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The coming year promises to be an eventful, and potentially challenging, one for search marketers. These SEO and SEM experts share predictions on the big search trends and offer tips on how to prepare for and take advantage of them.
This should come as no surprise. Mobile devices get more eyeball time than TV screens these days, according to recent research from Yahoo’s Flurry. Mobile search is expected to exceed desktop search in 2015, according to eMarketer, and mobile marketing is the fastest growing digital advertising channel in the United States, says BI Intelligence.
Mobile will be king in 2015, but it represents just one component of the equation. Here are some other predictions and tips for the New Year, from a set of search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) experts.
SEO and SEM Predictions for 2015
All About Mobile
Marketers spent 49 percent of their paid search dollars on mobile platforms during the 2014 holiday season, according to a report from Marin Software, and many marketers expect the focus on mobile to increase in 2015.
“The top search marketing trend to watch in 2015 is the continued shift to mobile,” says Carmen Vetere, vice president of marketing, Gazelle. “We increasingly see more and more consumers searching for information, products and prices from mobile devices. Brands need to be prepared to monetize traffic from mobile search, which has historically been harder to do than from desktop. Site experience, content and transactional flows need to be optimized to meet the increasing flow of users from mobile devices. As consumers use mobile devices to comparison shop, we may also see Google put more of the shopping experience right on the search results page to make it even easier.”
“If your Website isn’t mobile-friendly, you can lose out on search marketing,” according to Sherry Holub, creative director, JV Media Design. “Google now blatantly prefers mobile-friendly sites, and if you haven’t considered mobile users in your search marketing plan, you’re missing a huge chunk of the market.”
Andrew Akesson, technical SEO strategist, Venn Digital, says Google could eventually force all sites on the first page of its search results to be mobile-friendly. Google’s main concern is user experience, and it could push websites that aren’t mobile-friendly to the second page of search results. This will “inevitably lower mobile organic traffic to the sites that aren’t playing the game with mobile search,” he says.
“For any website that doesn’t currently have a responsive website, now is the time to act,” according to Akesson. “Not only will it enhance your customer experience, it will likely increase on-site conversions and dwell time, as well as lower bounce rates, which can only ever have a positive impact on your business’s bottom line.”
Google Refines Local Search
“With the Pigeon update last year, it became clear Google would continue to improve its local search result listings,” says Arham Khan, senior digital marketing executive, HighQ. Khan predicts this trend will continue. “As the number of users searching on mobile devices grows, it makes sense for Google to tailor listings according to the local area. I expect smaller businesses to capitalize on this trend by updating addresses, phone numbers and locations on their websites so that they match with off-page directory listings.”
“Localization of search is poised to be a big trend for 2015, even for large brands that have previously focused on centralized search marketing campaigns,” according to Kevin Souers, CTO, Revenew. “Today’s consumers are performing more and more searches for local solutions with an increasing number of those searches on mobile. Search engine algorithms are continually evolving to favor local results, identifying them as more relevant to the searcher. In 2015, national brands will place more emphasis on not only localizing their search but leveraging big data insights to improve local search strategies and launch more targeted, relevant search campaigns that deliver results.”
Content (Marketing) Still King
Content marketing emerged as a significant trend in the SEO community during the past few years, and it’s becoming essential for marketers. In 2015, quality content will be “more important than ever,” according to Samuel Oh, CEO of Smohzie Inc. and founder of Money Journal. “People have become less patient with Web spam and have learned to spot it more quickly, resulting in higher bounce rates and lower time and page sessions for many website owners.” To be successful today, content needs to be thorough, as well as engaging and useful, Oh says.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — The Golden Arches is celebrating National Cheeseburger Day with a delicious deal.
McDonald’s is offering 50-cent double cheeseburgers on Monday to celebrate the holiday.
“For one day only, fans can snag a double cheeseburger for only $0.50 from any participating location nationwide when they order exclusively through the McDonald’s App,” a McDonald’s spokesperson said.
No other purchase is necessary to snag the offer.
Charline Charles is a digital journalist from Brooklyn who has covered local news along with culture and arts in the New York City area since 2019. She joined PIX11 News in 2022. See more of her work here.

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When police in Bavaria, Germany, unveiled their new protective gear last week, some thought the helmets looked like the one worn by Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" films.
But other saw a much less ominous similarity -- comparing the new gear to Dark Helmet from Mel Brooks' 1987 parody, "Spaceballs."
The new gear includes ceramic composite plates and a titanium helmet, which can supposedly withstand being shot by an assault rifle, RT.com reports.
But it can't protect them from ridicule. Already, images of the uniform are being used as fodder for a classic reddit Photoshop battle.
And "Spaceballs" is just the beginning of the jokes:
May the Schwartz be with you.
(h/t Raw Story)
(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to Dark Helmet as Darth Helmet.)
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Lee Oden, an internet marketing expert, wrote an interesting post recently: SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketing Tactics. In it, Lee reveals the results of a poll asking marketers what 3 internet marketing tactics they will emphasize most in the next 6 months. SEO topped the list of more than 41 tactics. Lee concludes: “With SEO, it isn’t a matter of ‘Should we?’ it’s a matter of ‘What’s stopping you?’”
That’s where this poll begins. Continue reading “What’s Stopping You From Going Forward With SEO?”
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Last week U.S. cargo airline Atlas Air took delivery of the last newly manufactured Boeing 747. This week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told a conference comprised of the economically-focused that on the matter of “inflation,” the Fed has “a long way to go.” The source of Powell’s pessimism was “extraordinarily strong” jobs numbers from last week that apparently signal a U.S. economy growing "too fast."
Of course, some are perhaps wondering what the final delivery of an airplane has to do with the Fed and its self-proclaimed “fight” against inflation. Please read on.
Economists in the Fed’s employ (and realistically, economists in general) believe that economic growth causes prices to rise, and they equate rising prices with inflation. Actually inflation is currency devaluation, which means it has nothing to do with economic growth, and frequently nothing to do with rising prices. More on what inflation is in a bit.
For now, it’s useful to point out that the surest sign of economic growth is falling prices. Figure that growth is born of investment meant to produce exponentially more goods and services at prices that continue to fall. Applied to the 747 and its ongoing use as a cargo jet, its very existence has long been a source of growth that results in falling prices for the plane enabling not just enhanced global cooperation among workers, but also enhanced global access to the fruits of the production of workers dividing up labor around the world.
To which Powell apologists, Fed economists, and economists in general might say that what has Powell worried is “inflation” that’s allegedly a consequence of “extraordinarily strong” job growth that could result in a lack of workers on the way to higher wages. Once again, none of what’s been described would have anything to do with what is a currency devaluation (inflation), but it should be pointed out that jobs are always and everywhere a consequence of investment, and investors are seeking future returns in dollars when they put wealth to work. Which means surging employment would signal the opposite of “inflation,” which is a currency devaluation, but I digress.
Seemingly ignored by Powell and an economics profession that feeds him with fallacy is that the U.S. economy is not some kind of impregnable island. Everything produced in the U.S. is a happy consequence of productive hands, machines, and factories the world over. The Boeing 747 explains this happy truth well.
Indeed, as reported by the New York Times and other news outlets in concert with the last 747 delivered, these remarkable jets are the wildly sophisticated result of over 6 million parts built around the world. Please stop and think about that.
Powell et al fear “inflation” born of “extraordinarily strong” job growth stateside, but then every economic endeavor stateside includes once again humans, machines and factories operating around the world. It’s a reminder that in focusing on job growth in the U.S., Powell and others like him don’t account for the fact that U.S. producers like Boeing aren’t limited to capacity that exists in the United States alone. That they aren’t should have Powell and his crowd resting easy that soaring job growth stateside couldn’t exist as an inflation problem even if it were inflation. It’s not. Again, inflation is currency devaluation.
After which, it’s useful to point out that absent access to global labor, machines, and factories, it’s a safe bet to say the 747 wouldn’t exist as is. Lest readers forget, it’s an ever-widening division of work that makes affordable and doable what wouldn’t be affordable and doable absent it. In other words, the global division of labor and capacity that Powell’s alleged models ignore is what enables the falling cost of everything for those of us who reside in the real world.
The good news amid all this confusion exhibited by Powell is that credit goes where it’s treated well, and without regard to the machinations of central planners like the Fed Chairman. In other words, the Fed’s attempts to put people out of work to fight “inflation” will prove toothless in the "closed economy" that is the world economy. This same Fed will also be toothless on the matter of inflation itself when it’s remembered that the dollar’s exchange value isn’t, nor has it ever been part of the Fed’s policy portfolio.
Basically, a lot of people hung on Powell’s errant words this past week despite them having nothing do with inflation, and despite Powell being powerless to stop it. In time, we’ll all wonder why so much attention was wasted on an entity – the Fed – that has so little relevance.


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Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users’ behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco, Oakland and L.A. after the cities increased the measures they were taking to block Fixed from accessing their parking ticket websites.
The company confirms it has suspended parking ticket operations in all three cities as of three weeks ago – a move impacting around 100,000 users. Going forward, Fixed will focus on its Traffic Ticket business instead, we’re told.
The startup has had issues with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) for some time.
The agency was never all that receptive to the service, and the way it automated the ticket contesting process for locals. Using its app, Fixed customers could snap a photo of their parking ticket using their phone’s camera, and then Fixed would check against a variety of common errors before writing a customized letter to the city on the user’s behalf. The app also cleverly tapped into Google Street View to check to see if the city had the proper signage in place in the area a ticket was received… (more)
See the next story for a luck at how “fair” SFMTA is in its business dealings. They are very selective when it comes to picking winners and losers in their “sharing” game.
Founder David Hegarty once noted that over half of tickets have an issue that would make them invalid, but the city didn’t tend to play by its own rules when arbitrating disputes. That made Fixed’s “win” rate only 20%-30% on tickets, as of earlier this year. (When the company won, it charged a success fee of 25% of the original fine – a reduction in what a customer would have otherwise paid.)…
But in August, Xerox began using a third-party organization to block Fixed from accessing the parking ticket site. While Fixed engineers could still work around the block, it now required an increased amount of engineering time and resources, and this also impacted Fixed’s customer service operations…
“It’s unfortunate that the SFMTA decided to block our service. Over 60,000 parking tickets had been submitted to Fixed. Not only were we helping people beat their unfair parking tickets, but the alerts on our app were helping people pay their parking fines on time and avoid late fees,” he continues.
“Parking Ticket Fines account for 15% of the SFMTA operating budget, and it looks like they objected to us providing some accountability to their process,” Hegarty adds… (more)
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Russian Hackers Pull Largest Data Breach Ever: 1.2 Billion Passwords Stolen from US Companies and Individuals, Computer Security Firm Finds
1.2 billion internet credentials of major U.S. companies and other groups and individuals have been stolen by Russian hackers in what could be the largest date breach ever, The New York Times reports.
These credentials include user name and password combinations as well as more than 500 million email addresses, with confidential details coming from over 420,000 websites.
Discovered by Milwaukee-based firm Hold Security, which is known for uncovering major hacking cases, the obtained information came from a wide range of internet users, including small sites and household names.
The company would not divulge the names of the victims, referring to nondisclosure agreements and how they wanted to protect the security of the already vulnerable companies. A security expert who is not connected with the company confirmed the authenticity of Hold Security's claim by analyzing the same database of stolen credentials.
Founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security Alex Holden said that U.S. companies were not the sole target of the hackers but they also went for any website they could possibly get, including very small websites and Fortune 500 companies.
This discovery was a product of an 18-month long investigation to uncover the activities of the online gang. The cyber gang based in Russia is composed of a dozen men who are in their 20s and began as amateur spammers in 2011 when they used to buy information from the online black market.
It is possible that the group has teamed up with a larger entity to pull off a heist of this magnitude. The group is believed to have used botnets in extracting personal information on a massive scale, allowing them to infect thousands of computers.
While the criminals appear to not have sold the information online, they have been using the details to send spam on social networks.
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Memphis -- Fred’s, Inc. reported a slight boost in total sales for the first three months of fiscal 2013 compared to the same period last year – an increase from $500.5 million to $501.4 million. However, comparable store sales during the period decreased 1.3%, compared to a 0.3% drop a year earlier.
Total sales for the four weeks ending May 4 rose 3% from $147.6 million to $152.2 million. Comparable store sales for the month increased 1.2% compared with a decline of 0.3% in the same period last year.
"We are pleased that April sales came in at the high end of our expectations, said Fred’s CEO Bruce A. Efird. “A solid comparable store sales performance in our general merchandise departments, despite the poor weather conditions, more than offset the ongoing negative impact of the shift from branded to generic drugs. During the month, we also experienced an increase in customer traffic and made good progress with our plan to improve our sales mix, with a greater proportion coming from higher margin product departments. These accomplishments keep us on track to achieve our earnings projections for the first quarter.”


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|PM Yoshiro Mori’s visit to India in August 2000 was the beginning of a new era of India-Japan relations, which set the precedent for visits to India by his successors Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. Since then, the two countries sought to strengthen bilateral ties through new initiatives and programmes ranging from economic and cultural linkages to defence and security. Japan at present gives 30 per cent of its foreign aid to India and is, even in this period of global economic turmoil, committing more than US $4 billion to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The two recent mega deals between Indian and Japanese companies, namely,DAIICHI-RANBAXY MERGER (US $4.6 billion) and the acquisition of 26 per cent stakes (US $2.7 billion) in TATA Teleservices by Japanese mobile giantNTT DoCoMo, are clear instances of the growing economic ties between the two countries.
In April 2005, the two countries agreed to set up a Joint Study Group for a free trade agreement (FTA). The JSG in 2006 recommended to develop a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which was launched in January 2007 covering issues – trade in goods and services, investment flows, trade promotion and measures for promoting economic cooperation in identified sectors. Even after ten rounds of negotiations, a number of issues in the proposed India-Japan CEPA are yet to be resolved, including items in the negative list of products to be protected from tariff-cuts and quality control norms for import of farm goods. Tariffs (import duties) on most goods in Japan are already low at present. Thus, a critical determinant in greater market access for Indian products in the Japanese market would be the reduction of existing non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Indian concern lies over Japanese technical barriers to trade (TBT) and its stringent sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS), which act as NTBs to Indian export items, viz. pharmaceutical, chemicals, biotechnology, and cosmetics sector goods. Indian pharmaceutical companies have not been able to tap the Japanese market to its full potential due to the country’s stringent SPS, TBT and environmental norms. Japan provides the world’s second largest drug market. At the moment it takes an Indian pharmaceutical exporter 5-7 years to start exporting from the date of application. Japan is not agreeing a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) in pharmaceutical sector, which would enable both the countries to identify the testing procedures and standards used in the other country for their goods. India’s demand is to have standards uniform to those set by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but Japan contends that these are not enough and is resolutely pushing for its own set of testing measures.
Further, Japan’s interest lies in automobile and chemicals, while Indian industry seeks total protection on these items. India, on the other hand, is keen on expeditious implementation of quality control norms in Japan. As stated above export of Indian agricultural goods, chemicals and pharmaceuticals face various NTBs in Japan. Indian industry feels that the implementation process of SPS norms in Japan is so long that in case of mangoes, it took 15 years for India to get clearance. Rules of origin, which lay down how much of an imported input should be allowed in a product being traded under the CEPA, is another contentious area. In services, the major hurdle lies in the area of mutual recognition agreements (MRA) wherein both parties accept foreign professionals with degrees and diplomas offered in their home country. As such a mutually agreed MRA is desirable for clinching the deal in terms of services. Also, a 15 per cent withholding tax � a share of the payment withheld by the paying party on account of taxes � levied by Japanese authorities is also a major hurdle discouraging Indian professionals from working in Japan, and needs to be sorted out.After clinching the FTA with ASEAN and sorting out all outstanding issues with South Korea for a CEPA, India is keen to conclude the CEPA with Japan. It is expected that such an Agreement would help the two countries increase their share of Asia’s economic output in the coming years. The recent surge in Japanese FDI in India to the tune of $5 billion this year so far against less than $500 million last year indicates the increasing interest of Japanese investors in India. Indian industry expects the CEPA to lead to greater flow of technology and investments from Japan into India. However, if the current global financial crisis continued to affect the global economy for long, it would most likely impact the increasing economic relationship between India and Japan. How much the present crisis affects the India-Japan comprehensive economic relations remains an open question? Nonetheless, the CEPA between the two large economies of Asia may evolve an understanding between them for the early conclusion of the WTO’s Doha Round negotiations, which is vital for the maintenance and development of the international trade system!


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I had a chance to chat briefly Wednesday with iLike Chief Executive Ali Partovi about reports that he's shopping the Seattle-based social-music service to potential buyers, including RealNetworks and Ticketmaster.
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I had a chance to chat briefly Wednesday with iLike Chief Executive Ali Partovi about reports that he’s shopping the Seattle-based social-music service to potential buyers, including RealNetworks and Ticketmaster.
Partovi wouldn’t confirm any sale talks, but he didn’t deny that something more than turkey’s cooking.
He did dispute one element in the initial report, on the MediaMemo blog Monday, that suggested iLike executives and investors are concerned about the company’s ability to stay afloat and independent.
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The 2-year-old company isn’t profitable yet, and competitors such as MySpace Music (which shares the same parent company as MediaMemo) are coming on strong, but Partovi’s not too concerned.
“I don’t have any worries about our ability to continue operating as a stand-alone entity, in contrast to something that was mentioned in the original rumor,” he said.
Partovi said iLike isn’t in the same boat as ad-supported music-streaming services, which are more expensive to operate. Although iLike gives users free music, there are limitations and the offer is aimed at converting users to subscribers of RealNetworks’ Rhapsody service or buyers at iTunes and Amazon.com.
“Our offering is more conservative … it’s a more sustainable model,” he explained
Most every startup is probably for sale nowadays, one way or the other. I wonder if iLike’s getting pressure from its investors to cash in and shore up their portfolios.
TicketMaster’s the biggest investor, with a 25 percent stake that valued iLike at $53 million in late 2006. It’s also purportedly a potential buyer of the whole company.
That makes sense because the company is trying to build a new business providing management and other services to musicians, and iLike’s big emphasis lately is building a platform that musicians can use to connect with fans online.
But could Ticketmaster afford the deal, after spending $123 million in cash plus stock in October to buy artist-management group Front Line?
Ticketmaster has been downsizing and bracing for worse times in 2009, after seeing its operating income fall about 20 percent this year. During the third quarter, it began slashing costs and laying off a third of its personnel.
Would Microsoft be interested (if iLike’s system could be converted to work with Zune’s music catalog, instead of iTunes and Rhapsody)?
Both iLike and Microsoft are tight with Facebook, Partovi’s brother and iLike co-founder Hadi Partovi was formerly MSN general manager, and iLike could help Microsoft’s fledgling social-networking services and Zune music platform scale up. — iLike has something like 10 times more users than total Zune units sold to date.
RealNetworks would be easy for iLike to integrate with, but why should Real pony up when it’s already getting the benefits of iLike’s reach through a partnership they made last summer?
Cozi with numbers
Cozi, the Seattle maker of family-management software, continues to march ahead.
It announced this week that it reached a milestone — 1 million people are using its software. More will likely come from a new deal with Better Homes & Gardens, which will distribute a co-branded version of the software through its Web site.
My Monday column on potential successors to Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang drew some interesting feedback.
One person appreciated the suggestion of former Safeco boss Paula Reynolds, having seen her in action locally, and noted that she’s been helping AIG restructure since late October. Reynolds is overseeing its divestiture of assets.
I guess that’s even more preparation for the Yahoo job.
Another reader, former Pixar employee Michael Murdock, wrote from Arizona to nominate himself.
“To hell with anyone else in the mix. Call Steve Ballmer and tell him that I’ll sit down with him and talk a deal out as soon as I am in there as CEO of Yahoo. In fact, the very day they let me in we can talk,” Murdock wrote.
“But not for acquisition. And he has to invest in Yahoo to help bolster it back into play … it’s not much to ask for and it preserves the marketplace and keeps the DOJ off of everyone’s back.”
This material has been edited for print publication.
Brier Dudley’s blog appears Thursdays. Reach him at 206-515-5687 or email@example.com.


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Chatham Parkway is now the home of long-time Savannah business, Southern Motors Acura.
To celebrate the move a grand opening will be held on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
There are a lot of factors that go in to having a successful business.
Timing, a good product or service, the right location and customer service can all contribute to failure, or to prosperity.
Having a successful family run business — for close to a century — takes all that and more.
The Kaminsky family, owners of Southern Motors Acura, know that first-hand. Each generation since 1929 has followed the lessons handed down from company founder, Julius Kaminsky.
"My father taught us to never pre-judge a customer," Myron Kaminsky said. "You talk to everyone and treat them better than you expect them to treat you."
Myron Kaminsky and his two brothers continued and expanded his father’s business that started on Broughton Street. One brother is now deceased and the other has retired.
Myron’s sons Ross and Adam Kaminsky, started working with their father at the Broughton Street dealership as young boys and both eventually found their way into the family business.
"I tried to dissuade them from working here," Myron Kaminsky said. "Having a family business is hard."
Ross said he started working on Broughton Street when he was 10.
"I washed cars and learned to change oil," Ross Kaminsky said.
Later on the brothers learned the parts and service departments and sales.
The Kaminskys own the Acura dealership, along with a Honda dealership on Abercorn Street and the Springfield Chrysler Dodge Ram Jeep dealership on Ga. 21 South in Springfield.
"We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t provide good customer service," Myron Kaminsky said.
Julius Kaminsky also insisted on being accessible to customers, Myron Kaminsky said.
"It was important to him," Myron Kaminsky said. "He always said to customers when you want to talk to me my office is here and the door is open."
The family has also kept that policy in place and it’s a rare day that an owner is not on site.
Consistently providing good service for customers, listening to their needs and being available, are key factors in their success, Myron Kaminsky said.
The trio have now taken the next step into their future with a new dealership location on Chatham Parkway.
The family has owned the property where the new dealership is located for about 10 years, Adam Kaminsky said. The new building features "right at" a 30,000 square-foot showroom, Myron Kaminsky said. Broughton Street will continue to provide basic automotive services.
"It’s an up and coming area," Adam Kaminsky said.
The Kaminskys also believe in helping others.
The family donates a portion of the sale of every car — both used and new — to Savannah Hospice’s Camp Aloha.
The camp is for children ages 6-17 who have experienced the death of a loved one within the last two years.
"For a lot of these children it is the only counseling they ever get," Myron Kaminsky said. "It’s close to all of our hearts."
The Grand Opening
The grand opening is Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Southern Motors Acura is located at 102 Park of Commerce Drive on Chatham Parkway.
The dealership is giving away a free two-year lease on a new Acura ILX as part of their celebration. To enter the contest snap a photo of your current ride and post it to http://savannahnow.com/SMAcuraGiveaway#/ gallery/ by noon tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 13.
The winner will be invited to the dealership’s grand opening.


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Door Handles Blamed For Driver's Death In Tesla Model S Fire
A wrongful death lawsuit filed with the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida earlier this month alleges the motorized retractable door handles on the Tesla Model S prevented the rescue of the driver as smoke and flames filled the cabin.
Omar Awan, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist, was driving his leased Tesla in February when he lost control on a south Florida parkway and the car slammed into a palm tree, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in state court in Broward County.
A police officer couldn’t open the doors because the handles were retracted and bystanders watched helplessly as the car filled with smoke and flames, according to the complaint, which alleges the fire originated with the car’s battery. read more »


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In a move to become more competitive in the market, Dell Technologies (DELL:NYE) recently announced that it would be reducing its workforce by 5 percent. Despite the difficult decision to let go of valued employees, Dell is staying positive about this move, citing the need to shift its workforce to be more agile and effective in the ever-changing tech industry.
The company has also noted that it plans on investing in new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, to further its competitive edge. With these investments, Dell is confident that it will be able to improve its operations and better serve its customers.
Dell is not alone in its decision to lay off workers in order to remain competitive in the industry. Other tech giants like Apple (AAPL:NSD) and Microsoft (MSFT:NSD) have also announced layoffs recently, with Apple’s layoffs numbering much larger than Dell’s.
The move has been met with mixed responses, with some applauding Dell for making the difficult decision to stay competitive in the market, while others are critical of the decision to cut jobs while continuing to invest in more advanced technologies.
Amid the backlash, Dell has said that it has invested in job retraining programs to help its former employees find new employment. It has also promised to provide severance packages for those who have been laid off.
In the end, it is clear that Dell’s decision to reduce its workforce was not taken lightly. The company is confident that it will be able to stay competitive in the market and continue to offer its customers the best products and services possible.
DELL Stock Price Analysis:
Based on the Dell stock forecasts from 15 analysts, the average analyst target price for Dell Technologies Inc is USD 52.67 over the next 12 months. Dell Technologies Inc’s average analyst rating is Strong Buy. Stock Target Advisor’s own stock analysis of Dell Technologies Inc is Slightly Bullish, which is based on 7 positive signals and 5 negative signals. At the last closing, Dell stock price was USD 42.24. Dell stock price has changed by +4.79% over the past week, +3.35% over the past month, and -28.09% over the last year.
Dell Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports various comprehensive and integrated solutions, products, and services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and Client Solutions Group (CSG).
The company was formerly known as Denali Holding Inc. and changed its name to Dell Technologies Inc. in August 2016. Dell Technologies Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.


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Apple shares hit their lowest level in more than a year overnight, continuing a decline hastened by the company's last quarterly earnings report.
Apple stock touched as low as $419 Monday - its weakest point since January 2012 - before closing down 2.4 percent at $420.05.
The Cupertino, California, company's January 23 report signalled that its fast growth phase, rare for a company of its size, may be coming to an end.Apple's stock price peaked in September at $705.07 on the day the iPhone 5 was released. With Monday's close, the stock has dropped 40 per cent from the record high.
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Google's Android now holds more than a third of the U.S. smartphone market share, eclipsing both RIM's BlackBerry OS and Apple's iOS with a growing lead, comScore reports. Measuring more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers through its MobiLens service from December 2010 to March 2011, ComScore found that Android now holds 34.7% -- a solid increase from 31.2% in January, which was when Android jumped ahead of RIM as the top smartphone platform in the U.S.
Google has expanded into many areas beyond simple web searches, including mapping and directions (Google Maps), video (YouTube), and photos (Picasa). It's also noted for its doodles -- illustrations and interactive art pieces that occasionally adorn the front page of the search engine.
In January 2012, Google rolled out "Search plus Your World," which integrated search results from its social media service Google+.
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Vancouver was recently named one of the healthiest cities in the world in a recent ranking by Travel Supermarket.
The travel tool compares cities around the world based on myriad factors, including the number of spas, gyms, fitness centres, yoga and pilates centres, health food shops, vegan option restaurants, parks (green space) and the average sunlight hours. In addition, the tool factors in the cost of a one night stay in a hotel. The website also states that the score, "has been established using the density of each healthy metric in the city."
Despite being famous for wine, smoking, and buttery croissants, Paris topped the list of the world's healthiest places. Besides having numerous green spaces and parks, the city is noted for its ample and luxurious spa experiences. The description notes that the 'City of Lights' offers an incredible range of spa experiences, as well as mouth-watering cuisine.
Following Paris, came Chiang Mai, Thailand in second, which was also noted for its world-class spa treatments. In addition, the city was highlighted for its yoga and pilates retreats, as well as having a great deal of sunlight throughout the year.
Vancouver came fifth, and the ranking notes that, "Vancouver’s epic surroundings offer a refreshing dose of the great outdoors." What's more, there are a vast number of gyms, spas and vegan eateries scattered throughout the city, which factor in the city's high ranking.
Top Ten Healthiest Cities
1. Paris, France
2. Chiang Mai, Thailand
3. Barcelona, Spain
4. Pattaya, Thailand
5. Vancouver, Canada
6. Miami, USA
7. San Francisco, USA
8. Lisbon, Portugal
9. Denpasar, Indonesia
10. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vancouver also recently ranked fourth on a list of the top 20 most popular cities in the world that search for information about veganism.
With files from Relaxnews.


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The suit alleges the “defendants stole trade secrets from TPCi by taking illicit pictures of pages from an unreleased strategy guide created to accompany the release of two highly anticipated video games.”
It adds: “The pictures revealed never-before-seen Pokémon and evolutions of Pokémon that TPCi and its partners intended to keep secret until the games’ release on November 15, 2019.”
According to Forbes, the defendants are accused of publishing photos of unseen Gigantamax forms on Discord and 4chan beginning on November 1, which then spread to at least 300 web pages identified by The Pokémon Company.
Lawyers claim the leaks caused “irreparable injury” to The Pokémon Company and that it’s “entitled to damages in an amount to be proven at trial.”
The Pokémon Company has identified four potential leakers by their Discord names and has requested the court issues subpoenas on Discord and 4chan to help them uncover their real identity.
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield combined are Switch’s fastest-selling games to date, according to The Pokémon Company, which claims they surpassed six million sales in their first week of availability.
Epic Games recently sued two testers over the leaking of Fortnite Chapter 2 information ahead of its October release.


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CASPER, Wyo. — Governor Mark Gordon signed House Bill 73 into law on Tuesday, March 10, which will impose excise taxes on vaping products in Wyoming.
The new taxes are set to go into effect on July 1, 2020.
The bill will levy a 15% excise tax on the wholesale purchase price of e-cigarettes and vaping material imported into the state for resale. Wholesalers who pay this tax will be entitled to retain 4% of the tax collected.
If the wholesale tax rate is not paid, the bill will impose a tax “upon the use or storage by consumers of electronic cigarettes and vapor material in this state, and upon those consumers” at the rate of “7.5% of the retail price of the electronic cigarettes and vapor material.”
“E-cigarettes” are defined under the bill as “any device that can be used to deliver aerosolized or vaporized nicotine or synthetic nicotine.”
Batteries and battery charges will not see such taxes imposed if they are sold separately from the vaping devices.
Concerned about this or other legislation? An online hotline system allows Wyomingites to have messages delivered to legislators on issues they are concerned with.


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Having huge potential in livestock, dairy and poultry sectors, Pakistan has so far failed to capture its due share in the rapidly growing Halal market worldwide. The country is among top livestock producing countries with 160 million livestock and it can export Halal meat products to meet the rising global demand. Unfortunately, the country’s share is minimal in the $3 trillion estimated global value of Halal market. According to one estimate, the country ranked 18th in the production of Halal meat and its volume is just 3% of the global Halal meat production. In view of the rapid growth of global Halal market, there is a dire need to exploit the Halal trade potential of Pakistan. By virtue of its geo-strategic location, the country may be turned into a hub of food and high value crops, as there is a great demand of Halal products in the global and regional markets.
Halal is any object or an action which is permissible in Islam. Halal food is often used in reference to foods and drinks, which are permissible for Muslims to eat or drink under Islamic law. The criteria specifies both what foods are allowed, and how the food must be prepared. These foods include types of meat and animal tissue. The food must come from a supplier that uses Halal practices. Specifically, the slaughter must be performed by a Muslim, who must precede the slaughter by invoking the name of Allah.
The country’s Halal meat industry still lacks proper sanitary conditions, trained staff and fast adoption of the international standards and practices. Gulf countries have lifted their ban on Pakistan poultry imports recently. The ban was imposed in 2004 following bird flu incidents in the country.
Muslim population constitutes 30 per cent of the total world population. The volume of overall Halal products is estimated to have reached $3 trillion in the world. Halal meat contributes about 16 percent of total world trade of the commodity, but the market is dominated by multinationals of the Western countries. According to a initial research report, the global Halal food market is set to grow at 4.44 percent during 2012-2016, mainly because of the increase in the Muslim population. Being a Muslim country and member of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Pakistan can play a major role in the global Halal meat industry. Arab Gulf countries could prove a potential growth market for the country’s Halal meat, livestock and poultry products.
Pakistan is an agricultural country. The country is the world’s fourth largest rice producer, fifth largest dairy producer; fourth largest wheat producer and fifth largest supplier of cattle. The country can export Halal products worth $5 to $6 billion a year if the government takes serious measures to promote export of good quality food products. There is a dire need to focus on four key areas for capturing a big share for Pakistani products in the international Halal food market. Firstly, the government should formulate a strategy in collaboration with the private sector to raise Halal food exports from the country. Secondly, the government should start work on Halal certification on war footings because certification is the main hurdle blocking exports of Halal products to the global and regional markets. It is appreciable that Punjab government has significantly worked in this area and presently the province has more than 50 Halal certified companies engaged in export business. Thirdly, Pakistani companies should develop a technical know-how in processing, storing, transporting and marketing of meat and its products. They should ensure that their products fully comply with the strict safety codes of meat importing countries. Halal Research Council (HRC) can play a key role in Halal certification and assurance programme. Fourthly and lastly, the focus should be on maintaining the international standards in packaging and marketing of Halal products. Only the standard packaging and active marketing would make Pakistani products acceptable in global Halal food market.
Available meat processing facility
The establishment of Fauji Meat Limited (FML) is a good step forward in this regard. The FML, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim, would boost Pakistan’s largest state-of-the-art Halal abattoir and meat processing facility with its plant situated at Port Bin Qasim in Karachi. It would have a capacity to produce 100 tons of meat in both frozen and chilled categories on daily basis. FML has set up state of the art equipments and well trained staff under the guidance of international consultants. It will be the only meat processing company in the country that offers rendered products including bone/meat meal, blood meal & tallow conforming to international quality standards.
The country has the potential of becoming market of Halal food for the world if some crucial measures are taken by the government to tap the country’s vast potential in this sector.
– The government should hold mega shows and exhibitions across the world in order to provide local entrepreneurs, business houses dealing in food products especially the exporters of mutton, beef, poultry and allied industries with the opportunities to showcase their products.
– The government should take steps to modernize post-harvest storage and marketing systems.
There is a dire need to revamp the agricultural and livestock research organizations and institutions, which can benefit the farmers and breeders through their valuable research studies.
– Steps need to be taken to turn livestock and agriculture into a fully viable economic activity and attain self-sufficiency in food production.
- The modern technologies in agriculture must be adopted for efficient input use.
– All modern strategies and tools should effectively be utilized for packaging and marketing of products in the international Halal market.
– State-of-art Halal slaughter houses complying with international best practices should be established in every district and town across the country.
- The government should take serious steps to improve the socio-economic conditions of the local farmers so that a large number of livestock and their products could be supplied in the global Halal food market.
- Institutions like Punjab Halal Development Agency (PHDA) must also be established in other provinces in order to formalize the Halal sector through Halal certification, business projection, capacity-building, and compliance regime of Halal food safety standards together with branding the country as a hub of Halal products.


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Finance leaders – already feeling uneasy about the economic outlook – grew even more pessimistic about the road ahead according to the latest CFO Survey from Chicago-based IPA 100 firm Grant Thornton.
In fact, 72% of the 249 CFOs surveyed for the second-quarter edition of the poll expect interest rate hikes will lead to a recession. Further, just 39% of respondents in the latest survey expressed a positive outlook regarding the U.S. economy over the next six months – a number that stood at 69% in September of 2021. Increasing costs of goods and services topped the list of reasons for such a negative outlook, with 73% of CFOs citing this as a key stressor, with increasing energy costs (71%), supply chain challenges (66%), rate hikes (64%) and the increased cost of credit and capital (61%) rounding out the top-five list of reasons for pessimism.
Despite the doom and gloom, however, 65% of the CFOs surveyed believe the economic impact of COVID-19 is waning – an increase of 15 percentage points from the previous survey – and, despite their recession worries, 66% of respondents expect their companies to still meet growth goals and 61% expect an increase in net profits over the next 12 months.
Among the other key findings in this edition of the survey:
- With a potential recession looming, 30% of the CFOs surveyed say they are considering layoffs
- While 71% of respondents are confident the demand for their business will continue, only 57% are confident about controlling costs
- Forty-one percent of CFOs say cybersecurity will be their top challenge over the next six months, followed by the supply chain (37%) and the remote workforce (32%)
“The strong prospect of a downturn is clearly guiding CFO behavior,” says Enzo Santilli, national MP for transformation at Grant Thornton. “In times like this, CFOs would be wise to tighten both their belts and their seatbelts – because the road ahead looks bumpy. The CFOs who remain highly collaborative and focused on what they can control are likely to emerge from this year with a much more positive outlook.”


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The deal marks the first time that all three of the channel’s Saturday night programmes have been sponsored by a single brand, taking both The National Lottery and ITV into new territory, Camelot said.
The sponsorship begins on 19 December and will run every weekend for three months, including on-air sponsorship, multi-platform activation and a bespoke licensing package.
It will feature a number of “amusing, larger-than-life idents” created by Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman, and includes visibility on ITV’s streaming platform ITV Hub, the age-gated version of The Voice UK app, and The National Lottery’s and ITV’s own channels.
The agreement was negotiated and will be managed by media agency Vizeum, with creative strategy and approach led by communications agency Adam & Eve. ITV Creative heads up production and creative integration of the deal.
Camelot’s chief marketing officer, Keith Moor, said: “The National Lottery has been making Saturday night more entertaining for the past 26 years, with every ticket providing a moment of anticipation while also helping to raise around £30 million each week for National Lottery-funded good causes.
“These are ITV’s flagship entertainment shows with the biggest audiences – so there’s a fantastic fit between the two brands with this partnership, and it will only help people to better understand the connection between The National Lottery’s unique purpose and play.”
ITV’s director of commercial sales and partnerships, Mark Trinder, welcomed Camelot as a new sponsor, while celebrating the return of three of ITV’s most popular programmes.
In June, Camelot signed an extension to its contract to continue operating the UK’s National Lottery for an additional six months until July 2023, after a tender process for the next licence was delayed by three months.
The tender was launched by the Gambling Commission in August, with the preferred applicant to be announced in September 2021.
In October, Camelot completed the first stage of the National Lottery tender process, completing the Gambling Commission’s Selection Questionnaire. It was the third business to confirm it had completed the questionnaire, after Czech gaming giant Sazka Group and Indian lottery operator and technology supplier, Sugal & Damani.
In November, results published by Camelot showed that sales had declined 1.7% to £3.85bn in the first half of its 2020/21 financial year, as mobile growth largely offset a drop in retail sales caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Following the UK Government’s review of the Gambling Act announced earlier this week, Camelot supported a proposal to increase the minimum age to play the National Lottery from 16 to 18, saying it will take steps to implement the change by April, in advance of the law coming into effect in October.


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Mattress and pillow protection supplier Protect-A-Bed has increased the responsibilities of seven-year company veteran Alan Eisenberg, senior vice president of sales. Eisenberg now directs the Chicago-based company’s furniture- and appliance-store business, in addition to overseeing sales to Protect-A-Bed’s mattress-retailer customers.
“Protect-A-Bed has seen significant growth in recent years, in part because of the outstanding leadership Alan has shown within the retail channel,” said James Bell, Protect-A-Bed chief executive officer. “He is an essential part of our team and we’re hopeful we can continue to expand our furniture-retail division with his expertise.”
Eisenberg and his team are tasked with working closely with current and prospective customers to spread Protect-A-Bed’s message about creating “a healthy sleep zone” and protecting the mattress investment.


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Delyn MP David Hanson has encouraged shoppers in Delyn to buy fair trade cosmetics and toiletries that are now available in the shops.
People will now be able to buy 57 products with Fairtrade certified ingredients, including lip balms, face masks, body butters and shower gels. Shops like Boots, Neal’s Yard and Lush will stock the products. Across the UK, 31% of people say they are interested in buying cosmetics carrying the Fairtrade Mark.
David Hanson said:
“During this global economic downturn, it is vital that world trade continues. Our shopping habits can make a real difference to the world’s poorest people. Fair Trade helps support 7.5 million people in the developing world.
“By buying food, gifts and now cosmetics from developing countries we will help grow their economies and reduce poverty. When consumers and retailers act together to promote and buy goods from developing countries, we can make a real difference to the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.”
More than 7.5 million people – farmers, workers and their families – across 58 developing countries benefit from the international Fairtrade system. The Fairtrade Mark is recognised by 70% of UK consumers and appears on products as a guarantee that disadvantaged producers are getting a better deal.
Each product will contain one or more Fairtrade certified ingredient such as cocoa butter, shea nut butter, sugar or brazil nut oil, benefiting disadvantaged producers from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Seven in 10 households purchase Fairtrade goods, including an extra 1.3 million more households in 2008, helping Fairtrade sales reach an estimated £700m in 2008, a 43% increase on the previous year. There are over 460 producer organisations selling to the UK and 746 to the global Fairtrade system, representing more than 1.5 million farmers and workers.
Introducing Fairtrade labelling to cosmetic products will increase the overall number of Fairtrade products in UK shops and the volumes of ingredients which producers are able to sell under Fairtrade terms, which in turn increases the benefits back to farmers.
The Fairtrade Foundation sets minimum thresholds of Fairtrade ingredients at levels which allow best selling volume lines of beauty products containing natural ingredients to be certified. Producers will get the Fairtrade minimum price plus a premium, to invest in community projects such as schools and healthcare. The companies behind the products will have a partnership plan in place showing how they will additionally support producers to develop their businesses and communities.
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The celebrity pumpkin patch sightings continue, and now the rock royalty couple of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have joined in the seasonal fun!
The always-chic pair hit up Shawn's Pumpkin Patch in Los Angeles on Sunday, bringing along their sons Kingston, 6, and Zuma, 4, as well as with the family's newest addition -- an adorable Pomeranian puppy!
The group enjoyed some fun in the sun, with the kids getting into the Halloween spirit by seemingly dressing as vampires -- black pants, white collared shirts, slicked back hair and even some guyliner.
Yes, these two are definitely the offspring of rock stars.
Click "Launch Gallery" above to see the Stefani-Rossdale photos, as well as other celeb pumpkin patch sightings like Jessica Alba, Hilary Duff and more!


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Singapore, August 24: Asia’s leading revenue-based financing and growth platform Choco Up announced a US$120K funding partnership with Poptron, a Malaysia-headquartered social e-commerce platform.
Choco-Up’s funding – part of a larger funding round by Poptron – will support Poptron in their expansion plans in Singapore and other countries in the region at a peak time for the e-commerce industry.
“We are particularly passionate about this investment deal because of Poptron’s commitment to creating a greener world and ensuring they have a climate-positive impact,” Percy Hung, Co-founder and CEO of Choco Up said.
“The effects of climate change in Asia have given rise to more socially conscious consumers as well as brands, and they can now easily connect using Poptron’s platform.”
“We have a range of microbrands selling high-quality, natural and eco-friendly products or artisanal goods on our platform,” said Poptron founder Brian Johnson Lowe.
“I have always been passionate about the creative economy and technology space, but I also feel strongly about doing more to protect our environment – Poptron lets me combine my two passions to help small businesses pursue their dreams while amplifying positive impact.
Choco-Up’s investment will go a long way in making sure we can do the same for small, eco-friendly businesses in Singapore and many more countries.”
Poptron connects socially conscious consumers in Malaysia with ethical, sustainable and socially responsible brands on their platform, which currently hosts over 100 microbrands with more than 2,000 different types of product listings.
By offering all-encompassing, end-to-end solutions to sellers, handling everything from enquiries to shipping on a single platform, Poptron helps sellers overcome key pain points in customer acquisition, business management and regional growth.
Poptron will also become a channel partner of Choco Up, enabling the small and micro merchants on the platform to gain access to Choco Up’s data-driven financing platform and receive the immediate and accessible financing these brands – which may not otherwise be able to receive the necessary capital – need to grow.
Earlier this year, the company took part in a US$ 1 million seed round invested by a NASDAQ listed company to develop their platform further and commence expansion plans.
Their recent funding from Choco-Up will further facilitate the company’s ambitious growth plans to capture US$1.6 billion of the micro brand market share, with 600,000 microbrands generating their global revenue in 2025.
While Asia’s e-commerce industry is set for explosive growth in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the region is also grappling with some of the worst impacts of climate change with up to US$4.7 trillion in annual GDP at risk due to increased heat and humidity.
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Anyone with a working knowledge of business in the Asia Pacific region will be aware of the ways Kuala Lumpur is emerging as a start-up hub, especially if you’re in with the up and coming crowd of entrepreneurs. It was also rated as the top 11 tech cities in Asia
However, it hasn’t always been that way. A while back, many top businesses in Kuala Lumpur were pulling out of the local scene and heading for Singapore, Australia or the United States to seek bigger and better opportunities. This is likely due to the small local market and low use of mobile in the region in the past.
Despite that, start-ups are once again showing strength and potential. A visit to startups-list.com shows plenty of start-ups are based in Kuala Lumpur now, giving hope to others who may have great ideas of their own, or investors looking to break into the local market. The fact that the city’s business scene is once again starting to heat up is likely due to the ways the government agencies, local entrepreneurs and the technology community has worked in unison to improve the landscape from a business perspective.
Kuala Lumpur is also home to a number of events designed for networking and idea sharing between entrepreneurs and start-up employees, leading to innovative ideas that will only encourage the local ecosystem to grow. Additionally, due to the popularity of start-ups once again, Start-up Malaysia has introduced the innovation and expertise of Silicon Valley to Kuala Lumpur through internships, start-up programs, workshops and events.
Start-ups looking to get their feet off the ground may find themselves with more government support than they’d expect. Many start-ups in recent years have received funding and grants through various schemes run by government agencies as well as from angel investors and private venture capitalists.
An example of this is the Cradle Fund – the first development and technology commercialization funding programme in Malaysia. The programme aims to provide aspiring entrepreneurs with the funding and support to turn their ideas into real ventures and attain commercialization. Cradle have been offering this scheme since 2003 and it is still helping new businesses today.
Much help have also been dished out for entrepreneurs and startup companies for leasing offices with several incentives under the MSC scheme, if companies lease space in MSC certified buildings. You can easily locate MSC zones and buildings in KLCC area, KL Sentral , Petaling Jaya and Cyberjaya etc.
If you’ve recently set up a business in Kuala Lumpur, of if you’re hoping to move to the city and follow your business ambitions, renting a serviced or flexible office space should be the first way to establish or expand a company.


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Frima Studios partered with Sony to announced Zombie Tycoon for the PSP Go. The game will be available through “The Minis” on the Playstation Store.
So get ready to eat brains, spread the infection, and apply those managerial skills!
Frima’s CEO Steve Couture said “It is about time for humans to try to understand what it feels like to be a zombie. By putting a humorous zombie army in the player’s control and by having funny items to arm those zombies with, we hope to show the lighter side of the classic zombie genre and the subtleness of zombies’ personality…”


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With the continuing efforts to bolster its cash reserves at a time when the food delivery sector is rebounding from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, Foodtech unicorn Zomato has raised $52 million from US-based Kora Investments.
Zomato raised the fund as part of ongoing funding round and the online food delivery app is expected to raise as much as $600 million. This year until now Zomato raised more than $270 million through the funding round.
Zomato, last month closed a $62 million funding from MacRitchie Investments, a unit of Singapore state investment arm Temasek, and an additional $103 million from Tiger Global, a US-based hedge fund.
In the coming months, Kora is expected to make a follow-up investment of a larger amount in Zomato.
The current fundraising strategy of Zomato is to get more hedge funds on board for probable investments. As these funds look for a faster exit, Its plan on going public is making it an attractive proposition for them. Investors are taking a moderate approach because the food tech is yet to justify its valuation in the public markets.
In the next few months, the food tech major is planning to raise more funds from other hedge funds.
In September, Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal communicated to the employees that the company already has $250 million in the bank (after its fundraise from Tiger Global), and will use the cash reserve as a weapon to fight the price war or any sort of war from the competitors.
According to Goyal, Zomato is likely to go public in the first half of the next financial year.
In the latest fundraising, Zomato Pvt. Ltd has allotted 12,656 Class J5 preferential dividend shares to Kora Investment I LLC at an issue price of ₹300,235, totaling a more than 1% stake in the food tech major.
The current capital raise boosted the valuation of Gurugram-based Zomato at $3.3 billion. Zomato in the current financial year doubled its revenue to $394 million, although losses marginally widened to $293 million from $277 million.
Zomato in January raised $150 million from Ant Financial. However, at that time, Zomato only received $50 million as a part of the first tranche of the investment. In January, the funding from Ant Financial valued the online food delivery startup at $3 billion.
Zomato is also looking to raise funds from Temasek Holdings after plans to raise funds from ANT Financial hit a roadblock. Due to the implementation of new FDI rule, any country that shares a land border with India must seek government clearance over any investment proposal
Zomato’s business back to the pre-Covid peak, IPL played a key role
Zomato’s food delivery volumes touched pre-Covid-19 peaks, Swiggy said that overall, the food delivery business has recovered about 80-85 percent of the pre-Covid order values. The recovery is taking place after multiple rounds of unlocks, as restaurants open up for business.
Over 100 million orders have been placed on the Swiggy app for food, groceries, medicines and other household items since the lockdown. Almost over 200 cities have reached 90 percent of their pre-Covid GMV (gross merchandise value) levels with more than 70 cities seeing a full recovery.
“In fact, they have seen double-digit growth over the past 4-5 weeks, especially when the lockdown opened and when consumer’s fears of Covid-19 subsided,” said Swiggy. “Certain micro pockets within the country have also reached 200 percent of their pre-Covid levels,” it added.
Zomato Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said that a number of cities (India food delivery volumes) are now at over 120 percent of pre-Covid peaks. “Food delivery is one of the safest recreational options available to our customers during the pandemic. Going forward, we anticipate the food delivery sector to continue to grow at about 15-25 percent m-o-m (month-over-month) for the foreseeable future,” said Goyal in a tweet.
He said since the end of March, Gurugram-based Zomato had delivered a total of 92 million orders – and there have been zero reported cases of Covid transmission through food delivery or food delivery agents.
He said that a few weeks ago, the WHO (World Health Organization) had categorically stated that people should not fear food or its packaging, processing or delivery.
Rohan Agarwal, director at research firm RedSeer Consulting, said the Indian Premier League (IPL) and its promotion in the form of campaigns and engagements had strengthened food volumes.
“IPL has played a key role, Due to IPL event food delivery volumes are seeing a jump and food tech companies are capitalizing on that demand,” said Agarwal. “IPL is like a festive season for food delivery platforms. During IPL, consumers come together to watch the matches. Snacking together is one of the associated behaviors,” he said.
Given the absence of live sporting action on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, analysts have said that consolidated viewership across TV and digital could cross 700 million this year for IPL. This stood at over 600 million last year.
RedSeer’s Agarwal said over the last few months, the food delivery business has started to recover slowly as the perception related to the fear of catching the virus due to food delivery is reducing and consumers have also started to spend discretionary expenses on ordering food.


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What you need to know
- Apple is to close all of its mainland China operations over concerns regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
- It is closing all of its Apple stores, as well as corporate offices and contact centers.
- They will remain closed through February 9, but Apple hopes to re-open them as soon as possible.
Apple has confirmed it is shutting down its entire operation in mainland China until at least February 9.
As reported by Reuters:
"Out of an abundance of caution and based on the latest advice from leading health experts, we're closing all our corporate offices, stores, and contact centers in mainland China through February 9," Apple said in a statement. The company said looked forward to re-opening stores "as soon as possible".
Just days ago, Apple closed two more of its stores in the country, after announcing the closure of its Qingdao store during its earnings call on Tuesday, January 28.
Whilst some corporations, such as Apple supplier TSMC, have said that their work remains unnaffected by the outbreak, reports claimed that the virus has created massive uncertainties in the region with regards to supply chains and manufacturing.
That disruption could even spread as far as India, Apple's second-largest manufacturing base, which remains heavily reliant on China for parts and components. During Tuesday's call Cook said:
I'll talk about the supply chain and customer demand some to give you some color. With respect to the supply chain, we do have some suppliers in the Wuhan area. For all of the suppliers, there are alternate sources and we're obviously working on mitigation plans to make up any expected production loss. We factored our best thinking in the guidance that we've provided you. With respect to supply sources that are outside the Wuhan area. The impact is less clear at this time.
With this latest news regarding closures of all of Apple's operations in the country, it seems now that some impact on Apple's supply chain and maybe the supply of devices is inevitable.


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Xbox Series X Mini Fridge to launch soon
Perfect for gamers
After years of being a meme, the Xbox Series X mini fridge is nearly available globally.
What makes it special?
Xbox’s mini fridge can hold up to 12 cans, and has two shelves inside the door to hold your favourite snacks. It also comes with a USB port on the front of the door to charge your devices, and a DC power adapted to take the fridge on the go.
The Xbox Series X Mini Fridge will exclusively be available at US Target’s for $99.99, £89.99 at GAME in the UK, and in France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, and Poland, the mini fridge will be available at GameStop EU for €99.00. It will be available to preorder on October 19th on each retailer's site.
Result of memes
When the Xbox Series X got revealed in December 2019, gamers immediately posted memes online comparing its boxy design to a fridge. Two years later, in March of this year, Microsoft embraced the meme by revealing its Xbox Series X mini fridge solely for promotional purposes, until April when the company changed its mind and confirmed they would sell the mini fridges.
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Render markets itself as the “Easiest cloud for all your apps and websites.” Now, the company has announced that it will be offering object storage for its customers to make their cloud experience even easier.
Announcing the development at TechCrunch Disrupt, Anurag Goel, the CEO of Render said: “One of the things that our users want us to do next is to build out object storage. Even though they can use things like Amazon S3 and other cloud storage options, they know that Render is going to be easier for them to use. So they really want object storage, and they want everything in one place.”
By offering object storage the managed cloud platform has made it easier for its customers to add storage. Now, they won’t have to worry about the hassle of adding storage from other services like AWS and Azure. Render Disk will strip away all the tasks associated with adding storage and manage storage requirements by itself.
Also, the company has also rolled out a one-click launch for its customers which will help the customers open their applications with a single click from GitHub to load all the requisite files.
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Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy
Yesterday Aimee Groth wrote a very interesting article on QuartzAtWork about the organizational evolution Zappos has been on for the last years, with the telling title: "Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy". You can read the article by following this link: https://qz.com/work/1776841/zappos-has-quietly-backed-away-from-holacracy/
She writes: "In the last few years, Zappos has been quietly moving away from holacracy. It has done away with its at-times rigidly (and ironically) bureaucratic meetings and brought back managers, while retaining its circular hierarchy, a key artifact of holacracy."
And "The solution? A marketplace system where teams operate like small businesses and manage their own profit-and-loss statements, rather than focusing on the scope of their holacratic authority to manage the company’s full P&L."
Aimee's observations are very interesting and, to be honest, they don't surprise me much. When we visited Zappos some years ago (when they were rolling out holacracy) several employees told us already that they didn't like holacracy at all. They told us that they were just waiting till Tony Hsieh would move Zappos to the next phase of their experimentation. And that's actually what happened!
To me it seems that Zappos is moving towards an internal marketplace that seems to be a mix of the organizational structures of Haier and WL Gore of which I recently wrote a long blog post: https://corporate-rebels.com/4-future-proof-organizational-models-beyond-hierarchy-and-bureaucracy/
Aimee told us that Rob Solomon is working alongside John Bunch (Zappos Executive) to roll out this new market-based organizational model at Zappos at the moment. You can read more about Rob Solomon in this excellent piece: https://media.consensys.net/cone-the-future-of-decentralized-organizations-f0f2851de46f
What do you think? Is this any surprising? Are they moving into the right direction this time?
Here is another piece by Zappos with more explaination of their new model which they call 'Market Based Dynamics' or MBD in short:
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Monitors supporting DisplayPort 2.0 technology have been delayed, with the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) now expecting devices to ship later this year. DisplayPort 2.0 monitors were initially expected to be released in late 2020.
It’s been almost two years since specifications were announced for DisplayPort 2.0, which is expected to offer some significant improvements over its predecessor DisplayPort 1.4. Notably, because DisplayPort 2.0 is able to manage nearly triple the bandwidth of DisplayPort 1.4, it can support much higher resolutions – even as high as 16K at 60Hz.
However, the excitement surrounding the technology will have to be tempered for the time being, as VESA although has confirmed that monitors boasting DisplayPort 2.0 tech are in development, no concrete release dates have been announced.
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VESA’s next PlugTest event, which should allow the DisplayPort rollout to gain some momentum again, is scheduled for spring of this year.
As well as promising higher resolutions, DisplayPort 2.0 will also offer enhanced refresh rates and High Dynamic Range (HDR) support without compression. HDR will enable monitors to display a broader spectrum of colors and contrasts, which is likely to be especially welcomed by avid gamers.
In addition to the release of DisplayPort 2.0, whenever that might be, the monitor space has a number of other excitement developments emerging. HDMI 2.1 monitors have been popping up with increasing regularity and USB-C monitors are now on the market.
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When one considers the current circumstances where safety measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus have taken a toll on local economy, along with the uncertainty of when this will all be over, it is fair to say that Guyana is facing a national emergency. This was recently noted by Economist, Rawle Lucas in his most recent analysis.
Lucas who also works as the Executive Director of the Department of Global Economic Co-operation, Trade and Investment, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was keen to note that the severity of the crisis will not be known for some time. On the other hand, the official said that many are already aware that people have lost income because of the mandatory lockdown policies that have curtailed pavement vending, school-perimeter vending, and air, road and water payloads.
Lucas said, “Social distancing has virtually paralyzed the tourism, hospitality and entertainment industries. One estimate given about the hire car industry is that demand is down about 70 percent. Only taxi services with contracts are earning some money.”
The economist added, “Incoming air cargo volumes are estimated to be down close to 40 percent. Fuel consumption too, another useful indicator of economic volume, is also estimated to be down close to 40 percent since COVID-19.”
Further to this, the official said that seaport traffic remains high, but one expects to see a decline as idle businesses see a build-up of their inventories and no need to replenish them with the customary regularity. He also noted that cellular phone usage could also be taking a hit as people reorder their priorities in the face of lost revenues and possibly dwindling savings. When the foregoing is taken into consideration, the official said that the combined impact is a decline in national welfare.
On that note the economist said, “The question then becomes how do we address this issue? Keynesian economic thinking has already been taken off the table by virtue of the health risks and the parliamentary straightjacket in which the country finds itself.”
The official said it must be noted that if there is an authority to stop Guyanese from going about their daily lives, then there must be one to help them get through this crisis. Lucas reminded that the Government has stepped forward to ease the financial burden on consumers by removing the value-added tax or VAT from products essential to the fight against COVID-19 and to daily living.
He noted too that many businesses have already granted various sorts of relief and support to their staff and customers while adding that some businesses have agreed to pay their staff between 60 to 90 percent of their current salary. Lucas said that the issue then becomes how long can they keep that up in the face of falling demand and declining cash flows and when the paycheck stops or it is cut further, what is next for affected breadwinners?
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MG Motor India has announced its partnership with eChargeBays, to provide household infrastructure to charge their electric vehicle. The collaboration comes ahead of the MG eZS electric SUV scheduled to launch for Indian market in December 2019.
The setup assistance will be offered by the company's experts, who will identify the best way in which MG eZS customers can install an EV charger at home. The company is making sure that the eZS customers will have ample options to charge their SUV ahead of its launch in the country.
MG aims to create an ecosystem for EVs and drive usage of electric vehicles in India. The company also aims to create a robust charging infrastructure in the country by partnering with third-party companies in the EV charging space. MG Motor India has already partnered with Fortum and Delta Electronics India for the fast charging and slow charging segments, respectively.
Rajeev Chaba, President & Managing Director, MG Motor India, said,
"The government's recent announcement around creating charging amenities for customers at public places is a positive step for the EV industry. Our latest association is aimed at supporting the government's EV vision by providing a viable residential EV charging infrastructure.
"It also highlights MG's commitment towards going the extra mile and delivering a convenient ownership experience for its EV customers. This partnership is yet another step towards driving EV adoption in the country,"he added.
The company's ensure a long-term commitment to the country by creating the right ecosystem for EVs and bring environment friendly mobility solutions as well. MG Motor future in India will be aligned with the government's vision to encourage EV adoption to improve air quality in the country.
Rajesh Singh, Founder & CEO, eChargeBays, said,
"Most prospective EV buyers are hesitant on account of the limited charging infrastructure available. We aim to provide Indian car owners with a robust and safe one-stop solution for their home charging-related needs using our home charge solution. Apart from this, eChargeBays will also launch a series of service solutions in the charging infra space which would aim at providing a seamless EV charging experience to EV customers."
The eZS SUV will be the company's second product In India after the Hector SUV. The electric SUV has made its global debut back in April 2019 and has received a good response in international markets. The eZS electric SUV has registered 2,000 orders within two months of its UK launch.
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MG Motors has taken the EV game to another level, with multiple collaborations to set up electric charging infrastructures. This is a good sign considering the company is thinking about the customer service even before the launch of their product. With all these facilities being set up eZS customers is sure to have a hassle-free ownership experience. Kudos MG!


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Nissan Motor Co. reported today its second quarter profit totaled $1.26 billion, up dramatically from 25.53 billion yen.
Sales at the Japanese automaker, which makes the March subcompact and Leaf electric car, gained 21.4% to $28.0 billion.
But Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga said the company's performance in the October-March second half was unlikely to be as robust because of the rising yen and increases in raw material and engineering costs.
Still, Nissan was upbeat, raising its forecasts for the full year through March to a 270 billion yen ($3.3 billion) profit from an earlier projection of $1.85 billion profit. That would mark a sixfold improvement over the previous fiscal year.
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FSA consults about supply of Qurbani meat and offal during Eid al-Adha
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published a consultation on whether changes should be introduced to the chilling requirements of Qurbani meat and offal supplied from slaughterhouses in England and Wales during the period of Eid al-Adha.
Some Muslims prefer to collect their Qurbani meat and offal as soon as possible after slaughter as this signifies the beginning of the festival. There is a clear legal framework in place from a hygiene perspective that includes the chilling requirements for meat and offal. Though respectful that Qurbani is a religious custom and practice, collection of the meat and offal before full chilling currently does not align with the FSA’s regulatory framework.
Industry representatives asked the FSA to look at alternative options for the supply of Qurbani meat and offal during Eid al-Adha and potentially review the existing legislative framework.
A proposed new approach builds on the joint statement from the Partnership Working Group Sub-Group on Qurbani (QPWG SG) and the FSA’s continued engagement with the group over the last year. This included producing a Risk Assessment (RA) on the direct supply of Qurbani meat and offal.
The FSA is now consulting on views on these proposals and stakeholders in England and Wales are invited to respond to the twelve-week consultation.
The FSA will evaluate the responses and, subject to the outcome, a further consultation may take place to focus on implementation. This two-stage approach allows thorough stakeholder engagement and contribution throughout the process.
Food Standards Agency Director of Policy, Rebecca Sudworth:
“It is important to acknowledge that Qurbani is an act of religious significance for the Muslim community and must be respected. Qurbani meat should be made available to consumers that wish to prepare and consume it. This consultation and our dialogue with authorities in the Muslin community broadens the discussion to ensure that this practice can continue, whilst providing for highest food safety and hygiene standards possible to protect consumers.”
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