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SOUTH OROPOUCHE, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- StrongBlock, a BaaS (Blockchain-as-a-Service) platform founded by four early technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, has signed a long-term, multi-million-dollar agreement with 95-year-old S.M. Jaleel & Company (SMJ), a food and beverage giant operating in 60 countries around the world.
Preparation for deployment by StrongBlock has begun at SMJ's manufacturing facilities in the Caribbean. The partnership anticipates the integration of supply chain solutions to occur by the end of Q3 2020. SMJ will pilot the blockchain solution at its Caribbean facilities, with future integration at other facilities in South Africa, India and Saudi Arabia to follow.
Upon completion by StrongBlock of full supply chain integration at SMJ, a white-label solution will be created for Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) to be offered as an Enterprise package worldwide for other FMCG companies.
"Creating a blockchain solution with StrongBlock will both improve SMJ's internal processes and return tons of value to consumers," said Mateen Mohameed, grandson of SMJ's founder Sheik Mohameed Jaleel. "SMJ is a 95-year-old company that has always leveraged innovative technologies. In confident collaboration with StrongBlock, we will continue to stay ahead of the curve."
StrongBlock's technology can be applied to any industry needing a blockchain solution, including logistics, supply chain, food safety, product provenance, construction, real estate, energy, manufacturing, finance, and retail.
"We are excited to work with SMJ on this breakthrough FMCG project," said David Moss, StrongBlock founder and CEO. "The SMJ team has demonstrated the urgency to innovate with StrongBlock's blockchain platform, along with exceptional leadership in Industry 4.0 FMCG technology."
About SM Jaleel
SM Jaleel is the largest manufacturer of non-alcoholic beverages in the English-speaking Caribbean. Founded in 1924, the firm employs over 2,000 people across five continents and their beverages are distributed to over 60 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit smjaleel.net.
StrongBlock, founded by four early technology executives from EOSIO-creator Block.one, creates blockchain products and services that can be used to rapidly create, launch and manage scalable, secure and governed enterprise-grade applications, empowering companies to focus their technology resources on solutions. Their Blockchain-as-a-Service platform is available at strongblock.io.
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LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading luxury group, posted revenues of €35.7 billion ($AUD55.2 billion) in 2015, an increase of 16 per cent over the previous year. The Group turned in strong momentum in Europe, the United States and Japan, whilst the remainder of the Asia Pacific region showed a slight decline.
In the fourth quarter alone, revenue increased by 12 per cent compared to the same period of 2014. Some key highlights to note from the year was the steady growth at some of the European luxury houses, including Louis Vuitton, where profitability remains at an exceptional level and a rise in sales at Fendi, Céline, Givenchy and Kenzo.
French luxury house Christian Dior, who is presently working without a Creative Director continues to impress consumers with strong momentum and continues to gain market share globally.
Bulgari continues to excel with its bling and baubles, whilst TAG Heuer’s refocusing strategy is starting to pay dividends.
The Wines & Spirits business group recorded an increase in revenue of 16 per cent. Champagne experienced good growth in 2015 with an excellent performance in Europe, the United States and Japan. Hennessy demonstrated strong momentum in the United States across all ranges. In China, the second half of the year was marked by a rebound in revenue during a year characterised by continued destocking by distributors.
The Fashion & Leather Goods business group recorded revenue growth of 14 per cent in 2015. Louis Vuitton had a remarkable year driven by the enthusiastic welcome of both its iconic products as well as the new models created by Nicolas Ghesquière. Fendi recorded exceptional growth with the success of its iconic leather goods and the inauguration of Palazzo Fendi in the center of Rome. Loro Piana continued to invest in its production capacity and launched an exceptional new material combining vicuña wool and baby cashmere. Donna Karan and Marc Jacobs continued to work on changes to their product lines.
The Watches & Jewellery business group recorded revenue growth of 19 per cent. The watch brands were impacted by the cautious purchasing behaviour of multi-brand retailers. TAG Heuer launched with enormous success its smartwatch developed in partnership with Google and Intel while continuing to develop its core offering. Given its strong growth, Hublot strengthened its production capacity with the opening of a second manufacturing facility in Nyon, Switzerland.
The Selective Retailing business group recorded revenue growth of 18 per cent. Sephora had an exceptional year in terms of revenue and results and continued to gain market share in all its markets. The omni-channel strategy accelerated with numerous initiatives in several countries. DFS continues to experience an uncertain environment in Asia as a result of currency and geopolitical changes, while its business in Japan benefited from a boom in Chinese tourism. Significant cost containment efforts were continued at DFS.
For the Perfumes & Cosmetics business group, sales were up by 15 per cent. Christian Dior accelerated its growth and increased worldwide market share. The new men’s fragrance Sauvage experienced unprecedented worldwide success. The vitality of its iconic perfumes J’adore and Miss Dior together with the excellent reception of new make-up products contributed to the Maison’s remarkable performance.
Despite a climate of economic, currency and geopolitical uncertainties, LVMH are looking to continue its growth momentum across all business groups in 2016. The Group will maintain a strategy focused on developing its brands by continuing to build on strong innovation and a constant quest for quality in their products and their distribution.
LVMH enters 2016 with confidence and has, once again, set an objective of increasing its global leadership position in luxury goods.
Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of LVMH, said: “The 2015 results confirm the capacity for LVMH to progress and gain market share despite economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Revenue and operating profit reached new record levels. Commitment to excellence, a passion for quality and our capacity to innovate underpin our growth momentum and are all values epitomised by the Fondation Louis Vuitton and its emblematic building that welcomed over one million visitors in 2015. All our Maisons demonstrated outstanding flexibility in 2015. By adapting their strategies to global changes and by continuing to evolve, they have shown the creativity and entrepreneurship that drive them forward. In an uncertain economic environment, we can rely on the desirability of our brands and the agility of our teams to further strengthen in 2016 our leadership in the world of high quality products.”
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Jessops has announced it will be offering the Fuji Finepix J30 exclusively in blue.
Launched earlier this summer, the J30 is aimed at the beginner slash budget end of the market and is already on sale in pink, black and silver.
The blue version shares the same specs as the previous models and offers 12-megapixels, a 3x optical zoom and a 2.7-inch screen.
Weighing 130 grams, the compact snapper features face detection, automatic red eye removal, automatic scene recognition and offers a panoramic shooting mode which stitches three shots together.
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Government traffic signals continued to flash "go" for the U.S. economy Wednesday despite reports of a slower recent pace in the Midwest.
But economists, pointing out that inflation has remained in low gear, said Federal Reserve policymakers appear unlikely to boost interest rates at their next meeting, scheduled for Aug. 16.
"I think the economy will show more strength later in the year, and the odds are that they will do something before the end of 1994," said Richard S. Peterson, senior vice president of Continental Bank.
The government's index of leading economic indicators rose a modest 0.2 percent in June, following a revised gain of 0.1 percent in May and no change in April. The index has risen in 10 of the last 11 months.
Five of the index's 11 components advanced, led by higher raw-material prices and fewer weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance. Unfilled orders for durable goods and business orders for plant and equipment also rose, as did stock prices.
On the negative side were a smaller money supply; fewer building permits; a shorter average workweek; faster business delivery times, usually a sign of decreasing orders; a lower measurement of consumer expectations; and fewer factory orders for consumer goods.
The Federal Reserve's "beige book" economic report, also issued Wednesday, said business activity "is continuing to expand at a solid pace" in much of the nation.
Retail sales apparently have picked up in many areas after moderating in spring, according to the report, based on surveys of economic conditions in the 12 Federal Reserve districts up to July 25.
Most districts said sales of autos, building materials and apparel were improved from the June report. Most also told of stronger industrial activity and loan demand, even in California, where business was weakest early this year. Several districts also reported a tightening of labor markets, resulting in faster wage growth.
A major exception was the housing market. Many districts reported a drop in sales and new construction, blaming higher mortgage interest rates.
Economic growth in the Midwest, which outpaced the nation in late 1993 and early this year, turned in a slower performance in June and early July, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
"We jumped out ahead of the pack," said Diane Swonk, regional economist at First National Bank of Chicago. "Now the rest of the country is catching up while some of our industries are bumping up against capacity levels."
The weakest economic sector in the Chicago Fed's five-state district was construction.
"Higher mortgage rates have definitely slowed housing activity," it said. One major real estate firm, the bank added, reported that its dollar volume in June was even with last year but that the number of transactions was "significantly below" the year-earlier level.
"The trend isn't good," it quoted the real estate firm as saying.
Auto manufacturers and retailers in the Chicago Fed's area said sales of new cars and light trucks had weakened a bit. But they said underlying demand remained relatively strong.
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Amazon's cloud storage knocked offline by storm
Netflix customers on Friday evening saw nothing but red. Instagram users couldn't upload or view photos. And a number of other websites and services were knocked offline. Storms had disrupted Amazon Web Services, which stores vast amounts of data for companies worldwide.
The problems began around 11 p.m., when a storm caused electrical failures on the East Coast that left 3 million people without power and at least 12 dead.
Late Friday, on its status blog, Amazon said it was "investigating elevated error rates impacting a limited number" of customers. The company said the failure had happened at a server facility in Virginia and because of the lightning storm.
While Amazon continued to update its blog, information remained sparse throughout the evening.
As of Saturday morning, the company said it had managed to get some services back, but was still working to resolve others.
Many companies that use Amazon Web Services were left waiting for updates, too, passing along snippets of information to their customers.
Instagram, the photo-sharing service, said on Twitter, "Due to severe electrical storms, our host had a power outage, no data is lost - we've been working through the night to restore service." Instagram users reshared the message more than 31,000 times.
Netflix and Pinterest, which were both offline for most of the evening, also took to Twitter to tell users the status of the failure. Foursquare also was partly affected.
Most of these public-facing sites were back online by Saturday morning, although some seemed spotty.
As customers have come to rely on Amazon for storage, these shutdowns leave analysts questioning the viability of cloud-based storage - specifically when many companies don't have a fallback.
Amazon has suffered repeated failures in recent months. The company was offline from a major shutdown in June. In April, areas of the company's storage facility went down for several days.
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Young people are to be banned from buying cigarettes until they are 17 or 18 under new government plans announced yesterday. Although smoking rates have been coming down, there is continuing concern about the trends among children and young people. About 9% of 11- to 15-year-olds smoke and most of them say they get their cigarettes from small shops such as newsagents and general stores.
Announcing the proposed change in the rules, the public health minister Caroline Flint said that raising the bar from 16 to 17 or 18 would make it easier for shopkeepers to identify the youngest smokers whose health is most at risk.
"Smoking is dangerous at any age, but the younger people start, the more likely they are to become lifelong smokers and to die early. Someone who starts smoking aged 15 is three times more likely to die of cancer due to smoking than someone who starts in their late 20s," she said.
The change would bring the legal age for buying cigarettes in line with the legal age for buying alcohol - although there will be some who point out the anomaly of being allowed to marry and have a family before being permitted to buy tobacco. It would also mean that UK policy parallels that of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
The government is also proposing tougher sanctions on shopkeepers who sell cigarettes to those who are under-age. In 2004-05, some 117 retailers were successfully prosecuted for selling cigarettes to under-16s. If the government's proposals go through - they will now go out to consultation - then repeat offenders may be banned from selling cigarettes.
"Access to cigarettes by under-16s is not as difficult as it should be and this is partly due to retailers selling tobacco to those under the legal age," said Ms Flint. "If a particular shop is known locally as the place for children and teenagers to easily buy tobacco, we want to stop that shop selling it."
Public health organisations are likely to support the raising of the age bar, although most believe it is not enough to stop children smoking. "Far more needs to be done to discourage children from smoking, and increasing the age limit to 18 would be a step in the right direction," said Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association. "However, the new limit is only going to be effective if it is properly enforced and part of a broad set of actions designed to discourage young people from starting to smoke."
Action on Smoking and Health said it was a logical step for the government to take. "But in the long run, all the evidence shows that the way to stop young people from smoking is to persuade adults to quit," said Amanda Sandford, research manager. "If smoking is no longer seen as a desirable adult thing to do, children will not start to smoke."


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With nearly half a billion dollars invested in Japanese startups last year, 2014 was a banner year for the country’s burgeoning entrepreneurs.
The startup is getting new funds and a new CEO as co-founder Matthew Romaine takes center stage.
Several founders of Asian startups that Tech in Asia reached out to revealed that they practice transparency to a large extent with their employees.
WOVN.io isn’t a translation service, it’s a multilingual localization service packed into one line of code
Websites can use this widget to instantly translate text into ten languages. Unlike Google Translate, however, the translations can be manually tweaked.
Here’s a recap of the first half of the first day of Tech in Asia’s inaugural event in Japan.
Where do companies like Rakuten, Alibaba, and Youtube find translators? Gengo. (#StartupAsia preview)
Founder Robert Laing will be on stage for a fireside chat, where we'll warmly welcome him with burning questions like, "Why can't I just use Google Translate?"
After months of beta testing, today Fliplingo goes live to the public with its human-powered Twitter translation service.
Yesterday Writepath, the Taiwan-based online editing startup, announced it raised a seed funding round worth US$525,000. Japan’s B Dash Ventures led the round, ...
Tokyo-based translation platform Gengo revealed earlier today that it has translated over 200 million words to date.
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The story of Gengo’s Robert Laing and Matthew Romaine is a source of inspiration for many gaijin (foreigners) building a tech startup in Japan.
The Tokyo-based startup that makes Gengo, the enterprise-oriented crowdsourced translation service, has wrapped up $12 million in series B funding, led by Intel...


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Vasari Wins Coveted Private Equity Africa Award
Largest private equity investment in Ethiopia to date recognised as new frontiers deal of the year
LONDON, United-Kingdom, June 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- UK-based strategic investment firm Vasari (http://www.vasariglobal.com), is pleased to announce that it has won the “Special Recognition Award for a New Frontiers Deal” at the 2013 Private Equity Africa Awards ceremony held in London on 11 June 2013.
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Vasari won the award for closing the largest private equity deal in Ethiopia to date. The transaction saw the firm join forces with Duet Group, the UK-based alternative asset manager, to make a significant equity investment into Dashen Brewery.
Commenting on the award, Vivian Imerman, Founder and Chairman of Vasari, said: “We are delighted to have been recognised by this award. Dashen is an outstanding company and, in our role as industrial partners, we are committed to help the business achieve its full potential as the leading beer business in Ethiopia.
“Dashen is the first of a number of investments where Vasari will blend its financial resources and industrial acumen to develop a leading multinational consumer brands company focused on long term value creation.”
The 2013 Private Equity Africa Awards celebrate the best in African private equity in 2012. The final winners were selected by a panel of independent judges, based on recommendations from the London Business School Coller Institute of Private Equity and the PEA Awards Advisory Panel. The special recognition awards were awarded based on deal volumes and aggregate investment values, primarily based on data provided by Preqin.
Further information on the awards: http://www.privateequityafrica.com/awards.
Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of Vasari.
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Onion prices are currently more than 100% of the past five years’ average, prompting the government to declare them as an essential commodity and imposing limits on how much traders can store.
Retail traders of onion can stock onion only up to two tonne of the vegetable, while wholesale traders are permitted store up to 25 tonne, the consumer affairs ministry said Friday, a measure aimed at discouraging hoarding of the bulb, as prices spiral during the ongoing festive season.
Rains in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana have disrupted harvests and damaged crops, trimming supplies to markets.
“The all-India average retail price variation of onions as on 21 October when compared to last year is 22.12 % (from ₹45.33 to ₹55.60 per/kg) and when compared to last five years’ average is 114.96 % (from ₹25.87 to 55.60 per/ kg). Therefore, the prices have increased by over 100% when compared with average of last 5 years and thus the price triggers under EC Act have been reached,” the ministry said.
Price levels needed to invoke stock limits under the recently amended Essential Commodities Act have been breached and the stockholding limits will be in place till December 31, consumer affairs secretary Leena Nandan said. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) law, passed last month in Parliament, allows the government to regulate perishable commodities when an extraordinary price rise occurs.
The ministry statement further said: “In order to moderate the price rise, the government took a pre-emptive step by announcing a ban on onion export on 14 September so as to ensure availability to domestic consumers at reasonable rates, before the expected arrival of Kharif onion.”
It added: “Thus the retail price rise was moderated to some extent, but recent reports of heavy rainfall in the onion growing districts of Maharashtra, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradeshhave created concerns about damage to Kharif crop.”
On Twitter, consumer affairs minister Piyush Goyal said: “To control rising onion prices and curb hoarding, PM @NarendraModi government has taken the third step. Imposed stock limit of 2 tonne on retailers and 25 tonne on wholesalers.”
The two earlier steps were to impose a ban on exports on Sept 5 and offloading of onions from the a federally held reserve.
“Past experiences show that during sustained supply-side pressures, measures such as stock-holding limits may not dramatically alter the demand-supply mismatch,” said Abhishek Agrawal of Comtrade, a commodities trading firm.


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This Should Be Philo’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution
To start the New Year, we have been taking a look back at each of the 7 Live TV Streaming Service’s past year, and what we hope lies ahead in 2019. In our final edition, we’ll look at the newest and what might be the most unique, entertainment-only streaming service, Philo.
ICYMI…Our 2019 New Year’s Resolutions
Unlike services like DIRECTV NOW and PlayStation Vue, which offered a traditional cable bundle for $40 a month, Philo offers entertainment-only channels for just $16. While it doesn’t have locals or live sports, the service includes major channels from A&E Networks, AMC Networks, Discovery, Scripps Networks, and Viacom, an unlimited DVR, and three simultaneous streams.
While it has had a compelling channel line-up from launch, what was missing going into to 2018 was the ability to stream on a wide variety of TV streaming players.
New Platforms & Apps
An interim step happened in April. Philo announced that they added TV Everywhere support to almost every channel in their skinny bundle. This meant you could use your credentials to access supported channel’s mobile and TV apps. So even though Philo still was without native apps on Apple TV and Fire TV, you could still access that content natively on your TV.
In July, the service released their biggest request — support for Apple TV and Fire TV. While they launched with Roku support, this would enable Apple and Amazon Fire TV users to fully use the streaming service. The final addition to the lineup was Android TV App which would come just before the New Year.
While customers were happy with native apps, their apps were missing a key feature — a standard channel guide. In October, the company would launch a grid guide on Roku, followed by Fire TV and Apple TV in December.
Going into 2019, the company would have native apps on every major platform, except for Android. The company has shared that they expect a native Android app in early 2019.
Competition and Growth
The next month they would face their first direct competition. AT&T announced the launch of their $15 a month WatchTV service. Unlike Philo, the bundle would not include a DVR or multiple streams — but included channels from Turner like CNN, TBS, and TNT.
In order to fuel the company’s growth to be in a better place to compete, they announced in July that they had raised an additional $40 million. The funding would come from their existing investors that included some of the networks on the service — AMC Networks, Discovery and Viacom.
While they would add a few smaller channels to their Plus package like aspireTV, REVOLT, and UPtv — the big news came in October.
Philo would add The Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Drama, and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries to their base package ($16) without raising prices. The channels were among the most highly requested by Philo subscribers and came just in time for the holidays.
Philo’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution
It was a busy 2018 for Philo, as they’ve grown the service with additional apps and channels. We know 2019 will include a native Android App, but what else do we expect?
If it was up to us, we hope their 2019 New Year’s Resolution focuses on two things — new channels and partnerships.
As an entertainment only bundle, the main channels that Philo is missing are those from NBC Universal — E!, Bravo, Syfy, and USA Network. With those channels, there would be almost no reason to subscribe to AT&T WatchTV except for AT&T-owned Turner channels or if you got it free with your AT&T wireless plan.
Adding new channels come at cost and we wouldn’t want them to move away from their $16 price point. While we like the concept of the two-tier bundle, their upgraded package, Philo Plus, doesn’t have any must have channels. They should turn Philo Plus into a more compelling way to expand the bundle, while keeping the base price low.
And while AT&T is giving away their AT&T WatchTV, Philo should look to partner with other telcos to do the same. T-Mobile and Sprint give away Netflix and Hulu respectively, neither offer live TV. Verizon recently shut down their Go90 service and have offered extended YouTube TV trials to 5G customers, but why not partner with one of them to give Philo to everyone?
For people who don’t watch sports, Philo has plenty of TV to keep you entertained. While we hope that they add more channels, what we really hope in 2019 is for them to partner to get the service in front of more viewers.
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Five Dow components reported quarterly results this morning and, as we’ve seen through the early part of earnings season, the results suggest a mixed message for the broader economy.
The big winner was McDonald’s. The Golden Arches continue to outpace analysts’ expectations and showcase their resilience no matter what the economic environment. Profit and revenue exceeded analysts estimates, while global same-store sales jumped 7.5%.
McDonald’s succeeded during the economic downturn due to its competitive pricing. It boosted those prices last year to offset rising costs, and it was still able to increase sales faster than many of its competitors. New products, such as blended-ice drinks, have been part of the reason for the continued success.
Shares recently edged below $100, but the stock remains right around its most recent all-time high hit last week.
Other quarterly reports from some big bellwethers weren’t so kind. DuPont warned that it continues seeing destocking among its customers in the consumer electronics sector. The manufacturer and chemical producer maintained its 2012 profit guidance, but its important to point out the company’s 4Q earnings fell short of its own guidance that it had slashed just last month. Shares edged fractionally lower.
Johnson & Johnson also offered a tepid view for 2012. Negative currency rates are expected hurt the company’s full-year earnings rate by 13 cents a share.
Verizon’s quarterly earnings missed analysts’ expectations by a penny. But last year’s addition of Apple’s iPhone helped the percentage of Verizon customers using smartphones jump to 44%, which is a good sign for long-term growth.
Travelers’ operating profit missed analysts’ expectations. But as our own Erik Holm reported, Travelers executives expect underlying profitability of the company’s business-insurance operations, which is its largest segment, to improve in the first half of this year.
All in all, not exactly a robust roundup of results, which is consistent with what we’ve seen through the early part of earnings season.
Of the 20% of companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, only 58% have reported earnings that have exceeded analysts expectations, according to Thomson Reuters. This is far below the 70% beat rate that is usually registered in a typical quarter.


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Germany's most popular cooking oil comes from rapeseed. Pure, organic cold-pressed rapeseed oil is being milled at a plant in North Rhine-Westphalia.
French farmers have started a three-day blockade of refineries after a decision by Total to import cheaper palm oil for its biofuel plant. The move has fanned farmer discontent over unfair competition.
The recipe to accompany our show of 7 June 2018 with Dr. Stephan Lück.
There are all sorts of dietary fats, from butter, to oils, to margarine. Though fats have a reputation for causing weight gain, they’re essential to cooking. The healthiest and most flavorful dietary fats.
A new WWF report says palm oil plantations drive destruction of biodiverse tropical forests, but substitute vegetable oils use even more land. The solution: Reduce demand. And maybe, in future, make oil from algae.
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Yum! Brands should be bought aggressively into strength, says Stifel After Yum! reported higher than expected Q1 operating EPS, Stifel notes that the company's China profits jumped 80% during the quarter. The firm continues to expect the company's China comp to rise 12% in Q2, and keeps a $95 price target and Buy rating on the stock.
Yum! Brands March weekly calls active amid renewed spin-off speculation Yum! Brands March weekly 79 and 80 calls are active on total call volume of 10,500 contracts (500 puts) amid renewed spin-off speculation. March weekly call option implied volatility is at 30, April is at 23, May is at 26; compared to its 26-week average of 22 according to Track Data. Active call volume suggests traders taking large positions for upside price movement.


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HSMAI Perspective: Problems With The Pipeline
By Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHBA, President and CEO, Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI)
I've written before about the severe underrepresentation of Black professionals across the executive level in the hospitality industry — including in senior sales, marketing, and revenue optimization positions. There are many different reasons for this, but new research by the HSMAI Foundation highlights a big one: We're not investing sufficiently in the talent pipeline.
Our research also found that sales, marketing, and revenue management are not a part of the core curriculum at most HBCU hospitality programs — and, except for marketing classes, aren't offered in any capacity at many of them:


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Laurie Penny writes in the New Statesman that the current crop of media disruptors looks awfully familiar. Pablo Rogat / Shutterstock.com
Upstarts, newsmakers and influencers who caught our attention on Tuesday, April 8.
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Tickets for Miss U swimsuit presentation priced at P12,500
For those who wants to witness some of the activities set for the Miss Universe 2016 Swimwear presentation on January should prepare at least P12,500.
In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, JPark Island Resort and Waterpark Cebu revenue manager CK Mangapis told members of the media that the tickets are priced at P12,500 for the festive lunch that includes the swimwear presentation.
“Tickets for the Kadaugan dinner, which includes the fashion gala will is also P12,500, while the afterparty is priced at P8,000,” said Mangapis.
All these events will be held at the resort on January 17, 2017.
According to Mangapis, they are selling limited number of tickets only and that as of Tuesday, at least half had already been sold.
To purchase ticket, visit the resort’s website or call them at 494-5000.
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In fact, the Bitcoin industry is growing in adoption and functionality. And the U.K. is one of the leading countries for the number of Bitcoin ATMs, with new machines just installed in Liverpool and Derby. bit-indexai.io
To use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a currency, there need to be easy ways to buy, sell and spend as well as multiple functionalities for the user. Though we have seen recent drops in price with many cryptocurrencies, there has also been an increase in innovation. In fact, there are plenty of companies in the U.K. that accept payment in Bitcoin. There are even companies for playing poker online using cryptocurrency. And now, there are over 150 Bitcoin ATMs in the UK.
What are Bitcoin ATMs?
Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency that has become more popular in recent years. The currency can be bought using fiat currency, and then becomes a digital token of value. Transactions are recorded on the blockchain and validated by the network, and though there are no physical coins, the user has a digital wallet with which to store their cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin ATMs are machines that provide an easy way to buy Bitcoins. Though an online purchase is still possible and common, ATMs give you a way to walk into a location and buy Bitcoin. You can use your existing e-wallet or even create and download a paper wallet or a software wallet to your phone.
With Bitcoin ATMs, it’s possible to buy Bitcoin in an instant using cash. Some machines also let you exchange your Bitcoin for cash. The Bitcoin ATM connects the user directly with an exchange to make the transaction. They tend to have service fees of around five to seven percent, and exchange rates too can be higher, so it’s worth checking this before making a purchase.
New Machines in Liverpool and Derby
Recently, Liverpool had its first Bitcoin ATM installation. The ATM is from an operator called AlphaVend and is located at Herman Vapes on Cases Street in the middle of the city where it is expected to get a lot of foot traffic.
Meanwhile, a new Bitcoin ATM has been installed in Michaels Drink Store in Alvaston, Derby. It’s the second machine to be installed in Derby, the first being located at Dhiensa Food Store on Nightingale Road. According to the operator BCB ATM, there are more planned for the region.
Also, there are Bitcoin ATMs located in many other cities across the U.K., including Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. Birmingham has 14 while London has a whopping 104. According to CoinATMRadar, there are 153 Bitcoin ATMs across the U.K. That’s second only to Austria, who has 165. Worldwide, there are over 3,000.


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While there’s a lot of excitement around the Galaxy S23’s debut in a few weeks, Samsung is also working on launching its better-selling Galaxy A-series devices. Following the launch of the Galaxy A14 at CES 2023, Samsung is now preparing for the Galaxy A54 launch event and release date.
As confirmed on its own website in India, Samsung has a January 18 event scheduled to launch a new Galaxy A-series device. The page never explicitly mentions the Galaxy A54, but it’s pretty easy to connect the dots.
Scrolling through the page there’s mention of three colors – Black, Burgundy, and Green – as well as a 6.6-inch FHD+ 120Hz display, a triple-camera system with a “No-Shake camera,” as well as confirmation of 8GB of RAM on board.
Comparing that with past leaks, it seems to line up closely with what we expect to see from the Galaxy A54. Notably, though, Samsung would be launching this device well ahead of schedule, with the Galaxy A53 having been launched in March 2022. The Galaxy A34 would be the only other device that might fit Samsung’s description, but that lesser device is expected to have a 90Hz display rather than 120Hz.
While Samsung may set the Galaxy A54 launch event and release date in India first, the device will surely be expanding globally quite quickly, as past years have proven just how well the Galaxy A50 series can sell.
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UK provider Plusnet has announced it is offering 18 months of free unlimited broadband, in a fresh drive to increase its customer base.
The deal, which is subject to line rental of £16.99 a month, offers unlimited downloads, 17 Mbps superfast broadband, a free router and activation, as well as home phone options.
Plusnet is stating the new deal is ideal for large families, downloaders and gamers, adding subscribers will benefit from support 365 days a year, either online or over the phone.
The move comes amid a similar deal that has seen the company offer free fibre broadband for six months, with £5 a month on top of line rental for the 34 Mbps connection after that period.
That deal also comes with all of the free perks that come with its free unlimited broadband package.
The new bundles will surely be seen as an attempt to win back the trust of customers, after Plusnet suffered a network outage back in September.


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Italian fashion conglomerate Teddy Group has opened two stores in Asia, with another to follow by the end of this month.
A Terranova outlet has just opened at Vivacity Megamall in Kuching, which is the administrative centre of the state of Sarawak and the fourth most-populated city of the Malaysian federation. The 850sqm store displays the entire brand collection, including menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, underwear and accessories.
Four Terranova stores are planned for Malaysia, with the brand launching in Kuala Lumpur in 2013.
Meanwhile, in the same shopping centre in Kuching, the first Calliope store will open by the end of this month. The 500sqm outlet will sell menswear and womenswear collections and accessories.
A second Terranova outlet in Mongolia opened in the Nomin Allmart shopping centre in the capital city of Ulan Bator, last month. The 700sqm store offers the entire brand collection.


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Swedish air compressor maker Atlas Copco AB plans to buy vacuum product maker Edwards Group Ltd. in a cash deal worth up to $1.18 billion.
Atlas said Monday it will pay up to $10.50 per share for each share of Edwards. That includes a fixed payment of $9.25 and an additional $1.25 after the closing, depending on whether Edwards' 2013 revenue and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization fall within certain ranges.
The total per-share price amounts to a premium of 24 percent to the $8.45 closing price of Edwards' U.S.-traded shares on Friday. Edwards stock is traded on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "EVAC."
The deal is valued at about $1.6 billion including the assumption of debt.
Atlas said the acquisition of the British company gives it an opportunity to expand into a growing business that serves industries it knows well.
Edwards also makes abatement systems, and its products are used in making flat panel displays and solar cells, among other things. In addition to compressors, Atlas also produces air treatment systems and construction and mining equipment, among many other items.
The companies expect the deal to close in next year's first quarter, pending antitrust clearance and approval from Edwards shareholders. Both boards have approved it, and Atlas said Edwards shareholders representing about 84 percent of its current outstanding shares have agreed to vote for the deal.
Edwards Group shares had an initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange in May 2012 and closed at $8.75 on their first trading day. The stock closed 2012 at $6.08 but has climbed about 35 percent so far this year.


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Area Businesses Hope To Rebound In The Waning Months Of Calamitous 2020
With the pandemic and natural disasters taking an economic toll, it’d be an understatement to say 2020 wasn’t a boom time for most business owners. As the holiday retail season gets underway, hopes still run high in Lane County for the rest of the year.
At the recent annual economic summit presented by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and Oregon Community Credit Union, managers spoke of layoffs, depressed profits, and postponing expansions.
Lane County Workforce Analyst Henry Fields explained how many events in 2020 hurt businesses, including Oregon’s summer wildfires.
“When you look at the height of the fires, there were nearly a quarter million workers in Evacuation Zones 1-3. That’s 21,000 businesses," Fields told the audience via Zoom.
"That’s a tremendous impact and it doesn’t include things like disruption of work through smoke.”
Fields added that while 2020’s economic blowout is comparable to the 2008 Recession, jobs recovery has happened far quicker. The continued fortunes for area businesses will rely heavily on people buying and supporting local.
Many business owners during the summit shared guarded optimism that normalcy would return, allowing them to act on many plans postponed by both the pandemic and the wildfires.
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Katrina Lovett Boone, 38, of Sunbury, NC was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony hit and run, the station reports.
According to a police report, Brittany Knight, 19, was hit by Boone on Monday in the 1000 block of North Main Street just before 11:30 a.m. Knight suffered a broken leg as a result of the accident, WAVY reports.
Police said Boone struck Knight as she crossed the drive-thru lane. Boone stopped briefly to find out Knight's condition and then continued through the drive-thru to get her food and then drove away, police said.
Boone later contacted Chick-fil-A and Suffolk Police regarding the incident. The problem, police told the station, is that in cases where a driver knows they have caused an injury, they are required to report their name, address, driver's license number, and vehicle registration number to the police or to the person struck and provide reasonable aid.
Knight was treated at a hospital and is resting at home, a store manager said.
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It’s been a brutal few years for the auto industry. But at this year’s New York International Auto Show, the world felt right again. The crowds were thick, the parties were plentiful, and the cars were appropriately flashy. Here are some of the highlights.
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HMV hopes to reopen in Peterborough this year after Queensgate store cleared out
The former HMV store in Queensgate has been cleared out to make way for a new retailer, dashing hopes that it will reopen.
Merchandise inside the shop has finally been taken away three months after the chain closed down in Peterborough.
However, hopes have been raised that HMV will open up a store in the city later this year.
The company’s managing director Neil Taylor told the Peterborough Telegraph: “Unfortunately, our old store is being let to another retailer, or so we are led to believe.
“Peterborough is a market we’d love to trade in, so we continue the search for the right store for the longer term, ideally before this Christmas.”
The popular retailer closed its Peterborough store in early February despite being rescued from administration by the Canadian company Sunrise Records & Entertainment.
The closure led to 14 people losing their jobs, many of whom set up a campaign to have the store reopened.
A number of HMV stores across the country were later reopened by Sunrise, but talks broke between the chain and Queensgate, which is owned by Invesco, failed to reach a breakthrough.
Centre director at Queensgate Shopping Centre Mark Broadhead said: “Unfortunately, we have been unsuccessful in agreeing a deal to suit HMV in their existing location.
“While we work with them to seek a smaller unit space and keep them part of Queensgate, we have been approached, and are in final discussions with, a new retailer to fill the empty unit. We will be announcing who this is soon.”


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Just across the border with Texas, workers in Ciudad Juárez have been launching brave actions against global manufacturing giants to improve conditions in the low-wage maquiladora sector. Over the past six months, workers at large assembly plants owned by Commscope, Eaton, Foxconn and Lexmark, producing electronics, auto parts and printing supplies for the U.S. market, have launched a series of mobilizations to protest wages as low as $30 per week, unsafe working conditions, sexual harassment and discrimination. Juárez is a major location of such industry, accounting for well over 10% of all such exports from Mexico. In several cases, workers have attempted to form independent unions to defend their rights and have a voice at work.


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Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), General Motors (NYSE:GM), and Fiat-owned (FIATY) Chrysler, have increased investments in alternatives to private car ownership during a decrease in car use and ownership, Financial Times reports.
General Motors Company (NYSE:GM): A welding error by a supplier has caused 119,000 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks from the 2010 through 2012 model years to be recalled, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports.
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Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM): The first estimate of the damage that was caused by a fire at a Toyota assembly plant located in Chachoengsao on Sunday night totals nearly Bt50 million. The fire occurred at about 7pm at an engine oil storage tank of the Toyota plant in Ban Pho district, which is nearly 100 km east of the capital. Toyota executives working at the plant and Chachoengsao Governor Ruengsak Mahavinitchaimontri visited the site at midnight, and a press briefing later was held later. Pairoj Hirunruangrong, who is the current senior president of Toyota Motor Asia Pacific Engineering and Manufacturing Co Ltd (TMAP-EM), has claimed that the fire destroyed the storage, pallets, engine oil, and ten forklifts.
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Rising tensions between the US and China over Taiwan threaten to trigger significant shortages of electronics such as mobile phones, one of the world’s largest chip companies has warned.
Intel’s Europe chief Frans Scheper said there would be a “huge impact” and a “major crisis” for the industry if Taiwan’s chipmaking exports are cut off by Beijing.
Fears that supplies from the chipmaking powerhouse could be disrupted have mounted in recent days after tensions surged in the region, following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
Mr Scheper told The Telegraph: “If you think about mobile phones, 80-90pc of chips are coming from Asia, from that specific area.
“For certain applications it would have a huge impact. Maybe for others a little bit less, but there are not always alternative sources available.”
Severe global chip shortages in the wake of the pandemic have already hit production of cars and game consoles but disruption in Taiwan’s trade would rock the electronics industry. Taiwan dominates the production of chips that are vital to items like smartphones and tablets.
Mr Scheper's comments come as Intel ramps up production to the US and Europe. The American tech giant is attempting to diversify its chip manufacturing and is planning to invest as much as €80bn (£67bn) in European factories over the next decade.
“We are making major investments in Europe and in North America to get more balance,” Mr Scheper said.
But investment will take years to pay off and Mr Scheper said: “If there is a short term crisis, there's not much you can do in that sense, so that would have a major impact.”
On Friday, Beijing suspended cooperation with the US on a range of issues, including the climate and military, after the trip by Ms Pelosi. She is the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years.
The Chinese army conducted military exercises close to the island in response to the trip and Taiwan has put its own army on alert. Beijing claims the island is a Chinese province despite the fact it is governed independently.
Experts have warned that a blockade of Taiwan is a possibility.
Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics, said: “Even if most trade did continue, the global economic disruption would still be huge.
“The prospect that this supply could be disrupted or severed in the near future would trigger panic buying and stockpiling.”


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Madison Realty Capital has expanded a development parcel it recently acquired near Barclays Center in Brooklyn, allowing it to now build a 171,000-square-foot residential rental project on the site.
Last month, the company purchased 551 Waverly Ave., a commercial building that for the past 12 years has been the home of Beigel’s Bakery, a Brooklyn institution, famous for turning out such New York staples as challah bread and black-and-white cookies. Madison Realty Capital paid $23.5 million for the 43,350-square-foot property, which can accommodate up to 94,000 square feet of development.
Now the firm, which was co-founded by Crain’s 40 Under 40 Josh Zegen a decade ago, announced it has spent an additional $7.5 million purchasing three neighboring sites as well as development rights from adjacent properties to enlarge what it could have built on the Biegel’s Bakery site alone by almost 80,000 square feet.
The company stated it plans to spend another $57.5 million constructing an 80/20 building with 191 units on the site. Madison Realty Capital is partnered with USAA Real Estate Company on the project.
“This was a unique opportunity to assemble a large site and develop an institutional-quality multifamily development with tremendous growth potential in this popular Brooklyn residential neighborhood,” Mr. Zegen said in a statement.
Acquiring the neighboring properties will give the planned eight-story building frontage along Atlantic Avenue, where it will include retail space. Atlantic Avenue has blossomed as a popular Brooklyn shopping corridor.


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The Justice Dept. says it's too early to know how the hack will turn out.
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•Four of Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase anti-aging treatments have earned the Good Housekeeping Seal: Perfecting Skin Tone Serum XK, Wrinkle Repair Daily Lotion SPF 30, Lift & Resculpt Anti-Wrinkle Eye Cream and Under Eye Recovery.
The scientists and experts at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute found that the products deliver on all claims appearing in their advertising, packaging and other informational materials. Only products that pass the strict evaluation can earn the Seal.
“The testing is so stringent and select products earn the Seal annually, so we are extremely proud to have been accepted by the Good Housekeeping Research Institute,” said Jill Wittenberg, marketing manager at Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase. “It’s such a great honor to be included in such a regarded group of high caliber products.”


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Facebook says the result of the vote will be binding if at least 30 percent of active users participate, and "advisory" if that threshold isn't met. But rather than earning praise for turning to user-friendly bylaws for its so-called data use policy, the company has set off a new round of criticism about its alleged disdain for user privacy.
According to Schrems, the dossier revealed that Facebook was violating European law.
When Facebook announced the proposed changes last month, it said that if it received more than 7,000 substantive comments on them, it would hold a referendum. More than 40,000 comments came in, thanks largely to a campaign by the nonprofit that Schrems runs, Europe v Facebook. The nonprofit has amassed a significant following on social media, including more than 5,200 "likes" on Facebook itself, but the biggest influx of signatures came after Schrems appeared on a popular German television show.
Although the vote could be seen as a win for privacy advocates, Schrems described it as a sham.
Schrems said that in its handling of the vote, Facebook effectively "hid the polling center." The voting, he explained, is not prominently featured on the site. The company also demanded that huge numbers of users comment on its proposed changes in order to trigger a vote, but was then critical of the mass-organizing tactics that Europe v Facebook used to turn out the comments, he said.
Facebook defended its efforts to elicit user feedback.
"To promote the vote, Facebook has served nearly a billion impressions to users, including mobile-only users, and will continue to do so. Once someone votes they can choose to tell their friends they did so in their friends' News Feeds," a representative wrote in an email.
U.S.-based privacy advocate David Jacobs, the consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), was also dismissive of the referendum.
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GARDENERS and food growers can get their crops off to a flying start by getting hold of some free compost on Clapham Common, thanks to Lambeth Council and food growing group Incredible Edible Lambeth.
Bring a barrow, a bucket, a bag or a buggy to the Great Compost Giveaway and Pumpkin Seed Sowing Event and take away free green waste compost made on Clapham Common on Saturday 28th April between 11-3pm by the bandstand café on Clapham Common.
The compost has been produced from organic material collected on the Common by Lambeth Council parks staffs, and the giveaway has been organised by the council and Incredible Edible Lambeth, a collection of people and organisations who work together to make sure that healthy, sustainable, locally produced food is available to everyone living in Lambeth,.
Visitors will also be able to plant a pumpkin seed to be harvested at a special harvest festival pumpkin competition in October and there will also be horticulture advice from experts at South London Master Gardeners.
Fiona Law from Incredible Edible Lambeth said: “The first requirement of good gardening is healthy fertile soil, but the stuff that comes from the garden centre is not really the answer as it is likely to be stale, to have travelled many miles by lorry, and contain peat – which is not sustainable – and of course it can be expensive. We are working to make good quality sustainable compost or “growing media” available to people that has been produced locally and sustainably. It’s fantastic that we have been able to work with Lambeth Council on this project, which hopefully will help food growers and gardeners in the borough get their growing off to a flying start.”
Victor Chin-Kit, area parks officer for Lambeth Council, who helped develop the project, said: “A huge amount of green waste is produced in parks each year from grass cuttings, pruning and leaf fall. We are working to make sure we maximise the amount of green waste that we turn in valuable compost and mulch so that it can be used back in our parks, or to help local food growers and community groups. We want to support local groups as much as we can and this is a real example of cooperative working. I hope as many people as possible turn up on the day as it will be a great opportunity to get to meet other local growers and get some expert advice.”
For more about how Lambeth is becoming a Cooperative Council see http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/cooperativecouncil
For more about how Lambeth Council is recycling green waste from its parks and open spaces, see.
What is Incredible Edible Lambeth?
Incredible Edible Lambeth is a collection of people and organisations who work together to make sure that healthy, sustainable, locally produced food is available to everyone living in Lambeth, regardless of income, both now and in the future.
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Funded by DRC, BCFHD has concluded the distribution of 1,350 IPC kits in Al Mukha District, Taiz Governorate.
Abdulalem Aklan, the project officer, said that this kit contains washing, health and kitchen basic materials. He added that the distribution process was preceded by hygiene awareness campaigns aimed at raising the awareness of HHs about the good health practices.
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Past winners of GeekWire’s Next Tech Titan award have completed successful IPOs, landed huge funding rounds and emerged as some of the most powerful new companies in the Pacific Northwest.
Over the next two weeks, we’re opening voting in 13 GeekWire Awards categories, with GeekWire readers choosing their top picks from finalists selected by our panel of judges from community nominations. Check back on GeekWire each day to cast your ballot. Winners will be revealed at the GeekWire Awards — presented by Wave Business — on May 10th at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. The GeekWire Awards sell out every year, so go here to purchase tickets for this one-of-a-kind tech celebration.
Which of the five finalists will join past winners like BitTitan, Smartsheet, Avalara, Zulily and Tableau Software?
Vote on our poll below and continue reading for more information about the finalists for Next Tech Titan — Accolade, Convoy, Outreach, Remitly and Rover — sponsored by former winner Smartsheet.
Accolade continues to pile up the accolades from investors, having just raised a $50 million round last month, to bring the healthcare technology company to more than $200 million raised in its lifetime.
Accolade uses a combination of personal health data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, mobile apps, analytics, and human concierge “Health Assistants” to help provide users with personalized healthcare recommendations. Accolade’s customers are large employers like Comcast, Lowe’s, Allegiant, AmeriGas, Temple University Health System and more.
Founded in 2007 in Pennsylvania, the company made a huge splash in 2016 when it hired Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton to top executive positions. They then established a second company headquarters in Seattle. Today, Accolade employs 800 people, including 120 in Seattle. It expects to add another few hundred employees this year.
Singh told GeekWire last month that U.S. employers represent 170 million people paying for healthcare. And like he did at Concur with employee expenses, he wants to use technology to bring down costs for employers and make the system more approachable for employees.
Seattle startup Convoy keeps on truckin’. The company’s platform matches 100,000 truckers with available jobs, and it has rapidly grown to 225 employees.
That’s up from 120 employees this past July, when Convoy raised a $62 million round from investors like Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Code.org founders Hadi and Ali Partovi, former Starbucks president Howard Behar, Expedia Chairman Barry Diller, and others. The round brought Convoy to $80.5 million raised since it was founded in 2015.
The startup helps facilitate shipments to more than 400 customers, including 20 Fortune 500 companies, and makes money by keeping a percentage of each transaction. It has deals with giant corporations like Anheuser-Busch and Unilever.
Convoy operates in a competitive industry, battling against Uber Frieght, freight-booking startups like Transfix and uShip and large incumbents like C.H. Robinson and XPO Logistics. Can Convoy move from Startup of the Year — the award it took home in 2017 — to Next Tech Titan in the course of 12 months? We shall see.
The sales software automation company is helmed by 2017 CEO of the Year nominee Manny Medina, and has raised $60 million since it was founded in 2013.
Outreach originally built software tools for recruiters, but it pivoted in 2014 to focus on tools for salespeople. It was a key move.
The company now helps clients like Pandora, Adobe, and Zillow automate and streamline communication with sales prospects. It offers one system to track all touch points, from phone calls to emails to LinkedIn messages. The software integrates with existing tools like Salesforce and Gmail.
“Like many industries, technology is transforming sales from an art to a science,” Medina said at the time of its funding round. “Sales is no longer about following up on inbound leads and hunting for a few big deals. It is about sales excellence – predictably executing the right selling activities at the right time.”
Remitly is doing big things.
The Seattle startup lets people transfer money internationally, and it raised the biggest funding round among Pacific Northwest companies in 2017. The $115 million round was led by PayU, an international online payment service provider and the fintech arm of Naspers, a global investment company with equity stakes in tech giants like Tencent and Flipkart, among hundreds of others and will help Remitly “supercharge” its growth.
Remitly describes itself as the largest independent mobile remittance company in the U.S.; it allows people to send money from three countries (U.S., U.K., and Canada) to 10 countries (Philippines, India, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru).
Remitly’s technology helps eliminate the need for forms, codes, agents, and other fees typically associated with the international money transfer process. The company allows free transfers if the sender can wait three days for the funds to arrive; it charges a $3.99 flat rate for same-day transfers and credit card transfers include an additional 3 percent fee.
This Seattle startup has quickly become one of the top dogs in the Northwest tech scene. Last year, pet-sitting startup Rover got a $65 million cash infusion led by Spark Capital, an investor in companies like Slack, Twitter, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Trello.
Founded in 2011 by venture capitalist Greg Gottesman and developer Phil Kimmey, Rover runs one of the largest pet services marketplaces. It helps match more than 140,000 vetted sitters across 10,000 cities in North America with pet-owners looking for someone to take care of their dogs and other animals.
Rover already holds a spot in the annals of GeekWire Awards history. Its chief executive Aaron Easterly won the CEO of the Year honor at the 2016 GeekWire Awards.
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Feb 13, 2018
Aizawl FC U-15 team forced to travel on floor of train after club fails to get confirmed ticketsIn another instance of apathy towards football and football player, the U-15 team of reigning I-League champions Aizawl FC were pictured sleeping on the floor of the train when they were returning from a tournament held in Goa.
Feb 06, 2018
DSK Shivajians beat Bengaluru FC in penalty shootout to enter Nike Premier Cup 2018 finalIt was jubilation for DSK Shivajians FC as they beat Bengaluru FC 5-4 in a penalty shootout to enter the finals of the Nike Premier Cup 2018 which is organised by the All India Football Federation.
Jan 02, 2018
January transfer window: Nike 'announces Philippe Coutinho's move to Barcelona' on websiteSports apparel manufacturers Nike have created a flurry of speculation around the future of Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho after they appeared to use his name in an advertisement on their website to promote Barcelona apparel.
Oct 31, 2017
Mo Farah says return to Britain reason behind split with controversial long-time coach Alberto SalazarMo Farah began training with Salazar in 2011 at his Oregon Project camp in Portland, and won his first world title the same year in the 5,000m at the Daegu World Championships.
Sep 07, 2017
FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017: Nike launches Indian football team's kit for mega eventThe Under-17 national football team kit from the stables of apparel giant Nike was launched on Thursday, a month before the kick-off the prestigious FIFA event
Sep 03, 2017
Ligue 1: From winning Champions League to sponsorship deals, how PSG can avoid breaking FFP rulesPSG need to increase their estimated annual turnover of €520 million by somewhere between 105 and 210 million to comply with FFP, and there are plenty of ways they can do it.
Aug 22, 2017
BCCI hauls up kit sponsor Nike after Indian players complain of substandard clothingBCCI to meet Indian cricket team's official kit sponsor Nike soon after the players have expressed their concerns regarding the sub-standard quality of the clothing
Aug 05, 2017
Apple to release smartwatches that can connect to cellular networks: ReportApple is already in talks with carriers in the United States and Europe about offering the cellular version of the Apple Watch, the report said.
Aug 03, 2017
Neymar to PSG: From Champions League highs to lows of tax fraud charges, star striker's tryst with BarcelonaNeymar's anticipated world record transfer move to Paris Saint-Germain will bring to an end an epic four-year spell at Barcelona.
Jul 02, 2017
Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur announce Nike as new kit provider in £30million-a-year dealPremier League runners-up Tottenham Hotspur will wear Nike kits from next season after agreeing a multi-year deal worth a reported £30million per season, the club said on Friday.


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Hunan Sanan Semiconductor is China’s first vertically integrated SiC manufacturing supply chain. The company provides flexible and diverse production capabilities from wafer substrates, epitaxy, fabrication, bare die to discrete devices.
Rohde & Schwarz is showcasing the latest highlights of its cellular device testing portfolio, which cover all stages from early 5G NR device design phases to conformance testing to device manufacturing at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
STACK-MID helps service providers test the latest industry standards for home Wi-Fi solutions
June 24, 2021
octoScope announced the release of STACK-MID, a new testbed designed for test and optimize of home-focused Wi-Fi devices and solutions, including the latest Broadband Forum TR-398 Issue 2 test cases for home router performance.
Keysight Technologies will showcase their test solutions that span the entire 5G ecosystem enabling the mobile industry to accelerate and secure 5G product design development across the entire workflow at Mobile World Congress 2021.


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Today, nearly half of the public knows someone who uses online dating or who has met a spouse or partner via online dating – and attitudes toward online dating have grown progressively more positive.To be sure, many people remain puzzled that someone would want to find a romantic partner online – 23% of Americans agree with the statement that “people who use online dating sites are desperate” – but in general it is much more culturally acceptable than it was a decade ago.
Online dating has jumped among adults under age 25 as well as those in their late 50s and early 60s.
The share of 18- to 24-year-olds who use online dating has roughly tripled from 10% in 2013 to 27% today.
Online dating use among 55- to 64-year-olds has also risen substantially since the last Pew Research Center survey on the topic.
Today, 12% of 55- to 64-year-olds report ever using an online dating site or mobile dating app versus only 6% in 2013.
These days, most 50-somethings surf the web and zip off emails just as easily as their younger counterparts, so the transition to the world of online dating is easy.
While they may hit a snag or two, such as not owning a digital camera, having trouble uploading their photo into their profile, or just feeling weird about “selling” themselves in 200 words or less, luckily there are plenty of places to go for help.
Digital technology and smartphones in particular have transformed many aspects of our society, including how people seek out and establish romantic relationships.
Few Americans had online dating experience when Pew Research Center first polled on the activity in 2005, but today 15% of U. adults report they have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps.
One-third of people who have used online dating have never actually gone on a date with someone they met on these sites.
If you haven’t found quite what you’re looking for on an online dating site, you aren’t alone.


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Woman Steals Cars From Dealership to Exchange for Heroin
Police say a woman used cars as payment for heroin, but those cars were stolen from the dealership she worked at.
The 22-year-old was a valued and trusted employee at the Wilde Honda dealership in Waukesha, according to police..
Part of Erin Duffy's job duty was to give loaners to customers if their car was in the shop overnight. Instead, she gave two of those cars to her drug dealer. She told police she got heroin in exchange.
Duffy is charged for taking two 2015 Honda Civic vehicles and for forging company documents to retrieve a car out of the impound lot.
According to the criminal complaint, the 22-year-old admitted to police she was a heroin addict and traded the cars for drugs, even though she knew it was wrong.
The dealership didn't know the vehicles were missing until they received a City of Milwaukee parking ticket in April. They then realized they didn't know where the car was.
Captain Dan Baumann with Waukesha Police helped investigate the case. Baumann says they're seeing more and more crimes like this, as the heroin epidemic increases.
"Friends, families get sacrificed. Careers get sacrificed. Fundraising activities get sacrificed because people are going to great lengths to satisfy that habit," said Captain Baumann.
The dealership turned Duffy in, in hopes of recovery.
"That breach of trust was unfortunately something they took pretty hard. I think they were taken aback. They didn't believe it until they saw it with their own eyes and saw the investigation. Then... they wanted to be made whole and see her get help," said Captain Baumann.
Police say Duffy took the cars between January and April of 2016. She was charged January 9th, 2017.
Duffy makes her initial appearance on January 23rd.


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Mid-Columbia drivers charged up about benefits of electric cars
Published: September 7, 2013. By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald
Electric Car Owner Madeleine Brown loves her electric car. “I don’t have to buy gas, I don’t need oil, I just have to plug it in every three days” she said. “It’s perfect for around the town” she added. Brown drives a 2011 Nissan Leaf.
The only expense that’s gone up since Madeleine Brown of Richland bought an electric car in 2011 is car washes, she said.
It costs about a penny a mile for the electricity to drive it, and maintenance costs have been nonexistent, she said. But she washes it more frequently than her previous car because of pride of ownership.
She owns one of 135 electric vehicles registered in Benton County, according to the Mid-Columbia Electric Vehicle Association. Eleven are registered in Franklin County. That’s 24 more than were registered in both counties at the first of the year.
Now is a good time to consider buying an electric car, said Michael Kintner-Meyer, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory employee.
A battery-only electric vehicle that can travel up to about 100 miles on a charge, such as a Nissan Leaf, has a lower overall cost of ownership than cars powered by gasoline, diesel, biodiesel or a combination of electricity and gasoline when a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 for electrical vehicles is factored in, according to a study by Pike Research cited by Kintner-Meyer.
Costs covered in the study included purchase price — which often is substantially higher than combustion-engine cars — plus maintenance, fuel and resale value for a car driven 120,000 miles.
Not included in the Pike Research study is the benefit of buying an electric car in Washington. The state has exempted new all-electric car purchases from sales taxes through July 2015.
More important for some buyers are the benefits Kintner-Meyer said they offer to the environment, national security and the electric grid.
Read more here.
Check out our post about a Nissan Leaf owner with solar here.


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It’s about the only thing from the pandemic that people want to keep.
A bipartisan bill up for debate this legislative session would allow the to-go Moscow mules, Manhattans and margaritas that became a welcome part of quarantine life for many Coloradans to keep flowing.
Lawmakers last summer passed legislation to allow restaurants to continue selling to-go cocktails, beer and wine until July, picking up what Gov. Jared Polis started in an executive order when he forced restaurants to shut down in-person dining last spring. Now, a group of Republican and Democratic legislators intend to make it permanent.
Skip to 49:30 in the video below to see Rep. Colin Larson’s pitch for permanent to-go cocktails:
“We are just dropping the expiration date,” said Rep. Colin Larson, who presented his plan at a Colorado Sun forum Thursday night ahead of Tuesday’s start to the legislative session.
Larson is a Republican from Jefferson County who has been known to order take-out margaritas from his go-to neighborhood Mexican joint, Los Dos Potrillos. “Most people are wondering why it took COVID for us to make this legal. We are going to make this the new law of the land.”
Coloradans love it, he said. Restaurants love it, Larson said, it’s “literally the lifeline that is keeping them alive” during a year when they’ve been forced to close to in-person dining and then faced severe capacity restrictions.
Here is who doesn’t love it: liquor stores.
Kachina Weaver, who leads the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, said she’d like to see take-out alcohol sales from restaurants continue for another year or two. Then, at the end of that stretch, Colorado could more thoroughly evaluate the practice.
“This bill was passed quickly,” she said, “There wasn’t a lot of time to think through what are all of the guardrails or requirements that are needed.”
For starters, Weaver wants to make sure to-go cocktails are sealed and have proper labeling in order to prevent drinking while driving. Right now, people can pick up drinks curbside in plastic cups with tape over the straw hole and paper labels warning them not to drink them while driving home.
And Weaver said she’s heard about restaurants acting like liquor stores, posting signs such as “liquor store inside” or displaying bottles of wine for sale on tables.
“We all want the restaurants to continue, but we also want to make sure the policy post pandemic” is done the right way, she said.
Larson, who formerly owned two coffeeshops, said liquor stores clearly feel threatened financially by the proposal but that he doesn’t see to-go cocktail sales as their direct competition. Liquor stores have experienced record sales during the pandemic. And people order to-go cocktails because they want to support restaurants and because they want someone to mix their drink for them.
“Nobody is sitting around thinking, ‘Do I want a $12 Los Dos Potrillos margarita or do I want to go buy a $20 handle of tequila and make my own margaritas?” Larson said.
For the same beer that costs $9 at a restaurant, a person could buy an entire six-pack at a liquor store, he said.
As for regulating the types of allowable containers and required labels, Larson said the state liquor board would establish those rules.


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The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) plans to tighten control on goods whose imports are discouraged and facilitate local manufacturing to reduce the country’s trade deficit.
Statistics from the ministry showed that Vietnam exported about 79.3 billion USD worth of commodities in the first five months of 2017, an increase of 17.4 percent from the same period last year.
According to the MoIT’s Import-Export Department, the US remained the country’s largest buyer, followed by the European Union, China, ASEAN, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
The department said the country’s import-export activities showed encouraging signs, as it has maintained the growth rate in its export turnover. The trade deficit was reduced from 2.74 billion USD in the first four months of the year to 2.7 billion USD in the five-month period. The reducing trade deficit shows that the country’s efforts to ensure trade balance are proving to be effective.
It added that Vietnam’s export turnover has not only seen high growth in its traditional markets but the turnover has also been stable in countries with which it has common borders.
Le Bien Cuong, deputy director of the ministry’s Mountainous and Frontier Trade Department, said that in the first five months of the year, trade activities between Vietnam and countries with which it has common borders, especially China, has seen high growth rate.
However, there are rising concerns that continuous trade deficit for months might harm the economy. In addition to export growth, local firms’ imports of materials for production were also increased.
Thai Van Thi, director of Phu Tai Concrete Company, said they have been continuously importing materials for concrete production and investing in machines due to a large number of orders.
Thi said the company’s imports of machines and materials for production in the first five months of the year rose by 50 percent from the same period last year.
Many economists believed the trade deficit was still within an acceptable level, and it is normal for a developing economy such as Vietnam, which is integrating more deeply into the global trade and joining free trade agreements. Furthermore, domestic production has rebounded, motivating imports.
However, the ministry will use trade remedies against several imported goods to encourage consumption of made-in-Vietnam products to limit imports. Especially, it will continue to diversify exported products and markets to avoid much dependence on certain markets.


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Two hundred vehicles are to be built next year. The presidential limousine has been undergoing trials for almost a year now. Denis Manturov said that a series of crash-tests for the sedans had been slated for later this month.
An estimated 5,000 units of each of the four types of the Kortezh lineup are scheduled to roll off the assembly lines by 2020.
Denis Manturov said that these luxury cars will also be available to ordinary citizens who can afford to buy them.


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HOTELS group De Vere, owner of the Cameron House resort on the banks of Loch Lomond, is planning a move into Dundee as part of a major expansion of its Village “urban resorts” in Scotland.
The group has 25 of the combined hotel and fitness venues across England and Wales, and recently unveiled plans to bring the brand to Scotland with resorts in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Robert Cook, the Scots-born chief executive of De Vere’s hotels division, told Scotland on Sunday he has set his sights on Dundee. He said: “To come to Scotland with this product is really exciting for us.”
The £60 million investment in Scotland’s three largest cities is expected to create up to 360 jobs, and Cook was confident that the Glasgow venue, which is expected to be close to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, would be open in time for next year’s Commonwealth Games.
Along with its hotels and leisure resorts, De Vere runs nine “academies of hospitality” in England and Cook said the firm is talking to local authorities about rolling out the training centres across Scotland to help nurture the next generation of “hospitality stars”.
He added: “It’s the not-for-profit side of our business, supported by the UK government. We’ve had over 2,500 students come through it – not just into our own business, but hospitality in general.”
Cook joined De Vere in January last year after eight years as chief executive of hotel chains Malmaison and Hotel du Vin. MWB, the parent company of the two brands, went into administration in November but Malmaison is pressing ahead with plans to open a 91-bedroom hotel in Dundee.
Cook began his career in Peterhead, where his family ran the Aberdeenshire town’s Palace Hotel.


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Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that counts, and poor communicators are almost always poor listeners, so they don’t hear the shortcomings. Warren Buffet once told a class of business students that better communication could boost their value by fifty percent.
Learn to lead. In a startup, the entrepreneur leader has to do two things. First, drive the business creation process, and secondly, inspire all the others. The others include the rest of the team, investors, and customers. That means hands-on leadership and effective communication.
Position yourself as an expert.
People tend to buy from people they perceive as “experts.” Expert status is no longer a formal degree or certification. Today it more often means a “trusted friend” who seems real, visible, and doesn’t “push” products. Don’t hide behind a website with no address, picture, or direct contact information.
Gateway to Asia
Thailand enjoys a strategic location and serves as a gateway into the heart of Asia – home to what is today the largest growing economic market.
The country also offers convenient trade with China, India and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and easy access into the Greater Mekong sub-region, where newly emerging markets offer great business potential.
The Million Dollar Idea, and how to make it work
Define a compelling scoreboard. People on your team play differently when someone is keeping score, and even better when they are keeping score, and even better when they have defined how their score is measured. This is the discipline of engagement. If the scoreboard isn’t clear, play will be abandoned in the whirlwind of other activities.
Large Shopping Malls in Bangkok Will Be Closed until July 25th
Shopping malls under the Mall Group, including all branches of The Mall, the Emporium, Emquartier and Paragon Department Store, are also closed for 14 days, from today, except for supermarkets, food courts, pharmacy shops, eateries (take-out and delivery only), banks, mobile phone shops and vaccination sites.
Downside risks loom for Thai economy due to Prolonged COVID-19 Outbreak
The most important issue for the Thai economy at present would be the procurement and distribution of appropriate vaccines adequately and timely.
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has revealed that Thailand’s economy faces significant downside risks, because a prolonged COVID-19 outbreak could cause the economy to underperform the baseline projection, squeezing business liquidity and slowing employment.(more…)
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