part of a service contract, which would explain the discrepant numbers.
4. First GDPR sanction in Germany
Germany imposed its first fine for a breach of the GDPR in November 2018, when social and dating website Knuddels.de reported a data breach of 1.87 million credentials and 800,000 user email addresses in September.
The data protection authority of Baden-Württemberg found that the website had stored data such as the passwords in plain text, which violated the GDPR directive on pseudonymization and encryption of personal data.
However, due to the speed with which the data breach was reported, the authority showed significant leniency towards Knuddels. Moreover, the website responded promptly and informed the users affected by data breach by return of post. The fine of €20,000 euros was therefore comparatively small.
5. It costs nothing to ask? That does not apply to the GDPR
In May 2018, the small mail order company Kolibri Image asked the Data Protection Commissioner of the German state of Hesse for advice. The company had asked one of its service providers several times for an order processing contract, but had not received it.
Kolibri Image wanted to find out from the Hessian data protection authority how to proceed. The latter replied that both sides were obliged to conclude such a contract that governs data processing. Not only the service provider, but also the client is responsible for data protection reasons. The company is obliged to draw up a corresponding agreement itself and send it to the service provider for signature. Corresponding templates can be found on the administration's website.
On December 17, 2018, the State Commissioner imposed a fine of €5,000 euros for not complying with data security regulations plus 250 euros in fees. He particularly justified the decision with a violation of Article 83 (4) of the GDPR. The principle "asking questions costs nothing" did not work here.
Tell me where the data is: Nine famous data breaches
A data breach can happen quickly: malicious attacks, sloppiness or simply by mistake. With the General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) effective, such a mishap can have fatal consequences for the company affected by data breach. After all, penalties of up to a maximum of four percent of the (global) annual turnover or €20 million euros are threatened.
Apart from that, such incidents with data must also be reported and made quasi-public – and that is very unpleasant and quite embarrassing for any company.
1. Sony PlayStation
Energy providers, online banks, universities and dating agencies have also committed one or two data privacy violations. Most of these are admittedly not as spectacular as the famous Playstation hack, one of the biggest data security incidents in IT history to date. In 2011, hackers penetrated Sony's PlayStation Network and compromised around 77 million unencrypted user accounts. Only the credit card data was encrypted – but only rather weakly. Sony had to shut down the network completely at that time and respond to several governments or pay fines for data security violation. They did not make much difference anyway, since shutting down the network alone cost Sony $171 million.
Already, the list of (disclosed) data mishaps is long. And it shows one thing quite clearly: the size of a company does not matter. The fact alone that it has been Facebook that has attracted particularly negative attention in recent times should be warning enough. While the Cambridge Analytica scandal was more of a deliberately political affair, the data breach at the beginning of April this year is really a homegrown data breach. 540 million customer records of personal data were stored on publicly accessible Amazon cloud servers and were freely available to anyone – until it was finally removed. A few months earlier, hundreds of applications had widespread access to photos of several million members of the online network for several days. This included images that users uploaded to Facebook servers but did not post.
The Internet company Yahoo has proven that even this amount can be topped – twice. After confessing in September 2016 that more than data of 500 million user accounts had already been hacked in 2014(!), it had to admit two months later that the data of more than a billion Yahoo accounts had already fallen into the wrong hands a year earlier, in 2013. No hack known to date has had anywhere near as many victims of data security crime. Incidentally, it is still not entirely clear how the hackers got in. At least the communications group Verizon will be happy about this: it took over Yahoo in June 2017 and reduced the purchase price by $350 million in one fell swoop.
4. Deep root analytics
The Deep Root Analytics company has put the data of 198 million US voters unsecured on the Internet. In addition to names, dates of birth, addresses and telephone numbers, some of the data also contained information about the religion or ethnicity of the voters and their views on controversial issues. The file with the data, last updated in January 2017, was found by the UpGuard IT security company. Deep Root Analytics confirmed the data authenticity and has since taken the file with data offline.
5. German Post
Europe is not a paradise of the data protection either. Subsidiary of Deutsche Post, for example, can prove it. Under the domain umziehen.de, there operates a portal on which people enter personal data such as their new address after moving to inform banks or insurance companies automatically. A database of this kind, containing around 200,000 relocation data records, leaked onto the Internet unprotected at the beginning of July this year. Human error was to blame for the data leak, funnily enough on the fringes of a security update. Upon this update, a copy of the data was created, which should have been deleted afterwards – but it was not.
6. Toy manufacturer VTech
Chinese toy manufacturer VTech faced a problematic incident in 2015, when hackers were able to crack the database and thus access all customer data and profiles. The data included not only details such as name, address and login data, but also photos and chats between parents and children – which caused additional turmoil. Almost five million accounts were affected worldwide.
7. Energy supplier MVV
It does not always have to be the evil data hackers who make life difficult for companies. Sometimes all it takes is a stressed, over-motivated or careless employee with a mail program. This is what happened at the MVV German energy provider. An employee caused a data breach by accidentally sending 1,000 customer data (including bank details) to a private person. The Outlook auto-complete function and carelessness of the employee were to blame.
8. Online Bank Comdirect
Speaking of bank data, we should mention the online bank Comdirect that had to deal with a curious problem related to data security. Customers who tried to log in ended up not on their accounts, but on someone else's. The company justified the technical problems by citing a faulty software installation. Only a restart of the IT systems brought order back into the system.
9. RWTH Aachen University
On the other hand, the two messages from RWTH Aachen University were sent to the correct e-mail addresses. In the first one, the faculty's mentoring team informs about a free mathematics help course in the summer semester. Basically, this would be a good thing, if it weren't for the file "Bachelor-Complete List" in the attachment, which contains personal data in the form of a table with about 8,000 full names, including the matriculation number and the respective e-mail address. In the second e-mail sent shortly afterwards, the mentoring team apologizes for having sent the list unintentionally and asks the recipients to delete the e-mail.
The fact that there was hardly anything to hear about data mishaps in Austria was not because this country has been a model student so far. Rather, it was because such data incidents preferred to be swept under the rug. Although the Data Protection Act (DSG 2000), which was effective until May 2018, had provided for a duty to inform since 2010, this regulation was so woolly and unclearly worded that it left a lot of room for maneuver. In addition, the threatened penalties were rather low, with a maximum of €10,000 euros. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) changed a lot. Now a data breach can be expensive – and above all quite embarrassing.
Many data breaches are preventable. On the one hand, they occur due to careless mistakes, stress and hectic daily routines. Sometimes, however, it is ignorance of new or untrained employees. The data protection supervisory authority in Saxony-Anhalt lists some typical data breaches in its report. Companies in Saxony-Anhalt reported 115 data protection violations in 2019.
Prevention and first aid in the event of data protection breaches
Data protection breaches or data mishaps occur easily. Notification and documentation related to data security creates a significant amount of work for the company. They must be prepared professionally. The supervisory authority shows measures for data breach prevention in each case. Each data breach should be proven in subsequent audits.
TYPES OF DATA PRIVACY VIOLATIONS
The supervisory authority lists the following data protection violations in the activity report.
SENDING E-MAILS TO UNINTENDED RECIPIENTS AND WITH AN OPEN DISTRIBUTION LIST
When e-mails are sent to unauthorized recipients, the cause is often the incorrect entry of an e-mail address or the use of an incorrect e-mail distribution list. Then it depends on the content of the information whether this leads to a reportable data protection.
Significant risks for the data subjects can arise here, for example, if particularly sensitive data (e.g., special categories of personal data or bank or other detailed asset data) is transmitted in the e-mail. However, the rule already applies here that sensitive data must not be sent by e-mail unencrypted, so that unauthorized persons cannot read the data at all if they receive it improperly.
MAILINGS OF LETTERS WITH SENSITIVE DATA TO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS
If, for example, emails are addressed incorrectly, e.g., by mixing up labels or envelopes, a data protection breach may occur immediately. This is especially true if responsible parties send sensitive data, such as account data or payroll or health data, and a person unauthorized to view this data opens this mail. The sending of mail subject to professional secrecy (e.g., tax documents) also usually leads to a notification obligation on the part of the responsible party.
Remedy and data restoration:
SENDING OF E-MAILS BY THE EMOTET VIRUS
This treacherous virus uses the address books of e-mail programs and sends e-mails automatically. So I could already look at e-mails sent within a department several times.
Remedy and data restoration:
DISPOSAL OF DOCUMENTS CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA IN PAPER WASTE
Information that should not be seen by everyone can always be found in the wastepaper garbage can. Whether this is information that includes the corporate sensitive data (quotations, invoices, sales or logs) or contains personal data about data subjects (e.g. payslips, copies of ID cards) – dispose of sensitive information and personal data properly.
LOSS OF DATA CARRIERS
Data carriers or terminal devices on which personal data is stored are lost or stolen. During the period of activity, however, acquaintances or family members had also taken information to harm employees.
ENCRYPTION BY MALWARE
If malware is activated by opening an e-mail attachment, data is encrypted in the case of encryption Trojans. To the extent that data subjects are adversely affected by the encryption, the data breach must be reported.
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HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana factory that makes springs for rail cars is delaying some of the planned layoffs of nearly 100 workers.
Amsted Rail had announced layoffs starting in mid-December for its Hammond factory but has told state officials it’s holding off on the layoffs of about 40 workers until February. At least a dozen workers are being recalled in January for training.
Bill Carey of United Steelworkers Local 2003 tells The Times of Munster (http://bit.ly/WVqS1n ) that the company’s business has been cyclical, leading to layoffs when orders decline.
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Horsham, PA, September 17, 2019- Zenescope Entertainment has announced that the #1 issue of the popular publishing house’s brand new comic book series, The Watcher, has sold out of its initial print run through Diamond Comic Distributors. Each issue of this original three-issue horror/thriller series includes ten pages more story and artwork than a standard […]
HORSHAM, PA, September 6, 2019 — Thanks to our incredible fans and amazing turnout the past two years, we are officially announcing the 3rd annual Zenescope VIP Comic Fest set to be held in downtown Philadelphia on August 8th and 9th, 2020. VIP Comic Fest “Elite” tickets are limited to just 100 total and will go on […]
Zenescope Entertainment has announced its plans for San Diego Comic Con 2019. The popular comic book and graphic novel publisher will be set up at its regular location, booth #2301, located immediately inside entrance C of the San Diego Convention Center.
HORSHAM, PA, April 16th, 2019 — Zenescope Entertainment has successfully funded its Robyn Hood Collectible Statue Kickstarter, the next of the Grimm Fairy Tales Bishoujo Style Series, in under four hours. . The statue is based on one of the most beloved female heroines from Zenescope’s expanding catalog of comic book titles, Robyn Hood. The […]
HORSHAM, PA, March 12, 2018 — Comic book and graphic novel publisher, Zenescope Entertainment, has announced its plans for Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo 2019. The convention will run March 22nd-24th, 2019 and will be located in the South Building at McCormick Place, in downtown Chicago. Zenescope will be at booth #609 during the convention. […]
HORSHAM, PA, March 12, 2018 — Comic book and graphic novel publisher, Zenescope Entertainment, has announced its plans for Emerald City Comic Con 2019. The convention will run March 14th-17th, 2019 and will be located at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle with Zenescope appearing at booth #2415 throughout the four day event. Among […]
Comic book publishing house, Zenescope Entertainment, has announced plans for a London-based retailer tour prior to London MCM Comic Con October 26-28th.
Comic book and graphic novel publishing house, Zenescope Entertainment, has announced its plans for the 2018 New York Comic Con. The convention will run October 4th-7th and will be located at the Jacob K. Javits Center in midtown Manhattan.
Orlando, FL (August 13, 2018) – After 100 years in the business of cartoons, media, and publishing, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! is building on its illustrative and publishing foundation by entering the graphic novel market in partnership with Zenescope Entertainment.
After a three year hiatus, Zenescope’s smash hit series returns with Revenge of Wonderland.


text: We must understand that a society in which women cannot realise their full potential loses out significantly on the potential for economic growth, gender equity, innovation, and livelihood creation. Therefore, it is imperative to encourage entrepreneurship among women. To ensure that there are more women participants in the entrepreneurship space, there is a serious need to increase awareness and education on the existing government policies, schemes and programs that give women the support they need to start their enterprise. Women entrepreneurship has been identified as an important catalyst for economic growth. However, despite industrialization, economic growth, and improvement in social indicators, participation of women in the workforce remains low in India. Despite India’s rapid economic growth in recent decades, India still has very few women entrepreneurs, well below several Sub-Saharan African countries on some average measures. Although India’s overall average female business-ownership share is on an uptrend, the pace of improvement is slow, and there remain huge spatial disparities across states within India. The number of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) led by women entrepreneurs in the country has jumped from a mere 2.15 lakh, as per the MSME Ministry’s FY11 annual report, to 1.23 crore in FY21.


text: Are you consumed by wanderlust and looking for some help customising an itinerary according to your personality? Well, a startup called GoFro claims to be the only travel partner you will ever need, and we will put its claims to the test. We also put the spotlight on the founder of Moglix, who says his B2B commerce company will be a game-changer in the field of of industrial and business procurement. And he even has the backing of a visionary and industry veteran like Ratan Tata. But will our sharp investors be impressed?


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Special edition of What I think I learned last week: At the IMF/World Bank meeting
At a time when global economies are challenged in a number of ways, including trade conflicts and tariff threats, last week I returned from attending the Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund & World Bank in Washington DC. The primary focus of the meeting was global economies need to use this period of economic growth and stability to address needed reforms, especially on the fiscal side with budget deficits. This concern about undertaking needed reforms has been a recurring theme over recent meetings, but the concern was heightened this time with the release of the IMF economic forecast. The forecast is calling for the global economy to slow by 2020, by which time it may be too late to fix the fiscal imbalances.
A secondary topic centered on the Eurozone’s missing inflation and the apparent inability of monetary policy to do its job. While the looser monetary policy of the European Central Bank has worked in terms lowering unemployment from 12 million to 9 million, the tightening labor market has not created higher wages and inflation, in a situation that the economists are calling the “missing inflation.” The hypothesis presented is that the Eurozone is dominated by smaller companies who are less able to absorb higher labor costs and that the larger importance of labor unions and long term employment contracts has led to a “stickiness” that has caused inflation to undershoot targets. The conclusion was that monetary policy is not failing and that it would be a major error for the European Central Bank to start tightening too soon. With data this week showing the Eurozone economy growing at its slowest rate in a year-and-a-half, its manufacturing index hitting a thirteen month low, and Germany’s retail sales falling for the fourth consecutive month, it would seem to be a timely analysis and warning.
Other issues tackled at the meeting included the role of technology. One of the main points made is that technology is always a sequence of innovations and inventions, which can amplify current economic trends in both positive and negative directions. When it comes to the labor market, technological trends likely will require creating a more adaptable workforce. Governments will need to absorb the massive labor reallocation costs involved with an economy based upon robotics, automation, big data and artificial intelligence. Again, this points out the need for fiscal reforms today to afford these future necessities.
Economists within the International Monetary Fund were actually enthused about the technology trends. Current policy recommendations using standard economic data such as GDP, labor data or inflation are dated by the time trends can be established. Using big data, however, they are finding that they can make use of short cycle data like online searches, bank transactions, tweets, coal load shipments, etc., and advances in machine learning allow them to shorten time lags and offer better policy responses.
Summary: the world is not fully benefiting from the synchronized global recovery as economies are not addressing the debt issue while they have time. We are in the midst of a major economic change, moving from a tangible to an intangible, digitalized and aging economy that will require resources that may not be available due to the overly indebted global economy.
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A Tampa-based, third-party testing lab for cannabis and hemp is expanding with the addition of a new Brandon facility.
Method Testing Labs, founded in 2019 by cannabis industry veterans Keith Browning and Rob Radke, plan to open a 7,200-square-foot facility at 2720 Broadway Center Blvd. by July 1.
“We love the Tampa area. We did not want to move outside of the I-4/I-75 [corridor],” says Browning, explaining the area offers easy transporting.
Plans call for the addition of another 10 to 15 employees in Brandon, including analytical chemistry, microbiology, lab technician, transport, customer service and quality assurance staff.
To qualify, scientists should have a four-year degree and technicians should have a two-year tech degree; successful applicants typically have two to three years of experience.
Salaries are “very competitive in the lab space,” Browning says. The company also offers a full health package, stock options, bonuses and merit raises.
is charged with testing the state-regulated cannabis to see that it’s safe. Essentially, it tests cannabis for pesticides, heavy metals, residual solvents, microbes, potency and terpenes, or the flavoring. It tests hemp for potency.
“It’s tech support of the cannabis industry,” explains Browning, CEO. “Think of us as picks and shovels supporting the operators.”
The company, located at 4620 Eagle Falls Place, has a staff of 20 and is helping to meet the need for quality control in a dynamic cannabis industry. That need led them to form the company.
“We kept finding that one of our largest issues was testing. Compliance testing for a product. It was always very expensive,” Browning recalls, adding uncertain turnarounds also was problematic.
“It [the industry] is always changing,” he says. “A lot of companies are being purchased and rolled up.”
The firm also will be opening a facility in Massachusetts this summer. It is making plans to expand into two other states next year.
Browning, a native of Orlando, relocated from Alpharetta, GA, to Tampa about a year and a half ago.
“I just love coming back to Florida,” he adds. “It’s been a homecoming for me as a Florida native.”
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Metz, one of Germany's leading producers of televisions, is now on Spain's AliExpress Plaza, which is run by China-based Alibaba.
Japan's Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation announced that starting from October 2015, the company will begin manufacturing and sales cooperation covering refrigerators, washing
China-based Baofeng Technology is forming a joint venture to create a new line of smart televisions.
Samsung SDI has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Wuxi to build a polaroid film plant in China.
Chinese home appliances retailer Gome signed purchase orders of 8.18 million TV sets with manufacturers like Skyworth, TCL, Hisense, Changhong, Sharp, and Konka during
Toshiba will close its color TV plant in Dalian at the end of December 2013, and its Dalian Toshiba TV Company will terminate operation


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New accelerator to help big financial institutions and fintechs Build Back Better
The Build Back Better Accelerator will support leaders of financial services organisations launch new and more sustainable products at a rapid pace, as well as investing in new start-ups and ideas independently...
On April 21st a new accelerator programme was launched in the UK to help organisations around the world succeed in the new economy after lockdown in ways that are both good for people and good for the planet.
The accelerator has been developed by Label Ventures, a global consulting and investment company headquartered in Edinburgh. The concept of accelerators is well established in the tech world as a way to take founders through the steps involved in starting and scaling a company at pace. The Build Back Better Accelerator will use similar techniques to help leaders of brands, and public sector institutions, move with the urgency of a tech founder as they face into the challenge of creating businesses that are high growth but have a low environmental footprint and are high in social impact.
“As the economy comes back to life, we all have a rare opportunity to make change happen” says Label Ventures partner, Nick Sherrard. “However, we simply won’t see progress made if we do not work in new ways. The lifting of lockdown restrictions gives us a rare opportunity to reset the way we do things, and we have to be ready to take advantage of that.”
“What holds leaders in FS back in making change happen is a mixture of issues in strategy and execution. Thinking through where the issues are in your company, and how to change them, can be quite mystifying. Then when it gets to actually building new products and services it is easy to fall back into your old habits, and frankly move too slowly when the market wants to see change happen more rapidly. That’s why we are approaching this as an accelerator.”
The programme itself takes leaders through a 6-week process to blueprint out how their strategies, products and ways of doing business may be able to build back better. Label Ventures has constructed a network of over 40 specialist studios drawn from the UK, US, Europe and Australia, who can input to this process. The goal is that at the end of the programme companies can either secure investment themselves and/or the Label will invest alongside them to execute significant programmes of change.
Organisations can join the accelerator in two ways. They can either book in for an informal online discussion of the programme with the team, or they can access a more detailed diagnostic session that will identify where their organisation is currently blocked from building back better and find initial opportunities to change this.


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The Alberta government quietly informed cannabis retailers late Friday vape cartridges will be available for order starting Monday.
The decision comes a little over one month after the province put a hold on releasing the cartridges, saying it wanted to review the safety of the products.
Cannabis vape cartridges are already legally available in other provinces, and they’re easily obtainable on the black market, according to cannabis retailers.
Heather Holmen, communications manager for Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis, confirmed an email went out to retailers on Friday alerting them that cannabis vape cartridge products would be on their weekly order forms starting on Monday.
It could take up to another week for the orders to be filled and shipped to stores, but she expects to see them in brick-and-mortar retail shops in the next few weeks.
“Government reviewed the available evidence, data and other provinces’ decisions on cannabis vaping and determined that Alberta will allow for the sale of cannabis vapes,” said Holmen.
“From a government perspective, it was important to review the evidence that was available and ensure that the decisions was made in the best interest of Albertans.”
She said the Alberta government and AGLC will continue to monitor the products and the available evidence to ensure the continued health and safety of Albertans.
Colten Mertz, district manager with Urban Canna, said he was surprised to see the email from the AGLC Friday evening.
“I was not expecting it in the near future at all,” he said. “I was under the impression that it got roped in with the tobacco vape review.”
Postmedia requested an interview with the Treasury Board and Finance ministry, the government department responsible for the review, but did not receive a response by deadline.
Mertz said given the number of people asking for vape products, he’s hopeful he’ll be able to satisfy more customers instead of having them leave his stores empty-handed.
But at the same time, he’s worried about competition from the black market.
“They didn’t give us any information on what they’d be taxing us,” said Mertz. “For instance in B.C. they have a 20 per cent vape tax.”
He said that means a half-gram legal vape cartridge in B.C. can cost about $100 with taxes, while a full-gram vape cartridge can be purchased on the black market for about half the cost.
Brittany Smith, a supervisor at Queen of Bud, explained vape cartridges will have about 100 to 200 “pulls” on them. An entire cartridge could have upwards of 1,000 milligrams of THC in it.
“From what I’ve seen from other licensed producers that have come in to show us their product, most of them are sitting around the 400 to 600 milligram (per cartridge) range.”
Edibles, by comparison, have a 10 milligram of TCH per package limit.
She said unlike edibles, which can take an hour to 90 minutes for their effects to become apparent, vapes are just like smoking. Anyone using a vape should begin to feel the effects in under a minute.
She said they will be advising vapers to go low and slow when they first try vaping cannabis.
“Have maybe one or two pulls off that cartridge and see how you feel after five or 10 minutes. And then have a little bit extra afterwards.”
The other benefit of vaping, she said, is the lack of a strong smell.
“They’re a little bit more discreet. It makes it easier to not have that smell if you’re in an apartment building,” said Smith.
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Biotech startup LexaGene is setting the bar high for the food pathogen testing industry by launching a genetic testing technology which can detect a broad spectrum of pathogens in less time and at low cost.
As high profile media coverage looks at the misguided, and as witnessed, dangerous consequences of unclear allergen information, we spoke to global intelligence agency, Mintel, about how big the problem of allergen labelling is.
Cultured meat might not be the answer to climate change some hope because in the current energy system the benefits of reducing methane could be outweighed by increased carbon dioxide emissions, new research suggests.
Shopper insight provider IRI suggests e-commerce offers “huge opportunities” for food retailers and manufacturers to meet the needs of a new generation of shoppers. In order to capitalise, the industry must respond to eight key emerging trends.
Food manufacturers and retailers are operating in an “increasingly complex” environment as technological advances contribute to the merging of channels and development of new approaches to the traditional shopper mission. FoodNavigator speaks to Nick...
Today’s increasingly complex, fragmented and global food supply chains have led to a steep increase in food fraud, according to Bühler and the only way to tackle it is enhanced transparency across the entire value chain and emerging digital technology.


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With Thanksgiving less than a week away, the season of giving started early for one Ramsey-based company.
Employees from 24Restore and 1-800-BoardUp went on a shopping spree at the Coburns in Ramsey on Wednesday. Turkeys were at the top of the list. Thousands of dollars worth of goods went to a food shelf in Elk River.
The Coon Rapids Fire Department is also getting a $5,000 donation to purchase smoke detectors and fire-stoppers.
"We know from statistics that 60 percent of the fires in Minnesota start in the kitchen so we have automatic canisters we can install, and the people that need them," says Piper. "We can install them at their places and then it can put the fire out if they have a fire on their stove."
This is the fourth year 24Restore and 1-800-BoardUp has done the shopping spree give-away. This year they doubled their donation to a whopping 1,800 pounds of food.


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WASHINGTON - U.S.
Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick will travel to Paris, France next week
to discuss trade issues at the annual meeting of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) and to meet bilaterally with his ministerial
colleagues to review the current state of global trade negotiations.
negotiations were launched at the 4th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial
in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. The 5th Ministerial, viewed as an important
mid-point to the negotiations, is scheduled for September 10-14, 2003 in Cancun,
a once in a generation opportunity to achieve bold, multilateral trade
liberalization. It is critical that Ministers focus now on the key elements of
these historic negotiations. The United States played a key role in helping to
launch the current Doha trade negotiations, and we remain steadfastly committed
to a successful conclusion that delivers historic trade liberalization across
the three core areas of agriculture, services and goods," said Zoellick. "One of
the Doha Development Agenda's primary goals to is to promote development
throughout the world, particularly among poor countries, and we shouldn't settle
for half steps that won't deliver meaningful results.
"This is a very
sensitive time in the world economy and in these negotiations. The road to
Cancun requires us all to continue exploring ways to bridge differences and
develop the consensus necessary to move forward," added Zoellick.
expected to meet with French Economic Minister Mer on Monday, April 28th, and to
continue with bilaterals with several developing countries on Tuesday. Following
the OECD meetings on Wednesday, April 30th, Zoellick and European Union Trade
Commissioner Pascal Lamy will hold bilateral meetings on Thursday, May 1 to
continue exploring ways to move the trade talks forward.
On Friday, May 2
Zoellick will be in Berlin, Germany for meetings with government officials and
German business leaders. On Saturday, May 3, Zoellick will give midday remarks
at the Munich Economic Summit and will meet with business executives to discuss
the importance of the Doha WTO negotiations.
particularly for agricultural products, is widely considered to be at the heart
of the Doha trade negotiations. In order to spur momentum in the talks, the
United States has made bold proposals in all three core negotiation
• The United
States has made proposals to liberalize global trade in services, designed to
remove foreign barriers in areas such as financial services, telecommunications,
and environmental services. According to a University of Michigan study, a
one-third cut in global barriers to trade in services would increase U.S. annual
income by $150 billion. Total elimination of barriers in services would raise
U.S. annual income gain by over $450 billion. For Western Europe, a one-third
cut in global barriers to trade in services would increase their annual income
by $103 billion; total elimination by $313 billion.
Trade in services
also benefits developing countries greatly. Services liberalization and
modernization can help developing countries jump start the economic growth
necessary for reducing poverty. The World Bank estimates that services
liberalization by developing countries could yield income gains for them of
nearly $900 billion annually.
• The United
States was the first WTO member to put forward a comprehensive agricultural
trade reform proposal, calling for elimination of export subsidies, cuts of $100
billion in annual allowed global trade-distorting domestic subsidies, and
lowering average allowed global tariffs from 62 percent to 15 percent. The
United States also proposed that WTO members agree in this negotiation to a
specific date for elimination of agricultural tariffs and trade-distorting
Also according to
the World Bank, developing countries would gain nearly two-thirds of the benefit
from global free trade in goods including agriculture. Their increase in annual
income would amount to $539 billion. The bank further found that free trade
could help lift 300 million people out of poverty - a number greater than the
entire population of the United States.
• The United States proposed
eliminating all tariffs on consumer and industrial goods by 2015. The U.S. plan
for zero tariffs is comprehensive, would benefit both developed and developing
nations, and would eliminate tariffs on the nearly $6 trillion in annual world
goods trade, lifting the economic fortunes of workers, families, businesses, and
consumers. A University of Michigan study found that the U.S. economy would
expand by $95 billion as a result of tariff-free trade - contributing to
job-creation and higher wages. The same study found gains of up to $192 billion
for the EU and EFTA together (Western Europe).


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Blog: Why Asda is vital for Wal-Mart
Dean Best | 21 February 2008
As predicted, Asda looks likely to gain most from the moves to inject more competition into the UK grocery sector.
It was telling that Asda’s announcement yesterday (20 February) of a wave of planned new stores in the UK – and the creation of 9,000 jobs – came just days after news that there would be changes to the regulations governing the grocery landscape in the UK.
The company’s planned expansion also speaks volumes of the confidence its parent, Wal-Mart, has in increasing its share of the UK market.
What’s more, it was Asda that boosted Wal-Mart’s performance in 2007, so any further growth in the UK is vital for the folks in Bentonville.
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Relay42, the leading data management platform (DMP) company that empowers marketers to orchestrate customer journeys, has continued to build upon its strong business growth with three new senior leadership appointments.
Mark Van Dijk will join Relay42 as Chief Operations Officer in September 2017. Van Dijk was previously CEO for iProspect Netherlands, which saw him overseeing all company operations for six years. In total, Van Dijk has 15 years’ worth of management experience, including working within fast-paced, big growth companies.
“I’ve always enjoyed working for companies that are ambitious, maintain high energy levels and set big goals for themselves, which is why I’m so excited to be a part of Relay42. I’m looking forward to helping further accelerate the company’s rate of growth and continuing to be a disruptive force in the marketplace,” said Mark.
Relay42 also announces that Anoma Van Eeden has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer for Relay42. Van Eeden has spent her entire career in B2B enterprise marketing, having previously worked as Head of Marketing EMEA for Optimizely, and has also held Director positions in both Europe and the US. She will be bringing her wealth of knowledge around product marketing, partner marketing, market strategy and demand generation to her new role at Relay42.
Lastly, the former Commercial Director from Krux Digital (Salesforce DMP), Karim Nadi, has joined Relay42 as Vice President of Sales for the EMEA region. Nadi has 12 years of sales experience within the marketing technology sector, and has valuable first-hand experience of data management platforms (DMPs). Nadi also specialises in strategic business development as well as digital and performance marketing.
Tomas Salfischberger, CEO and co-founder, Relay42, says: “Our company is growing at an astounding rate — we expanded our global footprint with offices in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Sofia and Singapore — and so the fact that three individuals with such a wealth of talent and experience have chosen to join our company is testament to our reputation as an innovative and disruptive business. We’ve always been about exceeding expectations in order to delight our customers, and with this new senior leadership team in place we will be able to continue delivering outstanding service and experiences.”
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The LinksDAO sold out of its memberships and raised more than $11 million in its quest to buy a real-world golf course
- A new decentralized autonomous organization has raised millions in its quest to buy a real-world golf course.
LinksDAOsold out of memberships over the weekend and raised more than $11 million in ether.
- Holders of the LinksDAO membership have the right to purchase a membership to the course.
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But LinksDAO's stated goal seems more attainable than ConstitutionDAO as it scours the US for a potential golf course to buy, operate, and maintain. The DAO sold 6,363 Leisure Membership NFTs, and 2,727 Global Membership NFTs for 0.18 ether and 0.72 ether, respectively.
The memberships give its holders various rights including the right to purchase a membership at the first physical club acquired by the DAO, along with governance rights via the $LINKS token which launched in early 2022.
Already, the LinksDAO Membership NFTS have seen a total sales volume of more than $3 million in the secondary market, with the average price hovering around $1,500, according to data from NFT Stats. While the memberships have already sold out, investors can buy them via OpenSea on the secondary market.
The LinksDAO roadmap includes purchasing a golf course in mid-2022, and opening it to the community by late 2022 or early 2023. From there, LinksDAO hopes to expand to additional locations and create a global membership network of golf courses.
The DAO will retain 10% of the supply of each membership type that it can later sell to raise funds for marketing, partnerships, and strategic purposes, similar to how a public company will sell its own stock to raise funds for growth purposes.
While Web3 is seen as living in a digital world with avatars and social hangouts, the LinksDAO highlights that a democratized form of ownership of real-life assets, like a golf course, can be enabled by
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NEW YORK — John D. Idol sweetened the management-led buyout bid for Kasper ASL Ltd. on Tuesday to $100 million.
Idol, chairman and chief executive officer of Kasper, and his private equity partner, Parthenon Capital LLC, said late Tuesday they had increased the purchase offer placed before creditors last week by $12 million.
"This sends a message that we are very serious about acquiring this company and we are working to make it happen," Idol said.
Idol and an unspecified group of upper management at Kasper announced last week they had partnered with Parthenon to make an offer for the bankrupt firm from creditors for $88 million in cash. Of the total sum, $6 million would be used to pay transaction fees and other expenses, making the actual purchase price $82 million in the original offer.
Under the revised proposal, management and Parthenon have increased their offer to $100 million in cash, of which $94 million would be used to discharge the claims of unsecured creditors. The $6 million estimate of transaction fees and expenses remains unchanged. As reported, industry estimates put the total amount of Kasper’s outstanding claims at approximately $148 million.
The original management offer came just a day before a bankruptcy court was scheduled to consider Kasper’s most recently amended plan of reorganization and a disclosure statement, which detailed a plan to change the corporate name to Anne Klein Group and swap outstanding Kasper stock for newly issued shares of Anne Klein in order to pay off liabilities. It is similar to the reorganization plan of Feb. 5, when the company filed a pre-arranged bankruptcy agreement. The hearing was postponed to allow creditors time to consider the all-cash proposal.
Kasper’s bankruptcy plan was created after acquiring a heavy debt load from its acquisition of the Anne Klein labels. ASL refers to former chairman Arthur S. Levine, who left the firm shortly after Idol came on board in July 2001 after a turnaround effort at Donna Karan International. Levine has since partnered with Elie Tahari to launch a rival suit line.
EXCLUSIVE: @tomford is opening its first-ever beauty store. The boutique, which opens November 20 in London’s Covent Gardens, was designed with the over-the-top glam Ford is known for. Read the full story on WWD.com, link in bio. #wwdbeauty #wwdnews (📷: Simon Wagner) #TomFordBeauty
New York-based DJ @harleyvnewton threw a party to celebrate the holiday collection of her dress and pajama line @hvn at the Ladurée Beverly Hills. It Girls @katebosworth, @rashidajones and more joined in on the fun, which included cocktails, croque monsieur sandwiches and a photo booth. #wwdfashion (📷: Owen Kolasinski/BFA.com)
For the holidays, @Burberry partnered with 20-year-old artist @blondeymccoy on a series of three outdoor murals in downtown Manhattan. The murals are McCoy’s interpretation of a Christmas eve party, the idea of charity and the spirit of family. His third mural, pictured here, is the most personal. The image depicts McCoy’s grandparents and father in London’s Trafalgar Square in the Seventies. “My work often features lots of sentimental objects.” #wwdeye
For spring 2018, designers applied bold colors and cartoonish motifs on everything from sneakers and belts to key chains. See all the top men’s accessories trends on WWD.com. #wwdtrends (📷: George Chinsee; Prop Styling by @rnasti; Market Editor: @luiscampuzano)
The @dior-sponsored @guggenheim international gala pre-party has a history of drawing cool-girl musical acts to serenade the crowd –– and last night was no exception. @haimtheband performed songs both new and old, and lured a star-studded audience with the likes of Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Mamoudou Athie and more. #wwdeye (📷: @lexieblacklock)
In a partnership between the @metopera and the @englishnationalopera, “Marnie” was born. The opera, with costumes sponsored by @mrporterlive, is an adaptation of the 1961 thriller by Winston Graham. Arianne Phillips, who created the costumes, is no rookie: She’s styled Madonna for her tours and created costumes for a myriad of films in the past. Read WWD’s interview with Phillips, where she talks about her inspiration for the opera’s costumes on WWD.com #wwdfashion
@barneysnyc took a different approach to their holiday windows this year. Instead of Christmas decor, Barneys tapped @thehaasbrothers to tell a story of positivity, gratitude and inclusivity via heartwarming silliness and humor. “It’s about kids and it’s about coming together and being family and loving each other,” said Simon Haas. #wwdfashion (📷: @joshuascottphoto)
Beauty influencer @kandeejohnson makes her foray into hair care with a collaboration with @ogx_beauty — making it the first time that OGX has teamed up for a product creation. The collab includes shampoos and conditioners in three scents. At 39 and a mom, Johnson is a different profile than the emerging social media stars, but is considered one of the pioneers of the digital beauty influencer world. Read WWD’s interview with her on wwd.com, including the strangest beauty product she’s ever tried #wwdbeauty


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Drew Estate has announced its sixth Freestyle Live Kit. This is a mechanism Drew Estate uses to give consumers a chance to sample a cigar before it is announced. News of the upcoming Freestyle Live Kit was made on Drew Estate’s January 18, 2024 Freestyle Live Broadcast.
The kit includes three of the new premium cigars (unbanded), a keychain/luggage handle, a lighter, and a cigar cutter that also functions as a cigar rest. The packs will include a QR code, which purchasers can follow to enter a sweepstakes to win prizes.
Drew Estate will begin shipping the kits on Monday, January 22nd. The company says it is planning to reveal what the cigar is on its March 15th, 2024 edition of Freestyle Live. The March 15th date is a week ahead of the 2024 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. It is anticipated this cigar will be showcased at the Trade Show.
Several retailers have listed the Freestyle Live Kit at $40.00. Please consult Drew Estate for participating retailers who will be carrying the Freestyle Live pack.


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Secaucus, N.J. –
said Thursday it has received
the International 3D Society’s first Wheatstone Award in recognition of the
company’s leadership in advocating for FullHD 3D TV, its development of
innovative 3D TV and video solutions, and its history of educating consumers
about the benefits of 3D TV.
Panasonic was given the honor during the International 3D
Society’s Inaugural 3D Technology Lumiere Awards at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in
The Wheatstone Award is named for inventor Charles Wheatstone,
who invented the Stereoscope in 1838 and was also a respected educator about
stereoscopic vision and imaging.
The International 3D Society, of which Panasonic is a member, is
a community of 3D professionals dedicated to providing education and
advancement of the art and technologies of stereoscopic 3D.
Panasonic consumer electronics president Shiro Kitajima accepted
Jim Chabin, International 3D Society president, stated,
“Panasonic has been a visionary advocate for 3D, from building a partnership
with James Cameron for â€˜Avatar,’ to building consumer excitement worldwide.”
“Panasonic is proud to be honored in this way by the
International 3D Society,” Kitajima said.
“We are committed to working with the entertainment industry, with
retailers and broadcasters to realize an end-to-end 3D TV world that extends
from how the content producers capture 3D to how consumers see 3D TV at home.”
Panasonic has been a leader in the creation of end-to-end
standards and technologies to enable consumers to experience immersive Full HD
In September, Panasonic
announced it will establish a new 3D Innovation Center in the U.S. to focus on
engaging with the entertainment and broadcast communities to enhance 3D
production technologies and work flow.
For more than 15 years, Panasonic has maintained an R&D
facility, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, in the Los Angeles area for the
development of entertainment-related technologies and ongoing liaison with
major studios for the development of the 3D Blu-ray Disc format. Last year, the company established its
Advanced Authoring Center within Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory to work with
Hollywood studios to develop the 3D Blu-ray Disc format.


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SHANGHAI – UK fashion chain New Look is abandoning the Chinese market as part of moves which may see it call time on its entire international presence. The company says it has already started shutting Chinese stores and will close the remaining 120 as it focuses on the domestic market. Despite substantial investments in China in recent years, performance has been below expectations and the business has not achieved the sales and profitability envisaged. However, the move still comes as a surprise given the supposed huge potential of the Chinese market due to the country’s burgeoning middle-class population.
Meanwhile, the strategic review of New Look’s other international markets is continuing. Alistair McGeorge, executive chairman, New Look, said: “Having reviewed the trading performance of our business in China and the substantial investment required to continue operations in the market, we have made the difficult decision to exit our stores in China. Our priority will be to support all affected staff during this time. As our turnaround plans continue, we remain focused on ensuring that New Look is well positioned to drive strong business performance and profitable growth.”
New Look has already appointed property agent CBRE to find new tenants for the 130 stores it occupies in China.
Earlier this year, New Look secured creditors’ backing to close scores of its UK outlets via a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA). This is a mechanism used by retailers to restructure financial obligations to creditors.
60 of the company’s 600 retail stores were earmarked for closure in New Look’s CVA yet many remain open.


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Freight shipments rise 0.4% in August
The amount of freight that the for-hire transportation industry carried rose 0.4 percent in August, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
The data, from this month’s BTS Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), measures the month-to-month changes in freight shipments according to mode of transportation. The rise in these figures follows an increase in freight shipments in July.
USDOT attributes the increase in freight transportation to shipments within the housing, autos and energy sectors.
The 114.8 index in August follows July’s 114.3 index. August’s level of freight shipments is 21.0 percent higher than the April 2009 low and 0.3 percent lower than the all-time high of 115.2 in December 2011.
The August 2013 Freight TSI is up 3.4 percent year-over-year.
For more information and charts about the August 2013 Freight TSI, visit rita.dot.gov.
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Uber employees are taking advantage of the rare opportunity to convert their paper shares of Uber into cold, hard cash as SoftBank, the Japanese technology giant, buys 17 percent of the ride-hailing app’s outstanding shares.
SoftBank is paying $33 a share, which represents a 30 percent discount to the company’s most recent valuation at $70 billion, reported Quartz. “Everyone’s been reconnecting to discuss the tender offer,” said Lane Kasselman, a former communications lead for Uber. “A lot of the former employees have been waiting for two to four, even five years, to see liquidity, so it’s pretty exciting.”
In order to be part of the tender offer, the shareholder has to have 10,000 or more shares and be an accredited investor, which is the Securities and Exchange Commission's designation for wealthy investors. What’s more, current Uber employees are only allowed to sell half of their stake, while former employees have no restrictions on their shares.
The stake sale is slated for Dec. 28, although it may not happen if there aren’t enough shares available for SoftBank and a small group of investors to purchase a minimum 14 percent stake in the company.
According to Quartz, Uber is the most valuable technology startup in the world, with its valuation climbing from $3.5 billion to close to $70 billion between 2013 and 2016.
Until 2016, Uber had only given former employees 30 days to exercise their options, which is seen as an unusually short period of time. Options that were exercised by the former employees before they expired were taken back into the company. That changed in the spring, giving ex-employees as long as seven years to exercise their options, noted the report.
Uber announced its deal with SoftBank in November, saying: "We believe this agreement is a strong vote of confidence in Uber’s long-term potential. Upon closing, it will help fuel our investments in technology and our continued expansion at home and abroad, while strengthening our corporate governance.”


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The latest EasyPay loan is processed using Utah-founded Loss Lender in what individual communities and you can political figures, along with Biden, have described as a “rent-a-bank” steer, in which investment enterprises procedure fund through-of-state banking institutions which do not need certainly to stick to the official-capped rates.
From inside the an announcement, Loss Bank defended the means, saying it’s a much better solution than simply cash advance and helps “customers who have zero otherwise minimal credit.”
Petland, with 22 company locations and 75 franchises, stopped providing triple-digit loan alternatives within the , said Age Kunzelman, the brand new chain’s vp to have legislative and personal facts, getting in touch with it “the latest in charge thing to do.”
On Bowmans’ case, Kunzelman debated they need to have been familiar with the new EasyPay notice speed since they “received files of the terms.”
Such as for instance, you to definitely films from a beneficial Petland staff this summer at the a shop in Wichita seized a discussion having a gentle Community voluntary posing as a customers where in actuality the people try advised against an excellent triple-little finger focus mortgage the personnel advised the organization had been providing.
“If you don’t pay it back in this people ninety days, you have to begin make payment on appeal as well, and their Annual percentage rate try, eg, crazy, such as for example, it’s, anyone started using it realized the other day, like, 194 per cent,” this new staff told you during the a video clip assessed because of the Post.
But not, suggestions suggest that about other Petland stores features proceeded to give loans significantly more than that it rate despite brand new store’s policy alter
Particularly distressful getting pet owners including the Bowmans is the pain it feel when the dog together with comes with illnesses. Having Zeke, veterinary details show many physical conditions that included a beneficial “persistent reputation for sensitive skin disease, gastrointestinal interruptions and you may respiratory facts,” according to a good necropsy declaration performed just after the guy passed away out-of renal failure on 20 months of age. The brand new veterinarian and additionally said Zeke’s health issues was in fact “a result of their earlier genetic and you will breeding background.”
“We may getting abandoned when the my personal mother-in-legislation had not strolled in to help us financially,” Bowman said. “We did not should give up on Zeke. I loved him, and then we desired to save him.”
Kunzelman told you a shop grabbed surely brand new complaints regarding Zeke’s health and you can refunded this new Bowmans due to their veterinary expenses and also for the price it paid for Zeke, minus capital. The couple say Petland reduced just the main veterinary debts and that the newest ordeal still rates her or him thousands of dollars in addition to their borrowing together with suffered.
Kunzelman said the brand new Petland franchisee – and therefore individually possess and you can works the shop – informed her that the highest interest rate they were https://paydayloansexpert.com/installment-loans-me/ giving at the amount of time new films is decide to try is actually courtesy a buddies credit credit on per cent
“A shop communicated the circumstances and you will adversity to the newest breeder, which offered to stop reproduction new sire and dam. A shop including eliminated to buy regarding that breeder,” Kunzelman said, adding you to she does not faith any Petland shop enjoys as the bought in the breeder.
Once Zeke died, the brand new Bowmans told you they avoided spending on a single of the two funds they covered as a consequence of Petland. They consistently discover month-to-month calls from a collection service and you can, it told you, the credit could have been undoubtedly broken.
Millie Slope said immediately after she spotted the regards to the latest money on her behalf Chihuahua dog, she shielded a diminished-appeal loan to blow them out of, but – due to later charge and other factors – she said the brand new boat finance companies informed her they would not take on a lump sum. Fundamentally, Hill’s child, Aimee Budrow, strolled when you look at the and you can encouraged her mother simply to walk away from the funds, even if loan providers always seek percentage. Budrow and additionally quickly discovered that the lady mommy was struggling to bring proper care of your pet dog, it obtained so you can a family member.


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Out of all practical 3D printing uses, it seems that 3D printers creating furniture has been a little slower moving into the mainstream. While furniture created on 3D printers is common, the process has perhaps been slower to catch on with the public because of a mistaken thought a 3D printed chair wouldn't be sturdy enough. That might have been wrong thinking considering most 3D printed items are very durable, despite many products being made out of ABS plastic.
We may see a new road ahead of 3D printed furniture thanks to a company taking a novel approach to the concept. The problem they're tackling is the ability to print a piece of furniture from a consumer 3D printer at home. No home-based printer has been able to do that yet for the obvious reasons of size being a factor. The company 3Dnatives is attempting to take a Makerbot consumer printer and print out a chair in multiple pieces for later assembly.
While that might sound daunting to those who've had to assemble things, keep in mind that most assembled items usually come from foreign countries. This company intends to make these pieces relatively easy to assemble to a point where you can create a very sturdy chair. Their new concept (called "Bits and Parts") is intended as an experiment to perhaps go forward in printing other furniture the same way in the future.
Whether people will warm to such an idea is another question. Will consumer 3D printers be printing all of our furniture for us in another decade?
The Act of Assembly
While 3Dnatives admits that assembly might be more challenging than the actual printing, they also remind that it takes hundreds of hours to print all the chair parts. But it's guaranteed to be durable once assembled based on its wooden base. Regardless, you have to assemble it from the center outward, which could get complicated for some people.
We have to consider this an early step as some areas of 3D printing still are. In another decade, there isn't a question we'll be printing almost everything on a 3D printer out of our homes. Whether it would still involve assembly for furniture, the pieces would likely be fewer and the time it takes much less. It means a possible era of designing our homes from within rather than the traditional method of buying everything in a furniture store.
For many, that means a lot of time and money saved when furnishing a first-time home takes more time and money than we usually have.


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Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTCMKTS: MJNA) Announce Efforts By Its Subsidiary Kannaway to Expand to South Africa
Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTCMKTS: MJNA) has announced that its Kannaway subsidiary has commenced efforts to expand operations in South Africa and has appointed Duduzile Mathole as the Country Manager. Kannaway® is a network marketing and sales enterprise that specializes in selling hemp-based botanical goods.
Kannaway South Africa appoints Duduzile Matholes as Country manager
Kannaway CEO Blake Schroeder said, “I am confident that Duduzile will be a great addition to our team and is more than capable of helping us establish and grow our operations in South Africa and throughout the region. We’ve found great success as a Company thus far because of our talented, dedicated team around the world and I know that Duduzile will be a great addition to our team. When I joined the Company in 2016, I could have never imagined the significant international expansion that we’ve achieved and I’m excited about the many new regions we plan to enter in the coming years.”
South Africa Country Manager Duduzile Mathole commented, “It’s an honor to join the Kannaway team and be a part of the larger mission to bring the world free access to the highest-quality cannabis products and cannabis education. Together, we can help keep people who want to use cannabis products safely and bolster the local economy with new business opportunities.”
South Africa CBD market worth $1.9 billion
South Africa’s cannabidiol (CBD) market has exploded in the last year after the country de-scheduled CBD making it legal for citizens to purchase CBD products without needing a prescription since last year. South Africa first legalized cannabis for personal use in 2018. According to recent reports from the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development, the CBD market in South Africa is currently valued at about $1.9 billion, with the potential of creating over 25,000 jobs and helping in attracting foreign investment.
Duduzile Mathole joins the Kannaway® team with massive direct selling experience. Mathole is equally well-versed in the cannabis industry’s local and regional rules in South Africa and across the continent.


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Following its great success at last year’s LIGNA the SCM Group presented Luciano Molinari’s ‘500 Kube’ again at this year’s Holz Handwerk held from 16 to 19 March 2016 at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre. The solution is targeted at artists with a passion for wood and helps transform the craftsman’s creativity into art and design.
The woodworking equipment company also presented other advanced solutions for the woodworking industry the 18th edition of the Holz-Handwerk trade fair.
Visitors were welcomed to an exhibition space of over 1,300 square metres dedicated to the Group’s new products and solutions. This year the company’s communications campaign went with the theme, “Strong Reasons Why”, focusing on the group’s strong values, which in turns translates into tangible benefits for operators.
The campaign also aims to demonstrate the company’s ability to offer industry professionals an extremely wide and complete range of woodworking products and solutions to meet the needs of an ever-changing market.


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Just 14 days after raising $450 million for international expansion, Nomanini, the South African-based mobile Point of Sale platform announced that informal vendors and micro-entrepreneurs across Africa have made a million cash transactions using its tough terminal.
Nomanini enables cash transactions in emerging markets and is widely used for the distribution of mobile prepaid airtime and electricity utility payments, collection of insurance premiums among others using it’s mobile point of sale terminals.
Nomanini’s terminals are highly scalable, have a cloud-based backend enable enterprises to efficiently distribute prepaid vouchers and facilitate micropayments, while creating a sustainable income for entrepreneurs in informal markets.
In a statement, Vahid Monadjem, CEO and co-founder of Nomanini said, “We’re incredibly proud of the work we’re doing in these markets. We could not have achieved this milestone without our vendors in South Africa and partners across the rest of the continent.”
Nomanini was founded in 2010 and has has signed partnerships in Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and Mozambique with active terminals processing close over one million transactions in those regions, including South Africa. It has received investments from Esther Dyson , Rockbridge Investments and two rounds of funding from the IDC.